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Hinojosa vows to focus on education By Forrest Milburn @forrestmilburn
Gina Hinojosa saw stunning examples of public servants dedicating their lives to their communities almost everyday in the form of her parents, both legal aid lawyers. Despite growing up in that world, Hinojosa — who has served on the Austin ISD School Board since 2012 — didn’t think she would ever want to be a part of it. “When you’re in public service, it’s like you belong to everybody,” Hinojosa said. “I
didn’t like that my dad belonged to everybody, I wanted him to belong just to us.” After serving on the board, Hinojosa decided to jump into a crowded field of candidates for an open state House of Representatives race so she could move the needle at the state level on one of her top priorities: education. “We’ve been making good progress [at the board], but our biggest challenge is funding,” Hinojosa said. “That’s a state issue. So whenthis seat came open, I just felt like I had to try.” Earlier this month, Hinojosa
emerged victorious from the pack of six other qualified candidates for House District 49 with around 57 percent of the vote, avoiding a runoff election. Although he remained neutral throughout the campaign, longtime state Rep. Elliott Naishtat — who is currently serving in the interim session until the legislature reconvenes next year — said he was pleased his successor aligns with his stances, including opposing campus carry, and prioritizes public health and education funding. “She is focused on issues I’ve
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Gina Hinojosa won the District 49 election with 57 percent of the vote. Hinojosa hopes to reform education in Texas as the newly elected representative.
Akinosun shines, sets record at Texas Relays By Jacob Martella @ViewFromTheBox
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The Nike Clyde Littlefield Texas Relays have been around for 89 years, but the 21,006 fans that filled Mike A. Myers Stadium on Saturday afternoon saw something that’s never happened in the event’s history. Texas senior Morolake Akinosun flew by the packed and brightly colored east stands of the stadium and cruised by her competition in the women’s 100-meter dash. The senior crossed the finish line with a time of 11.07 seconds, taking her third-straight win in the race — a first for the Texas Relays. “I realized about halfway through the training season that I could be the first one to ever do that,” Akinosun said. “It’s an incredible feeling.” The moment, however, was slightly bittersweet for the Illinois native. Her teammate, freshman Teahna Daniels,
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Senior Morolake Akinosun sprints ahead of a Purdue runner during one of the weekend’s relay events. Akinosun won the 100-meter-dash for the third straight year at the Texas Relays — a record for the historic meet.
The UT System responded Thursday to a request from top state officials asking for information on student debt, college loan affordability and college completion rates. The system’s report defended recent tuition increases as necessary to the quality of their institutions. The letter cited statistics showing that UT-Austin students typically only pay 40 percent of the listed tuition price and that net tuition in 2014 was $500 less than in 2004 after tuition de-regulation. “UT System institutions are among the most affordable in the state, and modest tuition increases will not impact that,” according to the report. Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick and Senator Kel Seliger, chairman of the Senate Higher Education Committee, said they were “alarmed” by recent tuition increases at UT System institutions in a letter written in early March. The 84th legislature, the letter pointedly said, had provided for a “dramatic” increase in funding for higher education. “It is discouraging to see Texas Higher Education institutions seek to increase the financial burden faced by students and their families rather than developing methods to cut costs,” said Patrick and Seliger in the letter. “The cost of higher education must remain at
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Thousands of students gather RoundUp rounds up nearly on LBJ lawn for Holi festivities $100,000 for several charities By Anusha Lalani
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Booming music, thousands of bodies and colored powder filled the air around the LBJ lawn as students gathered to celebrate the Hindu celebration, Holi. Hosted by the Hindu Student Association, Holi, which is celebrated every year, involves public dancing and singing as students throw different colored powders at each other’s faces and bodies. Health and society junior Krishan Sachdev, who is the financial director of HSA, said Holi is a festivity that symbolizes two significances — one spiritual and the other for the coming of a new season. “The religious and spiritual significance behind is that everyone is joined and unified by color,” Sachdev said. “There’s no race there’s nothing, it’s all love. The second significance is celebrating the incoming of spring. Back in India all the
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Rang, or colored powder, is thrown in the air during the annual Holi festival, which was hosted by the Hindu Students Association.
