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UTIMCO CEO Bruce Zimmerman has said he does not believe the company should consider the social responsibility of the companies it invests in.

By Audrey White Daily Texan Staff A UT graduate student is taking an energetic stance in support of ethics and social responsibility, and he’s starting at the top.

Ben Snyder, a theater and dance graduate student, wants The University of Texas Investment Management Company to change its investment policy to include consideration of the so-

cial responsibility of the companies in which it invests. Currently, the policy, which is set by the UT System Board of Regents, explicitly directs against UTIMCO investing “so as to achieve temporal benefits for any purpose including use of its economic power to advance social or political purposes.” Essentially, the policy requires that UTIMCO not consider any factor except economic

viability when investing.

“I am strongly opposed to a policy that states we do not consider the social and political actions of a company. That is not ethical or moral,” Snyder said.

Both Student Government and the Graduate Student Assembly passed resolutions this school year in support of UTIMCO changing

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In News: Symposium The Hispanic Faculty/Staff Association hosts the 2010 Leadership Symposium “Sustaining Leadership Through Troubled Times.”

Texas Union Ballroom, 8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m.

In Life&Arts: Summer movie season begins The Daily Texan reviews some of the summer’s biggest films.

WEDNESDAY Calendar: Fitness first To celebrate National Employee Health and Fitness Day, RecSports is hosting a Poker Walk.

Participants walk a onemile course, gathering poker chips along the way that can be turned in for a free T-shirt. Gregory Gym, 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.

In Life&Arts: The end comes too quickly Hump Day columnist Mary Lingwall signs off.

In Sports: Texas 4000 Check out a feature about the athletes who take part in the Texas 4000.

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History professor Howard Miller pauses to remember the members of the University community who have died in the past year at the UT Remembers ceremony held Friday in the Tower Garden.

THURSDAY Calendar: Celebration End of Year Celebration Lunch presented by The Carillon restaurant. The AT&T Executive Education and Conference Center, 11:30 a.m to 1:30 p.m.

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The Design Commission and Waller Creek Project Review Committee will meet at 12:00 p.m. at One Texas Center, Room 560.

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Women’s tennis plays Wichita State in the opening round of the NCAA Tournament, Norman, Okla.

FRIDAY Championship Softball heads to the Big 12 championship in Oklahoma City, which runs through Sunday.

Ceremony commemorates staff, students who passed away in past year

By Vidushi Shrimali Daily Texan Staff As the sun set Friday night, UT students and Austin residents noticed a change in the Austin skyline — the sea of bank buildings and skyscrapers was missing one famous burnt-orange glow. To commemorate students, faculty and others affiliated with the University who have died in the past year, only the top level and crest of the tower were lit white on the day known

annually as “UT Remembers.”

“It’s saying that we, as a University community, grieve over those we lost,” said Neal Armstrong, vice provost and chair of the UT Cares Committee, which started UT Remembers in 1998. “To me, the light at the top of the Tower means that even in loss, there is life; life ends for one and begins for another.”

On the last class day every spring, families and friends of University community members who have passed away are

invited to the Main Mall to pay their respects. The darkened tower is the culmination of UT Remembers.

This year’s commemoration started with a lowering-of-the-flags ceremony on the Main Mall, after which visiting families and friends were invited to a grief session in the Texas Union and lunch at the AT&T Executive Education and Conference Center. The event ended with a service in the Tower Garden, where University members read the names

of each community member who passed away. After each name was read, a bell tolled in the Tower to signify each member’s life.

Sisters Silvia Cantu and Nellie Gildner attended UT Remembers for their mother, Paula Rangel, who worked as a custodian at UT for 10 years before she passed away in January. They said the event helped them cope with their loss. At the grief session, they

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Charity sees benefit from Program aids college life transition annual underwear event Group helps students As the group of students ran

By Collin Eaton out of the lot to circle around GuaDaily Texan Staff Drivers on Rio Grande and dalupe Street, a man standing on Guadalupe Streets may have Rio Grande said, “Man, I thought been shocked by the sight of I’d seen it all.”

After the run, radio disc jockabout a thousand college students running down the road eys from KROX hosted several contests includin nothing but ing “Fittest Guy,” their skivvies.

“Fittest Girl” and Throngs of “Best Themed Unstudents packed Run Group.” into the parkWe’ll probably donate die The winner of the ing lot across from Pluckers about 4,000 articles of themed group contest was called “Alon Rio Grande clothing this year.” ice in Underland,” Street on Friday, socializing —Weston Carls which included a with other peoUndie Run co-founder white rabbit, a purple cat and a “Mad ple in their unHatter” who wore a derwear, playwide top hot, a coling Frisbee and orful bow tie and generally avoiding a man in a Borat-style thong boxers that said, “Stay Away From suit. The lot was lined with AXE My Rabbit Hole,” on the back. banners that read, “Think of it as RUN continues on page 2 Good Samaritans Gone Wild.”

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By Alex Geiser Daily Texan Staff For some college students dealing with developmental disorders, achieving a level of independence is a difficult task. But through programs like College Living Experience, it is a task that can be accomplished.

“They taught me how to live on my own and be healthy and social to other people,” 20-yearold Kristiana Keahey said.

Keahey is not alone. Many students who graduate from College Living Experience, an organization that focuses on helping college students with developmental disorders, learn the skills they need to become independent. For some, the process is a matter of learning to organize and prioritize, but for others, it’s much more difficult.

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Athena Newsom is the director of College Living Experience, an organization that focuses on helping students with disorders.

The majority of the 34 students in the program attend Austin Community College, but some are enrolled at UT and St. Edward’s University, while others plan to attend one of these institutions at a later date.

Keahey will be taking an art

class at UT this summer as she continues working with the program.

