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Students protest the removal of Fine Arts Library resources. PAGE 4
Donating blood might be intimidating, but truly saves lives. PAGE 8
Distance medley and shot put highlight 91st Texas Relays for Longhorn men. PAGE 6
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UT power plant saves University $15 million annually By Mason Carroll @masonccarroll
With a team of about 140 people and a single power plant that has been serving UT for decades, Juan Ontiveros said his team holds the power on campus. Ontiveros, the associate vice president for Utilities, Energy and Facilities Management, said the plant has a budget of $60 million a year to keep all 20 million square feet of campus running smoothly. The power plant saves the University $15 million annually, compared to Austin Energy prices, Ontiveros said. “We exist so you don’t have to pay the $15 million more,” Ontiveros said. “It’s a source of pride for us to say, ‘Campus, you have more money available to you because we’re efficient,’ and it gives us the satisfaction that your tuition does not go up because of what we do.” Ontiveros said his team is constantly looking at how they can reduce cost because each dollar they spend is a dollar the University could be using. “We do our own maintenance, our own programming,
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Be the Match to come to campus Bone marrow donor program addresses myths about transplants. By Grace Speas @gracespeas
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e The Match, a worldwide registry matching cancer patients to donors for bone marrow transplantation, will swab cheeks on campus in six different locations during April 9–11. “If you are called and told you are a match, it means that out of the 14 million people on the registry, you are the best match for this patient,” said Samuel Hillhouse, a community engagement representative for Be The Match. “You are their best shot at life, and we will do everything in our power to make it easy for you to donate.” The registration is in co-sponsorship with multiple groups on campus, including UT Athletics, and is an effort to dispel donation falsehoods, Hillhouse said. Mike Thompson, who had cancer on four separate occasions, is a two-time recipient of the transplant. “I’m 32 now, I wasn’t supposed to live to 18,” Thompson said. “I’m alive because of it.” When a patient needs a transplant because their blood is producing dysfunctional cells, they are given high chemotherapy doses and the donor’s blood stem cells, which reproduce quickly in the body, Hillhouse said. Matched donors often believe there is another available match
jacky tovar | the daily texan staff for the cancer patient, which is not true in most cases, Hillhouse said. Other false beliefs include that the donation process is painful, invasive and has long-term effects. Be The Match has done this campus event for five years and 13 donations have resulted since then, Hillhouse said. College swabbings are ideal because campuses contain people of the
(Being a match) is not a common thing, but that’s why it’s so important to be committed if you are a match. You could get that phone call one day.” Samuel Hillhouse,
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been waiting months.” The project, if fully implemented, will likely cost $6-8 billion over the @chasekaracostas course of several decades. CapMetro asked the city to contribute $15 million After releasing a few details eartoward engineering and environmental lier this month, CapMetro has unanalysis. A CapMetro representative veiled its near-complete vision for intold The Daily Texan in an email that creasing high-capacity transit routes the support is crucial and “the agency throughout the Austin area. Some does not have the capacity to undertake Austinites hope this brings the potenthe full scope of work at this time.” tial for a rail line to be built right next The money could come from a possible to campus. The plans feature 11 routes, including bond election in November, or it could be pulled from existing transportation several proposed paths for what Capbond funds. Metro calls “high-caMayor Pro Tem pacity transit,” which Kathie Tovo said she will either be light would like the monrail lines or “rapid” ey to come from the buses on their own latter or see if Caplanes free from othMetro can find the er commuter traffic. funds themselves. The path nearest UT “It’s important is the orange line, to me that the city which runs from shows strong supNorth Austin down port, and if it means Lamar into Guadaallocating some monlupe and past UT ey to get it moving to Republic Square. forward, then I’ll From there, it is met likely support that by the blue line which path,” said Tovo, who goes across the rivrepresents parts of er into the Riverside West Campus on the area, and the brown Kathie Tovo, City Council. line which runs down mayor pro tem Compared to South Congress. past attempts to Specifics on which improve public transit in Austin, lines will be rail or bus have yet to be Tovo said she appreciated how there decided. Scott Morris, a representative has been a focus on helping stufor the Central Austin Community Dedents get to campus and other parts velopment Corporation, said he was of Austin. disappointed to see the decisions for “That kind of thinking about how our which routes would receive rail have really significant student population not yet been made. The Central Austin gets in and around the city is really imCDC is a nonprofit that advocates to portant, and I don’t recall there being improve public transit in the area. such a focus in past plans on that stu“Lines on a map are not something dent perspective,” Tovo said. that can give the public a whole lot of material to discuss the (changes to public transit),” Morris said. “And we’ve
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copyright josie maclean, and reproduced with permission SEAL accepts applications at the beginning of every semester. The organization was made up of 24 members its inaugural year and now has more than 95 participants.
