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VOLUME 120, ISSUE 9 AUGUST 6, 2019

Following tragedy, strength, unity define El Paso.

copyright lola gomez / american-statesman, and reproduced with permission Felipe Avila puts his head in his hands as he cries at the place where the locals bring flowers, stuffed animals, candles and posters to honor the memory of the victims of the mass shooting that occurred in a Walmart on Saturday morning in El Paso on Sunday, Aug. 4, 2019.

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To promote campus beauty and slow declining pollinator species, UT should plant more wildflowers. PAGE 4

LIFE&ARTS ‘Euphoria’ finale exploits characters without providing closure. PAGE 10

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NEWS Roppalo’s Pizzeria will open a new location on the drag on Aug. 23. PAGE 3

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Roppolo’s Pizzeria to open on Guad The Austin pizza restaurant will replace Fat Sal’s, which closed in January.

By Nicole Stuessy @nicolestuessy

hen Marc Roppolo moved from New York to Texas in 1989 and scouted locations to open a pizza restaurant, he set his sights on Guadalupe Street. “I knew that there are 50,000 students in Austin, so I was trying to find a place that had high volume just like Manhattan, and the only place I could think of in Texas was the University of Texas,” Roppolo said. “I came here looking around in hopes of finding a place, but I couldn’t find a place at that time.” Roppolo ended up opening multiple Roppolo’s Pizzeria locations around Austin, but none near the University’s flagship campus. It wasn’t until 30 years after he moved to the city that a realtor reached out to Roppolo about touring a location near the intersection of Guadalupe and 26th streets where Fat Sal’s sandwich shop closed in January. Roppolo said he was skeptical of opening Roppolo’s on the Drag, but the location was too good to pass up.

“I saw it was almost a freestanding building, a corner spot with great visibility,” Roppolo said. “I thought, ‘What the heck? If I’m going to do a thing before I die on Guadalupe, this would be the place to do it.’” Roppolo’s Pizzeria’s grand opening on the Drag is set for Aug. 23. While the restaurant will open at 10:30 a.m. every day with breakfast and lunch pizza options, Roppolo said it will stay open “until all get a slice.” “On weekends after the football games, we could be open until 2 to 3 in the morning or so,” Roppolo said. “It all depends on the kids. If the kids are hanging out over here till 2 o’clock every night, then yeah, we’ll stay open until 2 o’clock.” Roppolo said because his pizza has been around Austin for decades, generations of students have come through his 6th Street restaurants. “Two weeks ago, this gentleman and his daughter walked up to me and he said, ‘I used to eat here when I was going to UT, 30 years ago,’” Roppolo said. “He introduced me to his daughter and said, ‘This is where you get your pizza.’ So we’re feeding kids of kids

that used to eat here.” Exercise science junior Elle Tucker said she is excited for Roppolo’s to open near campus because it will provide another option for latenight dining. “Usually I get boba tea or Potbelly if I’m around campus late and need to get food,” Tucker said. James Lewis, a communication and leadership senior, said he goes to Roppolo’s almost every time he is downtown with his friends. “Anytime there is pizza near college students, it’s a good idea, especially when Roppolo’s is a 6th Street staple and popular with UT-Austin students as it is,” Lewis said. “This new location is a good move.” Despite restaurants such as Austin’s Pizza, Jamba Juice and Moojo closing doors on the Drag in the past year, Roppolo said he is confident this location will be successful because of his long track record in Austin. “I’ve been around a long time,” Roppolo said. “If you hang around long enough, pray a lot, your mother’s in heaven looking down on you and your mother’s from Sicily, good things happen.”

kyeongjun yang | the daily texan staff Roppolo’s Pizzeria on Guadalupe Street will have a grand opening on Aug. 23. Owner Marc Roppolo said he has wanted to open a location near UT’s campus since he first moved to Texas in 1989.

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Wildflowers would beautify campus, help pollinators By Sam Thielman Columnist

The scent of bluebonnets is one of my favorites. I always loved seeing them bloom in my front yard, and the image of them along I-35 is iconic to Texas. It seems odd, then, that I see so few around the University. As a recent freshman who just experienced a spring semester on campus for the first time, wildflowers seemed notably absent. There was plenty of groundskeeping and planting going on, but it seemed limited to planting shrubberies and other small, nondescript plants. UT should augment its landscaping with more wildflowers to brighten the campus and help the environment. Many students agree that wildflowers would be a welcome addition to campus grounds. “I think it’d be pretty neat to have more wildflowers on campus,” psychology sophomore Anneli Garcia said. “It would be great to have more around campus, especially since most students walk long distances. It would be a nice pick-me-up.” These flowers have the potential to do more than just lift students’ spirits, though. They provide critical support to pollinator species, such as bees, whose populations have been sharply declining in recent years, and are in dire need of help. “One of the biggest threats to pollinators is loss of habitat, so planting wildflowers creates new habitats for bees, butterflies and other pollinators,” said Luke Metzger, director of Environment Texas. “Newly born queen bees need nectar and pollen sources or they can’t start their colonies.”

