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STUDENT GOVERNMENT

UT senior vice president calls for ban on homeless camping By Lauren Girgis @laurengirgis

UT senior vice president Darrell Bazzell asked Mayor Steve Adler and the Austin City Council to prohibit homeless individuals from camping along the perimeter of the University and West Campus in a letter Wednesday. “As you continue to review possible changes to city ordinances, I hope the Council will work to improve public safety by prohibiting camping by members of the public in areas along the entire perimeter of campus, as well as in the area west of campus where many students live, work and gather,” Bazzell said. “These are high pedestrian areas that are not the safest or most humane places for homeless people to gather and where public safety risks or hazards could exist for our students.” The Austin City Council approved an ordinance that went into effect in July that lifted bans on where homeless individuals are allowed to camp in Austin. But they’ve since been deliberating making changes to the ordinance, deciding last week to postpone their vote until the week of Oct. 10. “We are firmly committed to protecting the safety of our students, employees, visitors and all Austinites both through the short-term policies discussed above and long-term strategies that we must develop together,” Bazzell said. In his letter, CFO Bazzell cited two incidents within the last week as indicators for changes to the camping ordinance. On B A N PAGE 2

Raveena Aurora talks album production and creative experiences.

Longhorns take down Cyclones in first Big 12 matchup of the season.

Gun Free UT signs in limbo SB 18 puts campus sign policy under review, task force provides reccomendations. By Lauren Grobe @grobe_lauren

he University’s policy on outward facing signs has been under review since last September, when the University mandated that all Gun Free UT signs be taken down. The passage of Senate Bill 18 this month might prevent future restrictions on faculty free speech. The University’s previous policy banned hanging outward facing signs in office windows, according to chapter 13 of the Handbook of Operating Procedures. This policy was suspended last year and is currently under review by a faculty task force, University spokesman J.B. Bird said. SB 18 now makes all outdoor common spaces on college campuses available for free speech activities for anyone. The task force, chaired by law professor Jordan Steiker, submitted their report reviewing the sign policy to UT President Gregory Fenves over the summer for consideration, Steiker said. According to the report, the task force recommended changing the policy to allow outward

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facing signs in office windows. History professor Joan Neuberger has a “Gun Free UT” sign displayed in her window. She said she did not remove her sign when the administration ordered so last September, but said “word trickled down” that the University would not enforce the sign policy. “I wasn’t planning to take my sign down until someone officially came and made me,” Neuberger said. Gun Free UT, a protest that occurred after Senate Bill 11 was signed in June 2015, was a response to a law that allows licensed individuals to

carry concealed firearms on campus. Neuberger said faculty cannot ban firearms from their classrooms. “I think having loaded guns in classroom is first of all, dangerous, and second of all, distracting from the practice of teaching,” Neuberger said. “(Students should) be able to talk without any restrictions” Neuberger said restricting the signs would be a violation of the faculty’s rights, as they are expressing their views legally through the signs. “We have freedom of speech, just like everyone else on campus,” Neuberger said. In the task force’s report,

SB 18 is mentioned as a concern, because the public could interpret it as allowing signs anywhere on campus. “Some members of the public might argue … the public would enjoy a right to place signs on the exterior building walls,” the report said. However, government department chair Alan Sager said he thinks the public is unlikely to come to this conclusion. “I don’t think they should be able to plaster the walls of my building,” Sager said. “But we’re talking about people’s right to speak, including members of the community.”

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Red River Street approved to be vacated for new arena By Graysen Golter @graysen_golter

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my Johnson, assistant vice president for campus safety. Completed recommendations on main campus include increased lighting and reduced vegetation along walkways, increased security cameras and emergency call boxes and new building access security systems, Johnson said. He said the University is working toward

Neuberger said all sides of an argument should be allowed to be expressed on campus even if that includes pro-campus carry signs. “That’s a visual dialogue, that’s what universities are about,” Neuberger said. The Gun Free UT signs bring awareness to SB 11 and make students aware of how the law affects them, Neuberger said. “It’s our responsibility to make sure that everyone who comes to school here knows what the law is and knows what the possibilities are for their participation in class,” Neuberger said.

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University Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan safety items still in progress A student campus climate survey and improved safety measures at the J.J. Pickle Research Campus are some of the things students should see in the coming semesters as a result of the University’s Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan. The plan, created in 2017, has several safety items marked as “in progress,” meaning work needs to be done to reach each item’s goal. These items concern the 2016 recommendations made by the Texas Department of Public Safety after the death of dance freshman Haruka Weiser, comprehensive campus climate surveys and the Police Oversight Committee, according to the action plan. In 2016, Texas DPS made recommendations after performing a safety audit of the University after Weiser’s homicide. While the action plan states the recommendations had a targeted completion date of 2018, the University plans to use the DPS funding until Aug. 2020, said Jim-

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The University has attempted to reinforce its signage policy and convince professors who have signs facing outward toward campus in their office windows to comply. The policy has been under review since last September and the new Senate Bill 18 might prevent such future restrictions on free speech.

implementing these same security measures at the Pickle campus, establishing call boxes and stationary maps at every campus parking garage and encouraging students to use well-traveled pathways by building physical barriers to unsafe shortcuts. “One of the challenges when we looked at the way students travel on campus is

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there’s primary, secondary and tertiary pathways,” Johnson said. “We (want) students to exclude those dirt means of travel, (even) if it meant we put up a wall, or we changed the configuration with landscaping so that you can’t take that shortcut anymore.” A student campus climate P L A N PAGE 2

