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McCombs, LBJ deans to step down By Eleanor Dearman & Josh Willis @thedailytexan
Two UT deans will step down at the end of the semester, according to a blog post released Friday by UT President William Powers Jr. Robert Hutchings, dean of the LBJ School of Public Affairs, and Tom Gilligan,
dean of the McCombs School of Business, will be stepping down from their positions, Powers said in the post. The two will join Roderick Hart, dean of the Moody College of Communication, Kevin Hegarty, UT’s vice president and chief financial officer, and Powers in leaving the University at the end of this semester.
It is likely the new deans will be named by the next UT president, according to University spokesman Gary Susswein. The next president will be announced in March, according to a UT System timeline. “Broadly speaking, I think anytime there’s a
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A 5-year-old girl stares up at a row of jets ascending toward the clouds. White exhaust fumes streak the sky as the Thunderbirds, the air demonstration squadrons of the U.S. Air Force, perform synchronized loops. In this moment, the young girl, Michelle Solsbery, decides her future. She wants to fly. Now in her last year in Air Force ROTC, Solsbery is on her way to earning a seat in the cockpit. “I’m worried about motion sickness,” Solsbery said. “But I’m really excited to get started and get into the real world.” Solsbery is the Cadet Wing Commander of Detachment 825, the AFROTC detachment at UT. Cadet Wing Commander is the highest position a cadet, or member of ROTC, can fill. Detachment 825 consists
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Cadet Wing Commander of UT’s Air Force ROTC Detachment 825, Michelle Solsbery, holds the highest position an ROTC cadet can achieve. Solsbery’s duties as Wing Commander include delegating tasks, leading groups and preparing underclassmen for Field Training.
The safety program SURE Walk remains an under-utilized student resource despite efforts to re-brand its image and increase visibility, according to Charles Steen, government and finance junior and director of the program. “One of the main issues with SURE Walk is lack of usage,” Steen said. “I don’t think enough students know about our service and, as a consequence, could be putting themselves at risk.” SURE Walk stands for Students United for Rape Elimination. The program, which is funded by Student Government, gives students an opportunity to walk to or from campus at night accompanied by two student volunteers. “We are one of the University’s predominate rapeprevention vehicles,” Steen said. “Unfortunately, students walking home alone at night … are susceptible to dangers such as sexual assault. No student should feel unsafe at his or her own school, and SURE Walk helps to ensure that this doesn’t happen.” In order to increase visibility across campus, the program has created a new look for the service and is working on reaching out to more students through better advertising on campus with posters and banners,
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The Texas Supreme Court’s stay on the state’s same-sex marriage ban may remain in effect until the expected Supreme Court ruling this summer, according to Osler McCarthy, staff attorney for public information at the Texas Supreme Court. “Somebody is going to rule on this, and it’s the U.S. Supreme Court, definitively, in three months,” McCarthy said. “So what the court has done is say, ‘Stop. Nobody move.’” On Thursday, Travis County Judge David Wahlberg issued a single marriage license to Suzanne Bryant and Sarah Goodfriend. The two were granted the license and married, making them the first same-sex couple to marry in Texas. The Texas Supreme Court issued a stay Thursday in response to a request by Attorney General Ken Paxton, halting all further same-sex marriages in the state. The stay did not include an end date, but it will presumably end with the
We all know the U.S. Supreme Court is the court that is going to decide any remaining issues concerning the constitutionality of same-sex marriage prohibition. —Chuck Herring, Attorney of Bryant and Goodfriend
U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling this summer. Courts issuing a stay are not required to provide an end date, according UT law professor F. Scott McCown. “[The stay] would just be [over] when the court made its decision,” McCown said. Paxton submitted a petition Friday to the Texas Supreme Court asking that the court overturn Wahlberg’s ruling, potentially voiding Bryant and Goodfriend’s marriage.
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European security institutions are out-of-date because they have not evolved since the end of the Cold War, according to a panel of lecturers who spoke Monday at the College of Liberal Arts. Foreign security is formed by European organizations, such as NATO and the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, that are tasked with using military and cultural influence to prevent conflict, according to Lorinc Redei, lecturer at the LBJ School of Public Affairs. European security institutions need to better understand the conflicts they are involved with to ensure the safety of the affected citizens, Redei said. “There’s a lot of players on the field, and we know who the players are, but we don’t really know if there is a coach calling the play,” Redei said. “Unless you have a play, you’re not going to win the game. And so I think with this conference, what we’re trying to figure out is … who the coach is and what the plays are.” The lack of European wars in the 21st century has caused
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Professor Jeremy Suri discusses challenges to European security at the “Seeking Security” conference held Monday.
European security to become an uninteresting topic, according to Jennifer Johnson, Plan II senior. Since the 2014 Ukrainian revolution has been under the control of the Europeans, the focus has shifted to questioning the responsibilities of the these European institutions, Johnson said. “Ukraine is really important now,” Johnson said. “It’s really an important test [for Europe]
almost to see which organizations they use because obviously OSCE is on the ground right now, and NATO is a very controversial power and [is] what Russia is ultimately afraid of.” Economics sophomore Mariana Bernal said the way US-allied European countries have responded to anti-American crises is important to both U.S. and global security.
