The Daily Texan 2018-06-26

Volume 119, No. 3 | June 26, 2018

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Cover Story Businesses face new challenges every semester as students come and go.

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News Conans Pizza to close after 42 years, leaving their legacy of deep dish pizza behind.

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Opinion UT needs a better system to educate incoming students about consent.

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Original Conans to close its doors after 42 years

By Meara Isenberg @mearaannee

Conans Pizza will close its founding 29th and Guadalupe Street location on July 22, three days after its 42nd anniversary.

The quirky Austin pizza joint is named after fictional hero Conan The Barbarian, but that wasn’t without a fight. In 1985, Conans was sued for copyright infringement by Conan Properties Inc., which owns the rights to the character. But one piece of evidence helped Conans keep its name.

“L. Sprague deCamp, who at the time was involved with the ownership of the rights, had taken a picture with us outside the restaurant before we opened,” said Chris Strader, who handles communications at Conans.

“That was the single piece of evidence that allowed us to not award any financial damages, and keep the name.”

Conans very first location is bursting with stories like this, from its interwovenness with the 1980s Austin music scene captured in collages of concert posters, to the tire marks still on the floor from when a car rammed directly into the shop.

“It’s sad, we’ve had a few (locations) come and go throughout the days, but this one always seemed to last,” said Carlie Strader, an employee at Conans.

“There’s so many pizza restaurants in this area, our sales just aren’t where they used to be, so it’s hard to justify staying open.”

Chris and Carlie’s dad Jerry

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juan figueroa | the daily texan staff Architecture graduate student Kathleen Conti, left, Kathy Fuller-Seeley, a radio-television-film professor and media history specialist, center, and Charlotte Canning, theater and dance professor, support the Women Also Know History database for its role in recognizing women voices in historical fields..

Website features female scholars

A national database of women historians continues to grow.

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new database is out to rewrite the stereotype of who can be a history expert.

Karin Wulf, a professor of history at the College of William & Mary, met up with co-founders Emily Prifogle and Keisha Blain over a year ago and began work on what would become the

Women Also Know History database. The database, inspired by the political science expert website Women Also Know Stuff, lists female-identifying historians across the country.

“It is true that the dominant image of historical expertise is still male and white and older,” Wulf said. “Expertise is not a typology. It’s incredibly important to provide an outlet for expressing the many, many ways that expertise is embodied.”

Since launching on June 5, there have been more than 2,300 women with various historical backgrounds added to the database — including UT affiliates.

“In teaching evaluations, in conference panels … it can be kind of overwhelming the kind of ways women experience explicit and implicit gender bias,” said Prifogle, a graduate student at Princeton. “We’re trying to change that by altering the look and sound of historical expertise.”

When Kathy Fuller-Seeley, a radio-television-film professor and media history specialist, saw a Twitter thread a few months ago about the database, she jumped at the opportunity to get involved.

Fuller-Seeley said she has at times felt outnumbered in

her field, such as at her first job teaching history at a university in 1994, where she was one of two women on a faculty of 18 people. While she has seen progress for women in historical fields, Fuller-Seeley said women could still be better recognized as history experts.

“As much as the world is getting better … some of those older attitudes have not yet gone away,” Fuller-Seeley said. “There are still things happening like prominent panels at conferences that feature, still, all white men.”

Last March, a panel during a history conference at Stanford University featured 30 white

males and came under fire for its lack of diversity. The occurrence of all-male panels — which have been dubbed “manels” — is something the website aims to lessen, said Prifogle.

In addition to being a resource for journalists and panel organizers, the database has also been helpful to scholars such as Charlotte Canning, theater and dance professor, who uses it to find other women in historical fields.

“Scrolling through that list and seeing all those amazing scholars was really, really fun,” said Canning, who specializes in

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How we talk to incoming students about rape

By The Daily Texan Editorial Board

The UT System’s 2017 Cultivating Learning and Safe Environments report found that 15 percent of female undergraduates at UT-Austin have been sexually assaulted since enrollment.

