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City Council approves ride-sharing By Jackie Wang @jcqlnwng
The Austin City Council approved an ordinance Thursday, in a 6-1 vote, to allow transportation network companies, or TNCs, to operate in the city. The ordinance will be in effect until August 2015. The City Council, which has deliberated over the ordinance at its past two meeting, used Thursday’s third and final reading of the
ordinance to fine-tune the language. Along with clarifying the language to ensure TNC drivers are covered by insurance whenever they log onto ride-sharing apps, the City Council also approved tweaks such as defining the 12-hour limit for TNC drivers. Council member Laura Morrison gave the lone “no” vote against the ordinance. Following a proposal from Mayor Pro Tem Sheryl Cole, the City Council chose to adopt the Houston code of
background checks, stating the TNC would provide the first background check, and the City would audit the report. According to Council member Chris Riley, the background checks that drivers at TNCs such as Uber and Lyft undergo are more rigorous than the background checks of taxicab drivers. Uber General Manager Chris Nakutis said he trusted the outside background
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City Council member Laura Morrison votes against an ordinance Thursday legalizing transportation network companies.
McRaven, Clapper review national security By Nidia Cavazos @NCnidia
In the opening session of a three-day intelligence conference hosted by the University, William McRaven, retired Naval admiral and future UT System Chancellor, and James Clapper, director of National Intelligence, offered their views Thursday on the state of national security after the 9/11 attacks. The conference, titled “Intelligence Reform and Counterterrorism after a Decade: Are We Smarter and Safer?” is being hosted by the Clements Center for History, Strategy and Statecraft and the Strauss Center for International Security and Law to look back at the 10 years since the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 was passed restructured U.S. intelligence. In the session, held at the
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William McRaven, future UT System chancellor, talks about national security at a conference Thursday. UT’s Clements Center and Strauss Center hosted the event, which both McRaven and James Clapper, director of National Intelligence, attended.
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In a special meeting Thursday night, the UT System Board of Regents announced the System’s commitment to being prepared to utilize its resources for protecting citizens from public health threats, including Ebola. “The University of Texas System is fortunate to have some of the nation’s leading experts in the research and treatment of infectious diseases, and we have the largest national biocontainment laboratory in the world, located on an academic campus at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston,” said Gene Powell, vice chairman and regent, in a statement at end of the meeting. “Our research expertise, worldclass health care and stateof-the-art medical facilities across Texas positions us among the most experienced resources in the nation and the world.” At the beginning of the meeting, Jim LeDuc, the director of the Galveston National Lab at UTMB, gave an overview of the Ebola virus and the particular subtype — Ebola Zaire — that is now infecting people. Currently, three people have been diagnosed with the Ebola virus in the U.S. Thomas Eric Duncan, who contracted the disease
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UT council works toward gender equity By Alex Wilts
Janet Dukerich, senior vice provost for faculty affairs, is the head of the University Gender Equity Council. The council was created to combat issues related to gender inequality at UT.
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Salam Bhatti, attorney and stand-up comedian, spoke Thursday night at the TEDxSpeedwayPlaza event in the SAC Ballroom.
TEDx event on campus seeks to inspire change By Sebastian Vega @sebantoniovega
TEDxSpeedwayPlaza, an independently organized TED event put together by UT students, took place Thursday evening in the SAC Ballroom. The TEDx event was meant to inspire viewers to make an impact on their world through change. “Our tagline for this year is
‘inspiring change,’ so it kind of goes hand and hand with UT’s motto,” said government senior Usama Malik, who participated in organizing the event. The event consisted of seven speakers from across the U.S., including David Laude, chemistry professor and UT senior vice provost for enrollment and
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The University Gender Equity Council, a University committee formed in April to research gender inequality at UT, began meeting in early October. The council, which consists of at least one faculty representative from each college or school at UT, met to discuss and advance gender equity efforts on campus. In 2013, the University employed 784 male full professors compared to 230 female full professors, according to data from the University’s Institutional Reporting, Research, and Information Systems. Janet Dukerich, senior vice provost for faculty affairs and head of the council, said the 25 council members split up at the first meeting into three separate subcommittees to tackle different issues relating to gender inequality at UT: family and health, employment and climate. “Each of these standing
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committees, over the next year, will meet regularly and gather data in terms of what’s going on at the University, in the colleges, in the departments,” Dukerich said. “And then [they will] make recommendations to the provost in terms of where we can make improvements.” This is not the first time the University has looked into the issue of gender inequality. In 2007, Steven Leslie, the executive vice president and provost at
the time, established the Gender Equity Task Force to research faculty gender inequality issues on campus and provide recommendations for improvement. The task force published its findings in 2008 and cited promotional lags and salary gaps between male and female professors. Dukerich said the state of faculty and administration gender issues have improved at the University since 2008 but more growth is still needed. For instance, the
report called for an increase in the number of child care centers available on campus to help faculty and administrators balance their family and professional lives. Since the report was released six years ago, there still remain only two child care centers on the University campus. “Space is such a premium here,” Dukerich said. “The committee on family and health said that is one of the areas they want
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Former football player to be tried in November The preliminary hearing for former Longhorn football wide receiver Montrel Meander, who was charged earlier this summer with a seconddegree felony for sexual assault, was rescheduled again Thursday. The hearing was reset to 9 a.m. on Nov. 10, according to Travis County District Court Bailiff Anthony Casarez. This is the third time the preliminary hearing has been rescheduled. It was originally set for Aug. 7 and then delayed to Sept. 2. Meander was arrested in July, along with former wide receiver Kendall Sanders, after allegedly sexually assaulting a female student in San Jacinto Residence Hall. Both Meander and Sanders were later released on bail. If convicted, both players could possibly face a sentence of up to 20 years in prison and a fine of up to $10,000. Immediately following the arrests, head coach Charlie Strong suspended both players from the team for an indefinite amount of time. On Aug. 3, he announced that they had been dismissed from the team because of the charges against them. Sanders’ hearing is scheduled for Friday at 9 a.m.
