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UT to seek millions for buildings By Julia Brouillette @juliakbrou
For the 2015 legislative session, the UT System is seeking funding from the Texas Legislature for large infrastructure projects at each of its educational institutions through tuition revenue bonds. In a July meeting, the Board of Regents approved
the System’s plan to request $1.9 billion in tuition revenue bonds, also known as TRBs, from state lawmakers. UT-Austin’s share in the proposal includes two building renovation projects: $100 million for Welch Hall and $105 million for the McCombs School of Business. If authorized, the proposed TRBs will pledge a revenue stream serviced by
income from tuition charges levied against students with the expectation that the state will later reimburse the expenditures. Barry McBee, System vice chancellor and chief governmental relations officer, said the lack of TRBs has contributed to overcrowding in classrooms and more limited access to laboratories at many of Texas’
public universities. While the System has used funding alternatives, such as the state’s Permanent University Fund and philanthropic contributions, to keep some projects afloat, they are not enough to meet all the needs of higher education institutions, according to McBee. “A good example in Austin would be the engineering building; that was a TRB
request last time,” McBee said. “It was the highest priority for UT-Austin, and it was obviously not funded, but we were able to put together funding for the project to proceed. That probably means that some other priority project on the campus had to be delayed.” The legislature historically
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The Cockrell School of Engineering aims to achieve gender balance in classrooms and began an initiative in January to increase the number of women entering the program.
course she took her freshman year. She said her civil engineering courses tend to be more gender balanced, but there are still more male students. According to WEP, 38.3
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it wasn’t as well-distributed as the BME classes,” Collins said. Civil engineering senior Kirstin Rose said she was one of two girls in a mechanical engineering design
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undergraduate enrollees are female — courses she has taken in electrical engineering have been maledominated. “There were definitely some girls in there, but
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Student Government voted unanimously to approve its new Code and Rules of Procedures at Tuesday’s SG meeting. The code’s content, which the SG Rules and Regulations Committee has been reviewing since September, is a compiled version of SG’s formerly separate bylaws and procedures and serves as a detailed explanation of SG operations and rules. The code is used alongside a more general constitution that was updated last spring. The formatting of the code has been under review since summer, after controversy over the handling of interview notes for external and internal positions last spring. The controversy led to a decision by the Office of the Vice President for Legal Affairs that releasing interview notes violated the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act. The release of interview notes was not discussed at Tuesday’s meeting. At an SG meeting Nov. 12, SG agency leaders spoke out against an agency review process that was added to the document, saying they were not aware of the addition and asked that the code not be passed until they voiced their concerns and suggestions. “It’s good to reevaluate what agencies do and make sure they are still relevant in serving students, but I personally had an issue with the makeup of that committee,” said Amber Magee, Diversity and Inclusion agency director. Rules and Regulation committee members said
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As the Cockrell School of Engineering aims to achieve gender balance in its classrooms, some engineering women still feel outnumbered. According to statistics from the Women in Engineering Program, or WEP, the gap is largest in the electrical, aerospace and mechanical engineering departments, where, this fall, 15.0, 15.4 and 18.8 percent of undergraduate students are women, respectively. “Those departments are really focused on trying to improve that gap because, if I look at biomedical engineering, it’s over 40 percent women, but mechanical and electrical are under 20 percent,” Cockrell School dean Sharon Wood said. “So, if your two biggest departments are the ones with the smallest ratios, that’s where the efforts are being concentrated.” While there is a large number of women in biomedical engineering senior Samantha Collins’ biomedical engineering courses — where 44.9 percent of
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Taiye Selasi is the author of “Ghana Must Go: A Novel” and several other novels and short stories. She spoke about her inspirations and techniques used in her stories at the Symposium for African Writers in the Student Union on Tuesday afternoon.
Consortium receives millions to continue oil-spill research By Ariana Guerra @arie_war08
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African writer speaks at symposium By Josh Willis @joshwillis35
African author Taiye Selasi spoke at the Symposium for African Writers at the Student Union on Tuesday. Four other authors sat in the front row to see Selasi, as
she spoke about her inspirations, writing techniques and recent exploration of African literature. Selasi, author of “Ghana Must Go: A Novel” and several other novels, said her writing reflects that she never quite understood her own
life and her family’s position in the world. “Our class position was always in question, growing up the way that I did,” Selasi said. “My racial identity, my cultural identity, everything
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A research consortium led by the University of Texas Marine Science Institute received a $9.2 million award to further investigate the effects of dispersants and oil spills in the Gulf of Mexico and their impact on public health. The seven-institute consortium, led by Edward Buskey, UT-Austin marine science professor, received the award from the Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative. Buskey said the award will help the consortium continue its research. “It’s based on the $500 million BP pledge for independent research over 10 years,”
Buskey said. “[The program launched] after the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill [and is] headed by Rita Colwell.” According to Buskey, this is the second grant the consortium, Dispersion Research on Oil: Physics and Plankton Studies, has received. Its first set of research was funded by the Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative in 2012. “[In 2012,] they put out a number of proposals and decided to have a consortium of universities,” Buskey said. “You’d have people from different disciplines working on the project. We got our first grant of about $6 million and then another request for proposals of consortiums
came out. We applied and got funded again. Now, there are 12 consortiums studying some aspect of oil spills.” Buskey said dispersants are essentially detergents that break up oil, and the Deepwater Horizon spill was the first time dispersants were used. “They directly applied detergent to the oil as it was coming out of the well. That breaks it up into really small droplets so the small droplets rise really slowly,” Buskey said. “The droplets are so small that they interact with marines in the sea base of the food web, like plankton in the sea actually eat them. We’re ending up
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spend a lot of time not only hearing everyone come to our meetings and talk to us, but, also, we went through them and the code making sure it was up to snuff.” According to the code, the review process required agency members to be assessed on performance by “Student Body President, Student Body Vice President, Speaker of the Assembly, Two Representatives from the Assembly chosen by the Speaker, the Agency’s Policy Director, and the exofficio member being the Deputy to the Dean of Students” every other year. The new version also clarifies that agency directors can amend the information in the document about their specific agency. “There is a very nice amendment process in [the new code],” Magee said. “You can just submit it through the policy director and the chief of staff, so I feel like the Rules and Regulations committee was very gracious in giving us time with the whole assembly to work on it.” Braydon Jones, SG speaker of the assembly, said the assembly board will meet during winter break to determine what next semester will look like under the new code. “These rules are going to take immediate effect,” Jones said. “So we are at these guidelines now, fortunately. They will be sent to the Office of the Dean of Students as well the Vice President of Student Affairs for final approval, but we’re going to be functioning under these now unless otherwise told.”
