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Hispanic Business Student Association hosts its first Día de los Muertos celebration.
UT must expand food bank resources to ensure all students have access to healthy meals.
Austin Powwow celebrates American Indian heritage with dance.
Outside hitter Logan Eggleston aids Longhorns in WVU takedown.
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Transport rental service brings 1,000 mopeds to Austin area By Graysen Golter @graysen_golter
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Title IX office reviews new bill
University administration looks into SB 212, which mandates faculty to report violations. By Emily Hernandez @emilylhernandez
tudents, staff and faculty are working toward improving the University’s Title IX policies to better inform the University community about Senate Bill 212 and further support survivors. Adriana Alicea-Rodriguez, UT associate vice president and Title IX coordinator, said the
University’s Title IX Office’s SB 212 committee is currently reviewing the draft of SB 212 rules and enforcement as determined by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board. SB 212 imposes criminal charges and job termination against faculty and staff who do not report Title IX violations promptly or who make false reports. “(The) SB 212 committee is looking at all of the policies in place that could be impacted by this law and reviewing those to develop the implementation plan to make sure all campus community members are aware of the new reporting requirements,” Alicea-Rodriguez said. Faculty Council chair elect Brian Evans said he is working with Alicea-Rodriguez to create a Title IX training session for students and another for staff and faculty on SB 212, which will be enforced Jan.1. Title IX is the
federal law banning discrimination on the basis of sex at any institutions receiving federal financial assistance.
The more information that we put out there about faculty and staff members being mandatory reporters, the better it is for students” ADRIANA ALICEA-RODRIGUEZ title ix coordinator
“Title IX training is best done by a whole department,” engineering foundation professor Evans said. “The way we’ve been doing it at the University is, you just sign up for it if you want to,
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Hours before the Iowa Democratic Party’s Liberty and Justice Celebration Friday, Beto O’Rourke announced he would be dropping out of the presidential race. Saying his campaign did not have the means to continue, former U.S. Rep. O’Rourke also announced his resignation from the race on Medium, an online publishing platform. According to an email to his supporters, O’Rourke said he will not be running for office in the Senate either. “We have to clearly see at this point that we do not have the means to pursue this campaign successfully and my service will not be as a candidate nor as the nominee for this party for the presidency,” O’Rourke said to an audience before the dinner. O’Rourke ran on a campaign centered around immigration reform, mandatory gun buybacks and a new healthcare program. “Let us continue to fearlessly champion the issues and causes that brought us together,” O’Rourke said
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but you really need to retrain an entire academic unit. That’s how you change the culture.” Alicea-Rodriguez said while there has been a spike in the number of daily Title IX reports made by faculty and staff since Sept. 1 in comparison to last year, she could not provide data or say it is only because of SB 212. Delaney Davis, president of the sexual assault prevention student organization It’s on Us, said the organization is working on a bill with the UT Senate of College Councils that would require professors to disclose they are mandatory reporters on their syllabi beginning in Spring 2020. She said the bill would help students understand that if they share information that could be a Title IX violation, the professors are obligated to report it. “The more information that
A moped rental service activated 1,000 mopeds in Austin Friday as part of a partnership with the Austin Transportation Department. Frank Reig, the CEO and co-founder of the New Yorkbased transportation company Revel, said the company wanted to bring the mopeds to Austin after finding success with the program in New York and Washington D.C. He said licensed drivers over the age of 21 will be able to rent two-person mopeds through an app after passing an initial background check. “We’re excited to be doing the same thing here in Austin (as New York and Washington) to make sure that everyone who has the opportunity, if they want to ride our vehicle, can,” Reig said. According to a press release, rides will cost $1 per rider to start, 25 cents per minute while riding and 10 cents per minute while parked. The vehicles’ speed will be capped at 30 mph, and riders will be required to follow local traffic and parking laws, according to a press release. Reig said unlike electric scooters and bicycles, the mopeds will not be allowed on sidewalks. He said the company will provide free lessons to new riders to help them learn to use the vehicles, but they will be focused specifically on how to use the vehicle rather than how to deal with scenarios such as traffic accidents. “This is a lesson to learn the vehicle,” Reig said. “This is not a lesson in hypotheticals.” In an email, Blanca Gamez, the associate director of transportation for University Parking and Transportation Services, said drivers can use Revel’s mopeds on campus streets and must follow current University rules while using and parking them. She said this will include obtaining a Class M parking permit to use campus parking spaces designated
UT partners with city to study how greenery impacts children’s health
on Medium. “Whether it is ending the epidemic of gun violence or dismantling structural racism or successfully confronting climate change before it is too late, we will continue to organize and mobilize and act in the best interests of America.” O’Rourke raised over $6 million within the first day of announcing his campaign, according to The New York Times. However, fundraising for O’Rourke’s campaign slowed down considerably in the following three months, and the campaign was spending more than it was taking in. O’Rourke said he had also noticed a steep decline in his rank in the polls. According to recent polls by The Washington Post, O’Rourke had been polling at 1% prior to his resignation. “I decided to run for President because I believed that I could help bring a divided country together in common cause to confront the greatest set of challenges we’ve ever faced,” O’Rourke said on Medium. “I also knew that the most fundamental of them is fear … I knew, and I still know, that we can reject
The city of Austin and the University are collaborating to study how green spaces in schoolyards impact children’s health and activity. On Thursday, Austin City Council approved an agreement allowing the University to study schools with “green features,” including trees, patches of grass and trails. The City of Austin Parks and Recreations Department and the University of Texas Health Science Center created the agreement in May and began the study in September, said Kevin Lanza, health science center lead researcher. Melody Alcazar, an Austin Parks and Recreation Department program coordinator, said the study focuses on areas of the city that lack access to natural ammenities such as parks and gardens. She said the results of the two-year study will show how infrequent
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Alumna continues support of CNS with legacy endowment By Hannah Williford @HannahWillifor2
A chemistry alumna’s final contribution to the College of Natural Sciences will culminate in the largest sum of money gifted to the college. Lorraine Stengl, who died last year at the age of 99, started giving money and donating land to the College of Natural Sciences in 1991. CNS communications director Christine Sinatra said Stengl has donated nearly $45 million to CNS, which includes the new legacy endowment announced Oct. 21, her 101st birthday. Sinatra said the donated land, which is located in Smithville, was named the Stengl Lost Pines Biological Station and serves as a research area. The new endowment represents continued support for the station and some of the money from the gift will go towards its upkeep, Sinatra said. “(The station) is an opportunity for students to get to be in the natural environment that’s protected, that’s conserved, and to actually have experiences up close with what’s happening with living things” Sinatra said.
