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race to the finish line Student Government executive alliance elections happen every year, but what does it take to run? emma overholt
By Chad Lyle @lylechad
mie Jean was running late to her own celebration. Last spring, on her way to find out whether she was elected UT’s next student body vice president, Jean stopped to turn in a scholarship application. Meanwhile members of her campaign team were anxiously wondering if their hard work had paid off. Jean arrived at the event just after news of her victory was announced, and she instantly became one of the most influential leaders on campus. Student Government has existed as an organization at UT since 1902, and executive alliance campaigns — the race to become president and vice president of the student body — have consistently attracted controversy and served as
microcosms of political issues at state and national levels. With thousands of dollars in funding and direct access to administrators, executive alliances wield lots of power over UT’s campus culture. In the weeks leading up to voting, students are bombarded with candidates’ social media posts, and campaign signs are plastered across campus. But rarely do students see what goes on behind the scenes of running a campaign. THE RUNNING MATE
Running a successful campaign starts with selecting the right running mate. Jean was elected alongside Camron Goodman as the first allBlack duo to lead SG. But she said she once doubted two Black students could win an election to represent a majority white student body. “My freshman year, I thought if I was going to win, my running mate had to be white, and probably a white male,” Jean said. “I think it becomes about details you can point to instead
of what it’s actually about — which is student life — when it comes to the nuances of public opinion.” Jean said ultimately public opinion did not play a large role in her decision to run as a ticket with Goodman. But Sean Tucker, an unsuccessful candidate in this year’s election, said public opinion did factor into his decision to ask Suseth Muñoz, a Latinx woman, to be his running mate. Tucker said the decision was not about pandering for votes, but rather to give his campaign credibility to speak about certain issues. “I didn’t necessarily want to be the one speaking to these organizations saying, ‘Yes, I’m this 6-foot man who’s never had to feel threatened at a party or walking home alone, and let me tell you about what my solution is,’” Tucker said.
THE LAUNCH
According to rules set by the Election Supervisory Board, candidates are only allowed to campaign for a
two-week period before voting begins. It has become tradition in recent years for campaigns to “launch” online at midnight on the first day of campaigning. The social media rollout is the first real chance for campaigns to demonstrate their competence and is considered a vital first impression. Isabella Fanucci, who campaigned unsuccessfully alongside Elena Ivanova in 2019, said her team pulled their launch together relatively last minute. While many campaigns start planning their runs as early as fall of the previous year, she and Ivanova decided to run a week before the filing deadline, Fanucci said. “(At midnight the day campaigning began), we sat in a room together and all of us began reaching out to the entire student body,” Fanucci said in an email. “We had a long uphill battle ahead of us and it had just begun.” Jean largely credits her campaign’s successful launch
to a video released on the first day of campaigning that immediately generated positive buzz for her campaign. “We did something here,” Jean said of the video. “You’ve got ‘Spider-Verse’ vibes, you’ve got Cory Booker vibes.”
THE MONEY
Debates over appropriate uses of campaign funds and the role of money in campaigning are as much an issue in student elections as they are in national politics. In some cases, missteps in this department can prove detrimental to a campaign. Each executive alliance campaign is only allowed to spend $511 over the course of the race. When campaigns are fined for election rule violations, these fines are deducted from the $511 total. This year, a campaign was disqualified for exceeding their budget due to fines. Hopefuls Connor Alexander and Camille Johnson were initially fined for releasing campaign materials that were
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not approved by the Election Supervisory Board — a regulation that other campaigns have complained is tedious and overbearing. The fine for releasing unapproved materials amounted to 28% of Alexander and Johnson’s budget. After their team received another fine of 5% for early campaigning, they were disqualified for overspending. Alexander did not respond to The Daily Texan’s request for comment. THE ENDORSEMENT
During every election cycle, The Daily Texan editorial board, a body independent of the newsroom, endorses the executive alliance it sees as best suited to lead the student body. This is a significant mile marker in the race and an important source of advertising for whichever campaign receives it. When the board endorsed Goodman and Jean’s campaign instead of Fanucci and Ivanova’s in 2019, they F I N I S H L I N E PAGE 3
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Anagha and Winston elected student body president, vice president By Anna Canizales @annaleonorc
Anagha Kikkeri and Winston Hung will serve as next year’s student body president and vice president. The executive alliance won by 111 votes out of 7,609 ballots cast through a single transferable system. This was the second time the single transferable system was used in student elections after it was approved in February 2018. The executive alliance and student representatives were elected through a ranked system that eliminated the candidate in last place every round. Government junior Kikkeri said their next step is to discuss how to move forward with Student Government and University administration. “I’m so honored and grateful that people trust us to do this and implement our policies,” Kikkeri said. “(Now) we’re going to follow the steps we outlined in our policy papers for implementation.” In the last round of rankings, Kikkeri and Hung won with a total of 3,240 total votes. Simona Harry and
Lynn Huynh came in second place, with a total of 3,129 votes. Harry and Huynh were the candidates with the highest number of first-choice votes at 2,578. Kikkeri and Hung were the candidates with the second-highest number of firstchoice votes at 2,552. Hung, a chemical engineering and finance junior, said they plan to follow through with their campaign slogan, “What It Takes.” “If you asked me half a year ago if this was something that was going to happen, I would have to see it to believe it,” Hung said. “I love that we were able to create the best team possible. Win or lose, we did the best that we could.” Kikkeri and Hung said their plans include creating a committee for students living in Riverside, establishing culturally centered study spaces, increasing the number of confidential advocates in the Title IX office and implementing an orientation program on Title IX resources. John Austin Gerling and Ashna Kumar were named to the University Unions board of directors. Matthew Kenny was selected to be the Texas Student Media at-large board member.
