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A majority of people attending the first public forum on campus carry spoke against policy that will go into effect on Aug. 1, 2016. In June 2015, the Texas Legislation passed Senate Bill 11, which allows students and others with a concealed handgun licence to carry a concealed gun on campus. Under this law, public universities have the
ability to designate certain gun-free zones, but the entire campus cannot be gun-free. Andrew Jackson, a business junior, said he supports the bill and wishes the university will have the least amount of restrictions possible. “If you implement very strict laws that ban guns in buildings such as the Union, the PCL, you are essentially banning campus carry in general,” Jackson said. “If you ban guns
in the PCL or the McCombs School of Business where I’m a student at, you effectively ban me from exercising my rights.” In August, UT President Gregory Fenves announced a 19-member working group to provide parameters and options for the University on how to implement campus carry. Fenves’ initiative seeks to ensure safety for the students, staff and faculty, while
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UT law professor Steven Goode leads the campus carry forum in the Texas Union Ballroom on Wednesday evening.
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Student alliance rallies against Wendy’s By Selah Maya Zighelboim @SelahMaya
The UT Student/Farmworker Alliance held a rally Wednesday to protest Wendy’s refusal to join the Coalition of Immokalee Workers’ Fair Food Program, which would have Wendy’s pay farmworkers a penny more per pound of tomatoes. In addition, the FFP would hold Wendy’s responsible for ensuring its Florida tomato suppliers maintain a certain level of humane labor conditions for farmworkers. The rally gathered outside the Wendy’s in the Texas Union and marched to the Wendy’s in Jester, where the alliance gave a letter requesting Wendy’s join the FFP to two waiting Wendy’s employees at both locations, who wished to remain anony-
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Farm worker alliance protestors pass the UT Tower during their march to Wendy’s on Wednesday afternoon. The students marched to the Wendy’s inside Jester Dormitory to raise awareness of mistreatment of farmers by the restaraunt.
The faculty and students of the UT School of Journalism took a break from teaching and learning how to write news stories so they could read one about themselves. The journalism school at UT ranked third-best in the country, according to a list released this week by ranking service College Factual. Bill Phelan, CEO of College Factual, said the rankings are determined by graduate salary surveys and data provided by the U.S. Department of Education, among other sources. “This program produces graduates that are pretty darn highly paid,” Phelan said. According to College Factual, UT journalism graduates can expect an average starting salary of $41,000, leading up to a mid-career salary of $70,000. College Factual is a young company, and Phelan said metrics they have developed, such as crime rates near campuses and the number of connections between majors, produce different rankings than competitors. R.B. Brenner, director of the journalism school, said rankings should always be treated with caution, but he is proud of the school nonetheless. “We have quickly become one of the more innovative and well-balanced schools in the country,” Brenner said. “We’re preparing students for the digital communication world.” Brenner said UT journal-
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Zilker park to close temporarily after ACL By Estefania Espinosa @essie20
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The northern part of Zilker Metropolitan Park will be closed through Oct. 23 following Austin City Limits Music Festival. This includes 11 days of setup, the two event weekends, a week of stage removal and a week for Austin Parks and Recreation Department to perform maintenance. The rest of the park will remain open to the public during this time, with the exception of the six days of the music festival. Erica Ellis, who attends ACL every year, said she is used to not being able to access all of the park occasionally. “I do stay away during those times,” Ellis, who moved to Austin from Houston eight years ago, said. “That’s just the name of the game though. There are certain times when it’s crowded here also.” The city rents out the space, also called the Great Lawn, to C3 Presents, which manages ACL. The contract stipulates that C3 Presents
The number of alcoholrelated arrests made during football games did not increase after alcohol sales began at Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium this season, according to Lt. Amber Calvert, who is in charge of special events security for The University of Texas at Austin Police Department. UTPD officer William Pieper said the new alcohol sales policy does not present a new challenge to law enforcement during football games. “Alcohol has always been a part of the football game,” Pieper said. “I say that because they have [sold] it in clubs, but there has also been a contingency of people who would smuggle it in against the rules. But the simple fact is that it was still there and we had people who were drinking.”
I think it is just as rowdy as it has always been because football games are where you are supposed to be rowdy.
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According to the Campus Watch, UTPD’s daily newslog, UTPD made ten charges for public intoxication and minor in possession of alcohol at UT’s home opener against Rice on Sept. 12 in or outside DKR, the first game alcoholic beverages were sold to fans. That broke last year’s record of six charges during the Iowa State game in October. UTPD hasn’t seen or doesn’t expect an in-
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Workers setup for Austin City Limits Music Festival, which begins this weekend. Zilker Park will be closed through Oct. 23.
will fix any issues that arise as a result of the event. “Basically, we’re not in charge of the event,” Shelley Parks, public information officer for the Austin Parks and Recreation Department, said. “C3 is in charge, but we do have the au-
thority to cancel the event if the weather means the grounds will irreparably damaged.” Parks said department personnel walk the grounds with C3 Presents representatives daily, checking on the trees and that the ground is not too muddy. The company also
helped the city plant grass that is more resilient to trampling, according to Parks. “They’re really good about making sure they keep Zilker Park manageable,” Parks said.