P ro g r a m d i re c t o r A t h e na Newsom said many of the students in the program felt

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its policy to include consideration of ethics without reducing the efficacy or profits of the company’s investment portfolio. “I’m all for investing in companies that are profitable and socially responsible — it’s about maximizing profit and social good,� Snyder said. “And I’m all for rethinking companies that we might want to not put our money in if [UT’s] mission statement is about making the world a better place.�

The mission statement includes “responsibility,� calling for the University “to serve as a catalyst for positive change in Texas and beyond.�

However, UTIMCO CEO Bruce Zimmerman said he does not believe it is appropriate for the company to consider the social responsibility of the companies it invests in because its purpose is to make lucrative economic returns for the UT System. Many companies that are financially successful also have ethical practices and projects, so the managers UTIMCO hires may consider those elements as factors, though they are not primary concerns. “It is not UTIMCO’s position

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to make [ethical] judgments,�

Zimmerman said. “The reason there is the bright line to not take in those considerations is that it’s a slippery slope. There is an endless list of potential social and political grievances. Whatever judgments we make would incur an economic cost, so we would be taking resources away from the University system, and that is not our role.�

From 2002-2008, a group called UT Watch, originally the campus organization University Watch, monitored UTIMCO’s investments for ethical elements and social responsibility. However, its efforts did not lead to any change in UTIMCO’s policy. Both the UT Watch website and Snyder seem to be in agreement that failing to invest ethically is out of line with UT’s mission statement.

However, UT Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Kevin Hegarty said UTIMCO is not governed by UT’s mission statement, and the University does not have any power to advise the company. “The campuses don’t and won’t get involved in setting actual investment policy because we have no authority to do so,� Hegarty said.

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ceremony to the reading of the names. It was great,� Cantu said. spoke with other families going At the service in the garden, visthrough similar situations. itors were invited to fill out “mem“It was beautiful — every- ory sheets� with fond memories thing, from the flag-lowering or messages about those who had died. The sheets, which can be found online and submitted later through the U.S. Postal Service, are collected in notebook form every year and preserved at the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History in the University archives. The archives include photographs and videos of some services from years past.

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jayasinha plans to submit memory sheets for friends Pratik Bhakta and Esther Boyalapalli, both of whom were students at UT. At first, Wijayasinha was hesitant to attend the service, but said she decided it was actually touching to meet as a group and mourn the loss of common friends. “Before, I was thinking, they are just reading a name every three seconds,� Wijaysinha said. “But then I realized, it’s actually really thoughtful for UT to stop and care about each person so they are not forgotten.�

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students like Snyder to pursue social responsibility through other means, including activism directed toward specific companies that may have questionable ethics. “Investment policy is not the optimal mechanism to bring about social change because the cost of doing so is really born in areas like scholarships and the ability to pay faculty,� Zimmerman said. “If there are companies that individuals think do not bear supporting, they may want to organize a boycott of those companies’ products.

That brings about social change that doesn’t carry a cost to the University community.�

However, Snyder said he hopes the Board of Regents will look to other universities, including Yale, Harvard and the University of California system, that have had successful financial portfolios while taking the social responsibility of investments into account. “The final goal right now is to bring these [student governance] resolutions to the Board of Regents,� Snyder said. “Our portfolio can be socially responsible and profitable. There might be people that would argue that is impossible, but there are models around the country that we can look to.�

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valuable one-on-one time From page 1 alienated by their peers before enrolling, but that in many cases, the students gain the social skills necessary to branch out and fit in. “It’s the difference between these students living in their parents’ basements playing video games for the rest of their lives and those who are doing what they want, living on their own,�

Newsom said.

She said the program doesn’t guarantee each student will continue living independently following commencement but that they are given the skills that would allow them to do so. She said many of them find some middle ground between dependence and independence. “They are just average college students in most ways,� Newsom said. “They are adults, and we treat them like adults.�

Students in the program are offered tutoring, mentoring and a variety of services to help them function in day-to-day life, including healthy cooking exercises.

Newsom said a UT engineering student utilized the program

prior to graduation, and the staff had difficulty finding a tutor for him toward the end because they would have needed to have a doctorate degree to be on his level. “He wouldn’t shower for three weeks, but that’s what we were here to help with,� she said.

Director of psychological services Christopher Smith helps figure out the kind of support individual students need and assigns the appropriate mentors. Smith said the students’ most productive and enjoyable time comes during their mentoring sessions, which are more personalized. “It is time to spend one-on-one with a mentor,� he said. “There is a pretty strong relationship between student and mentor.�

Smith said that unlike other services for students with developmental disorders, College Living Experience offers a wide variety of specialized services geared toward directing students with the goal of independence. “It is our ability to wrap around services,� Smith said. “We can provide it all in one place, where we can do followup and support.�

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exceeds organizer’s initial estimates From page 1 “Nothing compares to [running in boxers]. It’s really surprising how not uncomfortable it is,� said Jesse Herring, the “Mad Hatter� and mathematics senior at Sam Houston State University. “You get used to it really fast, especially when you see people in much skimpier things than what you’re wearing.�

UT English junior Massiel Zambrano and ACC zoology freshman Megan Wright used Halloween make-up to dress as bloodthirsty zombies whose original human counterparts must have been bitten while dressed only in underwear. “As far as dressing up as zombies and in our underwear and being a girl, it’s definitely hard to not get deemed a little bit prissy,� Zambrano said. “But putting on a little make-up and blood makes it pretty cool and easier to walk around town a little bit naked.�

Austin’s third annual Undie Run, an AXE-sponsored event, ensured that the almost-naked bodies of students were as char-

itable in donations as they were surprising to passing drivers. The event featured contests, games and an underwear run around West Campus. Each student donated the clothes off his or her back to LifeWorks, a charity organization that provides goods such as food and clothing to homeless children and young adults.

Will Hancock, director of LifeWorks’ street outreach program, said he did not expect such a large turnout. “We were wondering how many clothes we were going to get, and now we’re wondering if we’re going to be able to handle all of them,� Hancock said.

Weston Carls, art director of Austin Fit Magazine and Undie Run co-founder, said they would probably donate about 4,000 articles of clothing this year.

Carls said he organized the first philanthropic Undie Run in 2008 and that it has been doubling in size every year. He said there are similar events in California and other locales, but Austin is one in a growing number of cities using the event to give to charities.

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Michelle Obama applauds, advises Arkansas grads

By Chuck Bartels The Associated Press PINE BLUFF, Ark. — First lady Michelle Obama told graduates Saturday to prepare to overcome adversity, building on Martin Luther King Jr.’s 1958 commencement address at the same university, when he told the students to summon their courage to fight against segregation.

The first lady gave an impassioned speech to 270 graduates of the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff that referenced the legacy of the historically black school, which opened in 1873 with seven students, most of whom could barely read.

