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Group rallies for imprisoned student By Josh Willis @joshwillis35
A group of demonstrators gathered Wednesday on the RLM bridge to raise awareness for Omid Kokabee, a former UT physics graduate student who has been imprisoned in Iran for almost four years. The group gathered in the shade of the building Kokabee would have returned to for class after visiting his family in Iran. Physics professor Herbert Berk spoke at the demonstration about the circumstances of Kokabee’s incarceration. “It’s hard to understand what it was, and there was no trial to really shed any light because, at the trial, the judge looked at him and declared him guilty and put him in jail for 10 years,” Berk said. Berk serves as chairman for the Committee on International Freedom of Scientists, an organization that
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Ellen Hutchison (left) releases white doves on the RLM bridge Wednesday afternoon to raise awareness for former graduate student Omid Kokabee. Kokabee has been imprisoned for almost four years after visiting family in Iran.
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Seven mayoral candidates discussed water conservation, transportation issues and curbing property taxes in a forum at the Austin Convention Center on Wednesday night. Businessman Todd Phelps, retired electrical engineer Ronald Culver, City Council Member Mike Martinez, aircraft technician Randall Stephens, Mayor Pro Tem Sheryl Cole, retired technology writer David Orshalick and attorney Steve Adler sat down at a forum hosted by the City Ethics Commission and League of Women Voters of the Austin Area. The only candidate listed on the ballot that did not appear is activist Mary Krenek. Adler said the affordability crisis in Austin has been exacerbated by the rising property prices. Cole said the increasing property tax rate is unacceptable. “We have to remember that it has two components: rate and appraised value,” Cole said. “What is really getting out of control is the appraised value. We have allocated money to work with the appraisal district to fight the appraisal values. We also need to go to the legislature and make changes there. I do not support a rate exemption, I support a flat tax exemption.” Orshalick said preemptive strategic planning would have stymied the water conservation
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Crime prevention event engages students By Natalie Sullivan @natsullivan94
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A group of professors held a discussion panel over important controveries in the book and film “Gone with the Wind.”
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A faculty panel discussed the controversy and historical background surrounding “Gone with the Wind” on Wednesday as part of the Harry Ransom Center’s ongoing exhibition, “The Making of Gone with the Wind.” “Gone with the Wind” was originally a book written in 1936 by Margaret Mitchell but was brought to the big screen in 1939 and was directed by David Selznick. The film was referred to as a classic of the golden age of Hollywood movies. At the time, it sparked controversy over how it portrayed sex, race and
violence in the South during both the Civil War and the Reconstruction Era. According to Jacqueline Jones, history department chair, “hate mail” was sent before and during production of the movie from radical labor groups, veteran groups and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. “They were eloquent statements about the book and how the Union veterans were depicted and how African-Americans were depicted,” Jones said. “They gave a sense of the real controversy that began even before production.”
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Students participated in a simulation of drunken driving, tested their pepper-spraying abilities and met police officers to kick off National Night Out on the San Jacinto Residence Hall plaza Wednesday. National Night Out is a nationwide event designed to promote community involvement in crime prevention. UTPD, the Division of Housing and Food Services and other campus organizations partnered with each other to put on the annual event, which has been held at the University for the past 10 years. The event is part of Campus Safety Week, which is hosted by Student Government each year. “In essence, it’s to get law enforcement and the community to come out together and say, ‘We’re not going to tolerate crime,’” said William Pieper, UTPD crime prevention specialist and Campus Watch writer. Individual National Night Out parties take place in neighborhoods across the country every
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History freshman Angelina Medellin “pepper sprays” UTPD Officer William Pieper during National Night Out in front of San Jacinto Hall on Wednesday evening.
year on the first Tuesday of August. In Texas, the date is moved to October because of the heat, Pieper said. “It started out just getting neighbors to put their porch lights on, so the bad guys knew, ‘Hey, you can’t commit a crime here,’ and then it evolved to actually coming out of your house and meeting your neighbors and getting involved with the
community,”Pieper said. Students had the chance to practice their pepper-spraying skills with training spray and experience a simulation of drunken driving by using Fatal Vision goggles, a tool used to simulate the effects of alcohol on a person’s vision. While wearing the goggles, students practiced throwing beanbags and footballs
at targets to demonstrate how hand-eye coordination is impaired when intoxicated. “It really teaches you that drunk driving is not a good idea,” said James Rauhut, a management information systems senior who volunteered at the event. Business freshman Allison Walker said she
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fights for imprisoned scientists. He said the reasons for Kokabee’s imprisonment are unusual. “He was declared innocent of some of the [original] charges, but then they convicted him of conspiring with the United States government and getting illegal income, which is, as far as we can tell, the income from being a TA here,” Berk said. Berk said Kokabee has lost weight and has come down with different medical afflictions while in the
Iranian prison system. “Omid is under some very bad conditions, and, in fact, he’s been ill for a while,” Berk said. “He has several different things, like heart palpitations, and he has trouble with kidney stones that periodically come, in part, because of the poor water that’s there.” Throughout the world, Nobel laureates have written petitions asking that Kokabee be set free. Berk said petitions collected by Amnesty International will be delivered to the Iranian representative at the United
Nations assembly in a couple of weeks. Ellen Hutchison, a former UT student and acquaintance of Kokabee, said that the demonstration is a powerful way to spread the message and encourage others to speak out. “Public awareness really does help the situation of political prisoners. Anything [the public] can do to increase awareness would be helpful,” Hutchison said. “This makes a statement not only about Omid, but about the
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The protagonist in the film is Scarlett O’Hara, a southern belle who is the daughter of a plantation owner in Georgia. According to Jones, a sort of “melodrama” ensues from Scarlett’s romance and conflicts. Jones said that Scarlett, played by Vivien Leigh in the film, starts out as a spoiled brat on a plantation and transforms into a self-reliant lumber dealer. “Scarlett embodies this new South,” Jones said. “She’s very enterprising, becomes obsessed with money and really lost touch with the value of the land. She’s become self-reliant, and that’s what some young
women reacted to.” Radio-television-film professor Thomas Schatz said that during the time period the movie was one of the first to have a female lead. “The female audience was so important to Hollywood at the time,” said Schatz. “What this movie was doing with race and gender was so wonderfully complicated, and it’s the way Hollywood intended it to function.” The exhibit for the film includes on-set photographs, audition footage and fan mail. It will be available for free tours at the Harry Ransom Center until Jan. 4.
continues from page 1 History associate professor Daina Berry said that during the 1920s and 1930s, many African-Americans were frequently interviewed by media outlets because they were the last descendants of slaves. Despite this, African-Americans were typically portrayed by white actors in films. “We didn’t have a lot of visual representations of AfricanAmericans during this time period,” Berry said. “This was a film that you finally had African-American actors and actresses playing slaves on stage.”
