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Midterm election gives firsttime voters a chance to make their voices heard. PA G E 2

The boil water notice is over, but students warn against slipping into old habits. PA G E 4

UT track alumni help pace olympic trial hopefuls in Austin Marathon. PA G E 8

Emotions run high for Tom Herman as Texas suffers first loss in conference play. PA G E 6

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Austin boil water notice lifted, tests confirm that water is safe

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By Megan Menchaca @meganmenchaca13

Austin Water lifted the city’s boil water notice Sunday afternoon after one week.

The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality tested the water and confirmed it was safe for Austin residents to use for drinking, cooking and making ice.

“We are fully confident that the tap water is safe to drink,” Austin City Manager Spencer Cronk said Sunday at a press conference.

The notice was originally issued Oct. 22, after unprecedented flooding caused high levels of silt to flow into the lakes, leaving Austin water plants unable to treat the water. It was the first time a citywide boil water notice had been issued in the history of the city’s water utility.

Officials were then required by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality to make the boil water notice mandatory on Wednesday when a water sample from one of Austin Water’s treatment facilities fell short of state standards.

“We had no positive tests for bacteria that would be harmful to any people,” Austin Water Director Greg Meszaros said at the press conference. “The next steps are going to be figuring out what was the cause of this and how we can get better at emergency response and communication.”

Jimmy Johnson, assistant vice president for campus safety, said in an email to the UT community that campus water fountains will be considered safe to use after the trash bags have been removed, and stand-alone ice machines will have signs posted when they are safe to use.

“Throughout this weekend, the University took precautionary measures and conducted water testing at several main campus locations in anticipation of the boil water

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Students work to improve representation of their community in academia

Raising voices

By Kamari Esquerra

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Editor's Note: This is the first installment of the Daily Texan’s new collaborative series “Raising Voices,” which highlights issues of diversity at UT. Stories are produced in partnership with UT’s chapters of Asian American Journalists Association, National Association of Black Journalists, National Association Hispanic Journalists Association and the National Lesbian Gay Journalists Association.

oth Zaria El-Fil and Octavian Moten, African and African diaspora studies juniors, considered getting a doctorate degree in black studies, but they had doubts.

Through the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program, which works to improve representation of minority students in academia, El-Fil and Moten are now on a path to earn doctorate degrees.

“The program has opened my eyes and given me a great avenue to get that,” Moten said.

Every year, Mellon Mays helps students from universities across the country conduct undergraduate research and prepares them to apply for graduate school programs in any field — but especially in the

humanities. The program also helps students find financial resources to pay for graduate school.

El-Fil worried she could not afford a Ph.D., which typically requires at least eight years of higher education. This was time and money El-Fil didn’t think was possible for her to spend before becoming a Mellon Mays scholar.

“That’s the purpose of Mellon Mays, to make this seem obtainable for students of color because coming in, a lot of the times it isn’t,” El-Fil said.

Along with other UT students in the program, El-Fil and Moten will present their research at the annual Mellon Mays conference that will be held

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Travis County sees record-high number of voters in midterm elections

By Nicole Stuessy @nicolestuessy

Students voting early on campus last week stood in hourlong wait lines at some points during the day, despite the addition of a new location at the Perry-Castañeda Library. Travis County Clerk Dana DeBeauvoir said this is a result of the record number of Travis County voters in a midterm election.

More than 10,000 votes were cast at the PCL and the Peter T. Flawn Academic Center last week, which is the earliest this number has been reached, said Bruce Elfant, Travis County tax assessor-collector and voter registrar.

“Normally these midterm elections are sleepy little affairs,” Elfant said. “Just after five days of early voting, the turnout is about to be higher than the whole early voting period for the years 2010 and 2014.”

During the 2016 presidential election, 31,000 people in Travis County voted on the first day of early voting. On Monday, the first day of early voting this year, 32,000 people voted and there has been similar turnout every day since then, DeBeauvoir said.

“This behavior is double of what we would consider normal behavior for a midterm November election,” DeBeauvoir said.

DeBeauvoir said she is excited by the high turnout at both locations on campus, as this is the

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first time the PCL location has been used.

“We were certainly happy to provide the additional location,” DeBeauvoir said. “I have told commissioners court and the people at UT that I will operate as many of these locations as they are willing to fund.”

TX Votes, a nonpartisan student organization, has tabled on the West Mall every weekday, encouraging students to vote and handing out election information, said Maya Patel, TX Votes interim president.

“We have sample ballots printed out for Riverside, West Campus, North Campus and on campus dorms,” Patel said.

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Students cast first votes in upcoming midterms

By Chad Lyle @LyleChad

The largest group of registered voters in Travis County is now between the ages of 18 and 25, which means many people voting in the upcoming midterm election will be doing so for the first time.

Maya Patel, the interim president of TX Votes, a UT organization dedicated to increasing civic engagement by students, said this is exciting news.

“On Friday, Bruce Elfant, the Travis County tax assessor, announced that there has been an unprecedented surge in voter registration that now makes 18 to 25-yearolds the largest voting bloc in Travis County,” chemistry junior Patel said. “You can’t vote if you’re not registered, and we have the most people registered. I think that’s a direct reflection of the fact that young people are excited about this election.”

Patel said she attributes this enthusiasm to recent political news and enduring feelings from the last election.

“I think a lot of it has to do with the political climate in this country,” Patel said. “I also think a lot of it has to do with the outcome of the 2016 election, where people were so sure that it was going to go one way and it didn’t, and part of that is because people were overly confident and didn’t vote.”

