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SG considers adaptive sports program By Samantha Ketterer @sam_kett
Student Government members considered a resolution Thursday for the creation of an adaptive sports and recreation program, an initiative that would allow for more team-based recreational opportunities for students with mobility issues or visual impairments. The program’s purpose is to better include students with disabilities in activities on
campus. In the resolution, Erin Gleim, Students with Disabilities agency director, wrote that the initiative is part of an effort to expand and “provide resources for the overall health and wellness of all students and staff.” The program is still in its early stages of development, according to Kelli Bradley, director of Services for Students with Disabilities. The initiative could be
in place as soon as this fall, Gleim said. For the 2014-2015 school year, 2,289 students are registered with Services for Students with Disabilities. “At this time, we are still assessing the needs, logistics, and interest [of students],” Bradley said in an email. Gleim said an adaptive sports program could potentially be incorporated
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Erin Gleim, Students with Disabilities agency director, speaks at a Student Government meeting in the SAC on Tuesday evening.
in an effective and affordable way,” Taylor said. “Keep looking for ways to improve your institution.” According to Daniel Chitty, president of ACC’s honor
The Cockrell School of Engineering received a $3.5 million donation from Texas Instruments (TI), a Fort Worth-based technology manufacturer, on Tuesday. The gift will go toward seven new teaching and project labs in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, which will be located within the school’s new Engineering Education and Research Center. The center, which is slated to open in 2017, will house classrooms, labs, faculty offices and administration offices for the department. TI spokeswoman Renée Fancher said TI hopes to provide students and faculty with opportunities for innovation in the classroom. “Our aim with this gift is to ensure that not a day goes by that Cockrell School students are not working on some new idea, some new project, and that the professors are able to try out new innovative teaching techniques that help accelerate the learning process,” Fancher said. With the gift, TI will fund new equipment for six labs for undergraduate students. The new labs, designated “TI Laboratories,” will allow students to build sensors, drones, wearable technologies and other devices. The company will conduct annual reviews to ensure the new equipment is current and meeting stu-
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Joel Mason, Collin College student and president of the Texas Junior College Student Government Association, speaks to fellow community college students on the steps of the Capitol on Tuesday. Hundreds of students from community colleges around Texas rallied to talk about issues such as the rising price of education.
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“A lot of the people coming in from community colleges are a lot more serious about their education — most of them want it really bad,” McFarlane said. “They worked very hard to get to a four-year university, so once we do transition in, education means that
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McFarlane said. “That was definitely one of the big pros for me.” McFarlane said students who transfer from community colleges represent an important population on campus because of their dedicated attitude toward education.
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Freezing rain did not stop hundreds of Texas community college students, many of whom hope to transfer to four-year institutions such as UT, from meeting outside of the Capitol to discuss their policy priorities for the 84th legislative session. Austin Community College students attended a rally Tuesday to tell legislators about the issues most important to them, especially the affordability of higher education. If approved, the proposed House and Senate budgets would cut funding for community colleges by about $80 million dollars. “What we are doing here is empowering you, ordinary community college students, with the understanding that we have the ability to make real positive changes for our society,” said Joel Mason, Collin College student and president of the Texas Junior College Student Government Association. Daniel McFarlane, UT Transfer Student Association president, said while his transition from ACC to UT was difficult, going to community college first allowed him to save the money he needed to ultimately make the switch. “A lot of people start off at community college for the sole reason of saving money,”
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Crowdfunding app Project aims to curb tobacco use among students sees popularity rise Three years after banning tobacco on campus, University administrators have launched a new program to reduce the use of tobacco and alternative tobacco products among college-aged students. “The majority of fulltime smokers and tobacco users over the age of 26 started before they were that age and while they were in college,” Shelley Karn, a program director with the Tobacco Research and Evaluation Team, said. “We wanted to develop a prevention campaign to prevent them from ever even starting tobacco products. There wasn’t a comprehensive program in colleges to
do this, and we wanted to change that.” The program, Peers Against Tobacco, is one part of a multi-university project in Texas which includes schools such as Texas Tech and Texas State. The University’s Tobacco Research and Evaluation Team oversees the program, and the Texas Department of State Health services funds it. Peers Against Tobacco aims to decrease tobacco use among students at the 20 participating universities through different educational initiatives. According to Karn, the planning stages of the program began in September 2013 and culminated with the start of the program last month. Karn said educating stu-
dents about the full range of tobacco-based products is important because students tend to think tobacco alternatives, such as hookahs and electronic
cigarettes, are not as harmful as traditional cigarettes. Phil Huang, the medical director and health author-
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More than 5,000 UT students have raised over $500,000 using an app called Tilt, which allows users to host a crowdfunding campaign for anything, from paying rent to hosting lavish parties. The app allows any host to see who has and has not contributed to a particular project’s fund, and connects through Facebook to create a network of people with whom users can share their crowd fundraiser. According to Natassia Costa, public relations manager at Tilt, the
app is different from using cash or similar apps such as Venmo because it provides more of a group experience. “Everybody chips in so that they can meet the Tilt, and, once the goal is met, their cards are charged,” Costa said. Tilt works with several brand ambassadors, including UT students, to promote the app. Marketing senior Emily Beckham, a Tilt ambassador, said she first started using the app to organize and fund large events. “Say my friends and I wanted to plan a barge on
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ition-free community college and said he thinks students who work for their education and maintain a certain GPA should be provided with college options without financial constraints. Kevin Potter, ACC transfer student and biology sophomore, said he is concerned free community college would bring an increase in the number of students who do not care about education. “I think it is a fantastic ideology that when faced with real life, would fail,” Potter said. “Community college isn’t that expensive as it is. It’s free for a lot of students as it is through scholarships and statefunded programs.” Community college students also advocated for other legislative priorities, such as college readiness and common course numbering, at the rally. “I think it’s important that legislators see what a force community college students really can be in the state, for the economy and in our communities,” Chitty said.
