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Democrats promote summer Pell Grants By Van Nguyen @nguyen__van
Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives are pushing to bring back yearround Pell Grants, which allow students across the nation and at UT to access federal aid during summer semesters. Currently, Pell Grants, which are capped at $5,815 and are expected to last the entire school year, are
accessible to students who express financial need. Yearround Pell Grants, which give students additional aid for the summer, lasted for three years until the program was cut by President Barack Obama in 2011 because the plan cost more than budget experts and policy makers expected, according to a paper released by think tank New America in 2015. It was estimated to cost around $400 million but
ended up at $2.1 billion, five times more than anticipated. Congressman Bobby Scott, D-Virginia, and 123 other House Democrats sent a letter to the House and Senate committees on Appropriations and Labor, Health and Human Services and Education on Nov. 1 to reinstate Pell Grant funding during the summer. Scott is a ranking member of the U.S. House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
The letter urges those in the Committees on Appropriations to not cut the funding Pell Grants receive for Fiscal Year 2017 but rather distribute the $7.8 billion surplus of funds from unused Pell Grants to students who require financial assistance during the summer. “Any rescission to the Pell Grant surplus is a direct threat to educational opportunity for our nation’s low-income
students,” members of Congress said in the letter. Bringing back the yearround Pell Grant to help fund the summer sessions aligns with the goals of the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board to have students graduate in four years, as well as recommendations the board is making to the Texas Legislature for the upcoming Legisla-
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Briana Torres, a Plan II and government freshman, will be attending the 17th annual Texas Conference for Women in Austin. The conference was created to provide networking and career development opportunities for women.
am by no means jaded. I have to pay that forward.” Doreen Lorenzo, the director of the University’s Center for Integrated Design, will lead a session titled “Strategies to Stand Out, Step Up and Get Noticed in a Male Dominated Environment.” In light of accusations that president-elect Trump made derogatory comments toward women, Lorenzo thinks women’s equality is especially
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said. “When it came down to it, my response to him was ‘God forbid anybody ever tell your daughter that she’s too ambitious.’” Since realizing these discrepancies, she’s decided to help other young women further their careers. “I’ve had an awesome career and have been helped by a lot of men and women along the way,” Piñeyro-Sublett said. “I’ve been very fortunate and
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important to keep in mind. “You must stick to your moral compass and keep doing the right thing,” Lorenzo said in an email. “Women just don’t get a break. It is clear based on the election we still have a lot of work to do.” Young women such as Briana Torres, a Plan II and government freshman, are excited to get a leg up in their
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Years later, when PiñeyroSublett received negative feedback from a boss for having too much ambition, she decided she wanted to work toward eradicating gender inequality. “I tried to remember if there was anything about my actions that made it seem like I was operating from a place of blind ambition, but I couldn’t really think of anything,” Piñeyro-Sublett
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State Rep. Gina Hinojosa, D-Austin, announced Monday she will explore whether the University of Texas could opt out of the campus carry law and the potential bathroom bill Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick is touting as a priority this legislative session. When campus carry was passed, private universities were given the option to opt out of the law. At a House Democrats press conference, Hinojosa said she wants UT to have the same option. “It’s my understanding that all but one private university in the state [opted out],” Hinojosa, who was elected last week, said after the press conference. “I think that our families that choose our great public universities, especially UT-Austin, should be afforded that same right. So that if UT wants to opt out, then they’re allowed to. If A&M wants to have their guns, they can have their guns.” Patrick outlined his top 10 priorities for this session in a press release Monday, one of them being the Women’s Privacy Act, sometimes referred to as a “bathroom bill,” which would restrict bathroom access based on the gender listed on a person’s birth certificate rather than the gender they identify as. “A majority of Texans in both political parties and in every ethnic and demographic group believe that women and girls should have privacy and safety in their restrooms, showers and locker rooms,” Patrick said in a news release. “Unfortunately, legislation is necessary to assure that
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Pantsuits and briefcases, symbols of professional feminism, will be abundant at the 17th annual Texas Conference for Women, where women will fight patriarchy by building their careers. The Texas Conference for Women is part of a national series created to provide networking and career development opportunities through workshops given by some of the top women in various fields. Among the list of women speaking today at the Austin Convention Center are Olympic soccer player Abby Wambach and international human rights lawyer Amal Clooney. UT alumna Carla PiñeyroSublett, the chief marketing officer at Rackspace, has been a member of the conference’s board for three years. This year, she will be a panelist in a session about the barriers against women’s upward mobility in the tech field — obstacles she hadn’t always been aware of. “When I was in college, I turned a blind eye to the role that gender plays in career paths,” Piñeyro-Sublett said. “But once you start to look at the statistics on women’s representation in corporate boards and on the number [of] women in leadership positions, you start to realize that we actually do have a problem.”
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Following an acknowledgment that the event took place on stolen land, “Feast on This” attendees took part Monday in a Native American prayer, ate tacos, listened to various speakers and watched live performances. The Native American and Indigenous Collective hosted the event, an annual dinner and discussion of issues facing indigenous communities, in collaboration with the Native American and Indigenous Peoples Association last night in the Student Activity Ballroom.
NAIC Co-President Kristian Byrd said the two student groups have traditionally hosted the event to dispel myths surrounding Thanksgiving, because people don’t typically hear the full story. “The perspective of the Native Americans, which is an important part of the story, is usually left out,” said Byrd, a civil engineering senior. Maria Rocha, executive director of the Indigenous Cultures Institute, said Native Americans can’t simply forget about the atrocities
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A UT research team presented their manned Mars mission design at Johnson Space Center in May 2015.
