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Bill filed to monitor student groups By Eleanor Dearman @ellydearman

Rep. Trey Martinez Fischer (D-San Antonio) submitted an amendment to the House budget which would place university organizations, including fraternities, under close watch. The amendment — which applies to all student groups but singles out sororities,

fraternities and athletic teams — would require universities to report on- and off-campus cases of gender, ethnic or racial discrimination to the Higher Education Coordinating Board, a multi-faceted state board that oversees state university operations. The Board would collect any information regarding occurrences of

discrimination universities report and relay the findings to the legislature. The amendment is a response to nationwide cases of racial discrimination by fraternities, according to a report by The Texas Tribune. The House is set to start their discussion on the proposed House budget Tuesday. Although the University

cannot comment on specific pieces of legislation, University spokesperson Gary Susswein said officials support a welcoming campus. “As with all legislation that could impact the University, we will review it closely,” Susswein said. “And I just also want to emphasize that, in general, the University works to make the campus as welcoming

and supportive of an environment for all of our students as it can be.” Lee Lueder, Interfraternity Council president, said he does not know how effective the amendment will be. He said its impact would depend on what it does with the collected information after universities have

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Bush receives Latino leadership award By Katie Keenan & Jackie Wang @thedailytexan

UT President Bill Powers presented land commissioner George P. Bush the inaugural Latino Leadership Award on Monday evening. The president’s office worked in conjunction with the Center of Mexican American Studies and the Department of Mexican American and Latina/o Studies to select Bush as the first awardee, said Dr. Nicole Guidotti-Hernández, associate director of the Center for Mexican American Studies. “We went through a series of 15 nominees, and we evaluated them for leadership, public service and areas like that,” GuidottiHernández said. “With him as the first Latino land commissioner, I think in its

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Texas land commissioner George P. Bush speaks Monday evening at the awards ceremony for the inaugural Latin Leadership Award.

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GeoFORCE receives top presidential recognition By Sherry Tucci @sherrytucci

President Obama awarded the Jackson School of Geosciences’ GeoFORCE Texas program Friday with the Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring, one of the highest federal honors for a university. The Presidential Award is given to programs or individuals, especially to those reaching out to underrepresented communities, that focus on mentorship and promote education in STEM fields. GeoFORCE was the only program honored this year. The GeoFORCE Texas program works with incoming high school freshmen through the time they graduate. For a week each summer, students in the program travel to geological sites around the U.S. to learn about earth sciences. During the program, mentors and instructors educate students and provide them with college and career advice. Geology senior Victoria Fortiz participated in GeoFORCE Texas from 2008 to 2012 and mentored students for the program her freshman year of college. She said mentors and instructors check in

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Museum stays open despite budget cuts By Eleanor Dearman

The Texas Memorial Museum located on UT’s campus will not be closing despite severe budget cuts. Outside funding and community outreach efforts are helping to keep the doors open to visitors.

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Beth Ferguson, principal of Sol Design Lab with Dallas Swindle, displays the inner workings of the solar charging station.

Campus to receive more solar charging stations By Katie Keenan @keenanarroyo

Students could soon have more places to charge their phones and laptops on campus with the arrival of new, more efficient solar charging stations. Sol Design Lab, which works to design energy-efficient products, designed

the two solar charging stations already on campus. Beth Ferguson, principal of Sol Design Lab with Dallas Swindle, spoke with students Friday about the prospect of having new solar charging stations on campus. The new stations would boast several

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Six months after having its budget gutted, the Texas Memorial Museum is improving its financial situation, and attendance is slowly rising. In September 2014, the University pulled funding for the Texas Natural Science Center, which included the Texas Memorial Museum, as part of a $600,000 budget cut. The center was essentially dismantled, leaving the Museum entirely financially independent, according to Edward Theriot, integrative biology professor and museum director. Today, the museum’s doors remain open as a result of outside funding, community outreach efforts and policy changes and despite a professional staff that’s less than half the size it was last year. “We survived a massive budget cut, but we are

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not closed,” said Pamela Owen, associate director of the museum. In addition to the museum, the Texas Natural Science Center also owned extensive paleontology and biology collections. As a result of the budget cut, the Jackson School of Geosciences and the Department of Integrative Biology took over the respective collections.

Despite the shift in ownership, specimens from the transferred collections are still on display at the museum. Owen said the exhibitions on display at the museum were not affected by the cuts. “We still showcase specimens from those collections, so we’re the caretakers of them on exhibit,” Owen said. Theriot said attendance

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and revenue were below projections for the first two months after the budget cut. “As we went into the year, we were consistently low,” Theriot said. “It was concerning us, and what became apparent … was that people thought we were entirely closed.” In the past several months, attendance has

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[179-year] history of the office, we thought it was an appropriate acknowledgement of what it means to be a trailblazer in Latino leadership today.” As a son of a MexicanAmerican mother and as a Hispanic man who grew up in the U.S., Bush said he was honored to receive the award. “Going to this University, being honored for the first time, it’s truly a honor and privilege,” Bush said. “It’s truly a challenge to take things to the next level, to give a hand to the next generation of students looking at opportunities whether its public service or grad school or finding opportunities that can improve their life. [There is] a lot of work ahead.” Bush said he wants his agency to help both the center and the department. “They’re doing research that I think is going to benefit

