SEPTEMBER 18, 2018
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5 OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL PLACES TO STUDY ON CAMPUS BY MEGAN MENCHACA First published on April 10, 2018 in burntx.com
With classes ramping up, students will begin to hit the books all across campus. By the beginning of October, it’ll be basically impossible to find a space at places like the PCL or the SAC. So, to keep yourself from spending hours looking for a place to sit and spend your time at one of these five breathtaking spots on campus instead.
1) The Life Sciences Library The Life Science Library is located on the second floor of the Tower and originally served as the flagship library for the university until the Perry–Castañeda Library opened in 1977. Along with seating for dozens of students, it contains a large, all-access space featuring high ceilings, large tables. The carved wood chandeliers and marble columns invoke the history of UT Libraries and also provide beautiful scenery for long study sessions.
While there’s definitely a lot of foot traffic around the area, the bustle of the area will keep you from getting bored in-between long readings.
5) The Architecture Library On the western edge of UT’s campus, the Architecture Library resides in Battle Hall near Guadalupe. Along with the collection of architecture and interior design materials, the library also includes study spaces for dozens of students to spend hours studying. Also, if the library is completely occupied, Battle Hall has multiple other spaces for students to study. However, with all of the seats in the library, it seems pretty unlikely you won’t find a place to study here.
2) Goldsmith Hall Courtyard Goldsmith Hall is a building that originally served as a host for the English, government, psychology, sociology, philosophy, economics and history departments. While it currently serves as the building for the school of Architecture, its courtyard still remains one of the most gorgeous study spots on campus. The stone pathways and palm trees here make it a perfect place to spend your time studying for your upcoming finals.
3) The LBJ Fountain Architects built the LBJ Fountain, located outside the LBJ Presidential Library on Dean Keeton, in the 1970s and is a quick walk away from DKR Stadium. While there isn’t any formal seating on chairs or benches, the sprawling lawn provides a relaxing shaded space for nearly any outside activity, including studying. So, therefore, in this the beautiful Texas spring weather, it’s definitely worth it to try and spend some of your time outdoors.
4) The Turtle Pond The Turtle Pond resides north of the UT Tower, in-between the greenhouse and biology buildings, and was built in 1939, during the construction of the tower. At the turtle pond, you can listen to the relaxing sounds of the waterfalls, watch the turtles on your study breaks, and spread out on the lawn that overlooks it all.
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STUDY METHODS: WHY NOT MIX IT UP? BY CAITLAN BURNS First published on March 2, 2018 in burntx.com
College. It’s the gateway to certain jobs and it’s a unique experience. It’s also one of the few places where you might have to memorize complex formulas one day and then recite a soliloquy the next. Perhaps you developed study methods in high school, or perhaps you just skated by on your smarts and good looks. In any case, there are several memory methods that you might find interesting. The human mind is capable of quite a lot of memorizing if you know how to make things stick. These methods come in two types, unaltered information and modified information. First I’ll start with unaltered where the information is in the form it’s found in the book.
Stare at It
I’m not kidding. We spend a lot of time wandering through life, taking things for granted and ignoring things that we’re not interested in. There’s something to be said for really looking at facts and figures. Some people can really pay attention if they have a deadline or are stressed. Unfortunately, if you’re really prone to anxiety, too much stress can reduce retention of information. If you can’t learn through stress than you should slow down and really look at what you need to learn, like it’s a piece of art. Examine the curves. Note the elegant symmetry of the two s’s in the 3rd person verb. Really think about every aspect as if the piece of information was the face of your first love. Think of what you’re learning as something that exists in the space with you, instead of just a piece of information that’s represented by the words on the page. It’s unchangeable. The word exsanguination is only that word. It’s as tangible as a statue and has as much elegance. How could you ever get it wrong?
Take a Sleep Break
It takes sleep for the brain to switch information from short-term memory to long-term memory and humans have two sleep cycles per night. There’s historical evidence to show that people used to wake up for a few hours between these two cycles to do things like run errands or study prayers. If you have the time 6
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to sleep your usual amount and have an hour or two in between, you might want to try using the time between sleep cycles. Study a little before. Study a little in the middle and check what you’ve learned when you wake up. It’s definitely better than an all-nighter with no sleep period and may be better than studying and then getting a full night’s uninterrupted rest.
Get a Whiteboard
I remember getting to use a whiteboard for math problems in elementary school. One plus two is four, wait, no. It’s three. After you got it wrong the first time you could wipe away the mistake and replace it with the right answer. That’s the beauty of a whiteboard and dry erase markers, nothing you write is permanent. You can write and write and write the same answers again and again. You can also write what you need to learn and then clean it off. Since you’re presented with the idea that the information will soon be gone it’s possible to become more interested in remembering it. Sometimes, you can even picture the brightly colored words and figures that were just on the whiteboard and write them down again. Whiteboards are also really good for drawing pictures, playing hangman and getting in as much practice as possible without using lots of paper. I have three and I just got a new batch of markers in six, count them, six colors!