Avery Denning, a firsttime Texas voter originally from Chicago, said paying closer attention to the news

ashley ephraim | the daily texan staff Sean Tucker, a communication and leadership sophomore, is voting in their first election this semester, like many other students on campus. Tucker’s vision for the future is to witness how an increase in civic engagement can attract more young voters out to the polls.

sharpened her convictions to vote.

“I started to actually follow the news this year,” said Denning, a management information systems sophomore.

“I just remember getting really, really frustrated with what I was reading. The more frustrated I was with it, the more closely I began to follow, and it kind of turned into a cycle of ‘now I’m an informed voter’ and I think it’s important to remain informed.”

Denning also said being able to vote in Texas made

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“I think this election, even more than just whether or not Congress flips, is more important in a sense of momentum — hope for the future,” Tucker said. “I’ve seen so many more young people become so passionate and so actively engaged in civic engagement, activism and volunteering for candidates this year and I think if there were to be a big dud and nothing changes, that would cause a lot of resentment and doubt in our generation.”

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“This is my first time voting in Texas because I’m from Chicago,” Denning said. “The election that’s happening here is, I think, much more pivotal than the elections that we’re having in Chicago.”

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Editor’s note: This is one in a series of profiles on candidates running for Congressional Districts in Texas.

Wedding photographer and political newcomer Clark Patterson is the Libertarian candidate for Congressional District 35.

He said he hopes his campaign serves as a wake-up call for Democratic and Republican politicians.

Patterson said he is showcasing third-party solutions to partisan issues such as immigration, health care reform and taxation.

“I honestly believe that Libertarian solutions are the only real solutions to everything that ails the U.S. politically,” Patterson said. “These issues we are seeing have to be addressed with much more than just lip service.”

Patterson said he is particularly concerned about the financial situation of the United States. He is advocating for all “entitlement programs” to be phased out over the next few generations.

These entitlement programs include government-funded health care, pensions and

higher education.

“We’ll be dead in 30 years but the millennials will just be getting started,” Patterson said. “And they’ll be dealing with problems my generation began. We thought we’d be better than our parents’ generation and quite frankly we’ve dropped the ball.”

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believes the federal government should not have a role in higher education spending, and funding for public universities should be drastically reduced. A college education is often more meaningless than useful, and companies should hire and train workers at a fraction of the cost instead,

Patterson said.

“In America, we are the most over-credentialed, under-educated society in world history,” Patterson said. “You have the proverbial situation where you have a barista at Starbucks with a college degree … Libertarians would argue that the reason that is the case is all the money poured into higher education.”

Libertarians believe national defense is the only acceptable use of government funds, which should be raised solely through voluntary citizen donations instead of taxation, Patterson said.

In addition, he said as life expectancy increases, raising the retirement age is another solution to easing the financial burden.

Patterson said he hopes to see some of his campaign principles adopted in the next few generations to make headway on solving any national problems.

“When the major parties even talk about entitlement reform it’s always something way down the road,” Patterson said. “Well, that’s crazy. We need to tell people that we simply do not have the money. It needs to start now.”

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advisory being lifted,” Johnson said in an email. “The university has developed a coordinated plan to quickly and systematically enable the consumption of water on campus.”

While residents are not required to flush their pipes, there are still water restrictions in place. Austin Water is asking residents to limit water use and refrain from using water for outdoor irrigation and vehicle or surface washing. At 10 a.m. on Monday, the restrictions on irrigation and washing vehicles will be lifted.

Austin Water also recommends removing at least one quart of water from your refrigerator water dispenser before consumption and emptying any ice created during the notice.

Waterway bans for Lake Austin and Lake Travis still remain in effect and will be reevaluated Monday.

pedro luna | the daily texan staff Psychology freshman Samantha Mathis, second from left, was one of hundreds of students living in campus dormitories without potable water during the city’s boil water notice.

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UT students win first prize at DisrupTexas for their start-up

By William Kosinski @willkosinski

Mechanical engineering senior Katherine Allen and Atreya Misra, electrical and computer engineering graduate student, won the DisrupTexas Undergraduate Pitch Competition and received $20,000 Friday to help grow their business Flo Recruit, an online job recruitment tool.

“We feel great right now,” Flo Recruit co-founder Allen said. “A lot has been going well for our business lately, and it took a lot of hard work and losing competitions to get to this point.”

Twenty-five undergraduate student teams from six Texas universities competed for a total of $40,000 in start-up cash. The five highest-scoring teams, four from UT-Austin and one from UT-Dallas, advanced to the final round, where a final pitch determined which team would receive the largest rewards.

Ranging from a group-oriented event planning app to a literary peer review website, finalists presented their ideas to four judges who scored the pitch’s content and quality. UT’s Herb Kelleher Center for Entrepreneurship, which hosted the event, intended to offer undergraduate students entrepreneurial practice and reward money to execute the best ideas, said Luis Martins, the director at the Herb Kelleher Center for Entrepreneurship.

“Our mission is to support entrepreneurship in all its forms at the University of Texas and beyond,” Martins said. “This competition fulfills our educational mission of providing instructional experience and supports the most promising measures.”

The judges, consisting of professional startup founders, advisers and strategists, heard a 10-minute pitch and had five minutes to ask questions.

samantha dorisca | the daily texan staff Engineering students Katherine Allen, left, and Atreya Misra win the $20,000 grand prize at the DisrupTexas Undergraduate Pitch Competition on Saturday afternoon. Allen and Misra’s business, Flo Recruit, allows companies to more efficiently recruit prospects.

They also offered constructive criticism to the students’ businesses and pitching abilities.

