The Daily Texan 2017-08-30

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Praise, protests welcome Trump President and first lady visited Austin to meet state leaders and tour Emerency Operations Center

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Facing a wall of law enforcement officers, hundreds of protesters lined Koenig Lane as President Donald Trump’s motorcade drove past on its way to

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meet Gov. Greg Abbott for a briefing on damage from Hurricane Harvey.

President Trump and First Lady Melania Trump flew to Austin on Tuesday afternoon to meet state leaders and tour the Texas Department of Public

Safety’s Emergency Operations Center following a visit to Corpus Christi earlier in the day to survey the damage caused by Hurricane Harvey and show his support.

After Trump arrived, he toured the Emergency Operations Center, and then

received a briefing regarding the damage caused by Harvey. During the briefing, he and his cabinet members discussed ways to accelerate Texas’ recovery from Harvey.

“It’s going to be a costly proposition,” Trump said in

a press conference. “Probably there’s never been anything so expensive in our country’s history. Historic in terms of damage and in terms of ferocity as what we witnessed with Harvey.”

More than two hours before Trump’s arrival,

protesters and supporters began to gather along Koenig Lane next to the Center and at its front entrance.

Sophomore John Roberts said he doesn’t necessarily support Trump, but he was

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Gone to Texas, Horns Up Canceled

By London Gibson Senior Reporter

Both Gone to Texas and Horns Up Night were canceled Monday due to the impact of Hurricane Harvey on the UT campus and out of respect for the students from affected counties.

J.B. Bird, UT director of media relations, said roughly one-third of all UT students and almost 40 percent of freshman students are from counties affected by the hurricane, which wreaked havoc in Texas gulf cities this weekend. Hurricane Harvey has caused over 30 deaths as of late Tuesday night, displaced thousands and set a record for the most rainfall in the continental U.S. “(UT president Gregory Fenves) consulted with student leadership, and the feeling was that this is a very serious national disaster having a main impact

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Joshua Nyangon, left, a management information systems junior, feels the Confederate statues removed earlier this month shouldn’t have been up in the first place. Biochemistry freshman Laci Baker, right, wasn’t a student when the Confederate statues were up, but knows all about the controversy behind them.

Statue removal ignites path to more campus change

By Forrest Milburn Enterprise Reporter

Laci Baker hasn’t figured out where her classes are just yet.

Because of a constant downpour of rain that has only let up the past few days, Baker, a biochemistry freshman, has bunkered down in her dorm room and hasn’t wandered campus since arriving this weekend.

But anytime she goes to her adviser’s office, located near

the South Mall, she will be among the first class of black freshmen to walk past the area since three Confederate statues came down earlier this month — a fact she doesn’t take lightly.

“It just feels good coming onto campus after such a historic event,” Baker said.

“It seems like the University is pushing to make the black students more heard and more comfortable, since we are such a small population on this campus.”

On Aug. 20, President Gregory Fenves announced in a late-night email that the remaining four statues that line the South Mall would come down. These monuments included vestiges of Jim Crowera Texas honoring three Confederate leaders — Robert E. Lee, John Reagan and Albert S. Johnston — as well as one depicting former Texas Gov. James Hogg, who had no ties to the Civil War. In the email, Fenves said the statue removal was necessary

in light of the recent events at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, where less than a week before, a group of white supremacists and neo-Nazis protested the potential removal of a Confederate monument. One woman lost her life and several more were severely injured.

The removal process went well into the night, a move meant to stave off protests and to protect student safety, University spokespeople said.

The University had been in contact with the student body president and vice president on the removal, but Student Government as a larger entity didn’t play a role in the decision.

Management information systems junior Joshua Nyangon said he believes the statues shouldn’t have been there in the first place. But, Fenves should have waited until the semester started to gather

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Former U.S. housing secretary and San Antonio mayor Julian Castro will teach a class on policy development in the LBJ School of Public Affairs this fall.

Castro, who has expressed interest in running for president in 2020, will begin teaching a series of seminars on housing and policy development and take on the roles of the Dean’s Distinguished Fellow and fellow of the Davila Chair in International Trade Policy in September.

“Mr. Castro is a truly exemplar public servant,” Angela Evans, dean of the LBJ School, said in an email.

“He is humble, empathetic, smart, collaborative, hard-working with a strong sense of ethics — a rare combination of qualities.

His being such an integral member of our community is an extraordinary opportunity for our students to learn from one of the country’s leading public figures.”

Castro will teach on topics he is familiar and enthusiastic about, such

as trade between U.S. and Mexico and state and local government, said Victoria Yu, public affairs representative for the LBJ School. Yu said Castro’s experience will be an asset for students in his seminars.

“Mr. Castro has experience as a practitioner, so he’ll be able to lend us that expertise,” Yu said.

Details about the seminars are still being finalized, but they may soon be complemented by podcasts and workshops focused on Texas’ future, according to the Austin American-Statesman.

“This is an extraordinary time for young people to dedicate their futures to public service, and the LBJ School, under the leadership of Dean Evans, recognizes the need to make transformative changes in the way we prepare the next generation of public leaders,” Castro said in a press release. “I’m eager to be a part of this modern educational environment.”

Castro was mayor of San Antonio from 2009 to 2014 when he became the Housing and Urban Development

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Julian Castro, former secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, delivers a keynote address at LBJ School in 2015. Castro will teach a policy class this fall.

secretary under former President Barack Obama until January this year.

A Stanford University and Harvard Law graduate, Castro began his career in politics early. At 26 years old, he won a seat as the youngest city council member in San Antonio history. ”He is an exemplar of public service,” Yu

said. “He’s definitely going to be an example of a public leader.”

The faculty agreement between Castro and the LBJ School ends after one year, so he will teach in the spring as well, Yu said.

His role as the Davila will enable him to work with the faculty to design innovative approaches to the study of

governance as well as with students to address economic, political and social issues in Latin America.

Aside from a potential presidential run in 2020, earlier this month he initiated a political action committee called “Opportunity First” and is also working on a memoir to be completed in the fall of 2018.

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U.S. Rep. Beto O’Rourke, the Democratic challenger to Ted Cruz’s U.S. Senate seat, is pledging to work across the aisle to reduce the cost of higher education.

On Friday, O’Rourke held a campaign event at Scholz Garten to rally his supporters for the 2018 election. It was one stop on a monthlong statewide tour, with visits ranging from major cities like Dallas to small towns like La Grange, which O’Rourke said hasn’t had a Senate candidate visit in close to four decades. He also said he made visits to several colleges in order to motivate student voters and learn about their needs.

“I’m someone who listens,” O’Rourke said. “I can’t hope to represent people or their interests if I’m not out there listening to them.”

Some of O’Rourke’s goals include working to cap public college tuition rate increases, reduce federal

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Gone to Texas and Horns Up Night are part of the annual Longhorn Welcome, a weekend dedicated to familiarizing freshmen with campus life. The night before classes begin, freshmen students meet with their individual colleges and unite for a welcome celebration, complete with a presentation by Fenves and performances by campus groups. Horns Up Night was set to start

student loan interest rates and make the first two years of college free.

“A short-term increase in what we pay to get people educated produces longterm returns for this country that far outweigh the cost,” O’Rourke said.

However, public policy professor Victoria DeFrancesco Soto said initiatives like these would be hard to fund and there would be a lack of conservative support for anything as costly as free tuition.

