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Blackboard option to be erased Friday

By Sam Ketterer @sam_kett

Friday is the last day for instructors to create a summer course on Blackboard, in what will be the last semester for the online system before the University makes the full transition to Canvas.

The University officially began phasing out Blackboard, another learning management system, in fall 2013. In the fall 2015 semester, Blackboard will no longer be an option, and Canvas will be used entirely in its place.

“Our goal is to have everyone on Canvas this summer,” said Brad Englert, chief information officer for UT Information Technology Services.

“We’ve been reaching out and using support to help with the transition.”

Of the roughly 3,000 instructors using a learning management system on campus, 222 courses were housed on Blackboard this semester, Englert said.

Drew Thornley, a lecturer in the McCombs School of

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Friday is the last day for for instructors to request summer courses on Blackboard before the University fully transitions to Canvas.

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Students organize anti-campus carry rally

By Sebastian Herrera @SebasAHerrera

Students Against Guns on Campus hosted a rally in the West Mall on Tuesday opposing House Bill 937, which, if passed, would allow guns in classrooms of public universities.

The rally aimed to show Texas legislators that the majority of students believe the bill would make campuses more dangerous, according to Jordan Pahl, Middle Eastern studies senior and a founding member of the anti-campus carry organization.

“Guns really alter the atmosphere of a university,” Pahl said.

“Our University is already a safe place. The idea that students need their guns on campus to keep them safe is not [right] and … would not change [campuses] for the better.”

The bill is currently being considered in the Texas House.

If passed, HB 937 would allow licensed handgun carriers to

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Public health professor Alfred McAlister was one of two professors who spoke at the Students Against Guns on Campus rally in the West Mall on Tuesday afternoon.

On Sundays, social work senior Denisse Calderon wakes up and visits the Austin State Supported Living Center (ASSLC) to meet with residents and accompany them to a church service.

“My work at the ASSLC has really influenced my life greatly,” Calderon said.

“Since I’ve volunteered with them for about four years now, I have gotten to know a lot of their mannerisms and quirks and things I can do to really put on a smile on their faces or calm them down if they feel [uncomfortable] at Mass.”

Calderon is one of around 50 UT students and members of other University groups who set aside their time to volunteer at the ASSLC, a home for the elderly with a focus on those with mental disabilities.

But the center may close

by August 2017 after the Texas Senate passed a bill earlier this month with a provision to close the ASSLC after nearly a century of operation.

If the House approves the bill and Gov. Greg Abbott signs it, the center may close its doors permanently over the next several years, and the more than 200 residents who currently live there would be relocated to other care facilities.

University volunteers at the center attend and help throw recreational events,

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Hearing clinic on campus fits local musicians with earplugs

Longhorn Band director leaves to lead Miami wind ensemble

By Lauren Florence

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The Moody College of Communication helped educate local musicians about hearing loss and provided them with custom earplugs at the UT Speech and Hearing Center on Tuesday.

The program, which is a collaboration between Estes Audiology Hearing Centers, the Health Alliance for Austin Musicians (HAAM) and UT’s Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, gives local musicians who are insured through HAAM accurate hearing tests and individual counseling about how to protect their hearing.

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After 13 years directing the Longhorn Band, Robert M. Carnochan will leave the University this summer to become the University of Miami’s wind ensembles director. Carnochan said he chose to move on to Miami to focus on composing music and conducting the wind ensemble.

Carnochan said the band has made minor changes to some of its shows, but its core aspects have remained the same during his tenure as director.

“I give a lot of credit back to Vince DiNino and his building of the band from 1955–1975 to create what exists now,” Carnochan said.

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Paige Juarez, local audiologist at Estes Audiology, helps make a custom earplug mold for local musician Walker Lukens on Tuesday morning.

and founder of Estes Audiology, said the main draw for musicians to come to the center is to have access to an affordable set

of custom, filtered earplugs.

Custom earplugs usually cost more than $200, but

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“My job is more of maintaining it. I’m a steward here of carrying on the tradition of the greatness that was developed during the DiNino years.”

Carnochan said he wants the band to know that LHB members need to work together to carry on a tradition of excellence into the future.

“This is not my band,” Carnochan said. “It’s the University of Texas band, and all of us have the privilege of being involved with it. We need to respect it, and we need to carry on the great traditions.”

Carnochan said his biggest achievement while directing the band was bringing people together from all walks of life.

“The group is so diverse

with so many people from different walks of life,” Carnochan said. “[My biggest achievement is] trying to get all of those people from all over the state of Texas and work toward a common goal and, most importantly, to act with great class and respect toward the institution itself.”

Director of bands Jerry Junkin said he will miss Carnochan’s warm personality.

“He was a very stable influence,” Junkin said.

“Certainly we hope to find those qualities in addition to his obviously strong musicianship.”

Junkin said the next band director has not been selected yet.

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“I don’t see a need to change,” Thornley said. “I mean, if [IT Services tells] me I can still use it, and I’ve been using it for six years — I’m used to it — why would I change before I have to?”

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According to Englert, one of the driving forces behind making the switch to Canvas was creating a more userfriendly interface for students and faculty.

“I think people appreciate the look and feel, the intuitive nature of Canvas,” Englert said. “It’s not as clunky as Blackboard.”