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Student Body Vice President Winston Hung hugs Tony Wen, a member of the campaign’s voter outreach team, while Student Body President Anagha Kikkeri celebrates their election on Friday in the William C. Powers, Jr. Student Activity Center. The next editor-in-chief of The Daily Texan will be Emily Caldwell.
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Dance marathon raises money for children By Alexander Mansky @jacobmansky
Over 70 people danced to the blare of pop music in Gregory Gymnasium yesterday, while a neon lit sign that read “For the Kids” stood above them on stage, as a part of the Texas THON annual dance marathon to raise money for Dell Children’s Medical Center of Central Texas. Michael Richardson, Texas THON vice president of recruitment, said the dance marathon is the last day of fundraising for 2020, and the 2021 fundraising year begins the next day. At 10 p.m., the members held up a poster with the amount of money that they raised for 2020. Richardson said this event was important to THON because various miracle kids, or patients who had received help from Dell Children’s, participated in the event. Each hour multiple miracle kids would share stories about their conditions, and then danced with everyone. Public health freshman Nondisha Sarkar is a member of Texas THON and said she loved the event because it showed them the amount of money they made and the people they helped. “It’s really rewarding to see the number we raised at the end, but the most fulfilling thing is hearing the miracle kids’ stories,” Sarkar said. “Every hour they come on stage and talk about their
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conditions and their personal stories. It’s really amazing to see and be with who we are helping.” Biology senior Michael Richardson said THON has transformed into a huge nonprofit on campus and in the state of Texas since it started in 2001. He said the event began to grow when they partnered with UT RecSports ten years ago. “We are so grateful for everything
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The Punjabbawockeez, a UT all-male fusion dance team, performs a routine at the Texas THON dance marathon held at Gregory Gym on Sunday. The all-day event raised funds and awareness for the Children’s Miracle Network Hospital, which provides lifesaving care to children in need.
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Museum of Color showcases impacts of colorism By Andrew Zhang @andrewczhang
With culturally significant objects like eyelid tape and hair perm products on display, the Museum of Color illustrated the complex nature of colorism during its opening on Saturday. The Museum of Color is an engagement effort and exhibtion by student-led research collective The Color Complex to help educate the public on the implications of colorism, which can negatively affect people of color. The exhibit featured interactive art and objects with personal narratives centered around the themes of beauty, colorism and racism. The exhibit will be located in the William C. Powers, Jr. Student Activity Center in room 2.304 until March 12.
Christina Cho, a member of The Color Complex, said she believes colorism affects communities across the world, including the UT community. “Colorism is the preferential treatment for people with more Eurocentric features — straighter hair, narrower nose, lighter skin, big eyes,” said Cho, an international relations and global studies senior. “As far as UT campus, there are our peers walking around that have probably been impacted by colorism that have maybe not even had a conversation about it.” Part of the exhibit inluded an array of hair products, accompanied with a woman’s story about recognizing her hair’s beauty. Sidney Phillips, an international relations and global studies senior, said she shared a personal connection to this story.
“What kind of struck me was that (the artist) said that they didn’t see their natural hair until they were 15,” Phillips said. “That’s kind of relatable. I had permed my hair since I was probably 11, and I didn’t
start wearing my natural hair until sophomore year of college.” Phillips also said she appreciated The Color Complex’s desires to create conversation about colorism. Another member of
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International business senior Timia Bethea welcomes students and professors on the opening night of the Museum of Color at the William C. Powers, Jr. Student Activity Center on Saturday. Bethea and her team worked together to put this gallery on as part of their project for the President’s Award for Global Learning.
The Color Complex, exercise science senior Vida Nwadiei, said she hopes this exhibit can provide an unconventional way for people to better understand experiences lived by all types of people. “For some people that knew (about colorism) but couldn’t define it, we really want to provide an opportunity and the drive for people to (change that),” Nwadiei said. Electrical engineering junior Diana Shao said she felt personally drawn to the museum’s stories about Asian American women. “In my life, I have these standards of beauty in my head that I don’t really know where they come from,” Shao said. “Now, I want to figure out where my own standards of beauty are, apart from what society tells me.”
