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Bomb threat prompts UTPD confusion
Regents to consider Hall’s Kroll requests
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Butler Music Hall and Bass Performing Arts Center were evacuated Monday after a bomb threat was reported to the Butler School of Music. UTPD responded to a call that reported a bomb threat in the Butler School of Music area around 8:50 p.m. The Performing Arts Center and then the Butler Music Hall were evacuated completely in response to the threat. This event is the second
threat to UT this semester — the first being to a food trailer in West Campus this February. There was also a threat in September 2012 resulting in the evacuation of the entire campus. In both cases, UTPD did not properly notify students. UTPD did not send out an email notifying students of Monday’s potential threat, but the official UTPD Twitter account sent out two tweets about the threat. Although both buildings were cleared for entry,
there was confusion among UTPD regarding the location of the threat. “The PAC was also evacuated,” UTPD Lt. Darrell Birdett said. “Originally, the PAC got evacuated, and then we came over here. There was some confusion, I think, about what building the actual threat came into.” Birdett said he was not sure how many people were evacuated in the threat, although UTPD mandated a
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full evacuation of all possible buildings. Attendees of a concert at the Performing Arts Center were evacuated to the Darrell K. Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium for 30 minutes. James Ellerbock, an attendee and teacher at Bowie High School, said there were armed police officers on the scene. “We were watching a show, and this woman came
in and said there was a serious threat, and we were asked to leave,” Ellerbock said. Students rehearsing and preforming in the Butler building were asked to leave, as well. While most were evacuated, UTPD failed to notify music performance sophomore Adam Lundell of the threat. Lundell said he was rehearsing in a practice room Ellyn Snider | Daily Texan Staff
UTPD ordered an evacuation of Bass Concert Hall on Monday night because of suspicious activity and a bomb threat.
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Senate bill threatens DREAM Act tuition By Eleanor Dearman @EllyDearman
UT students, many of whom wore graduation caps and gowns, testified at the Capitol against a bill that would eliminate in-state tuition for undocumented students. If passed, SB 1819 would repeal Texas’ version of the DREAM Act. Currently, undocumented students who have lived in Texas for at least three years and graduated from a state high school may qualify for in-state tuition at public institutions, a policy passed in 2001 and supported by Governor Rick Perry. Additionally, students must sign an affidavit agreeing to apply for citizenship if the opportunity arises. The bill was heard in the Senate Subcommittee on Border Security on Monday. Sen. Campbell (R-New
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Karina Alvarez (left), an alumna of Texas A&M International University in Laredo, and Mirla Lopez, a UT alumna, go over their speeches before testifying at the Capitol against a bill that would eliminate in-state tuition for undocumented students.
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By Josh Willis @JoshWillis35
The UT System Board of Regents will meet Wednesday to consider facilitating requests from Regent Wallace Hall Jr. to look into information gathered about controversial UT admission practices. In early March, Hall asked to meet with Bill Nugent, senior managing director for Kroll, an investigation company, regarding a report released in February. The report, which the UT System commissioned, came in response to an investigation into admission policies at UT-Austin. The investigation undertaken by Kroll found that UT-Austin President William Powers Jr. had pressured admission officials to admit a “select handful” of applicants each year. McRaven defended the admission process because no laws or rules were broken, but McRaven said he would attempt to institute changes in the future. The UT System commissioned Kroll to conduct an external investigation of the admissions process after Hall alleged that UT-Austin administrators were admitting under-qualified applicants with connections to prominent legislators. A few days after his request to meet with Nugent, Hall requested an opportunity to read through “any and all information, confidential and otherwise, that is related to the Kroll investigation that was originally slated for destruction,”
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Rady/Strickland’s platform incomplete By Sam Ketterer
During their time as Student Government executive alliance, vice president Taylor Strickland (left) and president Kori Rady completed 13 out of 28 of their platform goals.
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Yik Yak tests photo feature on campuses By Caleb Wong @caleber96
Yik Yak is piloting a photo-sharing feature on select campuses after receiving a number of requests from users, according to Yik Yak CEO Tyler Droll. “Yakkers have told us
that they’d love the option of adding a picture to their yak, so this is something we’re currently testing out on a handful of campuses,” Droll said in a statement to Mashable last week. “There have been some great photo
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In Kori Rady’s and Taylor Strickland’s time as Student Government president and vice president, the executive alliance completed 13 out of 28 of its total platform points. The remaining 15 initiatives are still in progress, Rady said, although he said he expects them to be implemented in the coming semesters. “When you see the final product you work on, it’s a nice feeling, and you know you’re helping people,” Rady said. “It’s unfortunate that some of the things we worked on, we won’t be around to see.” Rady and Strickland are still working to finalize oncampus student tailgating for football games, which they said will occur for the upcoming football season. Other platforms they list online as incomplete are in-
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creasing student parking on campus, increasing branding at the University, and seeing the use of student ID as a form of voter IDs. The legislature has not yet voted on the final issue. “We’ve lobbied effectively on our end, but I’d really like to see that — not only for UT, but for the state of Texas,” Strickland said.
