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UT alum wins Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for new cancer discovery. PA G E 3
Students should counter loneliness by eating lunch with others. PA G E 4
All-female concert booking group reshapes male-dominated music industry. PA G E 8
Herman talks preparation before monumental clash with Oklahoma. PA G E 6
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Academic recovery helps stop spiraling
Students skip meals Students seeking a late-night bite are forced to look for inconvenient dinner alternatives or go hungry.
By Katie Balevic @KatelynBalevic
The Counseling and Mental Health Center is encouraging students to go through academic recovery when they face setbacks in their studies by starting a six-week counseling group last Thursday. Academic recovery is the process of bouncing back from an academic disappointment, said Katy Redd, associate director for prevention, development and media relations at the CMHC. “(An academic setback) is when things don’t go academically quite exactly like you envisioned,” Redd said. “It can be anything from getting a grade that you didn’t want to not performing as well in a test or a class, or maybe it’s not getting into the college that you envisioned or the graduate school that you thought that you wanted.” The counseling group focuses on the link between improving mental health and increased academic resilience rather than teaching academic or study skills, according to the CMHC website. According to data from the CMHC, 37 percent of the 6,312 students who went to the CMHC for help in 2016-2017 said academic concerns were one of the issues they were seeking help for. Exercise science freshman Sanja Stojcic said she was frustrated at the beginning of the semester when she forgot to do a homework assignment because she was preoccupied with a test. “I just completely forgot to do
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angela wang | the daily texan staff Business honors freshman Barbara Barman reaches for a Caesar salad at Littlefield Patio Cafe on Monday evening. Barman and other students living on the north side of campus often skip meals due to limited on-campus dining options at night.
By Neelam Bohra @_neelam_b
horter dining hall hours in the northern portion campus have caused some students to skip dinner. Littlefield Patio Cafe and Kinsolving Dining provide dinner for students in the northern part section of campus, and they close at 8 p.m. Monday to Thursday. Students who cannot mold their schedule to these hours said they do not
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have time to travel across campus to open dining halls or afford to spend money to eat out, so they resort to eating snacks or not eating at all. “I’ve skipped quite a few meals,” said Barbara Barman, a business honors freshman living in Blanton Hall. “I don’t have time to go across campus, and I don’t want to go out and spend money, so I just won’t eat. It messes with my whole schedule.” Hannah Jordan, an international relations and Plan II
freshman, also lives in Blanton and said she can’t afford to eat out because she pays her own tuition. Instead, she tried to use some of the 1,800 Dine In Dollars provided in her resident meal plan at Jester City Limits, which stays open until 11 p.m. Sundays through Thursdays. “I feel like people on the north side of campus get a little less out of their meal plan,” Jordan said. “I have walked across campus to get to JCL before, but when you’re on your own at night and you’re a girl,
CITY
Public pool prices increase to fund future improvements By Raga Justin @ragajus
Starting yesterday, students and residents should expect to pay more for a visit to Barton Springs and other Austin pools to fund maintenance costs. All municipal pools and the popular Barton Springs began requesting higher fees depending on age range and resident status. Adult residents, including students, must pay $5 instead of the previous $3 to get into Barton Springs, while admission for seniors, children and junior residents all increased by $1. Adult non-residents must pay $9. Neighborhood and community pools are still free for entry, said Jodie Jay, aquatics division manager for the City’s Parks and Recreation Department. Jay said it has been over 15 years since the city has increased its entry fees for residents. The city will collect an estimated $1.1 million from the price hike. “We were looking for creative ways to fund our maintenance and operation,” Jay said. Currently, the City can only wait until something goes wrong with a pool before working on it, which often leads to extended pool closures and additional costs, Jay said. With these additional funds, Parks and Recreation Department officials will replace older valves
and pumps in municipal pools this winter, preventing future breakdowns and closures. Music performance sophomore Nicholas Ryland often works as a lifeguard for Austin neighborhood pools and said he believes the price hike has both benefits and costs. “This just forces students to be more efficient with how they handle their money,” Ryland said. “For me, it’s not exactly harmful, but it’s an extra few bucks someone could maybe spend on lunch instead of this.” Anil Pattni, a marketing executive who has lived in Austin for four years, said he used to frequent Barton Springs when he first moved to the city. He said community-shared resources such as pools should not be restricted by fees. “I think everyone should have access to the pool as a privilege of living in Austin,” Pattni said. “It gets so hot here, and it’s such a family friendly place. And incrementally over the summer, those price increases add up …. Everyone already pays city taxes so we can have a place like this. Why should we pay extra to use it?” Jay said she does not anticipate turnout to pools and Barton Springs to decrease because of the price change. “Pushback is not an issue,” Jay said. “It is a moderate increase, and I think that most people understand that this money is going to a good cause.”
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it’s sketchy. And I don’t want to have to use SURE Walk. It’s a hassle, and it is intimidating to (use) just for dinner.” Hannah Horton, communication sciences and disorders sophomore, lives in Kinsolving and said she plans her homework around dining hours. “There are times when you get to a stopping point in homework, and it’s close to 8 and you’re hungry,” Horton said. “But you come down here and they’re about to close, so you
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CITY
Skidmore reimagines city mobility
amna ijaz | the daily texan staff District 9 City Council candidate Danielle Skidmore leads a discussion on sustainability in a town hall at Cain and Abel’s on Tuesday, Sept. 25.
By Sami Sparber @saisparber
Editor’s note: This is the first in a series of profiles on the candidates running to represent District 9 on the Austin City Council. If elected to the Austin City Council, transportation engineer Danielle
Skidmore said she can help solve Austin’s “mobility puzzle.” “As wonderful as it has been living in Austin for the past 24 years, our city is facing some real growing pains,” Skidmore said. “We have a transportation crisis. Traffic is awful, and makes it so hard to move around this city. As the 11th largest city in America, we have to go big
on public transportation.” Skidmore is running to represent District 9, which covers downtown, West Campus and parts of South Austin. Skidmore is running against Kathie Tovo, the incumbent City Council member and mayor pro tem. As a transgender woman and mother of a special-needs child,
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