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First annual Werk.Go.Slay women’s summit gives students professional advice.

Thanksgiving narrative represses indigenous history, glorifies colonialism.

Welcome to the neighborhood: Mr. Rogers Biopic is a charming view of private life.

Seniors wear white uniforms for the final time this regular season in loss to Baylor.

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UT professors present Hispanic Equity Report to Texas reps By Laura Morales @lamor_1217

Eight Hispanic professors held a public presentation with three members of the Texas House’s Mexican American Legislative Caucus Friday to report on issues of disparity that they say they face at the University. The Independent Equity Committee released a report analyzing representation and compensation for Hispanic professors on Oct. 8. The report found that “various inequities undermine Hispanic faculty at UT.” After the report was released, State Reps. Eddie Rodriguez, D-Austin, Gina Hinojosa, D-Austin, and Art Fierro, D-El Paso, reached out to the committee and asked them to present the findings in a conference room in the Texas Capitol. Alberto Martinez, history professor and chair of the committee, said Hispanics are underrepresented in the student body and faculty. He said the faculty are underpaid compared to counterparts with similar job titles and publications. “You can work and swim as hard as you want, but it is a nearly-zero correlation,” Martinez said during the presentation. “Whatever salary you get is a process that has to do with random things, such as your tone or how much you wave your hand when you talk.” Some University professors were in the crowd of around 30 people, including Victor Sáenz, chair of the Education Leadership and Policy Department. Sáenz said, as one of the six Hispanic department chairs on campus, he has a unique responsibility to ensure the University addresses the inequalities. “I recognize my role to ensure we could hold our leadership accountable,” Sáenz said. “We are not only paying attention, but we are also acting upon these inequities for faculty and even for our students.” R E P O R T PAGE 2

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Junior quarterback Sam Ehlinger is tackled by Baylor defensive end James Lockart and another Baylor defender at McLane Stadium in Waco, Texas Saturday. Ehlinger was sacked five times in Texas’ 24-10 loss to the Bears.

Baylor squanders Longhorns’ final hope for Big 12 Championship appearance as offense falls flat. By Donnavan Smoot @dsmoot3D

owever you want to put it, Texas’ season is over. Technically, there is still one more game: a rather meaningless matchup between a pair of reeling Texas teams. Texas had an opportunity to save its season on Saturday, with winning being the first domino Texas needed to fall to keep its already small chance of making it back to the Big 12 Championship Game alive. As Baylor continued to dominate throughout the late November afternoon, Texas proved it never really had a

grasp on this opportunity or this season. They understood the magnitude of the game. They knew winning was the only way to stay above water. That’s why head coach Tom Herman slammed his head into senior defensive lineman Malcolm Roach’s helmet four times during a pregame speech. “I used to do that, as a coordinator at Ohio State and as a head coach at Houston,” Herman said. “In my old age, I kind of stopped doing it a little bit. But I just felt it inside of me in this game because I knew we had to play physical, we had to play with strain, and I just felt like the young coach Herman.” For Texas, the loss comes in two parts, much like its season. During the first half, offense wasn’t as inept as it was in Ames, Iowa the week prior, but the team still couldn’t find a pulse, only scoring three points at the end of the half following a 68-yard run from sophomore running back Keaontay Ingram that began at the two-yard line. Despite the last-second points the Longhorns put on the board before halftime, it didn’t serve as any type of spark for Texas, as the offense continued on a downward trend in the second half.

It was a major reversal of the offense that was on the field at the beginning of the season. That offense was viewed as the strength of this team, with playmakers and speed complimenting a Heisman hopeful quarterback. Now it is a team that, in a game to save its season, didn’t reach the red zone until the final moments and didn’t score a touchdown until one second was left in the fourth quarter. But Texas’ defense did its job in the first half. It held one of the top offenses in the country to only one touchdown. The problem was that the results weren’t matched on the other side — the story of Texas’ entire season. It has been on rare occasion that the Longhorns have played complimentary football. Early in the season, the defense gave up points as easy as the offense got them. In the last three games, the roles have been reversed. “It’s very frustrating,” junior quarterback Sam Ehlinger said. “Our defense is doing a great job of playing hard, and we’re not handling our side of the bargain and take a lot of ownership and try to fix it.” Toward the end of the game, when all

