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Senator seeks to clarify regents’ role

Remaining mayoral candidates debate

By Alex Wilts @alexwilts

The manner in which the UT System governs its institutions could again be a topic of discussion during the 2015 legislative session.

State Sen. Kel Seliger, RAmarillo, has filed Senate Bill 177, which he said is designed to set a standard consistent with the practices

and guidelines of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. The mission of SACS is to improve education in the South through accreditation. “[The bill] is not designed to limit the activities of the regents,” Seliger said.

“The powers of the regents are what they are, and this doesn’t change those.”

Seliger wrote a similar

bill, along with 11 other legislators, for the 2013 legislative session. The bill came around the same time controversy developed between the UT System Board of Regents and President William Powers Jr. The 2013 bill was approved by both the House of Representatives and the Senate, but Gov. Rick Perry, who appoints regents to all

state university system governing boards, vetoed the bill. In a statement expressing his objections to the bill, Perry said limiting oversight authority of the board is a step in the wrong direction.

“History has taught us that the lack of board oversight in both the corporate and university settings

By Jackie Wang @jcqlnwng

“We’re piloting a new fundraising system,” Stormer said.

“We’re going to companies and asking them to donate to our cause. When they donate, we offer them advertisements like logos on our T-shirts, PowerPoints and emails.”

While in Panama, the group plans to partner up

With less than a month until mayoral candidates Steve Adler and Mike Martinez face each other in a runoff election on Dec. 16, the two continued their series of debates last week. Adler and Martinez, who currently sits on the Austin City Council, debated at City Hall on the City Council’s structure and land planning.

Adler criticized the City Council for holding meetings into the early hours of the morning and making policy decisions from the dais. Adler proposed a committee structure for the City Council that he said would cut down on the length of City Council meetings, while bringing the public closer to city decisions.

“Everyone on City Council would chair a committee, which means everyone would have a citywide responsibility and would come up with a citywide constituency, so they won’t think just about their districts, but think about city generally,” Adler said.

Martinez said the committee structure would disengage citizens from the process.

“They don’t want their items sitting in a committee structure,” Martinez said.

“They want their items and priorities to be voted on by the City Council. You have to manage that on the dais as well, so people have their opportunity to participate and so Council can make the final decision.”

Tweaking the current City Council structure is enough, Martinez said.

“Democracy is not always convenient, but it is absolutely necessary and we have

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CAMPUS

Environmental group takes local action

By Marisa Charpentier @marisacharp21

Since its addition to campus in 2013, UT’s chapter of Global Environmental Brigades, or GEB, has had one goal in mind each year: Panama. The organization plans an annual week-long trip to Panama, where students teach proper waste disposal techniques.

This year, however, the group has experienced several changes. With a new president in charge, the organization has extended its focus to the Austin area.

“There are a lot of ways to improve campus,” said Dakota Stormer, chapter president and chemical engineering sophomore. “Even though we do a lot, there are still more things we can do.”

In addition to planning its next trip to Panama, the group is organizing local events to aid the UT and Austin communities. The organization is putting together a kayaking trip in which they will collect trash from the water while enjoying a day on the river.

For the winter, they are organizing an outing to a farmers market, where they will gather organic materials to create Christmas ornaments to sell during finals week.

The money will go toward their trip to Panama in May.

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Civil engineering sophomore Valerie Diaz, chemical engineering sophomore Dakota Stormer and civil engineering sophomore Amanda Koif are part of Global Environmental Brigade, a campus organization promoting environmental health and sustainability.

Amanda Koif, vice president of social events and civil engineering sophomore, said she is happy with the new local activities.

“I really like how, now that [Stormer] has taken over, we are also focusing on doing environmental projects in the Austin area,” Koif said. “I think it’s really cool that we are looking at both places now.”

The UT brigade is part of a larger conglomerate of Global Brigades. College campuses also host chapters that focus on medicine, business, engineering and more.

“Global Brigades as a whole is meant to be a giant unit that works to build a sustainable community,” Stormer said. “They go and

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help build a community and teach them what they need to know to sustain themselves over time.”

Since taking over the campus chapter in October, Stormer said he has faced several challenges, especially when it comes to fundraising.

The group plans to bring 20 students to Panama, but must raise about $1,700 per person.

STATE

Engineering professor designs oil equipment, receives award

Ken Mercer, State Board of Education member, approved new textbooks for the state’s 5 million students Friday morning.

Texas public school students will use 89 new education materials starting next fall.

By Matthew Adams @matthewadams60

Vaibhav Bahadur, mechanical engineering assistant professor, and the team he leads won first place at the Society of Petroleum Engineering’s R&D competition because of work to make electrical technology more environmentally friendly.

In this year’s competition, there were 40 participants consisting of universities, laboratories, industries and individuals. The results were announced at the 2014 SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition in Amsterdam. Bahadur and his team finished first, followed by a team from Texas A&M

Joshua Guerra Daily Texan Staff

New state textbooks elicit backlash Joshua Guerra | Daily Texan Staff

Vaibhav Bahadur, mechanical engineering assistant professor, led a team to work on making electrical technology more environmentally friendly.

University in second and a team from Heriot-Watt University in Scotland in third.

“This was an important

award because it is good to have the support of the

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By Christina Noriega @c_mnoriega

The State Board of Education approved new textbooks for the state’s 5 million public school students last week, but some University professors have challenged passages

in the textbooks that claim Judeo-Christian traditions influenced the nation’s founding.

The board approved 89 educational materials that will be used by Texas public school students for the next 10 years, starting next fall. The final 10-5 vote followed months of public

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UT professor talks about hacking drones.

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Pharmacy dean discusses plans.

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Holmes leads Longhorns to 2K Classic win in NYC. PAGE 6

Lego artist offers version of Tower to UT to borrow.

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Ecuadorian ambassador meets with UT students.

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McCombs should pull away from detention center.

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Soccer falls to Notre Dame in NCAA tournament.

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debate over the factual accuracy of the textbooks.

At a board meeting Tuesday, Jennifer Graber, religious studies associate professor, presented a petition to major textbook publishers

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one of the most active communities in terms of participation,” Martinez said. “I believe we can make some structural changes and cut down the amount of hours.

You have to establish rules, stick to those rules, so there is consistency. If you call for a time certain for 6:30 p.m., you stop the meeting; you hear the item because that is what you committed to.”

Martinez defended CodeNEXT, a land development code that the Austin City Council voted on and passed a solution for Thursday night. Austin’s intricate land development code has made building projects in the city expensive and complicated for citizens, according to Martinez.