New fundraising efforts by UT Interfraternity Council (IFC) and University Panhellenic Council (UPC) for the 86th annual RoundUp weekend attracted more than 15,000 people and raised nearly $100,000 for charities. This year, IFC increased its prices on non-UT students wristbands. IFC Stephanie Martinez-Arndt | Daily Texan Staff charged $20 per wrist- Members of the Texas Baseball Diamonds attend a party band for non-UT students, hosted by Sigma Chi on Saturday during RoundUp weekend. compared to $10 last year. RoundUp is free for UT lanthropy chair, said this lanthropy and social situathe organization tions and although it doesn’t students, but this year UPC year held a fast-pass option that chose the B+ Foundation get the same attention, we charged students $10 dol- as its main charity. The choose to do the philanthrolars to cut in wristband foundation helps children py because it feels good.” Will Deer, finance julines. IFC and UPC donated fighting cancer. “I think the Greek com- nior and IFC president, said money raised with wristband sales and personal munity is a great commu- many fraternities and sororidonations to charities of nity of adults,” Sparr said. ties have sponsored children “People focus a lot on the in the foundation, and detheir choice. Wesley Sparr, finance negative [aspect] of Greek cided to use RoundUp as the sophomore and IFC phi- life. We strive in school, phi-
sources of income were farming, [and] the winter was a very, very harsh time. This was the start of the new crops and the better weather.” Sachdev also said this religious celebration allows people be themselves and not worry about the outside world. “Our goal is to get every person of race and gender to join in and celebrate just being
alive and being happy and just unify as one; to bond,” Sachdev said. “Everyone looses the stress of the social life and joins in as one body.” More than 9,000 people attended the event this year, and the number of attendees has increased by 1,000 each year, Sachdev said. Business freshman Kristen
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a level that is within reach of all Texans.” Tuition will be raised by $300 at UT-Austin by fall 2017, the first time tuition has increased since 2011. Asked about plans to reduce student loan debt, the System report said 51 percent of students borrow money to attend UT-Austin compared to the national average of 69 percent. According to the report, programs such as the University Leadership Network and the Texas Interdisciplinary Plan help more students at risk of not graduating to graduate on time from UT in four years. According to the Tuition Policy Advisory Committee, the state has only restored $50 million of funding to UT after cutting $92 million of funding in 2012-2013. “For the education that we’re getting, we’re on the cheaper end,” said Xavier Rotnofsky, Student Government president and Plan II and
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linguistics senior. “In order to maintain where we are with our education and academics, tuition does need to be adjusted accordingly because if the state isn’t going to fund us, there’s no other place we’re going to get that money from.” In a separate letter addressed to Patrick and Seliger, UT President Gregory Fenves said UT has an “exemplary record of offering an affordable education to all Texans.” Fenves included information
in the letter showing that UT receives less funding from the state compared to other schools while keeping tuition low. “While tuition increases are never desirable, the UT-Austin proposal approved by the Board of Regents was designed to maintain the balance of sharing the costs of a first-class education among taxpayers, students and other sources of funds,” Fenves wrote in the letter. Fenves said unfunded mandates from the state, such as the
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opportunity to make a larger impact for the charity. IFC last year adopted a young boy named Karter who is battling acute lymphoid leukemia. “Being around Karter and his family and spending time with him like at UT baseball games and Dave & Buster’s gave us inspiration to make RoundUp bigger than a party weekend,” Deer said. While IFC hosted the big parties, several sororities held cookouts throughout the weekend to raise money. Kassidy Knight, electrical engineering senior and president of UPC, said they use the large crowds in West Campus looking for a mid-afternoon meal to spread awareness of their philanthropies. “It’s a great opportunity to take time out of your day to spread awareness on philanthropy and learn where their $5 on quesadillas are going,” Knight said.
People focus a lot on the negative [aspect] of Greek life. We strive in school, philanthropy and social situations … we choose to do the philanthropy because it feels good. —Wesley Sparr, Sophomore
Knight said she was pleased to see how much money was raised with its fast pass. “This year is the first year we have done it,” Knight said. “We weren’t sure how it was going to do. But we were very happy to have raised nearly $2,000 with it.” Knight said UPC’s funds on the fast pass fundraiser will go to Circle of Sisterhood, a charity that helps girls around the world get resources for an education.
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continues from page 1 Cervantessaid she enjoyed her first Holi celebration even though it involved strangers coming up to her and throwing color on her. “It was a lot of fun,” Cervantes said. “We danced and we were throwing color. Everybody was so nice because people were just throwing color at other people and nobody would get mad. You would think they wouldn’t like it, but it was fun.” Business freshman Minorie Vaidya, who is Hindu, said Holi can help people look past any social barriers between them. “There’s no division between people,” Vaidya said. “Everyone looks the same with color on them. Everyone is equal and it kind of promotes unity between people, which I think is really good, especially since nowadays there’s a lot of division and social issues. This is sort of a good way to bring everyone together.”