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felt the event was a good way to build community between students. “I think a lot of times people in the dorms kind of stay to themselves, but this really helps people get out and meet their neighbors and other people,” Walker said. Campus Safety Week will include other safety events such as Fire Safety Day, Cop Day and Law Enforcement Day for students to learn more about UTPD and community policing, Pieper said. Applied learning and development junior Carolina Medina, who works as a resident assistant in Prather Hall Dormitory, said she thinks the event was a good way for UTPD to build relationships with students on campus. “It really puts a face to the police department here, and you meet them and realize that they’re really fun people,” Medina said.
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Guest lecturer discusses Cezanne’s influence on Latin American art By Chris Mendez @thedailytexan
A guest lecturer spoke about French painter Paul Cezanne’s influence on the work of Latin American artists Diego Rivera and Jesús Soto at the Blanton Museum of Art on Wednesday. James Oles, a Latin American art professor at Wellesley College, specializes in modern Mexican art and architecture. Oles presented the works of Cezanne and spoke about the natural images in the paintings. He also discussed the different landscapes used in Cezanne’s works and emphasized the importance of brushwork. Oles pointed out the same elements in Mexican painter Rivera’s work. According to Oles, Rivera started as a cubist artist in 1914 and then shifted to a modernist style after observing the works of Cezanne. According to Oles, Rivera emulated Cezanne’s landscapes in his own works and portraits but incorporated his own style with more space and separation in his images. Other aspects of Rivera’s art that Oles talked about included his geometric patterns and depiction of working class people. Oles also discussed
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James Oles, a Latin American art professor at Wellesley College, speaks at the Blanton Museum of Art on Wednesday afternoon..
Venezuelan artist Jesús Soto, whose major works appeared in the 1960s. He is most notably recognized for penetrable sculptures, which consist of dangling tubes through which people can walk. “[Cezanne] wanted to make visible the world that touches us,” Oles said. Oles also showed Soto’s optical wall works, which modeled the idea of Cezanne’s by creating “vibration” through the use of diagonals. In contrast to Rivera’s art, Oles pointed out that Soto made his paintings more three-dimensional. Oles concluded by saying that both artists had their own interpretations of Cezanne’s art. Oles said that other Mexi-
can abstract artists, in addition to Rivera and Soto, have been influenced by Cezanne’s work. Oles also talked about the importance of students getting a hands-on experience of art. Mathematics sophomore Jacob Caudell said he is interested in the underlying structure of realities. “I’m interested in how art develops over time,” Caudell said. “They took the same body of work and did very different things with it. After this presentation, I’m understanding more about how artists respond to the art that has come before them.” Oles will be giving another talk at the Art Building andMuseum on Thursday at 7 p.m.
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Study explores water use in fracking By Aimée Santillán @thedailytexan
A study led by a UT researcher found that the amount of water used for unconventional gas and oil production, such as hydraulic fracturing, is about the same as is used for conventional production. The study, published on Sept. 18 online in the “Environmental Science & Technology Journal,” was led by Bridget Scanlon, senior research scientist in the Jackson School of Geosciences. “We’re using more water for hydraulic fracturing because we’re producing more oil using hydraulic fracturing,” Scanlon said. “It is not because hydraulic fracturing is more water-intensive per unit of oil production.” Scanlon said she decided to conduct the study to answer existing questions about the vulnerability of unconventional gas and oil production because of water shortages and the use of hydraulic fracturing. “There is a concern about
using water, especially in times of drought,” said Kristine Uhlman, research engineering/scientist associate. “With this research, people can understand that the method for generating energy is not necessarily what’s causing more water use.” According to Uhlman, hydraulic fracturing, fracking, is a process in which liquids are injected into fractures of rocks to extract natural gas and oil. Conventional oil and gas accumulates in reservoirs and is extracted through the use of conventional, vertical wells. Unconventional oil and gas is trapped in dense rock, typically shale, and cannot be extracted except through the use of unconventional, horizontal wells. Uhlman said the unconventional oil production method has been useful to reach unconventional oil. “Unconventional oil and gas production is helping the United Sates be energy independent,” Uhlman said. “We have enough energy to sustain ourselves because of this new unconventional development of unconventional oil and gas.”
Scanlon said the results of this study could be used in future economic and policy studies about environmental impacts of unconventional energy production. She said the research was based on a well-by-well analysis of water use in hydraulic fracturing and used a number of different databases. She looked at thousands of wells used for conventional and unconventional oil and gas production and came up with ranges of how much water is used to construct them. They found the same amount of water is used for both methods. “The difference is not how much water is used, but when it is used,” Uhlman said. Uhlman said that this study could provide people with a better understanding of the relationship between water and energy. Research scientist associate Robert Reedy and research scientist Jean-Philippe Nicot, both with the Jackson School of Geosciences, also contributed to the study.
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Journalist Christian Caryl lectures on his new book, “Strange Rebels,” in Sid Richardson Hall on Wednesday afternoon. In his book, Caryl argues that events of 1979 were formative for the world today.
