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Working group on campus carry meets By Matthew Adams @MatthewAdams60
Just after the Jefferson Davis statue controversy came to an end, members of UT have begun working to submit a recommendation to University President Gregory Fenves regarding campus carry. On May 30, the Texas Legislature passed Senate Bill 11 to allow licensed permit
holders to carry concealed handguns on public university grounds starting Aug. 1, 2016. In an email on Aug. 20, Fenves said the law gives campuses certain discretion for establishing campus carry regulations and hopes to make the campus as safe as possible. “The safety of our community is of the utmost importance,” Fenves said
in the email. “I want to make clear my goal is to promote safety and security for all members of the campus and in a way that is fully compliant with the law.” Fenves said in the email that the working group will submit options to him by the end of November. Steven Goode, UT law professor and chair of the
working group, said the committee met Monday for the first time and heard from Fenves what he expects from the working group. Goode said the meeting was productive and ensured that members are up to speed on the law. “We reviewed the law and made clear that we’re only
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Senior defensive tackle Desmond Jackson rushes a Texas Tech quarterback in 2013. Jackson missed most of last season because of a foot injury, but is set to return this season.
studies. He was also cleared to begin working out again. Strength and conditioning coach Pat Moorer had no plans on easing
Austin Public Library adds online media collection Austin Public Library expanded member access to virtual books, movies and other media through a service called hoopla on Tuesday. The new access will be to hoopla’s own library of 350,000 items of media, which members can access alongside the library’s other virtual media. Austin Public Library members can access hoopla by either going directly to its website or downloading the service as an app and creating an account with a library card, electronic resources librarian Amy Mullin said in an Austin Public Library blog post. “hoopla has content that we can’t get through some of our other services, and we also like how it’s a very easy service to use,” Mullin said. “It just involves either one app or streaming content through your browser. A lot of our patrons have been asking for it since it came out in 2013, and we feel that it compliments what we already have.” Mullin said hoopla offers several benefits over checking out books in the traditional way: Members can check out books from hoopla no matter where they are in the world; there will never be a wait time to check out a book and the book is automatically returned at the end of the check-out period. Anyone who has a valid
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senior then, was granted another year of eligibility. In May, he graduated with his bachelor’s degree in youth and community
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Desmond Jackson just wanted to get back into the game. “[The training staff ] didn’t know what was going on,” Jackson said. “I told them ‘shoot, wrap my foot up as much as you can … I need to get back on the field.’” During Texas’ game against UCLA on Sept. 13 last season, as Jackson made a routine tackle, a Bruin offensive lineman fell on his right foot. In the locker room, Jackson tried desperately to prove he could play, but he couldn’t stand on his foot. He watched his teammates fight their way to six wins and saw them fall to TCU and Arkansas in blowout fashion to end the season. For nine months, the 6-foot-1, 300-pound fifthyear senior defensive tackle from Houston wore a boot. “There were times when I wanted to give up,” Jackson said. Jackson, a fourth-year
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Student organizations table during Party on the Plaza on Wednesday morning. The event, held annually on the Gregory Gym Plaza, attracted an estimated 24,000 students.
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Thousands of students attend RecSports’ Party on the Plaza By Rachel Freeman
First-year graduate students pursuing two types of master’s degrees at McCombs learned about putting business into action at a seminar hosted by Texas Venture Labs on Wednesday night. Various speakers presented at the event to inform Master of Business Administration and Master of Science in Technology Communication students about Texas Venture Labs, which provides entrepreneurial resources and startup opportunities to students and faculty at UT. Mark Lampton, venture partner and speaker at the event, said he wants to familiarize students with the unique opportunities available at Texas Venture Labs. “The mission of Texas Venture Labs is to inspire students at UT to become entrepreneurs and join startups as part of the entrepreneurial com-
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Rob Adams, director of Texas Venture Labs, speaks about entrepreneurship to first-year graduate students Wednesday evening.