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to work on. I think [the report] really raised awareness that these are issues we have to continually monitor and work on.” Other issues highlighted in the 2008 report include concerns involving harassment and discrimination, attitudes about family-friendly policies, opportunities for administrative leadership and the sense of isolation among senior women.
why 90 percent of the drivers who apply are screened out of the platform,” Mims said. “The concern is that 75 percent of our drivers are driving less than 15 hours a week, and, if they have to go through the process of being screened by the city, there will be a delay and also may not incentivize them.” Mims also clarified what Lyft and Uber’s outreach to underserved areas meant in terms of the ordinance. “We were looking at areas that don’t have as much access to transit, and those tend to be in areas of lower socioeconomic class,” Mims said. “We wanted to increase
outreach in areas that are socioeconomically underserved.” Riley introduced an amendment that specified TNC drivers would not need to obtain a chauffeur’s permit. “Some suggestions that staff have would still require a chauffeur’s permit of all TNCs’ drivers, even though [the] substance of the permit is covered by other provisions of this ordinance,” Riley said. “Going through that process separately would be redundant.” Riley also proposed an amendment to clarify how transportation network companies would work with transportation to and from the airport. Perla Compton, Austin’s
ground transportation manager, said TNCs are subject to fees just as taxis and buses are. Compton said charging TNCs ground transportation fees for providing rides to and from the airport would be simple through an electronic system. “Every ground transportation provider must apply and use a transponder that we sell,” Compton said. “We keep track of who enters the airport to drop off or there to pick up. We would have to register each vehicle into our system. If you already have a toll tag, we have a computer system that works with the number on that toll tag.”
Engineering lecturer Hillary Hart, member of the climate subcommittee, said this year’s council would survey faculty and administration to determine which further actions should be taken to improve issues surrounding gender equity on campus. “The climate issues are harder to attack because the data is more qualitative and more anecdotal, so we’re trying to figure out how we’re going to do this,” Hart said. Natasha Beretvas, educational psychology professor and member of the
subcommittee on employment, said the employment committee would likely focus on faculty recruiting, salaries, start-up packages, endowments, promotions and spousal hires. “It is very early in our deliberation process,” Beretvas said in an email. “We will endeavor to find relevant data to investigate how we are doing as a university in terms of equitable employment practices at various levels. All committees include highly qualified quantitative and qualitative data analysts and
researchers, so that should help ensure alignment of research questions with the analyses conducted.” Dukerich said as the University becomes more equitable, it must also remember that it is competing against other colleges in the nation in terms of providing supportive environments and equal opportunities across genders. “We have to continually ask ourselves what we could be doing better, and that’s what I’ve charged this gender equity council with,” Dukerich said.
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intelligence community members to understand the [terrorist networks], we could take action and slow down their ability to work even at a district level,” McRaven said. Clapper also said that the nation is currently in a new and challenging position because of the mass number of threats present. According to Clapper, who was appointed to his position in 2010, the current standing of the nation is more advanced in terms of technology than it has been in years, but it does not mean that the country is safer from possible threats. “Threat is spreading, as seen with the al-Qaida franchises, and this sounds gloomy,” Clapper said. “We’re far smarter, but I cannot say we’re safer.” The U.S. currently faces many problems, such as budget cuts and the consequences
of leaked information, and Clapper said these problems make up a “storm threat” that is degrading the nation’s capability to counteract any threat. As a response, according to Clapper, the nation is moving to a more transparent system that can help citizens understand what is going on and reduce the effects of leaked information. Samantha Minkowitz, government junior who attended the discussion, said she found Clapper’s assessment of the nation’s security surprising. “What shocked me the most was that we’re in a time when we’re experiencing the most array of threats that the nation has experienced in over 50 years,” Minkowitz said. “I really thought we were a lot safer, so it really opened my eyes to be more aware of the country that I live in.”
