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Study links subsidies to health risks

By Jasleen Shokar @jasleenshokar

Increased consumption of calories from food subsidized by the federal government may increase the chances of diabetes, heart diseases or stroke, according to a study by the American Medical Association.

The study states healthier food options are often more expensive than commodities subsidized by the government, which limits access to lower-income households and beneficiaries of food assistance programs.

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professor at the LBJ School of Public Affairs, said cost and availability are important factors in the current lack of consumption of healthier foods.

“It’s much cheaper to buy bad food than it is to buy good food, that’s the problem,” Patel said. “It is important for us to consume more fresh fruit and vegetables, but the way the market currently stands we don’t produce enough.”

Lindsay Wilson, a dietitian in UT’s Division of Housing and Food Service, says when considering food options, DHFS has to be mindful of the cost.

“A fantastic healthy quinoa brand may have terms such as ‘local’ and ‘non-GMO,’ but if we are paying $50 a pound, we may look for something with a more competitive price range so we don’t pass off that additional cost to students,” Wilson said.

Darla Stewart, DHFS purchasing projects and procurement associate director, said a purchasing agent is always spinning several plates at the same time when finding room in the budget for healthier options.

“If I can leverage with one

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A Department of Housing and Food Services employee prepares plates for students at J2 Dining Hall. DHFS has partnerships with local farms.

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Travis County Constable Sally Hernandez hope to change immigration policies for the county. Hernandez said she wants to end the policy that allows people to be detained by Travis County law enforcement if they are wanted by ICE.

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ing prostitutes in the Austin area.

“If our broken immigration system worked, then this man that’s been deported five times would not be out there violating all these women,” Hernandez said. “It

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undocumented immigrants.

Hernandez maintains deportation is a function of what she said is a “flawed immigration system.” She mentioned a recent Austin man who had been deported five times who was assault-

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Travis County Constable Sally Hernandez, the Democratic candidate for Travis County sheriff, is making a vital immigration policy shift for the county, campaigning on the promise that she will no longer detain undocumented immigrants wanted by Immigration Customs Enforcement at the county jail.

Currently, people can be detained by Travis County law enforcement if they are wanted by ICE. Hernandez said she wants to end that policy, separating from current Republican policy and even the Obama administration’s current policy on deportation.

“It’s costing us locally,” Hernandez said. “It’s costing us to house and keep people on civil immigration notices. It’s also costing us our community values and public safety. It’s breaking up families.”

Hernandez’s policy centers around the idea that she will not hold anyone without probable cause. Critics of the policy have said these actions would release criminals back into the community instead of deporting

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just doesn’t work. It’s insanity, it’s the definition of insanity: doing the same thing over and over and hoping it works.”

Hernandez said she wants to bring both sides of the argument to the table to create

a policy regarding detainments.

“When I become sheriff, we are going to bring all the stakeholders together, including those at ICE, and

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With Zika on the rise both in the United States and abroad, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention responded this summer with a series of grants to specific states and counties to increase public awareness and track possible birth defects, specifically microcephaly.

Zika is a disease that manifests in symptoms such as fever, rash and joint pain. There is no vaccine or treatment for Zika, and many who are infected do not show symptoms.

Zika is transmitted mostly through mosquito bites but can also be spread to a sexual partner.

According to Chris Van Deusen, spokesperson for the Texas Department of State Health Services, the state has received about $6 million in federal aid to fight Zika.

Babies born to mothers who have contracted Zika are at risk for microcephaly, a birth defect that affects a baby’s brain size. One of the grants from the CDC provides money to better combat this issue, according to Van Deusen.

“We look into hospital records and look for birth defects,” Van Deusen said. “[The grant] will enhance our ability to do this much more quickly.”

Van Deusen said the largest portion of the money went to a public awareness campaign dedicated to helping citizens protect themselves from mosquitoes that could carry Zika.

“It’s important they know how to protect themselves, particularly for travelers, pregnant women and people who work outdoors who

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NATIONAL

Self-defense classes see States encounter campus carry accidents increase in enrollment

By Van Nguyen

By Paul Cobler @paulcobler

Students roll across a mat in the bowels of Darrel K Royal Stadium as the smell of sweat and the sound of instructor Adam Preble’s voice fill the air.

Preble is teaching Aikido, a modern Japanese martial art and self-defense technique, at the UT Aikido Club, the oldest club of its kind in Austin.

“We want to teach self defense, motor control and being able to stay dynamic in a stressful situation,” Preble said.

Preble said over the past year, the size of the classes has almost quadrupled.

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He also said he has noticed more women attending classes since the April murder of UT freshman Haruka Weiser.

“A few years ago, we would have been lucky to have 10 people in the first class,” Preble said. “This year we had 40.”

Chemical engineering sophomore Teresa Wang said she has always been interested in martial arts, but Weiser’s murder motivated her to attend her first class.

“After that event it was like, ‘Oh that was something I was already interested in and now it has this added bonus to keep me

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Texas is not the first state to have concealed weapons in college classrooms, and in other states with campus carry, the controversy behind the law has died down, accompanied only by minor gun-related accidents at some universities.

Texas became the eighth state to sign legislation allowing concealed carry on campus last year.

Since it was introduced, Gun Free UT, an anticampus carry organization, has said accidental discharges are one of the concerns they have with guns on campus since incidents have occurred at

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other universities.