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“I hope to see if whatever they’re doing, as of now, is being done unilaterally against the U.S. or against anyone, really, or to see if they’re working for peace in a broader sense,” Bernal said. The future of European security depends on whether you hold an optimistic or pessimistic perspective on the
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according to Steen. Steen said he has also worked on ensuring the volunteers working are consistent and available during the entire time the service is open. Most of the volunteers participate as part of a service organization. Electrical engineering senior Sruti Nuthalapati said she used to volunteer with SURE Walk through the student organization Orange Jackets, but, when the volunteers weren’t utilized, the volunteers decided to put their time toward a different cause. “It has a lot of place to grow, but I don’t know how it would grow because it’s more like we don’t use it, not like they’re [running] it badly,” Nuthalapati said. The program could benefit from talking to students and asking them for their opinion of the program, Nuthalapati said. “I guess maybe they
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should do a general survey about why people don’t use it,” Nuthalapati said. “I mean, personally for me, I feel like I don’t need it at 11 p.m., or maybe I’d just call a friend.” Mechanical engineering junior Isabelle Erickson volunteers with SURE Walk and said she has walked students home approximately five times during the three shifts she has worked. “We don’t walk very many people home because I think people are embarrassed to ask, even though that is what we are there for,” Erickson said. “I think they
think people will see them as scared or weird.” For every walk, both a male student and female student escort the student home. Steen said they do this because a trio is safer, and he wants to ease any awkward feelings the student may have about walking home with just one person. “Students should not be ashamed to ask,” Erickson said. “We have to be there anyway, so put us to work. I know people walk home alone all the time, and they may be fine, but there is no shame in walking with buddies because you never know.”
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leadership change in an organization, you see turnover like this,” Susswein said. “Whether it’s Dean Gilligan, or Dean Hutchings, or Vice President Kevin Hegarty who is leaving, you know these are people who have been at UT Austin for a long time and have contributed a lot.” Gilligan, who could not be reached for comment on his decision to step down, helped shape McCombs into the high-ranking business school it is today, Susswein said. “McCombs is one of the best business schools in the country and, especially among public universities, is one of the top, and a lot of that is because of what Dean Gilligan has brought there in terms of developing new programs, in terms of making sure that we have the top faculty and the top students and even in terms of facilities,” Susswein said. In an email sent to faculty and staff, Powers said Gilligan has helped students prepare for the world outside of academia. “He has attracted top faculty and students and fostered research that is central to UT’s intellectual climate,” Powers said in the email. “He has also built and expanded multiple programs that support industry while challenging students and preparing them to be leaders.” Hutchings, who has been dean of the LBJ school since 2010, said that when he took the position as dean, he only planned to stay one semester. “We’ve done a lot during my tenure. I feel like I’ve achieved just about all the things we set out to achieve when I first arrived, and it’s been a pretty long agenda of issues and items, so I feel good about that,” Hutchings said. Hutchings said he will be a visiting professor at Princeton University in the fall and a distinguished fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington D.C. in the spring to work on a new book. Following his work at Princeton and in Washington D.C., he said he will return to UT as a faculty member in the LBJ School. “It’s fairly traditional when a dean steps down, if he’s going to return to the faculty, the old dean leaves town to give a new dean a chance to sort of make his or her own imprint on the place,” Hutchings said.
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Speakers discuss European security relations By Rund Khayyat @rundkhayyat
Three European security practitioners gathered Monday at the College of Liberal Arts to discuss how security relations among European countries have fared in the last 25 years. After 9/11, the international community began to group organized crime and terrorism together, according to Lars-Erik Lundin, senior research fellow at the Institute for Security and Development Policy. “Terrorists organize large funds, use cyber Internet, etc., and this further broadens and complicates the concept of security,” Lundin said. The 2014 Ukrainian revolution is an example of hybrid warfare, a strategy that blends conventional and cyber warfare, said Richard Froh, NATO Deputy Assistant Secretary General for Operations. The members of NATO say an attack on one ally is
an attack on all, but it is no longer clear if something is an attack, according to Froh. “Is a cyber attack an attack?” Froh said. “Would that then call up collective defense? How do you counter that? How do you fight propaganda to reassure your own people and respond to adversaries?” NATO guidelines state two percent of Gross Domestic Product should be spent on defense. Now, according to Froh, only three of the 27 NATO members — the U.S., the United Kingdom and Estonia — are meeting this stipulation. “There is an importance in helping others develop defense capacities,” Froh said. “NATO needs to work with others. We are part of the solution, but we are not the solution. We all need to work together.” The security situation is in good condition because the European Union as a peace project has succeeded, according to Bert Versmessen,
From left, LarsErik London, Richard Froh and Bert Versmessen discuss the current security issues within Europe at the CLA on Monday night.
