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SG approves food truck initiative By Nashwa Bawab @nashwabawab
Student Government approved an initiative Tuesday supporting the addition of food trucks to campus. The legislation will allow SG members to work with appropriate administrative entities to bring vendors to campus and approve locations for food trucks to operate. The food trucks are anticipated to arrive near the Student Activity Center by February 2016, when
a new portion of the plaza will be completed, according to SG President Xavier Rotnofsky. Dylan Adkins, SG representative and co-author of the legislation, said he wanted to bring an Austin atmosphere to campus by bringing an Austin tradition to UT. “Food trucks are a part of Austin life,” Adkins said. “We wanted to bring some of Austin life onto campus and just make Austin home for us and home for all the
freshman, sophomore, juniors and seniors.” A request for proposal with the list of possible food truck vendor options was sent to University Unions and includes vendors such as Torchy’s Tacos, The Peached Tortilla and Chi’lantro, according to Rotnofsky. The list of vendors is not yet official but was curated by opinions from the SG assembly in order to get an idea of what students
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Dylan Adkins, left, and Connor Madden are the co-authors of the Student Government initiative which would allow food trucks to operate on campus.
Limited funds keep shuttle service crowded By Lauren Florence @laurenreneeflo
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CAMPUS
By Catherine Marfin
WEST CAMPUS
The West Campus UT shuttle bus route will not see an increase in service any time soon, despite the crowded conditions during peak hours, according to an official at Capital Metro. Amy Peck, communications specialist at Capital Metro, said Capital Metro is aware of the crowding problem on the West Campus shuttle route, but limited funds and increased service costs prevent the transportation service from adding more buses to the route. “[W]e are actually in an agreement with UT, and from year to year, we basically receive a certain amount of funding from that service, and from year to year, the cost of it goes up for just providing
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Fourth-year biology senior Enrique Villanueva waits to board a West Campus shuttle Tuesday. Students have faced the effects of increasingly overcrowded shuttles and are encouraged to look into alternate options for commuting.
Beginning spring 2016, students and faculty will be able to walk between the Belo Center for New Media and the Jesse H. Jones Communication Center without ever touching the pavement of the street. Largely funded by the Moody Foundation’s $50 million contribution in 2013, the Moody College of Communication’s sky bridge project was approved by members of the Austin City Council in early June and is set to be completed in late February or early March. Moody’s director of communications Nick Hundley said the bridge is for more than just the practical benefits it will provide. “When the Belo Center was designed, it was understood that a bridge between the Belo Center and the Moody College would be constructed if funding became available,” Hundley said. “The bridge provides a physical and symbolic connection between the major Moody College of Communication structures on campus.” Journalism junior Khortlyn Cole said she feels other issues should take priority over the bridge construction. “The bridge is a really good idea, but I don’t think it will be worth all the construction that will ensue,” Cole said. “I’d rather see the money go to the underfunded student media here on campus. The bridge just doesn’t seem worth it.” Journalism junior Briana Santiago said she feels the advantages of the bridge
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RESEARCH
Committee seeks Green Fee renewal
Study: Hormone levels affect leadership skills
By Rund Khayyat @rundkhayyat
The UT Green Fee Committee hosted a session Tuesday to inform students about the possibilities of reinstating the fee after receiving tentative permission from the UT System to move forward, according to Jaclyn Kachelmeyer, former director of the Campus Environmental Center. The Green Fee is $5 collected per semester tuition bill that is applied to sustainability efforts and initiatives prescribed by the committee. The fee has spearheaded environmental change on campus, according to Kachelmeyer. “The Green Fee is one of the leading forces for sustainability on campus,” Kachelmeyer, a Plan II and international relations and geography senior, said. “It’s the one primary outlet for students to push for the environmental changes they
By Eunice Ali @euniceali
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A research team including UT psychology professor Robert Josephs found male executives with high levels of testosterone and the stress hormone cortisol tend to have higherranking jobs. The study, published last month, was conducted at Harvard University by five researchers led by Gary Sherman, former postdoctoral researcher at Harvard Kennedy School of Government. His thensupervisor Jennifer Lerner, Harvard public policy and management professor, was the one who brought the team together. Josephs joined the team after Lerner invited him to Harvard to give a talk. “This is [a] very collaborative [effort],” Sherman said. “The original idea and hypothesis came from
Briana Vargas| Daily Texan Staff
Karen Blaney, program coordinator for the Office of Sustainability, addressed students Tuesday regarding the UT Green Fee.
want to see, to be invested, to learn, to create jobs and to be a more environmentally friendly campus.” The Green Fee was made possible by HB 3353, which was passed in the 81st Tex-
as Legislature and allowed Texas campuses to implement environmental service fees for a five-year term. In 2009, Student Government issued a referendum to apply the Green Fee at the Univer-
sity beginning in 2011. This year, the final year of the fee’s implementation, its extension has been complicated by the state law’s ambiguous renewal terms.
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the work [Josephs] published several years ago.” Participants were 78 male executives aged 33– 65 from the government, military, law enforcement and defense sectors who enrolled in the Harvard executive education program. Each participant had his saliva sample taken and was asked how many people report to him at work. No women participated in the study because testosterone levels do not fluctuate much in women. Results showed individuals with high testosterone and low cortisol levels are more likely to hold highstatus positions, while those with high testosterone and high cortisol levels are not. “These are hormonal fingerprints of successful leaderships,” Josephs said.
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