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something controversial anymore.” C.J. Grisham, president of Open Carry Texas, said the group did not have much of a turn out for this first meeting. Grisham said there is not much to discuss except to wait for the implementation period to begin Aug. 1, 2016. “I want to make sure all sides are being heard in this debate,” Grisham said. “This topic is not much of a debate because the law already passed. This should be nothing more
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continues from page 1 mous. “The FFP guarantees rights never before seen for Florida farmworkers, such as rights to shade and rest breaks from their grueling work and zero tolerance for sexual harassment and modern slavery,” the national Student/ Farmworkers Alliance letter read. “Since 2011, participating buyers have paid more than $15 million through the FFP, constituting the first pay increase for workers in over 30 years.” Wendy’s spokesman Bob Bertini said it is not necessary for Wendy’s to join the FFP, as Wendy’s does not work directly with farmworkers. “Like most companies, we do not purchase directly from
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continues from page 1 ism students develop audio, video, app development and traditional storytelling skills that are just as valuable in Silicon Valley as they are with a print publication. Journalism junior Alex Samuels said she is surprised after repeatedly seeing other rankings where
than an education effort for people.” Bryan Jones, a government professor and member of Gun-Free UT, said despite the growing support against this decision, he is ashamed people did not protest the legislation sooner. Jones said he remembers when a student brought a gun to class and said he does not want concealed handguns in the classroom for safety and freedom of speech concerns. “I was writing on the
blackboard and something fell on the floor,” Jones said. “I turned around and watched a student pick a gun off the floor. At that point the class discussion was over.” The student was an offduty officer in class who was required to wear his gun, Jones said, but he said he does not want to see this kind of incident happen at UT. Justin Stone, a UT law student, said he supports the bill because he has been a concealed handgun
I learned that, even though Wendy’s portrays a good image, they have some very controversial practices. —Juan Seaz, Business honors sophomore
the people that harvest tomatoes or any other agricultural products,” Bertini said in an email. “We require our suppliers to adhere to state and federal requirements related to worker health and safety, and we are proud to work with responsible companies who share our commitment to quality and doing the right thing.” According to Student/Farmworker Alliance website, 15 multibillion dollar food realtors have agreed to sign on to the FFP. Wendy’s is the only one of the five largest fast food corporations in the country — the oththe journalism school was not mentioned. “I was kind of surprised to see us in the top three, but I feel like we deserve it,” Samuels said. “I think we have a really good journalism program that prepares you for all different realms of journalism.” Wanda Cash, associate director of the journalism school, said the new ranking
ers being McDonald’s, Taco Bell, Subway and Burger King — that is not participating in the program. Business honors sophomore Juan Saez said he approached the rally to ask what they were protesting. “I learned that, even though Wendy’s portrays a good image, they have some very controversial practices,” Saez said. “The public doesn’t usually know these things, so these movements are important, especially on college campuses where students are open to new ideas. I wouldn’t have learned about this otherwise.”
license holder for several years and said that those carrying a licensed weapon are not a threat to anyone at the University. “I do not want to have to use my firearm, but I am not afraid to do so,” Stone said. “That being said, we are not vigilantes. We are not a danger to this campus. We are not the bad guys you read about in the news.” The second public forum will be held at 3–5 p.m. Oct. 5 in the Texas Union Ballroom.
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continues from page 1 Levi Nussman, a student at St. Edward’s University, said he thinks traffic congestion around Zilker makes it a poor location for the festival. Even though he doesn’t visit the park often, Nussman said the traffic still affects his daily travel. “It doesn’t directly affect me getting into Zilker,” Nussman said. “But it about doubles my commute to work every day.” Parks said it’s impossible to know how many people are affected by the closures, because the city doesn’t keep track of park visitors, and some of those may also attend the music festival. Bobby Henry, who works nearby and visits the park about three times per week, said he doesn’t mind the closures and detours that occur as a result of ACL. “It’s just for a little while,” Henry said. “It brings a lot of people in.” ACL will take place at Zilker Park Oct. 2–4 and Oct. 9–11.
affirms the hard work of her COLLEGE FACTUAL’S colleagues and aligns with TOP JOURNALISM the results of the school’s own SCHOOLS alumni surveys. Cash said she credits the achievement to the #1: Emerson College new curriculum developed #2: Northwestern University for the journalism school #3: UT-Austin in 2012, which provides students a less restrictive degree plan. said. “They’ve got the “Our grads are getting mobile journalism skills good journalism jobs right that this journalism news after graduation,” Cash market requires.”
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ACLU attorney discusses privacy, technology By Ashley Tsao
Alexander Abdo was the keynote speaker at the American Civil Liberties Union conferences on privacy and technology speech Wednesday afternoon. Abdo spoke on the role technology companies have in protecting individual privacy.
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Public demand for privacy protections is at an all-time high, leading technology companies to explore new tactics to restrict over-surveillance, according to the keynote speaker at a conference hosted by the American Civil Liberties Union of Texas on Wednesday. Alexander Abdo, staff attorney of the ACLU’s Speech, Privacy and Technology Project, spoke about the role technology companies have in protecting individual privacy in light of recent breaches of information such as the 2013 National Security Agency surveillance leak. The leak released information about Americans detailing a mass data collection being undertaken by the government. Overreaching surveillance affects everyone because there are massive databases that store incredibly sensitive information, according to Abdo. “Some people even call these ‘databases of ruin’,” Abdo said. “Leaked information puts us at risk. On a more societal level, surveillance affects the ability of journalists and dissidents to do their work. Even if you don’t have anything to hide, you have a lot to fear from the loss of privacy.” According to Abdo, companies have been taking action by
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creating better technological and policy solutions to prevent overreaching surveillance. One technological advancement designed to fight privacy loss is end to end encryption, a feature found on Apple’s iMessage. “This allows individuals to communicate securely with others by ensuring that intermediaries who are passing communications from point
A to point B cannot read the message,” Abdo said. Several companies have adopted an updated policy that informs users of a government information request before handing the user’s information over. Once the users are notified, they can challenge the government request, and, if they are successful, no information will be released.
