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Austin scores high rating for LGBTQ support

By Sarah Philips @sarahphilips23

Austin was given the highest rating in Texas for its support of the LGBT community by the Human Rights Campaign, which rates cities in America by how well they score in nondiscriminatory workplace environments, civic inclusion and law enforcement relations.

“Austin has always been a welcoming, inclusive city for everyone, and Mayor Steve

Adler is pleased that the Human Rights Campaign has given Austin its highest possible rating to reflect our leadership on LGBTQ issues,” said Jason Stanford, communications director for the mayor’s office, in an email.

The municipal equality index is broken down into five categories: non-discrimination laws, offering protections to LGBTQ employees, inclusion in municipal programs, responsible engagement with

the LGBTQ community by law enforcement and a city’s public policy standpoint on LGBTQ issues.

The City of Austin improved from previous years by scoring a full 100 percent of the basic points possible and earning an extra 12 points for municipality involvement in providing services to LGBT elderly and people living with HIV and AIDS, as well as providing support to transgender people.

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UT faculty include LGBT history in curriculum

By Rajya Atluri @rajyaatluri

As a black member of the LGBT community, Xavier Livermon rarely saw anyone like him in his history books. But now, as an assistant professor, Livermon is teaching students the diverse curriculum he didn’t have growing up.

Livermon, an assistant professor of African and African diaspora studies, and several other UT faculty members are bringing LGBT history to the classroom.

“It’s always been a goal of mine that if I ever had the opportunity to teach or create a curriculum, I would make sure these issues were a part of it,” Livermon said.

Livermon strives to include LGBT material in both his African popular culture and hiphop politics classes, where one student gave a presentation on Young Thug that discussed the rapper’s gender and sexuality.

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Xavier Livermon, Assistant professor of African and African diaspora studies, works to increase awareness of LGBT individuals of color by incorporating LGBT historyit into his classes on African popular culture and hip-hop.

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City Council encourages recycling, renewability

By Kayla Meyerton @kemeyertons

Austin City Council will negotiate possibly awarding two 12-month company contracts with Concept, Development and Planning and Texas Zero Waste Strategies to promote recycling sustainability efforts Thursday night.

City Council will consider whether to allow these services to work on the city’s goal to divert 90 percent of waste away from Austin landfills by 2040.

“It’s not just about reaching goals,” said Susanne Harm, Austin Resource Recovery senior specialist. “We’re really trying to change the way people think.”

According to City Council’s agenda, funding for the contracts would come from Austin Resource Recovery’s budget and may not exceed $320,000 during the 2017 fiscal year.

The city’s current contract with CD&P and Great Communicate LLC, which started in November of 2012, is set to expire Nov. 3 of this year.

According to ARR’s 2015 Community Diversion study, the city fell 8 percent short of meeting its goal of diverting 50 percent of generated waste to either recycling, compost or reuse.

“We did not make our goal, but we are making gains every year,” Harm

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Students voice concerns over Paralympic panelists discuss ethics of SG legislative practices challenges, athletic successes

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While Student Government’s stated goal is to represent the student body, some of the resolutions they pass come from sources entirely outside the University.

SG considers legislation authored by a variety of sources, a practice some students say is misrepresentative of student opinions.

One example is a resolution passed in September, which was partially written by lobbyist group Environment Texas, and called on UT System Chancellor William McRaven to cut emissions from oil and gas companies drilling on UT lands.

“I really don’t agree with it,” journalism sophomore Nicole Hix said. “It’s kind of like someone from a differ-

Four paralympic athletes spoke Thursday evening to share their stories of succeeding in their respective sports and representing the United States on an international stage.

The Paralympic Games is an international multisport event for athletes with disabilities. Sports management students and supporters of paralympic sports packed into the lobby of the H.J. Lutcher Stark Center for Physical Culture and Sports to hear about the athletes’ experiences.

Sports management senior Jen Lee competed in the 2014 Winter Paralympics in sled hockey and won a gold medal. Twelve years ago, Lee, motivated

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Student Government considers legislative proposals from student and non-student sources.

ent country writing a bill for the U.S. government. It just doesn’t make sense.”

The SG constitution states students who participate with SG must be enrolled in the University but makes no mention of who can author resolutions for consideration by the assembly.

However, for a resolution to be brought before the assembly, it must be sponsored by at least one representative, said Santiago Rosales, SG speaker of the assembly.

Rosales said SG allows a wide range of authors in order to provide new in-

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Paralympic athletes Shawn Meredith, Jen Lee, Jeff Butler, Patricia Walsh discuss representing the United States.

by 9/11, enlisted in the army. In 2009, he was involved in a motorcycle accident which ended his military career.

Lee’s journey in paralympics began when he was transferred to a station in San Antonio to do physical therapy. During

his time in rehab, multiple sports were offered, but he had a background in roller-hockey as a child — so he decided to explore that sport, and it stuck with him. He chose to play goalie, as he had similar experiences in the role

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Austin begins search for new city manager

By Sarah Philips @sarahphilips23

Austin City Council began the months-long process of finding a new city manager this week by approving a solicitation for a search firm to find someone to run the day-to-day operations of city government.

Austin’s previous city manager, Marc Ott, left the position in September for a job with a government advocacy group in Washington D.C. Since then, Elaine Hart, the city’s chief financial officer, has been serving as interim city manager while the city goes through the lengthy process of finding Ott’s replacement.

“Obviously, they’re looking for somebody that represents the interests of the city,” said Jason Alexander, assistant to the city manager. “Austin is

fast-growing, bound to double in the next 20 to 25 years, and a very prosperous business hub, so [City Council] is obviously looking for someone with experience in that.”

At a meeting on Tuesday, City Council members debated how they wanted the community to be involved in the process of finding a new manager.

“One of the most valuable purposes of this group would be to have community meetings and hear from the public about what are the most [important] criteria for the city manager,” said Mayor Pro Tem Kathie Tovo, whose district includes West Campus.

“So I want to be sure that we don’t wait so long that their process has to be so short as to be meaningless or not as useful as possible.”

According to Alexander, the new city manager will

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continues from page 1 when playing roller-hockey as a child.

“I’m currently training for the 2018 Paralympics, and I’m also on the USA development team,” Lee said. “I’ve got a year until the next tryout, so hopefully I’m able to get back into the game in 2018.”

Shawn Meredith, administrative assistant in the UT International Office, was injured in a construction accident in 1984. He tried a couple sports, and wheelchair track stuck out to him because of its speed. During his time as a Team USA athlete in 1992 and 1996, he won five gold medals

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continues from page 1 sights when dealing with various resolutions.

“Sometimes the expertise on a particular issue may not always be within Student Government or even in the student body,” Rosales said.

“I can see why it’s a little curious, but that being said, there has been other times that off-campus folks will write resolutions. Students will be involved with writing, but sometimes a person from off campus has a little more information or is more comfortable with explaining the rationale behind the legislation.”

