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E+E hosts Posada to celebrate Mexican American culture and Christmas.

Claiming credit should be a more transparent process for students.

Multilingual students fear losing first languages due to reduced exposure and use.

Construction for the Moody Center began Tuesday with groundbreaking festivities.

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Future of UT libraries

Provost McInnis approves funding increase for UT’s libraries to expand collections, access to scholarly materials.

By Lauren Grobe @grobe_lauren

he UT Libraries are pursuing paths to make scholarly material more available after provost Maurie McInnis committed $2.7 million in recurring funds to the libraries’ budget in November.

The University Budget Council added the recurring funds after the Task Force on the Future of the UT Libraries completed its report and determined the libraries’ budget needed an increase to match the rate of inflation.

Alexia Thompson-Young, assistant director of scholarly resources, said the money has not been designated for a specific purpose, but it could be used to maintain subscription plans with journals and aggregators.

“It keeps us from having to cancel a bunch of subscriptions,” Thompson-Young said. “It keeps us from having to decrease the amount of books we buy.”

Thompson-Young said the library is also planning on making parts their collection open access, which will allow members of the public to access online materials for free.

Classics associate professor Jennifer Ebbeler said the libraries were previously not able to buy everything faculty needed because journal subscription rates increase every year. She said she usually buys her own materials because her field’s scholarly material is relatively more affordable.

“There’s a lot (of materials) that are between $20 and $50,”

Ebbeler said. “A lot of people do buy books themselves, but it depends on the field … any image heavy field, the books are extremely expensive.”

According to the libraries’ website, University students and faculty can file a purchase request or make an interlibrary loan to obtain materials the libraries do not have access to. Ebbeler said these processes are often lengthy.

“You can request that they buy a book, but that takes months to do,” Ebbeler said. “I bought a book on Amazon … at 3 in the morning, and it was at my door the next day.”

Thompson-Young said the libraries’ contracts with publishers, which they buy or rent from academic material from, change over time. She said the amount of materials the library owns and the amount it rents is in flux.

“That is always changing, and so I can’t tell you that we purchased 50%, and we rent 50% because there’s no way to (tell).” Thompson-Young said.

“It changes day to day.”

T h o m p son-Young said thenlibraries arennusually able to obtain anymaterial outside the libraries’ collection on request. In the Task Force on the Future of the UT Libraries’ report, the task force received anonymous complaints about decreasing access to material.

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phasize how much the depletion of the library’s collection of books has the potential to affect my ability to function as an award-winning scholar,” one complaint said.

“More and more of the books I expect to find in the library’s collection are now materials I have to order through interlibrary loan.”

Students planning misconduct forum for spring 2020

Thompson-Young said not many people understand how much the libraries spend on obtaining new content, as the libraries expands their collections every year.

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UT President Gregory Fenves and Provost Maurie McInnis will attend a student-led forum at the beginning of next semester where students can voice concerns about sexual misconduct policies and violations, according to a Tuesday press release sent by student organizers.

The student organizers of the third Sit In For Student Safety, the student body president and vice president, and nominated student representatives of the newly formed Misconduct Working Group met with the provost’s office Tuesday morning to confirm Fenves’ attendance at the forum, student organizer Tasnim Islam said.

“We are working with student leaders to solidify exact details. However, the participation of various members of University leadership is confirmed,” University spokesperson Shilpa Bakre said.

“The goal of the event remains creating an environment conducive to a constructive dialogue surrounding issues of misconduct.”

The Misconduct Working Group will be comprised of students, faculty and staff to discuss how the University communicates and evaluates sexual misconduct, according to a campuswide email sent

by Fenves on Nov. 19. Its representatives will be finalized this month, according to the press release.

Islam said the group is planning to solidify details for the forum once they meet.

She said they are expecting to livestream the forum, and

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UT System Board of Regents increases staffing funds for UT-Austin concert halls

SG proposes international student representation

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The UT System Board of Regents increased funding for staffing at various University concert halls during its meeting last month.

Stage Alliance provides theatrical stagehand staff for performances and events at concert halls around Austin, including Bates Recital Hall and Bass Concert Hall. The funding for the alliance increased from $2,700,000 to $10,000,000 after the vote.

Rachel Durkin-Drga, interim director of Texas Performing Arts, said this increase was necessary to adjust to the increase in need for staffing, which the original terms of the contract did not cover.

Durkin-Drga said the alliance will also be using the money to pay their employees a higher wage, but the total sum might not be spent.

“The value of the con-

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The UT System Board of Regents increased funding for staffing at various University concert halls from $2,700,000 to $10,000,000 during its meeting last month. tract needs to cover the total possible amount of money that could be spent in using Stage Alliance services over the entire period of the mul-

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tiyear contract,” Durkin-Drga said. “The original dollar figure was too low and was intended to cover only a portion of the contract term.”

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SG has no positions representing the international population, but at least two members representing other positions in the current assembly are international students. International students make up 10% of the student population, according to the University’s website.

“I’m from Indonesia, and a lot of times, I say something about this issue in the international student community, but nobody ever bothers to listen,” resolution co-author Gabrielle Wongso said. “People dismiss it, and that has made me think: ‘Do international students even have a place? Where is (their) place at UT?’” Resolution co-author Huy Le said he is from Vietnam but has lived in Texas for the past four years. He said international students face

numerous challenges, including finding resources over winter and summer breaks, using international student emergency services and lacking advisers.

