Although spring semester classes began Tuesday, would-be residents at the Pointe on Rio apartment complex still have not been allowed to move into their apartments. In an email sent to leasehold-ers, managers said the build-ing will open Saturday. Pointe on Rio managers have de-layed move-in day four times since mid-August.

In the email to leasehold-ers, Pointe managers said they are waiting to receive a certificate of occupancy be-cause of an “inability to get sidewalks/drives poured.”

Pointe officials repeat-edly declined to comment on the delays.

Advertising junior Dito Prado, who signed a lease with Pointe last sum-mer, said he thinks up-per management has been unreliable throughout the leasing process.

“When I signed my lease, I was already pretty skeptical of whether it would be done by August,” Prado said. “It’s definitely gotten more frus-trating over the past couple of months because they’re telling us that, ‘For sure, this time it’s going to be done,’ but something happens. They don’t always tell us that move-in has been pushed back right away.”

Prado said he was told leaseholders cannot break their contract with Pointe without paying a $500 fine.

Some students have contact-ed lawyers to try to opt out of their leases without charge, Prado said.

Would-be Pointe resi-dents, who were provided with accommodations in Dobie Center for the fall semester, will be allowed to stay another week, and leaseholders’ rents will be prorated from Jan. 10 un-til the day of move-in, according to the manage-ment email. Dobie Center managers declined to com-ment on the number of Pointe leaseholders currently staying in Dobie Center.

Although Allison Pereg-ory, government sopho-more and leaseholder, said she does not entirely blame management, she would

have liked more notice about the delays.

“I would love to already be living [at Pointe], and I did not

plan on living in Dobie when I signed my lease, but you have to do what you have to do,” Peregory said. “And, unfortu-

nately, I have just had to wait longer than expected to live in

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Members of the UT presi-dential search advisory com-mittee have begun interviewing candidates to replace President William Powers Jr., who an-nounced in July he would be resigning after the end of this school year.

AN advisory committee is

working with consulting firm Spencer Stuart in the search for Powers’ replacement. Ac-cording to a tentative timeline on the UT System website, the committee is conducting first and second rounds of inter-views with candidates and will be making recommendations to the Board of Regents by the end of January.

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The committee is led by Pe-dro Reyes, System executive vice chancellor for academic affairs, and Larry Faulkner,

UT-Austin president emeritus. The rest of the committee is comprised of members repre-senting the Board of Regents, the UT System, the campus’ Dean Council, faculty, staff and Texas Exes. Geetika Jerath, in-ternational relations and global studies senior and president of the Senate of College Councils, represents the student body on the committee.

In July, Powers announced his plan to resign in a letter to former UT Chancellor Fran-cisco Cigarroa. In the letter, Powers said he would remain at his post through the end of the legislative session in an effort to make the change of leader-ship more gradual and review legislation he felt would benefit

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Thousands of students and community members gath-ered around the Martin Lu-ther King Jr. statue in the East Mall on Monday morning to celebrate King’s legacy and call attention to a number of social justice issues, including po-lice brutality against African-Americans.

Brenda Burt, a Diversity and Community Engagement offi-cer, said at least 15,000 people walked in the annual MLK Day march from campus to Huston-Tillotson University. The event began with speeches from civil rights activists and concluded with a festival at Huston-Tillotson, a histori-cally black university.

In his keynote speech before the march, Kevin Foster, asso-ciate professor in the Depart-ment of African and African Diaspora Studies, said police brutality is one of the most crucial issues facing African-Americans today.

“Our police are the most heroic when they don’t shoot,” Foster said. “That might sound like an odd thing to say, but the reality is they have been trained to be scared. We need to be developing the policies and programs to help [the of-ficers] live into that greatest possibility. And the reality is that sometimes it’s difficult for

them to not shoot because they do get scared.”

Foster said all people should work to protect the right to use video cameras in the event of an altercation and also pro-mote the use of police body cameras. Many people of color still face police violence today, Foster said.

“If you are black in this country, we have never yet fully realized the possibility of a state that exists to protect us and to serve us and to have us live into the pursuit of happi-ness,” Foster said. “In fact, the reality has been that the darker your skin, the more likely you are to be shot while unarmed.”

Biochemistry senior Tia Scott, who attended the march, said she thinks African-Amer-icans often fear they will be racially profiled by police of-ficers.

“I think many African-Americans have an unspoken fear,” Scott said. “Maybe they don’t say it outright, but they

think it. When a cop drives by, it’s just nervousness because it’s like, ‘Am I going to be treated unfairly, or am I going to be pulled over because I’m black or because I’m a black woman?’ I think there’s a general un-spoken fear, and we shouldn’t

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Pointe on Rio continues to push back move-in day

Hyde Park residents formed an online-based neighborhood association that seeks to better repre-sent renters’ interests than the Hyde Park Neighbor-hood Association, which was formed in 1974.

The association, “Friends of Hyde Park,” formed after several Hyde Park residents voiced concerns over a lack of renter representation within the original neigh-borhood association.

The new association will support the construc-tion of accessory dwelling units, which are smaller homes built in addition to the homes that already exist on a given property. Ricky Hennessy, a biomedical en-gineering graduate student, is one of the founders of the Friends of Hyde Park. He said members will be able to vote until Jan. 29 on a reso-lution supporting “easing restrictions on accessory dwelling units,” something the original association voted against.

Hennessy said he feels the original association was not inclusive.

“The Hyde Park Neigh-borhood Association, the original [association], had a bunch of rules,” Hennessy said. “You had to pay dues, and you couldn’t vote until 30 days after you did.”

Hennessy said the new association will empha-size transparency and anonymous voting.

Hennessy also said Friends of Hyde Park will focus on a streamlined participation process for maximum member input.