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City of Austin hosts accessible parking ticket training By Brooke Ontiveros @brookexpanic
In the first training in collaboration with the Austin Police and Austin Transportation Departments, 15 Austin citizens were trained Saturday to issue tickets to those improperly parked in accessible parking spaces. At the four-hour training, volunteers learned to identify improperly parked cars and to issue tickets, which are $513 each, and attended a mock ticket writing practice in a parking garage. After passing a background check, the volunteers must log 12 hours of work a year to stay in the program. “We’re hoping to have a training class once a month,” parking enterprise manager Jason Redfern said. “We hope to get many passionate people out there that want to help and train people up and get them out on the streets and start making a big dent in accessible parking violations.” APD and other organizations have hosted this training for over two decades, but APD has not had the time and resources to support the program actively, Redfern said. Now, the transportation department will take the lead in revitalizing the training and hopes to have 100 volunteers by the end of the year, Redfern said. “We want to highlight what
those issues are using technology and mapping to understand, maybe there are hotspots that we need to get,” Redfern said. “(We want) people that own businesses to get involved, and maybe they’ll have their own security personnel that will help us in that program.” The transportation department has also added safety measures for the new volunteers, including reflective safety vests and a citation handbook on basic tips, he said. Safety is the biggest concern for these volunteers, Redfern said. Many times volunteers can be yelled or cursed at for issuing tickets, said Cliff Turner, an accessible parking volunteer of 10 years. Turner said he had been assaulted when someone jerked his citation book from his neck, leaving a burn. “Don’t try to dispute the ticket with them,” lead enforcement officer Block’o Wilford said. “Write the ticket and go. If they want to dispute, they can in court.” Accessible parking volunteer David Flores said he has issued around 2,000 tickets in his three years of volunteering. He said he has issued up to 25 tickets per day. Volunteers can write citations for vehicles in private or public spaces, which makes them more effective than parking enforcement officers who can only issue tickets in public
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Austin Police Department delivers a presentation on how to issue parking tickets. The training enables Austin citizens to ticket vehicles that improperly occupy handicapped parking spaces. areas, Wilford said. Emeline LaKrout, president of Disability Advocacy Student Coalition, uses a guide dog because she is partially blind. She said she became certified to issue tickets to those improperly parked in accessible
parking spaces years ago. “You need a lot of room, especially if you have a wheelchair accessible van, and you physically cannot access places (without parking),” marketing senior LaKrout said. “It’s discrimination in the most
extreme form.” Marina Navarrete, a trainee, said she decided to attend the training because she had trouble finding parking with her paralyzed mother in 1975, before accessible parking was widespread.
“When I was 12, my mom got sick and was paralyzed for the last three years of her life, and it was always a struggle to find parking,” Navarrete said. “Now that we have laws in place, it’s a great idea to help enforce them.”
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Tejas hosts brunch, pilates to support mental health services By Lawson Freeman @lawsonmfreeman
Despite the morning chill, students started their Sunday on the lawn of the Tejas Club with a pilates class and brunch. The event, called Brunch on the Lawn, is hosted each semester by the Tejas Club and the Texas Spirits, in partnership with the Texas Lassos and Texas Sweethearts. Tejas Club president Drew Curran said the money raised from the event benefits the Counseling and Mental Health Center, the organization’s philanthropy partner. “Mental health is … an important issue that everyone wants to focus on and reduce the stigma of,” architecture senior Curran said. “(The event is based on) raising awareness and raising money, because there could always be more for resources for the counseling center.” This semester, the organizations added an outdoor pilates class with Austin-based athleisure brand Outdoor Voices to connect to the Tejas Club’s mission of raising awareness about mental health issues, said Victoria Bennett, service director for the Texas Spirits. “Because the brunch does benefit the Counseling and Mental Health Center, we wanted to incorporate things that have to do with mental health and mental wellness,
and the way we thought about that was exercise,” said Bennett, a business and economics junior. “We really liked Outdoor Voices’ happy message … (of) exercise not just being physical wellness but also your mental wellness and health. … That goes hand in hand with our event.” Tejas member Alexander Wang said he was hesitant to join in the pilates because he isn’t a morning person, but he enjoyed the exercise. “It worked pretty well to bring more people together, … people that normally wouldn’t come just for the food,” business junior Wang said. “It’s just sort of a wholesome event where everyone comes together … and then all the proceeds go toward a good cause. ” After the workout, attendees headed inside to grab breakfast tacos made by members of the Tejas Club. Some people ate inside the house while others reconvened on the lawn to listen to the band, which included a member of one of the hosting groups. Finance sophomore Rocio Nairi Garza-Gomez said she enjoyed the event because participants got to meet new people. “Everyone (came) together for a really good cause,” Garza said. “Next week is midterms, and it’s going to be crazy in that sense, but everyone’s just taking a break and having fun on a Sunday morning.”
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Students and community members gather for a pilates class followed by brunch Sunday morning at the Tejas house. This event was put on by the Tejas Club, Texas Lassos, Texas Sweethearts, Texas Spirits and Outdoor Voices as an effort to raise money for the Counseling and Mental Health Center.
