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UT to extend 2016 Thanksgiving break
Funds to be allocated for SXSW safety measures
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Thanksgiving break will come early next year, but in exchange, an extra day of classes will be added to the fall semester academic calendar. In May 2014, the Faculty Council approved a proposal to extend Thanksgiving break by one day, giving stu-
dents the Wednesday of that week off. The legislation was then approved by the president, and in spring 2015, UT System concurred with the decision to allow for the extra day. Student Government also passed a resolution in the 2014–2015 assembly in support of an extended Thanksgiving break. According to Shelby Stanfield, vice provost and regis-
trar at the Office of the Registrar, the extended break will be implemented in 2016. Shelby said the council discussed the addition of a fall break — the equivalent to the week-long spring break — when the proposal to extend Thanksgiving break came up, but there are not enough days on the academic calendar to fit in more days off. “We really didn’t even have
one extra day to work with, so to add the extra day the Wednesday before Thanksgiving, we actually had to move the semester toward the end to put the extra day at the end of the semester,” Stanfield said. “Currently, the final exam period runs Wednesday through Tuesday. Starting fall ‘16, the final exam dates will run Thursday through Wednesday. We shift
everything down because we have to end the semester to do all the semester closeout and post final grades on that Friday before we go into the holiday break.” Stanfield said the University is required by law to have a certain amount of school days, which is why a fall break is not possible.
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University deans paid above US average By Matthew Adams
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In a growing market that influences salaries of deans across the country, the average UT dean’s salary is still much greater. A 2014 to 2015 report from the Chronicle of Higher Education shows national averages of college deans at research universities across the country, and UT deans’ salaries are above the average — Clay Johnston, the dean of Dell Medical School, makes $165,000 more than the average medical school dean, and the interim dean of the business school makes $235,000 more than the national average in her respective field. Janet Dukerich, the senior vice provost of faculty affairs, said UT determines the deans’ salaries based on a
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Clay Johnson Dean of Dell Medical School Salary: $691,000 National Average: $525,966 Laura Starks Interim Dean of McCombs School of Business Salary: $569,525 National Average: $334,130
Ward Farnsworth Dean of School of Law Salary: $466,400 National Average: $318,888
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As the city’s spring festival season draws in more and more attendees every year, Austin City Council members acted on calls to address public safety demands at its regular meeting Thursday. The approved resolution directs city manager Marc Ott to look at the allocation of additional funds for public safety needs, such as increased off-duty officers in downtown, during the spring festival season. The resolution passed amidst heightened concerns about public safety in the wake of a 2014 drunk driving incident during South by Southwest. Councilwoman Leslie Pool, a member of the Public Safety Committee, said she sponsored the resolution to see if she could work with the Austin Police Association to adequately fund public safety. “This is a standard thing we do every year for the springtime festival season when there’s an increased number of activities going on, some of them city-sanctioned, some of them not,” Pool said. “We always have additional need for police out in those parts of town [during the festivals].” According to the city, the spring festival season lasts from March 10 to 20 and includes SXSW-related activities.
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Jewish, Hindu students host Hanukkah-Diwali celebration By Ellie Breed @elliebreed
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UT to improve health communication
In an effort to encourage the Jewish and Hindu campus communities to learn about each other’s traditions, Texans for Israel hosted the first Hanukkah-Diwali Dinner Thursday night at Texas Hillel Center. The event did not fall on either holiday, but celebrated both Hanukkah and Diwali with a night full of dreidel playing, Indian and Israeli music and a finale of sparkler waving. The celebration was a way to educate students
about a faith they might not be familiar with, according to architectural engineering sophomore Tamar Solomon, who organized the event. “I believe that the only thing that separates people is their experiences,” Solomon said. “Having cross-cultural events like this dinner encourages members of each community to learn about a faith not their own. I think the University is accepting of all faiths, but many students don’t know enough about faiths other than their own. We planned the event with different orga-
The University is working to bridge the communication gap between the scientific community and the general public. Beginning this month, the Center for Health Communication at the Moody College of Communication and the Dell Medical School are partnering with the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science at SUNY Stony Brook to equip scientists and health care providers to be better communicators. “Research has shown there are gaps between what scientists know and what the public understands,” said Jay Bern-
hardt, interim dean of Moody College. “This partnership [aims] to help close those gaps by improving how scientists communicate and also making information more understandable and more accessible to the public.” Over the next several months, Moody College, Dell Medical School and Alda Center will meet to discuss their partnership strategy, Bernhardt said. Details are not yet available, but plans would include trainings, workshops, research projects and outreach programs, according to Bernhardt. Sue Cox, executive vice dean for academics and chair of medical education at Dell Medical School, said the part-
nership will give medical faculty and students access to Alda Center’s expertise and resources on health communication. “There are a number of very creative teaching methods [Alda Center] has pioneered,” Cox said. “Medical students should never stop learning ways to communicate better — even after they become doctors. That’s why we want to fully integrate the teaching of communication skills through the curriculum.” Evonne Kaplan-Liss, Alda Center medical program director, said the center’s goal is to incorporate communication curriculum for health professions
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Writer and director Alan Alda meets with members of the University on Tuesday to mark the partnership between the center and the Moody College of Communication and the Dell Medical School.
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Sharon Wood Dean of Cockrell School of Engineering Salary: $365,000 National Average: $286,989
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nizations within the Indian community to get each group of people to become more knowledgeable about each other in a fun environment,” This event was a way to eliminate any incorrect beliefs people might have about another religion or culture, according to fine arts senior Michael Paul. “It is important to encourage understanding and celebrations like this because it dispels myths and misassumptions about cultures different to your own, because
CELEBRATION page 2 From left to right, Eitan Yarmush, Michael Bloom and Ari Johary talk and eat at the first Hanukkah-Diwali dinner Thursday night at the Texas Hillel Center.
