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@thedailytexan | thedailytexan.com NEWS Texas Performing Arts names Tony award winner as new executive director.

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OPINION Mandatory racial geography tour at orientation would contextualize racist landmarks.

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Volume 121, Issue 22 LIFE&ARTS New star-studded “Hustlers” tackles complexities of female empowerment.

SPORTS Football coordinators reflect on Ingram and Sterns’ mistakes after LSU loss.

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Employees cope with UT System’s limited family leave policy

community guide provides tools for survivors

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School for Social Work develops new guide for trauma-informed approach to sexual assault survivors. By Emily Hernandez @emilylhernandez

new community guide published last week aims to improve the way survivors are reengaged in their cases after their sexual assault kits have been tested. “Notification for Victims of

Assault,” developed by UT’s Institute on Domestic Violence & Sexual Assault, contains five steps with 13 supporting tools for communities to assess their capabilities in handling sexual assault cases. The guide also features examples of how communities in Houston and Detroit use the guide. The steps focus on how to create a multidisciplinary, trauma-informed approach to reinvolving survivors in their cases, especially when cases are years old. “What we’ve been able to do is explain … how to integrate the science of the trauma and the science of neurobiology and the institute’s 19 years of experience working with survivors, so police and (community members) have that resource with them so they can even do their jobs better,” said Melanie Susswein, Notification for Victims of Assault

researcher and the institute director of marketing and communications. “It offers (tools) from assessing your community … and if you’re ready, all the way to being ready and moving forward and reading a supplemental reading that you might want to do in your community to be better prepared.” Susswein said the institute researchers decided to undertake the three-year project while conducting their 2016 Houston Sexual Assault Kit Research, which aided Houston police and survivors with testing kits. “We realized that survivors had a need for communities to have a guide so that they would feel like … reporting was something that they were happy that they did and that they were treated in a way that it was not regretful. Also, so that they remained engaged in the process,” Susswein

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Students can get their student records, financial aid and tuition services all in the same place starting in the spring of 2020. The Texas One Stop for Enrollment Services center will offer the student services of the Office of the Registrar, Office of Scholarships and Financial Aid and Student Accounts Receivable in one place, said Jennifer Love, director of the center. These three offices are currently located in separate parts of the Main Building and Student Services Building. While those offices will remain operational, the services for students will all be located on the first floor of the Main Building. “This is transformational,”Love said. “Having a space in (the Main Building) O N E S T O P PAGE 2

said. “We wanted to be able to create a tool for communities to use that opened the door rather than shut it.” The Austin Police Department are the primary handlers of sex crime cases in Austin, working together with the Stop Abuse For Everyone Alliance and hospitals to perform sexual assault forensic exams and sending sexual assault kits to the Texas Department of Public Safety for testing. While Susswein said IDVSA sent the guide directly to APD, Sgt. Jason LaDuque of the Violent Crimes Area Command said it has not yet been fully processed or adopted by the department since it is so new. APD updated its victim notification system in 2018, and LaDuque said it is currently under review. G U I D E PAGE 3

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When Dr. Gurur Biliciler-Denktas was planning to have her second child while working in the UT System, she didn’t opt to use the 12 weeks of unpaid family leave provided by the system. Instead, she saved her paid vacation and sick leave. “You have a new child and you have another child at home. And even though you’re a physician, you still need to pay bills, right?” said Biliciler-Denktas, chair of the UT System Faculty Advisory Council. The Family Medical Leave Act, passed in 1993, allows all eligible employers to acquire 12 weeks of unpaid leave for circumstances such as medical emergencies or new children. However, UT System employees must use all available paid leave while taking the FMLA leave. The UT System does not have additional maternity or paternity leave, which Biliciler-Denktas said leads to some eligible faculty saving up vacation time and sick leave in anticipation of a new child. “We lost a lot of female faculty to other institutions,” said Biliciler-Denktas, a pediatric cardiologist at UTHealth Science Center at Houston. In an emailed statement, UT System spokesperson Karen Adler said the policies are maintained by each individual UT institution and are guided by the UT System Board of Regents’ Rules, which comply with federal law. “The Chancellor and Board of Regents always look forward to hearing the (Faculty Advisory Council’s) findings and recommendations related to policies and issues of concern,” Adler said in an email. Adler said the Faculty Advisory Council was established to identify issues among faculty, analyze those issues and share recommendations for action with the Chancellor and Board of Regents. She did not provide further comment. The Faculty Advisory Council hopes to make recommendations to change the faculty family leave policy following complaints from faculty on other UT System campuses, Biliciler-Denktas said.

