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UT President Bill Pow-ers presented land com-missioner George P. Bush the inaugural Latino Lead-ership Award on Monday evening.
The president’s office worked in conjunction with the Center of Mexi-can American Studies and the Department of Mexi-can American and Latina/o Studies to select Bush as the first awardee, said Dr. Ni-cole Guidotti-Hernández, associate director of the Center for Mexican Ameri-can Studies.
“We went through a se-ries of 15 nominees, and we evaluated them for lead-ership, public service and areas like that,” Guidotti-Hernández said. “With him as the first Latino land commissioner, I think in its
Rep. Trey Martinez Fischer (D-San Antonio) submitted an amendment to the House budget which would place university or-ganizations, including fra-ternities, under close watch.
The amendment — which applies to all student groups but singles out sororities,
fraternities and athletic teams — would require uni-versities to report on- and off-campus cases of gender, ethnic or racial discrimina-tion to the Higher Educa-tion Coordinating Board, a multi-faceted state board that oversees state univer-sity operations.
The Board would col-lect any information re-garding occurrences of
discrimination universities report and relay the find-ings to the legislature.
The amendment is a re-sponse to nationwide cases of racial discrimination by fraternities, according to a report by The Texas Tribune.
The House is set to start their discussion on the proposed House budget Tuesday.
Although the University
cannot comment on specif-ic pieces of legislation, Uni-versity spokesperson Gary Susswein said officials sup-port a welcoming campus.
“As with all legislation that could impact the Uni-versity, we will review it closely,” Susswein said. “And I just also want to em-phasize that, in general, the University works to make the campus as welcoming
and supportive of an envi-ronment for all of our stu-dents as it can be.”
Lee Lueder, Interfrater-nity Council president, said he does not know how ef-fective the amendment will be. He said its impact would depend on what it does with the collected informa-tion after universities have
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Bush receives Latino leadership award
Bill filed to monitor student groups GeoFORCE receives top presidential recognition
Students could soon have more places to charge their phones and laptops on campus with the arrival of new, more efficient solar charging stations.
Sol Design Lab, which works to design energy-ef-ficient products, designed
the two solar charging sta-tions already on campus.
Beth Ferguson, princi-pal of Sol Design Lab with Dallas Swindle, spoke with students Friday about the prospect of having new solar charging stations on campus. The new sta-tions would boast several
By Eleanor Dearman @ellydearman
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By Katie Keenan& Jackie Wang
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Carlo Nasisse | Daily Texan StaffTexas land commissioner George P. Bush speaks Monday evening at the awards ceremony for the inaugural Latin Leader-ship Award.
President Obama award-ed the Jackson School of Geosciences’ GeoFORCE Texas program Friday with the Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engi-neering Mentoring, one of the highest federal honors for a university.
The Presidential Award is given to programs or individuals, especially to those reaching out to underrepresented com-munities, that focus on mentorship and promote education in STEM fields. GeoFORCE was the only program honored this year.
The GeoFORCE Texas program works with in-coming high school fresh-men through the time they graduate. For a week each summer, students in the program travel to geologi-cal sites around the U.S. to learn about earth sciences. During the program, men-tors and instructors edu-cate students and provide them with college and ca-reer advice.
Geology senior Victo-ria Fortiz participated in GeoFORCE Texas from 2008 to 2012 and mentored students for the program her freshman year of col-lege. She said mentors and instructors check in
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By Sherry Tucci @sherrytucci
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Campus to receive more solar charging stations
Museum stays open despite budget cuts
Chris Foxx | Daily Texan StaffBeth Ferguson, principal of Sol Design Lab with Dallas Swindle, displays the inner workings of the solar charging station.
By Katie Keenan@keenanarroyo
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Six months after hav-ing its budget gutted, the Texas Memorial Museum is improving its financial situation, and attendance is slowly rising.
In September 2014, the University pulled funding for the Texas Natural Sci-ence Center, which included the Texas Memorial Mu-seum, as part of a $600,000 budget cut. The center was essentially dismantled, leav-ing the Museum entirely financially independent, ac-cording to Edward Theriot, integrative biology profes-sor and museum director.
Today, the museum’s doors remain open as a result of outside funding, community outreach ef-forts and policy changes and despite a professional staff that’s less than half the size it was last year.
“We survived a mas-sive budget cut, but we are
not closed,” said Pamela Owen, associate director of the museum.
In addition to the mu-seum, the Texas Natural Science Center also owned extensive paleontology and biology collections. As a result of the budget cut, the Jackson School of Geosciences and the De-partment of Integrative Biology took over the re-spective collections.
Despite the shift in own-ership, specimens from the transferred collections are still on display at the mu-seum. Owen said the exhibi-tions on display at the mu-seum were not affected by the cuts.
“We still showcase speci-mens from those collec-tions, so we’re the caretak-ers of them on exhibit,” Owen said.
Theriot said attendance
and revenue were below projections for the first two months after the budget cut.
“As we went into the year, we were consistently low,” Theriot said. “It was con-cerning us, and what be-came apparent … was that people thought we were en-tirely closed.”
In the past several months, attendance has
By Eleanor Dearman@ellydearman
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Charlotte CarpenterDaily Texan Staff
The Texas Memo-rial Museum located on UT’s campus will not be closing despite severe budget cuts. Outside funding and community outreach efforts are helping to keep the doors open to visitors.
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reported it. Nationally, fraternities
have been facing scrutiny for racial discrimination in the past months.
UT’s chapter of Phi Gam-ma Delta, known as “FIJI,” hosted a “border control” themed party at an off-campus fraternity house in January. At the party, many attendees donned som-breros and ponchos. The University did not penalize the fraternity.
“While the behavior doesn’t mirror UT core values, it’s within students’ right to freedom of speech at private off-campus event,” the University tweeted from the official UT-Austin Twit-
ter account in February.Sigma Alpha Epsilon
stirred national controversy when members were record-ed participating in chants containing racial slurs while traveling on a bus.