The Austin City Council approved an ordinance last Thursday to vacate a portion of Red River Street for its realignment and the construction of a new University arena. The University and the city of Austin agreed in February to narrow Red River Street from four lanes to two lanes and adjust it according to its historic alignment, according to the interlocal cooperation agreement. Council member Kathy Tovo said the new arena will replace the Frank Erwin Center and host sporting events, graduations and other large-scale community events. Darren Hale, the interim associate vice president of Facilities Services, said construction will most likely begin this December or January and end in 2022. He said Robert Dedman Drive will be improved and used as a connection between Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard and east Dean Keeton to replace the vacated part of Red River Street. “As a partner, the city of Austin is working … to make sure that we’re facilitating that process and making sure (the University has) the ability to construct and implement

their vision,” Tovo said. “I see it as net benefit for our community because … UT will have the ability to hold those large sporting events, as well as be a place that some of those large events that are appealing to … the community can take place as well.” Council member Natasha Harper-Madison said she is excited for the project’s potential benefits. She said she is concerned about the difficulty traffic commuters will have navigating the area, particularly bicycle and scooters riders, when they are rerouted during the construction period to streets like San Jacinto Boulevard. In response to these concerns, University representative Richard Suttle said the University will take all possible action to accommodate commuters, including adding bike lanes on both sides of the new Red River Street. “The University of Texas commits to working with the city on a safe bicycle path during construction,” Suttle said. Eric Wang, a shop coordinator at the Orange Bike Project, said bicyclists such as himself have great difficulty navigating streets such as San Jacinto Boulevard. He said narrower roads will increase the risks bicyclists face while comA R E N A PAGE 2

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Department chair discusses versatility of major By Ellis Prater-Burgess @ellispraterb

When choosing a major, it is important to think about your goals as well as what makes you happy, said Karma Chávez, Department of Mexican American and Latina/o Studies chair. A group of around 15 students from different majors gathered to meet Chávez and discuss the Mexican American and Latina/o studies major in the Gordon-White Building on Wednesday afternoon. During the Q&A session, Chávez discussed the practicality of studying this major and asked students about their experiences in the department. “We want to do the things we can do to take care of you, intellectually and spiritually,” Chávez said. “I want to do (events like this one), so you have a direct line of communication.” Chávez said although some people have reservations about the utility of a major in the professional world, it prepares students for life after college. She said a significant number of graduates pursue a master’s degree or go to law school. A degree in this major can make an application for a graduate program stand out, Chávez said. “It’s all about what is going to help you reach your goals,” Chávez said. “For the most part, (employers) are going to want to know that you have a baseline of skills, but for a lot of jobs, they want you to have a skill set that includes good writing, communicating and public speaking skills. Those are skills that you’re going to learn in all of the majors

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in COLA.” Luke Hernandez, a government and Mexican American and Latina/o studies senior, said he added the major when he took a Mexican American studies class and felt empowered by the content. When he worked at the Texas Capitol, Hernandez said he saw the real world applications of the major.

“I (learned) how to creatively apply how people are facing social problems (and) how to deal in policy,” Hernandez said. “It’s ironic, because I feel like Mexican American studies helped me more than government, in a way.” Physics junior Sophia Macias said she is currently taking a Mexican American and Latina/o studies class and is

thinking about minoring in the area, because her family originates from Mexico. “I think it’s just important to know your history and understand different narratives of people who might be like you,” Macias said. “It’s not necessarily like you have to do anything with (the minor), it’s just a factor in staying woke.”

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Alum creates Footprint app to track carbon emissions By Brynne Herzfeld @brynneherzfeld

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UT alumnus Dakota Stormer said he wants to help people understand how their actions impact the planet. To do that, he developed Footprint, an app that allows users to log their daily activities and recognize their yearly carbon footprint. A test version of the Footprint app is currently available online and in the Google Play Store, according to the official website. The full version of the app will be released on the App Store in late 2019 or early 2020, said Mizuki Kurata, Footprint’s director of sustainability. “We quantify the amount of carbon that is associated with each activity that you do,” Stormer said. “You can see what your impact is that day and how that’s improved from your average overall.” The app’s target audience is those who are interested in sustainability and fighting climate change, said Jerry Yang, Footprint chief operating officer. Stormer said 100 users have access to the app’s test version, but over 100,000 people either individually or through a business are signed up to download the app when it is fully released. “One of the biggest issues with climate change is it’s super hard to see how you make a difference,” finance

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junior Yang said. “The point that we’re trying to stress is that every individual difference matters.” Yang said Footprint also has a community function where users can see how they rank against others and challenges for users to complete. Government freshman Kurata said she hopes Footprint can be a tool not only for individuals curious about their impact, but also for larger organizations. “We hope many companies or organizations will start to use this app, so they are always aware of the impact they are possibly making at all times,” Kurata said. To create the mobile app, Stormer said he enlisted a team of students at the Colorado School of Mines. While there are similar apps on the market, Yang said he thinks these competitor apps do not create an incentive for users to keep participating. “We’re not the first ones, but we think we have a lot of differentiating factors,” Yang said. Yang said the team will be pitching the app to venture capitalist organizations to secure more funding on Thursday. “We want to help people understand and learn about (their) impact,” Stormer said. “There’s so many things we can do day to day (that) we don’t realize have an impact on the planet.”

