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UT expects to hit energy goal early By Eleanor Dearman @ellydearman
In an effort to reduce energy consumption on campus, the University has saved more than $15 million by cutting down its energy and water usage since 2009. In 2009, President William Powers Jr.’s Sustainability Steering Committee initiated a University plan to reduce energy and water use by 20 percent in educational and general
buildings on campus by 2020. With more than five years left to reach its goal, the plan has decreased usage on campus by 16.5 percent through University education programs and conservation methods. The 16.5 percent reduction, while down 4 percent from last fiscal year, was up to 17.3 percent in May. Ana Thiemer, manager of the Energy and Water Conservation Program — which was started in 2012 to support the com-
mittee’s initiative — said the fluctuation is a result of the change in seasons and is expected when measuring energy. “Over the summer, we had a really hot summer, a lot of failures in terms of equipment, and so things like that make our numbers go down,” Thiemer said. According to Thiemer, the University is expected to meet its 20 percent goal in the next two to three years. She said the early completion date is a result
of technical maintenance efforts and behavioral programs that teach conservation to University faculty, staff and students. On the technical side, Thiemer said facilities staff members are monitoring buildings for potential energy waste, such as turnedon lights, leaky faucets or malfunctioning heating and cooling units. An internal program called High Energy Response Operators instructs and encourages facilities
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TOTAL FISCAL YEAR ENERGY CHANGE 2009 1.0% 2010: —4% 2011: —8.4% 2012: —7.8% 2013: —12.5% 2014: —16.5%
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The National Institute of Health awarded sociology associate professor David Kirk a grant to support his study, which examines criminal recidivism as a result of people returning to their former neighborhoods after incarceration. Criminal recidivism is the tendency for former inmates to return to illegal behavior after being released. Kirk’s project, titled “The Maryland Prisoner Reentry Relocation Experiment,” aims to find whether there is a relationship between recidivism and the neighborhoods in which ex-convicts live. “Prior research has demonstrated that when someone comes out of incarceration, if they go back to old neighborhoods, it is a recipe for disaster,” Kirk said. “The project examines what happens if they do not go back to their old social context.” The program is a yearlong pilot program that will take place in Maryland and will track two groups of released inmates. Both will receive subsidies for living, but half of them will return to their old neighborhoods while the other half will be relocated to different environments. In order to gather information about criminal recidivism, the Bureau of Justice Statistics tracked approximately 400,000
workers to look out for repairs that could save energy. “Our zone techs really do
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UTPD, PTS launch campus safety initiative By Natalie Sullivan @natsullivan94
UTPD and Parking and Transportation Services are looking to promote cooperation between different modes of transportation on campus with a new safety initiative. The initiative, launched last week with help from Student Government and the Office of the Dean of Students, aims to raise awareness of campus safety issues for pedestrians, bikers, carts, buses and vehicles. The campaign includes a website, safety booklets for bicyclists and signs encouraging students to share the road around campus. Blanca Gamez, alternative transportation manager for PTS, said the department has been working on developing the initiative since early summer. “It’s really about being aware of everything happening around you,
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A bicyclist makes his way up 24th Street on Monday afternoon. UTPD and Parking and Transportation Services launched an initiative last week to promote safer transportation on campus.
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Brian Tsuji, associate professor and director of clinical research at the University of Buffalo, spoke about new ways to combat multidrug resistant bacteria Monday afternoon.
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When strangers Tiffany Chan and Carolyn Ellis roomed together their freshman year, they learned three things the first night: They both wore the same shoes to prom, they both bruise easily, and they both share a love for volunteering. According to Ellis, an advertising junior, the pairing was practically a storybook romance. Now two years later, the friends continue to experience the result of their shared love for volunteering. In spring 2013, during the second semester of their freshman year, they created Chi Kappa Phi Service Society to make connections with people through service. “We were looking to fill a niche that had a vacancy on campus,” Ellis said.
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Tiffany Chan and Carolyn Ellis, co-founders and co-presidents of Chi Kappa Phi Service Society, say that KPhi’s emphasis on philanthropy is what sets it apart.
