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The Andrew W. Mel-lon Foundation awarded a $400,000 grant to Texas Performing Arts on Thurs-day to support classical mu-sic production for various shows and performances on campus.

“The largest benefit [of the grant] will be for the Butler School of Music be-cause it is really about doing programming for classical music in a more contempo-rary way and applying it to a more interdisciplinary use,” said Kathy Panoff, director and associate dean of Texas Performing Arts Center.

Panoff said the Mel-lon Foundation had spe-

cific intentions for the grant’s impact on Texas Performing Arts.

“The Mellon Foundation was looking to elevate clas-sical music,” Panoff said. “They were attempting to make classical music more popular, which is difficult in modern times with the younger generation.”

Texas Performing Arts is not a first-time recipient of a Mellon Foundation grant, having previously received money from the Foundation in 2011.

“We had a successful ap-plication the first time, and they awarded us $450,000,” Panoff said. “In January, they asked us to apply again because of the success of the program.”

The Mellon Founda-tion issues a large number of grants to institutions throughout the country and could not comment on

specific details about the money that was given to UT.

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While some major cit-ies have relatively high disparities between the ra-cial makeup of their police forces and the surround-ing community, APD’s de-mographics closely reflect those of Austin, according to APD community survey statistics.

A 2011 demographic survey shows APD’s total sworn personnel are ap-proximately 69 percent white, 9 percent black, 21 percent Hispanic or Latino and 1 percent Asian.

The most comprehensive demographic data for Aus-

tin, taken in the 2010 census, said Austin is 68.3 percent white, 8.1 percent black, 35.1 percent Hispanic or Latino and 6.3 percent Asian. The survey allowed participants to identify as multiple races.

APD Sgt. Gizette Gaslin said APD believes having a police force demographically similar to the community is essential to good policing.

“We always try to repre-sent the people we serve, so we try to mirror the de-mographics of Austin as closely as we can,” Gaslin said. “When people have issues, I think they re-ally respond to people like

Chris Riley, a member of the Austin City Council, ad-vocated for more transporta-tion options at Tuesday’s Stu-dent Government meeting.

Riley announced his plan Monday to legalize the ride sharing services Uber and Lyft in Austin. Currently, both are legal as under-ground operating services, but this push would adver-tise them to the public as an alternative to public trans-portation and traditional taxicabs.

“It is a real paradigm shift,” Riley said. “We have a very elaborate set of regulations in place to govern the cab in-dustry. We control the fares they charge, the number of cabs on the street, and for a good reason. The problem is the world has changed now, and there are opportuni-ties to have more effective and more efficient modes of transportation in place.”

Riley, a District 9 council seat candidate, said he hopes to legalize these services to minimize traffic.

“What I want to do is fig-ure out a way we can actu-ally legalize services like Uber and Lyft, so you guys can know you’re getting into those options, getting into those services and use them safely,” Riley said.

According to Riley, the City Council is scheduled to discuss an item on Sept. 25 that will encourage operating agreements for transporta-tion services such as Uber and Lyft. Riley said some of these operating agreements include providing adequate insurance coverage, driver background checks, vehicle safety checks, a zero-toler-ance alcohol policy, ADA ac-commodations and price of ride disclosure.

In late August, UTPD re-ported a chemical spill in-volving lithium aluminum hydride — a highly water-reactive chemical — leaking on to a work bench in the Hackerman Building.

This is just one example of the types of accidents Envi-ronmental Health and Safety tries to prevent. EHS is the organization responsible for ensuring the safety of opera-tions on campus, handling everything from food sani-tation to lab safety.

“We usually get about 30-40 significant accidents per year,” said Dennis No-lan, EHS assistant director of biological and lab safety. “Those can be anything from spills in a lab, an explo-sion, an equipment failure or a fire.”

Nolan said there are more than 1,600 total labs on cam-pus, and each is required to follow certain inspection and safety protocols.

“EHS inspects each lab once a year, and then lab supervisors are required to self-inspect their labs once a semester,” Nolan said.

According to the EHS “Big 12” Safety List, the

most common lab accidents on campus involve chemi-cal spills, improper eyewash cleaning and use, and chem-ical storage and disposal. Nolan said EHS provides training to students as part of its safety efforts.

“Every student working in a lab is required to complete basic lab safety training, and then individual labs have their own specific train-ing,” Nolan said. “We send a newsletter called ‘The Lab Safety Update’ out every few

months with information about recent accidents and training events.”

Conrad Fjetland, organic lab supervisor and chemis-try lecturer, said although students take safety precau-tions to prevent accidents,

minor incidents happen fre-quently in the labs.

“The minor accidents that we usually see are breaking of glassware and spilling of chemicals,” Fjetland said.

Brian Wilkey, Graduate Student Assembly president, appointed architecture grad-uate student Vance Roper as the organization’s vice presi-dent Tuesday after having the seat vacant since August.

On Aug. 21, David Villar-real stepped down as GSA president, making Wilkey president and leaving the organization without a vice president. Since becoming president, Wilkey has been

searching for his replace-ment.

