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Students demand immigration action
DPS reviews UT security in response to homicide
By Cassandra Jaramillo mother, who was suffering @cassandrajar
Chemistry senior Andrea Soto was 10 years old when she came to the United States for the first time. Growing violence in Mexico and a lack of academic opportunities drew the Soto family to the American dream. Since she was little, Soto had dreams of pursuing a medical profession. Meanwhile, Soto’s mother was also trying to care for her grand-
from Alzheimer’s at the time in the U.S.. “Our parents do anything and everything for their own kids,” Soto said. “They will sacrifice and give up things for their children to move forward to reach their goals.” Soto is one of the estimated 300 to 350 members of the undocumented UT student population, according to numbers according to the UT International Office. Through the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals
policy, Soto became eligible to work in the U.S. while she attends college and is relieved from deportation. She now advocates for other undocumented students and their famlies along with other UT students. Earlier this week, Soto participated in a rally outside the U.S. Supreme Court, along with UT immigrant students and allies, as the justices heard oral arguments
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By Mikaela Cannizzo @mikaelac16
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Andrea Soto, one of the estimated 300 undocumented UT students, rallied outside of the Supreme Court.
MEN’S BASKETBALL
Taylor hires agent, ends college run
By Jacob Martella | TAYLOR page 7 Gabriel Lopez | Daily Texan Staff
Junior guard Isaiah Taylor dribbles against a Northern Iowa defender in the NCAA tournament on March 18. It was the last game of his college career.
CITY
The Texas Department of Public Safety is conducting a comprehensive review of security measures on the UT campus at the request of President Gregory Fenves. The evaluation has already started and is expected to be finished by the end of August, Fenves wrote in an email to the University. Fenves said his decision to implement an external review was prompted by the Waller Creek homicide. Tom Vinger, press secretary for DPS, said the assessment will examine elements such as surveillance video coverage, outdoor lighting, building security and the roles of law enforcement officers and noncommissioned staff. While DPS will be conducting the review as an outside entity, various departments including the UT Police Department will provide information needed to complete the survey. “DPS will continue to work closely with the UT leadership and the UT police department throughout this process to ensure we provide the assistance requested and to keep them informed of the progress,” Vinger said in an email. In addition to the main campus, DPS is reviewing security at the J.J. Pickle Research Center, graduate student housing, parking garages and other University-owned properties, according to Fenves’ email. After the review is complete, the findings will be presented to the University. Fenves said he plans to implement the recommendations received from DPS. UTPD Chief David Carter said public safety experts covering different components of
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Engineering training, RotMan humor boosts UT Twitter traffic drones to aid rescues By Caleb Wong
By Forrest Milburn @forrestmilburn
The Austin Fire Department entered into a mutually beneficial agreement with UT’s engineering school in the hopes of learning how to better use robotics, particularly unmanned aerial vehicles, or UAVs, in responding to fire and water rescue operations. On Thursday, Austin City Council members approved the interlocal agreement between the Austin Fire Department and the Cockrell School of Engineering, establishing a partnership between the department officials and the school’s award-winning UAV Team, which is comprised of about 30 undergraduates from the school of engineering who
Natalie Groves, one of UT’s two social media coordinators, works to keep students updated through UT Austin’s various social media accounts by posting three to six times a day on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.
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compete annually in aerial robotics competitions. “In order for the fire department to participate in any of our demonstrations, they have to have the approval of the city council,” said Armand Chaput, an aerospace engineering and engineering mechanics lecturer. “As an educational institution, we have the objectives of wanting students to work on interesting projects that benefit the city and the state, and that’s what this is.” The UAV team held a demonstration on Wednesday where students were able to launch UAVs in a simulated emergency response situation. The fire department was unable to
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If you want to grow your social media presence, you have to give it up. This is the lesson Natalie Groves and Nicholas Persac, UT’s social media coordinators, learned when they let two self-described “good boys” — Xavier Rotnofsky and Rohit Mandalapu — take over their Twitter and Snapchat for a day on March 3. “This password was sooo easy to guess. Get ready for the #RotManTakeover,” wrote the former student body president and vice president on UT’s Twitter. As Rotnofsky and Mandalapu asked social media users what they should eat for lunch (grass from East Mall, seven raw eggs or UT President Gregory Fenves’ leftovers?) and advised President
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Barack Obama to send his college-aged daughter to UT, analytics showed the #RotManTakeover had reached nearly the same number of Twitter users in a day that UT typically reaches in a week. “With 27 tweets, collectively they reached almost half a million people,” Groves
wrote in an email. “I personally didn’t come across one negative tweet about the takeover.” However, for Groves and Persac, the takeover was not a one-off experience but instead part of a broader plan to engage more closely with students on social media. In
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Indie Meme festival unites South Asian film community. PAGE 8
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Scientist explore new way to treat depression. PAGE 3
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Softball ready to host Oklahoma State. PAGE 7
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addition to keeping students updated about events and interesting things on campus, Groves said, the University debuted on Snapchat in February to capture daily campus life for current and prospective students.
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