of McLane Stadium knew the Bears were going to leave victorious, chants of “BU” broke out among the crowd. Then senior offensive lineman Zach Shackelford was hit with a personal foul penalty and senior offensive lineman Parker Braun was hit with an unsportsmanlike penalty, signs of the built-up frustration from the game finally to boiling over. Braun was then seen escorted off the field. Shackelford said that he was “playing through the whistle” postgame, and Braun was unavailable for comment. However, Herman addressed the situation, since Braun was thought to have been ejected and didn’t return to the game. “Obviously, (Braun will) be dealt with from a punitive standpoint,” Herman said. Texas’ performance was a point of embarrassment for this team. Both teams struggled in the first half, but Baylor was able to breakthrough in the second half and get the offense flowing. Meanwhile, Texas’ offense had as much flow as a tangled water hose. “These guys want to win,” Herman F O O T B A L L PAGE 3

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Texas higher education commissioner promises statewide improvements

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The mother of Harrison Brown, a student who was fatally stabbed in 2017, has reached a settlement in a lawsuit against Kendrex White and his family. Harrison was stabbed two and a half years ago outside Gregory Gym by former biology junior White, who was found not guilty of the murder by reason of insanity. Harrison’s mother, Lori Brown, filed a lawsuit in May that named the White family and Kendrex’s medical caretakers for negligent failure to control. “I wanted to continue fighting for Harrison,” Lori said. “I was a little disheartened after the outcome of the criminal case, and I was determined to keep fighting and doing whatever I could to fight for Harrison.” The suit argues that the defendants knew or should have known White’s schizoaffective disorder could cause him to potentially harm himself or others. The lawsuit states White’s caretakers and parents had a special relationship with and duty to control

Higher education commissioner Harrison Keller used his first State of Higher Education Address Thursday to highlight higher education shortcomings and how institutions can improve. “Today, the state of Texas higher education is uneven but with tremendous potential,” Keller said. “Although we face serious challenges — and in truth, what we’re seeing in the data isn’t where we want to be — we know there are many examples of Texas institutions that have been making great progress.” Less than two months after replacing former commissioner Raymund Paredes, Keller said it is more important than ever to pursue secondary education for a future career. He cited a Georgetown University study that found that 99% of job growth since 2016 went to workers with at least some higher education. Keller also cited a United States Census study that found that unemployment

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Harison Brown’s mother, Lori Brown, has reached a settlement with Kendrex White and his family over a lawsuit with White’s medical caretakers for negligent failure to control. Lori is focusing on legislation to improve campus safety and raise ALS awareness. White’s conduct and breached their duty. Lori’s lawyer, Sean Breen, said after settling with White’s family, Lori declined to pursue suing the medical caretakers further. White’s lawyer in the criminal case, Janam Ortega, and AdventHealth, which was named in the suit, did not respond to a request for comment.

“Because of the way Texas law works, it’s so very, very difficult to proceed against medical professionals when you’re not their patient,” Breen said. Breen said the lawsuit was settled out of court, but the amount of money that was settled upon is confidential. He said they hoped to bring some exposure and advocate for changes to the state’s

mental healthcare system through the lawsuit. “Kendrex White had fallen through the cracks in that system, and that was one very big cause of Harrison’s death,” Breen said. “It was important to the family to achieve some sense of justice and accountability for Harrison.” H A R R I S O N PAGE 3

among people with only high school diplomas was more than 80% higher than those with bachelor’s degrees. Keller said most Americans and Texans believe postsecondary education is important, but studies show that many people without college degrees are concerned about going into student debt without the means to pay it off. “Our response must be an even greater commitment to our public mission,” Keller said. “Today, students, families, employers and policymakers are asking pointed questions about cost and value. The intensity of this criticism is not going away. It will more than likely increase, especially given the ways higher education issues are being framed in national debates and political campaigns.” In 2015, the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board made 60x30xTX, a group of state leaders with the goal to have 60% of Texas’s young population gain postsecondary credentials by 2030. Keller said some strides E D U C A T I O N PAGE 2

