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UT plans East Campus expansion By Samantha Ketterer @sam_kett
The University outlined plans for new graduate student housing, tennis courts and a parking garage east of I-35, according to a UT official. The University estimated a $166.4 million cost for the plan, said Rhonda Weldon,
University Operations director of communications. The UT System Board of Regents is expected to vote on the plan in May. Weldon said the University began working on the expansion in 2013. The administration proposed placing tennis courts on Leona Street, which was met with
resistance by the community, mainly because of potential noise concerns. The University has since worked on the annexation of East Campus with the Blackland Community Development Corporation, a nonprofit that serves low-income families in the neighborhoods east of campus.
Blackland Board President Bo McCarver said the nonprofit specifically asked the University to move the tennis courts further west. Blackland additionally requested graduate student housing and additional parking. “[The University has] accommodated most of our concerns,” McCarver said.
Tuition fees to remain unchanged for fall 2015
“They have come with just about everything we’d asked for. We’re pleased with it, and we are looking forward to having students here as neighbors.” The housing would be located on the west side of Leona Street and is expected to
By Josh Willis @joshwillis35
For the fall 2015 semester, students will not see an increase in tuition, despite requests from the University administration, according to a report from the Office of Financial Affairs. Tuition at UT is set to remain the same as levels in 2014, according to UT Chief Financial Officer Mary Knight. Traditional tuition for fall 2015 will be $4,905 for in-state and $17,360 for outof-state students per semester. The optional fixed tuition rate, which gives students the option to pay one rate for all four years as an undergraduate, will be $5,291 for in-state and $18,275 for out-of-state students per semester. Legislative student bodies held public forums in fall 2013 to gauge student opinion on proposed tuition increases, Knight said. After student leaders and the University administration agreed on a proposal, it was sent to the Office of the Chancellor from the president. The chancellor brought the proposal before the UT System Board of Regents for deliberation. The UT System Board of Regents voted to adopt a tuition plan in 2013 that covered tuition from fall 2014 through spring 2016, according to a meeting agenda from the Board of Regents. Knight said the Board of Regents approved tuition increases that began in fall 2014 but decided against increasing tuition again for fall 2015.
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Drought may hinder giant water slide event By Rund Khayyat @rundkhayyat
Slide the City, a Utahbased water slide company, wants to transform the streets of Austin into a 1,000foot vinyl slip and slide. The company tours the country, making stops in more than 20 cities each year. Austin is on this year’s list of locations, but the company has not set a date, partly because of the water conservation concerns the City of Austin posed. The summer tour is coming amid a stage-two drought, which is defined as when water in lakes Travis and Buchanan fall below a minimum supply level, according to Austin Water Utility. “Our reservoirs are a little over half full, and this is only exacerbated by the growing population,” said Lauren Hodges, geography sophomore and Green Events student leader for the Campus Environmental Center. “It’s a pretty contentious issue.” According to Slide the City’s website, the slide is designed to have minimal environmental impact, and it treats and recycles the water efficiently. The slide circulates approximately 12,000–20,000 gallons of water
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per day. Austin Water Utility has advised that this type of water use is currently prohibited because of the drought, and Slide the City will have to find alternative methods. “Our city manager has enacted Drought Response Stage 2, which prohibits operation of fountains with an aerial emission of water or aerial fall of water greater than four inches,” Austin Water Utility spokesman Jason Hill said. “This is the case whether or not the intent is to recapture the water.” Slide the City states on its website that it donates the
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Light pollution complicates observatory improvements
Candlelight vigil held on campus for Nepal
By Jackie Wang @jcqlnwng
The stars in West Texas are now competing with the glow from oil drilling rigs and gas flares in the Permian Basin, the largest oil field in the state. UT’s McDonald Observatory teamed up with Pioneer Energy Services to address the issue of light pollution interfering with the observatory’s research abilities. Last September, the two groups published a report on good light practices, including shielding light fixtures so that the glare does not face skyward. Oil rigs line the northeast horizon of the observatory, and light fixtures illuminate their activity 24/7. High oil and gas prices initiated the increased construction of oil rigs
in West Texas’ Permian Basin during the early part of the 2010s, said Stacy Locke, CEO of Pioneer Energy Services. “If you go look at the price of oil and the rig count in the U.S., the Permian Basin had explosive growth starting from 2010 and then into 2012 to 2014 because the worldwide demand for oil really increased, which caused oil prices to shoot up,” Locke said. “As the oil price rose, the rig count rose with it.” Observatory spokesman Bill Wren said he began noticing the additional light clouding the observatory in 2010. “We have data going back to 2009 that shows the sky brightening before you could really see it visually,” Wren
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By Katie Keenan @keenanarroyo
The Nepali Students Association held a vigil Wednesday night at Gregory Plaza to express solidarity with those suffering in Nepal after the recent earthquake. Students gathered to remember the thousands who died Saturday in the devastating earthquake that hit Kathmandu, Nepal’s capital, and surrounding regions. The program began with the Nepali national anthem, and numerous candles lit up the steps leading into Gregory Gymnasium. Professors and students shared personal stories of their experiences during the earthquake, including engineering senior Santona Pandey, who was in Nepal at the time. “It still feels like a night-
mare,” Pandey said. “I rushed down from the fourth floor to save myself, but I realized that I could never make it. I stayed back, clinging to the door frame.” Pandey said, as she reflects on the earthquake’s damage, what hurts the most is the constant reminder of her survival while countless others died beneath the debris of towns that no longer exist. “I’m saved, my family is saved, but I’m not happy because thousands of people are still dying,” Pandey said. Snehal Shingavi, an English assistant professor who was involved in aiding the Haiti earthquake victims in 2010, said Nepal can either rise from this tragedy by fixing economic problems that increased the gravity of the damage or fall into a trap leaders seeking to exploit
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Students, faculty and members of the community gathered at the candlelight vigil organized by the Nepali Students Association on Wednesday night.
the situation set. “This has the potential of becoming an even worse disaster if the social conditions in Nepal allow this sort of suffering to continue,” Shingavi said. “The process of this becoming something hope-
ful depends on people caring about what happens in Nepal for at least another year.” Niranjan Kc, biology junior and president of Nepali Students Association, said
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Amber Lyon stops by the food trailer park in West Campus to look at Glassmith, a glassblown, tobacco pipe shop. The owner, Billy Marsden, is a well-known artist in the Austin glassblowing community.