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Monday, it was reported that a homeless man had been charged with making terroristic threats against the University. That same day, the Austin Police Department responded to an aggravated assault at the intersection of 23rd and San Antonio streets, where a suspect with a “machete-like knife” injured a man. “While the cause of any incident may be difficult to know immediately, these episodes remind us of the need for greater safety in the areas around campus,” Bazzell said. SafeHorns president Joell McNew said the organization was glad to see Bazzell’s letter, but SafeHorns would like to see more safety improvements made than just restricting homeless camping in West Campus and around the University. The organization recommended new safety infrastructure in West Campus such as call boxes with high resolution cameras and improved lighting, McNew said. “We were happily

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surprised by his leadership for taking the initiative to write the letter,” McNew said. “It was something that we had been wanting to hear from other UT administration (officials) outside of Chief Carter, so we are very happy to see that response from (Bazzell).” She said SafeHorns has been advocating for increased monitoring of criminal behavior, including implement-

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ing safety policies similar to those used at the University of Southern California. USC instituted a 2.5 mile radius, 24/7 patrol zone in what is essentially their West Campus area, McNew said. She said students have become desensitized to criminal activity around campus. “(They think) that it’s expected that this is how we live in West Campus,” McNew said. “That is unacceptable.”

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muting, such as when they are wedged between large vehicles and curbs. “The more you put motor vehicles and bikes in close proximity, operating next to each other, the more prone you are to see accidents,” public health junior Wang said. “It’s kind of just an accident waiting to happen.” Council member Alison

Alter said she would have preferred to postpone the item to allow additional time to review the agreement. She said she was unsure of what value the city would receive in return for the agreement. “I’m not convinced that our negotiations have led to sufficient benefits to the community,” Alter said. “As a community, we simply cannot give up our leverage time and time again in negotiations.”

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survey will be developed in the next year or two to better understand how students feel about campus programs and policies, said Helen Wormington, executive director in the Division of Diversity and Community Engagement and the action plan chair.

The division did a gap analysis to determine which University community voices were missing in understanding campus climate, Wormington said. She said while faculty and staff are accounted for through national surveys, students are not. “For all faculty, staff and students, we want to assess what they are going through at the time of when they take

the survey,” Wormington said. “Nationally, state, locally, things are going to change the climate of the campus. If there’s something that happened three years ago and it’s still happening, like people are still disgruntled about it, … our campus needs to address it.” The Police Oversight Committee is a group of nine faculty, staff and students serving as communication between

the UT Police Department and the UT community, according to its website. The action plan states the committee needs to be reviewed with a focus on campus demographics and climate. “Since the formation of the committee about 15 years ago and the implementation of the (action plan), UTPD has increased the number of officers and taken steps to increase

both community outreach and the number of officers from diverse backgrounds,” said Leslie Blair, executive director of communications in the Division of Diversity and Community Engagement. Blair said the committee meets at its discretion, usually when there is a controversy concerning UTPD. Blair said she does not know if the committee has met in the past few years.

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Department of Design receives endowment from alum By Claudia Ng @ClaudiCaroline

Design students interested in bringing their ideas to the real world will be able to do so thanks to a $1 million endowment to launch a new product design program. Mike Reese, a UT mechanical engineering alumnus, donated the endowment over the summer to the design program within the College of Fine Arts, said Nada Dorman, assistant director of communications for the School of Design and Creative Technologies. She said the endowment will fund professional development and student scholarships, with an emphasis placed on the launch of a product design program. “It’s our first endowment, so it’s a big deal for us,” Dorman said. “It’ll expand what the department of design offers students, so we’ll be able to do more than just graphic design.” Product design classes offered by the design school will open seats to engineering students, said Scott Evans, a director in the Cockrell School of Engineer-

This allows the education of engineers to be more closely aligned with the practice.”

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ing. Currently, the University offers design classes in which both design and engineering students can enroll, but the new product design program will increase the interaction between the two disciplines, Evans said. Evans said these classes will offer a richer, more real-world experience for students in both majors because they can collaborate with people from different areas of expertise. “This allows the education of engineers to be more closely aligned with the practice,” Evans said. “From the fine arts perspective, you have people who are centered in design, but now they’re dealing with people who understand how to actually implement prototyping.” The endowment supports the Department of Design’s mission to expand and will cater specifically to students looking for a product design curriculum said Kate Canales, chair of the Department of Design, in an email. There is a natural crossover between design and engineering, and students will collaborate between disciplines, Canales said. Design sophomore Austin McGinnis said he thinks the design program does not collaborate with other departments and lacks applicability to human needs, but is instead more aesthetic-based. He said he turned to the physics department last year to make his design products more practical. McGinnis said he considered adding a psychology or engineering major to supplement his design classes, because he said it would teach him the research and technology elements the design program currently lacks. “That would be my dream — to have a team of designers and engineers who understand each other’s disciplines and can work fluidly together,” McGinnis said.

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Office of Sustainability gives tips through artsy pamphlets By Hannah Williford @HannahWillifor2

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Disappearence of river eels, reflects envrionmental damage By Nataleah Small @nataleahjoy

There are eels in every major river basin in Texas, but most people do not know about them, said Dean Hendrickson, curator of ichthyology at the Biodiversity Center. Researchers in the center’s ichthyology collection are studying the abundance and migration patterns of American eels throughout the state to learn how the species can be conserved. “They’re part of the natural system, the natural heritage of Texas, and they’re indicators of changes in those systems,” Hendrickson said. Eels have been overfished in Japan, Europe and parts of North America, Hendrickson said. He said the unagi business, which is Japanese for eel, is based on harvesting eel larvae from the Sargasso Sea and raising them in culture in China to use in sushi. “I think the way the global fishery has been going, they clearly will be listed as endangered sooner or later,” Hendrickson said.

The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department funds and works with the collection, Hendrickson said. He said nearly three years ago, the collection received funding from the program to study eels in Texas.

Basically, this proposal was, ‘Let’s go out and try to catch some eels however we can catch them.’” DEAN HENDRICKSON

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“Basically, this proposal was, ‘Let’s go out and try to catch some eels however we can catch them,’” Hendrickson said. Eels are difficult to research because they are both nocturnal and covered in a layer of slime that makes them hard to catch, said Melissa Casarez, assistant ichthyology collection manager.

