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Texas Revue showcases diverse talent

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Almost 900 students were in attendance Saturday at Texas Revue 2016, one of the largest talent shows on UT’s campus.

Public relations junior Abby Bollinger worked on the event as the social media publicity officer of the Texas Traditions committee of Campus Events + Entertainment. She said the committee strives to make the campus tradition better each year, and said this year’s Revue was a huge success.

“Texas Revue had been a tradition a long time ago at UT, but the Texas Traditions committee has brought it back and has been putting on the show for about ten years,” said Bollinger. “This year is a little more diverse. We’ve never seen a brass band in the past, and we’ve also never seen a beat boxing and dance group before.”

Bollinger said she was glad Texas Revue was moved back to Hogg Memorial Auditorium this year, since they were not allowed to use the venue last year because

of renovations.

“Last year we were in the ballroom at the Texas Union, which was unfortunate because we couldn’t fit as many people,” Bollinger said. “We had to turn hundreds of students away, but this year we didn’t have to.”

Reshma Ahuja, co-captain of Nach Baliye, a Bollywood fusion dance team at UT, led the group to win the “Best Overall” award and a $1500 cash prize at the show.

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UT, Oregon communities raise funds to honor Weiser

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Nritya Sangam performs “Yatra” on Saturday at Texas Revue, one of the largest talent shows on campus. Nritya Sangam won the “Technical Excellence” award for their performance.

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Family, friends pay tribute to Haruka Weiser

By Cassandra Jaramillo @cassandrajar

BEAVERTON, Oregon – As the Austin and Portland communities continue to mourn Haruka Weiser’s death, her funeral service on Saturday morning asked the crowd to remember the way she lived — and how one instance of violence has brought forward several acts of kindness.

“Death and evil does not have the last word,” Father Dave Gutmann from the Holy Trinity said.

Haruka Weiser’s funeral began with the same song she danced to for her final senior show. Claude Debussy’s classical, dreamlike piano sounds of “Clair de Lune” filled the Holy Trinity church that has a 900 capacity, where few seats remained open for the service that brought together Haruka’s family members, former educators and many of her UT

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At the Arts & Communications Magnet Academy, dozens of flowers and candles have accumulated in front of the school in Haruka’s honor. Haruka was a 2015 ACMA graduate before attending UT.

Following the tragic death of dance freshman Haruka Weiser on campus earlier this month, organizations from both UT and her high school alma mater in Oregon are raising funds to honor her life.

Before joining UT’s theatre and dance program, Weiser graduated from the Arts and Communication Magnet Academy (ACMA) in Beaverton, Oregon, a town just outside of Portland. In the weeks following Weiser’s death, ACMA established the Haruka Weiser Memorial Scholarship to support upcoming artists.

ACMA principal Michael Johnson said the scholarship wasn’t initially an institutional effort, but one led by a caring community.

“Almost immediately there was a community interest to turn this tragedy into something positive,” Johnson said.

Portland jazz artist Tom Grant has joined the community in raising funds for the scholarship and plans to play a benefit concert in her honor.

The UT community has similarly come together to make gifts in Weiser’s memory. J.B. Bird, director of media outreach for UT, said in an email that Weiser’s family requested gifts be directed to the Haruka Weiser Memorial Fund.

“There has been an outpouring of support, and

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Scientists find genetic links in fish, humans Criminal trespassing rates

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Neil Shubin, professor of anatomy at the University of Chicago, said becoming a fish paleontologist has altered his perception of people.

“If you look at Albert Einstein, you see the pinnacle of human achievement,” Shubin said. “I look at Albert Einstein and I see a big, old, evolved fish.”

On April 21, Shubin gave a lecture at UT hosted by the Dean’s Scholars Honors Program. Shubin spoke about the expeditions that led him and his team to discover Tiktaalik, an ancient fish that filled a crucial gap in the evolutionary journey from sea to land.

Tiktaalik lived over 375 million years ago.

Though it has scales and fins like fish do, Tiktaalik has arm bones inside its fins, as well as wrists and finger-like structures similar to those of humans. New evolutionary structures, such as necks, shoulders and ribs, suggest that it could live in shallow waters and make short trips on land, according to Shubin.

“Every time you bend your wrist or shake your hand, you can thank Tiktaalik and its cousins,” Shubin said.

Shubin and his team discovered Tiktaalik after eight years in the Canadian Arctic.

The years of practice allowed Shubin to immediately distinguish the Vshaped fossil stuck in the rock, which showed the flat-headed fish.

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Neil Shubin, professor of anatomy at the University of Chicago, speaks to a packed audience on Thursday. His lecture discussed the discovery of the Tiktaalik, which filled an important gap in evolution.

Tiktaalik has paved the way for more scientific discoveries in the similarity between embryos of humans and other creatures.

These similarities arise as a result of Hox genes, a set of genes that help control development.

Alanna Self, a senior in the Jackson School of Geosciences and undergraduate research assistant in a vertebrate paleontology lab, said she is fascinated by the relationship

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Criminal trespassing rates on University grounds have been on the rise throughout the past several years.

According to statistics from the University of Texas Police Department, warning citations for criminal trespassing increased by 25 percent between 2012 and 2015, while the number of campus arrests related to trespassing increased by approximately 72 percent.

In 2016, there have been 101 citations issued and 29 arrests made in connection with criminal trespassing on campus, as of April 21.

UTPD Captain Don Verett said he classifies criminal trespassing as an ongoing issue, but not necessarily a significant problem. Verett said the

warnings and arrests for this offense generally occur on the periphery of campus or in buildings near the edge of campus, such as the Union Building and Walter Webb Hall.

“The University is not a public place,” Verett said. “The University is accessible to the public and we invite the public to come to campus, but people have to know that the University itself is reserved for students, faculty and staff.”

According to the Texas Penal Code, a person commits criminal trespassing when they proceed to enter an area from which they are clearly prohibited or have received notice to depart, but failed to do so.

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Haruka, 18, enrolled at UT as a dance freshman. After dance department faculty saw her perform at a national dance festival, they recruited her with a dance scholarship.