in Liberia, died from Ebola last week at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas. So far, two nurses involved in his care have also contracted the virus and are presently receiving treatment. According to LeDuc, people become infected with Ebola by either coming in contact with wild animals stricken with the disease, eating contaminated bush animal meat or through direct contact with infected bodily fluids. LeDuc said the mortality rate for the disease is 70 to 80 percent, and the number of people infected internationally has been doubling every two to three weeks. “It’s most like to continue at this rate at least for the near future,” LeDuc said. Scott Lea, a professor of infectious diseases at UTMB, also talked about how the medical branch has improved training for treating those with Ebola, protocols for lab testing of the virus and prepared a plan for the management of waste and infectious materials. Lea said protocols appear much more stringent than those undertaken at the hospital in Dallas.
that will help that world be changed. The world needs to know that there are people out there that won’t sit down when it comes to oppression, injustice and stereotypes.” Texas Ahmadiyya Muslim Students Organization sponsored the event to share ongoing events and ideas that students and community members are concerned about, according to Malik. “A lot of the events we do are just for the organization, but we wanted to do something for everybody,” Malik said. “We wanted to take a step and do something on a platform that can resonate with all students regardless of faith or background.
TED is a good outlet and platform, so during the summer we decided that it would be best to do a TED event, especially on the UT campus since the tagline for TED is ‘ideas worth sharing,’ and where better to go than the University?” Hamaila Qureshi, nutrition senior who attended the event, enjoyed TED being on campus. “I’ve always loved TED talks,” Qureshi said. “I think they really do show a
different perspective and send out a lot of new ideas, so I was really excited they were holding one here.” Malik said that future TEDx events are currently being planned for the spring. “[When we opened up ticket sales], 25 percent of our tickets went in four minutes, so we know that it’s a high in-demand event,” Malik said. “We definitely are for sure continuing it in the spring.”
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Rosalind Meaux has been taking music lessons from UT music students for three years as part of the Piano Project. Every Tuesday evening, Meaux has a private 30-minute lesson at the Butler School of Music.
Music, children harmonize at UT By Lauren Zimmer @laurenthenerd
The fifth floor of the Butler School of Music is flooded with children waiting with their parents before starting their 30-minute music lesson. Some kids have conversations with other music students and some are quiet. As students enter small practice rooms along the narrow hallways, the floor comes alive with
music. This is the Piano Project. Children accepted into the Piano Project take private music lessons every Tuesday from 5-7 p.m. Students currently enrolled in piano pedagogy courses lead the lessons. After a semester-long Piano Project session, each child performs a piece at the program’s recital. Elementary school student Rosalind Meaux has
been with the Piano Project for three years. In addition to Rosalind’s weekly lessons, her teacher expects her to practice piano daily. “I’m almost on book two,” Rosalind said. “I only have five more [pieces] to finish in book one. This means I get to play new things. It’s fun.” Rosalind said her favorite part of the Piano Project is the recital performance at the end of the semester.
Dancing in front of a live audience while belting out “Sweet Transvestite” may sound ridiculous and terrifying, but to the Queerios, it sounds like a typical Saturday night. “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” came out in 1975, and audiences quickly started participating by yelling lines and acting out their favorite scenes. Decades later, the Queerios continue to perform “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” every Saturday night at the Alamo Drafthouse’s Village location. Selling out every week, especially around Halloween, the cast of 20 works hard to call lines and get the audience involved in the tradition. Lauren Ferguson, art history and English junior,
“Dressing up is fun,” Rosalind said. “Last year I got to wear a sparkly dress.” Rosalind’s father, Mark Meaux, waits outside as she practices. Although Mark never had the opportunity to play music growing up, Rosalind has become his teacher back home. “I am slowly learning how to play music with her,” Mark said. “She teaches me
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joined the Queerios as a techie and now plays the movie’s most flamboyant character, Dr. Franke-N-furter, a transvestite mad scientist. Ferguson said her involvement has helped her learn how to disregard the negative opinions of others. “It’s a place where you can start feeling normal about yourself — whether that be a super sexual deviant or just not feeling awkward,” Ferguson said. J.C. Rudy, classics junior
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On the shores of Lady Bird Lake, Celtic history and culture come to life. Rows of Highland dancers in bright kilts take to the stage while vendors along the path sell everything from pastries to Scotch eggs. The air fills with the sounds of Irish fiddles and Scottish bagpipes. This is the Austin Celtic Festival. The 18th annual Austin
