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Students lack non-binary pronoun choices
Author hosts talk on civil disobedience at LBJ school
By Nashwa Bawab @nashwabawab
They, ze, xe and ve are just a few of the pronoun options used by some non-binary gendered people, but none are options not afforded to students when it comes to UT registration and some official school documents. According to Shelby Stanfield, vice provost at
the Office of the Registrar, she/her, he/him, Mr./Mrs. and Dr. are the only titles and pronouns currently available for students. Stanfield said the Gender and Sexuality Center had previously worked with the Office of the Registrar in order to allow non-binary gendered students the ability to change their name to their preferred name
by submitting supporting documentation such as a birth certificate, government issued ID, marriage certificate, court order or divorce decree. Haley O’Shaughnessy, history senior and nonbinary transgender person who uses the pronouns, they, them and their, said many students can be negatively impacted by
the use of wrong pronouns and the use of their dead names, a term used in the transgender community to refer to the name given to a person at birth that they no longer go by. “It’s on their university documents, and it can be quite triggering,” O’Shaughnessy said. “It can be quite an unsafe environment to email your profes-
sor and let them know that that’s not your name and this is your pronouns.” O’Shaughnessy said the process of legally changing a person’s name is too hard, takes too long, and is a complication that transgendered students should not have to go through. “You can’t just say
the age of 31. “It is pretty tough for me to manage those kinds of hours,” Greenfield said. “I’m involved with jobs and studying for the GRE. It is a
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Prescribed study hours may be unmanageable By Abz Zeitler @abz.zeitler
Nearly every student is familiar with the mantra that professors repeat during syllabus week, “For every one hour you are in class,
students should spend two hours studying,” — but this may not be practical for the average student. The saying is a known campus guideline, and can even be found on the website for the UT course cata-
log. UT students averaging 15 hours of class a week should be accumulating 30 hours of preparation and work outside of class, creating a 45-hour work week. This could potentially mean nine hour days Monday
through Friday, leaving little time for other activities. Biology fifth-year senior Jake Greenfield, who said his schedule doesn’t allow for that amount of time, started in community college at 29 and began attending UT at
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Certain government regulations should be challenged with civil disobedience, according to author and political scientist Charles Murray who spoke at the LBJ School of Public Affairs on Wednesday. Murray said America was the land of the free for a long time, but it no longer is because of the effect of government regulation on personal liberties. “In a wide variety of ways, the American project is already dead,” Murray said. “The American project is the idea that people can live their lives as they see fit with government only providing enough to let them live in peace.” Murray said one way to accomplish this is through civil disobedience. “If we are going to reclaim some of that freedom to live as we see fit, the only way to do it is to stop obeying stupid and pointless regulations through civil disobedience,” Murray said. Civil disobedience will lead to individuals being accused of violating government regulations, Murray said. According to government junior John McBee, who attended the event, government regulation should be changed at a federal level instead of through civil disobedience. “Civil disobedience could lead to crony capitalism or people acting for personal capital gain,” McBee said. Many regulations are immune from civil disobedience because they are necessary, according to Murray. For example, tax codes must be obeyed because it is hard to determine whether individuals evade taxes for civil disobedience or profit, Murray said
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Visiting doctor discusses medical field, experience
UT offers senior citizens courses at no cost
By Selah Maya Zighelboim @SelahMaya
Obstetrics and gynecology doctor Felix Hull and Texas A&M-Round Rock medical student Rachel Scott spoke about the medical industry at a Future Doctors of America event Wednesday evening. Most of the event was comprised of a question and answer section that focused on challenges facing obstetrics and gynecology and changes in the medical industry over the past few decades. Hull said he had intended to become a family practice doctor in medical school, but changed his mind during his
OB-GYN rotation. He said he enjoyed the combination of family practice with surgery and found it worth the long hours. “You can always cure a pregnant woman,” Hull said. “You can’t always cure a heart attack, you can’t always cure cancer, but you can always cure a pregnant woman, and it’s usually a happy occasion.” Hull said there has been a “180 degree difference” in the gender gap in the medical field, particularly in the OB-GYN specialty. When he went to medical school, he said he estimated the medi-
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UT finance manager Lois Stahlke is involved in the tuition billing process. According to Stahlke, an average of 15 students utilize the program annually.
By Jameson Pitts @jamesonpitts
A little-known Texas law allows students 65 or older to take up to six hours of undergraduate or graduate courses at Texas public universities for free if they request the exemption. Lois Stahlke, finance manager in the UT Office of Accounting who handles tuition billing, said an average of 15 students each year participate in the program at UT, which the University offers voluntarily. The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act prevents the university from identifying participants.
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“It was initiated just as an opportunity to the community,” Stahlke said.
Stahlke said eligible students can earn a degree free of charge, provided
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