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Thursday, August 29, 2019
Volume 121, Issue 13
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raquel higine
/ the daily texan staff
‘Black Yearbook’ curates narratives Design student showcases the experiences of UT’s black students through new interviews, photography. By Trinady Joslin @trinady05
draint Bereal was discouraged by the absence of students who looked like him around campus. But as a freshman walking through the Student Activity Center, a door finally opened.
Now, three years later as a design senior, Bereal is aiming to showcase the stories — all of them — of black students on campus. Bereal calls the project “Black Yearbook,” and while the final product will be a physical book, it won’t fit within the definition of a typical yearbook. Rather than featuring events within the black community,
it will instead highlight the narratives of black students themselves. “The idea is to curate all these experiences and put them together to show people what is happening in our community and to give them a better understanding of what’s going on,” Bereal said. In spring 2019, Bereal worked on a similar project titled “1.7,” a reference to the
percentage of black men that attend UT. After interviewing and photographing 25 black male students, he showcased his work at the George Washington Carver Museum and began brainstorming for his next project. Overall, less than 5 % of UT’s student population is black, according to data from the University. YEARBOOK
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McConaughey named Moody professor for film class By Laura Morales @lamor_1217
Actor and UT alumnus Matthew McConaughey is joining the faculty of the Moody College of Communication as a film professor of practice starting this semester. He was appointed by Jay Bernhardt, dean of the Moody College of Communication, to be a professor of practice, which is a faculty member who is qualified to teach based on professional experience. McConaughey has served as a visiting instructor since 2015 for the Script to Screen film production class for upper-division film students. McConaughey will now be teaching the course this semester alongside film professor Scott Rice. “It’s the class I wish I would have had when I was in film school,” McConaughey said in press release. “Working in
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the classroom with these students gives me a chance to prepare them.” As a visiting professor, McConaughey has provided materials from his movies such as storyboards, script drafts and budgets to aid his teaching. He also brings in well-known film directors to talk to students. This semester, the Script to Screen class will be studying the films “Mud,” directed by Jeff Nichols, and “The Gentlemen,” directed by Guy Ritchie. “That is how the class is really groundbreaking,” Rice said. “We study films that no one has seen yet. He really thought about what the class should be down to the tiniest detail. The fact that he is able to get these filmmakers to be part of the class is a really big deal too.” Noah Isenberg, the chair of the Department of Radio-Television-Film, said although McConaughey is an international
celebrity, he takes the time to work with students in his class. “I am very pleased with his level of devotion and excitement about the class and the level of experience he brings,” Isenberg said. UT alumna Marisela Campos said she took McConaughey’s class in spring 2017. Because McConaughey was working on “White Boy Rick” at the time, Campos said he sent in lecture videos and visited occasionally. Campos said she got more access to the film industry in McConaughey’s class than in any of her other classes. “He was the reason why we were able to study ‘Mud’ in the detail that we did,” Campos said. “A lot of those materials were confidential. Jeff Nichols would not send his first script drafts to anyone. But because it was Matthew’s class, we got to see the first draft all the way up to his final drafts.”
juan figueroa
/ the daily texan file
UT alumnus Matthew McConaughey speaks to the Moody College of Communication. He is joining the college’s faculty as a professor of practice.
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