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Housing to reach new heights Austin City Council proposes higher building limits to increase density, affordability in West Campus.
SG presents budget legislation at first meeting By Neelam Bohra @_neelam_b
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ustin City Council recently advanced a series of amendments which would allow for increased building height limits in West Campus if passed. Mark Walters, principal planner at the City of Austin, presented the amendments to the city council planning committee Aug. 27. The amendments were proposed to the University Neighborhood Overlay plan, which was created in 2004 to promote high-density living in West Campus. The amendments include a series of changes to the established regulations on building heights in three of the four districts dedicated to residential construction. “One of the big (changes) here would be revising building heights as they relate to affordability,” Walters said during the meeting. “(The changes) would allow for an additional 125 feet of building height in the Inner West Campus subdistrict and an additional 25 feet in the Outer West Campus and Guadalupe subdistricts.” Walters said the height increases would apply to buildings with 10% of units set aside for individuals earning up to 50% of the median family income, which is defined by
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the Austin Neighborhood Housing and Community Development Office as“very low-income.” “(The previous ordinance) would not allow those taller buildings to be built,” Walters said.“You couldn’t take advantage of the affordability because you don’t build buildings like this. You’d end up with a funny-looking, wedge-shaped building.”
Allie Runas, the chair of the West Campus Neighborhood Association, said the association supported the proposed changes for the neighborhood. “We support the proposed changes in order to promote a more walkable, diverse and rich experience for the residents of West Campus,”Runas said.“Our neighbors also voted to promote our vision by
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calling for reduced parking minimums, wider sidewalks on Inner West Campus and expanding the Inner West Campus area.” Rylan Maksoud, the Student Government Housing Policy Director and a Texas Student Media Board member, said while he supports the amendments T A L L E R PAGE 2
At this semester’s first meeting of the 113th Student Government Assembly, members introduced 2019-2020 budget legislation while also reviewing general rules, the legislative process and introductions. SG received $196,005.87 for the year from the University, and the SG Financial Affairs Committee recommended they stay within a budget of $112,820.00. This money will contribute to funds for student organizations, SG agencies, such as SURE Walk and the Women’s Resource Agency, SG operations, executive board and some assembly representatives stipends — which span from $3,420 to $6,840. Before discussing the budget, Jakob Lucas, speaker of the assembly, said he wanted to reintroduce everyone and go over assembly rules and formalities. “I understand this meeting feels like it is full of fluff, with the introductions and things like this,” said Lucas, a government senior. “But a lot of this work is your relationship with the people in this room, and for some of you, that relationship has been neglected for months.” But members, such as Brennan Caviness, a representative for the Steve Hicks School of Social Work, said they did work with other SG members over the summer. Social work sophomore Caviness said he was part of a S G PAGE 2
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Austin committee discusses THC testing, enforcement By Graysen Golter @graysen_golter
The Austin Judicial Committee met with public testifiers Tuesday to discuss improving THC testing after the Texas Legislature legalized hemp in June with House Bill 1325. HB 1325 differentiates between hemp and marijuana based on the amount of tetrahydrocannabinol each one contains. The committee met to address the difficulty of prosecuting marijuana offenses now that hemp, but not marijuana, is legal in Texas. During the meeting, Austin citizens and representatives from local organizations gave testimonies describing how the city should enforce marijuana laws. County officials previously dismissed 93 marijuana-related charges due to a lack of necessary testing equipment for THC. Troy Gay, Austin Police Department chief of staff, said the city must invest in testing equipment that will allow police officers to differentiate marijuana from hemp. Emily Gerrick, a senior staff attorney from the Texas Fair Defense Project, said marijuana laws in Texas are completely unenforceable due to the fact that there is only one lab in the state that can properly test for the difference in THC levels between hemp and marijuana. “Once we understand the time and the cost of testing, APD and the county will be in a better position to make decisions regarding the future of enforcement action,”Gay said.