Rady said he thinks he and Strickland succeeded in representing UT’s diverse population as well as completing their most important platform points. “There’s the larger umbrella that Student Government doesn’t always live up to, which is representing a lot of students and actually getting tangible things done,” Rady
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continues from page 1 Braunfels), the bill’s primary author, said at the hearing she thinks state residents should fill university class spots — not undocumented students. “At the end of the day, I think there are a finite number of spots at universities and that those should be preserved for Texas residents,” Campbell said. According to Campbell, there was a major increase in the number of undocumented students benefitting from in-state tuition since the act’s start. Campbell said she believes the number of students receiving benefits now numbers in the tens of thousands. “The question is: Is Texas
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continues from page 1 to on-campus dorms or West Campus. Since the program’s implementation in September, Rady said more than 5,000 students have used the service. “[SafeRide/uRide] was one of the first things we really got confirmed,” Strickland said. “We were able to really see how students used it, how stu-
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going to subsidize the dollars for having in-state versus just out-of-state tuition [for undocumented students]?” Campbell said. Many undocumented students, especially those eligible for schools like UT, are top students in the state, according to ethnic studies junior Lizeth Urdiales. She said she believes these students are not taking spots from other students and the bill would stop top students from attending state schools. “You’re just basically lowering the value of a degree of any institution of higher education in Texas,” said Urdiales, who testified at the hearing. According to University spokesman Joey Williams,
about 700 students filed an affidavit with the UT last fall. Chancellor William McRaven submitted a written testimony to the committee stating he thinks providing undocumented students instate tuition is “the morally right thing to do.” Journalism sophomore Marlon Saucedo attended the hearing to testify. Saucedo said he has been living in Texas for 14 years and thinks it would be unfair to “not be considered a Texan.” “I am myself an immigrant student,” Saucedo said. “I come here because of the same reason everyone is here. I’m passionate about holding on to this right that took awhile for this community to even receive in the
first place.” Sen. Kirk Watson (D-Austin) said he believes SB 1819 would create a less diverse economic work force. He said we should be “applauding” the successes of undocumented students in the state, rather than removing tuition benefits. “It’s insulting to our hardworking students and their families that those in control of the Senate have decided that in-state college tuition is a border security issue,” Watson said in an email. “The students affected by this legislation are Texans. They have attended Texas schools and excelled.” As of press time, the hearing on the bill had not yet concluded.
dents approached it, what they wanted to see change in it, and we got to modify it as it went along. I really think that was one of our best initiatives.” The pair also succeeded in extending hours of the Flawn Academic Center to being open 24/7, as well as advocating for a week-long Thanksgiving break. The Faculty Council approved the extended break last semester, but it needs to be ap-
proved by current-President William Powers Jr. and Provost Gregory Fenves before the break can occur in 2016. Dean of Students’ Soncia Reagins-Lilly said she enjoys seeing legislative student organizations, Rady and Strickland’s included, make changes at the University. “Every year is dynamic, is rich,” Reagins-Lilly said. “It is a journey and a learning experience … to watch the stu-
dents take on these big roles with these big ideas. That process is incredibly dynamic.” Rady said being president was a massive job, but it was one he said he believed was worthwhile. “There’s a lot of pressure — there’s no doubt about that — but you grow, and you learn, and you make mistakes,” Rady said. “You look forward and you do a better job. You can see a tangible change.”
