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COVER STORY The fight between UT and the Governor of Texas that gave Texas women the right to vote.

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NEWS Presidential candidates Beto O’Rourke and Julián Castro both hosted campaign events in Austin over the weekend.

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CITY

O’Rourke, Castro host local rallies

2020 Texan Democratic presidential contenders visit Austin.

By Victoria May @toricmay

ollowing the first two Democratic debates of the 2020 election cycle last week, presidential candidates Beto O’Rourke and Julián Castro both hosted events in Austin to promote their campaigns.

Castro spoke at a state party fundraiser Friday in downtown Austin. The former San Antonio mayor commended voters for their increased support after last week’s debate and talked about his campaign policies, touching on immigration, women’s rights and free public tuition for public universities.

“A few months ago, they were writing me up as the ‘other Texan,’” Castro said at the event, in reference to being seen as the underdog when compared to O’Rourke. “But that is no more. I am the Texan.”

eddie gaspar | the daily texan staff Julián Castro holds a meet and greet, hosted by Texas Democratic Party, on June 28, 2019, at Cheer Up Charlies.

His appearance comes after the first round of Democratic debates.

According to a University of Texas/Texas Tribune poll released in June, 15% of Texas Democrats were in support of O’Rourke, while 3% showed support for Castro.

“Going into the debate, it was clear I needed to introduce myself to a lot of folks that hadn’t heard

about me before because my name ID was lower than some of the other candidates,” Castro said at the event. “I wanted to make sure people knew who I was and what I was about.”

Castro said he had gained about 16,000 new donors since

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Trans student receives Caitlyn Jenner Foundation scholarship

By Emily Hernandez @emilylhernandez

Days before Pride Month ended, television personality and former Olympian Caitlyn Jenner surprised Map Pesqueira, a student who identifies as a transgender man, with

a $25,000 scholarship on national television.

Pesqueira, a radio-television-film and American studies sophomore, had his national three-year Reserve Officers’ Training Corps scholarship revoked in April after President Donald Trump’s administration banned transgender

service members. After losing this scholarship, Pesqueira believed he would have to leave UT. However, after The Daily Texan broke his story, Pesqueira said he received attention from local and national SCHOLARSHIP

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the debate.

“I would say probably 85% of the people who are here are new to a campaign event of mine,” Castro said at the event. “So we’re drawing in a lot of new voters, a lot of people that want to know what I’m about … What I did on

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Wednesday night was that I earned more of these cameras that are here. I earned more eyeballs on this campaign.”

On the same night, less than a mile away at Scholz Garten, O’Rourke met with voters and encouraged them to head to the polls throughout the election season.

O’Rourke, a former U.S. Congressman from El Paso who ran unsuccessfully for a U.S. Senate seat last year, spent the majority of his 30-minute meet and greet talking about immigration issues — namely the conditions of detention facilities used to house migrant children.

“Those kids, even if they are siblings, are not allowed to touch each other,” O’Rourke said at the event.

“Imagine that. You’re suffering, not knowing if and when you will see your folks again … and you’re walking in single file line, in a uniform they gave you, and there’s your brother, walking in the opposite direction. You are punished if you acknowledge him or touch him or have any kind of human contact with him.”

O’Rourke has been criticized for saying during last week’s debate that, unlike Castro, he does not support repealing a law that criminalizes unauthorized border crossings. At his rally Friday, he assured

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SPENCER BUCKNER EDITOR-IN-CHIEF @TEXANOPINION

TUESDAY, JULY 2, 2019

COLUMN

UT won’t be a ‘green’ university until it divests from oil

By Patrick Lee Columnist

The UT System captured headlines in 2018 for securing the second-largest endowment in the nation at $31 billion, falling only to Harvard, whose endowment is over $39 billion. To compete with university titans and come out near the top is an impressive feat, one that begs the question: Where does all this money come from?

In 1876, Texas established the Permanent University Fund, a money reserve intended to support the development of the UT and A&M university systems.

The fund set aside over 2 million acres in West Texas that the University could lease out to generate mineral royalties. Oil royalties continue to account for the vast majority of the fund’s fiscal revenue as hydraulic fracking technology positions the University as a national powerhouse in oil production.

Predictably, politicians and UT board members praise the Permanent University Fund as a lifeline of the institution and the nucleus of UT’s financial security. Unfortunately, UT’s institutionalized codependency with fossil fuels is incompatible with genuine sustainability.

