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PACE passes CAP in enrollment rate

Panel shares views on the Constitution in Congress

By Alex Wilts @alexwilts

Students offered to participate in the Path to Admission through Co-Enrollment program in 2014 had a higher enrollment rate in the program than those offered to participate in the UT Coordinated Admission Program, according to enrollment figures from the University.

Like CAP, the PACE program, a partnership with Aus-

tin Community College, gives students who were originally denied admission to UT-Austin an alternative outlet for attending the University. In 2014, 24.9 percent of students accepted their offer to enroll in PACE, while 15.8 percent of students accepted the University’s offer to enroll in the CAP program at other UT System institutions.

This is a change from 2013, the first year PACE began admitting students, when 18.6 percent of

students accepted the CAP offer and 9.1 percent accepted PACE. David Laude, senior vice provost for enrollment and graduation management, said PACE was developed as a way to admit students who were almost able to get into the University but were not accepted because of class space constraints. He said these students typically tend to be in the top-10 percent

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Students offered program spot 2013 2014 PACE PACE 1,139 10,643 CAP CAP Students who accepted offer 2013 2014 PACE PACE 104 CAP CAP 1,981

845 10,605

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210 1,673

Program enrollment rate 2013 PACE CAP

9.1% 18.6%

2014 PACE CAP

24.9% 15.8%

FOOTBALL

Longhorns gather third-straight road win in Lubbock

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Senior running back Malcolm Brown rushed for 116 yards on 22 carries in Texas’ 34-13 victory over Texas Tech on Saturday. Brown recorded his 11th career 100yard rushing game and the first for any Texas player this season. Brown’s 2,503 total yards ranks 12th all-time at Texas. Photo by Ethan Oblak | Daily Texan Staff

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During a discussion on constitutional law Friday at the SAC, UT law professor Sanford Levinson said a constitutional convention could address some of the causes for the gridlock in Congress.

As part of Texas Showcase — a collaborative lecture series between UT, Texas A&M University, University of Houston and Swansea University in Wales — Levinson and Swansea law professor Phillip Bobbitt debated the state of constitutional law in the United States. Kevin Sullivan, Swansea University public relations officer, said the four universities devised the week-long series of events to showcase their partnership and joint research.

According to a Gallup poll conducted between Oct. 1215, 86 percent of Americans disapprove of Congress’ performance, which Levinson said stems from Congress’ inability to pass legislation on important issues.

Levinson said extensive veto points in the House, Senate, presidency and the courts have allowed congressional gridlock to worsen.

“You can block needed changes from happening if you control just one of those,” Levinson said at the discussion. “It’s much easier to play defense and prevent the passage of legislation than playing offense and trying to get something through.”

Levinson said congressional gridlock could deteriorate in the future.

“The American political

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Architect discusses Austin development

By Matthew Adams @MatthewAdams60

Urban designer Jana McCann spoke at a forum in Goldsmith Hall on Friday about the development projects she has worked on in the Austin area.

At the event hosted by the School of Architecture, McCann, CEO of McCann Adams Studio, said her work has predominantly been in Austin, but she has completed projects in the United Kingdom and France as well.

According to McCann, there is a huge difference between Europe and the U.S. when it comes to participation attitude on urban development. She said her time working on the Paris Metro service helped her realize these differences.

“During the project, there was no public engagement,” McCann said. “Plans were figured out by engineers,

Lauren Ussery | Daily Texan Staff

Tavi Murray, professor of glaciology at Swansea University in Wales, lectured at the SAC on Friday morning on iceberg calving.

Glaciology expert gives talk on climate change Marshall Tidrick | Daily Texan Staff

Urban designer Jana McCann has worked on projects around Austin such as Mueller Park, downtown Austin and the Waller Creek District.

and there was a high trust of government on this project.

The only public interaction was informing citizens on the project’s progress.”

She said, when she was

there for the opening of the station, it was strange to see citizens so proud of something in which they had no involvement.

Since being back in

Austin, McCann has been involved with planning the Mueller subdivision. The city decided to develop the

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By Chris Mendez @thedailytexan

Tavi Murray, a glaciology professor at Swansea University in Wales, presented her team’s research of iceberg calving as one of the causes of rising sea levels Friday at

the SAC. The lecture was part of Swansea University’s Texas Showcase — a week-long tour presenting the Welsh university’s research with stops at UT, Texas A&M University and

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REASON TO PARTY

British dramatist talks on multidisciplinary research.

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Austin should get serious about recycling access.

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Eckerman leads volleyball to 3-1 win at Iowa State.

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Formula One team hosts a lecture for UT students.

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Welsh leader and experts discuss children’s rights.

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On Election Day, students should be sure to vote.

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Harris records career-high 165 rushing yards in win.

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Miss Texas takes year off from UT for speaking tour.

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continues from page 1 system is in fairly dire straits,” Levinson said. ”I have hunches that we’re drawing toward a cliff, and it would be far better to address our problems then as we go over the cliff.”

Constitutional restructuring is not common, according to Bobbitt, but when a restructuring does occur, it usually happens in the aftermath of a war, such as World War II, which caused Germany and Japan to enact new constitutions.

“If your geopolitical existence is in great peril, I think it’s time to consider the re-

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former site of the Robert Mueller Municipal Airport in 2004 by adding a market center, park and bike trails.

In 2013, McCann helped design the newest addition

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to Mueller, a gathering and hangout spot called Paggi Square. The square includes an attraction called pétanque, which is a lawn bowling game created in France. Another development McCann said she was proud of was the Waller Creek project. The first part of the project dealt with addressing the major flood problems that come to downtown and other areas in the district.

Thomas Rowlinson, community and regional planning graduate student, said he appreciated McCann pointing out the difference in cultures.

“I really liked that she showed the European practice versus the way practitioners do it now in the U.S.,” Rowlinson said. “So much of public participation in other parts of the world is unheard of. Here in America, participation, in ways, feels like a town hall meeting.”

City Forum hosted the event, along with architectural graduate students within the community and regional planning program, to educate students and faculty on public engagement within urban development.