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incorrectly wrote that neither Fanucci nor Ivanova had held an SG position. Fanucci said the aftermath of this mistake was hard to recover from. “The fact that the editorial board incorrectly stated that we had ‘no substantial student government experience’ made me hit my rock bottom of the campaign,” Fanucci said in an email. Before announcing their endorsement, the board organizes and moderates a debate between the candidates. Tucker said his
campaign largely saw the debate as a means to earning the endorsement. “We weren’t trying to sell ourselves to everybody that was in the audience,” Tucker said. “We were trying to sell ourselves to The Daily Texan.” THE FINISH LINE
Regardless of the impact any video or endorsement might have on the race, successful campaigns still participate in traditional, face-to-face campaigning. Anagha Kikkeri, incoming student body president, said she spent eight hours tabling on the last day of voting. For a campaign to succeed in a process that is
often cutthroat, the alliance must skillfully address each hurdle along the way — on top of earning enough votes to win. This year, Kikkeri and running mate Winston Hung emerged victorious. Next year, another group of hopefuls will try their hand. “We’re students just trying to help other students, and people believed in us to empower us to do this,” Kikkeri said. “It means so much, and I honestly still haven’t wrapped my head around it.” Editor’s note: The story has been edited for print, and the full version can be read at thedailytexan.com.
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UT System’s investment in fossil fuel industries sparks backlash, prompts students to push for divestment By Julia Zaksek and Maggie Lazaroski Forum editors
In the last ten years, The University of Texas Systems’ endowment has grown considerably. In 2010, the fund was worth $10.7 billion. Over the summer of 2018, it reached $31 billion, second only to Harvard University. The UT Systems’ endowment is a fund used for “university development,” an ambiguous term that can include things like campus expansion, renovations and land purchases. Most of this money comes from oil. The UT System controls millions of acres of land, some of it set aside for public university funding in the Texas constitution, some of it purchased with money from the growing endowment.
The UT System pays contracting companies to extract oil and natural gas from UTowned land. The money the system makes from these natural resources, which can reach into the hundreds of millions of dollars, is either added to the UT endowment or invested by The University of Texas/Texas A&M Investment Company (UTIMCO), the investment company responsible for the investment of endowment funds for the UT and A&M University systems. UTIMCO investments are also tied heavily to the fossil fuels industry. UTIMCO has investments in a number of petroleum, coal and natural gas companies. Clearly, UT students benefit from such a large endowment. However, as scientists, government delegations and U.N. councils have shown time and time again, the fossil fuel industry is not sustainable.
UT is profiting off of businesses that cause environmental degradation and increased green gas emissions that will ultimately lead to irreversible environmental changes. The UT System must divest from the fossil fuels industry and invest in sustainable sources for the systems’ endowment. In this forum, Heather Worth, Co-Political Campaign Director for Students Fighting Climate Change and international business sophomore explains UT’s endowment system and details problems with their involvement with the oil industry. Microbiology sophomore Kaya Epstein contextualizes the history of UT’s involvement with the oil industry and urges the University to divest. As always, if you have any thoughts on this topic or any other, please feel free to reach out to us at thedailytexanforum@ gmail.com.
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By Heather Worth Contributor
The University of Texas/Texas A&M Investment Company (UTIMCO), is a part of the greater University of Texas System, one of the largest systems of higher education in the nation with just under a quarter of a million students. UTIMCO was founded to invest university operating funds and endowments into various entities for the betterment of the UT System. However, UTIMCO is no longer investing in our futures— rather the opposite. On the surface, UTIMCO contributes to the interests of students in the UT System by optimizing the Universities’ resources. UTIMCO returned +4.5% in just one year.* By the end of 2019, UTIMCO was sitting with $47.7 billion in its pockets, an accomplishment that would, in theory, trigger praise from the UT community. However, UT students have not greeted that news — nor the UTIMCO board — with any praise. Instead, students have discovered that UTIMCO employs unethical methods, which hurtles its universities toward immoral ends at an exponential pace. While the funds totaling $47.7 billion operate under the guise of advancing the quality of student education, they are deteriorating the quality of student life. For each dollar that UTIMCO invests, one dollar is given to a number of entities on what A&M’s Battalion is calling “The Blacklist.” Just six years ago, UTIMCO was investing around $1.6 million in companies with allegations of being directly involved in the genocide in Darfur, Sudan. That same year, UTIMCO invested $34.6 million in entities accused by the Securities Exchange Commission of “bribery on an international scale.” And the list goes on, with millions of dollars funding companies accused of unethical child labor, exposing workers to illnesses, funding warlords, contracting police to kill people, breaking foreign nations’ laws and maintaining such extremely poor working conditions that employees are led to suicide. For years, students have been calling for UTIMCO to divest from unethical companies in order to protect
the long list of communities being affected by those companies. That list of communities grows every year. Every year, UTIMCO funnels millions of dollars into oil and gas companies — companies that were made aware of the destructive effects of climate change in 1977, but failed to properly alert the public. Since the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report began reporting on the effects of climate change, support has grown for a movement towards clean energy in the United States. However, in 2014 UTIMCO invested more than $50 million in companies associated with the extraction and production of fossil fuel energy — an investment that has negatively impacted every single student in the UT System. The production of fossil fuel energy exacerbates the destructive effects from climate change. When UTIMCO invests in nonrenewable energy, they divest from the futures of their very own students. Students have the right to have a voice in this matter. Every year, portions of student tuition are moved to an assortment of funds, including UTIMCO investment funds. Students have been calling for the ethical spending of their own money for years, but UTIMCO has failed to meet the demands of these students. Despite the steps made by multiple university systems towards divestment, UTIMCO remains silent on the matter. There are nine people responsible for UTIMCO’s unethical investment: Jeffery D. Hildebrand, Ray Rothrock, R. Steven Hicks, Janiece Longoria, Robert Guantt, Janet Handley, Ray Nixon, Clifton L. Thomas Jr. and James Conrad Weaver. Until UTIMCO meets these demands, $47.7 billion will be managed by nine people who fail to represent the values of the UT System, completely unchecked. Millions and millions of dollars will continue to fund unethical practices around the world if UTIMCO continues to tolerate unethical practices. *This 4.5% rise is represented in the General Endowment Fund and the Permanent University Fund. Worth is the Co-Political Campaign Director for Students Fighting Climate Change and international business junior.
