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By Samantha Ketterer

University joins others in Coming Out Day

SG elects new Speaker of Assembly @sam_kett

The Student Government Assembly elected Tanner Long as Speaker of the Assembly with a 33–2 vote Tuesday night.

Long, a liberal arts representative and government senior, said he thinks SG has failed in the past to fully represent students and said he wants to include more student voices during his term.

“I want to foster a better connectedness between Student Government and the

student body,” Long said. “Everyone is a member of Student Government on this campus, and it’s about time we started treating it that way.”

Long said he hopes to implement a program in which representatives will speak at more organizations’ meetings on campus. He also said he wants to help improve the SG assembly meeting livestream and oversee the creation of more ad-hoc committees.

“My ideas may seem ambitious, and I will be held accountable to them,” Long said.

Long said he feels the speaker position has typically served as a stepping stone for future SG presidential candidates, but he said that is not his intention.

“Since I’m graduating next spring, that gives me the ability to focus 100 percent on the duties of speaker,” Long said.

Long ran against Kallen Dimitroff, University-wide representative and government junior, in the race.

Dimitroff failed to gain the nineteen votes needed for a majority vote with a 17–18

By Lauren Florence @laurenreneeflo

Jack DuFon | Daily Texan Staff

The University’s International Office was one of 72 institutions that “came out” Tuesday for the first National Institutions Coming Out Day, an effort to provide safe spaces for undocumented students.

The International Office and the University Leadership Initiative (ULI) — which participates in education advocacy intiatives for youths — hosted the event, which is planned to occur annually.

Linguistics senior Diana Morales, ULI’s Dream Education Empowerment Program coordinator, said many institutions have scarce resources for undocumented students, and educators aren’t always aware of the rights accorded to these students “With NICOD, we are able to identify which institutions are ready to take a step forward and are interested to advocate with their students at the institutional level,” Morales said. “[We want to] challenge institutional policies and make sure that our undocumented brothers and sisters are able to feel comfortable in their own campuses, as many feel unsafe anywhere else because of the political climate or the fear of one day being deported and separated from their family.”

Morales said the International Office made com-

Because safety concerns, temporary barricades have been placed around the perimeter of the College of Liberal Arts building.

Some students have had to take alternate routes to classes because of the barricades.

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Rachel Zein | Daily Texan Staff

The Student Government Assembly elected Tanner Long, a liberal arts representative and government senior, on Tuesday evening as Speaker of the Assembly.

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Falling glass prompts barricades at CLA

By Wynne Davis @wynneellyn

Temporary barricades will remain around the perimeter of the College of Liberal Arts building until UT Facilities Services staff can determine what is causing the building’s large glass windows to break.

Facility workers identified the first broken glass pane March 27 and then set up construction barricades around the building and blocked off the patios and three entrances, said Laurie Lentz, Campus Planning & Facilities Management communications manager.

While the construction barricades are temporary, Lentz said she is working on putting up better temporary barricades and coverings over the doors.

“We want to make sure people don’t get hit by falling glass,” Lentz said.

Approximately five windows have cracked, but

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Mark Cuban encourages students in visit

Local school promotes teen addiction recovery

By Sebastian Herrera @SebasAHerrara

Entrepreneur and Dallas Mavericks’ owner Mark Cuban gave encouragement and guidance to college students about their futures as he detailed the business lessons he learned from succeeding and failing over the years.

Cuban, who is also known for his role as an investor in the popular television show “Shark Tank,” spoke Tuesday as part of the Delta Sigma PiBeta Kappa Chapter speaker series. According to DSP, 600 students attended the soldout event.

“UT is a great school, but the most important thing you’re going to learn … is that the world is constantly changing,” said Cuban.

“Don’t stress. You’ll figure it out. When you’re 21, 22, 23,

you’re allowed to [mess] up.

So, while you’re at UT, try different things.”

Cuban said his 20s were a time when he challenged himself to figure out what business ventures worked best for him.

Cuban spoke about his financial burdens as an early entrepreneur, as well as his prosperous startup ideas, such as Internet streaming in the 1990s. He also joked about the “rock star” fun he now has as a multi-millionaire and shared personal college stories about business projects that he started, such as a bar near Indiana University — his alma mater.

Cuban’s story and advice is especially significant at a university such as UT, where many college students are trying to find successful business models as they enter

By Matthew Adams @MatthewAdams60

Joshua Guerra | Daily Texan Staff

Dallas Mavericks’ owner Mark Cuban spoke to students Tuesday evening about business lessons from his personal experience.

the professional world, said Erika Storli, vice president of DSP Chapter Operations.

“Sometimes as students, you see other successful people and ask yourself why you can’t do better and feel like you’re failing,” Storli said. “[Cuban] showed that

he failed and made so many mistakes, but he was able to get back up and keep going.

I think that’s inspiring for the average college student.”

Storli said DSP chose Cuban because of his

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Colleges should do more to support students struggling with addiction because deaths from alcohol and drug addiction in young adults continue to rise, according to a social work professor.

According to research from Lori Holleran Steiker, social work associate professor, deaths from overdoses in Americans between the ages of 15–24 more than doubled from 2000–2010.