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continues from page 1 with a mathematical model that will predict what [will] happen when you use dispersants and where it’ll go and how it will affect the food web. We’re trying to do a cost-benefit analysis.” Zhanfei Liu, marine science assistant professor, worked closely with Buskey to analyze how hydrocarbons can be degraded in the Gulf of Mexico. “It’s all new research. There’s a lot of things we don’t know,” Liu said. “When you have oil spill in the gulf, we still have no idea how long oil persists or can degrade. We can’t make predictions. Or another way to look at it is whether you want to apply dispersant or not. There’s a lot of debate.”
was always in question.” Selasi said that, while class position remained a constant question in her everyday life, the hospital where her parents worked as doctors showed a different picture. “The one thing that was clear to me, even as a young person, when I went to the hospital, was that all people were equal,” Selasi said. “Strangely, the hospital — the illness, it occurs to me now — became this space in which color and class did not exist.” Selasi said her stories rarely move in an organized, linear method because it is not natural. “I think that I had a sort of constitutional impatience with purely linear narrative,” Selasi said. “I think ‘Driver’ is the only thing I’ve ever written, including my journal entries, that just goes from point A to point Z. My mind doesn’t work that way, I am not convinced that any-
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engineering, the Cockrell School began an initiative in January to increase the number of women entering the program to 35 percent in five years. WEP has also developed programs such as “Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day,” which gives young girls the opportunity to come to the UT campus to meet professors and learn about engineering. WEP director Tricia Berry said the program has also designed initiatives to reach out to female high school students admitted into the engineering college. “At the Cockrell-school level we also phone call, email and meet female prospective students and admitted students all in an effort to recruit them to come,” Berry said in an email. According to Berry,
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since WEP started in 1992, the percentage of women in the Cockrell School has grown from 16 to 25 percent. “[The growth] is from the fact that there has been these outreach activities over a long period of time — over 15 years of trying to get kids excited and thinking of engineering as an opportunity,” Wood said. Wood said the growth in the number of women studying engineering could also be attributed to the most recent financial crisis, since most people who get out of college today don’t want to worry about finding a good job along with a burdening debt. “Engineering gives that stability in jobs, and plus there was all that press about how many more engineers we’re going to need as we move forward,” Wood said.
An important part of what she’s doing is writing about middle-class Africa, writing about Africans outside of the narratives through which Africanness is traditionally construed in the media but in a way that is not triumphant — it’s just very human, —Aaron Bady, English lecturer
one’s mind works that way.” English lecturer Aaron Bady said Selasi’s writing brings a different perspective to African culture. “An important part of what she’s doing is writing about middle-class Africa, writing about Africans outside of the narratives through which Africanness is traditionally construed in the media, but in a way that is not triumphant — it’s just very human,” Bady said. English professor emeritus Bernth Lindfors said ever since Chinua Achebe — the first African author to visit
UT — spoke in 1969, students have developed new perspectives and garnered greater interest in African literature. “It was important for our students to address him about the literature he had written,” Lindfors said. “He had published four fast-breaking novels by that time and was a wellknown figure who contributed enormously to the awareness of students not only about Nigerian politics — what was going on in Nigeria at the time — but also an insight into what African writers were doing to address some of the problems in their own society.”
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continues from page 1 passed new TRB legislation every other session, but lawmakers have not authorized new TRBs since a special session in 2006. Up until 2013, TRBs were consistently passed over because of budget concerns, according to McBee. “Higher education collectively had an expectation in 2009 that we would return to what we call a TRB session,” McBee said. “But it was really something the state just could not afford at that time and it was sort of cut off again in 2011.” In 2013, the House of
On Nov. 10, Senators Judith Zaffirini, D-Laredo, and Kel Seliger, R-Amarillo, filed bills related to the issuance of revenue bonds to fund capital projects at public institutions of higher education.