Thornley said he does not use material from blackboard in class enough to merit making a switch before it is required.

“I don’t care about the functionality of one versus the other,” Thornley said. “I post the sylla-

bus, I email my class, and I post grades. So I never really gave it much thought.”

Thornley, who accepted a tenured position at another college for the fall, said he would have made the switch come fall semester.

“If I stayed, I would have gone to a tutorial and never complained and learned how to use it,” Thornley said. “I’m not trying to be defiant. I’m not more important than anybody else. … I’m used to [Blackboard], so why not use it?”

IT Services, which operates Canvas, provides services to faculty and staff to aid in the transition and

learn how to effectively use the system. According to Englert, the Center for Teaching and Learning is the primary source for Canvas tutorials, workshops and office hours. It also operates a 24/7 help desk.

Kyle Doherty, a radio-television-film sophomore, said he prefers Canvas over Blackboard, although he said he felt a two-year transition was too long.

“I think [IT Services] definitely overhyped it a little,” Doherty said. “I think they could have made it a quicker transition, and everyone would have been OK with it.”

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are available for a $25 co-pay through the center for musicians. Estes said, the program, which runs four times a year, has served about 1,500 local musicians since 2009.

“Many musicians with HAAM — and just musicians in general — don’t like foam plugs in their ear because it muffles sound, so they elect to not wear anything because they don’t want to compromise the sound on stage,” Estes said.

“But then they’re damaging their hearing permanently, which then further compromises it later down the road.”

In individual counseling sessions, clinicians discuss the duration and intensity of each musician’s set because it helps them to customize the hearing protection, which is essential for preserving the musician’s livelihood and employment, Estes said.

Alison Barry, Spanish and communication sciences and disorders senior, said she would love if the center had resources to provide services to student musicians or to help stress the importance of hearing protection to those students.

“Musicians and people who enjoy concerts — specifically loud music, like rock, techno or metal — need to realize that they are incurring damage every time they attend a concert without proper hearing protection,” Barry said. “They need to take these precautions early in life if they want to be able to hear just as well in their old age.”

James Booth, communication sciences and disorders professor, said the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders got involved because the program fit its mission of community outreach and directly improving lives of community members.

“A startling figure is that adults with uncorrected hearing loss suffer from much higher rates of depression,” Booth said. “Not being able to hear isolates us from the world. Musicians help to make Austin a great place to live, and many are struggling financially, so we should do what After the U we can to help.”

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continues from page 1 visit with residents and help maintain the center’s grounds, according to Anne McGonigle, assistant director of community relations for the ASSLC. McGonigle said student volunteers will be more important than ever if the bill passes and the center has to close.

“We are still serving these individuals, and volunteers are still a big part of that and will continue to be, regardless of the decision made by the Legislature,” McGonigle said. “I think it will be an important time for volunteers to come out and interact with the residents and let them know how important they are.”

Combined, the Austin

center and 12 others like it across the state receive more than $660 million in funding from the state. Last year, the Sunset Advisory Commission, a state commission that reviews the efficiency of state agencies, concluded the centers were no longer affordable.

According to McGonigle, volunteers — especially those with Friends of the Austin State Supported Living Center, a local nonprofit that raises money for the ASSLC — will have a role in raising funds and determining how they are distributed if the center closes.

Marylu Vasquez, a communication sciences senior who has volunteered at the center for the past three years, said she enjoys working there because many of the residents think of

her and the other volunteers as friends.

“You get to meet them by name, and they remember you, even though they are not your assigned person,” Vasquez said.

Lance Angelle, a volunteer at the center and a exercise science and allied health professions senior, said he is disappointed the center may close.

“Many of the residents will be displaced into private health care facilities but won’t have any income to pay for it or family members to help them since many of them are older,” Angelle said. “I think if more people spent time with the residents they would see the sense of joy and purpose that the state supported living center has brought to so many people.”

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After nearly 100 years of operation, the Austin State Supported Living Center faces closure because of a bill that was passed by the Texas Senate passed earlier this month.

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Report: Rise in earthquakes Academy of Arts and sciences tied to fracking wastewater welcomes two UT professors

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A recent report has linked the disposal of wastewater from fracking to small earthquakes in Texas and other areas, including the Central and Eastern U.S. “We have had no seismic activity for decades, and then suddenly when [fracking] has been brought in, we start seeing it,” said Andrew Dobbs, Central Texas program director for Texas Campaign for the Environment. “I don’t think this a stretch from the facts.”

Fracking, also known as hydraulic fracturing, uses high-pressured water to release natural gas from underground rocks.

Researchers from the United States Geological Survey, a science organization based in California, conducted the report. They analyzed changes in the rate of earthquake occurrence using USGS databases of earthquakes recorded since 1970. The team found the average number of earthquakes jumped from 21 per year from 1972–2008 to 99 earthquakes per year from 2009–2013.

The largest of a series of earthquakes this year in

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continues from page 1 carry concealed weapons into campus buildings. Certain facilities, such as hospitals, preschools, grade schools, sports events and residence halls, would be exempt.

Pahl said anti-campus carry representatives oppose the bill because of stressed students, drug and alcohol abuse, accidental shootings and the difficulty police officers may have identifying criminals in shooting situations.

