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With early voting underway, three major mayoral candidates stressed the importance of students affecting change with the Austin City Council’s first election under its 10-ONE structure, which divides the city’s representation into 10 geographic districts. With the mayor now the only citywide elected official, the candidates — attorney
Steve Adler, Mayor Pro Tem Sheryl Cole and City Council member Mike Martinez — debated transportation, housing during a forum hosted by Student Government and The Daily Texan on campus at Gearing Hall. Adler emphasized the benefit of changing the City Council entirely during the upcoming election. “The biggest challenge we have is doing things we are comfortable with,” Adler said. “We have the opportunity to do things
a new way. Every piece of gravity and inertia is going to pull us back to how we’ve done things in the past, and we need to move forward.” The candidates touched on public transportation options, including Proposition 1. Cole said, if Prop. 1, which allocates $600 million in bond money toward an urban rail line and requires the city to spend $400 million in road improvements, fails at the ballot, she would ask the
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Mayoral candidates Sheryl Cole, Steve Adler and Mike Martinez sit during a debate hosted by The Daily Texan and Student Government on Monday night.
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Maker Studio opens in engineering school By Ariana Guerra @ariewar08
The Longhorn Maker Studio had its official grand opening Monday afternoon, welcoming all students and faculty in the Cockrell School of Engineering. According to mechanical engineering professor Desiderio Kovar, the studio has unofficially been open since Sept. 2 and has since been a place where students can come in and work on school projects or create prototypes for personal inventions. “This is really a pilot,” Kovar said. “We are going to try out a whole lot of ideas here. Our plan is ultimately to move this [studio] to the new [Engineering Education and Research Center] building and hopefully will be the center piece of the
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Electrical engineering senior Kapil Gowru explains his prototype part as he waits to use a 3-D printer. Other students and faculty explored the Maker Studio after its grand opening Monday afternoon.
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The Austin Police Department has ordered protective equipment and outlined a quarantine response in case of an Ebola outbreak in Austin, according to a training announcement sent to officers. The announcement, which was sent out Oct. 6, outlines officers’ responsibilities at the scene of a quarantine and specifies how they can access personal protective equipment. According to the announcement, the Travis County Health and Human Services Department or the Texas Department of State Health Services is responsible for declaring a quarantine in case of an Ebola outbreak. Both organizations can declare a quarantine of any person or area. Anyone who tries to enter or exit a quarantine area faces a third-degree felony charge, and an officer may use “reasonable force” to secure the area and prevent people from accessing or leaving it, the announcement said. The announcement does not say whether officers are allowed inside the home of an Ebola patient, but Assistant Chief Brian Manley said they may be called to the scene in the event of a quarantine. Manley said if APD were called to enforce a quarantine order, officers would
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‘Snapchat’ introduces Michael Shaw reaches outside the box new university feature By Christina Noriega @c_mnoriega
The mobile phone app “Snapchat” launched a new feature called “Our Campus Story” on UT’s campus Friday. According to a statement released by Snapchat on Oct. 17, Snapchat users on and around campus can view a regular feed of images and videos uploaded by users on the campus. For its first trial of this feature, Snapchat selected UT, University of California-Los Angeles, University of Southern California and Pennsylvania State University. Snapchat launched similar features at Austin City Limits Music Festival, the Electric Daisy Carnival, New York Fashion Week and college football games. “Our Campus Story was the natural evolution of the Our Story product that we launched at [Electronic Daisy Carnival] this year,” Snapchat said in statement. “Our team heard tons of requests for Our Story at college campuses — so
we just had to make it happen.” Mike Horn, director of digital strategy at UT, said Snapchat did not consult with or alert the University prior to the launch of the feature, but so far the University has reacted positively. “Our first reaction was kind of curiosity,” Horn said. “It’s so new to us that we haven’t developed a formal strategy around it, but it seems like a great tool for students to get a feel for whatever is going on on campus.” Officials from Penn State’s and USC’s social media teams said they had not been contacted by Snapchat about the new feature either. Horn said Snapchat may have selected the four campuses because of their large base of Snapchat users. The Snapchat team filters all uploaded content and removes inappropriate material. The recent feed has included videos of pranks
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By Marisa Charpentier @marisacharp21
Michael Shaw spends five days a week in a box. He arrives at the 100 W. 21st St. kiosk at 7:30 a.m. Monday through Friday, sets up his equipment and waits for the cars and students to roll in. But Shaw, a parking enforcement attendant, loves his job. He’s the first person many visitors and students see each day. The guy who yells “hook ’em” to students crossing the street; the guy who encourages people to smile and stay motivated; the guy whose coworkers call him “hyperactive.” “I don’t have a medium level,” Shaw said. He gets complaints from the occasional angry driver or passerby but endures the day with a smile on his face. Maybe it’s because he
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Parking enforcement attendant Mike Shaw stops visitors at his security booth on 100 W. 21st St. on Friday afternoon. Shaw encourages people to stay motivated and smile while
loves being surrounded by students getting a college education — something he never received. Maybe it’s because he loves sharing the wisdom he’s gained in his 51 years. Maybe it’s because he is eager to spread the encouragement he received
when he was once in a tough place. In 2001, Shaw lost his job and $197,000. He tore his knee after working 13 years as a police officer and couldn’t pass the physical to continue in that line of work. Then, the stock market crashed.
