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UT will provide increased safety measures for students as the homicide investigation on campus continues. In addition to extra officers and police vehicles patrolling campus, the University will provide extra van shuttles for students after their evening rehearsals near the Winship and Fine Arts buildings. UT President Gregory Fenves said other enhanced safety measures
ment will lead the investigation into the homicide, according to an email sent to the University community Wednesday afternoon. However, law enforcement and the University have not released further information because it would “compromise their efforts,” according to an email from Fenves. Meanwhile, students and UT parents raised concerns about the lack of information surrounding a possible suspect.
UT police will continue to assist APD with the investigation, along with University of Texas System police, the Texas Department of Public Safety and the Texas Rangers. According to an email Fenves sent to the University Wednesday morning, law enforcement agencies working on the investigation have finished processing the crime scene. “[The law enforcement agencies] are working to identify the victim and are focused
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Developers want to relocate The Dabney-Horne house, currently located at 507 W. 23rd St., to a different space in West Campus to allow more student housing.
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more beds for students, create more historical sites and make the area safer with less traffic.” The new site for the house is 901 Shoal Cliff Court, next to the former residence of late
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Developers are attempting to relocate a historical house in West Campus to make way for more student housing but face opposition from a historical preservation group. The Dabney-Horne house, located at 507 W. 23rd St. behind the University Co-Op parking garage, was designated as a historic site by the City of Austin in 1992 and is also protected by a restrictive covenant agreement. This agreement prevents any owner of the house, even future, from moving the house to a new location. David Kanne, owner of the Dabney-Horne house and broker at Austin City Realty, which has an office inside the house, is selling the site to developers Johnson Trube and Associates. He applied to relocate the house so the future owners could build a new apartment building. Kanne said he was not surprised the project faced pushback. “We’re following all City staff recommendations on this,” Kanne said. “This change would increase affordable housing in the area, create
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When advertising senior Christina Ewin bikes around her neighborhood in East Austin, she can go to her favorite coffee shop, grocery store and pub, all on the same street. This convenience — and a calmer atmosphere — always remind her why she got out of West Campus as soon as she could: peace of mind. “Often, the areas surrounding campus were so packed with students … that I felt like I was in a bubble,” Ewin said. “It just wasn’t ideal.” While some students, such as Ewin, decide to flee busy West Campus for more quiet nights east of Interstate 35, they are more the exception than the rule in terms of moving to lower-income neighborhoods throughout the city. Ewin’s neighborhood is one of many Austin census tracts that have seen rapid growth in the concentration of poor residents living in high-poverty areas since 2000, according to a study released last week. The report from the Brookings Institution’s Metropolitan Policy Program shows the overall share of poor residents living in high-poverty neighborhoods, or neighborhoods with a poverty rate of at least 20 percent, rose 12 percent in Austin from 2000 to the 2010–2014 census period. Austin’s rate is higher than other large metropolitan areas, adding statistical evidence to concerns over income disparities throughout the city. “Even as poverty is becoming more regional, it’s also become more concentrated in high-poverty neighborhoods,” said Elizabeth Kneebone, a Brookings Metropolitan Policy Program fellow and one of the co-authors of the report. While the rate of poor
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Scaffolding and chain-link fencing continue to surround parts of the art building as UT’s Project Management and Construction Services renovates much of the building’s roofing. PMCS project manager Mark Jones said that while most roofing on the building was intended to last no longer than 20 years, many of its sections are over 35 years old, which meant a comprehensive replacement was in order. Mike Debow, associate director of PMCS’s project management division, said the project’s two million dollar budget is “a significant investment into the long term viability” of the art building. In addition to fixing leaks
that have plagued the building for years, the project will address updated building code requirements for insulation and drainage holes on the building’s facade, Jones said. The new, more effective insulation should help lower the cost of cooling the building as well. “There will be a tremendous increase in [thermal resistance] value, maybe tenfold, on the roof,” Jones said. Students in the art building have had to contend with noises from the construction, design senior Jolie Durand said. “We’ll regulary be in class, and it’s extremely loud drilling,” Durand said. “It’s like you’re at a dentist’s office, and you just hear somebody drilling and drilling.”
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Student stories were at the heart of the Student Government president-elect and vice president-elect’s campaign, and now that the election is over, they want to hear more stories to help them create change on campus next year. After winning last week’s executive alliance runoff election by 2.06 percent, Kevin Helgren and Binna Kim said they are looking forward to appointing members of their executive board and meeting with administration to discuss platform points. Their goals include forming a working group of members from various organizations to address sexual assault, including Voices Against Violence and the Women’s Resource Agency, and raising
awareness of the University’s mental health resources. Helgren said their platform points were inspired by their own experiences as well as the stories people shared. “Our platform points were the first thing we did, and that was intentional,” Helgren said. “We worked off the stories people shared, and we sat down and talked about issues we ourselves are passionate about — for me it’s mental health, and for Binna it’s the issue of sexual assault.” The team also hopes to promote culture change, especially in light of this year’s prolonged executive alliance race. Kim said she and Helgren plan to create an internal reformation committee to initiate change from within. “The committee will be composed of both SG veterans and those with no SG experi-
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ence at all,” Kim said. “We want to combine seasoned perspectives with fresh perspectives, look at the things that aren’t working, and cut them out.” Other platform points include helping transfer students feel at home at UT through a mentorship program, improv-
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similar cases. “A covenant restriction agreement is between the property owner and another party, in this case the City,” McGee said. “It doesn’t matter if the property is sold and passes down to new owners. The covenant agreement should be respected to preserve the historical value of the house and site.” Kathie Tovo, City Council member and Mayor Pro Tem, said she will weigh the benefits of the project for students and residents against moving the house and removing this site’s historical designation, when the council discusses the issue today. “Regardless of what happens, I’m going to argue that this should be seen as an isolated case,” Tovo said. “It’s important that they’re building student housing. We need more housing, but … it’s important to preserve pieces of historical and cultural landscape as well.”