Student organization-turnednonprofit pairs tykes with teens By Sara Schleede @saraschleede
Every classroom at marketing senior Roger Lam’s elementary school had iPads and an interactive white board, but when he starting volunteering at local elementary schools in college, most of the schools he visited did not even have projectors. “It opened my eyes to a lot of things,” Lam said. Students Expanding Austin Literacy, or SEAL, allows students a chance to both mentor and educate elementary-aged kids in schools with low resources in the East Austin
area. Now, they are also an official nonprofit organization. “Being able to be both a student organization and also a recognized nonprofit feels like a next step into expanding and having a bigger reach,” SEAL vice president Angela Park said. SEAL will use this new status to widen their influence to other areas such as Houston and Dallas, Lam said. Lam founded SEAL as part of a Liberal Arts Honors project his freshman year. Currently, SEAL is comprised of 97 student volunteers who are paired with a single student from one of 10 elementary schools
for a semester or longer. They spend one hour per week together reading books and establishing relationships. “We don’t use flashcards or any really professional literacy tactics,” Lam said. “We just hope the kids fall in love with us and in turn fall in love with reading.” Of Austin Independent School District’s 84 elementary and pre-kindergarten campuses, 61 fall under Title I classification in the 2017–18 academic year. Title I schools are defined by the Texas Education Agency as campuses with a student population in which at least 40 percent are low income.
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That kind of thinking about how our really significant student population gets in and around the city is really important.”
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UT students might be conscious of their own energy consumption, but one group aims to give students a first-person perspective on how much energy UT buildings use. On Friday, Longhorn Lights Out hosted their monthly “Join the Dark Side” event in which groups of students turn off lights and other unnecessary electronics in buildings across campus. “We have maps for every building that we hand out once the groups get together,” said Michael Garcia, radio-television-film junior and LLO’s historian. “Everyone grabs a map and it could be any building on campus, especially the buildings that don’t have automatic lighting.” Buildings students visited included the McCombs building, the Art Building and Robert Lee Moore Hall. “(The event) is all about energy efficiency,” Garcia said. “It saves the University a whole lot of power. We count every bulb that gets turned off and then we can calculate how much energy the University is saving.” A goal of the monthly “Join the Dark Side” events is to show how small steps can lead to big change, according to their website. “This was my first time attending a LLO event, and I would definitely come to another one,” nutrition junior Courtney Bates said. “My favorite part of the event was being able to not only think about but also actually visualize how we were saving the environment.” Student groups attending the
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1976,” Ontiveros said. “In that time frame we’ve added 10 million square feet. It all comes down to efficiency, and we are using much, much more electricity, but the same amount of fuel.” George Roth, sustainability studies freshman, said energy efficiency is very important to him, and although it is great to see the University working toward better energy usage, the problem does not end there. “I believe energy efficiency is one of the biggest challenges that we can overcome with the right attention and investment,” Roth said. “However, we need to make sure this energy is coming from renewable sources.” Neil Crump, manager of Project Management and Construction Services, works on the Tower’s
liked walking around and searching around campus,” said chemistry freshman Juliet DeNapoli, whose group went to the Art Building to turn off lights. “I didn’t like that it was pretty short, though. I wish it had been a bit longer.” In addition to their monthly event, LLO said it hopes to raise awareness for campus energy
lighting, and said the power plant is essential to keeping the Tower lit at a low cost. “They’ve won a lot of awards, and they’re pretty much the benchmark for efficient operations,” Crump said. “They keep our campus running.” All the energy is distributed underground with nine miles of tunnels used to distribute the heating and cooling, and about 30 miles used to distribute power to the buildings. Ontiveros said he has an amazing staff who work on everything from the power plant to the tunnels. “I’m the head of it but the people do the work, and to them, not providing these services to campus is an insult,” Ontiveros said. “You can’t force that on people. They have to want to do it and do it on their own, and my people do.”
usage through dimming the UT Tower lights on April 18. “The LLO submitted a proposal to the president’s office and that was to get the Tower to dim for Earth Month,” Garcia said. “It would be significant not only for the group but also for raising awareness for Earth Month and how we take electricity for granted.”
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continues from page 1 SEAL runs two programs, SMART Kids and Reading Buddies. SMART Kids volunteers with larger groups in residential communities instead of in the classroom. Reading Buddies focuses on individual interactions with students typically in first to third grade. Park said the problems students complain about can be as big as being evicted from their home or as small as having a fight with their brother. Park said being so young, they still have a light-hearted attitude. “Even though they’re in these communities where they have fewer resources, they don’t really care,” said Park, a management information systems junior. “They’re still kids.” Students who don’t read proficiently by third grade are four times more likely than proficient readers to not receive a high school diploma, according to a 2011 study by the Annie E. Casey Foundation. “We don’t necessarily change the statistics, but we show the kids they don’t have to be one,” Park said. Middle Eastern studies freshman Emma Hofmann said sessions with her kindergartener through Reading Buddies can focus more on reading or on playing, depending on what the students needs most that day. “I enjoy watching her struggle and get discouraged and then come back,” Hofmann said. “Kids just fall through the cracks. Sometimes (they) need someone to come in and tell them, ‘You are smart.’” Lam said he wanted to create a chance for both college and elementary students to interact and bond in addition to spreading literacy. “I think a lot of people just love working with kids,” Lam said. “You can be exhausted (from studying and stress), but if you walk into a room of kids smiling ear to ear to see you … it’s just the best feeling ever.”
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joshua guenther| the daily texan staff UT students Ashley Pham, Christine Pham and Koger Darden board the 801 MetroRapid bus from the UT/Dean Keaton stop. CapMetro is planning to add 11 high-capacity transit lines to Austin. The proposed Orange line would provide access to the University.