Although some companies changed their behavior after the NSA leak, not all individuals did the same. Political consultant Joshua Cohn said he changed his behavior to a small degree in an effort to protect his privacy. “I think that if I did change my behavior it wasn’t an outright decision,” Cohn said. “It was more just knowing that every time I
typed something into a webpage it was being monitored.” Abdo suggests students change their digital behavior by using password management systems and switching internet browsers. “Too many people use the same password now and that creates poor security,” Abdo said. “Avoid services that needlessly use and track your
information, like Google. Use browsers like DuckDuckGo or StartPage.” Companies are heading in the right direction but they still need to recognize that information is a liability because of hackers and overreaching surveillance, according to Abdo. “Don’t keep information if you don’t need it,” Abdo said. “And if you do keep it, secure it.”
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us Lecturer: NYC school choice Find anywhere programs prove ineffective Twitter Instagram By Mikaela Cannizo @mikaelac16
School choice programs aimed at resolving educational inequity do not produce equal benefits for all students, according to Carolyn Sattin-Bajaj, author and visiting Seton Hall University professor who spoke at an on-campus lecture Wednesday afternoon. Based on her research from a two-year ethnography study, Sattin-Bajaj wrote “Unaccompanied Minors: Immigrant Youth, School Choice and the Pursuit of Equity” to explain equity conflicts that emerge because eighth-grade students in New York City are required to choose the high school they want to attend. “When I did this study, I was in part interrogating some of the underlying theories of choice,” Sattin-Bajaj said. “It’s pitched by some as a potential equity lever. It’s pitched by others as creating competition in the marketplace so that only the good schools will survive.” Huriya Jabbar, education assistant professor at UT, said school choice programs aimed to address issues of equity. Rather than requiring students to attend schools based
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crease ub the total of alcohol the related incidents. skills Pieper said there were news more issues during the Rice game because it was the first home game of the season. “The first game of the season is usually a lot more festive,” Pieper said. “It was a night game, so people had been tailgating all day, and it was really hot. That’s really the trifecta.” Although charges at the Rice game broke last year’s high, the number of alcohol related arrests has Captain Rick Rutledge of the Austin-Travis County Emergency Medical Service said he cannot quantify data for alcohol related emergency calls during football games. Though ATCEMS responds to calls that may be related to
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on location, the program intended to provide them with more options. “While the goal is to improve all schools for all children, choice was initially a way of providing an alternative to students who would have had to attend their neighborhood school if it was a low-performing school,” Jabbar said. Choosing from 704 options, rising ninth graders submit an application with the names of 12 public schools they would like to attend, Sattin-Bajaj said. Programs and application methods for schools vary from specialized high schools determining admission through a one-time test to educational option schools that accept students on a bell curve. Citywide fairs and open houses provide resources for students and parents to navigate the options and find schools they are interested in. The Department of Education emphasizes their expectations of parents preparing students for this process, Sattin-Bajaj said. When attending these events, Sattin-Bajaj said she generally saw only uppermiddle class parents. Through interviews, she found not all parents have the same view
when engaging in choice. During interviews with Latin American immigrant parents, Sattin-Bajaj said a majority thought their responsibility was to raise a respectful child at home, not to identify the perfect school for their child. “It wasn’t always easy for parents to articulate what they cared about because they hadn’t spent a tremendous amount of time thinking about it,” SattinBajaj said. Karisma Morton, Ph.D. student in math education, said she was motivated to attend the lecture to learn more about Sattin-Bajaj’s research on fairness within the school choice model. “A new perspective on equity will help me look at my own research with a different lens,” Morton said.
alcohol intoxication, the department does not record the cause of the incident. “[Alcohol related calls] get dispatched as sick or fall or fight or whatever,” Rutledge said. “There may be alcohol involved but we don’t track that.” Games involving UT’s rivals — as with Texas A&M in the past — generate an increased number of incidents in the stands, Pieper said. “During the rivalry games, like when we used to play against A&M, we would get a lot more disturbances,” Pieper said. “A lot of people would get into arguments, ‘My school is better than yours,’ and that would turn into a fight.” Speech pathology junior Maddie Wright said she did not notice a change in the nature of the crowds since the alcohol sales policy went into effect. ““I think it is just as rowdy
as it has always been because football games are where you are supposed to be rowdy,” Wright said. Last year, UTPD arranged for 200 police officers to provide stadium security for each home game in the season, Calvert said. UTPD routinely asks officers from outside agencies to help meet that target number. The department has not raised that number for this season. Because other sports venues on-campus have sold alcohol to spectators for years, Pieper said UTPD officers were prepared to provide security for the stadium after the policy went into effect. “It’s not new to us, because they have been selling alcohol at the Frank Erwin Center [during basketball games] for years,” Pieper said. “Just now, they buy it legally [at DKR] and they consume it.”
