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Butler School cuts two music programs
Gunman dead after firing at APD headquarters
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The Butler School of Music is discontinuing its music recording technology and music business programs because of University-mandated budget cuts to the school and a deficit in the school’s budget. Butler School director Mary Poole could not disclose the exact amount of the budget cut or deficit but called the financial circumstances of the Butler School “dire” in an email sent to
students in the programs on Nov. 21. According to Poole’s email, faculty members were not involved in the decision to stop admission to the programs. “It was a painful decision indeed to suspend admission to the music business and recording technology emphases within the music [bachelor of arts degree], and I am acutely aware that it must seem ironic,” Poole said. “I very much hope that one day soon, UT will be able to support programs exploring all aspects of the
music industry with the facilities and resources our brilliant students deserve.” The programs, which Poole said have about 60 students enrolled in them, instruct students in the production and business aspects of the music industry and focus on areas outside of classical music. “I think that ours holds a lot of merit, in that it’s extremely useful in mainstream jobs that are related to music, because it’s not
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By Natalie Sullivan @natsullivan94
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Music production senior Kelsey Harper records a trombone track for her recording class. The Butler School of Music cut the music recording technology and business programs because of budget cuts.
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UT student aims to grow human heart By Danielle Lopez @ldlopz
Divya Ramamoorthy — a connoisseur of hot chocolates, a greeting card crafter and a UT research assistant — can be found daily with a petri dish full of stem cells in hand. For the past three years, the Plan II and biomedical engineering junior has worked toward creating a real, functioning human heart. “The end goal is to find ways to regenerate tissue to be fully working organs,” Ramamoorthy said. “So imagine there are just beating cells, but, if we can make them into a 3-D construct, you can get rid of the need for organ transplant.” Ramamoorthy works on this stem cell project under the supervision of biomedical engineering associate professor Laura Suggs, and the graduate student who
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Griffin Smith | Daily Texan Staff
Divya Ramamoorthy, Plan II biomedical engineering junior, conducts research to grow human tissue from stem cells. The goal of the research is to create fully working organs for transplant.
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A man fired more than 100 shots during Thanksgiving break at at least three buildings in downtown Austin — including the federal courthouse, Mexican consulate and Austin Police Department headquarters — before he died of a gunshot wound, according to APD officials. APD has since identified the man as Larry Steven McQuilliams, a 49-year-old Austin resident. At a press conference, APD chief Art Acevedo said APD received a call saying shots had been fired in the downtown area Nov. 28 at 2:22 a.m. “That’s a very busy time in downtown Austin. Usually we’re inundated with calls for service right after bar closing,” Acevedo said. Within the next 10 minutes, APD also received reports of shots fired at the federal courthouse, Mexican consulate and APD headquarters, Acevedo said. An APD sergeant, putting away horses into a stable, saw McQuilliams and fired a single shot at him, and McQuilliams dropped to the ground, Acevedo said. The officer approached McQuilliams and noticed he had a “suspicious” vest that could possibly contain explosives or be a suicide-type vest, so a bomb squad was called in to search the area, Acevedo said. According to Acevedo, officials also found “suspicious
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Holmes pulls off last-minute three to down No. 24 UConn By Evan Berkowitz @Evan_Berkowitz
Down 54-52 to No. 24 UConn with 4.4 seconds left, basketball head coach Rick Barnes drew up a familiar play. Coming off a back screen, senior forward Jonathan Holmes found himself wide open in the corner near the Texas bench. Despite leaning too far forward,
Holmes swished the corner three, stunning the Huskies 55-54 in Storrs, Connecticut. “I was kind of off balance and kind of fell forward, but it went in,” said Holmes, whose is now being called ‘Johnny Basketball’ by his teammates. Up to that point, Holmes was struggling. He was just 3-of-12 from the field after opening the game shooting at a nearly 60 percent clip. But,
with the game on the line, Barnes called his number. The play was nearly a carbon copy of the buzzer-beater that knocked off Kansas State last season. Both plays featured Holmes coming off a back screen for a corner three in front of the Texas bench to win the game. And both times, Holmes sunk the shot.
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Junior guard Demarcus Holland shut down UConn senior guard Ryan Boatright at game’s end to help Texas finish with a 55-54 advantage.
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Steve Adler will face Austin City Council member Mike Martinez in the runoff election for mayor on Dec. 16. Early voting begins Dec. 1.
