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Ken’s closure leaves hole in hearts By Forrest Milburn @forrestmilburn
Ken’s Donuts will reopen Friday if it passes the latest round of inspections from city and county health inspectors, after it failed to receive a score above 70 for three years in a row. The Austin/Travis County Health and Human Services Department conducted the shop’s third failed inspection, and temporarily closed the shop for public safety concerns beginning Wednesday morning until today.
“They were closed for 48 hours, after which time they can reopen and will be inspected,” said Carole Barasch, communications manager for the department. Barasch said she did not readily have information regarding what happens to the shop if it fails for a fourth time. McKay Proctor, supply chain management and English junior, said he was on his way to Ken’s Donuts late Wednesday night when he saw the health inspection sign from the city. “I was going to get a maple
glaze last night and the sign on the door said they were closed until [Thursday], which was really unnerving,” Proctor said. Proctor, who sits on the Texas Student Media board, also said student options for breakfast and baked goods are now limited without Ken’s providing customers a large variety, unseen elsewhere near campus. “If I really want a maple glaze donut, I can’t get that anywhere else,” Proctor said. Many turned to social media
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Ken’s Donuts, usually open 24 hours a day, was forced to close for 48 hours after the business failed to meet inspection standards and received a third strike from the health department.
Counterfeit bill sparks DHFS precautions By Mikaela Cannizzo @mikaelac16
A UT staff member reported a counterfeit $20 bill to the UT police department while reviewing the cash register in the Jester Academic Center on March 2. UTPD officer William Pieper said two or three cases of counterfeit money, which is classified as forgery, are typically reported to the department each year. “We instruct cashiers to inspect a suspicious note carefully and call the police department as soon as possible if they believe they have a counterfeit note,” Pieper said. As the instructor of counterfeit detection to cashiers in the Division of Housing and Food Services, Pieper said he teaches full-time cashiers about the history of the crime and offers resources and tips Illustration by Nicholas Osella | Daily Texan Staff
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An Austin real estate research firm will look at the economic impact of improving certain transportation areas of the city, including the road and sidewalks along Guadalupe Street, that require services in order to become more accessible to drivers, bikers and pedestrians. On March 3, City Council members voted to approve a contract with Capitol Market Research to study the fiscal effects of transportation corridor improvement areas. The firm will provide analysis looking 20 years out that will allow the city to prioritize the areas to work on. “You have to try to make predictions about what will happen with economic growth based on what you are doing,” council member Don Zimmerman said. “There is speculation involved, and it is complicated.” The Transportation Department established several improvement areas around Austin after voters approved the 2012 bond program. When the department set up the improvement areas, it aimed to plan for changes over time, which included mobility improvements as the city geared to tackle mass transportation concerns in the near future. Improvements also include widening bike lanes and increased road quality. City staff said the firm will use data to project the rising real estate costs in
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Austin to implement Zilker Park currently ranked second in new parking system national competition for best city park By Bharath Lavendra @burreth
Austin motorists will soon have a new way to pay for parking in West Campus. The Austin Transportation Department will be introducing a pay-by-phone parking service so users will never have to interact with a pay station. Steven Grassfield, the Parking Enterprise manager with ATD, said the goal of the program was to make parking easier for the community. ATD is partnering with ParkX, a private application, that has implemented the pay-by-phone in other cities, such as Corpus Christi and El Paso. “The app only takes two minutes to set up, and you’ll never have to visit a pay station,” Grassfield said. “The app even sends a text message or alert to you when your parking is about to expire and allows you to buy more time, all from your phone.” Grassfield said ATD chose the West Campus
neighborhood so students can help the city find issues with the app and system. “Students are more adept with apps,” Grassfield said. “We will eventually roll out the system to the entire city, but students will help us find anything wrong and be able to give us feedback before we do so.” Students found the concept useful, but had other concerns with parking in West Campus besides how they were paying for the meter. Economics sophomore Darpan Bhatt said safety was his main qualm with parking near the University. “Street parking is more risky when compared to parking in a garage,” Bhatt said. “I’ve heard of people getting their windows smashed and cars being damaged when they’ve parked deep into West Campus.” Finance senior Puja Patel said she likes the pay-byphone concept, but doesn’t predict its widespread use
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Zilker Metropolitan Park is currently ranked number one out of 20 finalists for Best City Park in the United States.
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What does Austin have on New York City, Boston and San Francisco? According to USA TODAY, its parks. An expert panel from USA TODAY has selected Zilker Park as one of the 20 finalists for the 10Best Readers’ Choice travel award for Best City Park in the United States. Zilker is currently ranked No. 2 out of the 20 finalists, behind Forest Park in St. Louis and ahead of Klyde Warren Park in Dallas. Shelley Parks, the Austin Parks and Recreation Department public information specialist, said she thinks the nomination solidifies what Austinities already believe — Zilker is the best park in the country. “We think it’s the best, and we want the rest of the country to see how beautiful it is,” Parks said. The 351-acre park was opened in 1917 and contains
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a variety of attractions, including Umlauf Sculpture Garden, Zilker Hillside Theater, McBeth Recreation Center, Austin Nature and Science Center and Barton Springs Pool. Nutrition sophomore Lila Opincar, who frequents Zilker to practice acroyoga, said she thinks it’s more than just a park. “It’s a dog park, it’s your local gym, it’s a yoga studio, it’s a kite-flying festival, it’s a
volleyball court, it’s a soccer or football field, it might even be your next date,” Opincar said. “Pretty much everyone at Zilker is willing to chat, share their hobbies and let you pet their adorable dogs.” Along with its many attractions, Zilker Park holds events and festivals throughout the year, including Blues on the Green, Austin City Limits, the Kite Festival and the Trail of Lights.