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A group of UT students is reaching for Mars by designing their own manned Mars mission and raising questions in the spaceflight community about how best to send humans to the red planet in the near future. The research team, comprised of seven undergraduate students and one graduate student, developed a manned mission to Mars that includes designs for entry, descent and landing, according to team lead and aerospace engineering senior Joe Lingren. The group first presented their mission designs at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in
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May 2015 and again earlier this month at the 2016 New Worlds Conference in Austin. They are currently working to publish a condensed version of
their paper. The team works with UT researcher Humboldt Mandell and aerospace engineering professor Hans Mark.
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ultimately unable to put humans on Mars by its goal of 2003, Mark decided to try again 25 years later. “We would have been on Mars in 2003 had we done the thing, but it never happened,” Mark said. “What we really want is something that we can publish in that magazine [Aerospace America] which says hey, here’s what we’ve done in 25 years. Unfortunately, we haven’t done very much. I believe that the time has come to be serious about it.” Lingren said an important element of the students’
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mission design involves limiting the mass that will land on Mars at one time by sending a larger number of small pieces. NASA’s current plan is to land 20 tons of supplies and equipment, but humans have not yet landed a spacecraft weighing more than five tons. “Everybody else is thinking big, and we’re thinking reasonable,” Lingren said. “Mass is the driving thing in these missions. We’re really focusing on keeping things small and kind of lean and mean.” The team specifically focused on cutting down the mass of the equipment that someone who plans to live on Mars will require. A habitat
large enough to comfortably house an astronaut on Mars for 30 days turned out to be bigger than the rockets available to send it, according to Lingren. The research team’s solution was to split the habitat into many smaller pieces. Within NASA’s time frame of getting to Mars, Lingren said their mission design is more feasible than other designs based on current technology. “Right now, NASA and SpaceX, all of these people with their plans to go to Mars, they just want to push straight ahead, and they just want to get people to Mars,” Lingren said. “They have this romanticism
behind it. We’re saying, maybe we should slow down and wait for that kind of technology to advance.” Team member and aerospace engineering senior Saeyone Balasekar said the team wants to get their ideas out there because it could help design a potential mission that includes issues of mass not addressed by other companies’ designs. “We can’t discredit [these other companies]. Obviously they’re thinking big, but their biggest flaw is [that they’re hoping] they’ll have those technologies ready by the time the mission is ready,” Balasekar said. “We don’t know
if we’re going to have those technologies in the next 5 to 10 years.” All of the undergraduate members of the research teams are seniors and plan to graduate next semester. The students are considering recruiting new members to create another group, continue their research and focus on specific technologies and obstacles that a Mars mission would face. “All of the guys at Johnson Space Center wanted us to do that,” Lingren said. “They really want the communication between the universities so they can get some fresh ideas. I think that would be a pretty good way of going forward.”
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continues from page 1 their ancestors faced in the past. “There are two reasons why we can’t get over it,” Rocha said. “What happened 500 years ago set in motion circumstances that are still affecting us today. We still live in poverty, we still have alcoholism … The second reason is that people continue to mess with indigenous peoples. Columbus Day, Thanksgiving, all of those wonderful mythical days — we have to set them straight. We have to set history straight.” The conversation on relations between indigenous communities and colonial settlers found present-day applications to the ongoing conflicts over the Dakota Access Pipeline. Fox RedSky, an activist and filmmaker, spoke on her experiences as a water protector at the Standing Rock Reservation and her new documentary, “Keep the Fire Lit.” RedSky said the pipeline conflict is a continuation of the violence indigenous communities have experienced throughout history. “What is going on at the Dakota Access Pipeline in North Dakota is devastating, the way the water protectors are being treated … and for what purpose?” RedSky said. “This could have been handled completely different, but instead they chose to continue the old patterns … to me this is just another cycle of what has happened in the past. It’s just a repeat.” RedSky said the conflict reflects the need to respect indigenous rights and the Earth. “Do what you can, and most important, educate your friends,” RedSky said. “This isn’t getting enough attention. As a human race, we need to admit when we’re wrong and stand up for those who do not have a voice.”
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Garza: Vampires reflect social, political fears By Sunny Kim @sunny_newsiee
Vampire stories reflect current political and social issues, said Thomas Garza, a Slavic and Eurasian Studies associate professor, on Monday night. Polymathic Scholars, an honors community within the College of Natural Sciences, hosted Garza to celebrate the upcoming 120th anniversary of Bram Stoker’s classic book, “Dracula.” Garza said vampire stories have the ability to adapt to different cultures and situations because our fear of change transcends time. “Vampire stories will never ever die,” Garza said. “They will always adapt to fit whatever culture happens at the time. Vampires are the perfect foil to any problems in society — political, social or economic.” Polymathic Scholar mentor Savannah Troy said she
came to the talk to hear Garza speak, because he has previously spoken to the Polymathic Scholars about his career. “I already knew how good a lecturer he is and how interesting his work is,” said Troy, a biology sophomore. “I most enjoyed the historical background they discussed, as I was previously unfamiliar with the cultural tone surrounding the vampire myths.” Garza teaches a class called “The Vampire in Slavic Culture,” as well as lower-division classes about vampires. English associate professor Elizabeth Richmond-Garza, who is married to Garza, also spoke at the event. She said understanding the reactions of the characters to the vampire in the book can help us comprehend our own fears of the unknown. “Many find these reactions troubling,” RichmondGarza said. “But I find that when people read those re-
Thomas Garza, Slavic and Eurasian studies associate professor, introduces students into the influential world of vampires while Elizabeth RichmondGarzam, English associate professor, enthusiastically highlights the powerful and even disturbing world leaders and how they have been portrayed through the media.