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continues from page 1 on locating and apprehending a suspect in this unthinkable crime,” Fenves said in the email. SURE Walk, which provides walks accompanied by volunteers from campus to the West and North Campus areas, said it has experienced a 400 percent increase in users since Tuesday night. Kristan Sachdev, health and society junior and the group’s director, said SURE Walk is stationed in the PCL and the Student Activity Center, and walkers will meet students anywhere on campus to accompany them. “If a student wants a walk from the stadium, we’ll meet them at the stadium and take them to their destination,” Sachdev said. SURE Walk is available Monday through Thursday from 10 p.m. to 2 a.m. Aerospace engineering junior Shawn Killian said he was “confused” and “a little bit” concerned about the recent sequence of events but said he felt safe on campus and understood why certain details are being withheld from the public. “If I was the parent of that
child, I don’t think I would want my child’s death to be publicized immediately to 50,000 students right away,” Killian said. “I think I would need at a few days for things to be hashed out to see what actually happened.” Angela Price, parent of a business freshman from Aledo, Texas, said she would like to receive more communication from the University. “Our daughter has said she doesn’t feel overly afraid, which is a good thing,” Price said. “But there’s a part of me that just wants to go home and grab her because it’s such an unknown right now.” Price said she understands officials are limited to what they can say during an ongoing investigation but wants to be updated continuously. “I assume that [authorities] are just doing the best they can,” Price said. “But this sitting and waiting. … it’s hard.” According to UTPD crime logs, no homicides have occurred on the UT-Austin campus in the last 15 years. The homicide was first reported Tuesday morning in an email to the University community after a body was found in Waller Creek, west of the Etter-Harbin Alumni Center, earlier that day.
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Kim said they hope to make real change happen by cooperation and collaboration. “It’s important to recognize that it’s not just me and Kevin,” Kim said. “If we have any big issues, we’ll communicate with our team and with the SG assembly. We want to innovate by handling things differently
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AUSTIN-ROUND ROCK POVERTY RATES Total number of poor population:
residents living in already highpoverty neighborhoods is rising quickly, the overall rate of concentrated poverty is still below other metro areas, Kneebone said. Kneebone said typically cities address concentrated poverty areas through initiatives such as housing and zoning ordinances. This ideally develops a more “mixed” income community by attracting businesses and middle class residents to move in, leaving a reinvigorated neighborhood in its place. However, longtime low-income residents, who are generally people of color, may not get to benefit from the newfound prosperity. This leads to an influx of wealthier residents pushing them out and a rise in gentrified neighborhoods. “As places revitalize, you might see … that it’s on the upswing, but the low-income people don’t get the benefit,” Kneebone said. “A lot of these places do need more investment, … but the key is as those developments happen, people get to stay.” Austin’s rising economic and racial divides have led the City Council and Mayor Steve Adler to address those issues as
major city mobility concerns. For example, the City recently began constructing 240 affordable housing units in the Mueller neighborhood and plans on kicking off an initiative to address the lack of affordable housing and rising rent prices this summer, officials in the mayor’s office said. “[This] will be a very big investment vehicle for people to invest in preserving affordable housing, and in exchange, they’ll make a lower rate of return — socially conscious investing,” said Jason Stanford, communications director for the mayor’s office. “We agree
this is a problem, and we’re working on it.” While Ewin chose her neighborhood for convenience and affordability reasons, she said she has seen more highpoverty areas — just south of her neighborhood — being affected by gentrification, with “dilapidated houses” adjacent to areas of new construction. “I think people, like myself, choose this area of Austin because it is convenient — not because it’s glamorous, not because it’s cheap,” Ewin said. “We live here because it’s easy and it’s diverse. It’s just Austin to me.”
than SG traditionally has.” Helgren said he and Kim will continue relying on storytelling to address challenges and hope to provide avenues for students to express their needs. “[Conversations] is a bit of a buzzword, but effective communication is important,” Helgren said. “We haven’t fleshed out the exact ways yet, but one idea is creating a monthly student speaker series — like TED
talks by and for students.” Helgren said the team expects to face challenges during the next year. “Campaigning was difficult, but the most difficult part is yet to come,” Helgren said. “The fact that we’re anticipating challenges will help us deal with potential challenges well.” Xavier Rotnofsky, emeritus student body president, said he will meet with Helgren and
Kim this week to discuss their new roles. “It’s always important to not make empty promises you can’t follow through with because it makes SG look unaccountable and rubs people the wrong way,” Rotnofsky said. “I think that’s always the challenge at first because you have expectations to maintain while also dealing with the mundane everyday work.”
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continues from page 1 Durand said while the noise can be frustrating, she understands the necessity of the project. “I’m annoyed, but my first thought was, ‘They’re probably doing this because they have to,’” Durand said. “I know this building’s old … it’s just a byproduct, the noise.” Jones said the project is requiring the cutting of brick and the installation of a layer that will prevent moisture from ruining the roof when heated by the sun, which can add to the noise levels — but they try to work as much as possible dur-
ing times when they anticipate less people are in the building. “There aren’t as many students there in the morning and the evening,” Jones said. “This contractor is working dawn to dusk, and most weeks have been seven-day work weeks. He’s doing as much weekend work as he can.” Phase one of the project, which encompasses most of the roof, including the north and southwest ends, is set to be complete June 1, Jones said. Phase two, which will include an overhaul of the decking leading to the graduate student area and the addition of a wheelchair ramp, is set to begin immediately after and take 90 days.
