The UT Green Fee Com-mittee hosted a session Tuesday to inform students about the possibilities of reinstating the fee after re-ceiving tentative permis-sion from the UT System to move forward, according to Jaclyn Kachelmeyer, former director of the Campus En-vironmental Center.

The Green Fee is $5 col-lected per semester tuition bill that is applied to sus-tainability efforts and ini-tiatives prescribed by the committee. The fee has spearheaded environmental change on campus, accord-ing to Kachelmeyer.

“The Green Fee is one of the leading forces for sustainability on campus,” Kachelmeyer, a Plan II and international relations and geography senior, said. “It’s the one primary outlet for students to push for the en-vironmental changes they

want to see, to be invested, to learn, to create jobs and to be a more environmen-tally friendly campus.”

The Green Fee was made possible by HB 3353, which was passed in the 81st Tex-

as Legislature and allowed Texas campuses to imple-ment environmental service fees for a five-year term. In 2009, Student Government issued a referendum to apply the Green Fee at the Univer-

sity beginning in 2011. This year, the final year of the fee’s implementation, its exten-sion has been complicated by the state law’s ambiguous renewal terms.

Student Government ap-proved an initiative Tues-day supporting the addition of food trucks to campus.

The legislation will allow SG members to work with appropriate administrative entities to bring vendors to campus and approve lo-cations for food trucks to operate. The food trucks are anticipated to arrive near the Student Activity Cen-ter by February 2016, when

a new portion of the plaza will be completed, accord-ing to SG President Xavier Rotnofsky.

Dylan Adkins, SG rep-resentative and co-author of the legislation, said he wanted to bring an Austin atmosphere to campus by bringing an Austin tradi-tion to UT.

“Food trucks are a part of Austin life,” Adkins said. “We wanted to bring some of Austin life onto campus and just make Austin home for us and home for all the

freshman, sophomore, ju-niors and seniors.”

A request for proposal with the list of possible food truck vendor op-tions was sent to Univer-sity Unions and includes vendors such as Torchy’s Tacos, The Peached Tor-tilla and Chi’lantro, ac-cording to Rotnofsky. The list of vendors is not yet official but was curated by opinions from the SG assembly in order to get an idea of what students

A research team includ-ing UT psychology profes-sor Robert Josephs found male executives with high levels of testosterone and the stress hormone cor-tisol tend to have higher-ranking jobs.

The study, published last month, was conduct-ed at Harvard University by five researchers led by Gary Sherman, former postdoctoral researcher at Harvard Kennedy School of Government. His then-supervisor Jennifer Le-rner, Harvard public policy and management professor, was the one who brought the team together. Josephs joined the team after Lerner invited him to Harvard to give a talk.

“This is [a] very collab-orative [effort],” Sherman said. “The original idea and hypothesis came from

the work [Josephs] pub-lished several years ago.”

Participants were 78 male executives aged 33–65 from the government, military, law enforcement and defense sectors who enrolled in the Harvard executive education pro-gram. Each participant had his saliva sample taken and was asked how many people report to him at work.

No women participated in the study because tes-tosterone levels do not fluctuate much in women.

Results showed individ-uals with high testosterone and low cortisol levels are more likely to hold high-status positions, while those with high testoster-one and high cortisol lev-els are not.

“These are hormonal fingerprints of successful leaderships,” Josephs said.

Beginning spring 2016, stu-dents and faculty will be able to walk between the Belo Center for New Media and the Jesse H. Jones Communication Cen-ter without ever touching the pavement of the street.

Largely funded by the Moody Foundation’s $50 mil-lion contribution in 2013, the Moody College of Communi-cation’s sky bridge project was approved by members of the Austin City Council in early June and is set to be completed in late February or early March.

Moody’s director of com-munications Nick Hundley said the bridge is for more than just the practical benefits it will provide.

“When the Belo Center was designed, it was understood that a bridge between the Belo Center and the Moody College would be constructed if fund-ing became available,” Hundley said. “The bridge provides a physical and symbolic connec-tion between the major Moody College of Communication structures on campus.”

Journalism junior Khortlyn Cole said she feels other issues should take priority over the bridge construction.

“The bridge is a really good idea, but I don’t think it will be worth all the construction that will ensue,” Cole said. “I’d rather see the money go to the underfunded student media here on campus. The bridge just doesn’t seem worth it.”

Journalism junior Bri-ana Santiago said she feels the advantages of the bridge

The West Campus UT shuttle bus route will not see an increase in service any time soon, despite the crowded conditions during peak hours, ac-cording to an official at Capital Metro.

Amy Peck, communica-tions specialist at Capital Metro, said Capital Metro is aware of the crowding problem on the West Cam-pus shuttle route, but lim-ited funds and increased service costs prevent the transportation service from adding more buses to the route.

“[W]e are actually in an agreement with UT, and from year to year, we basically receive a certain amount of funding from that service, and from year to year, the cost of it goes up for just providing

1

Wednesday, September 23, 2015@thedailytexan facebook.com/dailytexan

Serving the University of Texas at Austin community since 1900

dailytexanonline.com bit.ly/dtvid

SPORTS PAGE 6 COMICS PAGE 7 NEWS PAGE 3

STUDENT GOVERNMENT CAMPUS

Belo bridge completion scheduled for spring

SG approves food truck initiativeBy Nashwa Bawab

@nashwabawab

FOOD TRUCKS page 2

D.C. Columnist denounces big business lobyists.

PAGE 3

UT partakes in national voter registration drive.

PAGE 3

NEWSPresident launches unbi-

ased college search engine.PAGE 4

Politicians should be required to live abroad.

PAGE 4

OPINIONVolleyball to begin confer-

ence play versus TCU.PAGE 6

Transfer brings expereince to cross country.

PAGE 6

SPORTSUT lecturer and herpetolo-

gist wrestles snakes.PAGE 8

Fantastic Fest founder dis-cusses upcoming festival.

PAGE 8

LIFE&ARTSWhat’s the fastest way to get to campus — walking, riding a bike, or taking a

bus? Check out our video at

dailytexanonline.com

ONLINE REASON TO PARTY

PAGE 7

Rachel Zein | Daily Texan StaffDylan Adkins, left, and Connor Madden are the co-authors of the Student Government initiative which would allow food trucks to operate on campus.

Limited funds keep shuttle service crowdedWEST CAMPUS

By Lauren Florence@laurenreneeflo

BUSES page 2

Briana Vargas | Daily Texan StaffFourth-year biology senior Enrique Villanueva waits to board a West Campus shuttle Tuesday. Students have faced the ef-fects of increasingly overcrowded shuttles and are encouraged to look into alternate options for commuting.

By Catherine Marfin@ccaatheeerineee

BRIDGE page 3

CAMPUS RESEARCH

By Rund Khayyat@rundkhayyat

HORMONES page 2

Briana Vargas| Daily Texan StaffKaren Blaney, program coordinator for the Office of Sustainability, addressed students Tuesday regarding the UT Green Fee.

Committee seeks Green Fee renewalBy Eunice Ali

@euniceali

GREEN FEE page 2

Study: Hormone levels affect leadership skills

“It’s not about how good of a leader you think you are; rather, it’s an objective measure of leadership suc-cess — how many subordi-nates you have under you.”

Josephs said the results confirmed his 2010 pub-lication — that analyzed male testosterone and cor-tisol levels in relation to dominance — done in col-laboration with Pranjal Mehta. Mehta, a UT gradu-ate student in psychology at the time, was working with Josephs for his dissertation.

For the study, students in an introductory psy-chology course were put into same-sex pairs and had their saliva samples taken. Each was assigned a

position of a leader or a follower and given a puzzle to solve. Results showed individuals with high tes-tosterone and low cortisol levels come across as confi-dent, while those with high testosterone and high cor-tisol levels anxious.

“It’s nice when another lab — another indepen-dent group — finds over-lapping results,” Mehta said. “That means our finding has meaning and probably truth in it.”