His wife and four kids all had to adjust. Shaw stopped using credit cards. Jobs turned him away for being overqualified. He was without work for a year and a half. He went from a salary of $44 an hour to
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building. We’re trying out new ideas and seeing what works.” Studio manager Steve Ferraro said the new studio is an innovative center that gives students the opportunity to enjoy themselves. “In the process of doing that, [students] can learn about some of the state-ofthe-art technology available to them at no cost,” Ferraro said. “I’ve seen a lot of innovative ideas come out of the 3-D printers. Any student will tell you that this is an awesome place to
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have available for them to do work.” Kovar said he wanted to emphasize the creative aspect of the studio. Because of the new amenity, faculty members in the engineering school can come up with new ideas or projects for their students that could not have been done before the studio’s establishment. “Funding came from the Cockrell School of Engineering and the mechanical engineering department,” Kovar said. “Cockrell paid for the renovations of the space as well as the salary of the staff and student medical call with [the Austin Fire Department] or EMS, and it would be the same if responding to a possible Ebola case,” Manley said. On Friday, President William Powers Jr. announced in an email that a UT student had self-quarantined him or herself after being on the same flight as a nurse with Ebola. Powers said the student would be staying home from class at his or her private residence. According to the University, the student will not return to school until Nov. 3. Manley said APD works closely with other departments to determine how to respond to possible infectious disease outbreaks. “We are in daily communication with the health department, EMS and fire department to coordinate our efforts and train our officers on response protocols,” Manley said. Officers typically carry latex gloves with them but would also wear standard equipment on the scene of a quarantine, including a face mask, gloves and protective eyewear, the announcement said. APD has ordered personal protective equipment for its personnel, but the announcement instructs officers to ask EMS staff for any equipment they do not have. The Austin Fire Department will also carry extra masks and eyewear on its units, and officers can call for additional protective equipment if necessary.
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employees. Corporate donations from the mechanical engineering department funded the purchase of the equipment.” Mechanical engineering freshman Mackenzie Love said the studio will provide access to equipment that will allow them to work on both school and personal projects. “It’s great; it’s one of the
only places where you can walk in without having any of your own material and build whatever you like to,” Love said. “I’ve primarily worked with the 3-D printers; the 3-D printers are breaking barriers to access, which I could not individually afford.” Visiting the studio for the first time, biomedical
engineering senior Mishaal Rahman said there was a lot of space for students to work, and the equipment was organized and positioned well. “I think I’m going to use it for personal projects,” Rahamm said. “Most engineering departments have their own 3-D printers, but, for personal projects, I’ll come here.”
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Acclaimed historian lectures on southern history By Kylie Fitzpatrick @mllekyky
A Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, during a talk sponsored by the Littlefield Lecture Series in the Department of History on Monday, said many historical facts about the Underground Railroad have been obscured by popular legend. Eric Foner, Columbia University history professor, said the Underground Railroad was not a single secret entity but rather a coordination of quasipublic efforts by abolitionists. Foner, who has written books on the history of emancipation and served as president of several national historical associations, discussed his upcoming book, “Rethinking the Underground Railroad,” during the first of two presentations he is giving on southern history this week at the Blanton Auditorium. “Even people who know very little of American history have heard of the Underground Railroad,” Foner said. “At a time of renewed national attention to the history of slavery and the Civil War — subjects that remain in many ways contentious — the
Underground Railroad represents a moment of our history when black and white Americans worked together in a just cause.” Jacqueline Jones, history department chair and professor, said Foner is the preeminent historian of the Civil War–Recons truction era. “Dr. Foner is unusual in that he is a scholar who has reached a broad and appreciative audience for his work, and, as scholars, citizens and lovers of history, all of us are the better for it,” Jones said. Foner said his book will focus on the Underground Railroad primarily in New York City, through which he said some of the most famous fugitives in history passed. Among them was Henry Brown, who famously shipped himself in a packing crate from the South to the Philadelphia anti-sla very office. “Since, by definition, the Underground Railroad spreads beyond one locality, I also discuss what I call the metropolitan corridor: a set of networks stretching from Virginia through Washington, D.C., Maryland, southern Pennsylvania and to New York City,”
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Eric Foner, history professor at Colombia University, speaks to an audience about his upcoming book, “Rethinking the Underground Railroad,” in the Smith Building on Monday afternoon. Foner focuses his book of the Underground Railroad in New York.
Foner said. Foner said he is interested in the political significance of slaves running away. “The fugitive slave issue was central in bringing on the Civil War and too many accounts of the causes of the
Civil War ignore slave resistance, as exemplified here, as a contributing factor to the conflict,” Foner said. Moriah Walter, a master’s candidate in history at UTSA, said she agreed with Foner that the Underground
Railroad was important to talk about as a moment when whites and blacks worked together. “It hasn’t received the amount of academic attention that it should,” Walter said. “So, the fact that he’s
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Spring course to feature Beyoncé, Rihanna By Adam Hamze @adamhamz
The Department of African and African Diaspora Studies will offer a class spring 2015 titled “Beyoncé Feminism, Rihanna Womanism,” which will highlight how the actions of these women reflect aspects of black feminism. Natasha Tinsley, associate professor in the Department of African and African Diaspora Studies, created the concept for the class and will teach it. She said she chose these two women to be the focal points of the course because she believes they are currently the two most quoted women in the world, and they have the capability of reaching a larger audience than any other activists. “Their words reach around the world in a way no other African-American or AfroCaribbean woman’s currently does,” Tinsley said. Beyoncé and Rihanna have both sold millions of albums worldwide and are ranked in the top eight of Forbes’ “The World’s Most Powerful Celebrities” of 2014 list. According to Tinsley, a course on the feminism of women of color is important because it serves as a reminder that this topic offers insight on race, class, gender and sexuality, which are applicable to everyone. “Since black women’s voices have traditionally been excluded from the academy, it’s important to offer courses that feature those voices so
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Natasha Tinsley, associate professor in the Department of African and African Diaspora Studies, will be teaching a class titled “Beyoncé Feminism, Rihanna Womanism” this upcoming spring semester. The course focuses on the influence these public figures have in modern black feminism.
that students can have access to the rich analytical tools black feminism offers,” Tinsley said. This course is one of many offered by the University whose curriculum is focused on popular culture. Mary Beltrán, associate professor who teaches “Film & TV Stardom” in the Department of Radio-Television-Film, said it is important to teach classes about popular culture because it reflects what is relevant in our time period.
