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As a part of his plan to increase the UT System’s influence and excellence in higher education, System Chancellor William McRaven hired two leaders from within the System to join his staff. David Daniel, the current president of UT-Dallas and
previous candidate for president of UT-Austin, will start in the newly created roles of deputy chancellor and chief operating officer. “David Daniel possesses skills that are transferable across the system in managing and leading people, operations, new construction and technology,” McRaven said in a statement. “He is a respected voice on the needs
and benefits of higher education to the state of Texas, and he has demonstrated that he knows how to propel an institution forward on a magnificent trajectory. Everything he has done as president of UT Dallas prepares him for this new role, and now the entire UT System will be a beneficiary of
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UTUnrated exposes graphic content By Jackie Wang & Elly Dearman @thedailytexan
UTUnrated, a Snapchat account that receives hundreds of submissions from University students, publishes a daily Snapchat “story” that includes, on an average day, nude photos, videos of people snorting lines of cocaine and the occasional puppy picture. Kevin Douglass, founder, moderator and philosophy sophomore, started the Snapchat account “utunrated” on April 5 and said the account has been removed twice for violating Snapchat’s policy on thirdparty apps. Snapchat users submit photos and videos to the account, and Douglass uses a thirdparty app to collect and post the submissions on Snapchat. The account is on its third handle — “utu n r at ed3.”
UTUnrated often features illegal activities, particularly drug use, happening on and near campus. UTPD spokeswoman Cindy Posey said UTPD does not usually investigate illegal activities shared on Snapchat or any social media platforms. “UTPD does not routinely monitor social media,” Posey said in an email. “However, if something is brought to our attention that warrants an investigation, we will
pursue it within the limits of the law.” Snapchat, popularized by its ephemeral quality of disappearing photos and videos, is currently ranked sixth on Apple’s “free apps” list. Douglass said he selects which of the thousands of submitted photos and videos make the cut. “[I select] whatever makes me laugh personally [and] whatever I find enjoyable,” Douglass said. “That’s not to say at all that if I don’t enjoy it, I won’t post it.
Since I’m running this account so that however many thousand people can see things, I know the rest of those 10,000 people don’t want to see … just what my preferences are.” There have been instances of creepy submissions, Douglass said. “I won’t engage in anything that promotes violence, physically or sexually, [or] anything unconsensual [sic],” Douglass said. “People will send pictures of someone following a girl in public, and that’s really
creepy and really wrong.” The no-holds-barred approach of UTUnrated is exactly what turned corporate communications freshman Megan Adler away from adding the account to her Snapchat. “I don’t have it because I’ve seen it, and it’s terrible,” Adler said. “It’s just inappropriate and not right. It’s just trashy.” Psychology professor Samuel Gosling, who has conducted research regarding social media, said Snapchat permits people to post without accountability.
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Hundreds of students across campus working on green fee-funded projects have helped reroute over 27,000 pounds of UT’s compost from landfills, plant over 75,000 seedlings and grow about 250 pounds of produce. The $5 student fee, the green fee, that makes these environmental projects, along with other University environmental initiatives, possible is at risk for removal this legislative session. Green fee-funded programs include projects such as the Microfarm, Longhorn Lights Out and the solar-powered charging stations. In order for the green fee to be renewed past summer 2016, lawmakers must approve one of two bills filed in the House and Senate that would allow the fee to continue with student approval. Sen. José Rodríguez (D-El Paso), author of the Senate version of the bill, placed his bill on Thursday’s intent calendar but said he doesn’t think there is enough support to renew the green fee. “Right now the bill is stuck, unless more members of the Senate have a change of heart,” Rodríguez said in an email. The House version of the bill remains pending in committee after an April 22 hearing. All students pay the green fee, and it costs $5 during long semesters and $2.50 each summer semester. Karen Blaney, program coordinator in the Office
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VP of research to step down from position
Larry Robinson paved the way for the rest
By Rund Khayyat @rundkhayyat
Juan Sanchez, vice president for research, will step down from his position in August of this year. “It has been a pleasure and a privilege for me to serve this great university of ours as VP for research,” Sanchez said. Before he started at UT in 1989 in the mechanical engineering department, Sanchez was a materials science professor at Columbia University from 1987–1989 and a renowned researcher worldwide. During his service as vice president of research,
Sanchez established the Office of Research Support to increase faculty research support, extended the University’s research collaboration with the private sector and contributed to the tenfold increase in revenues for technological commercialization, according to the Office of the Provost. “Dr. Sanchez has led the research enterprise at UT with distinction, and I am grateful for his leadership,” said Gregory Fenves, executive vice president and provost and next UT president, in a statement. “UT Austin has developed a worldwide
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Editor’s Note: This is part two of a two-part series about the racial integration of Texas’ men’s basketball team. Part one, which was published Wednesday, told the story of the first AfricanAmerican basketball players to come to Texas.
Larry Robinson chose to become a Longhorn despite Texas’ reputation as a white, football school and set the standard for future AfricanAmerican basketball players at the University. He played a key part in the integration of the program.