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Professors collaborate on robotic soccer team By Sachit Saksena @insachiable
Balance doesn’t come as easy to a robot as it does to famous soccer player Cristiano Ronaldo. UT professors Michael Mauk and Peter Stone are solving this inequality with computers and cerebellums. Mauk and Stone are in two very different departments — neuroscience and computer science, respectively — but collaborate on projects to bring these fields together. Right now, they are working on bringing the cerebellum, the part of the brain that directs coordination, to Stone’s robot soccer team. The two met when Mauk, the chair of the neuroscience department, first moved to UT-Austin. They realized both of their labs focus on learning and intelligence. “He’s just trying to simulate how the human brain works, and I’m trying to figure out how to get computers to do many of the same tasks the human brain does.,” Stone said. According to Mauk, the cerebellum predicts where the body should move next. It takes inputs from the brain and the environment to carry out motor functions, such as reaching for a cup of coffee. It also helps correct and learn from mistakes, such as knocking the coffee cup over. “It’s been known for a long
time that the cerebellum learns, and we know that when it doesn’t work, we have trouble with coordination,” Mauk said. “We do experiments trying to ask how those two fit together.” Mauk’s lab does experiments involving brains and behavior, while simultaneously modeling the results with math and computer simulations. “We are trying to understand the cerebellum well enough to model one in a computer,” Mauk said. “That’s when I’m done, and I can go fishing.” Stone, a professor in the department of computer science, focuses on artificial intelligence, or AI. His overall research goal is to create autonomous agents — including robots, software programs and autonomous cars. One of his most famous projects is his robot soccer team, UT Austin Villa. Stone chose soccer because he played the sport, and soccer offers real-world interpersonal situations for robots. There is an international community around robot soccer — teams from over 31 countries competed in RoboCup 2015. “I figured if I was going to spend long hours in front of a screen trying to get my Ph.D., it might as well be in something I love,” Stone said. “Soccer is the perfect testbed task for artificial intelligence planning because you have a set of teammates
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UT computer science professor Peter Stone holds one of the members of his robot soccer team, UT Austin Villa. The researchers hope to implement a cerebellum simulation into the robots to help them learn how to balance better while working the soccer field.
and a set of adversaries.” The two scientists draw insights from each other’s work. Their collaborative work has resulted in two publications and aims to make computers. The two professors have even more planned for the future. Their goal is to get the cerebellum simulation that Mauk’s lab is working on into Stone’s
robot soccer team. This could help the robots with a component crucial to dominating competition on the soccer field: balance. “One of our goals is to help their robots balance, which is something the cerebellum does for us: helps us not fall down by predicting there’s about to be a problem and anticipating
a solution instead of just reacting,” Mauk said. “For example, his robots fall down a lot when they collide with each other, and what we do, because of our cerebellum, is lean into the collision so we can keep our balance.” According to Stone, making a robot soccer team that can anticipate balance correctly,
just like a human does, is a step toward more sophisticated, intelligent technology. “In the world of robot soccer, the long-term goal is to have humanoid robots that can beat the best real world cup soccer team on a real soccer field by 2050,” Stone said. Maybe one day, Ronaldo will meet his match.
HEALTH
Austin startup finds Remedy for students’ accessbility to doctors By Laura Zhang @_the_laurax3
Students can order pizza, clothes and textbooks to their front door. Now, they can add doctor visits to that list. Remedy Urgent Care is an Austin-based startup founded on the idea of mobile doctor visits. If a new patient calls Remedy, doctors will bring medical care to the patient’s house within 90 minutes. Remedy began its services last November and has grown over 60 percent each month since. The company responds to calls from Pflugerville to south Austin, and will soon open a new satellite office in Round Rock. According to Dr. Jeremy Gabrysch, CEO of Remedy, UT students are a target demographic for Remedy. Busy and thrifty college students can benefit from a doctor visit that is both efficient and insured. “We have seen several UT students as patients. One of the big factors for us is getting innetwork with insurance companies, which we’re working on right now,” Dr. Gabrysch said.
“I know a lot of students still use their parent’s insurance, so we want to help them out.” UT nutrition senior Joy Mong, who works as a scribe and medical assistant at Remedy, said the doctors respond to various medical conditions. “We do stitches, and we do IV. We do casts if they broke their arm. We see minor colds, flu, illnesses to injuries, so we cover a wide range of things,” Mong said. “We also have all the equipment packaged up very nicely — everything fits in a little mini Cooper, which is our Remedy car.” Other primary Remedy customers include single mothers, young business professionals and tourists who come to Austin for festivals, according to Robin Hadden, physician’s assistant at Remedy. Mong said that Remedy is often more cost-effective than the emergency room. “I’ve had a lot of experience in urgent care, and I just realized how much waste there is. In the ER, the doctor covers all the bases,” Mong said. “The doctor may think the patient has strep, but the doctor will
order a lot more tests for liability reasons, which ends up wasting the hospital’s resources and patients have to pay more in the end.” Remedy also eases the process of medical payments by providing a flat rate for patients, according to Hadden. “For me, the amount of money we waste on health care is an atrocity, so being able to tell them what we can charge them upfront has been really pinnacle,” Hadden said. “In the long run, I really think we’re saving health care and patients and Texas a lot of money.” Dr. Gabrysch said his experience in the ER made him realize the unnecessary complications within the current American healthcare system. “There’s complexity in the referral system and health insurance. Most people don’t fully understand the difference between a co-pay and coinsurance, what is a deductible, etc.,” Dr. Gabrysch said. “There is so much terminology foreign to people, and Remedy is trying to bring a level of transparency to that.” Remedy stemmed from Dr.
Gabrysch’s experience in practicing medicine in an Ethiopian charity hospital. “In Ethiopia, we didn’t have sufficient resources to take care of everything, so we had to be creative,” Dr. Gabrysch said. “I basically learned how to practice medicine better and more efficiently because I had to, and so when I came back here, I just saw the complexity of American medicine differently.”
