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Students look to adjust sound ordinance
Wendy Davis cancels event on campus, reschedules
By Eleanor Dearman @ellydearman
With the Austin City Council passing a resolution calling for changes to the city sound ordinance Thursday, students are continuing to work with the city as it looks at possible code amendments. Members of Student Government and the Interfraternity Council have been
working in conjunction with Council member Chris Riley and his team to adjust the stricter enforcement in West Campus of the city sound ordinance, which began Wednesday. Currently, the ordinance calls for an organization to request a permit 21 days before an event and have a specific site plan. To address this, SG and Riley wrote similar resolutions calling for alterations to the
ordinance for private events. Leah Bojo, policy aide for Riley, said students approached Riley’s office with concerns about the strict regulations. While the complete solution to student concerns is still in the works, Bojo said she thinks a private party permit is a start. “We did initiate an item at the last City Council meeting to create a permit for private parties that is
reasonable — that respects the quality of life of the folks that live in the neighborhood — and that also allows students to have safe parties but does actually allow them to have parties,” Bojo said. She said the resolution will be sent to city staff members who will work on the details of the permit and determine how to proceed with the permit from here. “We passed an item
directing city staff to conduct stakeholder meetings and come back with a recommendation,” Bojo said. “Now the ball is kind of in the court of the staff.” IFC President Edwin Qian said the City Council’s resolution indicates support for University students. “What it means is that the City Council now
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District 9 candidates debate affordability By Jackie Wang @jcqlnwng
The three candidates vying for the first District 9 Austin City Council seat discussed the city’s affordability at KUT’s “Ballot Boxing” forum on campus in the Belo Center for New Media on Monday. Current Council members Chris Riley and Kathie Tovo are seeking reelection to the restructured council, which will be made up of 10 single-member districts and one citywide, elected mayor come January. Erin McGann, a program supervisor in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, is running for the seat as an outsider. District 9 includes most of the UT campus, West Campus, Hyde Park, downtown Austin and South Congress. “Affordability is the most important issue in District 9,” Riley said. “It’s about getting enough housing out there. The one issue we have is the way
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Erin McGann, candidate for District 9 City Council seat, answers a question from audience at KUT’s “Ballot Boxing” forum. Current Council members Kathie Tovo and Chris Riley are running for reelection in District 9 discussed issues important to the district.
By Jackie Wang @jcqlnwng
State Sen. Wendy Davis, DFort Worth, canceled and rescheduled a planned tour stop on campus for her gubernatorial campaign Monday because of inclement weather in the Houston area. Students filed into the SAC Ballroom and packed around the stage with a Texas flag and a 7-by-8-foot “Wendy Davis for Texas,” sign Monday. Davis, the Democratic gubernatorial candidate, planned to speak to students on campus to kick off her “Expose Greg Abbott’s Cover-Up” tour. According to her campaign, Davis is planning to discuss the role of Greg Abbott, attorney general and Republican gubernatorial candidate, in the Texas Enterprise Fund on her tour. A state audit of the fund in late September criticized its lack of oversight. Abbott has denied any wrongdoing. Megan Klein, the deputy field director of Battleground Texas Austin, informed the crowd Davis was stranded in Houston because of weather. Klein said the gubernatorial candidate would come back on one of the early voting days to speak on campus. While Davis has visited the campus and the Austin areas during her gubernatorial campaign, she did not stop at the University during
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Gov. Perry creates task force to address diseases
‘Bad feminist’ discusses her new book
By Natalie Sullivan @natsullivan94
Gov. Rick Perry announced in a press conference at the Capitol on Monday the creation of a new infectious disease task force to help coordinate the state’s response to Ebola and other infectious diseases. Perry signed an executive order to create the Texas Task Force on Infectious
Disease Preparedness and Response, which is headed by Brett Giroir of the Texas A&M Health Science Center. The task force is composed of 17 disease control specialists from around the state. Perry said the task force has three main responsibilities: to provide expert assessment and protocols to deal with disease, to develop a plan to deal with
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Gov. Rick Perry announces the creation of an infectious disease task force, the Texas Task Force on Infectious Disease Preparedness and Response at the Capitol on Monday morning.
By Wes Scarborough @westhemess13
Before reading from her book, Roxane Gay, fiction writer and blogger, talked about her tendency to write fantasies about famous men in her spare time. “I have one about Channing Tatum,” Gay said. “But I couldn’t read that one, or I would lose my shit.” The Moody College of Communication hosted a discussion Monday in Calhoun Hall for Gay to talk about and read from her book “Bad Feminist.” Her book is a collection of essays in which she focuses on feminist issues, such as equal opportunity and reproductive freedom. “My goal is to make feminism more inclusive,” Gay said, “It’s to differentiate between old feminism and to where feminism is headed.” Gay gave reasons why she would be considered a “bad feminist.” “When I drive to work, I like to listen to thuggish rap music,” Gay said. “The classic Ying Yang Twin’s song ‘Salt Shaker,’ it’s amazing. ‘Bitch, you gotta shake it till your
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Roxane Gay, author of “Bad Feminist,” takes questions from students and faculty during her talk about her book Monday. Gay read excerpts from her book and took questions from attendees.
camel starts to hurt’— poetry.” Gay said this and other practices are defined by the “caricature,” that society has given feminism. She said the caricature is misleading for women, and some who are really just bad feminists do not consider themselves to be feminists at all. Gay also talked about state Sen. Wendy Davis,
D-Fort Worth, and her filibuster of Senate Bill 5, a legislative measure that would close 32 abortion clinics in Texas. She said she witnessed the June 2013 event via live stream. “It was the sound of women fighting for reproductive freedom in the only way they could — with their voices,” Gay said.