On the night of April 3, she was killed while walking on campus. Seventeen-year-old Meechaiel Criner has been charged in connection to her murder.

Father Gutmann told mourners that life has several risks; despite the best efforts to protect our loved ones, there are limitations.

“If we are going to live our lives fully and deeply, there’s always risks,” Guttman said.

Haruka was the oldest child of Thomas Weiser and Yasuyo Tsunemine. She is survived by her brother Noboru Weiser, 16, and her sister Naomi Weiser, 14.

Noboru spoke for the family and he asked those grieving to remember all the happy memories they had with Haruka.

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grieving about a really short time of a person’s life,” Noboru said. “Instead of focusing on her last moments, I want you to remember she enjoyed 18 years of her life, filled with challenges, joy, growth, love, success — and also us.”

Noboru shared memories of a fun childhood with his sisters, which involved a lot of Haruka and Noboru finding ways to make Naomi laugh.

He described Haruka as a good friend and a talented dancer with an impressive burping ability.

Sofia Eptaimeros met Haruka in the sixth grade when they started at the Arts & Communications Magnet Academy (ACMA). The two danced together through their senior year. She said Haruka’s burping strength helped as comedic relief.

“She was a tiny human and she could interrupt intense moments of rehearsals,” Eptaimeros said laughing. “She would belch so loudly and we would ask: ‘How could that come out of you?’”

Before going to UT, Haruka attended ACMA in

Beaverton where friends and faculty watched her transform into a talented dancer through Dance West, a pre-professional student dance company.

Principal Michael Johnson said Haruka spent seven years at ACMA, where her talents were not restricted to dance. According to Johnson, Haruka embodied academic excellence and artistic ability with other art forms such as ceramics and sculptures that she added meticulous details to in projects.

“In her soul, she was intrigued by arts,” Johnson said.

“Haruka excelled not only just as a dancer, but she was also a magnificent visual artist.”

Instructors with impressive career tracks in Broadway, dance companies and as backup dancers for celebrities taught Haruka dance, and watched her metamorphosis into a highly-skilled dancer.

“Her transformation was awesome,” Jason Davis, Haruka’s ballet instructor said.

“When I first met her, she was shy and couldn’t remember anything. Then she became one of the most coordinated

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dancers and led by example.”

But Haruka was also her hardest critic and a perfectionist, according to Eptaimeros.

“Even when she’d be on stage crying, [ Davis] would tell her that she could do it and she would blossom,” Eptaimeros said.

In a 2014 interview with the Beaverton Valley Times, Haruka described herself as someone who challenged herself as a dancer.

“Every time before a show, for me at least, it gets really rough. I’ll be like, ‘I want to quit. I never want to dance again.’ And as soon as the show happens, I’m back in it,” Haruka said in the story.

Julane Stites, director of Dance West, said she last saw Haruka when she visited during winter break.

“She told me she was really happy at UT and her only regret is she didn’t get to work with David Justin Holmes,” Stites said. Holmes helped recruit Haruka to UT. Next weekend, Dance West will perform work that Haruka helped Stites on as répétiteur, or as an

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Verett said while some instances of criminal trespassing involve the homeless population or a variety of people not affiliated with UT have received citations or been arrested for the crime. However, he said the high frequency of instances in 2014 and 2015 is most likely because of a large number of homeless people gathering in the Guadalupe Street area, which he said has decreased since then.

“Just because one is homeless does not mean one is causing problems,” Verett said.

The University tends to see a higher frequency of trespassers during extreme weather periods, such as the hot summers, Verett said. He also said those not affiliated with UT will sometimes use the computers in on-campus libraries after hours, when they are reserved exclusively for University members.

Verett said UTPD responds to calls for potential

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continues from page 1 your passion on stage with thousands of people,” said Ahuja, a management information systems and math junior. “We’ve worked on this routine since September. It takes a lot of dedication, but it’s really our drive for dance that propels us to complete a routine like this.”

The other winners of the night were Punjabbawockeez, an all-male South Asian fusion dance team, who took home the “Crowd Favorite” award, and Nritya

between people and other animals.

“I do find it beautiful, like [Shubin] said, that humans are descended from fish and that you can trace out our relationships with them,” Self said.

As the road map of evolution unfolds, Shubin said he hopes that humans’ connections to other animals will provide more insight into human genetics.

“I’d like to think that as we discover cures, from Alzheimer’s to different cancers, that the breakthroughs that will eventually enrich and extend our lives will ultimately be based on the work of worms, flies, mice and in some cases, even fish,” Shubin said.

“I can’t imagine a more powerful — or more beautiful — statement in the importance of our evolutionary roots.”

instructor’s assistant.

“She had amazing promise to do whatever she wanted to do,” Stites said. “That could have been dance or pre-med.

She would have been one that could handle many things on a high-level.”

Haruka’s mom said the amount of support she and her family has received has given them comfort.

“We have gotten so many wonderful cards and we would love to respond individually — just because they haven’t heard from us, doesn’t mean we don’t see them,” Tsunemine said. “We appreciate all of the cards so much, it gives us comfort and peace.”

She described her daughter as independent and an extremely smart student who loved UT. At Haruka’s funeral reception, many of her UT and Dance West friends shared their memories of Haruka as faculty members from both cities met for the first time.

“We really are sister cities,” Stites said looking at the crowd. trespassers from staff members, rather than asking people to identify themselves.

Instead of profiling anyone’s outward appearance, Verett said students should remain aware of suspicious or disruptive behavior and call the police if they believe a person is trespassing. He said UTPD is an intelligence-based policing organization that uses data and resources in efficient ways. More officers are placed in the areas statistically shown to have a higher number of criminal trespass activity.

In the Union, a common place of criminal trespassing occurrences, Verett said building managers will ask for identification or call the police if they notice somebody causing a problem or breaking an institutional rule.

Dana Summers, advertising and radio-television-film senior, said she previously worked in the Union and frequently noticed a large nonUT population in the building. However, she said it did not seem to cause problems or disturb students.

“I generally feel pretty safe within the building on campus,” Summers said.

“Most of the time, [the nonUT population] just kept to themselves.”