“The main goal of

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The Pointe on Rio apartment complex has delayed the move-in date for leasehold-ers until after classes begin. This is the fourth time that the Pointe on Rio managers have postponed the move-in day.

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Friends of Hyde Park is to take the process and make it easier to participate,” Hennessy said. “All [potential members] need to do is register to vote on our website, and we’ll give them updates. They can participate as little or as much as they want.”

Kevin Heyburn, Hyde Park Neighborhood Association’s co-president, said he also joined Friends of Hyde Park as a member to stay involved in neighborhood decisions. Hey-burn said he thinks the only

significant difference between the two neighborhood asso-ciations is that Friends of Hyde Park will allow members to vote online.

“They think that will allow them to represent a greater cross section of the neighbor-hood,” Heyburn said. “Their group also doesn’t have mem-bership fees. You can join without having to attend a meeting 30 days before. We have a rule that if you want to be a voting member, you have to attend at least one meeting before voting.”

Heyburn said he believes

the issue of accessory dwell-ing units may have motivated Hyde Park residents to form the new association.

“A number of people who I saw at the [Friends of Hyde Park] meeting were people who were on the losing end of a vote we had over accessory dwelling units,” Heyburn said. “There’s been some concern in Hyde Park; if we had additional hous-ing units in the neighborhood, how will the neighborhood include that increase in traf-fic? I know some people in this new group may have wanted to see our neighborhood [be] more supportive of accessory dwelling units.”

Advertising sophomore Sar-ita Hodges currently lives just outside Hyde Park but said she hopes to move inside the neigh-borhood and join Friends of Hyde Park.

“I see a lot of houses with the signs out front, so it seems like there’s a lot of support [for the new association],” Hodges said. “We’re not really in Hyde Park, we’re on the end. I would rather be a little closer anyway — I want to rent a house and I’m having trouble finding one, but I like the area a lot.”

be afraid of people that are supposed to protect us.”

State Rep. Dawnna Dukes (D-Austin) said King’s work toward equality is not yet complete.

“We cannot sit back on our laurels when we continue to see actions that discrimi-nate and profile against a few,” Dukes said. “And if we truly believe that every single person — whether they are black, whether they are His-panic, whether they are Anglo,

whether they are Asian — that their lives matter, that we will stand up each and everyday — not just on the day that we march.”

President William Pow-ers Jr. also spoke before the march and characterized Mar-tin Luther King Jr. Day as a day of renewing the fight for equality. In his speech, Pow-ers referenced recent protests in Ferguson, Missouri, which broke out after 18-year-old African-American Michael Brown was shot and killed by a white police officer in Au-gust, and protests in New York

City, where Eric Garner, also African-American, died after a white police officer put him in a choke hold.

“If we look at Ferguson and New York, the poverty that still exists in our communities — the inequality — the dream has not yet been fulfilled,” Powers said. “So yes, today we celebrate a great man, a great legacy and a great dream, but, more important, is that we rededicate ourselves and our energy not just today, but ev-ery single day when we wake up — rededicate them anew to his dream.”

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Marabella, student in the Denius-Sams Gaming Academy, said he would like managers to compensate future Pointe residents for the delays.

“I’d hope the people at Pointe on Rio would make an earnest effort to make up for the time and the de-lays,” Marabella said. “I don’t know — by making an hon-est effort to communicate that to us or at least provide some compensation in some way.”

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“We more than appre-ciate your patience with us as we know this has not been an easy process for any parties involved,” Pointe officials said in an email.

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LEGISLATURE

UT interns will help with Texas legislationBy Eleanor Dearman

@ellydearman

Hundreds of UT stu-dents will work alongside state lawmakers in the 84th Texas Legislature to craft policies the lawmakers will propose during the 140-day legislative session.

“Have you ever seen the movie ‘The Devil Wears Prada?’” said Dan Luiton, history freshman and intern for Rep. Mary González (D—Soccorro), when describing his first day on the job. “I felt like Anne Hathaway my first day. People walk inside assuming that you know who they are, but you don’t know, and you have to know.”

For the next four-and-a-half months, lawmak-ers will fill the House and Senate chambers and work to shape Texas law while, in the back-ground, student interns help keep administrative work at bay.

Genevieve Cato, legisla-tive director for González, said interns are vital to the success of the session and the administrative of-fices need all the help they can get.

“There’s only 140 days to get everything done here,” Cato said.

Finance senior Anna Hi-ran, an intern for Sen. John Whitmire (D-Houston) said Whitmire encour-ages hands-on work, some-thing she appreciates in an internship.

“He provides us with tasks where he believes that we can learn as much as possible, and it’s not menial things like making copies and hole punching,” Hiran said.

Hiran said she learns more by working in a real-world environment than she would in a classroom.

“The benefit of it is get-ting to observe all of it on a firsthand basis,” she said. “There’s only so much you can learn in a classroom,

and I feel like this intern-ship is very hands-on. I feel that I have been given a lot of responsibilities, and I’m learning a ton.”

Cato said an intern’s job description often changes day-to-day.

“Things happen so quickly, and things come up so fast that a lot of times, like other staffers, interns are doing everything from answering phones to re-searching bills to talking to constituents,” Cato said.

According to John Falke, a UT graduate in-terning for Sen. Brandon Creighton (R-Conroe), leg-islative internships require students to master time management skills.

“There’s less time in the day to do the things that I want to do, but it also keeps me focused on my schoolwork,” Falke said.

Cato said students in-terested in government and public policy are most likely to apply for internships during the

legislative session. “There are people who

are [political science] or government majors,” Cato said. “They’re interested in getting law degrees and running for office. They want to get into work-ing on policy or govern-ment, so this is their first step to that goal. Then there are other people who are interesting in policy issue areas.”

Luiton said he hopes to become the first Hispanic president of the United States and believes his internship is a means to reaching that goal.

