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SG leaders pass legislation for a nontraditional student center on campus.

The term “people of color” cannot accurately describe the Black experience.

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UT prepares inventory, collectibles for online auction By Nataleah Small @nataleahjoy

Longhorn-branded gear and collectibles are up for auction online as they are being cleared out of athletics facilities undergoing construction. Jerseys, gloves and burnt orange-colored chairs are among the items for sale through UT Surplus Property, a branch of Facilities Services that is responsible for repurposing University property. Recently, Texas Athletics donated inventory from Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium to the property because of the South End Zone construction project, said John Bianco, senior associate athletics director for sports communications and media relations, in an email. Surplus Property handles all the materials the University no longer needs, said resource recovery manager Robert Moddrell. He said they deal with everything from nursing school mannequins to audiovisual equipment. “If you’ve seen it at UT and it’s not bolted to a building, when somebody doesn’t need it anymore, it has to come to us,” Moddrell said. Bianco said funds from these auctions are utilized to support Texas Athletics sustainability efforts. “This is a great way for fans and the general public to obtain items that can be reused, utilized, repurposed, reconditioned or displayed for

Paddles with a Purpose is the first breast cancer survivor team in the Austin area.

Distance runner Sam Worley takes the torch and leads Texas into a new era.

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Amazon Fresh launches in Austin New grocery delivery service improves ease of access to fresh food, produce for students. By Brooke Ontiveros @brookexpanic

mazon Fresh launched in Austin last Thursday, allowing Amazon Prime members to ship groceries to their door in two hours with no delivery fee with a purchase of $35 or more, according to a statement from Amazon. Now, Whole Foods Market and Amazon Fresh groceries are available for Austin residents, so students in apartments can deliver products to their homes, according to the statement. Shipments to dormitories are not allowed, according to Amazon’s website. Psychology sophomore Katerina Mangini said she thinks the service will save her time and money. “It will cut down the time that students would be taking to (the) grocery shop,” Mangini said. “It would also be helping because a lot of students don’t have cars, so they won’t have to pay for transportation.”

I for sure think people will start ordering more from these online apps ... and in a few years, it’s just going to be the norm.” KEVIN SHE

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Mangini said some of the closest grocery stores are about a 10-minute drive away but are longer on a bus or bike. She said the commute dissuades students from going to the stores.

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“There’s also the Target on (Guadalupe Street), but I never go there (because of limited) produce,” Mangini said. Mangini said a lot of her friends don’t cook because it takes a lot of time and they don’t know what to look for at grocery stores. “(Amazon Fresh) might encourage people to cook more if they don’t do that a lot,” Mangini said. “It will help, especially if you can … order your groceries while you’re walking to class and then by the time you’re home they’re there.” Art history freshman Janet Rasmussen, who

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lives in Jester West, said she wishes Amazon Fresh would deliver to dorms so she could cook more. “Me and my roommate eat so much in our dormitory,” Rasmussen said. “When it is late at night you can’t go to the dining hall, and you don’t want to walk at night here so it would be very convenient to be able to use (the service).” Accounting sophomore Kevin She, who prepares his meals in advance for the week, said he is wary of grocery delivery services like A M A Z O N PAGE 3

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UT professor receives funding for unbiased artificial intelligence research By Brooke Ontiveros @brookexpanic

An assistant professor at the UT School of Information received more than $1 million last month in grant funding to research how to create more accurate and representative artificial intelligence applications, according to the School of Information’s press release on Feb. 5. The National Science Foundation, in partnership with Amazon, awarded $1,037,000 to Min Kyung Lee to fund her project, Advancing Fairness in AI with Human-Algorithm Collaborations. Lee will work with researchers from Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities to complete research by 2022, according to the School of Information’s press release. “AI is growing, but the problem is it’s growing too fast without careful evaluation and examination of its consequences,” Lee said. “It’s the researcher’s role to make sure, in the early stages, (that) AI will be (fair).” Lee said a lot of companies are using AI, but they do not always examine whether the AI

is fair. She hopes to create algorithms to help that. To accomplish this, the researchers will gather data on people’s values of fairness, Lee said. “We create parallel comparatives of two decisions and ask people to choose a fair option among the two,” Lee said. “Then, we use this to train a fair algorithm, and we’ll adapt and extend this method.” Lee said one of the questions researchers asked participants was to pick which food kitchen has a greater need for resources. Lee said biases could creep into AI during the training phase when potentially biased data is supplied to the AI. Lee said most biases in AI occur because the datasets or populations given to AI do not represent everyone and everything fairly. She said part of her research is to create fair human feedback to the AI that represents a diverse set of human values. Facial recognition AI biases can appear where the technology will work better for specific populations than others, Lee said. Bias can also be found in recommendation results on social media algorithms such as YouTube and Twitter, which are

