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‘Eyes of Texas’ watch Clinton, Trump debate The Daily Texan verifies claims from first debate

By Jasleen Shokar @jasleenshokar

Jobs Clinton: “[If] his tax plan, which would blow up the debt by over $5 trillion, and would, in some instances, disadvantage middle-class families compared to the wealthy, were to go into effect, we would lose three and a half million jobs …

They’ve looked at my plans, and they’ve said okay, if we can do this, and I intend to get it done, we will have ten million more new jobs.”

FACT CHECK: True. The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget analyzed both plans and found Clinton’s tax increases would cover most of the costs associated with the $1.65 trillion in proposed spending.

Taking into account current policy, the national debt would rise to 86 percent of the nation’s GDP in 10 years, up from 75 percent today. This estimation is

aligned with the current trajectory the Congressional Budget Office approximates for the national debt. The CRFB report states Trump’s plan would raise the national debt by $5.3 trillion, or 105 percent of the GDP over 10 years based on current policy.

Wall Street Journal Moody’s Analytics state under Clinton’s proposals 10.4 million jobs would be added to the economy.

Trump on jobs “fleeing the country”: “So Ford is leaving. Their small car division is leaving.

Thousands of jobs leaving Michigan, leaving Ohio — they’re all leaving, and we can’t allow it to happen anymore.”

FACT CHECK: According to a CBS News interview Ford Motors CEO Mark Fields, Ford’s small car division is leaving, but Ford says it will not affect U.S. jobs.

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UT alumnus Kyle Nguyen, center, and Annika Rettstadt, Global policy studies and Middle Eastern studies graduate student center, react to the presidential debate on Monday night.

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Debate garners mixed student reactions

By Sarah Philips @sarahphilips23

Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton and Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump took the stage Monday night for the first presidential debate of 2016, speaking on

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certificate and both of the candidates’ stances on the Iraq War. Politically oriented organizations across campus held debate watch parties for their members, including University Democrats, College Republicans and the LBJ School of Public Affairs.

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Activists protest additional funds for Travis County Jail

By Katie Keenan @keenan_arroyo

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APD, UTPD define borders between West Campus patrols

Criminal justice advocates gathered Friday at the Travis County Commissioner’s Court to call on officials to scale back the $2.4 million in funding allotted to hiring 36 additional correctional officers for the county jail.

Grassroots Leadership, a non-profit organization

dedicated to fighting mass incarceration, led a press conference at the commissioner’s court where advocates emphasized the need to fund programs that could potentially keep people out of jail.

“Our goal here today is to demand that before voting to allocate more resources to jail staff, that the county commissioners and other local policy-makers

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Therapy dogs, cakes promote suicide prevention awareness

If something happens to a student, the question of whether they should report the incident to UTPD or APD to handle it is sometimes unclear. UTPD Capt.

Gonzalo Gonzales, UTPD Detective Samantha Carter and APD Sgt. Alfred Trejo provide an explanation to concerns on this issue.

Guadalupe Street, which runs parallel to campus, is an area that began being aggressively patrolled by UTPD in 2014, something Gonzalez said has drastically decreased the amount of transients who frequent the area. The area past Guadalupe Street is where APD’s jurisdiction begins, although the scope of each agency is not so clear-cut since both collaborate on fighting crime in this overlapping area.

“To start this semester, [APD] got a hold of us [and] we were also in the process of

to UTPD, are immediately relayed to APD, such as the ongoing case of a man exposing himself to women in West Campus.

“We forward the report to them so they can conduct the investigation,” Carter said.

“Like with the exposures in West Campus, they have reports that they’re working on and they’re trying to see if they’re all related so we’ve been conversing with them and seeing what information they have.”

Weekly meetings are another aspect of the collaborative relationship between both police departments.

APD Sgt. Alfred Trejo said this is where much of the information sharing on cases takes place, and provides a vehicle for each department to update the other on new incidents or developing crimes.

“UT police are always present … we basically go over

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The United States must offer parental leave.

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Underclassmen hope to provide football a spark.

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Alumnus’ band Mothman releases new album.

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UT professor researches LGBT childhood education.

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prioritize funding community-based services that address the root causes of mass incarceration in our community,” Grassroots Leadership member Jorge Renaud said.

Renaud added that poverty, homelessness, mental health and substance abuse contribute to these root causes but are not being

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trying to reach out to them, that they want to patrol with us on foot,” Gonzalez said, referencing Guadalupe Street and West Campus. “We have a full-time bicycle patrol unit and they have gotten to know the Austin police officers.”

Patrolling together has established a personal relationship between APD and UTPD, Gonzalez said. He added that this cooperative strategy is important to cracking down on criminal behavior, especially when it may fall under the purview of a city ordinance.

UTPD has the legal authority to enforce state law; however, it cannot enforce city ordinances, which mainly include Class C misdemeanors.

If an APD officer is patrolling alongside a UTPD officer, he or she can issue a ticket that the UTPD officer would not be able to.

Incidents that take place in near-campus, APD-controlled areas but are reported

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Government sophomore Jordan Grundhoefer attended the CR watch party and said he was disappointed with both nominees after the debate.

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When an incident occurs in West Campus, UTPD and APD work together, with APD being the primary agency to conduct investigations.

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issues such as race relations, trade, jobs and, of course, each other.

