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UT implements new safety policies By Katie Keenan @KeenanArroyo
UT President Gregory Fenves emailed the University community Wednesday afternoon about the Department of Public Safety’s completed campus safety evaluation. In his email, Fenves highlighted several safety suggestions from the DPS report, including updating video surveillance, increasing the
amount of patrol officers, legislating policy regarding the homeless population near campus and providing greater visibility. The DPS report comes five months after freshman Haruka Weiser’s death last semester. “There weren’t any real surprises in their findings, but what was very impressive was the level of detail,” Fenves said, adding that DPS included the Pickle campus
and residential areas as part of their evaluation. Fenves added in his email that the full DPS report has sensitive information that could jeopardize campus safety, and therefore will not be released. Although University updates released in the past five months regarding increased patrol officers and bike patrol units have reiterated the greater police presence on or near
campus, design sophomore Sara Wong isn’t convinced. “I think if the school adds that stuff it would help, but to be honest they should just stick a police station like right at the corner where the Art Building is, because they don’t really patrol there,” Wong said. The eastern end of campus, where Weiser’s body was found, includes the fine arts buildings and the Waller Creek area. This area, among other
sections of campus, presents unique challenges due to their landscape, said a Campus Safety and Security update. Fenves said the University is in the process of modifying vegetated areas of campus to fix this issue. “We will be looking at all the areas around the creek,” Fenves said. “We want to have an opportunity for people to enjoy the creekside habitat, and
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Nonprofit aids pregnant women of color By Mae Hamilton @thedailytexan
Recently graduated, working part-time jobs and unexpectedly pregnant, former Longhorn Michelle Mejia had no idea how to prepare for the birth of a baby. So she turned to Austin’s Mama Sana/Vibrant Woman for support. Mama Sana/Vibrant Woman is a non-profit, community organization founded in 2012 by Kellee Coleman and Jeanette Monsalve. The organization doesn’t follow the standard protocols of a traditional clinic but rather follows an older structure of community support and midwifery. Initially Mejia planned to deliver her baby in a hospital but felt uncomfortable with the highly medicalized environment. The fact that the United States has a high infant and maternal mortality rate that affects
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Bianca Flores (left), Paul Rojas (upper left), Michelle Mejia (middle), Lourdes Kaman (uper right) and Jeanette Monsalve (lower right) are members of Mama Sana/Vibrant Woman, a local nonprofit that provides midwifery services.
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New voter outreach program launches By Forrest Milburn @forrestmilburn
Texas Secretary of State Carlos Cascos had his first stop in the Vote Texas campaign Wednesday morning at the UT campus to encourage voter participation and educate students on changes to the 2011 voter identification law. The voter education outreach program from the Texas secretary of state’s office is aimed at increasing turnout among some of the lowest performing registered Texans, including millennials and college students. In March, Texas voters defied a longstanding tradition of staying at home on election night by voting in record numbers for the 2016 primaries, when around 4.2 million Texans cast their votes for president and downballot races – the most in state history, according to the secretary of state’s office. Despite the jump, Texas still lagged far behind other states around the nation in turnout during the primary season. “We’re going to be happy with Texas as number one in a lot of things, but are we going to be content with Texas being near the bottom when it comes to votes?” said Cascos, a UT alumnus. “That’s not something to be proud of.” After a federal appeals court ruled in July against the state’s law, which required specific forms of ID in order to cast ballots, any registered voter
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New app streamlines emergency contacts Lack of funding stalls By Katie Keenan
Guardian Circle is an app that alerts up to 10 friends in case of an emergency. “Guardians” are alerted to an emergency situation and added to a group text automatically.
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Instead of relying on student programs, 911 or law enforcement, UT students in dangerous situations can now send an emergency alert to a group of 10 friends through an app called Guardian Circle. In March, Guardian Circle released its latest version of the app, which includes at most 10 “guardians” who would be notified of an emergency once a member of the circle sends out a signal detailing the level of danger, location and situational circumstances he or she is trapped in. Each guardian is required to approve their commitment to assist their friend if he or she needs help. A map pops up revealing where guardians are located relative to the person in danger, and a group chat is immediately created. This enables automatic communication, even if guardians don’t already have each other’s contact information. “When I looked through the app stores, I saw that
In addition to its timereducing aim, Jeffrey said the app provides a more fitting alternative for calling 911 under certain circumstances. If caught in a bar with someone who won’t leave you alone, Guardian Circle provides an easy out as opposed to the outdated emergency response system that is currently in place, Jeffrey said. “In the United States, 911 is actually terrible,” Jeffrey said. “In LA if you call the cops, the average response time [is] three hours. If you’re in a situation where you see some scratches
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The Counseling and Mental Health Center may not be able to offer their services immediately due to a lack of funding. According to Terri Bohuslav, executive assistant to the associate vice president for student affairs, CMHC’s budget for the 2016–2017 fiscal year is around $3.7 million from the tuition allocation from the student services committee. But this is still not enough to meet the needs of all students. During the spring semester of her freshmen year, government sophomore Sarah Herzer was involved in student organizations on campus, did research, interned and took five classes. As the semester went on the stress started to wear her down and she sought assistance from CMHC. But when Herzer tried to schedule an appointment with CMHC she discovered
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there were a lot of panic button apps … but all they did was text emergency contacts with your location,” said Guardian Circle founder and CEO Mark Jeffrey. “None of them have thought about the second half of the problem, which is organizing the response.” After his girlfriend collapsed in November 2014 and was physically unable to use her phone, Jeffrey said he realized the need to create an app that would bring together at most 10 emergency contacts in one streamlined setting.