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inside University dorms, chemistry experiments, student yoga classes and football locker rooms. Hugo Rojo, a public relations senior and “pretty consistent” Snapchat user, said he has not uploaded any content yet, but has enjoyed the feed. He said the new feature allows users to witness slices of daily life on campus that they would otherwise never see. “With the introduction of Our Campus Story, it’s really providing a lens to the greater campus community to people who normally wouldn’t be able to experience it,” Rojas said. Snapchat is planning to expand its Our Campus Story to other campus locations around the world.
the ballot, she would ask the community why they chose not to support it. “When we come together as a community, that is when we are strongest,” Cole said. “We need to look throughout the city and see that this is a down payment on a 50-year vision, and we have to embrace the 50-year vision before we embark on another course.” Cole also said she supports transportation network companies, such as Uber and Lyft, because they are good alternative transit options. “There’s a lot of concern in the community about people able to get to our high density points
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“I think that it’s helpful for people to consider that pop culture reflects our culture and cultural values and our ideas about race, gender, class and social power,” Beltrán said. “It can be a way to study American history and what was important in our culture during that time.” Another course offered by the University that focuses on this theme is “Advertising and Popular Culture” in the Stan Richards School of Advertising like downtown if they don’t want to drive or can’t because they’ve been drinking,” Cole said. “TNCs can be used for that.” While Adler criticized the City Council for its pace on passing ordinances, Martinez said the ordinance legalizing TNCs to operate in Austin happened as quickly as it should have. “Government is not reactive; it is responsive,” Martinez said. “It takes time to make policies. We started this conversation in May this year, with a task force that is still making its way through the process, and here we are, less than six months later with a policy in place.” Martinez defended his stance on occupancy limits and said that, without
and Public Relations. Finance sophomore Adrian Robison, who enrolled in the course last semester, said he took the class because he thinks it is important to understand what we are exposed to on a regular basis. “I took the class to learn where pop culture comes from — how it’s created,” Robison said. “It helped clarify some of pop culture’s diverse range of origins — some of its ambiguities — and how
we interact with it.” Tinsley said she hopes the course can provide students with an understanding of what feminism looks and sounds like. “I hope, first, that they will take away the idea that theorizing is something that black women do everywhere and all the time,” Tinsley said. “Feminism isn’t about hating or detracting from anyone but about cultivating respect and love.”
enforcement, the neighborhoods of Austin would be unfairly changed. “We have developers that take advantage of our land development code and find ways to build units that are stealth dorms,” Martinez said. “We had plans that were submitted that looked like a duplex but it had seven or eight bathrooms and seven or eight bedrooms, and we knew they would be rented as single rooms. We wanted to stem the tide of stealth dorms. It was changing the character of traditional neighborhoods for single family houses.” Adler said “stealth dorms” rose from Austin’s affordability crisis. “When people can’t afford to be here, you’re
going to find people creating solutions,” Adler said. “I have trouble with the ordinance that it is kind of a one-size-fits-all. There are some parts of the city that are not traditional. But we need to protect neighborhoods. We shouldn’t have multifamily projects where they don’t belong.” Cole said affordable housing could be solved by looking at other alternatives, such as micro-units. “I think we can create more affordability by design,” Cole said. “We have to be open to micro-units: smaller housing that students can live in and people who can’t afford to live in larger apartments.” Early voting started Monday and runs until Oct. 31. Election Day is Nov. 4.
devoting attention to it I think should let us know that it is important.” Foner will give his second lecture, “Journeys to Freedom,” on Tuesday from 4-6 p.m. His book is due for release in January.
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UT released its affiliation agreement Monday between the UT System Board of Regents, the University and the Seton Healthcare Family regarding the Dell Medical School. “UT Austin and Seton will also work to expand the healthcare infrastructure, workforce, and services available to all residents of Central Texas,” the agreement states. Seton will replace the University Medical Center-Brackenridge with a new teaching hospital on UT-owned land across from the medical school. The initial term of the agreement is for 25 years, effective Jan. 1, 2015. The agreement — which Chancellor Francisco Cigarroa, President William Powers Jr. and Jesús Garza, Seton Healthcare Family president and CEO, signed last week — also gives the medical school complete control over its education. As Seton abides by the Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care, it prohibits certain medical procedures related to areas such as family planning, women’s health and end-of-life care. In accordance with the agreement, medical school students will receive training for these procedures at a separate facility, In May 2012, the Board of Regents approved a minimum of $25 million per year to support the development of the Dell Medical School, according to the agreement. The regents also agreed to pay up to $5 million per year for eight years to be used for faculty recruitment for the medical school. The Dell Medical School is scheduled to open in fall 2016. —Alex Wilts
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Response to Ebola ‘crisis’ in US highlights superficiality problem By Jeremi Suri
Daily Texan Columnist @JeremiSuri
We have become a society driven by crises. Every day seems to bring us closer to an apocalypse — an existential terrorist threat, a crazed shooter, a growing oil spill, a gigantic storm and now a life-threatening virus called Ebola. Our media focus obsessively on these crises to draw our attention. My study of leaders across society shows that these crises dominate their days, too. Presidents, governors and CEOs spend a very high proportion of their time trying to convince the public that they are taking sufficient action to avert disasters, or at least mitigate their harmful effects. The crises consume most of our creative energies. American society is underperforming because this is a superficial way to act. Crisis leadership is not leadership at all. Crisis obsessions distract citizens from their values, their obligations, and their possibilities. In a society dominated by crises, we are all reacting to the latest bad thing, rather than doing what is most important to us and to those around us. The current panic over Ebola in the United States is a clear example of our superficiality. While thousands of Americans died prematurely this month from poor health, inadequate nutrition, gun violence, drunk driving, sexual assault and child abuse, only one person has died on American soil from the Ebola virus. While thousands of children attended inadequate schools, ate inadequate meals and received inadequate health care, two Americans showing Ebola symptoms became the most talked-about people in the country. Of course Ebola is a threat and our national health system must focus on containing and treating the virus. The problem is that defining it as the latest apocalypse encourages us to lose all sense of proportion. The fate of our society will not be determined by the Ebola virus, but it will hinge on how well we deal with the deeper problems we ignore in this latest crisis obsession. Our leaders are spending their time reacting to one death and two infections, instead of the thousands who are suffering deeper neglect and injustice. Our leaders are playing a massive prevent
The current panic over Ebola in the United States is a clear example of our superficiliaty. While thousands of Americans died prematurely this month from poor health, inadequate nutrition, gun violence, drunk driving, sexual assault and child abuse, only one person has died on American soil from the Ebola virus.
