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Senate reviews University honor code

By Eleanor Dearman @ellydearman

The Senate of College Councils passed a resolution at a meeting Thursday requesting the University require the honor code be placed on all course syllabuses. With its passing, the resolution will be submitted to the Faculty Council for review.

In 2012, the Senate of College Councils changed the University’s academic honor code to read: “As a student of

the University of Texas at Austin, I shall abide by the core values of the University and uphold academic integrity.”

“That’s something that every student looks at, and that’s a contract between a student and a professor,” said Sasha Parsons, at-large Senate representative and author of the resolution. “So, there’s no better place to have it right now.”

According to the Senate President Geetika Jerath, current syllabuses have a section included about academic dis-

honesty, but it is usually outdated, written by a specific department or not consistent across the University. Jerath said the goal of the resolution is to establish a consistent honor statement in all University syllabuses and open a dialogue about how it varies for individual professors.

“We need to have discussions,” Jerath said. “[Academic integrity] differs from each college, each class. There are

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The Senate of College Councils proposes a resolution Thursday to require the honor code to be placed on all course syllabuses.

Fraternities sponsor annual ‘Movember’

By Eleanor Dearman @ellydearman

The number of mustaches on campus may increase this November.

Interfraternity Council members are using facial hair to raise awareness about men’s heath, especially testicular and prostate cancer, in their fifth “Movember.”

Beginning Saturday, members are asking men on campus to grow a mustache to show their support for men’s health, and, if they choose, to do so to raise money, which will be donated to the Livestrong and Movember foundations.

“The idea behind Movember is you start the month clean-shaven, and then you grow a mustache,” said Matt Lillard, economics senior and IFC vice president of philanthropy.

Ethan Oblak | Daily Texan Staff

Boondock barber Angelia Milam shaves mechanical engineering senior Isaac Reyes on Thursday afternoon. The UT Interfraternity Council hired The Boondock Barbershop to give out free shaves to students in preparation for “Movember.”

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On Guadalupe Street, bikers can stay in a protected lane off to the side and clearly marked with bright green paint. The lane stretches from Martin Luther King Boulevard to 24th Street.

But after that, the bike lane is combined with a bus lane.

“When it comes to a street like Lamar or Guadalupe, you really need something from the car traffic,” said Chris Riley, Austin City Council member. “Many people would not be comfortable being on a bike in heavily traveled streets like that. The vision is to provide a network so that someone setting out to bike could actually get to each of their destinations without being exposed to conflicts with car traffic.”

The “vision” that Riley, who is also a cyclist, referred to is the Bicycle Master Plan, which the City Council plans to discuss Thursday. Along with the main goal of creating a better bicycle network, the plan lists the city’s achievements in bicycle transportation since 2009, including expanding Austin’s bicycle network from 126 miles to 210 miles — a 70 percent expansion in only five years.

Garret Nick, chair of the board of directors for the nonprofit Please BE KIND To Cyclists organization, said he arrived in Austin 14 years ago and continued to ride his bicycle regularly after

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RESEARCH

Texas voters prioritize Study: Self-image affects academic priorities border, immigration

By Nidia Cavazos

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The latest UT/Texas Tribune Poll shows a majority of registered voters in Texas view the voter identification law favorably and continue to find border security and immigration to be the most important issues in the state.

Between Oct. 10-19, 1,200 registered voters took part in a statewide survey that asked questions ranging from their thoughts on immigration and voter identification, to their pick for the 2014 gubernatorial election.

When asked what is “the most important problem facing the state of Texas today,” 23 percent of participants said border security and 18 percent said immigration — the top responses of the poll.

James Henson, director of the University’s Texas Politics Project and co-director of the poll, said immigration

and border control have consecutively been top concerns in polls.

“If you look at the life of this poll, border security and immigration [have] pretty consistently been at the top of the list of things that the public in Texas sees as the most important problem facing the state,” Henson said. “If you drill down into the results somewhat, what you see is that this is driven primarily by the positions of Republicans that respond to these questions.”

According to the Texas Politics Project, 60 percent of Texas voters strongly or somewhat support deporting undocumented immigrants, and 71 percent of participants strongly or somewhat support National Guard border deployment.

In July, Gov. Rick Perry deployed 1,000 Texas National Guard troops to patrol

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Psychology professor Rebecca Bigler recently published research in the The Journal of Research on Adolescence regarding sexualized body image on Thursday afternoon.

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Middle school girls who value a sexualized body image tend to have a lower academic performance than their peers, according to research published in the The Journal of Research on Adolescence.

In the study — conducted by psychology professor Rebecca Bigler and Sarah McKenney, a former psychology graduate student — middle school girls were asked to film a mock newscast. Their preparation manners were observed based on their internalized sexualization, or internalization of the belief that it is important to be sexually attractive.

According to the study, the girls who had a higher level of internalized sexualization spent more time with makeup, and the girls who had a lower level of internalized sexualization spent most of their time practicing their script.

According to Bigler, the

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reason behind these girls spending more time on makeup was because of the internalized belief that they must be attractive to men and therefore focus less on academics. Bigler said gender roles play a large part in this, as roles are often defined at an early age.

“Being hot and sexy has taken over the girl role,” Bigler said. “To be girl means try to be sexually attractive to men. They internalize it, and the study on

academics shows they then perform lower in academics.”

Psychology junior Volonda Jackson said she believes young girls are performing at a lower level academically because of gender roles and stereotypes.

“I think it goes into their perception of gender roles in society, that girls with makeup do less because they’re reminded that they are girls, and there is a stereotype that they don’t tend to perform well,” Jackson

said.

In a second study conducted by Bigler and McKenney, scores on an internalized sexualization scale were used to predict the degree to which girls wore tight and revealing clothes. The girls whose scores were higher on an internalized sexualization scale tended to show higher rates of body shame than their peers. It was concluded that girls are more

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Blanton creates new national board.