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“That’s why in fall ‘16, the last class day will end on a Monday instead of a Friday, because we had to pick up that extra day,” Stanfield said. “If you added any more breaks and started adding those days at the end, it would work in some years, but in other years you would bleed into Christmas day and we’re not going to do that.” Education sophomore Sydney McCallister started a petition on change.org in support of having a fall break for a full week in the middle of the fall semester. The petition currently has over 100 signatures. “In October, I felt really stressed and overwhelmed with schoolwork and stuff and I hadn’t seen my family in a long time,” McCallister said. “Having a fall break would be a good time to relieve that stress, go home, see family or just catch up on work.” Alyssa Mathews, commu-
nication studies and political communications freshman, said not being able to have a long enough break in the fall means some students cannot go home until winter break. “I know that a lot of students don’t go home to Thanksgiving because it is such a long drive,” Mathews said. “That is ridiculous to me! People who live in the same state as the University can’t even go home for Thanksgiving break because of how short it is.” McCallister said if her petition gains enough signatures, she hopes it will make an impact despite restrictions on the academic calendar, since the hard-working students of UT deserve the break. “In the end, we’re going to have Thanksgiving break anyway, but [having a fall break] would be like halftime for the year in order to calm down, get motivated and to finish off the entire rest of the semester,” McCallister said.
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continues from page 1 Before Thursday’s decision, officers were frequently told to abandon their posts in their assigned communities and report to downtown in order to fulfill need of additional manpower, according to Andrew Romero, Austin Police Association vice president. Officers, with some coming from other jobs around Austin, worked 24,000 hours in traffic and code enforcement, 911 responses and crowd control, according to the Austin American-Statesman. Romero said the city should spend from the $2 million budget surplus to utilize offduty officers through overtime pay while allowing other onduty officers to still work at their regular posts.
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continues from page 1 combination of national market prices and considerations of previous salaries prior to coming to the University. According to data collected by Mary Knight, UT’s vice president and chief financial officer, Johnston is the highest paid UT dean with a base salary of $691,000. The other deans that complete the list of the top five highest paid deans include Laura Starks, the interim dean in the McCombs School of Business; School of Law dean Ward Farnsworth; Sharon Wood, dean of the Cockrell School of Engineering; and Linda Hicke, dean of the College of Natural Sciences. William Powers Jr., former UT president and part time professor in the School of Law, is earning $349,766 on a nine-month academic rate plus a summer salary. If Powers’ salary was ranked among the list of deans, he “Without funding in the police budget to cover that need, those officers have to come from somewhere.” Romero said. “If you’re trying to introduce new resources, then you have to have funding to bring in officers who are not working to come in and work when you need a public safety resource.” Pool said she suggested possibly using sheriffs and constables to help alleviate the need for additional police in downtown. According to the Austin American-Statesman, 35 to 45 state troopers were deployed to help out during this past year’s festival. The festival organizers do partially supplement security costs, according to Pool. Evert Keller, a UT alumnus who has attended SXSW for multiple years, said he thinks public safety investments are an important step to keeping
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would be the fifth highest. Officials at the School of Law declined to comment and said they do not have any authority in determining salaries. Currently, the university is searching to fill three vacant dean positions in the McCombs School of Business, Moody College of Communications and the LBJ School of Public Affairs. Dukerich said a firm would be hired by the University to determine potential salaries once search committees fill open dean positions. “For all of these high level searches, we will use a search consultant firm and that firm will help us find out what our market rates are for these kinds of positions,” Dukerich said. “When the president and provost begin the actual negotiations with the candidates, and where they are currently at will determine their salary. We certainly want to pay on par with the market in terms of our
peer institutions.” With UT’s plans to open a new medical school next summer, Dukerich said UT had to meet the market value in order to attract Johnston from his previous position at the University of San Francisco. “Attracting someone who is highly capable [and] taking a risk coming to start a new medical school when you are attracting top talent — you can’t attract top talent if you are under market,” Dukerich said. University spokesman J.B. Bird said some colleges have institutional funds in place to supplement a dean’s salary, but funding sources vary within each college. “It is very so wildly connected,” Bird said. “A school like the Jackson School [of Geosciences], which has received the largest gift ever given to a public university, they have money in their foundation to supplement the dean salary. It is so unique.”
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South by Southwest festival attenders wait in line next to a makeshift memorial in 2014.
festival attendees safe, but said there needs to be a balance between public safety and fun. “You have to think that there are ways to do it, strategies that they could employ to not treat it like a riot is about to tip off,” Keller said. “There has
to be a way to set up a system to keep people safe without putting the jackboot in everybody’s good time.” Per the resolution, Ott will address the Council with funding information about public safety in December.
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Richa Patel said. “The event was a really fun way for me to celebrate Diwali while also learning a little bit more about Jewish culture,” Patel said. “This student body is a really accepting group that encourages the celebration of many different cultures. I have never seen any religion, group or culture not be welcomed here at the University. I think that this event reflects that with its open invitation. It was a great way to celebrate the acceptance of two different cultures and generally just a really fun night.”
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you see what the people are really like, not a preformed stereotype about what they are like,” Paul said. “Sometimes you can find out new, surprising things about the other cultures. I think we should not be afraid to say we have faith in God, and these events encourage that.” An invitation was extended to all students, regardless of their faith. This reflects the accepting nature of the University and the student body as a whole, public health freshman
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Latina journalist honored for public radio career By Mikaela Cannizzo @mikaelac16
Maria Martin, NPR’s first Latino Affairs editor, expanded awareness of Latin-American experiences by covering events in Central America previously unreported by the media, according to a panel of journalists. The panelists, including Martin herself, gathered on campus Thursday afternoon to celebrate Martin’s 40th anniversary of contributing to public radio, which included a discussion about Latino representation in the media. Martin said her reporting on civil wars and issues in Guatemala has not been easy and is often met with resistance. “The journalists I work with face danger daily from an entrenched system that does not want the reality of their corruption, their greed, or the tragic status that continues to cause so much pain, to come to light,” Martin said. Mandalit del Barco, NPR Arts and Culture Correspondent and a panelist, said the number of Latino
NPR reporters on-air has increased from three to six in the past 30 years. “There is still only very few of us in the newsroom itself,” del Barco said. “For my career, I have always tried to straddle between representing being Latina and just being a journalist.” Taryn Turner, history and art history freshman, said she believes cultural awareness is an important component to understanding the problems people in other countries face. “A lot of people don’t know about [civil wars] in Central America, but we know so much about European wars and events,” Turner said. “The thing is we don’t know about the heritage of the people that are surrounding us today.” Panelists discussed integration of Latino journalists and other minorities into the field, as well as increasing coverage of the Latin American community. Martin said her position as editor in the early nineties allowed her to increase ethnic diversity in the public radio system while serving as a mentor for young journalists.