Obama said those first students, only a decade removed from slavery, had no guarantee of any opportunity after they graduated college. “Let’s just imagine how those seven students would feel if they could see you here today,� Obama told a packed downtown arena.

She singled out Quinna Childress of Newport, who graduated Saturday with a 3.935 grade-point average in biology and plans to attend medical school. Childress was homeless at age 16, a high school student living out of a car who worked nights and weekends as a nurse’s aide.

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templating quitting her job, Obama said Childress thought about the lot of her patients who were struggling to overcome illness. “They needed me more than I needed to give up,� Obama quoted Childress as saying.

Obama said Childress’ hardships would add depth to her sense of compassion as a future medical physician. “It’s going to make her an extraordinary doctor,� Obama said in her speech.

Obama, a product of Chicago public schools who went on to attain degrees from both Princeton and Harvard, said she encountered people in her youth who doubted she would ever succeed. “Even today ... I know that for some of you this journey has not been easy,� Obama said on Saturday. “Like me, you wanted something more, right? Just like those (original) seven students.�

King spoke at the Arkansas campus after he had been arrested and tried for his work; his home had been bombed and his life was threatened.

Obama noted that the late civil rights leader’s Pine Bluff address contained phrases he later used in his “I Have a Dream� speech, quoting his refrain, “Free at last, free at last,� as Saturday’s audience roared.

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First lady Michelle Obama speaks at the commencement exercises at the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff on Saturday.

WORLD BRIEFLY Suspected US missiles kill 10 in northwestern Pakistan DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan — Suspected U.S. missiles killed 10 people in a militant-controlled region close to the Afghan border Sunday, the first such strike since an alleged Pakistani-trained extremist was linked to a bombing attempt in Times Square.

Last week’s failed car bomb attempt in New York City has added to pressure on Pakistan to crack down on al-Qaida and Taliban militants who have long had safe havens along the Afghan border. A Pakistan-American detained soon after the bomb attempt has allegedly told investigators he received explosives training in the Waziristan area.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Washington expects more cooperation from Pakistan in fighting terrorism, and warned of “severe consequences� if an attack on U.S. soil were traced back to the South Asian country.

The comments mark something of a change in America’s public stance toward Pakistan, which in recent months has been characterized by praise, not criticism. — The Associated Press

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A man cries near a monument to the perished miners Sunday. Candles were lit in memory of the victims of the recent Raspadskaya mine explosions in the city of Mezhdurechensk in the west Siberian region of Kemerovo.

Russian mine explosions kill 12

By Lynn Berry The Associated Press MOSCOW — Rescue workers scrambled Sunday to save 83 people trapped in Russia’s largest underground coal mine after two explosions killed at least 12 people and injured dozens more, officials said. Among those trapped were rescue workers who had entered the Siberian mine after the first blast.

The second, more powerful explosion destroyed the main air shaft and all of the mine’s aboveground structures, the governor of the Siberian region of Kemerovo told Prime Minister Vladimir Putin during a meeting with emergency officials, according to a government transcript.

No more rescue workers would be sent into the mine until the methane was pumped out for fear of further explosions, Gov. Aman Tuleyev said.

More than 500 emergency workers from around the country struggled throughout the day

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By late Sunday, it was still too dangerous to enter the mine because of high levels of methane gas, said Emergency Minister Sergei Shoigu, who flew to the scene from Moscow to take charge of

the operation. “Now we have to do everything possible to avoid a third explosion,� the state news agency RIA Novosti quoted him as telling miners’ families.

Shoigu promised to send in the first group of rescuers as soon as the slightest opportunity appeared. It was unclear how soon this was expected. He said emergency workers had identified two areas where those trapped were most likely to be.

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HORNS UP, HORNS DOWN Horns up: Former professor urges UT to rename Simkins Hall

Every student who has walked past the Jefferson Davis statue on the Six Pack knows that UT pays homage to Southern history.

What many students don’t know, however, is that Simkins Hall is named after an infamous Klansman and former UT law professor, William Simkins.

Former UT law professor Thomas Russell has authored a paper on the racist history of Simkins, who helped found the Florida KKK, and subsequently called for the UT Board of Regents to remove his name from the dormitory.

Russell illuminates the truly odious and hateful views of Simkins in his paper. In a public lecture given at UT in 1914 about his involvement in the KKK, Simkins recalled that the Klan “had to protect the women and children of the State against the ignorance and lust of the negro officeholders.”

In his lecture, Simkins also bragged about beating freed blacks during the Reconstruction, in one anecdote with a barrel stave and in another with his cane.

Despite Simkins’ involvement with the Klan, the Faculty Council christened the dormitory “Simkins Hall” in 1954 — ironically, as Russell points out — five weeks after the Supreme Court’s ruling on Brown v. Board of Education.

Now, in 2010, it seems unconscionable that UT would stand behind the dorm’s name, but officials are less than excited about the prospect of a name change.

Gregory Vincent, UT’s vice president of diversity and community engagement, expressed his hesitation on KXAN.com.

“Through a process with students and faculty, they recognized this particular person,” Vincent said. “So the question is, now, do we un-recognize those individuals? I think what we need to be careful about is making sure that we send the message that we need to be honest about our history.”

However, Russell points out that the faculty naming committee neglected to mention Simkins’ ties with the Klan, instead focusing on his involvement in the Civil War, his professorship at UT and his donation of law books to UT’s library. In other words, the naming committee deliberately obscured Simkins’ racist past to ensure that the Faculty Council would vote to name the dorm after him.

There’s a difference between being honest about our history and honoring a notorious racist with a dormitory — and it seems entirely reasonable to dishonor such a dishonorable man.

Horns down: Shutting down SMU’s press

The Southern Methodist University Press faces a bleak future after university officials announced a decision to suspend operation of the press starting June 1. As seems customary with controversial budget decisions, the decision was made with little to no consultation of faculty or staff, announced to the press’ staff and advisory board two weeks ago and made public last week. A statement by Provost Paul Ludden cites “challenging budgetary times” as the reason for the decision.

The SMU Press is the oldest academic press in Texas and, though small in operation, an influential publisher of literary fiction, especially for new authors who are otherwise tossed aside in the world of for-profit publishing. According to InsideHigherEd.com, “of the 82 original fiction titles the press has published, 31 were deemed significant enough to win coverage in The New York Times Book Review, and many of those titles were by emerging writers.”

