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MOVE Texas hosts Party at the Polls to encourage voter turnout at early voting.
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The Project connects UT community with East Austin By Andrew Zhang @andrewczhang
Armed with paint brushes, gardening tools and hammers, members of the UT community volunteered on Saturday in St. Johns, an Austin neighborhood, on Saturday as part of The Project, UT’s largest annual day of service. UT students started The Project in 1999 as a way to serve the Austin community. This year, the St. John’s neighborhood in East Austin hosted The Project for the first time since 2010. Over 700 students signed up to complete a variety of beautification projects, including painting, gardening and building in different areas of the neighborhood, such as Northeast Early College High School. The Project’s purpose is to foster closer ties between UT and its neighboring communities, especially underserved communities, said Karan Bahl, an outreach committee member for The Project. “There’s a lot of places (throughout Austin) that could use a bit of upkeep and beautification,” finance junior Bahl said. “We really wanted to give these people what they deserve — bright clean spaces to live their lives every day.” Jillian Merritt, a Plan II and chemical engineering freshman, helped mulch soil beds and weed gardens around the high school. Merritt said she appreciates what the event has set out to do. “UT, with all its students, has a lot of influence in the community,” Merritt said. “It’s really important that we use (that influence) for good, especially in these communities that need more help.” S E R V I C E PAGE 2
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West Campus safety measures will increase with surveillance cameras, extra patrolling officers after $8 million approval by UT System Board of Regents. steph sonik
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he University of Texas Police Department said they will increase safety measures in West Campus after the UT System Board of Regents approved $8 million for off-campus security on Thursday in response to citywide increases in crime. The $8 million will be equally divided among the next four years to fund security cameras, a small police station on Guadalupe, 13
additional officers and a new 7th district under UTPD’s jurisdiction that encompasses West Campus. All of these additions will go into effect in the coming months, UTPD Chief David Carter said. “It’s clear we need to have additional police presence in those areas where people are walking,” Carter said. “I can envision in the future us pushing out more permanently … (but) this is where we’re looking to start west.” Carter said he hopes to identify and create the six initial locations for security cameras by this summer and expand from there. The
camera system will eventually be linked with Austin Police Department’s system so both departments can monitor the video, he said. “The idea (works) just the same way the HALO camera system works downtown, we hope that private sector folks will be able to plug their cameras and share that information with us as well,” Carter said. “It’s really about partnership.” Boundaries have not been finalized for the new 7th district, Carter said. This new district plans to have at least one mobile officer patrolling at all times.
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“We’re actually looking to create a pair of two officers that focus on that area to gather information working with the student community,” Carter said. West Campus will also see an increase in bike patrols, Carter said. Carter said he hopes to have a storefront substation, where students can come in to make reports, created in the next three months at Walter Webb Hall. “What we want to do is to create a visible presence in that particular area so that S E C U R I T Y PAGE 3 UNIVERSITY
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Hackathon tackles climate change By Noah Rose @noah_rose_
By Nataleah Small Students, professors and community members used software engineering to develop tools that would counteract the adverse effects of climate change in Austin communities on Saturday. At Hack for Resilient Communities, a hackathon put on by seven different Austin organizations, students collaborated with Austin professors and environmental experts to design tools that could help Austin communities disproportionately affected by pollution and climate change to withstand their effects. The event focused specifically on Dove Springs, an East Austin neighborhood at severe risk for flooding and pollution. Carmen Llanes Pulido, a representative for Go Austin/Vamos Austin, spoke about the inequities associated with pollution and climate challenges at the hackathon. Pulido said climate change and systemic inequities during Austin’s development has disproportionately increased the risk of flooding in southeast Austin. “As we address climate risks, the quality of life of (Austin) gets bigger,
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Sanitary Aid for Everyone, an alumni and student-led research group, is working to create a biodegradable sanitary pad to help women without access to adequate facilities and menstruation products. The organization is competing in the Texas Student Research Showdown to win grant money to fund this project, said member Iann Karamali, a mechanical engineering and humanities senior. The group has already created three prototypes for the biodegradable pad, said member Amanda MacFarlane, a public relations and textiles and apparel senior. Once they develop the fourth, they plan to move onto trial testing, said MacFarlane.
