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Students protest election results By Paul Cobler @paulcobler
International relations sophomore Amina Amdeen marched through downtown Austin, protesting the election of Donald Trump with about 300 other people Sunday night, but when several of her fellow protesters destroyed the sign of a Trump supporter, she intervened. Amdeen jumped between the protesters and the Trump supporter, Joseph Weid-
knecht, screaming at them to leave him alone before police detained at least six people. “They circled around him like they were going to attack him,” Amdeen said. “This is not what we stand for. This man didn’t say anything. He didn’t say he hated us. He didn’t say he meant us harm, and they tore up his sign.” Weidknecht, an Austin citizen, said Amdeen’s actions made him emotional. “I came out here for a peaceful protest to show that there were two sides to the
movement, pro-Trump and anti-Trump,” Weidknecht said. “To see that someone was actually willing to get in between the violent and the nonviolent and try to protect me and my rights, while at the same time expressing her own, deeply affects me. I could cry.” The protest marked the third time in five days that people gathered in downtown Austin objecting to Trump’s election. Students
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Anti-Trump protesters cross the Brazos and 9th Street intersection during their march through downtown Sunday night.
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Students stumbled their way through a pitch black room, feeling their way along the backs of chairs to find a seat at the crowded dinner table. For just under two hours Thursday night, these students got a taste of what it’s like to be blind. The disABILITY Advocacy Student Coalition hosted its biannual Dinner in the Dark in the Student Services Building. About 70 students shared a meal and listened to personal stories from four people living with visual disabilities — in complete darkness. Ce’Nandra Franklin, communication sciences disorders audiology senior, is the social and recruitment chair of the Coalition, the student organization affiliated with UT Services for Students with Disabilities. Franklin said the goal of the organization is to make UT students more aware of disability and advocate for others. “We focus on the large letter ‘A’ in ability,” Franklin said. “It’s our focus on what is the human spectrum of what people are able to do, and how can we not only learn from that, but also how can we let other people know about our own experiences.” While attendees clumsily ate a spaghetti dinner using only their senses of smell and taste to identify it, the floor was opened for a Q&A session with the four guest speakers, who traveled from McAllen to educate the group. Salvador Villa is a McAllen high school senior and has
Eric Ibey, a visiting Canadian, stops by the bake sale for diversity to voice what diversity means to him on Friday on the West Mall. The bake sale, hosted by the Diversity and Inclusion Agency of Student Government, was a reaction to the YCT bake sale.
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Students held a bake sale for all genders and races Friday on the West Mall as a response to the Young Conservatives of Texas event two weeks ago which protested the University’s affirmative action policy. The Diversity and Inclusion Agency, a division of Student Government, held the event where organizers provided a free cookie or brownie after passersby wrote what diversity meant to them on a poster board. On Oct. 26, YCT hosted an “affirmative action bake sale” that received national media coverage for its representation of affirmative action. The group determined prices for their baked goods based on ethnicity and gender to protest how the policy considers race in its admission process. Agency Director Karla Chavez, an international
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Integrative biology graduate student Amanda Perofsky gave a talk about lemurs Thursday night at the Brackenridge Field Lab.
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On Thursday at the Brackenridge Field Laboratory, integrative biology graduate student Amanda Perofsky gave a talk about the diverse world of lemurs and some of the challenges they face. There are over 100 different species of lemurs, all of which are only found in Madagascar. During her talk, part of the Science Under the Stars lecture series, Perofsky explained her work: she researches how social structures of the Verreaux’s sifaka lemur can influence the species’ gut microbiome. Perofsky’s work focuses on grooming as a way to transmit these gut microbes. The Verreaux’s sifaka lemurs she studies live in small social groups and groom each other not only to remove parasites, but also as an important social
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function. By studying the bacteria in fecal samples and the behavior of the lemurs, Perofsky found that different social groups — even within a small area — have different microbiome compositions. She also found that the amount of grooming between lemurs increased the similarity of their microbiomes.
“Lemurs’ social relationships influence bacteria transmission and gut microbial communities,” she said. “It’s really important to study this in lemurs, most of the time people are focused on monkeys and apes, so it’s really important to learn about evolution through studying lemurs.”
Perofsky said when she began graduate school, she wanted to do research that combined computational and field work with molecular studies. “I decided that wildlife disease ecology would be an ideal field for me to enter
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The Students for a Stateless Society criticized University Democrats for their actions during the affirmative action bake sale hosted by the Young Conservatives of Texas on Oct. 26 in an open letter this week, saying encouraging students of color to vote at the protest was not helpful to the protesters. The letter was posted on the organization’s website and said the actions of UDems at the protest sought to normalize the actions and consequences of the bake sale, which many students of color found to be inherently racist. “Voting at that minute would have and has done nothing to respond to a
local and immediate act of racism,” the letter said. “To vote alone would mean to tolerate intolerance and welcome it back onto our campus. Clearly the University Democrats don’t mind if that is what’s at stake, because in their Facebook post responding to the event they claimed that what was ‘really at stake’ was the election.” The S4SS said students of color were just “badges” for UDems and said the calls of UDems members to “go vote” during the protest is indicative of prioritization of elections over the needs of students of color. UDems President Ashley Alcantara said the letter was the first time anyone had voiced this concern to the
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organization, but that the concerns addressed in the letter were valid. “I think their concerns about our behavior during the bake sale were very valid, because the fact is, we screwed up,” said Alcantara, a government and Plan II senior. “We should’ve stopped trying to encourage people to vote and not kept our table set up as soon as we realized people were going to protest the bake sale.” Alcantara said she
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intends to work more directly with people of color and apologized to students who may have been adversely affected by their actions. Former UDems President Huey Rey Fischer, a former candidate for State House District 49, posted the letter on Facebook and received backlash for supporting the thoughts in the letter. “The letter was full of gross and unnecessary attacks that distracted from an important takeaway: We as Democrats need to start prioritizing social change over
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because it offers the intellectual excitement of integrating several disciplines and intimately connects basic science, public health, and wildlife conservation,” she said in an email. Perofsky said that lemurs’ gut microbes, or the microorganisms that inhabit digestive tracts of animals, are essential for growth, metabolism, immune function and protection from pathogens. Perofsky said that because lemurs are less similar to humans than apes and other monkeys, studying them can help understand the evolution of primate sociality and how these social structure relate to gut microbiomes. Rebecca Lewis, a UT anthropology professor who studies lemurs in Madagascar, recruited Perofsky to her research group five years ago. The two have visited Madagascar twice to capture lemurs. Lewis said that Perofsky’s work, along with research about diseases in lemurs, can help conserve these animals and maintain their populations. Perofsky’s work also looks at zoonotic diseases, or diseases that spread between humans and other species, such as the bird flu. When people and their animals pass through different habitats, diseases that they carry can spread to the species that live there, Lewis said. “Understanding the diseases of [our closest relatives] and how these diseases spread is really important for understanding where [diseases might be spread] and also how we may inadvertently influence wild populations just by passing through forests,” Lewis said. “Seeing that mix of microbes is really important for conservation.” According to Perofsky, about 95 percent of lemur species are endangered because they are hunted by humans and because deforestation and agriculture cause habitat destruction. She added that between 80 and 90 percent of Madagascar’s original forests are gone. “[Lemurs are] the most threatened mammal group, maybe even the most threatened vertebrate group, in the world,” she said. Perofsky said lemur populations can be preserved with more effective management of Madagascar’s parks and reserves as well as by restoring habitats by adding native trees. “I encourage people to get involved, because chances are a lot of the lemurs are not going to be around by the time my son grows up,” Lewis said. “Or students here at UT, by the time their kids are in college, chances are a lot of these lemurs are going to be gone.”
