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UHS campaign promotes HPV awareness By Hannah Daniel @hannahdaniel
University Health Services (UHS) has launched the “Guard your Goods” campaign to raise awareness of human papillomavirus (HPV), the most common sexually transmitted infection. The mission of the campaign, which was developed in collaboration with Plan II senior Connor Hughes, is to educate and inform students not only about how common and serious HPV is, but also how preventable it is.
The campaign began with a research study conducted by Hughes for his senior thesis that showed low awareness and vaccination rates among UT students. UHS health education promoter Susan Kirtz said awareness of the infection is relatively low, possibly because many cases go undetected and clear up without treatment. However, in other cases, HPV can cause genital warts or cancer. One misconception the campaign hopes to dispel is that HPV is only a women’s disease. Although women are
more likely to get cancer as a result of HPV, over 7,000 U.S. men also develop cancer as a result of the STI each year, according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention. Petroleum engineering freshman John Trueblood said he has some knowledge about HPV because his mother, a doctor, encouraged him to be immunized for STIs, but the general population of college students may not possess the same knowledge. “I think it’s really great to
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Texas seeks to improve quality of college prep By Caleb Wong @caleber96
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As part of his senior thesis, Plan II senior Connor Hughes is partnering with University Health Services to raise awareness about human papillomavirus.
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Natural sciences freshman Noah Wyborny, right, gets his blood drawn at a blood drive hosted by Delta Sigma Phi at the McCombs Hall of Honors on Tuesday afternoon.
Texas students are not as college-ready as their peers in other states, the state’s higher education commissioner told the higher education and education committees Tuesday. The commissioner, Raymund Paredes, raised concerns over low SAT scores, which are used in part to measure college-readiness in school districts. According to the College Board, which administers the SAT, Texas ranks 45th among the 50 states in terms of SAT scores. “We’re close to the bottom of SAT scores, so that’s cause for alarm,” Paredes said. “Students have to be ready for college, and we can’t just send them there.” The committees met in joint session at the Capitol to discuss preparing high school students adequately for college in Texas. The meeting comes after Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick directed the education committee to review the state’s mission to study the components of the state’s 60x30 higher education plan: dual credit, credit transfer from high school to college and fields of study. The plan aims for 60 percent of 25- to 34-yearolds to earn some sort of postsecondary credential by 2030. “These charges are critical to assure that good Texas schools are available to every Texas child and that our academic institutions can educate and train the workforce Texas needs to continue to compete in the global marketplace,” Patrick said in a statement
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Teach for America founder gives speech on inequality
Dimitroff campaign drafts revised election code
By Vera Bespalova @thedailytexan
The United States was founded on the principle of equality for all. However, for millions of children living in poverty across the nation, educational inequity is still a major factor holding them back from the promises of prosperity. Last night, Wendy Kopp, the founder of Teach For America (TFA) and Teach For All, spoke to students and alumni in the Shirley Bird Perry Ballroom about the issues faced by these children and how her organization is working to end this inequality, both in the U.S. and worldwide. Teach for America is a national nonprofit teacher corps that recruits recent college graduates to serve as teachers.
TFA was born out of an idea proposed in Kopp’s undergraduate thesis during her time at Princeton. “I was a public policy major, but more importantly, just a concerned college student,” Kopp said. “Just realizing that this country, which I thought was a place of equality, really wasn’t one.” After graduating, Kopp founded Teach For America in 1990 with a charter corps of 384 recent college graduates. Today, the organization has over 50,000 corps members and alumni, with UT contributing the most new members over the past few years compared to any other university. “I didn’t really see myself going into business. I didn’t
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By Rachel Lew @rachelannlew
Several entities have expressed dissatisfaction with the current election code and called for a revised election code following the series of complaints and appeals in this year’s Student Government (SG) executive alliance process. Student body presidential candidate Kallen Dimitroff, government and history senior, said she has drafted a more streamlined election code to address areas she feels are unclear. “This election process wasn’t done very well, and I think a lot of it has to do with the fact that the code was very badly written,” Dimitroff said. “The revised version is a lot shorter. We took out a lot of the language that was con-
fusing for students, we took out fines and we removed the rules that were added in response to very specific situations. I cut out almost everything, and I would say it’s a pretty reformed version.” Dimitroff said her revised version of the election code is not meant to be a final draft. “I wanted students to be able to give feedback about this document, and it was created with the intent of being transparent to the student body,” Dimitroff said. “It has to be brought before the SG assembly, and it has to be revised there. It will go through a pretty rigorous inspection.” Zachary Long, vice chair of the Election Supervisory Board (ESB) and human relations sophomore, said he agrees the election code should be revised but has not read Dimitroff ’s draft to
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Executive alliance candidates Kallen Dimitroff and Jesse Guadiana wait for the announcement of election results in
maintain impartiality in this year’s election. “There are some parts [of the current code] that aren’t very clear and are open for interpretation,” Long said. “The code also doesn’t say which specific actions warrant certain classes of viola-
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tions. It was up to the ESB and the UT Supreme Court to interpret the code and use precedent to determine classes of violations.” Long said five entities — University Co-op, University Unions, Texas Student Media,
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