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how much and can text them if they haven’t.” Sports management junior Joe Galati, another Tilt ambassador at the University, said the app allowed his fraternity to raise money more efficiently than through traditional means. “The fraternity I’m involved in — we had a big philanthropic event that was selling T-shirts, so I set up a couple Tilts that you could easily purchase off the website and app, and, when I got all the money, I handed them
out, and we made over $3,500 using the app,” Galati said. Economics junior Scott Ellerman said he used Tilt to fund a New Year’s party. Over the course of 45 minutes, Ellerman said he saw an increase in funding from $9,000 to $20,000. “There were a lot of people who contributed that I didn’t even know, that didn’t even go to this school,” Ellerman said. “There were people from Georgia, people from TCU and Tech, and we had mutual friends, which is why they showed up.”
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Researcher creates conceptual model to test memory function By Lauren Florence @thedailytexan
Sukbin Lim, neurobiology postdoctoral researcher at The University of Chicago, is working to build a conceptual model of the brain that will help researchers better understand how neurons communicate and affect short-term and long-term memory. Lim spoke on campus Tuesday about how models of neuron activity in the brain can be used to predict cognition and memory function, which could help research with Alzheimer’s and other neurological diseases. “The brain is a network of neurons randomly firing, and so [I studied] how this affects short-term and longterm memory,” Lim said. By applying her Ph.D. in mathematics to neuroscience, Lim developed a theory to analyze the randomness of neurons firing in the brain,
which she plans to test on primates. “Positive [neuron] signal is thought to be most important [to study in neuroscience], but interaction between negative and positive neuron signal is also important,” Lim said. “There’s indirect evidence in brain activity, and we have to think about what is biologically plausible.” Lim said if she builds a testable model for parts of the brain that control short-term and long-term memory, she hopes breakthroughs in how different areas of the brain communicate and interact will follow. A model could be used to increase individuals’ visual and auditory memory and overall cognitive skills. Nace Golding, UT neuroscience associate professor, said studying neuron randomness might help scientists map brain activity, since neurons are not fully understood.
Sukbin Lim, neurobiology postdoctoral researcher at The University of Chicago, spoke on campus Tuesday about how models of neuron activity in the brain can be used to predict cognition and memory function.
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“Neurons are imperfect, but neuroscientists aren’t sure whether this unreliability is a bug or a feature,” Golding said. Ian Nauhaus, psychology
and neuroscience assistant professor, said he found Lim’s models on memory and learning interesting because this type of model is brand new.
“There are other models which are very similar, but her model is novel because it shows graded effects in memory,” Nauhaus said. “Actually implement-
ing that data into a model is not trivial. In neuroscience, models are important because they allow us to predict what’s going to happen.”