Alejandra Rodriguez, a biological and environmental sciences senior, said she has used the station since her freshman year and said she likes seeing students learn there. She said students have free range at the station to collect important insects and plants in the area for their research. “(The center helps) students who have never really been out in nature understand that we have a pine woodlands here near Austin,” Rodriguez said. “It’s a totally different environment than we get in Central Texas because they get to go farther east where there’s more rainfall … and they see all these different types of things that they have never seen before in Austin.” In addition to maintaining the Stengl station, Sinatra said the funding will go toward a new postdoctoral research program called the Stengl-Wyer Scholars Program. It will also fund existing Freshman Research Initiatives, which allow freshmen to engage in real-world research experience with faculty and graduate students. Susan Cameron Devitt, an assistant professor of practice and a research educator for a Freshman Research Initiative, said the endowment funds the portion of the
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In celebration of Texas Arbor Day, Casey Mosur joins members of the UT community who gather to plant on Nov. 1, 2019 at Waller Creek.
Volunteers plant trees, wildflowers around Waller Creek to celebrate Texas Arbor Day By Hannah Williford @HannahWillifor2
Students and staff helped plant trees around Waller Creek in celebration of Texas Arbor Day on Friday. Around 30 volunteers worked alongside University Landscape Services to plant native shrubs, wildflowers and trees to keep out invasive species and prevent erosion, said Landscape Services manager Jim Carse. While the national Arbor Day celebration encourages people to plant trees in April, Texas Arbor Day is held on the first Friday in November so people can plant in
the cooler climate. “Waller Creek is eroding pretty badly in areas,” Carse said. “The more plant material we can get to the roots to spread out on the slopes, the better it’ll hold that soil ... We can’t lose this (slope) in a flood because then we’ll start losing sidewalk, and it’ll be bad news.” Urban forestry supervisor Jennifer Hrobar said the planting and cleanup efforts help keep the area clear and safe. She said the efforts also create a more seamless transition between central campus and east campus. Although many trees and brush have been removed from the Waller Creek area to keep the area
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we put out there about faculty and staff members being mandatory reporters, the better it is for students,” Alicea-Rodriguez said. “I’m always going to be in favor of anything that puts the information more out there so that we can reach out to more people.” During roundtables hosted by It’s on Us this semester, Davis said many students complained about the length of formal Title IX investigations. She said investigations can take up to nine months, and many students said they do not get periodic updates about their case. “It’s an already traumatic situation for someone who’s been sexually assaulted, and to have it take a super long time makes it even worse,” said Davis, a government and Spanish junior. “That’s almost a year’s worth of school where you’re dealing with an investigation where, by nature, you have to relive your trauma a little bit because due process is provided for the respondent as well.”
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exposure to nature impacts children’s health. “Austin has a very big history of inequity,” Alcazar said. “As we seek to improve our citizen access in nature, we tend to see things clustered because of the historical inequities that were put upon those communities.” Lanza said they chose to study Barrington, Cook and Odom Elementary Schools because more than 80% of students are Hispanic and come from low-income backgrounds. Lanza said this population scored low on nature equity, which measures how much access these communities have to nature. “We find that specific populations of children in Texas are moving less than others,” Lanza said. “Only 6%
of Latino fourth graders in Texas are meeting the physio-activity guidelines. We are finding that high temperatures may be another barrier for children being active.” Lanza said this study is relevant because car emissions, dark pavement and building materials elevate city temperatures and contribute to public health issues related to heat exposure. To conduct the study, Lanza said he places ten temperature sensors around schoolyards to monitor heat variation. He also straps elastic belts with an accelerometer and a GPS device onto 40 third and fourth graders at each school before they go out to play. Lanza said the study measures the correlation between the local heat of yard, the students’ movement and their interaction with the space. “Working with the kids
makes it real,” Lanza said. “Before this study, I would just work behind a computer screen, but when you administer your study on site, you meet the third and fourth graders and see who it’s really for.” Alcazar said this study is part of the park department’s larger Cities Connecting Children to Nature initiative, which is working to equitably install green spaces in urban areas. He said increasing the amount of natural areas in cities helps more than just heat reduction. “There are really no downsides to it,” Alcazar said. “You can improve the air quality, people’s mental and physical health, cooperativeness and it really has so many more benefits. There are tons of studies out there that show you don’t have to have a sprawling park, just a greener schoolyard to receive those benefits.”
