To passersby, Sunday night looked like any other at Holy Mountain as audi-ence members wafted in and out of the bustling bar. But as staff members and pa-trons embraced in familiar, welcoming hugs, the venue’s imminent closing overshad-owed the evening’s festivi-ties. Although the night was a happy occasion, it was time to say goodbye.

Holy Mountain packed in a sentimental yet celebratory crowd Sunday for the last night of a three-day concert series marking the club’s fi-nal weekend before its lease expires Oct. 1. Holy Moun-tain is one of several Austin venues forced to close be-cause of skyrocketing rents and short-term leases. Over the summer, these challeng-es also led venues such as

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UT given hazard research grant City plans to add parking meters west of campusThe Cockrell School of

Engineering was given a $3.8 million grant by the Na-tional Science Foundation to continue hazards research on infrastructure resistance against earthquakes.

UT is one of seven uni-versities involved in the Natural Hazards Engineer-ing Research Infrastructure program, an organization created by the NSF. Profes-sor Kenneth Stokoe, associ-

ate professor Brady Cox and assistant professor Patricia Clayton lead the team at the Cockrell School.

UT was awarded the grant after submitting a proposal that went through a merit review process, ac-cording to NSF spokes-woman Sarah Bates.

“The National Science Foundation had a call for proposals, specifically for fa-cilities around the U.S. that could provide equipment to better provide information about infrastructure resis-

tance to natural disasters,” Clayton said.

It is important that uni-versities take steps toward investing more in hazards research in light of numer-ous recent disasters such as Hurricane Katrina in 2005, the Haitian earthquake in 2010 and Hurricane Sandy in 2012, Clayton said.

“Thousands of people were negatively affected by these natural hazards,” Clay-ton said. “For us to be able to understand these hazards will better allow us to design

our communities to be more resilient against them. With this research, we can reduce the amount of negative im-pacts that these hazards will have on people.”

According to Clayton, this grant specifically helps to maintain machines called shaker trucks that were orig-inally built in 2000 through a different NSF grant. These machines produce accelera-tions through the ground to simulate the same ground shaking that a real earth-quake would do. Sensors

placed along the ground sur-face will detect these waves, and the data can be used to inform engineers how to build or rebuild structures to resist future earthquakes.

Electrical engineering ju-nior Jason Cai said grants such as this one are helpful to both faculty and students at UT.

“If the departments didn’t get any grants, the profes-sors would have to raise the money by themselves,”

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The Austin Transportation Department and University Area Partners neighborhood association approved a bud-get of almost $220,000 for street and traffic improve-ment in West Campus, and more parking meters will be added to the area.

Currently, there is only one parking benefit district in Aus-tin, which is located in West Campus. Parking benefit dis-tricts make street parking more available by raising revenue from metered parking for street and sidewalk improvements, according to the transporta-tion department website. Nina Lemieux, biology and Plan II junior and Student Govern-ment city relations director, did not mention any meter price changes for the future.

University Area Partners is seeking approval from City Council to put the meters up over winter break, according to Lemieux.

Lemieux said the expan-sion will also allow smaller neighborhood associations in the area, such as Caswell and Shoal Creek, to put meters in their neighborhoods.

“I believe over the last three years, the current meters [have] paid for themselves and amassed $200,000 for [West Campus] improvements,” Lemieux said.

The location of the new meters is supposed to be re-vealed during a public meeting Wednesday evening at New-man Hall, Lemieux said. She

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Rachel Zein | Daily Texan file photoOver the summer, Taco Bell vacated its space in the Texas Union with no explanation. Field of Greens took Taco Bell’s space.

Taco Bell vacates Union for undisclosed reasons

The Taco Bell franchise chose to discontinue op-erations in the Texas Union for unknown reasons this past summer.

The franchise termi-nated its presence in the Union on their own ac-cord with no involvement from University officials, Mulugeta Ferede, execu-

tive director for University Unions, said.

“The decision for Taco Bell to vacate the space was strictly made by Taco Bell’s operator,” Ferede said. “The operator had an option to extend their contract and elected not to. There was no other bid for the space.”

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Police policies reviewed by commission

Concerns about the ef-fectiveness of racial profil-ing, cultural sensitivity and the use of force by police were raised at the City’s Human Rights Commis-sion meeting Monday after an Austin Police Depart-ment presentation.

Austin police monitor Margo Frasier said police officer training needs to emphasize personal bias in individuals more, espe-cially when officers may conduct warrantless search and seizures on a hunch. Frasier said the police monitor department’s lat-est analysis show whites in Austin have a one in 22 chance of being searched, while Hispanics have a one in eight chance and blacks have a one in six chance of being searched.

“What is perceived to be suspicious behavior [for me] may be different than if we’re talking about a 19-, 20-year-old African-

American male, and it’s the same behavior, but it’s the perception of it by in-dividuals — and I’m not saying that they’re neces-sarily even thinking about this consciously — but it’s just an intrinsic bias,” Frasier said.