ASTRONOMY
Astronomers find companions for supernovae By Freya Preimesberger @freyapreim
UT astronomers and a flash of blue light revealed the story behind some exploding stars. While working at Harvard in 2012, UT research scientist Howie Marion and his team of astronomers found evidence supporting a decades-old space theory. The discovery provides insight into the formation of Type Ia supernovae, the explosive end-stage of some stars’ lives, according to a study published in The Astrophysical Journal. Researchers have used Type Ia supernovae to study dark energy and measure the expansion of the universe. Astronomers have long argued over the origins of these supernovae. In one long-standing theory, Type Ia supernovae emerge from a binary system of two stars: a white dwarf and
a main-sequence star. Main-sequence stars are younger, ordinary stars, such as the sun, that burn hydrogen. If their initial mass doesn’t reach a certain size, they won’t become hot enough to reach the next stage and burn carbon. These stars become dense white dwarfs. “A white dwarf is sort of like this cinder that’s left behind when the star burns out,” Marion said. In the binary system, gravity transfers mass from the companion star to the white dwarf. Once the white dwarf’s mass hits a critical point, it explodes and forms a Type Ia supernova. After explosive material hits the companion star, it emits additional light, which researchers discovered in the form of excess blue light around Supernova 2012cg. This matches theoretical models for the interaction, confirming the existence of a
companion star. “[W]e’ve been working toward this for decades,” Wheeler said. “This is the first time it’s been done.” The first discovery of a binary companion verified a series of hypotheses that astronomers have long assumed to be true. Type Ia supernovae have similar brightnesses each time they form, which allows astronomers to calculate their distance by how dim they appear from Earth. This property led previous researchers to use distance of supernovae to discover that the universe’s accelerating expansion is driven by dark energy. Scientists have trouble observing supernovae after the initial explosion because the early stages are dim and brief, Wheeler said. To make collecting observations easier, the astronomi-
cal community collaborates and shares their supernovae discoveries. Astronomers at a University of California system observatory initially detected Supernova 2012cg in 2012 and shared their discovery with other researchers, including Marion. Researchers made observations using several telescopes, including the Hobby-Eberly Telescope at UT’s McDonald Observatory. Collaborators on this paper came from 20 institutions, including Harvard, A&M, Princeton, Texas Tech, the University of Tokyo and Aarhus University. Although this is the first evidence for a companion star, researchers urge that this isn’t a definitive model for Type Ia supernovae formation. Scientists will collect more observations on Type Ia supernovae and continue to study their formation.
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FORUM
UT must follow City’s lead on curbing DUIs By Walker Fountain Daily Texan Forum Editor @wf_atx
The City of Austin has a little-known policy which has been keeping drunk drivers off the streets for quite some time. If you drive to downtown entertainment districts and park in a City space, you have three options: The first is to designate a sober driver to bring you home. But as we know as UTAustin students, this is often easier said than done. The second is to use the yellow “next day” button on parking meters, to buy time for the next morning if you plan to leave your car overnight in a city spot. But what if you forget to do that or don’t anticipate leaving your car downtown? Well, the City has a third option for you: They will waive the citation for leaving your vehicle parked on the street, provided you can show the receipt for the method that got you home the night before. Policies like this, coupled with the rise of Uber and Lyft, are among those elements that de-incentivize driving under the influence. But on the University of Texas campus, those rules are a little murkier. Take, for instance, my own experience with UT PTS last Thursday. I drove into a UT garage at around 2 p.m., fully intending to leave later that evening, at a cost of around $15. However, I ended up going to a bar with friends after a long day of work and took a Lyft home. When I made it back to campus the next morning, I found that
There should be a policy in place that lets drivers know that they won’t be on the hook for exorbitant parking fees if they make the safe choice to get home. my parking fee was upwards of $30. For some students, an extra $10 to $18 is a lot of money to pay to get home safely. And while many students don’t have experiences like these, UT PTS should provide a method for lowering these costs, mainly so some don’t become incentivized to drive home when they shouldn’t. The same goes for students parking with an N+ or C+ pass, who have limited access on weekdays. If they fail to swipe out by 4 a.m. on, say, a Friday morning, they may be forced to pay a $15 fee to re-sync their permit — something which may provide a monetary incentive for students to drive home under the influence. Even those parking for football or basketball games could be affected — especially with beer and wine sales in operation at major sporting events. While parking on campus, there should be a policy in place that lets drivers know that they won’t be on the hook for exorbitant parking fees if they make the safe
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choice to get home. Perhaps policies like these already exist, or operate on a case-by-case basis, but they should be codified and publicized to let students, faculty and staff know about safe options getting home. While these issues are by and large not experienced by most students, UT should follow the City’s lead and ensure that those who act responsibly have recourse to avoid paying extra fees for keeping the public safe.
MULTIMEDIA
In this week’s Texan Talks podcast, Editor-in-Chief Claire Smith and Forum Editor Walker Fountain discuss student health. Listen online at dailytexanonline.com. Fountain is a government senior from Pelham Manor, New York.
FORUM
Guard your goods, create a healthier 40 Acres By Connor Hughes
Daily Texan Forum Contributor
The Tejas Club’s commitment to promote the UHS “Guard Your Goods” campaign proves the power of student groups when advocating for a cause they believe in. UHS has recently launched the Guard Your Goods campaign with the goal of increasing awareness and vaccination of Longhorn men against HPV. UHS and the Tejas Club have teamed up to educate and empower students to make the healthy decision for themselves. According to the National College Health Assessment, 68 percent of UT students had at least one sexual partner in 2015. With sexual activity comes the threat of sexually transmitted infections. At the first mention of common STIs, many students think of HIV, herpes or gonorrhea. While these diseases are all serious, the most common STI is human papillomavirus, or HPV. Although most HPV infections go away on their own, HPV can have serious long-term effects for both men and women. HPV causes over 9,000 men to develop cancer every year. Additionally, over 4,000 women die of cervical cancer, caused by HPV, every year. Charlotte Katzin is the nurse manager of the UHS Allergy/Immunizations Clinic. Katzin says Longhorns should care because “half of the new [HPV] infections occur among persons 15-25. So we’re looking at the college-aged population.” Along with using condoms consistently and correctly, getting the HPV vaccine Gardasil can help men prevent these health problems. The HPV vaccine is a three-shot series given over a six-month period, and it is offered Monday through Friday at UHS in
the Student Services Building. The Tejas Club was founded in 1925 on the principles of scholarship, leadership and friendship. Woven into the core of Tejas is the commitment to advocate for fellow students and the University. Tejas has led the charge to promote the UHS campaign, and its members are excited to encourage community health at UT. Jackson Clifford, a junior within the Tejas Club, is passionate about educating students. “Students aren’t always aware of the potential consequences of sexual activity, so the opportunity to protect yourself from a dangerous infection, such as HPV, can be one of the best decisions you ever make,” Clifford said. Student health has always been a pillar of the Tejas Club. In 2010, Tejas lost a beloved member to suicide and ever since has made a commitment to battling stigma and fundraising for mental health. In the past year alone, the Tejas Club has donated over $4,000 to the Counseling and Mental Health Center. Tejas has seen this Guard Your Goods campaign as an opportunity to continue contributing to community health. The campaign has reached out to students through informative videos, social media posts and presentations at organizations. Tejas has had members tabling and encouraging friends to learn more. In addition, the Tejas Club hosted a documentary screening last week to promote dialogue and combat stigma surrounding HPV. The main message of the UHS campaign has been focused on educating men that they too can suffer serious consequences from HPV. Many men are unaware that HPV can even infect them.