Celtic Festival will be held Saturday and Sunday at Fiesta Gardens near Lady Bird Lake. The festival will feature authentic Celtic music, dance, crafts and sports. Funded in part by the City of Austin Cultural Arts Division, the festival is the largest gathering devoted to Celtic culture in Central Texas and seeks to celebrate and preserve Irish and Scottish history through the arts. “Above all, I will say that, when the story of many na-
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which is what I and our guitarist grew up with, along with the wonderfully mad musical anarchy that is New York,” said Gregory Grene, the band’s frontman. Grene said folk music has the power to make history and culture accessible to modern listeners. “The music acquires the force of subversion,” Grene said. “And that power stays with the music, even af-
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tions are asked to be told, they will go to the library and pull down great books,” said Donnelle McKaskle, Austin Celtic Festival director. “But when the story of the Celts are told, we tend to go to the shelf and take down our fiddles.” The Prodigals, an American band whose sound fuses punk music with traditional Celtic melodic elements, is among the musical groups playing at the festival. “We meld those roots,
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Rhetoric against voter ID legislation Few instances of voter fraud prove overstates effect on voter turnout ID law’s aim is to disenfranchise By Breanne Deppisch Daily Texan Columnist @b_deppy
On Tuesday afternoon, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals issued a temporary stay to prevent changes to the state’s existing voter law, citing a lack of time for the state to train its election officials. Under current law, Texans are required to show photo identification in order to vote. The practice has become subject to heightened scrutiny as November’s election approaches. Some have criticized the law as a thinly-veiled attempt to disenfranchise minority citizens. Gubernatorial candidate Wendy Davis has even gone so far as to liken the policy to a Jim Crow-era poll tax. Though it can be compelling to buy into the hyperbole of political rhetoric, critics of the law are omitting crucial information in order to present a strong case and do voters a grave disservice in the process. To present the voter ID laws as such a highly partisan issue reduces an issue of the most fundamental importance into one subject to inter-party bickering. Democratic candidates have recently taken up arms for the cause, largely to propagate their movement to “turn Texas blue.” For a losing party struggling to gain a foothold in the Texas electorate, it’s easy to call “foul play” on legislation and expect voters to follow suit. But its critics lack an alternative policy to implement when the law is hypothetically repealed, and many existing statistics contradict some of their loudest claims. For example, Texas is not the only state to require voter ID. Our law, while admittedly the most stringent, certainly does not stand alone in its cause: Nineteen other states require photo identification in order to vote. And though much criticism has been lodged because of Texas’ racist voter history, it can be argued that the nature of the
recent border crisis affords the state some additional precautions to verify citizens. When the high court does rule on a decision, the test will likely be one of unnecessary burden: How severe is the impact on voters? Is there a severe chance of confusion? And how late in the game is it to issue new precedent? The latter, of course, has already been addressed by the Fifth Circuit. And though the former has been muddled in a haze of deliberate histrionics, many political scientists contend that Texas’ law is indeed narrowly tailored to fit its cause. Whether or not the court decides to uphold Texas law, voters would do well to get their facts straight. The premise that ID laws prevent throes of minorities access to polls is misleading, and it is ultimately false. It is an argument crafted to spark resistance rather than research; and it is made largely without factual claim. A study conducted in June, after North Carolina implemented its voter ID law, illustrated that black voter turnout increased more than white voter turnout did: an increase of 29.5 percent compared to an increase of 13.7 percent.. The reality of the situation is that many of the so-called “disenfranchised” voters exist solely because they are disengaged —they represent a percentage of the population that is unlikely to show up to the polls, overturned requirements or otherwise. Voter identification laws may well be a somewhat “slow and clunky” regulation of statewide elections, as lamented by Loyola College’s Justin Levitt. But unless the Supreme Court chooses to act otherwise, potential for reform will be found in the hands of Texans, and Texans alone. The argument, therefore, must exist beyond partisan slander and dualistic debate; and must prioritize mature discussion over detrimental mud-slinging. Because by acting otherwise, our representatives create a system of losing — and of waves of ramification that will crash most heavily on us. Deppisch is a government senior from League City.
