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Regents back limits to records requests
Bill proposes halving UT’s portion of PUF for UH
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The UT System Board of Regents and Chancellor William McRaven sent a letter Monday to Attorney General Ken Paxton arguing that individual regents’ access to records can be subject to limitations in certain situations. At a specially called meeting Monday morning, eight members of the board voted unanimously to file a brief with the AG’s office outlining the System’s official stance on
regent information requests. The ninth regent, Wallace Hall, abstained from the vote. System counsels filed the brief in response to an appeal Hall’s private attorney filed with Paxton on April 20. Hall’s attorney, Bill Aleshire, asked Paxton to formally provide advice on Hall’s request to review thousands of documents related to UTAustin admissions and asked whether the Board or the Chancellor had the authority to prohibit Hall from obtaining copies of those records.
Hall is attempting to review the thousands of documents Kroll Associates, Inc. used in an independent investigation earlier this year. The Kroll report found President William Powers Jr. intervened in a handful of admissions cases, but concluded Powers did not violate any policies. When Hall asked to review the Kroll documents, three regents, including Hall himself, voted to grant him
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Zoe Fu | Daily Texan Staff
UT System chancellor William McRaven, center, and Daniel Sharphorn, general counsel and vice chancellor for the UT System, right, met with the Board of Regents on Monday.
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Kerbey Lane celebrates 35th anniversary By Rachel Lew @rachelannlew
Kerbey Lane Cafe celebrated its 35th year anniversary Monday with face painting and miniature horses — donating all of the proceeds to United Way for Greater Austin. Mason Ayer, CEO of Kerbey Lane Cafe, said Kerbey Lane Cafe is fortunate to have had the opportunity to serve the Austin community for 35 years. “We wouldn’t be around today if it weren’t for the countless Austinites who have dined with us and supported our business for all these years,” Ayer said in a statement. “We deeply value our community and want to celebrate this milestone by giving back. United Way for Greater Austin is a first-rate organization that truly practices its motto of making Austin great
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Charlotte Carpenter | Daily Texan Staff
Kerbey Lane Cafe celebrated its 35th year in business on Monday. All their proceeds from the day went to United Way for Greater Austin, a charity organization that funds other local nonprofits.
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UT’s portion of the Permanent University Fund (PUF) might be cut in half to help fund The University of Houston. Last week, Rep. Sylvester Turner (D-Houston) laid out a bill and constitutional amendment before the House Higher Education Committee that, if passed, would be a step toward adding UH to the PUF, an endowment that is currently designated to fund university operations at the UT and Texas A&M systems through the Available University Fund (AUF). Chief financial officer Mary Knight said this could have a significant financial impact on the university. “As far as the overall budget, a hundred million dollar reduction to any of our sources would be a very major reduction to the budget,” Knight said. “A lot of research and scholarships are funded from the AUF, so we would have to make reductions somewhere to be able to account for this.” Since the state constitution dictates that only UT and A&M receive the funds, the constitution must be amended to add UH to the short list of the fund’s recipients. Additionally, Turner’s complimentary bill must pass. Currently, $263 million of UT’s $2.658 billion budget comes from the PUF, according to Knight. UT receives twothirds of the $17 billion fund, while A&M receives one-third of the money. Turner’s proposals would cut UT’s portion and transfer part of it to UH,
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Poll: Americans find New organization brings speakers to UT gas prices reasonable By Nashwa Bawab
By Katie Keenan @thedailytexan
An increasing number of Americans believe the current gasoline prices, which range from $1.93 to $3.29 per gallon nationally, are relatively reasonable, according to the UT Energy Poll released Wednesday. In September 2014, 90 percent of Americans believed gasoline prices were too high, but now that number has dropped to 66 percent. “There’s been such a deep decline in the price,” said Sheril Kirshenbaum, director of the UT Energy Poll. “ I’m paying as much now to fill up my own car as I did in the late 1990s. I think a lot of people are noticing a big difference in how much it costs
to travel.” The sharp decline in oil prices this past year can be attributed to a lack of demand from consumers across the world, according to Carey King, assistant director of the UT Energy Institute. “Oil production in North America has increased relatively quickly,” King said. “It has increased faster than the demand for gasoline. There’s more oil than people are prepared to consume.” But people shouldn’t get used to these low prices, King said. “[These prices] will be around for six months to a year, at most,” King said. However, high gas prices have their own set of
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A new wave of speakers will come to campus thanks to Speak, a new organization that already has a list of high-profile individuals scheduled to speak in the fall, according to the organization’s president. Students organized Speak as a way to get students involved in bringing highprofile speakers to campus. Before the club’s conception, Andrew Watts, president of the club and management information systems sophomore, was involved in bringing speakers such as Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban and Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel to campus. Watts said the organization will teach those who join how to design and develop these events from beginning to end.
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Andrew Watts, management information systems sophomore, founded Speak as a way to get students involved in bringing high-profile speakers to campus.
“This goes from contacting speakers all the way to managing volunteers on the day of the event,” Watts said.
“Students will get hands-on experience by working with others, leading teams and developing marketing strategies.”