“We saw a lot of spirit groups. We saw a lot of service groups. We saw a lot of groups that claimed to do both, but we weren’t sure if there was the passion and the drive to want to do the service.” Co-presidents Chan and Ellis held their first round of recruitment in fall 2013, and the group doubled to 45 students after
fall recruitment this year. The leaders sought members who are passionate about service. “Volunteering with people who want to volunteer makes such a difference,” Chan said. “We don’t do mandatory service hours because people in KPhi are there because they want to
An associate professor from the University at Buffalo spoke on campus Monday about his research in finding new ways to combat superbugs, bacteria that have mutated in response to antibiotics. Brian Tsuji, an associate
professor and director of research of antimicrobial pharmacodynamics at the University at Buffalo, said he recently received an accumulation of grants totaling more than $7.5 million to go toward his research. “This was a unique opportunity,” Tsuji said. “It’s really just asking the right questions and assembling an
outstanding team to drive the medical needs and help folks that have that infection.” Tsuji’s research focuses on clinical and translational approaches to combat multidrug resistant bacteria. According to Tsuji, his research has four major aims: bacterial killing and resistance,
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actually kill bacteria, and what does that mean clinically,” Tsuji said. “I would contend that bacteria killing matters, and it’s important to clinical outcomes. Tsuji’s research team discussed thinking differently in the dosage intensity of particular antibiotics given. His team used a novel dosing technique called front-loading. “We know Colistin by itself has a very flat profile,” Tsuji said. “To eradicate [the] bug, we brainstormed using a very high dosage in the first period then step down to traditional dosage. So we’d administer 200 percent of the dosage within the first period then de-escalate to a traditional dose. But we want to set the stage for combination because we didn’t completely obliterate bacteria.” Tsuji’s ultimate goal is to use one antibiotic and then add another antibiotic under novel dosages of regime. “If we push that dose to increasing 250 percent by using polymyxin front-loading regime coupled with this hour standard regime we actually can kill more organisms, and we can flip this coin of killing to resistance,” Tsuji said.
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general concern for safety on campus because of increased bicycle and pedestrian traffic, not because of any specific increase in accidents. “[The campaign] is more of a ‘Let’s see what else we can do to promote safety’ effort,” Gamez said. “A lot of these pedestrian and cycling incidents [on campus] go unreported, which means we don’t have a good estimate of them. But if we can help save someone from being in an accident or prevent even one bike from being stolen, it’s worth it.” UTPD and PTS have also partnered with resident assistants in on-campus dorms
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to hold presentations on pedestrian and bicycle safety. The presentations feature topics such as how to properly lock one’s bike, rules of the road and how to protect oneself in dangerous situations, such as a robbery or assault. William Pieper, UTPD officer and crime prevention specialist who runs the safety presentations on campus, said there are many simple steps bicyclists can take to protect themselves on campus. “If you’re riding down the road, please, share the road,” Pieper said. “If you see a crosswalk, slow down just a little bit — it will make a big difference. Obey the traffic
[The campaign] is more of a ‘Let’s see what else we can do to promote safety’ effort. —Blanca Gamez, Alternative transportation manager for PTS
laws because you are a moving vehicle.” Blake Kappel, an international relations and global studies sophomore who attended one of the safety presentations, said he appreciated the campaign’s focus on traffic safety, especially because of congestion on campus when he walks to class. “I liked how they got into stressing traffic safety because
I know that a lot of people and a lot of bikers don’t stop at stop signs, and I think that’s important to get out there — that it’s the law,” Kappel said. Gamez said she hopes the campaign will lead to more visible awareness of safety on campus. “It helps give our department and UTPD a face and helps build that community,” Gamez said.
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Emma Flatt, author and assistant professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill discusses her upcoming book on Monday afternoon.
