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Students move past satellite explosion By Wes Scarborough @westhemess13
What was meant to be a successful mission to space ended in flames Tuesday night for the Texas Spacecraft Lab. NASA’s unmanned Antares rocket was scheduled to launch Tuesday at 6:22
p.m., but, just seconds after liftoff, the rocket exploded. The spacecraft carries supplies for the International Space Station along with the RACE satellite built by graduate and undergraduate students in the Texas Spacecraft Lab. The satellite was a collaborative project with
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab. “We were all watching it and expecting it to go smoothly,” aerospace engineering professor Glenn Lightsey said. “But we realized pretty quickly after launch that something was wrong.” Aerospace engineering senior Cody Colley and
his fellow team members watched the launch together via live stream. “What I was most impressed with was how within half an hour [after the launch], everyone in the room said, ‘OK, we’ve got work to do still,’” Colley said. Colley said there are two other projects the lab
is working on. One is the Bevo-2 satellite, a second in a series of missions that were started in 2006. The other is a satellite named the Armadillo, a project sponsored by the U.S. Air Force. “We actually had the
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New biking app aims to help users avoid traffic By Natalie Sullivan @natsullivan94
The Austin Transportation Department is developing a new phone app that could help students avoid traffic when biking to campus. The app, which is being developed with the KimleyHorn consulting company, can communicate with traffic lights to time them efficiently and make sure a cyclist has the quickest route to travel. Marissa Monroy, senior public information specialist at the Austin Transportation Department, said the app is designed to work with both Android and iOS operating systems. Cyclists start the app before starting to ride, and it communicates their velocity to traffic lights when they enter a detection zone near an intersection. This communication would help time the changing traffic lights with the biker’s movements. The app also provides an audio confirmation for cyclists, so they know the app is tracking them correctly. Monroy said the app is still in the beta phase of testing, but the transportation department plans to do trial runs with it in January. The department hasn’t set up all of the intersections for the app yet, but it plans to focus on Central Austin, where there are the most cyclists, and may include intersections on Guadalupe
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Cole encourages political participation By Jackie Wang
Mayoral candidate, Sheryl Cole, addresses students on the importance of educated voting in Robert Welch Hall on Wednesday evening. One of eight candidates, Cole encourages students to be informed about local politics.
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With Election Day nearing, Sheryl Cole, mayor pro tem and mayoral candidate, encouraged students to research their local government candidates and vote at a talk in Welch Hall on Wednesday. At the event, co-hosted by the Lambda Theta Phi fraternity and the Zeta Phi Beta sorority, Cole said she differs from her opponents in her efforts to get the community’s voice heard, especially in her work to connect with students. “I care about involving the community and especially the student community in the process of making policy so that we can lift all our voices,” Cole said. “I’m happy to report I received The Daily Texan endorsement, and I believe that’s because my office did so much student outreach on issues that affect you guys, like occupancy limits.” The mayoral race
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features eight candidates, including attorney Steve Adler and City Council member Mike Martinez. Lambda Theta Phi President Mario Gonzalez said a fraternity brother and UT alumnus suggested hosting the event. Their organization does not endorse any candidates, Gonzalez said, but wants to educate students on local politics. “Even though most students are here for four years, most students don’t get involved with politics,” Gonzalez
said. “While we might not stay here for life, we’re still part of the Austin community.” Occupancy limits, Cole said, are something that need to be moderated. According to Cole, the further a student lives away from campus, the more points they lose from their grade point average. “I was the one who reached out to the students and said, ‘What do you think of it?’” Cole said. “I voted for occupancy limits, but I made sure it was in a narrow area of the city so that Riverside would
not be impacted, and the supply wouldn’t go down and increase prices in a bigger area.” Cole said she had the most moderate record of anyone in Austin City Council, something that would help her balance decision making as mayor. “When you take your oath of office, you swear to do what is in the best interest of the city as a whole,” Cole said. “I try to come up with a winwin situation for both sides,
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In discussing the future of robots Wednesday, Luis Sentis, mechanical engineering assistant professor, said the University will have an important role for research in the area of robotics. “Texas and Austin are a very important hub for technologies, competitions in high-tech
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and for robotics,” Sentis said. “Dreamer,” a robot developed by Sentis and the University’s Human Centered Robotics lab, held up the “Hook ’em Horns” hand sign and waved hello to attendees of the lecture, held in the Jackson Geological Sciences Building and hosted by UT Libraries as part of its
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continues from page 1 Street and campus. “The app will help cyclists improve the quality of their trip,” Monroy said. “You’ll have the app on your phone, and it will ping you from your location, so it knows where you are. As you enter an intersection, it could hold the light to stay green.” Monroy said the app could decrease travel time by reducing the time needed to get off a bike at intersections. “Usually, you have to get off your bike and go over and press the walk sign, and
Lightsey said the RACE satellite contained a radiometer, an instrument that would have measured the amount of water vapor in the atmosphere on a global scale. The mission aimed to help scientists measure the earth’s water
cycle and improve their understanding of the impacts of global weather and climate change. According to Lightsey, the satellite was small enough to fit in one’s hand, making it a relatively affordable project to go to