“The international population is extremely diverse,” nursing freshman Le said. “They’re representing more than 100 countries at UT, and right now, there’s no representatives. Yet, their needs are often overlooked.”

Resolution co-author Braelynn Barborka said although she is not an international student, the representatives are necessary to accurately represent the student population.

“It’s mostly different cultures, so (international students) being here and getting used to American culture was a shock,” government freshman Barborka said. “It would be great for them to be able to elect S G PAGE 2

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By Sabrina LeBoeuf @_sabrinakaye

UT Campus Events + Entertainment spent Tuesday evening celebrating its first posada, a Latin American tradition that reenacts Mary and Joseph’s journey before Jesus was born.

Nayeli Sanchez, Mexican American Culture Committee chair, said the committee created the event to help students feel at home while on campus and to inform students about Hispanic culture. She said the event provides activities that Latinx students would usually do in December.

“Hopefully, this livens up their spirits a little bit, and they’re like, ‘Hey, let’s finish strong,’” undeclared sophomore Sanchez said.

Sanchez said a posada typically happens outside as people walk to houses around a neighborhood singing songs, and everyone gathers to feast at the end of the journey. To host the event on campus, Jasmine Jimenez, the publicity officer for the Mexican American Culture Committee, decided to host the posada outside Gregory Gym Plaza.

The committee turned tables on their sides and covered them with paper and felt to make them resemble doors. Event coordinator Melissa Melendez then led groups of students on a journey to each “door.” She

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narrated and acted the story about Mary and Joseph while leading everyone in songs.

In the pack of students following Melendez, chemistry freshman Mariela Jimenez and international relations freshmen Ximena Garcia held LED tea lights and sang along.

They said the celebration was familiar for them.

Garcia and Jimenez said

they used to walk around the neighborhood with their families and knock on actual doors. Jimenez said the posada was a tradition that signaled Christmas was coming, and having one on campus felt welcoming. “(The posada) was something to bring joy to us and really know what the meaning of Christmas is to our culture,”

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Renowned professor and psychologist Edmund W. Gordon has taught at Howard, Yeshiva, Columbia, City University of New York, Yale and Harvard. On Tuesday, he added UT-Austin to that list.

Gordon, who is 98 years old, was recently appointed as the inaugural 2019-2020 W.E.B. Du Bois Distinguished Visiting Scholar in Black Studies, according to a University press release.

His first lecture, titled “Supplementary Education: The Hidden Curriculum in High Achievement,” was about the quality of education in America and supplementary education.

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was involved with Christianity, but she had never heard of a posada before.

Ojha said he was excited to partake in the posada to step away from schoolwork. He said he also wanted to try a tamale for the first time. “(It’s) a break from the study grind, and you learn something new,” Ojha said.

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Jimenez said. “With such a diverse campus, it’s nice to have this little piece of home — a little piece of you here on campus.”

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Students sing songs in Spanish to commemorate La Posada on Dec. 3 2019 in the Gregory Gym Plaza. The song retells the story of Mary and Joseph looking for a place to sleep on Christmas night.

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Student Government proposes adding assembly representation for international students.

There are currently no positions representing the international population in the assembly.

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someone who they know will understand them on a better level.”

Wongso, a radio-television-film and journalism junior, said this culture shock adds to a disconnect between international students and other students.

“It feels like we are only here as tokens of diversity, not as students to make the UT community better,” Wongso said. “The prejudice comes from the stereotypes on television and memes that make fun of cultures.

Listening to people’s stories, it makes me feel heartache looking at how international

stature here to lecture on topics like supplementary education is truly a joy. Words can’t describe all of his accomplishments.”

Gordon said that his parents’ focus on education had helped him get to where he was, and his focus on education as a parent led his children to where they are now. Gordon also said one of his four children is Edmund T. Gordon, the vice provost for diversity and the former chair of the African and African Diaspora Studies Department.

Priscilla Vaz, a postdoctoral fellow in the African and African Diaspora Studies Department and Mexican American and Latina/o Studies, said she just finished reading Gordon’s daughter’s book on economic black history.

“Reading this book I was like, ‘Where does this person come from?’” Vaz said. “The connections she had and the access she had was all because of him, so it was amazing to hear from him. I was really moved.”

Shaleiah Fox, director of development and external relations for Black Studies, said Gordon’s next lecture is tentatively set for Feb. 12, 2020.

cultures are represented.”

Wongso said the assembly currently has two elected positions for transfer students, which is a similar proportion of the population. She said adding representatives for the international community to SG would give international students their first platform at the University.

“Hopefully, this will encourage (international students) to speak out and participate because their voices are equally valid,” Wongso said. “There’s a disconnect sometimes between them and other students, but I want these representatives to serve as a bridge between the international community and UT community and administrators.”

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shortages when “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” taped at Bass Concert Hall on Nov. 7. When the show was scheduled, he said there were other events happening in other concert halls, and they found themselves shorthanded. “(The issues) were because … they kept adding staff towards the end of the event,” Driscoll said. “The staffing

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UT President Gregory Fenves and Provost Maurie McInnis will attend a student-led forum at the beginning of next semester.