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From left to right, Matthew Frankel, Tongren Zhu, Lina Sela, Lu Xing, participate in the Hack for Resilient Communities at the Perry-Castañeda Library on Saturday. This group discussed their software solutions to the pollution issue in Austin. and the risk of displacement is also higher,” Pulido said. “We are looking at not just mitigating displacement but getting ahead of it and looking out for unintended consequences.” Students split into teams, where they identified areas of interest,
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Sanitary Aid for Everyone is a sister organization to the Women’s Relief Initiative, a group Guinean UT students founded in fall 2018, said group member Fatoumata Diallo. The initiative wants to bring menstrual products to women in developing countries, according to its website. “I’ve always had an interest in helping women and girls around the world,” said Diallo, a health and society senior. “Especially because I grew up in Guinea. I lived a very privileged life, … and most of my friends didn’t have that privilege.” In 2019, the initiative raised $1,500 in a GoFundMe campaign and sent sanitary pads to women in three villages in Guinea, Diallo said. However, one group member, Mamadou Balde, wanted to create a more sustainable solution for women in
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Business sophomore Jeremy Thompson-Seyon painted handrails around the high school and said the work done by the volunteers could increase morale for high school students. “(It’ll be) nice for the kids to come in and see that they have some nice new painted rails, a new garden and all the other stuff that we’re renovating around the school,” Thompson-Seyon said. “(These improvements) will make them want to come learn and enrich their environment, which is really the key to their future.” Stephanie Lang, program administrator for UT’s Division of Diversity and Community Engagement, said she appreciated UT student’s effort to give back specifically to the St. John’s community. “St. John’s has an amazing history,” Lang said. “It started as a freedom colony … the history and the community is amazing, and unfortunately, this is a community that has been underserved and underrepresented. It has been forgotten in many ways. It’s really important — the work that’s been done by people in the community and the way UT is trying to support those ongoing efforts.”
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developing countries, according to its website. “We were thinking about making our own sanitary pad products that we can just implement in these villages and women can make them by themselves and have an unlimited supply of them,” Patel said. In August 2019, Patel said she and Balde brought together a group of engineering and textile students to form Sanitary Aid for Every-
By keeping it with those women, you’re able to empower them to make something for themselves. AMANDA MACFARLANE member
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Business honors junior John Gerling (left) and civil engineering senior Bryce Hall paint the exterior of St. John College Heights Baptist Church for The Project on Saturday. The Project is UT’s biggest annual volunteer event.
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Amanda MacFarlane (left) and Heny Patel, two members of the Women’s Relief Initiative, display the biodegradable pad prototypes that they created. The initiative aims to provide sustainable menstrual products to women in impoverished communities. one and develop an environmentally friendly solution that meets the needs of women without access to sanitary products. MacFarlane said most
menstrual pads on the market are made from plastic and take hundreds of years to decompose in landfills. She said the organization’s biodegradable pad is made from cotton, corn
husks and bioplastic algae. The first layer is made of cotton which draws liquid away from the body, MacFarlane said. The second layer is made of corn husks, which
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Party at the Polls reminds students to vote in primaries By Alexander Mansky @jacobmansky
To increase voter turnout, MOVE Texas held a Party at the Polls on Friday, offering snacks and games in front Gregory Gym to remind people it was the last day to early vote for the 2020 primaries. MOVE Texas volunteers and fellows gave students the opportunity to play different games, eat food and learn about the primary election and other upcoming elections. MOVE Texas began in 2013 as a nonpartisan, student-run organization dedicated to reminding students of the current elections to increase their civic engagement. Now, it is a statewide civic engagement effort to increase voter turnout. MOVE Texas fellow Blake Zimmerman said MOVE Texas hosts the event near the polling locations to remind people to vote. “People forget, so the spatial aspect of us being close to a polling location is actually very helpful, and perhaps it makes voting seem exciting,” humanities sophomore Zimmerman said. Zimmerman said he observed how having fun events near polling can affect voter turnout. He said the organization hosts other events, such as phone banks and block walks, to increase voter turnout.
