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Friday, March 13, 2020

Volume 120, Issue 120

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COVID-19 brings policy changes UT, college athletics respond to the new coronavirus with policy changes, cancellations.

By Anna Canizales & Lauren Abel

By Alex Briseño @alex__briseno

@annaleonorc @laurena0324

resident Gregory Fenves, Executive Vice President and Provost Maurie McInnis, and chief medical officer Terrance Hines held a press conference on updates to the University’s coronavirus policies. Below is a list of changed policies. Calendar

Spring break has been extended by one week and students will resume classes March 30, according to an email from Fenves. There will be no change to the semester calendar or any weeks added, McInnis said. She said she advises faculty to adjust their syllabi accordingly. Classes

Large, lecture-style courses will be required to move online, McInnis said at the conference. Classes that cannot transition online, such as labs and performance-based classes, will have alternative arrangements, McInnis said. The specifics of changes will be left up to the dean of each school, according to an email to faculty from McInnis. As of now, there is no requirement to transition fully to online classes, McInnis said. McInnis said she has recommended faculty use flexible attendance policies to encourage students who are sick or have other health conditions to stay home. Faculty members are required to submit a course plan for “instructional continuity” that outlines how they will be changing instruction for each class they teach, according to the University’s coronavirus guideline website. The Butler School of Music is requiring all classes to move online, including small in-person classes, according to an email from Mary Poole, director of the Butler School of Music.

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Graduation

Fenves said students who are set to graduate by Spring 2020 should still complete their degrees on time. He said the University has not yet decided whether to cancel the commencement ceremony scheduled for May 23. christiana peek

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he NCAA has canceled not only the Division I men’s and women’s 2020 basketball tournaments, but all remaining winter and spring NCAA Championships entirely, NCAA President Mark Emmert said in a statement Thursday afternoon. “This decision is based on the evolving COVID-19 public health threat, our ability to ensure the events do not contribute to spread of the pandemic and the impracticality of hosting such events at any time during this academic year given ongoing decisions by other entities,” Emmert said in the statement. Aside from March Madness, this decision also cancels championship events such as the men’s and women’s College World Series, men’s and women’s track and field indoor and outdoor championships, men’s and women’s golf finals, and the men’s and women’s tennis finals, among several others. This news comes the afternoon after 15 conferences across the country spent the day canceling their respective postseason basketball tournaments. Prior to the NCAA’s announcement, the Big 12 canceled the conference tournament and suspended all regular-season competitions, on- and off-campus recruiting and out-ofseason practices until March 29. “With the Big 12’s recent directive suspending athletics activities until Sunday, March 29, all regular-season Longhorn Athletics competitions will be cancelled until that date, beginning with our Baseball series on Friday,” Texas Athletics Director Chris Del Conte said in a statement. Among the cancellations on the Forty Acres, the Texas Relays ranks as one the higher profile events affected by the Big 12‘s decision. The final stretch for the swimming and diving and nonconference play of baseball, tennis and softball will also come to a halt for the time being. Del Conte said the Big 12’s announcement to suspend athletic events until March 29 forces them to postpone their decision regarding the start of spring football until the end of the month, A T H L E T I C S PAGE 3

NEWS

OPINION

LIFE&ARTS

Local band to continue with unnofficial SXSW show amid cancellations.

In recent years, Texas baseball has embraced new analytics to reach peak performance.

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UT System universities respond to the coronavirus pandemic, change policies.

Activists and organizers respond to sexual misconduct policy reform after years of work.

SPORTS

UNIVERSITY

CAMPUS

Texas Global suspends all study abroad trips through Aug. 18

University Health Services offers limited coronavirus testing

By Anna Canizales & Lauren Abel

@annaleonorc @laurena0324

Texas Global has suspended all education abroad programs through Aug. 18 due to coronavirus concerns, according to an email sent to study abroad students Thursday morning. Sonia Feigenbaum, senior vice provost for Global Engagement, said in the email that students currently studying abroad are required to return home by March 30 and self-isolate for 14 days after returning.

