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McCombs MBA gender gap decreases
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By Ashley Tsao @tsaoashley
The gender gap in the McCombs School of Business MBA program is decreasing but still remains larger than other top business schools in America. The gender gap between men and women in MBA programs is a national issue. Fortune magazine
reported women make up roughly 39.1 percent of the 2017 class at the top dozen American business schools, but McCombs’ percentage of women is lower. For the full-time MBA program’s latest class, 29 percent of the applicant pool was female while 32 percent of the enrollment was female, according to Rodrigo Malta, director of admissions for
the MBA program. “Our class enrollment tends to reflect the applicant pool we have for any given year,” Malta said. According to Emily Amanatullah, bus iness management assistant professor,the gap can be attributed to the supply and demand of women in business administration positions. “Women entering the
field of business experience a barrier because they see business as a more masculine environment and don’t think they fit,” Amanatullah said. “There is an assumption that jobs dominated by men are better suited for men, so women end up seeking degrees and work in female-dominated industries.” The expectations for
men and women in the workforce are different, Amanatullah said. “For women to be perceived as competent, they have to overexert themselves, but when women do that they incur a social punishment,” Amanatullah said. “If men and women both act the same way, if they both
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UT, NASA to send fern spores to space By Jameson Pitts @jamesonpitts
What starts here leaves the world — and burns up on re-entry. University researchers are working with NASA to send fern spores, which are similar to seeds, into outer space on a nanosatellite that will measure how the spores respond to gravity. Future applications of the research could help lessen the toll space travel takes on astronauts’ bodies, such as that experienced on a long-term mission to Mars. “If you’re losing muscle and bone that whole time, you might be in bad shape when you get back down,” microbiology professor Stanley Roux said. Roux’s research centers on the spore cell of a common tropical fern. As only a single-cell system, the spore responds to gravity by growing in the appropriate direction. “Once you know the molecular basis of gravity sensing and responding, then you can control it,” Roux said. Tony Ricco, project
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By Jori Epstein @JoriEpstein
The University released its final contract with former athletic director Steve Patterson on Wednesday. The contract guarantees Patterson $1.48 million for UT fiscal year 20152016 and $1.52 million for 2016-2017. Patterson signed the agreement on Oct. 23, while UT President Gregory Fenves and Daniel Sharphorn — the UT System vice chancellor and general counsel — signed off on Oct. 26. “The University and Mr. Patterson decided that rather than Mr. Patterson being employed in a reassigned position … the University would buyout, at a discount, its remaining obligations,” the contract read. Patterson resigned as athletic director on Sept. 15. He hired football coach Charlie Strong and basketball coach Shaka Smart during his tenure. But rising ticket prices, rocky relationships with donors and a business-first mindset left fans and school officials upset with Patterson. At Texas’ football game vs. Rice on Sept. 12, a banner flew above Darrell K Royal Texas - Memorial Stadium, reading, “Patterson Must Go.” Mike Perrin, a former Texas linebacker and Houston attorney, replaced Patterson on Sept. 16 as interim AD. Perrin has a one-year contract worth $750,000. The University is not currently searching to
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City exempts smoking COLA council discusses tuition increase ban for music festival
College of Liberal Arts dean Randy Diehl (left) discusses the two percent tuition increase approved by the UT Board of Regents.
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At a specially called City Council meeting on Oct. 22, the Council approved an exemption to the city’s parks smoking ban for Fun Fun Fun Fest. The festival is held annually at Auditorium Shores park. In compliance with city code 10-6-2, smoking is not permitted in any city parks. As part of code 106-3-11A, however, the City Council has the power to offer “temporary designated smoking areas in a park for special events.” The Council voted to approve the exemption nine-toone, with councilwoman Sheri Gallo voting no and councilwoman Ellen Troxclair off the dais. Despite the majority
of council members voting to approve the exemption, many still raised issue about the health concerns for people allowed to smoke at the festival. Councilman Don Zimmerman said he is against smoking in general but does not think the government has authority to make health decisions for individuals. “I was against the [smoking] bans because people have a lot of elective behaviors that are hazardous to their health,” Zimmerman said. “They’ve been informed and they continue to do it anyway. I think the organizations that come here should have a right to extend bad choices because people make bad choices and it’s not our job to stop all the bad choices
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The Liberal Arts Council held a town hall Wednesday evening to discuss the 2 percent tuition increase the UT Board of Regents approved Oct. 2 for the 20162017 academic year. A panel comprised of College of Liberal Arts dean Randy Diehl, UT student regent Justin Drake and Texas Tribune higher education reporter Matthew Watkins answered questions from about 50 student attendees. The three panelists said the tuition increase will allow the University to continue to retain and attract top faculty. “Relative to our peers, we are becoming increasingly uncompetitive,” Diehl said. “That means we are at risk of losing faculty or not being able to recruit
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top faculty.” Though the tuition increases will impact the entire University, LAC president and English junior Austin Reynolds said the purpose of the panel is to inform liberal arts students about the tuition increase as it pertains specifically to them.