New UT System vice chancellor named
The UT System appointed Lynda Chin on Thursday to the position of associate vice chancellor for health transformation and chief innovation officer for health affairs. Chin, the former scientific director of the Institute for Applied Cancer Science at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, stepped down from her position Monday. In her role at the UT System, Chin will work to promote access to affordable health care throughout Texas and the country, according to a statement from the UT System. UT System Chancellor William McRaven said he expects Chin to make progress toward achieving these goals. “If we want to transform the way health care is delivered, then we need bold and innovative solutions,” McRaven said. “Dr. Chin is a very talented physician scientist who has the vision and the ability to get it done.” Chin said she intends to utilize technology to improve health care. “A system redesign is needed,” Chin said. “Today’s social, mobile and cloud technology along with big data and cognitive analytics can be the keys to a muchneeded transformation.” —Josh Willis
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continues from page 1 yaks so far, depicting everything from questions to sports victories to random funny moments. We’re excited to see what these communities share.” Yik Yak is an anonymous social media application in which users post “Yaks,” which are 200-character messages viewable to users within a 10-mile radius. Yik Yak staff will moderate the new photo-sharing feature to keep inappropriate photos and photos that depict illegal activities from being posted, Droll said. Users will be able to take pictures directly from the app. Madeline Smith, a Yik Yak campus representative and economics junior, said the feature could detract from the anonymous nature of the application but might also be used to promote positive causes such as philanthropic sales. “I would hope they would introduce in a way that would be positive,” Smith said. “Kind of like the Snapchat campus story — they post things like people selling cupcakes for charity in the West Mall.” Although Yik Yak is popular among college students, the app has received critical feedback because of threats and harassment posted on the application, according to an article from digital news website TechCrunch. Anonymity on the app has led to more harmful comments being posted, according to Katy Redd, Counseling and Mental Health Center interim program director. “Users are probably more willing to say [and] to comment in a different voice than they would normally use if they were representing themselves,” Redd said. “I think that we behave differently when it’s our public persona versus [an attitude of] ‘no one’s ever going to be able to identify me.’” Law enforcement can sometimes identify users who post inappropriate content on Yik Yak, Smith said. “They have been able to track someone down based on something they posted on the app,” Smith said. “Anonymous can only go so far. There becomes a point where if you say something, you’ll be punished for it. Law enforcement has been involved with [certain content] that has been posted on the app.”
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“This history wasn’t taught in schools — certainly not where I went to school,” van Neerven-Currie said. The continuous discarding of Aborigine stories and identities is an issue that has persisted since the country’s inception, van Neerven-Currie said. The first well known Aborigine writer was David Unaipon, whose early 20th-century literature wasn’t attributed to him until several decades later. Much of the Aborigine peoples’ culture was traditionally passed down through an intricate, complex oral history that spans 60,000 years, Abbey said. Before Australia was colonized by the British, more than 250 distinct languages were spoken by the country’s indigenous population. Today, that number has fallen to 18, according to Abbey. “Everything was handed down,” Abbey said. “[Aborigine people do not] take lightly in using descriptions or songs that are explaining the landscape. It would be the same oral text, and they didn’t stray from it.” While at the University of
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Sue Abbey, founder of black&write!, speaks on Monday afternoon about encouraging development of an indigenous writing community in Australia.
Queensland Press, Abbey noticed a lack of indigenous authors. She said she decided to create black&write! in order to increase the amount of opportunities for Aborigine people to publish their work. “I sat in on a few discussions and heard black writers
talk about how there is no accessibility,” Abbey said. “It was through that, seeing that there’s a need, and thinking, ‘I’ll give it a hurrah.’” Including Aborigine literature in the school curriculum can make people aware of the rich heritage that exists in Aus-
tralia, said Brenda Machosky, visiting scholar from the University of Hawaii-West Oahu. “Bringing [indigenous writing] into courses, incorporating them into classes, … my students have never read anything from Australia until I introduce it to the class,” Machosky said.
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continues from page 1 when the evacuation began. He said a group message between other music students notified him of the threat. Lundell was in the building for about an hour before leaving. “I texted one of my friends, and he said he told an officer what room I was in, and he came in, and [the officer] came in and got me,” Lundell said. Lundell said it was exciting at first, but then he grew nervous because he knew he should not be in the building. “I was scared for a little bit, so I kept playing the piano to calm my nerves,” Lundell said. Music studies junior Hugo Ramirez said he was asked to evacuate after a concert, but he was not too shocked by the threat because he was previously evacuated during a previous University bomb threat. “At this point, this is, like, the second time that I’ve been here that this has happened,” Ramirez said. “I was a little surprised, but in the end I wasn’t too shocked. Additional reporting by Wynne Davis
Study: Music therapy may benefit premature babies
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Music therapy could help g ev- prematurely born babies rens togain brain functionality and go ndomhome up to two weeks sooner We’reafter birth, saving more than these$2,000 per day, according to a visiting professor. mous Music therapy research in on inthe field of neonatology aims Yaks,”to reduce the amount of time actera premature baby spends in o us-the hospital, said Jayne Standadius.ley, a professor at Florida State oderaring pprohotos continues from page 1 vities Drollaccording to a statement reble toleased by the UT System. from No one from Kroll will be in attendance at the meeting YikWednesday, according to UT tativeSystem spokeswoman Jenny , saidCaputo. etract The board now operates s na-under a new rule, which was n butadopted in February 2014, pro-that specifies all information suchrequests must go through the chairman and chancellor, Catheyputo said. If either person has wayconcerns, then the request is tive,”discussed at a meeting with all likeregents present. sto- In accordance with the s likerule, Chairman Paul Foses forter and Chancellor William all.” McRaven decided to call a k ismeeting with the other ree stu-gents to decide whether Hall’s eived cause ment RESEARCH ation, rticle ebsite nymed to ments rding eling By Rachel Lew enter @rachelannlew tor. bably An ornately designed logo [and]printed on Shakespeare’s iffer-works suggests an earlier rise wouldto prominence than previwereously thought, according to a lves,”UT professor. at we English professor Douglas en it’sBruster said his research shows ersusthat Shakespeare created a type one’sof brand and gained recognile totion from his peers earlier in his career through an ornate candesign that Bruster refers to as us-“Lady 8.” The logo depicts a feopri-male face, birds and leaves and Yak,appears on the title pages of the poems “Venus and Adonis” ble toand “The Rape of Lucrece.” based The design previously apostedpeared only on the inside said.pages of books and often acgo socompanied the names of arispointtocrats, Bruster said. ome- “Getting such a sumptuous ishedimage on your title page may nt hashave said, to Elizabethan read[cer-ers, that something quite elebeengant, and important, was inside these books,” Bruster said.