Sleep With It
This is an oldie but a goody. Subliminal training was a pretty popular topic for sitcoms for a while when I was growing up, but I’m a nineties baby and I liked old tv shows so I don’t know how many people have heard of it lately. This is how it works. You would put on a tape with what you need to know on it, ideally one that had a title, like Learn French While You Sleep, and then you went to sleep and, theoretically, you were supposed to learn things. This method was made fun of a lot but scientists have found evidence that it does seem to work to an extent, not necessarily for new information but for encouraging the retention of information you’ve been introduced to. Listening
to words in another language to really cement that info in your brain may be worthwhile.
Sing a Little Song
One way to make information more important to your brain is to stick a tune to it. This helps in two ways. One, you’re composing something. You put effort into the composition and that makes it stick better. Two, a tune associated with words is easier to remember than just a string of words. A song is also a good way to be creative and feels more involved. Plus, music can help with focus. If nothing else, you have something you can annoy your classmates with. Even better, they can learn the song too and y’all can annoy your teacher with incessant humming as you go through the lyrics in your heads during class.
Make a Story
Stories are interesting. They introduce you to information in a way that’s relevant. Of course, they have to be interesting to really stick. Think of a painting with five characters. One is an old woman, one is a middle-aged man, there’s also a boy, a dog and a lion. create a narrative for the characters, for instance: The old woman, Julie, is disappointed in the man, Jeff. He’s decided the best job for the boy, James, is to be a lion tamer and has just spent all their life savings on the lion, Jenn. The boy is unclear why there’s a lion in the backyard and the dog, Jacques, thinks he’s found his true love in the lion. This is just an example. If I actually needed to remember this information I’d be much more graphic.
Make a Mnemonic
Put together a mnemonic. It’s derived from Greek, hence the difficult spelling. The ‘m’ isn’t pronounced. A mnemonic is a memory device. EGBDF, Every Good Boy Does Fine, which is for remembering musical notes, is a mnemonic. It works by putting the information in a sequence that has some sort of meaning, generally a sentence. A mnemonic is good for remembering letters or sounds since you can re-
member segments of words that are so close together. Technically several of the other techniques listed, story, mind palace and song, are mnemonics. EGBDF is alright but it’s limited by the fact that it’s taught in school and is therefore required to be boring. To really get things in your brain you need to make them interesting. Vulgar, strange and funny things stick far better than dry facts, even if they’re structured in a memorable way.
Get Yourself a Palace Mind palaces are popular. A villain in the BBC series Sherlock kept all of his blackmail documents in one. The nonsensical nature of that particular example aside, memory palaces are useful. They have a great history of being used since Graeco-Roman times. Basically what you do is visualize a place, either real or fictional and assign facts to different locations within that place. The more unusual the things are in your mind palace, the more memorable. You can use your own house or you could, if you like, create a palace. Participants in memory competitions utilize this method as well as variations and mnemonics of their own device. If you want to learn more there’s a Ted Talk about it here. Whatever you do to retain information it’s good to have a method. There are people with eidetic memories and those who can remember great reams of information but if you can’t, it’s just a difference, not a deficit. We, as humans are highly adaptable and if you want to you can remember long strings of useless information like the champions of memory competitions. My question is, why would you want to?
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MAKE THE MOST OF YOUR DEGREE PLAN WITH THESE FOUR UT COURSES BY TIANA WOODARD First published on August 28, 2018 in the Daily Texan
Editor’s Note: Much of the information from this article pulls from the syllabi of the respective courses. College is what you make of it and, to a certain degree, what you make of your class schedule. But when your degree plan includes a fixed list of required courses, taking advantage of the wiggle room in your schedule can be challenging, so The Daily Texan is here to help you make the most of it. When a quick readover of your registered classes is enough to put you to sleep, jolt yourself awake by incorporating these four classes into your schedule. RTF 344M 5 — Wrtg Interact Games/Media (Counts toward writing and independent inquiry flags) Whereas many of us are usually exposed to the post-production stage of the gaming world, this class instead thrusts students into a vital aspect of the production stage: writing. By teaching students how to develop their own characters, create a fictional world
and provide their own story pitches, the course puts its own modern, technological spin on the ancient art of storytelling. Who knows? Any student in this class might be creating our next “The Legend of Zelda.” AFR 317D/HIS 317L — The Black Power Movement taught by Dr. Leonard Moore (Counts toward cultural diversity flag and history credit) In this class, Professor Moore, the vice president of Diversity and Community Engagement at the University, urges students to join the conversation on black self-empowerment, no matter how controversial their views may be. With its heated discussions, the class accomplishes a feat that most primary and secondary curriculum material fail to achieve: Students delve past the surface of the Black Power Movement, an element of American history that most primary and secondary curriculum material about this subject merely grazes. AFR 317F/MUS 307 1 — Music of African-Americans taught by Dr. Charles Carson (Counts toward cultural diversity flag and visual and performing arts credit)
If analyzing hip-hop masterpieces such as Kanye West’s Crack Music sounds addicting, this class was made for you. Carson’s Music of African-Americans gives students an important task: to actively contribute to an ongoing dialogue about a music genre beloved by people of many backgrounds. No matter what grade you receive, any student who takes this course will walk away a new skill: the ability to assess a vital art form of the African-American experience. WGS 303 — Intro to LGBTQ Studies taught by Dr. Curran Nault (Counts Towards Cultural Diversity and Writing Flags) This engaging course fills the education void on a topic that is oftentimes left out in many classrooms: queerness. The course materials helps illustrate queerness and its presence in a variety of settings. Students are given opportunities to showcase quizzes, an essay and in-depth projects on this subject. The only things standing between you taking this class are instructor approval and a hectic registration process.