Journalist asserts impact of 1979 on politics, economy By Adam Hamze @adamhamz
Although many people might think the most crucial moments in the 20th century would include World War II, the civil rights movement or the Vietnam War, journalist Christian Caryl said the current state of the world was most affected by events in 1979. Caryl, who is a senior fellow at the Legatum Institute and a contributing editor at Foreign Policy magazine, gave a lecture hosted by the Clements Center for History, Strategy and Statecraft at the University on Wednesday. Caryl said there were five moments in 1979 that caused it to be a formative year: the election of Pope John Paul II, the rise of al-Qaeda in Afghanistan, the economic revolution in China led by Deng Xioaping, Iran’s shift into theocracy under Ruhollah Khomeini, and Margaret Thatcher being elected as the British prime minister. According to Caryl, author of “Strange Rebels: Why We Still Live in the Shadow of
1979,” these events were closely correlated and, together, contributed to paradigm shifts across the world. He said the Pope’s involvement in Poland and the Islamic Revolutions in Afghanistan and Iran contributed to the fall of communism, while the economic shift to free-market capitalism in China and Great Britain challenged socialist systems. “The reason we need to pay attention to this year is not just because of the transformations, but I believe we need to because it transformed the world far more than we usually give it credit for,” Caryl said. Caryl believes the impact the events of 1979 had on politics and economics today is overlooked because of the complexity of the events. He said it is much easier to analyze concrete events such as WWII, and the reason 1979 contained a multitude of historical events is because the world is constantly going through cycles. “There are cycles in history … periodic outburst of fervor, then reaction, then religious revivals,” Caryl said.
“Not many people noticed the shifting of attitudes until they had already happened.” Jacqueline Chandler, programs manager at the Clements Center, said the aim of the department is to help students learn from history and become more effective leaders. “Bringing in historians from all sorts of backgrounds is really important to bring that message home,” Chandler said. “Sometimes people tend to focus on one event or signature thing [in history] and will miss the whole picture.” Government junior Andy Trimble, who attended the lecture, said if the general public had a better grasp on the history of regions engulfed in conflict, they would have a better understanding of the context of the situations. “If [people] know what happened in the past and could make accurate links, their view of history would be much more linear, instead of just chopped up in these big moments,” Trimble said. “This way, people would have more informed opinions and be less ignorant about certain topics.”
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continues from page 1 problem, and that the best way to meet all their recommendations is by putting everything into one city plan. “With one strategic city plan, we wouldn’t have to have these conversations every one, two [and] four years,” Orshalick said. “The Water Task Force found a lot of things for us to do. One of the recommendations of the Water Task Force was that we have a water master plan. I think that the recommendations are very good.” Adler said he believed Austin needs to improve water conservation. “People are conserving more and more water and expect their bills to go down, but they don’t, and they don’t understand why,” Adler said. “It’s because we have high capital expenditure that keep those bills up. We should be doing a better job with conservation and reuse. San Antonio reuses about 40 percent of its water. Austin reuses 3 percent.” Culver proposed adding an express lane to alleviate traffic congestion on the highways. Phelps stressed the importance of legalizing transportation network companies to help with the traffic problem. “We need to greenlight companies like Uber and Lyft immediately,” Phelps said. “We can create flow in this city. As
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Steve Adler, candidate for Austin mayor, discusses efficient and environmentally friendly energy for Austin on Wednesday night.
far as the transportation system of the future, we need to look at something that’s smart and technology driven.” Martinez said expanding access to different social services is imperative. “We invest about $18 million a year in social service contracting,” Martinez said. “We estimate we have over 100,000 residents in Travis County who are eligible but not enrolled in food service programs.” Stephens said the way to expand social programs would be bringing back Texan tax dollars. “Our governor has correctly pointed out that we are a donor state, and I wouldn’t be ashamed to ask Congress to give us some of our money back to us,” Stephens said. The candidates also addressed the issue of rental properties not kept up to city
code. Orshalick said the City Council was to blame for substandard housing. “Social equity is part of my platform,” Orshalick said. “The fact that we have substandard housing in Austin, Texas, speaks very poorly of us. When it came time to pass a long-term rental ordinance — we started in 2009 and we still don’t have one. This would include automatic inspections of very rental property and ensure performance to city code. This is long overdue.” Martinez said mandatory rental registration for landlords was necessary to help renters in substandard housing. “We absolutely must bring these folks outside of the shadows,” Martinez said. “We must be able to contact these renters. We can’t do that unless we can access the people who own these rental properties.”
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Communication dean discusses TSM, future plans for Moody have magazines and newspapers and broadcast, and we still have some of that, but now pretty much any journalism student that graduates is going to have a range of skills that we didn’t have to do in the past, so I think they’re working hard to keep current, as you know, but the business keeps changing. The modalities change all the time, so we have to keep figuring out where things are going and try to get students there before that happens. But I think we’re still regarded as one of the very best programs in the country. DT: How has the relationship between the Moody School and Texas Student Media (which oversees The Daily Texan) evolved over your tenure as dean?