“We have the biggest discrepancy in the students to professors ratio,” Reynolds said. “The liberal arts college also has a lower tuition than most other colleges, so it’s beneficial to look at how we would benefit from a tuition increase.” Diehl said the 2 percent increase in tuition’s impact
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on individual students would differ depending on students’ family income. “By Texas law, any tuition increase — let’s say 2 percent — 20 percent of that has to be allocated to basically financial need,” Diehl said. “So one thing
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technologist at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California, is a part of a team working to engineer an autonomous satellite — dubbed SporeSat-2 — that will use miniature centrifuges to expose UT-grown fern spores to various levels of g-force while in orbit. “We’re going to be flown in something called NASA’s CubeSat Launch Initiative, and that’s a program that basically finds rides into outer space for these small satellites,” Ricco said. CubeSat satellites like SporeSat-2, which is only 14 inches long, could be carried into outer space by rockets made by companies such as SpaceX or Orbital. If granted final approval at the end of the year, the SporeSat-2 mission could launch in late 2016 or early 2017. The experiment will use a device made by engineers
at Purdue University and NASA Ames to measure the minimum threshold at which the spores can sense gravity. UT researcher Mari Salmi said the team had to build devices to overcome challenges such as placing individual spores into tiny wells to be measured. “It’s like making a basket with a tiny, tiny basketball, and the basket is just a little bigger than the ball, and you can break the basketball really easily,” Salmi said. Salmi has been involved with the research since an initial experiment on a space shuttle in 1999 which laid the groundwork for future research. “It’s exciting to have the research keep going and be part of something big like understanding this basic fundamental process and how it applies to all cells,” Salmi said.
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continues from page 1 replace Perrin. Perrin and women’s AD Chris Plonsky, finalized a 15-year, $250 million apparel contract extension with Nike last week. Patterson succeeded DeLoss Dodds, Texas’ athletic director of 32 years, in November 2013. Patterson’s initial contract ran through Aug. 31, 2019,
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act masculine, women are seen as less likable. While men would be seen as assertive, women would be seen as aggressive. It’s a ‘damned if you do, damned if you don’t’ situation.” In an effort to reduce the gender gap in its MBA program, McCombs helped to found and remains associated with the Forté Foundation, a national nonprofit seeking to increase the number of women business leaders. Through the Forté Foundation, McCombs offers informational fairs, scholarships and networking opportunities to women interested in getting their MBA, Malta said. According to Malta, UT holds Texas MBA Women’s Forums, an annual on-campus recruitment event tailored for female prospective students. Amanatullah suggests the best way to reduce the gender biases is to acknowledge them.
time attending the event and said he would participate in smoking whether there was an exemption for the event or not. “It’s definitely not a family event,” Leon said. “Families will go but it’s definitely not a priority family event. I mean WuTang Clan is not a family band and they’re the headliners. It’s an event for everyone and whoever wants to go.”
with an annual salary of $1.48 million. According to the contract, the University “releases and discharges” Patterson from all University obligations. He must still participate in any relevant Big 12, NCAA or University investigations and cannot speak disparagingly about the University. “Mr. Patterson and University agree to refrain from publicly making,
sending or otherwise communicating any comments … that would reasonably be understood to impair the goodwill, business reputation or good name of the other party,” the contract read. Patterson will also receive up to $21,000 in insurance payments; a lump sum by Nov. 15 for unused vacation and holiday time; and $200,000 for reaching two performance incentives.
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commercial entity using our park for a function,” Gallo said. “This [event] has come forward saying this is a family-friendly event and asking for an exception on our smoking policy. I’m just very uncomfortable with that.” R adio-television-film freshman Jacob Leon disagreed with Gallo, saying he doesn’t think Fun Fun Fun Fest is a family event. This will be Leon’s third
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“If you don’t admit it, you’re just putting a BandAid on the issue,” Amanatullah said. “Instead of focuses on differences, institutions need to focus on the similarities. Often, a hypersensitivity to the differences between men and women only helps to accentuate them.”
There are empirical studies that demonstrate women in high-level executive positions bring nothing but financial benefits, according to Amanatullah. Accounting professional program senior Fizza Samad said she has never personally experienced gender bias, but there are many careers
such as investment banking where there is not enough representation for women. “It is important for UT students to recognize this issue because these people will be future business leaders,” Samad said. “So they need to recognize there is a gap and that it shouldn’t continue.”
increases and decreases depending on the price of oil and it might not be a steady source of money. According to Watkins, the deregulation of higher education tuition is a result of the Texas legislature’s decision to put less money into higher education. However, some regents and lawmakers have expressed that tuition increases should be a last resort for universities.
Although higher education is more expensive today than it once was, it had been increasing before the deregulation, according to Watkins. “It’s simple to say we should never increase tuition, and it’s simple to say we should continue to hire the best faculty and make UT a competitive university, but it’s incredibly hard to do both,” Watkins said.
TUITION continues from page 1 that any tuition increase does is provide resources to [low-income] students and their families.” According to Drake, the board will decide in February on how to proceed with the implementation of the 2 percent increase. Drake said paying for tuition increases should not solely be students’ responsibility and that universities need to do their part by becoming more
efficient and that the state of Texas should pay more for tuition. Drake said many people have proposed that the UT System keep its costs down by tapping more into a $20 billion endowment that comes from oil-rich University-owned land in West Texas. According to Drake, criticism of increased reliance on that endowment is that the endowment’s value
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Regents complete first day of meetings By Matthew Adams @MatthewAdams60
The Board of Regents presented project proposals and reports Wednesday as it completed its first of two days of meetings. The Board of Regents will vote on all agendas proposed and approved by the committees on the second day of meetings Thursday. Before voting, Chancellor William McRaven will present his vision of the University System at 8:40 a.m. UT-El Paso President Diana Natalicio presented a proposal to create a school of pharmacy and a doctorate program of pharmacy at UTEP. Natalicio said the University worked with former UT-Austin Provost Steve Leslie in the past for a handful of students to graduate. “It is going to mean we can admit up to 45 students and, indeed, help the growing population in El Paso and the growing number of pharmacists,” Natalicio said. This motion was carried by Regent Alex Cranberg and agreed upon unanimously by
the other regents. When asked about the UTEP School of Pharmacy collaborating with other institutions, Natalicio said they are focused on working with Texas Tech and other health facilities in El Paso. Michael O’Donnell, associate vice chancellor for facilities planning and construction for the UT System, discussed the construction of a parking garage for UT-Austin on the east side of I-35 and west of UFCU Disch-Falk Field. The 2,000 car parking garage will cost $62 million to finish and is expected to be completed by November 2017. “It will be the largest parking garage on the campus and basically reestablishes a lot of the parking that has been lost through the development and densification of the main campus, including the Dell Medical School,” O’Donnell said. The garage will take two stages to build to avoid disrupting the different sports schedules, O’Donnell said. With financial concerns raised by Regent Alex Cranberg, O’Donnell said the public and UT faculty, staff and students
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Regent Wallace Hall speaks at the first day of meeting for The Board of Regents. The Board of Regents will begin voting on the second day of meetings Thursday.