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Dockless e-scooters may be coming to UT Limebike hopes to bring three-part fleet to University area. By Meara Isenburg @mearaannee
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month after Austin’s city council approved a 12-month program to test dockless bikes, the stationless vehicles may soon be rolling in to city streets. Bikeshare company Limebike hopes to bring its own fleet of vehicles to the city and campus area, including an unconventional form of transportation — dockless e-scooters. “We think (Austin) is a great market for scooters given it will (not only) help residents get around downtown … but also for students around UT-Austin,” said Sam Sadle, director of strategic development at LimeBike. “It provides you with one more way to get from campus to downtown, or to internships, to go out or whatever it may be.” Sadle said the scooters are part of the company’s three-part fleet, which it wants to bring to Austin in the coming months. The fleet also includes bikes and e-assist bikes, which are pedal bikes that, like the scooters, contain an electric motor for an uphill boost. The dockless vehicles would be an addition to the city’s current bike-share system, Austin B-cycle, which is station-based. Sadle
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ideal age range for donation, and campuses are also diverse, Hillhouse said. “When we go on a college campus, it’s really pretty easy for us to diversify the registry, which is one of our main goals,” Hillhouse said. Ethnicity matters because a patient is most likely to
said LimeBike’s vehicles would be able to close the gaps for students where the B-Cycle stations don’t reach, such as the final leg from a bus stop to campus, or from campus to a job. Transportation engineering professor Randy Machemehl said while the scooters could help solve many potential transportation issues as the city becomes increasingly congested, dockless vehicles still face two major challenges.
“The key question is, will people be mindful of other people as far as where they park them, and will enough people use them to make the whole venture be profitable?” Machemehl said. Machemehl said he has seen cases where dockless vehicles have been stored by users in inappropriate places, and others where ridership has been low. Still, Machemehl said he’s
hopeful the devices will help students living in nearby areas get to campus. LimeBike has a team to collect the e-scooters at the end of each day, recharge them and set them out again the next morning, Sadle said. The regular dockless bikes are not collected, but to avoid bike disorganization, there will be a team to make sure bikes are organized and in appropriate areas. UT alumnus and Austinite Brad Sloan said he has seen cases in Dallas and even China where these vehicles are stacked in piles by users or left in trees and lakes. Sloan said he thinks there needs to be a strong effort by companies such as LimeBike to keep both the bikes and scooters in check. “Human nature really ends up winning in the end, and people will probably end up, like they have in other cities, thoughtlessly leaving the scooters here, there and everywhere,” Sloan said. James Lentz, president and founder of Campus Bike Alliance, said he likes the idea of more modes of transportation for students to get to campus, but wants to know there will be enough room at UT to house the dockless scooters. “There is already a shortage of bike parking at UT,” said Lentz, civil engineering senior. “The big concern for me with dockless is that students could ride them into campus and leave them in bike racks and then they could just sit there for who knows how long.”
match with someone of their same background, Hillhouse said. White cancer patients searching for donors have a much higher chance of finding a match, within the 90th percentile, Hillhouse said. “Whereas other groups do not have that same luxury, because they are underrepresented on the registry,” Hillhouse said. Thompson, who is white,
had 32 perfect matches and is now cancer-free. “Minorities have a severe lack of options finding perfect matches when it comes to compatibility,” Thompson said. Zane Ortega, a biology and human development family sciences freshman, is part of Texas Alpha Phi Omega, a coed service fraternity helping with the April event. “We agreed to be part of this
Human nature really ends up winning in the end, and people will probably end up ... thoughtlessly leaving the scooters here, there and everywhere.” Brad Sloan,
ut alumnus and austinite
effort because it’s a lot harder for an organization like Be The Match to do stuff on a college campus without partnership with a student organization,” Ortega said. “And also, it doesn’t really take a lot of effort for somebody to do the five-minute swab.” Be The Match asks those joining the registry that they have good health and willingness to donate. Sexual orientation
and preference does not matter, Hillhouse said. For every 470 people who join the registry, only one person will match in their lifetime. “(Being a match) is not a common thing, but that’s why it’s so important to be committed if you are a match,” Hillhouse said, who donated at the age of 21. “You could get that phone call one day.”
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Students protest removal of Fine Arts Library stacks By Janhavi Nemawarkar, Vik Shirvaikar, Liza Anderson Throughout the past year, the University has relocated more than 75,000 books and physical resources from the Fine Arts Library to off-campus storage sites at the JJ Pickle Research Campus and a joint library facility in College Station. Driven by a lack of necessary funding to build a new building for the new School of Design and Creative Technology, the College of Fine Arts decided to convert the fourth floor of the stacks — which has seen a drop in
student use over the past few years — into classrooms and offices for the program. Some of the library materials would remain available online, while others would be available with an interlibrary loan after a wait of three to five business days. This move led to widespread backlash, as students and professors protested the removal of resources from campus. Many argued that students would lose the invaluable experience of stumbling upon resources in the stacks. Others pointed out the value of easily accessible learning materials and the art of discovering resources in a library. In response to this backlash, Doug
Dempster, dean of the College of Fine Arts, appointed two task forces to assess the needs of Fine Arts students and produce a tangible solution to the college’s space problem. The task forces will announce their findings today. In today’s Forum, our contributors discuss the future of the Fine Arts Library. Zoe Cagan, a music performance junior, reminds us of the role a library plays within a university and points out students’ need for physical, accessible resources. Cagan suggests that this removal of resources reflects a broader undervaluation of the arts in America, and especially Texas. She calls upon administration to hear student voices and stop taking away their
learning materials. Logan Larsen, a studio art and art history sophomore, talks about the significance of the Fine Arts Library in his personal experience at UT. He emphasizes the importance of accessible resources for student research and warns that students will suffer if the University does not prioritize these concerns. As always, please reach out to us at thedailytexanforum@gmail.com if you have thoughts on this issue or anything else. Nemawarkar is a Plan II and government junior from Austin. Shirvaikar is a math and economics junior from Fresco. Anderson is a Plan II and history sophomore from Houston.