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Forum: Student involvement in refugee rights, resettlement
By Walker Fountain Daily Texan Forum Editor @wf_atx
In the fifth Daily Texan Forum, we will hear student perspectives and stories of student involvement in refugee rights and resettlement, specifically focusing on the Central Texas area. The Syrian Refugee crisis is currently making international headlines, and the Obama administration
has announced it will accept around 10,000 Syrians fleeing the conflict into our country. While not all will be coming to Texas, it is very possible that a good portion of those entering the country will settle in the Lone Star State. The Syrian conflict is not the only situation in which the United States and Texas have accepted refugees. Thousands fleeing violence, trafficking and natural disasters around the world have relocated to the United States. Because of that, organizations such as Refugee Services of Texas have been busy, helping to settle thousands of them across the state. And our own campus is not shying away from the effort — as we can see below, organizations such as the Liberal Arts Refugee Alliance (LARA) are helping in their own ways to make the transition from conflict zones to Texas cit-
ies as seamless as possible for refugees from around the world. Other groups, such as the White Rose Society and Palestine Solidarity Committee, have extended their history of student activism and advocacy to refugee and resettlement causes. Finally, students from the Arabic Department have started working with local elementary schools as English tutors for Arabic-speaking children to create mentorship relationships and bridge the gap for students who are new to the United States. Part of what makes Texas unique is our state’s spirit of acceptance, kindness and resolve to help our neighbors and friends in any way we can. It’s one of the reasons that Texas continues to grow faster than nearly every state, and one of the reasons that Texas contains some of the most diverse urban areas in the world. Organizations that work for
refugee rights and resettlement embody that spirit of kindness and acceptance that those fleeing violence and despair desperately deserve. On our forum page this week, we will hear from students who have a variety of perspectives on refugee issues in Central Texas, including the Syrian refugee crisis, which will be an enormous political and moral issue in the years to come. In addition to the columns, the Texan will host a moderated discussion on the refugee crisis at 11 a.m. Thursday, Oct. 1, in the Texas Union Sinclair Suite. We hope to see you there to continue discussion of the important work that these organizations are performing and a discussion of what our community can do to help those in need. Fountain is a government senior from Pelham, New York.
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Fostering sense of home for refugees By Caleb Cade, Anita Farsad & Sam Karnes Daily Texan Forum Contributors
I sat across from a woman who had experienced struggles I couldn’t even imagine. Samira, a former Iraqi reporter for Reuters, left her career, family and friends to secure the possibility of a comfortable and successful life in America for her and her 15-year-old son. Today, she is an overworked, full-time translator and single mother by day and a pizza delivery worker by night. I came to this family purely with the expectation of mentoring an impressionable high school student and instead found myself on the other end of the spectrum — a learner and observer of a complex resettlement system. International attention has renewed the age-old discussion regarding how to resettle and integrate displaced people in supposedly homogenous societies. The global community has shifted focus to filling resettlement quotas and maintaining a generous reputation amongst the public. In response to increased pressure to host more refugees, specifically from Syria, Secretary of State John Kerry recently announced that the U.S. will increase its refugee intake from 70,000 global refugees to 100,000 by 2017. Pictures of sinking boats in the Mediterranean, endless rows of tents at European borders and separated families beg the question: What does this mean for us as students in Austin?
Although most Americans see this as a purely foreign issue, resettlement challenges have been — and still are — a prevalent concern in local communities, including Austin. It turns out, making an impact on this community isn’t as impossible as you might think. Although most Americans see this as a purely foreign issue, resettlement challenges have been — and still are — a prevalent concern in local communities, including Austin. For years, Austin nonprofits have struggled to fill the gap between basic resettlement services, such as documentation, living and employment, and fostering a sense of belonging in a new community. Student volunteers strengthen this effort by providing the manpower and passion that drive their work. We saw the interest that students had for foreign issues and directed the potential toward a more meaningful end. The Liberal Arts Refugee Alliance (LARA) was founded in spring 2014 to promote volunteerism in an underserved population in the Austin community: refugees, asylees and parolees. LARA localized abstract global issues, such as the current refugee crisis, and connected UT students with refugee-related
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nonprofits in the Austin area. Since its inception, LARA volunteers have mentored local high school students, taught English as a Second Language (ESL) and worked toward integrating new arrivals to Austin. Our primary goal since the beginning has been building relationships. There will always be people such as Samira, who are struggling to make their city feel like home. We have an obliga-
tion to do everything we can to create a welcoming environment for these refugees. You are here in this city, so take advantage of the opportunities around you to make a difference. Cade is a government junior and LARA’s development executive. Farsad is a Middle Eastern studies senior and LARA’s social events executive. Karnes is a Plan II junior and LARA’s president.
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Stop calling it a ‘refugee crisis’ Easing learning tensions through language tutoring partnerships
By Katherine Jensen
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Calling it a crisis suggests that forced migrants have produced an unstable and dangerous situation that now affects the West. It negatively frames those seeking safe haven as burdensome — as a burden the West, Europe now in particular, cannot bear. Yet, the West has the capacity — but not the will — to provide safe haven for all of those in search of it. It is a state of affairs produced by the opulent West that understands itself as a magnanimous savior to the Global South while it sets the terms of entry and of the debate. This is not a crisis because it is not surprising. It is the tragic but natural consequence of the historical and contemporary violent enforcement of Western hegemony around the globe. The West produces refugees and yet has the audacity to call it crisis without naming its hand in the situation’s very production. For example, there are roughly 5 million Palestinian refugees, and they make up the single largest refugee group in the world. The West created the conditions by which the Palestinian refugee situation was born. The collaboration between British colonial powers and Zionist organizations, for example, helped lead to the forced displacement of hundreds of thousands with the founding of the settler colonial state of Israel in 1948. In 1967, U.S. military support to Israel helped produce roughly 300,000 more Palestinian refugees. The West creates refugee crises through its colonial and postcolonial meddlings — tragically, sometimes, in the very name of humanitarian assis-
This is not a crisis because it is not surprising. It is the tragic but natural consequence of the historical and contemporary violent enforcement of Western hegemony around the globe. tance and intervention. The West is not even the primary destination of refugees and asylum seekers. Developing countries receive close to 86 percent of the refugees in the world, while wealthy countries receive only 14 percent. Yet the West dominates our understanding of who is bearing the “burden” — as it is discursively constructed to be — of forced migration. The vast majority of refugees never come to places such as Europe or the United States. Of the top 10 refugee receiving countries, only one is in the West. The West is not magnanimous; the Global South is. Finally, refugees are more than refugees. They are not a homogenous mass. They are doctors, taxi drivers, art history professors, artisans, line cooks, mothers, engineers and children who demonstrate mind-boggling ingenuity and determination to migrate. “Refugee” is a juridical identity that is not chosen but applied, and that comes to supplant and erase all that they are. By naming them as refugees and nothing more, we inaccurately produce them as passive victims. Such a stance is what leads to the idea of a “crisis.” Those in search of safe haven are not victims that burden us. We should welcome as many that want to come. Jensen is a sociology graduate student and Student Government Graduate Student Representative. She is a member of the Palestine Solidarity Committee.
