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UT expands system of online courses

By Matthew Adams @MatthewAdams60

Since the UT System move began enrollment for massive open online courses in 2013, also known as MOOCs, the program has expanded to reach a wide audience of students.

MOOCs are free online courses and are open to anyone who wants to enroll. Currently, the System has 24 MOOCs

across four campuses. At UTAustin, there are 19 courses with over 493,000 students.

This nearly doubled the approximate 281,000 students who enrolled between fall 2013 and spring 2014.

“MOOCs were viewed as a way to project the UT presence globally, accelerate the development of new technology on campuses and showcase our leading faculty,” Steven Mintz,

executive director of the UT System’s Institute for Transformational Learning, said. “Since 2013 when the first MOOCs appeared, more than 585,000 students registered in mid August. They have gone up since then so we are probably looking at 600,000 or more.”

As part of this expansion, Mintz said the UT campuses are experimenting with different ways of deliver-

ing these courses across the world. Currently UT has a sublicensing agreement with a foundation in Jordan to translate the UT-Austin MOOCs into Arabic, and the University works with universities in China to translate courses into Mandarin.

Harrison Keller, deputy to the president for strategy and policy, said UT is continuing to address the design of

MOOCS 2013–2014 school year: About 281,000 students UT–Austin students through mid-August: 493,788 UT System total students mid–August: 585,317

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The Life Sciences Library is one of over a dozen libraries on campus. As the cost of traditional research journals rises, open access journals has emerged as an alterantive for UT Libraries that keeps UT at the forefront of academic publishing.

collections budget.

“It’s very hard to understand why that increase has to be so high,” Haricombe said of the inflation rate. “Obviously they’re a business. They need to make money. But the question and concern is ‘[Is] it necessary to have that kind of profit?’”

But Haricombe said she sees

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almost the same in 2016.

The cause of the inflation, Haricombe said, is that a small number of publishers — known as “The Big Five” — have the market cornered. Libraries have been forced to “manage, but not expand” over the last few years, investing with relative rarity in new materials outside the

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opportunity in open access — for financial and philosophical reasons. Although the idea is not new, Haricombe said she hopes to establish a more serious focus on the concept at UT, declaring the 2015–2016 school year as “the year of open.”

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at least $9 million of that money annually.

According to a study by “Library Journal” published in April, journal prices from 2014 to 2015 increased by around 7 percent, a level of inflation almost nine times the overall U.S. inflation rate. The study projects that increase to remain

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The College of Fine Arts may add a bachelor of science in arts and entertainment technology degree program to their 2016–2018 undergraduate catalog.

The new degree program, which the Faculty Council Executive Committee recently voted in favor of, still awaits approval from UT President Gregory Fenves before the decision is finalized by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, according to Andrew Dell’Antonio, associate dean of undergraduate studies in the College of Fine Arts.

Dell’Antonio said the program offers students experience in music, game and digital art production. Arts and entertainment technology is currently offered by the College of Fine Arts through the Bridging Disciplines program, and students can currently take courses under the AET prefix, according to Dell’Antonio.

“We are hoping to open the degree to freshmen in fall 2016. It is possible that some of the students currently taking AET courses will be able to elect the degree in fall 2016 as well,” Dell’Antonio said. “[The Bridging Disciplines] certificate will continue, but since it has been expanding greatly and putting pressure on resources, this Bachelor of Science in Arts and Entertainment Technologies is designed to create a more comprehensive program of study that will provide a more complete training.”

Jack Stamps, a lecturer in the College of Fine Arts who currently teaches two

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For the UT libraries, which constantly grapple with a small number of powerful, dollar-minded research journal publishers over the cost of texts, solving a minor financial crisis could entail taking a step back from the age-old industry altogether.

With spending stagnant and the cost of research journals steadily rising year-over-year, embracing the concept of open access — putting articles out freely on the Internet and skipping paywalls — has emerged as a practical work-around for the UT Libraries that also keeps UT at the forefront of academic publishing.

“The exercise remains very challenging to use limited resources,” UT library director Lorraine Haricombe said.

“Open access [is really] an attempt to reshape the scholarly communications process — to make sure the research that’s generated in terms of publications on a campus are kept.”

Records show over the last five years the library has annually spent around $13 million on materials. Journals, expensive compilations of scholarly research with titles such as “The Lancet” and “Hand Therapy,” are often bought as part of packages and typically take up

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Faculty create petition opposing campus carry

City to redesign I-35, MLK intersection

By Selah Maya Zighelboim @SelahMaya

More than 150 faculty have said they will refuse to have guns in their classrooms by signing a list circulating through social media as a response to the passage of campus carry legislation. A working group is currently developing recommendations to submit to UT President Gregory Fenves for how the policy will be implemented, including if there will be gun-free zones.

History professor Joan Neuberger co-organized the list as part of anti-campus carry group Gun-Free UT’s efforts to state their opposition to the policy, which will take effect in August 2016.

“If people feel there might be a gun in the classroom, students have said that it makes them feel like they would be

much more hesitant to raise controversial issues, and I know, as a professor, I would be hesitant to encourage students to debate really important and controversial ideas,” Neuberger said. “The classroom is a very special place, and it needs to be a safe place, and that means safe from guns.”

According to Neuberger, the list demonstrates to the campus carry working group that there is faculty opposition of the policy. Gun-Free UT has garnered more than 1,900 signatures through a change.org petition and is holding a rally on Oct. 1.

The working group will hold several public forums to register public opinion on the issue.

“These are the types of issues that the working group on campus carry will be listening to — both at this week’s public

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By Jameson Pitts

Drivers cross through the intersection of Martin Luther King Junior Boulevard and I-35, one of the most dangerous intersections in Austin.

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The Austin Transportation Department will implement $375,000 in safety improvements for the intersection of the I-35 southbound service drive and Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard.