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senior Meagan Yates said she volunteered as a freshman and returned this year with her boyfriend. She said she helped by mulching the ground under trees. “We’ve always been meaning to come (volunteer), and they do this twice a year, and so it’s been on our calendar for a while,” Yates said. “I used to run at this park a lot … Every time I’ve been here, you see a lot of people our age … running or picnicking or with their dog.” Riddles said the University also plays an important part in the well-being of Pease District Park. “It’s particularly important for us to keep this park vital and healthy and to continue to cultivate relationships with … students there, because the University of Texas is our biggest user group,” Riddles said. “The students who come over here and use this park are incredibly important to us.” Casey Miller, director of community engagement for the park, said community volunteer efforts like It’s My Park Day allow them to focus spending on specialized projects instead of park maintenance. “(Volunteers) can do so much for us, and it gets them involved in the park and outside in nature enjoying this place,” Miller said. “All we want is people out here.”
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Volunteers spruced up parks across Austin Saturday for It’s My Park Day, a semiannual event that improves parks through trash cleanup, planting and mulching. Hosted by the Austin Parks Foundation, the effort brings thousands of volunteers to work at almost 100 parks in Austin each March and November, according to the foundation’s website. This year, the volunteers helped parks such as Pease District Park, which is located west of West Campus. Heath Riddles, CEO of Pease Park Conservancy, said It’s My Park Day brought 100 volunteers from across the community to Pease Park. He said volunteers helped sustain the park by planting wildflowers, cleaning up trash, putting mulch around trees and removing invasive species. Riddles said these volunteer efforts have been essential to helping improve the poor ecological conditions in the park. “Volunteer labor has always been the backbone of Pease Park Conservancy’s efforts to sustain the park,” Riddles said. “It was through (the volunteer) effort that ecological trend reversed, and you see this incredibly thriving ecology that you see today.” Environmental science
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For University mariachi ensemble member Cecilia Garcia, Día de los Muertos and mariachi are integral to celebrating her Mexican heritage. Garcia experienced both elements Friday at an on-campus celebration of Día de los Muertos, which celebrates the lives of deceased loved ones from Oct. 31 to Nov. 2. The celebration was hosted by the Hispanic Business Student Association at Gregory Plaza. “Usually, I go to my mom’s hometown in Mexico to celebrate it, but since I’m here at school, this is the first year I haven’t been able to,”
government freshman Garcia said. “It’s just always been such an important family tradition. I’m happy that I get to celebrate it here.” While the University hosted Día de los Muertos — known as Day of the Dead — in the past, the Hispanic Business Student Association hosted their own event for the first time this year. “I think it turned out to be a huge success,” said Sharon Monagas, psychology sophomore and the assocation’s campus relations chair. “Just to see everyone smile and the joy in people’s eyes having that little taste of home, it was really beautiful.” Six student organizations held booths or performed
during the event, with each booth hosting different forms of celebration. The event included a traditional altar surrounded by marigolds with pictures of students’ loved ones, a performance by a traditional Mexican dance student organization, and the UT Mariachi Ensemble. The UT Mariachi Ensemble, also known as The Mariachi Paredes de Tejastitlán, performed cultural songs and drew a crowd of over 100 onlookers. “A good way to describe mariachi is that mariachi is to Mexico as country (music) is like to Texas,” Garcia said. Mariachi Paredes director Monica Fogelquist said she considers this performance
and their upcoming concert Nov. 22 in Bates Recital Hall crucial signs of progress for the band. “Día de los Muertos is such a big part of Mexican and Mexican-American culture,” said Fogelquist, an assistant professor of mariachi and ethnomusicology. “The fact that we can be a part of that and give our music to celebrate those who are no longer with us is a big honor.” Monagas said the association plans to hold the celebration in future years. “We really hope that this will become a tradition that continues on every year,” Monagas said. “We want to be the groundbreakers to make this happen.”
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Alejandra Luna, left, Karla Queloar, center, and Rachel Rivera dance in the middle of the Gregory Plaza last friday in recognition of Día de los Muertos, or Day of the Dead.
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and overcome these fears and choose to instead be defined by our ambitions and our ability to achieve them.” Presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren said she was thankful for O’Rourke’s work during his campaign. “(O’Rourke’s) commitment to ending gun violence and uplifting the voices of the victims and their families has made this presidential race — and our country — stronger,” U.S. Sen. Warren said in a tweet. University Democrats president Joe Cascino said although the organization does not endorse O’Rourke for president, he was a consistent moral compass beginning in last year’s U.S. Senate elections. “As Beto’s presidential bid comes to an end, I want to thank Beto for being Beto,” Casino said in a text. “I immediately knew he was special, not only because he was charismatic, but because he showed up and was clearly in (the race) for the right reasons.” Nutrition sophomore Gabrielle Capesius said O’Rourke’s national presence has made a positive impact on the American people. “In such a short amount of time, Beto was able to win over such a large amount of voters in Texas and eventually the nation,” Capesius said. “It’s a pity to see him end his candidacy, but I am so proud of the work he has done for the greater good of Americans along the way.”