There is still a chance, however, to reverse the decision. Groups inside and outside the university are already working hard to save the press, challenging the notion that it’s a necessary cut and working to raise funds and start a dialogue to discuss alternative options. The SMU Faculty Senate unanimously passed a resolution in favor of saving the press while support for the the press pours in from all over the country. The press only requires a budget of $400,000 a year to operate, a tolerable amount considering the university’s overarching goal of furthering its academic and artistic contributions, not to mention the amount of exposure and reknown it brings. Offering a glimpse of hope, it’s notable to mention that university presses at Lousiana State University and Utah State University nearly suffered the same fate last year but, thanks to similar immediate grassroots support, administrators at those universities reversed their decisions. We thoroughly support the campaign to save the SMU Press and encourage all faculty, staff and students here to do so as well.

THE FIRING LINE Missing the point of Plan II Dave Player’s complaints about Plan II in his Thursday column, “Holistic education? More like Whole Foods education,” have been heard before, (“Get out while you still can,” Kinky Friedman told me at a campus rally). But his arguments are a little lacking, and on the small chance that anyone in the administration read his column, the other side needs to be heard.

Player missed the point in a couple of areas. Plan II is a great setup for grad school rather than a career straight out of school.

That’s not a bad thing. This weakening of bachelor’s degrees that Player points out is a sign of increased competition in the job market, such that those with more advanced degrees are more successful. Smart students see that trend and adapt to the competition. Rightfully, a great many Plan II students enter grad school.

Plan II students, on the whole, get into better grad schools than their fellow graduates, and they perform better once they’re there, thanks to the high demands placed on Plan II students. I’m in a top 10 school for my field (international affairs), and two of my former Plan II roommates are headed to the UT School of Law and Harvard Law School this coming fall, (the one going to Harvard was a history double major). Countless Plan II alums are in the same boat.

Speaking from my own experience after graduating, I can think

of three good reasons why I still like Plan II in retrospect. First, I’m ahead of the game in my graduate career thanks to the programspecific literature, economics and physics classes, which taught me research skills, macroeconomic theory and math skills, which have all been useful recently.

Second, the broader education Plan II provides is good in places other than cocktail parties. That you’re taught a variety of viewpoints from which people from various disciplines talk about the world means that you can potentially come across anyone, whatever their occupation, and be able to “speak their language.” This primarily opens up social connections, but with those come muchsought-after career opportunities.

Last, Plan II allowed me to pursue what I wanted, and I value that to this day. My summer job isn’t in international relations but instead a dream job in the video game industry. And it pays well.

I don’t say that to brag, but rather to point out that personal fulfillment need not come with minimum wage attached. For what it’s worth, grad school opened the door for that job.

I’d advise Player to use the “technical skill” he gained from his history major and invent that time machine he so desires. If I could go back to May 2007, I’d see myself in a cap and gown, and I’d give myself a huge pat on the back and whisper that it’s all going to be OK.

— Blake Ellison Plan II alumnus

A gamble on SG pays off

By Brenda Menchaca Daily Texan Guest Columnist Remember the campus-wide elections this semester? When countless student candidates hounded us on the West Mall, in Jester and on Facebook? It was an entertaining election filled with colorful candidates and juicy scandals.

Two candidates defined the race for three weeks: Scott Parks and Muneezeh Kabir.

Their campaign carefully crafted a campus coalition of minority communities, political organizations, spirit groups and a few Greek houses. The Daily Texan crystallized the thought process of the student body when they endorsed the ticket with an article entitled, “Taking a gamble and hoping for change.”

Parks and Kabir were sworn in as student body president and vice president April 6, and after witnessing their first 30 days in office, the verdict is in: Our gamble paid off.

After watching five different Student Government administrations in my time at UT, I can safely say that the Parks/Kabir team has had the most energetic and successful start of any administration I’ve seen. They’ve accomplished major policy goals and launched ambitious projects, but more importantly, they’ve kept their promises.

First, they promised to change Student Government by involving new and diverse students. In their first 30 days, they’ve filled every major position in their administra-

Missing the point II It simultaneously saddened and irritated me to read Dave Player’s opinion piece. Player seems convinced that the purpose of a college education is to get a job and that getting a job requires some pre-defined knowledge set that cannot be obtained without a narrow, industry-specific education.

Fortunately for other college graduates, he is wrong on both counts.

Player objects to classes that “seemingly have no overlap in course material” without indicating why he would need such a thing and insists that in the job world he “will be expected to apply the skills [he] learned” in school without actually considering what those skills might be. The hyperspecialization of technical fields (which he somehow manages to both decry in his course selection and desire in his curriculum) has been under assault from within since the onset of molecular biology in the mid20th century. An overall curriculum that focuses on just one skill set or knowledge base would leave Player helpless in a global economy where politics, culture, science, technology and even art are inextricably intertwined. In fact, the skills he will need — should he pursue a career in the business world — will be the abilities to read carefully, write articulately and think critically. These are the skills that the Plan II program excels in developing, along with a lifelong love of learning (yet another thing that might serve him well in a world where the average person changes career paths several times during his or her lifetime).

tion before the summer break, an impressive feat for an infamously lethargic bureaucracy.

They haven’t just filled positions with warm bodies; they’ve recruited prominent members of underrepresented communities, presidents of student organizations and up-andcoming campus leaders to fill the often neglected Student Government agencies, committees and boards. They’ve also appointed prominent supporters of their opposition campaign in an effort to heal the wounds of a divisive election.

Their accomplishments extend beyond organizational efficiency. A week ago, Parks and Kabir’s team introduced the ambitious first step in their affordability plan: a textbook rental program with the University CoOp. The average rental price of textbooks will be 75 percent lower than the original price. A textbook rental program has been an idea kicked around in Student Government for more than two years. In one month, Scott and Muneezeh’s energetic leadership and fresh perspective transformed this great idea into a reality.