By Katherine Adams Guest Columnist
During the decade that Greg Abbott has been Texas’ attorney general, he has encountered a grand total of two cases of voter impersonation. In 2011, in a heroic effort to curb this odious problem of rampant voter fraud, the Texas Legislature passed a bill requiring all Texans to show a photo ID before they’re allowed to exercise their constitutional right to participate in our democracy. It is considered one of the United States’ most stringent voter ID bills, because only seven forms of photo ID are accepted. Though in most situations requiring a photo ID, out-of-state drivers’ licenses are permissible, Texas election workers will not be accepting these as a valid form of ID. And even a “free” election certificate costs money. It requires people who don’t already have an ID to take time off from work (not always possible) to obtain documents proving their identity and to obtain the actual ID. It hits our most vulnerable citizens hardest, and that is simply unacceptable. Naturally, the bill was challenged. And while U.S. District Judge Nelva Ramos called it out for being a de facto poll tax and ruled that it was an unconstitutional burden on the right to vote, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals recently overturned that ruling in the interest of “preserving the status quo”. The problem is that this consistency, this uniformity, that the Fifth Circuit seems so adamant about preserving is one of racial discrimination and voter disenfranchisement. Many southern states, including Texas, have an abysmal record concerning voting rights. We’ve enacted every barrier to voting we could dream up — from poll taxes to literacy tests. The argument was always that these racist pieces of legislation were necessary to preserve our most hallowed of civic duties: voting. Though ultimately, these arguments were found by high courts to hold no water, that hasn’t stopped states from continuing to dream
up novel methods of disenfranchising voters they’d rather simply stayed home. Proponents of voter ID make similar such arguments today. The problem, again, is that their arguments hold no water. Voter ID is a solution to a problem that does not exist. To begin with, voter fraud is hardly an endemic problem. To the great relief of the Texas public, Attorney General Greg Abbott has been closely monitoring the situation during his term in office. He has encountered two instances in which the voter ID bill would have prevented fraudulent voting. To put that in perspective, there have been more UFO sightings over the past decade than there have been instances of voter fraud in Texas. The natural response to an issue that repeats itself with such alarming frequency is, of course, to pass legislation to nip it in the bud. The fact that over half a million Texans do not have the proper form of ID in order to comply with the law and will thus be disenfranchised this November is apparently a nonissue. That these Texans belong to groups that historically vote Democratic is also a coincidence. This is not the first time Republicans have played partisan politics with our rights as citizens. In every redistricting cycle since the 1970s, Texas’ racially gerrymandered districts have been found to violate the Voting Rights Act. As disappointed as the University Democrats are with the voter ID bill, it’s about what we’d expect from a party that would see the Voting Rights Act overturned. Make no mistake: Voter ID is not some protective act passed by a legislature worried about the preservation of democracy. It is simply the latest in a series of racially discriminatory laws stretching back over 100 years. It’s embarrassing for Texas politicians to pretend otherwise, and it’s shameful that Greg Abbott insists on defending a law that discriminates against so many Texans. Adams is the communications director for University Democrats. She is a mechanical engineering senior from Dripping Springs.
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Students at University events shouldn’t have to surrender medical rights By Vance Roper Guest Columnist
Who decides your fate? Who has the right to make life-and-death decisions on your behalf? You may not know it, but, for many of you, it happens be the University of Texas at Austin. I am writing this article to bring to the student body’s attention a policy that, at its very core, violates a right to which each and every one of us is entitled. It is the right of medical determination that many of us may be signing away without even realizing it. Let me start by describing who I am and why I am writing this. My name is Vance Roper, and I am a graduate student and disabled Army veteran. I am writing this as a student, disabled veteran and concerned citizen. I suffered a severe, traumatic brain injury during my service, and, as such, have very specific medical needs. I do not speak about my injury often or publicly, and I hesitate to do so now; however, my history drives my motivation and action on this issue. I joined the Army and served my country proudly with the belief that, as a country, we stand for so much that is right: the freedoms we espouse and the rights we hold firm. When we, as a people, lie down in the face of violations of our rights, we are no better than those who strive to strip our rights away from us. Time and again, courts and public opinion have affirmed that a student does not give up his or her rights just by attending a particular school. Yet that is exactly the situation we face today. I recently learned that the University of
Texas at Austin requires any student traveling to an event that happens to be sponsored/ sanctioned by the University to fill out a medical authorization form titled Authorization for Emergency Medical Treatment. This form, in its complete and utter vagueness, removes the medical determination right from University students. Take the phrase at the bottom of the form: “I, the undersigned, do hereby authorize The University of Texas at Austin and its agents or representatives to consent, on my behalf, to any medical/hospital care or treatment (including locations outside the U.S.) to be rendered upon the advice of any licensed physician.” This statement is problematically vague. The term “agents or representatives” can be construed to cover just about any University of Texas employee or representative. This could include secretaries, landscapers, cooks, clerks at the bookstore and a plethora of other personnel. These individuals, while talented, are likely not medical experts. With consent to this form, though, any of these agents or representatives can authorize a wide array of medical treatment as long as a licensed physician recommended it. In essence, any of the people I mentioned could authorize an amputation, brain surgery, blood transfusion or innumerable other medical procedures. I attempted to clarify what this statement meant with the administration; I was told that procedures are in place that require any request for medical treatment to be forwarded to the Dean of Students’ office. At the time of this