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After breaking down more than 1300 pages of the City of Austin’s land code draft, a communication studies organization mediated a conversation Friday about how the new code will impact Austinites. The organization, called the UT Project on Conflict Resolution, consists of students and staff who provide conflict mediation sessions for the community, according to the Communication Studies website. Many people attended the event at the Belo Center for New Media, and they were asked what issues should be addressed before the land code is changed. The city’s goal is to propose 405,000 new housing units with an estimated 9,000 of them for low-income residents, according to an event presentation by the organization. It took a team of about 30 students in a conflict mediation course nearly a month to sort through the land code draft and create the presentation, said Caleb Newton, the president of UT’s Society of Professional Mediators. “We were very scared that no one would show up to talk about the land code, because local politics, especially in Austin, aren’t really talked about that

much,” government junior Newton said. “Some people who come to school here are only here for four years at a time.” Newton said the organization will possibly take the concerns raised about the new code to Austin City Council at the Dec. 7 public hearing about the code. The organization separated the audience into four groups and asked them to discuss questions about the land code before announcing their ideas. Several groups voiced concerns about how the new land code and housing prices will affect lower-income people, the homeless and students. International relations freshman René Otero said he is concerned about people having to live farther away from the public transportation they need due to high prices. He said a new land code will not solve all of the issues Austin faces, but having more open discussions with the larger community is a start. “The event, while it was a class project, is truly reflective of what we need here in Austin,” Otero said. Sydney Veatch, a human dimensions of organization junior, said she helped plan the event and said the facilitators wanted to have a proactive discussion. “(The attendees were) not fighting or talking over each other but really listening to each other and responding.” Veatch said. “And (a proactive discussion) seems to be what we got.”

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diversity, said he acknowledges that the findings of the report show Latinx professors are “underrepresented” and “disadvantaged in terms of pay,” and the office is working on diverse hiring initiatives. “It’s against the law to target Latinx faculty in particular, or people of any of identity in particular, in terms of money or advantages or even hiring,” said Gordon, an African and African diaspora studies associate professor. “But we are going to engage in initiatives that directly attack the inequities that exist.” Martinez said this is not a general diversity issue because proportional disparities do not exist for any other minority groups on campus. “This is not a problem with diversity,” Martinez said. “This is a problem of equal employment opportunity for Hispanic faculty at the University. The patterns we found are not evidenced in other minority groups.” Lauren Girgis contributed to this story.

The committee recommened the University appoint Hispanics to leadership positions, hire and work to retain Hispanic faculty, compensate Hispanics for salary disparities and comply with affirmative action in holistic admissions. Martinez said the committee has already met with University officials and discussed recommendations, but UT has not committed to specific actions. Rodriguez said he met with University officials on the issues of equality. He said the caucus would like to use the model of the committee’s report to conduct similar analysis of Hispanics at other universities because the caucus works to create equality for Hispanics in the Texas educational system. “It is something that should be done with all the system’s state schools,” Rodriguez said. “We allocate some money

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History professor Alberto Martínez, chairman of the Independent Equity Committee, details the underrepresentation and under-compensation of Hispanic professors at the Texas State Capitol building on Nov. 22, 2019.

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have been made toward this goal, but data from the group’s July report indicates progress has slowed in the last year toward making sure Texans have marketable skills and are able to complete degrees. This is especially for underrepresented groups such as Hispanics and African Americans. “We need to work together across institutional boundaries, so all students, regardless of race, ethnicity or income can fully participate in, benefit from and contribute ?rewohS seY to the future of Texas,” oN morf knirD aw supmaTexc N retkeep Keller said. o“To oN ?sniatnuof as competitive, we can’t just make incremental progress. We have to work

with urgency, much faster than higher education institutions and the agency have historically operated.” Keller said he promises to coordinate more closely with higher education institutions in the coming months and provide more useful and accessible data to improve in lacking areas, such as federal research obligations to Texas institutions and venture capital. “The State of Texas has adopted an ambitious goal to educate more people to higher standards than ever before,” Keller said. “As we work on this goal, we have to keep today’s students in mind. retaw eht knirD ym hsaW seY retlfi a htiw sdnah al- OS I ?can’t promise I ?will ...I NAC morf eci esU ?y rdnual oD but seY happy, ways you ?rekam emake ci na I can promise I will always listen and be open to other ideas.”

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Sororities to launch diversity initiatives, make rush more open By Sara Schleede @saraschleede

