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Jester to feature African diaspora art By Rachel Freeman @rachel_frmn
Under a few small white walls, hidden away on the second floor of a university dorm, a new art exhibit nears its opening date. The John L. Warfield Center for African and African American Studies is funding a new art gallery on the second floor of the Jester Center near the Sanger Learning Center. The $1.1 million project will finish by mid-January 2016 and create space to host African and
African-American art. The exhibits will focus on the African diaspora from galleries around the world, and they will be open to the UT community and the general public, according to manager of University operations Laurie Lentz. Stephanie Lang, program coordinator for the Warfield Center, said she believes the gallery will help raise awareness about African and African-American art and culture. Although the Warfield Center already owns many pieces of
art, this new facility will have state of the art equipment, which will enable the center to loan from other galleries and display pieces on a larger scale, according to Lang. “The gallery will expose people to art from African Diaspora, which has been lacking,” Lang said. “This project will help everyone in the community to see examples of varied backgrounds and perspectives, which is always a great thing.” Biology senior Ashley
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Julián Castro, secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, answers questions at a press conference after delivering a keynote address at the LBJ School on Wednesday afternoon.
essential to developed societies. “[Communities] are where we live and where we converge,” Martin said. “The basis of our lives lies in our communities. If you don’t have a well developed community, then you cannot have a well developed society.” The HUD has made enormous strides, but the department is nowhere near what it should strive toward,
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Akler, who attended the event, echoed Castro’s sentiments. “The biggest obstacle to creating developed communities is finding support from the government and the people that live in the surrounding community,” Akler said. Event attendee Andrew Martin, a graduate student at the LBJ School of Public Affairs, said a developed community is
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In the face of poverty and a growing population, the community a child resides in plays a pivotal role in determining his or her future, according to Julián Castro, secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Castro spoke at the 2015 Reimagining Cities Conference, commemorating the 50th anniversary of the creation of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) by President Lyndon B. Johnson. The HUD program was a part of Johnson’s “War on Poverty” and was motivated by his experiences with extreme poverty while growing up in the Texas Hill Country, according to Castro. Although 50 years have passed, the issues Johnson experienced during his presidency have not disappeared, as neighborhoods still face racial and economic segregation often overlooked or ignored by the government, Castro said. “The United States faces a growing gap between the rich and poor. Too often a child’s zip code determines a child’s future,” Castro said. “A child born in the zip code 63135 in north St. Louis can expect to live 18 years less than a child that lives 10 miles away in a more affluent neighborhood.” Social work senior Alison
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increase from previous years. “The United States cannot afford another half century of benign neglect towards the communities that need it most,” Castro said. “The new Fair Housing rule makes sure that you use taxpayer money to invest in good schools, transit and economic development so that people can help build prosperous futures.”
The recently formed campus carry working group has announced two public forums and is continuing to gather information on where guns should not be located on campus. A campus-wide email sent Sept. 4 officially announced two public forums to be held on Sept. 30 from 7–9 p.m. and Oct. 5 from 3–5 p.m. Based on responses the working group has received from the online survey and conversations members have had with friends and colleagues, the email also highlighted misconceptions about the law. In addition to this announcement, Sept. 8 marked the first day schools across UT could send recommendations for gun-free zones around campus. The working group, chaired by law professor Steven Goode, is gathering information to help with proposals to University President Gregory Fenves by late November. “The working group is trying to gather inventory throughout campus, places [and] activities that we ought to consider for possible regulation,” Goode said. “It is a very big campus, and we don’t know everything that is going on.” Because the working group still has more information to sort through, Goode said schools could continue to submit more information to the working group. Ellen Spiro, film professor and a member of Gun-Free UT, a group against campus carry, said the group wants to submit recommendations to suggest that guns on campus will not make UT safer. Based on her own experience, Spiro said she is concerned that students who are vulnerable to suffer from mental illness and depression could cause a lot of harm to themselves.
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Collisions between pedestrians and cyclists increased during the past two weeks because students have been inattentive to their surroundings while walking and biking, according to UTPD. Four-way intersections on campus are prone to collisions because of the amount and variety of traffic that passes through them, UTPD officer William Pieper said. “We have seen a lot of collisions and
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UT has no new plans to put gender-neutral restrooms in already-existing buildings on campus because of a lack of funds, according to Ixchel Rosal, director at the Gender and Sexuality Center. UT currently has 32 existing gender-neutral bathrooms available to students, the locations of which can be found on the GSC website. University policy requires any new building being constructed on campus to make a
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gender-neutral bathroom available for every five floors that a structure has, according to Rosal. Rosal said the Gender and Sexuality Center worked with facilities to get the genderneutral restrooms on campus and will continue to work to get more installed. “I think, in an ideal situation, certainly every building would have at least one all-gender bathroom,” Rosal said. “But I’m also aware that it’s a process, so I would say that we are making steady progress
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continues from page 1 “I once had a student who shared suicidal feelings with me during my office hours,” Spiro said. “I asked him he if had a gun. Thankfully he said no, and I walked him to the UT Mental Health Center. If that student had a gun in his pocket, he might not be alive today.” So far, Spiro said great arguments have been presented in the Moody College of Communication against having guns anywhere in the building, and she has heard other
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departments have even included janitor closets as gun free zones. Cristina Adams, a spouse of a faculty member and a parent involved with Gun Free UT, said their group is working to hold an event Sept. 30 to raise awareness against campus carry. Adams said she wants students to be involved in the implementation of this law the legislature passed when many students were away from campus. “Conveniently the law was passed when students weren’t here, and they did not get their voices heard,” Adams said. “The UT student body came out against this stupid law, and they need to make their voices heard in the administration and working group.”