“It is an opportunity to take our code, delayer it, and create something understandable so that you, the average citizen, can do

your own projects and not hire a specialist,” Martinez said. “It’s also going to help us from a land planning perspective. When you look at public transportation and growth, CodeNEXT is a way we can have an impact on all of those issues.”

Secure Communities and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainees impact Austin negatively, Martinez said. He promised to fight against deportation programs like these and make sure no Austin money went to entities that “run against our values.”

“I was so proud of President Obama in taking the first step in stopping organizations like Secure Communities,” Martinez said. “It came from the local level.

The president’s executive order is a result for places like Austin who have been fighting and marching and getting local government to adopt resolutions and

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signed by 53 history, political science and religious studies scholars from across the nation, including six University professors. The petition stated the social studies textbooks proposed for state approval “exaggerate and even invent claims about the influence of Moses and ‘Judeo-Christian tradition’” in the creation of the Constitution.

“These and similar passages mislead students about the nature of the religious influences on our founding and directly contradict scholarly consensus

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continues from page 1 Society of Petroleum Engineering,” Bahadur said.

“From here, we will continue our research so that we can put this on the production platform and show industries that the method is productive and safe.”

Bahadur and his team looked at ways to reduce oil and gas pipelines from choking up.

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continues from page 1 diminishes accountability and provides fertile ground for organizational malfeasance,” Perry said.

Seliger said he is attempting to pass a similar bill in the 2015 session because he thinks it is necessary to set standards for governing boards of regents. Provisions of the legislation require boards to establish goals consistent with the roles and missions of each

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Mike Martinez listens as Steve Adler gives his closing remarks at the mayoral debate hosted in City Hall on Friday evening. Martinez and Adler will face each other in a runoff election for mayor on Dec. 16.

effect change in any way they could, and it resulted in the president of the United States issuing an executive order.”

Adler agreed that

detainment and deportation programs, such as Secure Communities, worked counter-productively.

“We shouldn’t be detaining people under that program

in our community,” Adler said. “You don’t have to look any further than Police Chief [Art] Acevedo, who says that practice makes law enforcement more difficult.”

in our fields,” the petition said.

Classics professor Joseph Carter signed the petition to protest the representation of the Founding Fathers in the textbooks.

“One of the things the Founding Fathers stood for very firmly was the separation of church and state,” Carter said. “The members of the school boards are trying to put the church into public education where it does not belong.”

According to state law, textbook publishers must meet state curriculum standards for state approval, including one that requires textbooks to “identify major intellectual,

philosophical, political, and religious traditions that informed the American founding, including Judeo-Christian (especially biblical law).”

In response to the petition, textbook publisher McGraw-Hill Education issued a response, stating its books were “factually accurate” and “supported by a substantial body of scholarship.”

“We acknowledge that this topic in American constitutional history is not without controversy and disagreement, and that the evidence in some cases is textual and inferential, but as there is an established scholarly basis for the text’s

statements, and TEKS 1B requires educational materials to cover it, MHE believes the text should include this brief summary statement,” McGraw-Hill Education said in a statement.

Roy White, chairman of the nonprofit Truth in Texas Textbooks, said he supported an open debate about the textbooks’ content but disagreed with the petition’s critique.

“Many of the Founding Fathers very clearly identify their relationship with God and believing in that higher power,” White said. “People may disagree with that but disagreeing with the facts doesn’t deny those facts.”

According to Bahadur, deposits such as hydrates, waxes and asphalts form in the pipelines, and that can block the lines and reduce production.

When this happens, toxic chemicals are used to break it up in the piping. He said that, although these chemicals may help industries from losing production, the toxins are expensive to deploy and are a safety hazard.

“In this process, we want to use an electrical signal to attract

the water toward the pipeline and hydrocarbons away from it,” Bahadur said. “We are relying on the difference in electrical properties between water and hydrocarbons.”

Bahadur, who came to the University in fall 2013 to further his studies after working in the oil and gas industry for the previous four years, said hydrocarbons are like two magnets in the sense that anything between the two magnets gets squeezed out.

Arjang Shahriari, a mechanical engineering graduate student and member of the research team, said he sees other ways in which this concept could be used. “[This technology] is also amenable to implementation and retrofitting for a variety of practical situations and has an enormous impact on the efficiency of various industrial processes, like desalination and steam generation,” Shahriari said.

institution under its guidance, along with establishing institutional integrity. The bill also states that regents would not be allowed to fire a university president before receiving a recommendation from the chancellor.

“There’s very useful standards set down by people at the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools,” Seliger said. “[The bill] was very well received by chancellors and presidents and regents all over the state.”

Barry McBee, System vice chancellor for governmental relations, said he does not expect the legislation would dramatically change how the Board of Regents governs the System and its institutions.

“I would characterize it as more accurately clarifying the role of boards of regents, and, in some cases, it might limit some of the authority or again clarify some of the authority they currently have,” McBee said.

McBee recalls the 2013 bill

having significant support from the legislature, but he thinks things may turn out differently during the 2015 session, especially since current Attorney General Greg Abbott is set to replace Perry as governor in January.

“There’s new legislators in both the House and the Senate,” McBee said. “I don’t know what their views would be on this particular piece of legislation. I obviously would not want to speak for Governor Abbott.”

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Children watch as drones hover just overhead at an interactive fair in Welch Hall on Friday evening. The fair was followed by a lecture on the future of drones by professor Todd Humphreys.

Professor discusses drone hacking

By Chris Mendez @thedailytexan

With a small unmanned drone on display at a lecture Friday, Todd Humphreys, aerospace engineering and engineering mechanics assistant professor, said drones, including military drones, have the potential to be hacked.

Humphreys said he and his team have been researching drone hacking to provide evidence of this occurring to U.S.owned drones.

“You take control of the drone, even though the drone’s rightful operator might not like you to,” said Humphreys, who is also the director of the University’s Radionavigation Laboratory. “This isn’t just the stuff of science fiction.

In fact, it happened in real life.”

According to Humphreys, an Iranian engineer hacked a U.S. drone and brought it down in December 2011 — the same time he and his team were researching the phenomenon.

“My students and I happened to be doing research in this very area,” Humphreys said.

“If you can take over those links and pretend that you’re the ground control, you can take over the drone.”

To simulate the hacking of a drone, which is controlled through GPS satellites and ground operators, Humphreys and his team built a device that redirected a drone by interfering with its GPS signal. “[These signals] look

very much like GPS signals and hijack those tracking points of the GPS receiver,” Humphreys said.

By successfully hacking their own drone, Humphreys and his team proved that it was possible for the Iranian man to have hacked a U.S. drone.

Humphreys said drones also have other uses, such as taking pictures and delivering messages.