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Gay said the lack of law enforcement in places around Austin will lead to a boost in the local marijuana market and an increase in violent offenses, such as murders involving drug deals. Gerrick said despite the inability to enforce the laws properly, APD officers are still citing and arresting people. She said this disproportionately affects people of color in Travis County, particularly African Americans, who are more likely to be jailed than their white counterparts for possession of marijuana. “It’s just a tremendous waste of resources, especially given that we have such a serious backlog for serious crimes,”Gerrick said.“(The)kAustin Police Department should stop citing and arresting people … for possession of marijuana, especially given that these cases are not currently being accepted (by the district attorney).” Austin resident Annette Price said she was against allocating resources for THC testing because of the impacts of jail time due to marijuana laws, such as the loss of access to employment, housing, public benefits and childcare. “When a person is arrested, their entire life stops,” Price said. “Now, we want to risk some funding that will be wasted on some testing. What are we saying to the community, and how are we really allocating our money that best serves our community?” Bratzzo Banich, the president of Texas Horns for Cannabis, said Texas campuses should engage in an educational effort M A R I J U A N A PAGE 3
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Regular traffic flows through Red River between Clyde Littlefield Drive and Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard.
Construction will narrow Red River Street, close parking By Neelam Bohra @_neelam_b
Construction near the Steve Hicks School of Social Work began Tuesday and will close multiple parking spots and roads in the area. Between Clyde Littlefield Drive and Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, Red River Street will narrow from four to two lanes until late
this fall. While construction started Tuesday, the Austin City Council approved the changes as part of the Arena and Red River Realignment projects during its Feb. 7 meeting, which will shift Red River Street to the west of Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium. According to a press release, the northern portion of Lot 80 will not reopen until RED RIVER
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After pushback from parents and students, the College Board is now getting rid of its plan to assign students taking the SAT a single score that captures their level of economic hardship. The “adversity score” was introduced by the College Board this May in an effort to assess extraneous circumstances encountered by students taking the test, according to a press release. The score would consider the kind of neighborhood the student comes from, whether the student receives free or reduced lunch, the level of crime and average educational attainment in the student’s area. College Board CEO David Coleman said in a statement that considering all of the factors that conflict with a student’s ability to take a test to the best of their ability was problematic, prompting the College Board to eliminate the score. “The idea of a single score was confusing because it seemed that all of a sudden, the College Board was trying to score adversity,” Coleman said in the statement. “That’s not the College Board’s mission. The College Board scores achievement,
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Jeremy Martin is the senior policy analyst for the Charles A. Dana Center, a UT organization focusing on student success in math and science. Martin said taking into account a student’s social and economic hardship is incredibly important when making admissions decisions. “AP and SAT tests tend
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summer 2020, and all of 20th Street will close until spring of 2020. The “C” spaces along Robert Dedman Drive will also close permanently. The Child Care Center within the Steve Hicks School of Social Work and the Texas Swim Center will also only be accessible from Robert Dedman Drive until the end of the semester, according to the Parking and Transportation Services website. Veronica Trevino, media manager for Financial and Administrative Services, said Parking and Transportation Services notified students about these changes in an email Thursday, and they also posted the changes on their website. “We recognize construction and large renovation projects can make it challenging to move around campus,” Trevino said in an email. “We strive to help students and the campus community navigate (them) by keeping them informed of project updates and impacts through email, social media and online tools.” Courtney Harris, a social work graduate student, said PTS could have done more to notify students. She said the lack of parking spots forced her to park behind UFCU Disch-Falk Field, take a bus to campus and walk from the bus
stop to her class, which added an extra hour to her commute. “I was with ten other cars, just driving around, trying to find a spot,” Harris said. “It was really stressful to get here, and I’m a parent, so the reason I even bought a C+ (parking) pass was so if I need to leave to go get my child, I can leave early. Now, I’m not sure I can do that. They hinted at it, but I don’t think anyone realized the intensity and the severity of the lack of parking to get here.” Madeleine Brunk, a social work graduate student, said she purchased a C permit but received an email from her social work program telling her to return the permit. She said she decided to buy a garage permit instead. “I’m lucky enough that I was able to buy a garage parking pass,” Brunk said. “But, it’s further away, and it was a lot more money. That’s a lot of food and potential classes.” Trevino said information about these projects may change and encouraged students to visit the Contstruction Distruptions page hosted by PTS for more information about construction. “We encourage students and the community to regularly use tools to stay informed about various projects around campus,” Trevino said. “We will continue to share parking and construction updates as the projects move forward.”