Paula Buls, Human Rights Commission board mem-ber, asked the police officers in attendance if they noticed a noticeable trend in in-creased community tension and movement away from a

perception of police officers as protectors.

Assistant police chief Brian Manley said in re-sponse that officers haven’t faced this level of scrutiny since the Civil Rights era and that the handful of negative cases that have generated attention over the past couple of years are due to social media.

“I think that what hap-pens also is the media focuses on the negative encounters,” Manley said.

“But what’s lost in the con-versation is that for each and every one of those bad instances that hap-pen, there were thousands of instances where police officers — maybe they saved a life, maybe they just handled a call appro-priately — but they made a difference.”

Manley said nega-tive events regarding po-lice force have forced the

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said, after the meeting, SG’s city relations agency will send out a survey to students to gauge student opinion regarding gen-eral area improvements such as street lights.

The city relations agency also discussed the possibility of extending the meter hours on Fridays and Saturdays from the current hours of 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. to discourage drunk driv-ing, like the meters in down-town Austin, Lemieux said.

Mike McHone, member of the University Area Partners neighborhood association, said

the additional $220,000 raised by the meters in the West Campus parking benefit dis-trict will also fund projects that University Area Partners and the transportation department have planned.

“Currently, we’re planning to do [a] streetscape — we did 23rd Street a few years ago,” McHone said. “We’re partici-pating … with the City on their Rio Grande Street bike lane, and that’s supposed to start in February. We’re engineering right now the 25th Street [bike lane] extension that will go all the way from Guadalupe over, we hope, as far as we can get with the money.”

for contracting nationally branded food companies, such as Taco Bell, for the Union and Student Activ-ity Center and is the pri-mary contractor for food services at the University. Field of Greens, which was previously located in a different location within the Union, is currently occupying Taco Bell’s former location.

There were no obvi-ous reasons behind Taco

Bell’s decision to leave the Union, Aramark Food Ser-vice director Henry Jack-son said in an email.

“The franchise decided to pursue other business ventures,” Jackson said. “There were no underly-ing issues that caused them to leave.”

A Taco Bell spokesper-son said there was no avail-able information regard-ing the reasons behind the closure of the Taco Bell in the Union.

Economics sophomore Powell Snelling said the

Union lost a popular ven-dor when Taco Bell left.

“My friends and I are up-set with the closing of Taco Bell because that was our go-to spot, behind Chick-fil-A,” Snelling said. “I’m not sure how the Taco Bell was doing financially, so I can’t make a decision as to why it closed, but I know many students are upset with the closing.”

Taco Bell served as a valuable low-cost option for students and needs to be replaced with a similarly cheap alternative, business

sophomore Harsha Dan-napaneni said.

“I definitely think it’s a bad thing that it closed down,” Dannapaneni said. “It was a great place to eat because it was a cheap op-tion for students, and the food was good. It was also sad to see them go since they’ve been there for many years. I hope that the Union can bring more va-riety in their food options by bringing in a different option that mimics Taco Bell’s prices.”

The Union is currently

gathering students’ opin-ions on what franchise should replace the Taco Bell using email surveys sent to students, according to Ferede.

“The ultimate decision of selection of a brand and an operator rests with the University … Union,” Fe-rede said. “The process of identifying the next vendor has already started, and we will continue to solicit feedback from our stu-dents. We hope to have a concept that is in line with that of Taco Bell.”

police department to recon-sider their current policies in response to the recent protests.

“We have had some tragic events that have occurred in this community, but this community responded ap-propriately,” Manley said. “They had protests, they have expressed their con-

cern, they have expressed their anger, but they did it in a productive way.”

Andrew Michael, com-mander in the APD train-ing division, said Austin officers spend more than double the hours on the shooting range than the Texas Commission on Law Enforcement requires per month. Michael said the officers don’t just shoot at paper targets but instead

are put in realistic scenarios that make them think about situations that require use of force.

Austin officers are also trained in over 200 hours of “less lethal response” or alternatives to using exces-sive force, including hand-cuffing, baton use and hand-to-hand combat, according to Michael. Michael said tactical communication and de-escalation methods teach

officers how to talk their way out of a situation rather than get physical.

“Often times [they’re] angry, [they’re] intoxicated, there’s people on drugs, there’s the mentally ill, and our goal is always to talk them down instead of hav-ing to go immediately to a hands-on confrontation be-cause there’s no good out-come to going hands-on,” Michael said.

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Qiling Wang | Daily Texan StaffAdditional parking meters will be added to West Campus after a street and traffic improvement budget was approved for the area.

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Shubhranshu Choudhary, a Knight International Jour-nalism Fellow, wants to utilize his democratic media model, CGNet Swara, to increase communication across under-served communities.

Choudhary spoke Monday about his experience in dem-ocratic journalism and his work with disenfranchised villagers in the central tribal region of India.