“The International Association of Campus Law Enforcement Administrators took a position in 2008 coming out against carry on college campuses, noting in their paper there isn’t any credible evidence

that carrying concealed guns will reduce violence on campus,” said Hannah Shearer, staff attorney at the Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence. “Conversely, there’s an increased potential for accidental discharge or misuse of guns.”

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Nicholas Roland, U.S. history doctorate candidate, has a license to conceal carry and says modern handguns can’t just go off on their own.

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due to the fact that so many college students heavily abuse drugs and alcohol,” Hendrickson said. “Having a community of students that are specifically trying not to do drugs and alcohol could really benefit some students.”

Hendrickson’s personal experiences over the years with law enforcement, heroin dependency and finally with sobriety play a tremendous part in his message. He said meeting other students that made it out of situations much like his own continues to play a very real role in his ongoing sobriety.

“I honestly think the sooner you can nip the problem in the butt, the better,” Hendrickson said. “I had to go through … almost 10 years of some really tough times. I had tried things my way long enough, and it wasn’t working. I was ready

for some direction, so I came into the [CSR office] and for the first time in all my life I feel like a productive member of society.”

The CRS offers many other opportunities for students to find like-minded individuals, including the Sober Tailgate, which provides a alcohol-free environment for students and families before football games.

“The [Sober Tailgate] is a highly attended event,” CSR program coordinator John Harris said. “Alcohol is so pervasive on college campuses … but this is an opportunity for families to come out and enjoy [themselves].”

CRS assistant director Sierra Castedo said the main goal of all of the center’s programs is to help normalize the process of recovery.

“Addiction is this chronic disease, but the amazing thing is that … a whole lot of people get better from it,” Castedo said. “In this town, we have a humongous population of people in recovery and of young people in recovery. Recovery is a normal part of life experience that many people are touched by. The experience of it feels really miraculous, but it’s a miracle that a lot of people have experienced.”

company, say our compostable plate company, those savings can be reinvested into the food,” Stewart said.

DFHS, which operates on a budget of around $8 million a year, does not receive University or state funding for food services and is able to make independent purchasing decisions.

“We have a partnership with a farmer, and we do have a lot of local produce, we buy as much as we can locally,” Stewart said.

Stewart says local partnerships can also help secure the safety of the food purchased.

“A benefit from buying local happened when the large national recalls happened on spinach and eggs, we were not affected by either recall,” Stewart said. “Even though ours may be a few pennies more per case, we trust the source.”

Plan II senior Ariella Noorily said in an email one out of every five students at UT has experienced some form of low food security, but DFHS assists these students well.

“This gives students living on campus the ability to buy healthier food options at lower prices,” Noorily said. “However, off-campus students who are suffering from low food security traditionally do not have access to the benefits of the dine-in dollar program because it was created specifically for on-campus students.”

Noorily, a member of the Texas Orange Jackets’ spring 2016 tap class, helped create a fund called Food SecureUT which aims to alleviate hunger on campus.

“This fund, which is run through Student Emergency Services, will provide money in the form of dine-in dollars for students who need assistance but do not live on campus,” Noorily said.

“Hopefully this will allow all students to take advantage of the low-cost healthy food that our University has to offer.”

preparation we can,” Van Deusen said. “We know that’s a real possibility here. If there is a local case or multiple local cases, we would need some additional resources to respond to that.”

According to Carole Barasch, spokesperson for the Travis County Health and Human Services Department, the county didn’t receive any direct funding from the federal level or state level.

“Our department has not received any Zika dedicated funds from the Texas Department of State Health Services nor the CDC,” Barasch said in

an email.

Three people have tested positive for Zika virus in Austin and Travis County.

“We anticipate that local transmission of Zika virus may also occur in Austin/Travis County,” said Shannon Jones, director of the Travis County Health and Human Services Department, in a statement.

“We do not think that it will be as widespread as has been seen in Brazil and Central and South America. Because of very different living conditions, including screened-in homes, air conditioning, and

less crowded housing, we anticipate that if we see local transmission, it may be in small, clustered areas.”

At UT, the focus surrounding Zika remains on raising awareness about how students and faculty can avoid contracting the disease, especially for students who travel abroad.

“We provide travel counseling for students who travel abroad,” said Susan Hochman, spokesperson for University Health Services. “But prevention is not just for traveling abroad. It’s about protecting themselves, as well as

protecting other people.”

Hochman said students who travel abroad must keep in mind that protecting those around them is key, which is especially important since many who contract Zika do not show symptoms and therefore do not realize they have the illness.

“Whether it’s a sexual partner or if you brought back Zika and then got bit by more mosquitoes, it’s about protecting others,” Hochman said. “If you come back from a Zikainfected area, protection is still important when you return.”

not in a holster, and it went off while it was in the professor’s pocket.

Idaho’s campus carry law went into effect in July 2014, and at the time, college and university presidents opposed it. Stuart Summers, associate vice president for marketing and communications at ISU, said the controversy surrounding the law on campus has faded.

“It’s died down signifi-

cantly,” Summers said. “In the beginning we had people concerned and misinformation. Now we’ve had a few years to wrap our heads around it.”

The UT campus carry policy states a license holder must carry their handgun in a holster that completely covers the trigger and the entire trigger guard area at all times. The holster must have sufficient grip on the handgun

to retain it in the holster when subjected to unexpected jostling.

At the University of Idaho, there has not been a significant safety issue relating to concealed handguns aside from one incident, according to Matt Dorschel, executive director of public safety and security at the University of Idaho.