Computer science sophomore Owais Raza pitched Mysterious Media, an Instagram marketing service, but did not advance to the final round. Raza said he still valued the

experience because it strengthened his skills in pitching, networking and business planning.

“This is part of the process of taking the feedback, fixing what’s wrong and trying again,” Raza said. “You feel upset for a brief moment, but then you realize this is what everyone has to go

through in order to eventually win.”

Raza said he received help with Mysterious Media through membership in the Longhorn Entrepreneurship Agency, a branch of Student Government that supports student entrepreneurs. Allen also said UT’s support greatly helped her company’s

success in competing against many qualified teams.

“Working in the entrepreneurship community here at UT taught us how to avoid mistakes,” Allen said. “We’ve made some, but having founders, mentors and other employees at the University to help has been amazing.”

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in Austin from Oct. 23 to Oct. 25 and at Duke University from Nov. 2 to Nov. 4.

El-Fil is also majoring in psychology, and Moten first enrolled as a computer science major, but they both focus on researching social issues that impact African Americans to better represent their communities in academia.

“My research, I always describe it as my labor of love; my love for black people and black history,” El-Fil said.

El-Fil’s project focuses on historical research about the psychology of sexually abused, enslaved women. She said her work takes 19th century slavery and gives it more dimension by using modern psychology theories to view the enslaved as people instead of as abstract objects in history.

“They didn’t have the unf derstanding of mental health that we do now,” El-Fil said.

“It was a fundamentally violent and abusive institution and now we know that violence has an adverse risk on mental health.”

Growing up, El-Fil said she did not understand the mental strength of enslaved women who suffered emotional and physical trauma because of the way slavery is taught. By including psychology in historical research, El-Fil hopes to change this.

“When I was in middle school and we learned about slavery, I felt embarrassed,” El-Fil said. “I hope (my research) influences the way younger generations are taught so that they never have to go through what I went through of hating my blackness because of what history taught me my blackness was.”

Moten’s research focuses on the negative effects the school-to-prison pipeline can have on African-American students. Moten interviewed previously imprisoned men to better understand the system.

The inspiration for his topic came from mentoring

black and Latino males in East Austin through UT’s Project MALES program.

“The students are good kids, but some of them have been told for so long that they are bad kids that they tend to act out in such a way,” Moten said. “That has impacted me to do research and go beyond just mentoring these students, but trying to break the (prison industrial) system down altogether.”

Both Moten and El-Fil are putting the finishing touches on their research projects, but they said they often struggled to believe in themselves during their research.

“My biggest challenge was believing in myself and believing I could do research like this, finding out whether or not I could be successful at academia,” Moten said. “I’ve grown to realize this is something I can do.”

El-Fil said she had doubts in her research idea of integrating psychology into history because she received pushback from professors.

“I talked to many professors,” El-Fil said. “And they

told me, ‘That’s unheard of, you can’t mix psychology and history, two completely different fields of study.

No one has ever done it.

It’s impossible.’”

But El-Fil’s Mellon Mays mentor Daina Ramey Berry, an associate professor of history and African and African diaspora studies, encouraged her to pursue her idea.

Because UT is a predominantly white institution, El-Fil said she often didn’t share her research interests with students, worrying non-black peers wouldn’t appreciate it. “(One of the harder parts) is knowing that my work is really only valued by the black community and not supported by the greater UT community,” El-Fil said.

But being chosen to be a Mellon Mays scholar helped El-Fil gain her confidence.

“Mellon is known to take people with very bright minds, and that is definitely something that would help someone to believe in themselves,” El-Fil said.

“It’s like if they believe

(in you), then you’re something special.”

Moten and El-Fil hope their projects will reach people beyond the black community at UT. Following the conferences, they will continue to develop and refine their research until they graduate in spring 2020.

At the graduate level, Moten plans to pursue a Ph.D. in African and African diaspora studies, a degree he hopes to use to ultimately develop policy for community development.

“To me, it doesn’t seem helpful if I simply bring about knowledge of these problems and don’t make an effort to change them,” Moten said.

El-Fil plans to earn a doctoral degree in history to expand her current research.

“My entire life’s plan is to re-think history and dedicate care to the experience of black people,” El-Fil said.

“I want to teach children black history in ways that empowers them and gives them a firm sense of self.”

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“We also have non-partisan voting guides and non-partisan voting information to help students make their selections.”

With 18 to 35-year-olds making up the largest registered voting bloc in Travis County, chemistry junior Patel says it is now up to young people to show up to vote.

“We have a lot of power and we need to start using it,” Patel said. “Politicians are not going to listen to us until we start showing up because traditionally, we haven’t show up. If we show up for this election, they’re gonna start listening.”

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Wading the waters after the city-wide boil notice

By Molly Bolf and Jennifer Liu Forum Editors

The boiling advisory is over, but the threat of losing access to potable water is not. The citywide boiling notice that was put into effect last Monday reminded Austin residents that clean water is a privilege. When faced with historical flooding levels, Austin Water plants experienced significantly reduced capacity to properly treat the input of river water, and the risk of contamination led the city to mandate emergency water use restrictions. On Sunday night, Austin Water director Greg Meszaros released a statement urging residents “to do all that they can to reduce water use.” The following morning, a city-wide boil water notice was issued, requiring that residents boil water before

consumption for safety. Austin residents were also immediately prohibited from all outdoor water use, urged to wait on dishes and laundry, and conserve as much as possible.

As HEB’s water shelves depleted and the seemingly immortal SAC and Union Starbucks shut down, students began to realize how often we take potable water for granted.