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This isn’t new information. Programs to plant wildflowers already exist. For example, those iconic roadside flowers I mentioned are no accident. The Texas Department of Transportation plants about 30,000 pounds of wildflower seeds each year, seeding approximately 15,000 acres of right of way. In fact, the University already has ties to wildflower programs. The Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center at The University of Texas, located about 12 miles away from downtown, has touted the benefits of wildflowers and other native plants since 1982. The University has wildflowers in a few spots already, most notably in the field near the Dell Medical School. However, these could easily be expanded to any number of other open spaces around campus. “The main campus has spaces such as the East Mall, LBJ lawn, South Mall, University Avenue, and a host of tailgating areas where we cannot have wildflowers due to heavy campus use,” said Laurie Lentz, communications manager from Financial and Administrative Services. Other areas are ruled out due to rain drainage patterns, mowing needs, and incompatibility with other landscaping in the same area. Despite this, it seems that smaller beds could be created around the main campus, such as in the area between the Main Mall and Speedway, or around Burdine. I like to imagine a warm spring night on the hill between Garrison and McCombs, looking over a grassy hill covered in red and blue flowers. This doesn’t have to be a distant dream, either — it could just as easily be next May. It’s just one round of landscaping away. Thielman is a history sophomore from Fort Worth.

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UT students create new dining menu website with search filters By Natalie Venegas @nataliezz_24

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Guide reveals how to be ‘Not-Rich’ at UT By Rolando Hernandez @roliereports

In July, UT announced full tuition scholarships will be awarded to in-state undergraduates whose families make less than $65,000 a year starting in fall 2020. However, tuition is just one part of many expenses that come with college. Last year, UT alumni Lewis Guapo (2019) and Eric Lee (2019) created a Google Doc called “Being Not-Rich at UT” to help low-income UT students. The document includes detailed information about how to find employment as well as how to navigate financial aid, career planning and study abroad opportunities. “You know how we always joke around that college students are poor? I’ve always felt that behind every joke there’s some reality,” said Guapo, who is a first-generation student. “So we said, ‘Let’s do something about it.’” The pair said they were inspired to create the document after Lee saw a friend’s post on social media about a similar document called “Being Not-Rich at (the University of Michigan)” and shared their idea to make a UT version with friends.

“Many people were really enthusiastic about it, but no one was really sure how to start it,” Lee said. “So I thought, ‘Might as well start it and see where it goes.’”

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Vincent Pham, a cellular and molecular biology sophomore, said he found the document while browsing through the UT-Austin subreddit and has contributed to the research section. The document has helped Pham reconsid-

er his study abroad options, he said. “I’ve never traveled the world before,” Pham said. “I knew it’d be expensive, but the doc gave me a very good starting point for finding scholarships and grants that will fund my adventures.” Pham said even students who qualify for free tuition could benefit from the document because of the useful information it provides. “They still need income to pay for other expenses such as housing, food and books,” Pham said. “The doc provides much more information such as opportunities to study abroad, career opportunities and other things.” In the introduction section of the document, the contributors write that it is meant to be an honest space where low-income and first-generation students can talk about the many barriers they face. People can contribute by adding comments or applying to be a moderator. “(Being Not-Rich at UT) provides an immense collection of advice and information for students going far beyond money,” Pham said. “(It) serves not as a door opener, but as the guidance to find the door.”

Incoming UT students can now make faster and easier dining selections through a new menu website created by three computer science students. “I saw that the dining menu was already accessible to students, but there were a lot of things I didn’t like about it,” said Nikhil Kumar, who came up with the idea for the menu. “It was something I wished I had as a freshman living on campus, and I just wanted to make it easier for other students.” Kumar, a computer science sophomore, said he used UT’s official housing and dining menu to craft the web app, which launched a couple of weeks ago and displays food options available to students on campus. The digital platforms allow students to filter through food items for specific food restrictions and search for food items within the menu. Kumar said he came up

