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APD warns of rising motor vehicle thefts during July

By Catherine Marfin @catherinemarfin

Volume 117, Issue 7

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Vehicle thefts increased in areas surrounding campus following University commencement ceremonies, Austin Police reported.

The Austin Police Department issued an advisory to Austin residents and UT students detailing the rise of motor vehicles and mopeds stolen in the areas West and North of campus.

Police officials accredit the spike as normal for this time of the year.

“We generally see this in-

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crease in auto theft and burglaries in the summer because it’s daylight for much longer,” said Officer William Pieper, member of the UTPD Crime Prevention Unit. “People are out and about for a lot longer during all hours of the day doing things they don’t normally do at other times of the year, which makes it easier to commit crimes.”

APD released a statement calling July “watch your car month” as auto thefts have increased. Until the end of July, APD’s Auto Theft Interdiction Project is offering

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free Vehicle Identification Number (VIN) etching, a technique that reduces the value of a stolen vehicle to thieves by etching a car’s VIN onto its windows.

Between May 28 and June 27, APD responded to 12 cases in which car keys were left in a vehicle, resulting in theft. The weekend after July 4, five moped or scooter thefts occurred around West 26th Street and around San Gabriel. In areas north of campus during the same week, a motorcycle and an automobile theft occurred, but the automobile — a Chevy HHR — was recovered. In West Campus, there were seven cases of moped and motorcycle theft and two vehicle thefts.

The UT Police Department has periodically been notifying the campus community of this increase in thefts through the Campus Watch, a daily update

People are out and about for a lot longer during all hours of the day doing things they don’t normally do at other times of the year, which makes it easier to commit crimes.

—Officer William Pieper, UTPD Crime Prevention Unit

of selected crimes sent out to subscribers by UTPD via email.

APD officers said that summer vehicle thefts are not limited to residential areas only during summer months.

“Vehicle crimes often happen at residences, gas stations, malls, daycares, hospitals, hike and bike trails and fitness centers,” Department officials said in an advisory last week.

Vehicles, the advisory noted, are usually stolen for profit, joyriding or to commit another crime. APD has noted target hours for vehicle thefts are Saturday

through Monday, as well as Thursday, between the hours of 2 a.m. and 6 a.m.

“It seems like common sense not to leave your keys in the car, but I can’t really judge, because I did it by complete accident one time,” said Hannah Kelly, a journalism and Plan II senior. “Areas in West Campus can be kind of empty in the summer, so people feel more comfortable being lax with their safety measures.”

To prevent auto theft, APD recommends Austin residents keep valuables out of sight and avoid leaving their car running while unattended.

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Monday, July 18, 2016

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‘Pokemon Go’ lures players, dangers to campus locations

By Catherine Marfin @catherinemarfin

During a typical walk across campus, a dozen or more students can be seen with their heads buried in their smartphones, caught up in the nation’s latest technology craze.

Pokemon Go, an app that sends players outside to find imaginary “pocket monsters,” or Pokemon, has taken the nation by storm. Since its launch on July 6, the app has already garnered 21 million daily active users in the U.S. — more than Twitter — according to a report by TechCrunch. The app has more installations since its release than Candy Crush Saga and Tinder, both of which launched in 2012.

R adio-tele vision-f i lm sophomore Richa Iyer said the game is so popular because of its accessibility.

“It was a big part of my childhood, and now I just need my smartphone to play,” Iyer said. “It goes against what the older generation says about technology, that it shuts people in and makes them less likely to interact and be social.”

In the game, players capture, battle and train virtual creatures that appear throughout the real world. Pokemon Go relies heavily on GPS and requires players to move in the real world to move in the game.

To play, users create a “trainer” to catch Pokemon, visit “gyms” to battle other players and earn special items and search for “Pokestops,” which give players special power-up items.

Although users were disappointed because the areas around campus originally lacked Pokestops and gyms, the map was updated last week.

Now UT landmarks, such as Turtle Pond and the Tower,

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Students play Pokemon Go on campus at the Turtle Pond on July 12, 2016.

attract many players looking to find new Pokemon or stock up on special items.

UT Plan II alumnus John Hanke is the CEO of Niantic, the software developer behind the game. Hanke told Business Insider the app has three goals: to give players a reason to exercise, explore their communities and “break the ice” with other players.

Despite its popularity, the app has raised concerns.

When it first launched, the app required users to sign in through their Google account, granting Niantic full access to players’ accounts — an issue Niantic claimed was accidental and fixed with an app update Tuesday.

Additional safety issues have also surfaced. Largely based on GPS, the game has put players in unexpected situations.

