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SG proposes one-day free STI testing

UT College Republicans feel left out in HD 49

By Rachel Lew @rachelannlew

Student Government proposed Assembly Resolution 19 recommending University Health Services to provide one day a semester of free testing for sexually transmitted infections, with the possibility of transitioning into an appointment based model after two years.

According to the 2015 National College Health Assessment survey at UT, 67.7 percent of students reported having at least one sexual partner within

the last 12 months, and compared with older adults, sexually active college-age students are at a higher risk of acquiring STIs due to behavioral, biological and social reasons.

John Falke, author of A.R. 19 and business honors senior, said he hopes the resolution will increase the number of students who get tested for STIs. “There are so many students here who don’t feel comfortable getting STI tested or who can’t afford it,” Falke said. “I really hope this resolution and the outcome from it takes

away some of the stigma in getting STI tested as well as making it more accessible.”

Susan Hochman, UHS Assistant Director for Health Promotion and Public Information, said UHS has submitted a proposal to Student Services Budget Committee to fund the resolution.

“UHS is very open to listening to students needs and concerns,” Hochman said.

“In order to provide this service, we need funding, and the feasibility of free STI

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By Forrest Milburn @forrestmilburn

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Student Government proposed Assembly Resolution 19 to recommend University Health Services to provide one day a semester of free STI testing on Tuesday evening.

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Campus organization promotes neurodiversity

By Anna McCreary @thedailytexan

Manuel Diaz always knew he was different. Diagnosed with autism at 16, Diaz’s transition into college was marked by depression as he searched for a place where he could belong.

Last September, physics senior Díaz founded Texas Neurodiversity, a campus organization that promotes the idea that differences in brain functioning like autism, dyslexia and ADHD are natural diversities of the human brain, not illnesses. The organization is comprised of neurotypical students, whose brains function normally, and neurodivergent students, whose brains function differently.

They offer self-improvement talks, guest speakers and public outings.

For Díaz, the roots of Texas Neurodiversity are personal.

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Manuel Diaz was diagnosed with autism at the age of 16. Diaz founded the organization Texas Neurodiversity, which promotes the idea that differences in brain function are natural diversities of the human brain rather than illnesses.

While most of the Democrats running for House District 49 have reached out to several campus organizations in an effort to gain student support, there are still some groups — such as College Republicans — who have yet to recieve any form of outreach.

Five of the candidates — Austin ISD School Board member Gina Hinojosa, former legislative aide Huey Rey Fischer, UT law professor Heather Way, attorney Aspen Dunaway, former NARAL Pro-Choice Texas counsel Blake Rocap — have actively spent time on campus reaching out to student voters through forums with University Democrats and Student Government. All have previously stated they would focus on the concerns of the large student population trhoughout the district, if elected.

Whichever candidate wins the Democratic primary on March 1 will face no opposition in the November general election, ensuring the nominee is a freshman representative once the legislature reconvenes in January 2017.

“Although we are obviously not going to agree with the candidates on most things, there isn’t a Republican candidate, and we are voters,” College Republicans

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Professor says Trump voters seek belonging

Trump, Sanders decisively win first primary

By Hannah Daniel @thedailytexan

Donald Trump’s use of insults in his campaign for president may actually serve as incentive for his supporters because of a psychological desire to belong, according to Julie Irwin, Red McCombs School of Business professor.

“Research shows that one of the primary reasons to denigrate people is to signal membership in a group: They are out, so you are in,” Irwin said in a recent article for Star-Telegram. “People are always looking to belong, and Trump may represent, for some people, a particularly attractive membership opportunity. He is clear about what “his kind” of people are: the winners, the big men on campus.”

Despite his recent controversial comments, the Iowa caucus revealed Trump received the second largest support out of the Republican candidates.

Irwin said that the number of Americans in support of

Trump may have deeper implications for the state of American society as a whole.

“I think this reflects the shifting towards a more diverse society, which I think is a good thing, but whenever you have that … you always have some kind of lashing out,” Irwin said.

“Anytime there’s change like that, there’s going to be this kind of violent fury, but in the end, the change wins. I’m hoping it can win quickly because I’m getting tired of hearing people call people losers and say racist things, as if that’s okay.”

Psychology junior Kelsie Grimes said she can see how Trump’s hateful words could act as a unifying force for supporters.

“I don’t like Trump’s use of insults,” Grimes said. “It’s one of the reasons I don’t support him, but it’s obviously working. It’s one of those polarizing things where it’s easier to get people together to hate something

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By Forrest Milburn

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) speaks to constituents at Gov. Greg Abbott’s election results party in 2014. Cruz won the Iowa caucus on the Republican side, but placed third in the New Hampshire primary held Tuesday.

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Donald Trump and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) placed first in the New Hampshire primary Tuesday night, winning the highest number of delegates and reestablishing the two as fierce competitors for their respective parties’ nomination.

New Hampshire voters gave Trump 34 percent and Sanders 60 percent of the vote, earning them nine and 13 delegates towards the nominations, respectively.

On Feb. 1, both Trump and Sanders placed second in the Iowa caucuses, despite having consistent leads in polling throughout the weeks leading up to the race.

“It wasn’t as exciting as Iowa was because polls were so off,” College Republicans president Madison Yendell said. “It is such a different state in terms of the GOP, so I wasn’t really surprised to see that [Trump] won.”

In the latest CNN poll of

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the race for the Republican nomination, Trump led the pack of nine candidates with Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) in second place at 15 percent and Gov. John Kasich (R-OH) placing third at 11 percent.

