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UT researchers help French swimmer cross the Pacific Ocean. PA G E 2

UT residence halls need a more comprehensive board review process. PA G E 4

Neil Lazarus speaks about hatred, anti-Semitism after Pittsburgh shooting. PA G E 5

On an off night, Texas finds a spark on the bench, edges its way past TCU. PA G E 6

RE: Public R ecords R e qu e s t

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Long waits, large fees guard public information Barriers have prevented The Texan from reporting on sexual assault, gun violence and hazing. By Morgan O’Hanlon

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How many times have UT students appealed Title IX sanctions to the President’s Office? That’s the question former Daily Texan reporter Will Clark was trying to answer late last year as he reported the story “Presidential Power,” which explains UT President Gregory Fenves’ unique power as the final decision maker in appeals cases regarding student conduct. As part of his reporting, Clark, a radio-television-film junior, asked the University that question via an open records request, but the request was denied on basis that confidential student information could be released in the process. In his story, Clark used his knowledge of Fenves’ appeals privilege and records obtained from other universities to explain the discrepancy, but said the University’s decision to withhold the information was needlessly unclear. “(The University is) going to use everything in their power to not give you the information,”

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Likely voter polls could underestimate young Texan voters By Chad Lyle @LyleChad

Incumbent Republican Ted Cruz is leading opponent Beto O’Rourke by 5.5 points, according to the polling aggregation website FiveThirtyEight, but these polls may not be representative of the wave of voters between ages 18 and 25 that could largely benefit O’Rourke. Maya Patel, interim president of TX Votes, said the common use of a “likely voter” score by polling firms could lead to results that exclude young voters such as students. Likely voter scores predict the likelihood

Polls Based on “Likely Voter” Responses The issue with polls

Polls base their results on “likely voters” sometimes factoring in whether or not someone has voted in a previous election, therefore leaving out student voters and younger voters

Poll based on “likely voter” repsonses Poll NOT based on “likely voter” repsonses

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UTPD implements more body, dashboard cameras By Meghan Nguyen @ultravioletmegs

The UT Police Department has given 20 more body cameras to its officers since last year, and dashboard cameras have been added to every patrol car. In 2017, UTPD initially purchased 80 body cameras for its officers after signing a five-year, $450,000 contract with Axon, a public safety technology company. UTPD has been gradually adding more cameras since the contract was signed. UTPD Lt. Greg Stephenson helped test body cameras for UTPD in 2015 and said he knew they

had found a perfect candidate when they tested Axon. Stephenson said the one thing that made Axon stand out was its “drop-and-walk” solution. “When an officer comes in at the end of their shift, they can take the camera and drop it into a charging download bank, and that’s all they have to do,” Stephenson said. “(The footage) will download and automatically be categorized. With most of the other cameras … an officer would have to plug in their cameras and manually start downloading and categorizing their footage.”

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Long-distance swimmer Ben Lecomte is a little over one third of the way done with his swim across the Pacific Ocean, and he is helping UT researchers along the way. Lecomte will be the first person to swim across the Pacific Ocean and tracks his progress daily on a blog called “The Swim.” In June, he began his 5,500-mile swim from Tokyo to San Francisco, aiming to complete the journey in six to eight months. Before leaving, he met with UT researchers about how he could contribute to science projects during his journey. “Ben was looking for ways that he could maximize the effort and bring attention to ocean health,” said Robert Dickey, director of the UT Marine Science Institute. Lecomte strategized with UT-Marine Science Institute faculty on collecting algae and microbial organisms during his swim and sending them back to (the faculty) for research, Dickey said. “It was a very unique opportunity to get some unique samples from the middle of the Pacific that we might be able to analyze and learn something about the biomass that is being created,” Dickey said. Marine science professor Tracy Villareal said he