Representatives and Senate proposed different versions of TRB legislation but, in the last days of the session, failed to pass a bill. McBee said 2015 is the next opportunity to negotiate with legislators over the need for state support for construction. State Sen. Kel Seliger, RAmarillo, filed Senate Bill 150, a $2.86 billion proposal that would fund 64 construction and renovation projects at higher education institutions across the state with cash either from direct appropriation or from the Rainy Day Fund, a savings fund that allows the state to set aside surpluses in revenue for use in times of unexpected
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After there were no approved TRBs in 2009, institutions of higher education again submitted TRB project requests during the 2011 and the 2013 legislative sessions. Legislation was filed but not approved.
revenue shortfall. Another construction financing bill, filed by State Sen. Judith Zaffirini, D-Laredo, proposes roughly $5 billion for infrastructure projects, according to Seliger. “If we’re going to take money from the Rainy Day Fund, which I think is a legitimate way to do it, a $2.85 billion dollar subtraction is far more feasible than something over $5 billion,” Seliger said. Sean Griffin, Zaffirini’s chief of staff, said Zaffirini wanted to take a broader approach with her bill, potentially granting institutions more funding. The bill’s cost will likely change to reflect the legislature’s budget
and priorities. “Our bill is different because we want to discuss it with the entire legislature; it’s an open discussion of where we should put our resources,” Griffin said. Seliger said he believes his bill, if passed, will help universities make significant progress in terms of infrastructure without piling on excess debt. “I’m not a big believer in debt,” Seliger said. “I think it appropriates forward to the tune of $200-250 million dollars every biennium for a long time, and, if you have the cash for one-time projects to fund and then not deal with again, I think that’s
a good opportunity.” University spokesman Gary Susswein said TRBs are an important factor in funding new building construction as well as keeping tuition stable. “We used these bonds to build the Seay Building in the late 1990s and the Norman Hackerman Building in the late 2000s,” Susswein said. “These facilities have ensured that our students and faculty have access to state-of-the-art lab space and classrooms.” According to Susswein, the failure to pass TRB legislation in recent years has made it more difficult for the University to maintain state-
of-the-art facilities. “Our goal of becoming the top public research institution in the nation is far more difficult to achieve without access to adequate funding, including tuition revenue bonds,” Susswein said. McBee said he is cautiously optimistic that lawmakers will approve TRB legislation in the upcoming session. “We recognize legislators have to make difficult decisions about funding Medicaid and roads, and public education, and higher education,” McBee said. “We would hope that the collective voice of higher education pointing out our needs will be persuasive to the legislature.”
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Researchers identify alcoholism genes By Aimée Santillán @aimeesan17
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University of Gothenburg doctoral student Henrietta Adamsson Eryd, in Burdine Hall on Tuesday afternoon, discusses her research on the Swedish language.
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At a lecture Tuesday, linguists from the University of Gothenburg in Sweden discussed their research on the existence of Swedes and the Swedish language in the United States. Swedish professor Benjamin Lyngfelt and doctoral student Henrietta Adamsson Eryd, both from the University of Gothenburg, discussed their current project in the United States, which consists of recording interviews with present day American Swedes to capture the different types of Swedish dialects within the U.S. According to Lyngfelt and Eryd, more than a million Swedes immigrated to the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. While this meant there once was a large population of Swedish-speaking individuals in America, there are currently only a few Swedish-speaking communities left. “It was shocking to find out that the majority of those who speak Swedish live in rural areas, and it makes sense,” Lyngfelt said. “If you live in the city, you interact with more Americans and adapt to them — you’re more likely to speak English.” Collecting data is important because it has to be done before there are no more native Swedish
speakers within the United States descending from the migrating generations, according to Eryd. Interviews are conducted in Swedish, and then data is collected on the speaker’s background and its relation to the manner in which he or she speaks. Eryd said the process of searching for a word and asking questions such as, “What’s it called?” are all clear indicators that Swedish is no longer their dominant language. Eryd and Lyngfelt have been able to collect data within Texas during the current U.S. trip. “We’ve made some interviews already, and we’re very glad to be in Texas,” Eryd said. “We met with more people than we thought we would and found that Swedish is alive in Texas. The visits will be used in my studies.” Economics junior Rachel Iwanicki said hearing about the Swedish language and its attributes is different and more helpful when it is from a native Swede. “Having Swedish native speakers helps us learn about an outside culture aside from learning it from just the American perspective,” Iwanicki said. “For example, my Swedish professor is an American grad student and he studied abroad, so, while he informed us about everything, it is not the same as hearing it from a native speaker.”
UT researchers have discovered a network of genes that could work together to help predict alcohol dependence. Sean Farris, postdoctoral fellow at the Waggoner Center for Alcohol and Addiction Research, led the study. He said scientists focused on identifying one gene in previous research, whereas, as the study showed, it is actually a network of genes that work together to determine alcohol dependence. “At the beginning of our study, we sought out to characterize changes in gene expressions of alcoholics in comparison to non-alcoholics,” Farris said. “These changes in gene expression may be due to alcohol and other factors — not just inherited genetic factors. Our approach was able to identify a co-expressed gene network associated with the lifetime consumption of alcohol.” According to Farris, the study, published this week in the journal Molecular Psychiatry, involved the comparison of genetic code from brain tis-
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Sean Farris, postdoctoral fellow at the Waggoner Center for Alcohol and Addiction Research, led a study to indentify genes that could determine alcohol dependence.
sue of alcoholics and non-alcoholics. Using this comparison, Farris said the researchers discovered a network of genes that co-expressed together in individuals that consume the most alcohol. “This provides the most comprehensive picture to date of the gene sets that drive alcohol dependence,” said R. Adron Harris, director of the Waggoner Center, in a statement. “We now have a much clearer picture of where specific traits re-
lated to alcohol dependence overlap with specific expressions in genetic code.” The study aimed to identify genetic networks related to alcohol dependence and start developing pharmacotherapies for excessive alcohol consumption, Farris said. “We hope our model can serve as a type of Wikipedia of alcohol dependence, helping to break down the complexities of alcohol dependence and becoming a reference for future research
into drug therapies,” Farris said in a statement. Farris said several researchers from the College of Natural Sciences contributed to the study, which the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism supported and funded through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. “We hope that with these findings we will continue with further research to develop a new treatment for alcohol abuse,” Farris said.
