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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 2018
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Organizations provide resources, welcoming community for undocumented students. PA G E 2
The university should prioritize the renovation of its outdated lecture halls. PA G E 4
Season 2 of Netflix’s “Atypical” gives exposure to the autistic community. PA G E 5
Freshman safety Caden Sterns shows out in first career home game. PA G E 6
CAMPUS
CAMPUS
APD, UTPD respond to stabbing near Duren Residence Hall
Count on UTPD to help find lost essentials
By Megan Menchaca & Meghan Nguyen @meganmenchaca13
The Austin Police Department responded to a stabbing that occurred at the intersection of Whitis Avenue and W 27th St., near Duren Residence Hall, around 10:40 p.m. last night. The victim of the stabbing was a female in her 50s who suffered non-life-threatening injuries and was transported to Dell Seton Medical Center at around 11:30 p.m., according to a tweet by Austin-Travis County EMS. UTPD said the victim and suspect are not UT students and they possibly knew each other. UTPD was working on sending an email to students at the time of the incident, however the incident did not fit the criteria for a University-wide text alert, UTPD spokesperson Noelle Newton said. UTPD was unable to comment on their criteria for a University-wide text alert immediately following the incident. APD has a white male suspect in custody. The suspect was initially described as a black male, 6’2”, slim build, goatee with a white, short-sleeved shirt, according to a tweet by UTPD. A black male was involved in the altercation but was not detained. Advertising freshman Avery Johnson said she was concerned UTPD hadn’t sent a notification about the stabbing, especially since she lives in Kinsolving Residence Hall. “It’s really concerning, and I don’t really feel comfortable knowing that UT hasn’t notified us,” Johnson said. “I don’t feel safe. I feel like it’s something that we need to know and be aware of.”
Officers facilitate Lost and Found website as students adjust to university life this semester. By Megan Menchaca @meganmenchaca13
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nly a few days after her first day of college, journalism freshman Trinady Joslin misplaced her keys in her dorm. Joslin eventually found her keys under her bed a week later but only after she had already paid $75 to have her locks changed. “I realized that I had to deal with (the charge) because of my mistake, but after finding the key, I got a little more upset about losing the $75 because it wasn’t necessary,” Joslin said. UTPD Lt. Greg Stephenson said keys and student IDs are some of the most common items that are reported lost every day. UTPD Lost and Found receives dozens of these items every week, especially during the beginning of the school year. “The beginning of the school year, especially the fall semester, since we have so many new students that are adjusting to university life, we definitely see an uptick in students reporting lost items,” Stephenson said. When students lose an item, they can report it missing at UTPD’s Lost and Found website. If their item is ever recovered, UTPD will have the student retrieve the item. Neuroscience freshman Gracelyn Prom said
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when she lost her wallet in the Student Activity Center, she was able to quickly retrieve it from the UTPD station. “Losing my wallet made me realize how important all of the things in there was,” Prom said. “I couldn’t drive because I didn’t have my license, and I couldn’t take the bus because I didn’t have any money or my student ID.” To help UTPD with returning lost items, Stephenson said students can have their personal belongings engraved for free at the UTPD station. “If it’s anything of value, have it marked with a personal identifier,” Stephenson said. “If you can’t bring all of your items to be marked at the station, we also will loan our engraving supplies out to people, and you can take it back and engrave your own stuff.” Stephenson said if students have any items with a serial number, they should also register the serial numbers and their property at the UTPD property registration website. “When you make a lost item report, you can say, ‘I’ve put the serial numbers in the registration and here is my EID,’ and now UTPD will have all the serial numbers that are needed to find your items,” Stephenson said.
RESEARCH
ALUMNI
Students design fruit harvesting robot
UT alumna Julie Oliver makes bid for Congress
By Nicole Stuessy @nicolestuessy
By Chad Lyle Three UT students from different colleges joined together to design a flying robot with hands that pick fruit. Mechanical engineering junior Uksang Yoo, chemical engineering and government senior Logan Hageman, and biochemistry and business honors junior Arjun Menta came up with the LV FruitFly, a robotic fruit harvesting platform. Their robot was presented at the Shell Ideas360 competition, where they represented the U.S. this summer in London. Their product was selected as one of five finalists out of over 1,100 entries. Yoo said he based the idea for the LV FruitFly off of overhead cameras used to broadcast football games, and the team used a 3D printer to build a prototype. “These are cameras that are connected to four wires, and they kind of, like, zoom around the field,” Yoo said. “I searched them up on Google and found that there is no use for these systems other than moving cameras over a field, and in the back of my mind, I always thought that there was some sort of importance for this besides cameras.” Yoo said utilizing soft robotic arms to pick the fruit mimics the effect of human hands, something traditional
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robotic arms can’t do. “Human hands have appendages and are able to pick the fruit without damaging them,” Yoo said. “By replacing a traditional robotic arm with a soft robotic arm, I was able to take some of the advantages from human hand picking.”
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LV FruitFly benefits the environment and eliminates the need for workers in harsh labor conditions, Hageman said. “When you have an aerial system, you’re able to actually shrink that
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UT Law School alumna Julie Oliver is in the middle of campaigning to unseat three-term incumbent Congressman Roger Williams in House District 25, which stretches from Fort Worth to Austin. Last Tuesday, Oliver’s campaign picked up a high-profile endorsement from U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., a former UT Law School professor. Oliver said the endorsement came as a surprise. “One of my old law school professors who was a tax professor reached out to me on the campaign,” Oliver said. “I met him for coffee and he starts talking about Liz, Apparently when he was at UT School of Law teaching, they carpooled every day. So he actually connected us, and we called and had a conference call with her campaign, asked for her endorsement, and it
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was given.” In a statement announcing her support for Oliver, Warren said she was inspired by the candidate’s backstory. “Julie’s got such an inspiring story,” Warren said in statement. “She grew up in poverty, was a pregnant runaway in high school, managed to put herself through college & law school with a young family, and went on to serve her community in a number of ways and has always taken care of everyone around her. Women like Julie aren’t supposed to run for Congress — nevertheless, she persisted.” Oliver said her campaign also connected with Warren’s on causes that the candidates both share a passion for. “I think there was a recognition that our campaign platform wants to protect consumers,” Oliver said. “And I know that’s very important to Senator Warren. I think she also
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