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students can come in as they need to,” Carter said. “It’ll also be a place that will provide them additional space to come in and address any communications.” SafeHorns president Joell McNew said these security measures are a great start to keeping students safe. “I look forward to it evolving, and it’s a great first step, and I can’t wait,” McNew said. “I hope students feel like it’s a positive move.”
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organization that helps members launch their own companies and products, collaborated on different solutions. Natalia Ruiz Juri, a research associate at UT’s Center for Transportation Research, spoke at the event. She said the hackathon’s goals were to spread awareness about the negative effects of traffic-related air pollution on public health, to share data between environmentally conscious organizations, and to foster collaboration in the development of tools, ideas and solutions for pollution concerns in Austin. Ruiz Juri said she hopes the
“There are a lot of different ways to get people out to vote, but one of the most effective ways has been found to be posting fun parties near polling locations,” Zimmerman said. “It’s really interesting how giving people pizza and sodas near a polling location can actually encourage them and serve as a reminder to get out.” UT alumnus James Stratton, a current fellow of MOVE Texas, said he felt the organization was necessary because of recent elections’ lack of voter turnout. “We have the opportunity to choose our rulers, we might as well take advantage of that,” Stratton said. Stratton said it is important to encourage students to vote because of how it impacts them later in life. “The earlier one starts voting, the more persistent one’s going to be throughout their life,” Stratton said. “The earlier we can start y’all, most students are entering UT of the age to vote, so we want you to get that habit to vote and be involved in civic engagement as early as possible.” Alyssa Ramirez, an international relations and global studies junior, said she noticed real change made by MOVE Texas. “Since its starting, we’ve seen an increase in voter turnout, by encouraging them and other groups,” Ramirez said.
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MOVE Texas field organizer Fernanda Maldonado helps computer science freshman Dani Amir learn about the election at Party at the Polls at Gregory Plaza on Friday. This event was hosted by MOVE Texas, a nonprofit organization that encourages civic engagement.
McNew said she is still concerned about student living areas like North Campus and hopes for increased support from the city. “What we’re feeling right now is, at least we have the relationship with APD, but our city leaders need to get on board and support chief Carter and really do more to address the infrastructure portion (of security),” McNew said. Biochemistry sophomore Emily Crone said she is happy with UTPD’s plan of action. “A lot of students live in West Campus, so it’s important that UTPD can help patrol that area,” Crone said.
organizations continue sharing data after the daylong event. “These data sets are already gathered together (for the hackathon),” Ruiz Juri said. “They (will be) available for research, class projects and capstones, and the more people know about these resources, the more they will use them.” Martha Czernuszenko, a management information systems senior and Convergent member, heard about the hackathon through a Design Strategies certificate class. “I (would like to) visualize data and create something that’s actually readable to users,” Czernuszenko said. “(With) so many different people here, it will be really cool to see how different mindsets and different perspectives can create something that is actionable.”
