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Appeals court restores voter ID law

Despite new ordinance, no sound citations

By Jackie Wang @jcqlnwng

Less than a week before the start of early voting, a federal appeals court reinstated Texas’ controversial state voter ID law Tuesday, which was ruled unconstitutional by a federal district judge last week.

The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals determined Tuesthat it is too late to change

the law for the upcoming November election, citing three other Supreme Court decisions to stall Court of Appeals decisions based on the short time frame before elections. Early voting begins Monday, and Election Day is Nov. 4.

“While the Supreme Court has not explained its reasons for issuing these stays, the common thread is clearly that the decision

of the Court of Appeals would change the rules of the election too soon before the election date,” the ruling said. “The stayed decisions have both upheld and struck down state statutes and affirmed and reversed district court decisions, so the timing of the decisions rather than their merits seems to be the key.”

U.S. District Judge Nelva Gonzales Ramos

condemned the law, known as Senate Bill 14, as a method to suppress minority voting. The law requires voters to bring photo identification — such as a driver’s license — in order to vote. She also equated the law to a “poll tax,” citing the extra money that could potentially quash lower-income citizens from voting.

In their decision, the appeals court said

training polling workers under new requirements in less than a month would be too complicated.

“Here, the district court’s decision on October 11, 2014 presents similar logistical problems because it will ‘be extremely difficult, if not impossible,’ for the State to adequately train its 25,000 polling workers at 8,000

that cost more,” Adler said.

Adler said he supports an increase in staggered work hours in the downtown area to reduce traffic and is also in favor of mass transit lanes along I-35 to reduce traffic.

“When people find

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SG approves resolution against sound rule

By Eleanor Dearman

Student Government representatives Cameron Crane and Tanner Long discuss SG’s resolution calling for changes to the city’s sound ordinance at a meeting Tuesday.

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Austin mayoral candidate Steve Adler spoke at the meeting about the cost of living and transportation. Adler presented his platform items and answered questions from SG members. Adler said the cost of living in Austin is too high for the average person to live in the city.

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“We’re bringing in more jobs than anyone else, but 60 percent of the jobs we’re bringing in don’t pay minimum wage,” Adler said. “A city can’t sustain itself like that.”

Adler said high living costs will make living in Austin difficult for students

after they graduate. He said city officials must preserve the affordable housing options currently available.

“I think what we need to do is to ensure that the housing stock that we have that is reasonably priced, or accessible, doesn’t get torn down or remodeled into things

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Despite plans by the Austin Police Department to enforce the noise ordinance in West Campus, there were no noise citations during the first weekend under the stricter implementation of the city code.

According to Matt Adinaro, court operations manager for the City of Austin Municipal Court, no noise ordinance violations were recorded in West Campus the weekend following Oct. 1, when the new permit plan was put into place. The court averages about 14 citations per month, but only some of them are from West Campus.

Adinaro said there is usually a delay between when citations are issued and when they are filed, but all citations for the weekends mentioned above were probably already filed.

The reinforcement of sound ordinance violations is part of a plan requiring organizations to apply for a permit through the Austin Center for Events at least 21 days before an event.

The plan also reinforces limits on live music in West Campus, according to APD Sgt. Alfred Trejo.

“Because 99 percent of West Campus is a residential area, not an entertainment district, most students living there won’t be able to get permits,” Trejo said. “These parties with rappers and live DJs have to have a permit, or be in an approved venue that has one.”

APD Detective James Mason said officers typically try

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The Student Government assembly unanimously gave its final approval to a resolution calling for alterations to the city sound ordinance in its current state.

After officials from the Austin police and fire departments informed students the ordinance would be more strictly enforced on the West Campus party scene, SG and the Interfraternity Council began working with City Council member Chris Riley to revise the ordinance. At a City Council meeting Oct. 2, the Council passed a resolution allowing the city to begin looking at defining a “private party” in the city code.

Robert Svoboda, co-director of SG’s City Relations agency, said SG and IFC will meet again with Riley to work on the issue.

“That’s just really an opportunity for all stakeholders who are involved in that issue to come and talk,” Svoboda said.

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Supreme Court stalls Alumna honors family through restaurant two HB2 provisions

By Briana Zamora

UT alumna MariCarmen Dale has been the owner of Las Palomas Restaurant-Bar since her parents‘ retirement.

Dale has worked at Las Palomas for 31 years since its opening and strives to create good experiences for her customers.

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The Supreme Court temporarily put two provisions of House Bill 2 on hold Tuesday, allowing some abortion clinics in Texas to reopen.

The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals had ruled earlier in October to enforce the two provisions — one requiring ambulatory services and the other requiring hospitalgrade surgery facilities in all abortion clinics in Texas.

The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 to block the provisions, which would have shut down all but eight of Texas’ abortion clinics. The court made the decision in response to an emergency application filed by attorneys representing Texas women’s health care providers.

The application asked for the court to reinstate U.S. District Judge Lee Yeakel’s injunction to block the ambulatory services provision of HB2.

The court did not release an expanded opinion of their decision but specified that Justices Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito would have rejected the emergency application completely.