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always tried to address,” Naishtat said. The two first interacted with each other back in 2015, when Hinojosa was actively advocating against a bill that would have stopped the proactive monitoring of birth defects. Hinojosa, whose first child passed away from birth defects, said she went to testify in front of the House Public Health Committee, which included Naishtat as a member. “There’s was such comfort in knowing that there was no hidden agenda on his part,” Hinojosa said. “He was honest and … to know that your legislator was on board and has integrity — that’s huge.” After her primary win, Hinojosa said she has received an outpouring of support and advice from members of the Travis County delegation and Naishtat on how to operate as a new member in the House of Representatives, where Republicans have an enormous membership advantage. Hinojosa said she hopes to address state public education funding, and the rising costs of living prices and higher education tuition rates as some of her top focuses in the student-heavy district. “In 2011, we had major cuts to public education,” said Maliha Mazhar, University Democrats communications director and government senior. “In the last legislative session we got some of those back, but there’s still a lot of funding that can be given back to schools, which should be a top priority.” While she has a head start on getting her staff in order for the next session — unlike members who have general election opponents — Hinojosa said she is taking in as much advise as possible as she prepares to succeed Naishtat in January. “I mean, those are big shoes to fill,” Hinojosa said. “There’s a lot of work to do to begin earning that trust.”
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Texas’ execution process fails mentally ill By Laura Hallas
Daily Texan Senior Columnist @LauraHallas
Capital trials sound like the height of democracy, being respectful yet high stakes contests. Frankly, they aren’t. It is not uncommon for lawyers, jurors and even judges to fall asleep. This is a system where paranoid schizophrenics are allowed to represent themselves, subpoenaing Jesus Christ himself. Just last week, a man with bipolar disorder was issued a stay hours before his execution when an appeals court ruled he hadn’t been adequately represented. In a literal life and death scenario, these realities don’t feel like justice. And for criminals with serious mental illness, the state needs to tighten up its arbitrary handling of mental health cases, if not abolish the death penalty for these defendants altogether. Many death penalty case issues are due to bad lawyering. When death sentences increase from just a quarter of the national average to the national average, error rates more than triple. But problems also occur on the other side of the bench — mentally ill defendants don’t always make the best clients. Capital cases can go through four or five sets of defense lawyers as the client exhausts his appeals and is entitled to new counsel. If a defendant cannot articulate past problems with his case, it is difficult to find compelling arguments for an appeal, keeping them on death row. “It is very hard for them, if not impossible for them to help their lawyers,” said Jim Marcus, co-director of the Capital Punishment
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clinic at the UT School of Law. “Their symptoms get in the way of their understanding of the world.” Texas has the most active execution chamber in the nation, but its sentencing is by no means uniform. If Harris County were a state, it would have the most executions in the country (excluding Texas of course). Your chances of execution have less to do with your crime than where you are prosecuted. Harris County jail has another claim to fame — it’s the state’s largest mental health care provider. “The fact that the criminal justice system has been ineffective in preventing that from happening, it’s appalling,” said Kathryn Kase, executive director of Texas Defender Service. Even with such high levels of mental illness in the justice system, the verdict of notguilty by reason of insanity is rarely used. Many jurors and judges still feel inclined to think that someone with mental illness is “faking it,” even when defendants have been considered mentally impaired since childhood, or in the case of Andre Thomas, rip
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out their own eyes. “For lawyers who are litigating these cases, who represent someone who is seriously mentally ill, you really don’t want to put [mental illness] in front of the jury if you don’t have to,” Kase said. “I think that over time there is an emerging consensus that these folks should not be facing the death penalty.” A 2014 Public Policy Research poll found that Americans did not favor using the death penalty on mentally ill individuals on a 2-to-1 margin. Life in prison without parole is just as effective as a death sentence at protecting the public from a mentally ill
criminal, and saves $1.2 million in the process. If we spent even half of this money on early detection and treatment of mental illness, hundreds of potential victim’s lives would be saved. If the state insists on using the death penalty on the mentally ill, we can at least make sure that process is treated with the gravity it deserves. Cases should be taken to court slowly, giving time to assess the full impact of mental illness on a defendant, who should then be ensured reasonable counsel. Anything less could hardly be considered justice. Hallas is a Plan II freshman from Allen.