you lose time doing that,” Monroy said. “With this, the app will detect you as you’re coming.” Physics sophomore Darin Peacock, who bikes frequently to class, said he would consider using the app on his bike if it included intersections around campus. “It does sound like a good idea, especially for the four-way intersections near Jester and the RLM where there’s a lot of traffic,” Peacock said. “As long as people don’t take their attention off of the road itself, I think it would be OK.” According to Kimley-Horn’s
website, the app works by using the company’s advanced traffic management system technology to collect data and coordinate traffic lights. Once enough data is collected, it will help city officials monitor traffic patterns and work to decrease congestion in the worst areas, the website said. R a d i o - tel e v is i on - f i l m junior Andrea Chen said she thinks having another technological apparatus while biking might just add to the confusion of traffic around campus. “It might be helpful, but, for me, I’m really bad at multi-tasking, so it might
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and that doesn’t always make any particular side happy.” Cole said one of her top priorities as mayor was affordability. According to Cole, a lack of affordability was pushing out the AfricanAmerican population. “I was one of the people that worked really hard with the African-American
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continues from page 1 “Science Study Breaks” series. The talk featured movie clips with robots from movies such as “Pacific Rim” and “Transformers: Age of Extinction,” both of which featured Dreamer. Sentis talked about working with the lab to create a robot that would eventually help those with disabilities. Travis Llado, a research assistant for the lab, said they hope to have a wheelbase operating in the next few weeks that would allow Dreamer to move on various surfaces. “We have a wheelbase that carries Dreamer around, but it can’t move on any surfaces beyond linoleum,” Llado said. “So we wanted one that could go off road.” Kwan Suk Kim, mechanical engineering graduate student, has also been involved in the lab. “Actually, nowadays, a lot of people are worried about the safety of robots,” Kim said. “Specifically, we’re focusing on the safety issue of robots.” Kim said they are
space. “The enabling part of this mission is the miniaturization,” Lightsey said. “What is hoped is that by making satellites smaller, we will be able to fly missions to space at more affordable budgets. That’s
the innovation.” According to Colley, he and the lab intend to look past the mission and concentrate on their other projects. “It’s sad that we don’t have a mission to operate anymore,” Colley said. “But we still have to keep
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Corporate communications senior Cilla Sutfin locks her bike outside of Burdine Hall on Wednesday afternoon.
be a little confusing to deal with,” Chen said. “Around campus, you have to watch for people and cars that
come through, so having one more thing to focus on might not be the best idea.”
Quality of Life task force that studies economic issues and how it relates to the AfricanAmerican community,” Cole said. “The population across the spectrum is chasing better schools and economic opportunities outside the city limits.” One of the ways to combat the affordability problem is giving out economic incentives to companies, Cole said. “We have metrics that we
look at — the amount of jobs they will create, what impact will it have on school districts, charitable contributions,” Cole said. “We don’t give tax breaks that don’t ultimately result in a positive net return for the city.” Zeta Phi Beta president Nikah Hatcher said, while she has already voted, she’s still trying to get the student population involved in the local election.
“I know she has experience in local government already, and, as far as the black community goes, she would be the first female black mayor of Austin, and I know some people want to hear what she’s about,” Hatcher said. “I’m not trying to persuade them, but, hopefully, they try to get educated.” Early voting continues until Friday, and Election Day is Tuesday.
continuing to work on Dreamer as more labs on campus improve further robot technology. Sentis said he worked with Honda to develop robots that can mimic human actions. Sentis said these robots could assist in daily activities for humans. “These robots can work as service and industrial mobile workers,” Sentis said. “They can do assembly, welding
and painting.” Along with their potential for helping people with disabilities, Sentis said researchers would like to make robots more safe and cost-effective. “They’re also being realistic about the costs of robotics,” Sentis said. According to Sentis, the implementation of robots in assembly lines would lead to job loss.
“Robotics will eliminate human labor in some applications by 2030,” Sentis said. Sentis said he hopes to see robots eventually implemented into various activities for many people. “We’re trying to blend them into our daily lives,” Sentis said. “We can sort of simulate all the possible outcomes for people with disabilities.”
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Students petition for Indigenous Peoples’ Day By Adam Hamze @adamhamz
The second Monday of October could be known as “Indigenous Peoples’ Day” instead of Columbus Day if a petition asking the University administration to make the change is successful. The petition, which was created on Columbus Day by the Native American and Indigenous Collective and can be found on their website, passed 500 signatures last week. The NAIC is an organization housed within the Multicultural Engagement Center and aims to provide services and host events for indigenous peoples. Jacob Barrios, Mexican American studies junior and co-director of Operations for the NAIC, said the petition was inspired by a movement across the nation that began in the northeast to shift away from the celebration of Columbus Day. Barrios said he believes the notion of celebrating Columbus Day and the idea that he “discovered” the Americas, even though there were already people living there is a harmful, Westernized mentality. “[Columbus] was the beginning of the exploitation of the land and resources of the Native people by Europeans,” Barrios said. “We think that instead of honoring that legacy through the celebration of Columbus Day, Indigenous Peoples’ Day would celebrate the resilience, resistance and the beauty of Native culture, instead of the start of this tragic demise.” Seattle and Minneapolis were the first two cities to officially celebrate Indigenous Peoples’ Day in place of Columbus Day this year. Barrios, who is indigenous to Mexico, said
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Jacob Barrios, government and Mexican American studies junior, is the co-director of the Native American and Indigenous Collective. The group has started a petition for UT to acknowledge Indigenous Peoples’ Day.
