The Daily Texan 2019-10-26

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Volume 121, Issue 46

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LBJ School of Public Affairs launches professional development certificate.

Students shouldn’t be double ticketed when parking on campus.

Learning from McConaughey: how “Script to Screen” came to be.

Football shifts its focus to Kansas after a loss to rival Oklahoma.

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SG votes against plans for Riverside apartment overhaul

HOUSING PRICES PUSH FACULTY

Rising rent across Austin sparks concern with the University regarding faculty retention rates.

By Neelam Bohra @neelambohratx

By Areeba Amer @areeba_amer

very morning, associate professor of instruction Amanda Hager leaves her home in Seguin, Texas at 7 a.m. to drive a two-hour commute to her 9 a.m. class.

Hager, who teaches in the department of mathematics, has lived in Seguin for eight years. More than 50 miles from the University, Hager said she chooses to live outside of Austin because its housing costs are too expensive for her salary.

“There are days when I’m very tired from teaching, and I have slept in my car in my parking garage,” Hager said. “I have taken naps in a Krispy Kreme parking lot. It’s not a dignified life.”

UT is concerned that Austin’s increasing housing costs will impact “faculty competitiveness,” according to the University of Texas System Fiscal Year 2020 budget report. Meanwhile, current nontenure track faculty, like Hager, are choosing to live as far as 50 miles from campus since they cannot afford to live in Austin.

Nontenure track professors are contract-based faculty who teach the majority of undergraduate students at UT, said Jen Moon, assistant dean for nontenure track faculty in the College of Natural Sciences.

UT does not currently provide financial housing aid or subsidized housing to faculty or staff, said Joey Williams, director of communications for the Office of the Executive Vice President and Provost.

The Austin-American Statesman reported in August that two-bedroom apartments in Austin averaged about $1,489 a month.

Moon said the starting salary for nontenure track faculty is around $40,000 a year, which makes Austin rent cost about 50% of their pretax salary.

“For nontenure track (faculty), that’s not going to fly,” Moon said. “You can’t have them at poverty level, and you’re hiring people to live in that environment.”

Moon said the rent makes it difficult to recruit faculty nationally because they are not getting paid enough to compensate for Austin housing.

“If we can’t hire those people because of some of these (housing cost) restrictions … that has

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ramifications in our ability to teach a huge undergraduate population effectively,” Moon said.

Hager said she works up to 60 hours a week but is only on campus for 20 hours. As a result, she said she often has to take phone appointments from students instead of meeting in person.

“I miss that immersive feeling,” Hager said.

“I always feel like I have one foot in the community and one foot out. I don’t like that. I want to be here with all of my heart and soul, and I can’t do that.”

Drew Hays, assistant professor of instruction at the department of nutritional sciences, is a nontenure track faculty member and lives

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in Taylor, roughly 45 minutes away from UT without traffic.

Hays said she lived in Austin two years ago but moved because she could no longer afford to live in Austin.

“Often, I don’t go to (other social or professional events) because I’m looking at being in Austin for 12 or 14 hours, and I don’t want to be away from home for that long,” Hays said.

Despite the commutes, both Hayes and Hager said they have remained at UT because they love their students.

“I have been driving since 2011, and I will keep driving because I love this job,” Hager said. “I have no plans to go anywhere.”

Student Government passed a resolution Tuesday asking Austin City Council to either vote against redeveloping Riverside or provide more affordable student housing.

Prompted by the upcoming council vote to potentially redevelop Riverside, SG discussed the possible demolition of 1,308 mainly student-occupied apartment units in Ballpark North, Town Lake and the Quad East, West and South. The authors of the resolution also asked other SG members to join a silent protest in front of Austin City Hall after the vote on Thursday.

SG fast-tracked the proposed resolution before passing it in a 24-4 vote.

“Riverside is a bastion of affordability in an increasingly unaffordable housing market in Austin, especially around campus,” said Rylan Maksoud, an author of the resolution and the SG housing policy director. “The main reason (SG) is taking action to stop this is to give a student voice to something where a student voice has been lacking.”

If the redevelopment passes, the SG resolution suggests the council revamp S.M.A.R.T. housing, a housing program for low-income students. The resolution also suggests the Council expand the application of the University Neighborhood Overlay, which allows developers to build more in inner West Campus if they make a small percentage of their housing affordable.

“Trying to find housing as a student at UT feels like pulling a slot machine and hoping for the best,” said Maksoud, a Plan II and government junior. “If there’s any way I can make housing a little bit easier for students … I will. They shouldn’t have to worry about where they will live instead of focusing on schoolwork or friends.”

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Research grant awarded to study Type 2 diabetes in minority groups

Student run mobile coffee shop to launch near SAC

By Hannah Williford

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A national diabetes research organization awarded University of Texas professor Mary Steinhardt a $3.3 million grant in October to conduct a study on Type 2 diabetes in Austin’s African American community.

The grant, awarded by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, will fund research throughout churches in the Austin area over a five-year span.

Steinhardt will give classes to churchgoers on how to regulate their Type 2 diabetes through exercise, healthy diets and careful monitoring. They will also discuss stressors, such as job issues, which can cause people to engage in unhealthy behavior, Steinhardt said.

“We focus as much on their life as we do on their diabetes,” Steinhardt said. “We don’t just say, ‘Let’s talk about what you ate last night.’ We talk about how their life has influenced what they ate last night.”

Steinhardt chose to focus her study on African Americans with Type 2 diabetes specifically because of the high risk they face. According to Steinhardt’s proposal, African Americans are twice as likely to have Type 2 diabetes, and they are less likely to engage in management practices than Caucasian Americans.