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Veterans march down Congress Street as thousands of people gather around to support those who serve and have served. Austin’s Veteran’s Day parade was held in honor of the men and women who have gven time to protect this country.
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Thousands of Austinites lined Congress Avenue Friday morning to watch the 63rd Austin Veterans’ Day Parade Ceremony, where a procession of bagpipes, firetrucks and Jeeps led supporters and veterans. Mayor Steve Adler, who participated in the parade, said the event was special to him because his father was a disabled veteran in World War II. “It rings home with me,” Adler said. “It’s important as a community to collectively thank veterans and the folks that are potentially putting themselves in harm for the rest of us.” The parade began at 9:30 a.m. as people started to walk toward the State Capitol building. Above the crowded streets,
many watched from offices or left work to watch the event. “It’s great that so many people came out to honor the veterans,” said Chris Nurrin, a foreman with National Electric who watched the parade near his work site. “This is a parade that’s showing unity as opposed to the parade the other day that was just divisive. I think this is wonderful.” Nurrin was referencing the anti-Trump protests last night which took a similar route to the Capitol. Adler said this parade is important to connect people in the wake of the election. “We just went through a trying election on lots of levels,” Adler said. “But today everybody gathers in one place as one people saying thank you, and that feels good.” Government senior Dan Hamilton served five years in
the Marine Corps in Iraq and Afghanistan because he said he wanted to grow up, see the world and serve his country. He said he didn’t want to go to college and just do what everyone else was doing. After his service, Hamilton came to UT to build on his experiences in the military and make himself more wellrounded as an individual. He said it felt weird being called “a veteran” at first, being so young. “My service was one of the most important things I did and will always be one of the most important things I ever did, but the time and the place we are in now after service also has a tremendous amount of value,” Hamilton said. “It’s a time of reflection on those we served with and a gratitude of that, but it’s also a reminder to continue to serve my com-
munity and to serve my family and to serve in the classroom and be a leader.” After the parade concluded around 10:45 a.m., a group of veterans took a seat on the steps of the Capitol where radio personality Bob Cole addressed a crowd gathered for a ceremony. Cole read a statement from Governor Greg Abbott honoring veterans, and Senator Robert Nichols read a similar statement from the State Senate. State Representative Paul Workman also came to honor those who have served. Mayor Adler then took the podium and thanked veterans, emphasizing the importance of honoring and helping veterans. “We can never do enough,” Adler said before he read a proclamation that officially honored Nov. 11th, 2016, as Veterans Day.
The Indonesian Student Association at Austin hosted the event “Khatulistiwa” Saturday at the Union Patio to showcase Indonesian culture through dancing performances, food stands and presentations. “Khatulistiwa” means “equator” in Indonesian. The event got its name because Indonesia is usually referred to as “the emerald of the equator.” During the fourhour event, professional Indonesian dancers dressing up in colorful, shining costumes danced with traditional Indonesian music. Participants also enjoyed Indonesian food, crafted Indonesian clothes and learned about each island in the country. Neuroscience sophomore Anna Claudia Sutanto, the co-head of the event and communication officer of the association, said it was the first time for the association to host this kind of event. “With this event, we really want to promote our Indonesian culture and try to bring our home to Texas,” Sutanto said. “Because we are all international students and we have the opportunity to experience a Texan lifestyle, but not a lot of people get to experience an Indonesian lifestyle.”
Public health sophomore Shreya Angana, who is from India, said this event provided a chance for her to take a glimpse of the Indonesian culture for the first time. “I think [UT] is really diverse, like all kinds of cultural organizations are very active in general,” Angana said Bambang Setyobudhi, consulate general of the Republic of Indonesia in Houston, spoke at the event. “Indonesia is the fourthlargest nation [in terms of population] in the world, after China, India and the United States.” Setyobudhi said. “Indonesia is now widely regarded as a living proof that democracy, Islam, Buddhism and modernity can go hand in hand.” Association President Jessica Pandy, management information systems and economics junior, said she is proud of being an Indonesian. “We are proud of our culture,” Pandy said. “For other Indonesians, we hosted this so that people who are homesick can have a taste of Indonesia again.” There are more than 90 students in the Indonesian Student Association at UT, and most of them are international students. According to Sutanto, they plan to organize similar events every year in the future.
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UT recognized for community service By Burhanuddin Calcuttawala
The Corporation for National & Community Service recently recognized UT on the President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll for meaningful service programs that benefit students and their community.