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assistant to the Deputy Secretary-General of the European External Action Service. “In the 25 years since the Cold War, we have successfully integrated some of our former enemies into demo-
cratic market economies,” Versmessen said. Regardless of the democratic integration, Europe continues to have a deteriorating security environment, Versmessen said. “For the first time since
World War II, there has been a change in ordinance by force, such as the phenomenon of domestic fighters and the rise of extremist groups,” Versmessen said. “We have to let this sink in.” As international organiza-
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UT3D program useful across disciplines By Sherry Tucci @sherrytucci
The Moody College of Communication is at the forefront of 3-D filmmaking because of the UT3D program, one of the only collegiate 3-D filming programs in the United States. Although 3-D filming is associated with Hollywood special effects, the UT3D program is interested areas beyond entertainment, according to UT3D program director Don Howard. These areas include virtual reality, educational technology and scientific research. “Our view of what 3-D is is a variety of new technologies that try to become more immersive than two dimensions on a screen can do,” Howard said. These technologies use stereoscopy to create depth on a screen, creating a 3-D effect. Stereoscopy is achieved by filming with two cameras from two different angles and projecting both pictures onto a single screen. The viewer processes the image using 3-D glasses to create the final image. “Polarized glasses allow one picture to appear to [the left eye] and the other picture to appear to [the right eye] only,” Howard said. “What it does is sort of deconstruct that double picture you’re looking at and … in effect, your eyes will read
Brazil’s outdated public funding system faces many difficulties, which stem from the country’s unbalanced population structure, according to Cassio Turra, associate professor of demography at Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais in Brazil. The public funding system provides many benefits, such as social security, for its elderly population while sacrificing education and other benefits for children, according to Turra, who spoke Monday at Sid Richardson Hall. Although the current Brazilian population has a higher number of children and elderly than adults, Turra said he believes the country does not evenly distribute aid to the poor. “There is no country like Brazil in terms of allocating public resources to the elderly,” Turra said. “The adult groups are responsible
continues from page 1 situation, Redei said. “If you’re an optimist, you might say Europe is going to coordinate itself more effectively … if you’re a pessimist, you would say that you’re going to have a free-for-all or anarchy of all these institutions working haphazardly,” Redei said. “The default option is always that Europe is just going to muddle through, but the question is, will it be able to muddle for much longer without going one way or the other?”
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Olivia Biehle, mathematics and radio-television-film senior, is a student of the UT3D program. As one of the only 3D programs in the nation, UT3D focuses on areas of entertainment, education, and research.
it the way they read two different pictures all the time.” Students complete two required courses in the program and an associated internship or special project course to receive a certificate of completion. Unlike other certificate programs offered by the University, however, UT3D is only available to RTF majors. “These [students] are
probably the most well trained 3-D individuals outside of Hollywood at this point,” said Buzz Hays, lead instructor of UT3D. “We’ve given them the fundamental skills to go forth and do amazing things.” Olivia Biehle, mathematics and radio-television-film senior who is in the 3-D program, is using the program’s
technology in a new way by incorporating math to logically approach the 3-D creative process. “3-D was the first time I was actually able to use my math brain in a creative way,” Biehle said. “I could use my math side of my brain to actually make decisions based on the cameras — how the 3-D was being used.”
3-D film brings a new aspect to the field that 2-D film is unable to achieve, according to Biehle. “That’s what I’ve seen in 3-D — it’s something that will affect your audience emotionally and psychologically, and they won’t notice it a lot of the time,” Biehle said. “There’s more to 3-D than entertainment value.”
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tions face conflict from multiple sides, the “my threat is more important than yours” dynamic becomes a problem, according to Vermessen. “The unity is there, but we need to maintain it,” Versmessen said.
for providing the surplus, so we have fewer people at [working] ages providing the surplus and more people at [nonworking] ages who are in debt.” The 1930s was a period of stimulus for the Brazilian government, during which it increase the allocation of public funds to the elderly, according to Turra. In the 1930s, Brazilians had a high chance of poverty at older ages because 70 percent or more of children lived in poverty, and the average amount of schooling for children was four years, Turra said. Sam Hagan, an intern at LLILAS Benson Latin American Studies and Collections, believes that increasing public funding to children should not be the only focus for the Brazilian government. “I believe there are other areas of social policy that are of equal or greater impact on young lives that have been ignored in recent years, such as education,” Hagan said.
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Cassio Turra, associate professor of demography in Brazil, speaks about public funding problems Monday afternoon.
A majority of the Brazilian population still depends on the public funding system that was developed in the 1930s, Turra said. In the 55-69 age group, 66.1 percent of people live in a household in which at least
one person receives social security benefits, according to Turra. “If we want to improve children’s lives, we should give money to them instead of giving money to their grandfathers,” Turra said.
Public health freshman Jonathan Tran believes that this will pose a problem for Brazil in the future. “It’s obvious that this public funding system cannot sustain itself, which means that change must come,” Tran said.
The couple’s attorney, Chuck Herring, said in a previous interview that Paxton’s petition will not successfully end the marriage since the marriage has already occurred. “We all know the U.S. Supreme Court is the court that is going to decide any remaining issues concerning the constitutionality of same-sex marriage prohibition,” Herring said. While McCarthy does not know if the petition can revoke the marriage, he said he thinks Paxton’s filing not be successful. “I believe the Attorney General believes this petition would invalidate that marriage license,” McCarthy said. “I don’t know if his mandamus petition really goes that far.” There are no immediate legal ramifications with Paxton’s opposition to Bryant and Goodfriend’s marriage, McCarthy said. “Down the long term, maybe,” McCarthy said. “Let’s say one dies, and the other comes in and says, ‘I am the person who inherits from my spouse,’ and someone else jumps in and says this is not a valid marriage.” Rogelio Meza, Queer Student Alliance co-director and microbiology junior, said he agrees with McCarthy’s assessment. He said he thinks Texas’ Supreme Court will not legalize same-sex marriage independently. He thinks the decision to permit same-sex marriage will depend on a U.S. Supreme Court ruling this summer. “I’m very disappointed, yet, not surprised at Texas trying to stop same-sex marriage here in the state,” Meza said. “A couple already got married. Nothing happened. The world didn’t explode. I feel Texas is trying to hold on to that conservative ideal.” Marisa Kent, QSA co-director and marketing junior, said she was also not surprised by the ruling. “It was a little frustrating because the ruling [allowing the marriage] was made for a specific reason, and for them to change the decision and say nothing is going to change until the U.S. Supreme Court makes a decision is frustrating,” Kent said. “It’s something that I knew the Texas government would do without any afterthought.”
