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Regents debate Russia divestment By Alex Wilts @alexwilts
The UT System will further consider divesting funds from Russia as relations between the U.S. and the Russian governments worsen because of conflict in Ukraine, according to System officials. At a Board of Regents meeting in September,
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Regent Alex Cranberg brought up the possibility of divesting from Russia “It is important because Russia is threatening the USA through NATO,” Cranberg said in an email. “As President Obama has said, Putin has ripped up the ‘rule book.’ He is resurrecting the national and ethnic rivalries, which were so devastating to the 20th century.”
The University of Texas Investment Management Company, or UTIMCO, has about $200 million invested in Russia currently, according to Bruce Zimmerman, CEO and chief internal officer of UTIMCO. Zimmerman said this is a relatively small amount of money compared to the $35 billion the organization has invested in other parts of
the world. “Divesting from Russia, in and of itself, would not necessarily be an overly significant event,” Zimmerman said at the meeting in mid-September. “The larger concern I think would be if we did begin putting in changes to the investment policies related to political
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Senior wide receiver John Harris recorded six catches for 89 yards and one touchdown. Harris, who has now scored in each of Texas’ first four games, joins former Texas wide receiver Jordan Shipley as the only Longhorns to ever accomplish this feat.
interception of his career, which resulted in a 42-yard field goal by junior placekicker Nick Rose. The Texas defense has now recorded nine interceptions on the season, after
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picking off only 10 passes in all of 2013. “We are attacking the ball,” Diggs said. “We are catching those things; we’re not dropping them. I think that’s tremendous difference. And
those guys up front are continuing to eat, so they make our job so much easier.” Swoopes picked up his first victory as a starter but
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The College of Pharmacy and the Forty Acres Pharmacy partnered with UTPD on Saturday to collect expired or unused medications as part of National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day. From 10 a.m.-2 p.m. outside the Pharmacy Building, students and other members of the Austin community were allowed to return any unused or expired drugs to make sure the medications were disposed of properly. The program reduces the risk of drug misuse and prevents the drugs from being flushed down toilets, which can cause harm to water supplies. The Drug Enforcement Administration worked with communities around the country for National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day. Although Saturday marked the first time the University participated in the program, APD has participated in the past. Pharmacy professor Carolyn Brown, clinical assistant professor Nathan Pope and pharmacy graduate student Andrew Thach worked with the Green Fee Committee to receive a grant which helped cover costs to bring the event to campus. Brown said one of her goals for the event was to show how important it is for older adults to keep track and dispose of unused or expired medications. “Through this event, we want to encourage the older adults to come out,” Brown said. “This is to help encourage them to clean out their cabinets and get rid of the medicine they
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Jo Worthy, language and literacy studies professor and Tasha Beretvas, associate dean for research and graduate studies, received the College of Education’s Dean’s Distinguished Teaching Award.
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A recent University report aimed to find which practices could increase the rate of course completion among students who enroll in a twoyear college. Of these students, 54 percent either receive a degree, earn a certificate or are still enrolled six years later. The report, developed by the Center for Community College Student Engagement in the College of Education, revealed 13 “high impact” practices that would help raise the current percentage of completion, including supplemental instruction, tutoring, learning communities and structured academic goal setting and planning. Titled “A Matter of Degrees: Practices to Pathways,” the report was the
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had driven 79 yards to the Texas five-yard line. To cap it off, senior linebacker Jordan Hicks added to the team’s interception total with a pick early in the fourth quarter, the second
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LAWRENCE, Kan. - The Longhorns never got into an offensive rhythm Saturday, but some big plays on defense helped them blank Kansas 23-0 to move to 1-0 in conference play. “You look at the road, and it is tough to go into someone’s place and beat them, especially when playing within the conference,” head coach Charlie Strong said. “This is a big win for us.” The Texas secondary intercepted four Jayhawk passes in the game, the first being a tipped pass grabbed by senior cornerback Quandre Diggs in the end zone to prevent Kansas from scoring in the first quarter. Junior cornerback Duke Thomas had two interceptions, one of which he returned for 24 yards to set up a seven-yard touchdown run by sophomore quarterback Tyrone Swoopes in the second quarter. Thomas made another huge play in the third quarter when he broke up a pass on fourth down to force a turnover after the Jayhawks
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The University’s Center for Community College Student Engagement in the College of Education released a report aimed at improving completion rates of community colleges, such as Austin Community College.
