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Campus to get new Wi-Fi network By Josh Willis @JoshWillis35
The UT campus will shift over to a new Wi-Fi network over the next two months as part of an attempt to keep the network in line with modern security standards. UT spokesman Kevin Almasy said the “restricted.utexas.edu” Wi-Fi network that the UT community uses will be deactivated May 26. The replacement network, “utexas,”
became available for students, faculty and staff Monday. Technology staffers are working to transfer students, faculty and staff before the old network is shut down. “Moving is easy. Like joining any network, users will just have to go to their wireless preferences, forget or delete restricted.utexas.edu and then select utexas and log in using their UT EID,” Almasy said. There are more than 180,000 devices connected to the current
Wi-Fi network, Almasy said. William Green, director of networking and telecommunications, said the change in the Wi-Fi network came about as a result of efforts to heighten network security. “It’s like when your bank sends you a new credit card with a different number for security reasons,” Green said. “You have to change the credit card number with all the
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The Guadalupe Corridor Transportation Project seeks to clean up and redesign Guadalupe Street for transportation. The Austin Transportation Department hopes to hear more from UT students about suggestions for improvements throughout the project.
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By Wynne Davis
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As the Austin Transportation Department seeks feedback about improving Guadalupe Street, Student Government’s City Relations agency is working to amplify student voices in the conversation. The Guadalupe Corridor Transportation Project is a long-term project focused on making necessary and desired improvements to Guadalupe Street. The Austin Transportation Department, which oversees the project, received 783 responses on an online survey it published earlier this month. The survey included questions such as how often individuals used public transportation on Guadalupe Street and whether sidewalks needed improvements. UT students made up
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Ten women serve as officers win UTPD, making up 16 percent of the staff, and that number is higher than the national average of 13 percent among police departments nationwide. Julie Gillespie started her career at UTPD in 1987 as a security guard after graduating from UT with an education degree. Gillespie, now retired, worked at UTPD for 28 years in multiple positions. During her tenure, Gillespie became the first female lieutenant and the first female captain. When Gillespie started working at UTPD, she said there were a handful of female officers and only two female sergeants. “I remember going to training classes and staff meetings where I was the only female, but, since then, I think policing has taken a very strong part in recruiting women,” Gillespie said. “It was tough, but you have to realize we’re all the same, and everybody wants the same thing and are working toward the same goals.” Diversity in the workplace is important regardless of the industry because it brings different perspectives to the job, according to Gillespie. “Women bring a totally different perspective to policing,” Gillespie said. “Usually you have to have the brut and the physical strength,
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Study: Acute HIV less Panel debates paying student athletes infective than thought By Zainab Calcuttawalla
By Vinesh Kovelamudi @trippyvinnie3
UT researchers found the HIV virus is not as infectious after transmission as previous studies suggested. Postdoctoral researcher Steve Bellan and integrative biology professor Lauren Meyers co-authored a paper in which they concluded drugs that prevent the spread of HIV post-infection are more effective than methods focused on early diagnoses of the virus. More than 1.2 million people in the U.S. are living with HIV, but almost one in seven infected people are unaware of their infection, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. There are two main stages to the disease, the first of which is known as the acute phase — a monthslong phase of infection when levels of virus in the bloodstream spike. If left untreated, the acute phase is followed by a decade-long
chronic phase of infection that precedes AIDS. Bellan said many claim modern drugs used to prevent HIV are ineffective. These claims stem from the belief that the levels of infectivity, the ability of the virus to establish an infection, during the earliest phase of HIV infection — between the patient’s infection and the patient’s treatment — are significantly higher than the infectivity levels during other phases of the disease, according to Bellan. Bellan said infectivity levels during the acute phase of infection are actually much lower than previous estimates. “We found that people are less likely to spread HIV to others during this early stage than has been believed for many years,” Bellan said in a statement released by the University. In their paper, which was
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Moderator Daron Roberts and John Kuempel, a former UT football player, participate in a panel discussing the payment of student athletes in the Tower on Monday night.
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Texas athletes-turnedlawmakers at a panel on Monday discussed the merits and challenges associated with paying student athletes a stipend for playing on university sports teams. Although the panelists agreed that student athletes deserved a minimal stipend to be able to afford basic necessities, they also expressed concerns about the possibility of creating a financial distraction from the athlete’s academic career and the complications of determining the amount for an appropriate stipend. Many student athletes’ economic situations do not guarantee that they even have enough money for full meals, according to Sen. Royce West (D-Dallas), who participated in the panel. “When you begin to think about some of these athletes who sign and sell jerseys, some of them are doing that to get a few dollars to be able to get a meal,” West said. “We
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should not allow that type of system to persist when we know that’s an issue.” New streams of revenue have raised the funds to make paying student athletes feasible for Division I schools, said Rep. Travis Clardy (R-Nacogdoches), who took part in the panel. “In 2015, college sports teams have the television contracts, merchandising, EA sports video games and much more,” Clardy said. “A whole lot of people are making money because of
a bunch of kids putting on a jersey with a particular school’s colors on it. So I think there is plenty to go around; we just have to figure this out.” Even though a stipend system, in theory, would help alleviate financial issues for student athletes at big schools, Clardy said, those schools with weaker sports programs would struggle to budget for the system. “Funding issues are not as much of a problem in big schools like the University
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of Texas and the University of Michigan, but what do you do when you get down to the Division II, Division III, and Division IV schools?” Clardy said. “Factor in Title IX issues, [and] you really get into some very difficult economic issues.” Title IX provisions prevent institutions that receive federal funding from discriminating for or against parties based on gender, so both male and female
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