The University’s Inter-national Office was one of 72 institutions that “came out” Tuesday for the first National Institutions Coming Out Day, an effort to provide safe spaces for undocumented students.

The International Office and the University Lead-ership Initiative (ULI) — which participates in edu-cation advocacy intiatives for youths — hosted the event, which is planned to occur annually.

Linguistics senior Di-ana Morales, ULI’s Dream Education Empowerment Program coordinator, said many institutions have scarce resources for undocumented stu-dents, and educators aren’t always aware of the rights accorded to these students

“With NICOD, we are able to identify which institutions are ready to take a step forward and are interested to advo-cate with their students at the institutional level,” Morales said. “[We want to] challenge institutional policies and make sure that our undocumented brothers and sisters are able to feel comfortable in their own campuses, as many feel unsafe any-where else because of the political climate or the fear of one day being deported and separated from their family.”

Morales said the Inter-national Office made com-

The Student Government Assembly elected Tanner Long as Speaker of the As-sembly with a 33–2 vote Tues-day night.

Long, a liberal arts repre-sentative and government senior, said he thinks SG has failed in the past to fully rep-resent students and said he wants to include more stu-dent voices during his term.

“I want to foster a better connectedness between Stu-dent Government and the

student body,” Long said. “Ev-eryone is a member of Student Government on this campus, and it’s about time we started treating it that way.”

Long said he hopes to im-plement a program in which representatives will speak at more organizations’ meetings on campus. He also said he wants to help improve the SG assembly meeting livestream and oversee the creation of more ad-hoc committees.

“My ideas may seem ambitious, and I will be held accountable to them,” Long said.

Long said he feels the speaker position has typically served as a stepping stone for future SG presidential candi-dates, but he said that is not his intention.

“Since I’m graduating next spring, that gives me the abil-ity to focus 100 percent on the duties of speaker,” Long said.

Long ran against Kallen Dimitroff, University-wide representative and govern-ment junior, in the race. Dimitroff failed to gain the nineteen votes needed for a majority vote with a 17–18

Temporary barricades will remain around the pe-rimeter of the College of Liberal Arts building un-til UT Facilities Services staff can determine what is causing the building’s large glass windows to break.

Facility workers identi-fied the first broken glass pane March 27 and then set up construction barricades around the building and blocked off the patios and three entrances, said Laurie Lentz, Campus Planning & Facilities Management communications manager.

While the construction barricades are temporary, Lentz said she is working on putting up better tem-porary barricades and cov-erings over the doors.

“We want to make sure people don’t get hit by fall-ing glass,” Lentz said.

Approximately five windows have cracked, but

Colleges should do more to support students struggling with addiction because deaths from alco-hol and drug addiction in young adults continue to rise, according to a social work professor.

According to research from Lori Holleran Steik-er, social work associate professor, deaths from overdoses in Americans between the ages of 15–24 more than doubled from 2000–2010. Holleran Steiker said many fami-lies dealing with addiction problems resort to plac-ing students in recovery schools, but many of these schools do not exist today.

“For some schools, they simply do not have the re-sources to keep the school going,” Holleran Steiker said. “Yet it is hard to break the stigma from parents. Even when they may realize their child has a problem, they only look at the prob-lem as a negative. These feelings only add more pressure to the kid and the problems being faced.”

In September, Holleran Steiker and school execu-tive director Becky Ahlgrim opened the University High School, Austin’s first recov-ery high school, located at the University Christian Church. While the school is focused on breaking the addiction, there are other

Entrepreneur and Dallas Mavericks’ owner Mark Cu-ban gave encouragement and guidance to college students about their futures as he de-tailed the business lessons he learned from succeeding and failing over the years.

Cuban, who is also known for his role as an investor in the popular television show “Shark Tank,” spoke Tuesday as part of the Delta Sigma Pi-Beta Kappa Chapter speaker series. According to DSP, 600 students attended the sold-out event.

“UT is a great school, but the most important thing you’re going to learn … is that the world is constant-ly changing,” said Cuban. “Don’t stress. You’ll figure it out. When you’re 21, 22, 23,

you’re allowed to [mess] up. So, while you’re at UT, try different things.”

Cuban said his 20s were a time when he challenged himself to figure out what business ventures worked best for him.

Cuban spoke about his fi-nancial burdens as an early entrepreneur, as well as his prosperous startup ideas, such as Internet streaming in the 1990s. He also joked about the “rock star” fun he now has as a multi-million-aire and shared personal col-lege stories about business projects that he started, such as a bar near Indiana Univer-sity — his alma mater.

Cuban’s story and advice is especially significant at a university such as UT, where many college students are trying to find successful business models as they enter

the professional world, said Erika Storli, vice president of DSP Chapter Operations.

“Sometimes as students, you see other successful people and ask yourself why you can’t do better and feel like you’re failing,” Storli said. “[Cuban] showed that

he failed and made so many mistakes, but he was able to get back up and keep going. I think that’s inspiring for the average college student.”

Storli said DSP chose Cuban because of his

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mitments to participate in “National Educators Com-ing Out Day” in November and co-host a “Know Your Rights” training session for educators, so they can better assist students.