Everyday habits like filling up your Camelbak with tap water, brushing your teeth and ordering espresso drinks or soda at your favorite restaurant were corrupted by the boil notice and forced Austin residents to think about how much we rely on clean water, and how much we forget about conservation.

As the advisory continued, the danger of contamination became a topic of everyday conversation. Austin City Council member Gregorio Casar tweeted “the single most important thing

we can do to reduce the length of the water boil advisory is to cut down our water usage.”

Austin Water Utilities tweeted a chart comparing city water usage this past week, average water usage from 2014-2017, and the city’s treatment plant water production; the chart depicted a significant decrease in water consumption following the water restrictions. Austin residents took these restrictions seriously, and positive results followed.

However, the end of the boiling advisory should not mean that conserving water is any less crucial. In order to avoid another boiling notice, water restriction or shortage, residents must remember not to take potable water for granted and reevaluate their daily water usage. The results from the data Austin Water shared lets residents know that this is attainable.

Art history sophomore Mia Stanley grew up in Odessa, where water is a commodity not taken for granted. Stanley asserts that city residents use more water than necessary, and advises students to take steps to cut down personal water usage.

Environmental science junior Kate Cox challenges students to fight the current and conserve water for future generations. Students need to be more aggressive and even relentless when it comes to advocating for water conservation and use their voices to continue calling for change.

As always, please reach out to us at thedailytexanforum@gmail.com if you have any thoughts on this issue or anything else.

Bolf is an English sophomore from Fort Worth. Liu is a rhetoric & writing, philosophy and Plan II junior from Plano.

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This week was a wake-up call

By Kate Cox

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This past week has been a wake-up call relative to water use. While we all know we should conserve water, few of us act on this imperative in our normal, everyday lives. For most of us, this week has been the first time that we have had to put a great deal of thought into where we will get our water. In many corners of the world, the search for and acquisition of clean drinking water is a critical part of day-to-day life. The capacity to access and purify water is a key determinant of a community’s wellbeing.

Over central Texas, we have faced both floods and droughts over the past five years. We should never become complacent or presumptuous about the access to potable water. However, we may not always be as lucky as we are now. The combination of a rapidly increasing population, water overuse, and recent droughts have created a situation that is ripe for critical water scarcity across Texas in the near future. A report released by the Texas Water Development Board in 2017 stated that Texas could face a potential water shortage of 4.8 million acre-feet in 2020, which could grow to 8.9 million acre-feet in 2070 if the

population continues to grow at current rates.

The same report suggests that under ‘projected water availability and population growth,’ in 2070 approximately, 34% of all people in Texas would have access to fewer than half of the municipal water resources they require (based on historical consumption levels).

In many respects, this is a generational challenge. What should be done to lessen or prevent water shortages in the future? Our first act is individual and personal — we should all do our best to conserve water in our daily lives. This might involve making small changes — doing fewer loads of laundry, taking shorter showers, shutting off the water while you brush your teeth, and not running your dishwasher until it is full. The ability to address this crisis requires us to act both individually and collectively.

Even if the government limited excessive use of water by agriculture, businesses, and private individuals, the amount of available water would still be decreasing due to climate change and increased water needs. It is critical to innovate in order to meet the future water needs of Texas in a sustainable manner. Examples of such innovation include the desalination of currently undrinkable aquifer water and the treatment of sewage water until it is safe to drink. As gross as that sounds,

current treatment technologies make this a perfectly safe practice. These acts can be combined with more aggressive conservation tactics at all levels of government.

Ensuring an appropriately hydrated future will require lobbying local and state level authorities to implement better water management plans and water conservation education programs, as well as working to elect representatives who have ideas on how to solve this problem.

As students, many of us have probably not spent significant time thinking about water conservation. This past week’s boiling crisis should be viewed as an awakening — a catalyst for change. While this recent water crisis had little to do with a water shortage, it is a glimpse of things to come if we don’t begin to address the shortage that threatens us in the near future. In these times of great division in our society, a crisis such as this can be unifying. After all, we all need water! Rallying together to find sustainable solutions is so important. Individuals need to come together and work with our government to conserve water to the best of our ability so that we will not end up in a future where we will not even be able to boil our water, as we might not have any to boil.

Cox is an environmental science junior.

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We’re not in the clear just yet: Revamp your water-user profile

By Mia Stanley Forum Contributor

About 275 million years ago, the Permian Basin was completely underwater, but for most of my childhood, my hometown was lucky to get 10 inches of rainfall a year. Burn bans and water rationing were the norm — all in the hope that we would limit our water usage.

In light of recent events in Austin, there’s a similar sentiment that is shared and coupled with the realization that perhaps city residents use more water than they are required. Reducing your water usage not only lowers your water bill, but it creates a more sustainable lifestyle that could even lead to tax rebates. Here are a couple of easy steps to help revamp your water-user profile:

Take shorter showers

Trying to introduce the combat shower method — only use running water when rinsing, but otherwise leave the water off while you lather.

Also, try taking note of how long you’re in the shower by creating a playlist of songs that are two to three minutes long, and then keep all showers under a three-song limit. Keeping a single song as a marker in mind, can help keep you on track.

For example, after one song you should be onethird of the way through your shower routine.

Look into introducing a greywater system into your home

See if your landlord would be interested in

hooking up a greywater collection system to your home — there are tax incentives and potential city incentive programs that they could benefit from. If not, look into small ways to efficiently use your own greywater. If you have houseplants or a small garden, try collecting the shower water that is normally wasted while you wait for the shower to warm up and using it in a small bucket

In light of recent events in Austin, there’s a realization that perhaps city residents use more water than they need to.”