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building of a constitution,” Bobbitt said. “I don’t think we’re there.”

According to Levinson, a national conversation about changes to the constitution has not entered the mainstream yet. Levinson said many politicians see the possibility of a constitutional convention as futile, which deters investments in this issue.

“Nobody profits from the world of political leaders or prominent pundits to talk about it,” Levinson said.

Levinson said the United States should not wait until it has reached a moment of crisis to address issues, which he said could lead to a crisis.

Law professor Sanford Levinson discusses the state of law in Scotland following its unsuccessful referendum for independence.

The talk was part of a collaborative lecture series between UT and Swansea University in Wales.

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“Do we have to wait for the train wreck, for the war, for the depression, for however

conditions what will appear to be an adequate response?”

Levinson said.

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Former first minister, the Rt. Hon. Rhodri Morgan, discussed Friday morning the passing of a Welsh children’s right law in 2011.

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D.J. Britton, award-winning dramatist and director, explains the research behind the “Sultan and the Saint” at Prothro Theater in the Harry Ransom Center.

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D.J. Britton, dramatist and Swansea University creative writing director, showcased his current research on the history of St. Francis of Assisi in a lecture Friday at the Harry Ransom Center.

The lecture was part of Swansea University’s Texas Showcase — a week-long tour presenting Welsh university’s research with stops at UT, Texas A&M University and the University of Houston.

Britton said the project, a collaboration with experts from both UT and Texas A&M, focuses on St. Francis’ role during the early 13th century as a peacemaker for the Middle East.

“I am personally very

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Murray led an expedition in Southeast Greenland to research how iceberg calving, which is when a piece of ice falls off the front of a glacier, has contributed to a rise in sea levels.

Swansea glaciology professor Tim James said he witnessed the phenomenon while the team videotaped the glaciers.

“When we heard this really loud banging shooting down the fjord, we knew we had to get the cameras rolling,” James said. “In the case of the calving event that we

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“We typically admit 7,200 freshmen [into UT-Austin] because that’s what we have capacity for,” Laude said.

“But by developing this relationship with ACC, where we offer just one class to the PACE students and ACC offers the additional three or four, we were able to provide an additional collection of students with that foot in the door to get into UT-Austin.”

Students who decide to enroll in PACE are required to take 24 hours of classes in

interested in the relationship between the ‘long view’ and the ‘short view,’” Britton said.

Britton said he was a journalist before becoming a dramatist. According to him, journalists are focused on the short view, which are current events and factual information. As a dramatist, he gets to have a little more freedom by writing in what he calls the long view, which consists of creatively imagining what happens between the facts.

“As journalists, we tend to talk about things in the short view,” Britton said. “In a piece of theater, what you can explore are the things between the facts.”

Britton said the project’s work on the “Sultan and the Saint” is comprised of the

collaborative efforts from researchers from various fields, including medieval studies, religious studies, poetry, journalism and Islamic studies.

“I’ve never seen a project so disciplinarily diverse,” English professor Kurt Heinzelman said. “Especially one with so many objectives, both in the short term and the long term.”

In Britton’s presentation, he focused on the meeting of St. Francis and Sultan Malik al-Kamil of Egypt during the Crusades. In 1219, St. Francis sought to gain an audience with the Sultan by crossing enemy lines during the Fifth Crusade. St. Francis travelled to the Sultan’s camp on the bank of the Nile River in

hopes of converting him to Christianity. Britton said St. Francis did not succeed but came back with ideas about reconciliation between Islam and Christianity.

“We know that they met, and we know that it wasn’t a hostile meeting,” Britton said. “We don’t know what they said … now that’s a great opportunity for a playwright.”

Britton said he wants to explore what little is known about the Sultan and St. Francis’ meeting. That research, he said, will eventually come to life on stage.

“It’s a very unlikely friendship between these two people,” Britton said. “Let’s just imagine one afternoon that they are together acting out their parts.”

witnessed this summer, it was 4 kilometers wide, 800 meters high and about 300 meters deep, and it’s more like the size of a small city.”

The team studied the Helheim and Kangerdlugssuaq glaciers, two of the largest glaciers in Southeast Greenland.

Murray said the team’s observations helped link the rate at which icebergs fall to the rate at which sea levels rise.

“If we can understand the rates of discharge through the glaciers of Greenland, then we can actually understand the sea level rise which is coming from Greenland,” Murray said.

In 2013, Murray contributed to work published by the

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which provides the most current knowledge on climate change. She said the group’s most recent report used the information her research team found while watching the glaciers.

“The warming of the climate system is unequivocal,” Murray said. “Global warming is evident from increases in global average air and ocean temperatures, widespread melting of snow and rising global Earth sea levels.”

Murray said warming ocean temperatures have increased the melting of glaciers.

“It’s been suggested that changes in the oceans are

actually the key to changes in glaciers,” Murray said.

UT glaciologists have been conducting research in Greenland by focusing on the Northwest region.

“These are really complementary projects, I think,” Murray said. “Both of these regions are characterized by glaciers that terminate in the ocean.”

Both team’s research will continue to unearth more information on rising sea levels.

“What we really want to know is how much water Greenland is going to contribute to sea level in the future,” Murray said. “The trend for sea level is inexorably upwards.”

residence at ACC, as well as at least six hours of classes at UT-Austin. After successfully completing the program, students are able to transfer directly to the University.

Those who enroll in CAP are able to transfer to the University from another UT System school after having a 3.2 GPA after two semesters without having failed any classes.

Laude said this past year, 845 freshman University applicants were offered PACE under holistic review, a process used to identify students more likely to come to UT-Austin. This differs from

CAP, in which everyone who is not accepted into the University has the opportunity to participate.

“Overall, the caliber of PACE students is going to be generally higher because it’s not just open to everybody who is denied admission to UT-Austin,” Laude said. “So we’re somewhat more selective, and that would mean the kind of student [accepted into PACE] is more likely to meet the minimum requirements.”