“Republicans and Democrats want to do something regarding higher education,” Soto said. “But I don’t know if you’re going to get complete debt relief or a full two years. It would be something very reduced.”

In the five months since O’Rourke announced his campaign, he has outraised Ted Cruz’s original campaign. However, Soto said he still doesn’t have a strong chance at beating Cruz, who has won his Senate seat three times in a row. Democrats

also have not won a statewide election since 1994.

“The infrastructure of the Republican party here in Texas is very strong and very well-oiled, both literally and metaphorically,” Soto said.

On the other side of the aisle, Soto said O’Rourke is likely to lack financial support from his own party.

Typically the Democratic National Committee focuses on swing-states in midterm and national elections, not Republican strongholds, Soto said.

In spite of this, Soto said it’s possible for O’Rourke to win because Cruz lacks support from segments of the Republican party, especially from moderates and independents.

“He has a base that really loves him, and then there are Republicans that don’t like him,” Soto said. “The question is, ‘are independents and moderate Republicans going to stay home against Ted Cruz or perhaps even cast a vote against him? After the Trump election, anything

UT student body president Alejandrina Guzman introduced Beto O’Rourke at Scholtz Garten on Friday. Democrat Beto O’Rourke is planning a senate campaign to unseat Ted Cruz.

off the Longhorn football season on the first day of class with a rally followed by the official freshman class photo on the field. The class photo will be rescheduled for a later date.

Biology freshman Frida Silva said she is disappointed about the cancellations because she will miss an essential UT experience.

“It feels like I’ve been missing out on something that’s part of a legacy,” Silva said. “I understand why they canceled it … but at the same time I feel like it’s such a big thing that

maybe it should have gone on anyway.”

While the main Gone to Texas event in front of the Tower was canceled, several smaller college events were unaffected. Aside from the events for the Colleges of Liberal Arts and Social Work, the welcome celebrations for the individual colleges continued as planned or were rescheduled for a later date.

Astronomy and physics junior Aimee Schechter said she understands the reason for calling off Gone to Texas, but she wishes there

could still be an alternative, smaller event for the incoming freshmen students.

Schechter, president of Undergraduate Women in Physics, said the event introduced her to opportunities when she was a freshman.

“I found out about Women in Physics at the (College of Natural Sciences) event that was part of Gone to Texas, so I don’t want anyone to miss out on finding a student organization they could be a part of,” Schechter said.

Despite cancellations, the UT Tower was lit up Tuesday

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Students who attended O’Rourke’s recent campaign event at Scholz Garten said they appreciated his efforts to speak with and meet as many voters as possible across the state.

“He’s leading with compassion and engagement: That’s the way that you get people mobilized and engaged, not just in your campaign but in the issues in their

communities,” first-year law student Savannah Kumar said. “It’s super inspiring to see the journey that he’s taken.”

Kumar also said she appreciates O’Rourke’s desire to work on bipartisan policies.

“In order to make progress you have to be able to meet (Republicans) where they are, so you can take baby steps in the right direction,” Kumar said.

I don’t want anyone to miss out on finding a student organization they could be a part of.”

—Aimee Schechter, Astronomy and physics junior

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Longhorn football united through Harvey

By Trenton Daeschner Assoc. Sports Editor

On Monday afternoon, when all talk normally would have been about how Texas is preparing for its 2017 season opener, head coach Tom Herman couldn’t help but briefly put football on the back burner.

Hurricane Harvey hit the state with full force late Friday night, causing catastrophe throughout South Texas and severe, historic flooding in Houston — a city Herman called home just a few months ago.

“The city of Houston is very near and dear to mine and my family’s hearts, not just from our time at U of H,” Herman said.

“It’s hard to watch, especially when there’s so many loved ones that are there, affected by it.”

Herman was in contact with Houston Texans defensive end J.J. Watt on Monday, telling Watt the Longhorns will be helping him in his fundraising efforts for the city of Houston.

The difficulty of what has taken place in Houston has still been felt throughout the Texas locker room. Herman said the Longhorns have “21 or so” players from the Houston area whose families have been affected by Harvey, but luckily,

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input from students and SG, rather than taking them down in the middle of the night.

For years, he said, black students on campus have expressed their frustrations with the statues that remained on the South Mall. But for some reason, it took the deadly events in Charlottesville to spur the University into action.

When he first walked through the McCombs Auditorium as a freshman, Nyangon said he was first shocked at the sheer number of students packed into one space for their orientation. f But when he looked around some more, he

all are safe.

“Those guys have been strong,” senior linebacker Naashon Hughes said. “I don’t know how I would’ve been able to handle that.”

One player whose family has been directly impacted by Harvey is junior cornerback P.J. Locke III. His family’s neighborhood in Beaumont, about two hours northeast of Houston, is flooded. As of now, he doesn’t know if his family can make it to the game Saturday.

“Right now, my situation is pretty bad,” Locke said. “My whole neighborhood is flooded.

All the houses are underwater.

Luckily, our house kind of sits up high, so the water hasn’t made it there yet. We’re really worried for my family right now.”

Before Harvey hit, Herman’s old team, the Houston Cougars, left Houston on Friday and headed to Austin. Texas opened up its facilities for the Cougars to practice in over the weekend. Houston’s opening game on Saturday against UTSA in San Antonio was postponed for a undetermined later date. Right now, the Cougars are unsure when they’ll return to Houston.

It’s been a trying situation for Houston’s first-year head coach noticed something.

“I’m one of three black students here,” Nyangon said.

“That led me to think, ‘Do I really belong here? Am I just here to pad their numbers?’

These are actual questions you ask yourself.”

It took a while for Nyangon to see the value in himself as a smart, hard-working student as he sat in a room full of people who looked nothing like him class after class.

“There’s a different experience for black students,” Nyangon said. “You have to deal with all of that basic college stuff.

Then you have the dichotomy of being a black student at UT. And whether you want it to or not, it changes your experience; it changes how people

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Texas head coach Tom Herman addresses the media. Herman and the Longhorns have assisted with the relief effort.

Major Applewhite, a former Longhorn quarterback and Herman’s offensive coordinator for two seasons at Houston.

But Herman said the hurricane has brought out the best in his former assistant.

“We talk a couple times a day through all of this,” Herman said. “For a guy that’s never been a head coach, has only been a head coach for eight, nine months, to be thrown this big of a curve ball in your first season would be tough for anyone. He’s handling it as good as possible.”

Despite the tragic events that have unfolded in Texas, the Longhorns will still take the

field Saturday to kick off their 2017 season against Maryland.

Football has always been a unifying force in the state of Texas, and in a time of disaster, Texas lent its hand to a fellow state program in Houston. It’s part of a larger quality of sports Herman said people can learn from.

“It’s really, really cool to see times like this,” Herman said.

“If there is a silver lining, I think it is that society can take a big lesson from what we do every day in sports. That’s that we trust people, we accept them, we work really hard with them and for them to help them achieve their goals.”

approach you, how you approach them.”

As of last year, black students made up 4 percent of campus, while whites encompassed 43 percent of the student body.

For many black students on campus, making up a small chunk of the student body means they need a louder voice just to be heard on such a large campus. But still, many times, their voice gets washed out.

“It’s not about doing one thing and the problems are done — ‘Hey, we removed the statues, we’re good. No more racism.’ No, it’s not about that,” Nyangon said. “It’s about continual efforts in ensuring students feel safe and can bring their whole selves to this school.”