Sangam, an all-female dance team performing the classical Indian dance styles of Bharatnatyam and Kuchipudi, who won the “Technical Excellence” award.

Geography junior Kate Fowler attended Texas Revue and said she loved the show because of the diverse array of acts in the lineup.

“I love how [the show] dabbled in different spectrums of talent: dance, singing, beat boxing, rapping. I thought it was just magnificent,” Fowler said. “This was my first Revue, and it was great.

Everyone should see it.”

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By Audrey Zhang @thedailytexan

Bob Metcalfe, UT electrical engineering professor and inventor of Ethernet, spoke to graduate students Friday about the importance of entrepreneurship and start-ups in creating positive change.

Metcalfe is known for inventing Ethernet, the most widely used technology for linking computers together in local area networks. He discussed his experience founding the software company 3Com and his opinions on Austin entrepreneurship, in the event hosted by Entrepreneurs and Industry Committee of the Graduate Student Assembly.

“We say what starts here changes the world,” Metcalfe said. “Well, you graduate students, you write papers, you give speeches, but how about start-ups? Startups is how you change the world, in my opinion.”

A problem with the

Austin start-up scene is the lack of willingness to take risks, Metcalfe said.

“I’ve been criticizing the start-up people in Austin for not being ambitious enough,” Metcalfe said.

“We tend to start companies that are smaller ideas and we don’t pursue them hotly. I offer two sets of evidence that we are not ambitious enough: the companies sell too soon, and they don’t plan on going public from the start.”

Metcalfe said a factor in his success was his belief in the value of his ideas.

“I am a monster — I now don’t take anyone’s advice because I learned that not taking anyone’s advice worked for me,” Metcalfe said. “Some companies will talk to [investors], and they have a slide that says ‘exit strategies’. I personally don’t like that — the idea’s too small if you are already talking about an exit strategy.”

Clayton Signor, business graduate student and

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Bob Metcalfe, UT electrical engineering professor and inventor of Ethernet, speaks at a lecture in 2012.

Entrepreneurs and Industry committee member, said Metcalfe was an easy choice because of his top entrepreneurial background.

“Ethernet is a pretty impactful technology, and it’s very interesting to hear how he came up with it and was able to get people to buy into it and adopt it universally,” Signor said.

Lisa Plokker, a local concept artist who took art classes at UT, said Metcalfe’s insight changed her

views on starting a company. She said his advice to become the best at something and then turn it into a business hit home in regard to her art.

“I hadn’t really thought too much about doing my own start-up, so I was just here to see what it’s all about,” Plokker said. “After listening to the talk, I think maybe it’s good to learn a lot, get really good at [my passion], and then start a company.”

A lot of funding things came up here and there, and a lot of events outside here and there. I think it’s helping. While it doesn’t necessarily provide true closure, it’s definitely making progress towards it.

—Nolan Thomas,

continues from page 1 to date, more than 500 people have made donations,” Bird said.

Theatre and dance senior Nolan Thomas said after a period of department-wide mourning, faculty and students moved to looking for ways to honor Weiser’s life, including talks about raising money.

“A lot of funding things came up here and there, and a lot of events outside here and

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there,” Thomas said. “I think it’s helping. While it doesn’t necessarily provide true closure, it’s definitely making progress towards it.”

Bird said funds raised at UT will go toward a purpose to be decided by Weiser’s family.

“At an appropriate time, the family will determine how to best use these gifts to create a fitting tribute to honor Haruka at the University,” Bird said.

Thomas said he thinks the decision over use of the funds will be inspired by a

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combination of Weiser’s legacy and those affected by it.

“It depends partially on what would help the community heal, what would help honor Haruka as an artist, and what would help her family heal,” Thomas said.

The Campus Environmental Center held its annual Earth Day Carnival on Friday, hosting multiple environmentally-focused organizations and giving prizes to students who explored the stations.

Marcela Montemayor, geography junior and codirector of the Center, said the event served to educate students about sustainable programs going on around campus, such as the Orange Bike Project and Longhorn Lights Out. “Today is a celebration of Earth Day and all the sustainability initiatives that help keep our campus a green and healthy place,” Montemayor said. “We partnered with a lot of different organizations and departments on campus to come table and students have learned a lot.”

Neuroscience freshman Lucero Castaneda and nutrition junior Yesenia Ramirez tabled at the event with their organization, Students Against Cruelty of Animals, which advocates against the use of animal products.

“Our focus is helping the environment and animals,” Castaneda said. “Because of humans, animals are the biggest producers of CO2 emissions and methane [emissions].”

Ramirez said many students are unaware of the impact consuming meat has on the environment.

“People think that helping the environment means taking shorter showers or riding the bus instead of driving a car,” Ramirez said. “But people don’t know that one pound of beef [takes] 2500 gallons of water to produce. That’s about 180 showers. If you want to save the planet, a vegan lifestyle is the best way to go.”

Karen Blaney, assistant manager of the Office of Sustainability, said UT has prioritized a green campus for decades.

“UT has been doing [this] way longer than people have been talking about sustainability,” Blaney said.

“We’ve had energy programs and water programs since the ’80s. We take care of our trees and landscape in a sustainable fashion.

What [the Office of Sustainability] has done in the past eight to nine years is consolidate the programs and put an umbrella over it and called it sustainability.”

Montemayor said sustainability is any approach for a project with the future of the environment in mind.

“For something to be sustainable, it is long lasting and able to sustain itself for a certain period of time,” Montemayor said.

“This pertains to buildings but also your lifestyle, like ‘Are you eating healthy? Are you eating local? Are you helping out your community?’

All these things go into a sustainable lifestyle.”

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Freshmen deserve expanded FRI options

By Laura Hallas

Daily Texan Senior Columnist @LauraHallas

This year marks the tenth anniversary of the Freshman Research Initiative, better known as FRI. The College of Natural Sciences’ initiative has been a wild success, replicated throughout the country. However, the program shouldn’t be limited to the natural sciences. This model should be expanded to include other colleges within the University.

A group of UT faculty and administration founded the program with two goals in mind: to have as many undergraduate students involved in research, and to have that as soon as possible.