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Editor’s Note: This is the second in a series of Q-and-A’s with the deans of the University’s 18 schools and colleges. Roderick Hart has served as the dean of the College of Communication, recently rechristened the Moody College of Communication following a large donation from the Moody Foundation of Galveston, since 2005. The Daily Texan: It was recently announced that you’ll be stepping down from the deanship at the end of the academic year. Could you tell us why? Roderick Hart: I’ve been in the job 10 years, and I was an accidental dean. I agreed to do it for one year as an interim, and we had a national search, and we brought 10 people to campus and not all of them turned out to be what the University wanted, and so they put some polite pressure on me. So I eventually decided to do it because I thought, I’d been here for, at that time, 25 years, and I thought, well, I’ve been here. I know the culture, I know the student body, I
know the state. Maybe I’ll be lucky enough to be able to find someone to help us build a building. And we did. So it’s been a good 10 years, but I got into this business because I love teaching and writing, and it’s what I want to do. So I still want to teach; I still want to write. And I’ve kind of done everything I can do. We’ve got the building. We’ve named the college. We’ve got the ... endowment. It’s now time for someone else. DT: How do you think that the communication school prepares journalism students for the workforce? Hart: We’ve got a good number of them out there, and a great many of them have been very successful, so I guess I am pretty confident that we’ve done a good job, but one thing that we know is that the workforce is changing. So part of what the School of Journalism has done in the last couple years is to really revisit the curriculum — the journalism curriculum — and now they train people across platforms. We used to
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Hart: I didn’t have to pay very much attention to it for the first eight-and-a-half years. Obviously very supportive ... A lot of our alums are products of Texas Student Media, and I would meet them at receptions, events across the country and they would always ask about [TSM], and in some ways, I wasn’t always up to date on what was happening ... I was approached by the Vice President for Student Affairs, and Charles Roeckle, assistant to the president, asked if I was willing to come to a meeting and would I be open to [taking it on]. The question was, “Can it be done, and could I get some help from the president during the transitional period?” So then I got to know a lot more about Texas Student Media than I ever had, particularly the financial procedures ... [If I had a time machine,] I would have started fundraising 40 years ago for Texas Student Media, because as time goes on and people become wealthier, they still talk about their days on the Texan or on the TV station, the radio station. They still talk about it even though they’re now 50, 60 years old, as they do about Plan II. But Plan II , they’ve been raising money all that time, and we have not ... Particularly in today’s media environment, you have to have multiple ways of advertising. The way it has been done in the past, it’s just not alone going to be enough, and that’s true of cor-
porate journalism as well, so philanthropy has to be part of it. I think it should be. DT: How will the health communications center collaborate with the med school? Hart: I hope it will be an intimate connection. Our message is that AIDS in Africa is not going to be cured by medicine. It’s going to be cured by communication. Getting third world people to understand and embrace first world medicine, and that’s a cultural communication issue. You can’t get better unless you have the medication; you won’t take the medication unless you believe that it is culturally and intellectually acceptable... DT: We heard a story on the radio the other day. It was talking about the changing environment of journalism employment and how it’s moving from a less stable environment to more freelance work. Do you have any advice for graduating students on how to adjust to this less secure employment environment? Hart: All of that is true and not true at the same time. In all of human history, there have never been more job openings for people with professional communication skills. In all of human history. The difference is, in the past, most of the jobs would be headquartered in big buildings and big companies, like CBS or the Dallas Morning News or these large places that held large numbers of people. These days, however, it’s really important for people to understand that if they have a skill level, that there are more jobs than ever before in human history. It just means they have to think more creatively. So the question is really more of a finance question. Who will pay for the kind of information that journalists provide, which is tested, reliable and dependable evidence. And someone will pay. Figuring out how and when is the question. So I think there will always be jobs. I can’t imagine a field that has a greater upside ... It’s an exciting time, but it’s a little crazy too. Great time to be a student.
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Powers’ State of the University Contrary to popular belief, Islam demands respect for women gets it plain wrong on tenure By Douglas Bruster Guest Columnist
Editor’s Note: This column originally appeared as a blog post on the Daily Texan webiste. In a sentence of two dozen words during his final State of the University address last Monday, President William Powers, Jr. floated an ominous trial balloon. “We need to use tenure,” he said, “when it is most needed: where competition is the keenest and where research is more central to the enterprise.” This is a troubling statement for several reasons. At its base is the idea of tenure as something like a corporate retention tool — a gift to be reserved, perhaps, for professors in such fields as law, engineering, business and the sciences. More worrying is a possible misunderstanding of what tenure is and the corresponding redefinition of the University itself. If tenure is a gift, it’s not the kind of golden handshake that faculty in well-compensated fields need as incentive. Instead, tenure is a gift of time and security to established scholars. Importantly, it is also a gift to students, alumni and citizens generally. How does tenure benefit those inside and outside the University? It does so in part by buying time for committed researchers to imagine, design, and conduct their inquiries, to publish them, and to engage with other scholars over their ideas. Just as crucially, tenure promotes the integrity of this process. It helps guarantee that scholars, and their research and teaching, remain free from external influences. In a perfect world, there would be no need for such protections. Men with money and power would leave the University alone, not seeking to influence scholarship or teaching. We don’t live in that world. We live in Texas, where interfering in the business of others is bad form for the great majority of us but a lifetime hobby for the very wealthy. Skeptical of the dangers to free inquiry? Consider a handful of topics: Economic Theories and Practice, Education, Elections, Electronic Surveillance, the Emancipation Proclamation, Eminent Domain, Employment Discrimination, Energy Production, the Environment, Equal Rights, Ethics, Evolution. You’ll note that these all begin with the letter “E.” As such, they are only a small selection of the areas where an untenured faculty member could expect to be fired for producing the “wrong” answers or accounts. Imagine a donor making a large gift contingent upon a department hiring or firing faculty members of a particular ideology or political affiliation. Or imagine our legislature doing the same. It hasn’t been so long,
historically, since faculty, staff and students were required to sign a loyalty oath in order to be associated with the University of Texas. But the security to learn the truth, and to teach it, is only part of tenure’s gift. Tenure allows scholars to think about things without immediate monetary or political value. So when Powers suggests that the University give tenure only in areas “where research is more central to the enterprise,” we can rightly wonder, “Which enterprise is that?” and “When?” I don’t know what Powers was doing Sept. 10, 2001. But it’s a safe bet that, like me, he wasn’t thinking about the Center for Afghanistan Studies at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. Or about the prudence of that University, and Nebraska’s taxpayers, in having funded, three decades prior, a center for studying such a far-away place. What sense did it make for this Great Plains state to tenure speakers of Dari, Pashto, Urdu, Persian and Hindi? That next morning in September, the wisdom of supporting such scholars became as clear as the blue skies above. To imagine that we know the future is to go against everything we have learned from the past. As the receding months and decades have taught us, no one knows what subject or discipline will become essential, or even useful. Universities exist to advance universal knowledge. A university of the first class cannot afford to restrict its enterprise by redefining tenure as suitable for only a select few fields. To do so is to misunderstand our mission and charge. Powers’ notion to give tenure in competitive fields gets things exactly wrong. When professors in law, science, business and engineering justify their high salaries by pointing to what they could earn in private industry, they are revealing a safety net that protects them from reprisals over their scholarship and teaching. It is scholars without this safety net that tenure is for — those, for example, in the languages, history, social science and the fine arts. Tenure in these fields is a valuable investment by the University, a way to nurture research that has no immediate monetary value but may prove priceless in advancing knowledge of our shared human condition. I have served under a number of excellent university presidents, none finer than Powers. It is difficult to put into words how hard, and faithfully, he has worked for our University. As phrased in his recent State of the University address, however, his ideas about tenure seem a distinct misstep and a departure from the sensitive understanding of higher education for which faculty, staff and students have more than once expressed their gratitude. Bruster is an English professor.