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Liberal Arts representative and speaker Jakob Lucas makes a clarification during the open discussion and presentation of Student Government’s academic year budget.
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separate Financial Affairs Committee from the current SG Financial Affairs Committee during the summer. He said this separate committee worked on the summer budget. “We dealt with all of the budget requests that came through during the summer,” Caviness said. “(The committee) put in several hours of work to make sure that student organizations were able to get their money over the summer and start to make the outreach that really sets the basis for what’s going to happen over the school year.” Caviness said he has also worked recently with the current Financial Affairs Committee to create the budget for the 2019-20 academic year. “We all went into it knowing that the decisions we made would have a lasting impact, because these budgets enable them to make direct inroads with students,” Caviness said. “We’re
funding all of the agencies, which is the biggest part of the students.” SG financial director Matthew Kenny said creating the budget took a lot of time. “This took months of planning to put together,”said Kenny, a public health sophomore.“I appreciate the people who made the time to make this budget.” Kenny said the Financial Affairs Committee recommended the budget’s allocations. “We sift through all applications, budgets and past recommendations,”Kenny said. “We don’t just (choose randomly) where the money goes. There’s a lot of research that goes through the allocations.” Caviness said the budget will move back to committee before the assembly votes on it next week. “We made very deliberate choices,” Caviness said. “I doubt much changes before the next meeting, and by next meeting, people who applied for money from Student Government will be allotted that money.”
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The Austin Police Department announced Aug. 27 that the department will expand their mental health training for all police officers to include 40 additional hours of crisis intervention training. All police officers in the state of Texas are required to receive 40 hours of basic mental health training. The additional 40 training hours were previously optional for APD officers, but the training will now make all APD officers certified mental health officers starting in January. “We’ve been talking about it for a couple of years,” APD Assistant Chief Justin Newsom said.“We just haven’t had time to get around to writing this plan to try and train everybody as a mental health officer.” Newsom said a recent audit by Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute, a nonprofit that conducts mental health research in Texas, found that Austin police could improve their responses to mental health calls. He said the study partly prompted APD to add the new requirements. “In (this) class, there is more instruction on different types of mental illnesses (to) try to educate the officers as much as they can about the different characteristics of certain diagnoses,” Newsom said.“So when (officers) do show up and they’re aware of a person’s mental health state, they may be able to use some of those tools to (de-escalate) a situation.” Newsom said sergeants will register their officers for trainings at different times to ensure there are not personnel shortages during shifts. When training is complete, Newsom said officers will be better equipped to prevent violence and de-escalate mental health calls. UT Police Department detective David Chambers said UTPD officers, in comparison, are required to take eight hours
The fifth-most-powerful supercomputer in the world, known as Frontera, launched Tuesday during a dedication ceremony at the Texas Advanced Computing Center. Dan Stanzione, executive director of TACC, said Frontera is also the fastest supercomputer at any university in the U.S. The computer performs at double the rate of the current flagship supercomputer on campus, Stampede2, project co-principal investigator John West said. West said unlike other supercomputers,hFrontera can perform both large and small calculations in a short amount of time. Frontera was built in early 2019 and is the fourth top-15 system TACC has built in the past decade, according to a University press release. “(Frontera) is really specifically designed for those very large problems that us-
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of de-escalation training and 40 hours of crisis intervention training. He said while it is not required by the state of Texas, UTPD strives to have all officers take an additional 40 hours to be certified mental health officers. “Officers usually receive MHO training within their first year or two after starting with our department,”Chambers said. “Then, we have refresher classes every so often to keep officers fresh and up to date on the information.” Chambers said mental health crises can include a reaction to a bad grade, a break up with a significant other or a mental illness. He said UTPD aims to have all officers become mental health officers since many students start
ers can ask the computer to run and not have to wait a long time to get an answer back,”West said.“These systems are really useful to all kinds of science.” Stanzione said different tech companies, such as Intel, Dell and NVIDIA, along with professionals from TACC and the National Science Foundation, collaborated on Frontera’s development and construction. “There are about 140 professionals at TACC, and most of them have been involved in one way or another in writing the proposal, doing the design, putting the computer together and then tuning it and configuring it to make it work,” West said. “The whole center touches a system this big to get it working and get it working well for users.” ShashankkSubramanian, a computational science, engineering and mathematics graduate student, and postdoctoral fellow Klaudius Scheufele said they use the
Frontera system to gather data about a specific kind of brain tumor that cannot be fully imaged with a typical MRI. “We can’t see all the information about the tumor from MRIs, like how far it’s infiltrated into healthy tissues,”Subramanian said. “Biophysical models combined with superscaled computation methods (such as those in Frontera) can assist in making better clinical decisions.” Supercomputers have applications in a wide range of disciplines, from assisting in the study of viruses to creating simulations to predict gravitational waves emitted by neutron stars, Stanzione bsaid. “To me, the most impressive aspect of Frontera is the vast scope of researching it supports,”said Fleming Crim, COO of the National Science Foundation.“It works to secure our nation’s leadership across a wide range of disciplines.”
