The Daily Texan 2019-10-15 by The Daily Texan

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“Is the disability that bad?”

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English lecturer Travis Lau has scoliosis, a condition that causes him back pain and brain fog. He recently began the process of seeking accommodations at UT. By Trinady Joslin @trinady05 t confirmed everything English lecturer Travis Lau believed about academia, yet he struggled to hide the shock on his face as the question echoed

through his mind. “Is the disability that bad?” It was completely illegal, completely inappropriate but, he said in recalling the event from several years ago, entirely unsurprising. Providing personal anecdotes might help the hiring committee understand how his scoliosis impacts his life, but Lau said those anecdotes could also be detrimental to his chances at receiving the position if they misinterpreted his openness as an inability to do the job. Lau stared back at the committee members before him and answered the question the Americans with Disabilities Act bars employers from asking. “I was like, ‘I think it’s really evident from my materials and the research I have that I’m continuing to work all the

time,’” Lau said. Lau, now a postdoctoral teaching fellow at UT, said while this specific instance didn’t occur during his interview at UT, situations like these happen frequently – though many aren’t as blunt. Lau said the fault does not fall solely on academic institutions, which are a product of their societies and may boost stigmas as a result. But because of this, disabled scholars are sometimes hesitant to ask for accommodations, Lau and other UT professors said. And when they do, the system can be difficult to navigate. Disclosing a disability to superiors

Lau has scoliosis, a condition resulting in a curved spine, which causes him back pain on a daily basis and brain fog, a symptom that makes it hard to think or focus at times. During graduate school, Lau was advised by mentors not to disclose it. “It was often talked about as best practices or advice,” Lau said. “It was never like, ‘Oh, your disability is a problem.’ Mentors framed it as, ‘Oh, it might

be misunderstood.’” Now, the advice comes from colleagues, most of whom tell him disclosure can be dangerous and fear it will mark him as needy. While Lau said he understands their recommendationsmmaremmwell-intentioned, they remind him of how unwilling people are to fight to change the system. “Rather than say we should havemmpeople identifying more often and forcing selection committees to deal with it, it’s often like, ‘It’s a s----- market already. So, don’t give them any other reasons to eliminate you as a candidate,’” Lau said. DISABILITY

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Faculty council proposes new majors

Texas black field crickets swarm campus, Austin

By Lauren Grobe @grobe_lauren

UT’s Faculty Council passed plans Tuesday to add new majors to the School of Information and the College of Liberal Arts’ Black Studies program. The bachelor of arts in race, indigeneity and migration and the bachelors of art and science in informatics will be added to the 20202022 academic catalogue. The former will add to the many undergraduate liberal arts majors, and the informatics major will be the first undergraduate major in the School of Information. Religious studies professor Jennifer Graber and Eric Tang, director of the Center for Asian American Studies, presented the proposal for the bachelor of arts in race, indigeneity and migration. Graber said the major was created to answer a growing demand for more specialized areas of

ethnic studies. “Our classes are consistently full,” Graber said. “There’s a lot of student demand, so much demand, actually, it can be hard to … provide as many classes as students would sign up for.” Tang, an African and African Diaspora Studies associate professor, said the University is a major hub for ethnic studies and has the ability to act as a leader in this field. “We are essentially the headquarters, if you will, for race and ethnic studies and gender and sexuality studies in the region,” Tang said. The race, indigeneity and migration major will have five tracks and consist of 30 hours of coursework, including three signature courses, Tang said. One of them will be a teaching race, indigeneity and migration track. “There’s a labor shortage,” Tang said. “There’s not enough qualified teachers to teach these courses, so this would be an opportunity for

students to get their certification (and) get teaching a secondary level right away.” Graber said students interested in Native American and indigenous studies will benefit from the degree plan, as the subject is currently offered only as a certificate and a graduate portfolio program. “This would allow the students who would like to do more than what is offered in the certificate to be a part of a broader intellectual program,” Graber said. The new informatics major will also provide a new opportunity to undergraduates, as the School of Information only has an undergraduate minor and a masters and undergraduate certificate program available at this time. Information professor Kenneth Fleischmann said informatics, the study of processing information and data, is a growing field in Austin. “We have been growing so quickly in the tech sector in terms of number of jobs that