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The last thing UT needs is more guns on campus
Jessica Lin | Daily Texan Staff
By Jeremi Suri
Daily Texan Columnist @JeremiSuri
Our college campuses are plagued with numerous problems, but the shortage of guns is not one of them. No one walks around our campus thinking: “I wish the students and faculty had more guns.” One of the characteristics that make our University grounds so pleasant is that violence, and the threat of violence, are almost nonexistent. Universities offer a free and open space where people can explore, interrogate and debate. They are designed to be places of scholarly interaction, free from all weapons. They should remain that way. Texas is one of numerous states where interest groups and some legislators are pushing to repeal university limits on firearms. Why are they doing this? What is the motivation? The call for firearms on campus is, unfortunately, not about universities at all. Gun advocates believe they have a legitimate claim about Second Amendment rights to bear arms in public, and they are motivated to strike against all restrictions on that asserted right. Universities stand out because they occupy large spaces in our cities and towns, and they generally restrict gun possession on their territory. In addition, universities are familiar targets for advocates of individual freedom
who distrust large institutions, elites and higher education. The restrictions on gun possession look to these critics like they are part of a broader conspiracy against the rights of ordinary people. The only conspiracy, however, is against the very idea of education in our society. From its inception, Americans have valued the classroom as much as the gun. The first settlers opened schools, and wherever Americans have gone – within North America and abroad – they have created new schools at all levels, including universities. Americans have seen schools as civilizing institutions, designed to teach citizens how to think and contribute productively to the broader needs of society. Despite our democracy, schools have existed as heavily regulated spaces designed to preserve the interests and needs of students. That has meant strict state requirements for mandatory attendance in middle school and high school, tight rules for attire and behavior at all levels and various rules for admission, testing and graduation. Citizens are not free to act on campus grounds as they do in other public spaces. Educational spaces have always been protected and regulated in special ways, within reason, to preserve a safe and effective learning environment. That history is essential for the current debate about guns. Despite claims about gun
freedom in society at large, the college campus is different. In a space where young men and women are often away from parental control for the first time, and where they are exposed to frequently unfamiliar and uncomfortable situations, it is downright horrifying to imagine them carrying weapons at the same time. Imagine the scenes of undergraduate drunkenness on Saturday nights with guns added to the equation. Imagine the stress of endof-semester exams with emotionally unstable students fingering their guns. Only bad things can happen in these all-too-familiar circumstances. Similarly, it is scary for me to think of my faculty colleagues, who are dedicated researchers and teachers, carrying weapons on campus for self-protection. I often tell friends that I find it sufficiently dangerous we allow so many faculty to drive! (Have you seen them on the road? Watch out!) To put it bluntly, many faculty live in the world of ideas, and their practical capabilities for managing dangerous weapons are limited. Those who work with their minds probably should not fire powerful projectiles from their hands, unless they are trained rigorously and supervised continuously, as in the military. These observations bring me back to my initial questions about the current conversation surrounding guns on college campuses.
We need to turn this debate from guns to education. The question is not whether anyone has a right to carry a gun, but how to maintain an effective and open learning space for citizens who need advanced education more than ever before. Just as we regulate behavior in special ways to preserve academic integrity and freedom on campus, we must have the right to regulate firearms in special ways as well. The rules on campus must indeed be different from the rules elsewhere, otherwise the campus becomes just like everywhere else. Schools are citadels of learning, and their integrity depends on some control over their environment. We have witnessed college shootings in recent weeks and years, but more guns are only likely to create more fear and danger. I lecture to more than 300 undergraduates many mornings at 8 a.m. I count on the fact that they are not armed, and they count on the same from me. We are part of a special space for inquiry, removed from the violence and even the individual freedom of ordinary society. My students are prohibited from texting, emailing or talking on the phone during my lectures. They should always be prohibited from carrying firearms in lecture as well. We can all learn more that way. Suri is a professor in the LBJ School of Public Affairs and the Department of History.
