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Rice opts out of campus carry By Matthew Adams @MatthewAdams60
Rice University announced Monday it would be opting out of campus carry, becoming the fifth private university in Texas to make this decision. Rice President David Leebron sent a Universitywide email to the students, faculty and staff addressing the plan to keep the University a gun-free cam-
pus after consulting with Kevin Kirby, Vice President for Administration. “In sum, not a single constituency consulted has endorsed having guns on our campus; in fact, each overwhelmingly opposed it,” Leebron said in the email. “There is no evidence that allowing the carrying of guns on our campus will make the campus safer, and the most knowledgeable professional groups believe that
guns will make campuses less safe.” The Texas Senate passed Senate Bill 11 with a 20-11 vote on May 30, and Gov. Greg Abbott signed the bill into law on June 13. This law allows people at least21 years old to carry concealed hand guns on public college campuses. With some changes to SB 11, colleges are able to establish gun-free zones but cannot restrict guns across campus.
Rice follows Texas Christian University, which opted out of campus carry on Nov. 13. Along with TCU, other private institutions that are not allowing campus carry include Trinity University in San Antonio, and Paul Quinn College and Southern Methodist University, both located in Dallas. “It was quite clear that no matter which side of the issue each person felt was best,
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all cared deeply about the safety of the community,” Kathy Cavins-Tull, TCU’s vice chancellor for student affairs, said in a statement on the decision. Baylor University has not officially opted against campus carry, but at a Tribune Symposium on Nov. 16, Baylor President and Chancellor Ken Starr said he has little doubt that this rule would not pass on the campus.
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A suspect is currently in custody after a shooting that happened in downtown Austin on Monday afternoon in the 500 block of Seventh Street. The Austin Police Department is investigating the incident that occurred in front of the Austin Resource Center for the Homeless. The shooting, which occurred at around 1:30 p.m., resulted in the injury and hospitalization of one individual. According to a report by KXAN, the victim has multiple gunshot wounds, but the injuries are not life-threatening. Austin Police Officer Ivan Ramos said he does not have any information on the suspect yet. “All I know is he was apprehended, and they haven’t given us his information yet,” Ramos said. As of press time, Ramos said he does not know if anyone from the homeless community was involved in the shooting. At a press conference, Ramos said APD was looking through security cameras in the area to collect more information. Two officers in the area as well as two officers nearby were able to work together to check on the victim as well as apprehend the suspect who tried to evade police by hiding underneath a car. APD will be informed on the charges the suspect will receive after investigation by detectives, according to Ramos. Ramos said the reason behind the shooting is unknown, but he does not believe the Austin community should be worried. “I believe it is an isolated incident — I don’t think there is anything people have to be worried about,” Ramos said. —Nashwa Bawab
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Salt may be more permeable than previously thought, raising questions about whether salt isolates nuclear waste effectively, according to a new study released by researchers at UT. Soheil Ghanbarzadeh, doctoral candidate in the Department of Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering, was the lead researcher and author of a thesis sponsored by Statoil, which set out to analyze if salt serves as a good seal for petroleum. The thesis findings have implications for the nuclear waste industry as well. Currently, Germany and the United States use salt to trap nuclear waste since it was thought to be impermeable. However, if waste can flow through the
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brine, there is a possibility the waste can contaminate ground water, spurring a renewed interest in research about salt use. Proposals such as storing nuclear waste under Nevada’s Yucca Mountains, which do not rely on the use of salt as a barrier, have
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Kimberly Burdine, a CHMC staff psychologist, facilitates a discussion about mental health on Monday.
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Just in time for final exams, students learned strategies for identifying and coping with stress, anxiety and depression at a workshop Monday. Students and a staff member from the Counseling and Mental Health Center facilitated discussions about mental health for a student audience. CHMC staff psychologist Kimberly Burdine led a group discussion about mental health during times of added stress and answered anonymous questions from the audience. Burdine provides specialized programming for black students and said she strives to create an environment without stigmas about mental health among minorities. According to Burdine, who holds a Ph.D. in counseling psychology, black people
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suffering from anxiety and depression are largely undiagnosed because the symptoms are easily dismissed. “Oftentimes in our communities, we just chalk it up to that person being moody,” Burdine said. “Really, there could be mental health concerns there that we’re just not addressing. I think attending things like
this and having discussions like this helps because we’re talking about it.” Burdine said most people already know how to address mental health concerns but have a difficult time applying it to their daily lives. “Generally we know what we should be doing,” Burdine said. “That’s not the issue. It’s doing it.”
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A presentation on stress by Kiana Brown, biology senior and Vice President of the Black Health Professions Organization, advised students to schedule time for studying, sleep, leisure and exercise. Biochemistry junior and attendee Corinne Fotso said
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APD holds meeting on body cameras By Rachel Freeman
Austin Police Chief Art Acevedo (right) and Austin Police Commander Eli Reyes (left) spoke Monday about a new initiative to put body cameras on every Austin police officer.