SG to release weekly, opt-in newsletter for student body By Neelam Bohra @_neelam_b

When first joining Student Government, members such as university-wide representative Kerry Mackenzie struggle to find current information about SG. Starting next week, SG will release an optin newsletter for the student body to make information easier to find, SG communications director Jacqui Briddell said. The newsletter will contain weekly meeting agendas, a summary of the last week’s meeting, representatives’ work and other highlights or achievements, Briddell said. She said she hopes to eventually include a form to receive student feedback about SG’s performance. Currently, students can subscribe to an email list in the UT List Server to receive SG meeting agendas from the speaker of the

assembly. These emails do not contain context or explanations of legislation. “Anyone can find out what happens (in SG) online or on Twitter, but not a lot of people will go out of their way,” journalism senior Briddell said. “A newsletter is a modern-day resource for people to just check their email that night or that morning and figure out if there’s something that’s going to affect them or that they want to speak about.” Briddell said SG’s decisions impact the whole campus, but not enough of the student body knows what happens during meetings. “We want to make this sound appealing because people might not understand why they would want to opt into something like this,” Briddell said. “I’m hoping to be able to convey the importance of it to the S G PAGE 3

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The University of Texas Project Management and Construction Services is constructing the One Stop Enrollment Center at the Main Building. Once opened, students will be able to access services of the registrar and financial aid offices in one location.

dedicated for students to be served with exceptional levels of service, it is truly at the heart of what we have been imagining as services for students.” Love said the Office of the Executive Vice President and Provost trained financial aid office staff on records, tuition and financial aid because these employees will be transferred to the new office upon completion. Love said the provost’s office is also working to build an official Texas One Stop website. “(The Texas One Stop) is reimagining and transforming the

services for the students,” Love said. “We are creating a new Texas One Stop website that is completely redesigned for a student to take care of certain tasks quickly and easily.” Project Management and Construction Services has not finalized a budget for the project. Linda Tsai, a project manager with construction services, said the estimated cost is going to be around $4 million. Tsai said construction should finish in January and staff will be moved in by the end of February. Tsai said the crew tore down walls in part of the first floor of the Main Building where the Office of the Registrar used to be located.

“It is going to make a big difference to how the ground floor looks,” Tsai said. “We are going to have really pretty glass doors into that space, and it is going to open up that hallway a little bit.” According to the blueprint plan, conference rooms and a furnished waiting room will be located in the first floor of the Main Building. The center will also contain a quick-stop booth for pick-ups and service questions and another booth for more detailed questions. Students will check in on a queuing system, so they will not have to wait in line, Love said. Love said this is part of the initiative to help students in the center

of campus. Psychology junior Meghan Leeves said she had to hike all across campus to find the right offices when she needed to collect her student records for a job application. She said she walked to the Office of the Dean of Students, the Office of Scholarships and Financial Aid and the Main Building. “It was miserable and very sticky,” Leeves said. “I walked well over a mile altogether in hundred-degree heat. Being able to have financial aid and registrar in the same place would eliminate a lot of unneeded time spent walking all over the place and make things a lot less stressful.”

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Precollege programs do not guarantee admission By Victoria May @toricmay

With many programs costing thousands of dollars to attend, the University and other schools across the nation offer prospective students the opportunity to enroll in precollege programs during the summer to strengthen their college application. The large cost of these programs has made fundraising necessary for some students who see these programs as the best way to guarantee acceptance into their dream college. According to the crowdfunding service GoFundMe, students have utiltized their service to raise enough money to attend precollege programs. The University offers dozens of summer programs through many different colleges, such as McCombs School of Business and the College of Natural Sciences. While some summer programs are free, the third-party program company Summer Discovery charges up to $6,299 per student. In 2018, the College of Liberal Arts offered scholarships for University-sponsored precollege programs to students who demonstrated academic merit and financial need, according to the official website. Stacy Crouch, a mother of a UT student, said she thought precollege programs led to an increased chance of acceptance into the University. “The precollege summer programs that UT or private parties offer do not guarantee admission,”

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University spokesperson Joey Williams said. “The admissions process here at UT is strictly legislative. While showing involvement outside of coursework in high school is recommended, these programs alone will not secure your admission into the University.” Summer Discovery hosts a precollege program for prospective UT students and promises a combination of academics, athletics and activities to give high school students a taste of college life, according to their website.

The website refers to UT as a “Public Ivy,” claiming it is the perfect setting for a precollege program and encourages students to apply. “I enrolled my son in a summer program for UT thinking that it would make him a competitive applicant,” Crouch said. “The fact that summer program sent mail to my son, urging him to apply, really made it seem like they were interested in him as a possible student. After my son was deferred to the (Coordinated Admission) Program, it became

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apparent that their interest was not specific to my son at all.” Many summer programs, like the Welch Summer Scholar Program, require applications submitted with teacher recommendation letters, essays and a high school transcript, according the program’s official website. Its over 30-year existence, the Welch program has hosted more than 1,500 high school students. “I was admitted into one of the computer science summer programs,” computer science sophomore Delaney Brown said.