At UT, students experienced coordinated University efforts to increase green initiatives. Since 2016, UT has introduced the sustainability studies major, revamped its Campus Environmental Center, added novel services such as the green campus tour and launched the Green Offices program.

As a member of the sustainability studies email list, I’ve been carpet bombed with opportunities to apply for leadership positions through the environmental center, volunteer for West Campus cleanups and join ongoing green projects such as microfarming. The environmental center completely overhauled their website last year, staffing it with flashy links to ongoing opportunities in which you, the student, can recalibrate your behavior and make the world more sustainable.

This idea that the burden of responsible environmental stewardship should fall on the student body, though seemingly well-intentioned, may have the sinister effect of masking from public scrutiny UT’s dependence on fossil fuels. After all, the University could point to its efforts to encourage student environmentalism to shield itself from mainstream criticism as oil extraction churns along quietly in the background. One shouldn’t be surprised when UT boldly states that they’ve “formalized sustainability

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as a part of (their) mission, campus identity and public image” in the year their endowment reaches unparalleled heights. Nor should one be astonished when UT’s 92-page sustainability master plan doesn’t mention oil once.

Of course, one can argue that something outweighs nothing.

“UT is trying to be more sustainable through using less energy, redesigning its grounds to use less water … (and) upgrading buildings,” sociology professor Scott Swearingen said.

While this may be true, the looming reality is our university generates a substantial chunk of its operational revenue by pillaging the earth for fossil fuels while subsidizing economically and politically convenient green solutions. This is not leadership; it is narrow-minded, opportunistic gamesmanship.

UT commemorating students’ ecological efforts while simultaneously neglecting its own deep-seeded participation in accelerating climate change is the textbook definition of greenwashing, the act of deceptively laundering an organization’s reputation as ecologically friendly. Students should not reward those in power who are more interested in self-exculpatory branding exercises than in doing the difficult work of restructuring a destructive carbon factory.

Jim Walker, UT’s director of sustainability, believes sustainability shouldn’t be an exclusive club, that perfection shouldn’t be the enemy of the good. “(Climate change events) are happening now that we didn’t anticipate. So now we start to change our behavior and transition from an old system to a new system,” Walker said. Walker believes UT is already doing some of that difficult work through renewables research and developing climate resiliency.

Nonetheless, UT’s entrenched reliance on oil and gas continues a capitalist pattern of destruction, yet UT calls itself a first-class institution. To meet this standard, it must obtain financial security through zero-emission methods.

Swearingen suggests UT “sell off its (oil and gas) leases, then take that money and invest it in green energy companies … while making profit as a stockholder.” After divesting and reinvesting, UT could start its own green power company or even build its own system of solar arrays and windmills. This prudent policy would lower the price of green energy relative to oil, increase investments in green energy and signal commitment. It would also take UT off oil.

Lee is a sociology senior from Houston.

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TUESDAY, JULY 2, 2019

CITY COUNCIL

City Council increases funding by $300k for career skills nonprofit

By Victoria May @toricmay

Last month, the Austin City Council approved a $319,000 increase in funds for a local nonprofit that provides educational resources for incoming college students.

Capital Investing in Development and Employment of Adults is an organization geared toward helping low-income high school and college students gain the skills necessary for the workforce and postsecondary education. After a tax increase in 2018, the funds were added to the nonprofit’s $10 million contract during the council meeting on June 6 in an effort to further its development.

According to Capital IDEA’s

website, 1,139 students received direct support from the nonprofit through career navigation, guidance, financial assistance and job placement in 2018. UT is one of many employers that has hired students of Capital IDEA. Steven Jackobs, executive director of Capital IDEA, said it was important to approve the funds in time for the upcoming semester.

The three-month summer break is essential for planning, assessing and outreach for students that may be interested in the program, Jackobs said. “(The funding is) designed to enable 50 low-income adults to move ahead and become middle class taxpayers, earners and professionals in tech and nursing,” Jackobs said during the meeting. “We don’t want

to put (students) into the (Austin Community College) process without enough advanced time, so that we can help them find the courses that they need on the schedule when they need it.”

Austin Interfaith, a multi-congregational organization aimed at addressing issues in the Austin community, created Capital IDEA more than 20 years ago to help students develop leadership and critical thinking skills.