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“As a men’s club, it’s really important that we have conversations about STIs, the stigma associated with them and means of prevention,” said Arjun Mocherla, a Tejas member and Plan II and public health senior. “By getting the HPV vaccine and inviting the community to join us, we make a larger statement on how to make a difference.” While the Tejas Club has made a commitment to educating other students about the vaccine, it has also been supporting its members who’ve gotten vaccinated. Mocherla says that “members have been supportive of each other getting the vaccine. Many members are getting the vaccines together and vocalizing the impact it’s having within the club.”
Tejas and UHS encourage the many UT students who have already been vaccinated to spread the word. You could have an active role in protecting your friends or your partner from a preventable disease. Still need the HPV vaccine? Guard your goods! Get vaccinated at University Health Services in the SSB. Students are encouraged to check with their insurance company to ensure that the vaccine is covered. You can easily schedule an appointment by calling at 512-471-4955 and dialing menu option #6. Don’t wait any longer. Guard your future by getting the HPV vaccine. Hughes is a biochemistry and Plan II senior from Austin. Hughes is the president of the Tejas Club.
FORUM
Managing perceptions key to student health, behaviors By Sarah Littlejohn
Daily Texan Forum Contributor
As a senior wrapping up my last semester before graduation, I can’t help looking back and thinking I never expected college to be like this. Growing up has been a series of these moments for me: heading towards something and realizing it is different than I imagined but so much more. Some things are better than you dreamed and others are harder than you ever imagined. In following this theme of perception versus reality, I want to reflect on the drinking culture at UT and how alcohol consumption is perceived as substantially higher than it is. The University of Texas has a reputation as a party school. Many prospective and current students have heard this so often and from so many sources that they believe it to be true. But as the recent data collected
through the National College Health Assessment shows, the party school reputation may not be deserved. The survey shows 69 percent of students have consumed alcohol within the last 30 days, and a majority of those students report moderate, non-heavy drinking. The survey data also reports students think 95 percent of their peers have consumed alcohol during this time period, greatly overestimating the actual percentage of drinkers. Perception is a powerful thing. If someone believes the normal behavior on campus is to drink until blacking out at every social event, then the student may emulate that behavior. Students who don’t feel comfortable with excessive drinking may compromise their personal preferences to comply with social norms. By changing the perception of UT’s alcohol use to mirror actual use, we allow students to follow a new normal that is more reflective of
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what is really happening on campus. UT, like most college campuses, does have issues with students and alcohol use. About one-third of UT students are binge drinking, at least on occasion. This type of drinking behavior can lead to negative consequences such as doing something you later regret, having unprotected sex or physically injuring yourself. However, while this is a serious issue, the frequency is much less common than it is often perceived to be. Let’s change the way we represent our campus both in our actions and words. Instead of perpetuating the myth that UT is a party school, possibly making it a self-fulfilling prophecy, let’s change the unsafe behaviors and practice responsible alcohol consumption. Finally, if a majority of the students at UT are drinking moderately or not at all, does UT qualify as a party school? I don’t think so. This in no way indicates that UT
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Perception is a powerful thing. … By changing the perception of UT’s alcohol use to mirror actual use, we allow students to follow a new normal that is more reflective of what is really happening on campus. isn’t an incredible place to go to school. It is the atmosphere on campus and in the city of Austin that provide the “party” vibe, not the amount of alcohol consumption. We are so much more than a party school, and we should take pride in that fact. Littlejohn is a public health senior from League City, Texas.
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Friendships help relationships last, combat stress
By Keun-woo Lee @thedailytexan
For a successful romantic relationship, maintain other friendships. In a recent study, Lisa Neff, associate professor of human development and family sciences, examined physiological responses to conflicts in relationships and how external friendships affected these responses. The study participants were married couples who wrote about their relationship experiences every night before bed. In those entries, they assessed conflicts, such as when a partner broke a promise or snapped during a disagreement. In order to measure levels of cortisol, a stress hormone, they collected saliva samples throughout the day. Every morning, the body’s cortisol levels spike.
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audience — all things they may have never experienced before. Julio Correa, a computer science junior, and his band Microphonic will be playing the festival. Microphonic typically plays shows in co-ops or house parties in West Campus and said that the festival is a great opportunity for local bands to get recognition.
Then they usually decrease gradually during the day, but if a stressful event occurs, cortisol levels stay high. The scientists found that when the couple experienced conflict, cortisol levels remained high instead of decreasing. However, if an affected partner was happy with their friends and social support groups, stress did not affect cortisol as much, even with relationship conflict. “So don’t forsake your friends when you get in a relationship,” Neff said. “They provide an important aspect as well. They help buffer you, they help make you feel better on a physiological level when you have a less than perfect day.” She explained all couples experience conflict — friends are just one mechanism to cope. “We’re all human. No one has the perfect partner,” Neff said. Another aspect of dealing with conflict in a relationship relates to external stressors. Whenever a couple devotes energy and attention to activities outside the relationship, less energy is available for the relationship itself. “School is very stress“I’m all for West Campus and co-op culture,” Correa said. “There’s a really cool scene that’s been cultivated there. West Campus Block Party is a good manifestation of that culture.” Hiebert said he was inspired to start the festival because of his own experience as a musician in Austin. Once he got to UT, his first college show was at West by West Campus in 2014. He said the show came at a time when
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ful,” she said. “An example I often give in my classes is exam week. I bet exam week is pretty tough on your relationships.” Even when it’s difficult, students should practice patience to mitigate conflict, according to Neff. She also explained that accumulating small, happy moments the band’s publicity was struggling, and the festival helped them develop future shows. In June, Hiebert’s current band, Toma, will play at Stubb’s BBQ with BØRNS. “For me, [West by West Campus] was mysterious and cool — I thought, ‘I definitely want to go to that one day.’” Hiebert said. “So being able to play, it felt professional. It felt really cool to be respected [when] we were a nobody band.”
in a relationship can help defend against the negative effects of conflict. “Did you laugh together today? Did you enjoy a leisure activity today?” Neff said. “It seems mundane, but the more you build up those daily positive experiences, the less upset you are when conflict happens.”