Feigenbaum said students studying abroad should stay in close communication with Texas Global for information regarding academics and finances. President Donald Trump implemented a 30-day travel ban Wednesday restricting travel to the United States from European countries in the Schengen Area, which are Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway,

Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland. The ban applies to people who have been in those countries in the past 14 days but does not include U.S. citizens and legal permanent residents. This decision was made after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention elevated the entire world to Level 2 following the World Health Organization declaring COVID-19 as a pandemic. In an email sent Thursday to UT students abroad, Heather A B R O A D PAGE 2

By Brooke Ontiveros @brookexpanic

University Health Services currently has limited capacity to test for COVID-19 and will not test asymptomatic patients, according to the UHS website. Students should call the UHS Nurse Advice Line at 512-475-6877 for instructions if they have a fever, respiratory symptoms and have recently traveled internationally or had contact

with someone with the coronavirus, according to the UHS website. Sherry Bell, consumer education and outreach coordinator for the UT Counseling and Mental Health Center, said in an email that individual health care providers will decide who to test based on relevant travel history, other medical conditions that increase the risk of a severe COVID-19 infection and other causes for symptoms. Students should call the

advice line to minimize risk of infection for those at the hospital, Bell said. The advice line may advise students to care for themselves at home, she said. Bell said self-isolation guidelines for students returning to the United States apply to everyone, not just those exhibiting symptoms. Isolation lasts two weeks, and students should check their temperature twice a day. Students will report U H S PAGE 3

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Seven of the eight UT System academic institutions have extended their spring break in response to concerns about COVID-19. Universities planning to extend the break and continue the semester online will keep their residence halls and dining services open for the time being. All academic institutions are following travel restrictions in accordance to guidelines released by the UT System on March 2. All University-related travel to Level 3 or 4 countries requires review from universities’ institutional International Oversight Committees, as specified by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. “The presidents and their teams continue to work closely with local, state and national government and health officials to address the complex issues,” Karen Adler, a spokesperson for the UT System, said in an email. The Daily Texan wrote an article explaining how UT-Austin is handling

UT-Arlington will extend spring break for an additional week. During that week, all courses already online will be conducted as scheduled, according to a letter from UT-Arlington on March 12. Devynn Case, a spokesperson for UT-Arlington, said there have been no decisions made regarding commencement schedules. “The impact on the academic calendar will be evaluated as the situation continues to evolve,” Case said. UT-Dallas

UT-Dallas will extend their spring break by one week, according to a letter from UT-Dallas on March 12. All classes will resume on March 30 online, according to the letter. UT-Dallas did not respond for a request for comment by the time of print. UT-El Paso

UT-El Paso will not change their university schedule or switch to online classes at this time, according to an update released on its website March 11. UT-El Paso did not respond for a request for comment by the time of print.

UT-Permian Basin will cancel all in-person classes the week of March 1620, according to a letter from UT-Permian Basin on March 12. Sandra Woodley, president of UT-Permian Basin, said the semester will end on the same dates. “Students will accelerate the rest of their studies over the course of the semester so that they will get it all in in the same amount of time,” Woodley said. Woodley said the university will consider extending online classes if there are positive cases in the area. UT-Rio Grande Valley

UT-Rio Grande Valley will extend spring break by one week, and all classes will take place online until further notice, according to an update on their website sent out March 12. Patrick Gonzales, a spokesperson for UT-Rio Grande Valley, said the university is working on revising the academic calendar. “Obviously, it’s going to push back some dates, some final (exam) dates, but we’re going to try our best to fit everything in as close to normal as possible,”

Gonzales said. All university-related travel is restricted internationally and to California, New York, Washington and Massachusetts, Gonzales said. UT-San Antonio

UT-San Antonio will extend spring break by one week, and classes will resume online until at least April 13, according to a letter from UT-San Antonio on March 11. The university will extend the semester by three days and will compress the final exam schedule into five days. Commencement will occur as planned, said Joe Izbrand, spokesperson for UT-San Antonio. UT-Tyler

UT-Tyler will extend spring break by one week, and all classes will be held online the week after, according to an update posted on their website March 11. Lucas Roebuck, spokesperson for UT-Tyler, said the university is monitoring the outbreak to determine whether classes will be held online for longer. Roebuck said at this time there are no plans to extend the length of the semester.