The University Panhellenic Council is launching a new task force and set of initiatives to diversify Greek life and make sorority recruitment more accessible. The council’s president Evana Flores said the executive board began their efforts in response to a Campus Climate Response Team meeting after UT Police Department removed masked protestors carrying torches from the Main Mall in November 2017. “They were asking us what we were doing to educate our members about white supremacy and making people allies,” advertising senior Flores said. “We set out to write a statement from that point owning up to the issues in the past and the issues currently going on and actual ways of amending it.” Starting fall 2019, the counpedro luna | the daily texan staff cil’s executive board will include Senior advertising major Max Harberg and senior finance major Lance of the Inter Fraternity Council give away water a vice president of diversity and Monday. This came after the city’s water boil announcement Monday morning, which left many students without inclusion. Business sophomore potable water. Eliana Schuller currently works on the new diversity and inclusion task force and is applying for the position. “It’s important that we address these issues on a chapter level within our community,” Schuller By Katie Balevic By Megan Menchaca said. “My biggest idea is to cre@KatelynBalevic @meganmenchaca13 ate more programming that is both engaging and informative to change the overall culture without The City of Austin issued a boil water notice MonA citywide boil water notice has been issued for the first making it seem too forced.” day following recent flooding, telling residents to time in the history of the Austin water utility. Here are some The new task force will overboil water before using it for drinking, cooking or answers to questions frequently asked by students. see each chapter’s diversity edmaking ice. ucation programs. Schuller said “The notice is being issued as the utility works to Why do I need to boil the water? the task force is committed to stabilize the water treatment system,” the notice said. After historic flooding in Central Texas,inclusivity the water and supply promoting integBoil notices usually only last 24 to 48 hours, but is now full of debris, silt and rity, muddespite and requires extended a history of segreupdates will be posted daily about the actions taken filtration by the city. These conditions it difficult gation are andmaking intolerance among to treat the water and how long the advisory will last, for the water plant to filter the volume of water needed for the notice said. By the end of the day Monday, the boil the entire city. S O R O R I T Y page 3 water notice escalated and the City urgently called for Although there is no evidence of bacterial infilresidents to limit their personal water usage. tration, Austin Water is advising residents to boil “Water reservoir levels are reaching minimal levthe water to ensure that it is safe to drink until UNIVERSITY els,” the notice said. “This is an emergency situation.” further notice. Recent flooding caused high levels of silt to flow

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Along with officers wearing blue, black and white, the UT Police Department now has 11 officers patrolling campus in fluorescent yellow uniforms. UTPD previously had more than 50 security guards at various locations around campus, along with regular police officers. UTPD Chief David Carter said he made 11 of these guards into public safety officers by changing their titles and uniforms in By Ross Burkhart early September to fit with @ross_burkhart the jobs of similar officers at other public universities. “Other universities have here’s one question Texas playpolice officers and they have ers and coaches most frequently public safety officers, which answered this week: How would are basically mobile secuthis team respond after a win over USC rity guards,” Carter said. when a bigger, tougher opponent in TCU “But we see them a little bit was lurking ahead? differently. Their primary To the delight of an exuberant Texmission is to be ambassaas crowd, the Longhorns answered that dors and go out and be extra PROJECT question by giving one of their most eyes and ears for the campus complete, all-around performances in and UTPD.” recent memory. Carter said these new officers respond to non-emerSophomore quarterback Sam Ehlinger gency alarms, collect losttook a knee on the final play as the rest and-found items, take police of the Longhorns walked onto the field reports from students and to celebrate the 31-16 win over the No. 17 answer questions. Horned Frogs on Saturday. The victory “They’re not police offimarked the program’s first three-game cers per se, but they are out win streak since 2014 and its first time there as community servants beating Top 25 opponents in consecutive working to support our Uniweeks since 2008. versity and especially our “I think it’s a huge win,” junior safety students, as well as faculty, Brandon Jones said after the win. “Me staff and visitors,” Carter said. “It’s healthy for stuF O O T B A L L page 2 dents to see these officers elias huerta | the daily texan staff out there and know that they Texas junior wide receiver Collin Johnson celebrates a 31-yard touchdown reception in Texas’ 31-16 victory over the can report things to them.” TCU Horned Frogs. The Longhorns have now won three straight games to improving their record to 3-1. Because the officers are non-commissioned and are not licensed to be police ofSTATE UNIVERSITY ficers, they do not have the ability to arrest people, carry a weapon or respond to emergencies on campus. Donald Smith, one of the public safety officers, said despite not being a commissioned officer, he still FISCAL YEAR 2018 works to keep the University “(O’Rourke’s) focus seems to whether to revise the auto-admit threshold is “The University is anticipating a simBy Chad Lyle By Katie Balevic safe by easing the workload @LyleChad @KatelynBalevic be on fighting for illegal immibased on application data. ilar number of Texas resident freshmen reported children were held in of Lisa commissioned officers By Dreher grants and forgetting the mil“The University of Texas at Austin annualadmission applications, and this con@lisa_drehers97 prison-like cages and separatwho are often preoccupied lions of Americans — you know, ly assesses historical application and enrolltributed to our decision to maintain the ed from their families for months. Incumbent Republican Sen. 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Women’s summit aims to empower women of color, provide tools to pursue business careers By Carly Rose @carlyydrose