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By Helen Heston
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In the spring of last year, many Arabicspeaking students on campus were contacted to volunteer with Austin Independent School District elementary schools as the district saw an influx of Arabic-speaking immigrants. From February to May, I worked with one fifth grader for four hours per week. When I met him, he had spent three months in the United States and was independently producing four words: paper, pencil, backpack and hello. I quickly came to realize both of us were unprepared for this partnership. I was finishing my second year of intensive Arabic but mostly knew the Modern Standard dialect and spoke about current events and University life while in Arabic class. He was from Baghdad and spoke a dialect I had never heard or encountered, and he had not been in school long enough in Iraq to have learned the dialect of Arabic that I was speaking. My conception of our partnership quickly changed. Both of us acknowledged that I was not able to communicate with him in the ways we wanted. But we enjoyed our time and had fun making jokes about language differences. There were still so many things we were capable of doing, and it was important to me he
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enjoyed our tutoring hours. So we chose to start with math — his favorite subject. I learned the basic words of addition and subtraction in Arabic, and he focused on memorizing the names of all the numbers in English. As we began doing basic arithmetic with numbers in English, I saw why he was struggling. There are four corresponding symbols in both languages — 0, 1, 7 and 9 — but only 1 and 9 have the same numerical value in both languages. As you can imagine, this was confusing and annoying for him and his teacher, who recognized a patterned problem in his math but could not identify the source. This one anecdote is the best explanation of my role at the elementary school. I helped communicate small things and used my Arabic to identify problems that might be missed by his other teachers. He was going to learn English whether or not I was there. He went to an elementary school with a well established English as a Second Language (ESL) program and had a great relationship with his teacher. Also, most of the Arabic-speaking students at the elementary school had been there for over a year and could speak freely and answer questions with very few slips or grammatical mistakes. In an immersive environment with students that are young, language acquisition happens remarkably fast. But that doesn’t mean there are not months of confusion, frustration and loneliness. I was often thanked by his teacher for giving him a break, a time to ease the tension of the language barrier between them. Heston is a history and Middle Eastern studies junior from Austin.
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ACL continues from page 8 “Technology now has allowed artists to deliver that lowfrequency experience.” The high-tech stages at ACL use stacks of cardioid speakers to control the lower frequencies. These speakers emit sound waves out the back that are opposite to the sound waves coming from the front, cancelling each other out and making the area behind the speaker almost silent. This technique prevents the sound distortion that would otherwise be caused by the low frequency sound waves moving in every direction. Rod Nielson, founder and president of Big House Sound, said it also helps artists on stage. “The drummer is kicking that drum, it’s rattling and get-
ting into his mics, which then gets re-amplified into the system again, and so it becomes even muddier,” Nielson said. “If you can have cardioid speakers up here, this becomes a very quiet stage.” Sound engineers arrange the cardioid speakers horizontally under the front of the stage, next to security. Line array speakers in the two towers beside the stage emit the high frequencies. The engineers call these “J” speakers because the towers bend backward at the bottom, away from the audience, to perfectly project music into waiting ears. Each of these speakers projects waves at a different angle, which the engineers adjust based on the terrain and width of the
targeted zone. The sound from the line array speakers effectively starts at about 35 feet away from the stage, where the waves from the speakers on both sides of the stage meet. In front of this, audience members may have trouble hearing the full effect of the concert. To remedy this problem, sound engineering companies such as Big House Sound have put small high-frequency speakers on top of the low-frequency cardioid speakers in front of the stage. Still, to get the full effects of the line array speakers, Nielson said listeners may want to stand away from the middle front of the stage.
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UCB continues from page 8 often do.” Comedian Jenny St. Angelo, a native of Flower Mound, will perform alongside Mike Kelton, Marshall Stratton and Lindsay Calleran as a member of UCB on Thursday. After graduating from SMU, St. Angelo moved to New York City and began studying at UCB, eventually earning a spot on the group’s TourCo. She said she finds improv comedy more liberating than other acting she has done in the past. “Because you just have yourself and your team partners on
stage, you sort of have the entire universe at your beck and call,” St. Angelo said. “There are touchy subjects that you can talk about in a really intelligent way that you couldn’t do if you had to just be who you look like and sound how you sound.” During her time in Austin, St. Angelo will also be leading the members of Gigglepants in a long-form improv workshop modeled after those taught at UCB. “When we say we’re going down to UT, people say, ‘Oh yeah, they’ve got a really amaz-
ing improv group,” St. Angelo said. “I know that there’s a really great improv scene happening in Austin. I’m very excited.” Carew said that while Gigglepants members are anxious about opening for a prestigious comedy group, she expects her troupe to rise to the occasion. “It’s hard when you get nervous for improv because it’s so up in the air,” Carew said. “It’s really challenging, but I find it a lot more rewarding. It’s much more of an accomplishment when things go right.”