he believes the University has not made an active pursuit to recruit Native American students. “I don’t think UT as an institution is connecting with those communities in the way that they could be,” Barrios said. “We think that Indigenous Peoples’ Day would be the start to changing the culture of UT.” According to the 2010 government census, Texas has the fourth largest population of individuals who identify as American Indian or Alaskan
Native, but the past four University freshmen classes have been composed of less than 1 percent American Indian population. UT spokesman Gary Susswein said the University does not currently honor Columbus Day, but it would consider honoring Indigenous Peoples’ Day if a resolution were passed through Student Government. “We are always proud of UT students when they engage and drive debate on important issues, especially those that relate to equity
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In light of petition, Iran grants retrial for former UT student By Josh Willis @joshwillis35
With thousands of people having signed a petition asking for the release of Omid Kokabee from a prison in Iran, he was recently granted a retrial from the Iranian judicial system. Kokabee, a former UT physics graduate student, has been imprisoned in his home country of Iran since 2011. The petition was turned into the Iranian Mission at the United Nations in New York City on Tuesday, according to Amnesty International. Physics professor Herbert Berk said the petition, signed by 31 Physics Nobel Laureates, could help get Kokabee released from prison. “Historically, if people are interested in people in jail, it usually makes a difference to make a statement,” said Berk, who also serves as chairman for the Committee on International Freedom of Scientists. “It should make a difference.”
According to Amnesty International, thousands of people signed petitions for Kokabee’s release. Berk said this publicity could already be helping Kokabee, as the Iranian Supreme Court has made a ruling declaring Kokabee will get another trial. “Very recently, the Iranian Supreme Court ruled that Omid’s conviction should be vacated because the procedures were not correct,” Berk said. “We’re expecting in a month or two he be freed, and they’ll retry him and hopefully release him.” Berk said the conditions in the prison are very poor, and Kokabee is in need of medical attention. “Omid is ill because conditions are poor, and he is facing ailments,” Berk said. “He has kidney problems; he had heart palpitations, and he is losing weight. We have asked the Iranian government, while we’re waiting for the retrial, to at least give him a medical
and justice,” Susswein said. “If the proposal to use that day to honor indigenous peoples is approved by Student Government, University officials would review it closely.” Max Patterson, history senior and president of University Democrats, said he believes the establishment of Indigenous Peoples’ Day is an example of the community owning its history. “Any telling of our history has to be a complete one or else we are putting
If the proposal to use that day to honor indigenous peoples is approved by Student Government, University officials would review it closely. —Gary Susswein UT spokesman
ourselves back,” Patterson said. “If we don’t recognize the incredible sacrifice the Native Americans had over the past hundreds, thousands of years, we are doing a disservice and not paying a full credit to our history.”
Barrios said the community can help in ways other than signing the petition, such as being cognizant of the contributions of the indigenous peoples to society and educating those who are unfamiliar with the history.
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furlough, so he can be treated of these diseases.” Berk said the Iranian government poached Kokabee in an effort to get him to contribute to the country’s military research. “He chose to be in jail rather than do something that he feels is harmful to humanity,” Berk said. “And that is a very scientific, responsible thing to do.” Before being imprisoned in 2011, Kokabee studied photonics and laser optics at the University. UT spokesman Gary Susswein declined to comment on the award and petition.
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UT System should not invest in Despite extremism, Islam engages companies that support genocide in productive, harmonious living Editor’s Note: Ali Breland, the author of the resolution discussed in this editorial, was an opinion columnist for The Daily Texan during the spring semester. He wrote a column supporting the UT System’s divestment from companies in Sudan, which can be read at www.dailytexanonline.com. Student Government introduced a resolution Tuesday calling for the UT System to divest from companies that support genocide. The University of Texas Investment Company, known as UTIMCO, manages $25 billion in endowments for both the University of Texas and Texas A&M University, investing more than $12 million in companies that fund genocide in Sudan. Student Government is calling for the System “to create or agree upon a blacklist of companies that UTIMCO cannot invest in that is more thorough and comprehensive than the Texas Comptroller’s blacklist.” In 2003, the genocide in Sudan began, and has killed nearly half a million people and displaced almost 3 million since then. The Sudanese government facilitates these murders, and our University System indirectly funds them. One company in particular that the System should prioritize divesting in is PetroChina, in which the System invests approximately $1 million. PetroChina, which numerous companies have divested from in recent years, owns
40 percent of South Sudan’s oil assets and finally admitted in January that it has done business with Sudan, a U.S.-sanctioned country. In 2005, Harvard University voted to divest from this company, and in 2006, the University of California System, which the University of Texas System constantly competes with, approved a policy to do the same, in addition to divesting from eight other companies that also inadvertently contribute to genocide. UTIMCO should follow these schools’ leads and also divest. In 2004, the University of California System suggested divestment “when the United States government declares that a foreign regime is committing acts of genocide,” and in 2004, the U.S. declared this about Sudan. The UC System ended up agreeing upon a slightly different policy, but if the UT System decides not to create a thorough blacklist of companies it won’t invest in, it should at least divest from companies that work with foreign regimes the U.S. has declared are facilitating genocide. By keeping its investments in these companies, the University of Texas System is knowingly supporting genocide. Allowing our University to indirectly take part in this is completely unacceptable, and we agree with Student Government in urging the System to divest from these companies.