No application is needed to join, according to
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desire to be better informed as a regent.” “This current request for information … is detrimental to the overall well-being of the system,” McRaven wrote in an email to Hall. The brief filed Monday, which represented McRaven and the Board of Regents’ official position on Hall’s appeal, argued that Hall’s attorney did not have standing to seek formal advice from Paxton in the first place. “An individual Regent is not authorized to seek an opinion of the Attorney General in his official capacity without the consent of the Board, nor may an individual Regent be represented in his official capacity
by private counsel,” System lawyers wrote. “In addition, the Attorney General generally declines fact-finding and answering hypothetical questions, both of which would be required in answering the questions presented.” Even if Paxton did agree to provide Hall advice, Hall’s requests for the documents should still be denied, according to the brief. System counsel said Regents’ Rules and federal laws exist to regulate individual regents’ access to records, especially when student privacy is a consideration. “A Regent’s access to information is not ‘unfettered,’” the System counsel wrote.
“Given the potential volume of a request for information by an individual member of the Board and the impact on workload priorities, it is inherently reasonable that the Regents’ Rules provide checks and balances.” In his letter to Paxton, Hall’s attorney argued that Regents do have an unfettered right to agency records. “A regent is not a mere figurehead, passive servant of corporate management,” Aleshire wrote. “Other opinions of the Attorney General also demonstrate that a regent’s inherent right of access to the agency records is not subject to judgement of the other board members (or of
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the Chancellor).” After the meeting Monday, Regent Alex Cranberg, who originally voted to grant Hall access to the Kroll records, explained his vote in support of the brief to the AG. “I certainly feel it’s very important to express the need for individual regents to have [the] capacity to ask hard questions, even as the majority of the board might feel uncomfortable, but I don’t think this response suggests that the regents don’t have that capacity,” Cranberg said. “[I believe the response suggests] merely that there might be some limits placed on what a regent might reasonably ask for.”
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continues from page 1 Amanda Barrington, corporate communications junior and vice president of National Speaking Events. Barrington said she and Watts designed the organization to be as inclusive as possible. “The one thing that we both agreed on when we were talking about Speak becoming a thing at UT was the inclusive and exclusive parts of organizations on campus,” Barrington said. “We really wanted to make it open to the whole campus so everyone could get involved in the entrepreneurial community and the entrepreneurial scene.” Speak aims to bring a large and diverse group of leaders to campus, according to Sierra Salinas, business freshman and Vice President of Internal Communications. She said the current line-up of speakers are business-related, but the lineup has potential to expand and to include professors, authors, athletes, scientists and artists. “I think the most exciting thing about this organization is knowing that our options are limitless,” Salinas said. “The more people we get, the more comfortable we will feel reaching out to companies or individuals, and the more variety we will be able to have in the future.” Speak’s future line-up includes Yik-Yak co-founders and the senior director of digital and social marketing for Taco Bell. Speak’s long-term future depends on those who decide to join, Watts said. “I hope people are encouraged to join because they have a crazy idea for a speaker to come to campus and have the drive to make that event happen,” Watts said. “This can help the organization go beyond just being simply a speakingevents-oriented club, but more of a community for students to take part in.”
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UT cuts under-enrolled language courses By Matthew Adams
Umedjon Sharifov, a Fulbright scholar who came to UT to teach Tajik, spent a semester as a TA for a Russian class after no students signed up for the Tajik course. Some language classes are canceled each year due to a lack of interest, and instructors are moved to teach different languages.
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While the University works to provide a broad spectrum of languages for students, the University is canceling some language courses because of a lack of interest. Each year, a select few Fulbright scholars are allowed to attend the University and teach their language. Often, enough students don’t sign up, so the course is not offered. These scholars are reassigned to teach Russian or another Central Asian language, and students who were enrolled must find something else to take. Umedjon Sharifov, a Fulbright scholar employed by the University to teach Tajik, said he began teaching children and adults English as a second language in his home country of Tajikstan. According to Sharifov, he was excited about the opportunity to teach at UTand disappointed when he discovered his course was no longer going to be offered. “Fulbright is a great program to be a part of,” Sharifov said. “I was so fully prepared. I came with a book, and I was so prepared for it. When I came, it was a little sad no one signed up.” Initially it was hard to ad-
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continues from page 1 granting each institution onethird of the fund. At Wednesday’s hearing, Turner said he thinks The University of Houston is underfunded compared to A&M and UT. This year The University of Houston received $143 million in general revenue state appropriations compared to about $262 million and $252 million at UT and A&M, respectively. The University of Houston, which is Texas’s third tier-one research institution alongside UT and A&M, should become Texas’s third flagship university, according to Turner. “We do need to have a major conversation, and we do need to find ways of making sure we have additional flagship universities that are funded at the same or similar levels to benefit other students as we move forward,” Turner said at the hearing Wednesday. Shaun Theriot-Smith, civil engineering junior and University of Houston student government president, said he believes UH is deserving of the PUF funding but said it should not come at the financial expense of UT and A&M. “As far as the student perspective goes, any chance to increase funding for the University is always a good thing, but I don’t think any [UH] student is really interested in a situation which might compromise another University, such as UT or A&M,” Theriot-Smith said. “It would result
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just to life in a foreign country, Sharifov said. He spent his first semester as a TA for a Russian class, and Sharifov said he spent the second semester taking classes on his own while teaching one student Tajik. “We [would] meet once a week, and we’d compare Tajik and Farsi,” Sharifov said. “He speaks fluent Farsi, which helps him better understand both languages.” While Sharifov enjoyed his experience at the University, he said the Central Asian language programs
would improve if they were separated from the Russian and Slavic languages because most, such as Tajik, do not have anything in common with these languages. “[Tajik is associated with] Central Asia or Middle Eastern Islam — no one will find Tajik in the Russian department,” Sharifov said. According to Sharifov, his student said that if he had known where Tajik was, he would have taken the course. Agnes Sekowski, a graduate coordinator for the Rus-
sian department, said that seeing the two of them meet and only speak Tajik twice a week was impressive. Sekowski said although a formal course was not offered, the department found ways to teach the language and culture. “We provided both office and classroom space for the [Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant Program] all year, and he was very active at our departmental events,” Sekowski said. “He even taught people at Explore
UT traditional Tajik dances.” Political communications senior Meagan Leahy, who took Bosnian/Croatian/ Serbain to fulfill her foreign language requirement, said students don’t take languages such as Tajik because they seem insurmountable or not practical. “People don’t know they exist, and they seem really hard,” Leahy said. “People want to take German or Spanish because they’ve heard of it, and they know it’s useful.”
