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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 10, 2019
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Student Government proposes resolution in light of college admissions scandal. PA G E 2
A year after sexual misconduct investigation, Coleman Hutchison will teach this fall. PA G E 4
Sustainable fashion unsustainable for students as popularity of thrifting rises. PA G E 8
Founding members of Texas lacrosse are honored at Hall of Fame banquet. PA G E 6
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West Campus burglary down Austin Police data show number of burglaries dropped more than 40% since 2018.
Path to pay raises differ for tenured, non-tenured professors By Lauren Grobe @grobe_lauren
By Hayden Baggett @hansfirm
he Austin Police Department has reported 15 fewer burglaries in West Campus this semester compared to the same period last spring, according to the APD Crime Viewer. APD has recorded 26 burglaries since Jan. 22 in West Campus, which spans from Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard to 30th Street and in between Lamar Boulevard and Guadalupe Street. During the same time period last spring, APD reported 41 burglaries. The drop in burglaries this semester is part of a larger, ongoing decline of West Campus burglaries. Last fall, APD reported 38 burglaries — 14 less than the 52 in spring 2018. APD Sergeant Matthew Sanders said aside from an information campaign in 2018, APD has not implemented anything concrete to prevent burglaries in West Campus. Sanders said the decline can possibly be attributed to the arrests of repeat offenders. “One or two people working together can cause a high number of events in a small area like West Campus,” Sanders said in an email. “We have had suspects responsible for upwards of 50 burglaries before they
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are stopped. This causes a dramatic increase in the numbers.” Sanders said there is no indication burglars target West Campus more than other areas in Austin, but he said doors are left unlocked at a higher rate than other parts of the city. Of the 26 total burglaries this semester, one has been residential, five have been nonresidential and 20 have been vehicle burglaries. “There are a number of reports that are things like ‘my ex-roommate broke in’ and ‘took my fill in the blank,’” Sanders said. “These type (of) reports will never go away no matter what we do, and they are typically limited to one victim, one suspect, one event.”
Joell McNew, president of the student safety advocacy nonprofit SafeHorns, said fewer burglaries is good for the neighborhood, but city and University officials need to create a plan to further prevent burglaries and secure West Campus. “Any drop in crime rates is a positive sign,” McNew said in an email. “With the majority of students making West Campus home, there are still many improvements we’d like to see.” To maintain this declining rate of burglaries, Sanders said APD is reacting quickly to burglary cases. “We want to make arrests when suspects commit less than five offenses instead of allowing 30-plus offenses to occur before we make an
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arrest,” Sanders said. Sanders said students should lock their doors and windows, document serial numbers for valuable items and invest in a security camera to prevent burglaries. Marketing senior Wendi Liao said someone attempted to break into her West Campus apartment in February. Liao said although the possible burglar fled, the event was traumatizing. “Even though burglaries are down statistically, I don’t feel any more comforted by it,” Liao said. “There’s other proactive things that police should do … It just seems like they’re saying that they’re trying stuff, but we don’t actually hear about it enough.”
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Since 2003, tenured faculty have seen a consistent rise in their yearly salary, while lecturers’ yearly salary has decreased by 0.4 percent and hovered generally around $60,000. Non-tenured faculty positions, such as lecturers, take on more coursework to help tenured professors, who are required to do research. Slavic professor Thomas Garza said he noticed a large disparity in pay based on rank, while acting as the director of the Russian and East European Center from 2001 to 2009. “These salaries … haven’t gone up substantially in the last decade,” Garza said. English professor Elizabeth Richmond-Garza, who is married to Thomas Garza, was a member of the president’s ad hoc Committee on Non-Tenure Track Faculty, studying the conditions of non-tenure faculty from 2000 to 2003. Richmond-Garza said the variation in pay structure across campus was their first obstacle. “There isn’t a single profile of what, say, a clinical assistant professor non-tenured track looks like in nursing versus, say, someone who is a
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Peers for Pride now one decade strong
Comedians discuss intersection of race, comedy at summit event
copyright shane whalley, and reproduced with permission Peers for Pride’s first cohort attends a meeting on Aug. 8, 2009. Ten years later, the Gender and Sexuality Center’s course continues to foster theater and critical analysis skills for the LGBTQ participants.
By Alyssa Weinstein @WeinsteinAlyssa
This month, the Gender and Sexuality Center’s peer facilitation program Peers for Pride will celebrate its 10-year anniversary. Peers for Pride is a two-semester LGBTQ-centered course giving students the opportunity to use skills including theatre and critical analysis to create the workshop “What Do Thriving Queer Communities Look Like?” Peers for Pride will celebrate its 10th final performance and workshop on April 29 in the Black Box Theater at the Student Activity Center. “It’s really a significant program that is very unlike other peer educator programs,” Quỳnh-Hương Ngọc Nguyễn, the assistant
director of the Gender and Sexuality Center, said. “Much of the work the students are doing is building workshops and facilitation skills while also building a space for LGBT communities and folks who support the community.” Shane Whalley, the founder for Peers for Pride and former Gender and Sexuality Center educational coordinator, created this program 10 years ago without knowing the impact it would have on students or how long the program would last. Now, ze said that hir former students have become hir extended family. “When we come out as LGBT, we don’t get a manual and immediately learn all about our identities, history and politics,” Whalley said. Whalley said ze intended to create a
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anthony mireles | the daily texan staff Comedians George Lopez, Aparna Nancherla, Dulcé Sloan and Sasheer Zamata spoke about integrating race and comedy during the annual Summit on Race in the LBJ Auditorium.
By Tiana Woodard @tianarochon
For one of the Summit on Race’s most anticipated panels, hundreds flocked into the LBJ Auditorium on April 9 to hear four comedians share their thoughts on a topic many choose to avoid: race. In the panel “What’s So Funny About Race?,” comedians George Lopez, Aparna Nancherla, Dulcé Sloan and
Sasheer Zamata spoke about the connections between race and comedy. The hour-long conversation began and ended with racial humor. As Lopez followed the three women comedians to their seats, he connected the female-dominated panel with current immigration issues. “Women are taking over (comedy),” Lopez said. “It was all Latinos until they started sending us back.” The conversation kicked off
with each of the four comedians’ explanations of incorporating race into their skits. A comedian now characterized by his commentary on social issues, Lopez said initially, he never wanted to be a comedian that relied on race. “You’d just like to be happier than that, but I don’t think I would have it any other way knowing there are a lot of people who don’t have a voice,”
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