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Urban Outfitters expands store on Drag
UT forms research partnership with Mexico
By Jackie Wang @jclqnwng
Mellow Mushroom and Manju’s are leaving Guadalupe Street because of Urban Outfitters’ upcoming expansion across five neighboring stores. Urban Outfitters bought out the leases of five stores on Guadalupe Street, including Manju’s and Mellow Mushroom. Austin-based BHF Guadalupe LLC, a business service company, owns all of these stores except for Mellow Mushroom, which the Washoe Company of
Luling, Texas, owns. “Starting in March, we will begin a renovation where we will add two restaurants, a larger selling space and some other great features,” said Andy Schmidt, Urban Outfitters store merchandiser. “We hope to be 100 percent complete with the additions by fall.” Chase Bank’s lease did not expire in January, so Urban Outfitters’ expansion will not affect it. Urban Outfitters has bought the lease for its back parking lot, though. Urban Outfitters is currently
applying for a wine and beer retailer’s permit with the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission, according to a sign posted on the abandoned Texadelphia building. The permit would allow the store to sell alcohol on its premises and require it to provide seating for customers. The company plans to expand its retail space and add areas for food and drink. There are no definite design plans as of yet for the expansion, Schmidt said.
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By Vinesh Kovelamudi @thedailytexan
Marshall Tidrick | Daily Texan Staff
Urban Outfitters, Inc. bought out the expired leases of five stores lining Guadalupe Street.
LEGISLATURE
‘Campus carry’ to cost System $39 million By Eleanor Dearman
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The UT System estimates “campus carry,” if passed, would cost UT campuses $39 million in additional security measures, but a UT-Austin fiscal note said the bill would have no significant fiscal impact for the school. According to UT-Austin’s fiscal note, which estimates expenses associated with campus carry, the policy would not cost the University any additional funds. The System gathered the documents and submitted them to the Legislative Budget Board for review. UT-Austin spokesman Gary Susswein said the note operates under the assumption that students would fund any storage costs for guns in residence halls. Susswein said it is early in the
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Graphic by Alex Dolan| Daily Texan Staff
The mystery surrounding the death of one of Argentina’s top officials illustrates the flaws in the Argentine justice system, according to law clinical professor Ariel Dulitzky. Alberto Nisman, the official, was investigating a 1994 terrorist attack on the Jewish Community Center in Buenos Aires that killed 85 people. He died hours before he was scheduled to present evidence accusing current Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner of playing a role in covering up the attack. A majority of the Argentine society has a deep mistrust of the judicial system because of its previous track record, according to Dulitzky, who spoke at the College of Liberal Arts on Wednesday. “Argentina is very deeply polarized,” Dulitzky said. “We cannot understand everything that’s published about Nisman, and we have to take [differing attitudes] into account.” Norberto Zylberberg, a native Argentine and senior vice president at LatinWorks, an Austin-based advertising company, said he was frustrated with the judicial system’s inability to be impartial in the past. “Why do we expect justice [in cases like these] when it is
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UT sabbatical program funds local nonprofits
Bob Ross’ accessible art inspires lecture
By Nashwa Bawab @thedailytexan
Three local nonprofits will have the opportunity to improve their organizations and increase community outreach through funded research because of grants from a UT Humanities Institute program. The Community Sabbatical Research Leave Program awards $5,000 each to three nonprofit organization members in Central Texas every year, giving each recipient a month to research potential solutions for organizational obstacles, according to institute director Pauline Strong. On Monday, the institute awarded the grants to the Literacy Coalition of Central Texas, which works to increase literacy in schools across Central Texas, Texas Folklife, which seeks to preserve traditional Texas culture, and the Telling Project, which tries to help veterans tell their stories
through community performances. One representative from each organization will work with a UT professor to complete the research. The grant program began 10 years ago after nonprofit representatives met with UT officials to explain ways the University could help such organizations succeed, Strong said. “Nonprofits tend to be understaffed and underfunded,” Strong said. “Nonprofits provide their time and expertise to help educate our students [through internships], so we asked what we could do in return, and they said … they really felt that time and research collaboration would really be helpful.” Max Rayneard, senior writer and producer for The Telling Project, said he will use the money from the grant to raise awareness of the work his organization does.
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By Caleb Wong @caleber96
The late Bob Ross, artist and host of the TV show “The Joy of Painting,” made painting accessible to millions of viewers, according to two visiting lecturers. Doug Blandy, art education professor at the University of Oregon, and Kristin Congdon, film and humanities professor at the University of Central Florida, spoke at a lecture in the Art Building on Wednesday about how Ross’s PBS show touched the lives of viewers in more ways than painting. “The most important part of Bob’s work is how he became a master of relational aesthetics,” Congdon said. “Bob Ross brought together all kinds of individuals … across classes and educational backgrounds all over the world.” The television show was therapeutic for many viewers, Blandy said. “People credited him with introducing them to going to art school, and people said he saved their lives,” Blandy said. “He got them through divorces.”
Ross’s commercial success also came from his structured lessons about artwork, according to art education associate professor Christina Bain. “[He] wanted to provide encouragement through his art instruction,” Bain said. “Anyone can pick up a paintbrush, and he was leading them
through very structured lessons and demonstrating, ‘This is how you do it, but you can also make your own alternations.’ He was just trying to motivate people and make them feel that art was accessible.” Ross’ encouraging personality and a carefully stylized public image helped him earn millions of dollars in
the television industry, according to Blandy. “Every aspect of the series was well-thought-out in advance,” Blandy said. “This included the clothes that Bob Ross wore — he wanted to always look current, no matter how many series would
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Xintong Guo | Daily Texan Staff
Doug Blandy, a professor from the University of Oregon, and Kristin Congdon, a professor from the University of Central Florida, lecture on artist Bob Ross on Wednesday evening.
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