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Bill proposes higher minimum wage By Wynne Davis @wynneellyn
Rep. Eddie Lucio Jr. (DBrownsville) filed a bill Thursday to raise minimum wage in Texas from $7.25 per hour to $10.10 per hour. The minimum wage for federal contract workers increased to $10.10 per hour after President Barack Obama passed an executive order in January. Houston Tower, Rep. Lucio’s
legislative director, said Lucio aimed to follow a national trend. “Right now, roughly 75 percent of the public, according to some polls, is in favor of a raise of the minimum wage, and, while that may not say exactly the amount, we’re running off the what the federal government has done, as well as other states,” Tower said. Plan II and economics sophomore Alexander Chase said he works at Which Wich
and earns $7.25 per hour. Any increase in minimum wage would help him cover more of his expenses, Chase said. “I feel like raising the minimum wage to $10.10 … is not only reasonable, but has been needed for some time,” Chase said. “The fact of the matter is that wages have to keep up with rising costs of living.” Chase said he has worked in the food industry for two years, and the minimum wage has not increased during
that time. The money he currently makes does not adequately help him pay his bills, Chase said. “Given [the] costs of living, … any jump up at all is necessary,” Chase said. “$10.10 is not only reasonable, but probably a good starting point for discussion.” The bill is aimed at helping those who continually work hourly jobs, Tower said. “Down in the district, there are quite a few folks that are
just working minimum wage jobs,” Tower said. “There’s all types of hourly jobs, and just putting a raise to the minimum wage would obviously put more money in their pockets, while at the same time … not losing jobs.” A rise in the minimum wage could possibly increase unemployment among lowwage earners if businesses do not find it profitable to hire
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Latino community discusses Fiji decision By Adam Hamze @adamhamz
On Monday, a panel of UT faculty and students discussed the University’s decision not to take punitive action against Texas Fiji after its Feb. 7 party guests said was “border patrol” themed. “I’m not satisfied,” Domino Perez, director of the Center for Mexican American Studies, said. “I want more to be done. I want more to be done so everyone on campus can feel safe, and students don’t have to be the subject of hurtful displays.” The Department of Mexican American and Latino Studies held a forum to discuss the University’s decision to not punish the fraternity. The fraternity’s party was intended to have a “Western” theme, according to Fiji president Andrew Campbell. Many attendees wore sombreros, ponchos and
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Maria Villalpando speaks at a panel held by the Department of Mexican American and Latino Studies on Monday. The panel focused on the party guest said was “Border Patrol” themed that Texas Fiji held Feb. 7.
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Bill to permit service based on ‘religious convictions’ By Eleanor Dearman @ellydearman
Rep. Molly White (RBelton) filed a bill that, if passed, would allow private business owners to refuse business to people based on the owner’s religion or on “conscientious grounds.” HB 2553, filed Friday, would edit the State Business and Commerce code and prevent private business owners from being compelled to provide goods and services that are “in violation of that business owner’s sincerely held religious or personal beliefs.” It would also remove owner liability for refusing goods or service based on these same grounds. White said the bill was a response to cases across the nation in which private business owners were sued after refusing to serve customers, citing a 2007 New Mexico case and 2013 Oregon case. In 2013, the owner of an Oregon cake shop refused to bake a wedding cake for a same-sex couple and was fined for her actions. In another case, a New Mexico photographer refused to take commitment ceremony photos for samesex couple Vanessa Willock and Misti Collinsworth in 2007. New Mexico ruled the case as discriminatory. “Certain small business owners, private business owners, are being sued for
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US News: UT education Sorority aims for LGBT, queer inclusivity grad program in top 10 By Zainab Calcuttawala
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The College of Education is ranked among the top 10 graduate schools of education in the nation for 2016 because of its increased focus on research, according to a University official. U.S. News and World Report released the schools ranked within the top 10 graduate schools last week, but they plan to
post exact ranking on the website Tuesday. UT is one of only three public institutions among the schools listed on the U.S. News ranking. Last year, the University’s College of Education ranked 10th overall and fourth among public schools. This year, it is expected the University will rank tenth overall again and move up to third place
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The graduate school of education ranks among the highest ranked public schools in the country, according to a new survey by U.S. News & World Report.
Audrey Ferguson, left, and art history and English senior Lauren Ferguson are vice president and president of Gamma Rho Lambda. This new sorority aims to create an open and educated environment for the LGBT community.
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UT students established a campus colony of the national sorority Gamma Rho Lambda this semester — the first queer-focused and transsexual-inclusive women’s Greek society at the University, according to the organization’s leadership. The sorority aims to combat issues regarding the status of queer women in mainstream society and within the LGBT community, Lauren Ferguson, president of the colony and art history and English senior, said. As part of the three-semester colonization process, the organization’s leaders recruited nine members this semester for the Alpha class and will start taking pledges in the fall. Founding members hope the colony will create a space to improve the quality of dialogue between the LGBT community and social conservatives, according to neuroscience and psychology senior Shelby Dax Fisher-Garibay, the soror-
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ity’s new member mother — a type of recruitment leader. ”I think the biggest thing we can do is education,” Fisher-Garibay said. “If we are educated about what the [conservative] opinions are and the best responses to those arguments, then, hopefully, we can bring a more educational dialogue to the table instead of just hateful banter back and forth.” The colony will also tackle issues of transphobia within the queer community, an occurrence which leads to
the exclusion of transsexuals in spaces that ought to be trans-inclusive, Ferguson, who is also a columnist for The Daily Texan, said. “There are a lot of really awesome women’s or LGBT organizations [on campus], but they are either really specifically for, say, LGBT women of color or they are non-trans-inclusive,” Ferguson said. “One of the tenants of [Gamma Rho Lambda] is that no one is excluded, and the only requirement is that you identify as a woman. A lot of the feminism move-
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ment and the LGBT community does not want to include trans-women into the queer spectrum because there is a lot of transphobia within [those communities] as well.” One of the reasons that LGBT-specific Greek organizations exist is because queer individuals have traditionally been rejected from larger Greek organizations, Leo Rodriguez, president of the University’s first LGBT fraternity, Delta
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more workers at a higher wage, according to economics professor Matthias Kehrig. “My understanding is that this is a state-wide wage, and such a uniform measure is rarely appropriate,” Kehrig said. “$10.10 might be an appropriate minimum wage in places like Austin, but too high for small towns [and] rural areas. So workers in rural areas that have few job prospects already will most likely suffer.” Tower said Lucio expects resistance but plans to work with stakeholders on both sides to reach a solution. “If you look at the national debate on [minimum wage], you can probably see quite a bit of how it’s going to play out,” Tower said. “There will be some resistance, and we understand that, and that’s to be expected. However, something like this is an issue that’s going to help the middle-tolower class, lower income folks, and that’s really who he’s trying to help out.”
