A group of 1943 Daily Tex-an articles that announced the beginning of dead week reveal that students’ views, study methods and attitudes surrounding final exams haven’t changed much in the last 70 years.

“As certain as death and taxes, those final examina-tions are just a week away, but what a week,” one of the articles said. “Stock in anti-sleep tablets, hot black coffee, and other sleep chasers will

soar to the heights, as stu-dents who now haven’t worn the gloss off their books re-ally get down and DIG!”

Much to the disdain of health care professionals, the words “coffee” and “Adderall” are commonly heard around campus at this time of year. In one of the 1943 articles, titled “Students Who Cram To Get Out of Jam Sleep Past Exam,” a former University Health Services director ad-vised students against using unnatural methods to stay awake during finals week. Dean of Women Dorothy Gebauer chimed in, warn-ing students that last-minute cramming and attempted all-nighters could result in oversleeping on exam day.

Even without sleep depri-vation, studying for finals

Two men were injured in a shooting around 11:45 a.m. at a construction site near the intersection of Rio Grande Street and Martin Luther King Boulevard, according to Austin police.

UT officials sent a Uni-versity-wide announcement about the incident via email at 12:38 p.m. According to the statement, no one con-nected with the University was involved in the incident.

“There is no threat to cam-pus as both the victim and the suspect are in custody,” officials said in the email.

Anna Sabana, APD public information officer, said the department received a distur-bance call at 11:43 a.m. and both of the injuries were gun-shot wounds. Sabana said no one else was hurt.

Both men were transported to University Medical Center Brackenridge. Hospital officials said they could not give up-dates on the men’s conditions.

Biology junior Cecilia Vichier-Guerre said she drove by the scene shortly af-ter the shots were fired.

“My mom heard about it first, then we were driving to-gether and we saw all of the cop cars around the area,” Vichier-Guerre said. “There were a lot, maybe like 10 cop cars … they really had it down.”

Vichier-Guerre, who lives at the French House Co-op, about one block away from where the shooting took place, said the incident did not affect her sense of safety.

When Texas hit a bump in the road in the 2012-13 sea-son, it needed to rebuild its chemistry, its school confi-dence and its recruiting pro-gram. The Longhorns went from losing in the first round in the lowly regarded College Basketball Invitational in 2013 to advancing to the Round of 32 in the NCAA Tournament in 2014, despite an offseason in which they seemed to lose more talent than they gained.

And it was that kind of turnaround and ability to do more with less that paid off in more ways than wins, as center Myles Turner, ranked the No. 2 recruit in the class of 2014 by ESPN, committed to Texas on Wednesday in a nationally televised event.

“Just watching Texas work last year, they’re a real blue-collared program,” Turner told

ESPN at his televised decision. “The only reason I’m here is through hard work, and that’s what Texas has done and can do in the future. I really like

their work ethic down there.”As the highest-rated Tex-

as recruit since No. 1 Avery Bradley in 2009, Turner im-mediately propels an already

promising Longhorn team to among the top programs in the country.

While Student Govern-ment members hope to make student ID cards an eligible form of voter identi-fication, some students have raised concerns about what this would mean for undoc-umented students.

Adam Sacks, a College of Natural Sciences represen-tative, said he is concerned that if student ID cards be-come a valid form of voter ID, the cards might visibly

show the students’ citizen-ship status.

“I want to be sure there would be nothing that can incriminate the undocu-mented students on our campus,” Sacks said.

SG President Kori Rady said he hopes the necessary information would all be stored inside the IDs, so if a student were undocument-ed, it would not be visible on the card.

“We wouldn’t alienate anyone through this entire process,” Rady said. “From

our initial understanding, [student ID cards] wouldn’t look any different from the way they do now.”

Bradley Englert, chief information officer of In-formation Technology Ser-vices, said if legislators were to amend the voter ID law to allow this, which would be necessary in order to make any changes to the current voter ID system, a student’s date of birth would have to be added to the ID.

“Some people might not be comfortable with that,”

Englert said. “Some of our students aren’t U.S. citizens, so we’d also have to figure out how to convey that.”

On Tuesday, the SG As-sembly unanimously passed resolution AR 6: In Sup-port of Student Identifica-tion Cards from Institutes of Higher Education Meeting Voter Requirements in the State of Texas.

Some acceptable forms of voter identification in Texas include a Texas driver’s li-cense, a U.S. passport, a U.S. citizenship certificate

or a concealed handgun license. Currently, student ID cards are not an eligible form of voter identification in Texas.

Chris Jordan, SG chief of staff and author of the legis-lation, said the current voter ID system contributes to low student turnout in elections.

“Not having a stable form of ID for students who are out of state and don’t live in the Austin area, it’s re-ally hard for them to be

On a hot August morn-ing in 1966, Charles Whit-man shot 48 people from the observation deck of the UT Tower in a shooting spree that lasted more than an hour and a half. In Elizabeth Crook’s latest novel “Mon-day, Monday,” she portrays the tragedy through the eyes of three UT students and recounts their journey over the following 40 years as they reconcile what they wit-nessed.

“Monday, Monday,” which was released Tuesday, is Crook’s fourth historical fiction novel. The book re-counts the intertwined lives of fictitious UT students Shelly Maddox, Wyatt Cal-vert and Jack Stone, who meet as they all find them-selves on the plaza during the shooting.

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“It doesn’t make me feel any less safe or anything,” Vichier-Guerre said.

Radio-television-film se-nior Ivan Ovalle said he was surprised when he received the university email notifi-cation about the shooting.

“It sounded like the wild west or something,” Ovalle said. “It’s really bizarre.”

The shooting occurred at the construction site for the Pointe On Rio, a six-story student housing complex. The contractor, General Contractor Sky-line Commercial, Inc. was not available for comment.

adequately represented,” Jordan said. “I think this is something that’s not only incredibly tangible but also incredibly helpful.”

Jordan said he has re-ceived support from ad-ministrators and students and would continue re-searching states with strict laws like Texas that allow the use of college IDs.

According to the Na-tional Conference of State Legislatures, 34 states have passed laws requiring voters to show some form of identifi-cation at polls, and the remaining 19 states use other methods to verify a voter’s identity.

Virginia will implement new voter ID laws in July that will make a student ID issued by any institute of higher learning in the state an acceptable form of identification. Thirteen states currently allow vot-ers to use a student ID card issued by a school within the state, according to the National Confer-ence of State Legislatures.

“Texas is really unique that this law is so strict,” Jordan said.

often takes a toll on a student’s emotional stability — espe-cially when multiple exams are piled on the same day.

“Majorie Campbell, busi-ness administration student from Roaring Springs, had four exams Tuesday and Wednesday,” one of the ar-ticles said. “She remarked Tuesday that she would jump off the tower but she hated not to get credit for this se-mester’s work.”

Other students took ad-vantage of the week off from school.

“Picture shows, late dates, slumber parties, letter-writ-ing, and Barton’s furnish plenty of entertainment for dead weekers,” one of the ar-ticles said. “The truth is, dead week is more alive today than it was back in 1904, when it started. … As the years passed stricter enforcement of exist-ing rules and extended regu-lations have helped to make

dead week a well-known time for both students and faculty, even if it might not be the real review period it should be.”

The Texan humorously im-plemented its own check sys-tem to enforce dead week rules, wrapping up the articles with a simple promise: “The Daily Texan will publish accounts of dead week violations.”

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While many students resign themselves to bad grades or use poor scores to motivate them-selves to study harder for finals, students of Marlone Hender-son’s Introduction to Psychol-ogy class started an online pe-tition to ask their professor to raise their grades, claiming the grade distribution in the class was significantly worse than in previous PSY 301 classes.

“We, the undersigned, request that every grade of every student in our Intro-duction to Psychology class is increased by a minimum of 5 points … The percentage of students in our class with an A average is 6% — that is well below a historical aver-age of 33.2% (averaged from a total of ten PSY 301 classes from the past),” the petition said. “As a result of this dis-crepancy, we are concerned.”

