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Mayoral candidates debate on campus
Hospitals, CDC prepare after third US case of Ebola
By Jackie Wang @jcqlnwng
Six Austin mayoral candidates debated issues such as water conservation, transportation and emergency protocol at an on-campus event Wednesday night. The forum, hosted by KUT at the Belo Center for New Media as part of its “Ballot Boxing” series, was limited to candidates with a website. The candidates discussed the low water supply in Lake Travis and Lake Buchanan.
Candidate Randall Stephens said there was a simple solution to address Austin’s water crisis: Quit wasting water. “We need to make sure we address our infrastructure needs and that we’re not losing water through leaking or breaking pipes,” Stephens said. “We need to move to a southwestern mode of landscaping. We need to make smart choices and inspire other Austinites to work with us and conserve water — not waste water.” Current Austin City
Council member Mike Martinez said conservation was most important in solving Austin’s decreasing water supply. “Our community has embraced conservation like no one would ever would,” Martinez said. “The first thing we need to do is implement a rule that everyone drawing from the same source needs to abide by the same conservation methods.” If Proposition 1, which allocates bond money toward
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By Natalie Sullivan & Adam Hamze @thedailytexan
Jenna VonHofe | Daily Texan Staff
Austin mayoral candidates debate issues concerning the city Wednesday evening in a forum at the Belo Center for New Media.
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Children visit prehistoric past at fossil event By Josh Willis @joshwillis35
Families, children and students viewed and touched various rocks and fossils Wednesday at the Texas Memorial Museum’s National Fossil Day celebration. National Fossil Day was started in 2010 by the National Park Service in an effort to engage the public. Wednesday’s event at the museum was co-hosted by the Paleontological Society of Austin. Pamela Owen, Texas Memorial Museum associate director, said the annual event is a great way to reach people in Central Texas. “It’s a way to get the public interested and informed about our fossil heritage and the fossil’s importance in terms of scientific value and how fossils tell us about what life was like in the past,” Owen
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Cara Baily, 2, points at the fossilized skeleton of a rabbit in the Texas Memorial Museum on Wednesday afternoon. National Fossil Day was started in 2010 by the National Parks Department to get the public interested in fossil heritage.
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Mark Strama, city manager for Google, explains the much-anticipated “fiberhood,” which will start to be installed in December. Google Fiber’s goal is to produce an extraordinarily fast Internet that can reach as many people as possible.
By Eleanor Dearman @ellydearman
Madison Richards Daily Texan Staff
Google Fiber boasts ‘no more friction’ Madison Richards | Daily Texan Staff
Students study in the lobby of the School of Information on Wednesday afternoon.
We’re not kidding.’” The school is an interdisciplinary graduate school that studies the role of information in society and makes information accessible. “We try to understand the role and uses of information in modern society and how to help people manage, create and organize information,” said Matthew Lease,
an assistant professor at the school. Information school dean Andrew Dillon said in an email that the lack of knowledge about the iSchool, particularly by undergraduate students, is a result of the program’s small size and graduate focus.
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By Wes Scarborough @westhemess13
Residents in South and Southeast Austin will be able to sign up for Google Fiber in December after waiting almost two years since the service was first announced. Google held a briefing Wednesday at its Austin office about the Internet service the company will offer to its customers. “Think about how many things you don’t want to
click due to speed,” said Mark Strama, city manager for Google Fiber. “Speed is really important to us as a company, and we want to bring that to Austin.” In November 2012, Kansas City became the only city to have the network. Google announced in April 2013 that Austin would be the next city to get Google Fiber. David Anthony, technical program manager for Google Fiber, said the project goal is to install thou-
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Little-known iSchool provides five-year information degrees Located off campus on Guadalupe sits the School of Information. With its vague name and small enrollment, many students, particularly undergraduates, are left wondering what the program is, if they’re aware of the school at all. “I have never heard of it,” computer science senior Daniel Cheng said. Jeremy Selvidge, a graduate student in the school, said he often has to explain to his friends and people he meets what a “school of information” is. “A lot of the time we refer to it as ‘iSchool,’ and they think I’m saying ‘high school,’” said Selvidge, who is also a co-director of the Student Association of the School of Information. “So we have to explain to them, ‘No, it’s a master’s program.
While two UT researchers say the Ebola disease could be immunizing people, a second health care worker has tested positive for Ebola, the Texas Department of State Health Services said Wednesday. The nurse is the third person to be diagnosed with the Ebola virus in the U.S. The nurse has since been identified by local media outlets in Dallas as Amber Vinson and is the second person to have contracted the disease in the U.S. At a press conference Wednesday, Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins said the nurse reported a fever Tuesday and has been placed in isolation at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas, along with Nina Pham, another nurse who tested positive for the virus Sunday. Both nurses were involved in the care of Thomas Eric Duncan, who died from Ebola last week. At a press conference Wednesday, Tom Frieden, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention director, said the new patient was transferred to Emory hospital in Atlanta later Wednesday. Jenkins said Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital is preparing for more cases of Ebola. “We are preparing contingencies for more, and that is a very real possibility,” Jenkins said.
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sands of miles of fiber optic cable that will run right to people’s homes. The cables are made of hair-thin fibers of glass that transmit information close to the speed of light. “This is the next step of the Internet,” Anthony said. According to Anthony, the network delivers Internet speed at one gigabit per second, which is a hundred times faster than the current
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