University. Using the therapy, the baby can begin living a normal life at home without the physical and mental burdens of medical treatment, according to Standley. The faster a premature baby begins a normal life, the lower the baby’s chances of developing major learning disabilities as the baby grows up are, Standley said. “If the baby remains overstimulated from hospital sounds, lights and sensations, brain cells divide in an
overstimulated state, which leads to faulty wiring in the brain,” Standley said. “Later on, in older children, we see hyperactivity and attention deficit disorder. … Every new stimulus causes the child to look around and try to focus, but they just cannot pay attention.” Marcie Moynihan, a registered neo-natal intensive care nurse at Seton Medical Center, also said loud noises and bright lights could work against giving babies the best care possible, but modern
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NICUs train their nurses to limit these disturbances. “When I started in NICUs in the 1970s, they were loud with alarms going off,” Moynihan said. “Nowadays, it would be a pretty unsophisticated NICU to not address those noise and light issues.” Music therapy teaches premature babies how to breathe regularly, and Standley said doing so helps the children become independent from their medical life-support systems.
“In seconds after the music starts playing, oxygen saturation in the lungs begins to rise because the baby begins to breathe in rhythm with the quiet music,” Standley said. “Music makes pleasure hormones flood the baby’s neurological circuits.” NICUs in general hospitals have too many other expenses to consider starting a music therapy program, Moynihan said. “If you have a list of a whole bunch of things that you need in a NICU, I would consider
music therapy a lower priority,” Moynihan said. Local opera singer Alison Trainer said the research’s findings strongly corresponded with her personal experiences with deaf babies’ reactions to hearing music for the first time after cochlear implants. “I have a dear friend whose baby was born with severe hearing loss,” Trainer said. “When the baby got cochlear implants, his response to the opera singing was obvious — obvious and profound.”
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Regent Wallace Hall Jr. filed an information request in March regarding UT admission practices.
request would be granted. If two or more regents agree that Hall’s requests should be allowed, then the requests, “will be filled without delay,” according to the statement. “The purpose of the rule is to demonstrate the board’s com-
mitment to providing transparency to the public to the fullest extent allowed by law, while ensuring protection of confidential information and personal privacy,” Caputo said. Kroll could not be reached for comment.
Professor: Shakespeare’s logo suggests earlier rise to fame English sophomore Taylor Moore said Bruster’s findings confirm what she has always thought and heard about Shakespeare. “He had to work extremely hard to overcome class and educational boundaries to situate himself as a respected writer within the Elizabethan era,” Moore said. “The discovery of an ornamental brand, used to signify prestige to readers, just further supports this idea.” Richard Field, Shakespeare’s friend and publisher, was very deliberate in his use of ornaments and printed the design on the title page of each of Shakespeare’s poems, Bruster said. Shakespeare lacked the educational background that other writers during his time had, but his poems “Venus and Adonis” and “The Rape of Lucrece” cemented his reputation as a leading writer, Bruster said, and the Lady 8 ornament that embellished these poems added a visual luxury to his poetry and came
to stand for his achievement. “The Lady 8 ornament was employed for a few books earlier,” Bruster said. “But when it was used for his first publications, it came to stand for them, their success and eventually the era he represented. It stands as a long-neglected ‘brand’ for a writer who was much more famous — much earlier than we sometimes like to think.” Moore said Bruster’s research may change the way society views Shakespeare’s rise as a poet. “I think these findings will force modern readers to think even more about the impact class had on the reception of Shakespeare’s work,” Moore said. English professor Mary Blockley said Bruster’s research offers new knowledge about the highly acclaimed poet. “The forging of this link … does prove there is always more to be known about even this best-known of English authors,” Blockley said.