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If you want to stay in Central Texas after graduation, consider this: Austin is growing at an unprecedented rate. The population has grown 37.7 percent since 2000. Some estimates state that as many as 110 people move to Austin each day. Because Austin sits on the Balcones Escarpment, part of a fault line running north and south through much of Central Texas, the geography of the city and surrounding areas presents uncommon challenges to that physical growth while at the same time stretching our natural resources. What this means for upcoming graduates from UT is that there is opportunity in the area for young professionals in many disciplines. Some of those opportunities are unique and require creative approaches that will enable many of us to put theory into practice. For example, when I attended a western Travis County public water utility district meeting recently, many challenges of growth became evident. The training and education we receive at UT could provide meaningful leadership as Central Texas transitions. This area west of Austin needs knowledgeable engineers willing to work on the special problems of waste water treatment plants and water delivery in a geographically diverse and demanding, yet sensitive environment. Parts of this district are situated over the Edwards Aquifer recharge zone, an area that supports important groundwater as well as a popular swimming hole, Barton Springs. The karst formations of the aquifer allow pollutants to pass quickly and almost entirely unfiltered to local waterways. One of the area’s wastewater treatment plants was originally built only to serve a subdivision development but is now serving many more customers, including commercial customers. The plant was never intended to operate under these conditions. Failures in infrastructure of this
kind could threaten the aquifer. A new hotel development in the western Travis County area underscores further evidence that creative thinkers with a wide range of skills are needed to handle problems unique -qto Central Texas. On Sept. 18, a storm dumped more than seven inches of rain in less than 24 hours in the city of Bee Cave. The hotel’s parking garage, which is situated beneath the hotel, filled with drainage water from the site. The water made its way into the city’s storm drains. Unfortunately, this city drain was not designed to handle the additional water, despite the fact that rain events such as this occur frequently in Central Texas, and the storm water ended up in the sewer system. University of Texas graduates trained to use innovative techniques in civil engineering, landscape architecture and architectural engineering will be in demand as these problems begin to surface and require novel approaches. Finally, Central Texas needs professionals trained to think holistically about infrastructure problems in such a sensitive environment. Luckily, Austin has already made progress toward this goal. In the 1970s, the city’s Watershed Protection Department began to introduce planners into the engineering-dominated field. Since that time, both groups have learned to value lessons taken from each discipline and have created a department that thinks outside the box about how to innovatively solve Austin’s storm water problems. The fast-growing areas outside of Austin — once small, sleepy communities in the country — need advanced problem-solvers now. University of Texas graduates should pursue opportunities in these cities, bringing with them the enthusiasm, energy and cutting-edge knowledge that we learn in our academic programs which can help solve the area’s burgeoning growth problems. Harris is an architecture graduate student from Athens.
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People of different faiths from the UT community share dinner at Nueces Mosque in West Campus on Oct. 15.
