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UTPD undergoes scheduled review

By Mikaela Cannizzo @mikaelac16

The Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies, an international authority that provides standards for law enforcement, is assessing the UT police department’s policies and operations this week.

Lt. Darrell Birdett said the CALEA officials examine whether the department is following a variety of standards set by the agency, including use of force and disciplinary

procedures. Birdett said UTPD met CALEA standards on its first assessment in 2007 and has since been re-accredited twice.

“Accreditation shows a level of professionalism and that we’ve met the standards for the best practices that they set out,” Birdett said.

The assessment has previously been performed every three years, but the agency will now review the department once every four years.

While the assessment was already scheduled and not a response to the recent homi-

cide on campus, several parents raised concerns about inadequate lighting in certain areas and the homeless community.

Joell Sullivan-McNew, member of Texas Parents’ Association, said she compiled a list of responses from 115 parents in the organization and spoke on various collective parental concerns about safety on campus during the forum.

“I’m really hoping for change and action,” Sullivan-McNew said. “Not only from parents, but I’m hoping that Student Gov-

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Universities need to find alternative financing @caleber96

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CALEA assessors Blythe Frausto and Capt. Zandral Washington led a meeting assessing the UT policies and operations.

SG passes Speedway-hammock resolution

By Rachel Lew @rachelannlew

The South Mall lawn and the Union outdoor patio are popular locations for UT students to enjoy warm weather and sunshine, and Student Government passed a resolution last Tuesday to provide another option — hammocks along the planned Speedway Mall.

The Speedway Mall project will bring large grassy areas and about 300-400 new oak trees to the area between Martin Luther King Boulevard and Dean Keeton Street, providing an ideal opportunity for hammocks to be placed permanently, according to the resolution.

Taral Patel, government senior and co-author of the resolution, said hammocks provide an alternative option to rest on campus.

“There are benches,

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Biology junior Hallie Williams and philosophy and journalism sophomore Lauryn Overhultz relax in a hammock at their dorm.

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Institutions of higher education must work with each other and the public and private sectors to fund their programs in light of decreased state funding, said top higher education officials and lawmakers.

Former U.S. Sen. Kay Hutchison (R-TX) and former University of California-Berkeley Chancellor Robert Birgeneau spoke at a press conference Wednesday before a closed-door meeting about higher education funding.

“Historically, higher education funding has always come back after a recovery,” Birgeneau said.

“This time, it has not.”

The meeting comes after the American Academy of Arts and Sciences released a report, known as the “Lincoln Project,” last Thursday, warning that state support for higher education has declined an average of 34 percent over the past decade.

Hutchison, chairman of the Texas Exes and UT alumna, served as an advisor to the report, and Birgeneau co-chaired the report committee.

“For the moment, [public institutions of higher education] have maintained their educational and research missions,” the report said. “But this trend is not sustainable.”

Although Fenves was not involved in the cre-

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UT System seeks to increase CMHC kicks off week-long revenues leasing new well sites campaign for mental health

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The UT System has located 21,000 potential new well sites on its oil lands, which could generate significant revenue for the System.

University Lands, a division of the System’s Office of Business Affairs, manages 2.1 million acres that were granted to the System more than a century ago and make up the Permanent University Fund, a state endowment for public higher education. Through technological advances such as horizontal drilling, the UT System has located new potential well sites in its oil-rich land in West Texas to add to its current 9,000 active sites.

Philip Aldridge, UT System Business Development associate vice chancellor, said the addition is technology-driven.

Advances in areas such as hydraulic and horizontal drilling increase the profit potential for companies leasing the

land. According to the leasing contract, when the companies make more money, UT also gets a larger sum which goes into the PUF. “In the short run, [the revenue change will be] not much because prices are so low right now, and the drilling activity has slowed down considerably,” Aldridge said. “Over time, as prices recover for oil and natural gas, there should be a lot of opportunities to increase revenue.”

Alyssa Ray, external relations officer for University Lands, said the company will hire 15–20 interns from UTAustin and Texas A&M University to analyze the sites over the summer. There are currently more than 200 companies leasing land for the 9,000 active wells, producing 220,000 barrels of oil and gas.

“The Lands will serve as a giant laboratory that will not only increase PUF revenues

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Glow-in-the-dark yoga and an adult coloring session are just some of the many activities offered by the Counseling and Mental Health Center during its inaugural Mental Health Promotion Week, which seeks to help students dealing with mental health issues.

The event kicked off with an interactive activity called “Leave Your Mark,” win which students wrote their thoughts on mental health on a big whiteboard in the East Mall. Students who participated and liked the counseling center page on various social media platforms received a T-shirt, stress ball or a sticker promoting the campaign.

Kelsey Lammy, mental health promotion coordinator for the CMHC, said the stigma around mental health makes it difficult for people to have serious conversations.

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Counseling and Mental Health Center volunteers, Jay Wang (left), Carissa Topete, Marissa Rogina and Israel Guerra.