Since its founding, the program has expanded from 15 students to 900, the largest undergraduate research program in the country. A full report on the program’s effects will be released in the coming months, but it is already being credited with increasing participants’ GPAs, as well as keeping CNS students on track to complete their original STEM degree.

The success of the model has resulted in its application across universities both in the UT system and countrywide. However, the program has yet to be replicated across other parts of UT-Austin.

FRI isn’t the only freshman-oriented research program on campus. The College of Liberal Arts’ Research Apprenticeship Program offers personalized research mentorships to students.

“We are really trying to make [research]

The success of the model has resulted in its application across universities both in the UT system and countrywide. However, the program has yet to be replicated across other parts of UT-Austin. more at the forefront of the liberal arts experience,” said Kristen Jones Harris, Student Success Programs director. “It’s an issue that’s important to Dean Musick, so you will be seeing a lot more information regarding undergraduate enrichment from the college.”

However, most research still operates under the traditional assumption of one student, one professor. FRI has developed research streams, or project topics, where a professor leads about 25 students in research related to the professor’s expertise, allowing more students to gain experience. This is the aspect of the program that is the most revolutionary and the most promising.

Though FRI is currently only accessible to CNS students, it is easy to envision expansion into other colleges. There are already a few research streams that extend beyond the traditional sciences like biology or chemistry, such as the cyber security stream that has paired with computer science. Senior Vice Provost David Laude said that he has conversed with

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professors from other colleges, including the liberal arts college, about topics for research.

“We would go to professors’ offices, and ask if there was a freshman stream that you could have 25 people do related to your research, a true independent inquiry and they say no, that’s ridiculous,” Laude said.

“Invariably, the very next day there would be a phone call saying ‘I just thought of something.’ All it took was a faculty member thinking just a little bit differently, and suddenly they have that great idea.”

Underclassman research is the future of large public flagship universities like UT. Experts like Laude hail experiential learning for the valuable career preparation and general enrichment of the college experience it provides.

UT’s status as a research university puts us on the forefront of the experiential learning movement. Ten years with FRI has proven the feasibility and benefits of large scale underclassmen research. We have the model down to a science and now the rest of the University can benefit.

Hallas is a Plan II freshman from Allen.

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A&M’s lenient campus carry policies contrast UT’s

By Josephine MacLean Daily Texan Columnist @maclean_josie

Last week the Texas A&M University System released its proposal to initiate concealed carry in August. It’s about as eager to allow guns as you’d expect, but A&M is only one of the schools going through the process of deciding how to comply with Senate Bill 11.

When the Texas legislature passed SB 11 it required that public universities allow concealed carry permit holders to bring guns on campus, but it left details up to individual schools. So far, six schools have had proposals approved by their respective boards of regents.

Among these, Stephen F. Austin State provides the most latitude for concealed carry, allowing guns everywhere except sporting events with only a few minor restrictions for dorms. A&M’s plan includes a few more caveats. For one, while guns will be allowed in faculty offices, if the employee can demonstrate that a licensed carrier presents a significant risk of substantial harm “due to negligent discharge of the handgun,” an exception can be made for that office. However, the vague language of the policy will make it difficult for professors to keep guns out of their offices, demonstrating little concern for their personal safety.

The University of Texas’s policy is comparatively more restrictive. At UT, guns

With the way concealed carry works now, I don’t necessarily feel safe.

Concealed carry classes teach people how to properly use their firearm in self-defense, but it boils down to how well you can shoot at targets at a certain distance.

—David Mercer Student at Texas A&M University

will not be allowed in dorms and faculty members in single occupancy offices have the right to ban carrying in that location.

If A&M has fully embraced the spirit of the law, then UT only conceded to follow it to the letter.

When the UT recommendations came out, there was heavy pushback from numerous interest groups. Most notably, students have planned protests with sex toys and the Dean of the School of Architecture has resigned. At A&M, however, there is heavy support for SB 11.

David Mercer, a junior at A&M and member of the Corps of Cadets, is against campus carry.

“I’m probably of the minority, this is probably not what most Aggies think,” Mercer said. Despite being a gun owner, Mercer

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still thinks letting students carry guns is a bad idea because even required training for concealed carry isn’t enough to get someone ready for an active shooter situation.

“With the way concealed carry works now, I don’t necessarily feel safe,” Mercer said. “Concealed carry classes teach people how to properly use their firearm in selfdefense, but it boils down to how well you can shoot at targets at a certain distance.”

Mercer also sees a distinction between concealed carry in public spaces and in

dorms. Even the Corps doesn’t allow its members to have guns in their dorms. “I can tell you right now that the Corps of Cadets policy is no weapons, mock weapons or live ammo in the dorms,” he said.

Mercer is in the minority at A&M, one of the few voices of reason in a hailstorm of radical views. Hopefully in the end, voices like his will be heard, rather than getting blown away with the wind.

MacLean is a journalism freshman from Austin.

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Bathroom bills revive dishonest history of trans politics

By Noah M. Horwitz

Daily Texan Senior Columnist @NmHorwitz

About two years ago, the City of Houston decided to join the twenty-first century and passed an ordinance that criminalized discrimination in employment and public accommodations against LGBT people.

Almost instantly, a talking point was conjured up to oppose the ordinance. The opponents claimed that non-discrimination protections for the transgendered would effectively allow “men in women’s restrooms.” When the ordinance in question, the Houston Equal Rights Ordinance (HERO), went directly before voters as a result of a successful petition drive, the opponents were even more duplicitous.

They intimated that the ordinance would allow child predators to prey upon young girls, most infamously with perhaps the single most distasteful commercial in the history of American politics.

Let us ignore for one moment the fact that bathrooms were not part of HERO

(I already addressed that point rather intently last year). If men and women sometimes had to share bathrooms, would it really lead to the end of life as we know it?

Generation after generation of fear tactics say yes, but reality says no.

Bathrooms were also the main focal point behind North Carolina’s recent push to supersede all local non-discrimination ordinances. Donald Trump even said that Caitlyn Jenner, the celebrity trans woman and former Olympian, would be welcome to use whichever bathroom she felt most comfortable in at his properties.

