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UT given hazard research grant By Ashley Tsao @tsaoashley
The Cockrell School of Engineering was given a $3.8 million grant by the National Science Foundation to continue hazards research on infrastructure resistance against earthquakes. UT is one of seven universities involved in the Natural Hazards Engineering Research Infrastructure program, an organization created by the NSF. Professor Kenneth Stokoe, associ-
ate professor Brady Cox and assistant professor Patricia Clayton lead the team at the Cockrell School. UT was awarded the grant after submitting a proposal that went through a merit review process, according to NSF spokeswoman Sarah Bates. “The National Science Foundation had a call for proposals, specifically for facilities around the U.S. that could provide equipment to better provide information about infrastructure resis-
tance to natural disasters,” Clayton said. It is important that universities take steps toward investing more in hazards research in light of numerous recent disasters such as Hurricane Katrina in 2005, the Haitian earthquake in 2010 and Hurricane Sandy in 2012, Clayton said. “Thousands of people were negatively affected by these natural hazards,” Clayton said. “For us to be able to understand these hazards will better allow us to design
our communities to be more resilient against them. With this research, we can reduce the amount of negative impacts that these hazards will have on people.” According to Clayton, this grant specifically helps to maintain machines called shaker trucks that were originally built in 2000 through a different NSF grant. These machines produce accelerations through the ground to simulate the same ground shaking that a real earthquake would do. Sensors
placed along the ground surface will detect these waves, and the data can be used to inform engineers how to build or rebuild structures to resist future earthquakes. Electrical engineering junior Jason Cai said grants such as this one are helpful to both faculty and students at UT. “If the departments didn’t get any grants, the professors would have to raise the money by themselves,”
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Holy Mountain hosts closing concert By Megan Hix @meganhix95
To passersby, Sunday night looked like any other at Holy Mountain as audience members wafted in and out of the bustling bar. But as staff members and patrons embraced in familiar, welcoming hugs, the venue’s imminent closing overshadowed the evening’s festivities. Although the night was a happy occasion, it was time to say goodbye. Holy Mountain packed in a sentimental yet celebratory crowd Sunday for the last night of a three-day concert series marking the club’s final weekend before its lease expires Oct. 1. Holy Mountain is one of several Austin venues forced to close because of skyrocketing rents and short-term leases. Over the summer, these challenges also led venues such as
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Ben Ballinger sings at the last show at Holy Mountain, a popular local music venue on Sunday night. Holy Mountain was open for three years and hosted a variety of local bands.
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City plans to add parking meters west of campus By Lauren Florence @laurenreneeflo
The Austin Transportation Department and University Area Partners neighborhood association approved a budget of almost $220,000 for street and traffic improvement in West Campus, and more parking meters will be added to the area. Currently, there is only one parking benefit district in Austin, which is located in West Campus. Parking benefit districts make street parking more available by raising revenue from metered parking for street and sidewalk improvements, according to the transportation department website. Nina Lemieux, biology and Plan II junior and Student Government city relations director, did not mention any meter price changes for the future. University Area Partners is seeking approval from City Council to put the meters up over winter break, according to Lemieux. Lemieux said the expansion will also allow smaller neighborhood associations in the area, such as Caswell and Shoal Creek, to put meters in their neighborhoods. “I believe over the last three years, the current meters [have] paid for themselves and amassed $200,000 for [West Campus] improvements,” Lemieux said. The location of the new meters is supposed to be revealed during a public meeting Wednesday evening at Newman Hall, Lemieux said. She
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Police policies reviewed by commission By Lauren Florence
Assistant police chief Brian Manley (left) discusses Austin Police Department’s policies and required training at Austin City Hall on Monday evening.
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Over the summer, Taco Bell vacated its space in the Texas Union with no explanation. Field of Greens took Taco Bell’s space.