In Austin, a man was robbed at gunpoint while playing the game and waiting at a bus stop last Tuesday. In Washington, two brothers found a loaded gun, in Wyoming, a teen found a dead body and in Indiana, a sex offender was arrested after he was caught playing the game with a minor.

Across the country, there

have been reports of players using “Lure Modules” — which gamers can activate to attract Pokemon to a specific location — to facilitate crimes.

“If a person wants to do ill will towards you, they can just lay and wait for you to show up,” University of Texas Police Officer William Pieper said.

“If you want to play the game, there’s safety in numbers.”

The Texas Department of Transportation has launched a “Don’t Pokemon Go and Drive” campaign to combat distracted driving concerns, and the Austin Police Department held a press conference Wednesday to give players safety tips, advising gamers to remain vigilant, avoid private property and be aware of stranger danger.

Despite these concerns, hoards of students continue to flock to campus to catch ‘em all.

“People are reliving and being nostalgic about the old Pokemon games,” said geographic earth science senior Alan Garcia. “When we were little, we’d all think about walking around and having our own Pokemon. It’s kinda like it came true. We’re older now, but we can still have fun with it.”

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‘Pokemon Go’ exercises, distracts its users

By Delaney Mayfield Daily Texan Columnist

Why is everyone shuffling around West Campus furiously swiping at their phones and bragging about their Jigglypuff? They’re playing Pokemon Go and anyone not playing is missing out on entertainment and exercise.

Pokemon Go is an augmented reality game that doubles as an exercise app that is taking over the world. You can catch Pokemon as they appear in the park, the local H-E-B or the Tower. The goal is to catch Pokemon and keep them for your personal collection. Your personal Pokemon are then used to overtake local gyms in a system similar to capture the flag.

The game tells players how far Pokemon are from their location, but not the direction.

A player could be at home and realize that a Pikachu is “three steps away.” This means the player must walk close to a kilometer radius of their location to find Pikachu.

Surprisingly or not so, the big question players have been asking is, “How far is 10 kilometers?”. It’s the longest distance players need to go to hatch eggs, which help players obtain rare Pokemon. Americans are walking with the game and learning the universal metric system.

While the game has been effective at acquiring players, it is also engaging players while they unintentionally exercise. The game tracks how many kilometers the player walks that day while playing the game. It also limits players from driving to catch Pokemon by not counting mileage that is performed over a certain speed. The more miles the players rack up, the more eggs they can hatch and the more powerful their Pokemon become.

Abbey Moore, an MPA student, walked major distances despite having six hours of class each day.

“I have walked up to two miles for a single Pokemon,” Moore said, “and my daily total dis-

Pokemon Go is helping players burn some serious calories. The average person burns 57 calories walking a 19-minute kilometer. And this pace is rather slow for a Pokemon player trying to find a Bulbasaur. tance walked is 18.2 kilometers.” This distance was obtained in between her six hour class days.

This simple game has sent everyone into a walking frenzy. 2016 UT graduate Andrew Vuong hiked eight miles in one morning. Vuong had never hiked before, but was in hopes of catching unique Pokemon that other players wouldn’t have. Several Daily Texan staffers have even gone on runs just to catch some Pokemon. Given that players are now in 100plus degree weather, this is serious commitment to the game.

The American Heart Association recommends 10,000 steps a day to maximize heart health. These 10,000 steps a day have been known to reduce blood pressure and glucose levels in overweight patients. This 10,000 steps a day is equivalent to about 7.6 kilometers. The average Pokemon Go players is already halfway to this daily goal by just playing Pokemon Go with just under 6,000 steps.

Pokemon Go is helping players burn some serious calories. The average person burns 57 calories walking a 19-minute kilometer. And this pace is rather slow for a Pokemon player trying to find a Bulbasaur. But Pokemon Go has caused a few injuries to players who were too focused on their Pokemon and not bumps in the sidewalks.

The game is so effective at allowing players to forget that they’re exercising that players

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are finding themselves in precarious situations. One player, in Flower Mound, Texas, was bitten by a poisonous snake during his search for Pokemon. A 15-year-old player was shot and killed when he was trespassing when he discovered a rare Pokemon on the premises. Two men fell off a 50-foot cliff playing the game. Three players, who were a little more aware of their surroundings, found a dead body during their trek.

Researchers suggest relaxation and exercise to college students as ways to de-stress their lives. Pokemon Go is allowing for exercise with the distraction of the game to keep players moving, but players need to be aware of

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Two men fell off a 50-foot cliff playing the game. Three players, who were a little more aware of their surroundings, found a dead body during their trek. their surroundings. So trainers, go on your hike, but don’t forget to look up every so often. No Pokemon is worth a hospital visit.

Mayfield is an MIS junior from Tyler.

