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UT affordability ranked 40th in US By Rachel Freeman @rachel_frmn
UT ranked 40 out of 179 top American colleges for efforts in economic diversity, according to The New York Times’ College Access Index. UT-Austin placed third of five of other Texas schools included on the list. Rice had the highest rank of schools in Texas, at 28, while Texas A&M University in College Station ranked 29. Trinity University and Texas Christian University were the other two Texas schools on the list, ranking at 117 and 177, respectively. The study includes data from 2011-2015, but weighs
recent years’ information more heavily in creating rankings. Trina Manor, associate director for the Office of Financial Aid, said she believes UT’s financial aid has improved since 2011 and the data from that year might have negatively contributed to UT’s ranking. “We had already seen the writing on the wall in 2011,” Manor said. “Since that year, we have added more scholarships such as the Texas Advanced Initiative and [secured] a commitment from Houston endowment. We can always do more, but we are definitely making the steps to help students pay for their education not just [for] one year but for
multiple years.” The Times compiled the index based on three factors: Pell Grant, net price for middle income students and graduation rate. Only colleges with a five year graduation rate of 75% or higher were included in the rankings. Pell Grants are typically given to families who make less than $70,000. The net price for middle income students is how much the average student pays for tuition, fees, room and board after taking into account federal, state and institutional financial aid. Psychology junior Jalesa Blueford said she felt frustrated with the financial aid office,
because she was given a Pell Grant her freshman year but has not been able to requalify ever since. “I never found out why I didn’t get my Pell Grant again,” Blueford said. “My family isn’t making money so I don’t know why I’m not qualified. I’m having to take out a lot of loans right now just to pay for school. Many of my friends who went to A&M were offered a lot of money. It’s sad UT isn’t able to do more.” Advertising junior Jesus Acosta said he doesn’t get any financial aid, but doesn’t care much about it because he personally doesn’t need any aid. “I have a neutral opinion
COLLEGE AFFORDABILITY RANK (ENDOWMENT PER STUDENT) (28) Rice: $729K (29) Texas A&M: $171K (40) University of Texas at Austin: $64K (177) Texas Christian University: $134k
of the office because it doesn’t really affect me,” Acosca said. “But I do have friends from my home in the [Rio Grande] Valley who have only been able to come to UT because of the financial aid they received.”
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TX-OU meet for annual showdown By Nick Castillo @Nick_Castillo74 Then-senior quarterback Case McCoy set back to pass and unleashed a floating dagger that found the hands of wide receiver Mike Davis for a touchdown en route to a 36-20 win over Oklahoma in 2013. McCoy’s Longhorns were the last to beat the Sooners and only the second Texas team to win the Red River Showdown since 2009. As Texas prepares for the 110th renewal of the Longhorn-Sooner rivalry game, redshirt freshman quarterback Jerrod Heard remembers the 2013 game. “[My favorite moment] was two years ago, when Case McCoy beat OU, and he threw that deep ball to Mike Davis, and the crowd erupted,” Heard said. “When I look back at that, that’s what I want to do.” Much like McCoy’s Longhorns, Heard and the team enter this season’s rivalry as
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Redshirt freshman quarterback Jerrod Heard says his favorite moment of the Red River Rivalry game was former Longhorn Case McCoy’s touchdown pass to Mike Davis in 2013.. Saturday, Heard has a chance to create his own moment.
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Professor to withdraw in response to Senate Bill 11 By Nashwa Bawab @nashwabawab
In a recent resignation letter to President Gregory Fenves, a UT professor emeritus said the new campus carry law would diminish the university’s ability to attract new faculty. The new campus carry law, which has received backlash from UT professors and currently has a working group deciding university-specific regulations, will take effect on Aug. 1 2016. According to economics professor Daniel Hamermesh, the new law will lower the quality of higher education in Texas because it will discourage talented professors from teaching at universities that allow guns on campus. Hamermesh had retired in 2014 and agreed with the economics department to teach classes in fall 2015, fall 2016 and fall 2017, but said in his letter he will not return to teach after this semester. “This just makes UT a less attractive place, and people we want to recruit have lots of alternatives,” Hamermesh said. “I think it’s going to make it very much harder to hire faculty, and essentially what the legislature did was worsen the quality of higher education in the state of Texas.” UT spokesperson Gary Susswein said he appreciates that Hamermesh wrote his letter to Fenves because it is important for students and professors to raise their concerns about the concealedcarry law. “The concern we have heard from Professor Hamermesh is similar to what
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New FAFSA timeline Whole Foods plans to reduce workforce simplifies financial aid By Lauren Florence Whole Foods Market plans to lay off about 1.6 percent of the company’s more than 90,000 total workers in order to lower prices and invest in technology, according to a Sept. 28 press release.