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to condemn the donut shop, saying it needs to “get its act together” before anyone returns to grab a donut, among other criticisms. Other UT students spoke in support of the donut shop’s beloved baked goods, despite any concerns with food safety. “I personally depend on Ken’s for late night cheap donuts, that’s really what they’re good at,” Proctor said. “In the long term, I think Ken’s donuts is a really important part of the culinary scene here on campus.” Connor Hughes, a Plan II honors and biochemistry senior, considers himself a loyal Ken’s customer and says he goes to the donut shop to get his “vanilla sprinkle on” at least twice a week. “I’m concerned about the health codes being broken, but I will be back in line when Ken’s opens back up,” Hughes said. “I just hope
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on how to detect whether a bill is counterfeited. Rene Rodriguez, director of Food Service, said cashiers have a counterfeit pen to mark each bill as one of their resources to detect this crime. The pen will create a different color marking when it detects a discrepancy in a bill. Even though the pen is a necessary tool for cashiers, Rodriguez said determining whether a bill is illegitimate is still a judgment call. “It’s not a glaring thing,” Rodriguez said. “We’ve marked a few bills that we felt were suspicious, but still had to call UTPD to confirm if it’s a good bill or not.” While questionable bills noticed by staff after the transaction has occurred are
allows users to find open parking spaces. Grassfield said the project will also benefit West Campus since some profits will go back into development of the area. “West Campus is a parking benefit district,” Grassfield said. “This means that after city expenses are taken care of, 51 percent of the money goes to improve West Campus sidewalks and bike lanes.” reported to UTPD, Rodriguez said cashiers will simply ask customers to provide a different method of payment if the pen indicates the bill may be counterfeit. This is not a common occurrence on campus, but Pieper said there were around nine reported cases in 2012. He said the rise of on-campus instances could possibly be indicative of a significant influx of counterfeit notes in Houston. With advances in scanning and printing technology, Pieper said counterfeit money is now easier to produce and harder to detect. This accessibility makes these bills more susceptible to being passed around to unsuspecting people. Pieper said the damaging effects of fraudulent money are the reason for serious
nationwide penalties for those who commit this crime, including fines up to $250,000 and up to 20 years in prison. “The passing of counterfeit notes degrades our economic system and has a negative impact on everyone,” Pieper said. Aside from human detection and chemical testing through the pen, Pieper said other technical methods of revealing counterfeited bills include alternative light source inspection, security thread inspection and magnetic detection. According to Federal Reserve Bank Services, there are several alternative methods
they fix the places they’ve done wrong and meet health standards so that I can enjoy my last morning as a UT student with a glazed bear claw.” Government junior Ryan Rafols said the Ken’s management owes its students basic safety standards that it has failed to provide. “To the degree that was noted by the news that the owner sought to cover up the sign from the health inspector, I am confident in stating the owner blatantly must not understand the code or refuses to do what is best for the safety of his customers,” Rafols said. Longtime Ken’s loyalists are gathering at the donut shop at 10 a.m. Saturday to show their support on what would be the shop’s second day after reopening if it earns a passing score. “I’ll be leaving town before that occurs for spring break,” Proctor said. “But I will certainly be there in spirit.” of perceiving the difference between fake and real bills. To determine if a bill is counterfeit, the Reserve suggests looking for a flat portrait as opposed to one that stands out distinctly from its background, unclear lines on the margins rather than unbroken ones and serial numbers that fail to look aligned. “There is no single, best way to identify counterfeit currency,” according to the Federal Reserve Bank Services website. “If possible, examine several genuine notes and compare their features to those on the suspected counterfeit note.”
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Design industry expert joins Fine Arts faculty By Emma Acosta @CB_Acosta
The College of Fine Arts has appointed a new faculty member to help integrate design studies into colleges across the Forty Acres. Doreen Lorenzo will help oversee the new initiative in collaboration with the College of Fine Arts, McCombs School of Business, School of Information, Cockrell School of Engineering, School of Architecture and the College of Natural Sciences. Lorenzo’s appointment is part of a larger transition in the College of Fine Arts toward studying design from new perspectives. The Department of Art and Art History revamped its design division in recent years and hired new faculty and staff members. “Design is ubiquitous in our lives,” said Lorenzo in an email. “It creates the emotional connection you have with products and services.” Lorenzo is currently collaborating with colleagues to develop the interdisciplinary curriculum. Though it is still in its beginning stages, the curriculum will hopefully create
a way for students to work together and develop their skills for the real world, Lorenzo said. “Together we will be able to prepare our students for how organizations are operating,” Lorenzo said. “They are operating in an interdisciplinary way and this integration of design studies across different departments mirrors working in that kind of environment.” According to the College of Fine Arts, Lorenzo was also recently appointed as director of the Center for Integrated Design. As an industry leader with 16 years of experience, Lorenzo has previously served as president of design firms Frog and Quirky. “She has enormous depth of experience and current knowledge in the commercial world of design,” said Douglas Dempster, dean of the College of Fine Arts in an email. “She brings into the academy the ‘outsider’ perspective of a design professional who can help UT build design programs that are responsive to industry trends in ways that make our graduates more employable, more entrepreneurial and
Doreen Lorenzo will participate in an initiative to implement design across multiple subjects.
They are operating in an interdisciplinary way and this integration of design studies across different departments mirrors working in that kind of environment. —Doreen Lorenzo, Director of the Center for Integrated Design
more influential.” Math senior Chris Ramos said he could see the benefits of this type of interdisciplinary curriculum in his own major. “I’m going for data analysis so there’s definitely going to be an element of design when it comes to actually being able to convey ideas from the data, like to actually be able to come up with the visualizations,” Ramos said. “There’s a huge element of design included.” The Design Division will release the revised Bachelor’s of Fine Arts in design curriculum next fall.