RISING STUDENT RAPPER ARIEA BASTAMI PUSHES HIP-HOP BOUNDARIES AND INSPIRES BY JOHN MELENDEZ First published on September 12, 2018 in the Daily Texan When he began writing raps at the age of eleven, Ariea Bastami never imagined he would begin his musical career through dorm room freestyles and UT retweets. Approaching the one year anniversary of tweeting his first rap video about the coming basketball season, things have changed considerably for journalism junior Bastami, most recently, a promotional gig with Pluckers Wing Bar. Bastami said that he has declined various sponsorship offers for products that he does not use, wanting to maintain his authenticity. But when Pluckers reached out to him to do a rap promoting their wings in exchange for free wings, he couldn’t say no. “First and foremost, the guy is talented,” said Mac McCann, social media strategist for Pluckers and UT alumnus. “He’s a really good rapper, he’s got a great lightning fast flow and he’s got a great community with him as well.” Bastami’s success in music began at the start of his sophomore year when he shared his first NBA rap on social media. The video garnered over 2.6 thousand retweets, close to 6,000 likes and even a retweetfrom Portland Trail Blazers’ point guard Damian Lillard. After receiving positive feedback, Bastami began to regularly upload his dorm room raps on Twitter. Eventually, he attracted the attention of many Texas Sports figures, including vice president and athletics director Chris Del Conte, who even made a surprise cameo in the music video for Bastami’s second Texas Sports hype song “Ice Out.” Del Conte said Bastami’s determination to follow his passion and overcome his self-doubt is admirable. “A lot of people look at different crafts to get out of their shell, whatever it may be,” Del Conte said. “He found his calling in music. It would be a shame that that talent was never seen if he didn’t really want to put himself out there, and I applaud him for that.” Bastami said his raps have opened opportunities to challenge hip-hop conventions and inspire others. “This is never a genre that I felt comfortable expressing that I could try and do,” Bastami said. “Once it started picking up last year in the dorms, as weeks went by and more and more people started supporting me I was like, ‘Okay, let’s just try and see how far this can go.’ It just became this thing that I, through other people’s belief in me, it instilled more belief in myself.”
Bastami said he was once timid and bullied for being overweight. Because of this and his Middle Eastern identity, he said he never felt he had a place in the hiphop community despite his love for the genre. The rapper’s growing spotlight has invited more criticism than he has ever faced before. Bastami decided to use the negativity to double down on his uniqueness and inspire others to do the same.
“Screw any expectations that I’m supposed to (meet) in this game,” Bastami said. “I’m this Middle Eastern kid that listened to a lot of hip-hop when he grew up, and this is my moment to show everybody, ‘Hey, I can do it just like anybody else.’” After a transformative year of pursuing his passion, Bastami created his own path in hip-hop. “The last almost year has been surreal. Just surreal,” Bastami said. “And that’s all I ever wanted it to be.”
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A QUICK GUIDE TO ART ON CAMPUS FOR INCOMING STUDENTS BY HELEN GALLI First published on August 8, 2018 in the Daily Texan
“The Color Inside”
The Color Inside” by James Turrell, sits atop the Student Activity Center. Opened a few years after the building was opened, the installation gives specific attention to the organization of the structures and walkways in the oddly shaped place. “The Color Inside” is one from a series of hundreds all over the world, known as Turrell’s “Skyspaces.” This series follows the pattern of a precisely designed chamber with an aperture in the ceiling open to the sky. It is open on certain days during the week at sunset. The idea behind Turrell’s art is to bring together space and light, both natural and artificial. The light of the sunset and sunrise are key components in viewing this piece.
“Austin”
“Monochrome for Austin”
“Monochrome for Austin,” by Nancy Rubins, is the enormous canoe structure outside the Norman Hackerman Building just off Speedway. Every canoe is made of aluminum, all held together by an intricate web of steel rope. The idea behind the piece is to show the complexity of how things are held together. Literally, a viewer engages with an intricate design, but on a larger scale, the piece remarks on the fabric that holds together what we can and cannot see. The inspiration for “Monochrome for Austin” comes from the materials themselves. Aluminum is cheaper to recycle than to mine, and so every element of the sculpture has come from somewhere else. The material itself has a life, evoking the life of the individuals or masses that share it.