“My parents are like, ‘Why are you doing it if they don’t even pay you?’ but I love it,” Luiton said. “It’s going to help me know people inside. It’s going to help me achieve my goal.”

POLICE

Crime on campus continues over breakBy Wynne Davis

@wynneellyn

Although thousands of students left campus over winter break, UTPD stayed active because crime never takes a vacation. The most common offenses report-ed by UTPD were crimi-nal trespassing, public intoxication and bike theft.

During the five-week break from classes, UT police officers responded to multiple in-progress bicycle thefts and recov-ered additional stolen bi-cycles. Other thefts that occurred included thefts of laptop computers left

unattended on University property, as well as Uni-versity-owned computers that were not locked prop-erly in rooms on campus. Here are some of the high-lights and trends of winter break crime:

Jan. 1, officers were alerted about a bicycle theft that took place at the Perry-Castañeda Library. The bike was recovered after they found a non-UT subject riding the bike off campus.

Jan. 7, a non-UT subject was found pulling on bicy-cles parked outside of the Winship Drama Building.

Jan. 12, bed sheets, a

comforter and clothes were reported missing from a laundry room inside San Jacinto Residence Hall.

Officers also responded to a report of missing ba-con on Jan. 13, after two boxes of bacon and sausag-es were stolen from a stor-age room in the O’Donnell Jr. Building.

UTPD officers found non-UT subjects in the Jester Academic Center and other university build-ings over break and cited them for criminal tres-passing. The majority of criminal trespassing of-fenses happened between the hours of 12 a.m. and

8 a.m. The officers wrote most subjects criminal trespass warnings but took some subjects with prior warnings into custody.

In one incident, police sent a group of six high school students back to school when they were found skipping class.

Traffic violators were also issued tickets for driving while intoxicated, driving without a valid driver’s license and driv-ing without insurance. In emails sent to faculty, staff and students, UTPD said it is promoting the city’s new ordinance prohibit-ing the use of handheld

cell phones while driving. The ordinance applies to both drivers and bicy-clists, although UTPD of-ficers will not enforce it on campus.

Police also alerted the UT community to a num-ber of email scams that targeted university stu-dents, faculty and staff by capturing their em-ployee login information and then making changes to route their paycheck money to the scam art-ist’s bank account instead. UTPD has not reported any scam cases involving UT students, faculty or staff.

the University. “For all these reasons,

an abrupt change now would seriously disrupt the progress of UT-Austin,” Powers said in the letter. “A more constructive course of action would be for me to step down as President at the conclusion of the legislative session.”

Powers’ announcement came after the System re-leased findings of its own limited investigation into legislative influence over admissions. That inquiry, conducted by two System officials, found no evidence of wrongdoing, but deter-mined instances where let-ters from legislators sent directly to Powers or a dean likely influenced the admissions process. Cigar-roa initially told Powers to resign by October, but, after students voiced their sup-port for Powers, Cigarroa released a statement stat-ing Powers should remain in his position to complete his last initiatives for UT. However, Cigarroa said that UT was due for a change in leadership.

“While ultimately pro-ductive, the past years have not been without struggle and, at times, conflict and controversy,” Cigarroa said.

Cigarroa said that, de-spite the timing of the call for resignation, there was no single reason behind his decision to ask for Pow-ers’ resignation but rather a series of problems.

“There was no single in-cident that prompted my decision to ask President Powers for his resignation last week, but a long history of issues with communica-tion, responsiveness and a willingness to collaborate,” Cigarroa said.

In accordance with Sys-tem rules, the committee will make the final recom-mendations for potential candidates to the Board of Regents, which will make the final decision on who will replace Powers.

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Ellyn Snider | Daily Texan StaffHistory freshman Dan Luiton sits on the steps of the Capitol on Monday afternoon. During the 84th legislative session, Luiton and several other UT students will intern as the House of Rep-resentatives and the Senate work on Texas laws and policies.

SG leadershipWe started last semester with a close exam-

ination of President Kori Rady and Vice Pres-ident Taylor Strickland’s platform points and goals for their administration. Now, as the new semester starts up, we believe they have a chance to effect real change this semester.

Perhaps the signal achievement of Rady and Strickland’s year in office will be the opening of the Flawn Academic Center 24 hours a day, seven days a week. We previous-ly lobbied for this change and believe that it will deliver a great deal of good to students. Rady and Strickland also won big with their successful implementation of Safe Ride, a late-night car service that ferries students home to select areas from their weekend rev-elry downtown.

The duo have also won chits with the stu-dent body by their support of embattled Uni-versity President William Powers Jr. over the summer as well as their work toward extend-ing Thanksgiving break to the Wednesday of that week. Unfortunately, however, the team’s good works have, to a certain extent, been drowned out by an intermittent racket of po-litical dramas.

We saw this most recently in the attempt to impeach Chief of Staff Chris Jordan. One of the charges is his supposed complicity in the “cover-up,” as some have called it, of the internal and external appointees’ interview notes. Previous Student Government inter-nal rules required that they be disclosed to the Assembly, but in August, the UT Office of Legal Affairs determined that releasing them would violate the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act. This requirement has thus been removed from the new governing

documents, which were adopted earlier this month.

Despite our hesitation for Jordan’s remov-al, there are many areas in which his behavior could stand to improve this semester. First of all, he absolutely must improve his tone of communication with certain members of the Assembly and the student body. Another issue is Rady’s likely inadvertent release of a number of internal and external appointee candidates’ GPAs by not blacking them out on their resumes, which were released to the media.

Rady and Strickland have a great opportu-nity to finish out their terms strong this se-mester. They will finally have the chance to enact certain state legislative goals that will really be able to gain steam this semester.

Summer Incentive program cutGraduating on time became a little more

difficult for CNS students late last semester as University administrators have decided to end a summer program from the provost’s office that promised additional funds to de-partments in different colleges if they could “teach more students than their historical target.”