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upgrade can make a huge difference.

Hand-wash your dishes to water your plants.

Use water and energy efficient machines, if you have the option

If you already have water efficient appliances in your home — good job. If not, see if your landlord would be interested in upgrading their property. In the long run, dishwashers and washer/ dryers can be incredibly wasteful, and this small

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If you don’t have access to an energy efficient dishwasher, try washing dishes by hand in an environmentally friendly way. Plug the sink drain and fill it half-way with hot water and dish soap.

Then, scrub all of the dishes you need to wash and only turn on the water again to rinse. This lowers the time you spend running water, thus minimizing water waste.

Only wash full loads of laundry

Try only running your washing machine when

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you have a full load to wash, rather than using the small or medium load setting. To take this sustainability a step further, try drying your clothing on a line to save energy and keep your clothes looking brighter, longer. If there’s a single item you really need to wash, hand wash it in the sink basin and then let it air dry.

There are endless ways for you to cut down your water footprint, but starting small can lead to a bigger impact. For more information, visit the Eden Project website.

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CITY

Austin Design Week to provide learning opportunities

By Brooke Sjoberg @Sj0b3rg

Looking to boost a resumé? How about fill a portfolio? For students, professionals and enthusiasts of design, Austin Design Week provides free workshops and connections to the industry.

Austin Design Week runs from Nov. 5 to Nov. 9 and includes 100 free talks, studio tours and workshops celebrating Austin’s creative community of designers and engineers. This will be Austin’s third Design Week event.

Danielle Barnes is one of Austin Design Week’s three founders and currently the CEO of Women Talk Design.

The Daily Texan had an opportunity to chat with her in anticipation of the event.

Daily Texan: How did you go about founding Austin Design Week?

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“It takes them longer to recover in the shelter because of how the stress affects their immune system,” Olohan said.

Plan II senior Rachel Vopne, another first time foster, opened her home to Holden, a German Shepherd mix, last week to help the alleviate pressures put on by the excessive rain.

Vopne also said she believes UT students should consider pet fostering due to student availability.

“I think students are great foster candidates because we do have such flexible schedules,” Vopne said. ”It’s a great way to help let the animals have a home and family until they’re adopted and clear

Danielle Barnes: The goal behind Austin Design Week is to really bring together all different design disciplines in Austin: architects, graphic designers, service designers and fashion designers, and take a week to celebrate design in Austin. We also wanted to bring in the rest of the community — people who aren’t designers and don’t really know what’s going on within design — and allow them to celebrate with us.

DT: What was the inspiration behind Austin Design Week?

DB: There’s design weeks that happen really all over the world. I actually had created similar events in San Francisco and New York. We wanted to create one here when we realized that Austin didn’t have one.

DT: Who would get the most out of participating in Austin Design Week?

DB: We tried to set it up so that it wasn’t just about

space in shelters so no-kill shelters like Austin Pets Alive! can save more animals from kill shelters.”

The only problem presented by these students was getting their new companions adjusted to the West Campus lifestyle. Rens said Sweetie’s fear of heights made getting her up and down five flights of stairs an initial obstacle.

Rens says she put aside the challenges of re-adjusting schedules and providing clean water with the boil notification in order to give Sweetie higher chances of adoption.

While Austin’s citizens were inconvenienced by the rainfall throughout October, the water crisis provided foster dogs like Sweetie and Holden temporary homes with UT students in better living conditions.

one particular type of group. Our goal is that it’s really beneficial to a lot of people. Current practitioners of design can go to different workshops and continue to learn more about their craft or visit different booths and learn more about what they’re doing. We also have some programming that is specific to students. We want students to attend as well.

I think they can learn a lot by visiting different studios and workshops, meeting different people. We also have an event on creating your design portfolio and office hours with professionals where students can talk and get advice.

DT: How is Austin pushing the boundaries of design?

DB: There’s a lot of interesting areas that people are focused on in design here. One of the things that I personally have found really exciting is some of the things that the city is doing with design.

Making services more accessible and focusing on housing and other things that the city’s facing, and the way the city is working with designers is really interesting. We also have a lot of tech companies that are thinking about design.

DT: What is the real impact of Austin Design Week?

DB: I think that one of the things that we really want to do is help raise the level of design in Austin. I think when designers are talking to each other across disciplines and having conversations and teaching each other it helps to elevate the practice as a whole, for the city. I also think one of the things that’s been really amazing is that I’ve seen as we host more design weeks is that it brings other people into the city. They’re coming to experience what’s happening with design in Austin. It can help the economy and it can bring in new talent.

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mental health.”

Daily Texan: You guys have a very unusual band name, how was it chosen?

Zach Hannah: Dave asked me what I wanted to call (the band) and I told him it didn’t matter cause no one’s ever gonna fucking hear it. Dave was like you’re right, we can call it whatever we want, what’s a hipster name like Chvrches with only vowels or no vowels, all caps? Basically, Nate was wearing a hat and Dave pointed at the hat over FaceTime and he was like ‘call it f****** Arizona’ because it was an Arizona iced tea hat.

copyright danielle barnes, and reproduced with permission Danielle Barnes founded Austin Design Week to provide opportunities to connect with the Austin design community.

We laughed, but realized it really doesn’t matter and we shouldn’t take it too seriously. That’s kind of what A R I Z O N A is about — if it feels good, if it’s funny and we can mess around as friends, then we’ll use it.

DT: You performed two new songs at Austin City Limits this year, “Summer Days” and “Freaking Out,” can you tell me about the inspiration behind these singles?