using the garage would pay for its construction. The Environment Texas Research and Policy Center and the Frontier Group reported in a study published in September that excessive oil drilling on UT System lands led to excessive water usage and the release of chemicals during drilling. Mark Houser, chief
officer of University Lands, said the University is making sure to follow regulations and care for the land. “Since our last presentation, I did not really realize I would be writing op-eds for papers,” Houser said. “We have very strong, historic relationships with the state regulatory body. We have a lot of policies in
place and we have advanced them as we’ve gone along.” While the UT System has worked to improve efficiency and methods during a national decline in oil production, Houser said the land is still a very good source of revenue because it is located in the Permian Basin and is a top spot for oil production.
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Pulitzer-winning alumna shares journalistic insight By Mikaela Cannizzo @mikaelac16
Lisa Falkenberg, Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for the Houston Chronicle, said she encountered many failures as a beginning reporter such as misattributing a quote while working for The Daily Texan, but she said she learned from her mistakes and encouraged aspiring journalists to do the same. rwise “Failure can lead to success, com-but it’s a scenic route,” Falkenrea-berg said. “The best stories are od toon the scenic routes anyway.” busi- Falkenberg said in a lecture goodWednesday afternoon that arty,”she was once a hesitant journalist who was afraid to pick ceiveup the phone. But this year, ranceher groundbreaking comm bymentary on the grand jury vaca-system’s manipulation in a ; andmurder case helped her realtwoize that her job could uncover injustice within systems. s. “Our important role is to
be a voice to the voiceless and root out corruption when nobody else cares enough about an issue to shine some light on it,” Falkenberg said. “The story is the most powerful tool of persuasion that exists anywhere.” While Falkenberg said anyone can tell an interesting story, she said it is the journalist’s responsibility to make sure a story is told correctly. “Corporations are starting to use the power of stories,” Falkenberg said. “But without journalists, how do we know we can trust that?” Journalism junior Emanuela Schneider said she was inspired by Falkenberg’s discussion on the impact journalism can have on the lives of others. “I just assumed journalism was writing about anything and expressing yourself,” Schneider said. “I never really thought about how much it can actually affect someone in terms of whether someone
goes to prison or not.” Despite receiving hate mail and being criticized for her opinions, Falkenberg said she has developed a thick skin through her job as a columnist. Falkenberg’s talk was part of the Mary Alice Davis lecture series, which honors the late Davis and her work as a columnist and editorial writer for the Austin AmericanStatesman by bringing prominent journalists to speak at UT once a year in the fall. R.B. Brenner, director of the UT School of Journalism, said he invited Falkenberg to speak at this year’s lecture because of her leadership in the industry and status as a graduate of the journalism school. “There’s nothing more inspiring than for our current students to see someone who graduated from this very school have such an impactful career in journalism and be honored with journalism’s top prize,” Brenner said.
CITY
Mayor speaks to University Democrats By Forrest Milburn @forrestmilburn
Austin Mayor Steve Adler spoke Wednesday evening to members of University Democrats about segregation, gentrification and his first year as mayor. Adler, a UT alumnus, said gentrification is something that’s difficult to limit since it is affected by market forces and is “out of our control.” “If you want to stop gentrification, then what you do is you stop people from wanting to move downtown,” Adler said. “Or you increase the supply of housing downtown so that the supply can meet the demand. Those are two really hard things to do.” Another way to alleviate the problems associated with gentrification and racial segregation is to produce alternate high-density residential areas, such as increased housing in Riverside and the area Austin Mayor Steve Adler talks with Precinct 5 Constable Carlos Lopez after answering questions at a University Democrats meeting.
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near The Domain. “The disparity of incomes in our community is shocking for a city that prides itself on being a progressive, democratic place,” Adler said. “My hope is that we get out in front in a way no other city has been able to do, and that requires us doing things on multiple levels.” Since he was sworn in as mayor in January, Adler said he and the City Council have worked well together despite the ideological divides that exist on the Council with the addition of Republican councilmembers. “We have divergent views on this council,” Adler said. “They reflect the full spectrum of views that exist in our city, so we’re not always going to agree, … but everybody is treating everybody else in a respectful way, and that makes the process fun.” Government senior Kiefer Odell, University Democrats
president, said his organization invited Adler to come talk about some of the issues in City Hall that students care about. “I think it’s gone very well,” Odell said. “Obviously, there’s been some adjustment with the 10-1 system, and I think that’s something that I think he’s managed very well as the mayor of Austin.” Business honors and Plan II junior Ashley Alcantara, communications director for University Democrats, said she thought the discussion was informative and beneficial to students who lack knowledge of local government issues. “It sounds like he’s working with City Council on obviously all of the issues he’s talked about,” Alcantara said. “Some of the issues he talked about were pretty controversial and difficult to find a solution to, but I think it was really helpful to hear that they’re working on it.”
