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Volume 121, Issue 40

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Students can donate blood inside We Are Blood trucks through Friday.

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UNIVERSITY

Q&A

John Zerwas discusses plans as new executive vice chancellor

Disability graduation expands

By Areeba Amer @areeba_amer

Former Texas state representative John Zerwas assumed his new position as executive vice chancellor for health affairs for the UT System Oct. 1. As part of his new position, he oversees and provides guidance to the system’s six health institutions. The Daily Texan sat down with Zerwas to discuss his plans for the health institutions. The Daily Texan: What are

your goals in the new position?

John Zerwas: My focus is

going to be how the Health Affairs Office and I can contribute to these already exceptional institutions and bring to a higher level … whether that be … quality and clinical performance … attracting additional research dollars, or (attracting) the best of the brightest to go into these various health institutions. DT: How does your prior expe-

rience in the Texas Legislature guide your new role?

Zerwas: I found the back-

ground of serving in the legislature excellent preparation for assuming this kind of a role. Ultimately, the University of Texas is, in essence, an agency of the state, and the legislature has responsibility for a lot of aspects of (the system). DT: What do you hope to im-

prove about the workings of the Office of Health Affairs?

Zerwas: (I am going) to look

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Services for Student Disabilities plans to grow ceremony, outreach for spring 2020. By Sabrina LeBoeuf

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ervices for Students with Disabilities is planning a spring 2020 graduation celebrationmmfor disabled students. The program’s assistant director Emily Shryock said the ceremony is still in the early stages of development, so details have yet to be decided on. Shryock said the graduation will offer an opportunity to celebrate disabled students, acknowledge that they are part of UT and that they often face unique barriers and challenges. “Disability graduation is the time to really recognize and honor

certainly (the students’) accomplishment of graduating, but then also celebrating what they brought to our campus and wishing them well,” Shryock said. There are currently other graduation ceremonies that celebrate specific identities on campus, including Black Graduation, Latinx Graduation and the Lavender Graduation for LGBTQ students. At these student-planned graduation ceremonies, students wear regalia unique to the celebration and listen to speakers. Leslie Blair, the executive director of communications for UT’s Division of Diversity and Community Engagement, said having students plan their own graduation ceremonies allows them to have a bigger role in their graduation. “It’s just a way for the groups of

students to come together to celebrate their achievements and put their own special brand on the celebration, since they do all the planning for it,” Blair said. Students who need accommodations at the University’s main commencement ceremony can make accommodation requests up to five business days in advance, according to UT’s website. Emeline Lakrout, Disability Advocacy Student Coalition president, said she and her friends already have concerns about navigating the main ceremony. “I’m going to have to talk to somebody about figuring out exactly where you’re supposed to walk and where you’re supposed to stand because I’m blind, so I can’t watch the people in front of me doing that,” Lakrout said.

Marketing senior Lakrout said she decided to be one of the students volunteering for the program’s graduation because she wants to help create an accessible ceremony. “Something like (Services for Students with Disabilities) graduation — that’s not going to be a headache for anybody,” Lakrout said. Lakrout said the planning committee is raising awareness about the ceremony after only one student attended the graduation reception last year. She said she is excited to attend a graduation with other disabled students. “I think it’s another step in the right direction of defining disability as a culture on campus, as an identity on campus (and) not just like a condition,” Lakrout said.

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Students register to vote before deadline

Mongolian Hot Pot shuts down after three years

By Sara Johnson @skjohn1999

State Sen. Kirk Watson and UT civic engagement groups gathered at the UT Tower Monday night to register students before the midnight deadline to vote in the November election. As members of TX Votes, University Democrats, Texas Rising and other groups registered students, Watson spoke to students about the power he said their votes have. “The way you’re helping others will be very important,” Watson said. “Student engagement is rising for a variety of reasons, and I think it’s because your future depends on it.” TX Votes president Anthony Zhang said the various organizations started registering students early in the day and would continue until the midnight deadline. During the event, student registrars played music from Hamilton

By Sara Johnson @skjohn1999

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Members of the University Democrats help register voters at the base of the UT Tower on Monday, Oct. 7, 2019. Travis County saw record-breaking registration numbers last summer, and the trend has continued into this year. and offered free Pizza Press pizzas to registered students. “We like to have guest speakers and dance parties to get people out and engaging

with us,” Zhang said. “We’re all people people, so we’ve got a lot of energy to keep this going. It’s not going to fizzle out at 10 p.m.”

