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Tax bill could put graduate school out of reach

By Chase Karacostas Senior News Reporter

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Junior running back Chris Warren III and senior defensive back Antwuan Davis celebrate following a 28-14 win over West Virginia on Saturday.

During the game, Warren caught a 20-yard touchdown and Davis racked up six tackles and a sack.

Texas leaves Morgantown with bowl bid

By Alex Briseno Senior Sports Reporter hasn’t been done since 2014:

bowl eligibility.

The Longhorns became “It was fantastic,” Herman said. bowl eligible after defeat“These guys, the smiles on their ing West Virginia 24-18. faces, we know we’ve got one left,

As the fourth quarter winded down on Saturday in Morgantown, West Virginia, several Longhorns could be seen dancing and celebrating on the sideline. Head coach Tom Herman even flashed a grin.

When the clock hit 0:00, cementing Texas’ 28-14 victory over West Virginia, the Longhorns officially earned what

but this was a big one to get another road conference win, to beat a top 25 team and make sure that our seniors are bowl eligible.”

The Longhorns and Mountaineers struggled for the majority of the first quarter in what was a treacherous downpour on the turf. Then, Texas caught a break — at the expense of West Virginia

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quarterback Will Grier.

Grier took the snap from inside the one-yard line, faked the handoff and made a break for left end of the endzone. Grier dove for the pylon, but as he returned to his feet, he threw his right hand into the air, displaying a gruesome injury that deformed his middle finger.

The officials ruled the play a touchdown which gave the Mountaineers a 6-0 lead for the time being. Grier was sent to the locker room. One minute later, the officials overturned the touchdown

call and Grier would not return for the remainder of the game.

The Mountaineers were forced to play redshirt sophomore Chris Chugunov and the Longhorn defense took advantage, holding a team averaging 39 points per game to zero at halftime.

“I thought our defense, to hold them to zero points offensively until mid-way through the fourth quarter,” Herman said. “I think (that) was definitely something

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Under the U.S. House GOP tax bill, income taxes for graduate students could double or triple, potentially putting master’s and Ph.D educations out of reach.

The bill, known as the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, passed the House Thursday 227-205 with no Democrat votes and 13 Republicans voting against it.

“This is nothing short of extraordinary,” House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wisconsin, said after the bill passed, according to the Wall Street Journal. “This country has not rewritten its tax code since 1986 … 227 men and women of this Congress broke through that today.”

However, many in higher education have railed against the bill because it removes three tax exemptions that substantially reduce the cost of graduate education. For some, these exemptions are what make the burden of sometimes a decade or more of student loans possible.

“I (am) pretty upset because graduate students are not a particularly large segment of the population, and we’re already in a significant amount of debt thanks to undergraduate loans,” said Samantha Fuchs, Graduate Student Assembly legislative affairs director and civil engineering graduate student. “Increasing taxes on us to pay for other tax cuts and exemptions seems unbalanced and even unfair.”

The first change made by the bill removes tuition waivers,

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Student bicyclists call ‘Heroes’ host field day for pediatric cancer for campus bike lanes By Mason Carroll

By London Gibson Senior News Reporter

For bikers navigating construction on campus, getting to and from class can seem a little bit like driving in rush hour on Mopac. With decreased path space corralling pedestrians and bikers into the same areas, students are suggesting that construction detours include bike lanes to organize traffic flow.

The construction on Speedway Mall takes up half of the street in one of the busiest areas of campus. With hundreds of students shuffling in-between construction barriers, bikers often have trouble navigating the clogged roads.

Students like radio-television-film junior Ukairo Ukairo are taking to the internet to raise awareness of conflicts between pedestrians and bikers in shared spaces on campus. Ukairo, a biker, made a semi-satirical video

highlighting the issue.

“If we had bike lanes that pedestrians weren’t allowed to get on … it would be clear, (and) it would be a good way to keep accountability at all times,” Ukairo said. “Now, I understand that with construction going on it might be difficult to achieve, but it’s something we have to think about long-term.”

Construction on the Speedway Mall project began in the fall of 2015 and is expected to be completed in the spring. However, construction crews had to begin additional construction on the street last month after discovering that some of the bricks laid down for the project were not properly stress-tested and needed to be replaced.

Ukairo said the stretch of construction on Speedway is the most difficult to navigate, a sentiment that is shared by other UT students.

“On Speedway, with all

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Teams of students in brightly colored shirts filled the LBJ Library Lawn to raise money for pediatric cancer patients on Saturday.

Dr. Qadri’s Cancer Heroes is part of the Dell Medical School and is a student organization raising money for pediatric cancer patients. The organization hosted Field Day for a Cure to raise money through games such as tug of war.

Haneen Khan, special events coordinator and neuroscience sophomore, said the organization is unique because all of the money raised goes directly to angela kang| daily texan staff the patients.

“Events like this are really, Human Development and Family Sciences senior Alex Gonzalez, left, and HDFS junior Alicia really important because not Arevalo, right, participate in a 3-legged race on the LBJ lawn Saturday morning. The Field Day only do they raise awareness for a Cure, hosted by Dr. Qadri’s Cancer Heroes, raised money for pediatric cancer research. but (they) also shift the inter- organization Sania Razzak can’t do things like this because this for us’ and it brings a smile est from research to helping said the event has a symbolic they are in treatment, so we’re to their face.” patients afford treatment,” meaning as well. Each team basically doing it for them,” said Khan said she’s optimistic Khan said. member paid $15 to register Razzak, human development about continuing the event in This is the first time the for the event. family science junior. “They see the future. organization has put on an “A lot of people in the hos- that ‘Oh, these people are beevent like this. Director of the pital who are facing cancer ing happy for us and are doing FIELD DAY page 2

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Faculty researchers dicuss racial disparities in STEM education. PAGE 2

Thoughts on drug abuse, fraternities and Roy Moore PAGE 4

Red River Rivalry comes to ‘The Price is Right.’

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Ehlinger overcomes pick-six, leads Texas to 28-14 victory. PAGE 6

Greener schoolyards may improve kids’ mental health. PAGE 5

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continues from page 1 which are commonly used by Universities to compensate graduate students for teaching or conducting research, from their tax-exempt status. Thus, graduate students would be paying taxes on income that they didn’t actually receive, and they would have to pay those taxes using some other source of income.