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In wake of Ferguson decision, Protests should stay peaceful it’s time for us to discuss race in response to no indictment By Claire Smith
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I don’t know if the grand jury investigation into former Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson’s actions in shooting and killing Mike Brown was a sham. A big part of me thinks it was. I don’t think that the flood of more than a thousand pages of documents to the grand jury was reasonable. In fact, I think it was a debilitating hindrance for those responsible for drawing meaning from the chaos of Aug. 9. I don’t think that the lack of diversity of the members of the grand jury created the greatest opportunity for justice to be served. Furthermore, its composition of nine white members and three black members certainly didn’t put the watching masses in a position to trust its decision. These factors have greatly swayed my view of the grand jury’s proceedings, but I remain unresolved for one important reason: I don’t believe that anyone knows what actually happened when Michael Brown met Darren Wilson because of the abundance of conflicting testimonies from eyewitnesses whose words could have had sovereign power, if only they had all said the same thing. In that regard, at least, the proceedings of the grand jury undoubtedly failed. I wish I knew if the grand jury of Darren Wilson saw justice served, but I don’t. Whether in the riots that followed the grand jury’s decision or in the courtroom itself, I think people are working for the interests of their own group when we should be working together. I don’t believe that Michael Brown deserved to die because he shoplifted a pack of cigarillos and assaulted the store clerk, a charge that has been laid against those who, like me, continue to question exactly what happened that day. Many have argued that Wilson should not have shot to kill, a heavyhanded charge on the coattails of the irrefutable fact that there is too much police brutality. If it was a fight to the death, as Wilson asserted, I couldn’t agree that he shouldn’t have exercised his maximum potential for self-defense. But I do believe that Brown’s fate was written the minute he reached for Wilson’s gun, and that’s because our society has empowered the police to make that decision time and again. Herein lies the true problem with which our society must wrestle as we move forward. I don’t believe that the riots in Ferguson are about Michael Brown. I believe that the crowd’s rage is about a deeper problem in America that the crowd is responding to — maybe an institutional problem or a social problem, but probably both. A mob does not decide someone’s innocence or guilt; a
jury does. I believe that owing to a mix of past social and institutional grievances, the crowd isn’t able to trust the legitimacy of the grand jury’s decision. Such widespread civilian suspicion is formidable. The law is supposed to serve and protect all of its citizens. It is a powerful systemic failure when citizens can’t believe that it does. So why aren’t we talking about it? A true dialogue about race in America isn’t taking place in an instance that demonstrates a tremendous need for it, just fumbling narratives by newscasters wrestling with the affair’s complexity and radio silence from American leadership. It’s no secret that America’s legacy of subordination of minorities has created an atmosphere in which whites and minority groups cannot talk frankly about contemporary race relations. Living in the 21st century, it is remarkable that it persists but the burn of Ferguson’s riots and national rage is a blistering reminder of how closed off racial groups in America are to each other. As a white woman, in the face of so much rage because of the injustices and harm that my racial group has caused, I feel, and have been made to feel by my peers, that I am not entitled to have an opinion and certainly not entitled to express it. That feeling, which I am sure has been experienced by members of every racial group in America, will perpetuate inter-community silence, which is a tremendous danger to our collective future. The riots in Ferguson as well as Dallas and Austin are a polarizing force. They have a destructive capacity far greater than any quantifiable damage in the riots themselves. The rage of the rioting and silencing capacity of white guilt has closed the conversation before it could even start. For whatever reason, American leadership has allowed a legitimate dialogue to stay unhad, but we can’t let it continue. We have a dire need to understand the mistakes happening every day, every hour. We have a desperate need to fix them so that we are never faced with the ethical quagmire of Michael Brown’s shooting and Darren Wilson’s questionable grand jury again. But we aren’t having that conversation. I am mad about what’s going on in my country. I am not mad at the rioters — my feeling would be better characterized as profound disappointment at the squandering of finite American sympathy — but I am furious at the continuation of a racial war that Americans have too much heart and promise to let continue. I am ashamed of what’s happening in my country. I am sad. But most importantly, no matter your color or mine, I am with you. Let me show you. Let’s talk. Smith is a history junior from Austin.