Of the 845 students offered to participate in PACE, 203 of those freshman applicants enrolled in part-time,

in-residence coursework on the UT-Austin campus, according to University data.

Meanwhile, 773 out of 1,673 CAP participants transferred to UT-Austin from another System institution in 2014. More than 60 percent of CAP transfers came from UT-San Antonio.

Laude said UTSA is in the process of reducing the number of students it accepts through CAP, which was previously used to attract more students to all System campuses across the state.

“But what’s happened over the last decade or so is that those campuses

Three politicians and experts discussed Friday the passing of a Welsh children’s rights law in 2011.

The event, held in the SAC, was part of Swansea University’s Texas Showcase — a week-long tour presenting the Welsh university’s research with stops at UT, Texas A&M University and the University of Houston.

Wales passed the 2011 law with the legal assistance of Swansea University and gained cross-party unanimous support. According to Rhodri Morgan, former first minister of Wales, the Rights of Children and Young Person Measure was the first domestic law protecting children’s rights. It required Welsh ministers to have due regard on the rights of children when exercising their functions.

“Normally in Wales, we do things after England, then follow,” Morgan said. “But with children’s rights, we did this first. We would become the first part in the U.K. and Europe.”

Although Morgan was in his “lame duck” period, he said he felt requiring government to take children’s rights into account was necessary and tangible.

“Following a very strong tradition and pretty strong cross-party support, why not do it?” Morgan said. “Why have people not already obliged the government to take regard for [what] would be followed by other countries? Why not us, and why not now?”

According to Jane Williams, associate law professor at Swansea University, there was tension regarding the law between the have become increasingly attractive to students in their own right,” Laude said. “So there are now lots of students who want to go to UTSA, and that’s their first choice. As that number of students grows, what is happening is UTSA is put in this position where they’ve got kids there who aren’t really ‘Roadrunners.’”

Joe Izbrand, chief communications officer at UTSA, said approximately 70 percent of CAP students coming to UTSA leave after their first year, artificially deflating four- and

politicians and civil servants in the federation.

“There were elements of the coalition government that were resistant,” Williams said. “To put that in context, within the coalition in other political parties, there were brought reports. For many years, we were thinking about how to incorporate the U.N. and the barriers to that.”

Shortly after the law’s implementation in Wales, Williams established the Wales Observatory on Human Rights of Children and Young Persons. Williams said the observatory members included academics, government and non-governmental organizations from Wales and the U.K. The organization provided legal research and lobbied to bring the legislative measure to the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child in the U.K. “It’s because the University was a neutral space,” Williams said. “This was a nice illustration of how we can be an informed society and for lobbying — which we were able to do.”

According to Helen Mary Jones, a former member of the National Assembly for Wales, Swansea University’s observatory was a major component to the legislation’s success.

“Jane [Williams] built an expert grip of human rights leaders and brought them together with backbone players of both parties,” Jones said. “The work Jane and the observatory did enabled us as backbenchers … lets us think what’s the implication and what’s right and wrong.

Through this process, Jane and colleagues were able to advise us.”

six-year graduation rates and negatively impacting the first-year retention rate by 10 percent.

“Graduation rates are an important factor in seeking funding support for the University, and our advancement toward designation as a Tier One research institution,” Izbrand said in an email. “So our focus needs to be on admitting those students who are committed to starting and finishing their college career at UTSA, completing their studies on time and taking advantage of the exceptional research opportunities UTSA has to offer.”

The Daily Texan congratulates current and former staffers honored Nov. 1 at the Associated College Press’ 2014 National College Media Convention.

Bobby Blanchard, Reporter of the Year, four-year college Third place

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Austin should tighten restrictions Students can influence election for convenient access to recycling by simply exercising right to vote As part of Austin’s goal to reach zero waste by 2040, Austin’s Universal Recycling Ordinance claims that by 2017, all Austin tenants and employees will have convenient access to recycling.

The city will implement the ordinance over the course of five years, and as of Oct. 1 of this year, multifamily properties with at least 25 units are required to provide convenient access to recycling.

In Austin, one of the largest and most concentrated areas containing multifamily properties is West Campus. The area west of Guadalupe Street is peppered with a plethora of apartment buildings, and a good number of the complexes each contain well over 25 units. By law, convenient access to recycling must be provided for these complexes. Even if the buildings do follow the city’s standards for “convenient access” in some capacity, however, it is safe to say that recycling in many areas of West Campus is by no means convenient. Further, recycling will hardly be any more convenient by the ordinance’s end goal of 2017 — the difference then will be that all multifamily properties, regardless of size, will be required to provide so-called convenient access under the same conditions.

According to the ordinance, convenient access is achieved when property owners abide by a few stipulations. Ironically, some of these seem to cause more problems for students. First, each recycling bin must be no more than 25 feet from other garbage collection bins. Second, the recycling service capacity must equal at least 6.4 gallons per dwelling per week — for example, if a complex has 50 units, its recycling bins must be able to hold 320 gallons of recyclable material.

Lastly, each property must submit a Recycling Plan form to the city each year, but the property

can request a waiver or alternative compliance request. On that note, the ordinance seems to contain a very large loophole, as the conditions of obtaining a waiver are not listed in the ordinance.

For many buildings in West Campus, such as some Quarters on Campus properties, the 25-foot rule means that recycling requires going outdoors — trash bins are, for the most part, located outside, and recycling bins are thus placed outside as well, but farther away. This can often mean walking far through an alleyway to dispose of recycling, which could be enough to deter many students from recycling as frequently as the city wants. As for bin size, recycling bins in West Campus often appear small and are filled quickly, requiring students to walk even farther to use other buildings’ recycling bins instead. For students who don’t have the extra time, or who may not even know where their bin is located, recycling in West Campus is largely inconvenient.

For a city that prides itself on being green, Austin should be doing more to ensure that the recycling ordinance is more convenient and therefore effective. In other progressive cities, such as Portland, recycling is required for all multifamily properties with the main stipulation being that recycling must be “as convenient as garbage.” If Austin followed this same rule, recycling would be much easier, and more importantly, these loopholes — where complexes legally provide recycling, but not accessibly — could be avoided.