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continues from page 1 water back to the community centers, parks, golf courses and other places when city officials allow. These techniques are not enough for efficient water conservation, said Jaclyn Kachelmeyer, international relations and global studies senior and director of the Campus Environmental Center. “We will waste a lot of energy to pump the water and then clean and recycle it,” Kachelmeyer said. “It’s also impossible not to lose a lot of water from evaporation and it sticking to people, etc.” Last fall, Austin declared a two-year moratorium on non-traditional events, such as Slide the City, in the downtown and South Austin area, specifically bordered by Oltorf Street and Barton Skyway, according to the Austin American-Statesman. The moratorium would disallow new events to shut down streets in those areas,
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Kachelmeyer said she thinks the slide would be an unnecessary waste of water. “We don’t need to pump water and set up slides to have fun in Austin,” Kachelmeyer said. “We can take advantage of Austin’s wonderful local elements, like Lady Bird Lake, without being wasteful.” Radio-television-film sophomore Katherine Brookshire said she thinks the water slide would be fun to see. “I would want to go see it just to say I was there,” Brookshire said. “I don’t think I’d actually want to go do it. … It sounds kind of dangerous.”
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continues from page 1 house 734 students. The University will not contract with any architects until the regents approve the idea, Weldon said. The Graduate Student Assembly has been advocating for affordable living options close to campus this semester. GSA will continue to relay graduate student opinions on housing to the University, said Joy Wyckoff, psychology graduate student and GSA’s graduate student housing committee chair, “We’re excited that the University is looking to us when deciding what the
graduate students actually want when they design their plans,” Wyckoff said. The tennis center will feature 12 courts, according to the plan. The previous tennis center, Penick-Allison, was torn down last year to make way for the Dell Medical School. The new courts will be located west of Comal Street, if the plans are approved. The project also calls for the creation of a 2,000-space parking garage along I-35 and Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard. Weldon said she feels the plans will benefit both the University and Blackland. “Recently, we were able to
… come back with some new ideas,” Weldon said. “It turned out to be kind of a win-win, especially when [Blackland] found out the plan would include the housing along the Leona Street line.” Randall Porter, director of the Division of Housing and Food Services, had previously refused requests by The Daily Texan to release details of the East Campus master plan. The University decided to release the information after the Austin American-Statesman learned the details of the plan “independently,” Weldon said. “Currently, Housing and Food is not working on any specific housing projects,” Porter said in an email to the Texan in March. “There [is] some discussion on campus about increased housing, but there are no formal plans at this point.” Porter was not available for comment.
NEWS BRIEFLY SG discusses raising racial awareness
The Student Government Student Affairs Committee discussed a resolution Wednesday that would support all student-led efforts to raise awareness of racism and sexism on campus. A specific effort in the resolution is to “reform each Cultural Diversity flagged class through the implementation of archives from the past 75 years which document racism and sexism at UT.” The resolution states this could be done through a pamphlet distributed in Cultural Diversityflagged classes. Since the pamphlet has not yet been completed or approved, the committee voted to add language to the resolution stating that the Student Affairs Committee and other SG agencies would monitor the creation of the pamphlet. “I think this resolution is pretty specific to distributing the pamphlet in class,” said Micky Wolf, business representative and business and Plan II freshman. “It’s not just a blanket statement, in my opinion. … We don’t want to give a stamp of approval to something that, six months down the road, might look different.” Bryan Davis, government senior and author of the resolution, said there was too much concern on the pamphlet in the committee meeting. “The pamphlet isn’t meant to be an end-all be-all to the racism discussed,” Davis said. “It also needs to be understood that the pamphlet is just a beginning to the entire process.” The SG Assembly will vote on the resolution Tuesday. —Samantha Ketterer
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DHFS looks to replace Blue Bell brand after recall By Vinesh Kovelamudi
After Blue Bell ice cream’s recent recall because of listeria contaminations, the University Division of Housing and Food Services is looking to replenish the campus ice cream supply. DHFS is contacting interested vendors about expanding their ice cream brands across campus.