According to Steinhardt’s grant proposal, she aims to give participants strategies to help them cope with these stressors more effectively. In the study, this will be done through conversations, such as asking individuals to share a R E S E A R C H PAGE 2

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Mary Steinhardt received a $3.3 million grant in October 2019 from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases.

Steinhardt is using the grant to study Type 2 diabetes in Austin’s African American community.

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Students celebrate Indigenous Peoples Week

By Claidia Ng @ClaudiCaroline

As part of the week-long celebrations of Indigenous Peoples Week at the University, students learned the art of beadwork Tuesday.

The beading workshop was led by Nan Blassingame of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes and hosted by UT’s Native American and Indigenous Collective (NAIC), a community for students of Native American descent. The workship aims to preserve the art of beading by passing it down to the next generation, Blassingame said.

Students began with a thin thread and then chose multicolored beads to weave patterns creating bracelets, earrings and keychains. While students created their own designs, Blassingame said every tribe traditionally has their own designs and symbols incorporated into their beadwork.

With years of experience in designing beadwork, Blassingame said she taught her son to sew stitching patterns when he was six years old. She now teaches him how to bead to preserve the tradition.

“It was a dying art, so we just want to pass it down,” Blassingame said.

Indigenous Peoples Day was coined as an official holiday by the city of Austin in 2017. The day honors the cultures, history and legacy of indigenous peoples in place of Columbus Day, said Luis Cárcamo-Huechante, director of Native American and Indigenous Studies.

Cárcamo-Huechante, a descendant of the Mapuche people, said he appreciates the on-campus commemoration of Indigenous Peoples Day for an entire week

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Nan Blassingame, a member of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes, teaches students beading patterns traditional to her tribes during an Indigenous Peoples Week celebration on Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2019. instead of one day. He said the celebration enables indigenous communities on campus to broaden the dialogue around marginalization and critically reflect on the history of indigenous life and colonization.

“Those of us who are indigenous people have been made invisible by the colonial history of Texas and the United States,” Cárcamo-Huechante said. “I come from that history, so I want to see

the University undertake the challenge of repairing those historical issues by embracing indigeneity in these lands.”

NAIC member Melanie Donate said she encourages nonindigenous people to learn about indigenous history and culture because so much of it was erased by colonization.

“It’s important to recognize what happened to our people because we were already here and are still here,” undeclared

freshman Donate said.

Cárcamo-Huechante said the upcoming events will explain the important elements of being indigenous, which include collective life, respectful relationships to the land and appreciation for human and nonhuman life. The week’s schedule is open to all students and will include a discussion on indigenous food practices, Quechua language classes and a two-day Sacred Springs Powwow.

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iSchool grant to link informatics, public interest

By Raul Rodriguez @RaulRod800

A grant awarded to the School of Information will support a spring 2020 conference dedicated to bridging the gap between public interest work and informatics, a field of study which merges data engineering and public health.

The Public Interest Technology University Network, which gifted the grant, is a collection of 21 universities interested in using the field of informatics to serve the public interest. The conference will be held during the spring semester with its location on campus still to be determined.

To diversify the experts, the School of Information plans provide 25 travel grants to invited assistant professors, graduate students and educators at minority institutions to attend the conference, said Kenneth Fleischmann, School of Information professor.

Eric T. Meyer, dean of the School of Information, said the conference will connect individuals working in the informatics and public interest field.

“Most of the work on public interest technology is dispersed amongst lots of different departments,” Meyer said. “By bringing people together who are working in this area, we are going to be able to

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developers Presidium Group and Nimes Real Estate, spoke during the open forum portion of the SG meeting. He handed out documents which said redevelopment would slightly raise the rent, but there was no guarantee the rent would not rise if redevelopment does not pass.

“We would hope that (SG) would pause and examine these documents rather than quickly going to a resolution,” Whellan said. “I didn’t consider the impact on the University, so that’s bad on me. But equally, I think (SG) should reach out to the people impacted in (its) resolutions as well.”

Zachary Pisarski, a Cockrell School of Engineering representative, initiated a debate and said he believed fast-tracking the resolution may have lessened its value. The resolution was admitted to SG leadership on Monday and edited before and during

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build up a shared understanding of what it means to train students who want to improve the public interest through the

the meeting, said Jakob Lucas, speaker of the assembly and government senior.

“By fast-tracking (the resolution), we don’t really have time to know what’s at stake,” chemical engineering senior Pisarski said. “Even if we do go ahead and vote for this, then we’re not giving due diligence to all the complexities of it.”

Camron Goodman, student body president and a finance senior, said he also authored the resolution after students living in Riverside approached him about needing SG’s support.

“The point is to be a conversation starter with council members and not necessarily say we understand all the complexities, but we do understand the effect of all students in Riverside,” Goodman said. “That’s why part of our further resolved statements says we are open to conversations with the City Council members to talk more about (this issue).”

Editor’s note: Rylan Maksoud is a member of the Texas Student Media board.

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use of technology.”

The School of Information also plans to create an online community where

public interest work can be incorporated into the school’s curriculum, said Fleischmann. Similarly, Meyer said a proposal to create a new undergraduate degree in informatics, focused on the applications of technology in society, is making its way through the University’s approvals process.