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Going to this university, being honored for the first time, it’s truly a honor and privilege. —George P. Bush, Texas land commissioner

our agency,” Bush said. “In terms of projecting the big needs facing the community, they mentioned health care, immigration, voter ID and so forth, which is helpful to our agency.” While Bush accepted the award, approximately 15 protesters in the West Mall came to express their dissatisfaction at Bush receiving this award, as well as with his political track record. According to Daniel Yanez, an Austin community organizer, Bush appears to care about issues facing the Latino community, but he hasn’t done anything actually benefitting that group. “As a politician, he has never come out for Hispanic or Latino or MexicanAmerican issues,” Yanez said. “To give him an award,

particularly of this type — I have to laugh.” Protesters addressed several of the issues Bush said he wishes to improve. Students gathered around to listen to feminist activist Martha Cutera, who took a strong stance against most of Bush’s political policies, ranging from immigration to fracking and environmental concerns. “It’s difficult for students and faculty and staff to get involved in actions like this,” Cutera said. “We do not know how this honor came about. We are concerned that the values that this person has publicly talked about and in the Republican platform that he supports are anticivil rights, anti-poor, anti-women.”

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continues from page 1 reported it. Nationally, fraternities have been facing scrutiny for racial discrimination in the past months. UT’s chapter of Phi Gamma Delta, known as “FIJI,” hosted a “border control” themed party at an offcampus fraternity house in January. At the party, many attendees donned sombreros and ponchos. The University did not penalize the fraternity. “While the behavior doesn’t mirror UT core values, it’s within students’ right to freedom of speech at private off-campus event,” the University tweeted from the official UT-Austin Twit-

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continues from page 1 improvements, including a more affordable design and an app or digital screen that displays how much solar energy the station produces and devices use. The two charging stations on campus are located at the intersection of 23rd Street and San Jacinto Boulevard and on the Perry-Castañeda Library Plaza. UT is one of the first schools to harness solar energy as a way for students to charge their personal portable devices. Ferguson, a UT alumna, said other universities have made attempts to do the same, but on a smaller scale. “There’s probably little, small, off-the-grid solar projects, but definitely the biggest charging stations are here at UT-Austin,” said Ferguson. “There’s a couple companies that have solar umbrellas that are more portable, so I think this is one of the bigger systems.” Since last summer, Ferguson has been collecting data showing how much sunlight the current stations absorb and produce. She will present the data in hopes of convincing the Green Fee Committee, which allocates funds for campus environmental projects, to continue funding the project so more stations can be built on campus. Ferguson said the main challenge when trying to build a solar charging station is finding a location, since shaded areas hinder the production of solar energy. “[We use] a solar pathfinder,” said Ferguson. “It’s a little, sort of plexiglass bubble calendar where you can chart where shade obstacles are. We had students from our workshops walk

ter account in February. Sigma Alpha Epsilon stirred national controversy when members were recorded participating in chants containing racial slurs while traveling on a bus. Lueder said he thinks it is fair that the policy be enforced both on- or off-campus. “All of these organizations are registered with the University — are University organizations, so at least pertaining to sororities and fraternities,”Lueder said. “So I think it’s only fair that [the policy] be for all registered student organizations, whether it be … on- or off-campus.” Rep. Martinez Fischer could not be reached for a comment. around the campus and find the sunniest locations.” Biology sophomore Victor Lam said the solar charging stations have been beneficial, especially during on-campus events that attract large crowds. “During one of the football games where we went out to the stations, we had chargers and everything, and I felt like a good number of people needed to charge their phones,” said Lam. Lam said it would be worth finding additional location for students to charge their laptops while studying. Ferguson said one of the proposed locations for a new station would be in the West Mall in front of the Union, which would provide solar charging for a larger amount of students. Biology junior Albert Lee, associate comics editor for The Daily Texan, said not many students use the charging stations but believes having them is an important step to reaching larger energyconserving goals. “In the end, it depends on what else we could do with the solar power besides charging,” said Lee. “Some people try to charge their cars, the big devices, and that’s not what these machines can do.” Although the charging stations have limitations, Ferguson said they have opened other doors in the world of energy-efficient technology simply by their presence on campus. “I’m working with a vehicle share system of scooters, similar to the bike share fleet, that wants a charging station,” said Ferguson. “I’ll be working on that this summer, coming up with a station like this one. All this research has been really helpful for future collaborations that Sol Design Lab is doing.”

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Study: Ads do not affect alcohol consumption By Nashwa Bawab @nashwabawab

Although American alcohol advertising campaigns are closely monitored and regulated, they do not actually have a significant impact on alcohol consumption, according to research by a UT professor. Gary Wilcox, advertising and public relations professor, found that per-capita consumption of alcoholic beverages in the U.S. remained relatively constant between 1971 and 2011 , as did the size of the market for alcohol advertising. Though there were some major changes in alcohol advertising, they were largely about the focus of those ads — adapting to new trends in liquor, wine and beer sales. But the overall alcohol market did not grow significantly over the 40-year period, so brands are largely competing for a bigger slice of a largely pre-established market, Wilcox said. Alcohol advertisements

are closely regulated in the United States. In Los Angeles and Philadelphia, the advertisements are banned from appearing on most public property. In San Francisco, alcohol can’t be advertised on public transportation. Wilcox said he believes regulating advertising is a convenient and easy target for policymakers. “Generally speaking, there has been a lot of criticism of advertising, even to the extent that advertising has been banned for the purpose of reducing alcohol consumption,” Wilcox said. “[The results of the study found that] advertising was not a factor in the amount of alcohol people would drink. Instead, the implications were that advertising is there to help you decide what to drink.” Advertising sophomore Julie Nguyen said it made sense to her that alcohol advertisements might only affect those who already drink alcohol. “I believe people’s morals