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By Syed Rizvi
Daily Texan Columnist @SyedMuzziRizvi
Editor’s Note: “Peace be upon him” (abbreviated “pbuh”) is a salutation for the prophets of Islam. Who receives salutations depends on the school of thought. It is a mandatory practice per the Quran and hadiths. NFL players such as Ray Rice and others have infamously made national headlines for alleged abuse. Unfortunately, some of our very own Longhorns are facing the same charges. Martez Walker, of the Longhorn basketball team, has been suspended indefinitely after being charged for assaulting a woman, and both Kendall Sanders and Montrel Meander, of the Longhorn football team, were suspended indefinitely after being arrested and charged with sexual assault, a second-degree felony. This streak of violent acts making the headlines exposes a longstanding reality of sexual violence, causing alarm to many communities. Actress Emma Watson recently gave a speech at the U.N that highlighted the HeForShe campaign, “a solidarity movement for gender equality that brings together one half of humanity in support of the other of humanity, for the entirety of humanity.” On this same note of solidarity for justice, the Texas Muslim Council, a representative body of all the Muslim organizations at the University of Texas at Austin, released a statement on Tuesday spurning such acts and calling for community wide solidarity against this “stain on humanity.” Eight Muslim organizations make up the Texas Muslim Council, representing a diverse Muslim demographic. Their public statement came out of an obligation to speak up against what they see as an “injustice that threatens justice everywhere.” They argue that remain-
Actress Emma Watson recently gave a speech at the U.N. that highlighted the HeForShe campaign, “a solidarity movement for gender equality that brings together one half of humanity in support of the other half of humanity, for the entirety of humanity.”
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ing silent makes one complicit in any form of oppression. This is also an opportunity to make clear that while the Muslim world does experience gross violations of women’s rights, Islam is very clear on protecting women’s rights. The unfortunate reality of women’s rights in the Muslim world is the result of culture corrupting religion and ignorance betraying the legal sources, like the Quran. Islamic law is derived from three sources, the Quran, the sayings of the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh), and the traditions or actions of the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh). From each of these sources, the message of love, affection and mercy are consistently made clear. Of the many instances, the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) is said to have consoled his wife, lain in her lap and assisted in housework. Such narrations and traditions exemplify what the Quran preaches. “And of His signs is that He created for you from yourselves mates that you may find tranquility in them; and He placed between you affection and mercy. Indeed in that are signs for a people who give thought.” In addition to speaking out against these violations, the Muslim community is taking an active role in providing relief and combating the problem. For example, on Oct. 9, the UT Muslim Students Association will be holding its first-ever fundraising dinner concerning domestic abuse. The charity dinner will be co-hosted with UT Voices Against Violence, a program under the Counseling and Mental Health Center that addresses issues such as relationship violence, sexual violence and stalking, and the Texas Muslim Women’s Foundation, an organization that seeks to empower, promote and support all women and their families. The fundraiser will be the first of the “Be an Anchor” initiative through VAV. The proceeds raised will support VAV Survivor’s Emergency Fund, which provides aid to victims of domestic and sexual violence in the UT Community, and will go toward making UT MSA the first “anchor,” or sponsor, for VAV. It is regrettable that it takes the suspensions of football players and the like to have this conversation, but nonetheless, we are presented with an opportunity to make it extremely clear that violence against women will not be tolerated and will not represent the UT community or humanity. The march in solidarity for women’s justice is a long one, but the right one. It will not be easy, but we have a diverse group of allies. Islam is not a religion that condones abuse against women, and its followers are allies. Let’s end abuse together. Rizvi is a government senior from Chicago.
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From there, electronic music exploded. Electric Daisy Carnival and Ultra began drawing their biggest crowds yet, and the number of festivals that showcased only EDM artists multiplied. Other music festivals, including Lollapalooza and Coachella, started incorporating EDM into their lineups to keep up with the trend and draw bigger audiences. Despite this growing trend, ACL remained hesitant to include electronic music in its lineup. That is, until now. For years, ACL has built up a reputation for showcasing authentic live music across varying genres. Since EDM features a primarily computerized setup and a DJ, some longtime ACLgoers see the infusion of the genre as a sign of the festival going against its traditional festival roots. “Music is constantly changing [with] what’s trending,” song you fell in love with? AR: I can be totally honest and say “Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go” by Wham! I was about two and a half years old, and my cousin bought it for me, and I would throw a tantrum if my mother didn’t play it. The first song I can actually remember loving is “Dazed and Confused” — that’s going back far. That or something by David Bowie. He was the first artist that I remember going “Whoa, that’s not a human being.” DT: Is David Bowie one of your inspirations? AR: His music, yes, but not his sense of fashion. DT: Do you have any crazy fan stories? AR: We’re pretty boring. We sit on the bus and watch TV. The craziest thing that happened last night is that one of our roadies got tickled. We’re not your typical rock band.
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ACL is part of a big corporation. They want to make a lot of money and bring in a lot of people. They’re obviously looking at the trends to see what’s popular.”
practice of writing may sound simple, it is not easy. “Many things in life that are simple are not easy and writing is one of them,” Fountain said. “Writing is just like exercising. You constantly have to condition yourself or your writing voice will become weak.” Longtime friend and fellow writer Margo Rabb read “Instant Winner,” prior to its publication. “Carrie writes about the experience of motherhood with incredible beauty, originality, and grace; she articulates emotions and experiences with extraordinary insight and truth,” Rabb said. “I devoured her new book in one sitting.” Kristin Matzen, Fountain’s friend and senior publicist at Penguin Group USA, says “Instant Winner” is a much more personal piece. “Her voice is deep and loose,” Matzen said. “You can really sense the person behind the poetry.” Since writing her first book of poetry, “Burn Lake,” Fountain says she has gotten much closer to realizing what her voice is and what she wants it to be.
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said Courtney Brown, Austin native and nine-time ACL attendee. “It’s no surprise that music festivals evolve as well. I understand that ACL is changing, but it’s going in a different direction.” Pratt, meanwhile, said that he thinks ACL’s inclusion of more EDM was inevitable. “The problem is that ACL is part of a big corporation,” Pratt said. “They want to make
a lot of money and bring in a lot of people. They’re obviously looking at the trends to see what’s popular.” Though this year’s ACL lineup may be adhering to a growing trend, the festival hasn’t lost sight of its roots. If anything, highlighting a new genre diversifies the lineup, and hopefully, welcomes more festival-goers eager to embrace the ACL tradition.