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actions, they themselves are able to understand their own reactions more clearly and more richly.” Richmond-Garza said “Dracula” reflects prob-
lems the U.S. is faced with in the 21st century surrounding immigration and national identity. “These issues of who are we, in terms of race, gender
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Fenves addresses election reactions By Van Nguyen @nguyen__van
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complete a 30-hour minimum of course credit for the fall, spring and summer semesters in a school year. Martin said this lets students have more flexibility to complete their course work in four years. “What the [30-hour minimum] does is, it allows the student that may need to work to fill the gap, that they
may take various different avenues of semester credit hours,” Martin said. “They could take 12, 12 and six over the summer.” Sergio Cavazos, Senate of College Councils president, said he supports the idea of increased summer financial aid, because he believes it will give students a better academic experience.
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“It really stresses you out when you feel like you’re falling behind in your degree and that you’re going to have to pay for summer classes out of your own pocket,” said Cavazos, a government senior. “Year-round Pell Grants would be a really proactive way to help students graduate on time with reduced debt.” State Rep. Gina Hinojosa, D-Austin, will explore whether the University of Texas could opt out of the campus carry law and the bathroom bill.
continues from page 1 they do.” When asked if the same logic of “opting out” could be applied to UT for the bathroom bill as well, Hinojosa said it could be a strategy, but she hopes the state will not pass the bill in the first place. “If there is some kind of passage of the transgender bathroom bill and that’s what we got, then it perhaps will be a strategy to see if there’s a way to opt out of something like that,” Hinojosa said. “But my preference would be that the state not meddle in those things to begin with.” State Rep. Mary Gonzalez, D-Clint, said bills such as the bathroom bill and bills restricting abortion demonstrate how Texas politics can become more about political rhetoric than policy. Gonzalez also emphasized birth control and family planning as important concerns in addition to abortion. “When it comes to abortion restrictions, it should be about policy, not
“We are wrestling with this very difficult question politically at the moment, which is why the novel is very interesting as it explores and reflects
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and sexuality, all of those ritualistic questions that are related to this fantasy figure of vampire, seem to me what the U.S. has been trying to decide,” Richmond-Garza said.
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politics,” Gonzalez said. “We allow teenage mothers to make medical decisions about their babies, but we don’t allow them to make medical decisions about their bodies.” State Rep. Celia Israel, D-Austin, is reintroducing a bill from last session, an initiative that would allow Texas voters to register to vote online. She said the issues outlined by the House Democrats were the real issues Texans wanted to focus on, criticizing the bathroom bill. “I can’t help but think that after this presidential election that we’ve been through,
LT. Governor Patrick’s top ten legislative priorities 7. Inappropriate TeacherStudent Relationships 8. Fetal Tissue/Partial Birth Abortion 9. Spending Cap 10. Hailstorm Lawsuit Reform
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knowing what some of the priorities for some of our statewide elected officials are, that what we are outlining to you are mainstream issues,” Israel said. “I think most Texans want us to focus on these issues
and not who gets to go into whose bathroom.” The first day of the legislative session is Jan. 10. Hinojosa has not formally filed any bills yet but said she plans to do so in the coming weeks.
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UT President Gregory Fenves said in a Universitywide email Monday that the University is developing policies to support students, faculty and staff of all political affiliations following the results of last week’s presidential election. In the email, Fenves said the Campus Climate Response team has received multiple complaints from students about threatening signs and comments from students. “The University is already developing new policies to respond to bias incidents, and we will have a proposal to share with the campus for feedback soon,” Fenves said in the email. “Already this year the University has taken several initial steps to facilitate a faster institutional response to bias incidents.” Gregory Vincent, vice president for Diversity and Community Engagement, is one of the administrators working on the Diversity Action Plan, which will address the bias-related incidents Fenves mentioned.
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continues from page 1 careers by listening to advice from successful women such as Piñeyro-Sublett and Lorenzo. Torres, who will be attending the conference, hopes it will help her fulfill her aspirations to become a lawyer. “I want to change the idea that women can’t be powerful in politics,” Torres said. “This election was discouraging because we didn’t get our first woman president elected, but I think there’s still hope. After all, we did just elect our first Latina senator.” Both Torres and Piñeyro-
“The Diversity Action Plan is meant to be the blueprint for action around diversity and inclusion for the campus,” Vincent said to The Daily Texan earlier this month. “It is meant to bring resources together across campus and to give the University some direction.” Last month, Young Conservatives of Texas held an anti-affirmative action bake sale, which led to Vincent releasing a statement condemning the organization. However, the University has publicly said they will not punish YCT because their actions are a protected form of freedom of speech. “As we develop these policies, we remain firmly committed to promoting free speech and academic freedom,” Fenves said in the email. “Our policies and responses will not be aimed at the words people use, but the actions they may take. We also recognize, though, that some speech is hurtful, and that recognition needs to inform us as we pursue our educational mission and our commitment to diversity and inclusion.” Sublett believe the low minority representation resulting from the most recent election will only motivate them to work harder. Facing these new challenges will be a hot topic this year at the Texas Conference for Women. “You’re only limited by your ability to think boldly,” Piñeyro-Sublett said. “I built my career by identifying issues and rising to the challenge. What I always tell people when they’re starting their careers is that if you see a problem and you’re frustrated, congratulations, because that’s an opportunity for you to make an impact.”