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writing, it is still unclear if these procedures are written or merely a verbal policy. There are several problems with this system. First, procedures are not always followed and mistakes can be made. Second, verbal directions or information on how a policy is supposed to work does not supersede a signed authorization. The fact that a person is supposed to pass the decision on to the Dean of Students does not mean that he or she is required to do so. Further to this point, there is no liability against the University’s agent or representative if the decision is not passed up to the Dean of Students’ office. It is not the place of the University to insert its will in place of our individual rights. It is not the place of the University to supersede our family in making medical decisions for our well-being. A family member or loved one should have the right to make medical decisions in the event that any of us are unable to do so. However, this document, if signed, would brush aside those rights with the stroke of a pen. A stranger who has no idea of our needs or wishes is placed in a position to decide our fate. Is that truly what we should accept? Should the school we attend have the power to decide what happens to us regardless of our wishes and the wishes of our family? I am truly saddened that the University of Texas denies students the opportunity to participate in University-sponsored events unless they relinquish their right to medical self-determination. No student should be required to give up any rights in order to fully participate in the University experience. We should certainly not have to give up rights in order to represent
the University. A school of higher education should strive to protect the rights of students. Expression, understanding and thought are the hallmarks of what we expect out of the student body, and the University ignores these hallmarks when its thoughts on our medical determination are substituted in place of our own. I do not write this piece to be difficult, confrontational or denigrate the school that I love. I bring this issue to the forefront out of my sincere desire to rectify an obvious wrong and hold the University to the high standards of individual opportunity to which it aspires. I have fought too long and too hard and sacrificed so much for my beliefs in this country; I watched many of my closest friends perish before my eyes in the name of defending our rights. I cannot stand idly by and have those rights held hostage in order to participate in the University experience. In fairness, several administrators have been supportive of my concerns and have attempted to address this situation. I greatly appreciate this, but ultimately the policy remains in place. An exemption applied to me does not solve the issue of students’ rights being superseded by this policy now or in the future. I feel it is my responsibility to continue to fight for the individual rights of myself and of other students. As such, I intend to work with rights groups and the Texas Legislature to right this wrong. I encourage any of you who feel the same way to join me in this endeavor by emailing me at vanceroper1@gmail.com. Roper is a public affairs and community and regional planning graduate student.
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continues from page 3 and member of the Queerios, said he looks forward to each Saturday show. “It’s one of the few places where you can be anything,” Rudy said. “If you want to go out and dress strange for a night, there’s no judgment.” Rudy said each week they get a high number of Rocky Horror “virgins,” people who have never attended a live showing of Rocky Horror before. “We have over 50 percent virgins every week,” Rudy said, “We have to make sure we work a lot harder with all our callouts, making them more understandable and
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continues from page 3 something new every day.” Students like Rosalind would not have the opportunity to play music at the Butler School of Music without Sophia Gilmson, director of the Piano Project and music associate professor. Gilmson, who has been teaching music for 22 years, said her love for music and passion for teaching makes the Piano Project very special to her. “Music has disappeared from many lives, but it is not too late to fix this,” Gilmson said. Gilmson said children are ideal students because
making sure you’re doing them all the time because the audience won’t be participating as much.” The Queerios make money by selling buttons and prop bags, while the ticket profits go to the theater, according to Rudy. All members must complete eight weeks of tech before they are able to join the cast. Wanting to be as screen-accurate as possible, the cast often has to buy their own costumes, Ferguson said. Finding a female corset in the prop box is a challenge because all of them are made for men. Madison Irby, a senior at Austin High School, got involved in Rocky Horror because her mother had been
involved as a teenager. Irby said the show hasn’t changed much throughout the years and continues to encourage people to be themselves. “The one message that’s really stuck with me is ‘Don’t dream it. Be it.’” Irby said. “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” will celebrate its 40th anniversary next year as the longest running movie in history. Rocky Horror’s adaptability and dedicated fans ensure it will continue to affect people and evoke positive change. “I take pride in who I am,” Ferguson said. “I don’t apologize for it anymore. It’s helped me embrace the freak, embrace the weird and be unapologetically me.”
Age living history group based in Central Texas, will set up a Celtic campsite on festival grounds to educate festivalgoers about the life and history of ancient Celts. “Our members, as living historians, assume the role of interpreters rather than actors,” Texas Coritani member Jeff Scharp said. “This affects our displays and interactions to be much more personal instead of being
like a cold museum or store window.” Careful work goes into Texas Coritani’s setup process to ensure an authentic experience. “We’ve narrowed our focus on a tribe in the East Midlands,” Scharp said. “It allows us to have an expert knowledge of time and place by having materials [and] items that go together, rather than a mish-mash of random Celt-ish stuff.”
they can start to learn from a young age how to play music correctly. She said the Piano Project also aims to teach young music students how to have performance manners. “Proper concert behavior is important,” Gilmson said. “I don’t think many other music programs do this enough.” Each semester, children audition to be part of the Piano Project. Gilmson said there are currently only 22 students because there are only 22 teachers. She said the number of teachers is often uncertain, but the small number of students in the Piano Project makes the program more personalized.
