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UT student’s Biz Bot helps entrepreneurs By Maria Mendez Senior News Reporter

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UT falling short of Zero Waste goals Can the University go from 60 to 90 percent waste diversion by 2020?

Campus-wide Recycling Rates

By London Gibson Senior News Reporter

UT is struggling to improve waste reduction on campus and has less than three years left to achieve the Zero Waste goal to divert 90 percent of the University’s trash away from landfills by 2020. The campus-wide waste diversion rate currently lies between 50 and 60 percent. When the Zero Waste goal was set in 2011, the rate was around 35 percent, according to a 2014 report. The diversion could be raised if students knew how to properly recycle, said Neil Kaufman, sustainability coordinator for the Division of Housing and Food Service. A large portion of waste is produced because students are either not recycling or recycling incorrectly, Kaufman said. “Counting on students to really sort their waste is kind of our best way to achieving our Zero Waste goals,” Kaufman said. “We have so many students on campus and … when they sort their waste correctly, that really goes a long way.” Incorrect recycling costs UT a substantial amount of money every year

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in contamination fees, Kaufman said. When UT takes contaminated deliveries — two to four-ton loads with non-recyclable items or food waste contamination — to the recycling facility, the facility charges $465 plus an additional $105 per ton. Information on how much the University pays each year on contaminated

loads was not immediately available. “It’s pretty expensive, but it’s also wasteful,” Kaufman said. “When the load reaches what they say is 20 percent contamination, they just throw the whole thing away.”

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When trying to sell promotional products, political communications senior Elizabeth Haynie became overwhelmed by the permits, taxes and numerous requirements necessary to start a business. To help student entrepreneurs like her, Haynie created a chatbot to navigate the world of government regulations. “I struggled a lot as an entrepreneur,” Haynie said. “I could never get straight answers for the questions I had.” Through text messages, Haynie’s new company, Biz Bot, provides instant guidance and answers to questions on how to make a business idea a reality. Although the internet already offers plenty of information, Haynie said the various web links and answers are often more confusing than helpful. “When I would use the Google search engine, the answers were everywhere, and some of them weren’t even specific to Texas,” Haynie said. “It was really frustrating because I kept getting a lot of answers that weren’t relevant or didn’t give me actionable advice.” After hearing of other students’ troubles starting or maintaining their businesses, Haynie began developing Biz Bot over the summer. Complex legal jargon and government regulations can prevent or discourage student entrepreneurs, who do not have money to hire business experts, Haynie said. “As an entrepreneur, you’re bootstrapping it,” Haynie said. “You need to save money so you want to try to do a lot of stuff yourself.” Supply chain management junior Rikin Shah created the furniture design and delivery company Moonlit Furniture but said establishing the business as a student was a slow learning process.

Until talking with Haynie, Shah said he did not know he needed sales tax permits from both the state and the City of Austin. UT offers student entrepreneurs general business resources, but legal technicalities are not covered in courses or work shops, Shah said. “If I was doing it all over again, I think Biz Bot would be very helpful,” Shah said. “It’s an avenue to get all this information that isn’t sexy enough for some organization to have an event (explaining it).” Aspiring entrepreneurs can currently text 830-5005774 for advice, but Haynie is still working on improving the chatbot’s interaction with users. Last Tuesday, she received a $1,000 undergraduate research grant, which she plans to use to run local product trials. Associate communication studies professor Keri Stephens, Haynie’s research mentor, said chatbots are a growing resource in the business world. “There seems to be this trend where people don’t want to speak to another human in real time,” Stephens said. “They don’t want to be wrong whenever they talk, and they want to plan their conversations.” Alvin Mbabazi, a Trinity University student, owns a data analytics business and said Haynie’s Biz Bot is helpful because it can provide rapid answers anytime. If Biz Bot adds jokes and motivational quotes, Mbabazi said he thinks the bot could become a widely used resource for entrepreneurs. “It’s almost like an encyclopedia,” Mbabazi said. “With time, I see it being much more intuitive.” Haynie said she wants to add references to human-based businesses within the chatbot to help answer the

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NATION

Trump declares opioid crisis a public health emergency By Chase Karacostas Senior News Reporter

President Donald Trump declared a public health emergency late last week to combat the opioid crisis, but critics say it will do little to abate the epidemic. The declaration eases access to some addiction treatments, increases the ability of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to

hire substance abuse specialists and allows for the shifting of funding within HIV/AIDS programs to help people eligible for those programs receive substance abuse treatment. “For too long, we have allowed drugs to ravage American homes, cities and towns,” Trump said. “We owe it to our children and our country to do everything in our power to address this national shame and this human tragedy.”

More than 60,000 Americans died in 2016 from drug overdoses, which is higher than deaths from motor vehicle crashes and gun-related homicides combined, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. Nationally, this equates to a death rate of 16.33 deaths per 100,000 people. There are 11.6 deaths per 100,000 people in Travis County, slightly higher than Texas’ rate of 9.4 deaths per 100,000, according to

the Foundation for AIDS Research. Trump also announced a new advertising campaign to discourage people, especially children, from using illicit drugs in the first place. He followed this up by saying individuals who purchase illegal drugs are helping support violent drug cartels. Lucas Hill, clinical assistant professor and director of Operation Naloxone, a collaborative that provides overdose prevention training

and resources to the health professionals and the public, said the announcement misses one critical element that could actually combat the crisis: increased funding. Without additional money appropriated for harm reduction programs and substance abuse treatment, Hill said the crisis will only continue to worsen. The emergency also has a time

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CITY

Austin’s new Central Library offers innovative services By Stephanie Adeline News Reporter

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John West reads a story to his daughter, Josephine, at Austin’s new Central Library during the library’s grand opening festivities Saturday.The six-story library’s grand opening attracted hundreds of visitors.

Austin’s 200,000-squarefoot new Central Library opened its doors to the public on Saturday, 11 years after voters approved of its funding. Residents have long waited for the library’s opening, which was originally scheduled for November 2016, Mayor Pro Tem Kathie Tovo said at Friday’s event.