defense against a virus, rather than investing creativity, time and resources in unleashing the potential of our citizens. The real enemy is not a disease; it is all of us in our misplaced priorities. How did we lose our sense of proportion as a society? The problem is deep and it is recent. It needs immediate attention or we will continue our slide from strength and prosperity to weakness and decline. During the 1960s a generation of Americans, many of them on college campuses like our own, devoted themselves to eliminating what they called the “root causes” of suffering in poverty, prejudice and war. These young men and women marched for civil rights, they protested against a misguided war and they volunteered in large numbers for organizations like the Peace Corps. They did more than react to the crises of the moment; they looked to change the world by changing the existing priorities of leaders and digging deeper. They boldly asked why the world departed from their ideals, and they acted, as best they could, to make their ideals into reality. Although the record of the 1960s generation is mixed, there is no doubt those citizens changed our society fundamentally. We are less racist and less sexist because of them. We are also far less idealistic because many of the larger efforts to eliminate poverty, injustice and warfare came up short. Former 1960s activists, now parents and grandparents, are often cynical and disillusioned. Many of their children and grandchildren — our current students — treat their idealism with the sarcasm of Jon Stewart. How could those 1960s kids be so gullible? Did they really believe those simple ideas about changing the world? Sarcasm, disillusion and disbelief are behind our current superficiality. If you believe in nothing (but yourself ), then the threat of the moment becomes your defining goal. If you cannot imagine improving the world, then a game of defense against bad guys and viruses seems sufficient. Cynicism and low expectations drive our attention to crises, rather than bigger priorities. In our present condition, the crises are only going to grow in speed and magnitude. There will be a worse terrorist group after the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS). There will be more shooters. And there will be more deadly viruses after Ebola. These threats will grow because they emerge from the root causes in poverty, injustice and violence that we continue to ignore. We are chasing the threats made from the problems we willfully neglect. We are wearing ourselves out in our superficial frenzies. We must respond to ISIS and Ebola, but we need a sense of proportion and a redoubled commitment to do much more. We need to think about the deeper causes. We need to remember our core values as a society and begin prioritizing them. It is time to start marching again, not against a virus, but for a better world. Suri is a professor in the LBJ School of Public Affairs and the Department of History.
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Mopac express lanes good initial move toward alleviating traffic By Claire Smith
Daily Texan Columnist @claireseysmith
The Mopac Improvement Plan is in the process of adding an express lane to the three existing lanes of traffic in three different locations throughout the greater Austin area. After studying 12 different uses of express lanes in metropolitan areas across the United States, the Mopac Improvement Project endeavors to use three different express lanes throughout Austin to diffuse traffic during rush periods and create quicker routes for public transportation and emergency vehicles. Although use of the express lane comes at a cost to citizens who choose to use it, the express lane will be a positive first step in diffusing Austin’s notorious traffic problem. The construction of the Central Texas Regional Mobility Authority’s brainchild is an expensive project. A partnership between the Texas Department of Transportation and the Capital Area Metropolitan Planning Organization has granted more than $199.5 million to the project, and the Mobility Authority has pledged to deposit $230 million into a regional infrastructure fund over the next 25 years. Luckily, taxpayers will not bear the brunt of financing a project that will benefit countless drivers throughout Austin. The only Austinites who will literally pay for the express roads are those that choose to use them. According to the Mopac Improvement Project, use of the express road will be governed by a variable toll that can fluctuate between 25 cents and $4 depending on road congestion at the time of use. Such high prices for use of the toll road are meant to keep the express lanes moving, not to generate revenue, thereby maintaining the integrity of the project’s purpose. The only foreseeable problem with the project is that the option to use the express lanes and expedite traffic during peak hours will overcome the consumer cost of the variable toll. As the project’s
overview site states, the express lanes are not meant for everyday use and the lanes will not have the capacity to benefit every driver who wants to use them. Additionally, because the project is meant to benefit Austin’s public transportation systems and emergency vehicles, both of which may make use of the lanes free of charge, overwhelming numbers of everyday commuters who elect to use the express lanes threaten to defeat one of the project’s initial purposes. The implementation, however, of a variable toll from the outset suggests the Mopac Improvement Project’s administrators are willing to raise the cost of using the road. Doing so would deplete the number of willing users and preserve the express lanes’ purpose. Austinites should not become wary of the express lanes before the project has a chance to succeed. The biggest point that should be made about the express lanes is that, in addition to public transportation and emergency vehicles, the project’s beneficiaries could number in the thousands. With three different express lanes located in the greater Parmer Lane area, between RM 2222 and Far West Boulevard and between Cesar Chavez and Fifth streets, thousands of Austin residents have the option to take advantage of the express lanes for little personal cost depending on the time of use. While most independent drivers may choose not to make use of the express lanes now at their disposal, they will no doubt feel the benefits of the express lanes because of those who do. Additionally, the express lanes can impact enormous change for individuals during emergency situations by freeing the roads for police cars and ambulances when such vehicles would have otherwise been at the mercy of Austin traffic. The Mopac Improvement Project has found real solutions to Austin’s enormous traffic problem in a way that is mutually beneficial for the Project and Austin voters with no cost to Texas taxpayers. Smith is a history junior from Austin.