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Guest columnists debate whether students should don offensive Halloween costumes this frightening weekend.

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Cedric Reed has no regrets in senior season.

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Music festival takes over Main Mall to raise money.

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Volleyball looks to rebound from Oklahoma loss.

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Austin art gallery celebrates 75 years of Batman.

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“I’m pretty familiar with getting around, but in the town I grew up in Louisiana, there isn’t any bike infrastructure,” Nick said. “It was just neighborhood streets and sidewalks. Coming to Austin, the situation is better than other towns, but there is room for improvement.”

Carol Reifsnyder, Bike Austin’s interim executive director, said she agreed with the emphasis on improving bicycle infrastructure.

“We support the city agency, and one of the aspects of cycling advocacy in general is infrastructure,” Reifsnyder said. “It’s critical to what we do in trying to get people to use a bike.”

Riley said one of the goals under the Bicycle Master Plan is to increase bicycle ridership.

“Instead of having a small number of confident riders, we would reach out to the many people who are interested in biking but are concerned about their safety,” Riley said. “The latest data we had was that some 55 percent of people are in

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A man rides his bike around Lady Bird Lake on Thursday afternoon. The Austin City Council will discuss a plan at its next meeting to expand Austin’s bike network and make it safer.

that category of people. The hope is that, with the right facilities, we can encourage a lot more people to try biking as a way of getting around town.”

In order to increase ridership, Riley said the city needs to provide connected bike lanes. Reifsnyder said in order to form this network of bike lanes, safety must be a priority.

“I would say the main focus is creating a network for transportation by bike,” Reifsnyder said. “Protected

bike lanes are a key element of that because there’s a considerable number of people who are interested but concerned about safety, and protected bike lanes are shown to mitigate that concern among the population so more people will try to bike on protected lanes.”

Andrew Hartford, founder of the Longhorn Bike Coalition and chemistry senior, said he approves of the plan’s call for more protected bike lanes.

“24th [Street] is one of the

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by UT students, and, a lot of times, students have to mix with cars or walk on the sidewalk to get to campus,” Hartford said. “There could still be improvements to access campus, getting from North or West Campus and those areas. There could be more protected bike lanes, so students aren’t mixing with cars as much.”

The City Council will conduct a public hearing at their next meeting Thursday at City Hall.

different components to each classroom — whether it has technology or not. So, we really wanted to start that discussion and have something feasible to work on.”

Many students do not know what happens when one is accused of academic dishonesty, but having information about Student Judicial Services in syllabuses would clarify that process, according to Parsons.

“We really want students to understand the repercussions if they do something wrong, but also who’s there to help them,” Parsons said.

Parsons said the honor code will help to maintain the value of a student’s education at UT. “We’re here to get degrees and certification that we have learned something,” Parsons said.

At the meeting Thursday, representatives suggested to the authors that a statement be added to the resolution requesting that professors define what academic dishonesty is in their specific course, but the amendment did not pass.

Shannon Geison, at-large Senate representative and author of the resolution, said personal professor statements should be discussed in a later bill, after more research has been done.

“I think that all of the opposition that we have seen has just been trying to have professors provide more definitions and having them address these things, like technology in the classroom,” Geison said.

“Which are things we are definitely talking about but coming at a later date.”

Geison said these statements should include integrity policies on the use of technology — such as Google Docs, QUEST and Spark Notes — in the classroom.

The topic will be discussed on Nov. 19 at a Campus Conversation meeting hosted by the Senate’s Academic Policy Committee.

According to Parsons, some students have expressed concerns that having the honor code in a syllabus will not change academic dishonesty, but she said it would with time.

“We just have to realize that everything is a gradual process, and it’s about the attitude people have and talking about integrity and the hard decisions we make in college,” Parsons said.

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“And when people ask you about it you say ‘Oh, I’m doing this for Movember to raise awareness for men’s health.”

To encourage participation, Lillard said IFC hired The Boondock Barbershop to park its trailer on Speedway and give out free shaves to students.

“We’re trying to get people clean shaven and signed up,” Lillard said.

Participating students receive a straight-edge shave that would otherwise cost $35, according to Edwin Qian, economics and management information systems senior and IFC president. The trailer will be on campus until Friday.

“We thought, what a

better idea than for us to be a part of it,” said Ziridiana Mendez, manager of The Boondock. “Because we can bring out a little bit of our services with our awesome barbers and bring awareness to everyone else about what Movember is.”

Students who participate in Movember have the option to ask for donations while growing their facial hair. According to Qian, the IFC raised over $21,000 last year for Movember, and their goal for this year is $30,000.

“It’s been growing significantly every year,” Qian said.

IFC is the parent organization of 26 University fraternities. Qian said the fraternities are working with

each other to raise money for the cause.

“The council really wants to unite all the fraternities together to work toward a common goal,” Qian said.

The Movember Foundation is a global organization, and, according to Qian, other universities across the nation participate in the month, including Oklahoma State University, Iowa State University, Baylor University and Texas Christian University. Qian said the schools in the Big 12 are competing to raise the most money.

Isaac Reyes, mechanical engineering senior and member of Pi Kappa Phi, was waiting in line at the trailer. He said Movember

was personal to him because he has known people with prostate cancer.

“I’m also a member of Texas 4000,” Reyes said.

“We’re a big proponent of fighting cancer, and one of the big movements that we’re responsible for is tackling prostate cancer, which is something that several friends of my family have gone through.”

Reyes is not yet sure what type of facial hair he is going to grow.

“I was growing out a beard earlier in the semester, and I shaved it,” Reyes said. “So, I guess I’m going clean before the month starts. We’ll see.

I don’t grow the best mustache, but maybe this is the time to figure out if I can.”