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continues from page 1 advantages. Kirshenbaum said that when the price increases, the public usually takes a greater interest in energy conservation. “When gas prices were very high, we saw a lot more concerns over what people were paying — maybe some more interest in the adoption of renewable technologies or driving hybrid cars,” Kirshenbaum said. When gas prices decline, number of large vehicles purchased goes up, said Michelle Foss, chief energy economist for the Jackson School of Geosciences. “When gasoline prices are lower, people tend to use more,” Foss said. “In our country, people have started buying SUVs and trucks again. If the cars people buy are more fuel efficient, which they are, then less gasoline will get used than before.” The findings in the poll don’t have much significance, according to Foss, because any small price fluctuation in the oil industry has a considerable effect on the U.S. “We have not had big changes,” Foss said. “Oil prices stabilized a bit. In the U.S., any change in oil price, high or low, gets translated directly to the pump. This is especially true in Texas.”
UNIVERSITY FUNDINGS $263 million: How much of UT System’s budget came from the PUF this year $143 million: How much the University of Houston received in generate revenue state appropriations this year Two-thirds: Portion of PUF fund UT System receives
in A&M or [UT] receiving a smaller slice of the pie, but there’s a way to apportion for [UH] in a way that would not compromise the financial stability of [UT] or A&M.” University spokesperson Gary Susswein declined comment on the legislation, which is pending in committee. Student government president Xavier Rotnofsky said he thinks legislators should consider the impact that cutting PUF funds will have on UT when engaging in a conversation around adding The University of Houston to the PUF. “Public institutions in Texas should be involved in the dialogue of appropriations, but we have to keep in mind the impact that cutting from PUF to UT would have considering the population size of not only UT-Austin but also the UT system as a whole,” Rotnofsky said. “We get a lot of our funding from PUF, so it’s a huge asset of ours. We have to keep in mind the impact of adding another entity.”
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Face painter Lauren Parks, center, and balloon artist Kristen Crandall, right, participate in Kerbey Lane’s celebration of its 35th anniversary on Monday evening.
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continues from page 1 every single day.” United Way for Greater Austin is an organization that has financially supported local charity groups since 1924. Sarah Karney, the marketing and communications coordinator for United Way for Greater Austin, said the organization has a dual mission to give everyone in the Austin community the opportunity to be a philanthropist and to work with families to overcome barriers to
economic opportunities. United Way runs programs in the areas of early childhood education, high school dropout prevention and financial stability, according to Karney. It also funds other nonprofits in Austin that do work in these areas. “Kerbey Lane Cafe is donating 100 percent of net profits from six locations to us,” Karney said. “That money will then be reinvested in the Austin community in a number of ways to be determined by KLC and our Resource Development team.” Kerbey Lane has six lo-
cations, exclusively in the Austin area, four of which are open 24/7. The first restaurant was established in a house on Kerbey Lane, the restaurant’s namesake. In addition to the festivities, the restaurant concluded their “35 Days until 35” social media promotion, during which participants were presented with the opportunity to win Tshirts and pancake mix. Kerbey Lane’s success can be attributed to their food’s consistent quality and their attention to customers, according to Chris Wills, a
manager at Kerbey Lane Cafe on Guadalupe Street. “We always do what we can to ‘wow’ the guest. Customer service is a big deal for us, and we’re always open to feedback,” Wills said. “I think that’s one of the reasons people like us. Customers can voice their opinion.” The UT community would not be the same without Kerbey Lane Cafe, advertising junior Rachel Murchison said. “Kerbey Lane is an essential part of campus life,” Murchison said.
