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Architecture exhibit displays the work of UT alumnus John S. Chase. PA G E 2
Forum contributors discuss how ending sexual assault requires changing our rhetoric. PA G E 4
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Longhorns end six-game losing streak with uplifting win over West Virginia. PA G E 6
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‘State of the System’ addresses educational attainment By Savana Dunning @savanaish
angela wang | the daily texan staff CapMetro plans to eventually replace its entire fleet of diesel-fueled buses with environmentally-friendlier electric alternatives. The transit company will introduce the first two electric buses in December of this year.
Capital metro goes green New initiative promises electric future by replacing old diesel buses. fiscal year, starting with two that will be received in December. “We really want to run a whole bunch of different routes to get as much data as possible so that as we purchase our next round
provide a better customer experience and benefit @laurengirgis the environment. “The buses can be loud … apital Metro is especially toward the rear taking a step of the bus,” Watkins said. into the future “Buses can be very hot, diewith the purchase of elecsel engines create a lot of tric buses that will hit heat and noise … We the road within the know that you’ll get a next year. better customer expeThe company plans rience from a battery to have a 100% elecelectric bus.” tric bus system, but Kara Kockeldoes not have a set man, Dewitt Greer date for when this Centennial professor will be completed. of engineering, said “We’ve been lookthe environmental ing at electric bus effects of diesel vetechnology for about hicles can impact hua decade (and) keepman health. ing an eye on the “We’ve got tens of technology as it’s thousands of people come out,” said Dotdying early every year tie Watkins, Capin this country from Metro vice president D O T T I E W AT K I N S of bus operations. CAPMETRO VICE PRESIDENT OF BUS OPERATIONS air quality issues,” Kockelman said. “But we really start“Lots of cities are ed probably about of vehicles,” Watkins said. well beyond us (in electric two years ago … working “We’re much more prebus technology).” through our process to get pared for how we need to Watkins said the busready to actually own and inspect and be prepared to es are able to run about operate electric buses.” operate them.” 150 miles per day and will Watkins said CapMetWatkins said CapMetro will add anywhere bebe charged overnight at a ro’s interest in electric tween four and 10 electric C A P M E T R O page 2 buses in the 2020 buses is because they
By Lauren Girgis
We’ve been looking at electric bus technology for about a decade (and) keeping an eye on the technology as it’s come out.”
Preparing for Texas’ future population growth, improving health across the state and giving more Texans a chance at education are a few of the UT System’s priorities chancellor James Milliken outlined in his first State of the System address on Friday. “The University of Texas System is our state’s most important asset,” Milliken said. “It has been for a long time. It’s up to us to see that it always will be.” The chancellor gave the address delineating the goals of the System at the 52nd Chancellor’s Council Annual Meeting and Symposium, a conference where financial supporters who donated at least $10,000 to the System learn about the research and medical achievements made by the System’s 14 institutions. Most of Milliken’s speech focused on preparing for the projected population growth over the next few decades. Texas’ population is expected to double by 2050, a growth which Milliken said is a high-priority issue for the largest higher education provider in the state. “I’m convinced that the defining challenge of our generation is how well we prepare for the education and health of a much larger Texas,” Milliken said. “Growth’s a good problem to have … but we can’t hope to serve a population twice as big with the same assets and same level of investment we’re making today.” To prepare for this population boom, Milliken said the state needs to increase innovation, efficiency, entrepreneurship and collaboration. He gave three key areas where Texas falls behind other states that the UT System can help improve — educational attainment, research and health care. Texas is 35th in the nation for educational attainment, or the percentage of residents between 25 and 34 with a bachelor’s degree or higher, Milliken said. He said Texas needs to start increasing higher education attainment
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UT students want option to pursue music therapy
UT ‘ring’s in new tradition in front of Tower
By Tehya Rassman @tehyarassman
Five universities in Texas have a music therapy program, but UT is not one of them. Music therapy is the use of music interventions to achieve therapeutic outcomes, such as managing anxiety, relieving pain, enhancing memory, helping speech and aiding physical rehabilitation, according to musictherapy.org. Mary Ellen Poole, director of the Butler School of Music, said the field is rapidly changing with more focus on neuroscience than in previous years, so there is a shortage of people with a Ph.D. in music therapy. “My colleagues around the country with (music therapy) programs who’ve been doing faculty searches complain about the small pool of candidates they’re able to attract,” Poole said in an email. Poole said music therapy would be a good fit at UT, especially with the new Dell Medical School and UT’s “great depth”
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in neuroscience. “It would take a lot of cross-departmental collaboration and institutional investment (not only in faculty lines, but in facilities), but it would be a great service to society and I’d personally love to be involved in developing music therapy at Texas someday,” Poole said. The state of Texas does not currently give out music therapy licenses. To become a music therapist, a student must get a degree in an approved program and receive a certificate from The Certification Board for Music Therapists, the only national organization that certifies music therapists. Janice Lindstrom, lecturer in music therapy at Southern Methodist University — one of the five schools in Texas with the program — said students take a sequence of classes in music, such as music theory and ensemble. Next, they take music therapy courses while learning guitar. Later in the sequence, they do field work and research. “The primary tool that we use is
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UT stored the graduating class of 2019 and 2020’s class rings in the Tower for the first time ever on Thursday night. The following day, the ring ceremony was held in front of the Tower, which was lit the night before in honor of the event. The changes were made to make the occasion more special for the students and families and will be a tradition moving forward, said Courtney Roehling, vice president of engagement at Texas Exes. “We tried to make it more and more of a big spectacle, and it makes sure that people feel the heart and soul of the ring,” Roehling said. Roehling said that Texas Exes moved the ring ceremony to the Tower because of the decision to keep the rings in the Tower the night before. “We really thought, ‘This
jp hite | the daily texan staff Hundreds of students received their class ring at the new ring ceremony tradition which took place in front of the UT tower in Main Mall.
is going to be so cool if the rings are dedicated the night before and in the tower,’” Roehling said. “We want to see those rings come out of the Tower and then directly onto the student’s hands.
Basically, we’re dedicating those rings to all of those future grads.” Biomedical engineering junior Saumya Lohia said the new tradition was nice because of the symbolism
behind it. “I thought it was cool … (that) the first and the only place that it’s really been (before we receive it) is the
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