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the University is expecting to have 150 to 200 students in attendance.

“There will be preselected questions from the students answered by the president and provost, and then there will be allocated time at the end for students to come up to the mics to ask questions they come up with on the spot,” said Islam, a Plan II and women and gender studies sophomore.

The student organizers said they have been advocating for the University to fire English associate professor Coleman Hutchison and Sahotra Sarkar, a philosophy and integrative biology professor, who were both found in violation of the University’s sexual

misconduct policies.

“I feel like I’ve worked with (the University) enough to understand how to get things done or how to actually grab the University’s attention,” Islam said. “As someone who has dealt with sexual misconduct (and) sexual assault, I definitely want to be able to help end this at our University.”

University spokesperson J.B. Bird said the University’s open records office is compiling a summary of all sexual misconduct cases since November 2017, which will be available to any student for free through an open records request.

Islam said she thinks that is not enough, and she wants public data on cases dating a decade back.

“Not everyone has time or

capacity or understanding to know how to submit an open records request,” Islam said. “Having a link on a website or sending an email … is the only way that this information will properly be sent to the students.”

Bird said a summary of sexual misconduct cases has been created in the past by the University, and he understands students’ frustration with the information only being available through an open records request.

“That is a very good topic for the review to discuss and the outside expert to discuss,” Bird said. “I can see … why people get upset because unless we’re publishing it, they might think we’re withholding it, but I do think it’s really important to note that it hasn’t been withheld.”

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needs for such an event were incredibly large. Trying to pull all of those resources together in a short amount of time was difficult and costly.”

Durkin-Drga said Texas Performing Arts is contractually obligated to provide specific numbers of stagehands needed while a show runs. She said Texas Performing Arts submits a request to Stage Alliance for labor, and then Stage Alliance submits an invoice to Texas Performing Arts detailing the work done.

Durkin-Drga said a labor

shortage may require more time to complete the work, as the safety of the work may be compromised or tasks may have to be delayed until enough people are available.

“This has not yet happened, but labor shortages ultimately make it more difficult to get the job done,” Durkin-Drga said. “There has been a systemic moving away from jobs in trades working with hands over the last 20 to 30 years. This has led to a diminishing workforce in this field and others.”

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Living under threat of ICE

By Claudia Baellow Contributor

Immigrants living in the United States have faced the plausible threat of deportation since former U.S. President Bill Clinton signed the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act in 1996.

While former administrations focused on work site raids and sweeps if immigrants were arrested and in police custody, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, is now also targeting individuals in their homes, whether or not they have any criminal history.

The anti-immigrant rhetoric spewed by the current administration, and the constant threat of future ICE raids, has perpetuated fear and uncertainty throughout immigrant communities, including those in Austin. In April 2019, federal officers with ICE arrested 280 foreign nationals at a Texas cellphone repair business, the largest such single-site raid in a decade.

In June 2019, ICE arrested 52 foreign nationals in the Rio Grande Valley, San Antonio, Laredo and Austin/Waco. According to ICE’s internal statistics, the agency deported 256,085 people in the fiscal year 2018, up from 226,119 deportations in the fiscal year 2017.

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Why is claiming credit so confusing?

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“Take all the AP classes,” they said. “You’ll get out of college in like two years,” they said. Yet, for all the hype about AP classes in high school, I never learned what it takes to use that credit to get ahead in college.

Just taking the class and the AP test on three hours of sleep and four cups of iced coffee isn’t enough — you then have to go through the pricey and confusing process of claiming credit when you get to UT in order for the hard work to count.

Academic advisers can help students navigate this complicated process, but sometimes it’s rendered even more confusing due to the differing advice students receive.

To alleviate the stress of claiming credit, UT needs to standardize the recommendations students get from advisers about this process.

AP credit comes with a lot of benefits. Business freshman Andy Liu claimed 32 hours, and he’s now classified as a sophomore. “I was able to register one day before a few of my peers, and (that makes) a huge difference,” Liu said. “Registration time matters so much. If you want good teachers, you need an earlier one.”

However, not all students are told to take advantage of these benefits.

Biology freshman Kanika Kappalayil has the option to alleviate her core curriculum requirements using AP credit. “My academic adviser told me not to worry about (claiming) it yet, though,” Kappalayil said.

This advice that Kappalayil got contradicts the advice that Liu received from his adviser.

“My adviser just told me to claim all the credit I could because she said the earlier I claimed credit, the better registration time I could get,”

Liu said.

These discrepancies in advising can have a long-term impact. “My adviser from last year told me that I couldn’t (claim) a bunch of my AP credits,” neuroscience sophomore Sophie Hughes said. “But this year, my new adviser told me that I could claim like three or four more.”

Hughes believes a lot of the problems she’s had with registering for classes could have been avoided if she had just claimed all her credits during her first year.

Claiming credit is especially confusing for freshmen who are new to the University system. These students rely on their academic advisers (for information).”

To understand why students are getting conflicting information, I reached out to advisers in the College of Natural Sciences.

“Students make an individual decision about what to claim based on their own goals. Once a student has decided to claim credit, we recommend that they do so as soon as possible,” said Dr. Beth LaBate, the coordinator for the center for firstyear advising, in an email. If this is the case, why were Kappalayil and Hughes told to wait?