According to the City of Austin’s website, 79 people have died so far this year on Austin roads — 15 more than the normal average in Austin for the entire year. This intersection is one of the five most dangerous intersections in Austin, according to a list developed by the transportation department in response to a request by City Council.

Upal Barua, Austin Transportation Department engineer, said the department compiled the list based on number and rate of crashes, accident severity and available engineering solutions.

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The City Council approved additional funding for the safety improvement projects identified by Austin Transportation Department in the 2015–2016 city budget, which goes into effect Oct. 1. The total estimated cost to improve all five intersections is nearly $4 million.

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Boulevard intersection has an average of 14 casualty collisions per year, making it one of the most dangerous intersections in Austin because of its high rate of collisions given its traffic volume.

“We’ll be re-striping so that we can add a lane,” Barua said. “At the same time, there might be some curb work on

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UT student amasses collection of bucket hats.

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the eastbound to southbound right turn.”

Southbound traffic entering the intersection currently has two right-turn-only lanes.

The additional lane will be added in order to convert the central right-turn-only lane to an optional right-turn or

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AET 304 classes, said, as a music composition student who graduated from UT, he wishes the degree program had come into fruition sooner.

“One of the things that puzzled me as a student was the lack of a degree or program on campus that fed more directly off of the culture of Austin — the ‘Live Music Capital of the World,’” Stamps said.

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by the College of Fine Arts,” Pennycook said.

Pennycook said he hopes the new arts and entertainment technology program will provide students with more opportunities in a job market that needs AET-type skills.

“There’s no doubt that lots of students enjoy doing things like making audio, 3-D animation, making games and graphic arts,” Pennycook said.

“All of these skills have a lot of job opportunities right now, so we think students will be able to find their way through these unique courses to find a path that truly suits their mission.”

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gram to 400 students in the next four years by adding 100 students per year into the program, according to Bruce Pennycook, director of the Center for Arts and Entertainment Technology. Pennycook said the College of Fine Arts has future plans to expand their learning spaces as the program and its counterparts continue to grow.

“All the facilities for the entire college are being reviewed by the University planning board and there’s some glimmer of hope that there might be a new facility for, not only this program, but other needs

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will not require a portfolio or audition, according to Stamps.

“I am certainly not discouraging previous experience, but the reality is this: The high school graduate interested in entertainment technology is likely already editing film in iMovie, making animations in Flash or composing electronic music in Garage Band,” Stamps said. “For me, personally, desire, passion and a commitment to doing innovative, creative things with technology is the portfolio.”

If the degree program is approved, the College of Fine Arts plans to build the pro-

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the courses.

“When we started putting courses up on the edX platform, we really didn’t have any idea who might take these courses,” Keller said. “We’ve learned a lot from the data from the part about the learner participation in these courses. We are starting to look within courses about presentations or designs of online learning in general.”

Germanic studies professor John Hoberman, who taught the “Age of Globalization” in 2013 and 2014, said he recalled a lot of people participating in his course from the United States, India, Brazil and the United Kingdom.

Teaching a large group of people, Hoberman said the work they completed showed MOOCs are just another way to educate people.

“I was very impressed, most of all, by the online discussions that these people from all over the world were having,” Hoberman said.

“One of these lessons for people that do these things is that people who complete the course for a certificate … were prepared to do it. It is not a matter of lifting people up from one level to another, as it’s serving the needs of people who are capable of doing this work.”

Hoberman said he was happy to teach this course at the University, but decided not to teach it again because of the time commitment to produce this kind of course.

Between fall 2013 and spring 2014, only 1–3 percent completed the courses.

Hoberman said he does not see low completion rates as a problem.

“All of the MOOCs I’ve ever heard of, there will be a steep drop off in the number of people who actually commit to take the course,” Hoberman said. “That is, the people who will stick with it are the ones who really want to do it.”

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continues from page 1 Under the prevailing publishing system, professors conducts research funded by universities. Seeking tenure or prestige, they submit a resulting paper to a publishing house — usually one of “The Big Five — ceding their rights to their work. The publisher then places it in a journal, packages it and sells it back to the University as part of a yearly subscription with a hefty price tag.

Representatives from SAGE Publications and Elsevier, two publishing companies, did not return requests for comment.

Under open access, a professor conducts research funded by a university. Then, the libraries take the article, publish it for free inside a digital database so anyone in the world can view and use it, and professors retain their rights to all the content, which allows them to publish the same articles in nontraditional journals.

During her stint at Kansas University, where she worked before coming to UT, Haricombe emerged as a leading proponent of open access and the wider open education movement, which is seeking to reform the way copyrighted educational materials are distributed throughout the world.

Whereas journals and textbooks previously rested behind systems like UT Scout, now they can be freely available.

Open access is calling into question the role of the journal industry as a whole, said Rich Baraniuk, who helped formulate the open-source licensing language called Creative Commons in the early 2000s and now runs OpenStax, a free textbook initiative at Rice University.

“The value of printing a paper journal and mailing them out to 20,000 is a thing of the past,” Baraniuk said. “Virtually nobody reads journals in that

way anymore.”

This is putting positive pressure on the publishers to validate their existing journals, according to Baraniuk, who also teaches engineering at Rice.

What it boils down to is the status and career leveraging they offer — some departments set publishing criteria for faculty — along with their well-established vetting processes.

“That’s what they need to focus on,” Baraniuk said. “And they need to think very carefully about how they interact with their community so the community doesn’t feel exploited.”

But open access faces several obstacles before widespread adoption, both from professors seeking to publish and from their readership.

One obstacle is the perception that free materials are usually inferior, said UT associate professor Carl Blyth, who runs the Center for Open Educational Resources and Language Learning, an office on campus that promotes inexpensive course materials.

Another is what University of Colorado librarian Jeffrey Beall calls “predatory journals,” publications that bombard professors with requests for submissions. Beall said they often end up publishing shoddy science in the open for profit.