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Representatives from the Austin Police Department held a public meeting Monday night to inform citizens about their continued efforts to equip officers with body cameras. APD held this meeting to inform the public about how the recently passed Senate Bill 158 will affect the police and their interactions with the public. Austin Police Chief Art Acevedo and Austin Police Commander Eli Reyes explained key parts of the law, including how the department plans to implement the body cameras, who will have access to the footage and how the footage can be used. Acevedo said he believes the body cameras will help the police department fulfill its duties. “Body cameras, I do not think … are a perfect solution to create perfect law enforcement,” Acevedo said. “I do think [law enforcement is an] imperfect profession, just like the human condition is imperfect, and society is imperfect. However, I do think it’ll be a great tool, most importantly
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continues from page 1 faced political and regulatory hurdles, according to a UT press release. Ghanbarzadeh said the oil companies hoped to discover whether salt serves as a barrier under which oil and gas would be trapped in large quantities so that it could be extracted through drilling. “The project started as a petroleum project, and the oil companies wanted to see whether the oil and gas can get into the salt or not,” Ghanbarzadeh said. “If it cannot get in, then it can
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for transparency.” APD has been working toward providing their officers with body cameras for at least four years. Body cameras were first tested in 2011. However, because of poor technology standards and privacy issues, they were not implemented at that time, according to Acevedo. During their presentation, Acevedo and Reyes said the department hopes to have its first set of 500 body cameras in use by the end of the fiscal year. More deployment is estimated to occur during next summer, starting with officers who work in the downtown area. Though the department
has yet to decide on a specific vendor for the cameras, their requirements for the cameras are for them to have remote triggers, at least a 10-hour battery life, the ability to categorize videos, the capacity to visually record what officers see, editable videos and security features including audit trails and watermarks. Government sophomore Travis Clark questioned who would retain the rights to footage collected by body cameras. “Who will have access to the footage?” Clark said. “And what will be the consequences for leaking
be trapped, and you can go and drill and make money, but if the oil and gas can flow into the salt, then it can go anywhere, and you cannot collect oil and gas from the underground.” Masa Prodanovic, assistant professor in the Cockrell School of Engineering and Ghanbarzadeh’s co-advisor, said the rock salt permeability may be caused by high pressure and temperatures but also by deformation or stretching of the rock. “The implications of the findings is that rock salt, for instance, in potential nuclear waste storage re-
positories, might be more permeable to water than just based on the depth,” Prodanovic said. “So, this new piece of information needs to be considered when assessing the site.” Marc Hesse, assistant professor in the Jackson School of Geosciences and Ghanbarzadeh’s co-advisor, said more research is needed to determine whether salt should be used in nuclear waste management. “The main impact, I hope is that … it spurs more research,” Hesse said. “We need to understand better when this can occur, and we need to understand, if
the footage?” Reyes responded to Clark’s question, saying only law enforcement and prosecutors will have access to the footage until all investigations and trials are over. “Illegally releasing the video is a criminal violation and a Class A misdemeanor,” Reyes said. “If an officer or a member of the department inappropriately releases the video, they would be held accountable for that.” Acevedo added to the answer, saying if any peace officer is convicted of a Class A misdemeanor, they would also lose their position on the force.
The main impact, I hope is that … it spurs more research. —Marc Hesse, Assistant professor in the Jackson School of Geosciences
it occurs, how much fluids can come through. Now, in our research, we only saw that there were fluids; we have no idea how long it took them to get there. So what we really hope is that it’s really an opening for further research.”
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continues from page 1 she thinks there is a difference in the way men deal with emotions, as opposed to women. “Because of the expectations that society has of men, they tend to keep it in more,” Fotso said. “It’s harder for them to admit they have a problem, whereas women, if we’re going through a rough time, we’ll call our girlfriends.” Brown said her parents were not understanding when she sought therapy. “My mom and dad would just be like, ‘Man, you just need to pray’ or ‘You’re just not doing right in life,’” Brown said. “I had to really take the time to realize that wasn’t working for me. Praying cannot be the only thing to help me.” Brown said she is glad she looked for alternatives, despite her upbringing. “After I went to that first counseling session, it was, like, the best day ever,” Brown said.
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A man found dead in Lady Bird Lake early Sunday was confirmed Monday evening to be a UT graduate student, according to a statement from UTPD Chief David Carter. The student, Santiago Gonzalez, was in the McCombs professional accounting program at UT. Carter described the death as devastating to the entire University. “Out of respect to the family, we are unable to share any other details,” Carter said. “We are committed to helping fellow students mourning this death through university counseling services and other programs.” The cause and nature of death are undetermined, according to the AustinAmerican Statesman. According to the press release, UTPD is working closely with the Austin Police Department to find out more details about his death.
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ABIGAIL FISHER V. THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN TIMELINE By Matthew Adams @MatthewAdams60 The Supreme Court will hear Abigail Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin for a second time on Dec. 9. Here’s a timetable of the case, which will determine whether the University’s race-based admissions process is constitutionally fair. March 25, 2008 The University of Texas at Austin denied admission into the University but accepted her under the CAP program, which would have allowed her to eventually transfer to UT-Austin after attending another UT System school. Fisher did not accept this and went to Louisiana State University. April 7, 2008 Fisher filed a complaint with the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas, asking UT-Austin to reevaluate her for admissions under race-neutral criteria. April 17, 2008 Fisher teamed up with another denied applicant, Rachel Michalewicz, and filed an amended complaint with the Western District. May 29, 2008 The district court denied the temporary injunction, following court arguments heard in the district. Aug. 17, 2009 The Western District of Texas ruled that UT’s law is constitutional. Fisher and Michalewicz filed an appeal to the Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
Jan. 18, 2011 The Fifth Circuit determined the University’s admissions policy was constitutional. Sept. 15, 2011 Fisher took the case to the Supreme Court, and Michalewicz dropped out. Feb. 21, 2012 The Supreme Court heard Fisher v. Texas. The University hired law firm Latham and Watkins to represent UT at the Supreme Court. This same law firm was part of Michigan’s legal team in the race admissions case of University of Michigan Law School in Grutter v. Bollinger in 2003. Oct. 10, 2012 The Supreme Court heard oral arguments on the case.