The tax plan also repeals a tax incentive that lets employers assist their employees in paying for higher education. Right now, employers can give their employees up to $5,250 to pay for higher education tax-free.

Fuchs called the tax bill an attack on higher education and said cutting the employee assistance incentive seems counterintuitive to the other

parts of the bill, which is slashing corporate taxes.

“Getting rid of that assistance … makes it harder for corporations to justify that expense,” Fuchs said. “So if they’re saying that they are trying to give corporations an advantage, it seems like having a well-educated workforce would be a component of that.”

Student Loan Interest Deduction, a tax exemption used by undergraduate and graduate students alike, would also be removed from the tax code, erasing a $2,500 tax savings for many.

With the loss of these tax incentives, astronomy graduate student Benny Tsang said the bill would likely cause a dramatic downturn in the number of students pursuing master’s and doctoral degrees.

“In order, to make higher

education and research accessible for more students, this cannot be passed,” Tsang said. “Otherwise, students will consider quitting programs right now or they won’t even consider going into research in the first place. So it will hurt science. It will hurt research in the United States.

Astronomy and physics junior Emily Strickland said she is already paying for her undergraduate education on her own and cannot afford to take out any more loans when she reaches graduate school. If the bill passes, Strickland said she will likely go overseas to finish her education.

“I don’t know if I’ll be able to afford (graduate school), but I’m going to try,” Strickland said. “At a certain point, all you can do is plan for the worst, hope for the best.”

that kept us in the game.”

The Longhorn offense failed to put any points up in the first quarter as well until freshman Sam Ehlinger relieved starting quarterback Shane Buechele of his duties after the first two drives.

Ehlinger made his presence known immediately on the first play of the second quarter. The Longhorns faced a third-and-4 when the freshman quarterback floated a pass just over a West Virginia defender and right into the hands of redshirt freshman wide receiver Reggie Hemphill-Mapps for a 50-yard reception.

“That was difficult because it was pouring and the ball was pretty wet,” Ehlinger said. “Reggie said he couldn’t find it for a little bit because it was raining so hard. But it was good. It was a little boost knowing ‘Hey it’s pouring and we can still throw the ball for 50 yards.

We can do whatever we want in this game.’”

Ehlinger remained behind center for the rest of the game and finished the game completing 12-of-19 attempts for 136 yards and two touchdowns. But he did have one disastrous mistake in the third quarter. With the Longhorns five yards away from the end zone, Texas threatened to take a commanding 21-0 lead.

Then, right before Ehlinger was pulled to the ground for

a sack, he desperately tried to throw the ball out of bounds.

But it didn’t make it there.

Instead, the ball landed right in West Virginia cornerback Kenny Robinson’s lap, who returned the interception 96 yards to cut the lead to 14-7.

“The pick-six, that’s a kid probably trying too hard,” Herman said. “I think he thought he could throw it away. As the saying goes ‘You’ve gotta know when the journey is over.’ We were in field goal range… I suspect that will be a mistake that you won’t see him make again.”

Despite the interception, the Longhorn defense continued its dominance by holding a West Virginia offense averaging over 500 yards to 295 yards en route to a 28-14 victory, allowing Tom Herman and the Longhorns to leave Milan Puskar Stadium with both a victory and a bowl bid for the first time since 2014.

“They’re kids that have been beat up quite a bit the last couple of years and to be able to say we’ve reached one of our goals this season,” Herman said. “These guys are ecstatic, but they also know we’ve got one left.”

The same players who suffered from back-to-back 5–7 seasons danced in celebration as the final seconds of the game dwindled down.

Although the Longhorns do have one more game remaining in the regular season, one thing is for sure: 5–7 is no more.

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that construction, it’s a little cramped with one side where both the bikers and pedestrians are,” undeclared sophomore Autumn Flores said.

Medical laboratory science freshman Sandra Diaz said Speedway is the main problem area on campus, particularly near Gregory Gym. She said the school should put designated biker lanes in the area because there is a risk of students getting hit.

“Sometimes (bikers) pass by really fast,” Diaz said. “My friend actually got hit once … this biker just came by right next to her.”

The University was not immediately available to comment on the feasibility of adding bike lanes to construction areas.

The construction reveals an inherent design flaw that makes the campus unaccommodating for pedestrian and biker traffic, Ukairo said.

Adding bike lanes is just one of many solutions to pedestrian and biker conflicts, Ukairo said. Students can practice common courtesy to each other, he added.

“I think that a root cause of the biker (and) pedestrian problem is a lack of understanding about community living, community space (and) the rules of a shared community space,” Ukairo said. “I know there are other bigger challenges (in) the world, but you can start with these small ones and build up to the bigger ones.”

Poetry night dispels myths of stuttering

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continues from page 1 “We hope this event goes well this year and everyone has fun, that way we can increase the amount of people that come next year and this becomes a normal thing because it is really important to all of us,” Khan said.

The event was not just limited to UT students. High school student Grady Brown has dealt with cancer in his family in the past. He attended to be with friends.

“I know how hard it is for a family to go through (dealing with cancer), so I think less sadness in the world would happen if we found a cure,” Brown said.

Khan said it is important to her as a premedical student and because she gets to directly help patients.

“I love the fact that it’s shifting the aspect of just science and just research to more on the patients lives and their families,” Khan said. “I think that option is forgotten when you just focus on the medical aspects of it.”

By Stephanie Adeline News Reporter

Kelly Woodworth does not have a fluency disorder, but on Friday, she voluntary stuttered as she recited her poem to understand what her clients feel like.

“This is called choice — we all have it, right?” speech language pathology senior Woodworth said. “I chose to voluntary stutter today. I typed out what I wanted to say, printed it out and underlined every sound that I chose to stutter on. It was like picking which battles to fight.”

Woodworth was one of the speakers at a poetry night hosted by the Lang Stuttering Institute Student Leadership Organization. The speakers included both people who stuttered and people with no stuttering problems.

The event’s purpose was to share personal stories of stuttering and belonging, said Woodworth, the organization’s president.