After resolutions are authored and introduced to the assembly, an SG committee reviews it and fixes any problems with the resolution, Rosales said.

One of the most valuable purposes of this group would be to have community meetings and hear from the public … the most [important] criteria for the city manager.

—Kathie Tovo, Mayor Pro Tem

immediately deal with issues of mobility, depending on whether or not the mobility bond slated for Nov. 8 passes, and issues that accompany a rapidly growing city. Depending on how the timeline plays out, the new manager should be selected close to when the city budget passes.

“The manager could be coming in right after a new budget is passed,” Alexander said. “That’s an eye-opening experience in a big city like this to have to implement a new budget right away.”

According Joya Hayes,

director of City of Austin’s Human Resources Department, human resources will not recommend anyone to City Council until December, after input from the public and a panel yet to be appointed by City Council.

“We would not be bringing recommendations until closer to the beginning of December to [City Council], providing us an opportunity to go through the process of evaluation,” Hayes said at the meeting.

The next regular meeting of the City Council is Nov. 3, less than a week before the mobility bond vote.

and one silver medal.

“I’ve always liked things that were fast, like cars and motorcycles,” Meredith said. “I saw people that were more disabled than I was, and being newly injured I was like, ‘If these guys can do it, I’ll give it a shot.’”

According to Meredith, his greatest accomplishment as an athlete was winning gold medals in the 400 and 800 meters in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1996.

The panelists ended the panel by sharing their thoughts on the current state of paralympics and how it can be improved.

Patricia Walsh is completely blind and won a bronze medal in 2015 as a

paratriathlon athlete. She is an Austin native and delivered closing remarks to help motivate those in the audience to be more supportive of handicapped children in the community.

“You have to let your children learn what they’re capable of doing, but it’ll be so worth it in the end,” Walsh said.

Services for Students with Disabilities helped host the event. Emily Shryock, SSD assistant director, said on Monday they will also be hosting an adapted sports night from 6:30 to 9 p.m. in the Recreational Sports Center to demonstrate paralympic sports to the UT community.

“There’s a pretty excessive conversation throughout from when the resolution is introduced to the moment it’s voted on,” Rosales said.

Government associate professor Zachary Elkins said he thinks SG’s process “seems strange,” but it reminds him of the various lobbyists in the U.S. government putting together legislation on different issues.

“In the Texas Legislature, somebody can just fax in legislation and they’ll take a look at it,” Elkins said. “So there is a tradition in government of allowing outsiders into the process.”

Rosales said he has looked into the possibility of a rule change regarding the authoring of resolutions in order to make sure the student body is better represented by SG. “I think there is a place for off-campus folks who

are experts on particular subjects to speak,” Rosales said. “I think the best place for that is to create a testimony component to the legislative component to the legislative process [for] authors, who are hopefully students, and then open up an opportunity for, say, administrators to come in and give feedback. I think there’s a place for it, but I definitely do understand and do agree that it needs to be the students’ voice.”

Economics sophomore Hannah Blumenfeld said the system SG uses for resolution authoring should be revised.

“It shouldn’t be random people, it’s not fair,” Blumenfeld said. “They’re not students here. They don’t take these ridiculously hard classes and understand our problems that we want fixed.”

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continues from page 1 Jimenez is the chair of the Pride Policy Alliance, an organization that advocates for increasing awareness about LGBTQ issues at the University and the greater Austin area. Jimenez said Austin is an inclusive place for the LGBT community, but areas outside of downtown Austin may not be as welcoming to LGBT people.

“I would say, holistically, we agree with [the HRC’s rating], but maybe say that’s exclusive to downtown Austin area and not disenfranchised areas or outer areas,” Jimenez said. “For example, in the Del Valle district, which is more Latin and conservative Catholic, education is very difficult for queer and trans students. My recommendation for Austin leadership is to do some more community outreach to areas that don’t historically benefit from pro-LGBT policies.”

Jimenez, who is studying global policy, said Austin is an island in the state of Texas when it comes to its LGBTinclusive policies.

“If you’re trying to work at the Capitol or for the state of Texas, it can be very difficult to maintain social mobility or advance if you’re openly gay,” Jimenez said. “I think it can be very difficult because Austin is a little bit of in island in terms of political culture. I don’t think the state at large would earn a very good rating from the HRC.” For biology and psychology senior Mitch Anderson, his experience as a gay man in Austin differed from his home town of Belton, Texas, which is just an hour north of Austin. “[Belton] follows the mold of a small town in central Texas, pretty heavily conservative, very religious and just not progressive with their views,” Anderson said.

“There are definitely a lot of members of the community that are supporting LGBT people, but that’s definitely not predominant.”

Anderson said Austin was different from Belton because being gay isn’t an issue.

“It’s not even something out of the norm, so you don’t have people have messaging you or subtweeting you telling you what a horrible person you are,” Anderson said.

“It’s just a non-issue for most people here.”

Dallas and Fort Worth also scored well on the index, each earning 100 points each. Laredo, College Station and Irving scored the lowest in Texas, with each city earning six points from the HRC.

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Senate approves two new resolutions

By Kayla Meyertons @kemeyertons

The UT Senate of College Councils approved two resolutions Thursday to improve Freshmen Interest Group presentations and implement dean student advisory e 1 committees in each college on campus.

SR 1604 will require FIG seminars, which help incoming students during their first semester, to inform freshmen about the mental health and personal safety resources available on campus.

These resources include, but are not limited to, the CMHC website, MindBody Lab, 24-hour crisis hotline, SURE Walk and safe navigation plans on campus, according to the resolution. FIG student mentors are provided a list of these resources and may use them at their own discretion, but this resolution will require FIG seminars to present all this information.

“Typically students find out later in their time on campus about mental health services that are available,” said Senate president Sergio Cavazos, a government senior. “In working with the CMHC, we really want to change that culture, and we think that starting off with FIGs and really educating freshmen as to what the resources are will help prevent that.”

English sophomore David Jenkins, academic policy co-chair of Senate, said CMHC and the First Year Experience Office for FIG have already expressed their support for the initiative.

“We totally understand that a lot of FIG mentors are already on top of this,” Jenkins said. “The FIG seminars are a bit more of a small environment than you would get in an orientation atmosphere, [so] they’re a little bit more viable to have to pay attention to the resources that are being presented.”

SR 1605 implements

individual Dean Student Advisory Committees within each college at the University.

According to the resolution, each DSAC would be modeled after the President Student Advisory Committee, which advises UT President Gregory Fenves on issues and concerns of students.

Each DSAC would serve as a line of communication between students and the deans of their respective colleges.

Senate vice president Austin Reynolds, an English honors and sociology senior, said DSAC was implemented in the College of Liberal Arts after freshman Haruka Weiser’s death last semester.