Wilkey said he sent out emails and made announce-ments to the graduate stu-dent body, and two people expressed interest in being GSA vice president. Out of the two applicants, Wikley said Roper was the best can-didate.

At Tuesday’s meeting, the assembly unanimously voted to instate Roper as vice presi-dent, moving him from his previous position as legisla-tive affairs director.

“In our conversation, I believe he very much shares the vision of what the GSA should be working on this year and working towards,” Wilkey said. “More impor-tantly, he’s got a long-term mindset about what we will do this year and what will be beneficial down the road.”

According to Roper, his experience as legislative af-fairs director, in which he helped form resolutions aimed at graduate students, has helped to prepare him for

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“As long as a company is able to meet all of our expectations on all those things, we shouldn’t have to keep wasting our re-sources trying to shut these services down,” Riley said. “We ought to be out there embracing it.”

Jamie Nalley, chair of the Student Affairs Com-mittee, said SG is in favor of alternative transporta-tion options, such as Uber and Lyft, and plans to pro-pose legislation in their favor for a vote next Tues-day, before the City Coun-cil votes Thursday.

“Transportation in Austin is really terrible right now,”

Nalley said. “I think improv-ing options in as many ways possible will benefit students and Austinites in general.”

Riley also discussed the need for more housing op-tions and construction in the city.

“We’ve got to provide dif-ferent options,” Riley said. “Not everybody wants to live in a single family home in the suburbs. A lot of people want to live smaller, live closer and drive less.”

At the meeting, SG Pres-ident Kori Rady also an-nounced that the proposal for extended hours at the Flawn Academic Cen-ter will be revisited next week and that Safe Ride had increased usage last weekend.

the position.“When the position

opened, I felt I had the qual-ifications and the desire to step in and make this a really successful year for Gradu-ate Student Assembly and for graduate students on the campus itself,” Roper said.

Roper said some of his platforms include improving graduate student housing op-

tions and increasing partici-pation in GSA. Roper said he hopes to use his public policy background to encourage ro-bust debate and participation among members.

“I’m also going to try and have a very engaged assem-bly throughout the entire session,” Roper said. “We had a lot of turnout, and we expect a bigger turnout as time goes on.”

Ropers’ appointment left the legislative affairs direc-tor position open. Wilkey said he made the executive decision to appoint Sharla Chamberlain, former elec-tion supervisory board member and director of In-vest in Texas — a student initiative focused on voic-ing student concerns to the Texas Legislature.

“It went through more of an appointment process based on what was allowable in the constitution, in the in-terest of time,” Chamberlain said. “I was a member of the election supervisory board, so I got a good view into all of the candidates and into how the electoral process works.”

Wilkey said he expects a smooth transition into the adjusted executive board.

“A lot has remained really unchanged, and it’s just a different name on the card,” Wiley said.

“For each lab, the students wear safety goggles, proper clothing, gloves and a lab coat. If an individual experi-ment has a specific safety issue, it is addressed in lec-ture.”

UTPD works closely with EHS to take care of lab acci-dents, Nolan said.

“When there’s a chemical spill, fire or gas leak, lab su-pervisors are supposed to re-port it to EHS, and we report it to UTPD so the appropri-ate action can be taken,” No-lan said.

Nolan said EHS is con-tinually trying to improve its safety standards, especially after major accidents occur, such as one where a lab-safe refrigerator storing more than 100 chemical containers caught on fire in Welch Hall in 2012.

“We had a safety commit-tee come in [after the fire] and put information out about making sure chemicals were properly labeled and caps were sealed,” Nolan said. “We always try to re-evaluate standards and see what we could be doing better.”

Chemistry junior Emily Turner, who has worked in general and organic chemis-try labs on campus, said she thought the University does a good job enforcing safety standards in labs.

“Even in organic chemis-try, when we handled a lot of hazardous chemicals, I feel like they did a good job with training us to work in the lab,” Turner said. “I never heard about any major acci-dents happening.”

Performing Arts, the Mel-lon Foundation gives out grants to qualified colleges and universities with the intention of supporting programs that are among the best in their respec-tive fields. These grants in-clude money for programs in higher education and scholarship, scholarly com-munications, museums and art conservation, perform-ing arts and conservation and the environment.

The grant for Texas Per-forming Arts is given on an invite-only basis to the most highly accredited in-stitutions with the highest-ranking music and perform-ing arts departments in the United States.

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While UTPD did not provide the specific de-mographics of its police force, UTPD spokes-woman Cindy Posey said a variety of different techniques are used to promote diversity in the hiring process, including attending minority job fairs and going to differ-ent regions of Texas to re-cruit people.

“UTPD hires quali-fied applicants and con-tinuously seeks out both traditional and non-traditional venues where qualified candidates from all backgrounds might be recruited,” Posey said in an email.

A 2007 government survey of police depart-ments found police forces across the country have a higher percentage of white officers than the communities they serve — the percentage of white officers was up to 30 per-centage points higher in some areas. According to the survey, minorities make up about a quarter of police forces.