final piece of a three-year study conducted by the center and funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates and Lumina foundations. Evelyn Waiwaiole, the center’s director, said the study was
intended to improve the student experience as a whole, in addition to closing the gap between students who enroll in classes and students
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Faculty receive prominent award By Wes Scarborough @westhemess13
Jo Worthy, language and literacy studies professor, and Tasha Beretvas, associate dean for research and graduate studies in the College of Education, both received the College of Education Dean’s Distinguished Teaching Award,
the college’s most prominent award, last week. Worthy, a former elementary and middle school teacher, specializes in children’s reading interests and bilingual education. She also focuses on the alternatives to ability grouping, which she said is the method of categorizing and sectioning young students based
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on expectancy of success in academics. “Putting kids into these ability groups can be really harmful,” Worthy said. “If we’re not teaching them as a whole, then they don’t get the equal treatment that encourages success.” Worthy said group
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cannot use.” Volunteers for the event collected over 90 pounds of medications by the end of the day. “I feel like this was a good turnout,” Thach said. “It was a good mix of faculty, students and community members that showed up today. One thing that helped
us was the advertising we had in The Daily Texan, on Facebook and flyers around campus and at the Forty Acres Pharmacy.” According to the DEA website, the Secure and Responsible Drug Disposal Act in 2010 paved the way for increasing the amount of medication drop-off sites. Previously, unwanted medications could only be turned into law enforcement. As
the DEA continues to make changes to its policies, pharmacies might be able to take back unused or expired medications year-round, which means National Prescription Drug Take-Back may not continue after this year. In the meantime, Pope said the Forty Acres Pharmacy will continue to work with the DEA to keep the program running.
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the Board’s life and in the nation’s life that we may need to take a look at some of these things,” Regent Gene Powell said at the meeting in September. “I would encourage us not to foreclose in considering these items.” Zimmerman said if the System does decide to divest from Russia, UTIMCO would be selling $40 million of its private equity below market price. “If we were to try to sell that position today, we might only get about $20 or $30 million for it, so there would be an immediate cost,” Zimmerman said. Cranberg said the System should not make investment decisions based on matters of personal choice, such as opinions on alcohol or tobacco, or based purely on the domestic policies of other countries. “Our policies as a public investment vehicle should be based only on maximizing legal returns for our students and mission, other than factors materially affecting the security of the United States and our armed forces,” Cranberg said.
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and or social issues, then there could very well be a substantial domino effect.” In an interview Thursday, Zimmerman said it is the System’s policy that UTIMCO make investments based upon economic factors and not to become involved in political situations. Zimmerman said many companies and organizations participate in divestment movements to make a political statement, such as the Rockefeller family, who is planning to divest $860 million of its charity out of fossil fuels to try and fight climate change. “Once you decide there is one political or social issue that merits an investment decision, where does the list end?” Zimmerman said. “The context of all this is if you make economic decisions based on noneconomic reasons, there’s an economic cost.” The regents have agreed to continue discussing the divestment issue at future board meetings. “There comes times in
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who complete them. According to Waiwaiole, many colleges offer the suggested “high impact” practices, but not as many students are taking advantage of such resources. “While increasing numbers of institutions are offering such practices, only small numbers of colleges require them, and far too few students are participating in them,” Waiwaiole said. Developmental education students who take student success courses are five times more likely to complete a developmental English course, but only 25 percent of students are taking advantage of the resource, Waiwaiole said. Waiwaiole also said that although fiscal resources are limited for community colleges, many of the practices — such as a required attendance policy — do not require much funding. “Colleges are being asked to do more with less,” Waiwaiole said. “But some of the practices discussed above are relatively low cost.”
categorizing students discourages them to break apart from the labels they are given. The most wellknown categorization is to break up students into gifted and talented in middle school and regular or distinguished in high school. According to Worthy, her method of teaching involves getting to know students on a personal level. “It is important to me to know what the students need and especially what they’re interested in learning,” Worthy said. Beth Maloch, associate dean of teacher education and chair of the award’s committee, said Worthy has designed and taught a signature undergraduate studies course, which has received exceptional course evaluations. Beretvas teaches statistics and psychometrics in the Department of Educational Psychology. Her course, “Introduction to Statistics,” helps students understand how to apply statistics to their own respective fields. “There are a lot of people coming in who are fearful of math,” Beretvas said. “When they’re shown in a way that they can grasp it, they can easily use [statistics] with their own interests.” According to Maloch, the committee bases its decisions off student and faculty-peer evaluations for both graduate and undergraduate teaching. “Research is important at a top-tier institution like UT,” Beretvas said. “But we also value teaching and seeing these awards really does substantiate that.” Both Worthy and Beretvas have previously received honors, including the Regents’ Outstanding Teaching Award. “They’ve invested all across the college throughout the years,” Maloch said. “It’s a long way to say that it was not surprising that they were nominated.” COLLEGE SKI & BOARD WEEK
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Junior forward Kelsey Shimmick hustles after the ball in the Longhorns’ 2-0 loss to No. 17 West Virginia on Sunday. The Mountaineers outshot the Longhorns 17-11 throughout the game.