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Little Sheep Mongolian Hot Pot closed its location on Seton Avenue and West 24th Street last Thursday after over three years of serving West Campus. Manager Johnny Vuong said a decline in revenue and the arrival of newer Asian restaurants contributed to the decision to close the restaurant, which is part of a Northern Chinese franchise based around a broth bowl menu. “We don’t have the luxury of being right along Guadalupe Street where most students pass by,” Vuong said. “It’s difficult to bring in new customers in a market that has expanded as quickly as (the Asian cuisine market) has in the area when we’re not as visible.” Vuong said he is thankful for all the patrons who

supported the restaurant up until its closing, especially the students he opened the franchise to serve. “The student community welcomed us when we opened and has been a big number of our most frequent customers,” Vuong said. “Working closely with customers was a priority of mine when I opened, and I’ve seen a lot of familiar faces come through here in the last three years.” Radio-television-film sophomore Ainsley McClain said she will miss the friendly service at Little Sheep, where she often ate with friends. “Everyone was always so nice there,” McClain said. “The staff always made sure everything was made right, and sometimes Johnny (Vuong) would come around and see how things were going.” McClain said she has eaten H O T P O T PAGE 2

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Alpha Phi Omega to host week-long blood drive By Carly Rose @carlyydrose

A UT coed service organization is partnering with We Are Blood to bring blood drives to the UT community. Alpha Phi Omega and the nonprofit, which is focused on collecting blood to serve the Central Texas community, will be offering blood drives in a truck parked on campus throughout the week. Donation stations are open at two locations: Winship Circle from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. and outside the Student Services Building from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. “In the afternoons when people are coming back home, they typically donate a bit more because during the day, people are going to classes, going back and forth. They don’t have a lot of time,“ said Katia Davis, blood drive co-coordinator and Alpha Phi Omega member. “They’ll come back whenever they have free time to be able to donate.” Davis, an international business and international relations and global studies sophomore, said donors can expect the process to take around 30 to 45 minutes. Drive co-coordinator Olivia Barboza said the actual donation takes about 10 minutes, but donors are asked a series of questions to determine if they are healthy enough to give blood and if the blood is usable.

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Sophomore Zoë Morris, left, shares a laugh with phlebotomist Maria Perez in We Are Blood’s donation truck that visted campus on Monday, Oct. 7, 2019. We Are Blood has seen a surge in donations in the wake of the shooting in El Paso on Saturday, Aug. 3, 2019. Barboza, Alpha Phi Omega member, said the organization is hopeful that a more aggressive social media campaign will boost this year’s turnout. The organization offers the blood drive every semester. “We decided to launch a larger social media campaign and get a lot more advertising out,” neuroscience sophomore

Barboza said. “Based on everybody who’s signed up so far for this week, it looks like we’ll be getting … more than we did last semester.” Barboza said Alpha Phi Omega encouraged students to make an appointment before donating to expedite the process, but the number of scheduled versus walk-in

donors is about even. Biology freshman Cynthia Lira, who donated blood once before, said she thinks drives such as these are set up to make it easy for students to donate blood. She said she didn’t know about the drive until she saw the truck on her way to class and decided to get her blood drawn.

Barboza said there was a greater focus this year to raise awareness for the importance of blood donation within Alpha Phi Omega. “This semester, Katia and I really tried to have speakers come in and talk about why giving blood is so important, especially to our local community,” Barboza said.

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at a few of the newer Asian restaurants around campus, such as Bao’d Up and Kokodak. She said the other new restaurants were good but weren’t as significant to her as Little Sheep. “My friends that I have now — we hung out a lot at Little Sheep when we were just getting to know each other,” McClain said. “That makes it a little more special to me, so it kind of sucks that it’s just gone now.” Tiara Boquiren, chairperson for University Unions’ Events + Entertainment Asian American Culture committee, said Little Sheep offered Chinese cuisine in a way some people never experienced before. When she tried Little Sheep for the first time with a friend, she said she was “surprised in a good way.” “It wasn’t something I had ever seen at a Chinese restaurant before,” nutrition and prepharmacy senior Boquiren said. “It made me excited to try something new from a culture I thought I was so familiar with before.” Boquiren said she felt the food offered a new taste to students but still had familiar elements. “Food from different parts of China tends to get lumped into one big general Chinese category, but

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there’s more variation than people realize,” Boquiren said. “Food from Eastern China will look different than Northern China, so to see something people don’t normally picture when they think of Chinese

food being represented to students in a really accessible way is so cool.” Vuong said he is looking for more ways to serve the West Campus community. “I was very fortunate to get to

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these health science centers together, so we can really have bottom-up conversations as to what can we do to elevate our presence … The opportunities that (health institutions) have for sharing practices and regular conversations may currently be limited to some degree. DT: Is there anything you believe the health institutions are particularly struggling with, and if so, how do you plan on approaching it? Zerwas: The generation of revenue that allows you to continue to attract faculty is incredibly important. (The Office of Health Affairs is) looking at ways we can help the clinical enterprise generate the kind of revenue that’s necessary to continue to attract some of these incredibly strong faculty, which ultimately leads to the attraction of students.