Kasich, one of the more moderate Republican candidates, earned the secondplace finish in New Hampshire with 16 percent, to the surprise of many political analysts and Republicans due to his performance in

polls leading up to the race.

“It was kind of Kasich’s last hope,” Yandell said. “For some of them … it wasn’t necessarily the nail in their campaign, but it was not a good sign to not do so well.”

On the Democratic side, Sanders had consistently led New Hampshire polls for most of the primary campaign since at least December. In the latest CNN poll, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton trailed

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Sanders, with Sanders having 54 to Clinton’s 42 percent, in a stark contrast to the razor-thin margin in Iowa that came down to less than one percent.

The CNN poll closely matched final results in New Hampshire, with Clinton falling behind Sanders at 39 percent, earning her seven delegates.

“It’s not surprising that

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Students create masks at Masquerade in the Park in the SAC Ballroom tuesday evening. Masquerade in the Park is a campus event that celebrates Mardi Gras.

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testing depends on whether we receive that funding.”

UHS currently charges a $10 appointment fee as well as a separate fee for each test. Students without health insurance are able to pay a lowered “self-pay” amount that is reduced from the full price. The self-pay costs for the chlamydia and gonorrhea lab test, HIV blood test and syphilis lab test are $58, $20 and $4, respectively.

Hochman, said cost is one of several barriers to students getting tested.

“For some, cost can be a barrier, but that is not the primary reason,” Hochman said. “Some students don’t believe that there are risks, and there is a lack of perceived susceptibility.

There is a lack of education about STIs and how they are spread, and there may be an element of fear as well.”

Falke said Student Gov-

ernment and UHS are working together to estimate the cost of implementing free STI testing on campus, but calculating an exact cost is difficult because this resolution would be the first run of the program.

Government freshman Joshua Ellis, who attended the meeting, said he feels free STI testing on campus is a necessity in today’s college climate.

“I find it surprising that this is a program that isn’t already in place,” Ellis said. “Knowing that so many people on campus are sexually active, STI testing is very important, and a lot of college students are fiscally unable to pay for a doctor’s appointment. Allowing this resolution would allow for privacy from parents’ knowledge of STI testing and an overall safer climate here on campus.”

Falke said the resolution is still in progress but hopes to see the resolution implemented by spring 2017.

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than it is to get them together to support something.”

Despite the potential psychological effects of Trump’s divisive campaign, not all conservative Americans support his methods. Robert Guerra, finance junior and College Republicans communications officer, said that he wants more substantial platforms from the Republican candidates than what Trump is basing his campaign on.

“While I do not personally support Trump, I can see the appeal of an ‘us versus them’ mentality for the Trump supporters,” Guerra said. “Still, I believe there are many conservative voters that would prefer to see a less divisive, more issues-focused race for the Republican nomination.”

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President Madison Yandell said. “It would go a long way for a candidate to reach out.”

Over the weekend, the candidates — except attorneys Kenton Johnson and Matt Shrum — attended forums with University Democrats and Central Austin Democrats. After the forum, UDems members voted to endorse Fischer and Central Austin Democrats endorsed Hinojosa.

In addition to his recent UDems endorsement, the Fischer campaign on Monday released a list of student leader endorsements on campus, which includes Student Government President Xavier Rotnofsky and Vice President Rohit Mandalapu as well as leaders of Students Against Animal Cruelty.

Fischer, who has run on a platform focused on student voters, said as a previous UDems president, he had a healthy relationship working with College Republicans and other groups on campus in trying to increase voter turnout on campus, and he said he hopes that relationship continues if elected to the legislature.

“While candidates and legislators have traditionally focused on the University Democrats, I have decided to really expand outreach to go after nonpartisan students, students who are still politically engaged and care about the issues being debated at the legislature,” Fischer said. “We’ve done outreach to constitu-

Teenager fatally shot by APD officer

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encies that aren’t part of the traditional voice of students.”

While some candidates have reached out to Student Government and other nonpartisan organizations on campus, Robert Guerra, College Republicans communications director, said he believes candidates haven’t spent time talking to more conservative student organizations because of partisanship.

“You would expect candidates to spend their time and resources where they can get the most benefit,” Guerra said. “They are probably going to get the most benefit from reaching out to those Democratic and liberal-leaning groups as opposed to ours.”

Throughout the campaign, Hinojosa has locked up the endorsements of more than 200 Democratic organizations and other groups, including the Austin A m e r i c a n - S t at e s m a n and Central Austin Democrats.

Although Hinojosa did not get the UDems endorsement, supporters of Hinojosa say her campaign will still be active on campus leading into March 1.

“We’re moving forward with a campuswide effort for Gina,” said Sam Garcia, UT coordinator for the Hinojosa campaign “She is passionate about what she does and has proven that she will fight for the issues that matter to both students and our community.”

A local teen was shot and killed Monday morning during a confrontation with an Austin Police Department officer.

According to police reports, the fatal shooting occurred Monday morning at about 10:30 a.m on the 12000 block of Natures Bend in Northeast Austin.

Brian Manley, Austin police chief of staff, confirmed the incident and identified the victim as David Joseph, and the officer as Geoffrey Freeman during a Tuesday afternoon press conference.

Manley said Freeman was originally responding to a disturbance call from the 300 block of East Yager Lane involving a man chasing others near an apartment complex.

