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Volume 120, Issue 109
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Liberal Arts Council hosts forum about public policy course options across disciplines.
Candidates for editor-in-chief present their platforms, visions for The Daily Texan.
West Campus Limos offers affordable, on-demand rides to students.
Passing it forward: How Donovan Williams’ bond with his sister inspired his career.
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Texas primary voting guide
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Posted signs near the Flawn Academic Center and the Perry Castañeda Library guide voters to polling stations for the primary election. These stations will remain open for early voting during normal business hours until Feb. 28.
Everything you need to know about voting and the upcoming city, state and national elections. By Austin Martinez @austinmxrtinez
exas Primary Election Day, March 3, is right around the corner. Early voting for the election started Feb. 18 and will continue until Friday. Here is a voting guide for this year’s elections: What is a primary election?
In this election, voters are selecting nominees to represent their political party for the general November election. A primary runoff election could occur if no candidate receives at least half of the votes. The two candidates with the most votes would compete in the runoff election. Can I still register to vote?
Voter registration for the primary election has ended. People
can still register to vote for the general election and a possible primary runoff election.
using VoteTexas.gov. Voters must be registered 30 days before an election day to participate.
eligible to vote.
Voter Registration Deadlines:
Can I vote by mail?
Complete a ballot by mail application found on the Texas state department office webpage. The county clerk’s office must receive the application no later than 11 days before election day via mail, email or fax.
Primary runoff election - April 27 General election - Oct. 5
How can I register to vote?
To officially register, the county voter registrar’s office must receive a voter registration application in person or by mail. Confirm voter registration by
Mail-in ballots or “absentee voting” can be completed by voters who: -Are out of the county during early voting and on Election Day. -Are sick or disabled. -Are 65 years of age or older on Election Day. -Are confined in jail but
How do I mail-in ballot?
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Girl Scout, incoming Longhorn sells over 10,000 cookie boxes
Law firm reviewing UT sexual misconduct policies talks mission
By Jennifer Errico @errico_jenny
Marillah King numbered and signed the last 10 boxes. Seven were sold to students outside the University Co-op. The last box she would sell as a Girl Scout was bought by her grandparents. Last year, King sold 7,227 boxes of Girl Scout Cookies, setting the record of most boxes sold in Central Texas. On Sunday, King broke her own record, selling over 10,000 boxes. King, a Pflugerville High School senior, started Girl Scouts in the first grade and sold 1,000 boxes of cookies her first year. King’s mom, Amie King, said although King enjoys other aspects of Girl Scouts, such as campouts and earning badges, selling cookies has always been her favorite. “She enjoys selling things, and it was fun to be exposed to people you might never meet otherwise,” Amie said. “I think when she gets into that sales mode, she’s almost like a different person.”
Selling sparked Marillah’s interest in business, and she will be joining the UT community in the fall as a student at the McCombs School of Business. “Selling cookies for 12 years taught me a lot of the business aspects of selling, such as keeping track of inventory, how to manage your business, how to collect money and how to distribute your product,” Marillah said. The Girl Scout Cookie selling season is six weeks long. During this time, Marillah said she would typically clear her calendar to dedicate over 40 hours a week to selling, including Saturdays and Sundays. “I told (other high school) clubs, ‘I’m sorry, I can’t make it to meetings these next two months; I have to sell cookies,’” Marillah said. “I would do my homework in the car or during lunch, in any little free time I had.” Amie said Girl Scouts, especially cookie season, was a family affair. Marillah’s dad is the financial S C O U T PAGE 2
By Lauren Grobe @grobe_lauren
The Daily Texan spoke with Texas Law alumna Paige Duggins-Clay of Husch Blackwell LLP, the law firm reviewing the University’s sexual misconduct policies. Three lawyers from the firm plan to release their initial report on these policies this Friday. The Daily Texan: What do you do
for Husch Blackwell?
Paige Duggins-Clay: I am an attorney, which is a wonderful privilege. Husch Blackwell is a large, national law firm. We do all sorts of practices. People like me, Scott and Julie are really lucky that we work in our higher education group. That means that we do the legal work of colleges and universities.
Have you worked on Title IX matters before?
DT:
DC: Of course. We do all sorts of things ranging from civil rights all the
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department,” said Waltz, a Chinese, Asian studies and international relations freshman. “I was thinking about ways that (Liberal Arts Council) could bridge the gap between those two.” Some students reported learning a few details about public policy in certain classes but generally wish that undergraduates had more access to classes directly teaching about public policy. “Health care is such a big and complex industry, and there’s a lot of policy that goes into it,” said Alexandra Calve, a health and society and sociology sophomore. “We learn about all the important acts and laws made within health care, but we don’t really go into a deep analysis of them. I wish we (had) more emphasis on concrete policy instead of
just talking about it.” Praveena Javvadi, one of the event organizers, shared a similar experience in her government courses. She said she also hopes a potential collaboration could provide more hard skills, such as public policy analysis and research, for future careers. “Government is really focused on theory, which is cool,” said Javvadi, a Plan II and government junior. “But I think sometimes as an undergraduate in government, when you’re applying for summer internships (like policy research), you want to know those skills. What can be kind of frustrating as a government major, and a liberal arts student more generally, is a lot of the skills we develop are outside the classrooms.”
