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Centralized UT services persist with controversy By Matthew Adams @MatthewAdams60
official function was the Horns’ 50-7 loss to No. 4 TCU. He was too sick to travel to Dallas for Texas’ 24-17 Red River Rivalry upset. Before his diagnosis, Bevo XIV attended all home games and gave Friday night pregame appearances at the UT Golf Club. He also attended private functions, generating more than $250,000 to support underprivileged students in Austin through the Neighborhood Longhorn Program. Summer schedules were lighter
Shared Services, a controversial program which consolidates certain decentralized services across the University is continuing, after facing reservations from staff members. The program, which began in 2013, aimed to centralize human resources, finance, procurement and technology services in one place to potentially save $30 to $40 million annually. This program is set to continue through the 2022 fiscal year. University spokesman Gary Susswein said that after two fiscal years, UT has spent $8.7 million dollars on Shared Services. Jamie Southerland, associate vice president of Shared Services and business transformation, said the implementation of some new business management applications are still being planned as they modernize business affairs for UT. Southland said the majority of the new applications will launch in 2017. Southerland said one application involved with Shared Services is Academic Technology Services — which supports the desktop and computing needs on campus in places such as the College of Liberal Arts, the Dell Medical School
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UT’s mascot, Bevo XIV, died on October 16, 2015 at the age of 13.
Bevo XIV dies after 11 years as mascot By Jori Epstein @JoriEpstein
In hindsight, Bryant McKenzie says, it makes sense. For months, Bevo XIV had stopped eating as much. McKenzie and the longhorn’s other handlers thought Bevo XIV was trying to outsmart them. “We assumed it was because he knew we were trying to halter (rope) him,” said McKenzie, an advertising senior and Silver Spurs member. “[And he] thought we were trying to trick him.” In Fort Worth on Oct. 2,
though, McKenzie realized more was wrong. Bevo XIV laid down more than usual. His hips looked different, and he did a “weird thing stretching and sucking.” The steer was soon diagnosed with bovine leukemia virus. He retired on Tuesday and died on Friday. Ricky Brennes, Silver Spurs executive director and Bevo XIV’s regular traveling partner, said the 13-year-old steer was “cool, calm and smart.” “Bevo XIV was so much more than a traditional mascot — he was so big and strong, but he had such a sweet personality
and a gentle soul,” Brennes said. “His last few days provided great memories, but we miss him already.” Bevo leaves behind his longhorn best friend, Spike, and owners John T. and Betty Baker. He died at 13 after 11 years of service to the University. Betty Baker called him “baby” because he assumed the role so young. In fact, whenever she yelled “Bevo, baby” in a high-pitched voice, the steer recognized the call and came running. McKenzie said the Bakers’ close relationship with Bevo
XIV made the passing that much more difficult. “It felt like my dog had been diagnosed with a terminal illness,” McKenzie said. “My second thoughts were about Mr. and Mrs. Baker, since [Bevo]’s like their child.” Bevo XIV manned sidelines for a host of events in his 11-year tenure. He cheered the Longhorns to victory in the 2006 National Championship game, attended President George W. Bush’s second presidential inauguration and spent time with actor Matthew McConaughey. Bevo XIV’s last
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Chancellors discuss Students criticize diversity issues at UT UNDERGRADUATE DIVERSITY gun control, tuition By Julia Brouillette @juliakbrou
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Campus carry and the cost of higher education dominated a panel discussion between four Texas university system chancellors Saturday. “I was not in favor of the bill, but having said that, now that the law has passed, our responsibility is to make sure that we carry out the law, not only the letter of the law, but also the spirit of the law,” UT System Chancellor William McRaven said. “There were some second and third order effects that were unanticipated, but we’re working through them.” McRaven, Texas Tech Chancellor Robert Duncan, University of North Texas System Chancellor Lee Jackson and Texas State University System Chancellor Brian McCall spoke as members of the panel “Chancellor Confidential” at The Texas Tribune
Festival on Saturday. Jackson said he thought campus carry was not as important as other higher education issues. “We’ve had arrests on our UNT campus in Denton for illegally bringing weapons on campus in the last decade,” Jackson said. “Not a single one of those arrests has involved a CHL permit holder. So they have apparently obeyed the law more than people who didn’t have the CHL permits.” Marjorie Hass, president of Austin College and audience member, said, as a private institution, Austin College will likely opt out of campus carry. Under the campus carry law, public universities must allow campus carry, but private institutions may choose not to implement the law. “Nothing in the public debate around campus carry has led our stakeholders
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When Jennell Benson moved from the small city of Hillsboro, Texas, to attend an institution with the fifth-largest single-campus enrollment in the nation, she expected to be welcomed into a diverse community of students from a variety of different backgrounds and to certainly find more students who look like her. “I thought, ‘Well it’s a bigger university, so there have to be more black people than there were at my high school,’” Benson said. “And there are more black people, but in terms of ratio, it’s the same.” Benson, alumni relations officer for the UT Black Student Alliance, is one of the 1,995 black students at UT, who constitute 3.9 percent of the total student population. That figure has hovered around 4 percent for the past decade — despite efforts to make the University a more diverse and inclusive place for minority students.
“If our non-black students are not exposed to what it means to be black or what it’s like to be black, if they don’t have a cultural understanding or haven’t made an impact on that community, I don’t think that in their future they could do that,” said Benson, an African and African diaspora studies sophomore.
Racial issues at UT were highlighted in 2008 when Abigail Fisher, a rejected UT applicant, filed a discrimination lawsuit against the University, which she said denied her admission because she is white. While the Supreme Court did not rule on her case in 2013, the Court announced in June it would rehear
the case. Earlier this month, attorneys from the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund conducted a questionnaire with members of UT’s Black Student Alliance to gather information for a brief which the NAACP
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