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Clark said. “It doesn’t even matter if the information is going to hurt them.” Clark’s experience with the University is similar to that of other reporters at The Daily Texan. Long waits and large fees have created roadblocks for staffers seeking to report on topics such as sexual assault, gun violence and hazing. As required by the Texas Public Information Act, a law passed in 1973 governing the release of public records in Texas, UT and other public institutions have 10 days to respond to information requests. Agencies are supposed to provide information sooner if the records are available, but, as most reporters will tell you, that’s difficult to enforce. The UT Office of the Chief Financial Officer, which handles public information requests, received at least 1,700 requests in 2016 and 2017 and has already received at least that many requests in 2018, according to Open Records Coordinator Bob Davis. Due to the high volume of requests, Davis said the office marks the deadline to respond as the 10th day. The wait doesn’t necessarily end there, either. If the office asks for clarification of a request, that clock will be reset after the requester responds. Oh, by the way, the law also doesn’t guarantee those records will come for free. Ten days after The Texan filed a request in September for police records involving “infringements on the University’s gun policy” since August 2016, the open records coordinator said in

copyright kristin phillips, and reproduced with permission Long-distance swimmer Ben Lecomte (left) and Olympic gold-medalist Joseph Schooling (right) pose for a picture with Molly Bray (center), chair of the department of nutritional sciences. Lecomte and Schooling guest spoke at a lecture for human ecology students in October 2016.

asked Lecomte to look for phytoplankton floating on the ocean’s surface and track his observations. “He’s in the water all day long swimming, and he’s tired, so we can’t ask for a whole lot,” Villareal said. “But he’s got a pair of eyes in the water looking at things.” Villareal said Lecomte’s voluntary efforts help

an email that there would be a fee to provide 25 incident reports that fell under this category. According to an estimate provided to The Texan by the University’s open records coordinator, the cost would be $283 — or $155 if a reporter went in person to inspect the records. Previously, the University provided cost estimates to The Texan of $216 for a request of alcohol-related calls and arrests by the UT Police Department. The University also charged $108 to obtain information regarding hazing at the UT chapter of Alpha Tau Omega during the 2017-2018 school year. That fee was ultimately paid for by The Texan’s parent company, Texas Student Media. Davis said the University has never fulfilled a request for a fee waiver to The Texan, but he said requests made by students for class assignments are often granted fee waivers. Kelley Shannon, executive director of the Freedom of Information Foundation of Texas, said public institutions have discretion over granting fee waivers, but the law says all people who request public information have the right to receive treatment equal to other requestors. At some other Texas universities, student papers haven’t had to pay for public records. At North Texas Daily, the University of North Texas’ student paper, Director Adam Reese said their paper has been charged for records before, but his paper hasn’t lost a cent so far. “They’ve never sent me an invoice,” Reese said. “Until I see one, I’m not going to pay.” Recently, The Texan filed an information request asking for the number of fee

save costs of sending a crew out to collect organism samples. “A normal research vessel is about $50,000 a day,” Villareal said. “These are places in the open sea that I’d like to study, but it can take two to three days to get there. So the bill for getting a party out there is high.” Lecomte has also served as

waiver requests that have been sent to the University. The University denied this request, citing a provision of the Texas Public Information Act stating that an institution is not required to create new records to fulfill an information request. But the University should already have these records, Shannon said. “Information requests are in-and-of-themselves public records, and the fee waiver requests are usually part of the information request,” Shannon said. Information requests are usually made via email. According to the UT-Austin Record Retention Schedule, the University is required to maintain email records related to public information requests for at least one year. Kristi Godden, a lawyer who previously worked in the Open Records Division in the Attorney General’s office, said slight errors or misstated words shouldn’t affect the outcome of a request. “The Public Information Act does require a governmental body to make a good faith effort to try and match up what they do have,” Godden said. Earlier this year, citing low page traffic, UT institutions ceased online publication of filed open records requests — a practice that is not mandated by the Texas Public Information Act. Although not against the law, Clark said actions like this make it seem as if UT’s public information office is becoming less transparent. “The more they push back, the more we’re going to want to dig deeper,” Clark said. “It doesn’t lay the groundwork for a good relationship between an open records office and a student paper.”

a class project for nutrition students. Molly Bray, department of nutritional sciences chair, said her sports nutrition class a few years ago advised him on foods that would satisfy his daily intake of 8,000 calories. “We talked to him about dairy and taking things that maintain bone health,” Bray said.