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For students starting college in the fall of 2017, a streamlined application aims to make applying for federal financial aid easier. On Sept. 14, the Obama administration announced an update to the schedule for the Free Application for Federal Student Aid, or FAFSA. When the new rules go into effect next fall, students planning on entering college in 2017 will be able to apply for federal aid as early as October and receive their federal aid award information early that same fall. The new schedule aims to alleviate the financial stresses students experience during the college application process. Prior to this updated schedule, students did not have access to
the FAFSA application until January, and did not receive their federal aid information until late spring, long after they had applied to college. The new schedule will allow students and families to view federal aid information much earlier. Carolina Arroyo, a senior at Louis D. Brandeis High School in San Antonio, Texas, said she feels the new FAFSA schedule will help alleviate the already stressful college application process. “It’s already so overwhelming trying to apply to college in the first place,” Arroyo said. “It’s comforting to know that earlier information will prevent students from picking a college and finding out later that they aren’t able to go.” An expanded College
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Whole Foods Market, an Austin-based company, plans to cut about 1,500 entry-level jobs to lower prices and invest in technology, according to a press release Sept. 28. According to the press, over the ensuing eight weeks — until the end of November — the company will reduce its workforce as part of its commitment to lower customer prices and advance upgrades in technology while improving its cost structure. “We believe this is an important step to evolve Whole Foods Market in a rapidly changing marketplace,” Walter Robb, co-CEO of Whole Foods Market, said in the release. The 1,500 workers who will be laid off represent about 1.6 percent of the
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company’s more than 90,000 total workers, according to the press release. Whole Food’s press release stated the company anticipates most of the reductions will occur naturally through attrition, which is the gradual reduction of a workforce when positions lost from
retirement or resignation are not replaced. Plan II freshman Olivia Hartwell said she can’t afford to shop at Whole Foods on her own, but it’s the only supermarket her family shops at in Connecticut. She said the Whole Foods in her hometown has a program to hire people with dis-
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abilities for entry-level positions. “If those type of people [with disabilities] were going to get laid off, I’d be really frustrated because I think that’s a really cool program, but I’m for new technology, so I guess it all depends on the other
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Scorecard, which includes information about s school’s tuition, degrees and graduation rates, was released Sept. 12, just days before the federal government announced the change in the federal aid schedule. The expanded scorecard and the new FAFSA rules will help families to make more informed decisions about the college application process, according to the U.S. Department of Education. “This new rule definitely would have helped with financial stress I experienced during the college application process,” psychology freshman Chris Truong said. “I wish I had this information available to me when I applied, but hopefully the earlier information will help families make better financial decisions in the coming years.” Amy Nguyen, freshman international relations and
we’ve heard from other professors and from students as well,” Susswein said. “We hear what they are saying and we understand their concerns and that’s why it is important that we all work collaboratively to help develop these regulations.” Susswein said although opinions are important in the regulation process of the campus carry law, the legislation prohibits the university from prohibiting concealedcarry guns on campus. “We are not allowed, under state law, to prohibit guns on campus, but the conversations that we’re having now and the heartfelt concerns being raised by Dr. Hamermesh and others are an important part of this process right now,” Susswein said. Madison Yandell, government junior and president
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I wish I had this information available to me when I applied, but hopefully the earlier information will help families make better financial decisions in the coming years. —Chris Truong, Freshman
global studies major, said that for her, money played the biggest role in deciding where to apply. “Even if a college may have had good academics or have been in a city I loved, money was a much larger factor in choosing where to go to school,” Nguyen said. “Receiving information earlier would have made it much easier not only to confirm myself at a specific university, but also to complete housing and tuition requirements much sooner.”
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Hamermesh said he does not think what he did was an act of protest, but rather a sensible reaction to what he claims could be a dangerous law. “What I hope to accomplish is nothing — I just want everything to be ethically correct,” Hamermesh said. “What I hope happens, not because of me, is that Texas can do something and try to repeal that law, but until then I hope that on campus, the gun law is as restricted as possible.”
weeks while they decide what to do next. “This is a very difficult decision, and we are committed to treating affected team members in a caring and respectful manner,” Robb said in the press release. “We have offered them several options including transition pay, a generous severance, or the opportunity to apply for other jobs.” Nutrition sophomore Sydney Benator said she shops at Whole Foods every two or three weeks and sometimes goes there to get dinner. Benator said she was upset to hear about the
job cuts, but said if Whole Foods can lower their prices as a result, then it will be a better decision for the long-term. “I feel like that’s totally against what Whole Foods stands for because their mission is very communitybased,” Benator said. “But I understand that as a business sometimes you have to make decisions that are best for you and they’re also trying to make things cheaper for the population in general. And if more people can get access to healthy food because things are cheaper then that’s probably better in the long run.”
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of College Republicans, said she thinks the law could cause an issue when recruiting professors who do not understand Texas culture, but once the law is implemented, more people will come to the realization that life can go on as normal. Yandell she understands why professors may have similar concerns to Hamermesh’s but thinks the law should still be implemented the way the legislature intended. “It definitely is a concern that in an attempt to appease the faculty and staff that they’re just going to make this law as strict as possible but a lot of things that the anti-campus carry people are trying to advocate for are really not feasible in the way the law is written,” Yandell said. “We have pretty good faith that they’re going to apply this law on campus in the spirit that the legislature had when they passed this bill.”