“I have overheard people talking about the central library in the grocery store, in the hair salon, in my children’s elementary school,” Tovo said. “I feel a little bit like Charlie in ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’ in the moment before he walks through the gate into the doors of Willy Wonka’s factory and encounters the wonder and magic of that place.” The city commemorated the building’s grand opening

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with performances, speeches from city officials and a ribbon cutting. “I was here on shovel day, so this day is pretty special to me,” Interim City Manager Elaine Hart said. “Today, we celebrate the bold vision of those who imagined this aging industrial site … (to) be transformed into the vibrant grounds we now stand on.” The six-story library is

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Students vie for donations at Texas Charity Pitch

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While some spent this Saturday celebrating Halloween, students competing in Texas Charity Pitch spent the day rehearsing slide shows and memorizing statistics to win up to $2,000 for their chosen charity. Hosted by the University Securities Investment Team, the Texas Charity Pitch is an annual event where small teams of students choose, research and pitch a charity to a panel of judges. The first place team received a $1,500 donation for their charity, while second and third place received $1,000 and $500 donations respectively. An additional $500 donation was given to the crowd favorite. The philanthropic focus of the charity event made it different from the other major events they host, said Phoebe Lin, president of the University Securities Investment Team. The event encourages students to realize how important giving back is, Lin said. “A lot of the issues regarding poverty we externalize to thinking that’s not something that affects us,” said Lin, a finance and mathematics junior. “Charity is not some vague faraway concept, it’s something that’s really important, even at UT.” The final round consisted of five finalist teams and eight judges from different organizations, such as Microsoft and Global Austin. One final team stood out from the rest, as it only had two members — neither of whom are business majors. The duo, made up of

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Biochemistry sophmore Mary Tran and geosciences senior Mitchell Pham chose VisionSpring as their charity to pitch to a panel of judges. The event allowed five groups of students to present their charity of choice and awarded the first place team, ReadWorks, with a $2,000 check to donate to the charity.

biochemistry sophomore Mary Tran and geosciences senior Mitchell Pham, chose Vision Spring, a charity that helps distribute glasses to people in developing countries. Tran said she has been trying to get more involved with business organizations and uses her science perspective to her advantage. “STEM majors don’t like gray areas,” Tran said. “That’s the approach I

braries have long undertaken, of making information freely available to everyone in our community,” Tovo said. The new library’s uniqueness includes its Platinum LEED rating, which certifies its energy efficiency, Austin Mayor Steve Adler said at the opening event. “It’s harder to get a Platinum LEED rating on a building like this than it is to get into Franklin’s Barbecue,” Adler said. “Despite all of the windows and open spaces in this building, stretching six floors, the power bills here (are)

took to researching. That helped me because if I knew what I was talking about, it was a lot easier to convey, and it was just a matter on working on presentation skills.” At the end of the event, the ReadWorks charity team won $2,000 for coming in first place and winning crowd favorite. ReadWorks provides an online library to students and teachers to promote

reading comprehension. Business honors freshman Angela Yang said it was her first college competition of any kind. The impact the donation will make is extremely exciting, Yang said. “We projected how many people would be impacted, and, with the $2,000 prize, it would be 25,000 kids that will receive literary content for a year,” Yang said.

lower than what (they were) at the older and much smaller central city library.” Psychology senior Sami McKenzie said students should take advantage of the library’s technology services. “(The library) is just really innovative and futuristic,” McKenzie said. “There are lots of students who don’t have computers, and they might live further away from campus, so they might not make it to the PCL. I can definitely see students coming here to study and to use the different facilities.”

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Film directors and UT alumni Mark Dennis and Ben Foster spent their college years brainstorming project ideas at Madam Mam’s over pad thai and $2 beer. They celebrated with the same meal after their film, “Time Trap,” premiered in Texas at the Austin Film Festival on Saturday night. “Time Trap,” shown at the Galaxy Highland 10 movie theater to a crowd spilling into the aisles, was shot beginning in 2015 and had its world premiere in May 2016 at the Seattle International Film Festival. The movie will play again in Austin on Nov. 1 at the Long Center for the Performing Arts. The movie’s plot surrounds a group of archeology college students who stumble into a cave searching for their missing professor, played by Andrew Wilson, Owen Wilson’s brother. Cassidy Gifford, daughter of Kathie Lee Gifford, is another notable actor in the movie. While on their search, the students discover that the cave speeds up time.

The students find aliens, cowboys and cavemen who have all stumbled into the cave’s time warp. Dennis said he got the idea for the movie while trying to cast celebrities for another movie he was writing. He gave the actors two weeks to reply to his offers, but the wait was agonizing, Dennis said. “I remember thinking, ‘If I could just go into this closet right here and come out two weeks later, I’d have my answer,’” Dennis said. “Then I thought, ‘Well that’s a cool concept.’ But I didn’t think ‘Time Closet’ would be a good name for a movie, so we made it caves instead.” The pair then decided to switch gears and make “Time Trap” their big project, but they needed mentors to guide them through the logistics, Foster said. “We can get a movie shot and done, but we don’t know what the hell to do with it and how to deal with agents and managers and casting directors,” Foster said. “Time Trap’s” set also served as a learning opportunity for radio-

In the film ‘Time Trap,’ Andrew Wilson plays a missing professor trapped in a vace that warps time. The film premiered in Texas at the Austin Film Festival on Saturday night and is showing again at the Long Center for the Performing Arts on November 1.

television-film senior Nic Bonesteel, who worked as an intern in the movie’s production design department. “Their movie was the highest budget movie I’ve ever worked on,” Bonesteel said. “Working on it opened my eyes to

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Communications senior Elizabeth Haynie started up a company that uses text messages for guidance on business ideas.

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continues from page 1 questions Biz Bot cannot. Ultimately, Haynie said she hopes Biz Bot will empower students, freelancers and small businesses to compete against

large corporations. “This is about creating a better environment to do business,” Haynie said. “I’ve always been … a huge activist for supporting entrepreneurship and leveling the playing field for entrepreneurs.”