Only a few dozen people attended the rally, which anti-campus carry SG President Xavier Rotnofsky and Vice President Rohit Mandalapu and multiple faculty members backed.

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Texas occurred in the Dallas-Fort Worth area with a 3.3 magnitude.

“I’m not surprised,” mechanical engineering professor Michael Webber said.

“There is a lot of anecdotal evidence that has revealed these earthquakes near the regions of wastewater injection.”

According to the report, the increase in seismicity has been linked to the injection of wastewater, a byproduct of fracking, into disposal wells deep underground. Although fracking is not directly related to the earthquakes seen in affected areas, wastewater injection has been found to be the cause.

Webber, deputy director of the Energy Institute, said the state legislature has been fairly inactive in response to recent earthquakes.

“There is room for the state to take action on it,” Webber said. “It involves finding a way to reduce the wastewater and minimize [its] injection.

We need to figure out better locations on where to inject the wastewater.”

According to USGS’s report, evidence from case histories suggests the magnitude of an earthquake tends to increase as the total volume of injected wastewater increases.

Public health professor Alfred McAlister said the majority of UT professors, administration and UTPD officers are also not in favor of campus carry.

“Evidence proves the more guns that are out there, the more people get shot,” McAlister said. “How dare the legislature [be in the process of passing] a law that the University of Texas can’t opt out of.

We should be furious. I am.”

Chase Jennings, the senior advisor for Texas’ chapter of Students for Concealed Carry, a national organization in favor of campus carry, said students at public universities such as UT should also see the benefits campus carry could bring to universities.

Jennings said campus carry forward while still respecting its traditions.

“I want a band director who will come with a passion for perfection but respect for our traditions,”

EARTHQUAKES IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN U.S. 1973–2008: There was an average of 21 earthquakes of magnitude 3 and larger in the Central and Eastern U.S. 2009–2013: The rate jumped to an average of 99 M3+ earthquakes per year.

2014: There were 659 M3+ earthquakes, most of which were in the 3–4 magnitude.

“I think it’s a sign to continue [research and development] for other renewable sources, and I feel we shouldn’t be using natural gas as a crutch,” said Jaclyn Kachelmeyer, Campus Environmental Center director.

Currently, the Environmental Protection Agency is investigating the effects of fracking on the environment. According to a statement on the agency’s website, the EPA is investigating how fracking affects natural water resources but does not yet have an investigation into its link to seismic activity.

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“Unfortunately, police officers cannot be everywhere at all times,” Jennings said. “A lot of situations where [campus carry would work] deal with people protecting themselves when they are alone and are walking around campuses vulnerable to attackers. We have seen time after time where students get raped on campus and get attacked. People have the right to protect themselves.”

Garrett said. “LHB is a very old band with lots practices unique to us and our style.

We are the showband of the Southwest, and I hope any new director will help us maintain that proud title.”

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After 13 years of directing the Longhorn Band, director Robert M. Carnochan will depart the University this summer to become the University of Miami’s wind ensemble director.

By Katie Keenan @thedailytexan

The American Academy of Arts & Sciences, one of the oldest U.S. honor societies and policy research centers, accepted two UT professors and researchers as members last week.

Veteran members from the Academy nominated mathematics professor Björn Engquist and George Georgiou, molecular biosciences, chemical and biomedical engineering professor, to be accepted into the organization. After an 18-month review, both Engquist and Georgiou were made official members.

Mark Robinson, chief operating officer at the Academy, said becoming a part of the Academy is a prestigious honor.

“Members have the right and opportunity to nominate people that they believe pose excellence in their field,” Robinson said. “[The founders] were looking to create an academy that represented all professions. … It really is meant to be a swath of the best and the brightest.”

The Academy recognizes achievement in the natural sciences, social sciences, arts and humanities, and gathers researchers together to address

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SG hears resolution on diversity pamphlets

The Student Government Assembly heard a resolution Tuesday in support of a pamphlet that would be distributed in courses carrying a cultural diversity flag.

As the resolution stands, the pamphlet outlines historical incidents of racism and sexism at UT. The authors of the resolution said the pamphlet would help stop the repetition of this racism and sexism in the future.

“We understood that talking about these things wasn’t going to make people comfortable,” said Bryan

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national problems.

Georgiou has made several discoveries in the medical field. His research includes the study of protein therapeutics, especially how proteins can be used to fight against cancerous tumors.

“We take human enzymes and re-design them so that they can destroy the metabolite cancer cells need,” Georgiou said in an interview with the University. “It destroys the metabolite. … The cancer cells cannot grow, but the normal cells are unaffected.”

Engquist, who specializes in applied mathematics, researches computational methods that could predict the weather or determine if a bridge or other infrastructure can withstand a certain weight. Several of Engquist’s numerical methods and equations have been used in combination with seismolo-

gy to help model oil reservoirs.

“A lot of math is abstract,” said Engquist. “This is an opportunity to do math but also to engage in the activities in engineering science, or social science, or wherever.

You have the benefits of seeing it being applied in the real world, and you can play around with the math that you love.”

One of Engquist’s mentees, mathematics graduate student Yunan Yang, said that Engquist’s seismological innovations and discoveries go far beyond detecting resources underground.