“You can take pictures from a vantage point that you’d never imagine possible,” Humphreys said. “You can [also] do aerial mapping.”

Andrew Kerns, electrical and computer engineering graduate student and member of the Radionavigation Laboratory, said the team’s experiments have proven the weaknesses in drones’

navigation systems.

“In this [experiment], we showed that it was possible to generate falsified GPS signals that could cause the receiver inside of the unmanned vehicle to subtract the falsified signals instead of the authentic ones and compute it [incorrectly],“ Kerns said. “[This experiment] shows that there’s a need to secure these navigation systems.”

In an interactive fair, which took place prior to the lecture, Kerns and other members of the laboratory presented some of the drones they have been working with.

“At the University of Texas, we’ve been long interested in unmanned aerial vehicles,” Humphreys said. “The drones are here, and our lives will never be the same.”

Ecuador’s ambassador to the United States visited campus Friday to explore commercialization partnerships with UT and Ecuadorian business interests.

Hosted by the University’s IC2 Institute, the event allowed students to meet with Ambassador Nathalie Cely Suárez.

Suárez said both the U.S. and Ecuador can learn from each other with a stronger partnership.

“I admire the generosity of this citizens here,” Suárez said. “There are more than 1 million Ecuadorians in this country, and as I say, ‘I have a million reasons to get closer and move forward in the relationship.’”

Gregory Pogue, the interim deputy director at the IC2 Institute, said the University provides students the opportunity to specialize in certain areas.

“In the business school, UT has the top accounting program in the U.S., and they have a specialization in energy accounting that is also quite unique, much like the law school,”

Pogue said. “This represents another specialization where accounting students learn to manage both partnerships and large company-based accounting principles which differ due to how structures of energy work.”

Pogue said one the institution’s goals is to improve international economic development.

“IC2 has been interacting with Ecuador for 12 years,” Pogue said. “We are looking to establish a broader relationship to promote entrepreneurship and launch engagement of new companies. This really links to a big goal the president has: to stop Ecuador from being just a raw product producer but produce finished goods. We think business engagement is critical, and students are the key.”

Suárez said she hopes international students make the most out of their experiences in Austin.

“Study, work hard and network,” Suárez said.

“We need young multicultural global citizens like you will become, and we need many of you back home, so make sure you come back.”

Marshall Tidrick | Daily Texan Staff

Ecuadorian Ambassador Nathalie Cely Suárez met students at UT’s IC2 Institute for an informal Q&A session Friday.

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Celia Santiz Ruiz, president of Mayan Women Weavers, spoke and showcased her cooperative’s work at an event hosted by the Center for Women’s and Gender Studies on Friday.

Guest speaker talks about weaving as means of female empowerment

By Wes Scarborough @westhemess13

Celia Santiz Ruiz spoke at an event hosted by the Center for Women’s and Gender Studies on Friday and shared her experiences as the president of Jolom Mayaetik, a women’s weaving cooperative in Chiapas, Mexico.

“Jolom Mayaetik” is Tsotsil for “Mayan Women Weavers.” The cooperative was formed in 1996 with 250 indigenous women who wanted to gain a better price for their woven work. Ruiz said, as president of the cooperative, she focuses on keeping younger women out of trouble in Mexico by teaching them the art of weaving.

“We, as mothers, also have to be careful about our daughters so that they don’t take the wrong path,” Ruiz said. “We want to keep the cultural heritage of the weaving so that they don’t lose

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that ability.”

Josefina Castillo, program director for Austin Tan Cerca de la Frontera, said many Chiapaneca women experience domestic violence. According to Castillo, younger women are encouraged to seek out education at the high school and college levels in cities such as San Cristóbal in the Chiapas state. There they are able to properly learn about domestic violence and realize they are being mistreated.

“They come back and see the conditions and rebel against it,” Castillo said.

“They become empowered as women because they are able

to access education.”

Ruiz said she has made it her mission to promote the cooperative’s work for fair profit, while also allowing women to gain social justice against domestic violence.

“Traditionally, [men] have to give you permission,” Ruiz said. “But we have learned that we can manage ourselves.”

Ruiz also shared her personal decision to leave her husband.

“I feel good being by myself because I have the opportunity to go places,” Ruiz said. “If I was still with my husband today, I wouldn’t be here right now.”

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Pharmacy dean discusses goals, collaboration between schools Editor’s Note: This is part of a series of Q-andA’s with the deans of the University’s 18 schools and colleges. Lynn Crismon was appointed dean of the College of Pharmacy in 2007. This interview has been condensed to fit space requirements.

The Daily Texan: Could you talk about how you collaborate with the nursing school and how you plan to collaborate with the medical school?

Lynn Crismon: This is a national movement.

In fact, all of the health professional schools have national accrediting bodies for each professional discipline, and all of those accrediting bodies have started putting interprofessional education as a core curricular requirement. The philosophy is that if we’re going to transform healthcare to better meet people’s needs, we need providers that are working together collaboratively in a team-based fashion so that people’s needs are met. If you don’t have those individuals begin working together when they are students and trainees, how can you realistically expect that they’re going to know how to work together once they get out in the practice setting? So that’s sort of the overall philosophy. There are some curricular and there are some extracurricular things that the students are currently doing. The curricular things really surround, primarily, some elective coursework and ethics, where they’re doing group seminars and things, and there are also some interprofessional project, education project initiatives that students are doing together.

We have some non-curricular things through

students’ organizations — community service projects. We have an initiative called Project Collaborate which involves pharmacy and nursing and social work students, where they do health screenings for underserved consumer populations, and most of those screenings they’ve done, somewhere between 40 to 50 percent of the individuals they’ve screened do not have a primary care provider. So, the pharmacy students, the nursing students do most of the screenings, and then the social work students will try to work with those people to refer them to different resources where they can get help to get healthcare. We hope with the inauguration of the Dell Medical School, we’ll be able to move things to a different level.

I was on the search committee for the [medical school] dean, and we really very, very intentionally, in terms of the questions that we asked the dean candidates, we asked about their philosophies on interprofessional education...

When we interviewed Dean [Clay} Johnston...

He knew exactly what we were talking about, and he totally embraces this vision that if we’re really going to meet people’s needs in terms of healthcare, then we have to provide healthcare differently, and that means optimizing people’s education and training skills, regardless of the initials behind their name.

DT: Is there a gender imbalance in the pharmacy school?

Crismon: Pharmacy over the course of my career has done a complete flip-flop in terms of gender balance. When I was a student, we were

probably about 75 percent male, 25 percent female. Now, we run generally around 65 percent of each class is female, about 35 percent is male.