Mayoral candidate discusses plans, opinions By Jackie Wang @jcqlnwng
Mayoral candidate Steve Adler sat down with The Daily Texan to discuss his policy plans and opinions should he be elected. Adler faces off against Austin City Council member
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Mike Martinez in the runoff for Austin mayor Dec. 16. Early voting for the runoff election begins Dec. 1. This interview is the second of two interviews with the mayoral candidates. The Daily Texan: What are some student issues
that concern you? Steve Adler: There are issues with respect to safety and public safety in West Campus: infrastructure, streetlights and sidewalks. There are general affordability issues that
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continues from page 1 cylinders” inside the suspect’s vehicle. “Anytime you have cylinders like these, where someone is attacking government facilities, you have to think about … possible explosive devices,” Acevedo said. APD also discovered evidence that showed the man had tried to use propane cylinders to ignite the Mexican consulate, Acevedo said. Both the man’s vest and vehicle were later cleared by the bomb squad. The APD officer who shot McQuilliams will be placed on administrative leave with pay, Acevedo said. Officials are still investigating the motive behind the incident, but, based on the man’s targets, Acevedo said immigration issues
Anytime you have cylinders like these, where someone is attacking government facilities, you have to think about … possible explosive devices. —Art Acevedo, APD chief
may have played a role. “When you look at the national debate about immigration, that certainly comes to mind,” Acevedo said. According to Acevedo, I-35 was closed for about four hours, and APD headquarters were evacuated. APD does not think there is any further danger posed to anyone else at this time.
Student-athletes set for December hearings By Natalie Sullivan @natsullivan94
Over the winter break, three former student-athletes will face criminal court hearings. Below is an update on their cases: Sanders and Meander The preliminary hearings for former Texas football players Kendall Sanders and Montrel Meander, both of whom were charged with seconddegree felonies for sexual assault, have been rescheduled for 9 a.m. on Dec. 5 and Dec.
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continues from page 1 developed the project, Laura Geuss. Ramamoorthy is one of the youngest on the research team comprised of graduate students and has been featured on TedxYouth and Business Insider for her work. Before she entered her freshman year, Ramamoorthy applied to be Suggs’ research assistant. She always planned to be a biomedical engineering major, but she did not know what she was truly interested in until she joined Suggs’ team. “I got lucky and got
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15, respectively, according to Travis County court records. Both cases have been rescheduled multiple times since the players’ first scheduled court date in August. If convicted, they could face a sentence of up to 20 years in prison and a fine of up to $10,000. According to Travis County Clerk Grace Ramirez, it could take up to a year before the players are indicted and the cases move forward. Sanders and Meander were originally arrested July 24 after allegedly sexually
assaulting a female student in a campus dorm on June 21. Immediately following the arrests, Texas head coach Charlie Strong suspended both players from the team for an indefinite amount of time. He announced on Aug. 3 that they had been dismissed from the team because of the charges brought against them. Bail was set at $75,000 for both Meander and Sanders for one count of sexual assault each. Sanders has an additional bail of $20,000 for a charge of improper photography.
Martez Walker After being rescheduled multiple times, the hearing for former basketball guard Martez Walker, who is charged for alleged assault with injury and criminal trespass, is scheduled for Dec. 19 at 9:30 a.m., according to Travis County court records. Head coach Rick Barnes suspended Walker from the team on Sept. 12 after Walker allegedly hit his girlfriend in an incident at San Jacinto Residence Hall, according to a statement released by the University. Walker turned
himself in at the Travis County Courthouse after the incident, and a judge issued an arrest warrant in which bond was set at $7,500. While banned, Walker reappeared on campus less than a week later, when he was arrested for trespassing by returning to the dormitory where the alleged assault occurred. He was taken into custody by UTPD and transported to Travis County Jail. University officials confirmed on Oct. 9 that Walker had withdrawn from the University.
something that I really enjoyed,” Ramamoorthy said. “Suggs’ research is really cool because it works directly with human application. It’s like everything is living and everything is tangible, which I liked.” The team’s work focuses on two different projects in regenerative medicine. For one project, they found a way to stimulate stem cells using magnets to create heart cells. They then search for ways to make these cells grow inside the human body. In the second project, they search for ways to actually keep the cells alive once they are implanted. “It’s a lot more of what the cells can do on their own,
compared to what you can do in a lab.” Ramamoorthy said. Geuss said Ramamoorthy is dedicated. “From the beginning I thought she was very motivated,” Geuss said. “Very quick to learn and very eager to learn, which made her easy to work with. Especially considering how young she was.” In addition to her project with Suggs, Ramamoorthy recently began working with two aerospace engineering seniors on a theoretical design project derived from her research. They are researching the growth of heart cells in space to see if an actual, three-dimensional heart can be produced.
“A lot of research is being done using different scaffolds,” Ramamoorthy said. “Meaning you use different pieces of something that the cells grow through. The other option is potentially using nothing and just using zero gravity to allow the cells to grow in the way you want them to.” Despite her interest in the human body, Ramamoorthy said medical school is not in her future. She is also involved with the Senate of College Councils and Student Engineers Educating Kids, in which she and a few others conduct engineering projects with middle school students. She also mentors a sixth grader once a week
as part of Plan II’s KIPP program. “I faint at the sight of blood,” Ramamoorthy said. “I’d like to be a professor. I really like teaching little kids and I like research.” Ramamoorthy said her passion for research comes from applying science and knowledge in a way that helps people. “A lot of research that you do is by yourself in the corner of a lab,” Ramamoorthy said. “You don’t get to see the end result. But with this, you realize that you’re working with actual things that came from a person and that you’re also going to put back into them, and I think that’s so cool.”