The Division of Housing and Food Service, the department that manages UT’s dining and residence halls, has an even lower diversion rate of 40 percent, just 9 percent higher than was reported five years ago at the start of the Zero Waste program. To improve on that number, the department will attempt to work with students on recycling communications, Kaufman said. Campus-wide recycling education initiatives may also be in the works, said UT’s Zero Waste coordinator Jennifer Hobson. “Much of what is in the trash across campus is actually recyclable,” Hobson said in an email. “We hope to work on education to get more of those recyclables out of the trash.” Janna Newman, environmental science and biological sciences senior, said it is UT’s responsibility to educate students in proper recycling habits. However, she said the students

how I should be acting on set and how things will be run after college.” “Time Trap” will play at the Hollywood Film Festival in November and Japan’s Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival in March.

also have an obligation to learn for themselves. “The students pay for their education, they’re paying for the University and, essentially, the University is paying in return for people being ignorant and not knowing how to recycle,” said Newman, a Green Events Project team leader for the Campus Environmental Center. “So in a way, you’re paying for your own ignorance.” Newman said when she covers events for the environmental center, she often notices that students either do not know or do not care about proper recycling. She said the environmental problems accompanying waste issues are often overlooked, but focusing on recycling can help to alleviate them. “It really is in the hands of individual people and lifestyle changes in order (to) enact a lot of progressive, positive environmental change,” Newman said. “I think that especially for a student body that is as intelligent and connected as ours is, I think that we have a lot of power.”

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A member of Austin Lowriders showcased his winged bike in Saturday’s Viva la Vida Street Festival. The event was hosted by the Mexi-Arte Museum and celebrated Dia de Los Muertos.

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UT professor explores human mating selection in new book By Brooke Sjoberg News Reporter

The mating habits of the animal kingdom really aren’t so different than what we see at UT, said evolutionary psychologist David Buss during a Friday lecture. “We can compete with each other, intersexually, for positions in status hierarchies without ever engaging in physical contact,” said Buss, a UT psychology professor and alumnus. “I can tell you that physical contests do occur sometimes, but I have been teaching at four different universities and not once have I ever walked across campus and watched two males going at it ringed by a group of females, waiting to see which would be the victor and then having sex with him.” A founder of his field, Buss spoke about his latest book, “The Evolution of Desire: Strategies of Human Mating,” and its connection to his 2008 study of human mating selection. Buss said human status hierarchies and positions within these hierarchies can be associated with attractiveness to potential partners.

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limit of 90 days. Hill said the crisis will take years, if not decades, to beat. He said 90 days is simply not enough time to make any major regulatory changes that could w help — such as legalizing naloxone, the opioid overdose -treatment drug, for over-thedcounter sales. c “It’s like putting a BandAid on a necrotic limb,” Hill said. “It’s a joke … A time-limited, no-funding anrnouncement is going to have realistically zero effect.” - Overall, Hill said the anynouncement was extremely Substance -disheartening.

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Evolutionary psychologist David Buss gives a lecture on human mating behavior at the SAC auditorium Friday evening.

“‘The sight of a peacock gives me nightmares,’ Darwin described in his writings,” Buss said. “Darwin also noticed sexual dimorphism, differences in the

abuse advocates had been pushing for Trump to declare a national emergency, which does not have an expiration date and opens new pathways for funding. The announcement of the advertising campaign is little more than a red herring that will detract from work toward more effective solutions to the crisis, such as substance abuse treatment, Hill said. “It continues on a trend of playing on people’s visceral thoughts and emotions about the subject with something that sounds like a logical and simple answer but has been proven repeatedly not to work,” Hill said.

size and shape of males and females of the same species.” Women’s standards of attractiveness tended to be higher and were found to be more

At the current rate of growth, Hill said the epidemic will kill 100,000 Americans in 2020 no matter what is done to fight it. Several days before Trump’s announcement, 15 Democratic senators introduced legislation to invest $45 billion toward fighting the crisis. Ian Sims, advocacy chair for Students for Sensible Drug Policy, said Trump’s failure to endorse the bill shows how little he cares about solving the crisis. “His declaration was largely symbolic,” Sims said. “It was just empty words, and no concrete steps were taken near to the extent that they should.”

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selective than their male counterparts, Buss said. The desire for a loving relationship, an exciting personality, good health, kindness, intelligence and so-

ciability were universal among men and women, Buss said. He also said hetero and homosexual men have similar habits in choosing sexual partners, and the same can be said of hetero and homosexual women. Biology junior Jovanny Salinas attended the lecture with his animal behavioral science class and said he had just studied these concepts in class. “It was pretty interesting to see the application of the sexually antagonistic coexistent evolution to humans,” Salinas said. “I never saw it in that perspective. When we see this in animals, the sex that is being attacked develops a protection against the attacker, so it’s kind of weird that we saw a different matter in humans.” Chantal Neutzler, a biology junior, said thinking about humans the way Buss’s animal kingdom examples painted animal mating behavior was just funny. “We’re college students, so obviously mating behavior is just in the environment,” Neutzler said. “It’s in the air. It’s just kind of funny to apply mating behaviors of organisms to actual human beings.”

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UT opens campus for 94th annual Family Weekend By Mason Carroll News Reporter

On Friday, families from across the state and nation descended on UT for a three-day celebration of Family Weekend. Barbecue, bowling and bingo were all events during the almost 100 -year-old tradition. Susie Smith, director of the Texas Parents Association, said the family meet and greet started in 1923 and has grown ever since. “The thing that I think is most important about Family Weekend is not the tours or presentations, but having the ability, as a parent who has left their kid here a couple of months ago, to be able to see them in this environment that they are now calling home,” Smith said. One of the events that took place during Family Weekend was the Welcome Reception in the Sylvie and Gary Crum Touchdown Club. Families, like mathematics junior Matt Espinosa and his parents,

were able to look out at Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium and enjoy some ice cream. “It’s pretty cool that (my parents) get to see everything, and I get to see the stadium, which is wonderful,” Espinosa said. The event was special for the Espinosa family because this is the first Family Weekend they have been able to attend. This is also the first time Matt’s dad, Daniel Espinosa, has been inside the stadium in 40 years. “I’ve been a fan since I was a little kid, and the last time I was here was when I was 10 years old, so I’ve been dying to come back and go to a game,” Daniel Espinosa said. “I am extremely excited.” Matt Espinosa said his father is such a big fan that they have a room in their house decorated with all UT merchandise. As for Daniel Espinosa, he is extremely proud of his son for being a Longhorn. “He knows I love it,” Daniel Espinosa said.