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Editor’s Note: “Peace be upon him” (abbreviated “pbuh”) is a salutation for the prophets of Islam. It is a mandatory practice per the Quran and hadiths. In addition, note that Muslims believe that Jesus was a Prophet.” Two weeks ago, on Oct. 15, the University Interfaith Council hosted the “Progressive Dinner” at Nueces Mosque, a Muslim place of worship located in West Campus, where the Muslim community engaged in meaningful dialogue and strengthened the bonds between the University’s different faiths on campus. Next week, on Nov. 2, Nueces Mosque will host an Open House Interfaith Dinner. These events are steps in the right direction, but we must do more. Without a doubt, the majority of extremists today cite Islam as their justification for their bloody acts of terrorism. However, I would argue that the way to combat extremism, which most Muslims spurn, is not to attack Muslims or Islam but the opposite. By citing differences and inflaming tensions between Muslims and the rest of the world, we empower extremists. Just this past Friday, Pastor Robert Jeffress of Dallas spoke on “The O’Reilly Factor,” stating that to his congregation, he preaches that Islam is a false religion and its Prophet Muhammad (phuh) is both violent and false. Sadly, this is not just a Fox News problem. Bill Maher recently came under fire for his sweeping generalizations and Islamophobic comments as well. If we want to hold the extremists at bay, we must start by discouraging and condemning the pastor’s and Maher’s rhetoric, and additionally, we must realize that Islam is not inherently incompatible and antagonistic to a peaceful and civic society. As a Muslim, I feel alienated, but as the following two examples will point out, we have lived together for a very long time, peacefully and productively. First, every Christian knows the religion’s holiest sites are in Jerusalem. The Church of the Holy Sepulchre, also known as the Basilica of the Holy Sepulchre or the Church of Resurrection, is the holiest of those sites. This church is believed to be where Prophet Jesus (pbuh) was crucified, buried and rose from the dead. Did you know that the holiest site in Christendom is opened and closed every day by Mus-
lims? To be specific, two Muslims, from two Palestinian clans who have been the custodians of the entrance to the Holy Sepulchre since the twelfth century, open the doors every day at 4:30 a.m. In an article by the International Business Times, the history of their stewardship is narrated by Nuseibeh, of the Nuseibeh clan, one of the two families to which the Church is entrusted. “After the Muslim conquest in 637, the Caliph Omar guaranteed the Archbishop Sophronius that the Christian places of worship would be protected and so entrusted the custodianship to the Nuseibehs, a family who originated in Medina and had had relations with the Prophet Muhammad,” Nuseibeh said. “It happened again in 1187, after Saladin ended the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem,” Nuseibeh said. “He chose our family again to look after the peace between the different Eastern and Western Christian confessions, which were at odds over control of the Sepulchre.” Next, there are multiple narrations describing how Muslims saved the Jews during the Holocaust. In one such article, titled “Meet the Muslims who sacrificed themselves to save Jews and fight Nazis in World War II,” Noor Khan served for the British’s Special Operations Executive as a wireless operator in Paris, a position in which the average employee survived six weeks. She was later captured and murdered by the Germans. My argument is not to say that Muslims have made more positive contributions relative to other faiths. Followers of all religions have at one point committed at least one crime against another, and it would be counterproductive to argue whose religion has been the aggregate plus for humanity. What I am arguing is that Muslims and non-Muslims have lived harmoniously and productively in the past, and we can do so now and into the future. Our scriptures encourage it, and our overwhelming example does as well. I’ll end with an excerpt from a letter sent by Imam Ali’s (pbuh), the fourth Caliph and first Imam for Shiites, to one of his governors. “Be not in face of them a voracious animal, counting them as easy prey, for they are of two kinds: either they are your brothers in religion or your equals in creation.” Rizvi is a government senior from Dallas.
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Spooky spirits on, near UT do not make Austin ghost town
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It’s easy for college students to get distracted from the true intention of Halloween. Dressing up like an anthropomorphic kitten or a lumberjack, partying with the same people you hang out with every week and buying smaller versions of candy bars available year-round at drug stores makes the spirit of Halloween a little hard to nail down. As confusing as Halloween may be to an outsider, it really can be described in one word: ghosts. Fortunately for Austinites, there is no deficit of haunted locations to visit this year to get in the spirit. In 1999, The Daily Texan writer Lisa Matsumoto wrote an article about several of these places. Metz Elementary School served the Austin community for over 70 years before it was demolished in 1990. During its demolition, the workers reported some eerie occurrences. Several people reported hearing voices of a teacher with her students. Construction machinery and watches would stop working for short periods of time and then begin again, and one worker died after a piece of brick wall fell on top of him. After the new school was built in place of the old Metz, reports of the strange happenings became less frequent. However, Jeanine Plumer, a director of a
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group that provides historical tours around the city, said there were some bizarre tales circulating from people who worked at the new school. “A custodian had actually seen an apparition,” Plumer said. “The girl walked out of a classroom and turned the corner.” The little girl was described as wearing attire unique to the early 1900s when the school was built. There have always been speculations of a haunting of the Littlefield Dormitory on the west side of campus, too. Jean Garner was a hall coordinator at the dorm for 13 years. Although she never experienced any ghostly visitors, she had a few creepy stories of things that happened during her tenure at the hall. One summer in the early 1980s, when she was the only resident at the dorm, she noticed that a light was on in a room that was supposed to be locked. Seeing that the door was ajar, she tried to open it cautiously, but something forcefully pushed it shut. She called the police, but no one was found. Many of her residents would tell her that it was the
One summer in the early 1980s, when she was the only resident at the dorm, she noticed that a light was on in a room that was supposed to be locked. Seeing that the door was ajar, she tried to open it cautiously but something forcefully pushed it shut. ghost of George Littlefield’s wife, Alice. Margaret Berry, a historian who wrote several books on the University, disagreed that the building was haunted. “Those are made up stories; they aren’t true,” Berry said. “There was a time when the house was rundown, and maybe that was when the stories got started. Though Austin may be a hot spot for ghostly visitors, Plumer said this is not cause for anyone to worry. “Ghosts are everywhere, and they’re not something to fear,” Plumer said.