On the website Scholarly Open Access, he’s identified well over 1,000 of these.

“They create counterfeit journals that copy the look and feel of legitimate journals, and they endlessly spam scholarly authors seeking article submissions and the fees that they bring in,” Beall said in an email.

“Many have been victimized by the predatory publishers.”

There is also a complex hierarchy of open access methods of publishing referred to by color. On one end, professors have to pay for their work to make it into a journal under the pretense that it will offer their work visibility. This has contrib-

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UT library director Lorraine Haricombe has been a major proponent of open access, or the free access to academic materials on the Internet, for quite some time, and has declared the 2015–16 school year the year of “open.”

uted significantly to the culture of predatory journals, Beall said, and this practice often excludes authors unable to provide the fee. On the other end, journals freely accept articles that may be available in databases elsewhere, but without a clear revenue stream, Beall said, they are often of poor quality.

The old system has its benefits, said Matthew Russell of the University’s Center for Teaching and Learning, and it is not going away soon.

“There are very good reasons why peer-reviewed journals that have a fee structure associated with publishing articles work the way they do,” Russell said. “Faculty can think of open access journals online as something that’s in progress. There’s a way to imagine open access as not being something that replaces peer review publications.

It should be something we think about as supplemental.”

But Russell, who has been working with the libraries to inform the campus community about opportunities in open access and open scholarship, is vehement about raising awareness of open access in a large place, he said.

“We don’t want to be revolutionary, but we also feel that the world around us is embracing these ideals,” said Russell, who is bringing a series of speakers to the University this year, starting with the open education movement luminary David Wiley on Thursday. “We can act responsibly but also be proactive about the future and making the appeal of coming to and talking about the work that’s being done at UT more expansive. And that’s what it’s about at the end of the day.”

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UT Libraries By the Numbers

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• UT libraries most recent operating budget was $31 million, of which $9 million went towards research journals.

• The libraries collected $277,000 in library fines from late and lost books.

• $15 million of the library’s most recent budget came from student tuition.

• They spent $139,281 on copyright clearances.

• During the 2003 school year, expenditures on digital resources overtook expenditures on physical resources.

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HackTX showcases students’ coding expertise

By Claire Allbright @claireallbright

More than 600 students from 10 universities competed to create viable working software in a 24 hour hackathon over the weekend.

HackTX began Saturday at 1 p.m. and concluded Sunday at 11 a.m., after which the teams were judged on innovation, usefulness and creativity. The top 10 teams then presented their work to a panel of technology CEOs and fellow students.

Parkhar Garg, co-lead director for HackTX, said HackTX supplements the classroom experience and provides students with a hands-on chance to show what they are capable of.

“The classroom is a lot of theory and computer science and engineering, but this is a place where they can learn something new and use new skills in a practical manner.” Garg said. “So it’s really about learning, exploring new frameworks and new languages and finding out what you can really do with

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Samantha Alexander, public information and marketing manager from the Austin Transportation Department, said it is too early to provide a time frame

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Neuberger said the list was inspired by a professor at UT-El Paso who declared his classroom gun free. When this happened, Gun-Free UT decided to see if they could get 100 faculty to also prohibit guns from their classrooms.

Gun-Free UT exceeded their target within two days.

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This year’s HackTX drew over 600 attendees from around Texas and the United States.

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Electrical engineering sophomore Justin Rubio worked with a team of five and said after overcoming initially difficulties, the team was able to finish their drawing software program on time. “[In the program] you could follow the movement across the board and simulate painting and draw various things,” Rubio said.

Kaveet Laxmidas, a computer science sophomore from Texas A&M, said HackTX connected students with companies in a meaningful way.

“When we talk to companies we are primarily looking at what technology they had to offer,” Laxmidas said. “When you are working directly with their stuff, they take a certain

-interest in you because you are using their technology in your own applications. That’s an opportunity to get your resume on the table, and these are companies looking to recruit for internships and jobs. You are meeting a lot of people who

for the project, considering the many steps involved.

“We’re getting started on the process immediately,” Alexander said. “The process includes contracting, design and then construction.”

Corporate communications senior Jennifer Ryan, who passes through the Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard and I-35 intersection on her daily commute, said she is concerned about how additional

construction near campus will affect commuter students.

“I am in support of safety,” Ryan said. “Hopefully they’ll wait until football season is over so not as many people are subject to the inconvenience.”

Alexander said students should remain aware of their surroundings, whether coming home from a football game or dressing to safely jog at night.

“Neons are in this season,” Alexander said.

Public relations lecturer Dave Junker said he found the list through Facebook and added his name to publicly state his opposition to campus carry. He said he hopes the law is repealed, or at least, that guns will not be allowed in classrooms, or that faculty get to determine policies in their own classrooms.

“It’s hard to imagine what I will do if a student walks into my class with a concealed weapon,” Junker said in an email. “Maybe I wouldn’t be

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able to tell. Maybe that is the worst part: never knowing if a student has a gun but having to assume that someone does.”

Biology junior Kiran Pilla, who opposes campus carry, said she does not believe the list will influence how the University implements campus carry.

“Petitions raise awareness, but I don’t think they generally impact legislation,” Pilla said. “Public opinion does not make laws. It’s not a direct democracy.”

can help you in your academic career and your future.”

Mahesh Ramchandani, head of core software development at HBK investments, mentored students throughout the hackathon. Ramchandani said he was able to brainstorms with

different groups to help develop their ideas further, and once hacking started, said he offered expertise when groups encountered roadblocks and bugs.

“This is an incredible opportunity for students to build something in a short amount of

time but also to show off their stuff,” Ramchandani said. “One thing they never taught us very well in school was how to sell ourselves, but these kids are getting the opportunity not only to build something but to show it off and promote it.”