Denise Fernández, an academic adviser at the school of undergraduate studies explained the reason for these discrepancies.

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“If it doesn’t feel like it’s super standardized … it’s because it’s a case by case basis,” she said. Academic advisers have to make recommendations unique to each student’s situation. However, she also said that there is a standard body of advice that academic advisers draw from when advising their students about claiming credit.

“My assumption is that most advisers have their students claim mostly their core, such as Rhetoric 306 and History 315L and Government 310L, which are the most common credits claimed,” Fernández said.

Kappalayil can claim those classes and others she needs for her major using AP credit. Judging by the standard recommendation that most advisers give their students, she should have already claimed those credits so she could be halfway finished with her core curriculum requirements. Instead, she’s waiting, just like Hughes did, because of what her adviser told her.

Claiming credit is especially confusing for freshmen who are new to the University system. These students rely on their academic advisers to give them the information they need to make the right decisions during their time here. “It just started everything off on the wrong foot,” Hughes said regarding her experience claiming credit.

All first-year students deserve to get the same advice as their peers, especially when it’s about something as important as claiming credit, which has the potential to determine future registration times and eligibility for upper-division coursework.

To better serve all students in their time here, the University needs to further standardize the recommendations made to first-year students about claiming credit.

Dasgupta is a neuroscience sophomore from Frisco.

ICE raids have the potential to destroy peoples’ lives and are punitive against the family members of those apprehended.”

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Unfortunately, the ICE enforcement actions place the Austin immigrant community at risk because they rarely incorporate safeguards to protect the constitutional rights of immigrants and their families. The burden is shifted to immigrants themselves to know and voice their rights. What can immigrants do? They should familiarize themselves with their rights, consult with an immigration attorney to discuss their specific background and options and create an emergency plan in case an ICE arrest impacts their family.

All foreign nationals without an immigration status should know their rights under the U.S. Constitution. During an ICE raid, for example, immigrants can vocalize and assert their right to remain silent and decline to sign any document without first consulting with an attorney. Immigrants also have the right to confer with their home country’s consulate and place a phone call to a friend or family member.

Consulting with an immigration attorney is critical. Many individuals affected

by ICE raids come from mixed-status families, where some family members hold a valid immigration status while others do not. For example, the person apprehended by ICE may be undocumented, but their spouse may be a lawful permanent resident or a green card holder and their children may be U.S. citizens. In such a case, and depending on the foreign national’s immigration background, a recourse or legal remedy may exist to fight a deportation case and remain in the U.S. Creating a family emergency plan in case of an ICE apprehension is strongly advised. This plan should include collecting important documents and information, such as birth certificates, passports, tax and IRS documents and contact information of close family members.

These documents should be stored in a central and accessible location. Opening an emergency savings account will help cover bond payments following ICE detention or other unexpected expenses.

ICE raids have the potential to destroy peoples’ lives and are punitive against the family members of those apprehended, many of whom are U.S. citizens or have other lawful status. In Austin, undocumented immigrants should access all resources available to them, including their home country consulate. As the threat of future raids loom, immigrants should take the reins to investigate their rights and implement a family preparedness plan.

Baellow is an attorney with De Mott McChesney Curtright & Armendariz LLP who specializes in family-based immigration.

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The African Children’s Choir improves the lives of Wchildren through music and education.

Children’s choir celebrates 50th tour

By Grace Barnes @gebarnes210

The first time Tina Sipp heard the African Children’s Choir perform, she knew she wanted to be a part of their mission.

After joining the organization as a volunteer tour chaperone, Sipp held various positions before she was appointed choir manager in 2015. Sipp said each time she hears the children sing, she feels the same way she did when she first saw them perform.

“I’ve never been particularly drawn to children per se, but the first time I saw them, I just knew I needed to know these children,” Sipp said.

The African Children’s Choir was founded in 1984 and has since been able to reach thousands of children affected by Uganda’s civil war. Each choir gives approximately 20 children the opportunity to perform around the world and receive schooling and mentorship, and a total of more than 50,000 children have been aided relief and education through this organiza-

tion. After a tour has finished, a new choir is formed to begin the process all over again.

The renowned choir has performed alongside musicians such as Paul McCartney and Mariah Carey and has also appeared before Queen Elizabeth II. Celebrating their 50th tour from Africa since their founding, the choir will perform with a new program, “Just As I Am,” at two Austin venues on Dec. 5 and 9.

The performances feature a combination of African drumming and familiar hymns set to African rhythms. Sipp said when audiences watch the choir perform, they witness both the music and spirit of Africa.

“These children are gifted and bright. They just lack opportunity,” Sipp said. “It’s wonderful to put them in front of audiences and let the audience see not just their performance but the spirit of the children, their resiliency, their hope and their joy in spite of their circumstances.”

Performers are chosen for the choir through a selection process based on need and musical talent. They undergo six to eight months of training before embarking on the nine-monthlong

tour, during which they continue their education. They then return to Uganda, where they attend the organization’s primary and secondary schools and continue to receive mentorship through college.

On tour, many of the children experience cultures outside their own for the first time. Jemima is nine years old and joined the choir in September.

She said she’s always loved to sing and enjoys touring and performing with the choir.

