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DHFS introduces allergen-free buffet

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Food allergies affect millions of Americans and on a campus with more than 50,000 students, the dining options for those with food allergies were previously limited at UT. Since 2012, the University had a made-to-order food accommodation process for students diagnosed with medical conditions or allergies affecting their dietary needs. Now, the University plans to open an allergen-free buffet line in fall 2016 to exclude the top

eight foods that cause the most allergic reactions: milk, eggs, peanuts, tree nuts, fish, shellfish, soy and wheat. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, these foods account for over 90 percent of allergic reactions.

Lindsay Wilson, registered dietician with the Division of Housing and Food Service, said students who need accommodations previously ordered their meals through an online system.

“We have adapted with how we accommodate students over the past few years,”

Wilson said.

The special pantry with allergy-friendly ingredients and special utensils has already been used at Cypress Bend Cafe. Wilson said DHFS expanded made-to-order locations to Littlefield Patio Cafe as well, but was interested in enhancing the dining experience for students.

“This station has been on the DHFS radar for several years, because we had been listening to student feedback and we looked into providing

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Laurin Pelchat, senior food service supervisor in the Division of Housing & Food Service, is part of the team working to bring an allergen-free buffet line to J2 Dining in fall 2016.

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Type of Referral Source: University of Texas Title IX Coordinator - LaToya Hill Smith

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pened to them is their fault.

“There’s several factors that lead to underreporting,” Smith said. “I’m trying to make sure that our processes is not one of those.’

Mia Goldstein, Plan II and radio-television-film senior and member of Voices Against Violence, said more survivors are

filing reports because the campus climate around sexual assault has changed for the better.

“There’s more of a culture of believing survivors,” Goldstein said. “It makes people more willing to come forward.”

Smith said she was glad to see more reports come in, but said more work needs to be

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UT sees increase in Title IX reports The University has seen an increase in Title IX reports involving student complaints about sexual violence, according to the Title IX office.

Title IX complaints consist of cases involving sexual assault, stalking/harassment, sexual misconduct, relationship violence and other categories.

LaToya Hill, UT’s Title IX coordinator, said more students are aware of their reporting options on campus when they experience interpersonal violence compared to previous years.

“I believe our numbers are increasing because more people are aware of the process,” Smith said. “While I do believe we underreport, we have higher reporting numbers than other institutions of our size.”

As of April 7, Smith said 183 cases have been reported for 2015-2016 so far, compared to 139 cases for 2014-2015 and 100 for 2013-2014. The University may see more than 200 cases reported to the Title IX investigation unit by the end of the year, she said.

Smith said students may not report interpersonal violence because they fear retaliation, don’t think they will be believed and believe what hap-

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done to make sure students know where to turn when experiencing interpersonal violence.

The Title IX office hopes to launch a “more robust” website informing students about their resources and reporting options, she said.

“The website will have more information, more handouts,

more resources that talk about the general process, resources about how to help a survivor,” Smith said.

Some of the Title IX reports involving students come from faculty and staff, who are generally required by UT’s policies

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UT graduate school alumnus Michael Braga, class of 1993, became a recipient of journalism’s top honor on April 18, taking home a Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting.

The winning work exposed an increase in violence across Florida’s mental health system and explored reasons for the increase across a series of five stories. Braga, working for the Sarasota HeraldTribune, shares the prize with Leonora LaPeter Anton and Anthony Cormier of the Tampa Bay Times.

Braga said the team’s reporting found a spike in violence across Florida’s mental health facilities which arose in correlation with extensive budget cuts for the state’s mental health system.

“That meant that staff were laid off, and then there’s less supervision of the inmates or patients at these hospitals so they start beating each other and beating up the guards,” Braga said. “Also, there are instances where [patients] get sick and they aren’t treated right, there just isn’t enough money to hire people to take care of them.”

After the pieces were published, Florida officials took notice and got moving, Braga said.

“Fortunately, the government came up with about $16 million dollars after our story,” Braga said.

“They fired 500, but they rehired 160. At least we got a little bit better care.”

In regards to his work on the story, Braga said his master’s degree in economics from UT equipped

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Students team up, develop mobile news apps UT architecture team wins national contest

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Journalism and computer science students showcased their mobile news apps that do everything from making it easier to identify LGBTQ-friendly businesses to locating bike racks on campus on Saturday.

The event was part of UT’s Mobile News App Design class, in which journalism and computer science students team up to design iPhone apps.

Over the semester, teams were asked to develop ideas, program them into iOS apps and promote their work with social media campaigns.

Robert Quigley, the journalism lecturer who led the class, said the curriculum helped students from diverse backgrounds learn to collaborate.

“This is an important class

to have students working together on these cross-functional teams and learning to work with each other,” Quigley said. “Journalism and computer science students definitely think about things in different ways, and in the real world, you’re going to work with people who aren’t all in the same major.”

Local software developer Jeff Linwood, who taught the coding portion of the class, said this year’s apps were a major success.

“For the first time, we’ve actually had all our students get their apps into the App Store,” Linwood said. “This is a first for this class and it’s really exciting. So you can just go ahead and download their apps onto your iPhone, your iPad.” Computer science senior

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Journalism and computer science students from the Mobile News App Design class presented their final iOS applications Saturday afternoon.