He’s been to a lot of different places, but UT has made me so happy, and I can’t wait to see him graduate.”

—Daniel Espinosa, Father of UT student

“He’s been to a lot of different places, but UT has made me so happy, and I can’t wait to see him graduate.” The event ended Sunday, but Smith said it’s moments like these that make what she does worth it. “Just the knowledge that you’re creating a great memory for them,” Smith said. “As soon as a student is admitted to the University, the University wants to make sure parents and families understand we welcome them into the UT family as well as their student.”

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Resiliency key for artists after UNESCO withdrawal By Audrey Larcher Columnist

When President Donald Trump announced that the United States would leave the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, not many people knew how to respond. Some said the move, carried out to protest the organization’s supposed anti-Israel bias, was nothing more than a cheap nod to Trump’s Middle Eastern allies. Others noted that UNESCO’s services would survive petty presidential politics. Those not as familiar with the organization may have wondered what UNESCO stood for. While this range of responses might suggest that our relationship with the organization isn’t important to most Americans’ lives, the withdrawal carries implications for arts communities across the country, including Austin’s. Trump’s prioritization of immature politics over the cultural understanding UNESCO promotes sends a message to creative professionals. It’s a message they understood almost as soon as he took office: Your contributions to America ,and the world, don’t matter. In this political climate of national and global dissonance, artists must prevail despite the president’s disrespect and amplify the dialogue their work encourages. UNESCO plays an important role in protecting cultural history and facilitating its exchange around the world,

from Paris to Indonesian rainforests to our own great state of Texas. The organization invited Austin to the creative cities network in 2015, affording artists global opportunities to showcase and collaborate on work. That same year, the San Antonio Missions earned a UNESCO World Heritage designation, which ensures site maintenance. “Austin has a lot to gain both in terms of global exposure but also global interaction,” UT visual arts professor Clay Odom said. Odom experienced the power of cross-cultural collaboration when UNESCO featured his piece “Flowering Phantasm” in Paris at the 2017 exhibit “DATA CITY.” “The ability to show work internationally, to connect with international artists and curators and to gain critical engagement with the larger world in general is crucial to creating vibrant and meaningful work.” UNESCO may not provide programs as immediately necessary as the U.N. Security Council, but what it stands for — namely, art and culture as a means of growth and cooperation — is crucial to diplomacy and general human welfare. At times when the path of progress and order feels uncertain, we find common ground in sharing culture. Trump spat on that idea with the withdrawal. Fortunately, the president doesn’t have power to nullify the relationships our state and city have developed with UNESCO. Abandoning our seat at the table just means we won’t pay dues or vote on resolutions. Still,

clay odom’s piece flowering phantasm at unesco exhibit. copyright clay odom, and reproduced with permission

artists should not mistake this situation as anything less than a dismissal of their communities and their spot on Trump’s priority list. Moving forward, artists and those interested in preserving culture will have work to do. Creative professionals who benefit from the Creative Cities Network, World Heritage Convention or any other UNESCO relationship should be vocal about how they benefit. Texans need these people to tell them why art, culture and UNESCO are important. Hosting more exhibits and shows with

international focus is imperative. Since Trump’s inauguration and the soon-to-follow threats to arts funding, artists have known what they’re up against. This withdrawal is a reminder that we must value every bit of ground we have in the battle against Trump. The aftermath is our opportunity to prove how resilient education, culture and arts truly are. Larcher is a Plan II and rhetoric and writing sophomore from Austin.

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Austinites shouldn’t get too excited about Amazon’s HQ2

Students should use new Central Library By Emily Vernon Senior Columnist

By Laura Doan Columnist

Amazon has been holding a widely publicized search for the city that will be their second seat of power — their HQ2 — and a recent Moody’s Analytics study suggests they’ll choose Austin. If this happens, Austin will have the headquarters that 238 major and minor cities in the United States have courted. Every city wants 50,000 new high-paying jobs and $5 billion invested for construction. But hosting Amazon won’t be all sunshine and two-day Prime delivery. Austinites should beware that Amazon will very likely bring homogeneity and male-dominated tech culture to whatever city it lands in. Amazon established its first headquarters in Seattle, leaving a massive footprint on the city. Many of the Rainy City’s residents have published op-eds warning readers about how Amazon has drained the vibrancy from their colorful city and made home prices skyrocket. Danny Westneat, a columnist from the Seattle Times, wrote that Amazon set off a prosperity bomb in Seattle that has caused rents to soar. If Austin is anything like Seattle, Amazon moving to town could ramp up living costs that are already high. The cost of a home in Austin has risen to a median price of $327,000, and rent prices average $1399. Austinites should also listen to Seattle’s warnings about how Amazon diluted local culture. According to Westneat, scores of Seattle’s beloved mom-and-pop stores and dive bars have shuttered their doors since Amazon blew in, and in their place came a “sterile” restaurant scene. Timothy Egan, another Seattleite, echoes Westneat’s sentiment and issues this portent addressed to cities with “a hip, creative class,” such as Austin: “You think you can shape Amazon? Not a chance. It will shape you.” Austin has a wealth of hole-in-the-wall music

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spots and flavorful, non-chain restaurants. Austinites highly prize our city’s culture. We ought to be protective of it.

“Austinites should beware that Amazon will very likely bring homogeneity and male-dominated tech culture to whatever city it lands in.”

