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The College of Liberal Arts established a task force to meet this semester and discuss issues directly affecting teaching assistants and assistant instructors, such as compensation and workload. At its second meeting
Tuesday, the TA Task Force talked about the potential reduction of TA and assistant instructor positions and an increase of stipends. The task force is composed of 22 students with TA experience in the college’s doctorate granting units and two undergraduate
representatives. The group was created to give graduate students a say in administrative affairs such as workload, training, professionalization of graduate students and compensation of TAs, according to Lauren Apter Bairnsfather, executive assistant in the Office of the Associate Dean for Research and
Graduate Studies. In an email sent to the task force on Aug. 6, Esther Raizen, associate dean for the Office of the Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies, said the college needs to decrease the number of TAs and assistant instructors by about 10 percent in order make
its stipend competitive with other institutions. Currently, the college hosts approximately 832 TAs and assistant instructors. Bairnsfather said all solutions mentioned thus far are preliminary. She said the college is
sequined shirt — which he said he made himself — and a hat with a fake mustache glued to the top. Jeff, a UT alumnus, is a social worker in Austin and was planning to be on a float
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Lyft driver hopes for City Council approval By Brigit Benestante @BBenestante
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Cris Nevares, math and actuarial sciences senior, has been a Lyft driver since July 4. For Nevares, being a Lyft driver allows him to connect with interesting passengers while scheduling his own hours.
as he drove them to East Austin. They explained that they had just finished eating at Franklin Barbecue and said they traveled to Austin mainly for the food. “This is not a long way [from New York],” Rohan said. “We’d go anywhere for food.”
Nevares dropped off the couple and said goodbye. “They’re definitely one of the nicer groups I’ve had,” Nevares said. “On average, the passengers are nice, but they were really awesome. That’s one reason why I feel I don’t have to make myself
do this.” After dropping Rohan and his wife off, Nevares soon received another request on his phone from a man named Jeff in Far West. Jeff was on his way to the Austin Pride Parade downtown. He wore cut-off shorts, a
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Bob Woodward, associate editor of the Washington Post, speaks at the Belo Center for New Media on Wednesday afternoon. Woodward spoke of his experiences throughout his career in journalism, including breaking the Watergate Scandal.
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Bob Woodward, one of the reporters who broke the Watergate scandal in 1972, talked about his experiences as a journalist Wednesday at the Belo Center for New Media. Woodward, now the associate editor of the Washington Post, gained prominence following his coverage of the scandal with Carl Bernstein, in which President Richard Nixon attempted to hide evidence of a breakin at the Democratic National Committee’s offices in Washington, D.C., Nixon eventually resigned. Looking back on his experience since the scandal, Woodward said the changing environment for the newspaper industry is something he thinks can be reversed. “The answer is, ultimately, when you’re in the business, you have to make the product
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better,” Woodward said. “We used to call them ‘bacon coolers,’ when a story in the paper was so good that when you’re eating breakfast, and you get the bacon on the fork, it never gets to your mouth because the story is so good.” In a time when social media is often used to spread information, Woodward said it should not be a substitute for accurate and
effective reporting. “If you are spending the time tweeting, you aren’t spending that time reporting,” Woodward said. “Reporting is something where you have to develop relationships and trust with human beings, and you have to talk to people.” Journalism professor Tracy Dahlby said he agreed with Woodward about the damages of social media,
but said that, for people who care about journalism, those distractions would not completely hinder the process. “I think that there is an issue with social media and digital technologies that we have because they tend to split our focus and distract us,” Dahlby said. “I do believe as Bob Woodward said,
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Decreasing international crude oil prices may affect the money available to the UT System, according to Bruce Zimmerman, CEO and CIO of the University of Texas Investment Management Company. From June 2012 to June 2014, the market value of the Permanent University Fund, or PUF, increased from $13.1 billion to $17.2 billion, according to reports from UTIMCO, the organization that invests money for the System. The PUF is an endowment containing 2.1 million acres in West Texas that was created by the Texas Constitution to benefit the UT and Texas A&M University systems. The proceeds from the sale of oil, gas, sulfur and water royalties are invested in the form of stocks, bonds and equity interest to establish the Available University Fund, or AUF. Two-thirds of these funds go toward the UT System, and one-third goes to the Texas A&M system. Scott Kelley, executive vice president for business affairs at the UT System, said the PUF’s market value grew as a result of increased oil production in West Texas. “The new technology and horizontal drilling and the ability to extract oil and gas from some of the shale that’s out there has just created a whole new wave of production,” Kelley said. In August, United States crude oil production averaged an estimated 8.6 million barrels per day, the highest
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Cris Nevares’ nights as a Lyft driver are never the same. Since becoming a driver last summer, Nevares has come across a variety of people, stories and situations on the job. Each ride has a story of its own, whether it lasts five or 45 minutes. Nevares, a mathematics and actuarial sciences senior, began driving with Lyft because it allowed him to choose his own hours, leaving time for studying. “I heard it was decent money, and the entire ‘being able to make your own hours’ thing was pretty appealing,” Nevares said. He starts most of his driving shifts around 6 p.m. and will sometimes drive until 4 a.m. His car is equipped with bowls of candy, water bottles, throw up bags and even condoms for patrons. Saturday night, Nevares’ phone lit up, signaling his first request. The request came from a man named Rohan and his wife, a couple visiting from New York. Nevares can only see customers’ first names on the app. Nevares picked up the couple in West Campus and began making conversation
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Professor Barbara Harlow and Professor Snehal Shingavi speak on the similarities between Ferguson, Missouri and Gaza, Palestine.