When Freeman found Joseph about 30 minutes later at another location, he began to fire shots after Joseph did not comply with the officer’s commands for him to stop.

Joseph did not have a gun or weapon when the incident occurred, according to police.

According to a press release, only some of the footage from the incident was captured on camera. There is also an audio recording of Freeman telling Joseph to stop repeatedly at the scene.

Manley said Freeman has been with the police department for more than 10 years.

Investigations to determine if the shooting was in accordance with APD policies are currently underway.

“Anytime we have an officer-involved shooting — this is a tragic event,” Manley said during the press conference.

“No matter what the circumstances are behind that shooting, someone has lost a loved one.”

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PRIMARY continues from page 1 he won, but I think the margin by which he won is pretty stunning,” said Maliha Mazhar, University Democrats communications director. “I think that it will be a really exciting primary season.”

Leading up to when polls closed, New Hampshire Secretary of State Bill Gardner said officials were expecting record-breaking turnout from every county, with some polling locations closing later than expected because of the heavy flow of voters.

“The one good thing about having an excited electorate is that people actually turn out to vote,” Mazhar said.

“That’s the good thing about having a close primary.”

Despite the high turnout in the early states and the student enthusiasm towards some of the candidates in both parties, Jason Duong, biomedical engineering junior, said he is tuned out of the election because he believes the entire nomination process is a “show.”

“Every candidate is just playing the game by the rules,” Duong said. “They say whatever people want to hear…and get ahead of everyone else, that’s it.”

While the next state to vote is South Carolina in late February, Texas voters will have their opportunity to vote for the candidates of their choosing on March 1 in the Super Tuesday primary.

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UT scholar: Police reform requires public action

By Emma Acosta

Christy E. Lopez, UT School of Law’s current G. Rollie White Public Interest Scholar, discusses policing police on Tuesday afternoon. Lopez is also the Deputy Chief of the Special Litigation Section in the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division.

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Police reform not only requires action from the federal government, but also requires the community to hold officers accountable, according to Christy E. Lopez, UT School of Law’s current G. Rollie White Public Interest Scholar.

Lopez, the deputy chief of the special litigation section in the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division, said Tuesday the public entrusts officers with the authority of the law, and it is up to the community to ensure these powers are not misused. Lopez also said the Department of Justice has come to understand the importance of public involvement with resolutions to police misconduct through investigations in her field. It is up to each community to vote to adopt resolutions suggested by the Department, after it thoroughly investigates the city’s police department.

“We are recognizing that real meaningful community engagement has to be part of any remedy,” Lopez said. “…

We need local communities to speak out in favor of fair treatment, we need grassroots activism.”

Lopez is a national expert on policing, and one of the by authors of the Department

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of Justice’s recent investigative report on police misconduct in Ferguson, Missouri.

Lopez said the law has gaps between what officers are authorized to do versus what they should do, and this presents a challenge that can be overcome by working to reform laws.

“Just because the law gives the officer the legal right to do something, doesn’t mean it would be the right thing to do,” Lopez said. “It’s another way of saying use your discretion wisely.”

Helen Gaebler, senior research attorney for the William Wayne Justice Center

for Public Interest Law, said Lopez provided valuable insight from her experience with matters very present in the media.

“The work she does around policing and civil rights is particularly timely and a pressing issue for our community,” Gaebler said.

Social work graduate student Autoosa Abadi said she thought the speech could have delved deeper into the complicated issue, but said she felt the speech was a good overview of what the Department of Justice is doing to resolve the problem of police misconduct.

“It seems like it was a very short speech and it’s a very big topic to cover everything,” Abadi said. “In just 40 minutes, there’s only so much you can cover. She did a very good job covering the surface of the issues and her recommendations. It’s a very complex conversation.”

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A new alumni fund will contribute $50,000 to the Cockrell School of Engineering, providing financial support for student projects and energy research.

Married UT alumni Rusty Osborne and Cecilia Green donated money to the school’s Webber Energy Group, creating the Osborne Green Energy Endowed Excellence Fund.

“The endowment will go towards student development in the Webber Energy Group and will generate about two to three thousand dollars a year for professional development and sustainable energy research,” special projects coordinator Marianne Shivers Gonzalez said. “What’s really amazing is that the endowment has the potential to grow with more donations added to it.”

The Webber Energy Group specializes in research aimed at creating clean and renewable energy. With current projects ranging from using geothermal energy to desalinate water, to improving irrigation efficiency, the group hopes to use the endowment to create more effective lead-

ership for its current and future projects.

“This is the first clean energy endowment of its kind,” group leader Michael Webber said. “[It] sends a signal that UT is a university of the first class for all types of energy, not just the conventional fuels.”

UT is already home to the largest and most integrated microgrid in the US which Osborne helped build, and because of that it attracts national attention with its energy sustainability projects.

“While traditional research contracts pay the students’ stipends and tuition, we can use this additional support to focus on other critical factors related to leadership, including communications skills, goal-setting, team-building and so forth,” Webber said.

The endowment’s effects may not be felt immediately, but by making lasting contributions towards a cleaner, healthier and more energy efficient UT, future students can be sure to see some changes, Margaret Cook, civil engineering graduate student and member of the Webber Energy Group, said.

“Fellow students will share in a better future because leaders that are

Fellow students will share in a better future because leaders that are trained and active on campus can make a huge difference in energy effectiveness and we can all benefit from that.

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trained and active on campus can make a huge difference in energy effectiveness, and we can all benefit from that,” Cook said.