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After the recall of all Blue Bell Creameries ice cream on April 20, students are finding empty freezers where the Dutch Chocolate and Homemade Vanilla cartons used to be. Following the announcement of the voluntary recall of Blue Bell products, the Division of Housing and Food Services (DHFS) removed all Blue Bell from campus stores in case of possible contamination of listeria, and DFHS is now considering different brands to fill the ice cream void. “One of the ice cream companies that comes straight to mind is Blue Bunny,” said Rene Rodriguez, DHFS food service director. “Ben & Jerry’s would also like to expand their brands [on campus].” Civil engineering freshman Matthew Yu said he would embrace the expansion of Ben & Jerry’s on campus. “The Ben & Jerry’s products in [Jester City Limits] are already delicious,” Yu said. “I can only imagine how much better JCL will become when there are new Ben & Jerry’s flavors.” e new Rodriguez said there is urnedno timetable for the new ice -win,cream supply because food land]services has to consider d ing the
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many variables, including cost and student feedback. “Anytime we bring in new products, we like to get student feedback in samplings and telling [students] this is what we are going to have to charge,” Rodriguez said. According to Rodriguez, DHFS may not bring back Blue Bell products, even if
the company ends its current recall of products. Rodriguez said DHFS did not appreciate Blue Bell’s initial response after DHFS recalled all Blue Bell products even though Blue Bell first recalled only select products. “[Blue Bell] was only going to credit us [financially] for the items that were affected
in the recall,” Rodriguez said. “And we pulled everything because we did not want to take a chance.” Rodriguez said DHFS understands Blue Bell was making a strategic business decision to not fully reimburse food services for the initial recall. Once the recall expanded to all Blue Bell
products, Blue Bell reimbursed food services for all of the items. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, symptoms of listeriosis include fever, muscle aches, headaches, confusion, loss of balance and possible intestinal problems. Biochemistry freshman
Evan Gabriel said he anticipates the incoming freshman class to feel the effect of the possible permanent removal of Blue Bell products from on-campus markets. “I think a lot of incoming freshman would be disappointed to not see Blue Bell as one of their late-night snacking options,” Gabriel said.
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City water rates increase to offset reduction in consumption water use, everybody still uses water, so you still have to have the same treatment plants, still have to get water to everyone in town,” Slusher said. “You use less chemicals to treat water and less electricity but nowhere near the loss in revenue.” To keep rates stable, Austin Water increased “fixed fees,” the constant fees that appear on Austin Water customers’ bills every month, Slusher said. “As recently as 2011, only 13 percent of our revenue was fixed fees,” Slusher said. “At the same time, we’re re-
ally dropping our water use. That gave us serious financial shortfalls. So by going up on fixed fees, we’ve now raised fixed revenues up to 20 percent. Our business plan is to go up to 25 percent over the next couple of years. Now it’s $11 instead of $7 per month [for residential customers].” The City will continue to enforce water restrictions, including prohibiting car washes at home and serving water at restaurants unless a customer specifically asks for it. Along with enforcing water restrictions, Austin Water
announced on April 21 the launch of a mobile app to a limited audience to study people’s water usage. “We are testing an app … for about a year and making sure it works,” Austin Water spokeswoman Jill Mayfield said. “Ten-thousand people will be invited to use it out of random sampling. We will be looking at people’s habits — did they change, did they save water because of this?” Stephanie Hamborsky, Plan II and biology junior and UT Microfarm development assistant, said water restrictions are a step in
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Bill Wren, and I introduced him to a number of our oil and gas clients and explained to them this concern,” Locke said. “Once they became aware of the issues, they were willing and wanting to help fix the problem.” The observatory is in the process of a $30 million upgrade to the Hobby-Eberly Telescope to study dark energy — an unknown force accelerating the expansion of the universe — but light pollution might thwart its efforts. Astronomy senior research scientist Matthew Shetrone said despite the telescope up-
grade, light pollution might inhibit astronomers’ ability to study dark energy. “In order to study dark energy, we need to be able to detect galaxies so faint they can not be detected from imaging from the ground,” Shetrone said. “We will be using spectrography. There may be 30 photons we detect from that very, very distant galaxy, maybe 30 billion light years away. … So if we have a brighter sky because of light pollution, that adds noise to the 30 photons we want to collect from a distant galaxy and can get washed out.”
out of this. This will bring a social change in Nepal. I hope that it’s for the good.” Heather Hindman, an Asian studies and anthropology associate professor who has done extensive research on Nepal, said the earthquake can be a defining moment for the small, yet resilient nation.
“I’ve seen neighbors come together and say, ‘Hey, we need a car to drive out to Sankhu to see if we can rescue anybody,’” Hindman said. “The entire country of Nepal is mobilized right now. … It’s the youth that will turn this phenomenon into a tragedy — but not a disaster.”
“It’s in the Board of Regent’s hands, and last spring, the Board of Regents approved some increases for one year only, but they did not address the fall of 2015, so we are keeping the rates the same as the fall of 2014,” Knight said. “There were some [increases] that had been proposed, but the board did not address them in the spring of 2014, so none of those were officially approved.” Kathleen Corder, exercise science and allied health profession sophomore, said she is glad the cost of tuition isn’t increasing.
the right direction, but she would like to see more stringent enforcement. “I think it’s important the City cracks down on usages of water that are not necessary,” Hamborsky said. “A lot of people have concerns about individual freedoms and rights, but unless we want to prevent the drought from worsening, we need to do things now. The rising cost of water is a problem, especially for economically disadvantaged citizens in Austin. But I do think that if we increase water price, people will realize it is a precious resource.”
UT Microfarm uses water conservation practices, as do many farmers around Texas, Hamborsky said. “We use drip irrigation to minimize water use,” Hamborsky said. “It allows water to be delivered to the base of the plant, and you minimize water loss. We also use ollas — these ceramic pots that we fill with water and put them underground and they slowly leech water out underground. Farmers in Texas really utilize these types of things. Rainwater collection is common in urban farms and farms in general.”