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Look outside social media for life’s most valuable moments By Kirby McDaniel Guest Columnist
I hate social media. Don’t get me wrong; there are some good things about it. As a public relations student, I see the benefit for brands, events and other economical things. But for the most part, I hate it. I hate the hold that it seems to have over me. There are so many days that I want to just quit it, but then I realize I will miss out on what’s happening in the world and in people’s lives around me. Social media helps me keep up with family, friends whom I don’t see often, or even friends whom I do see often. I feel like I have to be on social media to simply keep up with everyone because it is a primary form of communication. But social media is shallow. And for someone who craves deep friendships and knowing people to their core, it’s a nightmare sometimes. You only show the good, clean sides of yourself on social media. It’s how you prove your worth to others. Social media says, “If there haven’t been any pictures added of me on Facebook in the past month, then I must not be doing much with my life.” The saying “Pics or it didn’t happen” is such a false reality in this day and age. Why can’t we go to a cool place and appreciate it
for what it is and for whom we get to experience it with, without taking a picture to filter and post on Instagram to show how adventurous we are? Social media fosters competition. It allows us to compete to see who can have the coolest life. It forces us to keep up with others. For example, if you didn’t post a picture of yourself at a cool music festival like everyone else did, how will people know that you also went and had a really awesome time? Approval has always been something people strive for. But now social media can provide a quantitative measurement of that approval. Social media doesn’t give you a say in how your life is measured; it just tells you your worth. Our lives are measured in pictures, statuses, clever captions, likes, comments, followers, views, favorites and retweets. It tells you what people think of you, how funny, witty, cute or popular you are, and how great your life is in the eyes of other people. But you know what social media can’t measure? How great the coffee that you posted on Instagram actually tasted. It can’t measure how fruitful that conversation was with the person you were sitting across from when you took that picture. Social media can’t measure how amazing 75-degree weather and clear blue skies feels
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on your skin. It can’t measure how much the music affected your soul at that concert where you took a picture and spent 20 minutes trying to think of the wittiest caption to achieve the most amount of likes. I’m not saying those things are bad, but I am afraid that we spend so much time evaluating ourselves based on what a number of likes on a picture says about us that we miss out on those special moments that caused us to post pictures in the first place. We forget what really matters in life, what really gives our life meaning. It doesn’t show you the genuine, deep conversations you have in a long car ride with a friend, the first kiss that makes your heart leap, the adrenaline you feel cliff jumping, the excitement you feel when your favorite college team wins the national championship and it doesn’t show the uncontrollable laughter you experience with your friends at 4 a.m. when you have been studying all night and finally hit delirium. Social media doesn’t do justice to that sunrise no matter how many filters you add to it. But those are the moments we remember, right? We reminisce on those things, not how many people liked the picture. Social media doesn’t show the tears, the heartache, the pain, the hurt feelings, the sin and the
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messiness in life. It doesn’t show you holding your friend as she cries in your arms after she has had her heart broken by the boy she loved. It doesn’t show the pain you feel after losing a loved one to suicide or cancer. It doesn’t show the regret you have after letting your selfishness and sin hurt someone you care about or the sweet grace and forgiveness they offer you in return. That’s reality. And social media can’t measure that. It can only offer glances through a filtered lens into a false, ideal world that we want others to see about us. But it’s not reality. And I’m not interested knowing your “perfect version of yourself” that you want people to see. I want to know you for who you are. I want to know the good, the bad, and the ugly, because I want you to know that about me, too. I want to know that I can be accepted for who I really am, and I want to love you even though I know the ugliness in your life. That’s freedom. That’s living. Everyone has their own reality with their own victories, their own hardships and their own ordinary things. We should be proud and thankful for every aspect of our lives, because it’s our own unique realities that shape and define us. McDaniel is a public relations senior from Houston.
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approached Brown about joining this “band,” and Institute was born. “I had a couple as demo recordings on a four-track,” Brown said. “We used one of them, but then we flushed out the demo with songs we wrote as a group.” After releasing that demo along with a single earlier this
year to acclaim, the band just released its EP, Salt, a five-song collection recorded from the same session as its single. It was released by the relatively large indie label Sacred Bones, which signed the band after they passed along their demo to a friend who worked for the label. “I guess everyone else heard
it and thought it was cool,” Brown said. “And then [they] talked to us [about releasing it] before that first tour that we did.” Nevertheless, they are taking it as normally as anything else they do as a band. “I had no idea we were even meeting [Sacred Bones],” Avakian said, chuckling. “We were just hanging out at a bar
and I was like, ‘I guess Mose knows these guys.’ And then we went to their warehouse, and I realized what was going on, and I was like, ‘Oh, cool.’” With the new record came a lineup change, as original drummer Albert Larreta left the band to concentrate on school. The band quickly recruited Barry Elkanick of Houston hard-core punk band Back to Back and are
more than happy with where the band has gone. “Barry is the best, and knew all the songs in 15 minutes,” Brown said. “Or knew them all already. Plus, he’s in to all the same exact stuff we are.” The band is already laying out the ground work for its debut album, which it hope to record in December. In the meantime, they will be play-
ing a show at the 21st Street Co-op this Saturday as a record release for their new EP — not that their growing profile is changing their approach in any way. “I never feel different, no matter what show we’re playing, big or small,” Avakian said. “Sometimes we play to like seven people or something, and it’s like, ‘This is cool.’”