are already set when it comes to making decisions about alcohol. Alcohol advertising truly just excites people’s desires, and they want to drink alcohol because they already do it,” Nguyen said. “It’s so easy to just picture your life with the product and then finally have it trigger your desires. And that’s what advertising is — desire.” Understanding the dangers of drinking too much alcohol is the real issue most people face when it comes to alcohol consumption, according to corporate communication sophomore Ashley Na. “People should be able to take control of their own lives. Completely banning alcohol ads alone takes away from our freedom of speech,“ Na said. “People should be an adult and take responsibility of their own mistakes, instead of blaming it on third-party things such as alcohol ads.” Many alcohol companies don’t allow ads that show drunk people, abusive

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behavior or people driving because that’s not the intention of the product, according to Wilcox. He said this tight regulation sometimes limits the companies’ freedom of expression. “Firms are allowed to

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with the students throughout the school year for things such as PSAT/SAT preparation and college application seminars. “That was really helpful because I was the oldest in my family, and my parents didn’t go to college, so just having the support [was great],” Fortiz said. Since the program’s inception in 2005, GeoFORCE Texas has expanded from its first partner, Southwest Texas Junior College, to schools in Houston. The program is one of the first to address the shortage of students coming from economically disadvantaged environments, according to Samuel Moore, director of outreach and diversity for the Jackson School. “In 2010, it expanded to … schools in inner-city Houston,” said Moore. “[The program] targets economically disadvantaged students who might not be aware of the opportunity.”

risen, although it’s still lower than what the staff had projected, Theriot said. The museum is now running off $85,000 in private donations, a little over $108,000 in state funding and revenue from admissions and the museum’s gift shop. “Fiscally this year, we are in good shape,” Theriot said. The 84th Texas Legislature’s proposed House and Senate budgets would renew the state’s over $108,000 in funding for the 2016 and 2017 fiscal years. Until September, the museum was free to the public. Although admission is still free to students and faculty with a valid University ID,

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Of the students who participate in the program, 100 percent of them graduate high school, 96 percent go to college, and 64 percent choose a STEM field of study, as reported on the GeoFORCE website. “[The numbers are] very impressive,” Jackson School dean Sharon Mosher said. “There are no other numbers like that [caliber] that I know of.” Many of these students never considered the

possibility of studying geological or Earth sciences before GeoFORCE, according to Mosher. “I think the most valuable aspect of the program is that it truly changes lives,” Mosher said. “It takes students who come from underrepresented groups … and has been successful at getting them to go to college and also successful in getting a majority of them to go into a STEM field.”

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compete for the consumer’s choice, and if you restrict that, then you kind of hobble the economy a little bit and also hobble people’s freedoms of receiving truthful information about legal products,” the museum now charges members of the public a general admission fee of $3–$4, depending on age, to account for the budget cuts. The museum has made $42,000 in ticket sales since September, Owen said. The museum also received $75,000 in private donations from the Stillwater Foundation, which has been used to host free special events. Museum senior administrative associate Laura Naski Keffer said the events, such as National Fossil Day and Texas Wildlife Day, have helped spread the word about the museum. “It kept us doing things we did before the massive cut,” Naski Keffer said. “It’s really nice to provide free

Wilcox said. “There are wonderful organizations that look into problems with abusive alcohol behavior, and those things need to be encouraged, not restricting the advertisement messages.” events. Here we are: We switched to an admissions policy, but we can still figure out a way to make free events to the public.” The museum staff was downsized to from eleven full-time employees to four, as well as a part-time IT staff member and six work-study students. Since the cuts, Theriot works part time as the director and full time as a University professor. Theriot said staff members who were let go as a result of the cut were given ample time to find other jobs. Other staff members retired. “The hardest thing was telling the staff, frankly,” Theriot said. “The slightly silver lining in all of this is that we were told this was going to happen well in advance.”

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Global elites should broaden experiences, seek out local communities By Jeremi Suri

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During the last 18 months I have participated in intensive discussions with policymakers, scholars and students in London, Melbourne, Munich, Abu Dhabi, Toronto, Tokyo and countless American cities, especially Austin. (Austin is, perhaps, the most exotic place on this list.) Other than the consternation this “jet-setting” has elicited from my wife, these trips highlight for me two outstanding characteristics of our current world. First, the spread of higher education and knowledge economies is creating a wide, diverse and deeply connected cohort of international elites. It is not just that smart and powerful people in all of these places communicate comfortably in English, but that they all use the same vocabulary, as they never have before. The global elites recognize the same educational credentials (from a small number of prestigious institutions), they measure wealth in similar ways (in dollars accumulated and consumed) and they identify common lifestyles (urban, secular and highly mobile.) Simply stated, global elites build productive working relationships across cultural boundaries because they attended the same schools, spend money in the same ways and travel frequently through the same airports. They are somewhat interchangeable as they sit next to one another in meetings, seminars and airline lounges, reading the same online news sources and following the same international financial and geopolitical issues. They know the up-to-date numbers for the major stock markets and they closely analyze various crises around China, Russia and Iran. They know more about these topics than many developments within their own societies. Second, the global elites that I describe are large in number and diverse in background, but they are a distinct and segregated minority. They are educated cosmopolitans in societies,