“If someone breaks a bone we think, ‘Oh, you should probably go to the doctor,’ [but] with mental health, it can be harder for students or for anyone to talk about what they’re going through,” Lammy said. “We know that community, social connectedness and talking to others is so beneficial. … College can be really exciting, but it can also be really stressful, so

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providing a space for students to start that conversation is so important.”

Rhetoric and writing junior Tori Steffan, who stopped by the CMHC booth yesterday, said she is happy to see the counseling center making an effort to help students. “[Mental health] affects a lot of people in varying degrees,” Steffan said. “For

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ation of the report, he hosted a press conference about its findings and said he was “very supportive” of its goals.

The report makes several recommendations to help universities thrive with decreased state support, including “establish[ing] annual cost and efficiency targets,” beefing up their giving programs, providing financial aid to low-income, in-state undergraduate students, tracking student performance in real-time, and improving the transfer process from community college and online “gateway courses,” among other priorities.

“However, considering the importance of these institutions to students, local communities, and the nation, we must all assume responsibility for their future,” the report reads. “We cannot allow these essential institutions to erode.

The burdens of stewardship fall upon us all.”

Hutchison said state legislatures cut higher education funding because it is perceived that these institutions have the ability to make up the difference through private funds.

“Tuition has gone up higher when the legislature was in charge of making those decisions,” Hutchison said.

“The public institutions, have in fact, under the direction of the Board of Regents, cut costs.”

In Texas, top state lawmakers have criticized UT System institutions over recent tuition increases after UT-Austin increased its tuition by about $300 per semester by fall 2017. In a letter sent to the presidents of the System’s institutions, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick and Kel Seliger, chairman of the Senate Higher Education Committee, said higher education has been funded at “historic levels” and a tuition increase would “increase the financial burden faced by students and their families.”

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“This is a new and creative way to relax.”

Gregory Gymnasium offers hammocks that can be rented out from RecSports, but the hammocks are not often used, and many campuses around the country are banning use of personal hammocks on campus because of concerns for tree and student safety, according to the resolution.

Rebecca Sostek, resolution co-author and rhetoric and writing and psychology junior, said she has met with the University’s landscaping company and the Division of Recreational Sports, and feedback for the idea has been positive. Sostek said the hammocks will be placed on stands rather than tied to trees.

“After talking to the landscaping company, I realized

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Former U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchinson (left), Gregory Fenves, University of Texas President, and Robert Brigneau, former University of Californa-Berkley Chancellor discuss higher ed funding.

State budgets face increasing costs for programs, such as Medicaid and prisons. This tends to make higher education the “balance wheel,” or the program that can be easily cut, Birgeneau said.

“Some states spend more money putting people in prison than educating their college [students],” Birgeneau said. “The states are under horrific pressures with all of these programs.”

Birgeneau said the fed-

eral government, the states, companies and other stakeholders are going to have to work closely with universities to make higher education affordable for students and competitive in research fields.

“We need a 21st century budget model for public research universities,” Birgeneau said. “This is a lot to ask for, but the resources are out there, so this … can happen.”

that it’s going to be for the best to have hammocks on stands rather than hanging on trees, mostly because hanging hammocks in trees can be detrimental to the trees’ health,” Sostek said. “These trees on the Speedway project will be baby trees, so that would require a lot of time for them to grow.”

Sostek said she received a $1,250 grant from SG’s special projects fund, which will allow for a trial period, when hammocks will be placed around the Blanton Museum of Art, Jester Dormitory and Gregory Gymnasium.

“This trial period will be a good way to see if these hammocks will hold up over the semester and to see if they’ve been used and positively received,” Sostek said.

“After the trial period, if the hammocks are received well and things go as planned, I’ll start reaching out to other entities such as Student Government, the [Texas] Hammocking Club and UT Par-

ents’ Association for funding and suggestions.”

Nursing freshman Allen Tan said he thinks permanent hammocks would provide a space for students to rest during the day, especially if they live far from campus.

“It would be good for students who live off campus and don’t want to have to go back home just for a 30-minute nap,” Tan said.

Tan said he thinks maintenance may be an issue in providing permanent hammocks. “[The hammocks] would have to be constantly cleaned and checked for damage,” Tan said. “Especially when it rains, which it hardly ever does, the hammocks would get wet and nasty.”

UT Facilities Services spokesperson Laurie Lentz said the decision to install hammocks on the Speedway Mall would be a campus decision and would take place after construction of the mall

ernment gets involved as well and incorporates safety and awareness into orientation.”

Washington said he advises parents to speak with the UTPD if they have additional concerns about the safety of their children.

“Getting to know the police department more is a relationship that you build if you have concerns,” Washington said. “It takes all of us in order for things to work out for the best.”

Birdett said interviews with community members, business owners and department employees are just as important as reviewing documents to determine how well the department meets the required standards.

As part of the on-site evaluation, community members and agency employees were invited to offer their comments and provide feedback at a public forum Monday afternoon in the Student Activity Center.

Two CALEA assessors not affiliated with UT, Blythe Frausto and Capt. Zandral Washington, led the meeting.