By Garrett Callahan @CallahanGarrett
At Hobbs High School in 1970 in Hobbs, New Mexico, Larry Robinson was expecting royalty. As a standout basketball athlete his senior year, a variety of colleges recruited Robinson. But Leon Black, Texas’ then-head coach, and
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“I think it’s one of the things that comes up with Snapchat,” Gosling said. “It just disappears, and the fact that you’re doing it through someone else [makes] you feel you’re not an individual anymore. That’s why you see such harsh comments in other places — below videos, on Yik Yak and other things like that.” According to Douglass, UTUnrated is more successful at its goal than other platforms with a similar purpose, such as Yeti, an app that allows college students to post their life stories, because it works off an app that people already have. “I’ve seen similar applications with the same concept,” Douglass said. “They weren’t allowed to post any actual nude pictures or pictures or videos of uncensored things. … Some of the content
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[I select] whatever makes me laugh personally [and] whatever I find enjoyable. —Kevin Douglass Philosophy sophomore
we get is … a lot of the obscene, vulgar displays of sexual acts, and whatever we get just wouldn’t fall under the guidelines of what Apple would allow in their app store and actively promote.”
reputation for successes in research and scholarship by faculty, students and research staff with support from the Office of the Vice President for Research.” J. Tinsley Oden, associate vice president for research, said Sanchez has raised the school’s reputation as a research university. Under Sanchez, the Texas Advanced Computing Center, Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences, Bureau of Economic Geology, Applied Research Laboratories and several
other UT research units have become top research enterprises in their respective areas in the world, according to Oden. “His remarkable work as vice president of research will have a lasting impact on UT’s research image and record,” Oden said. “He has been an extraordinary administrator, an indefatigable worker, an international spokesman and advocate for UT-Austin and a superb manager during those years.” Sanchez will go on to lead a research program as a faculty member, as well as teach in the Department
of Mechanical Engineering. The search for his replacement will commence in the next few weeks. In the future of research, the University will build on Sanchez’s successes by expanding opportunities in areas such as medicine and health care to advance the University’s mission to create knowledge, according to Fenves. “He certainly will leave the office of the [vice president for research] in sound shape and well-positioned to continue its growth and service to UT and the state,” Oden said. Sanchez’s official last day will be August 31.
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continues from page 1 his leadership.” Steven Leslie, who held the positions of provost and executive vice president from 2007–2013, will become the System’s executive vice chancellor of academic affairs. Leslie, also a current pharmacy professor and researcher at UT-Austin, started his time at the University as an assistant professor in 1974. During his six years as executive vice president and provost, Leslie helped to lay the foundation for the Dell Medical School and oversee the financial aid and registrar offices, both while working with the deans of all 20 colleges. “My top priorities are to work with and support and facilitate the priorities of the University of Texas at Austin … to work with and support the programmatic needs of all of the University of Texas System academic institutions and to build a strong partnership and working relationship between academic affairs and health affairs to have a strong structure for medical schools reporting through academic campuses,” Leslie said. Leslie said he believes his experience as provost will be helpful while he works to support the initiatives of all the different campuses. Additionally, Leslie said he wants to further explore the possibilities of adding more health programs to other campuses. “The University of Texas at Rio Grande Valley is establishing a medical school, and it has that same structure [as UT-Austin],” Leslie said. “That makes it important to work on establishing new relationships and processes and procedures to support these two medical schools that report through the academic campuses and perhaps think about if there are other campuses that could benefit from the same time.”
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Report suggests shift of financial aid focus By Katie Keenan @keenanarroyo
The Education Commission of the States (ECS) is calling on government officials and policy-makers to adjust their college financial aid focus from being institution-centered to student-centered, according to a report released last Wednesday. Student demographics are changing, the ECS report said, and with a more diverse student population comes a greater need to specialize financial aid packages. Sarah Pingel, ECS policy analyst and co-author of the report, said non-traditional college-goers can be overlooked because colleges are primarily working on a schedule the institution set rather than catering toward individual students. “If I’m an adult student that decides in June that I’d like to pick up a community college class in the fall, I will have already missed that deadline to apply because that deadline is set on a traditional student schedule,” Pingel said. Many states across the ering. country require students placeto be enrolled in at least n the 12 hours of classes to receive a full allotment of h, the financial aid. In Texas, the Sanminimum amount is six nding hours, but if students want uch as to be eligible to receive state are to grants, they will have to enmisroll for at least nine hours e, acof classes. A lot of the time, nonleave traditional students go to presischool part time or operate ound on a different schedule than oned that of the university, so h and more aid could be dispersed state,”
for a greater amount of students if the school calendar were to become more flexible, Pingel said. The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board oversees and enacts regulations regarding grant eligibility, and the university identifies which students are eligible for certain grants. If the amount of students in need is greater than the amount allocated to the university, the amount given to each student will be reduced so that each student qualifying for aid can receive some financial assistance, said Jamie Brown, communications coordinator for Student Financial Services. “If you have two students, and student A is enrolled in 12 hours, and student B is enrolled in nine hours, and they both meet all other eligibility requirements, they will both get that grant,” Brown said. Determining eligibility involves several factors, and if one has been out of school for a year, is a transfer student with more than 30 hours or has children, then chances of receiving a Texas grant significantly diminish. English junior Jordan Wilk said a lot of uncontrollable circumstances prevent people such as herself from being full-time students, and she wishes there were more resources for people who aren’t able to dedicate as much time to school. “I wish there was a place where you could go where there’s just a whole list of scholarships that are for part-time students,” Wilk said. “As far as I’ve seen, there really isn’t that. You’re on your own.”