The University has already taken steps to advance their focus on public interest technology with the Texas Advanced Computing Center and a UT’s Good Systems program, said Fleischmann, the inaugural chair for Good Systems. He said the conference can show how informatics education can improve public interest technology. “(Good System’s) focus is on ethics of artificial intelligence (AI) and essentially ensuring that AI serves the public interest,” Fleischmann said. “Part of (the conference) is to spread the word about public interest technology … how technology shouldn’t just be for a profit. It should also be for social good.”

Lan Li, an information studies graduate student, said people have to consider some of the social impacts of technology now more than ever.

“Future generations of students … need to have a better grounding in terms of the impacts of several lines of code beyond, ‘Does it run? Is it right?’,” Li said.

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time in the last week when they were uncomfortable and something they did in the situation that made them proud, Steinhardt said.

Pharmacy graduate student LaNeria Sanders said the psychological focus of the study led her to seek out the project and become involved.

“I know all the ways to treat (Type 2 diabetes), but I don’t get enough information and education on how to prevent it,” Sanders said. “It’s import-

ant to work with these populations and let them know that there are ways to cope with stress and manage it so they don’t end up with some of the complications later on.”

Jaylen Wright, health behavior and health education graduate student, said he sees the study as a way to give back to the Austin community.

“One of the things that stood out the most to me was it would (have) such an impact … in the city of Austin and for people who are … looking for a reason to have a benefit from UT being in their own city,” Wright said.

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and it makes you a real asset if you go to a bigger company one day.”

Ivy Lee said BrewBike’s business model focuses on fast service. She said the average time spent to get BrewBike customers coffee is around 45 seconds.

“Our customers can order a cup and be on their way to class in less than a minute,” Ivy Lee said. “You can’t ask for a better solution when you’re sleep deprived and in between classes.”

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LBJ School unveils professional development certificate

By Brooke Ontiveros @brookexpanic

UT graduate student Quinton Beaubouef, who ran his own business before coming to the University, said he struggled with implementing professional skills in his line of work.

“When I ran the business, I didn’t really know how to pick my management team very well,” Beaubouef said. “In retrospect, a couple of them weren’t really good fits for the roles I needed them to be playing.”

However, he said a new UT program will make him better prepared for the future. The Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs launched a two-semester professional development certificate program last month to help build career skills in students.

Lauren Berryhill, assistant director of student professional development, said 50 students are currently signed up for the program, which focuses on building six competencies valued by potential employers.

“It is really hard to figure out how to articulate your communication skills or your community engagement skills to an employer,” Berryhill said. “[Students] will not only develop these skills but also learn ... how to write about them on their resume, and how to bring them up in an interview.”

Berryhill said the six competencies include leadership, communication, career readiness,

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diversity and inclusion, community engagement and data analysis. Beaubouef, who studies public affairs and engineering, said these competencies will allow students to thrive in professional environments.

“You’re never just playing one role,” Beaubouef said. “You have a lot of different things to do in an organization or career. This professional development program is going to be able to prepare me for these challenges.”

The program allows students to show recruiters they are prepared for public service roles, according to a program pamphlet.

“Some people may say it’s just a piece of paper,” Beaubouef said. “But when … potential employers start asking you questions like what makes you qualified and what professional experience you have, you can refer to the experiences in this program.”

Students enrolled in the program are required to attend eight workshops or speaker events, complete a portfolio, participate in a capstone policy challenge and attend student meetings.

“UT provides so many resources that help students strengthen their skills,” said Vanessa Hillis, public affairs graduate student. “It becomes hard to wrap your head around all they offer. This program identifies the six competencies that will help us be more confident in our future careers but also connects you to resources that are frankly hard to find.”

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UT assistant professor wins award for stem cell research

By Nataleah Small @nataleahjoy

The National Institutes of Health granted biomedical engineering assistant professor Janet Zoldan $627,000 to fund her stem cell research for three years.

Zoldan said the grant, which she received in September, is only given to one or two people each year, and she is the first researcher at the University to win it. The award will fund research on how biomaterials, which are natural or synthetic materials that can be engineered to arrange tissue-like structures, “can control the process of stem cells differentiating into cardiovascular cells,” Zoldan said.

“It’s specifically geared to fund investigators at (an) early stage,” Zoldan said. “The idea is to identify investigators that have the ability or the potential to start new fields in the biomedical engineering arena.”

In the body, stem cells can transform into many different types of cells through differentiation, Zoldan said. When they are given the correct cues, they assemble naturally into various types of cells, she said.

Zoldan said these cells are unique because they are patient-specific. The researchers can take a blood or skin sample from a patient and modify it to age in reverse and become stem

cells, she said.

By studying patient-specific cells, they can research diseases and develop patient-specific medicines, Zoldan said. This will improve patient outcomes because cells specific to patients will not have a negative immune response within the body, she said.

“So the biggest time gap would be generating the … stem cells from a patient,” Zoldan said.

“That takes about three months. However, if we could have banks of (stem cells), that really will save … three months of generating these cells.

And then once we have that (bank of stem cells) … (it) really takes about a month to generate these vascular tissues, and then we can basically put them back into the patient.”

The lab is studying these cells in a model system, Zoldan said, to learn how to mimic cues by using near-infrared light.

“Stem cell research is really fascinating because it is kind of the bleeding edge of science,” said Cody Crosby, biomedical engineering graduate student. “There’s a lot of really revolutionary technologies that are being developed from stem cell technology.”

Biomedical engineering senior Remy Fenrich said he sees the value in this research and how it translates into other scientific fields.

“This research is collaborative,” Fenrich said.

“Community growth knowledge is extremely important, and that’s kind of how things move forward.”