Travis County hires first chief public defender By Austin Martinez @austinmxrtinez

Min Kyung Lee, an assistant professor in the School of Information, recently received a grant from The National Science Foundation and Amazon to fund research in artificial intelligence applications. responsible for search results, Lee said. “Biases in tailored information delivery (could cause)

different people to get more information about opportunities,” Lee said. “For example, job A I PAGE 3

according to the release. “Travis County has a deep commitment and goal to improving our current indigent defense,” Travis County spokesperson Hector Nieto said in an email. “By creating the Public Defender Office and hiring this new Chief Public Defender, Travis County is on track to accomplishing that goal.” The public defender’s office will be funded by a $48 million grant from the Texas Indigent Defense Commission until April 2024, Nieto said in an email. According to Nieto’s email, the county will fully fund the office at about $8.8 million a year after the grant ends. Before being hired in Travis County, Ogunkeyede was the legal director for the Civil Rights and Racial Justice Program at the University of Virginia’s Legal Aid Justice Center, according to the release. Ogunkeyede also served as the director of staff development at The Bronx Defenders, a criminal and civil justice organization in New York, according to the release. Sports management junior

Travis County hired its first chief public defender to represent adults accused of misdemeanor and felony offenses in the county, according to a Travis County press release on Feb. 5. Travis County decided to create a public defender office after a 2018 study by the Council of State Governments found that low-income defendants were more likely to be given jail time than those represented by an attorney, according to KUT. Before the creation of this office, Travis County was the largest jurisdiction in the United States without an office that represents cases for low-income individuals, according to KUT. Travis County commissioners appointed Adeola Ogunkeyede, a former law professor at the University of Virginia, to fill this position. As the chief public defender, Ogunkeyede is responsible for creating a countywide public defender office for Travis County, D E F E N D E R PAGE 3

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Documentary shows student’s journey as disabled refugee By Alexander Mansky @JacobMansky

A UT student shared his life story as a disabled refugee through a documentary viewing as part of the Disability Awareness Speaker Series on Tuesday. Qusay Hussein, a psychology and social work junior, spoke about the documentary “Open My Eyes: The Extraordinary Story of Qusay Hussein,” which was produced by Doctors Without Borders, an international medical organization. The documentary chronicled his life as a refugee, and he answered questions following the screening. Hussein became blind as a result of a suicide bombing in Mosul, Iraq, at age 17. He later applied to be a patient in Jordan with Doctors Without Borders. Following his treatment, Hussein was sent to Austin based on his medical condition. Hussein said he hopes to become a psychologist to help people who have been traumatized. “I would like to talk about ourselves as humans and how we think and how we should love each other,” Hussein said. “We should not discriminate when we see someone different … (who) is not part of society (or has a disability).” Hussein said intimate relationships affect our personal happiness and our ability to help people. During his own treatment, he formed close relationships with the doctors and patients around him. “Don’t isolate yourself,” Hussein said. “When I came here for 21 days, I didn’t see people and I felt tired

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Qusay Hussein, a psychology and social work junior, speaks as part of the Disability Awareness Speaker Series on Feb. 11. At the event, Hussein talked about his life as a refugee, the struggles of living with a disability and how it was all portrayed through a documentary produced by Doctors Without Borders. and I didn’t want to be in the U.S. anymore. Isolation kills people.” Event organizer Nick Winges-Yanez said the goal of the series is to reach out to people at UT specifically because it affects people at UT. “(The intention of the series) is really just to raise awareness (about issues) that people might not be aware of in the disability world,” Winges-Yanez said.

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Winges-Yanez, an adjunct assistant professor at the Texas Center for Disability Studies, said the speaker series focuses on disability studies as a methodology, the immigrant experience with disabilities and people’s experiences with doctors. Abby Attia, a global policies studies and Middle Eastern studies graduate student, was excited

to hear about the event and watch the screening. “I (was) excited to hear from a refugee’s perspective the challenges they face from having a disability,” Attia said. “I study international development, and I think that a lot of times people with disabilities aren’t taken into account with policies. I’m excited that this perspective has been documented.”