The ULI has had a long-standing relationship with the International Office, according to Meghan Mer-chant, program coordinator at the International Office. Merchant said the Interna-tional Office demonstrated support for undocument-ed students by showing a film screening of the short documentary “Living Undocumented.”

“Other ways [of sup-porting ULI] include maintaining the Longhorn Dreamers Project web-site, supporting Undocu-mented Longhorns Week and having a special ori-entation in the summer for new undocumented students to connect them

with campus resources,” Merchant said.

Rhetoric and writ-ing junior Maria Reza, United We Dream officer for ULI, said she enjoyed seeing the diversity in the documentary “Living Undocumented.”

“Immigration is not just a Mexican issue; it’s not just an issue for Latinos. … It’s a global issue,” Reza said. “That’s something to always keep in mind — you should never assume that some-one’s undocumented based on what they look like or how they speak.”

Reza said she is an ad-vocate of ending the use of the term “illegals” in reference to undocument-ed immigrants.

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vote in the Assembly. Long also failed to receive a major-ity with a 18–15–2 vote.

The Assembly recalled the vote, but Long again failed to gain a majority with a 18–16–1 vote. The Assem-bly would have then re-vot-ed on both Dimitroff and Long, but Dimitroff with-drew her candidacy for the position. After Dimitroff ’s withdrawal, the Assembly elected Long.

Dimitroff withdrew her candidacy because of the long process involved in electing a

Speaker of the Assembly. The initial votes and recall took more than 30 minutes.

“I don’t want to make us do this [vote] again,” Dimitroff said.

President and Vice Presi-dent Xavier Rotnofsky and Rohit Mandalapu were also sworn into their offices Tues-day night. The meeting, which took around three hours, cul-minated in a pizza delivery.

“The meeting went lon-ger than most meetings, and I hadn’t eaten since 11 a.m.,” Rotnofsky, Plan II and lin-guistics junior, said. “Because of that, I figured, why not get a pizza delivered to Rohit

and me?”Rotnofsky and Mandalapu,

Plan II and economics senior, are in the process of selecting an executive board and the President’s Student Advisory Council. They have received 105 applications, which will equate to over 30 hours of interviews.

Rotnofsky said he is excited to start his term and work with all of those in SG.

“I’m looking forward to working with the Assembly and seeing how we can work together and make SG more present on campus than just at a Tuesday meeting,” Rotnofsky said.

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professional values, which she said the fraternity be-lieves are important prin-ciples for college students to learn.

Cuban’s visit to UT in-dicates how much he cares about helping the next generation, taxation graduate student Candice Dipaolo said.

“He thinks that we’re im-portant and that we’re the fu-ture, and he wants to empow-er us to believe that we can do anything we want,” DiPaolo said. “He is relatable because

the details he tells about his life shows that at one time he was just like one of us and in our position.”

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He thinks that we’re important and that we’re the future, an he wants to empower us to believe that we can do anything we want.”

—Candice Dipaolo, Taxation Graduate Student

glass from those windows is not raining down on people entering the build-ing, so the barricades are more of a precaution, ac-cording to Lentz

Stephanie Sebastian, in-ternational relations and global studies senior, said the barricades have forced her to take different paths to her classes.

“Usually I go from the bus stop near the stadium and go to the bottom floor where my classes are, but, since that’s blocked off, I have to go on the right side of the fountain and go up and cross over,” Sebastian said. “I’m annoyed that I can’t get to the CLA as eas-ily as I could before, but, at the same time, you can’t help if glass is breaking.”

Vandalism did not cause the cracks in the windows, Lentz said. The windows cracked naturally, but the glass is being tested to de-termine why it is breaking.

“The construction man-ager is overseeing inspec-tion by the glass subcon-tractor, and UT System … is having the glass break

analyzed by a testing lab,” Lentz said. “These win-dows contain safety glass, but all glass is subject to breakage.”

Beause the glass is safety glass, Lentz said if it were to fall and break, it would not have sharp edges. Safe-ty glass is used in multiple buildings across campus.

The CLA building opened in spring 2013, making it one of the new-est buildings on campus. The building, which has a LEED Gold certification from the U.S. Green Build-ing Council, was designed to maximize natural light-ing throughout the day.

“I think that’s weird be-cause I would assume that newer buildings would be stronger,” Sebastian said. “I don’t know why it’s happen-ing because I think since it’s newer, they should have been more prepared for it and used the right materi-als and glass to make sure that it doesn’t break.”

It is unclear as to when the barricades will go down and access to the patios and entrances will be reinstated.

“The barriers will remain in place until the

window glass break issue has been fully resolved to the satisfaction of campus administration,” Lentz said. “The cam-pus administration is

taking these steps — inspection and analysis of the glass as well as instal-lation of safety barriers — to ensure the safety of the campus community.”

Government senior D’Wahn Kelley said he did not know why the barri-cades were placed around the building, but it does not affect his access to

the building.“As long as students are

safe and it does not cre-ate a great burden, I am fine with the barricades,” Kelley said.

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aspects to the school that extend beyond drug abuse prevention. While the school is primarily focused on drug abuse prevention, Holleran Steiker said she wants stu-dents to perform at a high academic level, develop new relationships and recognize they can be successful.