Students draw parallels between Gaza, Ferguson By Kylie Fitzpatrick @mllekyky
The Palestine Solidarity Committee held a panel discussion on campus Monday, in which professors and students discussed the links between oppression in Ferguson, Missouri, and Gaza.
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all of that is surmountable if you are really interested in a story and really interested in getting to the bottom of it.” Woodward said the Washington Post ran a story about an 8-year-old boy that was being drugged with heroin by the mother’s boyfriend. After having won a Pulitzer Prize for the story, it was discovered the writer falsified the story. Woodward said he still considers it to be the biggest mistake of his career. “Where was I as a human
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being, worried about this 8-year-old?” Woodward said. “The first thing I should have done, were that to happen now, I’d say, ‘Fine, good story,’ and then I would get a doctor and a cop and go to that address to rescue the kid.” Wanda Cash, associate director of the School of Journalism, said student journalists have much to learn from Woodward and Bernstein. “You have to go where the story is; the story is not going to come to you,” Cash said. “What Woodward and Bernstein did after Watergate was to pound that pavement and knock on doors.” back with rocks and sticks against it,” Shingavi said. Elan Kogutt, co-president of Texans for Israel, criticized the event in an email and said no members of Texans for Israel were in attendance. “Rosh Hashanah is a time for reflection and goal-setting for the coming year,” Kogutt said. “Rather than bringing our two communities closer to peace, this event serves as a regressive step away from dialogue and education, comparing two very distinct instances and failing to acknowledge the loss of innocent Israeli life and suffering of millions of Israelis under rocket fire this summer.” Mohammed Nabulsi, first year law student and member of the committee, said his organization was not aware that Rosh Hashanah was that night and that the scheduling was not intentional. “We don’t plan our activities around holidays,” Nabulsi said. “As far as the Texans for Israel goes, the problem that the Palestine Solidarity Committee has with groups like this is that the ideology that they operate under is Zionism, and we can’t work with Zionism.” Nabulsi said he thought the reason the struggles had been linked by both Palestinians and people of Ferguson is that they see a common humanity. “I think the most important thing said tonight is that the struggles for both Palestinian rights in Palestine and Israel and the struggle for rights of people of color in the U.S. are commonly linked by the fact that we are all human,” Nabulsi said. During the discussion, Shingavi said he was not arguing that the situations in Palestine and Ferguson were identical, but he wanted to discuss activism using the analytic tools of an academic context. “What I am going to be arguing is that if you are outraged by what the police did in Ferguson, you might want to get a closer look at what routinely happens in Palestine,” Shingavi said.
PUF continues from page 1 monthly production recorded since July 1986, according to a report from the U.S. Energy Information Administration. The report also said demand for oil in industrialized economies is weakening, which may be causing oil prices to drop. As the price of oil declines, Zimmerman said the revenue contributed to the PUF is also affected. “Rising oil prices means more money coming into the endowment,” Zimmerman said. “Falling oil and gas prices mean less revenue.” While the government report shows declining prices, Kelley said the market price for oil has remained steady for a number of years between $80 and $100 a barrel, allowing for an increase in production.
“If it were to drop to $50 a barrel or do something dramatic, then the drilling would likely be curtailed and even some of the production may stop,” Kelley said. Zimmerman said even though the revenue from West Texas oil affects the PUF, UTIMCO does not invest heavily in natural gas and oil companies, making it less susceptible to the volatility of oil prices. “We have a very diversified portfolio,” Zimmerman said. “It’s diversified globally. It’s diversified across stocks, bonds and real assets. It’s diversified across private equity and public equity [and] hedge funds. We have a relatively small amount of the endowment invested in oil and gas.”