Austin should also be concerned how the arrival of such a large tech company would affect gender dynamics in the city. Of those supposed 50,000 new jobs, how many will be for women? If Amazon’s current employment numbers are any indication, likely much less than half. Their last public diversity numbers release shows that 37 percent of their overall workforce

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was female and only 25 percent of its managers were women. In the excitement for these new jobs, Austinites must consider that they will primarily benefit only half of the city’s population. And so many men coming for tech jobs even has the potential to shift a city’s gender distribution. Data from Seattle suggests that the proportions of men and women have changed since Amazon arrived in their city in 2010 — from 119 single men for every 100 single women to an estimated 130 men for every 100 women in 2014. Austin currently has a pretty even split of men and women in the city. A disruption of that would have undesirable reverberations. While HQ2 will bring both money and jobs, Austin should be worried about preserving our culture. Austin is weird, lovably so. It is an inclusive city, an artistic city, a city with unique local businesses. It’s also a city that has demonstrated its concern for gender equality, and that maintains an even distribution of men and women. The tech culture is a great force of homogenization: largely male, resistant to local flavor — sterile. If HQ2 does end up here, I hope that Austinites will strap on their sandals and prepare to “Keep Austin Weird.” Doan is a Plan II and English junior from Fort Worth.

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Austin’s Central Library is the newest addition to the city’s downtown skyline. Six stories overlook Lady Bird Lake on one side and gaze over construction sites and skyscrapers on the other. On opening day, lines snaked throughout the library as excited Austinites tried to get to the staircase to further explore the city’s newest public space. It was difficult to walk up the stairs without stopping to admire the gorgeous interior and bright colors. It’s a sharp contrast to the old Faulk Central Library, but was obviously designed as a community space — and it appears Austinites are going to take advantage of that. UT students should, too. With a learning commons, study rooms, plenty of white boards, a rooftop garden and a soon-to-be cafe, the updated and brightly lit library can provide UT students with an alternative to their favorite downtown coffee shops or even the Perry-Castaneda Library. It’s common to hear groans about the PCL’s dreary yellow lights, lack of sunlight and closed-in feel. UT has updated parts of the campus’ main library in recent years, but considering it’s a six-story building that’s been open for 40 years, there’s naturally only so much that can be done at any given time. It’s an extensive process to modernize such spaces, and UT has done well with providing students an expansive library collection and updated technology. But for those students who maybe prefer a better-lit, up-to-date space, the Central Library provides a great option. Furthermore, the new library mirrors the PCL in many ways, with Mac computers and collaborative learning spaces throughout. Few cities have a library this technologically advanced

and design-oriented, and few university students are fortunate enough to have access to two excellent libraries like we do. The public library is a good option for students who want to get off campus and also avoid the usually busy coffee shops. The new library gives students many of the same amenities as the PCL, but with a downtown view. Before you begin that

“Few cities have a library this technologically advanced and design-oriented, and few university students are fortunate enough to have access to two excellent libraries like we do.”

treacherous contemplative journey of trying to decide which coffee shop to study at — and which one you’re most likely to find a seat in, where you’re going to park, which one is cheapest or has both coffee and food — consider checking out the new library. While it’s not a simple walk across Guadalupe, it’s still highly accessible for students. It’s only two miles from campus, and there’s an underground parking garage as well as plenty of bus routes that ensure convenience. We live in a city that offers plenty of exemplary amenities and public spaces — it’s good to get off campus every once in a while and take advantage of them. Vernon is an anthropology and rhetoric and writing junior from The Woodlands.

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Texas falls in overtime, drops to No. 4 seed By Dalton Phillips Senior Sports Reporter

One hundred scoreless minutes into the last match of Texas’ regular season on Friday night, the crowd of over 2,000 sat holding its breath, waiting for the Longhorns to work their overtime magic. The Longhorns were previously undefeated in extra minutes this season and unbeaten between the bleachers at Mike A. Myers Stadium. Senior night and a home closer provided the perfect backdrop to end conference play and clinch the No. 2 seed heading into the Big 12 tournament. Sophomore goalie Nicole Curry had already earned five saves by the hundredth minute. Texas’ defense had weathered a number of close calls from the lightning-fast counterattacks of the conference’s best offense. But as the seconds ticked down in overtime, Oklahoma State defender Laurene Tresfield launched a header from the left side off of a Cowgirl corner, and Texas’ season ended on an errant roll and Longhorn loss. A visibly upset Texas team slid to the fourth seed in the conference tournament with Friday’s loss, and could only watch as the cheering Oklahoma State squad headed to the

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continues from page 6 wasn’t even sophomore Kyle Porter, who sat out for the second-straight game due to injury. It was two freshmen: Toneil Carter and Daniel Young, who have seen limited playing time thus far, and even spent time on the scout team. “Those kids get better everyday. It’s incredible how hard they work and how hard they run,” junior linebacker Malik Jefferson said. “They were scout team at one point and now they’re starters and trading in and out. I commend them for everything they’re doing.

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Sophomore goalie Nicole Curry boots the ball away from Texas’ goal. Curry had five saves against the Cowgirls on Friday, but was unable to block the game-winning goal by Oklahoma State senior defender Lauren Tresfield.

locker room to celebrate. “I think that we lost focus for a second, and credit to them for scoring that goal,” freshman midfielder and forward Haley Berg said. “It was

They’ve been patient with it and let the process take care of itself and you see the success they had on the football field.” Neither Carter nor Young broke the century mark in the blowout victory, but both proved efficient. Young averaged 8.6 yards per carry after bouncing out to the sideline for a 31-yard touchdown which gave Texas its 38-7 lead in the final moments of the fourth quarter. And he wasn’t the only freshman running back who had a breakout performance. Toneil Carter averaged 4.7 yards per carry and emerged as the Longhorns’

obviously a hard angle, but I think that if we had just stayed focused on taking our chances, then I think that it would have been different.” Texas struggled to generate clean

leading rusher — just the second time this season a non-quarterback has led the team in rushing. “They broke tackles, which was encouraging to see,” Herman said. “They slithered around in there when things weren’t blocked perfectly … I was proud of them. They protected the football which is always a concern when you’re playing true freshmen at running back but I loved what I saw.” The Longhorn offense wasn’t clicking early, especially in the first quarter where Texas’ only points came after junior defensive back DeShon Elliott re-

looks on offense throughout the contest. A number of trips up the field ended in deep shots from outside the box as the Cowgirls stayed compact on the defensive

turned an interception for a touchdown. The offensive woes peaked in the second quarter after the defense recovered a Baylor fumble inside the red zone. The Longhorn offense not only failed to get in the endzone, but also saw the field goal attempt blocked to keep the score at 7-0. However, once Buechele and the offense found its rhythm, it didn’t look back. The Longhorns went to the quick-tempo offense early and often. And it not only led to points, but also confidence. “When we can go fast, it helps a lot with our offense