CGNet Swara is an experi-mental platform that facilitates discussions on issues related to the Central Gondwana region. Through this program, ordi-nary citizens can submit phone calls to a website. Volunteers then translate the messages from local dialects to Eng-lish and connect the citizens with resources to bring about change. Choudhary said the idea for CGNet Swara came to him while reporting on war-fare and conflicts in India.

“I was reporting and started talking to these ‘terrorists,’ and the whole idea came from them,” Choudhary said. “If we create a democratic model of media and communication, then it helps solve more prob-lems. So we started trying ra-dio, mobile and Internet, this and that. What works is differ-ent for different areas.”

Journalism graduate student Paromita Pain worked with CGNet Swara for three months in India.

“The people we are talking about here are so poor that sometimes they don’t even have a concept of money,” Pain said. “They live in communi-ties where even the barter sys-tem is alive, so it is a very dis-empowered population.”

Laura Stein, associate pro-fessor in the radio-television-

The Speedway Mall renovation project, a long-standing goal for several UT presidents, was presented to students and the general public in a meeting Monday.

After years of planning and revisions, a final version of the Walker plan, designed by landscape architecture firm Peter Walker and Part-ners, was approved to move forward in May this year. According to the current plan, construction will be done in a series of five stages, beginning in October and concluding in December 2017. There will be a 20 per-cent decrease in paved areas and a 20 percent increase in planted areas to improve aesthetics and mobility while maintaining room for ve-hicles, bikes and pedestrians, according to the plan.

Plans were first made for

renovations to Speedway and the East Mall by Peter Walker and Partners in 2007. How-ever, UT paused the project in 2008 due to lack of funding, and the project was scaled back in 2014 to include only renovations to Speedway.

According to Tim Suelten-fuss, a presenter from Galen Driscol, a communications firm that presented parts of the plan, the meeting aimed to share information with the public about the design and construction.

“Speedway will provide a place for students and stu-dent organizations to gather,” Sueltenfuss said. “This cam-pus renovation will make a significant contribution to the learning experience for all UT students.”

Brian Gillett, an associate with Peter Walker and Part-ners who has worked on the Speedway project for a year and a half, spoke on the cur-rent state of Speedway and

how the renovations intend to improve the conditions.

“Speedway is currently in a state of disrepair and dete-rioration,” Gillett said. “The overarching design concept for the Speedway mall is to transform the mall with a single unified design vocab-ulary that reflects UT-Austin as a world-class university.”

Gillett said a vital aspect of the design is to make Speedway a “pedestrian-centered” area.

Environmental science ju-nior Zoi Thompson, who com-mutes to campus on a bike ev-ery day, said she is concerned

the Speedway project has not taken cyclist and student safety into priority.

“This meeting has been very educational, but I still have

concerns about the chances of injury in an open area road-way,” Thompson said. “I’ve asked about paintings or signs on the roadways to designate

areas. Everyone I’ve talked to has said they won’t consider any changes until they see what happens as the project moves forward.”

James Galbraith, Philo-mila Tsoukala and Alvaro Santos visited law school to discuss the inequality, human rights and govern-mental issues in Greece at the Colloquium on In-equality & Human Rights on Monday.

In the two-hour collo-quium, the three panelists were each given 30 minutes to share their knowledge and experiences regard-ing the financial crisis in Greece. The panel brought economists and lawyers to-gether to discuss the issues eye-to-eye.

Galbraith, a Lloyd M. Bensten Jr. chair in gov-ernment and business re-lations and professor of government, began the conference by speaking about how the imbalance in financial power is a dominant factor in causing economic inequality.

“There is a perceptible pattern in the movement of economic inequal-ity around the world,” Galbraith said. “It is di-rectly and heavily linked to the dominant force that is the imbalance of financial power.”

Galbraith said economic inequality in Greece began to develop in the late 1990s and early 2000s, when Eu-ropean countries assem-bled and created a mon-etary union around the Euro. A consequence of the formation of the monetary union was an imbalance in financial power in favor of creditors such as Germany.

“European countries,

driven by political motives and corporate pressures, got together and amassed themselves into a monetary union,” Galbraith said.

Tsoukala, professor of law at Georgetown Law, said part of the reason Greece struggled with in-tegration into the Euro-pean markets was because Greece is comprised pri-marily of micro-business-es, or small, family-owned businesses.

“Greece started integrat-ing into European markets in 1981,” Tsoukala said. “Greece was a country with a developing economy when they began integrat-ing into European markets.”

Tsoukala said because the Greek government used strategies that were not suitable for the integra-tion of their economy, the integration into European markets was inefficient.

“If you look at Greek economy, 95 percent of it is micro-business [such as] family businesses,” Tsou-kala said. “Most of these businesses aren’t operating under any formal type of legal framework.”