Holleran Steiker said many families dealing with addiction problems resort to placing students in recovery schools, but many of these schools do not exist today.

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“For some schools, they simply do not have the resources to keep the school going,” Holleran Steiker said. “Yet it is hard to break the stigma from parents.

Even when they may realize their child has a problem, they only look at the problem as a negative. These feelings only add more pressure to the kid and the problems being faced.”

In September, Holleran Steiker and school executive director Becky Ahlgrim opened the University High School, Austin’s first recovery high school, located at the University Christian Church. While the school is focused on breaking the addiction, there are other

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CORRECTION The story “Bomb threat prompts UTPD confusion” in the April 7 issue of The Daily Texan incorrectly identified the Bass Concert Hall, Butler School of Music and Texas Performing Arts.

vote in the Assembly. Long also failed to receive a majority with a 18–15–2 vote.

The Assembly recalled the vote, but Long again failed to gain a majority with a 18–16–1 vote. The Assembly would have then re-voted on both Dimitroff and Long, but Dimitroff withdrew her candidacy for the position. After Dimitroff ’s withdrawal, the Assembly elected Long.

Dimitroff withdrew her candidacy because of the long process involved in electing a

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Speaker of the Assembly. The initial votes and recall took more than 30 minutes.

“I don’t want to make us do this [vote] again,” Dimitroff said.

President and Vice President Xavier Rotnofsky and Rohit Mandalapu were also sworn into their offices Tuesday night. The meeting, which took around three hours, culminated in a pizza delivery.

“The meeting went longer than most meetings, and I hadn’t eaten since 11 a.m.,” Rotnofsky, Plan II and linguistics junior, said. “Because of that, I figured, why not get a pizza delivered to Rohit

and me?”

Rotnofsky and Mandalapu, Plan II and economics senior, are in the process of selecting an executive board and the President’s Student Advisory Council. They have received 105 applications, which will equate to over 30 hours of interviews.

Rotnofsky said he is excited to start his term and work with all of those in SG. “I’m looking forward to working with the Assembly and seeing how we can work together and make SG more present on campus than just at a Tuesday meeting,” Rotnofsky said.

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continues from page 1 professional values, which she said the fraternity believes are important principles for college students to learn.

Cuban’s visit to UT indicates how much he cares about helping the next generation, taxation graduate student Candice Dipaolo said.

“He thinks that we’re important and that we’re the future, and he wants to empower us to believe that we can do anything we want,” DiPaolo said. “He is relatable because

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the details he tells about his life shows that at one time he was just like one of us and in our position.”

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continues from page 1 mitments to participate in “National Educators Coming Out Day” in November and co-host a “Know Your Rights” training session for educators, so they can better assist students.

The ULI has had a longstanding relationship with the International Office, according to Meghan Merchant, program coordinator at the International Office.

Merchant said the International Office demonstrated support for undocumented students by showing a film screening of the short documentary “Living Undocumented.”

“Other ways [of supporting ULI] include maintaining the Longhorn Dreamers Project website, supporting Undocumented Longhorns Week and having a special orientation in the summer for new undocumented students to connect them with campus resources,” Merchant said.

Rhetoric and writing junior Maria Reza, United We Dream officer for ULI, said she enjoyed seeing the diversity in the documentary “Living Undocumented.”

“Immigration is not just a Mexican issue; it’s not just an issue for Latinos. … It’s a global issue,” Reza said.

“That’s something to always keep in mind — you should never assume that someone’s undocumented based on what they look like or how they speak.”

Reza said she is an advocate of ending the use of the term “illegals” in reference to undocumented immigrants.

“Even if they don’t mean it, it’s just — words hurt, right?” Reza said. “We kind of prefer ‘undocumented. If you don’t like ‘undocumented,’ ‘unauthorized.’ If you don’t like ‘unauthorized,’ just my name is good.”

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continues from page 1 glass from those windows is not raining down on people entering the building, so the barricades are more of a precaution, according to Lentz Stephanie Sebastian, international relations and global studies senior, said the barricades have forced her to take different paths to her classes.

“Usually I go from the bus stop near the stadium and go to the bottom floor where my classes are, but, since that’s blocked off, I have to go on the right side of the fountain and go up and cross over,” Sebastian said. “I’m annoyed that I can’t get to the CLA as easily as I could before, but, at the same time, you can’t help if glass is breaking.”

Vandalism did not cause the cracks in the windows, Lentz said. The windows cracked naturally, but the glass is being tested to determine why it is breaking.

“The construction manager is overseeing inspection by the glass subcontractor, and UT System … is having the glass break

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aspects to the school that extend beyond drug abuse prevention. While the school is primarily focused on drug abuse prevention, Holleran ’re Steiker said she wants stuat dents to perform at a high academic level, develop new an he relationships and recognize er us they can be successful.

Twenty-three students are e can in the program this year, and ant.” three will graduate in June, Holleran Steiker said.

Mason Broussard, a reDipaolo, covery coach at the high Student school, said he understands out his the challenges these stuime he dents are facing. and in “When I was 16, I suffered from drug addiction,” Broussard said. “The students here are 15 to 18

analyzed by a testing lab,” Lentz said. “These windows contain safety glass, but all glass is subject to breakage.”

