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Symposium begins with talk on climate By Claire Allbright @claireallbright
The government must partner closely with energy companies to combat climate change, according to Syracuse professor David Popp. As part of the 2015 UT Energy Symposium’s opening event, Popp spoke Thursday about the necessary intersection between politics and energy technology. Popp, a professor of public administration and international affairs at Syracuse University, said more
government research and development is needed to address climate change. “[Research and development] can play an important role in bringing energy technologies to the market,” Popp said. “But it is a complementary role, and we need to have other policies such as carbon tax and using the technologies.” Popp said the government must increase R&D spending by 250 percent to reduce the threatening effects of climate change. Popp became interested
in energy as an economist and has studied technology and environmental policy for 20 years. “I started thinking about climate change policy and how much it would cost to combat climate change, and doing that, I realized that technology played an important role in doing that,” Popp said. Popp’s lecture highlighted the cost as well as the role of government R&D in technology change. Maia Drap-
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David Popp, professor of public administration and international affairs at Syracuse University spoke at the UT Energy Symposium on Thursday afternoon.
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Blanca Gamez, assistant director for Parking and Transportation Services said more data will be collected to assess the longterm viability of the UT Safe Ride program.
long-term contract.” Since Safe Ride’s original launch in fall 2014, students have taken more than 7,000 trips with the program, said
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UT to relaunch Safe Ride pilot program
said. “The only thing preventing it from being permanent was the long-term source of funding for ‘X’ amount of years, and we needed that to get a
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UT is relaunching Safe Ride as a pilot program because of a lack of funds needed to permanently continue the ride-sharing service for the fall semester. Safe Ride is a free Parking and Transportation Services program that drives University students from the downtown entertainment district to their homes between midnight and 3 a.m. Thursday–Saturday. Safe Ride picks up riders at the corner of San Jacinto Boulevard and Eighth Street and drops them off at their homes in the West Campus or East Riverside residential areas. Safe Ride began as a Student Government initiative started by former SG President Kori Rady and is contracted through uRide, a ride-sharing service. SG completely funds Safe Ride, and the program could become permanent if the reintroduced pilot is successful, according to Blanca Gamez, assistant director for Parking and Transportation Services. “Before I left, we were looking for long-term funding, but we had enough to keep the program going for a while,” Rady
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Gamez. PTS will collect more data on the pilot program this semester to assess whether it should become a permanent campus program, according to
Gamez. “The pilot [program] is to give us enough statistical infor-
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Voices Against Violence, a group affiliated with the Counseling and Mental Health Center, launched a new program Thursday aiming to include maleidentified individuals into the conversation of sexual and domestic violence on campus. With it’s first event, “This is Men’s Work,” the program, MasculinUT: The Healthy Masculinities Project, hosted a panel of speakers which included Michael Messner, professor of Sociology and Gender at the University of Southern California, as well as UT faculty members and Student Government representatives. “We intentionally pluralize masculinity because we want to explore the different facets of what it means to be a man in our world,” said Erin Burrows, outreach specialist for Voices against Violence. “One of the things we really landed on was most violence was committed by men but most men aren’t violent, so how do we fill that gap and really work with men to engage other men in this conversation?” Messner said he thinks younger generations of men identify with feminist values but don’t necessarily use the label as an identifier because of a millennial disinterest in ideological labels. “For the younger generation, feminism has kind of been in the air [men] breathe without even knowing it,” Messner said. “Feminist ideas are really built into our schools, our
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Asian-American organizations Students submit weekly pitches welcome students to campus for business startup program By Eunice Ali
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The Asian American Culture Committee and the Asian Desi Pacific Islander American Collective, welcomed new students in the Shirley Bird Perry Ballroom on Thursday night. The annual event, titled You Bring Out the AsianAmerican in Me: United in One, referred to as YBO, featured YouTube artist Jason Chen and was intended to encourage new students to pursue their passions in college. Public health junior Mimi Lam, APAC director of operations and coleader of YBO, said the team chose YouTube sing-
er Jason Chen as the guest artist with the hope that students could learn about what it means to find their passions, despite cultural pressures as Asian-Americans. Chen himself studied
economics in college and worked briefly in accounting before pursuing his dream to become a singer. Desiree Pham, AAC
UT students presented 90 second business pitches to their peers and business mentors for feedback as part of Thursday’s Longhorn Startup Open Pitch Night. This weekly program is designed to allow any UT student to launch, pitch or fine-tune a business idea. It is part of the Longhorn Startup Seminar, but it is open to the public. “Our vision for it is for any student to feel like they can come pitch their ideas and get feedback,” said Joshua Baer, the seminar instructor and founder of the Capital Factory, a local startup incubator and
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Jason Chen, a famous YouTube singer, performs for UT students in the Union Ballroom on Thursday evening.
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co-working space. Baer said this is important because pitching is vital for business startups to secure investments. You pitch all day long– that’s what you’ve got to do to get a business going.” Baer said. “The key to a good pitch is to focus on a problem, tell a story and practice.” Biology senior Patrick Foadey and government senior Bryan Landes pitched the idea of a marketplace full of tutors, contractors and book exchanges to make student life more productive. They said the program is invaluable to their business development process because of the feedback opportunities. “We came in with one
mindset, and now we can go back, brainstorm and incorporate the suggestions in order to make a better product,” Landes said. “This programs makes us see our idea from a different light. Hearing from people who have been successful in this process is incredibly fascinating.” The feedback ranges depending on how developed the business idea is, Baer said. “We ask questions to help students think deeply about their ideas,” Baer said. “If they’re further along we drill down on the core issues in developing their business.” Pharmacy sophomore
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