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Speakers discuss importance of Tejano culture By Forrest Milburn @forrestmilburn
Following a Mariachi performance detailing Mexican and Texas history on Thursday, five panelists discussed the significance of Mexican-Americans and Tejanos on the development of Texas. Andrés Tijerina, an Austin Community College history professor, said that although Tejanos have tremendously impacted Texas’ culture and economy, their historical significance has been silenced in favor of the memories of the Alamo, Sam Houston and Stephen F. Austin. “It’s the Mexican, it’s the Tejano that makes Texas unique,” Tijerina said. “Everything we brag about in Texas – the longhorns, the mustangs, the mavericks, the herds, the cattle trails – everything is Mexican, but it’s been silenced.” The panel of professors and community leaders met in the Gordon-White Building as the fourth event celebrating Hispanic
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Austin Community College professor Andres Tijerina speaks on a panel at the Gordon White building on Thursday evening. The panelists discussed Tejano history and a monument commemorating Tejano’s through Texas history.
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Heritage Month sponsored by the Center for Mexican Studies. “I think part of what we’ve heard here today is the idea of making history,” associate journalism professor and panelist Maggie Riveras-Rodriguez said. “When I got to UT a million years ago as a student, I felt like I was in a candy store because there were Tejano studies classes. Because that history had been so hidden from my view, I didn’t know anything about it.” Other panelists, including history professor Emilio Zamora, discussed the lack of Tejano and MexicanAmerican history in the public school system as a major problem affecting the community. “We want these children to understand that
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their heritage is a source of pride,” Zamora said. “We’re not just doing things to increase the number of voters to vote their interests and their conscience. In the process of doing that, we are affirming values among ourselves.” History graduate student
Maria Hammack said she thought the panelists have fought hard to embed Tejano culture within established institutions. “When they were in college, [Tejano history courses] did not exist,” Hammack said. “You have to sort of break through the doors,
and I think they have done a very good job for us to be able to take classes in Tejano history when before they were not available.” Rivas-Rodriguez said she thinks Tejanos and Mexican-Americans have come a long way and have reached a point where they can look
back and reflect on all of their accomplishments. “With all of us together, collectively, we can move up that mountain,” RivasRodriguez said. “We can get to the top of the top and we can say ‘Okay, this is what we’ve been able to accomplish.’”
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Diversity lacking in Austin queer nightlife scene, panelists say By Ellie Breed @thedailytexan
Small queer nightlife and music venues in Austin provide a safe place for individuals to celebrate who they are h and simultaneously make a statement in the commuor nity, according to disc jockey does Saul Mojica. was Mojica, who is known by ather stage name “DJ Boyfriends,” what spoke as part of a panel hosted nger- by the Harry Ransom Center that included representatives com- from queer nightclubs and orjust ganizations House of Shakur, ethi- Body Rock ATX, Cheer Up mesh Charlies, BLXPLTN, and The pens, Glitoris. Mojica said that his that role in the Austin commug and nity is to create an alternative , but environment to more visible at on queer nightlife areas, such as as re- Fourth Street. “There isn’t anywhere that is really a home base for gay musicians and DJs,” Mojica Whole pricwill CAMPUS r the
said. “That is where I saw an opportunity for myself to make a little niche in queer nightlife in Austin, somewhere that a queer person can go and feel completely safe in their culture and state that they’re part of it.” The mainstream gay and lesbian bar culture on Fourth Street falls short of a safe and authentic environment for queer nightlife culture in Austin because straight people party there, disc jockey DJ Glitoris said. “I would go to Fourth Street and I was really happy to be out and proud and for some reason I just didn’t feel accepted on Fourth Street,” DJ Glitoris said. “I felt like I wanted to be accepted as part of the community but didn’t find my authentic safe space there.” Government senior and event attendee Rodolfo ReynaGovea said that it is also hard for him to find a safe place to express himself and came to
the panel seeking the advice of industry professionals in the queer community. “I am an undocumented queer Latino,” Reyna-Govea said. “I find it hard to find a place where I can express the things that I like. I wanted to get a perspective from professionals on the things that they deal with.” Queer nightlife with the intention of creating a safe and exclusive environment is also a statement and a vehicle for political change, said AdzuaGette Cole, a spokesperson for House of Shakur. “Being a black queer in this town, I am without a doubt automatically politicized, so whatever space I am going to be a part of will automatically be politically charged in some way,” Cole said. “I don’t stray from putting political messages in my music, because a night club can be a pivotal space as well as a safe one.”
Saul Mojica, also known as DJ Boyfriends, talks at a panel discussion in regarding to the politics of queer nightlife at the Harry Ransom Center on Thursday afternoon.
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Kiese Laymon, a writer and professor from the South, speaks Thursday afternoon about racism in America and the call for education based on justice.