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“cookie dad” who manages the money for the whole troop, Marillah’s brother has been doing ads for her cookie sales since he was two years old and Amie, as the “cookie mom,” helps manage the booth. Kate Young, Marillah’s Girl Scout troop leader, said the troop uses the proceeds from the boxes they sell to travel, earn badges and gain new cultural experiences. Marillah only uses the money from the first 3,500 boxes to travel. Last year, Marillah used the money from the remaining boxes to start the Camper-ship Fund, a scholarship program for underserved girls who can’t afford to go to camp. “She wanted to leave a legacy so to speak,” Young said. “As far as she was concerned, every girl should go to camp at least once.” She has funded three girls’ trips to camp so far and plans to continue being involved in the program while attending UT. Marillah will be a third-generation Longhorn and plans to stay involved in Girl Scouts as an ambassador for the organization, helping her fellow scouts with connections and tips in the cookie business. She also plans to be an adult chaperone for
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implementations of this collaboration included a new certificate program and a five-year joint bachelor’s and master’s degree program. The idea of this possible collaboration came from Cameron Waltz, one of the event organizers. Noticing available graduate offerings for UT undergraduates in other departments, such as a fiveyear integrated masters of public accounting program offered by McCombs, Waltz began brainstorming ways to create new programs for students interested in public policy. “LBJ is one of the top 10 best public affairs schools in the country, and we have a growing (international relations and global studies)
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Marillah King recently became the highest selling Girl Scout in Central Texas after selling over 7,000 boxes of cookies last year. She will be attending UT Austin this coming fall at the McCombs School of Business. troop trips. Marillah said cookie sales have provided her with opportunities to expand her social skills and gain
confidence in herself, which she said will help in her transition to UT. “The biggest thing (cookie sales) have taught me is how to
and participated in those pretty actively.
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of the shifting regulatory environment on colleges and universities. Can you tell me more about the review Husch Blackwell is conducting at the University? DT:
DC: A huge part of what we do and what
we’ve been doing at UT is getting community input, comparing what the school is doing to institutional peers and benchmarking for best practices and emerging trends. That’s one part of it, but it’s really focused on the question: What are the community’s expectations and values? How is it being served by the current policy? How are they not being served? What parts are we happy with? What parts are we not happy with? We are reviewing specific policies, those related to institutional response to sexual misconduct. (Handbook of Operating Procedures policy) 3031 is the big one. But we’ll look at others, including some of the ones around the procedural aspect of investigating and processing complaints. We have been on campus meeting with institutional stakeholders since December. We started meeting early and often with the folks who were charged with implementing these policies. We talked with a few students individually in December. We’ve gone to all of the Misconduct Working Group meetings
DT: What is the goal of this review? DC: It’s hard to put it into one sentence or
one word. At a minimum, we want to make sure the policies, procedures and practices are in line with federal and state law. We want to make sure that they are further in line with the best practices of our peer institutions. We want UT to be a leader among schools in this space. More than that, the University has made very clear that they want this to be a system that works. They want it to be a system that people have confidence in, that people feel meets their needs, whether it’s a formal investigative process or it’s about support and resources. We can’t just take the policies of other schools we’ve worked with and pop them in. It’s got to be informed by the community and your values and expectations.
Is your initial report coming out this Friday, Feb. 28?
DT:
That’s my understanding. We’ve tried to be clear about managing expectations. It’s not going to be a comprehensive report with all the recommendations and all of the things. But it will be a summary of the information, the themes that we’re hearing in our community engagement sessions. It’ll really focus on the recommendations in the policy HOP 3031. Some of these recommendations propose some pretty significant potential changes.
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communicate with other people and just be nice to everyone,” said Marillah “Cookies have opened my eyes to the world.”
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What form of identification do I need to bring to vote?
There are 7 acceptable forms of photo ID: -Texas driver license issued by the Texas Department of Public Safety. -Texas election identification certificate issued by DPS. -Texas personal identification card issued by DPS. -Texas handgun license issued by DPS. -United States military identification card containing the voter’s photo. -U.S. citizenship certificate containing the voter’s photo. -U.S. passport. A voter without acceptable identification can sign a form saying they have a “reasonable impediment” from obtaining this identification. Visit the Texas S.O.S. webpage for supporting forms of IDs that can be presented by a voter without acceptable identification. Where do I vote?