“Just having that direct relation with the dean you’re able to cut out all the bureaucracy and talk about real issues,” Reynolds said. “I don’t know if they have ever had an opportunity to put a mission for students or work with students in a close way, so I’m hoping [to] see a clos-

ing [of] the gap of the relationship between deans and students through DSAC.” Reynolds said the president and vice president of each Senate council will serve on their respective DSACs, but the committees are also open to members of Student Government and Graduate Student Assembly.

Senate policy director Bishop Wash, an advertising senior, said DSACs are a great way for deans to be held accountable and for everybody to be interconnected.

“When colleges come up with initiatives, they sometimes put it where it’s not the best for students,” Wash said. “[DSAC] is going to be a great tool for deans to be able to make those decisions and not waste time or waste energy or waste people or power.”

A new piece of legislation, SB 1603, was fasttracked and passed to create executive summaries for Senate legislation.

The corporation that manages investments benefiting the University of Texas System and Texas A&M System is looking for a new CEO after Bruce Zimmerman, the previous CEO, resigned last week.

Zimmerman was hired by the University of Texas Investment Management Co. in 2007, and when he started, the total assets managed were $23.5 billion. The assets are now valued at about $37 billion. During Zimmerman’s tenure as CEO, he was able to add a $4.25 billion value to the endowment by building a team of investors around him, according to a UT System press release.

A search advisory committee was announced last week to help assist the Board of Directors with the selection of the new CEO, although the members of the committee have yet to be selected.

The Board is comprised of regents from both UT and Texas A&M. “[The members of] the search committee [have] not been announced and there is no other information at this time on the creation of it,” said Melanie Thompson, UT System media relations specialist.

Zimmerman did not state why he was stepping down, and The Daily Texan was unable to reach him at this time.

“It has been my extraordinary honor to lead UTIMCO and I am so proud of the results the team has delivered,” Zimmerman said in a UT System press release. “The UTIMCO staff and Board, and everyone associated with the UT and A&M Regents and Systems, are remarkable people contributing so much

to the state. While I will miss working with my colleagues, I have great optimism about UTIMCO’s future and I am excited to begin the next chapter in my life.”

Last week, the Board appointed Mark Warner, former UTIMCO senior managing director, to serve as the interim CEO. “We are continuing to move UTIMCO forward in all respects,” Warner said in an email. “As one of Chancellor McRaven’s team of teams, our board expects us to provide leadership and to continue to focus on the returns necessary to support the mission of the UT and A&M systems.”

Jeffery Hildebrand, chairman of the UTIMCO Board and vice chairman of the UT System Board of Regents, said in the UT System press release he was confident in Warner’s ability to lead and make progress while the Board searches for the new CEO. Hildebrand said the opening will attract the best possible talent.

Warner said he is currently in contention for the permanent CEO position after recommendations from the Board.

“The search committee [leadership] has been very supportive and has encouraged me to participate in their process,” Warner said in an email.

“I am happy to do so, but I consider my candidacy to be on behalf of the entire UTIMCO staff, so that they are represented in the process to determine their next leader.

We all take great comfort in the leadership of Jeff Hildebrand and the excellent search committee he has assembled and we have no doubt their efforts will result in world class leadership for UTIMCO’s future.”

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Study: Gap between voters with, without college education grows in 2016 election

By Van Nguyen

College Educated Voter Preferences

@nguyen_van

The divide in voter preference is growing between those with and without a college education, according to a survey performed by the Pew Research Center.

The survey, which was conducted in August, finds registered voters with a college degree favor Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton over Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump by 23 percent. Voters without a college degree favored Trump over Clinton by 5 percent.

Robert Suls, research associate at the Pew Research Center, said in his analysis of the survey that if the gap between college-educated and noncollege-educated voters holds until November, it will be the widest educational divide in any election in recent history.

Suls said the gap is exceptionally pronounced among college-educated and noncollege-educated white voters.

UT government professor Daron Shaw said, historically, higher levels of education correlate with supporting Republican candidates until postgraduate levels of education, where the trend reverses.

According to Suls’ analysis, since 1992, the difference in voter preference between college-educated voters and noncollege-educated voters has been minuscule. In the 2012 election, college degree-holders favored Democratic nominee Barack Obama by 2 percentage points over Republican nominee Mitt Romney. Obama was favored by 4 percentage points over Romney among non-college-educated voters,

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according to Suls’ analysis.

Sergio Cavazos, Senate of College Councils president, said when looking at the divide, you need to take into account multiple factors, such as economic background.

“Maybe people who aren’t doing as well financially, who may not have an education, think Donald Trump is an alternative to the political establishment,” said Cavazos, a government senior. “People who are voting for Hillary Clinton, who have higher education specifically, may not see this [as] practical.”

According to national exit polling data compiled by Pew Research Center and averaged

by NPR, white, college-educated voters historically have favored Republicans. In 2012, Obama lost the college-educated white vote to Romney by 14 percentage points.

Suls’ analysis confirms that college-educated white voters

have favored Republican candidates over the years but indicates 2016 will mark the first time in at least a quarter of a century that this group has supported a Democratic candidate.

“In 2016, the broad relationship between greater education and greater GOP support has come undone as Trump’s appeal on trade and immigration, as well as his expression of disdain for elites and the “rigged” system, has mobilized less well educated whites at the expense of traditional, businessman Republicans,” Shaw said in an email.

The survey also showed highly educated voters to have more liberal views than those who were less educated. According to a Pew Research analysis taken in April, 48 percent of college graduates consistently hold liberal views on political issues while 8 percent of non-college-educated voters held consistently liberal views.

“On some high-profile economic and social issues, college educated voters are liberal,” Shaw said in an email. “For example, the environment or gay marriage. But on other issues this tendency is not very great. For example, free trade, deficit reduction and education reform.“ University Democrats president Ashley Alcantara said she believes part of the reason why college-educated voters are more likely to vote Democratic stems from the diverse learning environment they’re exposed to as students.

“The Democratic Party should also be connecting with groups that don’t necessarily have college degrees, so that’s something the party should also discuss going forward,” said Alcantara, a government and Plan II senior.

College Republicans did not return requests for comment on this story.

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UT’s own Resource Recovery branch has a Zero Waste goal, modeled after the city’s, which aims to redirect 90 percent of waste to landfill alternatives by Aug. 31, 2020. Jennifer Hobson, UT’s zero waste coordinator, said the University is currently diverting over 50 percent of generated waste.

Hobson said several of the city’s plans are transferable to campus.

“If people are living in Austin, then they are getting trained … by the city on how to recycle, so our recycling is pretty much exactly the same as the city,” Hobson said.

Hobson said many UT students are familiar with typical recycling but are unaware that donating unused items also helps reduce the University’s carbon footprint.