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Debate surrounding campus carry blows things out of proportion By Jordan Shenhar Senior Columnist @jshenhar
It’s caused an uproar among students, it’s spawned forceful condemnations from the Faculty Council, and it’s been covered nonstop by local media. And, despite the incendiary rhetoric, it almost certainly won’t matter. Lost in the furor over the proposed campus carry law is the fact that the bill itself is probably inconsequential. Given the fierce divide over gun control in the U.S., it makes sense that ideologues on the left and the right are both trying to rile people up over Senate Bill 11. But in trying to frame the bill to fit a political agenda, neither side accurately characterizes its potential effects. Contra some of the bellicose conservative rhetoric emanating from the statehouse, campus carry is not an issue of individual liberty. Even strong social libertarians have no problem restricting certain freedoms in the name of public safety. There’s no major push, for instance, to prevent carriers of lethal and infectious diseases from being quarantined. And even the most strident Second Amendment activist might take issue with someone dragging a howitzer down Speedway. And on-campus crime, while obviously problematic, isn’t quite the epidemic the bill’s proponents claim it is. At UT Austin, for instance, there were six rapes, two weapon-based assaults, and no homicides on campus in 2014, according to UTPD’s annual crime report. But the liberal critics treating the law as a major threat to campus safety are equally
misguided. Given UT’s open campus and the state’s lax concealed-carry laws, it’s possible for just about any ruffian or malcontent to bring a gun onto campus anyway. Handgun bans in public schools and movie theaters have never deterred the type of malicious or mentally unstable individuals who commit atrocities. That doesn’t necessarily mean that such a ban shouldn’t exist — it just means that a more gun-friendly policy won’t bring more criminals to campus. The only thing the firestorm of opposition against the bill is doing, then, is deflecting attention from the probable outcome of its passage — absolutely nothing. Allowing guns on campus would only substantially change the campus climate if there is a significant number of students and faculty members who would bring a weapon to campus if given the legal opportunity. In all likelihood, even that number would overestimate the law’s impact, given that most gun owners respect the rule of law and know how to safely carry their weapon. So, barring a critical mass of unstable and irresponsible gun owners who would wreak havoc if only they had a legal channel through which to do so, UT will not turn into the set of a Clint Eastwood film. The best argument against the campus carry bill is that it simply isn’t pragmatic, regardless of one’s stance on the Second Amendment. Having to retrain police forces and campus safety officials to deal with threats on campus within the law’s constraints will cost a lot of money, as will updating campus infrastructures with fixtures like safes and lockers for gun storage. The Houston Chronicle reports that the UT system could wind up spending $39 million on such changes. The law might also make it tougher for campus security to apprehend potential criminals. With guns banned on campus,
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Student Government Clerk Jordan Durrani records votes for AR 30, a resolution opposing “campus-carry” policies Feb. 17. The resolution passed 21-6, affirming SG’s stance against concealed guns on campus.
anyone who carries one publicly can be stopped by police, regardless of whether or not they intend any harm. Under the new law, however, if a shady character is walking around campus with a weapon, there wouldn’t be any grounds on which to question them. Loose gun restrictions might make sense in places with security forces too ineffective to keep people safe, but in fairly secure areas like college campuses, efforts to complicate police work will more often than not lead to counterproductive results. The only issue that matters when it comes to campus carry is whether or not allowing concealed weapons on campus will make universities safer by a strong enough degree to account for the law’s deleterious ripple effects. And even if the bill’s advocates are right
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about its impact on campus safety, it would take a lot of “good guy with a gun” scenarios for that to happen. This entire controversy centers on whether or not the infinitesimally small chance of a vigilante stopping a potential rapist or murderer, either in self-defense or on someone else’s behalf, is greater than the infinitesimally small chance of a shooting taking place due to the malice or recklessness of someone who wouldn’t already carry a gun on campus anyway. That’s it. The conflation of this particular bill with the broader debate around gun control both lends it a gravitas that far outweighs its effects and marginalizes discussion over its actual drawbacks. Shenhar is a Plan II, government and economics sophomore from Westport, Connecticut.
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continues from page 1 of about 75 cadets from UT, ACC, St. Edward’s University and Huston-Tillotson University. Solsbery, a political science senior at St. Edward’s University, joined the detachment during her second semester of college. As commander, she delegates tasks, leads the group and prepares underclassmen for Field Training, a three-week long summer program that secondyear cadets must complete to be commissioned into the U.S. Air Force after they graduate college. Training is especially rigourous in the spring, as the commander and other upperclassmen have to prepare underclassmen for Field Training, according to Solsbery. “I think they typically want that stronger persona that the males often give off instead of a female in the spring semester,” Solsbery said. “I think I’m the first female in the spring for the past 10 years, so it’s really cool to be able to do that.” Although only 33 percent of the Air Force cadets at UT’s detachment are women, three
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out of the past four commanders have been female. Colonel David Haase, the ROTC department chair at UT, said this is no accident. “They do very well,” Haase said. “I don’t know if it’s because they come in more mature or they have something to prove. The females are very strong. They’re committed and focused.” Now in her second year in AFROTC, supply chain management sophomore Madison Glemser is training to earn a spot at Field Training this summer. The Air Force only admits a certain number of cadets each year from across the nation. Acceptance is based on a faculty assessment, grade point average, fitness tests and SAT scores. “[The national board] doesn’t care if they are male or female,” Haase said. “It’s a tough competitive process, and making it through is just amazing.” According to Glemser, being a woman in this program comes with challenges. She said her biggest struggle is leading the flight. Each flight, or individual class within the detachment,
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Cadet Wing Commander Michelle Solsbery stands among the many awards loaned to the University’s ROTC department. Solsbery is the first female Wing Commander in a spring semester in ten years.
country,” Prague said. “It was kind of a calling.” Prague said the ROTC program is set up to hold both genders to the same standards. “You’re a cadet first, and you’re a lady second,” Prague said. “It makes us stronger because it makes us be on the same level.”