refusing service to people who violate their conscientious beliefs, their religious beliefs,” White said. “We just want to put some protective measures here in our great state of Texas — giving private business owners religious liberties without fear.” Rev. Michael Diaz from Resurrection Metropolitan Community Church said he believes the bill will undermine non-discrimination ordinances in Texas cities. Currently there are non-discrimination ordinances in Dallas, Austin, Fort Worth, Plano, Houston and San Antonio. He said he is worried the bill’s vagueness will lend itself to discrimination of the LGBT community, single moms and ethic, racial and religious minorities, among other groups. “It is troubling when we go back to the idea that the reason why we
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discriminate is because of religious freedom,” Diaz said. “If you want to discriminate, just call it discrimination. Don’t call it religious freedom.” White said private business owners could refuse to provide services to those carrying concealed handguns, those who smoke in a business, or those who violate beliefs, such as those exemplified in the New Mexico and Oregon cases. “Every individual has rights and liberties to serve whom they want to based on religious convictions,” White said. “That’s pretty much just trying to reinforce my belief system on that.” White’s bill will encourage discrimination of LGBT community, according to Rogelio Meza, biology senior and Queer Students Alliance co-director. “The LGBT community will be greatly affected by this because, not only do we go through discrimination on a daily basis, but this
bill is basically encouraging Texas to say, ‘Hey, discriminate, because we’re not going to do anything to you,’” Meza said. White is no stranger to controversy this legislative session. White drew criticism for a Facebook status she posted Jan. 29 during Texas Muslim Capitol Day, an annual event hosted by the Texas chapter of the Council on AmericanIslamic Relations for Muslims to voice their legislative priorities and advocate for religious tolerance. In the status, White asked Muslim visitors to publicly pledge allegiance to the United States. Representative Eddie Rodriguez (D-Austin) said he believes this bill does not reflect Texas as a whole. “This bill comes from the same freshman state representative who made national headlines during Muslim Day at the Capitol,” Rodriguez said in an email. “This type of legislation is hateful and does not reflect Texas values.”
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State population growth to not affect university By Jackie Wang @jcqlnwng
UT’s student population will not increase at the same rate as Texas’ projected 2050 population growth, according to University officials. Last week, the Office of the State Demographer released a report that included population numbers and migration rates for Texas’ population in 2015. The report predicted that by 2050, Texas’ population will double to a total of 54.4 million residents because of people moving to Texas from around the country. “Beginning in 2005, Texas has experienced the largest annual population growth of any state,” state demographer Lloyd Potter said in the report that was released Thursday. “This momentous growth in Texas population is due to natural increase and net migration.” While the increase reported in the study would double the population size of Texas, the University’s numbers would be unaffected, UT spokesperson Gary Susswein said. “The University would have to make a decision about how large the student body should be,” Susswein said.
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continues from page 1 Lambda Phi, said. “Gay men trying to join predominantly straight fraternities were not accepted, and oftentimes, it was just because they were gay, so there was discrimination,” Rodriguez said. “Even among men who were progressive, it just felt uncomfortable.” Representatives from the University Panhellenic Council and the Interfraternity Council were contacted for comment multiple times but did not respond.
“Right now, the campus is designed for approximately the number of students we have.” The size of the University comes from a calculated decision made by University leaders, according to Susswein. “For some time, we’ve been a university of about 50,000, and under the Board of Regents, we are increasing enrollment in some areas,” Susswein said. “But [student population] is a top area for UT leadership to look at. It is an active topic of conversation as the state continues to grow, but for now, UT is appropriately sized.” The University would not have the capability to handle more students with its current amount of funding, Student Government president Kori Rady said. “As you probably know, we are struggling with the budget as it is in serving all students adequately,” Rady said. “In a perfect world, we would keep the number at the current level and have more funding. [Since] the constitution says [the University] is to serve the state, I can see potential growth.” Although the University has no predictions for changes in number of admissions in
the future, Susswein said the already-competitive process may become even more intense with population growth. “We used to be able to admit all of the top 10 percent [students], and now we’re admitting [different percentages of students] depending on the year,” Susswein said. “It reflects the fact that UT is competitive, and UT is growing in population.” Biochemistry sophomore Anthony Yuan said the state’s increasing population could make it more difficult for high school students to be accepted to the University, according to Yuan. “That’s probably what they’d do, decrease the top percentage,” Yuan said. “I could see if the population of Texas grows, UT might become even more competitive.” The population increase would push legislature to look at the higher education system differently as a whole, Susswein said.