In its decision, the court also said the admitting-privileges provision, which requires abortion clinic doctors to have admitting privileges at a hospital within 30 miles, would be null at the McAllen and El Paso clinics.

State Sen. Wendy Davis, DFort Worth, the Democratic gubernatorial candidate who filibustered an earlier version of the law in June 2013, expressed her support for the Supreme Court’s decision to block the previous ruling by the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals.

“The court recognizes that these deeply personal decisions should be made by a woman with the guidance of her family

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When UT alumna MariCarmen Dale unlocks her restaurant door every morning and flicks on the lights in the kitchen, she finally feels at home.

MariCarmen began working at Las Palomas Restaurant-Bar when her parents, retired diplomat Javier Corona and his wife Amelia, opened the restaurant 31 years ago in a little shopping center on Bee Cave Road.

MariCarmen has since assumed ownership and transformed the oncehumble establishment into an award-winning, fine-dining destination.

According to MariCarmen, while the surrounding community warmly welcomed Las Palomas and the Corona family when the restaurant first opened, her family had no previous business experience and

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struggled to make ends meet. After Las Palomas received a penalty from the IRS because of an accounting error, MariCarmen was inspired to enroll at UT to earn an accounting degree to gain business experience and managerial skills that she could apply to her family’s restaurant.

To this date, the restaurant has not received any other penalties.

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to help my parents,” MariCarmen said. “I had watched them work so hard to keep Las Palomas running, and I knew I had to help in every way I could.”

When Las Palomas opened, MariCarmen said she had a single goal in mind: She wanted to assume ownership of the restaurant from her parents so they could retire.

“Running the restaurant

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was so stressful for my parents,” MariCarmen said.

“I wanted them to retire so badly, and, once they finally did, that was the first time in my life I felt truly successful. Afterwards, they thanked me every day.”

While MariCarmen’s initial commitment to Las Palomas revolved around her concern for

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to make residents voluntarily comply with the ordinance before issuing tickets, which could account for the low number of citations.

“When patrol responds to a call of loud music, we obtain voluntary compliance before issuing a ticket,” Mason said.

The city’s sound ordinances require a permit for live music or outdoor entertainment, prohibit outdoor music within 100 feet of residential areas, limit music from speakers to 75 decibels in residential areas and prohibit amplified music after 10 p.m.

Mason said it is sometimes difficult to issue sound ordinance citations because officers do not carry sound meters and cannot always determine the exact decibel level of music.

APD and Austin Fire Department officials held a meeting with representatives from fraternities, sororities and co-ops in West Campus on Sept. 3 to inform students that the ordinance would be more strictly enforced in West Campus.

Sasha Henry, English and women’s and gender studies senior, said noise ordinances have not had much of an impact on residents at the 21st Street

Co-op, where she lives, although members have implemented a few extra noise control measures since the meeting.

“We always try to keep the doors closed to minimize sound,” Henry said. “But, now we’re thinking of putting barriers where the big windows are — in hopes of insulating our commons.

Other than that, which hasn’t actually happened yet, I don’t think much has changed.”

Mehtaab Brar, an electrical engineering sophomore and member of Zeta Psi Fraternity, said the reinforced sound ordinances and new permit process led the fraternity to cancel one of its planned events.

“We rarely have noise complaints, despite our venue being surrounded by housing complexes,” Brar said. “We have been more careful about our parties and music. We did try to limit the noise level of the music at our last party. We had a fall carnival-type event planned for Movember, which would have involved live music and selling alcohol, both of which are a huge pain in the ass because of the new permit system, so we had to scrap the event.”

On Oct. 2, the City Council approved a resolution calling for the City to begin revising the ordinance.

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and her doctor,” Davis said in a statement Tuesday.

Thirteen abortion clinics in the state will be able to reopen Wednesday, according to Nancy Northrup, president and CEO of the Center for Reproductive Rights, which has represented the abortion clinics as the provisions have been deliberated by the courts.

The 5th Circuit Court will continue to review the law until it makes a final decision on its constitutionality.

Lauren Bean, deputy communications director for the Texas Attorney General’s Office, said the office “will continue to defend the law, just as we defend all state laws when they are challenged in court.”

Alexander Parker, College Republicans communications director, said the decision did not mark the end of reproductive legislation decisions.

“It’s certainly been back and forth,” Parker said.

“However, the attorney general has remained committed to defending HB2 as he would any other law.

We’ll just have to wait to see what the final decision is.”

University Democrats President Max Patterson praised the decision.

“It means that women in Texas, including those on campus, will not see unconstitutional restrictions to their right to make their own, very personal health care decisions concerning their own bodies,” Patterson said.

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continues from page 1 themselves sitting in traffic for an hour when they’re on I-35, and they’re watching the buses, some of those people are going to get out of those cars and into the buses,” Adler said.

Also at the meeting, SG President Kori Rady updated the assembly on the progress of SG’s efforts to open the Flawn Academic Center on a 24/7 schedule, create a centralized student tailgate and extend Thanksgiving break.