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from returns on UTIMCO’s investments in corporations, many of whom are merchants of death and environmental destruction. UTIMCO invests in General Dynamics, Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Northrop Grumman and Climate change has been a hot issue lately, Raytheon. All of these corporations are acespecially among those who were born after tively contributing to militarization, and conTom Cruise became a scientologist — probasequently, global climate change. They also bly because we have to live with the imminent profit from war on the U.S. border. They have threat of the sixth mass extinction. A key piece contracts with U.S. Immigration and Customs of the solution is to move away from industries Enforcement, the organization responsible contributing to environmental destruction. for the incarceration and deportation of thouDivestment, the process of selling off insands of refugees. Additionally, the U.S. Army vestments, is a big ask, since the fossil fuel Futures Command, a program aimed at “modindustry and the military-industrial comernizing” military weaponry, is residing in plex are deeply rooted in the structure of UT-Austin buildings. the United States economy. We have to start What starts here really somewhere, so why not does change the world. UT college campuses? is embroiled in a culture At The University of mass destruction for of Texas, students are profit. Beyond ending our becoming increasingunethical investments, we ly conscious and conneed to adjust our prioricerned about the adminBeyond ending ties as a university. Instead istration’s complacency our unethical of funding petroleum and in a range of issues. One nuclear weapons research, of them: UT’s ties to investments, we we should be developing the fossil fuel industry need to adjust our negative carbon technoloand investments in the gy to reverse the effects of war machine. priorities as a climate change. The UT and A&M sysuniversity. Divestment will not be tems owned the Texas a quick or easy task — it’s fossil fuel industry bea Texas-sized problem at a fore it was even born. Texas-sized university. We In 1876, Texas allotted will need a transition plan, over a million acres to much like the Green New Deal, to replace fundfund the creation of The University of Texas ing for financial aid and university programs, and Texas A&M University systems and Perand create jobs lost by ending our ties to unethmanent University Fund. Since oil was discovical industries. UT prides itself on innovation; ered in the Permian Basin in the 1920s, the oil we do have seven Nobel Laureates in science and money from the West Texas fossil fuel inand medicine, after all. dustry has not stopped flowing. There is now Rather than putting energy into petroover $19.5 billion in the fund, which is manleum engineering or nuclear weapons develaged by the University of Texas/Texas A&M Inopment, we should be leading the charge in vestment Management Company (UTIMCO), a technology to correct environmental damage. nonprofit corporation. UT-Austin is allowed to Divestment transcends bipartisan disagreeuse about 3% of revenue from the Permanent ments. This is about building a movement for University Fund each year, which goes into the our future. If anyone can do it, it’s us. Texas Available University Fund. fights, remember? Additionally, a substantial amount of the Epstein is molecular biology frehsman. money in the Available University Fund comes By Kaya Epstein Contributor
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Service animals provide support
Students with service animals emphasize importance of training, certification, perception of assistance. By Aisling Ayers @aisling_ayers
avigating the Speedway bricks alongside their owners, service dogs are often working from 8 a.m. classes to late night study sessions at the Perry-Castañeda Library. The work that service animals do is an important part of their owners’ everyday lives. Despite this, students with service animals say others often misunderstand the difference between working animals and pets. While marketing senior Emeline LaKrout has been
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Female artists featured in art exhibit By Bithia Dantoumda @bithiaaa
Mother and artist Sara Vanderbeek said she has had several instances where insurance companies required a lot of personal information from her but still denied coverage for her and her family. Vanderbeek has struggled in the past with bipolar disorder and is frustrated with the way mental health is addressed in the United States. “I just got to thinking how messed up the insurance companies are in
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For students who can’t go home but need forgotten items, the Sent team has an affordable solution. UT computer science freshmen Suket Shah, Avi Ghayalod and Kaustub Navalady, created Sent, a peer-to-peer delivery service. The service was funded through Longhorn Startup, a program that
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Marketing senior Emeline LaKrout got her guide dog, Vega, the summer before her sophomore year of college. LaKrout often navigates campus in areas like the Perry-Castañeda Library with Vega, but says sometimes people misunderstand the difference between service animals and pets.