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Professor Janet Zoldan, an assistant professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering in the Cockrell School of Engineering, studies how stem cells can evolve into specialized cells.

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From left, Julia Holstein, Amy Chang, and Grace Liu build gingerbread houses at the Nightmare on Treat Street event hosted by University Unions E+E in the Student Activity Center ballroom on Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2019.

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UT Events + Entertainment hosts first ‘Nightmare on Treat Street’

By Jennifer Xia @JenniferXia7

Halloween-themed music mixed with the echoes of thunder fill outside as students created gingerbread houses and decorated cookies on campus Tuesday evening.

The Campus Events + Entertainment recreation committee hosted Nightmare on Treat Street for the first time this year, where they provided gingerbread house-making supplies for students, including graham crackers, colored icing and various candies.

The event was held in the William C. Powers, Jr. Student Activity Center Ballroom and also included a photo booth where students could take photos with their friends and receive a printed commemorative photo.

“In the past we’ve done Halloween-ish themed events in October, so we tried to think of something fun that we could do during October for the spooky season that just started, and Nightmare on Treat Street is what came out of that,” committee chair Celine Low said.

The event was free for UT students and had a turnout of approximately 100 students. Kathryn Rose, E+E member and marketing sophomore, said she loves that people plan fun events like this and enjoys supporting E+E.

Low said while many other committees of E+E have a theme, the recreation committee has greater freedom in the kind of events they can host.

“Recreation is lucky in that we can do anything that is creative or fun, whether that’s trivia night or events like this,” advertising sophomore Low said.

Vivian Pan, international relations and global studies freshman, said she came to the event as part of a family event for the Chinese Student Association.

“I like decorating cookies, and it’s something I can do to relax with my friends,” Pan said.

The two students who demonstrated the most creativity in constructing their Halloween gingerbread house received an Amazon Echo at the end of the event.

“We’re not expecting some kind of museum level haunted house, so anything that is fun, creative or stands out,” Low said.

After hearing about the Amazon Echo, Rose and her teammates said they were motivated to win.

“Y’all, we need to try hard,” Rose said to her teammates. “We’re making the best ones.”

Low said the recreation committee was trying something new with this event.

“We thought it would be fun to incorporate that contest aspect with the gingerbread house making,” Low said. “We’re always trying to think about different creative ways to put our own twist on classic activities.”

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Provide specialized UT tours to cater to prospective students

By Maggie Lazaroski Columnist

Think back to your first time on the UT campus. You were probably a junior or senior in high school, eagerly looking forward to your independent future in a brand new place. Many students visiting UT for the first time take campus tours, whether it be during orientation or beforehand. However, these tours only provide an introduction to campus, leaving out buildings essential to a variety of majors.

UT should make tours even more useful for incoming students by organizing tour groups according to major or academic interests.

Orientation advisors give tours for admitted students during orientation, and tours geared towards prospective students are led by the Texas Guides through the Office of Admissions. Both prospective and admitted students would benefit from a customized tour experience. However, with the current structure for tour guides, factors such as time and scheduling keep them from personalizing their tours.

“Our students have to stick to the points they’re supposed to hit on their tour. Everything on our schedule is timed, with an hour to hit seven or eight stations,” said Desiree Alva, associate director for New Student Services. “Each tour guide leaves and starts at a different station so they don’t run into each other. So, the OA’s can’t make up anything too elaborate.”

The tours these students take, whether at orientation or beforehand, are generally their first experience learning about the UT campus. If students had

the opportunity to familiarize themselves with major-specific buildings, they would feel more comfortable when starting classes.

“In my (tour) group, like four were prospective communications majors, and two or three were engineering majors. I thought it was weird because we didn’t go to any of the communications or engineering buildings, even though those are huge programs here,” said Sydney White, a political communications and history sophomore.

Specialized tours could help students who are unsure about their major gain insight about the atmosphere surrounding their field of study.”

It’s important that incoming students are able to see the buildings where they will have many of their classes to help them feel more confident once they arrive at UT. “I would have felt a little bit more comfortable at orientation because you’re on your own a little bit. I was not comfortable at all finding Belo. I had Google Maps out the whole time,” White said.

Student comfort is not the only factor — specialized tours could help students who are unsure about their major gain insight about the atmosphere surrounding their field of study.

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feeling after her tour as a prospective student.

“Our guide was able to tell us a lot about communications because she was either a (communication) major or one of her close friends was,” White. “She told us a lot as we went from place to place, and that’s great, but it would have been nice to see it because I was still unsure about whether or not I wanted to do communications.”

In order to maximize the utility of tours, the University should consider arranging groups based on major and assigning them to a specialized tour based on their interests. Additionally, they could reduce the number of required stops to allow student guides more freedom to show students other buildings on campus.

“Absolutely it could be helpful to have common interests on tours, but at the same time, we want to make sure they’re seeing this shared Longhorn experience,” said Alex Mitchell, deputy to the executive director of the Office of Admissions.

The Longhorn experience would still be maintained if tour guides were permitted to give students more specialized tours.

Tours can still visit prominent locations, such as the Tower and the Perry-Castañeda Library, without sacrificing the interests of individual students.

It’s scary being a new student, and while UT offers great resources to ease the transition, we should constantly be adapting to improve the new-student experience. As a first impression of UT, tours should serve students the same way education does — as individuals.

Lazaroski is an international relations and global studies sophomore from Dallas.