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The Corporation for National and Community Service has recognized UT on the President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll for meaningful service programs that benefit students and their community. UT is one of over 500 institutions named in the general category of the honor roll for effectual community service. Some of the service initiatives mentioned by the school were the law school’s Richard and Ginni Mithoff Pro Bono Program and McCombs’ accounting practicum class, the latter allowing students to help Austin residents file taxes during the tax season. To achieve this honor, the University also allocated the statutory minimum of 7 percent of their Federal Work-Study funds toward community service jobs, according to the Corporation’s website. The University’s Division
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continues from page 1 relations and global studies junior, offered baked goods and fliers with information about the University and its affirmative action policy. “By doing this bake sale, we are kind of approaching it the right way by providing information about what the demographics are of UT and what affirmative action really is and who it protects,” Chavez said. YCT Communications Director Allison Peregory said this new bake sale only furthered a misunderstanding of her organization’s argument. “Minorities belong on UT Austin’s campus, but no
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continues from page 1 been blind since birth. Villa spoke about playing the snare drum in band, watching his favorite action films and planning to study law at UT. Villa said he enjoys
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of Diversity and Community Engagement cited the Pro Bono Program as one of the initiatives that helped the University earn a spot on the honor roll. “[The] Pro Bono Program empowers students to address unmet legal needs in the community,” Jessica Sinn, communications coordinator for the Division, wrote in a news release. “Students get the opportunity to explore diverse areas of substantive law and develop
practical lawyering skills. The program also introduces students to the legal profession’s tradition and ethical obligation of pro bono service, and helps students incorporate a commitment to service into their professional identities.” Andrea Marsh, director of the Pro Bono Program, said the students are involved in a variety of clinics and partnerships, including ones that help people with criminal records, transgender men and women,
and students with disabilities because of the efforts of student leaders and participants. “The Pro Bono Scholars Program really is a unique element of Texas Law’s Pro Bono Program,” Marsh said. “We are able to run these large, assisted … pro bono clinics because we have really involved student leaders who take on significant management responsibilities in order to create pro bono opportunities for their fellow students.”
application should receive preferential treatment in admissions based upon the candidate’s race, ethnicity or gender,” Peregory said in a text message. “Allowing affirmative action to exist at our universities only perpetuates institutional discrimination.” Undeclared sophomore Kasin Kabbara is a member of the Diversity and Inclusion Agency and volunteered for the event. Kabbara said he saw the YCT bake sale and wanted to inform people about diversity. “It was just chaos at the YCT bake sale,” Kabbarra said. “What we’re doing here is we’re actually trying to inform people. What they were doing was not informative. It
wasn’t helping.” Chavez said people were surprised to hear the items at the bake sale were free, and as the cookies and brownies disappeared, the poster board filled up with messages. “Strength,” “Understanding” and “Unconditional Love” were a few of the multicolored words covering the board. Chavez said one student expressed a slightly different message when he wrote, “Tolerance of the other.” “It should be more acceptance,” Chavez said. “I have nothing against ‘tolerating’ others. I think that’s the first step to actually making progress and fully accepting people.”
Chavez said hearing a wide range of voices is exactly why the agency organized this event. “I definitely think that we should have an open debate,” Chavez said. “We’re just trying to get different opinions and just trying to see where everyone stands, but for the most part, people try to stick to the whole unity thing.” The bake sale continued without disruption or protest, but Chavez said her agency was prepared for resistance. “We were bracing ourselves for some type of opposition, but it didn’t happen,” Chavez said. “We didn’t think there was really a platform for there to be any type of opposition.”
answering questions about his disability because he doesn’t want anyone getting the wrong idea about blind people. “If all the blind people try our best to have everybody on the same page with the same perspective, it’s gonna help us because they’re gonna
know how to interact with us,” Villa said. “They’re not gonna have the ideas they had before. They’re gonna see us the way we want to be seen as independent people.” Public health senior Mimi Lam said she found it valuable to put names to faces in
the blind community and hear about the obstacles they overcome every day. “I just feel like my eyes are open,” Lam said. “Now when I walk into a building, I’m going to think about, ‘Do I see braille? Is it accessible to my friends?’ I feel empowered too.”
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The UT Indonesian Student Association at Austin hosted “Khatulistiwa,” which means “equator” in Indonesian, Saturday at the Union Patio to showcase Indonesian culture.
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continues from page 1 have been at each of the protests, voicing their discontent with the results of the election. Similar protests have been occurring in cities across the country since Tuesday night. Amdeen said the protests need to stay peaceful in order to prevent the United States from seeing the same divisions she saw as a child in her home country of Iraq. “I know what’s happening here,” Amdeen said. “There was blood in the streets, sirens in the air. I fell asleep every night as a child to the sound of missiles. I’m an American, my life is what America is. Everyone has the opportunity to succeed and make a name for themselves, and I just do not appreciate what they made us look like.” Amdeen said she understood both viewpoints she saw during the protests. “I know most Americans don’t like people like
me,” Amdeen said. “They’re simply afraid, and they’re having a hard time living in a world-leading nation. We need to be able to stay united.” Sofia Granados, Plan II and Russian senior, said the protesting won’t reverse the election, but that it was important for people to unite and make their voices heard. “The people who come together for this protest aren’t giving up,” Granados said. “There is this sense that something truly disastrous could result from this election.” Communication and leadership sophomore Miriam Macias agreed and said even if there isn’t a tangible outcome to the protests, they’re making an impact by showing people are unhappy. “I feel like it’s easy for everyone else to brush this under the rug,” Macias said. “I feel like people don’t see the impact the Trump presidency is going to have.”
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Diversity still triumphs in Austin elections By Josephine MacLean
Sally Hernandez speaks to supporters on Nov. 9, 2016. Her election to Travis county sheriff is especially noteworthy because of her criticism of U.S. deportation policy.
