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UTD siblings reflect on living as undocumented immigrants in United States

Public pays tribute to Vietnam vets at traveling memorial replica, mobile center

CHRIS LIN | CONTRIBUTOR

Observers stood in still silence as the honor guard from a local Vietnam Veterans of America chapter performed the gun salute.

REBECCA TULL Contributor

A half-scale replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington D.C. was on display from Nov. 19-22 in front of the McDermott Library.

The 250-foot exhibit, called The Wall That Heals, includes both the wall inscribed with more than 58,000 names and a mobile education center.

An official opening ceremony for the wall took place on Nov. 21. The event had standing room only as veterans, their family members, supporters and students listened to Vietnam veterans describe their experiences in the conflict and the difficulties of transitioning back into civilian life.

U.S. Rep. Sam Johnson, the honorary guest of the event, began by reminding guests of the reality of the wall and the men and women whose memory the wall bears.

“Events and memorials like this are important,” Johnson said. “They remind us of one very important fact: Freedom is not free. There is a cost. The cost is first paid by veterans and their families.”

Accounts of the Vietnam War followed Johnson’s address. Veterans spoke of their comrades in battle and friends who were lost in combat.

George Fair, dean of the School of Interdisciplinary Studies and a Vietnam veteran, spoke of the lasting memories of his fellow soldiers.

“I will never forget the men who served with me, whose names are on the wall,” he said.

These moments of commemoration and reflection are the reasons given by the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund in its mission statement for building the original memorial. The replica, in particular, serves this purpose.

“I think it’s a good commemoration of it,” Fair said.

“A lot of people have worked hard to try to commemorate the situation that took place in Vietnam.”

The people who labored to honor those who fought in Vietnam also desired the commencement of conversations about the war. Through such conversations, people are able to make a distinction between the war and the men and women who fought in the war.

“The fact of the war has come out and it was not a hugely popular war, so it’s never going to be a hugely popular war,” Fair said. “Our country decided it had a priority, so the people who fought the war were just following orders and following the priorities that our country set for them.”

Angus McColl, vice president of Corporate Relations and organizer of the event, dispelled the idea that those who fought were primarily drafted and unhappy with the prospect of service.

“There are about 3 million

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UTD alumna and employee Abigail Cortes (left) and her brother Elio Zapote (right) went from undocumented immigrants to DREAMers, leaving many worries behind as they continue forging their paths in the country they've lived in for nearly two decades.

ANWESHA BHATTACHARJEE Web Editor

It was Election Day in 2008 and Abigail Cortes and her mom were watching the election results. Both were upset that Cortes’ brother, Elio Zapote, had wanted to visit a friend at UTD that night instead of watching the results with them.

Sometime that Tuesday evening the phone rang, and Cortes picked up. Zapote’s friend was frantic on the other end.

“They’ve got him. They’ve got him,” the friend yelled.

All of a sudden, their lives came to a standstill.

UTD Police had stopped Zapote because a light on his license plate was out.

When he couldn’t show a driver’s license, the officers arrested and detained him in the Richardson jail. Two days later, he was being fingerprinted at an Immigration and Customs

Enforcement detention center.

Sitting in the ICE detention center, as officials fingerprinted him and asked him how and when he had crossed over the border, all Zapote could think of was how he didn’t want to be torn away from his family. He thought about what he would do if he found himself in Mexico without any idea of what to do there.

“That’s when they said I was going to get deported,” Zapote said.

He said that experience was perhaps the most traumatic experience in his life.

“For something as stupid as a light, my freedom was taken away literally,” he said. “I couldn’t do anything about it, and it’s frustrating that so many people have to go through this.” *** Zapote, now an accounting senior at UTD, and Cortes, program coordinator in the Office of Diversity, illegally crossed over the Mexico border in 1997 with

their mother.

Zapote, who was 11 years old at the time, remembers when his mother decided to move.

Their father had a family of his own, and there was nothing left for his mother and them in their little town. It was better for all of them to move north where there were more opportunities.

“My mom didn’t know what she was getting into,” Cortes said.

Cortes doesn’t remember much, except that they’d had to stay in Mexico City with an aunt for three days. Six-year-old Cortes had wondered if north meant Mexico City.

On the third night, they traveled to the border. Cortes was upset that she had to chop off her long hair that ran down to her waist, because she was to pass off as a boy, she said.

They were crossing over as a family, but the two children crossed over before their mother, Zapote said.

They lost touch with their

mother for a whole day at the border before they finally found her and traveled to San Antonio and then to Dallas.

The first six months were really hard on the family, Zapote said, and he had resented the move back then.

Their mother was working two jobs, they didn’t know anybody and he had to care for his sister.

They would go to school and struggle because there were only two other Hispanic children.

“The whole language barrier was a major factor in us trying to make a living,” Zapote said.

“Little by little we learned the language, and we pulled through.”

Now, he can’t imagine being deported to Mexico, a country he hasn’t been back to in 18 years.