Daniela Rosiles, journalism and corporate communications junior, said she thinks it is important to ease racial tension through everyday interactions and refrain from stereotyping people by race. “Especially as students, I think we need to address [problems] as opposed to band-wagoning on getting rid of all of the confederate flags and statues,” Rosiles said. Laymon said he thinks concentrated groups willing to work for racial justice, such as Black Lives Matter, have the potential to make an impact because they focus on improving living conditions for a specific race of people. Comparing current movements to the Civil Rights Movement, he said he believes activism today will follow a similar pattern.
According to Laymon, the root of systematic racism is education. As an educator, Laymon said he wants students to be able to work and learn in an environment that creates a loving atmosphere for black people. He said he believes there is a lack of love and care toward black peole in creative works today. Laymon said he practices reformed education, such as exposing teachers to diverse perspectives, in an effort to eradicate the anti-black sentiment in the country. “My problem with education is you have all these administrators who have never taken an identity-based course,” Laymon said. “We should perpetually be justly educated, and that’s just not happening.”
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Editor’s Note: In the spirit of the University of Texas’ friendly rivalry with the University of Oklahoma, the editorial boards of The Daily Texan and The Oklahoma Daily have exchanged editorials. The Red River Rivalry, or the Red River Showdown, as it is now officially known, is played every October in the neutral meeting ground of Dallas and is a timehonored tradition that brings out both the best and, some would say, worst in Texas and Oklahoma football fans. In anticipation of Saturday’s game, both editorials are running in Austin and Norman today.
Obituary: Sooners mourn Despite Longhorn’s 1-4 start, Oklahoma still sucks the loss of Texas football By The Oklahoma Daily Editorial Board
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Sooner fans: It wasn’t easy losing so consistently. We had to get truly creative to face you at 1-4. Opening with a quarterback who hails from a town less than 4 percent the size of our student body? Done. Shanking an extra point at home when our kicker can actually connect from 80 yards out? Nailed it. Fumbling a snap to give Oklahoma State a field goal in the final seconds? We did that, too. It required ample creativity to enter this rivalry matchup with the lowest ranking in 59 years. We had the best minds of our generation exploring new ways to screw up a punt. That’s how committed we are to embarrassing you this weekend. In the spirit of Donald Trump, we’re going all out. We thought: If we’re going to lose football games, then dammit they’re going to be the most amazing, jaw-dropping, confounding losses we can find. Nearly every team in the country will lose this year. But Texas’ will stand out. It’s working, too. Even as we sit at the bottom of the Big 12, all anyone can talk about is Texas. Can anyone even remember the last time OU lost? It’s not that it hasn’t happened recently (as Clemson can attest). It’s just that no one cares.
Finding a Sooner fan in a museum or art exhibit is like finding an OU SAE at a civil rights march. The only explanation is that he must be really lost. The real ruse, though, is that we lost this all on purpose. When Case McCoy and our unranked Longhorns thumped you in 2013, it was embarrassing. But that team was 3-2 and went to a bowl game. Imagine how bad it will look on Saturday when your Top 10 team loses to a squad too busy releasing rap singles and tweeting to even hear the plays. It will be the biggest embarrassment since your parents told their friends where you were going for college. We’ve created every last reason for you to win, short of our players assaulting women to kick even more guys out of the program. We leave that to Frank Shannon and your team. But can you handle us? You have a new starting quarterback
It required ample creativity to enter this rivalry matchup with the lowest ranking in 59 years. We had the best minds of our generation exploring new ways to screw up a punt. again, Baker Mayfield, a former Texas Tech walk-on who knows us well. The transfer didn’t surprise us. It’s a longstanding OU tradition to recruit rejects from Texas schools. Lucky for Mayfield, he joins the legacy of NFL “greats” Sam Bradford and DeMarco Murray. On that note, Philadelphia wishes you warned it about Sooner players’ NFL shelf life. Really, Murray leaves Texas and drops to 1.6 yards per carry? And Chip Kelly expects players’ ACLs to last longer than three years. But we understand that the Oklahoma medical landscape — like its racial and gender stereotypes landscape — is about half a century behind the times. To meet you where Norman seems to be in time, we compiled our worst record since 1956. For context, that was before the Civil Rights movement peaked but after Brown v. Board of Education. Yes, the courts did order integration of schools. We invite Oklahoma to join the rest of the country in accepting it. Coming to Dallas must be like time-traveling to the future for your fans. With world-class museums, galleries, fashion, and architecture, Dallas offers plenty of cultural enrichment. Then again, finding a Sooner fan in a museum or art exhibit is like finding an OU SAE at a civil rights march. The only explanation is that he must be really lost. Perhaps it’s fitting we sunk to our 1956 record — the last Red River Rivalry match before Darrell K. Royal got the heck out of Oklahoma and found success here. This time, we’ve got a coach and we’re sticking by him. Your famous coaches are always welcome in Texas, though. Maybe Barry Switzer and Bob Stoops could transfer to the Huntsville Correctional Facility. There, they could continue their favorite hobby: watching over felons. In this forward-thinking, innovative state, NASA scientists in Houston recently made a discovery. On Sept. 28, 2015, the team discovered water on the surface of Mars. While they could not confirm whether that meant the existence of life outside of Earth, researchers did announce one definitive conclusion: OU still sucks.
