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Students hold ‘campus carry’ debate

By Wynne Davis @wynneellyn

Students on both sides of the “campus carry” debate gathered on campus Thursday night for a town hall meeting to discuss the impact a concealed firearm policy might have on campus.

Last month, state legislators in the House and Senate filed identical bills that would allow university students, faculty and staff with licenses to carry concealed handguns in campus buildings. Both bills are

currently under debate.

Members of Students Against Guns on Campus said they hosted the event to give students an opportunity to have an open conversation with each other.

Accounting junior Andrew Jackson and Jordan Pahl, a Middle Eastern studies senior, comoderated the event in the hopes that more students would voice their opinions, Jackson said.

“Obviously, this isn’t a one sided argument,” Jackson said.

“This is a really heated issue not just with students, but

also at the state Capitol where legislators are debating this, because it is an issue of student safety — everybody wants to feel safe on campus.”

Tuesday, Student Government passed a resolution in support of continuing the ban of concealed firearms on campus.

Evan Watts, a management information systems senior, said although he has a concealed handgun license, he does think license owners should have more training.

“My personal opinion is

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Charlie Henry, undeclared freshman, gives his opinion about guns on campus at a student town hall meeting Thursday night.

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Suzanne Bryant (left) and Sarah Goodfriend celebrate their marriage at The Highland Club on Thursday evening. A public celebration centered around the couple, who obtained Texas’ first same-sex marriage license.

further action. The clients are married, and it’s over.”

Paxton said today’s marriage of Bryant and Goodfriend went against Texas law, making it invalid, according to a report in the Austin-American Statesman.

“The law of Texas has not changed and will not change due to the whims of any individual judge or county clerk operating on their own capacity anywhere in Texas,” Paxton said. “Activist judges don’t change Texas law, and we will

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UT alumnus runs basketball academy T.J. Ford, who played for Texas for two seasons, continues to make an impact by coaching an AAU team in Houston.

By Daniel Clay @dclay567

T.J. Ford spent only two seasons in Austin.

In that short span of time, the young point guard managed to lead Texas to a Final Four appearance while earning himself the Naismith Trophy for college player of the year.

The NBA Draft selected Ford as No. 8 overall after he spent the 2001–2002 and 2002–2003 seasons as a Longhorn. He faced high expectations, but some grisly injuries — combined with a spinal condition that made paralysis a real threat — meant ultimately, Ford could only play off and on for nine years. Still, he never lacked in heart and talent.

“His work ethic was

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incredible,” said Ronnie Courtney, Ford’s high school coach. “His heart is probably as large as any heart you are ever going to find, in terms of wanting to be the best at what he was doing.”

Although he retired in

2012, Ford hasn’t stayed away from basketball. Now, instead of dishing out passes, Ford dishes out advice on ways to succeed on the court and beyond.

Today, Ford runs the TJ Ford Basketball Academy

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Same-sex couple married in Texas is first, only

marriage is still valid, according to Chuck Herring, the couple’s attorney.

“The Supreme Court issued a stay order, but, in our view, it has no practical effect because we already obtained the relief,” Herring said. “We don’t want

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The couple exchanged vows in front of their children and had an official Texas marriage license in hand — but for several hours Thursday afternoon, it was unclear whether Austin residents Suzanne Bryant and Sarah Goodfriend were actually married, after all.

Bryant and Goodfriend, who have been together for three decades, became the first same-sex couple to obtain a marriage license in Texas on Thursday morning. For now, they will remain the only same-sex couple to have done so. Thursday afternoon, the Texas Supreme Court issued a stay at the request of Attorney General Ken Paxton that prevented other same-sex marriage licenses in the state.

Travis County Clerk Dana DeBeauvoir granted the marriage license under the order of state district judge David Wahlberg. The Travis County Court issued the license because Goodfriend was diagnosed with ovarian cancer last May. There was some confusion throughout the day about whether the license would remain valid after the Texas Supreme Court’s decision to issue the stay.

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After 20 years of service as an executive board chair at the Seton Healthcare Family hospital network, Charles Barnett is planning to move to the McCombs School of Business, where he will work to connect the Dell Medical School with UT business students.

In his role as an executive-inresidence at McCombs, Barnett will mentor students and faculty in the field of medical administration.

“The opportunity to use [McCombs] as an innovation engine to integrate the work being done [and] interface that among the colleges, especially the business school, is really important,” Barnett said.

After working as vice president and chief operating officer at a Virginia hospital, Barnett said his work at Seton Healthcare Family required skills beyond what he expected when he started the job.

“When I got here, I thought the job was going to be running a hospital, but it turned out that was only a piece of it,” Barnett said. “It was really about thinking about community building, oddly enough, and how an organization like Seton can become an important and critical asset to the creation of a viable, sustainable community beyond just the healthcare work it does.”

Barnett said his work helping Seton Healthcare Family hospitals to improve the safety of baby delivery is his proudest accomplishment. In 2002, Seton Healthcare Family hospitals saw an average of 31 babies who suffered birth trauma per 10,000 live births, according to Barnett. After new protocol were put in place, that 31 dropped to one baby per 10,000.