Taco Bell vacates Union for undisclosed reasons By Eleanor Breed @thedailytexan
The Taco Bell franchise chose to discontinue operations in the Texas Union for unknown reasons this past summer. The franchise terminated its presence in the Union on their own accord with no involvement from University officials, Mulugeta Ferede, execu-
tive director for University Unions, said. “The decision for Taco Bell to vacate the space was strictly made by Taco Bell’s operator,” Ferede said. “The operator had an option to extend their contract and elected not to. There was no other bid for the space.” Aramark is responsible
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Concerns about the effectiveness of racial profiling, cultural sensitivity and the use of force by police were raised at the City’s Human Rights Commission meeting Monday after an Austin Police Department presentation. Austin police monitor Margo Frasier said police officer training needs to emphasize personal bias in individuals more, especially when officers may conduct warrantless search and seizures on a hunch. Frasier said the police monitor department’s latest analysis show whites in Austin have a one in 22 chance of being searched, while Hispanics have a one in eight chance and blacks have a one in six chance of being searched. “What is perceived to be suspicious behavior [for me] may be different than if we’re talking about a 19-, 20-year-old African-
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American male, and it’s the same behavior, but it’s the perception of it by individuals — and I’m not saying that they’re necessarily even thinking about this consciously — but it’s just an intrinsic bias,” Frasier said. Paula Buls, Human Rights Commission board member, asked the police officers in attendance if they noticed a noticeable trend in increased community tension and movement away from a
perception of police officers as protectors. Assistant police chief Brian Manley said in response that officers haven’t faced this level of scrutiny since the Civil Rights era and that the handful of negative cases that have generated attention over the past couple of years are due to social media. “I think that what happens also is the media focuses on the negative encounters,” Manley said.
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“But what’s lost in the conversation is that for each and every one of those bad instances that happen, there were thousands of instances where police officers — maybe they saved a life, maybe they just handled a call appropriately — but they made a difference.” Manley said negative events regarding police force have forced the
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for contracting nationally branded food companies, such as Taco Bell, for the Union and Student Activity Center and is the primary contractor for food services at the University. Field of Greens, which was previously located in a different location within the Union, is currently occupying Taco Bell’s former location. There were no obvious reasons behind Taco
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Union lost a popular vendor when Taco Bell left. “My friends and I are upset with the closing of Taco Bell because that was our go-to spot, behind Chickfil-A,” Snelling said. “I’m not sure how the Taco Bell was doing financially, so I can’t make a decision as to why it closed, but I know many students are upset with the closing.” Taco Bell served as a valuable low-cost option for students and needs to be replaced with a similarly cheap alternative, business
sophomore Harsha Dannapaneni said. “I definitely think it’s a bad thing that it closed down,” Dannapaneni said. “It was a great place to eat because it was a cheap option for students, and the food was good. It was also sad to see them go since they’ve been there for many years. I hope that the Union can bring more variety in their food options by bringing in a different option that mimics Taco Bell’s prices.” The Union is currently
gathering students’ opinions on what franchise should replace the Taco Bell using email surveys sent to students, according to Ferede. “The ultimate decision of selection of a brand and an operator rests with the University … Union,” Ferede said. “The process of identifying the next vendor has already started, and we will continue to solicit feedback from our students. We hope to have a concept that is in line with that of Taco Bell.”
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cern, they have expressed their anger, but they did it in a productive way.” Andrew Michael, commander in the APD training division, said Austin officers spend more than double the hours on the shooting range than the Texas Commission on Law Enforcement requires per month. Michael said the officers don’t just shoot at paper targets but instead
are put in realistic scenarios that make them think about situations that require use of force. Austin officers are also trained in over 200 hours of “less lethal response” or alternatives to using excessive force, including handcuffing, baton use and handto-hand combat, according to Michael. Michael said tactical communication and de-escalation methods teach
officers how to talk their way out of a situation rather than get physical. “Often times [they’re] angry, [they’re] intoxicated, there’s people on drugs, there’s the mentally ill, and our goal is always to talk them down instead of having to go immediately to a hands-on confrontation because there’s no good outcome to going hands-on,” Michael said.
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to Clayton. “Any researcher in the nation can request to use the trucks for their own research,” Clayton said. “We received funding not necessarily to conduct our own research, but to be a resource for anyone in the U.S. that is studying how to make buildings more resistant to earthquakes.”
continues from page 1 police department to reconsider their current policies in response to the recent protests. “We have had some tragic events that have occurred in this community, but this community responded appropriately,” Manley said. “They had protests, they have expressed their con-
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Bell’s decision to leave the Union, Aramark Food Service director Henry Jackson said in an email. “The franchise decided to pursue other business ventures,” Jackson said. “There were no underlying issues that caused them to leave.” A Taco Bell spokesperson said there was no available information regarding the reasons behind the closure of the Taco Bell in the Union. Economics sophomore Powell Snelling said the
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said, after the meeting, SG’s city relations agency will send out a survey to students to gauge student opinion regarding general area improvements such as street lights. The city relations agency also discussed the possibility of extending the meter hours on Fridays and Saturdays from the current hours of 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. to discourage drunk driving, like the meters in downtown Austin, Lemieux said. Mike McHone, member of the University Area Partners neighborhood association, said
the additional $220,000 raised by the meters in the West Campus parking benefit district will also fund projects that University Area Partners and the transportation department have planned. “Currently, we’re planning to do [a] streetscape — we did 23rd Street a few years ago,” McHone said. “We’re participating … with the City on their Rio Grande Street bike lane, and that’s supposed to start in February. We’re engineering right now the 25th Street [bike lane] extension that will go all the way from Guadalupe over, we hope, as far as we can get with the money.”
