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CapMetro votes to keep bus detours

Year after murder, safety changes vary

By Lisa Dreher @Lisa_dreher97

Capital Metro voted Monday to permanently keep the bus detours caused by Speedway construction that UT originally said were temporary.

Routes 18 MLK, 412 E-Bus, 640 40 Acres, 642 West Campus and 663 Lake Austin were rerouted to go around Speedway and East 21st Street when construction started in 2015, Blanca Gamez, Parking and Transportation Services’ assistant director said in an email.

Before Speedway’s construction started, there were stops near Perry Castaneda Library, Darrell K. Royal Memorial Stadium and Clark Field for the 18 MLK, 412 E-Bus and 663 Lake Austin buses. The vote officially decided those stops will not be used again upon Speedway’s completion.

“It was apparent that hundreds of buses crossing this area on the hour

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SPORTS

By Catherine Marfin @catherinemarfin

The death of dance freshman Haruka Weiser last spring prompted the University to make campus-wide safety improvements. Exactly one year after her death, students say some safety improvements are more noticeable than others.

Shortly after Weiser’s murder April 3 of last spring, UT President Gregory Fenves requested that the Texas Department of Public Safety conduct a campus security

assessment. After a fourmonth review, DPS recommended providing campus areas with additional lighting, increasing police presence, adjusting campus landscapes to improve visibility and addressing the transient population, among other recommendations, some of which have already been implemented.

Marketing junior Anna Lara said these changes are most apparent near the College of Fine Arts, close to where Weiser’s murder occurred. Lara said while she has noticed consistent UT

Police Department presence in vehicles, officers on foot patrol are less frequent compared to the initial days after the murder.

“The first couple of weeks after (the murder) there were a lot of UTPD officers walking, where we would never see that before, but that’s stopped again,” Lara said. “But (the fine arts area) is a bit lighter and there’s definitely more people there and more (police) vehicles on campus.”

Similarly, Charles Bradbury,

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O’Rourke challenges Cruz’s senate seat

By Lisa Dreher @Lisa_dreher97

A Democratic congressman from El Paso, Beto O’Rourke, announced Friday he will challenge incumbent U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz in 2018 as an underdog opponent to a national conservative leader.

O’Rourke, currently in his third term representing District 16, stopped by Austin to gain momentum among Texas Democrats after announcing his run for senator in his hometown of El Paso.

Championing better veteran services, affordable health care and term limits, O’Rourke said Saturday the race against Cruz in a red state will be challenging.

“1988 was the last time this state sent a Democrat to the Senate,” O’Rourke said to his supporters in Austin.

“We’re going to decide 2018 is our year.”

Former U.S. Sen. Lloyd Bentsen was the last Democrat to represent Texas in the Senate after his reelection in 1988. Cruz, in his third term as senator, gained strong support among Republicans for his presidential bid in 2016. O’Rourke, a technology entrepreneur and former

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Democratic congressman Beto O’Rourke talks to his supporters at an event held at Scholtz Garten on Saturday afternoon. He gave a short speech and officially announced his campaign for the U.S. Senate race next year.

musician, may also see competition from potential challenger U.S. Rep. Joaquin Castro, a high-profile Democrat from San Antonio.

O’Rourke said President

Donald Trump’s immigration orders, which Cruz supports, are fear mongering and distracting.

“Not a single terrorist, terrorist plot, or terrorist

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organization has ever used the Mexico border with Texas or the United States to do harm to anybody in this country,” O’Rourke said.

“Despite all of that, we’ve got

Speedway food trucks expand Student leads free on-campus dining options Sunday workouts

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University Unions began offering food trucks on campus last week for students who are bored with the usual on-campus lunch options.

Mulugeta Ferede, executive director of University Unions, said they have been working with Student Government since 2014 to bring food trucks to campus. SG passed a resolution in 2015 in support of the food trucks, and Ferede said after construction delays and collaboration with other university departments, the program finally started last week. Currently, one food truck is scheduled to serve every weekday from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m near Gregory Gym. “The students I’ve talked to are really excited about this,” Ferede said. “They

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Students stand in line to buy lunch at Four Brothers, a food truck that sells traditional Venezuelan food. The truck was parked between Gregory Gym and Jester last Friday.

have been waiting for this for three years. I think this will help showcase the food truck culture we have in Austin and make campus more lively.”

Ferede said the Speedway Mall Project has planned two spaces to host food trucks. Because the south-

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ern portion of construction is complete, the first area is open on 21st Street between Gregory Gym and Jester.

The main goal of having food trucks is to introduce new foods to campus and reduce wait time at other

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Every Sunday morning, nutrition sophomore Jamal Fielder goes to Clark Field to give personal training and workout classes to other students — for free.

For Fielder, the classes provide valuable personal training experience, but for the students attending his boot camps, it is a free hour of exercise with a trainer they couldn’t get elsewhere.

The UT Fitness/Wellness Program with the Recreational Sports Center offers workout classes, most of which require the purchase of an $85 TeXercise pass. The program also offers personal training, which costs $75 for two training sessions with a friend.

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having to pay so much for workout classes isn’t going to give people an incentive to go work out,” said social work sophomore Vanessa Ferretiz.

Ferretiz has been attending Fielder’s boot camps since they first started at the beginning of last semester.

Six months later, she now tries to make it out every weekend she can.

“It’s really motivating to know that somebody cares enough about other people to get up in the morning for it,” Ferretiz said.

Fielder said he was always interested in nutrition, but after learning about the nation’s health problems in his biology classes, he knew he wanted to train people as a career.

“I’ve always worked out and I’ve been in sports and stuff since a young age,” Fielder said. “Seeing that

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was not going to be safe,” Gamez said. “The speed at which buses could cross this area because of the heavy pedestrian traffic was also likely to cause long delays that would leave people waiting for the bus and others being late to their destinations.”

The proposal to keep the detours, which have been in effect for over a year, is part of a plan set for June 2017 by the University and CapMetro that eliminates bus stops along 21st Street but adds additional stops to East MLK Jr. Boulevard.