Fisher-Gariby said the colony anonymously received hate mail during the early period of its formation, even though the University community has mostly welcomed the sorority. “We are not getting approached on the street or anything like that, but there definitely has been some resentment expressed,” Fisher-Garibay said. “When Lauren Ferguson was attempting to find interest [for] the group, some people had responded to the email on the flyer with hate mail about why this organization should not exist.”
Society often stereotypes Greek organizations and the LGBT community, so the sorority will help improve the image of both parties, according to Maggie Rake, new member educator and Middle Eastern languages and cultures senior. “Having a sorority that is welcoming to queer women is really valuable, especially because so much of Greek life is stereotyped,” Rake said. “As both queer people and Greek people, we will be able to break those stereotypes because there is such a wide range of students who identify as queer.”
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“As the state grows, our legislators have to look at the whole ecosystem of our higher education system,” Susswein said. “[They need to] look at the entire higher education ecosystem: how many universities the state should have, community colleges, the roles of different colleges and universities. That’s really a policy decision driven by state leadership.”
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continues from page 1 among public schools, according to senior associate dean Marilyn Kameen. Research is highly prioritized by both the college and U.S. News and World Report officials, according to Natasha Beretvas, associate dean for research and graduate studies. “The more money we are spending on research, the higher the ranking,” Beretvas said. “The total research expenditures makes up 15 percent [of the ranking], but then the research expenditures per faculty member are also 15 percent, so it’s, like, double-dipped.” The College of Education’s research expenditures have increased almost $10 million from last year, according to Kameen.
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“We’re number two in the country in research expenditures for the college,” Kameen said. Over the past year, the college has focused its research on a variety of areas, including educational psychology, teacher retention rates and racial identity in the classroom. For Patrick Vincent, educational psychology graduate student, the education college’s research influenced his decision to attend UT for graduate school. Many other schools lack research opportunities, which makes UT’s College of Education stand apart, according to Vincent. “Some of the programs that I interviewed at … didn’t seem like they were at the front of all the research and understanding where the field was head-
ed,” Vincent said. “It’s more about just creating people to go out into the workforce. Research is actually being conducted [extensively] in this department.” The main difference in ranking between public and private institutions is based on the availability of funding, Kameen said. Private schools are wealthier because of endowments, whereas public schools such as UT rely on grants and state funds, she said. “It’s important to emphasize the distinction between a ranking among all public and private [universities] and then what our ranking is among public universities since they’re so different,” Kameen said. “We really compare ourselves to the public universities because that’s our peer group.”
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Professor praises Israeli poet’s influence on Hebrew literature By Vinesh Kovelamudi riences as a blind man to @thedailytexan
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Zach Dell, left, and Nick Spiller discuss startups with students on a Monday night for UT Entrepreneurship Week.
Founders of local tech startups speak at Entrepreneurship Week By Rund Khayyat @rundkhayyat
The most important part of creating a startup is avoiding fear of failure, according to two panelists who founded their own companies. Zach Dell, founder of the dating app “Thread,” and Bob LiVolsi, founder of the e-book retailer “BooksOnBoard,” spoke as part of UT Entrepreneurship Week — a series of lectures designed to encourage students to develop their own businesses — about the challenges of building startups. Students have an advantage when launching a startup company in Austin because of the resources the city provides, Dell, who is a high school student entrepreneur, said. “Typically, it’s pretty hard to get in touch with top people in your city, but in Austin, it’s fairly easy to get
meetings with influential business people,” Dell said. “People here have a willingness to help people — you just have to have a willingness to meet everybody.” Psychology senior Jason Brown, who pitched his startup “Carenexions” at the event, said he discovered a strong support network at UT when he found a board of advisors to help him develop his business. “Honestly, just not being afraid to share your idea and put yourself out there really helped,” Brown said. There is a surplus of business ideas in Austin, but the biggest factor that goes into selecting the right idea is positive feedback from customers about a product, according to LiVolsi. “Validate, validate and revalidate,” LiVolsi said. “You have to keep going back on yourself as you are working through your business model and revalidat-
ing. The challenge is doing it as quickly as possible.” It is tough building a startup without proper financial support, Dell said, and customer validation is an important tool in gaining investors. “When you have an idea, quickly build it a website, and send it out there,” Dell said, “If enough people sign up for a wait-list to get the product, you won’t struggle to get funding.” Failure is a key part of the process of reaching success, according to LiVolsi. “Failure is not something that you want to have happen, but it happens, and it’s part of your growth.” LiVolsi said. “You gotta keep going, and you gotta plow through.” Many entrepreneurs will face failure in their careers, but it is not embarrassing to fail, Dell said — it is embarrassing to have an idea and not attempt to launch it.
Erez Biton used his literary talents to invent a type of language through poetry that had been previously non-existent in Israeli society, according to a visiting Israeli professor from New York. Prior to Biton’s poetry, Hebrew literature primarily dealt with the motives of Jewish life in Europe, according to Sami Shalom Chetrit, a renowned Moroccan-Israeli poet and professor, who spoke Monday at the Avaya auditorium. “[Biton] writes about this singer in the court of the king of Morocco, [which] was new and never done before,” Chetrit said. “The essence of his poetry is that he was searching.” One of the most inspiring aspects of Biton’s story, according to Cherit, was his ability to use his expe-
approach poetry in his own way. Briton became blind at a young age when he lost his sight in an accident with a hand grenade. “We went walking around. And that’s when we found that bomb, that hand grenade,” Biton said. “I was so convinced that it was a treasure that I wanted to open it myself. I took it one hand and hit it with a hammer, and it exploded.” In a documentary produced by Chetrit about the poet’s life, Biton said his disability allowed him to relate to other individuals in unfortunate circumstances. This contributed to his active role with the Israeli Black Panthers, a prominent socialist organization in the 1970s. “[When] all the panthers were enlisted into the war, I found myself completely alone,” Biton said in the
documentary. “That’s when I started producing poetry.” Biton spent a period of his life in Morocco and was motivated by the societal injustices he saw to create revolutionary poetry. Chetrit said he created the documentary in order to spread Biton’s story to those who hadn’t heard it. Middle Eastern Studies lecturer Lior Sternfeld’s said Chetrit inspired him. “A while ago, Chetrit was the person that, for my generation, revealed another Israeli society,” Sternfeld said. The descriptive imagery found in Biton’s poetry allows the art to transcend language barriers and be consumed by people of all backgrounds, according to Chetrit. “It’s a unique way to describe the world in so many colors, sounds and images,” Cherit said. “He sees so many things much better than us.” Sami Shalom Chetrit, associate professor at Queens College, discusses his experiences filming a documentary on renowned Israeli poet Erez Bitton in the Peter O’Ddonnel Jr. Building on Monday evening.