28 percent of the same demographic reported “unwanted sexual touching,” and an additional 12 percent experienced an attempted rape. More than half of victims were assaulted by fellow UT students.

UT has a rape problem. The first step toward eliminating that problem is implementing a proactive system of sexual assault education for incoming students. As the class of 2022 arrives on campus for orientation this summer, it’s time we reassess how we prepare students for the reality of rape on our campus.

Our current sexual assault education system attempts to educate incoming freshman in two ways: a pair of presentations during New Student Orientation and an online module called Sexual Assault Prevention for Undergraduates.

UT offers numerous resources to combat sexual assault, but these are the only trainings required for all students.

Protecting the Herd takes place on the first night of each orientation session in front of an auditorium of about 1,200 students. Mostly undergraduate orientation advisers present a brief play touching on a variety of topics including unhealthy relationships and rape. The program

focuses on educating students about the available resources and schoolwide policies. Afterward, orientation advisers lead short discussions with groups of about 25 students.

New students must also attend a lecture called Longhorns Take Care of Each Other, presented by the University of Texas Police Department and the Counseling and Mental Health Center. Both groups cover key resources — such as SureWalk, the Rape Aggression Defense Class, Voices Against Violence and the Counseling and Mental Health Center — but do not address core questions about consent and assault.

The second half of UT’s prevention approach takes place online via a newly enhanced two-session web course called Sexual Assault Prevention for Undergraduates. The production company, EverFi, distributes the program nationally but allows schools to personalize it for their students. UT’s version includes campus-specific policies as well as the University’s definition of consent.

Current UT students were required to take a similar program called Haven as freshmen, but students could quickly click through it, and many of the multiple choice questions had painfully obvious answers.

While both the orientation presentations and SAPU introduce key resources, they stop short of engaging their audience with consent. Programs such as these do the crucial job of telling students what resources are needed in the event of an assault, but do not give students the tools to prevent one before it happens.

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In failing to discuss consent, UT focuses its preventative training on giving resources and warnings to those who may get assaulted when it should be training those who may assault about the significance of consent. It’s important to know what to do after someone is raped — but it’s more important to prevent the rape from happening in the first place.

A 2014 report by the Centers for Disease Control found that “brief, one-session educational programs focused on increasing awareness or changing beliefs and attitudes are not effective at changing behavior in the longterm.” In addition to presenting resources, we need to engage students in dialogues. Oneoff presentations are not enough to change students’ perspectives.

In order to fix a sexual assault problem like ours, we need to correct a campuswide misunderstanding about what consent means in practice. UT students are in the midst of a reckoning, fueled by a nationwide backlash against sexual harassment and inequality. Women are trying to grapple with the space between discomfort and assault, with the reality of a post #MeToo world. Men worry that their actions will be misinterpreted, that they’ll be accused of something they never intended.

Everyone on this campus could benefit from a better understanding of consent. One way to do this is through required dialogues, in rooms smaller than auditoriums, where students actually engage in proactive conversations about the nuances of the topic.

These conversations could take place in signature courses. The University currently requires every freshman to take these small, discussionbased classes, which are intended to orient students to the university. Considering freshmen are currently required to cover topics such as library research and campus landmarks in their signature courses, they could easily be required to spend a class discussing consent. Professors can look to trainings and presentations provided

by Voices Against Violence in order to facilitate these crucial conversations.

We do not have data to assess whether our current programs are working — the University has not released sexual assault statistics since CLASE in 2017.

We do know that UT’s system is less comprehensive than many of its peer universities.

Schools such as the University of Wisconsin at Madison and Michigan State stand out for their focus on in-person training aimed at bystander intervention and increasing consent awareness.

The University of California at Berkeley, the University of California Los Angeles, Ohio State, the University of Minnesota and the University of Michigan all require students to complete follow-up programs after their freshman year.

Right now, UT’s efforts do not make sexual assault prevention seem like a priority. UT should join its proactive peer universities by prioritizing active dialogue about the meaning and importance of consent.

If you have questions on this issue or any other, contact us at editor@dailytexanonline.

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continues from page 3 theater history. “I saw some names that I didn’t know and looked up their work.”

