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No backup with derailed Prop. 1

By Jackie Wang @jcqlnwng

With Austin voters rejecting Proposition 1 on Tuesday, the city will have to look at new options in order to continue its efforts to improve Austin’s transportation infrastructure.

Prop. 1 proposed allocating $600 million in bond money toward a 9.5-mile urban rail line running from East Riverside to ACCHighland, with three of the proposed stops located

along the east side of the UT campus. The plan also required the city to acquire $400 million to complete road improvements. The bond proposal was defeated Tuesday with 57.2 percent of voters against the plan.

One of the plan’s biggest supporters, Mayor Lee Leffingwell has repeatedly emphasized that the city had no backup plan to improve transportation infrastructure.

John Julitz, Capital Metro and Project Connect spokesman, said the city

and CapMetro will continue working to improve traffic congestion but, in light of the urban rail plan failing, will have to step back to look at the situation.

“The mayor has said it — there’s no plan B right now because we felt it was the best plan,” Julitz said. “We need to look at it from a system perspective for what the next step is going to be.”

According to Julitz, voters against the

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Abbott lays out plans for term as governor

By Madlin Mekelburg @madlinbmek

Governor-elect Greg Abbott reiterated points from his campaign platform and discussed upcoming meetings at a media briefing Wednesday morning.

“It is an honor to have been elected governor of the state of Texas, but, as I told people last night, it’s time to put the election behind us and begin the process of getting to work, and that is exactly what we are doing,” Abbott said. “The people of Texas elected me to do a job and we began working on that job today.”

Abbott, the current state attorney general, said he has several different meetings scheduled throughout the week, including a meeting with Kyle Janek of the Health and Human Services Commission on Wednesday afternoon to discuss the Ebola virus.

“Things have improved with regard to the current situation about Ebola, and the extent to which Texans can be exposed to the disease,” Abbott said.

“However, we can never let up on these challenges because of how deadly the disease is. … We need to be vigilant going forward knowing that Ebola still exists in West African countries and could travel to other places.”

Abbott said Texans can expect him to live up to the

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People walk past a Proposition 1 sign outside the Flawn Academic Center on Wednesday afternoon.

CAMPUS

FAC begins around-the-clock service

By Eleanor Dearman @ellydearman

The Perry–Castañeda Library is no longer the only study spot on campus to be open for all-nighters.

On Wednesday, Student Government President Kori Rady announced in an email to students that the Flawn Academic Center will remain open 24 hours a day, seven days a week for the rest of the semester. The FAC previously closed at midnight on weekdays. The plan to extend the hours has been in the works since the start of the semester, when Rady co-authored a resolution with other SG members in support of the initiative.

“Initially, I was confident that it would get done this semester, and it did,” Rady said.

This is not the first time SG has worked to open a

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Undeclared sophomore Marilu Sanchez studies at the Flawn Activity Center on Wednesday evening. The FAC is currently in a trial phase but could be open 24/7 permanently if the trial is successful.

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The TA Task Force, a group of 22 teaching assistants and academic instructors from the College of Liberal Arts, decided Wednesday to extend its research time for about two months longer than originally anticipated.

With this decision, the task force will postpone the delivery of its final recommendations to COLA administrators so they can continue researching issues related to graduate students in the college. The task force was previously planning to make its final recommendations at the beginning of the spring 2015 semester but will now continue their research until Jan. 28.

“We’ve basically given ourselves an extra two months over the break to finish up our research and make our recommendations,” said Justin Doran, task force member and spokesman.

Since September, the

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COLA TA Task Force to extend research into 2015

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students have been meeting to examine issues related to COLA TAs and AIs. The task force is divided into five committees that work to establish guidelines with professors, define TA responsibilities, examine job security and assignments, work to make sure employment and degree plans align and set standards for TA workload and compensation.

According to Doran, they are determining this information through extensive surveys that will be sent to administrators and faculty members. He said they are also conducting student surveys, for which responses have been collected.

The task force will then report their findings to administrators for consideration.

“We want to function as mediators between the COLA administration and the department chairs,” Doran said. “So, [we want to be] both fact-finders and then

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Panel recaps midterms, voter turnout

By Josh Willis @joshwillis35

Professors and campaign professionals gathered at the Belo Center for New Media on Wednesday to dissect and analyze Tuesday’s election results at an event hosted by the New Politics Forum at the Annette Strauss Institute for Civic Life.

Election Day in Texas saw Republican candidates win all statewide races with large, double-digit margins.

At Wednesday’s election debriefing, Regina Lawrence, journalism professor and Strauss Institute director, said voter turnout is what makes the democratic process effective.

“Elections are kind of an imperfect way of measuring the will of the people, and they get less and less perfect, the fewer and fewer people who show up,” Lawrence said. “In a way, elections are all about who shows up.”

Lawrence said the election Tuesday demonstrated the increasing popularity of

Daulton Venglar | Daily Texan Staff

Sharon Navarro speaks on a panel at the 2014 Post-Election Debriefing hosted by the New Politics Forum at the Annette Strauss Institute for Civic Life.

early voting in Texas.

Actually we saw, in a continued trend, an increase in early voting so that we had about one-third of Texas registered voters actually voting before yesterday,” Lawrence said.

Voter turnout across the

state has been low, but Lawrence said Texas had the lowest turnout in the country in 2010.

“I’m here to tell you that the early returns suggest that Texas was not dead last yesterday,” Lawrence said.

Ross Ramsey, executive

editor and co-founder of The Texas Tribune, said turnout is always an issue when it comes to election time.

“There’s a big emphasis in politics, not just in this

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campaign, but in a lot of places on voter registration and the importance of voter registration,” Ramsey said.

“Voter registration doesn’t matter if you can’t peel them off the couch when its time to vote.”

Lawrence said despite the meager voter turnout, there were more open races on Tuesday than there has been in Texas since 1906.

“So we had a really historic opportunity for voter engagement, but we saw it unmet,” Lawrence said.

Young voters are commonly the most underrepresented, and, according to Lawrence, this year was no different. Lawrence said her experience in the classroom has given her an idea of why this occurs.