munity,” Lampton said. Tina Mabley, assistant dean for the full-time MBA program, said entrepreneurship is important because it helps students use learning to advance their ideas. “Our students really enjoy studying entrepreneurship because it brings all the pieces of business together in a way that they can seek out opportunities to develop prod-
Everything’s bigger in Texas, and Party on the Plaza was no exception. RecSports hosted the 16th annual Party on the Plaza event in front of Gregory Gym on Wednesday, attracting an estimated 24,000 students who walked through a maze of booths representing 265
student organizations, according to Randall Ford, associate director of recreational sports. The number of organizations in attendance grew this year by an estimated 30 clubs, according to Jackson Clifford, accounting junior and member of the RecSports committee that planned the event. “Party on the Plaza is one of the best traditions at UT,” Clifford said. “It offers a unique
opportunity for students of all ages to learn more about how to get involved on campus. I am ecstatic about the growth we’ve had this year with more clubs coming out because it gives the students even more opportunities.” Neuroscience freshman Ivana Valdez said she had not previously known about
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ucts for undeserved markets,” Mabley said. Participation in the program means students get the chance to partake in investment competitions, receive scholarships worth up to $174,000 and engage in startups with the venture partner position. The organization also offers electives at UT such
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talking about a law that addresses concealed handguns being carried by licensed holders,” Goode said. “We are talking about a law that requires licensed holders to be 21 years of age.” Besides the age restriction, Goode said the law does not address concealed carry off campus. Goode said the group is working to schedule dates for two public forums. Robert Guerra, communications director for College Republicans, said the group is confident the University will enact policies that are both consistent with the bill and
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allow for appropriate campus carry locations on campus. “Additionally, the presence of concealed carry license holders on campus only serves to make the campus safer and provides these individuals with the means to protect themselves and others from those who might wish to do members of the UT community harm,” Guerra said. A protest occurred Aug. 27 on the West Mall, where faculty members and students called for a “gun-free UT.” History professor Joan Neuberger said after the legislation passed, faculty and staff decided to hold a demonstration against the legislation. “We hope the working
group interprets the new law as restrictively as possible,” Neuberger said. “I do not believe that we will be safer with more guns around.” Radio-television-film professor Ellen Spiro, who participated in the protest and is working to raise awareness, said the organization GunFree UT would work to make sure people are educated on the subject. “Gun-Free UT is about opening up the discourse and dialogue around gun violence,” Spiro said. “Even if we cannot change this law imminently, we can arm ourselves and each other with logic, wisdom and empathy to counter the insanity ofcampus carry.”
Mullin said. “We’re becoming a more mobile society, and this gives our customers another option.” Rebecca Westwick, Austin Public Library member and biology and Spanish senior, said she had not heard about hoopla before, but she is interested in trying out the service. “I know that they’ve had some online materials for a while now, but it sounds like this is a huge expansion of that,” Westwick said. University of Texas Libraries communications officer Travis Willmann said the UT library system does not offer a similar single vendor mobile service the way Austin Public Library does with hoopla. However, the library system has a collection of more than 1 million e-books. Additionally,
the Fine Arts Library launched a program called Kanopy in June, which offers the ability to stream 26,000 films. Willmann said these function as an alternative to hoopla, as users can access them through personal technology such as a smartphone or tablet. “I think, because of the way we collect materials here at the library, it’s different than collecting general collections in the same way Austin Public Library does,” Willmann said. “We’re collecting research journals through one stream, we’re collecting physical materials like books, we’re collecting audiovisual materials. We’re getting access to certain databases, so there’s not going to be one company out there that’s going to be able to provide that single solution.”
like I can here because there is such a large variety. I feel like this is where connections are being made — between other students in the same boat as me, who are looking for something, and with club members trying to recruit.” Finance senior Puja Patel, president of the UT Hindu Students Association, has attended the event for the past four years. Patel said Party on the Plaza is one of the largest recruiting events for her organization.
“Other recruiting opportunities we have, such as tabling on the West Mall, are much smaller and our organization can easily be ignored,” Patel said. “But Party on the Plaza is so open and busy, it’s hard for people to miss. No other event gives such a broad range of opportunities. At other events people can feel out of place, but here the setting makes everything feel more inclusive. This event is for every student.”
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Event hosts nontraditional anti-abortion groups By Jameson Pitts @jamesonpitts
Speakers from pagan, secular and gay and lesbian groups came together to discuss their anti-abortion at the Texas Students for Life semester kick-off event Wednesday. Ashley Rappaport, public health junior and president of Texas Students for Life, said the panel discussion was inspired by an anti-abortion tabling event involving many nontraditional anti-abortion organizations. “People were really interested to hear about these groups that they didn’t know even had a spot in the pro-life movement,” Rappaport said. “We took that and thought this will be really great to get other people into our events
that don’t usually come out.” The event featured representatives from Pro-Life Pagans, the Pro-Life Alliance of Gays and Lesbians, Consistent Life, and Feminists for Nonviolent Choices. “I think historically the pro-life movement hasn’t been as welcoming to so many different groups like this,” Rappaport added. “We just want to show that here at UT, we’re all inclusive, and we want everyone to come together and show that we’re going to fight for life.” Cecilia Brown, president of the Pro-Life Alliance of Gays and Lesbians, focused on the challenges her group has faced when presenting themselves as anti-abortion to members of the LGBTQA
community. “There are times we’ve been attacked at pride events,” said Brown. “And that’s happened on the prolife side too.” Dawn Kuha, a member of Pro-Life Pagans, said misunderstandings about her background made it difficult to have conversations about abortion. “We were told we were actually child-sacrificers and devil-worshipers,” Kuha said. “But we love and respect all life. So why would we harm the unborn life?” All of the panel members agreed the attitudes toward their groups are improving as they find ways to connect with other groups. “The tides are turning,
Pro-life Pagans spokeswoman Dawn Kuha speaks at the Texas Students for Life semester kick-off even Wednesday evening. She believes her pagan belief requires her to respect un-born life.