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EDITORIAL
New Jefferson Davis statue removal legislation offers hope In 2010, at the request of President William Powers Jr., the UT System Board of Regents voted to rename a residence hall honoring William Simkins. Although a longtime School of Law faculty member, the regents rightly found that his good on campus was outweighed by his associations with both the Confederacy during the Civil War and the Ku Klux Klan thereafter. Simkins, at the very least, had ties to the UT community. Jefferson Davis, the Confederate president, did not. Yet there is still a large and grand statue on campus honoring Davis. Accordingly, Xavier Rotnofsky and Rohit Mandalapu, candidates for Student Government president and
vice president, respectively, recently filed legislation in the SG Assembly to remove the statue. Tellingly, Braydon Jones, the other Student Government presidential candidate in this week’s runoff election and also the speaker of the Assembly, has co-sponsored this resolution. Thus, we can say with some certainty that the next president will support the toppling of this celebration of a harmful past. Davis and other Confederate leaders betrayed this country by attempting to secede and fighting an armed insurrection to that effect. Though revisionist references to their justification point to states’ rights, the major reason for the
conflict was the continuation of slavery. Or rather, to be generous to the states’ rights camp, the states’ right to enslave human beings. When the statue of Davis was erected in the early part of the 20th century, Jim Crow still reigned supreme in Texas, and few at this University stopped to consider the offensiveness of such actions to African-Americans and other minorities. (The campus was not yet integrated.) Sadly, many will complain that the removal of the statue would somehow censor the past or revise history, when nothing could be further from the truth. Tributes to Davis and other prominent Confederates were only launched at the height of
Jim Crow in an effort to whitewash the atrocities of antebellum Dixie. Removing the statue would not cause students and others to not learn about Davis; rather, it would allow them to learn about him the right way, critically and in a classroom. (This campus has plenty of those.) There are countless other wrongs on this front that the University should right sooner rather than later, including a number of other offensive statues. But the tribute to Davis is the very worst and should be dealt with most immediately. Thankfully, there is now good reason to believe that someone, either a President Jones or a President Rotnofsky, will try to do something about it.
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As we look for new leaders, reflect on the meaning of good leadership By Jeremi Suri
Daily Texan Columnist @JeremiSuri
We have entered a leadership selection season on steroids. Everywhere one looks, longtime leaders are preparing to move on and open space for successors. One can see this in Washington as well as in Austin, in our politics, our businesses and our universities. Leadership transitions are the lifeblood of democracy and innovation. Effective representation of a dynamic citizen body requires periodic change in leaders, placing new figures in positions to embody the hopes and needs of new times. Innovation in governance requires fresh ideas and actions that shake up inherited assumptions while remaining true to fundamental sources of stability and achievement. Effective leadership transitions are, therefore, dynamic and challenging, but not revolutionary. A truly transformational leader builds on the past to push in new directions that reflect changes around society and opportunities for the future. At a world-class university, we are committed to training transformational leaders. That is why we are here. We are also devoted to educating citizens about how to identify and work with important lead-
Innovation in governance requires fresh ideas and actions that shake up inherited assumptions while remaining true to fundamental sources of stability and achievement.
ers. All leaders are also followers of other leaders. For our society to prosper, we must have a clear understanding of what it means to be a good leader and to be led by a good leader. Our elections should be an extended discussion of these core issues rather than the glib ideological debates that dominate our attention and have little relationship to leadership at all. The best essay on leadership remains Max Weber’s lecture on “politics as a vocation,” delivered to an audience of German students in 1919, months after the end of the First World War and the spread of revolutionary violence in Europe. Weber argued that leadership involves two parallel forms of thinking: the “ethic of ultimate ends” and the “ethic of responsibility.” Ultimate ends are the hopes, goals and visions that all leaders must have. They are the dreams of a better world that motivate people to try new things, to make sacrifices, to believe in a cause. Responsibility, for Weber, is the attention a leader gives to the various moral and human costs of action, the numerous reactions and the possible alternatives. If ultimate ends motivate an ambitious leader to steam ahead, responsibility inspires second thoughts and efforts to help those who are left behind. Weber is clear that we cannot have responsibility without ultimate ends or vice versa. A leader must lead somewhere, and he or she cannot allow herself to be debilitated by doubts and regrets about necessary costs. At the same time, the ends do not justify the means — a good leader must interrogate costs for various groups in his or her society and think deeply about how to help everyone, including those who do not benefit from a compelling and popular vision. Leadership has a steadfast purpose and it helps humans along; it does not trample over them because they are weak or different. Everyone in a large society will never agree, but a leader must try to lead everyone, not just his or her favorites and supporters.