“We’re already paying so much and as students, everything costs money, and we’re all broke, so saving just a little bit of money and not having the increase [in tuition] is good,” Corder said. Chemistry senior Robert Wayne Jr. said the lower tuition at UT keeps the door open for hardworking students. “It’s fantastic to keep it cheap because you want to keep the University competitive,” Wayne said. “Students receive all sorts of grants, and it allows them to put money toward something else, some other aspect of their life.” UT System Chancellor William McRaven has voiced his support for affordability but
warned that UT System institutions must balance price with the quality of education. “This is a balancing act — to make education as affordable as can be but still as high quality as it can be,” McRaven said. “Frankly, the students that are looking for a high-quality education, if they don’t think that we’re giving them a high enough quality education, they will go outside the state.” During the 1970s, nearly 85 percent of UT’s operating costs came from a budget appropriated by the state Legislature, according to a statement on the UT website. Today, however, the State provides for less than 20 percent of educational operations at UT.
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What’s the future of TSM?
Print media dead, Texas Travesty open casket funeral
By Amil Malik Forum Editor
As a freshman, I wore many hats for the paper. At one time, I looked at The Daily Texan’s budget in an effort to identify alternative sources of revenue. Two years have passed, and the Texan is in a stronger financial position thanks to TSM’s move to the Moody College of Communication.
For the final Forum issue, I decided to take a step back and look at Texas Student Media in its entirety. Below you will find responses from The Daily Texan, Texas Travesty, TSTV, as well as the perspective of a current student representative on the TSM Board. Malik is a Plan II, business honors and finance junior from Austin.
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Texan’s, TSM’s future secure By Riley Brands Editor-in-Chief @ribran
Texas Student Media has a bright future ahead. I couldn’t necessarily have said the same had you asked me when I started at The Daily Texan in the summer of 2012. At the time, I was just a lowly entry-level staffer who wasn’t privy to key discussions on the budget. That said, I knew people were nervous about our financial future. By a college student’s standards, the problems weren’t of a particularly recent vintage. After all, like nearly every other newspaper in this country, we had taken an enormous hit after the recession set in in 2008 and print advertising revenue, still the greatest source of most newspapers’ money, began to plummet. The extent of our financial troubles didn’t really become apparent to me until the spring of 2013, when the Texas Student Media Board of Operating Trustees, which sets the budget for the Texan, the Cactus yearbook, the KVRX radio station, Texas Student Television and the Travesty humor publication, met to discuss the possibility of decreasing our print schedule from five days a week to four. It wasn’t a major change, but it would have taken the Daily out of The Daily Texan and forever changed its identity. Many other college newspapers in recent years have swallowed the poison pill and completely altered their print schedules, in some cases going so far as to slash the print product altogether. But the Texan staff, led by then-editor Susannah Jacob, and the paper’s alumni weren’t going to let us succumb to that fate. (To their
credit, the alumni rallied together in large numbers, taking out a full-page ad in the Texan to express their opposition to the change and creating the Friends of the Texan alumni group, which has helped raised money to continue the Texan’s education and journalistic missions.) So instead, the board agreed to a 50 percent cut in all student wages to stanch at least some of the bleeding. The staff took that change on the chin, but an even bigger threat was on the horizon. That next spring, the board considered something even more drastic: making The Daily Texan the weekly Texan. The mere proposal was enough to cause jitters, and serious discussions were had within the newsroom about what such a change would spell for the future of our operations. We beat back this threat thanks to the generosity of President William Powers Jr.’s office, which promised us several hundred thousand dollars of transitional funding for three years to bridge the crevasse between financial obscurity and financial light. That funding, along with a $1 million endowment for TSM obtained by the Moody College of Communication, is already putting us on a firmer financial footing and will take much of the anxiety out of future student editors’ jobs. The lifeline we’ve been thrown won’t keep us afloat forever, but it will at the very least keep us bobbing along long enough for the changes implemented by TSM’s new professional director and advertising manager to take effect. I have about a month left as editor of the Texan. Many things remain uncertain, but our immediate financial future isn’t one of them. Brands is a linguistics senior from Austin. He is editor-in-chief of The Daily Texan.
By Chris Gilman
Texas Travesty Editor-in-Chief @thegilbro
The technological-biological singularity. Terraforming Mars. Hip-hop hologram concerts. Steak dinners the size of a pill. Pill dinners the size of a steak. 3-D printed children. Cars that can fly. Airplanes that can’t. A coup de grâce to the heart of print media. What do these all have in common? They are the future, and it’s vital that each of Texas Student Media’s entities knows that they are coming fast (especially the last one). My tenure serving as the Texas Travesty Editor-in-Chief is coming to an end, and after a year of making a concerted effort to bring back the Travesty’s prominence on campus, I feel confident saying we owe much of our success to our online initiatives, and that the future of TSM will rely on how effective its entities can be digitally. To make college students pay attention to any student-generated media, you need to be brief, relevant, free of charge, and make the content as easy as possible to access. Doing this online is by far the most efficient way of hitting these, and the most cost-effective way of making each TSM entity the best it can be. Fortunately for the Travesty, humor happens to be the greasiest grease there is to get the social media wheels rolling on a yearround basis. The unprecedented growth we’ve seen this year was made possible by transforming our social media pages into constant streams of our articles, one-liners, listicles, event promotions, Bill Powers pictures, Longhorns of the Week, etc. In less time than it typically takes for a child to develop in the womb, we were able to outdo almost every other college humor publication in terms of page numbers and user engagement. Suck it, Harvard Lampoon. Suck it. Our RotMan 2015 campaign’s videos and social media presence (including Tinder and Grindr) were the biggest factors in winning 59 percent of the vote. By the end of the campaign, RotMan was the subject of something like 12 out of 15 of the top YikYak posts every day. In this day and age, if your digital presence is strong and likable
enough you won’t even need to leave your home to win an election. The Daily Texan, TSTV, Cactus, and KVRX have each had a fantastic year as well, and are home to some of the most talented and creative people at UT. A common complaint I hear across the board is that each entity is missing is a proper, versatile website that can hold a candle to the content TSM publishes. The current Travesty website is like Dale Earnhardt Jr. racing the Indy 500 in a 1991 Honda Odyssey, or Vin Diesel chasing a bad guy in a 1991 Honda Odyssey, or Gordon Ramsay cooking a beef wellington in a 1991 Honda Odyssey. We all deserve better, and I’m glad it’s become a priority for TSM to look into remedying. But we can’t wait for new websites. We have the resources to engage the student body readily available to us. If we don’t all get creative with the many free platforms that the majority of UT students are already using (i.e. Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, etc.), we’re going to fall behind, and fast. I love holding and smelling and gently caressing physical copies of the Travesty in my boy hands. There will always be an irreplaceable charm to owning your work as a tangible object that you can throw at someone looking at you the wrong way. It’s a beautiful thing, and we’re lucky to be able to do it. I hope TSM finds a way to continue printing into the distant future until all colleges become obsolete after the singularity. But there’s no guarantee, and every year inches closer to the possibility of being totally print-less. We have to be honest here. On an industry level, print media has been dead. The Travesty is an extended open casket funeral. Have you ever seen Weekend at Bernie’s? We are doing to print media what Andrew McCarthy and Jonathan Silverman did to the titular Bernie’s deceased corpse, and while the Texas Travesty is having a great time doing so, we have to utilize every digital resource we have before rigor mortis sets in. Gilman is a radio-television-film senior from Scotch Plains, New Jersey. He is the current editor-in-chief of the Texas Travesty.