Mohammed Nabulsi, second-year UT law stu-dent, said the panel aimed to explain how issues in Greece’s austerity mea-sures affect human rights through funding cuts to social services.

“Policies of austerity were imposed on Greece in order for them to pay back debts owed to credi-tors,” Nabulsi said. “The problem is policies of aus-terity clearly violated the basic human rights of the Greek people.”

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film department, worked in India on grassroots media and said she thinks more can be done to address inequality stemming from a lack of access to modern technology.

“There hasn’t been a lot of attention about how new media and technology can be used to help groups that have been disenfranchised, and this is one of those projects trying to think through how to do this,” Stein said.

Choudhary said he is look-ing forward to finding ways to expand his model of demo-cratic media in order to make it duplicable and sustainable to communities internationally in the future.

“We have to make this sus-tainable, otherwise there is no

point in doing it,” Choudhary said. “We need to make people understand the importance of free media. So if you want peace, if you want a better

future, we need to volunteer, put money in and educate so-cieties. As politics has democ-ratized, we think journalism should also democratize.”

Zoe Fu | Daily Texan StaffShubhranshu Choudhary, founder of CGNet Swara, talks about experiments with democractic media in rural India on Monday.

neighborhood association, said the additional $220,000 raised by the meters in the West Cam-pus parking benefit district will also fund projects University Area Partners and the trans-portation department have planned.

“Currently, we’re planning to do [a] streetscape — we did 23rd Street a few years ago,” McHone said. “We’re partici-pating … with the City on their Rio Grande Street bike lane, and that’s supposed to start in February. We’re engineering right now the 25th Street [bike lane] extension that will go all the way from Guadalupe over,

Qiling Wang | Daily Texan StaffAdditional parking meters will be added to West Campus after a street and traffic improvement budget was approved for the area.

Speedway will provide a place for students and student organizations to gather.

—Tim Sueltenfuss, Galen Driscol presenter

Health care is not just science and steady hands. Because of an archaic educational model which only focuses on scientific methodology, most medical professionals aren’t able to realize this. While the current system may have been successful in pro-ducing doctors that are able to understand the science behind health care, there still exists room for improvement in the deliv-ery of health care. It’s time for a change.

In the early 1900s, Abraham Flexner, a reformer of American medical education, developed an educational model for medi-cal schools. The system focused solely on the scientific methods of physiology and biochemistry. However, because of the ev-er-changing nature of medicine, medical instructors are determined to change this model. Rather than focusing on purely anatomy and physiology, classes are being taught in communication and psychology.

Stephen Scheibal, director of media re-lations and community engagement at the Dell Medical School, said the medical school has the opportunity to be a leader in this.

“The Dell Medical School has a distinct

advantage in that it is being created from scratch and can be entirely designed around the needs, challenges and opportunities of 21st century health and medicine,” Scheibal said. “We’re looking for students from a range of backgrounds who have shown lead-ership in different areas.”

This is not limited to the Dell Medical School. Various medical schools all over the nation are actively looking for stu-dents with interdisciplinary backgrounds. With a growing trend in appreciation for well-rounded people, almost anyone can become a doctor.

However, the revolution doesn’t end there. Learning on an individualistic level may help medicine progress on a small scale, but the greatest fruit comes from learned, diverse people working together. Physicians must be able to function as one unit in order to solve the systemic prob-lems within health care.

Lesley Riley, director of UT Health Professions Office, said she believes teamwork is imperative in transitioning to this new field.

“We need physicians who can contribute successfully to interdisciplinary treatment teams as we move towards a system focused on fee for outcome,” Riley said. “This means today’s physician must embrace a diversity

of opinions and ideas and be effective at fa-cilitating collaboration.”

At a Q&A with the Tejas Club, UT Pres-ident Greg Fenves said the Dell Medical School is completely changing how inter-views are conducted. Rather than individ-ually getting asked questions, applicants work as a team to solve a problem.

Here’s the catch — the problem is unsolv-able. How the applicants tackle the issue is how they are evaluated.

Similar to most mod-ern movements, students are the core. With the new desire for doctors that have both an interdisciplin-ary educa-tion as well as the abil-ity to col-l a b o r a t e , major im-provements in health care are in-e v i -t a -b l e .

A revolution is happening in medicine, and anyone can be a part of it.

Syed is a biochemistry freshman from Houston.

From Bobby Seale to Stokely Carmichael, the ’60s Black Power movement gave Ameri-can society Black men so militant, even their Afro picks were a testament to their resis-tance. Draped in dashikis and black leather, the faces of the different activist organizations led a movement rooted in Afrocentricity — the cultural ideology that rejects European cultural influences and accentuates Afri-can achievement. Ultimately, this married the tenacious fight for civil rights, central to the Black Power movement, with defining boundaries of Black identity.

Today’s Black Lives Matter movement has managed to foster a different relationship be-tween Black identity and struggle. This new, leaderless generation of activism has been more effective because it has managed to capture the experience and validate all spec-trums of Black lives.