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Rady/Strickland time in office comes to end with mixed results Editor’s Note: With new Student Government President and Vice President Xavier Rotnofsky and Rohit Mandalapu being sworn in Tuesday evening, we thought we would take one last look at the accomplishments and failures of the outgoing administration of Kori Rady and Taylor Strickland. One year ago, the Executive Alliance team of Kori Rady and Taylor Strickland, after winning their election by a hair, came into office with big hopes toward the future. They unveiled an ambitious platform to help the average University student in a variety of ways. This included promises of a more inclusive Student Government, but it also included more specific planks. When it comes to these specific promises, the Rady/Strickland administration has a mixed record in living up to their word. For example, the Flawn Academic Center has now extended its hours to be a 24hour space for students to study or use for other purposes. This comes on the heels of a broader promise by Rady/Strickland to extend hours in student buildings. Certainly, they — and the rest of Student Government — are to be commended for this achievement. However, it is important to note that momentum on this issue was also
generated by external sources, such as a Firing Line in the Texan. The pair have also had success in expanding the Safe Ride program that prevents drunk driving by transporting students from downtown bars to their homes in West Campus or Riverside. On other issues, progress will be slower as initiatives churn through the University administration. For instance, Rady and Strickland promised an extended Thanksgiving Break, which was endorsed last semester by the Faculty Council and will likely take effect in two years. But elsewhere, progress has been almost nonexisten. Namely, during the campaign, the ticket promised to “lobby for student IDs meeting voter requirements.” Literally, the administration has done this, as the Texan reported time and again last semester. However, these exercises in lobbying don’t seem to have been particularly successful. Anyone can try and fail at a task at hand, but the students expect leaders who can actually deliver results. Be it alcohol at football games, forgiveness for first-time parking offenders or more kosher and halal eating options for students on campus, there are a number of other issues that we can find no progress on since FIRST MEETING OF THE 109TH STUDENT almost Rady/Strickland took office. GOVERNMENT ASSEMBLY Obviously, it would be the height of naivete to completely WHO? New Assembly and Student Government President fault Rady/Strickland for not and Vice President Xavier Rotnofsky and Rohit Mandalapu being able to wave a magic will be sworn in. wand and completely enact their admittedly sometimes far-fetched agenda. However, WHEN? Tuesday evening at 7 p.m. if an idea was not realistic to begin with, candidates have no WHERE? SAC 2.302 business wooing prospective voters with its fantastic siren
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Outgoing Student Government President Kori Rady and Vice President Taylor Strickland have had a mixed record of success.
songs. Furthermore, much of the platform arguably was stymied by a dysfunctional and sometimes broken Student Government Assembly. Petty internal dramas ate up a considerable amount of valuable legislative time this academic year, leaving far less time for deliberating and debating pertinent issues. Additionally, even when the Assembly resigned itself from superficial squabbles and actually did its job, it was often unwilling to prioritize the big-picture issues with which Executive Alliance candidates’ platforms are replete. Alternatively, the Assembly sometimes valued insignificant and sometimes downright extraneous issues, such as recently wading
into foreign policy. Serving at the helm of this University’s Student Government is not an easy task. Indeed, both recurring constraints and new challenges beset leaders year after year. Rady and Strickland have faced particularly tough constraints and still managed to accomplish plenty, but they could have done more. Hopefully, Xavier Rotnofsky and Rohit Mandalapu, who will be sworn in as Student Government president and vice president, respectively, Tuesday evening, will be able to learn from their mistakes, but also double down on the countless positive steps that the old leaders were able to fortunately take during their year in office.
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University should make on-campus guest lectures more accessible By Jordan Shenhar Senior Columnist @jshenhar
On Thursday morning, KLRU hosted an on-campus conversation between Texas Tribune showrunner Evan Smith and Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-VT, a potential 2016 presidential candidate and one of the only independents on Capitol Hill. Despite the prominence of the speakers and the accessibility of the event, a quick glance around the studio revealed disappointingly few students among the audience. Later that same day, the Strauss Center
Despite the prominence of the speakers and the accessibility of the event, a quick glance around the studio revealed disappointingly few students among the audience.