CNS can continue to fund the extra courses out of its own pocket but with a flat budget and an ever-growing student body, it won’t be able to pull that off. For CNS students who need plentiful summer courses in order to graduate on time, this could mean extra money spent on tuition, rebates lost and ad-ditional student loan debt piled on.

The college administration has assured the Texan that it is taking great pains to facilitate on-time graduation for all its students. We understand that budget issues are a peren-nial problem for the schools and colleges. But those budget issues, as with CNS, are precisely why the Summer Enhancement Program was needed in the first place. Even if the program wasn’t having quite the desired impact, cutting it altogether sends a message to students that the University’s bottom line is more important than theirs.

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5RILEY BRANDS, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF / @TexanEditorialTuesday, January 20, 2015

EDITORIAL

Most important legislation to watch this session

Editor’s Note: This is part of a series of Q-and-A’s with the deans of the University’s 18 schools and colleges.

The Daily Texan: Could you talk about some goals you have for the next year and some accomplishments you’d like to note from the past couple of years?

Douglas Dempster: One of our largest pro-grammatic goals is to launch something we call the Center for Arts and Entertainment Technologies... It has a research component. We’ve got a Bachelor of Arts in Arts and En-tertainment Technologies that is under re-view and we hope will be approved for the 2016 catalog. We’re hoping to build a maker space in the fine arts library... for all students on campus. We’re also engaged in a major facilities review, a 10-year facilities review of the college in hopes of improving some of our oldest and most antiquated facilities as a result of that. We’re also doing a major review of our professional development ini-tiatives and programs in the college so that we can think about better ways to prepare students for their professional lives after college. One of our major goals is to sur-vive another year under the current budget circumstances without further drastic cuts to programs, faculties and services, but I re-main very nervous and worried about that.

DT: What kind of appreciation do you feel like the fine arts school receives from not just the university, but from the regents and legislators? How do they interact with y’all?

Dempster: The University’s been very sup-portive of fine arts. I feel throughout the University of Texas System, there’s much greater emphasis on STEM fields. We have some very old, antiquated facilities that re-ally hold us back as a college in different ways, and for instance, it’s hard to imagine that the College of Fine Arts would end up being nominated for a tuition revenue bond... In this day and age, there’s a lot of pressure on the STEM fields. Business, en-gineering, science, mathematics, and that’s a larger cultural phenomenon. I think the fine arts are underestimated for what they bring to the economy, which is partly why we’re creating this center on arts and entertain-ment technologies, which is all about com-mercialization of artistic and entertainment content and patents, because we’re trying to make the point that our students move out into that commercial world as well, and that we shouldn’t think that it’s all about oil and gas and software technologies. It’s a big mar-ketplace, and the colleges that are contribut-ing to the economy of Texas and the United States are not just confined to two or three colleges. I think the University has been gen-erous to the fine arts, but the STEM fields are obviously getting a much greater amount of attention.

DT: How do you plan to work with the medical school?

Dempster: Dean [Clay] Johnston of the medical school feels very strongly about the role of de-sign studies in health care and being more thoughtful about how we design not just our spaces — the architec-tural spaces — but also the interface with the public and the busi-ness practices, and we’re building a much larger design program than we’ve had before, so there’s a partner-ship right there... De-sign studies is an area where, one, it’s very popular with students and two, it has very good employment prospects for students. Right now, our design program, I think it has about 60 undergraduate majors, but we turn away hundreds of applicants every year. There’s something wrong with that picture.

DT: The music school froze the music business and recording technology program partially in order to start up the arts and en-tertainment technologies program?

Dempster: We’re finding that we can’t fund all of our initiatives. That’s what it’s coming to. We’ve been doing pretty well for about four years. This bad budget situation’s been going on for four, now we’re looking into five years, so I feel pretty good about how long we’ve hung in there with very little new reve-nue every year. The good news for y’all is that your tuition has been frozen for five years. The bad news is that we’re really starting to see the effect on the quality and diversity of programs we can offer... How crazy is it that we have a music school in the middle of Austin that won’t have a music business pro-gram? That seemed like a no-brainer, right? So it’s really painful for me to imagine that we might not be offering that in some future, but we are at the point where we’re having to make hard choices about what we can and can’t do... I think the truth of the matter is that those programs, we launched, but our timing was terrible because we launched them right into the recession, and they’ve never been very well funded or well sup-ported and they’ve struggled... There is not a decent recording studio in the music school. There is a recording studio, but it’s about 30

years old. You can find a better recording studio at ACC... The [Butler School of Mu-sic] director, Dr. Poole, just made a very hard choice that we weren’t doing a great job at this, it deserves better, and until we can do a better job, we need to pull back to what we’re already doing well and try to revive these programs when we can do a better job.

DT: When students graduate, what do they generally do?

Dempster: About 40 percent of our gradu-ates, at some time in their career, will make a living through teaching the arts. Much to my happy surprise, about 70 percent of our graduates are making some part of their liv-ing in the arts, and the rest are working the same place that all college-educated people go. Some become doctors and lawyers and bankers and nurses and you name it. They’re doing all kinds of things. A relatively small number become celebrities in the arts. Os-car-winning actors, or Grammy award-win-ning composers or celebrated playwrights, but we know that that’s a minority... Our undergraduate programs are largely liberal arts programs, with an emphasis in the arts, so our students follow all kinds of careers, but as a matter of fact, 70 percent of them stay in the arts in some fashion. [Fine arts] is what I would call a pre-professional major. It tends to orient people’s careers in a certain direction without defining that direction for them.

Photo courtesy of Marsha Miller

Fine Arts dean discusses direction of collegeQ-AND-A

EDITORIAL

What you missed over break, what to look forward to this semester

Rady and Strickland have a great opportunity to finish out their terms strong this semester. They will finally have the chance to en-act certain state legislative goals that will really be able to gain steam this semester.