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New drink promises hangover cure By Wynne Davis @wynneellyn
In an effort to help students keep up their with their class schedules and social lives, a Princeton junior developed a new drink that aims to alleviate hangovers quicker than extensive hydration. Brooks Powell, liberal arts junior at Princeton University, developed the drink, Thrive+, product after researching the effects of alcohol for a project in his neuroscience class. “In one of the sections, we had to study a drug of our choice, … but I chose alcohol, and it was a little interesting because 20 years ago alcohol wasn’t really considered a drug,” Powell said. After working with his professor and figuring out how he could target certain parts of the brain to alleviate hangovers, Powell decided to start his own business. “I went to my professor, and we started going over
the study and found that the main ingredient dihydromyricetin binds to the receptor of alcohol and prevents short-term alcoholism and prevents alcohol withdrawal, which is actually a main part of the hangover,” Powell said. “By binding to the same brain receptor that alcohol binds to, it creates traffic at the receptor.” Powell, a native of Houston, decided to target UT as his first college test market because of the proximity to Houston and the large student population. The science behind the drink has helped convince some people, including biology senior Carlos Luna, to try the product. Luna said he first tried the product after Powell offered him a sample while he was attending a bar tab downtown three weeks ago. “I was a little skeptical at first since I never take anything from strangers, but I remembered I was scheduled for work the next morning
I was a little skeptical at first since I never take anything from strangers, but I remembered I was scheduled for work the next morning and decided to give it a try. —Carlos Luna, Biology senior
and decided to give it a try,” Luna said. “I was not hungover, and I felt well rested. It was pretty awesome.” After trying Thrive+, Luna said he feels he can now be more productive with schoolwork and still socialize with friends. “I am honestly glad I did because now I can still go out without having to worry about getting a hangover or having to deal with an angry boss if I were to be late,” Luna said. While Luna said he would use the product again, economics junior Pedro Corzo said he hadn’t heard of Thrive+ yet but was skeptical on how such an invention would work.
“I’m pretty sure there aren’t actual medications for curing a hangover — just tips on how to alleviate the symptoms,” Corzo said. “If it’s true, that sounds pretty intriguing, especially for those who go out multiple times a week.” Powell said Thrive+ is available at most of the markets near school, including Orange Market in West Campus, and that he hopes to expand the business and make Thrive+ available on most college campuses. “The vision I have for it is that any time someone drinks alcohol, they also take Thrive+,” Powell said. “I want Thrive+ to become the 5-hour Energy of the alcohol industry.”
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UT center develops math program for community colleges By Vinesh Kovelamudi @trippyvinnie3
The Dana Center, a research unit in the College of Natural Sciences, has developed the New Mathways Project in order to improve mathematics performance among students in community colleges. The New Mathways Project is a framework adopted by community colleges to encourage more student success and completion of mathematical courses. The Dana Center provides tools, services and curriculum materials to assist select community colleges with the implementation of the New Mathways Project. The New Mathways Project was created to alleviate the high rates of failure and attrition that community college students experience
with the standard math education, said Amy Getz, the Dana Center’s strategic implementation lead. According to data from the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Boards, only 13 percent of first-time college students entering community college earned math credit in three years. “[Education] is critical for ensuring that the next generation of students is prepared with the knowledge and skills needed in the modern global economy,” Getz said. “Mathematics education in particular is a barrier to success for students seeking to improve their lives through education.” The New Mathways Project offers classes that promote active learning, allowing students to learn through problem-solving situations
that relate to their daily lives and possible future careers. “Students build estimation skills through explorations of the impact of credit scores on interest payments and use algebraic formulas to calculate blood alcohol content and its impact on reaction times,” Getz said. Austin Community College professor David James said that the New Mathways Project classes help students because the math is used in real-world applications. “This math class is more about concepts and more about understanding how things relate to one another,” James said. “In this course, we learn how math relates to the world in general.” Temple College student Dominique Reed said that she feels more comfortable in the New Mathways Project
GREEN FEE continues from page 1 of Sustainability, said most students pay, on average, $40 to $50 during their time on campus. The fee was established on campus in 2011 under the authorization of a piece of legislation passed during the 2009 legislative session. The original bill stipulates that a University could implement an environmental-service fee that would be renewable for five years if approved by a student vote. UT’s program is currently entering its fifth year of operation. The original bill does not clarify what happens after that fifth year. Current legislation that Rodríguez and Rep. Elliot Naishtat (DAustin), who is the author of the original bill, filed would allow renewal of the fee every five years if the fee is approved by a student body vote.