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Bill seeks to help homeless, promote student safety By Rachel Lew @rachelannlew
The homeless population is a familiar sight for UT students who walk along the Drag and in West Campus, but Student Government is planning an active effort to help this community. SG is working on Assembly Resolution 20 (A.R. 20), a series of initiatives to assist the homeless in these areas and to address student safety concerns. Gregory Ross, co-author of the resolution and chemical engineering and Plan II junior, said UT has overlooked the
homeless population because it’s technically not on University property. “UT has not prioritized helping the homeless because it is a near campus issue, not an on-campus issue,” Ross said. Ross said there are six main points of the resolution — working with nursing faculty and students to provide free health assessments for the homeless on the drag, continuing a spirit of philanthropy within Longhorn Legislative Aides, creating a map of areas in West Campus that students feel unsafe, working with UTPD to develop a student safety module that focuses on
this issue, forming a committee focused on helping the homeless on the Drag and starting a program for students to partner with nonprofits that assist the homeless. Ross said the heart of the resolution is to promote the wellbeing of the homeless and to treat them with respect. “I want to emphasize that through this process, we realized that we cannot just treat this as an issue of personal safety,” Ross said. “It’s far more complicated and far more of an issue about the wellbeing of the homeless population. We want to keep that in mind as a guiding light of assisting,
supporting and providing resources for the homeless as the method to address student safety concerns.” Ross said SG hopes to work with groups that assist Austin’s homeless including Lifeworks, a nonprofit aiming to increase self-sufficiency for youths and families. Laura Poskochil, Street Outreach Program director at Lifeworks, said the organization has an array of different resources to help the homeless, such as a transitional living program for 18-21 year olds, a GED and workforce programs, psychiatric services and shelter for minors. Poskochil
said addressing the homeless population around the University is an important item on their agenda. “We have not talked extensively with Ross one on one, but we are absolutely thrilled about any support we can get across all sectors,” Poskochil said. “We look forward to working more with UT faculty and student programs. I don’t know the ins and outs of the resolution, but from my recollection of Ross’s overview, I was in full support of it.” Rhonda Weldon, director of communications for University Operations, said in an email UTPD does not weigh in on
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Wheatsville Co-op festivities celebrate 40th birthday
By Audrey Zhang rence @thedailytexan bills. counggests Wheatsville Co-op, a stuait asdent favorite and the only tandsretail food cooperative in back-Texas, is celebrating its 40th n thebirthday next Wednesday rokenwith cake, ice cream and local s thatAustin vendors. Wheatsville has been servbesting the Austin community erfeitsince 1976, specializing in loo thecal, organic and sustainable Ser-food. As a food cooperative, e, ex-Wheatsville is owned and opnoteserated by local Austin citizens atureswho pay a small amount to ectedbecome owners. The members also vote and make
decisions regarding the Coop’s food and products. Wheatsville Board President Doug Addison said the Co-op will continue working to ensure prices and quality that benefits the Austin community. “We on the board have borne witness to how Austin’s rising cost of living and food access challenges affect some of our neighbors,” Addison said in a statement. “The Board seeks to focus on the cooperative values such as equity, solidarity and compassion that frame our work in guiding Wheatsville as a force for good.”
The celebration will be on March 16 at their Guadalupe and South Lamar locations from 12-6 p.m. It will include complimentary cake and deals on signature products, such as Wheatsville vegan donuts and popcorn tofu. Many local vendors and partners of Wheatsville will be there, including Lick Honest Ice Cream, Kosmic Kombucha and Third Coast Coffee. Wheatsville’s Brand Manager Raquel Dadomo said the Co-op has grown significantly in the past 40 years. “We started out when a lot of retail grocery co-ops where
popping up across the country,” Dadomo said. “It was a way for people to find highquality natural food at a time when shelf-stable processed foods were surging. Through good business, our commitment to our neighbors and community has grown stronger and we’ve helped many local brands and growers.” Dadomo said shopping at food co-ops like Wheatsville is more socially responsible than shopping at larger retailers. “We’re the only retail grocery co-op in Texas — so that alone is something to be very proud of,” Dadomo
said. “When people support our co-op, they support local growers, vendors, and livable wages and benefits for every staff member.” Marketing sophomore Emily Fu said she shops at Wheatsville because of its unique features. “Wheatsville is a smaller local grocery store that carries locally made goods, and caters to vegetarians, vegans and healthy eaters,” Fu said. “It just seems more varied, unique and interesting to me in terms of their products, and I like that it is just as much a place to eat out as it is a grocery store.”
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proposed legislation but will be happy to engage in conversation with SG when its intent is made clear. “Once the resolution is approved and SG has fully briefed the department on the program and what it needs from police in support, UTPD would be able to comment on its role,” Weldon said. Ross said the University has tremendous resources that are juxtaposed with abject poverty. “This is an opportunity for our students to learn and truly provide for the community in addressing one of society’s longest standing and still most pressing issues,” Ross said.
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continues from page 1 improvement areas. The stretch of Guadalupe Street from Martin Luther King Jr. to 29th Street is one these areas. Others include stretches of land along Burnet Road, North Lamar, Airport Boulevard, East Riverside Drive, East Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard and South Lamar. “We don’t have the expertise on staff and we contract out for this service, rather than hire a staff person [and] get them up to speed on on this type of work,” chief financial officer Elaine Hart said. “We review the work.” City staff said the firm does not make any recommendations to the city; they only present data and work that is to be reviewed.