“I can tell you, at least anecdotally, over the years of teaching, that the young people that I teach tell me again

and again that one of the biggest reasons that they do not vote consistently is that they don’t feel informed enough,” Lawrence said.

Lawrence said young voters might also vote less than other age groups because they feel isolated from the major political parties.

“Of course, we know that for many young people, these days particularly, there’s not as much of a strong connection to political parties, to those traditional political identities of democrat and republican,” Lawrence said.

Edward Espinoza, executive director of the Texas Research Institute, said there was little the Democrats could have done to fend off Republican opponents.

“Had the Latino outreach been better, that would have taken [Democrats] from 39 percent to maybe 43 percent, but there was no stopping that wave,” Espinsoza said.

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mediators who are looking out primarily for the interests of graduate students and to kind of negotiate between higher level administrators and department administrators so we can all work together on improving graduate student life.”

COLA executive assistant Lauren Apter Bairnsfather said Esther Raizen, COLA associate dean for research and graduate studies, supports the task force’s decision to delay its final recommendations.

“They have approached their research with an ambitious agenda, and they need the time to complete the research and analysis before making final recommendations,” Bairnsfather said in an email.

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continues from page 1 proposition may have not been able to consider the bond from a broader perspective. In January, the City Council will begin operating under the 10-ONE system, in which each council member will represent one of 10 geographic districts instead of being elected at-large. Julitz said presenting a rail plan like Prop. 1 would need to address each council member’s specific district.

“The route that we proposed was the first phase of urban rail,” Julitz said. “Subsequent phases would have included extensions to Lamar, to Guadalupe [and] to the airport. Giving the makeup of

FAC continues from page 1 UT facility for 24 hours a day. In 2012, SG worked with administrators to open the PCL on a 24/5 schedule. Since then, the PCL has run on a 24/5 basis each semester, beginning around midterms.

According to government senior Alexander Dickey, who originally brought the idea of a 24-hour FAC to SG, having multiple study spaces open all day and night on campus is long overdue.

“If we’re going to cultivate young minds of the future, then we’re going to have to accommodate their odd times of sleeping, especially in the college environment where you’ve got cramming sessions all night,” Dickey said. “The PCL 24/5 is great, but why not make it all year round?”

Taral Patel, an author on the resolution to keep

the FAC open on a 24/7 basis, said administrators and the FAC building management staff were supportive of having an around-the-clock study facility.

“As it came closer and closer, the administration really thought this was a vital thing that students needed,” Patel said.

Patel said he has also seen support from UT students for the 24-hour building.

“A lot of students have been wanting this option too, so I think it’s a perfect time for the FAC to be open 24/7 because finals are coming up,” Patel said.

To keep the building secure, Patel said they selected a security plan that hires three UTPD guards at $35,000 each per year.

Rady said they had

to make few other technical changes to keep the building safely operating 24/7.

“We have security guards this semester that are going to be making sure students are safe,” Rady said. “There’s not too much too different in terms of logistic use. You just have to keep the lights on. And, of course, there are student proctors that are being trained to help students at the FAC when it’s 24 hours.”

Rady said the 24/7 FAC is in a trial phase, but if it is successful, it could become permanent.

“Everything is kind of a test in this kind of a situation,” Rady said. “You want to make sure people are using it, but of course, if no one is utilizing the extended hours, things could change. I’m confident people will.”

commitment to the work and for their willingness to continue working into the spring semester.”

Since September, the task force has been formatting and sending out surveys to share with students, faculty and administrators.

According to Doran, the first round of surveys was sent to all COLA grad students and looks at how students perceive COLA and its administrators. Doran said the task force received responses from over 50 percent of the students. Doran said the responses are still being analyzed.

“Because of research restrictions, we won’t be able to give anyone access to raw data about that, but probably in our preliminary report you will see executive summaries of that data,” Doran said.

Doran said the second

round of surveys will go to administrators and faculty members to get an idea of how particular departments are being run.

“The final report will include how administrators see things are going on,” Doran said. “So we will be able to compare how graduate students perceive what is going on and how administrators are intending things to be happening.”

Additionally, Doran said the task force plans to work with Liberal Arts Instructional Technology Services to format digital tools that allow administrators to share information about their departments’ policies. The collaboration is still in the preliminary phase.

“It turns out that nobody has really pinpointed the fact that this is really an information sharing pro-

gram,” Doran said. “Since our task forces goal was basically to uncover all of this information, what we have discovered is that this information isn’t just out there, and since it isn’t just out there, nobody can be analyzing it.”

Vance Roper, Graduate Student Assembly vice president, said he thinks TA and IA positions are important for graduate students because the jobs provide a source of income and educational opportunities. He said students, faculty and administrators should be represented in the research done by the TA Task Force.

“It’s definitely something that should be researched from all angles and that the research should be fully vetted out before any decisions are made,” Roper said.

the new council, they’re going to be focused on ‘What impact is this going to have on my district?’ We need to present some planning as to ‘Here is the full system plan. Here’s the cost. Here’s the phasing and how its going to help your neighborhood.’ Not just ‘Here’s the first line, and we’ll do some additional lines.’ If people were able to see the whole plan, it might provide a little more perspective.”

Mayoral candidate Steve Adler said moving quickly on another solution is crucial in containing Austin’s traffic congestion problem. While the thorough process for Prop. 1 was not an issue, he said, this time around, the City Council needs to step it up.

“Looking forward, we need

to have a sense of urgency, so whatever process we go through moves more quickly than processes have moved in the past,” Adler said. “The problem with the plan that the voters had was they did not believe it would do enough to solve the traffic congestion and crisis for the price it had.”

Council member Kathie Tovo said she heard similar concerns from citizens, and the most frequent issues she heard fell into two categories.

“Certain people were supportive of high capacity transit but felt this route would not be as successful as other options,” Tovo said.

“The other concern that I heard often was the cost — that right now, many people are facing rising taxes and

feeling the burden of that and taking on another debt was more than they felt was appropriate right now.”

Despite advocating for an urban rail alignment on Guadalupe Street and Lamar Boulevard, Student Government endorsed Prop. 1 in October. Robert Svoboda, SG City Relations agency codirector, said while the plan was not perfect, it was a step in the right direction.