“We have had one incident [where] a person that had a concealed firearm inadvertently showed the firearm,” Dorschel said to The Daily Texan over the summer. “They were bent over and someone else observed the firearm.”

According to University policy, it is illegal to display a firearm anywhere on UT campus, and if a firearm is seen on campus, UTPD should be called immediately. The handgun must be on the owner at all times or secured in their car, where it should be hidden.

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UT and the Center for Students in Recovery are initiating a new project called Healthy Lifestyles Living Learning Community to support students who have started their journey to permanent sobriety.

The University has allocated 12 spots at the Moore-Hill Dormitory for the first iteration of this project, which will assign sober roommates to incoming freshmen with at least six months of sobriety under their belt, beginning fall 2017.

Public health junior Garrett Hendrickson said he is soon to be nine months sober after drug problems that pulled him away from his academics for eight years.

“I think [the program] is an extremely important initiative

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Van Deusen also said that some federal money went toward increasing lab capacity for Zika testing and training local departments for appropriate Zika outbreak responses.

If a major outbreak of Zika occurred in Texas, Van Deusen said, the State would need more money to handle the situation.

“We’re certainly still planning and making all the

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Michael Eric Dyson, an author and professor at Georgetown University, spoke to students Thursday evening at the LBJ School.

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safe,’” Wang said. “It gives me even more incentive to come.”

Peter Baxter, mechanical engineering sophomore and a regular member of the club, said Aikido not only teaches him how to defend himself, but may have saved him from serious injury when he was hit by a car several weeks ago.

While Baxter was biking, he was hit in the side by a

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Michael Eric Dyson, an author and professor at Georgetown University, explained Thursday night how President Barack Obama and American society have denied mounting racial tensions.

“We live in a United States of amnesia because we live in forgetfulness,” Dyson said.

“You got to join with people of color and others and say we no longer want this to occur.”

His book “The Black Presidency: Barack Obama and the Politics of Race in America” examines how Obama, America’s first black president, has interpreted and reacted to frequent racially charged events during his terms.

Dyson, a New York Times op-ed contributor and sociology professor, said Obama has been too lax on racial conflicts because he wants to appeal to the white majority.

“He lives in a culture where he must not exacerbate the racial tension by pointing to all of it,” Dyson said. “Should he have spoken about race, many white brothers would’ve been outraged.”

In a talk that ranged from vocal outrage to light-hearted impersonations, Dyson elicited claps, laughter and head nods in agreement. He said

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It is not about individual bigotry, it’s about institutional racism.

Institutional racism does not need you to hate people.”

—Michael Eric Dyson, Author and professor

racism is a broader, more powerful concept than everyday instances.

“It is not about individual bigotry, it’s about institutional racism,” Dyson said. “Institutional racism does not need you to hate people.”

The lecture concluded with a Q&A session in which audience members asked Dyson about his views ranging from Obama’s public policy to social media.

Dyson disapproved of filming unarmed black males being shot by white police, labeling them “snuff films.” Adding to the topic of social media, an audience member asked Dyson how he felt about social activism in the modern world.

“Don’t think because you tweeted something that makes you a social activist,” Dyson said.

The Center for the Study of Race and Democracy, a part of the Lyndon B. Johnson’s School of Public Affairs, host-

ed the lecture.

The center’s founding director Peniel Joseph said he was familiar with Dyson’s books on subjects such as politics, feminism, race and identity and recognizes Dyson as a critic of subjects from American culture to political figures.

“The genius of it is making it all into a coherent whole,” Joseph said. “He’s one of those scholars and intellectuals whose in the tradition of [W.E.B.] Du Bois and Ida B. Wells.”

Education doctoral candidate Devin Walker teaches an applied learning and development class, and said Dyson inspired him to urge his students to be more active in their society.

“I want to push them a little bit harder and make them more uncomfortable in class so that they’re forced to recognize some of the inequities here,” Walker said.

car, and he credits the forward roll he learned in class with his ability to escape serious injury.

“I got hit and went flying off my bike, but I was able to tuck into a forward roll and spread out the impulse,” Baxter said. “I really utilized the principles that come with Aikido.”

Aikido focuses on protecting oneself in a variety of situations, while also harmonizing with ‘Ki,’ what Preble describes as a model for quickly

understanding and working with conflict.

“It’s a fluid, grappling kind of art,” Preble said.

“We want to teach people not to just punch somebody in the face, which gives you the benefit of being able to fight against somebody you might not necessarily want to hurt. Most sexual assaults happen with people they know.”

The UT Aikido Club hosts beginning, intermediate and advanced classes several times a week.

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continues from page 1 we are going to develop a fair and equitable policy,” Hernandez said.

Hernandez’s policy differs from her Republican opponent, private investigator Joe Martinez, who opposes ending ICE detainments.

“I understand that there’s millions of people coming to this country trying to find a better life,” Martinez said at a forum last February. “But if you obey our laws, then nobody is going to bother you.”

Unlike her GOP opponent, Hernandez also argues detaining undocumented immigrants for ICE actually affects public safety negatively.

Hernandez talked about a man who was attacked, stuffed into the trunk of a car and pushed into a lake.

Hernandez said the man didn’t tell the police because he feared the police more.

Because of situations like these, Hernandez said she hopes she will be able to enact the policy without pushback from GOP leadership, such as Gov. Greg Abbott.