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UT students develop app featuring pizza, Christian rap duo By Sherry Tucci @thedailytexan
Even the best class assignments don’t usually go viral — but that’s exactly what happened to management information systems senior James Rauhut, who saw his assignment turn into a successful app that was downloaded more than 5,000 times over the course of a week. Rauhut and his classmates, computer science senior Navin Ratnayake and radiotelevision-film senior Patri-
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continues from page 1 dent and faculty needs. Being able to apply concepts learned in the classroom is especially important for engineering students, according to electrical engineering junior Cody Scarborough. “The exposure to various field applications will give students a deeper level of understanding and career preparation,” Scarborough said. Of the roughly 500 UT alumni currently working for TI, nearly 300 earned degrees from Cockrell. Fancher said she thinks innovation at the university level plays a critical role in preparing students to solve modern problems once they begin their careers at technology companies, such as TI. “Our own ability as a company to innovate depends in large part on our relationship with universities like UT Austin and its ability to educate young people who learn and solve problems of global significance,” Fancher said. John Halton, Cockrell associate dean for school and alumni relations, said TI has supported UT through funding student projects, scholarships
cia Humphries, created Pizza Party Tour, a mobile game featuring skateboards, pizza and Social Club, a Miamibased Christian rap duo. In the game, players skateboard through a city and deliver pizzas while avoiding obstacles in the street. “The concept of the game seemed simple enough to pull off in one semester,” Ratnayake said. To divide the workload fairly, Rauhut and Ratnayake primarily focused on the programming of the game, while Humphries was
responsible for the game’s visuals. Ratnayake said the programming tasks involved creating collisions and power-ups and adding randomization and progressive difficulty as the game advanced. Since Pizza Party Tour was the first mobile app Rauhut ever released, he and Ratnayake used a programming platform called GameSalad, which allowed them to program the app using the English language and pseudo-code, rather than a traditional programming language. While us-
ing the platform simplified the game’s development, Rauhut said it limited them from creating anything too complicated. “The biggest challenge was finding work-arounds for the simplicity of the program,” Rauhut said. Rauhut said he expects to see at least one more wave of downloads of the app following the update they will release at the end of this month. Users have left comments with feedback for Rauhut and his team in the Apple App Store and on
Google Play. “The biggest thing for me was not being used to immediate feedback from thousands of users,” Rauhut said. Along with incorporating user feedback, Rauhut said he also has plans to work with Social Club. Rauhut said he gained inspiration for the game from the group’s music. When the team completed the project, Rauhut presented it to the rap duo. “We worked on the game with the intention of reaching out to them,” Rauhut said. “They loved it and even
paid the publishing fees to get it on the App Store and Google Play.” The rappers will be recording custom sound bites specifically for the game and will allow Rauhut to use music from their upcoming album. Rauhut said the game is easy to pick up and play and emphasized that users can tweet their high scores to Social Club on Twitter. “I hope people download the game,” Rauhut said. “It’s free, and people have a lot of fun.”
Government, the Division of Recreational Sports, Services for Students with Disabilities and University Health Services. Jennifer Speer, associate director of Communications, Assessment & Development in the Division of Recreational Sports, said RecSports has been in contact with Gleim to plan details of the program. “We want to make sure we provide recreational op-
portunities for everyone on campus,” Speer said. “If we are able to provide a service for students that is needed in this specific population, then that would be very beneficial.” Speer said the University offered similar projects in the past, but the programs disbanded because of low attendance. “Interest with students kind of diminished,” Speer said. “We would work
with St. David’s to have them come over and use the space for their basketball [and] wheelchair rugby programs.” Other universities, such as Texas A&M, University of Houston and UT-Arlington, have adaptive sports programs. In A&M’s student organization Aggie Adaptive Sports, students host recreational events for those with physical disabilities, especially those in wheelchairs.
Tracey Forman, advisor for Aggie Adaptive Sports, said the program is still small because of a smaller community of people with disabilities in College Station. “Houston, Austin, Dallas and San Antonio — they have enough people in their community; they have centers,” Forman said. “Ours is very recrational, noncompetitive at this point. [Our members] would love to get more people
involved.” Gleim said she hopes to look at other universities’ programs to help mold UT’s adaptive program. “It will be a big program and undertaking,” Gleim said. “We’re just in the planning stages right now, but we’ve been given the green light, so we’re going for it.” SG plans to vote on the resolution next week, Gleim said.
consumers cannot be certain about how safe the products really are. “Many [tobacco alternatives] are made overseas in China, so there’s no knowing what’s really being put in the product,” said Huang, who is also on
the FDA’s Tobacco Product Advisory committee. “It’s not just harmless water vapor like they try to advertise.” Peers Against Tobacco will soon launch a studentled media campaign, do research involving local
tobacco retailers and develop an online prevention curriculum — which each college within the University can implement. According to Alicia Graf, senior project coordinator for the program, two student leaders and a
supervising administrator selected at each university will evaluate the effectiveness of the prevention program at the end of the spring semester. “We’ve gotten some push back [about the program] from the vaping
community through social media because they say vaping is safer,” Gras said. “We want to show that all tobacco products are dangerous and that there’s a lot we don’t know about certain products that a lot of people use.”
and research programs in the past. “TI puts a high value on education and has given generously to student-focused programs, including our
school’s Women in Engineering Program and Equal Opportunity in Engineering Program,” Halton said. Greg Delagi, senior vice president and general man-
ager of embedded processing for TI and member of the Cockrell Engineering Advisory Board, said he believes students are a major factor behind global
technological advances. “Students are critical to creating innovative solutions for the world’s biggest challenges,” Delagi said. Representatives from TI
will visit the University on Feb. 13 to present the gift to Sharon Wood, dean of the School of Engineering, as well as to faculty and students.
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Point/Counterpoint: Shoud campus carry be allowed?