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“Oh, we’re going to meet at a restaurant on the Drag, that shouldn’t be too far away,” I say, naively typing the address into the Google Maps search bar. The path loads, and I see the walking avatar labeled innocuously: “20 minutes.” My feet begin to ache just looking at the time it’ll take me to get there. A few icons over, it seems like the car avatar is taunting me, with its tantalizing “8 minutes” label.

All at once, I miss my car, Lexie, who’s sitting in my garage at home, just gathering dust. I wish I had her here with me.

But she likes the open road, and I can’t give her that in Austin, so when I moved back to campus for school, I had to bid her farewell.

Plenty of students do bring their cars to campus, though. In the 2016-2017 academic year, Parking and Transportation Services (PTS) issued 13,399 student permits, which means that almost a quarter of all students park their cars on campus.

With so many students and cars milling about, there’s bound to be misunderstandings and parking violations. If they park in the wrong spot or without the proper permit, students receive tickets, and they have to pay a fine.

However, UT’s analog method of distributing parking citations lands some students in hot water. Without a timely digital notification, those who don’t use their cars every day may find themselves paying multiple fines for the same infraction.

Without a timely digital notification, those who don’t use their cars every day may find themselves paying multiple fines for the same infraction.”

Political communications freshman Jarret Carnes received two tickets in a row for parking in the wrong level at Brazos Garage. “I parked there on a Sunday … and I didn’t check my car again until Thursday, so I got (one ticket) on that Monday and another that Wednesday,” he said.

Carnes ended up having to pay both tickets because he had indeed parked incorrectly, but he was frustrated because the second ticket was redundant. “It would have been really helpful if they would have notified me when that first (ticket) was put on my windshield because then I could have gone out and moved my car and avoided paying that other ticket,” Carnes said.

According to PTS director Bobby Stone, everyone is notified about their parking tickets in the same way.

“A citation is left on the vehicle windshield, and a courtesy email (the one on file with PTS associated with the vehicle plates) is sent to the offender within 24 hours,” Stone wrote in an email.

Carnes, however, didn’t get that courtesy email until he had already received his second ticket. “I didn’t find out (about the ticket) until I physically walked out there and I saw it on my windshield,” Carnes said.

Biology sophomore Britlyn Keller had the same experience as Carnes, but she was able to appeal the redundant ticket and get the charges dropped. However, the appeals process doesn’t always work.

“My friend had the exact same incident, except they didn’t change hers into a warning, and she paid both tickets,” Keller said.

Carnes also thought about appealing his ticket, but ultimately decided against it because his friends hadn’t had much luck appealing their tickets.

“I knew it wasn’t really worth my time to appeal,” Carnes said.

It seems like PTS’ system of sending a courtesy email to notify students of parking isn’t foolproof, but it begs the question: why not just send an email as soon as students receive a ticket or a citation?

Students with permits already have their license plate numbers registered with their email in the PTS system, so there’s no reason to wait 24 hours. For those who don’t check their cars every day, this could save time, energy and, most importantly, money.

Windshield tickets are a relic of the past.

It’s time for PTS to adopt a more modern notification system for parking tickets and infractions.

Dasgupta is a neuroscience sophomore from Frisco.

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STUDENT LIFE

Tattoo debates: Blood is thicker than ink UT students discuss their decisions to get tattoos, tattoo placement, mixed reactions from parents.

said. “I just did it. I’m going to tell her eventually, probably when I graduate from college.”

According to Pew Research Center, 70% of millennials said their tattoos are hidden underneath clothing. There are more than double the amount of millennials with tattoos than baby boomers, and this disconnect has led to varying degrees of backlash from parents when their children decide to get inked.

One parent, under the pseudonym Tess Morgan, penned “My son’s tattoo hurt me deeply” for The Guardian when she found out her son got a tattoo. In the essay, she said getting a girl pregnant “might have been the wbetter option.”

Burke’s mom reacted a bit differently to her daughter’s second tattoo. Because her mom works as a public defender, Burke said her mom expressed apprehension because she associates tattoos with her clients in prison.

“She had this one client who had a tattoo on his neck, and it was supposed to say ‘satin’ but it said ‘Satan,’” Burke said. “I think she’s just associates it with that.”

By Sabrina LeBoeuf @_sabrinakaye

extiles and apparel junior Emma Burke has one tattoo her parents do not know about.

They know about her other pieces: the script on her wrists, the heart and anarchy symbol on her leg, the text on her finger. She told her parents about all of those beforehand. But she has yet to tell them about the first tattoo she ever got, the words ‘girl power’ inscribed on her ribs.

“I feel like my mom would be so mad because I didn’t ask her about it,” Burke

As she got more tattoos, Burke said her mom realized that not all tattoos are gang or cult related. Eventually, Burke convinced her mom to get a matching “YOLO” tattoo with her.

Studio art junior Jasmine Chock didn’t experience the same support when she told her parents she was getting a tattoo. “(My mom) was like, ‘Don’t spend your money on that.

You can spend it on other things. That’s going to be there forever. Why do you need to do that?’” Chock said.

When Chock told her parents she was getting a second tattoo, they still said no, but she did it anyway.

“It was a really impulsive and kind of disrespectful thing,” Chock said. “But, (looking back on it) I was able to understand that and get to some level of mutual understanding.”

For students debating getting a tattoo, Chock said to consider how their parents will react. Rather than telling parents “there’s nothing you can do about it,” Chock said it’s best to be upfront about the tattoo and have a conversation about it.

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Angel Serda, a tattoo artist for All Saints Tattoo Studio North, said he gets “plenty” of college student clients who want to avoid that conversation with their parents.

He said those wanting hidden tattoos will place their art on their waistline or ribs.