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COLUMN

Marijuana users must be aware of effects

By Benroy Chan

Daily Texan Columnist @BenroyChan

Marijuana use for recreational purposes has become less stigmatized in recent years. Currently, four states and the District of Columbia have legalized the drug, and an increasing amount of people are viewing it as less harmful than it is.

Many information streams uphold marijuana as a drug incapable of producing serious harm, but students shouldn’t accept these evaluations at face value. Although the negative effects of marijuana may not be as severe as those of other drugs, students should still note them.

Individuals use marijuana for the effects of its main ingredient: delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC. According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), THC goes from the lungs to the bloodstream and overly stimulates certain brain receptors, leading to an induced “high.”

NIDA reports negative health effects from marijuana use, such as increased cough, phlegm and heart rate, but evidence still hasn’t proven the drug to cause cancer.

The physical effects of THC may pale in comparison to legal drugs such as tobacco and alcohol, but students shouldn’t use this as a justification. Additionally, smoking marijuana involves

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the inhalation of carbon monoxide, which interferes with the body’s normal use of oxygen.

Hemoglobin, a protein molecule in red blood cells, carries oxygen to other parts of the body.

Carbon monoxide interferes with this process, according to chemistry lecturer Kate Biberdorf.

“This is a big problem because the hemoglobin maintains the bond with the oxygen instead of releasing the oxygen to the desired location,” Biberdorf said.

But marijuana isn’t limited to physical harm.

According to Jessica Wagner, manager of the Health Promotion Research Center, marijuana use may cause a lasting, negative effect on cognitive function — an important tool for a student’s academic success.

“Occasional users experience effects on cognitive functioning, including memory, for up to 48 hours after smoking,” Wagner said. “Habitual users experience ongoing impaired ability to learn new information, which continues for up to several weeks after quitting use.”

Mechanical engineering freshman Robyn Richmond also opposes recreational use of marijuana. Like Wagner, she notes the mental effects.

“I think marijuana lessens your motivation to work hard toward your goals,” Richmond said. “It triggers your reward system by releasing dopamine, so everyday activities seem less

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appealing and less rewarding [when sober.]”

Marijuana use is definitely present at our school as 19.1 percent of students reported using the drug within the last 30 days. The effects of the drug may not seem as “bad” as others, but this

doesn’t automatically make it healthy. Students need to take this into account when deciding whether to use marijuana.

Chan is a journalism freshman from Sugar Land.

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Check out Columnist Alexander Chase’s column on the prevalence of bike theft at UT and why common practices of theft prevention are inadequate security measures.

Join us in the Texas Union’s Sinclaire Suite on Thursday, Oct. 1 at 11 a.m. for a discussion on student involvement in the international refugee crisis.

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College ranks demonstrate endemic income inequality

By Mubarrat Choudhury Daily Texan Columnist @MubarratC

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Luke Metzger, director of the advocacy group Environment Texas, presents a study at a press conference on Sept. 8 about fracking on UT System-owned lands.

Fracking safe, indispensable for higher education in Texas

By Daniel Hung

Daily Texan Columnist

Environment Texas issued a report Sept. 8 that advocates for the end of hydraulic fracturing on University Lands. Accepting this recommendation would prove disastrous for the University system and the Texas economy.

Hydraulic fracturing is a widely used process where millions of gallons of water, sand and chemicals are pumped underground to break apart the rock and release gas and oil. Groups such as Environment Texas are worried that the chemicals used in fracturing may threaten the environment and people. Their concerns, however, have not manifested themselves in the long history of hydraulic fracturing.

Ernest Smith, law professor and the Rex G. Baker Centennial Chair in Natural Resources Law, wrote about the positive impact hydraulic fracturing has made in the oil and gas industries.

“Hydraulic fracturing has enormously increased our production of oil and gas by allowing the extraction of hydrocarbons from previously impermeable strata, such as shales and tar sand,” Smith said.

Increase in production has occurred all around the world, including on University Lands.

Oil and gas leases from University Lands brought in more than $1.1 billion in just the 2014 fiscal year, according to Alyssa Ray, marketing and corporate strategy analyst for University

Lands. In comparison, tuition from more than 50,000 students only amounted to $589 million for UT-Austin in 2011.

According to Ray, approximately 95 percent of oil and gas leases on University Lands involves the use of hydraulic fracturing. Thus, the result of Environment Texas’s advocacy would be more than just the end of hydraulic fracturing on University Lands, but the complete elimination of a crucial revenue source that supports higher education in Texas.

Railroad Commissioner Christi Craddick said although Environment Texas claims that hydraulic fracturing is so dangerous to the environment and human health that it should not occur anywhere, history does not support this claim.

“For more than 60 years, hydraulic fracturing has been used safely and successfully in over 1 million wells around the world, retrieving more than 7 billion barrels of oil and 600 trillion cubic feet of natural gas,” Craddick said.

When we look at the revenue the University system derives from hydraulic fracturing, as well as the fact that it has been safely regulated, there is no good reason to prohibit it. All UT students benefit from hydraulic fracturing, so instead of stigmatizing it, we should be promoting it.

Hung is a second year law student from Brownsville.

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Students should be excited about UTAustin ranking 52nd overall and 16th among public schools in the new U.S. News & World Report college rankings. Longhorns should be proud that out of the 4,000 colleges in the United States, UT ranks in the top 1 percent.

But we are the 1 percent in more ways than college rankings.

While college ranking websites do an adequate job at reassuring the general public on the prestige of the Ivy Leagues, it also paints a different picture for America’s post-secondary education. According to a study the University of California-Los Angeles conducted, top institutions, such as UT, have a population where half the students come from families with incomes in the nation’s top 20 percent.

Conversely, this pattern applies to less prestigious colleges, such as Texas A&M-Kingsville, where half of the student population come from bottom 40 percent.

According to economics professor emeritus Daniel Hamermesh, the wealthiest private schools and top public universities get a disproportionate share of their students from well-off backgrounds.