for International Security and Law and the Clements Center for History, Strategy and Statecraft, along with several other campus organizations, hosted an on-campus lecture featuring Sen. Kelly Ayotte, R-NH, widely regarded as one of Congress’ foremost experts on foreign policy. And, for the second time in eight hours, a quick glance around the auditorium exposed a crowd largely devoid of young people. As frustrating as it might be to see low student turnout at events featuring some of America’s most influential leaders, there are plenty of valid reasons underlying such a poor attendance level. Given the amount of energy it takes to balance working hard enough to succeed and resting well enough to avoid burnout and illness, most students don’t have a whole lot of time to spend extemporaneously attending presentations, no matter how interesting or informative they might be. That means that a presentation on campus will probably never reach the same turnout as a home football game or a lecture hall on exam day, regardless of its subject matter or the speaker’s notability. Still, the unlikelihood that students will turn out en masse to hear famous or dynamic or controversial public figures doesn’t absolve the University of its responsibility to facilitate access to its own events. Somehow, UT has made it to 2015 without consistently posting livestreams of
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on-campus speakers. Doing so would accommodate anyone who can’t attend a presentation during its scheduled timeframe. The Internet is already a godsend for students seeking to fit TV shows into their hectic calendars; there’s no reason it couldn’t provide similar benefits to those interested in the thought-provoking events the University has to offer. Event planners should also consider restructuring question-and-answer sessions to include online submissions, a tactic employed at presidential debates to improve audience engagement. At Ayotte’s lecture, moderator William Inboden was able to identify by name a large proportion of the questioners he selected. But while handing the mic to those well-connected enough to get recognized by the director of the Clements Center is a good way to maintain a high-quality discussion —one of the few audience members Inboden randomly called on launched into a tirade about a “clash of civilizations” between the West and Islam — it doesn’t exactly encourage participation among the general public. Allowing attendees and non-attendees alike to submit questions online can reconcile the trade-off between providing access to everyone and expecting coherence from everyone. A more challenging problem for the University is how to balance its obligations to its students with its commitment
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to engaging the broader Austin community. Last year, UT’s Civil Rights Summit jolted thousands of students out of their daily routines by bringing to campus a starstudded array of visitors that included four U.S. presidents, four Hall of Fame athletes and dozens of activists, philanthropists and academics. But because the Summit reserved so many seats for Austinites and VIPs, Longhorns made up a tiny fraction of the event’s audience. As a public university, UT is right to provide some perks to the taxpayers responsible for keeping it afloat. But shutting interested students out of high-profile presentations sends a terrible message to America’s future leaders and innovators. To its credit, the University did livestream most of the Summit’s speeches, and it set up a huge monitor in front of the Tower to send President Barack Obama’s address booming over the South Mall. Still, when the football stadium seats over 100,000 people, there’s no need to exclude anyone from major events, regardless of their relationship to the University. If it wants what starts here to really change the world, UT should let its students engage with those currently changing the world. Shenhar is a Plan II, government and economics sophomore from Westport, Connecticut. He writes about campus and education issues.
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So far this season, it’s been a tale of two halves for the Longhorns. Texas opened the season taking two out of four games at Rice and Stanford, swept Minnesota and started conference play with a 5–1 record. But the Longhorns have fallen on hard times recently. After Sunday’s loss at Oklahoma State, the team has now lost seven-straight games — the most since Texas lost eight straight in 1956 — and has fallen either out of or to the bottom of most of the rankings. In the process, Texas has also dropped to fourth in the Big 12 standings with a series against TCU still looming. Now, the Longhorns will look to snap the losing streak and jump-start the offense in a midweek showdown against Wichita State on Tuesday. “It’s just about run scoring and being able to get the runners on base and capitalize with timely hitting, and we’re not doing that,” head coach Augie Garrido said. The bulk of the issues for the Longhorns in their recent dive have been just that: struggling in the batter’s box. Texas ranks last in the Big 12 with a .245 team batting average and have struck out 245 collectively, the most in
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the conference. And even when the Longhorns have gotten on base, they’ve had trouble finding their way home. In the three games at Oklahoma State, Texas left 33 total runners on base, including 19 in the 18-inning game Friday. In that game, the Longhorns had five chances in the nine extra innings to take the lead, including a great opportunity in the 12th with a
runner at third and one out. However, they failed with each opportunity, allowing the Cowboys to win in the 18th. “A lot has been done to try to give them the confidence to take the at-bat with nobody on base,” Garrido said. “If you have the runners in your head, then you can’t be fully focused on the ball, which is really all you can do as a hitter.” And the lack of hitting has spoiled strong pitching for
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the Longhorns. Senior starting pitcher Parker French is eighth in the conference with a 2.31 ERA, and sophomore starter Kacy Clemens had only given up two runs in his previous three starts before Sunday. Things start to get a little easier for the Longhorns on Tuesday against the Shockers. Wichita State comes in with a 13–18 record and is just 4–9 on the road this season. The Shockers’ pitching staff is considerably lighter
than what the Longhorns faced this past weekend in Stillwater, Oklahoma. Wichita State pitchers have combined for a 5.16 ERA and have allowed opponents to post a .280 batting average against them. Even with all of the recent struggles, Garrido said the team isn’t going to make any excuses. “We understand the responsibilities we have,” Garrido said. “Momentum is what gets it rolling.
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Junior outfielder Lindsey Stephens and the Longhorns look to extend their eight-game winning streak against Texas A&M-Corpus Christi.