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Students pitch projects at reverse career fair By Sam Hameed @sana21hameed

Texas Convergent, a business and technology entrepreneurial organization, hosted the second Side Project Expo on Tuesday evening, where the recruiters came to the students to learn about projects they had been working on outside of class. At the expo, 10 teams pitched their projects to recruiters from Chevron, Dell and others. “It (is) a reverse career fair that gives recruiters insights into projects. Instead of having students rotate around, we (have) recruiters rotate around students,” said Tanvi Shah, a Convergent partnerships retail lead. Shah, a management information systems sophomore, said the officers of Convergent came up with the idea last spring. They realized many members of their organization would build projects but would not have the chance to display them aside from Demo Day at the end of every

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Texas Convergent’s members showcase side projects to recruiters on Feb. 11, 2020 at the Gates Dell Complex. Students developed software applications for the expo and pitched their ideas to recruiters from various companies. semester. Unlike Demo Day, the expo is at the beginning of the semester, and the application is open to all students, not just members of the organization. “We realized that a lot of students (outside the organization) were actually

interested in this … because they’ve been working on things on the side,” Shah said. “I think it’s a great way to help them showcase what they’ve been doing to recruiters.” Varshinee Sreekanth, a computer science and plan

II sophomore, and her team created a seizure detection application called SleepSafe. Sreekanth said creating this was important to her, in part because her younger sister had a seizure at 6 months old and almost died. SleepSafe won

Best Overall at Demo Day last fall. “There’s a device that’s dropped to the side of the user’s bed and a person with epilepsy can sleep with security because … (the app) will keep track of their motion (in their sleep) for them,” Sreekanth said. “If we detect (any irregular) motion, it will raise an alarm and let their loved ones or emergency services (know).” Isaac Buitrago, a computer science graduate student, pitched his social media application for software developers, Dev Connector, which he created through an online course. “It was just a pet project for learning,” Buitrago said. “Now I’m getting feedback from all the people here, which is good.” Shah said students join Convergent to ensure they understand the process of product management, building products and designing them. “Having recruiters come out and see that … (is) just a really big reward for (students), and just matches our mission,” Shah said.

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SG votes to establish nontraditional student center By Anna Canizales @annaleonorc

Student leaders unanimously passed legislation in support of establishing a student center on campus for nontraditional students during the Student Government assembly meeting Tuesday. Nontraditional students are defined as transfer students, students older than the age of 23 or student parents, according to the resolution. The assembly resolution aims to integrate transfer students into student life as well as serve as a place for nontraditional students to create bonds and community on campus, according to the executive summary. The resolution was originally brought forth last November and was created in addition to previous legislation forming a transfer student experience program. “It’s pretty well documented that nontraditional students have a very difficult time transferring to The University of Texas,” said Student Government financial director Matthew

Kenny. “We are trying to create spaces where nontraditional students … can meet other students with the same experience.” Kenny said the space would be created in an existing building on campus and the University has the resources to make this happen. Kerry Mackenzie, chair of the ethics and oversight committee, said there is a transfer student center on the outskirts of campus, but it is far away and not used at all. “A lot of times, nontraditional students feel like there’s a divide between them (and the rest of campus), but there’s almost a physical emphasis on that,” Mackenzie, a government and plan II sophomore, said. “Having something that’s just for them in the middle of campus will be a really good way to build a community.” Student body president Camron Goodman said the goal is to ensure that nontraditional students feel they have a home on campus and to help them excel academically and socially

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Student leaders unanimously passed legislation to support creating a center for non-traditional students Tuesday. From left, natural science representative Jordan Clements, liberal arts representative Mark Stephens, co-director of Hook the Vote Jack Bumgardner, universitywide representative Nora Balli and liberal arts representative Samuel Ng discuss the legislation. on campus. “Me being a transfer student, I have experienced what transfer students go through as they enter campus,” finance senior Goodman said. “I experienced transfer shock, and I experienced the lack of resources and mentorship that would have

helped me be successful in my first semester.” Goodman said the timeline putting this initiative in place depends on the University administration, but the support Student Government expressed for it should help advance the initiative.

“It makes the whole college experience easier,” said Kenny, a chemistry and public health sophomore. “In an ideal world, it would be somewhere very central on campus — a home away from home for many students.”

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ads or housing opportunities and higher-paying jobs could only be shown to the white male population.” Lee said social media has a signiﬁcant problem with biases in AI. Lee said social media