According to Rady, the FAC could open on a 24/7 basis as soon as Nov. 3. Rady also announced he has presented the idea of a centralized student tailgate to Men’s Athletic Director Steve Patterson and Steve Hank, chief revenue officer for athletics. He said that there

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could be a contract for the tailgate as early as next semester.

“It seems that athletics is being pretty receptive to the idea, and we’re looking for a housing option on campus for the student tailgate,” Rady said.

While the Faculty Council approved a proposal in September to extend Thanksgiving break to start the Wednesday before Thanksgiving, Rady said the SG Executive Committee and the Faculty Council are reexamining the initial proposal to determine the best day to make up the extra day of Thanksgiving break.

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polling places about the injunction’s new requirements in time for the start of early voting on October 20 or even election day on November 4,” the ruling said.

In response to the ruling, Greg Abbott, attorney general and Republican gubernatorial candidate, called the decision a “victory” in a tweet.

Abbott’s gubernatorial opponent, state Sen. Wendy Davis, D-Fort Worth, condemned Abbott’s position in a statement, calling the voter ID law a “poll tax,” referencing Gonzales’s previous decision.

“It is deeply disturbing that Greg Abbott would call a law the court said is intentionally discriminatory against African-Americans and Hispanics a ‘victory,’” Davis said.

“As the court further said, it’s nothing more than a ‘poll tax,’ which means democracy and all Texans lose.”

After the ruling, the Texas Department of Public Safety announced it will continue to offer Election Identification Certificates, which will serve as valid identification at the polls.

Applicants for EICs must be Texas residents and have proof of U.S. citizenship, as well as be eligible to vote in the upcoming election.

Max Patterson, director of Student Government’s Hook the Vote agency, said his organization would work to inform students of the law.

“We will continue to educate students on the restrictions put in place by the legislature for voter ID — either by speaking to classrooms, organizations or by supporting the voter education initiatives of our partner organizations,” Patterson said.

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Greg Abbott, Republican gubernatorial candidate and attorney general, poses with supporters at a watch party following his final debate with Democratic candidate Wendy Davis.

By Noah M. Horwitz Associate Editor @NmHorwitz

Editor’s Note: While the editorial board chose not to endorse a gubernatorial candidate, we encourage students to vote in the upcoming election.

Attorney General Greg Abbott, the Republican candidate for governor, has demonstrated time and again that he is not ready for primetime. He has failed at his current job, prioritizing political grandstanding over the real work necessary to be an effective steward of the state. He maintains illogical and extreme political positions on a plethora of issues, namely those of special importance to students.

Most importantly, despite feel-good ads and insincere debate performances, Abbott truly shows no signs of moving back toward the middle if elected. Make no mistake: An Abbott administration would be a dream come true for right-wingers. For all these reasons, I simply cannot recommend a vote for the Republican in good faith.

For the past 12 years, Abbott has served as attorney general of Texas. Historically a low-key post, it has been best known in recent years as serving as the main vehicle for going after deadbeat parents delinquent on their child support, as well as representing the state in lawsuits. These suits historically have been unifying exercises where the attorney general seeks justice on behalf of Texans. A major example was when a former officeholder, Dan Morales, secured more than $17 billion in a settlement against big tobacco companies. But ever since the creation of the tea party five years ago, Abbott has appeared content with using the office as his personal soapbox. Filing frivolous lawsuit after frivolous lawsuit, Abbott brags about his wasteful litigiousness in office, saying his typical day consists of waking up, suing the president and going home.

Unfortunately, Abbott shows no signs of reforming this lacking governing strategy if elected. Stump speeches, TV ads and debate performances show Abbott’s almost pathological obsession with harping on the perceived failures of President Barack Obama rather than focusing on why people should elect Abbott and not his opponent.

On the issues, Abbott does no better. He opposes a woman’s constitutional right to terminate her pregnancy, even in cases of rape and incest. He continues to harmfully

defend the state’s ban on same-sex marriage and civil unions, even after it has been ruled unconstitutional. Recently, he even made the absurd claim that banning same-sex marriage could reduce the number of children born out of wedlock. Such outdated political positions fly in the face of shifting public opinion and should not be supported.

Abbott is also on the wrong side of issues with special importance for students.

He opposes raising the minimum wage, and believes University students should be allowed to carry their loaded handguns onto campus. He has also said that he would support the repeal of the Texas Dream Act, which allows undocumented immigrants who grew up in this state to receive in-state tuition at public universities. He even opposes the University’s limited use of affirmative action, despite the Supreme Court specifically allowing the practice. In a desperately transparent effort to appease the xenophobic elements of his political base, Abbott would be willing to turn his back on some of the most successful programs in Texas of the past few years.

Even on ostensibly non-contentious issues, Abbott’s plans are lacking. His education plan is full of vague platitudes, and his transportation plan — while making for an effective sound bite — does not even begin to address the myriad of problems our growing state’s roads will face.

The big idea is to end diversions from the state’s highway fund. However, these diversions mostly go to big entities like the Department of Public Safety, not porkbarrel projects. You can see where I get my skepticism.