For an area as densely populated as West Campus, it is vital that recycling is made more accessible to residents. We strongly urge the city to tighten recycling restrictions for multifamily properties, and in turn, Austin may get closer to accomplishing its zero waste goal in the process.

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Military would do well to offer equal opportunities to women

By Callista Stoop Guest Columnist

If you ask leaders in Australia, Israel, Denmark, Canada, France, Germany, New Zealand, Norway or Israel, they would agree that there are women who can serve as a part of infantry units. Each of these countries has opened up their combat arms and, more specifically, their infantry branches, to women. The United States Armed Services should be next to allow women to compete for a spot in the infantry.

However, the standards for a combat infantry soldier should not be lowered for women trying to get a slot. Those leaders and politicians concerned with “political correctness”, or those afraid of backlash from equal-opportunity advocates, should take into consideration the cultures of some of our opponents in current conflicts in the Middle East, and need to realize that for a country that prides itself on freedom and equality for all, our stance on female combatants is dangerously flawed. In order to truly embody the values of equality and equal opportunity on which it as a country prides itself, America needs to open up the opportunity to compete for an infantry slot to its women, but also base it on the same qualifications required of male candidates.

Opponents of female integration have fabricated an almost standardized list of reasons why a women would not be able to “cut it” physically as a member of an infantry platoon.

The most common of these seems to be the “I don’t want to have to worry about her not being able to buddy-drag me out of combat if I get injured, her weakness makes her unreliable.”

Admittedly, a weak battle buddy is a cause for concern. But is that same issue brought up when a 5’5”, 130-pound airborne infantryman goes to combat? No. Is he expected to be able to move the largest soldier in the platoon? Again, no. So why should it be expected of a woman of the same size, if she can pass the same physical tests as him?

That being said, a woman in the infantry should be able to pass physical tests to the same standards that are expected of their male counterparts. Yes, the regular physical fitness tests administered to the rest of the military are scaled per gender — but for support branches like logistics or intelligence, the primary mission is not necessarily a physical one. There will always be a physical fitness and warfighting readiness requirement of all soldiers, but the only context in which a gender-scaled physical fitness test does not make sense is that of the combat infantryman, where physical capabilities are what can make or break every mission.

Another argument that is frequently used to justify keeping women out of combat arms is the inconvenient need for separate quarters.

Both the French and Danish armies incorporate women into their infantries without

having to cordon off separate areas for their women, yet the American military has not yet figured out that neither hygiene limitations nor the possible sexual aspect of sharing sleeping space should be barriers. The former issue tends to be brought up in connection to a woman’s menstrual period, with the reasoning that it is too messy to deal with in the field.

However, modern advances in birth control generally limit the degree to which this become a problem; and for those times that it does occur in the field, baby wipes can solve the rest — and get buried in the same hole that conceals other human functions while in the field.

Arguing against opening infantry opportunities to women because of a fear of “distracting” the men is by far one of the least modern viewpoints an American soldier can have. As a military that prides itself on discipline and that fights for freedom of all peoples, how can we openly admit that our troops do not have the self-control to abstain when presented with the (rather unappealing) image of a female in baggy camouflage pants? This point become especially absurd when we consider some of the oppressive cultures with which we are currently in conflict — cultures that deny women basic rights, and require them to cover themselves in extreme manner in order to make sure that their men need not exercise any self-control in the face of temptation. While refusing to have females in an infantry platoon due to fear of distraction is not on the same level of injustice as is treating women like property and forcing them to hide their entire bodies behind swathes of dark cloth, it does still speak to the same principle of enabling a lack of self-discipline and encouraging an attitude that justifies following physical urges.

Opening up infantry opportunities to women might not change much about its composition, if the standards are not lowered in accordance with gender; there are not that many women that can meet those standards as there are men. However, the equal opportunity issue does not concern how many women are accepted into the infantry after testing, or what percentage of women make up the front-line force — it is only a matter of opening the door to any female that wishes to train to the standard of a combat infantry soldier and giving her that opportunity. This open door not only proves the nation’s adherence to its ideals of freedom and equality, but also serves to discourage the oppressive treatment endured by the women of the Middle East. America’s presence in the Middle East has protective and humanitarian motivations as well as strategic ones; in order to manifest the ideals to which it adheres, America must prove them to those that are not free by leading by example in equality matters.

Stoop is an Arabic senior from Rockville, Maryland.

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By Claire Smith

Daily Texan Columnist @claireseysmith

I cannot count the number of times I have been approached on or around campus by a clipboard-wielding yahoo asking me if I have registered to vote. Yes, I am registered in Travis County, shouting hooligan. No, I can’t stay to chat, wild-eyed stranger. We’ve all had that experience. We’ve all wished we didn’t have to weave through the khakiwearing, patriotically hued registration assistants scattered around the busiest parts of campus during election season. But there is a method to the madness. If you’re like so many other apathetic student voters, let me let you in on one big secret: Campus is swarming with registration assistants because your vote matters. Your vote can make the difference (I’m talking mathematically, I’m not interested in appealing to your ego).

The countless ranks of registration aids do not stand for hours on end trying to coax a one-word answer out of passing strangers because it is fun. They do it as a public service. According to Michael Winn, the director of elections for the Travis County Clerk’s office, about 40 percent of the city’s population is expected to vote in the upcoming elections based on poll numbers from the 2006 and 2010 elections. Using figures from the 2013 United States Census Bureau, Winn’s projected voter turnout means around 354,160 votes will be cast in the upcoming elections. As a campus of 53,000 students, the UT community could easily “rock the vote,” proverbially speaking.

The registration aids understand the power of UT’s numbers. There’s a reason they’re everywhere, and it’s a good one.

In an election as contested as this year’s, with positions in almost every sector of government up for grabs, your vote matters more than ever. The candidates know

it. Both State Senator Wendy Davis and Attorney General Greg Abbott have taken to voting centers to encourage people to vote.