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Tuition hikes burden cash-strapped students By Khadija Saifullah
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The UT Board of Regents approved a 3.1 percent tuition increase for the next academic year, which will have another 3 percent increase layered on top of it for the 2017-2018 academic year. Coupled with the consistent annual increase in rent, these growing expenses become daunting for underclassmen at the University. “Legislators have a clear duty to balance the priorities for the state, especially when it comes to our budget,” said Huey Rey Fischer, former House District 49 candidate and UT alum. “In that regard, they have failed the students and shut young people out of the political conversations that took place in regard to the increase in tuition. Our legislature opted to spend $800 million on a racist ‘border security scheme’ and millions more on corporate subsidies rather than provide relief for students and their families.” The Tuition Advisory Policy Committee states that the raise will invest in improving four-year graduation rates, research programs, faculty salaries and campus facilities. However, this tuition increase is happening while executives are earning hefty bonuses and adjunct professors are scraping by. The Committee is right: When it comes to improving the quality of education and services at the University, funding is important in allowing the University to reach its potential. But when students in organic
Legislators have a clear duty to balance the priorities for the state, especially when it comes to our budget. In that regard, they have failed the students and shut young people out of the political conversations that took place in regard to the tuition increase. — Huey Rey Fisher, Former House District 49 Candidate
chemistry lab have to wait two hours in line to use a working gas chromatography machine, it is normal to wonder where the annual almost $10,000 payment in tuition actually goes. Coupled with constant increases in rent in West and North campus housing, pursuing higher education will become more financially burdensome on students. For those in the middle class not offered financial aid who must take out loans, college tuition is an immense personal challenge. But higher education is both an individual and a public concern, so families are more willing to take on debt for their child’s future. Graduating with the current average of $30,000 of student debt, while over 40 percent of recent graduates make $25,000 a year or less, is either intimidating or inevitable for many recent college graduates
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William McRaven, UT System Chancellor, speaks at an event on November 22, 2015.
entering the workforce. The University of Texas System has the third largest endowment in the United States, at $24.1 billion, exceeded only by Harvard and Yale. Currently, approximately 40,000 undergraduates pay around $10,000 in tuition a year, which adds up to about $400 million. A tuition increase of 7 percent only comes out to $28 million for undergrads. This 7 percent increase from UT students’ pockets doesn’t help the University as much as it burdens students who have
to take out additional student loans or struggle with paying for higher education. Lt. Governor Dan Patrick rebuked the idea of tuition increases at UT, saying, “Texas higher education institutions are currently funded at historic levels. ... It is my hope, instead of looking at ways to potentially raise tuition in the future, they will look for ways to make college education more affordable for students and families across Texas.” Saifullah is a neuroscience sophomore from Richardson.
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Obama needs to address police violence at SXSW By Sunny Kim
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Texas should be more than cowboy culture By Alyssa Fernandez Daily Texan Columnist @blancoalyssa
The cries of the Alamo and the classic “Come and take it” flag are disappointingly integral parts of Texas culture, whose attraction stems from the rebellious attitude the United States was born in. What isn’t understood is that these bits of folklore are not actual history and are unnecessarily romanticized. Exclusively focusing on these icons marginalizes all other experiences and condenses the diverse history of Texas into a hollow cowboy myth. C.J. Alvarez, assistant professor in the department of Mexican-American Studies, explains how a large portion of the popular portrayal of Texas only focuses on the actions of one group, the American colonists. “I don’t think it is a misrepresentation, but a limited representation,” Alvarez said. “And so if we can stipulate that it’s one of many representations but it’s the one that is privileged, the question becomes what are other legitimate representations?” The lazy answer is that the other legitimate representations of Texas are those directly related to the six flags over Texas, but there is more to the issue. Architecture senior Serena Sonnenberg, co-president of the Native American Indigenous Collective, says that native indigenous groups in Texas have a long history of being mistreated. “A lot of the indigenous groups that were originally here thousands of years ago are still here but are not federally recognized, such as the Coahuiltecans,” said Sonnenberg. “They are not federally recognized because when the U.S. got Texas
to be part of the [Union], they mistreated the indigenous population, so they knew it was safer to just say they were Mexican instead of Native American.” As only 44.4% of Texas’ population is white, the stories of over half the people are continuously ignored. This is not to discredit the contribution of the colonizers to the state history. Instead it’s to point out that their dominance over the culture antagonizes the representation of the people who called Texas home before their arrival. Having Stephen F. Austin, Davy Crockett or the Bush family be the poster children for Texas doesn’t just mislead others, it robs Mexicans, indigenous people and others of their rightful place in Texas history. Why should Texas be George Strait and not Selena Quintanilla? Or a 10-gallon hat instead of a sombrero? More than anything there needs to be validation and for outsiders to see the multi-faceted Texas that is more than ranches and oil barons. It’s time to temporarily retire the cowboy boots and adopt a perspective of Texas that truly represents its diverse population. Unbeknownst to me, Texas Independence Day was last week. I realized my folly when I stumbled into an office party, celebrating the birth of this glorious state and felt completely alienated. Cowboys, tassels and bejeweled crosses heartily paraded state pride with the absence of some major key players — Mexico and indigenous tribes. To many, Texas is synonymous with cowboy culture but that does not represent the home that I recognize. Fernandez is a Spanish and rhetoric and writing major from Allen.
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Yesterday, a grassroots activist-led organization called the Austin Justice Coalition protested the death of David Joseph with members of Black Lives Matter at the Austin City Hall to seek justice. This protest happened a day before President Obama’s interview with Texas Tribune CEO Evan Smith on political participation and climate change will headline South By Southwest. However, the issue that demands attention now is police violence. If you cut through the clutter of local musicians, breakfast tacos and graffiti-ed walls, you can see that Austin, a fun and funky city, still deals with social injustices. President Obama should address police violence at South By Southwest in order to call attention to an issue that is hurting Austin and the country as a whole. David Joseph’s case illustrates the fact that police violence is very real and relevant to our city. On February 8th, police officer Geoffrey Freeman responded to a disturbance call at an apartment complex on Yager Lane. Police reported that Joseph was behaving erratically and aggressively and did not comply to Freeman’s commands. Despite being naked and unarmed, Joseph was shot twice in the abdomen and later died at St. David’s Round Rock Medical Center. Last October, President Obama challenged law enforcement officials to confront the seriousness of police violence. However, the issue still persists today, and instead of just stating its importance, we must act to make any sort of progress. No one should lose their loved
ones to police violence. The fact that a naked and unarmed man was killed in our city needs to be addressed — arguably more so than the topic of climate change. Austin Police Chief Art Acevedo confirmed Monday that investigators have completed an internal inquiry about the controversial shooting. But the department should address this issue on a deeper level because it impacts the city as a whole. In 2015, 965 people were shot and killed by police nationwide. Police violence still continues today as 173 people were shot and killed in the first two months of 2016, averaging to 81.3 lives a month since the beginning of last year. We are on track to lose 1,038 lives this year alone — 73 more than we did last year. While various forms of media have helped call attention to these injustices, it’s not enough to stop the vicious cycle once and for all. President Obama has the influence to help provoke a lasting conversation about these issues. Fatima Mann, one of the co-founders of the Austin Justice Coalition expressed her concerns of social injustice that still exists in Austin. “Austin is a city that prides itself on being inclusive and progressive, yet David Joseph was someone’s son, and gunned down as if an animal,” Mann said. “He was an unclothed minor that deserved his life being seen as worth saving.” President Obama should seize this opportunity to talk about police violence at South By Southwest. The festival is famous for its laidback vibe, but a talk from Obama could promote action concerning an issue to which all Austinites need to pay attention. Kim is a journalism freshman from Austin.