“Of course there’s a wealth gap across schools,” Hamermesh said. “Each year, I do a survey of the family income of my Intro to Microeconomics students. Most recently, the median family income was over $120,000. That is twice the median family income nationally. Most of the students here are hardly poor.”

Although U.S. News is not solely responsible for the nation’s growing income inequality, it is responsible for perpetuating the idea that the more expensive and higher-ranked schools offer the best education — an idea that doesn’t have absolute statistical backing. In an

essay from The New Yorker, author Malcolm Gladwell wrote about problems of measurability with college rankings.

“There’s no direct way to measure the quality of an institution — how well a college manages to inform, inspire and challenge its students,” Gladwell said. “So the U.S. News algorithm relies instead on proxies for quality — and the proxies for educational quality turn out to be flimsy at best.”

Education is known as the great equalizer — that if one could work hard and attain a college degree, then he or she would be able to rise up the social ladder. But the reality of the prestigious universities doesn’t hold up to such an ideal. When institutions only have a makeup of a homogeneous student body among a certain income bracket, there will be a great divide in opportunity across the spectrum. By furthering the myth that the best schools are the ones that the wealthy attend, college rankings simply perpetuate this divide.

Robert Reich, former U.S. secretary of Labor, wrote recently about the growing opportunity advantage for prestigious institutions.

“The elite pour money into them because these institutions have educated them, and, they hope, will educate their offspring,” Reich said. “And because these institution have educated such a high proportion of America’s wealthy elite, that elite looks with particular favor on graduates of these institutions in making hiring decisions.”

Colleges are more aristocratic than meritocratic. That’s a growing problem that has contributed to and maintains the immense income inequality gap America sees today. Although income inequality in higher education is a complex and giant problem, the first step to finding a solution is acknowledging it. A culture of prestige is just no longer beneficial for America.

Choudhury is an economics freshman from Richardson.

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SPORTS BRIEFLY Men’s tennis wraps up Napa Valley Classic

Texas men’s tennis sent a four-man squad to St. Helena, California, this weekend to compete in the Porsche Napa Valley Tennis Classic.

The three-day tournament included 32 players who competed in round-robin singles and doubles competition.

Friday, the Longhorns collected three singles match wins and a doubles match victory. Senior Michael Riechmann came out victorious 6-2, 4-6, 6-2 over USTA junior Danny Thomas. After being crowned champion at last week’s Racquet Club Collegiate Invitational, freshman Harrison Scott edged a 6-2, 3-6, 6-1 win to defeat Stanford senior Nolan Paige. Texas freshman Liam Caruana, who is currently ranked No. 8 in the ITA

National Newcomer/Freshman Rankings, clutched a 6-1, 6-2 win against Stanford sophomore David Hsu. In doubles play, junior George Goldhoff paired up with Caruana to defeat their opponents 7-5.

Saturday in singles play, Riechmann beat Stanford junior Roy Lederman 7-5, 6-4. Scott defeated Princeton junior Joshua Yablon 4-6, 6-1, 6-1 in a three-set match. Scott and Riechmann teamed up in doubles to earn the Longhorns another win, emerging victorious 6-2 over California sophomore Billy Griffith and Stanford’s Lederman.

Texas continued its winning streak Sunday.

In singles play, Scott went head-to-head with USTA junior Brandon Holt and defeated him 6-1, 4-6, 6-3. Riechmann came out victorious 3-6, 6-4, 6-3 against

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In the quarterfinals shootout round, Riechmann was defeated 10-8. Caruana and Scott were both edged in the semifinals.

The Longhorns return to action next weekend in Tulsa, Oklahoma, at the ITA AllAmerican Championship.

—Alana Kaufmann

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Swimming, diving look promising in annual scrimmage

Friday’s Orange-White scrimmage in Austin proved a promising start to the men’s swimming and diving 2015–2016 season. Freshman swimmer Townley Haas broke the 200-yard freestyle meet record with his time of 1:34.84. Haas broke another meet record with his time of 4:20.89 in the 500yard freestyle. Freshman Ryan Harty and junior Will Licon shattered the 200-yard IM record with times of 1:44.74 for Harty and 1:45.05 for Licon. Junior swimmer Jack Conger won the 200-yard butterfly, and senior John Martens (above) placed second. Conger noted that he’s enjoying the great team chemistry, and although they have a lot to improve on, the scrimmage was a good start considering they have only worked on endurance thus far, no speed training. The scrimmage also featured divers Cory Bowersox, Mark Anderson and Sean O’Brien. The Longhorns compete against Florida and Indiana in their next meet Oct. 16–17 at home.

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FOOTBALL NO. 24 OKLAHOMA STATE 30 - TEXAS 27

Costly mistakes plague Texas in loss

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There’s no shortage of frustration in Texas’ locker room following its heartbreaking 30-27 loss to No. 24 Oklahoma State. The Longhorns beat themselves for the second straight week.

Texas entered the contest hoping to cut down on mistakes after a clumsy 45-44 loss to California last week.

However, the team’s blunders proved even more common — and equally costly — against the Cowboys.

“It’s nothing that someone else is doing to us,” head coach Charlie Strong said.

“We do it to ourselves, and we’re going to have to create it ourselves.”

Once again, mistakes overshadowed a performance filled with big plays. Another staggering special teams disaster was the final nail in the coffin as freshman punter Michael Dickson mishandled a snap before shanking a punt with seconds remaining. The debacle set the Cowboys up deep in Longhorn territory to kick the gamewinning field goal.

Texas also saw the return of its penalty woes, as the Longhorns drew 16 yellow flags for 128 yards. Those calls included two nullified touchdowns and a calledback interception. Late in the fourth quarter, the Longhorns’ defense also gave up 30 yards in penalties in two consecutive plays. The mishaps positioned Oklahoma State to kick a game-tying field goal.