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What is an educated person? By Jeremi Suri
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What does it mean to be an educated person? This is the most important question we must ask ourselves on a college campus. Universities, by definition, turn us into educated citizens — men and women with more access to the accumulated learning in various disciplines (biology, history and engineering, to name a few) than the average person who has not attended a similar campus. The college experience is an immersion of the individual in a sea of ideas, perspectives and provocations. It is like jumping into the ocean and then swimming in various directions to see different coastlines. This exercise is designed to stimulate lifelong reflections about nothing less than the purpose of existence. “Who am I?” every college student asks. “What do I want to become?” “How will I get there?” College is about asking these questions repeatedly. An educated life is about continuing to pose these questions in other professional, family and spiritual settings. The educated person is self-reflective and self-aware. The educated person knows many things, of course, but she recognizes there are many things she does not know. To be educated is to be humbled by the enormity of the world and the limits of even the most talented individual. The “universal” root of “university” is the recognition of how enormous the world and its elements are. The educated person does not think he can master everything, or even a frac-
To be educated is to be humbled by the enormity of the world and the limits of even the most talented individual.
tion of it. He seeks to make some sense of the enormity, to chart worthwhile pathways and to find meaning that gives the journey enduring value. The learning that college opens for the graduate is about the many sources of meaning and value that individuals can pursue amid a disorienting and competitive world. Returning to the ocean metaphor, life without higher education is like swimming without full vision. Education helps us to see more. College, then, is not about earning power, although it increases the income of nearly every graduate. College is, instead, about adventure and growth. It is a mind-expanding enterprise, setting its participants on a path of continued exploration and learning that is hard to replicate any other way. College is an intensive training of the intellect and the senses. Educated men and women are not always smarter, but they have a richer and more complex understanding of their surroundings. To be educated is to appreciate — and ultimately benefit from — the many colors, shapes and sizes of the human experience. That is why I have never left college. As a professor I have the unmatched opportunity to research, analyze and teach about the many dimensions of human society. Every day I immerse myself in observing how different people have formulated policy around issues of security, sustenance, justice and reform. I study decision-making and its effects. I examine the influences that drive policy change in various organizations — including governments, militaries, businesses and schools. I analyze the consequences and lessons of these policies for our own challenges today. Ultimately, life in the university provides me the opportunity to deepen and expand our collective understanding of how humans organize themselves and how they use their power. I love studying and teaching this stuff! Sometimes my readers and students feel the same way… I have written this weekly column for the
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Daily Texan throughout the academic year because I fear we have lost sight of why education matters, even as we benefit from it every day. Think how little we talk about learning and meaning at a great university. We obsess about other important, but still less central, topics instead. Although money, buildings and sports matter, our business is learning, and our focus must remain on that topic above all. Education is our core mission and our distraction from it allows the other issues to define how we behave toward one another and how outside groups behave toward us. My goal in writing these columns has been to provoke a vigorous discussion about the most valuable things we do at a university to educate through research, teaching and dialogue. My faith is that most of us understand but few of us communicate effectively about
these issues, especially to those who have not had the privilege of spending time on our campus. We must devote more effort — as individuals and as an institution — to describing what we really care about. That is how we can ensure our actions match our aspirations. We must also devote more effort to describing what we really care about so that we can convince people across our society to value, support and join our efforts. We must become a more articulate campus with clearer voices and fewer walls. Our educational mission is the most powerful antidote to the cynicism, pettiness and partisanship of our time. We must lead by educating. We must lead by modeling how educated people can inspire and improve themselves as well as others. Suri is a professor in the LBJ School of Public Affairs and the Department of History.
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Pamphlet a good way to begin campus Registration affects graduation rates discussion of historical racism, sexism By Mary Dolan
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Issues such as racism and sexism have been in the spotlight in many places during the past few years, and UT is no exception. Past and present victims of racism and sexism have tried to speak up and let their voices be heard, and it is important that students understand these issues and be aware of how they have affected campus. The Student Government Student Affairs Committee seems to be in agreement, as they discussed a resolution April 29 that, according to The Daily Texan, would “support all student-led efforts to raise awareness of racism and sexism on campus.” One of the aims of the resolution is to “reform” classes carrying Cultural Diversity flags by distributing a pamphlet that chronicles incidents of racism and sexism at UT over the past 75 years. This is an interesting idea. While UT, like every other college campus, has no doubt had its share of incidents involving racism or sexism, such moments tend to be unknown to much of the student population. Many students have limited knowledge of UT’s history in general, and most of them probably aren’t combing through archives trying to find mentions of racism or sexism. The pamphlet would be a good way to begin to educate students on how these issues have affected UT. While a single pamphlet obviously would not encompass the entire scope of the issues, it would be a way to make students more aware of the ways that racism and sexism (and the movements against them) have played a part in both day-to-day interactions and larger events on campus. Students would
One of the aims of the resolution is to ‘reform’ classes carrying Cultural Diversity flags by distributing a pamphlet that chronicles incidents of racism and sexism at UT over the past 75 years.