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for mopeds, motercycles and motor scooters. Reig said Revel will provide two helmets for every vehicle, which will include full liability insurance to users during rides. He said the company will give a 40% discount to people who use public assistance programs to ensure equal access to the vehicles. Revel co-founder and COO Paul Suhey said the company is hiring over 30 full-time employees to operate the fleet of vehicles. Reig said 80% of Austin residents commute to work by car, but one of Revel’s goals is to bring the number of cars down to 40% to decrease traffic and congestion. “We have a vehicle that is proven to take cars off the road but fits within a
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Former U.S. Rep. Beto O’Rouke waves at his one-on-one at this year’s Texas Tribune Festival on Sep. 28, 2019. The former presidential hopeful announced his resignation from the Democratic presidential race this past Friday.
car world,” Suhey said. “We don’t consider ourselves to be disruptors. We’re providing easy access to a type of vehicle that’s been around for decades.” Jason JonMichael, assistant director of Smart Mobility at the Austin Transportation Department, said the city’s partnership with Revel will help toward the goal of economic growth and environmental stability. He said Austin will likely see other changes in transportation, such as low speed lanes for electric vehicles in the future. “If we can provide as many options as we can to Austin’s residents and visitors, then we’ll be able to obtain these sustainability goals and mobility goals that we set for ourselves,” JonMichael said.
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From left, Jason JonMichael, assistant director at Austin Transportation, and Revel co-founders Paul Suhey and Frank Reig speak at the kick-off event held at Austin City Hall on Nov. 1, 2019.
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New permit policy provokes criticism, calls for increased access for students with disabilities By Kateri David and Julia Zaksek Forum editors
Attending a large university is challenging. Making it to campus from an off-campus home or apartment, getting from class to class in the set 10 or 15 minutes and finding a place to park that’s not across town is hard, but for students with disabilities, a lack of access and appropriate accommodations can make these everyday tasks impossible. Students with disabilities at UT are struggling, physically and mentally, to navigate their campus. Tedious paperwork, long waits and lack of information often hinder students who need accommodations to succeed
academically and protect their physical and mental health. However, even when students receive accommodations, they are often not enough. The discussion about accessibility and inclusivity on campus recently came to a head this past summer, when Parking and Transportation Services created the D+ parking permit after the Texas Department of Licensing and Registration found the former D parking spaces were not compliant with the Texas Accessibility standards. Rather than launch a construction project to render the parking spots compliant or create new spots, UT created the D+ permit, a non-ADA compliant label. The new D+ spots — though unchanged in every respect — are reserved exclusively for students with disabilities, but they come with a hefty $300 charge: an effective price tag on accessibility.
Students felt as though UT was cashing in on their disability and adding to a long history of failing those most in need of assistance. In this forum, English senior Allyson Stephens describes her experience attending UT while managing Type 1 diabetes and her difficulties obtaining accommodations for her disability. Ivy Hester, a speech and language pathology junior, details similar trials in navigating the accommodations process. She argues that students with disabilities are denied mobility and equal treatment within academic spaces, urging the University to fulfill its promise to all students. As always, if you have any thoughts on this topic or any other, please feel free to reach out to us at thedailytexanforum@gmail.com.
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UT students with disabilities deserve priority, inclusion
By Ally Stephens
Jonas discussed the severity of his disease and its life-threatening quality. It could permanently disable parts of my body or kill me. Yet, just my diagnosis was not enough. I had to prove not only that I was diabetTen years ago, I was diagnosed with Type 1 ic, but that I was diabetic in the ways that diabetes, a chronic illness and disability that requires a number of daily rituals to ensure my merited help. It took me two years to be able to do it. I had health and longevity. As a child, my parents to tell my doctor and nurses how to fill out the took care of my accommodations for me since I was too young to learn how to take care of my disability form exactly so that I could ensure I received my accommodations. They became disease. Once I got to UT, however, I was on my frustrated with the micromanagement of a disown and wanted to prove to myself that I could cover all of my diabetes bases without sacrific- ease that is life-threatening in many ways. They ing too much of my already-diminished health wrote a separate letter along with the SSD paperwork to educate SSD on how Type 1 diabeand ability. tes can be — and is — I was wrong to expect that completely debilitating much of myself. I’ve always hesto me. When I turned itated to ask for help, but after this into SSD, I was told one semester, I recognized that I it may not be processed needed help and that my health UT fails to prioritize quickly because it was superseded the importance of students with disnot completed in the way my class attendance and grades. SSD preferred. I asked my doctor to fill out abilities, as reflected During this wait — the letter provided for medical in SSD’s unbearwhich included the two disability accommodations on years leading up to my able slowness in the the Services for Students with accommodations — I Disabilities website. After readaccommodation’s failed a class, endured ing the letter over, I thought it major health scares, exprocess.” looked good and submitted it perienced the suicide of to SSD. I waited about a month a close friend, missed before receiving an email: My about half of my classes accommodations were denied as for an entire semester and completely had my I, according to my paperwork, did not have any own self-esteem diminished to a point where I needs beyond those of an able-bodied student. lost the feeling