“There are students all the time wanting to see a more environmentally friendly campus, and this is an opportunity for students to have a little bit of control — have a little influence in where their campus is going,” said Jaclyn Kachelmeyer, Green Fee Committee member and international relations and global studies senior who has been lobbying for the bills this session. Since 2011, the fee has issued 103 grants and 67 distinct projects and employed 101 students in 59 new jobs. Approximately 6,800 students, representing 20 student organizations, submitted a letter to lawmakers in support of the green fee’s renewal. “I hope it gets renewed,” said Allie Jeong, president of Longhorn Lights Out. “I think them taking away all
the opportunities and potential programs at UT is pretty terrible.” Blaney said current projects would be completed even if the fund is not renewed for a sixth year. “We would facilitate the completion of any project that has been funded, so nobody has to worry about that,” Blaney said. “I am certain that everything that has been approved this far is safe.” The challenge would be for ongoing and new potential projects, which would lose a funding source, if the bills do not pass, director of sustainability Jim Walker said. “They would have a challenge to figure out how to keep their operations going,” Walker said. “Now we would help them with that, but there’s not more money lying around the university, so it would be a challenge.”
During a workshop, plans for the New Mathways Project are discussed. The program was developed by the Dana Center in the College of Natural Sciences and aims to help community college students succeed in college-level mathematics courses. Photo courtesy of Erica Moreno
classes than in regular math courses. “I’ve had a lot of developmental classes before this that honestly didn’t go all that well,” Reed said. “I feel like I am doing better in [New Math-
ways Project] since it deals with real world applications versus all of the algebraic things that go on in other classes.” Forty-seven of the fifty community college districts in Texas have enrolled to
implement the New Mathways Project models. Twenty colleges in Texas and three out-of-state colleges utilized the course materials provided by the Dana Center in their New Mathways Project models.
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Gov. Abbott’s actions on Jade Helm 15 were irresponsible Last week, Gov. Greg Abbott shocked the civilized world by openly pandering to right-wing conspiracy theorists. In an unprecedented move, he ordered the Texas National Guard to “monitor” proceedings of the United States military as they conducted a training exercise known as “Jade Helm 15” across the country, including in this state, specifically near Bastrop. These training exercises are meant to replicate the unique environ-
In an unprecedented move, [Abbott] ordered the Texas National Guard to ‘monitor’ proceedings of the United States military...
ment that members of our armed services may encounter overseas. The aforementioned crazies believed this was a part of some type of powergrab by the federal government meant to enslave the people of Texas into tyranny and socialistic serfdom. (Yes, really.) The speculation was further fueled by the apparent temporary closings of a few rural Walmarts. Conspiracy theorists opined these stores were connected with an elaborate system of underground tunnels, would serve as distribution centers during martial law and would even be a headquarters for “invading troops from China.” (Once again, really.) Now, any reasonable sane public official would not breathe life into these maliciously slanderous rumors, much less condone them. But that is exactly what Abbott did by dispatching the state’s National Guard to somehow keep an eye on the American armed forces. All of a sudden, the wingnuts felt emboldened and
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vindicated by their governor, doubling down on their firm believe that the feds were coming to take their guns and impose Lenin-Marxism. Basically trying to hold back laughter, representatives from the Pentagon clarified that there would be no armed takeover of the state of Texas and that Jade Helm 15 was, indeed, a training exercise. But you can’t convince the unconvincables, including radio talk show host Alex Jones, Congressman Louie Gohmert, Sen. Ted Cruz and Abbott. Quite a motley crew has assembled to ostensibly “protect” the people of Texas from their country’s military; at least, that is what they have deluded themselves into thinking. Thankfully, many former leaders in the state have been quick to be voices of reason. These include both former Gov. Rick Perry and former Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst, respectively, who both sharply castigated Abbott for pandering to idiots and disrespecting the military by insinu-
ating that they would somehow institute martial law against their own people. It is positively unacceptable that our state’s governor would risk the integrity and safety of this state’s residents in a pathetic attempt to increase his bona fides with nutjobs. Texas, yet again, has become the laughingstock of the entire country, as folks from Washington to Florida have groaned and rolled their eyes at just how gullible we must be. What is perhaps saddest of all is that these assumptions of Texas will stick around far longer than the fleeting training exercises that birthed them. Most Texans haven’t heard of Jade Helm 15, much less spent enough time watching InfoWars to actually be convinced that they are some type of nefarious plot to enact a new world order. For whatever reason, however, our governor has shamelessly pandered to that minuscule minority nonetheless. For shame, Gov. Abbott!