Rene Dailey, associate professor of communication studies, also said couples that deal with conflict well are more likely to have successful relationships. She said happiness is contingent on how couples deal with rough times. “Enjoy the positives, but don’t forget the negatives,”
Dailey said. “It’s great in initial phases to focus on the positive, but if there are stress points, see how your partner reacts to things. Say this becomes your really long-term partner — that’s how they’re going to react in stress. So can you deal with that or negotiate through that?”
HENRY
Henry” doesn’t keep that rush at full strength as it presses onward, and the climax feels less thrilling than obligatory. We sit through Henry mowing down faceless and nameless dudes so many times that the action eventually loses its initial burst of impact. It’s smart that Naishuller promptly closes the movie once the last enemy is dispatched, because anyone who sits through “Hardcore Henry” is going to need a long nap afterward. I suspect, though, that might have been
his goal. There isn’t much substance beneath all the visual gutpunch spectacle (crudely and humorously enough, Henry’s main motivation is to prove he’s not a complete “pussy”), and the violence will certainly be divisive among audiences. However, one can’t deny that “Hardcore Henry” packs a wallop. Naishuller’s debut picture is a pioneer of first-person filmmaking, and it powerfully demonstrates the potential behind its application.
continues from page 8 the experience of playing a first-person video game, and Naishuller is cognizant of the similarities. An avid gamer himself, Naishuller lifts inspiration from a variety of firstperson shooters, including “Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare,” “Halo 3: ODST,” and “Left 4 Dead.” Jimmy even resembles the “Call of Duty” character Captain Price at one point. Unfortunately, “Hardcore
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Breaunna Addison readied herself for match point. Earlier in the match, the senior found herself down 1-0 after dropping the first set. But now, leading 5-2 in the third set and on the brink of defeating Northwestern’s Erin Larner, Addison was one point away from bringing Texas to victory. Addison didn’t waste the opportunity. Under the Texas heat at Whitaker Courts, she quickly finished off Larner, giving Texas a 5-2 victory over the Wildcats. But the win represented something more for Addison — 100 singles victories in her Texas career. “I’m glad I was able to accomplish something like this, not just for me, but for UT,” Addison said. The moment was a longtime coming for the Boca Raton, Florida, native. Her four years at Texas have been increasingly tumultuous for the women’s tennis team. Addison has played under three different head coaches in her career and has seen the team’s usual home court, Penick-Allison Tennis Center, torn down for the Dell Medical School. But, like the March 28 match against Northwestern, Addison hasn’t let the difficult situation affect her. “There’s been a lot of change, some good and some bad unfortunately,” Addison said. “We’ve been very good at persevering through all of it.” Addison arrived at Texas with high expectations. She
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Senior Breaunna Addison connects with the ball. Addison has collected a host of accolades during her time in Austin, including ITA All-American honors in 2013 and 2014. Addison and the Longhorns currently hold a 10–6 record on the year.
entered Austin ranked 854th in the WTA women’s singles rankings and won her division of the 2009 Orange Bowl. She spent her first two years under the direction of then-head coach Patty Fendick-McCain. Following her freshman year, Addison won ITA Texas Region Rookie of the Year and Big 12 Conference freshman of the year, compiling a 59–18 record in singles play. But Fendick-McCain left Texas following Addison’s sophomore year. Danielle Lund
McNamara took McCain’s place but only stayed for Addison’s junior year. Last summer, Howard Joffe — previously Texas A&M women’s head coach — took the job of coaching Addison’s final season. Under his direction, Addison has rebounded. She’s racked up 14 wins and on Feb. 10, she became the first Longhorn since 2011 to crack the top 10 in the ITA rankings. “Bree is certainly as good as any player I’ve ever seen play college tennis,” Joffe said. Addison said her team-
mates and coaches have been the motivating forces that keep her going. “What I can do and what I can control is to go out there and do my best and try to win for my team,” Addison said. “So that’s what I do every time I step out on the court.” Addison is also one-half of the No. 17 doubles tandem in the nation. Addison and sophomore Dani Wagland currently hold a 24–7 record since teaming up in early 2015. Wagland said she does not know what
the future will hold without Addison by her side. “I’m just taking in all I can to learn from her, and hopefully that’ll help me in my next two years here,” Wagland said. Addison has just over one month remaining in her Longhorn career. But even when the season ends, Addison doesn’t plan on straying too far. “I’m hoping to be able to stay around the team,” Addison said. “I’m thinking about assisting [the Texas women’s team] potentially. Nothing’s set in stone though.”
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Texas takes down UTSA behind Felix’s late-inning heroics By Claire Cruz @clairecruz5
Texas played far from its best softball on Wednesday night, mustering just five hits in its first game at Roadrunner Field since 2010. But those five hits were enough to sneak away with a 3-2 victory over UTSA. Junior third baseman Celina Felix recorded three of Texas’ hits, proving to be a catalyst for the Longhorns’ lineup. Her solo home run in the seventh inning gave Texas a lead it would never relinquish. “I’d seen [the pitcher] three times before, and I was trying to make anything happen,” Felix said on 105.3 FM about her goahead hi. “I wasn’t focusing on a perfect swing, just doing what I normally do. I was just swinging hard.”
A pair of Roadrunner errors helped Texas gain a lead in the top of the third. With the bases loaded and one down, senior right fielder Holly Kern sent a 3-2 pitch to the left field wall for a RBI sacrifice fly. The Longhorns got on the board again in the following inning, taking advantage of a pair of walks to start the frame. Texas nearly missed the opportunity, but Felix ripped a twoout single to bring a run across. UTSA catcher Tess Soefje cut the lead in half with a solo home run in the bottom of the fourth. But sophomore pitcher Kristen Clark wasn’t fazed by the long ball and striking out the next two batters to end the inning. However, Clark gave up a leadoff solo home run in the sixth to sophomore center fielder Kendall Burton, tying the game at 2-2.