“I hope not, because honestly I’m doing the right thing for the right reason,” Hernandez said. “I am hopeful that they realize we do need to promote public safety. We need to get victims coming forward, it’s breaking down the cooperation that we in law enforce-

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Constable Sally Hernandez is the Democratic candidate for sheriff who wants to end the controversial detaining of undocumented immigrants who committing crimes.

ment desperately need.”

The University Leadership Initiative, an organization of undocumented UT students, asserts criminal charges and immigration charges should be separate.

“Under Sheriff Hamilton, Austin was known for deporting an estimated 19 people per week through the Secure Communities program,” said Sheridan

Lagunas-Aguirre, ULI operations coordinator and radio-television-film senior. “We simply cannot allow our immigrant community to live in a city where they are in fear of a deportation pipeline. No matter how or when we immigrated, we are here to stay, and our county must be humane in its treatment of immigrants.”

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Unlike Paxton, SG supports gender inclusivity

By Jordan Shenhar

Daily Texan Forum Editor @jshenhar

This week’s Texan Forum, inspired both by recent Student Government legislation and a nationwide political discussion that grabbed headlines this summer, focuses on transgender and transsexual rights.

Back in March, North Carolina passed a controversial bill that requires people to use the public restrooms which align with their sex at birth, rather than with their gender identity. The ensuing uproar drove a wedge between the state’s political officials and its business community — most notably, the NBA moved its 2017 All-Star Game from Charlotte to New Orleans in response to the legislation — and endangered the reelection prospects of Gov. Pat McCrory (R-NC).

Meanwhile, activists have spent much of the past year drawing attention to violence committed against transgender individuals. And in May, the Department of Education and Department of Justice jointly issued a mandate that would have required all federallyfunded schools to provide transgender students with access to appropriate facilities.

Like many other prominent political issues, the debate over transgender rights has a strong Texas bent. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued the federal government, seeking to block the Obama Administration’s ordinance, and a federal judge sided with him last month, putting the policy on hold pending further

Like many other prominent political issues, the debate over transgender rights has a strong Texas bent. appeal. Paxton has since sued the Department of Health and Human Services, arguing that its guidelines regarding gender-related healthcare access infringe upon religious liberties.

One of our Forum contributors this week, Daily Texan columnist Albert Zhao, examines the validity of Paxton’s claims regarding the cost and constitutionality of the HHS regulations. His conclusion should not come as a surprise to anyone familiar with Paxton’s history of filing legally dubious and politically motivated lawsuits during his first two years in office.

Our guest author this week discusses the issue through a more student-focused lens.

University-Wide Representative Ashley Choi recently co-authored an SG resolution urging UT to continue constructing gender-inclusive single-occupancy bathrooms, 32 of which are already installed on campus. New buildings require at least one such facility every five floors — a goal which should be easy to attain in academic buildings, which often have numerous single-occupancy bathrooms anyway. For more information, be sure to check out Choi’s appearance on this week’s Forum podcast.

As always, the Forum team encourages

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reader feedback, as well as suggestions for which topics and discussions we should highlight in the future. To join the conversation, drop us a line at editor@dailytexanonline.com.

We look forward to hearing from you!

Shenhar is a Plan II, economics, and government senior from Westport, Connecticut. He is the Forum Editor.

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Simple changes could make Paxton’s latest legal challenge UT facilities gender-inclusive threatens transgender rights

By Ashley Choi

SG University Wide Representative

In 2012, my family and I were on a campus tour at UT-Austin accompanying my brother, a prospective student. By the end of the tour, my brother had to use the bathroom, only to realize that there was no gender-inclusive bathroom in the UT Tower that he felt comfortable and safe in. Eventually, my family and I had to walk for 15 to 20 minutes to find a gender-inclusive bathroom available on campus.

As a family member of a prospective transgender student, I quickly became concerned with the lack of accommodation, consideration and inclusion for my brother and those who, like my brother, did not feel comfortable and safe in binary restrooms. The disappointment and exhaustion that my brother felt led to a series of doubts and discouragement from applying to the University of Texas at Austin. As University-Wide Representative and a concerned student, I would like to not only preempt this from discouraging transgender and gender non-conforming prospective students from applying to this institution, but also ensure that safety and inclusion be guaranteed and implemented for current students, faculty and staff.

On-campus LGBTQ advocacy has been a high priority for many, such as Queer Students Alliance and Queer People of Color and Allies, with one common set of goals: creating a safer and more LGBTQ-friendly place for UT students, faculty and staff. However, too many students still face discrimination and fear violence while carrying out their daily tasks, such as using the binary bathroom. Too often, they go through hurdles of bureaucracy, including “confirming” their gender identity, in order to be placed in an on-campus dorm they feel comfortable and safe in. We can enhance the experience of LGBTQ students and expand recruitment and retention in two-fold; first, by implementing a university-wide orientation on LGBTQ issues, and second, by creating a

gender-inclusive campus. The latter involves using preferred names and gender pronouns on University records and creating genderinclusive bathrooms and spaces, a process that can be feasible with a stronger push from the student body.

Presented in the Student Government General Assembly meeting on Sept. 6, AR 6: Incorporating Gender Inclusive Bathrooms in All Preexisting Buildings and AR 7: Gender Inclusive Sign Changes for All Single-use Bathrooms on Campus are crucial steps to readdressing an urgent matter facing many. No one should have to leave the building they are in simply because they need to use a bathroom they feel most comfortable and safe in.