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Maria Martin, left, NPR’s first Latino Affairs editor, greets attendees of a panel honoring her 40th anniversary of contributing to public radio. Various panelists discussed Latino representation in the media and how Martin influenced it.
Associated Press reporter Russell Contreras, another panelist at the event, said he considers Martin a mentor and one of many Latina women journalists
he feels paved the way for him to be able to focus on stories about Latinos themselves and not be inhibited by his race. “These women have
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President Gregory Fenves and his wife, Carmel Martinez Fenves, handed out dinner rolls at J2 Dining Hall on Thursday evening. Both J2 and Kinsolving Dining Hall hosted a Thanksgiving meal.
J2, Kinsolving host pre-holiday buffet-style dinner, Friendsgiving By Catherine Marfin @@ccaaatheeerineee
To celebrate the coming holidays, J2 Dining Hall and Kinsolving Dining Hall hosted “Friendsgiving” on Thursday, transforming their buffet dining areas into a traditional Thanksgiving Day feast. While both J2 and Kinsolving Dining annually hold a Thanksgiving meal prior to the holidays, this is the first year that the halls named the event “Friendsgiving.” “We wanted to put a different spin on Thanksgiving by centering it on friends,” Rene Rodriguez, director of food services, said. “Besides celebrating friendship, the meal we serve is the most positive aspect of the event, since it’s very similar to the fixings the students are used to when they go home for the holidays.” Rodriguez said the event also allowed students who would not otherwise be able
to travel home for the holidays to enjoy traditional festivities with their friends. To help celebrate, University President Gregory Fenves and his wife, Carmel Martinez Fenves, made an appearance in the J2 dining hall and served turkey to the students and faculty. “The entire celebration was in really good taste for students who otherwise would not be able to travel home next weekend,” biology freshman Jun Park said. “At my house, we don’t normally eat traditional Thanksgiving food, since we are Korean, but this meal gives a really homey feeling for students who do celebrate a traditional Thanksgiving.” Roasted turkey, baked ham and mashed potatoes were among the foods served in the dining halls. Pumpkin pie, a traditional Thanksgiving Day dessert, lined the dessert tables in both Kinsolving and J2. For many students, the “Friendsgiving”
celebration served as a break from an otherwise normal class schedule. “My friends and I came for our own Thanksgiving meal last year, and we’ve come again this year,” English sophomore Emily Omeis said. “It’s becoming a tradition for us.” Both dining halls were decorated in traditional Thanksgiving style, complete with fall-colored place mats, pumpkin centerpieces and turkey decorations. Rodriguez said the most important aspect of the celebration was highlighting the idea that the friends made at UT can serve as a second family for students at the University. “UT is all about the relationships students make when they come to school,” Rodriguez said. “Students create lasting and lifelong friendships through their college experiences, and we wanted to give them a chance to celebrate that.”
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opened doors for me, they’ve taken the punches so that I can walk in and do my job better,” Contreras said. “But now with this upheaval, a lot of media ex-
ecutives know we’re coming, they know the changing demographics of this country, and they know they have to reach out to this population.”
“It doesn’t matter if someone has an illness and is prescribed a medication if there is a stigma for taking medication at work,” Hanak said. “If [patients] feel uncomfortable abiding by their medication schedule in public, they may miss doses and suffer health consequences.” Anthony Dudo, affiliate faculty member at the Moody Center and assistant professor in advertising and public relations, said experts are currently discussing how and why scientists choose to engage — or avoid engaging — with the public and are also researching the ways scientists communicate with non-experts through
social media. “Most scientists lack a strong communicative vehicle to present findings, news and general opinion,” said Emma Chase, a recent graduate who took Dudo’s senior honors course last year. “Whether that’s a lack of science journalists or simply their own lack of communication skills, there simply aren’t enough bridges from scientists to the public ear.” As part of the affiliation, Bernhardt said, Moody College hopes to work with STEM and health sciences scientists and communication professionals across campus to improve communication and practices.
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Clean Power Plan cuts costs for low-income communities By Alex Arevalo
Daily Texan Columnist @alexparevalo
At all levels of government — federal and local alike — the Clean Power Plan has faced serious backlash because of cost concerns. Politicians fear spending money on environmental policy, while citizens are wary of spikes in their electricity bills — both points that critics have been quick to tout. The emphasis on minimal upfront costs undervalue the plan’s climate benefits, estimated to be worth billions, and divert attention from its true impacts on electric bills, which are expected lowered in the years following its implementation. Opponents of the Clean Power Plan have claimed that it will disproportionately harm low-income communities who are particularly vulnerable to higher energy costs. Much of these claims come from a study conducted by Management Information Services, a consulting firm whose clients include American Electric Power, the Southern Company, and Private Fuel Storage. In other words, MIS caters to violators of the Clean Air Act, as well as the largest greenhouse gas emitter in the U.S. utility industry. Aside from the investment of certain companies, the study has various biases and its conclusions
have been debunked and proved baseless amid more accurate claims of an increase in jobs, the costly impacts of power plant pollution and projected health benefits. The Environmental Protection Agency’s own cost-benefit analysis paints a truer picture on the costs to come from the plan’s implementation. By the year 2030, the EPA projects that Americans will save $7 per month and more than $80 per year on electricity. While the EPA concedes that electric bills may rise minimally by 2.4 to 2.7 percent in 2020, energy efficiency investments are projected to payoff in the following years, leading to a 7.7 percent decline in overall costs. Even with long-term savings, environmental regulations such as the one at hand come with incentives that should put citizens’ minds at ease. “Regulation like this has always had ways to assist low-income communities in terms of giving them extra time to pay electric bills, or not shutting off their heaters in the winter if they can’t pay,” said Dr. Carey King, assistant director of the Energy Institute at UT. Assistance under the Clean Power Plan comes in the form of the Clean Energy Incentive Program. In this way, states will be awarded extra compliance credit for energy efficiency programs that provide savings to low-income communities. Another aim of this
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incentive program is to provide jobs for people in these communities. While Senate Republicans obstruct the passing of this legislation, with their latest vote to block on Tuesday, the argument of high costs and false compassion for low-income communities
has become a tired argument, and one without merit. Those susceptible to the consequences of high energy costs, in reality, only look to benefit under the Clean Power Plan. Arevalo is a journalism freshman from McAllen.
