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Safety alert provides students with crime updates

By Ashley Liu Senior News Reporter

UT Safety Alert sent out an email last Friday to notify students of a physical altercation that took place off campus, where a student was punched in the back of the head. Although the incident took place off campus, UT was required to report it to students in compliance with the federal Jeanne Clery Act. The origin of this law dates back to the 1986 rape and murder of Lehigh University student Jeanne Clery. The murder, which occurred in Jeanne’s dorm room, resulted in backlash against unreported crimes on college campuses across the nation. Jeanne’s parents filed a $25 million lawsuit against Lehigh. After settling out of court for an undisclosed amount, they used the settlement to help advocate for legislation requiring more transparency from universities concerningcriminalactivityonor surrounding campus.

The federal Jeanne Clery Act Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Statistics Act requires all universities who receive federal financial aid to disclose information about crime. A compliance statement was included at the top of Friday’s Safety

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City Council member Ora Houston, left, and Equilibrio Norte representative Tane Ward, right, hug after the council’s decision.

City Council renames Columbus Day

By Chase Karacostas Senior News Reporter Columbus Day, coming up this Monday, was officially replaced by Indigenous People’s Day in Austin following a City Council vote Thursday Morning.

Following a push from Equilibrio Norte, an Indigenous Peoples’ advocacy group, a resolution replacing Columbus Day was approved by the Council, with one no-vote and one council member abstaining.

“Texas — and central Texas

specifically — is the oldest continually inhabited site in all of the Americas,” Equilibrio Norte representative Tane Ward said. “This is actually a very important place for native peoples … We’re asking for indigenous people to be honored, and the only name we’re erasing here is Columbus, someone who is actively known to have committed genocide in the Caribbean.”

The resolution was sponsored by council member Ora Houston,

District 1, to promote inclusivity and end the celebration of Columbus Day, which Houston said serves as a symbol of intolerance and violence.

“There is only human race, but there are many parts of that human race,” Houston said. “The indigenous people who have lived on this land before any of us got here … are just asking for (the) opportunity to have the recognition and the acknowledgment that they too

were the original conservancies of our land.”

Columbus Day remains a federally recognized holiday. The resolution cited a growing number of cities around the country that recognize Indigenous Peoples’ Day instead of Columbus Day, such as Berkeley, California.

“We have a saying that Columbus didn’t discover America,”

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Council member Ellen Troxclair, District 8, was the only no on a resolution condemning Confederate monuments at a City Council meeting on Thursday.

Hurricane-affected areas receive vital medication

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City of Austin passes resolution against Confederate monuments

By Chase Karacostas Senior News Reporter

In the first step toward the possible removal of any city-owned Confederate monuments, the Austin City Council passed a resolution Thursday condemning the display of monuments and memorials to the Confederacy.

The resolution, sponsored by council member Sabino Renteria, District 3, passed with only one no-vote from

the communities where the drug activities happen and made sure they had this medication.”

The team provided the medication Texas is in the midst of an opioid epidemic, and after Hurricane Harvey, through millions of dollars worth of donations from Kaleo Pharma, a pharmore people are at risk for overdose. maceutical company.

In the past two decades, Kinzly and Thibodeaux deaths from opioid overstocked the inventories dose in the United States of outreach workers and have quadrupled, with Texas counting 1,186 There’s more peo- recovery agencies in Houston with naloxone deaths in 2015, according to the Centers for Disease ple that died from and sent medical kits to Florida after Hurricane Control and Prevention.

The Texas Overdose Nal- … overdose just last Irma hit.

The initiative has oxone Initiative (TONI), year than people been educating people in partnership with the on overdose prevention School of Social Work, is who died in the around Texas for nearly distributing thousands of Vietnam War. It’s four years. Thibodeaux units of overdose-prevensaid the opioid issue tion medication to Harvey the number one and added devastation victims in need.

Harvey is very The founders of the cause of uninten- from personal to him as a initiative, Mark Kinzly Beaumont native and and Charles Thibodeaux, tional death.” someone who has been traveled to Houston and —Charles Thibodeaux, in recovery before.

Beaumont soon after HarFounder of TONI “There’s more peovey hit to deliver 250 units ple that died from … of naloxone, a medication overdose just last year than people who that prevents opioid overdose.

“When confronted with a natural di- died in the Vietnam War,” Thibodeaux saster, which disrupts the community to said. “It’s the number one cause of begin with, their risk factors are going to increase,” Kinzly said. “We went into MEDICATION page 3 Senior News Reporter

council member Ellen Troxclair, District 8. Along with its condemnation, the resolution tasks the City Manager with collecting information about all city-owned Confederate monuments and memorials on city property, including street names and buildings.

“When you have (Confederate monuments) on public property where people of African descent are paying taxes to upkeep it, then I have to think about it differently,”

said Ora Houston, council member for District 1 and co-sponsor of the resolution.

“As an American of African descent, my taxes have gone to pay for upkeep of symbolism of a war that was started because of the people who were brought here from Africa, and the war was lost yet we still honor those people.”

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UT’s Senate of College Councils proposed a resolution in support of instating a program that would give students the chance to receive more college credit based on military experience Thursday night.

Senate Resolution 1706 supports UT participation in the Texas College Credit for Heroes (TCCH), a program for students in the military that helps them get additional college credit for experience. The program was formed in 2013 and is currently being used by 48 Texas institutions, including three in the UT system, according to the Senate.

Kenwoo Kim, a member of UT’s ROTC and co-author of the resolution, said he hopes this legislation will help diversify the military population.

“Sometimes veterans don’t go to UT because they’re not awarded credits,” said Kim, a government and middle eastern languages and cultures sophomore. “To make it a more diverse, more inclusive campus I believe will make it better for UT.” Becoming a participating university would come at no additional cost to UT and would be as simple as signing up for an online profile for students, said resolution co-author Vinit Shah during the meeting.

“The online program will evaluate their military experience … and convert that into college credit,” said marketing sophomore Shah during the meeting.

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Student body vice president Micky Wolf attended Thursday’s Council meeting to speak on another issue but said he supported the resolution. Wolf also successfully advocated for the removal of Confederate statues from the South Mall in August.