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Opposition to campus carry fearful of unfamilliar By Daniel Hung
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“There will be blood on the streets and shootouts at every four-way stops.”1 You might think that this is the rhetoric used by opponents of concealed carry on campus today, but in fact, they were said 20 years ago when the Texas Concealed Handgun Law was passed. You can be the judge of whether opponents of concealed carry were correct, but as for me, I haven’t seen blood on the streets or shootouts at every four-way stops. Since then, Texans over the age of 21, without any felony conviction, can get a concealed carry permit after completing a four-six hours conceal handgun class (taught by a DPS certified CHL instructor) that includes passing a written examination and proficiency demonstration (shooting). The application fee for a concealed carry permit costs $140 plus around $65 for the CHL course and around $10 for fingerprinting (criminal background check). This is not including the cost of a gun, which is often in the hundreds of dollars. As a result, it is time consuming and not easy for someone to get a concealed carry permit and if SB 11 becomes law (enough senators support it to pass and it is likely to pass in the house too), the number of students with concealed carry permits is unlikely to change much. The debate over Concealed Carry on Campus is not one where reasonable
The debate over campus carry is not one where reasonable minds disagree, but one where people with irrational fear simply refuse to acknowledge the fact that campus carry won’t make campuses any less safe. ... [In fact,] I am convinced that allowing [it] will make students safer.
minds disagree, but one that people with irrational fear simply refuse to consider based on the fact that Concealed Carry on Campus won’t make campuses any less safe. I can’t blame them, because it is human nature to fear uncertainty. I myself hesitated in supporting concealed carry on campus when I heard about it years ago. But after doing research and looking at the empirical evidence, I am convinced that allowing concealed carry on campus will make students safer. Virtually every peerreviewed study on the subject, including studies by the National Academy of Sciences and the Harvard Injury Control Research Center, has concluded that there is no evidence that licensed concealed carry leads to an increase in either violent crime or gun deaths. There have been zero acts of violence or suicide attempt as result of allowing concealed carry on campus from campuses (eight states allow concealed carry on campus) that allow concealed carry for the last twenty years! I wish we could say the same about our campus and other campuses in Texas. The question we should ask is why should we deny the right to conceal carry on campus when it is perfectly legal to walk down the drag or around west campus with a conceal carry? Students do not constantly think about the danger people with concealed carry pose to them in public and in time I think we will all see that life will carry on as usual if SB 11 is passed. As I stated early on, this bill only extends the right to those very few students who have conceal carry permit. This isn’t about you or me. This isn’t a criticism of UTPD or a secret agenda by evil politicians. This bill is about the students who were assaulted while walking home at night and those who want to keep a gun to defend themselves. These students as well as professors and other staff at UT should have the right to defend themselves, a right so fundamental that societies cannot exist without. As I conclude, keep in mind the famous words of FDR, that “we have nothing to fear but fear itself.” And this debate is exactly about whether we students of higher education will forsake all we have learned and give in to fear. I believe we are smarter than that and can make our opinions on issues of public policies such as this based on the facts and not the fear. Hung is a first year law student from Brownsville.
Campus carry would disrupt UTPD, not increase safety By Claire Smith Senior Columnist @clairseysmith
On Jan. 26, lawmakers from both houses of the Texas State Legislature filed identical bills HB 937 and SB 11. The “Guns on Campus” bills come on the heels of Gov. Greg Abbott’s promise to sign open carry into law at his earliest opportunity, as well as any other expansive gun legislation. Although I would rather the Legislature maintain former compromises made in this cornerstone of American politics, I can abide expansion of gun rights within reason. Unfortunately, the “Guns on Campus” bills are not. HB 937 and SB 11 seek to allow any Texan over the age of 21 with a CHL (concealed handgun license) to carry on college campuses. Texas has acquired 811,000 CHL holders since concealed carry became law in 1995, and it is troubling to think weapons nearly equaling the population of Austin could soon flood college campuses statewide. The simplicity of obtaining a license to carry a concealed weapon—a background check into an applicant’s criminal history and the submission of fingerprints to the Texas Department of Public Safety—does not protect campuses from the “Guns on Campus” legislation. According to lawmakers, the purpose of campus carry is to allow law-abiding students to protect themselves from on-campus crime. However, this will not be the bills’ practice. Four of the five violent on-campus crimes reported to UTPD between Dec. 2, 2014 and Jan. 29, 2015, happened at night, when most students on campus were freshmen living in university housing and are inapplicable for the bills’ 21+ age requirement. Furthermore, the bills give universities the option of prohibiting guns in residence halls, meaning that the bills’ theoretical beneficiaries are further unprotected by it. HB 937 and SB 11 cannot reasonably offer any protection to the students lawmakers claim to be protecting. Although the bills include a clause releasing universities from responsibility for any campus carry-related incidents, Neither President Powers nor Chancellor McRaven support campus carry. According to Powers, the high-stress environment of universities can lend themselves to volatile situations and bringing guns into the fold heightens on-campus dangers. Furthermore, the implications of campus carry have not been adequately tested in other states —Idaho’s campus carry went into effect on July 1, 2014, universities