ZH: “Freaking Out” and “Summer Days” were part of a little string of singles that we released recently.

We were really strung out from being on the road again. “Summer Days” was kind of an A R I Z O N A take on “Show Me Love” meets “Uptown Girl.” So

we put that out, but then the stress of the album started to really get to us.

“Freaking Out” was kind of the same idea of an ode to the 80s. For us, we have all these separate issues, I struggle with a shit ton of anxiety and occasional depression and I know Nate does and Dave as well. We all share that, but it’s a terrible thing to share because it removes you from your circle of friends and kind of removes you from yourself as well. That’s just the way it is, and it’s not anyone’s fault, it’s a crazy and wonderful life. But you’re not ready to live this crazy and wonderful life in one day, and I think that’s where “Freaking Out” came from.

It was us being honest

about some of the not great things that we go through and feel, and how deep that hole can go.

DT: You have performed at many music festivals, but this year was your first ACL. How did it compare to experiences at festivals like Lollapalooza?

ZH: I can only speak from the performance end, because I’m not much of a festival-goer. We’ll all get off stage and the guys will go catch shows and I can’t stand being in a crowd with loud music. I know. It’s weird, and to this day I’ll still be like ‘I’m gonna go home and play some fucking Rocket League.’ These are my best friends, so from their experience, ACL was amazing.

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MONDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2018

FOOTBALL

Longhorns stuck in Stillwater

Slow start results in first Big 12 loss of the season for Texas.

By Ross Burkhart @Ross_Burkhart

ith a restful bye week and quarterback Sam Ehlinger’s shoulder injury in the rear-view mirror, Texas made the trip to Stillwater, Oklahoma, on Saturday looking more like the squad that lost to Maryland than a team ranked sixth in the country.

The Longhorns entered a sold-out Boone Pickens Stadium under the lights and left with an emotional 38-35 defeat at the hands of Oklahoma State, virtually squashing any possibility Texas had of making the College Football Playoff.

Hordes of OSU students sprung over the sideline walls and rushed the field as the final seconds ran off the game clock while many Texas players could only stare endlessly as disbelief set in. The Longhorns had just lost their first game in nearly two months.

“That’s a really upset and dejected locker room, but they are very, very together,” head coach Tom Herman said after the game. “I love the fact that one loss hurts that bad.”

Herman continued, “We had guys in tears. To think how far we’ve come, to where one loss matters that much, and it should. That means we are headed in the right direction as far as the attitude of this football team and the belief in the way we do things.”

angela wang | the daily texan staff Texas junior safety Brandon Jones attempts to prevent a touchdown by an Oklahoma State wide receiver during the Longhorns’ 38-35 loss at T. Boone Pickens Stadium on Saturday night. The loss for the Longhorns is their first since Maryland on Sept. 1.

Oklahoma State jumped out to a large lead in a hurry, piling up 24 points with 10 minutes remaining in the second quarter as Ehlinger struggled to efficiently throw the ball, going 2-for-7 in the first 15 minutes of action.

But as both teams emerged from the locker room following halftime, Texas began to resemble the team that emphatically defeated Oklahoma just three weeks earlier, cutting the deficit to just three points during the fourth quarter.

The Longhorn defense forced a three-and-out, putting Ehlinger and the offensive unit in prime position to take the

go-ahead lead. However, safety Brandon Jones hurt the potential for a game-winning drive by attempting to return a punt instead of signaling for a fair catch, forcing Texas to take over at their own two-yard line.

“Honestly, I didn’t realize we were in punt safe,” Jones said.

“We were down. I just wanted to make a play for my team. It was obviously a bad read, I didn’t expect the ball to go as far over my head. I was standing at the 20-yard line and didn’t really realize where I was at that point …”

Jones’ error wasn’t the leading factor in the Longhorns loss to Oklahoma State,

FOOTBALL

By Alex Briseño

Texas sweeps Oklahoma, improves to 9–1 in Big 12

By Keshav Prathivadi

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katie bauer | the daily texan staff Texas fans react in disbelief following the Longhorns’ 38-35 loss to Oklahoma State. The Longhorns have lost the last four matchups with Oklahoma State, dating back to 2015.

conduct penalties.

Both teams and coaches returned to their respective sidelines. Cornelius, who threw for 321 yards and accounted for five total touchdowns, took one last knee and allowed the final seconds of the Halloween weekend shootout to come to an abrupt end.

“I thought Mike (Gundy) had come out and was having words with one of our players,” Herman said after the game. “I took exception to that. When I shook his hand at the end he said, ‘Hey, I was just trying to make sure we were smart and no fight ensued.’ I believe him, we smiled. We go way back, I have no issues. He told me what he was trying to do.

I saw it differently at first, and I was going to go defend my player.”

Herman and Gundy concluded their postgame handshake while Oklahoma State fans jumped out of the stands and stormed the field. The fireworks flew and tears started to roll as Texas players filed out of the stadium.

“When something is that important, and you fail at your endeavor, it’s going to hurt really bad, and it’s going to hurt to the point of tears often times,” Herman said. “I thought it was great.

I would be really worried if guys were smiling and laughing after getting their butts

Any hope of making it into the committee’s top four at the end of the season is now gone.

But the Longhorns still have the opportunity to reach the Big 12 Championship should they win each of their last four games, starting with next Saturday’s home matchup against West Virginia — a game that can’t come soon enough for many disappointed Longhorns.

“I’m already looking forward to it,” Jones said. “There’s nothing you can do about the past.

You can’t change it. All we can do is learn from it, watch film, make corrections and get out there Sunday and move on to West Virginia.”