“I didn’t think they should be on our University’s campus, and I don’t think they should be in the city of Austin,” Wolf said. “I’m happy to see the (Council) take that step forward.”

With the wave of Confederate monument removals across the country, Houston said it was an apt time to address and relocate these memorials to places where they can be properly analyzed within

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Kwenwoo Kim, a member of UT’s ROTC program, advocates for Senate Resolution 1706 to be passed. The resolution would allow for veterans at UT to receive college credit for military experience.

The University would have to designate a representative to keep track of transcripts and review and accept recommended credits. Kim said the Office of Admissions and Student Veteran Services Office would have to oversee the implementation of the program.

On average, TCCH recommends 25 credit hours per evaluation to participating universities, but schools typically award around 16, according to the Senate.

Kim said he thought to bring this

the context of history, such as museums.

“We’ve never had (this) conversation,” Houston said. “This is an opportunity to gather more data and then give people an opportunity to have a conversation.”

Dissenting, Troxclair said in a Facebook post that the resolution will have no tangible impact and only serves as a distraction from more pressing issues such as high property taxes and traffic congestion.

“To my knowledge we have no Confederate memorials on city property, and the city has no say in federal immigration policy,” Troxclair said. “Additionally, all three items included historically inaccurate and extremely inflammatory language that only serves to further divide the community, rather than bring us together.”

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legislation to UT when his friends sent in their Joint Services Transcript, a document that can give students with military experience college credit. Kim said his friends did not receive education or feedback regarding their credit applications.

“The system itself seemed really informal or at least not very communicative,” Kim said. “To address this issue, I started researching topics and stumbled upon the (Texas) College Credit for Heroes program.”

Raphael Jaquette, middle east-

ern studies sophomore and co-author of the resolution, said many students in service participate in learning in a different environment that is not always recognized by higher institutions.

“I think this is important to bring to UT because it is important to give veterans and service members recognition for the comparable credit they have received in the non-traditional learning experiences in the military,” Jaquette said.

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Operation Naloxone receives grant to expand operations

By Tristan Davantes News Reporter

Operation Naloxone, an initiative addressing the opioid crisis through overdose prevention training and supplying resources, has received a $1 million dollar grant from the Texas Human and Health Services Commission, or THHSC. The project started as a resolution by Student Government in the summer of 2016 to provide naloxone, a drug used to treat narcotic overdoses in emergency situations, to different areas of campus.

Additionally, the initiative now works to increase access to treatment and reduce overdose-related deaths through preventative training. The training informs participants on a basic understanding of the opioid crisis, signs and symptoms of an overdose and other risk factors of using different prescription drugs director of the initiative Lucas Hill said.

“In Austin, it was mostly student groups to begin with,” Hill said. “But now we’ve expanded to include communi-

ty groups, organizations that work with people who are at risk for overdose and drug treatment programs.”

Through the THHSC grant, the initiative is working to expand their influence throughout the state.

“Now with the grant, we’re enabled to go state-wide with the project and to collaborate with the Texas Overdose Naloxone Initiative, which was already providing some training throughout the state with support from the THHSC,” Hill said.

In Texas, which ranks second nationally for the number of people who meet criteria for dependence or abuse of heroin or pain relievers who have not received any treatment, drug deaths related to heroin and other opioids from 1999 to 2014 has risen by 293 percent, according to the School of Social Work’s Operation Naloxone Expansion research.

However, Hill said he sees progress toward the treatment of the opioid crisis as a whole.

“We’re fighting against a long history of patients with substance abuse disorders

being among the most marginalized groups in society,” Hill said. “With health care providers having significant implicit bias against them and politicians having limited incentive to help them.”

Lubna Mazin, student director for Operation Naloxone, thinks opioid overdose is a significant problem within the UT community.

“With a rise of the epidemic, we have seen a rise in college students overdosing and a younger population leaning towards prescription drugs,” graduate pharmacy student Mazin said. “Things can go wrong very quickly, and they don’t know how to handle that.

Government junior Daniel Brown said even though certain states are addressing opioid overdose better than others, the federal government is not taking substantial action to actually tackle the issue.

“In states where (naloxone) is sold over the counter, it’s shown a decrease in overdose (significantly),” Brown said.

“Every state should be doing this, the federal government should be mandating it.”

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International students face job concerns

By Stephanie Adeline News Reporter Five years ago, Yifei Chen moved from China to study in the United States in hopes of better career prospects. Now, Chen fears she will not find a job here after graduation.

“Companies prefer American citizens because they’re going to stay here,” communication studies sophomore Chen said. “But for me, there’s limited opportunity.”

To put themselves in a better position to get a job after graduation, students generally seek professional experience such as internships during their college years. Although international students are legally permitted to work through Curricular Practical Training (CPT) or Optional Practical Training (OPT), employers are often reluctant to hire international students because of the complexity of the immigration system, said Tatiana Woldman, assistant director of student advising services for the UT International Office.

Woldman said many employers are intimidated by the process of hiring international students.

“They don’t even know anything about it, and they

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continues from page 1 council member Sabino Renteria, District 3, said. “He was lost, and you can’t discover something when you’re lost.”

In the first draft, the resolution did not mention whether Indigenous Peoples’ Day would replace Columbus Day. During Thursday’s meeting however, council member Greg Casar, District 4, proposed and succeeded in passing an amendment to clarify the replacement of Indigenous Peoples’ Day for Columbus Day. Following Casar’s amendment,

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Second year student Yifei Chen fears her international status makes internship opportunities scarce. For many like her, internships are hard to come by.

don’t want to know anything about it,” Woldman said. “But they just know that it’s hard and expensive.”

CPT is work within their major in which students receive academic credit, often

council member Ellen Troxclair, District 8, declared opposition to the resolution and voted against it. In a Facebook post online, Troxclair said the resolution has zero “tangible impact.”

“It’s important to recognize the good and bad parts of our history, and there was a lot of pain and suffering that indigenous people went through,” Troxclair said during the meeting. “(But), there’s nothing we can do to change the fact that the federal government is going to recognize Columbus Day.” Luis Carcamo-Huechante, director of the Department of Spanish and

as a requirement to complete their program of study. OPT is a 12-month authorization for full-time employment and is often a transition to getting a work visa, which has to be sponsored by the employer.