Lueder said he thinks it is fair that the policy be enforced both on- or off-campus.
“All of these organiza-tions are registered with the University — are University organizations, so at least pertaining to sororities and fraternities,”Lueder said. “So I think it’s only fair that [the policy] be for all regis-tered student organizations, whether it be … on- or off-campus.”
Rep. Martinez Fischer could not be reached for a comment.
[179-year] history of the of-fice, we thought it was an appropriate acknowledge-ment of what it means to be a trailblazer in Latino lead-ership today.”
As a son of a Mexican-American mother and as a Hispanic man who grew up in the U.S., Bush said he was honored to receive the award.
“Going to this University, being honored for the first time, it’s truly a honor and privilege,” Bush said. “It’s truly a challenge to take things to the next level, to give a hand to the next gen-eration of students looking at opportunities whether its public service or grad school or finding oppor-tunities that can improve their life. [There is] a lot of work ahead.”
Bush said he wants his agency to help both the center and the department.
“They’re doing research that I think is going to benefit
our agency,” Bush said. “In terms of projecting the big needs facing the commu-nity, they mentioned health care, immigration, voter ID and so forth, which is help-ful to our agency.”
While Bush accepted the award, approximately 15 protesters in the West Mall came to express their dissat-isfaction at Bush receiving this award, as well as with his political track record.
According to Daniel Yanez, an Austin commu-nity organizer, Bush appears to care about issues facing the Latino community, but he hasn’t done anything ac-tually benefitting that group.
“As a politician, he has never come out for Hispan-ic or Latino or Mexican-American issues,” Yanez said. “To give him an award,
particularly of this type — I have to laugh.”
Protesters addressed sev-eral of the issues Bush said he wishes to improve. Stu-dents gathered around to listen to feminist activist Martha Cutera, who took a strong stance against most of Bush’s political policies, ranging from immigration to fracking and environ-mental concerns.
“It’s difficult for students and faculty and staff to get involved in actions like this,” Cutera said. “We do not know how this honor came about. We are con-cerned that the values that this person has pub-licly talked about and in the Republican platform that he supports are anti-civil rights, anti-poor, anti-women.”
improvements, includ-ing a more affordable de-sign and an app or digital screen that displays how much solar energy the station produces and devices use.
The two charging stations on campus are located at the intersection of 23rd Street and San Jacinto Boulevard and on the Perry-Castañeda Library Plaza.
UT is one of the first schools to harness solar en-ergy as a way for students to charge their personal portable devices. Ferguson, a UT alumna, said other universities have made at-tempts to do the same, but on a smaller scale.
“There’s probably little, small, off-the-grid solar projects, but definitely the biggest charging stations are here at UT-Austin,” said Ferguson. “There’s a couple companies that have solar umbrellas that are more portable, so I think this is one of the big-ger systems.”
Since last summer, Fergu-son has been collecting data showing how much sunlight the current stations absorb and produce. She will present the data in hopes of convinc-ing the Green Fee Commit-tee, which allocates funds for campus environmental proj-ects, to continue funding the project so more stations can be built on campus.
Ferguson said the main challenge when trying to build a solar charging station is finding a location, since shaded areas hinder the pro-duction of solar energy.
“[We use] a solar path-finder,” said Ferguson. “It’s a little, sort of plexiglass bubble calendar where you can chart where shade ob-stacles are. We had students from our workshops walk
around the campus and find the sunniest locations.”
Biology sophomore Victor Lam said the so-lar charging stations have been beneficial, especially during on-campus events that attract large crowds.
“During one of the foot-ball games where we went out to the stations, we had chargers and everything, and I felt like a good number of people needed to charge their phones,” said Lam.
Lam said it would be worth finding additional lo-cation for students to charge their laptops while studying.
Ferguson said one of the proposed locations for a new station would be in the West Mall in front of the Union, which would provide solar charging for a larger amount of students.
Biology junior Albert Lee, associate comics editor for The Daily Texan, said not many students use the charg-ing stations but believes hav-ing them is an important step to reaching larger energy-conserving goals.
“In the end, it depends on what else we could do with the solar power be-sides charging,” said Lee. “Some people try to charge their cars, the big devices, and that’s not what these machines can do.”
Although the charging stations have limitations, Ferguson said they have opened other doors in the world of energy-efficient technology simply by their presence on campus.
“I’m working with a vehicle share system of scooters, similar to the bike share fleet, that wants a charging station,” said Ferguson. “I’ll be working on that this summer, com-ing up with a station like this one. All this research has been really helpful for future collaborations that Sol Design Lab is doing.”
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Going to this university, being honored for the first time, it’s truly a honor and privilege.
—George P. Bush, Texas land commissioner
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Study: Ads do not affect alcohol consumptionAlthough American al-
cohol advertising cam-paigns are closely moni-tored and regulated, they do not actually have a sig-nificant impact on alcohol consumption, according to research by a UT professor.
Gary Wilcox, advertising and public relations profes-sor, found that per-capita consumption of alcoholic beverages in the U.S. re-mained relatively constant between 1971 and 2011 , as did the size of the market for alcohol advertising.
Though there were some major changes in alco-hol advertising, they were largely about the focus of those ads — adapting to new trends in liquor, wine and beer sales. But the overall alcohol market did not grow significantly over the 40-year period, so brands are largely com-peting for a bigger slice of a largely pre-established market, Wilcox said.
Alcohol advertisements
are closely regulated in the United States. In Los Angeles and Philadelphia, the advertisements are banned from appearing on most public property. In San Francisco, alcohol can’t be advertised on pub-lic transportation. Wilcox said he believes regulat-ing advertising is a con-venient and easy target for policymakers.
“Generally speaking, there has been a lot of criti-cism of advertising, even to the extent that advertising has been banned for the purpose of reducing alco-hol consumption,” Wilcox said. “[The results of the study found that] advertis-ing was not a factor in the amount of alcohol people would drink. Instead, the implications were that ad-vertising is there to help you decide what to drink.”