The 84th Legislature of Texas convened last week and will vote on a number of education bills throughout the legislative session. The UT community is no stranger to heated dia-logues regarding higher education. Last July, the UT System’s former Chancellor, Francisco Cigarroa, served President Bill Powers with the ultimatum to resign or be fired as Cigar-roa prepared to launch an investigation into what anti-Powers Regent Wallace Hall and his supporters believe are crooked admissions practices at the flagship. Although the two had often butted heads, Powers was allowed to stay on through the end of this academic year and the just-launched legislative session. With all this attention on the state’s institutions of high-er education, legislators will be keeping them-selves busy with a number of university-related bills, such as Senate Bill 177, authored by state Sen. Kel Seliger, R-Amarillo, that aims to limit the regents’ powers. But it isn’t the only bill that can affect UT students. Here’s our take on some of the most important higher education legislation to watch in this legislative session.

Gaining college credit in high schoolTwo bills in the House aim to expand stu-

dents’ current opportunities to gain college credit early. House Bill 462, authored by Rep. Craig Goldman, R-Fort Worth, aims to open the possibility for students to retake end-of-course assessments, or even scrap the need for an end-of-course assessment altogether at the Commissioner of Education’s discretion, in an effort to make gaining college credit easier. House Bill 505, authored by Rep. Eddie Rodri-guez, D-Austin, hopes to expand upon House Bill 5, an overhaul of the secondary education system that passed in 2013. Currently, most

Texas high school students are limited to tak-ing two dual credit courses a semester, whereas students at early college high schools can take as many as their schedules allow. Of Texas’ 8,375 high schools, only 58 are early college high schools. HB 505 will enable students to earn college credit to all Texas high schools, instead of the mere 58 schools whose students currently can. These bills will give high school students the opportunity to earn college credit early, which can save money in tuition and help students that may be wavering on their path to an advanced degree, whether at a four-year in-stitution, community college or trade school, by showing them that when the opportunity is given, they can succeed.

DREAM ActTwo other bills seek to repeal a key part of

the Texas Dream Act by revoking the ability of non-legal residents of the United States to apply for in-state tuition. House Bill 209, authored by Rep. Jonathan Strickland, R-Bedford, strips the current opportunities for undocumented resi-dents of the state to apply for in-state tuition—if they are both graduates from Texas high schools and submit a signed affidavit affirming their intention to apply for permanent residen-cy during their time in college. House Bill 360, authored by Rep. Mark Keough, R-The Wood-lands, cited within the bill as the “Texas Fair Tuition Act,” goes further by requiring those who can’t show proof of citizenship or lawful residency to face verification by the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements Program. The motivation behind these bills is the belief that allowing undocumented residents to re-ceive in-state tuition is both a reward for and encouragement of undocumented immigra-

tion. However, we believe that it is an opportu-nity for undocumented residents and students to study in an institution of higher education while seeking citizenship, empowering them to better themselves through education and creating future members of the workforce and taxpayers alike. HB 360 and HB 209 does not make it easy for undocumented residents to become students or change the reality that undocumented residents are students at our University, working for a diploma and a better future just like everyone else.

Campus carryLast but not least, one of the biggest sto-

ries in higher education this legislative sea-son is campus carry, which was part of Gov. Greg Abbott’s platform in the recent election. Six proposed bills will expand gun carry and build up to the lawful carry of guns on college campuses, so Texas students should be aware of the possibility for a huge change. In formal remarks made to the Houston Chronicle, UT System spokesperson Jenny LaCoste-Caputo acknowledged worry among administrators that campus carry would jeopardize the UT System’s primary mission of ensuring students’ safety and expressed the System’s wish that bills will include a measure that would allow uni-versities to “opt out” of campus carry, should it pass. Despite the opposition from leaders in higher education, Abbott has vowed to sign any bill expanding gun rights that hits his desk. With palpable worry regarding the safety of students from administrators, students should consider their safety on campus and, as always, exercise their voice in the future of higher edu-cation by getting in touch with their represen-tative’s office.

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6GARRETT CALLAHAN, SPORTS EDITOR | @texansportsTuesday, January 20, 2015

SIDELINEMEN’S BASKETBALL

Texas takes down TCU in road battleMaybe sophomore guard

Isaiah Taylor was rusty; per-haps it was just a mid-season shooting slump. Either way, Taylor wasn’t quite himself in his first four games back after suffering a broken left wrist.

He bounced back from these offensive struggles in a major way Monday, leading the Longhorns in rebounds and assists to help guide No. 17 Texas to a 66-48 road vic-tory against TCU.

Taylor scored 13 points, his most since returning from in-jury, while racking up seven rebounds and season-high six assists in the victory. He made six of his 12 shot attempts in the game after going just 10-of-40 from the field in his pre-vious four games.

The Longhorns turned in one of their better offensive performances of the year, shooting 48 percent from the field while recording 16

By Peter Sblendorio@petersblendorio

Shelby Tauber | Daily Texan file photoJunior center Cam Ridley put up 10 points and grabbed four rebounds in Texas’ dominating win over the Horned Frogs on Monday night. Ridley has amassed 29 points and 10 rebounds over the past two games. TCU page 7

Longhorns looking to make splash in Big 12 play

Before winter break, the men’s basketball team was breezing through the sea-son. It was No. 6 in the polls, and its only loss was to top-ranked Ken-tucky on its home court in Lexington, Kentucky.

People were labeling the Longhorns as the front-runners to end Kansas’ de-cade-long perch atop the Big 12 standings.

But then they lost to Stan-ford, struggled against Texas Tech, lost badly to No. 19

Oklahoma and then to Okla-homa State. Texas looked lost at times on offense, and its once-dominant defense be-gan to look vulnerable.