Currently, Austin’s Universal Recycling Ordinance provisions include providing recycling receptacles for

plastic, paper, cardboard, glass and aluminum. Harm said ARR wants the city to have ways to recycle items of combined materials, such as milk cartons.

“If it’s made up of multiple components, it cannot be recycled, because we cannot separate the metal from the plastic from the paper,” Harm said.

Tristan Baker, project leader of UT’s Trash to Treasure, said students must be more conscious of how much they’re buying and what they do with items they don’t need or use anymore.

“If people are just willing to reuse these perfectly good items they have or donate them to a cause that is going to use them, that is going to be the best alternative than just disposing of it,” geography junior Baker said.

Similarly, ARR has a Recycle & Reuse Drop-Off Center where items can be “recycled, reused or safely discarded,” according to the city’s website. Harm said this is one way Austinites can minimize how much they throw out.

“Try to stop the consumerism so much and the waste,” Harm said. “It’s just a way of thinking and changing your lifestyle a bit.”

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Politicization of fact threatens electoral system

By Alexander Chase and Jordan Shenhar Daily Texan Forum Team @TexanEditorial

After four primetime events moderated by five of television’s most prominent journalists for a total of six hours, the presidential debate schedule has finally reached its conclusion. Yet not once did Americans hear a detailed position on climate change from any of their prospective leaders.

That’s a shame, and not only because the country is increasingly concerned about the effects of a warming planet. In addition to its political, economic and environmental significance, the issue is an excellent microcosm of one of the more troubling trends of the 2016 election cycle: the politicization of fact.

So in this week’s forum, we’re excited to feature a piece from Rep. Lamar Smith (RTX) that touches on both of those themes.

As the chairman of the House Committee on

Science, Space, and Technology, Smith has subpoenaed the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association, demanding the agency release nearly all of its interdepartmental emails, as well as the research methodology of a study debunking the claim — popular among climate change skeptics — that global temperatures had “paused” during the 2000s.

This summer, he subpoenaed the Massachusetts and New York attorneys general along with nine environmental groups as part of an investigation into whether ExxonMobil misled the public on its impact on climate change.

He writes here that his mission is to ensure that federally funded environmental science remains objective and apolitical.

Smith is correct that climate science is too important an endeavor to tether to any one political agenda, and it’s worth mentioning that many of Smith’s Republican colleagues in states from Kansas to Florida promote clean energy and acknowledge the importance of combating climate change.

Unfortunately, Smith’s own position doesn’t

live up to his stated ideals. For instance, he writes that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change disputes that anthropogenic climate change contributes to extreme weather. But the IPCC’s 2012 report on the subject contradicts this, stating that “there is evidence that some extremes have changed as a result of anthropogenic influences, including increases in atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases.”

Smith also has a history of conflating variance in climate models with uncertainty over the existence of climate change. And while he accuses NOAA of cherry-picking data, he wrote an op-ed denouncing its research that cited a single out-of-context image from a single study by the University of East Anglia as countervailing evidence.

We agree with Smith that individuals have a right to hold whatever opinion they wish on the matter of climate change. But the science itself is no matter of opinion. It is not important that the overwhelming majority of scientists agree that global climate change is happening because of human actions, that the

consequences are visible now and that they present a great threat to the world. It is important that they believe that because their research compels them to do so.

When anodyne truths become grounds for political contention, debates over ideas become nearly impossible. The competition between different visions of a better world depends on a common understanding of what the world actually looks like. On that note, we round out this week’s forum with an article by guest columnist Rachel Renier, who argues that legitimizing Donald Trump’s efforts to draw attention to Bill Clinton’s history of sexual misconduct detracts from the severity of Trump’s own behavior.

As always, the Daily Texan forum team welcomes contributions from anyone in and around the UT community. We look forward to hearing from you!

Chase is an economics and Plan II senior from Royse City. Shenhar is an economics, government and Plan II senior from Westport, Connecticut.

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Lamar Smith defends his climate change subpoenas

By Lamar Smith

Lamar Smith, the congressional representative from Texas’ 21st district, speaks at College Republicans on Feb 18. As chairman of the House Science, Space and Technology Committee, Smith has drawn criticism for his repeated subpoenas of climate change researchers.

U.S. Representative for Texas’s 21st District @LamarSmithTX21

The Oct. 12 article, “Rep. Lamar Smith obstructs climate action, scientific progress,” mischaracterizes my actions as Chairman of the House of Representatives Science Committee.

The subpoenas I issued to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, two state attorneys general, and eight environmental groups are not about climate change, but about the constitutional right of the Committee to protect the freedom of scientific inquiry and to ensure regulations are based on sound science, not political motivations.

State officials and others should not try to intimidate those with differing views, and it is my responsibility to ensure that everyone, regardless of their scientific opinions, has a voice.

The subpoena issued to NOAA demanded information about a study regarding the hiatus in global temperature rise for which the agency cherry-picked data to come to a predetermined conclusion — conveniently timed to further the administration’s regulatory agenda and international climate negotiations. Research conducted behind closed doors and that is inaccessible to the American public cannot be trusted. At a minimum, federal government research should be publicly available.

Regarding extreme weather, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has said there is “high agreement” among leading experts that long-term trends in weather disasters are not due

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to human-caused climate change. Unfortunately, administration officials and the national media regularly use hurricanes, tornadoes, droughts and floods to justify the need for costly climate change regulations. The best available science, not alarmism, should be used in policymaking

and informing the American people.

The citizens of the 21st District in my home state of Texas, and the entire country, deserve lawmakers who will promote a transparent government and ensure that their hard-earned taxpayer dollars are being spent on legitimate

scientific endeavors. I am proud to be doing just that.

Congressman Lamar Smith represents Texas’s 21st district in the U.S. House of Representatives and is the Chairman of the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee.

FORUM

Trump’s false entitlement underlies sexist campaign

By Rachel Renier

Daily Texan Guest Columnist

The most cringe-worthy moment from Wednesday night’s debate did not come from either of the two candidates. It came from Fox News anchor and selected moderator, Chris Wallace. When confronting Trump on the recent allegations of sexual harassment, Wallace roped Clinton into the mix, “And since this is a question for both of you, Secretary Clinton, Mr. Trump says what your husband did and what you defended was even worse.”

Hillary Clinton did not address her husband’s sexual misconduct during office. She did answer with grounding force that Donald Trump is unquestionably a threat to women.

“Donald thinks belittling women makes him bigger. He goes after their dignity, their self-worth, and I don’t think there is a woman anywhere that doesn’t know what that feels like,” Clinton said.

On stage next to her boisterous and boundary-oblivious rival, Clinton delivered the human moment many voters have been searching for. Trump floundered, diverting attention away from his likely sexual misconduct, reductively pointing to Bill Clinton as the real adversary of women.