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Thompson, the director of Education Abroad for Texas Global, recommended students in Europe who are not U.S. citizens or legal permanent residents to immediately change their flight to return to the U.S. before the travel ban goes into effect March 13. Mallory Nimis, Education Abroad academic program coordinator, told students in an email Tuesday that they can contact Nimis to discuss financial and logistical support for travel, housing and academics when returning home from France. Nimis said in the email this will be decided on a case-by-case basis. Advertising junior Allyson Schauer, who was studying in Aix-en-Provence, France, said her host university, Institute for American Universities, said in an email Thursday they would not rebook flights for students. The university is still fully operational, and housing, courses and

activities are still available to students, the email said. “It’s a rapidly changing situation, and I don’t want to be stuck here when it inevitably gets worse,” Schauer said. “(IAU) has plans to implement remote learning (online classes) for every student who wishes to return to the U.S., so we can still get credit for our time here.” Nimis’ email said despite the universities abroad offering alternative methods to continue classes, the logistics for online platforms are still to be determined. Schauer said a business French teacher from IAU made plans to Skype students even though the class takes place at 9 a.m. Central European Time, or 3 a.m. Central Daylight Time. “It will be extremely difficult for my host university to work out the fine details and logistics of these courses,” Schauer said. “This is an ever-changing situation that has impacted my time abroad tremendously. I long for the day when I will be able to return here."

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Study Abroad

The University has canceled all study abroad programs through Aug. 18, so all students, faculty and staff on international University-sponsored travel must return by March 30. Students returning from abroad are required to self-isolate for 14 days. University-sponsored travel, both international and domestic, has been suspended through April 30. Housing and Dining

Fenves said the residence halls will remain open during the next two weeks, and the halls are working on social distancing policies and other ways to maintain hygiene. Dining options will follow the usual limited spring break hours during the two weeks, UT spokesperson J.B. Bird said. Student Employment

Fenves said student staff will remain employed over the next two weeks and will likely have to adjust to social distancing policies. Principal Investigators can decide whether to keep their labs open or not over the next two weeks, according to an email to

faculty from McInnis. Graduate students will need to communicate with their supervisors on any adjustments. If a lab remains open, faculty cannot penalize students who are not present, according to McInnis. More information is to come from the Office of the Vice President of Research, said McInnis. Other Facilities

Bass Concert Hall has canceled all events starting March 12 through 30, according to the Texas Performing Arts Website. UT Vice President and Athletics Director Chris Del Conte said in a press release Thursday that the Frank Erwin Center has canceled all events indefinitely. The Office of Admissions has suspended campus visits, Admission Welcome Center tours and in-person events until further notice, according to the University of Texas website. The LBJ Presidential Library announced Thursday they would be closed to the public beginning Friday evening, according to a press release. All LBJ Library events have also been canceled. All public events after March 23 at the Butler School of Music have been canceled.

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FRIDAY, MARCH 13, 2020

UNIVERSITY

Butler School of Music cancels public events, in-person classes in-person or a combination of both, according to the email. Students planning to graduate this semester will be allowed to give their final degree recitals on campus, but these recitals will not be open to the public, and faculty will grade them remotely. Degree recitals for students not graduating this semester will be moved to the fall, the email said. Faculty will teach remotely on the same days and times of their in-person classes so students are not further disrupted. The Butler School of Music building will stay open for booking practice spaces after the two-week break. Requests to record music will begin immediately

By Mikayla Mondragon @miki_mondragon

The Butler School of Music is canceling all public events and in-person classes March 23 through the end of the semester, Mary Ellen Poole, director of the Butler School of Music, said in an email sent to music students Thursday. “The most important reason for (canceling classes) is that classes must be available to every student, whether on campus or off, and that means they’ve got to go online,” Poole said in the email. Lessons for music students will continue if social distancing can be enforced. It will be done remotely,

given the current circumstances. During the second week of spring break, March 23-29, reservations will be canceled unless they are related to a critical degree recital. Students should plan on bringing their own cleaning supplies to music practice rooms to ensure a sanitized space. “Do not come within 6 feet of other people when in our building,” Poole said in the email. Music students with questions about the changes are advised to contact Poole. “We’ll slow down this virus together,” Poole said in the email. “It will be different, and imperfect and challenging — and we’ll learn a lot about ourselves.”