Voters can visit the Texas state department office webpage to find polling locations near them. The Flawn
Academic Center and Perry-Castañeda Library are on-campus voting locations. S Close to campus locations in-t clude Austin City Hall, Carver Branch Library and Travis County Granger Building. Tips from Travis County Clerk Dana DeBeauvoir:
Research candidates before voting and take handwritten notes to the voting booth. Cell phones are not allowed. “If you’ve done all that research and checked everybody out before you go to the polls, you’ll find yourself feeling a whole lot more comfortable about making your choices,” DeBeauvoir said. Go to vote411.com to learn about candidates. “You can very quickly read through all of their research and then make your own judgments about who you’d like to support,” DeBeauvoir said. Research the busiest and slowest polling locations close by. “Find a place that’s not so crowded,” DeBeauvoir said. “The best thing to do is vote today, right now.” This information has been gathered from the official Texas Secretary of State and Travis County webpages.
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Connor and Camille campaign appeal to SG Supreme Court, not requalified for election
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Nick Senktas, counsel for the campaign of Connor Alexander and Camille Johnson, and Sergio Cavazos, chairman of the Election Supervisory Board, speak in front of the Student Government Supreme Court in the University Teaching Center on Wednesday. By Nataleah Small @nataleahjoy
In a unanimous decision, the UT Student Government Supreme Court ruled the Election Supervisory Board was correct in determining Connor Alexander and Camille Johnson’s Executive Alliance campaign engaged in early campaigning and mass solicitation. The campaign has not been requalified as of Wednesday night. The court heard an appeal from Alexander and Johnson’s campaign counsel on Wednesday. The court determined that Fox Walker, a government
and Arabic sophomore and the outreach director for the campaign, was responsible for the action that got the campaign fined 5% of their total campaign funds and disqualified for spending over the 120% budget limit. Nick Senktas, an economics and international relations sophomore and counsel for the campaign, argued the email Walker sent to Livia Frost, public health sophomore and co-president of UT’s chapter for Doctors Without Borders, two days before the authorized campaigning period was to set up a time to meet. However, Sergio Cavazos, a law student and Election Supervisory Board chair,
said because the email was sent to the Doctors Without Borders club and not Frost directly, it was an act of mass solicitation. The campaign counsel also answered questions regarding campaign expenditures. Senktas argued the Election Supervisory Board should clarify and update when financial disclosures are due during the campaign season. Currently, Senktas said Student Government campaigns are only required to submit financial disclosures on the first and last days of campaigning, which are Feb. 17 and March 3. “The Election Supervisory Board is an oversight body, but they only have oversight
on two financial disclosures,” Senktas said. Senktas said the Camille and Connor campaign intended to update their financial disclosure before the Election Supervisory Board ruled that they had exceeded campaign spending. The campaign purchased wood and paint that did not end up being used, Senktas said. The counsel argued that because the wood and paint were not used to gain votes, they should be able to remove the expenditure from the financial disclosure form and potentially no longer exceed the 120% spending limit. “It is not possible for
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NAACP leader speaks at UT about civic engagement, voter supression
UT marketing professor gives lecture on Google, privacy By Samantha Greyson @GreysonSamantha
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Sherrilyn Ifill, president of the Legal Defense and Education Fund, spoke to a crowd at the LBJ School of Public Affairs yesterday. By Alexander Mansky @jacobmansky
Dozens gathered to hear the president and director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund talk about the intersections of voting rights, civil rights and democracy at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs lobby on Wednesday. Sherrilyn Ifill came to The University of Texas as part of the Center for the Study of Race and Democracy lecture series about civic engagement and criminal justice in America. Ifill is the seventh director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educaitonal Fund. LBJ School professor Peniel Joseph, who has hosted all of the lectures in the series, invited Ifill. Joseph said he organized the series to inspire civic engagement and critical thinking at UT and in Austin. “This is for students, undergraduates, graduates, faculty (and) staff; thinking about (as) practitioners how we can change the world,” Joseph said. “We are bringing in speakers who are actual change makers.” Ifill began by reflecting on the United States democracy through her lens as a civil rights lawyer and someone exposed to voter suppression all over the country.
Election Supervisory Board to have second-by-second updates of campaign expenditures,” Senktas said. Cavazos rebutted Senktas’s arguments by stating candidates may provide the Election Supervisory Board with additional information during their campaign. Cavazos said the campaign decided to remove the expenditure from the financial disclosure form to requalify for the election after the Election Supervisory Board declared they exceeded campaign spending. The SG Supreme Court will deliberate and publish their decision at a later date.