The 33.2 percent average, which was calculated from MyEdu according to class

member Jason Dayvault, an accounting and history senior, includes both A and A- grades.

James Pennebaker, Intro-duction to Psychology profes-sor and chair of the depart-ment, said the average number of A students in PSY 301 has historically been much lower than 33 percent. According to Pennebaker, the percentage of students who made A’s in the class was 15.6 percent in 2011, 15.1 percent in 2012 and 22 percent in 2013.

“Note that 2013 was an abnormality because of the change in our grading ap-proach,” Pennebaker said. “It will likely return to around 15 percent next year.”

These classes do not use the plus-minus system as Hender-son’s class does. Henderson’s class exam average for students in the A-range is 16.8 percent.

Madison Yeats, a communi-cations sciences and disorders freshman, is a student of Hen-derson’s who said she stands firmly behind the petition.

“An exam would poten-

tially cover 200-300 pages of reading plus the random lecture topics chosen for said time-period for the exam,” Yeats said in an email. “Even with intensive studying and a clear understanding of the material, you could perform inadequately on the exam. … It has been extremely stress-ful and caused much anger with me and other people af-filiated with this class.”

Henderson, who does not plan to change class grades in response to the petition, said he wished the petition had been written earlier in the year because he said it provides a strong psychological case study.

“I think what it reflects … somebody doesn’t have the grades they want … and so they’re looking for attribution, explanations,” Henderson said. “You can either look to yourself or look to the situation to ex-plain [a grade] — I think [the petition] is just a salient feature in the environment that people can use to explain an outcome that they’re not happy with.”

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Introductory psychology students start petition for grade increases

Lauren Ussery / Daily Texan StaffStudents in Marlone Henderson’s Introduction to Psychology class have recently created a petition asking for a raise in grades.

By Leila Ruiz@leilakristi

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For politics, no better choice than UT-Austin

Editor’s Note: In anticipation of the May 1 deadline for admitted high-school students to choose to attend the University, we asked student leaders on campus to tell us why they came to UT. Their responses will appear on the opinion page through Thursday.

In all honesty, I had not planned on coming to UT as a high school senior. But, at the end of the day, when I compared the cost of attend-ing private East Coast universities to that of attending UT, it was clear which one was the better choice. I don’t regret my decision be-cause I liked the majors that I chose, especially Plan II Honors and government. I had always been interested in politics, but it was at UT that I was able to pursue that interest through all the internships that were available in Austin and through having great professors who had real-world political experience. There was no bet-ter place for me as a Republican to explore my

opportunities in politics than UT. As president of the College Republicans at Texas, I met Gov. Rick Perry, U.S. Senator John Cornyn, Land Commissioner candidate George P. Bush and many other elected officials.

My word of advice to high school students still unsure about which universities to attend is to look at the rankings for the program they were accepted into. For me, Plan II Honors was ranked as the third best honors program in the nation, and government was ranked first in Texas. Also, think about the location. Austin is a fun city, and there is so much more to do here than in the Rio Grande Valley, where I am from. If cost is your biggest con-cern, like it was for me, I think you’ll struggle to find a school where you’ll get a better re-turn on your investment.

With that said, I’ll be attending law school here starting this fall, and it was easy for me to decide to stay for another three years. I hope students who are still unsure will think hard about attending UT. It’s not for every-one. There are those who dropped out or transferred to other schools, but there are also those who would give anything to get into UT. Luckily, those who already got in just have to make a decision, which I know isn’t always an easy one. I hope these students will attend UT.

Hung is a Plan II senior and president of Col-lege Republicans. He will be graduating in May.

Editor’s Note: In anticipation of the May 1 deadline for admitted high school students to choose to attend the University, we asked student leaders on campus to tell us why they came to UT. Their responses will appear on the opinion page through Thursday.

I’ve made two really good decisions in my life. The first was convincing my parents to get me a Super Nintendo as a kid. The other was deciding to attend UT.

Admittedly, the latter decision was a little more thought-out. As a Houston native, I made the mental calculation that Austin was close enough for me to regularly visit my family yet far enough away for me to mature independently.

It’s been about five years now since I sub-mitted my application to attend Texas’ pre-mier university. In truth, it was the only university to which I seriously applied — I submitted an application for another school but only because my high school English teacher required it for a major grade. In those five years, I’ve never once — and I mean that — regretted packing up my things and making a beeline to Austin.

Since that initial migration, I’ve enjoyed a long, rewarding journey here at the Univer-sity. During the past two semesters, I’ve lived

and interned in the nation’s capital. As a Bill Archer Fellow in fall 2013, I was privileged to share a classroom and home with some of the most brilliant, motivated and kind-hearted students attending the UT system. Throughout these and other opportunities, I’ve had great confidants like Damir Ljuboja and Kingsley Nwaogu to keep me grounded.

This journey, nonetheless, has not been without its bumps. As one of the few black males on campus, I’ve been the target of racial slurs and, once, a fortunately poorly aimed bleach-filled balloon. This is not in-tended to discourage minority students from coming to Texas, but to make them aware that bigots call this campus home, too. In the long run, I am confident that your amazing experiences at the University will render these unfortunate rendezvous with prejudice inconsequential.

I graduate from this institution in less than three weeks, and the feeling is bitter-sweet. Of course, I’m ready to move on — I’m certainly not planning on doing a victory lap. But these days, I often find myself kick-ing back and reflecting on the good ol’ days at the University. So, I say, come to Texas. I promise you will leave a better human being.

Nwaogu is a government and liberal arts honors senior from Houston. Among his jobs in Washington this academic year, he interned at the White House Office of Public Engagement.

UT, despite issues, offers unmatched opportunity

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Editor’s Note: A -30- column is a chance for a departing staff member to recollect about his time at The Daily Texan.

I first came to The Daily Texan two years ago as a senior fresh off my exchange to Brazil. During that trip I was asked by Hannah Jane DeCiutiis, then a reporter in the Daily Texan news department, to comment on sociology professor Mark Regnerus’ gay-parenting study and its potential effects. When I returned to campus, I realized I wanted to contribute fur-ther to the ongoing discussion around Regn-erus’ study and the larger questions it raised. I wrote a guest column about the importance of personal parental sacrifice, the editors liked it, I applied as an opinion columnist and was lucky enough to be selected. I wrote, rushed, fretted and celebrated through two years of being a columnist because I wanted to join the local, state, national and global debates in which our University was involved. I was not disappoint-ed. I was lucky to have two thoughtful editors, Susannah Jacob and Laura Wright, and a host of associate editors and fellow columnists who challenged me to make my columns more ac-cessible and organize my sometimes muddled thoughts before they reached print.

When I was mired in self-doubt and anxiety as a writer, frustrated by a complicated story or simply tired of the weekly grind of the news-room, I would remember President Theodore Roosevelt’s speech at the Sorbonne expound-ing upon civic duties. He warned his audience against inordinate materialism and asked them to stay “in the arena,” where they could pro-duce relevant knowledge for worthy causes. I’ve made my fair share of mistakes, but I hope to have made some impact on UT’s conversa-tion. But what does the UT “arena” look like?

Being a student-writer has been a privilege for me. Balancing my undergraduate thesis, and later my graduate work, while churning out columns was sometimes a pain. But consistent writing kept me on my toes and in tune with some of the happenings of our University that I normally wouldn’t have delved into. I got the chance to sit through and cover events ranging from workers’ rights in the Caribbean to envi-ronmental conferences. I was able to shed light on debates about appropriating the past, such as the meaning of Thanksgiving and the complexi-ties of Holocaust comparisons. I got to cover key aspects of student life ranging from non-violent protest to our financial situation, to stories as or-dinary as how to talk with someone who begs on the drag. Most interestingly, I got to “follow the money” of various UT centers, government scholarships, outside think-tanks and UT re-search to raise questions about what goes on

“behind the scenes.” I thank all of those sources who contributed to my stories, on and off the record, to better inform my opinions and refine my message to our readers.