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Speedway scheduled for major renovations By Rachel Freeman @rachel_frmn
The Speedway Mall renovation project, a longstanding goal for several UT presidents, was presented to students and the general public in a meeting Monday. After years of planning and revisions, a final version of the Walker plan, designed by landscape architecture firm Peter Walker and Partners, was approved to move forward in May this year. According to the current plan, construction will be done in a series of five stages, beginning in October and concluding in December 2017. There will be a 20 percent decrease in paved areas and a 20 percent increase in planted areas to improve aesthetics and mobility while maintaining room for vehicles, bikes and pedestrians, according to the plan. Plans were first made for
renovations to Speedway and the East Mall by Peter Walker and Partners in 2007. However, UT paused the project in 2008 due to lack of funding, and the project was scaled back in 2014 to include only renovations to Speedway. According to Tim Sueltenfuss, a presenter from Galen Driscol, a communications firm that presented parts of the plan, the meeting aimed to share information with the public about the design and construction. “Speedway will provide a place for students and student organizations to gather,” Sueltenfuss said. “This campus renovation will make a significant contribution to the learning experience for all UT students.” Brian Gillett, an associate with Peter Walker and Partners who has worked on the Speedway project for a year and a half, spoke on the current state of Speedway and
Speedway will provide a place for students and student organizations to gather. —Tim Sueltenfuss, Galen Driscol presenter
how the renovations intend to improve the conditions. “Speedway is currently in a state of disrepair and deterioration,” Gillett said. “The overarching design concept for the Speedway mall is to transform the mall with a single unified design vocabulary that reflects UT-Austin as a world-class university.” Gillett said a vital aspect of the design is to make Speedway a “pedestrian-centered” area. Environmental science junior Zoi Thompson, who commutes to campus on a bike every day, said she is concerned
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Brian Gillett, an associate with Peter Walker and Partners, helped to scale back the Speedway Mall renovation project in 2014 to meet UT budget requirements.
the Speedway project has not taken cyclist and student safety into priority. “This meeting has been very educational, but I still have
concerns about the chances of injury in an open area roadway,” Thompson said. “I’ve asked about paintings or signs on the roadways to designate
areas. Everyone I’ve talked to has said they won’t consider any changes until they see what happens as the project moves forward.”
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Professors lecture on Innovator discusses democratic media Greek financial crisis By Claire Allbright @claireallbright
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James Galbraith, Philomila Tsoukala and Alvaro Santos visited law school to discuss the inequality, human rights and governmental issues in Greece at the Colloquium on Inequality & Human Rights on Monday. In the two-hour colloquium, the three panelists were each given 30 minutes to share their knowledge and experiences regarding the financial crisis in Greece. The panel brought economists and lawyers together to discuss the issues eye-to-eye. Galbraith, a Lloyd M. Bensten Jr. chair in government and business relations and professor of government, began the conference by speaking about how the imbalance in financial power is a dominant factor in causing economic inequality. “There is a perceptible pattern in the movement of economic inequality around the world,” Galbraith said. “It is directly and heavily linked to the dominant force that is the imbalance of financial power.” Galbraith said economic inequality in Greece began to develop in the late 1990s and early 2000s, when European countries assembled and created a monetary union around the Euro. A consequence of the formation of the monetary union was an imbalance in financial power in favor of creditors such as Germany. “European countries,
driven by political motives and corporate pressures, got together and amassed themselves into a monetary union,” Galbraith said. Tsoukala, professor of law at Georgetown Law, said part of the reason Greece struggled with integration into the European markets was because Greece is comprised primarily of micro-businesses, or small, family-owned businesses. “Greece started integrating into European markets in 1981,” Tsoukala said. “Greece was a country with a developing economy when they began integrating into European markets.” Tsoukala said because the Greek government used strategies that were not suitable for the integration of their economy, the integration into European markets was inefficient. “If you look at Greek economy, 95 percent of it is micro-business [such as] family businesses,” Tsoukala said. “Most of these businesses aren’t operating under any formal type of legal framework.” Mohammed Nabulsi, second-year UT law student, said the panel aimed to explain how issues in Greece’s austerity measures affect human rights through funding cuts to social services. “Policies of austerity were imposed on Greece in order for them to pay back debts owed to creditors,” Nabulsi said. “The problem is policies of austerity clearly violated the basic human rights of the Greek people.”