Over the past few days, Baker has participated in New Black Student Weekend, a series of events where upperclassmen welcome incoming freshmen and provide them with resources for their four years on campus as black students.

Baker said one of the biggest lessons her peers have given her is to be prepared for what will come: feeling overwhelmed and alone in classes as the only black person in a sea of white people.

“We are here for a reason,” Baker said. “We’re just as good as everybody else, so don’t let skin color make you feel lesser or that you shouldn’t be in that class. At the end of the day, we all got accepted because we’re smart.”

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“It’s not often that you get a chance to see the president,” Roberts said. “It’s good that he’s showing support for the victims. It’s a horrific event, but it’s good that he’s out here supporting Texans, doing his best to support the country in a time of need.”

Leading up to Trump’s arrival, the crowd steadily grew from a few dozen to several hundred. They gathered directly in front of the Emergency Operations Center at the intersection of Koenig Lane and Guadalupe Street, the south side of the complex near where the president entered.

Freshman English major Madeleine Gonzalez said she appreciated Trump’s visit to her hometown of Corpus Christi, but she felt like his trip to Austin was used to capitalize on a chance to improve low approval ratings.

“Even though he’s out there because of the tragedy that happened, we don’t need him exploiting this tragedy for his own ratings,” Gonzalez said.

While in Corpus Christi, Gov. Greg Abbott praised Trump’s decision to not go to Houston during his visit to Texas because city officials need to focus their energy on rescuing people and saving lives.

“He was very smart and strategic not to go to Houston right now,” Abbott said.

“He’s able to come and listen to local officials and hear firsthand what their

“I want everybody to know that we’re in this for the long run.

We know that once the water recedes, that’s when our work really begins.”

—Ben Carson, U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development

needs are and learn how he needs to be responsive to the challenges that Texans are facing.”

During the meeting between Trump and his cabinet members, Linda McMahon, administrator of the U.S. Small Business Administration, said they already began home loan approvals for damage caused by Harvey. She said the SBA also plans to authorize loans for businesses and people who have lost either income or property.

Ben Carson, U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, said in a press conference they are focusing on a “smooth transition” from “the phase of rescue and reaction to a phase of recovery”. He also said the federal government is assisting state and local governments in reallocating federal assets to disaster relief.

“I want everybody to know that we’re in this for the long run,” Carson said.

“We know that once the water recedes, that’s when our work really begins.”

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Find your voice, join The Daily Texan this fall

By Laura Hallas Editor-in-Chief

Whether you just moved for the first time, missed UT while you were away this summer or reveled in taking classes that weren’t filled to capacity, I am excited to welcome you back to the 40 Acres.

When it comes to serving UT and the surrounding community, The Daily Texan has been the authoritative voice since 1900. But it would be impossible to carry out our mission if it weren’t for the help of students of all backgrounds, beliefs, majors and years. So no matter what your connection to our campus, we hope that you contribute your voice as a member of our fall staff.

In its 117 year history, The Daily Texan has given a platform to thousands of students to literally write history. Our pages have uncovered faculty misconduct, spurred divestment from oil lands and pushed for integration. Our alumni go on to write books, work at national news organizations

and win Pulitzers — 10 so far. We count Lady Bird Johnson, Sen. Judith Zaffirini, and Walter Cronkite among our alumni, and hold more national, regional and state awards than any other college newspaper.

How, you might ask, will you fit into this legacy?

There is a department or position at the Texan to suit nearly any interest or skill set, whether in print or in one of our multimedia departments.

If ACL or Red River Weekend are basically a national holiday, our Life&Arts or Sports departments are the place to celebrate. Science&Tech follows groundbreaking research from UT and beyond. If you want to be the first to know all things UT and Austin — or discover that information yourself— come talk to our news department.

If you have thoughts to share about any of the above, make sure to submit an application to work with us in Opinion.

Maybe you are more interested in the visual packaging of our stories. Our photo, video and comics departments elevate words to a true, en-

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Enthusiasm, an ability to make deadlines and willingness to learn are the only prerequisites to seeing your name in print.

—Laura Hallas, Editor-in-Chief

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Now for the most important takeaway from this letter: No experience is required to join the Texan. And we aren’t made up only of journalism

or English students. Our staff represents campus from CNS to the College of Liberal Arts to Moody.

We have diverse experiences, backgrounds and plans for the future. Enthusiasm, an ability to make deadlines and willingness to learn are the only prerequisites to seeing your name in print.

You will get your first taste of working at the Texan during our tryout process, which spans the first three weeks of each semester. Until Sept. 15, the departments listed above, plus more found on our website, will hold tryouts where you will learn about each department with the mentorship of our staff. Drop by our office during one of our two open houses, which will be held in our office — the basement of the HSM building — at 6 p.m. on Wednesday and Thursday of next week. In the meantime, follow us on social media and drop by to ask us any and all questions you might have.

As you consider how to spend your time here at the university this fall, we hope the Texan makes the list. You might just find your passion.

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UT commnity must rally in wake of Hurricane Harvey

Austin homelessness must remain a priority

By Michael Jensen

New Orleans off the map. Harvey is also the strongest storm to have struck Texas since Hurricane Carla in 1961. Thoughts and prayers are nice, but what our fellow Over the past several days, Hurricane Texans need most right now is food, waHarvey devastated the Texas coast. As of ter and shelter.

Tuesday, the now tropical storm has conLuckily, UT administrators and student tinued to pummel Houston with torrential leaders have signaled that they’re aware of rains and catastrophic flooding. By some es- this reality, and have pledged to sponsor timates, Harvey has already dumped over 11 and support statetrillion gallons of wawide relief efforts. ter over the Lone Star However, students State — and more rain don’t need to wait for is still to come. Ausan official response tin might have been from university lead“ Austin may have spared the worst of the ers to get involved. storm, but the images been spared the worst So far, Harvey has and accounts coming displaced over 30,000 of the storm, but the from less fortunate people, many of images and accounts parts of Texas are no whom will undoubtless heartbreaking. edly seek refuge in coming from less forI lived in Housneighboring cities, tunate parts of Texas ton during Tropical including Austin. StuStorm Allison. I reare no less heartdents can assist them member my parents by donating their time staying up every breaking.” and money to several night, desperately charities and nonproftrying to keep the its. If you’re strapped —Michael Jensen, rising waters out of for cash, you can also senior columnist our family home. I donate blood to orgaremember when the nizations such as the Texas Medical CenAmerican Red Cross ter flooded, when and the South Texas my neighbors’ homes flooded and when Blood & Tissue Center.

Houston’s streets turned to brown, deIn addition to displaced people, countless bris-filled rivers. Allison ravaged the city pets and animals are also in dire need of aid. in which I was born, but by all accounts, Organizations such as Austin Pets Alive! and Harvey has been far worse. I may not live the SPCA of Texas have already saved hunin Houston anymore, but my heart still dreds of animals affected by Harvey. aches for those who do. As members of Regardless of how you choose to help the UT community, we should all rally the survivors of Hurricane Harvey, rememaround our fellow Texans whose homes ber that several members of the Longhorn and livelihoods were destroyed by this community have been or will be personally catastrophic disaster. affected by the devastation along the Texas By some measures we’ve already start- coast. We should be especially understanded. The Counseling and Mental Health ing to students whose families might have Center started offering counseling for lost everything but still have to show up to students affected by Harvey and President class. As a student body, we should strive to Gregory Fenves offered his condolences. be kinder, more generous and more empaHowever, kind words and counseling thetic this semester than ever before — it’s are not enough. Harvey is the worst storm just the right thing to do. to strike the U.S. since Hurricane Katrina, Jensen is a neuroscience senior from a natural disaster which caused well over The Woodlands. $100 billion in damage and almost wiped Senior Columnist

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By Josie MacLean Senior Columnist

While you probably spent the weekend avoiding the rain indoors, for Austin’s significant homeless population, the tropical storm was notably more challenging. According to the Ending Community Homelessness Coalition’s 2017 Annual Point in Time Homeless Count, there were 834 unsheltered persons in the city of Austin on any given night as of January.