Zerwas: I believe that (the health institutions) are going to do everything they can to keep up with that and to continue to deliver care … We want to be in a position to provide the kinds of programs and training that will

work in this area, even for this short period of time,” Vuong said. “If I can find a way to get something else open that lets me stay in West Campus, I’d be more than willing to do it.”

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DT: There have been discussions on how higher education institutions, including the UT System, will handle Texas’ increasing population. How does this impact the six health institutions?

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People walk past Little Sheep Mongolian Hot Pot at Seton Avenue and West 24th Street on Monday, Oct. 7, 2019. The hot pot restaurant permantely closed Thursday, Oct. 3, 2019 after serving the West Campus area since 2016.

John Zerwas began his position as executive vice chancellor of Health Affairs of the UT System on Oct. 1. He previously served as a member on the Texas House of Representatives. help address what the needs are out there. DT: Would potential expan-

sions of UT health institutions lead to an increase in cost for the consumers?

Zerwas: The whole cost of

care is a fairly complicated thing that’s going on these days … and it’s an issue being talked about right now … I think Texas is probably going to be at the forefront of really looking at how you ultimately deliver high quality (care) at the lowest possible cost.

election was commendable. Watson also advocated for online voter registration. “Texas makes it much harder than it ought to be to register to vote,” Watson said. “There’s nothing people don’t go online to do, except when it comes to the most fundamental aspect of what we do as citizens, which is voting.” At the Nov. 5 election, 10 amendments to the Texas Constitution will be on the ballot. The proposed legislation includes the creation a flood infrastructure fund, prohibition of individual income tax and permission of municipal judges to hold more than one office at a time. “The student voter mobility in Austin is amazing, but I caution students in times like this that you can’t assume you don’t have to vote just because everyone else is picking up the slack for you,” said Bruce Elfant, the Travis county voter registrar. “The higher the turnout, the more representative the outcome.” Chemistry junior Zhang said the organization reported around 4,000 student registrations since they began tabling in late August. He said voter registration matters to him because he wants more minority students engaged in the voting process. “I noticed there weren’t a lot of students like me out there voting,” Zhang said. “I wanted to encourage more engagement among Asian-American students on campus and make the voter pool a little more representative.” Zhang said he felt optimistic that ultimate turnout in November would be as high as the previous year. Watson said there was 54.8% student voter turnout during the 2018 midterm election. “We’ve had better engagement today, especially because people know it’s the last day,” Zhang said. “Considering this is a lower profile election, that’s pretty amazing.” Elfant said Travis County added 30,000 registered voters so far this year, and he believes 2019 voter turnout will remain as high as last year. “Normally, the odd years are quiet,” Elfant said. “It’s hard to get anyone to do anything because they’re tired from the previous election. Travis County is that shiny county on a hill people in Texas point to for success.” Tori May contributed to this story.

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Good Systems celebrates launch with fireside chat

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Tim Hwang, former director of the Harvard-MIT Ethics and Governance of AI Initiative, takes questions from attendees with journalism professor Sharon Strover, right, during the Grand Challenge of Ethics and AI on Monday, Oct. 7, 2019. Good Systems, an interdisciplinary grand challenge team that launched this fall at UT, hosted a fireside chat with Hwang for an in-depth conversation on artificial intelligence. By Neha Madhira @nehamira14

UT hosted a fireside chat Monday with former director of the Harvard-MIT Ethics and Governance of AI Initiative to promote their new Good Systems initiative, which focuses on improving aritifical intelligence technologies. The conversation with Tim Hwang covered his background in artificial intelligence research at Google and other companies and the importance of ethics when creating AI. Good Systems was initially announced in September during the State of the University Address as an

initiative to evaluate the future of AI technologies and mitigate possible harms they could cause, according to the program’s website. Ken Fleischmann, Good Systems inaugural chair, said the program exemplifies convergence research that brings experts in different fields together to solve complex social issues. “It is not just multidisciplinary, but it’s saying that these are really thorny issues we’re trying to grapple with,” said Fleischmann, School of Information professor. Fleischmann said the goals for 2019 to 2023 are to define Good Systems and develop it. “From 2023 to 2027, we will focus on

implementation in terms of the tech sector, governance and the preeminence of UT in both education and research related to Good Systems,” Fleischmann said. Hwang said the initiative seems like an exciting interdisciplinary effort to bring various parts of the University together to work on big problems. “These types of chats are useful because I think there is a kind of chance to ask questions that lots of people could hear,” Hwang said. “I think that ability to give something concrete for people to respond to is how I saw my role in this event.” Robert San Soucie, computer science and Plan II junior, said he is

passionate about designing ethical AI and attended the chat to learn more about Good Systems. “I feel like people design software not really thinking about the impacts of what they are making,” Soucie said. “As computer scientists, we need to be thinking about that a lot more.” Hwang said Good Systems is also about making sure UT students are aware of the ethical implications of their work. “For me, ethics is not just about not doing the wrong thing but about doing the right thing,” Hwang said. “Ethics is about empowering people, so it’s critical that we design AI in ways that empower people and build a more equitable and just society.”

