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Student default bandwidth to double By Eleanor Dearman @ellydearman
Beginning in January, the University will double the amount of time students can watch Netflix on campus or study online. The University is increasing its default bandwidth allocation, which all offcampus students are given as a part of their tuition fees, from 500 MB per week to 1 GB per week beginning Jan. 12. That is the equivalent of
600 web page views or three hours of Netflix — double the current amount — according to a University Information Technology Services network report. Students will still have the option to purchase additional bandwidth. According to ITS, the new bandwidth policy will cost the University $215,000 a year. This increase follows an attempted policy change in August when ITS unsuccessfully tried to remove the default bandwidth
allocation, which required students to purchase a bandwidth tier. “In the end, the community came back and said they still desired to have some default allocation for academic use,” said William Green, ITS director of networking and telecommunications. Bandwidth amounts for TAs will also be extended to a base of 50 GB, or 31,000 web-page visits per week. Other than doubling the default bandwidth amount,
next semester the bandwidth system will be the same. Students will have the option to buy 10 GB, 50 GB, 200 GB or 500 GB of additional bandwidth for $3, $5, $6 or $8, respectively. “I don’t think more Internet usage connection is ever a bad thing,” psychology sophomore Katy Giuffre said. “I don’t think it’s a big deal to have to pay for it, but I’m not going to complain if they want to give me more bandwidth for free.”
Green said students progressively needed more gigabytes of bandwidth for their academics, and that led to the switch to 1 GB of bandwidth. Green estimates about 80 percent of student Internet use is non-academic. Giuffre said she is usually studying online when she is on campus. “It’s probably actually more academic,” Giuffre said. “Sometimes I’m on
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Total Frat Move CEO reflects on startup By Josh Willis @joshwillis35
Madison Wickham, CEO and president of the company that started Total Frat Move and Total Sorority Move, spoke at the SAC on Tuesday about his experiences in the world of startups. Wickham, a graduate of Texas State University, said he had decided to abandon the idea of starting a company after being part of several failed projects. “Screw this whole plan to start my own business,” Wickham said. “I don’t know what I’m doing. I just need to go work for somebody else that knows what they’re doing.” However, after only months of working a desk job, Wickham said he felt ready to start a company of his own — but for different reasons from before. “The thing that
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Amy Zhang | Daily Texan Staff
Madison Wickham is the president and CEO of Grandex Inc., the media company behind Total Frat Move and Total Sorority Move. Wickham spoke to students as part of the Delta Sigma Pi fraternity’s “DSPeaks” series Tuesday evening.
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Following overruling, Perry case to continue By Natalie Sullivan @natsullivan94
Judge Bert Richardson overruled a motion Tuesday to dismiss indictments against Gov. Rick Perry and said that the prosecutor in the case was properly qualified. Perry’s attorneys previously argued that the indictments against him were not valid because the prosecutor for the case, Michael McCrum, was improperly sworn in as attorney pro tem. Tony Buzbee, one of Perry’s lawyers, said McCrum did not follow the correct sequence of events when signing his oath and took the oath before signing his anti-bribery statement. Perry’s defense also argued some documents related to the case were not filed correctly. However, Richardson ruled Tuesday that McCrum was properly sworn into office. “The court holds, therefore, that the actions taken by Michael McCrum as Attorney Pro Tem are valid and that Mr. McCrum has the authority to act in his capacity as Attorney Pro Tem in this case,” Richardson said in a ruling filed with the 390th District Court. Richardson still has not issued a ruling for other issues the defense raised relating to Perry’s indictments. A grand jury originally prosecuted Perry in August for abuse of an official capacity and coercion of a public servant, Travis County District Attorney Rosemary Lehmberg. Perry vetoed state funding for Lehmberg’s investigative unit after she refused to step down following her drunken driving conviction.
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Panelists discuss Affordable Care Act By Sebastian Vega @sebantoniovega
Photo courtesy of Olive G. Forbes
The French government honored Norman Martin, philosophy and computer science professor emeritus, for his military service in World War II.
French government knights UT professor By Nidia Cavazos @NCnidia
Norman Martin, philosophy and computer science professor emeritus, received the French government’s highest decoration last week for his service during World War II. Martin received the decoration — Chevalier de
l’Ordre national de la Légion d’honneur, or the Knight of the National Order of the Legion of Honor — during a ceremony in connection to a “Salute to Veterans” celebration in San Antonio on Friday. The award is equivalent to the Medal of Honor and the
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With enrollment for coverage under the Affordable Care Act now open for 2015, four panelists at KUT Studios in the Belo Center for New Media on Tuesday discussed the impact of the act so far. The panel included State Rep. John Zerwas, RSimonton; Bee Moorhead of Texas Impact; Sam Richardson, assistant professor in the LBJ School of Public Affairs; and Austin American-Statesman reporter Tim Eaton. The group examined the impact the health care act had on Texas communities during its first year and discussed what they hope to see in the next session. According to Zerwas, polling shows people are not happy with what has happened as a result of the act. “In general, the Affordable Care Act is not well received by Americans across
Mike McGraw | Daily Texan Staff
State Rep. John Zerwas, R-Simonton, (right) speaks on a panel discussing the Affordable Care Act at KUT Studios on Tuesday.
the country and certainly in Texas, also,” Zerwas said. “If you talk to most people about it, they don’t like what it does. … More people are paying more for their insurance coverage as a
consequence of the health care reform act and [are] getting less options.” Richardson said individuals with fewer options may be uninformed. “For those who don’t fall
into the Medicaid gap, they typically get very cheap insurance coverage,” Richardson said. “For people who qualify for subsidies under
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