Mehta, now an assistant professor in psychology at the University of Oregon, said he wants to conduct a longitudinal study by cre-ating a hormone profile to predict which individu-als across many organiza-tions will get promoted over time.

“We assumed we can just start over in SG and vote to re-new it, but UT legal services ad-vised us that it wasn’t that black and white,” Kachelmeyer said.

The committee attempted to persuade Texas lawmakers to pass bills renewing the fee, adding a paragraph to clarify the renewal process. The bill passed in the House but failed in the Senate.

Failure to pass the bill re-flects poorly on the Senate, ac-cording to Jenny McGinty, an SG liberal arts representative.

“The small, $5 fee out of each student’s tuition helped immensely with environment-friendly initiatives, and our assembly showed unanimous support for the fee,” McGinty, a Plan II honors and internation-al relations sophomore, said. “The vote not only proves their disregard for student voice and power, but also their careless-ness for creating environmen-tally friendly campuses.”

Despite a lack of state leg-islation, the UT System has given the committee indica-tion that it is willing to allow the committee autonomy on the issue, according to Kack-elmeyer. The next step is to continue campus conversa-tions and bring the referen-dum to SG in Spring 2016, Kachelmeyer said.

Two thirds of the Green Fee Committee is made up of students, and two thirds of its funds have been granted to student initiatives. As of June 2015, the fee has helped cre-ate 63 on-campus jobs that have employed 115 students, and it has provided 103 grants to 83 projects, accord-ing to committee reports.

“Right now we need to get a coordinated effort and cre-ate a cohesive movement,” said Kachelmeyer. “The loss of the bill would be a loss for sustainability on campus.”

might want, according to Rotnofsky.

“The list is just used to kind of see what theme we want for the food trucks. It doesn’t necessarily mean those are the ones coming,” Rotnofsky said. “Once everything is in place for the food trucks to come, the business side will be implemented, and that’s when this request for proposal will be useful.”

Rohit Mandalapu, SG vice president, said food

truck pads — where the food trucks will be placed — have already been allo-cated and will most likely be placed on speedway af-ter future renovations are completed. Mandalapu said he hopes the food trucks will bring some much-needed Austin cul-ture and, more important-ly, that they will alleviate long lines by giving stu-dents more options.

“Food trucks are some-thing that we want so that when you’re here on cam-pus, around the SAC area,

between the hours of 11 p.m. and 2 a.m., you don’t have to wait in line for 20 minutes, because it is kind of hard to do that,” Man-dalapu said. “We wanted to push food trucks not only because it [could] help al-leviate some of that mess, but it also brings in Austin culture of quirky and inter-esting food truck ideas.

Connor Madden, SG representative and co-au-thor of the legislation, said through an SG initiative called “SG Listens,” which was a social media and

tabling initiative made to get feedback on what students wanted on their campus, he was able to see that many students wanted more din-ing options on campus but that food trucks especially stuck out.

“We did a lot of tabling, and we heard from a lot of students that they wanted more food options on cam-pus, and so that was kind of the initiative that this came out of,” Madden said. “Peo-ple love food trucks, and we are excited to help bring them to campus.”

that service,” Peck said. “So that necessitates that we provide service to the most popular routes, and we can only do so much with the resources that we have at this time. But we are aware of [crowded UT buses].”

Peck said Capital Metro and UT officials keep in regular contact, but she said they have not found a solution to provide more service along UT shuttle bus routes.

“In our regular conver-sations with UT, if there’s a way to provide more ser-vice, we’ll certainly do that. But we just haven’t had the ability to do that yet,” Peck said.

Environmental science senior Rebecca Nunu said she depends on the West Campus bus to get to class every day. Nunu said she is grateful buses come through West Campus but thinks there needs to be more buses that come more often.

“I think there are way too many students in West Campus that need rides,” Nunu said. “I get on the

bus at the first stop, which is 27th and Nueces, and often we will get past the second stop and not be able to pick people up, es-pecially in the mornings, and that’s when people need rides most. … [Stu-dents] that are furthest away are the ones that don’t get rides.”

Exercise science se-nior Kassy Gomez said instead of increasing the number of West Cam-pus buses, some of the seats could be taken out to create more stand-ing room and fit more people on each bus. Go-mez said she believes both services and stu-dents are to blame for the crowded conditions.

“Some people don’t have bus etiquette, where they just put their bag on a seat and don’t squeeze in when people are try-ing to get on the bus, so I feel like it’s an all-around problem between students and services available,” Gomez said.

Peck said students will see more of the blue city buses on UT routes as Capital Metro transitions the orange UT shuttle buses out of use.

“Based on the fact that those UT shuttle buses date back to 1997, and they’ve lived out their lives, and so, as we can, we’re replacing them with Capital Met-ro-branded or Capital Metro-looking vehicles,” Peck said.

UT students can ride any Capital Metro service for free with their student ID. Peck said she encour-ages students to look into other bus options besides the UT shuttle buses when commuting.

“The one thing that we do want to make clear to UT students is because they have the free abil-ity to use Cap Metro ser-vices, regardless of what the service is, they don’t have to just rely on UT shuttles in that part of town, they can take a reg-ular bus — we certainly encourage that.”

Name: 4023/UB Ski; Width:

Name: 4101/Texas Wesley Foundation; Width: 19p4; Depth: 4 in; Color: Black, 4101/Texas Wesley Foundation; Ad Num-ber: 4101

2

texaswesley.com

512.474.1151 mail@texaswesley.com

2 NEWSWednesday, September 23, 2015

Main Telephone(512) 471-4591

Editor-in-ChiefRiley Brands(512) 232-2212editor@dailytexanonline.com

Managing EditorJordan Rudner(512) 232-2217managingeditor@dailytexanonline.com

News Office(512) 232-2207news@dailytexanonline.com

Multimedia Office(512) 471-7835dailytexanmultimedia@ gmail.com

Sports Office(512) 232-2210sports@dailytexanonline.com

Life & Arts Office(512) 232-2209dtlifeandarts@gmail.com

Retail Advertising(512) 475—6719advertise@texasstudentme-dia.com

Classified Advertising(512) 471-5244classifieds@ dailytexanonline.com

CONTACT US

Volume 115, Issue 30

TOMORROW’S WEATHER

High Low95 71

Tim who?

COPYRIGHTCopyright 2015 Texas Student Media. All articles, photographs and graphics, both in the print and online editions, are the property of Texas Student Media and may not be reproduced or republished in part or in whole without written permission.

The Texan strives to present all information fairly,

accurately and completely. If we have made an error, let us know about it. Call (512) 232-2217 or e-mail

managingeditor@ dailytexanonline.com.

Permanent StaffEditor-in-Chief . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Claire SmithAssociate Editors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Adam Hamze, Kat Sampson, Jordan ShenharManaging Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jack MittsAssociate Managing Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Amy ZhangNews Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Samantha KettererAssociate News Editors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Anthony GreenNews Desk Editors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Sameer Assanie, Justin Atkinson, Rachel Lew, Josh Willis, Caleb WongSenior Reporters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Matthew Adams, Nashwa Bawab, Zainab Calcuttawala, Lauren FlorenceCopy Desk Chief . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Cameron PetersonAssociate Copy Desk Chiefs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Myra Ali, Megan Hix, Kailey ThompsonDesign Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Virginia SchererSenior Designers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Lillian Michel, Kelly Smith, Iliana StorchVideo Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Bryce SeifertSenior Videographers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Hannah Evans, Heather Finnegan, Lilian SmithPhoto Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Daulton VenglarAssociate Photo Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Stephanie TacySenior Photographers . . . . . . . . . . . . Charlotte Carpenter, Joshua Guerra, Graeme Hamilton, Thalia Juarez, Rachel ZeinForum Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Walker FountainSenior Opinion Columnists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mary Dolan, Noah M. HorwitzLife&Arts Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Danielle LopezLife&Arts Associate Editors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Cat Cardenas, Marisa CharpentierSenior Life&Arts Writers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Katie Walsh, Alex PelhamSports Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Jori EpsteinAssociate Sports Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jacob MartellaSenior Sports Writers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Akshay Mirchandani, Blanche Schaefer, Michael Shapiro, Aaron TorresComics Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Albert LeeAssociate Comics Editors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Amber Perry, Lindsay RojasSenior Comics Artists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Connor Murphy, Isabella Palacios, Victoria Smith, Melanie WestfallSpecial Ventures Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Madlin MekelburgSpecial Ventures Writers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Julia Brouillette, Eleanor Dearman, Graham Dickie, Jackie WangSpecial Ventures Photo Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Rachel ZeinSocial Media Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Erin DuncanPublic Outreach Coordinator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jenny McKayTechnical Operations Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tom LiSenior Tech Team Members . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Nicole Cobler, Adam Humphrey, Sam LimerickEditorial Adviser. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Peter Chen

Texan AdDeadlines

The Daily Texan Mail Subscription RatesOne Semester (Fall or Spring) $60.00Two Semesters (Fall and Spring) $120.00Summer Session $40.00One Year (Fall, Spring and Summer) $150.00

To charge by VISA or MasterCard, call 471-5083. Send orders and address changes to Texas Student Media, P.O. Box D, Austin, TX 78713-8904.