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Head coach Charlie Strong discusses a call with the officiating crew in Texas’ 30-27 loss to No. 24 Oklahoma State on Saturday. The Longhorns racked up 16 penalties for 128 yards.

“I don’t know if I’ve ever been in a game that was so lopsided penalty wise, but we seem to have a bunch and they didn’t seem to have many at all,” said Jay Norvell, wide receivers coach and offensive play-caller. “We just have to execute better. We don’t have anyone to blame but ourselves.”

Keeping games close while committing numerous penalties is a rare feat. Yet Texas lost by a combined four points the last two games, despite surrendering more than 200 combined penalty yards.

There will be little margin for

error in matchups against No. 4 TCU and No. 15 Oklahoma in the next two weeks.

Both the Horned Frogs and the Sooners rank in the nation’s top-20 scoring offenses. Every yard will count against those teams, and the Longhorns can’t afford to give any away for free.

“All of those penalties we had, that was a big turning point,” senior offensive guard Sedrick Flowers said.

“You can’t have all of those penalties and give up all of those yards, not converting because of penalties and all that stuff and expect to win

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the game.”

Penalties weren’t the only self-inflicted mistakes that Texas committed. Senior wide receiver Marcus Johnson epitomized a night of dropped passes when he bobbled a ball right into an Oklahoma State defensive back’s hands for an interception. On the next drive, redshirt freshman Jerrod Heard lost 22 yards and pushed Texas out of field goal range while trying to avoid a sack.

The Longhorns know their glaring mistakes won’t cut it.

They’re digging themselves into a hole with self-imposed

losses, and now the clock is ticking. The players have emphasized that they’re better than their 1-3 record suggests. To prove it, they’ll need to play mistake-free football.

“You just have to overcome mistakes,” senior running back Johnathan Gray said. “This team is a very talented team, but we make mistakes and shoot ourselves in the foot. Guys just have to be more detailed, and we just have to get back to work this week.”

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Joshua Guerra | Daily Texan Staff Senior defensive tackle Desmond Jackson epitomizes the Longhorns’ frustration on the sidelines Saturday. Texas dropped to 1-3 on the season with a loss to No. 24 Oklahoma State after a late-game special teams blunder set up the game-winning field goal for the Cowboys.

Longhorns open Big 12 play with loss to Oklahoma State

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Life proved to be cruel Saturday when freshman punter Michael Dickson mishandled a snap with 42 seconds left in the fourth quarter.

He corralled the ball, but his punt only traveled 10 yards, setting up another heartbreaking loss. Oklahoma State junior kicker Ben Grogan sealed the Longhorns’ fate with a gamewinning 41-yard field goal.

Texas lost 30-27. “[Football] is a game of life.

You’ve just got to let it happen,” head coach Charlie Strong said.

“You look at two straight weekends, two straight Saturdays, that we had [the game] right there in our hands, and we let it slip away from us.”

Texas walked off the field against California last Saturday in disappointment after senior kicker Nick Rose missed a game-tying extra point. The Longhorns made the same frustrated trek after their loss to the Cowboys. It was Texas’ third loss, dropping the Longhorns to their worst start since 1956.

“Obviously it hurts a little worse because it’s the second time in a row,” junior safety Dylan Haines said. “It’s always

very disappointing when you go out there and play as hard as we played and as hard as we fought. It was just kind of a game that went back-and-forth, and we just couldn’t finish.”

The Longhorns put themselves in a position to win, despite giving up two touchdowns in the first quarter. Texas pulled within one when junior defensive tackle Hassan Ridgeway grabbed a loose fumble and ran 34 yards for a touchdown in the second quarter.

With the help of backup quarterback junior Tyrone Swoopes, who appeared three times in a third-and-short package, the Longhorns gained a 20-17 lead when he scored on a seven-yard run.

Texas added its second defensive touchdown when freshman cornerback Holton Hill intercepted a pass from Oklahoma State sophomore quarterback Mason Rudolph.

But penalties hurt the Longhorns as they racked up 16 penalties for 128 yards. None hurt worse than when sophomore defensive tackle Poona Ford was called for defensive holding. Strong and his coaches erupted on the sideline, resulting in a 15-yard penalty for unsportsmanlike conduct.

“I probably shouldn’t have

got the call I got, but I got upset, and I got to learn to just control my composure,” Strong said.

“I’ve never heard of [defensive holding]. In all my years of coaching, I’ve never seen that.”

Groban tied the game with a fourth-quarter field goal, and then he won it with another in the final seconds of the game.

For the Longhorn players, it felt like déjà vu — the loss was swift and painful.

“We’re close. We know we’re right there,” Ridgeway said. “It’s just disappointing. We came so close to winning like that. Two times — it’s not just once — it’s twice like that. We missed it by a field goal. We were right there.

It hurts.”

The Longhorns couldn’t afford a loss as they face a grueling two-game stretch against No. 4 TCU and No. 15 Oklahoma. But for the second consecutive week, the Longhorns will have to regroup after heartbreak. Senior linebacker Peter Jinkens said Strong told the team it has to pick its heads up.

“It’s all about being able to pick yourself back up,” Strong said. “You’re going to get knocked down, but you have to battle through. We’re not going to give up, and we have a lot of games left to go play.”

The men’s and women’s cross country teams emerged victorious for the second meet in a row, as both teams swept the Texas A&M Invitational on Saturday in College Station.

A total of 16 schools from across the region competed.

The men defeated the second place North Texas Mean Green by 35 points.

The women narrowly avoided the Missouri Tigers by five points.

Coach Brad Herbster praised the men’s team for its strong performance from start to finish, but he was less enthusiastic about the women’s team’s results.

“I think we are a top-20 team in the country on the men’s side,” Herbster said.

“The women didn’t show what they’re capable of at all today.”

Herbster noted that the women, like the men, have the athletes to be a top-20 team nationally, but they need to demonstrate that ability for the duration of each race.

