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CAMPUS

Life after Santa Fe UT freshman adjusts to college life after high school shooting.

By Megan Menchaca @meganmenchaca13

Like many students, undeclared freshman Kennedy Rodriguez spent her senior year enrolled in dual credit classes in a community college before she attended UT. Because of this, Rodriguez attended high school later in the day. She would have likely been sitting in one of those dual credit classes on the morning of May 18, 2018, if her community college had not wrapped up for the spring semester. At 7:30 a.m. that morning, Rodriguez was still getting ready for school when she got a call from one of her friends. “She was just like, ‘Please don’t come to school,’” Rodriguez said. “She said, ‘I have a feeling that there is an active shooter,’ and I immediately called my best friend. I was worried about her because I knew she was there that day.” By the time her best friend finally answered the phone, the eighth deadliest school shooting to take place in the United States had already begun at her school, Santa Fe High School. “I could hear people screaming and it was just chaos in the background,” Rodriguez said. “It was really, really scary.

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juan figueroa | the daily texan staff Undeclared freshman Kennedy Rodriguez received a call from her friend warning her to not go to school during the Santa Fe High School shooting in May. Rodriguez co-founded Orange Generation to increase awareness of gun violence and raise money for victims and their families of the Santa Fe shooting.

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Gender pronoun addition aims to make UT students comfortable By Savana Dunning @savanaish

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West Campus today is not the West Campus it has always been. Fifteen years ago, ambitious high-rises were almost nonexistent. Features such as bike lanes and street lighting were yet to be improved, or even added. Architecture professor Jake Wegemann stayed in West Campus in 1996, and when he returned nearly 20 years later, he said he was surprised by what he found. “When I came back to Austin in 2014, I was just mind boggled at the change,” Wegemann said. “There are just more people and more businesses and more activity, which I think is fantastic. I love the energy.” After almost 10 years of efforts by UT, Capital Metro and University Area Partners, a West Campus neighborhood association, plans were made in 2004 for University Neighborhood Overlay. UNO was the program that would kickstart more than a decade of development in one of Austin’s most

anthony mireles | the daily texan file As West Campus continues to grow, more construction projects will take place, causing a changing landscape and incoveniecies for students living there.

populated neighborhoods. Mike McHone, a real estate broker and founding member of University Area Partners, said UNO is an incentive-based redevelopment plan. Developers opt in to play by UNO’s rules, which include providing a

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A new addition to syllabi across campus might make it easier for transgender and nonbinary students to communicate their gender identity with their professor. The Faculty Innovation Center, a center that seeks to improve the learning environment on campus, added a recommended section on pronoun use to their widely used syllabus template last spring. The new section says faculty members will honor any student’s request to be addressed by an alternate name or gender pronoun, if they advise them of their preference. “Research shows that educational contexts tend to mirror inequities and can foster those,” said Adria Battaglia, FIC’s curriculum and instructional designer. “We’re trying to figure out ways to reduce those barriers so that students can cognitively achieve what they’re meant to achieve in the

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classroom, connect with their community and feel a part of UT.” Battaglia said although the section is not required, it creates a better learning environment for transgender and nonbinary students by signaling to them that a professor is willing to talk about issues related to gender. “If there are students whose pronouns don’t match what someone expects them to be for cultural reasons, (the new syllabus) statement signals to them that they have a safe space to talk about that with their faculty member,” Battaglia said. Dallon Freeman, a nonbinary linguistics junior, said while it does not largely impact their academic life, they usually felt uncomfortable addressing pronoun usage with their professors. “Up to this point, none of my professors have ever openly discussed pronoun usage,” Freeman said. “There is an element of dread knowing that

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elias huerta | the daily texan file The Austin Transportation Department has made it easier for visually impaired students on campus to cross the street by installing three Accessible Pedestrian Signals that make certain sounds when it’s safe to cross.

By Sami Sparber @samisparber

For UT students who are visually impaired, crossing the streets along the edge of campus can involve navigating complicated and busy intersections, irregular traffic cycles and unfamiliar areas — without being able to see the pedestrian crossing signals. “When you’re standing at a crosswalk, sighted people can easily know when it’s time to cross and how much time they have to make it,” said marketing junior Emeline Lakrout, who is blind. “People with impaired vision might be able to listen and decide it’s safe to cross, but we have no way of knowing how much time is left to cross.” To help make the area near UT more accessible, the Austin Transportation Department recently installed three Accessible Pedestrian Signals at the intersections of Guadalupe street and 21st, 22nd and 24th streets, ATD traffic engineer Robin Osborne said. The signals make sounds at crosswalks in order to help people who are blind or visually impaired locate the pedestrian push-button and know when to cross the street, according to the City’s Pedestrian

