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apital Metro made changes to more than 50 bus routes in the Austin area on June 3, including routes to and from the University. High-frequency service was added to bus stops along Martin Luther King, Red River, Cesar Chavez, Duval and Riverside, among others. Route 653, connecting Red River to UT, was replaced by Route 10. These changes, called “Cap
Remap,” are intended to cut less-used routes and add more frequent service to key routes. Lawrence Deeter, a Cap Metro representative, said Cap Metro’s decision to change the frequency of routes was the result of a yearand-a-half worth of conversations with the Austin community. He said Cap Metro also worked with UT’s shuttle bus committee and made a presentation to UT’s student government prior to the changes being approved. In the 2016–2017 school year, the bus system provided UT students with 1,787,923 mainline rides, as well as 2,571,682 UT shuttle rides. “I think it’s going to open up the options for graduate
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“MasculinUT,” a Counseling and Mental Health Center initiative aimed at preventing sexual assault on campus, is on hold after a slew of conservative outlets incorrectly claimed UT treats masculinity as a mental health issue. Although the University vehemently denies such intent, it has nonetheless called a steering committee to reassess MasculinUT and to “assure the program’s mission remains clearly defined.” According to Chris Brownson, associate vice president of student affairs and director of the CMHC, the future of this vital program is unknown and will remain so until the steering committee submits its final recommendations. Despite administrative uncertainty, many UT students know MasculinUT is vital to our campus. The steering committee needs to prioritize the needs of students over the anger of conservative media, and their recommendations and subsequent implementation must uphold the program’s original priorities. MasculinUT’s core aims are to promote healthy masculinity and to share the burden of sexual assault prevention between men and women. These goals are not radical, but the program does stand out in its willingness to institutionalize such conversations. In the nearly three years since its inception, MasculinUT has held events, discussions and movie showings, but the last straw for Rush Limbaugh and other ultraconservative journalists was a poster campaign that displayed various forms of unorthodox masculinities in the name of acceptance. This program is beneficial to men and women alike because it challenges the societally favored rhetoric of the dominant tough guy, encouraging a spectrum of manifestations of masculinity while also encouraging men to take responsibility in the fight to eradicate sexual assault. This is especially important because many colleges choose
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to warn women of things they do to invite assault, rather than address the perpetrators. “If we’re not including men in sexual violence prevention, we’re never going to get where we need to be in terms of eradicating it,” Brownson said. “That’s why MasculinUT is situated in our Voices Against Violence program, because at its core, it is really about how we can engage men in the prevention of interpersonal violence and specifically sexual assault.” Brownson notes that the University was aware of few, if any, complaints about MasculinUT before the recent media attention. In fact, he said, the impression was that it was popular among students. The University must keep this in mind moving forward. UT does not need to capitulate to Fox News and similar propaganda machines; it needs to prevent sexual assault and make campus as safe and trauma-free for everyone as possible. Although it’s not uncommon for University programs to be reassessed, this particular reassessment must not give in to outside pressures that are, in fact, fueled by the very masculinity issues MasculinUT is trying to address. Sexual violence is both a systemic and cultural problem: A two-pronged problem needs a twopronged solution. Our university needs to unabashedly stand behind that solution. It would be disheartening to see drastic alterations tone down a program that loudly supports the University’s students in the name of good public relations. At the end of the day, students matter more than Fox News anchors. The steering committee’s reassessment is set to be completed by Aug. 1, and UT students can only hope that the two core pillars of the program are not dismantled or quieted. Sexual assault prevention is not a passive act. Women across the world have loudly confronted sexual violence in the #MeToo movement, and it’s vital that our institutions stick behind us. The University must stand with its women. A toned-down version of MasculinUT will not be enough. Vernon is an anthropology and rhetoric and writing senior from The Woodlands. am
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joshua guenther | the daily texan staff GOAT, a new scooter company in Austin, is introducing a local alternative to Bird. The scooters came back to the streets of Austin after over a month of being banned by the city.