Architecture graduate student Kathleen Conti, who is studying historic preservation, said she hopes that adding her name to the database will help her connect with more people interested in her field, not only to help them, but to better her own work as well.

“I hope it will help break down certain barriers that (say) people in academics aren’t accessible,” Conti said. “As a public historian, that’s the most important part of my job — not just doing research and publishing it and hoping people read it, but actually connecting with the community and having the research and the work that I do be beneficial.”

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continues from page 3 Strader opened Conans with co-founder Scott Leist in 1976.

The siblings said they have worked in the family business all their lives and held just about every position in the company.

Chris said Conans was the first to serve up a deep pan, Chicago-style pizza in Austin, drawing lines of people outside the store on the opening day.

“Nobody had ever tasted anything like it,” Chris said. “It was brand new in the town.”

Over the years, the store stood out for its specialty pizzas such as “The Savage” — an everything pie with meats and veggies — and its close proximity to music venues such as Rome Inn and Antone’s.

Conans opened 12 restaurants total in its history, including their “golden store” on the Drag where Kerbey Lane is

currently located. This spot, which shut down in the late ’90s, had a big video arcade and a more direct connection to campus, Chris said.

Marina Flores visited Conan’s for the first time 39 years ago on her second date with her now-husband and said it has been a mainstay in her family ever since.

“Change is inevitable, but I think it’s hard (that it’s closing), because there’s so many people that have built a community around Conans,” said Flores.

“It’s just sad.”

Chemistry senior Alina Deng said she wandered into Conans one day when looking for a new campus eatery to try, and was surprised by the Conan the Barbarian-themed decorations that line the restaurant’s tables and walls. Despite being a bit confused by the character, Deng said she remembers liking her deep dish style pizza.

“I’m not super surprised that they’re closing, because of the

anthony mireles | the daily texan staff Lee Gresham finishes ordering his pizza at Conans Pizza’s Guadalupe location Friday afternoon. Conans is closing after 42 years of serving pizza to the UT-Austin community because of increases in rent.

location a lot of students just didn’t know there was a pizza place further down on Guad,

but it was very eclectic,” Deng said. “I think a part of me will be sad to see it go.”

Conans Pizza’s two remaining stores in North and South Austin will stay open.

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Students walking along Guadalupe Street can expect to see changes to the shopping strip every year. This year, the closing of Guad-mainstay Ruby’s BBQ and the recent opening of Rise, a donut and biscuit joint, continue the long list of alterations to the Drag.

According to business owners on the Drag, operating so close to the University is no easy feat.

“The difficult part of it is not the students themselves; it’s because they’re students, they leave during the summer and during the Christmas break,” said David Roberts, co-owner of restaurant Thai How Are You. “This affects

everybody on the Drag.”

Roberts’ restaurant, recognizable for the iconic frog mural painted on its side, has only been open since 2014.

Before it was Thai How Are You, the space was another restaurant called Thai Spice. Before that it was Baja Fresh, a Tex-Mex eatery.

While any restaurant has to deal with changes based on seasons, Roberts said, “On the edge of a campus, it’s much more significant.”

Roberts said there are three possible ways a business can deal with this seasonality: budgeting so that money carries over throughout the year, getting help from investors or taking out loans.

“It’s challenging because you’re coughing up a huge rent every month regardless of if the sales are there or not,” Roberts said. “We deal with it in various ways, but that is the challenge, by and large.”

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Tyler’s, an apparel store on 24th and Guadalupe Streets, adjusts by changing their inventory based on the types of customers they see throughout the year.

“There’s definitely changes through semesters instead of the seasons like there would be at a normal store,” said Sydney Doud, Tyler’s department manager. “If there’s more (little) kids here (during the summer), we’ll bring the kids’ stuff out. If there’s more college kids, then we’ll make the focus on the flip flops, the sandals and the T-shirts.”

Government senior Hana Adeni said

he was disappointed when Mediterranean and Middle Eastern restaurant Kismet Cafe relocated away from the Drag in 2016. Kismet was located on the corner of West 24th and Guadalupe Streets for 22 years, and Adeni said he misses the spot’s halal food options and convenient hours.