Not only is it more cost-efficient to build gender-inclusive bathrooms than to build binary bathrooms, but UT Standard Template of Owner Requirements also requires every building to include gender-inclusive bathrooms. Incorporating gender-inclusive bathrooms in all preexisting buildings at UTAustin can easily become a reality by simply changing the signs on single-use bathrooms from the currently transphobic and non-inclusive terms of “unisex” and “gender-neutral.”

It has been 10 years since QSA published a report entitled, “The State of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin.” However, the compelling lack of compliance with UT STOR and incorporation of gender-inclusive bathrooms in buildings — which QSA labeled an urgent issue in the 2006 Student Affairs Report — should be a firm reminder to all that inclusion is yet to be fully implemented here at UT-Austin. We as the student body should hold every UT department accountable for its compliance with UT STOR and advocate accountability and safety for our students, faculty and staff.

Choi is an international relations and global studies senior from San Antonio. She is a University Wide Representative in Student Governnent.

By Albert Zhao

Daily Texan Columnist

Shortly after applauding Judge Reed O’Connor’s ruling against the Obama administration directive for transgender bathroom access, Attorney General Ken Paxton helped file another lawsuit against the U.S. government. The suit targeted the Human and Health Service’s definition of sex for encompassing gender identification and forcing states to provide healthcare for transgender Americans. Paxton claimed it would violate “their Hippocratic Oath, their conscience, or their personal religious beliefs.”

After months of Republican opposition of anti-discrimination protections and healthcare policy for transgender people, Paxton’s suit only follows a strenuous slew of litigation that is fraught with false insinuations and presumptions of transgender issues. He ultimately reveals that his focus is not on the pragmatism of transgender health care, but his moral objection to it. As a result, we must stand with the U.S. government.

Paxton claims that the Texan taxpayer is to be solely burdened with the cost of gender transition by obeying the Affordable Care Act. This falsely assumes that by following a federal guideline, this newly insured person would rely on state funding.

On the contrary, in 2013, former Governor Rick Perry refused federal funding that would have covered 100 percent of the newly insured because of his rejection to expand the Medicaid program under the ACA. Texas still refuses federally compensated healthcare coverage from the ACA under Gov. Greg Abbott and remains the state with the most uninsured Americans. Whether a Texas resident agrees or disagrees with gender transitioning, such a person would not even be paying for the procedures to begin with. The money restlessly awaits not only

transgender Americans, but also the other five million Texans who are waiting to receive affordable healthcare.

But one also must question the extraordinary focus Paxton has on this particular medical operation. He argues that the coverage of gender transitioning would violate the medical and religious ethics of certain medical professionals (note that the Christian Medical and Dental Association and Franciscan Alliance are some of the lawsuit’s plaintiffs), and thus, Paxton implies that a mass-shuttering effect will encompass Texas health services and erect too many personal objections.

However, only 100 to 500 sex reassignment surgery cases are estimated to occur a year.

Paxton’s anxiety of the possible mass of personal objections — to an operation that occurs with an annual frequency less than breast implants (or any other body-altering surgery for that matter) — does not make an argument of pervasiveness, but rather targets a specific group of people, a group in this country measured to be 700,000 and growing.

Further examination of his legal complaint itself reveals the incessant concern for one group while an absent understanding of another. On page 14, it laments that for a dissenting physician to grant a patient’s request for gender transitioning was akin to “[turning] the venerable oath to ‘do no harm’ on its head.”

We must instead remind ourselves of the solidarity we share with our fellow transgender peers as U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch eloquently did: “This is about the dignity and respect we accord our fellow citizens and the laws that we, as a people and as a country, have enacted to protect them — indeed, to protect all of us.” To repudiate Paxton’s opposition to this, we should stand with the U.S. government in this case.

Zhao is a government and corporate communications junior from Shanghai, China.

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Austin provides good landscape for movie industry From Richard Linklater’s debut film “Slacker,” released in 1991, to his critically acclaimed film “Boyhood,” the Austin-based director has helped turn the city into a filmmaking powerhouse.

By Penn Harrison @PennHarrison

When Austin’s main airport was moved from Mueller to Bergstrom in 1999, an expanse of empty aircraft hangars was left behind. In them, Austinbased film director Richard Linklater envisioned the future of the city’s film industry.

“Rich was a visionary, he saw a studio,” veteran radio-television-film professor Charles Ramírez Berg said.

Linklater convinced Austin City Council a studio would be a viable economic resource, and his Austin Film Society agreed to run it in exchange for access to the hangars.

Seventeen years later, Austin draws millions of dollars in the form of dozens of corporate and independent film productions each year. With hits such as “True Grit” and “Spy Kids” and indie pictures such as “Boyhood,” not to mention the flocks of celebrities who fly here for SXSW and the Austin Film Festival, Austin has established itself as a film powerhouse.

Two directors constitute the core of the city’s vibrant film community: Linklater and alumnus Robert Rodriguez, who now houses his studio, Rooster Teeth Productions, on the same former airport site as Linklater’s. After breakout independent successes such as Linklater’s “Slacker” and

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Rodriguez’s “El Mariachi,” others might have moved away to Los Angeles to continue filming and making names for themselves.

But Linklater and Rodriguez stayed in Austin.

Ramírez Berg, who taught Rodriguez, said this decision was a bold move.

But it was far from Linklater’s last. In 1985, he founded the Austin Film Society for local film enthusiasts, filmmakers and industry organizers. This further jump-started Austin’s indie production industry.