“The way he does everything makes me feel very confident about the field,” Yang said. “He’s very patient, although the things are trivial for him. Before he received that award, he already was a very famous mathematician.”

Davis, government senior and author of the resolution.

“But given the history of things that happened at UT over the years, … we kind of want [the pamphlet] to drive home the point that these are issues that need to be taken very seriously.”

The resolution was originally not on the agenda because an SG representative did not turn a copy of the resolution in on time. After several students spoke during open forum and asked the Assembly to hear the resolution, the Assembly voted to add the resolution to the agenda.

Davis said he wanted

the Assembly to hear the resolution so it could have the chance to approve the resolution before the end of the semester.

“I came in here thinking that the bill was dead,” Davis said. “I’m at a loss for words. I didn’t think this was going to happen.”

The resolution will move to the Student Affairs committee and, if passed, will be taken to a vote in SG next week. If SG approves the resolution, the University would still have to approve the pamphlet before it could be distributed in courses with a cultural diversity flag.

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Rotnofsky, Mandalapu: Students say ‘no thanks’ to guns on campus

By Xavier Rotnofsky & Rohit Mandalapu Guest Columnists @RotMan2015

As your new Student Government president and vice president, we know it is our job to advocate for what is best for students and will maximize safety. House Bill 937, currently being considered in the Texas House of Representatives after the Senate passed its own version of the bill in March, would allow guns in classrooms on public university campuses.

That’s why we think this bill is so dumb. Private universities are afforded the right to opt out, whereas public universities are not. Why are we, as a public university, not able to have a voice in what happens on our campus?

UT System Chancellor and former Navy SEAL Admiral William McRaven expressed his concerns about firearms on campus in a letter to legislative leaders in January, saying, “The presence of handguns...will lead to an increase in both accidental shootings and self-inflicted wounds.” Former Chancellor Francisco Cigarroa agreed, as do the chancellors from most major Texas university systems. Current UT President William Powers Jr. also expressed discontent with campus carry, as did Art Acevedo, the Austin police chief.

This bill, if it becomes law, will allow real firearms on campus. For some perspective, it would still be against University policy to bring pellet guns, airsoft guns and prop guns — fake guns — onto campus. You’ll be able to bring a pistol to campus, but if it has an orange tip, get that out of here!

Students should have a say in what happens on their own campus. A change.org petition of UT students opposing campus carry had over

5,000 signatures as of Tuesday morning. UT’s Student Government passed a resolution officially opposing guns on our campus. According to a poll conducted by Everytown for Gun Safety, over 60 percent of those polled believed that students should not be allowed to carry handguns on campuses or in dormitories, and over 70 percent believe college students should not be allowed to bring concealed handguns to class.

Many of the Texas schools affected by this legislation are as big or bigger than the cities where many of these legislators hail from. We have reached out to student body presidents and vice presidents across the state, and an overwhelming majority share our opinion. We, as fellow student representatives, have been elected to voice the needs of our students,and do not appreciate attempts in the Legislature to take local governance away from our communities.

Guns disrupt the academic atmosphere of a university. Sitting in a class, knowing that fellow students might be armed, alters the environment. For professors and teaching assistants, lecturing in front of a hall of hundreds of students, knowing that some are potentially armed, encroaches upon the sanctity of the classroom.

College students experience incredible amounts of academic, social, and family stress.

RAs shouldn’t have to deal with guns in dorms on top of the multitude of stresses associated with on-campus living. Campus police shouldn’t have to worry about distinguishing between a well-intentioned citizen and a bad actor. Professors shouldn’t have to worry about students bringing guns to classes.

Claims that students are in danger on UT’s campus and need guns to protect themselves are unfounded. Since the UT Police Depart-

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Rohit Mandalapu and Xavier Rotnofsky, Student Government vice president and president, respectively.

ment began keeping online records in 2000, there have been no murders on the UT Austin campus. In a hypothetical active shooter scenario, who would you rather trust handling the situation: a trained UTPD officer or a sleepdeprived (probably hungover) upperclassman?

HB 937 is attempting to fix a problem that does not exist.

The Texas Legislature is ostensibly trying to pass this bill for the good of campuses across the state. How is that the case if so much of campus is against this legislation? The best outcome would be for the bill to be defeated; otherwise, we implore the House to amend the current leg-

islation with an opt-out clause that enables the stakeholders within a university to decide what’s best for campus.

The only guns that should be allowed on campus are our biceps. As good and strong boys, we stand staunchly against campus carry. We hope the Texas Legislature listens to campus opinion and grants all Texas universities the discretion to make decisions regarding their own safety.

Rotnofsky is a Plan II, linguistics, computer science and creative writing junior from Laredo.

Mandalapu is a Plan II and economics senior from Sugar Land. They are Student Government president and vice president, respectively.

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Recent crime against student shows we must make safety top priority

By Claire Smith Senior Columnist @claireseysmith

In the early morning hours of April 25, Indiana University student Hannah Wilson was beaten to death. Reported missing the day before, her body was found in Needmore, about 20 miles from campus. The investigation into Wilson’s death led to Daniel E. Messel, who was arrested the same day. According to CBS News, Messel has a history of violence against women that spans decades. One investigator suggested to FOX News that Hannah Wilson’s disappearance is “eerily similar” to that of the 2011 disappearance of another IU student, Lauren Spierer.

