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Residents of The Castilian threatened by elevator stops, plummeting By Emily Hernandez @emilyhernandez
Residents of the Castilian, a 22-story student residence building owned by American Campus, noticed issues with slow elevators in August. Students regularly encountered out-of-order signs, and some were even stuck inside elevators that stalled or fell several floors. In September, mathematics freshman Daniela Victoria boarded an elevator on the 20th floor. She said she thought something was wrong when the elevator door closed slower than normal. “I started to freak out and it started shaking and it dropped two floors, like free fall,” Victoria said. “I was really scared. It was horrible.” Victoria said she pressed the call button to contact management and was told to stay calm and that someone would come get her. “The elevator was going down again and it dropped another three floors and I started crying and shaking,” Victoria said. “If that thing dropped from floor 15 to the first floor, I was going to break every single bone in my body.” When the elevator opened, Victoria said she took the stairs from about the 15th floor to the first floor. “I told (management), ‘This can’t be happening. I pay rent for this. I don’t want my life to be (in danger). I need safe elevators. I don’t want to die in those things,’” Victoria said. “I couldn’t go to class because I was shaking and still crying.” Victoria said management took notes, apologized and called firefighters and elevator repair management, but she didn’t see an out-of-order sign on that elevator until the next day. As of publication, the Castilian has not responded to The Daily Texan’s requests for comment. Philosophy freshman Will Hutchinson worked as a
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Mayor Adler suggests water boil notice may end soon By Katie Balveic @KatelynBalevic
ustin Mayor Steve Adler said Tuesday the water boil notice would only last a “handful of days,” in contradiction with earlier reports that the notice could last 10 to 14 days. In response, the University began supplying water bottles to students on campus for the duration of the notice. “Contrary to reports, the city of Austin does not anticipate our water issues to last beyond a handful of days, depending on weather and consumption,” Adler tweeted. Adler said he anticipates the notice will be over by the weekend.
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Meanwhile, University administration prepared to supply water bottles to students for the next two weeks, according to an email from Melissa Moore, UTPD student development and engagement coordinator. Water stations have been set up at the Recreational Sports Center, Gregory Gymnasium, Student Services Building and The Texas Union from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., and each station will receive five pallets of bottled water each day. Jimmy Johnson, assistant vice president for campus safety, said in an email to the UT community that the Housing and Dining and Union facilities are operating normally, but stu-
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T O P : A cyclist rides through the trail bridge at Congress Avenue just a couple of feet above the rising water level at Lady Bird Lake. B O T T O M : Mayor Steve Adler describes the multitude of effects
that the recent flooding has had on Austin’s water filtration systems on Tuesday at Austin City Hall. Adler said that water is crucial toward resolving the boil notice and that it would last a “handful” of days. elias huerta | the daily texan staff
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Alan Kessler teaches UT’s first CIA informative class
Housing to add individual dorm thermostats By Lauren Grobe @LaurenGrobe
By Tehya Rassman @tehyarassman
Future students living in Kinsolving, Blanton, Creekside and Whitis Court will be able to control temperature in their rooms with individual thermostats, which are set to begin being added next year. The dormitories currently rely on an automated temperature system that is controlled by each dorm’s maintenance office. Renovations over the next several years will add individual thermostats, said Randy Porter, director of residential facilities. Porter said renovations will begin this summer in Kinsolving Residence Hall. “(Renovations) allow the students to control their own space,” Porter said. “It’s left up to students how they want their room to be.” While some residence halls such as Jester Dormitory are being updated each year, some smaller residence halls such as Blanton, which was built in 1955, have not been updated since they were first constructed, Porter said.
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Alan Kessler, current active officer of the CIA, is UT’s first resident intelligence officer and teaches at the LBJ School of Public Affairs. Kessler started this semester as the first officer to take part in the CIA’s new Visiting Intelligence Officers Program, which sends resident intelligence officers to teach at universities and serve as resources for those interested in the CIA. Before working for the CIA in the Directorate of Analysis, an office that provides intelligence analysis to inform U.S. policy decisions, Kessler taught government at UT. “It’s good to be back,” Kessler said. “I like UT and Austin.” The CIA implemented similar programs in the past, such as the Officer-in-Residence program, which mostly sent senior officers looking to retire into academia, said Stephen Slick, director of the UT
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