Softball takes on Islanders, looks to extend win-streak By Jason Epstein @jwepstein96
After sweeping Texas State this past weekend in a two-game stint, Texas faces Texas A&M-Corpus Christi at Red and Charline McCombs Field on Tuesday. The Longhorns (26–9) have earned an 11–3 record at home, winning the last three on walkoffs. Proudly possessing an eight-game win streak, Texas, which has outplayed Texas A&MCC on the stat sheet this season, looks to extend its success against the Islanders, who are on a four-game streak of their own but control a mere 7–8 away record. With early boosts proving effective, the Longhorns have scored in the first inning in seven straight and have hit a total of 51 runs in the first frame this season — almost a quarter of the team’s run total and the most scored in any inning. Texas will have the offensive advantage in Tuesday’s nonconference matchup. In
their 26 wins, the Longhorns have come from behind in 10 of them, posting five walk-off victories. Outscoring the Islanders (12–21–1) this season 223–119, the Longhorns have more than doubled their opponent in triples and near-doubled in RBIs. The Islanders have hit 15 long balls, just three more than junior outfielder Lindsey Stephens alone. Texas A&M-Corpus Christi struggled early on, losing its first eight games before posting a tie against South Dakota and then losing three more. Since then, the Islanders have earned a 12–10 record, defeating opponents ranging from Houston to Nicholls to Sam Houston State — their great margin of victory of the season: six. In the circle, Texas A&M-Corpus Christi sophomore pitcher Liz Carter allows over just over 3.5 runs per seven innings, striking out 75 in 129 innings. In 23 fewer innings, Texas ace freshman Erica Wright boasts a 2.44 ERA with
102 strikeouts. From behind the bat, the Islanders maintain a solid lineup with teamleading senior shortstop Hayley Galloway batting .321, followed by senior outfielder Mickayla Cochran and sophomore catcher Brittney Morse batting .307 each. Yet the Longhorns’ top four batters rank higher than all of the Islanders, led by Wong hitting with a .387 average and followed by Stephens, Shireman and junior first baseman Holly Kern with .368, .333 and .330, respectively. On an individual level, hitting just below .300, sophomore shortstop Devon Tunning has reached base in a careerbest 20 straight games. Just behind her, sophomore outfielder Stephanie Wong has reached in 18 straight, and Stephens and junior catcher Erin Shireman have both reached in 10 straight. After the game against Texas A&MCorpus Christi on Tuesday at 4:30 p.m., Texas will host Oklahoma at home Friday.
Women’s Tennis Over Easter weekend, No. 29 Texas added two new non-conference Tuesday matches to its schedule, including this week’s match against Abilene Christian University. After a tough loss to No. 19 Ohio State, the Longhorns look to
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Men’s Tennis After cruising to a 4–1 victory against No. 22 Texas Tech on Saturday, No. 9 Texas will square off against two unranked opponents this week, taking on UTSA on Tuesday and Texas A&M-Corpus Christi on Wednesday. Both matches will be home matches for the Longhorns, as Tuesday’s match will be at the Caswell Tennis Center, and Wednesday’s will be at the Westwood Country Club. The week’s matches will be Texas’ first back-to-back since the ITA National Team Indoor Championship. The contracted schedule for the Longhorns is the result of a rainout against UTSA on March 2. The two matches will provide the Longhorns an opportunity to fine-tune certain aspects of their game, especially at the doubles positions. Texas has lost the doubles point in its previous two matches, with three losses from the doubles lines coming in tiebreakers. Following this week’s matches, the Longhorns will have a week off before facing off against No. 2 Baylor on April 15 at the Caswell Tennis Center in Austin. It will be the Longhorns’ fifth match this year against a top-10 opponent, and it will be the penultimate match of the season for Texas before the Big 12 Men’s Tennis Championship on April 24.
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take home a win on their home court. The Wildcats have gone 1–4 on the road this season and are still waiting to claim their first roadwin against a conference team. Abilene Christian is part of the Southland Conference and will play Texas first in a string of three nonconference matches. No. 29 Texas has the advantage going into the matchup with multiple past victories against unranked teams under its belt so far this season, including victories against Iowa State and West Virginia. No. 47 Texas junior Breaunna Addison will look to win against Abilene Christian junior Kaysie Hermsdorf, her sixthstraight singles match at No. 1 singles. Hermsdorf is the leading singles winner, alongside junior Nada Marjanovic. Both players have nine singles wins so far this season. The Longhorns will take on the Wildcats at the Whitaker Tennis Courts at 4 p.m.
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Houston Astros’ pitcher Ken Forsch throws a no-hitter against the Atlanta Braves. The Astros defeated the Braves 6–0.
SPORTS BRIEFLY Baseball tumbles in major Top 25 polls
The Longhorns started off the season ranked as high as No. 6, but after losing seven consecutive games, Texas (17–15, 5–4 Big 12) dropped out of the top 25 in four of the five major polls. The only poll where the Longhorns remain in the top 25 is the NCBWA poll. Texas will look to climb out of its losing slump when it takes on Wichita State today at 7 p.m. at UFCU Disch-Falk Field. —Nick Castillo
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SES coordinator helps students amid crises David Chambers, coordinator for Student Emergency Services, provides support and resources for students going through difficult situations. He devotes his time to alleviating students’ crisis.