Posey said UTPD re-cently renewed its em-phasis on diversity, par-ticularly after events in Ferguson, Missouri, highlighted racial ten-sions between police and citizens.

“The new UTPD vi-sion, instituted upon Chief Carter’s arrival,

is to be respected and trusted by all members of UT’s diverse commu-nity,” Posey said. “Lack of diversity can pres-ent the appearance of not understanding the culture, history and po-tential concerns of any given community. Such perceptions will certainly make it harder for a po-lice department to gain the respect and trust vi-tally needed to keep a community safe. Clearly recent events in the Mid-west have borne this out.”

Posey said diversity in UTPD’s operations allows it to better to protect the campus community.

“UTPD sees diversity as strength and as a better opportunity to accomplish our mission: To keep you, our UT community, safe,” Posey said.

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A researcher in the School of Social Work found that dis-crimination of multiple types experienced by African Amer-icans and Caribbean blacks on a daily basis can increase the risk for mental disorders, such as depression, anxiety and drug and alcohol abuse.

The research — co-authored by Christopher Salas-Wright, a social work assistant profes-sor — was published in the August 2014 edition of “Ad-dictive Behaviors.” The study compared the presence and severity of mental disorders in African-American, Caribbean black and non-Hispanic white populations in the United States. The research was based on the experiences of 4,400 respondents, ages 18-65, and their everyday discrimination.

The study showed 83 per-cent of the respondents report-ed experiencing discrimination over the past year. Those who encountered multiple types of prejudicial discrimination were two-and-a-half times

more likely to develop addic-tive behaviors related to alcohol or drugs, and those who expe-rienced it on a weekly or even monthly basis were four times more likely to develop addic-tion and behavioral problems.

Trenette Clark, social work assistant professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, led the study, along with co-authors Keith Whitfield, Duke University psychology and neurosci-ence professor, and Michael G. Vaughn, Saint Louis Uni-versity social work professor.

One of the main focuses of the study was the identifica-tion of the different catego-ries of discrimination that can lead to depressive and anxiety disorders as well as drug and alcohol abuse.

Salas-Wright said it is the combination of disrespect and condescension discrimination, along with character-based and hostile treatment, that puts African Americans and Carib-bean blacks at a greater risk for mental disorders.

“The different types of discrimination that people

were experiencing translated into different health out-comes,” Salas-Wright said. “People who just experienced condescension didn’t have the same health outcome as those who had more hostile forms of discrimination.”

Noël Busch-Armendariz,

School of Social Work associ-ate dean for research, said the research is relevant to society.

“[The findings] tell us that racism is part of the everyday lives of a significant number of Americans and that this has significant negative conse-quences,” Busch-Armendariz

said. “Perhaps more impor-tantly, this research opens the discussion about our collec-tive responsibility and points to the need to move forward more quickly to rectify this persistent and demoralizing social issue in our country.”

This study was introduced

to history professor Leonard Moore, who related it to mi-cro-aggression.

“Micro-aggression [is] everyday aggression Afri-can Americans feel even at a work place and school that serves to remind us of our race,” Moore said.

The University’s football program is known for its long history, including the legacy of the 1914 season, when the team ended the season with both a champi-onship and a perfect record.

To celebrate the team’s 100th anniversary, the H.J. Lutcher Stark Center in Dar-rell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium opened an exhibit in September dedicated to the history of the team and its accomplishments.

Ten people who were as-sociated with the 1914 team have been inducted into the Longhorn Hall of Honor, the most inductees out of any season. Seven of the induct-ees were players, including quarterback Clyde Littlefield.

Besides making history with a perfect season, Littlefield made a breakthrough in the game of football as well.

“1914 was the year the ‘forward pass’ was invented,” center co-director Terry Todd said.

According to Todd, Little-field invented the forward pass and made four touch-down passes in one game. His passing record was not matched until 1977 when Randy McEachern threw four touchdown passes against Texas A&M.

“People soon began to un-derstand the possibilities of the forward pass,” Todd said. “And now it dominates the game today.”

Littlefield was also a part of the basketball and track team at the time, let-tering in all three sports.

Additionally, he coached the football team for 43 years, as well as co-founded the Texas Relays event.

“One of the things that interested us about the team was how well-rounded all of the players were,” center co-director Jan Todd said.

According to Jan Todd, most of the players were af-filiated with an array of cam-pus organizations, including fraternities, student govern-ment and honor societies. All players participated in at least one other sport as well.

“One of the most inter-esting things to me was the fact that only one of the players was a little over 200 lbs,” exhibit designer Drew Patterson said.

A chart in the exhibit fea-tures a comparison of the 1914 Longhorns and the

2005 national champion-ship-winning team aver-age weight. The 1914 team averaged 174 pounds. In 2005, the team averaged 245 pounds.

Henry Reeves, the team’s African-American trainer, is among the 10 inductees from the 1914 team.

“Henry Reeves should be regarded as the first real ath-

lete trainer at the University of Texas,” Jan Todd said. “He wasn’t just the water guy. … And I did say water ‘guy,’ not water ‘boy.’”