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continues from page 1 Oliphant said she is excited to have an increase in diversity of art and awareness of black culture on campus. Oliphant said she has never been to a gallery that focuses on African and African-American art and said she is excited to visit the exhibits once they open. “It’s dope that this gallery is opening,” Oliphant said. “It’ll be nice to have somewhere to go other than the Malcolm X lounge to appreciate a display of African and African-American inspiration.”
Business sophomore Owen Schoenfeld said he thinks the money could have been spent elsewhere, but he said he considers the gallery’s addition a good move on the University’s part. “Even for people who this doesn’t have a direct relevance to, it’s still important,” Schoenfeld said. “There’s a lot of diversity on campus, and this is one way to represent it. The gallery will help represent how the University — particularly as one from the South — is taking steps in the right direction towards appreciating cultures of all races equally.”
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continues from page 1 near-collisions at intersections — particularly the busy ones, at 21st and Speedway and 24th and Speedway,” Pieper said. “Those are two areas on campus where we see a lot of traffic come together — cars, buses, pedestrians and cyclists. Whenever you have that much variety of traffic in one area, there is a greater chance for there to be collisions.” The number of collisions usually increases at the beginning of the academic year as freshmen and returning students get acclimated to living in Austin, according to Pieper. Pieper said upticks in accidents or collisions usually occur because pedestrians and cyclists are preoccupied and fail to yield the right of way. “Distracted driving, distracted walking, distracted biking — [they are] a huge problem,” Pieper said. Scott Zettler, a cyclist and student in the Health IT and Informatics program, said inattentive pedestrians crossing the road without respecting walking signals can be a serious danger to bicyclists. “If someone steps out in the last moment, and I have 10 or 20 feet, I can either slam on my brakes, or I can swoop left because I don’t want to hit the pedestrian,” Zettler said. “It could be dangerous, especially if there is a car coming up behind me, and they don’t see me anticipating the pedestrian. My hands would be on my handlebars, so I couldn’t even signal to them, which has the potential to start a chain reaction.” Cellphone use while walking causes pedestrians to remain unaware of nearing bicycles and cars, according to Zettler. “When you’re on campus, it’s frustrating to see people with their earbuds in and texting while walking across the street without looking both ways,” Zettler said. “That being said, you can talk on the sidewalk just fine, but when you cross the street, make sure the road is clear.” Pedestrians disregard the danger of bicycle collisions because they think bicycles do not cause as much physical harm as cars do, UT alumnus Kane Wei said. “If you replaced the bike with the car, then people would definitely look both ways,” Wei said. “It’s a twoway mutual respect thing.”
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Dell Med School hosts computing talk By Audrey Browning @auddiemac21
Frank Opelka, associate medical director of the American College of Surgeons, spoke about the medical field’s need for a cloud-based application to simplify the health care process at a lecture Wednesday. Hosted by the Department of Surgery and Perioperative Care at Dell Medical School, the talk emphasized the importance of health care facilities using new technology, such as cloud systems, to better overall health care productivity and patient connections. Opelka studies data reform in American health care and the massive needs for more operable and portable applications in the medical field. Opelka said surgeons and health care professionals need to spend more time in operating rooms and less time manually entering data. In the age of the Affordable Healthcare Act, Opelka said this is crucial to provide quality health care at a low cost. “These applications are critical for leveraging health care data for better health and lower cost,” Opelka said. “Real solutions are starting to come out of here.” The lecture focused on the technical factors that would be needed in such an application, and how the
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Dr. Frank Opelka, a national leader in surgical quality measurement with a specialty in “big data,” speaks about the importance of health care accommodating to the times and using new technology, like a cloud system Wednesday afternoon.
professionals in attendance could both acquire and utilize the cloud application. An application exists like this in nearly every other industry in America, but the health care industry is still lacking, according to Opelka. Attendee Hank Jones said multiple factors — including the need for education about the issues and the slow pace of the health industry to keep up with technological changes — are keeping such a necessary
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tool off of the market. “The medical industry has been dragging their knuckles through time for decades,” Jones said. “Special interest groups are fighting to educate the government and the other masses on [this type of development].” Dr. Kevin Bozic, chair of surgery and perioperative care at the Dell Medical School, iterated the specific need for this programming in Austin. “One of the unique
challenges we have in Austin, unlike other major metropolitan places, is that we don’t have a modern health system with a single electronic health record,” Bozic said. “This type of application is very relevant in this market because … the data doesn’t sit in one place. We need a universal source of electronic data that can be accessed by the physician, patient, billing, whomever. We want to incorporate this into our medical education and clinical care that we provide.”
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continues from page 1 on getting to that ideal situation, but there is still more work to be done.” About five years ago, the Project Management and Construction Services Department at UT converted many single-occupant bathrooms to gender-neutral bathrooms, according to Laurie Lentz, manager of University Operations Communications. The University does not use the word ‘unisex’ on gender-neutral restrooms signs because of signage rules, according to Lentz. “[The department] converted a number of single-occupant restrooms to Gender Neutral designation,” Lentz said in an email. “This typically involved adding an indicator privacy latch set that would indicate whether the restroom was occupied, a sanitary napkin disposal unit, and a room sign depicting an international symbol for both a man and a women, with a room name of RESTROOM.” In 2014, Austin City Council passed a provision in favor of gender-neutral restrooms. The measure would require businesses to change all single-occupancy bathrooms into gender-neutral bathrooms for anyone to use. Daniel Chapman, Student Government
We want to bring that lack of implementation into the spotlight and make sure that the administration does more to handle that issue. —Daniel Chapman, SG Advocacy Policy Director
Advocacy Policy Director, said the specific law was something he knew about when he decided Chapman said he wants to bring up a resolution to Student Government sometime during the semester addressing the issue. “Even if a building does have a gender-neutral restroom, it’s usually one every five floors, which is still very inconvenient for someone who wants to use that,” Chapman said. “We want to kind of bring that lack of implementation into the spotlight and make sure that the administration does more to handle that issue. A good end goal for the administration is you have to have a campus where people — regardless of their gender identity — can feel safe in entering any restroom on campus, where people don’t feel harassed or feel like they’re being discriminated against.”