“Our civic and religious traditions teach us to measure any economic policy on how it treats the most vulnerable,” Rabbi Alan Freedman said during the meeting. “Austin Interfaith supports services for children and families, including Capital IDEA. (Recruiting students for the

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amanda saunders | the daily texan file On June 6, the Austin City Council approved an increase in funds for a local nonprofit that provides educational resources for incoming college students.

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Mental health podcast helps educate students

By Natalie Venegas @nataliezz_24

Through an original podcast, one Dell Medical School resident hopes to bring awareness to mental health issues and educate students who are struggling with their mental health.

Gregory Scott Brown is a psychiatrist and an advocate for mental health. In 2018, Brown started his podcast “This is Mental Health” with a grant he received from the American Psychiatric Association. The podcast allows him to openly talk about mental health with different advocates from the Austin community, he said.

“I thought a podcast would be a great way to highlight some of the interesting and innovative work that people in the community are doing to support mental health,” Brown said. “I felt that there is a lot of stigma when it comes to mental health, but

that it is changing. There is a lot of people that are thinking about mental health, even if they are not talking about it.”

In the podcast, Brown educates listeners on the various resources available for those struggling with mental health while bringing unique voices to speak about the issue.

“I’ve had artists, coaches and chefs (on the podcast),” Brown said. “I found that when I have guests like … people are able to connect more to them.”

Neuroscience senior Karolina Rymarz said college students are now finding a lot of information on mental health in nontraditional ways. She said platforms such as the podcast can bring light to the subject.

“Mental health isn’t something that should be masked,” Rymarz said. “It is just as important as physical

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copyright gregory scott brown, and reproduced with permission Gregory Scott Brown sits down with Faye Kennelly and Deann Acton from Austin Art Therapy Collective for his podcast, “This is Mental Health.”

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A Century of Voting Texas was one of the first states to pass the 19th Amendment, but suffrage didn’t necessarily include women of color.

By Savana Dunning & Morgan Kuehler @savanaish & @MorganKuehler

exas unanimously adopted the 19th Amendment much earlier than expected. Conservative Southern Democrats ran the state at the time, but a close gubernatorial election, a secret quid pro quo and a fight between the impeached governor of Texas and the state’s flagship university gave suffragists a unique political opportunity to win the vote on June 28, 1919.

Texas was the first Southern state and ninth in the Union to do so.

“University Future Threatened.”

“University life may be discontinued next year as far as you are concerned,” read a University Co-op advertisement in the March 28, 1917, issue of The Daily Texan. “There may not be any more varsity basketball games, tennis games, track meets, boats on the river or even college chums — FOR YOU. Your school days will be only a memory.”

The Co-op’s advertisement w to then-Gov. James Ferguson, w of UT’s funding in retaliation to president and Board of Regents’ r handful of faculty members he dis Then, in May, 2,000 angry stu and professors marched from cam ernor’s office in protest. They ch “The Eyes of Texas,” and carried “University’s future threatened” an one man rule,” according to a histo in the 2010 issue of The Alcalde.

“UT has a lot of alumni, and th erful places within the state, and them, and they were all very angry Gunter, Collin College history pro pert on the Texas women’s suffrag Students and alumni were not displeased with Ferguson’s condu House impeached him, and the S ed him of nine charges, includin of the war effort due to the Unive involvement with research durin I. Lawmakers were going to rem office, making him ineligible to r

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Ferguson resigned before they could, which allowed him to run again in 1918.

Despite angering many people, Ferguson was still very popular, Gunter said, so the Senate needed another way to ensure he didn’t return to the governor’s desk.

The Deal

Meanwhile, Minnie Fisher Cunningham’s bill for women’s suffrage in election primaries failed to pass the Legislature. As president of the Texas Equal Suffrage Association, Cunningham saw Ferguson’s impeachment and reelection campaign as a second chance.

So, Cunningham cut a deal with State Rep. Charles Metcalfe. If he could get acting Gov. William Hobby to sign the bill, she would get women to vote against Ferguson. Since Texas was a one-party state, primary elections controlled who won the governor’s office.

“She’s amazing at political strategy,” Gunter said. “It’s basically a quid pro quo deal, but she doesn’t say she was involved.

She’s very happy to let the Legislature say it was their idea because it will be easier to deal with them later.”

Gunter said the 386,000 women who registered to vote in those two weeks before the election were crucial in Ferguson’s defeat.