“Going into it, I knew just because I was in the program did not mean I was going to get into UT. However, when I was accepted, it did make the decision process easier for me when deciding which university I wanted to go to. It was a cool way to immerse myself in what I imagined college life to be like.” Some programs, such as the Summer High School Research Academy under the College of Natural Sciences, offer transferable course credit for those that are admitted into the University.

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campuses, where most faculty are tenured. “You’re losing that three months,” Biliciler-Denktas said. “That’s an important amount of time that you might be working on your research and producing.” UT-Austin changed their policy Sept. 1 to allow married couples working at the University to each claim 12 weeks of unpaid family leave. Sandra Catlett, chair of the Staff Council at UT-Austin, said married couples would previously have to share the time. Before the policy change, UT-Austin employees Meagan Jones and her fiance, Kyle Fricke, decided to postpone their wedding when they found out they were pregnant with their first child. “We’re grateful that we were able to stay home, but not having unpaid leave does make it more challenging,” Fricke said.

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“We have to look at the system and find out why which regulations are there and how we can actually change it,” Biliciler-Denktas said. Theresa Koehler, chair of the Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics at UTHealth, said she did not utilize the act during her pregnancy. Instead, she took six weeks off and brought her newborn to her office. “I just think that most institutions these days have maternity leave, and it’s incomprehensible that the UT System doesn’t have it,” Koehler said. Biliciler-Denktas said FMLA also does not extend a faculty member’s tenure. She said extension of family leave is especially important on academic

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SB 18 allows drivers to note communication disorders on vehicle registration for police officers

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Drivers with communication disorders have the option to indicate their disorder on their vehicle registration under a new Texas law. Senate Bill 976, also called the Samuel Allen Law, passed on June 10. Named after and pushed by a Texas A&M-San Antonio graduate with Asperger’s syndrome, the bill allows drivers with communication disorders such as deafness, autism and intellectual disabilities to indicate it on documentation. The law went into effect Sept. 1. Joseph Chacon, Austin Police Department assistant chief, said an officer will be able to enter a driver’s license plate information into a system that will indicate whether the driver has a communication disorder. The

officer will not know which specific disorder the driver has. “It certainly would have been something great to have back when I was making patrol stops … just to have that heads up,” Chacon said. Chacon said officers can call other officers who speak American Sign Language to help communicate with drivers when necessary. Julia Campbell, a communication sciences and disorders assistant professor, said it would be more beneficial for the law to require the reporting system to specify what type of communication disorder an individual has. “The behavior of the person who has been stopped is going to be entirely dependent on not only the type of disorder, but the severity,” Campbell said. “It really (would) be helpful for officers to maybe just have a little briefing or history on autism versus hearing loss

versus complete deafness, where sign language is used.” Campbell said she believes the law is a good first step to ensure interactions between law enforcement and a person with a communication disorder do not escalate. Law student Caroline Burks, who is legally deaf, said she thinks the law is a good idea in principle but has some kinks. “There are a wide variety of communication disorders,” Burks said. “And if I don’t have my hearing aids in, dealing with me is going to be completely different than dealing with someone who has autism.” Burks said there needs to be additional training for police officers in addition to the ability to mark a communication disorder on driver’s registration. “In my typical dealings with law enforcement, when I don’t have my

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Tony Award winner joins Texas Performing Arts as executive director By Raul Rodriguez @RaulRob800

Continuing his work in the fine arts, Tony Award winner Bob Bursey will join the Forty Acres as the new executive director of Texas Performing Arts. Bursey, the former executive director of the Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College, will assume his new position starting in the spring semester. He joins the faculty as a Tony Award winner for his work on the 2019 reinvention of the musical “Oklahoma!” that is currently running on Broadway, with experience managing live events in over three dozen countries and productions for the American Dance Festival. As executive director, Bursey will manage a $12 million budget and 40-person staff while also fundraising for various Texas Performing Arts productions, said Doug Dempster, dean of the College of Fine Arts. “(Bursey) has an enormous reputation in New York City and elsewhere for creating new performing arts work,” Dempster said. “We hope he will be leading the effort to create new work that will be performed around the country and around the world.” Dempster said Bursey will be responsible for overseeing all productions in the four on-campus theaters, such as those held in the McCullough Theater and the Bass Concert Hall. Bursey said one of the goals he has for Texas Performing Arts is expanding the arts from their traditional theater and concert hall locations. He said he believes inspiring performances can take place in any setting and