Oct. 5, 2015 The NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund gathered information from members of the Black Student Alliance to present in the case. Oct. 9, 2015 The Supreme Court announced arguments for both sides will be heard on Dec. 9. Oct. 26, 2015 UT responded to Fisher’s statement by filing its own brief. Nov. 2, 2015 By the end of the day, a total of 92 amicus briefs were submitted showing others’ views on the issue of affirmative action. Over 70 percent of the briefs filed support the University and its affirmative action policies. Dec. 9, 2015 The Supreme Court will hear arguments from both sides.
June 24, 2013 Supreme Court ruled on a 7-1 vote to vacate the Circuit Court’s opinion and remand the case back to the Fifth Circuit for review. July 2014 The Fifth Circuit ruled Fisher failed to make her case against UT making admissions based on race. June 29, 2015 The Supreme Court announced it will hear the case for a second time. Sept. 3, 2015 Fisher’s attorneys filed a brief in the case and waited for a response from the University.
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CLAIRE SMITH, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF | @TexanEditorial Tuesday, December 1, 2015
COLUMN
Diversity is more than a selling point By Jake Schmidt
Daily Texan Columnist @heyjakers
These days, you’ll be hard-pressed to find a university that doesn’t promote diversity as essential to education. Schools employ massive financial and legal resources recruiting kids from different backgrounds on the premise that diversity benefits all students, not just minorities. But it’s not enough to dump the politically correct mix of ethnicities onto a campus, expecting magic to happen — realizing the benefits of diversity requires changes from students and schools alike. Social osmosis on campus can be difficult. Students tend to self-segregate, hindering cultural exchange. Demanding schedules inhibit our ability to nurture many relationships — it’s easier to rely on our default social group for the majority of our cultural experiences. But these groups — especially popular ones such as Greek institutions, spirit groups and student organizations — can be quite homogeneous and exclusive. Most universities have resources that can help offset this, and UT is no exception. According to its website, UT’s Division of Diversity and Community Engagement seeks to “cultivate an inclusive campus culture that actively and inten-
tionally engages diverse people, ideas, and perspectives to create a vibrant learning and working environment,” and its Multicultural Engagement Center helps accomplish this mission. The DDCE 2013-2014 Impact Report (the most current edition and available only in print and upon request) discloses that only 2,200 people at a school of over 51,000 attended any of the Center’s diversity-promoting events. As an average white boy, my cultural experiences have fallen short of what UT promises. On the DDCE’s website, its Vice President, Gregory Vincent, says, “all students, regardless of their backgrounds, benefit from a diverse learning environment.” Having searched for these benefits for three semesters, I’ve not come up empty-handed — just underwhelmed. The cultural moments I expected to be most poignant felt dilute, contrived or disingenuous. Take last year’s celebration of Holi, the annual Hindu tradition also called the festival of love, where hundreds of UT students threw colored powder on one another while dancing to pop music. It was certainly fun, but I absorbed more Hindu culture reading the Holi wikipedia page. Diversity is now a standard school metric, advertised just like average GPA and graduate starting salary. If the University
2015 UT Racial Demographics 19.5% Hispanic
45.1% White
17.2% Asian
14.3% Other
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truly believes in diversity’s value — if it’s not just taking the politically correct position — it must get serious about engaging all students in meaningful, honest cultural experiences like the ones the DDCE and other organizations host. Likewise, students must demand more of themselves and their organizations to
embrace discussions, curiosities and concerns about race. The interactions we have in college are formative. I — like every Longhorn — will leave UT having learned a lesson about diversity. Let’s hope it’s the right one. Schmidt is a physics and aerospace engineering sophomore from Austin.
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GALLERY
White interest group perpetuates racism By Valeria Pizarro Daily Texan Columnist @hermosx
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Talking about religion is key to fixing religious ignorance By Mohammad Syed Daily Texan Columnist @mohammadasyed
A few weeks ago, biology freshman Yoseph Mahmoud posted on Facebook a detailed description of how a man came up to him on Guadalupe Street, yanked his headphones out of his ear and accused him of being affiliated with ISIS before cursing and spitting on him. Mahmoud said he was sickened by the incident and felt he would always be seen as an outsider. The discrimination Mahmoud faced isn’t isolated. Muslims all over the world are constantly being forced to apologize for crimes they didn’t commit. Hatred resulting from religious ignorance is an issue of great magnitude and is something that we have to address. There’s a huge misconception in this world that certain religions preach violence while others preach peace. In a viral CNN interview, professor and religious scholar Reza Aslan argued that religion isn’t inherently peaceful or violent, but rather it’s the individual who determines whether his or her own interpretation of religion is peaceful or violent. “Islam is just a religion, and, like every religion in the world, it depends on what you bring to it,” Aslan said. Regardless of the religion you identify with, if your religious interpretation moves you to act violently, your religion will be seen as such. Conversely, if your religious interpretation moves you to act peacefully, your religion will be seen as such. Seeing as only 6 percent of the 1.57 billion
Muslims have ever committed an act of terrorism, it’s poor logic to extrapolate and say that Islam inherently is a religion of terrorism. In fact, statistics show that more than 90 percent of all terrorist attacks in America were carried out by non-Muslims. Islam isn’t the only religion that falls victim to hatred derived from ignorance, however. Ignorant individuals everywhere have different vindictive generalizations about people from various religions, and it’s these vindictive generalizations that lead to actual hate crimes. We see this ignorance with Wade Michael Page, who three years ago went to a Sikh temple and killed six people purely because they had a different skin color than him. We see this with the Umpqua Community College shooter who singled out Christians. We see this with 59.2 percent of religion-based hate crimes in America being against people practicing Judaism. Religious ignorance certainly exists at a large public university such as UT, but the University does a good job promoting diversity and creating an inclusive environment. Yet being open-minded on an individualistic level isn’t enough. We live in a society that is filled with people who are constantly blinded by a veil of ignorance. Our obligation as informed individuals is to actively go out and start a conversation. The only way we can reduce ignorance is by talking to people in a productive manner. We have to have an exchange of dialogue and understand each other’s qualms in a diplomatic, respectful way. Only by starting a conversation can we fix the problem. Syed is a biochemistry freshman from Houston.