“My favorite part of the performances is when we come out with the drums, and on the tour, I’ve gotten to try out different foods that I’ve never tasted,” Jemima said.

Tour leader Jade Powers joined the choir in April, and she and her husband serve as a host family for the organization. She said it was the choir’s mission that made her want to be a part of the organization.

“I have never been involved in choir, but I really loved the vision,” Powers said. “I loved what they were doing with the children back home, and the idea that they are raising up the next generation of Africa and change-makers of Africa.”

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interpretations. You can have some films that are very historical and faithful to the text and some that are more creative. There are successful adaptations of both kinds. Film is primarily a visual, rather than verbal, medium by comparison to Shakespeare’s theatre. Most Shakespeare films have to cut a fair percentage of the text if they’re using the original text to make up time for establishing shots, battle scenes and the other kinds of visuals that we associate with films. It’s a challenge to have a highly verbal Shakespeare film. I think that the Kenneth Branagh “Hamlet” is not bad, and I think the Laurence Olivier films are reasonably successful as well. But as cinema, some of the more creative films by people like Kurosawa and Orson Welles rank a little higher.

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JL: The two films of “Henry

V,” Olivier’s from the 1940s and Branagh’s, are two of my very favorites. I love to study them together in terms of their different techniques and representations of Henry, their different representations of war, different ways of engaging with the idea of the chorus and the imagined world of the play.

I also love “Chimes at Midnight,” which is Welles’ celebration of Falstaff as well as a recognition of the tragedy of Falstaff. That’s quite a strong adaptation; it cuts a lot, and it rewrites a lot.

It’s much further from the text than either of the Olivier or Branagh films in terms of altering, changing and compressing (the text of the play). So, (“Chimes at Midnight”) is one step along the road toward something like “The King.”

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Ground broken for Moody Center Construction for the Moody Center began Tuesday with an official groundbreaking for the new facility.

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early a year after University officials announced project plans, construction of the Moody Center is officially underway.

Tuesday afternoon, UT President Gregory Fenves, athletics director Chris Del Conte, minister of culture Matthew McConaughey and others broke ground on the construction of Texas’ new state-of-the-art basketball arena just south of Mike A. Myers Stadium.

“If you’re using basketball lingo, we would call this ‘the dream team,’” Fenves said. “The dream team has come together for the Moody Center.”

The Center will feature an innovative agreement between The University of Texas, Live Nation and Oak View Group to construct the $338 million arena at no cost to the city of Austin or the UT community.

Del Conte said Fenves came up with the idea for a new arena two years ago and wanted to negotiate a “unique business model.”

“I sat there and thought we were in Colorado for a moment,” Del Conte said. “You get

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The new arena will be named after the Moody Foundation, which announced on Nov. 9 that it would donate $130 million to support the University in building the facility.

“The trustees of the Moody Foundation recognize that both the University and the Austin community need a new and improved

sporting, special events and live entertainment arena,” said Ross Moody, one of the trustees of the Moody Foundation.

The Moody Center, which is expected to open in 2022, will replace the Frank Erwin Center, a multipurpose arena and the host of Texas’ men’s and women’s basketball teams. Once the new arena is complete, the

Frank Erwin Center will be torn down for expansion of the Dell Medical School.

Del Conte said actual construction on the arena will begin in 30-60 days and cause road realignments to Red River Street, Dean Keeton Street and Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard.

When the Moody Center

opens, fans can expect McConaughey to make an appearance.

McConaughey, who is one of the most well-known and visible Longhorn alumni, joined Texas’ faculty as a professor of practice in the Moody College of Communication in August 2019. But for now, UT’s minister of culture is focused on growing Texas’ atmosphere.

“We have the opportunity to make the Moody Center the place to be on the planet on any given day or night,” McConaughey said. “Together, let’s create and grow a classic establishment that grows older with grace. Let’s make it a place where truly great memories are made.”

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Jones, veteran trio lead Longhorns to victory over UAB

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With the Longhorns leading by a comfortable 13 points at halftime, it seemed as if

Texas was going to finally power through an unranked non-Power Five opponent without fear of a major upset.

Coming out of the halftime locker room, though, the University of Alabama Birming-

ham had other ideas.

“We’re still searching for a 40-minute effort,” head coach Shaka Smart said about the team’s execution.

The Blazers, fresh off of a competitive 69-58 loss at

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then-No. 9 Kentucky, emerged out of the locker room with a brazen mindset, determined to hand the Longhorns their first home loss of the season.

Texas’ 13-point halftime lead nearly disappeared at the snap of a finger.

Within three minutes, the Blazers whittled Texas’ once comfortable lead down to five on an explosive 8-0 run. The Longhorns’ efficient threepoint shooting, which accounted for nearly half of their 38 first-half points, all but disappeared, too.

After shooting 6-12 from beyond the arc in the first half, the Longhorns missed their first six attempts from deep to start the second half. Texas’ newfound shooting struggles, after shooting an impressive 56% from the floor, quickly allowed the Blazers back into the game.

For the Blazers, the feeling was familiar, as the team faced the same deficit against Kentucky but crawled back into the game early in the second half.

“We told our guys, we have to do the same thing (as they

did against Kentucky),” UAB head coach Robert Ehsan said. “We got a couple of stops, made a couple of shots and got momentum going our way.”