A team from the School of Architecture won a national competition hosted by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development in April.

Team members Sarah Simpson, Megan Recher, Brianna Garner-Frey, Tatum Lau and Brett Clark won the Innovation in Affordable Housing Student Design and Planning Competition, which concluded April 19 in Washington D.C. The competition challenged teams to create an affordable housing plan for a site in Santa Barbara, California. The finalists traveled to the site in March, so they could get a better understanding of the

Josh Montgomery was part of the team that designed MeFree, an app that aims to make social meet-ups easier.

Designing and collaborating on the app was challenging, Montgomery said.

“This was our first semester with Swift [coding language for iOS] and while we were learning Swift, we had to figure out how to create a viable app that

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Ridgeway gets drafted in round four of the NFL Draft.

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Sexual assault makes UTPD diversity necessary.

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Stephens bashes grand slam in victory.

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location for which they were designing their plans.

Brianna Garner-Frey, a graduate student in community and regional planning, said the competition was not only about architecture, but also about innovating the living experience of affordable housing.

“Our team approached the competition through three aspects of innovation,” Garner-Frey said. “One was rethinking the family, second was sustainability and third was education.”

Garner-Frey said the makeup of the typical American family has changed from the traditional nuclear family.

“There’s been a shift in demographics, where the

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another option for students with food allergies or who are looking for a more health-conscious diet,” Wilson said.

The buffet line will be within one of the largest dorms on campus at J2, a buffet located above Jester City Limits in Jester Residence Hall. This new line, which will be called the Fresh and Simple Tastes

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Simpson said. “Our team started by looking at regional plans and the surrounding community and drew from those.”

Tatum Lau, a graduate student in urban design and community and regional planning, said she believes housing is a human right and relates to other issues, such as education.

“So many of the current issues faced by impoverished communities can’t be [addressed] if you don’t have a basic home to go to,” Lau said.

“This competition and other programs that focus on affordable housing are exciting opportunities for our society as a whole.”

The team’s first place win carries a $20,000 prize for the team members.

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“We identified that especially in low-income communities, single mothers will rely on each other for assistance, grandparents are living with their children and grandchildren now more than ever before, so we took those aspects into account in our project.”

Sarah Simpson, an urban design graduate student, said she thinks her team won because of a unique viewpoint and approach.

“It seemed that the other teams at the competition focused more on the architectural design of the building itself,”

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is not going into counseling, but just needs to talk to someone about the process — what has to happen — we don’t have that option,” Smith said. “That is a gap at our institution that we need to fill because you have individuals who may not want counseling or need to go to the doctor, but do need to talk about it and figure out what they want to do.”

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student coordinator at VAV, said VAV is working on establishing a peer advocacy program to inform students about their reporting options while allowing the survivors to decide whether to report.

“Students might not go to their professor because they know they’re mandatory reporters,” Serna said. “We know a lot of times on campus, the first place [students] go to is their peers.”

(FAST) line, will be replacing the VIP Line, which offered more upscale meal options.

Cailin Rosborough, student manager on the nutrition team, started working with DHFS in November 2013, when she was a freshman. The communication studies junior has celiac disease and because of her own experience, was interested in providing more meal options for students with restrictive diets.

“It was the perfect opportunity to initiate food programs for students who can dine safely on campus,” Rosborough said.

Mechanical engineering freshman Kathrin James said the accommodations DHFs gave her were good, but she felt she missed out on the social aspect of dorm dining.

“I definitely missed out on that social aspect of meals,” James said. “It’s easier for me

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Brianna Garner-Frey, right, a graduate student in community and regional planning, right, shakes hands with Nani Coloretti, the Deputy Secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

to order my meal, eat it and that’s fine. But I missed out on the sitting in the dining hall experience. Or the spontaneity of getting food with friends. The allergen friendly line will give the dining friendly experience.”

James has rheumatoid arthritis and certain foods can give her some mild discomfort, but gluten causes her joints to swell. Buffets are areas where she proceeds

with caution because of the risk of mislabeled items or food tongs placed in different foods. James said the specialized line gives her the safety she needs.

“I like that it will be incorporated in the J2 buffet line so you don’t have to make a big deal about your food allergies,” James said. “I don’t mind having to explain myself in the situation but it’s nice that I won’t have to.”

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continues from page 1 people would want to use,” Montgomery said. “A little of the design was tricky. It started off really simple and we had to work together and collaborate to create something that would appease all of our interests.”

Journalism junior Caroline Murray, an audience member at the event, said the skills demonstrated were very applicable to students’ careers. “[The apps] are incredibly impressive,” Murray said.

“I’m in the base journalism class, and they say all the time how the journalism world is growing more digital every day. Professor Quigley posted an article about how the most soughtafter skills are now stuff like coding and social media and everything these teams are doing.”

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continues from page 1 him with an indispensable understanding of the numbers behind the story.

“I’m a business reporter by trade, so my contributions were my ability to analyze budgets and numbers and finances, and that I got from The University of Texas, really,” Braga said.

Jason Abrevaya, chair of the economics department, said in an email that the department is very proud of Braga’s Pulitzer Prize, and the abilities he used for the winning story were already at work during his time at UT. “His master’s thesis examined the Cuban sugar economy in the early 20th century, and the investigative historical research and careful analysis of that work have clearly carried over into his career in journalism,” Abrevaya said.