end and looked to counterattack Longhorn overextensions. “They just sit five or six or seven back,” head coach Angela Kelly said. “If you don’t have patience, then you have to end up taking these longrange shots, which is exactly what they’re hoping that you’ll do. Definitely a game that we’ll grow from.” The Longhorns also failed to capitalize on the few scoring opportunities it had. Texas redshirt freshman forward Cydney Billups clanked a soft shot off the right bar in the first half, and redshirt sophomore forward Mikayla Flores beat her defender to the spot only to have a header bounce clean off the frame coming out of the break. Out of 13 Texas shots in the game, only four were on target. With the loss, the Longhorns earned a rematch with Baylor on Wednesday in the first round of the Big 12 Championship tournament. In spite of a roster that boasts little postseason action, Kelly is confident her team will come out with the same composure they’ve demonstrated all season. “To finish with only two losses on the season, I think that’s given them a ton of experience,” Kelly said. “To come out on top on the other end of five of our overtimes, I think that we’re pretty battle-tested.”

especially just keeping the defense off the field,” Buechele said. “They played a lot of snaps today, they played unbelievable. It was really good to see our running backs and offensive line work the way they did. “ The Longhorn offense now looks forward to its next challenge: a road test against No. 10 TCU. But even after the win Saturday, the 4–4 record is still in the back of some players’ mind. “It sucks,” Jefferson said. “Because we should be a lot better honestly. But we’re not gonna play like we’re 4–4. We’re still going to play like we’re contending for something.”

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opponent — and handled business. Next Saturday is another big one, as the Longhorns head to Fort Worth for a showdown with No. 10 TCU. Asked after the game where he thinks the Longhorns are headed with four games left on the schedule, Herman avoided any bold prophecies. He just stuck to his mantra. “Oh, I don’t know. I just want to go 1-0 this week,” Herman said. “The big picture is irrelevant right now.”

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Texas takes care of business in rout of Baylor By Trenton Daeschner Assoc. Sports Editor

Hours before his team took the field at McLane Stadium in Waco and routed a winless Baylor team, 38-7, head coach Tom Herman had already seen exactly what he needed to see. For a team coming off back-to-back, gut-wrenching losses, with its season teetering on an unstable pendulum, Texas could not afford to look past the now 0–8 Bears. “We had talked all week about this being the most important game of the season,” Herman said. “Not because of what had really happened in the past or who we were playing or what their record was, but the fact that it was the next one.” And so at 5:45 a.m. at Texas’ team hotel, Herman saw words put into action. “I was shocked,” Herman said. “A 5:45 a.m. wake-up call — there was no dopey-eyed guys, there was no ‘wipe the sleep out of their eyes.’ None of that stuff. They were intense and ready to go from the word ‘jump.’” In a game that they could not afford to lose, the Longhorns (4–4, 3–2 Big 12) wore

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Sophomore quarterback Shane Buechele sprints past Baylor freshman defensive tackle James Lynch. Buechele led the Longhorns to a 38-7 victory on Saturday over the Bears.

down Baylor with another solid defensive outing coupled with a relatively steady offensive performance. The Longhorns’ defense came up huge on just the third play from scrimmage. Baylor sophomore quarterback Zach Smith’s pass over the middle on thirdand-8 was a little high as it tipped off of his intended receiver’s hands, which left safety DeShon Elliott in the right place at the right

time. The ball fell right into Elliott’s hands for his team-leading sixth interception of the season. The junior returned it to the house for a touchdown to put the Longhorns up 7-0 early. From there, Texas stayed in control in a game that was never really close. “I don’t know if you can get started any better than that,” senior safety John Bonney said. “We took that momentum that DeShon

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gave us and just kept rolling with it the rest of the game.” Texas took a 21-7 lead into halftime after two more touchdowns in the second quarter. Sophomore quarterback Shane Buechele — who made his third start of the season in place of injured freshman Sam Ehlinger — scrambled to find sophomore wide receiver Lil’Jordan Humphrey in the corner of the end zone for a 15-yard touchdown pass.

Later, after a fumble by Baylor sophomore punter Connor Martin set the Longhorns up at Baylor’s own 28-yard line, Buechele kept the ball on a zone read, sprinted up the middle and raced past Baylor defenders for a touchdown, putting Texas up 21-7. Buechele even sprinted all the way up the tunnel in the northeast corner of McLane Stadium. “He showed us a little speed,” senior wide receiver Lorenzo Joe said. “He kept on running through that tunnel. We started joking around calling him Forrest Gump. That was big for him.” A couple of freshman running backs helped put things completely out of reach in the second half. Toneil Carter and Daniel Young each dashed for touchdowns, and junior kicker Joshua Rowland tacked on an 18yard field goal to help the Longhorns shut the door in Waco. While Saturday was a step in the right direction for the Longhorns, it was a small one in the grand scheme of things. But Texas avoided what it couldn’t afford to do — suffer a colossal let-

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Freshman running backs emerge against the Bears By Alex Briseno Senior Sports Reporter

Dominant defensive performances aren’t anything new for Texas this season, but freshman running backs Toneil Carter and Daniel Young are. As the Longhorns headed down the tunnel

following their victory in Waco Saturday afternoon, not many people in McLane Stadium looked twice when the scoreboard read Texas 38, Baylor 7. It wasn’t the score that jumped out. It was who did the scoring and how they did it — on the ground. Texas’ run game, which has

been absent for the majority of the season, finally gained a glimpse of traction in the Longhorns’ victory over winless Baylor. But it wasn’t the 250-pound junior running back Chris Warren III who put the Longhorn running game back on track. It

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Senior outside hitter Ebony Nwanebu spikes the ball over Baylor senior middle hitter Camryn Freiberg. Nwanebu had seven kills in a 3-0 sweep of West Virginia on Saturday.

Longhorns complete sweep of West Virginia By Keshav Prathivadi Sports Reporter

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Freshman running back Daniel Young rushes past a pair of Baylor defenders. Young ran seven times on Saturday for 60 yards and a touchdown.