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s e h l AMNA IJAZ / THE DAILY TEXAN STAFF nResource recovery manager Robert Moddrell gestures to a board Tuesday morning ”at the UT Surplus Reuse Store. As UT facilities are regularly updated, all surplus items -including many pieces of Longhorn and collectibles end up at the UT Surplus Property facility for auction. m two to three truckloads per Moddrell said items are r AUCTION month to the surplus center, still being posted on the ” CONTINUES FROM PAGE 1 so new postings and sale piecwebsite, swicoauctions.com. es are available on a regular Bianco said each auction , personal use,” Bianco said. basis,” Bianco said. item is posted online for 10 a Surplus Property tracks From there, Moddrell said days and that the winning all waste materials leaving some items are donated to bidder then has seven days , campus and tries to divert Texas schools and qualified to pick up their item once n it from entering a landfill, assistance programs, such as they are notified. Bianco said Moddrell said. Currently, rehabilitation organizations the auction items are stored t the department diverts 78% and refugee services. He said at the J.J. Pickle Research . of waste materials with the the remaining materials are Campus and must be picked k goal of diverting 95% in the sold in an online auction or up in person. , future, he said. at the Surplus Reuse Store. Advertising sophomore Moddrell said the propAs many as 1,000 people Maria Silva said she apprecin erty receives inventory from bid during the 10-day auc- ates that the University sells y the University throughout tion period, Moddrell said, used materials to boost suss the year, regardless of conand about 30 people bid on tainability and reduce waste. , struction projects. Moddrell a single item if it is popular. “I also think it’s a great d said there is a lot of inven- He said athletics equipment opportunity for students tory to keep track of and orand large industrial items, that maybe can’t afford rege ganize since the University is such as power equipment ular-priced items, and so t so large. tools, are among the most (having) reduced price items “Athletics typically transports popular items. is really great,” Silva said. r

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Tiﬀany Anderson said Ogunkeyede’s background in civil rights and racial justice will make her a great chief public defender. Anderson is the community engagement chair for the UT Pre-Law Division of The National Black Law Students Association, a student organization that promotes the goals of Black students interested in the

law field. “This office will help the homeless and people of color because oftentimes they’re the ones that are low income and need representation,” Anderson said. “They’re the ones who are primarily in jails because they don’t have this representation.” Taylor Edwards, co-president of the association, said an office dedicated to public defense is important because it will provide residents with higher-quality representation.

“I like that they hired a Black woman because probably the majority of the community she will be representing will be Black and brown people,” government senior Edwards said. Anderson said Ogunkeyede’s background will make her a good public defender. “As a Black woman who wants to pursue law, it is great to see another woman of color doing something with her law degree to change lives,” Anderson said.

Amazon Fresh. “(At the grocery store) you pick up an apple and look to make sure there aren’t any bruises,” She said. “You don’t have that personal guarantee when someone else is picking out fruit

is tailored to earn proﬁt, so AI will replicate content that could make consumers stay on the platform for longer, including fake news. Mathematics freshman Jasper King said he hopes that Lee’s research will lead to unbiased AI. “If AI is taking over, which it kind of is, making it fair could

lead to objectively better decisions made today without AI,” King said. Computer science freshman Janssen Bozon said it is crucial to work on creating an unbiased AI. “The fact (is) that you use AI in a lot of places already, and if the AI is biased, you could be reducing access to (underrepresented) people,” Bozon said.

or vegetables for you.” She said he has used a grocery delivery service before through H-E-B and experienced trouble although the list was largely basic produce. “They forgot an item at the store — they forgot my milk,” She said. “It was a huge hassle because my delivery person had to call back at the store, but there

was no one working because it was near closing time. And they never got my milk.” As more grocery stores launch their own apps, She said grocery delivery will become more commonplace. “I for sure think people will start ordering more from these online apps … and in a few years, it’s just going to be the norm,” She said.

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Authentic authors promote adequate representation By Elena Pacheco Columnist

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Before I was born, my parents decided to immigrate to the United States from Mexico. Like many others, they were simply looking for a better life. I cannot imagine how vastly different my life would be if my parents had not decided to leave Mexico — their decision has become a huge, undeniable part of me. I have plenty of experiences and stories I could tell, as do many other Latinos. There is a huge collective of people whose lives are inevitably defined by the intensity of immigration and who have had firsthand experiences with violence and the feeling of uncertainty. Due to prejudice and negative rhetoric, many who are eager to tell their stories about immigration feel they cannot do so freely. Instead, they have their intimate narratives told for them by someone who lacks authentic experience. The recent publication of “American Dirt,” a fictional novel about a character who emigrates from Mexico, has sparked a lot of controversy. It made its way onto Oprah’s Book Club list, was referred to as “The Grapes of Wrath” of our time, garnered the attention of famous authors such as Stephen King and generated a whopping seven-figure advance from publishing house Flatiron Books, a subdivision of Macmillan Publishers. Many amazing Latino writers have not received nearly as much attention for their stories about real, firsthand experiences. Yet a non-Latino author’s fictional, inaccurate novel is celebrated at a book party with barbed wire centerpieces, and non-Latino fans get barbed wire manicures mirroring the cover of the book.