It’s important to recognize the good and bad parts of our history, and there was a lot of pain and suffering that indigenous people went through.”

—Ellen Troxclair, District 8 city council member

Computer science senior Ricardo Delfin, an international student from Mexico, said the preference for American citizens does not apply to large multinational companies based on his experience applying for

Portuguese at UT, said he sees this change as an important step toward preserving indigenous culture by reengaging with their communities.

“It’s a recognition for the indigenous communities in Texas, but it’s also a result of indigenous organizations across the years to dismantle the legacies of colonialism on these lands,” said Carcamo-Huechante, who is also a descendant of an indigenous tribe in Chile, Mapuche. “My hope is that this trend has an impact also at the federal level at some point.”

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Both Kinzly and Thibodeaux have lost friends to opioid overdose.

Kinzly said he and Thibodeaux want to not only keep people using opioids alive, but also educate people on overdose prevention.

“We have an appetite for opioids in this country like nowhere else in the world,” Kinzly said. “Every day there’s 140 people that die from overdoses. We just want people to have another chance.”

Harris County, located in Houston, has the highest number of fatal overdoses in Texas, Kinzly said. Thibodeaux said this may be because the state has been slow to change

studies senior and director of Native American and Indigenous Collective, said the resolution represented more than just the renaming of a holiday.

As a person of indigenous descent, Vela said the change represents a step in the right direction toward fixing issues such as indigenous sovereignty and protections.

“Columbus Day should never have been a holiday or a celebration, and now I’m excited that people are recognizing that we should be celebrating indigenous and Native American (survival), resilience and existence,” Vela said.

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o-auBy Tehreem Shahab many News Reporter te in ment d by In the midst of an affirmative action debate spurred by a lawsuit against the nt toUniversity, Asians for Black Lives hostport-ed a teach-in Wednesday to educate rvicestudents about affirmative action. com- The event began with a brief clarificaeivedtion on affirmative action by Eric Tang, earn-an associate professor in the African tary,”and African diaspora studies department. Tang said affirmative action has changed since Regents of the University of California v. Bakke, a case in which taking redressive action and setting aside a number of seats for people who were initially restricted from higher education institutions, was deemed unconstitutional by the Supreme Court of the United States.

Tang said race is now considered as one of many factors in the University admission process, which is not the same as affirmative action.

“To say that we have affirmative action in the United States and that we need to defend it is not entirely correct,” Tang said. “Affirmative action means to engage in activity or policy that corrects past historical injustices. Setting aside a set number of seats is affirmative action. You can think of it as reparations.”

As a part of the discussion, Tang posed the question of whether UT’s now top 6 percent rule favored

an internship at Microsoft.

“You can tell they’re trying to find best talent wherever they have it,” Delfin said. “If you’re an international student, they don’t discount that, and the expense is worth it.”

Computer science graduate student Makoto Morimoto said although he wishes information about employment would be given earlier, he is thankful UT has many resources to help international students find a job and go through the work permit application process, including the international office.

“It would be helpful if they tell you about (work authorization) at international orientation instead of having you to look for it when the time comes,” Morimoto said. “But it’s not difficult information to find, and if you ask mostly anyone, they’ll direct you to the right people.”

Delfin said some international students are not even aware they are authorized to work on campus and advised international freshmen to seek an adviser from the international office to learn more about their work permits.

African and African Dispora associate professor Eric Tang asks students about how many Asian identifying people they know that got into UT without automatic acceptance.

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students of certain backgrounds. Plan II and accounting junior Jay Anand said the top 6 percent rule is not helpful to minority students.

“The top 6 percent rule tries to be race-blind, which is seen as fair,” Anand said. “But it isn’t, because a lot of people who benefit from it are from suburban areas and are of a higher socioeconomic background who have more resources for school and test preparation.”

Tang said University admissions processes are still steeped in problematic practices.

“A system that has routinely kept African-American numbers below 12 percent, despite having had a history of excluding them, is a system of white

supremacy,” Tang said.

Before ending the discussion, students discussed what they hoped to do to broaden the discussion of race and affirmative action, especially within Asian-American circles.

Asians for Black Lives member Quynhanh Tran said one of the organization’s goals is to increase activism within the AsianAmerican community.

“I feel like there’s a lack of activism amongst Asian Americans in terms of supporting other communities of color,” Plan II junior Tran said. “So that’s one of our goals: educating ourselves on issues that other communities of color face.”

its view toward helping opioid users recover.

“There’s stigma associated with substance abuse,” Thibodeaux said.

“We need to get out of that box and start thinking about keeping people alive.”

Pharmacy professor Lucas Hill works with Kinzly and Thibodeaux’s initiative in an on-campus program called Operation Naloxone. The program trains students and the public on opioid overdose prevention and response, as well as keeps dorms stocked with Naloxone.

The issue of opioid overdose is vastly undercounted and overlooked in Texas relative to the urgency of it, said Hill.

“There are probably a lot of

people who are using (opioids) who could be put at higher risk due to the hurricane,” Hill said. “Everyone needs to respond to this as a severely dire situation.”

Hill said because natural disasters can disrupt routines and availability to medication, he was thankful to have TONI able to deliver naloxone to the Houston area.

“It’s not just people with chronic opioid addictions who we need to worry about,” Hill said. “It’s just good to have something like naloxone around, just in case.”

Kinzly said he wants to continue spreading overdose response education across Texas as well as working with students and faculty on campus to reach as many people as he can.

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“A Clery Act applies to crimes that happened within the boundaries of campus and areas that (are) immediately adjacent or accessible to campus,” Assistant Chief of Police Don Verett said. “It could even apply to a property that’s associated with UT like the Pickle Research Center.”

The Clery Act mandates institutions report on murder, sex offenses, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary, motor vehicle theft, arson, arrest, hate crimes and other notable incidents.

“If a Clery-defined crime happens in a Clery-reportable geography then we are required to put out a timely warning,” Verett said. “We have discretion over other crimes, but we try to warn the community about on-going threats to campus regardless … even if it’s just a weather alert.”

Biochemistry sophomore Jacquelyn Chan lives off campus and said she is glad to see existing policies that make the safety of her surroundings transparent.