Safety Action Plan. “We got a request from an incoming UT student who was concerned about their ability to cross Guadalupe Street,” Osborne said. “We took a close look at that area and determined it was necessary to install APS buttons prior to the start of the school year.” There are currently 263 intersections around Austin that have at least one direction outfitted with an APS button, Osborne said. The signals have been installed as needed over the past five years. In 2015, the City received a $2.4 million grant from the Federal Highway Administration to install APS’s at 27 specific locations across Austin. To date, 17 of the 27 have had signals installed, ATD pedestrian coordinator Joel Meyer said. Osborne said he anticipates more APS buttons will be installed near campus in the future, but the process takes time and adequate funding. “I would imagine campus is an area that would greatly benefit from these signals, but we can’t just snap our fingers and make them appear,” Osborne said. “There’s a lot that goes into getting them up and running.” Daniel Smith, a religious studies

graduate student who is blind, said the APS’s create a more welcoming environment for people coming to UT’s campus. “Without (APS’s), you’re essentially asking people who have a visual or other kind of disability to find another way around or to rely on someone else to help them,” Smith said. Lakrout also said she appreciates ATD taking steps to make the area near campus more accessible to people with disabilities. “Adding the buttons helps level the playing field, which should be the goal of everything today,” Lakrout said. “I grew up in San Antonio, where there are APS buttons all over the downtown area. When I came to UT as a freshman, it felt like I stepped 20 years back in time.” Lakrout said she would love to see more APS buttons near campus, especially along Dean Keeton street and MLK Boulevard. “There’s still a lot that can be done to make Austin and UT more accessible, but I’m happy somebody went ahead and actually did something this time,” Lakrout said. “Hopefully it means attitudes are shifting and people are becoming more mindful about accessibility issues.”

Researchers at UT are working to combat the wage thefts and dangerous conditions laborers in the Gulf Coast face during the rebuilding efforts post-Harvey. The National Science Foundation awarded UT researchers a $300,000 grant to study human trafficking supply chains in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey. Matt Kammer-Kerwick, a research scientist for the Bureau of Business Research at UT, will be leading the project, which focuses on labor trafficking, with researchers from UT’s Institute on Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault. The project uses data gathered by the Fe y Justicia Worker Center based in Houston, which specifically helps lowwage immigrant laborers who were exploited after Hurricane Harvey. Marianela Arreaza, the center’s executive director, said laborers who help rebuild areas struck by disaster often experience wage theft, which is not being paid or being paid less than they deserve. Arreaza said this theft further complicates the lives of laborers who are already facing dangerous conditions. “Imagine someone stole $35,000 from you,” Arreaza said. “It’s about rent. It’s about having to move your kids from school to school. It’s about not being able to pay for a house or bills that you have due.” The Fe y Justicia Worker Center has been focusing on helping day-laborers file claims for wage theft and informing them on the health and safety risks of labor trafficking. “We saw a lot of people get sick after Hurricane Ike, so we knew to watch for it after Hurricane Harvey,” Arreaza said.

“Flesh-eating bacteria from the water got laborers sick, and we have gotten calls when family members have died. It’s a very violent time for workers who are working on the recovery efforts.” Arreaza said the Center’s role is to connect the researchers with victims of labor trafficking so they can interview them, as well as supply generalized data. The study will use an interdisciplinary approach to study human trafficking, Kammer-Kerwick said. Mathematical researchers will collaborate with social workers to identify patterns within organizations and companies who exploit workers. “It’s the best of all worlds because those of us who come from math and engineering backgrounds have certain tools and skills but we don’t have a good understanding of people,” Kammer-Kerwick said. “Social workers and law enforcement who have dealt with these problems for decades have a deep understanding of the complexity and nuance, so that is why we like to collaborate.” Noel Busch-Armendariz, director of the Institute on Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault, has over 25 years of experience in the social work field, and her research on interpersonal violence will serve as background information for KammerKerwick’s investigation. “If you think about my research as the building bricks, I belong in the foundational piece of his research,” Busch-Armendariz said. “When the first human trafficking victims were identified in Austin and Central Texas, we were among the people called to the table to address the issue.”

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in any circumstance where I might come up in conversation — The idea that I would be misgendered in that context is troubling.” Journalism senior lecturer Kris Wilson has already included the additional section to his syllabus for the semester. Wilson said he saw the recommendation in a recent email from FIC about effective syllabi and included it because he saw gender identity as an important issue to his students he has neglected in the past. “It was obviously important to students, and I felt like adding this to the syllabus just shows that I think it’s important too,” Wilson said. “I just feel like this is an area where I want to

make sure I’m in step, that I catch up, that I can provide a space where people can feel more comfortable and as a group we could talk about this if it comes up.” Freeman said this policy is a step in the right direction in helping transgender and nonbinary students feel more comfortable at UT. “It’s anxiety-inducing to just be a trans or nonbinary person, and it can be anxiety-inducing to approach someone like a professor or a faculty member that you perceive as being higher up in the social hierarchy than you and address something like pronoun usage,” Freeman said. “So having something like an outlined syllabus policy, or even just a mention of it at all, I think that’s something that can bring a lot of comfort to the gender diverse population at UT.”