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Weber closed his essay with some moving words: “Politics is a strong and slow boring of hard boards. It takes both passion and perspective. Certainly all historical experience confirms the truth — that man would not have attained the possible unless time and again he had reached out for the impossible. But to do that a man must be a leader, and not only a leader but a hero as well, in a very sober sense of the word. And even those who are neither leaders nor heroes must arm themselves with that steadfastness of heart which can brave even the crumbling of all hopes.” As we choose leaders, and make ourselves into new leaders, we should all think long and hard about ultimate ends and responsibility. Our society seems stuck and divided, and we need a vision to motivate ourselves to do better — in our universities, in our cities, in our nation and in the world as a whole. Our society also seems remarkably callous about the deepening
inequalities and injustices all around us. We rarely address the costs of our lifestyles and the barriers for those, near and far, who cannot touch what we have. Our ultimate ends at the University should be big and ambitious, and our actions in pursuit of those ends should be responsible to citizens of various backgrounds and experiences. This is a very difficult agenda, and it requires many compromises, adaptations and sacrifices. Most of all, it requires leadership that will inspire us to be bold and simultaneously hold us accountable to our responsibilities. That is the overall ethic of leadership — what Weber described as a life-long calling. Leadership does not come easily, and it is not a popularity context. It is a disciplined, humbling and ever-evolving effort to make big improvements for a diverse community. Suri is a professor in the LBJ School of Public Affairs and the Department of History.
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UT administration should give Student Government more power By Jordan Shenhar Senior Columnist @jshenhar
Last week, I discussed how a RotnofskyMandalapu victory in this week’s runoff election for Student Government president and vice president can help UT students reclaim Student Government as a representative institution. But electing an inclusive ticket can only go so far in providing the student body with a say in its own governance. The other part of the equation requires UT’s administration to actually give such a ticket the power to make a difference. Unless that happens, Student Government will likely continue to play a very limited role in governing students, no matter who wins this week’s election. Part of the reason relatively little real
...electing an inclusive ticket can only go so far in providing the student body with a say in its own governance.
change comes out of the Assembly is that UT doesn’t give Student Government a lot of authority. It can pass nonbinding resolutions whose decrees administrators and politicians are free to ignore. It has some voice in managing the Co-op’s profits, and it can distribute funds from the student services budget among student groups and small endowments. That’s about it. The concept of a powerless student assembly has a long history at UT. When The Daily Texan cartoon Hank the Hallucination was elected SG president in 1982, his campaign manager described him as “the perfect candidate for the illusion of student government.” A similar theme has propelled recent Texas Travesty campaigns (excluding this year’s ticket). If the president of the student body can’t do anything productive, the argument goes, does it matter if he or she doesn’t even try? It should. While UT is hardly unique among its peer institutions — aside from the experimental Deep Springs College in rural California, no well-regarded school gives its students much of a say in governing their own affairs — giving students some form of limited authority would provide myriad benefits to the University. Because the student body has a compelling self-interest in maintaining both UT’s livability and its prestige, its voice on such matters as transportation and curricular development matters just as much as its voice on student services. It also carries the sort of expertise currently missing from discus-
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sions in those arenas — that which comes directly from personal experience. Any proposal concerning how to design a more impactful environmental campaign or how to integrate technology into classrooms can only be improved by student input. The Texas Legislature is beginning to reach that exact conclusion, proposing a bill that would require SG to approve any student nominee to the Board of Regents. A stronger Student Government could also help UT promote a more positive path for American politics as a whole. As it stands, SG’s total lack of authority sends a terrible message to the aspiring politicians who typically occupy its highest offices. Young leaders should be empowered to find solutions to challenging problems. Instead, SG officials receive an introduction to navigating bureaucracy and playing politics. That’s a surefire path toward incubating young leaders in the mold of the virtually useless “Parks and Recreation” staff — or worse, the manipulative sadists in “House of Cards” — instead of the productive idealists of “The West Wing” or “Dave.” Deep Springs, for its part, credits a high degree of student autonomy as a major contributor to its alumni’s success — and if no other element of this argument appeals to the University, the prospect of happy and successful alumni should at least catch the attention of the Development, or fundraising, office. Because student affairs comprise such a small part of the UT enterprise, giving
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Student Government more autonomy over those affairs wouldn’t constitute a very radical change. As it is, a lot of the University’s affairs are governed by the state Legislature, leading even UT system administrators to complain over their own lack of autonomy. And among the issues that the University does control, there’s no reason to inject student input into issues that only tangentially relate to students, like negotiations with University employees or the management of the University of Texas Investment Management Company. But there is no reason to shut students out of decisions concerning campus affairs. Anyone who lives, works and/or studies on campus should help decide which statues are worth maintaining — whether they represent mangled canoes or Jefferson Davis — or when dining halls should open or when to close school for Thanksgiving break. For those kinds of issues, no matter how trivial or how serious, student autonomy is both a just promotion of democracy and a great path toward engendering trust and cohesion between students and administrators. UT tells its freshmen each fall that “what starts here changes the world.” If it wants to live up to its lofty slogan, it should start by allowing what starts here to at least effect change on the 40 Acres. Shenhar is a Plan II, government and economics sophomore from Westport, Connecticut. He writes about campus and education issues.