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Lisa Falkenberg, Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for the Houston Chronicle and UT alumn, gives a talk at the Belo Center for New Media on Wednesday evening.
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UTPD reports increase in IRS telephone scams UTPD reported an increased prevalence of phone scammers who portray themselves as Internal Revenue Service agents collecting back taxes and other fees, according to an email UTPD sent to the University last week. “These callers may demand money or may say you have a refund due and try to trick you into sharing private information…” the email read. “They may know a lot about you, and they usually alter the caller ID to make it look like the IRS is calling. UTPD has received a total of seven reports of successful IRS impersonators over the past two years, UTPD spokesperson, Cindy Posey, said in an email. UTPD Officer William Pieper said statistics regarding phone scams do not represent the total number of scam attempts on campus because, when they are unsuccessful, they are labeled attempted fraud. IRS policies prohibit the agency from calling citizens to demand immediate payment without prior mail contact, demanding tax payments without opportunity for appeal, requiring citizens to use a specific payment method, asking for debit or credit card information over the phone, or threatening arrest by other law enforcement agencies. The methods that IRS impersonators use to defraud victims can indicate that they are not official representatives, agency commissioner John Koskinen said. “These telephone scams are being seen in every part of the country, and we urge people not to be deceived by these threatening phone calls,” Koskinen said. “We have formal processes in place for people with tax issues. The IRS respects taxpayer rights, and these angry, shake-down calls are not how we do business.” —Zainab Calcuttawala
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The Texan Talks: campus sexual assault and dating violence
By Walker Fountain Daily Texan Forum Editor @wf_atx
This week, the Daily Texan Forum will discuss sexual assault and dating violence on campus. Sexual assault is an issue which
has plagued University campuses across the United States for many years, and University officials are facing increasing pressure to maximize resources to limit the incidence of sexual assault on our campus. A recent survey by the Association of American Universities found that around one in five female students at the University had experienced some sort of sexual assault — and the UT System has commissioned another study to understand sexual assault on system campuses to an even greater degree. Also making news this week is the Safe Campus Act — a piece of legislation currently before Congress which would limit the ability of universities to investigate rape and sexual assault on campus. The legislation was unanimously opposed by the University
of Texas Student Government in a vote on Tuesday night. Sexual assault and rape on campus have no clear-cut solutions — so empathy and ingenuity are key requirements towards making a difference. This week, we will hear from some of the people charged with finding solutions to this incredibly disastrous epidemic. Erin Burrows will join us, who is the prevention and outreach specialist with UT’s Voices Against Violence, a nationally recognized sexual assault advocacy group on campus. Also on the panel will be Sydney O’Connell, one of the officers with Not On My Campus UT, a student movement to raise awareness and prompt open discussion of sexual assault issues. Finally, we will
hear from Leila Wood and Deidi Olaya from the team of researchers who are currently conducting the survey for the UT System which will help to shed light on sexual assault at UT. By hearing from these speakers, we hope we can see different perspectives on sexual assault at UT, and what is needed to stop this epidemic. As always, please join Editor-in-Chief Claire Smith as she sits down with our contributors, Thursday morning at 11 a.m. in the Texas Union Sinclair Suite. The panel discussion will be insightful, and will help us to understand why this problem is so pervasive on college campuses — and what can be done to fix it. Fountain is a government senior from Pelham, New York.
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Raising hands against sexual assault By William Herbst
Daily Texan Forum Contributor
Sexual Assault. Rape Culture. Victim Scrutiny. These are some things that happen within our community every day. It is heartbreaking to think about how these issues happen all the time, and yet, there has been little push back from the student body. After hearing stories of close friends being assaulted, enough became enough. I wanted to start a movement within our community that could lead and guide students into standing up against sexual assault and help make victims feel safe. After talking with a friend at SMU about the problems within our community, he told me about a campaign and organization called Not On My Campus that he and other SMU students started to challenge students to fight rape culture and sexual assault in their community. I wanted to bring this movement into our community. With the help of Edwin Qian and Ellen Cocanougher, we brought Not On My Campus to the community last spring. In bringing Not On My Campus to UT, we had two goals in mind: 1) make people aware of rape culture at UT and challenge them to stand up to it and 2) educate students about their rights and the resources that Voices Against Violence and the school offer to victims. Before we started Not On My Campus at UT last spring, I do not think many students knew how serious of an issue sexual assault and rape culture were in the community. To show people how big of an issue sexual assault is and how we as a community could combat it, we
By educating students right as they enter UT, I believe we will be creating the foundational knowledge necessary to put an end to rape culture and help create a safe community for all students. launched the Not On My Campus social media campaign, in which students would write the words “Not On My Campus” on their hand and post a picture of themselves holding out their hand to start the conversation amongst students. We also challenged students to take our Not On My Campus pledge to stand up to rape culture within our community. With the release of the AAU report stating that roughly one in five female undergraduate students have been sexually assaulted, I believe that students as well as the University are now aware more than ever about the magnitude of sexual assault in our community. When we started the campaign last spring, we realized that not many students had knowledge about sexual assault, such as what it is, what their rights are as a victim, what resources are available at the school, etc. For our second goal, we educated students this semester through our Knowledge On My Campus campaign which challenged students to share our link of all the facts, rights and resources that a student needs
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Not On My Campus officers display signs for its educational program, Knowledge On My Campus.
to know regarding sexual assault. Currently, we plan to create a Not On My Campus presentation for First-Year Interest Group mentors to educate their groups about sexual assault. By educating students right as they enter UT, I believe we will be creating the foundational knowledge necessary to put an end to rape culture and help create a safe community for all students. It is my hope and dream that UT reaches the point where students will always take the initiative in stopping rape culture, whether it
is calling out a person for telling a rape joke or helping someone who has had too much to drink. I challenge all Longhorns to not be a bystander and to always do their best in creating a safe community where we protect victims and prevent assaults. As UT students, this is our campus, and we should each do what we can to make sure rape culture is NOT ON OUR CAMPUS. Herbst is an accounting junior from Houston. He is a co-founder of Not On My Campus.