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Bray’s class also advised Lecomte about weighing himself regularly and maintaining sufficient electrolytes. Ultimately, Bray said the experience may have inspired students to focus on sports dietetics as a career. “I think meeting him was inspiring anyway,” Bray said. “Live big, and do big things.”

that a given registered voter will show up on election day. “A lot of political best-practice is to focus hard on the likely voter score,” chemistry junior Patel said. “If you’ve never voted before, or you never bothered to register to vote, or you’re simply a new voter and there’s no data on you, you’re not going to have one of these scores or you’re going to be considered a very unlikely voter.” Of the 34 polls FiveThirtyEight is using to estimate the outcome of the Texas Senate race, 23 were based on the responses of “likely voters.” It’s a category defined differently by each polling firm, but often factors in the voting history of participants. Participants may also be asked questions about their willingness to vote and whether they have closely followed election news. Victoria DeFrancesco Soto, a lecturer at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, said she believes students and young voters are probably being overlooked in midterm polling based on likely voters. “In highly motivated elections like this one where you see new voters come into the fold … the likely voter polls miss them because they don’t have a history of voting either in recent elections if they’ve been registered, or if they’re brand new voters,”

DeFrancesco Soto said. Last Friday, Bruce Elfant, Travis County tax assessor-collector, announced 18- to 35-yearolds are now the largest bloc of registered voters in Travis County. Susan Nold, director of the Annette Strauss Institute for Civic Life, said she believes younger voters are becoming more politically engaged and will show up in greater numbers this election. “Politics is on the front of our minds right now, and that’s not always the case in a midterm election,” Nold said. “We’ve seen over the last couple years a surge in political interest among young people around particular issues. There’s a lot going on in national politics — and even at the state and local level — that’s drawing people to be interested and engaged and to want to weigh in.” DeFrancesco Soto said she thinks an increase in participation by young voters will cause the predictions of many polls to be incorrect. “We’re not going to know until election day, but my hunch is that there is a lot of enthusiasm in this election that is pulling in new voters,” DeFrancesco Soto said. “I personally think we’re seeing some of that with the Beto election. The likely voter model tends to work, but in exceptional circumstances — and I think we’re living in exceptional times — it doesn’t do as good of a job as it could.”

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Footage from Axon cameras is secure and cannot be deleted or altered. Once

downloaded, the footage is sent to a secure storage server where routine files will be retained for 90 days and files related to criminal investigations will be kept for one year or longer, according to a UT press release in 2017. Body camera footage for open investigations and for instances where no crime occurred is generally unavailable to the public. “It’s important to have these cameras from a law

enforcement standpoint and also for transparency,” Stephenson said. “We’ve never had to worry about a he-said-shesaid situation when we have documentation of these occurrences. It helps us with our reports, it helps with court cases and it also helps us gauge how our officers are doing.” UTPD supervisors review body camera footage weekly to coach officers. Officers such as Chief

David Carter do not use the cameras on a day-to-day basis, but patrol officers rely on the cameras heavily during calls. The cameras are activated only when responding to these calls. Chas Moore, an activist with criminal justice reform group Austin Justice Coalition, said the police should be more accountable with their cameras. “Especially after the Ferguson and Baltimore risings, there’s

been very muddy waters between community civilians and police departments,” Moore said. “What we want to be able to do is protect the rights of victims. While we do think that body cameras can be a great, transparent tool, we also have to think about the unintended consequences when victims are recorded and criminalized.” Delaney Davis, government and Spanish sophomore, said body cameras

can help police with accountability but will not be a fix-all solution to police issues. “I see police cameras as helping more to have evidence in the case of police violence,” Davis said. “Perhaps it could improve mutual safety, but I think more needs to be done than simply giving police body cameras. I think the police force should totally undergo some sort of diversity training, which I hope they’re already doing.”