Deanna Govea, journalism and Asian studies junior, said seeing Braga’s success is uplifting for journalism majors, regardless of Braga’s field of study.

“I think it’s just in general inspiring,” Govea said. “You worry about job security when you’re a journalism student, but to see an alum go that far, it’s encouraging.”

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By Marisa Charpentier @marisacharp21

Civil engineering senior Vincent Geracci and his wife Zoe, an Austin Community College student, only dated in person for two and a half weeks before getting engaged. The couple began seeing each other in May 2015, but their time together was cut short when Vincent took an internship in Dallas, and Zoe decided to work as an au pair in Turkey for the summer. When Zoe returned to the States, Vincent proposed and the pair got married in December 2015.

“I fell in love with him over FaceTime because that was all we had,” Zoe said.

Unlike most of their peers, Vincent, 22, and Zoe, 19, chose to get married while still in college. For the Geraccis, it works, but getting married in college brings about a new set of challenges for couples on campus.

Students who choose to get married at a college age struggle to find proper housing near campus, must transition into a single financial unit and face a slew of stereotypes on a campus where most have yet to tie the knot.

Not just “roommates” Most things in the Geraccis’ lives are shared, including rent.

But affordable housing suitable for married students is tough to

come by around campus.

“When your income is one, it’s not like I’m paying $400 and [he’s] paying $400,” Zoe said.

“It’s we’re paying $800.”

Needing cheap housing options, the Geraccis looked into University Apartments — three apartment complexes located on Lake Austin Boulevard that UT reserves for married students, families, graduate students and some undergraduate students. But as of April 1, there were 981 applicants on the waitlist, forcing couples to find housing elsewhere.

“I’m really glad that [the University] offers at least one housing place for families and students that are married, but it’s so limited and the waitlist is so long,” said Audrey Browning, a married student and psychology sophomore, who had a similar experience with University Apartments.

A financial union It’s likely marriage will alter students’ financial aid eligibility, but just how much varies from couple-to-couple.

As a married student, Vincent is now considered an independent, meaning his parents’ income is no longer taken into account when determining eligibility for grants and loans through the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA).

“Under my mother’s wing,

I get no financial aid, but now we’re married, and we have a low income,” Vincent said, noting that his aid eligibility will likely increase as a result.

Trina Manor, Associate Director of the UT Financial Aid Office, said it’s important for students who are thinking about getting married to understand how the marriage will affect their financial aid eligibility.

“We’ve had situations where [students] were not working, and they were used to getting full financial aid,” Manor said. “When they married someone who was working full-time making $70-80 thousand a year, they had to report that, and then all of a sudden, their financial aid eligibility had decreased.”

Staving off stereotypes Business sophomore Rachel Downs and neuroscience junior Jeff Woods got engaged in the summer of 2015, when Downs was 19 and Woods was 20. If the pair goes out in public and people see rings on their fingers, Woods said people often ask if they’re married. The question is almost always followed by a remark on their age.

Although they’ve been a couple for four and a half years, Woods said people commonly assume they’re not ready for marriage because of their young age.

“If I wasn’t confident, I

wouldn’t have proposed,” Woods said.

As a married student, Audrey sticks out among her UT friends. In every student group she’s joined, she said people act surprised and ask a lot of questions when she mentions she has a husband. Audrey said that since coming to the University, she hasn’t been able to find social groups or support groups geared at married students.

“It’s kind of awkward to be a married college student because there just isn’t a space for us,” Audrey said.

Although being married in college makes finding proper social settings a challenge, Audrey, the incoming co-editor of Burnt X, a Texas Student Media entity, said marriage has made the stresses of college easier to manage.

At the end of the day, the couples get to come home to each other. Evenings for Audrey and her husband Chase Browning, a student at Austin Community College, are typically filled with homework or late nights working, but Audrey said they benefit from having each other to lean on.

“At the end of midterms, we were both stressed out, and were able to comfort each other,” Audrey said. “We’re both really busy, so it’s not like we get to hang out more than other couples do. It’s just that he’s always there.”

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Psychology junior Audrey Browning, 21, and Chase Browning, 24, got married in June 2015 after two years of dating.

Business sophomore Rachel Downs, 20, and neuroscience junior Jeff Woods, 21, got engaged in 2015 after four years of dating.

Infographic by Iliana Storch | Daily Texan Staff

Jesús Nazario | Daily Texan Staff

Civil engineering senior Vincent Gerraci, 22, and Zoe Gerraci, 19, tied the knot in 2015 after dating for less than six months.

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Medical missions make ‘do no harm’ difficult

By Laura Hallas

Daily Texan Senior Columnist @LauraHallas

It’s savior season. As classes end and students have several free months, many will choose to go on medical mission trips abroad. While students have the best of intentions for these trips, a critical eye is crucial to ensuring that students help and empower, not hurt, a foreign population.

“The Western savior idea, the idea that any kind of health care is good healthcare is a false assumption,” humanities senior Christle Nwora said. “We can be damaging by putting our views on other people and our social feelings about what health looks like.”

Many low-income countries lacking in medical infrastructure allow pre-health professions students access to many patients who are in need. However, when students are allowed to treat patients without proper licensing and supervision they endanger patients’ lives, which implies that some patients’ lives are more valuable than others’.