Last week, while Davis appealed to Austin voters that usually only vote in the presidential election, Abbott appealed to Corpus Christi residents to vote early with actor Chuck Norris at his side (well played, sir).

The flower beds on the West Mall are overflowing with campaign signage. Additionally, virtually every candidate in the upcoming election has waged vigorous online campaigns through various social media outlets in the hopes of penetrating the apathy of our demographic. Even though early voter turnout has been dismal, with 33 percent fewer votes cast in the early voting stage than in 2010, the candidates won’t give up on us, nor should they.

But as a group that could wield great influence in this election, student turnout is shameful. According to the Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement, only 16.1 percent of Texas voters between the ages of 18 and 29 voted in 2010, making a similar percentage likely in this year’s election. That figure is disgraceful, especially in light of how much change our generation could affect just by showing up to the polls on one day every two years. Every student should vote, and every student should adequately inform himself or herself to do so. Not claiming your constitutional right to vote is akin to forsaking your right to hold an opinion on Texas issues, just as you had forsaken your right to exercise that opinion, all while having to pay taxes and live in a state that gave you the opportunity to have a stake in its future. There is no reason not to vote. As a generation, we have the power to affect change. It all comes down to our voice. It all comes down to our vote.

Anyway, if Chuck Norris said to vote, I’d do it.

Smith is a history junior from Austin.

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To better society, students should remain informed on key issues

By Jazmyn Griffin

Daily Texan Columnist @JazmynAlynn

Imagine this: You receive a notification that you must report to basic military training as soon as possible — but this modernday draft isn’t for a war with Vietnam. Instead, the country needs young people to combat extremists overseas. Suddenly, you have to put future plans on hold and risk your life while working towards a greater good.

While this situation isn’t likely to occur, talks of reinstating the military draft for those 18 and older have been suggested with the rising power of ISIS. Unfortunately, the 45 percent of young adults who don’t read the news would be taken completely by surprise, not only by forced military entry, but by the array of current events plastered on all forms of media they miss daily. While it may be a big adjustment, keeping up with local and nationwide current events could be the difference between continued ignorance and massive change.

Being aware forces you to question things, especially wrongdoing that is seen as the norm. Critical thinking helps people formulate their own opinions and stances, which is key with elections coming up. It is the responsibility of a citizen to be informed about

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issues and candidates, rather than simply vote along party lines. Even in the workforce, young professionals who know more than their social networking feed categorically impress employers.

Most of all, students should keep up with news because, as cheesy as it sounds, we control the future. The wrongs discovered and reported today don’t have to exist — the entire purpose of informing the public is to stop them. If we can’t recognize offenses, how are we supposed to keep them from happening again? Police brutality could be at an all-time low. Snapchat users could know the app’s vulnerability to hackers. Who knows, maybe we could shake things up enough to help fellow Hong Kong students in their attempts to hold free elections.

College students are overwhelmed with studying, work and the harsh realities of adulthood already, but taking action to better society can only happen when you recognize the issues at hand. Take a few minutes each day to read stories from multiple sources, or at least the headlines if time is scarce. Use resources and organizations on campus to find the issues you’re passionate about and make an impact. After all, the actions of an informed few have the potential to help the lives of many.

Griffin is a journalism freshman from Houston.

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Senior outside hitter Haley Eckerman, an Iowa native, tallied 14 kills and four digs against Iowa State on Sunday to help the Longhorns record their eighth conference win of the season.

Eckerman leads Texas to 3-1 victory in her native Iowa

By Nick Castillo @Nick_Castillo74

After Oklahoma snapped Texas’ 23-game Big 12 winning streak Oct. 25, the No. 5 Longhorns returned to conference action Sunday and defeated Iowa State 3-1 (25-21, 20-25, 25-13, 25-14) in Ames, Iowa.

“I thought it was a good situation for us to be in,” head coach Jerritt Elliott said. “This is a tough gym, and we were a little uncomfortable at first. … After the break, we kind of calmed down and found our unit and groove and played a lot better.”

The Longhorns were able to settle down thanks to solid play by senior outside hitter Haley Eckerman and junior outside hitter Amy Neal. Neal had 14 kills and 16 digs in her first game since Kansas State on Oct. 18. Eckerman, a Waterloo, Iowa, native, recorded 14 kills and four digs in a homecoming game. Elliott said he liked Eckerman’s play against the Cyclones.

“This is her home state, and I know she had a big crowd here tonight,” Elliott said. “She wanted to play extremely well. Her game is continually improving as the season goes along, and it’s great.”

Eckerman started her dominating performance early with seven kills in the first set. The Cyclones managed to keep the set close throughout, but Texas was able to separate itself from Iowa State after a 9-9 tie, and although the Cyclones tried to fight their way back into the set, Eckerman and the Longhorns pulled off a 25-21 win.

The second set was a different challenge, as the Longhorns committed a handful of errors early in the set that allowed the Cyclones to build a 15-13 lead.

The errors set the tone for the Longhorns, who were unable to recapture the lead and lost the set 20-25.

“We were still pressing a lot, trying to find our rhythm and making a lot of errors [in the second set],”

Elliott said.

The Longhorns, however, were able to find their rhythm in the third set, as they jumped out to an early 5-2 lead and never looked back. Texas took the third set, 25-13, and took a commanding 2-1 game lead.

With momentum on their side, the Longhorns came out strong in the fourth set, taking a 9-3 lead.

Texas finished the set on a 7-2 run and won the set, 2513, and the game, 3-1.

Alongside Eckerman and Neal’s performances, sophomore middle blocker Chiaka Ogbogu recorded 11 kills and tied her careerhigh in blocks with nine.

Freshman libero Cat McCoy posted a team-high 19 digs. Texas also out-blocked the Cyclones, 30 to eight, as junior middle blocker Molly McCage and sophomore outside hitter Paulina Prieto Cerame blocked seven a piece.

The Longhorns will return to action against Texas Tech in Lubbock at 6 p.m. Wednesday.