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Get vocal, educated, involved CLASE survey to shed light on pervasive violence By Erin Burrows
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By Noël Busch-Armendariz & Leila Wood Daily Texan Forum Participants
The University of Texas at Austin community is engaged in many courageous conversations about student safety. The evidence is irrefutable: campuses are safer when administrators, faculty, law enforcement, members of the legislature and students themselves take action to understand and respond to injuries related to binge and underage drinking, and suicide. Today, the courageous conversation centers on campus sexual assault with the launch of the CLASE Climate Survey. Cultivating Learning and Safe Environments (CLASE): Cultivating Learning and Safe Environments is an empirically based research project to better understand sexual assault, dating violence, sexual harassment and stalking crimes funded by the University of Texas Board of Regents for the University of Texas System, including UT-Austin, over the next four years. A large random sample of students on the UT-Austin campus received requests to respond to the survey. We hope everyone who receives an email from us will take the time to respond. The UT-Austin project efforts include: • An anonymous student survey • Focused in-depth analysis with a broad set of stakeholders including students, faculty, staff, administration and community • A four-year student cohort study to understand the experiences and the impact of sexual assault and interpersonal violence over time on students’ academic progress, health, economic well-being and quality of life. Prevalence Rates as the Tip of the Iceberg: The University of Texas at Austin should approach solutions to campus sexual assault as a road map that begins by fully naming the prob-
lem, including a further understanding of it and then engages administrators, faculty, staff and students to address its occurrence. Long-term strategies take more time, and the culture shift needed to eliminate these types of violence from society undoubtedly starts earlier than when students begin college. Safety is defined beyond physical safety to mean that we will confront the controversial issues of alcohol, underage and binge drinking, the close relationships that offenders have with victims, and other thorny but real-life variables that intersect with sexual assault on college campuses. Why Should You Care?: Solutions to these issues reflect our values and permeate most anything that we do: a responsibility to self and for others; the provision of trauma-informed, victim-centered services; and a duty to implement a thoughtful, balanced system that protects student victims and the liberties of students who are accused. Students need to understand that even if they never experience this horrendous crime directly, they probably know someone personally affected by this violence. By participating in campus survey research and other forms of bystander intervention, every student can make a difference. Horns Leading the Herd: All students have the right to a safe learning environment, free from sexual assault and dating violence. UTAustin should lead the state, nation and world in efforts to understand this violence, working with other leading scientists to develop innovations in prevention and intervention research that will impact the lives of victims and their families, perpetrators, and people at-risk. This pervasive violence affects the potential productivity of our students; its eradication is a way forward to safety on the 40 Acres. Busch-Armendariz is a professor and Associate Dean of Research and Wood is the senior research director in the School of Social Work.
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“Raise your hand if you remember being taught about consent in high school.” I am standing in a room of UT-Austin students, and almost no one raises a hand. This is a portrait of the culture in which we live — one where we often don’t engage in conversations about sexual consent and decision-making. Consent is necessary in all sexual interactions and consequences of not getting consent are serious and harmful. Any sexual activity without consent is sexual violence. Sexual violence is never the fault of the survivor — no matter what they were drinking, wearing or doing before an assault took place. Consent to one thing does not mean consent to all things. Consent is an enthusiastic, mutual agreement that requires consciousness and clarity. Voices Against Violence, a program in the University’s Counseling and Mental Health Center, works to provide the campus with tools to identify and interrupt interpersonal violence. VAV helps build a campus that values and promotes healthy relationships and consent. VAV offers confidential services for survivors of sexual violence, relationship violence and stalking including counseling and advocacy. The VAV Survivor’s Emergency Fund provides financial assistance to student survivors of interpersonal violence.What can you do to help prevent sexual violence? 1. BeVocal. Longhorns can choose to intervene when they recognize words and actions that normalize and condone sexual violence. We have the opportunity to intervene when gender-based stereotypes are used as excuses (“boys will be boys”), rape jokes are considered funny, and survivors are blamed for what someone did to them. Choosing to respond to this means
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finding motivation to take action. Intervention can include talking directly to the person, asking them what they mean or pointing out that it’s not cool, sending a message afterwards, or reporting the incident. Bystander intervention is also applicable when someone may be imminently harmed, including creating a distraction, checking in with the person you’re concerned about and getting other people involved. Learn more at http://www.wellnessnetwork.utexas.edu/BeVocal/ 2. Get Educated. Since 2001, VAV has been providing prevention and outreach at UT-Austin. Get Sexy. Get Consent. is a highly interactive program that examines how we negotiate sex, consent, boundaries and safety. Our Healthy Masculinities Project MasculinUT hosts public events with the goal of impacting campus culture to increase acceptance of gender diversity, promote healthy relationships with an emphasis on consent, and prevent interpersonal violence. Additionally, we are offering a new VAV peer-facilitated workshop Interrupting Rape Culture. 3. Get Involved. VAV’s student organization hosts events throughout the year including rallies and survivor speak-outs. Student leaders are instrumental in organizing campaigns like the recent “Consent is Golden” and “UT Gets Consent” poster campaign. Additionally, your student org can register to host creative fundraisers for the VAV Support Campaign to benefit the VAV Survivor’s Emergency Fund. Follow us on social media @UTAustinVAV on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. To find out more about VAV services, programs and opportunities, see www. cmhc.utexas.edu/vav Burrows is the prevention and outreach specialist of Voices Against Violence in the Counseling and Mental Health Center.