blind her entire life, she only used a cane for several months during her freshman year, which she said frustrated her. After one of her friends got a service dog, she said she began researching the possibility. The summer before her sophomore year, she was matched with her first guide dog, Vega. “A cane is a metal stick, so it’s dumb,” LaKrout said. “It can’t find doors for me or little things (Vega) can do.” Government senior Archer Hadley got his first dog, Pepe, during his freshman year. Often, students don’t realize Pepe is always working, even when he’s walking beside Hadley’s motorized wheelchair, and Hadley isn’t giving him direct commands. “(Service dogs) are an extension of the person and their needs,” Hadley said. “We are meant to be unified. Sometimes people view him as a pet that I just want to bring to school.” Maeve Cooney said she began training service dogs for the Canine Companions
allows student entrepreneurs to pitch and launch startups. This platform connects students going back to the Dallas-Fort Worth area for the weekend, called carriers, with other students who want packages delivered from home. Through this service, UT students can have anything delivered, such as homecooked food or a forgotten laptop charger. Shah said shipping
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through other services such as FedEx can be expensive. Through Sent, students pay approximately $15 per package. “It’s a lot cheaper than FedEx or other companies because it’s peer-to-peer, so you don’t have to pay for a middle party,” Shah said. Parents or students order with a form on the Sent Facebook page. The form
exhibition, “Thread Count.” this country and how they dehumanize people,” artist From Feb. 28 to March Melissa Knight said. “I’ve 14, his studio will host an never made anything that all women’s art exhibit, inpersonal about mental ill- cluding Dutch artist Steef ness, and I just felt like the Crombach, who specializes conversation doesn’t come in the ancient art form called up a lot in the art world and in Batik. Crombach said Batik greater society.” art is an Asian technique of Vanderbeek approached wax-resist dye applied to gallery owner Brian David fabric cloth. Johnson about opening an Crombach, who is origiexhibit inspired by her expe- nally from the Netherlands, riences with mental health. has been living in AusJohnson, who owns tin for the last two years. Cloud Tree Studios & Gal- She creates Batik art and lery, agreed to work with teaches the technique Vanderbeek along with four other artists to create the THREAD COUNT PAGE 8
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Longhorns’ win streak ends
Texas’ fivegame win streak came to an abrupt halt Saturday in a egular-season finale blowout.
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exas’ season finale was over right as it started. After winning five consecuve games with only nine cholarship players to throw he Longhorns to the foreront of the NCAA Tournament discussion, the red-hot onghorns experienced a omplete meltdown in the rst half, digging a hole they wouldn’t be able to climb out f against Oklahoma State on aturday afternoon in their 1-59 loss to the Cowboys. “We got a reality check,” unior guard Matt Coleman aid. “Tonight was not us, rom start to finish.” Texas was without an nswer to anything the Cowoys did. Oklahoma State utshot, outrebounded and utsmarted the Longhorns, uickly draining the enrgy out of a season-best rank Erwin Center crowd with a 20-3 run in the first
seven minutes. It wasn’t totally Texas’ fault that it couldn’t match Oklahoma State’s personnel the way they were able to in the team’s first matchup in January. The Longhorns were without junior guard Jase Febres and junior forward Jericho Sims — two starters from their last meeting in January. But freshman forward Brock Cunningham and junior forward Royce Hamm Jr., two players who have been instrumental to Texas’ win streak, were nowhere to be found. “They were playing with some avoidance, (trying) not to make a mistake,” Smart said. “Those guys have to be junkyard dogs, and that’s what they’ve done such a nice job of. We didn’t have that today.” Texas was in desperate need of Jase Febres’ 3-point shooting and Jericho Sims’ rebounding. The Longhorns shot an abysmal 25% from the field in the first half, only connecting on two of their 15 attempts from deep. Oklahoma State senior guard Thomas Dziagwa, however, had little trouble finding his spots. Texas’ strategy of locking one defender on the senior guard was easily dissected by Oklahoma State. The various ball screens and pick plays the Cowboys ran Dziagwa off of gave him four open looks from deep — all of which he connected on. A lack of offensive production prevented Smart from keeping
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Cunningham in the game. “Our guys got (tight) after the start of the game,” Smart said. “If you get down big early, there’s still a ton of time to play basketball. We just kept imploring our guys to respond and go win the next round, but you could see on their faces they couldn’t believe what was happening.” Texas spent the entirety of the first half in a
futile attempt to crawl back into the game. But every time Texas managed to cut the lead inside of 15 points, the Cowboys answered with a 7-0 or 9-0 run. Oklahoma State held a 43-21 lead at halftime. The lead would only dip below 20 points once in the second half. “(Oklahoma State) came in here, they made shots and they were aggressive,” Smart
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The Longhorns stayed hot at home this weekend, rebounding from a defensively difficult three-game stretch by blowing out the visiting Titans.