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With the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals’ recent decision to allow the state to enforce its voter ID law during this election season, the poll found 67 percent of registered voters also favored voter identification.

“The responses to voter ID also show a lot of partisan structure,” Henson said. “What I mean by partisan structure is that people’s position on voter ID is largely driven by their party affiliation but, again, especially among Republicans.”

Also in the poll, 43 percent of respondents said the voter ID law will have no effect on turnout, while

likely to be disappointed in the comparison of their own bodies if they value and imitate the sexual image of models.

Bigler said the media, along with gender roles, contribute to young girls internalizing a need for sexual attractiveness.

“Media reflects a sexualized and sexist culture that women are limited in the roles that they can have,” Bigler said. “Girls see that a way to have money, status and power is to be sexually attractive to men.”

Lauren Canton, student president of the GirlAdvocates! program and neurobiology and nutrition senior, said she has been working

38 percent said it would decrease the number of people voting in the gubernatorial election.

The poll also received attention last week when it showed that Republicans had strong leads in all of the statewide races. The poll found that Attorney General Greg Abbott has a 16-point lead over State Sen. Wendy Davis, D-Fort Worth, in the gubernatorial race.

“The best predictor of election outcomes is typically the combination of what all the polling that’s available tells you,” Henson said. “No one poll is going to be or should be seen as a predictor of what the actual outcome will be.”

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with girls in this age group.

She said that because they are in a stage where they are concerned with their identity, they often rely on the media for role models.

“We have a mentoring program, and, as we work with this age group, I can say the study was spot on in recognizing that sexual images have a predominant role in forming their opinion in how they should be,” Canton said. “I’ve noticed that, within that age group, focus is on trying to figure out who you are, and you’re looking to the world for role models. Role models in the media are valued for their beauty ideals, and it is not necessarily positive ones.”

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To gain national stature, Blanton expands board

By Matthew Adams @MatthewAdams60

Rachel Zein | Daily Texan Staff

Siavash Mirarab, computer science graduate student, helped develop a new computer program called ASTRAL to better understand how plant species evolve.

Research team forms data analysis method

By Mackenzie Palmer @thedailytexan

A UT graduate student worked on a research team to develop new computing methods to study the evolution of plant life.

Siavash Mirarab, computer science graduate student, worked on the project with the goal of trying to understand how different species are related to one another by examining their evolution since the beginning of time.

“What we are trying to find out are how the plant evolution happens through millions and hundreds of

millions — maybe billions — of years of evolution … and how these different species are related to each other,” Mirarab said.

According to Mirarab, the scientific project was a group effort, with some working the field bringing in samples to those in the lab analyzing them. Mirarab said he inspects data brought in and is then able to better understand the plant’s relationships.

Jim Leebens-Mack, a University of Georgia researcher who worked on the project with Mirarab, said the team found exciting new

discoveries in the relations of complexity in algae and land plants.

Tandy Warnow, a computer science professor who taught and worked with Mirarab, said they worked to develop methods that would give better accuracy in the analyzing of large data.

The data was enhanced through the use of developmental programs, such as the one devised by Mirarab’s research team, called ASTRAL, which can process large amounts of data.

“Where we come in is taking these large quantities of data to analyze gene

sequences,” Mirarab said.

“The more data you have, the better. But you also need to have methods that can handle those sums of data, and that’s where our specific contributions were. We developed a new method called ASTRAL.” Mirarab said continued research in the development of new programs, such as ASTRAL, will reduce the cost of sequencing data in the future.

“In the future, because we are going to have more data, we are going to need more and more methods like the ones we did,” Mirarab said.

The Blanton Museum of Art announced Thursday the creation of its National Leadership Board, which will replace the role of its Museum Council in providing feedback to the oncampus museum.

Kathleen Stimpert, Blanton director of public relations and marketing, said, while members of the Blanton’s Museum Council were primarily from Texas, supporters of the National Leadership Board range from places such as California, New York and the Midwest. In expanding the board, Stimpert said it will now be comprised of noted collectors, philanthropists and business leaders from around the country.

“The group will serve as ambassadors for the Blanton,” Stimpert said. “[They will help] us expand our research and national profile and will provide positive feedback to museum leadership to support various initiatives and priorities.”

Development director Karen Sumner said the board is rounded out with alumni and friends of the University. Along with expanding the museum’s national recognition, Sumner said she hopes to see a rise in the museum’s international profile.

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she and Stimpert started thinking about this expansion a year ago. As they moved along in the process, they gained support from board chair Michael Klein, museum director Simone Wicha and President William Powers Jr. “Throughout this process, it has been a great thing to have the support from the museum’s director and President Powers’ support,” Sumner said.

“Once we had the support, we began inviting people last spring to assemble the board. Next week will be the first time to bring the new board together.”

Klein said he believes the expanded board will help the Blanton gain national recognition.

“By moving out of an advisory council and moving to a national board, we [aim] to be taken more seriously,” Klein said. “The Blanton is primed and ready to be one of the most significant university art museums in the country.

At this point, it will take the right board to advance this goal.”

Sumner said the members will go through the museum with curators and educators during the board’s inaugural weekend Nov. 6-9. The Blanton will also hold a free public lecture Nov. 7 by renowned international artist Doris Salcedo.

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If wearing culturally insensitive Don’t take offensive costumes costumes, don the stigma, too too seriously this Halloween

By Jazmyn Griffin

Daily Texan Columnist @JazmynAlynn

Halloween has always been a night when people dress in creative costumes and attend social events. Walking down the blocks of West Campus, however, one encounters a shocking number of culturally insensitive costumes and inappropriately themed parties. These partygoers don stereotypical embellishments but rarely realize the histories behind them and the harm they do to students and people of color. This Halloween, if you wish to make a culture a costume, wear the painful accessories that go along with it.