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Music school stuck in wrong era As a (very busy) designer of K-12 and higher education music technology curriculum programs around the country, and as an alum of UT Austin, I find [the music school’s freezing of admissions to the music recording technology and music business programs] so out of touch with the current and future music culture as to be sadly humorous (and it clearly illustrates the administration’s lack of foresight). I am personally ashamed that the UT administration is so backward-thinking. Why cut out the ONLY music program a student has a chance of making a decent living in music with and force a 300-year-old dead music microcosm on our students (who blindly trust UT to show the way for their musical financial future)? Hate to say it, but classical musicians today are not moving forward, and many can never get wellpaying jobs. Yet there are myriad opportunities in the production, recording and music business industries right inside Austin itself! Are the heads of the UT adminstration so archaic that they don’t realize classical music is an elitist dead-end in terms of job prospects? Taking away the Music Recording Technology and Music Business programs at the Butler School of Music to focus on classical music is like eliminating the business programs in the McCombs School of Business to focus on telegraph production and manufacturing techniques (yeah, telegraph!). UT was making good strides during the past few years in trying to catch up with the ‘80s and was close to getting there, e.g., senior lecturer Gary Powell’s Intro to Audio Recording class. With the discontinuation of the recording and music business program, UT has slunk back to the myopic and misguided focus of classical music only, a la the ‘70s — days when I played the harp and organ as a UT student because there wasn’t an electric or electronic instrument anywhere in sight (and forget recording back then — just
like next semester. I guess that’s progress, folks, back to the ‘70s!). Maybe in the ‘20s UT can once again try to catch up with the ‘80s or even the ‘90s. Even in Fort Wayne, Indiana, where the music industry and recording industry are minimal at best, we have a thriving music technology program at the University of St. Francis that houses about 130 recording and music business students and another music technology/recording program at Indiana University - Purdue University Fort Wayne, with about 80 students (also soon to unveil a master’s in music technology). They mostly all get placed into decent jobs, with benefits! That’s on the strength of the music tech and recording industries now, growing ever more present every day. Can you say iTunes? Does the UT administration not know what most people (read: their kids!) spend their time doing? Answer: listening to music or trying to listen to music (and very little of it is classical music)! All that music has to be written, recorded, mixed, mastered, duplicated (posted), distributed, marketed, sold and attached rights to, and somebody gets paid to do each step (not to mention the same job-inducing processes for all the hundreds of hours of new music daily on cable and web shows!). Since the UT administration has abolished the only truly forward-looking music degree program, UT Austin students will not be able to participate in the new music economy until UT’s administrators gets their heads out of the 18th century. So ironically sad, especially since it’s due to ambiguous “budget cuts” from one of the richest universities on the planet in the middle of one of the foremost music economy cities on the planet. — UT alumus Kenny Bergle, in response to Eleanor Dearman’s Monday article titled “Butler School of Music removes programs in response to budget cuts.”
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UT alumna Mayte Salazar protests the Ferguson decision in front of the Texas State Capitol Nov. 25. Hundreds of protesters marched from the Austin Police Department headquarters to the Capitol building.
By Jazmyn Griffin
Daily Texan Columnist @JazmynAlynn
After the Nov. 24 decision by a grand jury not to indict Darren Wilson, the former Ferguson, Missouri, police officer who fatally shot Michael Brown, tensions ran high among the citizens of Ferguson as well as across the nation. The majority of protesters have no personal connection to the Browns but recognize a bigger issue at stake. While there are mixed opinions on whether Wilson was justified in his act, there is an undeniable trend of black males being killed by police. Those who have taken to the streets have the right idea in mind, but could potentially be more effective with different approaches. The majority of protest coverage came from the neighborhoods of Ferguson, with a stream of images and video of burning buildings, looting and seemingly out-of-control crowds. An expected symptom of contemporary sensationalized news, many media outlets portrayed Brown supporters as criminals and animals, although the majority of the protests were peaceful. While the surface level showed violence, even a cursory examination reveals the fervor is an outlet for long-felt pain and suffering. This story is bigger than Brown. In the eyes of protesters, it’s the thousands of others like him — unarmed, with only their race as a trigger. Although instances of arrest and police brutality occur against every racial and ethnic group, the percentage of African-American and Latino victims is disproportionately high in relation to their make-up of the population, especially in drug-related cases. There aren’t statistics proving the racial motivations or bias in these cases, but the racial correlation supported by the data is eerie. After months of protesting with only heavy military and police force as a response, these people wanted
Although instances of arrest and police brutality occur against every racial and ethnic group, the percentage of African-American and Latino victims is disproportionately high in relation to their make-up of the population, especially in drugrelated cases.
to be heard in any way possible. But instead of compassionately portraying the hurt that the protesters feel, the media painted them as monsters, wild and out of control rather than merely exasperated. An unspoken yet ubiquitous societal mantra teaches that African Americans are not entirely human and therefore more dangerous, just another reason intentionally or unintentionally racist officers, in fear for their lives, will grab for the gun in lieu of using a slower, less lethal method. Violent revolt will only reinforce racial stereotypes and worsen the situation. Everyone has a right to be angry about the loss of human life, but it’s the reaction that defines individuals, and even an entire cause. The variety of protests over the decision mirror those of the Civil Rights Movement a little over 60 years ago, with the peaceful petitioning aligning with Martin Luther King Jr.’s philosophy and the more radical opposition with Malcolm X’s. The two symbolize what can be seen as a nonviolent versus violent approach to change. Both men were great leaders in the movement, although King’s ideology was arguably more effective with its perseverance and refusal to give in to anger. We see the same stark differences today between the various protests in response to Ferguson and other similar incidents. And again, King’s methods will prove to be more effective in combating the racial prejudices that spark police violence against racial and ethnic minorities. Austinites and UT students were perfect models of how to put King’s teachings into practice as they organized and stood in solidarity Nov. 25. The chants of “Protect black life” and “Black lives matter” not only diffused the message of their marches to passersby, but demanded the attention of the Austin Police Department, which has its own record of using lethal force against black and Latino men. Writing letters to local and state officials, peacefully protesting and most of all exercising patience and perseverance are key to eroding the system of bias that perpetuates the continued loss of life. Racial prejudices weren’t formed overnight, so it can’t be expected that their extinction will be a swift process. Clearly, the peaceful widespread opposition is making a difference, as Wilson recently announced his resignation from the police department. Again, the most important motif in these events is solidarity to address the widespread issue of racism. The anger and hurt of one demographic alone cannot change the status quo. Every group needs to stand together to stop injustice and do so in a peaceful manner. Griffin is a journalism freshman from Houston.