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“People of color” does not describe the Black experience By André Williams Columnist

Here at UT, I can look around the classroom and see many people of color, but very rarely are there other Black students. The lack of representation is a problem felt among many in the Black community at UT. Diversity efforts often group people of color together, but effectively addressing issues of inclusivity will require specific acknowledgment of Black issues. Ashley Bowen, a government and theater and dance junior, has noticed this trend in the classroom. On her first day of a course, she saw that other people of color had representation, but Black faces were few and far between. “I look around, (and) immediately I (ask myself) how many other African Americans are in the class,” Bowen said. “I saw two other Black students … and there (were) like 15 Hispanic students, and there might (have been) five Asian students and so on.” The term person of color attempts to unify nonwhite people in their fight for racial justice in America; however, as Bowen’s experience illustrates, Black people are often ignored or relegated when it comes to the distribution of that justice. Black people are ignored in the discussion of people of color because the term still bases value on one’s proximity to whiteness. Not white is not synonymous with Black. The value placed on whiteness creates a hierarchy that continues to position whiteness at the top. Black people and Blackness are the bottom of the pyramid, to be rejected and

ostracized, and non-Black people of color are viewed as a lesser evil who can work toward eventual acceptance into a society based on exclusion, contingent on the unequivocal rejection and condemnation of Blackness. Although seeking to unify, the term people of color reinforces social hierarchy and racial bias by ignoring that non-Black people of color benefit from and contribute to systemically embedded anti-Blackness.

Unlike identifying with an Italian or Mexican heritage, a person standing proud in their Blackness is often seen as a threat.” Civil engineering freshman Brionna Williams talks about experiencing anti-Blackness from non-Black people of color. “On (a) daily basis, because it may be more obvious that we are African American, I feel like it’s easier to discriminate against us,” Williams said. “Our other people of color, if they can pass for a certain look that is favored by those doing the discriminating, I think they are okay with it.” Non-Black people of color propagate anti-Blackness in many ways. Whether through cultural appropriation, or co-opting attempts to shed light on Black-specific struggles, or blaming

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Black people for their own misfortune, or intracommunal colorism that associates beauty with those whose appearance least resembles Black features, or microaggressions, or stereotyping, or saying the n-word — anti-Black attitudes are commonplace. Grouping people of color creates a singularity that fails to admit reality. Another reason why the term people of color is harmful to Black people is because it continues the history of erasing our culture. Many non-Black people of color can trace their family to a specific land or country and the associated cultures — Latin American countries, Asian countries, and so on. Black people, specifically Black Americans, often cannot do the same because of the cultural erasure associated with chattel slavery. Blackness, though, is a culture defined by defying the odds in the face of adversity. The common fight of all Black people, no matter the socioeconomic background, has become our culture. White and other non-Black people of color are allowed to embrace their cultural identities in a way Black people cannot. Unlike identifying with an Italian or Mexican heritage, a person standing proud in their Blackness is often seen as a threat. Blackness is villainized and devalued, and those who claim it are condemned. The nuanced approach “person of color” takes to race is performative rather than action-oriented. The Black identity has never been nuanced. As such, in order to tackle discrimination against Black people, we must acknowledge the specific troubles Black people face and the complexity of the Black identity. Williams is an international business junior from Fort Worth.

Due to prejudice and negative rhetoric, many who are eager to tell their stories about immigration feel they cannot do so freely.”

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That’s why, to many, this feels like a slap in the face. To complicate matters further, the author, who happens to be white, claimed to be a Latina because of her Puerto Rican grandmother. Her husband, who is Irish, was undocumented until they got married. Although many believe the controversy is entirely due to the author being white, this isn’t really the full issue. We all know censorship and hindering freedom of speech isn’t ideal. It seems too irrational to tell authors only to write about something they are familiar with or are a part of. However, dialogue about this issue is crucial. It is healthy and necessary, especially on our campus, to be able to voice our opinions about controversial topics and ideas we disagree with. “I think people can write whatever they want, that’s really not up to anyone,” English junior Lilian Garcia said. “That being said, if it’s not done well, if your writing reflects your ignorance, then you more than deserve criticism.” Garcia said that she believes that the publishing business also has blame in this. “It’s telling about the kind of people behind the scenes that thought this story was worthy of being read as the book of our times,” Garcia said. “We have to question the type of people who gave the go.” The proof that open dialogue is crucial and beneficial for these types of issues lies in the victory recently achieved by the #DignidadLiteraria coalition — a group of Latinx members of the academic, writing and publishing communities committed to increasing the presence of Latinx representation within those communities. They successfully expressed their views to publishing house Macmillan, and Macmillan agreed to draw up a plan to increase Latinx representation across the publishing firm within 90 days, as well as a meeting with more coalition representatives within 30 days of their initial meeting. Overall, we should learn to be critical about what we read inside and outside of the classroom. In order to get an accurate representation about a topic, it is important to consider different perspectives. Reading works by authentic authors may help us gain a broader, more realistic point of view. Pacheco is an English sophomore from Edinburg.