While Trump certainly should be held responsible for sexist behavior, Hillary is not accountable for the actions and misconduct of her husband. Julie Minish, assistant professor of English and Mexican American studies, agrees Clinton should not be shamed within the larger conversation of sexual assault.

“It strikes me as a man speaking over a woman to talk to other men. It’s a certain type of gendered discourse as a way to discredit

her as a woman,” Minish said.

Like Trump, Bill Clinton is also guilty of past sexist behavior. However, Hillary Clinton is running for president, and her husband’s sexual past is irrelevant to the current election. While Hillary was part of the Clinton and Obama administrations, Trump inappropriately attributes their unpopular policies to Clinton.

Despite the plethora of sexist rhetoric spewing from the Trump campaign, a notso-small group of GOP women still stand behind the candidate. The release of Trump’s 2005 audio showing unwarranted sexual advancements towards women raises serious concerns for other female voters.

Whether downplaying the statements or prioritizing his other platform issues, 73 percent of GOP women remain loyal to the Trump campaign. Juliet Hooker, associate professor of government, African and African diaspora studies, and women’s and gender studies, aptly points out that partisanship may overrule overt misogyny spouted by the Trump campaign.

A vote for Trump for these women is maybe a vote of no-confidence in the current political class who has failed to “protect” America. Women voters who don’t seem to be concerned about the trivialization of sexual assault, like Hooker suggests, may already internalize sexist arguments.

“Women are not exempt from sexism,” Hooker said.

The most salient feature of the Trump candidacy is his devotion to an image of masculinity. To certain female voters, this is appealing; Trump’s promise of uncompromising protection and leadership relies on the same

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Donald Trump speaks at a rally in Austin on Aug. 23. In the past two weeks, allegations have emerged that Trump has sexually assaulted almost a dozen women.

sexist principles that condone rape culture.

Trump is antithetical to Hillary — an absurd, over-the-top masculine counterpart. Voters may condone his sexual misconduct because they have confidence in traditional male attributes. Trump embodies a fragile construct of ideal masculinity: uncompromising, aggressive, sexually charged, heterosexual.

Diverting attention to Hillary’s husband’s infidelity does not mean Trump is genuinely concerned with sexual assault. He simply believes he is above the law. Last week at

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a North Carolina rally, Trump pouted that he’s become “a victim of one of the great political smear campaigns in the history of our country,” in response to allegations of sexual harassment.

Trump’s dalliance with legal troubles, from Trump University to the sexual harassment accusations, point to one predominant and consistent attitude: false entitlement. Trump doesn’t believe he should be held accountable for anything.

Renier is a Plan II and rhetoric and writing senior from Houston.

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LGBT students go from roommates to relationship

By Mae Hamilton @thedailytexan

When they were roommates, Prity Kahn and Lisa Bei were so close they would often joke about being in a relationship. But when they first met, Kahn was unsure if they would ever get along.

“I thought, ‘Oh man, are we ever going to laugh together when I’m living with this person?’” sociology sophomore Kahn said.

“This person isn’t making any facial reactions to what I’m saying, and I’m the type of person that feels like they have to compensate with loudness if the person they’re talking to is quiet.”

Kahn and sociology junior Bei are a gay couple who met in 2014. Both had put off finding roommates until the last minute and were desperate to find someone. Despite first impressions, they moved in together. As they got to know each other better, they discovered they shared many common interests to the point where it felt uncanny.

“Sometimes I would even lie about my interests because I didn’t want it to seem like I was

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human life,” Livermon said.

“I think for far too long we have seen LGBTQ history as maybe something that is outside the norms of study.

Wesee it as something you do when everything else is finished, so what I’m trying to do in my coursework is say that LGBTQ issues are a central aspect of what it means to be human.”

Julie Minich, an English and Mexican American and Latina studies assistant professor, includes LGBT course

trying to appeal to her,” Kahn said. “I had to ‘fess up because it got so hard to keep track of what I liked and didn’t like.”

Bei said she recalls hearing her friends complaining about awful roommates and being unable to relate. Bei and Kahn shared a special intimacy others just didn’t seem to have.

“It was a constant sleepover every day,” Bei said. “We’d talk really late into the night eating cookies and things like that.”

As the school year progressed, both began to wonder if their friendship could be something more.

“We would joke about [becoming romantic] but then it got awkward because we both realized that maybe it wasn’t [a joke],” Bei said.

After months of confusion, both finally admitted that they had feelings for one another.

But Kahn and Bei soon realized being together as a gay, Asian-American couple also has its difficulties.

Kahn, who is South Asian and Muslim, said she’s felt enormous pressure to keep her sexuality from her loved ones.

“There are people in my life who, because of

religious or personal beliefs, would tell me that I was doing something wrong,” Kahn said. “This was coming from a person that I thought was a good friend.

It hurts. There are a lot of South Asians out there in the gay community [who] can’t come out to their parents because of cultural and religious standards.”

Coming to terms with

being queer wasn’t an easy journey for Bei either.

“I went to an all-girls [school] and everyone would talk about crushes, and I just didn’t get it,” Bei said. “They would [talk] about all these ‘hot men’ and I was like, ‘They’re alright.’ I realized I just didn’t feel the same way.”

Despite homophobia and parental pressures, Bei

and Kahn try to focus on enjoying each other’s company. Kahn said her favorite thing about being around Bei is her spontaneity and adventurous personality.

“We’ll just throw our cares into the wind and go to the park, look at the stars and enjoy the air,” Kahn said. “We take our cameras and explore Austin together. She pushes me

to do that. I think it would have taken me a lot longer to get off campus and explore Austin if I hadn’t been with her.”

At the end of the day, Bei and Kahn can’t imagine not being together with their best friends: each other.

“She dares me to push beyond my comfort zone,” Bei said. “We feed off of each other.”

material in her class “Deviant Bodies: Disability, Race, and Sexuality.” When she lectured about the history of HIV and AIDS, she was surprised to learn many students didn’t know how the epidemic originated or how the disease was transmitted.

“That was an example of a time when I was teaching something I thought was relevant to LGBTQ history, but it turned out teaching this material ended up benefiting a lot of students who might not necessarily be LGBTQ but learned something about how to practice safer sex and

sexual health,” Minich said.

She said she finds it rewarding when students discover how much of mainstream American history includes LGBT history.

“It’s not necessarily about changing students’ minds,” Minich said. “It’s helping students realize that LGBTQ people have been part of the United States, part of our culture and part of our society forever, and furthermore, I think it’s especially important for LGBTQ students to have access to material in their classes that reflects their lives.”

Even in the English department, faculty such as English associate professor Eric Mallin incorporate LGBT history into the coursework. In his curriculum, Mallin includes Shakespeare’s plays, which were performed by all-male casts, and his erotic sonnets, which were often dedicated to another man.

“It’s not as though I am trying to make a political point exactly, but I think it is just historically and scholastically incorrect not to bring these issues up when you are talking about Shakespeare and sexuality,” Mallin said.