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Offense looks to rebound vs. Tech By Drew Lieberman @DrewLieberman
Kansas State shut out Texas for the first time Saturday in over a decade. The Longhorns only accounted for 196 yards offensively and never possessed the ball for more than 40 percent of the time of any quarter. “We just didn’t execute; that’s the bottom line,” sophomore quarterback Tyrone Swoopes said. “We didn’t execute, so, when you don’t execute, it puts you in a really tough position to win.” Texas only possessed the ball 10 times, and all but two of those possessions ended with a punt. The Longhorns moved the ball less than 10 yards on six of the drives and failed to convert on two red zone opportunities. “If you watched me on the side line, I was frustrated the whole time,“ senior wide receiver John Harris said. “Just doing those quick three and outs — that’s not us.” For Texas Tech’s defense, Saturday was also a day that they would like to forget. The Red
Raiders surrendered 82 points to No. 10 TCU, which was the most allowed in program history and the most scored ever in a Big 12 conference game. “If I’m a coordinator, and I just gave up 82 points, then you’re trying to figure out, ‘Hey, how did this happen?’” head coach Charlie Strong said. “You’re looking at your players on defense, and they’re really feeling down because they’re giving up that many.” But Tech’s defensive issues have lasted most of the season. Entering Saturday, the Red Raiders had allowed 44 points per game in their losses and over 460 yards per game in their first seven contests. In contrast to the Tech defensive struggles, the Longhorn offense has been almost nonexistent in their losses. Entering Saturday, they had mustered just over two touchdowns in defeats and were nearly shut out in their losses to Baylor and BYU. “You have two teams coming off of a loss,” Strong said. “If I’m sitting there at Texas Tech, [we’re] probably figuring, ‘Hey, have this team coming in off a
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loss, so we need to go play well because we were embarrassed.’ Both teams were embarrassed last week.” While the Longhorns failed to move the ball effectively and score points, that may not be the case this weekend. The Red
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maximum effort to compensate for last weekend’s beating. “They are going to come back with a level of pride and a sense of urgency to try to forget about that loss and just try to move forward as a defense,” Harris said.
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The moments when everything comes down to one play, when it is do-or-die, when it means the difference between celebrating or accepting defeat — those moments are where Andre Chelliah, English language sophomore and co-ed flag football quarterback, thrives. “I like the attention, and I thrive under pressure,” Chelliah said. “I’m super aggressive, and I like to run. We never huddle. I like to call plays and make them line up really fast, and it’s confusing for the other team.” Under pressure, Chelliah has been able to make game-winning plays and touchdowns, giving his team a last-second lead. Although he may be a selfproclaimed “diva,” Chelliah said he doesn’t celebrate his game-changing plays. “I never celebrate because my dad always told me when I was growing up, ‘Act like you’ve been there before,’”
Chelliah said. “So I take that as my own personal philosophy — I act like I’ve been there before. There is no need to celebrate, like it’s a normal thing for me. I just hand the ref the ball, walk off the field, highfive some teammates and get ready for the next drive. Just as much as I’m a diva, I try to keep it modest.” Chelliah and his teammates are a part of the Vietnamese Students Association, who formed the team “Only Tight Ends.” The team suffered their only loss to the Filipino Students Association, which put them at a record of 4-1. But, despite a winning record, the team would not have made it to playoffs if they had not volunteered to play an extra game against a team from a different league. “After that loss to FSA, some of us were kind of deflated because we knew we weren’t going to make it to playoffs, but we stuck with it, and we actually got rewards,” Chelliah said. “We’re stoked about it.”
Emily Tran, electrical engineering freshman and offensive blocker for the team, said facing probable disqualification from playoffs pushed the team to work harder and said the team bonded because of the extra effort. Sunday, in the first playoff game against “Royals-Delta Chi,” the team shut out their opponent 32-0. Chelliah said he knew they had the advantage going into the game, but they made sure not to let it affect the team’s ability to perform. “I didn’t really feel a lot of pressure after I saw their offense perform; I knew we had the game in the bag,” Chelliah said. “From there, I just had to focus on keeping the team calm, playing our game and [avoiding] stupid mistakes that we could possibly make from being careless or overzealous.” And on Wednesday, the team will have its second chance for postseason success in its second playoff game against “L1FEWAY YAY.”
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SWIMMING | SAMANTHA HALBACH Thursday and Friday, the Texas women’s swimming and diving team heads to California to race in its first two dual meets of the season. The team will take up the challenge of swimming against two of the Top 4 teams in the NCAA, No. 1 California and No. 4 Stanford. Last time Texas met with Stanford and Cal, Texas lost to both. Stanford won by a narrow margin of 154-146, and Cal, by a 172-128 count. This 2014 Texas schedule is anything but easy. Thursday, Stanford (2-0), who conquered Oregon and Utah State in its first meet, will host Texas (3-0) at 4 p.m. Not only does the Stanford women’s swimming and diving team have big talent overall, but their freshman are stealing the
show. This season, Stanford’s freshmen alone have acquired 15 individual wins. Other than the swimming on Thursday, Stanford will also be hosting a “Pink Out” to raise awareness for cancer, in which both teams will swim in pink caps, and both coaches have vowed to donate. Stanford head coach Gregg Meehan, will donate $1 for every fan who wears pink to the meet. In response, Texas head coach Carol Capitani tweeted: “@Stanford_W_Swim: I will be donating $1 for every fan in PINK. I will match Greg’s donation, 100% to Komen Austin. Be there!” Capitani takes her team to the Spieker Aquatic Complex on Friday to swim against her alma mater, Cal, at 1 p.m.