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My little sister’s middle school (and my former school) is an anomaly in Austin — it’s a school with demographics representative of all of Austin Independent School District. Wednesday evening, my sister called to tell me she’d spent the day watching her friends cry and trying to comfort them. I told her I’d done the same. For many students around Austin, this election was crushing. The national results challenged our personal identity as Austinites and Americans. For those of us who were raised feeling like a part of an America that valued tolerance and individual freedoms first, we felt betrayed. To those who were raised having to fight for their right to be recognized as Americans, it felt like an indictment of their very existence. But in Austin, local election results made one thing clear: we will not stand for leaders that work to divide us. Sally Hernandez, who has previously spoken out against the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s deportation policy and even considered making Austin a sanctuary city, won the election for sheriff. Margaret Moore, who’s already begun to revamp the Civil Rights Unit, is our new District Attorney. But even these results are not free from the kind of divisions that were seen across the country. This year, Texans voted by the demographics that separate them, rather than those that unite them. In Austin, identity politics played a role in our local elections. Precinct 426 is 77 percent Hispanic, and Hernandez won 82 percent of the vote. But in West Lake Hills Precinct 364,
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where 90 percent of the population is Anglo, Hernandez only won 51 percent of the vote. But we are all Austinites, right? While it is important to note that race is not the only factor that plays into a person’s vote, this distinction is worth examining. Austin voted overwhelmingly for candidates who represent inclusion and progress. Sunday morning’s Love Trumps Hate rally at Austin City Hall was conducted in two languages and Mayor Steve Adler was careful to conclude that “everyone living in Austin deserves to be protected and welcomed.”
Glenn Smith was re-elected sheriff in 69.8 percent white Waller County, where Sandra Bland died in july last year. But we are all Texans, right? While Sunday’s rally featured personal accounts and calls for “justicia y respeto” that rang off the surrounding buildings, it was my 5-year-old neighbor’s small action that has stayed with me. Ruby Sutherland listened carefully to my translation of Fernando Lopez’s words then pointed to the pad of paper I was writing on and said, “Can I make a sign?” I
handed her a paper and pen. “How do you spell love?” she asked. Now, I’ve seen indictment after indictment of identity politics in the past week, and that’s understandable. But what we have to see is that identity politics are not a problem if we can recognize that there is a geographic identity we all share. One that cannot be divided by laws or bigotry. We are all Americans first, and we shouldn’t let anybody tell us differently. MacLean is an advertising and geography sophomore from Austin.
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Tolerance must prevail in Post-Trump America By Khadija Saifullah
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Last December, Donald Trump called for a complete ban on Muslims entering the United States. This left me wondering why open racism is not a deal breaker. Although not all of his supporters may support the ban, voting for him insinuates a support of open xenophobia. The University is home to seven Muslim organizations and a large population of Muslim students. As I watched Trump become the president-elect on Tuesday night, all I was thinking about was how scared I was to step outside tomorrow with a head scarf, knowing well that there were people who firmly believe that I don’t deserve to live in the country that I’ve lived in my entire life. The past year has been a difficult one for minorities, including myself. After Trump’s xenophobic rhetoric in the presidential election, racists have become emboldened. Having heard stories almost every two weeks about another girl in a hijab being verbally harassed on Guadalupe Street or downtown, every time I walk outside I wonder if today will be my turn. The other night a police officer stopped my friend and asked her if she was harassed for her hijab that day because apparently another girl with a purple head scarf filed a complaint about someone threatening to shoot her. The fear I wear on my sleeve every day is also shared by 3.3 million Muslim Americans — all of whom Trump plans to surveil, monitor and even deport to “Make America Great Again.” In an environment where we’re seen as
The past year has been a difficult one for minorities, including myself. After Trump’s xenophobic rhetoric in the presidential election, racists have become emboldened. terrorists and troublemakers, where bigotry against our community is tolerated by everyone in charge, where racism is rampant, where women are attacked physically and institutionally for their scarf, where there is surveillance everywhere, where we are under the eyes of more task forces and committees than I can keep track of, where I am always seen as an “oppressed Muslim woman” before I’m seen as a human being, I am simply exhausted. We have spent more of our lives in the post-9/11 era than we have spent outside it — for the majority of my life, this has been reality. In the midst of the post-election racism that marginalized groups faced, Nueces Mosque in West Campus was met with warmth and support from its neighbors. Flowers were left on its front porch with a note saying, “We are thankful to have you as part of our vibrant community.” On Friday afternoon, a group of demonstrators showed up in front of the mosque saying they’ll do whatever it takes to protect their fellow Americans. Others have expressed concern and offered to stay around during the Friday prayer to watch
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Students protest Donald Trump’s election on Thursday, Nov. 10. Similar protests have erupted throughout the nation, highlighting widespread fears and concerns about a Trump presidency.
for xenophobes and escort people home. Regardless of whether Trump supporters actively supported all of his causes, the majority of which are aimed at making America white again, a vote for Trump is a crime against humanity. His rhetoric has undoubtedly caused a rise in anti-minority and anti-Muslim hate crimes. The tolerance and support of his hateful rhetoric is almost as bad as practicing that hate directly. Don’t expect to be treated respectfully if you don’t respect the lives of
minorities, which is what you expressed when you cast your vote for him. For those who are privileged enough to know that Trump’s racism won’t be directed toward themselves, it is up to you to use your privilege to protect your marginalized friends around you. If you see an injustice happen in front of you, don’t just watch, intervene. Saifullah is a neuroscience junior from Richardson.
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Nation needs time to heal after traumatic election By Noah M. Horwitz
Daily Texan Senior Columnist @NmHorwitz
I got off a plane early Wednesday morning and got to my apartment with just enough time to do one small thing before making my way to class: cover the mirrors. A friend and I had joked for months about “sitting Shiva for the United States” if Donald Trump were elected president. Shiva, the Jewish mourning custom, requires adherence to a bizarre set of idiosyncratic customs for a week. Among them are not shaving, sitting on the floor and covering the mirrors. The exercise originated as a macabre joke, a way of accepting the unacceptable and coming to grips with reality. However, as I researched the origins of the custom, I found it more and more familiar with my present situation.