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Día de los Muertos event unites students for traditional Mexican holiday By Adriana Rezal @adrianarezal

The Latinx Students and Scholars Network hosted a Día de los Muertos celebration Wednesday to bring students and faculty together for the traditional Mexican holiday. Launched last year, the network consists of eight UT social work professors who organize networking opportunities for students. Psychiatry assisstant professor Mercedes Hernandez said the Día de los Muertos celebration was the organization’s first event of the year. “It’s meant to bring Latinx students and students who are in support of Latinx issues together and give them an opportunity to receive support and network with other students as well as professors (and) researchers who are doing work related to Latinx issues,” Hernandez said.

At the event, professors and students shared personal experiences of the Mexican holiday, exchanged business cards and decorated sugar skulls. Frances Ibarra, social work graduate student, said the event helped bring Latinx students and faculty together with a holiday they could all relate to. “There’s not a lot of opportunities to meet with a lot of Latino professors or other faculty members sometimes, and I think it would be a good opportunity to meet someone you can identify with,” Ibarra said. Esther Calzada, social work associate professor, said the event created a sense of community that allowed students and faculty to build relationships without the pressures of a classroom setting. “A lot of times, we limit our interactions between students and faculty to classes, which don’t necessarily provide a lot of opportunities for more informal

interactions,” Calzada said. ”This creates a nice, relaxed, informal environment where everybody can feel free to get to know each other and to chat.” The sugar skulls could be placed on a Día de los Muertos altar organized by student affairs administrator Ramón Gómez. It is on display in the School of Social Work building. Aaron Escajeda, public affairs and social work graduate student, said the altar tradition commemorates those who have passed away and invited students and faculty to place their own photos of loved ones. This year’s altar also honors the 11 victims of the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting. “We just wanted to have everyone see the culture and the diversity the school has to offer,” Escoja said. “Many faculty, staff and students have brought pictures of their loved ones, so we want to involve (as many people) as we can.”

erika ramirez | the daily texan staff Latinx Students and Scholars Network members gather for a Día de los Muertos celebration at the School of Social Work. Aaron Escajeda (right) and psychiatry professor Mercedes Hernandez (left) decorate sugar skulls to place on an altar displayed in the building.

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Turbulent political climate leads to surge in voter enthusiasm By Sami Sparber @samisparber

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FASTER. FASTER. SAFER. SAFER. SMARTER. SMARTER.

As of Wednesday, more than 3,695,100 Texans have voted in the counties where 78 percent of registered voters in the state live, according to the Texas Tribune. The turnout has surpassed the total votes cast in those counties, which include Travis County, during the entire early voting period for the 2014 midterm election. The increase in voter turnout fits with the results of a recent poll conducted by the Tribune and UT’s Texas Politics Project. The poll found that 72 percent of the state’s registered voters said they were either “extremely” or “very” enthusiastic about voting in the upcoming election, and 76 percent of registered voters said they were “absolutely certain to vote.” A combination of factors contribute to the increased interest in voting, said Joshua Blank,

manager of polling and research at the UT Texas Politics Project. “Our national political environment, a competitive top-ofthe-ticket statewide race, and many more competitive local elections … are increasing the salience of this election for (voters) beyond what is normally a sleepy affair in Texas,” Blank said. But expressing enthusiasm about voting and actually voting are two different things because people tend to overstate their likelihood to vote, Blank said. “People want to look like good citizens,” Blank said. “It’s inevitable that they’ll overstate their rate of past participation and their likelihood of future participation.” Twelve percent of respondents said they were either “not too much” or “not at all” enthusiastic about voting this year. More than half of respondents said they has been contacted by a political campaign during election season, which Blank said also influences voter enthusiasm.