“This movement has been insistent of all Black lives matter in a way that trans Black lives and even Black women who are victimized are also seen as important,” said Lisa Thompson, African and African Diaspora Studies profes-sor. “In the past, perceptions of Black issues have been really about heterosexual, Black males. What is refreshing now is there seems to not be a desire to police Blackness.”

According to Thompson, who teaches a class on rethinking Blackness, one of the most reviving aspects of the Black Lives Mat-ter movement has been its lack of desire to restrict Black identity. Years of intersectional politics have influenced this movement to embrace all aspects of Blackness.

“Part of what people are having a hard time with when looking at Black Lives Matter is try-ing to use the old lens of movement itself and

finding it does not apply,” Thompson said. Despite decades of attempting to under-

stand it, Blackness remains a very perplexing notion within American society. The impor-tance of constantly investigating Black identi-ty, especially through the perspective of Black struggle, lies in part with the fact that Black heritage and culture have historically been oppressed, disrupted and unpreserved.

“I think it is important to investigate Blackness in the realm of Black struggle, particularly against the forms of racism that continue to shape our everyday lives,” said anthropology graduate student Chelsi West-Ohueri, who researches race and identity in southeastern Europe.

Carving inclusive spaces to freely discuss Blackness and Black struggle is essential for advancing a liberatory narrative. A fluid re-lationship with Black identity empowers a number of incredibly useful and powerful voices. With these voices, we collectively work toward dismantling barriers for the next gen-eration and allow for young Black lives born into this era to have an opportunity to grow into their own stories without reluctance.

Gayo is an African and African Diaspora Studies senior from Houston.

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Dressed in a NASA T-shirt and typical thick-rimmed engineer glasses, Ahmed Mohamed, a freshman from MacArthur High School in Irving, Texas, excitedly showed off his home-invented clock to his engineering teacher. Instead of re-ceiving praise, Mohamed was be arrested and falsely accused of his invention be-ing a bomb.

This type of incident is all too famil-iar with American Muslims. Any Muslim American can relate to an incident of being discriminated against because of religion — even in the slightest matter.

“The situation hit home for me because it reminded me of when in high school some-one’s phone’s alarm went off, and everyone’s first response was to turn towards me,” busi-ness honors program sophomore Nazifa Mim said. “Imagine what that does to students. It simply fosters fear and even hatred.”

When young students grow up with this fear of discrimination embedded in their minds, it does nothing but limit their love for learning and expressing their talents and ideas. The same educational system that should be nurturing Mohamed’s tal-ents is destroying them.

Mohamed’s story related to many in so-ciety who saw a talented and gifted student arrested whose only crime was his name.

The news traveled like wildfire, with the hashtag #IStandWithAhmed trending on Twitter with 80,000 tweets in under an hour.

Renowned figures, such as President Barack Obama and Mark Zuckerberg, joined the bandwagon and invited him to their respective offices. In just under 24

hours, his dream school, Massachusetts In-situte of Technology, invited him to enroll, and the tables turned in his favor.

“This isn’t my first invention, and it won’t be my last invention,” Mohamed said Sept. 17 in an appearance on Good Morning America.

The response to the young and gifted 14-year-old was not an isolated incident of the double standard toward Muslims in America. This year alone, state Rep. Molly White (R-Belton) intruded on Muslim Capitol Day; the Houston Quba Islamic Institute was set on fire; three students near University of North Car-olina-Chapel Hill were shot execution-style in their own apartment; Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump failed to correct a supporter that advo-cated “getting rid” of Muslims, and his competitor Ben Carson stated that Mus-lims are not qualified to be president.

Mohamed’s story is only the discernable tip of a covert iceberg of prejudice and dis-crimination faced by American Muslims. There are many other “Ahmeds” in the si-lent corners of Texas and elsewhere, who, in the current climate of discrimination, have been sidelined because of their faith.

The normalization of unjust treat-ment toward a particular group is what leads to the inevitable alienation of that group in their own homes. Every child should be able to grow without fear of having their ideas criminalized. I hope that the hashtag #IStandWithAhmed will result in a lesson to promote curiosity and innovation among young scientists while taking a stance against all forms of bigotry.

Saifullah is a neuroscience sophomore from Richardson.

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The importance of constantly investigating Black identity, especially through the per-spective of Black struggle, lies in part with the fact that Black heritage and culture have his-torically been oppressed.

Austin Music Hall and Red 7 to announce they’d be shutting their doors permanently.

The send-off shows included performances from Magna Carda, Eagle Claw and Mike and the Moonpies. James Tay-lor, Holy Mountain general manager and partner, said the lineup featured some of his favorite bands and artists who had performed at the club in the past, as well as two of his own bands — Harvest Thieves and East Cameron Folkcore.

“Ultimately, we all started a music venue because we like to party,” Taylor said. “So if we’re going to go out, we are going to go out drinking and partying with friends.”

