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Parking plan to decrease citations By Natalie Sullivan @natsullivan94
Parking and Transportation Services officials say they anticipate a reduction in the number of parking citations they issue over the next few years because of a plan to address the University’s parking assets and reduce surface parking spots on campus. Bob Harkins, associate vice president for campus safety and security, told The Daily Texan last week
that, under the 2012 Campus Master Plan — which outlines development of the University campus for the next 30 years — the University intends to construct buildings on current surface parking lots, creating the need for the construction of more parking garages. PTS is also planning to propose increased parking costs to help fund the new parking garages, he said. Dennis Delaney, PTS events/operations manager, said PTS has already seen
a decrease in parking citations, as more buildings and projects have taken up parking spaces over the past few years, and he anticipates seeing a further decrease with the implemented parking plan. “As parking spaces are more concentrated, this would limit the number of locations that a violation can occur,” Delaney said. Delaney could not provide an average number of daily
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Lecturer: Mexico in crisis after kidnappings @c_mnoriega
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PTS officials say a new University parking plan for more parking garages will result in fewer citations.
Protesters meet with McCombs dean By Adam Hamze @adamhamz
A group of protesters met with Thomas Gilligan, dean of the McCombs School of Business, on Monday to ask him to request the school’s namesake, Red McCombs, break his real estate firm’s lease that will pave the way for the construction of the biggest immigrant detention facility in the nation. The real estate firm, Koontz McCombs, signed the lease with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Corrections Corporation of America to build the facility in Dilley, Texas. The facility, named the South Texas Family Detention Center, projects a capacity of 2,400 detainees and is part of a government effort to address the surge of children and families
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Alumna Deborah Alemu speaks to media about Red McCombs’ involvement with the construction of an immigrant detention facility. The facility, set to be built in Dilley, Texas, will be the largest in the country.
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The disappearance of 43 students in Mexico shows the Mexican state is in crisis, Javier Sicilia, Mexican writer and peace activist, said at a talk on campus Monday. At the event, sponsored by the Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies Benson Latin American Studies and Collections, Sicilia spoke on the failures of the Mexican state to protect its citizens and to control widespread violence, referencing the recent abduction and suspected murder of 43 students in Iguala, Mexico. Sicilia, formerly a poet, founded Movement for Peace with Justice and Dignity in 2011, after his son was murdered by gang-related violence in Mexico. Sicilia and other members of the group traveled by bus, advocating for the legalization of drugs as a way to reduce cartel violence in Mexico. According to the Mexican Attorney General, Jesús Murillo Karam, the mayor of Iguala and his wife allegedly ordered Iguala police to kidnap the students and deliver them to a local gang. This alleged act of collusion between authorities and organized crime demonstrates a problem that has existed in Mexico for years, according to Sicilia. During the search for the 43 missing students, local authorities found nine graves containing 20 bodies in the outskirts of Iguala. Early DNA tests show the bodies do not belong to the missing students.
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Raj Patel, research professor in the LBJ School of Public Affairs, discusses the G-8 model for addressing world hunger in Africa.
Librarian enjoys research, music
By Lauren Zimmer @laurenthenerd
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Professor talks about current G-8 model, hunger in Africa By Ariana Guerra
During her undergraduate years at the University of Florida, Brittany Rhea Deputy wanted to be in Disney parades and on Broadway. But she realized she was too tall to be Tinker Bell, and, once she graduated, she ended her musical theater career. When she got a research job through the University, she fell in love with libraries. Rhea Deputy started rereading old archives and databases in her office. She did not feel like it was a profession. Her new career would lead her to rural Alabama and eventually to Texas. Rhea Deputy is now a communications librarian at UT and works in a corner office at the Perry–Castañeda Library. She wears plaid, long-sleeved
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Brittany Rhea Deputy, communications librarian at the Perry-Castañeda Library, assists with research.
shirts to stay warm in the air conditioning. She carries a walkie-talkie, in case someone has a research meltdown, and displays her engagement photos on her desk. Although she organizes books, she said that is only a fraction of her job. She holds one-on-one consultations with graduate students and professors when they work on their research. She said not all librarians have cats or wear cardigans. Instead, she said librarians
have special interests — her specialty is playing piano with her fiancé, who is a composer. Rhea Deputy enjoys her job but is frustrated by the large size of UT. She wants to make genuine connections with the patrons. She does not expect much, but she believes her humor, knowledge and stories will help her students grow. When Rhea Deputy is not in the library, she is adjusting
Raj Patel, research professor in the LBJ School of Public Affairs, advocated for more community-based alternatives to end hunger and malnutrition in Africa during a talk at Townes Hall on Monday. The lecture was the last event in the Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice’s
Health & Human Rights Colloquium series. According to Patel, during a summit in 2013, the G-8 countries launched the “New Alliance of Food Security and Nutrition in Africa,” setting a goal to lift 50 million people from poverty by 2022. “It was launched in the United States as a publicprivate partnership under the Obama administration,” Patel
said. “What they said was, ‘We are never going to end hunger in Africa without private investment.’ There are things that only companies can do — like building silos for storage and developing seeds and fertilizers. What’s interesting about that is it’s wrong.” The New Alliance model is too reliant on the private sec-
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