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Hogg Foundation awards $90K for Moody College’s health communication research

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Moody College’s Center for Health Communication received a $90,000 grant to conduct research, which will partly contribute to the creation of evidence-based health care curricula. The Hogg Foundation for Mental Health awarded the Mental Health Communication grant to the center earlier this year, said Emily Bhandari, the foundation’s strategic learning and evaluation program officer. “We, as a foundation, understand the value and importance of the way we talk about mental health,” Bhandari said. “We really wanted to dig in and get a sense of the best practices regarding mental health communication.” The grant is also funding the center’s whitepaper on the state of the health communication

field and academic literature, center director Michael Mackert said. A whitepaper is a report that discusses a complex issue in a simpler way, he said. The whitepaper intends to provide directions for the future of research, discuss what is known about best practices and develop ways to train both health care professionals and journalists to talk about mental health, Mackert said. “The way people talk about any kind of health issue has implications for the experience of the people with that health issue,” Mackert said. “If people are saying things about mental health that contribute to stigma around it, then it can reduce people’s willingness to go seek help.” Mackert said the grant funded the center’s plans to build mental health communication training curricula for educators. “(These will be) intended for use by people who are teaching

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future health care professionals and … journalists in particular about how to talk about mental health more effectively,” Mackert said. “If we all got better about talking about mental health, and we helped reduce that stigma, it could reduce one of the reasons people maybe don’t reach out for help when they need it.” The center is in the process of reviewing what academic and clinical research says about best practices for mental health communication, Bhandari said. Bhandari said the curricula is expected to be ready for pilot testing in the spring of 2020. Speech pathology senior Naseem Shafaei said when it comes to mental health, “We don’t talk about it enough.” “By receiving the grant … I think it’s going to be a huge stepping stone into making the utmost progress within our community … We are the future,” Shafaei said.

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Students deserve prompt information about apartment ownership changes By Neha Dronamraju Columnist

Home is associated with safety, comfort and most importantly familiarity. Everyone deserves to feel secure in their residence — temporary or permanent. However, these positive associations are threatened when students face significant changes in their housing management without complete information from their proprietors. Harrison Williams, a Greystar senior community assistant and leasing agent, said 2400 Nueces houses approximately 700 residents. The apartment claims they “take care of everything — from apartment essentials to entertainment and recreation.” They also take care of decisions regarding management turnover, which directly impact student lives, without consulting residents. Student apartments must involve residents in major decisions that affect them and disseminate all information pertaining to that decision. Greystar, the owners of 2400 Nueces, sold the building to University Housing and Dining last year. Microbiology and Plan II sophomore Kavyaa Choudhary signed her

lease in October and found out about the sale through a Daily Texan article in March. The apartment officially notified her in late June. “I was absolutely not happy when I found out,” Choudhary said. “It was too late to reconsider my decision because I had signed my lease months ago. If I had known, I would have probably decided to live somewhere else.” According to Choudhary, 2400 Nueces still isn’t being completely transparent about the process and what it means for residents. She feels that the apartment withholding information about the sale places undue pressure on her and her roommate, as they have to renew their leases soon. “I have a lot of things going on this fall, and I don’t need to be stressing about not having sufficient information to make such an expensive decision,” Choudhary said. Aaron Voyles, University Housing and Dining director of residence hall operations, outlined a few of the changes residents may experience in the 2020-21 school year. These changes include potential change in rent depending on the Board of Regents’ approval, routine fire drills and limiting pets to emotional support animals. These changes will be made clear in next year’s lease agreement. Voyles said that im-

portant information regarding this year’s lease contracts, which will be honored as they were signed, has already been dispensed. “We do our best to update students, and we focus on updating them on the bigger changes,” Voyles said. “If students have any standing confusion, I would encourage them to come to our meet and greets at the 2400 building and ask questions.” Voyles mentioned that some of the smaller impacts are subject to change depending on residents’ needs and feedback. Choudhary was not aware of the changes Voyles shared with the Texan and feels that she would have felt more at ease if she was. “Even though they’re small changes, by telling us, (housing and dining) would have erased some of the mystery surrounding the sale, and this process would have been less stressful,” she said. Management switches in student apartments are not trivial changes, and they directly impact residents’ daily lives by creating undue stress. Students deserve to be informed of management changes and receive updates once decisions are made before they commit to signing a lease. Dronamraju is a public health sophomore from Dallas.

