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Surgeon General prescribes exercise By Areeba Khwaja @thedailytexan
The 19th Surgeon General of the United States, Dr. Vivek Murthy, visited UT on Thursday with a call for action: Americans need to change their perception of health. Murthy challenged students to not wait until they have completed their education to take a stand. College students can speak out about issues such as stress, mental illness and nutrition. Through health activism, college students can call attention to important
issues and encourage others to speak out. “We have more resources and knowledge now than we have ever had before,” Murthy said. “What are we going to do with it? What ideals are we going to advance? What visions will we put forth?” Murthy explained how college students could implement his vision of prevention-based medicine. “Creating a preventionbased society is really the most important public health challenge we are facing right now,” Murthy said. “How do we shift
our society from having an almost entire focus on treatment to a focus on prevention?” Murthy said that students must ignore some negative stigmas that American society has always held against health. “Health has a branding problem,” he said. “The pursuit of health is not seen as exciting; it is seen as a route of pain.” Many Americans struggle to maintain their health. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more than one third of U.S.
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The 19th Surgeon General of the United States, Dr. Vivek Murthy salutes an audience of students at the SAC on Thursday afternoon.
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International relations and Arabic junior Ashley Choi, right, and sociology senior Elizabeth Kushnereit embrace after hearing that Choi was elected as a University-wide representative Thursday night.
CAMPUS ELECTIONS: UNIVERSITY-WIDE REPRESENTATIVES 1. Connor Madden, 2868 votes, 8.42% 2. Madison Huerta, 2842 votes, 8.34% 3. Micky Wolf, 2704 votes, 7.94% 4. Ashley Choi, 2494 votes, 7.32%
Architecture dean departs over campus carry ruling @caleber96
Executive alliance voting results delayed
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By Caleb Wong
STUDENT GOVERNMENT
Campus-wide election results were announced Thursday night — with the exception of the Student Government executive alliance. According to the Election Supervisory Board and the Dean of Students, “the results of the Student Government executive alliance election cannot be certified due to pending actions on the part of the SG Assembly. The outcome of this race will depend on resolution of the assembly’s due process.” The Election Supervisory Board declined to add further comments beyond their announced statement. Tanner Long, SG Speaker of the Assembly and government senior, filed articles Thursday morning to impeach current UT Supreme Court Chief Justice Zachary Stone and to delay the results of the executive alliance announcement, pending
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5. Santiago Rosales, 2481 votes, 7.32% 6. Charlotte Fitzpatrick, 2109 votes, 6.19% 7. Danny McNamara, 1978 votes, 5.81% 8. Vignesh Ramdas, 1928 votes, 5.66%
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Growing up in a family of hunters, Frederick Steiner, dean of the Architecture School, got his first gun when he was 11 years old. “I grew up hunting,” Steiner said. “I grew up hunting rabbits and pheasants. My brothers and I hunted. My father taught us how to hunt. It’s part of why I enjoy the outdoors so much.” But Steiner doesn’t want those guns in his classroom — and that is why, in part, Steiner will leave UT for the University of Pennsylvania. Steiner said declining support from the state legislature, including the passage of campus carry, were factors that led him to consider other institutions last fall. “I didn’t feel [campus carry] was a law I agreed with and could implement,” Steiner said. “In the wrong hands, [guns are] quite clearly dangerous.” Steiner’s upcoming departure is the second highprofile instance of a faculty member who has decided to leave the university. Economics professor Daniel Hamermesh announced he was leaving last fall, and physics and astronomy professor Steven Weinberg said he would ban students from carrying buns in his classrooms. Steiner said other faculty members have confided to him that they are also considering leaving the University. “Many of the faculty and administrators at UT are constantly being recruited by other universities,” Steiner said. “[Campus carry] has been raised [as a concern] by people we’re trying to recruit and people we’re trying to retain. It’s a topic that wasn’t brought
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Amazon delivery center coming to Gregory Gym
Shelter seeks homes for rescued roosters
By Hannah Daniel @hannnahdaniel
Amazon announced Wednesday that Amazon@ UTAustin, the first Amazon pickup location in Texas, will open on campus this summer. Students, faculty, and staff will be able to pick up and return packages at the staffed 2,509 square foot space, which will be located in Gregory Gymnasium. A portion of the proceeds from purchases made at UT’s customized URL will go back to the school, said Deborah Bass, who works in public relations at Amazon.com.
Additionally, over two million products are eligible for free one-day pickup from this location when ordered by 10 p.m. the day before by Amazon Student and Prime members. “This collaboration with UTAustin will help make getting everything students need for life on campus more affordable and convenient,” Bass said. Jennifer Speer, associate director at the Division of Recreational Sports, said the center will be an especially valuable resource for students living off-campus, since it offers more versatile pickup hours than
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By Jasleen Shokar
One of the 26 roosters rescued from a cockfighting ring enjoys basking in the sunlight. The roosters will be ready for adoption starting March 8 at the Austin Animal Shelter.
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The Austin Animal Center will put 26 roosters rescued from a cockfighting ring up for adoption starting March 8. The birds were discovered after a call was made to the Travis County police department citing animal cruelty concerns. Officers were dispatched to a residence in Webberville, Texas, where many roosters lay dead, or injured. “It’s not something we encounter all the time, mostly because it is so secretive,” said Roger Wade, a Travis County sheriff’s senior public information officer. The owner of the property,
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Epifanio Cenobia Contreras, 43, was arrested on Feb. 14 and charged with a Class A misdemeanor for cruelty to animals.
Kristen Auerbach, deputy chief animal services officer, said some roosters were euthanized, while others received
medical attention. Now in the custody of the Austin Animal
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