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LEGISLATURE

Senate to hear revenue bonds bill

By Eleanor Dearman @ellydearman

The Senate is set to hear a bill that would provide UTAustin with $67,500,000 for renovations at Welch Hall as well as construction on other facilities within the UT System and across the state.

On Wednesday, the Senate Higher Education

Committee approved SB 150, a bill that grants state universities more than $2 billion in tuition revenue bonds (TRBs). The complete Senate has not set a date to hear the bill.

TRBs are bonds funded by the state for specific facilitiesrelated projects at universities. According to the bill’s author, Sen. Kel Seliger (R-

Amarillo), institutions statewide submitted proposals for their projects to the legislature. In total, 64 projects were proposed, Seliger said.

“We’ve worked extensively for months with institutions and system administration to ensure that only the most important projects are included.“ UT System Chancellor

William McRaven testified on the bill at the hearing. He said UT system enrollment and research has increased since the last issuance of revenue bonds in 2006.

“While enrollment has grown and our research has increased, our facilities, kind of, continue to age,” McRaven said.

Most of UT’s requested

TRB funding would go to STEM-related facilities, according to McRaven. He said out-of-date buildings and laboratories are not conducive to research.

“Our facilities are anywhere from 25 to 45 years old,” McRaven said. “And we really do have to keep up with

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Klezmer band Mazel Tov Kocktail Hour performs at Butterfly Bar on Wednesday night. David Ansel, center, is playing a stringed instrument called the cimbalom.

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Students petition for free campus STD testing

By Nashwa Bawab @nashwabawab

A UT student organization recently started a petition calling for free access to sexually transmitted disease testing on campus for all students and faculty.

The UT American Medical Student Association (AMSA) launched the petition two weeks ago. The petition has about 200 signatures, but it needs around 7,000–10,000 before AMSA is ready to show it to health departments, according Lusaura Gutierrez, advocacy team leader of AMSA and government junior.

AMSA plans to promote the petition more in the upcoming weeks to gain the needed signatures, Gutierrez said.

According to an executive summary from University Health Services published in fall 2013, 3.9 percent of UT students reported being diagnosed with an STD. “One of the biggest contributing factors [to STDs spreading] is the fact that most young adults are not being tested and as a result are spreading infections to their partners,” Gutierrez said, “Our next step is to present this petition to UHS, the Austin Health Department and even our lawmakers to show them just how important this is to us.”

Free STD testing could mean more than just lessening the spreading of diseases, according to Elaine Almeida, advertising freshman and petition signer.

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Note-sharing company brings services to UT

Restaurants face possible new regulations

By Samantha Ketterer @sam_kett

Nexus Notes, an Australia-based college-notesharing company, opened its website to UT students last week — the company’s first venture into the American marketplace.

Through the Nexus Notes website, students can submit a semester’s worth of notes to be posted online for a course. From there, students can purchase the notes for $35, and half of the total proceeds go to the original author.

Xavier Collins, business development manager at Nexus Notes, said the website serves as tutoring in a written format and allows students to learn from other students.

“The best students can make great teachers,”

Collins said. “We see student-produced content as a supplement.”

Although Collins said the notes are intended to be resource, Panos Melisaris, economics junior and chair of the Student Conduct Advisory Committee, said purchasing someone else’s notes is unethical.

“I think that kind of defeats the purpose of going to class and learning,” Melisaris said. “If you’re buying notes, you’re not necessarily learning or processing the information. … You’re essentially buying the information from someone else and removing that incentive to do well.”

Collins said the notes are comparable to studentwritten textbooks and could foster a peer-to-peer

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By Jackie Wang @jcqlnwng

Cuatro Kowalski, owner of the West Campus barbecue restaurant Freedmen’s, plans to oppose the Austin City Council’s proposed resolution that would require restaurants near residences to mitigate smoke emissions.

The Council will vote Thursday to amend the City code to require restaurants using wood- or charcoal-burning stoves or grills to install smokeeliminating methods.

Council member Sabino Renteria proposed the code amendment when several District 3 constituents complained about food trucks’ smoke emissions. There are currently no provisions in the City code to regulate smoke emissions from restaurants or mobile food vendors.

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The original resolution would have required restaurants and food trucks located 150 feet or less from a residentially zoned property to install a method to eliminate smoke. After Franklin Barbecue owner

Aaron Franklin protested the boundary Tuesday, Renteria changed the distance to 100 feet.

Freedmen’s, located across the street from Regents West apartment complex, falls under this new

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target for the proposed code amendments.

Kowalski said the current resolution would be too expensive for him to comply with.

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Neurobiologist receives grant

By Rund Khayyat @rundkhayyat

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CORRECTION In the March 31, 2015, edition of The Daily Texan, the article “Campus to receive more solar charging stations” incorrectly discussed the current work projects in the lab. The lab is developing software to log data in order to for people to learn more about solar energy. The stations will be for data collection and not to offer additional charging stations for students.

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Neuroscience associate professor Nicholas Priebe and his team received a research grant to study how environments affect human senses.

Priebe, along with three other experts in the field of sensory biology, received a grant worth $1.05 million to study how sensory systems change as the environment changes.

“If you are inside in a normally lit room, your eyes have adjusted to that level of light,” Priebe said. “When you walk outside, you are immediately in a much brighter space. It takes your brain a moment to adjust to this suddenly brighter light. This is what they call adaptation.”

These adaptations take place with all of our senses.

Scientists tend to focus and find theoretical explanations for how adaptation occurs to only one sense.

Priebe’s research is special because he is trying to use the

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continues from page 1 the competitive nature of the infrastructure for having 21stcentury educational research.”

In the bill’s current form, UT-Austin is slated to receive $67,500,000 to renovate Welch Hall.

There are several other bills that would offer state universities revenue bonds, including one, which Sen. Judith Zaffirini (D-Laredo) proposed, that would give UT-Austin $100 million for Welch Hall and $105 million for renovations to the McCombs School of Business.