Beause the glass is safety glass, Lentz said if it were to fall and break, it would not have sharp edges. Safety glass is used in multiple buildings across campus.

The CLA building opened in spring 2013, making it one of the newest buildings on campus.

The building, which has a LEED Gold certification from the U.S. Green Building Council, was designed to maximize natural lighting throughout the day.

“I think that’s weird because I would assume that newer buildings would be stronger,” Sebastian said. “I don’t know why it’s happening because I think since it’s newer, they should have been more prepared for it and used the right materials and glass to make sure that it doesn’t break.”

It is unclear as to when the barricades will go down and access to the patios and entrances will be reinstated.

“The barriers will remain in place until the

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Students walk underneath scaffolding put up as a precaution against falling glass around the perimeter of the College of Liberal Arts building. Workers first identified a section of fallen glass March 27.

window glass break issue has been fully resolved to the satisfaction of campus administration,” Lentz said. “The campus administration is

taking these steps — inspection and analysis of the glass as well as installation of safety barriers — to ensure the safety of the campus community.”

Government senior D’Wahn Kelley said he did not know why the barricades were placed around the building, but it does not affect his access to

the building.

“As long as students are safe and it does not create a great burden, I am fine with the barricades,” Kelley said.

years old, and I understand what they are going through. I am only a couple of years older than some of them, but I know they are watching all of my steps.

They want to experience a fresh start.”

Sierra Castedo-Rodgers, director of the Center for Students Recovery, said she is happy to see the school and the center continue to expand.

“For almost three years, we have been working on a system-wide expansion of on-campus recovery support,” Castedo-Rodgers said. “Back in February, the Board of Regents voted to keep this program going for another three years. With the support, we want to continue expanding and reaching out even further into the campus and community.”

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Sierra Castedo-Rogers, director of the Center for Students in Recovery, is part of an expanding effort to help college students who suffer from addiction.

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COLUMN

Petty disagreement, inability to compromise limit diplomacy

By Jeremi Suri

Daily Texan Columnist @JeremiSuri

It is always easier to shout in anger than to talk calmly and reasonably in moments of maximum pressure. It is always easier to condemn than to compromise with adversaries. It is always easier to fight than to negotiate, especially when you are strong and your enemies seem weak.

Since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, the United States has done a lot of shouting, condemning and fighting. This is particularly true in the Middle East, where we have fought a long, inconclusive war, declared an “axis of evil” and demanded rapid “democratization” on our terms. None of these actions has accomplished very much. Our counterproductive foreign behavior has seeped into our domestic politics — also dominated by shouting, condemning and fighting today.

We are stymied at home and abroad because we have become unable to work through differences without personal attacks and government shutdowns.

Historic progress with Iran Thursday’s dramatic announcement that the United States, Iran and five other nations have reached an agreement to curtail Iran’s threatening nuclear weapons program, in return for a lifting of international sanctions, is an example of what diplomacy, negotiation and compromise can accomplish. After more than 35 years of conflict, dating back to the Iranian Revolution, representatives from Washington and Tehran sat across the table from one another for intensive discussions aimed at improving relations between the two states.

The agreement announced on Thursday, if enforced, will open Iran’s nuclear program to the West, just as it reopens Western trade with Iran.

Tehran will not assemble a nuclear weapon, and Washington will end its efforts to isolate a vibrant Iranian society. The truth is that Washington and Tehran are already working closely together in fighting ISIS in Iraq and Syria, and last week’s agreement will allow the two states to find further opportunities for strategic cooperation.

Many critics correctly identify the Iranian state as a continuing sponsor of terrorists in Lebanon, Yemen, Iraq, the Palestinian territories and other areas. Leaders in Tehran refuse to acknowledge Israel’s right to exist. They also deny the Holocaust and subscribe to numerous racist conspiracy theories about Jews and Christians.

The Iranian government is not the most authoritarian or repressive regime in the Middle East — our friends, the Saudis, take that award — but the leaders of Tehran are clearly dangerous and antagonistic to many of our most deeply held values. We should not pretend otherwise.

Misplaced priorities?

The point of diplomacy is that nations and peoples must learn to live with countries they do not trust, even ones that they despise. The world is a very diverse and dangerous place. The United States does not have the power, the knowledge or the moral claim to right the wrongs of every region and deny recognition to every government it disdains. Time and again, overreliance on military force and moral self-righteousness has produced unsatisfactory results. Just think of Vietnam, Lebanon, Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya — all places where the United States deployed extensive force and spent billions of dollars over the last 40 years. It is very hard to argue that the United States achieved any enduring democratization in these countries, despite all the costs.

Some of these countries, including Iraq and Libya, are more violent now than before American intervention.

Force is a necessary component of international relations, but it is not sufficient. Nor is financial assistance effective when local leaders are able to confiscate resources for their own purposes rather than the needs of a country’s population. The recent historical record shows that American force and money, although deployed widely, have delivered very little value in reforming societies.