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Emotions run high for Herman, Hager during disappointing loss

After nearly four hours, the shootout in Stillwater appeared to be coming to an end. And if the scoreboard didn’t do the trick, once emotions consumed Texas, the Longhorns — and their head coach — found themselves at one of the lowest points of the season in front of a national audience.

With less than a minute remaining in the game, it was clear: Oklahoma State was going to complete the upset victory over No. 6 Texas. All the Cowboys needed to do was take a knee, hand the ball to the officials and let the celebration begin.

But after Oklahoma State quarterback Taylor Cornelius planted his knee to the turf, defensive end Breckyn Hager’s emotions took over.

Hager pointed out Oklahoma State wide receiver Tyron Johnson before the snap and, despite the whistle being blown, continued to go after Johnson, causing an altercation between the teams.

“That’s not how you present yourself when a team is taking a knee. That is not necessary,” defensive end Charles Omenihu said.

“Doing that isn’t going to change the outcome of the game. I understand that emotions run high, but you have to be mature enough to handle the outcome that you caused. It wasn’t them, it was us.”

Oklahoma State head coach Mike Gundy ran onto the field. Seconds later, Tom Herman joined in, sprinting off the sideline toward the OSU logo at midfield which sparked an animated yelling match, only to be separated by the Big 12 referees.

Gundy returned to the sideline and threw his hands in the air, electrifying the crowd while Hager and Herman were both issued unsportsmanlike

though. From the beginning, Texas performed underwhelmingly by giving up 260 yards in the first quarter as the Cowboys nearly averaged a first down per play during the quarter.

The slow start and lack of execution proved to be too much to recover from as the Longhorns showed faults in each area.

“We did this to ourselves,” Ehlinger said. “Hats off to them, they played an excellent game, but we did not play our best and that showed. We hurt ourselves in every facet of the game and every side of the ball, and we’ve got to learn from that if we want to be as great as we want to be.”

kicked, which I’ve seen before. The good thing is we’ve moved past that point and nights like tonight really, really hurt.”

Texas strung together a late comeback after trailing 31-14 at halftime, but much like Sam Ehlinger’s 283 passing yards and four total touchdowns, it was quickly overshadowed by the extracurricular activities in the final moments of the game.

While Herman and Gundy’s altercation seems to have been resolved, questions surrounding Hager’s actions remain.

“That’s not us, that’s not this program. I love Breckyn to death, but I’m disappointed in him. I’ll tell him that to his face,” tight end Andrew Beck said. “That’s not us.

That’s not him. That’s not what we want this program to be. He’s better than that.

We’re all young men growing up and we’ll learn that that’s not how you take a loss.”

Despite a night full of miscues, suspensions and one emotional loss, the Longhorns must now move past their Saturday night spectacle.

They won’t have to travel to Stillwater for another matchup on Halloween weekend. Instead, Texas now has a week to prepare for No. 12 West Virginia, Heisman candidate Will Grier and a squad who can do more than upset a defense.

Texas jumped out to a 2-0 lead after two sets, but Gregory Gym grew quiet as the Longhorns found themselves in a 19-16 hole.

That’s when outside hitter Yaasmeen Bedart-Ghani and middle blocker Brionne Butler brought the crowd of 3,698 to life for the first time with a combo block. The crowd did the rest from there, and as a result, Texas toppled Oklahoma once again in a come-from-behind victory.

Eighth-ranked Texas (14–4, 9–1 Big 12) completed its second sweep in as many games on Saturday afternoon, sending Oklahoma (13–9, 5–5 Big 12) back home with a loss (25-15, 25-20, 25-23).

“We basically put our pride on the line,” middle blocker Morgan Johnson said after the win. “They’re (Oklahoma) in Austin now, they’re not gonna come in here and take us to five sets … they’re going to come in here and we’re gonna make

quick work out of them.”

The first two sets swung Texas’ way, as it dictated the terms of the game throughout the entire match. Outside hitter Micaya White, Butler and Bedart-Ghani all helped pack the stat sheet in the process.

The majority of the third set was settled on Oklahoma’s terms after the Sooners jumped out to a quick 10-5 lead. After Butler and Bedart-Ghani’s combo block, the Longhorns channeled momentum from a now-raucous crowd to come back and steal the set.

“We started off well …

We were pretty consistent and then we slowly lost our focus for a little bit,” head coach Jerritt Elliott said.

“Our execution wasn’t as high as it could have been.”

White led the way for Texas with 13 kills and nine digs, Butler mustered up seven kills and outside hitter Logan Eggleston tallied another 10. Despite Oklahoma having more chances on the attacking end, Texas’ defense came up big both in blocks and digs.

Two combo blocks at the

end of the match gave the Longhorns more opportunities to serve. And when the chance to serve for Oklahoma arrived, the crowd was ready for it and assisted the Longhorns in forcing two Sooner service errors.

However, Saturday’s game was a step forward for a Texas team looking to establish itself in conference play. After a big sweep at Iowa State last week and a couple of closely contested matches before that, Texas needed to win, and win big.

The win also meant a little more for seniors like Johnson. With this being her final year on the 40 Acres, this game ensured that Johnson and the rest of her senior class would leave the University with a perfect record against the Sooners.

“The whole focus of practice was to send me and Yaazie off perfect against OU,” Johnson said. “That was our whole goal and for us to accomplish it is awesome.”