At the Big 12 Championship in Lawrence, Kansas, over the weekend, the men’s and women’s cross country teams finished fourth and seventh, respectively.

All-American senior Craig Lutz led the men with a third-place finish, but defending Big 12 champion Oklahoma State pulled ahead for its seventh championship.

“On the men’s side, it’s mixed emotions,” assistant coach Brad Herbster said.

“It’s good to see some people set up a position to be in the mix. It’s a disappointing race to know that we gave away 30 points in the last [kilometer]. We were in the mix with the other teams.

We were just a little flat at the end.”

The women ran their best race of the year, with sophomore Sandie Raines and redshirt freshman Katie Ruhala finishing consecutively in 23rd and 24th, respectively.

The 3-4-5 spots finished eight places apart.

“I thought, overall, the group performed the best we’ve performed all year, which is what you’re looking for at the Big 12 Championship,” Herbster said. “It’s still not exactly where we need to be. We need to make sure we’re still moving up in those 3-4-5 spots. It is encouraging to start the championship season off with our

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The biggest reason for all the success on the ground was a gutsy performance from the Longhorn offensive line, which has typically been the team’s weakest position group this season.

“Our offensive line played well,” Strong said. “They can get on people, get in the way and let those backs take the ball and just run behind their pack.”

The Texas offense did turn the ball over twice, including a costly fumble that resulted in an easy scoop and score for the Texas Tech defense. The Longhorn defense rebounded to compensate for the offensive

blunders, though.

Defensive coordinator Vance Bedford’s unit only gave up one score in the game and came up with a number of big plays to shift the momentum.

The most notable gamechanger came just before the Swoopes deep ball in the second quarter, when senior defensive back Quandre Diggs crushed Tech’s freshman quarterback Patrick Mahomes, knocking him out of the game and forcing a fumble in the process.

The hit was clean, but Diggs left the Red Raiders’ young quarterback wobbly

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fired up. That’s plays I need to make each and every week to get the guys going and do what I do.”

The ensuing fumble was recovered by junior defensive end Shiro Davis, and the Longhorns scored five plays later to regain the lead at 10-6.

Following Mahomes’ injury, walk-on freshman quarterback Vincent Testaverde took over behind center for Tech and threw the game’s lone interception to senior safety Mykkele

Thompson in the fourth quarter.

The defense broke up 10 passes throughout the game but only intercepted one.

Harris continues big year Senior wide receiver John Harris posted a career-high 165 receiving yards, catching five balls for his third 100-yard performance of the season and of his career. Harris’ career-long, 68-yard grab in the second quarter helped put the Longhorns in control of the game.

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Two automatic championship berths will be on the line at the NCAA Regional in two weeks. As championship at-large bids are rare, each team will vie for first and second place.

with what appeared to be a very serious head injury.

“He signed up to play football,” Diggs said. “Sometimes that happens.”

With the win, the Longhorns got one step closer to gaining bowl eligibility this season. At 4-5, Texas will have to win two of its final three games against West Virginia, Oklahoma State and TCU in November.

“We can’t rest on it,” Diggs said. “It’s one win. We’re going to have fun tonight and enjoy it and tomorrow get back to watching film and learn from our mistakes we made tonight.”

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“The way we run it in practice, that ball goes to Shipley, so I was kind of in shock when he threw it,” Harris said. “But he was expecting me to go make a play, and those guys on defense were expecting me to make a play, so that’s what I gotta go do.”

Harris has now caught 48 passes for 814 yards and six scores this season. Before 2014, Harris had just nine catches for 190 yards and three touchdowns in his entire career.

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Longhorns find rhythm to win in Lubbock

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Junior running back Jonathan Gray ran 17 times for 77 yards against Texas Tech on Saturday, as the Longhorns captured their third-straight road victory against the Red Raiders.

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Almost as if he was back at Whitewright High School, taking advantage of overmatched 2A opponents, sophomore quarterback Tyrone Swoopes had plenty of time to sit in the pocket and wait for the play to develop, as senior receiver John Harris took off down the field.

While Harris began to separate himself from the defender, Swoopes stepped into his throw and dropped a perfect pass right in the receiver’s breadbasket for a 68-yard gain. Senior running back Malcolm Brown found the end zone on the very next play to give the Longhorns a second quarter lead they would never relinquish en route to a 3413 victory over Texas Tech on Saturday night.

“Just to watch [Swoopes], you could see the confidence building within him,” head coach Charlie Strong said. “I said, ‘Just keep playing, good

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things are going to happen for you.’”

A reeling Red Raider defense proved to be just what Swoopes and the Longhorn offense needed to finally put together a

complete performance.

Swoopes finished the game with 228 yards and a scoring toss to senior receiver Jaxon Shipley, who caught his first touchdown in 358 days. The Texas running back duo of

Brown and junior Johnathan Gray combined for 193 yards and three touchdowns, as Brown became the first Longhorn back to reach the 100-yard plateau this season.

“They ran behind their

passing tonight. They were physical running,” Harris said. “We helped them out, but [Brown] and [Gray] ran hard tonight.”

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Texas rushes for 241 yards to secure win

By Drew Lieberman @DrewLieberman

Entering Saturday’s game against Texas Tech at 3-5, the Longhorns knew what a loss would mean for their hopes of attaining bowl eligibility.

But their quest for win number four started with an early score, and the Longhorns shut out the Red Raiders in the second half to help secure the victory. Here are a few key observations from the win: Longhorns run well Entering the season, many pegged senior running back Malcolm Brown as a player with the potential to rush for over 1,000 yards in 2014. The feat would make him the first Longhorn to run for quadruple digits since Jamaal Charles in 2007.

He nearly accomplished that feat last year, despite barely getting any carries through the first five games of the season and splitting carries with junior running back Johnathan Gray before Gray’s season-ending Achilles injury.

Through eight games this

season, though Brown has struggled behind a depleted offensive line and most recently only carried the ball six times in a shutout loss to Kansas State.