VAC
The Visual Art Center is located directly north of the football stadium. Inside, a large gallery space, auditorium and courtyard host events open to students year round. Its mission as an arts center is to be a space where students and academics can attend lectures, workshops, screenings and exhibitions in order to develop the processes for learning and teaching studio art, art history and art education. The VAC is a great place to attend artists’ lectures and to engage with art students and their work.
Gifted to the city by the late artist Ellsworth Kelly, Austin is a monument adorned with international artistry, such as colorful glass windows, limestone, marble and live oak. While “Austin” may feel out of place next to the dreary PCL and Jester halls, this piece of art has had moving effects on visitors. Ellsworth Kelly was loved by many for his art, and Austin was released just two years after his death as his final piece and only structure. “Austin” is free to students everyday of the week and is free to all on Thursdays.
“Ancestral Modern”
At the bottom of campus where Speedway dead ends into MLK Boulevard is the Blanton Museum of Art. It is the largest collection of international permanent and traveling art in Austin, and this means it is host to fine art banquets and big purchases. The current traveling exhibition on view is called “Ancestral Modern.” It features paintings and sculptures from the early ’90s and 2000s made by Australian aboriginal artists. The detail of these paintings is fine and intricate, as with a million tiny dots composing a larger picture, minuscule lines and vibrant colors.
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NEW ENTREPRENEURSHIP MINOR STARTS THIS FALL BY NICOLE STUESSY First published on September 5, 2018 in the Daily Texan
Students looking to create, collaborate and especially get in on Austin’s startup sector can now pursue a minor in entrepreneurship. Launched this fall, the minor started as a partnership between McCombs School of Business and the Herb Kelleher Center for Entrepreneurship, and requires 15 hours of coursework throughout various colleges. “This has been in the works for a couple of years, but this is the first semester where it has officially kicked off,” said David Platt, associate dean for undergraduate programs at McCombs. “You have to have things come together in order to have the right resources in place to start a new minor.” According to the minor’s website, registration is closed for this semester, and applications for next semester are due Oct. 1. Platt said one of the main resources was the Herb Kelleher Center’s business connections it provides students. “It’s one thing to learn how a company works, but it’s another thing to actually interact with people who have done it and learn the on-the-ground skills and techniques that are required to get a company rolling,” Platt said. Although the minor is through McCombs, the program is offered to all undergraduate students, Platt said. “By design, that seems like a ridiculous idea to have an entrepreneurship program where everyone in it is only on the business side of things,” Platt said. “More often than not, you’re going to find that the core of the interesting idea is going to come from someone in engineering or natural sciences, or even someone who is in liberal arts.” Ashley Jennings, Herb Kelleher Center’s program administrator, said of the 109 students enrolled in the minor this fall semester, only 41 of them are business students. “We also have professors in anything from advertising to fine arts to history to marketing to (radio-television-film),” Jennings said. “Every college has classes that are a part of the minor curriculum.” 18
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Electrical engineering sophomore Shawheen Attar is pursuing the minor and said being around students from different majors is helpful when collaborating in groups. “Most of my last year, at least within my (electrical engineering) classes, I spent a lot of time with people
who were very technical,” Attar said. “But being able to spend time with business majors or people in natural sciences, they just sort of think differently and apply things in different ways.”
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TOP 10 DORM ITEMS EVERY COLLEGE STUDENT NEEDS BY TIANA WOODARD First published on August 26, 2018 in burntx.com
As if making the grades to get into the University weren’t enough, living in a UT dorm tests our ingenuity by forcing us to find innovative ways to live comfortably in a cramped space. Thankfully, some useful inventions exist to help students find solutions to the struggles of dorm life. Here are 10 items to help you survive your first year of dorm living: Cascading clothing hangers Many incoming dorm dwellers come to find closets with barely enough room for their entire wardrobe. Instead of sending your extra garments back home, purchase a durable set of cascading clothing hangers! These innovative hangers usually come with five notches to suspend your clothes from. With these lifesavers in your possession, you’ll be able to store all of your favorite outfits in half the amount of space. Hanging clothing shelves To save even more space in your closet, consider using hanging clothing shelves to create even more room to store bulkier, non-hangable items into your cramped closet. Use one of these bad boys with cascading clothing hangers for the ultimate life hack and plenty of closet space.
wrinkle release spray, but these substitutes aren’t as effective. Each residence hall provides ironing boards, so that won’t be a worry! Filtered water pitcher Plastic bottled water costs pile up quickly, and the closest and cleanest water fountain might be more than a few steps from your room. For an accessible, around-theclock water source, invest in a water filter pitcher. All you will have to do is refill it and replace the filter every month or so. Bedside storage caddy As unproductive as it may be, we all love bundling under the covers to complete our homework. But we all hate disturbing our comfortable position to grab our materials off the desk. To avoid this inconvenience, purchase a bedside storage caddy. The most work you’ll need to do with this necessity is stretch over the bedside to grab your items.