Lying Ted Cruz was quick to fire back at his intra-party opponent, saying he joins Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton in opposition to what he called the “bathroom ordinance.”

“Donald, on television this morning, said, gosh, he thought that men should be able to go into the girls’ bathroom if they want to,” Texas’s pathologically-prevaricating senator said. “Now let me ask you, have we gone stark raving nuts? This is the political correctness.”

The truth is that there is absolutely no

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evidence that letting trans people use the facility they are most comfortable with will lead to increased assaults. In fact, the correlation very likely runs the other way.

Trans women are the ones most likely to be assaulted, but by cisgendered men, in a men’s restroom.

But Cruz and the rest of the cupcake cadets are obviously not concerned with honesty in any way, shape or form. We have already established that. Bathrooms are just a familiar boogeyman that has historically been used to deny people — usually women — their fundamental rights.

In the 1970s, the proposed Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution, which would have prohibited discrimination on account of sex, came within three states of being ratified. The 15 holdouts were overwhelmingly located in the Deep South, where Phyllis Schlafly and her ilk made up a rumor that prohibiting sexual discrimination would lead to unisex bathrooms.

Still earlier, in the 1950s, most counties in Texas refused to allow women on juries.

Their excuse would be that the courthous-

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The truth is that there is absolutely no evidence that letting trans people use the facility they are most comfortable with will lead to increased assaults. In fact, the correlation very likely runs the other way. Trans women are the ones most likely to be assaulted, but by cisgendered men, in a men’s restroom. es did not have women’s restrooms, it was too expensive to build them and it would be positively unacceptable to mix the sexes in facilities.

The targets of prejudice change, but the underlying fear tactics remain the same.

Horwitz is a government senior from Houston.

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Loss in Lubbock ends regular season

By Jacob Martella

Senior Michael Riechmann picked up a singles victory over the weekend, but it wasn’t enough to lead the Longhorns to an overall win against the Red Raiders.

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A pair of wins by senior Michael Riechmann and redshirt freshman Julian Zlobinksy weren’t nearly enough for Texas against No. 9 Texas Tech. The Red Raiders dominated from the first serve to hand the Longhorns a 5-2 loss to end the regular season.

“There were a couple of things in doubles that didn’t go our way, and that was unfortunate, but I thought the guys rebounded in the singles,” head coach Michael Center said. “We gave ourselves a chance to win.”

The Longhorns had a chance to take the first point in the double competition.

Despite Riechmann and junior George Goldoff falling to the 85th-ranked tandem of Alex Sendegeya and Bjorn Thomson, Zloblinsky

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and sophomore Adrian Ortiz easily won their doubles match 6-2 to tie the doubles contest. But the duo of sophomore John Mee and freshman Harrison Scott fell 6-3 as the Red Raiders took an early 1-0 lead.

Riechmann immediately tied the match at the start of singles play, dispatching Connor Curry in straight sets.

But the Red Raiders won each of the next two singles contests to push their lead to 3-1. Zlobinsky’s three-set win against Thomson kept the Longhorns’ hopes alive, but Texas Tech won the remaining matches to seal the win.

Texas now faces Oklahoma in the conference tournament at 9 a.m. Friday in Stillwater, Oklahoma. De-

spite the loss, Center said he’s looking forward to seeing what they can do in the postseason.

“They’ve gone through a rugged season,” Center said. “We’ve played a great schedule, and the guys have improved and fought hard.

We’ll go back to work and get ready for the postseason starting next week.”

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Longhorns upset by Baylor in season finale

By Aspen Detrick @A_dtrick14

No. 24 Texas’ five-match winning streak came to an abrupt halt Saturday afternoon when No. 42 Baylor upset the Longhorns 4-2 in the regular season finale at the Westwood Country Club.

The Longhorns started off behind, letting the Lady Bears take the doubles point, but tried to make a comeback in singles play.

“It’s always just disappointing to lose a match, and also this one had the quality feel that we might be able to get out of jail and get ahead

in the match in the last 20 or 30 minutes,” head coach Howard Joffe said.

Baylor’s Kelley Anderson and Elizabeth Profit took down Texas senior Lana Groenvynck and freshman Katie Poluta 6-3 at third doubles. Baylor’s tandem at second doubles wasn’t far behind, defeating junior Neda Koprcina and freshman Daniella Roldan 6-4. The No. 15 duo of senior Breaunna Addison and sophomore Dani Wagland was suspended at first doubles after Baylor clinched the first two wins.

Baylor followed their doubles win with a sixth singles

victory by Profit over Groenvynck 6-2, 6-1, but Koprcina gave the Longhorns hope when she defeated Rhiann Newborn at second singles, making the score 2-1.

That hope wavered a bit when Baylor notched another singles win at fifth position from Theresa Van Zyl taking them to 3-1. Baylor later completed the win when Kiah Generette beat Wagland 6-3.

While the result was a disappointment for Texas, Joffe said he was proud of both of his seniors on their performance this season and their last four years

in Austin.

“Certainly with Bree I’ve coached quite a bit, and she would go down as good as any player that’s played tennis in the last 15 years,” Joffe said. “And with Lana, this season has actually helped and she won a couple of meaningful matches for us.”

Despite the loss, the Longhorns finish the regular season with a 6-3 record in conference play, earning them a bye in the Big 12 tournament, which will start on Friday in Stillwater, Oklahoma. Texas, the No. 6 seed, plays No. 3 Texas Tech at 3 p.m. Friday afternoon.

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JACOB MARTELLA, SPORTS EDITOR | @texansports Monday, April 25, 2016

SOFTBALL | TEXAS 8 - 7 OKLAHOMA STATE

Longhorns come away with series sweep

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By Claire Cruz

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It didn’t come easy, but Texas earned its first Big 12 series sweep of the season with a 8-7 victory over Oklahoma State on Sunday afternoon.

“It reassures us that we can be one of the top teams and it pumps us up,” sophomore pitcher Paige von Sprecken said. “We play with a lot of heart, and that’s a really great quality that we need to go far in the postseason.”

Texas’ pitching wasn’t at its best in the finale, and Oklahoma State jumped on starter junior pitcher Tiarra Davis to take an early 2-0 lead behind three straight hits in the third.