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City art program ‘Drawing Lines’ distinguishes new districts By James Rodriguez @jamie_rod
UT alumna Lynn Osgood had an idea that she could not shake. Austin was in the midst of a political shift, as the city prepared to abandon its system of electing city council members at-large. Instead, 10 newly drawn districts would begin electing their own city council members in November 2014. Osgood, an urban planner, wondered: “How can public art help us through these political changes?” Osgood’s question is now the basis for Drawing Lines, a public-private partnership between the City of Austin and Osgood’s architecture and planning firm, GO Collaborative. Drawing Lines places artists in each district to interact with the community and create public art centered around the area’s defining qualities. “We’re looking at public art at the scale of the city,” Osgood said. “There’s an amazing diversity of ways in which the artists have approached the city.” The lineup of artists includes
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wanted to date men smarter than they are showed worse performance on a math test, less interest in math and a decreased desire to go into a STEM field. Men who said they preferred smarter women did not experience similar reduced math scores or decreased interest in STEM fields. Other studies support the idea that men and women internalize gender stereotypes. Men are more likely to express their belief in gender equality in the presence of attractive women who express belief in nontraditional gender roles, although unattractive women did not have this effect, according to a 1975 study. The same scientists did a similar study on the effects of sexist,
chefs, musicians, painters and poets, all of whom will be rolling out projects in their districts over the next few months. Their work will then be displayed together in early 2016. Osgood said engaging the community is one of the key aims of Drawing Lines. “Traditionally, engagement happens when you start approaching community leaders, and the artists they approached it much differently,” Osgood said. “They started approaching people just as individuals.” Adrian Quesada, a UT alumnus and member of the Grammy Award-winning band Grupo Fantasma, is the featured artist for District 3, which spans much of the east side. A 15-year resident of the district, Quesada spent time examining the issues at the heart of the community. “It was probably one of the most challenging things I’ve been a part of,” Quesada said. “To represent an entire district of a city is a pretty daunting thing.” For the project, Quesada wrote a cumbia piece that incorporates marching band and
hip-hop sounds. Quesada said he aims to bridge the generational gap in the community by recording his song with youth and adults alike. “A lot of people that have been here for a long time are getting priced out,” Quesada said. “Something I really wanted to do was to have kids on a song with an 80-year-old who has lived in the neighborhood for longer than a lot of their parents have been alive.” Other artists, such as UT alumnus Patrick Bresnan and Ivete Lucas in District 8, experienced a greater challenge in connecting with a community in which they are not residents. “It takes so much energy just to learn about a place,” Bresnan said. “I was driving almost every Graeme Hamilton | Daily Texan Staff day after work. We spent an inUT alumna Lynn Osgood, urban planner with GO Collaborative, had an idea to use public art credible amount of time in the to assist with the citywide shift to 10 districts. district trying to get inspired.” Bresnan and Lucas will be from the footage. Osgood said although the been positive because no one is working with Natural Gar“We decided to give the project centers around a politi- coming out and taking a posidener, a local garden center, to grant back to these people,” cal event, the artworks them- tion,” Osgood said. “What they give plants to residents this Sat- Bresnan said. “Art doesn’t have selves are not political. She said are doing is reacting authentiurday. Bresnan and Lucas have to be a photograph. It can be an she believes this is a reason that cally to individual people and also hired an actress to inter- action or performance. Giving people are able to connect with certain circumstances within view residents at the give-away, the plants back to these people the work. the district, and creating an arand plan to make a short film is kind of a performance.” “I think that the response has tistic response to that.”
attractive men on women and found similar results: The women presented themselves in a way that correlated with traditional gender stereotypes while interacting with men who believed the stereotypes, according to the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. Another, more recent study supports the 1975 research. Female engineers who interacted with sexist, sexuallyinterested men before taking an engineering test performed worse on the test than women who interacted with nonsexist men, according to a 2009 study in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. These results did not apply when the women took an English test. Eastwick’s study supported these previous results, but revealed the important caveat
that these effects on women were only present when the women expressed interest in dating men more intelligent than they are — a desire correlated with belief in conventional gender roles. When women did not say they were interested in dating men smarter than they are, their performance on math tests and interest in STEM fields actually went up after they talked about their romantic goals. Eastwick said as women continue to make academic strides and embrace nontraditional gender roles, men will have to get used to being outsmarted by their partners. “Women should not be dumbing anything down,” Eastwick said. “Men are going to have to learn to be bested from time to time by people that they’re close to.”