When Zapote got arrested, Cortes and her mother realized just how powerless they were against the law. At the time, Cortes was interning for an

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Response to immigrant reform tepid Immigrant rights groups believe President's executive order weak, might not last ANWESHA BHATTACHARJEEE Web Editor

President Obama’s executive action on immigration reform announced on Nov. 20 has received mixed reactions from members of the Hispanic community.

His reforms are not historic or very different from what many presidents of either party have passed before him, said Cristina Garcia, deputy state director for young adults for Texas’ League of United Latin American Citizens, or LULAC. “I’m not extremely happy with it,” she said. “I think the President played it very safe politically, but that’s exactly what it is — politics.”

The reforms, once implemented, are expected to affect close to five million undocumented immigrants nationwide.

Close to 120,000 undocumented immigrants in the North Texas area alone are expected to reap the benefits, said Edward Sanchez, president of the North Texas Dream Team, an organization that helps undocumented

their purchasing power in the real estate, retail and auto industries, he said.

Jobs that this group occupies would remain unoccupied otherwise, said Vice President of UTD LULAC Danielle Edmonds.

I'm not extremely happy with it ... I think the President played it very safe politically, but that's exactly what it is — politics.

— Cristina Garcia, Texas LULAC immigrants process applications for legalization.

Once the reforms are put in place, undocumented workers will be able to enter the work force legally, have social security numbers and contribute positively to their economy with

The order expands the pool of those children who will benefit from the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, to anyone who entered the country before Jan. 1, 2010, which provides a safeguard against deportation to more people.

Still, many questions remain unanswered, particularly until the order becomes a law and is set in stone, Edmonds said.

“Several families I know are not getting their hopes up too much,” she said.

The reform does not impact parents of DREAMers.

DREAMers, or undocumented immigrants who were brought into the United States as children and received deferred action, made up the majority of activists that pushed for some kind of safeguard against deportation for their parents, Garcia said.

However, the announced order did not provide any such guarantee, allowing for deferred action against deportation only for parents of citizens.

Eligibility, even for parents of citizens, depends on several other

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Changes needed in video game industry TEJ GIDVANI COMMENTARY

The video game industry is losing consumer confidence, and some changes need to be made in order for video games to continue to grow as an entertainment medium.

Not all gaming companies are performing poorly, but in recent years, there have been numerous mishaps as well as adoption of some practices that harm the industry. A loss in consumer confidence, which is the trust the consumers have that the games they are buying are worth their price, can be tied back to key reasons, including bad implementations of microtransaction models, exploitation of downloadable content, or DLC, release of incomplete or broken games and the release of bad games.

The fact that gaming companies are losing consumer confidence is a bad thing because without it people feel less comfortable going out and dropping a chunk of money on a game they’re not sure they will be happy with. This happened before in the ’80s when the video game market became bloated with consoles and games that people did not want to spend their money on because they didn’t want to feel like they were wasting money.

One of the main culprits of this problem is the exploitative monetization of video games. Ten years ago a person could go to the store, buy a game for $50 and experience the game in its entirety. Nowadays, this is no longer the case due to the introduction of microtransactions, DLC and online passes. There is a negative stigma that these mechanisms have only been put in place because big companies have become greedier and want to suck every cent out of the consumer, but there is some justifiable cause for needing more revenue streams than an initial $60 for the game purchase.

With games such as “Destiny” and “Grand Theft Auto 5,” taking massive budgets in the hundreds of millions to produce, those games need to sell a lot of copies in order to make a profit. Gamers need companies to profit so they will continue to produce games that buyers can enjoy. Even though these alternative revenue streams are not necessarily bad, they are being used more and more to exploit the consumer.

Microtransactions have been implemented by some games so that they are required to enjoy and experience the game rather than being a supplement to the gaming experience. The worst offenders are “Angry Birds Go” and “Candy Crush” that push the user to buy items such as lives and energy in order for the user to be able to continue playing.

DLC and online passes have been used as revenue

stream mechanisms longer than experience-dependent microtransactions.

DLC can be a supplement to the game; “Borderlands” and “Skyrim” have done this well by having their DLC add whole sections onto the game that add to the experience. However, in “Destiny” it is evident that the DLC was originally part of the game and was later cut out. This is bad because it makes the consumer feel scammed paying extra for a part of the game that was originally intended to be there.

What’s worse than companies that try to get more money out of consumers once they have bought the game is when companies sell games that have not been completed or are broken. These past couple of years have been particularly bad.

“Grand Theft Auto 5” was released September 2013. The game is excellent when it comes to the single play, but the online play has an economybreaking bug that created an unbalanced multiplayer. There also was a big promise made by Rockstar, the game’s developer, that the online multiplayer would contain a heists feature. This feature was highly anticipated by the game’s fans, but more than a year later, heists are just now getting a solid release confirmation.

These kinds of shenanigans anger and disappoint gamers and take away their faith in the companies that make the games they love. The worst offender of 2014, when it comes to broken

A WEEK ON DART

HAVE SOMETHING TO SAY?

Mercury staffer uses solely public transportation for a week, finds pleasant experiences

TAYLOR HEAGLER COMMENTARY

Created in 1983, the Dallas Area Rapid Transit, or DART, is Dallas’ main public transportation system. According to the DART webpage, it is estimated that close to 30 million residents have used both the DART rail and bus system. Having always been fascinated with public transportation, I ventured out on a week-long journey using the DART system. With UTD offering every student on campus a free yearly transit pass, I had nothing to lose.