Laptop locks A college student’s worst nightmare is their laptop getting stolen. You can lessen your chances of becoming a victim of theft with a laptop lock. Just tie the cable around an immovable object and insert the lock into your laptop’s lock slot. Because tugging the lock free damages the laptop, laptops locks scare most thieves away. Over-the-door shoe rack Your shoe collection may seem nice and tidy on the closet floor now, but it’s likely to soon become a disorganized heap. An over-the-door shoe rack delegates each pair of shoes their own space, preventing those tedious footwear mix-ups. Drawer dividers Drawer dividers allow you to see every single item in the drawer, cutting the time you’ll need to dig and find what you’re looking for. Love yourself this semester by staying organized!
Desk fan Is the Texas heat killing you? Just come back from an intense workout? A desk fan will help in either of these unfortunate situations, assisting the residence hall AC in blowing some crisp, cool air to your weary figure. Hand vacuum Sometimes, a simple broom and dustpan aren’t enough to pick up dirt, hair and other questionable items lounging on your dorm floor. Make up for your broom’s shortcomings with a hand vacuum. It’ll reach those tight corners that a broom can’t get to, and it won’t occupy too much of your limited dorm space. Clothes iron A clothes iron will definitely come in handy for career fairs, job interviews and other professional events. It may be tempting to purchase time-saving items like
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HEAVY HITTERS: AUSTIN’S DERBY GIRLS SKATE CIRCLES AROUND NORMS TO KEEP AUSTIN BY ANNA-KAY REEVES
First published on September 5, 2018 in the Daily Texan Austin’s roller derby scene is booming on a larger-than-Hollywood scale with the city’s roller derby league, TXRD, serving as the inspiration for not only a film, but a book and reality show as well. TXRD was director Drew Barrymore’s real-life reference point for the film “Whip It,” which featured an all-star cast including Ellen Page, Kristen Wiig and Jimmy Fallon. Fallon’s character can be heard singing Austin’s praises between action scenes and describing roller derby as “a true Austin tradition.” “I ended up singing ‘Livin’ On a Prayer’ with Kristen Wiig,” said retired TXRD skater Rocky Casbah of her time as a stunt double in the 2009 film. “I looked around and thought, ‘Yeah, this is good. I’m okay with this.’” According to Princess Die, a skater with TXRD’s team Hellcats, many facts can be found in the fictional “Whip It.” “Derby had its heyday in the ‘60s and ‘70s, but then the sport fizzled. That is, until Austin and TXRD happened,” said Princess Die. “Then Austin became derby’s new homebase.” The movie, set in Austin, features many familiar scenes. Not only are the images of the downtown skyline and the Drag’s “Thai How Are You” mural featured, but the cast of characters — chock full of shaggy-haired guys and girls armed with vinyl and combat boots — ooze the essence of the only city weird enough to embrace the sport. “I honestly don’t know if derby could’ve come back the way it did anywhere but here,” said Zara Problem, who skates on the team Cherry Bombs. According to Zara Problem, a fringe sport like derby was able to re-establish itself in Austin thanks to the city’s accepting atmosphere. While it may have been tolerated elsewhere, Austin gave derby more than tolerance — it gave participation and support. “That attitude here is what let it grow and spread. Now it’s a global thing,” Zara Problem said.
Photo Credit: Anthony Mireles | Daily Texan Staff “Jose Queervo”, top, fights “Scrappy” during a Texas Roller Derby playoff match between the Rhinestone Cowgirls (red) and the Cherry Bombs (green). Beyond acting as a homebase for derby, the sport and the city mirror each other in their attitudes as well, according to Flaca Calaca, an alternate skater, or “hired gun,” as they’re known at TXRD. “Austin and derby have similar outlooks,” said Flaca Calaca. “In derby you see us, we’re athletes. But we’ve got makeup and fishnets on. We get on the track and challenge people’s ideas of what athletic skill and ability look like. I think Austin as a city has always challenged image norms and been accepting of people doing that.” “Whip It” main character Bliss Cavendish has a journey reflective of this sentiment in the movie. She struggles against small town norms, finding an outlet
from the idea of women as dainty and passive in derby and Austin. According to Princess Die, Bliss’ experience is something real-life derby girls have found to be true as well. “Girls bloom doing this. I did,” Princess Die said. “You see people try out in Barbie skates, barely able to stand, become these fast, fierce women taking and throwing hits on the track. And just like Bliss found a community that accepted her in the movie, we’re here for each other,” For students looking to become an active part of this Austin classic, TXRD will hold tryouts this Saturday, Sept. 8.