While LGBT undercurrents existed as early as Shakespeare, Livermon said representation for marginalized groups is still lacking today. Although he said the LGBT community currently has better representation in the media, there is still room for improvement, especially with regard to intersectionality.

“One of the things that is important to me is making sure that we do expand the representation of LGBTQ people of color and the LGBTQ people who are living in the Global

South, and that’s what a lot of my classes focus on,” Livermon said.

Minich said one of the ways to increase this kind of representation is through education.

“I think it’s wonderful that UT offers students so many courses that reflect LGBTQ perspectives [and] perspectives of people of color — just marginalized perspectives in general,” Minich said. “I think the more that people learn about these topics, hopefully, the more just and fair our society can become.”

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Texas chases elusive road victory over Wildcats

By Tyler Horka @TexasTy95

Saturday, Oct. 24, 2015, wasn’t a normal day in Austin.

The rain poured on the 40 Acres that day, and it didn’t stop. Players and coaches were drenched as 4.79 inches of rain gushed from the sky during Texas’ showdown with Kansas State, an uncommon occurrence during a Texas October.

But the Longhorns still prevailed with a score of 23-9, possibly the most curious occurrence of them all given the team’s track record against the Wildcats. Kansas State is 8–4 against Texas since joining the Big 12.

Texas controlled the line of scrimmage and ran wild on Kansas State’s defense, beating the Wildcats at their own game when the conditions demanded it the most.

“It won’t be pretty today,” head coach Charlie Strong told his team prior to the game. “It may be sloppy out there, it’s going to be slushy, but we’ve just got to go out and just score when we have an opportunity to go score on offense.”

Strong and his team look to pick up back-to-back wins against Kansas State for the first time in a decade.

Kansas State piled up five wins in a row over Texas from 2006–2012, and it got back in the win column against the burnt orange with a 23-0 shellacking two years ago in Manhattan, Kansas.

Strong takes his team north to the Little Apple, hoping to drown out the noise inside Bill Snyder Family Stadium for the team’s first win in Manhattan since 2002.

“That’s a tough place to play, because they don’t lose many games at home,” Strong said. “They always have a sellout crowd, and their fans are really into it.”

Texas failed to rush for 100 yards the last time it played visitor to Kansas State, and the offense only threw for 106 yards. Led by freshman quarterback Shane Buechele, the Longhorns bring a more equipped attack to the Sunflower State this weekend.

The true freshman has thrown for 250 yards per game and has 13 passing touchdowns, but he said junior running back D’Onta Foreman deserves much of the credit for the 38.7 points per game the Texas offense averages.

“That man right there is rolling right now,” Buechele said. “He’s really impressive, and he’s fun to watch. Just seeing what he can do with

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Junior running back D’Onta Foreman has been a key part of Texas’ offense, which averages 38.7 points per game this season. He’ll face a tough challenge against Kansas State’s rush defense, which is No. 3 in the nation.

the ball, he’s a great player, and just being able to hand it off to him and seeing what he can do, it’s a lot of fun.”

Both Strong and offensive coordinator Sterlin Gilbert said they can rely on Foreman to carry the ball 25, 30 or possibly even 40 times a game

from here on out. Texas may need Foreman to do so to beat the fundamentally sound Kansas State rush defense, which ranks No. 3 in the nation in rushing yards allowed.

Whether Foreman only gets 20 carries or Texas elects to run the ball 53 times like it

did in soaking wet conditions last year, one thing’s for certain: Foreman is determined to make the most of his usage.

“I [only] worry about what’s going on in this locker room,” Foreman said. “[I’m] trying to get this team back moving

forward in the right direction and me just going out there and being a leader and working hard everyday at practice, on the field, and in the game.”

The Longhorns and Wildcats kick off at 11 a.m. on Saturday.

SOCCER

BASKETBALL

Longhorn seniors prepare for tough final home games

Fans pack Gregory Gym for Texas Tip-Off

By Alex Briseno @Alexxbriseno

The No. 1 team in the nation is coming to town for Texas’ Senior Day on Sunday afternoon.

West Virginia (13–1–1 overall, 5–0–0 conference) has outscored its opponents 29–6 this season. But the Longhorns (7–7–1 overall, 0–4–1 conference) say they are ready for the challenge.

“You come to Texas because you want to play the best,” senior defender Isabelle Kerr said. “Obviously I want to go out on my senior night with a win, and I know everyone on our team looks at it as a great opportunity, so we’re really excited.”

Although Texas’ contest against the top-ranked Mountaineers is the marquee matchup of the weekend, the team first has to face Texas Tech on Friday night at Mike A. Myers Field. The Longhorns are adamant about protecting their home field to boost momentum before taking on West Virginia.

“It’s an exciting weekend — it’s our last home weekend,” senior midfielder Julia Dyche said. “We just want to come out and play like we know we can and get some wins.”

Texas is still looking to qualify for the Big 12 tournament. However, that requires at least one win in the last three games, and the Longhorns have yet to earn a conference victory this season.

“This weekend is huge,” Dyche said. “The next three games are huge. We know how important they are. We know the sense of urgency we need to play with, so

We know the sense of urgency we need to play with, so that’s what you’re going to see Friday night: a team that feels that urgency.

—Julia Dyche, Midfielder

that’s what you’re going to see Friday night: a team that feels that urgency.”

Adding to the already high stakes this weekend, the two games mark the last time the team’s seniors will play on the 40 Acres.

And even with at least three games remaining this season, head coach Angela Kelly can’t help but reflect on the impact the Longhorn seniors have made in their four years.

“They’ve been with us since day one,” Kelly said.

“And certainly adopted the philosophy and have been leading by example … I think they’ve certainly left their mark on this program.”

The Longhorns kick off against Texas Tech on Friday at 7 p.m. They follow it up with a 5 p.m. start on Sunday against West Virginia.

Texas’ seniors hope to end their Longhorn tenure at home on a high note.

“I don’t think it’ll probably hit until Sunday night or after,” Kerr said. “I’ve only had great memories here. It’s been such a blessing to have the opportunity to play here.”

Joshua Guerra | Daily Texan Staff Senior midfielder Julia Dyche is one of five seniors preparing to play their last games at Mike A. Myers Field. Texas will face Texas Tech and No. 1 West Virginia this weekend.

By Shane Lewis @theREALsplewis

Fans clad in burnt orange lined up outside of Gregory Gymnasium hours before tipoff, eager to watch their beloved Longhorns in action.

Inside, the Texas band blared “Texas Fight” while the Hype Squad did their best to get everyone fired up. Pre-game introductions featured pyrotechnics, dancing and the raucous roars of a packed house.

No, it wasn’t a Texas-Kansas game. It was a scrimmage.