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Accountability requires voting By Mrinalini Shah Daily Texan Columnist
Saniya Walawalkar | Daily Texan Staff
In his most recent column, Jeremi Suri spoke about the importance of public transparency and accountability. He stressed the right of citizens to be informed. This echoes the fundamental democratic ideal – an informed citizenry. In the past few years, public and private institutions alike have been scrutinized for neglecting individual rights to privacy. The National Security Agency collected volumes of metadata on web users. Samsung Smart TVs listened to customers’ private conversations. Facebook shared questionably descriptive user browsing data. Despite this exposure and opposition, political participation is still insufficient. Voter turnout is low. Constituencies are not equally represented. The demand for greater public accountability is coupled with dwindling political participation. If there is a need to change this, why don’t people participate? One idea is that citizens don’t feel like they have an active role in their leaders’ decision-making processes. Take the American youth, for example. Compared with previous generations, young people today volunteer more, are
much better educated and are “less likely to drink excessively or use drugs than previous generations.” They’re civically active — they’re just not politically active. Twentyone percent of 18-24 year olds voted in the 2010 midterm elections. The ethos of democracy and equal representation gets lost among the voter registration papers, IDs and boxes on the ballot. To citizens, our government is monolithic. And they don’t think that their vote will count. Politically active citizens also tend to be well integrated — they are local property owners and residents. Students, and many other groups of people, are constantly confused and disadvantaged by restrictive voter ID requirements. They move often, from apartment to apartment, and don’t necessarily have driver’s licenses or passports readily available. These inconveniences deter already low political participation. The most effective way of demanding accountability and transparency from the bureaucracy is political participation, in which there is a clear disparity. In order to encourage greater transparency among our policy makers and public institutions, people must show up at the polls and demand it. Shah is a business and government sophomore from Temple.
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Alcohol should be sold 24/7 By Noah M. Horwitz Senior Associate Editor @NmHorwitz
I have never smoked a cigarette in my life. If I did, however, want to take up the cancercausing habit, as is my individual right in this country, I could walk to a nearby 7/11 — at 3 in the morning, if I so chose — and purchase a pack of Marlboros. If and when the day comes when I need to have my wisdom teeth removed, I will likely fill a prescription for Valium, Vicodin or some other highly-addicting painkiller at a pharmacy that is open 24 hours a day, seven days a week. According to the Centers for Disease Control, tobacco is the underlying cause of death for about 480,000 Americans every year. Abuse of prescription painkillers is responsible for roughly 17,000 additional Americans. Combined, this is nearly 20 times the estimated number of yearly deaths in the U.S. caused by alcohol. And yet, inexplicably, alcohol has indescribably more archaic restrictions and regulations. Well, not totally without reason. Southern states such as Texas were some of the strongest advocates for the disastrous Prohibition movement in the 1920s, which naively banned the sale of alcohol. When the country
rightly disposed of this asinine experiment, Texas and other states retained blue laws that kept tough restrictions on the sale of alcohol, still — without justification — finding it to be some type of horrendous vice worse than the others such as smoking. Accordingly, still to this day, liquor may not be purchased after 9 p.m. on weekdays or at all on Sunday. Fortunately, a pair of bills in the Legislature have been introduced by power players to do away with these silly outdated customs, but they do not go far enough. House Bill 1634 by state Rep. Jason Villalba, R-Dallas, one of Speaker Joe Straus’ top lieutenants, would allow liquor stores to open an hour earlier on Saturday, whereas Senate Bill 604 by state Sen. Kevin Eltife, R-Tyler, would keep the stores open a little later each night. Both are good steps in the right direction, but they do not go after the core of the problem. Merchants of all stripes, be it convenience stores, grocery stores or something in between, should be able to sell alcohol all hours of the night and all days of the week. To deny this right would be to ludicrously pretend that alcohol is in a more deleterious position to society than cigarettes and other tobacco products, which is certifiably false. While the negative effects of alcohol in society are well known, they are miniscule compared to tobacco. And some people’s — a sizable minority of drinkers — poor decisions are not grounds for punishing all of society with inconvenient regulations. Horwitz is the senior associate editor.
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continues from page 8 from a typical conversation with the pair. “It’s really fun, and they’re all over the place,” Cloud said. “I think what makes Patrick and Quinn great improvisers is that they heighten the thing that’s weird. They’re really good listeners, and they pair well together.” The duo hasn’t known each other for very long, but Cloud said that’s what makes the podcast entertaining. “I feel like some podcasts, if people are too good of friends, it’s hard for the audience to stay interested because they have so many
inside jokes,” Cloud said. “With them, it’s easier for the audience to get to know them because they’re getting to know each other.” Since they began in October, Buckner and Creamer have created 13 podcast episodes. They said for future shows, they hope to get more fan involvement and have people recommend discussion topics. “The main goal of this is to bring laughter to people and make them feel good in some capacity,” Buckner said. “It could be by making stupid jokes or making a story that is interesting — or making people laugh at how bad I am at freestyle [rapping].”
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continues from page 8 the band, which they named Benjamin Booker. Once the band signed with ATO Records, Booker threw himself into the project full time. After experimenting with a variety of instruments and postproduction techniques, the band chose to abandon a complex style and recorded their first album, Benjamin Booker, live over the course of six days. Electrical engineering freshman Juhi Pathak noticed the album’s lo-fi style the first time she listened to it. “His sound manages a good balance between modern indie and throwback ’60s,” Pathak said. “It’s definitely a simple album, but it’s something you can jam out to.” Since the release of Benjamin Booker in August 2014, the group has received praise for its raw blend of garage rock and blues. Mechanical engineering freshman Claire Harrigan said the combination of multiple genres creates a distinct listening experience. “It’s frenzy of garage rock, but there’s a good helping of blues influence,” Harrigan said. “It’s really
Suddenly, people were hearing my music. It was an odd feeling. I hadn’t even performed for a crowd yet, but my phone was ringing.” —Benjamin Booker, Musician
interesting to hear the two blended together.” Booker addresses themes of home and family in his natural raspy singing voice, but he said he might explore different ideas in the future. “I usually write about people around me,” Booker said. “But, I’ve only done this one time before. I’m not sure what I may be writing about in years to come.” When thinking about the band’s future, Booker said he just hopes the group will stays true to its roots. “We’ve always been about making music that interests us,” Booker said. “That’s always been our goal. People seem to appreciate our sound; they get into it. As long as that’s happening, I know our goal has been accomplished.”