“What was presented was the best option at this moment in time,” Svoboda said.

“The last time that it failed was in 2000, and the city of Austin had to wait for 14 more years for it to be voted on again. That gap in time is really costing the city in terms infrastructure.”

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Shifting geology allowed for more complex organisms, study suggests

By Chris Mendez @thedailytexan

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Governor-elect Greg Abbott hosts a press conference at the Texas State Capitol building Wednesday morning. Abbott discussed his goals and plans for his coming term.

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continues from page 1 promises he made during his campaign — including job creation, improving schools, border security and infrastructure.

Abbott also said if legislation allowing firearms to be carried openly in public came to him, he would sign it into law.

“If open carry is good enough for Massachusetts, it’s good enough for the state of Texas,” Abbott said.

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With big pickups on Tuesday, Republicans took control of the U.S. Senate. Abbott said the new Republican majority is a reflection of what the American people want.

“A message was sent by

Americans last night,” Abbott said. “It was a message focused on policy priorities. Americans want people in office to address their priorities. … [They] want the government to get out of their lives as much as possible.”

New research from geosciences professor Ian Dalziel suggests the cause of rising sea levels and biological expansion 530 million years ago was a major tectonic shift.

Dalziel’s study, which was published in the November issue of The Journal of Geology, suggests that the shift resulted in the emergence of major multicellular organisms, such as fish and mollusks during this era, the Cambrian period.

According to Dalziel, he had been collecting geological evidence on various continents, primarily in Antarctica, when he discovered a link between the evidence he had been collecting and existing research that indicated the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans were once a single body of water.

“One night, I thought there had to be a connection between the two oceans,” Dalziel said. “I’d been

concentrated on the continents and not on the ocean.”

Dalziel proposed a reconstruction of Earth involving the supercontinent called Gondwanaland that was composed of Australia, Antarctica, Africa, India, and South America and Laurentia, the geological ancestor of North America.

In Dalziel’s model, Gondwanaland and Laurentia oceans were separated by the Pacific and ancestral Atlantic oceans.

“I’ve been working on the study of the Earth before Cambrian for quite a number and in Antarctica,” Dalziel said. “North America and Antarctica were previously joined.”

Dalziel said a rift opened up between the Pacific and ancestral Atlantic oceans, which led to the rise in sea levels. Dalziel said he utilized previous research to come to his conclusions.

“We know the chemistry of the Atlantic Ocean affected the chemistry of the Pacific,” Dalziel said. “[This

has made possible] the connection between the previous, well-documented research and what’s been done recently.”

John Goodge, environmental sciences professor at the University of Minnesota who read Dalziel’s paper, said that this tectonic shift caused the buildup of oxygen in the environment, which made prime conditions for the rise of modern species.

“We have shallow seas encroaching on land,” Goodge said. “North America [had a] warm climate and nutrientrich waters. It’s possible that that’s what set the stage for the expansion of these living organisms.”

As research on this topic continues, Dalziel said he would like for more people to piece together evidence supporting his claims.

“There are students and faculty around the world that will be able to collect evidence,” Dalziel said. “I hope they continue piecing it together and understand this far-reaching problem.”

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Lecturer explores millennial Latinos’ struggle with identity

By Adam Hamze @adamhamz

Millennial Latinos in the United States often struggle with identifying as both citizens of America and “Americans” as a result of racialization and exclusion, according to University of Illinois at Chicago professor Nilda Flores-González.

During a lecture at the Student Activity Center on Wednesday, FloresGonzález, an associate professor of Latin American and Latino studies, said she drew her conclusions from a study she conducted on the protestors involved in the surge of marches across Chicago in 2006 for immigration reform.

She interviewed 113 Latino

millennials — people born between 1980 and 1995 — and asked questions about how they identify racially, and how their experiences may have affected these identities. Her research primarily focused on how Latinos identify in the “racial middle,” which encompasses the races other than black and white.

According to FloresGonzález, the majority of the Latinos she interviewed had experienced racism or had been stereotyped as “illegal” immigrants, which makes them feel unwelcome. Flores-González said she believes this is the reason why many millennial Latinos feel as though they have to choose between an American or Latino identity.

“We need to also pay attention to how the historical moments, coupled with the racial experiences are making Latinos and Latinas feel like they don’t really belong here,” FloresGonzález said.

The U.S. Census Bureau estimates there are approximately 54 million Hispanics living in the country, which is roughly 17 percent of the population.

According to FloresGonzález, Latinos who grew up in predominantly white neighborhoods or in middle-class families are prone to labeling themselves as white. She said she believes this is a result of assimilation and the individuals trying to feel more American.

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not about becoming white,” Flores-González “It is not about downward assimilation, but instead it is about becoming Latino.”

Flores-González was invited to speak at the University as part of her application for a senior social scientist and associate professor position at the Center for Mexican American Studies. Luis Guevara, program coordinator for the CMAS, said the atmosphere of the

University was not as welcoming to the Latino population when he first arrived in 1991 as it is now.

“I wouldn’t say it was hostile, but there were events that would happen that made it a stressful time,” Guevara said. “The University as an institution has worked diligently to foster a more welcoming environment for Latinos, African-Americans, Asians and different groups that make up the University.”

Eric Bybee, a cultural

studies and education graduate student who is Latino, said although there is racialization of his ethnic group, he feels comfortable on UT’s campus.

“I think that UT, compared to other places, there is a very strong Latino presence compared to other places I’ve lived,” Bybee said. “My experience being here at UT, and part of the CMAS, has been one that has been very racially fulfilling.”