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For the rest of day, I was just watching the news and I was just completely emotionally unavailable.” Less than four months after the shooting, which killed 10 people and injured 13 others, Rodriguez is now attending classes at UT. She said she often thinks about what she would do if a shooter came into one of her classes. “I was sitting in my literature class last week and my initial thought was like, “Okay, what if something were to happen? Where would I go?’” Rodriguez said. “I don’t really think a lot of people think about that on a daily basis.” Selina Eshraghi, one of the organizers of March for Our Lives Austin, said she reached out to victims of the Santa

Fe shooting, including Rodriguez, because she understands the effects gun violence could have on a person. “I know that the recovery process is incredibly difficult emotionally,” said Eshraghi, a chemical engineering and radio-television-film sophomore. “I gave Kennedy a lot of advice about coming to campus as a freshman, especially as she’s trying to get involved with all of the gun violence prevention efforts that have been happening here in Austin.” Rodriguez previously attended the national March for Our Lives event in Washington D.C and co-organized a demonstration during the National School Walkout. In the days following the shooting, Rodriguez co-founded the Orange Generation to increase awareness of gun violence and raise money for the

Santa Fe victims and their families. “We picked the name Orange Generation because orange is the color for gun violence and because the all of the co-founders realized that most of us were born around the time when the Columbine shooting happened,” Rodriguez said. Kelly Choi, one of the co-founders of the Orange Generation, lived in the Houston area and became friends with Rodriguez shortly after the shooting. The two quickly realized they would both be attending UT in the fall. “Because of a horrible tragedy, we went from being strangers to friends to classmates,” said Choi, an English and government freshman. “Right now, we’re still trying to adjust to the whole college life … and our activism has kind of been

taking a step back. But whatever we do, however this activism goes, we will still continue to be friends no matter what.” Despite still being slightly intimidated by the differences between the size of the University and the small town where she grew up, Rodriguez said she hopes to continue advocating for gun violence prevention efforts in her new “second home.” “A lot of people in their day-today lives become really desensitized to school shootings, especially when (they are) not happening close to them or to them,” Rodriguez said. “I know that for a lot of people in Santa Fe, I’m not necessarily doing the things that they would have chosen to do, but I know that I can no longer just do nothing.”

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UT marine institute’s difficult Harvey recovery UT marine institute less than halfway to full recovery after Harvey. By Katie Balevic @KatelynBalevic

A roof was torn from a laboratory. A drilling rig smashed into the pier. All 74 buildings were damaged, and six were totally destroyed. One year after Hurricane Harvey tore through Port Aransas, the UT Marine Science Institute is still recovering. Sally Palmer, UT Marine Science Institute communications coordinator, said the institute lost laboratories, student dormitories and faculty offices to the 130 mph winds and 10-foot storm surge, and the road to recovery is far from complete. “A year after the storm, we’re about 40 to 50 percent through the repairs,” Palmer said. “There’s so much time in re-engineering and architectural plans that we’re a little bit further along, but the building aspect of that is slower. We’re hoping by spring that all the labs will be operational, and we’ll be close to 100 percent operational.” UT-MSI suffered nearly $4.7 million in instrument damage across its campus, Palmer said. “All the instruments were lost,” Palmer said. “One

Hurricane Harvey damaged all 73 buildings on UT-MSI’s Campus, destroying five completely. instrument that was over a million dollars, it was one of 30 in the world, was on the third floor where the roof peeled off. It was totally damaged by the water.” The institute has received funding from UT, the Board of Regents and the Federal Emergency Management Agency to help rebuild the campus, Palmer said.

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Under UNO, a total of 52 projects have been built since 2005, corresponding to 5,058 units and 12,202 bedrooms. Of those, only 593 units are considered affordable or priced lower than the city standard. City officials and residents originally clamored to block high-rise development, worrying the original character of West Campus would become unrecognizable, McHone said. “We came within a whiskers breath of not making it,” McHone said. “But I don’t do this to win friends. I do it because I believe

“The President’s Office and Board of Regents have been very supportive and really stepped up,” Palmer said. “Fenves said, ‘I’m putting 5 million in an account to make sure you get your repairs as fast as possible.’” Rhonda Weldon, director of communications of UT’s financial and administrative services office, said in addition

in it. Ten thousand people living in rundown apartments are not a good idea. Apartments now are luxurious beyond belief, and they wouldn’t have existed if not for UNO. You either embrace change and figure out what you like about it or you fight it, and that’s a losing battle.” McHone said he fears the city is taking steps that will hinder UNO. McHone said the Austin City Council is reviewing density bonus programs that control housing downtown and may bump up the building fee as a penalty for having zero affordable housing units. If that happens and the city council also decides to review UNO development, McHone

to FEMA, UT-MSI is expecting more funding from university insurance, federal grants and Permanent University Fund allocations. “To date, the University has spent $6 million,” Weldon said in an email. “The total recovery is expected to be between $43 and $45 million, including all construction and equipment.”