The Longhorns (6-4-2) made their 2014 Big 12 debut with a hard-fought 1-0 overtime win against No. 6 Texas Tech (9-1-0) on Friday night, followed by a 2-0 loss to No. 17 West Virginia (8-2-2) on Sunday. Both keepers played brilliantly in Friday’s game to keep it scoreless in regulation. Texas junior keeper Abby Smith blocked a handful of close-range rockets, and Red Raider sophomore keeper Lauren Watson, flashed some acrobatic skills to keep Texas off the
scoreboard through the first 90 minutes. Texas finally hit the back of the net seven minutes into overtime. Freshman forward Olivia Brook received a pass at the top of the box, turned and floated a left-footer over Watson and into the top left corner of the net for a golden goal. “I just think that we talked about it at halftime, and we decided we just need to go for it, and we need to take more shots and take advantage of every opportunity,” Brook said. “I think we
did that.” Texas struggled out of the gate in its Sunday contest against WVU, but it held the Mountaineers scoreless until a 10-yard shot in the 43rd minute by junior forward Kelsie Maloney deflected off a Texas defender into the net. A goal from sophomore forward Ashley Lawrence in the 62nd minute sealed the win for WVU. Texas will continue conference play with a road contest against Iowa State on Friday at 7 p.m.
SHUTOUT continues from page 6 interception, senior cornerback Quandre Diggs picked off Kansas sophomore quarterback Montell Cozart in the end zone in the first quarter, preventing a potential go-ahead touchdown for the Jayhawks. Junior cornerback Duke Thomas added two more interceptions for the Longhorns, including one in the end zone to stymie Cozart’s Hail Mary pass attempt at the end of the first half. “We are attacking the ball,
and we are catching [interceptions] and not dropping them,” said Diggs, whose defense is tied for second in the country with nine picks already this season. “The guys on the defensive line continue to work hard and make our job easier.” The Longhorn defense has been strong nearly all season and single-handedly carried Texas to victory at Memorial Stadium. But with conference powerhouses — No. 4
Oklahoma, No. 7 Baylor and No. 23 Kansas State — all on the schedule in October, sophomore quarterback Tyrone Swoopes and his offense will have to do better to pull off any upsets. “Our defense has done a really good job, so I think they can hold them as well,” senior wide receiver Jaxon Shipley said. “It’s ultimately about the offense right now. We need to match the defense.”
KANSAS continues from page 1 struggled at times, completing only 19 of his 34 attempts for 218 yards and two touchdowns. The Longhorns got off to a shaky start, turning the ball over on downs on their first possession and then fumbling a snap on the Kansas five-yard line on their second drive. Senior receiver Jaxon Shipley broke the game open with a 41-yard punt return to set up Texas’ first score — a one-yard toss from Swoopes to junior tight end M.J. McFarland, giving Texas a 6-0 lead it never relinquished. Senior receiver John Harris continued his breakout
season, hauling in six passes for a team-high 89 yards and a touchdown. Harris has scored in each of Texas’ first four games. Texas struggled all afternoon to sustain drives, with each of its four scoring drives starting from within Kansas’ 30-yard line. Texas’ longest drive of the afternoon went for 78 yards but ended with the aforementioned fumbled snap inside the Kansas five. “We just got to find a way to just be consistent and score points,” Strong said. “And when we get a chance, when we are driving the ball, we are the one who is stop-
ping ourselves, stopping the drives.“ Kansas outgained the Longhorns on the ground, 173 to 111. Running backs Johnathan Gray and Malcolm Brown combined for just 73 yards on 25 carries because the holes simply weren’t there for Texas. “The run game is critical; we need to open it up,“ Strong said. The game was Texas’ first shutout on the road since it defeated Baylor 62-0 in 2005. On Sunday, Kansas fired head coach Charlie Weis, who finished with a 6-22 record through twoplus seasons at Kansas.
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CROSS COUNTRY | JAMES GRANDBERRY Texas cross country faced its longest race so far at the Roy Griak Invitational in Minnesota this weekend, where the 8K and 6K races showed both the men and women, respectively, that there is room for improvement. The men’s team placed all five scoring runners in the top 90 out of 300, while the women struggled early to run as a team. It wasn’t a struggle for everyone, however, as senior Craig Lutz led the men’s race from the start, only relinquishing the lead to two
other runners throughout the race. He surged back to cross the line at second place, less than two seconds behind the individual champ, Nate Jewkes of Southern Utah. Fellow senior Mark Pinales kept up with Lutz for the majority of the race, slipping toward the end to a finish in 10th-place. The men’s team earned sixth place, with freshmen Jacob Pickle in 36th and Robert Uhr at 90th, joined by junior Brady Turnbull at 77th.
The women’s team broke apart early, leaving some runners to fend for themselves in the pack, which ultimately resulted in their 22nd-place finish, led again by sophomore Sandie Raines, who finished up at 69th place. The Longhorns now have a three-week hiatus before heading to Terre Haute, Indiana, on Oct. 18 for the NCAA Pre-National Invitational — the same course the Longhorns hope to return to for the NCAA Championships.
GOODELL continues from page 6 playing in games. Most recently, Strong dismissed junior offensive tackle Kennedy Estelle on Tuesday. “The blueprint of this program has been and always will be the change in helping direct the lives of young people,” Strong said. “I’m sorry that another player had to be dismissed, but when you’re told something over and over again, then you want to make sure that you’re provided with the right resources so that you can change lives.”