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Seeds planted for fruitful decade By Edward Stockwell
Texas Student Television Station Manager @EdwardStockwell
The future looks very bright for the entities at Texas Student Media. A year ago, I would have said the exact opposite. I would have said something like, “Repent! This ship is doomed! All of us will burn along with it!” Yet, a lot has changed in a year. When I took office as Texas Student TV’s Station Manager last June, there was no denying that TSM was in peril. We had just barely survived months of debate surrounding whether or not to cut some of The Daily Texan’s print schedule. We were running out of money in the reserves. The Texas Travesty was printing on terrible paper that covered your hands in ink if you held it for more than a minute. But then, some wonderful things happened. Gerald Johnson, our new TSM Director, walked in and immediately began listening to the concerns of the rest of the TSM staff, the student managers, and the University. Texas Student Media and its entities were officially moved under the Moody College of Communications. The University assured us that they would not let us go bankrupt. I can’t list all of the incredible things that the media entities have accomplished this
year. As a part of Texas Student TV and The Texas Travesty, I saw a surge in broadcast advertisements sold for TSTV (we usually only had a Domino’s ad as our sole commercial), I witnessed the Travesty’s page count and paper quality increase. TSTV got some needed equipment handed down from the Moody College (our master control soundboard from the 1970’s is officially replaced by one from this century). Hell, our new student government leaders are now Travesty boys (though that might not have so much to do with TSM). Yet, there’s still a lot that can be done. TSTV’s old studio cameras that shoot in 480p need to be upgraded if we are to be competitive with other schools. There’s still the ever-present thirst for more equipment to keep up with the demand of more students in the organization. Advertising revenue could do to be higher. However, I feel very confident leaving this incredible organization in the hands it’s in now. There is nothing like Texas Student Media anywhere outside of this campus, and thanks to the seeds planted this year, that trend will continue for decades to come. Stockwell is a radio-television-film senior from New Braunfels. He is currently the station manager of Texas Student Television.
Daily Texan breeds opportunity By Bobby Blanchard TSM Board Member @bobbycblanchard
Almost every successful moment I’ve had in college is thanks to Texas Student Media. My first internship was because of work I did for The Daily Texan — which eventually led to my second and third internships. All the awards I’ve received can be tied to work I did for Texas Student Media. This organization has prepared me for a career in journalism. On campus, Texas Student Media serves as a vital news service to the student body. But for aspiring journalists, this organization is a key rite of passage. Texas Student Media has served as the training ground for tomorrow’s journalists and the future media elite. There are countless examples, ranging from Pulitzer Prize winners to people like Burnie Burns, creator of the highly popular web series “Red vs. Blue” and the company Rooster Teeth. Burns spent his college years in Texas Student Television. Others include Texas Travesty alum Jermaine Affonso, who runs the satire site Clickhole.com and former Daily Texan cartoonist Berkeley Breathed, known for his 1980s cartoon strip “Bloom County.” Even today, the national news service is saturated with alumni from Texas Student Media. As students watch the 2016 presidential election unfold, they will perhaps unknowingly read reports from many Daily Texan alumni. Students will
find national political correspondent Karen Tumulty at the Washington Post and Amy Chozick covering Hillary Clinton at The New York Times. Both spent time at The Daily Texan in college. I don’t know what Texas Student Media will look like in 10 years — just like I don’t know what the landscape of media will look like in the future. For the record, no one really does. So much has changed just in the four years I’ve been in college, and I imagine it will change so much more. There are plenty of reasons to hope. For the first time in years, Texas Student Media approved a budget without controversy or fear. The board made a slight increase to student wages. Gerald Johnson, TSM’s director, has outperformed expectations. Thanks to support from the Moody College of Communication and the Office of the President, student media at UT has some time to breath easy. As I graduate, I am leaving the Texas Student Media board relieved and optimistic. But whatever the future for Texas Student Media is, I hope it will continue to serve as a teaching tool for UT’s students and aspiring journalists. And to those students slightly curious about the prospects of working in student media, I urge you to give it a try for just one semester. You’ll find friends. You’ll find a family. You may even find a career. Blanchard is a journalism senior from Pearland. He currently serves as a representative on the Texas Student Media Board of Operating Trustees.
