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Volume 118, Issue 39 CAMPUS
SPORTS
McConaughey visits UT, teaches class, offers film students industry advice By Chase Karacostas not there to keep you Senior Reporter
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Texas fan Jim Grayson, center, celebrates a touchdown that put the Longhorns up 21-17 at the end of the first half. Texas defeated Kansas State in a 40-34 victory Saturday night.
Texas wins in walk-off fashion By Alex Briseno Senior Sports Reporter
Warren’s end zone plunge lifts Texas over Kansas State in double overtime 40-34. Nobody said that it would be easy, or pretty. That was clear when Texas stood on the two-yard line tied with
Kansas State, 34-34, in double overtime on Saturday night. The Longhorns, facing third and goal, stood two yards away from a victory when freshman quarterback Sam Ehlinger took the snap and handed the ball to junior running back Chris Warren III. Warren was stood up and even pushed back two yards which appeared to bring Texas to a fourth and goal. But
the whistle wasn’t blown. Warren continued to churn his legs as Ehlinger and several of his Longhorn teammates pushed and pulled Warren closer to the end zone. Moments later, Warren reached out and crossed the goal line. The 90,462 fans at Darrell K Royal-Memorial Stadium erupted as the entire team rushed the field in celebration. The scoreboard read Texas 40,
Academy award-winning actor Matthew McConaughey visited UT on Friday afternoon to speak to a crowded auditorium of almost 300 radio, television and film students about his career and his new movie, “White Boy Rick.” McConaughey, an alumnus of UT’s RTF program, was joined by the director of “White Boy Rick,” Yann Demange, for a question-and-answer session moderated by Scott Rice, film professor and instructor for McConaughey’s class at UT, “Script to Screen.” “Show me what you’ve got,” McConaughey said in his advice to students during the Q&A. “Don’t act like (a filmmaker), be one. It’s an outlaw industry. The guards at the gates of Hollywood are
Kansas State 34. Texas’ late-night victory comes just three weeks after its heartbreaking double-overtime loss in Los Angeles. And the Longhorns made sure they didn’t lose this one. “When we went into overtime, I told the offense, ‘We’ve been here before, this is just like USC,’” head coach Tom Herman said. “I think
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in. They’re there to keep you out.” Excited for McConaughey’s visit, RTF senior Mitch Chaiet arrived at the Q&A wearing a burnt orange custom hat that said “McConaughey” and “Alright Alright Alright.” Chaiet said he appreciated the way event normalized McConaughey as a person. “I don’t even want to be an actor,” Chaiet said. “(But), realizing that I’m aligning myself in ways that made him successful is nice. The most helpful people have been the ones who have accomplished things and are very real about it.” Typically, McConaughey only visits the “Script to Screen” class that he co-teaches with Rice, but this time he was able to fit the moderated
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Advertising senior Nicasio González, right, shakes Matthew McConaughey’s hand after the “Script to Screen” class on Friday afternoon. McConaughey co-teaches the class with film professor and instructor Scott Rice.
CAMPUS
CITY
New UT chairwoman recalls career journey
Early black legislator’s Austin house still stands
By Maria Mendez Senior Reporter
As a young girl from Laredo, Texas, Sara Martinez Tucker never imagined she would become the newest chair of the UT System Board of Regents. She was once told by a guidance counselor that she was not “college material,” but with the support of her parents, Tucker went to college, made a career for herself and even served as under secretary of Education in former President George W. Bush’s administration. “It is never what I imagined that my life’s work would be about,” Tucker said. “Like many kids who are first in their family to go to college … you don’t have a lot of inspiration for what is possible with careers.” In her new position, Tucker hopes to help students from humble backgrounds achieve the life
they desire through a college education, like her. “To many kids in my community, their heritage is their destiny,” Tucker said. “I want every kid that grew up like I did to be able to have the education they want.” Tucker said she had to overcome obstacles many students still face to get to her now fulfilling career. First, as an undergraduate student at UT, Tucker realized schooling in towns like Laredo often left students like her “underprepared and underfunded.” After finishing her journalism degree, Tucker found herself in a job she didn’t want and returned to UT for a business degree. In retrospect, she said, her first career choice had been determined by a lack of knowledge of careers and a single event in her life.
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By Kirthi Dronamraju L&A Reporter
On a bustling Saturday night, an unusual triangular house goes overlooked by concert-goers dressed to the nines as they hasten through Symphony Square. Built by a former slave in 1871, the Hamilton House is a curious, two-story, stone-wedge structure. The builder, Jeremiah Hamilton, arrived from Tennessee in 1847 and became a member of the Texas Legislature, undeterred by his enslaved past. Despite this achievement, history professor Sean Williams said, Hamilton is regularly mixed up with another African-American man of the same name. In some cases, his photograph is even mistakenly used. “Two Jeremiah Hamiltons exist,” Williams said. “One, a New York Wall Street millionaire, and the other a former slave turned Texas legislator. The second,
evelyn moreno| daily texan staff
The Hamilton House is a historic building located on Red River St. After his legislative term, Jeremiah Hamilton worked as a carpenter and built the house in 1871.
the less sensational one, is sometimes forgotten or often confused with the other.” Texas’ Hamilton spent nearly 20 years as a slave before he was finally emancipated. During this enslavement, he taught himself to
read and write, enabling his later career as a spokesman for working-class black men in the city. After the Civil War, he established a school for black students, providing resources to the African-American community.
NEWS
OPINION
LIFE&ARTS
SPORTS
Collaboration teaches social media users to avoid “fake news.” PAGE 2
Thoughts on Columbus Day and Austin’s new textto-911 service. PAGE 4
Kelela shines with latest contemporary R&B release. PAGE 8
Ehlinger’s career day lifts Texas to 3-2 after double OT win. PAGE 6
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Williams said Hamilton’s ascension from slave to educated man kindled hope in those like him. “These men were often recently freed slaves, or simply
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