Palmer said in the aftermath of the storm, students and faculty were transferred to Texas A&M-Corpus Christi and then to mobile offices on the UT-MSI campus. Since the labs are still undergoing repairs, the biggest issue is students sharing lab spaces, Palmer said. “They’re really squished into the laboratories,”

said UNO could be forced to increase fees as well. He said building in West Campus could radically slow down, meaning higher prices for students. “Every year there’s another 500 bedrooms that come on the marketplace, and they can charge the higher rates but (other housing projects are) … 10, 15 years older now,” McHone said. “How do you get affordable housing? Build more.” Plan II and business sophomore Karla Aguilar lives in West Campus, and said she hopes West Campus construction will slow down. “Sometimes the constant construction and growth is overwhelming,” Aguilar said. “How

Palmer said. “As a research institute, it’s been a big strain on our scientists.” As repairs continue a year later, some students are still grappling with the effects of the storm. Christina Bonsell, a marine science graduate student, said she lost an experiment that she had been working on for multiple years. “I was growing a lot of arctic algae in a cold, refrigerated room,” Bonsell said. “When Harvey hit, the power to that room was lost, so all of my algae died. I had to completely rethink that research project … It was a setback to my progress towards graduation.” Between relocating labs and assessing the damage to their own homes, students were in recovery for a long time, Bonsell said. “There was a long in-between time when people were trying to get work done but also trying to work with their various insurance agencies and tearing out their walls,” Bonsell said. “We weren’t the most productive in terms of science at that time.” While some students still feel stuck in limbo, they grew very close after Harvey, Bonsell said. “The graduate student community really showed its power and its strength in this really tough situation,” Bonsell said. “I feel really grateful for having that community.”

many people can really fit in West Campus?” Don Wukasch, a retired physician whose family has inhabited West Campus for generations, has lived through the transformation. His father was born on the corner of the Drag in the early 1900s. Wukasch himself was born a few blocks north and lived in West Campus during his time as a UT student. Wukasch said his family still owns several developments on Guadalupe Street and in West Campus and views the development positively. “The city changes, West Campus changes, everything changes,” Wukasch said. “You have to go with the times and make a contribution to make it better.”

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Shopping locally for produce benefits Earth, small farms According to the Texas Farm Bureau, the predicted net farm income this year will be at a record low, meaning the expenses of maintaining a farm is greater than the earnings from produce. By putting money directly into small farms, we can help provide farmers the income they need to keep running. One of the biggest challenges that small farmers face is the weather. When Texas doesn’t receive enough rain, has extreme temperatures or a wildfire, small farms don’t always have the resources they need to recover. With more revenue, they could expand or purchase new equipment. If they expand, these farms can provide more produce for farmers markets or start growing new crops. With more food being produced locally, it won’t have to travel as far to get to its consumers. The typical American meal can travel thousands of miles to your plate. By shopping locally, or even

By Alyssa Jingling Columnist

With colorful produce everywhere, farmers markets are perfect for buying healthy and fun ingredients. They’re more than a fun foodie experience, though. Farmers markets directly benefit small farmers. Students should buy produce from small, local farms to promote sustainability in the economy and the environment. “Sustainability has three parts: environment, people and economy,” says Neil Kaufman, sustainability coordinator for University Housing and Dining. “Supporting small farmers supports all three, but small farms are especially directly influenced by economics. If we put all of our resources and capital into big farms, they get siphoned up to people who already have money and power.”

just within Texas, you can greatly reduce the number of miles your food travels, thus reducing greenhouse gas emissions. On campus, one of the easiest ways to support small farms is by shopping at the UT Farm Stand. Set up every other Wednesday at Jester Plaza, the Farm Stand grows about half of its food right on campus. The other half comes from small, local farms. This allows students to become more familiar with produce near Austin, and the food itself requires less fuel to ship. When looking into buying from a farm, the Farm Stand evaluates its practices to make sure it’s growing crops sustainably. According to Kaufman, not all small farmers can afford organic certifications from a third party, so the Farm Stand also talks to the farmers and their colleagues to ensure all produce meets the Farm Stand’s fair-trade

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and organic standards. Campus dining halls also strive to serve organic foods. “Within our dining halls, we support local farmers and sustainable farmers,” Kaufman says. “About 20 percent of our food budget goes to local, sustainable and fair-trade food.” It can be difficult to find time to buy and prepare produce from the Farm Stand, so it’s nice to know that eating in the dining halls also constitutes sustainable eating. Buying local produce isn’t hard in Austin — there are numerous markets around the city and on campus. Local produce has numerous benefits too, even if it’s a little pricier than conventional food from the grocery store. When you buy from a local farmer’s market, you are supporting a family business, keeping the earth clean and getting healthy, fresh food for yourself. Jingling is an English junior from Georgetown.