In addition to affordability, rejuvenating the broken relationship between the University and the city of Austin was a top platform goal for Parks and Kabir. Parks has already engaged in intense talks with the mayor’s office to form the Mayor’s Student Advisory Council. Composed of UT students, the council would directly advise the mayor of Austin on important issues such as West Campus infrastructure and preserving

That Player is “not qualified for entry-level positions” strikes me as entirely his fault. I graduated Plan II in 1999 without a second major and worked as a freelance writer and editor and then for an Internet start-up before I decided to pursue a Ph.D. I was entirely qualified to work at the start-up and had room to grow and develop skills. That Player doesn’t think he can cope with the complex world of advertising indicates only that he hasn’t spent much time coping with complex worlds and that he should have paid better attention to those seminars on Foucault.

As a professor in the liberal arts now, I see my students graduate and take jobs in business (including finance), nonprofits and film production. Quite a few have thrived in these fields. A keen mind combined with hard work will suffice to find employment (even if this takes a little while) and then do well at it.

It’s a shame that in Player’s case, “personal enrichment has come at the expense of social productivity.”

In my imaginary world, a culturally rich people is a socially productive people. Limited, narrow vision leads to limited, narrow outcomes.

College is not trade school, even if some students wish it were.

A college education should indicate a broad set of analytical skills and an array of cultural knowledge; it should make one a productive citizen, not a trained employee.

Learn your trade on the job; love learning while you’re in school.

— Robert M. Geraci, Ph.D. Plan II alumnus

the E-Bus. Additionally, reforming SG’s structure and practices was a promise made during the campaign. This week, their administration recruited 11 all-star student leaders from all areas of campus to form the first Student Government Reform Task Force. This is the first major step towards overhauling SG in a decade.

The least impactful accomplishment of their administration is perhaps the most revealing. The SG president, vice president and executive board receive an annual stipend of student fee money. In a quiet announcement at the last Student Government meeting, the Parks and Kabir administration told the assembly that their executive board has decided to cut their stipends to form a $4,000 scholarship.

This small scholarship will likely only help a handful of students, but the symbolism is incredibly important.

There is a lot of work left to be done and the Parks/Kabir administration has made mistakes, but it’s important to be constructive when talking about SG. If we’re serious about wanting a Student Government that works, then we need to point out the things they do right just as much as we point out the things they do wrong.

It’s been 30 days, and the Parks/Kabir campaign slogan still rings true with the possibility that, maybe, “together, students can.”

Menchaca is a broadcast journalism senior.

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Ambitions for perfect paper drove editor into basement

By Vicky Ho Daily Texan Staff Before I started working at The Daily Texan, I would pick up the paper and scan it for the grammatical errors I was sure to find.

There was never a day of perfect copy: Inverted letters, misspelled names and catastrophic writing plagued every issue. I would see these mistakes and clutch at my head in frustration, bombastically cursing the incompetent editors who had reviewed these stories.

Since freshman year, I had wanted to be a copy editor — if only to get the paper one step closer to being error-free. Hell, for all of December 2008, I marked up every issue with my corrections, even toying with the idea of mailing the edited copies to The Daily Texan office as a passive-aggressive demand for a higher standard of journalism.

After I started working in the copy department at The Daily Texan, I would pick up the paper every day and scan it for errors. And still, not once did we produce a completely perfect issue. Facts went unchecked. Headlines were misspelled. Photo captions were all kinds of wrong. I’d work myself into a frenzy, wondering how we well-intentioned copy editors were still missing so much.

Maybe it was me finally learning to relax; maybe it was me cultivating a deep and everlasting passion for whiskey. Whatever happened, I learned one thing — I learned how to let go.

We print every weekday, Monday through Friday, when school is in session. That means when I finally get around to editing today’s paper, I still have tomorrow’s issue to worry about. And the next day’s after that. And still another after that. There is always

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‘And I’m sorry, Mr. Jones. It’s time.’

By Matt Jones Daily Texan Staff I wonder if my professor appreciates that the exam he gave Friday morning is the last one I’ll ever take. I wonder if the girl who thrust a flier into my face on the West Mall shortly afterward realized that she was the last to ever do so. I wonder if the friend I bumped into at Starbucks this afternoon knew as we were chatting that it was probably the last conversation we’ll ever have.

I feel like so many “lasts� are passing by unnoticed that I need to make this column, my farewell to The Daily Texan, really count.

It’s the only chance I’ll get to embrace the sense of finality that pervades every unremarkable moment I spend on campus. With the spotlight shining in my eyes, I’m not quite sure what to say.

I could talk about how readers at large don’t realize that copy editors exist unless we make a mistake. I’d rather not know how many hours I’ve spent in the basement of the William Ran-

dolph Hearst Building, deleting commas, rearranging prepositional phrases and wrangling the reporter’s voice into a point of convergence with Associated Press style. I get home at 2:30 a.m., pass out and wake up to an e-mail from said reporter asking why I “butchered� his story as well as a text message from a friend pointing out a typo on page 5.

I could talk about how low the pay is. I won’t specify the dollar amount; I’ll just say that, when my boss told me during tryouts that “it isn’t enough to live on,�

I didn’t realize what a hilarious understatement it was until I received my first check. Shouting distance of minimum wage seems to be a luxury that Texas Student Media can’t afford.

I could talk about waking up in a cold sweat after dreams about computers crashing, headlines one character too short and 30inch stories that no one noticed until it was time to leave.

I could talk about all of this. I do, in fact. Often enough that people

ask why the hell I still work here.

That’s when I start talking about the people. Nausheen and I have the good-cop-bad-cop routine we use to keep our staff on track down to a science. Cristina’s love for chicken pad thai may require an intervention at some point. I’ve “fired� Claire more times than either of us can count. Lena gives me a smile and the rest of her Terra Burger fries every time I bother her in the news office. And Nolan, I’m going to watch “The Wire� this summer. I promise.

At the core of every lasting memory is a moment of human connection, and that’s why saying goodbye to the Texan is harder than I thought it would be. Anyone with a job can find plenty to complain about. I sometimes forget that I get to spend 30 hours a week with the people who have become my best friends. Simply — and honestly, I assure you, because last words shouldn’t be sugarcoated — it’s been nothing but a pleasure working with all of you.

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Vicky Ho has worked as a copy editor and an associate copy desk chief since 2009. She will attend grad school at The University of Chicago. without daily experiencing a sort of existential crisis. You have to learn that every issue is incomplete. There is no final product.