Around 150 women gathered on campus Saturday to learn from the speakers at the first annual Werk.Glo. Slay summit. The women’s summit aimed to empower women in their personal and professional lives and give them the tools to pursue their passions, according to UT’s Division of Diversity and Community Engagement website. The event was hosted in Robert B. Rowling Hall by Women Who Werk, a community organization focused on supporting women in business and the division’s Office of Inclusive Innovation and Entrepreneurship. Ashton Haywood, founder of Women Who Werk, said hosting the summit has been a dream of hers since 2012. “We’re actually giving all attendees actionable and practical advice they can immediately implement into their life,” UT alumna Haywood said. “We’re super excited to be able to provide that and really be a resource for the women attending.” The summit included a panel featuring board members of Women’s Initiative for Entrepreneurship and Leadership Development, a career incubator program for women of color undergraduates that will launch in spring 2020. The panelists shared their experiences of

We’re actually giving all attendees actionable and practical advice they can immediately implement into their life.” ASHTON HAYWOOD

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Corrina Frankie, second from right, is joined by (from left), Alexandra Wilson, Christine McCarey, Laura Donnelly, and Rachelle Oribio where they speak on women empowerment with other Advisory Board Members from WIELD Texas on a Werk.Glo.Slay. panel. About 150 women gathered at Robert B. Rowling Hall and was hosted to support, connect, and provide resources for women in businesses. workplace discrimination and emphasized the importance of finding an advocate. “This program is specifically helping women of color feel empowered to own their businesses and to launch their own ideas, to help them believe their ideas have worth and can really transform the working world,” said Yeo Ju Choi, the senior student program coordinator for the division. Rubén Cantú, executive director of the Office of Inclusive Innovation and

Entrepreneurship, introduced the panel and said few Fortune 500 CEOs are women of color. Business graduate student Choi said this is exactly what the program hopes to solve. “The goal of this program is that within 10 years of graduation, each woman who has moved through the program will be in an executive role,” Choi said. “We’re really trying to increase the proportion of women of color in leadership roles across corporate America.”

Attendee Andrea Wilson said hearing from the speakers at the summit inspired her to follow her own dreams. “(The panels and workshops) really honed in on connecting, getting out of your comfort zone and still chasing your passions, no matter what background, race, color or creed you come from,” Wilson said. “Just women being empowered in the climate that we’re in today can make us feel like our voices aren’t heard or we’re stifled.”

become mandatory for every employee on campus. “Especially at UT, in Austin, students need to be aware,” Lori said. “There’s so much going on around them … Students, parents and University faculty need to be made aware of warning signs and be able to have ways that they can quickly and swiftly intervene before somebody else gets murdered.”

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Breen said the majority of cases settle out of court because the parties have certainty and control over the case, as opposed to when the case goes to a jury and is out of their control. “I have a lot of mixed feelings,”

Lori said. “Obviously, I’m glad that it’s over … There are no winners in this situation. It’s very tragic all around. I’m glad this part is over because now I can focus a lot of my energies on some positive things.” Lori said she wants to work on legislation to improve safety on college campuses and raise awareness for the Amyotrophic Lateral

Sclerosis Association. Lori’s husband and Harrison’s father, Kurt Brown, died of ALS, a nervous system disease that causes loss of muscle control, one month after Harrison was killed. Lori said she also wants to work with Stop the Bleed, a campaign that trains people in basic bleeding control techniques in case of emergencies. Lori said she would like to see the program

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said. “They’re embarrassed. They want to play to their standard.” This is the first time Texas has lost back-to-back games this season, but the team has been against the ropes for much longer. The

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expectations and aspirations that were held up at the beginning of the season are being held to the light now. With everything held up — through the injuries, poor defense earlier in the year and lacking offense in the final stretch — the Texas Longhorns can now see all of the cracks, not only in their team, but in their season.

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Thanksgiving holiday masks history of violence, systematic oppression of indigenous peoples By Julia Zaksek Forum editor

For many UT students, Thanksgiving is a celebration marked by family, turkey and pilgrims. Most Americans learn a simplified, singular story of Thanksgiving. The pilgrims came to America escaping persecution from the English and struggled to survive until the kindly “Indians,” the Wampanoag people of New England, taught them how to grow crops and survive the harsh winters. The pilgrims celebrated their survival and newfound friendship with the Wampanoag with a feast.