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UT must rename RLM to Physics, Math and Astronomy By Patrick Lee Columnist

UT is a constellation of iconic landmarks such as the Littlefield Fountain and the Frank Erwin Center. These buildings memorialize men who once enjoyed power, and their legacies are posthumously carved into the very hearts of structures we occupy. Yet when one genealogizes these men whose names litter the front of memorable UT buildings, their naturalized aura of reverence quickly dissipates. One begins to realize these men were not excellent human beings. They were not above but rigidly beholden to the prejudices and injustices of their time, and they often operated violently to suppress student agitations for a better world. In September, the UT Board of Regents renamed the Student Activity Center to the William C. Powers, Jr. Student Activity Center. In 2018, the board changed the Liberal Arts Building to Patton Hall after oil and gas millionaire Robert L. Patton donated $20 million to the College of Liberal Arts. Dr. Leonard N. Moore, vice president for Diversity and Community Engagement, said “there are no plans to change the name of any buildings in the foreseeable future.” This is unacceptable — the Board of Regents must rename Robert Lee Moore Hall to Physics, Mathematics

and Astronomy. Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy for years. UT’s RLM building commemorates Robert Despite institutional passivity, some already call L. Moore. He was a man who deeply under- the building its requested name. The board’s stood mathematics but failed in his profes- unanimous decision to rename the Student Acsorial duty to share his knowledge with black tivity Center and Liberal Arts Building suggests students. Moore once told Dr. Eugene Hunt, a renaming isn’t difficult or unfeasible. masters student at the time, “you are welcome “UT has been ignoring students calls to to take my course, but you start with a C and rename (Robert Lee Moore Hall), but chooscan only go down from there.” es to rename (others) just He was the human embodibecause alumni are donatment of white supremacy. It ing money,” Christina Bui, is his name that’s plastered international relations and in front of UT’s building for global studies senior, said. UT’s RLM building physics, math and astronomy. “And every time they reNaming is an expression name a building, they concommemorates of political power. The act of tinue to ignore the fact that Robert L. Moore. He students have been trynaming raises the question of who has the power to make was the human em- ing to change the RLM to legible the spaces in which we Mathematics and bodiment of white (Physics, conduct our studies. To name Astronomy) for years.” supremacy.” a campus building after some“It’s clear the University one is to affirm that figure feels more comfortable acis worthy of veneration. Far cepting millions of dollars from a neutral act, to name is from a top dog oil and gas to keep certain ghosts, value particular historiinvestor than it does confronting its antiblack cal beings above others and is as much a project history,” Bui said. “It sets a precedent that of inclusion (eternalizing Robert Moore) as exmoney is more important than the ways univerclusion (forgetting the black students he refused sities treat its marginalized students, namely to teach). black students.” Students and faculty have demanded UT By all historical accounts, Robert L. Moore change the name of Robert Lee Moore Hall to was a white supremacist who always punched

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down. He did not affirm women or non-white people as human beings. He was more interested in adding numbers than in the welfare of his black students. That is reason enough to warrant his removal. But to demand renaming is not simply to express moral outrage at a cartoonishly racist individual, pat ourselves on the back and move on. To demand UT rename its building is to call into question the subtle ways that the system of white supremacy is quietly etched into our world — in the buildings we think, the language we use, the kinds of people we memorialize and so on. By historicizing instead of moralizing, we understand Moore represents a small node in a vastly expansive network of domination. A network that reserves resources and power for whiteness, where wealth buys public spaces, a system in which Robert Moore spawns countless other polite, racist white people. It is to recognize that a nation birthed by centuries of antiblack violence cannot absolve itself of its sin by changing the names of buildings within its elite institutions. But nonetheless, it is a step in the right direction. Once Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy replaces Moore’s corpse, the human struggle for racial justice secures a contingent victory, but the war continues. Our community must vanquish Moore’s ghost from campus grounds. Lee is a sociology senior from Houston.

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Weyes Blood explains recent album, artistic process By Nataleah Small @nataleahjoy

Experimental psychedelic folk singer, songwriter Natalie Mering of Weyes Blood said she has been performing on her own wavelength since she began writing music at 15. In April 2019, she released her fourth and highest-charting album, Titanic Rising, on which she shared her perspectives on modern dating, climate change and reactions to major world events. Ahead of her performance at the Austin City Limits Music Festival, Weyes Blood talked with The Daily Texan about her most recent album and artistic motivations. Daily Texan: What inspired

your most recent album?