Without these sources, their patience, and most importantly their time, my stories would be nothing more than the frivolous statuses I post each second on Facebook or Twitter. I thank those sources with whom I disagree for sharing their views and expertise and for fur-thering the conversation.

Institutions, UT included, must be pushed to do the right thing. “Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free,” the phrase on the UT Tower, is a warning against attaching the Longhorn logo to sub-standard distortions, misrepresentations and hidden agendas. Nev-ertheless, UT has shown itself willing to sup-port sub-par research until the backlash creates a liability for the University’s “business brand.” Therefore, our job as student journalists is to create a liability for UT when it fails to prop-erly vet the research it promotes, fails to rethink questionable partnerships on UT restructuring plans and fails to promptly speak out against abuse and misreporting, by its employees or others, of the University’s “core competency” of serious scholarship. As student journalists, we need to drive home the message that, at a time where the University is considered a business, we the students are not the “raw material” but rather, the stockholders, without whom the Uni-versity’s mission is nothing but that of another nameless think-tank. As journalists, we should remember that although everyone is welcome on our opinion page, UT officials already have a megaphone and don’t need another pulpit. In-stead, they need an adversary — a devil’s advo-cate. In short, we have responsibilities too.

As journalists, as students and as scholars, let us not be “cold and timid souls” afraid of the powerful and complacent in our privileges. Whether reaching a casual or avid Texan reader or employing a staff writer and occasional con-tributor, it’s my hope that The Daily Texan con-tinues to strengthen its role as a serious voice “in the arena” of the University’s vigorous debate.

-30-Knoll is a first-year master’s student in Latin

American studies from Dallas. He has worked as a columnist and guest columnist since fall 2012.

Texan must remember its role in campus debate

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By Travis KnollGuest Columnist

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By Daniel HungGuest Columnist

GALLERY

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Bike theft presents a persistent problem on university campus

By Francisco DominguezDaily Texan Columnist

Institutions, UT included, must be pushed to do the right thing. ‘Ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free,’ the phrase on the Tower, is a warning against attaching the Longhorn logo to sub-standard distortions, misrep-resentations and hidden agendas.

There was no better place for me as a Republican to explore my oppor-tunities in politics than UT.

Illustration by Hannah Hadidi / Daily Texan Staff

After turning a sharp corner by the Stu-dent Activity Center, I took a hard hit to the ground and ended up damaging the gears of my bike. In the melee of tests and extracur-ricular demands, I left my bike locked and unattended by the Gates Dell Complex over the weekend as I went out of town. I rest-ed assured that if my bike was secured and unrideable, no one would take it — which couldn’t have been further from the truth.

If you’re a bike rider like myself, you un-derstand my pain. My mode of transporta-tion was stolen; my form of stress-relief was taken. If you’re not a cyclophile, imagine the feeling of having a couple thousand dollars taken from you.

Thursday marks the first day of Bike Month, so it is only fitting to delve into how such bike losses could have been avoided.

Austin is ranked in the top 10 worst bike theft cities, making UT students extremely susceptible. Over 1,000 bicycle thefts have been reported to UTPD in the past 7 years. In 2013 there was a 47 percent decrease in

reported bike thefts, from an average of 164 a year since 2007 to only 87 last year.

Officer William Pieper of the Crime Pre-vention Unit believes the implementation of the bike-bait program has made the dif-ference, where a bike implanted with a GPS tracking device is left in hot-spots to tempt thieves. Pieper believes there are a select few individuals who repeatedly prey on bikes left on campus. This program allows for almost immediate justice against an identified perpe-trator. Punishing repeat offenders repels others who consider playing with the same fire.

Evidently, sole reliance on the police is a fool-hardy move. As the timeless truism goes: Pre-vention is always better than cure. Woefully, the current systems in place handle the latter. When asked, Pieper’s best advice was, “At bare mini-mum, use a U-Lock. Double lock it with a cable for peace of mind.” UTPD has tried preventing bike theft by collaborating with professor Glo-ria Lee’s Design and Persuasion class to create an online tutorial of how to properly double lock your bike. It’s good to note that according to records, this method has only been reported stolen seven times in the last 20 years. Other students like myself have had to learn the hard way that individual responsibility of how and where you lock your bike is ultimately the key.

Dominguez is a biology junior from San Antonio.

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Cortney Sanders, the 2014 J.J. “Jake” Pickle Citizenship Award

recipient, is a senior government major. The award recognizes a

student who exhibits exemplary leadership, citizenship and service - all

qualities that are exemplified by Cortney. Cortney has been a leader

in several organizations such as the Political Action Chair with Black

Student Alliance, an orientation advisor with New Student Services,

and a Peer Advisor in the College of Liberal Arts - Department of

Government. In addition she has extensive volunteer, fellowship and

research experience through national organizations such as the Texas

League of Young Voters, CHAMP (Citizens Housing and Motivation

Program), the Archer Program at UT, and the J.J. Pickle Research

Institute.

In 2012, Cortney showcased her leadership skills when she served

as a student representative for the Fisher vs. The University of Texas

case. For this role she wrote an op-ed piece in the Daily Texan about

the importance of diversity on campus and in students’ future careers.

She also was inspired during her time as a J.J. “Jake” Pickle Junior

Analyst to conduct independent research on the evolution of the

T H E U N I V E R S I T Y U N I O N S A DV I S O RY C O U N C I Lcongratulates

CORTNEY SANDERS2014 Recipient of the

J. J. “Jake” Pickle citizenshiP award In 1999 the Texas Union Advisory Council created an endowed campus-wide student award to

honor the career and achievements of the late Congressman J. J. “Jake” Pickle, BA ’38, and to

motivate and inspire University of Texas students to follow his example of public service. The

award is presented annually to an outstanding university student whose contributions to campus

life exemplify the high standards of leadership and service that were the hallmarks of Congressman

Pickle’s life and career.

The award is presented at the spring meeting of the University Unions Advisory Council. The

recipient receives a $5,000 cash award, a certificate, and an autographed copy of Congressman

Pickle’s autobiography, Jake.

Cortney Sanders (left) accepted the Pickle Award from Dr. Gage Paine at the April 11 luncheon of the University Unions Advisory Council.

Photography by Jeff Sladcik

T H E U N I V E R S I T Y U N I O N S A DV I S O RY C O U N C I L congratulates

HOLLAND FINLEY2014 Recipient of the

Pal – Make a difference award Jaspreet Singh Pal, BBA’95, created the Pal - “Make A Difference” Endowment in

The Texas Union in 2006 to support the annual Pal - Make A Difference Award.

The award encourages university leadership and public service by recognizing a

student whose individual program or initiative has made a significant contribution to

campus life or the broader community. The recipient receives a $1,000 cash

award and a certificate.

Holland Finley received the Pal—Make A Difference Award at the University Unions Advisory Council luncheon on April 5.

Photography: Joshua Cook

Holland Finley, the 2013 Pal - Make A Difference Award

recipient, has proven herself to be a very committed and involved

student, one who is truly making a difference both on campus and

beyond. During her freshman year on campus, Holland learned of a

discrepancy between the dispatch of both the UT police department

and Austin police department in that most campus buildings do

not have physical addresses. Holland has since been working with

the UTPD, APD and the Office of Campus Safety and Security to

develop and update their respective organizations and the campus

“Exit Strategy” maps to include addresses and information.

Through her initiative, these organizations have been collaborating

to improve emergency communications and increase the safety and

security on the UT campus.

However her service did not stop there. She has also opened a

discussion between a personal security app “MyForce” and UT that

can continue to bridge the gap between campus security and student

Voting Rights Act of 1965 with the intent to discover the way in

which polarization and partisanship affected votes since the law’s

original passage. Cortney truly embodies the spirit of The University

of Texas at Austin through her dedication and commitment to serve

both the campus and the community.

safety as they walk from campus to their neighborhoods.