In 300 words or fewer, this series spotlights people in our community whose stories typically go untold.
By Olivia Lewman @thedailytexan
With a big smile on his face, David Chambers, coordinator for Student Emergency Services, welcomes students in crisis to his office. He offers a list of resources to get back on top, deems any student’s concern an emergency and works overtime to help overwhelming situations seem less scary. “I’m kind of a hugger,” Chambers said. “There’re many times I just want to hug you and make it all go away.” Although Chambers has an undergraduate degree in
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Q&A: Rasika Mathur discusses past, inspiration By Megan Kallus @megmayumi
UT alumna Rasika Mathur works as an actor, comedian and writer. Mathur will perform Tuesday at the Union. Mathur spoke with the Texan for a Q&A. The Daily Texan: How did you get into comedy and performing? Rasika Mathur: I wasn’t really the class clown in high school, but I like to observe people and pick up on the weird things they did.
I used to make funny speeches in my high school classes. I did these little stand-up, 10-minute comedy acts. It started as an assignment, but then people began asking me to do them just for fun. DT: What did you do while you were at UT? RM: I was an advertising major, and I thought that I was good. But then I got a particular professor that was brutal, and that kind of scared me. I started to think that I should do
something different with my life. I focused on extracurricular stuff instead. It was actually when I performed at the Indian Student Association talent show that I thought, “Oh, maybe I can make something out of this stand-up thing.” DT: In your comedy album “the Sari (W)rap,” you talk about growing up as an AsianAmerican immigrant in Houston. How has that influenced your perspective? RM: The immigrant circle
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Passover rules, recipes for successful yeast-free week @thedailytexan
Passover, the annual festival celebration of the Jews’ liberation from Egyptian slavery, began Friday and will last eight days. Over the course of the holiday, those observing Passover adhere to a host of food-related rules. Breads and leavened products are off-limits because the biblical story of Exodus says the Jewish people left their homes so quickly after being freed that they didn’t have time to let their breads rise. Matzah, a flourless cracker, takes the place of bread during Passover. Any food that contains rye, barley, oats or spelt is considered hametz, or nonPassover friendly. This limits most pastries from being consumed and rules out flour-containing items, such as cereal or pasta. Passover-friendly equivalents of wheat products, such as pizza and bagels, can be
biggest challenges you’ve faced in your career? RM: You have to know your self-worth in the industry, but you also have to ask for help from people who are better than you. You need to know how to talk to people more famous or more accomplished than you, and I think that I let myself get intimidated sometimes in circles where I thought I was the weakest link, and I didn’t speak up. It was sad because those might have been big opportunities for me to learn.
You have to know your self-worth in the industry. —Rasika Mathur Actress, comedian, writer
Sometimes after a show that I’d flopped, I’d beat myself up about
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Many Jewish students on campus this week will be observing Passover, which brings with it a host of food-related rules.
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when I was growing up in Alief, Houston, was really tight-knit. Me and the other kids spent a lot of time hanging out and making fun of our parents and the community aunties, pointing out things about the way they talked or acted, and that developed into something that I focused on during my acts. I grew up with these very tense, fearful people in my house, and now I’m starting to realize where they were coming from. DT: What are some of the
found in grocery stores. It’s important to remember that just because a product is gluten-free, it does not mean it is certified kosher, much less certified kosher for Passover. Most kosher-approved products are labeled as such. Most fresh meats and produce are acceptable to eat, and, as usual, meat should not be paired or mixed with dairy. But be careful: Frozen vegetables and some ground meat are hametz because of the way they are processed and packaged. Raw fish is kosher-friendly unless it has been glazed, which would require certification of the glaze. Some oils are off-limits during Passover as well. Canola oil, peanut oil and all other oils, with the exception of olive oil, are not allowed. For Ashkenazi Jews, kitniyot items are another subgroup of food products not allowed. Kitniyot items have hametz grains mixed into them or were processed in the same
way as hametz. Vegetables such as corn, edamame and green beans are considered kitniyot, as well as mustard and sesame seeds. Ground spices must be Passover-certified, as well, because certain hametz facilities process spices. Some spices are kitniyot altogether, such as cardamom and caraway. If you are making desserts during Passover, watch out for sweeteners that contain corn syrup, processed honey or maple syrup. Brown sugar might also be hametz. Snacking on campus this week will be difficult. Keep in mind that dried fruits can be treated with oils that are hametz. Raw nuts don’t require certification, but many shelled nuts are made with preservatives and additives that would require certification. To make an easy and Passover-friendly vegan chocolate mousse, go to www.dailytexanonline.com.
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