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Jessica Mitchell, educational psychology graduate student, attended the discussion and said she believes women should always strive to be feminists even if they consider themselves to be a “bad feminist.” “They can be a feminist and not be perfect, but that
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we’ve been developing new homes isn’t in line with what people want today. We need more of those creative small options and large options — a whole variety of options to meet the diverse demand out there.” Inept landlords and rental building owners also struck a chord with the candidates. McGann said the city is “understaffed and overworked” in its ability to enforce building codes. “The code is way too much up to interpretation,” McGann said. “I have worked with people who live in residences that are a nightmare. We do need to have a better way of handling our code-breakers and having a rental registration is not necessarily the best way to do it, but we need to be protecting people who are living in bad residences.” According to Riley, the Council has talked about implementing a blanket rental registration program for all rental properties, but he believes it would not be effective. “The city hasn’t been doing a good job when it comes to enforcing the code with the
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problem properties,” Riley said. “The problem is the code compliance department has been struggling to get problems addressed at properties we know are the worst offenders. If we know where the worst cases are, and we can’t get those straightened out, I don’t think it’s time to start citywide scale bureaucracy.” The three candidates also discussed traffic and state incentives to attract businesses to Austin. Tovo said she did not support the state providing incentives to businesses, such as the Circuit of the Americas racetrack, to attract them to Austin. “Unless we have companies that are offering really extraordinary benefits, we do not need to offer them incentives,” Tovo said. McGann echoed Tovo’s opinion of Austin being a highly desirable city — with or without incentives. “Incentives create an uneven playing field,” McGann said. “We have a dynamic population in Austin of very smart people who are great employees. It’s a great area to live in, and there’s no need to be offering incentives.” McGann criticized the Council for overspending and not cutting enough from the budget. “We could trim the budget by $30 million tomorrow,” McGann said. “We need to be looking at every single part of the budget and do a full audit of the budget and on both of the utilities.” According to Riley, the financial transactions of the Council are completely transparent and can be found online. He also said that cutting budgets would be difficult, as in the case with cutting the police budget in favor of parks or libraries. “[The police force] is about 1,700 cops,” Riley said. “That metric provides a very useful mechanism of gauging the growth of the police force over time. We looked at a study that said if that’s an appropriate metric, and we need more than that. Most of it goes to the salaries of those police officers, and I think our public expects a high level of safety.” Tovo also said public safety was paramount in priority and concern. “I’m a strong supporter of making sure we have an adequate police force,” Tovo said. “I also believe we need to talk comprehensively about how we support public safety goals with other departments.”
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continues from page 1 recognizes that there is a problem, and they are going to set up a committee to work on this problem,” said Qian, economics and management information systems senior. Along with continued collaboration with the city, Qian said the next step for IFC is to hire an attorney to look at a solution to the ordinance from a legal standpoint. “We can’t just name things we want,” Qian said. “We have to make sacrifices, and we also have to make sure that the new solution — A.K.A. the special permit for West Campus — really fits our needs.” Biology senior Cameron Crane, SG College of Natural Science representative and an author of the SG resolution, said SG plans to reexamine the resolution to see if any amendments need to be made. A possible change, according to Crane, is suggesting the
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city extend the sound ordinance start time to 2 a.m. If any changes are made, they will be presented and voted on at Tuesday’s SG meeting. “Once it goes to the assembly for a vote on Tuesday — assuming it passes — we will start taking more steps and meetings with various student groups and also with our city relations task force at city hall, to start,” Crane said. Qian said there were not many fraternity parties over the past weekend because of first weekend of the Austin City Limits Music Festival. He said he expects the same for next weekend because of the Red River Showdown football game in Dallas and the second weekend of ACL. For this reason, he said the strictness of the ordinance in its current state will be known later in October. “The next time we’ll see [the ordinance] head on will be the weekend of the 17th,” Qian said. “So we’ll see whether or not there is going to be a drastic effect.”
The preliminary hearing for Rashad Owens, who drove through a barrier and killed four people at the South By Southwest festival last March, was rescheduled for Nov. 3, according to Judge Clifford Brown of the 147th Travis County Criminal District Court. Owens and his attorney failed to appear at the scheduled hearing at the Blackwell-Thurman Criminal Justice Center on Monday, so the date was rescheduled. This is the fifth time court dates for Owens have been pushed back since he was arrested in March. Owens was charged with capital murder after driving while drunk through a barrier on Red River Street during the South By Southwest festival in March, killing four people and injuring 20 others. Owens was originally scheduled to appear in court April 9 before his trial, but a number of noshows and requests by his attorney, Rickey Jones, have pushed the pretrial hearing back to 9 a.m. on Nov. 3. The charges against Owens include capital murder, four counts of felony murder and 24 counts of aggravated assault. Bond was set at $5.5 million. —Natalie Sullivan
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Sofia Gruskin, law professor and director of the Program on Global Health and Human Rights at the University of Southern California, discusses reproductive and sexual rights Monday afternoon.