DT: What are some goals and new initiatives that have happened in the college in the past couple of years or that you’re planning for for the next couple of years?

Crismon: We started an endowment ... to honor a retired faculty member, Arlyn Kloesel, with a goal to look at new practice models and new business models in pharmacy, and we finally got that up to enough money that we can start awarding grants to faculty and to students to research projects, to explore those business models and practice models. More recently, we had an alum who’s really interested in giving, first some cash awards and then later a planned gift, in order to foster entrepreneurism in pharmacy, both in terms of looking at the practice level as well as looking at the research level with such things as drug development, because we have a major drug development research initiative.

We’re looking at transformation in health care, what are the practice models and the business models that will be successful in the future for pharmacists to be able to be successful in practice? Because if you don’t have the business model and the practice model aligned, it’s going to fail because you’ll go broke. It doesn’t matter how good of care you provide; if you can’t protect the bottom line, you’re not going to be successful in any endeavor.

DT: Is there anything else you want students

M. Lynn Crismon Dean of the College of Pharmacy to know?

Crismon: There’s really just a multitude of different career paths that people can pursue. It’s a lot different than just what the average person thinks about when they look at going to a community pharmacy. In fact, only slightly less than half of our grads actually go into community pharmacy.

All of the rest of them go into other different areas of practice ... You often don’t think about the pharmacist that’s at Brackenridge [Hospital] or that’s at the surgical center or a variety of other different places that people practice.

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Wheelchair piece belittles disabled

Last week, protesters gathered outside the office of Thomas Gilligan, the dean of the McCombs School of Business. The protesters were upset over the school’s namesake, Red McCombs, participating in a business deal to build the country’s largest immigration detention center. The South Texas Family Detention Center, where undocumented immigrants would be processed prior to deportation, will be built on land that McCombs’ real estate company leased to the federal government.

McCombs, a prominent booster to the University, is no stranger to controversy. His previous business deals have drawn the ire of environmentalists, and comments he made last year about incoming football coach Charlie Strong prompted a quick apology. But at a time of growing national attention to the U.S. immigration system, McCombs is wrong to work so closely with the authorities on this matter, not only because this jail-like system does not work, but also because these facilities have become infamous for neglect and abuse, including sexual assaults.

The proposed facility, which Gilligan reportedly told protesters he was concerned about, would be built on a swath of land in Dilley, southwest of San Antonio, and would not host criminals or otherwise dangerous individuals

While I recognize that Andrew Ridout’s recent piece on campus accessibility brought forth awareness and good intention, the title alone is insensitive and in poor taste to my community’s daily experiences. As he said in the comments, the article does serve as “a catalyst for opening up discussions,” but Ridout’s efforts feel misguided — the physical, emotional and physiological effects of living disabled can’t be exposed by his blisters and exhaustion alone.

My frustration is sacred. You can’t take my

who should be removed from society. It would be a giant processing center for families accused of the civil violation of unauthorized entry into this country.

On Thursday, President Barack Obama took audacious and much needed steps to fix parts of our immigration system. Among them was using the Department of Homeland Security’s prosecutorial discretion to focus much less on families and nonviolent offenders, and more on people who actually pose threats to society.

“Felons, not families. Criminals, not children,” Obama said, when identifying the people whom both the Department of Homeland Security and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) should specifically focus on deporting. Unfortunately, families are the target population of the detention center.

Additionally, these facilities, often with minimal oversight, have become epicenters of neglectful behavior. Just last month, female detainees at a nearby center in Karnes County alleged systematic and widespread sexual abuse at the hands of guards at the privately run facility.

These new facilities represent the opposite direction this country should go in on the immigration issue. McCombs should take protesters’ advice and divest himself from this plan.

pain, feel it for a week, and give it back; because your white male, able-bodied, crip-faced (a term used in the disabled community, of which I am a member, to describe behaving or acting disabled) blisters don’t validate my struggle, and I don’t want to see you smile in your one-week wheelchair.

— Audrea Diaz, a radio-television-film alumna from the Rio Grande Valley, in response to Andrew Ridout’s Oct. 24 piece titled “Student uses wheelchair for week to test accessibility on campus.” For more of her work, visit www.fashionabled.com.

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Joining pro-Israeli organization provides knowledge, community

By Jenna Conwisar Guest Columnist

As many students at UT can attest, coming here from another state (in my case, California) can be terrifying. Knowing next to nobody on campus, I was nervous and overwhelmed. I was consistently advised to connect with an organization or activity to make UT’s 50,000 person undergraduate population more manageable. Texans for Israel has been that haven.

It is an amazing feeling to be surrounded by so many students who share my passion for democracy. This pro-Israel student organization compels me to join them and put my commitment and determination into action. I was invited along with 20 other UT students to attend the American Israel Policy Affairs Committee (AIPAC) National Summit, which was held Nov. 1 through 3. At the summit, I learned so many incredible things about Israel, like how Israel has more venture capital investments per person than any other nation and is ranked fourth in scientific activity.

More importantly, among all Middle Eastern countries, Israel ranks number one in women’s rights. Israel’s commitment to empowering women is particularly important to me as I embark on my college journey, because most women my age in other parts of the Middle East have limited or no access to education.

Israeli innovations were also a huge area of excitement at the summit. There have been

vast amounts of technology coming from Israel, such as OrCam, which helps the blind and visually impaired see. Even with the constant threat of war surrounding its border, Israel is still one of the greatest economic success stories ever told.

On Nov. 16 through 18, I was again invited to join AIPAC, only this time in Washington, D.C. As a college-level Peer Facilitator at the Schusterman Advocacy Institute High School Summit, I worked with 400 high school students from places across the nation, educating them on the many ways they can promote the U.S.-Israel relationship. The weekend ended in admiration as I watched these remarkably motivated students lobby their members of Congress on Capitol Hill.

While in D.C., we were met with the horrific news of two Palestinian terrorists entering a synagogue in Jerusalem and brutally murdering four Israeli rabbis. This event stirred emotions all around the world, and served the students at the summit a grotesque reminder that their work toward strengthening Israel is both critical and just.

The opportunities I have been given since arriving at UT have been formative and life changing. I am excited for the rest of my four years here on the Forty Acres, especially giving voice to my commitment of highlighting the shared values of the U.S. and Israel. Standing with Israel is standing with democracy.

Conwisar is a history freshman from Los Angeles.

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Cris Nevares, math and actuarial sciences junior, has been a Lyft driver since July 4.

By Jan Ross Piedad Daily Texan Columnist

The nine-to-five grind isn’t the most attractive factor when it comes to today’s ideal work schedule. With the popularity of digital networking, some people are really making things mobile.