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UT to offer master’s in McCombs energy program accredited identity management By Sammy Jarrar @sammyj_96
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The University of Texas will offer a new master’s degree in identity management and security in spring 2016. The twoyear program, accepting applications now, is a joint venture of the University’s School of Information and Center for Identity. Andrew Dillon, dean of the School of Information, said businesses and organizations that collect massive amounts of personal information need to be responsible with their data. “If you recognize that more and more of our world’s activities involve the exchange and processing of digital information, then concerns with privacy, security and authenticity become important for all of us,” Dillon said. Dillon said the program goes beyond information technology to focus on how people have different expectations of privacy for different information. “Rather than just teaching people the technical components of security, we will be educating people to understand human nature and its impact on identity management practices,” Dillon said. Classes in the program will be taught one weekend per month so they are accessible to professionals. Lance
Hayden, adjunct assistant professor in the school of information sciences, said the program is relevant to many types of students and professions. “The identity master’s program is going to take a holistic approach,” Hayden said. “They’re looking for all different types of students to come in and explore this concept of identity.” Hayden said recent incidents such as the Ashley Madison leak — where personal and credit card information of website users was released — reveal the need for management of identity across levels. “Understanding [Digital information and identity] as a consumer is one thing, but understanding it as a professional opens up a lot of different avenues for career growth,” Hayden said. Electrical engineering sophomore James Park said he was interested in identity graduate programs because of the rise in online security news stories. “Every tech company I’ve talked to has specific areas and employees for security testing,” Park said. Hayden said the increasingly digital world has created demand for identity professionals. “The security industry lacks good, skilled people,” Hayden said. “This is a huge career opportunity.”
The American Association of Professional Landmen accredited the Energy Management Program in the McCombs School of Business on Sept. 2, making it one of 11 accredited petroleum land management programs in North America. The accreditation by the association means that it will provide curriculum guidance and support for the program, in addition to over $80,000 in student scholarships annually and free association memberships to participating students, according to a statement. “It’s exciting that the
NEWS BRIEFLY Teams win grants to fund research on human brain
Forty-five research teams across the UT System each received $100,000 seed grants for their research and advances on the human brain. The recipients were selected from a group of 158 proposals and reviewed by 100 faculty researchers from institutions outside of Texas, according to a press release. Tom Jacobs, chairman of the UT Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) review committee, said UT BRAIN is
program was recognized by such an important and influential professional group,” John Butler, director of the Energy Management Program, said in a press release. “We are proud to be accredited by the American Association of Professional Landmen and look forward to working with the association to provide our students with unique opportunities.” According to Melanie Diaz, business honors and science and technology management senior, who already achieved the EMP certificate, the program is growing and gaining a lot of recognition. The program gives students resources to train in industry-related business,
geosciences, petroleum operations and law, according to the program’s website. “The Energy Management Program provides students with the opportunity to learn more about an industry that is a central part of the economy,” Diaz said in an email. “By taking a summer to focus on the energy specific classes, students get in depth (sic) experience in a vital industry and are provided with substantial networking opportunities.” The Texas Energy Management Student Association, the student led organization within the EMP, is a group that benefits from the program’s accreditation. “I think, from my understanding, accreditation will
give it a basis, sort of this existence outside of just this campus,” said Yasir Masood, economics senior and TEMSA officer. “Through AAPL, the Energy Management Program and the Texas Energy Management Student Association have that much more legitimacy not only on campus but also outside of campus.” Diaz said s the accreditation of the program doesn’t just draw in more students, but it also has weight in the business world. “The accreditation adds credibility to the program and makes it an even bigger draw for companies looking to hire candidates into a competitive industry,” Diaz said.
an initiative of the UT System Neuroscience and Neurotechnology Research Institute to advance research on the human brain by fostering collaboration among scientists and researchers across the University System. The institute promotes trans-disciplinary, multi-institutional research projects focused on neuroscience and neurotechnology, according to Jacobs. “We want to give [the] University System scientists and researchers the tools to make breakthroughs in our understanding of the human brain,” Jacobs said. “Their work has the potential to eliminate neurological diseases such as
Alzheimer’s and autism and improve treatment for people who suffered strokes, spinal cord or brain trauma.” According to a press release, seed grant recipient Andrew Dunn, interim chair and professor in biomedical engineering, is looking at dendritic spines on the human brain that play an important role in learning and memory, potentially leading to treatments for ADHD and autism. Dunn said this project has been possible because of the recent technological advances for improved imaging. “The microscope builds on a new class of microscopes — called super-resolution
microscopes — that have been developed over the past few years,” Dunn said. “Our approach is different from existing techniques in that it combines two ultrashort pulsed lasers together … resulting in improved spatial resolution.” Jacobs said the UT System Neuroscience and Neurotechnology Research Institute is planning to announce a second round of seed grants in 2016. “UT-Austin has always been highly collaborative,” Dunn said. “These grants provide new opportunities to start new collaborations and projects that may not have been possible previously.”