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OK Go bassist talks about new album, technology in music By Cat Cardenas @crcardenas8
OK Go is an alternative rock band originally from Chicago but now based in Los Angeles. With the release of their new album, Hungry Ghosts, OK Go continues to push creative boundaries both through its music and music videos, which continue to go viral. After it made the decision to split from their record label after its last album, this DIY band seems to be thriving under their own leadership. The Daily Texan spoke with Tim Nordwind, the band’s bassist, about the new album and its innovative developments. The Daily Texan: It’s been four years since OK Go has released its last album. What’s changed for you since then, and how can you hear that in your new album, Hungry Ghosts? Tim Nordwind: This new record is a lot more electronic; it’s the choppiest record to date. The songs are very immediate, very focused. Within the first five seconds, you know exactly what you’re getting into. It’s definitely a party record, I think. There are some songs about heartbreak and struggling within relationships, but I think the lyrical content is over the backdrop of music that feels joyful. At the end of the day, it’s a record that celebrates the full spectrum of human emotion. It celebrates the highs and lows of life and love. DT: I’ve heard you describe the album as “modern and futuristic” and full of “synthetic rhythms and beats.” Knowing that, can you tell me about the role technology has had on the development of your album? TN: We’ve been mostly away from home the last five years, so we’ve only really had our computers to make music with, so we became better programmers. Pretty much everyone was playing things from computers, things that were meant to be stand-ins for things like real guitars, but the stand-ins ended up sounding more interesting. I don’t think we meant to go down that road, but ultimately, taking our record, we ended up mixing 20th-century techniques with 21st-century techniques, and mixing dif-
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DT: What do you think of the increasing developments and use of technology in music? TN: I think a lot of the music that I tend to listen to these days is probably more along the lines of hip-hop and EDM — mostly because I find the production values are more forward thinking. Making music these days, almost anyone can make a record in their bedroom, and it can sound amazing thanks to how advanced technology has gotten.
DT: You guys have worked really hard to make your shows more interactive and chose to include some really unique elements, can you tell me how the band goes about designing their shows? TN: We’ve kind of created a whole new show; we’re kind of building it as we go. We wanted to create something way more interactive, so we sample the audience to make songs, we do question and answer sessions, Damian [Kulash] goes out and plays with the audience. We tried to create a show that allows us to connect and communicate with the audience as much as possible.
DT: Do you think there are any downsides to that? TN: I don’t see too many downsides to technology in music. Music has always sort of benefitted from technology. I feel like, when the acoustic guitar became the electric, music just became that much more exciting. The great thing about technology is it’s there if you want it, but we live in a time where you can choose to decide how you want to make the art you make. At the end of the day, though, the important part is whether you’re able to communicate emotion
DT: Speaking of interacting with your audience, can you talk about the band’s decision to work with PledgeMusic, the “Direct-to-Fan” music platform? TN: We wanted to do something to create a place for people to go and listen to our record, but we also thought it would be a good place to feature some of the more crazier and
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New opportunites shock former walk-on By Jori Epstein
Redshirt sophomore defensive back Dylan Haines has taken advantage of opportunites throughout his collegiate career. Haines, a former walk-on, has made six starts this season and has recorded 39 tackles and two interceptions.
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The first time defensive coordinator Vance Bedford called Dylan Haines’ name on the first-team list, Haines, a redshirt sophomore defensive back, thought Bedford had made a mistake. “I looked over there and said, ‘Maybe you got the name wrong,’” Haines said. “He told me to go out and run with the [first-team players]. To be out there with all the starters and be the only walk-on out there was something different.” Through the 2014 season, however, Haines’ association with the first team has actually remained much the same. Since recording a 22-yard interception in the season opener against North Texas, Haines has started all six games. Haines contributes to the defense, punt, kick return and kickoff teams and has recorded 39 tackles and two interceptions. Haines’ 74-yard pick-six against Iowa State put Texas up 28-21 against the Cyclones with 2:50 remaining in the first half. Head coach Charlie Strong called the play a “gamble” but complimented Haines’ willingness to take a risk. “Everyone’s taking notice, and when you’re looking for that player that you say you like to see go play — [Haines] plays hard,” Strong said. “On that interception, he took a chance. But it’s all right to take a chance, and it pays off sometimes.” Strong isn’t the only one who has noticed Haines’ ascent. As No. 44 becomes a
It appeared the defending champions were poised to fall Saturday. On fourth and goal at the Florida State 2-yard line, Everett Golson, Notre Dame’s senior quarterback, found sophomore wide receiver Corey Robinson for the go-ahead touchdown strike with 13 ticks on the clock. Perhaps he was too open because the officials called an offensive pass interference on junior wide receiver C.J. Prosise, which moved the ball back 15 yards and forced the Irish to replay the down. Golson threw an interception in the end zone on the subsequent play, and the Seminoles survived 31-27 to extend their winning streak to 23 games. Notre Dame head coach Brian Kelly did not agree with the official’s call after the game. “We execute that play
Big Blue Madness was a sight to behold. Rupp Arena, home of the Kentucky Wildcats basketball team, was sold-out and bouncing: The players were introduced by smoke machines, there was a multilevel stage to heighten the moment, and Drake introduced head coach John Calipari. It was exciting and kickedoff the start of the basketball season, despite the first game being almost a month away. The intra-team scrimmage gave fans a first look at the preseason No. 1 team in a concert-like atmosphere. The day after Big Blue Madness, on Saturday afternoon, No. 10 Texas had its own way of showing off the team to fans: an open scrimmage. While Rupp Arena was sold out, the Frank