Kelsey Evans, College of Natural Sciences chief external relations officer, said the University requested $100 million for Welch Hall, and she is “cautiously optimistic” they will receive between $67.5 and $100 million from the state.

University spokesman Gary Susswein said Welch Hall was chosen to receive funding because it would have a high impact on the student body.

“The renovations at Welch Hall would make significant positive impact on our research, on our students and in maintaining our excellence in the sciences,” Susswein said.

Welch’s oldest wing, built in the late 1920s, is undergoing a

same experimental approaches to test different ideas in all the senses, said Marc Airhart, communications coordinator for the College of Natural Sciences.

“This will standardize and set a fundamental explanation that applies to all the senses”, Airhart said.

The research is significant because these adaptations take place in the neocortex, the part of the brain that humans have developed the most, a fact that distinguishes humans from animals, according to Priebe.

“The neat thing is that the circuitry in the neocortex is very similar across all the senses,” Priebe said. “So, our idea is there’s a common circuitry that processes all these different modalities. We want to understand these common rules.”

Once this is understood, researchers can understand why the human neocortex has developed more than other animals, Priebe said.

The Human Frontier Science Program encourages international and $30 million renovation project in June, funded from the University’s and the College of Natural Sciences’ budgets, Evans said. The TRBs would go toward renovating the rest of the building.

The money will go to adding and updating classrooms with office renovations, the creation of collaborative space, increased security measures and updating labs, many of which Evans said are not suitable for lab experiments.

“It’s still going to be Welch, but it’s going to be a modern, sophisticated version of Welch Hall,” Evans said.

Cameron Crane, Student Government natural sciences representative and college ambassador, said most classrooms and offices in the building do not warrant much renovation, but the lab facilities do.

Biology junior Josh Shandera, who has taken many courses in Welch, said the building, as a whole, needs renovation. He said he thinks the projects should be funded by the state.

“The labs are older,” Shandera said. “They’re smaller.

They’re cramped. The building itself — you can definitely tell they’re not new. For conducting research, you want to have the best facilities possible.”

interdisciplinary collaboration in life science research.

Priebe specializes in vision, whereas some of his colleagues specialize in other senses. Of the other researchers working on the project, Israel Nelken is an expert on hearing at the Hebrew University in Israel; Ilan Lampl is an expert on touch at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel; and Adrienne Fairhall is a theorist at the University of Washington in Seattle.

“It is beneficial to see diverse perspectives, and this grant provides the mechanism to do that,” Priebe said.

The research will lead to technological, conceptual and global innovation, according to neuroscience graduate student Benjamin Scholl.

“Technologically, UT provides us with tools that allow us to target specific parts of the brain, so we will be using genetically modified transgenic mice,” Scholl said. “Conceptually, he will develop a common principle that might be applied to all researchers worldwide.”

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continues from page 1 “I definitely think it’s a good idea,” Almeida said. “If they had it free on campus, I think that would make it easier for a lot of people.

By having free STD testing, it lowers the stigma around getting tested. I think having it free on campus would really just change dialogue about STDs and safe sex.”

The cost of STD testing varies on many different factors, such as number of different tests, according to Susan Hochman, assistant director for health promotion and public information at UHS. The UHS also provides different options to make costs less of a burden for

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students, Hochman said.

“We provide testing services; we provide the selfbilling discount for students without insurance or who don’t want to bill their insurance, and students don’t have to pay at the time of service,” Hochman said. “We also provide community referrals to community resources where testing is free for students, so cost shouldn’t be a barrier because students can get free testing off campus if cost is a barrier on campus.”

UHS knows that getting tested can be a struggle for students, and the organization tries to keep its rates reasonable, Hochman said.

“We do what we can to encourage testing and make it affordable for students,” Hochman said.

STDs: UT Diagnoses By the Numbers

1.3% 0.5% 1.4% 0.4% 0.1%

chlamydia genital herpes genital warts/HPV gonorrhea HIV

Statistics based on the ACHA-NCHA II Fall 2013 Survey of 934 UT Students.

SMOKE continues from page 1 “The resolution is all about ‘Let’s start talking about ways to mitigate the smoke,’” Kowalski said. “But how this all could potentially affect me is I would have to buy expensive equipment and custom retrofit to make it work with my barbecue pits and the smokehouse.”

Freedmen’s would need to buy two smoke scrubbers, a device that reduces smoke emissions, to comply with the language as it is now, Kowalski said.

“I’ve seen prices from $15,000 to $30,000 apiece,” Kowalski said. “I’d have to buy two. So you can imagine this isn’t something we can really budget for or really absorb.”

David Chincanchan, Renteria’s policy aide, said Renteria is a big supporter of local business.

“He doesn’t want to negatively impact any of the great small businesses we have around town that are good neighbors to the communities in which they operate,” Chincanchan said.

In the business’s two years, it has never received any complaints,

If a business owner of any type of business is engaging in behavior that negatively impacts the health of residents, then that behavior must be addressed.

— Steve Adler Austin mayor

Kowalski said.

“If you think about it, we dealt with more residents in that time than really any other barbecue restaurant,” Kowalski said. “If any other barbecue restaurant opens around residencies, those residents live there for more than a year. We’ve had several cycles of students, and none of them have complained.”

Annie Xue, business junior and Regents West resident, said she has never been to the restaurant but also has never had any complaints.

“I don’t really notice smoke by my room,” Xue said. “It doesn’t really affect me on a daily basis.”

Austin Mayor Steve Adler, co-sponsor of the resolution, said the

goal is not to burden business owners.

“The intent is to protect the health and safety of residents of our city,” Adler said.

“If a business owner of any type of business is engaging in behavior that negatively impacts the health of residents, then that behavior must be addressed.”

Kowalski said he understands that eliminating smoke and pollutants near residential areas is ideal but also said Freedmen’s does not produce that much smoke.