President Barack Obama, elected to office in the shadow of the Iraq War and the 2008 economic recession, recognized these historical facts, as did many of the millions of Americans who voted for him. Mainline Republicans, including James Baker, Brent Scowcroft and Henry

Jessica Lin | Daily Texan Staff

Kissinger said similar things. The United States needed to improve its foreign policy results by investing more heavily in negotiations and compromise with powerful adversaries, especially Iran. President Ronald Reagan had tried to do exactly that in the 1980s, and the time had come again to build a working relationship between Washington and Tehran for stability in the Middle East.

A powerful step in the direction of stability The agreement reached last week was a powerful step in that direction and everyone, regardless of political party, should support it.

Iran is still a threat to many American interests, but a working relationship that limits Iranian development of nuclear weapons and increases American access to Iranian society is good for the United States. We still cannot trust Iran, but an agreement that provides a basis for verification allows for some testing of suspicions. The Iranians would, of course, say similar things about the United States. The two adversaries

need to start somewhere in building cooperation to replace escalating conflict. The negotiators of the recent agreement deserve praise for creating some reasonable hope.

Shouting, condemning and fighting always sound more righteous and pure, but politics is not about righteousness or purity. Talk to any veteran of the Iraq War and he or she will make this point through the countless stories of suffering, among all belligerents, witnessed firsthand. Effective politics turn on the ability to work with adversaries and construct agreements that make circumstances a little better.

The burden on critics of compromise, at home and abroad, is to offer a more promising alternative. If all you can offer is chest-thumping about the evils of the adversary, then get ready for more of the warfare abroad and stagnation we have seen at home during the last decade.

Democracy is ultimately about getting things done by working with groups we love and hate, and with whom we share the planet.

Suri is a professor in the LBJ School of Public Affairs and the Department of History.

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COLUMN

Bills would fix youth imprisonment Recent attack on affirmative action, top 10 percent rule misguided

By Claire Smith Senior Columnist @claireseysmith

One week ago, the Legislature’s Juvenile Justice and Family Issues Subcommittee heard three bills that propose to raise the age of juvenile jurisdiction in criminal cases from from 17 to 18. Though the bills propose what appears to be a minor change, the debate over HB 53, 303 and 1205 is anything but a non-issue. Should the bills pass, they will herald a promising new day in Texas with the abolition of a nonsense law and the end to an institutional failure of Texas youth.

Texas is one of only nine states that try 17-year-olds as adults. The argument for doing so is that if they are able to make decisions like adults, such as whether or not to commit a crime, they should face adult consequences.

Yet the issue is not as black-and-white as this rationale suggests. In fact, most of the crimes committed by 17-year-olds don’t seem to be “adult” crimes at all: According to a recent study by the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, the crimes of 17-year-olds are much more similar in nature to those of 16-year-olds than they are to the acts of 18-year-old criminals.

Many of the youths that the state prosecutes as adults literally committed the crimes of children.

And as we all know, children make mistakes.

Also, in an interim report released by the committee, it was found that 44 percent of the crimes committed by 17-year-olds were larceny, the possession of marijuana or certain alcoholrelated crimes; in other words, nonviolent crime.

A University of Texas study found that if the state changed the age of juvenile jurisdiction, 72.5 percent of 17-year-olds arrested would be misdemeanants and 89.9 percent of the crimes could be resolved with non-residential probation. When placed in a greater scope, the difference in treatment between juvenile court and adult court is staggering. These nonviolent, minor offenses are exactly the kind of harmless trouble I believe many would expect from teenagers, yet the state prosecutes these misdemeanants in adult courts.

Unfortunately, in some 17-year-olds’ cases, being tried as an adult for the aforementioned offenses eliminates the possibility of having the charge expunged from their record at the age of 21. For minors, this is possible after the completion of an alcohol education course or commu-

nity service. There is no doubt that this will negatively impact the success of the minor’s college application process or job search — in short, any attempt to better themselves. But this is the way the law stands now, and we must call it as it is: an institutional failure.

The most disturbing shade of this issue is that the state may be imprisoning Texas youths in state prisons partially for financial benefit. According to the subcommittee report, it costs $50.04 per day to incarcerate a person at a state prison and $366.88 per day to incarcerate someone at a juvenile detention center. As representatives from the Texas Probation Association said as they testified before the subcommittee, the financial aspect of this issue cannot be overlooked; should HB 53, 303 and 1205 pass, the date of implementation for the transfer of 17-year-olds from state prisons to juvenile institutions will likely have to be delayed due to greater detention costs to the state.

Those who have strayed at 17 belong in juvenile correctional facilities, not a state prison. The committee’s interim report stated that reassigning 17-year-olds to the juvenile criminal system would have more favorable results. The trial and imprisonment of 17-year-olds as adults has concrete disadvantages: In state prisons, 17-yearolds are unable to continue their education; they are unable to receive mental health counseling that the National Center for Mental Health and Juvenile Justice found 70 percent of imprisoned 17-year-olds need; and they are ineligible for the state’s Substance Abuse Felony Punishment program or Intermediate Sanction Facility beds. All of these problems would be resolved if 17-yearolds were placed in juvenile correction facilities instead. It could not be clearer that prison is not comparable to rehabilitation.

What we should be doing is empowering the youths who commit criminal activity to be treated as youths, rehabilitated and reintroduced into a society where they are empowered to succeed.