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Emma Flatt, author and assistant professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, spoke at the Institute of Historical Studies on Monday about her upcoming book, which focuses on the Deccan Sultanates of South India. In the book, which she hopes to finish by the end of the academic year, Flatt focuses on the courts, commodities and consumptions of the modern day Deccan states of Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka in India. The term “court,” according to Flatt, is the web of people who surround the king and work both with him and each other. This early form of networking allowed people not only to build success but to also live well. Flatt also spoke about the economic basis to understand the culture she is studying. “So my initial question when looking into this was how do we understand how individuals of significant cultures and backgrounds move between these
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facilities of the world,” Flatt said. “How did they establish negotiation, [how did they] challenge normative behaviors and knowledge in this culturally various courtly world?” Flatt acknowledged, at the beginning of the lecture, this time period she is working in is a period when there is not a lot of documentation. From 1400-1600 A.D., Flatt said records show many members of the Islamic community were moving into the Indian region because of the large amounts of precious metals, such as silver and gold. “The reason for this movement is because people allowed the long-distance trade networks to resettle them financially and logistically,” Flatt said. “There were a lot of commodities and accommodations.” Flatt also tried to engage in the idea of what “cultural capital” meant to the Deccan. Cultural capital is not an economic exchange, Flatt said, but rather the way in which skills and objects serve as ethical tools. These tools show the way in which humans and objects are related and
how they have an effect on each other. Flatt earned her doctorate in 2009 by focusing on the philosophies of friendship and sociology in medieval South Asia, but she has researched Deccan Sultanates since 2004. Flatt also co-edited a project on the Deccan in 2011 with Daud Ali, University of Pennsylvania South Asia studies associate professor. Following the lecture, Sumit Guha, UT Asian studies and history professor, said he found the lecture engaging. “Today’s lecture was rich and thought-provoking while showing us that there is still a bigger part of the picture,” Guha said. “There is also a significance shown between Indian state of building and networking.” Seth Garfield, history professor and director of the Institute for the Historical Studies, was very pleased with the audience. “This was a very good workshop, and the audience was really engaged with good questions,” Garfield said.
organizations, such as Longhorns Lights Out, to encourage energy conservation and provides educational opportunities, such as Horns Up, Sash Down. “A lot of people aren’t aware of how much energy is being used,” said Bryce Townsend, physics sophomore and intern in the program. “I think it’s kind of surprising. Just little things like turning off a light in a room can save so much money.” According to Thiemer, the initiatives by the Energy and Water Conservation Program are not new this year, but the program has started to gather more feedback to refine its efforts, allowing its conservation to be sustainable. “We’ve taken all of those initiatives, gotten feedback from participants, and now we are revamping them,” Thiemer said.
Thus far, the department’s efforts have not cost the University significant amounts of money, since they have been changes in maintenance practices and social awareness programs, Thiemer said. Thiemer said the current reduction rates will not continue indefinitely, since there are only so many small things to repair. Eventually, the University will have to invest in more costly systems, sush as air and light units that can be controlled and monitored outside the building, if the University wants current rates to continue, according to Thiemer. “We have been doing everything with low to no cost,” Thiemer said. “There will be a time when that runs out, and UT will have to start investing in large capital improvements to keep continuing at the rate we are going.”
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Florida farmworkers’ movement On anniversary of wall’s fall, deserves buy-in from fast food has America lost its idealism?
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Members of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers gather outside their community center in rural South Florida, the epicenter of the U.S. fresh tomato industry.