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Lawmakers should treat gun violence as public health concern By Michael Jensen Daily Texan Columnist @michaeltangible
In 1965, nearly half of Americans smoked, and tobacco companies spent hundreds of millions of dollars to keep it that way. But things got better, and today, only 17.8 percent of adults are smokers and tobacco regulation is heralded as a public health victory. In 2015, the U.S. is confronted with yet another public health crisis — gun violence. Guns kill far fewer Americans than tobacco, but are still a leading cause of preventable death. But unlike tobacco, firearms have not been treated as a public health issue. Ideology, not science, currently dictates our gun policies. Campus carry, which allows concealed handguns on campus, has inflamed political passions left and right. Regardless of the politics behind campus carry, the proven science of public health must guide UT’s working group recommendations. In particular, America’s existing tobacco policies should serve as a model for the implementation of campus carry. Gun ownership, like smoking, poses serious risks to oneself and others. The working group must address this. Professor of integrative biology David Hillis said he believes an evidence-based approach is essential when
addressing public health concerns. “We turn to medical experts for medical advice, to lawyers for advice on the law, and to engineers for advice on engineering.” Hillis said “If we ignore science when it comes to public health, our society suffers as a result.” In the U.S. there are 42 million smokers and, literally, more guns than people. Obviously, prohibition isn’t practical. However, considering the risks involved, a laissez-faire approach isn’t prudent. Public health measures such as tobacco taxes and non-smoking areas have reduced smoking-related deaths worldwide, and similar measures could do the same for gun violence on college campuses. Few believe hospital smoking bans infringe on their god-given rights because in certain settings, smoking simply poses an unacceptable risk to others. UT is a tobacco-free campus for precisely this reason. As with smoking, some settings, such as college classrooms, are inappropriate for guns. UT faculty agree, recently passing a resolution opposing guns in classrooms. In addition to health and safety concerns, campus carry would cost the UT System $39 million, funds which could have been spent on research or lowering tuition. Tobacco taxes show us how UT could cover some of the costs. A fee paid by concealed carriers would allow UTPD to monitor guns on campus,
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while reducing the financial burden of campus carry for students who oppose it. If commuters have to pay for parking privileges, it’s reasonable to ask concealed carriers to help cover the costs of campus carry. Regardless of which recommendations are
sent to President Gregory Fenves, it’s impossible to please everyone. We need an effective compromise to implement campus carry, and if we place safety above politics, the proven success of America’s tobacco policies can guide us to it. Jensen is a neuroscience junior from Houston.
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Society should embrace student activism, free exchange of ideas
Indiscriminate tuition cuts would not benefit low-income students
By David Dam
Daily Texan Columnist @daviddamwrite
For the past few weeks, students at over 100 colleges and universities organized protests calling for racial and social reforms, notably sparked by protests at the University of Missouri. Other nationwide protests, such as last week’s Million Student March, focused on student debt and college tuition. No matter what our views are, we should all embrace student activism. College protests have faced scrutiny by many spectators. Instead of focusing on their messages, many have instead chosen to criticize the protesters’ tactics. Critics are outraged at how students could rudely force and demand administrators to resign. Others think students should instead sit down to hold a calm discussion rather than start a protest. Discussions have failed to address these issues for years. Institutionalized racism, accumulating student debt, rising college tuition and many other problems are evidence of this. Student activists would argue protests are the only way for the discussion to be taken seriously. Historically, student protests have shifted attitudes within the country. Students protested apartheid in 1985 and over 300 were arrested. Thousands of students were among the first who opposed the Vietnam War. Now, officials at many college campuses are working to address student concerns. English freshman Rebekah Edwards said she believes protests have served as a collective voice for certain students to raise awareness on issues
they feel are not addressed. “I think student activism through protests is one of the most important and effective ways to initiate social change,” Edwards said. “The very vocal and tangible support and solidarity that protests provide helps in overcoming the intimidation and discomfort that often follows expressing your views by yourself.” Even here at UT, student-organized protests have been controversial. Students from the Palestine Solidarity Committee were involved in an altercation during their protest that interrupted a public event at UT’s Institute for Israel Studies. As UT reviews this confrontation, one cannot dismiss the importance of ideas such protests initiate, even if one disagrees with their message and methods. UT-Austin President Gregory Fenves issued a statement supporting the exchange of ideas. “The freedom to engage in challenging conversations openly and responsibly is absolutely vital to what we do,” Fenves said. “Our students and faculty benefit from an environment that encourages this free exchange of ideas — and in which everyone is able to both share their views and let others do the same.” As long as opinions exist, many will still think that student protests are rude or mistaken. However, students’ perspectives are a sign of their engagement with the real world. People who dismiss these protesters dismiss the real problems millions face across this nation. Instead of trivializing protests on the basis of whether we agree with their ideals or methods, we should instead acknowledge the problems they highlight. Dam is a linguistics and Spanish freshman from Cedar Park.