including the United States, that remain local in their common points of reference and limited in their educational horizons. The average German, Japanese or Canadian citizen does not attend a prestigious university, access large wealth resources or move from city to city. Most “ordinary” people live close to where they were born, work with individuals like themselves and distrust those who look and sound different. Most people care little about stock markets or international crises; they focus, as they always have, on their immediate surroundings and their personal needs. Local citizens are, of course, dependent on international markets and geopolitical decisions that determine food and energy costs, as well as overall security and prosperity. Few people, however, think that way. If anything, the growing complexity of the world motivates disoriented individuals to crave the simplicity of the local experiences they can readily understand. Control for citizens who do not have the opportunities of global elites means localizing debates about taxation, security and social welfare. In a global age, politics are intensely local. Online communications have, curiously, contributed to localization. No longer do elites dominate the flow of news and opinion. Now citizens from diverse locales can share their stories, their hopes and their grievances. Across societies, they inspire one another to stand up against elitism and reaffirm “true” and “authentic” local life choices. That discourse dominates many segments on social media. Those threatened by globalization are themselves global in their local expressions. These observations are not intended to condemn local thinkers or defend global elites, but to explain that this divide is a major contributor to partisanship, incivility and stalemate in so many societies today. Global elites are more connected, powerful and self-confident than ever before, but local thinkers are increasingly mobilized, resentful and resistant. This explains the simultaneous growth of elite multicultural-

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ism and local ethnocentrism as well as elite materialism and local religious devotion. Drivers of BMWs stuffed with organic groceries share the road with drivers of pickup trucks carrying guns and bibles, but they are pursuing very different destinations. Arguments about party and ideology are really covers for the sociological divergences that are pulling knowledge professionals apart from less privileged hard-working men and women. The challenge of our time is to break out of our bubbles, recognize this division and do something about it. Traveling abroad to find other people like ourselves is not a solution, nor is clinging to a nostalgic image of a simpler local society from the past. Our problem is sociological because most of what we do on campus, at work, at home and on the Internet reinforces our separation from those whose lives are almost incomprehen-

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Texas Tennis deserves proper home

Fraternities, social organizations must balance merit and inclusivity By Jordan Shenhar Senior Columnist @jshenhar

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On March 24, it was announced by the Intercollegiate Tennis Association that University of Texas tennis player Søren Hess-Olesen had reached the pinnacle of tennis rankings: the No. 1 male singles tennis player in the nation. The ironic thing is that Hess-Olesen and his talented Longhorn teammates (who were also announced March 24 as the seventh-ranked team in the country!) do not have a home stadium to play their outdoor matches in this season. The men’s and women’s tennis teams started the home season playing at the Edgar O. and Melanie A. Weller Tennis Center indoor facility several miles away from campus in Steiner Ranch, and since outdoor season got under way, they have been forced to play outdoor matches west of campus at the Caswell Tennis Center, a historic municipal recreation facility that is anything but fan-friendly. In fact, several of the courts are not viewable from the grandstand, and there are no locker room facilities for the players. Imagine how visiting teams react to that.

sibly different. Perhaps we can begin to think about new bridges between the global and the local. These bridges must be personal, and they must show respect for differences in experiences. They must involve a self-conscious effort to move beyond one’s comfort zone. Those of us who are a part of the global elite — and that includes most people on campus — have an obligation to reach out. We should not diminish our global goals, but we must anchor ourselves better in the local communities we often ignore. From London and Munich to Tokyo and Austin, elites must get out of their offices and walk the streets. This applies to students who need to take their learning outside the classroom and outside the campus. Suri is a professor in the LBJ School of Public Affairs and the Department of History.

Some outdoor matches are even farther west of campus at the Westwood Country Club near Mount Bonnell or at the Intramural Fields near 51st Street north of campus. The Penick-Allison Tennis Center was the University’s former men’s and women’s home tennis stadium for almost 30 years until it was demolished after last season to make way for the Dell Medical School. Imagine that happening to any other UT athletic team. If the football or baseball or basketball stadiums were torn down, there would have been years of preparation to ensure the team would seamlessly transition to a new and improved facility. But this has not happened with the Texas tennis teams, and no announcement has been made about constructing a new tennis facility. The University should be ashamed of the way the Texas tennis teams and their fans have been treated this season. This is unacceptable and definitely not the meaning of “We Are Texas.” — Bobby French, Texas Tennis fan and resident of Austin.

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In the span of 11 days in the middle of February, UT rose to the forefront of one of the country’s most divisive controversies surrounding university culture. On Feb. 7, a now-infamous party took place at the Fiji house north of campus, instigating demonstrations, investigations and embarrassing headlines that spread across the world. And on Feb. 18, Student Government President-elect Xavier Rotnofsky and Vice Presidentelect Rohit Mandalapu extended the criticism of UT’s social organizations a few blocks west of the Fiji house with a single sarcastic line in their first campaign video: “I want another Student Government president from Tejas.” In the month that’s followed, discussions over the role that social organizations play in UT campus life have intensified. There are still protests against Fiji, SAE is under investigation for its own possible discriminatory customs and an SG election was framed almost exclusively around whether Greek and spirit organizations wield too much power. There are obviously some very stark differences between the debate over fraternities, both at UT and nationally, and that over spirit groups at this University in particular. The former group carries connotations of misogyny and intolerance, justified or not; those same connotations are virtually nonexistent among the latter. And spirit groups at least ostensibly choose their members based on characteristics like service and leadership, while there’s a huge variation in selection criteria across different fraternities. As a case in point, it’s ironic how the particular organization Rotnofsky and Mandalapu poked at is among UT’s best at not emulating Fiji’s example when it comes to race and elitism — the Tejas Club’s most recent New Man class, to use the group’s terminology, roughly mirrored the demographics of the University overall, and the Tejas Coffee distinguished speaker series provides the UT community with access to prominent leaders in a remarkable array of different fields. Still, when every Executive Alliance this decade has featured at least one member of either Tejas or the female service group Orange Jackets (with the exception of 2012’s Thor Lund and Wills Brown, both of whom were in fraternities), it’s easy to see how this year’s Travesty duo were so successful in painting SG as a group that revolves around the interests of a select few orga-