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to experience signs and symptoms of mental illness during college. Pharmacy graduate student Caitlin Vogt is the president of the Student Pharmacist Recovery Network, which spreads awareness about mental health and substance use disorders. Vogt said she is glad to see APD expanding their mental health program. “We’ve come to a point in our society where police officers are expected to be more than just police officers, and they need to understand how to respond to these crises,” Vogt said. “Until we can find people in the healthcare community who can respond with officers, I think additional training would be good to protect police officers and citizens.”
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Public relations and studio art senior Stephanie Zeller takes a look at the inner workings of “Frontera,” UT’s newest and most powerful supercomputer, on Tuesday afternoon.
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to dispel myths about the marijuana market instead of continuing state enforcement laws. “In reality, there’s more to the industry
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Cell phones disrupt our learning experience, make us lonelier By Patrick Lee Columnist
From its tradition of abandoning its elderly in nursing homes to the spiritual sterility of its suburbs, America is a nation that worships the individual and devalues the collective. It’s no surprise that nearly half of Americans report feeling sometimes or always lonely. When loneliness is systematically widespread, society is failing its inhabitants, as loneliness of this magnitude is not a natural human condition. However, it is rather normal to want to be alone sometimes. This feeling can be understood not as loneliness, but solitude. Loneliness is the perpetual longing for connectivity we feel in the absence of others — in other words, failed solitude. Solitude represents a natural human condition. According to Jodi Dean, political science professor at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, we experience it when we remove ourselves from the social network of everlasting connectivity and gather our thoughts, reflect, mature, write and rejuvenate social energy. Solitude and loneliness both indicate an absence of others — one, a desirable opportunity for self-creation, and the other a destructive alienating force. So when alone, why do people feel loneliness instead of solitude? The reasons may vary, but an irrefutable consequence of introducing new technologies like the smartphone in a society governed by capitalist relations is that people experience intensifying pressures to stay connected and socially integrated at all times. The consequences are especially present in the classroom, where attentiveness and focus are necessary ingredients of learning. Noah De Lissovoy, UT Education Department of Curriculum and Instruction associate professor, believes the social
consequences of these pressures are profound. De Lissovoy said we replace the risk of real relationships with more fleeting, momentary and immediately seizable circuits of communication like social media. “We lose the value of things like quietness, awkwardness, space or downtime — we want to fill everything up with activity and talk, and that’s very much connected to technologies,” De Lissovoy said. In this sense, the phone embodies loneliness in object form. Phones promise perpetual connectivity — you are never truly alone, always connected to social networks. They replace friendships with networks, solitude with loneliness.