“Whether it be people who stutter or people who don’t stutter, we want to show that we do have similar experiences,” Woodworth said. “Whether it’s being treated unfairly, or overcoming stereotypes or overcoming fear, we all have something that we can share. We want to give people that space to feel comfortable.”

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Lang Stuttering Institute Student Leadership Organization held the poetry event on Friday for students to share stories and experiences about having a stutter.

Speech language pathology senior Madison Houston shared her story about being afraid of going on a mission trip to Cuba and encouraged the audience to choose love over fear.

“Every decision that we have, every opportunity we might have is a choice to be fearful or be loving,” Houston said. “I realized that in this field of being a speech pathologist … I can serve people and I can love people in all this different ways. I have this opportunity to thank (for opening my eyes) … I really want to do that.”

Jacqueline Silva, a speech

language pathology senior and LSI SLO membership coordinator, said through

Every decision that we have, every opportunity we might have is a choice to be fearful or be loving.

—Madison Houston, senior

the event, they hoped to dispel myths of stuttering.

“We don’t want people

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to think that they’re just nervous and cut them off or something,” Silva said.

“And if we spread thatt amongst everybody, it willc be a closer communityu and allow everyone to feelf more comfortable.” o Courtney Byrd, found-t ing director of the Michaels and Tami Lang Stutter-o ing Institute, spoke at theb event, applauding the workt of the organization. a “Many of them … do not stutter themselves,” Byrdp said. “So it takes a rarec kind of empathy to reallyt take on a cause that’s not something you’ve experi-t enced but one that you canN feel in your heart.” r

c p t i l 2 A oner said she attended to c hear what has happened to h projects that were in proga ress when she discussed o them in class. t “A lot of the stuff we had d heard in the studio last year n (was affirmed) by someone who is actually more involved in the policy,” Wagoner said.

“It’s cool to hear it from someone who’s actually working to make that happen.”

Rhetoric and writing senior Tori Steffan said although there is always room for improvement, she thinks UT is making substantial effort to be green.

“It’s putting us on a path for more sustainability, and it definitely set a tone for UT’s values,” Steffan said.

Walker talks UT campus plan, environment

By John Melendez News Reporter

UT Director of Sustainability Jim Walker held a brief presentation on Friday regarding the status of Waller Creek, Dell Medical and the burgeoning health district with regard to the environment.

Walker said there was a conscious effort when creating UT’s campus plan in 2012 to create a lasting positive environmental impact.

“We give a lot of lip service to sustainability,” Walker said.

“We throw it out as an adjective to make ourselves feel better about something, but do we actually put it into the policy documents?”

When the communities of Austin and Travis County voted to allow local property tax revenue to help fund UT’s developing health district in 2012, a new campus master plan was created with environmental sustainability in mind.

When the health district master plan was created in 2013, the chosen location placed major constraints on sustainability from the beginning, Walker said. He said he had to plan around a set location and restrictive guidelines.

“As a planner, (it) frustrates you when you’re going to do a big project and politics drives location out of the gate,” Walker said.

Designing buildings to be

efficient and their actual performance are two different things, Walker said. One way to address this issue is pursuing a LEED certification.

LEED, or Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, is a rating system used to determine how environmentally friendly a building is. Buildings are graded in categories such as energy use and air quality and earn one of four LEED rating levels: certified, silver, gold or platinum based on a points system, according to its website.

Walker said there are 19 total projects, or 3.6 million square feet, across UT that are in the LEED portfolio.

Landscape architecture graduate student Haley Wag-

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Filipino Students Association brings culture to UT

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By Meara Isenberg News Reporter

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Biology senior Eufrosino Veloso strummed his guitar, filling the Texas Union Theatre on Friday night with ea song in his first language, ITagalog. It was a moment Veloso had thought of since efreshman year when he saw someone perform in his familiar Filipino dialect.

“It was my first time pereforming in my native tongue and it felt really special to me,” 0Veloso said.

Veloso joined others preforming during Filipino Culture Night. The night was organized by the Filipino Students yAssociation and highlighted tthe group’s diversity through a culture-packed show. e “We are here to display difeferent facets of the community, of dance, of song, even our attire; a lot of us are wearing traditional Filipino clothing,” said FSA culture chair Anna Castro, who organized the event. “The purpose is to invite the UT community to interact with the Filipino-American experience and everything it has to offer.” . The American and Filipino national anthems kicked off the event to symbolize the mix of the cultures to follow.

I came from the Philippines, so going to these kinds of events gives me flashbacks to my childhood.”

—Patricia Lim, Journalism sophomore

Dancers performed Singkil, a traditional folk dance, in one act and balanced cups of water on their heads in another.

Castro, an English junior who emigrated from the Philippines, said the show provides a space for Filipino students to show off their skills and also brings those with shared interests together.

“I think it’s important to find a home and identity,” Castro said. “I emigrated here at a young age, and especially coming into a new environment when you don’t know a lot of things, I found a home in my culture. For me, that was my driving force, that was the foundation for who I became.”

The night also featured

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Students gathered Friday at the Texas Union for Filipino Culture Night. The event was organized by the Filipino Student Association to highlight the group’s diversity through a culture-packed show.

traditional Filipino food, including lumpia, a type of fried egg roll, and pancit, which are clear noodles with vegetables and meat.

Patricia Lim, Journalism sophomore and FSA member

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said food was part of what brought her to the show.

“You need to know your roots,” Lim said. “I came from the Philippines, so going to these kinds of events gives me

flashbacks to my childhood. I know a lot about my culture, but I want to experience more with the Filipino community.”

The show also brought out non-Filipinos, such as physics freshman Danielle Maldonado.

“People come from so many different backgrounds and so they have different viewpoints on different things,” Maldonado said. “It’s good to understand where people are coming from.”

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Growing Austin Mac and Cheese Festival sells-out in second year

By Grace Speas News Reporter

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L Associate Professor Richard Reddick speaks on the importance of creating relationships with sutdents’ through mentorship at a lecture Friday afternoon.

UT researchers talk equity and social justice in STEM

By Brooke Sjoberg News Reporter

STEM education is not truly fair for young black children, said Fikile Nxumalo, an assistant professor in the department of curriculum and instruction, during a Friday presentation about findings of institutional bias against black children in science, technology, engineering and math fields.