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both in the pro-life and gay communities,” said Brown. “Especially with young people, since they don’t see it the same way, as a privacy issue.” Taylor Bolt, a Chinese
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DHFS hosts vegetarian focus group By Audrey Browning @auddiemac21
A lack of vegetarian and vegan menu items on campus brought roughly thirty students to the first monthly Vegetarian Focus Group meeting of the semester Wednesday. The Division of Housing and Food Service hosted the focus group meeting to collect data from students. Rene Rodriguez, Director of Food Service, said these meetings are always about educating — be it about University issues, health tips or for students themselves to educate the division’s staff. Rodriguez said UT was rated in the top 20 vegetarian schools for the past three years, but it was not even close this year, which concerned staff.
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“We’re pretty sad about not making it this time,” Rodriguez said. Lindsay Wilson, UT’s registered dietitian for the DHFS, led the meeting and was enthused about having a larger number of attendees than past years. “A few years ago, we were lucky if anyone showed up to these,” Wilson said. They are working on getting more students involved with the group and campus food service as a whole, so they can better serve student needs. The meeting began with an introduction by Wilson and a food sample by the Kinsolving Dining Hall, including a vegan dish called “veggie mushi” that debuted at the hall this year. After a smoothie demonstration, the floor opened to student attendees for
comments and suggestions to go straight to the DHFS staff. Philosophy senior Jacek Prus said the University of North Texas now offers a fully vegan dining hall, and asked why the UT campus doesn’t offer a similar facility. “If you’re [vegan and] eating fully on UT campus, you won’t be healthy,” Prus said. “The so-called options are obscure and not something I’d want to eat.” Prus said he doesn’t understand why such a progressive university doesn’t cater to the more progressive students. Other students said they share Prus’ frustration and also voiced their concerns directly to the staff during the meeting. Robert Mayberry, the executive campus chef at UT,
said making the campus vegan-friendly is becoming a greater issue. “We’re at a point where we will see more vegans and vegetarians,” Mayberry said. “Not just for health or morals, but for money reasons.” DFHS is currently hoping to visit UNT’s campus soon to look further into their vegan dining hall. Rodriguez said there are calls for a new housing facility, which gives a greater probability of a new dining hall to offer these suggestions, but that he is unsure of the chances of those changes taking place. “Animal agriculture is the number one killer of American sustainability,” Prus said. “If ‘what starts here changes the world,’ then we need to start here and change things.”
language and culture senior who attended the event, said she appreciated hearing about the experiences of diverse groups. “I thought it was really awesome to hear all the
different perspectives, because so often [the antiabortion movement] takes a religious view” Bolt said. “I think it’s really important to find the common ground with everyone.”
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continues from page 1 as a multidisciplinary practicum course and new venture creation courses. In the practicum course, students collaborate with a team of about five students from different graduate programs at UT. According to Lampton, this accelerator connects the students to local startup companies. “The experience provides students valuable business experience as researchers and consultants while they perform projects,” Lampton said. Following the completion of the semester-long project, startups will be showcased at a venture expo. The event will be Dec. 3 from 1–5 p.m. in the AT&T Executive Education Center amphitheater. The new venture creation course, taught by Rob Adams, director of Texas Venture Labs, and business lecturer Stephen Courter, focuses on students starting
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their own enterprise. After completion of this course, students can attempt to obtain funding for new ventures at the Venture Labs Investment Competition. First-year MBA student and new Austin resident Taylor O’Brien said he attended the seminar because he is interested in entrepreneurship and wants to get involved in the Austin startup community. “I don’t have any ideas of my own right now,” O’Brien said. “But I want to see if I can help someone else out.”
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The Texan Talks: Engaging with Student Government By Walker Fountain Daily Texan Forum Editor @wf_atx
This week, the Daily Texan Forum will focus on Student Government. With the election of Xavier Rotnofsky and Rohit Mandalapu, the removal of the Jefferson Davis statue, a contentious vote on divestment and a 24/5 PCL, Student Government has rarely been such an attention grabbing force on campus as it is now. And yet while SG action grabs national headlines, student engagement in the organization remains low. This week, the forum will explore the im-
portant work student government is doing, and how students can continue to be involved. While some may not realize it, SG fills many roles on our campus, from registering students to vote, to providing them with safe walks home. SG also remains a large source of funding for student organizations from all walks of life on campus. In years past, many have viewed SG as a club for specific groups, disproportionately dominated by certain social circles. With new leadership and progress in advancing social causes on campus, the 2015-2016 iteration of student government has sought to dispel those feelings, and make SG more accessible to students, often through the use of humor and social media.
While student turnout in elections remains low, our guest columnists will speak to the important work our Student Government is doing, and how students can step up to help their efforts, and hopefully help students become more engaged and dialed into their campus community. And the engagement does not stop here — SG President Xavier Rotnofsky and Vice President Rohit Mandalapu will join Daily Texan Editorin-Chief Claire Smith for a moderated discussion at 11 a.m. Thursday in the Texas Union Theatre. Join us for “The Texan Talks” and learn about how SG is currently serving students. Fountain is a government senior from Pelham, New York.