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sell out due to the event area’s size.” In 2014, it is not a question of whether ACL will sell out of tickets, it’s a matter of when. No one knew how big ACL would get. Schickel asserted the possibility that it “might” become a permanent part of Austin’s hectic concert schedule, but nobody could be sure. At the time, Schickel said ACL was only scheduled to go on for the next three years. Fortunately, it has flourished into 2014 and shows no signs of going away. “The first day of the twoday Austin City Limits Music Festival proved what many had hoped: Not only could this festival be realized, it was a fascinating, carefree time,” Dentler said. In the past 12 years, ACL has transformed from a public television show, to a small festival, to a musical
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team blended the popular Mexican haciendastyle architecture with the Mission Revival style of California. “Our set has elements of both places. Although it is a permanent structure, it harkens to both Mexico and California,” Novacek said. Novacek hopes that “Esperanza Rising” will give audiences a message of hope and perseverance. “I wanted to be able to show people that even
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“‘Instant Winner’ feels more like this is my first book than my second book because it seems truer to my voice as a poet, more authentic somehow,” Fountain said. While her poetry is inspired by private experiences, Fountain has always written with the intent of sharing her work. “I have always felt like I want to have an audience,” Fountain said. “That is something that has always been a part of my personality and my writing. I have always wanted to speak to others through poetry, and I feel like ‘Instant Winner’ does that.” Fountain will be speaking at St. Edward’s University on Oct. 2 to celebrate the recent publication of “Instant Winner.”
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though you might be on your own, there are still ways to make connections — to live a fruitful, loving and comfortable life, even if you’re away from home,” Novacek said. “You can find a home within yourself and within the support of the people around you.” The play is set to premiere at the B. Iden Payne Theatre stage Friday. Tickets can be found on Texas Performing Art’s website.
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GARRETT CALLAHAN, SPORTS EDITOR | @texansports Thursday, October 2, 2014
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Horns breeze past Cyclones in three
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After being pushed to a fifth set in their last two games, the No. 2 Longhorns (10-0, 2-0 Big 12) were able to ease their way past Iowa State (7-5, 0-2) on Wednesday night. “We made a few too many errors in game one,” head coach Jerritt Elliott said. “I thought we put some nice things together. Then we smoothed out, and I think we took control of the match. It felt a lot closer than scores did, but I think we got better as the match went on. I liked what I saw.” Texas swept the Cyclones (25-23, 25-15, 25-15) in its first home game since Sept. 13. The Longhorns opened up the first set with some nerves as they committed some surprising errors. Texas was able to squeeze past Iowa State 25-23 in the opening set thanks to six kills by senior outside hitter Haley Eckerman. “It was great to finally have the stands for us and not against us and not have to go 15 [players] against 8,000 and 15 against whatever West Virginia had,” Eckerman said. “It was great for us to kinda get back into our routines and just play at home and get as comfortable as possible.” While Iowa State gave Texas trouble in the first set, the Longhorns were able to find their stride in the second set as they calmed down. Senior
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Senior outside hitter Haley Eckerman dominated the net for the Longhorns on Wednesday night with 14 kills and zero attack errors in Texas’ 3-0 win over Iowa State.
middle blocker/outside hitter Khat Bell said the team was able to rely on the coaching staff to push them through their early game struggles. “The coaches keep reminding us just to relax and play through it and stay focused,” Bell said. “[We have to] make sure we’re managing our game. We just can’t get riled and pushy when things aren’t going our way.”
Alongside Bell’s performance in the second set, Eckerman continued to play well as she added six more kills to her total. Texas also got help from sophomore setter Chloe Collins as she recorded nine assists in the second set. The Longhorns claimed the second set with a 25-15 win. Texas used the momentum from the second set to
close out the match in the third. Iowa State fought valiantly early in the third set, but the Longhorns were too much for Iowa, as the Texas claimed a 25-15 win in the third set. With the victory, Texas remained undefeated this season and pushed its Big 12 winning streak to 18 games. The Longhorns have yet to drop a set this season in
Gregory Gym. Despite claiming a seemingly easy victory, Elliott says the team must play better if they want to beat Kansas on Sunday. “Kansas is a big time match for us,” Elliott said. “They’re playing at the highest level along with Kansas State, so we’re going to have to play better than we did tonight to come out with a ‘W.’”
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Longhorn rushing duo remains confident despite recent struggles
Eckerman’s 14 kills lead Horns in win By Jacob Martella @ViewFromTheBox
Amy Zhang| Daily Texan Staff
Senior running back Malcolm Brown cuts through the offensive line, a rare sight with a struggling offensive line. Still, Brown remains confident they can run the ball effectively.
By Stefan Scrafield @StefanScrafield
In their last year together, senior Malcolm Brown and junior Johnathan Gray were expected to make up one of the most dominant backfield tandems in the country for Texas. Ranked as the second best and best running backs in their respective recruiting classes, Brown and Gray battled injuries and were forced to share carries with former Longhorn Joe Bergeron throughout their first years together in Austin. Following Bergeron’s dismissal, and Brown and Gray looking healthy heading into 2014, the two Texas natives were poised to have career seasons. But four weeks into the season, Brown and Gray are struggling. The two are averaging a total of just 103 yards per game and 4.2 yards per carry. And even the underwhelming numbers don’t tell the full story as, aside from a few big carries, the two backs have spent the majority of the season running into a stacked front seven at the line
of scrimmage. It’s tough to blame the ball carriers for the early season woes, as the combination of an unproven passing attack and a depleted offensive line has made it much easier for defenses to stop the run. “It’s just so hard for [Brown and Gray] right now because it’s all about putting a body on someone, and we’re not always getting a body on someone,” head coach Charlie Strong said. “It’s so tough to evaluate those two running backs. I know they may get frustrated at times by where we are right now.” Sophomore quarterback Tyrone Swoopes is improving each week and proving to be a viable replacement for David Ash, who recently retired from football, but the offensive line is still a major area of concern. With three starters out thanks to a dismissal, suspension and season-ending injury, the Longhorn offense is left with a slew of young, inexperienced linemen who have been thrust into the spotlight. But, with the help of esteemed offensive line
coach Joe Wickline, the patchwork group has improved immensely since making its debut against North Texas. “You can see the difference from the first week to last week,” said sophomore defensive tackle Hassan Ridgeway, who works against the offensive line in practice each day. “The difference is incredible. They’re working every week to get better.” A few strong performances from Texas’ defense have covered up for a lackluster running attack so far this season, but against Baylor’s high-powered offense, that isn’t likely to be the case. Given Swoopes’ inexperience in big games, it will be up to the Longhorns’ veteran backs to get the ground game going, and they’ll need some help from the big guys in front of them. “We’ve just got to get everything clicking,” Brown said. “We’ve just got to stay positive about things and keep everybody’s head up. That’s all it is — just have to get better and start clicking.”