“I walk home late alone every night,” Chan said. “I’m happy to hear that UTPD doesn’t sugarcoat the crimes

around us and that they’re willing warn us about potential threats. College campuses, especially a big one like UT, can be quite messy.”

Verett said there are nonClery crimes that UTPD has or could send out warnings about, such as bicycle theft trends or Peeping Toms.

Although police jurisdiction can overlap between UTPD and the Austin Police Department, Verett said students do not have to worry about who to contact and should just “call 911.”

Verett said notices are sent as soon as UTPD has relevant information.

“We put these notices out of abundance of caution,” Verett said. “We don’t put out a lot of them but they’re necessary to keep the community safe.”

Yasmine Kem, student security coordinator of the Division of Housing and Food Service, said it’s absolutely necessary for UTPD to report crimes even if they didn’t happen on campus.

“The majority of UT students live off-campus,” undeclared sophomore Kem said.

“It’s scary to picture what it would be like if UTPD didn’t have to tell us about ongoing crimes and threats just because it didn’t happen in a class.”

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Climate concerns inspire local action

By Janhavi Nemawarkar and Vik Shirvaikar Forum Editors

Scientists agree that climate change noticeably worsened the recent surge of catastrophic hurricanes that devastated parts of Texas, Florida and Puerto Rico. Climate change is no longer hypothetical, and the world is experiencing its effects right now.

As the Trump administration continues to send mixed signals on its decision to withdraw the United States from the Paris climate agreement, it can seem like students on college campuses are far away from where the major decisions relating to climate change are made. But as our national government evades its duty to the American people, cities and college

campuses are stepping up to protect the environment for generations to come.

This week, we highlight guests from across campus — and across the country — who recognize the importance of local initiatives to combat climate change.

First, we feature an interview with Pete Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, Indiana, on what cities can do to mitigate and deal with the effects of climate change.

Buttigieg, who spoke on this topic at September’s Texas Tribune Festival, explains the new role he envisions for city leadership in these issues, as well as what college students can do to become involved.

Megan Raby, assistant professor in the Department of History, outlines the wide-ranging history of climate research, from the initial discovery of the greenhouse effect to the more recent rise of

climate change denial. She argues that climate change will unavoidably have far-reaching consequences and that people everywhere still need to come to terms with that reality.

Finally, James Collins, an ambassador for UT’s Campus Environmental Center, discusses the importance of collective action to promote environmental sustainability. He highlights five major initiatives on campus and calls for students to join the active campus community of environmental advocates.

If you have an opinion on one of these topics or anything else, we’d love to hear from you — please email us at editor@ dailytexanonline.com.

Nemawarkar is a Plan II and government junior from Austin. Shirvaikar is a math and economics junior from Frisco.

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Climate change denial: why history matters

By Megan Raby Forum Contributor

While climate change affects us all, the question of confronting climate change denial may seem primarily a matter for scientists and science educators. As a historian who researches and teaches about the history of science and the environment, I think there is also an important role for historical perspectives to play.

Both the long history of climate research and the more recent rise of climate change denial have been well documented by historians of science. Most people mistakenly think climate change is new — a recent discovery that scientists are perhaps still sorting out. In fact, the basic greenhouse effect was understood by the mid-19th century. The first calculation of future global warming from human emissions of carbon dioxide was published as early as 1896 by the Swedish physicist and chemist Svante Arrhenius. But at the rates of fossil fuel burning that were then occurring, significant warming seemed to be thousands of years in the future. As research by historians such as Spencer Weart shows, by the 1960s and 1970s, the complex puzzle of global climate began to come together more quickly as geophysical research in general became a matter of national and international interest during the Cold

War. Independent lines of evidence — ice cores, computer modeling, atmospheric chemistry, etc. — all pointed to a much more fragile climate system than scientists had previously assumed. By the 1980s, scientists realized that they needed to do a better job of communicating the risks to policy makers and the public, resulting in the formation of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in 1988 to communicate the scientific consensus.

The rise of climate change denial is much more recent, and it emerged as a direct attack on this consensus. This attack didn’t take place within the peer-reviewed scientific literature, although it did involve some prominent physicists. Drawing on political connections they forged during the Cold War, Fred Singer, Frederick Seitz and a handful of others pursued a strategy of “selling doubt” to policy makers and the public in the 1990s. Although they were not active climate researchers themselves, they used non-peer reviewed white papers, editorials and TV appearances to create the false impression that scientific opinion was still unsettled, in order to prevent or delay any form of government regulation. They were very successful because they had a lot of practice. As historians Naomi Oreskes, Erick Conway and others have shown, they had previously honed this strategy of manufacturing public controversy over many issues including

nuclear winter, acid rain, the ozone hole and the cigarette-cancer link.

Environmental historians have also explored the far-reaching social effects of past climate events that may foreshadow humanity’s future. Although we’re now facing an amount and, importantly, a rapid rate of warming never before seen by our species, human societies around the world have faced major weather events and regional climate changes in the past, such as the “medieval warm period” and the “little ice age.” While the work of the historians who study climate and society can’t provide simple proscriptive lessons, it seems clear that such events have not usually been good news; they have meant famine, disease, rebellion, forced migrations and the exacerbation of existing social inequalities. They should give us pause when confronted with the last-ditch denialist argument that even if climate change is happening, it won’t be so bad.

Let’s face it: Even if we accept the science, we are all in various stages of denial about what climate change is going to mean for the future of our society, humanity and life on earth. The work of historians not only helps to confront the phenomenon of climate change denialism but, more fundamentally, it can help us all come to terms with the reality of climate change.

Raby is an assistant professor in the Department of History.

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By James Collins Forum Contributor

Although awareness of contemporary environmental issues such as climate change, deforestation and gulf dead zones is increasingly widespread, the paths an individual can take to effect meaningful, positive action can be elusive. Given that collective, not individual, actions oftentimes contribute to and complicate these large-scale issues makes them all the more daunting for a college student to undertake.

Collective problems demand collective solutions. Fortunately for UT students, a vibrant campus community of environmental advocates and sustainability leaders has been gaining size and momentum for well over a decade. This community allows students to join collective actions to address environmental problems larger than a single person.