in Utah have continuously challenged campus carry, and Colorado allows campus carry but requires additional measures before granting CHLs. The bills’ clauses disallowing universities from opting out of campus carry adds a distinct division between university administrators, who have been vocal in their opposition, and lawmakers, who seem to think they know best. The “Guns on Campus” bills do more to allow civilians to take the law into their own hands than they do to protect students. Campus carry will create new challenges for law enforcement, as police may struggle to identify an on-campus threat from those confronting it. HB 937 and SB 11 also perpetuate the idea that everyday citizens are the best defense against crime, regardless of training. Results of a 2007 study of the New York City Police Department found that police officers who discharged their weapons within six feet of the target only met with 43% accuracy, a rate that dropped sharply beyond this slight range—23 percent accuracy from 6 to 21 feet, 40 percent accuracy at 21 to 40 feet, 14 percent accuracy at 45 to 75 feet, and 7 percent accuracy at more than 75 feet. According NYCPD, all weapon discharges occurred under circumstances in which the NYCPD shot to kill. Bringing guns on campus under the guise of better protection for students is obvious folly: police officers trained by the state to operate a weapon cannot shoot accurately under duress, nor likely may a civilian with unequal training. I do not doubt that there are members of our community that carry weapons to campus everyday regardless of law. The difference is that doing so is currently illegal, and HB 937 and SB 11 would legitimize that choice. The numbers demonstrate the dismal chance of students apprehending on-campus criminals, and the literature of the bills themselves do not protect those most at-risk on campus. It is important to understand that campus carry is not a straightforward Second Amendment issue, as one representative suggested when he compared CHLs to taking a test in order to exercise free speech. Campus carry intermingles weapons and education, where a shaky precedence exists in place of reasonable cause. The “Guns on Campus” legislation is clever maneuvering by lawmakers under favorable political conditions, not the result of thoughtful deliberation. Students would surely benefit more from a more robust campus police force to combat on-campus crime. This is not a discussion about whether students should have guns. It’s about the fact that no one, student or faculty, should bring their gun to campus. Smith is a history junior from Austin. She writes about state politics.
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Liberal Arts TA Task Force report delivers disappointing results The College of Liberal Arts’ TA Task Force released its official report last week. The document addresses issues facing teaching assistants and assistant instructors in the Graduate School including murky definitions of TA responsibilities, excessive grading requirements and fears of poor job security. The report does a decent job of formulating solutions to these problems, but it is more remarkable for what it leaves out: a thoroughgoing discussion of the problems with the current stipend structure for TAs and AIs. Yes, the report, which is based on a survey completed by 681 current and former TAs and AIs, indicates that 64 percent of respondents are dissatisfied with their compensation based on their typical workload. However, the solutions it proposes to this problem are like Band-Aids on a gushing wound. The report suggests “creat[ing] a
‘clearinghouse’ web portal to expedite interdepartmental hiring,” “offer[ing] TAs the option to receive stipends over 9 or 12 months,” “offer[ing] additional TAships over the summer” and “accelerat[ing] receipt of 1st paycheck,” this last referring to the current University accounting practice of paying employees in arrears. These are all fine, but they miss the key funding issue that is causing so many of the problems for teaching assistants. As task force spokesman Justin Doran told the Texan, “As I understand it, there is a set budget for teaching assistants and assistant instructors, and that money hasn’t increased for many years.” We understand the task force was ultimately not charged with offering budget proposals to increase TA funding, but at the very least it could have proposed a robust discussion about the funding problems
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and the reasons the college wanted to cut 10 percent of TA positions from future cohorts, for instance. We hope, then, that the college and University administration will be amenable to a town hall discussion open to all students, perhaps facilitated by the Graduate Student Assembly, to discuss the real, underlying issues leading to TA dissatisfaction. We have continually heard from people as high up as Charlie Pearce | Daily Texan File Photo Esther Raizen, the college’s associate dean for research The Liberal Arts Building. and graduate studies, that the college simply “[doesn’t] And to make it easier for the administrahave money,” but the entire student body detion, the Texan will gladly host. serves to hear more about why.
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National Signing Day shaping up strong By Ezra Siegel
Recruiting his first full class, head coach Charlie Strong should be excited. He’s got a top-10 class right now with the potential for it to get even better on National Signing Day with many top recruits in the fold.
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With National Signing Day here, Texas head coach Charlie Strong’s first full Texas recruiting class is shaping up to be top-notch. 247sports currently ranks Texas’ class No. 9, the highese a Texas class has ranked since 2012, and the Longhorns have potential to look even better on National Signing Day with several top prospects still in play. The Longhorns already have a lot to be excited about and there may be more excitement to come. If Texas can turn its recent recruiting momentum into a high-yield National Signing Day, the 2015 class will be a signature one for Strong and the Longhorns.
