College Republicans, Inter-national Socialists Organiza-tion, University Democrats and Young Americans for Liberty faced off in a political debate Monday night that in-cluded discussion about cam-pus carry, a popular issue on campus.

The debate was moderated by John Falke, University-wide representative in Student Gov-ernment, and Claire Smith, editor-in-chief of The Daily Texan. Topics such as border security, birthright citizenship, mass incarceration, income inequality, equal pay for wom-en, Common Core, climate change and abortion were among the many topics de-bated. Topics were chosen be-cause of their relevance to the upcoming presidential election and to student life, according to Falke.

Each group had two repre-sentatives who opened the de-bate with remarks that estab-lished their political stances.

Mukund Rathi, one of the representatives of the Interna-tional Socialists Organization, said shootings on college cam-puses happen too often and should be fought against.

“We need to confront the reality of gun ownership in this

country, which has always been about privileged people getting weapons in order to protect themselves,” Rathi said. “This is the history of gun ownership in this country. Trayvon Mar-tin’s death made this very ap-

parent, and any attempt to rep-licate those conditions on this campus are going to have the same effect.”

In rebuttal, Nick Pham, rep-resentative of Young Ameri-cans for Liberty, said the peo-

ple in power are historically the ones who take away guns in order to weaken the disen-franchised.

“It takes a certain kind of privilege to want black people to not be able to shoot back

against racist pigs,” Pham said. “I think it takes a certain kind of privilege to not think a woman should be able to shoot her rapist in the street. I

Text-to-911 capabili-ties will be available in the Austin area as soon as June 2016, according to Gregg Obuch, director of emer-gency communications at the Capitol Area Council of Governments(CAPCOG).

When the service goes

live, people located in all ten counties under the ju-risdiction of CAPCOG will be able to text to 911 to receive police, fire and medical emergency servic-es, Obuch said. These ten counties include Bastrop, Blanco, Burnet, Caldwell, Fayette, Hays, Lee, Llano, Travis and Williamson.

CAPCOG is an

association of over 90 mem-ber governments and orga-nizations that work togeth-er to provide public services as a region to avoid the unnecessary duplication of work when developing new infrastructure.

Obuch said 911 texts regarding situations that have occurred or are oc-curring on-campus will be

directed to UTPD for a more efficient response.

Users of the new service will have to provide their location information in the text they send to 911, ac-cording to the CAPCOG website. Whereas voice calls usually provide the dispatcher the phone num-ber of the caller and their approximate location in a

feature called “Enhanced 911,” the dispatcher will not automatically receive this location informa-tion from texts sent from wireless phones.

The Austin Police De-partment has not installed the appropriate systems to provide the service in the department’s dispatch

Fifteen undergraduate researchers are competing for a $1,500 scholarship as part of the Texas Student Research Showdown, a presentation competi-tion for UT students cre-ated by the UT Office of Undergraduate Research.

To enter, they submit-ted a two-minute video about their work. Stu-dents will vote to deter-mine the top six, who will move on to the second round, in which the final-ists will give six-minute presentations to a live au-dience and judging panel Nov. 12.

Robert Reichle, senior program coordinator for the academic initiatives department of the School of Undergraduate Stud-ies, said he came up with the idea for the compe-tition when he realized there are not enough out-lets for students to share research at UT.

“I didn’t really know what to expect,” Reich-le said. “We have a pretty healthy number [of participants].”

Social work senior Chelsea Jones did a qualitative analysis on the deaths of unarmed citizens by police offi-cers. Jones said she was initially reluctant to enter the competition because of the nature of her research but de-cided it was important to raise awareness in the UT community.

“Police brutality is a topic that is sensitive and

For the first time, women now lead men in the number of bachelor’s degrees awarded nationwide, according to the United States Census Bureau.

This trend toward higher fe-male graduation rates is noth-ing new for UT as the campus has had slightly higher rates of female graduation since at least 2013, according to Texas Higher Education Data.

Biomedical engineering senior Devangi Dave, presi-dent of Women in Biomedical Engineering, said the rates are promising for the futures of women across academia, but Dave said there is still work left in many academic fields to in-crease female graduation rates.