that my disease was important My heart sank. It would take me another for me to keep up with. year before I even felt comfortable and, more I needed those accommodations, and I importantly, be able to ask for help with the process again. I didn’t follow up with SSD af- appreciate everything that SSD does and will continue to do for me, but on a campus ter this initial rejection, which is certainly my own fault. But after having had diabetes for the where disabled students must pay for ADA parking, where a plan for only three more majority of my life, I felt rejected in a multitude of ways — not just from the system that was buildings on campus to gain accessibility is reduced to a headline, where the bathsupposed to ensure my own safety and success. Consequently, my personal life and diabetes rooms are closed for “cleaning” for hours got worse the next school year, which took a at a time and inaccessible to people who toll on my health and grades. It took a lot for need to use them urgently, and where food me to want to seek out help once again. But it is given out and sold on a daily basis without a proper ingredient list or nutritional shouldn’t have. information, these failures further reflect a Someone in UT administration, staff or SSD knew I had diabetes. Although it is not their major problem. responsibility to take care of me, it is their reUT fails to prioritize students with disabilisponsibility to accommodate the disabled. As ties, as reflected in SSD’s unbearable slowness easy as other aspects of college life were for me, in the accommodation process. As a result, getting accommodations was difficult. I had to endure a year of suffering alone — a I recall watching Disney Channel as a young year that I consider to be the worst of my life. diabetic and seeing commercials where Nick Stephens is an English sophomore. Contributor
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By Ivy Hester
Many academics advise against disclosing disability because it can produce an environment with few chances for promotion or recognition. I ended up desperately needing my accommodations and Less than 35% of disabled students are projecteventually had to medically withdraw. ed to graduate with a four-year degree, and this Now, a year and a half later, I still struggle with number grows substantially smaller when you ina lot of the same frustrations on this campus. I am clude completing the program in four years or less. regularly reminded that my existence and mental In a country with 61 million disabled individuals, and physical well-being are not important to those these numbers are bleak. in power. In the 136 years since the University’s doors I have to walk across campus during the hothave opened, very little has been done to make test parts of the day with a thyroid condition that disabled students feel welcome. I’ve met multimakes it difficult for me to control my internal temple college students who would have loved to go perature. I witnessed demonstrations on campus here, but the cost and inaccessibility make a UT that exacerbated my PTSD and shamed me for degree unattainable. being a survivor. I lost points At UT, the process to off my grades due to my inabilreceive disability accomity to make it to class on days modations takes months, my chronic stomach problems and information regarding caused me too much pain. I am regularly which disabilities are covSeveral schools have proreminded that ered by accommodations is grams where students with monot made clear enough to all bility issues are granted free or my existence and students. I was unable to relow-cost transportation to and mental and physiceive help my freshman year. from classes. Not only do we not When I discussed my menhave this policy, we force our cal well-being are tal health with an employee disabled students to pay extra not important to at the Office of the Dean of for parking passes. Disabled Students, he told me that my students are also forced to move those in power.” problems would be “too setheir cars to further lots if they vere” for the Counseling and happen to be located in a parkMental Health Center. I felt ing garage near the stadium for betrayed. The school that told me how much they game days. It seems like the University is choosdo to help students with mental illnesses was telling ing to cater to its wealthy donors over disabled me the office created specifically to help people like students on a daily basis. me was overworked and underfunded. Parking rules like this make it even harder to I wasn’t made aware that the University actually get to class, something that’s already a struggle for had programs in place to help me until over halfway some students. Disabled students often need a vethrough my second semester. Meanwhile, the stress hicle to access campus because the few areas that of school and the feeling of betrayal by my universihave accessible housing are often incredibly diffity made me suicidal. I missed over a month of class cult to find and not available near campus. West and ended up in a mental hospital. I believed I was Campus has too many roadblocks, and Riverside is going to be forced to withdraw or would flunk out too far and often not up to ADA standards. when I was sent to the Student Emergency Services Students with disabilities are not helped by office. I met with an incredibly kind woman who department policies that remove points from your grade after a certain number of missed classes. made me feel comfortable and told me I was eliI understand the premise in requiring a doctor’s gible for accommodations. I recall feeling my face grow hot with fury and embarrassment at having note for absences and assignments, but in a climate where doctor’s visits are a luxury many can’t avoided the offices out of anger and shame. It took three months from sending in my accommodations afford, it’s harmful. I could write a million words on all of the ways request to having my accommodations entered into the system, and I had to pay for an additional UT’s disabled population is silenced and diminished. It’s shameful and disgusting. How can we doctor’s appointment to obtain proof I needed. change the world while we aren’t allowing all of our However, last year, after feeling a clear differstudents to meet their full potential? ence in treatment from some of my professors, I Hester is a speech and language pathology junior. made the decision to not use my accommodations. Contributor
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Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie, Leonardo DiCaprio and Quentin Tarantino were interviewed in Los Angeles during a livestream on Nov. 2nd.