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The Daily Texan endorses for tomorrow’s primary elections The Daily Texan Editorial Board Tomorrow is your last chance to vote in the 2020 primaries. For Austin, Travis County and many of Austin’s congressional districts, UT Austin students are a critical — and growing — voting bloc. In the 2018 midterms, 54% of UT’s over 50,000 students voted. In 2020, that number is sure to be higher. In our state and local elections, we’re looking for candidates dedicated to fundamentally changing Texas and the United States to create a more equitable society. Our generation is facing $1.5 trillion in student loan debt, skyrocketing healthcare and rent costs, increasing bigotry and intolerance, and the threat of climate collapse happening within our lifetimes. That is why we focused on including and endorsing candidates dedicated to the structural change needed to address — and solve — these issues. U.S. Senate: Cristina Tzintzún Ramirez After Beto O’Rourke’s now-famous 2018 campaign against Ted Cruz, the 2020 Democratic primary field for U.S. Senate is especially crowded. Cristina Tzintzún Ramirez stands out for her impressive track record as a leader in organizing for Texas workers as co-founder of the Workers Defense Project, and Texas’ Latino population through Jolt. These advocacy points are emphasized in her Senate campaign, along with unapologetic support for many progressive policies, including Medicare for All, a Green New Deal and paid parental leave. Her support of student-debt cancellation and tuition-free public universities also makes her campaign appealing, especially on a campus where 37% of incoming students depend on student loans to pay their tuition. Railroad Commissioner: Kelly Stone Don’t let the name fool you — the three Texas Railroad Commissioners’ primary job is to regulate the oil and gas industry in Texas. Unsurprisingly, then, Texas’ Railroad Commissioners often have intimate ties with the oil industry, which has benefited corporate interests to the detriment of our planet and our state. Kelly Stone, an environmental activist and Green New Deal supporter, would be a welcome advocate against the fossil fuel industry,
pollution and environmental racism. While she would be outnumbered by the other two commissioners (both of whom have deep ties to the oil and gas industry), her activism would be a good start to curtailing the stranglehold oil and gas have over the state. TX-25: Heidi Sloan On paper, Heidi Sloan and Julie Oliver have similar platforms. Both support Medicare for All, a Green New Deal and major housing affordability reform. Where Sloan and Oliver differ, however, is in their broader theory of change. While Oliver seems to want to work solely within the system, Sloan understands a congresswoman’s power both as a legislator and as an organizer of a movement to challenge the interests of the ruling class. Her organizing skill has already been demonstrated in the impressive turnout of her campaign’s canvassing events — which have already knocked on over 90,000 doors in the district. Because of her dedication to a broader working class movement to fight for change, we endorse Heidi Sloan for Texas’ 25th Congressional District.
To truly enact the structural change our society needs, we must be involved in organizing ... around the issues we care about.” TX-10: Mike Siegel After performing surprisingly well against incumbent Republican Michael McCaul in 2018, civil rights lawyer Mike Siegel is once again the best choice for Texas’ 10th congressional district. Siegel brings to the race a history of defending clients against employers and the state, and a platform that includes Medicare for All, a Green New Deal, expanding labor rights and tackling student loan debt. Not only does Siegel have the best policy proposals, but a track record of fighting for the
reality his platform outlines. Because of this, he has our endorsement. 53rd District Attorney: José Garza José Garza, former federal public defender and executive director of the Workers Defense Project, provides the best platform to counter the deeply racist and classist criminal justice system we currently have. His platform points, including fighting to end cash bail, ending prosecution of small amounts of narcotics, pursuing restorative justice and building community task forces would bring much needed change in how criminal justice is handled in Travis County. We believe that Garza’s understanding and advocacy against the structural inequalities and injustices of the criminal justice system make him the best candidate for District Attorney. County Attorney: Dominic Selvera Among other duties, the Travis County Attorney is tasked with prosecuting all misdemeanors in the county, and we believe that criminal defense attorney Dominic Selvera is best poised to reform Travis County’s criminal justice system. Selvera provides a platform similar to that of José Garza — promising once elected to not prosecute marijuana or misdemeanor drug possession and to end cash bail for misdemeanors in Travis County, along with decriminalizing homelessness. City Council Member Delia Garza provides a similar platform to Selvera, but she has a less explicit stance on ending cash bail and her only professional legal experience is three years at the Texas Attorney General’s office. While an underdog, we have confidence that Selvera will begin to right the institutional wrongs of our criminal justice system as County Attorney. Voting Information: Tomorrow is your last chance to vote in the primary. Polls will be open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. at the Perry Castañeda Library, the Flawn Academic Center and Texas Hillel in West Campus. Voting can only get us so far, however. To truly enact the structural change our society needs, we must be involved in organizing our communities around the issues we care about. The editorial board is comprised of associate editors Abhirupa Dasgupta, Hannah Lopez, Sanika Nayak and editor-in-chief Spencer Buckner.