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Texas voter turnout sends warning to GOP By G. Elliott Morris
Daily Texan Senior Columnist @GElliottMorris
Three weeks ago, I wrote that the Republican Party of Texas will face demise from lack of youth support, among other things. One week ago, while everyone was distracted by their world turning upside down, the Texas GOP felt the onset of this shock. Whether or not my original diagnosis — that young people will continue to fight for a blue Texas — was correct, the Lone Star State has sent a clear message to its leadership that it wants nothing to do with the current state of its politics. The earthquake is yet to come. Support for the national GOP ticket fell 5 percent from 2012, and Clinton made big gains in urban areas. This is not a trivial shift, as no Republican presidential candidate in Texas has held a win margin less than 10 percent since Ross Perot’s third party bid in the ’90s — yet Trump will probably end up with a 9 percent margin of victory over Hillary Clinton. This year’s pivot away from the GOP is probably not a one-off shift as most media will have you believe, however, as Texas has been trending more blue since George W.
Bush’s re-election in 2004. It’s simply not the case that Democrats’ gains this year were only made because Donald Trump disenfranchised large swaths of minority voters — this shift has been occurring for decades, and long-term forecasting is bleak for the GOP. It’s still useful for us to analyze the demographic shifts occurring in Texas’s electorate, as a macro-level view is only so informative. While many are proclaiming that Donald Trump improved on Mitt Romney’s margin with Hispanic voters, a more thorough analysis reveals that he won, at most, 20 percent of the nationwide Latino population. For reference, Mitt Romney garnered 27 percent of Latino voters nationwide, and John McCain earned a third in 2008. Hispanics are, and have been, leaving the GOP for years. That’s significant for Texas, as 38 percent of the state’s citizens are Hispanic — and that percentage is increasing. As more and more Latino and Latina citizens become politically engaged in the Lone Star State, local politicians could suffer more from not offering them accurate representation. On top of the Democratic trends among Hispanic voters, African-American Texans continued their trend of supporting more liberal options. The buck doesn’t stop with minorities as
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Trump also won just a third of young voters. When we consider that voter turnout in Texas hit record highs, the GOP will need to reconcile their differences with Texas youths as well if they want to be a party of the future. Overall, Texans seem to be leaning more and more Democratic every eight years.
One can only wonder how blue the state could have become this year if the Democrats had opted for a liberal Democrat as their nominee — perhaps young liberals would have come out in droves. Morris is a computer science, government and history junior from Port Aransas.
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GOP must vow to properly check Trump’s power By Sam Groves
Daily Texan Columnist @samgroves
The coalition that elected Donald Trump president is comprised of two wings. The deplorable wing is made up of members of the so-called “alt-right,” white nationalists baffled by the notion that their skin color no longer guarantees them a place at the top of society’s ladder. The craven wing is made up of establishment Republicans and “movement conservatives” whose privilege allows them to believe that Trump’s cocktail of racism, sexism and xenophobia is an acceptable price to pay for lower taxes on the rich and less welfare for the poor. And some of them, I assume, are good people. Trump’s coalition does not make up the majority of the electorate. But thanks to
the Electoral College and Republican gerrymandering of House districts, it’s going to dominate American politics for at least the next two years. President-elect Trump has already chosen representatives from both wings to lead his administration: anti-Semitic, white nationalist Steve Bannon from the deplorable wing, and Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus from the craven wing. Though Democrats will hardly be silent, they’ve been relegated to minorities in every branch and at virtually every level of government, so the most effective opposition to Trump — if there is going to be any at all — must come from the party in power. The hopes of millions who are legitimately (and justifiably) terrified by the prospect of a Trump presidency now rest with the same craven Republicans whose enabling behavior helped elect Trump in
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the first place. Liberals cannot count on a President Trump to abandon his campaign promises wholesale. Historically, presidents have actually made good faith attempts to keep most of their promises. And in a post-election interview with “60 Minutes” on Sunday, Trump vowed to build a southern border wall and remove approximately two to three million undocumented immigrants “out of our country” upon taking office. Nor can liberals take comfort in the fact that Trump’s promises will be wildly impractical to fulfill. Policies like building the wall, deporting millions of undocumented immigrants, banning Muslim immigration to the United States and establishing a nationwide stop-and-frisk policy might be impossible to successfully implement. But like a botched execution by lethal injection, a failed attempt to
implement these policies is not necessarily better for their victims than a successful one. Any attempt to implement these policies, no matter how disastrous, will succeed at one thing: making life miserable for historically disenfranchised minorities in the United States. Instead, every decent American must hope that Reince Priebus can stand up to Trump and Bannon. They must hope that Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell will shirk shortsighted political expediency rather than rolling over for Trump. They must hope that conservative firebrands like Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, who once called Trump a “sniveling coward,” a “pathological liar,” “utterly amoral” and a “serial philanderer,” will serve as a check on Trump’s authoritarianism. Given the craven wing’s track record, it’s a poor and flimsy hope to have. Groves is a government sophomore from Dallas.