Advertising sophomore Julie Nguyen said it made sense to her that alcohol advertisements might only affect those who already drink alcohol.
“I believe people’s morals
are already set when it comes to making decisions about alcohol. Alcohol ad-vertising truly just excites people’s desires, and they want to drink alcohol be-cause they already do it,” Nguyen said. “It’s so easy to just picture your life with the product and then finally have it trigger your desires. And that’s what ad-vertising is — desire.”
Understanding the dan-gers of drinking too much alcohol is the real issue most people face when it comes to alcohol consump-tion, according to corpo-rate communication soph-omore Ashley Na.
“People should be able to take control of their own lives. Completely banning alcohol ads alone takes away from our freedom of speech,“ Na said. “People should be an adult and take responsibility of their own mistakes, instead of blam-ing it on third-party things such as alcohol ads.”
Many alcohol companies don’t allow ads that show drunk people, abusive
behavior or people driving because that’s not the in-tention of the product, ac-cording to Wilcox. He said this tight regulation some-times limits the companies’ freedom of expression.
“Firms are allowed to
compete for the consum-er’s choice, and if you re-strict that, then you kind of hobble the economy a little bit and also hobble people’s freedoms of re-ceiving truthful informa-tion about legal products,”
Wilcox said. “There are wonderful organizations that look into problems with abusive alcohol be-havior, and those things need to be encouraged, not restricting the adver-tisement messages.”
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with the students through-out the school year for things such as PSAT/SAT preparation and college application seminars.
“That was really helpful because I was the oldest in my family, and my parents didn’t go to college, so just having the support [was great],” Fortiz said.
Since the program’s inception in 2005, Geo-FORCE Texas has ex-panded from its first partner, Southwest Texas Junior College, to schools in Houston. The program is one of the first to ad-dress the shortage of stu-dents coming from eco-nomically disadvantaged environments, according to Samuel Moore, director of outreach and diversity for the Jackson School.
“In 2010, it expanded to … schools in inner-city Houston,” said Moore. “[The program] targets ec-onomically disadvantaged students who might not be aware of the opportunity.”
Of the students who par-ticipate in the program, 100 percent of them gradu-ate high school, 96 percent go to college, and 64 per-cent choose a STEM field of study, as reported on the GeoFORCE website.
“[The numbers are] very impressive,” Jackson School dean Sharon Mosh-er said. “There are no other numbers like that [caliber] that I know of.”
Many of these students never considered the
possibility of studying geo-logical or Earth sciences before GeoFORCE, ac-cording to Mosher.
“I think the most valu-able aspect of the program is that it truly changes lives,” Mosher said. “It takes students who come from underrepresented groups … and has been successful at getting them to go to college and also successful in getting a ma-jority of them to go into a STEM field.”
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Jack DuFon | Daily Texan StaffPresident Obama awarded the Jackson School of Geosciences’ GeoFORCE Texas program Friday with the Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring for their work mentoring and promoting students in STEM fields.
risen, although it’s still low-er than what the staff had projected, Theriot said.
The museum is now run-ning off $85,000 in pri-vate donations, a little over $108,000 in state funding and revenue from admissions and the museum’s gift shop.
“Fiscally this year, we are in good shape,” Theriot said.
The 84th Texas Legisla-ture’s proposed House and Senate budgets would renew the state’s over $108,000 in funding for the 2016 and 2017 fiscal years.
Until September, the mu-seum was free to the public. Although admission is still free to students and faculty with a valid University ID,
the museum now charges members of the public a general admission fee of $3–$4, depending on age, to account for the budget cuts. The museum has made $42,000 in ticket sales since September, Owen said.
The museum also re-ceived $75,000 in private donations from the Still-water Foundation, which has been used to host free special events. Museum senior administrative as-sociate Laura Naski Keffer said the events, such as Na-tional Fossil Day and Texas Wildlife Day, have helped spread the word about the museum.
“It kept us doing things we did before the massive cut,” Naski Keffer said. “It’s really nice to provide free
events. Here we are: We switched to an admissions policy, but we can still fig-ure out a way to make free events to the public.”
The museum staff was downsized to from eleven full-time employees to four, as well as a part-time IT staff member and six work-study students. Since the cuts, Theriot works part time as the director and full time as a University professor.
Theriot said staff members who were let go as a result of the cut were given ample time to find other jobs. Other staff members retired.
“The hardest thing was telling the staff, frankly,” The-riot said. “The slightly silver lining in all of this is that we were told this was going to happen well in advance.”
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In the span of 11 days in the middle of Febru-ary, UT rose to the forefront of one of the coun-try’s most divisive controversies surrounding university culture.
On Feb. 7, a now-infamous party took place at the Fiji house north of campus, instigating dem-onstrations, investigations and embarrassing headlines that spread across the world.
And on Feb. 18, Student Government Presi-dent-elect Xavier Rotnofsky and Vice President-elect Rohit Mandalapu extended the criticism of UT’s social organizations a few blocks west of the Fiji house with a single sarcastic line in their first campaign video: “I want another Student Gov-ernment president from Tejas.”
In the month that’s followed, discussions over the role that social organizations play in UT cam-pus life have intensified. There are still protests against Fiji, SAE is under investigation for its own possible discriminatory customs and an SG election was framed almost exclusively around whether Greek and spirit organizations wield too much power.
There are obviously some very stark differ-ences between the debate over fraternities, both at UT and nationally, and that over spirit groups at this University in particular. The former group carries connotations of misogyny and intoler-ance, justified or not; those same connotations are virtually nonexistent among the latter. And spirit groups at least ostensibly choose their members based on characteristics like service and leadership, while there’s a huge variation in selection criteria across different fraternities.