“I said our democracy was at a crossroads a few years ago,” Ifill said. “We’ve long passed the crossroads. We are headed straight for a precipice. Below that precipice lays authoritarianism, the end of the rule of law, a full-on rollback of civil rights — of women’s rights, of humans’ rights — and our democracy. We are in a swiftly moving train to that precipice.” Ifill discussed how criminal justice relates to U.S. democracy. She described the criminal justice system as a way of investing in some of the country’s biggest problems. “We pushed them to a place,” Ifill said. “We don’t have to see it and because the effect of it mostly falls on Brown and Black people means that we could do it. Think about what it takes to get 2.3 million people: more courtrooms, more jails, more police. We didn’t invest in education, real job training, mental health care.” Ifill said she believes in Americans’ ability to transform the country into something democratic. “We are a spoiled generation,” Ifill said. “Most of us in this room, probably, were born after World War II. We only saw the world going in one direction. Who are we to not have to not do the hard work? We’ve largely been beneficiaries, and now it’s our time to do the work.”
UT marketing professor Raji Srinivasan laid out the many ways companies like Google watch people and collect personal information at an Undergraduate Business Council event Wednesday night. “They are sucking up data from all of us, sucking up data from websites,” Srinivasan said. “In short, Google is watching you.” In her lecture McCombs TALKS: Everything Google Knows About You, Srinivasan discussed her research, which is focused on high-tech marketing. As technology evolved, she said her research also came to encompass the importance of personal information. “We should be wellinformed,” Srinivasan said. “Whether you are scared about it will depend on the kind of person you are and how you value information. Different people may have a different evaluation
of information.” Srinivasan’s lecture focused on Google’s direct observation of human behavior through data collection. She said that in the past, corporations used surveys to collect information about their customers. Now, modern companies can directly observe human behavior through technology, she said. She said Google stores users’ locations and search records and creates advertisement profiles for each customer, but many Google users are unaware of this data collection. “Young people might be well-informed about data capture,” Srinivasan said. “Just imagine your grandparents, your older aunts, your older uncles, people who are not as well educated. They don’t really know what information is being captured.” Google uses this data to customize personal advertisements, develop new product offerings and gain a competitive advantage, said Skyler Saleebyan, business analytics
master’s student. “Right now, there is enough evidence to say that Google uses these insights to cater all messages coming your way, toward you, in one way or another, when they curate content,” Saleebyan said. “That means that inevitably, they play a role in you perceiving the world around you.” Srinivasan said the process of data capture also extends to Facebook, Twitter and many other large tech companies. Khoa Ho, business freshman and member of the council, emphasized the importance of privacy in an increasingly technological world. “It’s an issue that more of us should think about, but it’s one that a lot of us push in the back of our minds because convenience is king,” Ho said. “We’ll think, ‘Oh, we don’t really care about the data they use’ if it’s more convenient for us in our day-to-day lives, but in the future, it could be a real problem.”
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Marketing professor Raji Srinivasan speaks at McCombs TALKs: Everything Google Knows About You on Feb. 26.
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Help decide the Texan’s future Editor-in-chief candidates Emily Caldwell and Abby Springs discuss their platform and vision for the future of The Daily Texan.
he Daily Texan will soon be under new management. Since 1900, the editor-in-chief of The Daily Texan has been an elected position, based on the idea that Texan leadership must answer to the students they strive to represent. What does the editor-in-chief do? As the official representative of UT-Austin’s largest student newspaper, the editor is tasked with representing student voices and leading discussions on issues that most intimately affect students.
The editor-in-chief directly oversees coverage in the Texan’s opinion department, most notably through serving as the voice of the paper and as head of the editorial board. In addition to writing editorials, the editor oversees all content submitted to the Texan, including the weekly forum page, as well as all staff-written columns. The editor-in-chief is also the public representative of the Texan and leads recruitment for new staff across the paper. The term lasts from June 1, 2020, to June 1, 2021.
On the ballot this year are Emily Caldwell and Abby Springs. Caldwell is a former associate editor and Springs is a current associate editor. Last week, we asked Springs and Caldwell to discuss their plans for a more inclusive and representative Daily Texan. This week, we asked both candidates to present their platform and vision for the Texan if elected. Read their visions below, and remember to vote in the campus wide elections Monday, March 2 and Tuesday, March 3. All UT-Austin students are eligible to vote.