Hannah Wilson is just one tragic example of the safety risks college students face. According to UTPD’s daily crime log between Feb. 26 and April 25, other than a medley of public intoxication, possession, and theft charges, there were 25 instances of interpersonal harm. There was one sexual assault, two harassments, four assaults that caused bodily injury, two assaults in which physical contact of an offensive or provocative nature was made, one viola-

tion of a protective order, four terrorist threats, two counts of prohibited weapons and three counts of deadly conduct in one incident alone, three indecent exposures, one disorderly conduct in which the anus or genitals were exposed in public, one disorderly conduct charge of an abusive, indecent or profane nature, and one charge of dating violence. And these were just the crimes reported to the police.

The University has long been called on to increase campus safety efforts, but perhaps never has it received more attention to it than in recent years. As a rising sophomore at the time, I remember the string of abduction and sexual assault cases that took place along 26th street in the summer of 2013. But as the UTPD crime log demonstrates, campus safety is more than two perpetrators; crime can happen any time, anywhere. And it does.

There have been a number of efforts to increase campus safety from institutions other than the University administration.

The Rady-Strickland administration instituted SafeRide to carry student safely from sixth street to West Campus, though admittedly the goal of this was to reduce drunk driving in and around campus.

SURE Walk, which is a volunteer program that provides students with safe walks to and from campus between 10 pm and 2 am Mondays through Thursdays, is another SG effort to increase student safety

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UT Police Department and Austin Police Department SUVs parked on campus.

at night.

These are all excellent places to start in the fight to make our campus safer. I encourage every reader to take advantage of these programs.

But what isn’t so great is the one thing these programs have in common: they are student efforts with no institutional support. That is simply unacceptable. Our

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university has a $25 billion endowment, the largest of any public university in the nation. It needs to be put towards what matters. Student safety should be a priority. We deserve to be supported by the administration; the University owes us our safety on campus.

Smith is a history and humanities junior from Austin.

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continues from page 6 Sawyer produced a solid outing until he ran into trouble in the fourth inning.

Sawyer hit the leadoff batter and walked the next to start the inning. But the sophomore made his biggest mistake when he threw a ball over the head of redshirt freshman third baseman Bret Boswell, attempting to throw out the leadoff runner on a bunt.

The error allowed a run to score and was the first run in the Panthers’ biggest inning. Prairie View A&M drew three more walks in the inning and scored four runs to tie the game at 4–4.

The Longhorns answered in the bottom frame as senior right fielder Collin Shaw started the inning with a leadoff walk and then stole second base.

Johnson singled Shaw home

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continues from page 6 this team could be remembered as one of the biggest disappointments in program history.

The Longhorns are currently in grave danger of missing the NCAA Tournament field for the third time in the past four seasons. This would make the members of the current senior class the first since the NCAA Tournament began to make fewer than two appearances during their four-year careers.

Texas sits at 82nd in the country in RPI and are 0–9 against the RPI top 25, including sweeps at

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continues from page 6 initially, but we’ve got two weeks now to train and practice, so we feel good about it.”

While the competition in the NCAA Tournament is undoubtedly tough, it’s nothing the Longhorns haven’t faced yet this year.

Texas squared off against

and Texas took a 5–4 lead that it would not surrender.

“After we had that walk in the park in the fourth, the offense continued to stay focused and that was a really a good sign – the fact that they didn’t panic or come out of character,” head coach Augie Garrido said.

Texas’ offensive onslaught continued in the sixth inning when Johnson opened the inning with his second base hit of the ball game and a steal — a season-high eighth of the game. Sophomore center fielder Zane Gurwitz followed with a walk, and sophomore catcher Tres Barrera scored Johnson to push the lead to 7–4. Texas added another run in the inning off a sacrifice fly from freshman shortstop Joe Baker.

Senior second baseman Brooks Marlow added the Longhorns’ final runs in the ninth with a two-run bomb

that barely missed the Taco Shack “Free Taco” sign in the right field bullpen. Longhorn senior pitcher Ty Marlow finished off the game, and Texas secured its 23rd win of the season to move a game above .500 before its weekend matchup with Texas Tech.

“Every win is important,” Baker said. “We just wanted to get out there and take care of things like we should’ve all year. We had a down year but it was good to get out there and get a win. Hopefully it’ll propel us in the next series.”

Despite the four run fourth inning, the Texas pitching staff only allowed one hit. Freshman pitcher Jake McKenzie earned the win after relieving sophomore pitcher Jon Malmin in the fourth inning.

The Longhorns will play their final home series starting Friday against the Red Raiders.

the hands of TCU this past weekend. The Longhorns pounded out 30 hits during the series and are batting .316 in their past eight games, raising their season batting average from .242 to .253. Texas also slugged at a .515 clip raising its total on the season from .361 to .391.

During that same span the team produced at least four runs in five games, after doing so only three times in its previous 12 games. However the production of the Texas bats has not guaranteed a win, as the Longhorns are just 4–4 in the past seven games because of struggles on the mound and on defense.

Texas’ opponents have also scored 45 runs over this time, an average of over 5.5 allowed runs per game. Of those runs, 31 of them have been earned, pushing the team’s total ERA above 3.00 for the first time since the February series against Minnesota.