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By Amanda Eakin @misssocurious

For the past two weeks, UT alumnus and Niantic CEO John Hanke has had millions of people hunting monsters around the world.

Niantic’s Pokemon Go, which is top-grossing on both the Apple and Android app stores, involves “catching” Pokemon in augmented reality.

The game also has a social aspect that allows players to move around the city and interact with other users.

Hanke said Pokemon Go was created to help people explore their surroundings.

“Our main goal is to give people a nudge to go outside and explore their neighborhood or a new part of town,” Hanke said. “It’s a big world and there is a lot to see. Sometimes it’s right under our noses and we are too busy to stop and look.”

Coming from a small town of 1,000 people in Central Texas, Hanke wanted to become more well-rounded after high school. Though he was interested in math and programming, Hanke majored in Plan II and graduated from UT in 1989. He said that the abundance of literature, philosophy and history classes he took through Plan II opened the world up to him.

In creating Pokemon Go, Hanke said he hoped to broaden the horizons of the players by incorporating his interests in outdoor recreation and software into augmented reality.

Because of the app’s unexpected burst of popularity, Austin was missing “pokestops” where virtual items could be collected for inventory in culturally significant areas of town.

Even though the app has been glitchy, nearly a dozen players traveled to the State Capitol last Sunday night to catch Pokemon.

Several players said they liked how the app’s map feature forced users to exercise more while Pokemon hunting. Though Capitol policemen applauded this healthy side effect, they warned that players should be aware of their surroundings, especially

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considering personal safety concerns following the death of Haruka Weiser.

“Players should make sure they have enough battery life to last through the night, as well as appropriate footwear and buddies,” a Capitol police officer said. “There is strength in numbers. It’s all about planning.”

Since downloading the app, Tara Etienne and Sam Collins, two local gamers, said they have met around 30 people while playing the game. Etienne said that the app has led her to a variety of places around Austin.

“I went to a church the other day, which I would never usually go to,” Etienne said.

Will Rowland, a visitor from Arizona, played the app throughout his road trip across the US, including Austin and the State Capitol. He said he was skeptical about the extent to which Pokemon Go helped him explore Austin.

“We walked around the Capitol grounds, but we were just looking for Pokemon,” Rowland said. “Are you really experiencing the area or are you just playing a video game?”

For gamers like Rowland, the app is more of a quest for nostalgia.

“As a ’90s kid, I had a fantasy about going into the wild and catching this animal that would become my battle partner,” Rowland said.

Rowland’s childhood fantasy is now almost tangible. Using the

smartphone’s motion sensor, and camera, players can view Pokemon on their screens as if the creatures were present in real life. Pokemon appear in relevant habitats; water creatures like fish can be caught in the UT Turtle Pond.

“I found a Pokemon bug at the restaurant where I work,” Collins said, “and that’s against health code so I captured it right away.”

More features are now available in Austin after initial glitches were fixed earlier this week. Pokestops are scattered around the city and on UT campus landmarks such as the Tower Garden Memorial and the pipe fountains in the Welch Hall Plaza. A “gym” where players can battle each other is positioned near the tower.

At midnight on Wednesday, nearly 50 players gathered by the turtle pond for a “lure party” to catch Pokemon that were attracted to a lure module set by one gamer. These connections are the reason Hanke became interested in AR. Through Pokemon Go, Hanke said he’s been able to share the city of Austin with visitors, his alma mater and other locals in a new way.

“Augmented reality holds the promise of enhancing the things that are most core to our experience as human beings — our interactions with the world around us and with others,” Hanke said.

HOUSTON – James Banks and Jarrett Allen received a gift.

NBA superstar Kevin Durant, who left his footprint at Texas during his freshman year in 2006-2007, gave Banks and Allen each a pair of his KD 9 basketball shoes. Here’s Durant handing two UT freshmen big men size 18 and 19 shoes, a tool so Banks and Allen can leave their own footprints at Texas.

The gift from Durant is nice, but the first step took place in Colorado last month and in Houston last week, where Banks and Allen participated in the Team USA U18 training camp.

The two were among the 12 players chosen for a spot on the U18 team, which will compete in the 2016 FIBA Americas U18 Championship, held July 19-23 in Valdivia, Chile.

UT head coach Shaka Smart is the head coach of the U18 team, making this one of the few times a college coach is coaching two of his players in real-game situations before the start of the college basketball season. Smart can start to build the highly important relationship between player and coach.

“It’s a great thing in that I’m just getting a chance to coach these guys at practice and at games,” Smart said. “That’s something that we would typically have other than our workouts on campus, and they’re new to Texas so that means that we’re new to each other.”