TIME MANAGEMENT As a commuter student, it usually takes me 10-15 minutes to get to campus. That commute quickly doubled when taking the DART. After taking the rail to Bush Turnpike, I wheeled my way over to the 883 UTD Shuttle.

The shuttle always left right on schedule, so no problems there.

ACCESSIBILITY Thanks to the Americans with Disabilities Act, all DART buses and rail stations are fully accessible. All DART buses are equipped with

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games, is the “Halo Master Chief Collection.”

This game was supposed to be a console seller by bringing the core Halo games to the Xbox One to give gamers the ability to play four amazing Halo multiplayer experiences in the new console generation.

The game had a lot of bugs that would cause it to crash. The campaign modes were beautiful, but problems occurred with saves and achievements that disappointed gamers. The biggest failure of all was the inability for the multiplayer matchmaking system to work properly. Multiplayer is the core of the Halo experience for most people, and it is the feature that buyers had been looking forward to. To this day, multiplayer matchmaking is still not working perfectly. These incomplete and broken game situations could have been avoided by doing more testing and pushing back release dates. Gamers would rather have a higher quality game than get the game sooner but incomplete. Games should not be built from the beginning with the intent to lean on game update mechanisms as a day-one crutch.

Video games have taken a huge foothold in society and are here to stay. Even with this being the case, the interactive entertainment industry needs to fix these problems so people can buy games with the confidence that they will not be disappointed. Faith needs to be restored into this industry so that this amazing medium of art and entertainment can continue to thrive.

be in her 20s started singing Drake’s “Party on a Tuesday” to what I can only assume was her significant other. Two other men joined soon after. After one of them invited me to join in, I started to sing the chorus along with everyone else. Besides a couple of displeasing looks, no one stopped the sing-along until the girl who started it got off at her stop.

Using common sense is the best way to ensure safety. Will the DART take you from point A to point B? Yes, in due time. The rail is the most efficient and convenient part of the DART system, and expanding the rail will greatly improve public transportation in North Texas.

While waiting for the rail, I briefly chatted with a girl who was studying fashion at The Art Institute of Dallas; we had quite a lot of similar interests.

The next day, on my way home from a night class, an elderly man on the rail tried to get my attention.

He asked me why I had blue hair, and I told him I wasn’t sure. He called it unpleasant.

WIKIMEDIA COMMONS | COURTESY You really never know the type of conversations Overall, riding the DART is quite the adven- or people you will come across taking the ture. The big question I had is if DART is safe. DART. Unless you’re out late, I found that the Like all public transportation systems through- bus or rail can be quite peaceful and a great place for students to get assigned readings done out the United States, time of day is key.

After catching one of the last rails at 1 a.m. before class. From late-night sing-alongs to from the city, it’s safe to say the passengers are memorable conversations with strangers, the not business professionals heading home from DART experience is one I plan on taking full work. While on the rail, a girl who looked to advantage of from now on. wheelchair lifts or pullout ramps, while every rail station offers elevators.

Currently the DART rail is 65 miles long with a total of 85 stations. If you’re into subways, Cityplace/Uptown Station is probably the closest you’ll get to a subway in Dallas, as the station is located underground. Unfortunately, the two elevators located in the station to get above ground were out of order. There was no memo noting when the elevators would be up and running. In order to avoid this hassle, I’ll take a car if I go to the Uptown area.

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RESULTS FROM LAST ISSUE “If they’re looking for higher education, definitely. Students that are here, they may or may not come here on their own willl.”

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FKA Twigs delighted fans during her Dallas show at Trees on Nov. 28. She played fan favorites, including “Pendulum” and “Two Weeks” among a smoky, sultry backdrop.

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London-based singer-songwriter, producer and dancer FKA twigs stopped by Trees in Deep Ellum on Nov. 28 to deliver a spellbinding, smoky and sultry performance that transformed the venue into the church of twigs by night’s end.

If two words had to be used to describe her debut album “LP1,” which comprised a majority of the set list, they’d be fantasy and restraint. Twigs played well with these ideas by spending the night practicing the art of withholding.

First, the 7 p.m. show didn’t kick off until 9:30 p.m. when opener BOOTS walked onstage with his band. BOOTS is noteworthy for the substantial contributions he made to Beyoncé’s latest album and “Run the Jewels 2.”

Although his 2014 mixtape, “WinterSpringSummerFall,” is more congruent with twigs’ mellow R&B vibes, his set came off much more dissonant, applying a lot of heavy rock elements.

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Roulette” and “Mercy” reveal some of the brilliance BOOTS used in the production of Beyoncé’s album.

His set felt abrupt, and after only three or four songs, BOOTS dropped his guitar and slithered off stage without a word.

Then, the crowd waited an hour more.

A bright, brilliant blue flooded the stage and an ascending droning beat filled the venue. What seemed like hours passed before three musicians manning drum kits came out with the night’s star.

Much of the show felt like a dream.