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In No. 9 Texas’ first five games at UFCU Disch-Falk Field this season, the bats have come alive and driven in 45 runs. In the Longhorns’ home opener against UTSA, Texas scored 14 runs on 20 hits in a 14–2 rout of the Roadrunners. Texas then scored 31 runs on 47 hits in a four-game home stand against Minnesota. “We did a good job of making contact and driving the ball,” head coach Augie Garrido said. “We had a lot of line drives, hit a lot of base hits with runners in scoring position and two outs. I think we played our game, and that’s what I was most proud of. Mentally, we were tough.” Texas will now look to continue its offensive hot streak Tuesday night against UT-Pan American. The Broncos enter the game with a .224 team batting average, while Texas holds a .309 batting average. Five Longhorns are batting above .300 currently, including senior right fielder Collin Shaw, junior left fielder Ben Johnson, sophomore catcher and first baseman Tres Barrera, redshirt freshman third baseman Bret Boswell and freshman catcher and first baseman Michael Cantu. Johnson is on a 10game hitting streak and leads the team with a .476 batting average. Against Minnesota, Texas tallied 20 extra-base hits,
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TIMBERWOLVES Shelby Tauber | Daily Texan Staff Junior left fielder Ben Johnson is in the midst of a 10-game hitting streak. Johnson is one of five Longhonrs to have a batting average above .300, and he leads the team with a .476 average.
of which Shaw had six. In the series finale against the Golden Gophers, the Longhorns had additional help at the plate from senior second baseman Brooks Marlow, who had the first four-RBI game of his career. “All of that plays into the confidence,” Garrido said. “The hitters realize they don’t have to do it all themselves. It’s an unbelievable connection that has to go through everybody on offense, everybody on defense, and then
how it applies to the team. It’s almost magical.” While the offense is getting all of the attention early in the season, the Texas pitching staff is having a successful start on the mound. Against Minnesota, Texas’ starting pitchers each earned a win and didn’t allow an earned run. Additionally, the entire staff didn’t allow an earned run throughout the weekend series. The Longhorns held Minnesota to a .067 batting
average with runners on base. Garrido said this year’s team ranks among the best Texas teams he’s coached. And while he thinks this team has good potential, he knows there is room for improvement. “I think this team has a lot of building to do,” Marlow said. “I know we came out and scored a lot of runs and played well against Minnesota, but there’s a lot of things we still need to do and get better.”
We did a good job of making contact and driving the ball. —Augie Garrido, Head Coach
First pitch for Texas (7–2 ) versus UT-Pan American (5-2) has been rescheduled to Wednesday because of inclement weather.
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It was clear how frustrated senior forward Jonathan Holmes was with himself Saturday after his 2-point performance against No. 12 Iowa State. He stared straight down with his head in his hands as the media began to question him. His answers were short, soft, downtrodden and, at times, incomplete. “I got to get better and improve and get back in rhythm,” Holmes, who has scored just 12 points in the month of February, said. “Stuff just is not going in right now. Just got to get back to the basics.” Since going down with a concussion Feb. 4 against Oklahoma State, Holmes hasn’t been himself. In the three games since his return, he’s shot just 21 percent in significant time on the court, attempted just four free throws and has struggled from behind the arc shooting only 34 percent. Before his injury, Holmes was averaging 11.5 points per game in 27.1 minutes per game. Since returning, he’s averaged 26.3 minutes per game but has only scored 4 points per game. “I just talked to Jon and said, ‘you work too hard to not believe in yourself right now,’” head coach Rick Barnes said. “You hate it for him because he’s worked as hard as anybody we’ve ever had here.”
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Saturday’s matchup between Kansas and Texas in Lawrence could’ve been the deciding game in the Big 12. But after an abysmal 6-8 start in Big 12 play, Texas is no longer in play for the Big 12 title. Despite Texas’ poor start, ESPN announced its “College GameDay” program will do a one-hour pregame show at Allen Fieldhouse before the afternoon contest. The College GameDay crew will start the day with its morning show at Wichita State before making the trek to Lawrence. This is the second time this year the College GameDay show will broadcast from a Big 12 venue.
Staten, McKay win weekly conference awards In addition to being named a finalist for the Bob Cousy Award, Staten also took home the Big 12 Player of the Week award, which the conference announced Monday. Staten averaged 21 points in the two wins this week for West Virginia — both against ranked opponents. He posted a 51.7 field-goal percentage and made 60 percent of his three-point attempts. Iowa State redshirt junior forward Jameel McKay took the Big 12 Newcomer of the Year award after helping the Cyclones win back-toback conference road games for the first time since 2006. Against Oklahoma State, the junior forward posted 17 points and 14 rebounds. He then followed up with a ninerebound, three-block performance in the win against the Longhorns on Saturday.