After the review is complete, Frausto said they file a report based on observations, and the commission decides whether to accredit the agency or not.

Birdett said the results are released to the department in July.

Frausto said it is important to incorporate public comment to understand the community’s perspectives on UTPD’s performance and what changes they think could be made. “[Feedback] is really one of the tenets of the commission for accreditation because we want to see how they work within the community and to ensure that the community is a part of the agency and vice versa,” Frausto said.

Other accredited university police departments include those at California State University-Fullerton, California State University-Los Angeles and the University of Washington.

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Pizza, snow cones and a DJ were all part of the kickoff event for Campus Fusion on Monday at Gregory Plaza.

Students for Equity and Diversity is hosting Campus Fusion, a three-day event during which different organizations showcasing diversity team up for a series of workshops and performances to promote unity among students.

Monica Torres, director of internal relations at SED, said the group is bringing back Campus Fusion after a decade-long absence.

“So back in ’04, ’06, during that time, they actually would put up Campus Fusion as a week of dialogue but with a social justice component,” said Torres, a social work and Mexican American studies junior.

Torres said this event is necessary because issues of diversity are still evident on campus.

“We should still celebrate our different cultures, different ethnicities, different backgrounds here at UT,” Torres said.

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continues from page 1 myself, personally, my own struggles with mental health issues have impacted my stay here at UT, so I really like to see them having a lot of resources readily available for students. I felt I was able to seek [these resources] out when I first came here, but I’m glad they’re making it more well known and more accessible.”

Gustavo Molinar, psychology junior, proposed Mental Health Promotion Week to the CMHC. Molinar worked as a peer educator for the

junior Jackie Tellez said Campus Fusion had a larger turnout in the past.

“It was put on by both the [Division of Diversity and Community Engagement] and Student Government in collaboration,” Tellez said. “It was a campus-wide event, and they had a lot of people come out and sponsor it.”

Tellez said the event includes not only cultural organizations, but any organization that promotes diversity on campus.

“Diversity is not just different countries or determined by ethnicities,” Tellez said. “We also have organizations like the [Gender and Sexuality Center] talking about gender. We have queer [organizations] and neurodiversity [organizations]. We’re not trying to cover just race, but all that diversity has to bring, which is all of those things together.”

Tellez said although the University encourages diversity, the different student organizations operate separately.

“UT is a very diverse school, but I feel like those communities don’t always interact with each other, center from 2014–2015 and initiated the idea after working on another campaign during Suicide Prevention Week. Molinar said this type of campaign is important because of the hectic lifestyles students lead.

“The college student experience is one that encompasses more than studying,” Molinar said in an email.

“There are many factors such as friends, stress, and [academic] pressures that can affect mental health. Students should understand that everyone has a different college experience, that they are all doing the best that they can.”

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A student checks out booths as a part of Campus Fusion on Monday afternoon at Gregory Plaza. Campus Fusion is a three-day event that brings together different organizations on campus so students can experience different cultures.

and this is a space where those communities can come together and see each other all together instead of being separated throughout campus,” Tellez said.

“We’re here, but we don’t always get the opportunity to come together.”

Sam Tedford, geography senior and co-director of social justice for

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continues from page 1 but also promote oil and gas industry knowledge and research,” Ray said. “With the advent of technology such as horizontal drilling, multiple layers of hydrocarbonproducing rock beneath the Permian Basin are able to

SED, said Campus Fusion is not just a good public relations event.

“We don’t wanna just use [diversity] as a buzz word,” Tedford said. “We’re ac-

tively trying to make a diverse space in a multitude of ways. We want to work with other students to help promote and preserve their cultures.”

be targeted. We’re trying to address the complexities of these technological advancements within University Lands’ leasing agreements to ensure that the acreage is effectively developed.”

Vu Nguyen, a petroleum engineering graduate student, will be one of the interns with University Lands

this summer working on making the oil business in Texas more efficient.

“We will be doing production optimization for wells,” Nguyen said. “[We will study] the performance of the wells. They want to hire students to go there and to find a way to improve the performance.”

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Sanders supporters must also back Clinton

By Derek Poludniak Daily Texan Columnist @DerekPoludniak

Donald Trump has a dream. In November, the businessman and Republican front-runner imagines thousands of Democrats ditching their party and voting for him. And for once, Trump may be right.

In a recent poll, 25 percent of voters who support Bernie Sanders say they would not vote for former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton if she becomes the Democratic nominee. In comparison, only 14 percent of Clinton supporters cannot see themselves supporting the Vermont senator.

It’s not unusual for diehard supporters to reject calls for unity after a long primary battle. In 2008, a similar number of Clinton supporters refused to support Barack Obama after she lost the nomination to him. In fact, 10 percent of Democrats eventually voted for the 2008 Republican nominee Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) over Obama.

Eight years later, some Sanders supporters are ringing a similar tone. It’s “Bernie or Bust” as they put it, pledging to support anyone but Clinton, even if that’s Trump.