9/22/15

This issue of The Daily Texan is valued at $1.25

The Daily Texan, a student newspaper at The University of Texas at Austin, is published by Texas Student Media, 2500 Whitis Ave., Austin, TX 78712. The Daily Texan is published daily, Monday through Friday, during the regular

academic year and is published once weekly during the summer semester. The Daily Texan does not publish during academic breaks, most Federal Holidays and exam periods. News contributions will be accepted by telephone

(471-4591), or at the editorial office (HSM 2.120). Entire contents copyright 2015 Texas Student Media.

Monday .............Wednesday, 12 p.m.Tuesday.................Thursday, 12 p.m.Wednesday................Friday, 12 p.m.

Thursday.................Monday, 12 p.m.Friday......................Tuesday, 12 p.m.Classified Word Ads 11 a.m. (Last Business Day Prior to Publication)

Issue StaffReporters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Eunice Ali, Runo Khayyat, Catherine Marfin, Forrest MilburnSports Writers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Nick Castillo, Claire Cruz, Tyler Horka, Leah Vann Copy Editors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Vera Bespalova, Ashten Luna, Kasey SalisburyPage Designers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Danny Goodwin, Victoria OtholdComics Artists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Julio Avila, Nelly Castillo, Audrey McNay, Jessica Vackey, Rachel WestPhotographer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jesus Nazario, Briana VargasColumnists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Mary Dolan, Ashvin Govil, Emily VernonLife&Arts Writers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Megan Hix, Rachel Rascoe

Business and Advertising(512) 471-1865 | advertise@texasstudentmedia.com

Director. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gerald Johnson Business/Operations Manager. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Frank Serpas III Advertising Manager. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Denise Twellmann Account Executives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Brandy Beal, Allysun Gutierrez, Celeste Schurman, Shukree Shabazz Student Account Executives. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Camilo Sanchez, Andrew Serice Student Designer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Jannice Truong Special Editions/Production Coordinator. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Stephen Salisbury

FOOD TRUCKScontinues from page 1

Rachel Zein | Daily Texan StaffRunners jog on Town Lake Trail early Tuesday morning.

FRAMES featured photo thedailytexan

BUSEScontinues from page 1

HORMONEScontinues from page 1

GREEN FEEcontinues from page 1

MultimediaWhat’s the fastest way to get to campus — walking, riding a bike, or taking a bus? Check out our video at dailytexanonline.com

position of a leader or a follower and given a puzzle to solve. Results showed individuals with high tes-tosterone and low cortisol levels come across as confi-dent, while those with high testosterone and high cor-tisol levels anxious.

“It’s nice when another lab — another indepen-dent group — finds over-lapping results,” Mehta said. “That means our finding has meaning and probably truth in it.”

Mehta, now an assistant professor in psychology at the University of Oregon, said he wants to conduct a longitudinal study by cre-ating a hormone profile to predict which individu-als across many organiza-tions will get promoted over time.

are greater than the costs of construction.

“It seems like a really neat idea, and I think a lot of students will benefit from it,” Santiago said. “It will definitely add to the buildings and the school.”

Managed by the UT System Office of Facilities Planning and Construction, the sky bridge is meant to establish a stronger connection between

students and faculty in the college, according to Hundley.

“The Moody bridge will benefit students, faculty and staff throughout the Univer-sity who have classes in the two buildings,” Hundley said. “Most importantly, it will fos-ter collaboration among stu-dents, faculty members and the various departments and schools in Moody College.”

Moody College interim dean Jay Bernhardt said he feels the sky bridge project

will bring students and fac-ulty together in a way that will allow for a primary learning environment.

“As the worlds of media and communication evolve and converge, our work in Moody College has become more in-terdisciplinary than ever,” Ber-nhardt said. “Moody bridge will bring our people and our ideas closer together so we can create new communica-tion solutions for today’s and tomorrow’s challenges.”

Thirty students registered to vote through a registra-tion booth on the West Mall for National Voter Regis-tration Day on Tuesday, according to UT Votes, a nonpartisan organization dedicated to increasing elec-toral participation.

UT Votes, which joined more than 2,100 organiza-tions across America in reg-istering voters for the day, registered approximately 100 people to vote on registra-tion day last year, according to Zach Foust, history senior and UT Votes volunteer.

“I found my home at UT Votes, where the nonparti-san atmosphere permitted an idealistic attitude about the importance of democracy.” Foust said in an email. “Stu-dents at UT become genu-inely excited when they reg-ister to vote, and I like to see their enthusiasm.”

Foust said he believes vot-ing is an important aspect of civic engagement and civic duties.

“I believe that the process of researching issues and then casting a ballot broad-ens our understanding of the world — like commu-nity service might offer perspective into the lives of other people.” Foust said. “While we have a respon-sibility to keep our elected officials accountable, we as individuals benefit the most from voting.”

Government junior Jera-my Howell said his motiva-tion to register and to vote came from his personal disapproval of current elected officials. Howell registered to vote at the UT Votes booth but already knew about voter registra-tion day and its importance from serving as a deputy voter registrar.

“We often complain about how our political system has

become so polarized,” How-ell said in an email. “That’s because voter turnout is ri-diculously low, and so only a small percentage of our population controls who goes into office, and in ef-fect, that percentage elects divisive and sometimes radical figures. I registered to vote today to make the process work.”

Adrienne Carter, in-ternational relations and global studies and history senior, said she is passion-ate about voting and spent all day pushing her friends to register.

“Ever since I can remem-ber, it’s been important in my family [to vote],” Carter said. “Not everybody in this world gets the right to vote. I feel like one of the things we as Americans are so proud of is our democratic form of government. Vot-ing is not only a civic duty, but it’s a patriotic act in and of itself.”

Political columnist Timo-thy Carney said Tuesday at the Texas Union that he believes the interests of large corporations continue to threaten free enter-prise during a lecture.

The lecture, attended by roughly 40 students and fac-ulty, was sponsored by the Center for Politics and Gover-nance, a group focused on poli-tics and public policy affiliated with five schools and colleges on campus.

“The big guys with the best lobbyists are the ones who are going to win,” Carney, an author and Washington Examiner senior columnist, said. “You almost never have the ‘friends of the Earth’ pass-ing environmental policy, you almost never have … some consumer protection group win some protection.”

Carney said by joining with Congress, lobbyists are able to increase the costs of doing business, which in turn hurts smaller businesses and raises barriers of entry to future competitors.

“When government grows, it’s typically because of a big business that gains to profit from it,” Carney said. “That is often not mutually advanc-

ing consumer interests and is largely just protecting those large businesses who can afford the costs of the regulation.”

As an example, Carney cit-ed President Barack Obama’s 2010 signing of Affordable Care Act, a major piece of domestic health care legisla-tion that aims to provide af-fordable health care to low-income families. The act is one situation where big phar-maceutical companies joined with liberals in Congress to pass more regulatory legisla-tion, Carney said.