“It’s great to see women become more confident in pursuing their dreams,” Dave said in an email. “As a nation, we are moving in the right di-rection. However, we still face

a gap in STEM fields such as Mechanical Engineering where there are only 20 per-cent women enrolled in the undergraduate program.”

Dave was not alone in her concern for gender equal-ity across different academic fields. Stephanie Cawthon, as-sociate educational psychology

professor, said graduation rates are not enough informa-tion to understand gender inequity problems.

“We have also seen a height-ened disparity when you get to graduate programs,” Cawthon said in an email. “So the bache-lor’s degree information, alone, does not explain the gender

economic gap. To understand gender inequities in educa-tion and employment, you will need to differentiate by type of degree and look towards longer term outcomes.”

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Photos by Zoe Fu | Daily Texan StaffClockwise from top left, Americans for Liberty representatives Austin Hogan and Nick Pham, College Republicans representatives Madison Yandell and Zach Baumann, International Socialist Organization representatives Makund Rathi and Brandon Daniels and University Democrats representatives Joseph Trahan and Jordee Rodriguez participated in the UT student political debate Monday.

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To celebrate Indigenous Peo-ples’ Day, UT’s Native American Indigenous Collective hosted a meet and greet and film screen-ing to increase campus aware-ness of indigenous cultures.

Luis Cárcamo-Huechante, acting director of Native Amer-ican and Indigenous Studies, said these events are part of an effort to solidify the presence of indigenous cultures on campus and in the larger communities of Austin and Texas.

“The question of invisibility and marginalization has been critical to the lives of American Indians in Texas,” Cárcamo-Huechante said. “By having a visibility as a Native American and indigenous group on cam-pus, we contribute to strengthen the presence of Native views.”

In fall of last year, Na-tive Americans represented

0.2 percent of the total UT student population.

Quichi Patlan, an anthroplo-gy graduate student, said indig-enous professors have opted to leave campus to teach at other institutions in the past because the indigenous population on UT’s campus is small. Patlan said NAIC is looking to build a base of members on campus using a mentorship system to attract more indigenous people to the community on campus.

“At the stage right now, we are building blocks up so that we can build this mentorship program, where hopefully we can get to a point in which we as graduate students, have some type of mentorship toward un-dergraduate students so under-graduates don’t graduate and leave, but maybe apply for grad-uate school here,” Patlan said.

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to officially recognize Oct. 12 as Indigenous Peoples’ Day in lieu of Columbus Day. The decision came after a petition with NAIC earned more than 2000 signatures.

“UT already did not recog-nize Columbus Day, but we wanted to take that one step further and make Indigenous People’s Day a marked event in the UT calendar,” Serena Sonnenberg, architecture se-nior and member of NAIC, said. “We wanted to expose the community here to some of the struggles that Native communities face and to bring indigenous people to the forefront of people’s minds.”

Sonnenberg said Colum-bus Day should not be ac-knowledged because it is the celebration of someone who committed horrible atroci-ties and began generations of genocide and racism to-ward an entire community of people.

“I think that Columbus Day as a national holiday is something that should not at all be acceptable to people in this country or any other country, and to make the day that celebrates indigenous people instead is a way to shift the consciousness and make people think more critically about history and what actually happened,” Sonnenberg said.

The Tunisian National Dia-logue Quartet was awarded the 2015 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, sending a message that democratization is possible in the Middle East and possibly expanding study abroad op-portunities to UT students, ac-cording to a UT professor.

The Quartet — a group of several organizations com-

prised of business people, members of a labor union, law-yers and human rights activists — was rewarded for preventing civil war between Islamists and Secularists in post-Arab Spring Tunisia, according to Mounira Charrad, sociology and Middle Eastern studies and women’s and gender studies professor.

In the past, students partici-pated in an exchange program with Egypt or Jordan, but fol-lowing the award, Tunisia may become a more attractive country for UT students to study in, according to Charrad.

“However, students should know that this award does not resolve all problems for Tunisia,” Charrad said. “The country is still left with issues of great unemployment and a recovering economy.”

Charrad said the prize was being awarded to the Quartet as a whole, instead of to each contributing organization.

