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Wednesday, October 30, 2019
Volume 121, Issue 56
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Whole Foods CEO and co-founder speaks to students about his business philosophy.
UT freshmen would benefit from comprehensive, up-todate sex education.
Hear no evil: new earplugs help maintain Longhorn Band hearing health.
Now No. 1 in the country, Volleyball flying high on conference win streak.
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Proposal to add required education modules on emergencies By Neelam Bohra @neelambohratx
Student Government introduced a resolution Tuesday in support of the Office of Emergency Preparedness implementing campus-wide education modules. The proposed modules would focus on emergency situations such as fires, weather-related evacuations or active shooter situations, according to the resolution. The modules would be similar to SafeHaven, AlcoholEdu and Academic Integrity, which are modules the University requires freshmen to complete. Morgan Kunde, Senate of College Councils member, helped author the joint resolution. She said SG will work with the senate and the Graduate Student Assembly. “I’ve been a student here for three years and up until now, I didn’t know there was an Office of Emergency Preparedness,” said Kunde, a human development and family science junior. “Hurricane Harvey affected a lot of people, and that inspired me to go down the rabbit hole of emergency preparedness at UT.” Kunde said she believes students are not aware that the Office of Emergency Preparedness offers a pocket guide for emergency situations as a PDF on their website. “The premise was you would download it, and when an emergency happens, you would pull it out so you would know what to do in an active shooter situation or other emergencies,” Kunde said. “But that’s not feasible, so we’re trying to fix the problem with creating more modules that will be publicly accessible.” Kunde said adding more modules may overwhelm freshmen but is better in comparison to the current system.
anthony mireles
/ the daily texan file
Texas junior quarterback Sam Ehlinger greets fans before the Longhorns’ 45-38 loss to LSU on Sept. 7. Student-athletes like Ehlinger will be able to “benefit from the use of their name, image and likeness” beginning in 2021 after a vote from the NCAA Board of Governors.
NCAA PERMITS STUDENT-ATHLETE COMPENSATION NCAA permits student-athletes the opportunity to benefit off of their name, image and likeness.
By Donnavan Smoot @Dsmoot3D
he NCAA Board of Governors unanimously voted to “permit students participating in athletics the opportunity to benefit from the use of their name, image and likeness in a manner consistent with the collegiate model,” according to a press release from the NCAA. The decision comes nearly a month after California governor Gavin Newsom signed SB 206 into effect. The bill makes it illegal for the NCAA to rule a student-athlete in the state of California ineligible for receiving
compensation for the use of their name, image or likeness. The California bill is expected to go into effect beginning in 2023. The NCAA has historically banned players from being compensated outside the confines of their scholarships, claiming it would violate the ideas of amateurism that help drive the appeal of college sports. In 2017, the NCAA ruled University of Central Florida kicker Donald De La Haye ineligible for refusing to discontinue his YouTube channel, which was profiting off advertisements. “We must embrace change to provide the best possible experience for college athletes,” said Michael V. Drake, the chair of the board and president of The Ohio State University, in the press release. “This modernization for the future is a natural extension of the numerous steps NCAA members have taken in recent years to improve support for student-athletes, including full cost of attendance and guaranteed scholarships.” The new changes are not coming out of the blue. Seeds of the bill were planted years ago, as this conversation has been ongoing. In 2014, the Northwestern football team
attempted to unionize. They were ruled to be employees by the Chicago branch of the National Labor Relations Board. A year later, the ruling was overturned and the players were ruled to simply be student-athletes. Despite student-athletes’ new opportunity to to capitalize on their likeness, the NCAA said it still wants to maintain a level of amateurism in order to maintain a clear difference between itself and professional sports. According to the press release, the NCAA wants the new regulations to fall in line with these particular “principles and guidelines” • Assure student-athletes are treated similarly to nonathlete students unless a compelling reason exists to differentiate. • Maintain the priorities of education and the collegiate experience to provide opportunities for student-athlete success. • Reaffirm that student-athletes are students first and not employees of the university. • Protect the recruiting environment and prohibit inducements to select, remain at or transfer to a specific institution. N C A A PAGE 2
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One year after boil water notice, city releases corrective action reports By Graysen Golter
to improve this,” accounting junior Levinson said. Levinson said association members received the handbook before Business undergraduates used to its revisions in 2017. She said more receive a handbook with a section changes could be made to the curdevoted to business attire that split rent handbook, such as adding every category into men and women. more nonbinary stock photos to the Now, gender-related language is abattire section. sent from that section. “At first, it basically said, ‘Men Velma Arney, the senior director can wear this,’ ‘Women can wear of BBA Career Services, said career this,’ and so on,” Levinson said. “It’s services started removing the book’s subjecting people to pick man ver“gendered lansus woman when guage” in fall 2017 some are on a after LGBT and (gender) specnonbinary stutrum. It’s kind dents approached of like being exthem. Arney said cluded from the career services classroom. It’s like finished removwhen someone ing the language uses the wrong for this semester’s pronouns. It books and is open makes you feel like to further changes. you’re not the per“We definiteson you are.” ly recognized Levinson, a Mcthat we needed Combs Diversity LETICIA ACOSTA to make changCouncil member, director of bba diversity es,” Arney said. said she contacted inclusion and outreach “Students had Leticia Acosta, dibeen providing us with feedback, rector of BBA Diversity Inclusion and and we try as we see what’s happenOutreach at McCombs, who shared ing in (the) industry and if we can the handbook’s progress with her. make modifications.” Acosta said she consults students Claire Levinson, Gay Business through the council whenever makStudents Association president, said ing the next semester’s handbook. multiple members approached her “As we are making changes, I like during the group’s social earlier this to run it by students,” Acosta said. semester about the handbook and “We can’t give every page for feedasked her to contact career services. back, but I work with the diversity in“They brought up that concern of clusion committee. That’s just where binary language in the handbook, saying we could easily make strides H A N D B O O K PAGE 3 By Neelam Bohra
@graysen_golter
One year after the Austin Water Utility issued a boil water notice due to flooding from the Colorado River, Austin partnered with Travis County to evaluate how the city can improve its response to similar events in the future. Earlier this month, assistant city manager Rey Arellano sent a memo to Mayor Steve Adler and the City Council listing the Colorado River After Action Report, the Corrective Action Plan and an engineering study by the Austin Water Department in response to the week-long boil water notice last year. The After Action Report and Corrective Action Plan highlight 161 recommendations for how the city can improve in areas such as its communications and emergency response operations. Bryce Bencivengo, public information and marketing manager at Austin’s Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Management, said he praised the city’s response during the flooding, but the city had no plan to deal with an event that unprecedented. Bencivengo said the city will adjust for future events by improving Austin emergency response staff training and social media policy to better notify residents, among other things. He also recommended that residents register for WarnCentralTexas, a notification system that will send emails and texts to
Business handbooks reflect gender-inclusivity @neelambohratx
I want to make sure students feel like they can bring their whole selves to school.”
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prepare people in case of a public safety event. “Every individual or family should make an emergency plan and know what you’re going to do in case of an emergency,” Bencivengo said.
/ the daily texan staff
Austin Water director Greg Meszaros said while these types of extreme events won’t happen every year, they will continue to intensify. He said this is due to climate N O T I C E PAGE 3