Some audience members argued the government does play an important role with regulating businesses that protects consumer interests.

“Libertarians … tend to laud the free market and pretend that its an ideal world out there, and if we just leave the market alone that it would be fine.” Government professor Bryan

Jones said. “But it won’t be [fine], because the business men are absolutely just as cor-rupt as government officials if we don’t have the checks and balances that we need.”

Computer science fresh-

man Trenton Beckendroff said he thinks Carney’s talk is an interesting perspective from a member of the media, espe-cially since the media can nega-tively affect free enterprise by forming conglomerates.

“One of the things that he talked about was these con-glomerates that we’re seeing develop, but what he didn’t talk about was that the rea-son why we don’t hear about them is because the media

itself forms these conglom-erates,” Beckendroff said. “That would be an interest-ing topic, but overall, just the fact that we’re talking about this in a public space is promising.”

Name: 4109/Robert Kershaw Law; Width: 60p0; Depth: 5 in; Color: Process color, 4109/Robert Kershaw Law; Ad Number: 4109

W&N 3

NEWS Wednesday, September 23, 2015 3

Columnist speaks on politics of big businessCAMPUS

By Forrest Milburn@forrestmilburn

Courtesy of Rosales and PartnersThe Moody College of Communication’s sky bridge will connect the BMC and CMA as early as March 2016. So far, an initial support structure has been built between Dean Keaton and Guadalupe streets.

BRIDGEcontinues from page 1

UT organization joins voter registration day

CAMPUS

By Audrey Browning@auddiemac21

Rachel Zein | Daily Texan StaffTimothy Carney, author and senior political columnist for the Washington Examiner, speaks at a lecture Tuesday evening. The lecture, which was sponsored by the Center for Politics and Governments, dealt with government control over free enterprise.

The big guys with the best lobbyists are the ones who are going to win.

—Timothy Carney, Political columnist

R E C Y C L E♲ AFTER READING

YOUR COPY Instagram

Facebook@thedailytexan

@thedailytexan

Find us anywhere

@thedailytexanFollow us for news, updates and more.

Politicians like to appeal to American pa-triotism. However, this mentality of American exceptionalism negatively affects both foreign and domestic policy by encouraging a politi-cally closed-minded culture. The government should encourage America’s melting-pot cul-ture by requiring elected federal officials to have lived abroad for at least a year and proficiently speak a foreign language.

A president who has lived abroad is less likely to adopt ethnocentric policies and more likely to avoid focusing solely on American, rather than humanitarian or global, interests. It is

important for federal officials to understand that other countries operate under different governmental systems, most notably social and parliamentary democracies. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, known for his progres-sive ideas regarding the death penalty and gay marriage, has similarly noted that it is impor-tant to take into consideration international laws and politics while attempting to “preserve our basic values.”

It is likely the American public would not be opposed to such legislation. According to TransferWise, an international money transfer website, 55 percent of U.S. citizens ages 18–34 would consider moving abroad. Currently, there are 6.3 million Americans doing so.

Government professor Raul Madrid said he

believes public officials should live abroad in or-der to achieve empathy for other countries and expand their cultural knowledge.

“I think one of the problems elected officials often have before they enter office is they don’t have much in the way of foreign experience,” Madrid said. “They are essentially unquali-fied to make a lot of the decisions they have to make.”

In addition, federal politicians should be re-quired to pass a language proficiency exam in a language other than English. This would con-nect the politician to the 61.8 million Ameri-cans who speak another language at home and open up a line of communication with other countries and their citizens.

Government associate professor Terrence

Chapman, an expert in international affairs, wrote in an email that a cultural perspective is important for understanding policy.

“Ordinary citizens should care about how things work abroad, because it provides some perspective about how life is under our government versus how life is elsewhere,” Chapman wrote.

In order to make informed decisions about our democracy at home, elected officials should understand how similar decisions have affected other countries. Encouraging elected federal officials to live abroad and speak a foreign language can open America’s politi-cal culture to positive influences from around the world.

Emily Vernon is a PACE freshman from Houston.

College students are faced with a lot of complicated questions when trying to decide on a school to attend. They need a lot of information and finding the most important facts can be difficult. Luckily, the Obama administration launched a new website Sept. 12 that helps students get the answers they want.

The website, known as College Score-card, offers several categories of data on every “degree-granting institution” within the U.S. This information includes easy-to-read facts and brightly colored charts that illustrate statistics including a school’s average annual cost of atten-dance and graduation rates.

The site also provides useful financial information. For instance, the national percentage of students paying off debt after graduation is 67 percent. UT’s is 90 percent.

This will be a good tool for students who feel like they don’t have enough information to decide on a college. Col-leges often put their most impressive statistics front and center online and in campus tours, and finding facts that cast a more realistic spotlight on a university isn’t easy. However, College Scorecard offers students information from a third party, not from a source that is funded by or paid to endorse a specific university.

This information allows students to get the full story on the colleges they wish to attend. For example, UT’s financial aid website does not prominently post the average amount of loan debt a student will graduate with. College Scorecard shows that UT “undergraduate borrow-ers” will complete college with an average of $22,165 in debt. Students with this in-formation are able to use a tangible figure to see whether or not they will be able to pay back that kind of figure with their

projected earnings after graduation.This is not to say that College Score-

card is perfect. While the website offers students a wealth of information, it does not directly compare colleges or offer students suggestions about which college to attend based on their personal profile. Thus, students and their parents may find themselves struggling to compare vastly different colleges and finding one that caters to their individual academic and financial situation.

Detractors of the website also argue that the scorecard fails to take into ac-count nontraditional student experi-ences. For example, a student who works and only attends school part-time would have a negative effect on their school’s four-year graduation rates, even if they are working toward a degree.

Even if College Scorecard isn’t perfect, there is no doubt that it provides stu-dents with a quick and easy way to look up their desired college’s most important facts and figures. While it is too early to find out whether or not students and their families embrace the website, there is no question that College Scorecard will be a helpful tool for the students who choose to use it.

Dolan is a journalism sophomore from Abilene.

4 OPINION

4CLAIRE SMITH, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF | @TexanEditorialWednesday, September 23, 2015

LEGALESE | Opinions expressed in The Daily Texan are those of the editor, the Editorial Board or the writer of the article. They are not necessarily those of the UT administration, the Board of Regents or the Texas Student Media Board of Operating Trustees.

SUBMIT A FIRING LINE | Email your Firing Lines to editor@dailytexanonline.com. Letters must be more than 100 and fewer than 300 words. The Texan reserves the right to edit all submissions for brevity, clarity and liability.

RECYCLE | Please recycle this copy of The Daily Texan. Place the paper in one of the recycling bins on campus or back in the burnt-orange newsstand where you found it.EDITORIAL TWITTER | Follow The Daily Texan Editorial Board on Twitter (@TexanEditorial) and receive updates on our latest editorials and columns.

COLUMN

Media misrepresents college lifePopular media has a pervasive and universal

effect on how people view the world around them. Even though most movies, TV shows and advertisements are not depictions of real people or events, they shape our expectations of how the world works.

And so, any student who has gone to a col-lege party might see similarities between mov-ies about college life and the real thing. From students on one end of the party shouting “Chug! Chug! Chug!” to students on the other end playing beer pong, it really can seem like the movies are actually accurate. But is that because the movies portray college life or be-cause people who go to parties portray what they see in the movies?

Julia Mickenberg, an American studies pro-fessor who teaches a UGS course called “Col-lege and Controversy,” said she believes social pressures on college students are problematic.

“College really should be a space for figuring out who you are and what you want, apart from what your parents want you to want or what your friends want,” Mickenberg said. “Students need to learn to think for themselves.”

Despite the social and media pressures against them, some students manage to think independently while avoiding risky activi-ties. Biology freshman Nneka Iheanacho said that even though “the media sets unrealistic expectations for incoming students,” she has not consumed alcohol or drugs because of the negative effects they could have on her body.