These discussions will work to enhance safety for our students, faculty

and staff for the years to come. Holland truly embodies “What Starts

Here Changes the World.”

Photography: Joshua Cook

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6 NEWSThursday, May 1, 2014

SXSW driver remains in jail, hearing reset

A status hearing for Rashad Owens, the driv-er charged in the crash during South By South-west that killed four peo-ple and left more than 20 injured, was reset to June 3.

Police filed the initial charge of capital mur-der after Jamie West, 27, and Steven Craenmehr, 35, died at the scene. Deandre Tatum, 18, and Sandy Le, 26, died in the two weeks following the crash.

Owens is facing one count of capital murder and 24 counts of ag-gravated assault with a deadly weapon. Police say Owens was driving while intoxicated when he fled police and drove a stolen car through a crowd of people on Red River Street on March 13.

Three UT students, Greg Cerna, computer science and electrical engineering sophomore, Maria Belyaeva, com-puter science and radio-television-film sopho-more and computer science sophomore Ryan Freeman, were victims of the crash.

District Court clerk Kay Bennett said Owens’ hearing was rescheduled because his case has not yet been indicted.

Owens has remained in Travis County Jail since his arrest with a bond set at $5.5 mil-lion, according to the Travis County Sheriff ’s Office records.

On March 27, Austin City Council approved a resolution to launch a full-scale review of South By Southwest activities as they re-late to city safety and capacity. Councilman Mike Martinez, who drafted the proposal, said the crash prompted the motion.

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With women outpacing their male counterparts in average GPAs in every college at UT, some faculty members say the reasons could range from gender socialization to the realities of the job market.

Across the University, wom-en had an average GPA of 3.21 while men had an average GPA of 3.12 in fall 2013, accord-ing to data from the Office of Information Management and Analysis.

Differences ranged from the average cumulative GPA of women being 9.1 percent higher than men’s in the Col-lege of Education to 0.3 percent higher in the McCombs School of Business.

According to Catherine Riegle-Crumb, sociology and education associate profes-sor, these differences in GPAs may be a result of gender so-cialization occurring as early as middle school, despite men and women having the same cognitive capabilities.

“Girls tend to work hard-er,” Riegle-Crumb said. “We have cultural expectations of girls to follow rules and do what is expected of them. They are more likely to be able to have the behavioral and social skills that will al-low them to excel.”

According to Riegle-Crumb, the discrepancy be-tween GPAs is not specific to UT. Riegle-Crumb said selec-tive colleges such as UT ad-mit students who are already making higher grades to begin with, which recently have been women. According to the Na-tional Center for Education Statistics, the enrollment rate for degree-granting institu-tions in 2012 was 44.5 percent for women, compared to 37.6 percent for men.

“Kids who work really hard in high school are go-ing to be the ones who work

really hard in college, even though the content changes,” Riegle-Crumb said.

According to sociology professor Chandra Muller, another reason the aver-age GPA of women may be higher is because it is nec-essary for them to invest in their education.

“Women without a col-lege degree are seriously penalized in the labor mar-ket,” Muller said in an email. “Even though there contin-ues to be an earning gap be-tween men and women, that gap is relatively smaller for people with a college degree.”

Muller said the average GPAs reported by the Uni-versity only demonstrate overall patterns, hiding how the variance in GPA may be larger for men than women.

“There are some men who do very well and some who do especially poorly, and the GPA spread is larger among men,” Muller said.

Theatre and dance fresh-man Ryan Lord said he was not surprised to learn that women tend to receive high-er grades than men.

“I guess since women haven’t had as many oppor-tunities in the past, they may be driven to succeed because of the history of women in education,” Lord said. “[But] I don’t think you can general-ize either gender.”

In honor of his decades of fieldwork and teach-ing, the American Acad-emy of Arts & Sciences selected integrative biol-ogy professor Eric Pianka to join its organization Wednesday.

The 75-year-old Pi-anka — whose nickname for Earth is “our one and only spaceship” — said he feels honored to be recog-nized by an academy with past members includ-ing George Washington, Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson.

“I’ve been at UT for 46 years,” Pianka said. “I’ve taught thousands of under-grads in ecology and evo-lution, and I’ve had about 20-plus grad students, most of which, or half of them at least, have tenure track jobs at major universities. So, I’ve been around the block.”

Caitlin Friesen, an ecol-ogy, evolution, and be-havior graduate student,

has worked with Pianka for the past four months as a teaching assistant for his course Ecology, Evolution, and Society. According to Friesen, Pi-anka has an illustrative teaching style.

“He draws on a num-ber of examples from his vast research experience to keep students engaged,” Friesen said. “He places a great deal of empha-sis on the critical need for individuals to think critically about basic principles of ecology and evolution to become bet-ter-informed citizens of the planet Earth.”

Jim Bull, integrative bi-ology professor and acad-emy member, said Pianka’s reputation spans several continents. Bull described Pianka as one of the most celebrated members of inte-grative biology.

“Eric was one of the pi-oneers of a field known as evolutionary ecology, and his text by that title has been in existence for four

full decades, ultimately translated into several languages,” Bull said.

Pianka said because he was always apologiz-ing to his students for the poor quality of the text-books they used when he started teaching at UT in 1968, he decided to write a better one.

“[The textbook] went through six editions as a book and has been trans-lated into five languages: Greek, Japanese, Spanish, Polish and Russian,” Pianka said. “One time I was sitting next to a Russian at a con-ference, and he leaned over and shook my hand and said, ‘In my country, you are famous.’”

Bull said Pianka’s favor-ite organisms are lizards, about which he has written several books.

“Until a few years ago, he commonly traveled to Western Australia every few years to spend months isolated in the desert while measuring changes in lizard diversity,” Bull said.

‘Lizard Man’ receives award for ecological contributions

Andrea Kurth / Daily Texan StaffIntegrated biology professor Eric Pianka holds a model of a lizard on Wednesday after-noon. Pianka was selected to join the American Academy of Arts & Sciences after decades of fieldwork and 46 years at UT.

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Women have higher GPAs in every college

By Alex Wilts@alexwilts

Even though there con-tinues to be an earning hap between men and women, that gap is relatively smaller for people with a college degree.

—Chandra Muller, Sociology professor

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While student-athletes’ schedules tend to leave little time for activities outside of balancing classes and their respective sports, a few ath-letes every year join campus spirit and service organi-zations with the intent of giving back to the commu-nity and broadening their own experiences.

Miles Onyegbule, who recently switched from tight end to quarterback, was selected to join Texas Cowboys, an all-male spirit and service organization, by fellow teammates who are already members of the organization. The group also maintains and operates Smokey, the cannon that gets fired off at Longhorn

football games.“It’s kind of a getaway

from the limelight of foot-ball,” Onyegbule said. “You get to travel around the city and campus doing philan-thropy and service events where the pressures are greatly minimized.”

Texas Cowboys is the University-recognized spirit organization

Onyegbule chose to accept his invitation to the Cow-boys because he believes the positive impact the organiza-tion outweighs the negative connotation it often carries, describing the group mem-bers as self-motivated and well-respected.

“Usually, in the begin-ning, people just think of Cowboys as a party organi-zation, where the [bar] tabs and social events are what

we’re all about,” Onyegbule said. “But students quickly realize what we stand for, and that’s giving back in any way we can.”

Charlie Moore, a senior on the men’s swimming and diving team and a Cowboy, recently competed in his last swim meet at Texas as he heads into the fifth year of his degree as part of the McCombs Schools of Busi-ness’ MPA program. Moore is excited about the opportu-nity to mentor the younger members next year.

“I’m looking forward to spending more time talking to the [new members] about moving forward to continue to move our organization in the right direction,” Moore said. “To change that per-ception of who we are and what we do.”

Moore said he sees simi-larities in being a mem-ber in athletics and in service organizations.

“I think athletics is just as much about contribu-tion to the University as it is [about] self achievement,” Moore said.