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NITROGEN continues from page 8 “Mix the ingredients in a pressure-sealed vessel like a pressure cooker and add the liquid nitrogen while churning,” Mukerji said. “The [nitrogen] will boil off into the atmosphere as soon as you open the lid, leaving no traces of nitrogen.” Mukerji, a member of the International Gastronomy Society, said Spun Ice Cream would not be the first place to use liquid nitrogen. Sub Zero Ice Cream and Yogurt, which also uses liquid nitrogen to make its ice cream, opened in 2004 in Utah and has expanded to Texas. But Christina said locally sourced and organic ingredients will set Spun apart from other shops
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like it. “[Using liquid nitrogen] wasn’t just for show, but it made a big difference in flavor and texture,” Ashley said. “Because we can make the ice cream fresh to order, it also means we don’t need to use preservatives or stabilizers.” The sisters’ ice cream parlor will also put a heavier focus on their homemade seasonal toppings, such as old-fashioned pie crumble, candied citrus confetti and Texas pecan brittle. Christina said she’ll be using the nitrogen-spun ice cream as more of a canvas to experiment with fun topping ideas and unexpected flavor combinations.
“The beauty of using liquid nitrogen is that the flavors come out really pure and intense,” Christina said. “We’re sourcing our milk, nuts, herbs, chocolate as sustainably and locally as possible, so we want the purity of those ingredients to shine.” Ashley said, even though she and her sister are familiar with the restaurant industry, this ice cream shop is totally different from what their parents did. She said there are days when they feel like they don’t know what they’re doing, but that’s why she’s so glad they are in it together. “Food is how we communicate in our family,” Ashley said. “It’s just what we do.”
said. “As an English major, I learned invaluable communication and analytical skills that corporate employers really value in the workplace.” Reilley noted the deficit of women in leadership positions in science and technology fields and in business. “Even in the most progressive companies, the percentage of women managers and women executives lags behind the percentage of women in the workforce,” Reilley said. “I have observed that women are less apt to market their skills, abilities and talents in the workplace, and that’s one of the
PLAY continues from page 8 Well,” according to Suter. “Getting to be in the room throughout the process with this group of fantastic women has been an enormous gift,” Suter said. “The first moment when I got to say, ‘How do you think your character might say that?’ was important.” Nicole Oglesby, a theatre and dance and English junior who plays the character Raquel in “Hold Me Well,” said a group effort went into producing the play. “There are some very intense moments in the play that have challenged us as a group,” Oglesby said. “We
reasons I’m a proponent of mentoring.” Leadership and the visibility of women in STEM fields can play help even out the gender gap, according to Reilley. “There is a lot of opportunity, but it requires concerted effort early in the educational process,” Reilley said. “Female mentors can be valuable because they can help give younger women perspective and offer a constructive space to evaluate their strengths and areas that need development.” Reilley recently attended a youth business forum at UT, and the number of students interested in globalization and
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Texas went on a 32-13 scoring run from there to enter halftime with a 3928 lead. But the Mavericks kept hanging around. They made just enough shots to take advantage of the Longhorns’ struggles and keep it close, trailing by as few as 5 points with under 7 minutes remaining in the game. “[Head coach Rick Barnes] really just wanted us to put this one away and get ready for the next game because this is behind us,” Turner
said. “We’re going to watch film and get better from it.” Turner was the only player to score in double digits for either team, tallying 18 points despite connecting on only 2-of-10 shots. He went 14-of17 from the free-throw line. Holmes tied his career high with 16 rebounds to lead Texas, but he scored 9 points on 3-of-11 shooting and went just 1-of-7 on 3-pointers. Junior center Cameron Ridley had another down game, grabbing just two rebounds after failing to
record any Sunday against UConn. He played 17 minutes, his fourth consecutive game of under 20 minutes. The narrow victory was alarming for Texas, considering that No. 1 Kentucky dominated UT-Arlington in its 92-44 victory last week. The Longhorns take on the Wildcats in Lexington on Friday, but Holmes said the players weren’t looking ahead during their game against the Mavericks. “We made a conscious effort,” Holmes said. “We
watched a lot of film on these guys. We game planned for this game just like we game plan for every other game. We talked amongst ourselves that this team isn’t someone we can look over because they play really hard.” With the victory, the Longhorns improved to 7-0 on the season and 4-0 at home. They know they’ll have to play much better Friday against Kentucky, which is widely considered the nation’s best team, to keep their undefeated season alive.