Twenty-three students are in the program this year, and three will graduate in June, Holleran Steiker said.

Mason Broussard, a re-covery coach at the high school, said he understands the challenges these stu-dents are facing.

“When I was 16, I suf-fered from drug addic-tion,” Broussard said. “The students here are 15 to 18

years old, and I under-stand what they are going through. I am only a couple of years older than some of them, but I know they are watching all of my steps. They want to experience a fresh start.”

Sierra Castedo-Rodgers, director of the Center for Students Recovery, said she is happy to see the school and the center continue to expand.

“For almost three years, we have been working on a system-wide expansion of on-campus recovery sup-port,” Castedo-Rodgers said. “Back in February, the Board of Regents voted to keep this program going for another three years. With the support, we want to con-tinue expanding and reach-ing out even further into the campus and community.”

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the details he tells about his life shows that at one time he was just like one of us and in our position.”

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Sierra Castedo-Rog-ers, director of the Center for Students in Recovery, is part of an expanding effort to help college stu-dents who suffer from addiction.

He thinks that we’re important and that we’re the future, an he wants to empower us to believe that we can do anything we want.”

—Candice Dipaolo, Taxation Graduate Student

One week ago, the Legislature’s Juvenile Jus-tice and Family Issues Subcommittee heard three bills that propose to raise the age of juve-nile jurisdiction in criminal cases from from 17 to 18. Though the bills propose what appears to be a minor change, the debate over HB 53, 303 and 1205 is anything but a non-issue. Should the bills pass, they will herald a promising new day in Texas with the abolition of a nonsense law and the end to an institutional failure of Texas youth.

Texas is one of only nine states that try 17-year-olds as adults. The argument for do-ing so is that if they are able to make decisions like adults, such as whether or not to commit a crime, they should face adult consequences.

Yet the issue is not as black-and-white as this rationale suggests. In fact, most of the crimes committed by 17-year-olds don’t seem to be “adult” crimes at all: According to a recent study by the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Af-fairs, the crimes of 17-year-olds are much more similar in nature to those of 16-year-olds than they are to the acts of 18-year-old criminals. Many of the youths that the state prosecutes as adults literally committed the crimes of children. And as we all know, children make mistakes.

Also, in an interim report released by the committee, it was found that 44 percent of the crimes committed by 17-year-olds were larceny, the possession of marijuana or certain alcohol-related crimes; in other words, nonviolent crime. A University of Texas study found that if the state changed the age of juvenile jurisdiction, 72.5 percent of 17-year-olds arrested would be misdemeanants and 89.9 percent of the crimes could be resolved with non-residential proba-tion. When placed in a greater scope, the dif-ference in treatment between juvenile court and adult court is staggering. These nonviolent, minor offenses are exactly the kind of harmless trouble I believe many would expect from teen-agers, yet the state prosecutes these misdemean-ants in adult courts.

Unfortunately, in some 17-year-olds’ cases, being tried as an adult for the aforementioned offenses eliminates the possibility of having the charge expunged from their record at the age of 21. For minors, this is possible after the comple-tion of an alcohol education course or commu-

nity service. There is no doubt that this will neg-atively impact the success of the minor’s college application process or job search — in short, any attempt to better themselves. But this is the way the law stands now, and we must call it as it is: an institutional failure.

The most disturbing shade of this issue is that the state may be imprisoning Texas youths in state prisons partially for financial benefit. Ac-cording to the subcommittee report, it costs $50.04 per day to incarcerate a person at a state prison and $366.88 per day to incarcerate some-one at a juvenile detention center. As represen-tatives from the Texas Probation Association said as they testified before the subcommit-tee, the financial aspect of this issue cannot be overlooked; should HB 53, 303 and 1205 pass, the date of implementation for the transfer of 17-year-olds from state prisons to juvenile in-stitutions will likely have to be delayed due to greater detention costs to the state.

Those who have strayed at 17 belong in juve-nile correctional facilities, not a state prison. The committee’s interim report stated that reassign-ing 17-year-olds to the juvenile criminal system would have more favorable results. The trial and imprisonment of 17-year-olds as adults has con-crete disadvantages: In state prisons, 17-year-olds are unable to continue their education; they are unable to receive mental health counseling that the National Center for Mental Health and Juvenile Justice found 70 percent of imprisoned 17-year-olds need; and they are ineligible for the state’s Substance Abuse Felony Punishment pro-gram or Intermediate Sanction Facility beds. All of these problems would be resolved if 17-year-olds were placed in juvenile correction facilities instead. It could not be clearer that prison is not comparable to rehabilitation.

What we should be doing is empowering the youths who commit criminal activity to be treat-ed as youths, rehabilitated and reintroduced into a society where they are empowered to succeed. Seventeen-year-olds stand at a critical point in their life, on a threshold between childhood and adulthood, where society expects them to live as contributors to society. It is illogical enough that the state is currently trying 17-year-olds with the full penalties of adulthood at such a tender age and for mostly misdemeanors.

We cannot undo the failures of others, but we can make sure our state does not continue to fail our youths. Adolescent imprisonment is a dis-service to Texas youths and a grave condemna-tion that will alter the course of their lives — all for a mistake they made when they were 17.

Smith is a history and humanities junior from Austin.