Zimmerman said about 10 percent of PUF funds are invested in natural resources across the globe. He said UTIMCO tends to invest most heavily in stocks, since the System endowments are meant to last for an indefinite period of time. “The biggest impact on the investment returns is whether the stock markets are going up or down,” Zimmerman said.
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Banned books panel engages free speech issues By Wes Scarborough @westhemess13
UT Libraries held a panel for National Banned Books Week on Wednesday, days after Highland Park ISD banned seven books from its curriculum in response to a dispute over censorship. At the Perry-Castañeda Library, seven panelists discussed book banning in honor of Banned Books Week, a week dedicated to celebrating the freedom to read. Moderated by English language graduate student Maley Thompson, the panelists discussed censorship, the First Amendment and controversial literature. “Most of us do not get our information from books anymore, nor do we see the red marks or the burning flames we might think of as banning” Thompson said. Thompson said the term “banned books” is synonymous with controversial thought and speech. “Books are dangerous, and they should be dangerous,” screenwriter and panelist Owen Egerton said. “They make people do dangerous things — quit their jobs, quit school, stop believing in God, fall in love or even take drugs.” First Amendment discussion dominated the panel, and groups such as the Westboro Baptist Church and neo-Nazis were mentioned to identify the extremes of speech that the First Amendment has permitted. “That’s the value of the
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Satinder Singh, staff attorney for ACLU of Texas, sits on the Banned Books Q&A panel at the Perry-Castañeda Library on Wednesday night. In recognition of Banned Books Week, Singh discusses the First Amendment and the dangers of censorship.
First Amendment,” said Satinder Singh, panelist and staff attorney at the American Civil Liberties Union. “It’s there to defend the most outrageous, disgusting ideas, but at the same time, it’s there to expand our education and who we cover in history.” Singh said schools usually feel the effects of First
Amendment issues that affect society as a whole. “Schools are really microcosms of trends of what is going on in society,” Singh said. Thompson asked the panel what topics are not being addressed in literature. “We are being encouraged to write about what the market wants us to write about,”
Egerton said. “I draw hungry to the stories of people I don’t understand.” Other panelists included information professor Loriene Roy, Tony Diaz, a Librotraficante book smuggler, and Dan Murphy, project coordinator at Inside Books Project, a nonprofit that donates free books to prisoners.
That’s the value of the First Amendment. It’s there to defend the most outrageous, disgusting ideas, but at the same time, it’s there to expand our education and who we cover in history.
—Satinder Singh, Panelist and attorney
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ASL program hosts meet-and-greet for deaf students Man falls By Chris Mendez @thedailytexan
American Sign Language professors discussed ways in which deaf and hard of hearing students can get involved on campus at the Julius Glickman Conference Center on Wednesday. The event, which was the second annual meet-andgreet for deaf and hard of hearing students, takes place in September, which holds Deaf Awareness Week. According to linguistics lecturer David Simmons, there are more than 60 hearing-impaired students on campus and 10 faculty and staff. Simmons said Austin is the second-largest deaf-populated city in the United States with roughly 70,000 deaf and hard of hearing individuals. The event allowed deaf and hard of hearing students to eat snacks and mingle with each other. Students majoring in deaf education
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continues from page 1 encouraging the task force to address and research the issues most important to them in order to increase student involvement in University decisions. “The task force is here so they can be involved in defining what their role looks like at the University,” Bairnsfather said. At Wednesday’s meeting, Tammi Stout, a linguistics representative on the task force and an associate instructor, said graduate students expressed concern about the increased workload this may entail. “There’s concern that with less graduate students, less professors would have TAs, and, for right now, there are a lot of questions that are unanswered, and it is really preliminary,” Stout said. “They haven’t figured it all out, and that’s going to take time, to figure
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also attended to become more familiar with ASL. As the ASL program in the Department of Linguistics continues to grow, Simmons said he hopes the event will flourish and provide students with a connection to their community. “It’s a good way to bond,” Simmons said. Exercise science senior Christy Hediger said she often finds it difficult to meet other hearing impaired students on such a large campus. “I think it’s really cool because most of us never get to meet each other,” Hediger said. “We’re a really small community, so it’s nice to get to know each other.” Additional networking opportunities for deaf and hard of hearing students include joining the college bowl team, which competes against other schools in a trivia game at the National Association of the Deaf conference, UT alumna Lisa Guerra said at the event. Guerra graduated with her
bachelor’s in history last year and competed in the college bowl team when she attended UT. “We compete in different categories like language, arts, deaf culture, mathematics, science and so many
out how do this without increasing the workload for anyone.“ Additionally, as noted on the University website, the average pay for TAs, including tuition reduction benefits, is about $23,000 compared to the approximately $26,500 living cost for student with no dependents. According to Bairnsfather, the task force was implemented to give students a say in addressing this gap and increasing stipends. “We really want to try to get closer to addressing that difference between how much money they make and how much money they need to live,” Bairnsfather said. Brian Wilkey, Graduate Student Assembly president, said the assembly has no opinion on the task force at this time. “Obviously, protecting graduate students’ opportunities is something that the Graduate Student Assembly cares about, but we also want to work
within the frame of the administration,” Wilkey said. Throughout the semester, Bairnsfather said students will meet and research whatever student issues they deem most important. “They will have a couple of months to do research and come up with a report for us and give recommendations,” Bairnsfather said. “At that point, we will have recommendations and will have suggestions. At this point, we’re just studying the situation of TAs across the college.” According to Stout, being on the task force has given her the opportunity to better understand the administration’s work and its intricacies. “I think the reality is, it’s really complicated,” Stout said. “For graduate students, from my perspective, one of the benefits is seeing how all of this works. As a graduate student, I kind of get an inside look to ask questions and see how complicated it is.”