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All across the nation, while college campuses have been experiencing a rush in student protests about racism and equality, white student “unions” have been popping up on social media sites, including one at UT. The group, called the “White Student Union at UT Austin,” claims to “welcome all students of European descent and allies to engage in an open dialog about our shared interests.” While it has yet to be determined whether the “White Student Union at UT Austin” is a hoax, it is no joking matter. The group, which has posts that are inherently racist in nature, must be monitored closely by the administration. The group’s very existence is harmful to a positive, healthy environment for all students. This group has potential to create a hostile environment for minority students. In an article for The Odyssey, a member is quoted saying that, “Our goal is to mainstream the idea that it is ok to be white and to express that yes we have interests as white people and to be considered just another Union on campus.”
The [White Student Union at UT Austin] group’s very existence is harmful to a positive, healthy environment for all students. But these interests and concerns, at the expense of other ethnic groups’ interests, perpetuate racism, as is evident in several of the group’s Facebook posts. In one post, White Student Union at UT Austin laments that after the terror attacks, France will either have to fight back against Islamic influences or become more Islamic. In another post, the group supports the proposal to deport 11.3 million undocumented people and also makes use of a slur. In another post, the group criticized a teacher
Whether this group is making a hoax out of real problems or sincerely furthering harmful rhetoric, issues of racism and inequality are not only important to students but also important to their quality of life. for structuring lesson plans around diverse history to uplift her black and brown students, which the group claimed demoralized white children. Whether this group is making a hoax out of real problems or sincerely furthering harmful rhetoric, issues of racism and equality are not only important to students but also important to their quality of life. While the group’s Facebook states that they aim to protect campus from “BLM [Black Lives Matter] terrorism,” data suggests that domestic terrorism and hate crimes are most often perpetrated by white Americans. A recent study by The New America Foundation found that Americans are far more likely to die in attacks by right-wing groups in America than in attacks by Muslim extremists. Mass murders by white perpetrators and hate crimes continue to be issues predominantly affecting minorities. Out of 784 known hate groups in America, 507 are specifically founded around white interests. Finally, as NBC News reports, even though the number of incidents related to race and ethnicity has fallen consistently over time, these crimes continue to be perpetrated disproportionately against minorities. As hubs for academics and rising generations, college campuses are breeding grounds for progress and change. As minorities continue to be targeted nationally, it is dangerous for a white interest group to exist, regardless of whether it is a hoax. The group’s existence encourages support for racism it seeks to perpetuate. Pizarro is an English sophomore from El Paso.
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continues from page 8 Drug Abuse. While he was addicted to heroin, Batjer said he felt completely isolated. He said he got high in order to go to school then came immediately home afterwards. He had no friends and felt alienated from his family. His life revolved around drugs. “I lived in my own little fantasy world,” Batjer said. “Every day, I was calling my dad coming up with the stupidest excuses, trying to get money to get some drugs. I think he knew.” It was only after Batjer ended up in the hospital again that he finally wanted to stop his drug use. He said that once he decided to stop, quitting felt relatively easy. “I realized there was a better way to live,” Batjer said. “I didn’t want to be the 25-yearold guy who doesn’t wake up from a heroin overdose.”