This is a terrible, horrible, no good, very

bad idea.

Trump’s extremist positions are the polar opposite of Sanders’ views. On immigration, Trump wants to round up all illegal immigrants and deport them, while Sanders wants to create a pathway for immigrants to obtain citizenship. On changing the minimum wage, Trump says to leave it alone, while Sanders says raise it.

Unsurprisingly, Clinton also wants a pathway to citizenship and believes in raising the minimum wage. In fact, Clinton and Sanders agree on almost every single issue — including the idea that Trump would be a disaster for the country.

“I honestly don’t understand how anyone, much less those who consider themselves progressives, could support the kind of vitriolic nonsense coming from Donald Trump,” said Charlie Bonner, a Plan II government sophomore and Texas student outreach coordinator for the Clinton campaign. “[Trump’s] candidacy is built upon a bedrock of hate and racism, and the thought that Bernie’s supporters would join in that is completely foreign to me.”

Sanders supporters have their reservations about Clinton, and rightfully so. But those reservations cannot translate into a protest vote for Trump. When Democrats voted for

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McCain in 2008, they were voting for an honest war hero. Democrats who choose to vote for Trump in 2016 will be voting for a liar who makes fun of war heroes.

If Clinton becomes the nominee, Sanders supporters should think twice about

not voting for her. She may be a polarizing candidate to them, but a united Democratic party is the only way to defeat Trump and make America great again.

Poludniak is a history sophomore from San Antonio.

COLUMN

UT faculty should diversify to support diverse student body

By Kennedy Brookins Daily Texan Columnist @kenneteaa

Teaching is a tough job. The profession requires one to inspire, encourage and engage with his or her students. This becomes an even more difficult task when a teacher and student are coming from two different cultures. At the University of Texas at Austin, our overwhelmingly white faculty, through no fault of their own, has failed to adequately support the needs and dreams of its minority students.

A study conducted by John Hopkins and American University found that white teachers had particularly low expectations for their black students, especially black males. These teachers were less likely than their black coworkers to believe that their black students would graduate high school and go on to college.

At UT-Austin, we have a teaching staff composed of 66.4 percent white and 5.4 percent black professors. A majority of these black professors can be found in the African and African Diaspora Studies Departments, which is great for the black students who study AFR, but what about the rest of us?

Who believes in and encourages the black engineers, the black mathematicians or the black scientists?

Ethnic representation, or lack thereof, in college faculties matters for students. It affected me when, growing up, the only school faculty I saw who looked like me were either coaches or custodians. It affected me when I had my first black professor my freshman year of college and suddenly felt a connection to a classroom culture I didn’t know existed before — a culture that looked a whole lot like mine.

This connection is particularly important for minorities who are first generation col-

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lege students. When minority students sits in a classroom led by someone who looks like them, the limitations that were once placed on them are slowly lifted. They’re no longer confined to a football field or a garbage can.

Whether it’s a master’s or a Ph.D., for the first time they have proof that it’s achievable.

This isn’t merely a black and white issue.

Asians make up 23 percent of our student body, yet only 5.5 percent of professors are Asian here. Latinos are also underrepresented in multiple departments. Unfortunately, UT largely consists of white professors trying to connect with an increasingly diverse student body. A more representative faculty would create better relationships between professors and students.

Having a diverse teaching staff doesn’t solely benefit minority students. Research indicates that diverse environments help foster various kinds of creativity for all students. We mature as people and as stu-

dents as we begin to understand that the same world can be experienced in a thousand different ways. With a staff as uniformly white as ours, we can only grow so much.

Student bodies are temporary, but a faculty is much more stable. Our leaders and educators on campus are the longstanding representatives of who we are as a University.

Yet, these leaders look nothing like me. They look nothing like the international student who sacrificed so much to be here. They look nothing like the Latino student whose immigrant parents gave up everything in hopes that they could live a better life. But they should.

Every student in every major deserves to be represented and, more importantly, deserves to be supported.

Brookins is a junior psychology major from McKinney.

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Pop music is popular for a reason, Pop music should not be dumbed should not be disregarded, trashed down, manufactured to make cash

By Alyssa Fernandez Daily Texan Columnist @blancoalyssa

Pop music sounds fake, and it should stay that way. All the Mileys and Britneys didn’t spontaneously apparate into the world. They were created in the same studio their songs were produced in. They are the test tube musicians necessary to perform those catchy hooks that get stuck in your head. Most importantly, they are the face of a product, and you, the listener, are the consumer.

The music industry is a business, and a business’s primary concern is making money. If a company already has a successful product, why change the formula?

Coca-Cola tried that with New Coke to compete with Pepsi and unintentionally wrote a cautionary tale about not changing the merchandise if it ain’t broke.

Just like Coke, pop music follows this same mantra and sticks with a style that listeners are familiar with. Of course, to make sure the music is especially standardized, a large chunk of the top 20 hits of the past two decades have been created by a small group of Swedish producers.

But what is familiar is comforting, and that’s what turns a profit.