Although students have almost daily encounters with homeless or transient individuals, our University community rarely engages in pertinent discussions about their circumstances. Such conversations are often fueled by fear or safety concerns. While those discussions are legitimate, the stigma that accompanies such fears could be abated by building a better understanding within the UT student body of the nature of homelessness in Austin.

Despite the city’s subtle attempts to renovate downtown with un-sleepable-benches and active alleys, the homeless are fairly visible, especially around UT. In ECHO’s count, City Council District 9 (where UT is located) had the highest homeless density in Austin. In District 9 alone, 397 homeless people were counted as unsheltered.

“The bottom line is, we’re housing a lot of people every day, but we aren’t housing enough because the need is great,” said ECHO’s executive director Ann Howard.

Homelessness in Austin is a manifold issue; there is no one silver bullet that will cure it. The underlying challenge is capacity. There’s simply not enough space available. When there is space, it is often unaffordable and inaccessible.

In 2016, ECHO projected there would be 620 unserved households in need of rapid re-housing and 744 unserved households in need of permanent supportive housing. The Austin Parks and Recreation Department recently identified five possible community centers, one of which could be chosen to use as a temporary transitional shelter.

“It’s like an overflowing bathtub — we have to find a way to turn down the tap and/ or let some water out. That’s what this initiative would allow us to do,” Howard said.

Then there’s the challenge of health care.

In Austin, 62.8 percent of our transient population had been to the emergency room, 33

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percent within six months in 2016, and almost 40 percent reported being taken in an ambulance. Additionally, there is no way to account for costs of palliative care because ECHO has not been able to identify how many transient people are in need of endof-life care.

These numbers seem obvious, but the drain on taxpayer dollars is severe, especially when the “public health cost avoidance,” or what is saved in taxpayer dollars after a person has been permanently housed, is 179.7 thousand dollars annually.

Even when working with a non-profit, many transient individuals face barriers to housing. Some may have a criminal background, while others who use government vouchers or carry debt may experience income discrimination. Some have double jeopardy.

Lastly, many transient individuals cannot afford to trust in the services available. Al-

Homelessness in Austin is a manifold issue; there is no one silver bullet that will cure it.”

—Josie MacLean, senior columnist

though many downtown were reluctant to do an interview, one woman I met under I-35 and Concordia agreed to speak with me on the condition of anonymity. She told me she had moved to Austin originally in 2015 with the promise of a new job, but things hadn’t worked out. Today she feels too mistrusting and fearful of shelters to seek them out.

Austin Police Department recently partnered with downtown nonprofits to station two police officers outside the ARCH for a month, in the hope of dispersing crowds and preventing drug dealing in the area.

“I used to go by (transient people), maybe hand them some coins. Now I’m here.” she said. “Just have some compassion,” she repeated. Perhaps with these new initiatives, there will be space for those like this interviewee to go where they feel safe.

MacLean is an advertising and geography junior from Austin.

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Wednesday, August 30, 2017

RESEARCH

Summer research program members presents findings

By Alay Shah

S&T Issue Reporter

A group of students in the Summer Research Scholars Program presented their research ranging from glowing tracker molecules to groundwater-protecting polymers on Aug. 2 at UT-Austin.

The Summer Research Scholars Program, organized by UT’s Office of Undergraduate Research and funded by the National Science Foundation, gives students professional development opportunities through workshops and an end-of-summer research poster session.

Senior program coordinator Robert Reichle said the workshops focus on attending conferences, academic publishing, research poster design and other topics.

“It’s important for us to make these students feel welcome in Austin and at the University, and we also see this as a perfect moment to help them on their path toward becoming researchers,” Reichle said.

During the poster session fair, we interviewed six students to learn more about their STEM research projects: Nkengasong Ntonghanwah, environmental engineering senior from Southwestern Oklahoma State University, based his project on how climate change affects water quality, particularly water treatment

processes. He said many rivers in Texas contain the minerals magnesium and calcium, which can be harmful to the environment. By measuring levels of calcium carbonate in the water, his team found that limestone plays a big role in water treatment quality. Ntonghanwah said his favorite aspect of the research was collecting many data trials.

Mackenzie Thibodeaux, civil and environmental engineering senior from Prairie View A&M University, researched geopolymer-based — linked mineral molecule chains — solutions of coal combustion products. Thibodeaux said his team tested various geopolymer solutions that prevent leaching of metals, which can drain into groundwater. The goal of this research was to characterize the products’ metallic properties and minimize leaching.

Thibodeaux said he wanted to make using coal as an energy source sustainable for the environment.

Allison Rerick, a chemistry sophomore from Baylor University, studied making fluorescence molecules for tracking the enzyme called carbonic anhydrase in cells.

She said some of the tests were successful.

“These molecules are fluorescent on one side and have metal binding groups on the other, so they are able to enter active site of this enzyme and bind to it,” Rerick said.

“We are able to image how

First row (left to right): Allison Rerick, Mackenzie Thibodeaux, Jillian Ortner; second row (left to right): Ronald Palomares, Diego Hernandez, Nkengasong Ntonghanwah

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much carbonic anhydrase is in cells by seeing the change of fluorescence.”

Ronald Palomares, senior electrical engineering major from UT-Rio Grande Valley, focused on analog — self interference cancellation control signals — for his project. Palomares was tasked with designing a multi-control system that would operate an analog self interference cancellation electrical circuit that can produce one

distinct frequency. Currently, communication happens on multiple frequencies, he said.

“We want wireless transceivers, or devices, that operate on the same frequency to save power and be efficient,” Palomares said. “(The) communication industry is fast growing, and I wanted to be a part of that.”

Diego Hernandez, mechanical engineering senior at UT-Austin, researched

retrogression heat treatment of aluminum alloy.

In his experiment, Hernandez treated an alloy, or mixture of metals, with increasing temperatures in order to explore how alloy can return back to its original form.

Jillian Ortner, biomedical engineering sophomore from Georgia Tech, studied the effects of short nucleic acid hybridization, or how quickly DNA molecules

bind to each other, in live cells. Ortner said the research she did has the potential for future medicine.

“Hopefully, down the line, it will influence gene therapies for a wide range of diseases,” she said.

UT’s Summer Research Scholars Programs host multiple events each summer and are open to any STEM-interested students with a motivation to participate and present research.

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CAMPUS

Nutrition department opens UT professor leads Zika project fall online master program

By Jace Klein

S&T Issue Reporter

By Alay Shah

S&T Issue Reporter

The UT-Austin Nutrition Department will start accepting applicants for its online Master of Science in Nutritional Sciences this fall.

During the two-year program, the first cohort of students will complete 10 courses while accommodating their own schedules, according to Sara Sweitzer, nutritional sciences lecturer and director of the online program. Sweitzer added that the second cohort will finish in just one year.