“I would like to see something in there that says we’re going to deal with this on a case-bycase basis,” Kowalski said.

“If there are serious health hazards, then yes, we need to deal with it.”

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learning environment. Publishing one’s notes for profit is also a benefit, according to Collins.

“This is giving students the opportunity to [take] something they’ve put all this hard work into and actually generate an income out of it and help students at the same time,” Collins said.

Public relations senior Mia Fredricks said Collins approached her to encourage her to submit her notes to the website for fu-

ture students to purchase.

She is now an “author” on the website.

“I think with a student body of over 50,000, it’s a really great opportunity,” Fredricks said. “Everyone has had someone that has given them notes in the past.”

Roseanne Carreon, women’s and gender studies and theatre and dance sophomore, said purchasing other students’ past notes could help her gain a better understanding of a course.

“It’s always good to get

someone else’s interpretation of what’s going on in the class [and] how they understand it,” Carreon said.

High textbook prices might also motivate students to purchase past semesters’ notes, according to Collins, although he said the notes are not intended to be substitutes for textbooks or real learning.

“Textbooks are getting so expensive, and it may be the case that, potentially, student-created content is seen as a better value for

money,” Collins said. “But at the same time, we’re simply here to create an extra learning resource.”

Collins said Nexus Notes will use UT’s experience as a model for growth at other American universities if the website takes off.

“We really love the fact that students are so proud to be here,” Collins said. “They really get behind the University, and that sort of campus culture, we thought, would be really conducive to growing the business.”

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Beverly Okafor, biology junior and Alpha Epsilon Delta international relations director, is hit in the face with a pie by biomedical engineering sophomore Amit Narawane. AED organized the event to help raise money for children’s surgery.

AED hosts pie-throwing charity event

By Wes Scarborough @westhemess13

Presidents from various student organizations around campus got pied for a good cause Wednesday.

In light of April Fools’ Day, pre-health honor society Alpha Epsilon Delta held its third annual Pie a President event, which benefits Dell’s Children’s Surgical Global Outreach, at Speedway Plaza.

The presidents wore a sign reading their name and the organization they represented. Anyone from the UT community could purchase a whipped cream pie, or two, to throw in the face of their targeted president.

“It’s worth it,” said Kendall Huddleston, petroleum engineering junior and Texas

Bluebonnets president. “It’s very much worth it. They’re only putting whipped cream on there.”

Presidents such as Huddleston, who personally got pied more than 10 times, stood on a giant blue tarp stretched across the plaza. The Alpha Delta Pi sorority, Texas Blazers and many other organizations came out to support the benefit. AED officers stood on the side, equipped with paper towels to wipe down any president after receiving a pie.

“We just thought it’d be a good way to get the campus to come out and support the cause,” said Joshua Carrasco, neurobiology senior and AED president.

AED is the nation’s oldest pre-health society. The Texas Alpha chapter seeks

to promote opportunities that would help anyone wishing to enter the medical field prepare for their future careers. Carrasco said the event started when Dell Children’s Surgical Global Outreach came to speak to the organization three years ago.

Dell Children’s Surgical Global Outreach is a group of medical professionals who provide surgical care to children in low-income communities.

Most recently, the group has partnered with the Shalom Foundation to provide care at the Moore Pediatric Surgical Center in Guatemala City.

“Their story was very touching to us as a prehealth honor society,” Carrasco said. “Seeing them live their dreams and going

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out to do these procedures was really inspiring.”

Carrasco said the group joined up with the global outreach to try and bring together organizations from all over campus.

AED charged $3 for one pie and $5 for two pies to throw at any of the campus organization leaders who volunteered.

Biochemistry sophomore Mashal Kara came out to throw a pie at Aftab Zindani, president of the Ismaili Muslim Students Association and mechanical engineering senior.

Kara said she felt an organization benefitting and working with children is a good cause to support.

“I think we should have more organizations to come together like this for a good cause,” Kara said.

Increasing implementation of non-shade coffee production, also called intensive coffee production, has resulted in an unsustainable practice that needs to be changed, according to a UT researcher.

“Intensive coffee production is not sustainable,” Shalene Jha, integrative biology assistant professor, said in a statement released by the University in April 2014. “You exhaust the soil, and after a couple of decades, it can no longer grow coffee.”

An alternative that avoids the environmentally harmful effects of intensive coffee production is increasing cultivation of traditional shade-grown coffee, Jha said in the statement.

Traditional shade-grown coffee plantations have existed for centuries and provide ecosystem-friendly services, such as the filtering of water and air, for their rainforest habitat.

“The oldest coffee farms in the world have thrived for centuries because the forest replenishes the soil for them,” Jha said in the statement.

Shade-grown coffee plantations only use the arabica variety, which produces a higher-quality coffee as compared to intensive coffee production, Jah said in the statement.

Non-shade-grown coffee can use any type of coffee plant species, such as robusta, which produces a lower-quality coffee, according to Jah. In a study Jha co-authored, her team found that the proportion of land used to cultivate shade-grown coffee has fallen by approximately 20 percent since 1996 — even during a time when customers, especially in the United States, shifted toward purchasing more specialty coffees, which account for 37

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percent of U.S. coffee sales.

“We were surprised that, despite two decades of growth in public awareness of where coffee comes, shade-grown coffee only seems to be grown in a few regions,” Jha said in the statement.

According to Jha, incentives from groups such as the government and aid organizations are necessary in order to increase the proportion of coffee cultivation dedicated to shade-grown farming.

Chemistry sophomore Thuong Thai said she believes incentives will ease the burden on farmers who transition from intensive coffee production to shade-grown coffee production.

“The farmers will have to essentially uproot their lifestyle in order to become shade-grown coffee farmers,” Thai said. “Any sort of financial package would help.”

Jha encourages individuals to ask for shade-grown coffee when ordering at coffeehouses.