Expecting pop music to be extensively artistic or original is like asking for my bottle of Coke to have the same nutritional content as kale.

That’s not what it’s made for. While it’s true that most pop uses a third grader’s vocabulary, that doesn’t mean that it’s easy to craft the perfect summer hit. Rebecca Black’s 2011 single, “Friday,” is proof that songwriting can go comically wrong. Some people can’t get over the lack of authenticity in pop music, but crafting it requires some serious brainpower.

None of this means that music is dead. It’s quite the contrary. There are plenty of channels to access quality music, such as SoundCloud, where

struggling artists post their work to the public.

The downside of this influx of artistic music is that extra work is required to discover it. With pop music, it’s as easy as turning on your radio or looking at the Billboard charts.

From a note to a chord and a catchy hook, every carpool karaoke and solo shower session begins with a song. More than anything, pop music is so appealing because it offers an experience, and that’s what the consumer pays for. If you’re looking for something deep in pop, you’re looking in the wrong place. But pop is still worth putting your hands up in the air for.

Fernandez is a Spanish and rhetoric and writing junior from Allen.

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By Jake Schmidt

Daily Texan Columnist @heyjakers

From proverbs such as “you are what you eat” to movements such as veganism, the conscious consumption of food is a value woven throughout our modern culture. But another commodity as ubiquitous as food suffers from a startling lack of consumer scrutiny: pop music.

Yes, we have the Billboard 100 and album reviews, and anyone can post their musings about Taylor Swift’s latest hit to social media. But this is all discussion of taste, not substance. If we’ve learned anything from the candy binges and stomach aches of childhood, we

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know not everything that delights our senses is healthy.

Modern pop production is like a modern slaughterhouse — designed for efficiency and profit, machines and software transform even the most emaciated performance into a homogenized, chart-topping product.

For most pop musicians, the entire songwriting process is managed with ruthless precision.

After producers lure artists into attractive contracts, they commandeer creative direction down to individual notes and words.

The average pop song has almost as many writers as a Big Mac has preservatives. Covert networks of producers, including Lukasz “Dr. Luke” Gottwald and his mentor, Max Martin, have collectively written and produced hundreds of Grammy winners and top-40 hits. Katy Perry, Taylor Swift, Miley Cyrus, Nicki Minaj, Britney Spears, Pitbull and many others are oftentimes just the mouthpieces of these middle-aged white men and their squadrons of beat producers, lyricists and melody writers capable of manufacturing up to 60 songs per week. In such a high-stakes environment, more than the quality of the music can suffer.

And still we listen. We like pop music for the same reason we like our bacon in evenly cut strips and our hamburgers in symmetric patties: consistency. The perverse form of quality control Dr. Luke and Co. employ keeps us coming back for more but sterilizes the music.

The formula for a hit song has become so profitable that the industry follows it mechanically. Even artists are noticing the similarities between songs. Kelly Clarkson voiced concern that her song “Already Gone” sounded like a copy of Beyoncé’s “Halo.” The same man, Ryan Tedder, produced both, and both were hits.

Pop music, like Spam and hot dogs, is great as an occasional treat, but great music cannot be manufactured. Great music, like the most nutritious food, is created without the industry additives and is sometimes an acquired taste. Don’t be fooled by the next pop hit just off the conveyor belt — music is not meat!

Schmidt is a physics and aerospace engineering sophomore from Austin.

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continues from page 8 before breaking out into an anthemic final chorus, are the last truly engaging tracks before the album hits a wall, becoming formulaic and losing the momentum it built in its first half.

None of the album’s later songs are bad — most are actually beautifully written — but they all draw from the same somber sonic palette. When played back to back, they become repetitive, slowly lulling the listener to sleep. By the time “Sick In The Head”’s whisper-sung melody rolls around, it’s clear the band is more focused on avoiding the sophomore slump than developing new ideas or recapturing the playful energy of their debut’s “Flapper Girl” or the cheeky fun of “Classy Girls.”

One exception is the pained “My Eyes,” during which Schultz sings with all the scorn of a man betrayed. Lines such as, “They fed you the lines (they fed you to lions) / You always confuse your servants for friends / But you couldn’t see how it ends / It’s all or nothing to you,” are sung over

After taking four years to craft Cleopatra, the Grammy-nominated band leaves the listener with a cohesive, if underwhelming album.

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aren’t related, they both symbolize positivity.

Every time I’ve gotten a job or gotten into a school I wanted, it was on the 22nd; it’s my lucky number,” Lumus said. “I liked the crown with the aesthetic of the roman numerals.”

continues from page 8 end of the book he realizes it’s meaningless.”

Directly below the crown is the number 22, his lucky number, in roman numerals. Though the two

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continues from page 8 diophile, Ball has collected 6,000 CDs, which he listens to on a stereo system he said costs more than his car.

an enchanting piano arrangement, giving the album a bittersweet end.

The instrumental track “Patience” picks up seamlessly where “My Eyes” leaves off, playing out with a piano track that would be well suited for a music box.