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Serious issues, lighthearted leaders By Xavier Rotnofsky & Rohit Mandalapu
Forum Contributors and Panelists @RotMan2015
Last year, The Daily Texan wrote about us saying, “We cannot take them seriously until they take themselves seriously.” We promise we’ve changed. We now take ourselves VERY seriously. Student Government is the official (autotuned) voice of the student body, and we are T-Pain and Kanye West in the 2007 hit single “Good Life.” Just like T-Pain and Kanye West, we’ve also debuted 63rd on the Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs. Our life philosophy follows that of Timon and Pumbaa from “Lion King 1½” in that we both want to be a meerkat and warthog and eat bugs all day. We spent the summer trying to figure out exactly what Student Government is. We still haven’t figured it out quite yet, but we’re beginning to think it’s an elaborate Ponzi scheme. Besides that, we also worked on a few initiatives that were hopefully successful enough to talk about at our next private equity hedge fund investment banking business analyst job interview. When we were first elected, so many were quick to say that we wouldn’t get anything done. People often said that we were going to destroy the University — which we probably did a little bit. People were also quick to point out that our lack of Student Government experience would hinder our performance. Just remember, not a single U.S. president has ever served in UT Student Government in any capacity, and look where they ended up. So if you are interested in some of the stuff we accomplished this summer (i.e. want to hear us brag a bit), continue on.
As we promised everyone after we won, we’ll continue to take our jobs seriously, but we will never take ourselves seriously. We got J2 to be open 30 minutes later than usual so that you can eat your unlimited macand-cheese for 1,800 more seconds every night. Thirty minutes doesn’t seem like much, but if you really think about it, the entire inflationary epoch of the universe following the Big Bang lasted about 10-33 seconds, which means J2 will now be open for what is equivalent to an extra 1.8x1036 inflationary epochs of the universe following the Big Bang. We also deputized about 30 Resident Assistants and professional staff. We’ll be holding voter registration drives across campus so that we can register your pretty faces to vote. Civic participation is important, or this would all be one big dystopian anarchist playground (aka a country where Donald Trump is president). We secured funding so that the FAC can be open 24 hours, 5 days of the week and then 24/7 after Thanksgiving break. Either way, you should really develop some better study habits so you’re not up doing O-Chem at 5 in the morning. Over the summer, we both became ordained ministers ($38 with the Universal Life Church) with the intent of officiating weddings and renewing vows of married students on campus. We look forward to pronouncing you all
Daulton Venglar | Daily Texan Staff
Xavier Rotnofsky and Rohit Mandalapu serve as the SG president and vice president respectively. They will participate in The Texan Talks, a panel, at 11 a.m. Thursday in the Texas Union Theatre.
RotMan and RotWife. Please let us know if you require our services, or else our master’s degrees in divinity will have gone to waste. Jefferson Davis has come down. The statue is moving to a museum. That’s really about it. Please leave us and our families alone. Anyway, we’ve had a really busy and fruitful summer. Now we are going to take things as they come. What does that mean? We don’t exactly know. It probably means more fun things like silly videos and getting ready for our 2016 presidential campaign (we will be caucusing with the Modern Whig Party). This brings to mind a great existential question German philosopher Fried-
rich Nietzsche once posed: “I got money in the bank. Shawty, whatchu think?” Basically, we got a lot more done this summer than we expected, so now we have to figure out what to do with all this time. Feel free to reach out to us with any suggestions and/or goulash recipes. We hope this year’s Daily Texan Editorial Board likes us more than last year’s Editorial Board. As we promised everyone after we won, we’ll continue to take our jobs seriously, but we will never take ourselves seriously. RotMan 4evr. Rotnofsky and Mandalapu are both Plan II seniors.