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Plans to profile Muslims ignore basic statistics By Michael Jensen Daily Texan Columnist @michaeltangible
Considering the recent suicide bombings in Belgium and Pakistan, millions of Americans are understandably fearful of Islamic extremism. Unfortunately, politicians such as Ted Cruz have deployed increasingly Islamophobic rhetoric, exploiting our fear for their own political gain. Calls to ban, monitor and profile Muslims might make some Americans feel safer, but these discriminatory proposals are also irrational and deeply hypocritical. Before we even get around to deciding which group we should unconstitutionally discriminate against, we should ask ourselves if such extreme action is even justified. Given the sensationalized media coverage terrorist attacks typically receive, perhaps it’s not surprising that 75 percent of Americans consider fighting terrorism to be a top priority. However, less than 400 Americans have died in domestic terror attacks since 9/11. To put that number in perspective, you’re about as likely to be crushed to death by a falling TV as you are to die in a terrorist attack. But unlike TVs, dangerous jihadis probably aren’t lurking behind every corner. Even if we conclude that defeating terrorism requires drastic, politically incorrect solutions, profiling Muslims en masse is still a profoundly stupid idea. Contrary to popular belief, Muslims aren’t disproportionately responsible for acts of terror. For example,
To truly grasp the absurdity of treating all Muslims as potential terrorists, consider applying the same logic to a demographic group that really is linked with violence — men. many of the perpetrators of mass shootings and terrorist attacks in 2015 were not Muslims and none were Syrian refugees. According to some reports, a total of 81 American Muslims were arrested on terror charges in 2015, a number which comprises less than 0.000025 percent of America’s 3.3 million Muslims. Targeting such a large, diverse and mostly innocent group of people would be costly, ineffective and likely radicalize many otherwise peaceful Muslims. To truly grasp the absurdity of treating all Muslims as potential terrorists, consider applying the same logic to a demographic group that really is linked with violence — men. Not just Muslim or Syrian men, but all men. While there’s virtually no link between terrorism and Muslim Americans, men are responsible for over 90 percent of all homicides. Men are more likely to be psychopaths, and within both genders higher testosterone levels are significantly correlated with a higher likelihood of aggression and psychopathy. A young American man is more likely to
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commit murder than a Muslim American woman, so why hasn’t Ted Cruz proposed that we stop and frisk America’s ruggedly handsome men as well? After all, even if we stubbornly ignore the noisy protestations of our Constitution and conscience, men, not Muslims, would be the most logical group to profile. In all seriousness, the vast majority of men still aren’t violent psychopaths and treating them as such would be morally reprehensible. So if we believe profiling men is wrong and
unjustified, how can we propose doing the same to Muslim Americans. Discriminating against Muslim Americans may prevent some acts of terror as well, but it would be at least as unethical as demonizing all men. Never forget that the goal of terrorism is to spread terror, and that our best defense against it will always be compassion and reason, not irrational fear and prejudice. Jensen is a neuroscience junior from The Woodlands.
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HB 2 restrictions leave Texas residents out of options By Josephine MacLean Daily Texan Columnist @maclean_josie
Whether or not you agree with morality of abortion, House Bill 2 violates the undue burden standard, and cannot be allowed to stand. HB 2, passed in the summer of 2013, is a broad group of restrictions on abortion, including a ban for pregnancies past 20 weeks — no exceptions for rape — and stringent requirements for physicians and clinics who perform abortions. The controversial issue of regulating abortion has a longstanding history that is still in flux today. The first precedent was Roe v. Wade, which determined that a woman’s decision to terminate her pregnancy is a “liberty” protected by the due process clause of the 14th Amendment. In 1992, Planned Parenthood v. Casey upheld the decision made in Roe v. Wade and added the “undue burden” test. This test found illegal laws whose “purpose or effect is
to place substantial obstacles in the path of a woman seeking an abortion before the fetus attains viability.” The most current case, Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt, will reexamine the limits on states’ ability to regulate abortion in response to the overt attempt to deny women access to abortion. HB 2 attempts to disguise itself as a legitimate government action to protect women’s health, but it is now the Supreme Court of the United States’ job to reel in these overreaching restrictions. The arguments in front of the Court center upon two clauses of HB 2 that put restrictions on physicians and clinics. The first requires that physicians have admitting privileges at a hospital within 30 miles of the facility. The second requires that all abortion facilities meet the standards of ambulatory surgical centers (ASCs), including facilities that only provide medical abortion. The Texas Policy Evaluation Project has studied the effects of these two clauses. TxPEP
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found that since HB 2, there has been a sharp decline in both the number of physicians and facilities that provide abortion services. TxPEP also found that the severe decline in the number of clinics means that there is no longer sufficient capacity to meet demand. Dr. Daniel Grossman, a TxPEP researcher, said that the closure of clinics across the state, brought on by HB 2, delays or prevents women seeking abortion. Further, TxPEP found that there is “no evidence” that admitting privileges improve the safety of an abortion. Instead the requirement has limited the number of doctors and clinics that can offer the service. “Some women we have interviewed report attempting to self-induce their abortion because their nearest clinic closed and they could not travel to the next nearest clinic. If the Supreme Court decides that HB 2 can fully go into effect, there will only be nine or 10 facilities providing abortion care in Texas, and we anticipate that all of these negative outcomes
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will worsen for women across the state,” Grossman said. The state is not acting in the interest of promoting health, and this law obviously does “place substantial obstacles in the path of a woman seeking an abortion.” Solicitor General Donald W. Verrilli Jr. put it best when he suggested that HB 2 made abortion a right that “only really existed in theory and not in fact.” MacLean is a advertising freshman from Austin.