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Andrew Schindler said he wishes the decision had been discussed with students prior to it being made. “There’s never been any sort of connection between the administration at the Butler School and the students,” Schindler said. “As far as who to blame, there’s not anyone to blame. It’s more of a situation where students are pretty apathetic about the school because they’re just there to study their instrument.” Fair said he is disappointed to see the program go. “I’m especially sad for students who are in the
program and have recently gotten out of the program,” Fair said. “Because it’s a little uncomfortable that the program you’ve just completed no longer exists.” Harper shared this concern and said she and her classmates are worried the degree will decrease in merit and be less marketable for jobs now that it is being discontinued. Schindler said he thinks the Butler School of Music is trying to be more like a traditional music conservatory. “To be a prosperous musician, you have to understand business and how to record
music,” Schindler said. “The fact that they are closing those two programs, I feel you’re disenfranchising a lot of students.” In an email, music production senior lecturer Gary Powell said he would like to see the Butler School look at areas like music business and production again in the future. “The Butler School has made a decision in line with its academic pursuits,” Powell said. “My hope is that, in time, in a different economy, and even with the same leadership, we will see these pursuits broaden.”
we were doing was going to impact their lives. I think people are willing to wait for an integrated mass transit system to get to them if they thought it was going to get to them. That means getting a feel for the timing and cost of it. But if it just appears as a line drawn on a piece of paper, people don’t buy that. I think that we need to improve Capital Metro and the bus system. Ridership on the buses is down today from 2006 and 2008. The system costs twice as much as it did back then.
thing that ridership is down. I think, when you run a transit system like that and only 5 percent of the population uses it, that’s not where you want to be. Until we get out in front of the supply and demand a balance, we’re just going to be creating smaller units that cost more. We have more and more students that have to live farther and farther away because they can’t afford those premium locations. Those people should be able to have a transit system. Density downtown, good thing. Ridership down, bad thing.
do a property tax that is a flat rate or capped tax. I spent my life pushing for those changes at the state level. With the legislature, it probably won’t change for the next 25 years.
continues from page 1 solely focused on classical music or preforming it,” music production senior Kelsey Harper said. “It’s more of the industrial side of things.” The programs will continue as normal, until students currently enrolled in the programs have graduated, according to Ed Fair, music business adjunct professor and music attorney. “In the short-term, those who are in the program will certainly be fine,” Fair said. Music production senior
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continues from page 1 students have to deal with — rents and utility bills. There are issues associated with wanting to stay here after graduating. There are sound ordinance issues, which plays into a larger urban planning issue that the city is dealing with. And transportation issues, as it gets more expensive to live around the University. DT: Proposition 1 failed and urban rail is on hold for now. Do you think a different route would have passed at the ballot box? SA: My personal belief is you should pick a route to sustain where people are, because people will vote for something that improves their lives. My sense is part of what the community is saying in this discussion is they didn’t understand how what
DT: Your opponent, City Council member Mike Martinez, said decreased ridership numbers was partly caused by increased density around campus. How does that change your opinion on ridership numbers? SA: I think it’s good students are living closer to campus. I think it’s a bad
DT: Why do you support a 20 percent homestead exemption? SA: I support the 20 percent because, contrary to how it is perceived by some, it is the fairest thing to do for the people who are low income in our city. It would be better and more progressive if we could
DT: With runoffs happening during the end of the semester, are you worried about student turnout? SA: I am worried. We did well on the student boxes [in the general election], and I spent a lot of time talking to students, and I was proud of that. In just an absolute sense, I’m concerned not just about students but everyone else with the holiday season. The 16th is the first day of Hanukkah. People are going to get lost. And when people don’t vote, people feel less invested. Students need to feel invested so they’ll be more involved. The power that students have is enormous, and I would love to see students reclaim that.
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LAUREN L’AMIE, LIFE&ARTS EDITOR | @thedailytexan Monday, December 1, 2014
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Alumna prepares to premiere digitally created art exhibit By Emily Gibson @Emgeemtee
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Black Swan Yoga, a donation-based yoga studio, was recently acquired by Onnit, a local fitness company. The studio added Onnit fitness classes to its schedule and will begin to use Onnit’s equipment..