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The Texan Talks: Transgender rights and advocacy on the 40 Acres
By Walker Fountain Daily Texan Forum Editor @wf_atx
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When one thinks of LGBTQIA issues, a prominent point is the protracted battle for marriage equality in the United States. In the news these days, after the Supreme Court decision which legalized same-sex marriage nationwide, is the response of Kentucky County Clerk Kim Davis, who refused to issue the mandated licenses. But that is not the only pressing issue facing the LGBT community today: One of the most important is the fate of transgender
people from all across the United States. According to a survey that was sponsored by the National Center for Transgender Equality, over 40 percent of transgender respondents reported attempting suicide. Over 90 percent report some sort of significant mistreatment at work. Many students feel discriminated against in schools. At 11 a.m. Thursday on campus, we will hear from some trans-identified community members and some who work on trans-
gender issues on our campus. The goal of this conversation will be to identify what resources are available for transgender students, what the UT-Austin administration can do to support trans students and finally, what our overall campus community can do to create a more welcoming climate for trans-identified members of our University community. Fountain is a government senior from Pelham, New York.
“Change is happening.”
Editor’s note: Some parts of this interview were omitted for clarity and brevity. Daily Texan: Where are you from? Sebastian Colon-Otero: I grew up in Puerto Rico and moved to Austin in 2002. DT: How did you choose UT? SC: I came to Austin to do community organizing, to work with Allgo. It’s an organization for LGBT queer people of color. … During that time, I did some things with UT, but I was not a student. … Since I left, I always wanted to return. I care a lot about UT and Austin, and it always felt like home. … [When] I decided I wanted to return to Austin, my partner asked me, “What would be your dream job? What would you do there?” And I said, “My dream would be to work for the counseling center and to provide mental health to the people, to the students who are in need.” DT: When did you begin identifying as a transgender individual? SC: That was before coming to the US … Eventually, it was not through rational analysis that I came to the conclusion that I needed to transition physically and pursue medical support. … It became pretty clear to me, OK, I needed to transition and embrace who I am. Even though intellectually I was not sure, emotionally it became very clear — that’s when I began the physical transition. DT: What was that process like — that divide between emotional and psychological readiness? SC: It was a nonlinear, back-and-forth, complicated process. … I was struggling with the idea of being myself and the fear of being accepted and supported. … Mostly it was an emo-
tional rollercoaster and a lot of self care and taking time. It took a lot of love, a lot of allyship, a lot of people coming together, a lot of me putting my feet down saying, “I’ll take care of me, I deserve to be okay, and I don’t know how to do it, but I will do it.” … People around me helped, … including people who didn’t know what transgender means who stepped up. So I believe in change — my change and social change. It’s possible. It happens. DT: How do you see this issue playing out and creating social change? How can people who are not trans-identified support this movement? SC: I think for a non-transgender, cisgender person, the first step is to be aware of their own gender. I also tell people to look where it hurts, look where your own gender has been difficult, where your own gender becomes painful or limiting or judged so you can sense what it means to me. … We are talking about an experience of challenging these boxes, these ideas of who we should be, and that is liberating to everybody. … You can recognize the places where it might be easier for you to speak up or where you can create space where we can speak up. DT: How can change happen at UT? SC: Change is happening, has been happening, will continue to happen at UT. … There are allies figuring out how to do it, there are administrators committed to diversity in all forms and shape — change is happening. Is it pretty? Is it perfect? Is it over night? It’s not going to be. … I believe in the goodness of UT in trying to change. I think it takes all of us to talk … to organize together, it takes all of us to believe that if it’s not happening the way we think it should
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happen, that we ought to create space to make that dialogue happen, and the system always ends up changing towards the best. DT: If you could say one thing to transgender individuals on campus who are going to read this interview, what would it be? SC: The first thing is to reach out and pull every resource that you could pull into your life that will help you be OK and help you take care of yourself. And then, with your feet on the ground, communicate your needs. … I think [it is important] for trans people to seek each other.
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Be mindful of issues, find ways to be supportive By Jess O’Rear
Daily Texan Forum Contributor
Sometimes, when I advocate for the marginalized communities with which I identify, I feel like the narrator of a National Geographic documentary: “Here we have the Transgender Graduate Student, crouched in the library where his species will hibernate for 180 days until the completion of the process known as ‘The Thesis.’ Watch as his eyes dart quickly, right to left, in front of the Gender-Segregated Restrooms, wary of other Students and Staff Members who may try to intercept his attempts to relieve himself of the grande quad Americano he drank this morning.” As transgender rights become more of a hot-button issue in the news, one of the issues most frequently reported on is the genderneutral bathroom debate. The recently implemented Austin city ordinance that mandates all single-stall, lockable restrooms must be designated as gender-neutral signifies a great turning point for trans rights in this city and the nation at large. But as decisions are made across the country on this issue, UT’s oncampus progress toward accessible restroom options for everyone seems a slow crawl. According to the UT-Austin Gender and Sexuality Center website, there are 42 gender-neutral or single-stall restrooms available in 31 different buildings on campus. According to UT-Austin’s Facts and Figures website, total enrollment reached 51,313 students in fall 2014, sharing 168 buildings on 431 acres of campus. That’s approximately one restroom for every 1,221 students; one restroom for every 10
There are ways to be supportive that go beyond signing the petitions or protesting at the rallies — how we show up for one another during the quiet moments in between is an equally important part of solidarity, awareness and respect. acres of campus; and 82 percent of campus buildings without a single non-gender segregated restroom inside. In the National Geographic documentary of my life, this is where the music grows somber and the camera zooms in on my face as I cast a forlorn look just slightly offscreen. The narrator drones in a deep timbre: “The prospects for safe and immediate relief are, sadly, scarce.” I am not under any impression that creating a new bathroom or converting an existing one is a simple or inexpensive process. I understand that progress at this level takes time, money and labor — all of which are things that a public institution does not always have in abundance. In the meantime, it is our job as colleagues, allies, friends and neighbors to be mindful of how these issues continue to affect one another. There are ways to be supportive that go beyond signing the petitions or protesting at the rallies — how we show up for one another during the quiet moments in between is an equally important part of solidarity, awareness and respect. Bust through the fourth wall of that documentary. Don’t just describe what’s happening and what needs to change — ask what you can do in the meantime. O’Rear is an MA student in the Performance as Public Practice program in the Department of Theatre and Dance.