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ple,” Shipman said. “Even if it is a small way, even if it is just an hour a week, it is a little bit of trust, a little bit of support in a very toxic environment.”
sound — pop-oriented hits with serious subject matters, adding another dimension to the album. Not every moment works out in Weezer’s favor, though, with several songs blending in because of weak hooks. The album’s lead track “California Kids” puts Cuomo’s guitar riff too far back in the song’s mixing, creating an overall bland pop sound, and “Jacked Up” follows a formula that’s been tired out by the time it comes around as the album’s
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It’s not a spoiler that “Get a Job” has a happy ending, and by God is it unearned. The movie closes with a vapid montage about why we all need to “be special,” and viewers are supposed to be glad that these characters have found places for themselves. They won’t be — not when they have only a skin-deep understanding of who these people are. There is zero meaning to Teller’s voiceover, and you’ll leave the picture infuriated rather than inspired. Something worth noting is the film’s weird obsession with the “Halo” video games. Nearly every gathering in the
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Longhorns recover to win weekend series By Claire Cruz
Senior center fielder Linsdsey Stephens scored the first run of the game for Texas in both of its wins over BYU this weekend. Stephens is hitting a blistering .426 for the Longhorns this season.
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It’s not about how you start, but about how you finish. That’s the mentality Texas used this weekend against Brigham Young University at Red and Charline McCombs Field. The Longhorns lost 3-1 to the Cougars on Friday, but turned it around Saturday to sweep the doubleheader and win the series. “It was tremendous for us to get the series,” head coach Connie Clark said. “We played well [Friday] night, but the balls didn’t drop. Today things went our way and I’m real happy to get production.” In Friday’s contest, BYU got an early lead behind junior first baseman Ashley Thompson’s two-run blast to right field. They added another run in the top of the third on consecutive walks from sophomore pitcher Kristen Clark. Junior shortstop Devon Tunning’s RBI single in the bottom of the third got Texas on the board, but that was all it could muster. Kristen Clark gave up six hits and six free passes and took the loss for Texas. On Saturday, the Longhorns got the doubleheader started with a 5-0 victory and took the rubber match, 7-0.
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“The fact that we can drop one and learn from it and then take the next two as wins is extraordinary,” senior center fielder Lindsey Stephens said. Texas got its first run in the third after Stephens hit a leadoff triple to left-center field and came across on junior left fielder Stephanie Wong’s RBI groundout. A two-out rally in the fourth gave the Longhorns some cushion. Sophomore catcher Randel Leahy ripped a two-
RBI double down the left field line and Stephens followed with a RBI double to left of her own. Stephens came across for Texas’ final run on a RBI single from Wong. Junior pitcher Tiarra Davis improved to 13-7 on the season behind a five-strikeout, complete game effort. Solid offense and a hot bat from Stephens carried Texas to victory in game three. Stephens scored in the first inning after a leadoff walk, sto-
len base and RBI single from Davis, who was in the designated player role. In the second, Stephens blasted a tworun bomb over the scoreboard in center to increase Texas’ lead to 3-0. To keep her great day going, Stephens ripped a RBI double to center in the fourth. “I was just seeing the ball and making good contact,” Stephens said. “We approached it aggressively and did very well.” A three-run fifth sealed the win for Texas. Davis started
the frame with a solo homerun to right field and fellow pitcher, sophomore starter Paige von Sprecken, helped herself with a two-RBI double. Von Sprecken earned the two-hit, shutout win. “It felt great to be able to help myself,” von Sprecken said. “I knew my team was going to get it done, but that I could participate was cool. This is good momentum for going into this week.”