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A University of Southern California law professor gave a presentation on campus Monday on sexual and reproductive health to emphasize the interplay of global and national health policies. Sofia Gruskin, who is also USC’s director of the Program on Global Health and Human Rights, discussed reproductive and sexual rights, current global debates on both rights and revisions being made on transgender issues at the Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice’s Fall Colloquium in Townes Hall. “Reproductive rights first came up at the International Conference on Population and Development in Cairo,” Gruskin said. “[The conference] increased the understanding of what governments are responsible of doing.” Gruskin said she believes these issues need to be further challenged on an international level in order to continue advancing human rights and reproductive health. She said,
although there are countries that are at the forefront of protecting sexual reproduction and health policies, other nations are more resistant to change. “There are a number of conservative countries that are eliminating any indication of sexual rights,” Gruskin said. “There are countries watering down rights for sexual orientation. [These] implications, at the local level, have a huge impact right now for the UN.” According to Gruskin, the International Classification of Disease, or ICD-10, is used for collecting and reporting health globally and discussed the document’s importance. The 10th installment of the diagnostic tool was established by the 43rd World Health Assembly in 1990, and the ICD is currently under revision. An 11th revision will be finalized in 2017. Gruskin is part of an organization called Rights-Oriented Research and Education, or RORE, Network for Sexual and Reproductive Health,
which hopes to contribute to the revisions of the ICD-11. According to Gruskin, “gender identity disorder” is considered a mental disorder in the ICD-10. RORE aims to promote human rights and gender equality as well as conduct research and provide evidence to move being transgender from a behavioral illness to a reproductive health issue. Rhiannon Hamam, second-year law student at the University, said she liked that Gruskin discussed the advancements that have been made in sexual rights and reproductive health. “I liked that she highlighted positive shifts in discourse and focus, [such as] the move toward transgender rights and issues becoming part of the new conversation, but also said that regression was happening in some areas,” Hamam said. “We should be wary about re-conservatizing the health and human rights movement, like focusing on maternal health and family planning rather than evolving our focus to other issues as well.”
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Sociocultural factors might explain the large variety of distinct languages in an Amazonian region of Brazil, linguistics associate professor Patience Epps said during a Department of Anthropology seminar Monday. Epps said the diversity of languages spoken in Lowland South America is not because of geographic isolation but rather cultural contact between different language groups. “If we look at the ethnographic and archaeological record for Lowland South America, it doesn’t look like there’s been a great deal of isolation — at least not in the last thousand years or so,” Epps said. Epps collected much of her data from the Hup people in the Upper Rio Negro, in a region that, worldwide, is rivaled only by New Guinea in the number of distinct indigenous languages it boasts. Her work has been funded by a variety of sources, including the National Science Foundation and National Endowment for
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the Humanities. According to Epps, multilingualism is notably widespread in the region where, because of unique marriage practices, people grow up in communities speaking half a dozen languages. “One of the things that’s been most stressed in the ethnographic literature about this region is the practice of linguistic exogamy,” Epps said. “This means you have to marry somebody who comes from a different language group.” Epps said the use of language as a symbol of ethnic affiliation and ritual ceremonial discourse as a vehicle for language transmission can also be used to explain high levels of language diversity and suggested there may be other regional systems that parallel these patterns she observed in her work with the Hup people.
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doesn’t make them any less of a feminist,” Mitchell said. Despite habits that make her a “bad feminist,” Gay discussed current issues that make feminism necessary. “I have a job I’m pretty good at,” Gay said. “I’m on committees. People respect me and take my counsel. I want to be strong and professional, but I resent on how hard I have to work to be taken seriously to get the fraction of the consideration I would otherwise receive.”
a college tour in September. At the event, public relations sophomore Olivia Arredondo said she came to the event to see Davis speak because she’s never seen her in person. “I’m on her mailing list, so I’ve been watching her progress for the past couple months,” Arredondo said. “I first heard about her when she did the filibuster, and I think she would do a lot of good for our state.”
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“My argument is that, if one really gets into the ethnographic and linguistic literature and explores it, there are in fact quite a number of these places that could be called regional systems that bear such striking parallels to what we’ve just seen in the Upper Rio Negro region,” Epps said. Anthropology professor Deborah Bolnick said the seminar series is a way to bring in scholars who are working on topics of interest that intersect with work that people in the department are doing. “There’s a lot of people in the department who work on different kinds of research with indigenous Americans in North America and South America, with archaeology, with linguistics, with genetics and this intersects with that work,” Bolnick said. Environmental science senior James Weaver said he would vote for Davis because her moral compass aligned with his. “I think she represents everything that is aligned my moral compass, like education,” Weaver said. “She’s for a couple of policies that I’m not exactly for, like the death penalty, but it’s nice to have a shift away from previous regimes.” Davis’ tour has three other scheduled stops in Dallas, Brownsville and San Antonio.
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The public sphere in America has difficulty grasping the impact major corporations have on politics and daily life because public discourse does not take into account important details, according to a guest lecturer Monday. Woodruff Smith, professor emeritus of history at the University of Massachusetts-Boston, talked about the Atlantic economy in the late 17th century and the early 18th century in a lecture, which was hosted by The Institute for Historical Studies and held in Garrison Hall. The Atlantic economy is a term that refers to the trade routes and companies that dominated the era and controlled many areas of politics and economics. According to Smith, it’s hard to separate discussions about economics from politics because they operate in the same context. He said the groups arguing over these issues often come to a consensus and accept it as truth, regardless of the fact that many aspects of the dialogue have gone unaddressed. “The problem with the public sphere is that it can create its own reality, and the reality manifests in the political systems and in the actions of the politicians and the actions of whom the
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Woodruff Smith, professor emeritus of history at the University of Massachusetts-Boston, fields questions from the audience.
politicians listen to,” Smith said. This issue of consciousness, Smith said, was present in the peak of the Atlantic economy, as well as in the 21st century. History graduate student Benjamin Breen said the Atlantic economy is relevant to the current economic situation many developed countries are in because they have such a large reach. “There wasn’t much national authority [in the Atlantic economy]; it was more just mercantile networks,” Breen said. “I think you can actually learn a lot about what the 21st century is going to look like by learning about this.” According to Breen, the growing strength of corporations brings the danger of monopolies and could continue to erode the barrier between corporate and
governmental power. “For instance, the guy in Silicon Valley who wants to break off the area into its own little state sounds like a joke right now, but, in 20 years, I could actually imagine that,” Breen said. “If you look at tax revenue, those people have sway. I think people need to draw their own conclusions. We’ve already been through this.” Seth Garfield, history professor and director of The Institute of Historical Studies, said the events held by the history department aim to build on the ideas of audience members as well as presenters. “I work on Latin America, but I might learn something about the general Atlantic economy through an event like this, even though it’s not my expertise,” Garfield said. “This type of event is very useful for those purposes.”