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hopes to redefine what UT’s performing arts center can be in the coming years. “The performing arts center can be a front porch of the University,” Bursey said in an email. “There is a lot of focus on getting folks to come to our venues for performances, but we can create powerful experiences in other places as well.” Music performance sophomore Samuel Shipps said he intends on getting involved in Texas Performing Arts. He said

the addition of Bursey gives the University a new chance to be at the forefront of the theater, dance and performance world. “When you are in the performing arts, it’s all about the connections that you make,” Shipps said. “Having someone like (Bursey) working for the school gives me a lot of confidence that we are going to be pushing to bring in a lot of better teachers and better performers and more opportunities for our students.”

Tony Award winner Bob Bursey joins UT as executive director of Texas Performing Arts

“(APD’s notification system) involves multiple working groups that have a vested interest in it, (including) detectives, district attorney (representatives) and APD crisis counselors. They use the best practices as to when we should notify and when we shouldn’t,” LaDuque said. “It’s like a living document. If we find a better way to do things, we’re always willing to explore it, and we’ll see if it’s something that we need to

implement here.” SAFE Alliance, where many survivors get sexual assault forensic exams, supports the use and idea of the guide, particularly in providing a survivor-first approach, said Emma Rogers, SAFE Alliance communications coordinator. “One thing that the guide did a great job of recommending is when you’re reaching back out, it’s so important for survivors to feel supported during that process and respected in their interactions with law enforcement, because that’ll make them more likely to become engaged and stay engaged in the investigation too,” Rogers said.

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hearing aids, they don’t know how to deal with that,” Burks said. “Oftentimes, it just results in what I’m assuming is them screaming louder at me. That’s not going to solve the problem for someone with my degree of hearing loss (or) especially for people who are profoundly deaf.” The law allows drivers to bring proof of their communication disorder, such as a doctor’s note, to the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles to have it added to their registration. Burks said she thinks having to communicate with a DMV worker could be a barrier. “I’d like to see some more training for the DMV staff of how to accommodate someone with a communication disorder,” Burks said. “But I think that … the ability to be alerted will hopefully save dangerous encounters with police officers (and) kind of avoid that circumstance.”

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student body.” Mackenzie thought of the idea last semester, Briddell said. After Mackenzie joined SG, she said she noticed a need for streamlined communication. “When I was a freshman, I had no idea what was going on, even when I had been admitted to an SG agency,” said Mackenzie, a government and plan II sophomore. “There were a lot of bills SG was passing that the general student body didn’t have a voice in because they were just not aware of it. It’s hard to find that information unless you’re on the inside.” Mackenzie said she wanted to make representatives more accessible to the student body, and Briddell kept that in mind when creating the newsletter. She said students using the newsletter can better hold representatives accountable. “(Students) should have access to information ahead of time so we can avoid people saying they didn’t know what SG was doing and SG tried to sweep something under the rug,” Briddell said. “We can say ‘no’ because it was in the newsletter.” Government junior Benjamin Speigner said he is not involved in SG but would choose to receive the newsletter. “SG deliberates over issues that affect me and other students personally,” Speigner said. “Students don’t show up when something they’re interested in has already been decided.” Mackenzie said she hopes people read the newsletter to stay informed about SG. “I’m going to do everything I can to make sure (the newsletter) works,” Mackenzie said. “If we can begin to create a culture where it’s normal for everybody to be involved in SG, then more and more people will see us as a way for the school to listen to them.”

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UT should make racial geography tour mandatory part of orientation By Neelesh Rathi Columnist

“A world which turns out to be one in which those we honor are unworthy … is nerve-(w)racking.” In his 1922 work “Public Opinion,” Walter Lippmann described why people hold onto stereotypes, both flattering and demeaning. Stereotypes are, regardless of their accuracy, the basis for people’s worldview. Changing them takes effort and courage. As a school, UT has a crucial responsibility to educate and to challenge inaccuracies — starting with its own murky stance on race. The campus houses numerous structures and artifacts that lionize racists such as George W. Littlefield, Robert Lee Moore, James Stephen Hogg, Theophilus Painter and others. The longer the University takes to address these false, one-dimensional and stereotypical depictions, the more students will leave the University unprepared for the racial complexities and subtleties of the world. Stripping these historical figures of context and representing them in one-dimensionally celebratory ways — statues, a fountain, namesakes of buildings — is blatant historical amnesia. “There is a difference between celebration and pedagogy,” said Edmund T. Gordon, Vice Provost for Diversity and former chair African and African Diaspora Studies department. Gordon believes that the artifacts glorifying Confederates and other racists should

be “contextualized” where they stand. “(UT must explain) why they were put up, what they symbolize … and how the University position now is different, if it is, from the intentions of the folks who put them up,” Gordon said.