I am a leader of the Campus Environmental Center (CEC), one of UT’s oldest and largest environmental student organizations and a part of this community.

Since 2002, we have sought to educate our peers about the nuances of contemporary environmental issues. Our organization also serves as an incubator for student-led initiatives that make UT more environmentally sustainable — everything from tailgate recycling to organic gardening, reforestation efforts to bike rentals. Currently, we support five student-led projects: BATX, Green Events, Green Greeks, Microfarm and Trash to Treasure.

BATX, our newest project, hosts workshops that educate students on local bat species and their critical role in the state’s ecosystems and agricultural economy.

Green Events provides free event consulting services to organizations in order to implement recycling and composting at events and education on waste reduction

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practices. Similarly, Green Greeks has built a network of representatives in Greek houses with the goal of promoting recycling, resource conservation and pollution mitigation in West Campus. Microfarm is UT’s first student-run farm and practices organic and sustainable farming techniques to grow healthy food for the UT community.

Finally, Trash to Treasure operates a recycling and resale program that diverts thousands of pounds of reusable items from landfills through a series of donation drives and sales. Through these projects, the CEC has demonstrated itself as a community of students taking an active role in creating a more sustainable campus.

In my role, I hope to encourage my peers to think of our campus as a laboratory for environmental action. In the rhythm of classes, assignments and extracurriculars, it is understandably easy to forget that our campus is rooted in-

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the natural environment. It transforms energy and materials into products and wastes. It has far-reaching impacts on economies of all scales. And through its students, UT develops leaders, scholars and change-makers that go on to have resounding impacts on our world, environmental and otherwise.

I believe taking environmental action starts from one’s love of a place and concern for the health of its people and ecosystem. For Longhorns, our campus and the greater Austin area is our “place.” In contrast to thinking of environmental problems like climate change and deforestation as abstract global phenomena, caring for one’s immediate place — in our case, the 40 acres — is a powerful way to start being part of the solution.

Collins is a environmental science and government junior. He serves as an ambassador for the Campus Environmental Center.

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The Daily Texan: Can you talk about what you see as the new role of cities in climate change?

Pete Buttigieg: I think we’re at a moment where the federal government and federal policy is failing us, and it’s going to fall to cities to step up. It’s one of the reasons I was excited to come to Texas to begin with. I think this is a state, maybe more than any other state in the union, where you’re seeing how cities are acting in the face of federal inaction or even action in the wrong direction. The truth is there is so much power in the decisions that are made at the local level that I think even on a global issue like climate change — something we used to only ever think about as to be handled with national policy — there’s real scope for cities to make a difference. You look at the C40, for example, a group of cities that have come together … and they’ve committed to do things like pursue the goals of the Climate Accord, whether the national governments keep up or not. I think if we can continue to do that, to coordinate between and among cities around the country and even across international boundaries, I think we have an opportunity to solve some of these challenges.

DT: How have the events of Hurricane Harvey or Irma either changed your view on the involvement of cities in climate change or changed the views of other mayors that you’re in communication with?

PB: I think the increasing pace of extreme weather events is telling us that climate change is no longer theoretical, and it’s also a very local issue. … And it seems highly likely, given the fact that we’ve been warned about this for decades, that the increase in the frequency and intensity of these storms is connected to the warming of the oceans and the warming of the air. We need to be, first of all, willing to talk about that relationship, I think that those who say “Well, this is no time to talk about the climate,” are missing the point. That’s really the worst kind of political correctness: the idea that when something happens you can’t talk about what caused it, when in reality we know that it is extremely likely that there was a relationship between what’s happening with our climate and what’s happening with some of these weather events. What it tells us is that we have to begin dealing with climate not just from the perspective of how we prevent climate change or how we prevent the extent to which we’re part of the problem, but we also have to accept the fact that we are already facing the problem and that we are now on the business end of climate change and it is coming at us now, in our cities.

DT: What about cities that might be hostile to climate change policies because they’re seen as bad for business?

PB: What’s really bad for business is climate change. It can be billions of dollars now, or trillions of dollars later to deal with the problem, and the sooner we do it, the better off we’re going to be. There’s also the fact that there’s a lot of business growth opportunity in sustainability. In South Bend, we’ve got not just newer green firms like companies that are doing smart wastewater infrastructure or green structures for storm water or solar panels, but also very traditional companies like a sheet metal company that’s been in business for nearly 100 years. Typically, they supply the auto industry, but now their most promising customers are in solar and wind. So this doesn’t have to be a question of business versus climate action, but I do think we have to be honest about the fact that some of the actions we have to take around climate comes at a cost, and that cost is worth it because we’re either going to be paying now or we’re going to be paying later.

DT: What can we as young people in (the United States of) America do to improve the situation of climate change, even if the policies of our government don’t reflect that this is a problem?

PB: Local government is the level where young people, students can make a big impact.

I’ve seen even high school students in South Bend be able to impact the way decisions are made by coming to speak at a council meeting, for example. It’s not like Congress, where you actually have to be invited to testify. In most local government processes, you can show up, and if you have something to say, you’re able to participate. … (The millennial generation) will be facing the bills for climate change. Whether it’s now or it’s later, it’s the generation that will have to deal with any consequences of the way (the United States of) America is relating towards the rest of the world, so it makes sense for a new generation of leaders, activists and thinkers to step up and act.

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UT faculty developing ‘bridge fuel’ in new project

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By Elizabeth Robinson S&T Reporter Dinosaurs aren’t the only thing that make a big footprint at the Jackson School of Geosciences.

This summer, geosciences graduate student Elbin Collado calculated the college’s carbon footprint in collaboration with the School of Architecture’s Center for Sustainable Development.

“A carbon footprint is the amount of carbon you use in all of your activities,” geosciences associate professor Daniel Breecker said. “It just hits home how much carbon we actually use.

There are all sorts of things that we tend to take for granted or forget about.”

The calculation considered the carbon output of the Jackson School of Geosciences Building, JGB, and the E.P. Schoch Building, EPS, as well as school-related transportation such as field trips, Collado said. The calculated footprint did not include the contributions of individual students.

Although the Jackson School of Geosciences has fewer buildings and a similar number of students, its carbon footprint was considerably larger than the School of Architecture’s footprint was.