If you want to be black, take the social stigmas that accompany being a black American. Embody the deeply rooted anger that comes with constant oppression, not just the cool pose. Walk into a room with people thinking you are a rap star and not a scholar. Take the lower income and save money to buy those Jordans. Joke about Ebonics while realizing it stems from a historical lack of education imposed upon your newfound race. If you pull off the right look, maybe go into a store with employees following you, since you might steal from them. If you really want to get into character, dress as an athlete, as even today, black university students are automatically assumed to have only gotten here through athletic scholarships. Take in the microaggressions of small derogatory comments from your friends of other races and the put-downs that morph into self-hatred.

If you want to wear a sombrero to look Hispanic, wear the shame of being thought

If you want to be black, take the social stigmas that accompany being a black American.

Embody the deeply rooted anger that comes with constant oppression, not just the cool pose. Walk into a room with people thinking you are a rap star and not a scholar. Take the lower income and save money to buy those Jordans.

of as a low-wage worker rather than a contributing member of society. Call yourself Mexican and ignore the many other Latin American cultures with their own unique traditions. Build a makeshift puddle to recreate the rivers on the southern border while friends dressed as las Migras (the Border Patrol) pretend to capture and deport you. Speak gibberish to imitate Spanish, but also speak of the struggle of people always assuming you’re an illegal immigrant — that you, as a human being, are against the law.

Ironically, students of color won’t attend these insensitive parties. If this were truly an attempt to appreciate another culture rather than a racist joke, minority students would flock to the events — instead, they are offended. One hundred fifty-one years after the Emancipation Proclamation, 59 years after the civil rights movement and less than 65 years after the first black students were even allowed to be Longhorns, we’re still struggling with issues of race. Living in a country and city with a deep history of racism, the effects are impossible to undo overnight. However, a growing minority population at UT and an explicit emphasis on diversity should prompt white students to embrace fellow student cultures rather than ignorantly and irresponsibly mock them. As we begin to close the distance between races, reinforcing stereotypes only furthers the sting of prejudice.

So this Halloween, just be yourself.

Modern society is made up of people of all races, but many dress in similar clothing, speak English and have similar interests and hobbies. As Americans, many who would traditionally identify with a distinct culture have fully assimilated into the white mainstream, the only marker of their history being their skin. Their ancestors abandoned traditions to assimilate into Western ideals, yet standard history courses don’t teach these stories of loss and abnegation, creating an internal identity crisis for young minorities and firstgeneration Americans.

No matter what race, all university students made it to a higher level of education. While college isn’t always an option for oppressed minorities, students should be proud to achieve a degree without being reminded of how they’re caricatured in the media. Post-Halloween party, go back to your normal life that no one questions, but the stereotypes portrayed this weekend will haunt those who are consistently discriminated against.

Griffin is a journalism freshman from Houston.

By Breanne Deppisch Daily Texan Columnist @b_deppy

It’s that time of year again, y’all! Despite the roughly estimated two days of fall Texans actually experience, we nevertheless welcome the season with such excitement and abandon that an outsider might be forced to conclude — oh I don’t know — that there is an actual shift in temperature occurring. This includes everything from sweet yet optimistic naiveté about our own Southern weather (girls in knee-high boots, I’m looking at you!) to the insistence on choking down inappropriately hot seasonal drinks. It means hay rides and leaf puns and dressing up for the inevitable onslaught of Halloween costume parties — and actually, this is where a few of our well-intentioned friends have run into some problems.

In recent years, the University has been under scrutiny regarding the themed parties of some student organizations. And while these are certainly not limited to October, one could argue that these events certainly reach their peak around this time of year and receive a heightened amount of flak from students as a result. “Cultural sensitivity” — or lack thereof — has made headlines several times within the last year as organizations struggle to cultivate a delicate balance. How far is too far? One organization’s fiesta-themed party yielded a number of traditional and less overtly offensive costumes — sombreros, Mexican dresses and the like — while others, donning shirts that read “Border Patrol,” certainly seemed to go too far.

The offenders rightly apologized and the incident has long been forgotten by many. Student organizations have since made every effort to ensure party themes are as inoffensive and inviting as possible — as they should be. Every student on campus has the right to feel safe and free from stigma under a University-wide system of nondiscrimination. Every student deserves to study at a school where his or her fundamental beliefs and culture are respected.

The University values fundamental principles such as integrity, and as students, we should strive to conduct ourselves by these same ideals — regardless of whether or not our behavior gets “written up” in the Texan.

But couldn’t the argument also be made in the opposite direction? While a student’s right to don his or her costume of choice certainly pales in comparison to one’s fundamental right to feel safe and free from slander— I would argue that at times, elements of this issue have taken on a somewhat viral nature, and occa-

… I would argue that often the potential for mutual understanding is compromised when those who are “offended” fail to look past their anger or strive to inform themselves about the intentions of those who they feel have wronged them. sionally even seem to compromise potential for a more inclusive student body as a result. Those who quickly point fingers at offending groups, akin to yelling “fire” in a crowded theatre, often have a misconstrued and uninformed idea of the event — or intentions of the student organization — before they take to the Internet in a scathing counter-rant. It’s a system where no one wins, one that propagates the boundaries within the student body rather than seeking to overcome them.

It’s easy, and often legitimate, to be offended.

Everybody has a right to express themselves, especially in situations where they are being under- or misrepresented. But I would argue that often the potential for mutual understanding is compromised when those who are “offended” fail to look past their anger or strive to inform themselves about the intentions of those who they feel have wronged them. As a result, the element of heightened sensitivity in our culture has snowballed to the point where “heightened” is practically synonymous with “looking for an excuse” to be offended. It has created a system where being offended is the ultimate safe-word, one that gives us power to make others stand down. The rise in social media means with every shared photo, wall post and album, our decisions can be scrutinized by the masses. And while many of us conduct ourselves both on and offline with class, dignity and respect, one can argue that our tendency to overshare often leads to misconstrued intentions as a result.