“If you wanted to see a film, if you wanted to make a film, if you wanted to get together with people and make a film — all of that had a center with the Austin Film Society,” Ramírez Berg said.

Geography professor Robin Doughty attributes Austin’s film popularity not only to its talented community, but its location. Austin has different landscapes, with hill country to the west, blackland prairies and forests to the east, diverse rural landscapes on its periphery and a bustling city center.

Radio-television-film professor Kathryn Fuller-Seeley said the advantageous landscape is not the only reason the city is a popular filming location. “[Austin] has a synergy of talent between a really awesome town, really talented people and a great program that gave people the opportunity to study and make connections,” Fuller-Seeley said.

Ramírez Berg said while these aforementioned factors are important, it’s the local film community’s

team spirit that makes it a great place to make movies.

“Filmmaking here is communal [and] supportive,” Ramirez-Berg said. “Whereas in Hollywood, for every job, there’s 50,000 people who want it and will run you over to get it. [Austin] is not cutthroat, it’s not backstabbing — if you want to make a movie, let’s make a movie.”

Without corporate anchors, this openness comes with a price. Fuller-Seeley said students shouldn’t take the local industry for granted.

“Austin’s film and creative business needs to keep being nurtured,” Fuller-Seeley said.

“Support local filmmakers, go to festivals and don’t be afraid to shoot films.”

This enthusiasm drives the community support at the core of the city’s film success. That’s why despite topping box office charts and standing on Academy Award stages, Linklater, Rodriguez and, most famously, Matthew McConaughey, have stayed in town — for them, there’s no place like home.

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Eastwood does eventually take us to the crash, presenting it first from an outsider’s perspective, then from within the cockpit. Doing so leaves it up in the air whether Sully made the best

decisions, although history outright shows us he did.

Nonetheless, you’ll forget what you know when Eastwood sucks you in with his fine direction. Every moment of the crash sequences, from the pilots’ tense realization that their plane is doomed

to the cathartic crash in the water, unfolds perfectly.

The fear in these scenes is palpable.

During the rescue of the passengers, “Sully” noticeably strays from its subject on occasion to show the uniformed men and women

of New York rushing to the aid of the crashed flight as well. Ferry workers, air traffic controllers, paramedics and police officers all play a part, shouldering the lives of Sully’s passengers once he has finished his job. It’s heartening to watch New

York’s finest coming together, and “Sully” is very much an ode to them as well.

Cheesy on occasion but nonetheless goodhearted and inspiring, “Sully” is a feel-good movie that sits comfortably among Eastwood’s finer works.

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Bedford focuses on nation’s leading rusher

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By Michael Shapiro @mshap2

Texas’ victory over No. 18 Notre Dame on Sunday brought more fans than ever to Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium. A record 102,315 fans packed into the stands, witnessing the Longhorn’s 50-47 victory.

Saturday’s battle with UTEP will provide a quieter atmosphere than opening night. But don’t tell that to Texas.

The Longhorns are eschewing the hoards of praise thrown their way over the past week — most notably Texas’ No. 11 ranking in the AP poll — and focusing solely on their matchup with the Miners. “[We] have to block out all the extra noise,” head coach Charlie Strong said. “We just have to stay within ourselves, stay focused, stay driven, and I think we’ll be alright if we do that.”

Not every aspect of the Longhorn’s upset victory in week one went smoothly.

Texas gave up 444 yards of offense and 33 points after halftime. Notre Dame junior quarterback DeShone Kizer torched the Longhorns to the tune of six touchdowns—five passing and one rushing — and kept Texas on their toes throughout the evening.

But the Longhorn’s biggest challenge on Saturday won’t come from UTEP’s signal caller. It will come from the Miners’ backfield.

UTEP sports one of the nation’s best running backs in redshirt junior Aaron Jones.

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Sophomore Chris Nelson wraps up Notre Dame senior running back Tarean Folston in Texas’ 50-47 win Sunday. Nelson was the Big 12 Defensive Player of the week with eight tackles, but he’ll have his hands full against UTEP redshirt junior Aaron Jones.

and weighing 215 pounds, Jones hits the hole with a vengeance, inviting contact from oncoming defenders.

The El Paso native excels in the open field, where he lowers his pad level and unleashes a lethal stiff arm.

Jones reintroduced himself to the nation in week one after missing much of 2015 with a foot injury. Aa a member of the 2016 Doak Walker Award watch list — given to the nation’s top college running back — Jones rumbled for 249 yards and two touchdowns on 31 carries in the Miners’ opener.

“I don’t care who you’re going against, [Jones] rushed for 249 yards,” defensive coordinator Vance Bedford said. “He’s 215 pounds, he’s wide, he’s quick, he runs downhill, he rushed for 249 yards … I woke up at three o’clock in the morning thinking about how we can slow this cat down.”

Texas’ defensive line will be tasked with slowing the nation’s leading rusher down.

The Longhorns flaunt a trio of defensive tackles who weigh over 295 pounds in senior Paul Boyette, junior Poona Ford and sophomore

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Chris Nelson. The three look to consistently break through the UTEP offensive line to stop Jones.

Nelson is coming off a standout performance against Notre Dame. He earned Big 12 Defensive Player of the Week honors after compiling eight tackles and 1.5 tackles for loss on Sunday night. After recording just seven tackles in all of 2015, Nelson has developed into an anchor of Texas’ defensive front.

“I’m just filling in my role, trying to better myself,” Nelson said. “I had a lot of

players ahead of me [last season], so I had to take the back role and key in on certain things.”