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Texas takes down Pennsylvania By aspen detrick @A_dtrick14
Texas took down No. 70 Pennsylvania 5-2 on Thursday after weather forced the match to be moved from Whitaker Courts to the Weller Indoor Tennis Center. “We knew going into this it was going to be a bit of a dogfight today,” head coach Howard Joffe said. Texas’ No. 13 doubles tandem senior Breaunna Addison and sophomore Dani Wagland beat Penn’s Sonya Latycheva and Kana Daniel at first position 6-4, and the Longhorn duo of junior Neda Koprcina and freshman Daniella Roldan pulled out a 7-5 win over Ria Vaidya and Marta Kowalska at
second position to grab the doubles point. Wagland started singles off defeating Latycheva in two 6-2 sets and was followed by Koprcina who took Penn’s Vaidya to a tiebreaker and came out victorious. Freshman Katie Poluta helped clinch Texas’ early 4-2 triumph over Penn with her three-set win against Quaker Lina Qostal. 8th-ranked Addison still remained at the first singles spot where she battled Penn’s Daniel in three games, 6-4, 3-6 and 6-4 where she held serve and held on to carry the Longhorns to a 5-2 final win. Despite the win, Joffe wasn’t happy with the way his team played. “There’s no question that
Crouser eyes fourth NCAA title of career By leah Vann
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Zoe fu | Daily Texan file photo Sophomore Dani Wagland hits the ball in the team’s win over No. 4 Michigan on March 5. Texas beat Pennsylvania Thursday.
our group is a bit depleted,” he said. “We are 10 days away from starting conference play. Certainly, we’ll need to perform better”. Texas resumes play with a
home game Tuesday at noon against Princeton. The Longhorns finish off spring break with two away matches at Kansas on Friday and Kansas State on Sunday.
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Longhorns set for 10-game road trip By isabel Miller
Senior center fielder Lindsey Stephens swings at the ball during the team’s 3-0 loss to Tulsa on Feb. 26.
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Rain has been a thorn in the Longhorns’ side this week. Inclement weather forced Texas to push up its game against UTSA on Tuesday and caused the Longhorns to cancel their Wednesday match with North Texas. But now, No. 25 Texas gets back to playing in tournaments this weekend when it travels to Arlington for the Maverick Challenge this weekend. Texas will play Samford and UT-Arlington on Friday, and finish with Arizona on Saturday. Arizona is No. 20 in the country while UTA, the host team, is undefeated. Texas is led by senior center fielder Lindsey Stephens, who has been on fire lately. Since moving to the leadoff position four games ago, Stephens has batted .786 with six runs scored, three doubles, two triples, a HR and six RBIs.
Men’s track and field
Ryan Crouser is no stranger to throwing. His father, Mitch, competed as an alternate discus thrower for the 1984 U.S. Olympic Team. His uncles, Brian and Dean, both won national championships in throwing events, and Brian competed in the 1988 and 1992 Olympics. His cousin, Sam, is also currently a senior javelin competitor at the University of Oregon. Now, Crouser is looking to continue the family tradition by winning his fourth NCAA title this weekend at the NCAA Indoor Championships in Birmingham, Alabama . “I just started in fifth grade on my middle school team like everyone else,” Crouser said. “My dad and family never pushed me to pursue it, but I was surrounded by good coaches.” This is Crouser’s fifth year on the team after being redshirted his sophomore year for indoor track. He’s currently pursuing a master’s degree in finance and taking classes from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. every day with training in between. While the master’s program pushes him to enter the job market, Crouser hopes to compete professionally and earn a spot on the Olympic
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The Longhorns have a rich history against UTA, dominating them over the years with a record of 23-2. They’ve never played Samford and haven’t played Arizona since 2009. Last year, the Longhorns shut out UTA 8-0, with the mercy rule ending the game in the fifth inning. Sophomore catcher Randel Leahy led the
way in that game with a career high three hits, two home runs and 5 RBIs. Prior to that game, Texas had not played the Mavericks since 2011. However, for the first time in six years and only the sixth time in this matchup, the Mavericks will be playing against Texas on their home field. It is also a homecoming of sorts for assistant coach
Corrie Hill. She played for and graduated from UTA in 1991, and also started her coaching career with the Mavericks. She helped them to the league crown and was named to the All- Southland Conference first team and all-tournament team in 1989. The tournament also begins a string of 10-straight road games for Texas.
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Senior thrower Ryan Crouser eyes his fourth NCAA title. Texas travels to the NCAA Indoor Championships this weekend.