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Texas felon disenfranchisement enables institutional racism By Rushi Shah Contributor
As the 2020 elections ramp up, UT students face state-sanctioned voter suppression in the form of voter ID laws, paper voter registration and insufficient polling locations. Felon disenfranchisement is a lesser known and stronger voter suppression tool wielded by the Texas Legislature. In Texas, an individual convicted of a felony has their voting rights revoked until they are “off paper.” This means they may reregister to vote only after they have completed all terms of their sentence, such as incarceration, probation and parole. When determining representation, incarcerated individuals will still be counted despite not being allowed to vote. This state law is supported by the Supreme Court case Richardson v. Ramirez, which held that even “disenfranchising convicted felons who have completed their sentences and paroles, does not violate the Equal Protection Clause.” Although we are constitutionally permitted to disenfranchise felons, let us now consider why we do so. There are two immediate
justifications for revoking the voting rights of felony convictions because we distrust their an individual convicted of a felony: We would voting judgment is also suspect. Nothing about like to punish them and we do not trust their incarceration, probation or parole rehabilijudgment in casting a vote. tates the individual to treat their vote differHowever, disenfranchisement based on any ently. Therefore, if we are willing to restore felony conviction is voting rights after an an ineffective punishindividual is off paper ment. It holds no deas we currently do, we terring effect on future should not revoke them crime because voting in the first place. rights are not cherished These justifications, Institutional racism highly enough to outhowever, both obscure weigh the incentives to the real reason for felutilizes felon disencommit a crime. It also on disenfranchisement: franchisement to holds no rehabilitating racism. Institutional effect because suspendracism utilizes felon preserve white voting voting rights does disenfranchisement to ing power in Texas not teach one about preserve white voting their civic duty — it power in Texas with an with an ostensibly only further removes ostensibly race-neutral race-neutral policy.” them from society. policy. In particular, If we are committed the criminal justice systo denying suffrage as a tem disproportionately penalty for crime, we could better highlight the incarcerates Black and Latino populations. penal effect by only imposing voting restricWhites, Blacks and Latinos each make up tions in specific cases where it seems likely to roughly a third of the Texas incarcerated popalter a specific individual’s behavior. ulation, which totals about 250,000 people, The claim that we disenfranchise those with despite Blacks only representing 12% of the
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overall Texas population. This disproportionate incarceration of Black individuals is implemented through a racially biased criminal justice system. After locking up Black and Latino individuals, prison facilities grant the voting power of the disenfranchised to the communities within which the prisons are built. This is because the state will revoke the voting rights of the incarcerated individual but still count them as part of the community when determining how much representation an area receives in elections. The Houston Chronicle reports that 70% of prisons during the United States prison boom were built in rural communities. This geographic setup allows white rural communities in Texas to skew electoral representation in their favor by absorbing the voting power of incarcerated communities of color. The Texas Legislature suppresses voters with poorly justified felon disenfranchisement statutes, which perpetuate disproportionate racial representation in the electorate. With that in mind, any voting rights conversation must acknowledge the institutional racism of felon disenfranchisement. Shah is a computer science and mathematics senior in the Turing Scholars Program.