The blueprint of the program has been and always will be the change in helping direct the lives of young people. —Charlie Strong, Head coach
John Clayton, ESPN senior NFL writer, said in an interview that Goodell met with Strong in hopes of expanding his response resources and developing a long-term disciplinary plan. “Strong has been dealing with issues at his school,
and what the league and what the players association want to do is try to find different types of ideas that they can use to come up with some kind of a plan because I think it’s pretty evident they don’t have a plan that’s working right now,” Clayton said.
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Next president should prioritize affordability of education By Thomas K. Lindsay Guest Columnist
On Sept. 22, President William Powers, Jr. delivered his final state of the university address. In that speech, he laid out nicely the path ahead. Among UT’s “serious challenges,” he finds “[t]oo many families are being left out of higher education because they can’t afford it.” Affordability is a national issue. President Barack Obama has called on universities to restrain tuitions and make themselves more accountable to students. Tuition increases nationwide over the past quarter-century have outstripped inflation and healthcare cost increases, and forced students to amass historic debt, which, for the first time, exceeds creditcard debt. In 2011, the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board commissioner warned, “If we keep going the way we are, a baccalaureate degree at a public university will cost $100,000 at some institutions in five years. We can’t go there.” To increase affordability, the Powers administration has employed “technology to develop online and blended courses, flipped classrooms, and MOOCs.” His successor would do well to build on this. This might include examining the recently launched Affordable Baccalaureate Program. This online, competency-based program targets a group highlighted by President Powers’s observation that the “demographics and needs of our students are changing.” The new majority of students seeking postsecondary education are “nontraditional”— over 25, and/ or working fulltime, and/or supporting families. All programs won’t work everywhere, but the affordability crisis should prompt UT’s next president to examine this innovation’s applicability. Also contributing to declining affordability are declining teaching loads. Researchers William Massy and Robert Zemsky find this decline a logical response to the fact that faculty promotions are based primarily on publications, which also
enhance a school’s ranking. Here UT’s next president might consider THECB’s proposal to “improve credit hours produced per full-time equivalent faculty member by 10 percent.” Any such effort must be, says President Powers, “consistent with [UT’s] soul”— with its “tier-one teaching and research” mission. To achieve consistency, UT’s next president might consider raising the teaching loads of tenured faculty who have not been publishing for some time, thus increasing teaching without hindering research. Another tuition-inflation driver is exploding administrative budgets. Benjamin Ginsberg’s 2011 national study finds that, from 1947 to 1995, “[a]dministrative spending … increased by a whopping 235 percent. Instructional spending, by contrast, increased only 128 percent.” UT should be praised for steps already taken under President Powers to reduce administration. The new UT president might consider expanding them. A national Pew survey finds 75 percent of prospective students deem college simply unaffordable. How to address their concerns? State funding is not the recourse it once was. As President Powers observes, “Other demands [e.g., Medicaid and K-12] on diminishing public resources are growing.” Given these straitened circumstances, restoring affordability must come through university budgetcutting, just as families have had to do this past decade. Important as affordability is, President Powers rightly notes that UT’s “real goal is increasing the student’s abilities to think critically and communicate.” Hence educators are troubled by the results of the national study, Academically Adrift, which employed the Collegiate Learning Assessment (CLA) to measure undergraduate learning. It finds that, after four years in college, 36 percent of students demonstrate “small or empirically nonexistent” gains in critical thinking and written communication.
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To address this, roughly 200 universities administered the CLA last year. Although the Washington Post reports that UT-Austin scores in the lowest quartile among peer schools on the CLA, the UT System should be commended for caring enough about student learning to pioneer the CLA’s use. Reformers hope to make UT the model for the state, proposing legislation requiring public universities to administer the CLA to all students, and publish institutions’ results annually. Another transparency-in-outcomes measure the next UT president might consider involves grading. Why? Professors Stuart Rojstaczer and Christopher Healy’s research demonstrates that, in the early ‘60s, an A constituted 15 percent of grades nationwide. Today, an A is the most common grade (43 percent); 73 percent of all grades today are A’s or B’s. For Rojstaczer and Healy, students are grade inflation’s victims, because they are being deceived. That said, when I was in college, I loved grade inflation! I was
wrong. It can take years post-graduation to grasp fully that the professors who challenged you to work harder than you thought capable were your best friends, because life after college grows increasingly difficult. As President Powers cautions, “Global competition is increasing.” To enhance grading transparency, a number of universities now place on student transcripts, next to the grade the student received for each class, the average grade for the class awarded by the professor. This aids job applicants whose hardfought A’s currently get lost in a plethora of mostly-A’s-and-B’s transcripts. These outcomes-measurements would help answer President Powers’ charge to examine “improv[ing] student success.” In the process, UT’s next president would faithfully build on his predecessor’s accomplishments. Lindsay is the director of the Center for Higher Education at the Texas Public Policy Foundation and editor of SeeThruEdu.com.