UT hasn’t been able to keep up,” Fleischmann said. The University’s School of Information ranked number five on U.S. News’ top 10 information schools in the United States in 2017, but the University is also the only one of the 10 that does not currently offer an undergraduate program, Fleischmann said. “Our enrollments have been going up dramatically over this period of time,” Fleischmann said. “We offer (an undergraduate) minor, and we feel the time is right for us to offer a major.” Fleischmann said the major will likely interest potential computer science students who struggle to get into popular and selective computer science courses. “We’ve wanted a long time for the School of Information to play a more active role in coding and programming education,” Fleischmann said. “This will probably be taking more stress off of (the computer science department).”

By Neha Madhira @nehamira14

Along with cooler temperatures, the fall season is bringing swarms of crickets to the UT campus. Alexander Wild, UT curator of entomology, said this mass emergence of crickets occurs annually but is more noticeable every few years after a wet spring brings a lot of plant growth. “These are Texas field crickets, and they are normally around throughout the year,” Wild said. “But when they get a year where there is a lot for them to eat and warm temperatures for them to develop, then we see a lot more of them.” Maria Pereira, arts and entertainment technology sophomore, said she always sees hundreds of crickets while walking to class or on a run, but she is not bothered by them

because she knows this is a seasonal phenomenon. “Normally, I go running in the mornings on the track, and I remember one cricket jumped up on my leg,” Pereira said. “It’s very uncomfortable and sometimes makes me (not) want to go running near the turf, but it’s also normal to see them for a little bit every year when the seasons change.” Mike Merchant, Texas A&M Agriculture & Life Sciences professor and extension urban entomologist, said he doesn’t know of another state that experiences larger swarms of crickets than Texas. “The Texas black field cricket is a species unique to this state, and we have swarms like this every year,” Merchant said. “There hasn’t been much research done into why we have more crickets some years than others, C R I C K E T S PAGE 2

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UTNY students face challenges finding internships However, she said the alumni network and the reputation of UT students helped them secure internships. “Our students are really well-known around New York for not having a chip on their shoulder, not having an attitude, coming in ready to work, having a little bit of grit (and) having a really good attitude,” Pan said. Economics senior Alikhan Virani said the program was doing its best to help the inaugural class, but he still found it tough to find an internship. “If worse came to worse and you couldn’t find anything on your own or you didn’t put in the effort, then they would find something for you at the end,” Virani said. “The way it panned out was that companies won’t give out their offers for their fall internships until a week, two weeks before the semester starts, so (I was) scrambling and super stressed.” UTNY student Zaid Basit said he did not find the internship search too difficult because UTNY staff helped throughout the process. “There are certain internships that everyone can apply to online, but (Pan) would go out of her way to find contacts within the companies,” finance junior Basit said. “Most of the time, we got interviews with the companies we were applying to just because we had a connection into the company.”

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Accessing accommodations

Under the ADA, employers are required to provide accommodations, which are modifications to a job or work environment that allows disabled employees to do their jobs. The law doesn’t require employees to disclose their disability. But if accommodations are needed, individuals are expected to find that information themselves or go to their superiors and provide medical documentation confirming their disability, UT’s ADA coordinator Jennifer Maedgan said. According to data from UT, eight out of 3,463 faculty members reported having a disability to the University on their hiring form. Data for how many professors currently receive accommodations is unavailable, UT officials said. However, 1 in 4 U.S. adults report having a disability, according to a 2018 Morbidity and Mortality Report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. UT professors said data from institutions may be inaccurate because of stigmas associated with disclosure, the nuance with which disability is defined and the paperwork sometimes required to receive a diagnosis. To receive accommodations, Maedgan said requests are evaluated based on what is deemed