Route 663 Lake Austin will continue running up Guadalupe Street and down Lavaca Street. Route 640 Forty Acres will continue to pass by Clark Field and the Blanton Museum of Art instead of cutting through campus along 21st Street. Business honors junior Tiffany Wang said buses passing on Speedway would be a safety hazard and

inconvenience buses.

“It’s a terrible road, people can barely walk through that street anyway so it doesn’t make sense for a bus to pass through that street,” Wang said.

Gamez said students and other community members were allowed to provide feedback through social media, surveys and input meetings earlier this month.

Michelle Sifre, architecture and interior design senior, said she was unaware of the plan and wished CapMetro had publicized the proposed changes to students more.

“Their approach was really passive, like ‘Hey we’ll send them an email and that’s good enough,” Sifre said. “And for something that’s going to impact students I think they should have been more proactive about it, something that would really get people’s attention.”

CapMetro held an input meeting March 10 at Gregory Gym where 10 people attended, CapMetro

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continues from page 1 an international relations and global studies and history senior, said he’s noticed some safety measures have remained more consistent than others.

“In West Campus there are less people hanging around at night, and there’s way more safety signs and Be Safe ads,” Bradbury said. “But where there were a lot of cops for a while on campus (after it happened) … they’ve definitely gone down since last year.”

Gerald Harkins, associate vice president of Campus Safety and Security, said the

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continues from page 1 not support his campaign through PAC funding but rather through grassroots tactics. O’Rourke said he will fight to keep the Affordable Care Act after Cruz said last month Republicans must attempt to repeal it again.

O’Rourke also said his bipartisan goals include raising funding for veteran services and placing term limits, saying he would commit himself to a two-term limit.

“Letting (senators) get reelected forever until they die

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continues from page 1 health and nutrition were pretty bad here, (training) was just … something I could do to help out my country.”

Fielder said the cost of workout classes at UT isn’t the

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Route 642 will not run through 21st Street as CapMetro had originally planned, following last week’s vote.

ning and Sunday services.

Psychology freshman Reyna Aguinaga said the quickest route for her to get home, 672, stops running at 6 p.m. and so she takes route 640 or 671 instead.

“I have to walk another 15 minutes just to get to my apartment,” Aguinaga said.

“It would be so helpful if the buses could run a little later too, instead of shutting down at 11.”

more dramatic increase in police presence shortly after Weiser’s death had to do with the high-profile nature of the crime.

“Right after the body was discovered until we arrested the suspect, we had a murderer loose on campus or around, so DPS had officers on horses and we had a lot more visibility,” Harkins said.

“Once we felt we had captured the individual, we were able to adjust our timing.”

While UTPD has adjusted the shift schedules of its patrol officers and implemented some officers on foot and bikes, hiring more officers may become a long-term

solution, Harkins said.

Additionally, SURE Walk has increased its efficiency since Weiser’s death, expanding their services in the last year by adding golf carts and cars, increasing their demand from 10 to 15 walks per week to hundreds and even thousands per month.

While SURE Walk and other security updates have enhanced safety on campus, civil engineering junior Connor Ivy said there will always be a need for students to be cautious on campus.

“Personally, I haven’t ever felt unsafe on campus, even after (Weiser’s murder) because as a guy, I don’t feel

like I have to think about it that much,” Ivy said. “But with my female friends, they use SURE Walk and I have walked them to their dorms because girls just have to be more careful (because they’re victimized more often).”

Weiser was reported missing on April 4, 2016. On April 5, her body was found in Waller Creek. Meechaiel Criner was indicted on capital murder in connection to her death and is currently awaiting his August trial.

A memorial to commemorate the anniversary of Weiser’s death will take place today on the Main Mall at 8 p.m.

or retire of their own volition, that’s not a democracy,” O’Rourke told the Daily Texan.

Joshua Blank, manager of The Texas Politics Project, a polling project within the College of Liberal Arts, said O’Rourke must garner more attention from Texas Democrats.

“Representative O’Rourke is really a non-entity at this point,” Blank said. “Given the Texas Democratic Party has been relatively absent in most recent races, in a lot of ways having some in-fighting would actually revitalize the party.”

Government professor David Prindle said O’Rourke has a slim chance of winning since Texas Democrats have a low voter turnout. Prindle said O’Rourke should try to connect Cruz to Trump.

“Ted Cruz is probably the most hated man in the Senate,” Prindle said. “The only possible strategy I can see for O’Rourke is, if by election day 2018, Donald Trump is hated and O’Rourke can manage to tie Cruz to Trump.”

Government and economics senior Samantha Minkowitz, and College Republicans vice president, said she

is doubtful Texas will elect a Democrat over Cruz.

“I support Ted Cruz,” said Minkowitz. “I think he is incredibly smart, articulate and knowledgeable. I believe that Texas will remain red, at least for the foreseeable future.”

Hiram Garcia, an international relations and global studies sophomore, interned for O’Rourke in 2015. Garcia, who is from El Paso, said O’Rourke’s grassroots campaign sets him apart.

“He spends a lot of his extra time just talking to everyday, regular people,” Garcia said.

“He’s just a really nice guy.”

sole reason he started up the boot camps, but it definitely played into the decision.

“I understood that a lot of people were ‘broke college students,’” Fielder said.

Biology senior Carolyn Trieu, said the UT classes offered have never interested

her enough to look into buying a pass. However, she said the price would be a deterrent for her if she were interested.

She also said Fielder’s boot camp is a good resource for students wanting to work out without spending a lot of money.

“I think (the boot camp) is a really good idea, because even if I was interested in a lot of classes, I don’t think I’d pay $85,” Trieu said.

Fielder said he plans on continuing the Sunday morning classes for his next two years at UT.

communications specialist Amy Peck said in an email.

Peck said students asked questions about removing 21st Street’s bus stops, and some said they disagreed with a proposal to eliminate eve-

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A team of engineering undergraduate students at UT-Arlington are rolling in praise after patenting a smart bandage that can ease the pain of recovery.

The team created the bandage, which is capable of delivering drugs to a wound on a schedule, as part of their senior design project in 2010.

They won awards for and presented at conferences about their invention, which was patented in December 2016 under the name Controlled Release Nanoparticulate Matter Delivery System.

The team set out to create a bandage that would better heal wounds and burns. One issue with treating wounds is that changing bandages can increase the chance of infection, said Letia Blanco, an engineer at defense contracting company Raytheon, who

at UT-Arlington.