Reeves served the football team from 1895 until 1915, when he suffered a stroke in the middle of their game against Texas A&M. He later died but was not inducted into the Hall of Honor until 2000.

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A diverse audience filled a Mezes lecture hall Tues-day evening for a talk on the Middle East, with some au-dience members resorting to sitting on the ground and in the aisles.

The Department of Middle Eastern Studies hosted the talk, which discussed sub-state groups in the Middle East. The audience included faculty and students, undergraduate and high school alike.

“I brought the kids so they could get a perspective on the Middle East from a secular source,” said Cassandra Troy, an Austin High School Eng-lish teacher. “Many parents were concerned about the situation with ISIS because we send a group of seniors annually to Turkey.”

The lecturer, Gökhan Bacik — dean and professor of po-litical science at İpek Univer-sity in Gaziantep, Turkey — specializes in state formation.

“If I were to personally sum up what’s happening in

the Middle East right now with one word, it would be ‘refugees,’” Bacik said. “Some cities in Syria have lost more than 200,000 citizens.”

Bacik said “revolution-sto-rations” are responsible for these refugees.

“People want to dismiss regimes automatically,” Bacik said. “To remove regimes the people must act quickly to avoid disaster and state collapse.”

According to Bacik, the outcomes of revolutions can be unpredictable. Bacik cited the political coup in Egypt as an example of a successful revolution.

“People defeated the regime, and it left,” Bacik said. “Turkey officially views what happened in Egypt as a coup d’état.”

Bacik said that discussions about the Middle East must no longer focus on nation-states but rather small sub-state actors. Bacik believes conflicts in the Middle East cause populations to seek sta-bility within smaller groups.

“This is the golden age of sub-state actors,” Bacik said. “When

extreme groups occupy an area and start killing peoples they are against, the only thing those people have to do, since there are no government machines, is turn to another sub-state group for protection.”

The lecture topic appealed to an interdisciplinary group; many art history, political science and Middle Eastern studies majors attended.

“We wanted to bring in a lecturer who would have an insight into a confusing area of the world,” said Jeannette Okur, Middle Eastern stud-ies lecturer. “He came highly recommended by some of my former colleagues from when I was in Turkey.”

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Social work as-sistant professor Christopher Salas-Wright’s research on discrimination was published in the August 2014 edition of “Addic-tive Behaviors.” The study he co-authored found that discrimina-tion increased the risk of addictive behaviors.

Chris Foxx | Daily Texan StaffThe H.J. Lutcher Stark Center is showcasing a Texas football exhibit in honor of the 100th anniversary of the 1914 UT football season.

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Dr. Gökhan Bacik talks in a Mezes auditorium about relationships between differ-ent countries in the Middle East. Bacik is the dean and a professor of political sci-ence at İpek Uni-versity’s School of Government.

Lecturer explores Middle East politics

To remove regimes the people must act quickly to avoid disas-ter and state collapse.

—Gökhan Bacik, Dean and professor of political

science, İpek University

After this Thursday, the United King-dom as we know it may cease to exist. Every registered voter in Scotland has the oppor-tunity that day to cast a simple, straight-forward vote: “Do you agree that Scot-land should be an independent country? Yes/No.” The American media has barely touched the topic, and U.S. politicians and state officials have avoided making meaningful comment. Why should Ameri-cans care about the Scottish independence referendum taking place this week? Why should college students in particular be in-terested? I want to look past the numbers, although these should be enough to justify more attention to the topic. The U.K. is, after all, the world’s sixth-largest economy and stands to lose about 5 million people and $250 billion in gross domestic prod-uct in the event of Scottish independence. There are also significant implications for NATO, the European Union and national diplomatic services should a new country materialize on the northern tip of the Brit-ish Isles. The current generation of college students should be viewing the Scottish independence movement as an experiment in popular democracy, a renewed model of politics for an age of fragmented alle-giances, unequal influence and new media.

Until relatively recently, Scottish inde-pendence was considered a fringe move-ment, its motives defined largely by the Scottish National Party. The SNP has developed a mixed political profile since its inception in the 1930s, with dips and spikes in membership reflecting its chang-ing platforms. Until the last decade, its peak of success was considered to be a

period in the 1970s when it sent several Members of Parliament, MPs, to the House of Commons in Westminster, where those MPs made a case for Scottish indepen-dence that did little to motivate anyone outside the party’s core.