Despite crocodile tears shed over the state’s important issues, Abbott would not, if elected governor, work in a pragmatic and bipartisan way. His website outlines a right-wing pipe dream, espousing the aforementioned socially conservative rhetoric as well as others. He has been a driving force behind the state’s racist voter ID Law, which disenfranchises thousands in search of a problem (in-person voter fraud) that simply does not exist.

With Abbott heavily favored in this election, as well as his compatriot Dan Patrick in the race for lieutenant governor, the 84th Legislature will likely be a free-forall of tea party proposals. This, despite the fact that time is growing short for Texas to deal with serious problems it faces in education, transportation and water, just to name a few. Greg Abbott will not deal with these problems. Don’t vote for him.

Horwitz is a government junior from Houston.

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State Sen. Wendy Davis, Democratic gubernatorial candidate, speaks during her final debate with Greg Abbott, Republican gubernatorial candidate and current Texas attorney general.

By David Davis Jr. Associate Editor @daveedalon

Editor’s Note: While the editorial board chose not to endorse a gubernatorial candidate, we encourage students to vote in the upcoming election.

The calamity that is the Wendy Davis campaign should have started with two goals: encouraging groups that traditionally vote Democrat to get to the polls and appealing to moderate conservatives. To accomplish the latter, Davis contradicted herself on certain issues. Her opposition to an omnibus abortion bill — let’s be honest — got her on the ballot, but she later voiced support of a 20-week ban on abortion. Davis supported strict gun control prior to her candidacy but later announced support of open carry.

Veering to the right on such issues would have meant something to voters if the effort had been honest. Unfortunately, Davis assumed a brief mention of Republican-sounding things would suffice while she hid behind empty policy stances by attacking her opponent Attorney General Greg Abbott.

Adversarial speech should be welcomed in politics so voters get a full picture of candidates, but mocking disability or dredging up scandal do not qualify one to be governor. Criticizing Abbott weakens him in the eyes of liberals — in other words, people who were not voting for him in the first place. And with sound bites supporting gay marriage, Davis is certainly not going to garner any new votes from the right. For apathetic voters — some of whom believe government is inherently corrupt — portraying Abbott as “Insider General” creates more distrust among voters, especially when Davis’ background is not squeaky clean. The troubling presupposition of the Davis campaign is that while Davis rants about Abbott, no one is going to ask what she brings to the table — nothing.

Davis says many nice things that are difficult morally to argue with, but without a viable plan, the funding or a cooperative Legislature, Davis is reinforcing the concept of liberalist folly and relying on her supporters’ shiny ball syndrome.

Davis’ only “developed” plan relates to education. A single mother who lifted herself up by the bootstraps to become a successful Harvard Law graduate — or whatever the story is — Davis is seen as a champion for education. But her education plan is simply unfeasible. As for universal pre-kindergarten, Davis has claimed the program will cost about $700 million, but the National Institute for Early Education Research gives $2 billion as a conservative estimate. Davis has said to pay for the program, she would use the Economic Stabilization Fund intended to

fund budget deficits or cut tax loopholes, which would not be supported by the Legislature.

Other parts of the education plan are just silly.

Great Teachers: Great Texas would allow the top 20 percent of high school juniors automatic acceptance into college if they commit to pursuing a career in teaching. How high school juniors will commit to a career when many college students can’t is a mystery. Davis also plans to double college credit hours high school students receive. This plan would be impossible to enforce given that universities have discretion in choosing which credits to accept. Also, most fouryear institutions require at least 60 credit hours, roughly two years, to be taken in residence, and if students come to college with a surfeit of credit hours, and they are unable to finish in two years, they could be denied subsidized financial aid, which is restricted based on number of credit hours regardless of how they are acquired.

Additionally, Davis has shown support for a minimum wage increase detailed in her plan called… what? The employment effects of a minimum wage increase vary depending on the regional labor market. Yet economist Arindrajit Dube stated that a wage increase would increase the demand for low-wage jobs, leading to less turnover. No one can deny the benefits an increase would have on poverty-stricken families, but unilateral implementation is not the answer.

Wage increase supporters want to glorify the McDonald’s job, but the truth is such low-wage jobs should be temporary stepping stones. A wage increase for skilled laborers in public transportation, sanitation or public works makes more sense; the government would encourage professional skill-building and not subsidize complacency.

On the issue of immigration, in-state tuition to undocumented students makes sense. We should not punish children here involuntarily who want to be contributing members of society.

But outside of the cadre of children, Texas must maintain a firm stance against illegal immigration, and Davis’ plan to grant undocumented immigrants with driver licenses is nonsensical and a magnet for illegal immigration. Furthermore, the measure is inadvertently malicious. Davis wants to dress undocumented immigrants up as citizens with a driver license without requiring them to take the steps to become citizens.

It is truly unfortunate that standards are so low among liberal voters in Texas that they are willing to accept cute ideas with no basis in reality. Instead of making her a one-issue candidate, those pink tennis shoe-wearers should have been asking Davis the tough questions the next governor should be able to answer. Instead, Davis’ starry-eyed supporters have been swindled by half-truths, fairy tales and ad hominem fallacy.