Two years later, when the 19th Amendment was on the Senate floor, Texas legislators decided voting in favor of full suffrage was better than being voted out of office later on.

“If you vote against ratification, would it not follow that those women are going to kick you out of office?” Gunter said. “So, because they already have to answer to them, it makes a massive difference.”

The Aftermath

In the decades that followed the 19th Amendment’s ratification, there were still great strides to be made when it came to women’s rights and voting rights.

“Nothing is ever completely happy and rosy,” said Kathryn Fuller-Seeley, radio-television-film professor and media historian.

She’s currently working on a documentary film about women’s suffrage in Texas directed by fellow radio-television-film professor Nancy Schiesari.

Poll taxes, racial barriers and citizenship requirements kept women of color, poor citizens and immigrants from exercising their rights. The suffrage movement was not as progressive on these issues, Fuller-Seeley said.

“Most of the white women were willing to push African Americans and Latinos out of the picture to get what they wanted for themselves,” Fuller-Seeley said.

Though minorities were not allowed to be involved in the movement, their role was at least considered when developing political strategy. “(The women’s suffrage movement) was one of the first great movements to pay attention to everybody’s rights,” Fuller-Seeley said. “You can’t take it for granted.”

Fuller-Seeley calls women’s suffrage the “great mother movement.” It gave birth to the shift that changed how women can participate in democracy, and therefore society. It also laid the groundwork for other movements, most specifically the civil rights movement that happened in the later half of the century.

Minnie Fisher Cunningham’s organization

“We persevered and we continued on fighting all the way to try to get it so that more and more Texans and citizens can vote.”

GRACE CHIMENE

PRESIDENT OF THE TEXAS LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS

became the Texas League of Women Voters in 1919. Throughout the 20th century, the league fought for women’s issues that continued after the right to vote was won, such as property rights and female representation in juries.

“The energy it took to get women — at the time white women — the right to vote was incredible,” said Grace Chimene, president of the Texas League of Women Voters. “We continued that fight through the years. Were we perfect every step of the way? No, but boy did it take energy, and we persevered, and we continued on fighting all the way to try to get it so that more and more Texans and citizens can vote.”

The league still exists today, giving out nonpartisan voting information and fighting for issues their members care about. Within the past two years, the league gained eight more chapters. Chimene said this is evidence that Americans still need to exercise the rights they won all those years ago.

“There’s a great new interest in civic (life),” Chimene said. “There’s a huge interest in providing voter education and getting out to vote and registering voters … It’s just such a great time to do this because everyone was so complacent before, and now we’re just having a huge upturn in people who want to participate in our democracy.” copyright cactus yearbook, and reproduced with permission

Students and Alumni gather to protest Gov. James Ferguson, who vetoed all University of Texas funding in 1917. This was the inciting incident that lead to his impeachment and the subsequent circumstances that ultimately culminated in the Texas Legislature ratifying the 19th Amendment.

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TUESDAY, JULY 2, 2019

FEATURE

Avid Texas tailgaters ‘Occupy Left Field’

By Stephen Wagner @stephenwag22

For Marc Peña, a Saturday Texas baseball game day starts well before first pitch.

Hours before the Longhorns take the field for batting practice, Peña arrives at the field to fill the coolers with ice and prepare the tailgate beyond the left field wall.

He then heads to Matt’s El Rancho on South Lamar, where he meets up with other members of the Occupy Left Field fan group for lunch and drinks.

After getting their fill of margaritas over a thorough discussion of their expectations for the team’s weekend series, the group heads to UFCU Disch-Falk Field three to four hours before the first pitch to play washers, listen to country music, socialize with

neighboring tailgates and chat with the players’ families.

“It starts at 8 a.m. and goes through the end of the day,” Peña said.

The popular baseball tailgate known as Occupy Left Field began in the 2000s with Peña, Jeff Cross and a handful of fellow baseball fans, who decided to move their tailgate from the area that is now the East Campus Garage to the chain-link section behind the left field wall, where Peña found the opportunity to watch games from left field.

“When we first started tailgating out in left field, it was a real informal thing; we didn’t really have a group,” Peña said. “It was whoever showed up to tailgate out there would show up, and it ended up being a small community. It wasn’t really well organized.”

Through the 2000s, Left Field

grew in size as the Longhorns became College World Series regulars and racked up conference championships. But at the peak of Left Field’s engagement, then-athletic director DeLoss Dodds boarded the fence for signage in 2012.