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The Daily Texan must focus on feedback, community By Emily Caldwell
Editor-in-chief candidate
The University of Texas was established in 1883, and The Daily Texan followed 17 years later. Because of its history, size and accomplishments, the Texan is uniquely tasked with covering the UT community. Despite 120 years of practice, the Texan still struggles to represent UT in its entirety. When a newspaper fails to incorporate and include the community in its production process, a critical problem arises, one that can’t be fixed with a platform point or one editor-in-chief. To help the Texan champion its role as the voice of the student body, the Texan must make itself more accessible to student feedback and input. As editor-in-chief, this will be my main priority. Increasing accessibility to the Texan means many different things. I see three solutions:
1. The Texan must foster a more welcoming and encouraging community in its office for all students on staff. It’s no secret the Texan struggles with retention. It’s hard to keep students on staff, especially without financial compensation. I will encourage new staff members to apply for leadership positions by better supporting struggling issue staff, fostering meaningful relationships between management and entry-level staffers and facilitating communication between editors and content writers. This will ensure any problems are addressed early. By making management more approachable, I can make sure entry-level staff members feel more comfortable applying for management positions. I will also emphasize the importance of the work our staffers do by fighting for increased pay, as well as stressing the critical role each and every member of the Texan plays in our paper’s daily content production process.
2. To show students their voices are heard at the Texan, I will incorporate student feedback and input into the opinion department’s content production process. The Texan’s editorial board is a powerful
force on campus, capable of speaking directly to power and successfully advocating for largescale improvements. As editor-in-chief, I will create a tip line for students, faculty and other members of the UT community to submit their feedback, comments and questions. Opening our platform to suggestions from readers will not only strengthen the Texan’s relationship with the UT community but will show students their input matters. 3. I will expand the Texan’s recruitment practices to reach more communities often underrepresented at the Texan. This is a crucial step toward engaging the entire UT community. Without a diversity of perspectives and voices on staff, the Texan can only produce fragmented coverage. A representative and inclusive college newsroom looks like its campus — right now, the Texan doesn’t look like UT. As editor-in-chief, I will consistently incorporate feedback from different organizations into our content, collaborate with marginalized groups to bring diverse perspectives to the Texan and make community-driven journalism our key focus. When we welcome students from different backgrounds to apply and stay on staff, we all benefit. Our content, staff demographics, engagement and representation, in every sense of the term, diversify when we reach out to underrepresented communities on campus. The responsibility to cultivate a representative and inclusive space should always rest on the organization itself, never on students looking for ways to join. If the Texan wants to employ a representative staff, we must fix the way we staff our newsroom. The Daily Texan can best serve the UT community by opening itself up to more student input. The Texan is the largest and most award-winning college newspaper in the country, yet we still have lots of work to do to better serve our most important group of readers — UT students. I want to hear from you! Please submit any questions, thoughts or suggestions you have for me through the following form: http://bit.ly/emilyforeditor. Caldwell is a journalism and Latin American studies junior from College Station.
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Filmmaker Karl Shefelman created a short film based on his young childhood experience with the UT Tower shooting. By Katya Bandouil @kat372
Only a mile away from the UT campus, the Shefelman family stood on their porch and listened to sirens and gunshots, hoping for the safety of their loved ones. On Aug. 1, 1966, Karl Shefelman was coming home from the laundromat with his family when a neighbor’s housekeeper told them there was a man shooting from the UT Tower. “We went on the back
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the screening. “I’m pretty open-minded. We’re in an arts community,” Schroeder said. “I’m intrigued by some of the partners that I haven’t ever been exposed to. I just feel like it’ll open people’s minds to the term ‘partners’ and make us more understanding.” Horenstein said he had many friends in unusual relationships who were then able to connect him with others. In making the documentary, Horenstein traveled across the country to
be there recording those things,” Gourlay said. “Just (going) through all of that is an experience I’ll never forget.” Although some of the r elationships may appear unorthodox, Horenstein said the featured people seem to be happy. With 15 different interviews discussing their relationships, Horenstein said hearing their first-hand accounts is what is interesting. “So often in relationships people will say, ‘This one ought to be with that one,’ or ‘Why is he with her, her with him?’” Horenstein said. “And you realize that people need what they need. Who are we to judge, really?”
film, which is why he offered the use of his backyard. “It does resonate for me,” Tasch said. “We can see the Tower from our house, and I went to UT as well.” Tasch also participated in the film because it was dedicated to Shefelman’s father, who passed away over three years ago. “We were just happy to help out in any way we could. Karl’s father was very known in the neighborhood, a very lovely man,” Tasch said. “Part of my motivation was to give
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interview interesting partners. In some interviews, Horenstein said he didn’t even ask any questions. Conversation came naturally as they grew comfortable in front of Horenstein and his small crew. People talked about how they met, changes in their relationship and conflicts between them. “Partners” cameraman Jon Gourlay, who has worked with Horenstein before, said anytime Horenstein has an idea, the project is worth pursuing. “It is an incredibly human experience to be able to connect with folks, whether it’s watching the movie or literally getting to
“We turned (it) into a fictional story of some kids playing in the backyard, and a young friend comes running over with a radio yelling, ‘There’s a man on the Tower,’” Shefelman said. “They look, they see the Tower and decide they have to go save (their) dad.” Although Shefelman was unable to film in his own childhood backyard, he was able to get in contact with a neighbor down the street who had a similar view. The neighbor and UT alumnus Edward Tasch felt a close connection to the
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porch, and you (could) see the Tower and little puffs of smoke,” Shefelman said. “(I) thought (about) my father who was currently on the campus teaching class in the School of Architecture. (In) his classroom, the windows literally face the Tower. We were worried about ‘Where was dad? How was dad?’” Nearly 54 years later, Shefelman took his early childhood memory and created a film set to be released in early May called “Man on the Tower,” which retells the event from a young child’s perspective.