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We deserve to be alive, to be OK. I am an example for you. I have a lot of privilege, but I come from a lot of oppression as well. I am a trans man of color, I come from a single mother, I grew up in poverty, English is my second language and reaching out saved my life. … I would say: Seek your networks, find your resources, repeat to yourself, “I deserve to be alive, I deserve to be OK, I belong in this world, and it will happen, I will find a way to get the support that I need.” Sebastian Colon-Otero is a psychotherapist in the Counseling and Mental Health Center.
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Those who came before me, the legacies within me
By Dora Santana
Daily Texan Forum Contributor
Being the only Afro-Latina trans woman in a Ph.D. program at UT — that I am aware of — does not make me feel special. Instead, I am reminded that public institutions such as this one are continually complicit in the systematic exclusion of black trans people. My presence at UT is a constant reminder of the absence of those whose legacies and collective efforts have helped me to stay alive and achieve a level of privilege, unlike many in the intersecting communities to which I belong. I am indebted to all those legacies: the legacy of resistance of black poor mothers in the African Diaspora that gave my mother — a single parent Brazilian black woman illiterate domestic worker warrior — the strength to raise her only child with a focus on the transformative potential of education; the legacy of trans women of color, whose fierceness has enabled us to create movements and strategies that assure each other’s survival, despite the fact that those very movements are co-opted by anti-blackness
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and homonormativity with attempts to erase us; the legacy of black feminist/trans/ queer/diasporic theorizing that has taught me to create language for our experiences where there is only violence and silence; the legacy of the Black Department that still resists by not only creating space for rigorous academic endeavor but also for activist engagement; and the legacy of ancestors whose memory and energy also walk with me. I call the attention not only to the need of our presence at this University, but also to the need of the University to be a space for us. Self-identification and agency should be prioritized in place of bureaucracy and “making sure you’re trans” interviews. Transphobia and anti-blackness racism is not the issue of a specific department or center that is “failing” to do the work. That explanation is pervasive and simplistic and is used to shift accountability and blame away from the greater campus community. Simple things, such as having our preferred names VISIBLE on UT systems would save us the work of being “proactive” and stop placing the responsibility of educating an entire campus on us! And yet, there are a few communities at UT that keep me sane, loved and academically motivated. As I move about on campus, I walk with that love and those legacies within me. Being the only one is a problem, not an achievement. Santana is a Ph.D. student in African and African Diaspora Studies.
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Mobile gaming leads to demographics shift By Brian O’Kelly
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With the rising popularity of mobile games, suicidal birds, crushed candy and half-naked Vikings commonly grace any smartphone owner’s screen. Mobile games, such as Clash of Clans, have become a gold mine generating millions of dollars in daily revenue. While the mobile scene was previously considered a passing trend, mobile games are now drawing in millions of consumers who hadn’t given gaming the time of day in the past. With its success, mobile platforms have turned people from all demographics into gamers. While people once saw gaming as a masculine hobby, females now make up 78 percent of mobile gamers, according to the Entertainment Software Association. This change isn’t just in relation to gender — groups of all ages have increased their playtime since the rise of mobile games with the average gamer ranging from their late 30s to early 40s. Despite existing for decades, gaming has recently seen booms in its user base, a trend exclusively because of mobile gaming. Eighty-seven percent of all gamers are now playing mobile games, surpassing all other platforms in number of players. Paul Toprac, associate director for game design and development at UT, said most
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users don’t realize the mobile games they play belong to the same family as traditional forms of gaming. “When I talk to a grandmother, I say ‘Hey, do you play any video games?’ and they say no staunchly,” Toprac said. “But then I ask them, ‘Hey, have you heard of Candy Crush?’ and they say, ‘Yeah, I play that all the time.’ It seems that most people just aren’t making the connection that they are playing video games.” This isn’t the first time this phenomenon has occurred. It wasn’t long ago that people had blistered hands from spamming the invite button on Facebook’s FarmVille. Users seem to have transitioned their FarmVille addiction for smartphone games, which are more readily available. Radiotelevision-film lecturer Sheldon Pacotti, lead writer for the critically acclaimed video game Deus Ex, said transitions in gaming occur alongside changes in technology accessible to users. “Mobile gaming is just one more touchpoint in the evolution of gaming,” Pacotti said. “And the increased inclusion is the most positive thing that has happened for it.” Pacotti said the success of the mobile gaming market stems from people’s desire to bring games into their lives. “Human nature is geared toward play,” Pacotti said. “The convenience of having games on accessible devices — such
as a phone or tablet — gives us a popular outlet to curb our desire to play.” Unlike previous forms of gaming, mobile games offer the accessibility that consoles and older handheld gaming devices lacked. This allows a
less dedicated audience to entertain themselves for minutes at a time, not hours. Whether it’s waiting for friends, riding the bus or passing time before class, gamers can escape boredom for a brief moment with mobile
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Freshman makes immediate mark By Aaron Torres