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on your front door, you’re kind of screwed.” Guardian Circle chief technical officer Chris Hayes said the app was created with a wide variety of users in mind. In compromising situations where flagging down help would only contribute to the danger already present, or if it is physically impossible to conduct multi-step operations on one’s phone, Guardian Circle comes in handy, Hayes added. “A thing we have to be aware of in terms of design
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that the times offered for counseling did not fit her schedule as a busy student. “I didn’t have time to carve out a time in my schedule that week to do an appointment,” Herzer said. “I didn’t want to go to the crisis line because it wasn’t a crisis. I just wanted to talk to someone about how to deal with stress. I found the [services] completely inaccessible and really frustrating.” Herzer did not seek further assistance after learning of the wait time. The process to schedule an appointment with CMHC starts off with an over the phone or in-person assessment from one of the counselors. The student is able to talk to the counselor right away. If the counselor believes that you are experiencing a crisis, CMHC will see you right away. Otherwise, they will evaluate that student’s needs and point them in the right direction whether that be a
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is making the buttons large enough for people who may have motor skill struggles or maybe in an emergency where they’re nervous, and they’re kind of jabbing at their phone,” Hayes said. Guardian Circle user Diane Tate said that before using the app, she would resort to texting her friends either individually or in multiple group chats, which was cumbersome and timeconsuming compared to the swiftness with which she feels Guardian Circle operates. “For me it’s a security thing,” Tate said. “The fact that it goes out to people that I’ve already trusted, and it goes out to everyone at the same time to coordinate … it just seems like a way better option than anything I’ve seen.”
can now head to the polls on Nov. 8 without a form of photo ID. “This year in particular, more people than ever are getting more engaged in the political process, just by virtue of how tumultous this election this has been,” said Deanna Hausman, a biochemistry sophomore and vice president of UT Votes, a civic engagement student organization on campus. “Texas definitely has a lot farther to go, but it’s definitely awesome that this election has brought in so many new voters.” Texans who do not have one of the seven forms of photo ID, which includes a driver’s license, are now able to bring a utility bill or a paycheck with them to prove their identity,
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Cascos said. According to a press release from the secretary of state’s office, Cascos and his team will be traveling the state through November educating voters in both English and Spanish about ID and other necessary information before they head to the polls. Before the event, UT Votes handed out and picked up completed voter registration forms from students to turn into the Travis County Tax Office. Linguistics sophomore Robert DeMouy, an out-ofstate student from Louisiana, said he decided to register to vote in Texas because he felt his vote would go “about as far as it would” in his home state. DeMouy, who was registered Tuesday morning by UT Votes, said he believes
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Texas Secretary of State Carlos Cascos speaks to a UT class Wednesday to lauch Vote Texas, a voter education campaign.
reaching out to citizens in an effort to increase turnout is good for democracy, but the government shouldn’t use legislation to force anyone into voting. “It’s your choice as a citizen of the United States to ignore the basic rights you have just as
much as it is to exercise them,” DeMouy said. The last opportunity to register is Oct. 11 with early voting, when voters will have the opportunity to decide the next president and a slate of local races, beginning Oct. 24.
Civil engineering junior Bryan Tamayo said he has been avoiding campus in the evening. “After the incident that happened, there was a lot of police at night, but after that I really haven’t been on campus at night just to be safe,” Tamayo said. Not all changes will be obvious or immediate, Fenves said. Part of the suggested changes are still in the planning stages. Technological updates, such as new security cameras, will take more time to be installed. “These changes, some of them we have implemented immediately, some of them are going to require some planning,” Fenves said. “For example, video surveillance systems take some time to plan, design and install.”