Pranesh Aswath, UT-Arlington material sciences and engineering professor and one of two faculty advisors of the project, added that burns in particular are painful when handled and can require multiple medications for healing.

“When you have a need for multiple different drugs — possibly at different time points — it’s a huge challenge to deliver those at the burn location,” Aswath said.

The smart bandage mitigates these issues by being rechargeable and releasing designated drugs on a schedule, which reduces the need for frequent bandage changes.

“By using our bandage, you can put it on once, recharge the cells — which will release medication on their own schedules — and keep the wound closed off from the dangers of infection,” Blanco said.

Blanco described the

bandage as a checkerboard, with squares containing different medications held together by a polymer. The medications, such as antibiotics or growth hormones, are released on schedules unique to each drug for each user. The bandage also contains a gel, which controls the wound’s temperature and regulates drug delivery.

For their work, the team won an award from the American Society for Materials International Undergraduate Design Competition in 2011.

They also presented their findings at the Biomedical Engineering Conference in 2011 and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers Winter Annual Meeting in 2012.

Aswath said UT-Arlington and Raytheon are discussing the possibility of commercializing the bandage, which was patented in December. He added that the project helps to show the importance of undergraduate research.

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“It’s not very common to see undergraduate projects get to this level of sophistication,” Aswath said. “That’s what I’m most proud of — that we were able to get our undergraduate students to do something of

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this importance.”

Blanco said that the senior design project is a great way for students to utilize what they’ve learned as undergraduates. “(A senior design project) is

really this wonderful culmination of all these different classes,” Blanco said. “It’s an excellent opportunity to take this disparate group of skills you’ve learned from all these different classes and put it together.”

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Playwright challenges audience to examine racial privilege, act Jahnavi Muppaneni @jaaahnavi

Lisa B. Thompson, African and African Diaspora studies associate professor and playwright, aims to ask her audience how willing they are to put themselves in discomfort to help others in her play, “Underground.”

“Underground,” which shows the progression of the Civil Rights Movement from slavery to Black Lives Matter, premiered March 24 and will run until April 5 at The Vortex, a theatre known for displaying urgent and unashamed art, according to director Rudy Ramirez. Thompson emphasizes the importance of studying the past to create a better future.

“It’s extremely timely, but also unfortunately timeless,” Thompson said.

Thompson’s goal is to start conversations among people in the comfortable upper and middle classes

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care, health care, emergency response and food packages to both refugees and trapped Syrians, UMR communications director Aizah Rauf said.

Hawasli said she and her family struggled to find work, food and housing after fleeing to Egypt. In desperation, they paid smugglers to send them to Europe on small, overcrowded boats known to capsize, but they were stopped by Egyptian police last minute. “(The police) had my mom and my little sister put in jail for around 15 days,” Hawasli said. “They wouldn’t (provide) any food or any water to these people and my sister was in the hospital.”

After months of applying for refugee status in the United States, Hawasli and her family arrived in Austin.

Hawasli said she was overwhelmed by how welcoming and sympathetic the city was to her perilous journey, providing her an education and a new beginning.

“There is so much kindness, we wouldn’t be here today without all their help,” Hawasli said.

Ceren Tomruk, landscape architecture graduate student, said she attended the fundraiser because she was aware of the poverty refugees face in her home country Turkey.

“I’ve seen a lot of Syrian families who live in Turkey and they are poor and live on the streets,” Tomruk said. “Literally families and kids ask for money … it’s really tragic.”

While the fundraiser spreads awareness, last year’s event raising $26,000, Rauf said the Syrian war and its consequences are not discussed enough on campus.

“Our response in Austin has been really strong,” Rauf said. “But in terms of the campus in general and groups on campus, I haven’t been seeing this issue being advocated for too much …

I don’t think that too many people mostly even know what’s going on.”

with courses and trying to get things together. Having the food at your disposal so closely makes it very easy to incorporate something that’s different.”

Ferede said food trucks must apply and be approved to serve on campus. University Unions used student recommendations to choose vendors. There are currently six food trucks approved: Kona Ice, Mighty Cone, Casey’s New Orleans

Snowballs, Four Brothers, Melted and Gobble Gobble.

Ferede said they hope to make food trucks available at big university events on weekends in the future.

Maryam Ecarri, radio-television-film freshman, said she eats on campus every day and the food trucks offer a more diverse selection of food on campus, such as Four Brothers, which serves Venezuelan food.

to make them more aware of their political stance.

Thompson said she wants upper and middle class audiences to consider how much they are willing to sacrifice if they are not satisfied with how the world is now.

“Our inaction is a profound action,” Thompson said. “It’s on everybody, especially those who are more privileged…If you’re not changing it, you’re benefiting from it.”

“Underground” is shown through African-American protagonists, Kyle and Mason, who meet for a game of chess but end up discussing Black liberation. Unlike Kyle, who came from a wealthy background and wants radical change, Mason worked his way up to middle class from poverty and wants gradual change.

Director Rudy Ramirez met Thompson when he was a graduate student in UT’s Performance of Public Practice graduate

program. Ramirez encouraged Thompson to find a production company in Austin.

“Underground” is set in Mason’s house, which is near an Underground Railroad stop. Ramirez said realism was an important aspect of the set design.

“We have often created theatrical and fantastical settings, but for this one we went to show the socioeconomic background of actors,” Ramirez said. “We wanted it to be a portrait of Mason.”

Theatre sophomore Sam Kerner said art can communicate current problems facing society in a way news can’t.

“With theatre, the goal is more often to change, or to excite, or to question, or to interrogate — it’s active and it’s intentional,” Kerner said. “It’s more human than just watching the news, because it’s real people there with you, asking you to listen and understand.”

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Rudy Ramirez, Jeffrey Johnson, Lisa B. Thompson and Marc Pouhe make up the creative team behind the new play “Underground.”

“I am Venezuelan so I rarely see my food,” Ecarri said. “It’s kind of a good thing to have around because it brings diversity and variety to a … more diverse student body.”

Karen Pfeiffer, University Unions administrative associate, said in an email they have encouraged vendors to consider accepting Bevo Bucks and hope to offer that option in the future.