But just as Texas seemed poised for yet another second-half collapse, in stepped the veteran trio of Andrew Jones, Jericho Sims and Courtney Ramey.

Just over three minutes into the second half, with a dwindling lead bringing a sense of “here we go again,” Sims nailed a key turnaround post hook to keep Texas afloat.

Minutes later, with the Blazers still within striking distance, Jones nailed a 28foot three-pointer jumper to push Texas’ lead to nine, one of his career-high six threes on the night.

“We were hoping that we would get the team that shot it versus McNeese (in a 7371 victory), not the team that shot it tonight,” Ehsan said.

Although Ramey only scored five points on one made field goal, his playmaking presence was still felt

throughout the arena. Just past the halfway mark of the second half, Ramey made eye contact with freshman Kai Jones and threw a spectacular midcourt alley-oop to bring the Erwin Center to its feet.

“I saw him open, so I put it where he can only catch it,” Ramey said. “He’s a great athlete.”

But even with his team yet to execute for a 40 minute game, Smart was still pleased with his team’s aggressive, confident and loose playing style for portions of the game.

“I thought (we) dug in and were aggressive (defensively),” Smart said. “On the offensive end, when the play broke down, we didn’t just stop.”

Now, with yet another mid-major upset bid behind them, the 7-1 Longhorns turn to face rival Texas A&M in a reignition of the Lone Star Showdown.

“We’ve won seven out of eight games, but we’ve not yet played a complete 40 minute game,” Smart said. “Playing A&M will be a heck of a matchup.”

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hope that will translate to greater student engagement.”

While Monday marks the first day of early voting for midterm elections, it also marks the first day the PCL would be used as the campus’ second polling location. The Flawn Academic Center served as UT’s only polling location since 2005, but increasing voter turnout since 2016 made wait times hours long. This prompted Travis County Clerk Dana DeBeauvoir to pass legislation to open the PCL as a secondary location with help from TX Votes, UT Democrats and State Rep. Gina Hinojosa.

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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 early September to fit with the jobs of similar officers at other public universities.

“Other universities have police officers and they have public safety officers, which are basically mobile security guards,” Carter said.

“But we see them a little bit differently. Their primary mission is to be ambassadors and go out and be extra eyes and ears for the campus and UTPD.” Carter said these new officers respond to non-emergency alarms, collect lostand-found items, take police reports from students and answer questions.

“They’re not police officers per se, but they are out there as community servants working to support our University and especially our students, as well as faculty, staff and visitors,” Carter said. “It’s healthy for students to see these officers out there and know that they can report things to them.”

Because the officers are non-commissioned and are not licensed to be police officers, 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 works to keep the University safe by easing the workload officers ByofLisacommissioned Dreher @lisa_drehers97 who are often preoccupied

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UT-Austin’s Cockrell School of Engineering has an ongoing research partnership with General Dynamics, specifically its Mission Systems program. This program includes creating cybersecurity technology and software architecture for aerospace engineering, said Patrick Wiseman, executive director of communications for the engineering school.

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Number of handgun license to still be able to carry To the delight of an exuberant Texapplications issued in TX my weapon.” as crowd, the Longhorns answered that In the two years since question by giving one of their most O P E N C A R R Y, campus carry’s impleBy Katie Balevic

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IMPLEMENTED such as Cocks Not Glocks Sophomore quarterback Sam Ehlinger IN TEXAS have all but disappeared took a knee on the final play as the rest from campus. Gun Free The City of Austin issued a boil water notice MonA citywide boil water notice has been issued for the first of the Longhorns walked onto the field UT signs remain in office time in the history of the Austin water utility. Here are some to celebrate the 31-16 win over the day No. 17following recent flooding, telling residents to windows on the South boil water before using it for drinking, cooking or answers to questions frequently asked by students.

Horned Frogs on Saturday. The victory Mall — but maybe not for making ice. marked the program’s first three-game much longer.

“The notice is being issued as the utility works to Why do I need to boil the water? win streak since 2014 and its first time With a stockpile of stabilize the water treatment system,” the notice said.

After historic flooding in Central Texas, the water supply beating Top 25 opponents in consecutive dildos boxed up in her Boil notices usually only last 24 to 48 hours, but is now full of debris, silt and mud and requires extended weeks since 2008. parents’ garage, Cocks updates will be posted daily about the actions taken filtration by the city. These conditions are making it difficult “I think it’s a huge win,” junior safety Not Glocks organizer to treat the water and how long the advisory will last, for the water plant to filter the volume of water needed for Brandon Jones said after the win. “Me Ana López has passed the the notice said. By the end of the day Monday, the boil the entire city.

UT student torch on to anti-gun acnotice escalated and the City urgently called for Although there is no evidence of bacterial infilpage 2 F O O T B A L L water ages 2017 tivists in other states and residents to limit their personal water usage. tration, Austin Water is advising residents to boil elias huerta | the daily texan staff is campaigning for Julie “Water reservoir levels are reaching minimal levthe water to ensure that it is safe to drink until Texas junior wide receiver Collin Johnson celebrates a 31-yard touchdown reception in Texas’ 31-16 victory over the Oliver, a candidate advoels,” the notice said. “This is an emergency situation.” further notice.