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Julie Kim, communication sciences and disorders senior, uses sign language at the College of Liberal Arts Building on Wednesday.
more,” Guerra said through a translator. “I learned a lot about my own identity while learning about deaf culture. You can meet anyone.” Deaf education junior Amy Mulkey attended the event to further her
knowledge in ASL and said she hopes to immerse herself in the culture. “I’ve met a lot of friends through this, which has been wonderful,” Mulkey said. “I automatically fell in love with [ASL].”
A non-UT subject sustained serious injuries after falling from the San Antonio parking garage Wednesday afternoon. UTPD spokeswoman Cindy Posey said the subject fell around 1:30 p.m. He was conscious when EMS personnel arrived at the scene, Posey said. According to Austin-Travis County EMS officials, the subject fell more than 30 feet from the garage. He was transported to University Medical Center Brackenridge with potentially serious injuries, ATCEMS officials said. UTPD is still investigating the cause of the incident, Posey said.
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From left to right (first row): A police helicopter circles the University grounds Sept. 28, 2010, following reports of gunfire on campus (Caleb Bryant Miller); APD Chief Art Acevedo and Mayor Lee Leffingwell talk in the background as UT President William Powers Jr. answers questions at a press briefing about the shooting at the Perry-Castañeda Library on Sept. 28, 2010 (Erika Rich); APD officers canvas the third floor of the University Teaching Center while searching for the suspected second gunman (Michael Baldon). Students Paige Raiczyk, Veronica Rivera and other UT students and faculty wait for updated text messages inside Benedict Hall on Tuesday morning during the early stages of the campus lockdown (Tamir Kalifa). Police escort a student to safety across from the Perry-Casteñeda Library after math sophomore Colton Tooley brought an AK-47 rifle to campus and fired multiple shots before ending his own life on the sixth floor (Andrew Torrey).
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Sound ban hurts campus
Revisiting the Mental health issues persist 2010 shooting By Charlotte McClure Guest Columnist
By Lee Lueder Guest Columnist
“Without music, life would be a mistake,” Friedrich Nietzsche. Though perhaps an exaggeration in most people’s eyes, Nietzsche saw a value in music that apparently City of Austin officials don’t. Earlier this month, officials stated that, starting October 1st, they would be strengthening the enforcement of Austin’s Sound Ordinance to such an extent that, as told to The Odyssey by Austin Police Department Officer Ray Lopez: “What’s been allowed is going to come to an end. Ninety-nine percent of you will not be able to get the permit you need.” These words seem more than a tad aggressive, as Lopez does not even consider the possibility that organizations seeking a permit will comply with the specifications of the code. They certainly don’t suggest that APD will “enforce the law in a fair and impartial manner,” which is part of the philosophy of APD. These changes, according to Lt. Brad Price of the Austin Fire Department, came as a result of an “increasing number of complaints made by older residents of the West Campus area.” Let’s say, not that I agree, that Lt. Price’s claim for the reasoning behind this recent change is legitimate. The constitutionality of this sound ordinance is something that should be considered. The First Amendment of the United States Constitution protects against the abridgment of free speech. In fact, the Florida Supreme Court recently struck down a similar ordinance restricting the volume at which music could be played from a motor vehicle, stating that it was a violation of the defendant’s First Amendment rights. Austin is often termed the “Live Music Capitol of the World.” Many a band starts off playing at fraternities or other organization’s parties on campus in which they get paid decent money to play the music they love. According to one anonymous local musician posting on the petition website protesting this new policy, “Every coming-up band loves getting a gig at a party. Parties reach a different demographic than bars or restaurants. The audience and performer usually have a more intimate connection at a party… Taking that away from us musicians does not just affect some college kids trying to drink, it would be a huge blow to the Austin music scene, which is probably the strongest part of Austin culture as a whole.” Music groups would not be the only groups adversely affected by this new policy. Many students live in West Campus due to its proximity to such parties. Property values are high because of this desire and because most parents of students in West Campus are able and willing to at least help pay the premium for their kids