Much of the debate centered around both candidates’ scandals: Clinton’s email server, Trump’s unreleased tax returns, Trump’s involvement with the debate over Barack Obama’s birth

By Meraal_hakeem @meraal_hakeem

Students were able to pet therapy dogs and purchase cakes from Depressed Cake Shop, a pop-up bakery set up on the East Mall, in honor of suicide prevention week Monday.

The CMHC hosts suicide prevention week every September on the UT campus, and this year’s theme is Connect to Care.

“Connecting to care is to really help people to connect with others and to advocate for suicide prevention on campus,” said Kelsey Lammy, mental health promotion and health education coordinator. “[It’s} really there to empower students to create a culture of care on our campus, to really try to create a movement

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Students were able to pet therapy dogs and buy cakes from a pop-up bakery in honor of suicide prevention week Monday.

of caring for each other and looking out for one another.”

The Depressed Cake Shop was started in the United Kingdom with bakers and pastry chefs aspiring to a start a safe, fun and energetic space to discuss mental illness and

issues. The Counseling and Mental Health Center wanted to recreate a similar space where students could comfortably talk about mental health as well.

“We have treats that are

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Author discusses president’s role in handling crises

By Sunny Kim @sunny_newsiee

Tevi Troy, author of “Shall We Wake the President?” and former U.S. deputy secretary of health and human services, discussed how U.S. presidents should take an active role in resolving crises in the country in a discussion hosted by the UT Center for Politics and Governance on Monday at Batts Hall.

Troy spoke about how past presidents dealt with disasters occurring in the U.S., such as disease outbreaks, natural disasters, national security and more.

He gave the example of how President Grover Cleveland vetoed a bill to give people aid during a drought, saying it was not the constitutional responsibility of the president to provide aid in a disaster. However,

it is crucial for presidents to get involved during disasters, especially in modern times, Troy said.

“Presidents are more involved today because of the expectations of the American people,” Troy said. “Because of communications, because we’re more aware of disasters and we see the images broadcasted on TV, but also because of the size and role of the federal government.”

Regarding the ongoing election, Troy also mentioned the pros and cons of Clinton and Trump’s characteristics when it comes to dealing with disasters.

“Clinton’s big problem is credibility,” Troy said. “She clearly has a credibility issue and credibility is essential in times of crisis. One of the problems is that [Trump] often talks

without appearing to have all the facts and that is something you can’t do in terms of crisis.

You have to know what’s going on before speaking on it.”

However, Troy said both candidates have positive characteristics that can help them.

Troy said Clinton seems to know and understand the federal government while Trump has a good sense of the media and how to convey the right image in times of a disaster.

Ryan Pakebusch, government and political communications senior, said he is curious to see how the upcoming presidential candidates would deal with cyber-attacks in the future.

“I’m curious about the cyber-attacks on our infrastructure, which is something we haven’t dealt with,” Pakebusch said. “We’re probably going to

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really kind of dull colors on the outside but on the inside they are rainbow to signify the fact that there is hope within each of us,” Lammy said. “All of the money and all of the proceeds go to the Brian L. Harlan Memorial Endowment for suicide prevention on UT’s campus.”

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nator Marian Trattner said the goals of the week are to create public awareness by informing students of the possibility of suicide occuring on campus and encouraging them to discuss mental health openly in a safe setting. Trattner said she hopes the events will involve students and faculty in suicide prevention efforts on campus.

“There are students everyday on campus who are

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Author and former U.S. deputy secretary of health and human services Tevi Troy discusses his new book “Shall We Wake the President?” on Monday afternoon.

see it in the 21st century, so I’m curious to see how each president would figure something like that out.”

Ryan Streeter, director of the Center for Politics and Governance, said the purpose of the center is to bring stu-

dents together to look at policy and politics.

“Too often we study politics separate from policy and policy separate from politics,” Streeter said. “In the real world, there are always political portions at work.”

experiencing thoughts of suicide,” Trattner said. “It’s really important for students, faculty and staff to be aware of suicide and how to help a student who is experiencing those thoughts.”

Therapy dogs were also brought in from the Austin Dog Alliance for the event.

“I think the dogs helped create this atmosphere of understanding and support within

the student body,” psychology freshman Sonia Patel said. “It helps students feel that there’s always someone out there to help you.”

Suicide prevention week events will continue through Friday.

“All longhorns look after one another and take care of each other,” Trattner said. “That is what this week is about.”

state authorities when he was trying to get a casino license.

And they showed he did not pay any federal income tax.”

FACT CHECK: False.

Trump’s tax returns for 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978 and 1979 were released in a 1981 report by New Jersey’s Division of Gaming Enforcement and shows that although he didn’t pay taxes in 1978 or 1979, he had in the previous three years.

Trump: “By the way, my tax cut is the biggest since Ronald Reagan — I’m very proud of it.”

FACT CHECK: True.

Trump’s plan reduces taxes by an annual average of $440 billion. Former President Ronald Reagan’s tax plan lowered taxes by an annual average of $200 billion. Reagan’s tax plan was converted from 1981 dollars to 2012 dollars

by Politico.

filed a civil rights suit against Trump and his father’s real estate company. A deal was struck and the Trumps said the settlement was “in no way an admission” of wrongdoing.

The Trumps were required to “thoroughly acquaint themselves personally on a detailed basis” with the Fair Housing Act and purchase of advertisements notifying minorities they had equal opportunity to seek housing at Trump properties.

