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West Campus size has doubled in last 20 years The area continues to expand in order to house more UT students.
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ver the past 20 years, the population of the University Neighborhood Overlay district, which accounts for most of the West Campus area, has almost doubled in size. From 2000 to 2015, the area grew by an estimated 77 percent, with a more than 8,000-person increase. These numbers were gathered by city demographer Ryan Robinson, who attributes the area’s population jump to the creation of the UNO district plan and the new residential housing and student relocation that followed. “Fifteen years ago, shuttle bus routes were bringing these farflung students (living in distant areas) into campus,” Robinson said. “One of the primary notions behind UNO was ‘Let’s create a plan and send in new developers, and in the process let’s bring all these UT students back in close to the campus (to make it) far more efficient for everyone.’” The UNO Plan was enacted in 2004 and allowed developers in West Campus to build projects that were much higher and more
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SOURCE: Ryan Robinson, City Demographer, Department of Planning, City of Austin.
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dense than before. Compared to about 4,800 student housing units in 2000, the area is now filled with an estimated 7,500 units, and there are several more housing complexes in the works. Robinson said before UNO, many students were living in areas farther from campus, such as apartments in East Riverside, Far West and in complexes around Cameron Road, northeast of campus. Robinson said with the introduction of
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new housing under the UNO zoning plan, students started to move out of those neighborhoods and into West Campus. “You can put an exponential graph on students relocating (from farther neighborhoods) as they were populating UNO,” Robinson said. “There was this perfect correspondence of demand and people who were willing to rebuild all this housing.” From 2000 to 2010, almost
4,000 more people moved into the West Campus area, but there was an even bigger jump from 2010 to 2015, with an estimated 4,500 new residents recorded. Real estate broker Mike McHone, who helped start UNO and is an active consultant to multiple projects in West Campus, said before UNO, UT was becoming a “commuter campus,” sending out multiple shuttle buses to bring students in.
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Package explosion victim was bound for UT music school
Longhorns reflect on Augie Garrido’s life
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as Garrido’s replacement, the pair already had a mutual respect for each other. @drewking0222 “I’m thankful for our friendship,” Garrido said in Texas head coach Dahis last text message to Pierce vid Pierce remembers the before his passing on Thursfirst time he crossed paths day morning. with former head coach “I’m just thankful that I Augie Garrido. was around him but realPierce was a restricted ly, really thankful that he earnings coach for Rice. Garembraced me,” Pierce said. rido was the head coach for “That says it all for me. I Cal State Fullerton. The two mean he has become one of teams squared off for a game my very good friends over the during the 1991 season. past couple of years. And so, Garrido’s team took an earthere’s so many people in our ly lead and rode it throughout building that the matchup. are struggling By the sevright now with enth inning, his loss. I’m the Titans up here speakled, 7-0. on behalf Pierce’s team There’s so many ing of all those was frusthat Coach trated. His people in our Garrido is pitcher tried building that are truly missed.” pegging the rrido’s next batter, struggling right lossG ahas been who took exception. The now with his loss. hard for many people. Huntwo teams dreds of people began a brawl have reached on the field David Pierce, out to the team head coach and multiple wishing to give players were their thoughts, ejected. prayers and condolences. “Right then is when I knew “Obviously, it’s a sad day (Garrido) was somebody spefor a program, sad day for cial,” Pierce said. “He was college baseball,” director planning to win the game and of baseball operations Drew that’s what he felt like he had Bishop said. “You get to see to do.” When Garrido resigned as what his reach was really easTexas’ head coach in 2016, ily in a situation like this.” Bishop played for Garrido he remained close to the proat Texas from 2005–2008. gram as a special assistant to then-athletic director Mike Perrin. When Pierce arrived COACH page 2
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By Anna Lassmann Draylen Mason, the 17-yearold killed by a package explosion on March 12, had been accepted to the University of Texas in the Butler School of Music, UT spokesman J.B. Bird said in an email. “This was an accomplishment to be proud of — admission to the school is highly competitive,” Bird said. “We are deeply sorry for (Mason’s) family’s loss.” Mason was involved in a youth orchestra program called Austin Soundwaves, said Doug Dempster, dean of the College of Fine Arts, in a statement. Austin Soundwaves provides free music instruction to artistically underserved children in Austin and especially East Austin, Dempster said. UT’s College of Fine Arts is a co-sponsor of the program. “I’ve been watching Draylen blossom in the program for the last few years,” Dempster said. “I knew he had the chops to study music in college.” Dempster said Mason was one of the first students to participate in the Austin Soundwaves program and was due to graduate from the program in the spring. “(Mason) was a remarkably
“What UNO does is it’s removed some of the population from Riverside and other areas where students are concentrated,” McHone said. “All we are doing is moving the student body back to the (campus) area.” McHone said there is enough space in West Campus to ideally house every student who attends UT, and with a number of new high-rise projects coming to the UNO district, the area’s population will most likely continue to climb. Jacob Wegmann, community and regional planning professor, lived in West Campus in the 1990s and said when he moved back to the area in 2014, it was almost unrecognizable. “When I walked around West Campus, my head spun because all of the familiar landmarks (were gone),” Wegmann said. “It just felt like a different place.” Wegmann said although the some of the character of the area has been lost by growth and additional housing, he thinks it’s a change people should try to embrace. “I know some people are really upset that the neighborhood has been changed beyond recognition, but in my personal opinion, Austin needs to … embrace that this is a metropolitan area of two million people,” Wegmann said. “We are going to have some neighborhoods that are more city-like, and West Campus has become that.”
anthony mireles | the daily texan staff Bill Murray looks toward some fans with longtime friend Cappy McGarr at the Belo Center for New Media on Saturday morning.
Bill Murray celebrates poster donation by UT alumnus By Maria Mendez @mellow_maria
Comedian and actor Bill Murray made a brief appearance at the Moody College of Communication on Saturday morning. “I have no idea why I’m here,” Murray said to a laughing crowd of about 50 students, faculty and staff. Murray helped celebrate UT alumnus Cappy McGarr’s donation of autographed comedy posters to the University during a humor-filled ceremony. The seven posters showcase past recipients of the Mark Twain
Prize for American Humor, including Tina Fey, Ellen DeGeneres, Eddie Murphy and Bill Murray, who received the award in 2016. McGarr, who has three UT degrees, helped establish the Kennedy Center’s prize and serves as an executive producer for the award show. The prize recognizes people who impact American society through humor in honor of the 19th-century satirist and essayist Samuel Clemens, known as Mark Twain. The posters resided in McGarr’s home for the past 20 years, but he said he and his wife decided to donate them
to the Harry Ransom Center during their spring cleaning. “We asked ourselves, ‘Who would want these?’” McGarr said. “Ultimately, we decided to not deprive UT of these priceless relics. After all, when you ponder who would be more appreciative of the autographs of Neil Simon, Julie Andrews, Carol Burnett, the first people you think of are college students born in the 2000s.” The ceremony took place in the Belo Center for New Media in front of Moody College’s coffee shop, which is named Cappy’s Place in honor of
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