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Longhorns struggle to shoot the ball against UT-Arlington
Texas’ poor 3-point shooting Going 5-27 (18.5 percent) from deep may have cut it against a weaker
UT-Arlington squad, but it won’t against Kentucky or the majority of the Big 12 teams on Texas’ schedule. Senior forward Jonathan Holmes connected on just 1-of-7. Felix only got 1-of-4. Those are Texas’ two best shooters. The shots weren’t contested, forced shots, either, as many of them were wideopen looks. “We had so many wideopen shots,” Barnes said. “Some nights they don’t go in.” Jordan Barnett and Damarcus Croaker struggle The two wings have found themselves in Barnes’ doghouse. With a lesser opponent, UT-Arlington, in town, though, they got some minutes and did nothing to improve their chances of getting into the rotation. Barnett, a 6-foot-6 freshman wing forward, went 0-for-6 from the field in 8 minutes. Barnett is still struggling to hit shots from the corner pocket — which was supposed to be his shot. Croaker splashed an early three then disappeared. He finished with a team-worst +/- of -7 in just 4 minutes, including a bad shot on 3-point heave
that no one expected — drawing the ire of Barnes. Kendal Yancy’s emergence Sophomore guard Kendal Yancy is stepping up at just the right time. He was the most efficient Longhorn guard Tuesday night, notching 9 points on 3-of5 shooting in 30 minutes. His +17 was the best on the team as the offense seemed to thrive while he was playing. Since sophomore guard Isaiah Taylor went down, Yancy’s minutes have more than doubled, and he’s made the most of them. Ridley’s disappearance Starting junior center Cameron Ridley recorded only two rebounds against UT-Arlington in just 17 minutes. That’s two more rebounds than he got at UConn. He’s found his way to the bench, as Barnes goes to Turner more and more. Ridley’s disappearance isn’t a result of foul trouble either. Yes, UTA did have a smaller lineup on the floor, but Ridley still got three early touches deep in the post and didn’t do much with them. “He’s not confident right now,” Barnes said.
The fourth-ranked Longhorns women’s basketball team will continue its six-game home stand at the Frank Erwin Center on Wednesday at 7 p.m. against New Mexico. Texas, now 5-0, ended a five-game losing skid against Tennessee with its win over the Lady Volunteers on Sunday. The Longhorns had four players score in double digits, including senior forward Nneka Enemkpali, who scored 17 points for Texas. Freshman guard Ariel Atkins scored 12 and sophomore guard Brianna Taylor followed with 11. For Enemkpali, there was only one more chance to break the losing streak against Tennessee. “It feels amazing,” Enemkpali said. “We have to stay humble and remember this is just the beginning.” Texas led 30-20 at halftime. Sophomore center Kelsey Lang scored an impressive 18 points and Texas continued its blazing start with a 72-59 win. “I have gained so much confidence because they have confidence in me,” Lang said. “I couldn’t do what I do without my teammates giving me the kinds of passes that they have been giving me.” Texas claimed its second consecutive Phillips 66 Big 12 honor this week when Lang was named
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Sophomore guard Kendal Yancy was one of the few Texas players to have a good offensive performance in the Longhorns’ 63-53 win over UT-Arlington on Tuesday.
Javan Felix’s left foot Near the end of the first half, junior guard Javan Felix went down and was slow to get up. The play continued as Felix lay on the ground clutching his left foot — the same one that caused him to miss the game against St. Francis last Tuesday. He walked off the court under his own power before being examined by the medical staff. He returned before halftime and appeared to be all right. Head coach Rick Barnes acknowledged that Felix is banged up but didn’t seem too concerned. He will go against Kentucky on Friday.
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The men’s basketball team found itself in a close one against an unranked UT-Arlington team but pulled out a 63-53 victory in the end. Freshman forward Myles Turner led the Longhorns with an 18 point, 10 rebound doubledouble. Here are some notes from Tuesday’s game.
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The Texas basketball big men dominated the paint on defense all night long. Their performance proved to be just enough to allow the Longhorns to overcome their sloppiest offensive performance of the season and eke out a closer-than-expected 6353 win over UT-Arlington. No. 6 Texas recorded a school-record-tying 13 blocks, including eight in the first half, while outrebounding the Mavericks 52-25. Freshman forward Myles Turner and his five blocks led the Longhorns and forced UT-Arlington to settle for shots outside the lane throughout the game. The Mavericks finished the game just 20-of-55 from the field. The Texas offense made just 18-of-60 field-goal attempts, good for a seasonlow 30 field-goal percentage. It marked the third game in its last five that Texas got off to a slow start offensively. The Longhorns began the game just 2-of-14 from the field, including 1-of-9 from beyond the 3-point arc, and trailed 15-7 after 6-and-ahalf minutes. “We came out slow,” senior forward Jonathan Holmes said. “We’ve got to do a better job.”
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I have gained so much confidence because they have confidence in me. I couldn’t do what I do without my teammates giving me the kinds of passes that they have been giving me. —Kelsey Lang, Sophomore center
Phillips 66 Big 12 Player of the Week, one week after Enemkpali was given the same title. Head coach Karen Aston believes her players’ efforts are paying off, allowing a special era of basketball to unfold at Texas this season. Texas has beaten two top-10 teams, including Stanford, in just five games this season. Texas moved up two spots to No. 4 in the Associated Press Top 25 on Monday. It is the Longhorns’ highest ranking in both polls since December 2008 (No. 4/4) after starting the season 11-0. An injury report confirms junior center Imani McGee-Stafford is not cleared to participate Wednesday because of a leg injury. Texas will put its win streak on the line against the 1-5 Lobos.