As the volleyball season enters its final month of regular season play, Texas head coach Jerritt Elliott has been searching for opportunities to replicate the feel of the NCAA tournament. This season, Elliott has matched his team against ranked opponents No. 8 Florida and No. 14 Nebraska and has been in tough environments during Big 12 play. “I love [being in tough environments],” Elliott said. “We need to be as uncomfortable as possible when we go to these environments because it’s going to help us come NCAA tournament time.” Although the Longhorns have already been in challenging environments, Elliott wanted more opportunities to test the team in order to prepare them for post-season play. The No. 5 Longhorns (15-1, 7-1 Big 12) got that opportunity to simulate tournament play when they took on Chinese club team Zhejiang in two exhibition games, giving Texas an opportunity to rotate more players in and face a challenge. In game one, despite missing five players because of suspensions, Texas had an easy time getting past Zhejiang, but the second game provided a much more difficult challenge. “We told the team that we thought [Zhejiang] would play better [Tuesday], and we told them they would control the ball better,” Elliott said. “They are a good volleyball team. They were mixing up their tips and rolls, and they made us change a lot in our defense.” Zhejiang pushed the Longhorns to five sets, but, in the end, Texas came out with a victory.
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With the two games against Zhejiang in the books, Elliott said that the games provided an ample challenge. “It is good to go for a routine and go through the lineup again and watch them,” Elliott said. “I can’t duplicate 18-16 game-five situations. [These games were] good for our ability to see where we are conditioning-wise and where we are doing a good job … That’s what makes it fun — that is what volleyball is all about. Let’s enjoy this and execute to win.” These games also allowed the team to regroup after suffering an upset loss to Oklahoma. Against the Sooners, Texas committed 15 attack errors, 14 service errors and two blocking errors. Senior outside hitter Haley Eckerman said the second game against Zhejiang reminded the team that if they stick together, they can accomplish their goals this season. “The game versus Oklahoma left a bad taste in our mouths,” Eckerman said. “We just needed this to kind of help us know that whatever may be out there, that we can compete. It was a big motivation for us to get back to playing Texas volleyball.”
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Both teams have been held to high esteem in college swimming. Though Texas has won more championships than Cal overall, Cal has been at the forefront of the competition in the NCAA in recent years. This meet will be especially interesting for senior diver, Emma Ivory-Ganja, who transferred from Cal to Texas her sophomore year.
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Senior outside hitter Haley Eckerman and the Longhorns found a difficult challenge with China’s Zhejiang, which they hope will prepare them for the upcoming NCAA Tournament.
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Muhammad Ali knocks out George Foreman in the eighth round of a match famously known as “The Rumble of the Jungle.”
SPORTS BRIEFLY Hess-Olesen to Compete in USTA/ITA Indoor Tournament
Senior Søren Hess-Olesen will compete against some of the top collegiate tennis players in the USTA/ ITA National Indoor Intercollegiate Championships after receiving an at-large bid from the tournament, which begins Nov. 6 in New York. The two-time All-American will be competing in the tournament for the second time, but this will be his first time competing in the singles draw. Last year, he and senior Lloyd Glasspool advanced to the doubles quarterfinals. So far this fall, fifthranked Hess-Olesen is 8-2 with a 5-1 record against ranked opponents. In his four years at Texas, HessOlesen holds a record of 81-34. —Jacob Martella
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GSC sparks feminist discussion By Alejandra Martinez @ahl3h
Every Friday, the Gender and Sexuality Center tackles timely feminist topics as a part of their Feminist Friday series. This Friday’s event will address issues regarding a Halloween tradition: costumes. From the provocative to the most insensitive, costumes will be a subject of debate. “Well, I think initially the two biggest things that come to mind when talking about Halloween are culturally appropriate costumes and in terms of women,” said Tyler Grant, public health junior and staff adviser for the Student Leadership Committee. “People slutshame women who wear provocative costumes. At the same time, those tend to be the only option for women, especially young girls.” According Grant, organizing Friday’s talk began during one of the weekly meetings the Center holds with students. While this week’s Feminist Friday hopes to educate students, the Center will also be holding a screening of “Hocus Pocus” and a session of pumpkin and cookie decorating. The GSC will also have Butterbeer for visitors, providing a sober space to celebrate. “Well, hopefully they’ll gain a new understanding and kind of a new perspective, and it’ll be a lot of fun, too,” Grant said.