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The No. 2 men’s golf team is victorious once again. On Wednesday, the Longhorns claimed their third-straight Big 12 title at the Big 12 Conference Championship in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The team won in landslide fashion, finishing 24 strokes ahead of runner-up Texas Tech with a four-round total of 1130 (+10). With this win, Texas set the Big 12 record for largest margin of victory at a championship, breaking Oklahoma State’s 20-stroke record set in 2008. “To have a 20-shot lead going into the last day is different, and that doesn’t usually happen,” head coach John Fields said. “A 72-hole event is also different — we only have one other tournament in college golf that is 72 holes, and that is the national championship. This is great preparation for us.” The magnitude of Texas’ win is especially notable considering the tough course conditions. The tournament took place at Southern Hills Country Club, a notoriously difficult course. “Southern Hills is a great golf course; it’s extremely difficult,” Fields said. “It was prepared so that it was at championship caliber. The greens were running at 12.5-13, which made the premium on accu-
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The Texas men’s golf team claimed its third-straight Big 12 Championship on Wednesday. The Longhorns finished 24 strokes better than runner-up Texas Tech, breaking a Big 12 record. Four Longhorns finished in the top 10.
racy — from the tee and the fairway — exceptional.” Perhaps even more exceptional was freshman Scottie Scheffler. Scheffler earned medalist honors at the championship, finishing in first place on the individual leaderboard with a four-round total at even par. Scheffler is only the fifth player in Texas
men’s golf history to win a Big 12 Championship. “It feels great,” Scheffler said. “I got off to a bad start but was able to turn it around and start hitting some better shots. I’m really glad that the team was able to get it done after having a nice lead going into today. We have a lot of momentum going into the next tournament.”
Other notable performances came from sophomore Gavin Hall and senior Kramer Hickok. Hall finished two strokes behind Scheffler to notch a career-best second-place ending. Hickok finished in a tie for fifth, his second top-five finish this season. Sophomore Beau Hossler rounded out the top-
10 finishes for Texas in a tie for eighth. Next up for the Longhorns is the NCAA Regional Championship. Since it won the conference championship, Texas automatically qualifies for a regional tournament. The regional selection show will be broadcast live at 9 a.m. next Monday on the Golf Channel.
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Glennie shines as athlete and scholar By James Rodriguez @jamie_rod
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Defensive tackle Malcom Brown is the highlight of Texas’ NFL draft prospects. He might hear his name called in the first round Thursday night, and four other Longhorns could be taken.
By Ezra Siegel @SiegelEzra
While no Longhorns were drafted in the 2014 NFL draft, the one-year drought is likely to end this weekend. Texas has five prospects who are projected to hear their names called at the draft, including defensive tackle Malcom Brown, linebacker Jordan Hicks, cornerback Quandre Diggs, defensive end Cedric Reed and running back Malcolm Brown. “It feels like just yesterday I was walking on this campus as a young, 220-pound freshman not knowing anything,” Hicks said. “After five years, just to be here and to be going through this process, it’s really rewarding for all of us.” Malcom Brown may be the first Longhorn picked after he shot up draft boards while racking up 72 tackles, 15 tackles for loss and 6.5 sacks last season. His 6-foot-2, 319-pound frame is ideal for the NFL, and he’s the No. 20-ranked prospect, according to NFL Network draft analyst Mike Mayock. “Malcom Brown to me is a first-round guy all day long,” Mayock said on NFL. com. “He’s a low-risk investment and a really good football player.”
While Malcom Brown will find his new home early, Hicks is also a standout prospect. Hicks came to Texas as a five-star prospect but battled injuries, causing him to fly under the radar as a pro prospect. He impressed scouts, however, during his senior year and in predraft workouts, which was enough for him to earn a fourth-round grade, according to NFL.com. While Malcom Brown and Hicks are highly touted prospects, Diggs and Reed will likely find more modest roles in the NFL despite being perennial mainstays in Texas’ defense. Diggs is undersized at 5 feet 9 inches and will most likely make his living on special teams, and Reed lacks the athleticism that NFL scouts desire. Both are projected to be picked during the fifth round or later. The Longhorns’ main offensive prospect is Malcolm Brown, who led Texas in total rushing yards last season but still feels he has a lot to prove at the next level. “I feel like I have a lot to show people that I haven’t been able to show these past couple of years due to injuries, and things didn’t go completely my way,” Malcolm Brown said.
I feel like I have a lot to show people that I haven’t been able to show these past couple of years due to injuries, and things didn’t go completely my way. —Malcolm Brown
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While NFL.com projects Malcolm Brown to be a late-round pick, several scouts think he has NFL-caliber skills. “[Malcolm Brown] possesses the size, toughness and ability to play on all three downs, and that will catch the eyes of teams looking for depth at running back,” NFL draft analyst Lance Zierlein said on NFL.com. While these Longhorns were longtime contributors for the program, their chapters at Texas will come to a close as they find a new home and a new start this weekend. “It’s definitely a different feeling not being a student and not being a current athlete here,” Diggs said. “At the same time, it’s time for a new journey in life.”