Seventeen-year-olds stand at a critical point in their life, on a threshold between childhood and adulthood, where society expects them to live as contributors to society. It is illogical enough that the state is currently trying 17-year-olds with the full penalties of adulthood at such a tender age and for mostly misdemeanors.

We cannot undo the failures of others, but we can make sure our state does not continue to fail our youths. Adolescent imprisonment is a disservice to Texas youths and a grave condemnation that will alter the course of their lives — all for a mistake they made when they were 17.

Smith is a history and humanities junior from Austin.

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Irma Rangel was the first Latina elected to the Texas Legislature and the architect of the state’s top 10 percent rule. As a graduate research assistant for the Irma Rangel Public Policy Institute, I feel that it is my duty to defend the principles of equity and fairness from attacks like Hung’s.

Hung’s attack on the merits of Texas’ top 7 percent rule is woefully misguided for multiple reasons.

Hung unfortunately misunderstands the meaning of “underrepresented” minorities.

Underrepresented can mean a variety of people, not just Latinos and African-Americans, as Hung’s simplistic portrayal suggests.

Hung glosses over the fact that the top 7 percent rule also makes room for students from rural high schools who can be of any race, but of whom many are white. That said, a study last year by Lindsay Daugherty, Paco Martorell and Isaac McFarlin found that, contrary to popular belief, “students in the top 10 percent of their high school are more likely to be white and females and less likely to be low-income than their peers.”

Second, in making the case that the University should admit “better students,” Hung points to the fact that those admitted under the top 7 percent rule have an average ACT score of 28, whereas those admitted outside the program have an ACT score of 30 — hardly a gulf!

One of the more troubling elements of Hung’s argument is that he compares the maintenance of the top 7 percent rule to the Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson, the decision to uphold the “separate but equal” regime. To compare the suffering of African-Americans in the Jim Crow South to the “plight” of middle- and upper-class students of today is at best naïve and at worst insulting to the descendants of those who suffered under the racial violence of that time.

Lastly, Hung peddles the same misguided conception of racism used by the “reverse discrimination” crowd. Hung, much like U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts himself, considers any and all consideration of race as racism without understanding the fact that racism is a system that considers race for the purpose of replicating and reinforcing hierarchies of power based on racial differences.

How one can argue that it’s racist to let in racial and ethnic minorities who earned a spot at a great public university like UT in spite of structural inequalities like underfunded urban schools or underserved rural schools is beyond me.

— Alvaro Corral, government graduate student, in response to Daniel Hung’s Monday column titled “Nix the top 10 percent rule, affirmative action.”

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Spoilers won’t spoil TV, film experience

By Charles Liu

Daily Texan Columnist @CharlieInDaHaus

Spoiler alert! George R. R. Martin’s “A Song of Ice and Fire” books will give away the finale of “Game of Thrones.”

For Martin’s loyal readers, this poses a conundrum: Should they stick with the show to the last episode, or should they stop watching the show and wait until the final book is released?

The threat of others spoiling movies, shows and books defines how people watch, read and talk about them. People often have to make sure everyone is up to speed with a show or a novel before discussing it.

“Spoiler alert” warnings pervade websites that leak tidbits of film productions, just in case a visitor doesn’t want to click on an article that will ruin a twist.

The Internet makes it hard to avoid spoilers, but don’t worry: Spoilers aren’t as bad as they seem.

Radio-television-film professor Kathryn Fuller-Seeley said online streaming makes it possible to view movies and shows at one’s own pace, allowing audiences to hold off on watching a show and binge watch it later.

People jump into movies and shows at different speeds, meaning some will know more plot points than others. The fewer episodes viewers have covered, the more spoilers they’ll have to watch out for.

“In my classes, I can’t find anything that everybody has seen together,” Fuller-Seeley said. “That idea of riding the narrative of a story like an amusement park ride, of being surprised — that is at risk of being lost when we don’t watch everything at the same time anymore.”

Trolls also lurk the Internet, dropping spoilers for all forms of entertainment left and right.

But spoilers can actually improve the experience with a movie, show or book.

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Without having to stress about how a book ends, audiences can appreciate the style and techniques. With movies and shows, people can pay more attention to the acting, music and cinematography.

“You’re not limited in your view to just following the story, of riding one roller coaster,” Fuller-Seeley said. “You get to try out the whole theme park.”

Radio-television-film freshman Preston Poole said he learned about the infamous Mandarin twist in “Iron Man 3”’ before seeing the film. Audiences who went into the film unspoiled could only talk about

the unpopular plot point.

Poole said he enjoyed the film more because he got over the shock before seeing it, allowing him to admire how the twist served the movie’s themes.

Fuller-Seeley said she wishes she had “Frenzy,” a crime thriller by Alfred Hitchcock, spoiled for her. She saw the movie during a class screening in graduate school.

“A good friend had been murdered the week before, and the professor didn’t give me the spoiler alert,” Fuller-Seeley said. “I get to that scene of the woman’s death, and I am so traumatized. I freaked out and

That idea of riding the narrative of a story like an amusement park ride, of being surprised — that is at risk of being lost when we don’t watch everything at the same time anymore.