We put out the paper and hope it’s as good as it can be, and when

mortals err, but at the same time, I have to feel like there’s something noble in what we do nearly every night in this grim, fluorescent basement. We’re still producing a print edition, something that’s becoming rarer and rarer these days. There are still the old feuds between departments — design versus photo, copy versus, well, everyone. But I have to believe that I’m diagramming senAs one editor said, that’s the beauty of the tences and citing Noam Chomsky newspaper: There’s always tomorrow. at 2 a.m. for a reason. Otherwise, what are we even doing here?

So, to all of you out there lamenting the state of The Daily Texan, wondering which unqualanother issue, another set of sto- it’s not, we constantly strive to im- ified, complacent and/or drunk ries, another radically frustrating prove the quality of our publica- copy editors are reviewing stories set of mistakes. It’s a Sisyphean tion by the next printing deadline and writing headlines, please stop feat with no easy solution. How (or we just make corrections to the your complaining. And, if you’re can you possibly cope in the face online version). As one editor said, so inclined, apply to work in the of insurmountable obstacles, mis- that’s the beauty of the newspaper: copy department. The pay is meaplaced modifiers and a lack of There’s always tomorrow. ger; the hours, terrible. Come on, subject-verb agreement?

I guess you could consider this show us what you’re made of.

Well, you can’t — at least, not an apology of sorts. Yes, we mere The first round’s on me.

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Stephens’ third-place finish helps secures NCAA spot

By Shabab Siddiqui Daily Texan Staff Teeing off for what could have been the last time in the season, freshman Haley Stephens stood as the only person to appear on the five-person lineup and not lead the team in a single tournament.

No longer is this the case.

Stephens fired a 2-over-par 215 over three rounds to finish third overall at the NCAA West Regional Championships in Palo Alto, Calif. — the best Longhorn finish all season.

The team also finished tied for third in the tournament with a combined three-round score of 38-over-par 890, nabbing a third consecutive berth in the NCAA Women’s Golf Championships.

The Longhorns have now advanced to the championships in every single season with head coach Martha Richards at the helm.

“It’s a great feeling,” Richards said. “Just making the field of 72 is a great honor, but to make it to the 24-team NCAA championship feels awesome.”

The Longhorns were seeded 10th entering the 24-team regional tournament, with only the top eight getting a chance to advance to the championships.

The team finished tied with the tournament’s second-seed, Alabama, while tournament thirdseed Arizona finished first and the country’s top team, UCLA, finished second.

The Longhorns ended their

drought against in-state and inconference foe Texas A&M as the latter finished eighth.

This was the team’s third appearance on the Stanford University Golf Course this year, as they played in both the Stanford Intercollegiate in October and the Peg Barnard Invitational in February.

The course is also where Richards made a name for herself as a collegiate athlete competing for the Cardinal.

“The team played really well, and I think a key strength was our course management this weekend,” Richards said. “We played really solid golf, maybe not even as well as we’re capable of on this course, but we competed hard every day and that was the key factor.”

Stephens started off the tournament hot with a 1-under-par 70 in the first round. After a mediocre second day, she nabbed three birdies in a row straight off the nine-hole turn. Stephens was in position for the tournament’s top individual before carding a bogey on the last hole of the day. Her 3-under-par 68 was the secondlowest score of the tournament. “[Haley] played just super golf today — great birdies and super up-and-downs to save par. It was just a great round of golf out of her,” Richards said. “This was the tournament where I’ve seen her best composure, too.”

The team also got solid contributions from freshman Madi-

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son Pressel and senior Shannon Fish. Through three rounds, Pressel carded a 10-over-par 223 to fin-

ish tied for 20th while Fish fired a take place May 18-21 at the Coun12-over-par 225 to tie for 30th. try Club of Landfall in WilmingThe NCAA championships will ton, N.C., where the Longhorns

have yet to play. The 37th-seeded Horns will be the fourth-lowest seed in the tournament.

BASEBALL

Sports writer gets lesson, pity from homeless man

By Blake Hurtik Daily Texan Staff I could spend my last column in this fine paper giving you a playby-play of my Daily Texan career.

You know, the story about how I went from a dumb freshman who didn’t even know what a lede was to a battle-hardened sports writer covering the national championship in Pasadena, Calif.

But, you’ve read that before. Instead, I’ll share one of my defining moments in college that had absolutely nothing to do with the Texan because, well, I can.

It was a humid April day in 2008, and I needed food. So I hopped into my beloved slate-gray 1987 Chevy Silverado (affectionately called “Gramps”) and headed to H-E-B. I only made it halfway up 38th Street before it happened: I gave the truck gas, but my wheels did nothing despite the high-revving of the engine.

My transmission had gone kaput.

I did discover that when I floored the pedal, it gave ol’ Gramps just enough juice to go about 3 mph. I did this from 38th Street down to 30th, where I gave my engine, now dangerously overheated, a muchneeded rest just outside Trudy’s.

It began to drizzle as I sat dejected with my door open, deep in selfpity, when I was approached by a homeless man.

I had seen him around. If you’ve ever gone to Trudy’s, you probably have, too — he has dark features, almost Native American-like, and a graying beard. He stumbled over to me and yelled, “Hey!” I rolled my eyes and reached for my change. Instead, he asked for a light. I told him that I didn’t smoke and was sorry I couldn’t help. He noticed I was upset, put two and two together and said, “Truck broke?”

He then gave me a few tips on fixing it, claiming he could easily fix the transmission if he only had the necessary wrench. I shrugged him

Sara Young | Daily Texan Staff

Senior Shannon Fish prepares for a putt earlier this year. Fish and the Longhorns will play in the NCAA Championships later this month.

off, said “Thanks, but no thanks,” and began to turn away.

But then he said the most profound thing I think I’ve ever heard.

“You know, I’ve been where you are, man,” he said.

“Yeah? Where’s that?” I asked.

“Fucked,” he said matter-of-factly, and slinked away.

After a moment of sheer shock and bewilderment, the universe seemed to make sense. This man, who was so different from me, could feel the same feelings as me.

And he felt his situation, at that time, was better that mine. He was homeless, yet he could completely relate to me — even pity me.

That little encounter put a lot of things into perspective. I thought a lot about my life (and my truck, which my dad, a master mechanic, fixed but sold in favor of a new one) and, consequently, my career choice.

I wanted to be a sports writer. And that’s what I’ve done. I’ve just about seen it all — from high school athletes to the Dallas Cowboys, I’ve written about it and couldn’t be happier.