The Longhorns responded in the same inning, using two singles and a walk to load the bases. A wild pitch from OSU senior pitcher Kacy Freeze scored a Longhorn run, and on the next pitch von Sprecken blasted a three-run homerun to help Texas take the lead.

“The ball looked so big and I just tried to keep it simple,” von Sprecken said.

“I love being part of a team, and I’m just trying to help out in any way I can.”

Oklahoma State sent junior pitcher Shea Coats to the circle for Freeze, but a passed ball, wild pitch and illegal pitch put another Texas run on the board

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Junior Celina Felix and the Longhorns won three straight games against Oklahoma State over the weekend. The series sweep is the first of the conference season for Texas, and comes one week after the Longhorns were swept by Oklahoma.

sophomore catcher Vanessa Shippy hit a fielder’s choice to UT junior Kelli Hanzel, but the first baseman’s throw to home wasn’t on time and the umpire said she didn’t touch first for the out.

Hanzel protested to no avail and everyone was safe, loading the bases and tying the game at six.

The next batter sent a line drive straight to Hanzel, who emphatically tagged

before the inning ended.

The Cowgirls cut into the lead on a two-out RBI single in the fourth. Davis responded with a RBI single up the middle to put the Longhorns back up by three, 6-3.

But the lead wouldn’t last long as Texas ran into trouble in the fifth. After a pair of Oklahoma State RBI singles cut Texas’ lead to one, a controversial play riled up the Longhorns. Cowgirl

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first to turn the inningending double play. She then sent a two-out, solo home run right down the left field line in the bottom of the fifth, making the score 7-6. “[Hanzel] competes so hard and she was just so emotional,” head coach Connie Clark said. “I said ‘put your emotions into your play’ and boy, to have her get that ball out of the yard when we needed

it, she gets the grit award for sure.”

Oklahoma State hit a homerun of its own to tie the game in the sixth, but von Sprecken’s career-high fourth RBI of the game in the bottom of the inning clinched the win for Texas.

“They played with a tremendous amount of grit,” Clark said. “They didn’t feel pressured, just kept playing the game and I was really proud of them.”

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Okolo breaks record at LSU Alumni Gold meet

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Sophomore shortstop Joe Baker knocked in four runs in the Longhorns’ rout of No. 10 Texas Tech on Sunday. Texas won the series, taking two of the three games.

Baker, Texas unleash against Red Raiders in blowout win

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A sea of crooked numbers flooded the scoreboard at Dan Law Field in Lubbock at Rip Griffin Park on Sunday as Texas took down Big 12 leader Texas Tech 17-1 in the series finale. A 13-run barrage extended the Longhorns streak of 18 straight runs, dating back to the fourth inning of Saturday’s victory over the Red Raiders.

“We’ve played sixteen consecutive innings now of high quality baseball,” head coach Augie Garrido told 104.9 The Horn. “We’ve been more patient at the plate and maintained our aggressiveness.”

After a quiet first inning saw no runs cross the plate, the Longhorns bats blasted their way through the next three frames.

Texas got on the board in the second via a threerun bomb from freshman Tyler Rand, his first of the year.

The home run gave the Longhorns an opening lead for the third

consecutive game, but unlike on Friday — where Texas gave up 13 unanswered runs in a 13-6 loss — Garrido’s squad never let up. Texas plated three in the second frame and five in each of the next two innings, blowing the game open by the end of the fourth.

“Everyone in the lineup needs to take their own responsibility to get it started,” Garrido told 104.9 The Horn. “We can’t wait for somebody else to do it.”

Eight Longhorn starters recorded hits Sunday, led by sophomore shortstop Joe Baker. Baker hit two doubles to left field in consecutive innings, totaling four RBIs. And with the Longhorns holding a commanding 13-1 lead, Baker extended it, blasting a two-run homer to left.

Sunday’s success was a welcome sign for Baker, who has struggled since returning to the lineup on March 19 after being sidelined for nearly a month with a stress fracture in his lower leg. Prior to Sunday, Baker had gone

4-23 in his last six games.

Three other Longhorns recorded multi-RBI games on Sunday, with junior Zane Gurwitz, Rand and sophomore Patrick Mathis compiling three RBIs apiece.

The weekend series in Lubbock saw an offensive explosion from Mathis. In 10 at-bats, Mathis collected five hits, while driving in nine RBIs. He is now hitting .315 on the year, leading the team.

A bleak beginning to the season dug Texas a deep hole. But taking two of three from the conference-leading Red Raiders — and five of the last six games — is an encouraging sign for a team that has underwhelmed throughout the year.

And while winning the conference is still a long shot, Garrido believes his team has the talent, and now the momentum, to do it.

“It’s not over by any stretch of the imagination,” Garrido told 104.9 The Horn. “We’re continuing to get better and we’re showing we can be a championship team.”

The NCAA Championships are still over a month away, but senior Courtney Okolo showed why she’ll be one of the favorites to win the 400-meter title this weekend.

Okolo destroyed the field and her own collegiate record in the event Saturday at the LSU Alumni Gold meet, coming across the line with a time of 49.71 seconds.

“I wanted to run that fast,” Okolo said. “We’ve been talking about it and training has been looking like I could run that fast, so it was just about executing.”

Okolo wasn’t the only one who had a strong performance Saturday. Fellow senior Morolake Akinosun ran the fastest time in the NCAA this year in the 100-meter race with a windaided time of 10.97 seconds.

Freshman Asa Garcia came away with a win in the triple jump with a distance of 13.38 meters on her last attempt. The mark puts her second in the NCAA this season.

“Asa winning the triple jump after fouling her first two attempts of the competition, that shows a lot of character,” head coach Mario Sategna said.

Meanwhile, the Longhorn men also came away

with a successful day in Baton Rouge.

Starting that success was the men’s 4x100-meter relay team of junior Charles Anumnu, junior Senoj-Jay Givans, senior Zack Bilderback and junior Aldrich Bailey Jr., which took third in the event to LSU’s current and former teams.