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By Alexander Chase Daily Texan Columnist @alexwchase
With the UT System considering a tuition increase, some students are upset that an extra $150 per year will be coming out of their pockets. While tuition increases have made public education significantly less affordable for students over the past three decades, blindly calling for tuition to fall is not the answer. It is key for students to focus on unequal educational opportunity, not just how much they pay. Complaints about rising tuition are not wholly unfounded. Tuition costs have quadrupled in the past 35 years, far outpacing inflation. This tuition issue is not one about students who can comfortably afford college right now, but one about those for whom attendance is cost-prohibitive. Working part-time no longer covers the cost of attendance and student loans debt is exploding upward. Others are being priced out of higher education entirely. Tuition prices alone are not to blame for the exclusion of economically disadvantaged students at prestigious public and private universities. Parental wealth and education level both strongly correlate with SAT scores, college enrollment and degree completion. Even worse, the highest achieving low-income students were just as likely to complete a bachelor’s degree as some below-average high-income students. Income inequality is undoubtedly holding back many of the nation’s most talented students. So, when students call for tuition to fall, they must prioritize equality of opportunity, not cost of attendance. In 2011, Texas
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governor Rick Perry called for the creation of a $10,000 college degree through the expansion of online classes. While this would cuts costs, the approach ignores many of the needs that low-income students have. Students from low-income backgrounds are more likely to lack the academic preparedness that is key to success, according to a Columbia Teacher’s College study, which makes online classes more difficult for them than for students from higher-income families. Furthermore, those students benefit more from face-to-face interactions with professors. Given Texas’ educational issues, these should be real concerns. Texas’ educational system disadvantages low-income students through its regressive funding system, which gives more money per student to wealthier districts. Texas’ educational systems need to change in how they treat low-income students. There are ways for tuition cuts to be part of a solution, but they are not the solution. In this sense, students calling for tuition cuts, such as those who participated in the Million Student March, are not misguided in their goals. However, they do need to be wary of the way that their policy wishes, including free tuition for all students, would actually affect economically disadvantaged people. Fixing this is not simple, but requires students to focus their complaints on the roots of inequality rather than a specific problem that stems from it. While rising tuition is certainly problematic for low-income students, students must call for solutions that will not heap greater problems upon those affected most. Chase is a Plan II and economics junior from Royse City.
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continues from page 8 pieces for the magazine, then work with the artists to incorporate archives and other influences into the content. Myers said the collaborative focus of the magazine is the most rewarding part of her job. “Oftentimes in art history and graduate school in general, you work and you work alone constantly on this big thing,” Myers said. “To have something where you can work with people and have
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continues from page 8 proven that they were right about Austin being a good fit for their business.” Pogsun and Shannon’s love for music has even inspired them to expand their business past donuts. In 2013, they founded Voodoo Doughnut Recordings — the world’s leading doughnutbased recording company. The record label specializes in releasing 7” donut-themed singles. Pogsun and Shannon’s quirky way of doing things extends to the general atmosphere of Voodoo’s interior. The room is adorned with
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this finished project feels really great.” The Yard Sale began last spring as part of Pastelegram’s larger goal of hosting more live events. This year, the Pastelegram editors are bringing their wares to both weekends of the East Austin Studio Tour, which runs through this weekend. To complete the feel of a typical yard sale, a cutout of a quaint house typically acts as a backdrop, and green artificial grass covers the pavement. Conrad said the editors curated the objects in the hopes of providing
insight into the creative process. “We went through the studios of people that we knew and that we worked with on our magazine and just pulled all that art that they did when they were young: sketches, weird stuff that they’re still holding onto and can’t throw out because it’s too precious to them,” Conrad said. “We’re really interested in making that connection between the artists and the object.” Pastelegram’s lineup of live events also includes Performance Tapes, a series of screenings of performances
from the 1960s to present day, and release parties for their print issues. Myers said she believes the process of making a print issue is still important, despite the prevalence of online content. “Online is very fluid and easy, but the print issue makes us slow down and really think about how we are presenting these pieces of information,” Myers said. “Thinking about images and texts in that layout format really just requires something totally different than online. To produce a material thing feels significant.”
underwear, donut trees and countless pieces of pop art that maintain the pleasant mood their brand gives off. “I really like the feel of this interior,” Steve D’Arcy said. “I’m not used to being inside donut shops that look like this. For one, it’s way larger than any other bakery I’ve ever been to, but it also just has a really fun and inviting character to it.” Cashier Shay King said even though Voodoo has been in Austin for less than a month, it has had no trouble attracting customers. Any given morning or late night, people can find Voodoo’s Sixth Street location packed to the walls with a line out
the door. “We’ve been really busy since our grand opening on Halloween,” King said. “Every day has been insanely busy. Right now, with 50 percent of the tables occupied, is the most empty we have been since our first day of business.” Some Austin residents have even been waiting since its Portland opening for Voodoo to finally bring a location to Austin. Customer Joyce Garrison, an Austin bartender who makes frequent trips to Portland for cocktail week, has been patiently waiting for an opportunity to try Voodoo’s famed donuts. “It’s about time they came
to Austin,” Garrison said. “Whenever we all go to Portland, we hear about Voodoo Doughnuts non stop but have never had time to pay them a visit, so we’re really excited to finally have one in our hometown.” Steve D’arcy said he is particularly hopeful for the future of his city’s new donut shop. “I think this place is really awesome,” Steve D’arcy said. “I think it’s going to do really well, especially here in Austin where people are looking for something different and weird. We made a 30 minute drive from north Austin just to try it and we will definitely be making the trip again.”