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Superdelegates promote wants Superdelegates create divide of both establishment, voters between political elite, voters By Emma Berdanier Daily Texan Columnist @eberdanier
Following the culmination of a tumultuous election last week, Donald Trump is our president-elect and the Republicans have control of both the House and the Senate. But despite winning the Electoral College, Trump lost the popular vote by an expected margin of 1.5 percent. Republicans also lost the popular vote in the Senate. These losses hint that their nominee doesn’t resonate with those who have devoted their lives to politics and suggest the Republican Party needs reform before the next election cycle. This can begin with the addition of superdelegates. When the Democratic Party first adopted primaries in 1968 it led to the nomination of a string of far left candidates who subsequently lost to their Republican opposition. To solve this problem the Democrats added superdelegates in 1982, which established a balance between what the primary voters wanted and what the party wanted, and allowed for the nomination of candidates with a better shot at being elected. Historically superdelegates haven’t played a major role in determining the nominee, but rather have shifted with the public opinion to the stronger candidate. Such was the case with Obama in 2008 and Clinton in 2016, where she won 34 primaries compared to Sanders’ 23. But in the 2016 Republican primaries, superdelegates would’ve made a difference in the outcome. Throughout the primaries candidates dropped out left and right due both to declining poll numbers and a lack of funds. At a certain point, if a candidate doesn’t have the poll numbers or the promise of a shift in numbers, continuing to run is financial suicide.
Had the promise of pledged superdelegates reflecting the party’s wants existed, candidates would have had a reason to stay in. The amount of money spent running a campaign would have been offset by the promise of hundreds of delegates echoing the popular opinion. Superdelegates exist to promote the party’s wants alongside the people’s wants. They do so by balancing what type of candidate the people want with the type of candidate that can realistically win an election. And while this year Trump defied the odds and won, he didn’t win the popular vote and for much of the race didn’t seem like a viable contender against Clinton. The Republicans can’t afford another wild card candidate like Trump in 2020. To give themselves a shot at maintaining the White House past this election, they need to add superdelegates to their primaries so that the party can ensure their nominee isn’t a far-right shot in the dark. Berdanier is a philosophy junior from Denver, Colorado.
By Audrey Larcher Daily Texan Columnist @veg_lomein
As this election cycle has illustrated, America is deeply divided, and the average voter does not see eye-to-eye with the average politician. Although the Republican president-elect fueled his campaign on friction between the working class and political elites, the Democrats also face a similar dividing issue with superdelegates. In order to maintain party unity, certain delegates are granted the freedom to vote differently than their constituents. However, recent events suggest that this approach only further estranges voters from the political establishment. Superdelegates exist to help balance the opinions of party leaders and the average voter. While voters may be in favor of a candidate’s policies, DNC leaders understand what kind of president it takes to advance the party’s goals. The DNC itself certainly can benefit from superdelegate votes. They prevent the nomination from going to candidates who may
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lean too left of the center, leading to a more agreeable platform in the general election. This tendency allows for moderate leaders to capitalize on power and gradually advance a more progressive agenda. However, political parties should be more concerned with supporting the change voters find necessary than with maintaining the status quo of the establishment. As a democratic institution, it is important that the DNC reflects the people’s sentiments, but the inclusion of superdelegates prioritizes the party’s success over the people’s voices. Furthermore, the idea that superdelegates are more qualified than average voters to make decisions distorts the reality of how superdelegates choose to support their candidates. Party politics infiltrate the process, and superdelegates are not always making decisions based on an understanding of American politics or the people’s best interest, but are often swayed by the dominant partisan forces seeking to reinforce the status quo. These party politics that are intended to maintain the DNC’s control are actually eroding away at its voters’ support. Democratic voting bases are leaning more to the left after Obama’s two terms, but the establishment is only slowly beginning to embrace the liberal end of the party’s spectrum. Superdelegates are intended to reflect the majority’s sentiments, but what if the majority no longer cares for the moderate politicians superdelegates have generally supported? The DNC should not count on its constituents to stand behind its platform if the platform fails to embody changes in the progressive movement. The Republicans nominated and elected Trump, who responded to the voters’ disenfranchised feelings. He capitalized on their frustration with the establishment. If the DNC continues down the same route of making voters feel voiceless, progressives could see a similar implosion in their movement. Larcher is an economics and Plan II freshman from Austin.
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LGBT continues from page 8 For the next two and a half years, she volunteered with local non-profits to promote SanghaLink. In May 2014, the platform ran a trial at Pflugerville High School, which was successful in helping adults understand what made this program different. “One student said ‘I’ve been waiting forever for something like this,’” Weingart said. “What SanghaLink provides is so obviously needed in the eyes of students. I think the challenge is getting older people to understand why this extra step is necessary, because they didn’t grow up in the technology age.” In December of the same year, one of her friends was going to the International LGBT Leaders Conference in Washington, D.C., and Weingart decided to attend too. During the conference, Weingart mentioned SanghaLink and other attendees wanted
to know what it was, so she took to the stage to explain her idea. At the conclusion of the weekend, she had received $13,000 in donations. “That was the founding of SanghaLink,” Weingart said. “That was the money to file the paperwork and hire an attorney. From then on, that’s when things became real.” Greta Gatlin, a senior at Georgetown High School, started using SanghaLink after the statewide release in 2015 and attended a meetup in May. “I was super scared,” Gatlin said. “But when I got there, [I saw] kids talking about their experiences and being so open about themselves in an environment that was super accepting and super comfortable. It gave me hope that there was a community that I could be myself with and talk freely and not be scared of anything.”