NIGHT DRIVE continues from page 8 DT: You recently added a drummer, Gibran Nassif, to the mix. How did that decision come about and what’s it been like so far? Brandon Duhon: He ended up contacting us, and we had always had it in the back of our mind that we wanted to eventually get a drummer. Then whenever we got ACL we were like, ‘We need to start looking for a drummer,’ expecting it would be down the line, but Gibran picked
it up really quick so it was a perfect fit. DT: Has the addition of a drummer changed your live shows at all? RC: Oh, absolutely. We want people to get engaged and enjoy the show, so that’s always been important to us. Our shows are very visual. We do a lot of projections and lights, and we’re a very animated band, and I think having a drummer adds so much more en-
ergy. And for us onstage, we feel it a lot more. It’s been fantastic. DT: What do you have planned for ACL and what are you most excited for? RC: We’re going to go out there and play what people really want to hear for sure. We’re looking forward to seeing other bands and just hanging out. BD: I’m excited to bump into Julian Casablancas at a food line.
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Imani and Paul Boyette were married on July 25 after Paul proposed on Jan. 17. Imani is a senior center for the women’s basketball team, and Paul is a junior defensive tackle for the football team.
discussed marriage before. They had been dating for two and a half years, following a first date at Wendy’s. “He was a gentleman and bought my nugget meal,” Imani said. “We just chopped it up. Nothing special.” They met in San Jacinto dormitory, where they lived across the hall from one another. “I could tell from the first time I saw them interacting that they had no choice but to get married,” said Krystle Henderson, a former teammate and one of Imani’s bridesmaids. “They literally complete
each other.” The two got married on July 25 at Chapel Dulcinea in Austin in front of a crowd of about 80 people. Initially, they planned to tie the knot after they graduated, but Paul said last summer made more sense. “We just knew how hard it was going to be for us to get married after we graduate with us continuing our athletic careers at the next level,” Paul said. While the couple themselves never had cold feet about marrying young, Imani’s parents worried. “My mother just wanted
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to make sure I wasn’t going to wind up barefoot and pregnant, and I would finish school and keep my ambition,” Imani said. “My father on the other hand was combative pretty much until the day of the wedding. Luckily, I took out the objection line.” The wedding finished with no objections, and now Imani proudly wears the last name Boyette. In a year in which she won the Honda Inspiration Award, was named the Big 12 Sportsperson of the Year and earned All-Big 12 first team honors, Imani con-
siders getting married the highlight of her year. The couple knows that professional athletic aspirations may send them to different cities after graduation, but Imani said they would rather face that obstacle as a unit. Looking ahead, the two hope to start a family. Imani aspires to be an author; Paul, a nursing home owner. Wherever they end up, Henderson thinks they’ll be happy. “The world needs more of what Paul and Imani has: real love,” Henderson said.
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The Longhorns sit at 1-3 and face No. 4 TCU and No. 15 Oklahoma next. There’s clearly frustration among fans with the way things are going. The bright side? Texas may have a plan for the future with redshirt freshman quarterback Jerrod Heard. Heard has already become a good statistical quarterback despite having one fewer start than most of the other starting quarterbacks in the Big 12. His numbers are inflated by his record-breaking day against California. Heard isn’t going to play like that every time, but the way he plays is still evident by the numbers he puts up. Heard brings the ability to scramble and run. He’s No. 9 in the Big 12 in rushing yards with 73.8 per game and is the only quarterback in the top 10. It helps that he had 24 carries for 163 yards and three touchdowns against
California. That won’t happen often, but Heard ran 10 times for 96 yards against Rice and 19 times for 48 yards against Oklahoma State. Making plays on the ground is what Heard is going to try to do, no matter the yardage. Teams will start keying in on Heard’s rushing ability, but his athleticism makes him hard to stop. Heard as a ground threat makes Texas’ ability to run the spread offense easier, and allows Heard to make plays out of nothing. When teams key in on Heard’s rushing ability, it’s on Heard to make plays through the air like a typical quarterback. Heard is No. 7 in the Big 12 in pass efficiency with a rating of 157.3. He’s thrown only 613 yards and two touchdown passes, but that’s a number that should go up as Heard keeps playing. As he learns how to navigate defenses, he’ll make more of the throws it takes for a quarterback to be successful, and teams will eventu-
ally have to make a choice on what they try to stop when it comes to Heard — key in on his rushing ability, and it opens up the air and vice versa. Heard stands out among starting quarterbacks in the Big 12, with most of the upper-tier signal callers usually not wanting to run. TCU senior quarterback Trevone Boykin is No. 1 in the Big 12 with 367.5 passing yards per game. Texas Tech sophomore quarterback Patrick Mahomes is No. 2 at 355.2, while Oklahoma junior Baker Mayfield is No. 3 at 354.0. Baylor junior Seth Russell is No. 4 at 331.7. These are the kinds of quarterbacks Big 12 defenses are primarily going to be preparing for. They run high-powered offenses, but they are primarily doing it with their arms. That makes it tougher for defenses to prepare for a quarterback like Heard. He’s dynamic, which bodes well now and for the future.