It is always easier to shout in anger than to talk calmly and reasonably in moments of max-imum pressure. It is always easier to condemn than to compromise with adversaries. It is al-ways easier to fight than to negotiate, especially when you are strong and your enemies seem weak.

Since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, the Unit-ed States has done a lot of shouting, condemning and fighting. This is particularly true in the Mid-dle East, where we have fought a long, inconclu-sive war, declared an “axis of evil” and demanded rapid “democratization” on our terms. None of these actions has accomplished very much. Our counterproductive foreign behavior has seeped into our domestic politics — also dominated by shouting, condemning and fighting today. We are stymied at home and abroad because we have become unable to work through differences without personal attacks and government shut-downs.

Historic progress with Iran

Thursday’s dramatic announcement that the United States, Iran and five other nations have reached an agreement to curtail Iran’s threaten-ing nuclear weapons program, in return for a lifting of international sanctions, is an example of what diplomacy, negotiation and compromise can accomplish. After more than 35 years of conflict, dating back to the Iranian Revolution, representatives from Washington and Tehran sat across the table from one another for intensive discussions aimed at improving relations be-tween the two states.

The agreement announced on Thursday, if enforced, will open Iran’s nuclear program to the West, just as it reopens Western trade with Iran. Tehran will not assemble a nuclear weapon, and Washington will end its efforts to isolate a vibrant Iranian society. The truth is that Washington and Tehran are already working closely together in fighting ISIS in Iraq and Syria, and last week’s agreement will allow the two states to find fur-ther opportunities for strategic cooperation.

Many critics correctly identify the Iranian state as a continuing sponsor of terrorists in Lebanon, Yemen, Iraq, the Palestinian territories and other areas. Leaders in Tehran refuse to ac-knowledge Israel’s right to exist. They also deny the Holocaust and subscribe to numerous racist conspiracy theories about Jews and Christians. The Iranian government is not the most authori-tarian or repressive regime in the Middle East — our friends, the Saudis, take that award — but the leaders of Tehran are clearly dangerous and antagonistic to many of our most deeply held values. We should not pretend otherwise.

Misplaced priorities?

The point of diplomacy is that nations and peoples must learn to live with countries they do not trust, even ones that they despise. The world is a very diverse and dangerous place. The United States does not have the power, the knowledge or the moral claim to right the wrongs of every region and deny recognition to every govern-ment it disdains. Time and again, overreliance on military force and moral self-righteousness has produced unsatisfactory results. Just think of Vietnam, Lebanon, Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya — all places where the United States deployed extensive force and spent billions of dollars over the last 40 years. It is very hard to argue that the United States achieved any enduring democra-tization in these countries, despite all the costs. Some of these countries, including Iraq and Lib-ya, are more violent now than before American intervention.

Force is a necessary component of interna-tional relations, but it is not sufficient. Nor is fi-nancial assistance effective when local leaders are able to confiscate resources for their own pur-poses rather than the needs of a country’s popu-lation. The recent historical record shows that American force and money, although deployed widely, have delivered very little value in reform-ing societies.

President Barack Obama, elected to office in the shadow of the Iraq War and the 2008 eco-nomic recession, recognized these historical facts, as did many of the millions of Americans who voted for him. Mainline Republicans, in-cluding James Baker, Brent Scowcroft and Henry

Kissinger said similar things. The United States needed to improve its foreign policy results by investing more heavily in negotiations and com-promise with powerful adversaries, especially Iran. President Ronald Reagan had tried to do exactly that in the 1980s, and the time had come again to build a working relationship between Washington and Tehran for stability in the Mid-dle East.

A powerful step in the direction of stability

The agreement reached last week was a powerful step in that direction and everyone, regardless of political party, should support it. Iran is still a threat to many American interests, but a working relationship that limits Iranian development of nuclear weapons and increases American access to Iranian society is good for the United States. We still cannot trust Iran, but an agreement that provides a basis for verifica-tion allows for some testing of suspicions. The Iranians would, of course, say similar things about the United States. The two adversaries

need to start somewhere in building coopera-tion to replace escalating conflict. The negotia-tors of the recent agreement deserve praise for creating some reasonable hope.

Shouting, condemning and fighting always sound more righteous and pure, but politics is not about righteousness or purity. Talk to any veteran of the Iraq War and he or she will make this point through the countless stories of suffering, among all belligerents, witnessed firsthand. Effective politics turn on the ability to work with adversaries and construct agree-ments that make circumstances a little better.

The burden on critics of compromise, at home and abroad, is to offer a more promising alternative. If all you can offer is chest-thumping about the evils of the adversary, then get ready for more of the warfare abroad and stagnation we have seen at home during the last decade. Democracy is ultimately about getting things done by working with groups we love and hate, and with whom we share the planet.

Suri is a professor in the LBJ School of Public Affairs and the Department of History.

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Irma Rangel was the first Latina elected to the Texas Legislature and the architect of the state’s top 10 percent rule. As a graduate research assistant for the Irma Rangel Public Policy Institute, I feel that it is my duty to defend the principles of equity and fairness from attacks like Hung’s.

Hung’s attack on the merits of Texas’ top 7 percent rule is woefully misguided for mul-tiple reasons.