The poll surveyed 1,200 registered voters and has an overall margin of error of +/- 2.83 percentage points, according to the Texas Tribune. “There’s no obvious enthusiasm gap by party,” Jim Henson, director of the Texas Politics Project, told the Texas Tribune. “Men are more enthusiastic than women, and whites are more enthusiastic than black and Hispanic voters.” Maya Patel, interim president of TX Votes, said she has spent months registering students to vote. She said she’s not surprised by the increase in voter enthusiasm since the last midterm election in 2014. “People are fired up about this election,” chemistry junior Patel said. “They’re either very upset about something or (are) happy and want to maintain the way things are. One way or the other, people are really passionate, and hopefully that will translate to an increase in voter turnout.”

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One small step can help UT students struggling with eating disorders By Denise Emerson Columnist

A day boating on the lake is relaxing for most people, but for special education sophomore Daniella Bletnitsky it caused an out-ofcontrol panic. All she could think about was how she was away from the mainland and away from access to food even though the boat was fully stocked with food. “If I’m full, I’ll be thinking about food,” Bletnitsky said. “If I’m working out, I’m thinking about food. If I’m in class, I’ll be thinking about food. It just drives you insane, and you feel like you can’t be normal.” Bletnitsky is one of many UT students who has an eating disorder and one of the few who have reached out for help. Only 1.2 percent of UT students have disclosed that an eating disorder affects their academic lives. However, research by the National Eating Disorders Association, or NEDA, shows rates in college campuses are much higher, ranging from 1030 percent. Bletnitsky is part of an intensive outpatient program under the Center for Mental Health’s Mindful Eating Program, where she goes to three-hour group therapy sessions four days a

week. She said the Mindful Eating I see everybody else eating this Program is great, but reaching out way,’” Weber said. “They didn’t for help took years. really know if it’s bad enough. Bletnitsky has been binge eating There’s still this myth that unless since she was 12, but only got diagyou’re a skeleton, you don’t have nosed a couple of months ago. Being an eating disorder.” open about her disorder has helped According to Weber, the outreach others open for students is up about their going downdisorders to hill. When her, but she she was the noticed peodirector of the ple very rarely A lot of my students come Mindful Eatseek treating Program, to me over the years and she would get ment. Sara Wefrustrated besay, ‘I’m pretty sure I ber, the forcause of conhave a problem, but I see stant cutting mer director of the Mindand the inabileverybody else eating ful Eating ity to employ this way.’” Program, said simple outthat besides reach efforts the shame for incoming SARA WEBER and isolastudents. FORMER DIRECTOR, UT’S MINDFUL EATING PROGRAM tion students “It’s unwith eating fortunate bedisorders cause eating go through, normalization of un- disorders kill more people than healthy eating habits makes it alcohol, but there’s a mandatory even worse for students to idenalcohol program,” Weber said. tify their issues. Now, Weber is a The University makes alcohol counselor and director of Discovand sexual assault modules manery Counseling, a therapy program datory during freshman orientashe founded. tion. Modules and quizzes, such “A lot of my students come to as a NEDA screening quiz linked me over the years and say, ‘I’m on the Mindful Eating Program pretty sure I have a problem, but website, are nonthreatening and

fast modes of helping and educating students. Eating disorder modules should be mandatory for incoming students. “I don’t think it takes a whole lot,” Weber said. “At least (give) people things to think about, so they’re thinking, ‘Oh my relationship with food could use more work,’ or ‘My feeling about my body — I don’t want this to get out of hand.’” Furthermore, Bletnitsky said meeting others with eating disorders in group therapy was extremely helpful for her. Students need to be assured that they are not alone in their struggle, and that eating disorders are common and come at varying degrees. “If we have the chance to help people early in their struggle and intervene early, we’d have way more success in treating them,” Weber said. Creating modules is a simple solution to a greater problem. Knowing what it really means to have issues with food can be lifesaving for students, and it is better to prevent an issue than have to learn to beat it later. Eating disorders are an issue that need attention and solutions on this campus. Emerson is a journalism and radio-television-film sophomore from San Antonio.