If we just throw strikes, good things are gonna happen especially coming out of the (bull)pen.” PETE HANSEN freshman pitcher
Only an error and a hit pitch by Merryman allowed runners on base, as the sophomore relied on a steady dose of his change up. “I’ve used (the change up) a lot more than I ever had,” Merryman said. “I’ve been working on that pitch ever since I got here, so it’s starting to pay off.” On the offensive side of the field, senior right fielder Austin Todd continued his
Sophomore guard Courtney Ramey remains confident, even with the blow Texas’ chances took. “We let this one slip away, but we’re not going to hang our heads,” Ramey said. “We’ve still got basketball games to play in Kansas City. I know we’re going to do a great job of responding because we’ve done that all year. We’re just going to keep fighting.”
Holmes, seniors wrestle Oklahoma State in emotional senior day win By Myah Taylor @t_myah
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college transfer who started at Midland College but moved to the Texas bullpen over the summer, threw a strong, no-hit four innings. “Dawson Merryman was the story of the day for me,” Pierce said. “He was outstanding.”
said. “But this is a game that anyone in our program will point to and say, ‘We want that one back.’” Texas’ chances for an NCAA Tournament bid fall to 53% with the loss, per ESPN. The Longhorns tournament hopes now rest on success in the Big 12 Tournament, where college basketball experts say Texas needs to win at least one game. BASKETBALL
Longhorns sweep Cal Fullerton in weekend series
The Longhorn offense was elentless in Sunday’s 8-4 win over Cal State Fulleron (4–12), matching their ighest run total of the year nd setting a season high of 2 hits. But the story of the eries sweep of the Titans was the return to form of exas’s pitching. In the three games leading p to the series, Texas (13–3) llowed an average of eight uns per game. In the three ames in this weekend’s eries, the pitching staff ounced back and only alowed eight runs in total. Friday, junior ace Bryce Elder itched a workhorse-like 6 ⅔ nnings, throwing 112 pitches nd only allowing one run. On Saturday, after sophomore starter Ty Madden bated through illness for four nnings, freshman Pete Hanen was brilliant through 3 nnings to pick up the win. “Guys are trying to figure ut their roles right now,” Hansen said. “But if we just hrow strikes, good things re gonna happen especially oming out of the (bull)pen. We just gotta throw strikes, nd that’s what everyone’s ind of bought in on.” On Sunday, the star on he mound was sophomore Dawson Merryman. Texas eemed to be in trouble afer starter Coy Cobb gave up hree runs and junior reliever ristan Stevens only pitched o three batters before exiting with a left leg injury. “It just seemed like (Cobb) was pitching off of the plate nd had really slow temo,” Texas head coach David ierce said. “So what we’ll do s we’ll get to work and start working — mentally first — nd then make sure his delivry’s intact and that his arm s right.” But Merryman, a junior
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Texas couldn’t have picked a worse time to drop the ball. With Saturday’s 81-59 blowout loss, the Longhorns move back to the NCAA Tournament bubble.
impressive 2020 season. He was a triple shy of the cycle, hitting 3-4 with a big tworun home run in the second inning to put the Longhorns ahead 5-3. A number of Texas hitters went 2-4 at the plate. Freshman shortstop Trey Faltine strung together his first two multi-hit games of the season on Saturday and Sunday. Sophomore left fielder Eric Kennedy and senior center fielder Duke Ellis also joined the 2-4 club, tacking on two singles each. But the big name in the 2-4 category was freshman Peyton Powell, hitting in the designated hitter spot. He hit a double, then smashed a towering home run to right-center in the sixth inning. “The whole team had some good at-bats today,” Kennedy said. “We swung really well, had 12 hits against a quality team and some quality pitchers.” The offense, plus a strong effort from Merryman, was enough to keep Cal State Fullerton away from the win column in Austin. Texas moves to 13–3 before the Longhorns play Abilene Christian on Wednesday.
Texas women’s basketball’s final home game against Oklahoma State on Sunday didn’t just signify the end of the 2019-20 regular season. For seniors on the team, the game also marked the end of a yearslong journey. “When you come to college, you try to find yourself,” senior forward Joyner Holmes said. “And I think I’ve done just that. I’ve just grown into my personality and grown into the person I want to be and the woman I want to be when I leave this campus.” A moment that had once seemed so far away had finally come. Holmes and the rest of the 2020 senior class — guards Sug Sutton, Jada Underwood and Lashann Higgs — stepped onto the court for their last start together at the Frank Erwin Center and left with an emotional 63-52 win. The Cowgirls stuck with the Longhorns throughout the game, but Texas stayed the course, just like its core group of seniors have over the last few seasons.