When New Zealand Governor-General Jerry Mateparae announced architecture senior Jessica Glennie as one of the recipients of the prestigious Rhodes Scholarship last November, Glennie almost didn’t realize what happened. “I actually mind blanked, and I didn’t hear my name,” Glennie said. “I think I was in damage control mode and already processing defeat. I couldn’t remember what had just been said, and then the girl next to me said, ‘That’s you.’ Once I realized, it was immediate elation.” Glennie, a scholarship athlete on the varsity rowing team, was one of 84 students worldwide to be selected to the 2015 class of Rhodes Scholars and one of three from New Zealand. A native of South Africa, Glennie moved to New Zealand at the age of 3. She excelled in basketball, track and cross country in high school and took up rowing at the suggestion of a cousin who was studying in the United States, and it was on the water that she found the most satisfaction. “My cousin said, ‘Jess, do rowing. You can get a scholarship to America because you’re tall,’ so I started rowing when I got to high school,” Glennie said. “A couple of years in, I decided, ‘Wow, I’ve stuck this out, and I love it, so I will try that America thing.’” The combination of a topranked architecture program and a Division I rowing team drew Glennie to Texas. She said balancing the two can be a challenge, but it has its benefits. “They actually reinforce and
help each other in a lot of ways that you wouldn’t realize,” Glennie said. “Rowing keeps me healthy, reinforces a routine.” As a sophomore, Glennie rowed in the second varsity eight boat that placed first at the 2012 Big 12 Championships. She remained in that same boat her junior year, but missed her entire fourth season because of a concussion. “Even though she’s had some setbacks, I’ve been so impressed with her outlook and her attitude throughout,” head coach Dave O’Neill said. “She’s been very positive, and she’s the fittest she’s ever been.” Glennie interned at an architecture firm in New York City in the fall, so she was unable to participate in the first fall workouts under O’Neill, who replaced longtime head coach Carie Graves in June. O’Neill said there was a noticeable change in the team once she returned in the spring. “She’s been a very vocal leader,” O’Neill said. “I think she’s recognizing how special this year is, and she’s working really hard to make the most out of her last semester with our team.” As a Rhodes Scholar, Glennie will spend the next two years at Oxford University studying environmental change and management. Her short-term goals include graduating and finishing her rowing career on a high note, but her long-term goals are a little harder to define. “I know that this is going to be such a life-changing experience that I don’t think longterm goals are really relevant right now,” Glennie said. “So all I really know is that I want to make a really positive impact in the world.”
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Senior rower Jessica Glennie is a standout athlete and scholar. As her career comes to an end, she sets her sights on graduate school and achieving long-term goals.
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Texas volleyball earned the Team of the Year award at the Longhorn Honors: Women’s Athletic award presentation Wednesday evening. The Longhorns finished their 2014 campaign with a 27–3 overall record, winning their fourth-consecutive Big 12 title. They won four games in the NCAA Tournament before losing to BYU in the semifinals this season. The banquet honored all nine Texas women’s athletic teams as an end-of-the-year celebration. Texas is the only Division I athletic program to still have separate men’s and women’s athletic programs. “I think our women’s athletics have really grown and gotten more successful this year,” junior volleyball player Amy Neal said. “It’s fun to be here without the guys.” Among other notable awards winners were sophomore track runner Kendall Baisden for Outstanding Rookie Performance and junior sprinter Courtney Okolo for Longhorn Athlete of the Year. — Garrett Callahan
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To learn about the effects of vaping and e-cigarettes, check out our video at dailytexanonline.com. By Robert Starr @RobertKStarr
Cigarette use in teenagers fell by over 40 percent from 2011–2014, according to a survey the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and FDA released this past month. That’s the good news. The not so good news? The same report shows teenagers use of e-cigarettes increased nearly eight-fold during that time. E-cigarettes are a 21st century take on smoking. They use a battery-operated device that looks like a cigarette and turns liquid from a cartridge into an aerosol. But since vaping arrived on the market less than a decade ago and only gained popularity within the last five years, scientists can’t yet study long-term effects. For that to happen, it will take more time. Vaping, the term for using an e-cigarette device, is a tobacco-free process, except in cases when small amounts of tobacco are used in the liquid cartridges for flavoring. There is a lower risk of the adverse health effects, such
as lung cancer, associated with traditional smoking — still the leading cause of preventable disease in the U.S. Vaping is still a delivery system for nicotine, the chemical that gives cigarettes their addictive qualities. And while scientists do not believe nicotine causes cancer, it’s associated with raised blood pressure, increased heart rate and birth defects. It’s also associated with problems in brain development for adolescents. It’s also difficult to judge the safety of e-cigarettes independent of their context. Some people use them as a replacement for traditional cigarettes, and, for them, the switch is a step in the right direction. E-cigarettes are safer than cigarettes, but that is largely because cigarettes have a long list of health risks associated with them. Some retailers have promoted e-cigarettes as a method to quit smoking in the past, but the FDA no longer allows presenting them that way. Although there is some research to support the idea, the FDA doesn’t endorse
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vaping for this purpose as they do nicotine patches or nicotine gum. The somewhat ambiguous nature of the health risks in e-cigarettes — such as secondhand or “passive,” vaping — have made it difficult to classify them in terms of public policy.
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Laws about e-cigarettes are also ambiguous because they haven’t been around long. The CDC recently reported that there are no laws against selling e-cigarettes to minors for 10 states in the country, including Texas. And, while individual
cities have specific legislature to deal with this problem, Austin isn’t one of them. As of now, many of the ecigarette retailers in the area will not sell to anybody under the age of 18 even if it is technically legal. So all of this information leaves the question: Should you
vape? Probably not. Nicotine is addictive and not very good for your body. But neither are Lil’ Nookies from Torchy’s. Or pulling all-nighters. It would be irresponsible to suggest that ecigarettes are a good idea, but, at the same time, personal health shouldn’t be the only factor in decision-making processes.