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team this summer. “Right now, I just train when I can,” Crouser said. “I’m taking 14 hours of classes in a graduate program that typically only requires nine. Professionally, I will be training five to six times a week and traveling to meets.” This will be the last weekend Crouser will wear the burnt orange as he travels to Birmingham, Alabama, to compete for his fourth title in the shot put at the NCAA meet. His throw of 21.73 meters at the Big 12 Championships tied the previously set NCAA record from 2008. “This is a special time for Crouser, because he will finish off his career for Texas with the indoor season,” head coach, Mario Sategna said, “He’ll go out and have fun, but he was always great because he expected to push the envelope and try to win.” Crouser is currently on the Bowerman Award watch list. The award is given annually to the best college track and field athlete and is considered to be the most prestigious award in college track and field. But Crouser’s main focus remains on going out on top. “The guy who set the record before me set it at the NCAA meet,” Crouser said. “So that’s my goal, to break my record at the NCAA meet.”
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The Longhorns’ Big 12 tournament run was over before it had a chance to start. Texas opened its quarterfinal match up against Baylor hitting just five of its first 23 shots, allowing the Bears to jump out to an early 25-12 lead. The Longhorns eventually fell 75-61 Thursday afternoon, its first loss in its opening round of the conference tournament game since 2005. “It’s a tough pill to swallow saying that right now after I know this game meant so much to us, but for them to — for me to say they out worked us is tough,” head coach Shaka Smart said. The team started the game strong, taking an 8-6 lead behind six quick points from senior forward Connor Lammert. But the game soon turned into a repeat of the last meeting between the two teams on Feb. 27. The Longhorns struggled again to find offense against the Bears’ 1-3-1 zone, resorting back to passing the ball around the perimeter for most of their possessions. When the ball found its way to the paint, Texas struggled to make shots. The Longhorns made just two shots in over a 10-minute span and got out rebounded 15-6 on that end. “Their zone is tough,” Lammert said. “They have some long guys and they’re very active. But we didn’t hit
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Senior forward Connor Lammert looks to pass against two Kansas defenders on Feb. 29. Lammert had 15 points in the Big 12 Tournament quarterfinals against Baylor, but Texas lost 75-61.
those shots. We had some good looks, though.” Meanwhile, the Bears used the opportunity to run away and hide with the game. Baylor went on a 19-8 run behind 7-of-14 shooting and eight offensive rebounds, en route to a 38-27 halftime lead. Texas, however, didn’t go away quietly in the second half. Junior forward Shaquille Cleare began finding success down, scoring six of his 12 points early in the second half to keep the Longhorns in
the game. Senior Prince Ibeh followed that up with eight points down in the paint. Lammert and freshman guard Kerwin Roach also added 11 and 6 points respectively as the Longhorns trimmed a 19-point deficit to 8 points with 5:08 left to play. But Baylor senior forward Taurean Prince proved to be too much for the Longhorns. Prince scored 14 of his game-high 24 points in the second half to lift the Bears to the 75-61 win.
Smart said they knew Prince would be a threat, but simply failed to keep from scoring. “He’s going to shoot a lot, it’s just a matter of how efficient he is,” Smart said. “And we allowed him to be too comfortable. When you give a guy like that comfort, he’s going to have a big game.” The Longhorns are still a lock to make the NCAA tournament despite the loss. Texas will learn its fate for the tournament on Sunday night when the brackets are released.
But the Longhorns have now lost five of their last nine games, including blowout defeats to Baylor and Kansas. Still, Smart said he’s not worried about the loss of momentum headed into the NCAA tournament. “To me, as a coach, it’s more about we’ve got to play better, you know, and all the things that go into that,” Smart said. “So momentum would be great. We don’t have that. But what’s more important is all the things that go into winning.”
Longhorns searching for seventh NCAA title By spencer soicher @spencersoicher
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Junior first baseman Kacy Clemens celebrates during Texas’ 12-3 win over Sam Houston State on March 8. Clemens has had an injury plagued career but is back for Texas.
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Texas limped to the locker room on March 3 as the Longhorns fell to California 4–1 at UFCU-Disch Falk Field. The Longhorns’ lineup was stifled throughout, mustering just five hits against the Bears pitching. Texas’ bats has been slumbering through the season, with frustration mounting in the dugout. But the game had a lone bright spot — junior first baseman Kacy Clemens snuck a home run around the right-field foul pole, giving the Longhorns their lone run of the matchup. While inconsequential to the final result, the solo shot was impactful to Clemens. It marked his first home run in nearly two years, when Clemens smacked a ball over the fence at Tointon Stadium in Manhattan, Kansas. “All I know is [the umpire] called it fair, so it goes down as a home run in my book,” Clemens said. “I felt like I had a good approach at the plate and put a good swing on the ball.” Clemens’ time in burnt orange has been a tumultuous
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one. The right-hander has been marred by injuries, with his sophomore season ending a month early due to an elbow injury. But Clemens is back. Clemens was able to complete a full offseason without injury rehab for the first time since high school in 2016. And thirteen games into his junior season, Clemens has driven in nine runs, tied for the top-spot on Texas’ roster. “It was tough for him not to be in the lineup,” head coach Augie Garrido said. “But he’s been able to come back and play like we think he can.” In addition to the full offseason, Clemens has another reason for his newfound success; a pair of stylish specs. Clemens began wearing glasses to the plate in late February, helping beset his astigmatism. But Clemens’ has been hesitant to credit the focus of his eyes. Instead, he stresses the newfound focus of his mind. “This fall was my first to really hit with the coaches,” Clemens said. “We’ve really worked on my approach at the plate and trying to get more consistent.”
We can swing it, it’s just a matter of time. You can see how many bats and how many weapons we have to put runs on the board.