However, Karan Mahendroo, business honors and Plan II freshman and employee at Starbucks, the largest coffeehouse chain in the world, says that none of his customers have requested shade-grown coffee.

“A majority of our customers already have our menu memorized, and they know that we don’t carry shade-grown coffee,” Mahendroo said.

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Clockwise from top left: 1) Models walk the catwalk at last year’s Spectrum Fashion Show, produced by UT students. 2) Freshman Tina Tran stands behind her latest design for the upcoming Fusion Fashion Show. 3) Tran makes final adjjustments to one of her pieces. 4) Textiles & apparel senior Cheryl Lam works in the lab.

UT Fusion Fashion Show showcases carefully designed fashions

By Avani Patel Guest Columnist

As a junior designer and assistant to the head of show production for the University Fashion Group, I am beginning to understand just the tip of the iceberg of the UT fashion show — an event produced annually since the inception of The School of Human Ecology.

Seniors on the apparel design track of the Textiles and Apparel Division will show five looks from their body of work in the UT Fusion Fashion Show April 23, produced by the University Fashion Group.

What started as a variety of presentations to an intimate audience has grown into a professional event at the Frank Erwin Center, with experienced models provided by Webber Productions, an audience upward of 5,000 guests and televised broadcasting on Time Warner Cable’s Longhorn Network.

This growth has been supported by the University Co-op’s financial support and the increasing involvement of students in the University Fashion Group.

The University Fashion Group has grown in scope and responsibility for the fashion show, and today the organization is the main producer of the event — building the stage design, developing marketing and PR around the event

and coordinating back-of-house functions.

What started as a small band of students in 1978 has grown into a large organization with head, assistant and associate officers as well as general members. The organization serves to link members of all majors in the fashion tracks, bringing guest speakers to meetings and working backstage for local fashion shows as well as during New York Fashion Week. In the spring, the organization focuses on producing the UT fashion show, which is named UT Fusion this year.

The organization names the fashion show every year based on submissions from general members. The current president, Ronit Joselevitz, has held several officer positions in the University Fashion Group and showed her collection as a senior designer at the UT Spectrum show last year.

Serving all these roles, Joselevitz has “‘seen how the University Fashion Group has worked together to create a larger hype and plan a bigger fashion show through the perspective of a member, officer, designer and now president.

It’s definitely helped [her] grow in terms of career path goals and has showed [her] just how multi faceted fashion can be.”

Distinguished senior lecturer Eve Nicols has been the director of the UT fashion show since her arrival at the University, and she heads an

advanced event production course that meets twice a week, a requirement for UFG officers.

Nicols believes “there are fashion shows in all parts of the fashion industry, so getting this experience is invaluable for several career choices. Leadership and event planning opportunities lead to work opportunities in the future.’”

Students here at UT engage in show production and professional photo shoots as well as work with University administration and corporate sponsors, such as Lexus of Austin and Cotton Incorporated.

When I was a freshman, the University Fashion Group provided a community to unite fashion-minded students. As I was taking general core classes, the group allowed me to meet students I would spend much of my time with as I progressed through the program.

As the assistant to the head of show production, I work with local hair and makeup salons to channel looks for our senior designers’ fashion show and photoshoots. I also help produce the show in terms of music and other aesthetic choices.

The show production team serves as the liaisons between the fashion group and senior designers. As a junior designer, I will be participating in the Lexus of Austin Design Challenge, for which I will show a look which

transitions from day to night. Twenty-nine junior designers will showcase their looks in the presentation room at the Frank Erwin Center, and the top 10 looks will be chosen to walk the runway. A text-to-vote poll will help decide the winners, who will receive scholarships from Lexus of Austin.

The senior designers have taken several design and presentation courses to prepare for the show. They each have developed an activewear look, which ranges from technical, functional sports to creative looks such as beekeeping and fan dancing. Additionally, each designer shows an evening wear or bridal look, as well as a three-look capsule collection.

Several fashion industry members in the Austin area critique these looks during “panels,” or presentations in which the designers discuss their inspiration and design process for their work. The fashion show provides them with an opportunity to have their work viewed by a large public audience as well as experience what fashion events will be like in the industry.

The UT Fusion Fashion Show will be held April 23 at the Frank Erwin Center at 7:15 p.m.

Admission is free, and all are welcome.

Patel is a business honors, finance and textiles and apparel junior from Sugar Land.

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Musical collaboration bridges gaps of understanding

Pursuing the arts at UT is a valuable endeavor

By Muhammad Ahsan Shabbir Guest Columnist

The rich culture of Pakistan still thrives thanks in part to the Butler School of Music here at UT, and the school’s three-year partnership with the National Academy of Performing Arts in Karachi, Pakistan.

The four regions of Pakistan — Sindh, Punjab, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Baluchistan — each represent unique sets of sounds. The more we, as musicians from Pakistan, collaborate and perform with artists around the world, the more we realize the uniqueness of our own sound.

Through NAPA, one of the first performing arts academies in Pakistan, Pakistani musicians have the opportunity to work with some of the best music and theater faculty available — individuals who have survived in Pakistan’s fragile entertainment industry.

Established in 2005, NAPA aims to mold students into artists who can express the uniqueness of Pakistani music. Professors at the institute do this by offering a unique set of academic courses that are not available in other schools or universities in the country.

The three-year partnership between Butler and NAPA has only furthered this goal. Facilitated by The South Asia Institute at UT and financed through a federal grant, the partnership allows 12 scholars from NAPA to visit and study at Butler for a semester. The first batch of four NAPA musicians came in the spring of 2014; a second batch of two artists came in the fall of 2014. I am part of the last batch of six scholars on this program, here to observe and audit music classes. My peers and I were selected for this program by our senior music faculty at NAPA based on our grades in music theory, the results of our practical/viva

exams and our overall participation in music performances back home.