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Article on Ferguson to Palestine panel omits crucial viewpoints
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Conservatism can grow economy By Amy Nabozny Guest Columnist
Editor’s Note: This is the third in a series of columns on conservatives on the UT campus. “What starts here changes the world.” We regularly encounter this phrase. We are the future leaders of Texas. We are expected to be at the forefront of progress and innovation in America. With these expectations in mind, I am a conservative college student because conservative values and policies empower individuals to better themselves and society. Conservatism revolves around the premise of limited government, free enterprise, liberty, fiscal responsibility and personal prudence. Conservatives look at a problem and think, “How can the private sector, charities, grassroots organizations, religious groups and I create a solution?” In contrast, liberals look to raising taxes, deficit spending, bureaucracy and extensive regulation. The conservative model produced Uber, Airbnb, Apple and Starbucks; while services run by the federal government — Social Security, the U.S. Postal Service and Medicaid — are largely unsustainable or bankrupt. Growing up, I was aware of the local economy and how it impacted people’s livelihood. In my home state of Michigan, we had eight years of a Democrat-controlled state government. This resulted in Michigan having the second highest unemployment rate in
the union. The state budget had a $1.5 billion deficit. Morale was low and people were leaving the state in droves. I can even remember losing friends because their parents had been laid off and could only find jobs in other states. After moving to Texas, I quickly noticed the contrast in state government models. This year Texas is ranked number one in job creation across all pay levels. Our system of low taxes and reasonable regulation has made Texas an attractive location to create and run a business. The primary purpose of attending a university is to increase your salary and employment opportunities. In order for this to occur, we need to enter a strong and growing economy upon graduation. The pro-growth economic policies that conservatives champion make an optimal hiring market that recent graduates can thrive in. However, since President Barack Obama took office, the national unemployment rate for recent college graduates has grown to 8.5 percent. In Obama’s America, well after graduation you are expected to still be financially dependent on your parents. Twenty-six-year-old “children” can stay on their parents’ health care plans. However, I, for one, refuse to accept this path for myself. Nabozny is a history and government junior from Farmington Hills, Michigan. She is the president of College Republicans.
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Article leaves out black voices The original intent of the Ferguson to Palestine panel, covered by Kylie Fitzpatrick in a story that ran online Thursday under the headline “UT Palestine group discusses connections between Ferguson, Gaza,” was to facilitate a discussion on the shared experiences of institutionalized racism and militarized state violence. By connecting the recent events of Ferguson, Missouri, to what is occurring in Palestine and Gaza, the panelists and audience began a critical discussion on these pressing issues. However, the article covering the event a) failed to recognize black student voices, b) mislead readers in the title and c) failed to adhere to journalistic integrity and objectivity. The voices of black students at this event were entirely excluded from the coverage or even noted as participating members of this discussion. The original article failed to note that the event was co-hosted by the Pre-Law National Black Law Student Association and Association of Black Psychologists. The article failed to include any means of representing black students in this discussion. This is ironic because a substantial proportion of the discussion related to how the media lacks coverage of (or misrepresents) the struggles of minority groups. Rather, the author made the choice to include a volunteered comment by an individual from the organization Texans for Israel who was not in attendance. I found the title, “UT Palestine group discusses connections between Ferguson, Gaza,” to be misleading. “UT Palestine group” suggests only pro-Palestine students organized this event. The title also suggests that the reader might learn more about what “connections between Ferguson and Gaza” were addressed in the discussion. Unfortunately, nowhere in the story does it explain the actual content discussed, which included the use of Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicles on civilian populations, how media coverage portrays minority struggles of racism and the respectability politics of minority groups that turns the victims into the responsible parties. As an unaffiliated participant in the event, I can say the author did not present a true representation of the event and its purpose. The author failed to adhere to
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journalistic objectivity by focusing more on the overlapping of the event with a religious holiday than on trying to convey the scope of the discussion that took place. She did this while largely ignoring the black student organizations that co-sponsored this event and the black students who participated in the discussion by not quoting them. As readers we must always question the integrity of the journalist, any journalist. It is the responsibility of the journalist to be objective and accurate when reporting on what takes place in the day-to-day. All consumers of any kind of media have to ask themselves how the facts are represented, what sources were used and whose voices are included or excluded. If the motto of UT is “What starts here changes the world,” then we need our journalists coming from UT to ensure that world is represented accurately. — Megan Maldonado, an international relations and global studies and sociology junior from Houston, in response to a Thursday news article that ran under the web headline “UT Palestine group discusses connections between Ferguson, Gaza.” Coverage of panel shows bias After reading the article, I felt compelled to express my disappointment with this newspaper. Wednesday’s event was co-hosted by two black student groups and discussed struggles of African Americans, but Ms. Fitzpatrick failed to include comments from any black voices. She did, however, decide to include comments from Texans for Israel, who had no involvement in the event. As a reader, it suggests to me that Ms. Fitzpatrick, the editorial staff and possibly even the entire organization, The Daily Texan, are heavily biased against the Palestinian human rights cause, the movements in Ferguson and speaking out about blacks’ struggle in America. The whole lot of you ought to be ashamed of such an article and the message The Daily Texan has sent by approaching the article the way it has. Black voices matter and, without question, should have been included in this article. The Daily Texan obviously disagrees. — Moureen Kaki, a UTSA student, in response to the same article.