be able to use them as a pathway to discovering more about UT. Obviously, the idea of distributing a pamphlet in Cultural Diversity classes isn’t perfect. It would be naïve to think that many students wouldn’t just throw the pamphlet away or ignore its contents. There is also a question as to how the pamphlets would be integrated into these classes. Would there be time given to discuss the pamphlets in class, or would students just be given the pamphlets with the expectation that they would read them? Distributing a simple pamphlet to students might also seem somewhat … simple. Most college students have a good deal of knowledge about racism and sexism, and the pamphlet would probably reinforce many things that they already knew. However, as resolution author and government senior Bryan Davis pointed out in the Texan, the pamphlet “isn’t meant to be an end-all be-all to the racism discussed… just a beginning to the entire process.” Despite the reservations some may have, what makes the proposed pamphlet stand out is the fact that it deals with specific events in UT’s history. While it is easy to give students general facts about racism and sexism, giving them a document about incidents that have affected campus makes the issues seem a lot closer to home. As with many issues, it is easier to raise awareness about racism and sexism if students know how those specific issues in the past have affected how they live their lives in the present. It is all too easy to look at racist or sexist events that happen in other states or countries and dismiss them because “they don’t affect me.” However, when one is confronted with specific events that have occurred in the places they live and work, it becomes harder to ignore those same issues. The pamphlet could go a long way in making students realize that racism and sexism are present everywhere, and that it is important fight against them whether they are highlighted on campus or across the world. Racism and sexism will unfortunately continue to be present in society. However, even a pamphlet could help raise awareness of these issues among students and encourage them to fight against them. Pamphlet or no pamphlet, it is important that we continue to strive for an equal and fair society. Dolan is a journalism freshman from Abilene.
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By Jordan Shenhar Senior Columnist @jshenhar
UT graduates 52 percent of its students within four years. That’s a terrible mark in comparison to those of other highly ranked public flagships, like the University of Virginia (86 percent, as of 2014) and UC Berkeley (72 percent, as of 2012). The school’s administration has tried to raise that number in recent years, and it hopes that 70 percent of the class of 2017 will graduate on time. In pursuit of that goal, the provost’s office recently implemented an initiative designed to nudge rising fourth-year students into graduating by next May. Promoting four-year graduation should benefit both students and the University. Those who graduate on time wind up spending less in tuition and, ideally, earning salaries earlier than those who don’t. From the school’s standpoint, a high rate of student turnover means more future donors and a boost in the irrationally important yearly college rankings. But don’t expect the new policy to have much of an impact. By offering carrots to students who commit to graduate when they’re supposed to, the initiative carries the implication that UT’s lackluster four-year graduation rate is the consequence of an aimless student body. That scenario rests on the implausible premise that a high proportion of belated graduates are simply choosing, for one reason or another, to accumulate several thousand dollars’ worth of extra debt and delay their entry into an increasingly competitive job market. It’s more likely that delayed graduates get waylaid by coursework-related problems. Those could stem from a wide variety of factors, like excessive Q-dropping, rigorous dual-degree programs and a flawed registration system. The first two issues are difficult to address without promoting grade inflation or consolidating general education requirements across different colleges. But neither of those solutions would be easy to implement, and the former is ethically sketchy enough to risk endangering the University’s reputation. Fixing registration, on the other hand, is a simple way to help push those in danger of graduating late back onto the four-year track. Last year’s revamp reordered registration times based on a student’s degree completion percentage rather than their classification,
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helping seniors avoid the nightmare of getting closed out of a required course and having to put off graduation. But it created a lot of problems for underclassmen in the process. Because their degree progress largely depends on the number of credits they earned as high schoolers, there’s a huge variation among registration times for first- and second-year students, and those at the back of the pack can find themselves locked out of important requirements and prerequisites. Not only does that stall their progress toward graduating, it prevents them from getting earlier registration times in the future by curtailing their degree completion, driving them into an unavoidable doom loop of terrible course access. The problem is even more severe for internal transfers, many of whom have accumulated an olympiad’s worth of hours in their previous majors without making any progress toward their new desired degree. Students who change their majors midstream already face an uphill battle toward graduating on time, and the new system does them no favors. If the University wants to maximize its fouryear graduation rate, it should structure the registration period such that the longest-tenured students (measured by the total number of enrolled semesters) get the first chance to design their schedules, regardless of the number of hours they’ve taken or how close they are to finishing their degree. Students in the same prospective graduating class can be ranked by the number of hours they’ve taken so that those who have already completed their general education requirements don’t wind up stuck in redundant or unnecessary classes. That kind of system would send a lifeline to those currently left behind without hurting anyone on the cusp of graduating. Its biggest downside is that it could disadvantage anyone who plans on graduating early, a problem that could easily be allayed through the academic advising offices of individual departments. There’s no reason for a student’s MyEdu dream schedule to go as soul-crushingly awry as a March Madness bracket or a New Year’s resolution. If the University plans on boosting its graduation rate through institutional support, it should focus its efforts on the APless freshmen and major-switchers who could otherwise wind up stranded at school for half a decade. Offering benefits to students who choose to graduate of their own accord does nothing to help those who the registration system has left without such a choice. Shenhar is a Plan II, government and economics sophomore from Westport, Connecticut. He writes about campus and education issues.