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Texas Longhorns Football, 122, died Saturday, Oct. 10, 2015, at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas following a long and difficult struggle with an Oklahoma offense coordinated by a man who graduated high school just last week. Further complications arose when he was hit with Baker Mayfield’s whip. He leaves his estranged wife of 121 years, Texas A&M; his younger, yet more talented, siblings, TCU and Baylor; his daddy, Bob Stoops; and zero close friends. Texas fell ill suddenly on the first drive of the 2010 National Championship Game and never recovered. The state of the program took an even steeper downturn when he was unable to procure the miracle drug Nick Saban. When it became apparent Tex would never recover, he was rushed to South Bend, Indiana, for last rites. What he received, however, was anything but right in the eyes of God. Before his illness, he lived happily in Oklahoma’s shadow — comfortably near, but not quite at the top of the Big 12. Texas was known as a charitable man, even gift-wrapping the Sooners five-straight wins from 2000-04. Baylor and Texas A&M were incredibly thankful when Tex handed them Robert Griffin III and Johnny Manziel. Legend has it, Texas once tried to recruit Kevin Durant himself as a defensive back. Although Texas ended up pawning all four of his national title trophies and both Heismans for booze to numb the pain on gameday, his only remaining possession, The Longhorn Network, will be donated to Comedy Central — although there won’t be a marked change
Among one of the best to play in Austin was Vince Young, whose younger clone, Jerrod Heard, was suiting up in burnt orange before Texas’ pretty timely death. The resemblance was uncanny, so long as you squinted your eyes and lowered your expectations.
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in programming. Texas enjoyed watching many football greats during its lifetime, although very few were actually on his sideline. Among one of the best to play in Austin was Vince Young, whose younger clone, Jerrod Heard, was suiting up in burnt orange before Texas’ pretty timely death. The resemblance was uncanny, so long as you squinted your eyes and lowered your expectations. The two even found common ground in the ‘13’ on Heard’s jersey, about as high as Young can count. Texas spent much of his later life delusional, even losing to Oklahoma State in his final weeks. His condition worsened to the point Sarah McLachlan took pity and produced a commercial featuring hungry assistant coaches.
The family has asked that in lieu of flowers, donations be made to a GoFundMe page that has been set up for former Texas assistant coaches who can no longer afford to pay for their own meals. Tex is truly now in the arms of an angel. Tex was surrounded by family at the time of his death, including life partners DeLoss Dodds and Dan Beebe, who were responsible for most of the showers of undeserved respect he received Noticeably absent at the time of death were step-father Steve Patterson, who singlehandedly RKO’d Texas’ health into the ground, and son David Ash. Ash, whom Tex always insisted on calling a “quarterback,” does not remember his time at Texas or what he had for breakfast this morning. Texas is preceded in death by Oklahoma legend Darrell K Royal; Case McCoy, who was ushered into the next life by Eric Striker back in 2013; his lovable uncle, Nebraska; and Charlie Strong’s chances of winning a championship. The family has asked that in lieu of flowers, donations be made to a GoFundMe page that has been set up for former Texas assistant coaches who can no longer afford to pay for their own meals.
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continues from page 8 GUH: I think it’s the moment when you see someone in the crowd, with their eyes closed, having their own kind of private moment. Of course, it’s great seeing people excited and singing along to our songs, but seeing someone who doesn’t care about anything but the music in that moment — it’s amazing. DT: Have you guys had any moments where it felt like all of the effort you guys have put in was finally worth it? GUH: I mean, you get them all the time really. Touring and everything can be very tough, but it’s also very awesome. I don’t think I can even think of a specific moment. We’re just so lucky to have gotten where we are. DT: Did the making of this album help the band get over Sainsbury’s departure? GUH: We obviously miss him, but I think certainly having a job to do and knowing we couldn’t just sit around really helped us move forward. DT: What are some goals that you guys have going forward? GUH: We’re not really a goal-oriented band. We just want our music to get better and better with every listen.
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continues from page 8 by trial and error. Though she didn’t originally study art, she began experimenting with graphic design and eventually majored in photo media. “I realized with graphic design you have to do what other people want you to do,” Roach said. “When you’re an artist or illustrator you kind of get to have your own style, and that was what I was more
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Landscape artist Elizabeth Corkery works on medium-density fiberboard (MDF) “stones” for a new project set to debut Friday. Corkery is completing her week of residency at UT as part of the Guest Artist in Print Program.