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Student research relies on accessible materials
A library without books is not a library
By Logan Larsen forum contributor
I learned how to read in third grade, much later than most of my peers in elementary school. As a person with Dyslexia, my path to reading wasn’t as simple as everyone else’s and it took years to be able to read and comprehend what came naturally to others. Eventually, I did overcome my learning disability, and I am now an active researcher in the study of art history. Books, which used to be inaccessible to me as a kid, are now essential visual and textual objects for my profession and practice. That’s why I felt so physically threatened when I found out about the impending destruction of the Fine Arts Library. It was a struggle just to learn to read, and now that I could actively use books, my access to these essential resources was being pulled out from under me. Why would a University I came to because of its collections and libraries want to take them away from me? Excuses of the lack of space and the figures of falling circulation rates are not enough to justify the ousting of an essential and one of a kind collection like the Fine Arts Library. Earlier last semester, I was walking in the stacks looking for a book on Botticelli and wandered upon an entire stack filled with books of varying quality. Each book, which would have been virtually listed as the same book in the online catalog, offered something different, and they allowed me to see what I wanted and what I needed for my research. They also led me on totally unexpected paths, giving me rarely seen works which were virtually unrepresented on the Google search of the artist. This discovery became the cornerstone of months of research and this discovery still subsequently impacts my work. In the thirty minutes it took me to make this discovery in the stacks, it would take a minimum of 24–48 hours to make the same discovery with the libraries’ proposed system of keeping books in off-site storage facilities, had I even known what I was looking for. As a researcher, the book-less, and
browse-less ‘Library of the Future’ promoted by the University is simply not viable. Specifically, as a studio art and art history major, the most fundamental part about having access to a physical book is the act of looking and analyzing a variety of images. Publishers work to give the most accurate reproduction of an artwork and these images simply don’t translate through a scan to an online format. The physicality of a printed image is vital and the act of discerning differences between an image printed fifty years ago and an image printed in just the past few years is irreplaceable.
As a researcher, the book-less, and browse-less ‘Library of the Future’ promoted by the University is simply not viable.”
The Fine Arts Library and all libraries on campus must remain as easily accessible, open-stack collections on campus. If we lose these resources, it will not only impact my study, but it will also directly hinder the study of all students after me. UT is putting the quality of my education and the future value of my degree in jeopardy and doing a disservice to its students by actively dissuading research. This is not just a problem for the current and future students of the College of Fine Arts — it’s a problem for every student that comes to this university expecting to do research and finds the resources they need have been boxed up and shipped out, lost to an online catalog. There is no alternative for libraries on campus, and these spaces must remain a cornerstone to this Research 1 University. Larsen is a studio art and art history freshman from McKinney.
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By Zoe Cagan
forum contributor This “research” University’s Fine Arts Library is being shoved aside. It is a commonly known idea that this country undervalues Fine Arts Education — from the White House that proposed to eliminate funding for the National Endowment for the Arts and Humanities,to Texas elementary schools losing funding for vital creative programs for their students. On our campus, we still must fight the same thing. The Fine Arts Library has already lost 60 percent of its resources and is under threat to lose the rest. A library without books is not a library. These books and materials were relocated to off-campus locations to make room for the new School of Design and Creative Technologies. In the attempt to expand our College of Fine Arts, Dean Doug Dempster, Provost Maurie McInnis and director of libraries Lorraine Haricombe have instead stunted the growth of their COFA students.
How are we supposed to feel like we belong to a campus that prides itself on research when our research opportunities dwindle away right in front of us?”
It’s hard to proclaim that “What Starts Here Changes the World” when students feel their administrators are trying their best to ensure that we can’t make that happen. How are COFA students supposed to expand their knowledge when the most basic resource is 3–5 business days away? How are we supposed to compete for jobs with graduates from other universities with better resources? How are we supposed to feel like we belong to a campus that prides itself on research when our research
opportunities dwindle away right in front of us? What do we tell incoming students when they ask why the Fine Arts Library only has one floor of books? A library without books is not a library. We have a petition. We have joint letters voicing the concerns from the professors of Butler School of Music, Art History, and Theatre and Dance. We have a resolution to protest the removal of the books, and we have the very simple opposition statement “don’t take our books.” The fact that all of this is necessary is ludicrous. It is shameful that students, faculty and even alumni must fight so hard to keep something so essential on this campus. The FAL should not be shrinking on this “research” campus. It should be surpassing those of other institutions, but instead we are struggling to preserve one floor of resources. It is a cycle. The fewer books and materials there are, the fewer people will visit. The less traffic there is in the FAL, the more reason the administration has to repurpose it. Fewer people come in, more materials are relocated. Dean Dempster has used the argument that fewer people visit the library each month in his position for the repurposing of the FAL, however the fact that 60 percent of the materials are no longer on this campus is undoubtedly an element behind this. Students simply cannot use a resource that fails to serve them adequately. When a shiny new engineering building with its own library inside is erected across the street, and COFA students are dealing with this travesty, it gives the strong impression that our administration does not care about us. A library without books is not a library. But it’s not only about the books. Quality dance, theater and opera performances are not so easily found with a Google search. Many artists do not share their work online, so when DVDs are moved to remote storage facilities, it limits access and impedes the ability for progress. Art and Art History information is mostly in catalogs and books that are rarely reproduced in electronic form. The materials that are digitalized, however, lose a great deal of their artistic effect. Music students often must order scores independently with their own money because the FAL supported by our tuition lacks them. Maybe a day will come when this country will understand the value of the Arts and its effect on our humanity, and COFA will never be faced with a situation like this again. Until then, we’ll continue to make our voices heard. Cagan is a music performance junior from Houston.