Trump: “We have a situation where we have our inner cities, African-American, Hispanics living in hell because it’s so dangerous. You walk down the street, you get shot. In Chicago, they’ve had thousands of shootings thousands since January first.

Thousands of shootings.”

FACT CHECK: Mostly true. According to NPR, FBI crime data published Monday said violent crime rose by 11 percent in 2015 but remains near record conti lows, compared to a wave of crime from 20 years. Chicago, for instance, remains plagued by violent crime, but it’s targeted to a small number of neighborhoods.

These issues were chosen based on relevancy to college students.

Race Clinton: “Donald started his career back in 1973 being sued by the Justice Department for racial discrimination because he would not rent apartments in one of his developments to AfricanAmericans.”

FACT CHECK: True. In 1973, the Justice Department

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Initiative educates students on opioids

By Hannah Daniel @hannnahdaniel

Residents of the 21st Street Co-op attended an optional workshop Monday night hosted by College of Pharmacy graduate students to learn about the national opioid overdose epidemic and the potentially life-saving drug Naloxone, which reverses narcotic overdose symptoms.

Since 1999, overdose deaths involving prescription opioids have quadrupled, according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention.

The workshop was the first in the Operation Naloxone initiative, a collaborative effort by the Student College of Clinical Pharmacy and the Student Pharmacist Recovery Network to raise awareness about a problem that affects both prescription and recreational drug users.

JP Sanchez, a pharmacy graduate student and the SCCP president, said knowledge about how to respond to opiate overdoses is valuable despite the low probability that participants will need to use it in their lifetime, similar to knowledge of fire extinguishers or CPR. “Maybe UT itself doesn’t have an opiate overdose problem, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t people

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sufficiently addressed by local government.

“To reinvest in more corrections officers when we are not providing adequate services for the people who are incarcerated currently or support for them when they get out is a mistake,” n Staff said Kandace Vallejo, direcn tor of Youth Rise Texas, an

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of giving us their vision of America,” Grundhoefer said.

“I will be voting for Donald Trump because I believe Hillary Clinton’s corruption and her constant lies to the American people will not make a good president.”

Economics sophomore Jerry Sun wants to watch more debates from Trump to see how he progresses.

“I am a Republican but I want to watch more debates and see more exactly if Trump is going to do more research and be more knowledgeable about this stuff,” Sun said. “I do wish there was more detail about specific numbers.

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The College of Pharmacy graduate students hosted an optional workshop on the national opiod overdose epidemic.

who are affected by it,” Sanchez said. “Even if it doesn’t affect the vast majority of the population, the people it does affect, it affects greatly.”

So far, Operation Naloxone has organized workshops for housing cooperatives and residence halls, although Sanchez said the group hopes to expand its audience to include other groups and organizations in the future.

Andrew McClure, 21st Street Co-op education representative, said college students are already likely to engage in high-risk behaviors, such as recreational drug use, and these

behaviors are brought to the co-op when they host music shows and other events. Due to this, McClure said residents should be informed on how to handle situations that may occur.

“Our house is also an event venue, so I think it’s a good idea for us to have some level of responsibility in case something goes wrong,” McClure said. “Because it is our home, we want to make its safety our primary concern.”

Andrea Laguado, a pharmacy graduate student and the SPRN president, who lives at a housing cooperative herself, said close

bonds form within the coop communities and residents want to be able to help one another.

“I think since [co-op residents] become a family, even if you’re not a drug user, you want to know [how to deal with drug overdose incidents] for your family members,” said Laguado. “You want to be ready in case one of your house members goes through something. It’s always about looking out for each other, and that’s why they’re so receptive to it … they feel like ‘What if it happens at this house? I want to be ready for my people.’”

organization that works with young people whose parents have been incarcerated or deported. “We are setting ourselves up to see the situation repeat itself over and over.”

Potential solutions for disadvantaged communities were proposed by Amp 360 founder and CEO Claire Morel, who through her organization, works with incarcerated individuals. She said inmates or those who

were once in jail should be at the center of decision-making conversations in relation to funding and reforming the criminal justice system.

“When we engage people who have been through it, they are really the ones who can tell us how to do it,” Morel said.

Through Amp 360, Morel coordinated an internship program located at the county jail that involved

students engaging with inmates to develop programs for re-entry into society after being released from jail. The program was canceled Wednesday.

“The reason that we were given is that we are a security threat to the inmates,” Morel said. “To this day, I am not convinced that that is a legitimate reason. I think that it’s a little tricky when you’re in a correctional

UDems communications director Joseph Trahan said he believed Clinton showed clear strengths compared to Trump.

“University Democrats can definitely say without hesitation that Hillary Clinton is more well-versed in policy, whether that be domestically and internationally,” Trahan said. “Her answers had more substance, while his were more repetitive.

Donald Trump is all about being bombastic.”

Patricia Zavala, a public affairs and Latin American studies graduate student, said neither major party candidate appealed to her, so she’s throwing her support to Green Party candidate Jill Stein.

“I just don’t feel satisfied with either candidate, and I think it’s important that we

support third-party candidates such as Jill Stein,” Zavala said. “I don’t think we should have to compromise our values just to vote for somebody, we should vote for somebody who actually represents us.”

Zavala said she didn’t hear much about the issue she’s most concerned about — immigration reform.