By Jordan Buckley Guest Columnist
Thirteen years ago in a Florida beach town, a small group of farmworkers from a dusty agricultural town a half-hour away filed out of their old van, hand-drawn signs in tow, to declare a national boycott of Taco Bell. In a modern incarnation, David, fed up with injustice, had thrown the gauntlet against Goliath. For decades, farmworkers in the U.S. have endured grinding poverty, powerlessness and violence, but these tomato-picking picketers were bent on transformation by building awareness of their plight and vision for change. Their quest — to demand accountability for human rights abuses in the fields from multi-billion-dollar food retailers that profit more than anyone else in the chain of supply — perhaps seemed improbable. But by forging alliances with consumers, the Coalition of Immokalee Workers built a movement that triggered dramatic change for tens of thousands of women and men toiling in our nation’s tomato fields. UT students were among their earliest allies in the fledgling struggle. In November 2001, just months after the CIW quietly launched its campaign, several Longhorns met Immokalee farmworkers at a gathering in Georgia, bringing back to the 40 Acres a commitment to organize in solidarity. Members of Campus Greens and Movimiento Estudiantil Chican@ de Atzlán began handing out flyers every Friday at the Taco Bell stores in the Texas Union and Dobie Mall, at times even donning bulbous tomato costumes. Provocative posters, churned out of the Fine Arts school, graced electric boxes for miles around campus. A vibrant coalition of dozens of student groups and Greek organizations endorsed a call to “Boot the Bell” from campus. In 2003, Student Government debated, but cowardly voted down, a resolution directing UT’s food-service provider Aramark to sever its contract with Taco Bell. Following this legislative defeat, the issue was taken in 2005 to the Texas Union Board, which also declined to take a stand. But weeks later, in March 2005, Taco Bell gave in to national pressure and joined farmworkers’ efforts. (Years later, after the world’s four largest fast-food chains signed with CIW, Aramark found itself in student protest cross-
hairs, ultimately conceding in 2010.) Today, 12 major buyers — from WalMart to Whole Foods, McDonald’s to Taco Bell — have joined the Fair Food Program, whereby they pay a tad extra for tomatoes, to boost farmworker pay, and condition their purchases on farms’ compliance with a worker-drafted, worker-monitored code of conduct. The White House praised the Fair Food Program as among the nation’s “most successful and innovative programs” to combat human trafficking. Since the mid1990s, the CIW had uncovered and helped prosecute seven brutal cases of forced labor, involving more than 1,000 farmworkers in the Southeast U.S. Yet a front-page New York Times article in April described the tomato industry today, because of CIW’s achievements, as “probably the best working environment in American agriculture.” In September, former President Bill Clinton selected CIW for his prestigious Global Initiative Award, lauding the group as “the most astonishing thing politically happening in the world we’re living in today.” Inexplicably, however, Wendy’s has rejected CIW efforts. A nationwide student campaign dubbed “Boot the Braids” aims to overturn their resistance. On Tuesday and Wednesday, CIW member Silvia Perez will be on campus giving classroom presentations. “My hope is UT students will join us in calling on Wendy’s to do the right thing by ending its refusal to join the Fair Food Program,” Perez told me. Perez is in town for the Texas premiere of “Food Chains,” a penetrating film on the Immokalee farmworkers, whose producers include actress Eva Longoria and Eric Schlosser, author of “Fast Food Nation.” The film will screen at The Marchesa on Wednesday at 7 p.m. and costs just $5 with a student ID. Mexican folk music from Son Armado precedes the film, with a panel afterward composed of Perez; Smriti Keshari, the film’s producer; and Tom Philpott, food correspondent for Mother Jones. Truly, it is an honor to have CIW on the 40 Acres. Lamentably, given their inexcusable refusal to join Fair Food efforts, the same cannot be said for Wendy’s. Buckley is a Spanish and sociology alumnus who worked as a Daily Texan columnist during his time on the 40 Acres. He has lived in Immokalee, Florida, for seven years.