to live there. This desire could very well serve to increase the demand of real estate in West Campus, which would thus drive up the property values. Limiting the sound in West Campus could very well lead to growing discontentment with West Campus living and the eventual depreciation of the property of all owners in the area. If this occurred, surely local businesses would suffer too. Once students leave, so too does their business to the variety of local establishments in West Campus, which currently tailor its products and services towards those students. As a substantial part of the Austin community, students have the opportunity to have our voices heard in local government and policy-making. Unfortunately, candidates often don’t listen to students’ concerns because most don’t vote in these elections. Local elections are coming up in November and students have the opportunity to change their lack of voice in policy-making. Research local candidates and vote, so that these ordinances do not remain in effect for long, and so that can students have their voices heard in the future. Lueder is a Plan II, business honors, finance and philosophy junior from Dallas.
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Four years ago, at 8:10 a.m. on Sept. 28, a 19-year old mathematics sophomore began firing an AK-47 near Littlefield Fountain. With the police and university officials soon in his pursuit, the student moved to the Perry-Castañeda Library until he eventually turned the gun on himself. Though the PCL shooting occurred before many of us came to campus, most know of the sad occasion. In its remembrance, the Forum page has dedicated some space for students and professors to reflect on the day’s happenings. At the same time, this Forum issue has also left some space to discuss a current matter plaguing students in the hope that even in times of tragedy, we remember the importance of looking forward and finding hope and purpose in the tiny details, and sometimes trivial matters, of day-today life. Malik is a Plan II, business honors and finance junior from Austin.
A few days ago, I was sitting in the FAC studying when the campus-wide alert system went off. It was a scheduled test, but I immediately froze. No one around me even looked up, but it triggered a powerful memory for me, and I felt an immediate shock of cold fear. Midway through my first semester of college, I woke to the then-foreign sound of those same sirens blaring outside. I checked my phone and saw a text from the UT emergency alert system: there was an active shooter at the PCL. I was safe in my locked-down dorm, I knew that. But I stared out the window towards the PCL across campus and shook. My floormates and I sat on the ground in the hall, a few of us crying, all of us furtively checking Twitter for updates. No one knew what was happening. Rumors circulated by the media, the police and our classmates misinformed and confused us. I texted all my friends who were in class on that side of campus that morning. I prayed, hard, and I never pray. Eventually, the news came in that the shooter was no longer active. No longer active because he had shot himself in the library. Lock-down was lifted, and everyone from my dorm streamed into the street. The mood was weirdly exuberant. The conversation revolved entirely around the shooting. How fortunate that no one died, that no one was hurt, people kept saying.
Colton Tooley was nineteen when he died on September 28, 2010. He was mentally ill, and as a result of that illness, he intended to harm his fellow students. This is inexcusable, deplorable, and tragic. It is incredibly fortunate that he did not succeed in his plan, and I am in no way minimizing that fact. But to say that no one died in the PCL shooting is false. As evil as his actions were that day, Tooley was a student too, and his death was a loss. We need to talk about mental illness. By “we” I mean every single one of us, and by “talk” I mean regularly. It is our responsibility as friends, sisters, brothers, girlfriends, boyfriends, teachers, teammates. Ask someone how they’re doing, how they’re feeling or how they’re dealing with stress. Then listen. When someone asks you how you’re doing, don’t just say “I’m fine,” even when you’re not. Talk to your friends, and trust them to listen. And when someone needs you, listen without judgment. We can create a culture where it’s okay to talk about depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, and other mental illnesses, and we need to. Whenever I hear those campus-wide sirens, I remember Colton Tooley and the fear I felt on that morning in September. My heart rate rises, and my throat closes up the way it does when you’re trying not to cry. It’s Suicide Prevention Week. Take the time to attend one of the many events programmed, or at least take the time to ask someone how they’re doing. McClure is a Plan II senior from Houston.