After taking four years to craft Cleopatra, the Grammy-nominated band leaves the listener with a cohesive, if underwhelming album. Though their approach may be more calculated than most Americana outfits, the record carries enough highlights, such as “Ophelia” and “Angela,” to make it worth a listen. Like any journey, the album also has its lows, but by Cleopatra’s end, it’s clear we can still expect great things from The Lumineers.

Two Albums: experimental music

By Chris Duncan @chr_dunc

Loveless – My Bloody Valentine After the band’s first release Isn’t Anything, My Bloody Valentine’s status as a cult favorite was enough to establish themselves in the scene, but it wasn’t until their next album, Loveless, that the band’s legacy was cemented as a pioneering rock group.

Loveless took two years to create, nearly bankrupting the band’s label in the process. But what emerged, however, was worth their efforts — a masterpiece of rock that became the defining album for shoegaze.

Building off the sound established in Isn’t Anything, My Bloody Valentine ramped up the enchanting melodies and biting vocals, walking the listener through 11 separate moments in a vague story of love.

Although the group was not

able to follow Loveless properly because of frontman Kevin Shields’ writer’s block and apparent meltdown, it would have been nearly impossible to complete another album as far-reaching as Loveless. Fortunately for fans, the group reunited in 2007, hitting the reset switch and releasing a new self-titled record m b v.

Tracks to listen to: “Only Shallow,” “When You Sleep,” “Sometimes” Homogenic – Björk After her second and third albums, Debut and Post, respectively, found mainstream success, Björk was primed to become art pop’s next huge star. However, with Homogenic, she turned to electronic beats and string instruments to drive her creative impulses, a choice that furthered her reputation as one of the brightest minds in modern music.

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“I used to dream, when I was younger, about presiding over the care of a big chorale of fine pianos and working with major artists,” Ball said. “I’ve kind of achieved that.”

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appearance for a more brutal and deep one. Sonically, this album ventures into the abstract, combining stuttering and clanky electronic production with live, and often dark, string instruments.

Her sound alternates between light and dark to convey raw emotion.

Although Björk moved on from this sound and certainly isn’t defined by this release, Homogenic is still her most complete and impressive effort, forcing listeners to consider it as one of the best electronic albums of its era.

Tracks to listen to: “Hunter,” “Jöga,” “Bachelorette”

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BASEBALL COLUMN

Longhorns take success to Houston

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By Michael Shapiro @mshap2

Despite dropping the finale of a three-game set with Kansas State on Sunday, the Longhorns (14–18, 5–4 Big 12) were still upbeat as they made their way back to Austin. Texas took the series after winning the first two matchups on Friday and Saturday, playing more like a team with conference title aspirations than one near the cellar of the Big 12.

But taking two of three from the Wildcats was far from a monumental task. Kansas State came into the series winless in the conference, having lost 11 of the last 13 games they played. But this iteration of Texas baseball isn’t looking to rip off win streaks; it’s simply looking to get back on track.

The weekend series marked the Longhorns’ third series win of the year, and since defeating Texas State on March 1, the Longhorns have lost 15 of their last 24 games. While the trip to Kansas State wasn’t a referendum on Texas’ ability to compete for a Big 12 title, it was certainly a step in the right direction.

Following the successful weekend away from Austin, the Longhorns will take to the road again on Tuesday, facing off against Houston at Constellation Field in Sugar Land. But despite the proximity to Houston, the Longhorns will be the home team.

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Strong performances at the plate have vaulted junior second baseman Zane Gurwitz from the nine-hole to the fifth spot in the Texas lineup. Gurwitz’s hot streak will be challenged next Tuesday against a strong Houston team.

The Cougars look to provide a more difficult battle than Kansas State. Houston currently sits at 19–12 on the year, with wins over then-No. 23 Alabama and then-No. 19 East Carolina.

Fueling Houston this season is freshman catcher Joe Davis. Davis, who hails from Bowie High School in Austin, has been one of the

premier freshman in the country in 2016, bashing seven home runs in addition to 32 RBIs. His prowess at the plate earned him American Conference Player of the Week on April 10 in addition to a spot on the 2016 College Classic AllTournament Team.

But Davis’ bat alone hasn’t been enough to power

Houston’s offense in the past four games. The Cougars have averaged just 1.5 runs per game in that span, good news for a Texas pitching staff that has struggled in its past two Tuesday night contests. The Longhorns used seven pitchers in their 5-0 loss to Texas A&M Corpus Christi on April 5, with no pitcher going longer than two and one third

innings. They’ll need more consistent pitching against a Cougars offense that ranks tied for third in the American conference in home runs.

Texas couldn’t complete the sweep against Kansas State but moved forward in its climb back to a winning record. That climb will continue on Tuesday as the Longhorns look to win a matchup with Houston.

SOFTBALL COLUMN

Defeating Oklahoma key to Texas resurgence

By Jacob Martella @ViewFromTheBox

The Red River Rivalry once again commences this weekend, but no, we’re not talking about the annual football showdown in Dallas.