preparedness and response,” Perry said. Perry also called on the federal government to step up screening of travelers at all points of entry into the U.S., including asking travelers about previous destinations, checking temperatures and creating quarantine stations, if necessary. Perry said the task force is designed to handle administrative and regulatory matters related to
disease control so that other organizations can focus on providing necessary care. “We’re here in the background to take the load off … and let the experts on the ground do the job they want to do, without worrying about administrative measures,” Perry said. The task force will create reports on its findings and recommendations to present to the legislature. The first report is due Dec. 1.
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Editor’s Note: In the run-up to the November election for mayor, the Texan will be running Qand-A’s with the candidates. Voting is open only to those registered to vote in Austin and registration continues through Oct. 6. Early voting starts Oct. 20 and ends Oct. 31. Election Day is Nov. 4. This interview has been condensed from its original length. The Daily Texan: Why are you running for mayor? Steve Adler: I love this city. Great things are happening, but I think there are some pretty serious challenges, like traffic, affordability, education, water, permitting and other issues. These challenges are not new; they are just getting worse. We’ve known about all these issues for the past 10 years, and haven’t been able to fix them. I think that we need to. We’re bringing in a new form of government, and that gives us a new opportunity to fundamentally change things. DT: Where does UT fit into all this? Adler: UT is a big resource to the community, considering all of the things that the University has always been. The new initiatives at the new medical school will also be part of the University of Texas. I hope the students in all this will get more engaged and become a more driving political force. DT: Obviously, your name recognition isn’t as high as some of the other leading contenders. So how do you get your name out there in the community? How do you get your message out to students? Adler: Well, you start behind in an election when you go against 8-year incumbents. I think it’s a question of just getting in front of as many people as you can. Part of it is talking to personally people, part of it is mail, part of it is online and part of it is on television. DT: How do you distinguish yourself from City Council Members Sheryl Cole and Mike Martinez, respectively, the two other frontrunners for mayor? Adler: I have a different kind of experience that I bring to the position. My experience has not been sitting on City Council for the past eight years. Frankly, I don’t think that’s the kind of experience that we need … I came to Austin in 1978 for law school, frankly, because it was the cheapest law school around. Tuition was about $9 per hour, and I could afford that. Eventually,
I just fell in love with the city. It was a city where you didn’t need a special last name for doors to be opened. I graduated from law school and began practicing civil rights law. I represented women in state court on equal pay cases. I worked in the State Legislature for a few sessions [and] served as a Chief of Staff for former State Senator Eliot Shapleigh … I was on the founding board of The Texas Tribune, as well as many Democratic establishment organizations. DT: What was the most important thing you learned while at UT? Adler: The most important is to just be infused with the spirit and soul of Austin. If you go anywhere in this country — or the world — and say you’re from Austin, it just really means something. The way we protect the environment and facilitate public participation says something about us. We have a great entrepreneurial spirit. And I think that spirit is in danger, which is a key reason why I am running … UT really taught me how to work with people, and be in groups of people. Allowing the whole to be greater than the parts. DT: What do you think about urban rail? Adler: It’s hard for me to imagine Austin doubling its population from 2 million to 4 million without some type of integrated rail system. But I also like bus rapidtransit. Particularly, those methods where there are dedicated lanes and we can guarantee movement of 45 miles per hour. When people are sitting in stop-and-go traffic, and they see those buses go zooming by, they’ll suddenly have a whole new outlook on buses. DT: How do you feel about the specific proposal on the ballot this year? Adler: I’m frustrated by a process where we send some of our smartest and brightest away and say, “come back with an answer.” And yet, when they come back, we still continue our arguments anyway. We continue arguing over the facts. DT: What type of facts? Adler: Ridership numbers. There are two very different views of the world based on ridership numbers. We have subjective, not objective, disagreements, and it frustrates me. I have seen these types of proposals over and over again, because people have been unsatisfied with the process. We have hitherto been unable to discern between these two concurrent realities, each with their different set of facts.
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‘Sales increased with Big Ticket’ With our fall sports well under way, I would like to thank all University of Texas supporters — especially the students — for the energy you bring on gameday. Fans are the lifeblood of our teams, and our more than 500 student-athletes thrive off of the spirit and the passion you bring to the stands. Each student-athlete works hard to compete for a championship every year, and the fans’ support continues to motivate them toward the next win. Our student body support this year has been especially strong. In reference to the recent report in The Daily Texan, let me clarify that there were different types of the Longhorn All-Sports Package (LASP) for students to purchase in the past. This year, The Big Ticket season ticket plan replaced all forms of the LASP. So far in 2014, Big Ticket sales show a 3.5 percent increase compared to last year’s LASP season ticket sales. The total number of Big Ticket packages sold is now at more than 17,400.
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Because Texas Athletics realizes student support is so critical, we work to give students the best ticket options we can provide. The single ticket option with The Big Ticket allows Texas Athletics to keep the cost down while offering the greatest value possible to the highest number of students. The number of events students have access to with The Big Ticket comes out to an average cost of less than $2 per event, which is right at or less than what other Big 12 schools charge their students. Additionally, all students who purchase The Big Ticket have a reserved seat at each home Texas Football game. I encourage all students to continue to support our teams throughout the year. If there is a team you have not yet watched on the Forty Acres, now is the time to go! Grab a friend and help show everyone what Texas is all about. — Steve Patterson, men’s athletics director, in response to the August 29 article titled “‘The Big Ticket’ sales down compared to LASP”.