like what they expect. “It just sounds unfamiliar,” Champlin said. “It sounds like, maybe not a different person talking, but maybe your younger sibling with a higher pitched voice.“ A well-researched psychological phenomenon, the mere-exposure hypothesis predicts people prefer what they see and encounter most often. “The only people who say they like the way they sound are often people who’ve made it their business to listen to themselves — broadcasters, vocal musicians,” Champlin said. The silver lining is, while some people may dislike
recorded versions of their own voice, friends and family who’ve grown familiar with their external voice won’t give it a second thought. Researchers have explored the mere-exposure effect through the way people perceive themselves in non-mirrored pictures. Since people are regularly exposed to images of themselves in reflective surfaces, such as windows and mirrors, when this image is flipped in pictures it looks wrong because people are so accustomed to the mirrored version of themselves. According to an experiment conducted at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee in 1977 when people were presented
SPOTLIGHT continues from page 8 their interactions with each other and with the victims, lawyers and priests they interview. Keaton’s Robinson is the team’s confident leader, McAdams’s Pfeiffer is the voice of compassion, and James’s Carroll dishes up the moments of levity needed in a film this serious. Though everyone in the cast does a stellar job, the majority of the viewers will leave the film remembering Ruffalo’s Rezendes most. He is the team’s moral compass and its most compelling member, displaying enormous conviction in his quest for justice. As Rezendes, Ruffalo moves about with an awkward gait, hands often in his pockets, slightly slouching. His character is quiet and unassuming, which makes his emotional outburst midway through the film all the more moving. McCarthy’s assured direction and the script he cowrote with Josh Singer keep the picture from drowning in melodrama. He consistently reiterates the tragedy of the scandal without overdramatizing it, and keeps us locked into the story with a brisk narrative that starts off running and never looks back. He objectively ap-
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with photos of their true image and their mirror image, participants preferred the mirror image while friends and romantic partners preferred the true image.
Similarly, familiarity seems to push people toward a preference for their internal voice. “I’d prefer my internal voice over my external voice.” Champlin said. “It’s not that I don’t
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Longhorns return for home opener Junior guard Isaiah Taylor dribbles down the court in a preseason exhibition game against Tarleton State on Nov. 6. Texas lost its season opener 77-71 to Washington in Shanghai, China last Friday.
By Akshay Mirchandani @amirchandani41
The last two weeks have been far from normal for the Longhorns. They spent all last week in China, leading up to their 77-71 season-opening loss to Washington in Shanghai. This week, the Longhorns focused on improving play on the court while repairing their broken sleep patterns. “The first couple of nights were really interesting because you wake up at like 2 a.m. after having slept a couple of hours, and you’re just wide awake,” head coach Shaka Smart said. “Your body thinks it’s a nap, I guess.” Texas will regain its sense of normalcy in the confines of the Frank Erwin Center against Texas A&M – Corpus Christi in its home opener Saturday at 7 p.m. Junior guard Isaiah Taylor said strange circumstances or not, the Longhorns should have played better against Washington. He said the team is thrilled to be back in Austin to play a normal game at home. “We haven’t had a win in a while,” Taylor said. “We haven’t had a win since March, so just real anxious to get a win and play in front of
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our home crowd.” Smart said he won’t make excuses for the Washington loss. He acknowledged the abnormality of playing overseas made it tough. “If you just evaluate that 40 minutes, I’d give it a 2 out of 10,” Smart said. “The game wasn’t played in a vacuum — there’s the context of the trip and everything that went into it.” The performance against Washington wasn’t what
Smart hoped to see. Texas shot 26 percent from the field, 13.3 percent from three and missed 18 of 48 free throws. The Longhorns were also outrebounded 62-51. “We’re going to do some of the same stuff [on Saturday],” senior center Cameron Ridley said. “It’s not that we were doing anything wrong. We just weren’t hitting shots – they just weren’t going in. I mean, we’re going to have
nights like that.” Smart said he doesn’t underestimate A&M — Corpus Christi. The Islanders — a Southland Conference team — won 20 games last year and advanced to the second round of the CollegeInsider. com Postseason Tournament. “One thing that our group needs to continue to improve on is the way that we approach our opponents — no matter what it says on the front of their jerseys,” Smart said.
The game also marks the regional game for the Battle 4 Atlantis tournament in the Bahamas next week. Smart said their schedule won’t truly return to normal until afterward. “In some ways, we have the [China] trip behind us now and we can kind of get going,” Smart said. “To be honest with you, really when we get back from the Bahamas we’ll really be able to hunker down, get in a routine and grow.”
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Texas goes on the road for the first time this season to take on Rice in Houston at 2 p.m. Saturday. The Longhorns head east after two convincing home wins to start the season. No. 11 Texas (2-0) dominated UTSA 90–53 on Nov. 14 and Northwestern State 86-33 on Wednesday. Head coach Karen Aston said that although the team has looked good so far, there’s still work to be done. “We’re obviously working on ourselves in a lot of areas,”
Aston said. “I’m pleased with where our team is today.” Senior center Imani Boyette ended the game against Northwestern State with 25 points — one point shy of tying her career-high at Texas. Boyette needs eight points Saturday to accumulate 1,000 points career points in a burnt orange uniform. Boyette’s mindset is to not only score, but do so as efficiently as possible. “I’m just trying to make sure I’m an offensive threat,” Boyette said. “I’ve always been able to score, but I haven’t necessarily made that my primary
objective until recently.” Sophomore guard Brooke McCarty is following Boyette’s lead in the scoring department. She totaled a career-high 22 points against UTSA and 15 more against Northwestern State. Boyette said her own efficiency in the paint opens up opportunities for the rest of the team. “If you are going to stay in the paint, [McCarty] or the guards are going to knock down a three,” Boyette said. “We just have a scoring threat from every position. So pick your poison.”
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The Longhorns nailed nine three-pointers against UTSA and tacked on seven more against Northwestern State. McCarty has made a teamhigh seven three-pointers. Aston said the improvement in Texas’ shot-making ability is a result of the guards’ increasing comfort level in making shots. “The biggest hurdle coming from last year into this year was shooting the basketball,” Aston said. “I definitely think that we have more firepower.” Rice (0-2) enters the matchup with Texas on a two-game skid. The Owls play at home
for the first time this year after traveling to Kentucky and A&M — Corpus Christi. Rice brings a 35.8 shooting percentage into Saturday’s game. The Longhorns boast a team shooting percentage of 45.7 percent. Texas out-rebounded its first two opponents by a combined margin of 105-38. The Longhorns look to dominate against a small Rice front — the Owls don’t have a player over 6 feet 2 inches. After Saturday’s contest, Texas returns home again to face Hampton at 7 p.m. Wednesday.