GOT SOME NEW INK? HERE’S HOW TO TAKE CARE YOUR FRESH TATTOO BY LILIANA HALL
First published on August 30, 2018 in the Daily Texan
Everyone’s skin heals differently, and when treating a new tattoo, it can be stressful to figure out what works and what doesn’t. Ultimately, the tattoo artist will have the most useful advice, but it will vary from the size of your tattoo to the placement. To guide your healing process and ensure that you can walk away from the recovery in one piece, The Daily Texan has compiled a list of six aftercare tips for fresh tattoos. 1. Wash the tattoo Generally, your tattoo artist will wrap the tattoo with a sterile bandage. If your tattoo artist pulls out seran wrap from H-E-B to wrap your new tattoo, run fast. Fresh air is ultimately necessary to heal a brand new tattoo, but it is very common to have your tattoo wrapped just as a preliminary measure to protect from bacteria and other antibodies. When you go home, take off the bandage and run lukewarm water over the tattoo along with antibacterial soap, such as Dial Gold. The tattoo is going to be sensitive to touch considering a needle just drew into and across your skin, so it tends to be easier to allow the soap to run down the tattoo as opposed to rubbing it all over the new tattoo.
4. Avoid scratching After investing in a beautiful new piece that will be on your skin forever, the last thing you want to do is scratch your tattoo. Yes, it will itch. Yes, it will tingle. However, it is critical to resist the urge to itch it. The ink needs to set and avoid warping of any kind, so let it be. 5. Avoid direct sunlight While it is hard to dodge the sun living in Texas, try to the best of your ability to avoid direct sunlight. Sunlight is notorious for causing the color to fade, so if your tattoo has color in it, be cognizant of how much time you spend in the sun. If you do plan
on spending a lot of time outside, wear sunscreen. The healing process is already painful enough, but a sunburn on top of the constant itching sensation would be unbearable. 6. No swimming Your skin heals after getting a new tattoo just as it would when you get a cut. The skin grows back, but now it is filled with tiny pigments of ink. In order to keep the healing process clean and bacteria-free, don’t go swimming for at least 2–3 weeks. No matter how tempting it is to go for a dip at Barton Springs, the bacteria-filled water is not good for a new tattoo.
2. Apply moisturizer Make sure to apply a very thin layer of unscented moisturizer over the new tattoo after thoroughly washing it. The tattoo artist will recommend moisturizers best suited for the area. Cetaphil has many different types of unscented, reliable body moisturizers to ensure a smooth healing process. Moisturizers like Aquaphor can come in handy for smaller tattoos of 1-2 inches,but it also holds a reputation for irritating sensitive skin. 3. Don’t pick the scabs When receiving a new tattoo, the skin is punctured anywhere from 50 to over 3,000 times per minute by a tattoo gun depending on the size of the piece. As soon as you get a new tattoo, your skin will start to produce plasma and begin the scabbing process right away because it is an open wound. Once scabs begin to appear, it is important to not pick them or else the ink will warp, causing the color to fade.
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EMBRACE THE OUTDOORS WITH HIKE AND BIKE TRAILS BY RUBEN PAQUIAN First published on August 7, 2018 in the Daily Texan Everyone knows Austin is a little different than most Texas towns, something we are very proud of. One distinguishing feature that separates us from the rest is the plethora of green spaces and trails. No matter where you are in the city, there is most likely a trail right around the corner. Whether you are already an outdoor enthusiast looking for some new trails to trek or just looking for a place to escape the hustle and bustle of the city, you will never be short on places to go in Austin. Here a few trails loved by locals to check out.
Shoal Creek
Closest to campus and one of Austin’s oldest,
Shoal Creek Trail is the perfect hike and bike route for a quick post class or morning workout. Stretching from 38th street to Ladybird Lake, the trail functions as a scenic alternative route to the heart of the city. Running along Shoal Creek, the trail passes by Pease Park, 9th Street BMX Park and Heath Eiland and Morgan Moss Skate Park. The closer you get to downtown, the more gorgeous the trail becomes. The thick vegetation that grows along Shoal Creek beautifully contrasts with the concrete jungle above. This trail, combined with the Town Lake Butler Trail, works as a perfect scenic route to Zilker Park.
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Butler Trail
Easily the most crowded trail on the list, Butler Trail, also known as Town Lake or Ladybird Lake Trail, brings in more than two million visitors a year according to The Trail Foundation. Smack dab in the heart of the city, the 10-mile trail starts underneath MoPac and runs along Ladybird Lake, passing I-35 and running through East Austin neighborhoods. If you’re not feeling the whole 10 miles, crossing at I-35 cuts the loop to 7 miles and using the famed pedestrian bridge cuts it down to 3. The mostly gravel trail is excellent for biking, running or walking. With this one trail you can hit Austin Icons such as the Congress bat bridge and Zilker Park.