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Texas entered Sunday’s contest against Oklahoma with a chance to win its second straight Big 12 series. A loss on Friday night was redeemed with a 5-3 victory on Saturday, and the Longhorns looked to find some momentum in what had previously been a disappointing season. But the Sooners — along with Mother Nature — had other ideas. With the score tied at 3-3 in the ninth, Oklahoma had a man on first with one out. Sophomore closer Connor Mayes induced a pop-up into foul territory on the first base side, an easy play for junior first baseman Kacy Clemens. However, there was nothing easy about this pop-up. A gust of wind blew the ball past Clemens, causing it to drop in fair territory. An intentional walk loaded the bases with just one out, placing Mayes in an undoubtedly difficult jam. Mayes couldn’t escape, allowing a single along with the winning run. Oklahoma took the game 4-3, along with the series. And in a season full of them, Sunday was another difficult loss for head coach Augie Garrido’s squad as Texas’ season record dropped to 12–16. Texas trailed from the outset. After going down 1-2-3 to begin the game, sophomore Kyle Johnston gave up a solo shot to Oklahoma junior shortstop Sheldon Neuse. For the second time in the three-game series, a first inning home run put Oklahoma ahead. But unlike Friday
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— where the Sooners cruised to a 6-1 victory — Texas fought back. Clutch hitting fueled Texas throughout the early part of Sunday’s matchup. With two outs in the top of the third, freshman outfielder Tyler Rand rocketed a double to left center, scoring junior Zane Gurwitz from second. After three, the score was knotted up at 1-1. Rand replicated his twoout heroics in the fifth. A single up the middle scored sophomore catcher Michael Cantu, putting the Longhorns up 2-1 — but the lead wouldn’t last. After Johnston issued a leadoff walk in the bottom of the sixth, Neuse hit a routine ground ball to shortstop. But the traditionally sure-handed freshman Kody Clemens couldn’t field the ball cleanly, allowing Neuse to reach base. With men on second and third, Johnston was replaced by senior reliever Travis Duke. Duke, the rubberarmed senior, made his teamhigh eighteenth appearance on Sunday. But after helping secure the victory on Saturday, Duke couldn’t stem the tide. Upon entering the game, Duke promptly surrendered a single down the left field line. The base hit scored two Sooners, tying the game at three. After two innings of inactivity, the Sooners scored in the ninth, giving them the series victory. Once again Texas had an opportunity to get back on track on Sunday. And once again, that chance slipped through their fingers.
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No. 34 Texas lost its first home game of the season to Oklahoma State, 4-2, on Friday but finished up the weekend by defeating Oklahoma, 4-1. “Losing the [Oklahoma State] match is disappointing, but when I look at what the six people that played in the match did,” head coach Howard Joffe said. “I see they’re squeezing every ounce of effort and ability out of themselves.” Oklahoma State claimed the third doubles win, but the 17th-ranked Longhorn duo of senior Breaunna Addison and sophomore Dani Wagland remained strong at first doubles against 23rd-ranked Oklahoma State duo Maria Alvarez and Kelsey Laurente coming out victorious, 6-3. Texas’ tandem made up of junior Neda Koprcina and freshman Daniella Roldan kept it close against No. 38 Viktoriya Lushkova and Carla Tur Mari, saving a match point and breaking Oklahoma State’s serve. Going to a tiebreaker after Koprcina
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Sophomore Dani Wagland (above) and doubles partner, senior Breaunna Addison, earned a pair of wins this weekend.
held serve, the Cowgirls stole the win 7-2, taking the doubles point. Addison and Wagland won the only two Texas singles. No. 12 Addison notched her 101st win over No. 33 Katarina Adamovic at first singles and Wagland beat No. 38 Vladica Babic at third singles. Texas, however, rebounded with a stout performance against rival Oklahoma on Sunday afternoon. Addison and Wagland clinched the first Longhorn doubles win over Lily Miyazaki and Emma Devine 6-1, but Oklahoma would
put up a fight and win at second doubles. The freshman Texas team of Chelsea Crovetti and Katie Poluta came from behind after being down 2-5 and bringing the score up to a tie 5-5. Withstanding the Texas heat, the duo clinched the 7-5 win, giving Texas a 1-0 lead. Addison, Koprcina and Poluta all tacked on singles wins to help the Longhorns to the 4-1 win. The Longhorns go on the road next weekend and challenge Texas Tech on Friday and Texas Christian University on Sunday.