“Our transportation emits quite a bit of carbon, and that’s because we do a lot of fieldwork,” Breecker said. “Some people in the Jackson School are going to the field (and) we go to conferences to present our research.”

According to Collado’s executive summary of his findings, transportation accounted for nearly half of the Jackson School’s total carbon footprint. The other main contributor was electricity.

“We have a lot of labs in (the Jackson School) and they use a

lot of power,” Breecker said. “The work we do requires (electricity).

We need a way to generate electricity without producing carbon.”

Knowing the individual carbon contribution of each college is a big step forward in discovering sustainable ways to reduce the University’s overall carbon footprint, Collado said.

“The reason the study came about is because every university across the US is required to calculate their carbon emissions,” Collado said. “But what the schools don’t do is take that a step further by saying which colleges … contribute most to that overall number.”

Last summer, as part of a project funded through the Green Fee called the Carbon Roadshow, architecture graduate student Susan Sharp calculated the School of Architecture’s carbon footprint, Collado said. Wanting to

compare carbon emissions across colleges, Sharp and the Center for Sustainable Development contacted Collado.

“I mainly worked on it, and (Sharp) gave me guidance and some tips from when she did a similar study,” Collado said. “She put a lot of the background work into it. She really helped me with the project, and she laid the guidelines and the groundwork that made it easier for me to do it.”

Both Collado and Breecker believe that the most change will come about because of large, concerted efforts on the parts of large organizations such as schools or governments.

“Half of the carbon emissions from (the JGB) are not attributed to the school,” Collado said.

“The school is not responsible for energy that is used in the hallways or in the stairways … those are called ‘common places.’ I think a lot of work could be done on energy efficiency in common places, (such as) lighting, air-conditioning and heating.”

Individuals can also reduce their carbon footprint by eating locally, reducing energy consumption and carpooling, Breecker said. But sustainable solutions will come from new technologies, he added.

“I don’t think that cutting back on things that we do is, in the long term, going to cut back on our carbon emissions,” Breecker said. “We need to find ways to do what we already do, and to grow and start doing more, without emitting carbon … we should be incentivizing research in renewable energies.”

A new, cleaner transportation fuel technology is being developed

by UT faculty at the new Center for Innovative and Strategic Transformation of Alkane Resources, called CISTAR. The researchers are working to transform natural gas into an effective transitional form of energy, or “bridge fuel.”

Energy in the United States relies heavily on fossil fuels such as coal and crude oil, and according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, it will take well over half a century for renewable resources to replace them as primary energy sources.

“We need a bridge fuel to use until that time,” said Joan Brenneck, CISTAR co-lead and chemical engineering professor. “Our goal is to develop and provide the technology so that light hydrocarbons can be used in the most environmentally responsible way to meet the liquid fuel needs of the U.S. population.”

CISTAR seeks to develop processing units that will be used at natural gas well sites to turn hydrocarbon gases, such as methane, into liquid transportation fuel. According to Brennecke, these technologies would offer a number of environment and efficiency related benefits.

Compared to coal and crude oil, hydrocarbons have a high energy content per carbon atom, allowing them to produce more energy while releasing less carbon dioxide, Brennecke added. CISTAR technologies would reduce emission of by-product pollutants such as sulfur and nitrogen oxides, Brennecke said. These pollutants are damaging to both the environment and human health, according to the EPA. Brennecke said that these technologies also produce hydrogen gas as a by-product, which can be used as a clean energy source itself. Additionally, CISTAR technologies would eliminate the transportation of hydrocarbons and

related energy use.

The project began on Oct. 1, and research is already underway, according to Brennecke. UT-Austin researchers are collaborating with Purdue University, University of New Mexico, University of Notre Dame and Northwestern University on the CISTAR project. The project was given a five-year grant, potentially renewable for an additional five years. Five other UT-Austin faculty members will be working alongside Brennecke on the CISTAR project, and according to CISTAR researcher Benny Freeman, who will be supervising student researchers, their team will include chemical engineering doctoral students and eventually, undergraduate research assistants.

Freeman’s research group will work to design separation membranes that separate gases involved in the process of turning hydrocarbons into liquid fuel, along with creating pilot manufacturing devices and a testbed for these membranes.

“The membranes studied in this research will have applicability to other applications, beyond those of interest to CISTAR, such as oxygen removal from air for blanketing aircraft fuel tanks,” Freeman said.

While the overall focus is to turn natural gas into a bridge fuel, UT researchers said that CISTAR developments will sustain their utility well into the future, even after the country completes the transition to a primarily renewable energy system.

“We anticipate that the scientific advances and some components of the technology developed at CISTAR will have application in a wide variety of sectors, ranging from polymers to consumer products,” Brennecke said. “Even after CISTAR technology is no longer needed to transform light hydrocarbons from natural gas into liquid transportation fuels, the benefits of this project will continue.”

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Snyder continues legacy 26 seasons later Alex Briseno Senior Sports Reporter

A college football legend, sporting thin-wired frames and a pair of his classic Nike Cortez sneakers, will walk the Kansas State sideline of Darrell K Royal-Memorial Stadium on Saturday.

Kansas State head coach Bill Snyder will lead his team onto the field in the midst of his 26th season with the Wildcats. But Snyder’s squad hasn’t always been known for their discipline and physicality, not before what is widely known as the greatest turnaround in college football history.

Kansas State, who hadn’t won a game since 1986, was thought to be the worst team in college football. However, when Snyder arrived after the 1988 season, he said he didn’t realize the severity of the situation until his first team meeting in the locker room.

In an era where programs were allotted 95 player scholarships, only 47 players walked into the locker room for the team meeting — the lowest number of scholarship players in the entire country.

“Of course, I knew that I was in for a big challenge, but I don’t think it fully hit me until that moment,” Snyder

wrote in the Players’ Tribune.

“This was a program that had struggled for decades to find success. We were on the cusp of being demoted to Division II.” “They’d actually left that detail out until after I took the job,” Snyder wrote.

Kansas State mustered one win in Snyder’s first season in the Little Apple of Manhattan, Kansas. It was an improvement from the previous season, a small one, but one Snyder knew he could build upon.

And they did.