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Residence Halls need a more considerate review process for displays By Julia Zaksek Columnist

As the elevator doors closed behind me, my jaw dropped. There was a new board on the second floor of Kinsolving Dormitory, where I lived. The board displayed information about what to do in the aftermath of sexual assault and harassment — good information. What made my jaw drop was the featured headline: “Hulk Smashed, Now What?”

If the information on a board can be viewed as insensitive by even one building resident, the board should be amended.”

Colby Frazier, a journalism freshman who lives on the second floor of Kinsolving, said while the information on the board seems helpful, it was hard to get past the glaring insensitivity of the headline. “There’s no easy way to bring up rape culture,” Frazier said. “I haven’t read everything on the board — it seems like the information is useful — but those words that stand out,

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‘Hulk Smashed,’ hurt my heart.” Justin Samuel, the assistant director of Residence Life and graduate student, said the current review process for residence hall boards ensures the information presented is educational and makes residents knowledgeable of available resources. Residence hall supervisors and resident advisers use these vague guidelines for each board, but how resident advisers present that material is otherwise left largely unsupervised. When residence hall boards are reviewed by University Housing and Dining employees, the boards should be evaluated not only for the content, but also for how that information

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is displayed. After I saw the board two weeks ago, I complained about it. As a woman who has been sexually harassed, it made me uncomfortable. I felt that it was insensitive. If the information on a board can be viewed as insensitive by even one building resident, the board should be amended. Many resident advisers decorate their boards in accordance with the floor’s theme. The second floor happens to have a superhero theme. While themes can be fun for RAs and residents, when they’re used to talk about serious, potentially triggering topics, they can trivialize important issues, which is harmful to student life and morale.

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Samuel said if a resident is concerned about insensitivity, they can approach the resident adviser or a building supervisor who will take the action they deem appropriate. However, I learned that this method does not always fix the problem. Journalism freshman Kara Fields said that after my complaint, several other residents were asked about their opinion of the board in lieu of an official evaluation. Fields said the same RA who created the board asked residents if the board was offensive, and the residents largely agreed it was not. Knocking on doors and asking people what they think of something you created is not a good way to find out someone’s honest opinion. It’s a good way to get the opinion you want to hear. Besides, residence halls should respect if even one resident feels uncomfortable in the place that is meant to be their home. Any complaint by a resident about the insensitivity of a board should be taken seriously, and the appropriate changes should be made. “If you have a history of sexual assault or harassment, the display can be triggering,” Fields said. “If you don’t, you get the privilege of being able to just pass by this board. What it says might not really affect you or draw your attention.” The review process, and the processing of complaints, must be changed. Boards should be evaluated not only for content but for presentation, and any complaint about either should be taken seriously and result in changes. Zaksek is a Plan II and women and gender studies freshman from Allen.

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CAMPUS

Lazarus speaks on Pittsburgh shooting Jewish studies educator talks hatred, antiSemitism at Texas Hillel discussion. By Libby Cohen @LibbyCohen211