Nxumalo said there are prejudices against black children which affect how they are educated.

“Environmental education for young children in North America remains rooted in discourses of childhood innocence and pure nature that can be traced back to the modernist romantic era,” Nuxmalo said. “So from the early 20th century on, North American ... nature education for young children has been overwhelmingly accompanied by images of individual innocence of the child that learns from direct experiences with nature.

There’s now

extensive scholarship that critiques the racialized assumptions of childhood innocence.”

Nxumalo is one of four faculty researchers who discussed their findings from separate research papers concerning equity and social justice in STEM education. The panel was part of the UT College of Education Center for STEM Education’s Fall 2017 Colloquium Series.

The stages of education analyzed included teachers seeking employment, the early childhood of black students and their journey through the education system.

“Generally, you find trust is an important thing in any mentoring relationship,” said Richard Reddick, an assistant professor in the department of education on his research into cross-racial mentoring. “But when it comes to something like race, which has such a pivotal sort of weight on our experience of being black in this country, it becomes really important to have trust in place.”

Physics freshman Sophia Macias said she was glad to hear the findings of the panelists because she is Hispanic and the issue of underrepresentation is important to her and her student organization.

“I’m in Undergraduate Women in Physics, and we talk about misrepresentation and underrepresentation in physics and other hardcore sciences,” Macias said. “You don’t really see yourself represented anywhere in physics or in the math department or astronomy department, and it’s kind of upsetting.”

Mathematics freshman Maria Diaz said she was interested in how to apply what she learned from the panel to her pursuit of a certificate through UTeach.

“I’ve always been interested in how I can provide, as a teacher, better education for minority students,” Diaz said. “Especially because we’re from low-income (households), so it was really geared towards me to learn from them and how to develop all these qualities.”

Mac and cheese may be a simple dish, but it still draws crowds when done right.

Austin Food Magazine hosted 1,500 guests in its second-annual Austin Mac and Cheese festival on Sunday, a number which was triple that of last year. Facebook users were scrambling for resale tickets in the days before the sold-out festival.

“Because the demands are so crazy, we may have to do multiple days of the festival in future years,” said Hayden Walker, editor-in-chief and director of operations for Austin Food Magazine.

Patrons filled the outdoor festival grounds in front of the Auguste Escoffier School of Culinary Arts from 12 to 4 p.m., gorging themselves with mac and cheese and craft beer. Guests bought tickets starting at $20 to taste mac and cheeses from over 30 different vendors competing for the best dish variety.

“When I started thinking about doing a food festival, I thought about my own favorite food,” Walker said. “Barbecue was already taken, so what about mac and cheese?”

Festival-goers each cast one vote for the best vendor after sampling mac and cheeses sprinkled with

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jalapeño, brisket, lobster and bacon. Official judges from restaurants, breweries and media outlets also attended to taste test.

“I figured, stick with something simple and let the chefs get creative,” Walker said.

Journalism senior Mary Layne Strieber, an intern for Austin Food Magazine, said the event gives good exposure to local restaurants. “(People) go and eat amazing mac and cheese at a certain restaurant’s booth and then they think of that restaurant again for date night, even though they may have never heard of it before the fest,” Strieber said.

Courtney’s Catering

marketing manager Taylor Key said the company also participated last year, and the event is bigger, more televised and more organized this year.

“We’re known for our mac and cheese,” Key said.

“Lines for the booths vary, but the one for our booth is wrapping around others.”

Greenhouse Craft Food won the People’s Choice Award and the judges chose their own favorite — a bacon mac and cheese quesadilla from Punch Bowl Social.

“A big announcement about the festival will be coming in the spring,” Walker said. “For today, as long as everyone leaves full, I’m thankful.”

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Don’t put partisanship over morals

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Take drug abuse seriously

By Elizabeth Braaten Columnist

Last Wednesday night, news that artist Lil Peep, whose full name is Gustav Ahr, had died of a Xanax overdose sent shockwaves throughout the hip-hop community. The 21-year-old rapper was found unresponsive in his tour bus in Tucson, Arizona, before a scheduled show. Despite the attempts of first responders to save him, Ahr was pronounced dead at 8:53 p.m.

Prior to his death, Ahr had made numerous posts on social media displaying his drug addiction and depression. While tragic, Ahr’s death marks a larger trend of ignoring the victims of drug abuse and mental illness until it is too late to save them.

With current rates of prescription drug addiction at epidemic levels in the United States, we must commit to the promotion of safe drug use and treatment for addicts if we wish to mitigate the amount of death associated with it.

According to the National Center for Health Statistics, an estimated 64,000 people died from drug overdose, a staggering figure that has doubled within the last decade. Furthermore, about 50 Americans die each day from prescription painkiller overdoses. A spring 2017 survey conducted by University Health Services found that 12.3 percent of UT students report using prescription drugs without a prescription in the last year alone.

These alarming statistics demonstrate the urgent need for a change in the way we talk about drug addiction in the United States. While there is no way to prevent everyone from abusing prescription drugs, we can make progress in reversing this trend by educating ourselves and promoting safe usage within our communities.

First, we must stop shaming drug addicts while they are alive. Though those who knew him said he seemed happy, Åhr’s social media pages show potential causes of concern that have been cited as evidence of his abuse.Check in on your friends, and if you see them undertaking destructive behaviors or showing warning signs of suicide — say something. There are an abundance of resources on campus that help people struggling with addiction, such as the Center for Students in Recovery.

Furthermore, many prescription drug-related deaths involve mixing drugs like Xanax with alcohol or other prescription drugs like Percocet or Vicodin, which are opioids. In 2015, 22,598 of prescription drug-related deaths were attributed to cases where opioids were involved. However, NARCAN, a nasal spray form of naloxone, is available for purchase from pharmacies in the state of Texas, and is a known antidote for opioid overdoses. Keeping this on-hand is a great precaution to take, as it could save a life one day.

Finally, we must stop glorifying the abuse of hard drugs within popular music. While songs like “Mask Off ” are great to listen to, for many people they extend beyond fun to an addiction they’re unable to kick.