Twenty-two carries later against Texas Tech, Brown turned in Texas’ first 100-yard rushing performance of the season, running for 116 yards and two scores.

Gray also looked his best since his injury nearly a year ago, running for 77 yards on 17 carries, including a score from 17 yards out. In all, the Longhorns ran for a season-high 241 yards behind an inexperienced offensive line that is improving every week.

“The thing about it, our offensive line played well,” head coach Charlie Strong said.

“They can get on people, get in the way, and let those backs take the ball and just run behind their pack.”

Defense forces turnovers Following the loss to Kansas State, several Longhorn defensive players said, despite the unit playing fairly well, they needed to force some turnovers to put the offense in

Senior wide receiver John Harris recorded a career-high 165 yards Saturday against Texas Tech, catching five passes for his third 100-plus-yard game of the season.

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position to score.

They did just that by forcing two turnovers against Tech. The first occurred in the second quarter when senior cornerback Quandre Diggs simultaneously knocked the ball out of freshman quarterback Patrick Mahomes’ hands and knocked the young quarterback out of the game.

“It was just a good hit,” Diggs said. “Came in, saw he was running, did what I was supposed to do to get my team

SIDELINE SPORTS BRIEFLY Women’s rowing travels to Tennessee

The women’s rowing team left behind the tranquil Austin weather this weekend to compete at the Head of the Hooch in Chattanooga, Tennessee, but 40-degree temperatures and 30-mph winds caused Saturday’s races to be canceled.

Originally, only the morning races were canceled, but as conditions worsened, race officials were forced to call off all races for the remainder of the day.

Sunday’s races continued as planned, and the Longhorns competed in three events.

Senior Casey Redman began the day by placing fourth in the women’s championship 1x with a time of 20:50.1, one second behind the thirdplace finisher from the University of Tampa. This was the closest the Longhorns came to cracking the top three.

In the women’s open 2-, Texas’ boats placed fourth, sixth, 10th and 16th, with each boat finishing ahead of Big 12 rival Oklahoma.

In the women’s 8+, Texas’ B boat came in sixth place at 16:33.6, immediately followed by Texas’ A boat in seventh at 16:34.5. Both Longhorn boats placed ahead of the three Kansas boats.

The Head of the Hooch marks the Longhorns’ last competition for the fall. The next regatta will be in March at the San Diego Crew Classic in San Diego, California.

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WOMEN’S SOCCER Junior midfielder Lindsey Meyer fights off an Oklahoma State defender on Halloween.

Texas fell to the Cowgirls 2-1 to finish 4-4 in Big 12 play.

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Bad luck, late goal give Horns fourth Big 12 loss of season

By Daniel Clay @dclay567

Texas soccer entered its regular season finale at home riding a high following a pair of road conference wins the previous weekend, but the Oklahoma State Cowgirls used some good Halloween luck and timely offense to send Texas back to the loser’s column for the first time in three games.

The first goal of the game came off a Cowgirl cross from the left sideline that sailed into the Texas box and deflected off a Longhorn defender for an own goal. Texas equalized later in the half when junior midfielder Lindsey Meyer snuck

a penalty kick past a diving Cowgirl goalkeeper.

The Longhorns had a chance to take a lead late in the contest when Meyer smashed a header off the crossbar in the 87th minute, but the Cowgirls cleared the shot away to end the Longhorn threat.

The game looked destined for overtime until Cowgirl sophomore forward Courtney Dike managed to find the back of the Longhorn net from short range to give Oklahoma State a 2-1 lead with just over a minute and a half to play.

“Oklahoma State’s a great team, and they put away their opportunities,” senior midfielder Sharis Lachappelle said.

MLK & Brazos We just need to learn to capitalize and make the most out of our chances.

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“We just need to learn to capitalize and make the most out of our chances.”

Texas’ next action will come Wednesday at 2 p.m. against No. 10 Texas Tech in the quarterfinal round of the Big 12 Championship.

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F1 tech talk educates students

By Marisa Charpentier

Matt Cadieux, chief information officer of Infiniti Red Bull Racing, addresses UT’s Society of Automotive Engineers and other attendees at Red Bull’s live broadcast lecture Wednesday evening at Austin Speed Shop.

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Exhaust fumes masked the view of the Capitol. Crowds lined the street to watch the red and blue metallic blur rip through the city. The 750-horsepower Formula One race car came to a halt, revealing the familiar Red Bull logo.

The Infiniti Red Bull Racing team kicked off Formula One week in Austin with this live demo on Congress Avenue on Wednesday. But, according to Matt Cadieux, the team’s chief information officer, racing involves more than the speed and suspense viewers see on the track.

“It’s just as much a war between geeks and engineers as it is between drivers,” Cadieux said.

Students in UT’s Society of Automotive Engineers, or SAE, understand this behind-the-scenes role. Several society members are creating a race car of their own as a part of Longhorn Racing, the University’s racing team.

The group builds a $30,000 open-wheel race car to race at national competitions every year.

Red Bull invited the society to hear a lecture given

by Cadieux and see one of its Formula One cars in person Wednesday at Austin Speed Shop. This is the second year Red Bull has hosted a Formula One lecture, but, this year, the company drove students from UT-Austin

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and UT-San Antonio to the speed shop for the event. The lecture was streamed live to 14 other campuses across the nation.

“It’s nice talking to young people about cool jobs and inspiring them to remain technical and passionate about what they are doing,” Cadieux said.

“This is a sport where engineers can influence who wins a sport — who wins the championship.”

Oscar Lopez, SAE president and mechanical engineering senior, said the group jumped at the opportunity to learn more about automotive engineering.

“As a whole, our organization is geared towards getting our members in contact with companies involved in the automotive industry,” Lopez said. “F1 is the poster child for racing around the world, and

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In preparation for Día de los Muertos, students from various campus organizations gathered to paint tiny 3-D skulls for their altars.

The skulls are not decorations meant to spook passerby — they are meant to commemorate the dead.