with the idea for a more comprehensive menu system last semester when he didn’t find filters on UT’s dining menu. To get the website’s software application up and running, Kumar said he enlisted two of his friends to help him with coding and designing. Computer science sophomore Pravat Bhusal said he decided to help out his friend because he saw a need for the website among students. “A lot of UT students have allergies, and they need a way to filter through all the food items because it is really difficult to look through all the items,” Bhusal said. “Nikhil and I wanted to create a personal project, and as computer science majors we wanted to help solve a problem that we both saw.” Computer science sophomore Fronrich Puno, who designed the website, said he joined the project because he wanted to make things easier for other students. “I feel like doing one little nice thing for UT would benefit

everyone,” Puno said. “It goes to show that an app like this can be put to good use and help make college students’ lives a little bit easier.” Many components of computer science needed to be integrated in order to get the application running, which was a challenging process, Puno said. “The approach we took was something we had to think about for a long time,” Puno said. “We didn’t have that much experience as we were just freshmen … It was a learning curve.” Kumar said he thought the website was just going to be a personal project for him, but it turned out to be much more than that. “I was experimenting with something, and I learned so much with my computer science degree (because) I was able to do something with it,” Kumar said. “I’m hoping that all students will find this useful and that it can help freshmen make their dining experience a little bit better.”

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El Paso community unites following one of America’s deadliest massacres. By Carlos Garcia @Brolos95

hings are different in El Paso. The air smells different when you’re driving down I-10, passing the star on the mountain to visit your relatives on the other side of town. The sun burns differently when you’re standing in the dry heat with your friends next to the alligators in San Jacinto Plaza waiting for an ice-cold raspa from the local paletero. The dirt feels different when you’re standing on Mount Cristo Rey overlooking a binational community that has prospered together. This is how people spend their time

in El Paso — embracing the differences that make them unique. Yet for all El Pasoans, time stopped when we saw our community terrified, running out of a Walmart we’ve all visited, as the border city endured one of the deadliest massacres on American soil. “Around 2 in the afternoon, we found out that my cousin had been there,” said Andrea Ocañas, business honors and accounting junior. “The man behind him in line was shot, but he managed to duck down. It felt pretty unreal — especially so early on when we weren’t sure of how bad the situation was.” Ocañas said she is shocked to think that her family came so close to being torn apart.

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Mariel Cheda, middle pink, reacts as she listens to 2020 Democratic presidential candidate and El Paso native Beto O’Rourke during a vigil for those who lost their lives to the mass shooting at a local Walmart, Sunday, Aug. 4, 2019, in El Paso, Texas. copyright ivan pierre aguirre, and reproduced with permission

A large vigil gathers at Ponder Park, located near the spot of the mass shooting in El Paso, Texas, as a sign of support for those affected by the attack. copyright jorge salgado, and reproduced with permission

Crosses made for mass shooting victims Jordan and Andre Anchondo were placed near the Walmart in El Paso, Texas, where the assault took place. copyright jorge salgado, and reproduced with permission

A police officer is seen at a back door of THE Walmart where a man opened fire on back-to-school shoppers, Saturday, Aug. 3, 2019, in El Paso, Texas. copyright ivan pierre aguirre, and reproduced with permission

At the time, she and her cousin didn’t know how to explain what happened. “When he got back to his mother’s house, his mom had asked why he had blood on his shoes,” Ocañas said. “How do you explain something like that to your 90-year-old mother?” Since Sandy Hook, there have been at least 2,180 mass shootings in the U.S. It was Dec. 14, 2012, when we said we would never let this happen again. Now, it’s Aug. 6, 2019, and we can fill six calendar years with a mass shooting for each day.

On Saturday, Aug. 3, 2019, a gunman from Allen, Texas, a suburb of Dallas, drove more than nine hours to El Paso with a xenophobic agenda. He killed 22 people and injured over two dozen others in a predominantly Latinx community. Many people have taken that drive. Whether it’s to visit relatives or head back to UT for the upcoming semester, that drive is lonely. For nearly 10 hours, the gunman drove with hate in his heart, a mixtape that only led to despair and disbelief for a community so

proud of its ethnicity and culture. The people of El Paso cannot believe it. Scrolling down endless waves of news updates, social media posts and heart-wrenching texts, El Pasoans are shocked because it happened in their beloved Sun City. It was not their El Paso. That was the point when terror met its end. That was the point where “fuerza y amor” came in the form of uncles in their Chico’s Tacos shirts handing out waters, swarms of people lining up to donate blood and fundraisers being set up to support the victims and heroes. It was that point when the community began to remember what El Paso was, what El Paso is and what El Paso always will be. “El Paso is the city that holds the most sense of community,” UT alumna Taylor Sanchez said. “It is growing up playing in the front yard for hours upon hours with my friends and neighbors. We were hardly supervised by our parents because they knew we were safe.” Sanchez recently graduated from UT and has gone back to El Paso to work for the mayor’s office. She said the office has filed for a declaration of local disaster and hopes that the community will come together to become stronger. For El Pasoans, that is exactly what El Paso is: community and strength, family and love, friends and unity. Each name, each detail reported