—Kathryn Fuller-Seeley, Radio-television-film professor

yelled at the professor. Without the spoiler, I got so drawn into the story that it [shocked me] all too well.”

“Game of Thrones” will give away the conclusion to its unfinished source material, but spoilers won’t

necessarily make the books any less exhilarating. Readers who know how the story ends will be able appreciate how the writers and producers set up the finale. Spoilers won’t ruin your experience; they’ll make it better.

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Freshman pitcher Connor Mayes got a pair of big outs to help Texas escape a bases-loaded jam in the eighth and propel Texas to its first win since March 22.

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Texas was in desperate need of win when the Shockers loaded the bases late in the game with one out.

Freshman pitcher Connor Mayes was on the mound as the Longhorns (18–15, 5–4 Big 12) clung to a one-run lead.

But, with a shallow fly and a groundout, Mayes came up big as Texas finally ended its seven-game skid with a 6–4 win over Wichita State on Tuesday night.

“It’s great for something to go right for us, especially after the past couple of weekends,” second baseman Brooks Marlow said. “I think it’s just a step forward for us and it’s going to make us that much better.”

The Texas offense had struggled over the seven-game losing streak, but it came up big against the Shockers.

“It was important to see the team much more relaxed,” head coach Augie Garrido said. “We looked much better tonight as a team.”

The Longhorns struck early, taking their first openingframe lead since their series finale against Kansas State on March 22.

In the opening frame,

Texas extended its winning streak to nine, defeating Texas A&MCorpus Christi, 11–2, in five innings on Tuesday afternoon behind the bat of sophomore shortstop Devon Tunning.

Tunning got things going for the Longhorns (27–9) in a hurry with a lead-off home run. She added another solo shot in the bottom of the third, making it her second multi-home-run outing in the last three games and extending her careerhigh on-base streak to 23 games.

“I’m just trying to get on base; that’s my job,” Tunning said. “[Pitchers are] coming at me, and I’m just seeing the ball really well. My job is to start the team off right, and it’s working out.”

Texas went on to score six runs on four hits in the initial frame, continuing the theme of fast starts and bringing its season total to 57 first-inning runs.

Five of those runs came from a pair of twoout RBI doubles from freshman third baseman

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freshman shortstop Joe Baker led off with a walk, which was followed by a Shocker error on a sacrifice bunt that allowed senior second baseman Brooks Marlow to reach first safely. Baker came around to score on an RBI fielder’s choice by junior left fielder Ben Johnson.

Texas added another run on a double by sophomore third baseman C.J Hinojosa.

The offense continued its early onslaught in the second

inning. Sophomore center fielder Zane Gurwitz began the Longhorn threat with a one-out walk, Baker followed with a single to put runners on the corners, and Marlow pushed the Texas lead to 3–0 with an RBI single. Sophomore catcher Tres Barrera extended the lead to 4–0 with a sacrifice fly.

The Shockers fought back in the fourth, when freshman designated hitter Gunnar Troutwine hit an RBI double

to cut the Texas lead to 4–2.

But Texas answered in the bottom of the frame as Marlow recorded another RBI single to put Texas up 5-2.

A two-run Wichita State homer in the fifth cut the deficit to one.

After the Shocker homer, both offenses went cold until Wichita State loaded the bases in the eighth.

Texas added an insurance run in the ninth on Baker’s third hit of the game.

Senior reliever Ty Marlow closed the game out in the ninth and secured their first win since March 24. Freshman pitcher Jake McKenzie, who came on in relief in the fourth for sophomore starter Josh Sawyer, picked up the win.

“The best part of today was just getting that win,” Baker said. “We really needed that to finally get that first win out of the way and get that streak ended. It was a good win.”

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Randel Leahy and then junior second baseman Stephanie Ceo. “Our approach has been tremendous immediately, and I think that’s something to be said about our preparation,” head coach Connie Clark said. “I’m equally, or maybe even more, excited about how many runs we’re putting up with two outs. That means that you continue to get to the next pitch and compete hard regardless of what the scoreboard says.”

Senior pitcher Gabby Smith contributed to the 11-hit offensive performance, going 2-for-2 with two RBIs. Smith earned the victory from the mound to improve to 7–1 on the season. In her first start since March 28 because of a callous on her index finger of her throwing hand, Smith gave up seven hits and struck out five in a complete-game effort.

“It was fun being back in there,” Smith said. “I definitely wanted to throw this game, I was excited about it, and it felt good.”

Smith said her finger, when wrapped in tape, feels completely fine and that she will continue to tape it up as long as is necessary.

I’m just trying to get on base; that’s my job.

[Pitchers are] coming at me, and I’m just seeing the ball really well. My job is to start the team off right, and it’s working out.

—Devon Tunning, Sophomore shortstop

As a tough Big 12 Conference series against No. 5 Oklahoma approaches, Texas feels good about the development they’ve made.

“As we get prepared tomorrow and Thursday, we need to be on the attack,” Clark said. “I think we have two confident teams going at it, and I think we match up very well in a lot of ways and we’ll just see how it plays out.”