Hung unfortunately misunderstands the meaning of “underrepresented” minorities. Underrepresented can mean a variety of people, not just Latinos and African-Ameri-cans, as Hung’s simplistic portrayal suggests.

Hung glosses over the fact that the top 7 percent rule also makes room for students from rural high schools who can be of any race, but of whom many are white. That said, a study last year by Lindsay Daugherty, Paco Martorell and Isaac McFarlin found that, contrary to popular belief, “students in the top 10 percent of their high school are more likely to be white and females and less likely to be low-income than their peers.”

Second, in making the case that the Uni-versity should admit “better students,” Hung points to the fact that those admitted under the top 7 percent rule have an average ACT score of 28, whereas those admitted outside the program have an ACT score of 30 — hardly a gulf !

One of the more troubling elements of Hung’s argument is that he compares the maintenance of the top 7 percent rule to the Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson, the decision to uphold the “separate but equal” regime. To compare the suffering of African-Americans in the Jim Crow South to the “plight” of middle- and upper-class students of today is at best naïve and at worst insulting to the descendants of those who suffered under the racial violence of that time.

Lastly, Hung peddles the same misguid-ed conception of racism used by the “re-verse discrimination” crowd. Hung, much like U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts him-self, considers any and all consideration of race as racism without understanding the fact that racism is a system that considers race for the purpose of replicating and re-inforcing hierarchies of power based on ra-cial differences.

How one can argue that it’s racist to let in racial and ethnic minorities who earned a spot at a great public university like UT in spite of structural inequalities like under-funded urban schools or underserved rural schools is beyond me.

— Alvaro Corral, government graduate student, in response to Daniel Hung’s Monday column titled “Nix the top 10 percent rule, af-firmative action.”

Spoiler alert! George R. R. Martin’s “A Song of Ice and Fire” books will give away the finale of “Game of Thrones.”

For Martin’s loyal read-ers, this poses a conundrum: Should they stick with the show to the last episode, or should they stop watching the show and wait until the final book is released?

The threat of others spoil-ing movies, shows and books defines how people watch, read and talk about them. People of-ten have to make sure everyone is up to speed with a show or a novel before discussing it.

“Spoiler alert” warnings per-vade websites that leak tidbits of film productions, just in case a visitor doesn’t want to click on an article that will ruin a twist.

The Internet makes it hard to avoid spoilers, but don’t worry: Spoilers aren’t as bad as they seem.

Radio-television-film pro-fessor Kathryn Fuller-Seeley said online streaming makes it possible to view movies and shows at one’s own pace, al-lowing audiences to hold off on watching a show and binge watch it later.

People jump into movies and shows at different speeds, meaning some will know more plot points than others. The fewer episodes viewers have covered, the more spoilers they’ll have to watch out for.

“In my classes, I can’t find anything that everybody has seen together,” Fuller-Seeley said. “That idea of riding the narrative of a story like an amusement park ride, of be-ing surprised — that is at risk of being lost when we don’t watch everything at the same time anymore.”

Trolls also lurk the Internet, dropping spoilers for all forms of entertainment left and right.

But spoilers can actu-ally improve the experience with a movie, show or book.

Without having to stress about how a book ends, audiences can appreciate the style and techniques. With movies and shows, people can pay more attention to the acting, music and cinematography.

“You’re not limited in your view to just following the story, of riding one roller coaster,” Fuller-Seeley said. “You get to try out the whole theme park.”

Radio-television-film fresh-man Preston Poole said he learned about the infamous Mandarin twist in “Iron Man 3”’ before seeing the film. Au-diences who went into the film unspoiled could only talk about

the unpopular plot point.Poole said he enjoyed the

film more because he got over the shock before seeing it, al-lowing him to admire how the twist served the movie’s themes.

Fuller-Seeley said she wishes she had “Frenzy,” a crime thrill-er by Alfred Hitchcock, spoiled for her. She saw the movie during a class screening in graduate school.

“A good friend had been murdered the week before, and the professor didn’t give me the spoiler alert,” Fuller-Seeley said. “I get to that scene of the woman’s death, and I am so traumatized. I freaked out and

yelled at the professor. Without the spoiler, I got so drawn into the story that it [shocked me] all too well.”

“Game of Thrones” will give away the conclusion to its unfinished source ma-terial, but spoilers won’t

necessarily make the books any less exhilarating. Readers who know how the story ends will be able appreciate how the writers and producers set up the finale. Spoilers won’t ruin your experience; they’ll make it better.

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During South By South-west 2014, Leffall and Hay-wood tried out for ABC’s “Shark Tank,” a TV show in which entrepreneurs com-pete for business deals in front of a panel of inves-tors. Despite being cut from the competition, one of the producers invited them to tryout for Food Network’s new show “Food Fortunes,” a similar competition focused on food products.

The two made it on the TV show and flew out to Califor-nia in January for the com-petition. Tina Mabley, the assistant dean of the MBA program, put on a “watch party” for Leffall when the show aired March 30.

“This was certainly an unexpected turn to get on a reality show, but I was not surprised by his success,” Mabley said. “He’s defi-nitely someone who drives things forward.”