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Utilize SG as the resource it is By Tanner Long Forum Contributor @TannerLLong
“The most discouraging thing about student government is that even those who actively participate in it frequently do not know what is all about, and have utilized it largely as a means of advancing their own popularity or the prestige of their group.” (The Daily Texan. 3 Mar. 1936) Accusations of a lack of engagement between Student Government and the student body are not a new phenomenon. Student Government has undergone many transformations since The Daily Texan published this editorial, written nearly 80 years ago. One successful attempt at abolishment in 1978 and several “rebranding” or “restructuring” efforts over the years proves that, although some students may have dissatisfaction with Student Government, in the end, students want an official body to represent their interests. Although lack of student interest in the centuryold organization may vary from year to year, the organization still strives to make a difference. Student Government, in recent years, has accomplished some amazing feats. From the creation of the Student Activity Center, extended hours at the PCL, free rides to West Campus and Riverside from Sixth Street through the SafeRide program and the removal of the Jefferson Davis statue from the Main Mall, Student Government has proven to be a valuable resource to campus. Following the election of Xavier Rotnofsky and Rohit Mandalapu, students have felt more connected to the organization that has done so much for them in the past. The key to this continued success is for the student body to utilize SG as the resource that it is. Thousands called for the removal of the Jefferson Davis statue through a Student Government petition, and now the Main Mall is absent of two statues. It’s this involvement of students with the organization deemed as the “official voice of students”
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that will prove valuable for accomplishing our shared goals. That being said, SG is not a one-issue organization. With 17 Student Government agencies, each dedicated to helping particular groups on campus, such as the Queer Student Alliance, the Women’s Resource Agency and the Longhorn Entrepreneurship Agency, there is a wide variety of interests. There are also 39 seats in the Assembly representing the 13 colleges and schools, and more than 175 internal and external appointments across campus and the city of Austin. We try to reach every facet of government at the campus, local, state and federal level. The 109th Student Government Assembly has already approved legislation calling for a campus testing center, the expansion of the alcohol amnesty program to include other substances and efforts to improving the freshman experience. Student Government continues to function and operate with the goal of improving campus life and the lives of the 52,000 students we represent. The key to continued success in our organization and across campus is for increased engagement among the student body. Don’t accept the status quo, get involved, learn about the organization and make a difference! Long is a government senior.
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Mikayla Flores reflects on rehab from ACL tear By Aaron Torres @aaron_torrres95
Life can be ironic. Redshirt freshman forward Mikayla Flores wants to go to medical school. She wants to be an orthopedic surgeon. She wants to be one who fixes ACL tears. But this past year, she spent most of her time recovering from one. “It was really tough,” Flores said. Flores played for the club team Legends FC in summer 201 before her freshman year. She played in regionals, and the injury occurred during her fifth game in five days. “I went out the last 10 minutes of the game,” Flores said. “I was just running with the ball, and my knee just gave out.” Her right knee turned inward. She wasn’t touched. Her ACL tore. Her freshman year at Texas ended before it started, and she didn’t even know it.
“Honestly, I could walk,” Flores said. “I was at the gym after, up until I went to the doctor’s, and then I saw my orthopedic — my PA — he just told me the news. It was really shocking, really unexpected.” Her next shocker: She also tore her meniscus. The recovery process took longer because she had a meniscal root repair in addition to her ACL surgery. The doctors sewed her meniscus up where it was torn, and then they sewed it back down onto the bone. Flores experienced adversity she had never encountered in her life. She took the recovery process one day and one exercise at a time. She started the day she had surgery, doing toe pumps, quad fluxions and leg raises every 20 minutes. “The leg raises were the toughest,” Flores said. “I couldn’t even raise my leg after surgery. It was that
weak, and I had lost that much muscle.” Down the road, she did the QuadMill in the North End Zone, then bodyweight squats and balancing on her surgically repaired knee. She ran on an underwater treadmill when her knee brace was removed. “I had to learn to re-walk all over again,” she said. Additionally, she had to re-strengthen her quad muscles. Gradually, she began to run again. “It’s been hard work,” Flores said. But she doesn’t shy away from the work, according to head coach Angela Kelly. “Her work ethic is impeccable,” Kelly said. “She worked so incredibly hard this all this past year — in rehab, in the weight room, whatever she could do to get an edge while not being able to contribute on the field.” Now Flores is back contributing and doesn’t
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Beck steps into lead role on women’s golf By Reanna Zuniga @Reannasioux
While at UT, junior women’s golfer Julia Beck has made a tradition — even a ritual — of marking her balls with a neon orange Sharpie for every tournament. Each tournament has its own distinct marking, but the orange Sharpie stays the same. Beck is not the only player to bring a good luck charm with her to tournaments, but she is unique in decorating her golf balls. And it seems to work. Beck finished last season
second in scoring average on the team at 74.24, behind then-senior golf superstar Bertine Strauss. With Strauss graduated, Beck now has the opportunity to take the lead of the team. Beck was the only underclassman to compete in all 11 tournaments last season and is set to have another successful year. At the Alamo Invitational last season, Beck broke par for the first time and took the lowest score for that tournament, even beating out Strauss. The team kicks off the
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season Sunday with a dual match tournament against Texas A&M, and Beck will be a player to keep an eye on as the season gets started.
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Redshirt freshman forward Mikayla Flores, left, chases down an Ohio State defender on Aug. 30. Flores missed last season with a torn ACL, but is healthy this season.
think about the possibility of re-injuring her knee. She scored a goal in Texas’ first exhibition game against Houston Baptist. She played 89 minutes in the Longhorns’ 2–0
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continues from page 6 eraged 9.33 kills per set against the Longhorns and just 12 points per set. McCage, Ogbogu and Johnson totaled 28 total blocks with just four blocking errors through nine sets. The Longhorns tallied 10 blocks against Rice, 11 against UC-Irvine and seven against LSU. McCage led Texas with 14 total blocks. Ogbogu followed with 13, and Johnson registered 11 in her first collegiate matches. McCage entered this season at No. 7 on Texas’ all-time block assists list with 357 in her career. In 2014, the Longhorns
loss against No. 5 North Carolina. “I love her willingness to take people on,” Kelly said. “She faces up, and she looks to be a personality on the ball.”