M.J. McFarland, a sopho-more tight end from El Paso, is the only athlete who is a member of Texas Silver Spurs. McFarland said his experience thus far has been bittersweet, as being an ath-lete makes it difficult for him to be fully committed and attend all mandatory events, especially with football season approaching.

“Bitter because I couldn’t spend as much time with my fellow Spurs due to my athletic responsibilities,” McFarland said. “Yet sweet

because, when I do spend time with them and hang-out, it is always a good time.”

Silver Spurs is spirit or-ganization responsible for handling all events involving Bevo, the school mascot.

McFarland said the best part of Spurs is being able to interact with people of all different backgrounds. He said stepping out of his com-fort zone and joining as the only athlete has paid off.

“I get the best of both worlds,” McFarland said. “The athlete world and the fraternity world.”

Most of all, as an athlete member of Cowboys and Spurs, you are expected to represent your team by participating in volun-teering and philanthrop-ic service events on and off campus.

But the setting for his announcement — his high school gym in Eu-less — paired with the laundry lists of “thank you’s” he went through speak volumes about his character.

“It’s a great family at-mosphere down there. To join these guys and hopefully do something special next year would mean a lot,” Turner said. “Barnes and his coaching staff have shown a lot of support and expressed to me how special things could be down there, and I believe it.”

With his account-ability, hard work and appreciation for team chemistry, Turner will slide right into a re-cently gelling Texas de-fense. He’ll take pressure off sophomore center Cameron Ridley in the zone and allow junior forward Jonathan Hol-mes to dominate at small forward. Not even the Longhorns’ tallest play-er, sophomore center Prince Ibeh, surpasses Turner’s height.

Turner, who averaged 18.1 points, 12.2 rebounds and 6.8 blocks per game his senior season, will also benefit from fresh-man guard Isaiah Taylor’s speed and penetration and sophomore guard Javan Felix’s ability to spread the floor with his outside shot.

But it is pride and dedication to the Barnes program that will make the difference between a

skilled individual — like many of those whom left after 2013 — and a skilled team player. Turn-er has the Texas pride, as he told ESPN, “I’ve always been a Texan, am happy to be a Texan and there’s a lot of pride for people in the state of Texas so to stay in Texas means a lot to me.”

Turner cited former Longhorn and current NBA All-Star Kevin Du-rant as a factor in his de-cision and a person whose footsteps Turner wants to follow.

“I just wanted to emu-late him — his work ethic — on and off the court,” said Turner, who met Durant in middle school. “Just seeing what he was able to accomplish really inspired me.”

Brimming with pride as he comes to Austin next year, Turner won’t have to travel too far from home. But his journey to Texas — he says it’s always a journey — will bring the Longhorns closer to a tournament appearance in Indianapolis.

On May 16, senior Eliza-beth Begley is not planning on congregating with her fellow sociology majors at the Frank Erwin Center.

Instead, she’ll be on the big stage.

“I won’t be attending my graduation because we’ll be playing in the NCAA Championships at that time,” Begley said.

Begley and her Longhorn teammates must first get past the first two rounds to advance to Athens, Georgia. But the senior is confident in her team’s ability and won’t mind missing out on walking the stage.

“It’s fine with me,” Begley said. “I’ll be out doing the thing I love.”

Heading into the NCAA Championships, Begley holds a 13-9 dual match singles record, including a 9-7 mark at the No. 2 position.

This year has been the roughest of her three full sea-sons. For the last two years, she was the Big 12 Champion at No. 4 and No. 6 singles. Her sophomore year was the best, with a 34-7 record (21-2 dual, 9-0 Big 12).

When her season finally ends, Begley will no longer be walking into the Penick-Alli-son Center every day, going to the movies with teammates or cooling off after a match in an ice bath. Instead, she’ll be in the

“real world.”But, unlike many seniors,

she will leave UT knowing what she wants to do.

“I want to go into college coaching, so I’ll still be around the college scene afterwards,” Begley said. I’ve wanted to do this since I was a sophomore.”

She has prepared herself since that decision, taking classes such as psychology and coaching theory, the lat-ter of which examines the philosophy, ethics, strate-gies, motivational techniques, performance analysis, pro-gram organization, con-test administration and fa-cilities management related to coaching.

Coaching will also allow Begley to do something else.

“I love to travel,” Begley said.

Patty Fendick-McCain, a former player turned head coach, supports Begley’s cho-sen career path.

“It’s a great decision for her,” former player turned head coach Patty Fendick-McCain said. “She has spent a lot of years learning so many differ-ent levels of the game to im-prove her skills. She cares a lot about the people around her and how they do. She’ll give a lot back to other people in that role.”

Fendick-McCain, who won two straight national championships as a player at Stanford and won 26 doubles titles competing in the Women’s Tennis

Association, believes Beg-ley could spend her near future in the pro tour.

“She’s been playing very well,” Fendick-McCain said. “I’d like to see her get her feet wet and see where it takes her. It’s not beyond the realm of possibility for her to make a living playing before she goes into coaching.”

Begley has spent this year as the senior leader, helping to build camaraderie with a multinational squad. Six of the nine Longhorns are in-ternational, with players hail-ing from Canada, England, Lithuania, Belgium, Croatia and India.

“I just push my teammates to perform,” Begley said. “I tell them to think of every match as their last and play their best.”

Whatever comes next for Begley, she will never forget the place she has called home the last four years.

“I’ve spent more time here than anywhere else on cam-pus,” Begley said. “This is where I’ve bled, cried and sweated.”

7STEFAN SCRAFIELD, SPORTS EDITOR / @texansportsThursday, May 1, 2014

SIDELINE

MAVERICKS

SPURS

NBA PLAYOFFS

TRAILBLAZERS

ROCKETS

NETS

RAPTORS

NHL PLAYOFFSFLYERS

RANGERS

WILD

AVALANCHE

KINGS

SHARKS

MLBATHLETICS

RANGERS

NATIONALS

ASTROS

TWITTER REACTION TO MYLES TURNER

DECISION

TODAY IN HISTORY

1991Texas Ranger Nolan Ryan pitches record seventh no hitter.

CAMPUS

Balancing act: spirit groups and sportsSam Ortega / Daily Texan file photo

Senior Myles Onyegbule recently made the switch from tight end to quarterback. Off the field though, Onyegbule was selected to join the Texas Cowboys. He, along with the rest of the all-male spirit organization, helps maintain and operate Smokey, the cannon fired at football games.

TENNIS

By Chris Caraveo@chriscaraveo31

NCAAs and graduation near as Begley looks to the future

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By Courtney Norris@courtneyknorris

MYLES TURNER

2014 Hoop Summit: Height with shoes — 6 feet 11.5 inchesWeight — 242 lbs.Wingspan — 7 feet 3.75 inches

Senior Year Statistics:Points — 17.8Rebounds — 12.2Assists — 1.7

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LOS ANGELES — V. Stivia-no, the woman whom Donald Sterling was talking to when he made racist remarks, is “very saddened” by his lifetime NBA ban and didn’t release the re-cording of their conversation, her lawyer Siamak Nehoray said Tuesday.

Stiviano “never wanted any harm to Donald,” Nehoray told the Los Angeles Times.

Somebody released it for money, but it wasn’t Stiviano, Nehoray said.

“My client is devastated that this got out,” he said.

Nehoray previously said the recording posted online is a snippet of a conversation last-ing roughly an hour.

In the recording, the Los Angeles Clippers owner appar-ently is upset with Stiviano for posting photos online of her-self with Lakers Hall of Famer Magic Johnson and Dodgers outfielder Matt Kemp.

“It bothers me a lot that you

want to broadcast that you’re associating with black people,” Sterling said. “Do you have to?”

The Johnson photo has since been deleted from Stiviano’s In-stagram account.

On Tuesday, NBA Com-missioner Adam Silver con-demned the remarks. He banned Sterling for life from any association with the league or his team, and Silver fined him $2.5 million.

Stiviano has been described as Sterling’s girlfriend.