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Dockless electric scooter companies Bird and LimeBike have returned to the streets of Austin, along with new competition, after temporarily removing their scooters in April to comply with the city’s new permitting process. The city has also allowed local scooter company GOAT and Pace dockless bikes, distributed by the bike-share company Zagster, to operate their vehicles on city streets. “We’re not as big and we don’t have as much money as these (other scooter) companies, so we’re focusing on quality.” said Michael Schramm, CEO and founder of GOAT. Schramm said GOAT is currently a small team of people who work out of a garage to piece their electric scooters together by hand. The result, Schramm said, is that there are less than 100 of their
purple scooters on the streets. By contrast, Bird received permission to deploy 500 vehicles in Austin, which is the maximum allowed under the permitting system, according to the Austin American-Statesman. GOAT, Bird and Lime scooters all cost $1 to start and 15 cents per minute to ride. The Statesman reported on May 23 that Bird had obtained permits to operate in Austin, and over the weekend, LimeBike scooters began popping up in the Austin area. Bike-share company Zagster has also rolled out less than 200 of its Pace dockless bikes onto Austin streets, said Chad Jacobs, Austin Expansion Manager with Pace. Jacobs said Pace bikes are unique in their ability to be locked to public bike racks. The black and white bikes cost $1 per 30 minutes to ride and the company offers college students unlimited 60 minute trips for $14.50 a month — half of their regular
monthly subscription. “There’s a number of bikeshare operators that don’t require riders to ultimately lock their bikes at the end of a ride, so they give them this ability to leave their bikes absolutely anywhere,” Jacobs said. “We require that bikes lock to things to avoid these issues.” Under the city’s permitting system, all dockless vehicles are required to have locks by Aug. 1. While Pace bikes have built-in locks, the scooters do not currently have locks. “We have to make it work,” Schramm said. “We’re absolutely going to be here when the students come back (for fall semester).” According to their mobile apps, only a handful of Pace bikes and GOAT scooters appeared on campus Friday afternoon. However, many students still zipped around on red bikes from Austin Bcycle, the city’s docked bike system. Austin B-cycle allows
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LEFT: Senior first baseman Jake McKenzie tags Tennessee Tech center fielder Alex Junior during the Longhorns’ 4-2 game two victory on Sunday. TOP: A Longhorn fan celebrates along with 7,151 fans at UFCU Disch-Falk Field during Texas’ victory Sunday. RIGHT: Junior catcher DJ Petrinksy, left, hugs junior outfielder Masen Hibbeler after Texas’ super-regional-clinching game three victory over Tennessee Tech on Monday.
he excitement was uncontainable for the Longhorns after senior first baseman Jake McKenzie secured the final out of Texas’ 5-2 game three victory over Tennessee Tech on Monday. Every player on the bench, on the field and in the bullpen rushed center stage immediately. Some gloves went flying, while players and coaches alike embraced each other as Texas celebrated a super regional win to advance to the College World Series for the first time since 2014. On Monday afternoon, Texas would earn all the superlatives it had been synonymous with throughout the season as they took the final game in the Austin Super Regional from Tennessee Tech. In front of an exhilarated, sunscorched crowd of 7,370, Texas did what it always planned to: advance to Omaha. “It feels awesome,” Texas head coach David Pierce said. “It really does. It’s never been about me, and it never will be. But the thing that I love is the thing I told these guys back in the fall (was) that I want this for you guys, but I also want it for those
three coaches who have been w seven years.” As chants of “Augie” rang d the Longhorn faithful, a reflec passed through the crowd at UF Falk Field, one of elation and but also one of reverence and a of the former Texas head co Garrido, who passed away on M “It’s kind of a crazy thing tha ebrating his life just a couple mo redshirt junior Parker Joe Robi “And then to have us perform it right after he passed away. Our of flipped a switch. I don’t kno Augie was with us.” In Pierce’s second season as h of Texas, he led his team from th they started the season with a 9 to winning a super regional. N final destination this season w College World Series at TD A Park, the biggest stage for colleg The trip to get there has h share of twists and turns. After a loss, Texas’ hope of reaching co ball’s biggest stage seemed to b through their fingers.