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In light of UT’s extended spring break and COVID-19 concerns, The Daily Texan will not be printing during the break. Our biggest priority is to keep this campus informed. Regardless of whether students are on campus or not, the Texan’s goal remains the same. We will do what we can every day to ensure that our campus commu-

nity has the information they need to make safe, educated choices. You can continue to follow our coverage on our centralized COVID-19 update page on our website. Our homepage and all COVID-19 stories have a callout form where you can submit any questions or concerns you’d like our reporters to look into.

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while the spring soccer season was canceled altogether. For Texas, this puts several teams’ seasons in jeopardy, including what appeared to be a promising season for the No. 3 Texas softball team and other nationally ranked teams, such as the No. 1 men’s swimming team, No. 4 men’s and women’s

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tennis teams, the No. 2 women’s and No. 4 men’s golf teams. It also obviously ends the run for the women’s and men’s basketball squads, the latter of which was set to play Texas Tech in a defacto play-in game Thursday morning with a bid to the now-canceled NCAA Tournament on the line. The Longhorns and Red Raiders were pulled off the court at the Big 12 Championships on Thursday morning as the conference decided to cancel the tournament entirely.

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University Health Services currently has a limited capacity to test for the coronavirus. They should first call the UHS Nurse Advice Line at 512-475-6877 for instructions if a exhibits fever-related symptoms, traveled internationally or came in contact with person exposed to the coronavirus.

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their health status daily to the staff, she said. If a fever, cough and difficulty breathing develops, UHS will advise the student to avoid contact and call the Nurse Advice Line for further instruction. If a student tests positive for the coronavirus, UHS will coordinate with Austin Public Health to determine isolation measures and identify close contacts of the student so they can also self-isolate, Bell said. Telehealth services, which allow patients to videochat with providers, are also alternatives to in-person visits, Bell said. Doctor and counseling videochat visits are available 24/7 to students with the AcademicBlue student health insurance plan and employees and graduate students with Blue Cross

“I pray everyone and their families are safe. It is an unfortunate and tragic situation we are facing but we have to overcome our adversities,” redshirt sophomore guard Andrew Jones said on Twitter. “I wish I could finished the season with my brothers #hookem.” While the NCAA’s decision ends the possibility of any NCAA Championships for the remainder of the spring season, Division I conferences across the country still have the option to move forward with regular season play

Blue Shield health insurance, Bell said. Student Emergency Services will also help with student accommodations after students fill out the request form on their website, said Ellie Breed, UT media relations specialist. Accommodations regarding the coronavirus do not require a doctor’s note, Breed said. “If a student has respiratory symptoms, feels unwell, (has) a compromised immune system and they don’t want to be out around people or anything related to COVID-19 and the situation right now, (they can fill out the form),” Breed said. “Then, it’s up to the professor what sort of accommodation they’re going to provide to that student.” The provost’s office has told all professors to make whatever accommodations the professor deems necessary, Breed said. Bell said the decision to

and postseason conference tournaments in the future. “I’m surprised we’ve made a decision in March not to hold the baseball and softball events in June,” SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey told the SEC Network. “I’d love to know what went into those decisions.” If the conferences follow the NCAA’s path, a multitude of seasons could potentially come to a close. With this comes the potential premature end to the careers of seniors across the coun-

waive medical fees has not been made and more information would come as decisions are finalized. The administration has not yet discussed whether or not CMHC group counseling will continue, Bell said. If cancellations do occur, participants will be contacted about the next steps. Individual counseling will resume after spring break, she said. “However, plans are being made to hold a number of sessions by phone where that is practical,” Bell said. Rebecca Villarreal, corporate communication and journalism senior, said she has heard it is hard for people across the country to get tested and hopes she can rely on UHS for help if needed. “I can’t say I am confident they will since I have gotten no communications from them in my email about what to do or how to act,” Villarreal said.

try. The NCAA has not yet stated how they will deal with the eligibility of these athletes. The NCAA is now the latest organization to suspend or postpone its operations amid concerns over the coronavirus. The NBA, MLB and NHL also brought their respective seasons to a halt as COVID-19 continues to shake the sports world. As for now, all programs, athletes, coaches and fans can do is wait in a world without sports.