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The future of democracy might rest on the shoulders of courageous student protesters in Hong Kong. Thousands of young men and women on the island have taken to the streets to stall Chinese efforts at rigging local elections. Hong Kong enjoys greater political freedoms than any other part of China, and Beijing now wants to end that. If the Chinese leadership succeeds, this will have a chilling effect far beyond the mainland of Asia. Democratic activists and their government repressors in Myanmar, Vietnam, Thailand and even Russia are watching. The British Empire wrested Hong Kong from the Chinese Emperor in 1842 as a forced indemnity following the First Opium War. The British coerced the Chinese into importing opium, and they seized a key trading post off the southern coast of the mainland. During the next 155 years Hong Kong became a center for British trade, a magnet for wealth and a creative space for free thinkers who merged British and Chinese language and culture. Hong Kong was part of London’s imperial system, but it also emerged as a thriving island of capitalism and democracy. The Chinese government regained control over Hong Kong in 1997, as part of a treaty negotiated with Britain to rescind the imperialist imposition from the prior century. Beijing promised to protect the unique culture of Hong Kong, including its free market system and its freedom of speech. Citizens of Hong Kong embraced a future with China, but they expected the right to elect local leaders who would guard their autonomy from the suffocating dominance of the Chinese Communist Party. Many observers questioned whether this agreement could ever work. How long would Beijing allow an island of freedom to operate within a larger political system that restricted speech and political choice? Would Chinese leaders feel compelled to change Hong Kong, fearful that otherwise it might change the mainland? Optimists, myself included, hoped that Hong Kong would become a beachhead for democratic change, spreading throughout China. In 1989, student protests for greater freedom in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square and other urban areas brought this hope close to reality. We now know that democracy activists were tantalizingly close to convincing Chinese Communist Party leaders to undertake the kinds of democratic reforms they have never allowed. Frightened by what this would mean for their power, China’s most elite figures chose military repression in place of reform, ordering what became a bloody
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massacre of students. The crackdown carried to Hong Kong, but Beijing’s leaders were careful not to alienate foreign countries, including the United States, by closing off all democracy on the island. In the last few months, China has stepped beyond these limits. Beijing will now require that any candidate for chief executive of Hong Kong have prior approval on the mainland. This restriction of political choice for island residents — a clear violation of local democratic institutions — is part of a broader campaign to give the Chinese Communist Party a stronger hold over communications, trade and all forms of political opinion. Chinese leader Xi Jinping wants to stamp out any pressure for reforming his autocratic government. He hopes to make Hong Kong’s “special administrative region” into another cowering province under the dominance of the Communist Party. This is more than just a political struggle. It is a conflict that will determine the possibilities for democracy throughout Asia, in the shadow of a stronger and wealthier China. The students who are protesting want to be loyal to China and to their hopes for democracy. They are unwilling to give up their freedoms and their choice of leaders. They want to determine their own future, without the uncompromising dominance over professional opportunities and political authority that the Community Party wields on the mainland. The United States and Europe have been much too silent about events in Hong Kong. We are watching with sympathy, but doing little else. Our passivity reflects fatigue with failed democratic movements, especially the Arab Spring, and preoccupation with crises in Syria, Iraq, Ukraine and other dangerous parts of the world. The democratic struggle in Hong Kong seems distant from our daily concerns. The future of democracy in Hong Kong and other parts of Asia will, however, affect our lives more than almost anything else. If the most populous continent gives up on democracy, it is unlikely to survive in other parts of the globe. If the Chinese government succeeds in extending its authoritarian control over the entire region, then the trade and access that Americans take for granted will become much less assured. Most important, the denial of democracy in Hong Kong will be yet another defeat for the free hopes of young entrepreneurs against the repressive actions of old dictators. Americans, especially those on college campuses, must speak up in support of the Hong Kong students. We are part of their struggle for a more democratic, just and peaceful world. We can help them by raising our voices, and inspiring others to do the same. We can help them by showing that we care. Suri is a professor in the LBJ School of Public Affairs and the Department of History.
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screening of the Hector Galan documentary “Los Mineros,” for class, Ibarra had an epiphany. “By the time the lights went up, I was really transformed because I had realized for the first time I saw Mexican-Americans in front of the screen,” Ibarra said. “When I found out the filmmaker was Mexican-American, was Chicano, then I was sold into thinking, ‘Oh man, I have to do this.’” Since graduating from UT in 1997, Ibarra has worked on six films, ranging from the fictional “Dirty Laundry,” a comingof-age story made up of old home movies and TV footage, to her more recent documentaries, “The Last Conquistador” and “Las Marthas,” which both focus on border towns. On Wednesday, Ibarra will be returning to UT to talk to students as part of the Center of Mexican American Studies and Latino Media Studies Program’s PláticArte series. “For the most part [the series is] open-ended.” said Luis Guevara, program coordinator for CMAS. “So,
ect, said “Your Pleasure” is worth a visit — with or without manicures. “I have seen five shows now in Center Space,” Walden said. “‘Your Pleasure’ is definitely number one or two because I love how they activated all of the space but also how well the three artists could collaborate with both their styles and concepts with what they wanted the show to say.” Martello said he would stick to mainly shoe-shin-
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it will depend on reaching out to folks who might be interested in coming to the University, [or] suggestions that we receive from students, faculty or staff.” The talk, “Cristina Ibarra: Reflections from a Border Filmmaker, From the Inside Out,” will be followed by a screening of Ibarra’s latest film, “Las Marthas.” The screening will be held by the Austin Film Society at the Marchesa Theater. The documentary chronicles the journey of
two teenage girls as they prepare for their debutante ball. The film explores the history of the ball and the annual bicultural celebration of George Washington’s birthday in the town of Laredo. Chale Nafus, director of programming at the Austin Film Society, helped organize the screening and believes the event will draw a unique crowd. “It should be … an audience of diverse interests,” Nafus said. “I think [the film] will be a revelation
for them the way it was for me.” As for Ibarra, she hopes that the audience will be able to see a more multidimensional version of the Mexican-American border. “We usually see the border described as this place where there’s a lot of social ills that are very urgent.” Ibarra said. “But we also can’t forget that there are families here, and people who fall in love here, and people who come of age, and so let’s look at the border from this perspective.”