Newspapers, television and social media were filled this weekend with stories about the Berlin Wall. In case you were not paying attention, it came down 25 years ago, on Nov. 9, 1989. Thousands of young men and women, trapped in the East German police state, decided on that cool evening that they would no longer tolerate their collective imprisonment by a repressive regime. They pushed their way into the more prosperous and freer West Berlin, and they demanded rights and opportunities long denied. After decades of restriction, this movement was possible because the leader of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, made it clear that he would not use force, as Moscow had in the past, to prevent popular change. Other foreign leaders, including Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush, contributed to the atmosphere of peace and cooperation that encouraged people to take history into their own hands. And they did, with enormous courage and speed. In a little more than two years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, East and West Germany were reunited, Poland, Hungary and Czechoslovakia held free elections, and the Soviet Union disintegrated into 15 separate states. The global struggle between communism and capitalism ended with the collapse of the former. The persistent terror of thermonuclear war eased as the countries with the largest nuclear arsenals no longer threatened to launch these horrible weapons against one another. The Cold War era of fear and conflict opened into a period of great hope and newfound cooperation between a new Russia, a new European Union and a revitalized United States. It was a great time to be young. I remember it very well. When I entered high school in 1986 the Soviet Union was still the “evil empire.” When I graduated in 1990 the world was freer and safer than ever before. As we started college, my fellow students and I felt like we could do anything. The possibilities seemed endless. If citizens in East Germany could tear down the Berlin Wall, then we surely could do something big. After all, we had educational opportunities foreign citizens could only dream about, and we had access to resources they could not even imagine. Our privilege in a time of great change inspired a deep sense of obligation. As children of the end of the Cold War, we felt a mission to make the world a better place, to show that we could make the promises of the moment real. Many of my classmates did just that.
They created Google, they invented life-saving medical procedures, they founded new human rights organizations, they became respected judges and some even wrote books and taught talented students. Our career paths included comfortable compensation but also awareness that there was something more. Watching the fall of the Berlin Wall at a formative moment in our lives, we were all idealists and true believers. Slowly, however, the idealism from 1989 has faded throughout our society and the wider world. Maybe our expectations were too high, and we were bound to be disappointed. Maybe we overestimated ourselves and underestimated the corruption, sectarianism, violence and greed that remained present in a post-Cold War world. Maybe — and this one stings — we did not live up to our own moral commitments. Yes, I mean all of us who received a burst of opportunity in 1989. Have we been true to our ideals and aspirations? I am afraid the answer might be a qualified yes, at best. Our generation, now in our early 40s, contributes more than any before to philanthropy, but we also spend more of our time working than our predecessors. Are we working longer hours to build a better world? Is there a correlation between time in the office and contributions to society? My fear is that the relationship might be inversely correlated. Despite the frequent criticisms we voice about our society today, we have mastered operating within the system rather than changing it. We are professionals, not revolutionaries; innovators, not reformers. Instead of tearing down walls, we seem to spend more of our time reinforcing them and building new ones. For evidence of this, look at our southern border, our prisons, our gated communities and our airports. We limit people’s movement for security and we separate populations for control. We are less free and open as a society today than we were 25 years ago, and we have accepted that and learned to live with it. The memory of 1989 should encourage us to question our present. The young men and women who brought down the Berlin Wall were tenacious in their pursuit of freedom and justice. They put their lives on the line for a dream of a better world, and they made it a reality. Isn’t it time we all did the same? There are plenty of good causes in need of attention. What our current world really needs is more citizens willing to tear down the walls rather than live comfortably within them. Suri is a professor in the Department of History and the LBJ School of Public Affairs.
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continues from page 1 do service.” According to the co-presidents, what makes the service society unique is its emphasis on philanthropy. Even the society’s social events, or “mixers,” are based on philanthropy. To interact with other student organizations on campus, KPhi members accompany them on service projects. This past month, for example,
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Offensive line sparks late season run By Jori Epstein @JoriEpstein
Texas’ offensive line doesn’t do anything on a small scale. Against West Virginia on Saturday, junior center Taylor Doyle and company weren’t just trying to open small gaps for their running backs. Instead, they created large holes and allowed the running backs to rack up 227 rushing yards, including 101 yards for three touchdowns by junior running back Johnathan Gray alone. And, while the running backs claim partial success for this production, head coach Charlie Strong said the offensive line deserves credit, too. “They realize how focused and tight they have to be for everyone to believe in them,” Strong said. “Now, the running backs are trusting them. You probably could’ve driven a car through those gaps.” Gaps warranting such hyperbolic praise are one example of the offensive line’s tendency to go big or go home. But each of the team’s tendencies seems to loom large, and breakfast is no exception. The offensive line gathers at 7 a.m. Monday
mornings to watch film of the upcoming opponent over breakfast. Feeding an entire offensive line, Doyle said, is no small feat. “In the weight room, they give out these [granola] bars, and that’s pretty much the best option,” Doyle said. “We’ll take down seven or eight a piece.” The Monday film sessions are one way the offensive line bonds, but their overarching mentality and common background invite similarities as well. With suspensions, injuries and personnel shifts, the offensive line started nearly from scratch at the season’s start, but, now, it has grown together. “No one foresaw where this season was going to go, what the offensive line [would look like],” Doyle said. “There have been plenty of surprises, but I think everyone’s risen to the challenge and accepted where they stand on the team.” Doyle’s teammates also agree. Although players such as senior wide receiver John Harris have had breakout seasons, the passing game isn’t fully formed, as sophomore quarterback
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Junior center Taylor Doyle and the offensive line have helped to spark the Longhorns’ late season run. The line’s renewed vigor has helped boost Texas’ running game.