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Kelly Reilley spent a summer working in Guizhou, China, as a pro bono consultant within IBM’s Corporate Service Corps program to help local companies solve infrastructure problems. As a senior business unit advisor at IBM, Reilley, a UT alumna, emphasizes the need for female leadership and visibility in STEM fields.
Alumna advocates for women in STEM By Megan Kallus @megmayumi
UT alumna Kelly Reilley fondly recounts a humid summer she spent working alongside local businesses in the Chinese province Guizhou. Since Reilley had no experience speaking Mandarin, local students acted as her interpreters and guides. “The university interns introduced me to WeChat,
a Chinese mobile chat app,” Reilley said. “We still use it to keep in touch with one another, and we celebrate each other’s holidays.” Reilley traveled to China through IBM’s Corporate Service Corps program, in which she worked as a pro bono consultant to local companies to help solve infrastructure problems. Her current position as senior business unit advisor at IBM
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incorporates communications, leadership and financial problem solving. “I interact with people in diverse fields, which makes my work challenging,” Reilley said. “I have to find a way to talk about complex topics in a digestible manner.” A huge proponent of volunteerism, Reilley said she values the opportunities she has had during her career to volunteer internationally.
“The United States is in a privileged position in terms of global business,” Reilley said. “I think it’s important that we use our knowledge and resources to aid developing economies.” Sandy Dochen, manager of corporate citizenship and corporate affairs at IBM, said Reilley is intelligent and compassionate about her work and her community. “Kelly is the best of the
best at IBM,” Dochen said. “Only a very small number of IBM-ers are accepted into the Corporate Service Corps each year.” Reilley was born and raised near College Station. “Most people I went to high school with wanted to attend Texas A&M for college,” Reilley said. “But I was determined to come to Austin.” As an undergraduate at
UT, Reilley studied English, and, although her career path led her away from jobs typical for English graduates, she still values the benefits of her broad liberal arts education. “I find it sad that so many college students these days are strongly discouraged from being English or liberal arts majors,” Reilley
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Writer’s work to come to life at showcase By Megan Kallus @megmayumi
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Sisters Ashley and Christina Cheng are opening a nitrogenfreezing ice cream shop, Spun Ice Cream, in 2015.
Sisters set to serve up nitrogen-spun ice cream By Kate Dannenmaier @kjdannen
Sisters Ashley and Christina Cheng grew up playing in their kitchen, trying to impress each other with whatever weird concoction they could invent. Now that they’ve grown up, they’re showing the rest of the world what they can make — ice cream. Spun Ice Cream, opening early 2015, will make its ice cream using a technique called “spinning,” in which liquid nitrogen mixes with cream and flavorings. The nitrogen freezes the water molecules in the milk, turning liquid to creamy ice in under than a minute. Spun will be located in a shopping center off East Seventh and Chicon streets. Christina and Ashley are familiar with what it takes to make a restaurant successful. Their parents own and operate Chinatown restaurants, which have several locations around Austin. Growing up
around their parents’ restaurants fostered a lifelong interest for the culinary arts. After getting her master’s degree in journalism from UT, Christina went to culinary school and began making desserts for restaurants and caterers around Austin. “Luckily for me, my sister grew up to have real talent in the kitchen,” Ashley said. “When she was ready to open her own place, I had just moved back home and had the time to help her out. Who better to do your marketing and PR than your biggest fan since childhood?” Ashley said molecular gastronomy has been a big food trend in recent years, but they loved the idea because they could integrate science into the process of making food. Chemical engineering senior Aditya Mukerji, who used liquid nitrogen to make ice cream in high school, said the process is actually pretty simple.
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When writing graduate student Eva Suter steps into a darkened theater, she sees more than a stage and rows of seats; she sees a place where a kind of magic happens. “Theater is the home of cheap magic,” Suter said. “Not like sleight of hand — but more the way that fishing line can make an object fly, or a person can transform into a whole other being in front of your eyes.” Suter completed her undergraduate degree at
Western Washington University and then spent time working in Portland before moving to Austin to study at UT’s Michener Center for Writers. At the center, she is a Master’s of Fine Arts candidate in writing with a concentration on playwriting. “There’s something magical in the coming together of all the parts to make a play happen,” Suter said. “I like that what is on the page is more of a map to a place than the whole world contained.” Suter’s play, “Hold Me Well,” will be showcased Thursday and Saturday
as part of UT New Theatre, an annual presentation of work by third-year students in UT’s MFA in Playwriting program. “Hold Me Well” tells the story of a group of women protecting a cooler containing the last hope for humanity’s future after a war wipes out the half of the human population with a Y-chromosome. “[‘Hold Me Well’] started out as a bit of a project of stealing the plot from ‘Othello’ and combining with it influences from ’70s feminist science fiction and a slew of other things,”
Suter said. “You throw a lot of things in the pot sometimes and stir it around and see what comes of it.” Suter said she came up with the concept for her play the year before she moved to Austin. “I read a lot of real science stuff, and I grew up reading science fiction,” Suter said. “Movies and vague memories of TV shows [influence me] as often as theater.” Feedback from the director and actors has played a huge role in shaping the progression of “Hold Me
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Writing graduate student Eva Suter’s original play, “Hold Me Well,” will be showcased Thursday and Saturday as part of UT New Theatre. Suter believes theater is magic that can make objects transform in front of people’s eyes.