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Arcade Fire’s Will Butler releases debut solo album By Chris Duncan @chr_dunc
Arcade Fire has sold millions of records, won a couple of Grammys and toured around the world. Their fame is undeniable, yet Will Butler, the band’s jack-of-all-trades who rotates from keyboard to bass to percussion, has stayed mostly anonymous. Most fans recognize him as the guy spasming around the stage as if he were hopped up on ecstasy, shouting and beating on drums. You’d expect his debut solo album, Policy, to be just like his chaotic performance style. Upon a first listen, Policy might feel quick and hectic. Lasting only 28 minutes with only eight tracks, the record is still difficult to get through because of its chaotic mixture of genres. In terms of style, Butler is characteristically all over the map, making for an interesting listen. He starts out with chord-heavy rock but finds himself on different ends of
the spectrum with ballads and sing-a-long pop choruses. Classifying the album is nearly impossible, so the catch-all “indie” is the most appropriate label. The most impressive and surprising part of Policy is Butler’s songwriting. Butler’s brother and frontman of Arcade Fire, Win Butler, and his wife Régine Chassagne get most of the creative credit for Arcade Fire’s music from the media, but Butler contributes heavily to both Arcade Fire’s albums and beyond. The Academy nominated Butler along with composer Owen Pallet for an Oscar for their work on the score of Spike Jonze’s “Her.” Butler’s previous works led me to expect the songs on Policy would sound similar to those of Arcade Fire. About ten seconds in, it’s obvious that’s not true. “Take My Side” is a raw, guitar-heavy song that opens with a simple two-chord riff. Butler executes a garage-rock feel that might not be as extreme as The White Stripes
CHOCOLATE continues from page 8 she remembered when Sarangaya used molasses to make caramels because it was the only organic ingredient she could get her hands on. “They were unlike anything I have ever had,” Nguyen said. “Larissa is insanely creative and can adapt to any situation. She is efficient and inventive in her use of materials, [and] she makes do with what she is able to get.” James Nakayama, executive chef at Northwest Forest Conference Center where Sarangaya worked, said in an email that her strengths overshadow the challenges she comes across. “[Larissa] is passionate about food in general and chocolate in particular,”
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or The Sonics, but it’s far from the style of Arcade Fire. If Butler had recorded a garage rock record, the album would have been fairly straight-forward, but Butler steers away from that style with “Anna,” an electronic pop 80s-throwback song. The song’s quirky vocals, synth line and touches of saxophone make it the artistic highlight of the album. The piano ballad “Finish What I Started” and the catchy “Son of God” are equally as memorable. Up to this point, every track feels fresh. Butler falls prey to his own
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Grammy and Oscar nominated Arcade Fire band member Will Butler released his debut solo album Policy on Tuesday. The eight-track album is an attempt to separate his sound from Arcade Fire’s.
game, though, with the second half of the album offering repeat efforts at the styles from the first half, often with shaky results. “What I Want” rocks nowhere close to “Take My Side,” and “Something’s
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DALLAS — After a long, injury-prone season, the Longhorns returned to Austin just shy of a Big 12 title. For the first time since 2004, Texas advanced to the Big 12 Championships finals, defeating Oklahoma and TCU along the way, but the Longhorns fell to Baylor, 75–64, Monday night at the American Airlines Center. “First of all, I just want to say how proud I am of our basketball team,” head coach Karen Aston said. “I’m very, very proud, but I’m disappointed we didn’t play better tonight.” No. 1-seeded Baylor started with a six-point lead on No. 6-seeded Texas, but the Longhorns soon got on the board. They traded 6–0 runs to start things off before the Bears pulled away. Several key drives and three pointers from Junior guards Celina Rodrigo and Brady Sanders kept Texas in play in the first 20 minutes, and the Longhorns went into halftime behind , 40–35. But two minutes into the second half, Baylor increased its halftime lead to nine ahead of Texas, who was the preseason favorite to win the conference title. But with the help of Baylor’s Nina Davis and Imani
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Junior center Imani McGee-Stafford throws up a shot in Texas’ 75–64 loss to Baylor in the Big 12 Championship game. McGee-Stafford scored 15 points and had 10 rebounds against the Bears.
Wright, who each had 14 points halfway through the second half, the Bears’ lead grew to 18 after a four-minute Texas scoring drought. Baylor eventually went on to claim its fifth consecutive — and seventh overall — Big 12 title. “Baylor was more efficient
tonight in every area,” Aston said. “When they’re shooting pretty well, it’s hard to beat them.” Junior center Imani McGee-Stafford led the Longhorns in scoring, putting 15 on the board and grabbing 10 rebounds. Junior guard Empress Davenport was the
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TCU seals winning West Coast weekend By Jacob Martella @ViewFromTheBox
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Longhorns look to tune up offense before Big 12 play @Nick_Castillo74
No. 16 Texas (10–6) returns home after splitting a four-game series against Stanford in Palo Alto, California, to face the Incarnate Word Cardinals (7–9). The Longhorns have dropped four of their last six games after starting the season 7–2, deafeating No. 11 Rice twice and sweeping a four-game set against Minnesota. Despite struggling over the past week, head coach Augie Garrido said the losses were a learning experience for the team. “The value [of losing] is if we would’ve won those games, we wouldn’t have taken apart every detail like we did and got back to work on those details,” Garrido said. “Winning kind of sweeps dirt under the carpet, but when you lose, you really start to pay attention.” During its first five home games, the Longhorns scored 45 runs on 67 hits and only allowed four runs. The offense came to a halt, however, as Texas only scored 7 runs in its last three home games, but its confidence remains high despite its struggles. “Everybody has confidence in one through nine
the NCAA Tournament which begins on March 20, ahead of them. Texas will find out what position they are seeded on March 16. “I think we’re all pretty confident [on going into NCAA],” said Rodrigo. “We’re going to build on this.”
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After struggling offensively, the Longhorns found a spark against Stanford. Texas hopes its offense ignites against the Cardinals in its final game before Big 12 play.