Weyes Blood: Well, the album is called Titanic Rising, which is kind of about rising sea levels and things eventually being underwater. But water is also symbolic for the dream world. The bedroom that exists on the cover is kind of like a symbolic place. In Western culture, the teenage bedroom is our initiation into the world, even though it’s a really

delusional initiation. It’s a safe space where you can create your own ideas about reality, so putting that bedroom underwater just means it’s a sacred, secret space. And I’m not drowning in it. You can see my eyes are open. On the back of the cover, I’m at the surface breathing. During the first few moments of the album’s second song, “Andromeda,” the music starts, pauses and then changes. How important is it to capture every millisecond of a song?

DT:

WB: That was a happy

accident. I always try to include happy accidents and a little bit of chaos in the recording process. When I wrote the song, that (part) wasn’t written, so that was actually a physical accident that happened at the top of the song that we decided to keep because it sounded so good.

DT: Have any of your tour

experiences sparked ideas for new songs, or are you more focused on each night’s performances?

WB: I get a lot of lit-

tle tidbits of inspiration on the road. It’s mostly

I always try to include happy accidents and a little bit of chaos in the recording process.” WEYES BLOOD

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his abrupt ACL performance cancellation in 2018. Clad in loose pants and no shirt, Gambino delivered animated facial expressions and dance moves throughout the 90-minute set. Complete with smoke and backup dancers dressed in school uniforms, Gambino performed “This is America,” one of his most notable tracks, evoking cheers from the crowd. Sunday

Sunday’s lineup peaked later in the day, with the most notable performances

beginning around 6 p.m. Country artist Kacey Musgraves was greeted with deafening cheers from the crowd as she walked onto the American Express stage, acoustic guitar in hand, to perform “Slow Burn.” Interaction with the crowd was a trademark of the performance, as Musgraves asked fans to high five their neighbors, “put up two middle fingers” and sing along to her pop-country fusion tracks. The sound of Third Eye Blind’s “Jumper” echoed throughout Zilker, as fans stopped to sing along while en route to the next performance, bringing

In Titanic Rising, Weyes Blood shares her perspective on modern dating, climate chage and major world events. just playing shows and staying sane on the road. But I get glimpses of melodies during sound checks, and I’ll work on chord changes a little bit when I get a chance. And then I’ll get lyrics that float through my head, and I’ll

generations together for an anthem-packed performance. Rapper Lizzo took over the Miller Lite stage as the highlight of the day. She opened the set by belting “Cuz I Love You” with the audience, complete with vocal runs that echoed throughout the park. Lizzo made an effort to include every attendee, inducting them into the “Lizzo Choir” to fill in melodies throughout the set. Lizzo, amazed by the size of the mile-long crowd, took a moment to look back on where she came from. “I remember when I used to play festivals,” she said. “I would look at the main

make voice memos and notes. Those get funneled into new material. DT: What are your expec-

tations for ACL weekend? How does your performance style differ when you play for larger or

stage and be like, ‘One day all those people are gonna be waiting for me.’ And that day is today, b----.” The final night of Weekend One saw attendees split between headliners Cardi B on the Honda stage and Mumford & Sons on the American Express stage. Because the rapper went on 30 minutes late, many people chose to go to Mumford & Sons rather than wait on the hill for Cardi. Mumford & Sons opened with classic banjo-strumming tracks including “Little Lion Man,” providing a much-needed break from the EDM and rap-heavy festival lineup.

smaller audiences? WB: I think the small

shows are vibier. You kind of hear what your audience is saying. The banter can be a little bit funnier. You can work the room in a way that’s a little easier.

Once you get with the big audiences, it gets a little bit louder and more transcendent. It becomes a little bit larger than life. In a way, that’s really cool, but you’re not going to have as much control over the whole crowd.

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compare to a standard tour? KR: Well, for one, we always

steal the audience. Whenever we play a festival, it’s like every f---er at the festival (is looking at our stage). We did Lollapalooza in Chicago in 2016, and you could see all the way to the other stages, and they were all looking (our) way. It was crazy. We’d of course love it if we had our tour bus — it’s a certain luxury you get used to on tour. We just walked in here and

saw all the tour buses out there, and I was like, “F--ers!” but I can’t complain. When we’re touring for two months and there’s a festival in the middle, that’s when you roll into it super greasy. The band is just destroyed, and we roll out in our bus after the festival. DT: Austin has a huge pop-

ulation of musicians trying to get their big break. What advice would you offer to young people trying to get into this industry?