In June, after the property’s landlord asked for more than a 40 percent increase in rent, Taylor said the club’s owners decided they had no choice but to close.

“I don’t think any of us wanted to feel dejected or like we had failed,” Taylor said. “I think we wanted to go out doing what made us want to do this, which is just putting on shows.”

After Holy Mountain opened in October 2012, the intimate, 250-person venue

made a name for itself by host-ing local up-and-comers and popular acts such as Ryan Bingham and Shakey Graves. Production manager Michael Anthony Gibson said part of the club’s mission was always to help cultivate new artists.

“We’re definitely in a small group [of venues] that really nurture new, local bands and give people the chance to play over and over again, hone their chops, figure out their live sound and their show,” Gibson said.

Some audience mem-bers shared memories of their favorite sets, others slow-danced in front rows, but all found ways to com-memorate Holy Mountain’s legacy. Many of Sunday’s art-ists, such as opening act Ben Ballinger, dedicated part of their sets to thanking Tay-lor and other venue staffers for providing a welcoming environment over the past three years.

Courtney Goforth, a Holy Mountain regular, said the venue’s closing meant having to say farewell to a favorite neighborhood hang-out. She said she’ll miss the venue’s friendly staff and the opportunity to see a combi-nation of obscure bands and her favorite local acts.

“I like Holy Mountain be-cause it’s close to my house, but also because it’s in the Red River district — it’s close to anything I’m go-ing to be going to any-way,” Goforth said. “This is the hub of where every-one comes to see a good

show or hang out before a good show.”

Ashley Gregg, who was attending her sec-ond Holy Mountain show of the week, said she will miss the community that made her experiences at Holy Mountain “magical.”

“There’s nothing bet-ter than getting to see a friendly face and someone who genuinely cares about all levels of music,” Gregg said. “That’s definitely what makes Holy Mountain very special and different from a few other venues in town.”

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Olivia Mickle was no stranger to NCAA competi-tion when she arrived at Texas in 2013, but being the sole graduate student on the track and field roster was a new experience entirely.

Mickle was given a unique opportunity after graduating from Brown University with a degree in chemical engi-neering and the school re-cord for the 10,000m. A shin and femur injury kept her from competing in track and field during her freshman year, giving her an extra year of eligibility in the NCAA. She took a leap and came to the University of Texas, where she could run and be in the chemical engineering graduate program.

“When she was admit-ted to Texas for grad work, she told me ‘My life is per-fect,’” Olivia’s mother, Casey Mickle, said.

After finishing her first year at Texas, Mickle saw another opportunity and, once again, she took a leap. This time she decided to put her education and sci-entific research on hold to pursue professional run-ning. For Mickle, a self-pro-claimed planner, it wasn’t a comfortable choice.

“Taking a turn or step-ping off the conveyor belt is difficult for me,” Mickle said. “But I just knew I was going to run and figure everything else out.”

The puzzle pieces even-tually connected and led her to Portland, Oregon, where she works at Nike as a footwear developer. She’s also training as a member of the Bowerman Track Club Elite Program.

She works out twice dai-ly — once with coworkers before the workday begins and once afterward. Al-though she isn’t working in

the field of immunology or doing cancer research like she once expected, she con-siders her job at Nike to be a dream.

“My running and my work are all in the same happy place,” Mickle said. “Even if it’s not an official person on the Bowerman Club Elite Group, there’s always some-one to run with.”

Mickle’s parents, who were track and field athletes at the University of Califor-nia-Berkeley, provide her with support.

“To run at the elite level is not easy,” Casey Mickle said. “But I also am glad that she doesn’t shy away from the challenge. She’s never been afraid to do the hard thing.”

Mickle has her sights set on the 2020 Olympics. She said most female marathon-ers peak in their late 20s, and the goal fits perfectly into her timeline.

Mickle must achieve a time of 1:15:00 or faster at a certi-

fied half marathon to qualify for the Olympic marathon trials in February 2016. Although making the trials and the Olympics are lofty

goals, her family supports her dedication and drive.

“I don’t think she can fail because she has al-ready succeeded,” Olivia’s

brother, Colin Mickle, said. “She has taken risks to pur-sue her dream, and that is the more important victory in my eyes.”

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After leading the Long-horns to back-to-back wins to open up the con-ference schedule, senior outside hitter Amy Neal was named the Big 12 Offensive Player of the Week, the conference an-nounced Monday.

Neal finished last week with 29 kills combined in the wins over TCU and West Virginia. She also tallied three aces, 10 digs and two blocks in that time frame.

Neal is the second Longhorn to be named the Big 12 Offensive Player of the Week. Junior middle blocker Chiaka Ogbogu took the award on Sept. 14.

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Sitting at 1-3 after the Longhorns’ 30-27 loss to No. 20 Oklahoma State — Texas’ worst start since 1956 — the players felt tired of losing.