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continues from page 8 over time. “It didn’t really click [with me] that she was having a problem with depression,” Bustos said. “I don’t think she even knew that that was a problem at the time.” After realizing that her decreased concentration and energy was affecting her education, Hui visited the CMHC. She attended several sessions with a counselor before getting referred to an on-campus psychiatrist who could prescribe her antidepressants. Hui falls within the 36.4 percent of college students affected by depression, according to a 2013 study by the American Psychological Association. After a week taking antidepressants, Hui said she began seeing sudden improvements in her energy levels and demeanor. Although they came with a fair share of side effects — loss of appetite and extreme drowsiness that caused Hui to sleep 10 to 12 hours per day — she wouldn’t
Sierra Castedo, the director for the UT Center for Students in Recovery, said scientists can easily explain the physiological roots of addiction, but there is relatively little research on addiction rehabilitation. One theory is that as young adults begin to take on more responsibilities, their attitudes toward drugs begin to change. They are more likely to seek help for their addiction problems and less likely to act impulsively, according to a study in the American Journal of Sociology. While no one knows exactly why this shift occurs, Batjer said he is grateful for it. “Everyone around me is saying how proud they are of me, which is great,” Batjer said. “But when I got back to Austin about six months ago, I was driving to work one day, and I just started laughing. I realized that I was proud of myself.” be able to work part-time and go to school without them. Thinking back, Hui said she can see how much better she felt after reaching out and asking for help. She said the stigma that exists around mental health issues often deters students from calling the CMHC and seeking help. “I feel like people are really open about visible disabilities, but when it comes to invisible disabilities such as depression or anxiety, we just don’t talk about it,” Hui said. “That is really weird. People don’t like to bring it up because it’s linked to being crazy, but it’s not something to be ashamed of.” UT alumna Maggie Erben, a licensed professional counselor, said she encourages students to reach out for help if they need it. Many who suffer from depression or anxiety feel ashamed and try to deal with it alone when they shouldn’t have to. “Reaching out for help when you need it is something admirable and positive, and you shouldn’t hesitate,” Erben said.
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“My body is going to be the way it is, and that’s fine because I’m healthy,” Peoples said. “The motivation wasn’t always there. You aren’t going to feel motivated all the time to do what you need to do in recovery, but you still need to do it.” While the University offers therapy and treatment through UHS’ Mindful Eating program and support groups, Peoples said she would like to see more pro-
BIPOLAR
continues from page 8 “Any time I feel any type of extreme emotion — either anger, sadness [or] happiness — I’m constantly questioning myself,” Alexis said. “Is this a good reason to be mad? Is it logical to be sad? Is it logical to be happy? Am I losing my mind?” UT alumna and licensed professional counselor Maggie Erben said bipolar disorder is latent, typically arising in late teenage years or early 20s and that many cases are discovered during college. She said bipolar disorder is an organic illness, meaning it is always present and not triggered by the environment. Symptoms include an oscillation between periods of mania and depression. “Mania is characterized by impulsive behaviors like substance abuse or gambling,” Erben said. “The person often feels like they don’t need sleep and have abnormal amounts of energy.” Alexis said her episodes are often extreme, particularly if she forgets to take her medications. “While it’s scary, [the mania] is exhilarating,” Alexis said. “You feel like you’re on top of the world [and] can do anything. ‘Volatile’ is the one word I would use for my particular depressive episodes. It’s a complete contradiction of a person — you don’t know if what you’re feeling is accurate.”
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active services on campus to help people before their behaviors spiral into a fullfledged disorder. “I didn’t find out about resources until I was in crisis, and that’s obviously not an ideal time to find out about [them], but I think that’s a pretty common situation,” Peoples said. “It’s hard at such a big university, but I would love to see more education, events for National Eating Disorder Awareness Week. We definitely have the capacity to do more.” Soon after her breakup, Alexis entered an abusive marriage that would last for the next four years. Alexis’ husband did not allow her to take her medicine or leave their two-bedroom apartment and threatened to have her “locked up” for her mental illness. Severely depressed, she gained over 100 pounds and became addicted to methamphetamine in an effort to self-medicate and lose weight. “I felt normal,” Alexis said. “I wasn’t sad. I wasn’t eating as much. I didn’t hate my life.” She divorced her husband near the end of 2010, and Alexis returned home to live with her parents. It has taken 10 years since she was diagnosed for Alexis to finally be prescribed the correct dosages of medication. Even still, her treatment requires constant monitoring, care and adjustments. “It takes courage to start taking medicine,” Alexis said. “It’s a step people with mental illness are very hesitant to take — it means you’re admitting you’re sick.”After beginning school at her local community college, Alexis transferred to UT in the summer of 2014 and said the University has been incredibly supportive in terms of mental health outreach and accommodations. Alexis has now accepted her mental illness as a part of herself. “I’m not ashamed of [my mental illness],” Alexis said. “If anything, it makes me a stronger person. It proves how determined I am to survive. “
continues from page 8 after her diagnosis and various therapy sessions, Cavazos still struggled to get the help she needed. She was torn between the constant pressure she said the University puts on students to graduate in four years and desperately needing time off. “It was getting hard to be who I was,” Cavazos said. “I tried my best to go out and do what I had to do, but it was like I wasn’t even there. I would be in class and get flashbacks of what had happened, and I would literally run out.” Despite the fact that anxiety disorders such as PTSD are the number one mental health concern college students face, Cavazos said misconceptions associated with it detered her from seeking help. A UT English sophomore, who asked to remain anonymous, was diagnosed with anxiety at 10 years old. She said while she’s learned how to manage her anxiety over time, she still believes more could be done to educate people on how serious it can be. “I think a lot of adults often believe that, if you’re not an
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Heard shines, struggles in first year at the helm By Nick Castillo @Nick_Castillo74
Jerrod Heard shouldered pressure before taking a snap as the Longhorns’ starting quarterback. Heard, a redshirt freshman from Denton, joined a team that has searched for a quarterback since Colt McCoy injured his arm in the 2010 BCS National Championship Game. Longhorn fans caught their first glimpse of the 6-foot2-inches, 195-pound quarterback in Texas’ Sept. 12 game against Rice. Heard emerged from his redshirt shackles to start after Texas lost 38-3 in a season opener at Notre Dame. “All the guys wanted to see him play,” freshman linebacker Malik Jefferson said. “He’s been held back, like in a prison cell.” His start against Rice wasn’t great. It didn’t need to be; he still generated buzz. He dazzled with his legs, evading defenders and running with ease. He connected on two deep touchdown passes. The team seemed revitalized. “That was the goal when I got my number called,” Heard said. “Just being a spark and bringing what I can for the team.” Heard committed to Texas on Aug. 14, 2012 — days before starting his junior year at
Denton Guyer High School. Guyer head coach John Walsh had identified Heard in seventh grade and kept him close. Heard came through in a twoyear tear as Guyer’s starting quarterback. He engineered a 16-point comeback victory against Georgetown in the 2012 4A Division I State Championship game. Guyer repeated in 2013. Heard totaled over 11,000 total yards and 135 touchdowns at Guyer. Though he committed to head coach Mack Brown, he didn’t waver at Charlie Strong’s hiring. He signed his letter of intent Feb. 5, 2014. Heard never took a snap his freshman year. He battled junior Tyrone Swoopes for the starting role during spring practice and fall camp. His competitive nature mixed with limited playing time bred frustration. He worked harder. “I have a lot to prove,” Heard said in August. “I just wanted to go out there and be a reliable guy for the team.” Even so, Swoopes started in the opener. The game was a disaster. Heard played limited snaps as Swoopes and his offense struggled. Three days later, Strong moved Jay Norvell, Texas’ wide receiver coach, to play-caller. Norvell started Heard against Rice. Then, against California,
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Redshirt freshman Jerrod Heard showed flashes of potential this season, but like the rest of the Longhorns, is finishing with an inconsistent showing in 2015.