“I remember learning about eels as one of the holy grails of mysteries of fish biology,” ichthyology collection manager Adam Cohen said. Although eels have been found in Lady Bird Lake and Barton Springs, evidence suggests eels were more abundant in Texas rivers in the past but have been impacted by dams and agriculture, Hendrickson said. He said eels are unique because they can live for a long time and have a long migration route to Texas from the Sargasso Sea, located within the Atlantic ocean, where there are spawned. Researchers have tracked eel larvae within the current that moves along the eastern seaboard and across the ocean to Europe, Hendrickson said. Researchers presume they travel along currents, but because few eel larvae have been found in the Gulf of Mexico, no one knows exactly how eels get to Texas, Cohen said. “There’s potentially something very different … going on with the gulf occurrences than anywhere along the Atlantic seaboard,” Casarez said.

Art prints of grackles and turtles on poster paper serve not only as decor for dorm rooms, but encourage environmentally friendly practices in a new initiative led by the Office of Sustainability. The initiative is meant to stand apart from the heaps of pamphlets students receive from other organizations by being more visually appealing, said Kristin Phillips, Office of Sustainability communications coordinator. The back of the pamphlet encourages reducing waste and power consumption. “(Flyers are) material that’s not kept,” Phillips said. “We’ve all grabbed a bunch of paper, and it’s just in our backpack and we just throw it away. … The idea is to make something that people will keep, so the information is always

on hand.” So far, Phillips said the responses to the prints have been positive, although the office has not tabled at any student events this fall. The prints are currently available inside the Office of Sustainability, and Phillips said some prints have been provided at staff tabling events. “A number of people said, ‘Oh, I saw those from across the room, and I came over to see what they were.… They all grabbed them and kept them,” Phillips said. Public health sophomore Lal Lawmi said she would be more likely to keep something that is an art piece, because she is overwhelmed by the amount of information student organizations provide on Speedway. “(My friends and I) go to school, and we see a bunch of words … because all the information people pass out is just words,” Lawmi said. “But we like art, (and) this is

a cute decoration.” The art comes as a contribution from Khristián Méndez Aguirre, theater graduate student and a summertime employee of the Office of Sustainability. Aguirre said he designed the prints at an environmental fair last year. Aguirre said he wanted to create something long lasting and believes people will keep beautiful things. “We really need to think about how can we get a message out there that is urgent and important but that is also really beautiful to appeal to people’s emotions as well,” Aguirre said. The prints will serve as a reminder of what is at stake, Aguirre said. “The idea is to encourage all of campus tweak something in their daily life, in their office, in their eating habits, in their transportation methods … to make UT and the city of Austin more sustainable,” Phillips said.

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When students have an emergency, let’s allow Longhorn EMS to help By Sam Thielman Columnist

Everyone has something that they’re implacably opposed to — President Donald Trump and progressive taxation, Bernie Sanders and student debt, the Vegas Golden Knights and beating the San Jose Sharks — you get the idea. Personally, I strongly oppose dying. I firmly believe that everyone who is in danger of dying should be given the best possible opportunity to not do so, which is why I believe that Longhorn EMS should be allowed to operate on campus. Longhorn EMS is an on-campus organization under Student Government, made up of certified, trained EMT workers. They work events like ACL and the Longhorn Run, but they are currently barred from regularly operating regularly on campus. “There are a few issues that the University is concerned about,” media relations director J.B. Bird said. “Partly, the University has full confidence in the Austin/Travis County EMS, … and we don’t think that what’s been proposed by Longhorn EMS will better serve the University community than those systems while also ensuring the safety of student first responders.” The thing is, Longhorn EMS can improve on the existing system. “While Austin/Travis County EMS and Austin Fire Department really do a fantastic job providing emergency services to the city, they cannot possibly get to emergency calls as fast as an on-campus first responder program can,” said Dr. Mark Escott, medical

director of Austin/Travis County EMS. “On average, on the EMS side we’re talking about an 8-9 minute response, while other campus-based emergency medical response programs have been able to achieve response times of 2-3 minutes.” And those few minutes can literally be the difference between life and death. Survival rates after sudden cardiac arrest typically decrease by about 10% for every minute after the event without defibrillation and CPR.

There are frequent emergency calls on campus, and every single one ... likely could have received treatment more quickly.” Granted, EMS is a dangerous profession. These are the people who show up to stabbings and shootings, so sending UT students into these situations could put them in danger. However, other students are put in danger by not receiving EMS treatment as quickly as possible. The difference is, dangerous situations for EMS workers are fairly rare on a college campus, and EMS workers are trained to keep both themselves and their patients safe. On the other hand, there are frequent emergency calls on

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campus, and every single one of those calls likely could have received treatment more quickly than it did. Campus-based EMS programs are also already set up at several major universities across Texas — UT-Dallas, Rice and A&M, to name a few. According to Escott, these organizations have been able to save people who otherwise might not have lasted until county EMS arrived. “Polling other campus EMS programs, we haven’t been able to find any injury associated with campus-based response,” Escott said. It’s important to also remember that Longhorn EMS wouldn’t be taking the place of municipal EMS — just supplementing it. Longhorn EMS could quickly respond to calls on campus and begin treatment while waiting for the municipal ambulance to arrive, then transfer care of the patient over to the county EMS for continued treatment. Ultimately, these students are professional EMS workers. They’ve already assumed the responsibility of this position. Besides, preventing Longhorn EMS from working on campus isn’t shielding these students from dangerous situations — any situation they might address on campus is something they could potentially encounter in their normal line of work. Longhorn EMS wants to operate on campus — they have been petitioning the University to let them operate for several years already. EMS workers save lives, and I want to see lives saved. And who knows, maybe they could stop the Sharks from killing the Golden Knights again. Thielman is a history and rhetoric and writing sophomore from Fort Worth.