Twigs is a visual artist, in the sense that her fiery music videos, her style and her movements are a big part of what is garnering her attention, but her performance, somehow, found synchronicity between those striking visuals and her delicate-sounding vocals.

Usually, musicians are bound by a couple of unspoken contracts between entertainer and audience: You usually address the audience by the second or third song, and there must be an encore. Twigs broke both, again toying with the idea of restraint.

By the sheer loudness of chants and cheers, it was obvious the crowd

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(Top right) Le Tang, humanities doctoral student, engages students at karaoke event while playing guitar. Chinese Culture Week showcased music, calligraphy and Chinese cultural practices in public spaces across UTD.

Confucius Center leads in promoting Chinese cultural awareness on campus PRIYANKA KANANI Contributor

Chinese Culture Week showcased Chinese calligraphy, karaoke, lectures and Chinese films from Nov. 17-21.

“The (Confucius Institute) holds the Chinese Culture Week every year, sometimes focused on a specific theme, sometimes diversified. We expect around 40 students to attend each of these events, the more, the better,” said Assistant Director of the Confucius Institute Sharon Yang.

The week started with a calligraphy exhibition led by Qianyuan Zhang, associate director at the institute and a Chinese painter and calligrapher. Students participated in the event under Zhang’s guidance.

“The Chinese Culture Week is conducted to promote some basic elements of Chinese culture, especially for the Chinese language learners among the American students,” said

Le Tang, a teaching assistant for Asian Culture with the School of Arts and Humanities. “The objective of the Chinese Culture Week is to highlight the traditional part of the Chinese culture.”

Director of the Confucius Institute Ming Dong Gu lectured on Zen enlightenment.

“I believe that Zen enlightenment can be understood in logical terms unlike the other scholars like Carl Jung and Suzuki who believe it cannot be penetrated by intellect,” Gu said. “This is because, in history, if someone achieves enlightenment, he has to be certified by his Master, who would cross examine him if he really did achieve enlightenment.”

The concept of wisdom is important in understanding the nature of enlightenment, Gu said.

Humans have an unconscious desire to return to their prenatal mental state, and the mind is like a blank sheet of paper, he said.

“All the things, good or bad, experienced after birth are inscribed on the mind. Zen enlightenment is a special mental state in which a human mind, for a moment, forgets all that he has experienced,” Gu said.

“You sit there and just forget about everything — not just the outside world, politics, life, family members, but also your own self. Your mind is totally blank.”

The Confucius Institute not only teaches Chinese language, but it also helps disseminate Chinese culture, Gus said.

Its presence on campus provides access to useful information on Chinese culture.

“Originally, I was in awe of learning languages and also wanted to learn something that would be useful,” said political science senior Thomas La Piana, who is working on a minor in East Asian Studies. “I was

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UTD family shares son’s battle with cancer SAARA RAJA Contributor

In November 2012, Rick Smith received shattering news that no parent wants to hear. His son, Richie, had been diagnosed with brain cancer.

Smith, a UTD alumnus with a master’s degree in computer science, said he had noticed a change in his son’s tumor, which had been benign based on the symptoms present.

“I actually, when I first heard that it was (malignant), kind of knew it before they said it,” Smith said.

However, despite any prior suspicions, Smith said the defining moment in which the diagnosis was confirmed was a shot to the belly. It knocked the wind out of him, he said.

This year, the UTD community has been helping Richie’s cause. Each year, UTD hosts Dance 4 A Cause, and the proceeds go to different charities.

Since last year, a portion of the money raised in the annual event has gone toward the Smith family to help pay for Richie’s medical expenses.

Coordinator of Fitness for Recreational Sports Holly Worrell was instrumental

to having Richie’s cause supported by UTD’s Dance 4 A Cause, Smith said.

“This year and last year she wanted to do something for Richie, so she did whatever she had to do at UTD to make that happen,” he said.

This year’s show, which took place on Nov. 15, featured many campus dance groups and performers, including Richie’s sister, Alexis, a dancer and neuroscience graduate student.

Richie also had his own music performance during intermission, featuring him singing with a friend who assisted him on the guitar.

For Richie, the entire journey began four years ago at age 16 when a test he took at an eye clinic suggested that something might be wrong.

“I went to get an eye prescription for some glasses … and they found that the whole left peripheral vision was gone,” Richie said. “So, we got it checked out, and they found that the reason I don’t have left peripheral vision is because a tumor cuts out my peripheral vision.”

Upon further inspection, the Smiths

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Richie (center) and his friends at Dancin’ 4 a Cause on Nov. 14. For the past two years, the Recreational Center has partnered up and donated money raised through Dance 4 a Cause toward Richie’s treatment. Richie was diagnosed with brain cancer in 2012.

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wanted to interact with her as much as possible, but most of the show felt like an art recital with twigs visibly focusing on her voice and her movements.

The stage was backlit, and for the majority of the act, she was content with providing the crowd with simple silhouettes of her figure.

It wasn’t until halfway through the show when twigs stopped to tell the packed house that Dallas was officially her favorite tour stop.

Much like her album, “Pendulum” and “Two Weeks” served as the night’s centerpieces with the show’s energy reaching its climax. It felt like an exercise in listening and waiting.