The Longhorns will home to improve their nine-game winning streak as they face off against the Sooners in a three-game series at Red and Charline McCombs Field starting Friday afternoon.

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Sophomore shortstop Devon Tunning watches one of her two homers leave the park Tuesday. Her pair of home runs sparked the Longhorns to their ninth-straight victory.

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Men’s basketball head coach Shaka Smart talks at the podium during his introductory press conference Friday.

Smart’s VCU numbers signal signs of success

By Drew Lieberman @DrewLieberman

Less than a week after Rick Barnes left the head coaching job, Texas found its program’s 24th basketball coach. Shaka Smart, who spent the last six seasons coaching at Virginia Commonwealth University, finally left the Rams after essentially rewriting the program’s history book.

Smart guided the Rams to the NCAA Tournament in each of their last five seasons, the longest streak in school history, including a trip to the 2011 Final Four — the first time the program ever advanced past the Tournament’s second weekend.

In Smart’s six seasons at the helm, the Rams won 163 games, which tied Smart with Jamie Dixon for the second-most wins of all time by a coach in their first six seasons in Division I basketball.

Smart won at least 26 games in each of his seasons at Virginia, an accomplishment that had been achieved only twice in the program’s first 37 seasons of D-I competition. And in each of those seasons, the Rams won at least 70 percent of their regular season games, despite making the leap from the Colonial Athletic Association to the Atlantic-10 Conference in the fourth year of Smart’s tenure.

Over the same six-year stretch in time, Texas won 26 or more games just once. Further, the team hasn’t hit that 70-percent win mark in the last four seasons. Over the past three seasons, VCU has also averaged a 14.75 on the Simple Rating System — which uses

strength of schedules and point differential to give each team a rating of how many points above or below average they are — nearly three points higher than Texas’ 11.9.

When he transitions from coaching at a mid-major school to Texas, Smart will likely be able to achieve success — primarily by making drastic changes to Texas’ style of play.

At VCU, Smart ran his signature ‘havoc,’ full-court press defense, ranking the Rams among the top five in the nation in both steals and turnovers forced the last four seasons. In contrast, the Longhorns didn’t rank higher than 108th in steals or 150th in turnovers forced.

This past season, the VCU’s typical lineup featured no starters taller than 6-foot-6-inch, primarily playing four-guard lineups. Meanwhile, the Longhorns often started three players 6-foot-7-inch or taller. With Texas’ frontcourt depth taking a hit with senior Jonathan Holmes graduating and freshman Myles Turner declaring for the NBA draft, Texas will likely start at least three guards for the majority of the 2015–2016 season.

With a likely shift in focus to a press-based defense as well as Smart’s emphasis on the backcourt, the Longhorns will probably soon look like a totally different team than the team who played under Rick Barnes this season.

While next year’s squad may struggle a bit in adapting to the system at first, come March, the Longhorns should return to the NCAA Tournament’s second weekend for the first time since 2008.

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We’ve got LOTS I mean lots of work to do first, but with coach strong as our commander..

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SPORTS BRIEFLY Men’s tennis sweeps Roadrunners at home

No. 9 Texas took care of business against unranked UTSA on Tuesday, sweeping the Roadrunners 4–0.

The Longhorns improved their season record to 17–3 and are now 11–1 at home, just short of their undefeated home record last year.

Texas’ doubles lines set the tone for the Longhorns early in the match, as seniors Lloyd Glasspool and Søren Hess-Olesen won at the No. 1 doubles line by a score of 6–2. The team of juniors Nick Naumann and Michael Riechmann then claimed the doubles point for the Longhorns at the No. 3 doubles line, winning 6–3.

Naumann’s strong performance continued in singles competition as he won at the No. 4 singles line with a commanding 6–3, 6–1 victory.

Naumann had struggled lately, losing four of his previous five matches before Tuesday.

—Michael Shapiro

Women’s tennis beats Abilene Christian 4-0

Texas found success outside its conference with a 4–0 home sweep over Abilene Christian University on Tuesday.

On the doubles courts, freshman duo Danielle Wagland and Ryann Foster set the pace for the No. 36 Longhorns, defeating Abilene Christian’s pair.

Following the duo’s example, Texas sophomores Ratnika Batra and Neda Koprcina clinched their doubles point, winning 6–4 after a battle against their Wildcat opponents.

In singles, Batra, who sat out the last four games, took command of the court sweeping both sets, furthering the Longhorns lead.

Texas’ lone-ranked junior, no. 47 Breaunna Addison, also posted her sixth-straight singles win.

Senior Lina Padegimaite posted a win, rounding out the Longhorns 4–0 sweep.

—Reanna Zuniga

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The hard facts on the hard stuff

Despite alcohol’s pervasive influence on human history, scientists still do not fully understand the substance’s effects. Each of the following studies, which University professors and graduate students conducted, leads to a better overall understanding of how alcohol affects the population and points to what questions should be explored next.

SEPTEMBER 2014

NOVEMBER 2013 FOCUS ON SMOKING HABITS CAN LEAD TO PREVENTION OF DRINKING UT students who smoke are more likely to also drink, but students who drink are not more likely to also smoke.