“In the US we don’t let our nursing students just go off by themselves, we have someone supervising them,” said Shalonda Horton, assistant professor of clinical nursing.

However, the environment of medical missions offers much more room for a student to give medical advice unsupervised.

“You don’t want to have misinformation that causes harm once you’ve left that country,” she said. “And then you don’t want that young person thinking ‘I did the

A medical mission trip is still a great experience and resume addition — students are still globally engaged.

But admissions officers at medical schools know what responsible healthcare looks like, and student medical missions often don’t fit the bill. right thing.’”

A medical mission trip is still a great experience and resume addition — students are still globally engaged. But admissions officers at medical schools know what responsible healthcare looks like, and student medical missions often don’t fit the bill. Instead, providing certain medical treatments as an unprepared undergraduate shows questionable judgment on the part of an applicant and a legal liability risk on the part of the college or study abroad program. The combined result is medical schools denying admission to well-meaning applicants.

“No one ever goes with the idea that I’m going to exploit these people to prop my resume for med school or nursing school,” Nwora said. “I just think sometimes we don’t have the processes in place to prevent us from making those ethical missteps.”

Embarking on a responsible mission

Infographic by Kelly Smith | Daily Texan Staff

trip requires serious self-reflection and objective analysis of the traveling organization. First and foremost, medical advocacy groups need licensed staffs with physicians or nurses. Second, the program must be sustainable and involve local medical communities — they are the ones who know what their population needs and will continue care once the mission group has left. It also helps if students have a shared cultural background or long-term interest with the region, making communication more efficient.

For untrained students, going abroad

may not even be the best way to help. Instead, they may be better placed to conduct research about a particularly global health issue under a professional or simply donate funds that would be otherwise used to travel to established global health groups like Partners in Health or Doctors Without Borders who work to empower local medical communities.

Acting on one’s own limitations is not a comfortable or easy process, but good intentions don’t make up for harmful medical realities.

Hallas is a Plan II freshman from Allen.

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Sexual assault cases necessitate diversity in UTPD

By Josephine MacLean Daily Texan Columnist @maclean_josie

At the UT Senate of College Council’s recent Conversation on Campus Safety, a panel discussion on pressing safety concerns, I noticed something — most of the questions about safety were asked by or about women, but all the speakers were men. While UT’s police department staff is 16 percent female, slightly higher than the national average of 13 percent, the panel made me wonder, is that enough?

Sexual assault investigation needs female officers. Throughout the conversation, UTPD chief David Carter repeatedly called for students to provide information about all crimes and suspicious activity. But if I faced the choice of staying silent or reliving traumatic details, I would feel more comfortable with a woman. It is not the men’s fault, but women often share common experiences that can allow for a deeper level of empathy.

As my awareness of friends who have decided not to report sexual assault grows, so does my frustration with the way our system is set up. Women who don’t report sexual assault often hold back out of a sense of shame and a need for privacy.

If they decide to report, it’s needlessly complicated. The only numbers posted under the criminal investigation unit are for male officers. So women must choose between an overwhelming phone tree or calling 911, which is unintuitive for crimes that happened in the past. I was not able

As my awareness of friends who have decided not to report sexual assault grows, so does my frustration with the way our system is set up. Women who don’t report sexual assault often hold back out of a sense of shame and a need for privacy. to reach the department for comment on this article.

Faye Woodsmall was the first female police officer in Beaumont, Texas. She worked with two other male officers to form one of the first “rape divisions,” what is now known as “sex crimes” unit, in Texas.

Woodsmall found that being a woman made a difference when it came to rape investigations. “We found that me being in the sex crimes unit … [for] a lot of the victims, it gave them a sense that they could talk to somebody and tell their story. We had to find out the whole story, it made them feel more comfortable with me taking their statements.”

Woodsmall does not blame UTPD for lacking women officers. During her time in the personnel department, she faced applicant shortages. “The hiring and the process is extensive … It’s really difficult to get good applicants, those that will stay, because it’s a

Stephanie Tacy | Daily Texan Staff

Campus leaders host a panel entitled “Conversation on Campus Safety” on the evening of Wednesday, April 20.

different kind of job, it’s not easy.”

Woodsmall’s grandson, Joseph Trahan, a public relations sophomore, agrees with his grandmother’s assessment, adding that there’s a power dynamic that needs to be addressed. “I believe that it’s important for individuals who are suffering any sort of crisis to be able to be in contact with people that identify within their own gender or community. I think there’s a level of comfort that exists [and] a sense of empathy or sympathy, because both are the same in

many aspects.”

Woodsmall’s experiences highlight our campus’ need for access to female officers. One story in particular stood out to Woodsmall: “There was a girl I had known for several years, but hadn’t talked to her for a long, long time. She called the station, and she said it’s private can I talk to you, meet you for lunch? And I knew. I knew she was a victim.”

MacLean is an advertising and liberal arts honors freshman.

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Senior columnist readies for more after undergraduate years

By Noah M. Horwitz

Daily Texan Senior Columnist @NmHorwitz

The other day, I sought out a replacement laptop charger at Fry’s. After accomplishing the task at hand, I ate lunch at the restaurant located in the store.