Studying in Austin has been a great learning experience thus far. In my classes, I study sight reading, composition, music theory, and voice. At the same time, another NAPA scholar, Arsalan Pareyal, and I are helping develop music curricula for NAPA and are also preparing for a collaborative ensemble performance. The ensemble consists of 12 people, six from Butler and six from NAPA, and we will perform in the spring of 2016 in both the United States and in Pakistan.

This semester Yousuf, another NAPA scholar and I are taking part in the Concert Chorale — singing great choral works of Haydn, Bach and Bernstein. We are also taking vocal pedagogy lessons from David Small and performing in the UT Middle Eastern Ensemble conducted by Sonia Seeman.

Waqas, another NAPA student and talented tabla player, is performing in the ensemble as well. He is also getting to learn music notation and drum lessons at Butler.

Arsalan is learning jazz and working with the Jazz Combo at UT. Another student, Kashan Khan, is studying classical guitar and western music theory. Kashif Hussain from the theatre department at NAPA is learning acting. Needless to say, Butler has opened up a breadth of opportunities for us and other Pakistani artists who have gone through the program.

It feels great sharing the rich musical heritage of Pakistan with our peers through our lectures and recitals as well as through presentations at Butler and other colleges in Austin.

In such lectures, we always try to find a common tonality between traditional Pakistani music and American music — something that never ceases to amaze the audience. We all have many more

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opportunities to look forward to in the coming months.

My fellow students Arsalan and Kashan had their dream come true when they went for a guitar workshop with English guitarist Guthrie Govan and had the chance to meet and interview him.

Waqas looks forward to meeting Ustad Zakir Hussain next week in San Francisco. I am looking forward to continuing to attend workshops and master’s level classes and recitals.

One of the best features of the program is an online video link set up by the State Department grant at NAPA. It enables NAPA and BSM faculty and students to interact and have live video lessons in real time.

The first in the series of online workshops this semester was with Small, during which NAPA students in Pakistan learned about voice technique, breathing and posture.

Along with integrating in the UT community, NAPA students have been performing for greater Austin. We played Pakistani folk and Sufi songs at St. Andrew’s Episcopal School and in The Fine Arts library at UT. Both performances were very well received. We also performed Turkish songs at a Nowruz, or Iranian New Year, festival at Central Market.

I look forward to our upcoming performances with the Middle Eastern Ensemble, Concert Chorale, Jazz Combo and at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. But most of all, I hope that such exchanges continue, as they help facilitate a higher level of communication and understanding between the U.S. and Pakistan. I would like to thank the U.S. State Department, the South Asia Institute, NAPA and the Pakistani community in Austin for their support.

Shabbir is a visiting research scholar at the South Asia Institute in the College of Liberal Arts from Karachi, Pakistan.

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By Amil Malik Forum Editor

In the words of Henry David Thoreau, “The world is but a canvas for our imagination.” How we express our imagination varies, but it is most often demonstrated through the arts. Here at UT, students have numerous opportunities to engage with the arts — through music, photography and fashion. This Forum issue highlights two diverse artistic initiatives currently on campus.

One is the music of Pakistani students from the National Academy of Performing Arts here through a grant from the State Department and the South Asia Institute. The other is the work of current textiles and apparel students in preparation for the UT Fusion Fashion Show to be put on by the University Fashion Group April 23.

Malik is a Plan II, business honors and finance junior from Austin.

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ALBUM REVIEW | I DON’T LIKE SHIT

Earl Sweatshirt releases dark second studio album

By Chris Duncan @chr_dunc

Earl Sweatshirt, the previously missing member of Odd Future, a Los Angeles-based hip-hop collective, released his newest album, I Don’t Like Shit, I Don’t Go Outside: An Album by Earl Sweatshirt, on March 23.

I Don’t Like Shit continues Earl’s no-nonsense approach to music defined in his debut studio album, Doris, but to a further extreme. Compared to his previous works, the cold and depressing feeling of I Don’t Like Shit is a let down.

With his immense skill, many listeners hoped Earl’s follow-up to Doris would have more energy, passion and aggression and bring diversity and energy to his music. Instead, Earl goes deeper into the darkness with I Don’t Like Shit. The album has none of the necessary compromises Doris has with its occasionally up-beat songs and sometimes hopeful themes.

On this record, Earl seeks to please no one; the songs are depressing and extremely antisocial.

The goal of the album appears to be one overarching feeling of claustrophobia. The producers did a great job hitting their mark to create a very spe-

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cific tone, but the flat and lonely experience leaves more to be desired.

The slow-motion jazz chords and the beats may be simple, but the background tracks have fartoo-powerful emotional weight to it. The album is a full-bore, swift knockout of intense sorrow. Samples of children’s screams on “AM // Radio” bring a dark humor into the mix, and the record’s leading single, “Grief,” successfully executes a full takeover of the listener’s emotions.

I Don’t Like Shit is plagued by its up-anddown style. On “AM // Radio,” Wiki, member of the rap group Ratking, spits a few bars and fizzles out, but Earl comes in strong and attacks the track on the second half. This progression represents the record as a whole: About half

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Rapper Earl Sweatshirt released his second studio album on March 23. Unlike his last album, Doris, this album has a much darker vibe.

of the verses seem lethargic, but, in the other half, Earl goes into full-on attack mode. The album is a constant cycle of anticipation and disappointment.

Maybe it was a choice he consciously made, but that decision makes for a confusing listen.

At some points, an inattentive listener might think that Earl put no effort into

his music. Upon closer inspection, themes of trust are abundant, but the lack of variety gives a misleading impression, making this album anything but a casual listen.

One of the finer aspects of the album is Earl’s lyrical abilities. In most tracks, such as “Off Top” and “Huey,” his words fit together perfectly as a jig-

saw puzzle would. On the first track, “Huey,” Earl kicks off with “Foot and hand on the gates / We was jumpin’ em, fuck, I’m like quicksand in my ways / Was always stuck in ‘em, stuck it in until an ambulance came.”