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Anne Rogers, Bryan Martello and Annie Miller are three studio art graduate students who created an exhibition titled “Your Pleasure.” The artists will provide manicures, pedicures and shoe-shines for free as part of the interactive performance piece on Oct. 8.
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Although Texas’ 2-3 record doesn’t quite reflect it, the Longhorn defense stands strong this season. The Baylor offense entered Saturday’s game ranked highly, averaging 56.8 points, 641 total yards and 401.3 passing yards per game. Unfazed, the Texas defensive line cut each of those numbers by at least 40 percent: down to 28 points, 389 yards of total offense and just 111 passing yards. Numerous players contributed to the Longhorns’ defensive efforts, but senior linebacker Steve Edmond stood out above them all. “With 17 tackles and a sack, [Edmond] is getting better and better,” head coach Charlie Strong said. “You’d like for him to be a little more vocal because the way he plays the game, players all respect him. But the game he had on Saturday, he was very good.” As Strong said, Edmond’s leadership style is far from vocal. He prefers his actions to speak louder than his words, and his production accomplishes just that. Edmond’s seven tackles for loss ranks second on the team after junior defensive tackle Malcom Brown. In addition, with a careerhigh 17 tackles and two sacks against Baylor this weekend, Edmond trails senior linebacker Jordan Hicks’ 69 total tackles by just four. “[Edmond] and Hicks are real consistent players on the
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Senior linebacker Steve Edmond led the Longhorn defense against Baylor on Saturday with a career-high 17 tackles and two sacks against the Bears.
defense,” Strong said. This consistency doesn’t come without hours of preparation. And it’s this preparation combined with Edmond’s stats that has gained his teammates’ respect. Hicks said Edmond spends hours in the film room with Strong and linebackers coach Brian Jean-Mary. While analyzing footage with coaches, Edmond isn’t afraid to ask questions to better understand schemes. Hicks said Edmond works toward one goal: understanding the game well enough that he’s always on
the same page as the rest of the team. Through five games in 2014, Edmond certainly has been. “It’s his preparation,” Hicks said. “He’s going into the game prepared, taking it very seriously this year. That’s been key for him — going out able to play fast and play confident. He’s doing a great job for us.” Without redshirt senior center Dominic Espinosa and former quarterback David Ash to lead the offense this season, the Longhorns have needed players like Edmond to have great performances.
Redshirt senior receiver John Harris said the offense knows it’s not pulling its weight, but it also appreciates the defensive compensation. Harris said he finds it comforting to know that if the offense can pull it together, it won’t have to worry about the defense resulting in losses. “You can get numb to [losing], and I’m not saying you want to get used to losing, but we want to change it,” Harris said. “If we can just get on a roll and score some points — our defense is playing great, and we can get these younger guys
moving forward and learning how to play football games.” Harris and fellow offensive players know that if they eliminate the small errors, they’ll be able to get on a roll. All it takes is some extra practice, time in the film room and asking the necessary questions to get on the same page as the team. The strategy works, and Edmond can vouch for it. And if he’s not vocal enough to vouch for it on his own, his 17 tackles against Baylor will speak for themselves.
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Texas remains undefeated despite rocky Big 12 By Jacob Martella
Senior Khat Bell and the Longhorns have managed to remain perched atop the Big 12 despite unpredictable conference play. Bell and senior outside hitter Haley Eckerman are the team’s most recognizable, but others have stepped up to stay undefeated.
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Through a week-anda-half of conference play, the Big 12 is proving to be unpredictable. Kansas, who came into the conference schedule ranked No. 23, is winless in Big 12 action. Texas Tech was undefeated but has since dropped two games at home. And TCU, who has won only four matches in conference play each of the past two seasons, has already tallied two wins, including a 3-1 upset over Iowa State. But the one constant in the conference, as it has been the past couple of seasons, is Texas. After a tough 3-1 win against Kansas on Sunday, the Longhorns upped their conference winning streak to 19 games and sit atop the Big 12 undefeated, poised to take their fourth-straight conference title. But, with Texas in the middle of a threegames-in-five-days span playing Baylor on Tuesday, head coach Jerritt Elliott said they still have to be prepared to play. “It’s nice to be home, but we’ve got to be ready to go by [tonight] against Baylor,” Elliott said. While they’ve opened up the season 11-0 and are 3-0 in the Big 12, the Longhorns haven’t played perfect
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volleyball in their first three conference matches. On Sept. 24, Texas opened up conference play by dropping the first two sets at West Virginia. The Longhorns combined for 19 attack errors and 12 service errors in those two sets while compiling a .269 hitting percentage. In their latest match Sunday, the Longhorns dominated the match against the Jayhawks except for the second and third sets. In the second set, after an almost flawless first set, Texas struggled to score, totaling only nine kills and a .081 hitting
percentage but managed to win the set 25-20. The Longhorns weren’t quite as lucky in the third set, only firing eight kills as the Jawhawks hit 14 kills to win the set 25-20. But Elliott doesn’t see it as something to be worried about — but rather something to keep working on. “It’s part of this game,” Elliott said. “It’s happening around the country. We’re not the only ones going through this. What makes the great teams great is that they don’t go through those cycles a lot.” One of the striking things
about this Longhorn team is the balance they have shown through 11 matches this season. While senior outside hitter Haley Eckerman and senior middle blocker Khat Bell are names most Texas fans know, neither of them are in the top 10 in kills in the Big 12 — in fact, no Longhorn is in the top 10 in that category. But the Longhorns are first in the conference with a .277 hitting percentage and the fewest attack errors. The Bears come into this match as a difficult team to peg down in the Big 12.