“I tell them, ‘Your parents are paying over 10 grand a year for you to go to college,” Serda said. “There’s no way

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that they’re going to back out of a tens of thousand dollar investment. They’re not going to disown you. Chill out, it’s a tattoo. Get it where you want.”

STUDENT LIFE

Celebrate fall season with pumpkin patches near campus, around Austin

By Catherine Cardenas @c_aaattt

As Halloween nears and colder weather approaches, so do classic fall activities.

Pumpkin patches are a fall staple, perfect for photo opportunities and getting your pumpkin carving fix.

In college, it can be difficult to find the right time and place for the full pumpkin patch experience. The Daily Texan compiled a list of pumpkin patches located near campus and around Austin to help students find their perfect jack-o’-lantern.

Tarrytown United Methodist Church

Just over two miles from campus, the closest pumpkin patch for students is located at Tarrytown United Methodist Church. The patch has been a tradition for 30 years at the church and serves as a fundraiser for the church’s students traveling to serve communities both local and abroad. It provides a picturesque scene to snap some cute fall photos, in addition to pumpkins for all your carving needs. Pricing varies by the size of each pumpkin.

The patch is open 2 p.m. to 7 p.m. Monday-Friday, 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Saturday and 12 p.m. to 7 p.m. on Sunday.

Saint John’s United Methodist Church

About four miles from campus, Saint John’s United Methodist houses a pumpkin

patch. The church is located at 2140 Allandale Road and can be reached by an approximate 30 minute bus ride. For a suggested $10 family or $3 individual donation, you can also paint your pumpkin on weekdays, which can be a fun alternative for those who don’t want to deal with the smell or mess that comes with carving a pumpkin. The patch is open Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., Tuesday and Thursday from 2:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. and Sunday from 12 p.m. to 7 p.m..

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Although slightly farther away from campus, the pumpkin patch located on Anderson Terrace also includes opportunities to paint your pumpkins and take photos. Furry friends are welcome Monday through Thursday. In addition to a $5 entrance fee applied to any purchase made, pumpkins start at $2, and cost varies by size. The patch is open from 9 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. Monday-Thursday and 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Friday-Sunday.

Sweet Berry Farm

If you don’t mind driving too far, a trip to Sweet Berry Farm in Marble Falls, Texas makes for the perfect day trip. This location provides the most diverse range of activities, with entertainment for all ages. In addition to

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Austin resident Nairely Granda walks through a pumpkin patch at Saint John’s United Methodist Church on Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2019. Granda said she came to take pictures and find a pumpkin to carve. a pumpkin patch, the farm also includes a corn maze, flower picking, scarecrow stuffing and the opportunity to ride the horses that are located on the property.

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disorienting while featuring stellar lighting effects and a glowing vortex.

Lastly, “Clown” welcomes guests into a run-down home owned by a family that simply loves to clown around. The eerie corridors and dusty rooms have been infested with maniacal circus clowns eager to put a permanent smile on your face.

Movie Screening

Once a week leading up to Halloween, movie theater chain Alamo Drafthouse will bring their giant inflatable movie screen to House of Torment, complete with a lineup of classic horror favorites.

Throughout the remainder of the month, films such as “Child’s Play” and “Night of the Living Dead” will be haunting the giant projection screen. Guests can now continue their night of terror with a dosage of horror cinema.

Axe Throwing

Guests eager to defend themselves from the onslaught of zombies and clowns roaming the attraction can perfect their skills with House of Torment’s brand-new Class Axe booth. Equipped with several small axes, guests can test their aim on a selection of wooden targets. Those looking for competition can even keep score by using the different point references listed on the various parts of the targets.

Mini-Escape Rooms

In between attractions, guests have the opportunity to immerse themselves in short escape room experiences. While most escape room attractions aim for an elongated and complex experience, House of Torment simply gives guests five minutes to solve the mystery of their captivity. The rooms all revolve around different storylines, including a heist mission and a jail escape. One

room even places a guest in a prison cell, forcing the other members of the team to work together to rescue the prisoner.

The Icons

While customers fearfully await their turn at the front of the haunted maze line, creatures will make drastic attempts to entertain their upcoming victims. Monsters, dubbed as “icons” by the haunt, roam the park while spreading fear and entertainment amongst customers. Icons range anywhere from a rejected party clown with a blue tongue to a decaying sailor zombie covered in seaweed and hanging lanterns. These creatures come with unique personalities, interacting with customers in a variety of ways. Some will simply growl and stalk, while others may engage in decadently morbid dialogue with guests. One spooktacular creature even begs for Halloween candy to fill her pumpkin pail.

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FOOTBALL

Texas moves on from Oklahoma

After a tough loss to Oklahoma, the Longhorns have quickly shifted their focus to Kansas.

By Donnavan Smoot @Dsmoot3D

ivalry games are different than normal games. Players move faster, fans seem louder and the outcome means more. Texas plays its rival in the middle of the season, which is different than other programs that typically play their rivals at the end. This structure, combined with a loss, can derail a team. Yet, the Longhorns feel their loss to Oklahoma will only bring them together and show the country what they’re made of.

“We had two choices,” junior quarterback Sam Ehlinger said. “To let it affect us and separate us or let it bring us together and learn from our mistakes and get better.”

Following the loss, one of the biggest words to come out of the Longhorns’ mouths is resiliency. It is a trait they feel is a strength

of theirs, as well as one that is necessary to continue on their path to remaining an elite program.