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Textualizing the American incarceration experience is a difficult task. How is one to put into language the absurd cruelty of its vision, the oppressiveness of its architecture, the inhumanity of its owners, the vacuity of its violence? We all know our mass incarceration trivia: Texas currently imprisons over 250,000 people, the United States is the undisputed international champion of depositing people behind bars, currently almost 2.3 million, and so on. Quantitative trivia can obscure an understanding of mass incarceration for what it really is: the deliberate, conscious outcome of policies designed by the ruling class to conquer minorities, particularly Latinx, immigrant and black communities. A forceful reassertion of elite power against the destabilizing social movements of the 60s. A byproduct of this move toward incarceration is that millions have been forcibly deprived of their right to an education, a gap that remains largely unaddressed by public universities. In “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness,” Michelle Alexander claims that mass incarceration embodies the evolved form of 20th century Jim Crow laws. America’s racial caste system originating in slavery never ended; it merely assumed a new face. “Once you’re labeled a felon, the old forms of discrimination — employment discrimination, housing discrimination, denial of the right to vote, educational opportunities, food stamps and other public benefits, exclusion from jury service — are suddenly legal,” Alexander wrote. The violence of being branded as a felon is often compounded by the startling lack of educational resources within prisons. Underresourced libraries, censored reading lists, lack of vocational and college courses and similar methods of depriving access to knowledge persist, defuncting prison education programs. Yet, all prisoners have is time. Time combined with real opportunities for learning generates unbounded human potential. Hidden deep within the inmate population are incredible scholars, poets, community leaders, welders and gardeners waiting to emerge if only given the opportunity to learn.

Time combined with real opportunities for learning generates unbounded human potential.”

In 2017, some UT-Austin faculty founded the Texas Prison Education Initiative. The program represents the first organized, interdepartmental effort to offer prisoners a college experience that exceeds a one-off course. The initiative sends volunteer UT-Austin professors to teach prisoners college-level courses, such as introductory sociology and rhetoric classes. Taught through UT-Extension, prisoners accrue transferable college course credit they can utilize upon release. Its vision is to provide free, high-quality university education for the incarcerated. “We try to make the classroom feel like a classroom — doing things like calling students ‘students,’ not ‘inmates,’” said Sarah Brayne, UT sociology assistant professor and director of Texas Prison Education Initiative. “They’ve been out of school for a long time, and many have had alienating educational experiences, so really fostering their identity as a student and being very affirming about that stuff is really important.” Understandably, the program is a huge time commitment — professors physically drive to the prisons, which could be an hour-long drive, and parcel out their own time preparing the class, lecturing, grading and so on for an entire semester. It’s selfless, virtuous work. The administrative functions of running the course, such as registration or processing grades, are done through UT-Extension, a program that charges the intiative $125 per student. With hundreds of students, administrative costs accumulate — not even including books, dictionaries and journals. Because affordability precedes accessibility, the initiative fundraises from the general public to free the prisoners from having to pay out of pocket. Texas Prison Education Initiative is doing the important and necessary work of trying to incrementally improve a fundamentally heartless institution. They are no substitute for a mass social movement capable of reforming incarceration as we know it, but nonetheless, they represent an important, concerted effort to minimize damage. UT-Austin is the flagship school of a state that imprisons more people than any other. UT should increase education access for prisoners by using its endowment money to financially bankroll the program. This means paying all of its UT-Extension and course-related fees, subsidizing its expansion by paying professors to go teach classes and giving professors stipends for buying classroom materials such as books and notebooks. Access to higher learning is a basic human right, meaning public universities like UT-Austin and other institutions that ostensibly celebrate the common ideal must unflinchingly defend the rights of those most dispossessed. Lee is a sociology senior from Houston.

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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

FOOTBALL

New seating policy leads to mixed results for students

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Students gather at the gates for the LSU game. Students would stampede to get into the stadium, bypassing security and ID scanners, prompting a new seating policy created by UT administration Sept. 7 2019. By Donnavan Smoot @Dsmoot3d

Despite changing its student seating process after the debacle that was LSU week, students still had doubts and quarrels about the new system that was put into place. While a game creating that level of hype and attention isn’t in the foreseeable future, vice president and athletic director Chris Del Conte felt the need to update the process for students entering Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium ahead of the Oklahoma State game to address the safety concerns that arose at the LSU matchup. According to the new system, students were only allowed to enter through Gate 31 in the southeast entrance of stadium. Once entered, students would be issued

color-coded wristbands that would correspond to the section they would be allowed to sit in. Because of the anticipated line, students were allowed to enter at 3:30 p.m., an hour before gates open to the general public. “I think Chris Del Conte is onto something with the wristband policy,” government senior Grayson Thompson said. “I just think they need to open a few more gates to students and have some more people scanning IDs and handing out wristbands.” Just like the week prior, the line of students to enter the stadium wrapped around the stadium courners. Due to only one gate being open, many students — despite showing up hours before kick off— weren’t able to get in until after kick off.