garnered 317.5 total blocks, averaging a 3.02 blocks per set, which they matched in their opening weekend with 3.11 blocks per set. Johnson’s solid debut earned her Big 12 Conference Rookie of the Week honors. Along with her double-digit block numbers, she boasted a teamhigh .407 hitting percentage and 15 kills. “I thought Morgan [Johnson] had a really good first three matches,” Elliott said. “[She] didn’t seem rattled at all and was really poised and put up some good numbers for us.” Ogbogu’s .405 hitting percentage was the secondhighest on the team, and her 22 kills tied for second-
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Senior middle blocker Molly McCage, left, and freshman middle blocker Morgan Johnson block the net against Rice on Aug. 28. The team won its first three games of the year in straight sets and play Nebraska on Sept. 4.
Blockers, hitters help with 3-0 start By Claire Cruz @claireecruz5
After All-Americans Haley Eckerman and Khat Bell graduated, some thought 2015 would be a rebuilding year for the No. 3 Texas volleyball squad. Eckerman was the top
hitter on the team, registering the most serving aces and the fifth-most total blocks. Bell had the second-highest number of kills and third-most blocks. But when Texas competed in the American Campus Classic last weekend, it became clear who would fill the
void. Strong performances from senior middle blocker Molly McCage, senior outside hitter Amy Neal, junior middle blocker Chiaka Ogbogu, junior outside hitter Paulina Prieto Cerame and freshman middle blocker Morgan Johnson put to rest any doubts about Texas’ hit-
ting and blocking abilities. “Losing Haley [Eckerman] and Khat Bell, we knew we had to replace them with good players,” head coach Jerritt Elliott said. “We made some big plays with our blocking, and that was the challenge, and we did it.” Texas stymied all three
of its opponents’ offenses. Rice hit just .067 percent on 25 kills in the season opener, UC-Irvine tallied 24 kills and a .033 hitting percentage, and LSU notched 35 kills and a .069 percentage. Opponents av-
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Big 12 notebook: TCU, Baylor lead pack 2005 Texas football played the first game of the 2005 season on Sept. 3 against LousianaLafayette, winning 60-3. The team went on to go 13-0 and win the 2005 National Championship against USC.
By Nick Castillo @Nick_Castillo74
TCU and Baylor enter the 2015 season with high hopes after both teams were snubbed from the inaugural College Football Playoff last year. The Horned Frogs and Bears start the season at No. 2 and No. 4 in the AP poll, respectively. TCU welcomes back senior quarterback Trevone Boykin after a breakout junior season in which he threw for 3,901 yards and 33 touchdowns. He added 707 rushing yards and eight touchdowns while leading the Horned Frogs to a 12-1 campaign. Baylor will replace quarterback Bryce Petty with junior quarter Seth Russell, who performed well last season when he had the opportunity to play. Each team is capable of going undefeated, but TCU will have home-field advantage when it plays the Bears. The Horned Frogs begin their season on the road against Minnesota on Thursday. Baylor plays SMU on Friday to start its 2015 season. Texas Tech names co-quarterback starters Texas Tech head coach Kliff Kingsbury listed quarterbacks Patrick Mahomes and Davis Webb as co-starters in the first depth chart. Both quarterbacks played last season. In 2014, Webb recorded 2,539 passing yards, 24 touchdowns
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continues from page 1 thinking, “What in the world is going on?” But his perseverance through his injury impressed both head coach Charlie Strong and his team-
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TCU senior quarterback Trevone Boykin looks to throw against the Longhorns on Nov. 27, 2014. TCU beat Texas 48-10, and the two teams will play again on Oct. 3. The Horned Frogs are ranked No. 2 in the AP Poll.
Oklahoma State high on Mason Rudolph The Cowboys are ready to roll with sophomore quarterback Mason Rudolph. The signal-caller from Rock Hill, South Carolina, made a late run last season, helping Oklahoma State in wins over Oklahoma and Washington. While Rudolph only has three games of experience, he will start against Central Michigan in the Cowboys’ season opener. Rudolph recorded 853 passing yards and six touchdowns in his three
games played.
Mayfield named starter at Oklahoma After transferring from Texas Tech and sitting out a year per NCAA rules, junior quarterback Baker Mayfield will start for the Sooners in their season opener against Akron.
