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APD enforces ‘Don’t Block the Box’ By Lauren Florence
moving past when the signal turns red. Blocking the box is illegal throughout Texas, and in an effort to reduce congestion, the Austin Police Department and the transportation department implemented the enforcement campaign in April 2015. “It’s important not to block the box because it prevents vehicles from traveling through the intersection,” an official
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The traffic reduction campaign Don’t Block the Box is shifting enforcement locations to streets near campus starting Monday. The campaign is intended to reduce cars blocking the box, which is when cars stop in the middle of an intersection and block traffic from
press release read. “Blocking the box not only causes traffic delays; it causes safety concerns for pedestrians trying to use the crosswalk, and emergency vehicles navigating the roads.” During rush hour times from 7 a.m. to 9 a.m. and from 4 p.m. to 6:30 p.m., police officers will be at various intersections on Guadalupe Street including, Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, 21st Street, 24th
Street and Dean Keeton Street. Officers stationed at the intersections will be looking for behaviors that interrupt traffic flow, such as failure to yield to pedestrians, blocking intersections and failure to stop at the proper place, according to the press release. Officers will be issuing tickets to any offenders, whether it’s drivers, cyclists or pedestrians. Biochemistry sophomore
Ed Desai said he feels increased enforcement of the law is beneficial to pedestrians when cars block crosswalks, but student pedestrians could also be more aware of when they interrupt traffic by jaywalking. “[I] feel that walking here is kind of dangerous sometimes,” Desai said. “Even on campus, students don’t stop driving,
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UNIVERSITY
National sexual assault report released By Matthew Adams @MatthewAdams60
Almost one-fifth of female undergraduate students at the University have been victims of sexual assault, either by force or incapacitation during their time at UT, according to the results of a sexual assault survey released Monday. UT was one of 27 schools to participate in the survey, which was conducted by the Association of American Universities. According to an AAU press release, the survey conducted between April 2015 and May 2015 collected responses from more than 150,000 undergraduate, graduate and professional students from member universities. The survey conducted was one of the largest in scale performed in terms of the number of institutions
Almost 1 in 5 female undergraduates have been sexually assaulted since arriving at UT.
43.3% 75.7% 25.6%
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of students who responded reported they had witnessed a drunken person heading for a sexual encounter. of bystanders indicated they did nothing about the situation. of witnesses who did nothing said they did so because they were not sure what to do.
Source: Survey conducted by the Association of American Universities Infographic by Lilian Michel, Kelly Smith and Iliana Storch | Daily Texan Staff
take some type of action.
CAMPUS
By Rachel Freeman @rachel_frmn
Advocate: Healthcare system must be inclusive of minorities Minority communities are often left out of conversations about mental healthcare due in part to a stigma, Dior Vargas said at a lecture Monday. Vargas, a Latina feminist and mental health advocate, spoke about the intersection of mental health and race by detailing her personal experiences with suicidal thoughts during a lecture hosted by UT’s Counseling and Mental Health Center as a part of
Groups meet to discuss concerns over campus carry By Nashwa Bawab @nashwabawab
UT President Gregory Fenves discussed campus carry at his first Faculty Council Executive Committee meeting Monday. At the meeting, Fenves said UT System Chancellor Bill McRaven wants any gun rules passed to have consistency among all 14 UT System institutions. Fenves must submit his preliminary plan by Dec. 4 and said he will be working with the UT community to make sure safety is addressed and is made a priority. “Campus carry passed. It is state law,” Fenves said. “As president of a university, as head of a state agency, I am responsible for carrying out the law, and we will do that in a responsible way, and of course, the safety of all members of our community is of the utmost importance, and how we address that safety and comply with the law is the work of this task group that we have put together.” The Campus Carry Policy Group is meeting weekly to discuss the work of their subgroups for safety and security, communication and training, reviewing online comments and proactive measures, ac-
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West Point speaker explains need for military innovation
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Mental health advocate Dior Vargas spoke Monday night about depression and mental health among minority groups at the Student Activity Center.
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Suicide Prevention Week. Katy Reed, assistant director for prevention and outreach at the CMHC, said the goal of Suicide Prevention Week is to raise awareness about suicide and mental health on campus to start conversations among students and to encourage them to seek help. “We think [Vargas’] People of Color and Mental Illness photo project is a great way to bring awareness to our students that mental illness is really an issue that affects everybody,” Reed said. Vargas said she works to
change the perception of mental illness within “communities of color.” The combination of racism and the collection of individual biases influence diagnosis rates, according to Vargas. “The reason why there are so many misdiagnoses or severe diagnosis when it comes to people of color is because there is this institutionalized racism and the intersectionality of people’s experiences,” Vargas said. Mishelle Verduzco, international relations and global
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Colonel Liam Collins, director of West Point’s Defense and Strategic Studies Program, advocated military wartime innovation improvements over the past few decades at a lecture held Monday. Collins came to UT as part of The Robert S. Strauss Center’s International Security Speaker Series, a series of global policy lectures featuring experts from various disciplines. His speech included topics such as Special Operations Forces and counterterrorism, in addition to military innovation. Collins said he thinks military innovation is important as a way for the military to constantly improve and adapt to new situations. “We need innovation because no matter what we predict the next conflict will be, we will always be wrong,” Collins said. “Innovation cycles, though, can always be used to adapt to whatever situation we find ourselves in. We have to understand what allows us to innovate and have leaders that can innovate.” In a change from previous years, the topics and speak-
ers of the series were determined based on the research of the graduate students in The Brumley Next Generation Fellows Program. This program is in its inaugural year and pulls students from different graduate departments on campus to study issues across the spectrum of international security and foreign affairs. Jodi Rosenstein, a Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs second-year Ph.D. student, is a member of this program, and her research was the basis for inviting Collins to
speak. Rosenstein said she was grateful to have an expert such as Collins give insight into the topic she is researching. “His contributions to national security are too many to go into detail,” Rosenstein said. “His academic and military accomplishments are impressive, and now he is honing the next generation of military minds. We are lucky to have him as a speaker. It gives us all an opportunity to benefit from his strategic and academic knowledge.”
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Jack DuFon | Daily Texan Staff
Colonel Liam Collins, director of West Point Academy’s Defense and Strategic Studies Program, discusses counterterrorism, special operations and military innovation on Monday afternoon.
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