Tyrone Swoopes is climbing the learning curve as well. Harris said the offensive line stepped up when he played his worst game of the season against West Virginia. “We knew they weren’t that great of a run-stopping defense but [the offensive
line] made [West Virginia] pay for it,” Harris said. “Our offensive line made them pay big time. They stepped up big when the pass game wasn’t there for us.” Swoopes, too, has appreciated the running opportunities the line has given him, as he’s seen the
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Baylor crushes Oklahoma in Big 12 battle By Drew Lieberman @DrewLieberman
In one of the most eventful weekends of the season thus far, four teams ranked in the College Football Playoff committee’s top 10 fell, eliminating them from playoff consideration. One of the most stunning games of the weekend happened in Auburn, Alabama, where the No. 3 Tigers fell, 41-38, to Texas A&M. Auburn had several chances to win the game, but two fumbles late in the fourth quarter halted its rally. The Aggies outscored the Tigers 21-3 in a critical second quarter, which included a field goal block return for a touchdown as the half ended. No. 6 TCU routed No. 7 Kansas State, 41-20, in Fort Worth. TCU quarterback Trevone Boykin accounted for four touchdowns in the game. No. 8 Michigan State fell to No. 14 Ohio State, 49-37, in East Lansing, Michigan. Buckeye freshman quarterback J.T. Barrett threw for 300 yards and three touchdowns while adding two more on the ground. Ohio State scored two touchdowns in the final 3:20 of the first half to
take a 28-21 lead, which it did not relinquish. No. 9 Arizona State topped No. 10 Notre Dame, 55-31, in Tempe, Arizona. After the Irish scored a field goal on their first drive, the Sun Devils scored 34 unanswered points. Notre Dame rallied to get within three points, but the Sun Devils eventually put the game out of reach. 14-point swing critical in Utah: No. 17 Utah appeared to have grabbed a two-touchdown lead on No. 4 Oregon. Senior wide receiver Kaelin Clay had his man beat and the end zone in sight, but, as he approached the goal line, he dropped the ball in celebration. Instead, he technically fumbled the football, and it was scooped up by Oregon junior linebacker Joe Walker, who returned it 100 yards to tie the ball game. After the fumble return, Oregon scored 24 straight points to seemingly put the game away at 24-7. But the Utes fought valiantly, cutting the difference to 30-27 before a couple of touchdowns by Oregon quarterback Marcus Mariota gave the Ducks a comfortable cushion.
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The Bears took down Oklahoma on the road. With the win, Baylor hopes the outcome will help their playoff chances.
Baylor makes a statement: Entering the weekend, eyes were on No. 12 Baylor, which desperately needed to impress the playoff committee to try to stake its claim as one of the four best teams in the nation. The Bears trailed, 14-3, at the end of the first quarter but closed with the contest’s final 45 points to blow out the No. 15 Sooners, 48-14. It was Baylor’s first victory ever on
the road against Oklahoma. Late field goal sets stage for high-stake game in Tuscaloosa: As is often the case when LSU plays Alabama, this year’s contest went down to the wire. The No. 5 Crimson Tide held the No. 16 Tigers to a field goal in the closing minute of regulation after Alabama turned the ball over at its own six. Trailing, 13-10, with 50
seconds remaining, Crimson Tide quarterback Blake Sims moved the offense 39 yards to set up the game-tying field goal by placekicker Adam Griffith. Alabama scored a touchdown on its first possession in overtime and forced four straight LSU incompletions to secure the 20-13 victory. The Crimson Tide host No. 1 Mississippi State this weekend.