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continues from page 8 you kind of go from A to B to C, and I’ve found that quite appealing. At Cornell I had exposure to all of the equipment and studios that the architecture school had, and I think when interested in.” Inspired by her experience growing up in Austin, she began designing the poster in April. The poster utilizes a wide-ranging color palette of blues, yellows and purples to capture the city’s offbeat nature. The image’s cascading water surrounds the hodgepodge of clustered skyscrapers. “Growing up here turned me into the artist I am,” Roach said. “I just like the overall vibe of Austin. I
you’re given the space your work kind of expands into it.” While Corkery has yet to determine how exactly she will arrange the stones, she said she intends for it to be open to interpretation. “The idea is that these try not to be too specific with my work, but there are some [Austin] buildings that are recognizable.” Her complex and thoughtprovoking style caught the attention of Stacey Rodrigues, event merchandise manager at ACL’s production company C3 Presents. “I like the intricacy of [her work],” Rodrigues said. “It looks like really sophisticated doodles. It invites you to take a closer look.” When tasked with making
The idea is that these individual stone pieces will be installed in such a way as to be reminiscent of an artificial ruin structure. You’ll kind of be wondering whether they’re being constructed or deconstructed.
individual stone pieces will be installed in such a way as to be reminiscent of an artificial ruin structure,” Corkery said. “You’ll kind of be wondering whether they’re being constructed or deconstructed. They could either be premonitions or reconstructions.” this year’s artist selection for the official commemorative poster, Rodrigues said she sought to change the festival’s tendency to highlight male artists. Until Roach, all 13 previous poster artists had been men. “This year we really wanted to work with a female artist,” Rodrigues said. “We felt they’ve been underrepresented in our selection of poster artists the past years.” After the close of the first weekend of the festival,
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Rodrigues said she was impressed by the popularity of Roach’s design. “People love it and it’s been one of our best sellers,” Rodrigues said. “[It’s] a great voice for the 2015 festival. Plan II freshman Cade Stone attended this year’s festival. The native Austinite said the design accurately captured the atmosphere of the city. “I think it really showed what the event means to Austin,” Stone said. “I like how it
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While most will tune in to the gridiron rivalry at the Cotton Bowl this weekend, Texas will compete in another rivalry matchup at Gregory Gym. Sunday, No. 2 Texas squares off against unranked Oklahoma. The Longhorns enter the match as heavy favorites over the Sooners. Texas has won its last 10 matches, the most recent four against Big 12 opponents. But despite the recent success, head coach Jerritt Elliott won’t allow his Longhorns to take Oklahoma lightly. “They tend to play us really tough,” Elliott said. “They’re very good defensively and when we play, nothing is easy. We’re going to try and keep doing what we’re doing and improve our record in Big 12 play.” Despite boasting a 7-8 record on the year, the Sooners’ performance against Texas in 2014 gives more than enough reason to worry Elliott and his squad. Texas eked out a
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As the Longhorns get set to take on Oklahoma on Sunday, junior setter Chloe Collins says she and Texas need to be ready for every team’s best shot. This season, Collins has accumulated 558 assists and 105 digs.
five-set win against Oklahoma in November 2014 after falling to the Sooners in October earlier that season. The loss, in straight sets, came before a record
crowd of 4,402. “It’s a wake-up call,” junior setter Chloe Collins said after the loss. “We need perspective that every team is going to play their best and we
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recently, but Oklahoma presents a whole new set of challenges to the Texas squad. Texas tips off against Oklahoma at 1 p.m. Sunday.
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Sophomore Paige von Sprecken winds up to release a pitch Thrusday night against Temple. Besides pitching, von Sprecken plated two runs on an RBI single in the 6th inning.
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Texas continued its winning ways Thursday night with a 13-0 victory over Temple. The Longhorns pounded out 10 hits in the contest, improving to 3-0 in their fall schedule. Head coach Connie Clark said she was most impressed with the young bats in the order. “You can see the newcomers getting some more innings under their belt and getting more confident,” Clark said. “That’s good to see them getting more comfortable.” Sophomore Paige von Sprecken is one of the new
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continues from page 1 heavy underdogs. Oklahoma is ranked No. 10 and has a perfect 4-0 record. The Sooners have an electric passing game led by junior quarterback Baker Mayfield, who has thrown for 1,382 yards and 13 touchdowns in 2015. The Longhorns’ defense has struggled this season, giving up 296.6 passing yards per game – worse than 117 of 127 FBS schools. Texas allowed 376 passing yards and six touchdowns to TCU in its 50-7 loss. Defensive coordinator Vance Bedford said the Longhorns will have to eliminate their mistakes against the Sooners. “If you live in the past, the past will come back to get you,” Bedford said. “If you learn from
batters. Texas accepted her because of her arm, but she pitched into the scoring bonanza, plating two runs on an RBI single in the 6th. “Even though I have a year of experience from another school, this is special,” von Sprecken said. “Texas is a new level.” On the other hand, Temple couldn’t find the barrel of the bat. The team’s lone hit was an infield chopper in which the runner beat out the throw. Junior Tiarra Davis got the start, throwing three hitless innings with four strikeouts. Coach Clark said the important thing was Davis looked like herself. “We’re working this fall on
getting Tiarra back up to 100 percent, and she looked much healthier tonight,” Clark said. The fall schedule tends to make evaluating based on results a fruitless effort. And Clark mentioned that after the game. “In fall ball, it’s about keeping things simple and building on the positives,” Clark said. “We’re not focused on outcomes, we just set goals and hope to achieve them.” With just a few weeks of bonding, von Sprecken already notices something special about this team. “It’s the most welcoming group I’ve ever been a part of,” von Sprecken said. “We’re like a family.”