The donation by the Osborne-Green family has brightened the future of sustainable energy at UT, Gonzalez said.

“Everybody involved in the Webber Energy Group feels the same way — honored and humbled for the generous donation and for the faith instilled in the group,” Gonzalez said. “We are all so excited and proud to see its impact.”

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No future for carbon capture and storage

By Benroy Chan

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When a problem occurs, it’s generally better to confront it rather than push it aside. However, one potential proposal to reduce atmospheric carbon levels tries to do just that by sealing it away.

Carbon capture and storage (CCS) works as its name suggests. When industrial facilities or power plants release carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas that heavily contributes to human-induced climate change, the gas is captured, transported and stored deep in Earth’s interior. By keeping the carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere, supporters of CCS say they can safely reduce atmospheric carbon concentrations. But because of the uncertainty in the process’ safety and relatively high cost, it would be best to eliminate it.

As I’ve said in a previous column, unintended consequences often surface with seemingly safe environmental solutions.

Nobody wakes up in the morning with the intention of causing an environmental catastrophe, but they still happen because science can’t accurately anticipate every problem.

Associate geology professor Elizabeth Catlos says scientists can’t guarantee carbon dioxide will stay trapped underground.

“You really need to know if you’re pushing [carbon] down there,” Catlos said.

“How long is it going to be trapped for? Is it going to be trapped for ten years? A million years? Eventually it’s going to want to come out.”

You really need to know if you’re pushing [carbon] down there. How long is it going to be trapped for? Is it going to be trapped for ten years?

A million years? Eventually it’s going to want to come out.

—Elizabeth Catlos, Associate geology professor

Large and unexpected releases of carbon dioxide can cause asphyxiation in humans and animals living nearby, according to an article published by the Journal of the American Medical Association in 2010. Due to conflicting beliefs on the technology’s safety, the public should remain cautious.

Aside from environmental concerns and human health risks, the relatively high costs of CCS further weakens its feasibility. According to 2020 estimates from the U.S. Energy Information Administration, costs of generating electricity using coal and natural gas become higher than certain renewable energy sources once CCS is included. Coal with CCS costs more per megawatt-hour than solar, and natural gas with CCS costs more than wind.

While some areas can’t incorporate certain forms of energy, the breadth of lowcost options makes renewable energy the best choice.

Last week, UT researchers released a

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study documenting an improved CCS process with higher efficiency. In the experiment, the researchers successfully reduced energy loss in the capture process, thus making it cheaper and more appealing to power companies. Unfortunately, a coauthor of the study said it could take up to two decades before power plants adopt CCS systems.

Ultimately, renewable energy sources are a more viable way to reduce atmospheric carbon levels than CCS. But it’s going to take a lot for an effective revamp. Power companies relying on carbon-intensive fuels don’t have enough incentive to incorporate expensive

CCS technologies, and switching to a completely different production process to be used with renewables is impractical in a small time frame.

To fix the problem, stricter carbon limits should be gradually imposed on power companies. By doing this, the industry will be forced to slowly adopt renewable options and phase out fossil fuels. Global climate change may be the biggest problem humans face in the coming years, but carbon capture and storage shouldn’t be factored in the solution.

Chan is a journalism freshman from Sugar Land.

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Coaches responsible for program culture

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Vote for the policy, not your own gender

By Emily Vernon

Daily Texan Columnist @_emilyvernon_

The political realm is notorious for being male-dominated and has received scrutiny for being so. The U.S. ranks 75th out of 190 countries in the world for female participation in government. This statistic is concerning, but it does not mean women should vote for every female political candidate.

Gender equality requires equal consequence for equal action, and this especially needs to be true in politics.

Feminist figures Gloria Steinem and Madeleine Albright have different opinions. They hypocritically want people to vote for gender over policy. The duo have recently scolded young women for not voting for Hillary Clinton. Albright — the first woman to become secretary of state — correctly stated that the fight for true gender equality has not been achieved in absolute. However, she continued her dialogue with the claim, “There is a special place in hell for women who don’t help each other.”

Gloria Steinem, an important figure in many young feminists’ minds, disappointingly went as far to say young women were only voting for Sanders because their male counterparts were. By saying this, she implied young women’s thoughts do not expand beyond flirting and pleasing. After backlash, she took to Facebook to apologize and recognize that “young women are activists and feminists in greater numbers than ever before.”

It is hypocritical for two influential women who did so much for gender equality to promote preference because of gender. Feminism

is an all-inclusive movement that should not have stipulations outside of gender equality. It transcends political preference, gender, race and class. It doesn’t divide. It unites.

Elizabeth Hedrick, an associate professor at UT who specializes in feminist theory, said in an email that “Steinem’s remark that younger women are going for Sanders because ‘that’s where the boys are’ (or words to that effect) is, in this context, pointedly unfair. I think she meant it as a joke, but her comment trivializes the political judgement and commitment of younger women voters.”

Janet Davis, an associate professor at UT who specializes in women’s history, said she does not think the criticism holds, but that it does represent a generational divide in the idea of feminism.

“The very act of having a woman president — actually having female bodies in positions of power — for these older feminists is so important.” Davis said. “Whereas for younger women, given a world in which there has been at least more women in powerful positions … having a woman president would be great, but at the same time not quite as frated in the same political way as the generation represented by Albright and Steinem.”