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Law school professor remembers PCL shooting By Randall Wilhite Guest Columnist
On my way to teach a morning class at the Law School four years ago, I was leaving the AT&T Conference Center on University Boulevard driving toward 21st Street with the University of Texas Tower right in front of me, and as I approached the Littlefield Fountain, I heard what sounded like four or five gunshots coming from my left and from the direction of the University Catholic Center. I immediately concluded though that the sounds must be part of a nearby construction project. However, a moment later, right in front of me and the Littlefield Fountain, about a dozen or so UT students started scrambling behind wastebaskets, trees and monuments, and I initially thought to myself how sad it was that our society had come to a point of everyone immediately thinking that gunshot-like sounds were, indeed, actual gunshots — when, as in this case, they were just noises coming from a nearby construction project. Just then, however, a slender young man wearing a black suit, black tie, white shirt, ski mask and tennis shoes, and carrying a solid-black and very large assault rifle, ran along the street and emerged from my left as I got to 21st Street! I distinctly remember him turning my way as he ran from left to right directly in front of me and only five feet in front of my car, but then my memory of what happened after that became immediately foggy, even to the point of, at one time, firmly believing that he had fired what I thought were three more shots, not at me, but to my left. As the day went on, however, and as the days progressed, this memory became less and less clear in my mind. And, to this day, it’s still somewhat foggy and unclear. So, I continue to ask myself how I could have two vague memories of this one single event, both of which to this day remain completely inconsistent with each other. The answer, I be-
lieve, lies at the root of the problem with eyewitness testimony, and this is especially so in the midst of surreal, startling and unexpected circumstances. The mind just doesn’t process well during such events, and at that time, my thoughts, fears and emotions were all spinning through my head. I am aware of a number of studies that have been conducted on human memory and on the propensity of eyewitnesses to “remember” events and details that did not occur, and now, some four years later, I’m still wondering why my own mind remains unclear about these crucial and surrealistic seconds. I quickly became aware that shots were fired. I saw students scrambling for cover. I saw the gunman dressed in a black suit and tie, with a ski mask and an assault weapon. I knew that other campus shootings had involved multiple shooters, so I was scanning for others — even a team of others — who might also be involved. I had put myself in a prime position to be shot, essentially by coasting to 21st Street right in front of the gunman as the initial gunshots were fired. I thought for an instant about running over the shooter with my car (as he was right in front of me for about two seconds or so), but I knew that sometimes people participated in crazy pranks and that this all could be nothing more than that. So, with my adrenaline surging, and as my pulse quickened, I froze for about 10 seconds as the scene quickly played out right in front of me. As the gunman ran down 21st Street toward Speedway, I made a quick U-turn and went back to the AT&T Conference Center, where, with the help of the valet attendants, I called in the incident to UT Police. I then got back into my car and drove around the campus to the Law School, where I ran up to my classroom and told them that there was a shooter on campus, that I thought he was likely a real shooter (and not a hoax), and that they should remain in the classroom until they received specific instructions to the contrary. My
students were beginning to get text messages to the same effect. Catching my breath for just a few minutes, I went into an empty classroom down the hall from my own class, and as I was sitting by myself, just thinking of what had happened, my phone rang with a New York City area code. Within about 30 seconds of answering that call, I found myself being interviewed live on nationwide CNN about what I had witnessed. To this day, I have no idea how CNN found knew about what I had seen, nor how they got my cell phone number — all within just a few minutes of the very event itself. Later that day, as I reflected on a crazy morning, my thoughts turned to sadness about the tragedy of the shooter, Colton Tooley, as his only intent that day evidently was to commit suicide in a way that created a stir, to die by his own hand in a public flash. To this day, I have no idea what caused him to want to do that. One thing is clear, though: Tooley did not want to shoot anyone else. He had ample opportunity, and the weapon, to shoot many people that day — but he didn’t. He only shot himself. All of that is so very sad for him, his family and his friends. And so very hard to fully understand. Those of us whose life briefly intersected with his plans, however, should recognize that someone with those intentions must, indeed, be mentally ill to do such a thing — but only be just a little more mentally ill to do so much more damage to others who randomly find themselves in his path. In a way, we should consider ourselves fortunate that Tooley’s mental illness — the one that caused his desire to kill himself in this way — had not progressed to the level of taking others with him. It can be a thin and indiscrete line at these levels that separates each degree. Sad as it was, the UT campus can breathe a sigh of relief that Tooley’s mental illness fell below that line. Wilhite is an adjunct professor at the UT School of Law.