“The major lesson is that different groups can cooper-ate for the collective good,” Charrad said.

More UT students should be aware of who wins the Nobel Peace Prize, accord-ing to biology freshman Nathaniel Alvarez.

“UT is always telling us, ‘what starts here changes the world,’” Alvarez said. “And the National Dialogue Quartet is an example of who we should try to be when we grow up.”

According to Jason Brown-lee, government and Middle Eastern studies professor, while good leadership and courage played a part in Tu-nisia’s successful revolution, democratization would not have been possible without ad-vancements in socioeconomic development, literacy and urban development.

“This helps us understand why things are going well in Tu-

nisia as opposed to other coun-tries like Egypt,” Brownlee said.

These societal advance-ments have historically allowed associations, such as the four that comprise the Quartet, to be present in Tunisian soci-ety. As a result, a greater range of people are involved in the political process, according to Charrad.

“For example, women were able to play a large role in the democratization process be-cause Tunisian women enjoy rights that no other women in the Arab world have enjoyed,” Charrad said.

The Quartet acts as a pow-erful example to UT students, Brownlee said.

“UT students — and all of us — can understand and appre-ciate that democratic change comes about by courageous people doing very difficult work in tough circumstances,” Brownlee said.

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said in addition to academics, she wants to bring more atten-tion to women’s opinions.

“These figures definitely re-veal we are moving in the direc-tion,” Pina said. “However, it’s time to actually see these num-bers mean more than just that:

numbers. Whether at our Uni-versity’s administration [or] our local government, the female perspective is still ignored.”

Aerospace engineering ju-nior Salvador Cervantes said he recognizes women’s problems and said the rates are a good sign for how the nation and UT are changing for the better.

“Females are just as capable

as men. Why shouldn’t they have just as high of graduation rates?” Cervantes said. “But I do also see why it’s unfortu-nately taken this long, especially in STEM subjects. We have a male-dominated society — as much as it shouldn’t be, it is. The UT rates show how we are a leader for reform and give sup-port to women.”

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think it takes a certain kind of privilege to think that LGBT people shouldn’t be able to carry and fight back against those who would discriminate against them.”

Joseph Trahan, representa-tive of University Democrats, said many people who get gun licenses are not trained prop-erly, which will increase danger on campus.

“We don’t believe that campus carry will help some-how increase the safety of the students here,” Trahan said. “Many people who go get gun

licenses aren’t trained. They have no idea how to handle weapons or how to respond to highly intense situations.”

The debate on campus carry is filled with inaccuracies, ac-cording to Madison Yandell, representative of College Re-publicans. Yandell said she thinks one side is stating the facts, while the other is too fo-cused on emotion.

“I think there is a pretty gross misunderstanding of what goes into getting your concealed handgun licensed,” Yandell said. “In all reality, we’re adults, and those who receive those CHL licenses are adults, and we should be

treated as such. This right and this responsibility to protect ourselves should not be taken away simply because we walk into a campus classroom.”

Zach Baumann, represen-tative of College Republicans, said politics should be about working alongside opposing viewpoints.

“I think there are people on the right who are not open to compromise, and there are increasingly people on the left who are not open to compro-mise, and we need to get back to compromise and making decisions as a group — real-izing that compromise isn’t an ugly word,” Baumann said.

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We wanted to ex-pose the community here to some of the struggles that Native communities face and to bring indig-enous people to the forefront of people’s minds.

—Serena Sonnenberg, Architecture senior

UT students and professors gathered Monday afternoon for the Inequality and Human Rights seminar to discuss the existence of human rights in the age of inequality.

Samuel Moyn, guest speak-er and Harvard law and his-tory professor, started the panel by speaking about how the age of human rights and the age of inequality both exist simultaneously.

“The age of human rights really began in the 1940s,” Moyn said. “Before we think about the correlation of hu-man rights and inequality, we must truly understand when it is that human rights began to develop.”

Moyn said people should understand the United Na-tion’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights’ commit-ment to socioeconomic status equality rather than distribu-tive equality, which better ensures the equal rights of citizens outside their socio-economic status.