the Juice ran loose. Down seven with 1:51 remaining, Heard marched down the field. With one last gallop before 91,568 fans, he ran 45 yards for a touchdown and brought Texas within one. “The last run that he scored the touchdown on was really electric …” Strong said. “An open field is very dangerous.” Heard broke Vince Young’s record tallying 527 total yards in a game. He credited his teammates.
“I told [my teammates] we were going to get this ball into the end zone,” Heard said. “I had faith in them that we were going to.” But senior kicker Nick Rose shanked the game-tying extra point, and the Longhorns lost. The latest roller-coaster began. The Longhorns lost to Oklahoma State and were blown out by TCU. Then they upset archrival Oklahoma and beat Kansas State. In an Oct. 31 shutout at Iowa State, Heard passed for just
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Former WNBA star Tina Thompson, middle, initially didn’t want to join the women’s basketball coaching staff but has brought her vast experiences to the Longhorn bench.
Former WNBA star brings experience to Texas bench On April 28, 1997, Tina Thompson waited for a call at the inaugural WNBA Draft. But when her phone rang, it wasn’t the call she hoped for. “When I got that call that Houston was interested in picking me for the No. 1 pick, as crazy as it sounds now, I was devastated,” Thompson said. Thompson had spent her entire life in California, most recently playing for USC from 1993 to 1997. The Los Angeles Sparks had the No. 3 draft pick and promised her she would be their choice if she was still available. The Los Angeles native believed her entire basketball career would center in California. But the Houston Comets had other plans, and selected her as their first pick. Thompson said she wasn’t happy about moving to Texas of all places. But her early success with the Comets made the transition smoother. The Comets won the 1997 WNBA Championship though they were overlooked early because of Sheryl Swoopes’ absence. The Comets followed that championship with three more consecutive titles. Thompson’s move to Houston kicked off a 17-year WNBA career, which included nine WNBA All-Star
championships, an MVP All-Star selection and two Olympic gold medals. Now, 18 years removed from that phone call, Thompson says the move wasn’t so bad after all. “It turned out to be a wonderful experience,” Thompson said. “It was absolutely where I was supposed to be, but the idea at the time was total devastation.” Once the Comets disbanded in 2008, Thompson finally got her chance to play for the Los Angeles Sparks. She stayed in L.A. for two years then joined the Seattle Storm, where she retired in 2013. She spent two years mentoring a local AAU team based in Houston and Austin. Then she got yet another unexpected call: Karen Aston offered her a job as an assistant coach at Texas. “I was like, ‘no,’ right away,” Thompson said. “‘Thank you so much for considering me, but I humbly decline.’” Aston persisted and convinced Thompson to visit. After meeting the staff, Thompson agreed to consider the offer. From that point on, Thompson said the stars just started to align. “It just came down to being divine intervention, in a sense, that there were so many people I bumped into that I had relationships
with,” Thompson said. She had a relationship with John Lucas — whose son is on staff for the men’s basketball team — through AAU basketball in Houston. Fran Harris, who coordinates community engagement for the women’s basketball team, was Thompson’s teammate when she was with the Comets. Texas volleyball head coach Jerritt Elliott was at USC while Thompson played there. And former athletic director Steve Patterson was her first general manager with the Comets. By March, Thompson was sold on the offer. March 18, Aston officially inked her as an assistant coach. In her first season, Thompson has accomplished a goal she always had as a player and continues to have as a coach: winning. The Longhorns are 5-0 and fresh off an upset over No. 4 Tennessee. Thompson knows the game has changed since she began playing. But she said she still hopes to pass on wisdom from her successful career. “You have to put in time and be patient, but for a generation of impatience, that’s really hard to instill,” Thompson said. “But when you have examples of actually doing it a certain way and having success, it makes it very believable.”