Whether it’s Uber, Lyft or Favor, on-demand services are an increasingly popular way to make money. This is possible because of the simple similarities between services: the use of a smartphone app facilitating direction, description and payment, plus a personal touch.

Favor runners, as well as Uber and Lyft drivers, often say the job not only helps them be more knowledgeable about their geographical area, but is also a great networking opportunity.

Alexander Pollard recalls saving up for his vehicle while planning to enter the ride-sharing arena. A recent UT graduate, Pollard is now able to concentrate on his start-up, a craft brewery business, while working as a dedicated Uber driver. Conversation with passengers helps him and other entrepreneurs get the word out about exciting ventures, while those new to the city have someone to ask about the “good places” in town.

For those on the road and on-the-go, it’s also about flexibility. Being able to work not

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only when you want, but how you want is a big draw. Along with “work-life balance,” “having interesting work,” and other factors, 65 percent of university students reported having “flexibility in work hours” as a priority in desired job attributes, according to Net Impact’s Talent Report. But this movement isn’t limited to millennials. Sixty-one percent of working adults also see the merit of more adjustable hours. It’s even common for those who have part-time jobs to set aside time for on-demand services and supplement their income. I’ve met some drivers living in nearby cities of Round Rock and San Marcos who come into town solely because on-demand services are so active in Austin. For these folks, driving is called “working,” with a weekly pattern that works for specifically them.

A Future Workplace survey projects that millennials will work 15 to 20 jobs in their lifetime, but it wouldn’t be surprising if they achieved more. The rise in on-demand services marks a change in not only how society sees service, but how we construct the creation of livelihood. With transportation networking companies now legalized in Austin, a city of such innovative citizens can grow to embrace a different lifestyle in order to make ends meet.

Piedad is a journalism junior from San Antonio.

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Senior forward Jonathan Holmes was named the 2K Classic MVP in New York City. He scored 40 points in the tournament.

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continues from page 6 But in the arena in which the great Billy Joel continues to hold concerts each month, it was the Longhorns that had a “New York State of Mind,” leaving teams buzzing about Texas’ size and depth.

“I don’t know if there is any other front line in college that can match that,” California senior forward David Kravish said of the Texas big men.

Perhaps most significant was that Texas managed to win the tournament even without its best player, sophomore point guard Isaiah Taylor, on the court for the title game. Taylor went down with a wrist injury Thursday, but junior guard Javan Felix filled

in admirably with 9 points and four assists in 35 minutes to keep the offense rolling.

This is the Longhorns’ first season start with four consecutive victories of more than 10 points since the 2009-10 season. That season, Texas began the year 17-0 before slumping to a final record of 24-10 and losing in the first round of the NCAA tournament. But the Longhorns have far higher aspirations this year.

The legendary Frank Sinatra summed up New York best with his lyric, “If I can make it there, I’ll make it anywhere.”

The Longhorns made it there. Now, it’s time to see whether Sinatra was right about everywhere else.

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and Cal was unable to get back in the game.

With Isaiah Taylor, Texas’ sophomore point guard, floor general and leading scorer, sidelined, junior guard Javan Felix took over the reins as the starting point guard — a spot he hasn’t filled since Myck Kabongo’s suspension back in 2012.

While Felix did a good job of pushing the ball in transition, he ran into some trouble with the half-court sets against the zone Cal switched to in the second half. Felix finished up with just 9 points and five turnovers but tallied four assists

en route to earning 2K Classic All-Tournament honors.

“Javan really ran the team well,” Barnes said. “We knew he’d run the team. He gives us a different tempo, advancing the ball more with the pass.”

After struggling to feed the bigs against Iowa’s zone defense, the Longhorns were able to exploit Cal’s defense to get junior center Cameron Ridley, junior center Prince Ibeh and freshman forward Myles Turner plenty of touches. With that strategy, Texas forced Cal into early foul trouble both halves.

“They did a great job of utilizing their bigs,” Cal head coach Cuonzo Martin said.

“They pounded the ball inside. They forced the officials

to make calls.”

The Texas defense, led by junior guard Demarcus Holland, kept the Cal team out of rhythm. The Golden Bears entered the game as the nation’s quickest offense and hadn’t scored fewer than 73 points a game this season.

But, with Holland shadowing junior point guard Tyrone Wallace, the Longhorns held Cal to 20 field goals on 31 percent shooting. Texas ended the night with three steals and 10 blocks, highlighted by Ridley’s rejection that sent the ball flying four rows behind the Cal bench.

“I would have given the MVP trophy to Holland,” Barnes said. “He disrupted them defensively.”

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The Jayhawks jumped out to an early 3-0 lead in the second set, but Texas went on an 8-1 run to claim an 8-4 lead. The Longhorns led for most of the set until Kansas came roaring back to take an 18-17 lead. The two sides fought back and forth, with Texas coming out on top, 25-23.

With momentum on their side, the Longhorns cruised

to a 25-18 win in the third set and claimed their 14th sweep of the season.

Senior outside hitter Haley Eckerman led the team in kills with nine. Junior middle blocker Molly McCage had seven kills and led the team with seven blocks.

Khat Bell, senior middle blocker and outside hitter, and sophomore outside hitter Paulina Prieto Cerame both finished the match with seven kills.

Mike McGraw | Daily Texan Staff

Senior outside hitter Haley Eckerman led Texas with nine kills in the Longhorns’ 3-0 sweep of Kansas on Saturday afternoon.

MEN’S CROSS COUNTRY | JAMES GRANDBERRY

MEN’S SWIMMING & DIVING | RACHEL WENZLAFF

Texas men’s cross country closed its season with a No. 26 finish at the NCAA Championships this Saturday in Terre Haute, Indiana.

After securing one of just 31 spots at the championship, Texas struggled to run its best race.

All-American senior Craig Lutz fell around 4,000 meters into the race after getting bumped. Texas got caught behind the lead pack and struggled to gain any headway during the remainder of the competition.

“It was really disappointing [when] Lutz went down, but he got up and finished 51st,” said Brad Herbster, assistant coach for cross country/distance.

As the Texas Diving Invitational came to a close Saturday afternoon, the men’s swimming and diving team walked away with plenty to brag about.

On Thursday, the first day of the meet, the Big 12 Conference announced AllAmerican sophomore Mark Anderson as the league’s Men’s Diver of the Week.

Anderson, who received the title for the first time, lived up to the honor through the weekend competition.

Anderson was the only Longhorn competing in the platform event, and he was the only one Texas needed.

After the first round,

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Colorado won the men’s title, with Oklahoma State representing the Big 12 in ninth.

Regardless of the disappointing performance, Herbster said the race showed positive notes.