it, move forward and say, ‘What can we do to get things going in the right direction?’ … Let’s not make the same mistakes again.” In addition to Texas’ defensive struggles, the Longhorn offense is in a rut. Heard compiled just 48 passing yards against TCU. And the Longhorns only managed to find the end zone once – in the fourth quarter, when junior quarterback Tyrone Swoopes connected with sophomore wide receiver Lorenzo Joe for a 21-yard touchdown. Head coach Charlie Strong said Texas will need a much better performance from its offense to match a challenging Sooner defense. “[Oklahoma’s defense is] athletic,” Strong said. “They are one of the most athletic fronts we are going to play against.
They fly to the ball, and they don’t make a lot of mistakes. So when you face a team like that, you have to execute and drive down the field and take what they give you.” Despite Texas’ lowly 1-4 record, Strong said the rivalry game came at the right time for his team. “It’s time for us to get our confidence back and get these guys back on track,” Strong said. “Yes, [the game] falls at a great time for us. So we’ll see just how much we are going to go out and go compete, and how much we’ve got to get them prepared and get them focused.” Heard and the Longhorns will need plenty of focus against the Sooners. They’ll need some luck they haven’t had yet, and maybe a McCoy-esque floater by Heard.
The Longhorns’ season is consistently inconsistent through 11 games. They have a 4-3-4 record, they’ve had great wins — upsetting UCLA — and bad losses — a 2-0 defeat at the hands of University of California- Santa Barbara. There are times when the mood in the locker room can be darkened. Then, junior midfielder Julia Dyche spontaneously erupts in a dance and it lightens the mood. “It makes people laugh,” senior goalkeeper Abby Smith said. There isn’t a concrete explanation to Dyche’s methods. It’s who she is. “It’s kind of like she doesn’t really care,” Smith said. “She does the awkward things to make people more comfortable.” Dyche hasn’t been dancing for very long — she simply loves doing it. “But everyone on the team will tell you that I’m a horrible dancer,” Dyche said. “And pretty much all my friends make fun of me for it.” While her friends might make jokes about her dancing abilities, she won’t be made fun of for her soccer skills. Dyche picked up the sport when she was four years old, playing for a YMCA team called The Lady Bugs. She didn’t wear a headband back then, instead sporting a giant red bow on her head. She tried basketball, she played volleyball, she did cross-country and ran track. But soccer filled her heart.
It’s kind of like she doesn’t really care. She does the awkward things to make people more comfortable. —Abby Smith, Goalkeeper
“I guess I’m a really competitive person,” Dyche said. “I think soccer, because it’s a contact sport, was the first chance I got to be competitive, and I think that’s why I fell in love with it.” She dropped everything but soccer in eighth grade. She played for her high school team and her club team which was coached by Ryan Higginbotham — TCU’s assistant coach. Dyche and Smith played for the same club team but in different age groups. They became friends and have become closer since they first arrived at Texas. They would text each other, go to dinner and eat sushi — even though Dyche doesn’t like sushi. “Sophomore year, when she was in the dorm, she would always come to our apartment to hang out,” Smith said. Now, both are ready to take on TCU and Higginbotham on Sunday — but first they’ll play Iowa State on Friday night. When asked about what it’ll be like to play against Higginbotham, Dyche wasn’t nervous. “It will be good to see him,” Dyche said.
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Junior midfielder Julia Dyche began to play soccer at four. She grew up playing basketball, volleyball, cross country and track and field. Ultimately, soccer took her heart.