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Telemedicine regulations prove unnecessary By Laura Hallas
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In a few short months, the Texas legislature will convene to discuss annual budgets, political financing and what just might be the future of healthcare in America — telemedicine. Here, the Texas legislature has the opportunity to clear up existing regulations and bring care to thousands of Texans who otherwise might not have been covered. Telemedicine is the remote diagnosis and treatment of patients using technology, usually in the form of a phone call or video conference. Patients get real doctors and real prescriptions, but the service is conducted entirely virtually and run by publicly traded companies rather than traditional healthcare providers. Telehealth costs less than traditional doctor visits and is more accessible, making it a valuable tool for vulnerable patient groups. The need for a site presenter (or telepresenter) sitting with new patients is a current telemedicine regulation that should be eliminated. The Texas Medical Board instituted the rule as a way to keep the standard of care as close to an in-person physician visit as possible. However, having a licensed professional in the room at all times is not a standard that even traditional healthcare always meets. According to Tara Kepler, telehealth attorney and A&M adjunct law professor, even the medical assistants who facilitate inpatient appointments aren’t always licensed. Kepler claims that traditional standards of care are no longer a given and that she would like to see more legal direction on what can
In 2010, Texas had the highest number of uninsured people of any state at 6.2 million, and in 2000, it hosted the nation’s largest rural population with more than 3.6 million. be delegated to non-physicians. “Before, it was you have to have a building and a doctor, that’s it,” Kepler said. “But now you have to have a technology expert, you have to have a physician and you have to have a marketing expert. The standard of a proper physician-patient relationship is changing in front of us.” Texas has many potential patients who could benefit from telemedicine. In 2010, Texas had the highest number of uninsured people of any state at 6.2 million, and in 2000, it hosted the nation’s largest rural population with more than 3.6 million. “When you have a psychiatrist who has patients in rural Texas that are in a poor area, they can’t afford any healthcare, and you’re willing to have a really advanced expert child psychiatrist beam in through telemedicine to treat these kids for almost nothing,” Kepler said. “It’s beautiful, and it’s something we need more of.” Though the prospect of loosening regulations always raises concerns about the potential of companies to take advantage of vulnerable patients, site presenters offer little quality control for the massive monetary
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costs involved with their presence. Texas’ debate over the best telemedicine practice is just a microcosm of what medical boards and companies are battling all over the country; we are just the first to attempt to codify the practice. A legislative decision to remove the need for a site presenter would be one small act that could expand millions’ access to healthcare without compromising existing standards. Whatever decision comes this legislative session, the eyes of the country are upon us. Hallas is a Plan II and health and society sophomore from Allen.
Though the prospect of loosening regulations always raises concerns about the potential of companies to take advantage of vulnerable patients, site presenters offer little quality control for the massive monetary costs involved with their presence.
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Mylan threatens to price out EpiPen users in need By Giselle Suazo
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Consumers have long witnessed how companies abuse their power and take advantage of dependency on their products. Recently, buyers and lawmakers were shocked by the dramatic price increase of EpiPens, a device used to give an injection to save people from deadly allergic reactions. EpiPens should not be treated as a luxury item, let alone priced like one. This can mean the difference between life and death for over 3 million Americans. EpiPens have been used since 1977 to deliver epinephrine to people suffering allergic reactions to anything from peanuts to bee stings. Mylan, the company responsible for producing and selling EpiPens, bought the product in 2007 and sold the traditional two-packs for $100. But by May of this year the price had risen to a whopping $614 — a more than 500 percent increase in less than a decade. Mylan and its CEO, Heather Bresch, have tried tirelessly to quell public outrage, but consumers are left with one lingering question: Why the price increase? Mylan has no competitors, nor have they drastically changed their production methods. In fact, producing the EpiPen’s active ingredient, epinephrine, is incredibly cheap. Yet, there is no answer. With the price increase, many families are left with no option but to carry expired EpiPens or none at all.
Mylan has no competitors, nor have they drastically changed their production methods. In fact, producing the EpiPen’s active ingredient, epinephrine, is incredibly cheap. My brother was one of the 25 percent of children who have suffered their first allergic reaction in school. He was stung by a yellow jacket while attending soccer practice about four years ago. When his coach noticed his difficulty breathing, an ambulance was called immediately, as no one had an EpiPen in their possession. Ever since then my brother has carried EpiPens with him — that is, until the price increased. Now he heads to practice without one. Last summer, Gov. Greg Abbott signed the Cameron Espinosa Act, which increased access to EpiPens in public schools. Public and charter schools are now required to train their staff on how to use the injections and have them available at all times. The law does not cover ambulances or private institutions, thus leaving a large number of people vulnerable. The Student Services Building on UT’s campus has EpiPens available for use and staff that knows how to administer them. This is beneficial to the numerous students who find themselves unable to buy EpiPens, as UHS offers economically feasible prices in
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times of emergency. While Texas lawmakers have taken steps to ensure the safety of people susceptible to allergic reactions, there is still no sign of pharmaceutical companies being stopped from drastically changing the prices of their medications. Truth is, Congress does not let Medicare negotiate prescription drug prices, a reality that is not seen in other developed countries such as Canada and Great Britain. Pharmaceutical companies often do not face repercussions for performing potentially illegal activities, including paying off
one another to delay the release of generic drugs. The Federal Trade Commission has the power to sue over these violations — but they don’t often enough. But as long as companies, including pharmaceuticals, donate generously to political campaigns, it is unlikely laws will pass that go against them. The cost of medicine will continue to rise leaving parents, students and anyone in need of medications in dire situations. Suazo is an international relations and global studies senior from Honduras.