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But the Holmes of late is different from the Holmes who led the Longhorns to win the Wounded Warriors 2k Classic in New York City back in November. That Jonathan Holmes was excited, confident and playing the best basketball of his career. He scored 19 against Iowa. Then he followed that up with 21 points and 13 rebounds against Cal to take home the tournament MVP award. Holmes thought the team had solved all of their problems. “Everyone bought in,” Holmes said after the tournament, giddy about the first time Texas won any kind of tournament in his tenure. “Everyone wanted to be a part of the solution. We want to build something special.” But now, sitting at 6–8 in Big 12 play, Holmes and the Longhorns aren’t looking at a solution but at a new problem. Texas is sitting on the bubble for the NCAA Tournament, with few signature wins. “I know that everybody at this time of the year wants to talk about that,” Barnes said. “It doesn’t matter. People talk. I promise you, there are like 100 teams on the bubble.” Texas’ top wins are a home win against then-ranked No. 23 West Virginia and a neutral site win against Iowa, who sits in seventh place in the
Big Ten. These aren’t leaving many people impressed. With only four games left, the Longhorns have to take themselves off the bubble and prove they belong in the NCAA Tournament. They will travel to Morgantown, West Virginia, and Lawrence, Kansas, this week to face a pair of top-25 teams. Then they will close out the regular season against No. 19 Baylor and Kansas State at home before the Big 12 tournament. Winning two of those should be enough to get them in. “We have some chances coming up the next couple of weeks to get some quality wins,” Holmes said. But in order to do that, they will need their lone scholarship senior to return to form. “Right now we need some leadership, obviously, and it should come from our older guys.” Barnes said. Your older guys this time of the year have to play.” This final stretch begins Tuesday, when Texas will face No. 20 West Virginia at 6 p.m. in Morgantown. The game will air on ESPN2. “We just have to find a way,” the emerging Kendal Yancy said. “I personally think we’ll figure it out. We don’t have time to feel sorry for ourselves. We have a quick turnaround against West Virginia so we can get another road win.”
Two Big 12 point guards up for awards Two Big 12 point guards became finalists for the Bob Cousy Point Guard of the Year Award on Friday. Iowa State sophomore Monté Morris and West Virginia senior Juwan Staten are two of 17 finalists for the award, which is given to the country’s top collegiate point guard. Morris currently leads the nation with a 4.55 assist-to-turnover ratio, one year after setting an NCAA record with a 4.79 ratio. He also leads the Big 12 with 5.57 assists per game and is averaging 11.4 points per game. Meanwhile, Staten has proven himself as a scorer with 13.5 points per game and 5.08 assists per game. His biggest moment this season came last week when he scored a last-second layup to lead the Mountaineers to a win over Kansas. The winner of the Bob
Iowa State, West Virginia rise in AP Poll Following big wins on Saturday, both Iowa State and West Virginia made gains in the latest AP rankings released Monday. West Virginia tied for the most spots gained of any team in the poll, jumping up three positions to take the No. 20 spot after posting wins over Kansas and Oklahoma State. Iowa State moved up two positions to No. 12 after posting twostraight road victories against Oklahoma State and Texas. Oklahoma State fell out of the rankings after backto-back losses. Texas, meanwhile, received only one vote in the rankings.
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SPORTS BRIEFLY Freshman Cantu earns Co-Newcomer of Week
Texas freshman catcher Michael Cantu was named the Big 12 Co-Newcomer of the Week Monday. Cantu helped Texas win all five of its home games. Cantu played three games at catcher and two at first base. Cantu hit .375 last week. Against UTSA, Cantu went 2-3 in his first career multi-hit game. In the Longhorns’ first game against Minnesota on Friday, Cantu went 3-3 and amassed five RBIs and two walks. Cantu, a Corpus Christi, Texas native, was perfect defensively. Cantu shared the weekly honor with Oklahoma State outfielder Jon Littell. —Nick Castillo
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Students of the World uses film to spark change By Cat Cardenas @crcardenas8
A family caught in the crosshairs of immigration legislation and an Austin musician faced with hunger are just two of the subjects featured in the UT club Students of the World’s projects. Students of the World members meet each spring semester to collaborate and create projects that focus on certain social issues ranging from immigration to education. The club is part of a national chapter based in 15 colleges across the country. With hopes of setting themselves apart, the UT chapter plans to host a documentary film festival at the end of the semester. The festival will showcase members’ creations, in addition to submissions from non-members. This year, the club’s projects focus exclusively on the topic of gender. Hannah Whisenant, radio-television-film junior and president of UT’s chapter, said the creative aspect of the activist club drew her in during her freshman year. Though she was inexperienced with filmmaking, the club gave her the opportunity to create her first films. “I saw that I could create a personal connection between the subjects and viewers,” said Whisenant. “[Making a documentary] showed me that if you can find someone who the facts apply to, it creates a personal connection.” Radio-television-film junior Christian Benavides is the club’s vice president. He said he believes Students of the World’s creative media impacts the viewer through establishing a personal connection.
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The officers of UT’s chapter of Students of the World held their first meeting of the semester Wednesday. The organization is geared toward students producing multimedia content that focuses on various social issues.
“Facts are key, but there are so many issues that are bigger than us,” Benavides said. “So narrowing those issues down and focusing on a family, a kid or a mom who is affected allows people to empathize and understand their side of the story.” Though members chose their own topics in the past, this year the officers decided the group would focus on
gender in today’s society. Psychology sophomore Steve Escamilla said he attended the club’s first meeting of the semester because he was interested in the idea of expressing himself while also engaging with an important topic. “We’re in the middle of a social movement right now,” Escamilla said. “Ideas that have never been challenged before are being challenged.
Institutions are being challenged, [and] it’s forcing us to progress and think about things differently.” For the first time in the group’s history, UT alumni will assist members with their projects. Whisenant believes the mentors, most of whom are former club members, will be able to relate to the students. The mentors, who are now in various creative fields, offer
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member of the club since its beginning at UT and has seen the club grow and change in the three years it’s been on campus. “We want to take big issues and make them more relatable,” Whisenant said. “By making these topics more personal, we can spread awareness. We want to encourage creativity with a social message behind it.”