Texas softball makes the 372-mile trek across the state border to face Oklahoma in what recently become a one-sided affair. The Sooners have won 12 out of the last 16 meetings between the two teams, including five series in a row.

But if this Longhorn team has its eyes set on getting past the regional round, taking the series in Norman for the first time since 2006 is a must.

Make no mistake, the Longhorns are having another solid year. With the series win over Texas Tech this weekend, Texas improved its overall record to 27–10 and got out of the cellar of the Big 12. And success in the nonconference portion of the schedule has set the

team up to be good enough to make the NCAA tournament for a 12th-straight year.

But that’s what this team has been since it made the Women’s College World Series in 2013 — good enough, but not great. The Longhorns have always been a really good team, but breaking through the barrier between good and great has been a challenge.

This team has a chance to do that. Junior pitcher Tiarra Davis has put the team on her back as the ace of the pitching staff. She leads the conference with a 1.63 ERA and is third with 130 strikeouts. And the hitting has shown its upside with senior centerfielder Lindsey Stephens leading the team with a .407 batting average and 29 RBIs and newcomers Celina Felix and Reagan Hathaway each with over 20 RBIs this season.

But now it’s about putting it all together. If Texas is going to become a great team, it needs fewer games like

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Junior lefty Tiarra Davis’ 130 strikeouts and team-leading 1.63 ERA have anchored the Longhorn staff throughout the 2016 season.

Friday night, when struggles at the plate doomed a solid pitching effort, and more games like Sunday, when the offense broke out for eight runs while Davis held Texas Tech to just one earned run.

Of course, this weekend

won’t make or break Texas’ chances of getting into the postseason. The Longhorns played a strong nonconference schedule and should win the rest of their conference games to get into the tournament.

But if the goal is to go from good to great, and if the goal is to get into the Super Regional round and make a run at their first Women’s College World Series, then winning this weekend’s series is a must.

BIG 12 NOTEBOOK

Texas Tech continues hot streak, holds on to top spot

By Daniel Clay @dclay567

The Texas Tech Red Raiders torrid streak continued last weekend against then-No. 16 Oklahoma State.

The Red Raiders traveled to Stillwater having just split a two-game midweek road series against then-No. 5 Florida State and kept the momentum going with a three-game sweep of the Big 12 leaders, punctuated by a 15-5 run rule shortened drubbing on Sunday.

Sophomore infielder Michael Davis led the Texas Tech charge on Sunday with a seven RBI performance including a three-run double in the third inning. The second baseman hit .400 and tallied 11 RBI over the week en route to Big 12 Player of the Week honors.

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The sweep gives Texas Tech a 10-game winning streak in conference play and 13 wins in the last 15 games.

Horton powers Horned Frog staff TCU freshman pitcher Dalton Horton twirled a gem in just his second career start.

The southpaw allowed just five hits and two walks over a career-high seven innings of work during TCU’s 8-0 victory at Kansas on Saturday.

The freshman also extended his scoreless innings streak to 9.1 frames and pitched well enough to earn Pitcher of the Week honors.

The Horned Frogs ended up taking two out of three games against the Jayhawks to hold on to second place in the conference with a 6–3 record, one game ahead of third place Texas.

Gray wins Newcomer of the Week West Virginia outfielder Kyle Gray only played two games over the weekend but made the most of his limited opportunities.

The freshman tallied five hits along with a pair of RBIs and hit .625 in the three-game series that saw the Mountaineers drop two out of three against visiting Furman University.

Gray’s strong performance was enough to earn the freshman conference Newcomer of the Week.

Gray is currently second on the team with a .302 batting average heading into a key home matchup Tuesday against the rival Pitt Panthers.

Haley wins national honors Sooner senior leftfielder Hunter Haley’s fantastic week prompted Collegiate Baseball

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Texas Tech infielder Michael Davis has been a key part of the Red Raiders’ recent torrid streak through the Big 12.

News to name the senior Louisville Slugger National Player of the Week.

In four games, Haley hit at a .429 clip and slugged 1.071 thanks to three home runs.

Haley capped off his week with a two-homer performance

in the Sooners’ 7–6 series winning victory over Baylor on Sunday.

Haley’s strong week helped propel the Sooners up to a 4–5-conference record, putting them in a three-way tie for fifth place in the conference.

Six Longhorns set to compete in the NBA playoffs

Six former Longhorns are among the 240 players participating in the NBA Playoffs hoping to hoist the Larry O’Brien Trophy this June.

The playoffs commence on Saturday, April 16. Of the six Longhorns participating in the tournament, five are pursuing their first championship, while Toronto Raptors point guard Cory Joseph is aiming for his second.

Since 1995, every single champion has been a topthree seed in their respective conference. Four Longhorns belong on teams that fit this criteria.

Kevin Durant continues to hunt for his first ring with the Oklahoma City Thunder. Durant last reached the NBA Finals in 2012, but his Thunder were ousted by the Miami Heat in five games.

This year, Oklahoma City is positioned at the No. 3 seed in the West and will likely have to upset the two juggernauts of the conference — Golden State and San Antonio.