“We were able to develop a protocol by which the number of babies which suffered any

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RESEARCH

Visiting professor gives lecture on civil rights

By Lauren Florence @thedailytexan

Although there has been progress in American race relations over the past few decades, events such as those in Ferguson, Missouri, signify an ongoing adverse relationship between government policies and African-Americans today, according to Peniel E. Joseph, founding director of the Center for the Study of Race and Democracy and history professor at Tufts University.

In August, white police officer Darren Wilson shot 18-year-old African-American Michael Brown, who was unarmed. Brown’s death, and the fact that Wilson was not brought to trial, prompted months of protests and dem-

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onstrations that are still ongoing in Ferguson.

The Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs hosted Joseph’s lecture, “From Selma to Ferguson: Race and Public Policy in the Age of Obama,” on Thursday as part of an effort to hear new voices in the field of civil rights, according to Robert Hutchings, dean of the LBJ School of Public Affairs.

Joseph said he thinks the gap between democratic rhetoric about race relations and the reality of minority experiences is detrimental to the American democratic process.

“People are talking about race because Ferguson is illustrative of all these inequalities that face us and that, in a lot of ways [and] in our popular

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In the Feb. 19 edition of The Daily Texan, the article “SG candidates announce platforms” misstated the date of the debate and the dates of the election. The debate will be March 2, and the election will take place March 4–5.

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An article on Feb. 18, “Faculty exhibit bridges disciplines in fine arts,” incorrectly listed the departments participating in “Inquiry.” The exhibition features work by faculty members from all departments in the Department of Art and Art History.

imagination, we refuse to confront,” Joseph said. “We believe that we’ve earned this victory — whether we’re saying Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, Obama — we’ve somehow gotten our way out of racism, which is why we’re so often ready to embrace post-racialism.”

Between 1980 and 2015, the population of U.S. federal, state and local prisons increased from 350,000 to 2.4 million, according to Joseph. By 2007,

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would carry his gun with him on campus.

“I think that campus carry is something that is possible, but would require additional measures that take into account the unique environment of a university,” Watts said.

Government senior Brandon Mond said he has always had an interest in the issue of campus carry, but got more involved when the Senate heard testimonies for and against its bill last week.

When Watts suggested more training for students with the campus police officers as an addendum to the bill if passed, Mond said he hadn’t heard Watts’ idea before.

“I’m absolutely against campus carry, but … I think that’s very interesting, and I think that’s definitely something to explore if SB 11 passes,” Mond said. “I definitely think that’s something that should be required for all [gun carriers] on

college campuses.”

At the Senate hearing last Thursday, Mond said he heard testimonies from people involved in the 2007 Virginia Tech shooting, as well as the 1966 shooting at UT, which resulted in 14 deaths.

“The overwhelming testimony from people who have been involved [in campus shootings] that is that [students with guns] certainly wouldn’t have helped the situation,” Mond said.

there were more AfricanAmericans in prison, on parole and on probation than those who were enslaved in 1850, Joseph said.

“One of the major problems that we face in the last 50 years between Selma and Ferguson is this issue of not just criminal justice, but the criminal justice system’s connection to different democratic institutions in our society,” Joseph said. “When we think about this issue of mass incarceration, it is the civil rights issue of our time.”

Maureen Anway, public af-

fairs graduate student, said she hopes to start a conversation about bridging policy and community activism.

“I think, so often, quantitative data, historically, has been used in a way that’s negative for communities of color, and so I’ve been trying to connect how I use the skills that I’m getting here and then apply them to issues I care about, and, a lot of times, there’s an activist component to that,” Anway said.

Policies and the language in which they are written have the potential to affect the way

different communities are perceived, said Loyce Gayo, African and African American diaspora junior.

“We can’t talk about the recent attention that’s being exerted towards the death of all these black people without talking about how they’re being perceived — a young child being killed because they’re viewed as aggressive; they’re viewed as brutal,” Gayo said. “Now, we’re entering this new age of protest and this new age of awareness of race, and I’m trying to see where we’re about to go.”

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continue to aggressively defend the laws of our state and will ensure that any licenses issued contrary to law are invalid.”

Herring said Paxton threatened to file a lawsuit to invalidate the marriage, but Paxton has not announced concrete plans to move forward.

“Does he file a new lawsuit?”

Herring said. “Sue a woman with ovarian cancer? What does he file? That’s the question, and he’s not answering that question.

All he’s doing is making public statements that he’s unhappy and doesn’t like same-sex people getting married. That’s interesting, but he needs to come up with a legal procedure.”

U.S. Congressman Lloyd Doggett (D-Texas) said he cannot think of anyone with the power to invalidate the couple’s marriage.

“My understanding is the marriage was already completed before the Supreme Court, so I don’t know who would have legal standing to challenge this marriage,” Doggett said. “It’s amazing the machinations people will go through to prevent the commitment of three decades from being recognized.”

Goodfriend said the battle for marriage equality is an essential Texan issue.