KR: People migrate toward

what they want to do. We

did a festival during the summer, and there was a school of rock — wee boys and girls. We were shooting a video for a song called “The Kids Are Coming (to take you down)” on our new record. It’s kind of a call to arms for climate change. So we were shooting the content, and I was like, “This is a rare opportunity, we have this sea of young rock kids.” I was just looking at the tour bus and thinking we can just set up here and get them to sign the release. What I noticed when I was watching the kids go by was, “There’s me,” and

then I thought, “There’s the little guy who’s going to be a drummer; there’s the wee girl who’s taking the pictures; then their mate who’s maybe a little chubby with glasses, but he’s in charge.” That’s what I find fascinating about human psychology. People migrate toward what they find interesting. I looked at them — they’re all just sorting out their roads. The lead singer already has it figured out, the drummer’s a little dorky, but they’ll compartmentalize. They’ll sort it out without anyone like me telling them what they need to be.

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FOOTBALL

A rivalry unlike any other Tom Herman has seen rivalries across the country but none like Texas-Oklahoma. By Daniela Perez @danielap3rez

ead coach Tom Herman has seen and worked in great college rivalries since the start of his career. He experienced the Michigan-Ohio State rivalry firsthand while he was the offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach at Ohio State. He’s been a part of the Battle of the Piney Woods, a 94-season rivalry between Sam Houston State and Stephen F. Austin State University. And of course, the Red River Rivalry. Though this is Herman’s third Red River

My admiration, affection, love for Sam Ehlinger I hope is very welldocumented. I love him like a son.” TOM HERMAN head coach

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Tom Herman addresses the media ahead of Saturday’s matchup against Oklahoma. This weekend will be Herman’s fourth time facing Oklahoma head coach Lincoln Riley, who holds a 2—1 record against Texas. Rivalry as head coach, his first memory dates back to 1999, when he served as an offensive graduate assistant at Texas. “My first memory … as a (graduate assistant) riding through the State Fair (of Texas) … (I was) looking out the window at this elderly lady that had to have been 80 years old going double bird to the Texas bus,” Herman said. “Then next to her was a, couldn’t have more been than eightyear-old boy, going double bird to the Texas bus … It speaks to

the intensity of the rivalry. It crosses a lot of different generations.” Since Lincoln Riley and Herman were hired as head coaches at OU and Texas, respectively, for the 2017 season, Riley has churned out two Heisman trophy winners in Baker Mayfield and Kyler Murray. Now in Week Seven, Jalen Hurts is a Heisman contender, and Herman recognizes Oklahoma’s offensive threat. “I think we have done an admirable job in all three games, including in 2017 when we weren’t really good. We

held them to significantly less (than) their season average in terms of points allowed,” Herman said. “(You) are not going to shut Oklahoma out. This is not going to be a 10-7 ballgame. (We) have got to get critical stops.” But as Riley has produced two NFL quarterbacks, offensive coordinator Tim Beck and Herman have developed junior quarterback Sam Ehlinger. The freshman who had a 48.7% completion rate against the Sooners in 2017 has grown into the team captain who passed for

over 400 yards against LSU. According to Herman, he and Ehlinger have developed a strong bond over the years. “Mymmadmiration, affection, love for Sam Ehlinger I hope is very well-documented,” Herman said. “I love him like a son. I’ve just been so impressed with his development as a player. We knew all of the intangibles were there as a young freshman but to see him develop into the quarterback that he is has been really impressive.” Herman has been a part of many historic

rivalries, but even though he’s seen games such as Michigan against Ohio State, the Red River Rivalry stands out as the best game in college football. “It’s been pretty cool to be a part of all of those, but this one takes the cake just because of it being interstate rivals,” Herman said. “The two states in general don’t get along very well. I think it’s cool that it’s always on our soil. Everything that surrounds the game makes it one of the best, if not the best, games in college football.”

VOLLEYBALL

Elliott discusses big conference matches, development of freshmen

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Jhenna Gabriel (2) and Molly Phillips (15) block a ball during game against Iowa State. By Marcus Krum @marcuskrum

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Texas is loaded with young talent. The Longhorns have stockpiled skilled underclassmen at nearly every position, and so far, it has paid off. It may be just three games into the conference season, but freshman middle blocker Molly Phillips and freshman opposite hitter Skylar Fields have the Longhorns rolling as they head to Manhattan, Kansas for a matchup with the Kansas State Wildcats on Wednesday. Phillips and Fields have led the charge of the talented group of freshmen and sophomores that have found roles on this top-5 Texas team. “For what their role is right now, in terms of coming in and having to take on so much responsibility and performing every single night, they’ve done a phenomenal job,” Texas head coach Jerritt Elliott said after the Longhorns’ win over Iowa State on Sept. 25. Phillips and Fields have

cemented their places in the starting rotation early in their college careers. Elliott said he is pleased with the valuable experience they’ve gained early on, yet their experience came with some trouble. Texas dropped a preseason heartbreaker to Rice several weeks ago, a shocking loss that Elliott said was a wake up call for the team. “It was disappointing to lose the game,” Elliott said. “As coaches, you talk to your freshmen and sophomores about how well teams can play against Texas, especially in the state.” Since that loss, in-state squads have had no such luck. Texas has lost just one set since that match, sweeping Texas A&M, Texas Tech and TCU. The wake-up call worked. The Longhorns were ready for conference play. “Personally, for me, it’s strap in,” senior middle blocker Orie Agbaji said. “Every team is going to want (to give their) A-game every night. You have to be ready to go and really be ready to play any team.”