“I didn’t hear very much about immigration reform, actually,” Zavala said. “For me, immigration reform is the most essential issue in the United States.”

The next presidential debate between Clinton and Trump will be Oct. 9. Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Kaine and Republican vice presidential candidate Mike Pence will face off in their debate on Oct. 4.

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The Center for the Study of Race and Democracy invited black historian Ibram X. Kendi to discuss the history of racist ideas on Monday at the LBJ School of Public Affairs.

Kendi is an author and currently an assistant professor of African American history at the University of Florida.

In his book, “Stamped From The Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America,” he chronicles the development of racism and studies its influence over the course of American history.

“I dedicated this book to the lives they said don’t matter,” Kendi said. “The ‘they’ in that phrase is racist ideas.”

While doing research for his book, Kendi discovered the motive for racist ideals in history was to protect certain racist policies that were set in place to benefit white citizens.

“I came to realize that more times than not, these powerful producers of racist ideas were producing them to defend existing racist policies,” Kendi said. “Typically, those existing racist policies benefited them in some particular type of way.”

Kendi said there is a need for change, but advised against using commonly suggested methods, such as not conforming to certain stereotypes or simple persuasion, to reach facility basically riling people up about their rights.”

Several activists participated in the hearing after the press conference, including Texas Advocates for Justice member Brandi Townsend, who was incarcerated on two separate occasions for drug charges, something she openly shared with the court. Townsend said if she had access to better rehabilitation resources and mental

the end goal of equality.

“These powerful producers are not producing [racist ideas] out of ignorance or hate,” Kendi said. “Therefore, education or love will not change them. It’s equivalent to trying to persuade a corporate executive of a company that sells harmful products that their products are harmful.”

Laurie Roberts, a public affairs graduate student, said she read Kendi’s book to gain a better understanding of racism and eventually work toward preventing it.

“Obviously to prevent something, you have to know what it is first,” Roberts said. “I think this book and the author does a very good job of helping us define the terms so that we can actually be effective in pursuing social justice.”

Roosevelt Neely, public affairs graduate student, said he was volunteering for the book signing after the event because he felt a need to understand what racism was, having experienced it himself as a black man.

“I wouldn’t say it’s harmful, I wouldn’t say it’s direct, but I definitely feel that there is a difference, being black,” Neely said. “I’m in graduate school, and I feel I should be a good representative to change the perspective that people have of blacks being lazy and underachieving. I do feel that there’s an added pressure, but for me that’s something I embrace.”

health care, she would not have ended up in jail.

“I have been directly affected by incarceration,” Townsend said. “I struggled with addiction from a very young age … I kept trying to find my way out of it, I just didn’t know what those resources were. Going into prison, I needed the treatment, I needed someone to help me with that area of my life.”

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Patrick’s proposals threaten higher education

By G. Elliott Morris

Daily Texan Senior Columnist @gelliottmorris

At this year’s Texas Tribune Festival, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick reared his familiar face at the first few panels on Texas’ 85th Legislature. There, he laid out more ideas than policy on issues that are the new normal in Lone Star conservatism, such as local control, transgender bathrooms and property taxes. On funding higher education, Patrick said he would end tuition set-asides and cut tenure for professors who, he said, can “work 20 hours a week and get paid $150,000 for writing a novel about William Shakespeare’s love interests.” These cuts, both being independently hurtful to students and faculty, could be crippling when combined.

The Dallas Morning News estimates that cutting tuition set-asides would cost families earning less than $10,000 per year about 50,000 grants. This has the potential of putting 31,000 students out in the cold without a way to fund the remainder of their education.

An estimated 70,000 from families earning less than $60,000 per year could also be booted from Texas schools. At UT, this aid comes out to a whopping $34 million dollars.

Patrick also asserted that cutting tuition set-asides could cut student costs by 20 percent — a far cry bigger than the 15 percent actually mandated by Texas law. Even then, the cost of tuition may not actually decrease, as the aforementioned law (Chapter 56, Sec. 56.011 of the Texas Education Code) has no requirement to decrease or increase tuition if repealed. There’s no guarantee that ending tuition set-asides would actually translate to decreased tuition.

Cutting tuition set-asides is just another form of telling middle and upper class college students that conservatives on Capitol Hill will not let financial aid for poor students get in the way of “freedom from government.”

On top of this, middle income families were recently presented with a new $15 million aid commitment by UT President Gregory Fenves, so the $722 per semester they would save from cutting tuition setasides is likely to come anyway.

Of course, I would be amiss to not address the obvious, real factor in these cuts: So called “government overreach.” It is no secret that Patrick has long campaigned for state and federal government to leave Texans alone. Cutting tuition set-asides is just another form of telling middle and upper class college students that conservatives on Capitol Hill will not let financial aid for poor students get in the way of “freedom from government.”

A good assumption is that cutting tenure funding and protections for tenured professors will be bad for recruiting professors to Texas universities. Indeed, at the University of Madison-Wisconsin nearly $750,000 in raises and $8.2 million in research grants were required to keep current faculty on campus. This bailout was required after Gov. Scott Walker passed a budget decreasing tenure funding and allowing the 18-member

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Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick spoke at the Texas Tribune Festival on Sept. 24 in Austin. Lt. Gov. Patrick proposed ending tenureship and tuition set-asides, which fund need-based financial aid

board of regents to fire professors for budget cuts or program redirection.