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continues from page 8 and connecting with others and expressing our thoughts without having the fear of being judged. This role entrapment and all these stereotypes and false perceptions that continue to be pervasive will no longer exist, and that it will start here, because of the efforts of our students.” Gonzalez, who is interested in being a professor after graduate school, said she aspires to continue to do and study what she loves, living life without apprehension about her speech. She said she wants to be understood. “This is the way I speak,” Gonzalez said. “At the end
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Christina Gonzalez is a third-year anthropology doctoral student who stutters. Gonzalez attends the Lang Stuttering Institute where patients present speeches and learn to speak more confidently.
of the day, I want to be a better communicator. But it’s not just about speech. It’s about self-knowledge, self-awareness and selfmastery. I hope I can help push against any sort of
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Longhorns scrimmage before season By Tyler Horka
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The Texas women’s basketball players broke the huddle with a collective shout of “All in!” before heading to their locker room at the Frank Erwin Center on after Wednesday’s scrimmage against their male practice squad. Their men broke the huddle with them after claiming a 7675 victory in the scrimmage. Head coach Karen Aston said playing with male athletes improves the team’s skill. “The guys we played today are pretty good,” Aston said. “If our players continue to try to compete against these guys, it makes the game a little easier on game day.” It took Aston’s team, who was wearing white, nearly three minutes to make its first bucket. But, Aston said the team is poised for an offensive breakout this season. “I think we’re capable of scoring many more points than we did last year,” Aston said. “We’re shooting the ball better, and I think our guards are making better decisions.” The white team fell behind 76-61 after the first three 10-minute quarters. But the group re-energized for the five-minute fourth quarter. They rattled off 14 straight points before freshman forward Jordan Hosey released a last-second heave from half court just after the buzzer. Freshman guard Lashann Higgs scored nearly 20
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Freshman guard Lashann Higgs drives to the basket in the team’s scrimmage on Wednesday. The team played against their male practice squad, but lost 76-75. Texas plays UTSA in its season opener on Nov. 14.
points by relentlessly attacking the rim, especially during the Longhorns’ late comeback bid. Higgs, the No. 7 recruit in the class of 2015, said she has confidence in her ability to be a threat offensively every night. When asked what her role will be on her new team, her answer was simple. “Just score,” Higgs said. “Just score the best way I can.” In spite of her scoring prowess, Higgs said she
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needs to work on deciding when to take a step back and stay under control. “I have to learn how to change pace, how to start and stop,” Higgs said. “But I’ve always played [with electricity].” Aston said Higgs tends to get down on herself after committing a turnover or forcing a shot. “She needs to go from play to play and not worry about what just happened,” Aston said. “That’s the
hardest thing for young players. The game is so much faster.” But the Longhorns struggled to score at times even with Higgs’ offensive bursts. Senior center Imani Boyette said the team will figure it out as the season progresses. “We’re still searching for our identity,” Boyette said. “We just want to play hard, be a better offensive team and always lock it down on defense.” Boyette was named to the
All-Big 12 First Team last season as she led Texas to its first Sweet 16 appearance since 2004. The Longhorns lost to eventual national champion Connecticut, 105-54. “Our motivation is 50-point losses,” Boyette said. “I don’t think I need to say anymore on that.” Boyette and the No. 12 Longhorns look to get rid the taste of defeat against UTSA on Nov. 14 at home in its season opener.
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Former second baseman makes return as head coach By Bradley Maddox @MaddoxOnSports
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Senior middle blocker Chiaka Ogbogu looks to hit the ball against Kansas on Oct. 23. The Longhorns beat the Jayhawks in straight sets and play West Virginia on Thursday.
No. 5 Texas prepares for home game with WVU By Michael Shapiro @mshap2
The No. 5 Longhorns entered the season as the Big 12 favorites and expected to roll through the competition en route to their fifth straight conference title. But an unexpected loss to TCU on Oct. 28 placed Texas on the ropes. Now, the Longhorns are in jeopardy of not winning the Big 12, and the stakes are high for each of the six games left. “There’s definitely some pressure,” senior middle blocker Molly McCage said. “But I try not to think too much about that or exude that in any way. I don’t want to put too much pressure on the team.” Texas (19-2, 9-1 Big 12) plays West Virginia on Thursday. The Longhorns currently sit second in the Big 12 behind No. 8 Kansas (21-1, 9-1 Big 12), despite sweeping the Jayhawks 3-0 on Oct. 23 in Austin. Luckily for the Longhorns, Thursday’s match at Gregory Gym shouldn’t provide many hurdles in Texas’ Big 12 title hopes. The Mountaineers come into the match in the conference cellar with a 5-16 overall record and 0-8 in Big 12 play. But McCage said Texas still can’t take West Virginia lightly.
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“There are a lot of things we need to work on,” McCage said. “So if we don’t execute at the net, that’s a problem. No matter the opponent we play, we need to get better ourselves and then compete against our opponent.” Thursday night Texas will have another opportunity to refine its defense, a cornerstone of head coach Jerritt Elliott’s program. Led by McCage and junior middle blocker Chiaka Ogbogu, the Longhorns pride themselves on their defense. Both in practice and in matches, they dedicate a multitude of drills to blocking at the net and defending the back half of the court. “We really stress being strong defensively,” Ogbogu said. “We have a lot of talent in that area, and we need to be focused on not giving up easy points.” Texas’ next chance to implement that defense will be against West Virginia. First serve is 7 p.m. Thursday.
Texas enters Thursday night’s game against St. Edward’s looking to extend its five-game winning streak during the fall schedule. The Longhorns (5-0) hold a nine-run average margin of victory through their first five contests. Head coach Connie Clark said she can see why. “I’ve watched them calm down,” Clark said. “They’re letting the game come to them, and it’s evident on the field.” Clark said the team and its new players are coming together well thanks to the leadership on the squad. “One through 19, they’re starting to buy into our standards,” Clark said.