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UT students in Singapore face coronavirus precautions By Faley Goyette @faley_goyette

Despite living on the same campus as coronavirus quarantine facilities in Singapore, daily life for some UT students studying abroad remains mostly the same aside from temperature checks and dorm relocations. The National University of Singapore and Nanyang Technological University each have a designated residence hall for quarantine, but some UT students living on these campuses said they aren’t worried. “I was initially concerned,” chemical engineering junior Kira Placido said. “There’s a lot of panic in the news, but it doesn’t seem like something that would be specifically dangerous for those of us who are generally young and healthy.” Placido lives with other UT students in a dorm at the National University of Singapore. While she said she was not personally affected by the residence hall change for quarantine, she knew of others who had to be relocated to a different residence hall. In order to accommodate students who had to be moved, the university has offered adjusted and refunded rental rates to students. “While those people were refunded, the accommodations were definitely a

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(downgrade) from what they originally had,” Placido said. The residence hall where students moved, Prince George’s Park Residences hall one, lacked refrigerators and curtains and needed repairs. According to the university’s Student Union, the rooms are not in the best conditions because this hall was scheduled for renovation in March 2020. This was the only available alternative housing on campus. Although some students’ accommodations have changed because of the government’s request for an on-campus quarantine facility, most activities continue normally at both universities. Jacob O’Quinn, study abroad manager of U.S. partnerships in the global relations office at the National University of Singapore, said the university’s dean of students has started a blog to give updates on the coronavirus situation. In her first blog post on Jan. 28, Dean Leong Ching wrote, “Most events will go on as usual. A few may be cancelled, not because of public health concerns, but because staff have been redeployed to other duties, or if response is poor.” On Feb. 10, Nanyang Technological University issued a mandate requiring all students to record and submit their temperatures daily. Nutrition junior Joshua

UT students studying abroad in Singapore face dorm relocations and daily temperature checks as a result of the coronavirus outbreak. Winn said there are stations on campus that students can go to if they don’t have a thermometer. “If you don’t submit (your temperature), there will be disciplinary action,” Winn said. “We don’t know what the

consequences are.” Looking around the Nanyang Technological University campus, Winn said he doesn’t typically see students wearing masks. At the National University of Singapore, Placido said, the few

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The whole world of “Back to the Future” is like a family. There is a love that’s intrinsic and infused among everyone. So anything that I can have to do with that movie or the people involved — behind the camera, in front of the camera, with the fan base — I’m all in. It’s a huge and important part of my life. I take it very seriously. I honor the love of that movie and I’m grateful for every single bit of it. And the fact that I got to be a part of it and get to continue to be a part of it is a major part of my life.

eldest member at the age of 82, was a triathlete before her diagnosis in 2018. She tried to return to the sport once she recovered from surgeries and chemotherapy, but she said once she discovered dragon boating, there was nothing that could beat it. “It is the most intense team sport I’ve ever participated in,” Kelly said. “You can always tell when somebody in the boat — frequently

was concerned about the proximity of the coronavirus, but her attitude has changed. “I’ll wash my hands and be conscious of myself,” Placido said, “But it’s not going to inhibit what I want to do and see.”

me — is out of sync because paddles will clash, water will splash or the boat will lose power.” The rigor of dragon boating isn’t a deterrent for team members as they recover, Kelly said. Instead, being members of a team allows them to support each other. “If you have to stop and rest a minute, everybody understands,” Kelly said. “One of the very best things about being a breast cancer survivor team is that you don’t have to explain yourself to anybody.”

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Jennifer

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love anything to do with the film. I would adore being

Jennifer again. She is always inside me. It was just a very special experience, being able to bring her back to life (in a video game, ”Back to the Future: The Game”).

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Worley goes the distance

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Junior distance runner Sam Worley smiles as he nears the finish line during the Texas Relays on March 30, 2019. Worley has become one of the stars of the Longhorns’ distance running team. His ascent has been reminiscent of the great runners who came before him.

Only a junior, Worley has become the face of the Longhorns’ talented distance running roster. By Myah Taylor @t_myah

eo Manzano was just waiting for his moment. After remaining in the middle of the pack for most of the race, the former Longhorn unleashed his ferocious kick to win a hard-fought silver medal in the 1500m Final at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.