It’s the same kind of slow, steady restraint her music offers, and it must be difficult to translate those kinds of ideas onto a live setting.

All in all, FKA twigs is an artist whose only choice is to go up. Her aesthetic is unique, if not hard to capture live, but there are sparks of brilliance that make watching and listening to her an exciting experience. It wasn’t perfect, but it was damn near close.

found that Richie had two tumors. One of the tumors was in the middle of his brain, so surgeons could not remove it without causing damage. The other mass was also not easily accessible, so the suggested brain surgery for Richie was postponed by two years.

“They just said to wait on it because that one they said not to worry about — they said to keep watch on it,” Richie said. “I ended up having surgery two years ago, that was when symptoms started happening. My mom was the one who made me go to the hospital to get me checked out. She was smart; she caught it.”

Richie’s mom, Veronica, works at UTD as a yoga instructor. Richie’s brain surgery took place on her birthday two years ago. The symptoms that she detected in Richie were severely debilitating to the point where he could not go to school anymore. “(I had) numbness in my left side. It was harder to walk. I was having double vision, a lot of nausea, a lot of migraines, a lot of sleeping; there’s a whole bunch,”

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taking Chinese classes because it was useful, but eventually I grew to like language, the culture and everything that comes with it. I have participated

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Two years after the surgery, during which only one of the tumors was removed, Richie’s doctors delivered the news that the tumor in the center of the brain had become malignant. He was with his mother at the time.

A deeply religious individual, Richie used his belief in God to comfort himself and his mother.

“I was with my mom that day and that moment, too, when they were there to tell us if it was malignant or benign. And I told my mom it was fine, there’s nothing to worry about and it’s going to be okay,” Richie said.

“Actually, I’m Christian as per my religion, and I think God at that moment I knew it was going to be okay. It was great.”

There have been many lifestyle adjustments for the Smiths. The family doesn’t often leave Richie alone because of his condition, Smith said, even though he could probably stay on his own. Richie is not able to do many of the activities he wants to, he said.

Despite these struggles, Richie has a positive outlook on the changes he has had to make. He describes his diet as the most significant factor, saying that he is now eating healthier foods. Because the brain tumor was removed, Richie is now also having decreased move-

ments on his left side.

“I used to do taekwondo, but I had to stop doing that for a while,” he said.

Throughout it all, Richie has managed to continue pursuing his passions. He is a music lover and a former violin player. Richie had to stop playing instruments because of his decreased mobility, but he still participates in music by deejaying.

“I have to do it with one hand,” Richie said. “I actually deejayed a UTD pool party for the freshmen.”

In support of his struggle, Richie’s friends created a Facebook page for him, titled “Prayers for Richie.” The page so far has 2,145 likes and documents his journey battling brain cancer with photos and events.

Richie’s outgoing personality and positive demeanor have gained him many well-wishers and supporters. “(Richie) is very likeable; he’s like a magnet,” Smith said. “People want to be around him and like to be around him, and it’s fun to be around him.”

Ever since the initial diagnosis, Richie has been going through chemotherapy and radiation treatments. He is currently in a stable period, which his family hopes will continue.

in various events organized by (the Confucius Institute) since a while now as it is an extra way to learn and practice Chinese.”

La Piana said he enjoys the language exchange that occurs between local students and international students from China.

“Most of the people attending the events are Americans, and some of the students are also native Chinese,” he said. “The latter have mostly Chinese friends as it is difficult for them to integrate with American friends, and these events are a really good way to make a diverse group of friends.”

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UTD all-time leader in assists takes role as second-in-command after solid career, aims to be a head coach one day ESTEBAN BUSTILLOS Managing Editor

It was the start of the 2007 basketball season, and the men’s basketball team had traveled to Buffalo, N.Y., to play in a tournament. Assistant coach Travis Carruthers, on the sidelines for the first time, didn’t have any dress shoes.

With no other choice, Carruthers opted to wear a pair of khakis, a sports coat and crocodile-print cowboys boots as the outfit for his professional debut.

As he walked out onto the court during pregame warm ups, head coach Terry Butterfield got a chance to react to his assistant’s wardrobe for the first time.

“I remember walking on the court and (Butterfield) stops on the way to the bench while our team is about to warm up and he goes, ‘Did you really wear cowboy boots?’” Carruthers said. “And I kind of chuckled and was like, ‘Yeah.’ And he goes, ‘Don’t do it again.’”

Carruthers, now in his eighth year of coaching for the Comets, has come a long way since the early days of his career. Before his days as a coach, he spent his time resetting the record books for the Comets.

Before graduating, Carruthers left with the program’s high marks for assists (411), assists per game (4.3) and free throw percentage (.878). Although he eventually found success with the team, Carruthers’ career didn’t initially go as planned.

“His strength was an issue, initially,” Butterfield said. “He basically sat the entire first year on the bench and really didn’t get much of an opportunity at all, maybe some mop up minutes here and there.”

Butterfield said he initially thought that Carruthers wouldn’t be very impactful for the team.