“Every child has individual prospects, and all are special,” Gilmson said. “We have 22 students, and we have 22 special projects.” One of Gilmson’s favorite parts of the program is being able to watch her own students learn how to teach the children in the Piano Project. “Critiquing is not hard if it’s with a good heart,” Gilmson said. Gilmson said it is a serious program — but an exciting one. “We work very hard to make students into young artists,” Gilmson said. “But seeing children play music makes me feel that there is a genuine joy in this. It is a genuine joy.”
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US soccer great Lilly helps guide Longhorns Volunteer soccer coach Kristine Lilly notched 352 caps for the U.S. Women’s National Team, scoring 130 international goals in route to two World Cup Championships and two Olympic Gold Medals.
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The Texas athletic program has seen some great athletes switch to coaching after calling it quits on their playing careers. Football defensive coordinator Vance Bedford, track and field head coach Mario Sategna and assistant baseball coach Tommy Nicholson had solid collegiate careers, but none of them were considered the best in the history of their sport. Volunteer soccer coach Kristine Lilly, though, has a legitimate claim to that title. The former stalwart midfielder notched 352 caps for the US Women’s National Team — the most in the history of the sport for men or women — scored 130 international goals and won two World Cups to match her two Olympic Gold Medals. “That’s the best player in the world,” head coach Angela Kelly said. “From [FC Barcelona forward] Messi on down to [Brazilian women’s national team star] Marta, there isn’t a player on the men’s or women’s side that wouldn’t have the utmost respect for Kristine Lilly, and that’s awesome.” Lilly’s addition to the coaching staff is especially significant for the players who grew up seeing her on television. “I feel like everybody
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watched her,” junior goalkeeper Abby Smith said. “It’s just a great opportunity to have one of the best players to come coach.” In 2010, Lilly played her 23rd and final season for the national team and began to think about coaching soon after her retirement. She interviewed for a spot on the Longhorn staff in 2012 but was hesitant to commit to the job so soon after the birth of her second daughter. By August 2014, though, Lilly and her family were ready to move to Austin so she could begin her coaching with Kelly, Lilly’s
collegiate teammate at North Carolina and the godmother of her youngest child. The transition from pitch to sidelines for the first-year coach has already changed her perspective on the game. “It’s a lot easier to be a critic when you’re watching,” Lilly said. “When you’re in the game, it’s not as easy because it’s moving so quickly. You have to have the patience and realization to share that with them.” She will continue that progression Friday at 7 p.m. when the Longhorns (7-5-2, 2-2-0 Big 12) travel to TCU (7-5-3, 0-2-3 Big 12).
But there’s also a balance Lilly has to see. Paid professional athletes can focus all of their attention on getting better, but most collegiate athletes will never make it to the pros and have to balance their academic pursuits with staying fit for elite competition. The dual commitment required to be a student-athlete is not lost on Lilly. Lilly gave birth to her first daughter during her career, then returned to playing and had the monumental task of balancing motherhood with World Cup aspirations. “If you want to play
soccer, you’ve gotta do the other stuff,” said Lilly while glancing over her shoulder to watch her two toddlers kick a soccer ball back and forth with Kelly. “On the national team now, I think there’s two moms. You can do it.” The new coach is most concerned with making sure her players enjoy the game that has given her so much. “I like to see the response of the players. I like to see them get it,” Lilly said. “It’s been fun for me, and that’s what I want them to realize. It can be fun. You can work hard, but it can be fun.”
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Sophomore Tasija Karosas, who won the 200-yard backstroke at the Big 12 Championships, is one of the returning members of the women’s swimming and diving team, which looks to build on its ninth place finish last year at nationals.
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silver NCAA Championship medalist diver. In response, Texas has gained six promising freshmen: Sydney Couch (diver), Sammie Hashbarger, Bethany Leap, Rebecca Millard, Mimi Schneider and Sam Sutton. And the coaches have been consistent in providing feedback and encouragement to further develop them this season. “We just want to be better. We want everyone to improve,” Capitani said. “Our staff looked over the results from two years ago, when I walked in here [for the first time as head coach] at this inter-squad meet. We have been swimming faster at practice than we had at that meet.”
Returning team members include 13-time All-American senior Sarah Denninghoff; sophomore Madisyn Cox, 2014 Team USA FINA Short Course World Championship member; and sophomore Tasija Karosas, 200-yard backstroke Big 12 champion. Texas has seven verbal commits for this upcoming year. Although they will not be official until November, Capitani said it will be one of the best classes Texas has signed so far. “Word is getting out, and people are beginning to believe in this [program], and representing Texas means a lot for the caliber of people we are recruiting,” Capitani said.