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only other Longhorn to score in the double digits with 13. “I haven’t beaten Baylor yet,” McGee-Stafford said. “At the end of the day, they put more points up. This game was frustrating because obviously we wanted a championship.” The Longhorns still has
that they’re going to go up there and do their job, which is all you can ask at the end of the day,” senior right fielder Collin Shaw said. “Every at-bat matters. Every pitch matters in college baseball, and that’s kind of the fun in college baseball.” And the team’s confidence showed in Sunday’s game against Stanford. The Longhorns displayed their offensive potential as they scored 12 runs on 15 hits. The Longhorns hope their offensive explosion will carry over to their game versus Incarnate Word. Garrido said since the offensive drop-off at home, Texas has slowly improved. “We really improved in every game we played [at Stanford],” Garrido said. “The toughest game was the first one. … We were uncharacteristically impatient and swinging at bad pitches, but we got it straightened out and ended the series in the right way.” Texas will also try to keep up its pitching performance. The Longhorns have seen good performances from their starting pitchers — senior Parker French, junior Chad Hollingsworth, sophomore Josh Sawyer and sophomore Kacy Clemens. Texas also has a deep
Everybody has confidence in one through nine that they’re going to go up there and do their job, which is all you can ask at the end of the day. —Collin Shaw, Senior right fielder
bullpen. The Longhorns are hoping to find the right balance between its pitching and batting as Big 12 conference play quickly approaches. Texas’ game against the Cardinals will be the final game before they begin conference play. Senior second baseman Brooks Marlow said he and the team hope that their performance in practice translates into their upcoming games. “We’ve been practicing all fall and early spring, and this is kind of the outcome we’ve had during practices — hitting the ball hard and pitching very well,” Marlow said. “We’re just bringing it to the ballpark every day.” First pitch against Incarnate Word is scheduled for 6:00 p.m. The game will air on the Longhorn Network.
With the game tied at one in the top of the sixth, TCU senior infielder Keaton Jones drilled a double to left-center field to score two runs and lift the No. 3 Horned Frogs to a 4-2 win over the defending champion Vanderbilt Commodores. The win sealed a winning West Coast swing over the weekend for TCU, who’s considered a strong contender to get back to Omaha this year. The Horned Frogs dropped their opening game at No. 23 USC on Friday night when the Trojans walked off with a suicide squeeze bunt to win 7-6 in 12 innings. TCU rebounded Saturday with a 3-1 win over No. 6 UCLA, thanks in large part to junior starting pitcher Alex Young, who allowed one run and three hits in eight innings while striking out nine batters. The Horned Frogs open up conference play this weekend at home against Baylor. Young named Big 12 Pitcher of the Week After posting wins over No. 10 Rice and No. 4 UCLA, TCU junior starting pitcher Alex Young was named the Big 12 Pitcher of the Week on Monday. Young had a career night Saturday, striking out nine batters in eight innings. Earlier in the week, Young pitched two innings in relief against Rice, striking out three without giving up a hit. Oklahoma sophomore shortstop Sheldon Neuse was named the conference’s player of the week after hitting three home runs and two doubles, stealing two bases
and posting 10 RBIs, as the Sooners went 3-1 last week. Kansas State junior catcher Tyler Moore earned newcomer of the week after, driving in eight RBI and hitting a home run in the Wildcats sweep of Santa Clara. Big 12 teams drop in NCBWA rankings After starting strong in the rankings, a number of Big 12 teams fell in the latest National College Baseball Writers Association poll released Monday. While conference frontrunner TCU held steady in the second spot, Texas, Texas Tech and Oklahoma State each slipped. After splitting its weekend series at Stanford, Texas dropped three spots to No. 16. Texas Tech moved from seventh to 13th after a sweep at Cal State Fullerton. Oklahoma State fell from 17th to 24th after losing 2-out-of-3 at home against Illinois. Tech’s head coach tabbed for hall of fame Long-time Texas Tech head coach Larry Hays will be the first Red Raider to be inducted into the National College Baseball Hall of Fame this year, the organization announced last week. Hays spent 22 years in Lubbock, leading the Red Raiders to nine NCAA tournament appearances and four conference titles. During his tenure, he posted an 813-479-3 record. Hays, who began his coaching career at Lubbock Christian University, is one of eight head coaches in college baseball to post 1,500 wins, a list that also includes Texas head coach Auggie Garrido. The 2015 hall of fame class will be inducted on June 28-29.
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SPORTS BRIEFLY Football season tickets see price increase
Texas Athletics announced an average increase of six percent for football season tickets because of rising costs within the athletic department. “At Texas, we are committed to providing the best game-day atmosphere while remaining economically accessible to our fans,” men’s athletics director Steve Patterson said. “We are facing a new day for intercollegiate athletics, and our cost of business is rising. To remain competitive across all areas and compete for championships, we must invest in our student-athletes and facilities.” Additionally, the athletic department restructured its game-day parking system. Anyone who donates a minimum of $50 to the Longhorn Foundation can purchase parking. Texas Athletics has also created a Loyalty Points system, which determines priority for season ticket upgrades, AT&T Red River Showdown tickets, postseason game tickets and other high-demand events, as well as parking. Points are totaled based on full season ticket history, seat-related contributions and philanthropic gifts. “Loyalty Points is a transparent system that adds value to all season ticket and Longhorn Foundation members,” Patterson said. “It also rewards those who make a lifetime commitment to Texas Athletics and our student-athletes through philanthropic contributions, which are vital to the future success of our programs.” All of these changes will go into effect for the 2015 football season. —Nick Castillo
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JamFeed app provides latest music-related news By Katie Keenan @KeenanArroyo
Your favorite artist tweets a little tidbit about a highly anticipated album or single. Your heart starts beating rapidly as you scramble to find any information about this potentially life-changing musical masterpiece. All of a sudden, your newsfeed swallows up the precious tweet, never to be seen again. That’s where JamFeed comes in. JamFeed is a 6-month-old free music app created by two brothers, Cameron and Tyler Gibson. With the help of UT students, the Gibsons developed the app, which places all musicrelated news onto one convenient platform. JamFeed operates much like Team Stream, an app that notifies its users about the current status of their favorite sports teams. In JamFeed’s case, the app notifies users about album releases, concerts, tour dates and events. The Gibson brothers created the app when they realized how cumbersome it was to find current information about artists or bands they listened to. Updates on newly released singles or last-minute concerts were quickly lost in their Twitter and Facebook newsfeeds, making it difficult to keep up with the latest music news. The app has nearly 3,000 users and is the official app for Euphoria Music and Camping Festival, an annual, outdoor alternative music festival, which is taking place April 10-12 in Austin. The Gibsons’ main objective is to gain exposure and users for JamFeed in the next few years and partner with local bands to promote the Austin music scene. Julia Waicberg, advertising sophomore and JamFeed
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From left, UT students Julia Waicberg, Kyla Harrison, Katherine Allen and Hannah Kelly are collaborating to promote and expand the music app JamFeed. The app streamlines music-related news into one easy-to-use platform.