In March, Sterling’s wife, Rochelle, sued Stiviano, seek-ing the return of more than $2.5 million in lavish gifts the woman reportedly received from her husband, includ-ing luxury cars and a $1.8 million duplex.

The lawsuit claims Stiviano, 31, met Sterling, 80, at the 2010 Super Bowl.

It accuses Stiviano of engag-ing “in conduct designed to target, befriend, seduce, and

then entice, cajole, borrow from, cheat and/or receive as gifts transfers of wealth from wealthy older men whom she targets for such purpose.”

Stiviano’s attorney has filed documents to dismiss many of the accusations and denies that she took advan-tage of Sterling, describing him as having an “iron will” and being one of the world’s shrewdest businessmen.

Nehoray told the Times that Stiviano and Sterling didn’t have a romantic relationship.

“It’s nothing like it’s been portrayed,” Nehoray said. “She’s not the type of person everyone says.”

She was a hard-working waitress and did volunteer work helping crime victims be-fore becoming an archivist for Sterling, he said.

“She had no association with any rich people before this,” Nehoray said.

Danny MoloshokAssociated Press

Clippers owner Donald Sterling

sits at a game with his girlfriend

V. Stiviano. Sterling was

recorded saying racist remarks

when talking to his girlfriend,

leading to a lifetime ban from

the NBA.

WASHINGTON — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid says it’s time for the NFL’s Washington Redskins to change their name, linking the issue to racist comments by a professional basketball team owner.

In a Senate speech Wednesday, the Nevada Democrat said Redskins owner Daniel Snyder is hiding behind tradition in retaining his team’s name, which critics call racially offensive.

Reid called on Sny-der “to do what is mor-ally right” by changing the name. Reid has criticized the name before, telling The Washington Post in March that he thinks it will be changed within three years.

Reid said his state has 22 tribes, and the only tradi-

tion behind the Redskins’ name was one of racism.

Reid congratulated the NBA for banning Los Angeles Clippers’ owner Donald Sterling for life. Sterling was caught in an audio recording mak-ing racist comments about blacks.

Reid said it’s time for NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell to fol-low the NBA’s lead and rid his league of bigotry and racism.

Other prominent poli-ticians have criticized or

questioned the Redskins’ name. President Barack Obama told The Associ-ated Press in October, “If I were the owner of the team and I knew that the name of my team — even if they’ve had a storied history — was offending a sizable group of people, I’d think about changing it.”

Several members of Congress, including both Republicans and Democrats, have urged Snyder to change the team’s name.

In light of Sterling, Nevada senator asks Redskins to change their name

—Associated Press

Reid called on Snyder “to do what is morally right” by changing the name. Reid has criticized the name before, telling The Washington Post in March that he thinks it will be changed within three years.

Donald Sterling’s girlfriend, V. Stiviano, ‘saddened’ by owner’s lifetime NBA ban

—Associated Press

Nick WassAssociated Press

Washington Redskins own-er Dan Snyder faces criticism for his team’s name. Most recently, Sen-ate Majority Leader Harry Reid called for a name change in D.C.

JUMP 9

inspired to recount this event after reading “96 Minutes,” an article by Pamela Coll-off, executive editor at Texas Monthly. The in-depth ar-ticle, which ran in 2006, re-counted the event from the perspective of witnesses and survivors, resulting in a col-lection of stories and facts from that day.

“I was interested in finding the people who were there and giving them a voice and remembering what hap-pened and how it changed the city,” Colloff said.

For nine years, Crook worked on “Monday, Mon-day,” perfecting and revising her characters and their sto-ries to best portray the emo-tions of that day.

“[The Tower] is the gen-esis of everything that hap-pens,” Crook said. “They end up extremely emotionally bonded by the fact that they were there that day together, and it pulls them together in some really unsuspected and unusual ways.”

Though she was careful to not describe or involve anyone who was actually present dur-ing the shooting, Crook me-ticulously researched the event.

Crook said since Whitman was the first to introduce the concept of a mass university shooting to the nation, there were no guidelines for how to handle such an event. There were no counselors for griev-ing students, there was no support for survivors and, for a long time, there was not even a memorial on campus. UT’s foremost concern was to not give Whitman any more press than he was already re-ceiving and to sever the pub-lic’s connection with the Uni-versity and the shooting.

But for older generations in the Austin community,

the memories of Aug. 1, 1966 are not just moments from history but parts of their per-sonal lives.

Before Crook, Gary M. Lavergne, UT director of ad-missions research and policy analysis, was the first and only person to write a book on the subject. Lavergne wrote “A Sniper in the Tower” in 1997 and remembers the event clearly from his childhood.

“It’s a very resilient story in that it involves questions that we ask ourselves to this day about what are the causes of violence, and how can some-one who appears to be well adjusted and someone who appears to be well liked and intelligent would do such a thing,” Lavergne said.

Crook, Colloff and Lavergne each received similar emails during their research from people who wanted to share their stories from that day — some of them for the first time ever.

“It was eye-opening to me how real this story is for a lot of people who live here,” Crook said. “For a lot of my friends, it was something that happened that they witnessed.”

Crook said that for her, “Monday, Monday” has taken on a new meaning in the wake of multiple public school shoot-ings since the Tower shooting.

“What started out as a nov-el about what I considered a historical event very quickly became a novel about a situ-ation in our country now,” Crook said.

Crook said she hopes her book will bring to life a story that has been buried for decades.

“What’s so brilliant about what Elizabeth has done is I feel like she’s taken things to the next level, and she’s made you really feel what that day was like in a way that only fiction can do,” Colloff said. “It’s the perfect pairing of subject and writer.”

To call “Monday, Mon-day” a book about the 1966 UT Tower shooting is mis-leading and is a disservice to both the book and the histor-ical event. The plot does kick off with a gripping retelling of one of the first Ameri-can shootings, but the story quickly diverges.

Elizabeth Crook’s novel spans roughly four decades of three UT students’ lives directly affected by Charles Whitman’s rampage from the top of the Tower, which killed 13 people. Crook fol-lows her characters from the tragedy that brought them together to their marriages, affairs, family secrets and journeys to West Texas.

Even though her retelling of the horror on the UT cam-pus is well written and in-formed, the rest of the novel raises the question, “Why the Tower shooting?”

The shooting became little more than an inciting incident — an easily recog-nized buzzword that would draw in readers and pro-vide context to keep read-ers’ attention when the story was lacking.

The intensity of the day Shelly Maddox spent on the concrete with a bullet wound that introduces the story is quickly pulled out from be-neath the reader and is re-placed with a family drama. Subplots interweave with subplots, and every character keeps at least three secrets that are revealed in the last four chapters.

Seventy pages or so into

the novel, the story shifts and it becomes easier to ap-preciate Crook’s take on a young mother who is unable to keep her baby and is faced with the opportunity to do what is right for her child. The characters develop, and as they gain distance from UT, the story improves.

One struggle with reading “Monday, Monday,” is that it walks a fine line between establishing a historical and geographical context and name-dropping. At points it seems that Crook is deter-mined to prove that she did her research, and she does so by taking any opportunity to show she has been on the UT campus.

The characters attend class in the South Mall, eat in the Union Building and walk down the Drag. What

could have been a nuanced connection between his-tory and the novel is heavy-handed and overbearing. On their trips to Alpine, the characters don’t just drive through small towns, they go through Fredericksburg, Kerrville and Junction. With so many Texas landmark mentions, non-Texans will probably be left to follow along on Google Maps.

The main issue with “Monday, Monday” is one of expectations. The novel isn’t about the Tower shooting; it’s about characters deal-ing with their mistakes and facing their consequences, sometimes decades down the road.

The fictionalized char-acters in Crook’s novel can hardly be called victims of the shooting, not because

they didn’t have scars to prove it, but because the problems they faced weren’t caused by a gunman on the observation deck. They were caused by their own choices. After reaching that conclusion, “Monday, Mon-day” became an enjoyable — albeit slightly forced — family drama.

