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Volume 118, Issue 59 FOOD
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Sutherland Springs church shooting leaves over 25 dead Guadalupe By Chase Karacostas from five to over 70 years Senior News Reporter
Texas’ worst mass shooting in history took at least 27 lives Sunday morning in a small town just two hours away from UT. The shooting, at the First Baptist Church of Sutherland Springs, also injured at least 20 more church-goers. The fallen ranged in age
old and included children, a pregnant woman and the church pastor’s 14-year-old daughter, according to the San Antonio Express-News. Law enforcement identified the shooter as 26-yearold Devin Patrick Kelley. The Express-News reported the shooting began outside the church and Kelley then moved into the
worship hall. “It’s something we all say does not happen in small communities, although we found out today it does,” Wilson County Sheriff Joe Tackitt said in a press conference. Kelley later died while attempting to escape after crashing his car in nearby Guadalupe County, according to the Express-News.
This was the largest mass shooting in Texas in almost 30 years since 23 were killed in a Luby’s in the town of Killeen. The death toll also exceeded that of the infamous UT Tower shooting in 1966 when Charles Whitman killed 16 with a long-range rifle from the top of the clocktower. According to The New York Times, Kelley received
a dishonorable discharge from the Air Force several years ago for assaulting his wife and child. Gov. Greg Abbott called the morning’s attack “horrific;” Attorney General Ken Paxton said in a press release that his office has already mobilized to help local law enforcement. “I want to thank law
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CITY
juan figueroa| daily texan staff
Vickie Williams protests an anti-fascist demonstration hosted by Refuse Fascism in front of City Hall Saturday afternoon.
Protesters face off at City Hall Refuse Fascism rally counterprotested by Trump supporters By Chase Karacostas Senior News Reporter
Two groups of protesters, one denouncing President Donald Trump and the other praising him, gathered at Austin City Hall and marched through the streets of downtown Saturday afternoon. The protest originally began as a rally hosted by Refuse Fascism, a national organization that has spent months preparing a series of protests condemning what it calls the “Trump/Pence regime.” To the surprise of its organizers, the Refuse Fascism protest in
Austin was quickly overwhelmed by counterprotesters — some armed — who outnumbered them three to one. Matthew Williams, a pro-Trump protester from Houston, called the Refuse Fascism protest “crap” and said it was doing little more than inconveniencing Austin drivers and the police. “This just shows you that the American people support Trump,” Williams said of the high number of Trump supporters at the rally. At first, the two groups remained
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Last year, one New York University freshman began a nationwide nonprofit to help lower-income high school students with college applications, and now she will bring it to UT. Hubbul Rizvi’s nonprofit was implemented at 13 universities and helped over 150 students get into college last year. Mission Elevation connects over 70 mentors from the
nation’s top universities with high school students from lower socioeconomic backgrounds to edit their essays and assist in the application process for free. Rizvi recently transferred to UT from NYU and brought the initiative with her to the 40 Acres by recruiting mentors at UT. In the first few months, Rizvi, now a government sophomore, said, her mentors were able to help students get acceptance letters from schools including
News Reporter
After months of vacancy, Rise Biscuits and Donuts, a North Carolina-based chain, will replace the nowclosed Fuzzy’s Taco Shop on Guadalupe in early 2018. Rise will offer a variety of breakfast and lunch options and will be open daily from 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. “We loved the location, we loved where it was, and we definitely think this is a good food concept for students as well as others,” store co-owner Shashin Desai said. Desai said that Rise is known for their creative donut flavors. “We have some funky donuts like our maple bacon bar, which is really popular, and a pineapple basil donut,” Desai said. “We also have the traditional glazed, chocolate glazed and sprinkled, and the donuts are made fresh every day in the store.” Nursing freshman Kristen Tucker said she plans on going to Rise once it opens because there currently are no donut shops as close to campus. “If I do go out and get anything for breakfast, I usually get something from the Starbucks in Jester,” Tucker said. “On the weekends I go to Kerbey Lane, but there’s not a good
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Group of masked protesters gathers on Main Mall By London Gibson juan figueroa| daily texan staff
Anti-fascist protestors march in downtown Austin on Saturday afternoon.
Student brings ‘Mission Elevation’ nonprofit to UT Senior News Reporter
By Nicole Stuessy
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to get new biscuit and donut shop early 2018
Harvard University, Northwestern University, University of California at Berkeley and UT-Austin. “I think it’s very important to have equal access of education for everybody, even though they may be from low-income areas,” Rizvi said. “It’s really very hard to get access to education or college education because not a lot of people have the resources to get into a college to begin with.” Rizvi’s own experiences with applying to colleges
inspired her to start up the nonprofit as a freshman at NYU. Rizvi said applying to colleges was difficult for her because she did not have anyone to help her with her applications, and getting essays edited often cost around $100 per session. With parents who had not gone to an American college and were not knowledgeable about the college application process, Rizvi was on her own. “I didn’t have any resources,” Rizvi said. “I just
had to do it by myself.” Government junior Anne Crisp is one of the few existing UT mentors. She said the nonprofit is beneficial for students because they will be using their position to help others achieve their goals. “A lot of times students at UT are privileged and we do have a lot of opportunities that are afforded to us, but that’s not open to everyone,” Crisp said. “It’s a really great
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Senior News Reporter
A group of less than 20 protesters, some in masks and armed with torches, were asked to leave the Main Mall by UT police officers early Saturday morning. UT Police were patrolling the campus at 12:04 a.m. when they encountered the protesters gathering on the Main Mall and directed them to remove their masks, extinguish their flames and leave campus. The protesters left immediately after being directed without conflict, Cindy Posey, UT director of internal and campus safety communications, said. Posey said the officers were able to stop the demonstration before it fully began. “The police were patrolling and saw them come on campus and start to
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