social media intern, said she’s excited to see JamFeed gain traction at Euphoria and finds volunteering for JamFeed worthwhile. “It’s not a paid internship, but it’s so rewarding still,” Waicberg said. “Each good thing that happens is because we put in the effort. Katherine Allen, mechanical engineering and Plan II freshman and the JamFeed Kickstarter campaign coordinator, said she hopes to reach potential users during promotional events at SXSW.
“For SXSW, we’re having a party that will host some local bands,” Allen said. “We’ll be in JamFeed shirts passing out JamFeed stickers. Hopefully we can get a few artists signed on.” Aside from aggregating music news and notifying users of upcoming tours and events, JamFeed shares original content, such as artist profiles and Q-and-A’s, with its users. Bands that partner with JamFeed will share exclusive content about secret shows or new music. Hannah Kelly, journalism and Plan II freshman and JamFeed’s
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Alumna makes chocolate inside apartment kitchen By Rebecca Fu @thedailytexan
UT alumna Larissa Mae Sarangaya doesn’t let the her cramped apartment kitchen keep her from cooking in it. In fact, it’s where she runs her business. Within a month of her December 2014 graduation, Sarangaya launched her online business Tsokolate Artisan Chocolates & Confections under the web name BearBatLionDog. She runs the chocolate shop out of her apartment where Tsokolate customers pick up their orders. On weekends, she sells freshly made caramels at the Barton Creek Farmer’s Market because state laws prevent business owners from selling to stores unless they use a commercial kitchen. “It’s just something that you have to overcome and be creative about as you’re growing,” Sarangaya said. “I have faith in my capabilities and my business.” “Tsokolate” — the Filipino translation for “chocolate” — is a tribute to Sarangaya’s home in the Philippines. The UT alumna Larissa Mae Sarangaya owns and operates Tsokolate Artisan Chocolates & Confections. Sarangaya runs the business out of her apartment and plans to open a physical store.
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name of Tsokolate’s website, thebearbatliondog.com, commemorates Betsy, Sarangaya’s Yorkie-Shih-Tzu mix. Sarangaya said crafting artisan chocolates tests her patience and precision. Unlike traditional cooking — in which she eyeballs the amount of spices needed and uses her instincts to guide her along — she said making chocolate is very detail-oriented. “The temperature has to be right, or the chocolate will be streaky and gray,” Sarangaya said. “Your ingredients have to measure correctly, or the flavor will be very off. With the pastry arts, it’s a science.” Sarangaya, a self-proclaimed chocoholic, said despite the meticulous process, she tries to be as imaginative with her creations as possible. “My creative outlet is individually painting each chocolate,” Sarangaya said. “I’ve always loved colors [and] things that are not cookiecutter. I want something to be as visually appealing as it appeals to your taste buds.” Although she received a
degree in sociology at UT, Sarangaya was determined to follow her passion for cooking. She earned an associate’s degree from a culinary arts school and spent a summer interning with master chocolatiers at a five-star luxury hotel in the Philippines. “I had a notebook, and I tried to absorb everything so I could take it with me,” Sarangaya said. “But the most valuable thing I learned was patience. You can’t rush the process.” Sarangaya decided to create her chocolate business after her Instagram followers asked to purchase the treats in her photos. “I was just posting my Sriracha chocolates for fun,” Sarangaya said. “I saw an opportunity [because] chocolate is booming. There’s a kind of revolution happening about artisan chocolates, and I decided to jump on it.” Nicole Nguyen, Sarangaya’s friend and taste-tester, said in an email that Sarangaya’s innovations extend beyond the treats’ appearance. She said
content writer, said the app fills a void that Facebook and Twitter aren’t equipped to fill. “With Twitter, it’s just really convoluted,” Kelly said. “You’re following so many things, and it’s hard to actually see what you want, and then on Facebook, it’s really expensive for artists to get all of their news out to their users.” Allen said she views JamFeed as a gateway of opportunity into the technology startup industry. She said organizations such as the Longhorn Entrepreneurship
It’s an amazing learning opportunity. You’re not stuck in a cubicle. Your’re not running getting donuts. You’re really making a difference. —Katherine Allen, Mechanical engineering and Plan II freshman
Agency, which introduced her to JamFeed, give students a chance to explore innovative business ventures that otherwise wouldn’t have been as accessible. “It’s an amazing learning
opportunity,” Allen said. “You’re not stuck in a cubicle. You’re not running getting donuts. You’re really making a difference, and you know if you weren’t there, then this thing wouldn’t be running.”
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