As a case in point, it’s ironic how the particular organization Rotnofsky and Mandalapu poked at is among UT’s best at not emulating Fiji’s ex-ample when it comes to race and elitism — the Tejas Club’s most recent New Man class, to use the group’s terminology, roughly mirrored the demo-graphics of the University overall, and the Tejas Coffee distinguished speaker series provides the UT community with access to prominent leaders in a remarkable array of different fields.
Still, when every Executive Alliance this de-cade has featured at least one member of either Tejas or the female service group Orange Jack-ets (with the exception of 2012’s Thor Lund and Wills Brown, both of whom were in fraternities), it’s easy to see how this year’s Travesty duo were so successful in painting SG as a group that re-volves around the interests of a select few orga-
nizations. In that regard, discussions over both Greek life and more explicitly merit-based social organizations revolve around the same central premises: exclusivity and the privileges encased therein.
Within Greek organizations, those privileges often manifest themselves as extensive alumni networks, which make any selection criteria based primarily on characteristics as innate as race, class or connections inherently problemat-ic. But even spirit groups are capable of arbitrarily and sometimes wrongly leaving intelligent and capable voices out of their ranks. That exclusivity might be necessary to maintain a group’s legiti-macy as a merit-based organization, but it’s wor-risome how quickly it can become insular, which is why this year’s nontraditional Student Govern-ment campaign was so effective.
At the same time, outright antagonism toward exclusive groups of any affiliation strikes me as misguided. Elitism isn’t institutionalized in high school cafeterias or cubicle-adjacent water cool-ers, but it doesn’t take an avid fan of “Mean Girls” or “The Office” to notice that it still arises natu-rally.
So just as UT’s musicians and top-tier athletes would find each other even without organized bands or sports teams, those attracted to Greek organizations would congregate into groups that look awfully similar to fraternities and sororities, while those attracted to service, school spirit or networking would wind up forming de facto spirit groups with their like-minded peers. In-deed, one reason Tejas and Orange Jackets have had such an influential history within Student Government is that all three institutions attract similar types of students by serving as training grounds for young leaders.
That’s not a problem. That’s freedom of asso-ciation.
What is a problem is any organization viewing its selection process as the ultimate word on who does and does not deserve access to powerful positions or networking opportunities. In groups that select their members based on qualities oth-er than merit, that type of exclusivity undermines the equality of opportunity for which universities are supposed to stand. And in groups that do se-lect based on merit, it can stifle the exchange of ideas between qualified non-members and influ-ential members.
To avoid those kinds of scenarios, organiza-tions of all stripes should promote openness and inclusivity just as strongly as they do service, leadership, friendship or any other foundational principle. That’s the strongest path toward mak-ing UT welcoming and its institutions account-able to all of its 50,000-plus students.
Shenhar is a Plan II, government and econom-ics sophomore from Westport, Connecticut. He writes about campus and education issues.
During the last 18 months I have participat-ed in intensive discussions with policymakers, scholars and students in London, Melbourne, Munich, Abu Dhabi, Toronto, Tokyo and count-less American cities, especially Austin. (Austin is, perhaps, the most exotic place on this list.) Other than the consternation this “jet-setting” has elic-ited from my wife, these trips highlight for me two outstanding characteristics of our current world.
First, the spread of higher education and knowledge economies is creating a wide, di-verse and deeply connected cohort of interna-tional elites. It is not just that smart and power-ful people in all of these places communicate comfortably in English, but that they all use the same vocabulary, as they never have before. The global elites recognize the same educational cre-dentials (from a small number of prestigious in-stitutions), they measure wealth in similar ways (in dollars accumulated and consumed) and they identify common lifestyles (urban, secular and highly mobile.) Simply stated, global elites build productive working relationships across cultural boundaries because they attended the same schools, spend money in the same ways and travel frequently through the same airports. They are somewhat interchangeable as they sit next to one another in meetings, seminars and airline lounges, reading the same online news sources and following the same international financial and geopolitical issues. They know the up-to-date numbers for the major stock markets and they closely analyze various crises around China, Russia and Iran. They know more about these topics than many developments within their own societies.
Second, the global elites that I describe are large in number and diverse in background, but they are a distinct and segregated minority. They are educated cosmopolitans in societies,
including the United States, that remain local in their common points of reference and lim-ited in their educational horizons. The average German, Japanese or Canadian citizen does not attend a prestigious university, access large wealth resources or move from city to city. Most “ordinary” people live close to where they were born, work with individuals like themselves and distrust those who look and sound different. Most people care little about stock markets or international crises; they focus, as they always have, on their immediate surroundings and their personal needs.
Local citizens are, of course, dependent on international markets and geopolitical deci-sions that determine food and energy costs, as well as overall security and prosperity. Few people, however, think that way. If anything, the growing complexity of the world motivates disoriented individuals to crave the simplic-ity of the local experiences they can readily understand. Control for citizens who do not have the opportunities of global elites means localizing debates about taxation, security and social welfare. In a global age, politics are in-tensely local.
Online communications have, curiously, contributed to localization. No longer do elites dominate the flow of news and opinion. Now cit-izens from diverse locales can share their stories, their hopes and their grievances. Across societ-ies, they inspire one another to stand up against elitism and reaffirm “true” and “authentic” lo-cal life choices. That discourse dominates many segments on social media. Those threatened by globalization are themselves global in their local expressions.
These observations are not intended to con-demn local thinkers or defend global elites, but to explain that this divide is a major contribu-tor to partisanship, incivility and stalemate in so many societies today. Global elites are more connected, powerful and self-confident than ever before, but local thinkers are increasingly mobilized, resentful and resistant. This explains the simultaneous growth of elite multicultural-
ism and local ethnocentrism as well as elite ma-terialism and local religious devotion. Drivers of BMWs stuffed with organic groceries share the road with drivers of pickup trucks carrying guns and bibles, but they are pursuing very dif-ferent destinations.