“I understand why the Drag is constantly changing, because the rent must be ridiculously high, and other than students and tourists, I don’t really know who else must be visiting those restaurants and stores,” Adeni said. “But just because I understand why it’s all happening, doesn’t make it less sad.”

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HEALTH

MOVIE REVIEW | ‘JURASSIC WORLD: FALLEN KINGDOM’

Students continue childhood vaccine debate

‘JURASSIC WORLD: FALLEN KINGDOM’ THRILLS

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Latest franchise installment is best since “Jurassic Park.”

By James Preston Poole @JAMESPPOOLE

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hen “Jurassic World” hit theaters, it left a portion of the audience feeling underwhelmed. As nice as it was to return to Isla Nublar, many felt writer-director Colin Trevorrow played it safe by staying close to the formula of the first film. “Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom” goes for something completely different.

Director J.A. Bayona starts off his film with a literal bang. The dinosaurs inhabiting Isla Nublar are in dangers of facing extinction when a volcano at the center

of the island begins erupting. Following the decision

by Congress not to intervene, Jurassic Park co-founder Sir Benjamin Lockwood (James Cromwell) enlists the help of former Jurassic World operations manager Claire Dearing (Bryce Dallas Howard) and dinosaur trainer Owen Grady (Chris Pratt) to lead an expedition to rescue as many species as they can before the island explodes.

Everything changes when Owen and Claire are betrayed

by Lockwood’s aide Eli Mills (Rafe Spall), who transports the surviving dinos to the Lockwood Estate a third of the way through the film for nefarious purposes. This change of locale really causes the film to come to life.

Don’t take that as an indictment of the first act of the film. The visuals, as the island is being ripped apart, are jaw-dropping and

heartbreaking, but it seems as if the film finds its focus by taking us somewhere new.

The Lockwood Estate is a character in and of itself.

Its dark corridors, full of the most vicious of prehistoric creatures, create a Gothic mansion vibe that provides the setting for a web of intrigue. Trevorrow and Derek Connolly returned to write this film, with their skills drastically improved this time around.

The film isn’t afraid to wrestle with the ethical dilemma of genetic engineering, nor does it shy away from giving empathy to the dinosaurs. New character Maisie Lockwood (Isabelle Sermon) gives a youthful look at the horrors in which her grandfather is involved, in having a moral compass that makes her the most relatable character. Owen and Claire, along with the

expectedly good performances from Pratt and Howard, are made more relatable by the fact that they now have a very clear goal. Nevertheless, even if these characters were poorly written, Bayona imbues the film with such an electric energy that it wouldn’t matter.

Bayona relishing in directing this film with a stylish eye, aided by cinematographer Oscar Faura. They effectively utilize a variety of elements from shadows to lightning to create a chilling monster movie tone. Nothing feels safe for a second, and that’s because Bayona is concentrated on immersing the audience in pure dread.

“Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom” builds on this feeling as the film propels itself through a series of dazzling set pieces that leads to a climax that opens some enticing possibilities up for a future

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Universal Studios saves their favorite dino franchise from extinction.

‘JURASSIC WORLD: FALLEN KINGDOM’ RUNTIME: 124 minutes MPAA RATING: PG-13 SCORE: film, which, after this film, is very welcome. J.A. Bayona reinvigorates this franchise with a genre-bending, thoughtful piece of blockbuster cinema that’s a breath of fresh air in a crowded market of sequels. There’s zero doubt that this is the best film in the franchise since the original.

The island may be gone, but the thrills certainly aren’t.

Science has debunked many of life’s most important questions, but the question of whether or not to vaccinate America’s youth is one many people, including medical professionals, still struggle to answer.

Vaccinations have been a common conversation topic since their introduction in 1798, with those for and against the practice introducing new ideas each time the debate resurfaces. Amid the recurring discussion, UT students contribute their knowledge and anecdotes to this controversy’s seemingly endless dialogue.