Shubhranshu Choudhary, a Knight International Journalism Fellow, wants to utilize his democratic media model, CGNet Swara, to increase communication across underserved communities. Choudhary spoke Monday about his experience in democratic journalism and his work with disenfranchised villagers in the central tribal region of India. CGNet Swara is an experimental platform that facilitates discussions on issues related to the Central Gondwana region. Through this program, ordinary citizens can submit phone calls to a website. Volunteers then translate the messages from local dialects to English and connect the citizens with resources to bring about change. Choudhary said the idea for CGNet Swara came to him while reporting on warfare and conflicts in India. “I was reporting and started talking to these ‘terrorists,’ and the whole idea came from them,” Choudhary said. “If we create a democratic model of media and communication, then it helps solve more problems. So we started trying radio, mobile and Internet, this and that. What works is different for different areas.” Journalism graduate student Paromita Pain worked with CGNet Swara for three months in India. “The people we are talking about here are so poor that sometimes they don’t even have a concept of money,” Pain said. “They live in communities where even the barter system is alive, so it is a very disempowered population.” Laura Stein, associate professor in the radio-television-
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film department, worked in India on grassroots media and said she thinks more can be done to address inequality stemming from a lack of access to modern technology. “There hasn’t been a lot of attention about how new media and technology can be used to help groups that have been disenfranchised, and this is one of those projects trying to think through how to do this,” Stein said. Choudhary said he is looking forward to finding ways to expand his model of democratic media in order to make it duplicable and sustainable to communities internationally in the future. “We have to make this sustainable, otherwise there is no
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Shubhranshu Choudhary, founder of CGNet Swara, talks about experiments with democractic media in rural India on Monday.
point in doing it,” Choudhary said. “We need to make people understand the importance of free media. So if you want peace, if you want a better
future, we need to volunteer, put money in and educate societies. As politics has democratized, we think journalism should also democratize.”
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Medical schools without borders By Mohammad Syed Daily Texan Columnist @mohammadsyed
Health care is not just science and steady hands. Because of an archaic educational model which only focuses on scientific methodology, most medical professionals aren’t able to realize this. While the current system may have been successful in producing doctors that are able to understand the science behind health care, there still exists room for improvement in the delivery of health care. It’s time for a change. In the early 1900s, Abraham Flexner, a reformer of American medical education, developed an educational model for medical schools. The system focused solely on the scientific methods of physiology and biochemistry. However, because of the ever-changing nature of medicine, medical instructors are determined to change this model. Rather than focusing on purely anatomy and physiology, classes are being taught in communication and psychology. Stephen Scheibal, director of media relations and community engagement at the Dell Medical School, said the medical school has the opportunity to be a leader in this. “The Dell Medical School has a distinct
advantage in that it is being created from scratch and can be entirely designed around the needs, challenges and opportunities of 21st century health and medicine,” Scheibal said. “We’re looking for students from a range of backgrounds who have shown leadership in different areas.” This is not limited to the Dell Medical School. Various medical schools all over the nation are actively looking for students with interdisciplinary backgrounds. With a growing trend in appreciation for well-rounded people, almost anyone can become a doctor. However, the revolution doesn’t end there. Learning on an individualistic level may help medicine progress on a small scale, but the greatest fruit comes from learned, diverse people working together. Physicians must be able to function as one unit in order to solve the systemic problems within health care. Lesley Riley, director of UT Health Professions Office, said she believes teamwork is imperative in transitioning to this new field. “We need physicians who can contribute successfully to interdisciplinary treatment teams as we move towards a system focused on fee for outcome,” Riley said. “This means today’s physician must embrace a diversity
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of opinions and ideas and be effective at facilitating collaboration.” At a Q&A with the Tejas Club, UT President Greg Fenves said the Dell Medical School is completely changing how interviews are conducted. Rather than individually getting asked questions, applicants work as a team to solve a problem. Here’s the catch — the problem is unsolvable. How the applicants tackle the issue is how they are evaluated. Similar to most modern movements, students are the core. With the new desire for doctors that have both an interdisciplinary education as well as the ability to collaborate, major improvements in health care are inevit a ble.
A revolution is happening in medicine, and anyone can be a part of it. Syed is a biochemistry freshman from Houston.