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In her third day of play at the ITA AllAmerican championships, senior Breaunna Addison defeated Vanderbilt’s Frances Altick 7-5, 6-3 to advance to the round of 16 in the main singles draw. Addison has yet to lose a set so far and has outscored her four opponents a combined 49 games to 28. The senior advanced quickly through the qualifying draw, defeating Georgia Tech’s Paige Hourigan, Syracuse’s Valeria Salazar Garza and Virginia’s Stephanie Nauta to earn her way to the main singles draw. With Thursday’s win over Altick, Addison has vaulted her way into the round of 16. This means Addison stands just three wins away from her first title in the ITA All-American championships after losing in the second round last year. A win would add to an already historic run for bthe two-time All-American, marked by achievements such as Big 12 champion and Big 12 Player of the Year. Addison will resume play Friday against topseeded Brooke Austin from the University of Florida. Austin defeated Mississippi State’s Jasmine Lee 6-2, 7-6 (8) Thursday. This will be Addison’s toughest match yet, as Austin shares a similarly impressive pedigree including 2015 SEC Player of the Year and AllAmerican standing in both singles and doubles. The ITA All-American championships are the first of three national championship events for college tennis this season. —Samuel Williams
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DANIELLE LOPEZ, LIFE&ARTS EDITOR | @thedailytexan Friday, October 9, 2015
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nstead of takPast [artists] have been heroes ing notes durof mine. It feels really good to ing her classes at the Univerbe invited to do that. sity of Washington, —Sophie Roach, Austin-based artist ACL poster artist Sophie Roach began her artistic career doodling in her notebook. Over the years, the self-taught artist has worked on murals around the city, designed posters for South By Southwest and created custom pairs of hand-painted shoes for Vans. Last year, Austin City Limits selected Roach to create the festival’s 2015 commemorative poster, which is featured on t-shirts as well as billboards and jumbotrons that are around the city. “It was an honor because they pick one artist to represent the festival every year,” Roach said. “Past [artists] have been heroes of mine. It feels really good to be invited to do that.” Without prior training, she said developing her artistic abilities in college was marked ARTIST page 5
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Resident Artist in Print creates campus exhibition By James Rodriguez @jamie_rod
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alt-J performs at Austin City Limits on Sunday evening. The band released their sophomore album “This Is All Yours” in 2014.
alt-J reflects on genre-less status, sophomore album By Cat Cardenas @crcardenas8
After meeting at Leeds University in 2007, the members of indie-rock band alt-J quickly began recording their first songs on GarageBand. In 2014, the band released their sophomore album This Is All Yours, which garnered critical acclaim and received a Grammy nomination for Best Alternative Music Album. The Daily Texan spoke with keyboardist and backing vocalist Gus Unger-Hamilton about the
band’s latest album and the departure of bassist Gwil Sainsbury. Daily Texan: alt-J is kind of known for being hard to describe or fit into any one genre. How does that impact the way you guys make your music? Gus Unger-Hamilton: I think it’s very freeing. It’s nice not to have to feel pressured to write certain kinds of songs. We like the band to develop naturally, so we don’t really set out with any expectations.
DT: Were there any major differences in the way you all approached your most recent album? GUH: I think in a way, we tried to recreate the same feel as the first album. I think we always made sure there’s a certain atmosphere where we don’t take things too seriously. We make things first and foremost about having a good time and making music together. DT: What’s your favorite part of performing?
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Throughout her career, Australian-born artist Elizabeth Corkery has found inspiration in the streets of Madrid, the ornate walls of the Palace of Versailles and the countryside of Glasgow, Scotland. But whenever she visits a historic building, she finds herself drawn to the gardens surrounding it rather than the structure itself. Corkery, a printmaker who focuses on representing gardens in her work, is now completing her week of residency at UT as part of the Guest Artist in Print Program. In her current project, “Ruin Follies,” Corkery uses mediumdensity fiberboard (MDF) cutouts in the shape of stones to represent the ruin structures common in gardens in the 18th century. The exhibition will open at the School of Architecture’s Materials Lab at 12 p.m. Friday. “Much of my work can be heavily linked to experiences of travel and of visiting specific sites abroad,” Corkery said. “These sort of travels that I’ve taken, I think I can identify as really being markers through
which different periods of my work have developed.” For the program, faculty members at UT select one print artist a year to come give a lecture and work with students on a project of the artist’s choosing. UT art lecturer Jason Urban, who was a member of the group that selected Corkery as this year’s Guest Artist in Print, said Corkery’s research on representations of gardens throughout history aligned with UT’s status as a research institution. “Everyone comes for one strength or another, but one of [Corkery’s] strengths is this idea of research,” Urban said. “There‘s this background that helps generate the work. Plus, I think she’s got a very nontraditional contemporary aesthetic, which is good. It’s nice when someone has a solid traditional skillset but they’re making things that are not predictable.” Students in the art department, such as studio art senior Joshua Orsburn, have been helping her throughout the week to develop the individual stones. Orsburn spent four hours Tuesday morning taking photos of sample rocks from the
School of Architecture’s Materials Lab, tracing the patterns in Adobe Illustrator and then creating vector files to laser the designs into the MDF “stones.” “I think in our department, print is the most community-based,” Orsburn said. “If there’s a grand project that needs to happen, print is where you would go if you want multiple people to work on it. That’s just the natural result of having a communal space that we all have to share.” Corkery’s recent work utilizes both installations and printing processes to surround visitors with representations of elements of gardens such as hedges or glasshouses. She said she focused on printmaking after her freshman year at the University of New South Wales in Australia, but began to create three-dimensional installations during graduate school at Cornell, where the art school was linked with the architecture and planning programs. “I just really clicked with the methodical approach to print,” Corkery said. “It’s a process that
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