Sunday’s victory over Notre Dame set the tone for Strong’s third season in Austin. But to the Longhorns, it was just one victory — one that will mean little if Texas falters against UTEP on Saturday.

“It’s just one game,” Bedford said. “It’s great that everyone’s loving us right now and it’s versus Notre Dame.

There’s no one that could be more excited than me … but it’s one game.”

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White’s surge ignites Longhorn win streak

By Steve Helwick @naqwerty3

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The Longhorns lost to No. 12 California on Sunday, but senior defenseman Isabelle Kerr and the Texas defense hasn’t allowed more than one goal in any game this season.

Texas moves past tough defeat, looks to pick up road victories

By Trenton Daeschner @TrentDaeschner

Texas enters this weekend’s slate of competition fresh off Sunday’s bitter loss to No. 12 California, when the Longhorns fell on a controversial free kick goal in the 68th minute.

The team hits the road for the first time this season, facing its second-straight top-25 opponent on Friday against No. 19 Ohio State and Miami Ohio on Sunday.

“The first road trip is always exciting,” senior defender Isabelle Kerr said.

“The freshmen haven’t experienced it before, and it’s a great time to bond. We’re really excited to get to play another ranked opponent.

We feel very confident after playing Cal. We felt like we competed with them and had a chance to win, so we’re very excited for the trip.”

The Longhorns (3-2) aren’t holding their heads low. Texas hung with California for the majority of the match, sending 10 shots at the California net. Junior

defender Monique Iannella said she believes it was a game to build on.

“I feel like we’re just at the start of our peak,” Iannella said. “Everyone’s playing together really well. We’re connecting well. We’re bonding really well as a team, so I’m really looking forward to traveling away with this team.”

The Longhorn offense has been a force to reckon with so far this season. They rank second in the Big 12 in goals per game, having scored 13 through their first five matches. But the defense has also got the job done, allowing just four goals — never more than one in a match.

Texas’ back line features three newcomers to the program this season, including freshmen Emma Jett and Atu Mshana, as well as Iannella, who hails from Australia. She came to the Longhorns in the offseason after playing professional soccer in Australia for three seasons. “[The defense has] bonded super fast, which is

awesome,” Kerr said. “A back line needs to have chemistry, and I feel like all of us are just connecting and communicating and organizing one another. We always talk about how we have each other’s backs, so that’s just been huge so far.”

This weekend’s road trip provides another opportunity for the team to continue to build that chemistry.

Head coach Angela Kelly said the experiences created on the road are invaluable to a team.

“Anytime you have the opportunity to travel means you spend a lot of quality time with your teammates and the staff,” Kelly said. “I think the chemistry on our team is exceptional at the moment. As a staff, we’re truly enjoying spending time with this group of players. They’re very coachable, the leadership is great and they’re very excited to get better and better each and every day.”

Texas faces Ohio State on Friday at 4 p.m. and Miami Ohio on Sunday at noon.

Although No. 3 Texas is loaded with several returning players from last year’s Final Four team, freshman outside hitter Micaya White has emerged as a key player in Texas’ recent four-game win streak.

The Frisco native claimed Big 12 Freshman of the Week honors Monday, becoming the first Longhorn to earn the honor since Yaasmeen BedartGhani last November. She also ranks second on the team in kills with 73 but continues to strive for a higher level of play.

“I am just trying to compete at a high level, and I’m just taking it match-by-match,” White said. “It shows that I’m adjusting and my team is helping me a lot. I’m learning from my teammates and they’re supporting me right now.”

Behind White’s emergence, Texas picked up four home victories and three consecutive sweeps since the team fell to No. 1 Nebraska on opening weekend. The Longhorns look for similar success against Colorado State in Fort Collins, Colorado, this week. They face the Rams on Friday night at 8 p.m. “[Coach Jerritt Elliott] tries to make us have the same mentality as if we would at home,” White said. “We have

the same preparation and the same routine, which is really important — trying to get into something daily and not change it.”

Excluding neutral site games, the program has won 31 out of 32 road games since 2013. The lone defeat occurred in Fort Worth last October when the Longhorns fell to TCU, 3-0.

Texas swept the Rams 3-0 in Austin in 2015. Colorado State has struggled in the head-to-head series; the Rams are winless in seven matches against Texas over the span of 32 years.

Colorado State is 4–2 this season. The Rams won their first four matches but dropped their last two, including a 3-0 sweep to UC Santa Barbara.

The Longhorns move on to face Wichita State (3–2) on Saturday. The Shockers lost to Big 12 foe Iowa State in their opener and will face Texas for the first time since 2013, where the Longhorns won 3-2.

Texas has two non-conference matches remaining after this weekend before the competition intensifies midseason.

“I think we will continue by taking it point-by-point and game-by-game,” White said. “It’s been helping us a lot, not worrying about the next game, but just taking each game as an opportunity to get better.”

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Freshman outside hitter Micaya White received Big 12 Freshman of the Week honors last week.

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SPORTS BRIEFLY Nation’s No. 1 recruit to visit Austin

Five-star recruit Megan Walker will take her official visit to Texas this weekend, she confirmed Thursday. The guard is listed as the nation’s top recruit on ESPN’s top-100 ranking.

Walker has narrowed her top schools down to Texas, Notre Dame and Connecticut and is expected to make her decision at the end of September following her official visits, according to ESPN. The 6-foot-1-inch wing from Monocan High School in Chesterfield, Virginia, averaged 21.4 points and 8.2 rebounds during her junior season. She led the Chiefs to their second-straight state championship in March.