“It’s a long line, but we had no idea how long it was,” journalism junior Nicole Barefoot said. “We ended getting in about midway through the first quarter, 30 minutes after the game started.” Lines for the game stretched around the Recreational Sports Center, which is roughly 0.2 miles away from the stadium. The line, and subsequent wait, resulted as a consequence of the bombardment of students into stadium. During the game, Del Conte was active on Twitter defending the new system. He acknowledged the amount of time it took to get inside, but also commended the improvement to safety. In his weekly “Forty Acres Insider,” Del Conte addressed the new procedure. “We are pleased with the progress we’ve made but realize there still are some challenges to address, and we will

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continue to find ways to make it as effective and efficient as possible,” Del Conte said. “Any new initiative has growing pains, and that’s what we are going through now.” UT hasn’t released any plans to change the process again, but Del Conte said in a tweet that Texas plans to “tweak the system” moving forward. The new policy will be on full display as the season progresses. It should become clear in future games whether or not the policy does need tweaking, as attendance at games will continue to result in lines as long as one gate is open. For now, this new policy will have to suffice. “If LSU was an F, this is a C, C-plus,” Barefoot said. “I think the procedure for inside the stadium is good, but I think they need to open more gates and allow students to enter at different places.”

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Freshman Roschon Johnson evades an LSU defender in pivotal Week Two matchup. Johnson would pass up the opportunity to redshirt to continue to play for the team this season Sept. 7 2019.

Bye week comes at an optimal time for the Longhorns By Donnavan Smoot @Dsmoot3d

Texas’ bye week couldn’t have come at a better time. Key positions on both the offensive and defensive sides of the ball have been decimated, as injuries have taken their toll after a rough first four games of the season. Two of the deepest positions for the Longhorns, wide receiver and safety, are both missing starters — neither of which are easy to replace. Sophomore safety Caden Sterns is going to be out for at least four weeks with a knee injury. Senior wide receiver Collin Johnson missed his second straight game due to a hamstring injury. The Longhorns have been able to plug in their younger players and not miss a beat. “You never want to be without Collin Johnson, a potential first or second round pick,” head coach Tom Herman said. “We miss his leadership as much as we do his play, but the guys have stepped in nicely.”

The first opportunity for Johnson and his hamstring to return to the field will be the West Virginia game next Saturday. Texas wants to be careful with one of their top receivers, maintaining a big picture mentality with every decision. “With (Johnson), your pie in the sky would be the West Virginia game,” Herman said. “We want to make sure that when we put him out there that he’s good to go for the rest of the season.” Even though both sides are hurting, Texas isn’t focused on the injuries. “I feel like that can be in the back of our minds, but at the same time, we can’t really worry about that,” junior defensive lineman Ta’Quon Graham said. “If you’re worried about the issues that, you can’t really get better.” Although the injuries aren’t on the forefront of the players’ minds, Texas is still cognizant of the burden it places on them. Herman said the preparation for West Virginia will be more front-loaded than usual so the Longhorns can be “at their freshest.”

The bye week also gave freshman quarterback-turned-running back Roschon Johnson a chance to make his decision on redshirting. According to Herman, the only question Johnson had about redshirting was about whether he would still be able to help the team this season. Herman assured him he would be able to contribute to the team. “I said, ‘Hey kid, this is your decision. This is your career,’” Herman said. “So we’re planning on playing him for the rest of the season.” Johnson’s decision puts Texas in another unique situation with their running backs. Johnson has impressed in limited touches behind sophomore running back Keaontay Ingram. Johnson has averaged a respectable 4.3 yards per carry in his month at the position. With running backs junior Daniel Young, senior Kirk Johnson and freshman Jordan Whittington making strides to getting back on the field, the decision on where to place him on the depth chart gets cloudier by the day.

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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

VOLLEYBALL

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/ the daily texan staff

Freshman Skylar Fields reaches high into the air to spike the ball at the net. Fields would play a large role in the home victory against the Cyclones of Iowa State Sept. 25 2019

Longhorns open Big 12 play with win

Texas takes advantage of playing in home gym, overcoming injury in tough win against the Cyclones . By Clark Dalton @Clarkdalton1T

ast year when the Iowa State Cyclones came to Austin, they were swept out of town by the Texas Volleyball team. This year, that same team would not return to Ames, Iowa without putting

up a fight. Both teams came into the game coming off of strong starts to the season. Iowa State had won seven straight matches, the most recent of which over the in-state rival Iowa Hawkeyes. Texas most recently swept longtime rival Texas A&M to earn its sixth win of the campaign. Neither team wanted to lose its first Big 12 game of the season. “They really picked it up when things weren’t going well,” Texas head coach Jerritt Elliott said. “It was a gritty win from a statistical standpoint.”

Texas charged out of the gate, forcing Iowa State into several errors. The Cyclones’ mishaps would turn into an 11-3 lead behind a pair of kills from freshman middle blocker Molly Phillips and senior outside hitter Micaya White. The Longhorns decided the best way to keep the competitive juices flowing was by subbing in sophomore Brionne Butler. The sophomore middle blocker wasted no time during her outing, registering a kill right away after missing the first three weeks with a lower extremity injury. “Right now, it’s just a matter of getting her comfortable,” Elliott said “I wasn’t expecting that in game one, but we were up early an I would like to use (Butler) more in late game situations.” Senior outside hitter Josie Herbst carried the Cyclones with five kills during the set, which helped cut the deficit to 23-18 near the end of the first set. However, the Longhorns would close the set out to win 25-18. Iowa State quickly regained their composure in the second set. They challenged Texas from the onset, as Herbst and freshman outside hitter Annie Hatch combined for three kills to an early 4-3 lead. Iowa State continued to roll during the set, taking a five point lead at 15-10 and never looking back. The spike in aggressive offense from the Cyclones made the difference, as they would win the set 25-18.