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Prioritizing sleep brings academic, health benefits By Alyssa Jingling Columnist

From school stress to having fun at parties, it can be difficult for college students to get enough sleep. That doesn’t mean sleep should be neglected, however. It is important that students try to get enough sleep so that we can focus on school and enjoy campus life to its fullest. “Every cell in your body needs to sleep,” Pat Carter, sleep researcher and nursing associate professor, wrote in an email. If we don’t let our bodies rest, we can’t navigate the challenges that college brings. According to the National Sleep Foundation, people ages 18–25 should get seven to nine hours of sleep each night. However, if you’re sick or stressed, you may need 10 or 11 hours of sleep to recover. Although stress can keep you awake at night, getting enough sleep reduces the risk of depression and anxiety and helps you focus in class, which in turn can lessen your GPA-related stress. “College students struggle to get good sleep because there are so many more interesting things to do than sleep,” Carter wrote. Sleeping in college is a Catch-22: If you sleep, you’ll likely miss parties and extracurricular activities. But if you skip sleep, you’ll be too tired to enjoy them. “With the availability of energy drinks and life hacks to stave off sleepiness, we fail to listen to our bodies telling us when we need to rest,” Carter wrote. Your lack of sleep will catch up to you. Carter noted that “college students typically suffer from persistent sleep debt.” Sleep debt happens when you don’t regularly get enough sleep, inhibiting your performance on daily tasks. Cue emotional breakdown in the PCL. “The best advice I can give is to prioritize sleep in your life,” Carter wrote. “Give sleep the respect that it deserves for the work it accomplishes.” University Health Services lists some tips for

sleeping better, such as reducing caffeine and alcohol intake and getting enough water. And although it can be hard in a small apartment or dorm room, it also helps to only associate your bed with sleep. Use your desk, dining table or the library to study, do homework and watch TV. A good bedtime routine that takes 30 minutes to an hour can also help you feel tired and relaxed. This may seem like a lot of time, but you will be much more productive when you get better quality sleep. Make sure you turn off all electronics before your routine, and try drinking non-caffeinated tea and reading a book.

If you make a good night’s sleep a priority, you can ward off illnesses, be more alert in class and productive during the day.”

A simple shot can protect you from both cancer and the most common STD. You can get it right now, but many Texas students are not. This is not a miracle injection. It’s simply a series of vaccinations against human papillomavirus, HPV. If left untreated, an HPV infection could lead to cervical cancer, penile cancer, anal cancer or throat cancer, among others. If you haven’t already, you should get the HPV vaccine as soon as possible. HPV affects nearly one in four Americans. While it’s most commonly spread through sexual intercourse, it can also be spread through skin-to-skin contact. Fourteen million more people, including many of our peers, will likely become infected with it this year alone. Most won’t even know they have it. The majority of people with HPV will never experience symptoms or health problems as a result, but the unlucky ones — especially women — may end up with cancer. “(The anti-vaccine movement) is basically subjecting a whole generation of girls and women to cervical cancer that could be entirely prevented,” said Dr. Peter Hotez, dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at the Baylor College of Medicine. Experts such as Hotez warn that vaccination rates in Texas have plummeted to a record low, making it the state with the fifth-lowest vaccination rate in the country. Students at grade schools in Austin and North Texas are especially at risk, Hotez says, as anywhere from 20 to 40 percent of children there are not receiving vaccinations. A highly contagious virus plus a large population of unvaccinated students equals the perfect incubator for infection. It’s a recipe for disaster that’s ultimately avoidable, though statistically if you’re reading this (and sexually active), you’ve probably already been exposed to it.

If you’ve tried fixing your sleeping patterns by yourself to no avail, talk to a medical professional. You can talk to a counselor at the Counseling and Mental Health Center or a physician at UHS. Professionals can recommend or prescribe medicine, and they can diagnose sleep issues such as sleep apnea or anxiety. It’s no secret that college students lead busy lives. From maintaining a 4.0 to frequenting frat parties, it can be hard to squeeze in some quality sleep. If you make a good night’s sleep a priority, you can ward off illnesses, be more alert in class and productive during the day. It’ll take time out of your schedule, but healthier sleep means enjoying life to its fullest at the 40 Acres. Jingling is an English junior from Georgetown.

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Another difficult aspect of the vaccine crisis is that despite HPV’s frequency, especially among young people, the HPV vaccine has been controversial. Some parents say their children aren’t sexually active, and therefore, their children don’t need the HPV vaccination.

It’s never too late to prevent cancer.”

“It’s an extremely common virus. You don’t have to be promiscuous to be at risk,” said Dr. Stephen Tyring, a clinical professor of infectious diseases at the McGovern School of Medicine in Houston. Tyring helped develop the vaccine, which has an efficacy rate above 90 percent — better than most other vaccines. Other people underestimate the virus’s capacity to lead to life-threatening illnesses because some people with HPV don’t develop symptoms. “No matter how conservative one person (in a relationship) is, the other person may have a history of exposure,” Tyring said. Here’s the thing: Your partner might be fine, but you might not be. You could have only had one partner in your life, but if they have slept with anyone before you, you’re still at risk for contracting HPV. Think of it like car insurance. You know you’re a safe driver, but you have to protect yourself from others being reckless on the road. “Now is the time to get the vaccine. Sooner versus later,” Tyring said. He administers the vaccine to people of all ages. There’s no reason not to get the vaccine. It’s never too late to prevent cancer. Laughead is a journalism and rhetoric and writing junior from Houston.