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MONDAY, MONDAY

Author: Elizabeth CrookPages: 352Publisher: Sarah Crichton Books

mentality that we learned in RTF of just figuring out how to get it done however possi-ble was something that really helped us,” Leffler said.

“Forev” has had showings at various festivals around the country, winning more than 10 awards and has been picked up by two distributors.

“We got really positive reactions, and I think that we definitely were sur-prised,” Leffler said. “We were thinking younger people would be into the movie, and we saw that that was true, but then we also saw old men and moms be-ing into it.”

Green said “Forev” won’t be premiered at any more festivals, but it will be avail-able for online purchase on such platforms as Amazon Video, Bluray Disc, iTunes

and more. She said the film has garnered much more success than she was ini-tially expecting.

“It’s already sort of ex-ceeded most of our expecta-tions,” Green said. “We made it basically out of the back of my car, and most of the money came from personal savings accounts.”

Green, Leffler and Mider all have plans to work to-gether in the future but

don’t have anything solid in the works yet. According to Leffler, they are currently writing a few scripts that may develop into future projects.

“We’re still figuring out what the next thing is go-ing to be, but we’re excited,” Leffler said.

“Forev” is available for pre-sale Thursday and for sale Thursday on www.forevmovie.com.

FOREVcontinues from page 12

Photo courtesy Forevmovie.comMatt Mider, Noel Wells and Amanda Bauer star in radio-tele-vision-film alumni film, “Forev.”

BOOK REVIEW | ‘MONDAY, MONDAY’

Book’s premise found misleadingBy Fred Tally-Foos

@fredtallyfoos

Photo courtesy of Associated PressIn this Aug. 1, 1966 file photo, smoke rises from Charles Whitman’s sniper as he fires from the UT Tower. “Monday, Monday” by Elizabeth Crook follows the lives of three UT students who were directly affected by the rampage that killed 13 people and injured 32.

air into the sleeping babies’ faces but preceded each burst with an audible tone. When the babies awoke, they would react to hear-ing the tone, expecting to receive the burst of air even when none came. A follow-up study found that babies learn to react even better when there are social cues involved.

Baby brains and sleep states don’t function in the same way adult brains do, but a study published in Nature suggests something similar to this effect may be possible with adults. Researchers combined various odors — pleasant ones, such as shampoo or deodorant, and unpleasant ones, such as rotting fish — with specific sounds while subjects slept. Once the association became strong enough, subjects reacted to the sounds while still asleep, sniffing up a great-er volume of air for the

pleasant smelling sound and a smaller amount for the unpleasant one.

Then the scientists ex-posed the subjects to the smells during the early mo-ments of deep sleep, which are referred to as slow-wave sleep or SWS. Once awake, this effect continued.

It’s unlikely that this is helpful unless your final has something to do with smelling rotten fish, but the proof of concept is here: It is possible to learn new things while asleep.

More significantly, a study published in Science indicated that there may be ways to better help rein-force things we’ve already learned during sleep. Sub-jects performed a memory-related task while exposed to a rosy scent and then went to sleep. During SWS, when it’s believed that the brain consolidates memo-ries, scientists re-exposed the dozing subjects to the rose scent.

Upon waking, the sub-jects scored an average of

97.2 percent as compared to a control group’s 85.8 percent on a test of the memory task from the pre-vious day. The effect is sig-nificant, but only when the scent exposure occurred during SWS. When pre-sented during the rapid-eye movement, or REM, cycles associated with deeper sleep states, the scent had no effect on the subjects’ performances.

Further investigation re-vealed that this effect may be limited. Researchers noted that the improve-ment didn’t occur when the subjects performed a task that was more pro-cedural in nature, such as tapping their fingers in a specific sequence. This is bad news for music per-formance majors but good news for virtually every-body else.

With that in mind, if you want to do well on your finals, your best bet is to study hard, get plenty of sleep and, possibly, keep a bouquet of roses nearby.

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approach him. A week later, Oursosaid fate inter-vened after seeing Ovalle again at a queer meet-up group called Hangout.

“I remember seeing this tiny blonde per-son inching toward me,” Ovalle said. “There was just something there — I don’t know what it was. I just needed to get to know this person. Somehow I was suave enough to get Cole’s number.”

The couple has been able to grow together through their work with UT Queer Chorus. Ourso stresses that gender isn’t something as easily de-fined as society perceives it to be.

“Coming to UT, I real-ized that genders outside of the binary were a thing,” Ourso said. “There’s a whole spectrum. It’s not just the line. It’s a triangle or a sphere.”

Both Ovalle and Ourso want to become teachers. Ovalle will be pursuing a master’s in musicology in the fall and Ourso, who

still has a year and a half left before graduation, wants to get a doctorate in education or rhetoric.

Ourso thinks it is im-portant to incorporate discussion of social justice into everyday conversa-tion. During the perfor-mance Friday, members of the ensemble will speak in between songs about top-ics ranging from asexual-ity to pronoun use.

“We’re both really into and focus on issues of marginalization and op-pression,” Ourso said. “We try to talk about these things in Queer Cho-rus. For people that don’t know much, we just like bringing them up so they know these issues exist.”

Tori Randall, a sopho-more transfer student, was looking for a perfor-mance outlet within the queer community when she found out about UT Queer Chorus.

“For me, it was about finding a way to be in-volved within the queer community that was comfortable while raising awareness,” Randall said. “There are other facets

to the queer community other than the lobbying, activism side of things. With the discussion of queer musicians in the media right now, it’s even more important that we show we do a variety of different things within the queer community.”

Randall said she was excited for her move from Arlington to Austin be-cause it meant more di-versity. Despite the more welcoming atmosphere, she still needed a place that felt inclusive and with Ourso, Ovalle and the chorus, she found that.

“[Ourso] and [Ovalle] were some of the very first people I met at UT,” Ran-dall said. “They’ve both been amazingly welcom-ing and kind. With them, I found a group of people who are all really knowl-edgeable about social is-sues and gender stuff. It’s really nice to have that safe space where everyone understands what you’re saying and what you are going through. They are really great. When they’re together you just know they belong together.”

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freshman Lilly Stafford said. “The department decided to create a showcase that really represents us as a whole. It’s a production that speaks to our lives right now.”

Stafford appeared in en-semble roles in the Butler Opera Center’s staging of “Sweeney Todd” and the the-atre and dance department’s musical “In the Heights” ear-lier this semester.

A 45-minute produc-tion, “Showcase 2014” is a medley of 10-15 songs from such upcoming musicals as “Princesses” by Tony winner David Zippel and such new productions as the Tony-nominated Broadway pro-duction “Beautiful,” which is based on the life of Carole King, a Grammy award-win-ning singer and songwriter.

Stafford said she and the other six musical theatre stu-dents have been working on their performances nearly all year, and “Showcase 2014” is actually a culmination of everything that they’ve done and learned to date.

The show begins with the song “Magic To Do” from multiple Tony-winning mu-sical “Pippin” and also in-cludes songs from UT’s up-coming fall 2014 production

of “Fame — The Musical.” Medley said she is most

excited about her solo “In Short” from the musical “Edges.” The song takes the audience into the life of a young girl who has recently broken up with her boy-friend and is not dealing with her situation very well.

“I enjoy comedy,” Med-ley said. “Comedy is really tragedy that’s happening to yourself, and living in that and making it acceptable for people to laugh at is what you have to really focus on as an artist.”

Later in the week, Medley performs in UT student-di-rected play “Impact,” which runs Sunday through Tues-day. Musical theatre stu-dent Quinton Johnson stars alongside Medley in the play about five high school stu-dents who deal with conflict when something in their lives goes awry.

“I always encompass the character as well as I can,” Medley said. “I strive to put forth work that serves the playwright’s intentions. As an actor, you have to make sure that you are making the right acting choices.”