“In Texas, we really believe in personal responsibility and personal freedom, and the freedom to marry is the ultimate exercise of personal freedom,” Goodfriend said. “When a loving committed couple like Suzanne and I, and all the other couples — when the marriage is recognized, it only makes Texas stronger.”

kind of birth trauma event were reduced dramatically,” Barnett said.

Greg Hartman, president for external affairs, academic medicine and research at the Seton Healthcare Family, said he started work at Seton because of Barnett.

“He has been instrumental in building the excellent healthcare we have here today, from the heart transplant program, to the nationally recognized low birth trauma, to the building of the new medical school,” Hartman said.

Barnett also helped develop new protocols to serve patients in Central Texas, according to a statement released in Aug. 2014.

“Barnett also introduced new ways to care for a growing and diverse population, including the addition of insurance products and the first steps toward a more organized system of care,” the statement said.

Barnett said Seton Healthcare Family helped save hospitals that were in financial trouble, allowing those hospitals to develop other health resources.

“We salvaged a number of things,” Barnett said.

“Probably, the most important was Brackenridge Hospital, because without that, none of these other things [would exist] — Dell Children’s Medical Center would not exist;

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the graduate medical education programs would not be there; the medical school would not be getting ready to take its first class.”

Barnett said he hopes the Dell Medical School will provide medicine industry leaders that can work to resolve pressing issues.

“We’re going to have to figure out how to help people stay healthier if they’ve got a chronic condition, so they can stay out of the hospital and out of the emergency room,” Barnett said.

“The medical school will provide us with thoughtful leaders in medicine to do two things — to help us solve these kinds of problems and really change the way we think about what a physician needs to do going forward.”

NEWS BRIEFLY Committee interviews finalists for president

“Horns Digest,” an online sports journal, named four alleged finalists for the UT presidency in a post Thursday.

The publication did not specify their source of the information, but named Greg Fenves, executive vice president and provost of the University, David Daniel, president of UT Dallas, and Andrew Hamilton, vice chancellor of the University of Oxford in England, as finalists for the position.

The publication also reported Michael Drake, president of the Ohio State University, as a finalist, but later amended the post to list Joseph Steinmetz, executive vice president and provost at the Ohio State University, as the fourth finalist.

According to the Austin American-Statesman, a spokesperson for the Ohio State University said Steinmetz already decided not to pursue the opportunity.

A member of the University-wide faculty committee appointed to conduct interviews with the finalists for the presidency confirmed that the committee met with at least one candidate Wednesday but would not say who the committee interviewed.

According to a timeline posted on the UT System’s website, the name of the next president will be publicly released some time in March. Current president William Powers Jr. will step down in June 2015.

In December 2014, the New York Post reported that Condoleezza Rice, professor at Stanford University and former Secretary of State, was the front-runner to replace Powers. Both Rice and UT officials quickly discredited the report.

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First gay marriage in Texas should not also be the last

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Suzanne Bryant (left) and Sarah Goodfriend hold up their marriage license after a press conference Thursday. They became the first same-sex couple to marry in Texas on Thursday morning.

Sarah Goodfriend and Suzanne Bryant were married Thursday morning in Austin. They are the first same-sex couple to get married in the state of Texas. They were married as a result of a court order issued by State District Judge David Wahlberg in reaction to the news of Goodfriend’s diagnosis with ovarian cancer. But now that the Texas Supreme Court has stayed all future such marriages, much remains in doubt. Still, we hope that this is just the first of many same-sex marriages in Texas.

The tide is turning as more and more states are lifting bans on same-sex marriage, either by popular initative or by court order. Gay marriage is currently legal in 37 states. In 2012, only eight states allowed marriage be-

tween same-sex partners. Although the marriage was performed under special circumstances and the county clerk’s office has no intention of issuing more same-sex marriage licenses except under court order, the fact remains that a gay couple were legally married in a red state where bans on “sodomy” are still in place in the state penal code. We hope progress in the courts will not make this a one-time occurrence.

Predictably, Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton has requested a reaffirmation of the state constitutional ban on same-sex marriages from the Texas Supreme Court in response to a probate judge ruling the ban on such marriages unconstitutional. In addition

to the Supreme Court’s decision Thursday, Paxton hopes to reverse progress by having Goodfriend and Bryant’s marriage voided, a move that had not been successful as of our Thursday deadline. But while Paxton’s political pandering, and the Supreme Court’s acquiescence, may play well with the religious right, he clearly hasn’t considered the concerns of the morally right.

Goodfriend and Bryant’s unbridled joy after their marriage is evident in the pictures and video released from the event. These two women love each other, have raised two daughters and are now fighting cancer together. Their passion and dedication reflect an ideal of marriage that any couple, gay or straight, would

strive for. The opposition needs to move beyond the shallow consideration of gender and ask itself what it thinks marriage is truly about.

This couple fits the bill.

Paxton and those opposing this long overdue marriage are operating on the basis of their hidebound ideals. Their idea of small government ironically includes managing the personal lives of their constituents based on personal beliefs and revulsions. It is time to catch up with the rest of the nation and allow these couples to marry because they deserve the benefits that come with marriage, especially in situations like Goodfriend and Bryant’s.

Let them remain married and make it so others can do the same.