Molly and Percocet may seem like faraway concepts when you listen to Future on the radio, but they won’t be after one of your friends overdoses.

To alter the tragic effects of drug addiction in the United States, we must alter the way we respond to it. His name was Gustav Ahr, he was only 21 years old, and we failed him.

Braaten is a junior international relations and global studies junior from Conroe.

I think we can divide the people who still support Judge Roy Moore’s Senate campaign into three categories.

First, there are those who don’t believe the allegations against him: inappropriate relationships with teenage girls while in his 30s, including two who say he sexually assaulted them when they were 14 and 16 years old.

These allegations were exhaustively reported by the Washington Post in a story that cited four accusers and more than 30 sources, and they were later supplemented by a fifth accuser who came forward Monday. But it would seem that some people demand a higher standard of proof.

Others demand a lower standard of morality. In the second category are those who believe the allegations but don’t believe that Moore did anything wrong. These evidently include Alabama State Auditor Jim Ziegler, who likened the relationship between Moore and his victims to that of Joseph and Mary in the Bible.

Third and finally, there are those who believe the allegations and are horrified, but would rather vote for a child predator than risk allowing a Democrat to represent Alabama in the Senate.

Of these three categories, I wonder which ones Ted Cruz and John Cornyn fall into.

Both Texas senators endorsed Moore prior to these allegations, despite his sickening bigotry toward the LGBTQ community and Muslims. After the fifth accuser came forward, Cruz and Cornyn rescinded their endorsements.

But their divorce from Moore could hardly be more amicable. Despite the evidence, Cruz and Cornyn continue

offer Moore the benefit of the doubt, clinging to the “if true” caveat that dozens of GOP elected officials have employed to avoid fully denouncing their nominee. In his statement, Cornyn called the charges “disturbing and, if true, disqualifying.” Meanwhile, Cruz lamented that he was unable to back Moore “so long as these allegations remain unrefuted.”

It’s unclear what would be enough to convince these two. When five women come forward offering copious details of a candidate’s sexual misconduct and predatory behavior, including documentation of their connections to him — Moore even signed the fifth woman’s high school yearbook — what more do you need to completely avail yourself of that candidate?

What rebuttal could Moore possibly give that would clear his name beyond a shadow of a doubt?

For what it’s worth, not all Republican senators have been so noncommittal. Thirteen of them have called unequivocally for Moore to step aside, including Mike Lee and Steve Daines, who had previously endorsed him, and majority leader Mitch McConnell, who had not.

But our senators seem to have other priorities. The most telling part of Cruz’s statement came when he said that the people of Alabama shouldn’t be forced to make “an untenable choice between a candidate under a serious cloud of potential criminal conduct or

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a liberal Democrat.” And therein lies the motivation for Cruz and Cornyn’s newfound radical skepticism: To them, those two options are equally bad.

Earlier I said that Moore supporters in the third category prioritize partisanship over morality. Such is the case with Cornyn and Cruz: They’re so disturbed by the allegations against Moore that they’d rather see anyone else win — anyone other than his opponent, that is.

Groves i s a philos ophy junior f rom D allas.

COLUMN

Fraternities must self-police to stop deaths

By Jacob Kunz Columnist

Last Monday morning, 20-year-old Texas State Phi Kappa Psi pledge Matthew Ellis was found unresponsive following a fraternity party in San Marcos that Sunday evening. After his death, Texas State University opted to suspend all fraternity and sorority activities in order to review Greek life on campus.

If the autopsy reports show that Ellis died of an alcohol-related fatality related to fraternity hazing, as the events leading to his death imply, he will be the fourth pledge this year killed by violent or abusive hazing rituals. Similar investigations followed deaths at Florida State University, Louisiana State University and Penn State in the last 10 months.

These fatalities are not isolated events — there have been over 60 fraternity-related deaths in the United States since 2005. Most of these result from alcohol poisoning or alcohol-related deaths, drug overdoses or accidents in and around fraternity houses, including deadly falls from multi-story houses.

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As a prospective student, I had an interest in joining a fraternity as an opportunity to make supportive friends in the transition to college, and I had several positive experiences with members.

After hearing about drug use and hazing rituals at the houses I had visited, however, I got scared off the path of rushing.

For interested students like myself, the benefits of joining a fraternity are drowned out by how they treat their pledges.”

For interested students like myself, the benefits of joining a fraternity are drowned out by how they treat their pledges. It’s hard to focus on the potential to foster leadership, community and personal growth when an organization projects a reputation of ritual humiliation, sexual violence

and backwards social practices.

“Until proven otherwise,” says Douglas Fierberg in The Atlantic, “they all are very risky organizations for young people to be involved in.” Fierberg, a top attorney in fraternity-related litigation, maintains that fraternities “are part of an industry that has tremendous risk and a tremendous history of rape, serious injury, and death, and the vast majority share common risk-management policies that are fundamentally flawed.”

If fraternities wish to maintain a privileged position on campus and control their reputation, they must hold their members to a higher standard. Some have put this into practice, with Sigma Alpha Epsilon suspending UT’s chapter following reports of alleged hazing earlier this month.

Fraternities are institutions of university life that are almost as old as college itself. But if they don’t see it fit to enact effectual change amongst their members, their brotherhood of men may see itself in decline.

Kunz is an English freshman from New Braunfels.

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continues from page 8 James Campbell Quick, sexual harassment can also cause lingering effects. Quick’s study indicates victims may suffer from a variety of mental disorders as a result of these actions.

“Evidence continues to suggest women (in harassing situations) may experience negative mood, eating disorders, drug and alcohol abuse as well as work turnover intentions, long-term anxiety, job stress and/or burnout,” Quick wrote.

Together, these consequences create a culture within the film industry that deters females from high-ranking positions, leading to a lack of representation of women both on and off camera. The Hollywood Reporter announced earlier this year that female directors made up only 7 percent of the top 250 films in 2016.

“It’s hard to deny the numbers,” Hudson said. “Power and balance is the reason this stuff happens to begin with. The more money you have, the harder it is to get women hired.”

For Hudson, these problems are seeded in a deeper, systemic issue within our society. Hudson herself said she has also been a perpetrator of bias, detailing a time in her career when she overlooked a woman’s resume with the assumption that she couldn’t handle the work.