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Schools should not stifle innovation with bigotry By Khadija Saifullah Daily Texan Columnist @coolstorysunao
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Black movements must allow fluidity of identity By Loyce Gayo
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From Bobby Seale to Stokely Carmichael, the ’60s Black Power movement gave American society Black men so militant, even their Afro picks were a testament to their resistance. Draped in dashikis and black leather, the faces of the different activist organizations led a movement rooted in Afrocentricity — the cultural ideology that rejects European cultural influences and accentuates African achievement. Ultimately, this married the tenacious fight for civil rights, central to the Black Power movement, with defining boundaries of Black identity. Today’s Black Lives Matter movement has managed to foster a different relationship between Black identity and struggle. This new, leaderless generation of activism has been more effective because it has managed to capture the experience and validate all spectrums of Black lives. “This movement has been insistent of all Black lives matter in a way that trans Black lives and even Black women who are victimized are also seen as important,” said Lisa Thompson, African and African Diaspora Studies professor. “In the past, perceptions of Black issues have been really about heterosexual, Black males. What is refreshing now is there seems to not be a desire to police Blackness.” According to Thompson, who teaches a class on rethinking Blackness, one of the most reviving aspects of the Black Lives Matter movement has been its lack of desire to restrict Black identity. Years of intersectional politics have influenced this movement to embrace all aspects of Blackness. “Part of what people are having a hard time with when looking at Black Lives Matter is trying to use the old lens of movement itself and
The importance of constantly investigating Black identity, especially through the perspective of Black struggle, lies in part with the fact that Black heritage and culture have historically been oppressed. finding it does not apply,” Thompson said. Despite decades of attempting to understand it, Blackness remains a very perplexing notion within American society. The importance of constantly investigating Black identity, especially through the perspective of Black struggle, lies in part with the fact that Black heritage and culture have historically been oppressed, disrupted and unpreserved. “I think it is important to investigate Blackness in the realm of Black struggle, particularly against the forms of racism that continue to shape our everyday lives,” said anthropology graduate student Chelsi WestOhueri, who researches race and identity in southeastern Europe. Carving inclusive spaces to freely discuss Blackness and Black struggle is essential for advancing a liberatory narrative. A fluid relationship with Black identity empowers a number of incredibly useful and powerful voices. With these voices, we collectively work toward dismantling barriers for the next generation and allow for young Black lives born into this era to have an opportunity to grow into their own stories without reluctance. Gayo is an African and African Diaspora Studies senior from Houston.
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Dressed in a NASA T-shirt and typical thick-rimmed engineer glasses, Ahmed Mohamed, a freshman from MacArthur High School in Irving, Texas, excitedly showed off his home-invented clock to his engineering teacher. Instead of receiving praise, Mohamed was be arrested and falsely accused of his invention being a bomb. This type of incident is all too familiar with American Muslims. Any Muslim American can relate to an incident of being discriminated against because of religion — even in the slightest matter. “The situation hit home for me because it reminded me of when in high school someone’s phone’s alarm went off, and everyone’s first response was to turn towards me,” business honors program sophomore Nazifa Mim said. “Imagine what that does to students. It simply fosters fear and even hatred.” When young students grow up with this fear of discrimination embedded in their minds, it does nothing but limit their love for learning and expressing their talents and ideas. The same educational system that should be nurturing Mohamed’s talents is destroying them. Mohamed’s story related to many in society who saw a talented and gifted student arrested whose only crime was his name. The news traveled like wildfire, with the hashtag #IStandWithAhmed trending on Twitter with 80,000 tweets in under an hour. Renowned figures, such as President Barack Obama and Mark Zuckerberg, joined the bandwagon and invited him to their respective offices. In just under 24
hours, his dream school, Massachusetts Insitute of Technology, invited him to enroll, and the tables turned in his favor. “This isn’t my first invention, and it won’t be my last invention,” Mohamed said Sept. 17 in an appearance on Good Morning America. The response to the young and gifted 14-year-old was not an isolated incident of the double standard toward Muslims in America. This year alone, state Rep. Molly White (R-Belton) intruded on Muslim Capitol Day; the Houston Quba Islamic Institute was set on fire; three students near University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill were shot executionstyle in their own apartment; Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump failed to correct a supporter that advocated “getting rid” of Muslims, and his competitor Ben Carson stated that Muslims are not qualified to be president. Mohamed’s story is only the discernable tip of a covert iceberg of prejudice and discrimination faced by American Muslims. There are many other “Ahmeds” in the silent corners of Texas and elsewhere, who, in the current climate of discrimination, have been sidelined because of their faith. The normalization of unjust treatment toward a particular group is what leads to the inevitable alienation of that group in their own homes. Every child should be able to grow without fear of having their ideas criminalized. I hope that the hashtag #IStandWithAhmed will result in a lesson to promote curiosity and innovation among young scientists while taking a stance against all forms of bigotry. Saifullah is a neuroscience sophomore from Richardson.