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UT Lands must adopt safer fracking procedures By Jae Bak
Daily Texan Guest Columnist @JaeYBak
There are over 290,000 active wells in the state of Texas, a great many of which are located on University Lands. The University of Texas and Texas A&M University systems own millions of acres of land all across the state and, in turn, own thousands upon thousands of oil wells. A recent study shows that the UT system is making revenue figures in the billions just from the oil drilled in the Permian Basin. These lands allow higher education facilities such as UT to maintain their status as high quality universities. However, in a study conducted by the environmental conservationist organization Environment Texas, the data reveals that while the University Lands turn an enormous profit with the amount of black gold they obtain, it comes at a cost on a global scale.
Fracking on University Lands has caused devastating consequences, such as the exponential increase in the release of methane, a highly powerful greenhouse gas. The EPA has a standard on how much methane can be emitted by individual companies, and at present, University Lands is going high above it. Methane, although not quite as long-lasting as carbon dioxide, can trap heat at a much faster rate, which allows it to cause more damage in a shorter amount of time. In fact, methane is responsible for about one-fourth of the man-made global warming we experience today. “Over the last six years, the emissions from University Lands alone are equivalent to about one and a half million cars on the road,” said Cyrus Rautman, an operative of Environment Texas. This is a daunting figure that represents how immense the damage caused by methane is. But there are solutions, which the University Lands chooses to ignore. Rautman
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said there are “simple and affordable modifications to oilfield operations that can cut methane emissions drastically,” and there are companies that have implemented these modifications throughout the country. However, the companies that drill on UT land are not required to make them if they choose not to. Although members of Environment Texas have met with the CEO of University Lands, Mark Houser, and several administrators, “nothing came of those meetings,” Rautman said. But the campaign to fight methane emissions has gained a considerable amount of traction and is obtaining support from both students and faculty at UT alike, with over 600 signatures on his petition. Rautman plans to extend his campaign into other universities across the state. The vitality of natural gas and oil in Texas is abundantly clear, and Rautman said that his goal is not to shut down these factories completely, as that would be highly
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Fracking on University Lands has caused devastating consequences, such as the exponential increase in the release of methane, a highly powerful greenhouse gas. improbable, but instead have them use safer and cleaner practices to reduce the amount of devastating greenhouse gas being released into our atmosphere. It’s time for UT to demand the same commitment to best practices from the oil companies that drill on its land as it demands from the professors and students that fill its lecture halls. Bak is a radio-television-film freshman from Eagle Pass.
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Regents funding recruits faculty
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The Faculty Science and Technology Acquisition and Retention program received a $30 million budget to fund equipment in order to encourage faculty research. The $30 million budget, which was approved by the Board of Regents, is split between all 14 UT System academic and health institutions. The goal of the program is to retain faculty who have offers elsewhere and to recruit new faculty members from other top-tier institutions. Since its inception in 2004, the UT System has invested $178 million into the program and has seen a return of $1.3 billion in external research funding. Joan Brennecke, a chemical engineering professor at Notre Dame, is currently researching ionic liquids used in sustainable chemical processing and energy storage applications. She will be coming to UT next fall to do her research which will be funded partly by the STARs program. As a UT alumna, she said that it will be exciting to come back to Texas after being away. “It’s more than just the money to work on particular projects,” Brennecke said. “It’s the whole environment and colleagues and collaborators. There’s going to be a lot more interesting and new opportunities for my research because
Various organizations passed out fliers Wednesday as part of the annual Party on the Plaza on Speedway, welcoming students back to campus. Lunches sold to attendees, organization attendance fees and Scholarship Shootout raised money for the UT Student Emergency fund to support students facing emergencies or financial issues following tragic events, according to the UT RecSports website. However, many students were not even aware of the charitable aspect of the Party on the Plaza. “I definitely feel inclined to support this event more because it’s really helping the people around me,” electrical engineering freshman Luca Tomescu said. “It means more to me knowing that it has more of a direct impact for my own classmates.” Over 200 student organizations, as well as several sponsors and vendors, were set up and eager to inform and recruit prospective members. This gave students the opportunity to find a place on campus where they fit right in. “Many people come for the big vendors at the event, so if they come to get free ice cream, I can give them a flier for Texas Latin Dance so I can let them know that we exist,” chemical
engineering senior Sara James said. “Coming to the event helps us get more members so we can get enough people to come to at least the first meeting.” Many of the newer organizations have found success spreading their names and messages to students across campus during the event. Momentum Scholars, an organization hoping to help improve the education of public school students, made their debut during the event and attracted the attention of hundreds of students within the first few hours, according to business and biology sophomore Luke Imperial. The event also had a big emphasis on the University’s RecSports department as many athletic organizations were present. Scholarship Shootout, a booth hosted by RecSports, gave students the opportunity to shoot a $1 basket for the chance to win a $2,000 scholarship. “As RecSports, we touch so many students,” computational biology senior Hannah Kaiser said. “We are such a big organization that so many kids can find opportunities to join whether to just work out, play intramural sports or take classes.” According to the RecSports website, Party on the Plaza has raised over $80,000 for the fund and other student-supporting organizations since 1999.