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O’Rourke needs primary to prepare for Cruz

By Noah M. Horwitz

Daily Texan Senior Columnist @NmHorwitz

In 2012, Beto O’Rourke, then a member of the El Paso City Council, waged an uphill battle against an entrenched incumbent, coming at him from the left. He won, and has served in Congress ever since.

On Friday, O’Rourke announced his decision to run for the U.S. Senate, specifically the seat that Ted Cruz holds, using a very similar strategy. O’Rourke has pledged to not take any PAC or corporate money, and has espoused populist positions such as being warm to term limits for Congress. O’Rourke also lambasted reliance upon typical Democratic pollsters and consultants, blaming them in part for Democratic losses of late.

That choice has been panned by some in the national press. Chris Cillizza of CNN described it as “how to lose a race before (it) even starts.”

But the sentiment might be emblematic of a deeper divide within the Democratic Party.

While there was some grumbling about Rep. Joaquin Castro of San Antonio jumping into this race as well, signs increasingly say that won’t happen. His absence would be a shame. For all the muttering of party elites that a competitive primary would waste resources, a healthy preliminary round would be about the best thing Democrats could get.

This would even be true if, as I suspect, a primary re-litigates some aspects of the Clinton vs. Sanders race from last year. The reminiscence has already emerged in the Democratic primary for Governor of Virginia, for which there is an election in November. In his remarks in Austin on Saturday, O’Rourke waded deep into Bernie-ism, particularly when discussing his eschewing of corporate money.

O’Rourke is a good candidate. He is young and is a dead-ringer for Robert F. Kennedy.

He is also passionate about many liberal pet issues. But without a rigorous primary, I fear that he might not quite be ready for prime time, so to speak, in taking on Cruz.

Carlos Garcia | Daily Texan Staff

U.S. Representative Beto O’Rourke interacts with the crowd at Scholz Garten in Austin on Saturday, April 1. O’Rourke, who represents Texas’ 16th Congressional district, announced his Senate campaign to unseat Ted Cruz on Friday.

O’Rourke repeatedly mentioned El Paso in his Saturday remarks. He mentioned it was the safest major city in Texas. He mentioned a series of touching anecdotes about it. He mentioned it to the detriment of other parts of Texas, most notably the part in which he was speaking. The speech felt like it had parts copied-and-pasted from his stump speeches for the House. Ted Cruz would tear that to shreds.

Cruz is a masterful debater and brilliant political tactician. I was convinced 100 percent from the moment he took his place in the Senate that he would succeed Barack Obama as president, precisely because of the skills he showed time and time again in the 2012 senate election. Cruz can look you in the eye and say — forcefully, articulately and persuasively — that the sky is red.

And in most cases, people believe him.

For all the talk of Cruz being reviled and a joke, O’Rourke and all other Texas democrats underestimate him at their own peril.

To say that O’Rourke faces an uphill climb would be a laughable understatement. The odds of victory are close to zero. The best way for them to tick upward is to have a healthy primary. So run, Joaquin, run!

Horwitz is a first-year law student from Houston.

COLUMN

Consumers must fight for net neutrality rules

By Laura Doan

Daily Texan Columnist

The glossy technology that pervades modern life offers ease and access to global information — but the companies who provide internet access and the services we love also pose great threats to consumer privacy and freedom. Consumers need a government that will pick up the sword to fight against profit– seeking internet giants. What they have is an administration that is picking up binoculars and pointing the giants toward the villagers.

Last Tuesday, the House voted to rollback Federal Communications Commission regulations that would have prevented telecom companies from tracking and selling consumers’ internet data without their consent. The vote was along party lines, with Republicans, including every Texas Republican representative, voting for the rollback and democrats voting against.

Having passed the Senate a week prior, the bill needs only President Donald Trump’s expected approval to become law. Once Trump swirls his sharp ballpoint on the dotted line, the privacy rules put place under former President Barack Obama will be nullified and there will be guards

Eliminating net neutrality rules would open us up to a world in which AT&T partners with HBO GO, Verizon links with Netflix and freshmen on UT wifi scream into their keyboards while The Office buffers for eternity. against similar legislation in the future.

Congressional Republicans made a mistake when they sided with the telecom companies like AT&T and Comcast, who complained that they were unfairly being regulated while companies like Google and Facebook, which also collect user search data, were not. This vote signifies the Trump administration’s propensity to cater to the concerns of large broadband companies over the everyday consumer. And they aren’t finished dismantling regulations. Their next target? Net neutrality.

Both Trump and his appointee as chairman of the FCC, Ajit Pai, have signaled disdain for

net neutrality and willingness remove it. Ajit Pai voted against net neutrality rules in 2015, and has already taken first steps to dismantling net neutrality rules and Trump revealed his position in a nearly incoherent and erroneous tweet from 2014: “Obama’s attack on the internet is another top down power grab. Net neutrality is the Fairness Doctrine. Will target conservative media.” Fact check: The Fairness Doctrine was an FCC policy scrapped in 1987 which required news outlets to present multiple viewpoints on public interest matters. That policy actually had a direct impact on conservative media coverage; net neutrality does not.

Net neutrality simply would ensure that all websites, including liberal and conservative news websites, are equally accessible. Its rules are vital to allowing free movement of internet traffic, and without it carriers could implement “pay-toplay” rules that block or slow service to a crawl for websites that can’t afford it while keeping others at top speed. This would be fantastic for big broadband carriers but a nightmare for consumers and a blight against free access to information online. Eliminating net neutrality rules would open us up to a world in which AT&T partners with HBO GO, Verizon links with Net-

flix and freshmen on UT wifi scream into their keyboards while The Office buffers for eternity.

American consumers ought to be very concerned about their online privacy or freedom.

We should prepare to protest the bills to dismantle net neutrality whenever they eke out of Congress. Constituent involvement on this issue is what got net neutrality passed in 2015, despite a Republican Congress, when millions of individuals sent comments to the FCC in favor of the rules and made more than 500,000 calls. In 2017, Congress may seem more deaf to public outcry than usual, so efforts might have to be more large scale. The good news is that people are also more motivated to make noise now than they ever were in 2015.