Local fitness business buys student-favored yoga studio By Kate Dannenmaier @kjdannen
Black Swan Yoga’s donation-based model and community atmosphere have made it a favorite for UT students looking to relax. But the laid-back studio has just been acquired by Onnit, a local fitness company focused on exercise it calls “maximum human optimization,” which combines Black Swan’s yoga classes with other fitness routines. Yoga instructor Jaimee Hart said not much is going to change at Black Swan. Its classes will still be donationbased and customers will now also have the option of buying a membership. The studio is going to add a few Onnit fitness classes to its schedule of yoga sessions, and it will soon start selling Onnit dietary supplements and apparel. “We want to start incorporating and using Onnit
fitness equipment, the stuff that they’re really famous for: their steel maces and their kettle bells and their big wall ball things,” Hart said. “We also have a couple of Onnitcertified trainers teaching our FIT classes, so, if anything, they’re a little more professional than what we had.” Black Swan FIT classes offer a bootcamp-style workout followed by 15 minutes of yoga. J.J. Pepper, a trainer for these FIT classes, said they’ve already begun to add Onnit equipment to the curriculum. “They are a legitimate fitness company that cares about their products as much as their people, which is rare and refreshing and just plain genuine,” Pepper said. Advertising sophomore Julia Waicberg said the last class she went to at Black Swan felt more like an ab workout than a yoga session. “While it wasn’t a relaxing practice, I felt incredible
afterwards,” Waicberg said. “Yoga can be a calming exercise, but it also can be a practice that tests your limits and shows you what you’re capable of.” Former Black Swan instructor Megan Ridgeway said Black Swan’s recent emphasis on fitness is probably good for everyone in the long run. “I think it can be a beneficial partnership if it’s utilized in the right way,” Ridgeway said. “But I also think that it takes the Black Swan brand in an extremely different direction than it’s ever been. We’ll see if the more historical Black Swan community can support it.” Hart said the goal of the acquisition isn’t to change Black Swan’s yoga practices. It will just start appropriating new methods to reach a wider audience. “We’ll always be Black Swan Yoga,” Hart said.
Where some artists use pencils or paintbrushes, UT alumna Chalda Maloff uses a Wacom tablet and an electronic stylus. Each stroke she makes with her stylus is transcribed into a computer, coming together to make digital paintings. Maloff’s new exhibit, “Joy to the Fishes,” opens Monday at Mill and Leaf in the Arboretum and will run through Jan. 5. Maloff said the inspiration for the collection came to her while she was snorkeling in the Caribbean. “I observed in myself and others an altered frame of mind following underwater viewing — an increased sense of well-being and reverie, a clearing of mental clutter,” Maloff said. “I considered the types of compositions, forms and aesthetic constructs that might facilitate this mind-set.” According to Maloff, working with the digital medium allows her to do things that are not plausible with mediums like drawing or painting. She can zoom in to meticulous details, mix different
mediums, reverse mistakes and use editable digital layers. “I have always had a tendency to conceptualize an artwork in strata, so this facility of the digital medium is particularly aligned with my way of thinking,” Maloff said. “The computer and art software are beautiful tools for creating artwork.” Maloff discovered digital media when she was going to school in California, after years of working with oils and acrylics. She received a graduate degree in computer science from the University of California-Berkeley in addition to the art history degree she already held. “I studied art history for love, but the people around me said, ‘Why don’t you study something practical?’” Maloff said. “I became interested in computer science almost by accident, and the people around me said — remember, this was the early ’70s — ‘Why don’t you study something practical?’” As a graduate student in the early ’70s, Maloff visited the Palo Alto Research Center, a research and development center in Palo Alto, California. While there, she
Chalda Maloff stands in her living room, which is home to pieces from “Rational Exuberance,” opening in April 2015 in New York City. Maloff’s new exhibit, “Joy to the Fishes,” opens Monday at Mill and Leaf in the Arboretum. Michael Baez Daily Texan Staff
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received a private demonstration of the earliest forms of digital art technology. She still continued her work with natural mediums for years after and obtained a doctorate in human ecology from the University of Texas Health Science Center — Houston. Meanwhile, digital art technologies were becoming more advanced. Over a decade after she visited PARC, Maloff fell ill and was unable to get out of bed to paint. Her husband surprised her with an early version of digital art software, which he packed in a paint can, so, when she opened the canister, she got a whiff of natural paint smell. “And once I fully grasped the current possibilities of the digital medium, I continued with it even after I regained my health,” Maloff said. After showing her art in other states and countries, Maloff is excited to bring her work back home with “Joy to the Fishes.” “Recently, I’ve rediscovered how much fun it is to show closer to home,” Maloff said. “To see familiar faces at the receptions and foster ongoing relationships and dialogues.”