ollowing a moment of silence for the 11 lives lost in a Pittsburgh synagogue, Neil Lazarus spoke at Texas Hillel regarding the perpetuation of hatred and anti-Semitism on American campuses on Tuesday. Organizations such as Birthright Israel, the Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Hillel International hire Lazarus to speak on behalf of the state of Israel and Jewish identity to over 30,000 people a year. At UT, Lazarus presented different visuals to portray contemporary anti-Semitism to a room of around 100 students. The discussion was followed by a vigil at the turtle pond for those who died in the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting last week. “Listen carefully: If you want to fight hatred, whether it’s violent hatred against Muslim immigrants as we saw in Europe, whether it’s violent hatred we saw against Jews in anti-Semitism, part of the way of defeating it has to be creating environments on campus that are tolerant,” Lazarus said. While discussing clear acts of hatred, such as the shooting in Pittsburgh as well as anti-Semitic fliers on the University of California, Berkeley campus, he said less explicit forms of anti-Semitism occur in the ways where Jewish students are connected to Israeli policies. “Being critical of Israeli policy is not anti-Semitic,” Lazarus said. “The question is, ‘What is the atmosphere that is being created on

campuses, and is it enabling an open environment for discussion?’” Lazarus asked if the students were ever questioned for their stance on the Israeli state. Almost everyone raised their hand. Samuel Samson, government and Plan I sophomore, attended the discussion and said although he is not of the Jewish faith, he has been a victim of anti-Semitic slurs for his position as a fellow with the Zionist Organization of America. “More than ever, there needs to be some sort of relationship between Christians and Jews to show that anti-Semitic acts can’t happen and show that we are here for each other,” Samson said. Event organizer Ashira Boxman said she hopes the anti-Semitic events described in the presentation don’t leave Jewish students feeling defeated. “I hope that their take away was that they leave here being comfortable in their Jewish identity,” Boxman said. Lazarus said hatred is a two-way street that does not discriminate. In order to reach a welcoming environment where a productive conversation can occur, prejudice must be confronted head-on. He said to not let the violence in Pittsburgh silence members of the community. “Don’t light candles in memory of people,” Lazarus said. “Light candles which give light to a higher standard of discussion and debate.” Public health sophomore Grace Gilbert said she felt empowered by Lazarus’ remarks regarding the events in Pittsburgh because she will use it as a motivating factor to keep the conversation going. “As a person that lives on this planet together with you, what we saw in Pittsburgh is an alarm call because (anti-Semitism) has to be united, it has to be fought and we have to stand against it,” Lazarus said. “And this idea of ignoring hatred, whether it is against Jews, whether it’s against any minority, religious, ethnic, gender oriented, I think that is our duty not to be silent.”

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VOLLEYBALL

Gabriel pushes Texas past TCU Freshman setter gets keys to Texas offense, provides spark on off night. By Keshav Prathivadi @kpthefirst

alloween gives most people a chance to be creative. Getting into a scary, funny or even downright silly costume is just part of what makes it a fun occasion. But the Longhorns? They arrived at Gregory Gym as themselves. After TCU pushed its last matchup with the Longhorns to five sets nearly a month ago in Fort Worth, there was no hiding No. 6 Texas’ identity Halloween night as the Longhorns picked up a 3-1 win Wednesday (25-13, 2025, 25-17, 25-23) and remained hot heading into the tail end of conference play. “It was a challenge for us,” head coach

Jerritt Elliott said. “We found a way to get the win playing ugly a little bit.” Texas picked up right where it left off in the first set. After closing Saturday’s bout with Oklahoma on a 7-2 run, it started off with a quick 7-1 run to gain control of the opening set. A methodical attack did the rest of the work as the Longhorns finished off the Horned Frogs to take a 1-0 lead. The second set brought back shades of the two teams’ previous five-set thriller. A back-and-forth affair had the set tied at 11 apiece before the Horned Frogs gained some distance. Behind the eight kills by senior middle blocker Anna Walsh, TCU controlled the second half of the set and evened up the match. The Horned Frogs didn’t go down without a fight. After Texas handily took the third set, the Longhorns held a six-point advantage in the third frame. The Horned Frogs fought back to tie it at 22 courtesy of a 7-1 run, but Texas proved to be too much on the offensive end in crunch time. “We just never felt comfortable the whole night,” Elliott said. “This is kind of the grind of the season where things get really tough. My goal is to

dakota kern | the daily texan staff Senior outside hitter Yaasmeen Bedart-Ghani goes up for a kill in No. 6 Texas’ win over TCU at Gregory Gym on Wednesday, Oct. 31. Bedart-Ghani finished the match with 14 kills to complete a season sweep of TCU.