It may seem like there are a lot of issues that demand our attention. While scrolling through a news feed one can feel remarkable kinship with John Snow staring at a horde of White Walkers.

You can cut one down, but winter keeps coming. Still, keeping the Internet free and protecting consumer privacy are two issues that should not be forgotten. Since the government won’t fight broadband giants for us, we have to do it ourselves.

Doan is a Plan II and english sophomore from Fort Worth.

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UT should nudge students toward better health

By Trevor Hadley

Daily Texan Columnist

Current initiatives to improve health care advocate for a shift to “whole person care” — where treatment plans incorporate the mental and emotional aspects of patient health, rather than focusing just on physical ailments. But health care isn’t the only arena that could stand to benefit from this type of paradigm shift.

Undergraduate education has a narrow focus on academic development and should be redesigned to address the needs of the “whole student.” We need to rethink degree plan designs and work to include more opportunities for personal development, make coursework that covers self-management, productivity optimization and resilience, an integral part of undergraduate education.

Present coursework at UT does feature classes that cover personal growth topics, but the learning environments are largely didactic, not experiential. Few, if any, classes are geared toward the nuts and bolts of practical

application. Unfortunately, even if courses were more pragmatic, it’s unlikely that students would find the time to take them.

As biology senior Jackie Keeler explains, additional course work can be tough to fit in with an already packed degree plan.

“I found this course on mindfulness that sounded perfect for what I was looking for,” Keeler said. “I was reading a lot about meditation and how to manage stress, but there just wasn’t a way to work it in with everything else I had that semester.”

It should be noted, however, that UT does offer a number of personal growth and selfcare resources outside of the traditional classroom setting. The Counseling and Mental Health Center features a MindBody Lab, which helps students to develop resiliency and stress management skills. And the Sanger Learning Center offers a number of classes on self management, such as “Study Smarter Not Harder” and “Time and Procrastination.”

But the overarching issue is not whether self-development resources exist or not.

The problem is with accessibility and a lack

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Present coursework at UT does feature classes that cover personal growth topics, but the learning environments are largely didactic, not experiential. Few, if any, classes are geared toward the nuts and bolts of practical application. of deep exposure. How can we, as UT’s core purpose states, “transform lives for the benefit of society,” if degree requirements don’t incorporate a “whole student” approach? The future success of students certainly depends as much on their ability to balance the rest of life’s challenges as it does on the knowledge base they build in college.

Yet, a proper solution does not include a blanket mandate to add more coursework.

This would likely push back graduation for

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many and add more stress, rather than relieving it. And despite what the University might think is best, it’s still important for students to retain their right to choose what path they think is best for them.

So I propose an approach that makes personal development course work more accessible while still maintaining student choice.

Selected resources at Sanger and CMHC should be integrated into semester long course offerings which can count toward core requirements, and academic advisors should be trained to nudge students toward taking these classes.

This strategy would redesign the way choices are presented during the degree planning process, making it more likely for students to pursue personal development course work. We don’t need to reinvent the wheel to start shifting toward “whole student” education. We need only to repackage current resources, and to present them in a more open and attractive way.

Hadley is a staff member in biology and a B.S. ‘15 in neuroscience from Southlake.

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‘Our Austin Story’ uncovers forgotten city history

By Acacia Coronado @acaciatree18

When Edwin Waller planned to build the city of Austin in 1839, he had no idea the landscape he created would later host Booker T. Washington, the movement for desegregation of public education and massive music festivals.

Melissa Barry, vice president of planning at the Downtown Austin Alliance, said many Austin residents are not familiar with this history. She said the DAA has partnered with Austin Parks and Recreation Department to create Our Austin Story. A project meant to compile anecdotes and histories of the citizens and places from the three original Austin city squares that remain, Wooldridge, Republic and Brush, and bring them to life in a comprehensive and interpretive manner.

“The three public squares, and to an extent all of the public spaces in the city, are the common ground for our community and they really should reflect the heritage of our city,” Barry said. “We thought this would be a great opportunity to be able to capture those stories and help connect people to the past.”

The first storytelling event will take place April 8 at 9 a.m. in the form of a walking history tour. The Our Austin Story

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continues from page 8 “Amen.” It was such a magical time because I was really driven to say something. I knew I still had something to say, and I actually still do right now which is why the record is not out yet.

I spent all month searching for the songs and “Amen” came on a day where it was so easy.

“Amen” kind of came to life like this sort of love letter, kind of as a testimony. I remember the feeling of just staying here,

walk, which is being done in partnership with Shoal Creek Conservancy, will begin at Duncan Park and include historical anecdotes and facts about the Wooldridge Square.

“These are very historical places, and a lot of what you see in Austin today either flowed through those squares or in some cases started there,” Ted Eubanks, the consultant for the Our Austin Story project said. “We are an extraordinary city, and I want to share that with people who might be new here or might be visiting.”

Eubanks said there is a great deal of history at Wooldridge Square related to UT. From the filming of a scene of Austin’s first full length movie, “Eggshells,” produced by a Longhorn, to a courthouse named after the man whose case initiated the desegregation of the University, Eubanks said Wooldridge Square has deep ties with UT. “Phenomenal history can be experienced at that square and unfortunately right now there is nothing telling anybody about this,” Eubanks said.

Eubanks has been working on interviewing community members who have remained in these squares and are more familiar with their history.

“Wooldridge Square is where two of the original African-American churches

were built,” Eubanks said. “I am gradually, slowly piecing together their stories and talking to people who know or about it.”

Sylvia Orozco, a UT alumna and executive director and founder of the Mexic-Arte Museum, served as one of the sources or Eubanks’ story collection. She

believes in preserving this history because it is important to recognize all of the different people that took part in building Austin.

“It is important that we understand how Austin came to be,” Orozco said. “There are contributions from the Mexican, African-Americans, French, Czech (and)

working on the demo, and leaving late and feeling really good about the song, and just loving the song and saying ‘God, I hope the team loves this as much as I do,’ because the song really means a lot to me.

DT: What message would you like to send to college students and youth right now?