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The four-star running back rushed for 34 touchdowns his senior year and can help improve a Longhorn rushing attack that struggled with consistency. This weekend, the No. 8 running back recruit took an official visit to Washington, posing a major threat for the Longhorn’s prospects — partly because of Warren’s family ties to the state. Warren’s father was a three-time all-star for the Seattle Seahawks.
Plano West’s five-star running back is ranked as the nation’s No. 2 running back by 247sports. Jamabo showed a blend of speed and power when he accumulated more than 2200 yards rushing and 44 rushing touchdowns in his senior year. Reports surfaced Monday night that Jamabo told Texas coaches he would be going to UCLA, but he quickly sent out a tweet refuting those claims.
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Gladewater’s five-star defensive tackle joins Jamabo as Texas’ only remaining five-star targets. After committing to Texas A&M in 2013, Mack re-opened his recruiting in December. While publicly, Mack says he is still deciding between Texas, Texas A&M and TCU, rumors surfaced Tuesday morning that Mack will be heading back to Texas A&M, according to 247Sports.
Aledo’s four-star wide receiver is a UCLA commit who chose the Bruins over the Longhorns in late January. The Longhorns are still trying to flip Newsome before he officially signs with the Bruins, though. There is no timetable for an announcement. Finalists: UCLA, Texas Prediction: UCLA (Garrett Callahan)
Cedar Hill’s four-star prospect and No. 6 overall receiver is still in play. Lodge visited Austin in late January and later named the Longhorns as one of his top-three choices, along with Texas A&M and Ole Miss. At 6 feet 2 inches, Lodge is a big, skilled receiver who caught 25 receiving touchdowns in his senior year. He is considered to be college-ready and will compete for immediate playing time at any school.
DOMINIQUE REED, WR Finalists: Arkansas, Auburn, Arizona State, Texas Prediction: Texas (Ezra Siegel)
Lodge isn’t the only receiver the Longhorns are hoping to add on signing day. Dominique Reed, three-star junior college prospect, is still in play and maybe even a bit more likely. Reed played at Coffeyville Community College in Coffeyville, Kansas where he was a standout. At 6 feet 4 inches, Texas hopes Reed can be a standout red-zone target and help improve the depleted Longhorns’ receiving corps.
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Texas’ final target for signing day is three-star cornerback and Georgia commit Deandre Baker. Baker visited the Longhorns on Jan. 23, and the coaching staff is hopeful he will flip on signing day. His addition would add to an already-stout cornerback class that has three four-star prospects. Finalists: Georgia, Texas Prediction: Texas (Evan Berkowitz)
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Junior shooting guard Javan Felix was knocked down hard on a screen Saturday against Baylor and will miss Wednesday’s game against Oklahoma State.
Texas still struggling as Taylor returns to form By Drew Lieberman @DrewLieberman
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Without Felix, Texas hopes to end skid By Peter Sblendorio @petersblendorio
After suffering perhaps its most surprising loss of conference play, falling to an unranked Oklahoma State team in Stillwater, Oklahoma, No. 25 Texas will get the opportunity to avenge the loss when they host the Cowboys at the Frank Erwin Center Wednesday. They’ll have to do it without one of their top weapons off the bench: junior guard Javan Felix. Felix, who averages 10.2 points per game and leads the Longhorns with 36 3-pointers this season, was ruled out for the game with a concussion. A Texas press release issued Tuesday afternoon did not specify when Felix suffered the concussion, but he was visibly shaken up after running into a hard screen from Baylor forward Taurean Prince on Saturday that left him on the floor for the entirety of Baylor’s possession. Without Felix, who has made at least one 3-pointer in 19 of his 20 games
this season, the Longhorns’ already-thin backcourt depth will be tested. Sophomore guard Kendal Yancy, who has only seen more than 12 minutes in a game one time since the start of conference play, will likely see an uptick in minutes behind starting guards sophomore Isaiah Taylor and junior Demarcus Holland. The injury comes at a difficult time for Texas, when the team is in desperate need of a victory after dropping each of its past three games and five of its past seven to fall to 3–5 in conference play. The Longhorns have struggled to find much rhythm offensively throughout the three-game losing skid, and senior forward Jonathan Holmes said he believes they need to start playing stronger defense to make up for their offensive inefficiency. “Offensively, if you’re not making shots, the urgency on defense should be even higher,” Holmes said. “It starts on defense, and we have to go from there.”
The Longhorns struggled on defense in the second half against Oklahoma State last month, surrendering 41 points after halftime to the Cowboys. Oklahoma State’s senior forward Le’Bryan Nash and junior guard Phil Forte each scored 20 points in the game to give Texas its fourth consecutive loss in Stillwater. Historically, Texas usually tells a different story when the Cowboys travel to Austin. The Longhorns boast a 26–12 all-time record at home against Oklahoma State, and they’ve won nine of their past 10 matchups against the Cowboys at the Erwin Center. Still, it will be up to Texas to overcome its recent shooting woes–and the loss of Felix–to continue its success against Oklahoma State and get the season back on track. “We have to get better,” Holmes said. “That’s the main thing right now. When we’re not shooting the ball well, we have to find a way to win games.” The game is scheduled to tip off at 7 p.m.