“[The UN establishes] a normative floor of protection, however they have no concern about whether there should

be a ceiling,” Moyn said. “The distance between the non-existent ceiling and the floor represent the gap between the poorest and the wealthiest in society.”

Moyn said the relationship between human rights and in-equality is both chronological and substantive.

“There is a substantive relationship between hu-man rights and inequality, like normative individualism and critique of sovereignty,” Moyn said. “Human rights exist with inequality because human rights fail to view market fundamentalism as a problem.”

Moyn proposed a ques-tion at the beginning of the seminar which he would later answer: “Could human rights actually do something to com-bat economic inequality?”

“Human rights have never defended against inequality. Why would one think human rights movements should take up a concern which has been silent for the past sixty years?” Moyn said. “The hu-man rights movement is not enough to create a new distri-bution of politics, at least not in any significant way.”

Willie Forbath, professor of

law at UT, agreed with Moyn that human rights is not the most effective method of combating inequality.

“Human rights advocates are more constrained by the

social movements they are working with,” Forbath said. “To maintain social equality, there must be a constant ne-gotiation regarding the ceil-ing for the wealthy.”

Sean Doyle, first-year UT law student, said that al-though he disagrees with Moyn on the effectiveness of human rights, he believes Moyn was very persuasive.

“Moyn made a very per-suasive argument to support his opinion that perhaps a human rights movement is not the best tool to combat inequality,” Doyle said.

UT-Dallas alumus Aziz Sancar won the school’s first ever Nobel Prize in chemistry last week.

Sancar, a professor in bio-chemistry and biophysics at the University of North Caro-lina, was one of three research members to win the award for their work on nucleotide excision repair, a mechanism that cells use to repair dam-age to DNA from ultraviolent radiation. Sancar said the re-search could advance cancer treatment research.

“[These repair mechanisms are] important in cancer treat-ment because many of the anti-cancer drugs do damage to DNA, and whether cancer cells can repair it or not could influence how cancer is treat-ed,” Sancar said in a previous interview with Nobelprize.org.

Stephen Spiro, head of the Department of Biological Sciences at UT-Dallas, said this research has been cru-cial for the last 50 years of DNA research.

“One thing he did was to purify the protein component

of that repair mechanism and do what is called reconstitut-ing the test tube,” Spiro said. “[This research] has been known since the 1960s that organisms have mechanisms to repair damaged DNA. There was a classical view that DNA was a stable molecule, and mutations in the DNA were rare. Evidence in the 1960s showed DNA could be damaged quite easily.”

Spiro said Sancar worked on many different repair pro-cesses through the years, but one method of testing proved important for human cells.

“You can purify the en-zymes that repair the dam-aged DNA, and if you put them altogether in a test tube under the right conditions, you can recapitulate the re-pair process, … showing that proteins you think are in-volved in a process really are,” Spiro said.

Donald Gray, professor emeritus of biological scienc-es at UT-Dallas, said Sancar was one of his first graduate assistants after the Univer-sity started accepting upper-level undergraduates in 1975. Gray said Sancar’s high work

standards have helped him publish groundbreaking re-search throughout his career.

“I believe that Aziz has built on his penchant for hard work, combined with a genius for selecting im-portant problems and col-laborators,” Gray said. “He is focused on making the best use of his time solving research problems.”

Spiro said Sancar’s accom-plishment will bolster the profile of the relatively young UT-Dallas.

“It raises the profile of the institution,” Spiro said. “It’s great for our graduate stu-dents, and it shows you can do great research and great training here.”

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Quiling Wang | Daily Texan StaffSamuel Moyn, Professor of Law and History at Harvard University, speaks during a seminar on Monday afternoon. Moyn was the guest speaker at the panel and discussed the relationship between human rights and inequality.

Aziz Sancar Nobel Prize winner

center but is working with CAPCOG to procure them, Lisa Cortinas, senior public information specialist for APD, said.

Accounting senior Nicholas Munson said he would prefer calling 911 over texting because it leads to greater speed and accuracy.

“I’m not sure if I would

rely on Siri to transcribe my words when in an emergency, and I definitely wouldn’t be able to text it out faster than talking on the phone,” Munson said.