The Longhorns celebrated after winning their third Big 12 Indoor Championship. But the goal remains bigger. Texas will be in Birmingham, Alabama, this weekend to compete in the NCAA Indoor Championship. A win would be the Longhorns’ first national title since 2006. Texas comes into the event at No. 5 in the country after an impressive performance in the conference championships where it overwhelmingly took the conference title. The women have won six national titles in program history, but finished sixth last season. The Longhorns are banking on their 4x400m relay. The Longhorns were able to win the event last year and its time of 3:27.94. This year’s team made up of senior Courtney Okolo, junior Chrisann Gordon, senior Morolake Akinosun and sophomore Ariel Jones wants
the NCAA record this year. “We were close to the NCAA record,” Okolo said. “We were a couple tenths of a second off, so we are looking forward to just trying to win first and doing the best that we can. We want to come together and do our best on that day. Last year’s time was fourth in collegiate history. Akinosun will also compete in the 60m with freshman Teahna Daniels. “It is going to be real competitive,” Okolo said. “So hopefully the competitiveness will produce fast times that will potentially break the collegiate record.” Head coach Mario Sategna said the Longhorns will continue to build on their past experiences heading into the weekend. “I think for us, just go in there make the finals and do what you’ve done to this point,” Sategna said. “I think we’re going to all be very proud of these men and women once we leave Birmingham.”
—Kacy Clemens, Junior first baseman
The Longhorns’ struggles to score in 2016 have been well documented. Texas has been shut out twice in thirteen contests, and have averaged just over two runs per game in seven losses. But a 12–3 victory over Sam Houston State on Tuesday has Texas back on track. Clemens said he’s confident in the Longhorn’s offensive ability as they head to Los Angeles for a threegame series with UCLA, beginning Friday at 8 p.m. “We can swing it, it’s just a matter of time,” Clemens said. “You can see how many bats and how many weapons we have to put runs on the board.”
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Senior sprinter Courtney Okolo and the Longhorns will compete in the NCAA Indoor Championships this weekend.
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SPORTS BRIEFLY Men’s tennis traveling to San Diego
The Longhorns will travel to San Diego, California, this weekend to compete in dual matchplay against the University of San Diego. Senior Michael Riechmann and sophomore Adrian Ortiz are featured at No. 44 in the latest ITA doubles rankings. The duo is 8-4 this season in dual match-play. George Goldhoff posted a 17-10 singles mark, including an 8-6 record in dual matches last season as a sophomore. He scored his first ranked win of the season last weekend at Wake Forest. This season he has already defeated No. 13 Oklahoma twice and No. 12 USC. In doubles, Goldhoff and partner redshirt-freshman Julian Zlobinsky also hold a 7-5 doubles record. In singles, Zlobinsky holds a 7-2 record. Sophomore Adrian Ortiz is off to a strong start in 2016 with a 6-3 singles record. Ortiz knocked off Washington’s 121st-ranked Jake Douglas and UCSB’s 81st-ranked Nicolas Moreno earlier this season when Texas traveled to Seattle. Match play will begin at noon on Saturday. —Alana Kaufman
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Willie Nelson mural brightens downtown By Kartik Sridhar @Kartik_42
Between the iconic “Hi, How Are You?” and displays of Texas pride, Austin’s prominent murals are as ingrained in the city’s culture as breakfast tacos and live music. So when local muralist Wiley Ross and UT alumnus Adam Brewer found themselves with a blank, gray wall, they knew just what to fill it with — a 60-by-20-foot likeness of beloved musician Willie Nelson. The inspiration behind the mural, which is located on the corner of Seventh and Neches Streets, had been around for a while, artist Wiley Ross said. “Adam Brewer and I had been wanting to paint that big wall for four years,” Ross said. “When we finally got the goahead from the landlord, we chose Willie Nelson — he’s just one of those people that everybody loves.” That sentiment particularly resonates in his home state Texas, where his fandom transcends music and propels him into multi-faceted stardom. So much so that, according to Texas Tribune, Nelson received 22 write-in votes in Travis and Tarrant counties during the 2012 presidential election.
Getting approval for the mural was a difficult and timeconsuming process. Brewer, the commissioner of the mural, said funding was originally hard to come by, because they needed permission from both the building owner and Nelson himself. Brewer said he capitalized on the release of Nelson’s new album, Summertime, to get authorization from Nelson’s manager Mark Rothbaum. After Nelson shared an article about the mural on his Facebook page, which received over 7,000 likes, helping with the publicity of Heart of Texas Rockfest. Started by Brewer in 1999 while he was a film student at UT, the Rockfest music festival was originally created to showcase overlooked local talent. “I felt like a bunch of my friends – musicians and filmmakers alike – weren’t being represented at SXSW,” Brewer said. “Though [Rockfest] started small, we expanded to nightclubs around the city before finding our permanent location in 2007. This year’s four-day, four-night festival is the biggest production we’ve ever had.” Now in its 17th year, Brewer said Rockfest will likely get an influx of concert-goers from the popularity of the mural.
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Wiley Ross, local muralist, is one of two artists to work on the Willie Nelson located on the corner of Seventh and Neches street.
Ross said the process was both unusual and grueling, as he was working up to 13-hour days in the sun to complete the painting in six days. “In order to make the likeness as accurate as possible, I would generally use a
MOVIE REVIEW: ‘10
By Stephen Acevedo @thedailytexan
Cloverfield follow-up exploits paranoia to craft genuine terror Forget everything about the original “Cloverfield.” The hectic found-footage style is gone. There’s no giant monster ravaging a city. In their place is a taut, Hitchcockian triller set in just a few rooms and a smaller, yet scarier, threat. Produced by J.J. Abrams and helmed by first-time director Dan Trachtenberg, “10 Cloverfield Lane” is less a sequel than a spiritual successor. Like “Cloverfield,” it thrusts ordinary characters into extraordinary situations that push them beyond their limits. For fans of the original, there’s a science-fiction element that lurks beneath the film’s surface — or rather, above it. The picture mostly takes place in an underground bunker. Michelle (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) wakes up inside it after a near-fatal car accident and finds herself captive to a controlling survivalist, Howard (John Goodman). Howard tells Michelle that America has been attacked by chemical weapons, poisoning the air, but Michelle doesn’t believe him and stages an escape. Though a reliable scream queen for some time now, Winstead switches gear and shows off some serious butt-kicking skills in “10 Cloverfield Lane.” Her heroine is intelligent, tough and resourceful from the start, easily putting all damsels-in-distress to shame.