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Activists respond to sexual misconduct policy reform after years of work By The Daily Texan Editorial Board Four months and six days. It took four months and six days from the first student sit-in at Provost Maurie McInnis’ office for the University to accept sweeping, structural changes to the way it handles sexual misconduct. On March 2, Husch Blackwell, the law firm contracted to examine UT’s Title IX and misconduct policies, presented President Gregory Fenves with their initial recommendations outlining much-needed reforms to UT’s existing policies. Many were changes that organizers and activists had been calling for since long before the firm was hired. Professors who violate sexual harassment, assault, stalking or interpersonal violence policy will be presumed fired save for the consideration of a few — hopefully strict — mitigating factors. Names of professors who are not terminated for violating harassment, assault, stalking or interpersonal violence policy will be proactively released to the public. This is a policy that will be unique to UT, thanks in no small part to the work of past Daily Texan editor-in-chief Liza Anderson, who has called for this since 2018. A clear timeline will be established for the Title IX Office and the Office for Inclusion and Equity for all cases. The definitions of different types of sex discrimination — misconduct, harassment, assault, etc. — will be made clear to distinguish different types of egregious conduct. Alternative resolution and restorative justice options will be made available for complainants who wish to not pursue a formal investigation. Mandatory training on misconduct and reporting will be required for all University employees. These recommendations, while approved by Fenves, still have to be approved by the Board of Regents. We urge them to implement these desperately needed reforms to UT’s appalling system. This work is fundamentally that of the organizers, activists and protesters who tirelessly fought a system that was harming our peers. As an editorial board, we have immense gratitude for these activists and for the change they have fought for and won. Although Fenves did not acknowledge these student activists when he accepted the recommendations, they are the reason our campus will be safer. We reached out to sit-in organizers, founding members of the Coalition Against Sexual Misconduct and members of the Misconduct Working Group to hear their reactions to the report and to thank them for the work they have done. Here is what they told us. How did you react when the recommendations were released? “I was shocked. I honestly still haven’t been able to fully process the news just because I’ve been so deeply involved in the day-to-day organizing that I didn’t bother to think or imagine what the outcome of our organizing could look like. This isn’t the end-all, be-all; our work doesn’t stop here because the sexual issue is not just an administrative issue but also a cultural issue that is rooted in a lot of structural concepts and barriers. It is, however, a huge step in the right direction, and I hope other institutions will follow.” — Lynn Huynh, third sit-in organizer “When I saw Fenves’ email, I was in class and about to break down in tears from how ecstatic I was. Seeing the new policies get implemented was exactly what I needed to keep me motivated, and it felt so good to know that all of our labor since November was actually worth it. Not only did we achieve actual, tangible change but this was a historic moment seeing that UT-Austin is now one of the first universities in the nation

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to continuously and publicly release the names of the employees who have been found guilty of sexual misconduct.” — Tasnim Islam, third sit-in organizer “Considering where we started, the fact that the University has accepted the need for more confidential advocates, stricter prohibitions against sex discrimation and more transparency is a tremendous step forward. I’ve fought for increased transparency and a better process for years now, and this is the first time I’ve felt that the University is actually listening.” — Liza Anderson, Misconduct Working Group member and former Daily Texan editor-in-chief What do you think of the recommendations? How well do they address the need for misconduct reform? “These are recommendations that should have been implemented ages ago, and it took the advocacy, emotion and time of students in the working groups with the lawyers, at the student forum and during the protests to get us here. Some of these recommendations are directly from students who know best how misconduct has affected them during their time at UT. While the recommendations are a good start, such as the presumptive termination policy and proactive release of names, I believe they could better address misconduct reform by being specific about the implementation. Additionally, I would have liked to see more comprehensive nonretaliation policies for students.” — Angela Kang, first sit-in organizer