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nizations. In that regard, discussions over both Greek life and more explicitly merit-based social organizations revolve around the same central premises: exclusivity and the privileges encased therein. Within Greek organizations, those privileges often manifest themselves as extensive alumni networks, which make any selection criteria based primarily on characteristics as innate as race, class or connections inherently problematic. But even spirit groups are capable of arbitrarily and sometimes wrongly leaving intelligent and capable voices out of their ranks. That exclusivity might be necessary to maintain a group’s legitimacy as a merit-based organization, but it’s worrisome how quickly it can become insular, which is why this year’s nontraditional Student Government campaign was so effective. At the same time, outright antagonism toward exclusive groups of any affiliation strikes me as misguided. Elitism isn’t institutionalized in high school cafeterias or cubicle-adjacent water coolers, but it doesn’t take an avid fan of “Mean Girls” or “The Office” to notice that it still arises naturally. So just as UT’s musicians and top-tier athletes would find each other even without organized bands or sports teams, those attracted to Greek organizations would congregate into groups that look awfully similar to fraternities and sororities, while those attracted to service, school spirit or networking would wind up forming de facto spirit groups with their like-minded peers. Indeed, one reason Tejas and Orange Jackets have had such an influential history within Student Government is that all three institutions attract similar types of students by serving as training grounds for young leaders. That’s not a problem. That’s freedom of association. What is a problem is any organization viewing its selection process as the ultimate word on who does and does not deserve access to powerful positions or networking opportunities. In groups that select their members based on qualities other than merit, that type of exclusivity undermines the equality of opportunity for which universities are supposed to stand. And in groups that do select based on merit, it can stifle the exchange of ideas between qualified non-members and influential members. To avoid those kinds of scenarios, organizations of all stripes should promote openness and inclusivity just as strongly as they do service, leadership, friendship or any other foundational principle. That’s the strongest path toward making UT welcoming and its institutions accountable to all of its 50,000-plus students. Shenhar is a Plan II, government and economics sophomore from Westport, Connecticut. He writes about campus and education issues.

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KIESCHNICK continues from page 6 said Bart Vanlandingham, Kieschnick’s co-worker at Biomet. “He’s persistent in what he does and works hard.“ Kieschnick didn’t stop with his new job. In September 2014, he and a few friends opened up Alamo Ice House in San Antonio. Kieschnick got the idea of owning a bar two years ago when his friends Ray Fuchs, the “restaurant guy” at the Ice House, and Jaime Gonzales, the pit master, were doing some repair work on Kieschnick’s house. Fuchs, who met Kieschnick when he was running a bar on Sixth Street in the early ’90s, told Kieschnick that he was renting property for a bar in San Antonio. Kieschnick was thrilled with the idea and came on as a part owner. “I’m pretty hands-off as far as the day-to-day goes,” Kieschnick said. “I’m more of the social guy —

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getting people there and promoting it.” Kieschnick’s varied experience offers him a unique perspective and enables him to take unexpected approaches, according to Fuchs. “He brings a different perspective to the table,” Fuchs said. “We weren’t going to build a stage until Brooks said, ‘No, we need to build a stage and have live music.’” While running a bar and distributing spinal implants may not have much to do with playing professional baseball, Kieschnick still believes there are important connections to be made between his current and former careers. “[Baseball] definitely gives you discipline and work ethic to make [a business] work and go well,” Kieschnick said. “You definitely have to have that in this business and a lot of drive in this company to make it successful.”

continues from page 6 forever be indebted to the Longhorns’ fans and the University of Texas.” Turner, who came to Texas as a five-star prospect, never quite lived up to the expectations placed on him so early in his career, despite earning Big 12 Freshman of the Year and finding a spot on the All-Big 12 third team. He averaged 10.1 points and 6.5 rebounds per game in just 22.2 minutes per game, with most of his big games coming against weaker competition, such as St. Francis and Lipscomb, in which he scored 25 and 26, respectively. Turner led the Big 12 in blocks, and he was consistent throughout the season with his quick, face-up, high-release jumper from the post. “I love the University. Love the atmosphere here,” Turner said in the video. “Great education, great people, great basketball program and facilities — given everything I need to succeed.” Turner turned 19 years old last week after playing the full season at age 18. His announcement came a day after head coach Rick Barnes officially left the program after 17 years.