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Male cheer challenges stereotypes UT’s Orange Squad male cheerleaders often recruited from high school gyms, played other sports. By Aisling Ayers @aisling_ayers
rom the high school football field straight to the cheer mat, male members of UT’s cheer team, Orange Squad, are often recruited without any prior experience. Often discovered in a high school gym, physically strong male students are sought out by current coed team members to complete their squad, said Connery Bowers, Orange Squad member and biology senior. The primary role of each male cheerleader is throwing a female cheerleader into the
air for a high-stakes stunt and catching them when they fall. “It’s kind of scary at first, but the main point of our pitch is to tell them it’s not scary,” Bowers said. “You don’t really need guys to have experience to (join). We’re like a big family, and (we’ll) tell you everything and teach you.” Despite the stereotype of the “lifelong cheerleader,” Orange Squad captain Neha Grover said most male team members have spent their high school career playing sports like football or basketball. “When you think of cheerleading, you think of girls and more feminine boys,” finance senior Grover said. “But (male cheerleaders are) just continuing to live the life of an athlete and are being pushed in ways they never have (before).” In the week leading up to each football game, Bowers said the coaching staff determines which team members are the most qualified to take the field. “If you make the game, that means your coaches and captains trust you enough to
do those skills by yourself,” Bowers said. “The guys are supposed to be (masculine). That’s the image we’re supposed to portray.” Unlike the female team members, Bowers said the men focus on throwing the girls, yelling, clapping and reflecting a masculine persona through their actions, as opposed to performing dance routines. Grover said trust is essential to the success and coordination of the squad. Trust goes beyond the physical responsibility of having someone’s life in your hands, she said. Once male cheerleaders become comfortable supporting their stunt partner, Grover said they transition into a source of energy and excitement for the stadium. Outside of the stadium, Grover said the relationship between male and female cheerleaders resembles a brother and sister relationship. “(Male cheerleaders) play the gentleman role and have to be ambassadors in that way,” Grover said. “Anytime we travel, they protect us and look out for us.” In 2017, Orange Squad
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Biology senior Connery Bowers celebrates with the Orange Squad during a UT football game. When the team receives new male members, Bowers teaches them correct stunting techniques. co-captain Blake Gardner said he never imagined himself spending five to six days a week cheering. While Gardner said he usually falls into the role of a quiet student, cheer forced him out of his shell and improved his vocality.
Gardener, an electrical and computer engineering senior, said that due to skepticism associated with chearleading’s athleticism, he had to earn his family’s respect about cheering after his uncle initially gave him a hard time. “Whenever I show (my
uncle) the skills that we do, I think it does change his mind on things. It’s things that he could never do,” Gardner said. “You have to tell him, ‘I’m not just leading cheers and yelling in front of people, I’m also doing things that are athletic.’”
FILM REVIEW | ‘THE INVISIBLE MAN’
‘The Invisible Man’ reinvents classic tale of terror By Noah Levine @ZProaductionz
Universal Classic Monsters is back from the grave yet again, this time with horror powerhouse Blumhouse behind the wheel. “The Invisible Man,” directed by Leigh Whannell (“Upgrade”), is a reimagined interpretation of the eponymous novel by H.G. Wells. “The Invisible Man” is not a story focusing on the man himself, but a nail-biting experience following a powerful woman’s fight to break free from an abusive ex-partner. The film explores the concept of mentally and physically escaping such a relationship, combined with the uncertainty of knowing if leading character Cecilia’s (Elisabeth Moss) abuser is physically in the room with her. Elisabeth Moss is a show-stealer in the leading role of Cecilia. Her intense and torturous reactions to the taunting from the title character are equally as heartbreaking as they are terrifying. She truly conveys the deep emotional stress her character is facing, causing audiences to heavily sympathize with her. The few scenes without horror provide a look at Cecilia as she expresses genuine thoughtfulness and care to her supporting characters. This only helps involve the audience in the various aspects of her character’s personality.
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Actress Elisabeth Moss (Cecilia) stars in the science fiction horror film, “The Invisible Man,” written and directed by Leigh Whannell.
Aldis Hodge is fantastic in the role of James, offering comedic and heartfelt support to Cecilia throughout the film. His well-timed line deliveries and calm mannerisms evoke a sense of calculated safety around his
character. His on-screen daughter, Sydney, played by Storm Reid, has an equally infectious personality. Her expressive and quirky attitude provides a great contrast to the intense horror of the film.