“They didn’t do a good job closing out the race,” Herbster said. “They’re just a lot better than that. It

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looked like they’ve never run a 6K before.”

The last three finishers for the Longhorn women in Saturday’s race are all freshmen — Jordan Welborn (32nd), Samantha Young (57th), and Meghan Lloyd (59th).

Freshman Alex Cruz, who won Texas’ first event Sept. 4, followed her first collegiate meet with another impressive outing, finishing 16th place overall with a time of 21:05.8.

“Even though we won, we could have done a little better,” Cruz said. “We have some things to work on, especially racing tactics.”

Meanwhile, the men excelled individually and as a team. Senior Brady Turnbull set a personal record in the 8K race with a time of 23:36.2, good for third place overall. Five Longhorns finished the race in the top 11, all within 19 seconds of Turnbull.

“The whole team ran really fast today,” Turnbull said. “We just need some of the younger guys to hold on at the end of the race.”

Turnbull will try to lead his teammates to a third-straight victory at the Longhorn Invitational in Austin on Oct. 2.

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Senior Brady Turnbull (left) runs in the Texas Invitational on April 11, 2014. At the A&M Invitational on Saturday, Turnbull set a personal record in the 8K and finished third overall.

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SPORTS BRIEFLY Spieth wins FedExCup, TOUR Championship

Former Longhorn golfer Jordan Spieth won the TOUR Championship by Coca-Cola and the FedExCup on Sunday in Atlanta to cap off his “dream season.” The 22-year-old is the youngest player to win the TOUR Championship, and his $12,030,465 season winnings is the most in golf history. Spieth’s season total includes the $1.485 million for winning the TOUR and a $10 million bonus for the FedExCup victory. Spieth’s notable season includes wins at the Masters and the U.S. Open earlier in the year.

He has more than $22 million in career earnings since turning pro at age 19.

“Jordan, the entire Longhorn Nation joins me in congratulating you on a great victory today to cap off a great year,” said Texas interim men’s athletics director Mike Perrin. “I look forward to extending congratulations in person when we can meet. Until then — Hook ‘Em Horns!”

Spieth’s weekend victories powered him past Australian golfer Jason Day to the top of the world standings.

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Student express self through bucket hat collection

By James Rodriguez

Undergraduate studies sophomore Joshua Sherden is an avid collector of bucket hats.

Sherden has worn a bucket hat every day since his freshman year, and he said it is a fun way to express his personal style.

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Every day for the past year, undergraduate studies sophomore Joshua Sherden has sported a bucket hat.

He picks from his collection of more than 70 that surround his dorm room in stacks of plaid, camouflage and tropical patterns.

There’s the tie-dye hat that MTV star Rasika Mathur signed after Sherden taught her how to dance onstage during a comedy show. Another one covered in stars and planets, his “galaxy hat,” serves as his go-to headdress for important occasions.

When he’s in a mellow mood, he chooses the one plastered with pineapples.

“The only time you may catch me without my hat is if you’re my roommate, or if I’m at a football game just going crazy, going nuts, and it flies off,” Sherden said. “I feel almost naked if I don’t have a hat on my head.”

Sherden began wearing bucket hats on the first day of his freshman year, when his collection consisted of only five. He soon began adding to his repertoire by shopping online and in thrift stores.

His penchant for hats quickly earned him recognition across campus, and friends began calling him “Buckets.”

“I can’t even count the number of times people have come up to me like, ‘Yo, you have a different hat on every day,’” Sherden said. “Both staff and students are like,

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‘How many do you have?

Where do you get them from? Why hats?’”

Sherden said the bucket hats have enabled him to express himself through fashion.

“The bucket hats definitely contributed to me becoming more of an individual,” Sherden said. “I don’t find hats that are just unique.

They have to match my personality. It’s an extension of who I am.”

While Sherden said he often finds himself dancing

and meeting new people, that wasn’t the case during his high school years.

“I used to be really shy actually,” Sherden said. “I just made a conscious decision to tell myself that in college, this is a chance for you to grow, a chance to come out of being shy and take charge of what you want and have fun.”

Before college began, Sherden shared his plan with sophomore sociology major Lawrence Williams, his roommate and high school

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friend. Williams said the bucket hats were influential in shaping Sherden’s personality.

“At first I didn’t think he was actually going to do it, but he really became his own person,” Williams said. “Every time I see him, he’s talking to someone different. I think the fact that he has that name, and that he’s more recognizable has helped.”

Sherden said working as an orientation adviser also helped him develop stronger relationships on campus.

During a trip to Six Flags, the

orientation advisers chipped in to buy Sherden a bright blue bucket hat. Aerospace engineering sophomore Bailey Sikorski and fellow orientation adviser, said they tried to find one that best represented Sherden.

“We thought, ‘We need to buy Josh one, just to be his little memorabilia from working orientation with us,’” Sikiorski said. “He started crying when we gave it to him because he was just so happy and thankful.”

Sherden said he hopes to reach 100 hats by the end of the semester, at which point he may start to give some away. Currently, he has his sights set on a particularly rare hat.

“It’s a ‘Yu-Gi-Oh!’ bucket hat with ‘Yu-Gi-Oh!’ cards all over it,” Sherden said. “It’s ridiculous. But it’s so rare — that thing costs like $60 — so I have to wait until I get a little more funds before I can get that hat. But that’s definitely on my bucket list.”

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The Contemporary Austin hosts Strange Pilgrims exhibit

By Elizabeth Hlavinka @hlavinka_e

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Indie games revive stagnant industry

By Brian O’Kelly @mildlyusedbrain

With angry dad protagonists and duck assassins, indie games are the product of developers who experiment with more non-traditional content than their mainstream counterparts.

Independent games are an immaculate conception — a game with no publisher, only a developer. But large developers such as Nintendo often publish and develop their own games, making indie games tricky to define. Regardless, indie developers pride themselves on their independence, claiming to exert a level of innovation not possible with the traditional publisher-developer relationship.