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Elizabeth McQueen reigns over Austin music scene By Emily Gibson @emgeemtee
When Austin musician Elizabeth McQueen was growing up in Columbia, Maryland, she thought she would become a professor. She didn’t expect to make a living as a musician and certainly never thought she would one day perform a live duet with Willie Nelson. “I never thought I would make a living as a performer because I didn’t know anyone who did,” McQueen said. “It didn’t even seem like that was something you could do.” McQueen developed a love for performing when she was young but didn’t decide to pursue it as a career until after she graduated from college. She wanted to escape the East Coast’s fast-paced lifestyle, so she headed to Austin in 2000. “I came down here thinking, ‘I want to be a musician,’” McQueen said. “That was my plan.” McQueen spent eight years as the front woman for the Grammy-nominated band Asleep at the Wheel. During this time, she performed with Willie Nelson, released three solo albums and had two children. Her latest project is recording an album as EMQ, a band she formed with old friends — guitarist Lauren Gurgiolo and multiinstrumentalist Lindsay Greene. On Thursday, EMQ and local artist Jerome KUTX DJ Elizabeth McQueen performs at Art City Austin on Sunday afternoon. Her band, EMQ, is set to launch the “Infinity + Infinity” exhibit at the Museum of Human Achievement.
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Morrison will launch an exhibit at the Museum of Human Achievement called “Infinity + Infinity.” Infinity + Infinity is an interactive art project in which audience members’ body movements control holographic images projected onto structures Morrison built. EMQ will play live music while spectators walk through the projections. McQueen said the project is conceptually complex because it combines electronic music, jazz and 1920s songbook-style writing with holographic art. “I don’t know exactly what [the music] is, and I don’t know how to describe it — but I like it,” McQueen said. “And I like playing it.” McQueen said she has always been a fan of experimenting with her approach to music. On her previous albums, she explored a variety of genres including Americana and pubrock. She asked Gurgiolo and Greene to form EMQ with her so that they could experiment musically. “I just keep expanding and changing,” McQueen said. “I guess I’m just not the kind of person who is going to make the same record over and over again.” In addition to writing and recording her own music, McQueen is a DJ once a week for KUT. In her podcast, “This Song,” she asks artists about songs that have had an impact
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on them. “It’s not your favorite song — it’s the song that made you realize you could become a musician, or play an instrument, or what influenced your latest project,” McQueen said. “It’s about who inspired us and whose shoulders we are standing on.” McQueen said the most important song to her is “Empty Cans” by The Streets. She said the song taught her it is possible to be emotionally honest and open with her music. “When you get really emotionally honest with your music, you are opening up the door for people to really feel something,” McQueen said. “I don’t think I’d ever thought to really attempt to try something that emotionally honest until I heard that song.” She said her goals for her music career are always changing, but, for now, she wants to focus on emotional honesty. “My ultimate goal as a musician is to make music that makes people feel something more than just having a good time, but makes them really feel,” McQueen said. “But that’ll probably change next week.”
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Located in Richardson Hall’s Benson Latin American Collection, “Hard Fought” features powerful pictures of Latinos during World War II
Artist’s final project portrays Latino-Americans in WWII By Emily Fu
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There was no guarantee the late Austin artist Sam Coronado would make it out of Vietnam alive. But after he did, he spent the next few decades of his life dedicated to the arts. His last project is “Hard Fought: Sam Coronado’s WWII Series.” The series features narrative prints depicting the stories of Latino-Americans during World War II. The exhibit draws inspiration from the “VOCES Oral History Project,” a collection of more than 650 interviews and ephemera that give voice to the American Latino experience in World War II, Korean War and Vietnam War. “Hard Fought” will be on exhibit at the Benson Latin American Collection through May 15. “Sam Coronado brought his own eye to something we’ve been looking at for several years,” said Maggie Rivas-Rodriguez, journalism associate professor and director of “VOCES.” “We would never have seen what he saw, what he selected, what color he used. He really lent it his vision, and we’ll always be very grateful for that.” Exhibition curator Tatiana Reinoza said she believes
that through this exhibit, Coronado, who died in 2013, conveys the pride he had for his people. “A lot of Latinos are really proud that they served, but they haven’t really been given credit for that honorable work,” Reinoza said. “That’s why this show is called ‘Hard Fought’ because it’s a hard-fought battle to gain that recognition, to gain that validation and to know that their sacrifices are valued in the end.” Reinoza said Coronado created the prints through the serigraphy process, also known as screen printing. Some prints in the collection are mixed media, which incorporates collage elements in the piece. The narrative prints are coupled with oral elements such as interview excerpts taken from the “VOCES Oral History Project.” Reinoza said Coronado enjoyed serigraphy so much that he opened his own studio in Austin in 1991. Coronado, a Vietnam veteran who identified as Chicano, knew firsthand the struggle to feel validated for his services to this country. This prompted him to collaborate with Rivas-Rodriguez in 2006. Julianne Gilland, associate director of scholarly resources
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and special collections curator at the Benson Latin American Collection, said it has been interesting for viewers to relate to the exhibit. “This is true whether as American families, who remember their service and sacrifice in wartime with pride, [or] as Latinos, who have had to reconcile those proud histories with some of the social justice and racism that their families have experienced,” Gilland said. The exhibition resonated with Reinoza, who said she thinks it is vital for young Latinos to understand the importance of their historical presence in this country amid the current immigration debates and anti-immigrant rhetoric. “Young Latinos need to understand that we have a long history in this country, and we have been a part of that special fabric,” Reinoza said. “I think that’s really important for young Latinos to learn and acknowledge.”