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Even today, racial tension underlies many interactions on campus

Daulton Venglar (left), Marshall Tidrick (right two) | Daily Texan Staff

From left to right: Chemistry senior Leland Breedlove, electrical engineering senior Nick Engmann and management information systems senior Joyce Wang.

By Andrew Ridout Guest Columnist

The University of Texas has had a rocky history on the subject of racism. From Stephanie Eisner’s 2012 Daily Texan cartoon describing Trayvon Martin as a “handsome, sweet, innocent colored boy” to the Young Conservatives of Texas’ affirmative action bake sale, or more recently, the Fiji fraternity border patrol-themed party, there is still a thread of bias here at UT. Perhaps it is no wonder. Many of the school’s first benefactors and key people were intolerant of racial harmony. George W. Littlefield, a Confederate war veteran, funded many of the statues around campus like those dedicated to figures such as Robert E. Lee, Jefferson Davis and other VIPs in the Confederate South.

As one walks through campus today, however, one is exposed to myriad races, colors and creeds, that co-exist within conflicting undercurrents; the region’s segregated and intolerant past and today’s trace of racial bias, however subtle that might be.

The students on our present campus have the job of struggling to live within the University’s effort to create a melting pot of cultures from all over the world.

To fully comprehend the life-long implications linked to an individual’s race, it is important to understand how we define racism in society today.

For Nick Engmann, an African-American electrical engineering senior, racism is “any use of stereotypes or biases to harm another individual based on the color of their skin or how they identify themselves.”

Veiled racism has reached Engmann in his classes: “Some people don’t think that you are capable of things because you have a certain background or how they identify you. The way you speak, the nuances you drop here and there. They don’t think you’re competent.”

But sometimes, racism is more overt than

subtle. The Campus Climate Response Team is responsible for receiving and tracking student complaints concerning, among other things, racial bias. As it reported Feb. 9, complaints have increased by over 700 percent since the 2012-13 academic year. The increase is due not only to high-profile incidents such as the bake sale but also to more personal attacks.

Just last semester, Engmann encountered one such incident firsthand.

“One of my African-American friends and I were walking around West Campus with some other friends and a truck drove by and bleachbombed us,” Engmann said. “They threw balloons filled with bleach water and hit my black friend’s pants and shirt. I had heard about this occurring around campus and thought that it had been blown out of proportion, but then it happened to us. It just baffled me that this could happen so close to home. That racism is still here.”

Rachel White, a black marine biology senior, hasn’t been directly targeted at UT. However, she says that she sometimes feels uncomfortable in certain situations, such as at parties or even in a class where she may be the only black student.

“Although many people don’t have to think about their race or have to search for someone like them in their class with whom to study, as a black woman, I do,” White said.

Some students have a different perspective and have not encountered racial problems at all.

International business junior Brianna Spiller is among them.

“I’ve always had a really positive experience here,” said Spiller, who states that she has never experienced any form of racism on campus directed at her.

Spiller has also been comfortable in social situations. As she explained, “All of the parties I’ve been to have been really good. No parties, no organizations, no one has looked at me funny. This school is very diverse and I think that the people are very open-minded.”

When asked how the University might

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improve, she pointed out that “for African-American students, there aren’t enough places for them to go. Either I join a sorority, or there is really nothing else. We also need to focus on getting more African-American men who want to come here to study and to learn.” The African-American student population of the University currently stands at 4 percent, down from 5 percent in 2013.

Why do students like Spiller not have any problems while others do? When a person is raised with bigotry as close as the next news story, sometimes it is hard not to expect it.

White explains, “Racism still exists in schools, in the workplace and on the streets with law enforcement. It even exists in my mind because of the fact that I have to be self-conscious about what others think of me.”

But racial bias isn’t just about black and white.

Hispanics make up close to a fourth of the student population at UT, but as the Fiji fraternity party illustrates, insensitivity still occurs, cloaked in a joke.

About the Fiji incident, Mathieu Saenz, a Hispanic math senior, said, “It’s pretty sad. I kinda feel sorry for them — the fact that they haven’t been exposed enough to other cultures to where they think it’s OK. If you grew up having a lot of Hispanic friends or friends of other races, and you’re close to those people, I don’t think you would treat somebody like that or go to a party like that.”

Joyce Wang, an Asian-American management information systems senior, has not felt such bias directly but says she has seen it within certain groups who don’t accept others into their circle because of race or language barriers.

“How they act or don’t act towards strangers, whether they choose to socialize with them...

They might think that others are not fit for their group because of things like ethnicity or they might speak a different language,” Wang said. She has also felt empathy for other students who have been the focus of random acts such as bleach balloon bombings.

For its part, the University has an active

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“We need to look at how much progress has been made at UT,” said Gregory Vincent, vice president of UT’s Division of Diversity and Community Engagement. “In terms of numbers, the campus is much more diverse than it has ever been, and there has been a shift in attitudes over time. If you recall last year, there were two events that were racially motivated planned by the Young Conservatives of Texas. The campus community saw those as extremely derogatory and the response was immediate, forcing the YCT to cancel the events. However, UT is a microcosm of what happens in the world. As a nation, there is still much to be done and UT reflects that.”