Texas regained the lead in the top of the seventh off of Felix’ blast. The Longhorns had a chance at some insurance runs after senior catcher Erin Shireman sent a single up the middle, but junior pinch runner Mickenzi Krpec was thrown out at the plate attempting to score. The Roadrunners made it interesting in the bottom of the seventh. A two-out walk followed by a perfectly executed bunt put two on for Burton, who tied the game in her previous at-bat. Burton was issued a walk to load the bases, but a fielder’s choice to shortstop ended the threat and sealed the Longhorns’ win. Clark’s six-hit, nine-strikeout game moved her to 2–1 on the season. She showed maturity to pitch out of the late jam and keep her team in the contest despite minimal run support.
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One, two, three. That’s where Baylor, Texas Tech and TCU ranked nationally in yards per game last season. Ninety-two. That’s where Texas finished. With such a poor ranking, it’s clear Longhorns’ new offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach Sterlin Gilbert has a lot of work to do. But history says he’s up to the challenge. Over the last four seasons, Gilbert has served as the offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach for three different schools. His results speak for themselves. In his first year at Eastern Illinois and Tulsa, Gilbert’s offenses scored a combined 54 percent more points and racked up 35 percent more yards on average than the year prior. “He’s very high energy,”
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Junior third baseman Celina Felix attempts to make contact with the ball. Felix had three hits and a home run in Wednesday’s win.
“[Clark] did great,” Felix told 105.3 FM. “When she’s confident and having a good game, it makes me feel confident because we all work together.” Texas will be riding a fivegame win streak when Texas Tech comes to Red and
Charline McCombs Field this weekend. “It’s going to be a dogfight,” head coach Connie Clark said. “They’ll come in and compete well. Staying sharp on the little things heading into a conference weekend is important for us.”
Senior quarterback Tyrone Swoopes runs toward the endzone. Swoopes will be in competition for the starting job in offensive coordinator Sterlin Gilbert’s new offense.
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team may go fast but we’ll be used to it.” Perhaps the most encouraging aspect of Gilbert’s uptempo scheme is the lack of additional points scored by opposing teams. Eastern Illinois only gave up five more points per game in Gilbert’s first year, while Tulsa actually decreased their points allowed per game. Gilbert has also shown the
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Longhorns need Gilbert’s up-tempo offense senior tight end Caleb Bluiett said. “When he says something he means it. When he says he wants fast, he wants fast… He cares a lot about the players and knows a lot about speed.” The up-tempo offense has become increasingly common in college football over the past decade, and Gilbert is one of its biggest devotees. The idea is simple – run plays quickly and often, leaving the defense tired and out of formation. Though Gilbert directs offensive personnel, he also has made a surprising impact defensively. With the faster pace in practice, both sides of the ball must line up quickly and stay conditioned. This tempo will prepare the Longhorns for the high-octane offenses of the Big 12. “It’s a change, not just for the offense but for all of us,” sophomore linebacker Malik Jefferson said. “It gets us better mentally. It helps us slow down the game. When we’re out there, a
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ability to develop quarterbacks. During his two years at Eastern Illinois, Gilbert helped current New England Patriots quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo pass for an extra 120 yards per game while raising his completion percentage. By the time Gilbert left Eastern Illinois in 2013, Garoppolo touted a touchdown to interception ratio of
53:9 ratio. And in one year at Tulsa, Gilbert helped quarterback Dane Evans increase his passing yards per game by 22 percent. Longhorn fans have learned to hedge their optimism the past few years, especially at the quarterback position. But with Gilbert’s help, Texas may finally be able to reclaim a spot among the Big 12 elite.
Senior Morolake Akinosun claimed the Big 12 Athlete of the Week on Wednesday following her record-setting performance in the Texas Relays. Akinosun became the first woman to win the 100-meter race three consecutive years at the Relays, clocking in at 11.07 seconds. The time was her best of the year and currently ranks as the No. 1 time in the world for 2016. In addition to her individual success, Akinosun participated in the Longhorns’ 4x400 relay team. The 4x400 group clocked in at 3:26.54, good for the top spot in the nation and sixth all-time in the Longhorns’ record book. Akinosun became the third Longhorn to win Athlete of the Week in 2016, joining Ariel Jones and Asa Garcia. Jones and Garcia shared the award following the season’s opening week. Big 12 Athlete of the Week marks just another accolade in Akinosun’s accomplished career. Akinosun holds the Texas record in the 200 meters and joined Jackie Joyner-Kersee as one of two women to score in four events in consecutive years. The Texas Relays served as one of the finest points in Akinosun’s career. But the senior from Aurora, Illinois, isn’t done yet. The Longhorns still have four events before the Big 12 Championships in May, beginning with the LSU Alumni Gold on April 23. —Michael Shaprio
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Experimental musician has a batty new sound By James Rodriguez @jamie_rod
When local musician Steve Parker first witnessed 1.5 million bats emerge from underneath the Congress Avenue Bridge, he listened intently. What he heard led him on a journey to investigate bat calls and their place in musical composition. “You’re just sort of immersed in this chatter, this bat cocktail party, and I just became fascinated with it,” Parker, a UT alumnus, said. “I’m really interested in unusual sounds, and the more I messed around with the [bats’] sounds and explored them, the more I became interested in the melodic or musical nature of some of their echolocation calls.” Parker’s latest project, BAT/MAN, will feature bat calls accompanied by a live ensemble of human voices, conch shells, funnel horns and man-made echolocation devices. The performance will debut Sunday at the bat observation lawns near the Congress Avenue Bridge, where bat calls will be collected in real time from a microphone attached to the bridge. The calls will then be amplified and pitch-shifted to make them audible to human ears. “Most people I’ve spoken to have not really noticed what the bats sound like, and I think it’s one of the more interesting aspects of the having bats here,” Parker said. “I think what’s really exciting is illuminating this secret dialogue that’s happening, literally, under our feet or above our heads every day. It’s a really
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Steve Parker, a local musician and UT alumnus, will be amplifying the calls of the bats for a musical ensemble as part of his show BAT/MAN. The show will debut as part of Fusebox Festival this Sunday at the bat observation lawns underneath the Congress Avenue bridge.