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Texas looks to end Tuesday struggles against Islanders By Nick Castillo

itself of the midweek blues Tuesday night against Texas A&M-Corpus Christi. The Longhorns host the Islanders (11–12, 3–6 Southland), who are coming off a 2–1 series loss against Stephen F. Austin. Texas A&M-Corpus Christi enters the contest having lost seven of its last eight. The Longhorns will try to right the ship Tuesday night after a disappointing sweep against Nebraska this weekend. The Longhorns struggled at the plate, where they were held to three runs on 12 hits in the three-game series against the Cornhuskers. The Longhorns will also look to solve their mid-week pitching problems. In Texas’ loss to UT-Arlington, starting sophomore pitcher Kacy Clemens threw four innings and only allowed one run, but Texas’ bullpen gave up five runs and blew a three-run lead in the ninth inning. After the snafu in Arlington, Garrido moved

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The Texas baseball team surrounded head coach Augie Garrido after Tuesday’s 6–4 comeback win over Texas State. Despite the win, Garrido was visibly frustrated with the team’s performance. It was Texas’ second-straight midweek game in which they struggled, after last week’s extra-inning loss against UTArlington, 6–5. Garrido said he wasn’t upset; rather, he wanted the Longhorns to learn from their Tuesday night struggles. “I’m not angry,” Garrido said. “I’m just trying to explain to them why we have to be disciplined and why we have to come ready to compete and what it takes to get to the next step. We’re not at the level of championship baseball.” But No. 12 Texas (17–11, 5–1 Big 12) will look to rid

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Myles Turner declares for NBA draft By Evan Berkowitz

Texas forward Myles Turner announced Monday that he will declare for the 2015 NBA draft. Turner averaged 10.6 points and 6.5 rebounds per game in 22.2 minutes per game during his freshman year at Texas.

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Texas freshman forward Myles Turner announced early Monday through Twitter and a YouTube video that he will be entering his name in the 2015 NBA Draft. “My name is Myles Turner, UT alum, and I’ve decided to forgo my education and enter my name into the 2015 NBA draft,” Turner said in the video. Turner, who was as a oneand-done candidate as soon as he put on his burnt orange bucket hat and committed to the University of Texas last spring, is a projected lottery pick. “It’s really hard to say goodbye, but this is a decision I had to make,” Turner said. “I will

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Longhorns search for coaching candidates By Evan Berkowitz & Peter Slendorio @thedailytexan

Rick Barnes is gone from his post after 17 seasons with the Longhorns, leaving the head coaching position vacant. Texas immediately began the search for his replacement, which it could find within a week. Here are the top prospects to begin the next era at Texas. Charlotte Carpenter | Daily Texan Staff

Softball season begins, teams battle for intramural playoffs Another season of intramural softball at UT is underway after opening day this weekend. Teams will face off over the five weeks of regular season play, vying for a spot in the playoffs. The spring sport, which features nine different divisions, attracts hundreds of students to an often light-hearted but competitive season. “Intramural softball and intramural sports in general are great because you can have any skill level, any kind of person, come together,” said business honors and accounting junior Tommy Garber. “Everyone’s welcome to play.” Second-year MBA student Douglas Flanagan, captain of coed team None of Your Business and men’s team Business as Usual believes intramural softball draws people in because of its mix of fun, fitness and competition. “It’s a lot of fun,” Flanagan said. “It’s a great way for people to get outside … and play a competitive game [while keeping] it fun, keep[ing] it light and having a social experience while having an athletic experience.” Each team plays four

games against teams in its division, and the division winner moves on to the playoffs. From there, it’s a bracket tournament, with the winning team earning T-shirts and a spot on the Gregory Gym Wall of Fame. “It’s a single elimination tournament where you play until you lose,” Garber said. “If you can win three or four games, you can get crowned the champions, and you go down in history.” With the stakes so high, finance junior Lee Friedman, a catcher for the Jelly Donuts, said the teams can get aggressive during postseason games. “It’s pretty competitive at times,” Friedman said. “Some people really want to win. Others are just there for fun, but it can get pretty competitive and uptight, especially during the playoffs.” Several of the teams participating this season are veterans to the league, having competed in the past years with many of the same players, including both of Flanagan’s teams. Garber believes this bond only adds to the experience. “My teammates are honestly some of my best friends, and we do a lot more than just sports together,” Garber said. “But sports has definitely been an avenue where

I’ve met these guys and got to know them better.” While many teams are composed of friends or members of clubs or organizations, there is a free agent list of participants who are eager to play the sport despite not having a team. Captains regularly use this list to fill remaining spots to their teams. “I think the best thing about intramurals is that anyone can do it,” Garber said. “Even if you don’t have an organization or group to sign up with, they have a free agent list … and captains … can pick you up, so that’s another good way to meet a random group that you might end up becoming friends with.” Softball and other intramural sports give students a way to continue playing sports they had to leave when coming to college, with the excitement of actual games without the monotony of practice. “It’s the fun aspects of all the sports you played growing up,” said Jacob Lodinger, a supply chain management junior and third baseman for the Jelly Donuts. “You don’t have to do the boring aspects. You get to just go out and have some fun and compete.”

success at Wichita State, where he went undefeated in the regular season last year and earned a No. 1 seed in the Tournament.

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Gregg Marshall Wichita State

Marshall may be the most likely name out there. After a loss in the Sweet 16 to Notre Dame, he said he would listen to offers, which seems to mean he is ready to bolt. He had tremendous

Miller is as big of a name as there is out there right now. Last season he took the Dayton Flyers to the Elite Eight, and this year he won two tournament games. In his last two years he is 53–20. However, Miller is sitting pretty at Dayton. He just got a contract extension until 2022. However, Texas might be able to offer him a contract that Dayton just can’t match. From the Longhorns’ perspective, he is a bit of a gamble. He’s only been head coach for four years.