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That’s not to take anything away from the young group, though. Three of Texas’ five leaders in kills are freshmen, in addition to freshman libero Sydney Petersen, who has stepped in to replace graduate Cat McCoy with 61 digs on the year. Statistics and numbers may not speak much, but development on the court and chemistry sure do. And Elliott and his veteran players have taken notice. “We’re a lot farther along than we expected to be,” Johnson said. “There a lot of times where I’m like, ‘Are y’all even freshmen?’” Now, Texas will take its home court for the first time this season, a place that Johnson calls the “best place to play in college.” Texas will play host to Texas State on Thursday and No. 16 Kentucky the following day. The Bobcats (5–3) come into this game riding a five-game win streak. Texas State also brings in a talented freshmen core, headlined by setter Emily DeWalt and outside hitter Janell Fitzgerald. This duo, along with junior setter Cheyenne Huskey, should keep Texas’ hands full. The excitement around the home opener and the large crowd should give Texas more than enough energy, something that Gregory Gym hasn’t lacked in quite some time. “They’re so loud,” Johnson said. “If we’re ever low on energy, you just have to look into the crowd.” Texas will host Texas State to kick off this season’s home slate. First serve is set for 7 p.m. on Thursday at Gregory Gymnasium.

Texas must execute on offense, protect football to find success against Tulsa

katie bauer | the daily texan file Graduate transfer running back Tre Watson tries to evade Terrapin defenders as he runs upfield in Texas’ 34-29 season-opening loss to Maryland on Sept. 1, 2018, at FedExField in Landover, Maryland.

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However, Beck’s optimistic side also showed Wednesday as he discussed some of the offensive highlights of the game. “At times, there was some really good things through the course of the game,” Beck said. “Probably the second drive of the second quarter maybe all the way through the fourth, I thought we played pretty well offensively for the most part. I just think you can’t turn the ball over like that late and expect to win a game on the road.”

As much as last week’s loss to Maryland hurt the hearts of all Longhorn fans, head coach Tom Herman put it best: The sun is going to come up tomorrow. This week, Texas will play Tulsa at home in what should be a good opportunity for the Longhorns to get their first victory of the season. Here’s what Texas needs to do to result in a comfortable win at Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium.

Get off to a quick start

Nothing was more painful than watching Maryland march down the field on the very first drive of the game. The defense looked lethargic in the first half, and outside of a beautiful diving touchdown grab by junior wide receiver Devin Duvernay, so did the offense. That cannot happen again for the duration of the season if Texas wants to be taken seriously on a national scale. While Tulsa may not be the most

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There are three things guaranteed in life: death, taxes and a Sam Ehlinger turnover to effectively end a game. This has to stop. Since science can’t stop death and the government will always tax its people, sophomore quarterback Ehlinger has to learn from his mistakes. Way too often last year, three times exactly, Ehlinger and the Longhorn offense ended a game in defeat due to late game turnovers. Whether it be a fumble in overtime, an end-zone interception or two picks in the last couple minutes of the game, you name it, he’s done it. If Texas anticipates Ehlinger taking it to the promised land, then there has to be improvement on these very freshman-like mistakes. Otherwise, this team will be stuck winning five to seven games for yet another year. The game against Tulsa will be a great opportunity to iron out these issues before USC comes to town with its elite defense.

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angel ulloa | the daily texan file Then-sophomore outside hitter Micaya White goes up for a kill in a game against TCU on Nov. 8, 2017, at Gregory Gym. White leads the Longhorns this year with 56 kills four games into the season.

After two weeks on the road, Texas returns home to host Texas State. By Keshav Prathivadi @kpthefirst

The Longhorns have spent much of their time just about everywhere, except home. A summer tour of Europe and recent trips to Nebraska and Wisconsin opened the season and added a lot of miles to the team plane. But on Thursday, No. 6 Texas finally returns to Gregory Gym for the Longhorns’ home opener against Texas State.