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continues from page 8 are trillions of bacteria with more than 3 million different genes. Listeria flourishes in the gut, making it useful to researchers dealing with problems relating to the intestines. Tyrel Curiel and Peter Dube, researchers at the UT Health Science Center in San Antonio, received a grant to research how listeria could fight diseases such as colitis and colon cancer. Curiel’s research focuses on B7 homologue 1 (B7-H1), a molecule
that modulates, or influences, the microbiome. Curiel and his team were researching the effect of B7-H1 on mice tumors when they realized mice lacking B7-H1 were more likely to develop colon cancer. Dobe said when B7H1 is not expressed in the human gut, patients suffer from an imbalance of the microorganisms that live there. This microbiome imbalance is called dysbiosis. “Gut bacteria affects your health generally,” Curiel said. “Good gut health could make you potentially age more slowly as well as help
you fight Alzheimer’s and dementia.” Curiel and Dube have joined forces to create listeria, which carries genes that express molecules that interact with B7H1 in order to maximize its effectiveness. “The idea is to see whether we can improve gut health by modulating B7-H1 levels,” Dobe said. Scientists have devoted many resources to studying the human microbiome in recent years. In the Human Microbiome Project, a five-year initiative the U.S. National Institutes of Health launched in 2008, scientists tested how changes in the
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Texas got shut out for only the fifth time this season, falling to Baylor, 5–0, on Wednesday night in the opener of a three-game split series. After an all-around impressive performance this past weekend, Texas (35– 15, 10–6 Big 12) struggled to find a rhythm against No. 16 Baylor (38–13, 12–4 Big 12) in Waco. The Longhorns could not manage to shake junior pitcher Heather Stearns as they drew just two walks and hit one ball off her over the span of seven innings. Before tonight, freshman pitcher Erica Wright had won five straight pitching decisions for Texas since her last loss on April 11 against Oklahoma. In that stretch, she recorded an impressive 1.34 ERA, two complete-game shutouts and 48 strikeouts over 31.1 innings. But on this night, Wright allowed eight hits and five runs over six innings while accepting the loss. In her first season, Wright holds a 16–7 record with an 2.49 ERA. “It’s just awesome to be able to pitch and play with people who are so good,” Wright said. “They’re all so talented.” After a leadoff double in the second, an infield single put the Bears on the
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Sophomore shortstop Devon Tunning was the only Longhorn to manage a hit in Texas’ shutout loss to Baylor. The series heads to Austin for the final two games, which the Longhorns need to win for a chance at moving up in the Big 12 rankings.
scoreboard. The next inning, sophomore shortstop Devon Tunning hit a triple for the Longhorns, sparking a potential Texas run. But by the end of the inning, she was stranded just 60 feet from home plate. As the fourth inning progressed, the Bears put a pair on base. With two on and no outs, Wright stood on the mound and faced the looming attack. In such a squeeze, she prompted a
fly-out to right, incited a pop-up to short and caught junior catcher Robin Landrith looking to get out of the inning unharmed. “She wants the ball in her hands at the biggest moments, and quite honestly, that’s something you can’t teach,” head coach Connie Clark said. The Baylor lead stayed at one through four innings, but the Longhorns could not even muster another hit.
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In the bottom of the fifth inning, the Bears broke the door open as they increased command of the board. With bases loaded, junior outfielder Linsey Hays picked her pitch and sent one down the rightfield line for a two-RBI double. The next play, the Bears extended their lead to four and grabbed one more the next inning. In the Longhorns’ last chance in the top of the
seventh, three came up and three went down. “It’s great knowing they are all going to get the job done, and if not, they are going to do their best,” Wright said. The Longhorns will next play the Bears at Red and Charline McCombs Field at 6:30 p.m. Saturday before wrapping up the series Sunday. Both games will be aired on Longhorn Network.
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didn’t put much emphasis on race. He went to integrated schools starting in the third grade, interacting and playing with white athletes growing up. But when he started at Texas during the 1970– 1971 season, one of Robinson’s first encounters with his new teammates freshman year gave him an early introduction to the team’s dynamic. Early in the season, after practice ended one day, Robinson and Kruger, a white student, snuck back into Gregory Gymnasium to play what would become a vicious one-on-one game after arguing in practice. “It got so physical,” Robinson said. “We started fighting. We went down to the dressing room and were fighting all the way down there.” Once things settled, Robinson realized he had missed dinner at his dining hall. But Kruger, who lived in the brand-new Dobie Center at the time, invited him to eat, and the two soon became friends, a sign of the decreasing racial tensions at Texas. “We hit it off,” Kruger said. “I was certainly naive. I didn’t even know calling a black person ‘boy’ was insulting terminology. I had just never been around black people.” While Robinson got along with his teammates, he said he saw discrimination and racism as an African-American athlete. During games, he would hear derogatory names, but the prejudice never bothered him. “It was always going to be difficult because of the racial tension,” Robinson said. “But you have to see past that, and I think I saw past that at an early age. I didn’t use that as a crutch.” Robinson now lives in Sweden after a long career as a European professional player, but he has no regrets about his time with the Longhorns. “I don’t regret coming to Texas,” Robinson said. “To me, it actually seemed like destiny.”