services at CMHC are much lower than other counseling and psychiatric services in Austin to keep them accessible to students on campus. Chris Brownson, associate vice president for student affairs and director of CMHC, said there is no college counseling center in the nation that has enough funding to meet all the mental health needs of every
student on campus. Brownson said there are a lot of competing priorities on campus that provide important academic and support services to students. “We’re prioritizing finding out from a student who is interested in using our services what they need and getting them connected to a resources that will be helpful to them,” Brownson said.
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of the people at UT.” Brennecke is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and has won awards for her research from the American Chemical Society, U.S. Department of Energy and others. “Recruitment and retention of faculty members is absolutely critical to the longterm viability of the Cockrell School,” said Sharon Wood, dean of the Cockrell School of Engineering. “Over the past year, STARs has helped us recruit a new department chair in biomedical engineering, Shelly Sakiyama-Elbert, as well as Tom Yankeelov, our first joint hire with the Dell Medical School.” The STARs program meeting their needs. “A week is a really long time especially if somebody is in crisis,” said Mayra Sharma, a neuroscience and Plan II junior. “I would ideally like them to see someone immediately afterwards especially because taking that first step to get your appointment is already difficult for some people to do.” Sharma, a peer
fouses on attracting nationally renowned professors and professors who are rising in their fields, as well as retaining professors in engineering and computer science departments across the UT System. Priority is given to the recruitment of nationally recognized individuals. These individuals must be a member of or in contention for election to national honorific societies such as the National Academy of Engineering or the Institute of Medicine. STARs funding is also given to promising faculty members who are on track to become nationally recognized. The program also aims to retain tenure-track faculty members in the engineering educator for CMHC, helps present workshops across campus which will help students deal with the stress of college. She believes funding is one of the issues that colleges face when providing mental healthcare to students. “A lot of universities just don’t have [enough] money to put into their counseling and mental health centers,”
and computer science departments who have received offers elsewhere. “STARs remains a critically important program to attract world-class faculty to UT institutions and the Regents’ continued financial commitment demonstrates how deeply they believe in this initiative,” Jenny LaCoste-Caputo, executive director of media relations and external communications for the UT Systems, wrote in an email. “‘Winning the Talent War’ — a quest to bring world-class scholars, teachers and researchers to UT institutions — is one of Chancellor McRaven’s eight Quantum Leaps and the STARs program is a cornerstone of that initiative.” Sharma said. “Funding would for sure help even if it’s just in general cases.” The main source of funding for CMHC is tuition allocations, which accounts for close to 90 percent of their budget, according to Bohuslav. The rest comes from charges for counseling and psychiatric sessions, which are $10 and $15 respectively. The costs of
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Senior defensive specialist Nicole Dalton doesn’t let volleyball define her. As a freshman in 2012, she tore her left hip labral, forcing her to have surgery at the end of the season. Dalton went through a second surgery in 2013, and after playing two healthy seasons, Dalton had surgery on her right hip again in March 2015. Plagued with injuries over the years, Dalton has found other ways to make an impact off the court. As a physical culture and sports major, she volunteers to help kids with disabilities compete in sporting events. She has accumulated over 100 hours of volunteer work and completed an internship with Special Olympics Texas. She said her volunteer work has helped develop a stronger passion for competing on the court. “The joy that they have whether they get first in a race or dead last, it’s just enjoyable,” Dalton said, “I’m drawn to that and their love of being able to compete even when they may not fully be able to. It sets things in perspective for me to never take anything for granted.” Dalton has also looked to her Catholic faith to cope with her injuries. She works with the Fellowship of Catholic University Students to assist in Bible studies with members of
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Senior defensive specialist Nicole Dalton prepares to hit the ball. Dalton missed all of 2015 following a surgery on her right hip, but has returned to Texas in 2016. She is the lone Longhorn left from Texas’ 2012 National-Championship roster.