“This program is asynchronous — meaning that students are not required to meet for live events or attend and sign-in to the course at designated times,” Sweitzer said. “This allows students to complete the work at their own pace within the week or course deadlines.”

Sweitzer said that, ultimately, students already studying at UT will benefit the most from the program.

“Because faculty are having to rethink their course designs for an online environment, (they) are being exposed to new ways of teaching and

engaging students while still creating a high-level learning environment,” Sweitzer said.

Sweitzer said working professionals can also benefit from this initiative because it is more accessible.

“We believe that there are many health professionals including dietitians, nutritionists, nurses, nurse practitioners, physical therapists, medical doctors and physician assistants (that) would be interested in augmenting their current knowledge with a master’s degree in Nutrition.”

Stacey Arnold, who graduated with a UT degree in nutrition this year, said the new online program will benefit learners who already have jobs in health care.

“As we continue to learn more about the link between dietary choices and the risk for chronic disease, every health care, health promotion and wellness profession would benefit from nutrition coursework,” Arnold said.

“Many professionals who will want this credential now don’t have the capacity to attend full-time, daytime classes on campus,” Molly Bray,

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—Molly Bray, Nutrition professor

one of the professors who will partake in the online program, said. “Thus we wanted our program at UT to be able to offer them this opportunity for this education through an online option.”

Bray added that she is excited about the variety of students the online program will attract.

“The program will also be attractive to health and wellness professionals, students working towards medical school and individuals interested in corporate wellness or nutritional consulting, among others,” Bray said.

A UT-Rio Grande Valley mosquito monitoring collaboration will cross the U.S.-Mexico border to swat down Zika and other mosquito-borne illnesses.

Led by Patricia Feria-Arroyo, a conservation and ecology professor at UT-Rio Grande Valley, the project includes input from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Mexico’s National Center of Preventive Programs and Control of Diseases (CENAPRECE), the City of McAllen, Texas and Hidalgo County, Texas.

According to Feria-Arroyo, the goal of the collaboration is to create a method of surveillance to monitor mosquitoes for disease that is uniform across institutions and countries. In order to test for disease in mosquito populations, she said UTRio Grande Valley student researchers are laying traps to count the number of eggs that are laid by the mosquitoes.

“It’s a big, systematic kind of method,” Feria-Arroyo said. “The students are placing the traps and monitoring them every week in the different locations. They count the eggs and they report (the number of ) eggs.”

Researchers from the southern United States and northern Mexico met in February to discuss the project, Feria-Arroyo said.

At the meeting, which grew out of a partnership between the CDC and CENAPRECE, researchers laid out a program to monitor the virus-carrying mosquitoes, according to the UT-Rio Grande Valley press release.

Now, the students collect, analyze and present data under the guidance of Feria-Arroyo.

“We have six students, and one of the students gets to report every

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Friday,” Feria-Arroyo said.

“It’s very intensive work for the students.”

UT-Austin field biologist Alejandro Santillana said the collaboration between the two countries could greatly benefit the students.

“I think it’s great that (these) students are in-

It’s been meeting and knowing all these people and knowing that we can collaborate and do things in a very positive way.”

—Patricia Feria-Arroyo, UT Rio Grande Valley professor

volved in this binational effort,” Santillana said.

“The community must be involved and informed, and that’s where students come in. By participating in research, they are getting a perspective on the mosquito problem that the community may have missed otherwise.”

Feria-Arroyo said that differences between the two countries could cause manageable problems to the research.

“The challenges we might be facing are related to the weather and the conditions in the U.S. that are different in Mexico,” Feria-Arroyo said.

“In Mexico, they don’t spray that often or spray for mosquitoes like they do (in the U.S.).”

Feria-Arroyo said that the most rewarding part of the project is meeting the people involved in the project, especially the students.

“It’s been meeting and knowing all these people and knowing that we can collaborate and do things in a very positive way,” Feria-Arroyo said.

“We’re on the border, we need each other.”

According to the UTRio Grande Valley press release, many of the students are excited about the implications of their work.

“Working with the CDC and CENAPRECE really makes us feel like we’re a part of something big,” biology sophomore Marcelo Pintos said in the release.

Feria-Arroyo said she is optimistic about the future of the project, which will hold another meeting in September.

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HEALTH

Researchers use blood biomarkers in diagnoses

By Jennifer Liu

S&T Issue Reporter

A group of researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center are working to develop blood protein tests that could help diagnose those on the autism spectrum with greater than 90 percent accuracy.

According to the group’s study, published in June in the Journal of Neuroinflammation, the disorder affects one out of every 68 children in the United States, making it the fastest-growing developmental disability and affecting more children than cancer, diabetes and AIDS combined.

This may be due to changes in diagnostic criteria, as well as increased autism awareness resulting in improved detection, according to Laura Hewitson, director of research for the Johnson Center for Child Health and Development, based in Austin.

“However, most researchers will agree that the prevalence of autism spectrum disorder is increasing beyond what can be accounted for by diagnostic changes and increased awareness,” Hewitson said.

Currently, the disorder is diagnosed in a clinical setting through a series of comprehensive tests. However, it can be difficult to obtain all the information needed to make a definitive diagnosis, especially in younger children. Behavioral therapy is the gold standard for early intervention, Hewitson said.

“Unfortunately, there is not one single path forward for selecting interventions

for autism spectrum disorder and sometimes many different approaches are needed,” Hewitson said.

This study was led by Hewitson and UT Southwestern psychiatry professor Dwight German.

Diagnosis at such an early time point would allow therapy to be given so as to maximize the beneficial effects.”

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“I first approached Dr. German about collaborating after his publication on the use of serum peptoids to identify blood samples from patients with Alzheimer’s disease,” Hewitson said. “I was interested to see if that approach could also be used in autism spectrum disorder.”

They found that two proteins — thyroid-stimulating hormone and interleukin-8 — were related to the disorder.

Levels of TSH were significantly lower in boys on the autism spectrum, while IL8 was significantly higher. When measuring the two proteins together, the researchers accurately identified the disorder

in boys 82 percent of the time.

German said that these proteins could be used as blood biomarkers — compounds that can be found in the blood and are highly linked to a disorder. A test using biomarkers would be especially useful in assessing infants for the autism spectrum, as it could be performed before typical behavioral signs surface.

“Diagnosis at such an early time point would allow therapy to be given so as to maximize the beneficial effects,” German said.

Autism diagnostic assessments are time-consuming and cannot always

BIOLOGY

Ancient microbes offer insight on DNA folding

be used in infants or very young children, so research must continue in order to develop more testing tools, Hewitson said.

“The results from our study are not meant to improve or change existing methods of autism spectrum disorder detection but rather provide an additional tool to ascertain risk, potentially in very young children, before diagnostic testing would even be possible,” Hewitson said.

These results were made possible through collaboration with Myriad Rules-Based Medicine, an immunoassay testing lab based in Austin,

German said.

Myriad uses a MultiAnalyte Profiling platform to test blood samples for biomarker patterns.

Myriad’s Human Discovery MAP was chosen to analyze subjects’ blood samples because it tests for more than 175 proteins, many of which have been previously implicated in ASD, German said.

While this study only looked at male children, primarily because the disorder is most prevalent in boys, German said the next step is repeating the study using a larger sample, with the hopes of determining if the same biomarker

proteins are also abnormal in disorder-affected girls.