Cast talks ‘Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood’ By Noah Levine @ZProductionz
Once upon a time … the cast of Quentin Tarantino’s newest film were interviewed. This past weekend, Quentin Tarantino’s ninth film “Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood” returned to theaters with previously unseen additional footage and access to a livestream interview with cast members Margot Robbie, Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt and Tarantino himself. “Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood” observes the lives of popular film and TV actor Rick Dalton, his trusting stunt double Cliff Booth and real-life actress Sharon
Tate as they navigate the eclectic environment of 1960s Hollywood. In the film, Robbie portrays the late Sharon Tate, who tragically lost her life during the infamous Tate murders in 1969. Robbie said Tate’s character in the film represents life and opportunity amongst this bygone era of Hollywood. “(Sharon Tate) was, by all accounts, just an angel on this Earth” Robbie said. “The shock is that something so innocent and pure could be taken, and I so appreciated Quentin’s approach in portraying Sharon’s life. I recognize that perhaps her presence in this script was to emulate or personify the wonderful things about
Hollywood in the 60s, the opportunity, the fun.” “Once Upon a Time” is a complex film that interweaves several narratives, genres and flashbacks. Tarantino said the origins of the film’s initial concept became apparent to him while he was working on the set of another film. “I’m sitting there watching (an actor and his stunt double) on the set dressed in identical outfits, and you can tell that they’ve been doing this for 12 years” Tarantino said. “They’re just shooting the s--t. And I’m kind of just kind of watching this dynamic. I thought, ‘Wow, that’s a really interesting relationship. If I ever make a movie about Hollywood, a
relationship like that would be a really interesting way inside.’” In order to prepare for the character of western actor Rick Dalton, Leonardo DiCaprio was given a plethora of classic film and television examples from Tarantino. DiCaprio said diving deep into Tarantino’s cinematic knowledge resulted in a huge learning curve. “Quentin is a true cinephile in every sense of the word,” DiCaprio said. “But not only does he know about all these films that we all know about, but it’s also the B films, the pulp films, kung fu films, and TV from all these different decades. So for me, it was trying to capture what kind of actor Rick was and
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what his potential ultimately was, because in a lot of ways, the script that (Quentin) handed me was a man dealing with his own mortality.” Set in the tail-end of 1960s Hollywood, Robbie said being on the set of “Once Upon a Time” truly made her feel like she was living in the past. “I don’t think I’ve ever felt so transported as I did on Quentin’s set because, number one, everything’s practical. It’s old 1969 all around you,” Robbie said. “There’s a row of cars from the 60s, (Quentin’s) playing music from the 60s and there’s no cell phones on set. Everyone’s either talking to each other or just doing work. And it just honestly felt like I was there. It was incredible.”
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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 2019
VOLLEYBALL
Eggleston gives Texas the edge
Texas’ sophomore outside hitter has played her part in the Longhorns’ No.1 ranking. By Marcus Krum @marcuskrum
ith Texas putting the finishing touches on a home sweep of West Virginia, Logan Eggleston sent Longhorn fans into a frenzy. In a play that was emblematic of the outrageous all-around day from the sophomore outside hitter, Eggleston helped make a ridiculous save to keep the ball alive for the Longhorns that drew gasps from the Longhorn faithful. When the ball came back over, she pounded a kill into the court to put Texas up 22-14 — Gregory Gymnasium went bezerk as the Longhorns dominated in their first home game of the season as the No. 1 team in the nation. Eggleston turned in one of the best performances of her career Sunday. She recorded a team-high 14 digs, two block assists and – the kicker – 13 kills on a .722 hitting percentage, a number that even Eggleston was taken aback by when she heard it. “I think our defense played a really big part in it,” Eggleston said. “They’re just getting really good balls up to (setter Jhenna Gabriel) so she can give us great sets. That’s one of the things we’ve been focusing on in the gym, is getting good touches, getting the ball high.”
anthony mireles
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Outside hitter Logan Eggleston goes for a hit in their three set victory over the mountaineers. Eggleston helped the Longhorns achieve their No. 1 ranking and played a huge part in their win on Sunday. Whatever it was, Eggleston was at her best Sunday. She has played a large part in Texas’ climb to No. 1 in the rankings. Eggleston, with 227 kills, is second on the team only to senior outside hitter Micaya White, who has 243 kills. As the Longhorns have come to reach their full potential, Eggleston has done so as well. Sunday, she and the Texas offense were pick-
ing their spots, throwing in a mix of slide hits and powerful kills to keep the West Virginia block on its toes. “I think Jhenna’s doing a really good job evenly distributing the balls as well, so the block doesn’t really know who it’s going to,” freshman middle blocker Asjia O’Neal said. Led by Eggleston, Sunday’s sweep was a show in offensive consistency. Tex-
as slowly pounded away the win against West Virginia after finding its offensive rhythm early. Save a stretch of mistakes in the second set. Consistency has helped lift the Longhorns to nine consecutive sweeps and 11 consecutive wins overall. Texas has lost just one set in Big 12 play. The key to the string of success has come not from big scoring stretches, but from slowly grinding out wins with
solid play from the offense and defense. “You start seeing the consistency,” Texas head coach Jerritt Elliott said. “Obviously the offensive numbers we’ve been putting up throughout the season, we keep getting a little better and better, but defensively we’ve gotten better … We’re trying to put pressure on teams on all three facets of the game, the serve, the defense and the side-out hitting.” While the Longhorns
SOCCER
have now won 13 of their last 14 matches, they’re in new territory as they enter the second week as the nation’s No. 1 team. But if their first home game at the top spot was any indication — the roaring crowd, the new expectations, getting “every team’s 100%” as Eggleston put it — none of this will make a difference. “When there’s a Longhorn on your shirt, that’s your target right there,” Elliott said. “The No. 1 doesn’t do anything else.”
TENNIS
Labraña wins singles title at Texas Invitational By Nathan Han @nathanhan13
joshua guenther
/ the daily texan file
Goalkeeper Savannah Madden stops a Texas Tech player from getting the ball. Madden had nine saves in the Big 12 Championship.