Both women are influential figures, but their words are incorrect. They are preying on the archaic belief that younger generations are incapable of making informed decisions, and that gender is a factor to consider in qualification. While a woman president would be an empowering landmark, policy should be the deciding factor. Being a feminist means being empowered to make decisions for one’s self, not for others.

Vernon is a PACE freshman from Houston.

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College athletics can be a lot of fun — the pageantry, the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat. All of these things together create what’s become an integral part of the American pop culture landscape.

But what college sports is really about, the reason stadiums fill up year after year and TV contracts keep inflating, is pride.

For better or worse, college sports teams are often the public faces of their respective universities. Win or lose, the results can affect the reputation of an entire institution.

So, in the high-stakes multi-million dollar industry of Division I athletics, this pride can compel programs into ethically compromising behavior. Perhaps it’s behind the latest recruiting scandal involving the University of Louisville’s men’s basketball program, where allegations surfaced of a Louisville assistant coach hiring prostitutes for recruits and players.

In response to these allegations, Louisville has self-imposed a post-season ban for this season. Meanwhile, the NCAA investigation continues, meaning the possibility for further sanctions could be on the horizon.

Expectations for this program are always high. Louisville basketball is a storied program, complete with multiple national championships and many players who have go on to become NBA stars.

This season they ranked as high as 13th in the country and hoped to make a run in the NCAA tournament.

Louisville’s self-imposed ban unfairly punishes the players. It is a lot to ask of high school recruits to turn down the illegal benefits that often come their way, sometimes including thousands of dollars, cars and women. Many high-level recruits come from poor backgrounds, so these

For better or worse, college sports teams are often the public faces of their respective universities. Win or lose, the results can affect the reputation of an entire institution. benefits come with the possibility of helping family and improving their financial status. In addition, it is unjust to ask players who follow the rules to suffer in the collective punishments that are handed down.

A just answer would be is to punish the coaches. However, in the Louisville case, it looks like head coach Rick Pitino will come out of the scandal mostly unscathed. He claims to have had no knowledge of the transgressions while they were occurring, but an experienced coach at a major program should have known. The program deserves more from their wellpaid, well-seasonsed coach.

Coaches are ultimately responsible for their programs’ culture. They hire their own staff and choose which players to recruit. They serve as the primary liaison between players, administration and media. High expectations are reflected in their salaries, with coaches frequently ranking as the highest paid employees in the state. If we want to place blame for ethical failures on one position, the head coach is the best place to start.

In the end, it is important to remember that just like the wins and losses, how college sports teams behave ethically represents the institution. The University of Texas should value that our coaches put integrity over winning. Winning by cheating is never something to take pride in.

Stuart is a Plan II and business honors sophomore from Lubbock.

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Austin Creative Reuse is a hectic collage of color and texture, of familiar craft supplies brimming over their shelving among stranger donations.

At the back of the room, UT alumna Carole LeClair is guiding her volunteer staff.

They’re carefully sorting buttons, ribbons and bolts of cloth. LeClair, vice president of the nonprofit’s board, said she is excited to prepare the new center for its Feb. 13 grand opening. She said that all parts of the showroom have been made from donated materials, and hopes that the center’s own efforts might inspire others to reuse instead of throwing their unwanted materials away.

“I think when people choose reuse first, they often will think outside of the box, and think: ‘Well, I don’t really need to have a piece of wood for that, I could really use a piece of plastic, if it was the right size.’ And maybe we have that right

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Biomedical engineering sophomore Kiran Zubair has been in Texas Neurodiversity since the beginning. She said the organization has given her the gift of self-acceptance. She said many autistic people identify themselves directly as such, rejecting terms like “person with autism” for “autistic.”

“I am neurodivergent, and I am autistic,” Zubair said. “By using language like ‘person with autism,’ you’re separating the autism from the person.

And that’s not possible because autism isn’t just a layer you can take off of somebody. It’s embedded deep into my being, and if you try to separate that you’re not describing me accurately.”

She said that being autistic is a common thread that transcends race, culture and religion, uniting many of the students in the organization. “[Someday] we’ll think of the disability rights movement in the same way that people think of the civil rights movement now,” Zubair said.

With the introduction of social events accommodating neurodivergent students, Díaz said he hopes neurodiversity will one day be interwoven into University traditions as an unquestioned standard. The mingling of neurotypicals and neurodivergent minds is one he longs to see and hopes to promote.

“Exposure to diversity makes people less likely to conform to narrow mindsets,” Díaz said. “It pushes people to think outside the box. To be brighter and more creative as individuals who can solve a wider variety of problems.”

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“After visiting for the first time I knew they had office supplies for sale that were perfectly good, but a fraction of the cost at the Co-op,” Lambeth said. “This is definitely way better. Then you can just give it back at the end, and then someone else can use it. And I think that’s awesome.”

Stuch said that Austin Creative Reuse shows community members how to help contribute to the world at large.

“I don’t want to say making the world a better place, but we have very complex problems nowadays,” Stuch said. “And we need creativity to help solve those problems.”

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“To me it’s so important that we are a center for anyone and everyone, that everybody is creative and can be inspired by what’s there,” Stuch said.

“It’s not children’s crafting, or women’s crafting or men’s tinkering. It’s something for everyone. It’s also a place to share what we have in knowledge.” While Stuch is optimistic that the new center will attract a wide variety of new shoppers and donors, Stuch said that she doesn’t think of the center as a store.

“Because people think of a store, particularly a thrift store, they think that they walk in, they buy something, they leave,” Stuch said. “And we want people to come and hang out, talk with each other, and investigate.”