Instead of removing these structures, they should be used to introduce incoming students to the University.” Instead of removing these structures, they should be used to introduce incoming students to the University during orientation. The racial geography tour explains the campus’ racial and gender history, and its online format makes it easy to use and reuse. If incoming students are required to begin orientation with the tour, they can then consider its lessons while traveling around campus and encountering these artifacts. These symbols of oppression can be left up, but if they are, UT must follow through on its stated mission, emblazoned at the base of the Tower — “Ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free.” The Hogg statue alone doesn’t help us

remember the true legacy of James Hogg, contrary to the claims UT President Gregory Fenves made to justify its reerection on campus. To do that, it would need contextualization that accurately represents or explains its racist legacy. According to Lippmann, “(Stereotypes) are the fortress of our tradition, and behind its defenses we can continue to feel ourselves safe in the position we occupy.” Tradition is comfortable, but only for those whose interests it serves. Holding onto tradition maintains the status quo, and unless the status quo is fair, maintaining it is not. On a campus where the student body is only 4% African American, that underrepresented group must encounter statues, a fountain, buildings and art that commemorate racists and segregationists. Glorifying our worst traditions maintains the status quo — maintains stereotypes of “glorious” whites and “insignificant” blacks — because it perpetuates the misremembrance that has been weaponized for the last century to maintain white supremacy. The racial geography tour is the crystallization of the knowledge, effort and courage it will take to end these racist traditions. But UT must fulfill its purpose — it must actively educate its students. We need to remember the truth, and since steel and brick — “the fortress of our tradition” — can outlast memory, we need to make sure we never forget it. With the racial geography tour, we can change the fortress so that instead of teaching tradition, it teaches truth. Rathi is a Black Studies senior from Austin.

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Students, UT administration can make steps to reach zero-waste By Avery McKitrick Contributor

As co-director of the oldest and largest environmental student organization on campus, I have the pleasure of interacting with a lot of UT students. There’s one thing that we all have in common: We all produce some kind of waste, and it has to go somewhere. That’s where UT comes in. A few years ago, UT undertook an ambitious goal of reducing the amount of waste we send as a university to the landfill, but the problems and solutions aren’t as black and white as they seem. Let’s back up to 2016. In 2016, President Fenves unveiled UT’s new goal of going zero waste by 2020, defined in UT’s Sustainability Master Plan as “ninety percent or higher diversion of municipal solid waste from the landfill or incineration.” According to the plan, achieving this goal involves doing things like increasing reuse and recycle infrastructure across campus, converting major campus events to zero waste and expanding food waste avoidance. So how close are we exactly to meeting that goal? The short answer is we are not close enough. According to UT Resource Recovery, UT only diverts about 39% of its nonconstruction waste from landfills right now. Why is this? I contacted resource recovery manager Bobby Moddrell, to ask his expert opinion. Moddrell said, one of the

University’s biggest challenges to achieving certification process for UT offices to lessen zero waste by 2020 goal is simply the contamtheir environmental impact. Certified Green ination of composting and recycling streams, Offices now cover 1 million of the 15 million where waste is thrown into the wrong bin when square feet of campus. it’s time to dispose of it. This could be chalked UT is also in the process of hiring a fullup to lack of bin pairing across campus, where time Green Labs Coordinator, who will work to landfill, recycling and sometimes compost divert waste from labs on campus. When 2020 bins are placed next to comes around, UT isn’t each other. going to simply quit trying These bins lack consisto divert its waste. UT is tent bin type and signage looking into extending its as well as a general lack deadline to 2040, the same of education of UT stuyear that the city of Ausdents, staff and faculty. tin plans to reach a similar Moddrell also cites recent zero-waste goal. Make your voice lightweighting of plastics, UT’s lack of progress when companies reduce in reaching its zero waste heard... there is no the amount of overall maby 2020 goal may be rootone that UT adminterial to package a proded in a number of logisistration hears more uct, the difficulty of rolling tical and bureaucratic out composting programs issues, but students can than students” across campus and limitstill do their part to died staff to implement new vert waste and make UT programs. In short, we more sustainable. will likely not reach our The best thing you can goal as originally outlined do as a student is to eduin the 2016 Sustainability cate yourself and others. Master Plan. UT Resource Recovery hosts several 1.5-hour On the surface, this might seem like a Zero Waste Hero workshops throughout the bad thing. But other universities of our size year, where you can receive zero waste training are facing similar issues, and we’ve made a from the campus experts. lot of progress. This goal has brought about Another thing students can do to help UT important programs like the Green Officmeet its zero waste by 2020 goal is volunes program, which provides a multitiered teer. As part of the Zero Waste Hero program,