It was a very nostalgic moment for me. As a little kid, my father — a bona fide computer nerd — would take me to electronics stores often, usually to bring in one of his many, ancient computers in for servicing. And, of course, we’d always eat lunch. Something about eating a club sandwich in a Fry’s conjures up memories of childhood.

As my time as an undergraduate comes to a close, I do not know what memories will similarly — years down the line — prompt the nostalgia of college. But I am fortunate enough to have a plethora from which to choose.

When it comes to The Daily Texan, I know a memory I will always cherish.

When I sat on the editorial board about a year ago, we were invited to interview a prominent, new statewide office holder.

It was quite exciting. But after this new office holder’s press secretary did some research, she informed us that the office holder would only sit for an interview with someone “other than Noah Horwitz.”

My objectivity, needless to say, was called into question.

The planned editorial was canned.

That doesn’t happen. Not in politics, not in law, not in business and certainly not in the press. But it did, at the Texan.

The Texan values loyalty. It values it more than any other entity within the press I have ever seen. In a time when so many negatives things are said about the press, often very justifiably, I have found the Texan to be a bright oasis of integrity.

And even as my time at the Texan isn’t

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coming to a close, I would still be remiss if I did not acknowledge and thank the people who have made my time here so enjoyable. (As I continue onto law school at this University, I plan on and hopefully will be penning many more columns on a wealth of topics.)

Laura Wright, the editor-in-chief when I first transferred to this University, made the mistake of hiring me. Riley Brands, her successor, made the mistake of promoting me to the editorial board. And Claire Smith, his successor and the incumbent, made the mistake of retaining me. I appreciate and am deeply grateful for their errors in judgment. Most importantly, I am humbled and thankful for their loyalty.

I have found a variety of ways to spend my time other than the Texan. I wrote.

I lobbied. I managed a few political campaigns (my record is 1-2, currently a higher winning percentage than the Houston Astros). It’s been fun and satisfying, challeng-

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The Texan values loyalty. It values it more than any other entity within the press I have ever seen. In a time when so many negatives things are said about the press, often very justifiably, I have found the Texan to be a bright oasis of integrity. ing and sobering, all at the same time.

But the Texan is different, in a quintessential way. We look out for one another, just as we look out for every student as a watchdog for student issues and student causes. It’s been an honor to be part of this publication for the past five semesters. I’m looking forward to the next six!

Horwitz is a government senior from Houston.

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While the changes associated with gentrification are often cast in a negative light, he said the revitalization also has its benefits.

“There’s so much money in the real estate that a lot of poor people can’t afford to live there anymore,” Corcoran said. “But the best example of the neighborhood turning around in a good way is what’s happening at 12th and Chicon … It used to be nothing but drug dealers and prostitution. You might say it’s gentrified, but it’s better than it used to be.”

Creating his 50-foot-wide mural required Yancey to dig through historical documents and photographs, but he’s been a first-hand witness to the changes that have happened since, which he said make his mural even more relevant today.

With such rapid development, the area’s residents — some of which Yancey said have owned property for generations — are often forced out. Austin’s AfricanAmerican population, in

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Yancey said all but one of his original neighbors have moved because of affordability issues. His own property taxes have increased by about 600 percent since he moved in.

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Buendía said this instance was indicative of the power imbalance that permeates the east side.

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“That disinvestment meant prices were pushed down, and that created this environment that could then be easily exploited. At the end of the day, it’s about who has power and who doesn’t. Systemically, the power was never in the hands of the people that lived and struggled in these neighborhoods.”

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Ridgeway drafted by Indianapolis

By Samuel Williams

Hassan Ridgeway skipped his senior season at Texas to enter the NFL draft.

Ridgeway was drafted 116th overall to the Indianapolis Colts on Saturday.

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The wait spanned more than 41 hours, but Hassan Ridgeway finally heard his name called early Saturday afternoon. “[Waiting] was rough,” Ridgeway said. “I wouldn’t put my worst enemy through that … The team that wanted me the most got me … Obviously that’s the best place you want to go to, an organization that sees you as a good fit for them too.”

The Texas defensive tackle was selected by the Indianapolis Colts with the 116th pick in the NFL draft. Ridgeway brings his talents to a defensive unit that struggled last season. The Colts ranked seventh worst in the NFL in yards allowed per game and eighth worst in points allowed per game.

“This could be a really good pick if [the Colts] can get the most out of Ridgeway,” ESPN analyst Todd McShay said during the draft broadcast. “They just got a second round talent in the fourth round. They need to develop him and keep him on the straight and narrow.”

In his breakout sophomore season at Texas, Ridgeway collected six sacks and 11 tackles for a loss, becoming an interior pass rushing threat alongside former Longhorn Malcom Brown. In part due to injury, Ridgeway had a less impressive junior campaign, finishing

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with 3.5 sacks and 6.5 tackles for a loss.

The 6-foot-4, 307-pound defensive tackle decided to forgo his senior season at Texas after receiving a second round grade from the NFL’s College Advisory Committee. To the surprise of many though, Ridgeway fell to the fourth round.

“As a pass rusher, he’s got to work on his hands,” McShay said. “Got a lot of work to do technically. But he’s got flashes on tape of bull rushing and overwhelming power. There’s

concerns about the durability.

This past year he had a shoulder injury, a back injury and an ankle injury. There’s concerns about him taking care of himself off the field too.”