In just a matter of minutes — 3:34 to be exact — Manzano ended a 44-year-long podium drought for U.S. men’s middle-distance running with his runner-up finish. Five years later, the Olympian and five-time NCAA Champion placed third in the Jerry Thompson Mile at the 2017 Texas Relays, behind a high school senior bound for the Forty Acres that fall. The race, which Sam Worley won in four minutes flat, was a passing of the torch of sorts from one great Texas distance runner to the next. Worley, now a junior at Texas, is a different kind of runner than Manzano. He doesn’t have the Longhorn legend-turnedjjOlympian’s signature kick, but the New Braunfels, Texas, native runs with a special kind of grace. When Worley records some of the fastest times in the NCAA, he makes it look smooth and effortless.

But the comparison of the two men isn’t to crown one over the other — it’s to create context. Manzano was a champion on the national and world stage, and everything Worley has done up to this point is the making of another Texas track and field success story. Aside from his memorable Texas Relays performance, Worley took the high school running world by storm as a senior. In fall 2016, he won a state championship in cross country, and the following spring, he won both the 800 and 1600-meter run titles in speedy fashion. Worley’s only gotten faster since coming to Austin. When Worley was a freshman competing at the Husky Classic indoor meet in February 2018, he broke the four-minute mile barrier for the first time in his career. Then, one year later at the same meet, he did it again.

Except that time, Worley ran a 3:57 to win the race and ascend to number one all-time over Manzano and his former teammate Alex Rogers in the Texas record book. His mark was also the No. 1 time in the NCAA at that point in the season. “It’s special,” Worley said last year at the Texas Relays on his sub-four mile times. “It’s something I’ve been chasing since high school. Just to capture that barrier is big, but at the same time it just makes me want to go faster.” The middle-distance phenomenon also stars in cross country. While running is very much an individual sport, Worley’s All-American performance in the 2019 NCAA Cross Country Championships propelled the Longhorns to a 25th place finish, their highest since 2013. “Sam executed his race plan almost perfectly and

walked away with his very first All-American award in cross country,” Pete Watson, Texas men’s distance coach, said after the championships. “He finished about a hundred places better than last year.” Is Worley bound for the 2020 Olympics or future games? In a sport decided by “good” and “bad” days — and sometimes hundredths of a second — not even he could tell you that. “Just making the Olympics would be a dream,” Worley told Fox San Antonio in May 2017. “I have had a lot of people tell me I could make the Olympics, but I don’t think about it. Nothing is guaranteed in this sport.” Olympics bound or not, all eyes need to be on Worley as Texas’ indoor season heats up and the outdoor season kicks off next month. Manzano passed Worley the torch in 2017, and he’s been running fiercely with it ever since.

FOOTBALL

Texas offense undergoes major changes after coaching, personnel changes By Donnavan Smoot @Dsmoot3D

When Texas lost to Oklahoma last October, it was clear that Texas was off course. The team’s energy screamed dejection and disappointment. Statements made prior to the game weren’t held up once the Cotton Bowl kicked off, and it was clear Texas was still reeling from it days after.

While the downward spiral of the 2019 season hadn’t yet begun, change was needed. “If you’re driving down I-35 and you’re heading south and all of a sudden you realize you need to be heading north, it’s not okay to just realize it,” head coach Tom Herman said following the loss. “You (have got to) do something about it.” Herman and the Longhorns

did something about it: They hired seven new assistants. Many of the assistants had a tie to Herman in the past, a connection that proved to be crucial in deciding who gets to take part in trying to turn Texas around. “(Familiarity) is important,” Herman said. “Everybody’s got great interview skills and everybody’s going to have somebody call and recommend them, so when you go

outside of the people you’re familiar with, it becomes a bit of a crapshoot.” Although the 2020 season opener is still nearly seven months away, certain changes are already visible — particularly in the wide receiver room, where a new coach has taken over and the top two targets from last year have departed. “We want to learn on a bigger scale,” wide receivers coach Andre Coleman said. “We want to learn big picture, which means you can play anywhere. A lot of these guys have aspirations of going to the next level. If you want to go to the next level … you have got to learn to scheme — that’s what my philosophy and mentality is when it comes to my approach

to teaching.” Along with the change in teaching philosophy, positional changes are also in store. Herman announced that three players — soonto-be sophomores Jordan Whittington, Malcolm Epps and Roschon Johnson — are at different positions than where they started their Texas career. Johnson will stay at running back, which puts the quarterback label he was recruited as in the backseat. Malcolm Epps, and his 6-foot-6-inch frame, is being moved to tight end. Finally, Jordan Whittington is moving back to slot receiver. “We (have) got to get our best 11 on the field,” offensive coordinator Mike Yurcich

said. “Our best 11 may not be our best 11 players. They’re the 11 that (play) together the best.” This season, the biggest change will be the fact that Tom Herman has relinquished play-calling duties. Over the course of the 2019 season, Herman described the play-calling duties as a partnership with him and former offensive coordinator Tim Beck. On Tuesday, Herman and Yurcich confirmed the offensive coordinator would have the job. Yurcich was excited about the opportunity to call plays, to say the least. “That’s a big reason why,” Yurcich said. “That’s a heck of a responsibility. But it’s something that, you know, it gets me off.”