compelling sound.” BAT/MAN will debut as a part of Fusebox Festival, an annual hybrid art festival that showcases a variety of interdisciplinary projects at more than 20 locations around Austin. According to managing director Brad Carlin, the festival encourages artists to include an educational aspect in their work. In the week leading up to the performance, Parker worked with Anthropos Arts and Austin Soundwaves, local
nonprofits that provide musical instruction to underprivileged kids, helping young people experiment with audio manipulation and educate them about the bats. Carlin said Fusebox Festival is defined in part by its choice of venues all over the city, including historic landmarks such as the bridge Parker uses in his work. “We use the festival to explore Austin and highlight places that maybe
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people haven’t seen before or help to see it in a new way,” Carlin said. “Steve’s project definitely checked that box for us because I don’t know that you can get more Austin in terms of exploring the city than engaging with the bats.” Parker, who can play all of the instruments featured in the performance, spent the last year collecting bat sounds and playing over them as part of his composition process. Despite his work, Parker said
it is impossible to predict what the calls will sound like on the day of the show. “[The bats] sound most similar to bird calls, like alien bird calls,” Parker said. “But they’re also pretty fast. We don’t really know what it’s going to sound like until we’re in that space on the day of the performance.” While Parker composed a score for BAT/MAN, parts of the show have been left open for musicians to react to the noises
from the bats around them. During the performance, UT alumnus Brent Baldwin will lead the vocalists of the Texas Choral Consort in segments of improvised singing throughout the show. “With Steve, we keep it fun, we keep it kind of free and in the moment,” Baldwin said. “We’re kind of approaching it like jazz players might. There’s a set structure, but within that structure almost anything could happen.”
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‘Hardcore Henry’ places viewers on a cinematic theme park ride By Charles Liu @charlieindahaus
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Plan II senior Jake Hiebert (middle) and his team prepare to throw a local music festival that is held in West Campus. The West Campus Block Party is showcased across four locations and looks to bring together the college community through music and art.
West Campus Block Party brings back live, local music to residents By Elizabeth Hlavinka @hlavinka_e
More than a thousand students line the streets of West Campus, with art vendors, vintage shops and live music, surrounding them in every direction. It’s a scaled-down version of Austin City Limits Music Festival, right in UT’s backyard. The West Campus Block Party, a student-run music festival, will be held Saturday, with music starting at 2:45 p.m. The festival showcases over 30 bands, including headliners The Rotten Mangos, Ruby Jane & The Reckless, Big Bill and Hola Beach. The performances take place across four stages at the 21st St. Co-Op, the Pearl St. Co-Op, the Eden House and the French House. Plan II senior Jake Hiebert, the executive
producer and founder of the festival, decided to undertake the project last year after a previous festival, West by West Campus, was discontinued. “[The scene for] throwing your own shows in West Campus is definitely very alive,” Hiebert said. “Even if I didn’t pick it up, somebody would have, but I think I can do it best. I wanted to make it the best it could be.” UT alumnus Waldo Wittenmyer, who ran West By West Campus, said he was happy to see Hiebert take on the project and promote the West Campus music scene. Wittenmyer said his own music appreciation was fostered in West Campus when he was a student, before much of the area’s development. At the time, most of the residents lived in houses, much like the co-ops, and live music was
played on every corner. “With the amount of change that’s happening in Austin, it’s really important that we nurture the reason people move here in the first place, which is music and art,” Wittenmyer said. “It’s really important to have that be a part of your college years — it really changed my outlook on life, having that be a part of my college experience.” Hiebert said it’s important for the festival to showcase local talent. The festival hosts several student bands, which are often not given the same opportunities as more well-known acts. West Campus Block Party maintains its professionalism so bands can enter the green room, talk with headliners and be exposed to a large
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We are generally the observers of blood and gut spillage in action movies. In “Hardcore Henry,” we watch everything through the eyes of our hero, a cyborg soldier named Henry, as he murders every bad guy who gets in his way. Predominantly filmed using a GoPro mounted on a stuntman’s head, director Ilya Naishuller’s debut picture is quite the joyride. Henry doesn’t have any recollection of who he is or where he came from. All he knows is he must rescue Estelle (Haley Bennett), a scientist who claims she is his wife and has supposedly rebuilt him after a traumatic injury. Her captor is Akan (Danila Kozlovsky), a telekinetic villain who seeks to build an army of cyborgs just like Henry. Henry’s only ally is Jimmy
(Sharlto Copley), a jokey yet effective fighter who repeatedly pops up to aid him in the most unlikely of locations. Jimmy takes upon various guises whenever he appears, donning secret agent, military, hippie and homeless outfits. Absurdly enough, each appearance he makes is also ended by his own gruesome death, making his subsequent resurgences all the more strange and, peculiarly enough, endearing. Through Jimmy, Copley injects “Hardcore Henry” with an enormous amount of personality. His amicable demeanor and witty lines are constantly on display during the action and during the few breathers Naishuller provides. Copley even gets a laugh-outloud scene where he sings show tunes as multiple versions of Jimmy. You’ll have to see the movie to find out why there’s more than one.
It’s no surprise that Copley, a talented and versatile performer, steals the show here, but it is a surprise that “Hardcore Henry” succeeds on such a visceral level. Thanks to his cyborg augmentations, Henry can swiftly scale the sides of buildings and hop across speeding cars, but that doesn’t stop him from taking punches to the face, getting thrown by explosions and losing lots of his own blood. Each of the action sequences in “Hardcore Henry” is an inventive, intense splash of energy, gore and humor. Henry doesn’t kill his enemies: he destroys them, and experiencing the brutality from up close offers a heart-pounding rush like no other. Many viewers will compare the first-person footage of “Hardcore Henry” to
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Ilya Naishuller (left) and Sharlto Copley participate in a Q&A after the American premiere of “Hardcore Henry,” a first-person action movie. The film hits theaters on April 8.