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participants will complete 10 “action hours” on UT campus. One great opportunity to complete those action hours, or just to do your part to help UT meet its goal, is to volunteer with Texas Athletics on their Sustainability Sort Squad and help sort through football game waste. Student organization leaders who bring a group to sort with Texas Athletics can earn money for their organization depending on the number of volunteers and the hours worked. But if volunteering isn’t your thing, Texas Athletics and UT Resource Recovery hire several students each semester as interns and part-time employees. If you’re involved with a student organization, the Campus Environmental Center’s Green Events project team will make your organization’s event zero waste for free. Finally, make your voice heard! There is no one that UT administration hears more than students. Take advantage of your position, and post about UT’s zero waste goal on social media. You can also write to UT officials to express your support or encourage the hiring of additional faculty to work toward zero waste initiatives. As co-director of the oldest and largest environmental student organization on campus, I have met incredible people who only want to do their part in making the world a little greener, even if they aren’t quite sure how. And I, for one, am glad that UT is trying to do its part as well. McKitrick is an environmental science junior.

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Depop expands thrifting online By Garrett Smith @carrot0garrett

A new pair of Dr. Martens can cost well over a hundred dollars. Students who use the online thrifting app Depop can get them marked down for under $100. Depop, a mobile thrifting app where users buy and sell clothes, shoes and accessories, was first released in 2011. Since then, Depop has expanded into a million-dollar company with more than 13 million users. Depop put e-thrifting on the map, allowing thrifting enthusiasts to access a wide variety of options in every size, color and design at the click of a button. While working at a vintage store on the Drag and interning at an online Depop shop, Maya Halabi, human dimensions of organizations junior, said she was inspired by her bosses to create her own Depop shop and began selling to the online community. “One of my bosses was really heavy on teaching curation,” Halabi said. “That’s the part that inspired me the most because, beforehand, I knew about selling vintage, but I wasn’t sure how much creative direction you can put into it.” Halabi said she found her creative direction through mood boards and building her conceptual brand, @ineedibuprofen, on Instagram. “I like sourcing pieces, but I also like to make sure that I’m being meaningful about it,” Halabi said. “I’m not just, ‘Oh, well. I’m here to sell and make money,’ but I’m also here to create a

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time, Carlson said. “Gratitude can help people deal with stress and adversity perhaps because it fosters a coping style which leads to positively framing or reinterpreting some aspects of negative life events,” Carlson said. Walters said she noticed

mood board and make people feel things when I post a picture of a Dior piece.” While using Depop, Halabi said she appreciates how the company treats their users, and their process of transactions between customers has made it easier for her to sell. “A lot of apps don’t push you to use PayPal because they don’t care if something goes wrong with the transaction,” Halabi said. “But Depop value(s) small businesses and people who actually put work into selling on their platform.” Some thrifters aren’t as comfortable selling on Depop, such as public relations sophomore Mackenzie Fischer, who said she found the app to be more challenging to use than she expected. “It is just a big-time commitment,” Fischer said. “It is a big math equation, the whole trying to profit even though you have to ship (products). I ended up losing money.” Jane Lee, marketing and psychology sophomore, said Depop also affects the profits of brick-and-mortar thrift stores. “There are a lot of people on Depop who go thrifting and buy stuff for cheap and then upsell it, and now thrift stores have to raise their price,” Lee said. “So I think that definitely sucks because there are people who genuinely need thrift stores to just be able to buy clothes.” Fischer, no longer a vendor, still uses the convenience of the Depop’s filters to find dresses for events, Dr. Martens and everything in between. “You can look up exactly what you’re looking for, the color, the size, and then (have) it shipped right to your door,” Fischer said. “You never even have to leave your house.”

these benefits in her own life after just a few months of consistent posts about daily gratitude. “It’s impacted my mentality a lot,” Walters said. “I know I am documenting my gratitude, (so) I usually go out of my way to do things I love and enjoy so that I will have more things to be grateful for.” Using a gratitude Instagram has instilled a new form of selfcare in the daily routines of

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Sophomore running back Keaontay Ingram rushes toward the end zone in the 45-38 loss to LSU. In the fight against the Tigers, he had 10 attempts for 29 yards.

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Sophomore Struggles Caden Sterns and Keaontay Ingram still haunted by their mistakes against LSU.