Chabad, a Jewish outreach group, explains that the tradition was originally intended to literally scare away demons, but in recent years, it has taken on a more figurative meaning. “The ghosts that visit a mourner are regret, guilt and anger,” the group says. “So we cover the mirrors. We don’t want to look at those dark figures lurking behind us in the mirror. At a time of such raw emotion, when the loss is fresh and the heart is volatile, there is no room for harsh self-judgment.” In the aftermath of this very contentious election, recriminations are bound to run wild — indeed, they already have. Particularly for those of us who supported the candidate who was unsuccessful, the pain can be immense. And as the five stages of grief slowly unfold, seeking to ascribe blame is tempting. Whether it is directed inward or out, having an airtight explanation for something unexplainable can
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In the aftermath of this very contentious election, recriminations are bound to run wild — indeed, they already have. Particularly for those of us who supported the candidate who was unsuccessful, the pain can be immense. appear to provide immense clarity. But that is misguided. In the highly-emotional time that follows a traumatizing event, which, surely, this election is for so many, such decisions are best left until later. Our reflections ignore that. Our eyes always
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tell a story, one that we may deceive ourselves in these times into believing. “If there are unresolved issues, there will be time to deal with them later. But in the week immediately following the loss, we focus on the loss itself,” Chabad concludes. “Taking a long hard look at ourselves in the mirror is often a valuable exercise. But it has to be done when there are no ghosts lurking in the background.” I would be lying if I said that President-elect Trump does not scare me. He does. And whatever the opinions about how best to move forward — I, for one, agree with both President Obama and Hillary Clinton that we need to offer a new slate — this is not the time for it. So I will strive to be different here in the first week of this new reality. I won’t shave. I won’t look at myself in the mirror. None of us should. Horwitz is a first-year law student from Houston.
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MEN’S BASKETBALL | TEXAS 78-73 INCARNATE WORD
Smart blasts Trump in post-game rant
Freshmen shine in Texas debut
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Men’s basketball head coach Shaka Smart is fired up about Tuesday’s election results. He sounded off on the topic following Texas’ 78–73 win over Incarnate Word on Friday night. “I’m concerned for our guys; I’m concerned for my daughter,” Smart said. “Now you have some real division between different sides, and I think it’s a job for all of us, particularly those of us who work with young people, to try to somehow create a coming back together.” The second-year coach said many of his players shared his concerns about President-elect Donald Trump. He said the election was a “wake-up call” regarding the country’s progress, especially in terms of race relations. “The mentality of the majority of those guys is that the president-elect was a slap in the face,” Smart said. “We had some guys that were really, really hurt because, to
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continues from page 6 before conference play begins on Dec. 29. The fresh-faced Longhorns have five returning upperclassmen on the roster from last year’s 31-win team that reached the Elite Eight. Despite acquiring a talented group of newcomers, head coach Karen Aston said she expects some growing pains. “I actually worry about our experience a little bit,” Aston said. “Even though we are bringing back three or four players that really
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them, it was a message of ‘Hey, you’re not as significant and important as other people in this country.’” Smart said everyone has the right to protest if they do it in the right way. However, he said he’s concerned about the reactions people have to those protests. “The most troubling part of that was the reaction a lot of people had to those guys,” Smart said. “There was a lot of hatred. There was a lot of racism that was disguised as patriotism going after those guys. I think that was really low.” Smart said he believes athletes and coaches should use their platform for bigger things. He said he will continue talking with his team in the aftermath of Trump’s victory, and he hopes things across the country will get better instead of worse. “I do think in sports we have the ability to impact young people and maybe even impact the people that follow us,” Smart said. “So hopefully we can bring more people together.” understand the ropes of Division I basketball, you also throw in several newcomers that have not played a game yet, other than an exhibition game.” Texas took care of business against Stanford the past two seasons and looks to make it three in a row on Monday. Stanford banks on its leading scorer, Erica McCall, to shoulder the load on both ends of the court. The senior forward averaged 14.9 points and 9.4 rebounds during her junior season while racking up a slew of conference accolades and helping the Cardinal make a deep
Freshman center Jarrett Allen recorded a double-double in his debut for the Longhorns. Texas beat Incarnate World, 78-73, in its season opener on Friday.
Texas’ prized recruiting class didn’t disappoint in its collegiate debut Friday. The Longhorn freshmen accounted for 38 of the team’s points, helping Texas capture a 78-73 season-opening win over Incarnate Word. Freshman center Jarrett Allen notched a double-double in his debut. He scored 16 points and pulled down 12 boards. Freshman guards Jacob Young and Andrew Jones scored 20 combined points. And while freshman forward James Banks only scored two points, his contributions could be felt elsewhere. Banks pulled down nine rebounds, swatted five shots and energized his team with a rim-shattering dunk in the first half. Banks’ five blocks marked a school record for a freshman in his debut. “Part of my role is being a defender — protecting the rim and helping my guys when they get beat,” Banks said. “So you know, if it happens it happens, if it doesn’t it doesn’t, I’m just going to try my hardest to do [my role].” But Incarnate Word
postseason run. Stanford upset No. 2 Notre Dame in the Sweet Sixteen last season before falling to Washington in the Elite Eight. Texas will turn to its veterans, including Brooke McCarty and Ariel Atkins, to carry the offensive load and bring experience and leadership to the court. The junior guards each averaged more than 11 points last season for the Longhorns and played big roles during the team’s postseason run. Atkins said the team has high expectations for this season and she’s excited to accept a challenge right off
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almost spoiled the impressive display from Texas’ freshman. The Longhorns led by 13 at halftime and looked to be in control. However, Incarnate Word would rally, chipping away at Texas’ lead throughout the second half. And with two minutes remaining, Cardinals guard Sam Burmeister hit a three to put his team up by one. With things hanging in the balance, senior guard Kendal Yancy scored four straight points to put Texas up 70-67, a lead it wouldn’t relinquish. Yancy, who struggled with shooting and turnovers throughout the game, said his confidence didn’t falter in
the bat. “I think it’s very interesting that we have Stanford at Stanford for our very first game this season,” Atkins said. “We expect a lot of ourselves throughout the season and think that’s a statement in itself in the beginning … We’re testing ourselves and challenging ourselves from the beginning. They’re a very good basketball team and very smart.” Texas looks to start its campaign with a signature win on the road. The team tips off its season against Stanford at 7 p.m.