With just two conference series left in the regular season, it appears the Longhorns will be unable to build on the momentum of last season’s postseason run.

Unless they win the Big 12 Tournament in Oklahoma City, which would give them an automatic bid, the Longhorns are almost certainly going to miss the NCAA Tournament for the third time in four seasons.

seven teams currently ranked in the top 20 of the ITA rankings this season, with three of those teams — No. 1 Oklahoma, No. 2 Baylor and No. 5 TCU — coming from the Big 12.

“We were prepared really well for the NCAA Tournament playing three teams that are contenders for the national championship in our own conference,” senior

Søren Hess–Olesen said.

“We know the kind of level we need to play at to win the whole thing, and our schedule has definitely helped prepare us.”

Tournament play for Texas begins May 8. If the Longhorns can defeat the Midshipmen, they will face the winner of California and Texas A&M-Corpus Christi in the second round.

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teams, as well. Former Texas quarterback David Ash was forced to retire early because of multiple concussions throughout his career. But the decision didn’t come easily.

“I just prayed a lot about it,” Ash said at a news conference in September where he announced his retirement “The decision, it was, I think, the process of it all, the doctor and coaches.”

The decision to retire is often the result of the possible consequences of multiple concussions, such as such as depression and anxiety.

“I never really was a person who believed in depression,” said Trickett. “It is real, and

it’s when I was by myself.”

Along with depression, the topic of whether concussions are linked to an increased risk of suicide has become a prominent focus among concussion research. Former NFL linebackers Jovan Belcher and Junior Seau, who both died by suicide, had repeated head trauma throughout their careers in the NFL. “At least for me, just being brutally honest, there are suicidal thoughts within this,” said Poletto.

However, at the panel, the athletes said the most prominent way they dealt with their concussions is by talking to and consulting with experts to better understand their injuries.

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After a series sweep with little offensive production, Texas’ bats started early Tuesday.

To lead off the first inning, junior left fielder Ben Johnson ripped a ball through Prairie View A&M third baseman Connor Wrye’s legs to open up the game for Texas. Although Johnson’s hit was scored an error, it was the spark for Texas’ offense, which scored three runs in the first inning and plated another nine runs in a 12–4 win over the Panthers. “[My lead-off at-bat] set the tone early,” Johnson said.

“Obviously we want to score a lot of runs, and we did that tonight. That’s the goal every game. I think it was one of those things, no matter what the situations was, we were going to keep putting it on them.”

But it wasn’t easy sailing for the Longhorns. Texas’ sophomore starting pitcher Josh

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Junior outfielder Ben Johnson swings away at a pitch Tuesday against Texas A&M Prairie View. Johnson went 2-for-4 in the game with two RBIs, four stolen bases and also scored four times.

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Former student-athletes discuss concussions

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after suffering multiple concussions. All four athletes left their respective sports because of fear of health risks.

Members of the panel, which Texas’ Center for Sports Leadership & Innovation presented, said the head injuries caused them to make decisions about their future in sports.

“I was getting concussions more easily, I was becoming more prone. So that’s when I [sought] help and saw a neurologist and talked and consulted with them. They were like, ‘You got to think about your future,’” said Cassell, who amassed six concussions before retiring.

“You only get one brain in life, it’s not something you can get surgery on. That was one of my leading rules into hanging it up.”

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It isn’t easy for an athlete to stop competing, but that’s exactly what the former studentathletes who were members of a panel on concussions did out of concern for their health.

“There is a hole in your heart that is going to happen,” former Northwestern soccer player Anna Cassell said Tuesday at a panel on concussions.

Cassell, former Boston College safety Spenser Rositano, former West Virginia starting quarterback Clint Trickett and Molly Poletto, University of Utah undergraduate assistant for soccer, spoke on a panel Tuesday night to discuss their decisions to retire from athletics

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From left, Molly Poletto, Clint Trickett and Anna Cassell discuss their personal experiences with concussions at a panel in the AT&T Conference Center on Wednesday.

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Texas receives ninth seed in NCAA Championship

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Although Texas has been able to rack up hits during the season, it is struggling to bring in runners in scoring position.

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In the summer of 1975, then head coach Cliff Gustafson led Texas baseball to the first of two national titles it would win under his watch. For the Longhorns program, this marked their seventh College World Series appearance in Gustafson’s first eight seasons at the helm.

But over the next three seasons, the program missed the NCAA Tournament twice, including a humbling 1978 season when the it had a 12-12

record in conference play.

Texas bounced back in 1979, reaching the College World Series semifinals and would not miss the tournament field for the rest of Gustafson’s tenure.

Similarly, in 2011, the Longhorns reached Omaha for the seventh time under head coach Augie Garrido, but they were eliminated after losing both of their games. Up to that point, Texas had been as good as any program in the nation since Garrido took over in 1997, with two National titles in the previous decade.

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The Longhorns missed the NCAA Tournament in both 2012 and 2013, dropping every series in Big 12 play in 2013. Similarly to 1979, in 2014, they bounced back from a couple seasons of frustration to reach the College World Series semi-finals.