Baylor leads the conference with 935 kills but is at or near the bottom in nearly every other statistical category. The Bears also took down Kansas State in Manhattan, Kansas, but have lost back-to-back matches against Texas Tech and TCU. Even against an up-anddown Baylor team, Elliott said his team has a lot of room for improvement. “There’s a lot of areas where we need to improve on emotionally as well as physically and tactically,” Elliott said. “We’ve still got a lot of work to accomplish.”
WOMEN’S GOLF
Strauss’ peformance leads Longhorns in Schooner Classic By Shannon Smith @shannOnsmith
After the completion of the second day of the Schooner Fall Classic in Norman, Oklahoma, the Longhorns were in 15th place, 32 points behind Mississippi State, who held the first place spot throughout the tournament.
Senior Bertine Strauss (+1) sat at a tie for 18th place, after shooting 1-under-par Saturday and then 2-over-par Sunday. Sophomore Julia Beck (+7) followed suit, shooting 2-over-par 72 to tie for 58th going into the final round of the competition. In the second round of the tournament, sophomore
Lara Weinstein (+6) shot her lowest career round, parring 70 and pushing her to enter Monday’s round tied for 50th place. Juniors Natalie Karcher (+11) and Tezira Abe (+11) entered Monday’s round tied for 74th. Mississippi State’s Ally McDonald (-6) held first
individually, shooting 3-under-par consecutively in the first two rounds. Texas teed off on the 10th hole for its final round with TCU and Texas State. The Longhorns finished 10th overall. The Longhorns will next host the Betsy Rawls Longhorn Invitational in Austin, beginning Sunday.
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SPORTS BRIEFLY Volleyball still second in Coaches Poll
For the fifth consecutive week, Texas finds itself ranked No. 2 in the NCAA AVCA Coaches Poll. The Longhorns are ranked below Stanford, who has held on to the top ranking since Sept. 8. Washington, Florida State and Penn State round out the top five. With this week’s ranking, Texas has been in the Coaches Poll for 120 of the last 125 weeks and has been ranked in the Top 25 for 160 consecutive weeks, dating back to 2004. —Nick Castillo
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From celebrity’s sister to musician, student creates new identity By Courtney Runn @courtney_t_runn
Curled up on a couch, she is surrounded by pictures and hand-made decorations with a wall-length tapestry hanging across from her. In a soft-spoken voice, she begins telling her story. She has been known by different labels — from the sister of a celebrity to the “Radioactive girl” — but, right now, she is just Jackie Castro. A communications sophomore, Castro first learned to play the guitar around age 12. Her entire family sings and plays instruments, making a career in music almost destiny. She learned to play the guitar and ukulele, and, like many aspiring musicians, put up a few videos of herself singing and hanging out with her family on YouTube. After going on a mission trip to Ghana at 15, Castro wrote one of her first songs, “Rescue the Perishing.” With several singles now on iTunes, she has continued to write her own music. “When I have no clue how to say something or how to process something that’s in my life, I write and what comes out is what I’ve been trying to say,” Castro said. “Writing helps me understand life and
understand myself.” During her senior year of high school, Castro received a sponsorship to post song covers on YouTube. Castro describes herself as belonging to the singer-songwriter genre and compares her style to artists like Ingrid Michaelson and Colbie Caillat. Her covers showcase a variety of musical interests from Beyoncé to Lorde. One of her most popular videos is a cover of “Roar” by Katy Perry. Many of her videos feature her two older brothers, Michael and Jason. Her oldest brother, Jason, was a contestant on the seventh season of “American Idol.” Castro said that his experience has helped her on her musical journey. “Everything I know about music is because of them,” Castro said. Beyond collaborating with her brothers, Castro stays busy performing. From weddings to charity events, her weekends are full. Although she is currently majoring in communication studies, she hopes to go into the music industry after graduation. “I love what I’m studying,” Castro said. “I love my classes. I love everything about it.” Although she said she has become too busy to record a full album or post
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Communication studies sophomore Jackie Castro is a singer-songwriter who spends her weekends performing for various audiences across Austin. Castro already has singles on iTunes and hopes to go into the music industry after graduation.
covers regularly, her time at UT has helped to expand her fan-base. After singing the song “Radioactive” at Ignite, a Christian camp for incoming UT freshmen, Castro said people would stop her on campus and call her
“Radioactive girl.” She said she prefers that label over “Jason Castro’s sister” and has enjoyed creating a new identity for herself in college. Despite a constant whirlwind of performances and
activities, Castro said she’s excited to have so much scheduled. Whether she’s known as Jason’s little sister or “Radioactive girl,” she said she’s looking forward to continuing her music career and seeing where she goes next.
“When your brother is on ‘American Idol,’ everyone knows your family,” Castro said. “People want to know you not for who you are, but who you’re related to. You want to be known for yourself.”