The intervening years, however, have done much to reveal the democratic deficit that now forms the basis of a widespread, cross-party drive for independence. From 1979 to 1997, the Conservative Party, led first by Margaret Thatcher and then John Major, consistently held onto power in the U.K. Much of the party’s success has been attributed to its support base in the dense-ly populated southeast of England. Scot-tish support for the Conservative Party has dramatically diminished since Thatcher’s first victory — and hasn’t been particularly strong since the 1950s. Scotland’s current constituency boundaries send 59 MPs to Westminster in a general election. In the last four of these, not more than one Con-servative MP has managed to get elected in Scotland. The present U.K. government, however, is led by the Conservatives in coalition with the Liberal Democrats, a party that obtained only six Scottish seats in the last election. By contrast, the Scot-tish Parliament — which for our purposes here can be thought of as akin to a U.S. state legislature, though there are some significant differences — is dominated by the SNP and Labour Party, with a more pluralistic representation of other parties than that seen in Westminster. This situa-tion, which seems intractable in light of a “No” vote on independence — and another potential Conservative victory in 2016 — has left many in Scotland feeling that their supposedly representative government in Westminster has no mandate north of

the border.To make a more direct comparison to

American politics, the current situation in Scotland resembles a hypothetical Ameri-can state, roughly the size of Colorado in terms of both population and economy, where the two-party Republican and Dem-ocrat system of Washington has simply ceased to exist. Instead, the dominant par-ty in Congress has virtually no represen-tation from this state, and the state’s own legislature is composed of multiple, more regionally focused parties that feel perpet-ually thwarted by Washington’s Republican and Democrat machines.

Ideas that until recently seemed the dogmatic remnant of the SNP have spread across the political spectrum in Scotland, engaging younger voters in particular, who have transformed the notion of indepen-dence into a renewed and creative vision of participatory democracy. The outline of an independent Scotland, agreed upon across party lines, encourages local decision-making, constitutional reform and fairer representation for small political parties. While the SNP has often been accused of promoting “anti-English” attitudes and a vague ethno-nationalism — charges that had some merit in the 1970s — the cause of independence has been adopted by nu-merous English people living in Scotland as well as other immigrant communities within the country.

Many latecomers to the Yes camp de-scribe a journey from skepticism, or even scorn, to a hopeful sense of possibility for a more just and democratic society. “In-spiration” is a word that commentators on the Yes campaign tend to use regularly, and with justification. All indicators sug-gest that the vote on Thursday will be very

close, and the majority may choose to stay bound to the United Kingdom. Even if that happens, there are vital lessons to be learned from this campaign that should be the source of inspiration far beyond Scot-land’s borders.

First, the independence campaign proves that no political system is too ossified to be broken apart. Second, the growth of the independence movement owes nothing to puppet masters. While it was once possible to easily conflate Scottish independence with a single political party, even unionists concede that the Yes campaign owes much of its success to a masterful use of new me-dia, grassroots organizing and a diverse, self-supporting base. Finally, the indepen-dence movement cannot be reduced to a tired left/right dichotomy. Voters can only guess at the political composition of an in-dependent Scottish parliament, but the Yes campaign is unified in its belief that more direct representation will produce a better outcome for all. Unusually, partisan rancor has been muffled by a diverse consensus around a common objective.

It is probably too late to hope for a similar style of politics to emerge in America be-fore our next election cycle, but if the Scot-tish independence movement can teach us anything, it’s that “hope” and “change” don’t have to be empty slogans or targets of mockery, but can — and should — influ-ence politics within a broad range of opin-ion. Whatever the outcome of Thursday’s referendum, Scotland has shown that poli-tics outside of entrenched elites, big money and partisan warfare is not only possible, but may be the only route to building a more legitimate representative democracy.

Wilbur is a media support technician in the Perry-Castañeda Library.

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To the general UT populace: I am sor-ry for my physical appearance these past three weeks.

I have, without fail, shown up to every class since the start of school drenched in my own sweat. ‘Tis the season for armpit, upper lip and backpack strap sweat, and there’s nothing I can do about it.

I remember my first day of class last year — I spent the entire hour I had between classes circling Burdine, looking for some sort of indication that I was in the right place, accumulating what seemed like ounc-es of sweat in the process. While my first day of school this year was significantly less confusing, it was still just as sweaty. Thanks, Texas weather!

The only thing that gives me solace dur-ing this entirely unpleasant part of the year is that I am not alone. There are — despite our attempts to conceal it — many sweaty students walking around this campus during

class hours. I’ve always been a sweaty per-son, regardless of the season, but having to change out of my damp clothing as soon as I get home is something I’m unfamiliar with. That, and having to pick out clothing that won’t obviously display my sweat stains.

As much as I wish UT wouldn’t set its classroom thermometers to below freezing, resulting in a sudden drop in body heat lev-els that is almost as awful as the actual act of sweating, I know this will never happen. It’s summertime (still), which means that the AC is stuck at the perpetually cold set-ting all over campus. However, there are also buildings that don’t have air conditioning in select rooms, which, if you haven’t expe-rienced it, can be likened to traveling into one of Dante’s deepest circles of hell with a Cosby sweater on.

In such an energy-conscious era, it’s mys-tifying to me that UT hasn’t done more to equalize the temperature control in all of its buildings. Leaving one frozen tundra, enter-ing the sweltering outdoors and re-entering another frigid iceland can’t be good for my body or for UT’s electricity bill. Until UT decides to turn up the AC dials, I’ll be the girl who shows up to class with a mister and portable fan.