Childhood experiences and family upbringings influence many students’ opinions on early vaccinations, encouraging them to either embrace or discard certain beliefs as adults. Biomedical engineering senior Gabriela Tan said that her mother, an ultrasound technician, saw childhood autism and cancer as God’s way of condemning vaccinations. Tan said she accepted her beliefs until high school. “(My mom’s beliefs) make me really mad, knowing someone in the medical field can hold onto such dumb ideas,” Tan said. “(It’s) really dangerous for someone who’s supposed to help people not do something that’s better for society.”

Medical professionals generally leave vaccination decisions to the public, a practice that University Health Services interim chief

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continues from page 10 leading many outsiders to draw comparisons between Bamba and some of the NBA’s biggest stars.

“Well, he’s different than Joel Embiid,” Bilas said.

“He’s a better shot blocker, and Bamba’s unique. You don’t find guys like him.

He’s got crazy length. He’s basically Rudy Gobert with

SOFTBALL

continues from page 10 down in May after Texas’ 2018 run.

“Connie Clark did an amazing job at Texas,” White said. “I still remember going through Austin in 2012 and having a true battle to get to the Women’s College World Series. What I want to do now is take the solid foundation established by Coach Clark and build on it going forward.”

He won’t be taking over a team that is in quite as bad of a position as Oregon

better offense at this stage of his career. He’s very, very talented. He’s one of the most intelligent players in the draft … I think he’s going to be an excellent NBA player that is going to be very impactful on the defensive end and on the glass from the first day.”

Now, after months of preparation, Bamba will begin a new journey in Magic blue next season.

was when he took over nine seasons ago, but White said he knows he has work to do when he takes over a Texas team that has failed to reach the Women’s College World Series since 2013.

“Personally, I’m tremendously excited to be the head coach at the University of Texas,” White said. “My first goal will be to get the current players on board with our vision for Texas softball. I also need to put together a great coaching staff of people who want to grind along with me to get this program to the top.”

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continues from page 8 officer Dr. Melinda McMichael upholds. Texas’ Department of State Health Services requires that students receive seven different vaccines before enrolling in grade school or college; only state-approved waivers can defy this rule. While McMichael said she respects decisions concerning vaccinations, she worries that anti-vaccine sentiments might threaten public health.

“People who refuse vaccines don’t remember how it was when little kids went out (and) got bitten by mosquitoes (or) got polio and died,” McMichael said. “(Vaccines are the product of) an incredible amount of progress that has been made.”

Some say leaving this decision in citizens’ hands is too risky. A number of students, such as music studies sophomore Aaron Meyers, say they want the government to mandate childhood vaccinations.

Meyers said he sees parental decisions to not vaccinate their child as child abuse and a threat to a community’s herd immunity — a population’s resistance to certain diseases due to high vaccination rates. “(Children) are at the will of whatever decisions their parents make in their formative years,” Meyers said.

“Not providing the vaccine to their children is withholding

medical care that is basically modern medicine and can put them at a lot of risks.”

Many student discussions regarding childhood vaccination occur on social media.

These arguments reappear online often, reminding Meyers that the debate is far from over.

“I thought that being for vaccines was a pretty popular opinion, but you always see stuff that says, ‘Vaccines do this or that,’” Meyers said.

History sophomore Frances Garnett said he sees the debate’s redundancies as an opportunity for citizens to educate themselves on the complicated subject matter, something that she herself has taken advantage of.

“I’ll Google everything there is to know about controversies,” Garnett said. “It’s good that (the vaccination) debate gets recognized, so that people themselves can get educated about it and ask their doctors.”

Self-education may fail to curb common misconceptions regarding vaccinations, an issue Meyers hopes medical professionals will change.

“More scientific conversations with these parents, who probably have very little knowledge about modern medicine, (are needed),” Meyers said. “The way we do vaccines has changed so much in the past 60 years. I just think that sort of education at the doctor’s office is necessary.”

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BASKETBALL

Orlando looks for Mo Magic

By Ross Burkhart @ROSS_BURKHART

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fter five picks flew across the board at the 2018 NBA draft, Mo Bamba’s name was finally announced as the newest franchise cornerstone of the Orlando Magic on Thursday evening.