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continues from page 1 Austin Music Hall and Red 7 to announce they’d be shutting their doors permanently. The send-off shows included performances from Magna Carda, Eagle Claw and Mike and the Moonpies. James Taylor, Holy Mountain general manager and partner, said the lineup featured some of his favorite bands and artists who had performed at the club in the past, as well as two of his own bands — Harvest Thieves and East Cameron Folkcore. “Ultimately, we all started a music venue because we like to party,” Taylor said. “So if we’re going to go out, we are going to go out drinking and partying with friends.” In June, after the property’s landlord asked for more than a 40 percent increase in rent, Taylor said the club’s owners decided they had no choice but to close. “I don’t think any of us wanted to feel dejected or like we had failed,” Taylor said. “I think we wanted to go out doing what made us want to do this, which is just putting on shows.” After Holy Mountain opened in October 2012, the intimate, 250-person venue
made a name for itself by hosting local up-and-comers and popular acts such as Ryan Bingham and Shakey Graves. Production manager Michael Anthony Gibson said part of the club’s mission was always to help cultivate new artists. “We’re definitely in a small group [of venues] that really nurture new, local bands and give people the chance to play over and over again, hone their chops, figure out their live sound and their show,” Gibson said. Some audience members shared memories of their favorite sets, others slow-danced in front rows, but all found ways to commemorate Holy Mountain’s legacy. Many of Sunday’s artists, such as opening act Ben Ballinger, dedicated part of their sets to thanking Taylor and other venue staffers for providing a welcoming environment over the past three years. Courtney Goforth, a Holy Mountain regular, said the venue’s closing meant having to say farewell to a favorite neighborhood hangout. She said she’ll miss the venue’s friendly staff and the opportunity to see a combination of obscure bands and her favorite local acts.
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“I like Holy Mountain because it’s close to my house, but also because it’s in the Red River district — it’s close to anything I’m going to be going to anyway,” Goforth said. “This is the hub of where everyone comes to see a good
show or hang out before a good show.” Ashley Gregg, who was attending her second Holy Mountain show of the week, said she will miss the community that made her experiences at Holy Mountain “magical.”
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Olivia Mickle was no stranger to NCAA competition when she arrived at Texas in 2013, but being the sole graduate student on the track and field roster was a new experience entirely. Mickle was given a unique opportunity after graduating from Brown University with a degree in chemical engineering and the school record for the 10,000m. A shin and femur injury kept her from competing in track and field during her freshman year, giving her an extra year of eligibility in the NCAA. She took a leap and came to the University of Texas, where she could run and be in the chemical engineering graduate program. “When she was admitted to Texas for grad work, she told me ‘My life is perfect,’” Olivia’s mother, Casey Mickle, said. After finishing her first year at Texas, Mickle saw another opportunity and, once again, she took a leap. This time she decided to put her education and scientific research on hold to pursue professional running. For Mickle, a self-proclaimed planner, it wasn’t a comfortable choice. “Taking a turn or stepping off the conveyor belt is difficult for me,” Mickle said. “But I just knew I was going to run and figure everything else out.” The puzzle pieces eventually connected and led her to Portland, Oregon, where she works at Nike as a footwear developer. She’s also training as a member of the Bowerman Track Club Elite Program. She works out twice daily — once with coworkers before the workday begins and once afterward. Although she isn’t working in
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TCU survives against Tech in last minute
Senior center Taylor Doyle, 74, said Monday that the team was at a turning point when they called a players-only meeting following the Longhorns’ 30-27 loss to Oklahoma State.
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Sitting at 1-3 after the Longhorns’ 30-27 loss to No. 20 Oklahoma State — Texas’ worst start since 1956 — the players felt tired of losing. The Longhorns gathered in a players-only meeting Sunday to air their frustrations. Senior center Taylor Doyle told his teammates this is the turning point. Fellow senior wide receiver Marcus Johnson said Texas has to learn from its losses. “At some point, we have to make up our minds that those three-point losses and the little things throughout the game, we have to stand up and say, ‘We need to make the difference,’” Johnson said. “[The coaches] are putting us in the right position. They’re making the right play calls. We just have to capitalize as players.” The Longhorns have decided to change their mentality after losing to Oklahoma State and California by a combined four points. Texas
brother, Colin Mickle, said. “She has taken risks to pursue her dream, and that is the more important victory in my eyes.”