Whannell directs the camera with the intent of pure suspense. Because the antagonist of the film is literally invisible, mundane things such as empty chairs or rooms are immediately filled with unease. On frequent occasions the camera will pan to the side of a character, emphasizing what may or may not be inhabiting the empty space. This results in moments of great tension, such as one where the camera pulls away from Moss’s character to the “empty” space behind her. The audiences become just as much of a victim to the paranoia the Invisible Man causes as Cecilia is. The cinematography, set design and color grading mainly revolve around murky grays, dense blacks and sickly whites. While it’s not exactly visually appealing, it certainly works to cast a frightful visual style over the film. As Cecilia’s dilemma worsens, the visual style of the film becomes a bright and isolating white. The contrast of a brightly lit and visible atmosphere with a foe who is invisible is quite effective. While a core dilemma of the film is that most of the characters refuse to believe Cecilia’s claims of her invisible assailant, the constant repetition of no one
believing her can be a bit tiresome. For the majority of the film, the audience and Cecilia are the only ones aware of the existence of the Invisible Man, so it is quite frustrating to watch other characters refuse to believe her story for almost half of the film. It is understandable that the filmmakers wanted audiences to feel the same helplessness as Cecilia, but after a certain point, it becomes repetitive. The thematic elements start to hinder the enjoyment of the film, leaving the audience tired. The film would have benefited from a
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slightly shorter run time. Luckily, a jaw-dropping twist breaks the film out of this midway flunk. Despite some length issues, “The Invisible Man” is a solid and timely re-interpretation of a classic horror tale.
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Longhorns continue hot streak
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The red-hot Longhorns are heating up at the right time. A team previously out of the NCAA Tournament picture has forced itself back into bubble contention. Texas travels to Oklahoma on Tuesday before concluding the regular season at home on Saturday.
Texas overcame a raucous Texas Tech crowd Saturday afternoon as the Longhorns won their fourth straight. By Stephen Wagner
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laying No. 22 Texas Tech in Lubbock was just another game for sophomore guard Courtney Ramey. He followed his usual
pregame routine, staying on the court for a few minutes after the team finished its warmup to hit a half-court shot. The early arriving Tech student section didn’t care. They jeered relentlessly, making fun of Ramey for missing his first few attempts. But on the third try, he nailed the 47-footer. The student section let out an exasperated groan, and Ramey showed his slyest grin. Ramey and redshirt sophomore guard Andrew Jones’ shotmaking staved off the raucous crowd as Texas pulled off a 68-58 upset victory in Lubbock on Saturay. “(The crowd’s) interests are different than your interests, so there’s going to be some going at each other,” Texas head coach Shaka Smart said
he told his players before the game. “We are going to play this game against Texas Tech’s team, and this crowd is going to do everything they can to insert themselves in the game.” The Tech crowd made itself heard from the start. They trolled Texas with “NIT!” chants during the player introduction, expletive chants and signs making fun of Texas’ attendance struggles at the Frank Erwin Center. But it took less than two minutes for freshman forward Kai Jones to temporarily silence the crowd just like Ramey, this time with a 3-pointer from the right wing. An and-one play from Tech freshman guard Terrence Shannon Jr. brought Red Raider fans back to their feet minutes
later, creating an atmosphere Texas has only experienced at Kansas this year.