Ehlinger referenced the 24-hour rule Texas has in place when he discussed getting over the loss. He felt that despite losing to the Sooners, Texas shouldn’t have a difficult time shifting their focus over to Kansas.

“No, I don’t think it should be harder,” Ehlinger said. “If we say we want to do the things we want to do and we truly believe in that, then we’ll approach everything with a winning mentality.”

The Longhorns are at the midpoint of their season.

With six games left, they still have room to make up ground in the conference.

The only top 25 opponent they have left to face is undefeated Baylor — which has surprised many with its success.

“We definitely have enough time to bounce back,” senior wide receiver Devin Duvernay said. “We still have everything out in front of us.”

Head coach Tom Herman reminded everyone that “the sun came up,” and similarly to the week following the LSU loss, the energy around the program suggests they don’t feel the season is lost.

“We know what we want to do,” Duvernay said. “We want to win the Big 12, (and) we feel like we still have a

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Junior Sam Ehlinger throws the football in Texas’ matchup against rival Oklahoma in the Red River Rivalry game on Oct. 12 at the Cotton Bowl. chance at that, so we’re just positive.”

The positivity has been instilled into the fabric of this team. They feel as if they can handle anything thrown at them despite what

anyone on the outside says.

“At the end of the day, people are entitled to their own opinions, and like coach Herman tells us all the time, the only people’s opinions that matter are the guys that are in our bunker

and on this team,” senior safety Brandon Jones said.

Texas’ loss to Oklahoma was its second loss to a top 10 team this season. In both games, Texas was an underdog, but Jones doesn’t feel like the difference be-

tween the teams is in their skill level.

“Anytime you get a situation like that, where both teams are ranked … people’s emotions kind of get in the way of a lot of stuff,” Jones said.

TENNIS

Ito’s first fall singles title sets the tone for another championship run

By Zachary Leff & Nathan Han

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On Sunday, senior Yuya Ito captured his first singles title of the fall session against No. 10 Sam Riffice of the University of Florida with a 6-4, 6-4 victory at the Saint Francis Health System ITA All-American Championships in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Ranked No. 4 in the nation, Ito ran through the competition in the main draw defeating multiple top 40 players along the way. The final match against Riffice was a rematch of last spring’s national championship semifinal match where Ito’s success propelled the Longhorns to the 2019 championship round.

“In this tournament, in the past two years I’ve lost in the first round, and I thought it might be one of the unlucky

tournaments for me, but obviously here I am,” Ito said. “I was just very dedicated with this being my last time here.”

In the championship match, Ito continued his hot streak and took the first set.

However, in the second set, Ito went down early to Riffice and had to battle through adversity, ultimately securing a 3-0 run.

Tied 4-4 in the second set, Ito floated a lob shot over the head of Riffice to win the ninth game. It was this backbreaking moment of Ito’s comeback run that caused Riffice to put his hands on his head in frustration.

Ito’s win against Riffice on a national stage could be a sign of things to come for the Texas tennis team. The senior beat Riffice in the semifinals of last year’s NCAA Championships to help Texas advance to the finals and eventually win its first

national title.

With Texas’ campaign to win a second national title now underway, Ito’s singles title at the All-American Championships against stiff competition puts the Longhorns on the right track.

Head coach Bruce Berque said he was very impressed with the way Ito played all week and liked the way he set the tone for the younger players on the team.

“Everyone associated with our program is extremely proud of and happy for Yuya,” Berque said. “Yuya set the tone early that he was going to play an aggressive style of tennis, and that was no doubt one of the keys to the match.”

Ito’s singles title win also means that in three of the four events Texas has attended so far, a Longhorn has won the singles title.

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Senior Yuya Ito hits the tennis ball during a match on April 1. Ito’s singles title on Sunday came after a comeback in the second set.

BASEBALL

Texas prepares for fall practice after coaching, team culture changes

By Stephen Wagner @stephenwag22

When the Longhorns recorded the final out of the 2019 season nearly five months ago, they did so with a sigh of relief; the team’s 6-4 win on the final day of the season ensured it would finish 27–27 and avoid being the first losing Texas team since 1999.

With pressure mounting from the Longhorn community, head coach David Pierce understood the need for changes in his philosophy, mentality and staff to quell a program with an instilled winning tradition.

Pierce addressed those changes and more on Monday afternoon at UFCU Disch-Falk Field.

Among the adjustments Pierce made during the offseason were the additions of Texas legend Huston Street — remembered by Texas fans for his MVP performance in the 2002 College World Series — and five-time MLB All Star Troy Tulowitzki to the Texas coaching staff.

“When you’ve got a guy who’s played the position at the highest level, you take that information,” Pierce said Monday about Tulowitzki. “He knows the game inside out.”

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Texas baseball stands together during a game on April 2. This year’s team is changing the cliqish culture from last season.

Tulowitzki, who was hired

by Pierce in late July, brings a competitive and mental hitting philosophy to an offense in desperate need of repairs.

Tulowitzki’s technical adjustments to his players’ swings

will be limited, instead focusing largely on the mental aspects of play.

“At the end of the day, I want (the players) to compete,” Tulowitzki said. “I think, if anything, I can help

them slow down the game.

If I can help them with one thing, it’d be to slow down the game.”

But the Longhorns’ issues run deeper than a star-studded coaching staff, as sopho-

more outfielder Eric Kennedy said. Kennedy, fresh off a stellar summer campaign in California, contrasted the cliquish behavior from last season with the growing bond of this year’s team.

“This year, we’re closer than we were last year,” Kennedy said Monday. “Everybody does things together, whereas last year everybody would kind of sit separate.”