“They just kept fighting all the way through,” Herbster said. “Not a great performance, but they fought. That’s the one thing we can take away from this. They kept moving up, but it just wasn’t the Longhorns’ day today. We’re the No. 26 team in the country, but we’re a lot better than that.”

Hawaii’s Amund Gismervik stood tall on the platform, boasting his lead in the event — but first place wasn’t his for long. Anderson climbed the stairs to the top of the platform and took his place for his second dive. Leaping off the concrete to perform his four-and-a-half somersaults almost flawlessly, Anderson garnered 77.7 points for the dive. Gismervik couldn’t do enough to catch up. Anderson finished with 441.75 points, securing victory in the event Saturday, the final day of the invitational.

While Anderson made a

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Gismervik took the lead halfway through the event, but Bowersox earned 91.2 points on a dive for a late spark to narrow Gismervik’s lead. Bowersox continued to gain ground, as the event came to a close, but his slow start came back to haunt him, as Gismervik won with 440.30 points — less than a point ahead of Bowersox’s 439.50.

Men’s diving will compete at the USA Diving Nationals next on Dec. 16.

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The always fundamentally sound Holmes led the Longhorns quietly, scoring a team-high 21 points and 13 rebounds. Junior forward Connor Lammert, who may be the team’s most improved player, helped set the tone for Texas. While the box score may not highlight his contributions, the offense ran through Lammert. He finished the night with nine rebounds and 6 points.

Taylor, who injured his wrist on a late-game drive against Iowa on Thursday night, watched Friday’s game from the bench, his left wrist heavily wrapped and rested in a sling.

Last year’s 2K Classic champion, UConn, went on to win the NCAA championship.

Ensuing Texas attempts to equalize sailed wide, and the roller coaster 2014 season ended with the Irish taking away a 2-1 comeback win.

The loss was the last match for some of the Longhorns’ most important contributors on the season. The backline will graduate starters Arnold and senior defenders Brooke Gilbert and Whitney Jaynes.

Midfield stalwart Lachappelle will graduate, too.

“I’m really proud of our senior class and the strides that this program has made in the short time we’ve been here,” Kelly said. “We are going to use this as a platform to go forward.”

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Horns capture 2K Classic championship

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By Evan Berkowitz @Evan_Berkowitz

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NEW YORK CITY — Just over two years ago, Texas basketball was shocked in Maui, Hawaii, by Chaminade, a Division II team. Just the thought of the game brings back bad memories for head coach Rick Barnes.

But on Friday night, that “Chaminade Crew” became the 2K Classic champions after rolling to a 71-55 victory over California in Madison Square Garden.

“Everyone bought in,” said Jonathan Holmes, senior forward and 2K Classic MVP. “Everyone wanted to be a part of the solution. We want to build something special.”

The No. 10 Longhorns dominated Cal from the opening tipoff. The Longhorns never trailed in the game, jumping out to a quick 14-4 lead. That lead grew to as much as 14 in the first half,

Shelby Tauber | Daily Texan Staff

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The No. 10 Longhorns take a selfie after winning the 2K Classic championship at Madison Square Garden in New York City. Texas trumped Iowa, 71-57, and Cal, 71-55, to own the weekend. Last year’s 2K Classic champion, UConn, won the national title.

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Texas pulls off big performance in the Big Apple

By Peter Sblendorio Daily Texan Columnist @petersblendorio

The moment you step inside Madison Square Garden for the first time, you get it.

Nestled in the heart of New York City, the place is unlike any other. There’s an undeniable buzz that engulfs the arena regardless of who is playing between its walls.

From Michael Jordan to

Wayne Gretzky, Muhammad Ali to George Harrison, the greatest performers always seemed to save their best acts for the Garden. There’s a reason they call it “The World’s Most Famous Arena.”

And on Thursday and Friday nights, under the brightest lights in America’s most iconic city, the Longhorns made themselves right at home and proved they deserve their preseason billing as one of the

nation’s top teams.

After a shaky opening in the first game, No. 10 Texas dominated for three halves to clinch the 2K Classic championship — its first November neutral-site tournament title since 2009.

Aside from their early issues Thursday, the Longhorns thrashed Iowa and California. It wasn’t exactly the “Murderers’ Row” of opponents, but each is a quality,

SOCCER

By Courtney Norris @courtneyknorris

Notre Dame bests soccer 2-1 in tournament quarterfinals The women’s soccer season came to a close Friday with a 2-1 loss to No. 12 Notre Dame in College Station.

Texas fought hard against one of the best teams in the country, but an 85th-minute score by Notre Dame forward Karin Muya broke the stalemate and sent the Fighting Irish to a third-round match against Texas A&M on Sunday.

“Credit to Notre Dame, there was execution at the end, and that was what it was going to take,” head coach Angela Kelly said. “It was a battle. Our midfield battled with one of the top midfields in the country.”

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little. But in their trip to New York, the Longhorns passed their first major test of the season and proved they’re a step above three of college basketball’s better teams.

Syracuse played in what were essentially two home games in front of the New York City crowd. Iowa, too, had a significant fan base in the stands for each of its games.

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Junior midfielder Lindsey Meyer produced Texas’ only offense against Notre Dame on Friday at the 19:16 mark. The goal wasn’t enough for the Longhorns, who lost the game, 2-1.

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power-conference team nonetheless. Iowa is projected to be one of the better teams in the Big Ten, and California easily brushed No. 23 Syracuse aside Thursday night.

All offseason, Texas fans heard how good the Longhorns would be this year, and now there is tangible evidence. Texas’ two blowout wins in Austin against North Dakota State and Alcorn State to open the season showed

Things looked promising for the Longhorns early on, as the Texas backline, which has been solid all season, continued its tough play Friday. The defenders stifled the Irish set pieces, and a sliding clearance by senior defender Julie Arnold kept the Irish off the board for much of the first half.

A goal by junior midfielder Lindsey Meyer just after the 19-minute mark gave the Longhorns an early advantage. Senior midfielder Sharis Lachappelle floated a pass from the left corner that sailed to the far post in position for the 5-foot-9 Meyer to nod a shot into the back of the net for a 1-0 lead.

The Longhorn defense looked like it would hold the

Irish scoreless for the rest of the first half, but Muya’s 42ndminute cross found Notre Dame forward Anna Gilbertson, who whipped in a shot from 9 yards out to knot the game up just before halftime.

The second half looked like it would remain deadlocked, as the Irish did not manage a second-half shot until the 63rd minute.

Then Muya, the Notre Dame freshman phenom, struck again. A long floater from the left boundary sailed over the Texas defense and fell right at Muya’s feet. She fired a shot that squeezed just inside the left post to break the deadlock with five minutes to go in regulation.