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ALBUM REVIEW | ‘CZARFACE MEETS METAL DOOM’
MF Doom, Czarface team up for enjoyable collaborative hip-hop album By Chris Duncan @chr_dunc
With the modern popularity of superhero films and stories, super-friend crossovers, such as the Avengers and Justice League, are colloquial to anyone who doesn’t live under a rock. On Friday, the hip-hop equivalent released their first collaborative LP, Czarface Meets Metal Face. Comprised of Wu-Tang member Inspectah Deck and hip-hop duo Esoteric and 7L, Czarface meets underground icon MF Doom on their new joint album. Together, the group resembles a team of superheros more than any other hip hop collective — between their obsession with comic books and supervillain-esque interludes, there’s enough nerdom here to start a local Comic-Con. Czarface and Doom have similar styles, opting for a more hardcore sound, glitchy and hard beats and, most importantly, worldplay up the wazoo. Doom in particular is a legend among hip-hop heads for his lengthy discography, lack of public appearances and pioneering spirit, allowing for his recordings to take center stage rather than his personality or politics. An album produced by these two units just makes sense, and together
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continues from page 8 vegan if she had the opportunity. “You think about vegan food, but you don’t ever think about things like ink for tattoos until someone talks to you about it,” Bernthal said. “Then you’re like, ‘Huh? I never thought about that!’” Although vegan tattoos look the same as standard tattoos, vegans still find it important to practice what they preach. Bernthal has a “save the whales” tattoo which sparks a conversation about her veganism, something she said she loves to talk about. “My vegan tattoos align with my morals,” Bernthal says. “I chose to live all-vegan because I think veganism is about doing your best, not about being perfect.”
they deliver in expected fashion, fleshing out quirky and fun songs that fall in line with Doom’s plethora of collaborations. On a surface level, Czarface Meets Metal Face could be a slight letdown. Most of the album’s beats follow a similar path, as 7L opts for a rugged boom-bap style with which the three rappers all found their fame. First-time listeners might find the style refreshing, but anyone who has ever listened to a Doom release is right in their comfort zone on this project. Kicking things off with a skit and diving into their first song together, Inspectah Deck sets the tone, rapping, “Yo, bombageddon, Hard head descendants, Jarhead in the trenches, Scarhead’s relentless.” He steals the show from both Doom and Esoteric, combining self-conscious lyrics with inter-bar rhymes that people have come to expect. As the album rolls along, the rappers trade moments, with Doom triumphing as the standout MC on “Phantoms” and Esoteric confidently throwing his hat in the ring with “Badness of Madness.” Trading blows, the trio delivers lyrically everything listeners expect, but as as the album meanders onto its second half, it becomes obvious that Czarface + Doom might be a one-trick pony.
CZARFACE MEETS METAL FACE ARTIST: MF Doom, Czarface SCORE: Taken as individual pieces, tracks such as “Stun Gun” and “Captain Brunch” stand among some of the best on Czarface Meets Metal Face, but when considered as pieces of a whole, the songs blend in and get lost in the record’s uniform sound. Beyond the surface novelty of this album, there isn’t much aside from a typical MF Doom collaboration. Yet, even though it’s not a revolutionary piece of art, Czarface Meets Metal Face still stands its own in Doom’s expansive collaborative discography. Given that the titan of industry seems set on never releasing another solo album, fans have to take what they get — in this case, it’s a relatively expected LP with Czarface. And when all is said and done, Czarface Meets Metal Face is a fun reminder of exactly why so many people follow MF Doom from project to project. It won’t shock you with introspective and political lyrics or inventive beats, but it’s something to turn to and get your fix.