Walker was also a member of USA Basketball’s under-18 team this summer. She scored 12 points and dished out four assists in the team’s 102-69 victory over Canada in the gold medal game.

Head coach Karen Aston brought in the nation’s No. 3 recruiting class this year, according to ESPN. com. She penned Joyner Holmes from Cedar Hill – the No. 2 player in the 2016 class.

Even if Walker doesn’t commit to Texas, her visit to the 40 Acres keeps Aston’s recruiting momentum rolling.

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Sax and the city: UT sophomore showcases talent

By Carlos Garcia @brolos95

The homeless man coughing, the uproar of car horns and the whir of hurried pedestrians make up the Drag’s soundtrack. Among the noise, jazz performance sophomore Andre Reed plays his saxophone on Guadalupe Street.

Reed has been playing sax since he was 11 and has no intention of slowing down.

“I can think about anything while I’m playing the sax, but the time that it feels the best is whenever I’m angry,” Reed said. “Whenever that moment happens, I’m really glad to have a saxophone in my hands. You can’t really go out on a street and scream because you’re angry. You can, however, go out on the street and wail on a sax. It’s the rawest way to express my emotions.”

Reed started playing on the street this summer. The only live shows he hadplayed before were for high school band competitions.

“Sometimes you just got to go out and do it,” Reed said. “Whenever I go out and play, I feel scared. That fear is always going to be out there, but you can’t let it affect you.” of Recently, Reed quit his job at a telemarketing agenan cy and has since focused e on perfecting his craft. He e hopes a window opens up him along the way. in for“I’m just trying to practice h and wait for time to pass,” Reed said. “I’m waiting for opportunities to come.”

When passersby approach him on the street, Reed tells them he hopes to one day play for a live audience that shares his love

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Jazz studies sophomore Andre Reed practices jazz outside of Madam Mam’s. Although Reed just recently started playing on the street, he hopes one day to play music professionally.

for jazz.

“I play at the HEB at Hyde Park all the time,” Reed said. “It’s always nice to play for an older audience because they have a deeper appreciation for jazz.”

Music studies sophomore Jose Flores, one of the Reed’s closest friends, said he believes his talents and passion will make him successful. Flores said he thinks a true musician is more than an instrumentalist and that Reed fits

this classification.

Flores, who met Reed during their freshman year, often jams out in Reed’s apartment. While he said Reed is talented in music production and playing the drums, the thing he admires most is Reed’s passion. This summer, Flores noticed a correlation between the emotional messages in Reed’s Facebook posts and his music.

“It’s powerful,” Flores said. “It’s passionate.”

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Tom Hanks takes on the role of Captain Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger as he relives the events that came to be known as the “Miracle on the Hudson.”

Clint Eastwood’s film ‘Sully’ attains shaky but stable flight

By Charles Liu

January 15, 2009. US Airways Flight 1549 flies through a flock of geese and blows out both engines. Captain Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger (Tom Hanks) turns the aircraft back to La Guardia Airport. But he’s not going to make it; the plane doesn’t have enough altitude. It rapidly descends into New York City and slams into a building.

Sully awakens from his nightmare. He’s still breathing — and heavily.

Clint Eastwood doesn’t portray the actual crash of Flight 1549 on the Hudson until much later in “Sully.”

While the event looms over the rest of the plot, mostly through lengthy flashbacks, the film is more concerned with its subject’s inner doubts and his

sudden celebrity.

Captain Sully replays the crash in his head, unable to shake the sinking feeling that perhaps his best just wasn’t good enough.

Maybe, he fears, he had in fact endangered the lives of everyone on that flight — a question other people are asking, too.

Thus, Captain Sully’s biggest challenge isn’t rescuing the other 154 people aboard his plane, but emerging unscathed from a career-threatening National Transport Safety Board investigation. The NTSB believes Sully acted improperly, citing computer simulations that showed the plane could’ve landed in New York or New Jersey on a tarmac.

The board members are a cartoonishly cruel bunch; it’s almost as if they want the good captain stripped of his wings. They treat

You can’t really go out on a street and scream because you’re angry. You can, however, go out on the street and wail on a sax. It’s the rawest way to express my emotions.

—Andre Reed, Jazz performace sophomore

“If there is anything that I would value above a lot of things, it’s hard work. Being here at UT, I’m getting a lot of hard work done,” Reed said. “I’m getting a

lot of networking done here at UT, and being in classes with aspiring musicians gives me a sense of community.”

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Jazz studies professor John Mills said Reed is in the transitioning phase between playing music as a hobby and making a career out of it.

“Everyone has their particular strengths when coming to the University,” Mills said. “When it comes to Andre, his music is engaging and his sound is warm and personal.”

Reed said he still has many things he wants to accomplish during his time at UT.

“SULLY” Rating: PG-13 Running Time: 96 minutes Score:

Sully and his wisecracking co-pilot, Jeff Skiles (Aaron Eckhart), with unearned hostility, making them look pig-headed for no good reason except to produce drama. Then again, “Sully” would be an awfully boring movie without villains, for the actual events that followed the crash involved a much less cinematic resolution.

Yet, the ever-likable Hanks is fittingly quiet in the role, perhaps a little dull, just like the everyman. He acts and speaks with a humble folksiness that is by now the trademark of his more recent years in film. There’s a slight discomfort in his eyes

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