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“reasonable” under ADA. ReaUT isn’t the only institution that sonable accommodations are places the responsibility on alterations that allow profesdisabled professors to find inforsors to perform their jobs but mation about accommodations, and not change core job functions, that a more transparent process Maedgan said. could help faculty feel more comFor example, teaching at certain fortable coming forward. times of the day or asking to teach Winges-Yanez said biasin specific buildings would be “reaes against disabled people exist sonable,” while not teaching at all within the larger culture, not just would not be, within academia. Maedgan said. “It’s an instituDespite identitionalized belief fying as disabled in implicit and on his applicaexplicit policies tion and being “I’m terrified as a post- that privileges outspoken about people who are doc here, where I’m not able-bodied and it, Lau did not know a path to in any position of power able-mind as ‘noraccommodations Winges... Will that then put me mal,’” existed until alYanez said. in a dangerous position most a year after Last month, being hired. Lau began the where the department’s “It’s not like process to receive like, ‘Oh, he’s a drain the department is accommodations trying to withhold because conversaon resources?’” information,” Lau tions with another said. “I think their disabled professor TRAVIS LAU logic is, ‘Well, he convinced him english lecturer seems to be doing to proceed. just fine. If he re“I’m terrified ally needs accomas a postdoc here, modations, he’ll reach out to us.’” where I’m not in any position of Maedgan said information on the power,” Lau said. “Will that then process is available through referput me in a dangerous position rals from the Office of the Execwhere the department’s like, ‘Oh, utive Vice President and Provost, he’s a drain on resources?’” Human Resources, word of mouth, David Ochsner, College of Libpresentations by the University eral Arts director of public affairs, and online. said any questions concerning acUT disability studies coordicommodations have no impact on nator Nick Winges-Yanez said a faculty member’s position at the

University and individual departments, as well as Human Resources, are there for assistance. “We really want to get the word out that those services are available, and we’re here to help (people),” Ochsner said. English associate professor Alison Kafer has both physical and mental disabilities and began working with Maedgan after she was hired in January. She received specialized computer software and an adjustable desk — something she felt more comfortable asking for, since everyone needs one. Kafer has taught at other universities and said understanding what accommodations she needs can make the process easier to navigate. But she said that’s not always something that disabled individuals know. “We’re here. We exist.”

Lau is going back on the job market this fall, where he’ll face the daunting task of finding a new institution where he can continue to teach and research. Though it may be easier for Lau to pass as able-bodied during the hiring process, he said doing so wouldn’t help the case for other disabled people. “For some people, that’s not a choice. They don’t have an ability to pass,” Lau said. “The fear is that I’ll be exposing a weakness, and, for me, that’s all the more reason to be forthcoming. We’re here. We exist.”

but it is normal for us to have them.” Merchant also said crickets normally navigate using moonlight, so they often confuse street lights with the moon. He said this causes crickets to congregate in urban areas, including around campus. “People can spray pesticides around their businesses or homes where they don’t want crickets, but there isn’t much else to do,” Merchant said. “We do recommend turning off lights or reducing the amount of time they are on at night, so in the morning you won’t have as many crickets around them.” Wild said although there are so many of these insects on campus, he wants students to know they are not dangerous. “They don’t bite, they don’t sting and they don’t spread diseases,” Wild said. “Because there are so many of them that die, their bodies can pile up and smell bad, but that’s about the worst of it.”

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ACL Fest 2019 wraps up ACL Weekend Two features sudden weather changes, draws large crowds for Lizzo, Childish Gambino. By Brooke Sjoberg @Sj0berg

he second weekend of the Austin City Limits Music Festival had a frosty start, with temperatures dropping as low as 47 degrees Friday, Oct. 11. Festivalgoers braving the cold arrived in all forms of cold weather wear, including onesies, blankets and pajamas. At pop singer Madison Beer’s 2:15 p.m. set at the Honda stage, she announced to her fans she would be donating $10,000 to The Trevor Project, a nonprofit focused on suicide prevention among LGBTQ youths. She also described the difficult year she’s had with “depression and horrible anxiety.” Songs that Beer featured included “Hurts Like Hell,” “Dead” and “Dear Society.” Multi-instrumentalistVKing Princess stunned at her 4 p.m. set at the Honda stage, where she engaged the crowd with her celebration of queer attraction. Songs from her set list included “P---- Is God,” “Tough On Myself” and “1950.” Later that evening, Tame Impala’s psychedelic sound wowed listeners while their accompanying laser show held a captive audience in a trance as “Let It Happen” played through air filled with artificial fog. Headliner Guns N’ Roses closed out the evening with “Nightrain,” “Patience” and “Paradise City.” The legendary