What a difference a month has made for the Longhorns. On Jan. 4, hopes were extremely high for a team many expected to compete for a conference crown. They had just defeated Texas Tech 70–61 in Lubbock to bounce back into the top-10, despite sluggish play from sophomore point guard Isaiah Taylor in the star guard’s first game since breaking his wrist in late November. ESPN’s Joe Lunardi projected the Longhorns to be a three seed in the NCAA tournament. Now Taylor is playing some of his best basketball, but the Longhorns are slipping, dropping five of its final seven January contests to enter the month of February alone in eighth place in the conference standings. Lunardi now projects them as an eight seed, and they continue to slide. After Taylor’s injury, it wasn’t hard to predict the problems the Longhorns would face on offense. Junior guard Javan Felix filled in for Taylor to the best of his abilities, but the contrasting skill set between the two guards was apparent — especially when the Longhorns faced serious competition. In their 12-point loss to No. 1 Kentucky, the Longhorns turned the ball over a season-high 22 times. Texas was within five points of the Wildcats until they pulled away in the final minute, leading fans to wonder what the result would have been with a healthy Taylor in the lineup.
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But over the past eight games — the last three in particular — the team has shown that its struggles are beyond anything Taylor can patch up by himself. During the team’s current three-game losing skid, the sophomore has played, arguably, his best basketball since coming to the 40 Acres. Taylor’s 56 points over the stretch tie for the second most he has ever scored over three consecutive games in burnt orange, while his 19 assists over the same span marks the second-highest assist rate of his career. His 19 dimes include a career-high 10 in Saturday’s 83–60 loss to Baylor. Taylor also scored 16 points for the losing team, marking the first doubledouble of his collegiate career. In those three games, Taylor turned the ball over only twice, making for an assist-to-turnover ratio of 9.5:1 — by far the best of his career. Still, while Taylor is playing at an extremely high level, he is not getting to the foul line nearly as often as an 83-percent free throw shooter should. He has attempted just over 28 free throws per 100 field goal attempts since returning from his injury, approximately half as often as he did during his freshman year. Taylor’s numbers would almost certainly be significantly better if he got himself to the charity stripe at the rate he did before his injury. And if he starts to do so, the Longhorns might see the benefit in the win column.
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SPORTS BRIEFLY Women’s basketball travel to streaking Kansas State. After losing to TCU, 64–59, the No. 20 Longhorns will return to action with another away game at Kansas State on Wednesday at 6 p.m. Head coach Karen Aston said she might need to rely more on her older players, who better understand the highs and lows of Big 12 play, such as junior guard Celina Rodrigo — who led the team with seven assists and nine rebounds at TCU. “I thought Celina Rodrigo played one of her better games from a floor game,” Aston said. The Longhorns have been in a rough spot with injuries, especially since senior forward Nneka Enemkpali suffered a season-ending injury against Baylor. Still, the players have maintained a positive attitude. “We started off with a bang; this team has crazy potential,” senior guard Krystle Henderson said. Some younger players have been stepping up for the Longhorns, including freshman guard Ariel Atkins, who was named Big 12 Freshman of the Week for the second time. Atkins scored 13 points and managed two steals in the loss against TCU. It also appears junior center Imani McGee-Stafford has returned to form, after posting a season-high 22 points. Kansas State is on a hot streak right now, having won its last two games and leading the Big 12 in scoring defense and steals. The Longhorns are trending the other way, having lost all four conference away games. If Texas wants to pick up their first conference road win of the season, they will have to play clean and can’t commit 25 turnovers like they did against TCU. “We don’t value layups and put backs enough,” Aston said.
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Grad student gives platform to homeless people By Mary Cantrell @mkcant
Armed with his camera, his social media accounts and a stack of $5 bills, graduate student Kyle Miller spreads a simple message: Respect others. This year, Miller launched a charitable photo campaign called “5 Dollar Stories,” centered around homeless people — primarily those who spend their days on the Drag. Miller pays each homeless person $5, then posts a portrait with personal quotes on Instagram and Facebook. Miller said he hopes the exposure serves as a platform for homeless people, so that their thoughts can be heard. Miller said after seeing students go to extreme lengths, such as faking a phone call or text, to ignore homeless people, he realized the two populations did not have basic human connections. Displaced individuals often appreciate a five-minute conversation more than a $5 bill, Miller noticed. “It’s not about money; it’s more of getting people to stop and slow down,” Miller said.