“The most disappoint-ing thing is that I don’t think we’ve played well in three weeks,” head coach Rick Barnes said after the blowout loss to Oklahoma at home.

Sophomore guard Isa-iah Taylor hasn’t looked the same since breaking his wrist in the game against Iowa in November. Before the injury, he averaged 15 points and four rebounds

per game. Since returning, he’s averaging 9.2 points per game and just a touch over three rebounds per game. He looks timid attacking the rim, something he used to do fearlessly.

Junior center Cameron Ridley looked like a shell of his former self before break-ing out against West Virginia.

Senior forward Jonathan Holmes went 2-of-19 in the back-to-back losses to the Oklahoma schools.

It appeared as though the team lost its identity.

By Evan Berkowitz@Evan_Berkowitz

Ethan Oblak | Daily Texan file photoSenior Jonathan Holmes and the Longhorns are looking to make up ground in Big 12 play after a disappointing start to conference competition. SPLASH page 7

Texas suffers third loss of the season at the hands of Baylor

Strong’s first season earns average grade

FOOTBALL | COLUMNWOMEN’S BASKETBALL

Joe CapraroDaily Texan Staff

The Longhorns couldn’t take-down the Bears on Monday night. Brooke McCarty led Texas’ valiant effor with 14 points.

The women’s basket-ball team dropped its third game of the season Monday with a 75-58 loss against No. 3 Baylor.

Texas shot 34 percent, gave up 28 fouls and had 18 turnovers.

Texas battled to lead the game early in the first half but soon faced a 9-point deficit. The Longhorns cut the lead to 3 points with less than four min-utes remaining in the first half, but Baylor extended its first-half lead to 35-22. Baylor never looked back as the Bears shot at 43 percent.

Baylor totaled 41 re-bounds compared to Tex-as’ 37. The Bears became the first opponent to out-rebound the Longhorns this season.

Freshman guard Brooke McCarty led the team with 14 points. Sophomore cen-ter Kelsey Lang and senior forward Nneka Enemkpali each grabbed six rebounds.

Baylor was the Long-horns’ third opponent in the past six days. But the

Bears have won the last nine meetings against the Longhorns, including the last five in Waco. Texas is now 3-1 this season against top-five opponents.

Over the holiday break, Texas found continued success from its early sea-son wins. The Longhorns started the season 13-0, completing their non-conference schedule un-defeated for the first time since the 1986 champion-ship team.

In the latter half of its non-conference campaign, Texas overcame an 11-point second-half deficit against rival and then-No. 4-ranked Texas A&M to win, 67-65, on a game-winning la-yup by junior guard Em-press Davenport with only seconds remaining.

But the team’s unde-feated record came to a halt last week against Iowa State in Ames, Iowa. The Longhorns led by 13 at halftime, but the Cyclones shot 52 percent in the sec-ond half and outscored the Longhorns, 35-20. Enem-kpali tied up the game at 57 from the charity stripe with 42 seconds left in

regulation. But Iowa State guard Seanna Johnson scored with a layup to give the Cyclones a 59-57 lead and the victory.

Four days later, the Longhorns traveled to Oklahoma to get back on the winning track. How-ever, Texas had its worst shooting performance of the season, shooting 26.2 percent from the field. With four minutes re-maining in the first half, Texas led by 8 points be-fore Oklahoma regained the lead going on to win 70-59.

In both losses, Texas shot a combined 29.4 per-cent from the field.

Despite the recent loss-es, Texas rebounded at home against Texas Tech on Saturday for a 55-44 victory. The win stretch-es the Longhorns’ home winning streak to 13 and marked the first time all season the team had a full, healthy roster.

The Longhorns look to rebound from their loss to Baylor and extend their home winning streak Sunday against Iowa State at 3:30 p.m.

By Jeremy Thomas@jeremyobthomas

At his weekly press confer-ence, a little past the halfway mark of the season, head coach Charlie Strong was asked what grade he would give himself for his season performance. He replied by saying he hadn’t done a great job.

At the time of the confer-ence, the Longhorns were sitting at 3-5 after a 23-0 loss to Kansas State — the first time the team was shutout since 2004. After Strong’s comments,Texas went on to defeat Texas Tech, West Vir-ginia and Oklahoma State by an average of almost 20 points. Then the streak came to an end: The Longhorns would end the season on a low note with blowout losses to TCU and Arkansas.

So now that the sting of the bowl loss has subsided, and the season has come to a close, let’s revisit the question: How did Strong fare in his first season on the 40 Acres?

If you asked Strong, he would probably answer the same way he answered the question earlier in the sea-son: He hasn’t done a great job. But considering that this is a rebuilding season and that Strong had to lay the foundation for how he was going to run this team — which led to the dismissal of nine players and multiple suspensions — I don’t think it went all too poorly.

Let’s start by looking at the defensive side of the ball, where Strong had his great-est success. In former head coach Mack Brown’s final season, the Longhorn de-fense steadily improved, and Strong and defensive coor-dinator Vance Bedford only built upon that to develop

a defense that stopped the vaunted Baylor offense and kept the Longhorns alive in almost every game.

Texas finished atop the conference in total and pass-ing defense and third in scoring defense with 23.2 points allowed per game. Aside from the lapse against Iowa State, any failures the defense had came from the struggles of the offense and special teams.

On offense, the team’s prospects took a dramatic turn for the worse when redshirt junior quarterback David Ash and senior cen-ter Dom Espinosa went out for the season in Texas’ first game. These losses forced sophomore quarterback Ty-rone Swoopes into starting action before he was ready — especially given that he was standing behind an in-experienced offensive line. Still, despite those “excuses,” the fact of the matter re-mains: The offense failed to execute when it mattered most — apart from a few moments of brilliance, which came against the weaker op-ponents — and this is a spot that Strong and his staff are going to have to focus on throughout the offseason.