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Forum page opens up space for SG, Senate, and the GSA

By Amil Malik Forum Editor @amil_malik94

Election season is often rife with promises from elected candidates on all they plan to achieve during their time in office — if they are elected. Yet, when the time comes to carry through on these promises, a lot is left on

the table. So this issue of Forum focuses on the three main elected bodies on campus — Student Government, the Senate of College Councils and the Graduate Student Assembly — highlighting what each of these three groups has done for students on campus thus far. SG President Kori Rady wrote on behalf of SG. Senate President Geetika Jerath wrote on behalf of Senate. And GSA President Brian Wilkey — who assumed the presidency at the beginning of the semester when former president David Villarreal stepped down — wrote on behalf of GSA. As a refresher, some of the platform points

the Rady-Strickland team campaigned on included extending Thanksgiving break, extending facility hours at places like Belo and the Union, expanding URide — a program that gets university students home from the downtown entertainment district after midnight — lighting the Tower for academics and forgiving first-time parking tickets. Some of the platform points Jareth campaigned on, in an election internal to Senate, included expanding interdisciplinary opportunities, strengthening the involvement of organizations through the Invest in Texas campaign, analyzing budget priorities and publishing

online voting records. Some of the points the Villarreal-Wilkey team campaigned on included improving graduate student housing options, increasing participation in the GSA, a push to improve graduate student health services and professionalizing GSA’s procedures.

For more information on campaign platforms visit www.http://radystrickland.com or www.dailytexanonline.com where we have a link to the online version of Jerath’s campaign.

Malik is a business honors, finance, and Plan II junior from Austin, Texas.

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Senate focuses on academics

By Geetika Jerath Guest Columnist

As the official voice of students in academic affairs, the Senate of College Councils has been working hard this year to enhance the academic sphere of UT in various ways.

We kicked off the year with our annual Academic Expo, during which students learned more about Senate’s internal structure and our initiatives. Since then, our six committees have been working on university-wide events and legislation. Recently, our Academic Integrity Committee hosted IntegrityUT Week, a weeklong celebration of academic integrity and the new honor code that Senate helped to create. We hosted a series of Lunch and Learns with distinguished faculty and administrators, including President Powers.

A thousand students received t-shirts with the new honor code to wear on test days to promote academic integrity. More than a thousand students also memorized the honor code and signed a huge honor code board to show their commitment. President Powers also signed it to support our students. During Senate’s last General Assembly, we passed legislation to include the new honor code and a statement regarding Student Judicial Services’ procedures on syllabi.

We have many more academic themed weeks and initiatives coming up. The Faculty Affairs Committee is planning Faculty Appreciation Week 2015 and are soliciting applications for Professors and TAs of the Month. The Undergraduate Research Committee is currently seeking applicants for a $1000 undergraduate research grant and planning for Research Week 2015. The Recruitment and Retention Committee is preparing to host Ready Set Go, a college readiness program for high school students. They are also leading our recently announced Transfer Student Ad-Hoc Committee, which will include a working group and focus groups for transfer student issues. We passed legislation and are hoping to create a Transfer Student Experience Program within the First Year Experience Office in order to promote resources and four-year graduation rates for transfer students.

In November, the Academic Enrichment Committee will be hosting Academic Enrichment Week, which will include events about internships, study abroad, research, and academic service learning. On November 19, the Academic Policy Committee with the Undergraduate Studies Council will host our first Student Series Campus Conversation on Technology in Higher Education from 5-7pm in the Gregory Gym Games Room. We invite every student to attend and participate. We hope students will share their opinions concerning these university-wide issues.

We hope to create new legislation based on these conversations and report recommendations to UT’s future president.

Our coordinators are working hard this year to support the mission of Senate from managing our media and outreach efforts to implementing legislation previously passed in our assembly concerning faculty exit surveys, an online handbook, and supporting student ownership of intellectual property among other pieces.

In addition to our internal work and efforts to support our 20 college councils, Senate is a part of Invest in Texas, a student lobbying campaign at the Texas Legislature with the GSA and SG. Our Invest in Texas Co-Director is planning for our Invest in Texas Day at the Capitol and will be reaching out to our student body to identify student priorities. We plan to also engage other UT System Schools during this process.

At the beginning of the year, we welcomed 50 new At-Large members into Senate. They are pursuing their own individual initiatives which include expanding the FRI model to other colleges, creating an IntegrityUT Campaign, tackling registration issues, creating a medical excuse policy, streamlining the pre-law program and more!

We encourage all students to connect with us through our website, utsenate.org, or through social media by following us on Facebook and @ utscc on Twitter. Our General Assemblies are every other Thursday at 7pm in the SAC Legislative Assembly Room with our next one on November 13th. Our meetings are open to any student and we would love to hear about your ideas for legislation or events.

We look forward to serving the student body through various events, initiatives, and legislation pieces. We are launching some big surprises in the coming months, so stay tuned! In Senate, what starts here changes the university.

Jerath is the president of the Senate of College Councils. She is an international relations and global studies senior from Friendswood.

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From left to right: Kori Rady, president of Student Government; Brian Wilkey, president of the Graduate Student Assembly; and Geetika Jerath, president of the Senate of College Councils.

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GSA works to better student SG recaps its experience, focuses on health achievements

By Brian Wilkey Guest Columnist

For those who haven’t experienced it, graduate education is … indescribable. I don’t mean in the “it’s a form of rapture and ecstasy that’s indescribable” way. I’m just not sure how to put this experience or its value into words. There are so many moving parts in graduate education that explaining various aspects of the graduate experience is far easier than giving someone a comprehensive description. Vice-President of Student Affairs Gage Paine recently framed this frustration well; she said, “It’s like a fish attempting to describe water. It just…is.”

This lack of description for graduate education frustrates me because earlier this year I took on the mantle of the presidency of the Graduate Student Assembly (GSA) — an organization that dedicates itself to adding more value the experience of the 13,000 graduate and professional students at UT Austin. How, though, do we determine the value of these experiences? There is a desire to boil down the value that comes from of the moving parts that compose a graduate education to a dollar amount, but, as both undergraduate and graduate students can attest, the value of our experience is not the money we make after we graduate.

Since coming into office, the Assembly has undertaken some fantastic projects, some of which are on-going. Perhaps that which we are most proud of at the moment is the revision of our governing documents. For years our governing documents were amended in isolation to help address a problem the GSA faced and when I took office, they were in complete disarray – contradicting each other and making the business of improving graduate student lives a bit more challenging than it already is. Over the course of the summer, seven dedicated members tackled these documents, and, after much discussion with the Assembly and administrators, the documents were approved. We now have a solid foundation from which the Assembly can build.