“These are people — they should be treated like people.” Miller decided to pay each of his subjects $5 after much consideration. He felt $1 seemed exploitative, and $10 seemed like a bribe. Miller said he tries to pair the money with things he knows will help the individual such as water, socks and even bananas. Miller said negative stereotypes toward the homeless are vastly overplayed and that the majority of people he talks to are warm, open individuals who appreciate his efforts to get to know them. “If you want to take a photo of someone, you have to understand how they are,” Miller said. “I would take somebody’s photo so much differently if I knew them better, so you have to listen to them first.” Miller said Shoun, a man he photographed, had a particular message of acceptance that still resonates with him today. “[Shoun said,] ‘You cannot judge anybody by the way they act or look,’” Miller said. “‘You cannot judge anyone until you truly know them. I’m not judging you because you’re rich — you shouldn’t
Graduate student Kyle Miller is the founder of a charitable campaign, “5 Dollar Stories,” designed to give a voice to homeless people. Miller pays his homeless subjects $5 in exchange for taking their portraits and posting them to social media.
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judge me because I’m not.’” Caitlin Collins, a freelance photographer, met Miller through Instagram and said she joined the project because she felt it addressed a seriously overlooked issue. She said her friends support the project, too, and hope to go out on the streets and help.
“I think that by him doing this, it’s a great way to get a lot of young people in the community involved,” Collins said. Mackenzie Howell runs an event planning business with Collins and accompanies her on outings for 5 Dollar Stories. She said her experience has helped her break out of
her comfort zone. “They just want to be given a chance,” Howell said. “Everyone’s busy; just walk up and start a conversation. It’s not intimidating after you’ve done it a couple times.” 5 Dollar Stories encourages people to not write off homeless individuals or focus on their past. Miller’s
mission statement urges readers to challenge their perspectives on homeless people and learn to be genuinely accepting. “This is a platform for people, that normally wouldn’t be listened to, to actually have their thoughts read, looked at and considered.” Miller said.
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Chi’Lantro owner opens new brick-and-mortar restaurant By Olivia Lewman @thedailytexan
For Chi’Lantro owner Jae Kim, five food trucks just weren’t enough. Kim, whose Korean and Mexican food enterprise already consisted of the five food opened a new restaurant on South Lamar Boulevard in January. Chi’Lantro’s first brick-and-mortar location boasts the brand’s well-known kimchi fries and bulgogi hamburgers. Kim opened the restaurant’s doors Jan. 19, after five years of success in the food truck industry. Kim said he knew he wanted to open a restaurant in a fixed location from the very beginning, but waited to invest until a prime location became available. Kim said the new location’s proximity to downtown and the convenience of a close parking lot Chi’Lantro owner Jae Kim recently added a sit-down restaurant to the chain’s five food trucks. The new location on South Lamar Boulevard serves Kim’s signature Korean and Mexican food, including kimchi fries.
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made the location appealing. “One of the keys to a successful restaurant is to be in a great location where it’s convenient for people,” Kim said. “So when the previous owners of the space reached out to me about taking over this location, I thought it was a great opportunity, and I had the finances.” According to Kim, while location and parking accessibility are important, the most important factor in a restaurant’s success are the team members — many of whom he worked with prior to opening the Chi’Lantro restaurant. He said it’s humbling to work with people who are willing to invest their time and energy in an uncertain endeavor. “Good people stuck around,” Kim said. “They saw the value in growing the business together, and you can’t be in this business without good
people around you.” Kim, who always wanted to expand the Chi’Lantro brand, said he knew he needed a better business development plan — so he hired Libby Dearing, who has experience managing food trucks and restaurants in Los Angeles. Dearing said working in a restaurant is much easier than working in a food truck. Kim agreed and said that most food truck cooks have tough personalities. “When you take a restaurant cook to a food truck, I worry,” Kim said. “But I don’t worry when you take the food truck guy to the restaurant. [Food truck cooks are] the SEAL Team of the restaurant industry.” Although Kim has been endorsed by Food Network and honored with a multitude of culinary awards, he said he feels best when his mom is proud of him.
“When my mom’s proud of me, that’s when I’m proud of myself,” Kim said. “All moms are the same. They like to talk a lot to their friends about their kids, and when she’s proud to talk about me amongst her friends, I feel good.“ Hungry students can find a Chi’Lantro food truck parked at the corner of 24th and Rio Grande streets Monday through Friday. Chi’Lantro
often hosts charity events benefiting University organizations, and a truck parks outside of Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium on every game day. “We try our best to stay involved with the University of Texas because we know every year it’s like a new customer base of new students coming in, building a whole new life for the next four years,” Kim said. Dearing said opening a
restaurant is wonderful because there are more opportunities for involvement. “With the food truck, once you hand the food through the window, you don’t really control the experience for the customer,” Dearing said. “The restaurant gives us the opportunity to create a whole hospitable experience, with music, seating and making sure the customer is comfortable.”
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