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No. 10 Texas (3-0, 2-0 away) continued its winning streak with a third-consecutive win of the season at UCLA. Scoring 37 points in the first half and 38 in the second, the Longhorns concluded their two-game California road trip in the Pauley Pavilion on Sunday with a 75-65 win against the Bruins.

The last time the Longhorns beat UCLA was on Nov. 25, 2003. UCLA is 0-3 after losing to Texas, but it came into the season with the No. 1 recruiting class in the country.

Freshman guard Brooke McCarty led the Longhorns with 20 points in the game.

McCarty, Texas’ shortest player at 5 feet 4 inches, made five

3-pointers for Texas.

“Coach just told me when I’m open, shoot the ball,” McCarty said. “At first I wasn’t, but then she got on to me, so I started shooting and got more comfortable as the game went on.”

The Longhorns finished with seven steals and 22 points off turnovers.

Freshman guard Ariel Atkins contributed 14 points to help Texas pull away with an early lead in the second half. Texas posted its largest lead at 5:13 in the second half with 14 points.

Sophomore center Kelsey Lang finished with 12 points and senior forward Nneka Enemkpali had 10.

Sunday’s contest brought the all-time series to 6-5, in the Bruins’ favor.

Texas will host UT-Pan American at home Wednesday.

Lauren Ussery | Daily Texan Staff

Freshman guard Brooke McCarty led the Longhorns with 20 points against UCLA on Sunday. McCarty made five 3-pointers.

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Volleyball wraps up conference play with sweep

By Nick Castillo @Nick_Castillo74

Smiles were wide, horns were up and the 2014 Big 12 trophy was in the Longhorn volleyball team’s hands as it celebrated its fourth-consecutive Big 12 Championship after sweeping Kansas on Saturday.

A week after clinching the

title in a five-set thriller against Oklahoma, No. 3 Texas (22-1, 14-1 Big 12) finally got to celebrate its accomplishment. In front of a sold-out crowd in Gregory Gym, the Longhorns took care of business, downing Kansas in three sets (25-20, 25-23, 25-18). After the match, the Big 12 championship trophy was presented to the team along

with commemorative T-shirts. “[The trophy] means a lot,” head coach Jerritt Elliott said.

“It’s very hard to win when you play a double round robin and the way that we performed and had our backs against the walls some matches where we have come through. It takes a lot of work, and these girls have put the work in since the summer

and stayed here and committed to themselves.”

Over the past two games, Texas was challenged early as it dropped the first set in each game. But the Longhorns found their stride early Saturday against the Jayhawks.

While Kansas battled with Texas throughout the first set, the Longhorns overcame their

first-set blues and claimed the opening set, 25-20.

“It’s always really important to be able to come out and execute at a high level,” Elliott said. “I just felt like they were ready to play today. … It’s the first time we really played consistently all the way through for

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Come a long way from losing to chaminade a couple years ago … and still a long way to go #HookEm

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SPORTS BRIEFLY Women win Texas Diving Invitational

Texas women’s swimming and diving swept the Texas Diving Invitational this past weekend at the Lee and Joe Jamail Swimming Center.

The Longhorns continued to win by large margins against strong teams, such as Cal and Arizona State, which were also present in every round of finals for the 3-meter, 1-meter and platform dives.

Senior All-American Emma Ivory-Ganja placed first in a 1-2 Texas finish Thursday in the 3-meter dive with 395.40 points — a new personal best. Junior Meghan Houston placed behind Ivory-Ganja by a 57.5-point difference.

On Friday, Houston was back on the board in the finals. After trailing for the first three rounds, she came in first with 304.25 points, a slim 6-point advantage over University of Houston’s Danielle Shedd’s 298.25 points. This was the closest event of the weekend, as the top-three 1-meter finalists all scored within 10 points of each other.

The final day of diving resulted in another 1-2 Texas win, wrapping up the invitational with three straight victories for the Longhorns.

Sophomore All-American Murphy Bromburg gained a large margin over competitors with her third, fourth and fifth dives, earning 80-plus points each. Bromburg stole the platform with 360.70 points, a 50.20 lead over second place winner Ivory-Ganja.

Ivory-Ganja earned honors as Big 12 Diver of the Week this past Thursday.

The diving season will continue Dec. 16-21 at the USA Diving Winter Nationals in Columbus, Ohio.

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Alumnus miniaturizes campus UT alumnus Drew Finkel plans to lend his Lego replicas of the UT Tower and Darrell K RoyalTexas Memorial Stadium to UT. The replicas are built with more than 62,000 Legos combined.

By Estefania de Leon @estefaniadeleon

Standing at 3-and-a-half feet in a Chicago apartment, the UT Tower stands tall. Not far in a guest bedroom lies a 2-and-a-half foot tall Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium. UT alumnus Drew Finkel created these two campus landmarks out of more than 62,000 Legos combined.

After posting pictures on Reddit of his Lego replicas of the Tower and the stadium, Drew’s hobby went viral.

When the University tweeted a link to pictures of the stadium replica, Drew replied that UT was welcome to borrow it. According to Laura Finkel, Drew’s wife, the University jumped at the opportunity.

“I’m surprised at how much attention this has received,” Laura said. “We have had so many media outlets reach out to us to do interviews on it.“ Exactly when the stadium will be brought to UT and where it will be displayed has not been confirmed, but Drew believes it will be in the Student Services Building.

“I built the stadium in multiple pieces because I knew that, wherever it was built, I didn’t want it to have to live there forever,” Drew said.

Drew started the Tower, which took about five months to complete, in March 2013

Photo courtesy of Drew Finkel

and started the stadium this year. In the past, he had only worked on small, 4-inch tall Lego replicas of landmarks such as Big Ben, which had instructions.

“It was starting to become winter and it was a little cold outside, and I just said, ‘Hey, I think I’m going to build the UT tower out of Legos,’” Drew said. “It was said as a joke, like maybe we’ll see,

and then I started doing it, and it actually happened.”

According to Laura, it is not unusual to want to stay inside when it is minus 14 degrees Fahrenheit.

“Just imagine someone who’s knitting in front of the TV — he does the same things for Legos,” Laura said.

“It didn’t interfere with anything just because the winters are so awful here, and I

think it was his way of coping with the seasons here.”

Drew used images from Google Maps to build the Tower and traveled to campus during spring break to take his own pictures, filling in the holes for any views he did not have.

“For the stadium, the hardest part was doing the inside because there is not a lot on Google Maps or

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images that I could find of the inside,” Drew said. “Luckily, all of the sides of the stadium are on the street, so using Street View was pretty helpful for that.”