To rebound from a 1-3 season start, the Longhorn defense must improve. Texas’ opponents have averaged about six yards per play, moving the ball with ease. The Longhorns also struggle to get off the field on crucial downs. They give up 56 percent of their opponents’ third-down attempts and 100 percent of their opponents’ fourth downs, which ranks last in the Big 12. “You’re going to play the best of the best offensively [in the Big 12,]” defensive coordinator Vance Bedford said Wednesday at a press conference. “They’re going to spread you out, … and you should come to the University of Texas to play better defense. We’re not playing good defense right now.” The Longhorns’ defensive struggles are difficult to ignore. Yet, the unit tends to show new life in the fourth quarter. Over its last two games, Texas held its opponents to 1.6 yards per play and just 25 percent on third-down attempts in the fourth quarter. Bedford said he doesn’t know why the Longhorns wait until
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It was Jan. 17, family day for the women’s basketball team. Texas defeated Texas Tech 55-44, and the players were headed to eat lunch and introduce their families. For center Imani Boyette, a junior at the time, it was just another family day, meaning none of her family, who lives in Los Angeles, would be there. But to Imani’s surprise, her older cousin, Darryl Barnes, flew in from California. She wondered why he didn’t inform her ahead of time. She hates surprises. Then things got stranger. The seniors broke tradition and introduced their families before the juniors did. Then-junior guard Brady Sanders told Imani she was going last. “When I got to the end of introducing everyone, my coach told me to stay up at the front, and a song came up,” Imani said. “Girls started screeching, my older boy cousin had a bouquet of roses, and my little girl cousin had the ring and he got down on one knee and proposed.” Paul Boyette Jr., a junior defensive tackle, planned the proposal for two months. His parents, brother and sister-in-law were there. Paul made sure Barnes was there as well. Paul told Imani’s parents a week earlier what he had planned. Imani was the only one who didn’t know what Paul had planned. While the proposal was a surprise, Imani and Paul had
SIDELINE
We have to go out and play good defense from the opening kickoff to the fourth quarter — that’s what it’s all about. —Vance Bedford, defensive coordinator
the fourth quarter to execute, but he knows they need to play better from start to finish. “I told the guys that we cannot start any ball game out in the first quarter giving two drives for 14 points … that’s the game right there,” Bedford said. “It comes back to being fundamentally sound.” Texas’ fundamentals will be tested on Saturday as the Longhorns head to Fort Worth to take on No. 4 TCU’s top-5 ranked offense. If the Longhorns’ defense shows up early, it will go a long way toward reeling in the upset. “We have to go out and play good defense from the opening kickoff to the fourth quarter — that’s what it’s all about,” Bedford said.
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Two Texas defenders attempt to tackle an Oklahoma State player in the Longhorns matchup against the Cowboys on Saturday. The team lost the game 30-27.
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“It is better to look ahead and prepare than to look back and regret”-Jackie Joyner Kersee
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Former Dallas Cowboy Ed “Too Tall” Jones recorded his 1000th career tackle in the NFL.
SPORTS BRIEFLY Big 12/SEC Challenge matchups announced
The Big 12 and Southeastern conferencces announced the times and ticket information for the women’s basketball Big 12/SEC challenge on Dec. 20 in Oklahoma City. The tournament was formed in Aug. 2014 and will continue through 2017 Texas begins the tournament with a game against Arkansas, which will be broadcast on Fox Sports 1 at 1:30 p.m. Texas A&M and Oklahoma will play afterwards at 4 p.m. Last year the Longhorns beat A&M 67-65 in Arkansas. Tickets for the tournament go on sale Thursday at 10 a.m. Prices are from $14 to $20. —Akshay Mirchandani
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AUSTIN CITY LIMITS
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Austin City Limits festival goers who hope to bask in the sweat of rock stars force their way to the front of the stage. But fans searching for the perfect sound might want to settle back into the crowd. To hear the full effects of the entire sound system, audience members should stand at least 35 feet back from the middle of the stage. Before advancements in technology made it easier to control sound, sound engineers
struggled to project highfrequency and low-frequency sounds across a wide area. This is why Madonna’s vocals were often more audible than her bass guitarists’ plunking. An ACL-goer with a taste for bass is in luck these days, however. Zach Richards, director of installations at Big House Sound Inc. — one of the companies that controls the speakers at ACL — said the technology that controls low frequencies has improved immensely in the last five to 10 years. “A bass or synthesizer line that was 30 hertz would have disappeared at a big concert in the eighties,” Richards said.
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THEATER & DANCE
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Four members of UT’s Gigglepants practice playing different improv games in a Mezes classroom Wednesday night. Gigglepants, UT’s only short-form improv comedy group, performs weekly on campus. Gigglepants will perform this Thursday to open for Upright Citizens Brigade.
