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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2018
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NEWS
OPINION
SPORTS
LIFE&ARTS
Raising Voices: Chemistry senior wants STEM field to embrace diversity. PA G E 2
Students respond to the mixed bag that was last Tuesday’s election results. PA G E 4
Lil’Jordan Humphrey plays hero role with late game-winning touchown. PA G E 6
UT business alumna discusses combatting gender disparities in STEM. PA G E 8
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Campus facilities raise over $4,000 for student aid
Lil’jordan’s catch wrecks tech
By Sara Schleede @saraschleede
Many on-campus facilities aim to help students with financial emergencies, food insecurity and interpersonal violence, but these services cannot function without enough funding. ContribUTe 2018, led by the UT Student Foundation and the University Development Office, encouraged students to donate money to Student Emergency Services, the campus food pantry UT Outpost and SURE Walk. The campaign received a total of $4,105 from 411 donors throughout October. “The culture of philanthropy at UT should be that Longhorns all care about each other intrinsically,” said Hussain Alkhafaji, UT Student Foundation president. “We should be empowered to dedicate as much time and resources as we can.” Students could pick any campus facility to help fund and donate through Venmo or the campaign’s HornRaiser page. But Alkhafaji, public health and journalism senior, said he wanted to focus the fundraiser on departments that are particularly dedicated to ensuring student success in college and life. Student Emergency Services received $1,515, UT Outpost received $1,457 and SURE Walk received $1,112. Kelly Soucy, Student Emergency Services director, told The Daily Texan in October that Student Emergency Services can provide up to $300 through grant scholarship fees to students struggling to pay for rent, utilities or groceries. Alkhafaji said Hurricane Harvey created a surplus of students asking for aid, depleting Student Emergency Services’ funds for HORNRAISER
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TEXAS TECH (5 - 5)
Longhorns avoid three-game slide, stop Texas Tech comeback attempt. By Ross Burkhart @ross_burkhart
exas fans have endured many heartaches over the last decade, but one that has been imprinted for years is the moment former Texas Tech wide receiver Michael Crabtree famously tiptoed down the sideline for a game-winning touchdown to upset Texas in 2008. But this past Saturday, on a cold night in Lubbock, Texas, wide receiver Lil’Jordan Humphrey helped ease that
painful memory for the Longhorn faithful as he elevated above Texas Tech defensive back Damarcus Fields for a two-handed touchdown grab that delivered a knockout punch to the Red Raiders and gave the Longhorns a 41-34 victory. Humphrey was certain he could make a play to win the game for Texas. But what he wasn’t aware of was that he caught the ball in the same northwest corner of Jones AT&T Stadium that Crabtree did 10 years ago.
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elias huerta | the daily texan staff TOP: Texas junior wide receiver Lil’Jordan Humphrey extends towards the goal line in the Longhorns’ 41-34 victory over Texas Tech Saturday night in Lubbock, Texas. BOTTOM: Several Texas fans celebrate during Texas’ victory over Texas Tech in the Longhorns’ coldest game of the season.
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UNIVERSITY
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Classroom clocks remained one hour ahead after daylight savings
Freshman starts company at age 11, runs coding camp
By Zoë Howard
By Neelam Bohra
@zoehoward51
On Nov. 4 at 2 a.m., clocks were turned backward one hour to standard time from daylight savings. But the following Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, analog clocks inside classrooms at UT remained one hour behind. Public health freshman Livia Frost said she noticed the incorrect time on the clocks when she walked into her first class last Monday. “When I walked into class, I started to freak out because I looked at the clock and it was an hour after my class was supposed to start,” Frost said. “For a couple of minutes, I thought I missed my class.” Frost’s experience led her to start asking questions. “I started to wonder, how many people does it take to change all of the clocks around campus and how long does it take for them to change them?” Frost said. Laurie Lentz, communications manager of financial and administration
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eddie gaspar | the daily texan staff Operations and Maintenance technicians Dale Davis, left, and George Middleton troubleshoot the University’s clock system in a response to a building’s time issues.
services, said the clocks are not typically changed by people, rather they are run by technology. “The classroom clocks are not changed manually,” Lentz said. “They are actually changed from a central system.” The system that controls the thousands of clocks around
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campus is located in the Main Building. Dale Davis, facilities operations and maintenance technician, is responsible for managing the system and said it is more complicated than most students think.
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At age 11, Jeffrey Wang asked his dad for a loan of $150. A few months later, he launched his own company. Wang, now a computer science and business honors freshman, started the company MyWikis, which builds online platforms to host personalized wikis. Wikis are websites like Wikipedia, which compile information. His clients have included Harvard University, the Libertarian Party of the U.S. and Wingstop. Since creating the business, Wang also co-founded a summer camp called Code Horizon this year, which taught young students computer science. Wang said he created the business and camp with one goal in mind — helping others. “At first, I got really good at wiki administration,” Wang said. “I thought, ‘I’ve always wanted to start a business. I think I could do more than create wikis for myself — I could do it for other people.’”
Once launched, Wang said his business struggled to make money with advertisements and made no profit in the first year. This caused him to start charging a monthly subscription and his profits have only increased since then. In the last year, he said he made more than $5,000. Regardless of success, 18-yearold Wang said some people questioned his legitimacy because of his age. “I never really liked having my age be a factor of what I could and couldn’t do,” Wang said. “I resent the idea of someone saying I’m 11, so I can’t create a company, because that’s wrong. I hope I’ve proved that wrong.” Wang said age has often hindered him. When he co-founded Code Horizon, he said he could not find many parents who trusted him to teach their children. One of the other co-founders, electrical engineering freshman Sammy Shin, said the camp ended up teaching nine students.
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