Junior Byron Robinson added to the success as he exploded to the top of the NCAA once again with a time of 49.10 seconds in the 400-meter hurdles, beating his current season best of 49.48 seconds.

“Watching Byron Robinson run 49.1 and then walk away and the first thing he says is, ‘I’m so close to going in the 48’s,’” Sategna said. “I know his goal is to hit that and surpass what our school record is.”

On the field, freshman Steffin McCarter placed third amongst the best in the invitational long jump with a leap of 7.65 meters (25 feet, 1.25 inches). Jumps freshman Ika Morton and senior Basil Fares also had a 2-3 finish in the long jump collegiate division.

Finishing off the day was the team of Givans, Bilderback, Bailey and Robinson in the men’s 4x400-meter relay with a time of 3:06.06 to take third overall.

The Longhorns will be back in action beginning Thursday at the Drake Relays in Des Moines, Iowa.

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Senior Courtney Okolo clocked in with a time of 49.71 seconds in the 400-meter dash, breaking her own NCAA record.

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SPORTS BRIEFLY Schubert, Texas finish second in San Antonio

Sophomore Sophia Schubert entered the final round at The Dominion Country Club in fourth place, only two shots off the lead. A final round score 71 pushed her into a tie for second and helped give the Longhorns a runner-up finish at the Big 12 Championship.

Schubert’s final score of 3-under par was six shots off the pace of the overall winner — Oklahoma State sophomore Kenzie Neisen.

Neisen fired a 6-under 66 in the final round, the lowest score by any player all weekend.

While Schubert’s 71 on Sunday catapulted her into a 2nd place finish, it was junior Julia Beck who carded the lowest score of the day for the Longhorns — a 2-under round of 70.

“I came in very focused, but relaxed this weekend,” Beck said. “I really just tried to have no expectations and play my game.”

Beck joined Schubert in the top five as the two combined to shoot 4-under. Texas was 3-over par as a team while Oklahoma State blew the competition off the course with a team score of 8-under.

Texas went to San Antonio, Texas, for the championship tournament having not won as a team all season. The Longhorns, however, had six top-five team finishes, so Schubert was prepared to make a run at the title.

“I knew that as a team and individually, that we could win and had a good shot,” Schubert said. “I also knew that we were kind of the underdogs, so we were going to have to fight and that gave us motivation.”

Schubert and her teammates will be glued to the TV today a 5 p.m. as Golf Channel holds the NCAA Selection Show. The NCAA Regional Championship is slated for May 5-7.

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ALBUM REVIEW | ‘LEMONADE’

Beyoncé slays audiences, rivals with ‘LEMONADE’

By Chris Duncan @chr_dunc

With her 2013 surprise selftitled release, Beyoncé put her name on the tips of everyone’s tongues, and it’s stayed there ever since. On Saturday, Beyoncé cashed in on her name, doubling down on her trend of surprise projects with LEMONADE, easily the best record of her career.

Whether it’s her work with Destiny’s Child or her prolific solo discography, Beyoncé’s brand finds success on the charts no matter the quality — a true testament to the dedication of her fans. Her earlier albums lack the substance to make them anything beyond fun pop hooks and gimmicks, but her 2013 release, Beyoncé, started pushing in a more experimental direction. On LEMONADE, Beyoncé explores this even further to fantastic success in the most surprising of fashions.

Most critics will call LEMONADE an R&B record, and although they won’t be wrong, Beyoncé makes it nearly impossible to pigeonhole this project into just one genre. After the record’s moody first track, “Pray You Catch Me,” the album brings on a tropical vibe with “Hold Up,” a track produced by Beyoncé, Diplo and Ezra Koenig from Vampire Weekend.

Then, LEMONADE completely changes direction, sampling Led Zeppelin’s “When the Levee Breaks” and featuring a guest vocal from rock superstar Jack

White on “Don’t Hurt Yourself.”

The album switches back and forth from electronic soul on “Sorry” to Beyoncé’s impressive country debut on “Daddy Lessons.” Billed as “a conceptual project based on every woman’s journey of self knowledge and healing,” LEMONADE lives up to its hype in the variety of styles it covers.

This colorful sound is brought to the album thanks to its healthy list of contributors. “Hold Up” has songwriting credits for fifteen names alone, including all of the aforementioned producers as well as Josh Tillman (better known as Father John Misty) and Karen O of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. This trend continues on other songs — James Blake makes an appearance on the album’s ninth track, “Forward,” and provides his production talents as well, creating a slight spin on the signature Beyoncé R&B sound.

If there’s a beef to pick with the litter of professional songwriters on every track, it’s that they tend to give each song an ambiguous and slightly sterile feeling. To fight back, Beyoncé builds off of the ambiguity, tying uncertainty into her music through real life struggles. Online fans have already kicked off the rumors, suspecting that LEMONADE is about Beyoncé’s relationship with her husband Jay Z, and although it’s not certain, there’s an obvious discussion of relationship struggles, feminism, black empowerment and confidence throughout the entire album — wrapped

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LEMONADE is Beyonce’s best album so far, opening her sound up to new genres to create an emotional and empowering experience.

up fittingly with “Formation” as its smashing conclusion.

Even the album’s title ties into a theme of staying self-assured and positive in light of adversity — when life gives you lemons, make lemonade.

At times, LEMONADE skips a beat, but doesn’t fall apart because of it. “All Night” is a mellow moment that allows Beyoncé to display her amazing vocal talents, but with the even slower and more elegant

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“Sandcastles” just a few tracks before, the album’s penultimate song feels like a lull considering how heavy-handed many of the previous songs are.

But by the end of one listen to LEMONADE, the slight slip-ups don’t detract from its powerful message. This is the first album of Beyoncé’s that confronts listeners with a strong message of both conviction and endurance.

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‘Keanu’ fails to demonstrate Key & Peele’s comedic skills It’s only natural that comedy duo Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele, who recently concluded their acclaimed “Key & Peele” series, have made the leap to motion pictures with “Keanu.” After all, their antics are enjoyable in small doses, so why not give them more time to make us laugh?