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In the second game of the series, two of Texas’ most salient arms would show up in full force. Junior starter Chase Shugart and sophomore Blair Henley willed their way to a victory in game two with a pair of their best outings on the season. Game three was slightly more unconventional. Texas’ starter wasn’t an ace. He wasn’t a stud recruit. In fact, his hometown is over 5,500 miles away from Austin, in Parma, Italy. Monday starting pitcher junior Matteo Bocchi, who had never even heard of the College World Series until a couple of years ago, took the mound in Texas’ most important game of the season. Between Bocchi and some timely hits from Kody Clemens and the Longhorns, Texas was able to seal the victory and reserve their spot at the College World Series, where eight teams will fight for the national championship. For now, Texas took Monday afternoon to celebrate. The Longhorns grabbed hats labeled “OMAHA” in bold letters, and huddled around Kody Clemens, who said,
“Hey, guess what? The show goes on, but we are not finished.” The team proceeded to sprint to the Longhorn logo in center field to take a photo behind Garrido’s initials and number ‘AG 16’ which are labeled in the center of the logo. “It’s awesome,” Clemens said. “It’s crazy that he is gone but everything that we’ve been doing and working for, it’s all for him. We’re taking him to Omaha, Nebraska, so it’s going to be a lot of fun.”
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Every year, a new horror film is proclaimed a classic, and this year, it’s “Hereditary.” The debut feature from writer-director Ari Aster arrives in theaters with quite the pedigree. Following genius marketing and praise from SXSW Film Festival attendees, there were high expectations going into this film. Surprisingly, “Hereditary” absolutely lives up to the hype, but only in its opening stretch. When her estranged mother passes away, miniature artist Annie Graham (Toni Collette) doesn’t have much of a reaction, focusing her efforts on her work. Something
“HEREDITARY” RUNTIME: 127 minutes MPAA RATING: R SCORE: is not right in her household, however. Her daughter Charlie (Milly Shapiro) is displaying increasingly antisocial and strange behavior, while her son, Peter (Alex Wolff), and husband (Gabriel Byrne) begin to crumble under an overwhelming sense of dread that is only increased when a series of violent phenomena begin to haunt Annie and Peter. Dread is the perfect word to describe the first half of “Hereditary.” Aster comes
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carlos garcia | the daily texan staff The student Union Wendy’s closed its doors last month. The fast-food restaurant left a vacancy at the end of the semester on May 31, 2018, at the expiration of its previous contract.
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ust two weeks ago, students made it past the aromas of Panda Express’ Beijing beef, the allure of Chick-fil-A’s spicy chicken sandwiches and the salads of Field of Greens to find a place as empty as their growling stomachs. On Thursday, May 31, UT’s contract with Wendy’s expired, and the Union Wendy’s closed its doors once and for all. Although UT and Wendy’s agreed to renew their contract for another five years, Wendy’s decided to keep only the Jester Wendy’s, also known as “Jendy’s,” because it was more profitable, said Mulugeta Ferede, University Unions executive director. “We’ve worked with Wendy’s for so long, it
was an easy partnership,” Ferede said. Students took to Facebook and Twitter to pay their respects to the late restaurant. Chemical engineering senior Maya Venkataraman compared her and the student body’s outpouring of grief to what would follow the passing of a beloved celebrity. “(Union Wendy’s closure) isn’t one of those things that affects me personally, but it’s like an, ‘Aw, man! Anne Hathaway died? That’s crazy!’” Venkataraman said. “It’s kind of like, ‘Aw, man! The Union Wendy’s closed? That’s crazy.’” Ferede ensured that Jendy’s will remain open for at least five more years, but some students such as Venkataraman refuse to walk across campus to cop a 4 for $4 Meal. “The whole reason I started
going to the Union Wendy’s was because of how convenient it was,” Venkataraman said. “I’m not willing to go to Jendy’s. I’m past that point in my life.” Many paid their respects by recounting old memories of the former lunch spot. For example, Samantha Diwa met one of her closest college friends
of my first college friends, because I might not have been able to meet her.” On the other hand, Diwa is willing to let Union Wendy’s go if its vacancy opens up an opportunity for a new restaurant. She feels that offering the same restaurant at multiple locations, such as with the two Wendy’s locations
“I’m not willing to go to Jendy’s. I’m past that point in my life.” – Maya Venkatarman stopping by the Union Wendy’s during her break. “I don’t think I would have gone there if it wasn’t for the cheap food that Wendy’s has,” Diwa, a radiotelevision-film sophomore, said. “So, thank you, Union Wendy’s, for bringing me one
previously on the forty Acres, is redundant. “If (UT) had more variety on campus, I would’ve enjoyed my time better,” Diwa said. “If there was one of each fast-food place, you’d have so