It’s no secret that senior outside hitter Haley Eckerman is the biggest name on this Longhorns team and that when she’s on a roll, good things usually happen for Texas. Against Iowa State, Eckerman dominated the Longhorn attack with 14 kills and a .560 hitting percentage. Eckerman registered the final two kills of the first set and began the second set with three kills in the first five points, which helped Texas jump out to a 5-0 lead in the set which they won 25-15. Eckerman also had zero attack errors for the second time this season. Neal’s time at the serving line While Eckerman was dominating at the net, junior outside hitter Amy Neal helped the Longhorns in a big way from the serving line. With Texas up 10-9 in the first set, Neal scored an ace and led the team in a 5-0 run for the Longhorns while she was serving en route to a first set win. Neal then opened up the second set on a similar 5-0 run with back-to-back service aces and help from Eckerman’s three kills. Neal also added four kills and eight digs. Lack of errors Texas’ struggles Sept. 24 were due largely to errors. Texas posted 19 attack errors and 12 service errors in the five set win and had a .172 hitting
percentage through the first two sets of the match. But against Iowa State, those errors were much more limited. Texas had only eight attack errors and five service errors compared to Iowa State’s 15 attack errors and six service errors, and Texas posted a .350 hitting percentage in the win. Making it a quick match In that five-set win at West Virginia last week, Texas made the mistake of letting a team looking for a big upset hang around too long in the first two sets and paid the price. The Longhorns had multiple opportunities early in that match to put it away but failed to do so. Wednesday against the Cyclones, the Longhorns made sure that the same thing wouldn’t happen, jumping out to leads 14-9, 10-3 and 12-6 in each of the three sets. Texas also never trailed in each of the last two sets as well. Digging it up The Longhorn defense played a strong game with six blocks and 44 digs, giving the offense opportunities to make plays. As she has all season, freshman Cat McCoy led the way with 12 digs along with four assists and now has 145 digs this season — the most on the team by 78. At the net, senior middle blocker and outside hitter Khat Bell had five block assists, while sophomore middle blocker Chiaka Ogbogu added three block assists and a solo block.
Jenna VonHofe | Daily Texan Staff
Junior outside hitter Amy Neal led the Longhorns with three service aces and eight digs in the win over the Cyclones.
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Three Longhorns named to preseason Big 12 Honors Senior forward Nneka Enemkpali, freshman guard Ariel Atkins and junior center Imani McGee-Stafford were named to preseason All-Big 12 honors, which the conference released Wednesday, in women’s basketball. Enemkpali was named to the All-12 Big 12 preseason team after landing a spot on the All-Big 12 first team a season ago. Last year, she averaged 12 points and just over eight rebounds per game and totaled 28 assists as a forward. Her 3.1 offensive rebounds per game in her career ranks her third alltime at Texas. Atkins was named the preseason Big 12 Freshman of the Year, despite not having stepped onto the court yet for the Longhorns. Atkins was key a part of the Duncanville Panther team that had a 105-game winning streak. In her senior year with Duncanville, Atkins averaged 17.9 points and 5.8 rebounds per game and was named the Morgan Wootten Player of the Year. McGee-Stafford earned a spot as a preseason honorable mention after leading the Longhorns with 2.2 blocks and 12.1 points per game in conference play last year. Heading into her junior campaign, McGee-Stafford sits seventh in Texas history with 147 career blocks. — Jacob Martella
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Hilary Simon, an elementary school teacher, tries on hats at the Antigua stand, one of the many vendors displaying wares at the Art Market Saturday.
After 12 years, ACL still gaining popularity Sam Ortega | Daily Texan file photo EDM artist Kaskade performs on Friday of Weekend One at the Austin City Limits festival 2013 on the Honda Stage. In order to keep up with other music festival such as Bonnaroo and Coachella, ACL is beginning to add more EDM and DJs to its weekend lineups.
EDM lineup at ACL festival grows
By Lauren Velez @laurenvelz
Catering to the demand of an increasingly popular genre of music, this year’s Austin
City Limits Music Festival lineup features more electronic artists than ever before. Since 2009, ACL has included a few electronic dance music artists each year, but no past lineup can compare to the amount of DJs that will set up at Zilker Park for the next two weekends. The festival, known for sticking true to its usual host of rock, pop, folk and jazz artists, has made a surprising change by featuring a once-limited genre. This year
certainly boasts the most diverse lineup thus far, with electronic artists like Skrillex, Calvin Harris and Zedd headlining alongside Eminem and Pearl Jam. Tyler Pratt, an on-air producer and host for KUTX, said he thinks the 2014 lineup is proof that ACL is trying to pull in more top40 artists. “Electronic music is huge right now,” Pratt said. “ACL has to compete to stay in the big four music festivals — the other three being
Bonnaroo, Coachella and Lollapalooza. Most people can only go to one. Because of competition, they have to include EDM.” EDM is a term that has only become popular in the past five years. While this terminology might be new, electronic music is not. After becoming popular during the ’80s in the European underground dance scene, the genre first
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UT alumna publishes second poetry book By Briana Zamora @whateverwillbri
There was never a moment in Carrie Fountain’s life when she realized she was going to dedicate herself to poetry. There was no grand epiphany, no trumpets, no flashing lightbulb. It just happened. Fountain says she did not have time to wait around for a sign or for some grand realization. “I would much rather indulge my impulses,” Fountain said. “Because that indulgence can lead to something greater, and in that way I can have small epiphanies.” Fountain says her newest book, “Instant Winner,” is her collection of “small epiphanies.” The book of poems was published Sept. 30 and chronicles the spiritual
evolution Fountain experienced as she adjusted to parenthood. Prior to having children, Fountain received her master’s degree in poetry at the Michener Center for Writers at UT in 2004. The UT alumna has since been honored with the Marlboro Poetry Prize, Austin Library Foundation’s Award for Literary Excellence and Swink’s Award for Emerging Writers. After having her second child, Fountain decided to resign from her teaching position at St. Edward’s University. While she is no longer a professor, she still holds a teaching position in a reduced capacity as a writer-in-residence. “I had come to the point where I realized I really wanted to devote my time and energy to writing,” Fountain said. “I have two
Mike McGraw | Daily Texan Staff
Carrie Fountain, a writer-in-residence at St. Edward’s University, published her second collection of poetry, “Instant Winner,” on Tuesday.