During his first year, Butterfield told Carruthers that he had to be more physical because he wasn’t quick or fast enough, Carruthers said. After that first season, he spent his entire summer in the weight room and in the gym working on getting bigger, he said.

“My buddies were out going to the lake and doing fun things, and they would call me and I would say, ‘Hey, I’ve got to work out after work,’” he said. “I would work all day, and I would go and spend time in the gym and spend time in the weight room,

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Carruthers is now in his eighth year as an assistant coach for UTD. Prior to that, he played his collegiate career as a Comet, leaving his mark as the program’s all-time leader in assists.

because I had a passion for it. I had a passion, and I had a goal in mind that I wanted to play and I wanted to be a difference maker.”

Coming back for his second season, he still wasn’t getting a lot of playing time. That all changed after Butterfield had become frustrated with the play of his point guards. He decided to start Carruthers out of desperation, Butterfield said.

That decision proved to have a tremendous payoff for the Comets, as Carruthers helped the team earn its first ever ASC championship and a spot in the NCAA tournament.

Carruthers’ role on the floor was more of a floor general, dishing the ball to his teammates to score, which helped him lead the team in assists that year.

He said he always had an eye for passing the ball.

“Me — as a person and as a player — I think they mimic each other,” Carruthers said. “I really enjoy the success of others if I have a hand in it.”

As his career progressed, he would continue to help his team reach that success. In his last year, the team once again made history by being the only Division III team to defeat a Division I opponent when it took down UT Arlington.

As his playing days came to a close, Carruthers already knew he wanted to be a coach, something he said he decided when he was a freshman in high school. He went to school with the intention of getting a teaching certificate and coaching at the high school level.

That all changed the summer after his last season. While he was working at the Activity Center

and helping with basketball camps, Butterfield approached Carruthers with the proposition of being his assistant.

“That was the first moment that I had ever even thought of being a college coach,” Carruthers said.

“It had never even entered my mind.”

Carruthers had to learn several important details of the job at the collegiate level on the run, he said.

Mainly, he had to learn the importance of the distance a coach has to have with a player.

“The first thing that (Butterfield) told me was ‘If you’re going to do this, you were teammates with these guys, you were social with these guys … you’ve got to be able to separate that now,’” he said. “‘You cannot be social with them. You can be friends with them, but it’s to an extent.’”

Carruthers said this was the biggest thing Butterfield pushed. Along with that, he also had to learn the ins and outs of recruiting on the fly. It was the one thing he had no idea how to do, Carruthers said, but it has now become the one aspect of the job that he cherishes more than anything.

“I really love recruiting because I really know what (Butterfield) wants from a player,” he said. “And I’ve got to go and find those qualities in a player and in a person and see if UT Dallas is a valid option and go about getting them here.”

As head of recruiting, Carruthers has been able to find players such as Kyle Schleigh, who went on to leave as the program’s all-time leader in scoring.

More importantly for Butterfield, Carruthers hasn’t simply bowed down and agreed with the head coach on every decision.

“He’s a great sounding board,” Butterfield said.

“If I say ‘I think it’s this way.’ If he doesn’t believe it, then he’s going to tell me ‘I don’t agree with you.’ …

The primary goal of the assistant coach is to assist the head coach, and he does that beautifully.”

Carruthers said he one day aspires to be a head coach, something Butterfield thinks will happen.

“I know that once he gets a chance to take hold of a program, everybody better watch out,” Butterfield said. “I tell him all the time ‘We’ve got to get you out of here, for your own personal, professional development. But, I’m going to be crying the whole way.”

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Mallory McAdams didn’t think she was going to be a basketball coach.

After her playing days at the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor were over, McAdams spent several years trying to get a job as a physical therapist. Even though she worked at a physical therapy clinic, her goal was to work with patients who had just come out of surgery.

“I applied to literally every single hospital in Dallas and didn’t get a call back,” she said.

It was during this time she realized she wanted to get back into the game. She reached out to head coach Polly Thomason to let her know she was available to work in a coaching capacity.

Three years later, McAdams is still in the game as Thomason’s assistant.

Her road to the coaching position started when she picked up basketball as a child in Robinson, a small suburb of Waco. She played many sports as a child, but she enjoyed basketball the most.

“I just had a particular passion for it,” she said. “I loved the way the game was exciting. I felt natural in the game … I just loved basketball because it was intense competition from tip to buzzer.”

Basketball brought out her competitive side more than anything else, she said. McAdams especially loved the aggression and hyperactivity of the game.

Despite her love for these aspects of the game, she went into college playing an entirely different sport.

She originally went to McClennan Community College to play golf on a scholarship.

“I clicked with (golf ) as well,” McAdams said.

“It came naturally to me. It was different because it taught me a lot about myself on learning on how to control my emotions and stuff like that. Mainly, my dad got me into it, and everybody was like, ‘Dang, you’re pretty good; you might want to keep doing this.’”

She stayed on the green during her first year at McClennan, but she said the game started to burn her out. Adding to this was McAdams’ desire to return to basketball. She said she knew in her gut that if she was putting in a substantial amount of

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McAdams (left) with head coach Polly Thomason (right). McAdams, now in her third year as Thomason’s assistant, played four years at the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor before coming to UTD.

time and effort for a game, she wanted it to be on the hardwood.