Texas, ranking in the top 10 in preseason polls, entered the 2015 season with high expectations as a squad capable of producing another celebration in Omaha. Instead, barring a miraculous turnaround,

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Striving for its first national title in program history, No. 10 Texas men’s tennis learned its NCAA Championship seed Tuesday afternoon.

Texas (19–6, 2–3 Big 12) will enter the tournament, which begins late next week, as the No. 9 overall seed and will face Navy in the first round at the Caswell Tennis Center in Austin. Navy posted a 20–10 record this season and entered the tournament as an automatic qualifier after claiming the Patriot League title.

The Longhorns come into the NCAA tournament after losing three of their last four matches, with all three losses coming against teams seeded in the top five of this year’s tournament.

Despite the team’s struggles, head coach Michael Center remains confident in his team’s chances.

“We lost three of those last four, but we lost to some of the best teams in the nation,” Center said. “We believe that we can compete with any team in the country, and we’ve got a senior–laden team, so I’m excited to see what we can do.”

Prior to the tournament selection, Texas’ most recent match came against No. 1 Oklahoma in the semifinals of the Big 12 Men’s Tennis Championship. The Longhorns lost by a score of 4–3, with sophomore George Goldhoff dropping the deciding match in a third-set tiebreaker.

“I think that match really motivated us as a team,” Goldhoff said. “Obviously we were pretty devastated

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The Longhorns will enter the NCAA Tournament having lost three of their last four matches.

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Men’s golf heads into the final round of the Big 12 Championships with a 20-stroke lead.

Texas shot a 292 in the third round, led by freshman Scottie Scheffler, who made four birdies and two bogeys to post a 68.

Sophomore Gavin Hall finished with sole possession of second place after shooting a 74 in the third round. Freshman Doug Ghrim is tied for third place after shooting a 68 in the third round.

Sophomore Beau Hossler and senior Kramer Hickok both shot 73 on Tuesday. Hossler is tied for 13th, while Hickok is tied for 19th.

The Longhorns are the only team to have all of their players in the top 20.

Texas Tech currently stands in possesion of second place.

Texas tees off at 9:40 a.m. Wednesday with Texas Tech and TCU. —Aaron Torres

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Untouched Poetry offers on-demand poems

By Marisa Charpentier

Ryan Knowles writes poetry for visitors of the Art City Austin Festival on Sunday.

Knowles uses a vintage typewriter to create original poems based on themes his customers request.

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When Ryan Knowles isn’t waiting tables at Barley Swine, he straps on his suspenders, grabs his folding card table and unloads a 1950s Olympia typewriter.

The farmers’ markets and streets of Austin become his workspace.

Knowles used to have a habit of writing poetry for people at bars and on restaurant napkins. But when his then-girlfriend’s mom encouraged him to turn it into something more, he began the project Untouched Poetry in 2010. Now, he sets up his typewriter every weekend in popular places, such as South Congress, and waits for people to request a poem.

“I dubbed it Untouched Poetry because it’s art being created without ever having been seen before,” Knowles said. “It’s right there on the spot. It’s untainted.”

Before writing, Knowles gets to know his customers and asks them what they want their poem to be about.

People choose topics such as loved ones, dogs and holidays.

“There’s a connotation with poetry that it has to be deep, but it could be about blueberries and Legos,” Knowles said. “I’ll get a little bit of information, and an image pops up in my head. I write a line or two about it, and usually everything just starts to unravel.”

After about two or three minutes of writing, Knowles

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hands over the typed freeform poem, signed and dated on antique-looking paper. Although he doesn’t charge customers, most people tip him.

Journalism senior Hector Perez filmed Knowles for a day while working on a video assignment for his “TV Reporting and Producing” course. Perez said most customers gave Knowles $5 or $10, but one customer, who asked for a Mother’s Day poem, gave him $40.

“Writing is tough, especially right there on the spot

in two or three minutes, just cranking something out with a person there looking at you the whole time,” Perez said.

“And it wasn’t just a bunch of words on there. It was all really good.”

Accounting junior Christina Chatterpaul requested a poem at a farmers’ market a few weekends ago. Knowles wrote a poem about her and her friends’ trip to the market to buy turnips. The poem began: “You find your self rooted / like the turnips in hand / like the childish love / of a

perfect violin.”

“It was written really beautifully,” Chatterpaul said. “It’s really cool to see this guy take a lost art or old school thing and bring it into today. Most writers write books to try to be published, but he’s writing for a direct audience.”

In addition to writing on the streets, Knowles works events such as parties and weddings. Knowles said he hopes a year from now, Untouched Poetry will be his fulltime job. He has been writing

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poetry since the third grade, but certain events have encouraged him to turn to writing more than others. Eight days after his 14th birthday, his mother was killed in an act of domestic violence. His father, now in prison, was convicted of killing his mother in front of Knowles and three of his siblings.

“I started writing a lot more,” Knowles said. “I always considered myself a sensitive, romantically observant person. Once I was faced with that tragedy, I would turn to

the pen to release expression.”

Over the years, he turned to drugs and alcohol to deal with the trauma. Now, Knowles has removed those substances from his life and finds solace in meditation, but the sadness he feels over losing his mom continues to influence his writing.

“Sadness is almost beautiful because it’s real and it’s raw,” Knowles said. “I’m working with myself to allow those things to come up and to not run from them but to sit with them and find healing.”