So this Halloween, let’s aim to be informed, not offended. As organizations strive to better themselves and the behavior of their members, let’s not get lost in hotheaded rhetoric or compromise our reason. Let’s maintain a vigilant understanding of both the broader context of our actions, as well as an informed understanding of campus-wide organizations. As a student body, I think we owe it to both ourselves and the University to do so.

Have a “sensitive,” safe Halloween y’all. Oh, and hook ‘em!

Deppisch is a government senior from League City.

Wildness of Halloween should be experienced while still in college

By Olivia Berkeley Senior Columnist @oliviaberkeley

This weekend, West Campus will get a little scarier.

The most wonderful time of the year is here. Skimpy cats, superheroes, half-assed celebrity impersonators and other lastminute-costumed people will prowl the streets of West Campus looking for tricks and treats. When it comes to celebrating the single most important holiday of our childhoods, students don’t mess around. Students trade the innocent princess costumes that defined the Halloweens of years past for edgier, racier and more controversial ones because — let’s be honest — if your costume isn’t fun, the weekend won’t be, either.

This Halloweekend, expect to see some truly frightening things, including, but not limited to, intoxicated Charlie Strongs, crying hippies, comatose ballerinas and belligerent Spidermans. West Campus has a trick-or-treating agenda of its own, including door-to-door parties and adult versions of your favorite Halloween candy, in which any and all ingredients are replaced with alcohol. Things will undoubtedly get spooky.

So much of the way in which students celebrate non-religious holidays involves being ridiculous, and it shouldn’t be any other way. As far as Halloween is concerned, these few, short years are the only ones in which celebrating in the unique way that the University does is acceptable.

After graduation, drinking profusely while the neighborhood residents trick-or-treat is not only ill-advised, but will most likely

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result in a call to the police. Oversexualizing your costume for dress-up day at work most likely won’t go over well in that 8 a.m. board meeting. There is only a tiny fraction of time in which it is OK to be ridiculous during Halloween, and that time is now.

Soon enough, we will all be picking out tiny

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costumes for our children and preparing ourselves to pass out candy to hundreds of sugar-addled youths.

This Halloweekend, go all out. If the impending doom that is real adulthood hasn’t already hit you, hopefully it has now, and will act as the catalyst for a fun Halloween.

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There isn’t much time left between now and the sad day when you can’t get away with all the things that are encouraged at UT during this holiday, so you might as well go out with a bang while you still can.

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“I never pay attention to accents,” Hernandez said. “The most important thing is the points you are discussing.”

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“Being in college is about exploring and finding out what you really want from life,” the user said.

Part of that exploration for some students is about hooking up, and these apps enable hookups.

“While I don’t mind the hookup culture that much on here, it can be annoying sometimes,” the same user said. “I’d say about 25 percent of the people in here only want to hook up, and another 30 to 40 percent aren’t opposed to it.”

Andre Pena, biochemistry freshman and Grindr user, feels that, while the app does allow him to become familiar with the gay community in a given area, users can ruin the entire experience for anyone looking beyond a one-night stand.

“Honestly, it’s not the app that is changing romance.

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It’s the people using it,” Pena said. “The app is what you make of it.”

Most people who responded to my message said that they weren’t sure what they were looking for on Grindr. This isn’t the case for everyone, however. Biology sophomore Nicholas Gore feels this uncertainty is an excuse for people who are afraid to be honest.

“It’s cut and dry: You want a hookup, or you want a relationship,” Gore said.

“People just beat around the bush. When I was using the apps, I was always honest, and that’s how I met my boyfriend.”

Gore and his boyfriend met on Jack’d, another

dating app for gay users, and have been together for the past six months. While the two did not have any symptoms, Nicholas said that they were both tested for STDs at the start of their relationship.

“Those apps do increase the chance of hookups, so the fright of disease was always there,” Gore said. “All couples should get tested. It’s safe.”

Regardless of one’s decision to engage in a hookup or pursue online dating, these apps truly are what users make of them. Practicing safe sex and maintaining healthy relationships are imperative to successfully navigating the pitfalls of dating and hooking up in college.

complexity of Batman.

“He’s a tortured guy, with a dark past that channels hurt and anger to create justice,” Winters said, “I never get the impression that he goes home at the end of the night satisfied.”

Toronto artist Jason Edmiston made a painting titled “Watch the World Burn” for the exhibit. It honors late actor Heath Ledger’s portrayal of the Joker in the 2008 film “The Dark Knight.”

“I’d been itching to do a poster of Ledger for a while,” Edmiston said. “Fans of [the Joker] like that he’s ‘yin’ to Batman’s ‘yang.’ He’s entertaining and has a likability

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for the Republican Party of Texas, said a candidate’s ability to speak well is more important than the accent.

“People tend to vote for the person that sounds more confident,” Hernandez said.

Russell said he believes a speaker who knows his audience has the ability to sway an election in his favor.

“Being a relatable orator is better than being confident, but the two do overlap,” Russell said.

Politics aside, the Texas English Project is also

researching differences between East and West Texas accents and has found that the differences are scarce.

“We think it might be at the level of speech rhythm,” Hinrichs said. “[Those from West Texas] tend to be more choppy.”

Hinrichs said the project’s study of the gubernatorial candidates is not intended to sway votes one direction or the other.

“It can’t help you make your decision — unless all you want is a straight-talking Texan,” Hinrichs said.

— even when he does these evil things.”

Edmiston has worked with Mondo for about five years, creating movie posters for several gallery shows.

He said he enjoyed working with Batman characters because of how grounded in reality they are.

“Superhero movies get a lot of flak for portraying gritty versions of superheroes,” Edmiston said. “But it works great with Batman because he’s a detective. He’s also very human and so are the villains.”