But, while it’s easy to feel selfimportant just because I interviewed Colt McCoy a dozen or so times, it’s important not to forget the core reason of why I love journalism and writing.

It has a lot to do with what that homeless man made me realize. I love to relate to people, and talking about sports is one of the easiest methods of doing that. We all know the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat. We’ve all felt inspired by an athlete who overcomes great odds.

So, I hope you’ve enjoyed reading my attempts at capturing those emotions. I think I may be the longest-tenured staffer at the Texan (since fall 2006), so there’s a lot to wade through.

And through it all, I’ve had the time of my life. It’s been a fun ride.

Lauren Gerson | Daily Texan Staff

Blake Hurtik (far left) has covered football and basketball during his four years at the Texan and served as sports editor this semester.

GAME 1: KSU 2, UT 1 GAME 2: UT 17, KSU 2 GAME 3: UT 6, KSU 5

One streak ends, another begins against KSU

By Austin Ries Daily Texan Staff Under the lights in Manhattan, Kan., the win streak finally ended at 21 games, and the second-ranked Longhorns (41-8, 213), who have been almost immortal since April 1, fell back down to earth on the wrong side of a 2-1 pitchers’ duel.

It was a short fall, however, Texas’ only stumble on the way to wrapping up its second consecutive Big 12 regular season title with a 17-2 rout of the Wildcats on Saturday and a close 6-5 win on Sunday.

It was a new win streak, a new number — two in a row.

But to head coach Augie Garrido and his players, snapping the 21-game streak didn’t really matter much. Then again, it never really did.

“Not to me,” Garrido said. “And I don’t think it matters to them.”

But for Texas, the story of Friday night’s loss was allowing eight Wildcat runners on base from walks and stranding 11 runners as starter Taylor Jungmann struggled to find the strike zone. Jungmann lasted 5.2 innings, and despite walking seven, he gave up only one hit to Mike Kindel.

“Jungmann wasn’t his best, trust me,” Kansas State head coach Brad Hill said. “He struggled with his command. He was coughing every other pitch out there and wasn’t feeling very good.

“You take it any way you can get it. We came up with one more run than they did.”

Saturday was a completely different story.

Friday night’s missed opportunities and wild pitches turned into extra base hits, 17 runs and a com-

plete game from starter Cole Green, who improved to 10-0 on the season and lowered his ERA to 1.45.

“I was just trying to work ahead and let my defense work,” Green said. “It’s a lot easier when you’ve got a 17run lead.”

“Easier” may have been an understatement.

The Longhorns pounded the Wildcats’ pitching staff for 19 hits and four home runs to almost wipe away the memories of Friday night’s loss.

“We wanted to come out aggressive because [Friday], we didn’t do as well as we’d like,” said left fielder Jonathan Walsh, who went 4 for 5 with two doubles, a home run and five RBI. After leading 11-1 through five innings, the Horns added six more runs in the eighth with home runs from Cohl Walla, Brandon Loy and Cameron Rupp.

“We did play a much more competitive game,” Garrido said. “The difficulties of Friday probably led to that. I’m happy about that because we talked about losing being a motivator.”

This attitude appeared to work Sunday as the Horns won their eighth consecutive conference series, even though starter Brandon Workman lasted only 3.2 innings, giving up four hits and five earned runs.

For Texas, it started in the first as Walla, Russell Moldenhauer and Kevin Keyes each homered to put Texas up early.

Then, after the Wildcats battled back to take a two-run lead, it was all Keyes. The junior hit a solo

Bruno Morlan | Daily Texan Staff

Texas starter Taylor Jungmann can’t find his control on Friday, issuing seven walks as the Horns lose for the first time in five weeks. home run in the sixth for his second of the game and singled with the bases loaded in the seventh to give Texas a 6-5 lead.

That was all Texas’ pitching staff needed as Hoby Milner (3-0) got

the win and Chance Ruffin got his 11th save of the season.

“The watermark is Omaha for this program,” Garrido said. “I didn’t set it. I’m just trying to pour water in the pool.”

SOFTBALL

GEORGIA 9, TEXAS 0

Bulldogs bite Longhorns in run-rule blowout

By Kate Guerra Daily Texan Staff Senior Day at Red and Charline McCombs Field was just as dreary as the weather foreshadowed. The overcast sky loomed overhead on as No. 12 Texas suffered a 9-0 runrule loss, courtesy of the No. 10 Georgia Bulldogs.

With the postseason coming up, head coach Connie Clark needed to know whether or not she had depth in her bullpen. Freshman ace Blaire Luna had pitched the past 15 games, and with the demands of the upcoming postseason, having senior Erin Tresselt

and freshman Kim Bruins ready to go might prove necessary.

“Today was about coming out and figuring out our pitching depth behind Blaire Luna,” Clark said. “Senior Day seemed like the perfect window to examine both of them. I think they need to work on some things, but it has been a while since either one of them has seen any action on the mound. They grinded it out, but I saw some good things.”

Tresselt (6-2) got the start for the first time since March 30. The high the Longhorns were riding after clinching the Big 12 regular sea-

son title last Thursday was quickly dampened in the first three innings of the game when the Bulldogs put up seven runs on nine hits. Georgia left fielder Megan Wiggins got the Bulldogs on the board in the first with a two-run homer with no outs. Tresselt was able to end another scoring threat by collecting three strikeouts to end the inning.

She finished with four strikeouts.

Tresselt left in the third and was replaced by Bruins, who hadn’t started since the first game of the UTSA doubleheader on March 30. Bruins (7-3) allowed three earned runs, three

walks and struck out one.

Tonight’s game won’t be as experimental. The Longhorns will be behind Luna once again, but the team knows that they need to their defense and batting back in top shape to defeat a tough Georgia squad.

“That was the only thing I was a little disappointed in,” Clark said. “But I do think the loss was a reminder that if they want to win, they have to play confidently, and I believe that tomorrow, they will have moved past this and come out ready to represent Texas softball.”

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‘Slurb’ draws audience into post-apocalyptic animation

By Kate Ergenbright Daily Texan Staff Marina Zurkow’s “Slurb,� a satirical video animation currently exhibited at Women & Their Work Art Gallery, depicts a post-apocalyptic future where all land masses are underwater and the world is dominated by jellyfish. “Slurb� is a vividly colored, single-channel animation originally commissioned by the city of Tampa, Fla., for Lights On Tampa 2009, a public art festival developed by the City of Tampa Public Art Program.