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It was the fifth exchange in the rally. The ball flew in between the two banners above Gregory Gym, and then promptly saved at the scorers’ table. An already-noisy crowd then almost blew the roof off of Gregory Gym, following a kill by senior outside hitter Ebony Nwanebu. It was that kind of night for the No. 3 Longhorns, who swept West Virginia to extend their season-high win streak to 11 games. “We did well responding and just fighting,” senior middle blocker Chiaka Ogbogu said. “(Despite the fact that) all of our touches weren’t the cleanest.” Texas started the first set off on a quick 4-0 run and never looked back. A 25-19 win in the first frame was highlighted by four kills from sophomore outside hitter Micaya White. The second set was more contested, as each team had at least two set points. But after a couple of exchanges across the net, a kill by freshman outside hitter Lexi Sun sealed the 2826 win for the Longhorns. “Our talk has just been staying calm in those pressure situations,” Ogbogu said. “Remembering our routines and just going back to the basics has helped us not be frantic.” The Longhorns cruised through the final set 25-17 to complete the night’s sweep. Ogbogu led the way for Texas, adding 11 kills and seven blocks. This marks Ogbogu’s third straight game with over 10 kills and five blocks. Her strong effort was com-

plemented by White, who recorded nine kills and 11 digs on the night. “Just getting more practice and getting more comfortable (is key),” Ogbogu said. “It’s helped us get more comfortable with things we’re struggling with.” One of the Longhorns’ defensive pillars, senior libero Cat McCoy, closed in on a milestone achievement on Saturday night, tying the school’s all-time record for digs. McCoy recorded 12 digs on the night and proved instrumental in stopping the Mountaineers’ consistent attack. Texas’ all-around effort was evident not only on the stat sheet, but also on the floor. The Longhorns spent their evening diving on the hardwood, into the stands and on the scorers’ table saving balls as the match went on, highlighting the intensity that the Longhorns play with. That intensity was matched by Texas’ fans. The Mountaineers accrued nine service errors as a consistently loud crowd contributed to Texas’ home-court advantage. “It’s awesome playing at home in front of this crowd,” Ogbogu said. “It was just cool to see our fans come out and support us.” As the second half of Big 12 play commences, the Longhorns will spend the majority of their time in the friendly confines of Gregory Gym, where they will play four of their next six games. Texas travels to Manhattan, Kansas, to take on Kansas State on Wednesday. First serve is set for 8 p.m.

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The Longhorns extended their win streak to five on Saturday after picking up victories over Weatherford College and Alvin Community College. Against Weatherford College, Texas put runners on first and second base early in the bottom of the first inning. A pair of RBI singles from senior catcher Randel Leahy and junior outfielder Bekah Alcozer gave the Longhorns a 2-0 lead. The Coyotes earned a run in the top of the fourth inning, but were unable to generate another score to tie the game, securing the burnt orange win. Texas found its stride against Alvin Community College, racking up eight runs in the first in ning. Freshman pitcher Ariana Adams and senior pitcher Paige von Sprecken combined for a shutout, with Adams allowing the only hit between the two. The Longhorns scored another 10 times and picked up the 18-0 victory in five innings. The double header kept Texas undefeated this fall and resulted in a combined 25 hits for Texas with 12 different players reaching base. The Longhorns take on McLennan Community College on Wednesday Nov. 1 at Red and Charline McCombs Field.

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Ellsworth Kelly’s masterpiece Weezer’s newest album disappoints may be the chapel UT never had

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Rivers Cuomo of Weezer performs at Float Fest in July. Weezer reminds fans exactly what version of the band they despise on their newest album.

By Chris Duncan Senior L&A Reporter

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A new architectural addition to the Blanton Museum of Art is nearing the end of its construction phase. The building, designed by the late Ellsworth Kelly, will be open to the public Feb. 10.

By Hannah George L&A Reporter

While walking near Jester, you may have noticed the building that looks like the Microsoft Windows logo met a traditional Christian chapel. “Austin,” the newest architectural addition to the Blanton Museum of Art, took a winding path before landing on the 40 Acres. “Austin” was designed over the course of American artist Ellsworth Kelly’s 70-year-long artistic career. A renowned abstract artist, Kelly is famous for his hard-edge abstract paintings and sculptures, but not for architecture. Still, Kelly mulled over the design of “Austin” for decades before it was finished. Tricia Paik, curator of contemporary art at the Indianapolis Museum of Art and the author of an eponymous biography of Kelly, said Kelly had been working towards creating “Austin” his entire career. “‘Austin’ is the culmination of Kelly’s key artistic goals that he first established as a young man living in Paris,” Paik said. Paik said Kelly was inspired by France’s religious architecture after serving in World War II. Kelly wanted his art to exist beyond itself and have a distinct relationship with the architecture in which it was displayed, an idea that would resurface between “Austin” and the artworks inside. Carter Foster, deputy

director for curatorial affairs at the Blanton and friend of the late Kelly, said this source of inspiration was pervasive in “Austin’s” design. “(Kelly was) deeply interested in Judeo-Christian

he drew a connection between art and religion because of their common spiritual value. “I always say it’s a chapel in form but not function,” Foster said, “(Kelly) is referencing the forms

“(Kelly was) deeply interested in JudeoChristian traditions of art: Romanesque architecture, Medieval art and architecture. (There are) very specific references and influences in this building that go back to those traditions.” —Carter Foster, deputy director for curatorial affairs at the Blanton

traditions of art: Romanesque architecture, Medieval art and architecture,” Foster said. “(There are) very specific references and influences in this building that go back to those traditions.” Foster said though Kelly’s art was influenced by churches such as the Chartres Cathedral in France, he wasn’t religious. Instead,

of religious architecture, but turning them into his own abstractions.” Foster said Kelly was especially inspired by the gothic Chartres Cathedral’s Rose Window applying its subtly embedded modern square pattern to “Austin’s” eastern facade, in stained glass. Jason John Paul Haskins, architect at Bercy Chen

Studio and researching author for religious architecture blog Locus Iste, thinks “Austin” is more like a chapel than a museum-goer might assume, though the Blanton has been careful not to call it a chapel. “This actually does quite a few of the functions of a chapel,” Haskins said. “My suspicion is that it’s going to end up serving that function by default on campus, and the Museum may have mixed feelings about that.” UT, unlike most southern schools, lacks a university chapel. Haskins said, due to its Judeo-Christian form, “Austin” may assume the function of a university chapel by default. “The function of a chapel is more particular than that of a church. Most have a signifier. You have wedding chapel, you have votive chapels, university chapels,” Haskins said. “UT doesn’t have a university chapel.” Haskins said that when “Austin” opens on Feb. 10, it will have an impact on campus and within the city as a whole, especially as a destination for people bogged down by the building pressures of everyday life. “There are those cases where people suddenly feel like, regardless of where they are today, they (wasted) too much time,” Haskins said. “They need some connection to something else outside themselves.”