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continues from page 8 I kind of really fell in love with it. It’s very mystical, very beautiful [and] very spiritual.” It was the spirit of this event that inspired Orozco to bring the feeling back to Mexic-Arte. The museum was cofounded by Orozco and fellow UT alumnus Sam Coronado in 1984. The two met at UT and quickly became friends. “I actually remember the moment we met,” Orozco said. “He was walking down the hall with a bunch of paintings, and I was walking down the hall with a box of paint, and there’s very few
Latinos in the art department, so it’s kind of, like, when we see each other, we make friends.” Coronado, who died last November, will be honored in the exhibit with an altar celebrating his life and work. Orozco, who assisted in the design of Coronado’s altar, began to tear up as she described the items that comprised the altar. “When we were putting together the altar, we wanted to make it something that was really reflective of him, and so, we thought of painting,” Orozco said. “He was always painting [and] he was also a printmaker. Those were the instruments that he loved, and so, that is what we put in
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green professor for the study of human understanding at the University of Michigan, created a tournament where participants submitted strategies to play the prisoner’s dilemma against each other. The results of the tournament showed that defecting was not good and neither were complicated rules. The winning strategy, “tit for tat,” was the simplest. The program obeyed the following rules: Cooperate on move one, and for move two, do whatever the other player did on move one. For each of the following moves, just duplicate what the opponent did during the previous turn. However, even though “tit for tat” won, Axelrod noted that other possible strategies could have defeated it. In fact, an example strategy sent to prospective contestants could have won if only someone had used it during the tournament. It was a nicer “tit for tat” that waited for its opponent to defect twice in a row before defecting back. Although
this could have defeated “tit for tat,” it’s easier to exploit and probably wouldn’t have survived in a follow-up tournament. Another strategy, significantly more complicated than the other two, was a slight modification to a submitted strategy that based its moves on how the other player responded to cooperations and defections in the past. The only difference is that the original started by defecting its first move, whereas the modification began by cooperating. If anybody had submitted this modification to the tournament, they would have won by a large margin. Still, for students in a curved class, adopting a “tit for tat” strategy is probably the best way to go. It is simple, effective and doesn’t require clairvoyance. Help other students only as long as they continue to offer help in return, and prepare to retaliate against any freeloaders attempting to take advantage of the kindness of strangers.
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For a small group of radio-televison-film students, it took a summer break to materialize their film careers. During the break, their time was spent taking the lessons they had learned in school and applying those lessons to their work. Their filmmaking labors materialized in the form of “Big Kids,” a six-episode web series on YouTube. Viewers look through a window into the lives of Andi, Tina and Phillip, played by Sam Moore and radio-televison-film seniors Shae Tomlinson and Daniel Abramson, during their last summer of freedom filled with misadventures with boys, alcohol and each other. The first episode of “Big Kids” premiered Sept. 7 and has since been viewed over 1,300 times. It all started as the brainchild of co-directors UT alumna Emily Hughes and radio-television-film senior Payton Williams. The pair first became friends after meeting in their introduction to screenwriting class. “Payton and I had always wanted to write something together,” Hughes said. “So, when I came back from the UTLA program, we were like, ‘OK, let’s do this.’ We know college kids because that’s what we’ve been living for the past three years, so it kind of just came from us.” Although non-biographical, the girls found most of the writing material from creative adaptations
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Radio-television-film seniors Payton Williams (left), Caileigh Buchanan, Kian Gass and Grace Martindale are part of the team behind the creation of the web series entitled “Big Kids.” The show launched Sept. 7, and they will continue to release episodes periodically.
of their own lives or stories they had heard from friends. “It’s funny because sometimes I’ll text my friends and be like, ‘Did you see episode two? That was you!’” Hughes said. Attempting to be relatable, “Big Kids” highlights the comedy of everyday life. “On television, it’s more about what Greek [life at]
college is like, and that’s not even 100 percent true,” Williams said. “They like to glamorize it a lot and make it seem like every weekend at college is like Roundup, and our goal is to show our friends’ stories. That’s what the idea hatched from — a sense of truth and sense of reality.” Luckily, they already had the perfect crew in mind to help execute the project.