ACL Weekend Two was exemplary of Texas’ strange weather patterns. hard rockers threw in a special intro from band member Melissa Reese as their audience huddled together for warmth. Day two of the festival had a warmer start, but it came up a little short for fans of Megan Thee Stallion. The Texas native never showed up for her 1:15 p.m. set. According to a tweet from Megan Thee Stallion, she missed her set because she was still on her way back to Austin from a show in Oklahoma the night before. She promised her “Austin hotties” she would be scheduling a “makeup show,” which still has yet to be announced. Denzel Curry, Brittany Howard and Kali Uchis played through light rain showers while their audiences donned raincoats and ponchos. Their performances

were followed by Billie Eilish, who drew a crowd with members of all ages. Eilish danced around on stage while wearing an orthopedic boot, encouraging her fans to join in. The crowd drawn by Eilish stretched from the Honda stage all the way back to the eastern crop of flags at the festival. At the end of the night, Childish Gambino stunned his audience at the American Express stage with a bare chested performance that ended with “This is America” in the initial set. Gambino’s encore included his hit “Sober” and absolute banger “Redbone.” The last day of ACL Weekend Two was the warmest and the outfits of attendees reflected it. Neon shorts and bikini tops as shirts dominated Zilker Park on Sunday. The Lizzo hype was real on

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Sunday — so real that people started making their way to the Miller Lite stage at 1 p.m. for her 7 p.m. performance. In the meantime, Bea Miller gave a high-energy and emotional performance, where she described the personal meaning behind several of her songs. Alt-R&B artist BANKS followed with a sexualized performance including some songs from her new album, III, such as “Godless” and “Gimme,” as well as classic “Beggin for Thread.” Kacey Musgraves drew fans in cowboy hats to a performance that was pretty par for the course as far as a Musgraves concert goes. She included songs such as “Slow Burn,” “Rainbow” and “Wonder Woman.” An hour before Lizzo’s

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performance, the crowd had already surpassed the general limits of the Miller Lite stage. This prompted additional broadcast screens and speakers so more of the crowd would be able to see and hear her. Lizzo drew a crowd that seemed to be the entirety of the festival, which the singer said made her feel so loved and supported. Her set included the current number one song in America, “Truth Hurts,” as well as “Juice” and “Cuz I Love You.” Across the park at American Express, Mumford & Sons closed out the festival with a set of their most popular songs, such as “Little Lion Man,” “Blind Leading the Blind” and “I Will Wait.”

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Savannah Conley discusses upcoming album

Rebelution talks cannabis, reggae genre

By Brooke Sjoberg

Raised by a guitar player and a background singer, Savannah Conley has hopped from genre to genre throughout her journey as a musician. With two EPs under her belt, the country-pop-folk singer is working on another album to be released next year. Conley said this album will be a little different from her previous EPs. After her Austin City Limits Music Festival performance during Weekend Two, The Daily Texan sat down with Conley to talk about her career and her upcoming album.

Rebelution singer, guitarist and cannabis advocate Eric Rachmany said he is trying to challenge the way people think about cannabis through education and music. The reggae-inspired artist said he is currently fundraising for the Last Prisoner Project, an organization committed to aiding those incarcerated for charges and arrests related to cannabis. Rachmany said he became involved with the project because he and others have benefitted from the cannabis industry, as the reggae genre has a storied history with the controlled substance. Before his Weekend Two set at the Austin City Limits Music Festival, The Daily Texan caught up with Rachmany to discuss his activism and Rebelution’s involvementVVinVVthe cannabis industry.