Phones promise perpetual connectivity — you are never truly alone, always connected to social networks. They replace friendships with networks, solitude with loneliness.” “The phone enables people to be potentially everywhere,” De Lissovoy said. “(The phone) reconstructs the kind of self one has, one that is fragmented and one you must persistently verify.” It’s the kind of self you must verify by promising unceasing connection and depriving the individual of the ability to summon oneself by oneself. The phone, by proliferating loneliness and mortifying solitude with noise, distractions and unbounded presence, has catastrophic consequences for both individual and collective learning. Having a phone in hand means you
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aren’t expending the mental energy and time necessary for understanding to occur. Phones preclude the kind of deep engagement with and application of knowledge that learning demands. Meaningful learning, the sort that deeply recalibrates the way one understands the world, cannot coexist with passively listening and scrolling through Instagram. More importantly, the classroom is a collective space. Classrooms are unique spaces where we can assert our collectivity and learn together. Thinking in the classroom is collective — it requires concentrated dialogue, attentive learning, active engagement. In other words, you must be fully present. Our phones wage conquest against this collectivity, replacing the unity of the crowd with the pathological individual fixated on staying perpetually connected with the infinitely available others. “The obsessive attachment to cell phones in classrooms becomes the most apparent symptom of disinterest in subject matter,” chemistry senior Subbu Iyer said. “It generates an unhealthy culture where stimulation is necessary at all times and learning turns into a troublesome distraction.” The effect is disruptive. “This incessant connectivity works against more genuine forms of collectivity,” De Lossovoy said. “It alienates people from themselves and others. The kind of being together in teaching, in classrooms, is most important and very different from the kind of connection people find on their phones.” Phones unravel the condition for authentic learning. Learning, reading, writing and composition occurs in solitude and collectivity. When we forget how to feel solitude, it is devastating for the learner. Displaced by loneliness, we fear being alone and desire endless connectivity — an impossible burden that implodes under its own weight. Don’t resort to the phone. Divest from the unending harassment of social circuitry. Lee is a sociology senior from Houston.
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Vaccines are an undeniable necessity in our epidemiologically vulnerable world. They are especially vital on college campuses as they foster community immunity in an environment particularly susceptible to outbreaks. UT offers a comprehensive range of immunizations for students, faculty and staff. Forty Acres Pharmacy provides immunizations to faculty and staff, and University Health Services does the same for students. While information about immunizations and their respective distributions are readily available on both the UHS and Forty Acres Pharmacy websites, confusion among students regarding how and where to get vaccines remains. In order to alleviate this confusion, UHS and Forty Acres Pharmacy should consolidate the information on each of their websites onto one online platform. This would be an easy solution to implement as building a website with information that already exists requires few resources. Haley Wolf, a recent UT biology graduate, faced some conflict when she sought a yellow fever vaccine before a Global Medical Training trip to Ecuador.
(Vaccines) are especially vital on college campuses as they foster community immunity in an environment particularly susceptible to outbreaks.”
Wolf said the organization required students to complete training modules to inform themselves of health risks specific to the region they would be visiting. She learned yellow fever presented a minor threat to travelers, and she had an option to get the vaccine. She decided for it. “It was pretty inconvenient for me to get this vaccine,” Wolf said. “Forty Acres Pharmacy didn’t have it because of the national shortage, so I had to go home to Arlington and then drive to Plano to get it because offices in Austin were booked.” For this specific vaccine, there is nothing UT could have done to combat the national shortage. The problem here is a gap in communication and information. After Wolf checked the Forty Acres Pharmacy website and failed to find the vaccine she needed, she immediately started looking off campus. There are two problems with Wolf’s approach. First, Forty Acres Pharmacy only offers immunizations for faculty and staff, yet many students such as Wolf believe they can get their own there. Second, for most vaccines, it is not necessary to go off campus because UHS offers a wide range of vaccines to students. “Immunizations, including travel immunizations and anti-malarial prescriptions, are available to students on campus through (UHS),” Terry Weaver, chief pharmacist at Forty Acres Pharmacy, said in an email. The Forty Acres Pharmacy website previously did not reroute students to UHS when they came looking. They amended this problem as of Aug. 26 after the Texan brought it to their attention. “The website for Forty Acres Pharmacy has been updated to clarify that point,” Weaver said. While all the information regarding faculty, student and travel vaccines are easily available online, they are in different places, and this can confuse students who don’t know how to navigate both resources. Forty Acres Pharmacy and UHS could take the website clarification further by consolidating all of their immunization information onto one web page. This would combat the uncertainty students may face while seeking vaccines. Dronamraju is a public health sophomore from Dallas.