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Big Sean’s third album fails to deliver, impress By Chris Duncan @chr_dunc
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Watch these if you like ‘House of Cards’ By Alex Pelham @TalkingofPelham
Fans of the scheming politician Frank Underwood will be hunched over laptops Friday for the season premiere of “House of Cards” on Netflix. The series follows a power-hungry U.S. senator, Underwood, and his increasing influence over his subordinates and the entire country. The show has proven to be a smash hit because of its portrayal of the seedy side of politics and the incredible performances by Kevin Spacey and Robin Wright. Until all 13 episodes are officially uploaded, fans will have to get their political thriller fix by streaming these similar shows. House of Cards (U.K.) “House of Cards” is actually a remake of a British political thriller. The two shows have significant similarities,
including themes about control, power and ruthlessness. The protagonist of the original version, Francis Urquhart, is just as cold and manipulating as Spacey’s performance as Frank Underwood. His eloquent British accent makes him all the more chilling. If followers of the American adaptation want to understand the inspiration for Frank Underwood, there has never been a more perfect time to jump aboard. The West Wing The critically acclaimed “The West Wing” offers a cleaner, less cutthroat take on politics. The show follows the fictional presidency of Josiah Bartlet, who must serve his nation and guide it through contemporary issues that America faces — such as partisan struggles, social issues and threats to national security. While the politicians aren’t as devious as those in House of Cards, the show features fleshed
out characters who are enjoyable to watch. Those interested in political drama with a larger emphasis on policy will enjoy this serious, humanizing look at the executive branch. Mad Men While “Mad Men” doesn’t have much to do with Washington or politics in general, it still explores concepts such as hierarchy and power. The series features advertising executive Don Draper, who tries his hardest to climb the corporate ladder and become one of New York’s top ad men. Like “House of Cards,” “Mad Men” focuses on the back-stabbing that occurs in this highly-charged, professional workplace. The series delves into the fractured psyche of its troubled protagonist, who frequently finds himself making amoral decisions in order to get ahead. With the second part of the final season
airing in April, now is the perfect time to catch up. Scandal Although “Scandal” offers a more melodramatic look at political controversy, it explores the president’s secrets and the skeletons in every politician’s closet. While protagonist Olivia Pope is definitely more heroic than Frank Underwood, she still deals with the sordid underworld that exists in any white-collar profession. The show might not be as polished as “House of Cards,” but it serves as a popular substitute to thriller junkies and a guilty pleasure to anyone looking to be involved in business or politics. Fans of “House of Cards” may be captivated by other series’ visions of the dark side of the political process, but none of these shows hold a candle to the menacing Frank Underwood, who will make his return Friday.
Big Sean has had a rough couple of years. If it weren’t for his support from big name rap artists such as JayZ and Kanye West, Big Sean wouldn’t even be releasing a third album like Dark Sky Paradise. Commercially, his records haven’t performed well since 2011, but Big Sean’s recent features have given him the jump start he needed. If Dark Sky Paradise becomes a success, Big Sean could make a comeback from near obscurity. The name of the album, Dark Sky Paradise, reflects the duality of Big Sean’s situation. “Dark Sky” represents the first half of the record, in which Big Sean contemplates his career and how far he still has to go. “Paradise” reflects Big Sean’s pursuit of his own personal nirvana. Big Sean is in a peculiar position. His fame is at just the right level where he can’t be humble, but he still needs to avoid appearing like an overly ambitious up-and-coming rapper. Throughout the album, Big Sean fails to establish a consistent identity. His lyricism has improved drastically since his first album in 2011, but Big Sean throws the album down the drain with horrible deliveries in songs such as “Win Some, Lose Some.” He raps about the classic topic of how fame has changed him and how fame has stretched him so thin — but his lack of inflection and emotion makes it sound as if he’s reading off a teleprompter. Big Sean would be a great poet if he didn’t have to vocalize his own work, but when it comes to rapping and making the listener feel emotion, Big Sean flops. Production quality is where this album shines — but no thanks to Big Sean. “One Man Can Change the
DARK SKY PARADISE Artist: Big Sean Tracks: 12 Rating: 5/10
World,” which pays tribute to Big Sean’s grandmother, avoids being the cliché track the title suggests because of the production work from Amaire Johnson. This high level continues throughout the album. DJ Mustard’s work on “I Don’t Fuck With You” and “Deep” stand out with their fluid beats and great use of drum machines. The production throughout is consistently well done and stands out as some of the best in the business, equal to production on albums by Kanye West, Drake and Jay-Z. In addition to the production work, the features on this album also outshine Big Sean’s own contributions. Drake does a great job on “Blessings,” but Kanye West steals the show with his work on “All Your Fault.” At times, it feels as if Big Sean wants to be Kanye West and adopt his style. Instead, Kanye West nearly swipes this album out of Big Sean’s hands and leaves Big Sean dwarfed by Kanye’s ego and delivery. Mentorship has proven to be an effective tool in rap, but, if Kanye West is supposed to be Big Sean’s mentor, he fails at improving Big Sean’s vocals. This album featured some great verses by Kanye West, Drake and E-40, but nothing on this album made me believe Big Sean is on their level. Big Sean’s delivery and style make liking him a struggle, and, from what I can hear, it’s not worth the effort.