the volleyball team and other athletes. She said it was important for her to establish an identity off the court while sidelined with injuries, even showing an interest in ministry work after graduation. “People don’t realize how hard it is for us athletes because a lot of our identity is based on the sport,” senior outside hitter Paulina Prieto Cerame said. “Nicole has emphasized how important it is [for her] to find her identity through [religion] because that has helped her
with her injuries.” Now, with three surgeries behind her, Dalton is finally in the midst of her fourth season on the court. “The coaching staff has been amazing with me and giving me another opportunity to play,” Dalton said. “I don’t think if I were anywhere else in the nation they would be as loyal and supportive.” Dalton brings a lot of experience to the table. She is the only remaining player from the team’s National Championship roster from
2012 and she’s set to enter her third year as captain. Prieto said Dalton excels in a leadership role. She has watched Dalton since their high school days — both competed on amateur national teams for the United States. The senior said Dalton’s experience and selflessness — both on and off the court — feed into her natural leadership skills. “Back on the USA team in high school, she would get up and block and hit as well [as play defense]”
Prieto Cerame said. “I look up to her and I love playing next to her.” Dalton hopes to translate those experiences into a big final season in Austin. And like her mentality away from volleyball, she wants to do whatever it takes to make a difference. “I just want to help the team in [any] way I can,” Dalton said, “Just leading by example and having a compassionate heart towards the girls on and off the court.”
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Bedford calls for more consistency, leadership By Michael Shapiro @mshap2
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Senior outside hitter Paulina Prieto Cerame blocks the ball. Prieto Cerame was named to the 2015 AVCA All-America Second Team after helping lead Texas to the national title game.
Longhorns to host Lipscomb and UTSA in home openers By Steve Helwick @naqwerty3
For the first time this season, the Longhorns will play in front of a crowd decked in burnt orange. No. 3 Texas (1–1) will return home to participate in the American Campus Classic. The event commences with a double-header Thursday with Texas playing Lipscomb at noon and UTSA at 7 p.m. “We have been looking forward to this for a whole year,” senior outside hitter Paulina Prieto Cerame said. “We are just excited to be in Gregory and have the fans come out.” Texas was swept 3–0 by No. 1 Nebraska in Eugene, Ore. on Saturday night. The Longhorns are the defending NCAA runner-up, but are already facing adversity in the young season. “It was our first time being tested,” Prieto Cerame said. “We learned that we need to be a lot more focused, a lot more disciplined as a team. We’re glad that we’re being tested this early.” The Longhorns will face four different teams over three
days in their second tournament of 2016. Head coach Jerritt Elliott said he hopes to use the Nebraska loss as a learning experience before the actionpacked weekend. “We didn’t play well, we didn’t execute at all,” Elliott said. “It’s week one. We’re not happy, we’re disappointed, and we’ve [had] lots of talks with our team. We’re also getting to look where we can make adjustments — that’s what playing tough competition allows us.” Both of Thursday’s opponents enter their matches at Gregory Gym with undefeated records. Lipscomb (3–0) has only lost two sets in its three victories this season, while UTSA (3–0) swept Little Rock and Montana and defeated SMU 3-1 in the SMU DoubleTree Classic in Dallas last weekend. Elliott said the loss to the Cornhuskers helped him identify his team’s weaknesses. Texas struggled to keep the ball in play with its passing and made a number of selfinflicted mistakes en-route to the three-set sweep. Elliott hopes to fix those issues this weekend.
“We’ve got to solidify our passing rotations,” Elliott said. “We played well in short spurts but this game is about how well you can systematically approach the game over and over again. That’s what this weekend’s going to provide, and we’ve got some goods teams coming in.” Texas swept UTSA 3-0 in Austin last September, but UTSA didn’t fall without challenging the Longhorns. The Roadrunners extended the first set, ultimately falling short 31-29 before pushing the burnt orange again in the second set. The Longhorns hope to regain their championship form on Thursday. Prieto Cerame said the team has focused on one thing heading into the double-header: execution. “Our coaches expect nothing but the best from us, and we expect nothing but the best from ourselves,” Prieto Cerame said. “We’re just trying to bring it back to what our alumni have set for us. We have a great weekend here with four different teams and we’re just excited to be back and keep getting better.”
Defensive coordinator Vance Bedford addressed the media on Wednesday prior to Texas’ week one matchup with No. 10 Notre Dame. Bedford highlighted the Longhorns’ improvement throughout the off-season and the necessity for more consistency in 2016. “We’re gonna have to be better,” Bedford said. “You see a guy, he looks pretty for a play, then he gets four flat tires. We can’t afford to have that this season.” Bedford fielded numerous questions about sophomore linebacker Malik Jefferson, the Big 12 Preseason Defensive Player of the Year. Jefferson quickly became a standout player for Texas in 2015. He ended the year with 61 tackles, seven of them for loss. But Bedford is looking for more sustained excellence from Jefferson, not just flashes of greatness. “[Jefferson] is learning how to play within the frame of the defense,” Bedford said. “Like a lot of freshmen last year, he flashed a lot. But you go in and watch the video as a football coach, he missed a lot of plays.”