“What I respect the most about this group is that they all had their ups and downs,” Texas head coach Karen Aston said. “But I think the thing that I appreciate the most is that they stuck it out, and in this day and age, that probably means more to a coach and to a program than anything.” Higgs has stuck it out even longer than the others. Initially a member of the 2019 senior class, Higgs is in her fifth season with the Longhorns after forfeiting last year due to an ACL injury. But Holmes, Underwood and Sutton, who all entered the program at the same time in 2016, have adopted Higgs into the group. Graduate transfer Sophie Taylor also joined the cohort in October as a walk-on. “I got to finish what I started,” Higgs said. “I would hope that I left a legacy that will encourage people to keep fighting throughout life and to just be that light to others, however that may be.” Sunday was a celebration of all the seniors, regardless of how long they’d been with the program, and they went out on top. Before being honored along with their families and kind
words from their teammates after the game, the seniors took care of Oklahoma State. Holmes and Underwood combined for 18 of Texas’ 32 first half points. Sutton made some noise of her own in the second half, first with a steal she converted into two points, then two 3-pointers in the fourth quarter. When Texas had finally put the Cowgirls away in the late minutes of the game, Aston took the seniors off the court. As the future of the Texas women’s basketball program continued to play, the seniors hugged their coaches and waved to the crowd. In the days leading up to her final home game of her Texas career, Holmes said she didn’t know if she’d cry after the game, as there would still be more basketball to play in the postseason. But after her team-leading 17-point performance on Sunday, Holmes, Sutton and the rest of their teammates shed plenty of tears. “As a freshman, I honestly didn’t think we’d be in the position we’re in right now,” Sutton said. “We’ve been through a lot of adversity —a whole lot of adversity — and it’s just crazy to see where we’re at right now. We’re like women.”
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Senior forward Joyner Holmes couldn’t hold back her tears after Sunday’s 63-52 win over Oklahoma State in her final home game.
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/ the daily texan staff
Dutch artist Steef Crombrach showcases one of her artistic creations in her space at Cloud Tree Studios & Gallery. Crombach is an up-and-coming artist finding her place in the Austin art community.
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for Independence program when she attended graduate school at UT in 2002. 18 years later, Cooney is the senior chemical engineering administrative associate and has trained 13 dogs. “The reason that we raise these dogs is so that they can help someone and make their life easier and better,” Cooney said. When students bring their pets to campus, sometimes under fraudulent service animal documentation, Hadley said it makes accessibility harder for students who need service animals to navigate campus. He said a student once asked him where he got Pepe’s service animal vest and if he could purchase it from Hadley to use on his own dog. LaKrout said animals without service dog certification and training potentially damage the service dog image. “People bring pets on
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asks for the student’s and sender’s names, phone numbers, package description, and pick-up time and location. Ashwin Purohit, electrical engineering freshman, is a student who used the service to have a forgotten jacket, pillow and video game delivered from home. He said the service is really useful and is likely to use it again. “My mom really liked the service because she’s always trying to send me stuff like food,” Purohit said. “She even told a bunch of other UT moms who have kids, and they really want to use it too.” In addition to receiving packages, students can apply on the website to be carriers. Those who are already going home for the weekend can
beek the Batik technique, Crombach said she was excited to be invited to be featured in the gallery. “It’s pretty unique to come together with a group and
decide to self-organize,” Crombach said. “We curated, organized (and) funded the exhibition ourselves.”
you don’t exist anymore.” campus, and those dogs can Hadley said he enjoys the be very distracting and insocial interactions having timidating,” LaKrout said. Pepe on campus invites. “I’ve had multiple untrained “In terms of self-confidogs bark at (Vega). (They) might genuinely ruin a ser- dence, social confidence and people wanting to come vice dog that provides a vital service and ruin the experi- up and interact with me, (Pepe is) a huge benefit,” ence for the rest of us who Hadley said. have very Despite well-trained their formal animals.” training W h e n marked by a walking by I don’t think I’ve ever service vest, students on campus, had anybody ask me s t u d e n t s service LaKrout what my name is. It’s with animals said she like you don’t exist said they ofp r e f e r s ten have to for people anymore.” explain the to ignore credentials her dog. and imporBut stuEMELINE LAKROUT marketing senior tance of dents will their dog’s sometimes responsibilities in mitigating pet Vega without permisa disability to others. sion and will even ad“When you see a dog in a dress her dog instead kind of harness, it’s pretty of her. clear they’re working,” LaK“People will ask my dog rout said. “That’s not just how her day was, what her a pet, that’s a service dog, name is, how old she is,” and it’s working, and it’s tryLaKrout said. “I don’t think ing to focus and take care of I’ve ever had anybody ask its owner.” me what my name is. It’s like
deliver other students’ packages to earn $10 per parcel they take. “Our goal is that no student should go back just for our company, Shah said. “It’s when you’re going back normally for a weekend. Then you’re like, ‘Hey, I might as well earn money while driving back home.’” The team started the service last semester and had their first fully operational week in February. As the team continues to fine tune the service, several mentors they’ve connected with through Longhorn Startup are helping guide them through the process. Ryan Harmon, CEO and co-founder of Press Technologies, is one of their mentors. He said his role is to offer wisdom from his own experiences and act as a sounding board for ideas, while the students do the legwork. “I don’t see any reason why
they won’t be able to replicate this in other universities,” Harmon said. “They’ve proven out the model, they’ve done deliveries and they’ve been successful there. Now it’s time to start to pour some gas on the fire and see how big it can get.” Some of the success they’ve already seen includes an invitation to present at the South by Southwest technology conference in the startup crawl segment. Though SXSW was canceled, Harmon said this invitation proves the promise of the service. They plan to develop an app during the summer to streamline the service and move the process off of the website. Meanwhile, they continue to perfect the service through trial and error. “It’s a process,” Shah said. “Obviously it wasn’t going to be perfect the first time, but eventually the more runs you get, the better it gets.”
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