Arguments about party and ideology are real-ly covers for the sociological divergences that are pulling knowledge professionals apart from less privileged hard-working men and women. The challenge of our time is to break out of our bub-bles, recognize this division and do something about it. Traveling abroad to find other people like ourselves is not a solution, nor is clinging to a nostalgic image of a simpler local society from the past. Our problem is sociological because most of what we do on campus, at work, at home and on the Internet reinforces our separation from those whose lives are almost incomprehen-
sibly different.Perhaps we can begin to think about new
bridges between the global and the local. These bridges must be personal, and they must show respect for differences in experiences. They must involve a self-conscious effort to move beyond one’s comfort zone.
Those of us who are a part of the global elite — and that includes most people on campus — have an obligation to reach out. We should not diminish our global goals, but we must anchor ourselves better in the local communities we of-ten ignore. From London and Munich to Tokyo and Austin, elites must get out of their offices and walk the streets. This applies to students who need to take their learning outside the classroom and outside the campus.
Suri is a professor in the LBJ School of Public Affairs and the Department of History.
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On March 24, it was announced by the In-tercollegiate Tennis Association that University of Texas tennis player Søren Hess-Olesen had reached the pinnacle of tennis rankings: the No. 1 male singles tennis player in the nation. The ironic thing is that Hess-Olesen and his tal-ented Longhorn teammates (who were also an-nounced March 24 as the seventh-ranked team in the country!) do not have a home stadium to play their outdoor matches in this season.
The men’s and women’s tennis teams started the home season playing at the Edgar O. and Melanie A. Weller Tennis Center indoor facil-ity several miles away from campus in Steiner Ranch, and since outdoor season got under way, they have been forced to play outdoor matches west of campus at the Caswell Tennis Center, a historic municipal recreation facility that is anything but fan-friendly. In fact, sev-eral of the courts are not viewable from the grandstand, and there are no locker room fa-cilities for the players.
Imagine how visiting teams react to that.
Some outdoor matches are even farther west of campus at the Westwood Country Club near Mount Bonnell or at the Intramural Fields near 51st Street north of campus.
The Penick-Allison Tennis Center was the University’s former men’s and women’s home tennis stadium for almost 30 years until it was demolished after last season to make way for the Dell Medical School. Imagine that happening to any other UT athletic team. If the football or baseball or basketball stadiums were torn down, there would have been years of preparation to ensure the team would seamlessly transition to a new and improved facility. But this has not hap-pened with the Texas tennis teams, and no an-nouncement has been made about constructing a new tennis facility.
The University should be ashamed of the way the Texas tennis teams and their fans have been treated this season. This is unacceptable and definitely not the meaning of “We Are Texas.”
— Bobby French, Texas Tennis fan and resident of Austin.
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Daily Texan archive photoBrooks Kieschnick played left field and pitcher for Texas and in major league before moving on to other careers.
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The Texas baseball team surrounded head coach Au-gie Garrido after Tuesday’s 6–4 comeback win over Texas State.
Despite the win, Garrido was visibly frustrated with the team’s performance. It was Texas’ second-straight midweek game in which they struggled, after last week’s extra-inning loss against UT-Arlington, 6–5.
Garrido said he wasn’t upset; rather, he want-ed the Longhorns to learn from their Tuesday night struggles.
“I’m not angry,” Gar-rido said. “I’m just trying to explain to them why we have to be disciplined and why we have to come ready to compete and what it takes to get to the next step. We’re not at the level of championship baseball.”
But No. 12 Texas (17–11, 5–1 Big 12) will look to rid
itself of the midweek blues Tuesday night against Texas A&M-Corpus Christi. The Longhorns host the Island-ers (11–12, 3–6 Southland), who are coming off a 2–1 series loss against Stephen F. Austin. Texas A&M-Cor-pus Christi enters the con-test having lost seven of its last eight.
The Longhorns will try to right the ship Tuesday night after a disappointing sweep against Nebraska this week-end. The Longhorns struggled at the plate, where they were held to three runs on 12 hits in the three-game series against the Cornhuskers.
The Longhorns will also look to solve their mid-week pitching problems. In Texas’ loss to UT-Arlington, start-ing sophomore pitcher Kacy Clemens threw four innings and only allowed one run, but Texas’ bullpen gave up five runs and blew a three-run lead in the ninth inning.
After the snafu in Arlington, Garrido moved
pitcher Josh Sawyer to the Tuesday starting role in hopes of revitalizing the struggling sophomore lefty.
But in his first Tuesday start of the season, Sawyer got rocked early against Texas State. He gave up a home run on the first at-bat of the game. Sawyer only lasted three in-nings and gave up two runs.
“We wanted to see what [moving Sawyer] would do one way or another,” Garrido said. “We’ll find the answer to this.”
The Longhorns will need a good outing from their starting pitcher Tuesday night, as Texas looks to get return to championship-level baseball.
“We can’t just flip that switch,” Garrido said. “If you’re going to get better, you have to learn something from last Tuesday and apply it to this Tuesday. … We have to be able to win a lot of games in a row and be able to win after you lose and win on Tuesday when you’re really tired.”
said Bart Vanlandingham, Kieschnick’s co-worker at Biomet. “He’s persis-tent in what he does and works hard.“
Kieschnick didn’t stop with his new job. In September 2014, he and a few friends opened up Alamo Ice House in San Antonio.
Kieschnick got the idea of owning a bar two years ago when his friends Ray Fuchs, the “restaurant guy” at the Ice House, and Jaime Gon-zales, the pit master, were doing some repair work on Kieschnick’s house.
Fuchs, who met Kieschnick when he was running a bar on Sixth Street in the early ’90s, told Kieschnick that he was renting property for a bar in San Antonio. Kieschnick was thrilled with the idea and came on as a part owner.
“I’m pretty hands-off as far as the day-to-day goes,” Kieschnick said. “I’m more of the social guy —
getting people there and promoting it.”