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Julie Kantor Though American studies Ph.D. student Julie Kantor’s body is covered in tattoos, the one on her right shoulder holds a particular, personal significance. The tattoo depicts a 1970s postcard-esque representation of the Chaco Mountains enshrouded by a woman’s hair. “It’s the Chaco Mountains in southeastern California where Slab City is,” Kantor said. “Slab City is maybe the only free place left to live in America. There’s no electricity or water, but there are people who have lived in there for decades.
There’s a lot of transient kids and people in general, because it’s free to live in.” Kantor visited the snowbird community in 2014 with her anthropologist friend who was conducting field research. Kantor said visiting the city completely transformed her outlook on life and what it means to be American. “Just being there and meeting people changed my perspective about ideas of home, my ideas of property and the complications that arise when we try to commodify land that’s never been commodified before,” Kantor said.
Juliana Castro Graduate design student Juliana Castro has a total of five tattoos, but the one on her left upper arm is her favorite. She said she’s inspired by light and fun doodles. “I like this one a lot because it means two things at once,” Castro said. “Crossed fingers can be a symbol for good luck or it can mean you’re lying if they’re held behind your back.”
Castro tries to take a carefree approach to tattoos. So when the opportunity came to get a tattoo at 3 a.m. in Manhattan with four good friends, she took it. “I just have random, stupid tattoos,” Castro said. “We were just talking about things and ended up talking about pepperoni pizza. And I said ‘I want to tattoo myself with pepperoni pizza.’ It was really fun and random. No one was expecting to do it. It was great.”
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Led Zeppelin members Jimmy Page and Robert Plant brought booming guitar riffs and redefined the rock genre in the 1970s.
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continues from page 8 of the group found their niche in subtleties. Mike Mills proved to be the perfect collaborator, finding a role on a variety of instruments from the bass to piano and backup vocals. Meanwhile, Peter Buck and Bill Berry capitalized on the overall direction of the band, incorporating jangly guitars and basic drum techniques to keep each song mellow, yet somehow still more than intriguing. Murmur showed that, as a whole, R.E.M. could craft
a fantastic pop song, to the extent that the amount of details can be staggering with just one listen. Not only does the project stand as a fantastic experience, but it represents a turning point for music — when the power transitioned from rock stars to the hands of unexpected and relatable people. It’s a vibe no band has matched since, and one that brought R.E.M into the spotlight of ’80s and ’90s culture. Tracks to listen to: “Radio Free Europe,” “Laughing,” “Talk About the Passion”
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Longhorns drop opener to Cardinal By Sydney Rubin
Junior guard Brooke McCarty dribbles up the court during a game against Missouri last season. McCarty scored a teamhigh 20 points in the Longhorns loss to Stanford on Monday night.
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Bodies were flying Monday night in Palo Alto, California, as No. 8 Texas fell to No. 11 Stanford in its season opener. Both teams committed sufficient turnovers and personal fouls throughout the game, but most of the physicality came from Stanford junior guard Brittany McPhee. The Longhorns couldn’t find an answer for McPhee, who led the Cardinal with a career-high 28 points and seven rebounds. “I was trying to find somebody that could slow McPhee down,” head coach Karen Aston said in a radio call after the game. “From an intellectual standpoint, we did not play very good tonight.” Senior forward Erica McCall, Stanford’s leading scorer from last season, was a force at both ends of the court while collecting 17 points and five rebounds. But McCall’s biggest presence came on the defensive end as she notched five blocks in the first half and six on the night. The Cardinal shot 54.9 percent from the field as they cruised to the basket with ease and knocked down buckets from the perimeter. “We definitely have to have a much better defensive effort,” Aston said. “That was
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as poor of a defensive effort as we’ve had in a long time.” The Longhorns had a slight upper hand in the first quarter, closing the period with a 5-0 run and a buzzer-beater to take a 18-17 lead. But foul trouble and missed free throws plagued the burnt orange throughout the remainder of the contest. Texas went 1-7 from the free-throw line in the first half, a stat that Aston said hurt the team’s confidence moving forward. With 6:07 left in the second quarter, Stanford went on a 16-5 run and never looked back. The team took a
35-29 lead into the half. At the beginning of the second half, back-to-back three pointers from junior guards Ariel Atkins and Brooke McCarty prompted some Texas momentum, but it wasn’t enough. Atkins finished with 14 points, four steals and shot 3-6 from beyond the arc before fouling out in the game’s final minutes. McCarty shot 8-20 from the field to lead Texas with 20 points and five rebounds in her team-high 38 minutes on the court. Freshman forward Joyner Holmes got caught up in
We need to not worry as much about our opponents as much as we need to worry about us. —Karen Ashton, Head coach
early foul trouble but came out aggressively in the second half to finish with three points and three rebounds in her much-anticipated Texas debut. Aston said the team showed the necessary effort in the loss. However, she said she believes the team’s lack of discipline
was its ultimate downfall. “We played just not very smart and very undisciplined,” Aston said. “We need to not worry as much about our opponents as much as we need to worry about us.” The Longhorns return to Austin for their home-opener against Houston Baptist on Wednesday at 11 a.m.