If listening to details of Earl’s depression doesn’t sound like a worthy investment of your time, this

album isn’t for you. It will feel tedious and drawn out despite its short length.

I admire how Earl ignored commercial success for a more artistic angle, but an album only works if that style proves to be genius. I Don’t Like Shit trips up too often to be considered anything more than an intriguing prospect and forgettable listen.

to the spotlight. Ajikawo starred in two BBC TV series, “Youngers” and “Spirit Warriors,” before pursuing her rap career on a full-time basis. With six mixtapes and a full-length album dropped in five years, Little Simz established herself as a compelling lyricist with a distinctive British accent who

isn’t slowing down.

Artists you might like — Estelle, The Weeknd, GoldLink

number of unofficial ones to promote the release of his latest album, I Don’t Like Shit, I Don’t Go Outside: An Album by Earl Sweatshirt. Earl is one of the most enigmatic characters in the rap industry, and this album certainly reflects that.

Fair warning: You won’t find a single clean track on

this album. The beats are as dark as the lyrics, leaving you slightly concerned for Earl’s well being. It’s easy to write off a melodramatic 21-yearold, but it’s obvious he’s pushing boundaries and enjoys questioning authority.

Artists you might like — Tyler, The Creator, Frank Ocean, MF Doom

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Artists you might like — J. Cole, Drake, Lupe Fiasco Little Simz Little Simz ranks as the youngest and most vibrant rapper on this list. Winner of Snoop Dogg’s most re-

cent Underground Heat MC battle, the rapper, whose real name is Simbi Ajikawo, packs her verses with material that seems to be straight from her diary. She rarely sings beyond the necessary hooks, and it’s the experimental nature of her tracks that keeps listeners coming back.

Ajikawo, 21, is no stranger

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Kern, Texas slam Houston in shootout

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Longhorns fight from seven down to edge out Cougars.

After a combined 26 hits and 25 runs, Texas defeated Houston, 13–12, Wednesday night to extend its win streak to a season-best six games and bring its record to 24—9.

The game was an oldfashioned Texas shootout from the get-go. In the top of the first, junior center fielder Lindsey Stephens, last week’s Big 12 Conference Player of the Week, sent one into the stands for a two-run home run to put the Longhorns on the board early.

In the bottom of the inning, Houston senior shortstop Selena Hernandez countered with a tworun home run of her own to tie the game up heading into the second.

The second inning, which saw no runs scored by either team, was the calm before the storm.

In the top of the third, sophomore left fielder Stephanie Wong hit her second home run of the season to give the Longhorns a one-run advantage. The Cougars reacted quickly, scoring three runs of their own.

Halfway through the game, the Cougars picked up their play, scoring five runs in the fourth. Down 10–3 heading into the fifth, the Longhorns began to fight back, swinging for the fences. With a couple quick hits and a generous error from the opposing team, Texas loaded the bases for

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Junior designated right fielder Holly Kern hit a grand slam in Wednesday’s 13-12 victory over Houston. Texas trailed by as many as seven runs, but four home runs helped extend its win streak to six games. Texas has won seven straight road games.

junior right fielder Holly Kern. The pressure of trailing didn’t faze Kern as she hit a grand slam to cut the lead to 10–7 and put Texas back in the game.

Texas produced another strong inning at a crucial point in the game. Following a run by Wong, her third of the game, junior catcher Erin Shireman followed in her teammate’s footsteps and hit a home run of her own.

Shireman’s three-run home

run helped the Longhorns reclaim the lead for the first time since the third inning.

But Hernandez hit her second home run of the night to tie up the game and send the Longhorns and Cougars into the seventh inning at 11 apiece.

A single by freshman third baseman Randel Leahy ignited the final flame for Texas in the top of the seventh. Off a pair of singles and a pair of bunts, Texas

Plan II freshman Billy Begala is a pitcher on the Texas club baseball team.

Begala hopes to have a successful club season before trying out for the varsity

Club baseball throws Begala a chance to keep dreaming Billy Begala, a Virginia native and Plan II freshman, has loved playing baseball ever since he could walk, and he now continues to pursue that passion on UT’s club baseball team.

His older brother’s first two words were bat and ball, which made it no surprise when Begala decided to follow suit and spend his youth on the baseball diamond.

Begala, who has been playing organized baseball since he was 5, had options to play at smaller schools on scholarship.

He decided, however, to come to Texas, citing the more rigorous academic curriculum and a chance to push himself to become the best baseball player he could be as motivating factors.

He found more here than he could have anticipated.

“I know that all my teammates care just as deeply about the game as I do, and they’ve all put in just as much hard work as I have,” Begala said.

Begala’s preparation on game day begins by

on the next play to finish off 2-for-4 with three runs and a walk.

Down one with one out left, Hernandez hit a single to put two on, but sophomore third baseman Shelby Miller grounded out to second to end the game and give the Longhorns the victory.

The Longhorns will seek their 25th win this Friday against Texas State in San Marcos.

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scored two quick runs to give the Cougars just three outs to make up the deficit in the final frame.

Freshman pitcher Kristen Clark and the rest of the Longhorns wasted no time stepping up on defense, forcing the first two batters to ground out. But Houston junior outfielder Katie St. Pierre pushed one last time.

St. Pierre, who is hitting a team-best .367 on the year, doubled to left and scored

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arriving to the field a little over an hour before first pitch. As a pitcher, he has pre-game plans that differ depending on which role he will fill that day.

“If I’m the starting pitcher, I usually don’t talk much, and I’ll start warming up to pitch about 20–25 minutes before the game starts,” Begala said.

“I try to time it so my last warm up pitch is no more than five minutes before my first live pitch. If I’m in relief, I’ll do some light tossing or just try and help any of the other guys get loose and warm.”

Begala said the final few minutes before game time have a looser, but still competitive, atmosphere.

“This is a pretty relaxed group of guys on this team,” Begala said. “Before our games, guys are usually joking around or playing music. But, once the game starts, we’re all about winning.”