“You just try to open up the gap a bit so that it doesn’t leave any room for a battle at the end,” Okolo said. Meanwhile, the men’s relay teams barely missed out on two wins. The 4x100-meter relay team beat perennial powers LSU and Texas A&M, but just missed on the win by .1 seconds as TCU surprised the field. Texas led for most of the 4x400-meter relay, the last race of the day, but LSU senior Michael Cherry passed Texas junior Zack Bilderback in the last leg. Bilderback fought back in the final 200 meters, but couldn’t retake the lead as the Longhorns finished .36 behind the Tigers. “I just tried to hang onto him on the hip,” Bilderback said. “At the end, I tried to feed off the crowd, but my legs just weren’t there today.” Freshman distance runner Alex Rogers nearly took first in his first Texas Relays mile run, but couldn’t close the gap on University of Texas at El Paso’s Johan Koech in the final 50 meters. “Coming into that last 50, I was like ‘You can pass him, you can do it, just maintain
your form,’” Rogers said. “But I just couldn’t do it.” Freshman John Burt struggled in the 110-meter hurdles. He finished the final race in last with a time of 14.18 seconds. But Burt, who’s splitting time between running hurdles and spring football, said that while it was “an honor” to make the finals, he’s pushing himself to be better than his lastplace finish. “I wouldn’t be out here if I didn’t want to win,” Burt said. “What’s the purpose if you’re not going to compete at the highest level?” The meet is just the second of the outdoor season for the Longhorns, but Akinosun already has her eyes on a much bigger prize. Not an NCAA title, but a spot in the 2016 Olympics in Rio in August. After her performance Saturday and with more meets to come against toplevel athletes, Sategna said it’s more than just a dream for Akinosun. “That’s a definite benefit,” Sategna said. “If you can get through the trials and to the final, anything can happen.”
No. 1 Texas men’s golf fell short of winning the 3M Augusta Invitational in Georgia on Sunday, finishing second at 24-under par and three shots behind No. 2 Illinois. “We know Illinois is a great team, today that got the better of us,” head coach John Fields said. But the runner-up finish was not without a silver lining — junior Beau Hossler picked up an NCAA-best fifth individual victory of the season and sixth of his career, winning by two shots at 11-under par. The win moves Hossler into second on Texas’ alltime single-season wins list. Only Ben Crenshaw has more wins in a single season, with seven victories in 1972. Hossler is tied with Bob Estes for third on Texas’ all-time career wins list. Sophomore Doug Ghim posted a final round 1-under 71 to finish at 6-under for the tournament and in a tie for eighth. Ghim has finished inside the top-10 five times this season. Redshirt sophomore Taylor Funk fired a careerlow 3-under 69 on Sunday to finish at 4-under overall and in 12th place, the second-best finish of his career. Junior Gavin Hall tied for 13th at 3-under after firing a 2-under 70 in the final round. Sophomore Scottie Scheffler shot an even par 72 on Sunday to finish in a tie for 41st at 5-over. “Our guys played very solid today,” Fields said. “We are not hitting on all cylinders yet, but that is the goal as we head into postseason. We had four players in the top 13 this week in a field that resembles an NCAA Regional.” The Longhorns will close out their regular season schedule, Apr. 15-16, at the Maxwell Intercollegiate in Ardmore, Oklahoma, before heading to Trinity, Texas for the Big 12 Championship, Apr. 29-May 1. “We are enjoying this year as a team and aspire for championships,” Fields said. —Trenton Daeschner
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Project channels hardships into creative writing for inmates By Elena Mejia @elenamejialutz
While spending the summer in a small, West Texas trailer, Kelsey Shipman witnessed her mom’s suicide attempts and physical abuse. Some of her uncles went to jail, exposing her to the incarceration system when she was as young as five years old. “The only way I was able to escape my difficult childhood was through art and school,” Shipman said. “It is like emotional regulation. If you write about it, you have control over the feeling, and you can transform it into something beautiful.” In 2009, Shipman founded the Freehand Arts Project, a volunteer-run program that teaches creative writing and poetry to minimum, medium and maximum security inmates at Travis County Correctional Complex. The volunteers meet with groups of students for eight weekly, hour-long sessions. At the end of the program, the teachers pick each student’s best two poems to publish in an anthology,
and others are uploaded to their website. “I tell [students], ‘Isn’t this cool how you can turn an experience that was painful, or a feeling of anger or disappointment, and you can write a poem about it?’ And suddenly this negative, painful, embarrassing thing becomes a piece of art,” Shipman said. UT alumna Shannon Perri, a volunteer at Freehand Arts Project, said the classes are a great opportunity for inmates to escape their dayto-day struggles. Some of her students are incarcerated because they cannot afford to post bail. Others are college educated and were writers before they ended up in jail. “My greatest hope is that they know their experiences deserve to be heard and are a part of the human experience,” Perri said. “I think a lot of them have talked about how writing is therapeutic in itself [and] helps them organize their thoughts.” Shipman said 95 percent of students in the program are generationally poor. They were often
raised in households with unhealthy, abusive relationships and parents usually deprived them of education. Most did not finish high school and found themselves unable to leave the working class. “They are people who
didn’t seem to have much of a chance from the beginning,” Shipman said. “I got a scholarship to go to Southwestern [University] and I see how I got out, and I want my students to feel like they can get out.”