Our members and directors work hard to connect to the wide set of needs that graduate students have. Just recently, the GSA undertook our second annual Graduate Student Professional Development

For years our governing documents were amended in isolation to help address a problem the GSA faced and when I took office, they were in complete disarray — contradicting each other and making the business of improving graduate student lives a bit more challenging than it already is.

Week (GPDW). Four nights of speakers and panels were dedicated to helping graduate and professional students, no matter their career path, prepare for the next step in Academia, Industry, Non-Profits. The events were well-attended and rewarding to participants, moderators, and guests with many thanks to our Academic Affairs Director, Deepjyoti Deka, and Programs Director, José La Torre.

We have sent a delegation to the fall summit of the Student Advocates for Graduate Educate (SAGE). The delegates shared best practices with Graduate Assemblies at peer institutions, and planned its agenda to take to Washington D.C. and discussed the issues facing graduate students nationwide.

The Assembly has great plans for the rest of its legislative session. We have a surplus budget at the moment and hope to use it to fund as many graduate student organizations and award as many travel grants as we possibly can. We have several programs to connect graduate students all over campus with social hours and research collaborations. We will establish two semi-autonomous agencies, the Graduate Student Health Agency (GSHA) and Entrepreneurship and Industry Agency (EIA). The GSHA will help graduate students navigate the very complicated business of health insurance (school provided or not) and get access to good mental health and medical services. The EIA will help graduate students connect their expertises to local business and startups, and more importantly, help the GSA become self-sustaining. The EIA hopes to establish sponsorships and begin the process of creating an endowment.

The GSA is doing wonderful things, attempting to improve whatever the graduate student experience may be. This year, we’re going to attempt to study and explain the value of graduate education. We want to add the intangibles to the “dollars and cents” perspective of value and articulate what it really means to be a graduate student. The Graduate Student Assembly is going to take the lead on what we hope becomes a national discussion and truly define the value of the graduate student experience. The moment when a TA helps a student to make a breakthrough or the discussion with an advisor that will lead to paradigm shifts in your field – these are the moments that should come to mind when we talk about the value of graduate education, not just the profitably of a department. We want to change the national discussion about the importance of what we do, while simultaneously thanking the institutions that train and support our work.

After all, although graduate students, as a whole, don’t always identify with their graduate institution in the same way they identify with their undergraduate institutions, I believe every graduate Longhorn at UT Austin wants to live up to the maxim of starting here and changing the world.

Wilkey is the president of the Graduate Student Assembly. He is a human development and family sciences graduate student from Vandalia, Ohio.

Hello, Longhorns! Since our term began last spring, we’ve been working hard to create changes that make student life at the University of Texas safer, more convenient and all around better than ever. As promised, we have accomplished several of our platform points, and we are pleased to detail some of the tangible benefits that we’ve helped implement thus far on behalf of students on this campus.

The first of these benefits is SafeRide! By working with the company URide, with funding provided by the Office of the President, Student Government has created a free, alternative method to help students get home safely at night from downtown. In addition, at the beginning of this semester, we began a pilot program with URide which offered students free rides home from the PCL late at night. We are excited to announce that due to the success of the pilot program, this service will be expanding operations to 24 hours a day, 5 days a week. This will enable students to go to the PCL and study for as long as they need to without having to worry about getting home safely.

Another new development is the Longhorn Advocates Program. This is a group of 31 students, paired with 31 UT alumni, who meet with the 31 members of the Texas Senate. We created this program with the intent of magnifying student involvement and presence at the Capitol. We believe that this program will help us build and maintain a strong relationship with our state legislators, and we expect several positive benefits for students around the state in years to come as this program grows.

As of now, the FAC will be open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Last spring, one of our major platform points was to provide students with safer, more convenient locations for students to study and further their academic pursuits. A fellow student, Alex Dickey, suggested that we consider the FAC for this purpose. We officially announced the opening earlier this week, and we are excited for the benefits that students will receive from this initiative. Keep an eye out for info on the kickoff event later this week.

Currently, we are in the process of working with Texas Athletics to help improve the gameday experience. Through the creation of a student leader group which meets specifically with administrators in the athletics department, we hope to establish a channel of open communication between UT students and Texas Athletics. In addition, we are also discussing the possibility of an on-campus student tailgate with Athletics.

Furthermore, we are pleased to announce the success of our Thanksgiving Break initiative. By working with Staff Council, Faculty Council and the University Academic Calendar Committee, we have extended the break to include the Wednesday before Thanksgiving, beginning in 2018. This will provide students with an extra day to travel home and spend time with their families during the Thanksgiving Holiday.

I, along with the rest of the Student Government Executive Board, am extremely grateful for the opportunity to serve students and to have accomplished several of the platform points on which we originally campaigned. If anyone has any ideas or any changes they would like to see happen, feel free to stop by the Student Government Office in SAC 2.102, and chat with with us, or contact us on Facebook or Twitter (@ut_sg).

Rady is a government and corporate communication senior from Houston.

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Study reveals rapid lizard evolution

By Robert Starr @robertkstarr

As a child, Yoel Stuart played with snakes. Now as a postdoctoral researcher at UT, he plays with anole lizards as a scientist.

A recent study he worked on has received a lot of attention after his group published the paper in Science.

The study looked at one species of lizards, green anoles, living on islands off the coast of Florida and what happened after a different species of lizards, brown anoles, invaded.

When forced to compete, evolutionary pressures forced the green anoles to develop larger and stickier toe pads for climbing trees.

Though evolution is often considered a slow process that takes hundreds of thousands of years, careful measurements allowed Stuart and his team to detect this change after only 15 years, or 20 generations of lizards, which is impressive when one considers just how subtle of a change this is. Green

anoles are small animals — no more than 8 inches long, most of which is tail — and their toe pads only increased in size by about 4 percent to 6 percent over this time.

It’s not just later-generation lizards growing larger toes, though. Stuart and his team concluded that this was the result of evolutionary adaptation.

“I think the reason we can say that so confidently is that we ruled out all the other possibilities,” Stuart said.

For instance, another possible explanation could be that the toe pad size and stickiness weren’t coded into the lizards’ genes but were the result of the environment. The feet of a tribe of barefoot-running humans will look very different than those of street-walking Austinites, and it has nothing to do with genetics.