When asked if diversity can ever take on a negative form, Vincent responded, “On every level, diversity can be considered positive. Much research has confirmed that diversity in educational settings improves the experience for all. Studies of diverse scientific teams and workplace teams have shown that they produce stronger research and make better decisions. As a professor of higher education and law, I see this in the classroom over and over. The more opportunities we have to get know others of different races, the more stereotypes are broken down. In our increasingly global society, being able to work on teams of diverse people and possessing cultural competence are extremely positive.”

As race relations continue to improve here at UT as well as elsewhere across this country, understanding each other’s perspective can bridge many barriers. According to White, “Minorities have to tip-toe around the everyday issues that we experience in order to make our peers feel more comfortable, and a lot of people don’t realize this.

We are afraid that we will be viewed as too sensitive or will be told that racism doesn’t exist and we are just too easily offended. It is something that is changing and there are efforts towards improvement, but awareness is so important.”

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Texas faces tough test against Cyclones

By Peter Sblendorio @petersblendorio

Texas suffered perhaps its most disheartening loss of the season on the road against No. 17 Oklahoma on Tuesday — and it won’t get any easier for Texas in the weeks to come.

In a game they largely controlled for the first half hour, the Longhorns blew a six-point lead in the final minutes to fall to 6–7 in conference play — good for just seventh in the Big 12 standings.

The team now faces a rigorous stretch of four games against ranked opponents, three of which have already won against Texas earlier this season.

The Cyclones dropped the Longhorns 89–86 last month in Ames, Iowa, in a game that was much more lopsided than the final score would suggest, and they will face Texas again Saturday.

Iowa State had little trouble connecting on open looks both beyond the arc and in

the paint throughout the game, as five different players scored in double figures. The Cyclones led by as many as 21 points in the second half before a furious run by the Longhorns, which ultimately came up short.

But unlike the teams’ last face-off, Saturday’s contest is in Austin. Iowa State is just 3–4 on the road this season and 2–4 in conference play. The Cyclones finally snapped their four-game losing streak Wednesday with a win against No. 22 Oklahoma State.

Iowa State, which is 16–2 at home this season, even dropped a road game on last month against bottomfeeding Texas Tech, who is currently 2–12 in conference play this season. Through the first 25 games of this season, Iowa State has been a far different team at home than on the road.

For Texas to take advantage of the Cyclones’ road woes, it’ll likely try to limit Iowa State’s savvy passing attack. The Cyclones

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Texas boasts the top-ranked scoring defense in the Big 12, giving up 59 points per game, but the team will face a tall task against Iowa State, who leads the conference in scoring.

managed to weave into the interior of the Texas defense in their first matchup, opening up clear passing lanes and easy looks. They racked up 13 assists on 16 made field goals in the first half, and they finished the game

with 20 assists.

Luckily for the Longhorns, they’ve played far better defense as of late. They’ve surrendered 71 points or fewer in five consecutive games, after allowing at least 83 points in the two previous games.

A win over the Cyclones could boost Texas’ résumé as the NCAA tournament approaches. The Longhorns are 17–9 this season, but only two of those victories have come against ranked opponents.

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With each win, Texas grows more confident

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After a year filled with injuries and adversity, Texas finds itself just three wins away from a 20-win season.

With four games remaining, the Longhorns (17–8, 6–8 Big 12) look to keep its recent momentum rolling against Texas Tech on Saturday in Lubbock.

After defeating Kansas State on Wednesday 76–58, Texas tallied its largest margin of victory since defeating Texas Tech last season.

While the Longhorns have now won two back-to-back games, and head coach Karen Aston thinks every remaining game is winnable, the team is just focusing on Texas Tech for now.

“We don’t need to look past [the Texas Tech game] at all,” Aston said. “We just need to take one game at a time and finish as strong as we possibly can.”

After a season-ending injury to senior forward Nneka Enemkpali and after other scattered setbacks, the Longhorns feel a sense of urgency to finish the season on a winning note. Through the past few games, Texas feels it has started to regain control of its season.

“We finally have some positive momentum moving forward,” junior guard Brady

Sanders said. “We’ve done a good job taking one practice at a time, one possession of a time and one game at a time.

So now, we have to keep this positive energy going into Tech.”

Texas Tech (15–11, 5–9 Big 12) is coming off a 67– 60 defeat by No. 3 Baylor on Wednesday. The Lady Raiders, who made a seasonhigh of 11 three-pointers off 20 attempts, rank third in the conference in threepoint field goal percentage, shooting at 35 percent this season.

Texas Tech is the sixth opponent to hold the Lady Bears to a single-digit victory this season. Tech ranks fifth in the conference in scoring defense, with opponents tallying an average of 59.1 points per game.

Texas will look to contain Tech senior guard Amber Battle, who leads the team with 16 points per game, while freshman forward Dayo Olabode averages a team-leading 6.2 boards per game.

Aston said the Longhorns feel they have started to hit a stride in their season.

“We are shooting the ball better and have better timing offensively,” Aston said.

“We just look more comfortable with what we are doing. The tempo seems to have picked up for us just a little bit.”