Longhorns eliminated from Big 12 Tournament in penalty kicks By Isaac Gutierrez @byisaacg
After an uneventful match that went 110 minutes without a single goal scored and required a shootout round to decide its victor, Texas has been eliminated from the Big 12 championship tournament, falling to TCU in penalty kicks 3-1. The Longhorns entered their first game of the tournament as the three seed after a victory over Oklahoma in the team’s final regular season game. While they did enter the match with positive momentum, they did not arrive in Kansas City at full strength. The Longhorns were without sophomores Julia Grosso, Carlee Allen and Mackenzie McFarland as they all sat with injuries. The absence of these players were felt on the offensive end, especially without Grosso. She is one of the team’s most important playmakers, creating opportunities for herself and her teammates alike. As a result, TCU outshot Texas 22-17 in regulation as
the Longhorns struggled to find their footing on offense without their key creator. The shots-on-goal difference makes this even more apparent, as the Longhorns were outshot 8-3 in this respect. While the offense did fail to find the back of the goal, the Texas defense kept the team afloat, stifling the TCU attack for 110 minutes. Junior goalkeeper Savannah Madden’s performance stood out among the rest. Madden brought in nine saves in regulation, while TCU registered just four. This trend of lackluster offense and stout defense for Texas continued throughout the overtime minutes, as the game remained scoreless for the twenty extra minutes prior to the shootout. Things changed when the shootout round began. Texas kicked first, with sophomore outside back Emma Regan taking and making the first kick. Head coach Angela Kelly had defenders take each of the first three penalty kicks. While
Regan made the first shot, their luck ran out as both of the next two Longhorns, Emma Jett and Atu Mshana, missed their kicks. TCU made each of their first three. In the end, the pressure was on the Longhorn who was most equipped to handle it: senior forward Cyera Hintzen, the one Kelly elected to place fourth in the kicking lineup just for situations like this. Hintzen, a two-time All-American and former Big 12 offensive player of the year, is a veteran leader of the team. The equation was simple. If Hintzen made her kick, the Longhorns would stay alive, giving them a chance to force a second shootout. If Hintzen missed, Texas was heading home. Hintzen’s kick missed, clanking off the bottom of the left post, ending Texas’ run in the Big 12 tournament before it could ever really begin. Texas will now watch the Big 12 tournament as the team awaits its fate for the NCAA tournament, which begins on Friday.
Junior Fernanda Labraña didn’t let dropping the second set of the singles final to No. 80 Daevenia Achong of Miami mark the end of her fall season. “(Associate head coach Taylor (Fogleman) came and said, ‘Bring your energy up and get more aggressive,’” Labraña said. “And I was getting a little bit tired, but I just had to get myself to fight every point.” And fight she did, as Labraña went on to win the third set in commanding fashion. The junior won the singles title against Achong 6-3, 2-6, 6-1 at the Texas Invitational at the Texas Tennis Center Sunday. The Texas Invitational, featuring players from six teams including Miami, Rice, SMU, Tennessee and Texas A&M, concluded the fall season for not only Labraña but also freshman Gabby Cusano, redshirt sophomore Marta Perez-Mur and sophomore Tijana Spasojevic. Perez-Mur and Labraña
went 5-1 in their singles matches at the Texas Invitational. The two also combined to go undefeated in their three doubles matches, one of which was a close 7-6 (5) victory also against Achong and Selma Cadar of Miami Friday. “I’m just happy to finish the fall with a title,” Labraña said. “I’ve been playing a lot of hard matches this fall, but overall, I think I improved a lot.” For Perez-Mur, her fall season was a comeback from a devastating knee injury that kept her out and forced her to redshirt her second year. “It’s been weird to stay healthy all fall,” Perez-Mur said. “So that was really positive for me to be able to play all the tournaments I was scheduled to play.” After losing her entire season to injury last October, the redshirt sophomore had surgery in November and returned in September at the Furman Fall Classic. She defeated Jackie Nylander of SMU 6-3, 6-0 Sunday to finish her fall season on a high note as well. “I started the season off
a little lost on the court, especially after not playing for such a long time,” Perez-Mur said. “But after (the Baylor Invitational), my level of tennis improved a lot. I’m just really happy to be healthy and playing.” As senior Anna Turati and freshman Lexi Ryngler wrap up their seasons at the Oracle ITA National Championships starting Nov. 6, Labraña, Perez-Mur, Cusano and Spasojevic will take a short break before preparing for their spring season. “I have to improve the mental part of the game,” Labraña said. “Just staying stable no matter if I’m winning or losing and being more aggressive.” The Longhorns will play in the Bahamas at the Bahamian Invite Jan. 10 to start their preseason against tennis powerhouses Miami, UCLA and Florida. Then, they’ll kick off their season at home against Iowa Jan. 24. “It’s really special to play at home,” Perez-Mur said. “Going into the season having played at home in the fall gives us an advantage. It was great getting the crowd going and ready for the season.”
joshua guenther
/ the daily texan file
Junior Fernanda Labraña took down No. 80 Daevenia Achong (Miami) in three sets to end her fall season with the Texas Invitational title.