something back to Tom’s family because Tom was such a wonderful man.” Shefelman said the film aims to bring awareness to the fact that the UT Tower shooting was one of the first public wshootings at a university and that guns have become a significant problem in the United States. According to the Washington Post, 172 mass shootings have occured since 1966. In the 50-year period leading up to the Tower shooting, only 25 public mass shootings had been recorded.
“That is the underlying message, although it’s not an overtly political film,” Shefelman said. “It’s no longer safe out there.” Nick Stevenson plays the father in the film and said he was drawn to Shefelman’s passion and the historical aspects of the film. “Primarily, it’s just one of those stories that needed to be told. It needs the recognition,” Stevenson said. “It’s a local story. It’s the Tower at UT, and guns are so prevalent in this day in age that people just seem to accept it.”
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Williams’ career-inspiring bond For Donovan Williams, his career stems from his relationship with his older sister, WNBA center Kelsey Bone. By Stephen Wagner
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t’s hard to describe the relationship b e t w e e n freshman guard Donovan Williams and his older sister, Las Vegas Aces center Kelsey Bone. They’re separated by 10 years of age and about 1,000 miles, but in a lot of ways, Donovan is still the kid from Houston who idolized his older sister. “Usually the older sibling, 10 years apart, they kind of live in a different world,” their mother Kim Courville-Williams said. “The two of them have been extremely connected throughout their entire lives.” As a kid, Donovan followed Kelsey everywhere — individual workouts, team practices, games, you name it. If Kelsey did it, Donovan was there. “In terms of a role model, she’s definitely up there for me, just with my parents,” Donovan said. “All the work that she put in, everything that she had to go through to
get to where she wants to be, it paid off.” Along with his father Darwin Williams, Kelsey played a big role in Donovan’s introduction to basketball. While Kelsey was putting up All-American numbers at Dulles High School in Sugar Land, Texas, Donovan began playing for the Little Dribblers in a recreational league in The Woodlands, just north of Houston. After spending his childhood in the Houston area, Donovan and the Williams family made a big move. When Kelsey accepted an offer to South Carolina, the tight-knit family packed
All the work that she put in, everything that she had to go through to get to where she wants to be, it paid off.” DONOVAN WILLIAMS guard
their bags and followed. Even with Kelsey in college, the two couldn’t be separated. Donovan would regularly stay in her dorm while she was at practice, though he wasn’t a fan of Columbia, South Carolina. He was more than happy to return to Houston after his sister announced she was transferring to Texas A&M.
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In 2013, Kelsey’s basketball career took off when the New York Liberty drafted her fifth overall. Donovan’s playing career was just getting off the ground. Donovan began playing competitively, first at a church in South Carolina and eventually on Amateur Athletic Union tours while Kelsey was in college. He would pack his bags after his summer season ended and follow Kelsey during her professional season, eager for the opportunity to surround himself with
professional athletes. He learned from NBA and WNBA players alike, as his relationship with his sister allowed him to watch professional practices. Kelsey would even watch and break down film with him to help him develop. Her guidance helped. Donovan’s talents quickly gained him national attention, earning him a fourstar rating along with five Division I offers by his senior year. As his recruiting profile blossomed, he was
able to better grasp what Kelsey went through a decade earlier. He began to understand the immense pressure athletes of such caliber fall under after arriving to The University of Texas. “She’s been through it all, and she knows I’m going through it,” Donovan said. “We both know just how stressful and how taxing the game can be.” The two siblings still talk daily about nearly everything — how his last game went, how Texas is doing, how her season
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Longhorns head to Los Angeles for showdown with No. 1 UCLA By Carter Yates @Carter_Yates16
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Freshman guard Celeste Taylor drives past an Iowa State defender during the Longhorns’ 69-51 loss to the Cyclones at the Frank Erwin Center on Feb. 12. The Longhorns’ clinic in the paint is what kept them alive. Texas’ 57 rebounds compared to TCU’s 27 helped cancel out its Just two minutes had passed, 20 turnovers and poor shooting but the Texas women’s basketearly on. By halftime, the Longball team already found itself horns’ sloppy play had them down eight points. down 35-26. As the Longhorns fell apart in Out of the locker room, the first quarter of Wednesday though, Texas didn’t merely rely night’s matchup against No. 25 on opportunities off the glass. It TCU, the Horned Frogs were was an entirely different team. ready to get out the broomsticks Besides the 10-0 run to start the and sweep their foes from Aushalf, Aston said the Longhorns’ tin off the court. defensive energy, triggered by But Texas clawed back to freshman guard Celeste Taylor, avenge the two-point home made all the difference. loss it suffered to TCU in JanShowing everyone why she uary. On