I’ve fought for increased transparency and a better process for years now, and this is the first time I’ve felt that the University is actually listening.” LIZA ANDERSON former daily texan editor-in-chief

“What is crucially missing here is retaliation. This has been brought up continuously in conversations with Husch Blackwell. Retaliation procedures are in dire need of reform at UT-Austin. The University has a “policy” on retaliation (through OIE), but this process has a prohibitively high burden of proof for those victimized. Retaliation can take the form of spreading information about witnesses and complainants, mentioning such people to outside of University colleagues, subpar letters of recommendation. For a graduate student, this can make the difference between getting an academic job after graduation or being unemployed. It is unacceptable that complainants and witnesses, who speak out in the best interests of their peers and future peers, (are) in danger in such a manner.” — Graduate student organizer who requested to remain unnamed “I was really excited to know that we’ve created change to keep students safe and secure on campus and pushed the University to be one of the first to release a report stating names and sexual misconduct violations. The members of the Coalition Against Sexual Misconduct have spent

countless nights and sacrificed a lot of their time in order to ensure that administration takes the necessary steps to make students feel safe. While it was exciting to have the University accept these recommendations, the University has failed to credit the student organizers that pushed the University to take responsibility for their mishandling of sexual misconduct. A big goal of ours is for the University to take accountability. Our work is not over.” — Alejandra Zuñiga, third sit-in organizer “One of the recommendations made my jaw drop — UT is going to start releasing the names of professors who are found in violation of sexual harassment policy but who aren’t fired. This is huge. UT is the first university in the country to do this, and I can’t stress enough how significant this change is. When I started advocating for a list more than a year ago, UT responded by telling me how unreasonable that is, how it would never ever happen. This is a tremendous win for students.” — Liza Anderson, Misconduct Working Group member and former Daily Texan editor-in-chief What happens now? “I think a major point that’s missing from the law firm’s recommendations is the continuation of the Misconduct Working Group. I believe it’s very important for the Misconduct Working Group to continue on for years, as long as the University exists, because this issue shouldn’t continue to be done behind closed doors with only experts and the administration. Students, especially students from the Coalition Against Sexual Misconduct, need to actively be in those rooms discussing our viewpoints, solutions and stories of how we’ve been affected by the system. Finally, we as student activists are going to constantly be improving upon our student demands and holding the University accountable in implementing these changes in a timely manner. — Tasnim Islam, third sit-in organizer “Power concedes nothing without struggle. It’s taken an incredible amount of energy and labor to get the University to respond to this injustice at all. These recommendations do not represent enough of a change, so we will have to continue to struggle for justice, support for survivors and to protect students and employees from retaliation. As a university community, we’ll need to be vigilant to make sure they actually do what they say they’re going to do and to keep demanding more meaningful action. Harassment and abuse of power is endemic in higher education and always has been. This is not a new struggle. University management knows this. They knew it from when they were in undergrad and grad school, and yet they refuse to listen to activists and threaten them with disciplinary action. We will keep fighting.” — Graduate student organizer The advocates who made these changes happen all say the same thing: This fight isn’t over. It never will be. However, we have finally made progress in keeping our peers safer and holding abusers accountable. It can be easy to get discouraged about making change on campus. We have to do immense work to even get our foot in the door, and if we succeed, administrators can just wait for campus to forget about issues when organizers and advocates graduate. But when we work together, we win. Fenves may not acknowledge the role that we as students played in these changes, but never forget that your voice and your activism matters. Together, we can make UT change and better the lives of students across this campus. The editorial board is composed of associate editors Abhirupa Dasgupta, Hannah Lopez, Sanika Nayak, Abby Springs and editor-in-chief Spencer Buckner.

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Local band Hall Johnson will go through with their unofficial showcase March 17 despite the cancellation of South by Southwest.