The Longhorns gathered in a players-only meeting Sun-day to air their frustrations. Senior center Taylor Doyle told his teammates this is the turning point. Fellow senior wide receiver Marcus Johnson said Texas has to learn from its losses.

“At some point, we have to make up our minds that those three-point losses and the little things throughout the game, we have to stand up and say, ‘We need to make the difference,’” Johnson said. “[The coaches] are putting us in the right position. They’re making the right play calls. We just have to capitalize as players.”

The Longhorns have de-cided to change their mental-ity after losing to Oklahoma State and California by a combined four points. Texas

needs to regroup. The path doesn’t get easier with road games against No. 4 TCU in Fort Worth and No. 15 Oklahoma at the Cotton Bowl in the next two weeks.

The team could be sitting at 1-5 entering its bye week. But Texas feels it can compete with any team it plays given its new-found offensive identity creat-ed by redshirt freshman quar-terback Jerrod Heard and wide receiver coach and play-caller Jay Norvell.

“I think we’re capable of hanging with any team,” se-nior offensive guard Sedrick Flowers said. “Our offense when we get going, we’re putting points up, … our de-fense is coming around. We saw how they did in this past game. I feel like when we play on all cylinders, we can com-pete with any team.”

The defensive is beginning to find its way. First, the Long-horns contained Cal’s offense in the fourth quarter. Satur-day, Texas regrouped after giving up 14 points in the first quarter to hold the Cowboys to 395 yards and three forced

turnovers — the best defensive performance this season.

Despite the Longhorns’ record, head coach Char-lie Strong said the team has grown since starting the season with a 38-3 loss to Notre Dame.

“You look at the two oppo-nents we’ve played the last two weeks and look where we are and just how far we’ve come,” Strong said. “It’s our own fault that we’ve been in the position we’re in. We have to learn how to just go close out games. Ev-erybody has a job to do, and just do your job, and just keep battling, keep competing.”

After the players-only meeting, senior running back Johnathan Gray said he and his teammates are back on the same page.

“We’ve come together and [told] each other, ‘We got to fight for one another and keep playing and keep pushing,’” Gray said. “I think everybody’s mindset is up. Everybody wants to play for one another. Everybody wants to do the right things to be successful.”

By Nick Castillo@Nick_Castillo74

BIG 12 NOTEBOOK

Horned Frogs beat Red Raiders in instant classic

Two explosive offenses squared off in Lubbock, Tex-as, on Saturday, and neither disappointed. Texas Tech and No. 4 TCU combined for over 100 points and 1,300 yards of offense.

Late-game drama high-lighted the Big 12 shootout. With seconds remaining, Horned Frogs senior running back Aaron Green caught a tipped pass in the back of the end zone to lift TCU to a 55-52 victory.

TCU’s senior quarter-back Trevone Boykin to-taled 485 passing yards and four touchdowns.

West Virginia earns top 25 nod after routing Maryland

For the third-straight game, No. 23 West Virginia cruised to an easy victory with a 45-6 win over Maryland. Through three games, the Mountain-eers have outscored their opponents 130-23.

West Virginia accrued over 600 yards of total offense in the victory and junior quar-terback Skyler Howard threw for four touchdowns and 294 yards. The Mountaineers’ defense also shined with six forced turnovers.

With the 3-0 start, the Mountaineers entered the top 25 for the first time this season.

Baylor looks to stay hot against Texas Tech

The No. 5 Bears can score. They’ve put up 56 points or more in each of their first

three games, but they’ve yet to face a major conference team.

Baylor will get their first test as they head to Lubbock to play Texas Tech this week-end. Its No. 1 ranked offense will be challenged to sustain their high scoring prowess against the Red Raiders, who rank right behind the Bears at No. 3 in points in the nation.

Through three games, Bears junior quarterback Seth Russell leads the na-tion with 15 touchdowns. Baylor and Texas Tech will kick off at 2:30 p.m. on Saturday.

Undefeated teams to square off in week five

Conference play continues to heat up with two matchups between undefeated teams this weekend. No. 23 West Virginia will head to Oklaho-ma to play the No. 15 Sooners, while No. 20 Oklahoma State will host Kansas State.

The Mountaineers will try to contain Sooners junior quarterback Baker Mayfield, who ranks No. 7 in yards per game. Oklahoma opens as a seven-point favorite, according to ESPN.

Kansas State is challenged with winning in Stillwater, Oklahoma, where the Cow-boys have won 12 of their last 15 home games. Unlike most other Big 12 matchups, the game may turn into a defen-sive battle, with both teams ranking within the confer-ence’s top-3 scoring defenses.

West Virginia vs. Okla-homa starts at 11 a.m., while Kansas State vs. Okla-homa State starts at 3 p.m. Both games will air on Fox Sports 1.

