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Volume 118, Issue 35
POLICE
APD reviews ACL security in aftermath of Las Vegas shooting By Reagan Ritterbush Senior News Reporter
ethan oblak| daily texan file
An Austin Police Department officer patrols Zilker Park during the 2014 Austin City Limits Festival.
The Austin Police Department is reviewing security for the upcoming Austin City Limits music festival in response to the Las Vegas mass shooting, APD Chief Brian Manley said. “We live in a world now where you cannot protect against every single threat,” Manley said. “We’ve seen that with people getting into vehicles and driving them into crowds. We’ve seen that
in what we saw in Las Vegas last night. As a police department and with all of our partners — state, federal and local — we are working to address every threat possible.” The shooting in Las Vegas occurred when a gunman fired on a crowd of 22,000 people Sunday night at the Route 91 Harvest music festival from the 32nd floor of a nearby hotel, leaving at least 58 people dead and more than 500 injured. Manley said the attack has raised
city-wide safety concerns for ACL, which is held in Zilker Park, overlooked by buildings of downtown Austin. “We are reevaluating the plans in place that we have used in the past, and we’re strengthening them in some areas,” Manley said. “We can’t come in on the day after an event like we just saw happen in Las Vegas and not reconsider our plans and make sure that we are comfortable.” APD has reached out to federal and state law enforcement and is anticipating
assistance in policing the event from both, Manley said. Ivon Hernandez, communication and leadership freshman, said she is reconsidering attending ACL because she is not sure whether it is possible to ever be safe from attacks like in Las Vegas. “Many people are not confident in society and the police when it comes to safety,” Hernandez said. “Events like
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CAMPUS NATIONAL
Children of professors find housing situation to suit needs
59 dead in Las Vegas shooting By Chase Karacostas Senior News Reporter
A shooting at a country music concert killed at least 59 and injured over 500.
By Grace Speas News Reporter
A gunman opened fire on an outdoor country music concert in Las Vegas on Sunday evening, killing at least 59 people and injuring more than 500 others,
Will Johns and Berk Sutherland have two very important things in common — they are both sons of UT professors and they both live with high-functioning autism. The two family friends of more than 10 years recently reached a new milestone when they moved into a house near campus together this fall. Ann Johns, Will Johns’ mother and art history professor, said the housing arrangement, in which the two men will live with roommates not on the autism spectrum, is designed to aid their transition into adulthood and provide them with independence. “The point is they don’t have to live with mom and dad forever,” said Ann Johns, who owns the house. The two men currently live with UT graduate student Jesse Easdon. Paige Dearman, Texas State recreational therapy senior, will join them in the spring. Dearman and Easdon perform no major house tasks, but provide their housemates with vital social interaction, Ann Johns said. Easdon discovered the housing opportunity
according to Associated Press. The attack, now the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history, came from the 32nd floor balcony of a Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino hotel room. J.B. Bird, UT director of media relations, said the University is not currently aware of any students who were near the attack
in Las Vegas. He said the University does not currently plan to release a statement on the attack but supports a comment made by Chancellor William McRaven on Monday morning via Twitter. “Heartbroken to awake to a horrific act of violence on the innocent,” McRaven said in a tweet. “Pray for Las Vegas.”
According to the Las Vegas Review-Journal, suspect Stephen Paddock shot himself as police entered his hotel room Sunday night. The Review-Journal also reported that 19 rifles were found in Paddock’s hotel room and that
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anthony mireles| daily texan staff
The U.S. flag by the Tower flys at half-staff on Monday in support of the victims of the Las Vegas shooting. At least 59 people were killed and more than 500 were injured when a gunman opened fire at an outdoor country music concert in Las Vegas on Sunday evening.
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Innovative anti-cigarette ad campaign receives recognition By London Gibson Senior News Reporter
When Jason Ambrose and Dustin Ballard graduated from UT’s Texas Creative advertising program over 10 years ago, they had no idea their work would someday play a key role in keeping thousands of teenagers away from cigarettes.
Ambrose and Ballard were leading members in the Truth Initiative’s anti-smoking campaign, which Advertising Age named one of the top ten most successful campaigns of the 21st century and is credited with preventing hundreds of thousands of Americans from smoking every year. “It won a lot of awards and
was really effective work,” said Ambrose, senior art director for the campaign. “But it was also … one of the most meaningful things that, as ad people, you can do out in the world.” Ambrose said before the “Truth” campaign, anti-smoking initiatives pointed fingers at the people using the product rather than the
businesses at the heart of the issue. He said the creative team played on teenagers’ natural tendency to rebel to encourage them to reject messages from big tobacco corporations. “We said, ‘Hey look, there’s the man. Fuck it,’” Ambrose said. “And so people did.” Ambrose first started working on the “Truth”
campaign in 2001 before he was made senior art director, and Ballard joined the initiative as a copywriter two years later. The two worked together in one of the campaign’s many creative teams. “Truth” used unique messaging platforms such as fire hydrants and the sides of buildings. In 2000, the campaign made headlines for
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dumping piles of body bags in front of the headquarters for Philip Morris, the largest cigarette manufacturer in the United States. Ballard said this innovative style of marketing made the campaign more receptive to younger audiences. “It felt like it was kind of
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