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Spoilers won’t spoil TV, film experienceBy Charles Liu

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That idea of riding the narrative of a story like an amusement park ride, of being surprised — that is at risk of being lost when we don’t watch every-thing at the same time anymore.

—Kathryn Fuller-Seeley, Radio-television-film professor

Texas extended its winning streak to nine, defeating Texas A&M-Corpus Christi, 11–2, in five innings on Tuesday afternoon behind the bat of sophomore shortstop Devon Tunning.

Tunning got things go-ing for the Longhorns (27–9) in a hurry with a lead-off home run. She added another solo shot in the bottom of the third, making it her second multi-home-run outing in the last three games and extending her career-high on-base streak to 23 games.

“I’m just trying to get on base; that’s my job,” Tunning said. “[Pitchers are] coming at me, and I’m just seeing the ball re-ally well. My job is to start the team off right, and it’s working out.”

Texas went on to score six runs on four hits in the initial frame, con-tinuing the theme of fast starts and bring-ing its season total to 57 first-inning runs.

Five of those runs came from a pair of two-out RBI doubles from freshman third baseman

Randel Leahy and then junior second baseman Stephanie Ceo.

“Our approach has been tremendous immediately, and I think that’s some-thing to be said about our preparation,” head coach Connie Clark said. “I’m equally, or maybe even more, excited about how many runs we’re putting up with two outs. That means that you continue to get to the next pitch and compete hard regard-less of what the score-board says.”

Senior pitcher Gabby Smith contributed to the 11-hit offensive perfor-mance, going 2-for-2 with two RBIs. Smith earned the victory from the mound to improve to 7–1 on the sea-son. In her first start since March 28 because of a cal-lous on her index finger of her throwing hand, Smith gave up seven hits and struck out five in a com-plete-game effort.

“It was fun being back in there,” Smith said. “I definitely wanted to throw this game, I was excited about it, and it felt good.”

Smith said her finger, when wrapped in tape, feels completely fine and that she will continue to tape it up as long as is necessary.

As a tough Big 12 Con-ference series against No. 5 Oklahoma ap-proaches, Texas feels good about the development they’ve made.

“As we get prepared to-morrow and Thursday, we need to be on the attack,” Clark said. “I think we have two confident teams going at it, and I think we match up very well in a lot of ways and we’ll just see how it plays out.”

The Longhorns will home to improve their nine-game winning streak as they face off against the Sooners in a three-game series at Red and Charline McCombs Field starting Friday afternoon.

Less than a week after Rick Barnes left the head coaching job, Texas found its program’s 24th basketball coach. Shaka Smart, who spent the last six seasons coaching at Virginia Commonwealth University, finally left the Rams after es-sentially rewriting the pro-gram’s history book.

Smart guided the Rams to the NCAA Tournament in each of their last five seasons, the longest streak in school history, including a trip to the 2011 Final Four — the first time the program ever advanced past the Tourna-ment’s second weekend.

In Smart’s six seasons at the helm, the Rams won 163 games, which tied Smart with Jamie Dixon for the sec-ond-most wins of all time by a coach in their first six sea-sons in Division I basketball.

Smart won at least 26 games in each of his seasons at Vir-ginia, an accomplishment that had been achieved only twice in the program’s first 37 seasons of D-I competition. And in each of those seasons, the Rams won at least 70 percent of their regular season games, despite making the leap from the Colo-nial Athletic Association to the Atlantic-10 Conference in the fourth year of Smart’s tenure.

Over the same six-year stretch in time, Texas won 26 or more games just once. Fur-ther, the team hasn’t hit that 70-percent win mark in the last four seasons. Over the past three seasons, VCU has also averaged a 14.75 on the Simple Rating System — which uses

strength of schedules and point differential to give each team a rating of how many points above or below average they are — nearly three points higher than Texas’ 11.9.

When he transitions from coaching at a mid-major school to Texas, Smart will likely be able to achieve success — primarily by making drastic changes to Texas’ style of play.

At VCU, Smart ran his signature ‘havoc,’ full-court press defense, ranking the Rams among the top five in the nation in both steals and turnovers forced the last four seasons. In contrast, the Long-horns didn’t rank higher than 108th in steals or 150th in turnovers forced.

This past season, the VCU’s typical lineup featured no start-ers taller than 6-foot-6-inch, primarily playing four-guard lineups. Meanwhile, the Long-horns often started three play-ers 6-foot-7-inch or taller. With Texas’ frontcourt depth taking a hit with senior Jonathan Hol-mes graduating and freshman Myles Turner declaring for the NBA draft, Texas will likely start at least three guards for the ma-jority of the 2015–2016 season.

With a likely shift in focus to a press-based defense as well as Smart’s emphasis on the backcourt, the Longhorns will probably soon look like a totally different team than the team who played under Rick Barnes this season.

While next year’s squad may struggle a bit in adapt-ing to the system at first, come March, the Longhorns should return to the NCAA Tourna-ment’s second weekend for the first time since 2008.

Texas was in desperate need of win when the Shock-ers loaded the bases late in the game with one out.

Freshman pitcher Con-nor Mayes was on the mound as the Longhorns (18–15, 5–4 Big 12) clung to a one-run lead.