“It’s always nice to come home and get acclimated with school starting and being able to be in our own beds,” head coach Jerritt Elliott said. “Playing in front of our own crowd will be very nice for these players.” The Longhorns (3–1) are coming off a bounce-back victory against High Point after falling to then-No. 8 Wisconsin in four sets. For Texas, its loss was more of a positive learning experience than a harbinger for things to come. Elliott used freshman-heavy rotations on the court, keeping at least three newcomers on the floor at crucial points in matches. Despite the loss, there have still been

a lot of positives to take away from the first four games. “We know that they (the freshmen) are talented, but when they handle the pressure, they go about their business on a point-by-point basis and they’ve done a really good job with that,” Elliott said. “The way they have performed has given a lot of confidence to the upperclassmen as well.” Last weekend’s trip to Wisconsin also gave Texas’ newcomers their first experience in a hostile environment. The Longhorns played in front of a crowd of over 7,000 against the Badgers last Saturday but gave them valuable experience ahead of tough

matchups down the road. “It showed us how to respond when we get rattled,” senior middle blocker Morgan Johnson said. “People who don’t have a bunch of experience on the court, you could see that they weren’t in their element … it was nice for them to get their feet wet in front of a big crowd.” Despite the fanfare surrounding the freshmen thus far this season, Texas’ stars have dominated quite frequently. Johnson has notched 24 blocks to lead the way in that category and junior outside hitter Micaya White has tallied a teamhigh 56 kills.

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Coordinators reflect on Texas’ loss, look ahead to Tulsa clash

anthony mireles | the daily texan file Freshman defensive back D’Shawn Jamison runs through a drill at a practice on Aug. 5, 2018, in Austin. Jamison returned three kicks for 73 yards in Saturday’s game against Maryland.

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Mistakes on both the offensive and defensive sides of the ball were apparent in Texas’ season-opening loss last Saturday. Offensive coordinator Tim Beck and defensive coordinator Todd Orlando know that these mistakes have to be fixed before they face Tulsa this weekend. On Wednesday, Beck and Orlando discussed the team’s shortcomings so far. Here’s some of the takeaways:

Orlando hoping pressure will make diamonds

Late in the matchup against Maryland, Texas’ defense looked similar to the topranked unit that fans became accustomed to seeing last season. But a slow start put the entire team in a difficult position, forcing sophomore quarterback Sam Ehlinger and the rest of the offense to play catch up for most of the game. As a result, Orlando said that one of the primary focuses in practice this week is to have his players ready to go from the first snap. “I told them, ‘If you can do it in the fourth quarter, why can’t we start the game this way?’” Orlando said. “So, the attention in practice has been like, really fast start. Let’s start doing things right off the get-go, put these guys in the most stressful situations as possible so they can start to react to that so they can settle themselves down and play football.” Even though Texas was nearly a two touchdown favorite against the Terrapins,

the Longhorns found themselves trailing 24-7 through the second quarter. According to Orlando, the heavy expectations placed upon the team are well noted and the mistakes made on Saturday are unacceptable if the team hopes to reach the lofty goals set upon the program this season. “There’s no moral victories around here,” Orlando said “You’re at the University of Texas. You’re expected to win. You’re expected to win anywhere, but we’re trying to teach our kids … you have to play football this way to be able to win ball games and when you do some of the stuff that we did, you sit down and say, ‘We can’t do this.’”

Beck sees offensive improvement amid crucial turnovers

Many of the questions surrounding the Longhorns going into this year revolve around how the offense would look in year two under Beck. For the most part, Saturday’s result yielded many of the same flaws. “We beat ourselves,” Beck said. “I think for a while there, we were clicking. We were like, hey, we’ve got a chance to be good. We came back and took the lead and felt pretty confident that we were going to win the game and then we beat ourselves by turning the ball over. Think about it. I think it was the two-minute drill. We had the ball on the nine and drove all the way to the 30. I don’t know if we could’ve done that last year or not.”

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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

FILM

Austin’s roller derby skates in limelight Skaters share how city’s derby scene inspired ‘Whip It’ film. By Anna-Kay Reeves @annakay_reeves

Austin’s roller derby scene is booming on a larger-than-Hollywood scale with the city’s roller derby league, TXRD, serving as the inspiration for film. TXRD was director Drew Barrymore’s real-life reference point for the film “Whip It,” which featured an all-star cast including Ellen Page, Kristen Wiig and Jimmy Fallon. Fallon’s character can be heard singing Austin’s praises between action scenes and describing roller derby as “a true Austin tradition.” “I ended up singing ‘Livin’ On a Prayer’ with Kristen Wiig,” said retired TXRD skater Rocky Casbah of her time as a stunt double in the 2009 film. “I looked around and thought, ‘Yeah, this is good. I’m okay with this,’” According to Princess Die, a skater with TXRD’s team Hellcats, many facts can be found in the fictional “Whip It.” “Derby had its heyday in the ‘60s and ‘70s, but then the sport fizzled. That is, until Austin and TXRD happened,” said Princess Die. “Then Austin became derby’s new homebase.” The movie, set in Austin, features many familiar scenes. Not only are the images of the downtown skyline and the Drag’s “Thai How Are You” mu-

anthony mireles | the daily texan file “Jose Queervo,” top, fights Scrappy last Saturday during a Texas Roller Derby playoff match between the Rhinestone Cowgirls (red) and the Cherry Bombs (green). The movie “Whip-It” takes its inspiration from Austin’s roller derby scene and its participants.