Unfortunately, McAdams had spent an entire year away from the game, making it much more difficult for her to be recognized by collegiate coaches.

Luckily, Kim Kirkpatrick, a coach from a rival high school who had seen McAdams play in her prep days had recently gotten a job at the collegiate level.

McAdams contacted her high school coach to let him know she needed help getting back in the game, and he contacted Kirkpatrick, who extended an invitation for McAdams to play under her at UMHB. Taking a year off didn’t help McAdams make a smooth transition to college basketball. She was used to playing every minute of every game that she played in, but she hardly got a minute of playing time in her rookie season, McAdams said.

“I barely saw the floor, and when I did it was not good,” she said. “I was just kind of scatter brained. I was trying to figure it all out, and I was angry because I was not doing good. I wasn’t doing what I thought I could do.”

McAdams contemplated quitting, but she said she pushed herself through because this was something she knew she had to do. The challenges put a chip on her shoulder to push herself to be better, she said.

The summer after her first year at UMHB she worked to improve her game. With the starting guard from her freshman year graduating, there was an obvious opportunity to take her spot, McAdams said. Her confidence level was much higher, something that helped her earn the starting point guard spot.

During her time as a starter at UMHB, McAdams helped the Crusaders to several monumental victories, including the school’s first ever ASC Western

division championship. Along with that, the team was able to break Howard Payne’s home court winning streak, which had stood over a season.

After her playing days were over and she had earned her master’s degree in education, the opportunity for McAdams to coach popped up when the assistant coach’s spot opened at UTD. Head coach Polly Thomason, who coached against McAdams while she was at UMHB, said seeing her play encouraged her to bring her on.

“She was a great leader for her team,” Thomason said. “Inspirational, motivational, always played hard. Tough nose. Just one of those kids you wished you could have coached because she worked her tail off every game, every possession.”

Thomason said she was wanted to find someone who could match her work ethic and had a desire to help build the program, something she saw in McAdams.

As a member of Thomason’s coaching staff, McAdams is in charge of strength and conditioning for the team. She said her background in physical therapy helps with this aspect of the job. McAdams’ personality is another trait that’s assisted her at being productive on the job. “(The players) will come to 6 a.m. practice and Christmas music is blaring, and that’s when it’s not Christmas time,” she said. “I’m very energetic; I try to be positive. I try to get them going whenever it’s not easy to get them going.”

Another aspect of the job that McAdams said she has realized is crucial is the personal support she offers the players. She described the role akin to being like a mom with coaches constantly checking up on players just to see if they’re doing OK or to see if there is anything they need.

McAdams said she still feels like she has a lot to learn about the profession and that she doesn’t feel comfortable entertaining thoughts of being a head coach just yet. Still, she feels like she is in a good position, especially because her goals and the goals of the program match up.

“My biggest goal is I want our girls to leave here and be like, ‘That was awesome!’ I want them to have a good experience,” she said. “I want them to leave here and cherish everything about the experience they had because that’s what it’s all about … That’s the number one part of our philosophy … and that’s what I try to do.”

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immigration lawyer. She tried reaching out to her for help, but the lawyer was traveling and couldn’t be reached.

Several other lawyers refused to take the case, Cortes said.

“Nobody could do anything except wait it out,” Zapote said.

Three days later, the immigration lawyer Cortes interned for got back to them. She said she could get Zapote out if Cortes could pay $5,000 in bail. Thankfully, their mother had managed to save up that much, and Zapote was finally out of jail on bail.

“It was really scary,” Zapote said. “I didn’t want to go out after that. I just wanted to stay at home.”

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factors, including not having a criminal record, providing proof of residency in the country for at least five years and proof that they were in the United States on Nov. 20.

The amount of back taxes to be paid has not been made clear, and no stipulations or paths have been determined to grant these new applicants citizenship or permanent residency.

The application process is very complicated, and even those who qualify might not have the money to pay all the back taxes required to register.

There is also a fear in the community that filing for documentation will help the Department of Homeland Security flag them.

With a new president in office in 2016, there appears to be a high likelihood the order might be repealed, leaving millions of undocumented immigrants who have identified themselves in danger of deportation, Garcia said.

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people who served in Vietnam,” McColl said.

“The vast majority did serve honorably, and the majority was actually volunteers. There were draftees as well, and even of the ones drafted, a huge number say they are proud they served. It’s around 91-92 percent.”

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When Zapote got out of jail, the lawyer found their paperwork from 2001, and in 2011 Cortes and her mother became residents of the United States.

Zapote qualified as a beneficiary under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, and could finally obtain a social security number and a driver’s license.

For a long time, Zapote was unable to get a college degree because he didn’t qualify for financial aid if he didn’t have documents. He had to take one course at a time at Richland College for his associate’s degree in teaching because he couldn’t afford to be enrolled full time, he said. After 2009, when he qualified for DACA, he was able to continue his education and receive financial aid.

“You could finally go to school without being scared of what’s going to happen to you and if you’re going to get arrested or not,” Zapote said. “The fear of being deported and (having to) go back to Mexico — I don’t think I was going to be able to start over again.”