R adio-tele vision-f ilm alumnus Marshall Copous, visited the gallery opening because he was a fan of the 1992 animated series. He said the Christopher Nolan Batman films also struck a

chord with him because of their dramatic retelling of The Dark Knight’s story.

“I think what’s so unique about Batman is that he’s born of empathy,” Copous said. “The reason we can connect with him is because he comes from this nature to do good. He’s a guy who could exist — even though it would be impractical.”

Winters said Batman deserves a place in art culture, and Mondo’s exhibit has helped to allow that.

“I don’t picture Superman having the same graphic strength as the silhouette of Batman,” Winters said.

“Those few [drawn] lines tell you who that character is. He has a longevity. I don’t see it stopping anytime soon.”

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No regrets for Reed in disappointing year

By Drew Lieberman

Senior defensive end Cedric Reed was one of the biggest surprises last season, as he was one of just two FBS players with at least five sacks, four pass breakups and five forced fumbles.

This year, he has just 1.5 sacks.

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Heading into the 2014 season, plenty of eyes were on senior defensive end Cedric Reed and his ability to anchor the Texas defense.

Last season was thought to be Reed’s coming out party, as the junior collected allconference honors in his first year starting for the Longhorns, and things were only supposed to go up from there.

Reed was one of two FBS players — the other being Khalil Mack, who was the fifth overall pick in the 2014 NFL draft — last season with at least five sacks, four pass breakups and five forced fumbles.

But, after recording 10.0 sacks a season ago, Reed has only recorded a meager 1.5 this season with two-thirds of the year in the books.

“I beat myself over it every night,” Reed said. “My numbers aren’t the same as they were last year, and they’re definitely not the numbers I expected.”

With his collegiate career nearly over, Reed acknowledged that his performance this season will likely have a negative effect on his draft position.

“It’s football; you know stats got a lot to do with it, and my stats aren’t there,” Reed said.

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Before the season, Reed was named to several watch lists for national awards, such as the Chuck Bednarik Award and the Bronko Nagurski award. But with his performance thus far, Reed is unlikely to be a semi-finalist for either.

“I take full responsibility for my play this year,” Reed said. “I’ve been hearing a lot about it. But I’m trying every day. I’m giving it all I got on the field.”

However, in certain aspects, Reed believes he has proven to be a much better

player than in the past.

“I’d say I’m a better run stopper,” Reed said. “Last year, I was a great pass rusher, and I’ve probably been doing a lot of run stopping better this year.”

Texas defensive coordinator Vance Bedford can attest to Reed’s high level of play against the run.

“We play some odd defense. We’ve put him in four-technique with his head up to help us stop the run, and, when you look at that, he’s done a great job,” Bedford said. “A guy is

6-foot-6, and he plays long; it’s hard for guys to get into his legs, so he’s able to handle two gaps.”

Bedford said Reed’s presence demands attention from opposing offensive linemen, which helps his teammates put up better numbers.

“We told him, ‘Hey, you go fall on a grenade for us right now. Keep these guys off our backers,’ and all of a sudden, that linebacker has 17 tackles,” Bedford said.

Still, though, the senior would like to boost

his numbers in the closing games of his Texas career.

“I’m going to be playing a lot more on the left, like I used to,” Reed said. ‘”I’m going to try to get back to what I used to do well when I had good stats.”

Despite being disappointed by his play and the team’s struggles, Reed doesn’t second-guess his decision to return to school.

“I’m happy,” Reed said.

“No regrets, man. I live life to the fullest, man. I’m definitely happy where I’m at right now.”

VOLLEYBALL

By Jacob Martella @ViewFromtheBox

Daulton Venglar | Daily Texan Staff

Senior defender Brooke Gilbert looks to end her career on a high note during her last game at Mike A. Meyers Stadium on Friday at 7 p.m against Oklahoma State.

Longhorns hope to keep momentum in season finale Last Friday, Texas was clinging on to the last spot in the Big 12 tournament. The Longhorns had dropped three of their last four conference games and were travelling to battle tough conference foes Oklahoma and Baylor.

The weekend ended with Texas stealing two close wins on the road, including a thriller against Baylor that came down to a goal by sophomore midfielder Julia Dyche in the last minute of regulation.

“In this league, it’s fantastic any time you can have success, especially on the road,” head coach Angela Kelly said. “Getting away wins is a really difficult challenge, and I’m really proud of our team. It was a tremendous success for us and our program.”

Texas will hope to carry its newfound confidence back to Austin when it takes on Oklahoma State on Friday at 7 p.m., the first matchup between the two since the Cowgirls eliminated the Longhorns in the first round of last year’s Big 12 tournament.

Oklahoma State, though, could be the

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obstacle that halts Texas’ momentum before the conference tournament this season. The Cowgirls are a respectable 9-8-1 on the season but have rolled to a 4-2-1 record against opponents from the deep Big 12.

The Oklahoma State defense, led by senior keeper Rosa Medina, is far from perfect, conceding 1.28 goals per game to Texas’ 0.89 mark, but the Longhorn attack still has to prove it’s capable of capitalizing on a poor defense.

“Its all about us,” Kelly said. “We aren’t going to be reactive; we’re going to be proactive. That’s been our message since day one” The Cowgirls could finish as high as second in the conference rankings if they can knock off the Longhorns. Fortunately for the Cowgirls, the team knows a thing or two about playing in high-pressure situations.

Head coach Colin Carmichael has ushered Oklahoma State to the NCAA Women’s Soccer Championship tournament in seven of the last nine seasons, and his team has won four of the last six Big 12 titles.

Texas’ emotions in the regular season finale will only be compounded by the fact that some of its best players could be walking onto the pitch at Mike A. Meyers Stadium for the last time in their careers.