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t’s been five days since LSU beat Texas 45-38. Normally, by this time in the week, the Longhorns are fully focused on the next opponent. However, the sting of losing a prime-time matchup at home, along with the lessons that come with it, still surround the program. “You only fail once you stop learning from your mistakes and improving,” head coach Tom Herman said Monday about his message to sophomore running back Keaontay Ingram who had a rough outing. “Making mistakes is part of life … You got to use mistakes as feedback and criticism and go improve.” For sophomore safety Caden Sterns

and Ingram, their mistakes were magnified not only because of the caliber of their ability, but also because of the moment in which the mistakes happened. Ingram dropped a goal line pass on fourth-and-goal and Sterns was in coverage when LSU converted on third-and-17 to put the game out of reach. Ingram is known to be hard on himself and is quick to take blame. “Oh, yeah he’s hard on himself,” offensive coordinator Tim Beck said. “He’s a young kid. He’s extremely talented. He just needs to go back to that, have fun and play the game.” Herman knows Ingram needs to respond better in moments like the dropped pass. “(Keaontay) knows he needs to respond to adversity better in game,” Herman said. “I told the whole team yesterday, and it applies.”

Despite the trouble he had against LSU, Ingram still has the complete support of his teammates and coaches. “You know we believe in him,” Beck said. “I think he’s a hell of a back. Sometimes guys have great games, sometimes they have good games and sometimes they have average games.” Along with Ingram, Sterns made a mistake in one of the biggest moments of the game Saturday night. “I lost inside leverage,” said Sterns on Tuesday morning. “I probably watched it more than anybody in the building. … It just comes back to practice and just do it. Not give up inside leverage.” Defensive coordinator Todd Orlando knows how much the team means to Sterns and knows he is eager to improve. “He knows,” said Orlando of

Sterns. “He cares so much that what do you say to him? … So when things don’t go right. ‘Okay, we’re 0-1. Let’s not go 0-2.’” The mentality of moving on to the next play is critical for both, especially considering that the depth at both of their positions has taken a hit in recent weeks, highlighting the need for them to perform. “We’re playing a very disciplined team,” Sterns said. “They don’t really shoot themselves in the foot a lot. And also, (we can’t let) the past loss affect us too much and not let it continually create a snowball effect. So just respond to that.” Now with Rice next on the schedule, moving on to the next play turns into moving onto the next game. “We just have another game to get ready for,” Sterns said. “Do we need to improve? Yeah. Are we bad? No.”

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Midfielder Berg looks to continue hot streak against UW By Aneesh Namburi @AneeshNamburi

After a couple of quiet games to open her junior year, midfielder Haley Berg has looked more confident as of late. It has been particularly evident in the past two games, where she has netted three goals. “I’ve just been working a lot on movement,” Berg said after Sunday night’s match against Texas A&M-Corpus Christi. “I don’t think it’s anything I’ve done. Just as a team collectively, we’ve come together and realized what we need to do better, and we’ve been doing it. It opens up spaces for not only me, but like Julia (Grosso), Kailey (Smith) — all different kinds of people.” As the Longhorns look forward to a Friday evening showdown against the University of Washington, Texas will specifically try to shore up a defense that has been inconsistent at best throughout the season, head coach Angela Kelly said. “For us, it’s always on the defensive side of the ball,” Kelly said. “Defensive mentality, how we work in transitions — that’s what we want to optimize.” With the Huskies in town, the Longhorns have a chance to hone in on their back line. Washington

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Haley Berg chases the ball down field in Texas’ 4-3 win over the Gonzaga Bulldogs. Berg had two assists in the match. has only scored five goals in their five matches. However, their attacking unit is more potent than the statistics suggest. Washington has outshot their oppo-

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nents by nearly five shots per match. Their aggressiveness on the front line has led them to be competitive in most of their games — although the win count has not matched. Earli-

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with wins over New Mexico and Denver — who shut out Texas 3-0 two weeks ago. With the weather currently projecting to be in the 90s, the Longhorns have an advantage over Washington in this area. Hailing from the Pacific Northwest, the Huskies most likely will have to adjust to the heat and humidity of Austin, something that is not an issue for Texas. For the Longhorns, it’s just another night under the lights “Honestly, I don’t think the heat affects us that much because we’ve been working in it for so long,” Berg said. “We’re here in the summer, we’re here in the spring, we’re here in the preseason working out twice a day in this heat, so the heat really isn’t an issue.”