Thursday marked the second annual Texas Tip-Off, an orange-white scrimmage broken up into two 12-minute halves. While the scrimmage helps players adjust to game action, head coach Shaka Smart said it also is a great way for the team to build a bond with the fan base.

“We really appreciate their support. It really means a lot to our guys,” Smart said. “Our guys were nervous tonight because they genuinely wanted to play in front of the fans.

What we’re trying to build

here is a special connection between our team, particularly our players, and our fans.”

The game itself ended up going down to the wire, with the white team pulling out a 59-56 victory. The white team trailed by two with under a minute left in the game, but a three-point shot by sophomore Eric Davis Jr. put the squad up for good.

“We needed a big bucket,” Davis Jr. said. “I have a scoring mentality, and I said I was going to go out there and be aggressive. I said I was going to go out there and hit a three, and that’s what I did.”

Davis Jr. finished the scrimmage with 14 points.

Junior forward Dylan Osetkowski, a transfer from Tulane who is ineligible to play this season, led the white squad with 17 points on a perfect 7–7 from the field.

The freshmen also made their presence felt despite a slow start. Guards Andrew Jones and Jacob Young combined for 20 points and 11 assists and made several pesky plays on the defensive end.

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Sophomore guard Eric Davis Jr. scored 14 points in the intrasquad scrimmage, including the game-winning threepoint shot for the white team.

Center James Banks was cool down the stretch, sinking two important free throws for the white team in the waning seconds.

Forward Jarrett Allen sat out the scrimmage with a hamstring injury.

“You could tell [the freshmen] had some jitters,” Smart said. “But that’s why we do this, you know, just to have like a dress rehearsal. I like those guys a lot. I think all four of them are really going to help the team this year.”

And while the game may not have any implications on March Madness, the outcome was not without its consequences.

“It’s about bragging rights in the locker room,” Davis Jr. said.

The Longhorns return to the Frank Erwin Center for an exhibition game against Angelo State on Nov. 2. They then begin their season at home against Incarnate Word on Nov. 11.

VOLLEYBALL

Texas strives to continue dominating Texas Tech

By Steve Helwick @naqwerty3

Only 384 miles separate Texas and Texas Tech.

But so far in 2016, the two programs live on opposite sides of the spectrum in terms of volleyball.

The No. 2 Longhorns (15–2, 7–0 Big 12) travel to Lubbock for a match against the Red Raiders (10–12, 0–7 Big 12) this weekend. The Red Raiders own the only losing record in the conference and have dropped 10 straight matches. The team has also been swept in its last six Big 12 contests.

“We got good teams [in our conference],” head coach Jerritt Elliott said.

“And good teams, when they play Texas, become great teams. This is their national championship game and the one they have circled on the calendar.”

The Longhorns enter the match with 10 consecutive sweeps over the Red

Raiders going back to 2011.

Texas defeated TCU 3-0 on Wednesday night, its first Big 12 sweep in seven matches this season.

“Our conference is getting tougher each year, so all the competition is pretty hard,” junior libero Cat McCoy said. “Getting a sweep shows a lot about how we’re growing as a team.”

Texas’ defense has improved by a wide margin in recent matches. McCoy leads the way, amassing 53 digs in the last three victories.

“We’ve been practicing so much on our defense, and it’s getting better,” Elliott said. “Sometimes the offense isn’t there and they make it up on the defensive side.”

Senior setter Chloe Collins has established herself as one of the team’s strongest two-way players. She posted a double-double in the Longhorns’ previous match against TCU, earning 37 assists and 15 digs in only three sets.

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Junior libero Cat McCoy anchors Texas’ much-improved defense. Texas hits the road this weekend chasing an 11th straight sweep over Texas Tech.

Despite a No. 2 ranking and undefeated conference record, Texas has yet to fix its most glaring issue: the service error. Texas consistently hands its opponents free points, especially in the last three games.

Luckily for Texas, the Longhorns have made up for their service errors with strong play on both sides of the net. But as the season winds down to NCAA

Tournament play, it is a fault Texas must remedy before facing elite programs.

“We’re giving up, but we’re going on some runs too,” Elliott said. “I know we’re scoring some points from the serve too. With our defense we have to keep teams off the net and be at a good position.”

The Longhorns and Red Raiders begin play in Lubbock at 6 p.m. on Friday night.

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LIFE&ARTS

LGBT History Month LGBT student discovers acceptance in fraternity

By David Spector @_spectography_

When Matthew Bensen arrived on campus, he hadn’t come out and was unsure of his place at the University. But after a couple months, he found comfort in the last place he expected — a fraternity.

“I didn’t come out to people at UT until November of my freshman year, and that’s when I came out to my family,” Bensen said.

“I didn’t come out to my pledge class until a couple of weeks in. I wanted to be able to trust them.”

Bensen wasn’t sure he wanted to be a part of the larger panhellenic community because of the way he perceived some of the organizations. He was afraid the larger fraternities lacked transparency when it came to customs such as rush and was intimidated by the practices that took place behind the organization’s closed doors. Instead, he was drawn to smaller, more specialized fraternities. “[It] appealed to me because they were transparent about what their organization was,” Bensen said. “Especially with the stigma about being gay.”

As a freshman, Bensen was worried his

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First openly queer professors hired at UT.

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involvement in the music school would prevent him from participating in other extracurriculars.

“Coming into UT, I had fraternities contacting me, but I realized I could not do both,” Bensen said.

Instead, Bensen stepped out of his comfort zone and joined music fraternity Phi Mu Alpha and is rushing film fraternity

Delta Kappa Alpha this semester. He found the smaller, more tightly knit communities helped him and other students find their footing in the bigger collegiate ecosystem.

“PMA does a lot of service, they sing and do a lot of events for the Deans’ office and service for the surrounding community,” Bensen said. “It was really cool to point people to [PMA] and say, ‘This is a group I’m a

2014

1993 First queer woman elected as Student Government president.

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LGBTQ/Sexualities Studies certificate established.

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First gay student activist group created on campus.

First LGBT-related announcement in The Daily Texan.

part of.’”

Bensen said the stigma surrounding fraternities and sororities can deter people who are looking to be accepted from joining. But the hyper-masculine connotation associated with fraternities was not representative of what Bensen experienced. Instead, the fraternal group he found was extraordinarily accepting of him and his sexuality.

“It’s so easy to go through life and let selfdoubt rule your life,” Bensen said. “Everyone has a story and secrets. It was so fulfilling to see people finding themselves and seeing, oh, I’m not alone.”

As he began meeting more like-minded people in his fraternity, Bensen quickly saw his network of friends expand.

“For me, it is hard to meet people by chance — that’s just part of being a music major,” Bensen said. “To meet people outside of that takes immersion.”

Bensen hopes that no one will be deterred from getting involved in organizations based on their perceptions of them and that, regardless of sexuality, the ability to be a part of something should always be available.