The Cyclones rode their momentum to a 4-0 lead in the following set. Texas was ready to respond as freshman Skylar Fields stepped up grabbing two kills to help the team tie the match at 6-6. The match would continue to go back and forth between the two teams, as the set remained tied at 15 points a piece. After a coach’s challenge went the Longhorns way, they never looked back, taking the third set 25-19. Fields would clinch the set for Texas with a kill. “I knew we needed some energy, and Jhenna just kept giving me the ball,” Fields said. The fourth and final set started much like the previous two, with the Cyclones jumping out to an early lead at 8-4. Around that time, sophomore Logan Eggleston had to leave the game due to injury. The team would rally around their fallen teammate. For the second time in the match, the set was tied at 15 points a piece. Both teams were doing their best to earn an important conference win. The tide began to turn after that point, with the Longhorn offense proving too much for the Cyclone defense. Texas won the set 25-22, finishing the match on a kill by White. The Longhorns collected their seventh win of the season and picked up a very important first win in Big 12 play. The team will next play Texas Tech at home on Saturday.

SOCCER

Texas looks to start conference play with a win By Aneesh Namburi @AneeshNamburi

The nonconference schedule for Texas soccer has been a roller-coaster ride riddled with adversity. With the team suffering several injuries throughout the season to key contributors, including both senior forward Cyera Hintzen and redshirt junior forward Cydney Billups, things have been less than easy. However, according to head coach Angela Kelly, that adversity could pay off in conference play as the Longhorns travel to Lawrence, Kan. for their first match against a Big 12 opponent. “I think adversity is fantastic. I think in this generation, they don’t see enough adversity. The lesson of resiliency and perseverance isn’t being taught to them a lot, and the only way to persevere is when there are hard times,” Kelly said. “For me, this is all a journey, and they have to continue to learn these things.” Overcoming adversity within the context of sports is not just about the wins and losses. Hardship in college athletics allows athletes to develop skills that they can carry with them for the rest of their lives. “Life is not easy as we all know, and when they get into the real world, I want them to have a backbone,” Kelly said. “I want them to pull from their athletic career and understand that there is never a time to give up.” The match against Kansas will be an opportune time to begin putting those lessons into practice. The Longhorns will hope to reset their season with Big 12 play after going 5-4 in nine nonconference matches, a disappointing mark for a talented team. Sophomore midfielder Julia

dakota kern

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Sophomore Julia Grosso aggressively goes after the ball against Grambling State. Grosso has contributed to the team’s success, and has taken a leadership role with the team this season Sept. 22 2019. Grosso talked about the importance of having a fresh perspective heading into Big 12 matches after Sunday’s win. “For us, I think we faced adversity early on in the preseason, coming off some tough losses,” Grosso said. “For our group, that’s probably the biggest thing, just because it’s easy to get in your own head and get down. We realize that conference is coming up, and we have a clean slate and can move

forward from this.” Back in early August, the Longhorns were picked to finish third in the Big 12 preseason conference poll. Texas was ranked No. 19 in the country at the time, and while things did not go according to plan, the team has the pieces to remain a threat to other Big 12 teams. The Jayhawks will be arguably the toughest matchup the Longhorns have faced so far this season. Despite being picked to finish sixth

in the Big 12, Kansas has gotten off to a hot start, going 8-2 in nonconference play, vaulting to a top-10 national ranking at eight. In order to pick up the victory, Texas will need to make sure to capitalize on their offensive opportunities. After the Longhorns’ loss to Providence, overcoming misses and finishing shots on goal have both become important areas of focus in practice. On the other side of the pitch is

Kansas senior forward Katie McClure, who is tied for fourth in the nation with nine goals. Additionally, Kansas’ senior defender Addisyn Merrick will be key in keeping the Longhorns from getting opportunities past Kansas’ backline, as she was named the Big 12 Defensive Player of the Week last week. The match could set the tone for the rest of the season, and the Longhorns are ready for the challenge.

COMICS

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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

LIFE&ARTS

MUSIC

Lucid weaves culture, healing

Raveena’s first album seeks to provide a dreamworld for Indian culture in mainstream, western music. By Nikhil Agarwal @agrawan26

aveena’s experience as an Indian American influenced her place in the mainstream music industry, but it’s only one facet of what she aims to deliver with her debut album Lucid. The singer weaves experiences of healing and elements of her culture into the fabric of a surrealist universe she presents on the project. Ahead of her Austin show on Sept. 26 at the Parish, the Daily Texan spoke to Raveena about her music and her experiences as an Indian American musician. The Daily Texan: Your debut album came out in early June, what’s it been like since then? Raveena: It’s a unique feeling releasing a first album. A lot of hopes and dreams tied into it, but once you release it, you are ready to move on to what’s next, new ideas. The coolest part is being on tour and people knowing the

words and singing along. DT: Going through the album, I get a cinematic sense from the work. Is there a particular world you’re trying to create? R: So when I was making the album, I actually drew out the actual world. I was drawing a lot when I was making the album, so I put down what I imagined the plants to look like, what colors would be there, what environment the world would be in. It reflected a lot of my life at the time. I want it to be this warm, ethereal space. In my mind, it’s a dreamworld that draws from surrealism and escapism. It should feel almost like another planet, a utopia where you can feel what you want to feel in an accepting place. DT: You’re one of the more prominent Indians in the music industry right now. Do you like talking about that identity or does it get annoying when people focus on that rather than just your music? R: There are so few of us that are breaking into the mainstream, so it’s just a part of it. There is such a huge community of us in the U.S., and when people can really identify what the intersection between South Asian and American art looks like in this concrete way, I think we have to do the work of telling people about our ethnicity and what it’s about. DT: Can you tell me more about that intersection? What role does Indian culture play in this world you’re creating? R: My parents are first-generation immigrants, so

it’s a natural part of whatever I do. It’s exciting to blend those worlds and create this unique identity within western music. DT: Speaking of your parents, the track “Mama” discusses your mom’s early life. How do you think your experiences differed from hers growing up in India? R: I think a lot about if she was born 25 years later, there would have been a lot more opportunity for her to break out of all these expectations of being a mother at a certain age or wearing certain things and behaving in a certain way. Indian women especially are still deeply embedded in the patriarchy of Indian culture. She had to deal with all these barriers and sacrifice herself in a lot of ways so I could have a lot more freedom, and a big part of the song was recognizing that. DT: What is the balance for you between an Indian culture that comes from heritage and American culture that comes from day-to-day experiences? R: For me, it’s about creating what feels natural, nobody should feel like they have to incorporate an identity into their work. When I first started making music, I didn’t want to be type casted as “that girl who blends Bollywood with American music.” But I feel that South Asian culture has been represented in such a narrow way in American culture. As I got better with my music, I found a nuanced way to incorporate all these things I love about my culture in a way that feels peaceful.