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Hot girl summer’s film finale Before release of ‘Hustlers’ on Sept. 13, members of UT community examine complexities of female empowerment, Hollywood role models, stripping as profession. By Nataleah Small @nataleahjoy

hen it hits theaters Sept. 13, star-studded, female-forward film “Hustlers” could be the pinnacle of what has been labeled “hot girl summer.” Inspired by a New York Magazine article, the Robin Hood tale follows a group of female strip club employees who reclaim their power from wealthy Wall Street clients by stealing their money and committing crimes. The film examines the intersectionality of sex work, family ties and economic stability. Although “Hustlers” is advertised as a story about female empowerment, members of the UT community voiced mixed opinions about the upcoming release. Public health sophomore Lal Lawmi said she is excited to see big-name actresses Jennifer Lopez and Constance Wu, who star as Ramona and Destiny. In the film, Ramona, the matriarchal figure of the group, takes the inexperienced Destiny under her wing and introduces her to the other strip club employees in their found family. However, Lawmi said she thinks the film’s themes could negatively influence younger audiences. By showing these women earning thousands of dollars as strippers, Lawmi said the film makes a dangerous lifestyle seem glamorous and attainable. “Obviously, life can be hard, but stripping is not the only way to make life better,” Lawmi said.

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Mary Beltrán, director of the Latino media arts and studies program, said it is important to evaluate the complexity of female characters in films and the complicated decisions made by people who are employed as strippers. “It certainly is possible that women that are strippers or prostitutes can be

feminists and can be empowered,” Beltrán said. When discussing the film, Beltrán said audiences shouldn’t assume that people who work as strippers are oppressed — instead they pursue these professions for a variety of complicated reasons, including the need to make money.

Beltrán compared “Hustlers” to the 1983 blockbuster “Flashdance.” Alex Owens, the lead character in “Flashdance,” was also an exotic dancer, but earned money as a stripper and welder to achieve her dream of becoming a classical dancer. There are fantasies attached to dance. Women can get noticed and become famous as dancers, Beltrán said. Radio-television-film sophomore Hunter Lyke-Ho-Gland said he thinks the film’s concept is interesting because it plays against stereotypes. “You have characters that are usually minor roles in films or usually very victimized roles and have them (be) very central and powerful characters,” Lyke-Ho-Gland said. Because the film is about strip club employees, Lyke-HoGland said some audiences may find it controversial. However, the film pushes some social boundaries by normalizing the characters’ profession. Valarie Gold, radio-television-film graduate student, said the film likely won’t dive into the negative elements of stripping but will instead focus on the alluring lifestyle associated with the profession. Gold said the purpose of this film is to turn a profit for Hollywood producers. Because the film is an escapist action movie, she said it likely will not have an impact on audiences’ perception of sex workers. “If you really want to make a difference and make an impact and talk about the issue in a serious scenario, give it a more serious tone,” Gold said.

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Students highlight positivity through gratitude journaling By Katya Bandouil @kat372

Scroll through Rachel Walters’ Instagram page, and you will find a detailed online public diary about her life. Unlike typical Instagram accounts, this one is dedicated solely to expressing gratitude. Between hectic schedules and constant schoolwork, it can be easy to get hung up on the unfavorable aspects of student life. However, some students are taking an unconventional approach to mentally unpacking their restless days through online gratitude journals. Walters, public relations and sustainability studies senior, posts a collage of

(Journaling) definitely forces me to reflect on each day and take the time to be grateful for even the smallest things.” RACHEL WALTERS

Public relations and sustainability studies senior pictures from her day with a caption detailing positive moments and experiences. From taking a quick nap midday to eating bagel bites, Walters highlights the things that brought her joy that day. “(Journaling) definitely forces me to reflect on each day and take the time to be grateful for even the smallest things,” Walters said. “It really gave me the chance to realize things in my life that I love.” For some students, a gratitude Instagram helped them shift away from persistent feelings of negativity during the school year. When she found she was

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spending too much time on her “finsta,” neuroscience senior Neha Muraly decided to redirect that energy to updating her gratitude Instagram instead. Contrary to gratitude Instagrams, “finstas” are an outlet for students to post more private things they wouldn’t normally post on their public accounts. “I realized my finsta was toxic to me. It was only perpetuating all the negative feelings I was having because I was almost seeking out those negative feelings so I would have something to post,” Muraly said. “I started a gratitude Instagram in December 2018 to instead make me focus on the positive things around me.” Aside from just causing a

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shift in mentality, daily practice of gratitude can have a variety of other positive effects on a student’s mental health. Caryn Carlson, a UT psychology professor specializing in well-being, said writing about gratitude can have many benefits. “Accumulating research finds that gratitude is one of the strongest (correlations to) well-being,” Carlson said. “Feeling and expressing gratitude can increase self-esteem, optimism and happiness, enhance empathy, reduce anxiety and even improve physical health and sleep.” The expression of gratitude can also help uncover the silver lining in a difficult J O U R N A L PAGE 5