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goals, her family supports her dedication and drive. “I don’t think she can fail because she has already succeeded,” Olivia’s
needs to regroup. The path doesn’t get easier with road games against No. 4 TCU in Fort Worth and No. 15 Oklahoma at the Cotton Bowl in the next two weeks. The team could be sitting at 1-5 entering its bye week. But Texas feels it can compete with any team it plays given its newfound offensive identity created by redshirt freshman quarterback Jerrod Heard and wide receiver coach and play-caller Jay Norvell. “I think we’re capable of hanging with any team,” senior offensive guard Sedrick Flowers said. “Our offense when we get going, we’re putting points up, … our defense is coming around. We saw how they did in this past game. I feel like when we play on all cylinders, we can compete with any team.” The defensive is beginning to find its way. First, the Longhorns contained Cal’s offense in the fourth quarter. Saturday, Texas regrouped after giving up 14 points in the first quarter to hold the Cowboys to 395 yards and three forced
turnovers — the best defensive performance this season. Despite the Longhorns’ record, head coach Charlie Strong said the team has grown since starting the season with a 38-3 loss to Notre Dame. “You look at the two opponents we’ve played the last two weeks and look where we are and just how far we’ve come,” Strong said. “It’s our own fault that we’ve been in the position we’re in. We have to learn how to just go close out games. Everybody has a job to do, and just do your job, and just keep battling, keep competing.” After the players-only meeting, senior running back Johnathan Gray said he and his teammates are back on the same page. “We’ve come together and [told] each other, ‘We got to fight for one another and keep playing and keep pushing,’” Gray said. “I think everybody’s mindset is up. Everybody wants to play for one another. Everybody wants to do the right things to be successful.”
Horned Frogs beat Red Raiders in instant classic Two explosive offenses squared off in Lubbock, Texas, on Saturday, and neither disappointed. Texas Tech and No. 4 TCU combined for over 100 points and 1,300 yards of offense. Late-game drama highlighted the Big 12 shootout. With seconds remaining, Horned Frogs senior running back Aaron Green caught a tipped pass in the back of the end zone to lift TCU to a 55-52 victory. TCU’s senior quarterback Trevone Boykin totaled 485 passing yards and four touchdowns. West Virginia earns top 25 nod after routing Maryland For the third-straight game, No. 23 West Virginia cruised to an easy victory with a 45-6 win over Maryland. Through three games, the Mountaineers have outscored their opponents 130-23. West Virginia accrued over 600 yards of total offense in the victory and junior quarterback Skyler Howard threw for four touchdowns and 294 yards. The Mountaineers’ defense also shined with six forced turnovers. With the 3-0 start, the Mountaineers entered the top 25 for the first time this season. Baylor looks to stay hot against Texas Tech The No. 5 Bears can score. They’ve put up 56 points or more in each of their first
three games, but they’ve yet to face a major conference team. Baylor will get their first test as they head to Lubbock to play Texas Tech this weekend. Its No. 1 ranked offense will be challenged to sustain their high scoring prowess against the Red Raiders, who rank right behind the Bears at No. 3 in points in the nation. Through three games, Bears junior quarterback Seth Russell leads the nation with 15 touchdowns. Baylor and Texas Tech will kick off at 2:30 p.m. on Saturday. Undefeated teams to square off in week five Conference play continues to heat up with two matchups between undefeated teams this weekend. No. 23 West Virginia will head to Oklahoma to play the No. 15 Sooners, while No. 20 Oklahoma State will host Kansas State. The Mountaineers will try to contain Sooners junior quarterback Baker Mayfield, who ranks No. 7 in yards per game. Oklahoma opens as a seven-point favorite, according to ESPN. Kansas State is challenged with winning in Stillwater, Oklahoma, where the Cowboys have won 12 of their last 15 home games. Unlike most other Big 12 matchups, the game may turn into a defensive battle, with both teams ranking within the conference’s top-3 scoring defenses. West Virginia vs. Oklahoma starts at 11 a.m., while Kansas State vs. Oklahoma State starts at 3 p.m. Both games will air on Fox Sports 1.