Yet, while Key and Peele’s comic genius was consistently evident in the wit of their show’s many sketches, their work in “Keanu” is often lackluster. At 98 minutes, “Keanu” occasionally feels brisk, but it’s often draggy. The result is disappointingly uneven — hardly worthy of the duo’s lofty talents.

Peele plays Rell, who has adopted a stray kitten and named him Keanu. When intimidating gang members steal Keanu from his home, Rell and Key’s character, Clarence, set out to rescue him. When they confront the gang’s leader, Cheddar (Method Man), he mistakes them for two drug-dealing assassins called the Allentown brothers (also played

by Key and Peele). Because of the Allentown brothers’ vicious reputation, Cheddar offers to give back Keanu to Rell and Clarence if they help him run his

Tracks: 12 Rating: 8/10

‘Banner Saga’ explores deeper emotions, strategies in sequel

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GAME REVIEW | ‘THE BANNER SAGA 2’

Keegan MichaelKey and Jordan Peele join a gang to rescue their kitten in “Keanu.”

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intentions might not be obvious, what is obvious is that this surprise release developed as much hype, if not more, than her last one three years ago — LEMONADE is far superior to Beyoncé in quality and progression of Beyoncé’s sound. She may have begun her career as a mega-pop star, but LEMONADE proves that Beyoncé has evolved to push boundaries in experimental R&B to impressive results.

drug operation.

The ensuing stretch of film is a series of fish-outof-water sketches as Rell and Clarence struggle to conceal their identities from the other gang members. There are some genuinely good moments of satire, such as when Clarence bonds with the gangsters by trying to become their father figure.

He also has an adorable obsession with singer George Michael, and convinces the gang that he’s definitely black and “O.G.” While Rell and Clarence try to keep up the charade, they cross paths with the Allentown brothers, who are also after Keanu. This lends a suitable lunacy to the proceedings, a lunacy made most apparent when the insane murderers dressed entirely in black fawn over a tiny kitten.

A few celebrity cameos also are worthy of note.

Anna Faris plays a deranged, drug-crazed caricature of herself, Will Forte shows up as a spaced-out drug dealer and, yes, Keanu Reeves voices the titular cat in Clarence’s dream sequence.

For all its parts that succeed, “Keanu” serves up just as many segments that outstay their welcome. Several scenes rely on jokes that poke fun at Rell and Clarence’s suburban appearances and sensibilities, which they

attempt to hide by adopting stereotypical gangster dialect and yelling excessively.

It’s amusing the first time; it gets old when the film starts using that motif as a crutch.

Similarly, the romance between Rell and a female gangster, Hi-C (Tiffany Haddish), is reduced to two scenes before their big kiss, so the moment they lock lips rings false.

Perhaps “Keanu” recycles many of its jokes because the premise is so thin.

There’s only so much you can do with a story about a cat getting kidnapped by gangsters without struggling to fill up a feature-length film. At times, it feels like “Keanu” would have been better off cut down to a 40 to 50-minute TV production. As it is now, the picture doesn’t sustain enough comic energy to warrant its running time.

Key and Peele are skilled performers who have tangible chemistry. They’re magnetic presences that, with better material, shine brightly. As of now, though, the cat’s the only thing that viewers will leave thinking about, because boy, is it cute.

“The Banner Saga 2” is a strategy role-playing game that, while mechanically identical to its predecessor, merges inspired story telling with well-designed gameplay, making it a worthy sequel to its acclaimed precursor. Picking up mere moments after the tragic conclusion of the first game, the release tells a Nordicinspired tale of a tribe of humans facing extinction from a demi-god race, the Dredge.

The game’s purpose is to serve as the bridge to the final piece of the trilogy — which stunts its ability to develop independently from the original. The game allows players to import a completed save file from “The Banner Saga,” integrating choices and character stats from the previous game into the sequel. Depending on decisions made in the original, the hero of the story will be either Rook or his daughter Alette. But for players willing to jump in without having played the original, the game does allow for a fresh slate.

Regardless of which hero the player chooses, the game’s tone shifts drastically.

Rook’s story consists of his spiral into madness after the death of his loved ones, making interactions in the game disheartening and desolate.

On the other hand, Aletta’s story shows her growing into a leader who can guide the tribe to overcome the looming threat. Both are monuments to well-crafted, emotional storytelling, but the character arc in Aletta’s path is far richer and more inspiring.

The Ravens are a second group that have their own story arc, focused around a warrior, Bolverk, who is on a quest to exploit the world for power and gold.

His story effectively eclipses the main group’s narrative by painting Bolverk’s development in a highly humanizing way. The gameplay segments involving the Ravens focus on buffing Bolverk and using him to do all the fighting. This distinctive strategy forces the player to approach battle differently than in standard encounters.

While in the first game, the narrative drove the gameplay to focus on preparing for war, the sequel has characters fleeing as they deal with survival and maintaining decency is a decaying world. These narrative differences are reflected in gameplay centered around managing a caravan and enduring battles to stay alive, rather than preparing to repel hostile forces.

The less memorable gameplay segments revolve around managing the caravan, which usually involves

making choices that affect small aspects or lead the player into a fight. Poor decisions may lead to starvation, low morale and deserting members, so actions are to be taken seriously but none will leave players nervous and indecisive.

Retaining the simplistic yet challenging combat of the original, “The Banner Saga 2” brings back the suburb strategy gameplay that made the original a surprise hit. The game utilizes simple values which remove gimmicks that plague other strategy games. By removing the ability to meticulously abuse stats to develop overpowered characters, the gameplay focuses on well thought out strategy over cheap tricks. Players will find it necessary to have smart unit placements, use barricades and exploit abilities to gain the upper hand on one’s enemies.

“The Banner Saga 2” integrates an engaging story with thought provoking gameplay. Its tendency to adhere to the formula set up by the original holds it back from growing as a series, but it continues a well-rounded indie series without missing a step.

BANNER SAGA 2 Genre: Strategy RPG Rating: N/A Score: 4/5 stars “The Banner Saga 2” tells an emotional myth complemented by well-crafted gameplay and an inspired artstyle, but is held back by its formulaic tendencies.

KEANU Running Time: 98 minutes Rating: R Score: 2/5 stars

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