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The motif continues even in parts bins, which are made of repurposed signage.

The Creative Reuse Center is a place for patrons to donate unwanted materials and buy used ones for cheap.

This uncommon exchange is all in hopes that Austinites will see the value in directly repurposing old goods rather than sending them to a recycling plant or landfill.

ACR has been active in Austin since 2011 when board president Rebecca Stuch founded the organization. But the start of a brick-and-mortar location marks a new beginning for the group, which once worked from rented storage spaces and hawked wares from front lawns.

Before ACR had a workspace, it catered primarily to educators, many of whom had to furnish their classroom supplies themselves. In the beginning, LeClair said, the group displayed their goods in the front yards of board members, encouraging teachers

“All my life, I behaved and felt so different from everyone around me,” Diaz said. “I isolated myself from the other kids at school because I was so afraid of the social rejection.”

Diaz said the confusion and frustration that comes with autism puts him in a stagnant position in society where he’s expected to conform to societal norms without being fully understood. Once college started, Diaz said things didn’t get easier. After experiencing excess sensory stimulation and becoming unresponsive in front of a peer during his junior year, Diaz said he was left rejected and broken, causing him to become depressed.

Assistant professor of education Nina Zuna, who studies autism, said although there is increased awareness of autism, there are still many issues facing autistic individuals that most people don’t recognize.

“It’s hard for individuals, no matter where they fall on the spectrum, in terms of transitioning to adulthood,” Zuna said.

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Tres Barrera can’t get Omaha out of his head.

Barrera, a designated hitter, catcher and first baseman, got a taste of the College World Series his freshman year when the Longhorns exceeded expectations and ended the season with a loss to eventual champion Vanderbilt in the semifinals.

Now a junior, Barrera wants that taste again.

“It’s a feeling that you can’t even explain going to Omaha,” Barrera said. “I still go to sleep thinking about it. I want to get back there so bad because I know once we’re there, we have a chance of winning it all — and that’s all I’ve been working for.”

The Longhorns started last season with high expectations, but Barrera’s team-leading nine home runs were not enough to conceal the flaws of a team that had the 227th best batting average in the country. Texas snuck into the NCAA postseason with a surprise Big 12 tournament run, but a 30-27 record and subsequent sputtering in the Dallas Baptist Regional of the NCAA tournament were better indications of the team’s standing.

“When you lose, sometimes guys tend to drift off and go into their own little bubble and want to do their own thing, and I feel like that was the case a little bit last

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year,” the junior said. “You can’t win the big one if your team is not unified.”

Barrera now returns a year older and wiser, now having experienced the downs in addition to the ups that baseball deals. Head coach Augie Garrido said Barrera and the four other juniors are going to play a big role if this team is to get back to Omaha.

“I think that the players

that went to Omaha as freshmen have a completely different attitude toward their role as leaders,” Garrido said. “I think that’s where the strength of this team is going to be placed.

Barrera’s role will be much different this time around.

In 2014, Barrera spent most of his time as a catcher. Now he will likely rotate between catcher, first baseman and

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designated hitter, all while growing into the leadership role the team needs.

But the versatile junior has been working his whole career for such an opportunity.

“Deep down he’s always been a leader,” redshirt sophomore pitcher Morgan Cooper said. “If something needs to be said he’s going to say it. You need somebody like that.“ Barrera knows though

that those upperclassmen who led Texas to Omaha in 2014 did not just talk their team to Omaha. Now he has to do the same.

“I know when I was a freshman when I saw Mark Payton doing something, I wanted to do what he did,” Barrera said. “So I just want to be that type of role model getting everybody to do the right thing.”

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By Jasmine C. Johnson @AllThatJasss

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Senior pitcher Ty Culbreth looks to take a big jump in the pitching rotation after Texas lost last year’s ace Parker French to graduation.

Texas needs strong rotation to make College World Series run

By Michael Shapiro Daily Texan Columnist @mshap2

Texas left the field dejected after a shellacking at the hands of Dallas Baptist on May 31, 2015. The 8-1 loss in the NCAA Regional ended a Longhorn season mired in disappointment.

Perhaps the most dispiriting aspect of the loss was the Patriots destruction of the Longhorns’ pitching staff.

Dallas Baptist hung eight runs on the board against Texas, jumping out to a 7-0 lead before yielding a run. In the biggest game of the year, then-junior pitcher Ty Culbreth allowed four earned runs in three innings. Thenfreshman pitcher Connor Mayes then surrendered three more.

The loss could have permeated throughout the Texas locker room as it prepares to begin the season on Feb. 19. Instead, the events of May 31 are now ancient history to the Longhorns.

“Last year ended in a disappointing fashion,” junior pitcher Kasey Clemens said.

“But we feel good about where we are as a team. We had a really good fall and I think we’re excited to get out there.”

The Longhorns will have a significant hole to fill on

the mound after losing Parker French, last year’s No. 1 starter, to graduation.

French was the anchor of the Longhorns’ staff in 2015, leading the team in wins, strikeouts and innings. In his place is a series of unproven commodities, and no notable ace. However, the lack of experience isn’t concerning to those on the Texas roster.

“I feel good about who we’ll have on the mound,” sophomore catcher Michael Cantu said. “We have a lot of guys here who can really contribute.”

Assistant head coach Skip Johnson echoed Cantu’s sentiments. While Texas loses its prime pitching asset in French, the Longhorns feature significantly more depth. Johnson said multiple pitchers will in competition for the start on opening night.