“I went over her resume again and I was like, ‘Yeah, she has just as much experience, if not more, than these two guys (up for the position),’” Hudson said.

“We have to train ourselves to catch ourselves, because we all do it. We’re all conditioned to be biased against women from the time we’re children, from the toys we give little girls versus little boys.”

These obstacles are not easily remedied, but change begins at the individual level. Hudson makes it her mission to employ a diverse crew of filmmakers on her sets and uses her medium to tell empowering stories.

“Hire women. Just give them a shot,” Hudson said. “Know that there are executives in Hollywood who are women, who are people of color, who are desperately trying to get these stories told, but it’s hard.”

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Monday, November 20, 2017

HEALTH

Green schoolyards can benefit kids’ health

By Lucy Cai S&T Reporter While classrooms have been moving towards more technology and less recess time, research suggests that creating greener schoolyards, or adding nature elements to schoolyards, instead may improve children’s mental and physical health.

Stephen Pont, the medical director at the Dell Children’s Medical Center’s Texas Center for the Prevention and Treatment of Childhood Obesity, collaborated with Children and Nature Network, a nonprofit that aims to reconnect children with nature. After conducting a review of literature, Pont summarized the findings and created a database that is more easily accessible and understood by school officials interested in making their schoolyards greener. The abstract was presented at the American Academy of Pediatrics National Conference in September.

Schools may question the point of devoting resources to creating green schoolyards, so this database can help answer those questions, Pont said. “(The database) demonstrates the impact that exposing kids to nature (such as through) green schoolyards,” Pont said. “It actually improves academics, health (and) physical fitness. It can decrease behavioral problems, increase cooperative play. And there’s all these benefits that we can show.”

Green schoolyards have wide implications for children’s mental health, according to Richard Louv, one of the founders of Children & Nature Network.

“The research indicates that experiences in the natural world appear to offer great benefits to psychological and physical health and the ability to learn,” Louv said. “The studies strongly suggest that time in nature can help many children learn to build confidence in themselves (and) reduce the symptoms of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, calm them and help them focus.”

Green schoolyards can also support improved physical health, such as by reducing childhood obesity.

“In encouraging kids to be healthy, (and in particular for obesity), we have to think of ‘stealth health’ approaches, where the kid is becoming healthy without knowing it,” Pont said. “So put a kid into nature and provide them with some health snacks, and

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childhood obesity can pretty much take care of itself. Green schoolyards are one way to encourage this connection with nature that can have this important positive health outcome.”

Schools that incorporate greener schoolyards can also tailor their schoolyards to

“The research indicates that experiences in the natural world appear to offer great benefits to psychological and physical health and the ability to learn.”

—Richard Louv, Co-founder of Children & Nature Network

address particular areas of health.

“If you think of an urban schoolyard with (a lot of) concrete, you can think of having a vegetable garden to improve nutrition education, rainwater conservation (systems) that may focus more on water management … (and) community space to help family

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Introducing green schoolyards into schools has had positive results, according to Louv.

“I visited a nature-based elementary school in a lower-income region of a county in Georgia,” Louv said. “The school is showing more academic improvement than any other school in that county. The kids were generally healthier as well.”

In order to encourage schools around the country to adopt greener schoolyards, Louv said that schools must make a lot of cultural changes. This includes educating teachers about the benefits of nature exposure at a time when most schools are moving toward adding more technology to the classroom and cutting recess time.

Louv also said professionals can collaborate across disciplines to transform their cities into greener, more child-friendly spaces.

Louv’s initiative to improve children’s access to nature targets cities such as Austin.

“In Austin, the (Children & Nature Network’s the Cities Connecting Children to Nature initiative is) also working on a template that can be used in other cities to recognize the value of utilizing school campuses as community parks,” Louv said. “That … increases access to nature in cities.”

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Ehlinger sparks Texas in victory

By Trenton Daeschner Assoc. Sports Editor

1982 On November 20, 1982, the Cal football team defeated Stanford on a lastsecond kick return that involved five laterals. Stanford’s band stormed onto the field a bit early during the play and Cal defensive back Kevin Moen collided with trombone player Gary Tyrell in the end zone.

Cross Country closes out season at NCAA Championships Texas took part in its last races of the season on Saturday in Louisville at the NCAA Championships.

The men’s team took 30th place and were paced by redshirt junior Jacob Pickle.

Pickle crossed the finish line with a time of 30:54.41, taking 120th place overall. “(Pickle), he’s a gamer,” assistant coach Brad Herbster said. “He stepped up the last three races, whether it’s conference, region or nationals, he performed at a good level.”

The women’s team took 31st place and were led by sophomore Destiny Collins. Collins finished in 20:58.19 and took 134th place overall.

For the most part, though, Herbster felt his team underperformed.

“In this meet you’ve got to step in it and we never really stepped in it,” Herbster said. “We didn’t have it today. We really have to do better in these races, perform where we need to perform and execute the way we have all season.”

The cross country team will now prepare for track and field indoor season. The Longhorns’ first meet takes place on Dec. 9 at the Reveille Invitational.

—Drew King

The freshman quarterback overcame a picksix late in the game.

Sam Ehlinger has shown Texas fans plenty of good and plenty of bad this season.

One moment on Saturday, he tossed a beauty of a pass for a 50yard pickup. The next moment, he evaded a would-be sack, turning a broken play into a positive one that left the West Virginia defense dazed and confused.

And if you stuck around long enough, you saw Ehlinger throw a head-scratching pick-six that let the Mountaineers back into the game.

On a cold, rainy Saturday in Morgantown, the freshman quarterback showed why he’s the ultimate risk-reward player.

“You got to forget about the past if it’s good or bad,” Ehlinger said, “because you can’t let it affect the future.”

After watching sophomore quarterback Shane Buechele start the game and lead the Longhorns for the first two series, Ehlinger gave Texas a spark. The plan had been for Ehlinger to come in on the third offensive series no matter what. But he was unsure if it’d be for good.

“Obviously we knew that I was going in the third drive,” Ehlinger said, “but I had no idea after that what was gonna happen.”