By Snyder’s fifth season, Kansas State won a bowl game, just five years after a winless season. But that was just the beginning of the Wildcats’ rise. They put together six 11-win seasons from 1997–2003.

After two-straight losing seasons, Snyder retired in 2005. But it didn’t last long.

Snyder returned to the program in 2009 after Kansas State suffered from twostraight 5–7 seasons and brought the Wildcat program back, again.

“There’s probably not a coach in our profession right now that is more well respected than Bill Snyder,” head coach Tom Herman said.

“Unbelievable job in what he has done there. It probably

gets said every week of every year, but to take literally the worst college football team in the history of college football and turn it into what he has turned it into is remarkable.”

In 2016, Kansas State capped off a 9–4 season with a victory over Texas A&M in the 2016 Texas Bowl. However, Snyder was just beginning a different battle. This time, it was off the field. Snyder announced that he was diagnosed with throat cancer on Feb. 13.

Talks of retirement and the end of a long, illustrious career hovered over the Kansas State program. Those talks ended when Snyder stood on the sidelines of the Bill Snyder Family Stadium during Kansas State’s spring game just two months later.

The coach successfully finished his 33 treatments last spring and will celebrate his 78th year at Darrell K Royal-Memorial Stadium for the Wildcats’ Big 12 matchup with Texas. And it appears he’ll receive a warm welcome from junior linebacker Malik Jefferson.

“Happy birthday, Coach, that’s all I can say,” Jefferson said. “Coach Snyder is a great man. When he had that cancer situation and he was still out there coaching that just shows how much he

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Despite dropping its historic winning streak to start the season in a tie against Oklahoma on Sunday, Texas is staying focused on its slate ahead. Even with Sunday’s tie, the Longhorns’ 11 wins on the year already equals or surpasses their win totals in each of the previous three seasons.

In its next contest, No. 7 Texas (11–0–1, 3–0–1 Big 12) will host TCU (9–4–0, 3–1–0 Big 12) at Mike A. Myers Stadium on Friday. Kickoff is slated for 7:00 p.m.

The Longhorns have staked their claim as front-runners for the Big 12 title heading into the fifth conference game of the season. Texas beat 2016 Big 12 Champion West Virginia earlier this season, but they’re still planning on taking the season day-to-day.

“We haven’t won anything yet,” head coach Angela Kelly

one game at a time for me, with any team I’ve represented or coached. You’re only as good as your last practice, and you’re only as good as your last match.”

Texas’ strong start this year has come on the back of a 9–0 home record. While the Longhorns have been dominant at Myers in 2017, they’ll soon be tested on the road.

Three out of Texas’ last five games will be on the road, including contests against Baylor and Kansas.

For the Longhorns to come away with victories away from home, they’ll need to rely on the work ethic that led to their blistering start.

“One of our main emphases in practice is energy,” redshirt sophomore forward Mikayla Flores said. “When you bring that energy on the field, it can be a real game-changer.

And to have fresh legs out there when they don’t have fresh legs is also huge.”

The Longhorns won’t have an easy go against the Horned Frogs. TCU enters Friday’s contest coming off a road win against Texas Tech, a program that gave Texas one of its greatest challenges of 2017.

Interestingly enough, both TCU and Texas graced the bottom three of the Big 12 at the conclusion of last year, only to completely flip the script in 2017. Friday’s matchup will help dictate both teams’ positions heading into the Big 12 Championship.

“It’s wonderful for the fans to see first hand the speed of play, the style of two great collegiate teams,” Kelly said. “That means a ton. It especially gives the players a great feeling.”

Texas’ battle with the Horned Frogs begins on Friday night at 7:00 pm. Following Friday’s matchup, the Burnt Orange will next take the pitch on Oct. 13 in a road contest with Kansas.

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Everybody needs a vacation from time to time, and such is the case for the No. 5 Longhorns as they reach the halfway mark of their season.

Texas is currently on a seven-day break — the longest stretch without a match on its schedule.

Although the team is looking to rest up for the second half of its season, the Longhorns understand the importance of staying game-ready.

“In the beginning of this week there wasn’t pressure because we didn’t play on Wednesday,” freshman setter Ashley Shook said. “But it’s still all about creating that environment in practice every day where we know we have to continuously get better.”

Texas enters the break as the hottest team in the Big 12, riding a five-game win streak that includes four sweeps.

The Longhorns boast the Big 12’s best hitting percentage (.338) and still hold an unblemished 3–0 record in conference play.

“Every facet of our game has been improving,” head coach Jerritt Elliott said.

“But there’s still some areas that we need to work on. We’re making strides though.”

The Longhorns’ most recent victory came at home on Sept. 30 against Kansas State. Texas imposed its will in the 3-0 sweep, never trailing throughout the match.

Sophomore Micaya White served up a team-high 14 kills to go along with 10 digs in the win. The 2016 AVCA All-America first-team honoree has recorded three double-doubles in the past five matches. “(White) is doing a really nice job,” Elliott said. “She’s playing with a different demeanor and a different passion to be excellent.”

Shook’s play of late has been the catalyst for Texas’ success.

The 2017 No. 6 overall elite recruit has flourished in her new surroundings, feeding the Longhorn hitters with an array of precision sets.

Shook had her strongest showing of the season last week, recording 69 assists

and 19 digs in Texas’ two sweeps over Baylor and Kansas State.

Those efforts were recognized on Monday when the Big 12 named Shook as the conference freshman player of the week — her first time receiving the honor. “(Shook) is a weapon,” Elliott said.

“She’s a great blocker, she plays great defense and she can set the ball really well.

As she gets more comfortable, we’re starting to see her ability take over a match, and that helps us out a lot.”

Following their time off, the Longhorns are now ready to get back to work as Texas heads to Fort Worth on Sunday for a matchup with TCU. The Horned Frogs enter the contest as losers of three of their last four, but the Longhorns know better than to overlook a conference foe.

“I think it’s going to be a good game,” Shook said. “I know that they’re going to come and give us their best shot, so we’ll have to approach it like any other game and just get ready for a battle.”

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Lucky Number Seven No. 7 Texas earned its seventh Big 12 weekly award of the season.