Kennedy also mentioned, as did Pierce and Tulowitzki, that no starting position is safe despite the return of most defensive starters, particularly at shortstop.

With the departure of David Hamilton, who would have likely started the 2020 season as one of the few returning players whose starting spot wasn’t in jeopardy, the heart of the infield is open for competition. Pierce noted some first-year talent in freshmen and junior college transfers, but ultimately, nothing has been decided.

“Everything is wide open; we’ve said that from day one,” Pierce said. “(The freshmen and junior college transfers) haven’t played at this level either. (Shortstop) is going to be a fun position to watch.”

Among the things Pierce is emphasizing in his culture change is simplifying the approach of his team and coaching staff by “doing less better.”

Time will tell if Pierce’s offseason changes are enough to reinstate the Longhorns’ winning tradition.

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‘He’s just Matthew’: A look into UT’s most famous professor’s class

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“The DNA of this class is Matthew,” Script to Screen professor Scott Rice said.

McConaughey brings real-life experiences to ‘Script to Screen’ class, aims to make students more confident in film.

By Mackenzie Dyer @mackdyer

n class, Matthew McConaughey doesn’t sign autographs — he assigns schoolwork.

The Academy Award winner graduated from UT Austin with a film degree in 1993. Alongside faculty member and filmmaker Scott Rice in 2015, McConaughey developed the curriculum for Script to Screen, which provides a behind-the-scenes view of each stage of a film’s production.

“I had the idea for this class 10 years ago,” McConaughey said. “But, I didn’t have the confidence to say, ‘Let’s create that curriculum and teach about it.’”

With the help of friends and family, he decided he had much to offer to the classroom.

“I realized, ‘You’ve got 25-27 years of experience, that’s worthy of sharing,’” McConaughey said. “‘Not everyone has that, and you shouldn’t take it for granted.’”

After volunteering to instruct occasionally, McConaughey became more involved over time since creating the class, Rice said. McConaughey was recently promoted to a professor of practice within the radio-television-film department.

“He started doing production with students in class and eventually was able to bring in directors,” Rice said.

The name of the course comes from McConaughey’s observation of the difference between final versions of films and their original scripts.

When he visited the class earlier this month with director Jeff Nichols, McConaughey said he was intimidated in film school because he thought each of his films had to be what the script said verbatim. Later, he realized the script is a foundation for the creativity that occurs on set.

“You have to adapt along the way,” Mc-

Conaughey said. “That script can inspire you to do other things. Through the class, you see why.”

On top of studying the filmmaking process, the class’s primary goal is to help students feel confident when walking into the competitive film industry.

Cristin Stephens, film production graduate student, said Rice teaches the class on a regular basis and offers hands-on opportunities to work on film sets and pitch ideas for scholarship grants, along with the curriculum.

McConaughey, Stephens said, attends class on special occasions and helps provide real-world perspectives with the opportunity to discuss the development of scripts not yet available to the public.

When McConaughey introduced himself, he told students he prefers to go by either his first or last name, not “professor.” Rather than lecturing through PowerPoints, Stephens said he simply talks about his experiences with the class in a conversational setting.

“I’m not giving the answers to any tests,” McConaughey said.

When the UT celebrity is in the classroom, radio-television-film senior Jonathon Broughton said students don’t snap selfies

or pitch projects. Instead, they treat McConaughey like any other professor.

“He’s just Matthew,” Broughton said.

“At first, I was intimidated to be in the same room as him … (but) he started at the bottom, where we are right now, and getting a mentor like this is unparalleled.”

As a mentor, McConaughey connects students to the film industry by bringing in directors he works with. This semester, students are studying the work of Guy Ritchie and Jeff Nichols, specifically focusing on their films starring McConaughey: ‘The Gentlemen’ and ‘Mud.’ “The department has now taught ‘Mud’ here twice,” Nichols said. “Matthew and Scott are bringing it down to earth with this class and connecting students to something that might feel impossible.”

Stephens said the best piece of advice she received during Nichols’ and McConaughey’s recent visit was to battle filmmaking perfectionism. Her notes from McConaughey’s conversation about ‘Mud’ detail this idea.

“The key is to start now and to do it badly,” McConaughey said. “Show it, shoot it, record it. Screw it up. I dare you, you can’t.”

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House of Torment adds to experience with axe throwing, horror film screenings

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House of Torment is back from the grave once again for its 2019 haunt season.

Eager thrill-seekers will be pleasantly surprised to discover the notorious attraction has brought with it a plethora of exciting and ghoulish activities, including a new axe-throwing game, horror screenings and haunted mazes. The Daily Texan went to the 2019 Media Night and compiled a list to give students a taste of what House of Torment’s new experiences have to offer.

Haunted Mazes

As one of Austin’s most notable haunted attractions, House of Torment wouldn’t be as memorable without its signature batch of three haunted mazes. Attendees have the opportunity to face their fears within several uniquely-themed experiences. “Rise of the Dead” sends visitors deep into the halls of an asylum overrun with infected patients. Customers travel through cell blocks and medical facilities while escaping the foul swipes of the undead.

The second attraction, “Dimensions of Darkness,” revolves around an otherworldly atmosphere filled with everything from gigantic alien creatures to demonic evil twins.

The interior of this maze is twisted and THRILLER

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Monsters chase visitors out of a haunted maze at the House of Torment, seen on Oct. 9, 2019. The haunting attraction offers multiple experiences such as a movie screening, axe throwing, mini-escape rooms and monsters who roam the grounds.