small children, and I felt like I couldn’t manage all three: writing, teaching and parenting.” Like the students she advises, Fountain often struggles with the selfdiscipline necessary to write every day. According to Fountain, this selfdiscipline is crucial to developing as a writer, and it
should not be overlooked. “The rule I have made for myself is that I have to put my butt in the seat,” Fountain said. “My son has only been on the planet sixteen months, and he can sit quite well. Everyone is capable of this.” Fountain says while the
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‘Esperanza Rising’ to premiere Friday @mkcant
Since day one of rehearsals, the cast and crew of UT’s latest production, “Esperanza Rising,” have been focused on accuracy. Their collective desire for historical authenticity came in the form of a mariachi band and a Mission Revival stage design. Directed by theatre graduate student Natalie Novacek, “Esperanza Rising” is a play based on the best-selling novel by Pam Muñoz Ryan. The play chronicles the survival of a young girl, Esperanza Ortega, as she is driven out of Mexico and into a migrant labor camp in California. Esperanza is given no other opportunity than to work for a wage and support her family.
Novacek said the play offers valuable insight into what life was like in postrevolutionary Mexico in the 1930s. “The first half of the play is set in Mexico, which has its own set of cultural rules.” Novacek said. “Really being able to predict the truth of the culture has been something we have spent a lot of time on.” The “Esperanza Rising” cast, made up of 20 students and a mariachi band, spent most of their rehearsals learning proper greetings, how to dance and how close to stand to the opposite sex in public — all to achieve authenticity. “I am really interested in building the world of the play,” Novacek said. “We spent a lot of time in rehearsal talking about our parents and our grandparents and what their lives
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Twelve years ago, Austin City Limits made its humble debut to the music festival scene, but even in its first year, the “multifarious fiesta” intrigued former Daily Texan staffer Brent Wistrom, who wrote in 2002 the first of the Texan’s many ACL articles. Long before ACL became a music festival on Sept. 28, 2002, “Austin City Limits” was a popular TV show on PBS. “Austin City Limits,” which ran for 28 seasons before the festival began, was a music show that recorded live in Austin. One of the city’s “best-known assets,” the program premiered in 1974, originally featuring blues and country music. It featured more than 400 artists, including Johnny Cash, Norah Jones and Sheryl Crow, before producers decided to bring its live performances from the studio stage to the public arena. “One of the top 5 questions at the city visitors’ desk is how to get tickets to
—Wendy Morgan, Director of Music Marketing
‘Austin City Limits’ recordings,” Wendy Morgan, former director of music marketing for the Austin Convention and Visitors Bureau, told Wistrom. “This is the first time Austin City Limits has opened its doors to the world.” In a separate article reviewing the festival, former Texan staffer Matt Dentler wrote that the approximately 30,000 people in attendance of the first day “seemed to know they were a part of history.” Artists including Los Lobos, Wilco and The String Cheese Incident performed during the first-ever ACL festival. “It’s going to be more than just a cool concert, it’s going to be different
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One of the top 5 questions at the city visitors’ desk is how to get tickets to Austin City Limits tapings. This is the first time Austin City Limits has opened its doors to the world.
The Gaslight Anthem lead guitarist discusses album By Jackie Wnag @jcqlnwng
The American punk rock band The Gaslight Anthem has been recording and performing since 2007. The band debuted its fifth album, Get Hurt, in late August. It shot up to the No. 2 spot of Billboard’s rock albums. The Gaslight Anthem will perform both weekends at Austin City Limits. Lead guitarist Alex Rosamila answers questions about the new album, the band’s relationship and some of his personal habits. The Daily Texan: How did you change your sound for the new album, Get Hurt? Alex Rosamila: Anything we do is going to sound like us. We’re going to have our own kind of vibe to it. We changed the way we write and recorded the song from what we used to do. We usually just use guitars, bass, drums and vocals, but
we decided to branch out to piano, for textures, that kind of thing. That process was a lot different. It’s hard to talk about music. Words and music don’t really work. DT: So how do you guys write music? AR: The songs kind of create themselves. Brian will write the skeleton, and we’ll play it together and flesh it out until it becomes a complete song, or I’ll have a guitar part, and we’ll play it and flesh it out. Someone will come in with a piece of something until it’s finished. We jam on it. It’s a deliberate process, and it’s also natural. DT: Do you have a favorite song on the album? AR: It changes. Today, it is “Underneath the Ground” — we’ve been playing it a lot live. It’s a different one for us. We don’t really do low key songs.
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Courtesy of the UT Department of Theatre and Dance
Shanon Weaver (left) as Immigration Officer, Madison Palomo as Esperanza and Martinque Duchene-Phillips as Hortensia, will all star in UT’s production of “Esperanza Rising.”
were like — how they were so different.” Acting sophomore Madison Palomo, who plays Esperanza, said she draws on her own experiences growing up to help her develop the role of Esperanza. “She has an innocence and a vulnerability about her,” Palomo said.
“But she grows up very fast. She is thrown into work and not allowed to complain.” Novacek said the cultural and historical aspects of the play are also represented through the set and lighting. The set design
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American punk rock band The Gaslight Anthem will be playing at this year’s Austin City Limits.