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Pardon the sweat, I blame it on the stiflingly hot temperatures

A 20 percent tax exemption for Austin homeowners initially sounds great. Austin mayoral candidate Steve Adler is proposing this homestead exemption for Austin, but because most residents aren’t homeown-ers, the majority of the city wouldn’t benefit from this exemption. Renters make up more than 55 percent of Austin’s population, and because apartment complexes aren’t consid-ered homesteads, many landlords wouldn’t receive this exemption, meaning that many renters wouldn’t, either. This fact alone isn’t necessarily detrimental to renters, but the city will have to make up the cost of the ex-emption somehow. Adler presents two op-tions: either “find” the money in the budget or adjust the tax rate to ensure Austin’s reve-nue remains neutral. Adler says the current budget has a surplus that Austin could use to offset the exemption, which would cost the city $35.6 million of its $3.5 billion bud-get throughout the next year. But, of course, no one knows for sure whether future years will present a budget surplus or an op-portunity to cut costs from other areas of the budget.

The unpredictability of depending on the budget to offset the exemption’s cost leaves us with the possibility of a property tax increase, which would cause the rent for the average two-bedroom, $1,200-per-month apartment to cost $80 more per year.

Students may be looking at yet another cost-of-living increase, and because many stu-dent apartments already cost more in rent than the city’s average, the money students would indirectly lose to homeowners could be much more than $80. Adler’s attitude to-ward the possible rent increase appears to be that landlords would graciously absorb this cost themselves, an unlikely occurrence considering that landlords are notorious for nickel-and-diming students. Adler wrote on his website, “If the tax rate were adjusted upward to maintain revenue neutrality, it is unlikely that the resulting increased tax cost would be passed through to renters.”

The median value of an Austin house is about $200,000, so if the city’s budget ab-sorbed the cost of the exemption, then hom-eowners would save an average of $189 per year, and renters wouldn’t be affected. How-ever, if the city were to increase property taxes to offset the exemption, homeowners would save about $104 per year, and the av-erage rent would increase by about $80 per year. While $80 a year isn’t much to some people, especially when compared to col-lege students’ many rising expenses, it is a significant amount to others, and we’re dis-appointed that Adler, if elected, may try to increase renters’ costs in order to decrease costs for people who might hardly notice the difference.

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One of the great things about the Big 12, or any of the six power conferences in college football, is that no matter how poorly one team performs in non-conference play, there is still a shot at a BCS bowl game.

And this year’s group of Longhorns knows that better than most.

Last year, Texas started off the season 1-2 after humili-ating losses to BYU and Ole Miss. Eleven weeks later, after winning seven of their eight Big 12 games, the Longhorns found themselves in the de facto conference championship game against Baylor. Of course, the Bears went on to win that contest and the Big 12 crown, but to think the Longhorns were even remotely close to a BCS bid after such a terrible start is remarkable.

Now, a year later and un-der new management, the Longhorns find themselves in the exact same position. Af-ter opening the season with a win over North Texas, Texas lost back-to-back contests to BYU and UCLA and will enter conference play with a losing record yet again.

The coaching staff may have changed, but the mindset is still

the same — forget about the first three weeks and realize it’s a new season.

“The thing is that, when we come back up for that bye week, conference play again,” head coach Charlie Strong said. “So now everything counts. We just got to pick ourselves back up, and you just got to know how to handle adversity.”

Strong enjoyed a perfect 3-0 start at Louisville this time last season, but, for the majority of his Texas players, this kind of adversity is all too familiar.

“We are just going to keep fighting and try to get it back on track just like we did last year,” senior wide receiver John Harris said. “We will try to get into Big 12 [play] and get a Big 12 title. Get back to those 30 minutes [away

from a title] like we were last year against Baylor.”

The Longhorns have this week off before heading to Lawrence, Kansas, next Sat-urday to open their con-ference schedule against the Kansas Jayhawks.

The matchup with Kansas may be an easy opener, but bouncing back from a rough start will be even more dif-ficult this year than it was in 2013. Last year, the Longhorns

reeled off six straight victories to open conference play, but only one of those came against a ranked opponent. This Octo-ber alone, Texas takes on No. 7 Baylor, No. 4 Oklahoma and No. 20 Kansas State.

Strong’s bunch has showed promise at times this sea-son, but they’ll need to be much better over the next few months if they hope to put themselves in a position to contend for a Big 12

championship again.But the Longhorn vet-

erans have done it once before, and they’re con-fident last year’s feat can be duplicated.

“We’ve got to lead by ex-ample,” senior defensive back Quandre Diggs said. “All that talking goes out the window. It’s time to lead by example and go out and do what I’m sup-posed to do, and [the team] will follow.”

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Editor’s Note: This is part of a weekly series looking back at past Texas athletes and where they are now. This week features for-mer linebacker Britt Hag-er, who played for Texas from 1986-1988.

As Texas’s all-time lead-ing tackler, Britt Hager was an intimidating figure.

“Hager was [the Big Man on Campus] when I entered Texas in 1987,” former UT student Brian Combs said in his online blog in 2009. “I remember riding the UT Shuttle Bus with him a few times. He was a big, scary looking man.”

Hager, who sported a Fu Manchu mustache, didn’t just scare Combs and op-posing defenses, though. Legend has it that he got so pumped before games he even scared his teammates.