CROSS COUNTRY
Longhorns face Kansas State Texas to compete in in tough Senior Night match NCAA championships By Isabel Miller
By Claire Cruz
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The senior class of Amy Neal, Molly McCage and Kat Brooks has created a dynasty over the years. The class ranked No. 2 in the nation coming in, helped the Longhorns win the 2012 national championship and won three Big 12 Conference titles, with a fourth in sight. Neal, McCage and Brooks have reached the NCAA Tournament Final Four three times, lost just 12 games as Longhorns and improved as individuals on and off the court. But they say their work isn’t done yet. “People highlight the accomplishments we’ve already done, but to me this is all unfinished business,” McCage said. “Everything we’ve put in here throughout our four years has been to get to the national championship game. [That’s] what we’re here to do.” Although a second national title is the end goal, that’s not what Texas is focusing on right now. Two must-win regular season games remain on the schedule, including Saturday’s home match against Kansas State. “Kansas State has been hot,” Elliott said. “They’re knocking on the door to
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Senior middle blocker Molly McCage (5) takes a breather in a game. McCage has 171 kills this season and 215.5 points.
be an NCAA Tournament team. They know that if they come in here and beat us they have a shot to get in, so we need to control our mindset to give us the emotional boost.” Kansas State is riding a six-game win streak, dating back to its last match against Texas. The Wildcats are strong defensively — they rank at the top of the Big 12 in digs with 17.33 per set. The Wildcats are also second in opponent hitting percentage and third in blocks. Kansas State’s defense helped them climb to No. 3 in the Big 12. Beyond the conference stakes, Elliott said emotions will run high during the Senior Day match. “I want to make sure we have a great night with
them,” Elliott said. “You have some heartfelt things to say at senior night, maybe some tears are exchanged, and that’s the challenging part.” Neal, McCage and Brooks are determined to leave a great legacy behind them. They understand senior week doesn’t mean the season is over and are excited to lead Texas on a run to finish their careers the same way they started — by being the best team in college volleyball. “The season has flown by and it’s insane, but it has been a lot of fun,” Neal said. “Our class has worked really hard to get here. I hope the dedication and hard work we put into this program will be something people remember.”
At the regional cross country meet last Saturday, the women stepped up first and the men followed their lead. “We need a date to the dance,” senior Brady Turnbull said. “The women made it, and we made it, so there you go. We saw the girls qualify, and seeing them step up and make in the race right before us motivated us. We had to go out there and race within ourselves. If we went out and raced the way that we had all season we could get it done. The guys team has been focusing on the pack mentality all season and you can see it in our finishes.” The Longhorns travel to Louisville, Kentucky, to compete in the NCAA championship Saturday morning. The women’s 6k will start at 11 a.m., followed by the men’s 10k at noon. The Longhorns plan to run together in the upcoming NCAA Championship meet. “[They] start in a group, literally in a tight pack, and make sure [they] are covering moves,” assistant coach Brad Herbster said. “Really what [they] are doing is getting comfortable on the track and positioning [themselves] with [their] teammates.” Junior Mary Beth Hamilton also said the “pack mentality” has worked this season. “We went in to regionals
knowing that we would have to approach it with a different strategy than other teams were — knowing that we wouldn’t have a low stick and that girl way out front,” Hamilton said. Herbster talked to the women before their last meet about qualifying for nationals. “We talked about it for two weeks to make sure they understood it’s not about fitness at this point — it’s just about who wants it the most,” Herbster said. “The women got out there and it wasn’t about position. We grouped it up and got it done.” The men’s team has finished in the top 15 at the NCAA championship two of the last three years. This is the women’s first NCAA championship qualification since 2012. It’s also the first time since 2012 that both teams have qualified. Turnbull is enjoying a productive senior season. He’s been one of the top three Longhorns to cross the finish line in every race this year. Turnbull advanced to the cross country NCAA championships last year and qualified for the Big 12 Championships in cross country, outdoor and indoor distance events last season. “Last race with my teammates towing the line together, they know that,” Turnbull said. “They know what it means to me and what this team has come together to do. It’s been a good season for me so far. One more 10k.”
SPORTS BRIEFLY Texas prepares for Texas Tech offense
Texas is preparing for Texas Tech during its bye week after a 38–20 loss to West Virginia. Defensive coordinator Vance Bedford said Texas Tech provides a difficult challenge. The Red Raiders run the fastest offense the Longhorns will see this season. “This is a true air raid offense,” Bedford said. “We’ve seen versions of it, but this is truly it. They go as fast and spread you out.” Bedford said Texas Tech’s ability to run the ball will be an added issue for the Longhorn defense. “We’re less concerned about the pass game because they spread you out so far, but they have two strong running backs,” Bedford said. “When you try to defend the pass, all of a sudden you have one linebacker in the box, and if he makes that guy miss, it could go for 20 or 30 [yards].” Offensive play-caller Jay Norvell said he expects the younger running backs to step up. Texas is without sophomore D’Onta Foreman, who had finger surgery Thursday, or senior Johnathan Gray, who injured himself against the Mountaineers. “If [Foreman or Gray] aren’t able to play, Chris [Warren] is going to have to play and so is Kirk Johnson,” Norvell said. “Both those kids have gotten a lot of reps this week at practice and have to be prepared to play a lot in this game. So it’s good. They’re young guys. They’re working hard.” Norvell said he and the offensive staff want to see progress from redshirt freshman quarterback Jerrod Heard during the last two games of the season. “[Heard] threw some great balls and made some great decisions [against West Virginia],” Norvell said. “[Heard] has got to do a great job of reading the field and going through his progressions … He needs to show progress.” —Nick Castillo
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ART
Pastelegram fosters artists’ creative process By James Rodriguez @jamie_rod
Failed artwork, sketches and used tools are most often found in the dusty corners of art studios. But this weekend, customers at the Mobile Artists’ Yard Sale will have the opportunity to purchase such items for $50 or less. The Yard Sale is the brainchild of the editors of Pastelegram, a nonprofit arts organization that releases multiple online magazines as well as one annual print issue. The magazine has a special focus on the often-overlooked materials that influence or contribute to an artist’s work. UT alumnus Josh Conrad, the designer and co-founder of Pastelegram, said the value of the objects changes depending on how they are presented. “When you take the stuff that the artists are just throwing out and you put them in a different context, like a yard sale, it suddenly becomes more interesting,” Conrad
said. “It looks cooler. People want it. It’s just if it’s in the right place.” Pastelegram began in 2011 when art history graduate student Ariel Evans and Conrad began collaborating with artists to create an art website and magazine. Evans said she felt the urge to create a magazine after taking a class on View, a literary and art magazine from the 1940s. “I realized how much magazines tell us about what artists are doing, what they’re looking at, what they’re interested in,” Evans said. “That kind of discourse wasn’t really available in the art magazines of today.” Since Pastelegram’s inception, UT alumna Chelsea Weathers and art history graduate student Allison Myers have joined Evans as editors of the magazine, while Conrad continues to maintain the website. The editors commission artists to create original
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(From left to right) Chelsea Weathers, Allison Myers, Josh Conrad and Ariel Evans are the creators of Pastelegram, a nonprofit arts organization that releases online and print magazines.