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After leading the Longhorns to back-to-back wins to open up the conference schedule, senior outside hitter Amy Neal was named the Big 12 Offensive Player of the Week, the conference announced Monday. Neal finished last week with 29 kills combined in the wins over TCU and West Virginia. She also tallied three aces, 10 digs and two blocks in that time frame. Neal is the second Longhorn to be named the Big 12 Offensive Player of the Week. Junior middle blocker Chiaka Ogbogu took the award on Sept. 14. The Longhorns return to action Saturday, hosting Iowa State at 7 p.m. —Jacob Martella
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DANIELLE LOPEZ, LIFE&ARTS EDITOR | @thedailytexan Tuesday, September 29, 2015
ALBUM REVIEW | ‘DODGE AND BURN’
The Dead Weather returns with darker set By Chris Duncan @chr_dunc
Whether it’s his latest haircut or a band’s color scheme, custom instruments or music video effects, Jack White’s attention to detail is what spurs his fans’ dedication. With his band’s newest release, Dodge and Burn, fans will find a similarly raw yet meticulous effort. In 2009, White founded The Dead Weather on a whim, and it quickly became his main artistic focus. After two quick releases, Horehound and Sea of Cowards, The Dead Weather fizzled out, only to be reignited in early 2013. For two years, the group worked on recording Dodge and Burn, released Friday. Though the album doesn’t take many risks, it capitalizes on the infectious guitar and thrashing drums old fans have come to love, making it their best release yet. Dodge and Burn is a compilation of scattered studio sessions, and the record doesn’t attempt to hide it. Each song follows a similar formula in its construction and themes. This isn’t the most cohesive record The Dead Weather has recorded together, but what it lacks in continuity,
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it makes up for with powerful and relentless rock. In typical White style, the record’s rock sound is heavy and distorted. The album’s first track, “I Feel Love (Every Million Miles),” kicks off and ends with Dean Fertita’s muddy guitar licks, making it a safe but quality choice to lead the album. Every song highlights the album’s fiery tone, especially “Let Me Through,” which features the best guitar work on the entire record. Although Fertita’s riffs dominate each song, White’s drumming is the backbone of Dodge and Burn. His production choices emphasize his colorful percussion, making his intricate playing style stand out. “Buzzkill(er)” is driven by White’s hardhitting drum patterns. Most songs on the album flash back to a time when
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Dodge and Burn shows the most aggressive version of The Dead Weather yet, making it a heavy but enjoyable listen.
White relied heavily on catchy guitar riffs and muffled sounds. However, fans of his more recent works might consider Dodge and Burn to be a step in the wrong direction due to its narrow sound. Alison Mosshart’s singing talent caps off every song on this album. Her
vocals on “Open Up” are some of the most evocative and unnerving performances on this LP. Lyrically, Mosshart writes in a symbolic and blunt fashion, complimenting Fertita’s punchy guitar riffs and White’s echoing drums. Of all of the tracks on this album, “Impossible
Winner” is the obvious outlier. The track’s echoed piano makes it sound like a jazzed-up version of a B-side Adele song and leaves the album on an unsavory note. It might sound disjointed at times, but the individual performances from each band member
on Dodge and Burn make it The Dead Weather’s best record so far. Without a tour to accompany Dodge and Burn, the future of Jack White and The Dead Weather is in limbo, but, for now, fans of what Rolling Stone called “rock’s Willy Wonka” should be more than satisfied.
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Jasmine Vallejo
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Students share stories about ink Jasmine Vallejo (left)
After UT alumna Jasmine Vallejo’s brother attempted suicide in 2010, both siblings got a tattoo of LEGO blocks hugging. “He was going through this rough patch in his life,” Vallejo said. “We were best friends, but he kind of isolated himself from everyone. I told him, ‘Your problems are my problems. Your successes are my successes. We’re family.’” The two LEGO blocks are stuck together with one embracing the other. Vallejo said the LEGO blocks also represent her and her brother’s resilience. “We had a really rough upbringing,” Vallejo said. “If you think about an actual LEGO, it’s really tough to break. That symbolizes us and our spirit.” Vallejo said the tattoo really helped her brother and strengthened the bond between the two of them. “This definitely helped him,” Vallejo said. “Whenever he is going through a rough patch, he calls me. It definitely opened up the communication. Branding our body created a special bond between us.”
Becky Thompson (right)
Spanish lecturer and UT alumna Becky Thompson’s fox tattoo on her back commemorates the completion of her Ph.D. dissertation. “I wrote my dissertation on a book from Peru that was published in 1971 called ‘[The] Fox from [Up] Above and [the] Fox from [Down] Below,’” Thompson said. “Foxes are the entities that make the world go round in Andean mythology.” Thompson said she is interested in the race, culture and identity in Peru. In the book, the author’s writing about a dichotomy in Peruvian society sparked Thompson’s interest in immigration from the Andes to the coast. “The book is written by a white guy in Peru who also grew up speaking Quechua,” Thompson said. “This was his last book, and he didn’t finish it because he said at the beginning of the book he was going to commit suicide. People say he couldn’t reconcile these two different identities. That always really interested me and was a jumping off point for my dissertation.”
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