Notre Dame’s offense will be in the same boat as Texas on Sunday — both will play two quarterbacks. Both junior DeShone Kizer and senior Malik Zaire are expected to receive snaps, forcing the Longhorns to gameplan for two signal-callers. Zaire started for Notre Dame in last year’s opener, shredding the Longhorn defense for 313 yards and three touchdowns. But a fractured ankle cut his season short prior to week three, ceding the starting job to Kizer, who threw 21 touchdowns in 11 starts. Bedford praised both quarterbacks and noted the difficulties they pose to Texas’ defense. “Both [Kizer and Zaire] are difficult to defend,” Bedford said. “They’re athletic, they can run. If you have good coverage they both can scramble.” Texas’ defense is looking to improve after ranking No. 87 in scoring defense last year. But Bedford is confident in his team heading into opening night. “The attitude of the team right now is something we didn’t have last year,” Bedford said. “Guys are focused, they’re ready to go.”
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Sophomore linebacker Malik Jefferson tackles an Oklahoma State runner. Jefferson recorded 61 tackles in 2015, and was named the Big 12 Defensive Player of the year in July.
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SPORTS BRIEFLY Boyer voices support for Kaepernick
Former Texas long snapper Nate Boyer wrote an open letter for ArmyTimes.com on Tuesday, supporting San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick. Kaepernick incited a national debate last week upon his decision to not stand during the national anthem, saying, “I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color.” The quarterback’s actions sparked a wide range of criticism and support, with Boyer voicing the latter. Boyer — a former U.S. Army Green Beret — said he was initially angry at Kaepernick, but ultimately supported and understood his decision. “I’m not judging you for standing up for what you believe in,” Boyer wrote. “It’s your inalienable right. What you are doing takes a lot of courage, and I’d be lying if I said I knew what it was like to walk around in your shoes. I’ve never had to deal with prejudice because of the color of my skin, and for me to say I can relate to what you’ve gone through is as ignorant as someone who’s never been in a combat zone telling me they understand what it’s like to go to war.” Boyer is currently an NFL free agent and works with an charity that builds relationships between military veterans and former NFL players. —Michael Shapiro
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Veteran transitions to civilian life at UT By Lisette Oler @LisetteOler
Jillian Shrader no longer sets her alarm to 21:00 on a work day. “[I love] waking up later [now],” Shrader said. “I get regular civilian hours. I don’t have to wake up at 9 p.m. and go to work, and I don’t have to wake up at 4 a.m. to get to school on time.” Shrader, an international relations and global studies and Middle Eastern studies junior, is a student veteran transitioning back into normal everyday life after three and a half years in the military. The shift can often be difficult for veterans because of the social differences between the two worlds. “When you’re in the military, you form this sense of camaraderie and family with people all over the world,” Shrader said. “It can be difficult to go from being a part of a close knit group of people to being a very small fish in a very big pond.” On Aug. 14, Shrader left the Air Force as an E4 Senior Airman in the linguistics department. She came to Austin on scholarship from the Air Force as part of a program to become a commissioned officer. For Shrader, attending UT is something she never thought possible. In 2012, she dropped out of college because her family couldn’t afford it. “[I’m] going to a world-renowned institution of higher learning, and [I’m] able to afford it,” Shrader said. “It’s a dream come true. I’m not here just to get a piece of paper. I’m here to learn and
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After serving more than three years in the military, Jillian Schrader now studies international relations and global studies. With the help of Student Veterans Association, Schrader is able to be a part of a community of veterans that support each other.
absorb as much knowledge as I can.” Though she’s learning as much as she can, her biggest obstacle since leaving the Air Force is finding a sense of closeness equal to what she felt in the military among her fellow enlistees. With the help of the Student Veterans Association, that transition is becoming a little bit easier. The SVA is a student organization that helps veterans build a
social network and connect with available resources on campus. Upon learning Shrader would be coming to UT, the SVA reached out to her before orientation. Shrader said their interest was integral to her happiness on campus. “Before I got overwhelmed by everything happening at orientation, I knew these people had my back,” Shrader said. Daniel Leach, SVA
president and electrical engineering graduate student, said the organization works to strengthen the lives of veterans on campus by helping them find that sense of camaraderie they felt in military. “Our number one goal is to build a better community on campus, where our veterans can support each other,” Leach said. “We want to connect them with resources available and
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RZA, Paul Banks fail to blend rock, rap By Chris Duncan @chr_dunc
It’s impossible to say Interpol fans didn’t see a RZA-Paul Banks collaboration coming a mile away. Not only have the two been working together for half a decade, Paul Banks’ solo career leans heavily on hip-hop influences, as made evident on his 2013 mixtape Everybody On My Dick Like They Supposed To Be. But now that their debut, Anything But Words, is finally here, the two, known collectively as Banks & Steelz, act like amateurs rather than genre leaders, emulating the popular bits of their previous sounds and incorporating newer mainstream trends to create a relatively uneventful LP. Dependent solely on the names of the band’s members, Anything But Words could be a revival of rap rock, a genre that, with the exception of Rage Against Anything But Words, the RZAPaul Banks collaboration’s debut album, feels more like two amateurs emulating the popular bits of their previous sounds.