But, with a shallow fly and a groundout, Mayes came up big as Texas finally ended its seven-game skid with a 6–4 win over Wichita State on Tuesday night.

“It’s great for something to go right for us, especial-ly after the past couple of weekends,” second baseman Brooks Marlow said. “I think it’s just a step forward for us and it’s going to make us that much better.”

The Texas offense had struggled over the seven-game losing streak, but it came up big against the Shockers.

“It was important to see the team much more relaxed,” head coach Augie Garrido said. “We looked much bet-ter tonight as a team.”

The Longhorns struck ear-ly, taking their first opening-frame lead since their series finale against Kansas State on March 22.

In the opening frame,

freshman shortstop Joe Baker led off with a walk, which was followed by a Shocker error on a sacrifice bunt that al-lowed senior second baseman Brooks Marlow to reach first safely. Baker came around to score on an RBI fielder’s choice by junior left fielder Ben John-son.

Texas added another run on a double by sophomore third baseman C.J Hinojosa.

The offense continued its early onslaught in the second

inning. Sophomore center fielder Zane Gurwitz began the Longhorn threat with a one-out walk, Baker followed with a single to put runners on the corners, and Marlow pushed the Texas lead to 3–0 with an RBI single. Sopho-more catcher Tres Barrera ex-tended the lead to 4–0 with a sacrifice fly.

The Shockers fought back in the fourth, when freshman designated hitter Gunnar Troutwine hit an RBI double

to cut the Texas lead to 4–2.But Texas answered in the

bottom of the frame as Mar-low recorded another RBI single to put Texas up 5-2.

A two-run Wichita State homer in the fifth cut the defi-cit to one.

After the Shocker homer, both offenses went cold un-til Wichita State loaded the bases in the eighth.

Texas added an insurance run in the ninth on Baker’s third hit of the game.

Senior reliever Ty Marlow closed the game out in the ninth and secured their first win since March 24. Fresh-man pitcher Jake McKenzie, who came on in relief in the fourth for sophomore start-er Josh Sawyer, picked up the win.

“The best part of today was just getting that win,” Baker said. “We really needed that to finally get that first win out of the way and get that streak ended. It was a good win.”

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SOFTBALL MEN’S BASKETBALL | STAT GUY

Smart’s VCU numbers signal signs of success

Marshall Tidrick | Daily Texan StaffMen’s basketball head coach Shaka Smart talks at the po-dium during his introductory press conference Friday.

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We’ve got LOTS I mean lots of work to do first, but with

coach strong as our commander.. We’ll get there.

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Men’s tennis sweeps Roadrunners at home

No. 9 Texas took care of business against un-ranked UTSA on Tues-day, sweeping the Road-runners 4–0.

The Longhorns im-proved their season re-cord to 17–3 and are now 11–1 at home, just short of their un-defeated home record last year.

Texas’ doubles lines set the tone for the Longhorns early in the match, as seniors Lloyd Glasspool and Søren Hess-Olesen won at the No. 1 doubles line by a score of 6–2. The team of juniors Nick Naumann and Michael Riechmann then claimed the doubles point for the Longhorns at the No. 3 doubles line, winning 6–3.

Naumann’s strong per-formance continued in singles competition as he won at the No. 4 singles line with a command-ing 6–3, 6–1 victory. Naumann had struggled lately, losing four of his previous five matches before Tuesday.

—Michael Shapiro

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Texas cruises, extending win streak to nine games

Women’s tennis beats Abilene Christian 4-0

Texas found success outside its conference with a 4–0 home sweep over Abilene Christian University on Tuesday.

On the doubles courts, freshman duo Danielle Wagland and Ryann Fos-ter set the pace for the No. 36 Longhorns, defeating Abilene Christian’s pair. Following the duo’s ex-ample, Texas sophomores Ratnika Batra and Neda Koprcina clinched their doubles point, winning 6–4 after a battle against their Wildcat opponents.

In singles, Batra, who sat out the last four games, took command of the court sweeping both sets, furthering the Long-horns lead.

Texas’ lone-ranked junior, no. 47 Breaunna Addison, also posted her sixth-straight singles win.

Senior Lina Padegimai-te posted a win, round-ing out the Longhorns 4–0 sweep.

—Reanna Zuniga

Mariana Gonzalez | Daily Texan StaffSophomore shortstop Devon Tunning watches one of her two homers leave the park Tues-

day. Her pair of home runs sparked the Longhorns to their ninth-straight victory.

I’m just trying to get on base; that’s my job.[Pitchers are] coming

at me, and I’m just seeing the ball really

well. My job is to start the team off right, and

it’s working out.

—Devon Tunning, Sophomore shortstop

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Freshman pitch-er Connor Mayes got a pair of big outs to help Texas escape a bases-loaded jam in the eighth and propel Texas to its first win since March 22.

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Second-year MBA student Courtney Leffall didn’t meet his father until he was 24 years old. After rekindling their relationship four years ago, the father and son are making up for lost time by building a business — one that’s gained national at-tention on Food Network’s “Food Fortunes.”

“When I was a kid, we nev-er got a chance to build a bike together,” Leffall said. “But now, we’re getting the chance to build a business together.”

The two created “The Grillmobile,” a line of install-able grills that latch onto the back of pickup trucks.