“As we go through the next few weeks we have guys penciled down, but nothing is set,” Johnson said. “We’re just happy we have a lot of good arms, guys who can out there and throw and compete every day.”

One asset the Longhorns will have in 2016 is the return of redshirt sophomore Morgan Cooper, who missed the 2015 season after undergoing Tommy John

I feel really good about who we’ll have on the mound, we have a lot of guys here who can really contribute.

—Michael Cantu, Catcher

surgery. Cooper impressed as a freshman in 2014, posting a 2.89 ERA en route to being selected to the Big 12 All-Freshman team.

Texas’ pitching staff is a group filled with question marks. They won’t have French or an established ace on the staff to begin the season, and no current Longhorn won more than four games in 2015.

But the Longhorns’ pitching staff isn’t focused on its inexperience as it prepares to face UNLV on Feb. 19. The Longhorns claim they have the talent on the mound to compete for the Big 12 title, and feel confident regardless of who is taking the ball on opening day.

“These guys are a talented group,” Johnson said.

“I’m confident in them, and they’ve shown that they can all be quality starters for us.”

The Longhorns are a much improved team this season. Just ask the selection committee.

Last season, the committee placed Texas, a mediocre road team with a 4-7 away record, as a No. 5 seed in the Albany region of the NCAA tournament, leading to a Sweet 16 exit against No. 1 University of Connecticut. This year, however, an umblemished road record has the Longhorns (211, 10-1 Big 12) as the fifth-best team overall in the eyes of the committee, according to their rankings on Feb. 1.

The biggest change — a new road mentality, senior guard Empress Davenport said.

“Last year I don’t think we were very focused on the road,” Davenport said. “This year we set a goal to not have highs and lows and stay consistent throughout the whole season.”

The Longhorns have done a good job of managing the highs and lows with wins at Tennessee, West Virginia and TCU — places where the team has struggled in the past. The lone low came in the 13-point home loss to then No. 6 Baylor.

But Davenport said they still have room to improve, specifically with turnovers.

“We talk about that in film,” Davenport said. “It’s a lot of the little things that we have to clean up in order to be the team we want to be and reach the goal we want to reach.”

Texas averages 16.9 turnovers a game, which is a slight increase from last season’s 16.3 turnover average. In addition to

turnovers, Davenport said the team needs work on running lanes correctly and being in the right position on plays.

Head coach Karen Aston said these errors come from a lack of discipline.

“We go in stretches of games where we do really good, and then we start randomly turning it over or randomly fouling,” Aston said. “I would say all of that comes from more distinct discipline in your game.”

The Longhorns return to the Erwin Center tonight for the first time in two weeks to face No. 20 Oklahoma State, but the schedule doesn’t get easier. Texas travels to No. 21 Oklahoma on Sunday and finishes the season at No. 4 Baylor on Feb. 29.

Davenport said they need to finish strong to set themselves up for a long tournament run.

“We know that if we win our conference, we’ll be [a No. 1 seed] and potentially get to host at home the first two rounds and potentially get to have a closer regional than we did last year,” Davenport said.

Given the added weight of this next month, Aston said the coaching staff has divided it in four game stretches to keep the team focused.

“There’s a four game stretch that we’re in right now and maybe look at the last four,” Aston said. “Then obviously that last week which includes the Big 12 tournament.”

But for Davenport, whose time at Texas is dwindling down, the focus is just on the next game.

“It is legacy time, but I’m just trying to take it one game at a time,” Davenport said.

Stephanie Tacy | Daily Texan Staff

Senior guard Empress Davenport and the Longhorns are aiming to close the season on a high note with a Big 12 Championship.

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The Longhorns shot a week-best 7-over par on Tuesday to jump up two spots to finish fourth in the UCF Challenge. It’s the highest finish for Texas in the 2015-16 season.

Texas was one of just two teams to finish the first round under 300 strokes, but fell in the second round as other teams made drastic improvements.

Junior Haley Mills finished as the top Longhorn, shooting a 4-over to tie for sixth overall.

Junior Julia Beck scored a 6-over-par to tie for 16th. Sophomore Sophia Schubert ended the week one stroke back of Beck, checking in with a 7-over, while freshman Maddie Luitwieler finished tied for 41st at 12-over.

Senior Tezira Abe finished well off the pace, carding a score of 22-over for the weekend.

Houston took the team title at the tournament with a score of 21-over while Frida Gustafsson Spang from East Carolina took the individual title with a 3-under score — the only player to finish under par.

Texas will be back in action Feb. 21-23 in New Orleans for the Allstate Sugar Bowl Intercollegiate.

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Out Youth raises funds for LGBT community

By James Rodriguez @jamie_rod

Albert Sanchez is restless.

A relative newcomer to Austin’s comedy scene — he began performing at openmics just over a year ago — Sanchez had spent nearly every night perfecting his craft in dimly lit comedy clubs and coffee shops — and yet, he wanted more.

A month ago, he embarked on a search for non-profit organizations in Austin that could benefit from a comedy fundraiser.

A casual suggestion from a friend led him to Out Youth Austin, a nonprofit that provides a community and resources, such as counseling and HIV testing, for LGBT youth. Sanchez, whose younger sister is a lesbian, began furiously organizing and promoting a comedy showcase to raise money for a cause that hit close to home.