crunch time. “Coach always says you have to focus on the next play, and that’s what I tried to do,” Yancy said. “And in that situation, I knew I had to shoot it.” Incarnate Word was able to stay in the game thanks to a poor Texas shooting display in the second half. After shooting over 50 percent in the first half, the Longhorns shot only 36.7 percent in the second. Head coach Shaka Smart said Incarnate Word’s secondhalf zone defense gave Texas’ offense fits. “I thought our guys got a little bit tentative,” Smart said. “We’ve played some zone in
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continues from page 6 tied the match with a 25-21 victory. The third set finished as the most uneven in the match. Texas rolled through the Cyclones for a 25-20 victory off three distinct 3-0 runs. The Longhorns’ outside hitters racked up 19 kills in the set, giving Texas an ample opportunity to win its eighth straight match over Iowa State. The turning point of the match came in the penultimate set. Leading 12-11, Iowa State ignited a 7-0 run on Alexis Conaway’s serves. The junior middle blocker led the Cyclones to a 25-21 set
practice, but to be honest, we don’t really have a 3–2 zone that we play against, so we’ve only seen [zone] the last couple days [in practice].” Still, Smart said the tight game to start the season should be beneficial for his young players as they adjust to the college game. “You want some games like this to learn from,” Smart said. “There’s a humbling side to this, which is good, which is there are so many things we can get better at and improve on.” Texas looks to pick up another win on Monday against Louisiana Monroe at 7 p.m. at the Frank Erwin Center. victory to send the match into a fifth set. With the full support of the home crowd, Iowa State scored 10 of the first 15 points in the set. Iowa State never looked back and closed the match out, 15-11. Despite the loss, multiple Longhorns stood out defensively. Sophomore middle blocker Morgan Johnson earned a careerhigh nine blocks, while junior libero Cat McCoy registered a career-best 29 digs. Texas’ loss positions No. 4 Kansas, 23–2, 12–1 Big 12, in the driver’s seat for the Big 12 title. The Longhorns have a chance to regroup Wednesday at home against Texas Tech.
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Longhorns can’t stop Mountaineers By Michael Shapiro
The ball rested at the 2-yard line late in the first half on Saturday. Nine seconds remained in the first half as Texas trailed No. 16 West Virginia, 17-10, in front of 98,367 anxious fans. The Texas offense huddled near the sideline, going over a possible play call. Most of the home fans implored head coach Charlie Strong to send that unit back onto the field. He didn’t. Instead, out trotted senior kicker Trent Domingue to tack on three points. The field goal pulled Texas within four points — the exact margin it ultimately fell by in a 24-20 defeat to the Mountaineers. “You’d like to sit here and say you know what could have been,” Strong said. “But I’m glad we got the points where we were.” Strong had other options
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Texas’ offense struggled to put points up against a West Virginia team that entered the matchup as the conference’s No. 1 scoring defense. The Mountaineers manhandled the Longhorn offensive line, stuffing the run while also harassing Buechele with four sacks. Perhaps the most impressive aspect of the West Virginia front was its ability to slow down Texas’ rushing attack. The Mountaineers bottled up junior running back D’Onta Foreman — the nation’s leading rusher and Heisman hopeful — for under five yards per carry for just the second time this season. Foreman still rushed for 167 yards — 114 in the first
half — to tie Earl Campbell’s school record of 11 consecutive 100-yard games. But he averaged just 3.6 yards per carry after halftime, unable to find holes to burst through. “They were really physical,” Foreman said. “I can’t really say why we didn’t put up points. They’re a really good defense, but we really hurt ourselves.” The Longhorns found themselves in jeopardy of being blown out in the second quarter, falling behind by 14 points. Howard had his way with the Longhorn defense in the first half, leading two touchdowns drives and finding wide receiver Ka’Raun White near the corner of the endzone to go up, 17-3. Haines’ two interceptions
allowed the Longhorns to stay within striking distance after coming out of the locker room. In contrast to the offensive onslaughts allowed against California and Oklahoma earlier in the year, Saturday’s battle provided the type of defense expected from Strong’s team when he took over the program. “As far as West Virginia goes, they’re a balanced team,” Haines said. “We had kind of an idea what routes they were running and we were able to take some gambles.” Texas had its opportunities to score late, driving into West Virginia territory four times in the second half without scoring. As was the story on
Saturday, missed chances ultimately plagued the Longhorns — Texas fumbled and had a field goal blocked inside West Virginia’s 30-yard line. Despite the loss, Texas still sits at .500 with a chance to qualify for a bowl game if it beats either Kansas next week or TCU on Nov. 25. Saturday’s result was undoubtedly disappointing for the Longhorns, but for the first time this season, a loss was met not with despair, but with optimism. “I think we have a really good football team, and I think we’ve made a ton of progress,” Strong said. “You have a young group that continues to get better, and as the season goes on, we have gotten better.”
than to settle for a field goal in that situation. He just didn’t utilize them. Junior running back D’Onta Foreman, who has built a Heisman Trophy resume with over 1,600 rushing yards this season, had 114 yards and averaged 5.7 yards per carry in the first two quarters. All he needed were two more, but he didn’t get the ball handed to him. Texas also declined to use freshman receiver Collin Johnson — a 6-foot-6-inch redzone specialist — and senior quarterback Tyrone Swoopes in his signature short-yardage package. “There were a couple conversations, and [we] just decided that was what was best at that point in the game,” offensive coordinator Sterlin Gilbert said. Whether kicking a field goal was Texas’ best option or not is a matter of opinion. But controversial coaching decisions have been more of a
Charlie Strong and the Longhorns sit at 5-5 with two games left in the regular season. Texas needs one more win to become bowl eligible.
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certainty than a judgment call in multiple Texas losses this season. Texas allowed a 50-plus yard rush on third down after punting back to California in the final minutes in week three. And when Texas faced fourth-and-one last week in Lubbock, the Texas coaching staff received criticism for not
handing the ball to Foreman. Those cries were a bit subdued by the victory. But in losses, condemnation rings louder. “I definitely would’ve like to have gone for it,” Foreman said. “But I’m a team player. Whatever Coach Strong wants to do, I’m fine with that.” The Longhorns now sit at 5–5, needing just one win to
qualify for bowl season and two to finish above .500. Texas can still win out and finish with eight wins, the number many predicted Strong needs to keep his job. To get there, Texas must find ways to win close games — and not leave Longhorn fans wondering what could’ve been, especially on coaching decisions.