HH: Probably the same message I would want myself to hear even two years ago. Being 25 and kind of having been through all the

versions of being an artist, the really joyous times and lowest lows, living that is like a retreat I guess. I know that I am stronger and I knew that I would be, but it is kind of hard to believe at the beginning. Perspective is the key to happiness I think, or one of the keys to happiness for me, just looking at the life ahead of you as just an endless road. Whatever the daunting task of the day is, it becomes so much easier to bear. There is nothing too big, nothing too great. I believe prayer is

powerful and you have to make your story. Everybody tells you to be yourself, but I think the world expect you to fall in certain categories, and stand on a line of some kind, but we are all individuals for a reason, and we are all going to have our own version of whatever story we seek.

Rachel Zein | Daily Texan Staff

Woolridge Square, located between 9th and 10th streets, was founded in 1909. Its rich history is explored in Our Austin Story, a project which aims to educate the Austin community on the historical significance of the city’s original public spaces.

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Germans. All of these different people have contributed to our city.”

Orozco, who helped Eubanks gather information about Republic Square, said the current remnants of history throughout the squares are proof that it is so important for this history to be preserved and com-

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continues from page 8 Glass” is a straightforward discussion of the rape allegations Gibbs faced, but he never seems to gain any ground on the issue. He just dances around, saying he’s free but never explaining anything.

Later on “Amnesia,” he jumps to a broad rap about hiphop’s money problem, bragging about how he doesn’t have to purchase his cars on loan.

municated to current and future generations.

“We come from somewhere, and we need to know where we come from, where our people come from and the contributions they have made to the city,” Orozco said.

“If we live in the city we need to understand the city and (it’s) history.”

Overall, You Only Live 2wice suffers from the modern epidemic of passable albums. It’s a fun listen, and warrants a revisit, but it’s not an album that is going to break through and become a regular on most hip-hop heads’ queues. If Gibbs’ previous work tickled your fancy, then this album will more than fill your cravings. Otherwise, it’s another searing reminder of how badly we all want another Gibbs/Madlib project.

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Longhorns impress at Texas Relays

By Leah Vann & Drew King @Vanntastic_Leah @drewking0222

Longhorn seniors and former Olympians lined the center of the field at Mike A. Myers Stadium as their names and accolades were called over the loudspeakers.

This was it. For the seniors, it was their last Texas Relays as collegiate competitors. For the graduated Olympians, it was their return for the invites or just a simple “stopping by.”

Sophomore Teahna Daniels hadn’t been to the Texas Relays finals before. Last year, Daniels’ fall after the first leg of the 4x100 relay put her in the hospital. This year, Daniels bolted down the back straight to hand off to sophomore Zola Golden.

The team of senior Chrisann Gordon, Daniels, Golden and freshman Rushelle Burton took third overall with a time of 43.99 seconds.

Later, Daniels returned for a heat victory in the 200 meters with a time of 23.07.

“I’m really comparing my experience to last year’s when I was hurt,” Daniels said. “Coming back, having a huge, huge (personal record), and knowing that I can go even faster,

it’s a huge accomplishment for myself.”

Although the Texas men’s 4x100 meter relay did not earn first place, the team showed depth, earning silver.

Senior Charles Anumnu rounded the first curve with a handoff to senior Aldrich Bailey. Then Bailey to sophomore Christopher Ntreh. Ntreh’s handoff to senior Carlton Anumnu came from a third place position, but Anumnu edged out Baylor for second place on the final stretch.

“It was very nice to watch my brother come from behind to get second,” Charles Anumnu said. “My brother is not a 100 meter runner, he’s a 400 meter runner. And Chris is basically still a baby. We had people who stepped up. That was just 50 percent.”

The Longhorns also impressed in the hurdle events, with Burton running a personal best 12.80 seconds for second place in the 100 meter hurdles.

“Instead of thinking about my other competitors I thought about what I was going to do when I heard the gun, which is just push,” Burton said. “After running the (4x100 meter relay) I was feeling a little bit of discomfort in my hamstring. I was very

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Sophomore Teahna Daniels races to the finish line during the 90th Clyde Littlefield Texas Relays at Mike A. Meyers Stadium on April 1.

nervous and very tired.”

After two broken hurdles and a false start in the lanes next to him, junior Spencer Dunkerley-Offor had to stay focused. With his mind on his start, Dunkerley-Offor finished the 110 meter hurdles in 13.66 seconds, placing third overall.

But he still wasn’t satisfied.

“It’s still a good time, it’s just not the race I was looking for,” Dunkerley-Offor said. “The

good thing about me as a hurdler is that I really accelerate through hurdles four through 10. That’s not something a lot of hurdlers can say, at least not to the same extent.”

Texas’ distance runners also showed they could contend with the best. Sophomore Alex Rogers finished second with a time of 4:01.65 and 2012 Olympian Leo Manzano followed behind him in third.

Highlighting the field events was freshman Elena Bruckner, who took first overall in the discus with a throw of 54.64 meters and fourth overall in the shot put with a throw of 16.04 meters.

“We had some unbelievable performances today,” head coach Mario Sategna said.

“People that aspire to that level, the blueprint is there and that’s the difference.”

Texas can’t hang on in series loss to Jayhawks on the road

By Alex Briseno @alexxbriseno

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Walk-off single helps Texas sweep Houston

By Leah Vann & Wills Layton @Vanntastic_Leah @willsdebeast

The Longhorns left Lawrence on Sunday afternoon with a bitter taste in their mouths.

The Texas ball club returned to Austin after another onerun loss, capping off a dramatic weekend for the team.

Despite Texas’ victory over Kansas to kick off the series Friday, the Longhorns dropped their second conference series of the season after back-to-back, one-run losses to the Jayhawks, including a 5-4 defeat Sunday.

But the Longhorns had to deal with more than a pair of losses during the trip to Lawrence. On Friday, head coach David Pierce announced that freshman Kevin Roliard is not with the team at this time.

But once the Longhorns arrived to Hoglund Ballpark on Friday night, they were all business. Pierce’s ball club took a 1-0 series lead following a 5-3 win over the Jayhawks on Friday night. A seven-inning performance on the mound from sophomore Nolan Kingham paired with 11 Texas hits allowed for the 1-0 series lead.

However, the Longhorns couldn’t maintain the lead throughout their stay in Lawrence.