LaMarcus Aldridge led the San Antonio Spurs to a franchise-best 65 wins and West’s No. 2 seed. He has proven to shine in the playoff spotlight before joining the Spurs. Aldridge averaged 29.8 points and 11.2 rebounds per game when his Trail Blazers blazed through the first round in 2014. With a different team, Aldridge has adapted to playing for the fivetime champions.

Two Longhorns, Tristan Thompson and Cory Joseph, are crucial role players on the top two seeds in the East. On the No. 1 seed Cavaliers, Thompson looks to use his 2015 NBA Finals experience (10 points, 13 rebounds per game) to propel them to a potential matchup with Joseph’s Toronto squad and an eventual second straight title appearance.

Joseph was instrumental in Toronto’s franchise-best 54win season.

Avery Bradley and Myles Turner are the two other Longhorns competing in the 2016 playoffs. Bradley’s Celtics are currently No. 4 and Turner’s Pacers No. 7 in the East. Bradley has had three seasons of prior playoff experience, while Turner, the rookie, is new to the event.

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Piano tuner strings passion, work together Editor’s note: In 300 words or fewer, this series spotlights people in our community whose stories typically go untold.

By Elizabeth Hlavinka @hlavinka_e

When Charles Ball reflects on the hundreds of pianos he’s come across in the past 50 years, he sees a nine-foot Steinway UT acquired in 1938. He sees the fixer-upper his friend’s grandmother played until the day she died. He sees the dents from their teething son in its wooden frame.

As the Butler School of Music’s head piano technician, Ball tunes, voices and rebuilds pianos for practices and performances. With 220 pianos on campus, Ball said he feels “like a bee gathering pollen,” migrating around campus to fix each one. Ball began tuning pianos as a teenager, tinkering with their parts in his east Tennessee home.

“I wouldn’t say I’m the most mechanically minded person in the world,” Ball said. “I never fixed my own car or was one to do carpentry jobs. But I was fascinated with

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Charles Ball is the Butler School of Music’s head piano technician. Every day, he is tasked with the job of tuning and fixing UT’s 220 pianos, which are spread across campus.

the way [pianos] worked.”

After putting himself through college by tuning pianos, Ball started pursuing a master’s degree in comparative religion at Vanderbilt in

1973. But because seminary students received exemption from the draft, he had difficulty finding a job in the oversaturated field. Instead, he returned to piano tuning,

moved to Austin in 1980 and began his UT career.

For almost 30 years, Ball also taught a music elective course and recently, he performed with the Choral

Arts Society. Ball said his formance with “an empty performance anxiety and house” and listening to lack of talent prevented other musicians.

As a self-proclaimed auhim from playing piano professionally.

Instead, PIANO page 5 he enjoys sharing his per-

ALBUM REVIEW | ‘CLEOPATRA’

The Lumineers take listeners on a journey with ‘Cleopatra’ Editor’s note: Tat-Tuesday is a weekly series that features students around campus and their tattoos.

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On Cleopatra, The Lumineers show newfound maturity, proving they aren’t just a one-album wonder.

By Megan Hix @meganhix95

On The Lumineers’ new album, Cleopatra, singer Wesley Schultz begins by telling his lover to “pack yourself a toothbrush, dear,” immediately setting the tone for the tracks that follow. The record is a journey, and this song is just the beginning.

With warm vocals and building instrumentation, the track “Sleep On The Floor” sets high expectations for that trip, but as the album progresses, the band misses a turn and gets lost trying to match the success of their self-titled 2012 debut instead of pushing themselves artistically.

The second song on the album, “Ophelia,” is its most energetic moment.

The single is built around a fluttering piano riff with a chorus in the same vein as their singalong hit “Ho Hey,” making it a safe pick for the trio’s existing fan base.

“Ophelia” is one of three songs named after a woman. The others, “Angela” and “Cleopatra,” complete a trio of the best songs on the album. The album’s namesake tune follows a first-person narrative,

with Schultz singing from the perspective of an actress — not the historical Cleopatra — ready for love after a series of romantic letdowns. His masculine voice delivering a woman’s narrative makes the story all the more riveting, and it easily becomes one of the record’s standouts.

A warm and delicate ballad, “Angela” is one of the most captivating moments on Cleopatra. The soaring chorus plays well against the understated guitar strumming, and the song picks up as more instruments enter near the halfway point, when the

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CLEOPATRA Genre: Americana Tracks: 11 Rating: 7.5

simplicity gives way to a rowdier composition.

“Angela” and “Gun Song,” which sees Schultz crooning over a steady snare

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On his right arm, English Senior Ethan Lumus has a tattoo of the crown from Maurice Sendak’s “Where

the Wild Things Are.” “For me, the crown tattoo is about giving up control; once I did that for myself a lot of good things started happening,” Lumus said.

“In Where The Wild Things

Are, the protagonist tries to control all of these wild things, but it doesn’t work.

He wears the crown as a symbol of control, but at the

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