“When you take away the ability to see the game and the action, every year after that less and less people would make their way out there,” Peña said.

The installation of the left field wall coincided with a downturn in Texas baseball over the past decade.

The final years of Hall of Fame coach Augie Garrido failed to live up to the championship expectations, which further contributed to gradually declining attendance.

“It’s tough because it’s really dependent on how the team does,” Peña said. “(With) Texas

sports there’s a lot of bandwagon fans, and if the team isn’t good there just won’t be interest from the fans.”

The group spent the next seven seasons standing on picnic tables to watch games from left field until current athletic director Chris Del Conte removed the wall in March 2018.

Then, the Longhorns’ magical 2018 College World Series run caused a large spike in baseball attendance and support from Left Field, as the group expanded rapidly during the regional and super regional rounds at Disch-Falk.

“Besides the actual playing,

they’re probably the second-best role,” said outfielder Tate Shaw of the team’s 2018 Omaha run.

“We watched them grow from 20 people to 100 people out there.”

Although 2018’s inspired run to Omaha grew the hopes of many for the 2019 season, this year was full of disappointment for the Longhorns. An early season sweep of No. 2 LSU and a top-10 ranking gave way to a litany of on-field issues as Texas failed to qualify for the NCAA Tournament.

“Even when we’re terrible, they’re supportive, and that’s the best part about them,” Shaw said.

“They really support the players

through hard and bad times.”

Occupy Left Field counts 2030 people in their core group but always welcomes newcomers — with one stipulation.

“It’s really an open tailgate to anyone who’s not an idiot,” Peña said.

If participants follow this one rule, Occupy Left Field is willing to accept anyone.

“Left Field is an open environment,” Cross said. “We’ll invite anyone in. We invite opposing team’s parents and their fans in. It’s all about camaraderie, college baseball and supporting the kids.”

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copyright occupy left field, and reproduced with permission Marc Peña (third row, white hat) founded the tailgating fan group known as Occupy Left Field over a decade ago. The group can be found tailgating every Longhorn baseball game and supporting from outside Disch-Falk Field.

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Project builds community with music

By Carlos Garcia @brolos95

With 10 minutes to spare before the start of his concert, East Austin resident Jason Allen has yet to put his shoes on.

With a minute to spare, the Allens finish tucking away their kids for the night, and step into the backyard just in time for the opening act at Bungalow East.

However, Bungalow East isn’t a music venue. It’s a house. Any house in East Austin.

Erica Tello and Loleita Batikani created Bungalow East, a music promotion project based in East Austin to showcase local talent. Tello and Batikani seek to create an environment where artists can grow

by putting on house shows in the neighborhoods of East Austin and inviting the surrounding community.

“We always wanted to bring the community together,” Tello said. “Living in East Austin gave us that sense of inspiration because all of our friends live on this side of town.”

UT alumnus Kevin Johnson (2017), known by his stage name Lonesome Rhodes, played one of the Bungalow East shows before its official start. The advertising and rhetoric and writing graduate said the project is awesome because it feels like an actual concert.

“Erica and Leita really nailed down the logistics of the show in terms of creating a sense of community,” Johnson said.

“It’s a good mix of people (who) create an

environment where it feels like people actually care about what you have to say.”

Batikani said she believes it is also important to promote East Austin by putting “East” in their name because they are “aware of the effects gentrification and displacement have on the historic community.”

“If you’re going to one of our shows, you’re probably going to head out to an eastside restaurant or bar afterwards,” Batikani said.

Although the shows are shining the spotlight on East Austin, neighbors such as Jason Allen say that the exposure is not making a difference because of increasing property tax rates.

“We have lived here for more than 10 years, and when we moved the community was made up of 70% homeowners and 30% renters,” Allen said. “Now it’s the opposite, and land is constantly being bought to create new structures that investors just rent out to people.”

A study done byATTOM Data Solutions found through an analysis of 87 million United States single family homes that U.S. property taxes rose by 4% between 2017 and 2018. Texas had the

It’s a good mix of people (who) create an environment where it feels like people actually care about what you have to say.”

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third-highest property tax rate among the data recorded.

“We’re hoping that Bungalow East could show the people of Austin that the east side has a lot more to offer than real estate,” Tello said.

July 19 I 6–9 pm A FREE night of culture, community and interactive experiences.