Yet one of the reasons it can be so difficult to avoid media influences is the way alcohol is advertised to students. Alcohol companies stand to gain significant profit from college students — the average student spends $500 a year on alcohol alone. However, alcohol is also the most commonly used drug by college students nationwide, despite the fact that thou-sands of students die every year due to alcohol-related incidents.

Mickenberg notes that companies advertise to college students regardless of “whether or not they are legal drinking age.” Even if the drinking age is too high, it’s ethically question-able that alcohol companies would target their ads at people who aren’t even allowed to use their products without breaking the law.

Whether they come from the ads running during a football game or the newest movie at your local IMAX, the ideas that media puts in our minds influence our actions and beliefs.

Students should try to break free of these in-fluences and figure out what they really want out of their time at UT. Whether it’s binge-drinking at parties, binge-watching Netflix in bed or biking around the city at one a.m. on Saturday, everyone has their own ways of en-

joying their time. It’s essential to the college experience to embrace whatever that way is, instead of just blindly following the crowd in an effort to “fit in.”

Govil is a computer science freshman from Austin.

By Ashvin GovilDaily Texan Columnist

@ashvio

Illustration by Connor Murphy | Daily Texan Staff

HORNS UP, HORNS DOWN COLUMN

By Mary DolanDaily Texan Columnist

@mimimdolan

COLUMN

Politicians should have to live abroad, learn another language

Obama administration evens the score with College Scorecard

By Emily VernonDaily Texan Columnist

@_emilyvernon_

Even if College Scorecard is not perfect, there is no doubt that it provides students with a quick and easy way to look up their desired college’s most important facts and figures.

HORNS UP: AUSTIN POLICE ENFORCING “DON’T BLOCK THE BOX”

HORNS UP: JERROD HEARD BREAKS OUT IN SECOND START

HORNS UP: UT SYSTEM TAKING SEXUAL ASSAULT SERIOUSLY

HORNS DOWN: COLLEGE IS STILL UNSAFE FOR WOMEN

APD is moving their “Don’t Block the Box” campaign to busy streets near the University in an effort to decrease the number of traffic-related accidents. When a car blocks the box, not only are students unable to safely cross the street without veering into a potentially congested intersection, but the driver is also breaking the law. It is the University’s responsibility to provide a safe environ-ment for learning, and APD is helping to make that a reality.

Texas football lost its second game of the season Saturday against Cali-fornia, but it wasn’t all bad news. Redshirt freshman Jerrod Heard led a spirited fourth-quarter comeback, breaking UT’s record for single-game total yardage in the process. Even Vince Young is on board.

President Greg Fenves announced via email Monday that UT Austin will be a lead participant in a four-year study of sexual assault on all UT System cam-puses. Noël Busch-Armendariz, director of UT Austin’s Institute on Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault and associate dean for research in the School of Social Work, will lead the study. Now it’s up to those orchestrating the survey to ensure that the study will reveal information we don’t already know.

This problem will not be solved in four years. The Association of American Universities released a comprehensive study Monday — the same that prompt-ed Fenves to send an email — revealing that, on average, one in four women have been sexually assaulted during their time in college. Of the UT women who responded to the survey, 18.5 percent reported being sexually assault dur-ing her time in college.

Stephanie Tacy | Daily Texan StaffTexas quarterback Jerrod Heard drops back to pass in UT’s 45-44 loss to California on Sept. 19.

Years ago, radio-television-film professor Charles Ramírez Berg wrote film reviews for an El Paso newspaper. When he went searching for books analyzing Mexican cinema, he couldn’t find any, so he decided to publish one of his own.

In early September, Berg published his fourth book on the topic, “The Classical Mexi-can Cinema: The Poetics of the Exceptional Golden Age Films.” For five years, Berg re-searched to create the book. It provides in-depth analysis and context for various Mexican films ranging from the mid-1930s to the 1950s.

Growing up in El Paso ex-posed Berg to Mexican cin-ema. He developed an interest in researching the topic while writing film reviews for a local newspaper and working as a part-time lecturer at the Uni-versity of Texas at El Paso.

“I start researching, and it was really hard to find books,” Berg said. “I found that there

was one book discussing Mexi-can cinema, and that was on Mexican history. In terms of Mexican film criticism, there were zero. How could that be?”

Berg said Mexican filmmak-ers’ attempts to distinguish their work from Hollywood and capture authentically Mex-ican stories define the classical period. Berg said much of what makes Mexican cinema dis-tinctive is the regional details, such as indigenous plants, re-ligious imagery and wide shots of cloud formations. The book begins with examples of clas-sical Mexican art, leading into the art’s eventual influence on Mexican filmmakers, such as director Emilio Fernández.

“The impetus of what I’m calling the classical Mexican cinema [are] those filmmak-ers who made films that were specifically trying not to imi-tate Hollywood,” Berg said. “They did this by saying, ‘Let’s not do that. Let’s try and make a Mexican film on a Mexican subject for a Mexican audience. Let’s try and tell our own story in our own way — not in a

Hollywood way.’”Radio-television-film senior

Lucas Doyle, a previous student in Berg’s Mexican cinema class, received class readings from earlier drafts of the new book. Doyle said Berg’s explanations of Mexican cinema were espe-cially valuable in comparison to courses on more widely re-searched and accessible topics, such as classical American or European cinema.

“When it comes to film, he’s one of the first people to really take an interest in Mexican cin-ema,” Doyle said. “He grew up in the U.S., so what was so great about that class was that he was able to describe how Mexican films are different from Ameri-can films. That’s when I was able to understand and appre-ciate Mexican cinema.”

Tom Schatz, radio-televi-sion-film professor and series editor for Berg’s book, said the book’s design surpasses any of Berg’s previously published works. The pages feature al-most 300 screen grabs hand-picked by Berg, some provid-ing side-by-side comparisons

of Mexican and Hollywood films of the era.

On Thursday night, the UT Fine Arts Library will host a screening of Enamorada, one of the major films discussed in the book, as part of the Fine Arts Library’s “Films in Person”

series. Berg will provide an in-troduction to the film and an-swer questions about his new book afterward.

Schatz said improvements in technology have made old-er films more accessible than ever before.

“We live in an age where virtually everything is available one way or another,” Schatz said. “Charles plays a signifi-cant role in helping people sort through that stuff and making sure people are watching the films worth seeing.”

Name: CLASSIFIDES; Width: 60p0; Depth: 10 in; Color: Black, CLASSIFIDES; Ad Number: -

CLASS 5

CLASSIFIEDSADVERTISING TERMS There are no refunds or credits. In the event of errors made in advertisement, notice must be given by 10 am the fi rst day of publication, as the publishers are responsible for only ONE incorrect insertion. In consideration of The Daily Texan’s acceptance of advertising copy for publication, the agency and the advertiser will indemnify and save harmless, Texas Student Media and its offi cers, employees and agents against all loss, liability, damage and expense of whatsoever nature arising out of the copying, print-ing or publishing of its advertisement including without limitation reasonable attorney’s fees resulting from claims of suits for libel, violation of right of privacy, plagiarism and copyright and trademark infringement. All ad copy must be approved by the newspaper which reserves the right to request changes, reject or properly classify an ad. The advertiser, and not the newspaper, is responsible for the truthful content of the ad. Advertising is also subject to credit approval.

Self-serve, 24/7 on the Web at www.DailyTexanOnline.comCLASSIFIEDS

THE DAILY TEXAN

Self-serve, 24/7 on the Web at www.DailyTexanOnline.com

AD RUNS

ONLINE FOR

FREE!word ads only

870 Medical

Donors average $150 per specimen.Apply on-line

www.123Donate.com

Seeks College-Educated Men18–39 to Participate in aSix-Month Donor Program

watch weekly for thesuper tuesday COUPONS

WWW.UBSKI.COM 600 West 28th St, Suite #102

1-800-SKI-WILD • 1-800-754-9453

breckenridge

COLLEGE SKI & BOARD WEEKBreckenridge • Vail • Keystone Beaver Creek • Arapahoe Basin

20 Mountains. 5 Resorts. 1 Price.

plus t/s

FROMONLY

510 Entertainment-Tickets

recycle recycle recycle recycle recycle recycle recycle recycle recycle recycle recycle recycle recycle recycle recycle recycle recycle recycle recycle recycle recycle recycle recycle recyclerecycle recycle recycle recycle

PICK UPDOUBLE

COVERAGETHIS FRIDAY

370 Unf. Apts.TARRYTOWN UT AREA

3 bed, 2 full bath Tarrytown: Liv-ing/dining combo, ceiling

fans, w/dryer connections. $2,190. NO PETS. Owner/Agent 512-844-8027

120 Houses TIRED OF CRAMPED APARTMENTS or Too Many Roommates???

3 Bdrm/2bath Tarrytown House Priced To Sell!

Perfect for Students or as an In-vestment Property.