Kieschnick’s varied experience offers him a unique perspective and enables him to take unexpected approaches, ac-cording to Fuchs.
“He brings a different per-spective to the table,” Fuchs said. “We weren’t going to build a stage until Brooks said, ‘No, we need to build a stage and have live music.’”
While running a bar and distributing spinal implants may not have much to do with playing professional baseball, Kieschnick still believes there are important connections to be made between his current and former careers.
“[Baseball] definitely gives you discipline and work ethic to make [a business] work and go well,” Kieschnick said. “You definitely have to have that in this business and a lot of drive in this company to make it successful.”
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forever be indebted to the Long-horns’ fans and the University of Texas.”
Turner, who came to Texas as a five-star prospect, never quite lived up to the expecta-tions placed on him so early in his career, despite earning Big 12 Freshman of the Year and finding a spot on the All-Big 12 third team.
He averaged 10.1 points and 6.5 rebounds per game in just 22.2 minutes per game, with most of his big games coming against weaker competition, such as St. Francis and Lip-scomb, in which he scored 25 and 26, respectively.
Turner led the Big 12 in blocks, and he was consistent throughout the season with his quick, face-up, high-release jumper from the post.
“I love the University. Love the atmosphere here,” Turner said in the video. “Great edu-cation, great people, great basketball program and facili-ties — given everything I need to succeed.”
Turner turned 19 years old last week after playing the full season at age 18. His an-nouncement came a day after head coach Rick Barnes of-ficially left the program after 17 years.
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Texas freshman forward Myles Turner announced early Monday through Twitter and a YouTube video that he will be entering his name in the 2015 NBA Draft.
“My name is Myles Turner, UT alum, and I’ve decided to forgo my education and enter my name into the 2015 NBA draft,” Turner said in the video.
Turner, who was as a one-and-done candidate as soon as he put on his burnt orange bucket hat and committed to the University of Texas last spring, is a projected lottery pick.
“It’s really hard to say good-bye, but this is a decision I had to make,” Turner said. “I will
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Rick Barnes is gone from his post after 17 seasons with the Longhorns, leaving the head coaching position vacant. Texas immediately began the search for his replacement, which it could find within a week. Here are the top prospects to begin the next era at Texas.
Smart, a favorite to replace Barnes, burst onto the national scene in 2011 when he led Vir-ginia Commonwealth to the Final Four. Although he’s only 37 years old, Smart has led the Rams to five consecutive NCAA Tournaments and six straight 20-win seasons. He’s ru-mored to be interested in the job at Texas, although some wonder if he’s interested in advancing to a bigger school. Despite his postseason success, he has yet to win a conference title in either the Colonial Athletic Associa-tion or the Atlantic-10, but his 163–56 career record makes him a hot commodity on the coaching market.
Marshall may be the most likely name out there. After a loss in the Sweet 16 to Notre Dame, he said he would listen to offers, which seems to mean he is ready to bolt. He had tremendous
success at Wichita State, where he went undefeated in the regu-lar season last year and earned a No. 1 seed in the Tournament.
Miller is as big of a name as there is out there right now. Last season he took the Dayton Flyers to the Elite Eight, and this year he won two tournament games. In his last two years he is 53–20.
However, Miller is sitting pretty at Dayton. He just got a contract extension until 2022.However, Texas might be able to offer him a contract that Dayton just can’t match.
From the Longhorns’ per-spective, he is a bit of a gamble. He’s only been head coach for four years.
This year’s U.S. Basketball Writers Association’s Coach of the Year, Bennett turned Virginia from an average pro-gram to a power in the ACC over the course of his six years there. Bennett’s Cavaliers won the ACC and earned a No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tourna-ment last season. This year, Virginia climbed as high as No. 2 in both the coaches and media polls.
The Cavaliers led the nation in scoring defense this season, al-lowing just 51.4 points per game. It remains to be seen if Ben-nett would entertain the idea of leaving Virginia.
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Brooks Kieschnick may have been the most versatile player to play baseball on the 40 Acres, and now he’s moving his varied skill set to new enterprises.
Kieschnick’s 34–8 win-loss record and 3.05 ERA are
worthy of a staff ace. He also hit for a .360 career average and launched 43 home runs between 1991 and 1993.
He was so impressive that, after his junior year, the Chi-cago Cubs selected the two-time national player of the year winner with the 10th pick of the 1993 MLB draft. Forgoing his senior season,
Kieschnick went on to spend 10 years in professional base-ball as a designated hitter, left fielder and relief pitcher.
However, Kieschnick’s versatility did not stop when his playing career ended in 2006. Soon after retiring, Ki-eschnick went through train-ing to start an entirely new career working for Biomet, a
medical device manufacturer, as a medical distributor for spinal implants.
“[Tuesday] I woke up at 4:30 in the morning in San Antonio and had to be in Austin for a case at 7,” Ki-eschnick said. “You’re going out, and you make sure you take care of your doctors, and you go from there and make
sure they have all the equip-ment they need.”
The dedication that pro-duced one of the best players to take the field for Texas has earned Kieschnick a strong reputation among co-workers and customers alike.
“His customers love him,”
Another season of intra-mural softball at UT is un-derway after opening day this weekend.
Teams will face off over the five weeks of regular season play, vying for a spot in the playoffs. The spring sport, which features nine different divisions, attracts hundreds of students to an often light-hearted but competitive season.
“Intramural softball and intramural sports in general are great because you can have any skill level, any kind of person, come together,” said business honors and accounting junior Tommy Garber. “Everyone’s welcome to play.”
Second-year MBA stu-dent Douglas Flanagan, captain of coed team None of Your Business and men’s team Business as Usual be-lieves intramural softball draws people in because of its mix of fun, fitness and competition.
“It’s a lot of fun,” Flanagan said. “It’s a great way for peo-ple to get outside … and play a competitive game [while keeping] it fun, keep[ing] it light and having a social experience while having an athletic experience.”