As for Strong’s final season grade, it would have to be somewhere around a C-plus or B-minus. Although this was the Longhorns’ first los-ing season since 2010, there were some moments when fans caught a glimpse of what the future could be — un-fortunately, those moments came few and far between. If Strong can build off his first season with a full offseason of recruiting — and better instituting his style of play — a better report card may be on the horizon.

By Jacob Martella @ViewFromTheBox

NBAPISTONS

HAWKS

76ERS

WIZARDS

Texas baseball makes top 10 in poll

The Longhorns found themselves ranked No. 10 in D1Baseball.com’s preseason poll released Monday.

After making their way to Omaha, Nebraska, for the College World Series, the Longhorns missed out on a chance to play for a national championship after los-ing a heartbreaking 3-4 game against Vanderbilt last season.

Texas finished the season with a 46-21 overall record and a 13-11 record in the Big 12. The Longhorns were also ranked No. 7 in the Collegiate Baseball preseason poll.

The Longhorns have a multitude of players re-turning and look to make a return trip to Omaha.

Texas kicks off the season in Houston for a four-game series against Rice on Feb. 13.

—Nick Castillo

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TODAY IN HISTORY

1985The San Francisco 49ers defeated the Miami Dolphins, 38-16, in Super Bowl XIX. San Francisco quarterback Joe Montana was named Super Bowl MVP.

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Texas has played 80 consecutive minutes of zone defense. Barnes says it’s the first time in 17 years

at UT that’s happened.

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“We haven’t been play-ing well these past couple of weeks,” junior guard Demar-cus Holland said after the Oklahoma loss. “We really just have to figure out who we are. Get back to basics

of how we started — just playing defense and out-re-bounding teams. [We need to be] blue-collar players and go out there and execute what the coaches have laid out for us.”

But Barnes wasn’t worried.“We’re going to be all

right,” Barnes said. “We have

a long way to go, but it goes back to this: We’ve proved that we can play harder, we can be focused, and we can execute.”

After a 77-50 win over No. 16 West Virginia and a 66-48 win against TCU, Texas seems to have found its groove and at least be a contender

for the Big 12 crown.Taylor must regain his

old form. Ridley must con-tinue to be a force. Holmes can’t disappear in big games. Freshman forward Myles Turner, who is averaging 2.7 blocks per game, needs to keep being himself.

Texas (14-4, 3-2 Big 12)

is not far off the Big 12 lead, which Kansas State (11-7, 4-1) holds, but a plethora of teams challenge that top spot. Eight of the 10 Big 12 teams have already won two conference games — only TCU and Texas Tech appear to be out of it right now.

The schedule doesn’t get any

easier, as the Longhorns will consecutively battle No. 11 Kansas, No. 9 Iowa State and then No. 21 Baylor. Six Big 12 teams are ranked in, arguably, the deepest conference in the nation.

With a tough stretch, Tex-as is looking to separate itself from the pack.

assists as a team. Five different players scored at least 9 points in the game for Texas, while four players registered at least five rebounds.

Junior guard Javan Felix played a major role in the vic-tory as well, leading Texas with 15 points on 6-of-11 shoot-ing. It was the first time Felix shot above 50 percent from the field in a game since the Dec. 20 match against Long Beach State.

After dominating the paint on both sides of the ball against West Virginia on Sat-urday, the Texas frontcourt continued its hot play against the Horned Frogs. The Long-horn big men clogged the paint and forced TCU to take contested perimeter shots all game long, leading to the Horned Frogs’ 33.3 percent from the field.

Fresh off his season-best 19-point performance against West Virginia, junior

center Cameron Ridley had another good game against TCU with 10 points, four rebounds and three blocks. Freshman forward Myles Turner tallied 11 points, six rebounds and two blocks in the game, and senior forward Jonathan Holmes added 9 points and six boards.

With the victory, the Long-horns improve to 14-4 on the season and 3-2 against Big 12 opponents. After winning their first game of conference play against Texas Tech, the Longhorns dropped back-to-back games against Okla-homa and Oklahoma State in a span of five days, leading to concern from Texas fans about the state of the team.

They’ve since won each of their last two games in con-vincing fashion and are now on their first winning streak of conference play. The road only gets tougher, as their next two games are at home against No. 11 Kansas on Sat-urday and on the road against No. 9 Iowa State on Monday.

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coverage of major Austin events, a number of our writ-ers will review new albums, books and recently released movies. One of our writers, Elisabeth Dillon, who runs the food and lifestyle blog www.food-mouth.com, will be the Texan’s go-to source for nutritional advice.

Each week, Life & Arts publishes a variety of

profiles to provide exposure to voices from all across our community. Our subjects will be as diverse as the stu-dents of the University.

Our section will feature series about current UT students who partake in ac-tivities ranging from heart research to founding their own businesses. At other times, stories will focus on

UT alumni who achieve noteworthy success in their field.

Our “300” series spot-lights the stories of people who are constant fixtures around campus but tend to go unnoticed. These 300-word pieces could be about the barista at the café in the Belo Center for New Media, a UT shuttle driver

or the security guard at a sorority house.

Since 2011, physics doc-toral candidate Robert Starr has filled the Thursday pa-per with his research-based science pieces. This semes-ter, journalism graduate student Paepin Goff joins him with a focus on climate change. Their series, Science Scene, attempts to enlighten

students on relevant topics, such as water conservation and psychological issues.

Our aim is to provide cov-erage that accurately and comprehensively reflects University life. We hope to

be an informative resource for all our readers, on cam-pus and throughout the city. We are excited to continue a proud tradition of compel-ling and inclusive storytell-ing here at the Texan.

“This semester, I’ll read the required books for every class.”

“I’m going to go to Greg-ory five times a week.”

“No more skipping classes.” It’s that time of year.