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RILEY BRANDS, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF / @TexanEditorial Monday, December 1, 2014
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This month, vote for Martinez, the better choice for Austinites In October, this editorial board selected Sheryl Cole — a City Council member and the mayor pro tem — as our choice to be the next mayor of Austin. In doing so, we lauded her breadth of experience at City Hall and her common sense approach to the major issues facing students and other disadvantaged groups. For those same reasons, we endorse Council member Mike Martinez over Steve Adler in the runoff election for mayor that will be held on Dec. 16 and for which early voting begins Monday. Adler, a lawyer and longtime activist within Democratic politics, has good intentions, but he lacks the institutional knowledge that we believe the city desperately needs at this time. Contrary to what many of his backers may claim, this city does not need an “outsider” who will shake up municipal politics, so to speak. Rather, it needs a steady hand to manage the consistent growth that Austin has faced in recent years, as well as a leader who simultaneously implements bold plans to solve the city’s growing problems in transportation and affordability, especially for students. Both Adler and Martinez supported Proposition 1, the unsuccessful urban rail
measure that we had previously opined against. However, only Martinez retains a logical approach to this issue post-Prop. 1, both respecting the voters’ wishes and diligently working to find ways to mitigate congestion beyond road expansion. Martinez, chairman of the Capital Metro board, focuses on innovative bus expansion, hoping to diversify routes, facilitate east to west corridors and even play around with novel suggestions such as a pilot program eliminating bus fares. Adler, outside of a cursory mention of buses in our conversation, looks content to propose the quixotic, such as an increased commitment to telecommuting. However, perhaps most importantly, Martinez would dedicate himself to the plight faced by the 55 percent of Austinites who rent, including most students. He has suggested possibly using some of the recent affordable housing bonds to build a housing complex for low-income students, hoping to expand existing regulations that ensure some affordable housing units in new construction. The cornerstone of Adler’s plan, meanwhile, is an ambitious expansion of the homestead tax exemption, which he would
fund predominantly with the city’s surplus and possibly “shifting the tax burden.” While he has passionately defended this plan as a rather urgent method of tax relief, applying to far more than just millionaires, Adler freely admits his proposal could squander the city’s surplus on non-renters (read: non-students) and non-renters alone. In fact, he even conceded that it could nominally raise rent prices for most. When asked about future years without surpluses to fund the exemption, Adler obfuscated his response using platitudes such as growth and expansion. In the next three years, the mayor will have to face a plethora of complex issues and, with the new 10-district City Council, will be in a unique position to push through an array of proposals to change the city in meaningful ways. The city can take a chance on an untested, inexperienced newcomer, who will prioritize savings for the most well off people in the community. Alternatively, it can look toward someone with eight years of experience around every nook and cranny of municipal politics, who will tirelessly fight for the least represented among us, most notably students and other young
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people. Vote for Martinez for a more student-friendly Austin.
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Graduate studies assistant dean Graduating early is both costtalks stipends, student housing efficient and relatively simple graduate school that encompasses all of the different graduate programs?
John Dalton
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Editor’s Note: This is part of a series of Q-andA’s with the deans of the University’s 18 schools and colleges. John Dalton was appointed assistant dean of graduate studies in 2006. Dean Judith Langlois was unavailable. This interview has been condensed to fit space requirements. The Daily Texan: Could you tell us about the graduate school’s goals? John Dalton: Our main objective is to recruit and support the very best graduate students, and that means a lot of things. It means financial support; it means services for graduate students of all sorts. Two of the main things that we have been focusing on over the last couple of years, one of them is graduate student housing. We have a lot of graduate students on campus, and we don’t have a lot of opportunities for them to have housing either that is owned by the University or subsidized by the University. The other issue that we’ve moved the needle on, I think significantly, is career services for graduate students, particularly PhD students. If you’re a non-professional student, like if you’re an MBA student or at the LBJ school or even in engineering, your career services actually does a very good job of helping you facilitate interactions with potential employers, setting you up, but if you’re in a non-professional school, like the College of Liberal Arts or the College of Natural Sciences, two or three years ago, there just literally weren’t services for graduate students, and I didn’t know this until we did our climate study and one of the things that came back was we need more career services. DT: How are you planning on addressing the issue of low availability of graduate student housing? Dalton: Most [graduate housing] is done on Lake Austin Boulevard ... and the wait list is several hundred students long. There’s a large international student population there. There are a lot of families there. That’s also part of that Brackenridge track which is very valuable to the University. It’s part of the municipal golf course, so there are lots of conversations going on about what’s going to happen to that down the road. We have been working with the Graduate Student Assembly and various administrators and the president to talk about a new facility for graduate students, and we’re in the preliminary stages of that discussion, but it seems to be going really well. I think within the next six to nine months, the campus will see a proposal for a new facility, and we’re not sure of the location yet, but we’re focusing our efforts on east Austin. DT: Is it normal for a university to have one
Dalton: The way our administrative structure is set up is very typical across the U.S …. Everything about the graduate student experience is very different than the undergraduate experience. The department makes [admissions decisions], and students become a part of that department. They work with individual faculty. Administratively, the graduate school supports and just oversees the different processes as graduate students move through their programs ... We handle all the incoming [admission] applications and distribute those out to the programs to make those decisions and then we verify those decisions, and then at the end we certify the degree, but in the middle, there’s lots of things that happen. We handle everything from late registration petitions to grievances from graduate students who are having either employment issues or academic issues.