“The four years have blown by, and I can’t believe its already my senior night,” defender Brooke Gilbert said. “Being able to play with my best friends and us seniors who have been here since the beginning and then just being able to share this moment with them on my senior night is — I can’t even describe it.”

Texas still has a chance to host a round of the NCAA tournament, but the Longhorns will need to make a deep run in the Big 12 tournament and receive some help from a few other teams if they hope to host a round of the collegiate championship in Austin.

“Whatever happens, we know that we have the ability to beat anyone,” Gilbert said. “We just beat two big opponents, so we can take anyone, and especially Oklahoma State, at home. We’re more than ready.”

The two matches against China’s Zhejiang club team came at the right time for the Texas volleyball.

After falling to rival Oklahoma at home for its first conference loss since 2012 and losing some of its momentum from a previously undefeated season, Texas rebounded with two wins this week over one of China’s best club volleyball teams.

“I think we did get better, and we tried some different lineups, and that’s good for us,” sophomore outside hitter Paulina Prieto Cerame said.

“Some people got experience they weren’t able to do before, and it was a good learning experience, and we’re ready to go back to the Big 12.”

The No. 5 Longhorns return to their normal conference play in time to start the second half of the Big 12 season, beginning Sunday at Iowa State.

“With the loss, we’re now in a race with Oklahoma, and we’ve got to make sure there’s some urgency here,” head coach Jerritt Elliott said.

Before falling to Oklahoma, it had been 23 matches since the Longhorns had last lost a conference match. Since that last loss, which came at Iowa State, Texas won a national title and posted an undefeated conference record last year.

But the Oklahoma game has brought the team back to Earth. After posting 12 service errors, which got the ball rolling with other mistakes, Prieto Cerame said it was a

learning experience for the team.

“It just showed us that, if you don’t show up, anybody can show up and beat you,” Prieto Cerame said.

Iowa State has struggled this season, though. After being picked to finish third in the Big 12, the Cyclones have only managed to pull together a 3-5 conference record, which includes road losses to Baylor and TCU. Iowa State ranks first in the conference in assists and digs but is at or near the bottom in almost every other statistical category.

Despite the struggles, Iowa State has played well at home in the Hilton Coliseum, posting a perfect 3-0 record in conference play. Elliott said the biggest reason Iowa State plays so tough against the Longhorns is because of the confidence the Cyclones have at home.

“They feel comfortable there,” Elliott said. “They’ve got a big crowd there, and when we go in there they’re probably going to have eight to 10 thousand people that are going to be yelling at us and get us off our game.”

With Texas no longer undefeated and having to fend off Oklahoma and Kansas State, which are both 6-2 in the Big 12, for the remaining eight conference games, Prieto Cerame said it’s just about discipline now.

“We have to focus in practices being good from the beginning to the end,” Prieto Cerame said. “That should also be in the games and not making dumb errors.”

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After falling to Oklahoma in their last Big 12 game, junior middle Sarah Hattis, senior outside Paulina Prieto Cerame and the rest of the Longhorns look to care of business at Iowa State.

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For the first time since 2009, Texas was ranked in the top 10 by The Associated Press’ Preseason Top 25, which was released Thursday.

After losing a nail-biter to Maryland in the round of 32 last season, the Longhorns added one of the nation’s top prospects in guard Ariel Atkins and another ESPN top-30 recruit in point guard Brooke McCarty.

Texas will play 10 regular season games against ranked opponents, including No. 4 Tennessee, No. 5 Texas A&M, No. 6 Stanford, and No. 8 Baylor.

There were no surprises at the top of the rankings, as UConn garnered all 35 first-place votes.

The Longhorns, picked as the preseason favorite to win the Big 12, will begin the season Nov. 9.

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Cross country heads to Big 12 Championship

The Longhorns will make their way to Lawrence, Kansas, this weekend for the Big 12 Cross Country Championships.

The Texas men took third at the race last year, falling behind Oklahoma State, which has won six consecutive championships, and Iowa State. The women’s team finished in fourth place despite Marielle Hall’s first-place finish individually. Iowa State, which has won the last three Big 12 championships, West Virginia and Oklahoma State were the top-three women’s teams last year.

The No. 29 Longhorn men earned that ranking after finishing seventh among the stiff competition at their most recent race two weeks ago, the Pre-National Invitational in Terre Haute, Indiana.

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Fest aims to aid Kenyan orphanage

By Brigit Benestante @BBenestante

The Freedom Music Fest will be on campus, but the cause it supports is 9,000 miles away in a small orphanage.

Students for Wema, the organization in charge of the festival, is raising funds for a bakery in Bukembe, Kenya, in the hopes that the bakery will provide the village with a sustainable source of income and halt the growing sex trade in the area.

The festival will take place on the Main Mall on Saturday. “[The village] needed something that would teach the children business skills but also give them something they need,” said Madison Gove, president of Students for Wema. “It was a win-win situation.”

Students for Wema, which is dedicated to helping the Wema Children’s Centre in Kenya, was previously on campus in 2011 but disassembled after the head of the organization graduated.

Gove, business honors and government junior, took part in restarting the organization in 2013.

“I heard about it from a friend and was just coming into college, and I thought it would be really cool if we restarted it,” Gove said.

“We worked pretty hard last year just to get it up and running again.”

Gove and other members started allocating funds to build a bakery in Bukembe.

Currently, the nearest bakery available to the village is over 30 miles away. Although the Freedom Music Fest is free, attendees can

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Students for Wema is organizing Freedom Music Fest, an event to raise money and awareness for the Wema Children’s Centre in Kenya. Proceeds from the festival, which will take place on the Main Mall, will go toward helping build a bakery.

enter a raffle by buying a $5 ticket. All funds from the raffle ticket sales will go to supporting the bakery. Six bands will perform at the festival, as well as the Longhorn Circus and other student organizations.