That competitive spirit has anchored this team’s success.

The club team made it to the National Club Baseball Association World Series last summer, and, while that stay was short, the continuing influx of talent and wealth of veteran

players make this an intriguing group moving forward.

For Begala, a rematch with Texas A&M, which the team played into a series split last time they met, and the World Series are the main attractions on the horizon.

“I can’t wait until we play A&M again,” Begala said.

“After that, it’s on to regionals in Dallas and, hopefully, the World Series in Kentucky.”

Begala, who has pitched 9.2 innings with four strikeouts this season, also has plans to try out for the Longhorns varsity team — something he says has been a dream of his for a very long time.

“If I’m able to get a little bigger and stronger and start throwing a little harder, I would definitely try out,” Begala said.

While personal success is nice, Begala remains adamant that the team concept is most important to him.

“The way I see it, I have nothing to lose when trying-out for the varsity team,” Begala said. “Worstcase scenario: I’m back to where I am now, which is playing baseball at my dream school with my best friends.”

The No. 3 men’s golf team will travel to Georgia this weekend for the 3M Augusta Invitational. After a week off, the Longhorns return to the course seeking their fourthconsecutive team win.

The format of the tournament this week is slightly varied. Instead of the usual three-day competition, the tournament will be held on two days, Saturday and Sunday. The competitors will play 54 holes in shotgun format, playing 36 continuous holes on the first day.

Texas will send five players to Georgia to compete in the 15-team field, which includes 2014 champion University of Central Florida. Senior Kramer Hickok, sophomores Beau Hossler and Gavin Hall, and freshmen Doug Ghim and

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Scottie Schefler will represent the Longhorns.

Texas is currently coming off three-straight wins, the most recent of which at the Linger Longer Invitational late last month.

Before that, the Longhorns finished first in the Johnny Hayt Invitational and the Southern Highlands Collegiate Masters.

WOMEN’S TENNIS| REANNA ZUNIGA Texas women’s tennis will take on the Ohio State Buckeyes this weekend for the first time in program history.

Coming off a successful weekend against two unranked teams, Texas will gear up against the No. 19 Buckeyes, who are currently 10 spots above the No. 29-ranked Longhorns.

Ohio State, which entered the top 20 this week after winning its eighth straight game, is undefeated in Big Ten conference play with a 14–4 overall record.

Although Texas is the underdog in the matchup, the team is no stranger to upsetting higher-ranked opponents.

Late last month, Texas took down then-No. 18 Texas Tech and, before that, then-No. 23 Oklahoma.

Texas’ lone ranked player, No. 47 junior Breaunna Addison, will most likely face off against Ohio State sophomore Gabriella De Santis.

Although De Santis is not nationally ranked, she has played at No. 1 singles in her last two matchups and

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has a Big Ten record of 6–1.

She received the Big Ten Athlete of the Week honor for the second time this season.

In doubles, De Santis and sophomore Sandy Niehaus are nationally ranked at No. 44, just one spot below the No. 43-ranked Texas duo of Addison and freshman Ryann Foster. The two pairs will most likely meet at No. 1 doubles for a close match.

Texas sophomore Neda Koprcina will presumably take on Niehaus on court three. Niehaus is currently undefeated in Big Ten play.

The match will be held at the Westwood Country Club in Austin.

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SPORTS BRIEFLY Hattis to forgo final volleyball season

Head coaches Jerritt Elliott (volleyball) and Karen Aston (women’s basketball) announced Wednesday that junior Sara Hattis will forgo her senior volleyball season to play basketball exclusively in the 2015–2016 school year.

Hattis played both sports during the 2012– 2013 and 2014–2015 seasons. She was a middle blocker on the volleyball team for three seasons, including the 2012 national championship season, and a forward on the basketball team.

“We support Sara in whatever she does,” Elliott said in a statement. “She will always be a part of our program and the entire Longhorn family.”

Hattis has two years of eligibility remaining in her basketball career and is expected to contribute to the success of the program.

“We are excited to have Sara as a yearround member of our team now,” Aston said in a statement. “She provides valuable depth at the post position, and her personality is always a joy to be around. With an entire summer in our system, Sara will help us continue to progress as a program.”

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Sound artist to discuss Calibration Room

By Mary Cantrell @mkcant

You are in what looks like a storage room, and you are entirely alone. You hear a collection of sounds — scissors slicing through the air, people sucking their thumbs. You see numbers being projected on the wall. You aren’t dreaming — you’re in the Calibration Room, an art installation in the Visual Arts Center.

Christine Sun Kim, the sound artist behind the Calibrating Room, has been deaf since birth. Her goal was to redefine the way people understand sound and silence.

“I want people to leave feeling less fixed on the notion of sound and what it means collectively,” Kim said. “Sound doesn’t mean only receiving through the ears.”

Kim, who is currently an artist in residence at the VAC, collected a variety of sounds for the project, ranging from feet walking in sand to the sound of a maxi pad being ripped from underwear. She said she deliberately avoided asking other people if the recordings she collected sounded “right.”

“It’s important to use a sound that empowers my work, so I haven’t asked anybody for help,” Kim said. “I get these from my own voice by using objects, parts of the body or hitting things and from sound samples I find online.”

When a visitor walks into the Calibration Room, they hear a variety of sounds played at a custom volume. A technician outside the room is responsible for setting the decibel level, and that technician factors each individual visitor’s hearing level into the experience. Kim said it was important to her that the work be accessible to people who can hear sounds at a

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Christine Sun Kim is creating work that challenges people’s perception of sound. She will have two exhibits in Austin this week — Bounce House and Calibration Room.

variety of levels.

“Each individual’s hearing level is very personal,” Kim said. “It’s just like vision; everyone’s vision is different, and everyone requires a different prescription if they have glasses. It’s the same thing with our ability to hear.”