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Barton Creek Greenbelt
The mother of all trails, Barton Creek Greenbelt, more commonly known as The Greenbelt, offers outdoor enthusiast twelve-and-a-half miles of beautiful trail covered by thick green trees. With seven trailheads scattered across the city, there are always new routes to be found along Austin’s favorite backyard getaway. Take a dip in one of many swimming spots along Barton Creek or break a sweat tacking one of the many rock walls perfect for climbing. Spend an afternoon here and you’ll forget you’re still in Austin.
Bull Creek Greenbelt Trail
If you’re looking for a trail with less foot traffic but just as much greenery as some of the other trails on the list, Bull Creek is the place to go. Running along the North Capital of Texas Highway, Bull Creek is a great destination for a quick daytime excursion, running just under 3 miles. Doubling as a fun swimming spot, the trails Main, Lower and Hidden Falls make for exceptional pit stops to cool off.
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THE SCIENCE BEHIND ‘BLACK PANTHER’S’ VIBRANIUM SUIT BY SARAH BLOODWORTH First published on June 28, 2018 in the Daily Texan
Vibranium, a fictional metal that can store and transform more energy than any known substance, is pretty super. It’s so super that it composes Black Panther’s suit and Captain America’s shield in Marvel comics. According to University of Texas engineers, the properties of vibranium are possible but very improbable outside of Wakanda. Although “Black Panther” made vibranium go viral, the substance first showed up in the 1996 “Daredevil #13” comic book. It was introduced as a distinct metal, or isotope, of Wakandan vibranium. Properties of the metal include the ability to absorb kinetic energy, or energy in motion, at extremely efficient levels. The metal is weaved into Black Panther’s suit, making him virtually unstoppable. It also powers Wakandan technology, enabling them to be a highly advanced society. Mechanical engineering professor Eric Taleff said vibranium’s properties are plausible but there is little possibility that scientists can manipulate energy to this extent. “[Vibranium] sounds quite magical,” Taleff said. “Of course, none of those things are realistic, but it sounds cool. It could be plausible that energy could exist like that but … if you want to take that nice, magical idea of storing kinetic energy … there are many challenges.” Mechanical engineering professor Michael Haberman said there could be a vibranium-like substance in the future. “It may be possible to recover and use some of that energy since it’s very similar to an idea known as energy harvesting, where we use random mechanical energy to generate electricity,” Haberman said. “But it will be 32
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a long time in the future before we can make anything remotely similar to vibranium.” It’s a well-known principle: Energy cannot be created nor destroyed. According to Taleff, something has to be done with the energy that hits the vibranium in Black Panther’s suit. He said you could use a chemical reaction to molecularly break down the energy into something different, which is how batteries work. Or, Taleff said, you could use elastic compression, which is how a spring works. “A spring … is a storage device of kinetic energy,” Taleff said. “The energy has now been converted into potential energy as an elastic compressional string compresses… I think it would be a much more complex problem for a supersuit geometry.” According to Marvel’s official website, vibranium “absorbs all vibratory energy (i.e., sound) in its area, as well as kinetic energy directed at it” and stores energy as more of a compressional force than as a chemical reaction. Haberman said this claim is improbable. “The possibility that something like this exists is definitely zero and making something like this is also highly unlikely,” Haberman said. “What makes it so unlikely is that what is depicted in the movie is a material that seems capable of absorbing huge amounts of energy in a very small volume.” According to Shuri, Black Panther’s sister who makes his suits, there are limits to the capacity for which vibranium can store energy. In the “Black Panther” movie, Shuri said the suits can sometimes accumulate too much kinetic energy, producing an explosion. According to Taleff, energy is often converted to heat in real life situations. So if a vibranium suit was possible, a blast like this would certainly be a fiery
reality. “You can also convert energy by absorbing it and converting it into something else — usually heat,” Taleff said. “If you have a car crash, you can walk away from it because the steel, automobile structure is designed to crumple and permanently deform. In that permanent deformation, you lose your car … but it keeps people alive today.” Taleff said in this way, higher-end steels and aluminium are closest to a real world vibranium because they can absorb a lot of energy and are lightweight. “If you have your superhero suit, you would have to have a suit that absorbs the energy, but then it would crumple like a car,” Taleff said. “It is the reusability that would be the part difficult to replicate in reality.” For now, how Black Panther avoids becoming a cracked panther is a scientific secret only Wakanda holds.