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Only five of the 14 commencement speakers since 2000 have been women— most recently Olympian Sanya Richards-Ross.
DT: What kinds of challenges does this type of structure pose? Dalton: We have a very large student population: 12,000 students. The graduate school staff in the graduate school is about 30 staff. It’s a lot of services to provide with few staff. We count the graduate coordinators as an extension of our staff; there are over 100 of those, and they’re located in each of the departments. We couldn’t do our jobs without the graduate coordinators. One of the challenges is the diversity of needs. You can’t say something’s going to work for all graduate students. Very rarely will one solution work for everybody. So we’re always talking about the differences between the sciences and the humanities and trying to figure out what their needs are, even in career services, very different needs going into preparation for the job market ... We’re getting ready, I think next fall, to engage in a series of conversations about graduate education, and we’re going to ask really basic questions like, “What is a dissertation?” We expect a different answer from every college and school. DT: How are graduate student stipends looking? Dalton: Stipends are really paramount in supporting graduate students. That is one of the key factors ... It is one of the major factors students use in deciding where they are going to go for their graduate work. To get the very best students, you’ve got to have competitive stipends. Every college in the school has a different stipend amount. They range across the board, low to high, just depending on market forces, depending on the source of funds, so we are always thinking about how to find more money to support graduate students. The graduate school can do some of that. We can work on providing those stipends, but a lot of that money from the stipends comes from external to the University, so in the sciences and the STEM fields, most of that money that is paid to graduate research assistants, or GRA’s, comes from external sources like grants from the federal government. Faculty are getting those grants, and those students will be paid off of that grant and not out of the University coffers. We have lots of conversations with college deans about the levels of stipends. We’re always looking at our budgets and trying to figure out how we can increase stipends.
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By John Daywalt Senior Columnist @JohnDaywalt
In less than two weeks, the University will hold commencement ceremonies for the fall 2014 graduates. I, along with many other students, will have finally completed my undergraduate studies and will be moving onto my next venture in life. As of 2013, only 52 percent of students at UT will go on to graduate in four years. The number one gripe I hear from fellow students is the need for more affordable college tuition. While UT is not exactly cheap, it is extremely affordable for such a world-class institution. UT was ranked as the second best value college in the U.S. by The Wall Street Journal’s SmartMoney magazine in 2011. With that being said, we must graduate on time for this value to hold. I have two simple suggestions to graduating in four years or less. My first suggestion is to always enroll in 15 credit hours per long semester. Taking fewer than 15 credit hours per semester (30 per year) automatically puts us behind the four-year plan. Also, UT tuition is on a flat rate system, so any courses past the 12 credit hours are essentially free because there is no additional cost. My second suggestion is to take summer courses. I know summer courses are not for everyone, and some departments do not even offer summer courses, but for those of us who can take summer courses, it is an excellent option. My reasoning is simple. Summer tuition
is actually cheaper than long semester tuition, and summer classes are also practical because most students live off-campus and are forced to pay rent even during the summer months when many students are not enrolled in classes. Simply taking 12 credit hours in just one summer of our college career and one extra three hour course during one long semester puts us on track to graduate an entire semester early. Some of us might still be thinking, “Well, who cares if I graduate a semester early?” The answer is that one semester will cost each of us thousands of dollars in rent, cost of living, gas, textbooks and more. Instead, we are already paying for rent in the summer, so we need to take advantage of this time. I know some of us will simply sublet an apartment over the summer, but even by doing so, we still have to pay rent for five to six months during a typical long semester compared to the summer of only two to three months. That is essentially double the cost of rent each long semester compared to summer. I personally utilized both of these suggestions and am graduating in three years. This included six long semesters and two summers. While I wouldn’t recommend it for traditional students coming straight from high school, it made more sense for myself as a non-traditional student who is just a couple of years older than traditional students. Nonetheless, I was able to save an entire year’s worth of rent, cost of living, and some money in tuition costs during my time at UT. For those of us who are extremely focused on the cost of our education at UT, try taking advantage of these suggestions. Let’s save ourselves some money instead of griping about a problems we can fix on our own. Daywalt is a government senior from Copperas Cove.
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GARRETT CALLAHAN, SPORTS EDITOR | @texansports Monday, December 1, 2014
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Swoopes’ starter position in jeopardy By Stefan Scrafield
Ethan Oblak Daily Texan Staff
at Tyrone, he has some games where it’s been up and down for him. Tonight wasn’t his night.” As Strong seeks to protect freshman quarterback Jerrod Heard’s redshirt, it’s hard to imagine a scenario in which Swoopes wouldn’t start in Texas’ upcoming bowl game. But beyond that, it’s looking more and more like the Longhorns’ future plans do not include Swoopes. The staff clearly feels the lack of competition behind
Swoopes is detrimental to the team’s success, as he has no threat to overtake him on game day or push him in practice. Shawn Watson, quarterback coach and assistant head coach for offense, agrees with Strong and said his most successful signal callers, including current Minnesota Viking player Teddy Bridgewater, were at their finest with a couple of guys breathing down their necks. “[Swoopes] has got to have those people,” Watson said.