Despite being picked later than expected, Ridgeway said he’s still excited by the opportunity. He said talking with Brown, who was picked in the first round of last year’s draft by the New England Patriots, put things in perspective.

“It doesn’t matter where you go,” Ridgeway said regarding what he learned from Brown.

“You made it to the NFL, what are you going to do with it now.

The motivation was every pick that went in front of me.”

Prior to the draft, Texas defensive coordinator Vance Bedford spoke highly of Ridgeway’s NFL potential.

“I think he has the ability to be a special talent,” Bedford said. “He’s gotten better every single week. He is a guy that is growing, developing, he’s learning how to play the football game, and I think his future could be bright.”

Ridgeway was the only

Longhorn to be selected in the draft, keeping Texas from going without a draft pick for the second time in three years.

After the draft, receivers Marcus Johnson and Daje Johnson were signed as undrafted free agents by the Philadelphia Eagles and the Atlanta Falcons, respectively.

Defensive end Shiro Davis was signed by the Washington Redskins. Cornerback Duke Thomas signed with the Houston Texans and kicker Nick Rose signed with the Atlanta Falcons.

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Longhorns win fourth-straight title, Hossler ties for second place overall

Texas avoids series sweep with shutout

By Trenton Daeschner The No. 1 Texas men’s golf team left the rest of the field in the dust, cruising to a historic 26-shot victory and its fourth-straight Big 12 championship on Sunday in Trinity, Texas.

“For us to do this four years in a row is super special,” head coach John Fields said. “For us, it all adds up to just an honor to say we are Big 12 champions.”

The Longhorns broke the Big 12 championship single-round team scoring record on Sunday with a 15-under par onslaught. The 26-shot win is the largest margin of victory in Big 12 conference history.

Junior Beau Hossler fired a final round 3-under 69 to finish in a tie for second at 5-under. It’s Hossler’s ninth top-10 of the season.

“I’m proud of the guys,” Hossler said.

“They’ve worked hard, and I’ve worked hard as well. Today was the first time we all played really well.”

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tied for fourth at 3-under after shooting an even par 72 in the final round. Junior Gavin Hall fired a 5-under 67, the low round of the day for the Longhorns, to tie for sixth at 2-under. Ghim and Hall have each finished in the top-10 five times this season.

Sophomore Scottie Scheffler grabbed his first top-10 of the season with a ninth place finish. Scheffler carded a final round 4-under 68 to finish even par for the tournament. Redshirt sophomore Taylor Funk tied for 25th at 11-over after posting a 3-under 69 on Sunday, tied for the lowest round of his career.

Oklahoma State’s Stratton

Nolen won the individual title by one shot at 6-under.

Texas will learn what regional it will be a part of in the NCAA tournament when the regions are announced Thursday morning at 8:30 on Golf Channel’s Morning Drive show. The Longhorns have their eyes set on another run at a national championship after losing to University of Southern California in the quarterfinals last year.

“It has been an awesome ride for us this season,” Hall said. “We’re really looking forward to NCAAs to test our skills. Our whole goal has been the national championship at the end of the year so that’s something we’re getting close to.”

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Under 24 hours after getting run-ruled at home by the University of Kansas, the Longhorns fired back with vengeance, striking for eight hits and six runs to take a 6-0 win over the Jayhawks on Sunday to win the series.

The Longhorn offense blew the game open the in the fourth inning. After Kansas’ pitchers senior Monique Wesley and freshman Alexis Reid combined to walk three consecutive batters, Texas loaded the bases in front of a home crowd of nearly one thousand.

A batter later, Texas senior center fielder Lindsey Stephens smashed the ball past the right center field wall at Red and Charline McCombs Field to extend the Longhorns’ lead to 5-0. Stephens recorded her 40th career home run — the secondmost in Texas history — and fifth career grand slam on the play.

“I was very happy they made that pitching change,” Stephens said of the home run. “I got a pitch I liked and hit it very well. It definitely gave a confidence booster, a security blanket — loosened things up.”

The bases reloaded quickly after the grand slam with two base hits and another one of Kansas’ six walks. The defensive calamities persisted

for the Jayhawks, and senior outfielder Holly Kern was able to steal home plate for a 6-0 lead on a dropped pitch by the catcher.

Texas junior ace Tiarra Davis threw her fourth complete shutout of the season. She struck out eight batters, including a stretch in the third and fourth innings where she retired four of six Jayhawks’ batters swinging.

“I just really focused on attacking the strike zone and letting my defense work behind me,” Davis said. “Coach Clark did a really good job today of calling pitches and keeping them off-balance.”

Kansas didn’t have issues with sending runners to bases. Although the game ended in a shutout, Kansas finished with nine players left on base in the defeat. Davis’ pitching stepped up to an impeccable level every time Kansas placed a foot on a bag.

After beginning the season with a 2-6 conference record, Texas has now attained the .500 mark in the Big 12, sitting at 7-7. The Longhorns host North Texas on Wednesday in the final game of an eight-game home stand.

“Every game matters right now,” head coach Connie Clark said. “Today, that was what we talked pregame. It’s May and teams’ destinies are decided in May.”

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Senior center fielder Lindsey Stephens belted her way deeper into the Texas history books with her 40th career homerun — and fifth career grand slam — against Kansas.