Wendy Davis is not right for Texas and should not be our next governor.

Davis is an international relations and French junior from Houston.

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Lecturer praises low-income savings policies

By Aimée Santillán @thedailytexan

Michael Sherraden, founding director of the Center for Social Development at Washington University in St. Louis, spoke about expanding a policy concerning savings accounts for children.

According to Sherraden, who spoke at the Thompson Conference Center, a public policy was tested in 2007 in which families from any social class could open Children Development Accounts, or CDAs, specialized savings accounts aimed at families with small children.

He said the first purpose of this policy was to provide low-income families with opportunities to plan ahead for the future.

“Since this experiment started a year before a recession, the outcome was deeply affected,” Sherraden said.

“However, after the recession, families kept testing the experiment, and, by now, those

accounts have $1,400 saved.”

Sherraden said the vision is for the policy to be universal, meaning it would apply to families of all incomes, have greater subsidies for the poor and begin as early as birth and last a lifetime.

“The key design features of this policy is that it would have restrictions and incentives for social development, such as education, homes, enterprise and security,” Sherraden said. “It will also be widely available, comprehensive and automatic, like a community with running water to homes.”

Despite outside skepticism, Sherraden said the policy will be successful.

“We pay a lot of attention to our institutional features, which is giving people a system that works for them,” Sherraden said. “We think that this is a key to policy design, and we don’t think that financial problems can be entirely solved by educating individuals.”

After experimenting for

several years, Sherraden said the policy has had a positive impact on its target demographic. He said financial intervention can affect a child’s long-term wellbeing.

“Children who start saving, or who have assets accumulation, are more likely to attend higher education,” Sherraden said.

He said there have been psychological and behavioral effects from early saving, such as an increase in feelings of hope and control, a better orientation for the child’s future and more effort coming from the child.

Also, he said there could be a reduced possibility of depression among families by beginning the saving process early.

“What really surprises me about this research is the correlation regarding people starting the accounts and their expectations,” social work senior Elodie Coronado said.

“Like he mentioned, there are better outcomes of children to

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Michael Sherraden, founding director of the Center for Social Development at Washington University in St. Louis, talks about savings accounts for children at the Thompson Conference Center.

feel more ambition.”

Sherraden said this new public policy has bipartisan support. Both the Democratic and Republican parties introduced legislation

in the House and Senate in the early 1990s for Individual Development Accounts, similarly structured savings accounts which help individuals with a modest income

save long-term.

“This policy seems like it has already been successful to many families,” Coronado said. “I wouldn’t be surprised if it becomes universal.”

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Former Mossad director lectures amid pro-Palestine protest

By Sebastian Vega @sebantoniovega

While members of the Palestine Solidarity Committee held a small protest outside, Meir Dagan, former Israel Defense Forces officer, spoke at the Bass Lecture Hall on Tuesday evening about the Islamic State group’s beliefs, motives and functionality.

According to Dagan, who is also the former director of the Mossad, Israel’s national intelligence agency, the Islamic State group believes the most successful period in Islamic history was during the time of the Prophet Muhammad. Thus, to be successful once more, the group is bringing laws from the

seventh century into modern day and expanding into surrounding territories.

Dagan said basic laws being implemented in territories include the prohibition of drinking and smoking, no music playing except in prayer, no glorifying of holy sites and requiring all women to wear veils outside.

In order to continue its actions, Dagan said the Islamic State group has been able to obtain money by robbing a bank of $500 million, taking control of oil fields worth $3 million to $6 million per day, kidnapping foreigners and receiving donations.

“Unfortunately, with this money they are able to pay [for fighters],” Dagan said. “They

are functioning in a way like a state. Not only do they [support] fighters, but they have a great interest to recruit people from western countries. They do not have to recruit many people. They have to recruit a number that will serve purposes enough for the future.

They understand, at some point in time, they are going to invade the west.”

Dagan said the Islamic State group decided to change its name because of growing interest. “[The Islamic State group says], if we will be successful in Syria and Iraq, why stop there? If we are mentioning Iraq and Syria in our name it puts limitations on our goals,” Dagan said.

The group is careful and selective with their territorial advancements, according to Dagan.

“Airstrikes can help … but you have to choose a different kind of [approach],” Dagan said. “The main target should be the leadership if you want to hurt the organization seriously. … There is no determination to operate strongly against them. I believe they are going to be a long threat.”

Members of the Palestine Solidarity Committee gathered outside the event to protest Dagan’s speech. At one point during Dagan’s talk, the protesters entered the auditorium and interrupted the event by yelling various proPalestinian phrases.

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Editor’s Note: This is part of a weekly series looking back at past Texas athletes and where they are now. This week features former men’s basketball point guard Doğuş Balbay, who played for Texas from 2008-2011.

Doğuş Balbay has always had the same scouting report: He can move the ball well and play strong defense, but he just can’t shoot.