the Horned Frogs’ sewas such a highly touted renior night, the Longhorns left cruit, Taylor played with heart the Schollmaier Arena in Fort all night long. She went off for Worth, Texas, with a gutsy 77a career-high 22 points, 12 of 67 win. which came from beyond the “I can’t really say enough arc. When Taylor wasn’t scoring, about how TCU has been playshe hustled around the court, ing all year long and especially snagging rebounds and recordat home,” Texas head coach ing assists. Karen Aston said. “So it’s a “Regardless of whether she is big win for us, and I thought a freshman or not, (Taylor) has that our team showed a lot of an ability to, what I call ‘go play resilience tonight.” to play,’ and to me, that’s contagious,” Aston said. I thought our team showed a “If you can get one or lot of resilience tonight.” two people to play with that type of effort — I mean, we KAREN ASTON knew that @t_myah
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is going and reminisce about the time she gave him a black eye playing one-on-one. As Donovan starts to get more and more minutes after cracking into the Texas rotation, Kelsey doesn’t miss a chance to be supportive or help him through the gauntlet that is Division I basketball. She just hopes he gets the most out of his college experience. “He watched me on my journey, and now I get to pay it forward and do the same for him,” Kelsey said. “And that’s pretty cool.”
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Celeste Taylor leads Texas past No. 25 TCU in comeback win
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Freshman guard Donovan Williams takes a contested shot during Texas’ 52-45 loss to then-No. 1 Baylor at the Frank Erwin Center on Feb. 10. Williams is seeing more playing time as Texas tries to fight for a NCAA Tournament berth.
we were going to have to have that kind of effort against TCU because they play really hard.” Aston said Taylor’s heroics “caught fire” with the rest of the team, and the flame spread throughout the closing quarters. Sophomore center Charli Collier and senior forward Joyner Holmes enlivened in the second half, as the dominant post duo combined for 31 points and 28 rebounds on the night. Texas’ ability to play as a strong unit was another key to the Longhorns’ upset victory. “We know the other team is going to score at some point,” Taylor said. “So I think just not hanging our heads and just (saying), ‘We’re going to go right back down, and we’re going to score a bucket, and we’re going to come back down and get a stop.’ (We were) keeping each other focused and keeping each other in the game and communicating through every little thing.” Wednesday’s scrappy game was just a typical matchup in today’s Big 12. Aston said each team is scratching and clawing for a spot in the upcoming NCAA Tournament. But despite the messy start and postseason implications of the contest, Taylor was just relishing the opportunity to show she can be more than a bit contributor for this team.
Just two days removed from splitting a doubleheader against No. 10 Louisiana on Tuesday, the No. 3 Longhorns are making a trip to the west coast for a matchup with No. 1 UCLA. The Longhorns are now 2–1 on the season when facing ranked opponents, with the 1–1 record against the Ragin’ Cajuns and a blowout win over No. 12 Tennessee in the Puerto Vallarta College Challenge. This next stretch of games will see them face off against the top-ranked Bruins on Thursday before playing No. 2 Washington the following night. Texas is now entering the thick of its season — the Longhorns are scheduled to play 10 of the USA Today/NFCA Coaches Top 25 teams. “It’s about trust (between the players and coaches),” Texas head coach Mike White said when asked about the upcoming games against top-ranked opponents. “They (the players)
don’t watch hours and hours of tape like we do. … We give them the game plan, and we have to stick to that.” One of the key players that Texas will rely on in this road trip is senior outfielder Shannon Rhodes. Before the Feb. 19 win over North Texas, White rearranged the lineup so Rhodes would bat leadoff, and the senior out of Fort Worth, Texas, has responded by going on a 10-game hitting streak. Over that stretch, she is hitting .400. Rhodes’ newfound home near the top of the lineup — whether that be batting first as she did in against North Texas or second as she did against Louisiana — has given her the opportunity to set the tone offensively for a Texas team that is averaging 10.3 hits per game. Despite the fact that Rhodes often hits with no runners on base, she has still managed to record six RBIs in this 10-game hitting streak. Her ability to get hits in high-pressure moments has also been integral to Texas’ success
this season. In the second game of the doubleheader against Louisiana, she drove a double into the outfield that scored the game-winning run. “As a whole, we are working toward championship-level play,” Rhodes said. “Our defense is really starting to come together, and our offense is starting to do some things in big situations.” The stakes do not get much higher than playing the No. 1 team in the nation on the road. Thursday’s matchup against UCLA is the first time the Longhorns will enter a contest as the underdogs. The Bruins are still undefeated at 15–0 and have outscored their opponents 130-20 on the season. These are the types of games that will test the Longhorns and prepare them for a potential postseason run. “Everybody is going to be scrappy from now on,” Rhodes said. “You’re not going to see very many run rules … so I think this is great to prepare us for what’s to come.”