No retaliation was bigger than junior forward Royce Hamm Jr.’s putback on a Ramey miss to put Texas up by four with 50 seconds left.” STEPHEN WAGNER
Senior SportS Writer
“This is a great atmosphere, one of the best in the league and maybe even the country,” Jones said. “Regardless of the small play — air ball,
turnover, a shot for them — they go crazy. (But) I think we handled the hostile crowd pretty well.” The crowd managed to reveal a side of Smart not seen before as he drew his second technical fouls in as many games for the first time in his career. The Tech crowd made sure he knew about it, shouting, “Sit down, Shaka!” But the relentless taunting didn’t have the effect Tech fans hoped for. Smart says the team fed off the opposing crowd’s energy. It was a recurring theme — every time Tech fans rose up, Texas answered. No retaliation was bigger than junior forward Royce Hamm Jr.’s putback on a Ramey miss to put Texas up by four with 50 seconds left. “I was going all after it,”
Hamm said. “My mindset was just (to) attack the glass, whether it goes in or not. Happily, the ball bounced off at the right time and to the right place, and I was able to put it in.” Texas’ fourth-straight Big 12 win has thrown Texas back into NCAA Tournament contention and splashed water on Smart’s hot seat. With a road trip to rival Oklahoma and a final home game against lastplace Oklahoma State coming up, Texas’ hopes of sneaking into the tournament look promising. So can a Texas team once considered dead in the water find its way to the Big Dance? “We’re going to do our best,” Jones said. “We’re going to keep fighting.”
BASEBALL
Texas beats Arkansas, falls to LSU, Missouri in College Classic
By Nathan Han @NathanHan13
Just 15 hours after the team’s best win of the season against No. 6 Arkansas, Texas played its sloppiest game of the season against Missouri. In Sunday’s 9-8 loss against the Tigers, Texas committed five errors, leading to four unearned runs that would prove the difference in the game. “Some point in time, we’re going to be punched in the mouth, and it’s going to be new for some of these new guys,” Texas pitching coach Sean Allen said before the season. “We’re going to have to be able to handle that adversity and move on in the season.” The most glaring mistake of them all was sophomore pitcher Kolby Kubichek’s error in the sixth inning. With Texas holding onto a newly minted 4-3 lead after a three-run fifth inning, Kubichek went into the game for sophomore starter Coy Cobb and immediately was hit a comebacker right into his glove. But the right-hander threw the ball over junior first baseman Zach Zubia’s glove to allow his first baserunner. Kubichek would never recover from the mistake, allowing four runs as Missouri jumped out to a 8-4 lead. The jam led to a string of relievers and substitutions
by Texas head coach David Pierce, who kept searching for answers but found them far too late. “We’re still trying to figure out the value of every one of our players and how we can utilize players,” Pierce said. “So there’s a lot of things that we’re still evaluating and figuring out going into conference play.” The Longhorns, much like the Razorbacks in Saturday’s game, kept chipping away at the lead and eventually closed the gap to 8-7 before the ninth inning. But the error bug that seemed to plague the Longhorns all afternoon bit once more. With runners on the corners and one out, freshman catcher Silas Ardoin had a chance to make a big defensive play and throw out a runner trying to steal second. But his throw missed by several feet, allowing the Tigers’ runner on third base to score. It was a costly mistake that gave Missouri the insurance run that would be just enough for the Tigers to escape with the game in the ninth inning. In the bottom of the inning, senior right fielder Austin Todd hit an RBI single to bring the Longhorns within one and put runners on the corner. But senior outfielder Duke Ellis couldn’t convert, striking out looking on an outside fastball, looking on in disbelief as he and Longhorn fans surely
zach zubia
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The Longhorns lost their first two games of the season this weekend. After splitting the first two games with powerhouses LSU and Arkansas, Texas dropped Sunday’s finale against Missouri. thought the pitch was a ball. One of the few bright spots in the game were Todd and junior reliever Kamron Fields. Todd hit 3-for-6 and reached base safely for the 12th game of the season. Fields threw two quick 1-2-3 innings in the seventh
and eighth as the Longhorns were trying to rally and only needed 15 pitches in those two innings. “We thought about putting (Fields) in the game in the situation with the bases loaded,” Pierce said. “But I just didn’t feel like it was fair to him at
that point. So we gave him a clean inning, and he did a great job. That’s something we can build on.” If you had told Longhorn faithfuls before this weekend that Texas would go 1–2 over their three-game weekend stretch against LSU, Arkansas
and Missouri, nobody would have guessed that it would come with a win against No. 6 Arkansas and losses to No. 11 LSU and unranked Missouri. But in the three onerun games, the difference came down to just a few key mistakes.
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