Fields and Phillips have each already seen growth in this limited sample size. Fields is one of the team leaders with a .355 hitting percentage on the season. Phillips is the team’s leading blocker at 45.0. The team is only growing in confidence, yet there are still plenty of areas to clean up. “Our defense has to get better,” Elliott said. “It’s something that we’re spending some time on trying to get better. But one of the things, it’s tough, we’ve got a lot of really young blockers up there, and we’re reaching really high and getting tooled and not giving ourselves opportunities.” While the defense is a point of contention for Elliott, this is a Longhorn squad that is in good shape in the thick of Big 12 play. Kansas State is trending in the opposite direction. The Wildcats have lost four of their last five and are just 1–2 in conference play. Conference road matches are always a good test. For the freshman duo and the Longhorns, it’s just another opportunity to grow.

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ACL

LIFE&ARTS Q&A

Third Eye Blind guitarist discusses ACL debut By Jordyn Zitman @jordynzitman

Zilker welcomes ACL Fest Over 75,000 festival-goers enjoy variety of live music during ACL Weekend One.

By Jordyn Zitman @jordynzitman

rom the time the gates opened Friday morning until they closed Sunday night, the unforgiving Texas sun beat down on over 75,000 festival-goers as they took pictures, bopped along to live music and flocked to any available shade at the Austin City Limits Music Festival. Friday

Fans lined up 45 minutes early to secure their spot for Kaytranada’s set, which featured electronic dance music and head-bopping beats. The day seemed to be going off without a hitch, until news broke on the ACL Instagram that Lil Uzi Vert had cancelled his performance and festival-goers scrambled to reconfigure their schedules. To replace the rapper’s performance, DJ Jai Wolf extended his

earlier set on the T-Mobile stage, drawing a larger crowd to his second performance at the much-larger Honda stage. The set showcased the artist’s ability to keep a crowd’s energy up throughout multiple performances in the blazing heat. Australian-born artist Tame Impala delivered his headlining set as expected, performing a host of the psychedelic dance tracks. Fans crowded around the Honda stage, enjoying the cool air that arrived with the setting sun. On the American Express stage, iconic rock band Guns N’ Roses drew fans new and old. While the set was a trip down memory lane for some, the recognizable tune of “Welcome to the Jungle” brought attendees from every generation together. Saturday

One of Saturday’s highlights was Billie Eilish’s bass-heavy, energetic performance on the Honda stage. Her fans laughed along with the 17-year-old as she complained about burping after eating Chipotle and belted the

Kryz Reid joined rock group Third Eye Blind in 2010 as lead guitarist and backup vocalist. Hours before the band’s Austin City Limits Music Festival set on the Honda stage, the Irishborn musician sat down with The Daily Texan to discuss joining the band, their evolving sound and classic tracks. Texan: The song “Semi-Charmed Life” discusses some pretty dark topics, but the message is disguised by an upbeat tune. What is the intention behind this style? Daily

Reid: We wrote a song about crystal meth and nobody worked it out. Our drummer Brad (Hargreaves), his wee boy is four, and it’s his favorite song. He calls our band the “doo doo doo band and Uncle Kryz,” because I’m his favorite. When we play (“Semi-Charmed Life”) live, if he’s at the show with his little headphones on, as soon as we start playing, he’s up and jumping around. I was like, “That’s nuts!” but Brad said it’s the perfect song for a four-year-old. It’s just something clever that Stephan (Jenkins) does. He’s lyrically very smart like that, making the topic mainstream. Kryz

TO P: Fans cheer as MisterWives performs on Saturday, Oct. 5, 2019 during the first weekend of Austin City Limits Music Festival. eddie gaspar

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BO TTO M: Kevin Parker, lead singer of Tame Impala, performs

at the Austin City Limits Music Festival on Friday, Oct. 4, 2019. ryan lam

lyrics to her opening track “bad guy.” Even with a boot on her injured ankle, Eilish, clad in neon green (from hair to nails and shoes), ran and jumped around the stage. She commanded fans to do things such as create mosh

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DT: The band has recently

pits and jump like kangaroos during “copycat.” Childish Gambino walked onto the American Express stage with the intention of making up for

done a run of festival performances including Lollapalooza in 2016 and now ACL. How do these performances

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