Almost 10 years ago, head coach Shaka Smart was at a high school game to recruit. What he saw amazed him. The team he was watching forced about 30 turnovers. Smart talked to the coach after the game, asking how his team was so effective in the press — one of Smart’s favorite things to do. The coach’s words stayed with Smart. “He said, ‘Guys wanting to press tonight,’” Smart said. “That always stuck me. We have to develop that mentality if we’re going to play that way.” The Longhorns have the chance to further that mentality on Tuesday when the UT-Arlington Mavericks visit the Frank Erwin Center at 7 p.m. Texas comes off a sixthplace finish in the Battle 4 Atlantis tournament in the Bahamas. The team’s defense struggled, allowing its three opponents to average 49.7 percent shooting. After trailing by 13 against Michigan, the Longhorns went to a full-court press — one of Smart’s signatures at VCU. The Longhorns still lost the fifth-place match, but their defense brought them back in the game. Now, the team wants to keep building. “I thought we did a good job of putting some stops together in the second half, but it wasn’t enough,” senior guard Javan Felix said. “And that’s something that we have to go back to the
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26 yards and an interception. He threw two fourth-quarter interceptions against West Virginia on Nov. 14 to seal a 38-20 loss. Against Texas Tech on Thanksgiving, Heard left the game with a concussion. Heard isn’t the first quarterback to struggle at Texas.
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drawing board with and take more pride in and work on.” The Mavericks gave the Longhorns another measuring stick to test their defensive scheme and overall strength. UTA is a 5-1 Sun Belt Conference team that upset Memphis and Ohio State on the road. The Mavericks’ win snapped Ohio State’s 61-game home winning streak against nonconference opponents. “Both those games, they just went in there and beat those teams,” Smart said. “It wasn’t like they hit some fluke shot. They didn’t even particularly shoot that well in either one of those games. That’s the thing that’s really impressive about their team.” The game is the first in a five-game home stand for the Longhorns. Texas has played one game at home this season and won’t travel again until they play Stanford on Dec. 19. Smart said the home stretch comes at a good time for the Longhorns. “We want to keep playing better and better at home,” Smart said. “Because college basketball, everything starts there. You want to take care of business on your home floor.” Smart said to improve its 2-3 record, Texas must communicate on defense. “The commitment on great teams is to the things that go into winning,” Smart said. “So whether it’s talking on defense or whether it’s caring about each other or whether it’s sprinting the floor.”
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Junior guard Javan Felix said that the team has to be better on defensive to play at the level they want to.
Former Longhorn hits game-winning shot for Toronto
The Toronto Raptors knew they had one more chance when John Wall’s second consecutive free throw clanked off the iron. Down 82-81 to the Washington Wizards in a heated Eastern Conference affair, reserve point guard Cory Joseph, a UT alumnus, would end up being the unlikely hero for the Raptors on Saturday night. With 3.8 seconds on the clock, the Raptors were inbounding the ball from the sideline to prepare for their final shot. Power forward Luis Scola set a screen to create space for former All-Star DeMar DeRozan. DeRozan caught the inbounds pass and drove to the hoop guarded by Ramon Sessions of the Wizards. DeRozan noticed that another Wizards defender, Garrett Temple, was crashing in on him. That would leave one Raptor wide open in the corner for a game-winning shot — Cory Joseph. The former Longhorn ranks sixth on the Raptors in scoring, averaging 9.3 points per game. Many NBA teams prefer to place the ball in the hands of their superstar or leading scorer at the end of the game, but DeRozan instead decided to play the percentages on this play. Joseph only shoots 33.3 percent from three-point range, but a wide-open three was the ideal shot for Toronto opposed to a contested layup. Joseph has shot 42.9 percent on three-point shots when the nearest defender is within four to six feet of him. When a defender is within two feet of DeRozan, he shoots a similar 45.5 percent on all field goals. But when DeRozan drew a second defender, the percentage of converting the layup would likely decrease. He passed up a good shot for a greater one, despite the distance. Joseph caught the ball, aligned his feet and released the ball to sink his first career game-winning shot as the final horn sounded. It was a welldrawn up play by the Raptors, and by playing the percentages, they were able to leave Washington with a victory. —Steve Helwick
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8 L&A Editor’s Note: This week, the Life&Arts department will cover the semester’s most prevalent issues on campus, from campus carry to sexual assault. Today’s package addresses students’ mental health. —Danielle Lopez, Life&Arts editor
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Benjamin H. Batjer barely survived his heroin addiction. Now, nine months sober, he gets good grades as an economics senior at St. Edwards, has a job at a life insurance company and enjoys getting dinner with his older sister once a week. “My life is good — a lot better than it was a year ago,” Batjer said. This time last year, Batjer woke up in the hospital with no idea of how he’d got there. He was surprised to see his parents, who told him he had a seizure due to heroin and was lucky to be alive. They laid down an ultimatum: Batjer could commit to a rehabilitation program, or they were cutting him off financially. He chose to go to a sober living home, a housing facility free from alcohol or drugs where people trying to maintain sobriety can live for months at a time. Even after Batjer underwent detox and lived in the sober living house for three months, he still didn’t feel prepared to cut his substance abuse habits. “I wasn’t ready to be there yet,” Batjer said. “I ended up getting some more heroin, thinking I could do it a couple times and everything would be fine.” Batjer’s persistent habit did not form overnight. As a teenager, he became addicted to prescription medications such as Vicodin and Xanax. When Batjer was 20, he found a cheaper alternative — heroin. Batjer’s trajectory is not unusual; Nearly half of young adults who inject heroin said they were initially addicted to opioids, which doctors use to treat pain, before using heroin, according to the National Institute on By Ellen Airhart