Local electro-pop band set to perform at Austin City Limits
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UT’s Gigglepants to open for NY comedy troupe By James Rodriguez @jamie_rod
After spending the past four years plucking ideas from thin air onstage, theater senior and improviser Hope Carew has learned to thrive on the unexpected. As captain of Gigglepants, UT’s only short-form improv comedy group, Carew relies on her ability to roll with the punches. But every now and then, the unexpected strikes offstage. Last spring while studying abroad in London, Carew found a message in her email inbox from a member of the Upright Citizens Brigade, a premier comedy school and troupe from New York cofounded by Amy Poehler, telling her that UCB wanted to perform at UT, and they wanted Gigglepants to open for them. “I called my mom
internationally, and I was freaking out,” Carew said. “I was like, ‘This is so cool. I’ll be an absolute hero if this works out.’” Before UCB takes the stage Thursday to perform long-form improv comedy, Gigglepants will perform an improv comedy set of their own. Carew kept the email a secret from her fellow Gigglepants members until early August, when the Campus Events + Entertainment Headliners committee finalized the event. “It was a stressful ride,” Carew said. “I kept it on the down-low because I didn’t want it to fall through and everyone have their hopes dashed. We’re all huge Amy Poehler fans, so we all know about [UCB]. I saw them at the Paramount two years ago, and it was just unbelievable that they could be so funny.” Mitchell Ridsdale, a
UPRIGHT CITIZENS BRIGADE What: Improv comedy show with opening performance by Gigglepants When: Thursday, Oct. 1st at 7:00 PM Admission: Free for you and a guest with valid UT ID
chemical engineering senior and chair of the E+E Headliners committee, said he has been a fan of UCB for several years and pushed for the event to become a reality. “With improv, you can’t say, ‘Oh, I’m excited to see this one thing,’ because it kind of just goes with whatever is happening — it morphs and molds,” Ridsdale said. “I’m just glad to see a comedy event earlier in the semester than we
Brought together by a mix of tragedy and serendipity, Rodney Connell and Brandon Duhon blend sci-fi elements with catchy synth beats in their electro-pop band, Night Drive. The two first met when a girl they were both dating — each unaware of the other — died in a car accident. They began collaborating and released their first EP, Position I, in 2013 and have been steadily producing singles and remixes since. With the recent addition of drummer Gibran Nassif over the summer, Night Drive is set to play Austin City Limits on Sunday at 11:45 a.m. The Daily Texan spoke with the band about their current
NIGHT DRIVE Where: Austin City Limits Stage: Austin Ventures Time: 11:45 AM — 12:15 PM
project and plans for their ACL show. The Daily Texan: Tell me a little about how you two met, and how you decided to start collaborating on music. Randy Connell: A girl that we both knew is actually what kind of brought us together. We don’t really like to get into a lot of the details out of respect for her family. We realized we were both songwriters and musicians, and we were just spending some time together. One thing led to another and we realized we had a lot more in common than we thought we had. Both of our bands were kind of in the last throes when we met, so everything just kind of worked itself out that way.
DT: With Rodney living in Austin and Brandon living in Houston, how does your writing process work? RC: We’ve done it in every way possible. But a more usual way of writing is Brandon will have a piece of music that he’ll share with me, and we’ll kind of start with that, and ,if we’re both on board, and we like it and want to keep working on it, then we just start writing more stuff. We’re not stuck into one process, which is good. But we also know what works, and what both of our strong suits are. DT: What are you all currently working on? RC: We have an album’s worth of songs, but we’re actually finishing up some more stuff right now, and we’re going to be releasing a lot of new material in the early part of next year. We haven’t decided if that’s going to be an EP or an album.
NIGHT DRIVE page 5 From left, Gibran Nassif, Rodney Connell, Brandon Duhon make up the electro-pop band Night Drive. The group will perform at Austin City Limits on Sunday.
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THROWBACK
Weather fails to put damper on Austin City Limits 2005 By Brandi Davis @thedailytexan
Two years ago, heavy rains caused Austin City Limits to cancel the final day of festivities. But in 2005, when a Category 5 hurricane hit Texas, the show went on. That same year, The Daily Texan staff writer Patrick George wrote an article concerning local Austin meteorologists’ and students’ worries about the hurricane named Hurricane Rita. The National Weather Service anticipated 65 mph winds and flooding would hit Austin on the Friday of ACL. Joe Arellano, the National Weather Service Austin/ San Antonio meteorologist, said in the article that severe
weather conditions on Saturday would not be conducive for any type of outdoor events, especially with large groups of people. Daily Texan staff writers Adam H. Covici and Craig Whitney wrote in a second article that Hurricane Rita overshadowed much of the excitement about ACL. Many residents were coping with issues such as shortages of gas and water as a result of Hurricane Rita. “Gas and water sales have spiked,” Covici and Whitney wrote. “The 7-Eleven on 26th and Guadalupe ran out of gas Wednesday. HEBs all over the city are struggling to keep their shelves full of water.” Mark Higgins, the director
of ACL’s producer, Capital Sports Entertainment, wasn’t concerned about cancellation and didn’t foresee the hurricane affecting attendance. “People are fired up about this,” Higgins said. “Rain didn’t hurt attendance back in 2002.” As ACL approached, Rita reached Category 5. George wrote that students were left in suspense, debating whether they should buy tickets. In the article, studio arts freshman Sarah Jane Jornayvaz, said she might change her mind about attending if the weather was too bad. “I wouldn’t go if it flooded,” Jornayvaz said. “I love music, but I’m not that hardcore.” The day before the festival began, ACL coordinators
announced the festival would go on and Austinites rushed to buy their tickets that Thursday night. The festival featured performances by Coldplay, Spoon, Arcade Fire and the Black Crows. Staff writer, Avimaan Syam wrote an article about Arcade Fire and their success as performers. “Arcade Fire’s tour in December is what’s caused their name to spread like wildfire across the country,” Syam wrote. “With reports of their rocking shows ranking up there with cat’s pajamas.” The festival ended with a performance by Coldplay who had just released their latest album, X&Y. Staff writer, Tito Belis wrote in an album review that their new
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record differs from the meticulous nature of past records. “Coldplay’s third fulllength album is intended to solidify the band’s place within the upper echelon among the finest music makers of our
time,” Belis said. “Coldplay has undeniably created an album suitable for the arena and festival circuit of 2005.”
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