Cortes was able to pay in-state tuition at UTD

due to the Texas Nordic Act in 2001 that allowed undocumented children who had lived in Texas for five years to qualify for in-state tuition.

However, the life of undocumented immigrants is far from easy, she said.

Venturing outside their apartment was never riskfree, Cortes said, and when her brother started driving at age 16, she would get into the truck and be on the look out for cops.

“When you see a cop your heart sinks in your stomach,” she said.

When he was 14 years old, Zapote started working at a pizza shop. With her mother working two jobs, Cortes would stay alone at home after school until 5 a.m. in the morning. There were times when they would see their mother only once a week.

“It was hard not knowing if she was going to come home at five in the morning or if he was going to come back … if they’re five minutes late you worry,” Cortes said.

The immigration reforms announced on Nov. 20 were a step in the right direction, but by no means sufficient, Cortes said. The community had been

expecting more from the President, and after years of lobbying for rights for parents of DREAMers, it was disappointing to not have them included, she said.

While immigration reforms are one way to look at the problem, the other is to understand why immigrants choose to make this move at all, Cortes said.

“At its core, all the violence and corruption in Mexico is one of the reasons why. It’s cultural as well,” she said.

The cost of legal immigration is higher than most Mexicans can afford and poverty is high in the country, so most families think they have a better shot if they cross the border, make some money and send it back home.

If there was any way workers from Mexico could be provided seasonal visas or Mexico could be deemed a dangerous state thus granting asylum to refugees from there, then the number of undocumented immigrants would likely decrease, she said.

“We’re not trying to harm anybody; we’re not trying to take other people’s jobs,” Zapote said. “We’re just trying to have a better life.”

executive order, I would not go anywhere near it.

People are saying, ‘My parents get to come out of the shadows,’ — well, just for two years.”

With a Republican-controlled Congress, the possibility of such a law anytime soon seems bleak, Garcia said.

If the action is repealed, then all these undocumented immigrants who have informed their employers and have been marked as undocumented by the DHS are left with two options: to go back into the shadows or get deported, she said.

“The only way the Democrats are going to get any kind of compromise from the Republican Party is if they secure the borders,” Garcia said.

Another argument that most opponents of immigration reform forget is that providing resident status to undocumented immigrants makes it harder for people to hide, said Daniel Guest, UTD LULAC’s ESL co-chair.

It is important for opponents to understand that not knowing anything about millions of undocumented immigrants in the nation makes it easier for those with criminal intent to hide and take advantage of the flawed legal system, he said.

It allows such criminals to enjoy benefits from a

network of resources, including businesses that create fake passports and social security cards that were originally created for undocumented immigrants.

Guest said it was equally important to understand that sometimes the law itself is not the priority and the people involved are more important, particularly for Texas where a large number of the residents are Hispanic immigrants.

Deportation is hardly a solution, Garcia said, whose father has worked with border security for years.

“You deport them, they’ll come back,” she said.

The opposition from Congress and the GOP was entirely political, Sanchez said, and both want to champion the cause without letting the other take credit for it.

What the order did was open the door for Congress to take the lead and enact a law after several rejections, he said.

Meanwhile, Texas is already looking to introduce a bill that will repeal in-state tuition for undocumented immigrant children and Gov. Greg Abbott made it no secret during his campaign that he would support such a bill, Garcia said.

“It concerns me,” she said. “I’m scared for the

future that we have a governor who does not have concern for his constituents.”

Close to 50,000 Hispanic high school children become eligible to vote each year, said Program Coordinator in the Office of Diversity Abigail Cortes.

The challenge is to channel this young demographic into voting for those who will fight for them, said Cortes, a LULAC activist and DREAMer. In the recent elections, 56 percent of Hispanic male voters and 46 percent of Hispanic women voters in Texas voted for Abbott because Democratic candidate Wendy Davis was seen to be pro-abortion rights, and Hispanics are predominantly Catholic, Garcia said.

It is educating such people about candidates and about voting for priority causes that will ultimately benefit them, she said. That is the next crucial step in making sure leaders in favor of sustainable immigration reform are elected.

In the end, public opinion, from both immigrants and nonimmigrants, and a consensus between different immigrant groups is what will benefit the cause, Cortes said.

The Wall That Heals is especially important to UTD because the university educates, employs and aids many veterans.

“We are a veteran-friendly campus,” McColl said. “We have over 600 student veterans, including one that is a Vietnam War veteran, and we have 150 of our faculty and staff who are documented veterans.”

UTD’s Center for Brain Health works with veterans to help recover and improve brain performance and overcome Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and traumatic injuries.

The Vietnam Veteran’s Memorial Fund seeks to educate all generations about the impact of the Vietnam War, and the fund employs a mobile education center that holds displays of pictures of some of the soldiers

whose names are on the wall, as well as memorabilia.

“Part of the Vietnam Veteran’s Memorial Fund website talks about that it’s not just there for that generation. It is for the current generation of students and other young people who were born after the war and would have no knowledge of it,” McColl said. “It’s there as a marker for other generations to learn from.”