During his freshman season with Texas Tech, Mayfield amassed 2,315 passing yards and 12 touchdowns. Mayfield, an Austin native, should fit in well in offensive coordinator Lincoln Riley’s air-raid offense. Mayfield will get help from Oklahoma sophomore running back Samaje Perine, who ran for 1,713 yards as a freshman, and redshirt freshman running back Joe Mixon. Mayfield and the Sooners are set to the season ranked No. 19 in the AP poll.
mates. Strong said Jackson has done a great job getting back on the field, and he’s excited for the veteran leader to be back on the defensive line. “It’s good to just see how he’s changed because in the beginning, as I said to him, ‘We’re going to need your
leadership to help us lead this defense. You were a starter last year. You go down, and now you’re back, and now you have a chance to really make a mark on this team and make a mark on this defense,’” Strong said. Senior defensive end Shiro Davis said Jackson is some-
one the defensive linemen turn to. “Tank has just always been a guy that’s going to go as hard as he can whenever he can,” Davis said. “Whatever he can do, he’s going to do it. He’s just a guy who’s always going to work for you.” After working through
his foot injury, Jackson doesn’t take things for granted anymore. He is ready to get back in the game. “One thing one of my coaches told me a while ago was ‘Always stay hungry and humble,’” Jackson said. “That’s one of the things I
and 13 interceptions. Mahomes threw for 1,547 yards and 16 touchdowns with four interceptions. The Red Raiders begin their season against Football Championship Subdivision opponent Sam Houston State in Lubbock on Saturday at 2:30 p.m.
Quarterback a mystery at Kansas State The Wildcats have four quarterbacks fighting for the starting job, but head coach Bill Snyder has yet to name a starter. The four candidates for the quarterback job are junior Joe Hubener, redshirt sophomore Jesse Ertz, sophomore Jonathan Banks and freshman Alex Delton. Kansas State kicks off its season against South Dakota on Saturday at 11 a.m.
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Artist Mike Sullivan has finished and gotten approved a layout for a “Faces of the Longhorn Nation” outside of Darrell K Royal-Memorial Stadium. The mural will be a tribute to Longhorn spirit. Sullivan is in the process of creating 25 murals like it across the country and launched a Kickstarter campaign on Sept. 1 to fund the Texas mural. The campaign lasts for 30 days and will raise money for to help pay for the creation and manufacturing of the mural. Fans can pledge $10– $10,000 and can earn rewards including a personal voicemail recorded by any Longhorn coach and signed memorabilia from Longhorn legends, among others. The mural will be unveiled on Nov. 7 before the Longhorns play Kansas. —Akshay Mirchandari
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Mass extinctions have changed the face of the Earth five times during life’s 3.5-billion year history, and some scientists argue that we are on the brink of another. Researchers are scrambling to find ways to predict how another mass extinction — defined as the loss of 75 percent of existing species — will affect the planet’s future. Here at UT, post doctoral researcher Joel Lehman and computer science professor Risto Miikkulainen have published computational experiments that model how massive extinction events affect evolution found they accelerate evolution. “I like to make algorithms that are creative,” Lehman said. “And sometimes that means reaching across the divide between computer science and other disciplines to see if there are experiments we could simulate that would be very difficult or unethical in the real world.” Lehman and Miikkulainen have turned their creative algorithms to the problem of mass extinctions. More than 95 percent of all the species that
have ever lived on Earth are now history, and mass extinctions are not unique to the late Cretaceous period. Animals such as the mountain gorilla and white rhino might vanish in the wild before UT seniors graduate this spring. Because scientists have not identified most of the species on Earth, let alone studied them enough to get accurate numbers, identifying exactly what and how many species have gone extinct is impossible. While scientists struggle to make precise predictions, they are able to measure trends. With 5 million existing species, scientists estimate about 10 to 690 species go extinct every year. If reality is in the upper ranges of these estimates, Earth could experience a mass extinction to rival the one that killed the dinosaurs by 2200. Unlike the five massive extinction events over the last 3.5 billion years, this extinction is not because of meteors or volcanoes, but mankind. The current destruction of ecosystems could lead more quickly to a world that has little resemblance to our own. Lehman and his team at UT have found that, while extinctions are destructive in the short term, they lead to higher rates of evolution over
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major periods of time. Extinction destroys genetic diversity in the short term but also leaves ecological niches open for other species to fill. “Gorillas don’t do well when humans remove their habitat, but another animal, such as a coyote, might colonize that niche if it is less dependent on the habitat that we got rid of,” Lehman said. The world is changing quickly, and the vastness of
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SG rep Jonathan Dror writes, records spirit music video Economics junior Jonathan Dror’s attempt to get on Snapchat’s UT Campus Story led to a school-spirited music video that had garnered over 20,000 views the day after he released it. On Tuesday, Dror uploaded a music video to YouTube of a Texas spirit song he wrote called “Put ’Em Up.” Clad in burnt orange clothing and Longhorn emblems, he sang in front of popular locations on the UT campus, including the Main Building, football stadium and inside the Life Science Library. The video quickly went viral and was posted with varying responses on UT Facebook pages and different online publications, such as the UT Co-op website and Total Frat Move. “When the Campus Story was first introduced, it was huge, and people found it so impossible to get on it,” Dror said. “I was sitting in my room and messing around, writing songs and choruses and anything that sounded catchy. I started writing four lines about UT, not thinking anything of it.” When Dror’s 10-second Snapchat of him singing made it onto the UT Campus Story, more than 20,000 people viewed it. He received texts from supportive friends, and students who recognized him from Snapchat approached him. He decided to
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Economics junior Jonathan Dror produced a UT-inspired music video in response to attention he garnered on the UT Campus Story on Snapchat. Dror looks to continue his singing career as a member of the a capella group The Ransom Notes.