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Strong’s methods show strength against West Virginia By Peter Sblendorio @petersblendorio
For anyone wondering if the Longhorn players are buying into Strong’s process, look no further than the scene in Texas’ locker room following Saturday’s game. Head coach Charlie Strong hardly made it a few steps through the door before a mob of players grabbed him, hoisted him in the air and helped him crowd surf across the locker room. “I just walked in there, and they grabbed me,” Strong said. The answer should now be clear. The players were animated and lively after the game, jumping and screaming while raising their coach to the air. Texas finally earned a win to be excited about under Strong. Through the first nine games of Strong’s tenure, the Longhorns did little to prove that the much-advertised changes were coming any time soon. They handled their business in the four games they were expected
to win and dropped the five they were expected to lose. Saturday’s game against No. 23 West Virginia was different. The Longhorns looked confident and in control — two words we haven’t been able to use often to describe them this season, especially against ranked foes. They built an early lead and never looked back en route to their first home win over a top-25 school since 2008. No, the victory didn’t push Texas into contention for a national championship or even a Big 12 title. But it was Strong’s first signature win at Texas — the type of win you can build on. Had the Longhorns failed to beat the Mountaineers, they would have needed to win each of their final two games to become bowl eligible. It’s not a likely scenario when you consider No. 6 TCU is coming to town on Thanksgiving for the final contest of the season. Now, Texas stands just one win away from a chance at a
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Texas’ decisive 33-16 win over West Virginia proves that players are buying into head coach Charlie Strong’s message.
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bowl game, and, with a game against reeling Oklahoma State up next on the schedule, the Longhorns are in a good position to clinch bowl eligibility. It’s not exactly what they brought Strong in for, but it’s a lot better than anybody expected two weeks ago when they were 3-5 on the season. Saturday’s game marked more than just a late-season victory, too. It provided a blueprint for how Strong wants to
win games: playing stellar defense and pounding the rock. The Longhorns stifled senior quarterback Clint Trickett, the Big 12’s leading passer, all game long, holding him to just 5.1 yards per attempt, zero touchdowns and a season-low QBR of 23.4. On offense, sophomore running back Johnathan Gray led the way with 101 rushing yards and three touchdowns. Senior running back Malcolm Brown
added 90 yards on the ground. The Longhorns finally ran the ball the way they knew they were capable of, and it led to what was likely the team’s most impressive offensive output of the season. The victory over West Virginia marked the first signature win in Strong’s short career at Texas. If the Longhorns continue to play the way they did Saturday, it will be the first of many.
Texas volleyball remains fifth in newest AVCA poll Despite defeating Texas Tech and thenNo. 22 Kansas State, Texas volleyball (18-1, 10-1 Big 12) remained in the fifth spot in this week’s coaches poll. The Longhorns are behind two-loss Wisconsin. Stanford remained at the top spot, followed by Washington and Florida State.
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ALUMNI
Alumnus runs local printmaking company By Cat Cardenas @crcardenas
Color is something there is never a shortage of at Rural Rooster. Buckets of ink containing almost any color imaginable line the art studio’s shelves. There are screens of different designs on every table, and clean Tshirts are nowhere in sight. The artists, of course, don’t mind the chaos, describing screen printing as messy — but a labor of love. Rural Rooster is an East Austin screen printing studio founded by J.J. Campbell in 2001. Six other artists help run the studio. Each comes from varying artistic backgrounds, such as graphic design, T-shirt printing and poster-making. Campbell and the other artists of Rural Rooster can be seen during the East Austin Studio Tour, a self-guided tour showcasing the studios of local artists. The tour will take place Saturday-Sunday and again Nov. 22-23.