ALBUM REVIEW | ‘JEKYLL + HYDE’

Zac Brown Band brings new sounds to album

By Chris Duncan @chr_dunc

Illustration by Connor Murphy | Daily Texan Staff

Film students praise internship experiences

By Alex Pelham @TalkingofPelham

Although there are a number of directors who didn’t attend college, such as Quentin Tarantino and Stanley Kubrick, not all aspiring movie makers can simply pick up a camera and make it big.

As competition to write, direct and produce movies becomes more and more competitive, film schools across the country urge their students to gain real-world experience.

Film students hunt for internships to gain practical experience in the field.

When they perform various tasks, such as editing footage or handling equipment, students see how filmmakers handle pre-production and post-production work.

R adio-television-film senior Lucas Doyle reads scripts, delivers packages and runs errands for his

internship with production studio Arts + Labor. He said it’s crucial to work closely with people in the industry because they help guide students through the do’s and don’ts of filmmaking.

“You can work on your own stuff as much as possible or be on set as much as possible, but it’s always helpful to see how professionals do it,” Doyle said. “It’s important to know what’s ahead of you.”

Anne Lewis, a senior radio-television-film lecturer and documentary filmmaker, said she learned to edit mainly by watching other editors work. She advised students to look into organizations, such as the Austin Film Society, that help students make useful industry contacts.

She said students should apply for UTLA — a program in which students spend a semester attending classes in Los Angeles and interning for a number of

production companies.

“Getting out in the field from the very beginning is very valuable for students,” Lewis said. “It’s exposure to how things actually function in the real world.”

Radio-television-film senior Kelsey Duncan works as an assistant editor and production assistant at independent film production company Alpheus Media.

She said her internship helped her learn editing software and make useful contacts with potential employers. She also said internships help film students who are not as technically skilled at using cameras or editing footage.

“There are a lot of people who come into college with experience,” Duncan said.

“There are people who don’t have internships, but they know more than I could ever think about cameras and directing. For me, [interning] was a really great choice, and

I’m glad I did it.”

Lewis said working for bigger companies doesn’t necessarily guarantee learning everything there is to know about film. She said large production companies look appealing and help students gain useful contacts, but independent studios offer students the freedom to learn skills in various aspects of film, such as editing and cinematography.

“There are advantages to working for a small company,” Lewis said. “You probably get to do more than working for a large company, where you would be confined to one area.”

Doyle said he appreciates working at Arts + Labor and feels he’s receiving training for what he hopes to do for the rest of his career.

“It’s nice to see what’s actually going to be expected once you graduate and the day-to-day routine for the position I want,” Doyle said.

Since 2008, the Zac Brown Band has dominated country music with its Southern style and powerful songs. Its music is some of the best in the genre, capturing even the attention of non-country fans.

The band’s fourth studio album, Jekyll + Hyde, which it released Tuesday, combines its signature country sound with influences from rock, pop and soul music to provide a new twist to distinguish it from the band’s previous records.

The first track “Beautiful Drug,” is scarier than it is impressive on first listen. The song isn’t just a nod to pop music, it’s an attempt at a top40 hit. “Beautiful Drug” evokes memories of Taylor Swift’s country-to-pop transformation, when she transitioned to pop for larger audiences and revenue, abandoning country music and her roots.

Although “Beautiful Drug” might suggest the Zac Brown Band is about to head down the same path as Swift, the rest of the songs on Jekyll + Hyde prove that the Zac Brown Band is not abandoning country music, but rather diversifying its sound.

The diverse nature of this record comes with ease for Brown and his cohorts. From the rock creed “Heavy Is the Head,” which features Soundgarden’s Chris Cornell, to the jazzy “Mange Tree,” featuring singer-songwriter Sara Bareilles, each song on the record has its own identity.

Other big names appear in the credits. Grammywinning blues musician Keb’ Mo’ and former Pink Floyd member Roger Waters helped write “Remedy” and “Junkyard,” respectively. All of these influences contribute to the varied style of the entire album.

This variety never translated onto the recordings of its first three albums. Jekyll + Hyde

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merges the straightforwardcountry band from its past albums with the flexible-andcreative band from tours.

Although its sound is more diverse than ever, the Zac Brown Band hasn’t abandoned the country sound that made them famous.

Its Southern style is still prominent on Jekyll + Hyde in songs such as the album’s lead single, “Homegrown,” and “I’ll Be Your Man (Song for a Daughter).”

A few songs suffer from the new directions the band explored on the album. “Loving You Easy” sounds like Bruno Mars went country.

“Tomorrow Never Comes” is awkward, but the album includes a better acoustic version of the song.

As songs, almost every individual track can stand on its own. When put together as an album, however, they don’t make much sense.

Nothing ties each track to the next; the album is more of a collage of interesting songs than one joint work of art.

Jekyll + Hyde earns its name by displaying the Zac Brown Band’s varied style — one most people haven’t heard before. This album might not live up to the magnitude of the band’s previous pure-country releases; its first album, The Foundation, and 2013’s country record of the year Uncaged, are rooted firmly in Southern country music. Yet, hearing the band’s evolution on Jekyll + Hyde is an overall enjoyable listen.