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Garrido aims for broad offense

Junior guard Brady Sanders led Texas to its second-straight win Wednesday night, as the Longhorns gain confidence with the season winding down.

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Five games into the season, the Longhorn offense is doing well — but head coach Augie Garrido isn’t satisfied.

The team exploded for 11 runs in the last two innings in a 14–2 win over UTSA on Tuesday — the most runs the Longhorns have scored in a game since 2012.

Despite the Longhorns’ early success at the plate this season, including seven multi-run innings in five games, Garrido said he is still concerned that the offense is too reliant on hitting.

“What we need to do to get better is to broaden the dimension and scope of our offense from being base-tobase,” Garrido said.

Garrido said he is mainly concerned about the little things outside of just hitting the baseball such as getting bunts, drawing walks and finding other ways to get onto base. Throughout his 46 seasons of coaching at the college level, Garrido’s teams have been known for their “small ball” offense.

But so far this season, it’s been the “long ball,” primarily doubles, which have cleared the way for Texas.

While they sit with a .287 batting average, the Longhorns have drawn only 22 walks while striking out 49 times and only converting five sacrifice bunts, including two failed attempts Tuesday.

While Texas drilled 12 doubles so far this season, Garrido said he knows hitting can dry up at a moment’s notice.

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continues from page 1 basketball and, hopefully, land college scholarships.

But Ford said his academy is about much more than the game.

“Basketball’s just a vehicle for us to get things that we’re trying to get across to the kids,” Ford said.

“It’s a lot of fun being able to help a lot of different kids from a lot of different ethnic groups and just show them what a family environment feels like.

Every kid’s home situation is different.”

Working with kids and running an AAU team was not Ford’s original plan when he first retired from the NBA. “I was focusing more on NBA guys that I was training, that worked out with me for four to five

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Junior left fielder Ben Johnson and the Texas offense have scored six runs per game in five games, but head coach Augie Garrido hopes the team can diversify its offense.

“Hitting is the hardest skill in all of sport, according to Sports Illustrated,” Garrido said. “So if that’s the only way you can win a game, when you go up against good enough pitching, you’re going to lose.”

The Texas offense has been led thus far by junior left fielder Ben Johnson and sophomore catcher/first baseman Tres Barrera, who share the team lead with eight RBIs and have hit at least one home run each. Freshman catcher Michael Cantu is just behind with a .400 batting average and five runs scored.

But at the bottom end of the stats are sophomore centerfielder Zane Gurwitz and freshman first baseman Travis Jones, who have struggled in the early going of the season.

Gurwitz is batting a rough .188 so far with four strikeouts, and Jones has yet to record a hit in his collegiate career while striking out six times.

“It’s typical a few of the

players get off to a great start and then others will hit .100,” Garrido said. “And then all of the sudden, it switches, and it all starts to even out, and the team takes on an identity.”

Texas will get a good chance to work on building that offensive identity this weekend, going up against a Minnesota pitching staff that struggled against Houston last weekend to open the season.

The Golden Gophers gave up just over six runs per game in the three losses to the Cougars and allowed opposing hitters to post a .260 batting average. The Minnesota pitchers also struggled with their command, walking 17 batters and hitting four more.

While Garrido wants the team to get better at playing pitch-by-pitch at the plate, he said he’s thankful that they’re at least “hitting the ball better than ever.”

“We’re going to be thankful for what we got and work on what we don’t got,” Garrido said.

years,” Ford said. “We had a couple high school kids that would come in and train with us and had great seasons, and it kind of just took off from there.”

Ford’s program already boasts a strong track record. and he is as good at working with sevenyear-olds as he is working alongside NBA players.

Twelve of his players already gone on to earn college scholarships.

Texas head coach Rick Barnes said nothing about Ford’s successes is surprising.

“He had a great knack at knowing how to … put [his teammates] in a position to be good,” Barnes said. “[T.J. was] a ‘people person,’ and he always wanted to learn.”

Soon after he retired, Ford was offered NBA coaching opportunities —

but the allure of returning to basketball played at the highest level could not outweigh the thought of coaching the game at its very roots.

“I love working with kids,” Ford said. “Teaching the game is teaching the game, and I enjoy doing it with any age level.”

In addition, the love of teaching has called Ford back to the 40 Acres, where he is taking classes to complete his education degree. Ford, who hopes to complete his degree in the next year and a half, still heads back to Houston on the weekends to coach.

“This is an unbelievable place [where] I had some great experiences,” Ford said. “For me, it’s pretty fun just being back and walking the campus and actually just being a regular student.”

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WEEKEND PREVIEWS TENNIS Following a grueling three-match weekend at the ITA Indoor National Championships in Chicago, Illinois, No. 10 Texas will head back to Austin on Friday to face No. 8 North Carolina at the Weller Indoor Tennis Center. Both the Longhorns and Tar Heels participated in last weekend’s ITA National Indoor Championships, where the Longhorns went 2–1, including wins in their last two matches, and the Tar Heels went 1–2, losing their last two matches.