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Economics junior Ryan Camarillo is a member of the Texas Running Club. He was a member of the men’s track team at UT-Tyler and hopes to walk on to the UT track and field team.
Texas Running Club helps Camarillo chase big dreams By Jay Desai
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Ryan Camarillo, economics junior and San Antonio native, never expected to be running competitively, but when a middle school coach asked him to try out for the track team, he decided to give it a shot. So far, it has proved to be a decision worthwhile, as he is now in his eighth year of competitive running. Originally, Camarillo agreed to try out for the club running team for the satisfaction he received from running. “Seeing how hard I can push myself mentally and physically and the runner’s high you get afterwards were some of the reasons that pulled me into running early on,” Camarillo said. Camarillo, who also ran for UT-Tyler’s men’s track team before transferring to UT-Austin for his sophomore year, has made a big impact on the growth of the Texas Running Club. “Through my two-anda-half years with the team, our numbers have definitely expanded, bringing in both talent and speed,” Texas
Running Club President Sarah Escobedo said. “With more numbers, we have also become closer with one another, not just as teammates but as friends and roommates as well.” Over the years, his love for running has evolved, becoming less of a competitive endeavor and more of a social outlet. “Joining Texas Running Club really showed me running competitively isn’t the most important thing about running, but the amazing friendships you make through the club,” Camarillo said. While Camarillo enjoys the fun, friendly environment of the Texas Running Club, his preparation habits for meets ultimately show that he takes this sport and its responsibilities very seriously. “I like to get to the meet at least two hours early to check things out, find a place to lie down and prep for my warmup,” Camarillo said. “When I step onto the starting line, I just tell myself to stay focused and run my race.” Camarillo said he is focused on improving as a runner and makes sure to keep track of his progress. “The main event I run is
Seeing how hard I can push myself mentally and physically and the runner’s high you get afterwards were some of the reasons that pulled me into running early on. —Ryan Camarillo, Economics junior
the 800-meter run,” Camarillo said. “This year, I was fifth in my heat with a time of 1:59 while being boxed in, so I’m hopeful I can improve on this mark in races to come this summer. Right now, I’m focusing on just trying to run fast, trying to get my 800-meter time under 1:55.” Although trimming his time is currently one of his more important goals, Camarillo also has aspirations to try to become a member of the Texas track and field team. “Next season, if I can cut my time, I would like to try to walk-on here on the UT track team,” Camarillo said.
his assistants stopped by his school to make their pitch. “We decided we were going after Larry Robinson, and that’s who we wanted,” Black said. “We needed people with athletic ability.” Robinson, a tall yet thin basketball player, was one of the best players in the southwest region at the time. After minimal production early in his high school career, he became a starter his senior season and gained the attention of multiple colleges. And, in 1970, he would become the first black player to sign a letter of intent for Texas basketball, helping to integrate the Longhorns after a long process of integration through the 1960s. When Robinson first decided to play at Texas, he received mixed feedback. But Texas’ legacy as a predominantly white institution and mainly a football school didn’t bother him. “When I decided to go to Texas, people said, ‘Larry, why wouldn’t you go to a basketball school?’” wRobinson said. Robinson would soon change their minds. As a freshman, he averaged 33.9 points and 16.8 rebounds per game. He started in all 16 games, even recording 55 points in a single contest against TCU. “In Austin, he was like a celebrity,” freshman teammate Rick Kruger said. “He made friends with everybody and, in my opinion, he handled everything pretty well.” During the 1971–1972 season, he led Texas to its first Southwest Conference championship and an appearance in the Midwest Regional of the NCAA Tournament. The 1973 media guide said Robinson “lived up to extremely high expectations, … acclaimed by some to be the best ever at Texas.” The idea of spearheading Texas’ basketball integration didn’t faze Robinson. He grew up in a family that
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SPORTS BRIEFLY Men’s tennis earns All-Big 12 honors
Three seniors from the Texas men’s tennis team were named to All-Big 12 teams on Wednesday. Adrien Berkowicz, Lloyd Glasspool and Søren Hess-Olesen earned All-Big 12 Singles team honors, and the duo of Glasspool and Hess-Olesen also notched All-Big 12 Doubles team honors. Texas’ trio ties the Longhorns with TCU for the most singles selections by a team in the conference. This is the fourth All-Big 12 selection for Hess-Olesen. He is currently ranked fourth in the nation with a 28–6 season record and boasts a career record of 101-38 through his four years at Texas. Glasspool made an All-Big 12 team for the third time and has a 17-8 overall record this season. As a duo, HessOlesen and Glasspool earned their second All-Big 12 Doubles selection. They have competed in 64 matches as a team since last season and boast a 42–22 record. Berkowicz claimed his first All-Big 12 Singles team selection with the help of his 3-1 No. 3 singles record in the conference. The No. 9 Longhorns play host for the first and second rounds of the NCAA Championship this weekend at the Caswell Tennis Center in Austin. —Claire Cruz
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UT alumni, Austin improvisers create podcast By Marisa Charpentier @marisacharp21