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the Machine, never lived up to its potential. Considering its five years in the making, this LP should have more than the necessary time to craft an enjoyable listen. With any collaboration, especially one of this magnitude, there’s an expected sense of teamwork. Although the album may have moments where the two come together to create one fluid motion, most songs feel like fan-made mashups rather than fully fleshed out songs. The album kicks off with, “Giant,” a song that meanders aimlessly during RZA’s verses and realigns itself with a tale of the classic David and Goliath story. The track is intended to be a braggadocios and asserting moment, establishing Banks & Steelz as a premier duo. Instead, the track’s verses ramble without any purpose with bars such as “See me like milk and Oreos / Dipped inside
the audio.” RZA was never the most effective rapper, but he spends the entirety of his mic time on “Giant” setting up one-liners and then delivering them to shakey results. After the novelty of this wears away, “Giant” is an incredibly boring experience. If you don’t turn the album off after the opener, the following five tracks have an almost identical pattern — RZA loses his way in the lyrics, the choruses attempt to become anthemic, rinse and repeat. Even a surprising Florence Welch feature on the album’s fifth track, “Wild Season,” can’t raise the bar. It’s not until “Conceal” that Banks and RZA break out for a momentary glimmer of hope, premiering an eclectic, free-flowing beat that makes the song worth a listen. The guitar solo by Banks at the end of the song heightens the excitement, only for it to fade away leaving the listener wanting more.
The remaining five songs on Anything But Words never reach the level of “Conceal.” By the end of one listen, the album feels more like a grasp at fame and success than a genuine passion project. After all, Banks hasn’t released a lauded project since 2004, and you’d have to go back even further to 1997 to find RZA’s last relevant album. Although the two stand as pillars of their respective genres, together they don’t make good music — Anything But Words is an uneventful listen and pales in comparison to the energy and empowered music of rap rock giants such as Rage Against the Machine and 311. Whether or not the two have completely stalled artistically is beyond this album, but based solely on Anything But Words, Banks & Steelz isn’t worth your time.
RATING: 3/10
that happens through the informal mentorship.” This semester, they officially opened their membership to non-veterans. Vice president Derek Moniz said they did so in order for veterans and non-veterans to see their similarities as students. “We’re alike in so many other ways,” government senior Moniz said. “There’s a lot more likeness than there is difference.” Shrader hopes that
staying busy in Austin and at school will aid her transition. A Wisconsin native, Shrader fell in love with Austin when she was on assignment in San Angelo, Texas, in 2014. “My favorite part has to be, at this point, being around the University and the capitol,” Shrader said. “For me, that’s just such a cool experience — to be so close to these changeproducing and policyproducing institutions.”
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continues from page 1 a disproportionate percentage of working class women of color also influenced her decision. Mejia began to explore other options like homebirth and was referred to a local midwife by Mama Sana/Vibrant Woman. After delivering a healthy child, Mejia began working as the communications director for the organization to help other women through their pregnancies. “Mama Sana tries to support and organize around moms and working class moms,” Mejia said. “Certain people get treated better than other people especially when they’re pregnant. I kind of realized that all of these things were real and decided I didn’t want to have my baby in the hospital.” Mama Sana/Vibrant Woman hopes that an effort to break out of the traditional medical system will combat high rates of infant and maternal mortality rates and give the community and familial support to women of color that otherwise wouldn’t have it. For Coleman, changing the numbers means changing the environment rather than blaming women for the circumstances that they are in. “It just bothers me the way that people will talk about medical science in this particular way, but not acknowledge the social circumstances that people are living under that affect their health outcomes,” Coleman said. “People try to quantify racism to make scientists happy, but if you have outcomes that are divided by race, how do you make that make sense?” After working in a clinic as a registered nurse for a few years, former Longhorn and Mama Sana/Vibrant Woman’s operations and
We’re just trying to let women know that they have options when it comes to birthing their children and that they should be treated with respect no matter who they are. —Bianca Flores, Operations and administrations manager
administration manager, Bianca Flores said she wanted to be able to interact on a more emotional level with patients. She recognizes that although the traditional model has its benefits, it can often make expectant mother feel isolated and alone. Flores said that one of Mama Sana’s goals is to help educate women on their prenatal and postpartum options through group information sessions as well as personalized, one-on-one support. All services offered by Mama Sana/Vibrant Woman are availbale for little to no costs. “We’ve overly medicalized things and sometimes the outcomes can be worse because people feel very alienated and don’t feel comfortable,” Flores said. “For me, seeing that and working in that system firsthand, I see the importance of non-medical models and the limitations of it, and the power and importance of non-medical models.” Above all else Mama Sana/Vibrant Women hopes to give women of color a sense of agency and let expectant mothers know that they don’t have to follow the same beaten path of orthodox pregnancy clinics. “We’re just trying to let women know that they have options when it comes to birthing their children and that they should be treated with respect no matter who they are,” Flores said.