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MEN’S TRACK & FIELD
Distance medley leads way at Texas Relays Junior Alex Rogers’ efforts earn Texas a first place finish. By Marcus Krum @marcuskrum
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hen Alex Rogers received the baton with one mile left in the distance medley relay at the 91st Clyde Littlefield Texas Relays, he knew he had work to do. Sitting in third place, neck-andneck with the teams from Texas A&M and Houston, the junior was not going to go down quietly on his home track. Rogers kicked into gear halfway through the final lap, sprinting by the remainder of the pack on the final turn. “I made three surges, and they matched every single one flawlessly,” Rogers said. “With 300 (meters) to go, I said I can’t make small moves anymore — I have to make the move. From 300 to 200, I was winding it up, and then with 200 (meters left), I just had to let it go.” Rogers held his pace, flashing the horns as he crossed the finish line to the liking of the home crowd, which let out a roar. “That was quite a feeling,” Rogers said. “The emotions, the pride and the excitement — it was all incredible. To do it in front of a home crowd, it doesn’t get much sweeter than that.” For others, however, this was the grand finale of a career of competing at this meet. Senior Fabian Dohmann needed all six of his throws in the javelin to perform up to his standard, using his final throw to jump up from seventh to second in his final Texas Relays competition. “I told myself, ‘I cannot get beaten like this in my last home meet,’” Dohmann said. “I’m glad I pulled it off in the very end. It would have
carlos garcia | the daily texan staff Freshman Sam Worley and junior Alex Rogers run side-by-side at the Texas Relays at Mike A. Myers Stadium this weekend. The distance medley team, led by a final push from Rogers, earned first place Friday evening. been a very bitter flavor if I had not ended with that.” For some, including freshman Tripp Piperi, this was their first experience competing at Mike A. Myers Stadium as Longhorns. Piperi was able to channel the excitement of throwing in front of the crowd to win the first outdoor meet of his collegiate career, this time throwing 19.6 meters. “It feels awesome,” Piperi said. “I love coming to this meet, I love competing in front of everybody, it’s a great opportunity, and it
feels amazing.” Coming off an All-American performance in his first indoor track season, Piperi looked for a solid start to begin his outdoor career. His emotion after several big throws on the day was infectious with the rest of the team. “His antics — he gets so excited. He’s so invested in it,” Texas interim head coach Tonja Buford-Bailey said. “He’s just such a great inspiration to watch.” But not every Longhorn found continued success from the indoor
season. Indoor triple jump national champion O’Brien Wasome finished 10th in the event on Friday. But the sophomore was not worried about his performance heading into the meat of the outdoor season. “I’m not feeling too bad. I fouled my first two jumps, but they felt really good, like how indoor felt,” Wasome said. “I’m just going to be confident that I felt how I felt at nationals, maybe better. I’m just enjoying it.” The week at the Texas Relays
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was a gauge of the work that needs be put in the rest of the season. In just the first outdoor meet of the year, the Longhorns were able to display why they are ranked in the NCAA preseason top 20 with several big performances to begin the season. “I was pretty satisfied. We had some ups and downs,” Buford-Bailey said. “It was just good to have people come out and get a good race under their belts. Through the week, just seeing some bright spots is really encouraging.”
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Longhorns avoid sweep with 9-5 victory over Kansas State By Shane Lewis @shanelewis4204
angela wang | the daily texan staff Sophomore Elena Bruckner competes in the hammer throw at the 91st Clyde Littlefield Texas Relays at Mike A. Myers Stadium on Friday afternoon. Bruckner broke the school record with a 56.21 meter throw.
Priess, Bruckner highlight Texas Relays for Longhorn Women By Donnavan Smoot @dsmoot3d
Over 7,000 athletes, from 21 countries and 195 colleges, were in Austin this week for the 91st Clyde Littlefield Texas Relays. It was an event that helps signify the arrival of the outdoor track and field season. Junior Georgia Wahl and redshirt sophomore Virginia Preiss competed for the Longhorns on Wednesday, which was strictly for heptathlon and decathlon events. Preiss was ready from the get-go. Every event she competed in — high jump, shot put, 100-meter hurdles and 200-meter dash — she set a personal record. Outside of the 100-meter hurdles, Preiss recorded a top-15 finish in each of her events. Preiss’ success came despite the event being delayed three hours due to lightning in the area. “I think making the meet later in the day actually helped a bit because we practice in the afternoon,” Preiss said of the delay. “It felt more comfortable to be running hurdles at 2 p.m. as opposed to 10 a.m.” Thursday came with more cooperative weather and with
more events. Preiss continued her string of good performances, placing fifth in the 800-meter dash. She finished the heptathlon in 12th place. Junior Mariam Abdul-Rashid and senior Ariel Jones ran in the 400-meter hurdles, placing fifth and seventh, respectively. In the finals, the two Longhorns placed third and fourth, with Abdul-Rashid finishing 0.18 seconds faster than Jones. Sophomore Elena Bruckner competed in the hammer throw, epitomizing the term “student-athlete” as she ran to take a test beforehand and then came back to Mike A. Myers Stadium to compete. When she came back, she had a 96 on her exam and a school record in the hammer throw. The night was capped off with distance events. Junior Gabby Crank and freshman Meghan Rourke came in fourth and ninth, respectively, in the 800-meter dash. Rourke led after the first lap and for a majority of the second, but she ran out of gas and fell to fourth in her heat. The 3,000-meter steeplechase closed the night. Junior Meghan Lloyd came out of the gate firing. The race quickly became about her and Clemson’s Logan Morris. They were
neck and neck until the fifth lap when Lloyd began to separate. But she wasn’t able to keep up the pace as she fell behind on the last quarter of the final lap. Morris overtook Lloyd and came in first, after she had been second to Lloyd the entire race. “I saw (Morris) was right behind me. I tried to respond, but she was really quick,” Lloyd said. “If I had gone a little sooner, I could’ve held her off.” Lloyd still beat her mark at the Texas Relays last year by 18 seconds and set a school record by seven seconds. The next day came with several top-10 finishes from the Longhorn women — Wahl in the triple jump, the 4x100 relay team, redshirt junior Shay Petty in the pole vault and redshirt senior Haley Crouser in the javelin throw. The Longhorns also dominated in the 100-meter hurdles, as four qualified for the finals. In the finals, sophomore Rushelle Burton won with a time of 12.64 seconds. The week as a whole featured victories, heartbreaks, records and lessons for the future. The Texas women were able to get a good look at what their top athletes have at this point in the season.