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Heather Lefebvre, another Freehand Arts Project teacher, met Shipman in the English department at Texas State University. Lefebvre wanted to teach creative writing as a way for inmates to respect each other and create an environment
of trust. “They want to learn, and they aren’t afraid to ask questions,” Lefebvre said. “It’s a way of expressing yourself and a way of learning about yourself and
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MOVIE REVIEW | ‘GET A JOB’
ALBUM REVIEW | ‘WEEZER’
Weezer rediscovers form with Slacker comedy slacks on its comedy brighter sounds, retro vibes By Charles Liu
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Though it was released in theaters and on video streaming services on March 25, slacker comedy “Get a Job” was filmed back in 2012 and shelved — and it should’ve stayed that way. It’s got three big stars: Miles Teller, Anna Kend-
By Chris Duncan @ chr_dunc
Since the release of their 1996 experimental album Pinkerton, Weezer’s career has been defined by its inconsistency. Although the band has had its shining moments in the past 20 years, including the underappreciated Maladroit and their most recent LP Everything Will Be Alright in the End, most fans have been disappointed with the power pop group’s attempts to create anthemic hits. However, with their newest album Weezer, also known as The White Album, the group appears to have hit their stride once more, honing in on a successfully brighter sound. It’s appropriate that Weezer selected white — a color traditionally associated with renewal — for this album’s theme. Just two years after Rivers Cuomo, the band’s lead singer, guitarist and songwriter, declared that the group didn’t care about the mainstream, he’s dumped long-time producer and former Cars frontman Ric Ocasek in favor of Jake Sinclair, a producer and musician known for his work with big names such as Taylor Swift, 5 Seconds of Summer and Fall
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Out Boy. Sinclair’s influence results in heavy over-dubbed vocals and stiff percussion, two components to a poorly constructed rock album. But Cuomo plays into this sound with quirky songwriting and guitar melodies that make the entire record come together with an oddly enjoyable sound. The Beach Boys’ influence on this album is obvious on songs such as “King of The World,” Cuomo’s lover letter to his wife, filled with references to their relationship and even her fear of airplanes when Cuomo suggests they take a Greyhound bus to the Galapagos. Other songs follow these same patterns, bringing in fictional characters to weave
peculiar stories and catchy tunes. “L.A. Girlz” is easily Weezer’s best single since 2001’s “Island in the Sun,” incorporating geographical references to Santa Monica beaches and ripped lines from the nonsense poem “Jabberwocky.” These shoutouts to seemingly random things only help to build on the jubilant sound of this album. Even the occasionally serious moments soar, especially “Do You Wanna Get High?,” which deals with Cuomo’s addiction to prescription drugs in the early 2000s. Other songs, such as “Summer Elaine and Drunk Dori” and “Endless Bummer” bring back the original Weezer
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rick and Bryan Cranston, who are clearly in it for the cash. What the movie doesn’t have are an engaging story, memorable laughs and characters whose names are worth remembering. Throughout its brief runtime, we are dragged through multiple storylines as the protagonists navigate the competitive modern
economy in search of jobs. Teller plays the lead character, a wayward millennial who specializes in making videos, and he manages to land a position developing video resumes. He’s upset because the big bad establishment, i.e. his bosses, are snuffing out his creativ-
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