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STUDENT GOVERNMENT
Executive alliance campaigning starts By Rachel Lew @rachelannlew
Students will vote in a new election for the Student Government executive alliance after the Election Supervisory Board and Dean of Student’s office did not certify the results of the original election. Zachary Long, ESB vice chair and human relations sophomore, said the violation stems from the presence of UT Supreme Court justices at each of the ESB hearings. UT law professor Jeana
Lungwitz was appointed as appellate hearings officer to make decisions on the original complaint appeals. “Our decisions were upheld by the hearings officer in the new appellate process,” Long said. “Because we cannot go back in time and apply the rulings to the old election, the only way to ensure there is a fair election is to hold a brand new one.” Campaigning will begin Monday, March 21; voting at utexasvote.org will begin Wednesday, March 23 at 8 a.m. and end on Thursday,
March 24 at 5 p.m. with results being announced at 6:30 p.m., Long said. Long said there will be a spending limit of $150 for this week of campaigning for each campaign team. “It’s a new spending limit just for this campaign period,” Long said. “Campaigns can use everything they purchased and used in the original campaign period, as long as it was disclosed on one of the three disclosures.” Long said the upheld
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CAMPUS
Irrigation technology helps UT save water By Cassandra Jaramillo @cassandrajar
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Students await the results of Student Government elections March 3. Results for executive alliance were not announced, and students will vote to decide a new president and vice president this week.
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Surprise performer Drake peforms a set at The Fader Fort presented by Converse during South By Southwest on Saturday March 19. Drake and other OVO Sound artists performed after Yo Gotti, the headlining act.
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Heavy rains before spring break filled up the four cisterns behind the Belo Center of New Media, which were nearly empty two weeks ago. Now, the four tanks that hold 7,000 gallons each are full and ready to be used for irrigation. The University collects 460,000 gallons of rainwater a year to reuse for irrigation purposes as part of its water conservation efforts. “All this rainfall is great,” Markus Hogue, program coordinator for irrigation and water conservation, said. “The irrigation [system] stays off. The tanks get full and when we actually need the water, the system will divvy it up.” Before 2011, it took two days for a facilities team to turn on or off each of the 109 irrigation units at the University, and it took 175 million gallons to irrigate campus each year. In the last five years, the University has reduced water usage on irrigation by 60 percent to about 60 million gallons a year because of its new irrigation technology system. From a flat screen computer in his office, Hogue monitors and generates reports from the data the controllers gather from irrigation zones. The proprietary software uses algorithms to look at the amount of rainfall and the evapotranspiration rate of water in the
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Increased crime during SXSW Buzzer-beating prayer ousts prompts response from police Longhorns in deflating defeat By Mikaela Cannizzo
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South By Southwest draws a huge influx of people to Austin each year, but the Austin Police Department also sees an increase in crime during this week of interactive, film and music events. According to APD reports, crime in downtown Austin increased nearly 50 percent during March 2015 compared to the monthly average. Misdemeanors and felonies related to alcohol and violence specifically increased during the week of the festival last year. Tim Pruett, commander of special events for APD, said crime rates for this year’s festival seemed to be similar to the 2015 record. In 2015, a total of 146 arrests took place downtown
OKLAHOMA CITY — Just like that, the Longhorns’ time in the NCAA tournament was over. Junior guard Isaiah Taylor tied the game at 72 with 2.7 seconds left to play, and with Northern Iowa declining to call its final timeout, all 15,279 fans in Chesapeake Energy Arena believed overtime would be needed to decided the first round contest. With a second left, Panthers senior guard Paul Jesperson heaved up a prayer — and it was answered. The Longhorns shuffled out of the arena, victims of a miracle shot in the tournament and losers in the first round for the second-straight year. “It’s March Madness,” Taylor said. “If it’s going to happen, it’s going to happen during this
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Austin Police Department officers patrol during South By Southwest 2014. In an attempt to combat increased crime during SXSW, APD increases its officer presence downtown by about ten percent.
time of year. They made one more shot than us.” The miracle buzzer shot upended a valiant comeback by the Longhorns. Despite all the talk of a different team, the first twenty minutes of the game played out as a similar script to Texas’ loss to Baylor in the Big 12 Tournament. The Longhorns opened with a 9-2 lead, but then slipped back into their struggling, sluggish selves — and Northern Iowa was happy to take advantage of it. The Panthers rattled off ten straight buckets interspersed with nine free throws. Guards Wes Washpun and Jeremy Morgan cut to the lane with ease, combining for 20 first half points. The Longhorns, meanwhile, couldn’t muster a response. Only Taylor’s 16 points kept Northern Iowa’s lead from growing larger than 16 in the
during the festival between 9 p.m. and 3 a.m. each night, according to police reports. Pruett said theft, public intoxication and assault are the most frequently occurring crimes during the festival. “We have some DWIs,
but the majority of [the arrests] are people getting intoxicated and causing disturbances or fights,” Pruett said. “This is normal for a weekend downtown, but it’s more prevalent during the
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first half. But then, for once, Texas responded. It started with an inauspicious last-second three-pointer by senior guard Javan Felix to end the half and cut the deficit to eight. Then after the break, the deficit shrunk. Shots began to fall for the Longhorns, who made four of their first five shots out of the break. Meanwhile, the Panthers went ice cold, making just one shot in the first 7:55 of the second half. The resulted turned out to be a 22-3 run and a five-point lead with less than 12 minutes to play. “I thought this was about as well as we’ve responded to getting down all year,” head coach Shaka Smart said. “Our guys, the things they were saying in the timeouts and the look on
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