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For years, economics sophomore Doris Hui knew something was wrong, but would have never guessed it was major depression. Diagnosed during her freshman year, Hui received counseling, psychiatry and antidepressants through the Counseling and Mental Health Center. Today, a year removed, she continues to take antidepressants to stabilize her moods but has ceased therapy and said she feels like she is back to normal. Hui said she began to feel her mental health deteriorating during her junior year of high school under the stress of extracurriculars, impending college applications and issues with her family. Hui, a first-generation college student, said she applied to colleges on her own, and after she got accepted, started working two hostess jobs to fund her first semester. She said the stress of her summer jobs combined with a growing resentment toward her parents contributed to her diagnosis later that year. Once classes began that fall, Hui said she started noticing her energy and concentration levels dropping. When her roommate, studio art sophomore Brenda Bustos, left her alone in the room, Hui said she would break down crying. When Bustos returned, Hui found herself irrationally mad at her for petty things. “It just feels like you [are] really alone,” Hui said. “You’re constantly tired, and you don’t want to get out of bed and go to class. When you look at other people, it’s like you notice something different about yourself because you know that you’re always kind of down.” Bustos said Hui seemed fine on the surface when they met but got more irritable and distant By Katie Walsh
When nutrition and neurobiology senior Lauren Caton was a freshman in high school, she wanted to make the varsity soccer team — whatever the cost. For Caton, cutting calories and working out multiple times a day meant gaining a competitive edge on other players. But instead of boosting her energy and efficiency, Caton’s behaviors grew more extreme and eventually landed her in the hospital for three weeks of outpatient care for EDNOS, or an eating disorder not otherwise specified. “It’s a very slow descent, and before you know it, you’re too sucked in,” Caton said. “It wasn’t easy to face myself. That was the hardest thing [about recovery]: having to answer to the things you’ve done, changing how you view yourself and how you view food.” According to the National Association of Anorexia and Associated Disorders, most people who suffer from eating disorders — up to an estimated 95 percent — are women. Ninety-five percent of those with eating disorders are between the ages of 12 and 25.8. In Caton’s case, she said working out and skipping meals were ways of controlling part of her life when other aspects seemed less manageable. “I was able to realize that it’s not about the image; it’s about the control,” Caton said. “[In therapy,] I was able to channel that control into a healthier outlet. It was a hard shift, but I was able to eventually do that.” Dr. Annie Mahone, a dietitian at University Health Services, said eating disorders can stem from the media’s projection of thinness, a genetic predisposition or the pressure to be perfect. “An eating disorder is not a choice,” Mahone said. “I think there’s a perception that people who are dealing with that can somehow choose to eat or not to eat, but that’s really not true at all.” For many, overcoming an eating disorder can be a long and difficult battle. Social work senior Kate Peoples dealt with a variety of eating disorders for more than a decade. After starting college at UT in 2009, she took a break to get treatment and learned to find her identity outside of her disorder. “I think when I really started to commit myself to recovery, the hardest part was sitting through the discomfort of all of it and holding blind faith that it was going to get better,” Peoples said. “My anxiety was so much higher for such an extended period of time because [my eating disorder] was how I dealt with my anxiety. It was really a lesson to pick yourself up and move forward.” Peoples said recovery is a “hard, but not linear, path.” It took her multiple attempts to get help before treatment actually stuck, but she said she is now fully recovered.
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B I P O L A R At age 22, Alexis recalled nothing but a life of regret and disappointment and couldn’t understand how she had gone from being a 17-year-old, engaged high school graduate to a divorced, recovering meth addict. Alexis, a 27-year-old UT student who requested her real name not be used, began showing symptoms at age 15, but, as a high school teenager, she struggled to determine how much of her emotional instability could be attributed to “teen angst” and how much was something more. It was after a public altercation with a stranger that she decided to begin seeing a counselor, who diagnosed her with bipolar disorder at 17. Alexis’ doctor prescribed her mood stabilizers and anti-depressants as she struggled to adapt to her new illness. Alexis was eager to graduate high school and get married that December, but, two months before the wedding, her fiancé called off their engagement. Devastated, Alexis became severely depressed and worried that her depression was more than the expected result of heartbreak. By Elizabeth Hlavinka
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AA NN XX II EE TT YY Before a routine trip back home during her sophomore year, communication sciences and disorders senior Denise Cavazos was out every week, participating in her sorority’s events and hanging out with friends. But after returning, it was a daily battle for her to get to class each morning. She felt detached from her friends, and she didn’t feel like herself. She knew something had changed but couldn’t remember what. Cavazos avoided seeking help for months but eventually went to the CMHC where a counselor diagnosed her with post-traumatic stress disorder, an anxiety disorder that affects 10 percent of college students. After several therapy sessions, she said pieces of the puzzle began to come together — a night at home, two loved ones, an explosive argument and Cavazos, standing there frozen. After witnessing the fight, Cavazos said she wasn’t the same. “I couldn’t remember anything right after it happened,” Cavazos said. “As everything unfolded in front of me, everything inside me wanted to do or say something, but I couldn’t move. I couldn’t speak.” Her memory loss, severe anxiety and panic attacks are all common symptoms of PTSD. But even By Cat Cardenas
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