Marking a program best, this is the fourth consecutive week that at least one member of the team has received an honor. Sophomore forward Cyera Hintzen was named Big 12 offensive player of the week for a thirdstraight time, while freshman midfielder Haley Berg got her second nod in a row as freshman player of the week.

The conference-best seven honors came off of the back of Hintzen’s and Berg’s strong showings against rival Texas Tech and Oklahoma over the weekend. After an opening score from Berg, Hintzen connected on two 20plus yard goals in Friday’s win over the Red Raiders, including her second overtime golden goal of the season.

Hintzen also boasts a conference-leading five match-winning goals through 12 contests — part of the forward’s team-high seven goals.

Texas is now one of only three remaining unbeaten teams in NCAA Division I women’s collegiate soccer, joining No. 1 UCLA (10–0–1) and Wi s c ons i n - Mi lw au kee (11–0–2). On Friday the 11–0–1 Longhorns look to match the program record for the longest unbeaten streak of 13 matches set in 2006 when the team hosts TCU at 7 p.m. at the Mike A. Myers Stadium.

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This Thursday, the Austin City Council voted to replace Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples’ Day. For members of the International Indigenous Youth Council of Texas, or IIYC, it’s a decision that has been long overdue.

“I’m happy to see the city of Austin is becoming more aware of where the land resides and (of) the people that were here before and are still here now,” said engineering and mathematics senior Jose Gomez.

The IIYC on Sunday, along with chapters nationwide, will host an Indigenous People’s Community Day to celebrate and reconnect the community with its culture and heritage at the Resistencia Bookstore in East Austin. The celebration is free to the public and encourages all to come learn about a part of the local culture and history that is often forgotten in alignment with the historically celebrated Columbus Day. The International Indigenous Youth Council Texas chapter is one of many chapters around the United States and was started almost one year ago

by UT students who met while protesting the Dakota Access Pipeline at Standing Rock. “(We want) to bring more awareness to people indigenous to this land and just to celebrate and restore the culture,” Gomez said.

Gomez, an IIYC member, said the organization also wants to use the event as an opportunity to educate the community about the impacts of colonialism on indigenous peoples and to reconnect them to their culture.

“Through colonization, that

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(culture) was forced away from our people,” Gomez said. “A lot of people who you know, identify as ‘Hispanic’ or ‘Latino,’ don’t really realize that those are terms that were forced upon us by colonizers, but really all those people have native blood running through their veins.”

Historian and renowned poet Rafael Jesus Gonzalez, whose works are soon to be archived in UT’s Latin American Studies Library, will speak at the event.

Gonzalez said the celebration is important, as it comes at a time when minorities are experiencing great oppression.

“Most of the people in the United States are suffering from lack of healthcare, (lack) of shelter, lack of education, and the wealth of the nation is concentrated in the hands of very, very few,” Gonzalez said.

“This is the outcome of a long, long history of the imposition of the economics of empire.”

Gonzalez said he wants the community to be more involved in local government, and to be

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more informed citizens so the everyday person can know how they are being governed.

“Everybody needs to be more aware and take action,” Gonzalez said. “Right now our people (immigrants) are under severe attack. We have to put a stop to that by all the methods of civic involvement that we’ve been taught since we were in the first grade.”

At the event, activist Gerardo Omar Marin will be leading interactive movement workshops that focus on community building and stress relief practices to strengthen and empower those in attendance. Marin emphasizes that although he wants to see change, he wants to make sure the root of his culture’s values are not lost.

“Our work is about that state of resistance, bringing art and culture to our actions, to the streets, ” Marin said. “Remembering that what’s important is community and sharing the beauty of our culture; that is what we are about.”

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The city of Austin’s character is undoubtedly distinct. Filmmaker and UT alumnus David N. Reyes knows this as much as the next Austinite and decided to cast it as a main character in his latest film, “My Ranger.”

The coming-of-age-comedy centers around an Austin teen, Woody, in his awkward yet endearing quest to woo his crush with his first car. The film, which premiered at the Austin Revolution Film Festival last month, was shot entirely in Austin and reflects the love Reyes found for Austin during his time as a UT student.

“I never left because I never wanted to,” Reyes said. “Once I came here in ‘82, I just fell in love with Austin and I refused to leave.”

Reyes said his time at UT kickstarted his career and inspired him to go into filmmaking and provided him with the chance to fall in love with the city of Austin.

“I love what I do, I love telling stories,” Reyes said.

“My goal is to be able to do what I love in the city I love.”

His love for Austin has

also greatly impacted his work. According to Reyes, everything from the music down to the costumes were Austin-sourced in order to preserve a sense of Austin authenticity. “My Ranger” even boasts an entirely Central Texan cast, including several past and present UT students. Journalism and anthropology senior Anna Maria plays Woody’s love interest and said that all of them having gone to UT gave them a special bond.

“It was amazing to get to work with other Longhorns,” Ward said. “We have that background of going to the same school, living in the same city and having the same interests.”

Reyes further preserved that Austin accuracy by basing many of the character relationships in the movie on his own life. The changing relationship between Woody and his father from friendship to parent-child is something Reyes said he experienced with his own kids.

“My son, we recently went through the same thing,” Reyes said. “A lot of the scenes are drawn upon what we’ve experienced in our house.”

Apparently, the film resonated with other Austinites as well. After its premiere at Austin Revolution Film

Festival, “My Ranger” was nominated for eight awards and walked away with Best Texas Feature, Audience Award for Best Feature and Best Soundtrack. Reyes’s wife and co-producer Lisa Reyes said the awards validated the work they’d put into the film.

“It’s a really great feeling to be recognized (by) your peers,” Lisa Reyes said. “To know they really, really liked your film.”

Out of all the awards, Lisa Reyes said she was most proud of the Audience Award for Best Texas Feature because it reaffirmed the audience’s positive reaction to the film.

“You’re hoping the movie affects people the way you want it to affect them,” Lisa Reyes said. “For them to actually be affected (and to) hear them laugh at moments and them getting really emotionally attached to these characters, it makes everything that we’re doing mean exactly what we want it to mean.”

In the end, Reyes said that “My Ranger” was a story about a boy finding himself and figuring out the relationships around him, and that it was something everyone could relate to.

“It is a small idea that can touch a lot of people,” Reyes said.

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