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Longhorns fall short to Cyclones on road in five-set thriller match
Longhorns prepare for tough season opener
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Up 2-1, No. 5 Texas seemed destined to defeat Iowa State and leave Ames, Iowa, with a 12–1 conference record. But 72 serves later, the Longhorns found themselves in an unfamiliar position. Texas, 19–4, 11–2 Big 12, lost the match 3-2 to the surging Cyclones, 16–9, 8–5 Big 12, who have now won six straight contests. Each set was a footrace to 25 points. Both teams traded punches throughout, and no set finished with a point differential greater than five. Texas took the first set Saturday, a 25-23 victory establishing an early advantage. However, Iowa State was not outmatched — the score was tied nine separate times during the set. Down 22-21, the Longhorns benefited from three consecutive Cy-
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Kicker Trent Domingue reflects on Texas’ 24-20 loss to West Virginia on Saturday. The Longhorns dropped their first home game of the season to the Mountaineers.
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Texas was in position to win Saturday’s contest against No. 16 West Virginia up until the clock hit zero, as the Mountaineers batted freshman quarterback Shane Buechele’s 27-yard heave to the end zone out of bounds as time expired. The Longhorns’ 24-20 loss to the Mountaineers didn’t aid the team in the win column, but head coach Charlie Strong saw plenty to like from his team. Texas fought back after falling down two touchdowns early and had numerous opportunities to defeat the Big 12’s premier team. “We battled, we played hard,” Strong said. “We kept taking our punches and kept just coming back … In the past it could have gotten ugly, and it didn’t get ugly. We just continued to hang in there.” But the Longhorns’ resiliency failed to mask some of their issues, most notably the inability to score off turnovers. Texas took the ball away from West Virginia four times on the day, netting only seven points. Senior safety Dylan Haines picked off Mountaineer quarterback Skyler Howard twice, and Texas recovered a fumble deep in their territory. However, the Longhorns consistently came up short in their attempt to capture momentum and the lead. “We just gotta capitalize when we have those opportunities,” Strong said. “It was there for us and we just didn’t take advantage.”
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The Longhorns opened last season with a 16game winning streak, but there’s no easing in this time around. Two of the nation’s elite programs — both coming off Elite Eight
appearances — meet on Monday as No. 8 Texas travels to Palo Alto, California, for a top-15 matchup against No. 11 Stanford. The Longhorns face a loaded non-conference slate with five top-15 opponents on the schedule
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Sophomore middle blocker Morgan Johnson led the Longhorns with a career-high nine blocks in Saturday’s loss to Iowa State.
clone attack errors to jump to a 1-0 set lead. The home team responded with consistent execution. Iowa State and Texas started set two in similar close fashion. But a 4-0 run by the Cyclones in the middle of the frame
boosted them ahead for the remainder of the set. The Cyclones led by as much as eight in the set, the largest lead by either team at any point in the match. Fueled by junior middle blocker Samara West, Iowa State
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Junior guard Brooke McCarty looks to lead the Longhorns this season on the court.
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SPORTS BRIEFLY Longhorn men clinch spot in NCAA Championships
The Longhorn men’s cross country team breathed a sigh of relief on Friday as they advanced to the NCAA Championships for the eighth straight year. Thanks to an explosive performance from senior Nate Moore, the team finished the South Central Regional Championship in second place with 81 points. Moore, who crossed the line of the men’s 10,000-meter run in fourth place, stuck with the lead pack from beginning to end. Coach Brad Herbster said the performance gave the team the necessary confidence to keep the eight-year streak alive. “You don’t want to be the team that ends the streak,” Herbster said. “This year’s team with two freshmen, two sophomores, two juniors and one senior is pretty well balanced. The future is really bright.” However, the women’s team wasn’t so fortunate, finishing in fourth place with a total of 108 points. The Longhorn women fell short of an automatic bid to the NCAA Championships and haven’t collected enough votes from previous meets to qualify. It was a bittersweet moment, especially for senior Sandie Raines, whose cross country career came to an end this weekend. Despite her 12th-place finish — short of an individual invite to the national championships — she earned all-region honors. “Losing Sandie next year is a big loss,” Herbster said. “But I think we’ve got women to step up and fill that role.” Though the season is over for the women, the men remain excited for a shot at redemption. After finishing 31st in the 2015 NCAA Championships, they’re ready to prove they’re in a much better place. “Some things didn’t go our way [last year] like having to stay the night at the Atlanta International Airport,” Moore said. “We don’t want people thinking that South Central is a weak region. We are a serious team.” The NCAA Championships begin Nov. 19 in Terre Haute, Indiana. —Maria Cowley
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Alumna gives Houston South Texas flavor By Alessandra Jara @thedailytexan
When UT alumna Sylvia Casares was a little girl growing up in Brownsville, she sat at the small table in her parents’ kitchen, waiting for her mother’s comida casera, homecooked food, and watching as she pulled piping-hot tortillas straight from the stove. Decades later, Casares is Houston’s “Enchilada Queen.” Casares has three Houston locations of her restaurant, Sylvia’s Enchilada Kitchen. It placed in USA Today’s 2013 national list of “Top 10 Mexican Restaurants” and has been in the Houston Chronicle’s list of top 100 restaurants in the city for five years running, beating out more than 8,000 businesses. Casares will talk about her business success and newly released cookbook, “The Enchilada Queen Cookbook,” at 12 p.m. on Nov. 14 on campus as part of the Center for Mexican American Studies PlaticArte series. “Food has always been my world,” Casares said. “I love to cook, I love to meet people [and] I love to make people happy with my food.” In 1998, Casares started the first Sylvia’s Enchilada Kitchen
in Houston after selling her shares in a smaller restaurant she’d owned alongside her exhusband in Rosenberg, a small town outside Houston. By then, Casares said, she knew people loved her enchiladas, so she fully embraced her niche in Mexican-border cuisine. “When I went to Houston it was like being with the big boys, it was little town to big city,” Casares said. “I found I was really struggling. Eventually the restaurant got so successful, [but] it took a tremendous amount of courage and patience.” Juan Baquaix, director of operations for the restaurants, has worked for Casares for nearly eight years. “When I started working with her, she was at the restaurant when I got there and she would be working when I got off the clock,” Baquaix said. “She goes after her dreams and gets things done.” The made-from-scratch, fresh taste of Casares’ food is an homage to her love of south Texas food and to her Rio Grande Valley youth. She strengthens this feeling of home by hand-picking the antiques and family photographs that decorate her restaurants. “A lot of the recipes from
UT alumna Sylvia Casares is Houston’s “Enchilada Queen,” the owner of Sylvia’s Enchilada Kitchen and author of a newly published cookbook.