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MLB legend Lou Gehrig’s consecutive games played streak is snapped at 2,130 games.

SPORTS BRIEFLY Women’s track picks up victory in Iowa

Despite cold and rainy weather, the Texas women’s relay team came out on top at the Drake Relays in Des Moines, Iowa, this weekend.

The Longhorns totaled 26 points during the relays, tying the Baylor women for the top spot to share the meet’s Hy-Vee Cup. Texas started the day with a strong second-place finish in the sprint relay, but the Longhorns struggled in the distance relay, coming across the line in 12th place.

Texas rebounded with a win in the 4x100-meter relay. The 4x400-meter relay team of freshman Zola Golden and seniors Courtney Okolo, Morolake Akinosun and Melissa Gonzalez pulled off a second-place finish while Baylor came across the line seventh, allowing the Longhorns to even up the cup score.

Sophomore Caitland Smith scored a win away from the relay events, taking first in the 100-meter final with a time of 11.55 seconds.

Sophomore Ariel Jones and senior BJ Adeokun took third and fifth, respectively, in the 100-meter final. Neither event counted towards the cup standings.

Meanwhile, the Texas men battled their way to a second-place finish in the men’s Hy-Vee Cup standings.

The men swept the sprint relays by taking first in both the 4x100-meter race and 4x400-meter relays. The team of senior Zack Bilderback and juniors Charles Amnunu, Aldrich Bailey and Carlton Amnunu finished with a time of 40.00 seconds in the 4x100-meter relay.

Carlton Amnunu, juniors Chris Irvin and Aldrich Bailey Jr., and Bilderback edged out Baylor by 1.44 seconds in the 4x400meter relay with a time of 3:05.51.

The Longhorns return back to Austin to host the Longhorn Invitational next Saturday in the last regular season meet of the year.

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Gentrification: erasinG east austin Defend Our Hoodz fights against power imbalance

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Editor’s note: Some of the names in this story have been changed to protect the sources’ identities.

Bertha Delgado watched the landscape of her East Austin community slowly shift as new, sleeker homes replaced the ones she had known all her life. Entire families vanished, and soon, murals and businesses followed suit.

“I’m angry,” Delgado said.

“I cry daily. It’s emotional, because nobody understands the heritage, the richness of what our area holds, and there’s only maybe a handful of people that are willing to stand up for it.”

Delgado’s family has deep roots in East Austin. Edward Rendon Sr. Park is named after her grandfather, a migrant farmer who became an influential voice for the MexicanAmerican community on the east side. Delgado said she remembers a very different East Austin, one dominated by industrial plants and pollution.

She said once she had children, she realized she needed to advocate for their future in the neighborhood.

Prompted by displacement and loss of culture in the east side, Delgado and other community activists formed Defend Our Hoodz, a group that aims to organize residents in opposition to harmful ordinances and developments.

“When we would pass by and see a family that had once lived there gone, and we went to that house as children, we

It’s emotional, because nobody understands the heritage, the richness of what our area holds, and there’s only maybe a handful of people that are willing to stand up for it.”

—Bertha Delgado, East Austin resident

didn’t understand why they were not there anymore,” Delgado said. “Many of us were just doing our daily basic things and not seeing that these people were wanting to come in and redevelop our neighborhoods. I think we were blinded to a lot of the change in the beginning.”

The fight against Type 2 short-term rentals — housing units whose owners do not live on the property and instead rent out the homes for 30 days or less at a time — was the catalyst for Defend Our Hoodz. In February, the Austin City Council voted to enhance restrictions on such rentals in order to eliminate them by 2022. Salvador Buendía, an organizer for Defend Our Hoodz, said Type 2 short-term rentals offered through services such as Airbnb encourage the increased property prices and speculation that lead to displacement.

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Art professor John Yancey is the artist of a mosaic mural called “Rhapsody,” which is located on East 11th Street. Yancey hoped to embody the culture of East Austin that existed long before the area began to experience rapid gentrification.

East Side’s musical history provides insight into impact of gentrification

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predominantly black crowds segregated to the east side.

The venues helped make up what’s known as the Chitlin Circuit, a touring route that brought musicians to audiences who couldn’t go see them at whites-only venues. A close-knit economy of restaurants and other businesses quickly built up around this cultural hub.

“Long before Sixth Street, there was 11th and 12th Street,” art professor John Yancey said. “That was where the hot music was

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As soldiers returned from World War II and young Austinites looked for nightly entertainment in the late ’40s and ’50s, they were often drawn in by the sounds of jazz and blues music spilling out of downtown clubs on East 11th and 12th Streets. Upand-comers and greats such as B.B. King, Etta James and Chuck Berry played venues such as Victory Grill and Charlie’s Playhouse, bringing music to the

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and the late-night scene.”

Yancey, a longtime East Austin resident, helped memorialize the district’s cultural history with his mosaic mural “Rhapsody” in 2003, which depicts jazz musicians and the east side community in the era of segregated Austin.

But as segregation ended in the 1960s, Yancey said black residents were suddenly free to go to any part of the city they liked — and they took their money with them, causing clubs and other black-owned businesses to close.

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“After about 1967 or 1968, when the economic decline started, people just kind of wrote that part of the city off,” Yancey said.