CITY
MOVIE REVIEW | ‘SPOTLIGHT’
‘Spotlight’ enthralls audience with powerful investigative journalism By Charles Liu
@CharlieInDaHaus
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Portland’s iconic Voodoo Doughnuts recently opened a location on Austin’s Sixth Street. The shop offers a variety of unconventional doughnuts including the trademark “Voodoo doll.”
New donut shop offers quirky treats, cool vibe By Stephen Acevedo @thedailytexan
Between the bars on Sixth Street, one of Austin’s newest eateries allows patrons to purchase voodoo dolls, fake penises and “fat blunts” all at once — but at this shop, they’re all donuts. Portland’s popular Voodoo Doughnuts has brought a kitschy take on the donut to the heart of downtown Austin. First-time customers such as Steve and Erin D’arcy said the shop’s unconventional donuts including the “Voodoo Doll” in the shape of a customized figu-
rine and the “Cock-N-Balls” in the shape of a large pair of genitals makes ordering pastries fun. “These donuts are definitely different from any other donuts you can find in Austin,” Erin D’arcy said. “Not only are their flavor combinations really different, but the shapes and names of their donuts are also really funny.” Though new to Austin, Voodoo Doughnuts has been a staple in Portland since best friends Kenneth “Cat Daddy” Pogson and Tres Shannon established it in 2002. Laura Wolken, a
long-time Voodoo Doughnuts representative, said bringing their famed donuts to Austin was a no-brainer for Pogsun and Shannon. “They have always considered Austin a sister city to Portland which made it a perfect fit for a Voodoo location,” Wolken said. “It also helped that Pogsun and Shannon are major music lovers who were already interested in Austin for its music scene. And so far, the enthusiasm of Austinites over Voodoo has
Studies explain why people dislike sound of their voice @thedailytexan
Most people are familiar with the grimace-inducing moment they listen to a recording of their own voice, making it hard to hear the ugly truth — those YouTube videos and Snapchats are exactly what they sound like to everyone else. “That’s really what your voice sounds like, unfortunately,” said Bharath Chandrasakeran, communication sciences and disorders assistant professor. ”Recordings are a very faithful representation of what other people hear.” While some may dislike their voices when they’re ex-
posed to recordings of them, routinely listening to these initially uncomfortable recordings can help people grow to embrace the sound of their voices. Plan II senior Ehigbor Idonor said she is usually surprised by the way she sounds in recordings. “When I’m speaking, I have no issue with my voice,” Idonor said. “But when I hear a recording, my voice sounds really stupid. Like, does my voice really sound like that?” Chandrasekaran said this perceived difference reflects sound’s transmission into the inner ear through two distinct pathways. When a sound is produced by an external source, it will reach a person’s
SPOTLIGHT Director: Thomas McCarthy Running Time: 128 min Score: 5/5
on brains and ingenuity to uncover the whole story, coaxing uncooperative sources to join their side and finding ways to get access to court-sealed documents. “Spotlight” maintains tight focus on the reporters’ work, showing very little of their personal lives and relating their traits through
SPOTLIGHT page 5 Mark Ruffalo, Michael Keaton and Rachel McAdams lead a stellar ensemble cast in “Spotlight.” Courtesy of Open Road Films.
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SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
By Maluly Martinez Benavides
Director Thomas McCarthy’s “Spotlight” is a testament to courageous journalism’s importance, telling the story of how four reporters from The Boston Globe uncovered a massive sex scandal in Boston’s Catholic churches. Superbly written and acted, it is a culturally necessary film. The movie begins with the Globe’s new editor Martin Baron (Liev Schreiber) reassigning the paper’s Spotlight unit, a team of investigative reporters, to follow up on a Globe column about molestation committed by priests. The Spotlight team, consisting of Walter Robinson (Michael Keaton), Michael Rezendes (Mark Ruffalo), Sacha Pfeiffer (Rachel Mc-
Adams) and Matt Carroll (Brian d’Arcy James), does not expect the investigation to be about anything more than a series of isolated incidents. But the problem is far worse than they could have imagined. As they dive deeper, they discover up to 87 active priests in Boston may have sexually abused young children and had their crimes covered up by the Church. It’s nearly impossible to watch the movie’s events unfold without feeling a sense of outrage as “Spotlight” explores the psychological toll the priests’ sins have wrought on their victims and the extent of the Church’s corruption. The reporters, driven by righteous anger, are unconventional yet likable heroes. They rely
ear through “air conduction” — pressure waves created in the air. When a person produces sound internally, “bone conduction” also comes into play. “Bone conduction directly transfers the vibrations produced by the vocal folds, through the bones in the skull, and into the inner ear,” Chandrasakeran said. The overlap of bone conduction and air conduction affects the way a person hears themselves. Craig Champlin, a communication sciences and disorders professor, said bones enhance lowerfrequency vibrations and give a person’s voice a deeper quality that’s lacking from
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