On Friday night, the Longhorns used a seven-run inning to stage a big ninth-inning comeback against Kansas State, only to see their efforts fall short, 11-10. On Saturday, Texas had another seven-run frame, only this time it fueled a 9-5 victory over the Wildcats. The win helped Texas (17–12, 6–3 Big 12) avoid being swept in a three-game series for the first time this year. Down 5-2 in the top of the fifth, the Longhorns used timely hitting and patient atbats to spur the offensive outburst. Texas loaded the bases to start the inning, thanks to a pair of walks and an error by the Wildcats. Freshman designated hitter Zach Zubia proceeded to bring in two runs, driving an RBI double to centerfield. Sophomore infielder David Hamilton followed with a walk to once again load the bases. Redshirt junior infielder
Joe Baker recorded his first hit since March 3, a single that tied the game at five a piece. Texas continued to ride the momentum, scoring four more runs on the next four at-bats. All nine batters in the lineup reached base in the inning, and the Longhorns did their damage, only recording three hits. Texas walked five times in the frame. The game looked like it might be a back-and-forth affair early. Texas jumped out to a 1-0 lead in the first inning thanks to an RBI single from sophomore infielder Ryan Reynolds. But Kansas State was quick to answer, leading off the second inning with a home run to right field. The Longhorns then staged a two-out rally in the third inning, which culminated with redshirt junior pitcher Andy McGuire being hit by a pitch to draw in a run. Leading 2-1 in the bottom of the third, junior pitcher Chase Shugart loaded the bases to start the inning and couldn’t get out of the jam. The
Wildcats scored four runs in the frame and looked poised for a series sweep. But Texas had other plans. Shugart was awarded the win, going six innings while surrendering seven hits and five earned runs. McGuire got the save, retiring the final four batters of the game without giving up a hit. Junior pitcher Matteo Bocchi also made an appearance, throwing 1.2 scoreless innings. The right-handed transfer hasn’t surrendered a run dating back to the Stanford series in early March, and he now has a 2.13 ERA on the season. McGuire also recorded three RBIs in the game, giving him six for the series. Prior to this three-game slate with Kansas State, McGuire had only driven in one run on the year. Junior outfielder Tate Shaw and infielder Masen Hibbeler both had multi-hit games, each going 2-for-5. After four straight games on the road, the Longhorns return to UFCU Disch-Falk Field on Monday to take on McNeese State at 6:30 p.m.
katie bauer | the daily texan file Redshirt freshman designated hitter Zach Zubia takes a hack at a pitch at UFCU Disch-Falk Field. Zubia finished with three hits and one RBI in Texas’ 2-1 series loss to Kansas State this weekend.
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Blood drive organizers advocate for donation To keep up with high demand for blood, more people need to donate. By Francesca D’Annunzio @ftcdnz
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ccording to the American Red Cross, every two seconds someone in the U.S. needs blood. Even though 38 percent of the population is eligible to give blood, less than 10 percent actually do so. Many evade the act of charity due to a fear of needles. However, the small sacrifice of discomfort and an hour of time could save multiple lives. The idea of a needle being inserted into the arm may appear daunting for many eligible donors, but Nicholas Canedo, donor engagement manager at We Are Blood, a nonprofit blood center in Texas, said that most donors do not experience difficulty when donating. “Less than 0.28 percent of people who donate have an adverse reaction,” Canedo said. “It is usually quite minor.” One of the problems is that blood only has a shelf life of 42 days, and there must be donors giving all the time in order to keep up the supply. Canedo also said people should change the way they think about blood’s status as a vital resource. “I think that people don’t
think about blood as an important resource as often as they should,” Canedo said. “It cannot be created artificially.” Canedo said blood recipients can range from leukemia patients, mothers who experienced uncontrollable bleeding during birth and victims of accidents, such as Brian Boyle, a triathlete and the American Red Cross National Partnerships Officer. According to Boyle’s doctors, he should not have survived his car accident 14 years ago. Boyle said he endured countless injuries, including shattered ribs, a shattered pelvis, laceration of the kidneys and liver, nerve damage to his left shoulder, collapsed lungs, his heart moved across his chest and the loss of 60 percent of his blood. Boyle said his life was saved by multiple surgeries, being resuscitated 8 times during his two month-long coma, 36 blood transfusions and 13 plasma treatments. Now fully recovered, Boyle said he has completed five Ironman triathlons, 16 marathons and several ultramarathons. Boyle said he is grateful for the opportunity he was given at a second chance at life — or a ninth chance at life, if you count his 8 resuscitations. Most recently, Boyle ran a 100 mile ultramarathon on behalf of 100 blood donors. “I always have my 36 little red crosses on my race suits to
represent my blood donors so I’ll always raise awareness and also have that platform to show the appreciation,” Boyle said. The American Red Cross says that a single car crash victim may need as many as 100 units of blood. However, not all of the most needy recipients are car crash victims. Jordan Renwick, an 18-year-old with anemia, was nearly comatose when she realized she was iron deficient. “Your hemoglobin level is supposed to be 12. Jordan’s was at 4,” said Sam Renwick, Jordan’s mother. It took Jordan a long time to notice her grave hemoglobin deficiency, as her symptoms of exhaustion and dizziness were initially misdiagnosed as a symptoms of an anxiety disorder. “I couldn’t walk up a flight of stairs. I would walk 10 meters and get exhausted,” Renwick said. Without the blood transfusions, Renwick would have gone into a coma. An hour of time and enough courage to surmount a fear of needles could be enough to save a life. “Blood is a critical saving gift,” Boyle said. “(It) really gives someone like myself the chance at a lifetime.”