Each team plays four
games against teams in its division, and the division winner moves on to the play-offs. From there, it’s a bracket tournament, with the win-ning team earning T-shirts and a spot on the Gregory Gym Wall of Fame.
“It’s a single elimination tournament where you play until you lose,” Garber said. “If you can win three or four games, you can get crowned the champions, and you go down in history.”
With the stakes so high, finance junior Lee Fried-man, a catcher for the Jelly Donuts, said the teams can get aggressive during postseason games.
“It’s pretty competitive at times,” Friedman said. “Some people really want to win. Others are just there for fun, but it can get pretty competitive and uptight, es-pecially during the playoffs.”
Several of the teams par-ticipating this season are veterans to the league, hav-ing competed in the past years with many of the same players, including both of Flanagan’s teams. Garber be-lieves this bond only adds to the experience.
“My teammates are hon-estly some of my best friends, and we do a lot more than just sports together,” Garber said. “But sports has defi-nitely been an avenue where
I’ve met these guys and got to know them better.”
While many teams are composed of friends or members of clubs or organi-zations, there is a free agent list of participants who are eager to play the sport de-spite not having a team. Cap-tains regularly use this list to fill remaining spots to their teams.
“I think the best thing about intramurals is that anyone can do it,” Garber said. “Even if you don’t have an organization or group to sign up with, they have a free agent list … and captains … can pick you up, so that’s an-other good way to meet a random group that you might end up becoming friends with.”
Softball and other intra-mural sports give students a way to continue playing sports they had to leave when coming to college, with the excitement of actual games without the monotony of practice.
“It’s the fun aspects of all the sports you played grow-ing up,” said Jacob Lodinger, a supply chain management junior and third baseman for the Jelly Donuts. “You don’t have to do the bor-ing aspects. You get to just go out and have some fun and compete.”
By Noah Brooks@NTBrooks1011
SPORTS BRIEFLYReport: Barnes offered Tennessee coaching job
Rick Barnes has been offered the position to be the next head coach at the University of Tennessee, ac-cording to reports by ESPN. This comes just a day after Barnes was fired by Texas.
ESPN reported Monday afternoon that Barnes and Tennessee were close to a deal that would send the former Texas head coach to the Volunteers. In his fare-well press conference Sun-day, Barnes hinted to the fact he would land another coaching job soon when asked about his future.
“Will I coach again? Yeah. Quicker than you’d probably think,” Barnes said.
Barnes and Texas “mu-tually agreed” to part ways Sunday morning, according to the official announcement. But it wasn’t as mutual as the report suggests.
After failing to live up to expectations in the last couple of years — includ-ing a first-round exit to Butler this year and missing the tournament entirely in 2012-13 — reports leaked Thursday that Texas ath-letic director Steve Patter-son told Barnes to make changes to his staff or risk being fired.
His staff offered to leave, but Barnes wouldn’t let them.
“I couldn’t do that,” Barnes said. “That would be me saying this is about me. I’ve been carried by a lot of people here. We’re in this together.”
Barnes would be the third coach in three years for the Volunteers, who saw Sweet 16 success just two years ago under the guid-ance of Cuonzo Martin before he left for Cal this summer. Donnie Tyndall of Southern Mississippi re-placed him.
However, Tyndall’s time at Tennessee was short-lived as he was fired on Friday after just a season with the Volunteers. His time was doomed before he started when Southern Mississippi released a state-ment in November that it was under investigation by the NCAA.
Later in January, it said it had inflicted a self-im-posed postseason ban. All this comes after Tyndall coached at Morehead State when they went on pro-bation five years ago for booster-related activity.
“Knowing what I know now, is that a mistake?” Tennessee athletic director Dave Hart told the AP on Friday. “Probably. … But, you know, there are a lot of coaches out there that have a transgression in their his-tory somewhere that had an opportunity to do better. Obviously if we’d known [then] what we know now, we would have moved in another direction.”
Tyndall finished 16–16 in his lone year with a chance of future punish-ment “highly likely,” ac-cording to Hart.
Tennessee loses its top scorer from last season but will return juniors Kevin Punter and Ar-mani Moore, who aver-aged double-digit points. Barnes’ wife is an alumna of Tennessee.
—Evan Berkowitz
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Texas forward Myles Turner announced Mon-day that he will declare for the 2015 NBA draft. Turner averaged 10.6 points and 6.5 rebounds per game in 22.2 minutes per game during his freshman year at Texas.
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The new Radiolab podcast “The Year That Broke Austin” takes listeners on a walking tour of Austin that doesn’t require a tour guide. But as the story unfolds, some lis-teners may wish they weren’t so alone.
“The Year That Broke Aus-tin” describes the events of 1885, specifically the mysteri-ous serial killer “Servant Girl Annihilator” who terrorized Austin that year. The creepy details of the murders lay all over modern Austin, ready to be revealed by a narrator who directs listeners along an audio tour.
The podcast episode was created by the brilliant minds behind the show Radiolab, an award-winning radio show that explores science and philosophy.
“The Year That Broke Aus-tin” combines podcasting and GPS technology in a walking tour from East Fifth Street and San Jacinto to Eighth Street and Guadalupe Street. Radiolab launched the epi-sode during SXSW, and it is now available for free in the iTunes store through an app called “Detour.”
The podcast guides the listener through a combina-tion of history and modern Austin life. Participants must reach GPS checkpoints before they can access a new part of the story.
The tour takes one hour and 30 minutes, stopping listeners at places such as the Driskill Hotel, Waller Creek and the Austin History Center. The tour ends on the top floor of a parking garage, from which the participant has a scenic overlook of Austin and the fa-mous Moon Towers.
Although Austinites can easily access the sites involved in the murder mysteries, re-minders of modern life, such as Starbucks cups and dogs and their walkers, now sur-round these places. The nar-ration helps obscure these modern obstructions to the mysterious past, as it details the dark story.