The past decade has been a renaissance for South Asian American creatives, with breakouts in movies, comedy, and now, music. New York artist Raveena brings a unique flavor to the R&B scene with a dreamlike sound and vibrant visuals.

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DANCE

Campus dance teams connect with culture through movement

‘Fractured’ cast, director talk story, inspiration at Fantastic Fest black carpet By Noah Levine @ZProductionz

“Fractured” is a psychological thriller directed by Brad Anderson that follows the harrowing journey of a man whose wife and daughter disappear from a hospital. The Daily Texan attended the Fantastic Fest black carpet for the film and spoke with the film’s director Brad Anderson, writer Alan B. McElroy and actress Lily Rabe about all thing “Fractured.” rachel olvera

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Cultural dance organizations on campus provide a platform for students to share some of their traditions. By Grace Ozar

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Pulling a lion head from the trunk of his car, Rich Simental lugs the equipment to the front of Gregory Gym. As the team sets up for yet another practice, each member prepares to use movement as an outlet for storytelling. Members of cultural dance teams perform not only for fun and exercise, but as a form of expression and a way to learn more about their culture. UT Alumnus Simental is one of the leaders of the Texas Dragon/Lion Dance Team, which is made up of current students, alumni and Austinites. The group performs representations of Chinese folklore in which a lion descends from the cosmos to help a village. Simental said the tradition of lion dancing is significant to the Chinese New Year and intended to bring good luck and drive away bad spirits. “(The organization) allowed me to learn more about this martial art that’s part dance, part athleticism, part cultural event,” Simental said. Like Simental, alumna Cynthia Nguyen-Nikolovska,

is an active member of the organization and helps mentor younger members. Nguyen-Nikolovska said the group is special to her not only because it has allowed her to pursue and learn more about martial arts, but also because it’s how she has made many of her closest friends.

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Other cultural dance teams around campus, such as Nach Baliye, a Bollywood team, echo a similar sentiment about the tightknit communities formed in these groups. Bollywood dance is an expressive, upbeat dance usually performed to modern songs from popular Indian movies. Isha Patel, nursing soph-

omore and member of Nach Baliye, said members join the group to dance and stay because of the family of driven, talented and diverse individuals the team cultivates. “Bollywood allows our members to stay in touch with their roots and explore the Indian culture,” Patel said. ”What makes UT Nach Baliye special is our sense of community.” While Nach Baliye and the Texas Dragon/Lion Dance Team are well-established organizations that have existed for years, some dance organizations, such as the Texas Folklorico Dance Company, are brand new. Business sophomore Alejandra Luna was part of the group that founded Texas Folklorico in spring of 2019. The group has enjoyed folklórico in high school and wanted to form a similar community at UT. “Our purpose here on campus is to teach others about Mexican culture,” Luna said. There are a multitude of other cultural dance teams on campus, from Texas Latin Dance to the Korean Dance Crew. No matter what style, Luna said each performance is about more than movement — it’s about telling a story and seeing it come to life.

The Daily Texan to Brad Anderson Fantastic Fest:

As a director, what drew you to work on this film?

Brad Anderson: I think it was the cleverness of the storytelling, the kind of twists and turns this kind of story really played out. Also the fact that it’s really centered around one guy and his journey down the rabbit hole and trying to find his wife and kid. I like the sort of simplicity of that. DT to Anderson: How did

you approach the film in

terms of genre? Anderson: I don’t think of it really as horror, per se. There are no monsters. It is really an internal kind of horror; the monster is really inside. So psychological horror might be a better way to categorize this story. To me, the horror aspect of it is a little bit of a mystery because it has horror, it has horrific elements in it, but it’s not straight out horror. DT to Anderson: After enjoying a prospective script, what is the next step as a director? Anderson: Usually I start to imagine who could be in this movie, where I can shoot it. The locations are such a fundamental part of any movie in terms of creating the tone. Then on a very practical level, it’s like, ‘How are we going to get this movie to the starting line?’ I think just trying to put together a visual in my head, like kind of a language as to what this movie would look like. Because you know, the first time you read it, you’re just focused

on the story. Then you start to think about what is it going to look like.

DT to Alan B. McElroy:

What inspired you to write this script?

McElroy: One day I was

taking my daughter to the hospital (with the wife). I thought, ‘When they walk through those doors, where are they going to go?’ And then suddenly I thought, ‘What if they (disappeared)?’ That just got my mind to start spinning and to start writing the story. I grew up watching a lot of Hitchcock movies. I love the stories where you’re not sure who you are and not sure why people are trying to deny what you think you know about yourself.

DT to Lily Rabe: Why did you want to be a part of the project?

Rabe: I was a fan of (Brad’s) work, and I felt like he was just exactly the right director for the material. He is really able to calibrate such a delicate and thrilling ride and not screw it up.

Writer Alan B. McElroy on the Fantastic Fest black carpet “Fractured.”