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Even after loss, Strong optimistic about future By Michael Shapiro @mshap2
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After a one-game suspension, sophomore guard Kerwin Roach Jr. made his return to the Longhorns in Monday’s contest against Louisiana-Monroe. He finished with 11 points.
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No. 23 Texas cruised to an 80-59 victory over the University of LouisianaMonroe on Monday night in the Legends Classic Regional Round. The Longhorns and Warhawks played a tight game early in the first half, but Texas’ athleticism and length helped clinch the win down the stretch. Four Longhorns scored in the double-digits and the team played lock-down defense in the second half to clinch the win at the Frank Erwin Center. “I think our guys are happy with the result tonight, but you don’t want to get too happy,” head coach Shaka Smart said. “Our guys made pretty good decisions tonight. We need to continue to grow in that area.” Texas jumped out to a 10-3 lead early in the half, but the Warhawks used solid ball movement to create open shots and get back in the game. LouisianaMonroe used a 9-0 run to take a two-point lead with just over 13 minutes left in the half. But freshman guard Andrew Jones forced a Warhawk turnover that led to a
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dunk from freshman center Jarrett Allen. The throwdown ignited the Longhorn offense and put Texas up, 22-18, and it never relinquished the lead. “We showed a lot of aggression tonight on defense,” Jones said. “We really took pride in getting stops. Coach really emphasized … get a lot of stops so we can get out and set up our offense.” Texas’ defense tightened up in the final minutes of the first half, thanks in part to Smart’s coaching. When Louisiana-Monroe had the ball, Smart was right on the edge of the court, clapping his hands and shouting to the Longhorns’ defenders. Texas went on to force four turnovers in the half and held a 37-28 lead at intermission. “[Defense] was a huge point of emphasis,” Smart said. “The other day we were really inconsistent with our defensive energy. We still got a lot of things on the defensive end we need to improve on. I’ll probably continue to be down in the stance, pounding the floor.” The Longhorns struggled to start the second but quickly found their rhythm behind an impressive performance from senior guard Kendal Yancy. After recording just
three points in the first half, Yancy scored eight points in the second to put Texas up by as many as 30 points. He added three rebounds and was a force on defense to keep the Warhawk offense at bay. Sophomore guards Kerwin Roach Jr. and Tevin Mack also impressed in their first game back after a onegame suspension for violating team rules. Roach scored 11 points and recorded a block. Mack led the Longhorns in scoring with 14 points and hit four of Texas’ seven three-pointers. “It felt good, I’m just glad we came out with a win overall,” Mack said. “I was a little bit nervous before the game, but I kind of fought through that real quick. It felt good to be out there again with the guys.” Jones finished with 12 points and recorded a steal for Texas. Allen and freshman center James Banks both tallied two blocks while sophomore guard Eric Davis Jr. notched a career-high seven rebounds in what Smart called a “solid team effort.” Texas returns to action on Thursday to face Eastern Washington in its second Legends Classic Regional Round game.
Charlie Strong took the podium Monday following his fifth loss of the season. But unlike the weeks following the Longhorns’ defeats against Oklahoma State, Oklahoma or Kansas State, Texas’ head coach took a decidedly more optimistic tone with the media. “The thing I really liked is how hard we competed and how hard we played,” Strong said. “We need to finish the year strong and take care of business.” Sitting at 5–5, the Longhorns are in jeopardy of ending the season without a winning record for the third consecutive season. Texas is now 16–19 with Strong at the helm, a far cry from the success expected of him when he took over in 2014. And while the rumors surrounding Strong’s job security have dampened over the past few weeks, Strong knows he will be thoroughly evaluated by athletic director Mike Perrin and University President Gregory Fenves at the end of the season. “I’m sure the president will take a long look at it,” Strong said. “But we just have to stay focused and finish out our last two games of the season.” However, Strong noted the team’s improved play over the past few weeks. Texas’ upset victories over then-No. 8 Baylor and Texas Tech showed a Longhorn team gaining momentum as well as confidence from its
young roster. Perhaps the best possible argument for retaining Strong is his team’s youth. The Longhorns have accumulated 111 starts from freshmen and sophomores this year, the most in the FBS. The young roster has seen its fair share of frustrations from physical errors to mental miscues but ultimately has shown improvement over the course of the season. Both of Strong’s past two recruiting classes have been ranked in the top 10 in the nation, according to the 247sports composite, and have the talent to progress into the core of a Big 12 contender. “[The underclassmen] are real mature for their age,” junior wide receiver Dorian Leonard said. “They came in ready to make plays … They do all the extra things, all the little things that matter.” While Texas is far from the top of the conference this year, Strong insists the foundation of the Longhorn program is solid. With freshman Shane Buechele secured as the quarterback of the future and scores of young talent on the roster, Strong believes he can get things back on track in Austin if given another year. “When guys walk into a game now, they expect to win,” Strong said. “You like how much pride they have now, and how competitive they’ve become … Now it’s about having a good end to the year.”
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Junior reciever Dorian Leonard makes a diving grab against West Virginia. Leonard has praised Texas’ younger players.