In addition to expanding the research to include more girls with the disorder, Hewitson said that they would also like to increase the number of proteins used in screening blood samples and possibly screen blood samples from newborns to determine their level of risk and follow them through development.

“This would be a longitudinal study taking many years, but it would allow us to see if our panel of biomarkers is successful in predicting Autism Spectrum Disorder,” Hewitson said.

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By Freya Preimesberger Associate S&T Editor

Scientists’ findings on how ancient microbes store their genomes may shed light on how more complex organisms came to pack their DNA. According to new research from several institutions, microbes called archaea microbes fold their DNA very similarly to eukaryotes, such as animals and plants. The study suggests that this particular DNA structure of archaea, which evolved an estimated 2.5 billion years ago, may be ancestral to eukaryotic DNA folding. The scientists published their findings in Science on Aug. 11.

Eukaryotes have a defined nucleus containing their genetic information and store their DNA by winding it tightly around proteins called histones. This forms dense structures called nucleosomes, making it easier for organisms to pack more and more DNA, which became a necessity as eukaryotic genomes grew larger.

“Genetic material is so huge that it’s very difficult to package the whole thing inside a cell,” said Sudipta Bhattacharyya, UT postdoctoral researcher fellow in molecular biosciences and co-first author of the paper Sudipta Bhattacharyya. “In each living organism, they have to have their own strategy to pack this genetic information.”

This folding is conserved among all eukaryotes, from fungi to humans, implying that it originated in a common ancestor. However, scientists were unsure of what exactly this ancestor was. Previous research by John Reeve, professor of microbiology at Ohio State University and co-author of the study, indicated that archaea also have histones, but their function was not known. According to Bhattacharyya, his team of researchers set out to see how these microbes packaged their DNA. Researchers in the study

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examined these structures by first creating crystals holding DNA-histone complexes from a species of archaea that lives in extremely hot temperatures. X-ray crystallography allowed scientists to determine the three-dimensional structure of the DNA-histone complexes, said Francesca Mattiroli, postdoctoral researcher at the University of Colorado Boulder and co-first author of the study. The calculated structures were validated in another species of archaea after creating mutations that disrupted the DNA-histone structure and observing that the cells could not function properly.

They found that DNA in archaea represented a primitive way of structuring genetic material by bending around a column of histones, similar to eukaryotes. The researchers also found that archaea only use one type of histone while eukaryotes use four.

“These ancient structures look very similar to

the DNA complexes of humans,” Bhattacharyya said.

“Knowing this structure, this sheds light on how this DNA-protein complex actually evolved from those ancient structures.”

Next, researchers will look at how these DNA-histone complexes form in archaea and the mechanism behind archaeal gene expression.

Additional structural studies on eukaryotic gene expression could lead to advances in the field of drug discovery, Bhattacharyya said. According to Mattiroli, a vital point for future research is how eukaryotic DNA structure evolved from its precursor.

“How do these histone-DNA complexes form inside the cell? What controls the size of these complexes?” Mattiroli said. “Most importantly, how did we get from these structures to the nucleosome that is present in all eukaryotes? This will tell us how the modes of organizing DNA in our cells have evolved.”

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Texas defensive tackle Poona Ford wraps up for a tackle during Texas’ 35-34 win over Baylor on Oct. 29. Ford, now a senior, is one of the Longhorns’ key veterans that hopes to contribute to an improved effort on defense during the 2017 season under new coordinator Todd Orlando.

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Orlando focuses on improving defense

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Texas’ defense was called every negative adjective in the book last season.

Weak. Soft. Bad. You name it.

Giving up 31.5 points and 448.8 yards per game, combined with a 5–7 record, will do that. Not even head coach Charlie Strong taking over as defensive coordinator midseason could resurrect things.

But this year will be different, at least in the minds of those who line up defensively for Texas. After a 3–0 record for the defense in preseason scrimmages, the Longhorn defense is starting to realize its full potential.

“We always knew we had the talent on defense,” senior defensive tackle Poona Ford said in a press conference. “It was just a matter of putting things together.”

The man charged with

resurrecting Texas’ defense is defensive coordinator Todd Orlando. As the defensive coordinator at Houston, Orlando had the Cougars ranked No. 13 nationally in total defense last season. But the Big 12 is a different animal than the American Athletic Conference. The offenses and quarterbacks the Longhorns face in the Big 12 are some of the best in the nation, and Orlando recognizes that.

“It’s gonna be a heck of a challenge,” Orlando said at a press conference. “The quarterbacks in this league and the (offensive coordinators) are so creative … coming into this league, you know what you’re getting into. I think you have to have a little bit of common sense in this league … (and) if you think that you’re gonna stop people to 200 yards total offense and three points, that’s pretty delusional, in my opinion.”

Orlando admitted that

he’s not “bringing in a magic potion” to fix Texas’ defensive troubles. Aside from the X’s and O’s, junior defensive end Chris Nelson said the burnt orange “mindset” has changed — not only on defense, but with the entire team.

And it all started with the coaching staff delivering an emphatic message.

“It’s how they challenged us as a team, how they challenged us to be more vocal as a team, how we should step in, carry this team,” Nelson said. “It’s coach-fed, player-led — that’s what they always say.”

For Orlando to shore-up this defense, improvement will have to come both in the trenches and in the secondary.

Statistically, the Longhorns struggled to hang their hat on anything last season.

Texas tied for No. 76 in rushing defense and ranked No. 102 in passing defense last season. But Ford and Nelson believe that Orlando has

“I think you have to have a little bit of common sense in this league … (and) if you think that you’re gonna stop people to 200 yards total offense and three points, that’s pretty delusional, in my opinion.”

been “creative” in helping the Longhorns improve across the board.

“It’s creative because the game scheme that (Orlando) has is just, when you sit down and think about it, you’re just like, ‘Where do

you get this stuff from?’” Nelson said. “That’s all you think in your head. (Orlando)’s a very intelligent man, so we just sit back and we try to take everything in.”

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Freshman Shook looks to follow in Collins’ footsteps as setter

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It’s next man up for the Longhorns in their pursuit of a title, and freshman setter Ashley Shook is ready for her number to be called.

Former setter Chloe Collins served as the backbone of Texas’ success in her four years with the team. Collins finished her career with the fourth-highest assist total (3,687) in Texas history, and her departure this past

summer left a substantial void at the position.

Insert Shook — a fresh face tasked with the challenge of

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season opener in sight

By Alex Briseno @Alexxbriseno

It’s been a long nine months since Texas ended its 2016 campaign back in late November. Since then, the Longhorns found a new head coach, revamped its offseason workout program and began to install a new culture on the 40 Acres.

So what’s the state of the Longhorns with their season opener less than a week away? Here’s what head coach Tom Herman had to say when he addressed the media on Monday afternoon.

Confident starting 22, then who?

There’s no hiding it, Herman is quite confident in his starters on both sides of the ball. He made that loud and clear Monday morning.

“I think our starting 22 could play with anybody in the country,” Herman said. “Would we win every game? I didn’t say that. We can play if we play to our abilities with anybody in the country.”

However, there’s also no hiding the elephant in the room: Texas’ severe lack of depth.

“I’m concerned about our depth, I am,” Herman said. “Whether that means we have championship or top-25 talent, I think was the question, maybe in the starting 22. But certainly not top to bottom, as you would like.”

Depth chart, for “today” Sophomore quarterback Shane Buechele’s name read atop Texas’ 2017 depth chart, officially naming him the Longhorns’ starting quarterback — for now.