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continues from page 8 to think about another way to build relationships to an industry that is very much a part of our lives and also very much a destructive one.” In addition to the 70-foot sculpture, Brooks published photographs of articles in pamphlets given to visitors. The articles he and a team of UT students came across
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continues from page 8 a warehouse where we store creative things that happened 100 years ago but where creativity happens live in the moment, and I think the music and art connections is a great way to demonstrate that,” Bennett said. The performances are included with admission prices and are free for museum members, UT students, faculty and staff. Clinton hopes his composition will change the way the audience looks at the artwork he is interpreting. “That they view the painting differently, that there might be a story behind it and that it might be different from the one they’ve seen,” Clinton said. “That it inspires somebody else.”
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Senior safety Mykkele Thompson and senior linebacker Jordan Hicks work to hold Kansas senior wide receiver Tony Pierson to just three yards. Although quarterback Tyrone Swoopes completed only 19 of 34 passes, Texas’ defense dominated the Jayhawks, allowing zero points while forcing four turnovers.
Texas escapes despite shaky offense By Stefan Scrafield @stefanscrafield
LAWRENCE, Kan. — Kansas’ 23-0 loss to Texas on Saturday proved to be the last straw for the Jayhawks, as they fired head coach Charlie Weis on Sunday morning. But, if it weren’t for such a dominant performance by the Longhorn defense, the Charlie in Austin could just
as easily have been the one in hot water. While the scoreboard displayed a comfortable victory for head coach Charlie Strong and the Longhorns, that wasn’t exactly the case in Kansas on Saturday. Without some key stops and a couple of timely interceptions by defensive coordinator Vance Bedford’s
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defense, Texas might have found itself on the losing end of a major upset. “The guys came up with big plays at the right time,” Strong said of the defense. “Any time you defensively get a shutout, it’s really great for the defense.” Offensively, the Longhorns weren’t any better than the lowly Jayhawks. Each of Texas’ four scoring drives
started inside the Kansas 30yard line, and the Longhorns only outgained Weis’ offense by a total of 16 yards. But the Texas defense turned in its best performance of the season, posting the program’s first road shutout since 2005. While the Jayhawk offense isn’t exactly known as a powerhouse, a shutout in conference play is always an impressive feat.
“They had the same amount of time to prepare to put that ball in the end zone as we did to keep them out,” said senior linebacker Jordan Hicks, who recorded his second career interception in the contest. “[The shutout] means a lot to this defense and to this team.” In addition to Hicks’
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Since arriving at Texas, head coach Charlie Strong has dismissed nine players from the football program. The Longhorns hold a 2-2 record after shutting out Kansas on Saturday.
Strong, Goodell meet to discuss ‘core values’ By Jori Epstein @JoriEpstein
Although the Longhorns didn’t return from Lawrence, Kansas, until late Saturday night, head coach Charlie Strong was back at work Sunday morning. NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell and Troy Vincent, the NFL’s executive vice president of football operations, met with Strong to seek his advice on the moral dilemmas plaguing the league. “[Strong’s] emphasis on character [and] respect over talent is molding the next generation of football talent,” Vincent tweeted. “Commissioner and I are focused on strengthening relationships with colleges. Thank you for your time today [Charlie Strong].” The NFL has recently come under fire for its lax discipline policies. The league received broad criticism for waiting to discipline Ray Rice, former Baltimore Ravens running back, following allegations of domestic violence. After the accusations spread and video footage went viral, the Ravens terminated Rice’s contract Sept. 8. The Minnesota Vikings placed running back Adrian
Peterson, who was indicted for child abuse, on the Exempt/Commissioner’s Permission list on Sept. 17. Throughout the month, the NFL has worked to restore its image and credibility amid criticism from a wide range of outlets. Goodell visited the National Domestic Violence Hotline in Austin for three hours on Saturday night. The following morning, he and Vincent met with 11 former NFL players, followed by Strong. “This morning, [Goodell] [and] I met [with] [Coach Strong] to discuss core values, game integrity, [and] college relations. Great meeting, great input,” Vincent tweeted. Strong’s “core values” have attracted national attention during his time at Texas and at Louisville. Strong requires players to be honest, treat women with respect and refrain from drugs, stealing and guns — all policies he actively enforces. Since arriving in Austin, Strong has dismissed nine players who violated team rules and three other players are currently suspended from
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Last season, Texas came within one game of advancing to the College World Series final, and it hasn’t been easy to forget. “It took a little bit of time,” senior pitcher Parker French said. “It definitely stung and hurt.” In June, Vanderbilt, the eventual national champion, captured a 10th-inning walkoff infield single to end the Longhorns’ hope of a sixth national championship. But, as fall practice begins this season, Texas will look to start its season strong. “I don’t think there’s much of a hangover effect,” French said. “I think it’s more guys are just hungry. We all have a common goal, we know what that is. We got a little bit of taste of success last year, but we’re not done, and we want more, and I think that’s the biggest thing.” The Longhorns know they must work hard in order to
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I’m not over [the World Series loss] yet. I don’t want to get over it. I want to be motivated by it. I’m excited to get us started. —Augie Garrido,
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repeat last season’s success. “The first day is exciting, but there is a lot of hard work to be done, so we’re ready to get after it,” senior outfielder Collin Shaw said. Last year’s team was built on a basis of solidarity, which helped the group make a deep run into the postseason. With the addition of 15 freshmen, however, the upperclassmen must show leadership and unify the team — a process Texas is taking day-by-day. “I know what we’re going to do today, then we’re going to see how they respond to it, and then we’ll decide what we’re going to do tomorrow, and you just take it a day at a time,” head coach Augie Garrido said. Texas isn’t worried about
added pressure or expectations this year. Instead, Garrido said the team is focused on the task at hand, with thoughts of last season’s bitter end still in their heads. “I’m not over [the World Series loss] yet,” Garrido said. “I don’t want to get over it. I want to be motivated by it. I’m excited to get us started.” Although the season doesn’t start until February, Texas hopes to start eliminating its shortcomings now. Falling short last year may be the motivation the Longhorns need. “Like anything — whether it’s a failure or a success — you can use that for the future,” French said. “You can learn from anything … so, we’ll use those experiences moving forward.”