To create this site-specific piece, Zurkow researched the city of Tampa and attempted to determine citizens’ relationships to their surrounding landscape. Given Tampa’s proximity to the coast, Zurkow drew inspiration from the Gulf of Mexico and the transformation it has undergone in recent years due to climate change, natural disasters and human error. “The Gulf was once a really fertile, beautiful ocean space that a lot of people have relied on as a central part of their economy,�

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es. There has been a dying off of a lot of the fish and shrimp and an increase in the number of jellyfish. It’s just a very different ocean than it was 30 years ago, especially with recent events like Katrina and the BP oil spill.�

In “Slurb,� Zurkow speculates what the future holds for coastal residents. “I was looking at current conditions to create a speculative future,� Zurkow said. “‘Slurb’ sort of says [what would happen] if you were to take a bunch of people that live now and you were to drop them into these really new conditions of life where there is no land. How might they perform?

Who will do well, and who will not do well?�

Although Zurkow’s current work focuses on nature, she rejects the label of an environmental artist. “I try to sidestep the idea of being an environmental artist, not because of any shame, but because I think that it codes the work in kind of a dogmatic way that I don’t think is productive,�

Zurkow said. “So, instead, I say that I’m really interested in the sort of narrative that we create around us and around animals

and the weather. I’m more interested in looking at, sort of, it in that way.�

To create “Slurb,� Zurkow used images and stock footage she found on the Internet. “I work from found material,�

Zurkow said. “I kind of gathered this arsenal of movies and images. I then basically made an extensive collage, which I then animated. I drew over all of this material to render it in my own hand.�

Zurkow used a variety of technology to create “Slurb.� “The piece is basically somewhere in between hand-drawn animation on paper and the digital world. I’m like an Adobe poster child at the moment,� Zurkow said. “All of the characters in ‘Slurb’ are built on an animated loop with Flash.�

Rachel Koper, Program Director of Women & Their Work, said “Slurb� has received a positive response from gallery patrons. “Some have [called the “Slurb�] ‘fascinating’ and ‘exquisite.’ One man said it was the best show he’d seen all year. A lady who viewed it three times 1 alone (it’s a 17-minute loop) came back in yesterday with five of her friends so they could all

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Marina Zurkow’s “Slurb,� a satirical video animation currently exhibited at Women & Their Work Art Gallery, depicts a post-apocalyptic future where all land masses are underwater and the world is dominated by jellyfish. see it,� Koper said.

Koper cites the quality of Zurkow’s work as a reason for “Slurb’s� success. “Think slum meets suburb in Zurkow’s post-apocalyptic world.

It’s as beautiful as it is creepy with haunting Katrina references,� Koper said. “Her timing is stellar; the pacing of this video is mesmerizing. The tide of the water world gives the whole piece a scrolling motion that works with the soundtrack.�

“Slurb� “Slurb� will be on display at Women & Their Work Art Gallery until May 27.

On Wednesday, May 12, from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m., Marina Zurkow will participate in the panel discussion “Apocalypse Now,� along with science writer Juli Berwald; Peter Hall, UT Department of Art; Andrea Mellard, Austin Museum of Art; Bogdan Perzynski, UT Department of Art; Erica Shamaly, the Austin School of Film; Todd Simmons, Austin Museum of Digital Art; Kate Watson, Austin Video Bee; and Christie Zangrilli, an environmental designer.

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Every pitcher has his own unique ritual on the mound. Junior pitcher Brandon Workman concentrates briefly before a pitch during the Longhorns’ April 18 victory over A&M, in which Workman threw a four-hit shutout.

Designated hitter Russell Moldenhauer recaps with his teammates after the May 4 game against Prairie View A&M, in which he logged one hit, one run and three RBIs.

Baseball is a game of speed, subtlety and confidence. With only seconds before the Prairie View A&M second baseman caught the ball, outfielder Kevin Keyes successfully steals second base May 4.

Freshman pitcher Keifer Nuncio autographs baseballs for eager fans before the Longhorns’ May 4 victory over Prairie View A&M.

It rained heavily on the Longhorns during their first game against A&M on April 16. In spite of the weather, outfielder Kevin Keyes tallied three home runs and seven RBIs during the series.

I remember when I first gripped a white, cowhide-covered baseball and threw practice pitches to my dad under a summer sun on a lush and open, grassy field. My affinity for the game lasted for many years, and although I wasn’t the best right fielder in the world, this did not discourage my love of the game.

Baseball is America’s sport. I can see this in the eyes of fans anxiously staring at their favorite Longhorns, waiting for that next pitch or home run. I see it in the habitual movements of players as they sweat and bleed on the field.

“I get the chance to cover one of the best baseball teams in the country and the best coach in the history of the game. It’s been an unreal experience so far,” said Chris Tavarez, a senior Daily Texan sports writer.

My philosophy as a photographer is to be within the moment, not simply a fly on the wall. With baseball, the energy and passion of the game drive me, and the same applies to my colleagues.

“Covering baseball has been like being a kid again. A kid out on the baseball field throwing the ball with my friends and remembering the competition, the excitement and fun of playing the game,” said Austin Ries, another senior Daily Texan sports writer.

As I walked down the lines of the baseball diamond, into the outfield backlit by towering lights and the glow of a rising moon on Tuesday evening, my shadow rested on the burnt-orange Longhorn symbol of my alma mater. I walked away from the diamond, which with every game has hosted has changed me, and although my return may be uncertain, I will always carry baseball with me.

— Bobby Longoria

“We need to clear things out and need to be in the moment and stay in the moment without fear and let our confidence control the environment,” head coach Augie Garrido says to his team.

Players joke with one another in the dugout during the March 2 win against UTPA. Every game is different, some more challenging and unexpected than others, but with their camaraderie, the Longhorns overcome their individual weaknesses as players and unite to best any competitor.

From left to right, infielders Kevin Lusson, Brandon Loy, Jordan Etier and Tant Shepherd observe the next pitcher on the mound, studying his pitch and gauging his attitude, in the game against New Mexico on Feb. 21.