The Longhorns went three-andout on Ehlinger’s first series. His second was when things changed.

On the first play of the second quarter, Ehlinger delivered a perfect ball to redshirt freshman wide receiver Reggie Hemphill-Mapps down the sideline, which went for 50 yards and set up Texas in the red zone for the first time in the game.

You got to forget about the past if it’s good or bad because you can’t let it affect the future.”

—Sam Ehlinger, freshman quarterback

Minutes later, Ehlinger tossed a four-yard touchdown pass to graduate transfer tight end Kendall Moore to put Texas up 7-0.

The next Texas drive was peak Ehlinger. Facing a third-and-9, he evaded a West Virginia rusher who had broken free, scrambled

out of a near-sack, then sprinted down the sideline for a 17-yard gain. The next play, Texas tried a trick play and had junior wide receiver Jerrod Heard throw a pass back to Ehlinger, who then ran for 23 yards to the West Virginia 31.

Ehlinger found junior running back Chris Warren III down the seam for a 20-yard touchdown pass moments later to put Texas up 14-0 late in the first half.

Texas fans had seen the reward.

But then came the risk in the second half.

Facing a third-and-8 at West Virginia’s 22-yard line with under six minutes to play in the third quarter, Ehlinger dashed for 17 yards to set up a first-and-goal on the five. Ehlinger popped up after the play and pointed his hand forward to signal a first down.

It was the reward.

The Longhorns looked ready to break open the game and go up by three touchdowns.

But on the very next play, Ehlinger committed a costly mistake.

A West Virginia defender broke loose in the backfield and got a hold of Ehlinger as he dropped back to pass. Instead of taking the sack, Ehlinger attempted to get rid of the ball as he went to the ground.

It was the risk.

Ehlinger desperately flung an

errant pass that found the hands of West Virginia safety Kenny Robinson, who returned it 94 yards for a touchdown to cut the Texas lead to 14-7.

Ehlinger wasn’t fazed by that play either. He calmly led Texas on two more touchdown drives in the second half to help ice the game.

“He’s tough. He’s a competitor,” head coach Tom Herman said.

“He gives us a dimension in the run game. He rushed for 68 yards, 7.6 yards a carry — that’s a pretty good day at the office.”

Ehlinger has given Texas fans a dose of everything this season — a lot of good and, at times, a lot of bad.

But the most important thing he gave them on Saturday was a 28-14 win, making the Longhorns bowl eligible for the first time since 2014.

“Coach kept saying, ‘Just keep swinging, keep swinging. It’s gonna pay off. It’s gonna pay off. Keep swinging,’” Ehlinger said. “Obviously we would’ve liked some of the games (this season) to go differently, but we kept our head down and we kept working. To be able to go to a bowl and have that opportunity after the hardships and the close games that we’ve went through this year says a lot about the coaching staff as well as the players on the team.”

SOCCER

Longhorns shut out by Duke, fall short of Elite Eight

By Dalton Phillips Senior Sports Reporter

After Texas clinched a win over Clemson in penalty kicks in the second round of the NCAA Championships on Friday, Duke wasn’t prepared to give Texas any chance of an upset on Sunday.

The No. 1 Blue Devils ran away with the contest early on Sunday afternoon in Durham, North Carolina, shutting out Texas, 3-0. The Longhorns’ historic run came to a close one game shy of an appearance in the Elite Eight.

“I’m really proud,” head coach Angela Kelly said.

“It’s been a wonderful group to coach and train this season, a tremendous amount of heart. And we’re going to take every ounce of this experience and learn from it.”

It was all Duke from the opening kick. After applying early pressure, All-American forward Imani Dorsey collected a deep pass over the top and found the back of the net just three minutes into the contest.

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Sophomore forward Cyera Hintzen races past Texas Tech junior defender Cassie Boren.

Hintzen took four shots against Duke on Sunday, but was unable to capitalize in a 3-0 loss.

momentum that Texas could not afford, as one of the nation’s premier programs brought too much pressure to the orange and white backline. Later in the first half, the Longhorns began to find some offensive rhythm with a pair of looks, but were dissuaded

by Duke junior forward Kayla McCoy, who made it

a two-score game on a diving header off of a cross in the box.

“I was really impressed by them,” Kelly said. “I thought we were just a little tentative at the beginning of the match and our youthfulness showed.”

Coming out of the second half, Texas brought a new intensity as it fought

to keep its season alive. The team’s leading scorer, sophomore forward Cyera Hintzen, saw a number of opportunities narrowly miss, but the Longhorns were unable to retain possession for any significant length of time as they were outshot 14-6 by the Blue Devils.

A third goal midway through the half proved

to be the final nail in the coffin as Duke advanced to the Elite Eight for the third consecutive year, having outscored its opponents 11-0 over the first three rounds.

In addition to the stiff competition, Kelly acknowledged that fatigue may have played a role in her team’s belowaverage performance. “(Hintzen) had a great opportunity in the first 20 minutes,” Kelly said. “Those usually go in the back of the net. Her and (freshman forward) Haley Berg and (redshirt freshman forward) Cydney Billups were playing wonderful soccer. Those young ladies are exhausted.”

Even with the loss, Texas sits in far better position this offseason than it did a year ago. After a record setting 11-game undefeated stretch and deep postseason run, the program has leapt back into the national conversation. And with only two graduating seniors, the Longhorns should be back in the tournament conversation in 2018.

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TELEVISION

Red River Rivalry comes to ‘The Price is Right’ Thanksgiving is a time for two things: family and football.

With the fall holiday just around the corner, classic game show “The Price is Right” is combining the two with its college rivalries episode.

“The Price is Right,” a game show in which contestants try to guess the price of retail items, is currently in its 46th season. The college rivalry episode will air its Thanksgiving edition this coming Wednesday and will highlight the heated rivalry between UT and OU. In a statement released by the show, the network outlined the special episode’s purpose: “We’re filling the audience with students and alumni from some of the biggest college rivals across the country. When contestants on stage lost their pricing game, the contestant from the rival school won $1,000.00.”

For the special episode, the show filled its audience with students and alumni from various rivaling colleges.