TCU Horned Frogs. The Longhorns have now won three straight games to improving their record to 3-1. cating for gun control and Recent flooding caused high levels of silt to flow running for Texas’ 25th Congressional District.

H O W T O page 3 N O T I C E page 2 STATE UNIVERSITY As López holds out hope for future political action, she remains worried about the presence of guns on campus.

“It’s like saying that if you’ve got a scorpion in your bedroom, and if it hasn’t bitten you yet, than you might as well keep it in there,” López, a Plan II and health and society senior, said. “(O’Rourke’s) focus seems to whether to revise the auto-admit threshold is “The University is anticipating a simBy Katie Balevic Although Moore has hope for the future of By Chad Lyle @LyleChad @KatelynBalevic be on fighting for illegal immibased on application data. ilar number of Texas resident freshmen her lawsuit, Professor Lucas Powe, who w teachgrants and forgetting the mil“The University of Texas at Austin annualadmission applications, and this cones classes on the First and Second Amendlions of Americans — you know, ly assesses historical application and enrolltributed to our decision to maintain the ments at UT School of Law, is doubtful of any Incumbent Republican Sen. Americans are dreamers also,” The University’s automatic admission ment rates to determine the automatic admit same automatic admission criteria,” lasting impact.

Cruz said. threshold will remain at 6 percent for the percentage that will result in 75 percent of Wasielewski said.

Even if the lawsuit was appealed to theTed Su-Cruz took on Democratic rival During a discussion about 2020-2021 application cycle, according to a the University’s Texas resident population Sydney Simmons, a former Texas resipreme Court, “there’s no way they’d hear it,”Rep. Beto O’Rourke for the first time Friday night in Dallas, marijuana legalization, which Twitter announcement last week. being automatically admitted,” Wasielewski dent, applied to UT even though she knew focusing on domestic issues O’Rourke supports, Cruz said Exercise science freshman Sanja Stojcic said in an email. she was not going to be in the automatic page CAMPUS CARRY page 2 such as immigration. he thinks it should be decided at was automatically admitted when she apWasielewski said the University is exadmission threshold.

CAMPUS the state level. plied to UT in 2017. Stojcic, who applied pecting a similar number of Texas resident KXAS political reporter Ju“I was in the top 11 percent,” said Simlie Fine, who co-moderated the “Legalizing marijuana is acwhen the threshold was still 7 percent, said applications. Last year, a total of 51,033 mons, now a biomedical engineering debate at Southern Methodtually a question where I think she recalls her high school friends who did freshman applied, according to the Texas ist University, posed the first reasonable minds can differ,” not qualify for automatic admission were Admissions website.

A D M I S S I O N page 2 question of the night. She asked Cruz said. “I think it ought to more stressed about the application process O’Rourke about his support for be up to the states. I think Colthan she was. “Being auto admit was defihope that will translate to greater the PCL needs to be high in order “It really wasn’t until about

By Savana Dunning UNIVERSITY granting citizenship to Dreamorado can decide one way, and nitely a relief especially because I knew I was @savanaish student engagement.” for it to remain a permanent poll- 10:30 a.m. when there were any ers, undocumented immigrants Texas can decide another.” going to get into UT,” Stojcic said. “The auto While Monday marks the ing location. significant lines,” Dillard said. who were brought to the United When the issue of gun vioadmit percentage is small. It’s tiny. Because first day of early voting for mid“Polling locations are large “Even though it’s a midterm elecStates as children. O’Rourke aflence was raised, O’Rourke deit’s so small, other people had to worry about A line of students extended term elections, it also marks the costs for the county, especially tion, there’s an awful lot on the firmed his support and attacked scribed himself as a proponent it more than I did.” from the ballot boxes in the back first day the PCL would be used early voting locations, so they ballot, and we were expecting to current students offers an organizations that focus on underrepresented or idenCruz for saying the United of the Second Amendment, but The automatic admission policy carries a of the Perry-Casteñeda Library as the campus’ second polling can’t justify the costs of having a have that turnout.” authentic perspective.” increasing racial and gentify as women, Latino, AfStates should deport them. added he supports an assault stigma with it that causes some prospective to the metal detectors at the location. The Flawn Academic second location on campus if we Téya Kroeker, French and apEric Castle, business adder representation in the rican-American and Na“The economists who’ve weapons ban. students to have low confidence about their entrance Monday as students Center served as UT’s only poll- don’t use it,” chemistry senior parel designs senior, said she did ministration graduate stu- said that we will business world, as well as tive American, McCombs studied it have “Weapons of war belong on applications, Stojcic said. participated on the first day of ing location since 2005, but inPatel said. not mind waiting at the PCL for dent in McCombs, actively of billions of dolconnecting current students spokeswoman Catenya loseishundreds the battlefield,” O’Rourke said. “(There is) that stigma around it,” Stojcic early voting. creasing voter turnout since 2016 Around midday, some students an hour and a half before reaching involved in many diversity with prospective McCombs McHenry said in an email. lars to the negative if we deport “Not in communities, schools said. “And knowing that you’re not within “I think people are pleased made wait times hours long. This in line reported wait times at the the front of the line. initiatives in McCombs applicants, McCombs assisThis is almost five times as them,” Eland Paso Congressman and churches.” that (top) percent, it is a lot more stresswith the new location,” said prompted Travis County Clerk PCL to be around an hour long.