The scare tactics worked for Hager. His 195 tackles in 1988 are the most ever for a Longhorn. His 187 in 1987 are second-most.

“It’s an honor,” Hager said. “I know how many great players have gone through there since me. To still have that record is still a great honor.”

The All-American’s foot-ball career continued after he graduated from Texas. The Eagles drafted him in the third round, and he played nine seasons in Philadelphia, Denver and St. Louis. But, after that ninth year, Hager decided he needed a year off.

After that break, he went to work out for the

Chargers and was offered a contract for the 1999 year. But he turned it down.

“[I was] ready to get on with life,” Hager said. “The NFL was hard to manage emotionally and physi-cally, but I wouldn’t trade it for anything.”

Life for Hager didn’t calm down after his foot-ball career, as he wasted little time diving into the business world.

He started off at Mattress Firm, a company he invest-ed in while playing. After working his way up to re-gional manager in six years, he decided to move on.

“I learned on how to grow and operate a busi-ness,” Hager said. “I par-layed the techniques over to the next thing.”

That next thing was opening up the first 1-800-Pack-Rat in Texas in 2005. He stayed there for six years before selling it back to Waste Management.

His business career kept rolling when he started Beetnik Foods, an online food company, from scratch with another investor. Now, he is involved as an inves-tor and adviser, watching as his management team grows the company.

“As you build and learn it’s kind of like you learn a fundamental model,” Hager said of his business ventures. “You take that model to that business and try to follow your interest. Oil and gas is going back to where I grew up in Odessa.”

Hager’s biggest enjoy-ment in life comes from watching his four sons thrive, as all of them re-ceived football scholar-ships. His oldest played for North Texas, while another played for Blinn College. Another of his sons, Bryce, is tormenting Big 12 offenses for Baylor

as a fifth-year senior. And his youngest, Breckyn, is a two-star high school se-nior working to decide on a college now.

Breckyn can follow in his brother’s footsteps to Waco, where he has ver-bally committed. Or he can follow in his father’s, as Texas recently offered him a scholarship.

“It’s hard to tell [where he will go] because he emo-tionally loves both of them,” Hager said of his son’s de-cision. “He’s my only son that looked at me and said, ‘I’m going to beat your tackling record.’”

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By Evan Berkowitz@Evan_Berkowitz

John Moore | Daily Texan File PhotoFormer linebacker Britt Hager, one of the most prolific defensive players in Texas history, played nine seasons in the NFL after leaving Texas in 1988. He is the all-time leading tackler in Longhorns history.

Texas women’s golf turned in a final round team score of 301 Tuesday to finish in a tie for fourth at the Minnesota Invitational.

The event was the first of the season for the Long-horns, who carded a 43-over-par 907 team score at the two-day event. Senior

Bertine Strauss finished in a tie for third place among individual players, the best finish of her career, by shoot-ing a 4-over-par 220 for the tournament.

Junior Tezira Abe also re-corded the best finish of her career, tieing for 21st with sophomore Julia Beck and shooting 12-over-par 228.

“I was happy with the top-5 finish,” head coach

Ryan Murphy said. “It is one of our goals this year to finish every tournament in the top five. I was pleased with Bertine’s finish. She had a strong performance to start what should be a terrific season for her. I was also happy with the solid play by [Abe] and Beck. While we still have plenty of room for improvement, overall, I am happy with our

performance and think it’s a solid start to the season.”

East Carolina finished first among the 14-team field, carding a 15-over-par 879 for the event. Colorado finished second with a score of 36-over-par 900.

The Longhorns’ next event is the Schoo-ner Fall Classic in Nor-man, Oklahoma, from Oct. 4-6.

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SPORTS BRIEFLYTexas gets commitment from point guard

Texas men’s basket-ball received a notable commitment Tuesday night, as four-star re-cruit Eric Davis an-nounced his decision to join the Longhorns.

Davis, a 6-foot-3 shooting guard from Arthur Hill High School in Saginaw, Michigan, made the announcement in front of about 100 people in his high school gym. He received offers from basketball powers such as Kentucky. Michi-gan, Michigan State and UCLA, among many others. Once he visited Texas, though, he made up his mind.

“I liked all the schools,” Davis said. “I really wasn’t sure yet. But, when I went to Texas, it really sealed the deal. It was Texas and that was it.”

Davis is the No. 10 ranked player at his po-sition in ESPN’s Class of 2015. ESPN ranks Davis as the second best player in the state of Michi-gan and 41st overall in the class. He averaged 27 points and five re-bounds as a junior last season and helped lead Arthur Hill to a cham-pionship in the Saginaw Valley League.

In Davis, the Long-horns will get a balanced combo guard with a solid jump shot and consider-able scoring ability. He is the first player from the class of 2015 to commit to Texas, and the Long-horns appear to have the roster space to add at least one more recruit from the class.