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When freshman forward Alexa Adams strolls onto the soccer field, the lean freshman forward comes off as quiet. “But she’s not,” senior goalkeeper Abby Smith said. Around her teammates, her personality shines through. “She’s dynamic,” head coach Angela Kelly said. “She has a wonderful personality.” Adams is an 18-year-old from Lancaster, California. Saturday against thenranked No. 8 UCLA, she scored the game-winning goal in the 61st minute. It was her first career goal, but she’s used to scoring. In four seasons at Quartz Hill High School, she racked up 102 goals. “She certainly isn’t afraid to compete,” Kelly said. Even though she’s willing to compete, Adams still battles the transition from high school and club soccer to playing Division I. The move was tough for her, but she’s not alone. “I think it’s hard for everybody,” Smith said. “The transition is different for everyone coming away from home — so California for her — it’s a different environment.” It’s a different environment with different weather and different teammates. It’s also 1,400 miles and a 4-hour, 15-minute plane ride away from her parents, Robert and LaDeana, and
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her 15-year-old sister, Carissa. When Adams was here for summer school, she got homesick. The support of her new teammates helped her cope. “The teammates that we have here — they’re really supportive and help you through anything that you need,” Adams said. It was her teammates who took her in when she missed home, Smith said. They showed her the best places to go out to eat in Austin. Now they have team bonding moments at their favorite restaurants, which include Baby A’s, Cabo Bob’s and Chick-fil-A. “We always take the
young ones under our wings and kind of just give her confidence to know that she can come on the field and contribute as much as possible,” senior forward Kelsey Shimmick said. Adams’ teammates and Kelly can vouch that she’s a hard worker. She gives everything she’s got in practice, they say. She talks to volunteer assistant coach Kristine Lilly after practice about offensive tactics and ways to get better. “Even during practice, she’ll pull me aside and be like, ‘Make this run better, spin out, get the ball, call for the ball,’” Adams said. “Just basic things
like that.” She’s still a freshman, but Kelly said she’s more than just a freshman. “When they step on campus, we consider them a Texas Longhorns soccer player,” Kelly said. “They’re no longer a freshman.” Adams will probably play here for four years, so fans can watch her grow as a person and an athlete. Her next step: The Longhorns’ (2-2-1) Thursday night match against Oregon State (4-0-1) at Mike A. Myers Stadium. The last time Texas set foot on a field, it upset UCLA. Last time the Longhorns played at home,
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Athletics paves way in transgender policy 1995 TITLE IX | COLUMN
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By Jori Epstein
Daily Texan Sports Editor @JoriEpstein
Xiaomin Xue always felt like something was off. He grew up in an Asian Christian household in Houston after moving from China at the age of eight. He played and managed sports teams through high school, matriculated to this University and was close with his family. Still, something wasn’t right. It wasn’t until Xue, a physical culture and sports senior, came to the 40 Acres – still identifying as female – that he learned about the transgender and LGBT community. “That’s when it all clicked,” Xue said. Although awareness is growing tremendously, transgender individuals — those who identify as a gender other than the one
they were assigned at birth — still compose a small minority in the country. The community represented just three-tenths of 1 percent of the population in 2011. Even in 2013, only 9 percent of Americans knew of close relatives or friends who identified as transgender. As society learns more about the evolving gender spectrum, questions arise. Athletics generate many of these questions. In a realm where hormones influence ability and outcome, athletics departments aim to promote inclusivity while maintaining a competitive balance between athletes with different hormonal makeups. For Xue, sports were a source of stability as he transitioned genders. Participating in UT’s intramural program as an athlete, referee and supervisor, Xue found solace at RecSports. His reconstruction surgery and testosterone treatments were stressful, but intramural events
offered relief. Darci Doll, senior assistant director of RecSports, seeks to provide this support. “We permit students to participate as whichever gender they prefer to identify as with the University,” Doll said. “We want all students to feel comfortable participating.” Athletics officials around the country have become a model for transgender accommodation. Policies consider scientific research, upholding two principles: competitive balance and consistency. The former requires those transitioning from male to female to take hormones for a year before participating as female; the latter rules that those transitioning from female to male may participate as male without wait, but once an athlete chooses to play as male, he can’t flip back. “Mostly, we want to be sure that there aren’t limitations imposed on any students that are unnecessary,” said Amy Cassell,
who developed policy for an Oklahoma secondary school association. “[We] provide some guidelines [for schools] to determine what gender the student-athlete should participate with.” Policies at the collegiate level follow similar rulings. The national intramural association is more lenient, following an equity, diversion and inclusion statement to promote transgender student participation. The NCAA’s office of inclusion released a detailed guide following similar principles to the Oklahoma ruling, explaining the nuances of gender, scientific considerations and recommended measures for smoothly integrating transgender athletes onto teams. The guide also emphasizes the importance of re-evaluating policies to reflect updated research. For athletes like Xue, these guides are critical. He said identifying as transgender isn’t a choice and
If playing sports makes a student happy, we will do everything in our power to make it happen. —Darci Doll, Senior assistant director of RecSports
hopes it won’t restrict his athletic opportunities. As awareness and acceptance of the gender spectrum continues to rise, society will likely trend toward more inclusivity. In the meantime, athletes like Xue and Bailar will take to the courts, fields and pools. On the 40 Acres, they’ll also compete in intramural games. Doll and the intramural staff will ensure that. “If playing sports makes a student happy, we will do everything in our power to make it happen,” Doll said.