After the cancellation of SXSW, the show must go on for Hall Johnson and others. By Anissa Reyes @anissaareyes

he news of SXSW’s cancellation is not stopping local band Hall Johnson from going through with their unofficial showcase March 17. “One of the motivations we had to keep it going is that there is a lot of hard work put into it,” lead singer Milo Cortese said. “We think we can still make it something special.” Still, guitarist Trevor Stovall said they want to be responsible in handling the recent concerns with COVID-19 and will follow the lead of other venues

throwing unofficial showcases and make decisions based on that. “If the situation continues to get worse and there’s people in Austin that do get it, then we will go from there,” Stovall said. “But as far as we know, we are planning to go full steam ahead (with the show).” The band had both nationally and locally touring bands set to perform at their show. However, when the news of the cancellation broke, they lost two of their nationally touring headliners, Kevin Krauter and Spendtime Palace, and a few other bands. “Obviously they dropped because of the cancellation, and they’re not playing any official showcases, so it just financially doesn’t make sense for them to come down (to Austin and play an unofficial show),” Cortese said. Cortese and the band said they are disappointed about the cancellation of SXSW, but they think it will be a good opportunity for smaller, local bands to get more attention at unofficial shows like theirs. Additionally, they were able to add other bands that originally had scheduling conflicts because of SXSW shows.

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“In a weird way, it might be good,” Cortese said. “Everybody (will be) listening to smaller and local bands.” While recent issues concerning COVID-19 play a role in attendance for the show, Stovall said the band will still donate any money made from entry fees to Planned Parenthood, and there is no limit for how much they will give. “Doing it for a good cause is very important to me,” Stovall said. “We have a platform as a band to do good things, and if we were to break up tomorrow, I’d rather us say we’ve done cool and important things and helped people out than made ‘X’ amount of money and played X amount of shows.” Drummer Logan Kruprovage said he is concerned for low attendance at the show, but the band plans to take safety precautions such as having hand sanitizer bottles around the house. “We’re listening to what the city has to say,” Kupovage said. “We’re just trying to make sure everyone will be safe because that’s important to us.”

SXSW cancellation hurts small businesses, service workers By Ariana Arredondo @ArianaxGraciela

Various businesses, freelancers and gig workers began to see the economic impact caused by a loss of clients and foot traffic after South By Southwest was canceled last week. “It was surprising to me that the entire festival was canceled just because of the total economic impact it has on the city of Austin, but it seems to be the right thing to do,” said Michael Swail, owner of Alta’s Café. Alta’s is located a block and a half from the Austin Convention Center, and Swail said he was expecting increased clientele to come into the cafe from the center. Swail also said he’s facing additional losses because Scandinavian Airlines booked the location for events and catering, but that contract was canceled. “There’s substantial additional revenue associated with those events beyond our normal business,” Swail said. “And when those events aren’t going on, we benefit from the increased foot traffic from all the participants of the festival.” Aside from small business such as Alta’s, freelancers and gig workers have also been impacted by the loss of SXSW. Christine Chen, the owner of Moth to Flame production company and a UT alumna, said freelancers such as videographers and editors living paycheck to paycheck are more likely to be affected by the cancellation. She said she personally was lucky and earned more than what she expected in revenue earlier in the year. Those extra earnings, have helped ensure her business will survive

economically without SXSW. “I’ve been really lucky this year where our company has been doing well, in the front part of the year,” Chen said. “Usually it’s very slow in January, and it wasn’t for us this year. And because of that, the loss of South By did not hit us as detrimentally as it’s hit a lot of my colleagues.” Many rely on the revenue SXSW brings, Chen said. “March is usually my saving grace,” Chen said. “I can at least know that if I can at least last till SXSW, I’ll make (the money) back. The biggest problem for a lot of people (is SXSW) was their saving grace.” Individuals working in the gig economy, such as Lyft drivers and DoorDash delivery workers, will be impacted by the loss of SXSW clientele, government junior Matthew Cox said. Cox has been biking for Favor for a year and a half and said they were expecting to make $150 a day working eight to 10 hours during SXSW. Now, they said they’ll probably be seeing $50 a day for working the same amount of time. “It just feels like I’ve been cut down a size because it was gonna be a great week, and now it’s gonna be at best an OK week,” Cox said. Cox said the money they made from SXSW was going to help cover expenses from the fall semester, including a new laptop they invested in. Cox said while they understand the need for a cancellation, they know the economic impact will be harmful for many. “It’s good from a safety perspective,” Cox said. “It’s to help people not get infected but also, just from a personal perspective, it hurts. I know I’m not the only person who does gig work or service work.”