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On the last day of every school year, when the Blan-ton Museum was still on Speedway and 21st streets, Sunni Graham would visit Jerry Bywaters’ painting “Oil Field Girls.” Graham related to the painting and its bleak depiction of two women waiting on the side of the road, suitcases in hand, as the barren West Texas landscape stood be-hind them.

This art inspired the cre-ation of her business, Gypsy Floral & Events.

After graduating from UT in 2002 with a degree in American studies, Graham immediately worked toward combining her love of flo-rals, art and design into a career. In 2012, Graham and her partner established their bohemian-styled floral and events business.

“I’ve always wanted to pro-vide for people,” Graham said. “Whether it’s food or flowers, it just became clear that events, entertaining and arrangements are what I need to be doing.”

Graham came to UT in 1997 intending to study dance and theatre. After changing her major a few times, she found her interests were in liberal arts and de-cided on American studies.

“You could take film, art history and language classes that attributed to the de-gree,” Graham said. “I re-ally feel like studying those little bits that I was exposed to really influenced what I do now.”

During her time at UT, Graham spent most of her time studying and work-ing in the garden center of a hardware store. She was

motivated by that job to join a botany class, in which-she discovered her affinity for flowers.

“The botany class got me going,” Graham said. “I remember the really gorgeous greenhouse be-hind the main building and spending a lot of time in there and just being really inspired.”

Directly after college, Gra-ham worked on odd jobs for friends and family, creating arrangements and helping with weddings.

“It just kind of snowballed,” Graham said. “Pretty soon they were

saying, ‘Oh, you know, I want you to do my flowers and also coordinate and can you pick out my tablecloths and what do you think about this?’”

In 2001, she and her hus-band started her first com-pany, Puerta Bella Events. Eleven years later, Graham was introduced to her part-ner, Emily Reid. Together, they created Gypsy Flo-ral & Events and became equal partners.

“It’s required us both to know a little about accounting, social me-dia and marketing,” Reid said. “We really both do everything.”

Graham said Gypsy Flo-ral is a boutique company that tries to give its at-tention to only one event per week. The duo likes to combine non-traditional and vintage objects into their design concepts while making sure to incorporate their clients’ personalities and backgrounds.

Despite the hard work and energy owning her own busi-ness has required, Graham said she loves what Gypsy Floral gives her.

“There are a lot of fabulous perks to it,” Graham said. “We set our own schedule, get to take time off to spend

with our families, and, also, I feel like its just nice to have something that’s really your own.”

Graham said she remem-bers the transition from col-lege to establishing a career being intimidating.

“But, I had some advice from a couple of differ-ent folks in the business

community around Aus-tin,” Graham said. “They said, ‘If you’re going to be an entrepreneur, don’t be afraid. You’re young and it’s OK to make mistakes. Just go for it.’ So that’s what I did. I don’t know if it was naiveté or craziness or what, but I just haven’t looked back.”

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UT alumna Sunni Graham founded Gypsy Floral & Events with her busi-ness partner, Emily Reid. The boutique company dedi-cates its at-tention to only one event per week, combin-ing vintage and non-tradi-tional objects into an overall design that represents each client.

Alumna creates local floral, events business

According to the 2013 State of the News Media report, 18- to 24-year-olds have the lowest percentage rates of active news read-ership. In 2012, 23 percent of college-aged U.S. citi-zens read the news, and, if the millennial generation continues to stay on trend, that rate will remain — if not decrease.

Enter theSkimm. Created two years ago,

theSkimm is a free daily email newsletter that breaks down the top news stories of the day — from major stories, such as the fight against ISIS, to less publi-cized stories, such as new drugs to combat hepatitis C — in easy-to-understand, everyday language. It acts as a tool for people who want to keep up with the news but do not have the time.

The newsletter se-lected ambassadors,

including UT students, to help better reach a younger community.

Caroline Meyerson, a marketing and Plan II ju-nior, became a Skimm ambassador for the UT campus after she was intro-duced to the company by her older sister a year ago. Meyerson said keeping up with current events is cru-cial for internships and in-terviews. With theSkimm, she said she feels prepared to discuss the news and participate in discussions with professors and poten-tial employers.

For sophomore Eleni Demeris, theSkimm is part of her morning routine.

“It’s definitely my start-ing point, and, if I want additional info on what they’re talking about, I’ll go to a larger news outlet,” Demeris said.

While theSkimm is not only for students, it is tar-geted toward millennials.

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senior Kaitlyn Clark is also an ambassador on campus working to gain more stu-dent readers.

Clark wanted to be an ambassador after hearing about the company at a pre-sentation last fall while in Washington, D.C., for UT’s Archer program. Through her work on campus with theSkimm, Clark said she’s seen more students culti-vate a passion for news and current events.

She recalls a student who was the only one in his class who could answer his professor’s questions on current events because he read theSkimm daily.

According to Clark, while options like theS-kimm only provide short summaries of the news, they are significant in that they allow students to feel like they can participate.

“If everyone on campus read it, we’d be a smarter campus,” Meyerson said.

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Whether it’s food or flowers, it just became clear that events, entertaining and arrangements are what I need to be doing.

—Sunni Graham, Owner, Gypsy Floral