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continues from page 1 The Longhorns took a 6-point lead to the break behind a strong first half from junior guard Demarcus Holland. Holland scored all 10 of his points in the first half, as he sliced and diced his way to the rim and finished early. The second half, though, was a different story. At the 10:46 mark, a Boatright layup put UConn up 43-42: its first lead since 4-3. The Huskies expanded that lead to 6 before Texas made its move. A pair of clutch free throws from freshman forward Myles
“Every great quarterback situation I’ve been a part of is because we had four guys in that classroom competing hard for the job.” It appears as though Swoopes’ inconsistency has finally worn down the staff’s trust in him. His ability to throw the deep ball and run in the open field gives reason to believe he could some day be great. But his tendency to make major mistakes — and lots of them — indicates he may never be consistent enough to have
success at the college level. There is a glimmer of hope, however. Heard will be available next season; Zach Gentry, one of the top high school quarterbacks in the nation, will arrive this offseason; and Strong’s staff is considering adding a junior college transfer as well. If all that happens, Texas might have the quarterback competition it desperately needs. But is such a scenario too good to be true?
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and extended as high as a 12-point margin. In the second half, sophomore guard Brianna Taylor and senior forward Nneka Enemkpali continued their scoring streaks. Enemkpali went 7-of-10 from the field to score 13 of her 17 points in the second half. Taylor did not miss a shot the entire game, totaling 10 points and five rebounds. “I come off the bench and give us energy, rebound, defend and help [Enemkpali] out down there in the paint,” Taylor said. “[I’m] just coming in, being solid and getting stops on defense, so I’m learning.” Within 10 days, the Longhorns (5-0) won two games against top-5 opponents. Aston said the wins influence the players’ mind-set significantly. “We have players that have never been in these situations before or players that are older that have not had these significant wins before, so I think from a confidence perspective, it is unbelievable,” Aston said.
“Now we have a long way to go.” This season, Lang has scored double digits in every game. She said that after the team found out about junior center Imani McGee-Stafford’s injury, she changed her mentality to become an offensive threat. “My teammates and coaches have helped me so much with that,” Lang said. “I have gained so much confidence because they have confidence in me.” Freshman guard Ariel Atkins ended the game with 12 points on 5-of-9 shooting. Enemkpali said she overheard Atkins talking about how fun the season has been so far, but Enemkpali said the veterans must remind teammates that the season is far from over. “If you want it to continue to be fun, then we have to work as hard as we’re working to continue to have fun,” Enemkpali said. The Longhorns will continue their six-game home stint against New Mexico on Wednesday at 7 p.m.
Turner and sophomore guard Kendal Yancy cut the lead to 1. After a pair of Boatright free throws put UConn up by 3, junior point guard Javan Felix hit a high-arching layup with 21 seconds left. Boatright ended with 24 points to lead all scorers, while Holmes led Texas with 13. Holmes also led all rebounders with eight. Barnes elected to put Felix on Boatright, who is the Huskies’ go-to man, from the beginning. As Boatright began to get hot and find his stroke halfway through the second half, Barnes switched his lineup so that Holland, his best defender, would match Boatright.
Holland face-guarded Boatright at all times, limiting him to just 2 non-freethrow points and keeping the ball out of his hands in the final minutes. “Today, the big picture is: We found a way,” Barnes said. Felix recorded 10 points and four assists, as he filled in for the injured sophomore guard Isaiah Taylor as the starting point guard. Turner finished with 7 points, five rebounds and five blocks — coming up with some huge defensive stops late in the game. Texas returns home Tuesday to take on UT-Arlington.