Call Regan at 512-878-9943 for more information.

560 Public NoticeANTIQUE POSTCARD SHOW THE CAPITAL OF TEXAS POST-CARD CLUB PRESENTS

AUSTIN ANTIQUE POSTCARD & VINTAGE PAPER SHOW

SEPTEMBER 25 & 26, 2015

FRANK FICKETT SCOUT CEN-TER

12500 N. IH-35 at Parmer Lane

Austin, Texas 78753

Friday 12:00 noon ñ 7:00 PM

Saturday 9:00 AM ñ 5:00 PM

Admission $3.00 (under 12: Free)

BUY ñ SELL ñ TRADE

APPRAISALS

FRANK FICKETT CENTER: http://mapq.st/1Brwjhc

The amount of history, art, and cultural information available on old postcards is staggering. Historians, artists, writers, and many others are amazed at the resources that are available at an antique postcard show. Topics include towns and cit-ies, U. S. and foreign, holidays, transportation, military, social history, photos on postcards of people, places, events, political, romance, animals, expos, you name it. Get lost in a box of his-tory and wonder.

http://www.ctxpc.org

650 Moving-HaulingWWW.AUSTINDETOURS.COM Cool city and live music tours from $35. Great for visiting fam-ily and friends.

www.austindetours.com

590 TutoringPERSONAL COLLEGE TUTOR WANTED Needed for ACC col-lege student transferring to UT.

Flexible hours but must be avail-able to meet with student sev-eral times a week and available to student as needed.

Applicants must be excellent students, graduate students or higher and be proficient in gen-eral studies.

$20/hour (210)912-2106

780 Employment ServicesHIRING GYMNASTICS COACH-ES Seeking male and female coaches for afternoon shifts and Saturday mornings. Pay is $10-12/hr. Training provided. Email us at Flipnastics@gmail.com or call 512-266-8400 to arrange in-terview.

790 Part TimeSEEKING P/T HELP

Side by Side Kids is looking for Afterschool & iPad teachers- Choose when you work, M-Th 2:15-6:15pm. Call (512) 371-9393 or Apply online at www.sideby-sidekids.org/jobs.

Call today & interview tomor-row!

P/T CHILDCARE Need a female student to help after school for our 6 and 10 year olds Mon-Fri.

Shaheen: 5129126308

791 Nanny WantedPT NANNY/BABYSITTER POSI-TION Babysitter / Nanny wanted part time for a great, self suf-ficient 12 year old child. One to two nights a week. Great for responsible students who likes kids. Must be a good driver and positive role model. Safety is our number one concern. Easy hours and easy job with great pay. Contact Austin at

dr_stitzer@hotmail.com

SEE WHAT OUR

ONLINE SYSTEM

has to offer, and place

YOUR AD

NOW!dailytexanclassifieds.com

LIFE&ARTS Wednesday, September 23, 2015 5

BOOKS

UT professor publishes book on Mexican cinema

Alamo Drafthouse CEO brings Turkish films to Fantastic FestFILM | Q&A

Fantastic Fest, a festival cel-ebrating creative genre films, returns to Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar for its 11th year this week. During the week-long festival, audiences are introduced to several innova-tive horror, science-fiction and fantasy films. This year, the fest pays homage to Turkish ex-ploitation cinema by offering a special poster gallery and a special Turkish-inspired menu. Tim League, founder and CEO of Alamo Drafthouse and co-founder of Fantastic Fest, spoke

with The Daily Texan about the festival.

The Daily Texan: How has the festival grown since its creation 11 years ago?

Tim League: In its first cou-ple of years, it was a regional festival for the central Texas genre film fans. We are just trying to curate the best pos-sible movies of the year that those folks would like. Over the years, we’ve been courting more industry to come and try to make more opportunities for filmmakers.

DT: What is the se-

lection process like for choosing films that screen at the festival?

TL: We have a programming committee of about six people. We have people in several countries. The process is some-one finds a film, we add it to a tracking list of every film we’re keeping tabs on, somebody watches it, and if that person likes it, he passes it on to the rest of the team. There has to be three people who watch it and like it. I watch hundreds of movies throughout the year.

DT: How do you personally feel Fantastic Fest differs from

other major festivals?TL: One of the most impor-

tant ways that it’s different is that it is all happening at one venue. There are parties every night and all the films screen there. By the end of the eight days, a real sense of commu-nity forms of the badgeholders. There’s a very special environ-ment that’s created by having it all be in one place.

DT: Can you explain why

you chose this year’s theme to be Turkish cinema?

TL: Very early in the process, we saw a documentary about Turkish genre-exploitation cin-

ema. We loved it and secured the world premiere of that film. There was a point in Turk-ish film history where there were no copyright laws. Six months after “Star Wars” came out, there was a film known as “Turkish Star Wars,” which was a blatant rip-off of “Star Wars” but done on a micro-budget. We’re going to be showcasing some of those old films.

DT: What activities do you believe first-time Fantastic Fest attendees should attend?

TL: One of our big signa-ture events is a thing called Fantastic Debates. We stage

formal debates and have topics that are interesting to movie fans. The entire debate takes place inside a boxing ring, so the debate is decided after two rounds of boxing.

DT: What advice would you give to filmmakers hoping to make a film that could one day end up at Fantastic Fest?

TL: For me, it doesn’t mat-ter what the budget of a film is. What’s important to us is that you tell a really great story. That’s going to include great acting — even from unknown non-actors — and an incred-ible, fresh, new screenplay.

By Alex Pelham@TalkingPelham

Jesús Nazario| Daily Texan StaffRadio-television-film professor Charles Ramirez Berg delivers a lecture on Mexican cinema Tuesday. Berg published a book on the topic in early September.

By Rachel Rascoe@raxcoe

When No. 2 Texas (10-1) hosts TCU on Wednesday evening in its Big 12 Confer-ence opener, it will kickoff a campaign for its fifth straight Big 12 championship.

Only three teams have claimed a Big 12 title since the conference’s inception in 1996, and Texas’ nine cham-pionships are the second most. But a conference cham-pionship isn’t Texas’ focus right now.

“To be the Big 12 champ, you’ve got to play one match at a time,” head coach Jerritt Elliott said. “It’s at the back of our heads that that’s our goal. The key for us is how well we prepare, how ready are we to compete and how well we can play over the long haul.”

The first test for Texas is a much-improved TCU team. The Longhorns hold a 9-0 all-time series record over the Horned Frogs, but a re-vamped coaching staff has TCU looking more disci-plined and competitive.

TCU comes into this matchup with a 10-2 record and eight straight-set victo-ries. The Horned Frogs have a team hitting percentage of .270 — not far behind Texas’ .293 — and a back row de-fense that could challenge the Longhorns hitters. Junior outside hitter Ashley Smith leads the TCU offense with 118 kills and 11 service aces, while defensively, senior de-fensive specialist Sutton Sun-strum anchors the back row

with 152 digs. All of TCU’s coaches are

in their first year with the program, including assistant coach Brian Wright, who formerly served as Texas’ vol-unteer assistant coach. TCU head coach Jill Kramer is a former Horned Frog and still holds school records in sev-eral attacking categories.

“They’ve improved a lot,” senior outside hitter Amy Neal said. “They have re-ally good coaches this year. They’re a good team, and they

always bring their A game when they play us, so we’re expecting a very good game.”