continues to make hearts drop. People who are friends with El Pasoans constantly joke, “Does everyone from El Paso know each other?” Not all the time, but we all know someone who knows someone. We’re all connected. That’s what makes this tragedy so hard to swallow. Andre Anchondo, 24, and Jordan Anchondo, 25, died protecting their family. They shielded their newborn baby from the carnage, and as a result, paid the price with their lives. Their friends remember them as heroes. “For me and Andre and all of our friends, El Paso to me is making plans in middle school to go to the movies on Fridays after school or the mall on Saturdays,” UT alumna Bailey Bridler said. “It is making plans together with all our friends, to be together, talk, laugh and make memories together.” El Paso is simple. It’s not the gunman that drove 9 hours and 15 We’re all connectminutes to get to ed. That’s what makes the 915. Accordthis tragedy so hard ing to the people, El Paso is famito swallow.” ly and knowing CARLOS GARCIA that the comREPORTER munity around it will become stronger and fiercer than it already was. El Paso is a breathing thing whose heart — the people — will always be ready to fight hate with love. Garcia is a journalism senior from El Paso. He is a senior Life&Arts reporter and associate photo editor.

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Dawn of new season arises as Longhorns begin fall practice. he hottest song of the summer, Lil Nas X’s “Old Town Road,” played across Wright Sports Complex on Friday as Texas opened fall camp for the 2019 campaign. The first day of fall camp is a day to get players, coaches and staff focused on the season ahead. It wasn’t about the fundamentals and making sure every move was perfect; it was more about making sure the spirit of the team was correct. “(There were) certainly missed assignments and poor technique here and there, but we’re OK with that,” head coach Tom Herman said. “As long as they’re sticking their foot in the ground and running and going as hard as they can, that’s a successful practice in practice number one.” Fall camp provides insight into how the team will shape up going into the season. Here are a few of the top storylines that came out of the first weekend of camp:

The backfield is in good hands

Keaontay Ingram is the starting running back. Last year, Ingram averaged five yards per carry while splitting touches with Tre Watson. With Watson leaving, Ingram has been preparing himself for the workload he will carry. “Keaontay Ingram is 20 pounds heavier and running a mile per hour faster,” Herman said. Just below Ingram on the depth chart is Jordan Whittington. The freshman is a Swiss Army knife in terms of his abilities and has been a bright spot for Herman after early enrolling in January. “It’s one of the most amazing things I’ve seen in 20-something years of coaching, how a guy — who had never played the position before in his life — took to

Young defense exudes confidence

One of the biggest concerns for Texas this offseason has been who will start at cornerback. Safeties Caden Sterns and Brandon Jones have their spots solidified after productive 2018 campaigns. The cornerback position is still up for grabs. When the defense broke out for drills, young cornerbacks Jalen Green and D’Shawn Jamison ran out with the first team. The players don’t have a bevy of starts under their belts, but neither does the majority of the defense. However, the number of starts isn’t that concerning for defensive lineman Malcolm Roach. “We’re way more experienced than what it shows on paper,” Roach said. “The secondary has two great safeties back there in Brandon Jones and Caden (Sterns).”

FALL CAMP OPENS FOR TEXAS

New wave of leadership

New seasons come with new joshua guenther | the daily texan staff leaders and players stepping Running back Jordan Whittington (21) makes contact with a teammate in a blocking drill during fall camp. The Longhorns opened into new roles. On a revamped camp Aug. 2 and start their season Aug. 31 against Louisiana Tech at Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium. defense, Malcolm Roach has become a prominent voice on the defense. “Being a coach’s son, I know when to talk up,” Roach said. “I know when to sit back and let Brandon (Jones) talk. I know when to sit back and let (Ta’Quon Graham) talk.” Roach, now a senior, has been through two different Longhorn regimes and is now the elder statesman on the defensive line. Lined up yards behind him is standout safety Caden Sterns. Despite being in only his second year in the program, he doesn’t let youth be a barrier to his leadership. “I think anybody can be a leader,” Sterns said. “Experience, it matters, but at the same time it’s the same game you’ve been playing since you were young.”