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MOVIES FOR THE HOMELESS BY SAHAR CHMAIS First published on Sahar’s blog, “Explore Other Lives”
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Although Soliz does not use the library for its books, he has a book of his own which he read during his time in jail, and continues to read it over and over again. “The Library keeps you away from out there,” Soliz said. “You know what I’m saying?” Gonzales showed “The Fast and The Furious” on March 1. On this sunny day, 11 people sat in the audience. One man fell asleep and snored throughout the film. A couple sat in the back, cuddled up together and mimicked the sleeping man. Two men sat in the front, laughing at every punch line and commenting on the funny scenes. Two ladies sat in the middle row, one wore a sun hat and the other a bright blue shirt. They giggled together and shared a few snacks. Every little bit, a library employee walks in and stands in the back, watching snippets of the film or ensuring that everyone inside follows library protocol. Today, there was no specific theme. But Gonzales had shown the movie series before the holidays and finally had the chance to continue it, an idea that excited a few audience members. Julio Martinez, an unemployed man who rents a room in East Austin, comes to watch movies twice a month. His favorite movie comes from “The Fast and The Furious” series, so he decided to attend this showing. “I like action movies,” Martinez said. “Sometimes they have comedy movies, but they’re okay. I come over here if there’s rain, I might stay a bit but not long.” He only stays for the action films. Daniel Sentena, a homeless man, comes to watch the showings every week and sometimes brings clean clothes with him to sell at a low price to some of the homeless people. He brings friends along and has befriended some of the other audience members. For this showing, he came with Jason Villarreal. His friend, Villarreal, gave an example to why the movies are such a helpful idea. He said that in the military, soldiers are shown movies to get them out of their real life problems, which helps temporarily relieve them. To Villareal, this is what movie day is really about. “We meet here and talk about the movies,” Sentena said. “The movies help out people like me and him.”
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Bags of cheesy crackers crinkle open. Soda cans hiss. Bodies stir and shift in the seats. The smell of pizza and body odor fills the room. When the music starts, everyone settles in, ready to watch “The Fast and The Furious.” Every Thursday at 1 p.m., the conference room in Terrazas Austin Public Library transforms into a movie theater for the homeless. Amie-Acosta Gonzales has been an administrative assistant in Terrazas for 13 years and stood at the ribbon-cutting ceremony. She pioneered the movie program in 2016, almost two years ago. Originally, the idea was to create more programs for adults. Gonzales saw that library programs tend to focus on children, often leaving adults out. The movie showings are open to the public, but the majority of people coming in were homeless, and it stayed that way. That is how the program transformed into “movie day” for the homeless. “I make up themes for every month,” Gonzales said. “A good example is like November when the holidays start, I’ll do like war movies or I might change it the following year to do comedies where there’s not so much sadness in the world. This month, it being February, I did two Valentine’s movies and then the last two will be for Black History month.” Gonzales kept her promise and showed the movie “Hidden Figures” on Feb. 22. The lights in the conference room were turned off, but some dim natural lighting came in from the glass windows behind. Amie pushed the white plastic tables to the side for people to put their belonging on top of. She placed the cushioned chairs in rows with a dividing isle in between. Outside, it rained. Inside, about 15 people cozied up to watch the movie. When “Hidden Figures” ended, some of the audience began to clap, others walked out, and a few stayed behind to talk about what they had seen. One man asked to be photographed. He wore a blazer over his T-shirt. There was Robert Soliz, a 30-year-old homeless man who comes every Thursday for the movies, then takes off. “Everyone comes here to watch movies, so I thought well, might as well come here and try something different,” Soliz said. “The movies are all right. They’re like true stories. You learn a lot by the movies.”
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LET’S TALK PANGOLINS BY CAITLAN BURNS First published on February 23, 2018 in burntx.com
For those of you who don’t know, this is a pangolin.They’re like the adorable baby of an anteater and a dragon. There are eight species which live in Africa and parts of Asia, including Vietnam and Indonesia. Pangolins are unique, being the only mammal with scales. They also have a prehensile tail, are able to walk on their hind legs and can roll into a ball. This unusual animal is spectacular in so many ways and yet there are still people who don’t know about them. Personally, I feel pangolins should be given even billing with penguins and introduced to children along with tigers, elephants, rhinos and other endangered animals. For one thing, it would introduce them to more unusual creatures. They already know about the platypus so why not the Pangolin? For another, it would be good to show kids this animal before it goes extinct. World Pangolin Day is held on the third Saturday of every February to increase awareness of Pangolins. This year it was February 17. Even though the day has passed, Pangolins need attention all year round. They’re a heavily trafficked animal that is killed, both for their scales, which are used in traditional medicine, and for their meat. People apparently like to eat pangolin because it’s exotic. There’s even a restaurant where they’ll bring the pangolin out and slit its throat in front of you. Though there are rules against trafficking in pangolins, there’s just not enough funding, it’s not a prime concern and there’s evidence in the article linked above that the government in Vietnam lets a lot of things slide. Another problem is that one way to prevent trafficking in pangolins is to seize them, kill them and dispose of them so that poachers can’t use them anymore. While this prevents the use of pangolin parts and satisfies the local government it’s definitely not a satisfactory solution. Treating living animals like a seized shipment of pot or counterfeit bills also highlights certain problems with animal rights. Hopefully, this article will have inspired increased interest in these magnificent beasts. Though support has been slow to appear, over the last few years several organizations have taken up the cause or come into existence. If you want to help, there are several options you just have to do a quick search. Some will even give you a plush Pangolin for donating.
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