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Senior outfielder Shannon Rhodes fields the ball during Texas’ 12-11 victory over Lipscomb at McCombs Field on Saturday.
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Rufus Marin co-founded and manages West Campus Limos, a company that offers limo rides for students. The company’s headquarters is located on 25th and San Gabriel streets.
Small business West Campus Limos services students with an affordable ride alternative, hopes to expand. By Anissa Reyes @anissaareyes
longside Capital Metro buses, Lime scooters and vehicles is a new form of student transportation: limos. No longer limited to celebrities or high school students going to prom, they’ve joined the winding, skinny streets of West Campus.
Rufus Marin, the manager and co-founder of West Campus Limos, said he came from the West Coast to Austin with entrepreneurship in mind. After working in real estate and offering limo rides for private clients, Marin said he was on a drive one day when a student knocked on the window and asked for the price of a group ride to 6th Street. From there, the idea for West Campus Limos was born. The company has now been in operation for three months. “The business of limos is old-fashioned,” Marin said. “Typically when people think of a limo, the first thing that comes to mind is (paying) $300 to $400, but we’re trying to make it to where it’s accessible for everybody, students especially.” Because the headquarters and limos are located in West Campus, on 25th and San Gabriel streets, the limos are able to pick up students from West Campus and
drop them off at their destination. Students can text the number from
The goal is to help students get from point A to point B safely, avoid drunk driving, have more fun in the process and pay affordable prices.” RUFUS MARIN
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their website, provide a pickup location and time, and as long as the group meets the limo’s capacity, the price is $5 per person. “The goal is to help students get from point A to point B
safely, avoid drunk driving, have more fun in the process and pay affordable prices,” Marin said. Nick Velasquez worked alongside Marin in real estate during the summer, and after listening to Marin’s student transportation idea, the two created West Campus Limos. “I came up with the name West Campus Limos so it catered toward students,” co-founder Velasquez said. “It’s here for students, and that name makes it more inclusive.” Velasquez compared the service to Uber or Lyft because students can book a limo up to 30 minutes before riding rather than booking weeks in advance like a traditional limo company. “I know the only reason that I would use (West Campus Limos) is if you can call whenever,” Velasquez said. “I would never book a limo two weeks in advance for a trip just to downtown. Like who
does that?” Radio-television-film junior Thomas Palomera has used the service multiple times and said that he has had a good experience each time. “I was slightly suspicious at first because $5 limos seems too good to be true,” Palomera said. “But it was fun and better than taking an Uber because you can have one group instead of five different groups of people taking a bunch of Ubers and getting there at different times.” In the future, Marin and Velasquez said that they hope to expand more into the UT community and other college campuses around the United States. “I think what we’re bringing is something more fun for bigger groups and at affordable prices,” Marin said. “It’s nothing necessarily new in the realm of transportation, just a new way of transport, and if this becomes a national startup, we want (West Campus, Austin) to be the home base.”
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interview-style documentary. Jill Schroeder, owner and director of grayDUCK Gallery, has showcased Henry’s photography work before, but she has yet to see this film. After
watching the “Partners” trailer, Schroeder said she’s most excited for Horenstein to speak about the subjects after
A man with a cat for a P A R T N E R S PAGE 5 significant other. A couple in an arranged marriage. A woman who believes everyone’s husband should go to jail for at least a little while. These are the relationships — from conventional to obscure, romantic or otherwise — in Boston-based filmmaker Henry Horenstein’s 2018 documentary, “Partners.” The film is an unscripted, feature-length documentary about a wide variety of relationships. Fifteen unique interviewees will appear on screen for its first Austin screening at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday at grayDUCK Gallery. This documentary explores themes of acceptance and the meaning of partnerships through raw, honest conversations. “It’s a timely message right now,” Horenstein said. “People should just accept other people and the choices they make and hope that they’re happy. It’s pretty simple.” Horenstein drew some of his inspiration for “Partners” from a main subject in one of his previous documentaries about burlesque. In it, the person talks about a community of people that didn’t feel accepted in other copyright henry horenstein, and reproduced with permission spaces but found belonging in burlesque. That film, along with “Partners” documentary explores many different kinds of others, inspired him to create an relationships.