“With any organization you join, there is a sense of pride,” Bensen said. “You get a sense of confidence being a part of larger things.”

Gender and Sexuality Center opens.

Center for Women’s and Gender Studies LGBTQ/Sexualities Research Cluster founded.

2015

UT opens first inclusive LGBT sorority.

U.S. legalizes gay marriage.

UT extends benefits to same-sex partners.

Infographic by Sierra Garcia | Daily Texan Staff

LGBT musicians influence genres, pave way for artists

By Chris Duncan @chr_dunc

From groundbreaking albums to boundary-pushing discussions of sexuality, LGBT musicians have played a major role in popular music. In honor of LGBT history month, here’s a list of five musicians that broke ground in both their genre and the progression of sex equality.

Freddie Mercury Throughout his career, Queen lead singer Freddie Mercury was constantly churning out some of the greatest cutting-edge pop the world had ever heard. Queen’s list of hits is never ending, and to this day Mercury’s lyrics are played on the radio and sung throughout stadiums across nations. Mercury was a true showman, using his legendary voice to put on some of the most renowned live shows of all time, including Queen’s famous performances at Wembley Stadium in 1986 and their 1985 show for Live Aid. Known for his flamboyant and bombastic stage presence, Mercury was the complete opposite off-stage. He preferred to keep his private life quiet, and although he wasn’t afraid to express his sexuality, Mercury never allied himself with LGBT causes. Nonetheless, his image stands as one of the most prolific of its kind.

Michael Stipe Although his band’s name would imply their music is dreamy and sleepy, Michael Stipe and R.E.M were anything but, portraying a vibrant and mysterious image. As lead singer of the band, Stipe was their unwilling figurehead, finding himself at the forefront of one of the fastest growing bands in the world, and eventually finding his groove writing some of the most poetic lyrics of his time.

During his band’s peak success following their hit albums Out of Time and Automatic for the People, rumors that Stipe had contracted HIV began to circulate, and

questions about his sexuality followed. Although the HIV rumors were false, Stipe came out in 1994, not defining himself as gay or bisexual, but as queer, or in his own words, “an equal opportunity lech.”

Melissa Etheridge Melissa Etheridge might be the perfect musician. She’s a fantastic singer, can write a great hook and expresses heartache and joy through her lyrics, all while carrying the swagger of a rock star. Her self-titled debut kicked off her career, but it wasn’t until 1993’s Yes I Am that her lesbian angst and blues rock riffs hit the mainstream.

Etheridge is a prominent activist for the LGBT community. As one of the first highprofile gay celebrities to have children, Etheridge has helped push boundaries for public acceptance of LGBT families and fostered the relationship between gay and straight Christians.

Frank Ocean Frank Ocean prefers to keep a low profile with nearly everything, including his sexuality. He didn’t come out until 2012, when he posted a blurb on his Tumblr including, “I don’t know what happens now, and that’s alrite. I don’t have any secrets I need kept anymore … I feel like a free man.” He has since written think pieces for his Tumblr about the upcoming presidential election and the recent shooting at a gay nightclub in Orlando.

From the beginning of his first mixtape, nostalgia, ULTRA., former Odd Future cohort Frank Ocean made it obvious he didn’t support the homophobia of the other artists in the collective. In “We All Try,” Ocean hits the ground running, singing, “I believe that marriage isn’t between a man and woman but between love and love.”

Since, he’s written some of the most heartwrenching love tales of all time, including “Ivy” on his most recent LP, Blonde, which tells the story of Ocean’s first love at the age of 19.

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Courtesy of Focus Features

In Dallas Buyers Club, Matthew McConaughey and Jared Leto give honest and powerful performances as Ron Woodruff and transgender prostitute Rayon, both struggling with AIDS.

Four noteworthy movies highlight LGBT narratives

By Penn Harrison

that drove two men to jeopardize their families and lives for each other.

Long before Hilary Swank and Jared Leto won Oscars for honest, powerful portrayals of LGBT characters, many films misrepresented and ignored members of the LGBT community. Below, The Daily Texan compiled four recent films notable for their memorable and artistically astute portrayals of LGBT characters to celebrate LGBTQ History Month.

Dallas Buyers Club (2013) Matthew McConaughey won an Oscar for Best Actor in this Texas-set drama as Ron Woodruff, a homophobic, heroin-junkie cowboy whose life is turned upside down when he receives an HIV diagnosis and learns he has 30 days to live. Unable to obtain an experimental drug which could prolong his life, he begins smuggling it from Mexico and starts a business distributing the medicine to other AIDS patients. He forms an unlikely partnership with Rayon (Jared Leto), a transgender prostitute and AIDS patient. Leto shared the Oscar stage with McConaughey for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for his raw, uninhibited portrayal of Rayon, notably staying in character off-set for all 25 days of filming. “Dallas Buyers Club” is powerful both in its depiction of LGBT characters and moving story of a straight man who overcame his homophobia to help the gay people in his community.

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Boys Don’t Cry (1999) In 1993, Teena Brandon changed her name to Brandon Teena, moved to Falls City, Nebraska, and passed as a man for over a year. He made new friends, dated a beautiful girl and enjoyed an adventurous life he couldn’t have lived back home. “Boys Don’t Cry” dramatizes this true story in an exciting romantic drama, which Roger Ebert famously called “‘Romeo and Juliet’ in a Nebraska trailer park.” Hilary Swank’s Oscar-winning, gender-bending, breakout performance as Brandon is bold, believable and unforgettable. Even when he suffers unspeakable horrors, Brandon’s courage, resilience and resourcefulness shine. “Boys Don’t Cry” honors his memory and leaves a mark few will forget.

Brokeback Mountain (2005) In the summer of 1963, cowboys Jack (Jake Gyllenhaal) and Ennis (Heath Ledger) fall in love while working a Wyoming ranch. They part ways, marry women and have children, but the unbreakable bond they forged that summer pulls them back together, and they reunite every few years in secret, concealing their affair and their sexualities from their families.

Director Ang Lee chronicles a universally sympathetic romance in a beautifully shot epic, proving far more meaningful than the “gay cowboy movie” many simplify it as. “Brokeback Mountain” shows the pain of true love in a society which forbade it and the lasting bond

Carol (2015) Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara give exquisite performances in this 1950s period piece about a young toy store clerk, Therese (Mara), who falls in love with Carol, an older woman going through a divorce (Blanchett). Early in the film, both women express ambivalence about their sexuality: Carol tries to conceal affairs with women from her jealous husband, and Therese responds to a question about marrying men with “I barely even know what to order for lunch.” Like “Brokeback Mountain,” “Carol” depicts two LGBT characters struggling with heterosexual relationships while hiding their true selves. As soon as Carol and Therese discover their love for one another, they have to hide it — an all-too-common burden for many LGBT people during that time.