Horns close regular season with 3-2 loss By Jacob Martella @ViewFromTheBox
Texas volleyball head coach Jerritt Elliott scheduled No. 6 Florida for the last regular season match to give the Longhorns one final challenge before the NCAA tournament. Saturday afternoon, Elliott and the Longhorns found that challenge and more against the SEC champion Gators, capping off regular season play with their second loss. Florida seemed to handle everything Texas threw at it: blocking, senior outside hitter Haley Eckerman on the service line and sophomore middle blocker Chiaka Ogbogu up the middle. Executing a dominant fifth set, the Gators overpowered the Longhorns. “I think Florida played extremely well,” Elliott said. “We just weren’t very efficient from the start from the service line or serve receive line. We made mistakes late in the games, but I think it’s something we can learn from and grow from and keep moving.” The dogfight kicked off from the start as neither side built a lead of more than 2 points until Texas took a 10-8 lead behind a kill from sophomore outside hitter Paulina Prieto Cerame and an attack error by Florida. The Gators later took a 22-19 lead before the Longhorns fought back with a 5-0 run. “It wasn’t anything out of the ordinary, but it was important to, obviously, win the first game and take control of the match,” Elliott said. The second set, though, belonged to Florida. The Gators jumped out to a quick 6-2 lead and never looked back before stealing the set
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Outscoring its opponent 38-26 in the paint under the leadership of sophomore center Kelsey Lang’s 18 points and six rebounds, the women’s basketball team defeated the fourth-ranked Tennessee Lady Volunteers, 72-59. Despite this matchup being the 33rd consecutive season the teams played one another, Sunday’s victory is the first time since 2008 the Longhorns defeated the Lady Volunteers. Texas head coach Karen Aston said she didn’t know whether the team would win but knew they had prepared well. “I thought this was a really tremendous effort from our basketball team,” Aston said. “I think our inside game was terrific today. They battled really hard … and did the things it takes to be a presence in the paint.” The Longhorns grabbed the lead early in the first half
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Senior forward Nneka Enemkpali scored 17 points on 7-of-10 shooting against Tennessee on Sunday. Enemkpali sunk 13 of her points during the second half of Texas’ 72-59 win.
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Sophomore quarterback Tyrone Swoopes struggled against TCU on Thursday. Although he rushed for a team-high 61 yards, Swoopes threw four interceptions to the Horned Frogs.
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It was too good to be true. In mid-November, sophomore quarterback Tyrone Swoopes trotted off the field at Boone Pickens Stadium looking as though he had finally cemented himself as the Longhorns’ quarterback for the foreseeable future. Swoopes, who has been inconsistent all season, appeared to find his stride in Stillwater, Oklahoma. He had led Texas to its third consecutive win in the best performance of his career, throwing for more than 300 yards and two scores and avoiding the kind of mistakes that had plagued him in the first two months of the season. Just a couple weeks later, it seems like Swoopes may have had his final start at Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium on Thanksgiving Day. The 6-foot-4, 243-pound gunslinger turned the ball over five times against TCU and never gave his offense a chance to get in rhythm. After the game, the coaching staff didn’t exactly give him a vote of confidence as the program’s quarterback of the future. “Well, you always have to recruit, and you have to recruit for every position,” head coach Charlie Strong said. “You look
SIDELINE
25-20. In the set, the Longhorns were held to just a .125 hitting percentage — their lowest of the match. The third set started as a role reversal of the second set, as Texas jumped out to a quick 6-2 lead. The Longhorns eventually found themselves with a 22-21 lead late in the set, but the Gators went on a 4-1 run to take the set 25-23. Texas won the fourth set to keep the match alive but dropped a back-and-forth fifth set 15-12. With the win, the Gators avenge their loss to the Longhorns earlier this season in Gainesville, Florida. Elliott said Florida — especially sophomore right side Alex Holston, who had 29 kills — was much improved this time around. “I thought their defense was really good and their passing was exceptional,” Elliott said. “Their out-of-system game was just better, some of their pin hitters we couldn’t control.” Texas has now lost two of its last three regular season finales. In 2012, Texas finished regular season play with a 3-2 loss at Iowa State and then went on to win the national championship. Ogbogu said the loss will motivate the team in the tournament. “I think, if anything, this is going to make us hungrier and realize that this year, anyone can win the national championship,” Ogbogu said. The Longhorns received the No. 2 overall seed and the top in the Minneapolis Region in this year’s championship bracket. Texas will open against Northwestern State at home Thursday. The winner faces either Texas A&M or Arizona State on Friday.
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Sophomore middle blocker Chiaka Ogbogu and sophomore outside hitter Paula Prieto Cerame fail to block a kill from No. 6 Florida.
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James Naismith creates the game of basketball.
SPORTS BRIEFLY Former Longhorn wins Australian Open
Former Longhorn golfer Jordan Spieth won the Australian Open on Sunday with a career-best 8-under 63. Spieth, who competed for Texas in 2011 and 2012, bested the runner-up by six strokes. Texas men’s golf head coach John Fields said Spieth’s win, the first by an American since 1993, deserves note. “Jordan Spieth understands the significance of this great win,” Fields said. “All Longhorns and Texans can enjoy his fabulous achievement.” En route to his secondever professional victory, Spieth beat out competitors such as two-time Australian Open champion Greg Chalmers. Chalmers shot a 71. Spieth declared professional status in December 2012 at age 19 after helping lead the Longhorns to the NCAA Championship. While at Texas, he merited First Team All-American honors, as well as Big 12 Conference Player of the Year and Freshman of the Year recognition. Spieth also was one of three finalists for the 2012 Ben Hogan Award, recognizing the nation’s top amateur golfer. He was the second player ever to win multiple U.S. Junior Amateur titles. —Jori Epstein