ral featured, but the cast of characters — chock full of shaggy-haired guys and girls armed with vinyl and combat boots — ooze the essence of the only city weird enough to embrace the sport. “I honestly don’t know if derby could’ve come back the way it did anywhere but here,” said Zara Problem, who skates with the team Cherry Bombs. According to Zara Problem, a fringe sport like derby was able to reestablish itself in Austin thanks to the city’s accepting atmosphere. While it may

have been tolerated elsewhere, Austin gave derby more than tolerance — it gave participation and support. “That attitude here is what let it grow and spread. Now it’s a global thing,” Zara Problem said. Beyond acting as a homebase for derby, the sport and the city mirror each other in their attitudes as well, according to Flaca Calaca, an alternate skater, or “hired gun,” as they’re known at TXRD. “Austin and derby have similar outlooks,” said Flaca Calaca. “In derby

you see us, we’re athletes. But we’ve got makeup and fishnets on. We get on the track and challenge people’s ideas of what athletic skill and ability look like. I think Austin as a city has always challenged image norms and been accepting of people doing that.” “Whip It” main character Bliss Cavendish has a journey reflective of this sentiment in the movie. She struggles against smalltown norms, finding an outlet from the idea of women as dainty and passive in derby and Austin. According to Princess

Die, Bliss’ experience is something real-life derby girls have found to be true as well. “Girls bloom doing this. I did,” Princess Die said. “You see people try out in Barbie skates, barely able to stand, become these fast, fierce women taking and throwing hits on the track. And just like Bliss found a community that accepted her in the movie, we’re here for each other”. For students looking to become an active part of this Austin classic, TXRD will hold tryouts this Saturday, Sept. 8.

MUSIC

Eminem calls out haters in surprise album ‘Kamikaze’ By John Melendez @TheDailyTexan

It’s not every day that the highest selling rap artist of all time drops a surprise album. The hip-hop community, fans and critics alike had to give Eminem’s tenth album, Kamikaze, a listen, even after the release of his deeply underwhelming album Revival last year. Aptly titled, Kamikaze is an aggressive attack on critics and new-age artists that showcases the rapper’s top tier wordplay and flow. Despite the lyrical talent the artist is known for, Kamikaze delivers persistent bitterness. It’s mostly flat production and direction indicate that the 45-year-old rapper is still resistant to grow with the genre. Eminem’s technical prowess, unmatched wordplay and incredible flow have made him a force to be reckoned with for the past two decades. As the hip-hop music scene has evolved over time, Eminem has stayed the same. His brazen disapproval for most modern hip-hop artists has transformed his

image into that of a cynical, middle-aged rapper throwing a tantrum when his music is criticized for being dull. Since Revival’s release, the rapper’s insecurities and resentment for critics have only grown. Without any promotion, Eminem released his latest album alongside a tweet that read: “Tried not 2 overthink this 1...enjoy.” But the opening track, “The Ringer” delivers a less casual sentiment with the line “I’m just gonna write down my first thoughts, see where this takes me, ‘cause I feel like I want to punch the world.” Kamikaze’s intro track does a spectacular job of setting the tone for the war that Eminem has declared on his critics, complete with a renewed sense of passion. It is one of the most impressive songs in the 13 track LP. From the very beginning of the album, there is a sense that Revival’s failure is a chip on the artist’s shoulder. On the fourth track, his manager, a disgruntled Paul Rosenberg, calls Eminem and tells him, “Are you really gonna just … reply to everybody who you don’t like what they

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have to say about you?” Eminem uses the album to take shots at critics, media personalities, President Donald Trump and newer hip-hop artists like Machine Gun Kelly, Lil Yachty, Tyler, the Creator and Drake. In an attempt to parody newer artists, Eminem incorporates various interpolations in which he raps using the triplet flow of the Migos and Lil Pump’s “Gucci Gang.” One thing is ultimately clear, Kamikaze is better than Revival. What this indicates is that there is hope for all the Eminem fans. Tracks like the high speed “Lucky You,” Jessie Reyez’s unexpected post-chorus in “Good Guy” and the killer beat switch at the latter part of “Normal” give a glimpse to a more refreshing Marshall Mathers, Eminem’s legal name. When Eminem moves past the criticism and quits whining, the most enjoyable parts of the album surface. With producers like Mike WiLL Made-It, Boi-1da and Tay Keith, it seems he is at least attempting to reanalyze the drab production style that has plagued his previous works.

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Eminem’s Kamikaze is not groundbreaking by any means. Its message is condescending and feels out of touch at times. However, Kamikaze also features Eminem at his peak writing game. Kamikaze hits right on the mark more often than anything Eminem has released in recent history. The album’s promising moments could signify change for the better if the artist accepts his musical shortcomings and uses them as fuel to re-emerge into the modern hip-hop scene.

anthony mireles | daily texan staff Sam Ranford dances with glowsticks last Friday night on the James D. Pfluger Pedestrian Bridge with other Austinites.