During the summer, college coaches are limited to how much they can practice and coach their team on a weekly basis. With Allen and Banks on Team USA, they and Smart have a head start.

“You get to learn a lot about him, just what he likes,” Banks

It’s a great thing in that I’m just getting a chance to coach these guys at practice and at games … and they’re new to Texas so that means that we’re new to each other.

—Shaka Smart, UT head basketball coach

said. “The way he wants to play fast, the way he wants to play defense. So you start to get a feel for him. Me getting a feel for what he wants me to do on the offensive and defensive end of the floor.”

Smart is getting an early look at Banks’ and Allens’ strengths and weaknesses. The big-men will be called upon to replace graduated centers Cameron Ridley and Prince Ibeh in the Texas front court. Working with Smart now allows them to get comfortable with his style.

“So hopefully this will accelerate [the process] a little bit,” Smart said.

Team USA lets Banks and Allen, self-nicknamed “fro-bros” because each sports an afro, bond as teammates. They are learning what each is like on the court as well as off.

“Over here it’s more of a basketball bond,” Allen said, “but on campus you always see us together.”

Skills are furnished, but bonds are built between the two and Smart.

After all, that’s the first step.

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Wendy Davis launches nonprofit encouraging gender equality

By Anna McCreary @annammccreary

Former Texas Sen. Wendy Davis is bringing the fight for gender equality off of the senate floor and directly to women with the launch of her nonprofit, Deeds Not Words.

Taking its inspiration from the motto of the women’s suffrage movement in the early 1900s, Deeds Not Words’ main goal is to keep the conversation of women’s rights from dying out before physical action takes place.

“It’s disappointing that we’re almost 100 years from gaining the right to vote in this country, and yet, we still have so far to go,” Davis said. “I think that speaks to the fact that we’ve all got to accept our role and responsibility in changing it, and not decide that the status quo is okay.”

In 2013, Davis became a national symbol for feminism when she stood the floor for 11 hours in a filibuster to block the passing of House Bill 2, a Texas anti-abortion bill. The legislation ended up passing in a special session, but Davis’ stand gained attention from the national news.

Davis said the filibuster established an important precedent for pushing forward change that talk is important, but action even more so.

“People all over the country began talking about what was going on through social media,” Davis said. “It didn’t stop with a conversation. It resulted in thousands of people coming to the Texas Capitol and playing a role, literally, in trying to help us get [the filibuster] past that midnight deadline.”

From that formula for engagement came Deeds Not

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Words, Davis said. The Austinbased program is designed to provide women with opportunities to get involved in local events and organizations focused on issues of reproductive rights, equal pay, familial leave and sexual assault prevention.

These events and meetings are shared through emailed newsletters and event calendars for cities around the country.

Davis said she chose Austin as the organization’s home because of the large number of socially conscious young people in the area. Deeds Not Words is specifically geared toward millennials, a demographic projected to comprise up to 40 percent of the national voting population by 2020.

“There’s just so much raw power in terms of the numbers and so much passion,” Davis said. “If we can help connect that passion to action and help people understand the power of advocacy and involvement, we can really move the needle on gender equality.”

At the April #BossBabesATX meeting, Davis announced the organization’s launch.

UT alumna Jane Hervey, co-founder of #BossBabesATX, said she believes groups like Deeds Not Words are important in promoting feminism because people need to see others fighting for their beliefs.

“It means something to stand in solidarity with people you might not relate entirely to,” Hervey said. “Sometimes revitalizing a movement is just as simple as that — someone pushing forward a positive message and inspiring people to continue. Watching how divided our country is becoming, it really does take a lot of effort to maintain hype.”

The gender equality movement is one that’s seen many

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Former Texas State Sen. Wendy Davis turned the momentum of her gubernatorial campaign into Deeds Not Words, a nonprofit focused on turning conversations into actions.

State Sen. Wendy Davis, D-Fort Worth, begins her filibuster of Senate Bill 5, the original bill that led to House Bill 2, on June 25, 2013.

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challenges, and Davis said she believes those obstacles have created an atmosphere of discouragement for women.

“It is certainly okay, and good, actually, to be disappointed when things don’t go our way,” Davis said. “But we can’t give in to the temptation of discouragement, which leads to disengagement. The

only way we’ll move the needle is to stay in sight.”

Three years after Davis’ filibuster, HB 2 was ruled to be unconstitutional by the Supreme Court last month. Though it is just one step toward gender equality, Davis said the decision will have a positive ripple effect for women’s access to reproductive rights across states

that had mimicked Texas’ antiabortion law.

“But more than that, I think it has shored up people’s understanding that they can make a difference,” Davis said.

“And I hope that it has created an atmosphere of encouragement for us to continue to pursue the things that matter very much to us.”

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