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continues from page 6 golf defeated Alabama 3–2 to win the program’s first title since 1972. That fall, volleyball won its first national championship since 1988 by defeating the Oregon Ducks. In March, men’s swimming and diving won its first national title since 2010 — its 11th total. 169: Losses by the major three men’s sports. Baseball, football and basketball have amassed 169 combined losses over the past four seasons, the most since the 171 total losses endured by the class of 2001. If the baseball team drops five more games, the Class of 2015 will be the losingest senior class in
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continues from page 6 .256 team batting average and ranks third to last with a .349 team on-base percentage. And even when runners are on base, Longhorn batters have failed to drive in runs. Against Texas Tech this past weekend, Texas got 31 runners on base but scored only five runs. “We do it over and over,” Garrido said. The struggles at the plate
school history. 21: Losses by Texas football. The Longhorns gave up 21 losses from 2011–2014, tying it with 2010–2013 and 1988–1991 for the most losses over a four-season span since 1986-1989, when the Longhorns dropped 24 games. 58.33%: Men’s basketball’s winning percentage. Texas has had its lowest win percentage over a four-season span since it only won 58.08 percent of its games from 1995–1999. Texas’ 57 losses over this time were the most the program had recorded in four seasons since the Longhorns dropped 63 games from 1983–1987. 2004: The last time the women’s basketball team advanced to the NCAA
Tournament’s second weekend. The No. 5-seeded Texas women knocked off No. 4-seeded Cal 73–70 in Berkeley to advance to the second round, but the Longhorns fell to the eventual champion, No. 1-seeded Connecticut Huskies, 105– 54 in the Sweet 16. 58.26%: Baseball’s winning percentage. Texas had its lowest winning percentage since winning 57.09 percent of its games from 1998–2001. Barring winning the Phillips 66 Big 12 Championship in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Texas baseball will miss the NCAA Tournament for the third time in the Class of 2015’s four seasons in Austin. 2013: The year softball
finished the season ranked No. 3 in the country. The No. 3 ranking in 2013 was Texas’ best final ranking in program history. This also marked the team’s first appearance in the Women’s College World Series since 2006. 4: Big 12 Conference titles for volleyball. The Longhorns went 61–3 in conference play and did not lose more than one conference match in a season. 0: The number of double-digit win seasons by football, single-digit loss seasons by men’s basketball or 50 plus-win seasons by baseball. The last University of Texas class to witness none of the three feats while enrolled in school was the class of 1969.
came after a blistering start to the season for the offense. The Longhorns opened up their home schedule with a 14-run effort against UTSA and followed that with 31 runs in a four-game series against Minnesota. But since starting 5–1 in Big 12 play, the bats have gone silent. Texas has scored under four runs per game in the last five conference series, and the five runs they scored this weekend is a team low since tallying just three runs at
Nebraska in late March. Johnson, who will be suspended for Tuesday night’s game for his ejection from Sunday’s game, said after Saturday’s game that it’s been frustrating not being able to get the runs in. “You just got to stick with it and stick with the process,” Johnson said. Facing the Bobcats, however, might just be what the Longhorns need to get going again on offense. Texas has scored 13 runs in the two wins
against Texas State this season, including five home runs. But even if they suddenly find the answer on offense and win their four remaining regular season games, the Longhorns will need nothing short of a miracle to have another long postseason run. Still, Barrera said they don’t plan on going down without a fight. “We have a bunch of fighters in this locker room,” Barrera said. “There is still a chance; we’re not giving up.”
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Olympian medalist, made the move to join coach Mario Sategna at Texas, and Akinosun had no hesitation in following her mentor. “I wanted to continue my career with her as my coach,” Akinosun said. “However, after just being on the campus for a visit, I fell in love with it and didn’t want to go anywhere else. She’s my mom away from mom.” Buford-Bailey’s training has produced wins upon wins for Akinosun this year. In the outdoor season alone, she has amassed victories in the 100m dash, 200m dash, 4x100m relay and the 4x400m relay. Akinosun attributes her success to the coaching staff at Texas. “They give me amazing coaching strategies and helped develop me into an athlete that can run 100400 meters and be on both relays,” Akinosun said. Off the track, Akinosun is known on the team for being a character and someone who brings joy to the locker room. “If I was stranded on an island and could only
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Junior left fielder Ben Johnson walks off the field after being ejected from Sunday’s game against Texas Tech. The left fielder was ejected after arguing balls and strikes after he struck out. Johnson has been successful on offense, while the rest of the team has struggled.
Offensive struggles leads to tough season By Jacob Martella @ViewFromTheBox
Down 5–1 in the eighth inning against Texas Tech on Sunday, junior left fielder Ben Johnson stood at the plate with a 3–1 count, two outs and the bases loaded.