Tony Bennett Virginia

This year’s U.S. Basketball Writers Association’s Coach of the Year, Bennett turned Virginia from an average program to a power in the ACC over the course of his six years there. Bennett’s Cavaliers won the ACC and earned a No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament last season. This year, Virginia climbed as high as No. 2 in both the coaches and media polls. The Cavaliers led the nation in scoring defense this season, allowing just 51.4 points per game. It remains to be seen if Bennett would entertain the idea of leaving Virginia.

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Kieschnick adaptable on and off the field By Daniel Clay @dclay567

Brooks Kieschnick may have been the most versatile player to play baseball on the 40 Acres, and now he’s moving his varied skill set to new enterprises. Kieschnick’s 34–8 winloss record and 3.05 ERA are

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worthy of a staff ace. He also hit for a .360 career average and launched 43 home runs between 1991 and 1993. He was so impressive that, after his junior year, the Chicago Cubs selected the twotime national player of the year winner with the 10th pick of the 1993 MLB draft. Forgoing his senior season,

Kieschnick went on to spend 10 years in professional baseball as a designated hitter, left fielder and relief pitcher. However, Kieschnick’s versatility did not stop when his playing career ended in 2006. Soon after retiring, Kieschnick went through training to start an entirely new career working for Biomet, a

medical device manufacturer, as a medical distributor for spinal implants. “[Tuesday] I woke up at 4:30 in the morning in San Antonio and had to be in Austin for a case at 7,” Kieschnick said. “You’re going out, and you make sure you take care of your doctors, and you go from there and make

sure they have all the equipment they need.” The dedication that produced one of the best players to take the field for Texas has earned Kieschnick a strong reputation among co-workers and customers alike. “His customers love him,”

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Rick Barnes has been offered the position to be the next head coach at the University of Tennessee, according to reports by ESPN. This comes just a day after Barnes was fired by Texas. ESPN reported Monday afternoon that Barnes and Tennessee were close to a deal that would send the former Texas head coach to the Volunteers. In his farewell press conference Sunday, Barnes hinted to the fact he would land another coaching job soon when asked about his future. “Will I coach again? Yeah. Quicker than you’d probably think,” Barnes said. Barnes and Texas “mutually agreed” to part ways Sunday morning, according to the official announcement. But it wasn’t as mutual as the report suggests. After failing to live up to expectations in the last couple of years — including a first-round exit to Butler this year and missing the tournament entirely in 2012-13 — reports leaked Thursday that Texas athletic director Steve Patterson told Barnes to make changes to his staff or risk being fired. His staff offered to leave, but Barnes wouldn’t let them. “I couldn’t do that,” Barnes said. “That would be me saying this is about me. I’ve been carried by a lot of people here. We’re in this together.” Barnes would be the third coach in three years for the Volunteers, who saw Sweet 16 success just two years ago under the guidance of Cuonzo Martin before he left for Cal this summer. Donnie Tyndall of Southern Mississippi replaced him. However, Tyndall’s time at Tennessee was shortlived as he was fired on Friday after just a season with the Volunteers. His time was doomed before he started when Southern Mississippi released a statement in November that it was under investigation by the NCAA. Later in January, it said it had inflicted a self-imposed postseason ban. All this comes after Tyndall coached at Morehead State when they went on probation five years ago for booster-related activity. “Knowing what I know now, is that a mistake?” Tennessee athletic director Dave Hart told the AP on Friday. “Probably. … But, you know, there are a lot of coaches out there that have a transgression in their history somewhere that had an opportunity to do better. Obviously if we’d known [then] what we know now, we would have moved in another direction.” Tyndall finished 16–16 in his lone year with a chance of future punishment “highly likely,” according to Hart. Tennessee loses its top scorer from last season but will return juniors Kevin Punter and Armani Moore, who averaged double-digit points. Barnes’ wife is an alumna of Tennessee. —Evan Berkowitz

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Party World Rasslin’ unites comedy, wrestling By Austin Reynolds @blanelikeaplane

The lights are dim, and the crowd is ready. It’s time for the wrestlers to enter the ring. This round’s competitors? A software-developing dentist — and an actual dog. But this is no dog fight. The dentist and dog are among many local wrestlers pitted against each other in a Slamdown known as Party World Rasslin’. Party World Rasslin’ (PWR) is a group of local pseudo-wrestlers that meets every three months at different venues to do what they love: “rassle.” The wrestling, sometimes choreographed, and more often not, takes place in a PWR Slamdown. A PWR Slamdown —a tournament that pits different actors in PWR against each other in a battle of improv and wrestling. “It’s a theatrical event that involves wrestling style, action and a lot of crazy characters,” co-founder Chris Monica said. “It’s a comedy show, not a wrestling show. If some wrestling happens, sorry.” Monica and co-founder Jared Blondeau, also an Austinite, manage upcoming PWR shows by seeking out local talent and new venues. Blondeau and Monica both have jobs

other than PWR; most of the wrestlers do, too. “Their day jobs are, like, professional video game artist, or, like, they’re programmers who do legit stuff,” Monica said. “[PWR] is a collection of broken geniuses who have kind of found a way to express certain things that were before not quite expressible.” Blondeau and Monica created PWR based on a birthday party theme they attended, where guests were asked to come in costume and yell at each other while attempting to wrestle. Blondeau said the party’s success led the group of friends to form the show, which puts “comedy first, wrestling second.” Blondeau said the gratifying feeling of watching people engage in his hobby is more than worth the time shows take to plan. “It’s a communal thing,” Monica said. “Everyone chanting for a wrestler in unison gives them something to relate to. The end result is community togetherness.” Although they like incorporating new wrestlers, Blondeau said PWR strives to maintain a tight-knit community feel. He said the company’s close bonds and cohesion help ensure a