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staple on the field, Haines says his teammates support his new role and celebrate his good plays. Although they jockey in practice for starting spots, the competition is all productive and healthy, Haines says. “We’re all friends outside of football, but we understand that the best players play,” Haines said. “I don’t think there’s any bitterness — just good competition, which is what we need to have a good football team.” Haines’ depth adds a new complication for opponents. Quarterbacks no longer see Haines’ man as a free target. Senior cornerback Quandre Diggs said he thinks opponents will catch on to Haines’ improvement soon. “He’s pretty athletic; he’s
made big plays for us all year,” Diggs said. “He continues to step up, do his calling and go out and compete. Maybe if he continues to make plays, guys will stop going at him.” Even if opponents do not stop going after him, Haines doesn’t mind. If an opponent perceives him as weak, Haines sees it as an opportunity. In fact, he sees just about everything as an opportunity. When he didn’t receive any scholarship offers, walking on to Texas’ team was an opportunity. When he redshirted, the extra time to learn and improve was an opportunity. And as a backup last season, scouting was an opportunity — an opportunity he took seriously, earning scout team player of
the week leading up to the Red River Rivalry. But this year’s opportunity — the opportunity to be a starter — is the one Haines coveted the most. Haines comes from a family of athletes. His grandfather, greatuncle and mother competed for the Longhorn track team, and his father and brother played football on the 40 Acres. Now, Haines joins their legacies. He didn’t need a scholarship, which he earned in August, to convince him to finish his degree or stay on the football team. But such recognition is meaningful. “I was shocked, but I wasn’t surprised,” Haines said. “Working my way to the number one spot on the depth chart, I’d given it some thought
but didn’t worry about it too much. … It was something special and made me really happy, showed they really care about their players and it was a reward for hard work.” Haines’ reward isn’t unique. He knows many walk-ons share his story — gaining scholarships, playing time and occasionally getting drafted. But, for the walk-ons who haven’t reached that level yet, Haines offers advice. “The mentality you have to have is go out there and improve every day as a player,” Haines said. “I knew I was a capable of playing, so I looked to improve every day and reach my potential. Walk-ons need to come out and be ready to work and make the most of it.”
every day,” Kelly said “And we do it legally, and that’s the way we coach it. We don’t coach illegal plays.” This win keeps the Seminoles right in the hunt for a spot in the College Football Playoff and was their best chance of being knocked off in the regular season. Top-heavy SEC The SEC continues to dominate the college football world and now lays claim to four teams in the top five of this week’s AP poll. Mississippi State remains at No. 1, and Ole Miss is still No. 3, but Alabama experienced some movement. The Alabama Crimson Tide moved up from No. 7 to No. 4 following their 59-0 rout of Texas A&M, while the Auburn Tigers moved up a spot to No. 5 after a couple of higher ranked teams lost. All four of the SEC teams
in the top five hail from the SEC West. Meanwhile, Georgia checks in at No. 9 this week, while LSU is back in the top 25 at No. 24. As dominant as the top of the SEC is, the bottom of the conference has been struggling. Despite Georgia routing them at home last weekend 340, the Missouri Tigers bounced back to pulverize the Florida Gators, 42-13. With just under six minutes to play in the third quarter, the Tigers led 42-0 despite having less than 100 yards of total offense to that point.
West Virginia pulled off a major upset Saturday, defeating then No.4 Baylor in Morgantown, West Virignia.
Wide-open Big 12 West Virginia knocked off then No. 4 Baylor in Morgantown, West Virginia, 41-27, and climbed back into the top 25 at No. 22. The Mountaineers now control their own destiny in the conference title race and will host the two most difficult games left on their schedule. TCU climbed to No. 10 in
the AP poll this week after shellacking then No. 15 Oklahoma State, 42-9. The Horned Frogs bounced back after blowing a three-score lead to No. 5 Baylor a week ago. The conference’s lone unbeaten team in conference play is No. 11 Kansas State, which defeated then No. 11 Oklahoma, 31-30, in Norman, Oklahoma,
Erwin Center was hardly able to make the front levels look crowded, as only about 300 fans rolled in to watch. But there was still excitement in the air as fans got their first looks at the team and its prized freshman forward Myles Turner. Before resorting to situational drills, head coach Rick Barnes had his team run two 12-minute halves just like a real game. Although it was a small sample, it was our first look at the team and a few things stood out. First things first, it was all about Turner. All eyes are on Turner to see how he can help take this program to the next level, and on first impressions, he looks ready, especially on offense. He looked most comfortable at the high post, with a smooth catch-and-shoot from around the elbow. He did a good job of keeping the ball high consistently and
opening up the offense. He also showed off some handles, driving from the top of the key to the rim to finish an “and-one.” While he looked incredibly smooth on offense, there were some areas in which he clearly needs work. On the block, junior centers Cam Ridley and Prince Ibeh threw him around. Both centers had little trouble backing down the thinner Turner and getting the shot they wanted. Turner also didn’t have the best of hands. Multiple times it seemed as though the ball would just bounce off them and result in a turnover. But Texas fans should be excited for Turner. He proved he can play with Ridley and help spread the court. He was comfortable with the ball and the jump shot and, by season’s end, he should be the best player. The other freshman, forward Jordan Barnett, looked
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on Saturday. Usually reliable Sooner placekicker Michael Hunnicutt had a rough afternoon, converting only 1-of-3 field goal attempts. Hunnicutt missed the goahead attempt from 19 yards out with under four minutes to play. Kansas State also blocked a PAT attempt that would have tied the game at 31.