Bamba’s sixth overall selection is the highest of a Texas player since Tristan Thompson was taken fourth overall in the 2011 draft and is the eighth lottery selection in the school’s history.

The former Longhorn star said Orlando’s plan is to quickly integrate him into the team’s rotation.

SOFTBALL

Longhorns steal White from Oregon

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angela wang | the daily texan file Freshman Mo Bamba dunks on Kansas defenders during the Longhorns’ 92-86 loss to the Jayhawks at the Frank Erwin Center on Dec. 29.

Bamba finished with 22 points, 15 rebounds and eight blocks.

Magic selects Bamba with sixth pick of the 2018 NBA draft.

“They want me to contribute right away,” Bamba said. “I’m super fortunate to be heading down there. I’m super happy. I just can’t wait to get down there.”

Bamba, who attended the draft in Brooklyn, New York, was able to celebrate the moment with his family at the Barclays Center in his hometown.

“It means the world to me to come back to the city and be drafted right where I started everything,” Bamba said. “It’s surreal. Words can’t describe how I feel right now.”

Texas head coach Shaka Smart, who joined Bamba at the draft, said his former player’s future holds a lot of promising possibilities.

“He’s an extremely impressive person,” Smart said. “He’s the type of guy that you don’t want to just coach for one year or even four years. You want to coach

that guy for 15 years. I can’t really think of anyone that I’ve been around or even seen that has more potential than him.”

The expectations for Bamba’s lone season at Texas were clear from the beginning: Put on the burnt orange jersey while growing and developing as a player under Smart and simultaneously guide the Longhorns to postseason success.

While the team as a whole had inconsistent results throughout the season, Smart’s guiding principles helped Bamba prepare for competition at the next level.

“I think his college coach, Shaka Smart, did a very good job of working with him to think of himself as more than just a lowpost big guy,” ESPN analyst Jay Bilas said. “Most of the pick and roll stuff they did in drill work, he would pop and shoot jump shots and he worked with him

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Texas has hired former Oregon head coach Mike White to replace Connie Clark as Longhorn head coach, announced Chris Del Conte, vice president and athletics director, Monday afternoon.

White’s decision to leave Eugene, Oregon, comes after he led the Ducks to five Women’s College World Series appearances in his nine-season campaign. White also led Oregon to five Pac-12 conference titles and at least a super regional berth in each of his nine years.

“Why not Texas?” White said. “I believe the University of Texas has every resource available to become a national power in softball. The recruiting base in Texas is tremendous, and the plans that Chris Del Conte has for the program and facility upgrades make Texas very appealing. I think it’s the right time in my career to make a move. I still have a lot of energy and time left to make an impact, and Texas has the backing and resources to do just that.”

White arrived at the

University of Oregon after the Ducks finished their 2009 season with an abysmal 16–34 record. One season after White took over, the Ducks improved to 35-21 and 42-16 the following year. This trend continued until Oregon made an appearance in the Women’s College World Series — just three years into White’s campaign.

“Mike is a highly respected coach with a tremendous reputation in the softball community,” Del Conte said. “What he has accomplished in nine years at Oregon is truly special. In a short period of time, Mike took a program that had not had a great deal of success and built it into a consistent national power.”

White’s final season at Oregon concluded after a loss to the eventual national champion No. 6 Florida State.

White led his team to a 53–10 overall record en route to winning the Pac-12 title. This was more than enough to give the Ducks a No. 1 national seed for their run to the College World Series.

He will now replace Clark after she concluded her 22-season career by stepping

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not only on ways to be a better player at Texas, but ways to be a better player going forward for the length of his career.”

Since leaving Austin nearly three months ago to train for the draft, Bamba has worked relentlessly to refine the mechanics of his jump shot with renowned trainer Drew Hanlen. Bamba also spent time with Philadelphia 76ers All-Star Joel Embiid breaking down game film,

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anthony mireles | the daily texan file Texas huddles up before its matchup with then-No.20 Michigan at the Texas Invitational. Texas took down Michigan en route to finishing the season with a 33–26 overall record.

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