While Campbell started out designing T-shirts for bands he was in as a teenager, the Austin artist and UT alumnus is now a regularly commissioned artist. He now designs posters and other merchandise for bands such as Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros and St. Vincent. “I was still a senior in college, and I started working under that name — Rural Rooster — just out of my house.” Campbell said. “I’ve worked on perfecting my craft since then and getting other people involved who have helped the business change and evolve over the years.” Louis Eastman, the primary T-shirt printer at Rural Rooster, believes working with various artists helps not only the company evolve but the artists themselves. “I’ve learned a lot from my coworkers,” Eastman said. “They’re very knowledgeable and well
rounded. I can bounce ideas off of them, and brainstorming is always welcome. It gives you different perspectives [because] we all have lots of experience in several different fields.” Although she has been working for Rural Rooster for just two years, Colleen Judge is an experienced printmaking instructor. She said she focuses primarily on creating the shop’s posters — something that allows her to work on more intricate designs. “I like posters because you can get a lot of different details with only a few amount of colors,” Judge said. “Printing posters allows me to see how paper and ink interact with each other, and it allows me to mix inks and manipulate colors.” The printing process is an intensive one. After creating a design, every color that makes up the design has to be separated,
J.J. Campbell, UT alumnus and founder of Rural Rooster, a screening printing studio, uses a slate and screen to create art designs on paper. Campbell designs posters and merchandise for bands such as Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros and St. Vincent. Maria Muñoz Daily Texan Staff
dedicating each screen to a single color. A transparency is then printed out for each color while the screen is coated in a photo emulsion, which reacts with light and leaves the screen with a stencil of the design. “There are several stages to it,” Campbell said. “Once I have an assignment, I’ll start in on the design, and I’ll generally draw out a few directions in my
sketchbook or do digital sketches and get inspired by things around me.” For Campbell, his work at Rural Rooster has been heavily influenced by his experiences making Tshirts for bands, studying studio art at UT and working a part-time job through college. “I definitely learned a lot of the craftsmanship behind screen printing at UT,”
Campbell said. “We talked a lot about the implications of certain image and colors. It helped me build my visual vocabulary to help me communicate certain things. Then I worked a part-time job at a T-shirt store through school, and there were things I learned there that I didn’t learn in college. I think the blending of both of those sides gives me a unique voice.”
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Student founds aggregation website for exchanging knowledge By Amanda Booth @wordswithamanda
Mbiyimoh Ghogomu said he wants to help the younger generation better understand the world. The sociology senior along, with his childhood friend Dylan Dement, founded the website The Higher Learning. Their goal was to provide a shortened, simplified version of the news for young
readers. The website takes facts consistently found in a variety of news sources and condenses them into a quick, 60-second read. The Higher Learning recaps topics ranging from world news to science and technology. In addition to the website’s short recent event recaps, Ghogomu also writes editorials for the site. He said, although he usually offers a progressive
opinion in his editorials, his conservative friends have told him that they enjoy reading the editorials because he is transparent about his opinions and provides the viewpoint of both sides of the argument. Ghogomu spent his first two years of college at Dartmouth. He said he enjoyed being surrounded by intelligent people but didn’t think the atmosphere was
helping him figure out what he wanted to do with his life. Ghogomu decided to take a couple of years off from college to work and do individual research on various topics that interested him. This research is what inspired The Higher Learning. “I came to the realization that, for the knowledge I learned to be valuable, I had to find a way to share it,”
Ghogomu said. Dement, a UT-Dallas alumnus with a degree in global business, deals with the business side of the company. “I kind of wanted to own my own business eventually,” Dement said. “But I didn’t think I could do it at this stage of my life.” Dement helps produce content, as well. He said, initially, this was his only
responsibility because they did not create the website with the intention of it becoming a business. “We felt like the original idea behind it was to help people,” Dement said. “We were really just trying to spread the word about anything.” Ghogomu has started recruiting writers on campus.
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