In his three years at Texas from 2008-2011, Balbay never averaged more than 4.2 points per game, despite playing around 20 minutes in nearly each match. Actually, the 6-foot-1 point guard attempted only two long balls in his senior year.

But he always did the little things right for the Longhorns.

“I want to play hard, play defense and help my teammates both offensively and defensively,” Balbay said his sophomore year. “I have to be a leader when I’m on the court, I have to listen to my coach, and I know I need to talk on the court. That’s all I need to do.”

And the experts agreed, as ESPN analyst Jay Bilas named Balbay one of the top-two perimeter defenders in college basketball his junior year.

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Former Texas point guard Doğuş Balbay was known more for his defense and ability to move the ball than his offense during his three-year tenure with the Longhorns from 2008-2011.

Balbay has taken more than one quality point guard out of the game this season.”

Despite a successful career in burnt orange, he didn’t reach his goal.

“My goal was to get drafted,” Balbay said. “But that didn’t work out.”

So, where is he now? Currently, he is in the Turkish league for Anadolu Efes, his hometown team in Istanbul.

“It’s one of the best leagues in Europe — top-3,” Balbay said. “And Efes is one of the

best clubs.”

After going undrafted, Efes bought Balbay’s rights and gave him a three-year contract.

In those three years, Balbay made a name for himself. He was named the best defender by the Turkish Basketball Federation and was the runner-up in the 2012 slam dunk contest. He even hit a game-winner with 0.4 seconds left in a Euroleague playoff game.

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said in reference to his lowscoring college days. “But I’m not the best scorer. I am one of the best defenders, though.”

With his success, he began to get some looks from the NBA summer league. The Philadelphia 76ers were in contact with Balbay and a few other teams were rumored to be trying to see him.

But, Balbay had just signed a two-year guaranteed contract with Efes, preventing him from trying out. “[The contract] was a big

deal,” Balbay said. “It’s my hometown team. In addition, they named me captain of the team this year, and that is a big deal.”

Balbay is three Turkish league games into his first season under the new contract and preparing for the first Euroleague game on Thursday.

But, he’s still just 25-yearsold and his ultimate goal is not out of reach yet.

“I’ll try in two years,” Balbay said. “I guess I’m still young.”

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Loss to Oklahoma not a moral victory for Horns

By Peter Sblendorio Daily Texan Columnist @petersblendorio

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Despite Texas’ 2-4 start, the team’s worst since 1956, senior cornerback Quandre Diggs and the Longhorns are confident they’ll be able to turn things around this season.

Longhorns remain confident despite worst start since 1956

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For only the third time in program history, the Longhorns have started the season with a 2-4 record — their worst start since going 1-5 in the first six games of 1956.

Despite the slow start, Texas isn’t proclaiming this year a lost season quite yet.

“I think it all starts with the mindset,” senior linebacker Jordan Hicks said.

“First of the coaching staff, and then of the leaders on this football team. You know, we’ve got a lot of people that are not allowing this thing to go south.”

Although the final scores have not been working in the Longhorns’ favor, senior cornerback Quandre Diggs likes what he has been seeing week to week.

“Me being a senior, I understand that we are 2-4, but you can’t even be down because the way the team is going out and fighting,” Diggs said. “And you’ve seen it each and every week the way those guys compete their tail off in practice.”

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I think, at the end of the year, when we look back at the end of the season, it’s going to be a success. We just got to continue to believe and just stay positive throughout it all.

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most recent losses, the Longhorns made critical mistakes at the most devastating times, ensuring defeat. Some of the players are confident that the team can win once it stops making costly errors.

“It hasn’t been a whole bunch of the other team beating us other than beating ourselves,” senior running back Malcolm Brown said.

In particular, special teams have been an area of concern for Texas. The Longhorns allowed a kickoff return this past weekend against Oklahoma and a blocked field goal that led to a touchdown against Baylor earlier this month. While the errors may have lost them a few games, Texas believes its 2-4 record doesn’t accurately reflect the talent

on the team.

“And I think that’s the big thing — everybody can feel how close we are,” Hicks said. “They can just feel it.

And I think that’s also a big motivating factor.”

The Longhorns look to build off their confidence in their final six games, which could end up as challenging as the first six — three opponents remaining on the schedule are ranked inside the top 15 in the polls. Still, veterans such as Diggs believe the errors will be fixed, and Texas can finish the season strong.

“I think, at the end of the year, when we look back at the end of the season, it’s going to be a success,” Diggs said. “We just got to continue to believe and just stay positive throughout it all.”

After falling behind by 18 points early in the fourth quarter of Saturday’s game against No. 11 Oklahoma, Texas engineered two late touchdown drives and almost fought all the way back in its 31-26 loss to the Sooners.

The Longhorns showed more fight than they did in any other loss in recent memory, and the offense turned in its best performance since losing quarterback David Ash following the season opener.

Let’s make one thing clear, though — the Longhorns shouldn’t consider Saturday’s loss a moral victory.

Moral victories are reserved for lower-level teams that scratch and claw to hold their own against far-superior opponents.

In every statistical measure aside from the final score, Texas was the better team Saturday.