Stuart and his co-authors took green anole eggs from several different islands and raised them in identical conditions. The anole hatchlings from the invaded islands grew larger and stickier toes than those that weren’t, strongly suggesting this was a genetic change.

The team also performed genetic analysis of different

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With “Poor Boys’ Chorus,” Kettler and Novacek hope the audience can find an escape from reality, if only for a short time.

“I’d love for them to have that feeling that they’re lost in this kind of fun, dangerous, theatrical world and have them kind of forget that they’re on the UT campus for a little while,” said Kettler. “So that’s my hope, that when the play’s over it would be like waking up from a dream or something.”

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“I feel like we are so much more than a yoga studio,” Kutchey said. “We feel like our space is more of a community space.”

The growing popularity of different types of yoga has led to the creation of more classes at the festival.

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Postdoctoral researcher Yoel Stuart holds a green anole lizard, which he is currently researching.

species of green anoles from separate islands to make sure that larger-toed green anoles hadn’t migrated to the islands during the 15-year study and created the illusion of adaptation.

The different islands all had lizard populations about equally distinct from each other genetically, suggesting that the larger-toed lizards on the different islands evolved independently.

A further analysis showed that the island populations themselves were all about equally diverse, which wouldn’t happen if largertoed lizards migrated to certain areas and added their genes to the pool. hoop class.”

Brown said that yoga gives her a healthy escape from the stress of day-today activities.

“You’re taking a little bit of time to turn introspective, and turn inward, shut out all of the noise, all of these fast-paced hectic problems,” Brown said.

Brown explained that she was very preoccupied as a UT student and had difficulty managing her stress.

She said she wishes she had discovered running and yoga much earlier in life.

“It’s one of the most welcoming and comforting things to be a new person in a yoga class because

The anoles from the invaded islands do tend to climb higher than those from the non-invaded ones, and there are other studies that show that these traits do correspond to better climbers in many other lizard species, but one can never be too sure. A hypothesis is only as strong as the tests it’s subjected to, and, if Stuart and his colleagues are correct, then further tests will only increase their confidence.

Of course, follow-up studies are also a good excuse to spend more time with the green anoles.

“They’re just neat creatures,” Stuart said. “They’re fun to observe and catch and hang out with.” there are people there who want to help you and show you what to do,” Brown said. “Do something that scares you.”

Roberts explained the festival is a social melting pot and an opportunity to be exposed to people who come from different backgrounds and experiences.

He said participants will have the chance to take classes with some of the best teachers in the world and be inspired mentally and emotionally in their practices.

“There is a common denominator in the energy and the attitude of the people,” Roberts said. “It’s a very no-judgment zone.”

According to Kathy Fuller-Seeley, “To Be or Not to Be,” a comedy that openly ridiculed Nazis at the beginning of America’s entrance into World War II, is the strangest movie that radio star Jack Benny starred in, but it was also his best.

Fuller-Seeley, a radio-television-film professor at UT, will be screening the film, directed by Ernst Lubitsch in 1942. The film is about an acting troupe in Nazi-occupied Poland who attempt to help a Polish resistance soldier find a German spy that has plans that could destroy the resistance movement.

Fuller-Seeley first wanted to present the film because of its humor, as well as the critical recognition the film received from magazines such as TIME and Variety.

Additionally, Fuller-Seeley wanted to show the film because of Jack Benny’s uncharacteristic performance.

Prior to the film’s release, Benny was famous for his radio show, “The Jack Benny Program,” which ran for three decades. Fuller-Seeley is currently writing a book about Benny and his radio career.

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She also wanted to show the film because of its legacy.

Both Fuller-Seeley and Tom Schatz, a radio-televisionfilm professor, said that the film was significant because it satirized the Nazis.

“It was one of the few Hollywood movies, especially this early in the war, that dealt with Nazi Germany and dealt with the Nazis in a comedy,” Schatz said. “The fact that this was made at all was interesting.”

As a result, the film has been noted as one of the first “black comedies.” Schatz said the film helped expand the role of comedy by making controversial subjects, such as Nazism, fair game to ridicule.

Fuller-Seeley hopes that the screening will allow the audience to see how talented a performer Benny was, even in a film that was not typical of his normal work.

“Not a lot of people have seen [the film], so I want them to enjoy a very smart comedy — a very well made film,” Fuller-Seeley said.

Next month, Fuller-Seeley will present another talk about Benny’s work as a radio and television personality.

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VOLLEYBALL

Horns dominate in sweep of Texas Tech

By Jacob Martella

Like Steve Spurrier’s visor, Bill Snyder’s pullover, or Bear Bryant’s fedora, Texas head coach Charlie Strong’s game-day attire is most recognizable by one thing: the mock turtleneck.

Against North Texas, Strong debuted the garment, a turtleneck in which the neckpiece is not in fact folded down, in 95-degree heat. No matter the temperature or circumstance, Strong sports the ’90s fashion item with pride.

Recently, however, the Longhorns’ new coach added some variety to his sideline wardrobe, going with a burnt orange top against Iowa State instead of the white one he had worn through the team’s first six games.

Despite beating the Cyclones in his first game wearing the new color, Strong made the curious decision to go back to white in the team’s next game and sure enough, the Longhorns were shut out

by Kansas State. But, after

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Amy Neal, as well as a couple errors by the Red Raiders, allowed the Longhorns to win the set 25-18 going into the intermission.

The third set, by comparison, was much easier for the Longhorns. Texas again jumped out to an early 11-3 lead over Texas Tech behind the serving runs of Neal and sophomore middle blocker Chiaka Ogbogu. Ogbogu also added two kills during that run.

another burnt orange victory in Lubbock last weekend, Strong is now a perfect 2-0 in the school’s color.

“My daughter, Hailee, she told me I can only wear orange from here on out,” Strong said.

Some of his players have noticed the trend, too, and if senior defensive back Quandre Diggs had his way, the whole team would be wearing the lucky shirt.

“I told him before the game that’s the one he needs to wear,” Diggs said. “I think everybody needs to wear a little mock turtleneck this week. And I think if we play as well as we did, we all need to continue to wear it.”