Head coach Jerritt Elliott likes to test his team. Already this season, the No. 2 Longhorns have played road matches in tough environments against No. 8 Florida and No. 10 Nebraska, faced inadvertent adversity when their schedule changed between the Nebraska and West Virginia matches and had a string of three matches in five days. But with a 13-0 overall record and a 5-0 conference record, the Longhorns have passed all of Elliott’s tests. Now, after over a week off from playing, Texas will get another test, traveling up to Manhattan, Kansas, to take on No. 25 Kansas State (172,4-1 Big 12) Saturday at 7 p.m. “We need to be as uncomfortable as possible when we go to these environments, and it’s going to help us, come NCAA Tournament time,” Elliott said. While Texas has had tremendous success against Kansas State on the road, going 14-4 all-time in Ahearn Field House, the Longhorns have had some trouble with ranked Wildcats. In 2007 and 2008, when Kansas State was ranked No. 17 and No. 14, respectively, Texas had to go five sets to secure victories in Manhattan. The Longhorns’ last road loss to
the Wildcats — who were ranked No. 8 in the country at the time — came in 2003. This time around, Kansas State comes in on a fourmatch winning streak with a 17-2 record. The Wildcats also finally cracked the American Volleyball Coaches Association Top 25 this past week. “They’re on a hot winning streak and play really good at home,” Elliott said. “It’s a tough environment, but we need to be in these environments to see what we can do.” The Wildcats are the most dangerous on the defensive end. Kansas State is third in the Big 12, with 15.46 digs per set — led by sophomore libero Kersten Kober with 267 digs — and second in the conference with 3.06 blocks per set. Elliott said that this is likely their biggest conference match so far this season. “I thought Kansas was going to be [real tough], and we were able to pull that out in four games,” Elliott said. “But Kansas, Kansas State, Iowa State and Oklahoma are really some big road tests that we’re going to have to face.” Still, the Longhorns have yet to lose a match this season and have dropped only six of 45 sets, as sophomore middle blocker Chiaka Ogbogu leads the conference with a .410 hitting percentage while three Longhorns ranked in the top 10 in blocks per set.
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MEN’S GOLF | CAROLINE HALL Coming in hot after a topfive finish at the Nike Invitational on Oct. 7, the men’s golf team looks to continue its strong fall showing at the Golf Club of Georgia this weekend. No. 16 Texas will tee off at the United States Collegiate Championship in Alpharetta, Georgia, at 9 a.m. Friday with a seasoned starting five. Seniors Kramer Hickok and Brax McCarthy will lead the Longhorns alongside AllAmerican sophomore Beau Hossler. Sophomore Gavin
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The Texas women’s swimming and diving team opens the season Friday with its annual Orange and White scrimmage. Last season, the Longhorns won their second consecutive Big 12 Championship title, but had to settle for ninth in the NCAA Championships. Head coach Carol Capitani said being No. 9 this year will not suffice. They want to win. “They want to be good now; they have less patience than I do,” Capitani said. “They have a chip on their shoulder.” The Longhorns lost five of their top swimmers this year, including Maren Taylor,
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Hall and freshman Scottie Scheffler round out the lineup. “I am really happy with our team as we go through the growing process,” head coach John Fields said. The tournament will have fierce competition for the Longhorns, who are seeking their first win there. The team will take the course against nine other ranked teams, including No. 2 Georgia Tech and No. 3 Stanford. The 54-hole tournament concludes Sunday.
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Junior Amy Neal and the No. 2 Longhorns are perfect so far this season despite challenges early on. They look to carry the momentum to No. 25 Kansas State.
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SPORTS BRIEFLY Men’s swimming and diving host A&M Men’s swimming and diving head coach Eddie Reese is kicking off his 37th year with the Longhorns. In Reese’s nearly 40 years at Texas, the Longhorns have won 10 NCAA titles, secured 11 NCAA runnerup finishes and recorded top-three finishes at 28 of 36 NCAA Championship meets. This season, Reese expects to add to his achievements. “This year started better than any year I can remember,” said Reese. Reese and the team will open the season at home against Texas A&M on Friday at 6 p.m. This season Texas has 32 returning swimmers and divers, including 14 AllAmericans from the 20132014 team that took second at the NCAA Championships and won the program’s 35th consecutive conference title. —Rachel Wenzlaff
Cross Country to race in Indiana on Saturday The cross country team returns from a three-week hiatus this Saturday to compete at the NCAA Pre-National Invitational in Terre Haute, Indiana. Competitors include Big 12 rivals, such as Baylor and Texas Tech in both the men’s and women’s races, and Kansas and Kansas State only in the men’s race. The Longhorns will run their 8,000- and 6,000-meter races on the LaVern Gibson Championship Cross Country Course, the same trail that will host the NCAA Division I Championships, allowing all runners to take the course for a test run before their biggest race, set for Nov. 22. —James Granberry
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