Neal has been the heart of Texas’ offense and an impor-tant contributing factor to its defense, but the depth of the Longhorn roster keeps her from feeling too much pres-sure. Her 152 kills are closely followed by junior middle blocker Chiaka Ogbogu’s 111, while senior middle blocker Molly McCage and junior outside hitter Paulina Pri-eto Cerame have recorded 84

kills apiece. Six Longhorns have tallied

five or more service aces, with five registering over 50 digs and four boasting more than 20 blocks. Texas’ balance makes it possible for the Longhorns to take advantage of different situ-ations against its opponents.

“That’s a big thing about our team this year, that it’s not two or one go-to play-ers,” Neal said. “Our offense is really balanced, so it’s kind of threatening to teams that we have a bunch of different

hitters and a bunch of passers and good setters. The depth helps us a lot.”

As the conference season gets underway, Texas will have to work harder than ever to claim another title.

“Our goal is always to win a Big 12 championship,” Neal said. “But all the teams are getting stronger in the conference, so you have to take it game by game and know that every team will come out playing their best against you.”

6 SPTS

6JORI EPSTEIN, SPORTS EDITOR | @texansportsWednesday, September 23, 2015

VOLLEYBALL

Longhorns ready for conference openerBy Claire Cruz

@claireecruz5

CROSS COUNTRY

Raines brings prior experiences to Texas

FOOTBALL

Former Longhorns complete two weeks of NFL rookie year

Just two seasons ago, ju-nior distance runner Sandie Raines celebrated a conference championship, a South Cen-tral Regional Championship and a 15th overall team finish in the Women’s NCAA Cross Country Championships.

Raines did not sport a burnt orange uniform as a true fresh-man, but rather the cardinal and white colors of the Arkan-sas Razorbacks.

However, the junior from Kingwood, Texas, was not pres-ent for her former teammates’ most recent triumph, a fourth straight regional championship in 2014. Instead, she had just finished her first season at Tex-as as a sophomore transfer. Last season, the Longhorns finished seventh in the Big 12 champi-onships and failed to qualify for the NCAA Championships for the second straight year.

Raines said she believes that settling into her second season in Austin will make her a more confident runner and allow her to transition into a leader for her teammates.

“Last season, I didn’t re-ally know anybody on the team,” Raines said. “This sea-son, I think everybody had a great summer of training. The mindset on the team this year is showing everybody that we are Texas and that we are going to do well on the national level.”

Having competed in the

NCAA championships — un-like all of her current team-mates — Raines possesses the experience and wisdom that younger runners can look to both in practice and competitive meets.

“With the freshmen, I feel like a herder for them some-times,” Raines said. “I have to pace the workouts a lot. Still, our workouts have been in a group together. They’ve been fast and strong.”

Raines said the desire to compete on the national stage motivates her teammates to excel beyond their previous capacities. She also mentioned how to build upon the recent occurrence of the Longhorns earning their first national ranking since midway through the 2013 season.

The Longhorns are currently slotted at No. 27 in the nation, and with only 31 teams com-peting annually in the NCAA championships, Raines real-izes that the Longhorns must keep improving.

“It’s getting people fired up to be better than that rank-ing,” Raines said. “It’s brought our workouts to a higher level. We have to train and act like a team that’s nationally ranked. Going into each meet now, we are looking to improve upon that ranking.”

The Longhorns have a chance to move up in the polls Saturday, Sept. 26, as they travel to College Sta-tion to compete in the Texas A&M Invitational.

By Tyler Horka@TexasTy95

Daulton Venglar | Daily Texan file photoJunior Sandie Raines runs in the Texas Invitational on April 11. Raines spent the 2013–2014 season at Arkansas.

Two weeks of the 2015 NFL season are in the books, and plenty of Longhorn rook-ies have gotten significant playing time.

The New England Patriots selected defensive tackle Mal-com Brown with the No. 32 pick in the 2015 draft. Brown made an instant impact for the Patriots in their season opener against the Steelers, getting the first sack of his NFL career and the first sack of the 2015 NFL season. After two games, Brown has a total of three tack-les and one sack.

Linebacker Jordan Hicks was selected in the third round of the draft by the Phil-adelphia Eagles. Hicks was primarily used as a special teams player, but he played on the defensive side of the ball Sunday against the Cow-boys after an injury to Eagles linebacker Kiko Alonso. In that game, Hicks hit Cow-boys quarterback Tony Romo, breaking Romo’s clavicle.

The New York Giants select-ed safety Mykkele Thompson in the fifth round of the draft and had him train primarily with the first team defense for the majority of training camp.

However, Thompson suffered an Achilles’ tendon injury in the preseason, forcing him to sit out the entire year.

The Detriot Lions took cor-nerback Quandre Diggs in the sixth round of the NFL Draft. Diggs was a leader for a Texas defense that was No. 2 in the Big 12 in total defense last season. After proving himself a standout at training camp, Diggs played 18 snaps in the season opener against the San Diego Chargers, which is his older brother Quentin Jammer’s former team. Diggs totaled two tackles and gave

his game jersey to his brother. However, he didn’t record any tackles in week two against the Vikings.

Tight end Geoff Swaim stayed in Texas for his pro-fessional career after be-ing selected in the seventh round by the Dallas Cow-boys. Swaim was the leading receiver for the Cowboys’ second preseason game with four catches for 57 yards. He remains as one of four tight ends on the Dallas Cowboys 53-man roster, behind Jason Witten, Gavin Escobar and James Hanna.

By Leah Vann@Vanntastic_Leah

Charlotte Carpenter | Daily Texan StaffSenior outside hitter Amy Neal spikes the ball over two Colorado State players Sept. 13. The team won the game in straight sets, and Neal recorded nine kills in the game. The team is currently 10-1 on the season.

LONGHORNS

IN THE

Malcom BrownNew England Patriots2012–2014

Defensive

tackle

Geoff SwaimDallasCowboys2013–2014 Tight end

Jordan HicksPhiladelphiaEagles2010–2014

Linebacker

Mykkele ThompsonNew York Giants2011–2014 Safety

Quandre DiggsDetroitLions2011–2014 CornerbackNFL

Amy Zhang | Daily Texan file photoCornerback Quandre Diggs plays in the Longhorns’ 23-0 win over Kansas last season. Diggs is a rookie for the Detriot Lions.

SIDELINEMLB

YANKEES

BLUE JAYS

MARINERS

ROYALS

ORIOLES

NATIONALS

If feeling stressed about a test is the worst thing going

on in your life, then you should

be thankful. #FeelingBlessed

Alex De La Torre

@ADLT36

TOP TWEET

TODAY IN HISTORY

2006Texas beats Iowa State at home 37-14 in the 2006 conference opener. Colt McCoy passed for 212 yards and two touchdowns in the win.

Norvell, Longhorns confident in offense

Texas wide receiver coach and play-caller Jay Norvell said Tuesday at his weekly press confer-ence that the dynamic of the offense has changed over the past two games.

“The success that we’ve had moving the ball has affected the way we’ve practiced and our confi-dence,” Norvell said. “We have so many young play-ers. We just have so much room to grow. Every time we go on the field, we get better.”

He also said the Long-horns can grow as long as they play with the same confidence they’ve played with so far.

“We have to play smart,” Norvell said. “We can’t be foolish with some of the things we do but we have to be aggressive. I think we’re starting to develop that mindset. The kids understand we’re go-ing to attack and we’re go-ing to go downfield.”

While the offense has improved, the defense is still lacking. Senior cor-nerback Duke Thomas said it’s time for his unit to step up.

“The offense is definite-ly doing their thing, and that’s the thing we’re al-ways talking about — we have to do our part,”

—Nick Castillo

SPORTS BRIEFLY

Name: CROSSWORD; Width: 29p6; Depth: 5.5 in; Color: Black, CROSSWORD; Ad Number: -

COMICS 7

Name: 3974/Princeton Review; Width: 29p6; Depth: 1 in; Color:

Arrr matey. This scurrvy beast is today’s answerrrrrr.Crop it out, or it’ll be the the �shes for ya!