Despite the newly released depth chart, Herman is not straying away from what he’s said all month.

“Shane is the starter today,” Herman said. “We’ll know more towards the end of the week. But if we were to play today, Shane would play the whole game as long as he’s playing well.”

Herman continues to leave the door cracked for freshman Sam Ehlinger, but Buechele is set to start Saturday against Maryland.

Neither sophomore running back Kyle Porter nor junior Chris Warren III won the starting

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Texas gains experience on Australia trip

Members of the Texas Longhorns basketball team spent 12 days across the world traveling and honing their skills over the offseason.

The Longhorns played four contests in Australia over a seven-day stretch in Australia, wrapping up their final exhibition on Aug. 21. Texas fared 2-2 in competition, defeating the Dandenong Rangers and Cairns Taipans, while falling to Melbourne United and the Illawarra Hawks. Three of the teams Texas faced on its tour were members of Australia’s National Basketball League.

Texas last held an overseas tour in Australia 21 years ago, prior to the 1996–97 basketball season. Before the trip, no member of the roster had previously traveled to the country, according to head coach Shaka Smart. Smart now owns a young roster filled with plenty of freshman talent. After a bitter 11–22 season, the Longhorns recovered strongly by recruiting five-star power forward Mohamed Bamba and fourstar point guard Matt Coleman. Texas lost former standout Jarrett Allen to the NBA Draft but will return Andrew Jones to the roster.

The team gained much-needed experienced by scrimmaging professional teams in Australia, serving as early preparation for its first regular season game on Nov. 10 against Northwestern State.

— Steve Helwick

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Sophomore quarterback Shane Buechele carries the ball during a Texas practice. Buechele, who started the Longhorns’ opener last season, will begin the 2017 season under center.

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continues from page 8 role at running back outright. Expect to see Porter and Warren split time in the backfield.

Lessons from the locker room The anticipation continues to build as Saturday approaches, but the answer that caught most people’s attention had nothing to do with what will unfold Saturday.

When asked what the sport of football means, Herman chose to highlight a lesson he believes society as a whole can learn from.

“It’s the melting pot, right?” Herman said. “We don’t see color. We don’t see wealth status. We don’t see religion. We don’t see anything in the locker room.

All we see is, do you got my back or not? Can I trust you? It doesn’t matter black, white, brown, Asian, poor, rich, Christian, Muslim, none of it matters in the locker room.”

“I think our starting 22 could play with anybody in the country. Would we win every game? I didn’t say that. We can play if we play to our abilities with anybody in the country.”

assuming a vital role on a Texas squad with a championship-or-bust mentality. “(Collins) was awesome,” Shook said. “I’m trying to live up to what she was able to do, but I also want to be my own person. I just have to keep getting better each day.”

The No. 6 overall recruit in the nation committed to Texas during her sophomore year of high school. Now, Shook has a chance to crack the starting lineup of one of the nation’s most dominant volleyball programs.

For Shook, it’s an opportunity she’s been preparing for since she began working at the setter position at the age of 12.

“I began going to camps in elementary school,” Shook said. “I love being able to control everything and make people around me better. I have great hitters everywhere around me here, so I really can’t

go wrong.”

Shook faces a short learning curve on a team aiming for its third-straight trip to the national championship. But the Longhorns fell short on the sport’s biggest stage the past two seasons, watching as their opponents raised the trophy they worked so hard to get.

“Losing in the championship game the last two years hurt,” head coach Jerritt Elliott said. “This team is tired of finishing in second, and they made a commitment to come in this summer and work their tails off.”

The Longhorns look poised for yet another deep postseason run this season. Texas enters the season as the No. 1 ranked team in the country, marking its twelfth-straight year opening as a topfour team in the American Coaches Association preseason poll.

The team boasts an impressive crop of talent, bringing in the nation’s top recruiting class highlighted by 2017’s No. 1 and No. 2 overall

recruits, outside hitter Lexi Sun and middle blocker Brionne Butler, respectively.

“The thing that’s impressed me the most is that there aren’t a lot of nerves,” Elliott said. “They play at a really high level, and it’s exciting to see what they can bring to our team.”

The Longhorns are also returning three All-Americans to the mix. Senior middle blocker Chiaka Ogbogu and senior outside hitter Ebony Nwanebu, two of three All-Americans returning this year, hope to lead Texas to its first title since 2012.

The journey to a championship started in Gainesville, Florida, on Friday as the Longhorns hit the road for a pair of matches against No. 12 Florida and No. 18 Oregon in the third annual Vert Challenge.

“These games will be a really great building block for the rest of our season,” Shook said. “It’ll be good to see how we react to all the different challenges and work together to get through them.”

—Tom Herman, Texas head coach

Remaining questions The depth chart is set.

Now, one of the only questions left is performance.

How will the team perform in front of thousands of fans — many of them equipped with the expectation of a dramatic improvement.

Not many people think this team will come out playing tight. Most teams

under Herman don’t. The term “fun” has even been thrown around, but don’t be mistaken, that means winning too.

“They understand that we’ll be able to cut it loose and play the way that we’re trained to play and have a good time doing it, but in order to really have fun on Saturday, we got to win.”

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Former setter Chloe Collins was a key contributor at Gregory Gym during her tenure in Austin. Now, freshman Ashley Shook will earn her opportunity at the same position.

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ALBUM REVIEW | ‘SATURATION II’

Brockhampton drops introspective follow-up

By Chris Duncan Senior L&A Reporter

A few decades ago, cutting-edge media was dictated by companies in sweeping and calculated moves, but the widespread use of the internet by artists such as Arctic Monkeys and Odd Future rebuked traditional formulas and made anywhere a potential breeding ground for boundary-pushing ideas.

Now, Brockhampton is emerging from oft-forgotten Texas town of San Marcos, taking aim at hiphop culture by forming the self-proclaimed internet’s first All-American boy band.

From rappers to producers, photographers and more, Brockhampton’s frequently changing number of members is currently at 17. They are relatively unknown — and it seems they want to keep it that way. Forming a music and media empire is their main priority, but for now the albums speak for themselves. Brockhampton is focused on acting as a whole rather than mere parts, an idea evident on their sophomore LP, SATURATION II. Lofty goals aside, Brockhampton’s music at its core is pop-rap, a genre manipulated over the past decade to take several forms.

Their debut record, SATURATION, jumped from topic to topic, bringing traditional pop-rap instrumentals while running the gamut on everything from LGBTQ rights, growing older and mental health, but lacking a general cohesion. SATURATION II, which comes only a couple of months after the release of its predecessor, finds itself improving on the groundwork

Brockhampton previously laid. A seemingly effortless statement of the group’s passion, it brings a newfound topical consistency that few, if any, modern hip-hop collectives can match.

Kicking off with the pure adrenaline shot that is “GUMMY,” each rapper introduces themselves to the audience as if they were a heist team. The dream team’s default leader Kevin Abstract comes

Plowing through emotions and antics like a hot knife through butter, the tracks of this LP have an amateur charm but flow from one extreme to another with ease.” out with guns blazing, rapping “These n****s take me for granted, what would hap’ if I vanished?

Bet a hunnid they’d panic, my shooters only speak Spanish,” referencing the track’s video introduction.

The pervasive g-funk synth on the track pairs perfectly with its beat, and “GUMMY” makes it obvious that Brockhampton feeds off of its own energy, making each track as fruitful as possible.