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copyright erica tello, and reproduced with permission Loleita Batikani (left) and Erica Tello organize concerts in East Austin neighborhoods. Their project, Bungalow East, is an operation aiming to showcase local talent while preserving the culture of East Austin.

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the crowd that he supports different policies that would achieve the same goal.

He also praised voters for their turnout during the 2018

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upcoming year) has been done in reliance on the fact that this program was part of the budget for this particular year.

We worked hard during the course of this year to meet the standards that were set for these funds.”

According to its website, 103 students have earned degrees through Capital IDEA, and an additional 107 students have been placed into careers last year.

congressional elections and encouraged them to keep the same momentum in 2020.

“At the end of the day, though we did not defeat Ted Cruz, we won more votes than any Democrat in the history of the State of Texas,” O’Rourke said at the event. “It’ll take a

movement like the one we started here in Texas, like the one that we led together, to defeat Donald Trump, to bring this divided country back together again, and to make sure that we confront the greatest set of challenges that this country has ever faced.”

Freedman said 50 students have been selected to take part in job-specific training over the summer so far.

“This past year, Capital IDEA celebrated 20 years of lifting adults out of poverty and into living wage careers through education,” Jackobs said in Capital IDEA’s 20th anniversary annual report. “We’re training students for the best careers of the day and keeping an eye on what’s ahead.

Of the students we’ve invested in, 1,600 have crossed the finish line so far, and that number keeps growing.”

Council member Jimmy Flannigan motioned to

postpone the vote during the meeting because he said he was apprehensive about the long-term obligations with vendors.

“I pulled a long list of procurement items because of the tax caps and my hesitation to enter into long-term obligations with vendors when I cannot be sure I can afford (them),” Flannigan said to the Austin Monitor.

However, no one else on the dais seconded his motion, so he joined other council members in unanimously approving the increased funds.

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media, including an invitation to appear on the June 27 airing of ABC News’ “Good Morning America”, where he met Jenner.

“It was the chance of a lifetime,” Pesqueira said. “I had never, ever, ever, ever thought that I would meet somebody who has done so much for the trans community and has a platform like that. She has a heart of gold, and she’s so caring and so kind and genuinely wanted to get to know me and wanted to help someone like me who is suffering at the hands of discrimination.”

Pesqueira said he can finish his undergraduate degree at UT thanks to the Caitlyn Jenner Foundation scholarship and the money raised from his GoFundMe page.

“I know once it’s all over with that, you’ll come back and help,” Jenner said to Pesqueira on air. “Get that education.”

Pesqueira said Jenner helped him find representation within the transgender community when she publicly said she was a transgender woman during her 2015 interview with Diane Sawyer.

“At the time, I was still figuring out my identity,” Pesqueira said. “I had never seen a trans woman before, and so for me, that was a beginning taste of what the trans community is.

When her Vanity Fair cover came out, for me, that was like, ‘Oh my God, there are people

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health and deserves the same focus. The more accessible we make information about mental health, the quicker the stigma will decrease and students won’t have to suffer in silence.”

Karen Ranus, executive director for the National Alliance on Mental Health Austin, said people often don’t talk about their mental health or reach out to others

copyright map pesqueria, and reproduced with permission During the June 27 airing of “Good Morning America,” television personality and former Olympian Caitlyn Jenner surprised Map Pesqueira with a $25,000 scholarship.

out there who have huge influences who are trans too. It’s not just normal, regular, everyday people like me.’”

Despite losing his military scholarship, Pesqueira said there is “no doubt” he would still pursue a military career if Trump’s policy

is reversed.

“If the policy isn’t lifted, then right now I really want to pursue going and working with (Jenner’s) foundation after I graduate … (to) return the favor and help her foundation and help other trans people who are in need,” Pesqueira said.

due to a stigma surrounding mental health issues.

“We need to create a space that lets people know there is nothing to be ashamed about, that mental health is health,” Ranus said. “The more that we educate our community to understand this, the more impact it has.”

Rymarz said students need to have openness to create a comfortable space, and this podcast is a step in the right direction.

“If we don’t create an open

and supportive space for students, they won’t be comfortable enough to be vulnerable and talk about mental health,” Rymarz said.

Brown said it is important for people to start talking, and he will continue to discuss resources that people may not be aware of, such as art and yoga therapy.

“I want people to realize that mental health is something that we can talk about and is something that people don’t have to feel afraid of,” Brown said.