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when classes are not in session. “My only alternatives are to Uber or walk an hour to campus in 100-degree heat,” said Graber, who works on campus during the summer. Randy Clarke, CEO and president of Cap Metro, said in a statement that the changing of routes was meant to match areas of population growth in Austin. The new system has 14 frequent routes, where buses will stop every 15 minutes, seven days a week. Fifteen low-service routes have been cut, and some of those riders will now have to walk at least half a mile to get to
alternate bus stops. Deeter, a Cap Metro representative, said of the 15 lowservice routes that were cut, only two now have no service while the others were either combined into or taken over by other routes. “Some riders may find that they now have to walk a little bit further or take multiple buses,” Deeter said. “But with our new network that emphasizes frequency, a lot of our customers will find that their travel time is unchanged.” In his statement, Clarke urged customers to ask questions and give
feedback on the new system. Caroline Chapman, a youth and community studies junior, now has to walk farther to alternate bus stops to get to work. “I relied heavily on (Route) 5 to get from North Campus back to UT, but since … the 5 has changed, I don’t have much use for it anymore,” Chapman said. “I’m sure the redesign of the routes is helpful to some people, but it’s left me disadvantaged.”
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His friend Lee Seltzer said there are no Austin B-cycle stations near his apartment, however, so he could see himself renting a dockless bike in the future for convenience. “It looks a lot cooler for an adult to ride around on a bike than a scooter,” said Seltzer, a finance graduate student. “If it was really cheap and they started popping up around my apartment, I would (use a dockless bike).”
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straight out the gate with subtle writing and direction that prods at the darkness lurking underneath the family unit. He provides the viewers with contradictory information, leading to an uncertainty that creates constant anxiety. This fear is sold by the performances. Shapiro plays the “creepy kid” archetype flawlessly, but it’s really Collette and Wolff that should be commended for their work early on. Collette is consistently ambiguous, embodying grief but also potential malice, while Wolff is a revelation as a teen overwhelmed by everything going on around him. Their performances are only heightened by a bold storytelling choice that’s made a third of the way through. This choice may be too much for some, but it undoubtedly amps up the fear factor to the absolute maximum. From that point onward, the film becomes an absolute nightmare — a fever dream from which it feels impossible to escape.
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copyright A24, And reproduced with permission Ari Aster’s “Hereditary” features one of the best first halves and frustrating second halves of contemporary horror.
Notice how this review has purposely talked about the merits of the first half of the film. That’s because, in a misguided move, Aster
introduces the supernatural. There’s nothing inherently wrong with that, but he does it in such a way that it removes the mystery of what’s
going on. This choice causes a jarring tonal shift that sends shockwaves throughout the film. Collette’s switch from a complex puzzle to a typical, over-the-top horror movie villain is a problem. Likewise, explicit references to the occult feel goofy, opening the gates for a third act set almost entirely in the traditional “haunted house” setting. Yes, the film looks good, as cinematographer Pawel Pogorzelski ensures this film continues the tradition of great-looking A24 movies, but there’s nothing here we haven’t seen before. “Hereditary” isn’t a bad film, just one with an identity crisis. Maybe another viewing will make its storytelling decisions gel better, although there’s still the sense it could’ve been something much greater. Still, this film hints that Aster could grow into a master of the genre, and it’s absolutely worth watching for its utterly brilliant first half. While his debut may have been “Hereditary,” let’s hope the faults of its second half aren’t passed down to future works.
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many choices.” Restaurants such as Whataburger, P. Terry’s and even Chili’s have been suggested by students as acceptable substitutions. However, no official replacement has yet been named, and University Unions is currently researching interested vendors, Ferede said. Saffa Jethwa, a health and society sophomore, values Whataburger over other suggestions for its convenience and orange color scheme. “Everyone loves Whataburger, and they have fish burgers and a lot of food options,” Jethwa said. “Plus, (Whataburger) is Texas-themed, too.” As the online debate over its replacement dies down, Venkataraman worries that Union Wendy’s and its legacy will be forgotten. “The Union Wendy’s meant something to people,” Venkataraman said. “It was a place where memories were made and friendships were formed. It’s sad when a place like that stops existing.”
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