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Running, academics define Turnbull’s senior year By Tyler Horka @TexasTy95
With only one year left to train and compete on the 40 Acres, senior track and cross country runner Brady Turnbull continues to elevate his aspirations both on and off the track. Turnbull came to Texas four years ago with an athletic résumé loaded with accolades from his high school career in Frisco. In his junior and senior seasons in high school, Turnbull claimed regional championships in cross country, in addition to a second overall finish in the state cross country meet his senior year. At Texas, Turnbull has continued to excel, most notably in track and field events as a distance runner; however, perhaps
his biggest accomplishment was not obtained on the track but in the classroom. “I’m pretty goal-oriented,” Turnbull said. “After stepping on campus my freshman year, it was my goal to get into McCombs [School of Business]. I was aware of how competitive McCombs is and immediately decided it was where I want to learn.” After two semesters on campus, Turnbull had the credentials to enroll in the business classes he previously dreamed of. The same competitive flare that drives Turnbull academically pushes him athletically. “Being a runner, it’s not your lack of ability or skill that keeps you from being successful,” Turnbull said. “It’s how hard you train everyday and your discipline.”
Turnbull credits his overall work ethic and dedication to taking care of his body for triumphs on the track. Similarly, he credits his self-control and determination for attaining desired scholastic goals. “Seeing that connection is very easy from a training standpoint,” Turnbull said. “Your coaches and teammates support you, but at the end of the day, it’s just you and your running. It’s the same way in the classroom. Your teachers and classmates might support you, but it’s you that takes the test.” While self-reliance plagues college students as one of the most demanding skills necessary to acquire upon moving away from home, Turnbull remains unperturbed by the pressure that comes with being a student athlete.
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The track team leads the pack in the Texas Invitational in Austin on April 11. Both the men and women’s teams placed first.
“I can only control myself,” Turnbull said. “In certain situations, it’s all on me.” As his time competitively running at Texas comes to a close, Turnbull said running has helped prepare him for his future off the track.
“Running helps me in everything I do,” Turnbull said. “Working within a team, I can’t force anyone to do anything, but I can help lead them in the right direction. It will be similar when working with my peers in the workplace.”
The Dallas Cowboys played the Broncos on Sept. 10 in their second game of the year, winning 31-21. Dallas won their fifth Super Bowl that year.
SPORTS BRIEFLY Men’s basketball to begin play in China
Men’s head basketball coach Shaka Smart will make his debut when the Longhorns play Washington on Nov. 13 in Shanghai. The Pac-12 has teamed up with the Alibaba Group, the world’s largest online and mobile commerce company, which is based in China, to sponsor the game. This marks the first time a professional or collegiate sports team has held a regular season game in China. “Part of this is connecting the dots and talking about great NBA players like Kevin Durant, LaMarcus Aldridge, Tristan Thompson and where they came from,” Pac-12 commissioner Larry Scott said in a conference call Wednesday. Tickets for the game went on sale Aug. 24, but a current number of tickets sold was not available. The game will be held at the Mercedes-Benz Arena, which can hold 18,000. Alibaba vice chairman Joe Tsai said one of the game objectives is to create an academic experience. “You’re going to have the student athletes on our Alibaba campus, so there’s going to be an opportunity for a two-way exchange,” Tsai said. —Akshay Mirchandani
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PostSecret founder to speak at Long Center By Katie Walsh @katiewalsh_atx
A postcard that reads “Everybody that knew me before 9/11 thinks I am dead,” was waiting inside PostSecret’s founder Frank Warren’s Maryland mailbox. The anonymous card is one of dozens that Warren receives daily, each with intimate secrets scrawled on the back and no return address. With his art project PostSecret, Warren invites people to write a secret they’ve never shared on a postcard and send it anonymously to Warren’s address. He reads every single one — over a million to date — and publishes them to the PostSecret blog. On Thursday at 7:30 p.m., Warren will read some of the life-changing secrets he’s received during a live multimedia event at the Long Center. “I think of PostSecret as a celebration of secrets,” Warren said. “Even though there are some heavy ones, there are certainly funny ones and hopeful ones. It kind of touches every part of the spectrum.” From confessions of writing gay fan fiction during class to admissions of infidelity, Warren has seen it all. He said sometimes people tape items to the postcard such as naked photos or military dog tags, but the items he receives most often are wedding rings and razor blades. He saves everything. He said he will post any secret, no matter how controversial, as long as it sounds authentic and abides by his two rules — no glitter and no blood. After two failed postcardrelated art projects, Warren
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Frank Warren is the founder and curator of an art project that encourages people to send him their secrets on a postcard. Through his project PostSecret, Frank has received over a million secrets, and read every one of them.
launched the PostSecret blog in 2005 in search of something fun and meaningful. Eventually the blog went viral, reaching over 700 million hits to date. “I had this belief that most people have these rich interior lives they don’t get a chance to share,” Warren said. “But if I could find a way to earn people’s trust so they could share those stories, it could really be something special.”