Two pitches later, Johnson was called out on strikes. Both of them could have gone either way to end what started as a promising inning. He was then ejected for arguing with the home plate umpire. He threw his helmet in frustration before returning to
the dugout. It’s been that kind of season for a Longhorn offense that has scored only 226 runs this year — second-worst in the Big 12 conference. With just over two weeks before the Big 12 tournament — a tournament Texas has to win
to ensure a spot in the NCAA tournament — that’s going to have to change quickly, starting against Texas State on Tuesday night. “You always have an opportunity [to fix things] when you have another game to play; that’s the beauty of
baseball,” head coach Augie Garrido said following the loss on Sunday. “We’ll try again in a different way between now and Tuesday. That is our job.” Texas has a Big 12 worst
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Class of ’15 sees Texas’ ups and downs By Drew Lieberman @DrewLieberman
Friday marks the final day of classes for those who are graduating in just a few weeks. Since arriving on the 40 Acres as freshmen in August 2011, the Class of 2015 has seen mixed results for Texas Athletics.. Longhorn Network launched a mere two days after the Class of 2015 began school. The tenures of former football coach Mack Brown and former basketball coach Rick Barnes came to a close. Through it all, there were some triumphs but plenty of struggles. Here are some numbers, dates and stats that define the Class of 2015’s time at the University of Texas. 3: The number of Division I national titles. In the summer of 2012, Texas men’s
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Akinosun character on and off track 1973 By Bradley Maddox @bradleymaddox5
Junior sprinter has earned a superlative from track and field head coach Mario Sategna. “She’s Texas track’s most versatile athlete” Sategna said. Akinosun smiles humbly and turns the personal praise into a team tribute. “It means a lot, but what it really means is that I have his trust,” Akinosun said. “At a meet, practice or even the training room, I will do anything to help my team.” To every question, Akinosun gives a calculated answer, emphasizing the team. After her leg in the winning women’s 4x100m relay at Saturday’s Longhorn Invitational, Akinosun was already preparing for the team’s trip
to the Big 12 Championships. “We’ve been putting in the hard work since September, and now it gets to really be seen,” Akinosun said. “A meet like this is one of the very few times in track and field that the team concept comes to mind; you’re not just running to win. You’re running for your team.” Akinosun’s original plans had her succeeding next to her sister, Moriyike, as teammates at the University of Illinois. But as fate would have it, she left the frigid north for Austin. “My initial draw to Texas was coach [Tonja Buford]Bailey. While at Illinois, I developed an amazing relationship with her.” Buford-Bailey, a former
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SPORTS BRIEFLY
Men’s golf selected as No. 2 overall seed
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On the track, junior sprinter Morolake Akinosun has had success in the 100m and 200m dashes and 4x100m and 4x400m relays.
No. 2 Texas men’s golf was selected as the No. 1 seed in the NCAA Regional in Lubbock. The Longhorns are also the No. 2 overall seed. After winning its third-straight Big 12 championship, Texas received the conference’s automatic bid. The Lubbock regional will be held May 14-16. —Nick Castillo
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CAMPUS
Peace Corps trip inspires CMHC worker In 300 words or fewer, this series spotlights people in our community whose stories typically go untold.
By Cat Cardenas @crcardenas8
In a rural Belizean village, Kathryn Redd, UT’s assistant director for prevention and outreach, hoped to find her passion in life. Unsure of what career to pursue, Redd joined the Peace Corps and went to Belize after graduating from college. She was struck by the strong ties between the people who lived in the village, and during her time there, she bonded with the community through their struggles and hardships.
“There were a few deaths in the village during my time there,” Redd said. “At one funeral, 500 people came out. They didn’t have much, but they were all so ready to help each other. That really struck me because [Americans are] so reserved in what they go through.” The support systems the Belizeans had built into their community were vastly different from what she was familiar with, according to Redd, who said resources and support for wellbeing were sorely lacking in the U.S. In the absence of those resources, Redd finally found her calling. Once she returned to the U.S., Redd wanted to help facilitate more conversations about mental health, which she said people often avoid. She accepted a position at UT’s Counseling and Mental Health Center in an attempt to help college students, who she believed needed more
Kathryn Redd, UT’s assistant director for prevention and outreach, works to facilitate conversations about mental health issues. Redd was inspired to pursue this career path after serving in Belize as part of the Peace Corps.
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exposure to information about health issues. Redd created a group of peer educators — students who meet to discuss important health issues before
ALBUM REVIEW | ‘WILDER MIND’
By Katie Walsh @katiehewalsh_atx
Mumford & Sons trade banjos for electric guitars, rock sound When Mumford & Sons replaced their suspenders and banjos with leather jackets and electric guitars during the Saturday Night Live show on April 11, the “gentlemen of the road” gave fans a taste of their new rock and roll veneer. Along with the banjos and accordions, Mumford & Sons locked away their folk vibes in favor of a rock sound for their new album Wilder Mind, released May 4. The album is part of the band’s attempt to reestablish its image. While original fans may be disappointed the group is turning away from the signature banjo that played a role in its rise to fame, Wilder Mind proves Mumford & Sons holds its own in the rock realm. The group supplements the tracks with a variety of guitar riffs and drum beats not heard on previous Mumford tracks. In altering their sound, Mumford & Sons displays similarities to other rock groups. They fill songs such as “Believe” with strong atmospherics found in Coldplay tracks and incorporated short, repetitive beats in songs such as “Ditmas” and “Wilder Mind” that resemble instrumentals from The Strokes. Despite the changes, Wilder Mind maintains the powerful lyrics and
happen,” Redd said. “There’s a growing acceptance of mental illness. It’s something that exists, and people don’t need to be ashamed of getting help.”