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Tiff ’s Treats founders to share stories at Tejas Coffees By Jordyn Zitman @jordynzitman
Every Thursday, students pack the small living room at the Tejas Club for Tejas Coffees, where they hear entrepreneurs, politicians and other influential speakers discuss their journey. On Sept. 5, students will hear from husband and wife duo Leon and Tiffany Chen, who founded the cookie delivery company Tiff ’s Treats in their sophomore year. Tejas Coffees has previously hosted speakers such as Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke and actor Matthew McConaughey. Daily Texan: How did you decide to speak at Tejas Coffees? Leon: (Tejas) was very well organized and reached out to us before we got a slew of requests. We saw, looking at their list of speakers they’ve had, that our investor and brand ambassador, Andy Roddick, was one of them. We then found out a little bit more about the organization, and it looked like a really solid one, so we decided to do it. DT: Tiff ’s is a big part of the UT experience. You both went here, so what role do you believe the University played in how you approach business? Tiffany: When we started,
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Featuring artists Ruthie Foster and Dylan LeBlanc, there is no cover charge for guests, but food and drinks (alcoholic and not) are available for purchase. Enjoy the last few warm summer nights in Austin under the stars with friends, listening to great live music. Richmond Concert Band
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dens, the Richmond Concert Band will be putting on their free fall concert on Sept. 22. Titled “Let’s Have Some Fun,” the show takes place at the beautiful gardens, where visitors can also bring picnic blankets and snacks to enjoy alongside the orchestral music. The event website says that each song performed is selected to put a smile on the audience’s face, including familiar tunes like “The Avengers” theme. Admission is free and the event is family friendly.
base. Besides UT, Austin as a whole we found to be extremely welcoming to new ideas as a really small mom and pop. The students at UT were willing to try something
new, something that didn’t have a lot of backing. A really big key to our success was having those kinds of people available as customers. DT: Tiff ’s has grown so much
since you began. How did you adapt from running a “mom and pop” to a large business? Tiffany: I think everything is just a learning curve. You can’t ever set out and say,
“We operate this way now.” What we do is lay a plan and then just get going and see where life takes you, see where the business takes you, and adapt as you go. That’s always how we’ve done it. Things are far different from how they were when we first started, but it’s not like it happened overnight. Leon: At the same time, we could be a lot bigger than we are now and could have double the amount of stores. But we’ve always been focused on responsible growth and building the brand as a whole and worrying about store count second. That’s led us to slower growth than you would think we could do. We’re not going to expand faster until we’re sure that the brand is just as strong as it’s always been. DT: What do you hope attendees gain from your Tejas Coffees talk on Thursday? Tiffany: We would hope they come out of there energized about all the opportunities they have ahead of them. Also, you can jump on something when you see an opportunity. You don’t have to wait and plan it out so meticulously that you wait forever to get started. If you see something, seize it, and there’s no better time than right now. Everything is ahead of them. I hope they just come out inspired to make a change.
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Texas is just one week into the season, and it has already displayed its wealth of underclassmen who have earned starting spots and plentiful playing time. Yet, as the team dives headfirst into the toughest section of this year’s schedule, it will be a group of seniors that lead the way into pressure-packed matchups. In the season’s first two games, senior outside hitter Micaya White and senior libero Claire Hahn brought veteran leadership and experience to the table. The seniors are clear leaders on a Longhorn squad that will need their presence against Texas’ brutal schedule. With a national championship, a plethora of conference championships and 18 winning seasons under his belt, Texas head coach Jerritt Elliott knows the value of in-game experience. “In volleyball, you need a lot more experience with the eyes to see the game at a different level because of the way the game is played,” Elliott said in his weekly press conference on Monday. White is second on the team with 30 kills in the first two games and is the go-to outside hitter for setters in crunch time. Hahn has recorded 16 digs coming off the bench and has been an important part of the rotation. “Micaya’s obviously a veteran and has improved every year since she’s been here, and we’ve seen some good growth,” Elliott said. “(Hahn’s) become a very pivotal piece to our team … She’s changed
her demeanor, she’s a lot more confident.” While White has been a staple of the Texas attack for four years, Hahn has seen her role steadily increase over time as one of the anchors of the Longhorn squads’ back end. “Claire has been one that has really become more confident in terms of who she is,” Elliott said. “It’s what happens as you evolve as a program. (The players) start learning about what makes them feel comfortable, what makes them feel uncomfortable.” Minnesota will present the first top-10 matchup for the Longhorns this season, but the Golden Gophers started their season with a stumble. In their second game of the season, they were stunned and swept by then-unranked Florida State. Yet, Elliott sees no reason to dismiss them. “We know that they’ll be ready for us,” Elliott said. “One game doesn’t make their season, and I’m sure they’re just building on the process and just trying to improve every single day.” Last Sunday’s win over then-No. 14 USC provided a jolt of energy after a sluggish first game against UNI. “(Winning) definitely does boost our confidence,” sophomore outside hitter Logan Eggleston said. “It gets us super excited and pumped to play even more teams because we know the crowd’s going to be like that again, and the teams are going to play balls out every single point, so we’re just excited.” The first set between No. 3 Texas and No. 8 Minnesota is at 7 p.m.
