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Kaplan survey sees increase in law applications possibly due to political climate. PA G E 2
West Campus needs more patrol officers to ensure safety in the area. PA G E 4
The Peach Tortilla expands rapidly in spite of chronic business closures. PA G E 8
Sprinter Jonathan Jones remains unphased before National Championships. PA G E 6
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elias huerta | the daily texan staff Brittany Speetles, mechanical engineering graduate student walks past the long line of posters, drawings and notes left on the hallway walls inside the Avalon Co-op on University Avenue where Speetles lives with 21 other students. The Avalon Co-op is set to permanently close in May, and a mixed-use development will take its place.
Avalon Co-op to close after 24 years North Campus co-op to close at end of semester, be demolished. By Jackson Barton @Jackson_Brton
he Avalon Co-op was the first place where Anna DePenning felt at home since leaving her childhood home. “This home has changed me so much and has built who I am as a person today, and there’s just so much love in the house,” said
DePenning, nutrition senior. “It makes me kinda sad to think that what I experienced, no one else is going to experience again.” The Avalon Co-op, home to 22 upper-division and graduate students, will close at the end of the semester. The North Campus cooperative living space was leased to Inter-Cooperative Council Austin, a nonprofit cooperative housing association, for 24 years. Property owner Washoe Company notified ICC Austin of the termination of the Avalon’s lease in early November. Washoe Company has secured demolition permits for all buildings in the Avalon Co-op, as well as all other buildings on the lots between 30 and 31st Street. “This is a sad loss for ICC Austin as a collective and an even sadder loss
for you — the members who have made Avalon their home and their community,” ICC Executive Director Ashleigh Lassiter said in a November email to Avalon residents. The Avalon Co-op consists of two buildings, plus a small two-person cottage. Residents share bathrooms, common living areas, a garden and prepare meals together. DePenning said the Avalon is more “mellow” than other co-ops. “It’s just a really tight-knit community, and I really like it,” DePenning said. “I often get stuck in little heart-to-heart conversations in the kitchen in the mornings when I’m just trying to make myself some coffee.” Residents are allowed to paint on the walls of the houses and have
created several large and colorful murals around the co-op. Cheyenne Costello, geography senior and Avalon resident, said the murals are like the mythology of the Avalon. “We refer to (the murals) like they’re their own entities,” Costello said. Lassiter said while the ICC is losing Avalon, the nonprofit is working on developing a new co-op, called Ruth Schulze, set to open this fall. “It’s the first time ICC has fully developed a co-op,” Lassiter said. “Most of these houses have been here for a long time. So we were able to purchase this property, and we’re building a new 34 member co-op.” However, Emily Brehob, Avalon resident and global policy graduate
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State senators request eating disorders study, hope to provide useful resources
Goodman-Jean executive alliance campaign fined
By Chad Lyle
By Hannah Ortega
To evaluate the prevalence of eating disorders and eating disorder-related deaths in Texas, two state senators filed a bill asking the Department of State Health Services to investigate the matter. According to Senate Bill 1145, the department would compile its findings in a report — which would include both statewide and national eating disorder trends — and provide a list of resources available to Texans with eating disorders. State Sen. Nathan Johnson, D-Dallas, said he authored the legislation with his colleague, state Sen. Royce West, D-Dallas, to draw attention to an issue he feels is not adequately understood. “Despite the large numbers of individuals and families affected, people suffering from eating disorders receive less help than those suffering other dangerous and difficult health problems,” Johnson said in an email. “We aim to better understand this issue, so that we can provide better care to so many of our people, to reduce the risk among
Just hours after voting closed in the 2019 Student Government election, the Election Supervisory Board fined the Goodman-Jean campaign for campaign worker and financial disclosure violations. The Election Supervisory Board made their decision at 2:15 a.m. Wednesday. In its ruling, the board said the Goodman-Jean campaign failed to list the price for donated paint, disclose all active campaign workers and accurately label advertising material costs in their second financial disclosure. The campaign was charged $20 for the donated paint and received three fines of five percent on their total expenditures, one for each violation. The fines brought their total costs to 118 percent of the $511 spending limit. If this limit is exceeded by more than 120 percent, candidates are automatically disqualified. The financial disclosure and campaign worker complaints were filed by the Fanucci-Ivanova executive alliance campaign, and a hearing was held Tuesday night to discuss its merits.
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Presidential candidate Izzy Fanucci, Elena Ivanova, vice presidential candidate and Plan II junior, and campaign manager Ian McEntee represented the Fanucci-Ivanova campaign at the Election Supervisory Board meeting. Presidential candidate Camron Goodman, Amie Jean, vice presidential candidate and finance junior, and Juan Jose, treasurer and supply chain management senior, were present from the Goodman-Jean campaign. “The last financial disclosure and agent list uploaded by the Camron and Amie executive alliance did not list an up-to-date record of their agents nor workers,” said Fanucci, speech pathology and psychology junior. “Furthermore, Camron and Amie have placed a 8-foot plywood board on the 24th Street next to (the) Kappa Delta house. This is a double violation, as it is not reported on either financial record, and it has been out since the beginning of the campaign.” Goodman said he submitted his initial agent and worker list by the Feb. 21 deadline, though the list of workers needed an update. These updates were emailed to the Election Supervisory Board on Feb. 24.
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