Student repurposes fabric to make Tanzanian jewelry
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proof that conversations about mental health were becoming normalized. “Our first class of peer educators were the students who wanted this to
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Mumford & Sons released their new album Wilder Mind on May 4. The band stripped away their folk vibes and took on a more rock and roll sound for the album.
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leading stress management workshops. Seeing students continually ask for a way to get involved with the CMHC was not only rewarding for Redd but also
energy apparent in their previous albums, Sigh No More and Babel. In typical Mumford & Sons fashion, the songs on Wilder Mind start off with soft and slow intros. At the chorus, lead singer Marcus Mumford delivers his explosive vigor, especially in anthems such as “The Wolf ” and “Just Smoke.” Their lyrics, which are known for religious and literary references, take a more honest, questioning approach to love and belief in Wilder Mind. In past songs such as “Sigh No More,” Mumford croons to the line: “Love, it will not betray you, dismay or enslave you; it will set you free.” In the new song “Only Love,” the band members seem to question the validity of that statement when they sing, “Didn’t they say that only love will win in the end?” While Mumford repeats the Shakespeare quote “Serve God, love me and mend” in “Sigh No More,” Wilder Mind is filled with skeptical lines, such as “I don’t even know if I believe” in the song “Believe.” The album’s change in perspective could be because all band members, two of whom had just gotten out of long-term relationships, played a role in writing the lyrics. For past albums, Mumford handled most of the writing. They continue to evoke
A complete and sudden change in image will deter some old fans from listening to the album, but Mumford & Sons certainly caught people’s attention with ‘Wilder Mind.’ a sense of a new belief system in the song “Cold Arms.” While in “White Blank Page” from their first album, Mumford belts the line: “lead me to the truth, and I will follow you with my whole life,” in “Cold Arms,” with a quiet, resigned tone, Mumford declares: “maybe the truth’s not what we need.” Listeners will appreciate the new, bold honesty apparent in these tracks. A complete and sudden change in image might deter some old fans from listening to the album, but Mumford & Sons certainly caught people’s attention with Wilder Mind. Not only was their alteration attention-grabbing, it also shows they can succeed without the novelty of jamming on a banjo. Their former image may have been fleeting, but their strong song writing and energy are not going anywhere soon.
After spending the fall semester in her home country, Tanzania, Loyce Gayo, African and African diaspora studies junior, stuffed her suitcase full of leftover cloth scraps and flew home ready to start a business. Upon her return to UT for the spring semester, Gayo used the tribal-printed scraps of cloth to create fabric button earrings for her jewelry company, Tunda, which means fruit in Kiswahili — a language spoken in Tanzania. She said the pieces she sells are a celebration of her heritage. “Fruits symbolize prosperity,” Gayo wrote on her page on Etsy, an online platform for selling handmade goods. “That often comes after hard work. This ideology is what remains central in the pieces I make.” Gayo spent the first 12 years of her life in Tanzania before moving to Houston to live with her mother. When she decided to study abroad, Gayo said Tanzania was an obvious choice. After a semester of independent research in the Tanzanian city Dar es Salaam, Gayo sought out a seamstress in
search of a piece of traditional Tanzanian clothing before leaving the country. At the seamstress’, Gayo said she noticed a growing heap of cloth scraps in the corner of the room. The scraps were too small for the seamstress to use for clothing and would eventually be thrown away. “When I saw [the heaps of unused cloth,] I saw an opportunity,“ Gayo said. “I thought, ‘This would be really dope for small jewelry.’” Inspired by the colorful nature of the fabric, Gayo took the scraps the seamstress intended to toss out, brought them across the Atlantic and started making fabric button earrings at her bedroom desk. “When I’m making my earrings, I just plug in and go at it,” Gayo said. “Everything else is no longer in my peripheral vision. It’s just me and the fabric.” So far, Gayo has relied on word of mouth to market her products, but Gayo said the overwhelming demand and positive reception has her thinking about expanding Tunda’s customer base. She plans to expand her store on Etsy. From there, Gayo said she wants to add headbands, computer bags, cloth-based shoes and other types of jewelry to her line.
English senior Arati Warrier said she bought a pair of earrings from Gayo because they were affordable and unlike anything she found in stores. “They are really simple because they are just a circle, but the print on each of them is so different because she gets the fabric from Tanzania,” Warrier said. “Each pair is unique and really adorable.” Now that Gayo has found success selling her earrings in Austin, she said she needs a way of getting more scraps to continue her business. She intends to create a network of seamstresses in Tanzania to sell her their scraps. “I want to go back home and show [the seamstresses] that saving these pieces of cloth can be lucrative for them as well,” Gayo said. “I can actually pay [the seamstresses] for giving me the scraps of cloth that they were going to throw away anyway.” Gayo said she also plans to teach the Tanzanians how to repurpose the fabric to create products. “There are so many different avenues [to solve the issue of wasted cloth],” Gayo said. “It’s just a matter of how I am going to position myself to make this advantageous for everybody involved.”
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Loyce Gayo, African and Africa Diaspora Studies junior, started her own jewelry company, Tunda, hosted on Etsy. Gayo uses tribal-printed scraps of cloth to create her fabric button earrings.
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