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After a dominant run in Omaha, Texas’ 10-inning loss to Vanderbilt on June 21 eliminated the Longhorns from the 2014 College World Series. Vanderbilt beat Virginia in the championships.
SPORTS BRIEFLY Riechmann falls in qualifying round
This weekend, the Texas men’s tennis team began competition in the Saint Francis Health System ITA Men’s AllAmerican Championship in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Junior Michael Riechmann, the only Longhorn who competed over the weekend, fell to freshman Skander Mansouri of Wake Forest (7-5, 6-1) in the opening round of the pre-qualifying draw. Sophomore George Goldhoff, senior Adrien Berkowicz and junior Nick Naumann will begin competition in the qualifying draw Monday. All three players enter competition ranked, with Goldhoff leading the way at No. 56 and Berkowicz and Naumann following at No. 106 and No. 113, respectively. Senior All-Americans Søren Hess-Olesen and Lloyd Glasspool, who automatically qualify for the main singles and doubles draw, will begin play Thursday. Hess-Olesen is currently ranked at No. 5 in singles, and Glasspool is ranked at No. 31. As a doubles team, they are ranked No. 4. Play began Saturday and will continue through Oct. 6. —Jasmine Johnson
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CAMPUS
Freshman sells high-end bling By Courtney Runn @Courtney_t_runn
Last May, over 400 people crowded into Evan Rauch’s Houston home, with a line spilling out the door. The cops even came to investigate the unruly neighborhood scene. At the center of it all was Rauch, an advertising freshman, selling her jewelry at the fourth trunk store of her career. Rauch was first inspired to make jewelry in eighth grade when someone gave her a beading kit. It was just a fun hobby until her classmates started making requests and asked to buy her creations. She started out making woven, cuffed bracelets and now creates high-end jewelry with semiprecious stones. Rauch’s style has evolved over time. She loves working with pendants and charms, mixing golds, greens and grays to create trendy, yet timeless, pieces. She said her favorite pieces to use are Buddha charms and pyrite stone. “[My style] is a little boho but more traditional,” Rauch said. “I like simple, fun pieces that are versatile. You could take a necklace I made and wear it with a white button-down and jeans.”
Roughly a year ago, she opened an Etsy store to expand her clientele. She has also caught the eyes of multiple stores and sells her jewelry at four boutiques, including the Houstonian, Cuatro and Annie Albritton in Houston and c.jane in Austin. “She has one of the best eyes I’ve ever seen,” c. jane co-founder Julie Copp said. “Not a day goes by that someone doesn’t talk about Evan.” Rauch is the local boutique’s youngest seller but also one of the most popular. Rauch said she delivers up to 10 pieces to the store every two weeks. “My clients have definitely changed,” Rauch said. “It used to be eighth graders, and, now, it’s their moms.” The transition from high school to college has affected Rauch’s pace. It takes her about an hour to make each piece and, with a demanding course load, she can only make about one per day. Rauch is determined, however, to continue making and selling her jewelry at UT. “I love it; I never get tired of it,” Rauch said. “It’s an addiction.” Her friends and family have been supportive of
Ellyn Snider | Daily Texan Staff
Evan Rauch was first inspired to create jewelry in the eigth grade. Now a freshman, Rauch’s style has evolved to include pieces that are sold at four different boutiques.
her throughout the process. One high school friend, psychology freshman Mary Hotze, has watched her jewelry evolve since high school and owns pieces of Rauch’s work. “I bought a necklace from her four years ago that I still
wear,” Hotze said. “It doesn’t go out of fashion.” To keep up with the trends and stock up on new supplies, Rauch goes to beading conventions at least twice a year. “I bring a suitcase; people think I’m crazy,” Rauch
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said. “It’s my thing. It’s the best weekend ever.” Rauch hopes to someday turn her Etsy store into a storefront, allowing her to spend her time designing. If that doesn’t work out, she wants to have a high-couture line on the side with
a shop in her house. She’s currently majoring in advertising and hopes to complete the Business Foundations Program as well. “People say I’m going to be the next Kendra Scott,” Rauch said. “And I’m like, ‘Oh my gosh, I wish.’”