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Redshirt sophomore pitcher Cole Quintanilla spends much of his time in the new baseball facilities. He is a member of the pitching staff that has benefited from the program’s new focus on analytics.

In the past few years, the Texas baseball program has invested resources and talent into using analytics to improve. By Nathan Han @NathanHan

hen Ryan Monsevalles, director of player personnel and analytics, first started working for the Texas baseball team as a student video manager, he was part of a three-man crew that tried to keep track of every single pitch and ball in play with three cameras. “God, I think that was my junior year, and the old staff didn’t really use a lot of the stuff,” Monsevalles said. “So it was night and

day when the (current) staff came in. … We do so much more now.” Now, the entire operation is transformed. The team grew from three to seven students, and Monsevalles moved to a full-time position after receiving his master’s in legal studies in 2017. Then Texas started using new tracking technologies called TrackMan and Rapsodo. In 2019, the Longhorns built a self-described “state-of-the-art” pitching lab, complete with a bullpen area surrounded by cameras and radars in the new million-dollar J. Dan Brown Family Player Development Center. “The facility has been incredible,” head coach David Pierce said. “We can do some one-onones, so it’s a really good teaching environment.” But the biggest change has been the shift in attitude toward analytics, led by Pierce, that came with

the coaching staff that took over the team in 2016. “If they weren’t open to it, I don’t think I would have a job,” Monsevalles said. “My role didn’t exist prior to them coming here.” The new technology gives the team information it wouldn’t otherwise have. Instead of just tracking location and velocity, Trackman and Rapsodo enable the radars and cameras to track information such as spin rate and spin axis, the velocity and axis on which the ball spins, and the exact arm slot of the pitcher. All of these newly discoverable statistics heavily correlate with factors such as a pitch’s swing-and-miss rate and its effectiveness. Or, to put it more simply, Trackman and Rapsodo technologies give the team information they never previously had on what makes pitches work. Together with the new 2,200-square-foot pitching lab decked out with cameras and radars, the upgrades have been a

valuable resource to pitchers on the team. “It’s just been so helpful with my transition from high school to college,” freshman pitcher Pete Hansen said. “Ryan and all the other guys do an incredible job, and it’s amazing the technology we’re able to work with here. It’s definitely elevated my game.” It’s unclear what other teams in the Big 12 and across the nation possess in the arms race with technology. According to The Athletic, other schools such as Vanderbilt and Wake Forest have cutting-edge tech available to them as well. But Texas still has a leg up on most Big 12 teams. Even if the team does not have an edge over top schools such as Wake Forest, Monsevalles said what sets Texas apart is the relationships and communication with the coaches and players. It all comes down to the most important factors in baseball analytics — the players’ need to be able to effectively communicate import-

ant matters with coaches and players, and their need to listen. “A lot of people forget that you have to have a good relationship with the coaches, whether it’s college or pro teams,” Monsevalles said. “You need to make sure you have that foundation because the message isn’t going to mean as much if they don’t trust the sources it comes from.” In 2018, Monsevalles left UT for a job with the Toronto Blue Jays of the MLB. But it was the relationships he had built with the coaches and players at Texas that brought him back after just one year working in professional baseball. “That personal connection you have with the guys and the coaches is just very different in pro ball,” Monsevalles said. “That was just very much lacking with the Blue Jays. You kind of just feel like a gear in this giant machine, where you’re like, ‘Do people know

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I’m here?’” At the Player Development Center and at UFCU Disch-Falk Field, however, coaches and players definitely know Monsevalles is there. And they feel his presence too. “He’s really, really smart, and he knows what to present to us,” Pierce said. “With that being said, it’s our job to decipher through it, and he helps us there. But he’s just on top of what the analytics bring to any potential thing that could come up for us.” For Monsevalles, it’s the relationships within that community that make Texas and the analytics program special. “Texas is my alma mater,” Monsevalles said. “I have a lot invested here, and I helped build what we currently have. I hated not being a part of something bigger than myself. … What made me come back was the relationships I built here and how much I missed them.”

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