RESEARCHERS: Jessica Cance, Anna Talley and Kim Fromme JOURNAL: None

EVERYDAY DISCRIMINATION AND MOOD AND SUBSTANCE USE DISORDER: A LATENT PROFILE ANALYSIS WITH AFRICAN AMERICAN AND CARIBBEAN BLACKS The multifaceted discrimination faced by African -American and Caribbean blacks may lead to mental disorders, such as alcohol abuse, over time.

RESEARCHERS: Christopher Salas-Wright, Trenette Clark and Michael G. Vaughn JOURNAL: Addictive Behaviors

MARCH 2015

FEBRUARY 2015 SUBSTANCE USE AND TEEN PREGNANCY IN THE UNITED STATES: EVIDENCE FROM THE NSDUH 2002–2012 Pregnant teens are more likely than their peers to use illegal substances, such as alcohol.

RESEARCHERS: Christopher Salas-Wright JOURNAL: Addictive Behaviors

BEER, WINE, OR SPIRITS? ADVERTISING’S IMPACT ON FOUR DECADES OF CATEGORY SALES. There is no relationship between the volume of alcohol advertising and overall alcohol sales.

The total alcohol market is fixed; advertisers are just competing for a slice of the pie.

RESEARCHERS: Gary Wilcox, Eun Yeon Kang and Lindsay Chilek JOURNAL: International Journal of Advertising

SOCIAL SCIENCE BIOLOGICAL SCIENCE

APRIL 2013 STRUCTURAL BASIS FOR POTENTIATION BY ALCOHOLS AND ANESTHETICS IN A LIGAND-GATED ION CHANNEL Through the study of a rare bacteria that grows only in the Swiss alps, scientists identified how alcohol and certain anesthetics affect key central nervous proteins.

RESEARCHERS: Ludovic Sauguet, Rebecca J. Howard, Laurie Malherbe, Ui S. Lee, Pierre-Jean Corringer, R. Adron Harrie and Marc Delarue JOURNAL: Nature Communications

JULY 2014 CONSERVED SINGLE RESIDUE IN THE BK POTASSIUM CHANNEL REQUIRED FOR ACTIVATION

BY ALCOHOL AND INTOXICATION IN C. ELEGANS Neuroscientists created mutatant worms that don’t show symptoms of drunkenness. This discovery could be used to develop drugs that stop the symptoms of alcohol in the bloodstream and eventually block alcoholic cravings.

RESEARCHERS: Scott J. Davis, Luisa L. Scott, Kevin Hu and Jonathan T. Pierce-Shimomura JOURNAL: Journal of Neuroscience

OCTOBER 2014 PERCEIVED PUBERTAL TIMING AND RECENT SUBSTANCE USE AMONG ADOLESCENTS: A LONGITUDINAL PERSPECTIVE Teens who begin puberty earlier than their peers are more likely to have tried alcohol, cigarettes and marijuana.

RESEARCHERS: Jessica Duncan Cance, Susan T. Ennett, Antonio A. Morgan-Lopez, Vangie A. Foshee and Anna E. Talley.

JOURNAL: Addiction

DECEMBER 2014

TRANSCRIPTOME ORGANIZATION FOR CHRONIC ALCOHOL ABUSE IN HUMAN BRAIN Scientists at UT identified a network of genes that are related to alcoholism. Doctors could look for these genes when screening for alcoholism, and scientists could target these genes to create better treatments for alcoholics.

RESEARCHERS: Sean Farris, R. Dayne Mayfield, Dhivya Arasappan, Scott Hunicke-Smith and R. Adron Harris JOURNAL: Molecular Psychiatry

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BUSINESS

Father, son collaborate on grill for tailgates

By Marisa Charpentier @marisacharp21

Second-year MBA student Courtney Leffall didn’t meet his father until he was 24 years old. After rekindling their relationship four years ago, the father and son are making up for lost time by building a business — one that’s gained national attention on Food Network’s “Food Fortunes.”

“When I was a kid, we never got a chance to build a bike together,” Leffall said. “But now, we’re getting the chance to build a business together.”

The two created “The Grillmobile,” a line of installable grills that latch onto the back of pickup trucks.

According to Leffall, the two were separated for so

long because Leffall was born while his mom was still in high school. After his father, Talmon Haywood, joined the military and his mother went off to college, the parents lost touch.

When Leffall got engaged in his early 20s, he emailed his father and invited him to the wedding, where they met for the first time.

Haywood, who lives in Indiana, developed the idea for the grill after he grew tired of hauling his grill to tailgates for his chidren’s sports games. The solution: he drilled a hole in his truck bed and attached a grill.

“I got tired of lugging that grill, and I had some metal left over,” Haywood said. “I saw two hinges in my garage, and it gave me an idea.”

He sent a photo of his creation to Leffall who immediately saw the creation as a business opportunity. At the time, Leffall was applying to the McCombs School of Business. He created a business plan for The Grillmobile and used it to apply for the Texas Venture Labs scholarship in 2013.

The scholarship selects 13 finalists to participate in a business pitching competition. After presenting The Grillmobile idea, Leffall won the scholarship.

“At that point, I was like, ‘Well, if the University of Texas thinks this is a good idea, then I must be on to something’,” Leffall said.

After he became a

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