Weezer is your horrible ex-boyfriend, someone you loathe sober but miss drunk. Their newest album proves it — after two impressive projects, the band turned around with Pacific Daydream, a pop rock slap across the face. Whether it’s the high of their early days, their recent uptick in quality or the decade-long dull in-between, no band is as consistently inconsistent as Weezer. As one of the premier post-grunge bands, Weezer became famous through their guitar-heavy and melodic debut self-titled album. After their underappreciated sophomore effort, Pinkerton, frontman Rivers Cuomo spiraled into a creative slump, crafting one mediocre record after another. More than a decade later, Weezer temporarily returned to form, but now on Pacific Daydream, Cuomo ruins all the momentum his band had and reminds fans exactly why they have such a strong love-hate relationship in the first place. Kicking off the project with “Mexican Fender,” Cuomo attempts to tell a story of newfound love while guitar shopping. Typically, a review will dissect a song’s lyrics and meaning, but there’s nothing to break down. Paired with monotonous bass lines and some bland drumming, “Mexican Fender” struggles to conjure up excitement for the rest of the album with absolutely no substance. In retrospect, the failures of “Mexican Fender” as a single and album opener aren’t nearly as dull as the rest of this boring and heartless collection of pop tunes. Between horrible highpitched vocals, strange synthesizer effects and overlyechoed choruses, Pacific Daydream is loaded with over-produced ballads. The most awkward song of all is “La Mancha Screwjob,” especially with its awkward percussion and rhythm. This LP never gains enough momentum to take off for even a split second. Whereas Cuomo’s tales of romantic successes and

failures in Everything Will Be Alright in the End and Weezer (White Album) reveal something about him as a musician and person, Pacific Daydream’s stories come across as minor, vague and unimportant. “Beach Boys” is a prime example — the song’s premise has potential, but never takes Cuomo’s fandom of The Beach Boys to the next step like songs such as “Man on the Moon” by R.E.M. do. Pacific Daydream’s most upfront and redeeming quality is its flow from song to song. These easy transitions are mainly due to similar song construction across the board — it would be an accomplishment to mess it up. Each song shimmers, obviously labored over with an eye for detail by producer Butch Walker and his team to ensure the album’s overall sound is one of quality. But no matter how many times you shine a turd, it’s still a turd. The question Pacific Daydream leaves its listeners is simply this: What the heck happened? Weezer rediscovered the crucial pairing of garage rock sounds with power chords and revealing pop songwriting, but they completely left that key blend out of this LP. Without those elements, Weezer is simply a pop rock band writing crappy pop rock records, leaving their excitable fans ultimately disappointed. Yet, no matter how many times the band may let fans down, we’ll keep returning for more because we’re gluttons for punishment.

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Columbus Sailing Association fights to preserve Nina replica By Jordyn Zitman L&A Reporter

Hurricane Harvey blew through Southeast Texas in late August, leaving the coastal region damaged and citizens without power. As Texans begin the long road to recovery, one husbandand-wife duo are fighting to preserve a replica of one of Columbus’s ships, which sunk to the bottom of the Corpus Christi Marina during the disaster. The replicas, built in 1992 by the Spanish, celebrated the 500th anniversary of Christopher Columbus’s voyage to the New World, and sailed around the world, visiting various cities before ultimately landing in Corpus Christi, Texas. Because the ships were

so popular with tourists, Corpus Christi requested the ships permanently dock in the marina once they finish their tour around North America. “When the ships visited, there were so many visitors that the city put a foundation together to secure the ships,” said Kim Mrazek, president of the Columbus Sailing Association. “Kids wrote letters to the King of Spain asking him to let us keep the ships.” It has been over 20 years since Corpus Christi was granted guardianship of the replicas, during which time two of the three were moved to museums, where they were destroyed by dry rot. As of late August, only the Nina had survived — that is, until Harvey struck.

The ship suffered severe damage to its main deck and bottom, to name some of the many repairs needed on the ship’s body. In the wake of the storm, the Columbus Sailing Association launched a GoFundMe campaign in hopes of raising money to repair the ship. “We have raised about $24,000 since the hurricane,” Kim Mrazek said. “While that’s awesome, we still need more.” Kim Mrazek, a retired grade school orchestra teacher and alumna of the Corpus Christi Symphony, was tapped to become the Columbus Sailing Association’s president in April of 2014. “The first time I stepped on that ship, it was like a

time warp, just incredible,” Kim Mrazek said. “I have never had anything take me back 600 years; it is indescribable.” Ron Mrazek, Kim’s husband and vice president of the association, supports his wife’s passion and has dedicated countless hours to maintaining and repairing the ship. Ron believes the purpose of the ship is to educate the public and that it should not be subject to criticism for Columbus’s actions. “We want to teach people,” Ron Mrazek said. “If kids don’t learn about what it took to form this country, then we’re just lost.” Financial and community support for preservation of this replica of the Nina has fallen in recent years, which

Kim Mrazek suspects is a result of negative association of Christopher Columbus with marginalization of Native Americans. In spite of the circulating belief that Columbus’s voyage led to Native Americans’ suffering, the Mrazeks believe the legacy

of the voyage deserves to be preserved. “I don’t think the ships had anything to do with it,” Kim Mrazek said. “Columbus was a prophetic, visionary man of God. He was doing what he had to do at that time, and that was to explore.”

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