Medley, who also re-cently worked in “Sweeney Todd,” hopes to audition for “Fame — The Musical” in the fall and star in many more

UT productions.Musical theatre sopho-

more and “Showcase 2014” performer Mandy Foster also plans to audition for “Fame — The Musical.” Foster joins Stafford and Medley in sing-ing the song “What A Drag” from the musical “Princess-es,” which will be performed during the Texas Musical Theatre Workshop, which will take place on campus in June.

“I have grown as an ac-tress, in just understanding how to put real and honest material on stage,” Foster said. “This has translated to my singing. It’s more inter-esting when you are telling a story through the song rather than just singing the song as it is.”

Medley said she enjoyed performing this trio with Foster and Stafford because the three of them share the same sense of humor. Un-like Foster, who may go to film school in L.A., Med-ley dreams of starring in a Broadway musical some day.

“It’s the feel of the stage and the feel of accomplish-ing something you are so passionate about that in-spires me to pursue musical theatre,” Medley said. “You bring a story to life, you en-tertain people, and you give them lessons to learn from.”

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Mercy at Marianella

Navigating thousands of miles in search of a better life has not deterred the hopes of refugees who cross the U.S. border almost every day. According to the Bureau of Population, Refu-gees, and Migration, more than 3 million refugees have been allowed entry into the U.S. since 1975.

In a quiet place near Gunter Street in East Austin lies Casa Marianella, a shelter where refugees from different countries live under the same roof. The journey to this shelter has not been easy. Many of the refugees cross the border from Mexico and are then held in an immigration detention facility for days or months depending on their cases. The refugees are either deported or referred to a shelter like Casa Marianella. Some leave to escape war and some to avoid civil and political un-rest. All of them have made the journey with prospects of a better life.

Casa Marianella opened in 1986 and currently houses resi-dents from Africa, Mexico and Central America. The shelter helps them learn English and find jobs, and provides them with medical care and legal assistance. Every night the house con-ducts a “junta,” a come-together to introduce new residents, announce work information and create a house work schedule.

Although they come from different cultures and speak different languages, they have learned to unite with these differences at the shelter. At Casa Marianella, everyone is learning to adapt to this new world while healing scars from the old one.

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During a UT Queer Chorus rehearsal, rhetoric and writing sophomore Cole Ourso wears a yel-low skirt and laughs at a recalled memory. Ourso wore the same yellow skirt almost two years ago to an event where mu-sic business senior Joey Ovalle was playing with his band. Now, Ovalle and Ourso are engaged and working alongside each other for this year’s spring choral concert.

The choral group is made up of around 11 regular members who identify as a number of genders. Ovalle, the group’s director, orga-nizes Bohemian Rhapsody sheet music while the altos and sopranos fawn over the ring. This is one of the last rehearsals leading up to the group’s spring concert on Friday evening. With two practices a week, the mem-

bers get together and sing personal arrangements of classics by artists such as Katy Perry and Queen.

Ourso, who was new to UT and excited to meet people within the queer community, decided to check out BloQ Party. The event, which takes place every fall, hosts an array of queer organizations on campus and is put on by Queer People of Color & Allies. At the same event, Ovalle was on stage per-forming with his band, The Manifest Electric. Ourso noticed his mu-sical talent but couldn’t work up the courage to

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MUSIC

After years of making group projects for classes, a crew of radio-television-film graduates collaborated to create a feature film to show to the public.

“Forev” is co-directed and written by radio-television-film graduates Molly Green and James Leffler, and it is about a young couple who get engaged on their first date. Its two main charac-ters are also played by UT alumni Matt Mider and Noel Wells. Wells is currently a featured cast member on Saturday Night Live.

In the film, Wells and Mider play two neighbors, Sophie and Pete, who de-cide to get married on their first date. They make a plan to get married and bring along Pete’s sister, played

by Amanda Bauer, but end up getting stranded in the desert. According to Green and Leffler, the idea for “Forev” came from wit-nessing the growing num-ber of their college friends getting married.

“They look really adult, in sweater vests or whatever, and you go, ‘Wow, I guess getting married means be-ing a real grown-up,’” Lef-fler said. “We thought that was a funny idea to play with. We were all in our early 20s, feeling decidedly un-grown-up.”

Green, Leffler and Mider formed a relationship in fall 2007 after participating in the UTLA program, which is a program that offers a film internship in Los Ange-les for a semester for radio-television-film majors.

During the film’s produc-tion, Green and Leffler relied

heavily on their connections from UT. Cast and crew members, from the make-up and hair supervisor to the two main characters, largely came from programs Green and Leffler had participated in while in school.

“UT was pretty crucial because a lot of the cast and crew were people we went to school with,” Green said. “We just had a lot from our UT connections to pull together a cast and crew. It was kind of awe-some because it was friends and people we knew we really liked and wanted to work with.”

Leffler said the skills he learned while in the radio-television-film program also came in handy while making “Forev.”

“The sort of scrappy

Queer chorus unites, advocates

By Brigit Benestante@bbenestante

Mengwen Cao / Daily Texan StaffMusic business senior Joey Ovalle and rhetoric and writing sophomore Cole Ourso are both involved in the UT Queer Chorus. Ovalle and Ourso are engaged and preparing for this year’s Spring Concert.

By Kat Sampson@katclarksamp

CHORUS page 9

Final exams are almost here, which means it’s time to choose between sacrific-ing either sleep or study time, unless there’s some way to combine the two. Maybe, just maybe, if you listen to information while you sleep, you’ll wake up in the morning reenergized, refreshed and ready for that organic chemistry final.

Most college students want this to be true but also know dozing off during the lectures has not helped all semester. Still, it never hurts to take a look at what the scientific literature has to say.

It doesn’t take long to find a paper from 1956 that debunks the “study in your sleep” myth. In this experiment, researchers played audio recordings of questions and answers for sleeping subjects while re-cording their brain waves. Upon waking, the subjects received a test on exactly the material they heard the night before.

The brain wave moni-tors allowed scientists to tell exactly how deep into sleep the subjects were when they heard each piece of

information. The researchers found that the deepest level of sleep where the experimental group outperformed the con-trol group corresponded to “heavy drowsiness.” In other words, the only cases where the trick worked were the ones in which the subjects were still awake to hear the answers.

Still, there is some re-search that provides hope that there may be a way to learn while in the land of dreams.

Babies, for instance, have the capacity to learn new things while sleeping. An experiment took several infants, no more than a few days old, and fed them for-mula until they fell asleep. The researchers then blew

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Alumni use UT connections, collaborate on feature film

SLEEP page 9

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FILM

Studies suggest better retention, possibility of learning during sleep

Musical theatre sopho-more Devin Medley said that, even though musical theatre may be a difficult lifestyle choice, there’s some-thing truly fulfilling about being in front of an audience that really wants to receive the performance positively and take in all of the per-former’s work.

Medley is one of seven mu-sical theatre students who will be staging “Showcase 2014”

on Thursday and Friday at the Winship Drama Building on campus as part of their degree requirements. These students are all pursuing theatre and dance degrees.

In previous years, the department of theatre and dance has staged “Curtain Up!,” an annual showcase of all the work done by the theatre and dance students. This year, for the first time, “Showcase 2014” is be-ing staged by only musical theatre students who have to enroll for a mandatory

musical theatre ensemble class.“Showcase 2014 is about

what we stand for and the journey we’re taking in our life now,” musical theatre

THEATER & DANCE

SHOW page 9

By Kritika Kulshrestha@kritika88

Amy Zhang / Daily Texan StaffThe cast of “Showcase 2014” practices for its upcoming performances Thursday and Friday evening at the Winship Drama Building. The seven theatre and dance students will perform a medley of songs from upcoming musicals.

SHOWCASE 2014

Who: Musical Theatre Performance Ensemble When: Thursday and Friday at 6:30 p.m.Where: Winship StudioAdmission: Free

UT QUEER CHORUS

What: Spring ConcertWhen: Friday at 8 p.m.Where: Butler School of Music Room 2.118

FOREV page 9

Ensemble stages student-run showcase