This story is reiterated in TV specials, children’s books and high school history classes. However, this is a cleaned-up fraction of a long, bloody and painful history. The arrival of the pilgrims, or English puritans, marked the beginning of the systematic elimination of indigenous populations throughout North America. The peace the pilgrims supposedly celebrated was short-lived. Colonists began to thrive in the following decades, pushing farther and farther inland, building towns and settlements and waging war against any tribes that protested colonists seizing their land. Over time, indigenous populations plummeted. The ever-advancing colonists brought disease, war and starvation. As the colonists began to dominate North America and establish their own systems of government and

culture, indigenous peoples’ traditions were systematically erased and replaced with Western ideals, including this version of Thanksgiving. In this forum, Tane Ward, the director of Equilibrio Norte, an Austin-based decolonial organizing project, discusses the ongoing legacy of Thanksgiving and how colonial practices, both modern day and historic, harm indigenous populations. María F. Rocha, the executive director of Indigenous Cultures Institute in San Marcos, explains the consequences of the first Thanksgiving and argues that UT’s refusal to return ancestral remains to indigenous Texas groups is part of the painful legacy of colonization. As always, if you have any thoughts on this topic or any other, please feel free to reach out to me at thedailytexanforum@gmail.com.

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No thanks, no giving: Thanksgiving story masks hard reality

UT continues colonialism with ancestral remains “collection”

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In traditions all over the world, the last harvest of the season marks a celebration for giving thanks. In our colonial society, the holiday is based on the narrative of a puritan sect of English refugees who invaded Wampanoag territory in Northeast Turtle Island. After the mythic feast, the English broke initial truces and killed every last person of the Wampanoag tribe and others. America was born. The harvest that is still celebrated today is colonialism. Surely many poor and displaced people in this country are thankful for a roof over their heads or the food they have to eat. The dispossessed are thankful to escape the fate of their indigenous ancestors. But what are today’s pilgrims thankful for — the land their ancestors stole to exploit and the spoils of oil and war that put turkey on their tables? How can we reconcile the founding narrative of this country, the reality of the violence and treachery it is based upon and our contemporary social world? There is no thanks here. There is no giving. There is only taking. The taking is consistent. This was seen when land was flipped for profit developers at the expense of the long-standing residents to Indonesia, where the indigenous peoples of Irian Jaya were violently displaced by the world’s largest gold mine, owned and operated by Austin-based Freeport McMoRan. This is the culture that was born of pilgrims and Indians. Colonization is more than a taking of land. It is a supplanting of sovereignty from one of thanksgiving to one of no thanks and no giving. Indigenous lifeways are rooted in creating and maintaining reciprocal relationships with the natural world. That is the relational worldview of indigenous groups all over the world. We are thankful for the life-giving and divine world we live upon and of all of our relations here. The colonizer worldview is one of objectification and denying agency or divinity to

anything that is not human (and usually only to white men). This worldview is the root of capitalism and the global extraction-based economy. The ongoing exploitation of the world’s resources is the morally bankrupt culture of domination and its fruit is global climate disruption. These values are as present today as ever. The recent coup in Bolivia overthrew an indigenous government in order to control resources. The Amazon is being invaded and the forest burned, much like Texas was 200 years ago, also for resources. Standing Rock is being invaded, for pipelines that are currently spilling, by Texas-based Energy Transfer Partners. Texas is being invaded in perpetuity when the native people of this land are not recognized. We are faced with extraction and exploitation of our land and peoples. Those who receive spoils from these colonial harvests are taught that they must be just. This is the knowledge they learn through the myth of Thanksgiving. The pilgrims committed genocide. Let’s at least be honest about that, so we can look upon our current world and value what little truth has survived. Let the land beneath your feet tell the story of the thousands who lost their lifeways so the extraction economy could root here. The culture of the United States is not the breakers of bread — it is the breaker of treaties. The culture of Texas is not the planters of corn — it is the planters of pipelines and strip mines. Our current political conundrums are not about party or ideology. They are about the destruction of the entire planet. The world will give thanks when the people of this land stop taking, for once, and instead show thanks for this world and all it continues to give. Give thanks that you have not suffered as others have by your ancestor’s hands or by the hands currently manufacturing destruction upon our world. It is time to work together to undo the wrongs of the past and to halt the wrongs of the present. Those in need will always be welcome at our tables, but the violence must end now. Ward is the director of Equilibrio Norte, an Austin-based decolonial organizing project.