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BIG 12 NOTEBOOK Baylor loses Russell to season-ending injury The No. 8 Sooners took care of business Saturday as they defeated Baylor, 45-24, and handed the Bears their third-straight loss. After starting the season 6–0, the Bears have lost their footing — and their starting quarterback. Senior Seth Russell went down in the third quarter on Saturday and had to be carted off the field. Baylor announced on Sunday that Russell fractured his left ankle and will undergo seasonending surgery. Oklahoma quarterback Baker Mayfield threw for 300 yards and accounted for three touchdowns for the Sooners. Oklahoma has won seven straight games and remains undefeated in the conference, but its toughest tasks have yet to come. The Sooners head to Morgantown this weekend to face No. 10 West Virginia before wrapping up their season Dec. 3 against No. 13 Oklahoma State — two games that hold major implications in the conference title. West Virginia looks to claim Big 12 title The Big 12 title race continues to heat up as the conference’s top teams all won their respective contests this week. West Virginia traveled to Austin and handed Texas its first home loss of the season. It was a close game, but the Mountaineers squeezed out a 24-20 victory over the Longhorns. Quarterback Skyler Howard threw three interceptions on the day, but his defense bailed him out as the Mountaineers stopped Texas quarterback Shane Buechele’s last-chance toss as time expired. West Virginia has three games left on its schedule, including a pivotal game this weekend against the current leader of the Big 12 in Oklahoma. If the Mountaineers can hold their ground at home and walk away with a win over the Sooners, their position in the conference and College Football Playoff rankings should rise. —Sydney Rubin
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Anna Weingart created SanghaLink, an online, invitation-only social network aimed at creating safe communities for high school LGBT students. The organization is developing an app set to be released in 2017.
Former student creates networking site for LGBT high school students By Lisette Oler @LisetteOler
When Anna Weingart’s mom knocked on her bedroom door, she asked her to turn off the lights before she entered. Weingart had finally decided to come out to her mom, and she couldn’t look her in the eyes. Weingart came out in 2008 while attending Stephen F. Austin High School, where she often felt lonely because she didn’t know anyone like her. It wasn’t until she was a freshman at UT and started attending the Gender and Sexuality Center’s weekly hangouts
that she realized there were many people in Austin experiencing the same feelings as her. “In my case, I was suicidal through most of high school,” Weingart said. “I talked to other people and they had different stories, but it all came down to that lack of community. That was the underlying cause of our pain.” In June 2014, Weingart created SanghaLink, an online, invitation-only social network aimed at creating safe communities for high school LGBT students. The online platform helps alleviate the loneliness LGBT
students often feel in high school. The organization, which was launched statewide in 2015, is developing a smartphone app set to be released in 2017. The SanghaLink team creates accounts for high school representatives who can connect their peers to the site. Twice a semester students can plan #SLmeetups, where they can interact with their online friends in person to discuss issues and exchange ideas. While there are many available resources for LGBT students, including school Gay Straight Alliances and online forums, Weingart said
some students who had yet to come out may not attend these meetings and may face predators online. “We all have that desire to be around people who are like us and going through similar things,” Weingart said. “With the LGBT community, because it’s not always obvious if someone is gay, it’s really hard to find other people to connect with.” In 2011, Weingart took time off from UT and was inspired to create SanghaLink. But at 19, she didn’t have money or credibility.
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(Untitled) Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin was a monumental band in the evolution of rock. Built as a supergroup, each member of the quartet excelled individually, but when making music together, they crafted some of the finest hard rock money could buy. However, it wasn’t until the release of their fourth album, an untitled effort commonly known as Led Zeppelin IV, that the group became the superpower they’re remembered as today. After a lukewarm critical response to the band’s third album Led Zeppelin III, Jimmy Page was fed up with the media. Their expectations of the band led to an instant rejection of III, which sought out a new direction for the group in acoustic accompaniment and storytelling. In what some press agents warned would be career suicide, Page decided Led Zeppelin’s next album would have no title or any words on its cover. The only writing on the entire LP were four symbols, each chosen to represent one band member. Page’s gamble paid off — IV was a fantastic success, with each of its eight songs displaying the band’s different influences. From the blues-infused guitar riffs on “Black Dog” to lead singer Robert Plant’s bombastic wailing on “Stairway to Heaven” and drummer John Bonham’s booming sound, concluding the project with “When The Levee Breaks,” there’s hardly a moment to relax. IV was the album that proved Led Zeppelin was more than just a band — they were a generation-defining and, some would argue, an unmatched
experience for all to enjoy. Tracks to listen to: “Black Dog,” “Going to California,” “When the Levee Breaks” Murmur R.E.M. During a live show shortly before R.E.M. was set to enter the studio and record their debut album, an audience member famously yelled at the band to turn the music up. In response, lead singer Michael Stipe simply said “Listen harder.” This story, true or false, might be one of — if not the most — telling recounts of everything R.E.M. represents. They were a reaction to bands like Led Zeppelin — groups that dominated the stage and acted like rock stars. Instead of following suit, R.E.M. threw a wrench into the spokes of arena rock, scavenging for emotional elements and finding experimental veins. Opting for a jangle pop sound, R.E.M. grew quickly as a local phenomenon in their hometown of Athens, Georgia. However, it wasn’t until their debut album Murmur, recorded in 1983, that their sound found its audience. Murmur is the perfect combination of inexperience, passion and poetry. Most indie bands in today’s scene could only imagine being able to craft verses as empowering and challenging as Michael Stipe’s. And it doesn’t matter what Stipe may have been writing about — whether it was a former love, a childhood friend or something as obscure as his lawnmower — the listener would be captivated with his musings. Building off of this, the rest
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