In an interview with NPR, Andrew Mason, founder and CEO of Detour, said he was excited about the way the Ra-diolab team used the app’s plat-form. He hopes the episode inspires other artists to use Detour as a platform to post walking tours for cities all over the world.
Work on the podcast epi-sode began when Mason con-tacted Radiolab host Jad Ab-umrad and proposed the two organizations work on a proj-ect together. Abumrad and Radiolab executive producer
Ellen Horne went on Detour’s San Francisco walking tours and decided to take advantage of Mason’s offer.
Local talent was heavily showcased in “The Year That Broke Austin.” Austin-based actress Barbara Chisholm narrates the podcast with a
distinctive Texas twang. The podcast uses the music of lo-cal Austin musician Shakey Graves to support the nar-ration with lyrics that re-peat the gruesome details of the murders.
“The Year That Broke Austin” presents a view of
the city most people have never experienced before. Podcasts and books on tape have traditionally transported listeners’ imaginations away from their location, but this project presents a genre in which sound and location are inextricably linked.
By Ellen Airhart@ekairhart
“I thought, ‘I am about to die,’” Cassidy Santaguida tells the au-dience during the monthly live-storytelling show Testify Austin. She grips the microphone and continues to recount the time she nearly died from drinking too much water after running a half-marathon and hiking in the desert. About 100 people fill the crowd at Spider House Ballroom, waiting to hear what happens next.
When she’s not on stage as a live-storyteller, stand-up comedian or improvisor, Santaguida, lead in-formation technology manager at UT, spends her days in the Flawn Academic Center running the
training program for the campus’ software developers.
Just five years ago, perform-ing arts were not on her radar. Science-minded, Santaguida graduated from UT with a bi-ology degree in 2002, and the thought of speaking in front of a large group of people ter-rified her. She even broke out into hives when she agreed to officiate her brother’s wedding. After being promoted to lead IT manager in 2010, her job required her to do a lot more public speaking.
“I was like, ‘I have to do some-thing to make this better,’” San-taguida said.
She signed up for improvi-sation classes at Austin’s Hide-out Theatre to improve her
public speaking skills. During the first class, she said about three words. But the first per-formance changed everything.
“I said something, and it wasn’t a joke that I had pre-pared because everything was off the cuff, but [the audience] laughed,” Santaguida said. “I remember being in awe, like, ‘Wow, it really worked. I made somebody laugh.’”
What once terrified her is now something she loves. Three to five nights a week, she’s either rehearsing or performing at a live show.
“I feel more comfortable with the idea of going for it and not holding myself back for fear of what might happen,” Santaguida said.
The lights are dim, and the crowd is ready. It’s time for the wrestlers to enter the ring. This round’s competitors? A software-developing dentist — and an actual dog. But this is no dog fight.
The dentist and dog are among many local wrestlers pitted against each other in a Slamdown known as Party World Rasslin’. Party World Rasslin’ (PWR) is a group of local pseudo-wrestlers that meets every three months at different venues to do what they love: “rassle.”
The wrestling, sometimes choreographed, and more of-ten not, takes place in a PWR Slamdown. A PWR Slamdown —a tournament that pits dif-ferent actors in PWR against each other in a battle of improv and wrestling.
“It’s a theatrical event that involves wrestling style, action and a lot of crazy characters,” co-founder Chris Monica said. “It’s a comedy show, not a wres-tling show. If some wrestling happens, sorry.”
Monica and co-founder Jared Blondeau, also an Austi-nite, manage upcoming PWR shows by seeking out local tal-ent and new venues. Blondeau and Monica both have jobs
other than PWR; most of the wrestlers do, too.
“Their day jobs are, like, professional video game artist, or, like, they’re programmers who do legit stuff,” Monica said. “[PWR] is a collection of broken geniuses who have kind of found a way to express certain things that were before not quite expressible.”
Blondeau and Monica cre-ated PWR based on a birth-day party theme they attend-ed, where guests were asked to come in costume and yell at each other while attempting to wrestle. Blondeau said the party’s success led the group of friends to form the show, which puts “comedy first, wrestling second.”
Blondeau said the grati-fying feeling of watch-ing people engage in his hobby is more than worth the time shows take to plan.
“It’s a communal thing,” Monica said. “Everyone chanting for a wrestler in unison gives them something to relate to. The end result is community togetherness.”
Although they like in-corporating new wrestlers, Blondeau said PWR strives to maintain a tight-knit community feel. He said the company’s close bonds and cohesion help ensure a
comfortable and open en-vironment where anything is possible.
Although most of the participants in the show are not experienced fighters, Blondeau said members are always trying to improve their fighting skills. He said
only one wrestler has been formally trained. The focus is less on the fighting and more on the physicality and humor, Blondeau said.
“The entertainment has to be there,” Blondeau said. “Whether that be from something physical that is
entertaining to watch, or it has to be funny. Prefer-ably, [the show] is a mixture of both.”
Blondeau said people do not have to love wrestling to attend a PWR Slamdown. In fact, most audience members are not die-hard wrestling
fans — they come just for the party wrestling.
“Wrestling is a discipline that has gone on for years,” Monica said. “Professionals can do it for 10 years and say they’re good at it, but this is party wrestling. It’s our own thing, and we’re the best at it.”
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Party World Rasslin’ unites comedy, wrestlingCITY
‘Detour’ app brings historical Austin ghost story back to life
By Marisa Charpentier@marisacharp21
Photo courtesy of Rask PhotographyTwo wrestlers square off in a Party World Rasslin’ Slamdown in a battle of improvised physical comedy and wrestling.
By Austin Reynolds@blanelikeaplane
Andy NguyenDaily Texan
Staff
UT alumni Cassidy
Santaguida speaks at
Testify Austin, a storytelling event at the
Spider House Ballroom
where she recounts a compelling
tale of a life-threatening experience.
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IT manager finds interest in improv