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Strong dismisses ninth Longhorn By Garrett Callahan @CallahanGarrett
For the ninth time since taking over at the helm of Texas, head football coach Charlie Strong dismissed one of his players Tuesday morning — this time removing junior offensive tackle Kennedy Estelle. “The blueprint of this program has been and always will be to change and help
direct the young lives of young players,” Strong said. “I’m sorry that another player had to be dismissed, but we will continue to develop young men and ask them to follow our core values, which all of them have been brought up on.” Following the season opener against North Texas, the Longhorns suspended Estelle, along with
teammate Desmond Harrison, for Texas’ game against BYU for a violation of team rules. Both offensive tackles were also absent against UCLA earlier this month but were expected to return to practice as early as this week. Coming into the season, Estelle was expected to be one of Texas’ veteran offensive linemen. After appearing in just three games during his
freshman campaign, he saw action in 12 games last season, including eight starts. Strong has been notorious this season for dismissing players from the team. Last March, Strong let go of fullback Chet Moss and safety Leroy Scott before starting a string of dismissals throughout the summer.
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code that recognizes the existence of street performers, so they’re caught in a web of provisions that makes it difficult for people to know
Ahead of the Austin City Council meeting Thursday, the Student Government assembly approved a resolution in favor of transportation networking companies at a meeting Tuesday. “It’s basically just saying that we students support transportation companies like Uber and Lyft and having them legalized in Austin and that they hold safety to a very high standard and that we ask City Council to approve them,” said Jamie Nalley, chair of the Student Affairs Committee. Olivia Arena and Robert Svoboda, co-directors of SG’s City Relations Agency, said they met with the city’s Urban Transportation Commission to express support for the proposal. According to Arena, the agency’s survey of almost 200 students found the majority of respondents were in favor of the resolution supporting ride-sharing apps, such as Lyft and Uber. “Students wanted new transportation options with regulations, background checks, with insurance.” Arena said. “It’s not like students just want to get in a car with anyone.” In the survey, Arena said they asked questions about student transportation, especially in regard to transportation after going out on weekends. “One of the most important questions we asked was, ‘Have you ever been in a situation where you or a friend chose to drink and drive intoxicated because you did not feel
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City Council to define street performers By Jackie Wang @jcqlnwng
Chris Foxx | Daily Texan Staff
Street musician James Anthony Johnson sings and plays his guitar outside of South Congress Cafe. Johnson is one of many street performers who would be affected by the Austin City Council’s potential resolution to clarify the definition of a street performer.
Music Commission is to clarify the rules about street performances so that there will be a better framework for supporting performers in Austin.” In August, the Austin Music Commission unanimously
voted to present a recommendation that officially defined street performers and buskers and allowed them public right of way. According to Riley, current Austin code provisions are ambiguous on
street performers’ rights to sit in public areas. “Right now, we prohibit panhandling and solicitation under certain circumstances,” Riley said. “You won’t find anything in the
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SG approves resolution in favor of Lyft, Uber By Elly Dearman
CITY
On a bench outside of South Congress Cafe, James Anthony Johnson sings and plays the guitar. He wears a uniform of jeans, ankle boots and a straw cowboy hat. He smokes Marlboros and greets passersby. A clean plastic jug of ice water sits at his feet, and he shares it with thirsty dogs who lap it out of the cap. The 49-year-old has been playing on the streets of Austin since 1996. He started his street musician career on Guadalupe Street near campus but moved his performances to South Congress after someone threatened to have him arrested on the Drag. Threats like that might not happen in the near future, though. The Austin City Council will consider a resolution Thursday that would launch the development of code amendments allowing street performers and buskers to perform in public areas. “We do have a number of code provisions that make street performances problematic,” said council member Chris Riley, who is co-sponsoring the resolution. “The idea as suggested by the Austin
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Moody celebrates advertising school naming Former US ambassador to USSR speaks at LBJ
By Samuel Tackitt @samueltackitt
A crowd filled the auditorium in the Belo Center for New Media on Tuesday in celebration of the new Stan Richards School of Advertising and Public Relations. “This is the greatest honor of my life,” said Stan Richards, founder of the advertising agency The Richards Group. “We have a new school just waiting to propel advertising to new heights.” The school, previously known as the Department of Advertising and Public Relations, changed its name in early September after a $10 million fundraising campaign. The school will continue to be housed under the Moody College of Communication. “The department was already one of the top advertising schools in the country,” said Nick Hundley,
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Jack Matlock, former United States ambassador to the Soviet Union, visited the LBJ Library on Tuesday and said current American-Russian relations are intensifying. Matlock said he fears the aggression between the U.S. and Russia is relatively high. “The rhetoric now in Russia and Washington reminds us of the height of the Cold War,” Matlock said. “I don’t think we are entering a new cold war, even though the rhetoric sounds like it.” In the modern political climate, Matlock believes the U.S. is taking the wrong steps in addressing Russia. “I think we have gotten ourselves in a very dangerous situation, in terms of our relationship, in part, because we have failed to understand
Griffin Smith | Daily Texan Staff
Stan Richards talks to supporters Tuesday afternoon after an event celebrating the renaming of the Department of Advertising and Public Relations in his honor.
Moody College director of communications. “This will only elevate it more.” Student volunteers from the school wore shirts,
printed with an imitation of Stan Richards’ notorious glasses, to commemorate the event. Richards received a commemorative picture of
the naming of the school. Moody College Dean Roderick Hart said the
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some of the lessons we should have learned when we ended the Cold War,” Matlock said. After studying at Duke University, Matlock attended Columbia University, where he specialized in Russian studies. Matlock went on to teach at Dartmouth College, but decided he wanted more from his occupation later on. “He decided he could do better things than teaching nasty undergrads,” government professor Zoltan Barany said. “He had an explicit goal in mind to become the American ambassador to the Soviet Union.” Mark Updegrove, director of the LBJ Library, said Matlock’s involvement in the Cold War makes him an ideal source for information on the contemporary relationship between the U.S. and Russia.
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