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DT: You opened for Willie

Nelson and Brandi Carlile. Are you inspired by them?

SC: I mean, Willie Nelson’s

ists popping on the scene in the country and folk genres. What do you think you bring to the table that maybe other artists don’t?

a legend and allowed me to come out when I wasn’t even claiming the country or Americana genre as my own. He was awesome. He’s a legend and inspiring for so many different reasons, not just (that) he could smoke more weed than any human. Snoop can’t even start to hang. But Brandi is my biggest cheerleader, which is still very bizarre to me. I’ve been on tour with her on and off for three years. She’s the most knowledgeable person I know. It’s been super educational and inspirational to learn from her as a mentor there and see how she performs and treats her band and crew and interviews or, you know, anything.

SC: I feel like everybody has

DT: You’re currently work-

of your parents are musicians. How much of that is responsible for you becoming a musician? Conley: One hundred percent. They definitely didn’t hold me back. I went to college. I rebelled against music. I went to college for teaching ... and then decided not to do that because I couldn’t run from music. They were supportive of me going to school, and they were supportive of the music. Savannah

DT: There’re a lot of new art-

said this is, but f--- genres. There has to be a time where we can do whatever we want and not be pigeonholed to one area. I have a lot of different inspirations, but I feel like everybody’s doing the same thing. You’re making music. So as long as you do it authentically, it’s the only thing that you can bring that nobody else has.

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Folk, country and pop singer Savannah Conley sits down with The Daily Texan and discusses her roots, striving for perfection and future music.

ing on an album. What can we expect from it? Will it be more of the same or are you trying anything new?

It’s been two years since we released my thing, and it’s because I’m an insufferable perfectionist. I’m never super satisfied with anything. It’s finally at a place that I feel comfortable

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and confident about, but it’s definitely different. We hope that it’s not too left field. DT: You say you’re an “insuf-

ferable perfectionist.” What does that look like for you?

SC: I’m not a traditional

perfectionist because it’s not that I want everything to be clean or perfect in the traditional sense. I want it to be exactly how I want it, whatever that is in my head ... It’s not attainable. I’ve had to let go of my control freak, which is difficult but freeing at the same time. And I’m lucky to have so many people around me that I trust to say, “Hey, you’re being an idiot. You gotta just chill out.”

The Daily Texan: Since the Last Prisoner Project hasn’t launched yet, what does your involvement with the organization look like?

Eric Rachmany: Right now we’re just in the fundraising phase for it. The concept is to get every prisoner out of prison who is there for a cannabis conviction. The reason why I felt drawn to get involved is because Rebelution has been a big cannabis advocate from the very beginning. Just knowing we’re making money off of a cannabis product, and knowing there are people in prison that were just doing the same thing — it doesn’t feel right. It makes me angry. It makes me frustrated. I’m going to turn that anger into (something positive). I’m going to be smart about it and try to raise as much money to get these prisoners (out). DT: What has the response

been to your involvement with the Last Prisoner Project?

ER: So far, it seems like there

are a lot of people that want to get involved. I think anybody that’s made money off of cannabis feels a little guilty that they’re able to go back to their home every night, sleep in their own bed and know there are people in prison that were doing the same thing. It’s amazing to see how many people are on board now trying

to spread the word about it. A lot of other reggae musicians have chosen to get involved. Stephen Marley and Damian Marley just jumped on board. So I see this as a cause a lot of people want to get into, especially people in the cannabis industry. DT: Reggae has enjoyed quite

a bit of growth the last five years. Do you feel like Rebelution is at all responsible for any of that? ER: I do. It’s tough because I don’t know how to categorize our music. I feel a little weird saying that we are reggae music because we mix in a lot of different genres. So I like to say that we’re “reggae-inspired.” If people want to say reggae, then great. I’m honored because I love reggae so much. I do think we are a big part of that (growth) though. Because when a lot of people hear “Rebelution,” they’re like, “Oh, I like reggae,” and then maybe they see the bands we take on tour and look up some of the people that have influenced us. I think Rebelution is a great gateway band to the genre of reggae music, even though I don’t consider our band to be strictly reggae.