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my restaurant, for my enchiladas, fajitas, soups and everything, are a style of cooking like the Mexican food that I was raised on,” Casares said. “It’s a home style, the home flavor of south Texas.” A dear friend of 10 years and a loyal customer for more, Annette James first stepped foot into Sylvia’s Enchilada Kitchen after receiving a coupon in the mail nearly 17 years
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ago. As a Corpus Christi native, James had been searching for the perfect south Texas flavor. “I sat down and ordered, and it was what I had been missing,” James said. “[Casares] would go around to each table at her restaurant and talk to customers, get to know them, get their opinion, and that’s how I met her.” Since December of 2015,
Casares has shared her culinary knowledge through cooking classes at her restaurants on weekends. After years of her students relentlessly asking when she was gong to write a cookbook, Casares said she realized she needed to document her recipes and pass them on to homesick Texans. Casares is currently traveling to book signings and is focused on promoting her first cookbook.
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Rap group A Tribe Called Quest releases politically aware finale By Chris Duncan @chr_dunc
After the death of Phife Dawg earlier this year, fans of A Tribe Called Quest feared the worst — that they would never hear new material from the group again. Little did they know Tribe’s final album was right around the corner. Known as one of the most successful rap collectives of all time, A Tribe Called Quest was born from Phife Dawg and QTip’s childhood friendship. During their heyday, Tribe released some of the most highly acclaimed albums in history, including The Low End Theory and Midnight Marauders. After 18 years of silence, A Tribe Called Quest released a new and final studio album, titled We got it from Here… Thank you 4 Your Service. As led by Phife’s instructions, Q-Tip, Ali Shaheed Muhammed and Jarobi White pieced together We got it from Here… using a group of recordings from 2015. Although it may have been assembled after his death, Phife Dawg’s mark is found in his abundant verses and politically charged messages. We Got it from Here… features even contributions from all four Tribe members — some expected and unexpected guests make surprise, uncredited appearances on several songs. Consequence and Busta Rhymes leave the strongest mark, providing their vocals on six of the leading seven songs on the two-disc LP. Some more
shocking guests earn credits on select songs, including Elton John on “Solid Wall of Sound” and Jack White for his joint composition of “Lost Somebody.” Although at times they might clash with Tribe’s typically jazzy production, individual contributions play a major role in diversifying this project’s track list. The clash of White’s heavy fuzz guitars over the uppity and playful beats from Tribe might sound like an unpalatable combination, but their experiments pay off as the riffs build energy and draw in focus on several songs. Andre 3000’s guest verse on “Kids…” brings a mixup in flow and approach, pivoting well to the drug warning that is “Melatonin.” A Tribe album wouldn’t be complete without heavy political influence, and We Got it from Here… more than follows through with some of this year’s best conscious rap. Right off the bat, “The Space Program” challenges the black community to unite and make best of the current situation, while “The Killing Season” questions recent acts of war and how pointless armed conflict can be. Whether it was accident or intentional, We Got it from Here… is the first major hiphop album released after Donald Trump’s election, and even though Tribe couldn’t have known Trump would become the president-elect, it’s obvious they feared the possibility. Instead of directly referencing Trump, the group
“My recipes are very precise — whether it’s rice, beans, fajitas or enchiladas — [because] Mexican food of the valley of south Texas tastes different than when you get up to Houston, Austin or Dallas,” Casares said. “I want everybody to have a copy of [‘The Enchilada Queen Cookbook’], and I want people that want to know how to cook this kind of food to have the right recipes.”
Officer Darrell Halstead, who has traveled to 45 countries, is now in charge of guarding the UT president’s office on the fouth floor of the Main Building.
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challenges right-wing politics on grounds many find contentious, especially on “We The People…” when Q-Tip takes on racism, classism and xenophobia in an attempt to warn those who might be affected. Sonically, the Tribe had their work cut out for them — their boom bap style shouldn’t fit in a modern context. Rather than trying to bring new elements into their production and mixing things up, the group stuck to their guns. The result is a nostalgic feel, perfect for already established fans of the group, but unwavering for modern hip hop heads. As an LP, We Got it from Here… answers more questions than it leaves. A Tribe Called Quest was never a group to bend to changes in their genre. This record more than proves that, standing boldly as an assertion of their influence on hip-hop and their confidence in what makes music powerful. Although it’s sad to listen to this project knowing it will be their last, it’s a more than worthy conclusion to their legacy.
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UTPD officer stands guard at UT Tower, shares travel stories
Editor’s note: In 300 words or fewer, this series spotlights people in our community whose stories typically go untold. By Alessandra Jara Del Castillo
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The first person visitors see as they step off the elevator on the fourth floor of the Tower is officer Darrell Halstead. He protects the president and guards the office, but he has also stood before Lenin’s tomb in Moscow, fished in Europe’s longest river and visited around 45 countries. Halstead has worked at
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Halstead said. “Standing over that ship and realizing what’s below your feet gives you chills up and down your spine.” For Halstead, the locations of World War II events bring him closer to his family members. “I relive the stories that my uncles told me about when they fought in World War II,” Halstead said. “[One was] a gunner in a B27 U.S. bomber [and one] was a medic in Guadacanal.” Another way he relives trips is by recreating foreign dishes, taking home a piece of each journey. But despite the memories and flavors he brings back, he still calls Austin home. “I really enjoy the environment out here,” Halstead said. “I could see myself retiring here.”
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UT for the past 29 years, but growing up, he traveled throughout Europe due to his father’s military position. The two visited World War II battlefields and cultural landmarks, locations Halstead would revisit decades later. “I like going back to Europe and [seeing] things I did as a kid — going to the Christmas markets and cathedrals — from a different perspective,” Halstead said. “Seeing how things have changed in 40 years is impressive.” Halstead’s interest in historical sites took him to Pearl Harbor, where he stood over the wreck of the USS Arizona and visited the USS Missouri, two ships that signified the start and end of World War II. “Down below you in the bowels of the [USS Arizona] are 900 men that died,”
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