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By María F. Rocha

UT’s policy for the competing tribes to reach an agreement on who would receive them. When we asked who the competing tribe was, we were told we had to file an open records request It’s that time of year when nonindigenous for that information. When we filed the request, several weeks later we were asked what we meant United States citizens celebrate the fantasized by the term “our ancestors.” To date, we have not good relationship between the first immigrants to received that information. the Americas and the original occupants of this Genocide homeland. For indigenous people, this first enThere are very few of us left — from the varycounter was the beginning of the end, and while ing estimates of the original populations ranging eating turkey and being with family are the foup to 100 million indigenous people in the Amercus of the day, celebration icas. This means very few of us takes a lower priority. are left to fight for the reburial of Why can’t we forget our ancestors. that fateful encounter Culture Loss after almost 500 years? In our culture, we believe that Unfortunately that initial when a person dies, their spirit contact — which resultgoes on a journey to the great mysed in attempted genocide, Apparently our tery of the Cosmos, and when the destruction of cultures, culture is of no body is unearthed, that journey is land theft and diaspora of interrupted, and the spirit is susconsequence to the living and the dead — pended in agony. Apparently our continues to affect us today. administrators, culture is of no consequence to Let me provide just one administrators, curators and stewcurators and example that relates to the ards of our “collections.” University of Texas and stewards of our Land highlights the legacy of We no longer have access to sa'collections.'" that first contact. cred sites where we can perform our According to staff at ceremonies or to land that can be the Texas Archeologidedicated to repatriation. Fortucal Research Laboratonately, we have secured two acres of ry, the University has a land in San Marcos, the first Texas city to establish “collection” of over 2,000 remains of our ina repatriation burial ground. But other indigenous digenous ancestors at their North Austin warecommunities face the challenge of providing a burial house that are kept in cardboard boxes and ground when the ancestors are eventually released stacked row upon row in metal shelving. No atand reburied. tempt has been made to return these remains Diaspora of the Dead to Native people for reburial, as prescribed by Our ancestors have been carried to placthe Native American Graves Protection and es— such as Harvard, the Witte Museum, overRepatriation Act passed in 1990. seas and, of course, to UT — from their burial The Miakan-Garza Band, a Texas tribe rechomelands to cardboard boxes. ognized by state legislature, requested three of But it’s not all bleak. The number of people those remains March 7, 2016, and to this day, we sympathetic to our repatriation work is increasing. have not been able to recover those ancestors and More people statewide are becoming aware of this return them to the earth. issue and voicing their concerns. First, the University said we were not a fedOn Thanksgiving Day we celebrate that we erally recognized tribe. When this excuse was are still here, still fighting the good fight, and eliminated, we were told that UT did not have for the huge number of good people who have the money to proceed with our request. Next we joined our effort to rebury our ancestors. learned from a Daily Texan article that another Rocha is the executive director of Indigenous tribe had asked for the same remains, and it was Cultures Institute in San Marcos. Contributor

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Longhorns’ last time in White Seniors wore their away jerseys for the last time in regular season on Saturday in 24-10 loss to Baylor Bears. By Daniela Perez @danielap3rez

exas’ away uniforms were once called the best uniform in college football. The sleek all-white jerseys with burnt orange lettering were considered “iconic” by head coach Tom Herman in 2017. It’s the color Texas wore in 2018 when the team beat the Oklahoma Sooners in the Red River Showdown and then Georgia in the Sugar Bowl later that year. Against Baylor, it was the same scene but a different stadium when the Longhorns came out of the McLane Stadium tunnel in their white ensemble. But for players, such as senior safety Brandon Jones, it was the last time wearing the getup in the regular season. It was all he could think about after Texas’ 24-10 loss to the Baylor Bears. “I think the biggest thing that’s going through my head is (this) potentially being my last time playing in these white jerseys,” Jones said. Texas has closed a chapter in its season and has played its final road game of the regular season. Unfortunately for the team and its seniors, the loss was far from the season they dreamed of after a 10–4 finish in 2018. Texas came into this matchup with the right mindset Herman said, but it left the game with its fifth loss of the season. It marks the last time senior defensive lineman and captain Malcolm Roach will wear white in the regular season. His reaction matched the one he has after every Texas loss. “It’s a feeling I never get used to, that this team (never) gets used to,” Roach said with a shaky voice. “You never get comfortable in this