I feel like everybody’s doing the same thing. You’re making music. So as long as you do it authentically, it’s the only thing you can bring that nobody else has.” SAVANNAH CONLEY musician

The Rebelution singer and guitarist said he considers the band to be more “reggae-inspired” than a true reggae band.

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The protests are gone, guns aren’t By Neelesh Rathi Columnist

You just turned from Speedway onto 21st Street. The sun’s shining, there’s a nice breeze, it’s a little chilly. You’re passing by the McCombs School of Business on your way to class when you decide to duck in to use the restroom. You’ve just stepped into a stall when you freeze — there’s a gun on the toilet paper dispenser. This happened twice in February of 2018, as unattended guns were left in two different UT women’s restrooms. Such cases aren’t that rare, as there have been several incidents of gun violence or gun mishandling on college campuses that allow guns on campus. But the point of preventative action is to avoid tragedy. We shouldn’t have to react to shootings and losing loved ones — those of us who survive, that is. We’ve been put in this precarious situation, and we have to pull ourselves back from the tipping point by pushing back against the legislature that left us here. The conversation around campus carry has faded. We need to reignite it. There have been losses other than deaths attributed to campus carry. These are, namely, campus membership and feelings of safety. Professors have left UT out of fear of violence. UT students, such as physics freshman Alejandro Moreno, also fear for their safety, particularly in light of recent mass shootings. “Due to recent current events, I’m worried,” Moreno said. “I’ve had talks with my roommate (and) other friends I’ve made at UT … The idea that there could be a mass shooting is becoming more and more real.” The shootings in El Paso and Midland– Odessa still loom large. Recent calls for stricter gun control laws from 2020 Democratic presidential candidates attest to that as well. Even supporters of campus carry, such as military veteran and corporate communications senior Kayla Morales, feel more strongly that the recent shootings warrant some gun control measures. “I’m comfortable with carrying a weapon, and I’m comfortable with other military-veteran students carrying weapons,” Morales said. “But I don’t think there’s sufficient training for your everyday Joe Schmoe to be walking around with a pistol.”

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UT should invest more in its foreign language departments By Jennifer Beck Columnist

Upon graduating in four years, I hope to take everything I learned at UT with me to Europe, where I (hopefully) will spend a few years working. Although my radio-television-film degree doesn’t require extensive French or Italian language education, taking those courses will prepare me for my future abroad. The problem, however, is the lack of credit hour variety in UT’s foreign language curriculum. While the University boasts several reputable language programs, many students who want to register for them are unable to because of their time-consuming nature. To better serve its students, UT needs to devote more financial resources to its foreign language departments, so they can introduce more three-hour language courses as well as online language courses. Students who took foreign language courses in high school can often test out of UT’s language classes and eliminate language requirements from their core curriculum. However, some students want to continue their foreign language studies in college even if they don’t need the credits. “I want to take a foreign language course at UT,” radio-television-film freshman Brianna Norman said. “I took German in high school, and I want to move (to Germany) at some point, so I really want to perfect my fluency.” Although some three-hour courses are offered in various languages, such as German and French, most introductory and intermediate language courses follow a six-hour, two-semester struc-

ture. This model is intended to immerse students in the language as much as possible to allow students to reach proficiency in a shorter amount of time. “The idea was how can we try to get students — especially our first year students or students who are first taking up a language as a part of their language requirement — to a level of good, functioning proficiency in a shorter period of time,” said Thomas Garza, associate professor and director of the Liberal Arts Texas Language Center.