“The mural is not necessarily done,” Brewer said. “[Ross] is going to see if he can do some more work to it. Maybe we’ll add some other Texas legends like Stevie Ray Vaughn or Janice Joplin, we haven’t decided yet.”
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Brewer said Austin may soon see more artwork that celebrates the rich musical history of Texas. Though Brewer and Ross have not yet decided on whom to add, they have some preliminary ideas that would keep Nelson in good company.
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“10 Cloverfield Lane” keeps audiences on the edge of their seats with captivating performances from Mary Elizabeth Winstead, John Gallagher Jr. (pictured) and John Goodman.
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projector, but the lighting wouldn’t allow me to,” Ross said. “Instead I had to go oldschool and graph it out. Behind the paint in that mural is a scaled up grid of Willie’s face.” Building on the momentum that the mural generated,
Michelle stops short of escaping the bunker when she discovers Howard is telling the truth: The world outside has indeed been attacked by an unknown force. When Michelle realizes the bunker is her only hope for survival, she begins to enjoy a relatively comfortable existence with Howard and the only other occupant, Emmett (John Gallagher Jr.), a local slacker. Gallager’s Emmett is immediately likable, an everyman swept up by the cruelness of fate and a touching male counterpart for Michelle. Howard, however, is initially creepy, only revealing capacity for kindness when he warms up to Michelle. Goodman balances Howard’s sometimes tyrannical exterior with his charming comic sensibilities, and for much of the 105-minute running time, the audience is never quite sure what kind of person Howard is. In non-spoiler terms, his performance is rave-worthy material. After the measured, slowpaced first half, a maintenance chore leads Michelle to a horrifying discovery about the bunker that reignites her need to escape, and the story kicks into o v e r d r i v e . Tr a c h t e n b e rg proves a masterful crafter of suspense and thrills, fully exploiting the film’s suffocating location and our fear of the enemies who lurk in plain sight. He also sets up later events with smaller moments, drawing focus to random items for seemingly no reason and later
having Michelle put them to good use as weapons or survival gear. It helps that the script, written by Josh Campbell, Matthew Stuecken and Damien Chazelle, provides the unpredictability thrillers thrive on. Like Hitchcock, Trachtenberg tends to visually highlight story beats and themes. An early shot of Michelle abandoning her engagement ring is far more effective than listening to a sad phone call. In the bunker, he and cinematographer Jeff Cutter often frame the shots of the three characters with Michelle situated between Howard and Emmett, who face each other while she recedes back from the camera, emphasizing her tendency to withdraw from conflict. But “10 Cloverfield Lane” revolves around the mystery. What really happened outside the bunker? What dangers lie in store? The answer is delivered in the film’s final ten minutes, and it is, inevitably, kind of underwhelming. That’s not to say the last part of the movie is bad — it’s tensely staged, bombastic and just plain mad. One could say it is even triumphant. Perhaps Trachtenberg and company were setting themselves up to disappoint, because while the threat Michelle faces on the surface is definitely monstrous, it is the bunker that serves up the film’s best scares. Evil without a face is terrifying, but evil with a face? That’s something else.
Austinites of all backgrounds can be found on Sixth Street any given weekend enjoying cheap mixed drinks. Sourced Craft Cocktails is offering people the chance to opt out of a regrettable night on Sixth with their cocktail delivery service. Founded by Tim Angelillo, Sourced Craft Cocktails delivers the ingredients and instructions necessary for customers to create their own craft cocktails at home. “What we do is make it easy to have a great cocktail experience at home,” Angelillo said. “We’re interested in providing something far beyond a vodka soda.” Sourced Craft Cocktails offers customers a weekly curated menu of drinks to choose from. Customers select a beverage and quantity, and Sourced packages and delivers the necessary ingredients and barware in a barrel at their doorstep in under three hours. “A core difference between ourselves and other alcohol delivery services is that they’ll deliver you a bottle, and we’ll delivery you a complete experience,” Angelillo said. When customers are
finished, they don’t have to do any cleanup, leaving dirty tools and glassware in the barrels outside their home for a Sourced employee to retreive. Sourced makes sure its customers are paying for something they cannot go out and buy anywhere else. Angelillo said their creative director, Brian Floyd, is one of the top ten mixologists in the world. He is one of the only ten mixologists to be trained by the legendary Sasha Petraske, considered to be the “godfather of the modern cocktail movement.” Almost every Sourced cocktail ingredient, aside from the alcohol itself, is made fresh daily. Even the ice is hand-carved by Sourced employees according to what is most appropriate for each cocktail. “We bring you the proper ice because ultimately what heat is to cooking, ice is to cocktails,” Angelillo said. “It’s impossible to have a great one without the proper ice.” Government senior Alex Martinez said he could tell that Sourced paid close attention to detail with his cocktail set. “I ordered the Black Cherry Old Fashioned, and it was fantastic,” Martinez said. “The drink honestly would’ve probably been pretty shitty
without that block of ice, though. I think normal ice would’ve made it just taste like water when it melted.” Aside from serving a community of cocktail lovers, Sourced tries to use its success to serve the Austin community as a whole. Angelillo said tips given to Sourced deliverymen are donated to the Barman’s Association, a nonprofit that uses alcohol tip money to buy nonperishable goods for those in need. Although Sourced delivers alcoholic beverages directly to customer’s homes, its delivery method does not allow underage consumers to purchase alcohol. When a customer is purchasing a Sourced barrel, they age-verify him or her with his or her credit card company, as well as require an in-person presentation of a valid ID and the credit card used to make the purchase. Sourced’s social media manager Drew Ricketti said its most valuable asset is the enthusiasm its employees show for what they are doing. “The people working here are some of the brightest and most passionate people,” Ricketti said. “Sourced is special because each one of us is ardently obsessed with our consumers’ experiences.”
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