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Defense and pitching were the keys to the Longhorns’ success Sunday in their 2-0 sweep of the University of Houston Cougars.

Redshirt sophomore Erica Wright was just one inning away from a no-hitter in game one, but settled for her sixth-career one-hitter in the 3-1 victory.

“Obviously the win is more important to me than the no-hitter,” Wright said. “I felt like umpire had a pretty tight zone going through the game. And so coach Clark was just like, ‘You know what? Today is the day you’ll just have to spin it through the zone and just let the defense play.’”

The Cougars’ only score came in the first inning on a walk and two sac flies.

Sophomore Reagan Hathaway was first on base for the Longhorns with a triple to center field in the bottom of the first. Heading into the second, the score was tied at one run apiece.

Action at the plate resumed in the third inning for the Longhorns. Senior Devon Tunning’s single to right field put the Longhorns on base. Freshman Taylor Ellsworth brought Tunning home on a single to give Texas a 2-1 lead.

Senior Tiarra Davis squared up at bat for a single.

A walk and a fielding error brought Texas’ lead to 3-1.

Wright put on a show from the mound, but her teammates got the job done in the field as well.

“She didn’t have her best stuff, but she just found a

way to trust her stuff enough to just spin the ball well even though she didn’t have great locations on certain things today,” head coach Connie Clark said. “If she would’ve finished out the no-hitter it definitely would’ve been a team no-hitter.”

Davis moved from the plate to the pitching circle for the second game of the day, tossing seven strikeouts and holding the Cougars scoreless until the sixth inning.

“They’re starting to really come together trust themselves a little bit more and seeing a lot of different scenarios thrown at them now that we’re getting a little deeper into the season,” Clark said.

Ellsworth hit a sacrifice fly in the bottom of the fifth to drive in the first run of the game, giving Texas a 1-0 advantage. The Cougars responded in the sixth, scoring on an error with the bases loaded to even the score at 1-1.

In their second extra-inning game of the year, the Longhorns came out on top.

At the bottom of the eighth, freshman Kaitlyn Slack won the game for Texas in walkoff fashion. Slack drove in junior Randel Leahy to finish off the sweep.

“I wasn’t thinking, ‘Oh I’m going to win the game right here,’” Slack said. “I was just thinking there are two outs and I’m going to put it in play and see what happens.”

With the two victories, the Longhorns improve to 20-14 on the season with Texas State next on the schedule Wednesday.

“That was great to be able to get two W’s,” Clark said. “I thought we turned our mentality around this game day.”

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Freshman Ryan Reynolds hit two home runs in Texas’ 2-1 series loss to the Jayhawks in Lawrence, Kansas.

Redshirt junior Morgan Cooper got the start in game two Saturday. Senior Jon Malmin and sophomore Chase Shugart followed Cooper’s efforts, only allowing a combined two runs. But that’s all Kansas needed.

The Jayhawks kept Texas off the board until the ninth inning where the Longhorns were one play and a controversial call away from extending the game.

Although the Longhorns failed to plate a run through eight innings, freshman Austin Todd got the bats going in the final frame with a single. The Longhorns cut Kansas’ lead to 2-1 following junior Michael Cantu’s double to right field.

With two outs and sophomore Tyler Rand pinch-

running for Cantu at second, redshirt sophomore Tate Shaw sent a shot to left field. Rand rounded third and headed for home as a Kansas left fielder slung the ball to the Jayhawk catcher who dove to tag the game-tying run out at home, ending game two in dramatic fashion.

The Longhorns took an early 3-0 lead in Sunday’s series finale with a home run from freshman Ryan Reynolds, who hit two home runs during the series.

But Texas couldn’t hold on as it dropped the final game, 5-4.

The Longhorns (19-12, 4-5 Big 12) will have one day to prepare before hosting Sam Houston State at UFCU Disch-Falk Field on Tuesday at 6:30 pm.

Oklahoma State players formed a dogpile on the court in front of their home crowd as Texas walked off in disappointment Sunday, falling just short of a comeback.

The No. 6 Longhorns (18-5) entered Stillwater fresh off a road win over No. 13 Oklahoma on Friday. But Texas quickly found itself in survival mode as the Cowboys sprinted out to a 3-0 lead, claiming the doubles point and winning the first two singles matches.

“They got out on top of us,” head coach Michael Center said. “Part of that was because we didn’t play well in a couple of spots, but I thought Oklahoma State was pretty good today. I need to give them credit as well.”

The Longhorns weathered the frenzied blitz and countered with an attack of their own. Sophomore Leonardo Telles gave Texas its first point of the day with a 7-5, 6-1 thrashing of Oklahoma State’s Lukas Finzelberg.

The win seemed to lift a burden off the Longhorns’ shoulders as they returned to their free-flowing style of play. Chants of “Texas Fight” began to rain in from the burnt orange sideline as momentum shifted in Texas’ favor.

Senior George Goldhoff fed off the surrounding energy, blowing out Oklahoma State’s Artur Dubinski in the third set for a 6-4, 1-6, 6-3 win that made it a 3-2 score.

The team then shifted its focus to court No. 6 as sophomore Rodrigo Banzer clawed his way back into his match with Tristan Meraut. After a 6-1 loss in the first set, Banzer rallied to win the second set, 7-6.

But the slow start proved to be too much to overcome as Meraut ended the Longhorns’ comeback bid with a 6-1, 6-7, 6-3 victory over Banzer.

“This was a great college tennis match,” Center said.

“I was proud of the way the guys hung in there to give ourselves a chance, but we just got too far behind.”

The 4-2 loss snapped Texas’ five-game winning streak. Conference play continues for Texas as it hosts No. 4 Baylor on April 12 at Caswell Tennis Center.

“Every Big 12 match is such a struggle and such a battle,” Center said. “It makes a huge difference to play in front of a big crowd, and I hope to see the stands against Baylor.”

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Hunter Hayes discusses upcoming album, influences

By Acacia Coronado @acaciatree18

DT: Can you tell me a little about the challenges that you have faced?

Hunter Hayes: My debut record was created with such an awesome sort of cluelessness, and it was based on just everybody in the business letting me be myself. I was making a lot of demos by myself, I don’t think it is the most efficient way to do it for sure, and I love collaboration, so it was challenging. It is such an injustice to sit here in the studio and say we need another “Wanted” or another “Crazy.”