For now, when people visit his apartment, they are surprised to see Lego replicas.

Drew’s friend Richard Meth, software engineer and UT alumnus living in Dallas, saw most of the process through

pictures and when he visited Chicago.

“He set his mind to it and finished it,” Meth said. “I didn’t realize how much effort he put into it until I saw it and helped him finish off DKR. To fit his design, Drew had cut and pieced together thousands of little Lego pieces. It took time and patience, but, in the end, both models look outstanding.”

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UT student folk band highlights tradition Ensemble showcases

original compositions

By Mary Cantrell @mkcant

Inspired by the tradition of the typical Americana band, Dallas-based folk band Light Horse Harry hopes to bring down-home roots and Texas twang to the UT campus, co-ops and bars across Austin.

Made up of UT students Augustus Miller, Zach Youpa, Drew Scherger, Kathryn Drake and Shane Gordon, Light Horse Harry originated in Dallas and then came to Austin to pursue its education at UT. The band is currently working on its second feature album, which will be released in 2015, and records in the West Campus apartment of Miller, an unspecified business junior and lead vocalist. “Busted in Brownsville,” the band’s four-song EP, was released this past summer.

Scherger, radio-television-film sophomore and bassist, said the band prefers to record the songs themselves.

“We do have complete artistic control,” Scherger said. “That’s the benefit to not having a professional recording space.”

According to Scherger, Light Horse Harry is a Texas band, first and foremost, but enjoys playing all genres.

“We play rock; we play blues; we play country,” Scherger said. “We kind of do a mix of all of them.”

Youpa, acting sophomore and guitarist, said it can be hard to stand out with so

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continues from page 1 with the campus’ Business Brigade chapter. Last year, GEB partnered with Architecture Brigade to build a greenhouse that taught a community sustainable agriculture techniques.

“It was really crazy to see how much we got done in a week,” Stormer said.

“They don’t really have power tools, so it was all

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composers, almost every composer here who writes for this ensemble will likely get a performance [of their piece] within their time at UT,” Boss said. “That’s a very strong component of this ensemble.

It’s very supportive of the music of composers here.”

Sara Sasaki, who is obtaining a Master’s of Music in Violin Performance and is the first violinist in the ensemble, said the size of the ensemble allows for the students to work with each other more.

“It’s only 16 people versus the orchestra, which is 70 to 80 musicians,” Sasaki said.

“It’s nice to be able to communicate musically to a lot of my colleagues, and, instead of telling 25 violinists to play one way, we all talk to each other like friends.”

The rehearsals for the concert, which have been going on for the past few weeks, have let the ensemble put its own interpretation on the pieces.

“We have to make it our own,” Sasaki said. “Professor Welcher’s very helpful in figuring out who needs to come out of the texture, who needs to back off a little bit.

In that way, I think it’s going to be a great product.”

Lance Witty, who is obtaining a doctorate of musical arts in musical performance and is a trumpeter in the ensemble, urged the UT community to attend the concert held in Bates Recital Hall.

“I really encourage everybody to come out,” Witty said.

“Great performers, great pieces, lots of fun to play. It’s going to be a great concert.”

many young bands based in Austin.

“There’s nobody that’s like a UT band,” Youpa said.

“Hopefully that could be us.”

In an attempt to expand its sound, the band gained two new members — music performance junior Drake and business junior Gordon — on fiddle and drums. Miller met both Drake and Gordon through connections at UT. With the new additions to the band, Scherger said its sound has is gradually transforming.

“We’re on kind of [a] lighter thing than we were earlier,” Scherger said. “We dropped a lot of the technology; it’s gotten more raw and ‘roots-y.’”

The band makes an effort to meet up and hold practice every week.

“There’s more of a problem with all of our schedules getting matched up to where we can find time to progress with each other, rather than just individually,” Miller said.

The group even shares a Spotify playlist with songs they like to inspire each other and keep everyone in the same creative ballpark.

“You want to get people dancing and jumping,” Miller said. “You wouldn’t want to play songs that are sentimental and lyrically driven.”

For Light Horse Harry,

getting a live audience excited about their music is essential.

“We make people smile and alter their moods; one song we can play can make people feel a little better,” Youpa said.

Scherger said the band would love to pursue a career in the music industry, but they hope to continue playing together no matter where members’ professional careers take them.

“I’m still gonna play music as long as my hands work,” Scherger said.

Unlike many student ensembles at the University, the New Music Ensemble provides student musicians and singers with the chance to play 21st-century chamber music and hear their own work performed in concert.

The New Music Ensemble is holding its last performance of the semester on Nov. 24, when it will play five contemporary pieces, including one piece written by a UT student for the concert.

Conducted by composition professor Dan Welcher, the ensemble only plays works that were composed within the last two decades. According to Andrew Boss, who has a doctorate of musical arts in composition and is a pianist for the ensemble, it is the only musical group at UT that doesn’t play pieces written in classical and romantic eras.

“Orchestral music [groups] typically focus most of their music written during a certain time period — oftentimes most of the repertoire before 1900,” Boss said. “The New Music Ensemble performs numerous works from the 20th and particularly the 21st century.”

The ensemble, in addition to playing contemporary pieces, premieres one piece written by a UT student each concert. Because of this, many students in the ensemble are able to hear their work performed live for the first time.

“As a result of having so many premieres of student

manpower. We had to go down to the local river bed to go dig out dirt so we could have mulch and fertile soil.”

They also went to an elementary school to teach students and parents. Valerie Diaz, vice president of education and civil engineering sophomore, is in charge of teaching students abroad and at home. In addition to teaching a community about different types of recycling, she is also

teaching GEB members basic Spanish so they can communicate in Panama. According to Stormer, teaching proper waste management is vital.

“It’s really upsetting to see that they have trash piled up all over the place,” Stormer said. “These developing nations are getting things like plastics and metal and containers that they’re not used to having. Typically they could eat a banana and

put the peel on the ground, and it’ll decompose, but now they have plastics and diapers that they don’t know what to do with.”

Stormer said one of the most important aspects of GEB is that it seeks to provide long-lasting aid.

“We’re not going over there to provide them with something,” Stormer said. “We’re there to help them learn how to do things themselves.”

The New Music Ensemble is a 16-piece ensemble within the Butler School of Music.

Graeme Hamilton | Daily Texan Staff

Radio-television-film sophmore Drew Scherger, buisness junior Agustus Miller and acting sophomore Zach Youpa are members of the band Light Horse Harry.

We make people smile and alter their moods; one song we can play can make people feel a little better.

—Zach Youpa, Acting sophomore

Photo courtesy of the Butler School of Music