While superstition doesn’t appear to play into Strong’s reliance on game-day turtlenecks, a few Longhorns have found a link between certain wardrobe decisions and onfield success and seem convinced it’s a case of causation, not just correlation.

“I’m very superstitious,” Diggs said. “I have to have two thin wristbands on my legs. I’ve got to have high

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The Red Raiders tried to close the gap from there, going on a 6-2 run to trim the Longhorns’ lead to 13-8. But that would be as close as it would get. Texas fired back with a 5-2 run of its own on its way to a 25-13 set win to finish off the sweep.

Texas finished the night with the edge in every statistical category except attack attempts, which Texas Tech led 107 to 103. The Longhorns posted 39 kills, five service aces and eight

blocks while the Red Raiders managed 24 kills, one service ace and two blocks.

Eckerman led the Longhorns with 10 kills, while Ogbogu and sophomore outside hitter Paulina Prieto Cerame each had seven kills.

Cerame and junior middle blocker Molly McCage each posted five blocks, and freshman libero Cat McCoy led the team with 15 digs, as she has all season.

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junior outside hitter Jenna Allen — who came into the match sixth in the conference in kills — to only nine kills in the match and held sophomore middle blocker Lauren Douglass to just a .200 hitting percentage after she came into the match with a .334 season hitting percentage. The Longhorns also forced four Red Raiders into negative hitting percentages.

Texas returns home to play Kansas State on Friday at 7 p.m.

Head coach Charlie Strong may not be supersitious about the color of his turtleneck, but the Longhorns are 2-0 this season when he wears his burnt orange turtleneck.

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socks that I can pull down and scrunch up, and my main thing is having the long shirt under my jersey. That’s something I’ve been wearing for the last two or so years. I feel like it’s been working for me.”

They may not be quite as obvious, but sophomore quarterback Tyrone Swoopes has a few quirks of his own.

“Every time I put my pads and shoes on, I’ve got to do it a certain way every time or I won’t feel right,” Swoopes said.

“I always put my left side on before I put the right side on.”

Superstition, the idea that one event causes another without any natural process linking the two, has long been a polarizing topic in sports. Some players rely on a whole slew of odd rituals, while others believe it to be total nonsense, taking credit away from the time and effort spent working on their craft.

Senior wide receiver John Harris is an example of an

athlete who doesn’t care much for the notion.

“I say when we throw the ball, everything’s going right,” Harris said, when asked if he was superstitious. “Whenever we have that ball in our hands, it’s going to be a good day.”

Strong seems to have a similar perspective, preferring to keep it simple and denounce any suggestion that he might be the least bit superstitious.

But Saturday, superstitious or not, he’ll be wearing orange.

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MEN’S TENNIS | BY JASMINE JOHNSON After a week off from action, the men’s tennis team will compete in the Florida Invitational while senior Søren Hess-Olesen competes in New York.

Representing the Longhorns at the Florida Invitational are seniors Adrien Berkowicz and Lloyd Glasspool, along with junior Nick Naumann.

Sophomore George Goldhoff and redshirt freshman William Jou will also make the trip to Gainesville, Florida.

The Longhorns, however, will be without leader Hess-Olesen. The fifth-ranked two-time AllAmerican received an atlarge bid to compete at the USTA/ITA Indoor Intercollegiate Championships in Flushing, New York, beginning Nov. 6.

No. 106 Berkowicz looks to bounce back from a strong showing at the Texas Regional Championship, which ended with a semifinal loss to unranked freshman Cameron Norrie of TCU. Jou, a Houston native, looks

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Senior outside hitter Haley Eckerman posted nine kills, a service ace and five digs in the Longhorns’ win over Texas Tech Wednesday night.

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Texas volleyball left no doubt who the better team was in Lubbock on Wednesday night.

Texas dominated almost every statistical category — including posting a .262 hitting percentage to the Red Raiders’ .000 — en route to an easy sweep of Texas Tech.

Texas wasted no time asserting itself as the dominant team in the match, jumping out to a 4-3 lead and then going on a 7-0 run behind the serving of senior outside hitter Haley Eckerman. Eckerman racked up a service ace and a kill during the run, while senior middle blocker Khat Bell logged three straight kills during that stretch.

The Longhorns finished out the set with two scoring runs of 5-0 and hit .435 to the Red Raiders’ -.103 to win the set 25-10.

The second set proved to be a slightly more difficult set for the Longhorns. Texas jumped out to leads of 6-2 and 15-7, but Texas Tech hung around and managed to close the gap to as close as 18-15. However, kills by Bell and junior outside hitter

SIDELINE

Horns need repeat vs. top teams

By Peter Sblendorio Daily Texan Columnist @petersblendorio

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to improve a 1-3 singles record after going winless in singles play at his Texas Regional debut.

Naumann, who was ranked 113th in ITA preseason rankings, is still looking for his first singles victory this season while No. 31 Glasspool looks to improve a 1-3 singles record. Neither Naumann, Glasspool, nor No. 56 Goldhoff competed in the Texas Regional.

The Florida Invitational will begin Nov. 7 and run through Nov. 9. Play in New York will also run through Nov. 9.

For the first time in recent memory, Texas played a complete football game last Saturday against Texas Tech.

The Longhorns scored their highest point total in a road game this season, while holding the Red Raiders to just 13 points, tied for their fewest of the season. Sophomore quarterback Tyrone Swoopes played an inspiring game after scuffling against Kansas State, and Malcolm Brown became the first Texas running back to rush for 100-yards in a game this season.

Couple this with the fact that there were no glaring special teams errors, something that’s become a norm for Texas this season, and the Longhorns finally have a balanced performance to be proud of.

Still, I wouldn’t bank on this being a sign of things to come.

The plain truth is that Texas Tech is, simply put, a lousy football team, and the Longhorns did what teams have been doing all year against them.

Actually, in a lot of ways, they did less.

To put things into context, the Red Raiders surrendered a Big 12 record 82 points against TCU the week before playing Texas and have allowed 35 points to opponents six times in 2014. The Longhorns managed 34 points, which seems a lot less significant when you consider the only teams to score fewer than that against Tech are UT-El Paso and Kansas.