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take the next step and create a music video when his snap continued to be mentioned on social media platforms such as Twitter and Yik Yak. In February, he began adding lyrics to his original chorus and started filming the music video in May. Filming took three days — from early in the morning to late at night — and included a cast of friends, UT football players and Student Government President Xavier Rotnofsky and Vice President Rohit Mandalapu. Dror and radiotelevision-film sophomore Eric Stern, one of the people who helped direct and produce the video, spent their summer editing the footage. “I didn’t have any other projects going on at the time, so I could focus my attention on the video,” Stern said. “We’re a solid team, and I’m excited to see the buzz it’s creating on campus and continue to produce content.” Aside from the attention — both good and bad — generated by the song, Dror said he especially likes that the video represents UT and student life. “I wanted the video to be organic and natural and reflect the life of an average student being genuine with friends,” Dror said. “I didn’t want it to be something UT isn’t or be something I’m not.” Dror said other students have suggested playing his
song at tailgates, downtown and on the Jumbotron at football games. Journalism junior Samantha Reichstein, who appears in the video, said the song is bringing Texas fans closer together by promoting UT. “Everyone loves repping Texas, whether it’s wearing burnt orange, going to the football game or throwing a hook ’em sign in a picture,” Reichstein said. “I think the video encompasses all of that.” Dror said he has always been interested in singing and music. He said a selection of artists ranging from Chris Brown to Michael Bublé influence him. “From hip hop to R&B to a slower jazz is where I feel my voice,” Dror said. “I’m very passionate about singing.” Reichsteinsaid she is proud of Dror’s accomplishments. “We went to camp every summer, and he would always sing something at the talent show,” Reichstein said. “Ever since he was little, everyone has been telling him, ‘You’re going to be famous.’” Dror said he recently joined the UT a capella group The Ransom Notes and hopes to continue singing and making music. “The best thing I’ve been hearing is when people are saying, ‘I can’t get this song out of my head,’” Dror said. “This is the best first start I could ask for.”
Twenty-five feet in the air, four men in worn leather shoes perch atop two small platforms beneath a blueand-yellow-striped tent. One by one, the men gracefully prance across thin wire connecting the platforms, unfazed by the distance that separates them from the ground. They are practicing for the opening night of Kooza, one of Cirque du Soleil’s touring shows that combines acrobatics with clown acts. For the first time in 10 years, the company will perform in Austin — from Sept. 2 until Oct. 8. Then they will collapse the big top and move on to the next city. One of the Kooza performers, Angel Quiros, is a sixth-generation circus member who has performed on the high wire with Cirque du Soleil for more than eight years. Quiros said he began practicing high wire when he was 12, with his father as his coach and his brother as his teammate. “In the beginning, my mind was telling me ‘Oh, what am I doing up here?’” Quiros said. “But we love the high wire, and little by
little, we got better.” Kooza, which originates from the Sanskrit word “koza,” meaning treasure or box, tells the story of a lost character who embarks on a journey of self-discovery. The two-and-a-half hour show features acts such as contortion and trapeze in addition to high wire. Cirque du Soleil publicist Kala Peterson said attendees can expect ’70s funk-inspired live music, extravagant custom-made costumes and a more intimate vibe than their larger arena shows. Peterson said most of the 48 performers in Kooza cross-train in addition to practicing their acts. A warm-up room lined with brightly colored mats and racks of dumbbells is located behind the stage. In one corner, elaborate costumes hang from the walls next to a table of styrofoam heads. Across the room, a low wire — 2.5 feet off the ground — stretches wall-to-wall, awaiting Quiros and his crew. Although Quiros said he practices low wire every day, he practices high wire three times per week. But despite years of practice, Quiros had an accident while performing for a different company 15 years ago. During training, he fell
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For more about Cirque du Soleil’s Kooza, check out our video at dailytexanonline.com. off the high wire and broke several bones. Since then, he has been accident-free. He said that at some point, every high wire artist has their one “close call.” “It took me a few years to recover,” Quiros said. “But my mind was telling me, ‘I want to go back,’ so I went back.” Quiros said he has always dreamed of performing high wire for Cirque du Soleil alongside his brother. After more than eight years of performing, Quiros has no plans of leaving Kooza. He said he physically feels great, loves his act and is treated well by Cirque du Soleil. During the show, Quiros darts across the wire sometimes with his brother on his shoulders, other times with a heavy bar in his hands. Although he understands the risk he faces every time he steps onto the wire, he said he is not afraid. “If you have fear, you cannot do this,” Quiros said.
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Cirque du Soleil’s Kooza combines acrobatic stunts with clown acts. The show will be in town until Oct. 8.