The future of low-income students at Texas universities has been threatened by Lt. Gov. Patrick. Professors and future pron Texas may soon be looking to uproot their families and move states for safe teaching and research jobs. Texas officials really need to gain distance from politics and ask themselves whether a couple thousand votes back home are really worth losing hundreds of thousands of low-income students and countless professors. When those officials see that they’re only saving families an average of $1,500 (at most), I’d imagine they’ll decline the Lt. Governor’s offer

Texas officials really need to gain distance from politics and ask themselves whether a couple thousand votes back home are really worth losing hundreds of thousands of low-income students and countless professors. to cripple Texas higher education.

Morris is a government junior from Port Aransas.

COLUMN

Texas needs to enable online voter registration

By Sam Groves

Daily Texan Columnist @samgroves

What do the states of Texas, New Hampshire and Montana have in common? Not much, but they all share one distinction: They’re among the last 12 states in the nation that have not taken action to provide online voter registration. Of these holdouts, Texas is by far the biggest in area and population, meaning we’re the ones who most need the upgrade.

“To be registered to vote you have to have a registrar physically come and register you, and there are so many areas and communities where there aren’t registrars tabling,” Samantha Farmer, a volunteer deputy registrar and urban studies and Russian, Eastern European and Eurasian studies sophomore, said. An online system would broaden access to voter registration, especially in underserved rural and minority communities, which tend to overlap in west Texas and in the Rio Grande Valley, areas with relatively small populations that are disproportionately Hispanic. Online voter registration could be critical in reaching those communities.

Moreover, online voter registration could make social media a more effective tool in getting people registered. If you live in a state without the service, your

Going online won’t just make voter registration easier in Texas — it’ll make it cheaper, too. When Arizona brought voter registration online, the cost was reduced from 83 cents for paper registrations to 3 cents for online registrations. best chances to get registered will be in public places — registration cards stocked in public schools and libraries, volunteers that stop you in the street — and you’re most likely going to be busy when you get these chances. But if you live in a state with the service, getting registered could be as simple as following a link on your Twitter or Facebook feed. Campaigns like the National Voter Registration Day, which takes place today, make use of social media, and they’re undoubtedly more effective in states that have taken voter registration online.

Going online won’t just make voter registration easier in Texas — it’ll make it cheaper, too. When Arizona brought voter registration online, the cost was reduced from

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83 cents for paper registrations to 3 cents for online registrations. Maricopa County alone saved more than $300,000 in 2008.

And despite 31 states plus the District of Columbia having adopted the service as of last June, “no fraud or security breaches are known to date,” according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.

Despite all of these benefits, Texas is on track to be the last state in the nation without online voter registration. New York,

California, Florida and Illinois — all states with comparable population — have adopted it. So has Alaska, the only state that’s bigger than us by area. Even Oklahoma passed a bill last year to implement the service in the near future, and if Texas is losing to Oklahoma in the race online (or anything, really), it’s time for our state to get it together. Online voter registration should be a priority in next year’s legislative session.

Groves is a government sophomore from Dallas.

COLUMN

The U.S. must provide paid family leave for parents

By Mehraz Rahmen Daily Texan Columnist @MehrazR

There are two countries in the world that don’t guarantee paid family leave to new parents: The United States and Papua New Guinea. Among these two countries, one is considered one of the most highly developed countries in the world and the other’s economy is still 85 percent an agricultural system. America’s inability to provide paid family leave for its citizens harms both its image as a progressive country as well as the health of its families.

According to Jennifer Glass, sociology professor and the Barbara Bush Regents Professor of Liberal Arts, the U.S.’s oncehigh rate of female workforce participation is decreasing, and only 58.3 percent of employees work for establishments covered by the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993.

She said, “Most Europeans are aghast.”

“It’s simply too hard for many moms to

stay in the labor force following pregnancy,” Glass said. Because of this, “we are seen as morally and practically backward in our thinking about how to support families.”

The health and welfare of newborns, mothers and families are also harmed. Glass says that moms are the primary breadwinners for almost half of American children under the age of 18, and most moms work, even if they aren’t the sole providers. If a parent returns to work too soon after childbirth, it can affect many factors in children’s lives such as housing, food, medical care and preschool education.

Glass said, “When mothers earn less, families suffer.” In fact, since new mothers aren’t always paid for taking leave postpartum, many are forced to quit their jobs. There is a higher wage penalty for these families as opposed to the mothers in countries that offer paid leave.

The lack of a parental leave system harms both employees and employers. However, one of the most pressing concerns is that the

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absence of the system harms the mental and physical health of those affected. Women who get less parental leave are more likely to experience symptoms of postpartum depression. In addition, the parents that go back to work too soon are less likely to breastfeed their babies and more likely to reduce costs by trusting inexperienced care providers, as explained by Glass, which can lead to another host of health problems for children.

America, as a nation, is headed in the right direction. The current presidential candidates have brought up the issue of family leave and its benefits, and Silicon Valley companies that compete for talent have started offering more leave to promote employee retention. Glass suggests that, since the U.S. has such a low fertility rate, taking the money to fund paid parental leave from payroll taxes will barely be noticeable.