Business honors sophomore Farahn SeibertHughes is the director of marketing and public relations for Students for Wema.

Seibert-Hughes said she started looking for bands last spring.

“We wanted to get a greater cultural enrichment, something that’s good for the students but that also would help us raise funds at the same time,” Seibert-Hughes said.

“Everyone likes music, and it’s free. We’re not only trying to help others, but providing entertainment in the process.”

The Sky Divided, a San Antonio-based alternative rock band, is one of the bands performing at

Freedom Music Fest. David Casarez Jr., lead vocalist and guitarist for The Sky Divided, said the band members have been on three mission trips to Haiti and were interested in participating when they heard about the initiative to help the orphanage.

“A lot of times in the music scene, it’s a really selfish vision,” Casarez said. “We always look for who we can team up with for a bigger cause. Teaming up with the

Students for Wema, it’s kind of just a perfect fit.”

Seibert-Hughes said working on the music festival was empowering.

“I feel I’ve really changed as a person,” Seibert-Hughes said. “I felt really passionate because I realized I could utilize my time for something that would help others, not only myself.”

Gove said she and SeibertHughes felt out of place before starting the organization, but it has since shaped their

experiences in college for the better.

“We’re really interested in nonprofits, so, coming into McCombs, we didn’t really feel like we had a place,” Gove said. “This organization and this festival have made us feel like we can use business for good and combine our skills for our passion.

It’s also shown us that other students have the exact same passion — this has brought it out of people. It’s just really inspiring.”

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Dating apps encourage sexual self-discovery

Linguist: Locations can dictate accents

By Ethan Lumus

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My college experience has been one of exploration and experimentation — especially in my relationships.

Many people use their college years to explore their sexuality and to find out what they like and don’t like in a significant other. I can attest that this sexual exploration can be especially difficult as a gay student. It is hard enough to discover individuality during college, much less figure out what we want in a partner.

In my own experience, dating apps, such as Grindr, have provided a surplus of sexual partners, most of whom assumed that, during any potential hookups, we wouldn’t use protection. Even users I did not physically engage with were sexually aggressive in their messages, assuming that

I would engage in unprotected sex with them. Experiences like these encouraged me to delete Grindr and seek relationships that are emotionallybased rather than those rooted in unsafe sexual encounters.

This week, however, I returned to Grindr, which now has more than 4 million monthly active accounts, and messaged UT users about the way apps like these have changed dating culture on campus and impacted the conversation surrounding sexual health.

Grindr culture can often enforce anonymity in sexual encounters. Users who are bicurious or not openly gay may create anonymous profiles to disguise their identity throughout their sexual exploration.

One user — who asked to remain anonymous — said he feels that the

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By Amanda Booth @wordswithamanda

Although the accents of gubernatorial candidates Wendy Davis and Greg Abbott are different, both of their ways of speaking have been molded by the same demographic: teenage girls.

According to Lars Hinrichs, English associate professor and director of the Texas English Project, political candidates have tendencies to take on the accent of the location in which they are running.

The Texas English Project came to its conclusion on the accents and dialects of Davis and Abbott after analyzing YouTube videos featuring the candidates.

“Since we have two candidates that have to brand themselves publicly — for the first time — we thought we’d look at how they use Texas English,” Hinrichs said.

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The Texas English Project looked for whose accent varied more across different mediums. Essentially, the research was trying to determine who sounded more “Texan.”

“Abbott is closer, on average, to the Texan end of the spectrum,” Hinrichs said.

“Davis is more versatile.”

The study found the extent of Davis’ Texas accent depended on where she was speaking.

“In her campaign announcements, she doesn’t sound Texan at all,” Hinrichs said. “She sounds the most Texan at local rallies.”

Through the study, the project discovered Davis is catching on to a new trend in which the “eh” vowel is pronounced at a lower pitch.

“She consistently overshoots the neutral [accent],” Hinrichs said. “[Her pronunciation is] not just mainstream low. [It is] lower than low. She says ‘bad’ for ‘bed’

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and ‘taxes’ for ‘Texas.’ It’s a young, feminine style.”

Hinrichs said women are more likely to pick up new linguistic trends, but research has yet to show how they perceive these trends.

“In perception studies, you see women having stronger opinions about the

symbolic value of linguistic forms,” Hinrichs said. “It’s probably not what’s going to make someone decide if they’re going to vote Democrat or Republican, but it can inform how you perceive somebody.”

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Artists honor Batman at gallery

By Alex Pelham @TalkingofPelham

Illustration by Cody Bubenik | Daily Texan Staff

Over the past 75 years, the comic book protagonist Batman has been reincarnated in many forms, from a cartoon to an Academy Award-winning film. An Austin-based graphic design company is now adding to the list of reincarnations with an exhibit featuring the work of more than 30 artists who recreated the world of Batman through a variety of posters, paintings and sketches.

The company, Mondo, started out by creating movie

posters to promote Alamo Drafthouse films, but now designs DVD covers, toys and vinyl records, according to Mondo CEO Justin Ishmael. When it came to the exhibit, which opened Oct. 24, Ishmael said Mondo focused on finding artists who could explore the different iterations of Batman to present in the exhibit.

“Batman is one of the most malleable heroes; we have several different iterations of him,” Ishmael said. “There’s always something to talk about with him. Batman can get a conversation going.”

N.C. Winters, an artist from San Diego, contributed a painting to the exhibit. The piece, titled “Man of Bats,” depicts Batman as a grotesque, bat-like creature clothed in the iconic Batsuit.

“I jumped at the chance to be a part of the exhibit,” Winters said. “I wanted to go with a visceral, gruesome version of Batman. I wasn’t sure about the liberties I took with the character; you never know what might raise an eyebrow.”

Winters said he enjoys the

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