Hughes and Williams recruited their close friends radio-televison-film seniors Caileigh Buchanan and Kian Gass as producers and radio-televison-film senior Grace Martindale as an editor. With a team assembled and a goal in mind, the “Big Kids” crew created a crowdsourcing campaign using Indiegogo, a fundraising website. They successfully collected
enough donations from friends, family and even a UT professor to fund the project. Even with the budget accounted for, many difficulties still arose because of the sixweek time constraint. “The most challenging [part] was that we had a really tight shooting schedule,” Buchanan said. “We would shoot all day on Sundays and on some
Mondays. Rough drafts [for the script] would usually be done about Wednesday or Thursday, and then I would need to get things prepared for Sunday.” The cast and crew said that while it was stressful, the pressure helped them sharpen their filmmaking skills. Williams explained that they tried not
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Greek life parties under fire again
Mexic-Arte museum brings Latino culture to Austin area By Cat Cardenas @crcardenas8
by Robert Starr @RobertKStarr
It’s hard to imagine a West Campus on a Saturday night without a C-list rapper performing a onehit wonder to a crowd of tipsy students. But with stricter policies on West Campus parties looming in the distance, students may never experience artists such as G-Eazy or Yung Joc perform again. Organizations interested in hosting parties are required to provide Austin Center for Events a detailed property map 21 days prior to their event. The new requirements, which would potentially have effects on festivities such as tailgates and Roundup, have created tension between Greek students and the calmer inhabitants of West Campus. Students across campus have organized petitions and marches to combat the legislation. But issues like this are not new to the 40 Acres. In the winter of 1912, a group of non-fraternity students organized a number of meetings to discuss the current state of Greek life at UT. Individuals, who identified as non-fraternity informally, started referring to themselves as “barbarians.” The “barbarian caucus,” as The Daily Texan began calling them, attempted to “secure by legislative enactment the abolishment of fraternities in the University
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of Texas.” “The war-clouds that have hovered over the horizon of University politics during the fall term now bid fair to bother in even blacker array,” said then-managing editor of the Texan Lynn W. Landrum in a 1913 edition of the paper. In one of the larger meetings, over 700 “barbarian” men and women were in attendance in order to hear student protestors speak on the injustices of fraternity life on campus. “You can’t point to a single man whose morals were improved by fraternities, yet I can show you several fraternity men who have noticeably degenerated in this respect,” student activist H.B. Watis said in the article. Another student speaker, A.G. Phillips, expressed concern about how someone’s campus reputation could be tarnished depending on whether they are involved in Greek life. “It is said that Texas is a rich man’s school,” Phillips said. “If a man
comes out as a non-fraternity man, it is thought that there is something wrong with him. The impression is fast-gaining that no one can do anything here without associating with a Greek letter organization.” It was apparent that almost everyone who attended the “barbarian caucus” had an opinion on the presence of Greek organizations at UT, but none were as strong as speaker George W. Dupree. “Over the state of Texas today, the fraternity men have created the impression that men are taken into fraternities on a scholarship basis,” Dupree said. “This is not so, and everyone must recognize that this is an evil.” Regardless of the Austin City Council’s decision on the code amendments, which will be made Sept. 25, Greek organizations will still find a way to bring stars such as the Ying Yang Twins back to campus, and there will always be those who oppose Greek organizations just like the “barbarian caucus” did in 1913.
In a one-story building huddled in the shadow of the Frost Bank Tower downtown is the Mexic-Arte Museum. The building is unassuming at first, but it contains years’ worth of history, and tales of the Latino people expressed through art. The museum’s “Community Altars” exhibit, an annual installment that celebrates the Day of the Dead, is open at Mexic-Arte until Nov. 23. Rebecca Gomez, the museum’s curator, works to ensure that the altars complement each other in the museum’s space. “The altars are pieces of people’s lives as they come together to celebrate history,” Gomez said. Whether accented by vibrant flowers and bright colors, or simply decorated with lace, the museum’s altars are as diverse as their subjects.
He was walking down the hall with a bunch of paintings, and I was walking down the hall with a box of paint, and there’s very few Latinos in the art department, so it’s kind of, like, when we see each other, we make friends.
—Rebecca Gomez, Mexic-Arte Museum curator
Some are personal or specific memories carefully chosen by family members, and others are exhibits dedicated to mothers or to leaders in the Latino community. No matter the subject, each altar is designed to be a celebration. This celebration is something Sylvia Orozco, executive director and co-founder of the museum and a UT alumna, witnessed over three decades ago when she travelled to Mexico and experienced
the Day of the Dead for the first time. “My friend Pio took me to Mixquic; it’s an Aztec community,” Orozco said. “It’s very beautiful because what I loved about it was that it was an interdisciplinary and multi-generational celebration. The smells, the food — you see children, you see older people, all the family celebrating.
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Sylvia Orozco is the co-founder and curator of the Mexic-Arte museum. According to Orozco, the emotions that accompany the Day of the Dead celebration are complex because they both celebrating and grieving.