Vincent Winston, a 2010 OU grad and a chosen competitor for the show, attended the special taping which he was told about by the OU alumni chapter of Los Angeles.

“I remember watching (The Price is Right) with my grandmother and great aunt as a kid,” Winston said.

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in my heart.”

As a proud Sooner, Winston said he was elated to combine his school’s largest rivalry with the game show — although “rivalry” may be a bit of a stretch, considering one school is so clearly superior to the other. The Red River Rivalry has become an important part of life for students and alumni at both schools. It is arguably one of the biggest games in the collegiate football calendar, and though it didn’t

go well for the Longhorns this year, “The Price is Right” gives them another chance to prove that OU still sucks.

“Being a part of ‘Price is Right’ and kind of putting those two things together is this like awesome merger of two worlds that probably don’t cross over very often,” Winston said.

Though unable to comment on the results of the competition until the show airs, Winston described the experience as surreal.

“Going to the show and being in the audience was unbelievable, it was just a feeling of absolute nostalgia mixed with kind of an excitement,” Winston said. “It was a place that you’ve seen on TV for 20-plus years and then you’re actually there.”

Sara Hamilton-Ware also has fond childhood memories of the show.

The wife of a UT alum and member of the LA Texas Exes chapter, Hamilton-Ware described getting chosen to compete on the show as a thrilling experience.

“We were all hoping to get on there,” Hamilton-Ware said. “I got picked so it was pretty exciting.”

According to Hamilton-Ware, in addition to the UT-OU rivalry, USC and Notre Dame were also chosen. At the taping, she said, each college was represented in the audience by its own squadron of students and alumni doning their school’s colors and gear.

“It was such a great experience,” Hamilton-Ware said. “I mean just to spend it with our group and go up there, everybody’s school spirit was awesome.”

Winston said being surrounded by school spirit was exciting, and he can even be seen enthusiastically jumping up and down in the promo video once he is called to “come on down!”

“I was like, ‘Whoa, this is gonna be fun,’ because it’s been a while since I’ve been in that kind of environment,” Winston said. “It’s been a while since I’ve kind of been around alumni from other schools.”

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Tove Lo releases second part of two-piece concept album

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By Chris Duncan

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Sweden is known for many things, but the Scandinavian nation’s musical tradition centers around two tropes: electronic pop and in-your-face sexuality. Standing at the helm of this is Ebba Nilsson.

Known professionally as Tove Lo, Nilsson broke out into mainstream pop with her 2014 debut LP Queen of the Clouds, a record focused on the different stages of a tumultuous relationship. What made Tove Lo so refreshing was her perspective on issues many pop artists avoid all together. Bringing a sense of reality to her music, Tove Lo focuses on downto-earth perspectives similar to the likes of The Knife and Bjork. With her next endeavor, Lady Wood, Tove Lo dove even further down the art/electropop lane, setting up for a two-album concept project, once again attempting to encapsulate the emotional turmoil of a relationship. Blue Lips, the newly released second half, brings both similar highs and lows of its predecessor to a generally entertaining but occasionally flawed experience.

Compared to Tove Lo’s debut, Blue Lips is nowhere near as commercial.

This album’s title says a lot about its no-holds-barred content. The majority of this record is packed with scandalous R-rated depictions of drug binges, drastic love swings and a general desire for what can’t be had. “Disco Tits” does a fantastic job at capturing a passionate moment, using erotic lyrics and a hard beat to bring about club vibes and a truly euphoric moment. Additionally, “Bitches” discusses lesbian love and crafts an extreme examination of the beauty of women in general, challenging listeners with the grittiest of details as to Tove Lo’s love life.

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her as possible rather than creating some kind of romantic hunt.

Yet, for how often she discusses these moments and issues, Tove Lo never states how all of these adventures pan out, and if she does it’s usually vague and dismissive. “Bitches” might do a fantastic job of capturing the ini-

The individual tracks on Blue

Lips practically sell themselves with catchy melodies and intense lyrics, but taken as a whole they fall short of Tove Lo’s lofty aspirations.” tial moment of lust, but Tove Lo goes nowhere with this moment, intentionally avoiding some kind of message or lesson from the brief anecdote.

In an artsy-fartsy sense, this leaves much up for

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interpretation, but when Tove Lo is consistently leaving listeners with just pure moments rather than enduring memories, it’s hard to consider Blue Lips a true completion to the concept Lady Wood set up.

Individually, most songs succeed with only an occasional song or two failing to hit home, but their mileage will vary depending on the listener. The half-hearted lyrics and synths on “Romantics” flew far foul, lacking the introspective moment the track desperately needed to succeed. Otherwise, Blue Lips is a confident collection of all pleasure and little-substance dance-pop jams.

All said and done, Blue Lips considered on its own is an exhilarating listen — something that’s expected of Tove Lo this deep into her career. But, when considering its concept, it lacks a certain oomph that many of its predecessors delivered on. The individual tracks on Blue Lips practically sell themselves with catchy melodies and intense lyrics, but taken as a whole, they fall short of Tove Lo’s lofty aspirations.

Year after year at UT-Austin, Carlyn Hudson watched as the number of female students in her radio-television-film classes declined, a problem that reflects the film industry as a whole.

Since the New Yorker’s exposé on Harvey Weinstein just one month ago, the number of filmmakers coming forward about their disturbing experiences with powerful players has grown from 13 to several thousand.

Hudson, co-founder of the Women in Cinema student organization and director of the 2016 SXSW selection “The Big Spoon,” has been vocal about her own experiences. She took to Facebook shortly after the Weinstein article was published to express a similar encounter she had in her early 20s with a prominent producer. According to Hudson, the unnamed producer used his high position to abuse multiple women, causing herself to doubt the viability of her work as a woman.

“I was desperate to have a career, make a name for myself

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Carlyn Hudson, co-founder of Women in Cinema, discusses her experiences in the film industry amidst sexual scandals.

and put my foot in the door,” Hudson said. “You deal with these awful people because you think that’s what you think have to do. I just thought, ‘Okay this is the industry, but he keeps giving me these big opportunities, so I’m not

going to blow that.’”

Many women who face this kind of behavior often drop their line of work altogether, but according to a study

by UT-Arlington professor

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