CAMPUS
Students studying abroad discover art, inspiration in Tuscany By Lauren Zimmer @laurenthenerd
Seated on a bench outside UT’s Visual Arts Center, Cara Butler, Brigitte Chapman and Kristyn Coster laugh about how their trip to Italy was nothing like a European romantic comedy. “Scratch everything,” Chapman said. “We are just like ‘The Lizzie McGuire Movie.’” Butler, Chapman and Coster met each other during UT’s “Learning Tuscany: Art and Culture in Italy” study abroad program. Despite their commentary on the importance of pizza, they emphasized how their time spent in Italy convinced them to pursue art in their professional lives. “Being in someplace new gives you an outlet of ideas,” Coster said. “I think you become more productive.” Butler is a studying English and art, Chapman is studying European studies, and Coster studies studio art. They said the trip to Tuscany sounded appealing because they finally had an opportunity to focus on art.
“I actually wanted to be an archaeologist,” Butler said. “This trip solidified [that] I want to do art.” The program required students to create journals. Each student kept two journals. One journal was displayed in the UT Visual Arts Center as a part of the “Gestures of Travel: Learning Tuscany” exhibit, while the other was personal. Coster said the professors did not provide specific guidelines on how to format the journal. Chapman used watercolors, Butler drew illustrations, and Coster combined modern day events with traditional Italian art. “I put a sarcastic twist on Italian culture,” Coster said. “It is difficult to explain. For example, I made Jesus into Mick Jagger. It does not look offensive. It just has a little satire in it.” After returning home, Coster is currently working on another journal. In this journal, she translates poetry into different languages and makes videos based off of the poems. “After learning Italian, I got more into languages,” Coster said. “It’s like I’m
European studies senior Brigitte Chapman (left), studio art junior Cara Butler and fine arts senior Kristyn Coster share the journals they created during the Tuscany study abroad program. The met through their trip to Tuscany and were inspired to pursue art in their professional lives.
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writing an inner dialogue with myself.” Butler continues to create illustrations and would love to pursue illustration as a career. “[Italy] taught me how to be disciplined,” Butler said. “I did not want to lose that and I try to make for my own versions of
children’s books.” Although Chapman is not working on an official project, she still dreams of opening a gallery one day. “I went to many museums and I want to be surrounded by that beauty in my professional life,” Chapman said. “Italy reinforced what I want to do, rather than helping
me what I work on, since I am mainly an art historian.” Chapman also talked about the importance of studying abroad. “When you study and study abroad, you’re looking at all view points,” Chapman said. “You can always take the LSAT after, but I think art can teach
you a lot about how to be a human being.” Butler, Chapman and Coster agreed they would study abroad again if they got the chance. “When you’re stuck in one place, it becomes mundane,” Chapman said. “Sometimes, you have just got to shake it up a bit.”
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Artists to provide mani-pedis at gallery talk
Alumna filmmaker draws inspiration from childhood
By Jackie Wang @jcqlnwng
Instead of a formal gallery talk, the artists behind the current Center Space Project exhibition wanted to address visitors with something much more personal: manicures and pedicures. For the exhibition, titled “Your Pleasure,” three studio art graduate students are taking such services as manicures, pedicures and shoe-shines and implementing them as a performance piece. The three students, Annie Miller, Anne Rogers and Bryan Martello all work in different mediums: Martello works with photography, Miller is a painter, and Rogers is a sculptor. But they found enough commonality in their interests to put together a cohesive
show about what taking pleasure in something can imply. On Wednesday, they will provide the three services for free in an interactive performance piece they named, “SALON de Your Pleasure.” “Manicures and pedicures are this intimate thing that you don’t get the opportunity of having when you’re talking about your work,” Miller said. “This seemed like an opportunity to facilitate a more intimate conversation.” Rogers said she is interested in the intersection of sculpture and giving manicures, particularly incorporating the sense of touch. “Tactility is very important to my work so it seems appropriate to have physical contact with people interested in learning about the work,” Rogers said.
Rogers said each of her pieces in the exhibition were all laboriously made by hand. “I’m interested in sort of meticulous craftsmanship that goes into a lot of work and laborious processes,” Rogers said. “I think what’s more interesting to me is in that process it’s just inescapable that it’s going to be wrought with imperfection.” Rogers described the process of making one of her favorite piece in the show, “Caryatid,” as one that required repetitive motions and dedication. She wrapped the piece in multiple layers of acrylic tape and used a heat gun to smooth the surface. But another one of her works, titled “Vessel,” has garnered more interest from visitors. “It’s this large papier-mâché bulbous
Manicures and pedicures are this intimate thing that you don’t get the opportunity of having when you’re talking about your work.” —Annie Miller, Painter
form,” Rogers said. “That seems to be very popular. I don’t like that piece itself as much as ‘Caryatid,’ but it generated a lot of conversation. I like this social function of this piece.” Connor Walden, one of the curatorial officers for the Center Space Proj-
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By Alejandra Martinez @ahl3h
Growing up, Cristina Ibarra spent hours in her father’s junkyard watching him as he built working vehicles out of unassembled pieces. This experience would leave a lasting impact on Ibarra’s future career as a filmmaker. “I think that I would say my upbringing within my dad’s junkyard actually, really was a kind of foreshadowing of how I saw film,” Ibarra said. “My dad would use all the parts of these junked cars to put together a new car and fix it or would just kind of create a new vehicle out of all these pieces.” Ibarra, an independent filmmaker and UT alumnna, grew up between El Paso
and Ciudad Juárez, Mexico. As a child, Ibarra never thought much about making movies mainly because she thought a career in filmmaking was out of reach. “I didn’t have that dream when I was young because I didn’t know that you could make stuff,” Ibarra said. “I mean, as naïve as that sounds, I just felt like television or movies were things that these big companies made for you, and, if you don’t like what you’re watching, you just switch the channel.” It wasn’t until Ibarra began taking college classes in both media studies and Chicano studies when she realized what she wanted to do with film. After going to a
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