The Longhorns outgained Oklahoma by 250 yards, won the possession battle by more than 15 minutes and limited the Sooners to just one third-down conversion in 11 attempts.

They passed the ball better, ran the ball better and had 13 more first downs.

Saturday wasn’t a moral victory. If anything, it was a squandered opportunity.

As they had a number of times throughout the first five weeks of the season, the Longhorns dug an early hole for themselves with a series of avoidable, costly errors on special teams and offense.

A 91-yard kickoff return for a touchdown by sophomore running back Alex Ross gave Oklahoma a 7-3 lead before the Sooners’ offense even took the field.

One series later, a 15-yard kick catching interference penalty against sophomore

safety Adrian Colbert allowed the Sooners to start in Texas territory and led to a field goal.

On Texas’ ensuing drive, sophomore quarterback Tyrone Swoopes stared down his receiver, and Oklahoma sophomore cornerback Zack Sanchez consequently intercepted the pass and returned it for a 43-yard touchdown.

Kick return. Penalty.

Pick-six. Just like that, Texas spotted the Sooners a 17-3 lead. Remarkably, Oklahoma scored two non-offensive touchdowns before even recording its second first down.

The Longhorns managed to fight their way back into the game after falling behind by double digits in both the second and fourth quarters, but it never should have come to that. Had they eliminated these avoidable first half blunders, the Longhorns would have beaten the Sooners by double digits.

This was the same story last week against No. 7 Baylor. Texas had a kick blocked by the Bears and returned for a touchdown, missed a 46-yard field goal and fumbled at the goal line. Despite a dominating effort by the defense, the Longhorns trailed 7-0 at halftime in a game they could’ve been winning by at least 10 points.

For the Longhorns to turn things around this season, they must eliminate these costly errors. They were able to get by with mistakes against Kansas and North Texas. Against Oklahoma and Baylor? Not the case.

The Longhorns turned in their best performance in five weeks Saturday, and that’s something to build on. But, in a game where they thoroughly outplayed the Sooners in every phase of the game, they shouldn’t consider the end result a moral victory.

Success is based on a spiritual quality, a power to inspire others.”

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SPORTS BRIEFLY Texas Women’s Golf finishes 8th at Betsy Rawls Invitationals

After the final day of the Austin-hosted Betsy Rawls Invitational, the women’s golf team finished in eighth place, 48-over-par. University of Nevada-Las Vegas and Tulane shared the first place title, shooting 31-over-par.

Head coach Ryan Murphy said the second day posed a challenge for teams across the board, as “the golf course showed its teeth.” Players faced winds of more than 30 mph. Murphy acknowledged this is an aspect of the game that the team will need to greatly improve on for future play.

Senior Bertine Strauss (+7) came back to shoot a 71 in the final round, following a score of 83 in the second round, to finish in 11th place.

Junior Tezira Abe (+13) finished in 25th place, after shooting four-over-par in the third round.

Junior Natalie Karcher (+14) and sophomore Julia Beck (+14) tied for 27th place. Beck’s jump from 40th to 27th place was the result of her one-over-par score in the final round.

Sophomore Lara Weinstein (+24) finished tied for 60th.

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Student creates nightmares at haunted house

By Jackie Wang @jcqlnwng

George Reason’s obsession with haunted houses began when he was a kid. He used to travel across England to visit the best ones with his dad, whom he fondly refers to as a fellow addict.

That addiction still remains for the computer science junior. On top of a full course load and a full-time job at an ad agency, Reason volunteers at Hangman’s House of Horrors, a charity-based haunted house in Fort Worth.

In charge of designing attractions and keeping up Hangman’s Internet presence, Reason mainly works from Austin and makes occasional trips to Fort Worth.

Reason said he started volunteering during his senior year of high school, after moving back to Texas from England.

“He came up one day and said he would come to volunteer,” Hangman’s publicity chair Darla Robinson said. “He had been in London and came back needing things to do, and so he found us and after about a couple weeks, he started looking at our website and Facebook and came to me and said, ‘I think I can help you with this.’”

Reason started as a volunteer

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continues from page 1 her parents, she gradually developed a love for the restaurant and the business.

“Whenever anyone asks me how many children I have, I automatically reply, ‘Three: Chris, Alex and Las Palomas,’” MariCarmen said.

“The restaurant has become my third child.”

actor at Hangman’s, where he jumped out at people to scare them. He said he loves being part of the cast, even though he doesn’t act as often as he used to since moving to Austin for school.

“I used to act in the first room of the house,” Reason said. “I was the first scare.

I’ve had people punch me and kick me.”

Reason said working at a haunted house brings out the most twisted aspects of people. The Hangman’s staff rejects haunted house themes each year because of their often controversial subject matter.

“It’s like a big family,” Reason said. “A really fucked-up family because we like horror stuff.

The conversations we have are weird. We’ve got a gynecology room now; a blast of air comes out between the woman’s legs when you walk by. I work with the people that come up with that stuff.”

Reason’s roommate, Reid Meyer, has known Reason since they were both in middle school. He said Reason is so obsessed with haunted houses that he will fly across the country every year for the best haunted house experience.