I just kind of walked in one day because I heard there was free printing, and, then, I just kind of stayed here. Mostly because I feel a real sense of community with the people that visit here at the Center, and there’s a lot of good stuff about it. —Liz Elsen, GSC assistant director
“I mean, everybody likes ‘Hocus Pocus,’” “Since it began last year, the biweekly studentrun discussion series has facilitated similar conversations among students,” said Liz Elsen, GSC’s assistant director. “We’ve talked about Halloween [for] two years in a row. It’s one of our more popular discussions because people have a lot to say about it.” Although the Center is well-known for its work with LGBT communities and women, Elsen said the Center aims to be inclusive. “We are a women’s center and an LGBT center here on campus, and we’re open for everybody.” Elsen said. “We’re actually, technically, I think a LGBTQA center because we have plenty of allies who utilize our space.” For Ilse Muñoz, geography and Plan II senior, finding out about the GSC
started with a search for a useful resource. “I just kind of walked in one day because I heard there was free printing, and, then, I just kind of stayed here,” Muñoz said. “Mostly because I feel a real sense of community with the people that visit here at the Center, and there’s a lot of good stuff about it. I feel like I’ve become a more educated person and have met a lot of really cool people, and I get really good resources here.” This sense of community and the numerous resources the Center houses have been a draw for students ever since the Center opened 10 years ago. “We have an amazing library; it’s off the UT library system; we have workstations; we do programming,” Elsen said. “The heart of what we do is — we’re a hangout spot for students, kind of a home-awayfrom-home.”
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Authors Adam Gidwitz, Michelle Knudsen and Danya Lorentz sign autographs for fans after reading a chapter from each of their books at the Texas State Cemetery on Saturday night.
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This Halloween, many UT students will venture into Austin after dark, dressed in costume garb, unafraid. However, the night wasn’t always so welcoming to human beings, and people weren’t always so bold after the sun went down. Today, some children have a seemingly irrational fear of the dark that manifests through talks of monsters under the bed and in the closet. Of course, there aren’t monsters lurking in our homes waiting to eat us. In other places in the world, though, there is danger in the dark, and the monsters are very real. In Africa’s Okavango Delta, a 2012 study investigated coexistence among predatory species over three years. The study found wild dogs and cheetahs hunt more frequently by moonlight while lions and hyenas maintained a constant activity pattern across the lunar cycle. Their results suggest that sub-dominant species are restricted by light availability because they risk encountering other hunting animals, whereas species higher on the food chain dominate the dimly lit savanna. Although we see ourselves as the dominant species on Earth, humans weren’t always at the
Lit Crawl takes on new life at state cemetery By Mary Cantrell @mkcant
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summit of the hierarchy. In fact, animals that evolved for a nocturnal environment have eyes that function better than ours do in the darkness. Lions, for instance, can see six times better than humans at night because their visual anatomy is better developed for night vision. If it is us against a lion at night, our eyes aren’t doing us any favors. Human senses evolved for the daytime. Our eyes include receptor cells called rods and cones, which send vision signals to the brain in response to light. While cones are useful for distinguishing between different colors and small details, rods help us see at night because they have a much higher sensitivity to light. Nocturnal animals have a reflective layer of cells behind the retina that increases the potential for the eye to absorb light waves. This means that nocturnal animals can see under dimmer conditions because
Night blindness, known as nyctalopia to the medical community, is not a condition in itself. Instead, it is a symptom of a number of vision defects including vitamin A deficiency, glaucoma and severe nearsightedness. their eyes make better use of the light than human eyes. If you shine a flashlight at a cat in the dark, their eyes will reflect the eerie eye shine signature of a nocturnal predator. While humans aren’t particularly suited for the night time, most of us are still able to see in shades of black and white at dimlight levels. However, for a small portion of the population, vision defects inhibit night vision. A 2003 case study explored the pathological basis for children, who
feared the dark, and found that, for subjects, night blindness was at the root of the problem. Night blindness, known as nyctalopia to the medical community, is not a condition in itself. Instead, it is a symptom of a number of vision defects including vitamin A deficiency, glaucoma and severe nearsightedness. Children with eye problems, causing night vision difficulties, expressed a profound fear of the dark with one child even suffering a fear
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The Texas State Cemetery was teeming with storytellers and frightened guests Saturday night. Crowd members passed out devil horn headbands, and lightning bugs lit up the eerie darkness among the head stones as guests filed in to hear live readings from three different authors. This event, the Graveyard Reading, is one of many unorthodox literary events hosted yearly by the Texas Book Festival’s Lit Crawl. Stephanie Opitz, co-organizer of the Lit Crawl and literary director of the Texas Book Festival, has been working on recruiting authors and venues to participate for the past four years. Opitz said events such as Lit Crawl appeal to a wider audience who is interested in a literary community, as well as to authors who want to share their work in a new context. “It allows authors, who are maybe more performative or have quirkier stories, to present them in an environment that really suits that,” Opitz said. “There are a lot of different ways you can see authors being themselves a little bit more.”
It allows authors, who are maybe more performative or have quirkier stories, to present them in an environment that really suits that. —Stephanie Opitz, Texas Book Festival literary director
During an increasingly technological age, where books are read online as ebooks or listened to via podcasts, Lit Crawl reflects the changing climate of the literary community. The event incorporates authors into the community in a fun way, making them accessible to their readers. Opitz said that the popularity of interactive events such as Lit Crawl has increased across the country in recent years in an effort to be more inclusive. “That’s definitely the hope for everything,” Opitz said.
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