“We’re getting a good, solid foundation set. And that starts with the captains up top. They’re setting the example and the tone on the field each and every day.” Texas’ strong core will face a stiff test against a wellcoached Hilltoppers team. Head coach Lindsay Gardner makes her return to Red and Charline McCombs Field, this time in the opposite dugout. Gardner helped lead a strong stretch of Longhorns teams from 2000– 2004 at second base. She led the Big 12 in batting average with .519 in 2000. “I am always excited to return to McCombs Field,” Gardner said. “I always felt at home as a Longhorn, and I get that feeling every time I
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Defensive coordinator Vance Bedford said Wednesday the program’s struggles anger him. His frustration comes after a 24-0 loss to Iowa State — the second loss to the Cyclones in program history. “The players understand the pride I have in this university because I’ve played here,” Bedford said. “That’s not where we are right now. It’s not acceptable to be where we are.” Bedford emphasized the need to discourage the players’ entitled attitudes. He said the Longhorns seem overly complacent playing for a historically successful team – but they need to create their own success
to restore the program’s winning tradition. “Quit walking around and saying, ‘I have this uniform on’ and [being] content just to put the uniform on,” Bedford said. “Go put your stamp on what it means to be a Longhorn. That means every day in practice and every ball game, you’re fired up to represent all the great players and great teams and coaches that came before you.“ Coaching staff looks to facilitate leadership Bedford said senior linebacker Peter Jinkens and senior cornerback Duke Thomas have emerged as the defense’s leaders. However, he still wants more players to step into a leadership role. “I think everybody
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walk through the gates. I love the excitement we always have toward playing UT, and we always love the competition.” Gardner is in her fifth season as coach of the Hilltoppers and has notched a winning record each year after being promoted from assistant coach in 2009. First pitch is at 6:30 p.m. and admission is free, like the rest of the fall contests.
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has a certain amount of leadership qualities in him,” Bedford said. “If you’re a freshman and have leadership qualities, let’s go.” Several freshmen already see snaps on defense, such as freshman linebacker Malik Jefferson and freshman cornerback Holton Hill. But Bedford thinks the freshmen can do more to lead the team in the right direction. He said the coaches are encouraging younger players to make an impact both on and off of the field. “This staff doesn’t believe in waiting your turn,” Bedford said. “If you have leadership qualities in a freshman, we want to enhance what you have — to bring it out, not squash it.”
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The Longhorns were eliminated from the Big 12 Tournament with a 2-1 loss to the Kansas Jayhawks in the quarterfinals Wednesday night. Kansas scored just 1:57 into the game to take an early 1-0 lead. Texas held Kansas scoreless for the rest of the first half, but couldn’t convert on any of its five shots in the half. The scored stayed at 1-0 until midway through the second half when Kansas scored to make it 2-0. But the Longhorns trimmed it to 2-1 with to a goal from freshman midfielder Kayra Dollas. But, Texas couldn’t convert on any other opportunities late in the game giving Kansas the win. Checkout the full recap on dailytexanonline.com. —Akshay Mirchandani
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Gender roles affect STEM performance, attraction
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When Cady Heron failed calculus in order to impress her crush, Aaron Samuels, in the film “Mean Girls,” she showed how detrimental internalized gender roles can be. Men often dislike when women outsmart them in traditionally male-dominated tasks, such as math or other analytical activities, and women may alter their performances in order to comply with expectations according to some studies. UT associate professor Paul Eastwick and his colleagues conducted a study in
which they polled undergraduate men about whether they would be interested in dating women who had scored higher than them on tests. Most of the men, 86 percent, said they would. Then the scientists put the men in situations where they had to directly interact with women who beat them on the test. Not only were they more likely to sit farther away from the smart women and rate them as less desirable — there was evidence to suggest the undergraduate men saw the smart women as a threat to their masculinity. “I think what’s intriguing is the reversal that we found,” Eastwick said. “When the woman was beating the men on the tests in the abstract, they liked her more, and when she was beating them face-toface, they liked her less.” In another study Eastwick took part in, heterosexual college women who said they
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UT doctoral student aims to shatter stuttering stereotypes By Cameron Osmond @CameronOsmond
In elementary school, UT doctoral student Christina Gonzalez’s biggest worry wasn’t making friends in her new class — it was getting through her next word. “I first became aware of my stutter when I was six years old and at a new school,” Gonzalez said. “It was my peers and teacher who made me cognizant of the way I speak differently. As I grew up, my parents’
concern [for my speech] and their efforts to put me in therapy [made] it a ‘thing’ in my consciousness that I had to make stuttering something I had to overcome.” Gonzalez, a third-year anthropology doctoral student, said she continues to struggle with how people perceive her stutter. Her speech has commonly generated uncomfortable looks and uneasiness from her listeners, common responses that she said have been
tough to get used to since her childhood. While in college, Gonzalez said she has felt the stress of not being able to effortlessly speak her thoughts. “It’s an anxiety-ridden experience to move through a university for a person who stutters, especially the higher up you go because there’s this expectation about what an expert looks like and says,” Gonzalez said. Gonzalez recently began attending the Lang
Stuttering Institute, a nonprofit research and treatment center at UT that aims to promote self-confidence in its patients’ speech. Patients regularly participate in group discussions and present speeches to their counterparts. Stuttering is widely thought to be curable or reversible. Courtney Byrd, the Lang Stuttering Institute director and UT associate professor, said media that depicts stuttering as a largely treatable problem, such
as in the film “The King’s Speech,” have it all wrong. “Stuttering is neurophysiological in nature,” Byrd said. “The notion that there is a cure is a fallacy, and a common one. [The institute] can help young kids who stutter. We can get them to reach a level of fluency where you listen to them and you would not hear someone who stutters. However, as you get older and you have less neuroplasticity, it’s more challenging to create a
foundation of fluency.” The Lang Stuttering Institute is able to primarily carry out its mission through volunteer efforts. Aside from Byrd and another professor, the institute is essentially run through student leaders from a variety of majors. “Stuttering isn’t just about speech pathology,” Byrd said. “It’s about something we all struggle with. It’s about communicating
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