After the financial crisis of 2008, foreign language departments shifted the structure of their courses to adhere to changes in funding.” Although the six-hour immersive course structure is beneficial to students looking to reach proficiency or fluency, the hours required for one of these courses is half of a full-time schedule. This raises problems for students who want to incorporate foreign language into their schedules but have other requirements to fulfill. Like many others, Norman wanted to take a foreign language course as a freshman but was unable to fit one in her schedule. She thinks the six-hour course structure will pose challenges for her in the future. “When I’m in my third and fourth years, I’m probably going

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to be way more concerned with the classes surrounding my major and certificate,” Norman said. With core, degree, minor and certificate requirements, it is unrealistic for many students to take theses classes without overloading their schedules. “I don’t know when I’ll be able to make room in my schedule for (the course) my first two years because there are so many other requirements I have to fulfill,” Norman said. “I definitely think in the future I’d benefit from three-hour courses.” After the financial crisis of 2008, foreign language departments shifted the structure of their courses to adhere to changes in funding and resources, said Garza, who has a doctorate in education. The six-hour course structure introduced at UT after the recession is still in place in 2019. “A troublesome point of the kind of economics of running programs (is) trying to find the best fit for the largest number of students,” Garza said. Even a decade after the recession, funding — in addition to time, faculty members and classroom space — is still a major logistical limitation on adding threehour and online courses. That being said, UT should invest in its foreign language departments, so they can expand their course selections by adding more online and three-hour courses. By introducing these types of classes, more full-time students will be able to maintain their levels of proficiency from previous language study and attain their goals without sacrificing half of their schedule. Beck is a radio-television-film freshman from Park Ridge, Illinois.

The conversation around campus carry has faded. We need to reignite it.”

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This concern extends past students and the somewhat unoriginal argument that guns are simply dangerous. Radio-television-film associate professor Anne Lewis, an activist-documentarian focused on issues ranging from gender rights to environmental racism. She argues that campus carry violates teachers’ right, as workers, to safety in the workplace. “If you go back before that session (when campus carry was passed), people had the right to determine what was going to be in their workplace,” Lewis said. “There were basic worker rights.” However, Lewis also takes a broader view on this issue. She focuses on self-determination. She argues that campus carry was “forced on us by the (state) legislature,” against the will of faculty, administrators and many students. “The vast majority of faculty and staff here did not want guns around them,” Lewis said. “They felt they were dangerous, they felt they were oppressive and they felt they were unnecessary … This was something that was coming from on-high. It was not a grassroots demand.” This university is ours. We eat, work, learn and live here, and we deserve to determine our own rules. If campus carry is meant to protect us, we have the right to determine if we want to be protected that way and if it actually protects us at all. The lawsuit brought against campus carry by three UT professors failed in the courts. But lawmakers are responsible to us — if the courts won’t defend our right to self-determination, we have to make our legislators do it themselves. Despite the Gun Free UT signs that remain posted, the outspoken calls against campus carry have quieted down in the years since the law was enacted. They won’t start up again unless we spark them, and that’s a collective effort, as grassroots struggles always are. This means we start on campus: start conversations about campus carry with students, staff and faculty. Go to the Gun Free UT website, and use their resources to organize protests and events. Take the fight and your voices to the Capitol steps. And don’t stop at campus carry because gun violence goes beyond this single law. We have to fight for ourselves. Rathi is a Black Studies senior from Austin.

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Eyes of Texas turn to KU

Herman reflects on Red River mishaps, shifts focus to Saturday’s matchup with last-place Jayhawks. By Donnavan Smoot @Dsmoot3D

ead coach Tom Herman walked to the podium at his weekly press conference and delivered some much-needed reassurance to Texas fans everywhere. “The sun came up,” Herman said. After losing the yearly battle with Big 12 powerhouse Oklahoma, Texas has to regroup and shift its focus onto Saturday’s opponent, the 2–4 Kansas Jayhawks. “Our guys were eager to get back to work yesterday.” Herman said. “(There was a) good energy at practice. We have completely turned the page as a team, and our sole focus, as it should be, is to do everything within our power to beat Kansas.” There is a “24-hour rule” in place for the Longhorns. Everyone in the building is

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Tom Herman steps off the team bus hours before the Longhorns’ annual matchup with Oklahoma in the Cotton Bowl. Texas came up short against the Sooners, falling 34-27 in a highly anticipated top-15 matchup. allowed to feel whatever emotion they feel after the game for exactly one day. Despite saying they’ve moved on to Kansas, the Longhorns still face the problems that were exposed during the loss to Oklahoma. Texas’ missed tackles — an issue Herman called

