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MONDAY, MAY 6, 2019
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SPORTS
South End Zone expansion project underway By Keshav Prathivadi @kpthefirst
When Tom Herman became Texas’ head coach in 2016, it seemed as though little had changed from the last time he was on the Forty Acres two decades ago. Herman worked as a graduate assistant under then-head coach Mack Brown in 1999 and 2000, but was greeted by almost the same facility he worked in when he walked back into the Moncrief-Neuhaus Athletic Center just 2 1/2 years ago. “When I walked in … the same wallpaper was on the walls,” Herman said. “The same carpet was on the floors, lot of the same pictures still hanging on the walls. When (athletic director) Chris (Del Conte) came in, he said we need the best, and it’s not right now.” But in two years, the largest stadium in the Big 12 Conference will have a neat addition. On Saturday, Herman and several Texas officials and donors gathered in the Moncrief Center to break ground on the stadium’s South End Zone project, adding in additional seating, luxury suites and a new jumbotron. Construction is set to start next week. For many Texas officials, Saturday was almost a decade in the making. It wasn’t until athletic director Chris Del Conte arrived at Texas in 2017 that concrete plans were laid out. “It’s been contemplated for
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CAMPUS
Student golf classic held in honor of Nicky Cumberland By Lauren Girgis @laurengirgis
Friends and family of Nicky Cumberland, who died last fall from injuries sustained in a car accident on the way home from a Texas Cowboys retreat, gathered Sunday at the Morris Williams Golf Course for the first annual Nicky Cumberland Classic, an event dedicated to his life and to future recipients of the Nicholas Antonio Cumberland Scholarship. Teams from 16 fraternities and student organizations competed in a golf tournament organized by students. All proceeds from the event will go toward the Nicholas Antonio Cumberland Fund, a McCombs scholarship intended to honor students who are found to share Cumberland’s values by being outgoing, loving and serving their community, said event co-organizer Noah Trapolino. “We wanted to make an event to honor Nicky, who passed away last semester, and we wanted it to be something that would be wide reaching within the Greek community … because he was very active and well-known,” said Trapolino, a finance sophomore. “And (a lot) of people in Greek life like to play golf.” Tau Chapter of Kappa Sigma, a fraternity Cumberland was a member of, participated in the tournament. In addition to being a member of Texas Cheer, Young Life and the Texas Cowboys, Cumberland was also a committee member of Genesis, Chase the World and the Student Consulting Initiative. “Every time someone dies … everyone (says), ‘Oh, he was the most amazing person ever,
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By Kayla Meyertons
@kemeyertons
was 20 years old when I found out my brain, the most complex organ in my body, is broken. Like a sewing machine gone off the rails, my brain spins lies due to patterns of malfunctioning etched into my cerebral cortex from a young age. These patterns can only be explained by one condition — borderline personality disorder. Borderline personality disorder is a mental illness characterized by patterns of behavioral and emotional instability. An estimated 1.6% of the adult U.S. population suffer from BPD, but that number can be upward of 5.6% due to misdiagnoses as depression or post-traumatic stress disorder. Symptoms of BPD include fear of abandonment, unstable relationships, unclear or unstable self-image, impulsive and self-destructive behavior, selfharm, extreme emotional swings, chronic feelings of emptiness, explosive anger and feeling suspicious or being out of touch with reality (disassociation). Someone must show at least five symptoms to be diagnosed with borderline personality disorder. I was diagnosed with bipolar disorder my freshman year of college, but bipolar failed to explain the symptoms of self harm and emotional reactivity I’ve displayed since middle school. My body lit on fire during break-ups. I impulsively self-harmed without a second thought. I exploded with rage at the drop of a hat. I never fully had any form of identity until receiving my borderline diagnosis at the start of my junior year of college. Psychologist Frank Yeomans is a director of training at the internationally recognized New York-Presbyterian Borderline Personality Disorder Resource Center and a clinical associate professor of psychiatry at Cornell. Yeomans characterized the disorder as having difficulty in four areas of life — emotional intensity, interpersonal relationships, behavioral manifestations and, at its core, one’s sense of self. Moods can shift rapidly, and people with borderline personality disorder can
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A B OVE : Borderline personality disorder affects
nearly 2% of the adult U.S. population and is the only psychiatric disorder that classfies self harm as a symptom. B E L OW : Reporter Kayla Meyertons was diagnosed with borderline personality disorder at the start of her junior year at UT. photos by dakota kern | the daily texan staff
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