Although it was never his intention, Warren said PostSecret became a way for him to reconcile buried secrets of his own. Having lived through a difficult childhood, Warren said reading other people’s secrets gives him a sense of solidarity. “I started recognizing my own secrets in the postcards [I received] from strangers,” Warren said. “I didn’t think I was doing [PostSecret] for
myself, but it turned out to be just as helpful for me.” Warren said there is something universally compelling about reading and writing secrets that have never been shared before. The readers benefit from understanding they are not alone in their struggles, and the authors benefit from the relief of finally sharing a secret they’ve cooped up inside. At the live multimedia
event Thursday, Warren will call audience members to share their cooped-up secrets in front of the audience. He said he also plans to project postcards onto the wall and discuss the stories behind the secrets as well as discuss a few of his own. Over the course of 10 years, PostSecret has inspired an exhibit at the Smithsonian National Postal Museum as well as a play,
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Studio art graduate students receive UMLAUF art award By Matt Robertson @mattrobertson15
Visitors exploring Austin’s UMLAUF Sculpture Garden this year can expect to find a giant banana fountain and a BDSM angel courtesy of UT studio art graduate students and UMLAUF Prize winners Grace Lee Lawrence and Ryan Hawk. The UNLAWF honors outstanding UT graduate studio art students for their work with a cash award and an exhibition. The award usually goes to a single individual, but for the first time in 10 years, two artists received the honor. Lawrence and Hawk will display their work at the UMLAUF Sculpture Garden & Museum starting Thursday at 6 p.m. “[Lawrence and Hawk] were two outliers that were very strong but very different, almost yin and yang,“ UMLAUF juror Suzanne Booth said. “It was decided the institution could support two of these artists. So, that was the decision, and I was
five books and a potential TV series for 2016. “I just try and follow where it leads and not screw up the relationship I’ve established with strangers,” Warren said. “This formula has worked, and people have trusted me with these deep, deep secrets that they wouldn’t share anywhere else. I think that relationship is what makes the project so special.”
happy about that because I couldn’t decide between the two.” The UMLAUF sculpture garden, located in Austin, showcases the work of American sculptor Charles Umlauf, who specialized in bronze sculptures. Lawrence, the artist behind the banana fountain piece, said her and Hawk’s reactions to existing Umlauf sculptures of men and women served as inspiration. “We were able to think about the work we were doing and the connections in it, and that helped us to continue pushing each other along the way in both supporting and being critical,” Lawrence said. “We both shifted our gears toward the sculptures and reacted to Umlauf ’s work in similar yet different ways.” For Lawrence, the relationships between the figures stood out to her. One of UMLAUF’s sculptures named “The Kiss” shows a man embracing a woman. Lawrence said she and Umlauf might have opposing
perspectives, and she struggled with what she sees as his objectification of women. “I’m not trying to pose an answer but instead question what is happening in there,” Lawrence said. “‘The Kiss’ struck me as this really specific power dynamic that I was not particularly fond of. It’s this push and pull for me. It’s this beautiful space, yet looking at some of the ways bodies are portrayed can be challenging.” While Hawk said he agreed that many of the women figures weren’t portrayed positively, he said he intended his work to be a response to the heteronormative perspective of Umlauf ’s work. “There are a lot of nude females in classically objectified poses, and I took issue with that,” Hawk said. “I wonder how he got away with doing that in the ’50s through ’90s, when feminism took sprout. When Umlauf sculpted a male, it was always a god or angel.”
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Studio art graduate students and UMLAUF award recipients Ryan Hawk, left, and Gracelee Lawrence, right, display their creative art work at the UMLAUF Sculpture Garden & Museum.
UT alumnus Joey Ovalle and his local indierock band The Manifest Electric released its debut album Wild on Tuesday.
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The Manifest Electric releases first full-length album, ‘Wild’ By Brandi Davis @thedailytexan
Sounds of claps, shouts and doo-wops bounce off the recording studio’s walls as indie rock band The Manifest Electric records it’s debut album, Wild. The group’s lyrics explore the chaotic period of being an almost-adult — the struggles of loans, career choices and being a 20-something. Last year, three of the band members started playing together in UT’s Queer Chorus, a former UT music group. UT grad student Joey Ovalle, the band’s vocalist, guitarist and keyboardist, brought the band members together. The loss of Ovalle’s closest friend, who originally urged him to play music, inspired Wild, which the band released Tuesday. “There’s a song about him right in the middle of the album, and it is the barest song with just vocals and guitar,” Ovalle said. “That’s why it begins: ‘I’m lonely, only breathing to get through the night’ because I just felt like I was putting one foot in front of the other. I couldn’t imagine living life without him.” The Manifest Electric
worked with Tim Dittmar, a professor of music at Austin Community College, to record the album out of the studio in his home. They did all of the recording for the album in two days. For vocalist Tori Spurgeon, it was her first time recording in a studio. “We had a song that we learned 12 hours before the studio, and it had a difficult stacked chord, which sounds like a wave almost,” Ovalle said. “[Spurgeon] was so nervous because she was the last part to the chord, but she was perfect. I was so proud in that moment because I knew she could do it.” The band has played at many venues in Austin including Spider House and Lucky Lounge. Along the way, they have experienced some mishaps including tripping up the stairs at Spider House, being chased by deer after a late-night practice and choking on water while recording. “I drank some water while we were recording a song, and it went down the wrong pipe,” Ovalle said. “I tried to get as far away from the mic as I could and started having a coughing fit. If you listen to the record
loud, you can hear me in the background.” Vocalist Tori Randall said she loves how relatable the album is and enjoys the ’60s vibe of the music. She said her favorite song on the album is “Lana.” “It’s where I am in my life,” Randall said. “It has lyrics like ‘All of your friends are married and having babies’ and ‘I’d rather die than see you again.’ I love that the song is upbeat, and the lyrics kind of hit you. It’s well written for our age group, and I love singing it.” Josette Chen, a close friend of the band members, said she likes how listeners can connect to the music on Wild. “The band creates a safe space where you can be confident and be yourself,” Chen said. “It’s a space with genuine people who aren’t faking anything, and the lyrics are catchy but meaningful. Anyone can relate to them.” UT alumnus Cole Ourso, the band’s bassist, said the band has become a support system. The group often helps members get through the hardships that come
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