“I was raised in Fort Worth, Texas, and at the time, there wasn’t quite the acceptance that there is today with the gay community,” Sanchez said. “So when she came out, that’s when it really began for her. She was very depressed a lot, and that’s something that helped me shape my acceptance and my view of it.

I went from a down-South, homophobic 14-year-old to a complete LGBT activist within the year of my sister coming out. That helped me make my decision to do something about it, even if it’s just a little bit.”

Sanchez’s efforts culminated Tuesday night in the Out Youth Comedy Showcase at the North Door, where Austin comedy mainstays such as Carina

Mariana Gonzalez | Daily Texan Staff

Comedian Albert Sanchez coordinated a comedy showcase Tuesday to raise money for Out Youth. Out Youth is an organization that provides a safe community and resources for LGBT youth.

Magyar and UT alumnus M.K. Paulsen performed sets. Donations collected at the door went toward helping Out Youth Austin maintain its mission of providing a safe, inclusive community for LGBT youth.

Out Youth was founded in 1990 by two UT graduate students, and has since grown from a support group to a full-fledged nonprofit with a house in North Austin. Gonzales said raising awareness is especially

important given the nonprofit’s history. Out Youth employees did not begin publishing the organization’s physical address until the early 2000s for fear of acts of violence against the group, instead passing along its location through word of mouth.

“They’ve been facing that for 26 years, and they haven’t stopped,” Sanchez said. “And it’s an amazing thing. We need more people like that — that are walking

into this dark dungeon of a cause and then traveling through it until some light starts to emerge. It’s pretty brave, if you ask me. And all I’m doing is putting on a freaking comedy show.”

Kathryn Gonzales, operations and program director for Out Youth Austin, said that the current crop of Out Youth employees aim to provide youth with opportunities for acceptance that previous generations did not have.

“What we often hear from adults is ‘I wish I had something like Out Youth growing up,’ and we take that to heart,” Gonzales said. “It is fun, and it is hard and challenging, but at the end of the day I believe I do speak for everyone here when I say that it is the greatest honor of our lives.”

Sanchez said he chose to put on a comedy benefit show because of the honesty that is inherent to comedy. Paulsen, a

graduate of the LBJ School of Public Affairs, said he aims to highlight important social issues while also connecting with the audience through his comedy. “[Being gay] is one facet of who I am, and I talk about it onstage to an extent,” Paulsen said. “The beauty really becomes then: How do you relate to everybody, even though I’m a little different in this way.

What’s the common ground that we all share?”

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English artist Terry Pastor designed two of David Bowie’s most iconic albums — Hunky Dory and Ziggy Stardust. One month after the art rocker’s death, Pastor discussed the designs for Bowie’s albums and his rise to fame.

Bowie album cover artist discusses artistic process

By Cat Cardenas @crcardenas8

On a cold January evening, David Bowie stood on London’s Heddon Street, posing for the cover of his iconic fifth album, The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars.

Shortly after, a friend tapped English artist Terry Pastor to design the cover. From his studio, Pastor airbrushed and colored the photo, giving the cover its illustrated style.

Pastor’s artwork has graced album covers for Bowie and the Beach Boys and been featured in Roman Polanski and Roman Ford Coppola’s private collections. Last week, local gallery Modern Rocks began

an exhibition of Pastor’s limited-edition David Bowie prints.

His other covers and artwork and can be found at his website, terrypastor.co.uk.

The Daily Texan spoke with Pastor about the album cover and the evolution of album art.

Daily Texan: Looking back, these became two of his most iconic albums.

Did you have any inclination when you were designing the covers how famous they would become?

Terry Pastor: At the time, Bowie wasn’t very well known at all. It was only after Ziggy that he became famous. [When I was designing the cover] I didn’t think it was anything

particular. Now in retrospect, because both of the LPs were very strong musically, the cover has now been linked to the album forever now.

DT: Having known Bowie before he skyrocketed to fame, did you see how things changed for him afterward?

TP: He would occasionally drop into my studio in Covent Garden, London, and we would have a drink in the pub next door. He would go completely unnoticed, but a few months after the release of Ziggy Stardust he became a mega-star and couldn’t go out in public without being mobbed.

DT: What was the process of designing these covers for you?

TP: I think it was unusual that these were photographs. The image was already there, so in the case of both of these covers, I didn’t really have any art direction at all. Other than being asked to cover [the photos] up, there wasn’t really any input. Generally, I prefer to use the band’s music or the title of the LP to give me an idea.

DT: What was Bowie’s reaction to the covers?

TP: I just remember when I was doing the front and back covers for Ziggy, I got a phone call, and it was

[Bowie] asking how it was going. When I told him I was about to start working on the back, he was surprised. I guess he didn’t really have much say in the whole thing.

DT: What kind of artistic decisions did you make when designing Ziggy Stardust?

TP: David’s jumpsuit was a pale grey/green color, but I wanted him to stand out from the background more, so decided to color it turquoise. Also [I] colored his hair blond to make him stand out more. The title lettering for Ziggy Stardust was airbrushed artwork that was created by rubbing down a Letraset type

and tracing it off onto art board and painting it with the airbrush. [It was] a very hands on way of doing things. Now it would all be done by computer.

DT: Having created several covers throughout your career, do you think album art has changed as people transitioned from vinyl to downloads?

TP: Going from a 12-inch vinyl cover, particularly if it was a gatefold, to a CD, which was half the size, and now to downloads hardly getting any covers at all, it’s a shame. I think the whole thing with a record is that you can study [the cover] while you listened to it.