Those things happen because they happen, you can’t make music that way, you end up just repeating yourself. While that might work in some cases, it’s not what really drives the arts.

That is not what makes sincere music and that is not how you have a conversation. There are things that change and modify your thinking, to where it is harder to think that way, but I think that is the healthiest place to come from, to always feel like this is my first day.

DT: What is your favorite part about writing music?

HH: Days like when we wrote

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American country music singer Hunter Hayes performed at the 25th annual Forty Acres Fest held on the Main Mall. Hayes recently released a music video for his latest single “Yesterday’s Song” and is currently working on a new album.

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ALBUM REVIEW | YOU ONLY LIV 2WICE

Freddie Gibbs returns with Austin Wing Festival holds fourth studio album release first installment at Scoot Inn

By Chris Duncan @chr_dunc

Last year was Freddie Gibbs’ first without a mixtape or album release due to legal issues overseas. Although the rape accusations brought against him proved to be false, Gibbs still lost nearly a year of his career, taking a toll on him. With his focus turned back to music, he has decided to reflect on the past couple of years and share some of his wisdom with his newest project.

Gibbs began his career in 2003, coming out of Indiana and drawing attention for his technical hip-hop abilities combined with his embrace of a variety of styles. Originally signed to Interscope in 2006 but dropped after the label changed hands, Gibbs struggled to break out into the mainstream again, dropping six mixtapes in a span of three years, a level of output that lived with him until his brief hiatus in 2016. With the release of his debut album, Gibbs’ name became

one of the most talked about in hip hop, but it wasn’t until he paired up with Madlib for Piñata, a gritty display of both hip hop’s pure essence and the talent of both individual artists. With his latest release You Only Live 2wice, Gibbs finds himself focusing in on trap and gangsta rap in a surprisingly easy and enjoyable listen.

You Only Live 2wice is much more straightforward than the seminal Piñata. Clocking in at 32 minutes, this is quite a brief record for an artist that sometimes values quantity over quality. However, that doesn’t mean 2wice is not worth lending your ears to — Gibbs asserts himself in a series of impressive tracks on the LP, kicking off with “20 Karat Jesus,” a song that discusses his old cocaine habit and court issues. The song breaks down into two separate parts, and the beat switch on this record is second to none.

After the album’s impressive opener, Gibbs chooses to go in a completely different direction with a jazz-infused trap

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beat produced by BADBADNOTGOOD and KAYTRANADA, two of the premier production names in the business. The song acts as a bit of yang to the yin of the opening track, standing out amongst a sea of impressive songs because of its jazzy and mellow production style.

Gibbs’ bars on this record are the most consistent element of the listen, with icecold lines littering each track with Gibbs’ well-developed, unhinged personality. Whether it’s running from the FBI, trafficking drugs or doing everything a man could imagine possible with money, the content of each song seems to bound from one topic to another in a manic manor, often times to his detriment. The album’s lead single “Crushed

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Gibbs’ newest release carries on the tradition of much of his earlier projects, discussing anything and everything that comes to his mind.

By Stephen Acevedo @thedailytexan

The Austin food scene is known for tacos and barbecue, but a previously overlooked food is beginning to make a place for itself as another local staple.

On Sunday, the city’s colorful mix of sauced and spiced buffalo wings got the attention they deserve at The Scoot Inn’s first annual Austin Chicken Wing Festival. Some of Austin’s most beloved wing joints showcased their delectable treats to a crowd of ravenous Austinites.

The festival appeased the crowd’s desire for chicken, but did not go down without a couple of hiccups. For starters, by the time the festivities kicked off, the morning’s thunderstorms turned the ground completely into mud, making for messy stomping grounds.

Another issue were the unrelenting lines. Once patrons made it through the long entry line, they were faced with a fresh slew of lines for the chicken wings inside.

However, no one seemed to be complaining. Patrons seemed content to wait in line for chicken wings with a cold beer in hand and a group of friends to chat with.

With an enthusiastic emcee, an exciting chicken wing contest and an abundance of alcoholic beverages, the first installation of the festival was exceptionally fun from start to finish.

As for the restaurants present at the event, everyone brought their A game.

The first attention grabber was a Rainey Street wing truck called Tommy Want Wingy. With a line that wrapped around a sizable chunk of the event’s

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Despite rain, mud and long lines, Austin’s first chicken wing festival kept guests wanting more.

perimeter, it was clear the folks behind the counter were serving up some pretty noteworthy wings.

Tommy Want Wingy stood out from the rest of the afternoon’s participants with it’s “chicken lollipops.”

Each of these are prepared with all the meat pushed up to the top of a single bone to create a particularly tender wing that falls right off of the bone. A light breading also provides a satisfying crunch. Tommy Want Wingy boasted the spiciest sauce of the afternoon with its “holy schnikes” option.

Most people were only able to handle a couple bites of it.

Another participant that stood out was Jenna’s Asian Kitchen. While they were only offering a single option to festival goers, they made sure it was a dang good chicken wing. Smothered in their house yum yum sauce and topped with crushed peanuts and sesame seeds, these wings had a nice blend of spiciness and nuttiness, like a peppery hoisin sauce.

Many of the wing joints in attendance made a point of serving an unconventional chicken wing to separate themselves from their peers, but not all were successful

in making different equate to tasty. The al pastor wings at Toss, for example, took the ambitious route of preparing their wings with the sauce and toppings usually used in pork street tacos.

Though the idea sounds good on paper, the resulting chicken wing was too bland to warrant a trip back to that stand.

When it came down to it, the best wing served Sunday was a simple marinated and unbreaded wing from Wingzup. There was nothing flashy at all about these wings, and aside from the jalapeño ranch sauce option, all the other sauces were pretty basic. What made these wings good was the attention to detail that went into perfecting the classic chicken wing.

Between a secret marinade that kept the wings moist and a natural crunch from the fryers, these wings made the best out of simplicity.

The first Austin Chicken Wing Festival showed a lot of promise to becoming a favorite event among Austinites. With a larger staff and possibly a larger venue, it can easily get rid of any kinks present during its inaugural run.