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Survivors paddle with purpose

Team of breast cancer survivors ﬁnd support, community in training for dragon boating competition. By Mackenzie Dyer @mackdyerr

og hovers over the lake as 22 women dressed in neon yellow and black athletic wear ﬁle into a 41-foot long dragon boat. Life jackets and paddles in tow, they glide onto the water and begin to pick up speed. Their chant echoes through the air: “Paddles with a Purpose, that’s our name. Dragon boating is our game. We paddle tough, please don’t blame. We fought cancer just the same.” Standing at the back of the boat steering with a 12-footlong oar is the team’s manager, Nella Bea Anderson, encouraging the other women to paddle faster, harder and in sync. Anderson said their

resolve to fight breast cancer drives them forward. The dragon boating team, Paddles with a Purpose, formed in July and applied for a nonprofit license in August, making it the first breast cancer survivor team in the Austin area. They are composed of 35 breast cancer survivors from Round Rock to San Marcos, ages 40 to 82 years old. “It’s so powerful being on the boat with people who have similar life experiences as you,” Anderson said. “Some of these ladies are still going through treatment, but you take that pain, you get on the boat and it becomes strength. The fear of the cancer coming back becomes determination.” Paddles with a Purpose practices twice a week at Lady Bird Lake for upcoming races. The team is currently training for their first team race at the Austin Dragon Boat Festival in April. The team also plans to compete in the Dragon Boat Festival hosted by the International Breast Cancer Paddlers’ Commission, which will take place in New Zealand in 2022. As a sport, dragon boating is thousands of years old. Health benefits that have been discovered through scientific study include improvements to muscular flexibility,

Members of Paddles with a Purpose ‒‒ Austin s ﬁrst and only dragon boating team comprised of breast cancer survivors ‒‒ practice on Lady Bird Lake. strength and immune defense in breast cancer survivors. For members of this particular team, the sport has fostered a supportive environment where they found fellowship. AJ Rich, a breast cancer survivor and a capital planning and construction program analyst at UT, is the

group’s treasurer. She said her favorite part about the team is the inspiration it gives her. Rich lived an active lifestyle before being diagnosed with triple negative breast cancer at age 39, but she said getting back on her feet was hard. “My motivation to workout

waxed and waned over the years,” Rich said. “After my ﬁrst weekend of paddling, I was hooked. It was so much fun and it got me out and exercising.” Even though she’s recovering from a preventative surgery and cannot paddle this month, Rich still goes to

practice. She said she loves talking with her teammates. “We all come from different walks of life,” Rich said. “But it’s really reassuring that we’re all in this ﬁght together.” Jody Kelly, the team’s P A D D L E PAGE 5

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Claudia Wells from ‘Back to the Future’ discusses film’s legacy By Avery Wohleb @averywohleb

It has been three decades since Marty McFly used a time machine to step into the future, but the impact of the movie still lives on. The Daily Texan spoke with Claudia Wells on the leg-

acy of the blockbuster movie “Back to the Future.” Wells is most well-known for her role as Marty McFly’s girlfriend, Jennifer Parker. DT: Could you have ever an-

ticipated when you filmed the movie that it would become such a phenomenon?

Never. I don’t think anybody could have. God anointed that film and has blessed it. It just continues to grow. And every generation continues to love it because parents introduce their children to it. I think there is a special “Back to the Future” love that is just

CW:

something magical. DT: What does it feel like to

meet so many fans that love your work and the timeless Jennifer Parker character?

CW: I’m incredibly honored by it, and it is always a blessing to meet fans. It brings me incredible, great joy, and I

adore the ability to be a part of that. I went to an event where there was a 3-monthold baby dressed exactly like Jennifer Parker. It’s mind-boggling. It’s extraordinary to me that people take that character so vividly. It’s indescribable how much that touches me.

Do you still keep in touch with your old “Back to the Future” castmates? DT:

CW: I’m terrific, great friends

with the cast and production team. I’m in touch with everyone. They’re family to me.

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