“They assumed it had always been how it was, kind of a barren area, but there’s a rich history before then.”

Local music journalist Michael Corcoran said that the era following desegregation was an “aimless time” for East Austin. Even today, he said the east side music scene is thriving, but instead of blues and jazz, it’s

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Built on family tradition, the Tamale House serves traditional Mexican dishes from San Luis Potosí.

El Azteca was founded in 1963 by Jorge Guerra. Since then, the restaurant has suffered from gentrification.

Cisco’s is one of the original restaurants serving Mexican dishes, even after drastic changes in East Austin.

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During the 1950s, Carmen and Moses Vasquez wanted to fill Austin’s Mexican food void with the flavor from their hometown, San Luis Potosí. They opened Tamale House East in 1958, following their family recipes that survived from generation to generation.

The Vasquez’s grandsons decided to keep the business running when their family members retired, unwilling to let go of their family’s legacy in East Austin.

“We decided to keep the tradition going for the next upcoming generation,” Juan Vazquez, one of the five grandsons running the restaurant, said.

The Tamale House opened in the East side, a low-rent home to most of Central Austin’s minorities.

Over the years, an influx of people changed the East side’s original landscape of Victorian homes, gardens and artist warehouses into large-scale condos.

The struggles of a

changing economy and the rise of property taxes affected the family-owned restaurant, but Juan’s mother, Diane Vasquez, said Tamale House will continue running for more generations.

“My family has experienced property taxes doubling, tripling, quadrupling,” Diane said. “But it’s a matter of principle that there are Mexican food restaurants today. Why should we be gone? This is our home.”

Juan and his cousins were raised in an apartment on top of the restaurant where his parents still live. When they grew up, they traveled to Portugal, Spain and Peru, but came back to Austin to hold on to their heritage and incorporate what they learned abroad into the menu.

“The legacy is not something that can be bought,” Juan said. “It’s something family has to build and keep alive. We wanted to keep the tradition because it’s part of our family history, part of Austin’s history and it was something we really didn’t want to let go of.”

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By Elena Mejia @elenamejialutz

Growing up in the ’80s, Juan Guerra and his cousins walked from their houses to their family-owned East Austin restaurant every day.

After helping their parents in the kitchen, the cousins played soccer in the streets and attended church with other neighborhood kids.

“Everyone we ran into knew who we were” Guerra said. “It had that neighborhood feeling.”

In 1963, the Guerra’s grandfather, Jorge, founded their family restaurant, El Azteca. In those days, Guerra said East Austin had more minorities, so it was easier for his family to live in that part of town. But today, the influx of people has caused rising property taxes, commercialization and gentrification in East Austin.

“Now, it’s too expensive for a family to move to the East side,” Guerra said. “It’s just single couples who don’t have children. You don’t see anyone playing on the streets. It’s not a neighborhood anymore.”

According to city

demographer Ryan Robinson, the amount of families with children was above 32 percent in 1970. By 2010, that figure dropped to 10 percent. The City of Austin website states the city’s rate of diversification has greatly slowed down, most likely due to spiking housing prices.

Because of this population increase, the City of Austin started the East 7th Street Improvement Project in 2009 to upgrade pavement, sidewalks, landscaping and water lines. But the improvements also brought downsides for small businesses.

For three years, the project stationed bulldozers in front of El Azteca that didn’t allow customers to park around the area.

“A lot of people went elsewhere and didn’t really come back,” Guerra said.

El Azteca has been in East Austin for 53 years.

Guerra said even though taxes and commercialization are increasing, they will never get rid of their Mexican legacy by becoming a commercial chain.

“We’re invested, not just with time, but with blood, sweat and tears,” Guerra said.

1511 E. SEVENTH ST.

By Elena Mejia @elenamejialutz

When the Cisneros family founded Sunny Veil, East Austin’s first bakery, they rode their horses from East Seventh Street to bring freshly baked bread and brunch to the Driskill Hotel.

“Generations of generations have come through here,” said Diana Cisneros, who co-owns the restaurant with her husband. “Grandparents come in with their kids and remember their childhood memories.”

After moving to East Sixth Street in 1943 it was renamed Cisco’s Restaurant Bakery & Bar, becoming a hangout for former president Lyndon B. Johnson. The restaurant is still frequented by football star Earl Campbell.

Hector Martinez, assistant manager at Cisco’s, has worked at the restaurant for more than 20 years.

With his mother working as a Cisco’s cook, he grew up with the Cisneros family. He referred to the restaurant as the “land of the Mexicas” because it is one of the few businesses left for

Spanish speakers.

According to city demographer Ryan Robinson, almost all of central east Austin and vast stretches of south central Austin have experienced increases in the white population during the last decade. He predicts the city will experience a possible acceleration of this trend.

“There used to be only families [in the neighborhood] and we used to know everyone and now we have no idea,” Martinez said.

“This is the only place left where you can enjoy a meal from the old times. They remodeled it and people go out of business.”

Cisneros said she has watched the demolition of small businesses to make room for bigger complexes.

As the East Austin landscape continues to change, the recipes of Cisco’s TexMex cuisine and ”migas” have remained the same for nearly a century.

“We’re not going to change,” Cisneros said. “But these walls have seen so much — there’s always so much camaraderie and the cooks have been with us for more than 20 years.”