Today’s solution will appear here next issue

SUDOKUFORYOU

4 3 8 9 5 1 2 6 7

9 2 5 7 4 6 8 3 16 1 7 3 2 8 4 9 53 6 2 1 8 4 5 7 97 8 1 5 3 9 6 4 25 9 4 2 6 7 1 8 31 4 9 8 7 5 3 2 62 7 6 4 1 3 9 5 88 5 3 6 9 2 7 1 4

1 9 6 4 3 8 2 5 74 7 3 2 5 1 9 8 62 5 8 9 6 7 1 3 49 3 5 7 2 4 6 1 87 2 1 3 8 6 5 4 98 6 4 5 1 9 3 7 23 4 9 1 7 2 8 6 55 8 2 6 4 3 7 9 16 1 7 8 9 5 4 2 3

4 3 4 3 5 62 8 1 3 7 1 6 4 8 4 9 7 2 9 1 7 2 5 7 16 1 7 5 4 3

COMICS Wednesday, September 23, 2015 7

After a quick sell-out of this year’s Austin City Limits Music Festival wristbands, many students find them-selves in a last-minute — and often expensive — scramble for tickets.

In ACL’s initial wristband sale in may tickets were avail-able for $250. Weekend one tickets took about a week to sell out, and the second week-end sold out in July. This year has been the fastest sell-out since the festival added a sec-ond weekend in 2013. Satur-day’s “student day” sale will give students a final chance to purchase tickets.

ACL spokeswoman Sandee Fenton said tickets at the fes-tival’s student sale may not last much longer than their online counterparts. Last year, all available student day tickets sold out during the first three hours.

“[General admission]

passes sold out very early this year, so we expect a high level of demand during this year’s sale,” Fenton said in an email.

The weekend event is the last official sale of three-day passes before the festival and will be available for high school and college students, as well as members of the military. The wristbands, which will be available for a $25 discount, have caused crowds to line up in Zilker Park as early as 8 p.m. the night before, with many camping out to reserve their spot for the 10 a.m. sale.

For those who choose to find last-minute admission on websites such as StubHub, average prices for a week-end pass have been hovering around the $400 mark.

Compared to these sec-ondary market prices, the student sale prices offer a more inexpensive alternative at $225 each, although they are an increase from the $200 tickets offered last year.

The sale also offers the chance to score tickets with-out the risk of fraudulent sellers or extra cost of buying online. Christine Rafie, a bio-chemistry and Plan II junior, went to the event last year.

“We really wanted to go to the second weekend, but we hadn’t bought tickets, and ev-eryone who was selling theirs online and on Facebook was absurdly inflated,” Rafie said. “Since we’re in Austin and we’re college kids, ACL is such a big part of our expe-rience. It’s a part of living in Austin.”

This year, Rafie said she decided to skip the cost in favor of cheaper options such as ACL late-night shows, and she said expects many other students will do the same, opting to save their money.

According to the Austin Music Census, Austin resi-dents are less willing to pay for live music now than at any point in the last decade. UT students on a budget might

not be willing to shell out more than $200 for a ticket.

“The people who can af-ford the inflated price, they’re probably not college stu-dents,” Rafie said. “We want to experience this, but it costs so much money.”

Anthropology senior Mad-die Bair, who plans to arrive at the park the night before this year’s sale, said the dis-counted tickets are a good value for students wanting to see popular artists such as Drake or The Weeknd.

Bair said the sale helps stu-dents avoid having to make an impulse decision regard-ing tickets as soon as they become available, while still dodging the higher prices that usually come with wait-ing to buy a wristband later.

“The student sale is a re-ally good opportunity,” Bair said. “Then you don’t have to order your tickets right when they go on sale — you’re able to think about if you want to spend that much money.”

Herpetology curator and lecturer Travis LaDuc has dedicated his life to the study of reptiles and am-phibians. He is not afraid of anything — he regu-larly wrestles rattlesnakes, cottonmouths and cop-perheads. He shared his thoughts with The Daily Texan on books, snacks and superpowers last week at the turtle pond.

The Daily Texan: Do you prefer snakes, turtles frogs or lizards?

LaDuc: Snakes. DT: Do you collect any-

thing other than research specimens? If so, what?

TL: Yes. License plates. DT: What is your all-

time favorite book? TL: “Desert Solitaire” by

Edward Abbey. DT: If you had a super-

power, what would it be? TL: Flight. DT: What is the coolest

city you’ve ever been to? TL: Cusco, Peru. DT: What’s your favorite

fieldwork snack? TL: Almonds. DT: What is the coolest

band you’ve ever seen live? TL: The Untouchables. DT: What trait do you

most dislike in other people?

TL: Meanness. DT: Did you always want

to be a herpetologist when you were growing up?

TL: Yes. DT: If you could invite

anyone — dead or alive — to do fieldwork with you, who would you bring?

TL: An old professor of mine, Charles H. Lowe.

DT: If you could teach your daughters one thing, what would it be?

TL: To respect others. DT: What is the lock screen

on your phone right now?TL: My daughter in a Su-

pergirl costume. DT: What advice would

you bring a freshman just starting at UT?

TL: Keep your eyes open and absorb as much as you can.

DT: What advice would you bring a senior about to graduate?

TL: Make sure you don’t have any misspellings on your CV.

DT: If you could bring back one extinct species, what would you bring back?

TL: My daughter and I like the T. rex.

DT: What are you most afraid of?

TL: I’m not afraid of anything.

8 L&A

1The Lipper Award is given to the group with the lowest average decile ranking of three years’ Consistent Return for eligible funds over the three-year period ended 11/30/12, 11/30/13, and 11/30/14 respectively. TIAA-CREF was ranked among 36 fund companies in 2012 and 48 fund companies in 2013 and 2014 with at least fi ve equity, fi ve bond, or three mixed-asset portfolios. Past performance does not guarantee future results. For current performance and rankings, please visit the Research and Performance section on tiaa-cref.org. TIAA-CREF Individual & Institutional Services, LLC, Teachers Personal Investors Services, Inc., and Nuveen Securities, LLC, members FINRA and SIPC, distribute securities products. ©2015 Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of America–College Retirement Equities Fund (TIAA-CREF), 730 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017. C24849B

Consider investment objectives, risks, charges and expenses carefully before investing. Go to tiaa-cref.org for product and fund prospectuses that contain this and other information. Read carefully before investing. TIAA-CREF funds are subject to market and other risk factors.The Lipper Awards are based on a review of 36 companies’ 2012

and 48 companies’ 2013 and 2014 risk-adjusted performance.

1

CREATED TO SERVE.

BUILT TO PERFORM.

LIKE A BROKEN RECORD.

OUR FUNDS HAVE A RECORD TIAA-CREF: Lipper’s Best Overall Large Fund Company1 three years in a row. For the fi rst time ever. How? Our disciplined investment strategy aims to produce competitive risk-adjusted returns that create long-term value for you. Just what you’d expect from a company that’s created to serve and built to perform.

Learn more about our unprecedented, award-winning performance at TIAA.org/Perform

5021A0058 C24849B Fall B2C Print BROKEN RECORD_10x9.56_nwsprnt_2.inddCyan Magenta Yellow Black

75004

DANIELLE LOPEZ, LIFE&ARTS EDITOR | @thedailytexan 8Wednesday, September 23, 2015

ACL FESTIVAL

ACL sells last-minute tickets

Q&A

By Megan Hix@meganhix95

By Ellen Airhart@ellenairhart

MultimediaSee our video inter-view with herpetology curator and lecturer Travis LaDuc at dailytexanonline.com

Shelby TauberDaily Texan

file photo

A crowd watches an act at last year’s Austin

City Limits Music Festival. Student

tickets go on sale Saturday at a

discounted rate of $225. UT lecturer discusses

reptiles, favorite things Editor’s Note: 60 Seconds

is a recurring series that peeks into the lives of pro-fessors across campus. This Q&A has been edited for brevity and clarity.