Día de los Muertos is a celebration that is observed Nov. 1 and 2 and corresponds with the Roman Catholic feast days. The first day is “Día de los Angelitos,” or “Day of the Little Angels.” The second day is “Día de los Difuntos,” or “Day of the Departed Dead.”

Sigma Lambda Beta, a Latino-based fraternity on campus, will host a Día de los Muertos celebration Monday in the Main Mall. One of the many co-sponsors for the event is the Center for Mexican American Studies. The keynote speaker at the event will be Rachel González, assistant professor in the Department of Mexican American and Latina/o Studies.

While Mexico recognizes the celebration as a part of its indigenous cultural history, it is not practiced as widely in the U.S.

supercomputers on each team, and millions of dollars go into it.”

During the lecture, Cadieux discussed his work in the field and recent changes to the team.

As chief information officer, Cadieux develops applications used to design and create the cars. Since last year’s lecture, Infiniti Red Bull Racing has made several design changes, in addition to altering some

regulations. At the 2013 German Grand Prix, a pit stop gone wrong led to an injury, and the team had to rework its pit stop strategy to ensure increased safety in the future.

“The car is an evolving prototype,” Cadieux said.

“We have hundreds, sometimes thousands, of new parts introduced for every race. We have an attitude to be innovative and keep pushing boundaries.”

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Campus organizations observe Día de los Muertos celebration

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to get an insight on what it takes to be a part of the team is extremely beneficial for our members.”

Matthew Richardson, mechanical engineering junior and SAE member, grew up around racing and said he was eager to attend the event.

“Formula One cars are really cool, and the amount of money and engineering that goes into them is pretty insane,” Richardson said. “They have multiple

“Families decorate grave sites and spend all night eating and drinking in honor of their departed love ones whose spirits are believed to return to earth to visit during this time of group remembering,” González said. “In the U.S., this is less a part of celebrations because social norms in the U.S. often prohibit such behavior in public cemeteries.”

According to González, Día de los Muertos is a commemorative practice found in different cultural communities around the world. These practices are the result of religious syncretism, or the blending of religious beliefs and practices of communities present in Mexico before and after the arrival of Spanish colonists.

“Día de los Muertos does not signify a morbid love of death,” González said. “It is a time of both reflection and celebration and is an affirmation of the sweetness of life.”

For Alejandro Alvarez, head of the Día de los Muertos committee and member of Sigma Lambda Beta, the event is an important way to relive the tradition he practiced in Mexico.

“It’s an event that is so rich in culture,” Alvarez said. “It kind

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of gets lost when you come over here. As one of our principles with cultural awareness, we are trying to educate people about different cultures.”

Tamales, rice, beans, aguas frescas and pan de muerto — or “dead bread” — will be available for the audience.

Different organizations on campus will create altars, or tables with offerings for departed loved ones to represent their group.

“Families put out the favorite food treats of their departed loved ones in the hopes of luring them home,” González said.

Irving Reyna, president of Sigma Lambda Beta and accounting senior, said he hopes the celebration shows people that Dia de los Muertos is not a Mexican Halloween.

“What I really want to see is more people outside of the Latino community coming out,” Reyna said. “Even if it’s just for the food that they come, they are going to get something out of it.”

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Miss Texas goes on speaking tour

By Briana Zamora @whateverwillbri

Before her pageant career began, Monique Evans, reigning Miss Texas 2014, never imagined she would be able to effortlessly deliver a speech, much less deliver speeches to large audiences on a daily basis.

Evans, who is pursuing a degree in nutritional sciences from Texas, plans on applying to medical schools to become an osteopathic physician in preventative and integrated medicine.

She began competing in pageants in 2011 and has since earned the titles of Miss Austin 2011, Miss Hunt County 2012, Miss Dallas 2013, Miss Park Cities 2014 and Miss Texas 2014. She recently competed for the Miss America 2015 title in September and placed in the top 16 as a semifinalist.

“Competing has made me lose my shyness and really come to enjoy public speaking, but what has kept me in the pageant system is all the community service work,” Evans said. “It gives you a warm feeling in your heart.”

Taylor Oglesby met Evans as sophomore when they both joined the Alpha Delta Pi sorority, and they have been close friends since.

Oglesby said Evans is a perfect fit for Miss Texas.

“One thing I really admire about Monique is that she cares so much about everyone, and she always finds the time to help you,” Oglesby said. “Being Miss Texas allows her to help and care for so many people.”

Evans is now on a yearlong speaking tour of Texas, which includes over 300 appearances at festivals and schools throughout the state.

To fulfill the busy schedule her job demands, Evans was obligated to take a year off from school.

“When my parents asked if taking a year off from school was something I really wanted to do, I

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immediately said yes,” Evans said. “There is so much more to be gained this year than to be lost, and I just couldn’t pass up this opportunity.”

At her speaking engagements, Evans stresses the importance of healthy eating habits and exercise as preventative measures against heart disease under her platform “Remember Your Heart: One Beat at a Time.”

“What I really want to do this year is focus on our next generation and try to encourage them to take the little steps in the day to be healthier,” Evans said.

During Evans’ freshman year in college, her father survived a heart attack he had while jogging. That incident, along with her brother being born with a heart condition, prompted Evans’ heart-healthy campaign and influenced her decision to pursue a career in preventative medicine.

“My brother’s condition was genetic, but my father’s heart attack could have been prevented,” Evans

said. “Watching what my brother has endured all his life and witnessing my dad’s recovery inspired me to work to help others live healthy lives to prevent heart disease.”

Leigh Allen, Evans’ coach and friend, met Evans in 2012 while judging the Miss Dallas pageant and said she instantly fell in love with Evans’ engaging personality.

“Monique is really special, and one of the greatest things about her is her humility,” Allen said. “She is more concerned for others than herself, and she has made her life about serving the community.”

According to Evans, while her job as Miss Texas is not as glamorous as many people assume it is, she loves it all the same.

“You are on the road a lot, meeting many different people and attending hundreds of events,” Evans said.

“It is a tough job, but is also an extremely rewarding job, and I would not change it for the world.”