Friday’s match will feature a battle of the brothers, as North Carolina’s Esben Hess-Olesen is coming to Austin. Esben is the twin brother of Longhorn’s senior Søren Hess-Olsen and will be facing Søren’s teammates for the fourth year in a row. The two players will not be playing each other directly this year — as was the case in 2013 when Esben bested Søren in a three-set victory — but both players will be integral in getting their teams back on track following the last weekend’s tournament.

Beginning with Friday’s contest against North Carolina, the Longhorns will have a seven-match home stand spanning over a month before they head on the road to face Oklahoma State on March 27.

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‘One By One’ to showcase Instagram artists

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A double tap means more than just a “like” to 100 of Instagram’s insta-famous photographers — because each “like” fuels motivation to keep creating.

Some of those photographers will have their work featured at “One by One,” a threeday festival centered around a gallery of 100 photographs taken by 100 Instagram-famous photographers. The festival is co-hosted by Citygram Austin magazine and InstaDFW. Each of the Instagram artists submitted three photos for Citygram to choose from, but they won’t know which photo will be displayed until Friday night.

Over the course of three days, the festival will include previews of upcoming local restaurants, performances by local musicians, a BBQ, artist panels, a talk with Instagram’s community manager Jeffrey Gerson and “instameets.” During these “instameets,” photographers and their followers will get together to go on photo excursions throughout the city.

Chris Perez, Citygram’s founding editor and chief digital officer, said the event gives photographers a chance to exhibit their work in a gallery while exposing audiences to the vast amount of high-quality work produced using Instagram.

“We want to bring the physical aspect to it at a large scale,”

Perez said. “The photos people are doing are amazing, and people are impressed by them.

It’ll be more amazing when you can see them in a gallery being treated like art.”

Perez said the goal of “One

by One” is to further connect the Instagram community.

He said the event sheds light on artists’ ability to be creative and, in turn, fuel their followers’ creativity.

“There are real people behind these photographs — people connecting and inspiring each other,” Perez said.

The photographs will be up for silent auction throughout the weekend. “One by One” planners will donate 50 percent of the auction’s proceeds to Girlstart, a program dedicated to promoting science and mathematics to young girls.

Chemistry freshman Michael Tatalovich, one of the festival’s artists, sticks to his iPhone when capturing his Instagram photos. He said he enjoys shooting “urbanscapes,” focusing on easily overlooked places and searching for fresh perspectives at more popular sites. “[In my photos], I like a balance between impromptu and candid, yet defined,” Tatalovich said. “I like to strike that balance whether it’s the profile of a person or a building.”

Although Tatalovich has over 22,000 followers on Instagram, he said actually meeting the artists he follows — some of the “best Instagrammers in

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the world” — will be an exciting new opportunity.

“I think there’s a certain dynamic and roundness that you get from meeting someone in real life,” Tatalovich said. “Any social media is kind of a façade; it’s a little manufactured and polished. But when you meet someone in real life, you get to see how they work.”

Tatalovich said the advent of the cellphone camera resulted in an excess of

“redundant” images on the internet, such as selfies, but also allowed a broader range of artists to shed light on unseen perspectives.

“I don’t think that selfies are a bad thing; it’s a little bit onedimensional,” Tatlovich said.

“I’m looking for someone that is exploring whatever city they live in, finding new places and other people to take pictures of.”

After UT alumnus Matt

Crump left his career in advertising, he devoted himself to developing his art through Instagram. He described his style as “candy-colored minimalist” and created the hashtag “#candyminimal,” so that he and his followers could share photos with similar aesthetics. One of Crump’s three submitted photographs will be on display.

Crump, whose Instagram has around 65,600 followers,

said he tries his best to respond to every comment his photos receive.

“Everything I do on Instagram — I’m thinking about my followers,” Crump said.

“I’m thinking about genuine interactions with them.”

“One by One,” which takes place at Artpost in East Austin, opens with a party Friday at 7 p.m. Entry to the gallery will be free Saturday and Sunday.

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‘Breaking Bad’ actor discusses disability representation in media

By Megan Kallus @megmayumi

RJ Mitte, the 22-year-old actor best known for playing Walter White’s son, Walt Jr., on AMC’s “Breaking Bad,” spoke on campus Thursday night as part of the Campus Events + Entertainment Distinguished Speakers Series. Like his character, Mitte has cerebral palsy — a neurological disorder that affects body movements and muscle coordination. In his talk, Mitte talked about his experiences growing up with cerebral palsy and working as an actor with disabilities. Prior to the event, Mitte sat down with The Daily Texan for a Q&A. Daily Texan: Do you have any favorite moments from the work you’ve done on different shows?

RJ Mitte: I loved being a part of the “Breaking Bad” pilot. We had so much fun doing it. I had the privilege to be a part of a show called “Switched at Birth” on ABC Family. It was such a warm, welcoming crew.

I’m lucky; no matter where I

go or what I do, I always meet some amazing people. I’ve always been able to work with the best, and I continue to hope for that.

DT: Why do you think disability representation is important?

RM: One of the biggest things [we work on] today is changing the mindset. It will affect our future, how people behave and what they do and how they talk to other people in the long run, especially when it comes down to disability, because disability does not discriminate. It does not care what color you are, where you’re from, who you are or what you do. Everyone is affected in one aspect or another.