Gary Gattis, founder of local games development group Spacetime Studios, said indie games are able to stray from the traditional market needs that retail games cater to.

“I think a big reason why indie games are so innovative is that they aren’t typically designed by committee,” Gattis said. “They come from individual passions which generally results in a very distinct product.”

Large developers often stick to industry standards in everything from art to mechanics, afraid to ostracize potential consumers and miss out on profit.

Games such as “The Binding of Isaac” would rarely find a developer in the corporate setting — which would likely reject the unsettling idea of a crying, baby protagonist.

It would seem that with such a massive industry, diversity in game styles and design choices would be more prevalent, but developers have an increasingly limited scope because of growing development costs. With expensive technology and large development teams, studios are less likely to take risk and lose money, choosing instead to play things safe.

Radio-television-film lecturer Sheldon Pacotti, founder of indie studio New Life Interactive, said studios are now taking the path of low-risk, high-reward development, leading to the controversial yearly release cycle which sees the annual release of sequels that offer little in terms of innovation.

“There is a big financial issue,” Pacotti said. “Triple A titles are now as expensive to produce as a movie, which is a big bet. If you are going to bet that much money on a product, you have to be confident that it is going to sell a couple million units. You can’t just put out an interesting, eclectic adventure game and sell a quarter million copies.”

Indie games find their meaning not in their ability to generate revenue but through

their contributions to the medium as a whole. Their bread and butter is niche markets that are more receptive to experimental game design. When these game experiments go well, they often end up trickling into the mainstream.

This phenomena has been seen in games such as “Minecraft,” which inspired an entire adventure-sandbox genre before being bought out by Microsoft for $2.5 billion and becoming a staple in the mainstream. Pacotti said he sees a mutualistic relationship between indie studios and larger developers.

“A great formula to use is to pick a type of game that everyone knows and loves and add one twist around it,” Pacotti said. “Teams that come up with that kind of formula can put out a polished piece of work that audiences can understand and develop ideas that can eventually be integrated by triple A games.”

However, despite the unconventional status of independent developers, they are now seen as the future of gaming. Gattis said he believes that indie developers have become a staple in the gaming community.

“There is a lot of noise in the market, but indie games have become vital to the evolution of the gaming industry,” Gattis said.

At The Contemporary Austin’s latest exhibit, visitors can enter a personal thought, dream or wish into a computer as part of Yoko Ono’s “Summer Dream.” A scrolling billboard broadcasts the messages for a moment before they disappear and are replaced by the next guest’s words.

“Summer Dream” is one of 15 installments in Strange Pilgrims, an exhibit hosted

by The Contemporary Austin that features immersive, experiential artwork in collaboration with local, national and international artists. The event opened to the public Sept. 27.

Senior curator Heather Pesanti said Strange Pilgrims is named after a collection of short stories by Gabriel García Márquez, which follows a series of characters through their journeys in unfamiliar lands.

“I love this idea of pilgrimage,” Pesanti said. “The idea that you’re traveling through these spaces, and you’re having an experience in which, like a pilgrimage, you’re changed afterwards.”

Strange Pilgrims is The Contemporary’s largest exhibition. Fourteen internationally recognized artists are spread across three different locations throughout Austin: Laguna Gloria, The Jones Center and UT’s Department of Art and Art History. Pesanti said she selected the artists based on her three main themes: environment and place, technology and information, and performance and process.

“I was fascinated by the bigger art worlds, kind of second-wave, objectless art,” Pesanti said. “Austin is at the leading edge of music, film, video and festivals, which are at their core experiential.”

Art history associate professor Ann Reynolds contributed a scholarly essay to the catalog of Strange Pilgrims.

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Heather Pesanti is the senior curator of The Contemporary Austin, a local museum that features contemporary works that take many forms.

In her essay, she wrote about shadows as a form of experiential art. She said when audience members see their own shadow cast on a constructed, glowing white platform, they actually become a part of the work.

“Since I’ve taught at UT, [Strange Pilgrims] is by far the most ambitious show that’s ever happened here,” Reynolds said. “There are going to be some major artists doing major works, which has never happened on this kind of scale. It’s a really good opportunity for the students to not have to just read about this stuff. They can actually see it.”

Lakes Were Rivers, an Austin-based photography group, will be showing their work at The Contemporary Austin’s Laguna Gloria.

Elizabeth Chiles, a member of Lakes Were Rivers and a UT lecturer, said the group’s photography is constantly looking through both a historical and experiential lens.

Their name is based on the idea that, historically, all of the lakes in Texas except one were once rivers.

“It also has a metaphorical meaning in relationship to photography,” Chiles said.

“Time is thought to flow and be constantly in motion. One of the things about photography is that it stops time and so it makes a ‘lake out of a river’ or cools something that is otherwise flowing.”

STRANGE PILGRIMS When: Sept. 27—Jan. 24 Where: The Contemporary Austin, the Jones Center, Laguna Gloria, and UT’s Department of Art and Art History

Lakes Were Rivers bases much of its work for Strange Pilgrims on the history of Laguna Gloria itself. Susan Scafati, another member of Lakes Were Rivers, said the space is designed to resemble an Italian villa and was previously home to Texan Clara Driscoll, famous for her preservation of the Alamo. After much research, the group found an image of a swan that linked the history of Laguna Gloria to their work, Swan Cycle Chapter 1 and 2.

“For us, this was a way of connecting the exterior of Laguna Gloria and a real-life, current-day presence of this animal with the history that had taken place with Clara Driscoll and the interior,” Scafati said.

Barry Stone, another member of Lakes Were Rivers, said that never before have so many artists from all over the world brought together their different ideas.

“It’s so exciting to be a part of this,” Stone said. “It really marks a new beginning. It sets a high model for what’s possible here in Austin.”