“Time went by really quickly, business schools across tant dean Tina Mabley said high as the percent of unO’Rourke said of the Dreamers.

O’Rourke also supports more ful. It does cause students to be more like, student body president Colton Dana DeBeauvoir to pass legislaKelton Dillard, temporary dep- and I think voting is super importthe country. “We Castle saidhundreds of milin an email. derrepresented students 10 will gain thorough background checks ‘Yeah, we’ll see what happens. Like, I’m not Becker, who waited in line with tion to open the PCL as a second- uty county clerk in charge of the ant, so I’m down to wait,” Kroeker diversity is a lions buzzword “We find many prospecyears ago, and a 6 percent to the in positive if we keep for those who wish to purchase expecting to get in.’” vice president Mehraz Rahman ary location with help from TX PCL polling location, said he con- said. “If we want a government many workplaces. tive students want to know, increase since last year. a firearm. Cruz said an effecThe University follows Senate Bill 175, them here. Senator Cruz has for early voting. “It’s located Votes, UT Democrats and State sidered the turnout at the PCL to that represents the views of the “We’re finding that to…deport each and ‘Can I see myself here?’”

Increased diversity can promised tive way to reduce gun violence which requires 75 percent of the University’s conveniently next to a lot of the Rep. Gina Hinojosa. be moderate to high around mid- people, we’re not going to get that Mabley said.

“Getting be credited to strong partevery single Dreamer.” in schools would be placing in-state admits be automatic acceptances, dorms in a very high-concenMaya Patel, TX Votes vice day even though turnout in the if we aren’t out here telling them firsthand accounts from nerships with national D I V E R S I TCruz Y page page said2 O’Rourke apmore armed police officers on according to the Office of the Executive Vice trated, central location, and I president, said voter turnout at morning was low. what we want.” pears to prioritize undocschool grounds.

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hen he saw the bloody knife, Sam Kellogg thought it was a prop in a protest. On the May 2017 afternoon when accused murderer Kendrex White killed one and injured three in an on-campus stabbing, Kellogg, now a government junior, was outside Gregory Gymnasium with his girlfriend.

“Get your gun,” Kellogg remembers his girlfriend saying.

Kellogg, who has spent nine years in the Marine Corps, had left his gun in his car that day. He’d recently moved to Austin and was unsure whether or not his Virginia Resident Concealed Handgun Permit was valid in Texas.

The man with the knife ran past them and slashed someone sitting at a table nearby.

That’s when Kellogg knew it was serious.

Within seconds, the entire area in front of the gym cleared out and Kellogg did what he could to help in the situation: Call the police.

He stayed on the phone until they arrived.

“Had I had my weapon on me at the time, I think I would’ve been able to stop him at the food truck, and he wouldn’t have gotten any further,” Kellogg said.

Kellogg now carries his gun to campus every day. He’s one of roughly 500 people estimated by the University to carry on campus.

Texas requires License to Carry a Handgun applicants be at least 21 years old, making 48.2 percent of UT students eligible to obtain a license, according to 2017 census data collected by the University.

Campus carry had been in place for over 20 years when Senate Bill 11 went into effect on Aug. 1, 2016, the 50th anniversary of the UT Tower shooting. The new law allowed guns in all University buildings with some exceptions, including labs and certain professors’ offices.

On the day of SB 11’s implementation, three UT professors filed a lawsuit against the University in an attempt to strike down the law, along with a wave of activism that overtook the campus.

The lawsuit, brought by professors Lisa Moore, Mia Carter and Jennifer Glass, was blocked by a lower court, and that ruling was upheld on Aug. 16 of this year by the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals. With no word yet as to whether or not the professors will appeal to the Supreme Court, it looks like campus carry is here to stay.

From 2015 to 2016, coinciding with campus carry and open carry becoming law, there

“Had I had my weapon on me at the time, I think I would’ve been able to stop him at the food truck, and he wouldn’t have gotten any further.”

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New PCL polling location experiences long early voting lines A line of students extended from the ballot boxes in the back of the Perry-Casteñeda Library to the metal detectors at the entrance Monday as students participated on the first day of early voting.

“I think people are pleased with the new location,” said student body president Colton Becker, who waited in line with vice president Mehraz Rahman for early voting. “It’s located conveniently next to a lot of the dorms in a very high-concentrated, central location, and I

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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.

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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 early September to fit with the jobs of similar officers at other public universities.

“Other universities have police officers and they have public safety officers, which are basically mobile security guards,” Carter said.

“But we see them a little bit differently. Their primary mission is to be ambassadors and go out and be extra eyes and ears for the campus and UTPD.” Carter said these new officers respond to non-emergency alarms, collect lostand-found items, take police reports from students and answer questions.

“They’re not police officers per se, but they are out there as community servants working to support our University and especially our students, as well as faculty, staff and visitors,” Carter said. “It’s healthy for students to see these officers out there and know that they can report things to them.”

Because the officers are non-commissioned and are not licensed to be police officers, they do not have the ability to arrest people, carry a weapon or respond to emergencies on campus.

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The first day of early voting for midterm elections in Texas resulted in lines out the door at Perry-Casteñeda Library. The PCL was designated as the second polling place on campus due to increased voter turnout.