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Senior safety Brandon Jones attempts to tackle a Baylor player on Saturday at McLane Stadium in Waco, Texas. Baylor secured its spot in the Big 12 Championship Game after taking down the Longhorns 24-10. feeling at all. That’s why it eats you up every time it happens. It’s not comfortable. It’s not something you want. We put in so much work. Winter, summer (for) the 12 guaranteed, the 12 of these (that are) guaranteed. When you win, you’re on top of the world and when you lose, you feel like you hit rock bottom because we put in so much work every day.” Following the loss, the Longhorns headed back into the locker room and took off their jerseys. Some were stained with dirt and sweat, others still crisp and unscathed. But the feelings were different from when they had left hours earlier. In four hours, the excitement from the opportunity that lay in front of them slowly morphed into disappointment. “There are guys in that locker

It’s a feeling I never get used to, that this team (never) gets used to … it eats you up every time it happens.” MALCOLM ROACH

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room that are hurting more than me,” Roach said. “Guys step on that field and every Saturday we step on that field and play with that emotion. Everybody in that locker room is hurting from this because we’ve been together for so long. We do so much together, so everybody’s hurting right now. It’s not just one person feeling bad. It’s everybody.” This loss just follows the trend Texas has been on in the last six weeks: a program in free fall. A team that onced averaged 42 points per game has snowballed into one that only got into the end zone one time Saturday. In the last six games, the Longhorns have allowed their quarterback to get sacked 22 times, compared to 26 sacks in the 2018 season. All the players are on a rollercoaster

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‘A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood’ reveals impact of sincere friendship Marielle Heller’s latest film follows the development of friendship between journalist and television personality. By Avery Wohleb

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ome things aren’t always so beautiful in this neighborhood. Directed by Marielle Heller and based on a true story, “A Beautiful Day in The Neighborhood” tells the story of journalist Lloyd Vogel (Matthew Rhys) and his journey profiling television personality Fred Rogers (Tom Hanks). As the movie progresses, it reveals a damaged relationship between Vogel and his father, allowing a light to be shined on the kindness of Rogers as he brings positivity and hope into Vogel’s troubled life. Right from the start, the movie kicks off into high-gear nostalgia. With an opening scene that pays homage to Rogers’ children’s show, “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood,” his kindness is immediately established in a heartwarming and fulfilling way. Soon after, the darkness that plagues Vogel’s life brings a perfect contrast to this, offering a very transparent differentiation between the two men, which later allows for clear and easy-to-follow character development throughout the movie. Rhys does a fantastic job as Vogel. Portraying a character rooted in aggression and heartache, Rhys nails each aspect of his ever-changing moods. Starting out broken and becoming mended along the way, his emotional spectrum ranges anywhere from furious outbursts to tearful revelations, giving Rhys

Matthew Rhys and Tom Hanks give an emotional performance in a tear-jerking drama. an opportunity to showcase a variety of emotions. Hanks gives a memorable and sentimental performance as Rogers. During several moments throughout the movie, his kindness and empathy is so convincingly portrayed that it becomes emotional. Seeing a character get angry with Rogers felt like seeing somebody get angry with a puppy, making several moments unsettling and uncomfortable to watch. With soft-spoken words and a never-ending care for others, Hanks is successfully able to reopen the spotlight on Rogers and the memory of a man who inspired kindness in a time when it was desperately needed.

The cinematography of the movie is unique and well-fitting. To show a jump in time or location, transitioning scenes would be props from the set of “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood,” showing a toy plane taking off or a clay sun setting in the distance. To accompany a buildup in plot intensity or a heartbreaking moment of grief, the soundtrack was pleasing, well-distributed and beautifully composed in a way that made it impossible to go unnoticed. Although viewers might have expected a movie about Fred Rogers, the film is primarily about Vogel, telling the story of a man who slowly becomes healed with

the care and effort from those around him. The movie successfully conveys a message about the importance of friendship and family. While Rogers certainly plays a key role in Vogel’s development, it is also a story of self-exploration, where Vogel comes to terms with his troubles and understands that accepting them is the only way he can move forward. Though a few scenes are fast-paced and sometimes feel unfinished, the overall production of the movie is very insightful. It is clear that great effort and research was put forth to accurately portray Mister Rogers

A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood

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and his television show, as well as the complex friendship between him and Vogel. No moment in the film feels out of place, making for a very enjoyable cinematic experience that is as equally nostalgic as it is informative and sure to leave viewers touched and smiling by the time it’s over.

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