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ALBUM REVIEW | ‘VESSEL’
Frankie Cosmos’ ‘Vessel’ delivers solid tunes with subtle sadness By Ruben Paquian @rubenpaq
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Learn more about vegan tattoos, why they are becoming popular By Danielle Ortiz @danielleaortiz
Many vegans are used to asking for vegan options at restaurants, but during the process of getting a tattoo, the last thing people would expect is that tattoos have a distinction between vegan and non-vegan. Despite advances in the tattoo industry to veer away from animal-derived products, there are still many tools and inks used in the process that aren’t fully vegan. What makes tattoos not vegan? Although many inks are now vegan and are typically standard in all shops, some old school inks, drawing inks — such as India Ink — and some small batch inks still contain animal products such as bone char, animal glycerin, gelatin, carmine or shellac. Not only do vegans have to worry about the ink, but the stencil paper used during the process of planning a tattoo design has lanolin, made from the fat of sheep wool, and the moisture strip on razors comes from animal fat. Tia Musson lives a vegan lifestyle and has five tattoos, three are vegan. Musson didn’t know that vegan tattoos existed before she got her first two. She was shocked to learn that the permanent ink interfered with her values. “I just felt crushed,” Musson said. “Here’s another thing I
More people are wanting to know more about what makes something vegan or not. Veganism is beyond food nowadays.” Alex Rodriguez, golden goat piercing apprentice
would never think to check that has animal products in it.” As more tattoo shops offer more vegan alternatives in ink, the Golden Goat Tattoo Company, located in Round Rock, Texas, offers an all vegan-friendly process for getting inked. Alex Rodriguez, piercing apprentice at the Golden Goat, says she’s noticed more people are becoming interested in vegan tattoos and will make the drive to the shop because it is the only all-vegan tattoo business in the Austin area. “More people are wanting to know more about what makes something vegan or not,’ Rodriguez said. “Veganism is beyond food nowadays.” Not only do more people want to know what’s going on their skin, it also comes to which business they support. The Golden Goat gives back to the vegan community by using locally made, natural, vegan tattoo ointment and soap. “It’s important to me to know what my money is supporting,” Musson said. “The more money I spend on vegan products the better I feel about doing my part.” Austinite Gabby Bernthal got lucky that some of her tattoos from before she went vegan didn’t use any animal-derived products, but there’s one that she said she would go back in time to get
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With 18 short, high-energy, indie pop-punk tracks, Frankie Cosmos’ Vessel poetically explores themes of doubt, loss and the pains and joys of love. Greta Kline, best known for her work under the name Frankie Cosmos, has become one of the most influential indie pop artists in her genre today. Kline’s third studio LP Vessel delivers a sound reminiscent of her previous work while narrowing in on a more energetic and fuller sound. Despite this subtle shift, Vessel is an album that successfully explores the complex emotions experienced by millennials, through her dense poetic lyrics and upbeat instrumentals. Veteran Frankie Cosmos fans will definitely notice faster, more dynamic arrangements on Vessel compared to her previous albums Next Thing and Zentropy. It has the usual four piece band composed of an electric guitar, bass, drums and synth, and the album’s intricate drumming and ever-evolving time signatures give the album it’s punk energy. Both “The Ballad of R&J” and “Caramelized” are perfect examples of this — each track fluctuates from fast to slow, adding weight and emotion to Kline’s opposing lyrics. In recent interviews, Kline revealed she often places her darkest thoughts in her songs, it shows on this LP. Some of the most powerful lyrics on the album are found on the track “Cafeteria,” where Kline sings, “I wasn’t built for this world, I had sex once, now I’m dead,” exploring her struggles with her body insecurities. She creates a strong sense of irony by pairing this with bouncing, high-energy music.
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Kline makes sure to pay tribute to the fans of her music by re-recording songs previously released on older EPs with the song “As Often as I Can,” dedicated specifically to her followers, according to a recent interview with Pitchfork. The songs “Duet” and Being Alive” are also re-recorded cuts off of her EPs donutes and Affirms Glinting, showing her dedication and appreciation for fans. Despite the lengthy total of 18 songs on Vessel, the album’s run time is only 33 minutes, making each song short — some of the shortest songs run less than a minute long. Yet, these tracks still deliver a powerful and complete message. The track “My Phone,” running only 32 seconds, serves as a commentary on modern love in this digitally driven world. It uses lyrics such as “My phone will die and I won’t even cry, ‘Cause I know you’re nearby” to express how Kline doesn’t need constant reminders of affection through constant communication. This, along with a smattering of other short songs, shows how Kline can use a minimal amount of words to make a meaningful and impactful piece. Although it may take a few listens to understand, Frankie Cosmos’ Vessel is a poetic and lyrically dense piece that easily speaks to the feelings of angst experienced in youth. With instruments that range from punk to indie pop rock, Vessel is sure to leave listeners jamming and dancing their sorrows away.
copyright sub pop, and reproduced with permission With depressing poetic lyrics and angelic high-pitch vocals, Frankie Cosmos’ latest LP Vessel beautifully captures the essence of millennial angst.