We have completely turned the page as a team, and our sole focus, as it should be, is to do everything within our power to beat Kansas.” TOM HERMAN

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“glaring” — allowed some of the best athletes in the conference to run free. On a flea flicker midway through the third quarter, the tackling issue was particularly evident. Oklahoma receiver CeeDee Lamb caught the ball up the sideline, broke two tackles from sophomore linebacker Joseph Ossai and senior defensive back Brandon Jones, cut away from three Longhorns and scored from 51 yards out. Texas is still without sophomore safety Caden Sterns and lost senior safety Chris Brown to a fractured forearm that will require surgery. “Again, so banged up defensively, it was not a great decision on my part,

in retrospect, to limit the tackling these last few weeks in practice, and it showed,” Herman said. “We’ve got to be able to get those guys playing fast and not thinking, and the only way to do that is if they’re 100% sure in everything that they’re doing.” The loss dropped Texas to No. 15 in the AP poll and allowed the undefeated Baylor Bears to move to second in the conference. But Texas is relaxed and confident about the potential of the rest of the season. “There is zero sense of panic,” Herman said. “There is zero sense of ‘woe is me.’ There is zero sense of our issues being unfixable.”

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Horns win Betsy Rawls Invitational

One of the primary issues for the Longhorns was their defense. Lamb had a career high in catches to go along with 171 yards and two touchdowns. For a majority of the season, the secondary has been one of the weaker areas for the Longhorns. Herman said Texas understands what needs to be done, it’s just a matter of execution. “If you’re driving down I-35 and you’re heading south and all of a sudden you realize you need to be heading north, it’s not just okay to just realize it,” Herman said. “You’ve got to do something about it, and doing something about it is getting off the off-ramp, making the U-turn and heading north.”

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Freshman standout Sophie Guo tees off in the Betsy Rawls Invitational tournament over the weekend. Guo would set a new individual school record as the Longhorns captured the tournament title for the third consecutive year. By Cameron Parker @camerondparker

The Texas Women’s Golf team found itself in a familiar position at the annual Betsy Rawls Invitational as they trailed the leaders heading into the final round. Unlike the team’s last tournament, where the Longhorns turned a onestroke deficit into a nine-stroke victory, Texas began Sunday eight strokes behind the leaders. If the Longhorns were going to pull off the comeback to win their second consecutive tournament of the season and their third straight Betsy Rawls Invitational, head coach Ryan Murphy would need a record performance from his team. Not only did Texas turn in the best 18-hole round in program history at the UT Golf Club, freshman Sophie Guo also carded a school record and bogey-free eight-under-par 64 to lift the Longhorns to a two-stroke victory over Kent State. “I knew we needed a low one,” said Murphy. “I knew we needed a 64, 65 or 66 if that was going to happen.”

Murphy got his 64 from Guo, whose score not only set a new individual school record relative to par but also tied the UT Golf Club competitive course record.

I knew on the final day we had to make a lot of birdies, and that was my goal today … Never stop. Just keep going lower.” SOPHIE GUO

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“I knew on the final day we had to make a lot of birdies, and that was my goal today,” Guo said. “Never stop. Just keep going lower.”

After a birdie on the second hole, Guo’s putter caught fire with three consecutive birdies on holes four, five and six to make the turn at six-under. Three additional birdies later — including one to close out her round on the 18th green after nearly holing out from the fairway — Guo finished fourth place individually and earned her first collegiate top-10. “All around, her game is really solid, and I know she has a lot of confidence on the course.” junior Kaitlyn Papp said of Guo. “(It) shows on days like today.” Papp has yet to finish outside the top-10 individually this season for Texas, finishing eighth at the Betsy Rawls Invitational after a solid 68 on Sunday. Papp was up and down on the front nine with a pair of bogeys and birdies each but played her final 10 holes at five-under par with birdies on 16 and 17, which proved critical to the Longhorns rally. Texas will finish up the fall session in the Bahamas at the White Sands Invitational with a shot at the number one ranking on the line.

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