Texas returns to the court Wednesday, Oct. 31, for some Halloween action against TCU. First serve is set for 7 p.m.

ryan lam | the daily texan file Texas senior outside hitter Yaasmeen Bedart-Ghani spikes a ball against Texas Tech at Gregory Gym on Oct. 20. The Longhorns are currently in first place in Big 12 play with a 9–1 record.

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samantha dorsica | the daily texan staff Former UT cross-country and track runners Rory Tunningley, left, and Will Nation will pace elite female runners during the Austin marathon early next year. The pair are training for the 2020 Olympic Trials and want to help other athletes achieve the same goal.

Marathoners keep the pace UT alumni volunteer for Austin’s 3M half marathon this January.

By Celesia Smith @celsmit

or 2016 Olympic Trial qualifiers and UT alumni Rory Tunningley and Will Nation, running 26.2 miles at 6:17 minutes per mile is not only a method of improving their own fitness, but also a way to help their female peers qualify for the 2020 Olympic Trials.

Tunningley and Nation have their eyes set on personal goals for the 2020 Olympic Trials, but still have time to aid fellow runners. In February 2019 they are pacing elite women racing in the Austin marathon. The goal is to guide the women to a time under 2:45.00.

The duo met while on the cross-country and track teams at UT. Both athletes attribute their

post-collegiate success to skills they learned in college, but their journeys were different.

Tunningley was a high school state champion and had a breakthrough final year at UT. He began running road races because he felt he hadn’t reached his full potential after graduating college.

“My time at Texas helped me learn how to fight when things were hard,” Tunningley said. “The transition to (collegiate running) helped me in multiple aspects of my life: working, just dealing with people and knowing how to persist when things are hard.”

Collegiate running is largely centered around distances ranging from 1,500 meters to 10 kilometers. Tunningley thought that he would excel at distances greater than this and caught onto the lure of the marathon.

“There are two questions that

you always get when you tell someone you’re a runner,” Tunningley said. “People ask, ‘How fast can you run a mile?’ or ‘Have you ever run a marathon?’ so something I always wanted to do was answer yes to the second question.”

Unlike Tunningley, Nation came onto the UT cross-country team as a walk-on and proved himself to be an asset over time. Because of changes in coaching his final year, he had no plans to run after college until a friend convinced him to run the Austin 3M Half Marathon.

“I ended up winning (the race) and saw that maybe I had a chance to do something cool for the half marathon,” Nation said. “The following summer, I had my first shot at qualifying (for the Olympic Trials) and I got it.”

John Hayes, UT men’s cross-country coach from 2008 to

2013, said that he thinks Tunningley and Nation will do a great job pacing because of their proven work ethic.

“I guarantee you that they will be taking it seriously and that they’ll be dialed in and doing their job correctly because that’s just who they are,” Hayes said.

To effectively pace, Nation and Tunningley will have to cruise along at 6:17 or faster per mile for a total time of 2:44:59. Both runners are confident in their ability to pace the women and want the racers to be able to relax with their help.

“A lot of people start constantly checking their watches to make sure they’re running steady and that’s tough,” Nation said. “We want them to be able to turn off their brain, do what they need to do and keep their eyes glued at our backs knowing that we’re going to carry them through 26 miles.”

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Water crisis leads students to foster pets

A R I Z O N A talks ACL, new music, future endeavors

By Jordyn Zitman @JordynZitman

Fresh off the Honda stage at Austin City Limits weekend two, A R I Z O N A frontman Zach Hannah was still on a performance high. Between touring, posting daily vlogs on the band’s YouTube

channel and gearing up to drop their second album in 2019, Hannah said this year has been a whirlwind.

The Daily Texan sat down with Hannah to discuss the history of the band, their skyrocketing success and “collective struggles with

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copyright chelsea perry, and reproduced with permission Plan II senior Rachel Vopne shows affection for her new foster dog Holden. Animal shelters like Austin Pets Alive! and Austin Animal Center pleaded for Austinites to foster their sheltered animals after cyclical rain and flooding.

By Libby Cohen @LibbyCohen211

While the rain over the past two weeks kept people inside, foster animals from Austin shelters were separated by three walls and a chain link fence from the low temperatures and precipitation.

Animal shelters like Austin Pets Alive! (APA!) and Austin Animal Center blasted their social media accounts, pleading for Austinites to foster their sheltered animals after cyclical rain and flooding. These pleas

reached some UT students, as they now have the rain to thank for their new companions.

While the flood waters did not reach damaging levels, this potential crisis in turn helped the shelters put their pets into the dry homes of UT students.

While the water crisis puts a strain on the shelters, Jennifer Olohan, communications and media manager at Austin Animal Center, said that people are more likely to open their homes in a time of need.

“We have more people fostering right now because we asked for help and let the

community know the situation we’re in,” Olohan said. “There may be people who are more inclined to foster or help in times of crisis, like the flooding or water quality issue, but for the most part we just really let everyone know how we needed their help, and they’ve stepped up.”

Aerospace engineering senior Hannah Rens said she had never fostered a pet before now, but was touched by these outreach efforts. She adopted Sweetie, a black lab mix, on Friday, Oct. 19 from APA!.

“Sweetie herself is the most

outstanding, well trained, loving dog I have ever met in my life, and she cannot thrive in a shelter like that,” Rens said.

Being greeted by a smiling face every time she walks through the door is one of Rens’ favorite parts of her first fostering experience, she said.

Olohan said that students are ideal foster parents because fostering provides a temporary experience with the responsibility of pet ownership while providing safer conditions for the animals.

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copyright joshua guerra, and reproduced with permission A R I Z O N A lead singer Zach Hannah performs on the Honda stage at Austin City Limits music festival on Oct. 14, 2018.