If you have inaccurate media [representation] about disability, it affects how people think about who they are.

If you have media that, instead, depicts disability accurately, that shows people that disability is normal, that it can unite us as a whole under the human condition. Media needs to be a really positive

thing. It needs to be honest because it affects people not just our age, but children. It has an impact on how children will grow up to treat each other and their own children. It even influences how parents treat their own children. You can give people brighter futures by having better disability representation.

DT: Do you think that the state of disability representation in the media is improving?

RM: Is representation improving? Yes and no. I feel like it’s growing, and it’s changed a lot. It’s leaps and bounds away from what it used to be, especially with all the disability acts that were passed and everything that came up through the disability community. When I first started working with the community, there was only 2 percent representation on television and film of major characters with disabilities. Now, there’s around 11 percent. Actually, let me fix that. [It’s closer to] 7 percent, because a show

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RJ Mitte, best known for playing Walter White’s son, Walt Jr., on Breaking Bad, spoke at the SAC on Thursday night.

that had that representation with a lot of disabled characters kind of got canceled. But I sit on several boards for diversity, and they are always working to fix those problems.

DT: What’s next for you?

What are you interested in

working on?

RM: Anything and everything. I shot two movies last year that I’m hoping will be released this year. I audition, I audition, I audition. It’s the story of my life. I do whatever will keep the lights on. I

have a couple of boards I sit on — one of them [is] actually in Austin. I work with children’s hospitals, I support United Cerebral Palsy. I always work a lot with nonprofits.

There’s never a dull moment in my life.

FILM

Oscar predictions: Few surprises, but host is sure to entertain

By Alex Pelham @TakingOfPelham

With the Academy Awards coming up Sunday, all eyes are on host Neil Patrick Harris. The comedian faces high expectations, but his stellar record as a four-time host of the Tony Awards is a strong indicator he’ll be just as entertaining in his first Academy Awards hosting gig. Harris, however, is not up for an award — and ultimately, in between the host’s comedic bits, the Academy Awards is ultimately a show about awards. The nominees in the acting, directing and overall best picture categories are facing tough competitors.

Here are movie reviewer Alex Pelham’s predictions: Best Supporting Actor J.K. Simmons, best known for his comedic roles in the “Spider-Man” trilogy and “Juno,” will win his first Oscar

for his brutal performance in “Whiplash.” Having beat out Ethan Hawke and Mark Ruffalo at the Golden Globes and BAFTAs, Simmons’ night will end in absolute victory.

Best Supporting Actress For her work in “Boyhood,” Patricia Arquette will earn the Best Supporting Actress award.

Her stunning performance as a struggling single mother has already won her a Golden Globe, a BAFTA award and a SAG award. It would be foolish to assume her name won’t be on that statuette.

Best Actor The battle for the Best Actor award boils down to a duel between Michael Keaton and Eddie Redmayne. This sets up an interesting struggle between veteran Keaton and newcomer Redmayne — the former is a Hollywood legend who has never before been nominated

while the latter is a rising star who is rapidly gaining attention for his dramatic roles. Despite Redmayne’s charm as Stephen Hawking in “The Theory of Everything,” Keaton’s role as a psychologically disturbed actor in “Birdman” is too good to pass up.

Best Actress Julianne Moore is the safe bet for this category as her performance as a professor suffering from Alzheimer’s in “Still Alice” haunted critics.

She’s swept the other major award ceremonies, so it seems incredibly likely that she’ll take the Oscar. Although Moore is a shoe-in, it would entertaining to see Rosamund Pike steal the award for her thrilling performance in David Fincher’s “Gone Girl.” Considering “Gone Girl” got completely shut out of all the Oscar categories except for Best Actress, it’s possible that Moore will

not leave the ceremony with the prize.

Best Director Richard Linklater will be rewarded Best Director for his outstanding efforts in “Boyhood.” The director, who spent 12 years working on the film, has poured his soul into his celebration of childhood in Texas. “Birdman” director Alejandro González Iñárritu follows closely behind Linklater, but Linklater’s ability to manipulate nostalgia is more charming than Iñárritu’s cold directing. UT students are sure to be disappointed alumnus Wes Anderson won’t take the Oscar for his visually stunning “Grand Budapest Hotel,” but he’ll surely be back in years to come to claim a well-deserved award.

Best Picture Finally, the fight for the top prize will be between dark

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comedy “Birdman” and coming-of-age drama “Boyhood.”

“Boyhood” will triumph, as its ability to tap into the sentimental nostalgia of moviegoers may give the film an edge over the quirky “Birdman.” Of course, given the Academy’s love for European period pieces, there remains a small possibility that “The Theory of Everything” can pull a stunning, “Shakespeare in Love”-style upset.

Though major shake-ups are unlikely, seeing some of the year’s best films and actors reap well-deserved benefits will still be entertaining. If nothing else, Harris will certainly do what he can to keep the evening compelling. No matter how likely it is the top contenders will walk away as winners, it’s important to remember that on Oscar night, anything can happen.