Space exploration and high seas adventures are common topics of conversation between UT alumni Patrick Creamer and Quinn Buckner. Once a week, they set up their microphones and record random stories for their podcast, Now You Know A Little Bit More About Us. “It’s an outlet for us to express our friendship and funny ideas that come to mind,” Buckner said. “We’re also producing content that people find enjoyable, and that’s always fun to do — to bring joy to someone.” Self-proclaimed “fast friends,” Creamer and Buckner met at an improvisation show in 2013. After Creamer invited Buckner to be on his podcast Thirsty Pizza, their on-air chemistry encouraged them to make a new podcast in October 2014. The two typically get together in one of their apartments to record the roughly 45-minute-long shows, which is available on iTunes and podcast-hosting sites, such as Stitcher and Libsyn. They write down a few talking points before the show, but, once the mics turn on, they let the conversation go wherever
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it may lead. After chatting for a bit, they improvise a story about cop chases, battling a worldwide flood or anything in between. They round out the show with some freestyle rapping. As improvisers in Austin, the two are used to transforming random ideas into full-blown stories. “It’s very freeing just having a chance to get up on stage or in a room with some people and mess around,” Creamer said. “It’s like being back in kindergarten trying to keep a balloon up in the air with a group of people. It’s fun that you feel like you’re not allowed to have anymore.” The two first got into the improvising scene when they joined Gigglepants, a UT student improv group. When Buckner, who graduated in 2011, isn’t working as a software engineer downtown, he teaches improv classes and performs at Austin’s
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UT alumni Patrick Creamer and Quinn Buckner are the hosts of Now You Know A Little Bit More About Us, a weekly podcast made up of improvised antics. In the future, the pair plans to get more listener involvement in their shows.
Hideout Theatre. Creamer, who graduated in 2014, started performing stand-up comedy and improv shows in Austin in college and continues to perform today. Now an engineer at Chatsworth
Products, Creamer said being an improviser and creating the podcast help balance out his technical life. “Mechanical engineering is a lot of problem solving, and it feels like improv and the podcast are chances to
not worry so much,” Creamer said. “It adds some freedom to my life.” Shannon Cloud, radiotelevision-film sophomore and Gigglepants member, said she first met Creamer her freshman year while
auditioning for improv groups on campus and has taken classes at the Hideout Theater with Buckner. As a frequent listener, she said the podcast does not differ much
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When musician Benjamin Booker recorded his first EP, Waiting Ones, in 2012 in his parents’ bathroom, he intended its release to be a private affair. Instead, he almost immediately found himself gaining recognition as one of the best upand-coming rock acts in recent memory. “A blog had a satellite radio show, and they played it,” Booker said. “Suddenly, people were hearing my music. It was an odd feeling. I hadn’t even performed for a crowd yet, but my phone was ringing.” The 25-year-old singersongwriter’s breakthrough led to performances on “Letterman” and “Conan,” a tour with Jack White and critical acclaim from Rolling Stone — all before his debut album came out. Booker, who graduated from the University of Florida, said he has always been interested in music. He attended punk shows regularly in middle school
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and has played guitar since he was 14. Still, he never felt the call to perform. “I really liked playing,” Booker said. “But the idea of playing for someone made me nervous. I never wrote songs; I just never felt the urge.” After his EP breakthrough, Booker began
performing around New Orleans as a solo acoustic artist. Although he still writes on an acoustic guitar, Booker found the low-key performance style didn’t suit him well. “It’s boring to me,” Booker said. “I like it when people are excited, when people are rowdy. Shows
need to have that thrill, and acoustic didn’t provide that.” To amp up the energy of his gigs, Booker formed his first rock band. He teamed up with drummer Max Norton and later added bassist Alex Spoto to form
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The bacteria listeria caused one of the worst events on campus in 2015 — the removal of Blue Bell ice cream from UT shelves. However, not everyone is avoiding the bacteria. Researchers at the UT Health Science Center at San Antonio are using listeria to make breakthroughs in colon cancer research. Listeria monocytogenes is the species of bacteria found in the contaminated Blue Bell ice cream. Listeria monocytogenes triggers the foodborne illness listeriosis, which
can lead to diarrhea and other stomach problems, and then fever and muscle aches. The most dangerous symptom of listeriosis is sepsis, an infection throughout the entire body, and meningitis, the swelling of the membranes around the brain and spinal cord. Pregnant women are about 20 times more likely than other healthy adults to get listeriosis. About a third of the babies who had mothers with listeriosis die. But the presence of listeria in the intestines is not a death sentence. The symptoms of listeriosis only show if the immune system fails to stop the bacteria from reaching the blood and nervous system. About 70 percent of adults have listeria as part of their microbiome — the natural community of tiny organisms that live on and in the body. In the gut microbiome, there
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