According to Leffall, the two were separated for so

long because Leffall was born while his mom was still in high school. After his father, Talmon Haywood, joined the military and his mother went off to college, the parents lost touch.

When Leffall got engaged in his early 20s, he emailed his father and invited him to the wedding, where they met for the first time.

Haywood, who lives in In-diana, developed the idea for the grill after he grew tired of hauling his grill to tail-gates for his chidren’s sports games. The solution: he drilled a hole in his truck bed and attached a grill.

“I got tired of lugging that grill, and I had some metal left over,” Haywood said. “I saw two hinges in my garage, and it gave me an idea.”

He sent a photo of his cre-ation to Leffall who imme-diately saw the creation as a business opportunity. At the time, Leffall was applying to the McCombs School of Business. He created a busi-ness plan for The Grillmobile and used it to apply for the Texas Venture Labs scholar-ship in 2013.

The scholarship selects 13 finalists to participate in a business pitching competi-tion. After presenting The Grillmobile idea, Leffall won the scholarship.

“At that point, I was like, ‘Well, if the University of Texas thinks this is a good idea, then I must be on to something’,” Leffall said.

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Despite alcohol’s pervasive influence on human history, scientists still do not fully understand the substance’s effects. Each of the following studies, which University professors and graduate students conducted, leads to a better overall understanding

of how alcohol affects the population and points to what questions should be explored next.

The hard facts on the hard stuff

FOCUS ON SMOKING HABITS CAN LEAD TO PREVENTION OF DRINKINGUT students who smoke are more likely to also drink, but students who drink are not more likely to also smoke. RESEARCHERS: Jessica Cance, Anna Talley and Kim FrommeJOURNAL: None

TRANSCRIPTOME ORGANIZATION FOR CHRONIC ALCOHOL ABUSE IN HUMAN BRAINScientists at UT identified a network of genes that are related to alcoholism. Doctors could look for these genes when screening for alcoholism, and scientistscould target these genes to create better treatments for alcoholics. RESEARCHERS: Sean Farris, R. Dayne Mayfield, DhivyaArasappan, Scott Hunicke-Smith and R. Adron HarrisJOURNAL: Molecular Psychiatry

PERCEIVED PUBERTAL TIMING AND RECENT SUBSTANCE USE AMONG ADOLESCENTS: A LONGITUDINAL PERSPECTIVETeens who begin puberty earlier than their peers are more likely to have tried alcohol, cigarettes and marijuana. RESEARCHERS: Jessica Duncan Cance, Susan T. Ennett, Antonio A. Morgan-Lopez, Vangie A. Foshee and Anna E. Talley. JOURNAL: Addiction

CONSERVED SINGLE RESIDUE IN THE BK POTASSIUM CHANNEL REQUIRED FOR ACTIVATION BY ALCOHOL AND INTOXICATION IN C. ELEGANSNeuroscientists created mutatant worms that don’t show symptoms of drunkenness. This discovery could be used to develop drugs that stop the symptoms of alcohol in the bloodstream and eventually block alcoholic cravings. RESEARCHERS: Scott J. Davis, Luisa L. Scott, Kevin Hu and Jonathan T. Pierce-Shimomura JOURNAL: Journal of Neuroscience

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BEER, WINE, OR SPIRITS? ADVERTISING’S IMPACT ON FOUR DECADES OF CATEGORY SALES. There is no relationship between the volume of alcohol advertising and overall alcohol sales. The total alcohol market is fixed; advertisers are just competing for a slice of the pie. RESEARCHERS: Gary Wilcox, Eun Yeon Kang and Lindsay Chilek JOURNAL: International Journal of Advertising

SUBSTANCE USE AND TEEN PREGNANCY IN THE UNITED STATES: EVIDENCE FROM THE NSDUH 2002–2012Pregnant teens are more likely than their peers to use illegal substances, such as alcohol. RESEARCHERS: Christopher Salas-Wright JOURNAL: Addictive Behaviors

EVERYDAY DISCRIMINATION AND MOOD AND SUBSTANCE USE DISORDER: A LATENT PROFILE ANALYSIS WITH AFRICAN AMERICAN AND CARIBBEAN BLACKSThe multifaceted discrimination faced by African-American and Caribbean blacks may lead to mental disorders, such as alcohol abuse, over time. RESEARCHERS: Christopher Salas-Wright, Trenette Clark and Michael G. VaughnJOURNAL: Addictive Behaviors

STRUCTURAL BASIS FOR POTENTIATION BY ALCOHOLS AND ANESTHETICS IN A LIGAND-GATED ION CHANNELThrough the study of a rare bacteria that grows only in the Swiss alps, scientists identified how alcohol and certain anesthetics affect key central nervous proteins.RESEARCHERS: Ludovic Sauguet, Rebecca J. Howard, Laurie Malherbe, Ui S. Lee, Pierre-Jean Corringer, R. Adron Harrie and Marc DelarueJOURNAL: Nature Communications

Father, son collaborate on grill for tailgatesBUSINESS

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Andy Nguyen | Daily Texan StaffSecond-year MBA student Courtney Leffall and his father created “The Grillmobile,” a line of installable grills that latch onto the back of pickup trucks.

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