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Two wrestlers square off in a Party World Rasslin’ Slamdown in a battle of improvised physical comedy and wrestling.

comfortable and open environment where anything is possible. Although most of the participants in the show are not experienced fighters, Blondeau said members are always trying to improve their fighting skills. He said

only one wrestler has been formally trained. The focus is less on the fighting and more on the physicality and humor, Blondeau said. “The entertainment has to be there,” Blondeau said. “Whether that be from something physical that is

entertaining to watch, or it has to be funny. Preferably, [the show] is a mixture of both.” Blondeau said people do not have to love wrestling to attend a PWR Slamdown. In fact, most audience members are not die-hard wrestling

fans — they come just for the party wrestling. “Wrestling is a discipline that has gone on for years,” Monica said. “Professionals can do it for 10 years and say they’re good at it, but this is party wrestling. It’s our own thing, and we’re the best at it.”

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

‘Detour’ app brings historical Austin ghost story back to life By Ellen Airhart @ekairhart

The new Radiolab podcast “The Year That Broke Austin” takes listeners on a walking tour of Austin that doesn’t require a tour guide. But as the story unfolds, some listeners may wish they weren’t so alone. “The Year That Broke Austin” describes the events of 1885, specifically the mysterious serial killer “Servant Girl Annihilator” who terrorized Austin that year. The creepy details of the murders lay all over modern Austin, ready to be revealed by a narrator who directs listeners along an audio tour. The podcast episode was created by the brilliant minds behind the show Radiolab, an award-winning radio show that explores science and philosophy.

“The Year That Broke Austin” combines podcasting and GPS technology in a walking tour from East Fifth Street and San Jacinto to Eighth Street and Guadalupe Street. Radiolab launched the episode during SXSW, and it is now available for free in the iTunes store through an app called “Detour.” The podcast guides the listener through a combination of history and modern Austin life. Participants must reach GPS checkpoints before they can access a new part of the story. The tour takes one hour and 30 minutes, stopping listeners at places such as the Driskill Hotel, Waller Creek and the Austin History Center. The tour ends on the top floor of a parking garage, from which the participant has a scenic overlook of Austin and the famous Moon Towers.

Although Austinites can easily access the sites involved in the murder mysteries, reminders of modern life, such as Starbucks cups and dogs and their walkers, now surround these places. The narration helps obscure these modern obstructions to the mysterious past, as it details the dark story. In an interview with NPR, Andrew Mason, founder and CEO of Detour, said he was excited about the way the Radiolab team used the app’s platform. He hopes the episode inspires other artists to use Detour as a platform to post walking tours for cities all over the world. Work on the podcast episode began when Mason contacted Radiolab host Jad Abumrad and proposed the two organizations work on a project together. Abumrad and Radiolab executive producer

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IT manager finds interest in improv By Marisa Charpentier @marisacharp21

“I thought, ‘I am about to die,’” Cassidy Santaguida tells the audience during the monthly livestorytelling show Testify Austin. She grips the microphone and continues to recount the time she nearly died from drinking too much water after running a half-marathon and hiking in the desert. About 100 people fill the crowd at Spider House Ballroom, waiting to hear what happens next. Whenshe’snotonstageasalivestoryteller, stand-up comedian or improvisor, Santaguida, lead information technology manager at UT, spends her days in the Flawn Academic Center running the UT alumni Cassidy Santaguida speaks at Testify Austin, a storytelling event at the Spider House Ballroom where she recounts a compelling tale of a lifethreatening experience. Andy Nguyen Daily Texan Staff

training program for the campus’ software developers. Just five years ago, performing arts were not on her radar. Science-minded, Santaguida graduated from UT with a biology degree in 2002, and the thought of speaking in front of a large group of people terrified her. She even broke out into hives when she agreed to officiate her brother’s wedding. After being promoted to lead IT manager in 2010, her job required her to do a lot more public speaking. “I was like, ‘I have to do something to make this better,’” Santaguida said. She signed up for improvisation classes at Austin’s Hideout Theatre to improve her

public speaking skills. During the first class, she said about three words. But the first performance changed everything. “I said something, and it wasn’t a joke that I had prepared because everything was off the cuff, but [the audience] laughed,” Santaguida said. “I remember being in awe, like, ‘Wow, it really worked. I made somebody laugh.’” What once terrified her is now something she loves. Three to five nights a week, she’s either rehearsing or performing at a live show. “I feel more comfortable with the idea of going for it and not holding myself back for fear of what might happen,” Santaguida said.

Ellen Horne went on Detour’s San Francisco walking tours and decided to take advantage of Mason’s offer. Local talent was heavily showcased in “The Year That Broke Austin.” Austin-based actress Barbara Chisholm narrates the podcast with a

distinctive Texas twang. The podcast uses the music of local Austin musician Shakey Graves to support the narration with lyrics that repeat the gruesome details of the murders. “The Year That Broke Austin” presents a view of

the city most people have never experienced before. Podcasts and books on tape have traditionally transported listeners’ imaginations away from their location, but this project presents a genre in which sound and location are inextricably linked.