If parental leave becomes an expansion of Social Security or some form of federal disability leave policy, as a country, we can

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America, as a nation, is headed in the right direction. The current presidential candidates have brought up the issue of family leave and its benefits, and Silicon Valley companies that compete for talent have started offering more leave to promote employee retention. adopt systems that have worked for states like California. Maybe someday Papua New Guinea will be the only country without a paid parental leave system for its citizens but, for now, we should take it one step at a time.

Rahman is a business and Plan II sophomore from Austin.

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Grace Zhang, art history junior and ACDC cofounder, said because the organization is currently composed only of women, she finds a solid sense of sisterhood among its members.

“It’s about finding people who are as passionate about dance as you are,” Grace Zhang said. “Finding these girls and being able to play off of each other and perform together is just really nice.”

Like Christy Zhang, Gao has been dancing since a young age but said that joining the organization helped her better understand the significance behind Chinese dance.

She said she enjoys being able to show her appreciation for Chinese culture in a dynamic way.

“Dancing to my culture is something I enjoy,” Gao said. “Being able to perform, do what I love and showcase my culture is just really great. Dance has been a part of our lives for the majority of our lives. I don’t feel like it’s something that we ever want to lose.”

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Most bands aim to please their listeners, capitalizing on familiar hooks and melodies to craft their signature experience. Mothman sets out to accomplish the exact opposite — they want to make their audience’s skin crawl.

By aiming to create “the most abrasive music possible,” Mothman is placing themselves in a class of their own within the Austin music scene, one that struggles to support hardcore acts. The band is made up of just three members — UT alumnus Nate Helton on bass guitar and vocals, Chris Skiles on electric guitar and vocals and Andrew Echavarria on drums. Between the chaos of each of their songs, listeners will likely find it difficult to comprehend what they’re hearing.

“Most genres are welcoming, ours isn’t,” Helton said.

“There are some metal bands that will try to make their music easier to listen to, but we’re the opposite. We’re more interested in that feeling you get just when you catch a rhythm, just when the flow of a song makes sense.

Right when that happens, we’re going to change it on you. We’re not setting out to create an easy listening environment, we want someone who listens to our work to be uneasy.”

Their newest album, Answers To No One, is a project more than two years in the making due to an obsession from Helton and Skiles to make each song as complex and engaging

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UT alumnus Nate Helton (middle), Chris Skiles (right) and Andrew Echavarria (left) make up the heavy metal band Mothman.

The band frequently practices in this rehearsal room at the Music Lab on Oltorf.

as possible.

“Right after we released an EP in 2014, we realized we wanted to make something massive,” Skiles said.

“And that something was a 20-song record. Since that day, we’ve been writing every single week. To write 20 extremely technical songs takes so much time and a lot of practice. We never stopped, it just took us that long to ensure everything was as intense as we wanted it, but it was worth all the work.”

Teaming up with Mothman for the release of Answers To No One is Jeffrey Blum, Helton’s longtime friend and coleader of Red Flag Records. Although Red Flag was originally

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an avenue for Mothman and Blum’s group Blurry Vision’s split 7-inch, Blum has grown the record label into a channel for all forms of art, from music to poetry.

“Now we’re at the point where we’re helping out friends and not necessarily focusing on just our stuff, which really helps everyone grow,” Blum said. “It feels odd calling it a record label because it makes it sound like a business. But Nathan and I do everything — assemble all of the tapes, work on the tedious stuff together.”

Although Echavarria recorded all of his drum parts in UT’s TSTV studio over a day and a half, the majority of this LP was ground out in the

band’s small practice room and in closets to create just the right acoustics and sound isolation to ensure the best recording possible.

Blum said Mothman stands out to him, not just because of his personal connections to the group, but because of the fulfilling music experience the band brings to the table.

“Nathan and Chris did everything themselves,” Blum said. “They had the computer set up, the mics adjusted. They would just sit in a room for 10 hours at a time to nail down each and every part. There’s nothing fake going on — whatever comes out is a true expression of themselves. Each

song is them to the core, and that’s all you can really ask for in music.”

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Youth movement flourishes under Strong

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Charlie Strong hasn’t been resistant to change throughout his time in Austin.

Since taking the reins as the Longhorns’ head coach in 2014, Strong has played three quarterbacks and cycled through three offensive coordinators, constantly searching for the right formula to bring Texas back to national prominence.

That mindset has invaded No. 22 Texas’ depth chart in 2016. Of the Longhorns’ 22 offensive and defensive starters against California in week three, 12 were underclassmen.

“Because you’re the University of Texas, you’re going to be able to get good classes,” Strong said. “We’re talented enough now where it’s all about us getting them coached up and putting them in a position where they can be successful.”

Texas’ reliance on youngsters has come mainly from necessity. The Longhorns looked devoid of talent at the beginning of Strong’s tenure, especially on offense. In the final three years of former head coach Mack Brown’s tenure, the burnt orange failed to net even one All-Big 12 First Team selection on offense.

With three recruiting classes under his belt, Strong has now turned the tide on offense. The Longhorns feature a variety of underclassmen, including their leading receiver and second-leading rusher.

And don’t forget the quarterback. Freshman Shane Buechele has impressed players and coaches alike through three games, tossing seven

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Freshman defensive back Brandon Jones runs down Notre Dame sophomore receiver C.J. Sanders in the season opener.

Jones blocked a punt against Cal in week three and is primed to receive more playing time as the season progresses.

touchdowns while throwing for over 700 yards.