And while the Longhorns’ defense did play admirably, it becomes quite a bit less impressive when you consider the Red Raiders were relegated to using their third-string quarterback, freshman Vincent Testaverde. Testaverde didn’t exactly resemble his father, former NFL star Vinny Testaverde, on the football field Saturday night.

The Longhorns showed promise against Texas Tech, but the reality is that they’ll need to play even better this week to have any chance of knocking off No. 23 West Virginia. It’d be nice to see Texas build off some of the things they did well against the Red

Raiders, such as running the ball and defending the pass well, but the Longhorns have had an issue with stringing together consistent performances in 2014.

For example, Texas went down to the wire with No. 12 UCLA and shut out Kansas in back-to-back weeks at the beginning of the season before coming up completely lame against Baylor one week later.

Likewise, the Longhorns failed to build off their 48-point performance against Iowa State and got shut out the next week against Kansas State.

For Texas to maintain any chance of qualifying for a bowl game this season, beating West Virginia at home this Saturday is a must. To do this, the Longhorns will need to play the type of consistent, mistake-free football they’ve failed to exhibit for any prolonged stretch of 2014.

The Longhorns finally showed balance for four quarters last weekend, but unfortunately for them, they’ll have to do it against much stronger opponents for a chance at a bowl game.

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Texas soccer advances on penalty kick in Big 12 Tournament

Texas soccer entered Wednesday’s game against No. 10 Texas Tech needing a win to keep their waning Big 12 and NCAA tournament hopes alive.

The game will go down as a 1-1 draw, but the Longhorns advanced on penalties to keep their postseason hopes alive.

The Longhorns got on the board first with 10:12 left to play in the first half thanks to a goal by junior midfielder Chantale Campbell, but the two Texas teams went into overtime knotted up at one goal apiece.

The Longhorns outshot the Red Raiders 8-1 during the two 10-minute sudden-death overtime periods, but none of those shots found the back of the net, forcing the game to be decided on penalty kicks.

The winner came in the seventh round of penalties when senior midfielder Sharis Lachapelle’s goal was followed up by a Texas Tech chance that smashed off the crossbar.

The Longhorns next challenge will come in the semifinal match Friday at 5:30 p.m. against the top-seeded West Virginia Mountaineers.

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Wanderlust yoga festival to begin Thursday

By Mary Cantrell @mkcant

Avid yogis, hula-hoopers and yoga novices will be learning alongside each other on a shared mission of wellness and health this weekend. The heart of downtown Austin will serve as the backdrop of Wanderlust Festival, a three day, all-inclusive yoga festival.

While Fun Fun Fun Fest rages at Auditorium Shores, the second annual Wanderlust is set to take place on Fourth and Brazos streets from Nov. 6 to 9. Classes are offered at different times each day and range from stand up paddleboard yoga to black light yoga and include runs that will tour Austin’s most well-known destinations. Some classes aren’t

based in yoga or running at all, such as the DIY fabric dyeing workshop.

The festival will include live music; DJ sets will set the scene during yoga classes. There will be vendors, a mixture of outof-state and local businesses, ready to provide the festivalgoers with items like headbands and athletic clothing.

In addition to the world-renowned instructors recruited

by Wanderlust to teach classes at the festival, local instructors are also participating.

Wanderlust yoga instructors and UT alumni Ben Roberts and Jennifer HowardBrown explained how yoga can help relieve stress and help confront problems, especially for students in highstress environments.

“The state that students are

in is a great opportunity to start learning great habits,” Roberts said.

According to Roberts, the negative stress relievers that college students tend to turn to only hide stress temporarily.

He said yoga provides a quiet time to address problems and learn how to move past them.

“Yoga, as the antithesis to [more common stress relievers], is an opportunity where you are forced with confronting it,” Roberts said. “It’s just you on your mat for an hour.

You’re in your head, and all you’re doing is breathing.”

Joanna Kutchey, co-founder of the Wanderlust studio in Austin, said that their studio has an inclusive atmosphere.

She hopes to bring this same

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Wanderlust yoga festival is returning to Austin for the second year, offering classes such as black light yoga and hula-hooping workshops.

THEATER & DANCE

‘Poor Boys’ Chorus’ to premiere Friday at SAC theater

By Alejandra Martinez @ahl3h

In a small town where poor boys can’t talk to rich girls, an unlikely friendship begins between the richest girl in town and one of its poorest boys. This is the premise of “Poor Boys’ Chorus,” a new play set to premiere Friday at the Student Activity Center’s Black Box Theater.

According to Brian Kettler, the play’s writer and a theatre and dance graduate student, what follows is a coming-ofage love story.

“I was really inspired by what I see as some classic

coming-of-age stories — so movies like ‘Stand by Me,’ movies like ‘My Girl,’” Kettler said. “It was really an attempt to tap into the feelings [that are] evoked by those kinds of stories.”

For Natile Novacek, theatre and dance graduate student, being the director of the play was about bringing human feelings and conflicts to the stage.

“It’s also a story about people choosing to make a connection against all odds, people choosing to embrace the light or the dark in them,” said Novacek. “And people who are forced to

make choices very early on about what their life is going to look like.”

“Poor Boys’ Chorus” has been a departure from what Kettler usually writes.

“I tend to write a little more naturalism or realism,” Kettler said. “This play is not that. It’s a lot more poetic.

There’s a chorus of three boys that drives the action. I’d never written a chorus before into a play.”

The first time Novacek and Kettler began to work together on “Poor Boys’ Chorus” was in a classroom.

“I was lucky enough to be in a class together with

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Brian, and we were paired to work on it together,” Novacek said.

In the same class was Will Douglas, the theatre and dance undergraduate who will play Steeds. For Douglas, the amount of time spent playing the character in class prepared him for his time on stage.

“When you don’t have a performance that you’re getting ready for, you have

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Will Gibson Douglas and Malori Carr rehearse a scene from “Poor Boys’ Chorus,” which will premiere Friday.

a lot of space to play, get things wrong and mess up a lot,” said Douglas. “Already

having that playtime with the

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