ART
Grad students interpret music from art UT artist-in-residence shows work at gallery
By Alejandra Martinez @ahl3h
In the atrium of the Blanton Museum of Art, students from the Butler School of Music gathered to find something inspiring. Each of the students then composed a personal composition in response to the piece of art that stood out to them the most. The result is the Midday Music Series. On Tuesday, students from the Butler School of Music will showcase the products of their interpretations to the public as part of the Blanton’s Midday Music Series. The compositions are all based on artworks currently on display in the museum. “We’re lucky enough that they’ve written new pieces about works in our collection,” said Adam Bennett, manager of public programs at the Blanton. “We did a project like this last year, [and] there was so much interest that it couldn’t be contained within just one program. It’s sort of an extension and a sequel to that program.” The creative process for the event began at the end of the last spring semester with an open tour of the Blanton for composition students who were
By Paige Atkinson @PaigeAtkinson
Marshall Tidrick | Daily Texan Staff
Christopher Prosser and Brandon Clinton, music composition graduate students of the Butler School of Music, recently composed pieces that were inspired by pieces of art in the Blanton Museum of Art.
interested in the concept. The students were told to choose an art piece that stood out to them. Brandon Clinton, music composition graduate student, chose the Shirazeh Houshiary painting titled “Night of Light.” “The title, ‘Night of Light,’ is pretty evocative,” Clinton said. “Basically, I just thought, first of all, it was really striking. What could it be, this little light in the distance?” Stephen Sachse and Christopher Prosser, both music composition
graduate students, chose to interpret Morris Louis’ painting “Water-Shot” but in very different ways. Sachse’s piece uses an electric guitar and a computer, while Prosser’s uses clarinet, flute, viola and cello. “The idea, it’s so stripped down in a way,” Sachse said. “It’s just drops of paint that fall down. I really liked the idea of doing a piece that’s based on a descending kind of theme.” Prosser also found something inspiring in the minimalist techniques
used by the artist. “The piece is kind of quirky,” Prosser said. “It has melodies that come back [and] can represent different colors of the painting — greens, yellows [and] reds.” Bennett hopes the Midday Music Series and other similar events that the museum hosts can get people to think of the museum as not only a place that houses art but as an active and creative space. “The museum isn’t just
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When walking into the Visual Arts Center Vaulted Gallery, it looks a little like the room is under repair. Building scaffolding holds up a 70-foot long core sample. The sample stretches diagonally from one corner of the ceiling to the opposite ground side of the gallery, where it exits through a hole in the gallery window and reenters the earth. David Brooks, who has a Master of Fine Arts from Columbia University and works out of Brooklyn, is the Vault Gallery artist-inresidence. His exhibition, “Repositioned Core,” which opened Sept. 19, blends his knowledge of science and art. His artwork highlights the dynamics between individuals and nature and often the disconnection that exists between the two. For example, he placed a section of the tropical rainforest in the Museum of Modern Art in New York to represent his perspective on humans and nature. Each year, the Visual Arts Center invites working artists to show their artwork at the gallery. During the selection process, faculty determine which artist is
I wanted to think about another way to build relationships to an industry that is very much a part of our lives and also very much a destructive one. —David Brooks, Artist
invited to work at the University based on their need for resources and desire for collaboration. “As this is one of the country’s great research universities, this was certainly an opportunity I was delighted to take,” Brooks said. At the beginning of the process, Brooks explored the Jackson School of Geosciences for inspiration. As he toured the facilities, he realized geological material resembled sculpture. Along with the physical nature of core samples, he drew inspiration from Texas oil culture. “As a Northerner. when I think of Texas — for better or for worse — I think of oil,” Brooks said. “I wanted
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TECHNOLOGY
‘Thread’ app promises to string couples together By Rachel Renier @MountRenier
Smartphone dating apps aren’t always taken too seriously. Whether someone is experimenting with “Tinder,” “Grindr,” “Cudlr” or “OkCupid,” there’s the potential for awkwardly meeting matches in real life, leading to nervous eye contact while both people try to find the right words to transition from digital chat to real conversation. “Thread,” the latest of the popular dating apps, hopes to offer a medium for substantial
relationships in cyberspace. While apps like Tinder and Grindr are synonymous with the “hook up” culture, Thread hopes to break through this superficiality. Thread’s main attraction is that it is only accessible to college students, requiring users to register with a “.edu” email address. While Thread offers a new approach to the fast-growing market of dating apps, the larger question is whether Thread has the potential to surpass the stereotype of online dating and create real relationships in a
student population. The exclusivity of the app doubles as a safety net. Students may particularly be drawn to Thread because of its filtering mechanism, as other dating applications generally draw unwarranted or inappropriate attention from people outside of the University. The app’s second strategy is limiting the number of potential matches per day to 10. This forces users to take a hard look at their options before saying “yes.” Tinder,
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