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Dancers from across the nation gathered at the Austin Powwow on Nov. 2 to celebrate Native American heritage and showcase their abilities.
nataleah small
/ the daily texan staff
Dancers unite at Austin Powwow
Performers from across the nation gather to celebrate Native American heritage, culture. By Nataleah Small @nataleahjoy
he arena swelled with energy as dancers moved in time with the drum beat. During the Fancy Feather Dance, men clad in beads and feathers stomped
and twirled in a fury of color as singers in the drum circle pinched their vocal cords and chanted at the top of their lungs. Nearly 20,000 attendees, performers and merchants gathered at the Travis County Expo Center on Nov. 2 for the 28th annual Austin Powwow and American Indian Heritage Festival, said Robert Bass, executive director of Great Promise for American Indians, a nonprofit sponsor for the event. A powwow is a Native American ceremony that involves singing and dancing. The family-oriented event included a vast array of activities and vendors. Those in attendance were able to purchase hand-crafted goods
and frybread, flat dough bread fried in oil, at the Native Market and Food Court. They could also watch dancers from across the nation participate in competitions like the Ladies’ Buckskin dance and the Mens’ Chicken dance. Franda Flyingman, member of the Kiowa tribe and dancer at the powwow, said it is important for people of all nationalities to participate in these events and learn more about Native American culture. “To share culture, to share languages, to share an understanding of one another just makes for a more peaceful country in this nation at this time that’s been under such turmoil,” Flyingman said.
Dancers registered for their events the morning of the powwow. The competition was open to seniors, adults and children, according to an Austin Powwow informational flyer. Bass said many dancers compete in powwows across the country and travel to the Austin Powwow in late autumn because the weather is relatively warmer than other parts of the nation. Dancers were able to win up to $500 in prize money, according to an event flyer. William Tsosie, member of the Otoe Missouria tribe, participated in the Southern Straight dance. Tsosie said it is a men’s dance that is based out of Oklahoma and Nebraska
and is meant to tell the story of tracking an enemy or hunting for game. The dancers that participate in the powwow enjoy each other’s community, but are also competitive, Tsosie said. The important elements of each dance are rhythm and timing and dancers need to stop on time when the drum stops, he said. Tsosie said his three-yearold son has also gained an interest in dance from watching YouTube videos and mimicking his father’s dance moves. “It makes me proud as a father to just see him out there dancing,” Tsosie said. Angela Calzada danced at the event and said she has participated in the Austin
Powwow for the past 15 years. Calzada said participating in powwows is a way to celebrate life events and connect with friends and family members. “It’s important for (event attendees) to know and understand that the culture is not dead, that it’s still alive and vibrant and rebounding in many ways,” Calzada said. Bass said he hopes the event will continue to grow in the future because there are many people in Austin that know very little about the event. “I run across people that really don’t think they can come,” Bass said. “They may think it’s a religious type of event or it’s only for people who are Native American. And that’s not true. We want everyone to come enjoy it.”
ALBUM REVIEW |’RIVER’
Rain Phoenix releases first album as tribute to late brother, River By Avery Wohleb @averywohleb
For the first time ever, Rain Phoenix has released solo music. On Oct. 31, Phoenix dropped her debut album River, a 32-minute record consisting of tame, acoustic tracks that focus on her personal experiences with death and grief. The album is a tribute to Phoenix’s older brother, River. 26 years ago on Halloween, the highly successful young actor and musician died from an overdose outside a nightclub in Los Angeles. Having been
present at the time of River’s passing, Phoenix has avoided nearly every opportunity to speak about her late brother in the public eye since. Nearly three decades later, Phoenix is ready to open up. With an abundance of public support from her younger brother Joaquin, who has been in the spotlight having recently starred as the lead in the newly released film “Joker,” Phoenix is openly mourning River in the best way she can: through music. It is immediately clear through the half hour of music that Phoenix found the album to be an outlet toward closure on the death of
her brother. While the lyrics are equally as powerful as they are heartbreaking, the low production value of the songs sometimes minimize the purpose of the album to Phoenix. Though some songs are able to shine through the haze, others do not, making the album inconsistent in the overall quality. The album begins with “Immolate,” a track Phoenix dropped on River’s birthday in August. From the start, the piano ballad makes it clear where Phoenix intends to go with the album, singing lyrics such as “I can still see a light, I keep it alive.” With minimal
instrumentation and raw, unfiltered vocals, the song seems so highly personal it almost feels intrusive to be listening to. At times, Phoenix’s sluggish annunciation makes the lyrics indecipherable, but ultimately it doesn’t feel inappropriate alongside a slow, defining introduction. “Stay Together,” the second track, contrasts in its more developed nature and tiptoes towards a country sound. With several moments of bizarre instrumentation, such as abrupt moments from a synthesizer or a music box, the song sometimes seems inconsistent in direction. Repeating lyrics “Everything
goes away” next to an upbeat arrangement, Phoenix takes a peaceful approach towards death that is ultimately undermined by a chaotic and unpredictable song. The album concludes with “Hey Heartache,” where Phoenix reminisces of previous years in a touching reveal of grief. With a heavy orchestral accompaniment, the track is the most developed of the album, a perfect ending to a relatively mellow record. Singing “When I was a child, running wild, you were right there with me,” Phoenix recalls memories with River, shedding light over a loss that is clear to have so deeply affected her within a well created piece.
River GENRE
Folk rock 32 minutes
RUNTIME SCORE
Above all, the album is a heartwarming and personal tribute to a young man taken away much too soon. River successfully conveys Phoenix’s journey with loss and the ups and downs that come with it. Where grief once bogged Phoenix down, it is clear she has come a long way with it, creating a delicate love letter to her late brother in the form of eight beautiful and intimate songs.
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Rain Phoenix releases her first solo album, a series of slow-paced alternative tracks as a tribute to her late brother, River.