But perhaps more impressive than his stats has been the Arlington native’s demeanor. Buechele commands the Longhorn huddle with the poise of a senior, acting well beyond his years as Texas’ signal caller.

“He’s a great, self-driven leader,” sophomore left tackle Connor Williams said. “He wants to get better every day, he’s always in the facility whenever I’m there.”

While Texas’ offense has found significant success with its underclassmen, the youth movement hasn’t fared as well

on the other side of the ball.

The Longhorns gave up 47 points in week one against Notre Dame and 50 to California in week three. They have consistently been burned by big plays, most notably through the air.

With Texas struggling to stop opposing offenses, Strong hinted at increased playing time for the team’s freshman during conference play. Young defensive backs will likely see the field more frequently, as Texas’ secondary has struggled to defend the deep ball.

Freshman defensive back Brandon Jones looks primed to see increased playing time

during Big 12 play. The Nacogdoches product is already making a name for himself, blocking punts in both the Longhorns’ 41-7 victory over UTEP and their 50-43 loss to California.

Jones is a sparkplug for Texas, one with the athleticism and speed to change the game with a single play. He ranked as the nation’s No. 1 safety and No. 40 overall recruit in 2016, according to the 247Sports composite ranking.

Aside from wide receiver and Baylor transfer Devin Duvernay, Jones was the top player in Texas’ 2016 recruiting class.

“When [Jones] goes out on

field, he’s going to give you 110 percent of whatever he’s got,” senior safety Dylan Haines said. “What we’re looking for is people to go out there and make plays … [Jones] is definitely going to have a spot on this team.”

Texas still has a litany of adjustments to make if it wants to win the conference for the first time since 2009 — Strong said the Big 12 championship is still the team’s goal.

And the pieces are there in Austin; Strong has the talent at his disposal to win the Big 12.

Now it’s a matter of unleashing his young players and letting them make an impact.

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The best defense is a good offense — but not for Texas.

Defense wins championships.

It’s a mantra attributed to renowned college football coach Bear Bryant, but often applied to every sport.

Statisticians regularly test the statement. But for head coach Jerritt Elliott, defense is the key to building a championshipcaliber team in Austin.

The No. 4 Longhorns (10-2, 2-0 Big 12) are coming off their second Big 12 victory over a quality opponent in No. 8 Kansas. Texas won in four sets, with definitive victories in the second and fourth sets of the game. Despite earning Texas’ strongest win this season, Elliott saw holes in his team’s defense — holes in need of fixing.

“We’re continuously growing,” Elliott said. “For us right now, the big thing is our defense. Our numbers that we’re hitting are some of the best we’ve had ever here at Texas. But our defensive numbers aren’t as good.”

Digs, one of the most indicative statistics of defensive success in volleyball, are crucial to counterattack spikes and save balls from hitting the ground. Although Texas boasts a top-5 ranking in the AVCA Coaches poll, they rank No. 263 in the nation for digs with 13.05 per set.

“When they’re getting

first-ball kills and tools and missed digs, it gets a little bit more challenging for us to put up some runs,” Elliott said.

Defense may not be Texas’ strongest proficiency on the court, but its offense stands among the nation’s elite. Led by their outside hitters, the Longhorns rank No. 20 in kills per set and No. 4 in hitting percentage nationally out of 329 programs.

Junior Ebony Nwanebu and freshman Micaya White rank No. 23 and No. 20, respectively, in kills per set. The duo propels Texas’ offense with dominant net play and gels with the precise passing of senior setter Chloe Collins, who ranks No. 9 in assists with 11.46 per set. Texas scores nearly half of its points off assists, a testament to the offense’s strong chemistry.

“Chloe just kind of pumps me up,” White said. “She gets me so excited after every kill and so having her cheering me on and encouraging me gets me more fired up.”

Texas’ offensive production suggests the team has the potential to make yet another splash in the postseason. But Elliott still needs to sure up his defense if the team hopes to make another run in the tournament.

The Longhorns’ next chance to work on its defense comes against Oklahoma on Wednesday.

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Freshman outside hitter Micaya White leads Texas in kills and has been a key offensive cog for the Longhorns all year.

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Sophomore linebacker Breckyn Hager said it’s hard to walk around campus the week after his team loses. Hager and the Texas defense look to get on track against OSU on Saturday.

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Head coach Charlie Strong hinted at the notion of taking more control over the Texas defense last week. Questions surrounding defensive coordinator Vance Bedford’s grasp on Texas’ defense arose after California carved up the Longhorns for 507 yards of offense and 50 points two weeks ago.

Strong sat down with Bedford and the rest of the defensive coaching staff during the bye week, while film of the Golden Bears dismantling the Longhorn secondary played on the big screen.

“I need to be involved and we need to have those meetings,” Strong said.

“It was just so key and so important that we just sat down [for] just a self evaluation. Look at yourself … check your ego at the door. Some guys, you’re going to get your feelings hurt, but it is what it is right now, and we have to get it better.”

But Strong said it’s too early to make a change at defensive coordinator; he said he believes it would do more harm than good in terms of team chemistry. He said the defense needs to work on its fundamentals, and he still has confidence in the current coaching staff to make sure that happens.

“We know we’ve had our issues on defense,” Strong said. “[But] I have a lot of confidence in Vance Bedford. I know Vance is going to do a good job.”