give them a little break emotionally right now and get them fresh.” As the game went on, setter Ashley Shook struggled to find her usual rhythm, which kept her sets slightly off target on several occasions. This opened the door for freshman libero Jhenna Gabriel to make the most of her first time running the Texas offense. Gabriel finished the game with 22 assists and three digs in three sets of action. While the impact might not have been apparent on the stat sheet, Gabriel turned out to be the

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reason Texas made it to the finish line. “I stepped on the court and everybody that was on the court came up to me,” Gabriel said. “(They) grabbed my hand and made that eye contact just so that we could go right into it without having to go backward before we can go forward.” Texas largely got through the game on the offensive end because of the play from senior outside hitter Yaasmeen Bedart-Ghani and outside hitter Micaya White,

who tallied 14 and 17 kills, respectively. The Longhorns will continue to depend on them heading into the home stretch of conference play. “I think we’re starting to find our stride,” Bedart-Ghani said. “You can see the progress throughout the season, and I think that we’re peaking at the right time.” The Longhorns will continue their threegame homestand against Kansas State on Wednesday, Nov. 7. First serve is set for 7 p.m.

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Orlando, defense, look to rebound after tough outing By Ross Burkhart @ross_burkhart

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When Oklahoma State capped off its opening drive with a touchdown less than two minutes into last Saturday’s game against the Longhorns, the groans from Texas fans didn’t represent confusion. They resembled cries of déjà vu. The Cowboys’ quick score wasn’t the first occurrence this season where the Longhorns found themselves kicking off to their opponent only to give up six points just minutes later. Saturday’s result was the fifth time this season Texas allowed its opposition to land the first punch, and it’s now become an issue the Longhorn coaches have addressed. “We went back and studied the whole thing on Sunday night,” defensive coordinator Todd Orlando said Wednesday. “There were a couple plays that they saw what we were in and got com-

pletions on us, but it’s just letting it go in the beginning of ball games. It seems like we start to settle down.” Texas announced two days prior to the game that its two starting cornerbacks, Kris Boyd and Davante Davis, were suspended for the first quarter against Oklahoma State. Still, when the coin flip landed in the Longhorns’ favor, defensive end Breckyn Hager chose for the team’s defense to take the field and start the game. Despite this happening multiple times this season, Texas head coach Tom Herman said he hadn’t even thought about it until after the loss in Stillwater. “I brought it to Todd’s attention yesterday,” Herman said during a press conference Monday. “But yeah, last year was the opposite. So we’ve just got to figure out why and make sure, but I don’t have a great answer for you right now.” Thankfully for the Longhorns, many of the

early slip-ups didn’t prove to be very costly as they entered last week’s matchup going 3–1 in games after allowing the first score. But the Cowboys’ wide receiver Taylan Wallace’s 40-yard touchdown reception clearly set the tone in the Cowboys’ favor as they jumped out to a three-possession lead early in the second quarter. An obvious solution might be for the Longhorns to defer at the opening coin toss and choose to let the offense take the field first, but Orlando views the issue as a roadblock Texas should try to overcome rather than avoid. “Like I told Herm — and I’ve said this since we were at Houston — you don’t even have to ask me,” Orlando said. “The worst thing a coordinator could do is say, ‘Hey, let’s get the ball because I’m over here worried about first possession.’ That ain’t ever gonna happen. That’s the way we do it around here.”

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angela wang | the daily texan staff Defensive coordinator Todd Orlando looks on in then-No. 7 Texas’ 23-17 win over Baylor on Oct. 13 in Austin. Texas’ defense surrendered 502 yards of offense in Saturday’s loss.

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