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‘Euphoria’ ends with flawed finale Series sends mixed messages despite strong acting, visuals. By Denise Emerson @kaonashidenise

hroughout its whole first season, “Euphoria” skirts the line between hard-hitting narratives and scandalous, shameless cop-outs. The show teeters on the edge of catering to an impressionable, adolescent audience and a critical, adult audience. While “Euphoria” relies on sex, rebellion and angst to fill the hour-long episodes, the breathtaking visuals and cinematics further muddle its messages of insecurity and recovery. This is a dangerous decision on the creator’s part because the winding, provocative ambiance of the show glorifies the mistakes and downfalls of the cast. The framing of the characters’ dilemmas — ranging from the questionable empowerment in Kat’s (Barbie Ferreira) sexual exploration of Nate (Jacob Elordi) and Maddy’s (Alexa Demie) abusive relationship — makes

these situations appear enticing or thrilling. Along with the radiant visuals of drug use, these portrayals send mixed messages of the morality of these actions. The finale does not complete many themes and situations explored by the show. The characters remain as naive as they started and any positive outcomes they achieve are not well-deserved. Cassie (Sydney Sweeney), and Fezco’s (Angus Cloud) storylines, two of the most resounding stories, are left up in the air. The finale flips between the characters, unable to stick around long enough to drive home the point of their suffering. The finale only sufficiently appreciates the heart and soul of the show, Rue (Zendaya). The weight, implications and reasoning for her return to drug use are delicately executed. Time has been taken to ensure the audience understands Rue despite her drug use. The show laboriously presents the negative consequences of her addiction, grounding her story as something memorable among often-flighty narratives in teen dramas. Everything surrounding Rue in the finale, from her mother’s echoing speech to her desperate stare at Jules (Hunter Schafer) on the train, was enacted with precision and care. When the musical act interrupts, the audience must blink a few times to realize they have been ripped from what could’ve made the show worth it. The final-scene-

turned-music-video comes as an out-ofplace endnote. Although it was meticulously executed, it completely distracts the viewer from what the show best offers — intriguing characters deserving of change and growth. Sultry, controversial scenes and HBO’s pompous use of every single hit of the past two years in the soundtrack are not what makes “Euphoria” original. The elaborate cinematography and grandiose style of the show, which are given to side scenes of little narrative value, also are not what make this show original. Rather, it is the actors’ performances and the potential for these characters to undergo positive changes. Between the foggy, neon bike rides and

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trippy, glittery parties, “Euphoria” shows tender youth deserving of growth. The second season will reveal if the creators want to make important statements with the narrative — an ethical action they should take for adolescent viewers. If viewers are disappointed, the show will still offer some of the most stunning visuals dramas have to offer.

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City of Austin launches digital tipping program for musicians By Avery Wohleb @lookingforavery

For the next six months, fans of local music will be able to tip their favorite bands and artists electronically after the City kicked off its new digital tipping program last Thursday. The City’s Music and Entertainment Division received over 100 applicants for the program, called “Tip the Band,” and ultimately selected 10 local groups. The goal of the program is to provide funding for local musicians in Austin to help them keep up with the City’s increasing living expenses, according to the program’s webpage. Mat Oldiges, band member of The Human Circuit, one of 10 artists selected for the launch, told the Austin American-Statesman that finding affordable living is a common issue for many artists in Austin. “Artists are a vulnerable population because of the innate drive to do art anyway,”

Oldiges said to the Statesman. “People take advantage of that knowing that (artists will) wake up and do it anyway, even if we can’t afford it.” Fans will be able to tip with debit or credit cards using devices provided to the City by fundraising company DipJar. Music studies junior Emma Edwards said she is an aspiring musician and feels excited about the program and the idea of electronic tipping. “I know sometimes people have reservations about walking up to a stage to tip or not having a lot to give,” Edwards said. “I think this will open up more opportunities to tip. It’ll change the game for a lot of people.” At the end of the six months, the 10 selected artists will report back about their experiences using DipJar. After that, the Music and Entertainment Division will further discuss the implementation of electronic tipping for all musicians. Porter Wilson, UT alumnus

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and lead singer of local band Shotguns Ready, said he empathizes with local musicians who live in expensive cities and rely on their shows to fund their living. “Anything that can make

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Aidan Barriga, a music composition and vocal performance sophomore, said it is vital that musicians are tipped for their performances. “The biggest thing that

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affects how much money musicians get is how easy it is for the audience to get them money,” Barriga said. “As a gigging mariachi musician, I am ecstatic to hear about this.”

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