TCU survives against Tech in last minute

By Ezra Siegel@SiegelEzra

Joshua GuerraDaily Texan Staff

Senior center Taylor Doyle, 74,

said Monday that the team

was at a turning point when they

called a players-only

meeting following the Longhorns’

30-27 loss to Oklahoma State.

Photos courtesy of Olivia MickleFormer Longhorn Olivia Mickle now works for Nike, but she hopes to get a chance to qualify for the 2020 Olympics.

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Whether it’s his latest haircut or a band’s color scheme, custom instru-ments or music video ef-fects, Jack White’s atten-tion to detail is what spurs his fans’ dedication. With his band’s newest release, Dodge and Burn, fans will find a similarly raw yet me-ticulous effort.

In 2009, White founded The Dead Weather on a whim, and it quickly be-came his main artistic focus. After two quick releases, Horehound and Sea of Cowards, The Dead Weather fizzled out, only to be reignited in early 2013. For two years, the group worked on recording Dodge and Burn, released Friday. Though the album doesn’t take many risks, it capitalizes on the infec-tious guitar and thrashing drums old fans have come to love, making it their best release yet.

Dodge and Burn is a compilation of scattered studio sessions, and the record doesn’t attempt to hide it. Each song follows a similar formula in its construction and themes. This isn’t the most cohesive record The Dead Weather has recorded together, but what it lacks in continuity,

it makes up for with pow-erful and relentless rock.

In typical White style, the record’s rock sound is heavy and distorted. The album’s first track, “I Feel Love (Every Million Miles),” kicks off and ends with Dean Fertita’s muddy guitar licks, making it a safe but quality choice to lead the album. Every song highlights the album’s fiery tone, especially “Let Me Through,” which features the best guitar work on the entire record.

Although Fertita’s riffs dominate each song, White’s drumming is the backbone of Dodge and Burn. His production choices emphasize his col-orful percussion, making his intricate playing style stand out. “Buzzkill(er)” is driven by White’s hard-hitting drum patterns.

Most songs on the album flash back to a time when

White relied heavily on catchy guitar riffs and muf-fled sounds. However, fans of his more recent works might consider Dodge and Burn to be a step in the wrong direction due to its narrow sound.

Alison Mosshart’s sing-ing talent caps off every song on this album. Her

vocals on “Open Up” are some of the most evoca-tive and unnerving perfor-mances on this LP. Lyri-cally, Mosshart writes in a symbolic and blunt fash-ion, complimenting Ferti-ta’s punchy guitar riffs and White’s echoing drums.

Of all of the tracks on this album, “Impossible

Winner” is the obvious outlier. The track’s echoed piano makes it sound like a jazzed-up version of a B-side Adele song and leaves the album on an unsavory note.

It might sound dis-jointed at times, but the individual performances from each band member

on Dodge and Burn make it The Dead Weather’s best record so far. Without a tour to accompany Dodge and Burn, the future of Jack White and The Dead Weather is in limbo, but, for now, fans of what Roll-ing Stone called “rock’s Willy Wonka” should be more than satisfied.

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Courtesy of Third Man RecordsDodge and Burn shows the most aggressive version of The Dead Weather yet, making it a heavy but enjoyable listen.

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Becky Thompson (right)Spanish lecturer and UT alumna Becky Thompson’s fox tattoo on her back commemorates

the completion of her Ph.D. dissertation. “I wrote my dissertation on a book from Peru that was published in 1971 called ‘[The] Fox

from [Up] Above and [the] Fox from [Down] Below,’” Thompson said. “Foxes are the entities that make the world go round in Andean mythology.”

Thompson said she is interested in the race, culture and identity in Peru. In the book, the author’s writing about a dichotomy in Peruvian society sparked Thompson’s interest in im-migration from the Andes to the coast.

“The book is written by a white guy in Peru who also grew up speaking Quechua,” Thompson said. “This was his last book, and he didn’t finish it because he said at the begin-ning of the book he was going to commit suicide. People say he couldn’t reconcile these two different identities. That always really interested me and was a jumping off point for my dissertation.”

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Jasmine Vallejo (left)After UT alumna Jasmine Vallejo’s brother attempted suicide in 2010, both siblings got a

tattoo of LEGO blocks hugging. “He was going through this rough patch in his life,” Vallejo said. “We were best friends, but

he kind of isolated himself from everyone. I told him, ‘Your problems are my problems. Your successes are my successes. We’re family.’”

The two LEGO blocks are stuck together with one embracing the other. Vallejo said the LEGO blocks also represent her and her brother’s resilience.

“We had a really rough upbringing,” Vallejo said. “If you think about an actual LEGO, it’s really tough to break. That symbolizes us and our spirit.”

Vallejo said the tattoo really helped her brother and strengthened the bond between the two of them.

“This definitely helped him,” Vallejo said. “Whenever he is going through a rough patch, he calls me. It definitely opened up the communication. Branding our body created a special bond between us.”

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