A new semester starts, and students head back to campus with reso-lutions stacked on top of resolutions.

Food-related resolutions are popular during the first few weeks of the year — that is, before exams start and bring along a flood of stress-induced eating.

It shouldn’t be that hard for you to work on your diet and maintain a health-ier lifestyle, even as work begins to pile up, if you make small changes that are easy — and tasty — to maintain.

Simple, occasional switch-es, such as grabbing an apple instead of a bag of Flamin’ Hot Cheetos, will make a “what starts here changes the world” of difference. You’ll still get that addictive crunch but without the finger stains and empty calories.

Other small changes are just as obvious. Cut back on the soda or Frappuccinos and go for water or green tea. Start really looking at the nutritional information of things you are putting in

your body. Even if a yogurt label says “all-natural” or “low-fat,” it could be loaded with added sugar — which is by far one of the worst substances for your body.

Ultimately, however, taking control of diet and learning how to cook are the real solutions to main-taining a healthy body. There are other benefits, too — cooking is the per-fect way to bond with your friends, roommates or crushes.

Your options are end-less: Homemade granola bars are great to snack on while you cruise from class to class; quinoa salads and trays of roasted vegetables are an easy and tasty way to get extra nutrients; and breakfast tacos at any time of the day with homemade roasted salsa and guac are something to tacobout.

Upping your smoothie game is the easiest op-tion of all: time needed (5 minutes), tools required (just a blender), adapt-ability (endless ingredient combinations) and health (fruit and raw greens). Smoothies are an easy way to ingest loads of veggies and fiber without even realizing it.

A basic smoothie should start with a base of banana and avocado, which is full of healthy fats that keep you full longer — no stomach

gurgling in your 11 a.m. class. Next, add a little bit of frozen fruit for sweetness, plus kale or spinach. Un-sweetened almond milk is the final component to turn it all into a dreamy treat.

But the real magic comes in just how much you can play off this base to cus-tomize something for your

tastes. Are you a nut butter addict? Throw in a spoonful. Trying to stave off that cold? Add some fresh ginger and squeeze in the juice of an or-ange or grapefruit. Want to turn into Gwyneth Paltrow? Add in “superfoods,” such as chia seeds, goji berries, açaí powder or cacao nibs.

With an option of healthy

homemade smoothies, there’s no need to impul-sively buy those artificially sweetened juices lining the refrigerated shelves of Jester City Market. Stu-dents will make and break many resolutions in the upcoming months, but eat-ing better doesn’t have to be one of them. It’s easy to

make choices that lead to a smoother semester. Just press blend.

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Elisabeth Dillon | Daily Texan StaffThere are plenty of ways to work on staying healthy this semester, but an easy fix is to treat yourself to healthy green smooth-ies. Find the recipe for this mango avocado smoothie online at www.dailytexanonline.com.

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This year’s Academy Awards nominations saw several of 2014’s critically acclaimed films rewarded for their effort, while the Academy snubbed other prominent films. In a con-troversial move, the Acad-emy nominated exclusively white actors and actresses in the leading and support-ing actor categories. Mean-while, no women received nominations for Best Direc-tor or Best Screenwriter.

The lack of diversity among the nominees marks a stark distinction from last year’s ceremony, in which “12 Years a Slave” was named Best Picture, and its star, Lupita Nyong’o, won the Oscar for Best Sup-porting Actress. The nomi-nation announcements prompted a backlash across multiple social media plat-forms and led to the trend-ing hashtag #OscarsSoW-hite on Twitter.

It is hard to pinpoint why the decision was made, but a deeper look into the de-mographics of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences reveals a pervasive lack of diversity. A 2012 study done by the Los An-geles Times showed that 93 percent of Academy voters are white, and 73 percent

are male. Efforts are un-derway to create a more in-clusive ballot, according to Cheryl Boone Isaacs, presi-dent of the Academy. Isaacs, who is the Academy’s first African-American presi-dent, said for the past cou-ple years, the Academy has added more than 400 new voting members with the goal of increasing diversity. However, the Times study revealed that a staggering 87 percent of the mem-bers inducted in 2012 were white. In 2013, the percent-age of white voters fell to 82 percent.

Public reactions to the nomination have ranged from accusatory to satiri-cal, although Ava DuVer-nay, director of “Selma,” chose to focus on the film’s nominations for Best Origi-nal Song and Best Picture, rather than the fact that she was not nominated for Best Director. On her Twitter profile, DuVernay tweeted “Happy Birthday, Dr. King. An Oscar gift for you. To SELMA cast + crew led by our miracle David Oyelo-wo! To Common + Legend! Kudos! March on!” If Du-Vernay had received a nom-ination for directing “Sel-ma,” she would have been the first black female nomi-nee in the category. Com-mon, whose song “Glory” was nominated, starred in

the film as the civil rights activist James Bevel and ex-pressed disappointment in the film’s overall snub.

Amid the controversy, it was an overwhelmingly good day for Texas filmmak-ers. The academy rewarded radio-television-film alum-nus Wes Anderson with several nominations for “The Grand Budapest Ho-tel.” Anderson received his first nomination for Best Director, and the film also snagged nods for Best Picture, Original Screenplay and other categories. Meanwhile, promi-nent Austinite Rich-ard Linklater has his eyes set on Best Pic-ture and Director for “Boyhood.”

The ceremony will p r o b a b l y hold its r e g u l a r audience of loyal viewers, a l o n g with its

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Life & Arts will publish a 20-plus-page insert the week before South By Southwest with information ranging from concert schedules to advice on how to avoid the festival entirely. Our read-ers can expect live SXSW updates via Twitter and our website, www.dailytexanon-line.com.

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The Academy added more than 400 new voting members with the goal of increasing diversity, but the study re-vealed that a staggering 87 percent of the members inducted in 2012 were white.