The rest of the 15 tracks on this LP further build Brockhampton’s clout, especially with close examination. Having a hand in almost every song on the

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record, Kevin Abstract acts as a bit of a maestro with his fantastic and energetic hooks. Several rappers, especially Dom McLennon and Merlyn Wood, stand out with intricate and catchy bars, bringing their own personality to contribute to Brockhampton’s youthful and energetic brand.

The true star of the show is Brockhampton’s production team. Led by Romil

Hemnani, the six producers of this album all bring different feelings to their respective tracks, but manage to tie in the instrumentals thematically with each song’s title and the overall perspective of the record.

The standout tenth track “JUNKY” features bars about each rapper’s inner struggles, confronting sexuality, drug abuse and more.

Paired with a beat that places the listener on edge for

the entire track, “JUNKY” demands attention and appreciation for the production team’s efforts.

Plowing through emotions and antics like a hot knife through butter, the tracks of this LP have an amateur charm, but flow from one extreme to another with ease. After one listen to this record, it’s apparent that SATURATION II, blows its predecessor out of the water. If

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Students leave, traditions remain

By Daisy Wang

Associate L&A Editor

At the end of their journey on the 40 Acres, there are some things every Longhorn will come to know by heart.

Although students come and go each year, these University traditions are here to stay.

The Daily Texan has compiled a list of just a few of the traditions that remain an integral part of the University.

Illustration by Amber Perry | Daily Texan Staff

Out-of-state students find solace in comfort cuisine

By Stephen Acevedo Senior L&A Reporter

Leaving home for college is often accompanied by a string of uneasy emotions.

As lucky as UT students are to be located in a great city like Austin, newcomers — especially out-of-state students — are still susceptible to feelings of homesickness.

One way to help alleviate those feelings is by treating oneself to a home-style meal.

Luckily, Austin’s food scene is a massive melting pot of different cuisines from all around the country. Here are a few restaurants than can take Austin transplants right back to their hometowns with a single bite.

Roland’s Soul Food and Fish Kitchen For people hailing from Louisiana, and especially folks who are waiting out the Houston floods in Austin, the right kind of meal can make any homesickness disappear, if even for a brief moment. Roland’s specializes in that right kind of meal. From smothered pork chops to chitlins to delectably fried fish, the food at Roland’s can transport even the most cynical patron right back to their childhood kitchen. I would advise that you chase your meal with a serving of their fantastic peach cobbler, just to ensure a maximum level of comfort.

Las Trancas Californians almost unanimously agree that Austin’s signature Tex-Mex cuisine isn’t real Mexican food, or at least not as good as what they have back home. Las Trancas comes a lot closer to California-style Mexican food than most other popular taquerias in Austin.

Specializing in small street tacos, burritos and tortas, this place is a spitting image of the taco trucks that seem to be on every other street corner in Los Angeles and San Diego. My personal favorite menu item is the al pastor street tacos. It’s a very simple dish that wields more than enough flavor to make a Californian feel less bitter about Austin’s “Mexican” food scene.

Tropicana Cuban Restaurant Due to its proximity to Cuba, Florida has played a big role in popularizing Cuban food on American soil, and Austin has certainly been receptive to the Sunshine State’s mouthwatering cuisine. One of the more notable Cuban restaurants in Austin is Tropicana, which puts all its focus in authenticity to fantastic results. Everything from their empanadas to their seafood perfectly executes the flavor that so many Florida natives grew up enjoying. Anything off the menu at Tropicana should be ordered with a side of sweet tostones, or

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Cedar Tavern at Eberly While Austin does justice to plenty of different regions’ cuisines, New York City is one part of the country that Austin struggles to simulate in the food department.

Maybe the culinary history of the five boroughs is too deep-rooted in the city to be properly replicated anywhere else, but any recommendation I could make for authentic New York-style food in Austin would be quickly dismissed by New Yorkers who insist it doesn’t come close to the real thing. That said, the best recommendation to make would be the Cedar Tavern at Eberly. Aside from the charcuterie board and the oysters, which are both great, there is really nothing on the menu that even tries to mimic New York food.

The bar itself, however, has been disassembled, shipped to and reassembled in Austin directly from the Greenwich Village. So while there’s not much to be offered here in the way of New York comfort food, simply kicking back at the bar and enjoying a few rounds of drinks and oysters is about as close to a New York dining experience that Austin has to offer. Customers should also make a point of sticking to the Cedar Tavern menu, as the rest of the Eberly menu is sure to break the bank.

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Big Bertha Known as the “Sweetheart of the Longhorn Band” since 1955, it may surprise some folks to learn that Big Bertha was originally made for the University of Chicago and named after the famed German Big Bertha howitzer.

After the University of Chicago phased out varsity football in 1939, they stored Bertha underneath the stadium where it was supposedly radioactively contaminated by Manhattan Project experiments.

In 1954, Moton Crockett and Colonel D. Harold Byrd, both affiliated with the Longhorn Band, worked to purchase Big Bertha for a mere $1 and had it restored.

Measuring at 41 inches wide and over 10 feet tall, Longhorn football fans will find it hard to miss seeing her being led by the Bertha Crew at games.

Smokey the Cannon Owned and operated by the Texas Cowboys, a student service organization, Smokey the Cannon has become an iconic part of Longhorn football games.

Smokey I was originally built in 1953 by the University’s mechanical engineering lab in response to often heard shotgun blasts at the Red River Rivalry.

The current cannon the

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Cowboys use is dubbed Smokey III, which fires four shotgun shells at the end of every quarter, at kickoff, every time the Longhorns score, at the end of each game and after “The Eyes of Texas” is sung.

Other than on the field at Darrell K. Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium, Smokey can be found on display in the Red McCombs Red Zone atrium and, of course, at the Red River Rivalry game in Dallas.

Burnt Orange and White Although it’s hard to find someone now who doesn’t recognize UT-Austin for its notable burnt orange and white hues, that wasn’t always the case.

For years, the University dabbled with different color combinations. It wasn’t until 1885, after dedicated fans decided to don bright orange and white ribbons to show support for the Longhorn baseball team’s inaugural game, that the colors were associated with the University. Even so, the colors weren’t made official until 1900 after a school-wide vote.

But the school color debacle wasn’t over yet. The bright orange proved to be a problem for athletes as the dye faded to yellow, and opponents dubbed the Longhorns “yellow bellies.”

In 1925, coach E.J. Stewart

first brought in the University’s current burnt orange hue. After the dye became unavailable, the University once again returned to its bright orange and white colors.

Luckily, after years of confusion, head coach Darrell K. Royal settled the school color debate once and for all in the 1960s by bringing back the beloved Texas orange.

Texas Fight Like all longtime school rivals, Texas A&M has been the brunt of many chants, jokes and shady tweets. But for UT, they’re even the driving force behind our official fight song — “Texas Fight.”

Traditionally sung after the University’s alma mater “The Eyes of Texas,” “Texas Fight” was written by Colonel Walter S. Hunnicutt along with James E. King.

It’s sung to a quick-paced version of “Taps,” the song typically played at military funerals, and is played at Longhorn football games after touchdowns and other points are scored.

In an attempt to deter the Texas Aggies and respond to their “Farmer’s Fight” song at games, Hunnicutt decided to turn their own tune against them by replacing the words of “Farmer’s Fight,” to “Texas Fight” and altering the tempo of “Taps.”

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