“If he died, he wanted to die in Halloween Horror Nights in Orlando, Florida,” Meyer said.

Chris Dale, MariCarmen’s youngest son, admires his mother’s care and devotion to Las Palomas’ customers and employees.

“My mother has known some of these employees and customers for over 30 years,” Chris said. “These relationships have turned Las Palomas into an extension of our family.”

Alex Dale, MariCarmen’s eldest son, said his mother is

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Computer science junior George Reason is a character in Hangman’s House of Horrors in Fort Worth. Reason has a passion for haunted houses that stems from his childhood.

“They rearrange the park at night to become one massive haunted house, and he goes every year. It’s always a big topic come Halloween.”

According to Meyer, Reason enjoys the process of making haunted

houses much more than just visiting them.

“I think he enjoys being scared, but he really took a liking to the performance and what people can do to make people scared,” Meyer said. “He pays attention to the finer details

of the haunted houses to really mix it up a bit. He enjoys the creativity of it.”

Reason designed an attraction for Hangman’s this year and helped build some of the set. He said his experience at Hangman’s has taken away

his role model, and witnessing her dedication to Las Palomas has motivated him personally and professionally.

“My mother’s dedication to Las Palomas has taught me the power of strong leadership, the importance of integrity and the value of selflessness,” Alex said. “She constantly puts her family and her customers first, and she always brings a warm smile — even when she is not

feeling her best or something is wrong.”

Like her son, MariCarmen also gained inspiration from a parent. She said despite her father’s death 10 years ago, he has maintained a constant presence as the heart of Las Palomas.

“My father’s leadership and work ethic is the model I aspire to,” MariCarmen said.

“I do not make any decisions without considering what my

father would have done, and what he would have wanted.

Las Palomas is his legacy, and every day I fight to protect it.”

For MariCarmen, the food Las Palomas serves is not her biggest concern.

“The enchiladas do not matter,” MariCarmen said.

“We offer delicious food made from time-honored family recipes, but that is not the point. The point is warm smiles. The point is creating

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some of the magic of going to haunted houses.

“I critique actors a lot more,” Reason said. “It has ruined haunted houses for me. I don’t get taken away. I just look at the lighting. When people scare me, I just laugh.”

A single glance is sometimes all it takes to make an impression on someone. This concept led UT alumna Susannah Morgan to curate the “Face Value” exhibit at the Davis Gallery, an Austin art gallery located on 12th Street.

The exhibit, running through Saturday, features the work of four artists and their explorations in portraiture and identity. Leon Alesi, Scott David Gordon, Lesley Nowlin and Jamie Panzer come together in this exhibit as part of the Davis Gallery’s ongoing mission to promote artists who live and work in the city.

“We started with an idea for a portrait show,” Morgan said.

“My predecessor had already found Lesley, I found Leon and then Scott and Jamie, and it all just kind of fell into place.

I thought they all looked great together because I think each of them shows a different side of portraiture, which has a very long history in art.”

Panzer is the only artist in the exhibit who is not a photographer. Instead, Panzer uses images taken from publications to create collages that challenge the viewer to see familiar

things — such as their faces or household objects — in a different way. By doing this, Panzer hopes to create a phenomenon called pareidolia, which causes people to see faces in unlikely places. A common example of this is the man in the moon.

“I pore over hundreds and thousands of pages of published photographs selecting a variation to subsequently be paired with another incongruous image, one in which I see a semblance of a facial feature or expression,” Panzer said. “By combining them, I create an unexpected and surprising visage.”

Nowlin uses her images to explore the relationship between twins and the idea that no two people are exactly alike.

“Some three decades ago, I came into this world three minutes before my twin sister, Kathryn,” Nowlin said. “Since that moment, the mystery and complexity of the twin relationship has been a focal point of my life and work.”

According to Morgan, Nowlin uses a method different than the other two photographers featured alongside her in the exhibit. Rather than creating a digital print, Nowlin opts for a more traditional technique that involves print-

ing the image on vellum and platinum. In contrast to Nowlin’s work, Alesi’s portraits instead resemble standard portrait photography.

“There’s not a lot of altering of the image when he takes it,” Morgan said. “His work is more traditional, his subjects are in their spaces most of the time, and the things that are around them say more about the person than the person does themselves. He wants the image to speak for itself.”

David Gordon likes to capture other artists, musicians and welders in their own environments.

“They’re the most interesting people,” Morgan said. “The way they work and where they work say a lot about who they are. His pictures become a story; they’re kind of cinematic in that way. They tell stories about the creative process for the individual.”

Although each artist has a different focus, Morgan said the artists’ pieces are intended to get viewers to question their perspectives on identity and the impressions they make on others.

“The larger idea of it was looking at faces of people — the parts of them that make up a whole,” Morgan said.

UT alumna Susannah Morgan is the assistant gallery director of Davis Gallery, a local art gallery currently showcasing the exhibit “Face Value,” a compilation of portraits by four Austin artists.

Amy Zhang Daily Texan Staff