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Sophomore wide receiver Brennan Eagles catches a touchdown pass in Texas’ season opener against Louisiana Tech. Eagles recorded two touchdowns and 59 yards.
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Brennan Eagles makes up for his lackluster freshman season with breakout performance in sophomore debut By Donnavan Smoot @Dsmoot3D
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Senior libero Claire Hahn strikes the ball in Sunday’s packed game against then-No.14 USC, as the Longhorns defeated the Trojans.
rennan Eagles’ 2018 season didn’t exactly go down in the record books: one catch for 35 yards — in 11 games. But, in the midst of Texas’ 45-14 win over Louisiana Tech, the Houston native introduced himself to the Longhorn faithful. Eagles caught three passes for a team-high two touchdowns and 59 yards. His first score came on a simple post route, beating the corner inside for the 28-yard score. The second touchdown was slightly easier, finding himself streaking wide open down the sideline before Ehlinger connected with him 25 yards down the field in the back of the end zone. Eagles’ season debut was an eye-opener to many, except for his teammates, who have seen his high level of preparation throughout the offseason. “I’m really happy for him because all summer he was asking for extra work,” junior quarterback Sam Ehlinger said. “(He would say), ‘Sam, let’s watch film on the weekends.’ … To see him finally get the chance to make some plays and go get the ball … it makes me really happy.” Eagles is a quiet receiver, one that fits with the culture set forth by senior wide receiver Collin Johnson and the rest of the receiver room. While Herman and his teammates were all happy for him, nobody seemed prouder for Eagles’ career night than Johnson. “That’s my dog Eagles, man,” Johnson said. “Dude’s a beast. He’s just a really good player and a really good person at the same time. This is a sneak peak of Brennan Eagles this season for the UT offense.” While Eagles was electrifying, he understands that it takes more than himself
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Nearly every day of the week, Austinites gather around the city to perform and listen to free live music.
Check out five places around Austin to catch concerts in the Live Music Capital of the World. By Jordyn Zitman @jordynzitman
ome for the free music, stay for the community. Visitors come from all over to soak up the sounds of the
Live Music Capital of the World, seeking out and purchasing tickets to concerts and live performances. Living here yearround, these activities can quickly eat up a budget, especially for students. Luckily, Austin has no shortage of spots to watch live music for free. Here are some opportunities to check out this fall. Thursday Noon Concerts
Every Thursday at 12 p.m., students from UT’s Butler School of Music can be heard putting on free concerts at Central Presbyterian Church in Downtown Austin. Guitarists, pianists and other instrumental musicians play for 30 minutes during lunchtime with light refreshments served afterward. Admission is free, but a
donation of $3 for children and $5 for adults is suggested if participating in the lunch portion of the event. If timing or transportation is an issue, the concerts can be watched via livestream. Longhorn City Limits
In its second year, Longhorn City Limits combines live music from regional and national artists and football to form the ultimate tailgate. Before and after each home game this season, artists including More Cowbell, Jack Ingram and Midland will perform on the LBJ Library Lawn. More artists will be added to the lineup, so keep an eye out. Admission is free for all members of the community and adds a little Austin flair
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to football season. Last Sunday of the Month
On the last Sunday of every month, the South Austin Museum of Popular Culture puts on a free concert for members of the community. The show on Sept. 30, the last of the year, features The Mooks and Austin band Soulphonics. Admission is free at the museum, and the show runs from 3 to 4 p.m.
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Shady Grove restaurant on Barton Springs Road has two more free Thursday night concerts left in their summer series. M U S I C PAGE 5
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