The sound being played at any moment, and the decibel level at which the sound is being piped into the room, are projected onto the wall as part of the installation. Kim said she tried to get the broadest range

of sounds possible, and some are less pleasant than others — visitors can expect to hear anything from an airplane taking off to a person giving birth.

Although conversational speech takes place at about 60 decibels, Kim’s recorded sounds measure anywhere from two to 115 decibels. Technicians can adjust sounds up to 50 decibels above a participant’s natural loudness comfort level without injuring anyone’s hearing. Kim said the installation centers around personal

relationships people have with sound — hearing is not a collective or communal experience in the way people might think it is, she said.

“The concept is that no matter what your decibel level is, you won’t miss anything in that space,” Kim said. “In that space, I’m not considered deaf. I’m accessing all the sound.”

In planning her project, Kim worked closely with the VAC’s Sound + Vision program and with the Church of

the Friendly Ghost, a community organization working with experimental sound and music.

Xochi Solis, director of events and public programming at the VAC, said the staff at the VAC collaborated extensively with Kim to organize the technical aspects of the Calibration Room and to repurpose the storage space effectively.

“This ambitious project has challenged some of our own perceptions of sound,” Solis said. “It’s been very exciting to

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learn new things about ourselves alongside our artist.”w Kim will host a talk Thursday at 4 p.m. in the Art Building to discuss her body of work, including the Calibration Room. The installation is free and open to the public.

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Culture found to influence sexual attraction

Four innovative rappers to watch out for this April

By Kat Sampson @katclarksamp

From Drake’s surprise mixtape to Kendrick Lamar’s highly anticipated three-year project, To Pimp a Butterfly, it’s been a notable few months for rappers.

If you need to catch up, here are four rappers producing boundary-pushing content in 2015.

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With Meghan Trainor’s “All About That Bass” hitting the top of the charts, it was only a matter of time before scientists looked into whether “boys like a little more booty to hold at night,” as Trainor claims.

In a recent paper titled “Lumbar curvature: a previously undiscovered standard of attractiveness,” researchers found that their subjects — UT students in this case — prefer protruding posteriors, at least when they occur as the result of a particular back curvature.

There’s no shortage of studies looking into what traits heterosexual men find attractive in women. Throughout the research, two themes emerge again and again: Different cultures have different preferences, and there are huge variations within those cultures of what individuals prefer.

One of these studies — published in Nature, a scientific journal — looked at cultures removed from the influence of Western media and found that men in two of the three examined tribes, on average, preferred women whose body mass indices would classify them as overweight. The men in these tribes also thought the overweight women looked healthier than those with waspwaisted figures.

Other studies have found a racial component to attraction. A study in the Journal of Evolutionary Psychology showed pictures of women to men in different countries. The pictures used

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were cartoons, so the researchers could change the characteristics as they needed to for the study. When they did, they found men in Barbados greatly preferred dark-skinned women, whereas men in Pakistan had a preference for paler women.

Research looking into what heterosexual women find attractive in men is also all over the map.

One study’s results suggested women think facial scarring is a turn on, but only when they’re looking to have a short-term relationship. Another study looked at what happened when men attempted to put on a suave, sexy voice — it didn’t help.

A paper from a group in Australia attempted to compare women’s preference for penis length with height and found the two characteristics contribute about equally to a man’s attractiveness. The same study found that shoulder-tohip ratio contributed more than either of those two traits.

Before jumping to conclu-

sions about what men or women want, it’s crucial to keep effect size in mind. One study compared women’s opinions on men with various beard lengths and found the heavystubble look to be the most attractive, whereas light stubble was the least. But the differences in score between these two groups were insignificant.

There’s a temptation to offer evolutionary explanations for male attractiveness and link women’s tastes to where they are in their ovulation cycles, but research does not support this idea. A meta-analysis that pooled the results of 58 other studies concluded any differences in attraction linked to menstrual cycles resulted from studies with smaller sample sizes or less rigorous protocol.

Similarly, caveman instincts do not control men.

A study with more than 3,000 participants across 10 countries found the smaller the country’s gender gap, the less men re-

Multimedia To learn more about the science of sexual attraction, check out our video at dailytexanonline.com. ported a desire for women who adhere to female roles that evolutionary explanations favored. Specifically, in countries where women are educated and paid as well as men, men are less likely to value a good cook or housekeeper in their spouse and also less interested in her chastity.

This is to say that, while there may be beauty standards within a given culture, they aren’t universal. There is also no accounting for taste, let alone considerations such as personal chemistry and compatibility. If other people like the way you look, that’s great, but the only person you need to please is yourself.

Kendrick Lamar With the release of his third album, To Pimp a Butterfly, Lamar bridges the gap between rap and social commentary better than anyone in the game.

Lamar draws attention to social injustices in the music video for the record’s first single, “i,” and then tells listeners that his name is Uncle Sam in the album’s first song, “Wesley’s Theory.”

One thing is for sure about this album: It’s different.

It’s different than his mixtapes,differentthan Section.80, different than good kid, m.A.A.d city. Seventies funk influences are most apparent in tracks such as “King Kunta” and “These

Walls,” but groovy melodies and electric bass are present throughout.

Artists you might like — Schoolboy Q, A$AP Rocky, SZA Wale Wale deserves his selfassigned title, “Ambassador of Rap the Capital.” The District of Columbia native has been recording rap anthems for his fans since the early 2000s but didn’t release his first album, Attention Deficit, until 2009. His time in the industry boded well for his latest project, The Album About Nothing. The impressive track list features contributions from J. Cole, SZA, Usher and, most interestingly, Jerry Seinfeld.

Seinfeld’s narration is a particular highlight.

A good number of these connections were likely made with the help of British producer and DJ Mark Ronson — the man behind Amy Winehouse’s “Valerie” and Bruno Mars’ “Uptown Funk” — who discovered Wale’s MySpace

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Rapper Kendrick Lamar released his third album, To Pimp a Butterfly, last month. He is one of four rappers you should listen to this month.