The players also have confidence in the coaching staff. Senior defensive tackle Paul Boyette Jr. said he doesn’t let the cries from fans for a new defensive coordinator affect him.

“We know we have an outstanding coaching staff as a defense,” Boyette said. “Coach Strong has done a good job at recruiting guys here, not just players but coaches as well. They’re a family, and we know that

we have a good bond with our coaches.”

Other players don’t buy into the coaching staff talk whatsoever. Sophomore linebacker Breckyn Hager still has the loss to California on his mind.

He said he’s tired of people saying Texas has a bad defense because he doesn’t believe that’s the case.

Hager said it’s frustrating to walk around campus, where people ask him what happened in Berkeley. But according to Hager, the hardest part is formulating an answer to that question.

“You can’t really give an answer that people want,” Hager said. “You’re like, ‘Man, we just didn’t do our job,’ basically. They’re not happy with that. It’s nothing more than that, but now we just have to go do our job and prove that we’re a great defense.”

Hager and the Texas defense have the opportunity to prove it Saturday when they take on Oklahoma State’s No. 11-ranked passing attack.

In addition to picking up a big win over No. 8 Kansas on Saturday, two Longhorns also received individual awards for their performances last week.

Freshman outside hitter Micaya White earned a Big 12 Freshman of the Week title while junior outside hitter Ebony Nwanebu claimed Big 12 Offensive Player of the Week honors.

Texas went 2-0 last week with wins over West Virginia and the Jayhawks, and White and Nwanebu were integral pieces of the Longhorns’ success.

White recorded 40 kills in the two matches while Nwanebu registered 33.

The two players rank No. 1 and No. 2 on the team in total kills this season — White has 184 and Nwanebu has 157.

It’s White’s third time to win the conference’s Freshman of the Week award in the last four weeks. She leads the Longhorns in two important offensive categories: points and kills.

Despite the freshman’s success, White also leads the team in a negative offensive category — attacking errors. She racked 51 errors in 42 sets played.

Nwanebu has committed 33 attacking errors in 36 sets played.

White’s errors are likely to decrease as she gains more experience. Her offensive acumen currently outweighs her occasional slip ups and could potentially lead to more awards before season’s end.

—Tyler Horka

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Editor’s note: Tat-Tuesday is a weekly series that features students around campus and their tattoos. Check out more pictures and stories online.

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A group of student dancers trained in classical Chinese dance in SAC.

Chinese dance club celebrates culture, cultivates friendship

By Mae Hamilton @thedailytexan

Trained in ballet and classical Chinese dance since the age of four, Christy Zhang has a gift for movement. Now the co-founder and sole choreographer of Austin Chinese Dance Company, she teaches others how to twist their bodies into the classic, graceful motions of Chinese dance.

All of the founders and most of the members of ACDC, UT’s only organization dedicated to all forms of Chinese dance, were friends before the club was formed, dancing together at schools in Plano and Houston. When the friends arrived at UT, they were surprised to find that despite the large Chinese student population, there were no clubs dedicated to Chinese dance.

For Zhang, a mechanical engineering junior, her

enthusiasm for dance comes from a place of deep pride in her cultural identity.

“It’s a good connection to our culture,” Zhang said.

“Most of us are ChineseAmerican or we’ve lived in America for a very long period of time, so our identity isn’t only Chinese. We are Chinese-American and we can use dance to express that.”

While there are hundreds of varieties of Chinese dance, there are two main schools: traditional and folk. While traditional dances like fan and sleeve dancing were used to entertain nobles of the imperial court, folk dances were used by the common people as a way to celebrate their ethnic or regional identity. ACDC draws inspiration from traditional, folk and contemporary dance to create their own signature style.

“There’s such a rich culture

and history associated with Chinese dance,” Zhang said.

“There are so many stylistic elements that are so specific to each minority of Chinese dance. It’s a lot more detailed than it seems at first. It looks very pretty and very simple, but when you try to do it, you realize that there’s a certain hand placement or your body has to be twisted a certain way. There’s a lot that goes into it.”

Many of the girls in ACDC come from different dance backgrounds that aren’t necessarily ballet or Chinese dance. Biology sophomore Caroline Gao, who joined ACDC last year, said she appreciates the perspectives members bring to the table.

“The more styles you learn, the better dancer you become,” Gao said.

“We’ve all improved in that aspect.”

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As a social work graduate student, Myrick has a deep sense of compassion for the human condition but said she strives to expand her point of view to a more global perspective.

“My two passions are traveling and social work, so I think [this design] is a good representation of traveling and [how] empathy is a very important aspect of social work and my life,” Myrick said. “It also shows how you should show empathy to the whole world.”

Myrick said she hopes her tattoo of the world

covered by an empathy symbol will remind herself and others to keep kindness in mind when interacting with people.

“If you approach people [from] an understanding standpoint, you’re going to

find things that you have in common,” Myrick said. “If you take that perspective of ‘Everyone has their own way of doing things and that’s okay,’ then everyone will just get along more and there will be more peace in the world.”

Juan Figueroa | Daily Texan Staff

Social work graduate student Kristin Myrick’s tattoo serves to remind her about the importance of showing empathy to the whole world.

Name: 4936/The Castilian/ American Ca; Width: 60p0; Depth: 10 in; Color: Process color, 4936/The Castilian/ American Ca; Ad Number: 4936