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All eyes are on Turner to see how he can help take this program to the next level, and on first impressions, he looks ready, especially on offense. a little out of place. The 6-foot-6 forward clearly isn’t as strong as he needs to be, but that will come with time. While he did have a few good spurts — hitting a corner three and getting a block at the end of one of the halves — he was unimpressive for the most part. Despite seeming to be in the right spots on defense, he was a bit lackadaisical and was caught ball-watching a bit too much. While he’s not ready yet, there is definitely a need on this team for the intangibles he has as a tall, quick and athletic forward. While we got our first look at the freshmen, we also got to see the development of the returning players, most
notably Ridley. The center seems to be getting better and better each year, showing up at the scrimmage looking both stronger and slimmer. And when he was in, the offense worked its way around him. He dominated in the post and looks to be the primary option in this offense. By the time the scrimmage was over, one thing was clear: This is one of the deepest teams Barnes has ever had. He has 11 guys he can use, as every position except point guard has significant depth. For the first time since I’ve been a student at UT, there is excitement around the basketball team. And there should be. This team is legit.
Texas soccer got a muchneeded break from conference play with a 2-0 home win over Arkansas-Little Rock on Monday night. The Longhorns have struggled to score in the first half all season, but it took less than five minutes for the team to reverse that trend. At 4:43 into the match, senior midfielder Sharis Lachappelle received a pass inside the box, danced between defenders and was then fouled as she attempted to pass the ball. Lachappelle smashed the ensuing penalty kick into the back of the net to snap Texas’ streak of five consecutive games without a first-half goal. Texas’ offense kept surging for the rest of the contest. The Longhorns hit a season-high 29 shots to the Trojans’ 3 and had 11 of those 29 come on-goal. Senior defender Julie Arnold’s first career goal at 70:49 into the match doubled the Texas advantage. Arnold made a run from the back then unleashed a bouncing shot from the left side that skipped into the net to put the game away and snap a two-game losing streak. “Its good to be back in the win column again,” Arnold said. “I think that’s huge momentum going forward.” Texas will look to build off of that momentum when it returns to conference play Friday at 7 p.m. with a road matchup against Oklahoma. —Daniel Clay
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Austin-based publisher reveals new book By Cat Cardenas @crcardenas8
The cofounders of the Austin-based press A Strange Object believe, as more and more attention is paid to the screens in front of us, books are becoming an increasingly foreign idea. This is something the independent press is working to change — one book at a time. Its third book release, “Our Secret Life in the Movies,” will be available Nov. 4. Once editors for American Short Fiction, a literary magazine formerly printed by UT, Jill Meyers and Callie Collins made the decision to create an independently run literary press of their own. By carefully scouting writers and combing through manuscripts, the two editors hope to publish works of fiction that both haunt and inspire their readers. They believe these works of fiction take risks that can be expressed in many different ways, such as the story’s plot or through the author’s voice. “In one of our books, a character transitions from female to male in the most extraordinary way,” Meyers said. “That sounds like it could be sensationalist; it’s not at all. In another collection we published, the author, who’s on the Autism disorder spectrum, was interested in exploring people discovering their own strangeness.” In their latest release, co-authored by J. M. Tyree and Michael McGriff, “Our Secret Life in the Movies” takes risks through the writer’s unique approach to fiction. “We were roommates living in San Francisco,” Tyree said. “We decided to view the entirety of The Criterion Collection, which spans everything from silent films to the Beastie Boys. We tried to watch the whole thing, and it sort of evolved from there. We were inspired by the movies and started to wonder if we could write short stories that were riffing off of the films in some way.”
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After watching the movies, the two authors said they would draw inspiration from the movies and each write a story based off of something like a singular image one of them noticed in the film or a “what-if ” scenario brought about by a movie’s plot. Yet, when reading the book, it is not clear which of the two authors wrote each individual story. “One of the reasons we took our names off the sketches is because we were both born in the mid-1970s, and the stories that came from the book kind of reflect our upbringing in the 1980s.” McGriff said. “The voice maybe is more a synthesis of a generation rather than our
individual narratives.” Both Meyers and Collins said A Strange Object puts a great deal of consideration into the creation of the books themselves. “I kind of view them as a punk rock press,” McGriff said. “The one thing they don’t cut corners on is the book as an art object. The book you get has Jill and Callie’s fingerprints all over it.” A Strange Object aims to continue providing books such as “Our Secret Life in the Movies” to connect with readers in the hopes they will be able to develop the literary scene here in Austin.
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Local post-hard-core band releases new EP By David Glickman @sublimebombast
The band Institute has been making post-punk music since early 2013. During their live shows, front man Moses Brown staggers around the stage, twisting his face into a ghoulish form while he delivers his lyrics with a snotty drawl. He frequently winds up drooling and, at a recent show, smeared peanut butter on his face before jumping into the crowd. Angular, tight guitar riffs collide with the rumble of
the rhythm section to create a tension that Brown channels onstage. “I want it to be like Iggy Pop,” Brown said. “Just super classic, ‘Duh, that’s punk.’ It’s just like a nod. I don’t know; no one else is doing straight-up stuff like this right now.” The band members all come from hard-core backgrounds: Bassist Adam Cahoon fronts the band Wiccans, a noisy posthard-core band out of Denton, and Brown and guitarist Arak Avakian currently play in local hard-core punk band
Glue. But Institute is a much different beast. “It’s so much easier to start a hard-core band, and, even if people aren’t on the same page, you will be because it’s hard-core,” Cahoon said. “It’s so much more defined.” Institute was started by accident. Brown had recorded some songs on his own, but, when Cahoon heard about this, he misunderstood and thought Brown had started a new band. Cahoon
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(From left) Arak Avakian, Andy Cahoon, and Moses Brown are in the local post-punk band Institute. The group is currently working on their debut album, which they will record in December.
“We believe that books should make your heart beat really fast and even
quiver from time to time,” Meyers said. “But we also think that, as our attention
turns to the screens in front of us, books are becoming strange objects.”
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