According to public relations junior Marissa Ballard, the service could be helpful to those fac-ing dangerous situations where completing a phone call could alert their at-tacker of their location.

According to the website,

CAPCOG hopes the new service will make emer-gency services more easily accessible to the younger generation — which is well versed in texting as a medium — and people with hearing and speech disabilities. The website, however, says those who are able should call 911 for emergency services be-cause it allows the opera-tor to ask questions about the situation faster.

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as men. Why shouldn’t they have just as high of graduation rates?” Cervantes said. “But I do also see why it’s unfortu-nately taken this long, especially in STEM subjects. We have a male-dominated society — as much as it shouldn’t be, it is. The UT rates show how we are a leader for reform and give sup-port to women.”

emotional, but we can’t opt out of talking about it,” Jones said. “I wanted to show the power of commu-nity members to take ac-tion into their own hands and be innovative to solve social issues.”

Jones said since she en-tered the competition, students and faculty have shown their support.

“People truly care about the issues that are affecting our country, even though they may not always be vo-cal,” Jones said.

Undergraduate studies

sophomore Jack Murray submitted a video about his research on Alzheim-er’s disease and said the project taught him how to present his research in a different way.

“I learned how to express something complicated in the simplest terms pos-sible,” Murray said. “You can’t just use the most com-plicated jargon with people who just want to hear the main facts.”

Nursing junior Nicole Gloris said her mother’s poor nutritional habits after she was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in-spired her to research the

relationship between the illness and diet. Gloris said after uploading the video to Facebook, people af-fected by multiple sclerosis have told her how much impact her video had.

“Even an individual who hadn’t ever been to a dietitian or nutrition-ist that is now going to go — that’s what it’s all about,” Gloris said. “Ad-vancing in this competi-tion isn’t the goal of my research. It’s to better these individuals’ lives.”

Voting continues through Oct. 21, and the fi-nal round is scheduled for Nov. 12.

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So much attention has been directed toward presidential candidates that few have considered the elections taking place in Texas on Nov. 3.

The Texas Legislature passed seven Constitu-tional Amendments throughout their 84th ses-sion earlier this year. These amendments were all passed with overwhelming bipartisan majorities and are mostly uncontroversial. But the people of the state of Texas must still vote on and approve each one of them.

The amendments vary from providing prop-erty tax relief to the elderly to providing more dedicated sources of revenue for the State’s highway fund and even codifying the right of Texans to hunt and fish. As mentioned, they’re all mostly uncontroversial, but some people will vote against all government action, no matter how unremarkable.

Other local elections will take place. Eleven school districts will hold elections on Nov. 3, as will seven cities throughout the state and count-less other smaller municipalities. The largest of these, Houston, will elect a new mayor and city controller, and have all 17 members of its City

Council up for election. Most students at this University do not have

their legal residences at school. This means, for those who have registered to vote, an additional process is needed for the unnecessary step of voting in Austin. Students who still legally re-side in their hometown can easily vote back home by mail, through a simple concept known as absentee voting.

“Being away from home is no excuse not to vote,” said Mike Sullivan, the Harris County tax assessor-collector and voter registrar. “You just request a ballot be mailed to you, and it arrives promptly. It couldn’t be any easier.”

The deadline for requesting an absentee ballot is Oct. 23. The form to request a ballot is on one’s home county’s County Clerk website.

Additionally, even if students are unwilling to or uninterested in voting this November, the procedures still hold true for the many upcom-ing elections. And the entire electorate in Texas will be invited on the first day of March to select their favorite choice for President, either in the Democratic or Republican primary.

Going to college provides an excuse for a number of things, but not voting in your home-town elections is not one of them.

Horwitz is a government senior from Houston.

Anti-Islam rallies were held in more than 20 U.S. cities this past weekend — organized by open carry gun advocate group called the Global Rally for Humanity — in an alleged attempt to fight against radical Islam. Dallas, Houston and Corpus Christi were among the cities in which the rallies took place.

It has been tradition for many extremist “pro-American” advocacy groups to rally against what they perceive to be anti-American, often with guns and American paraphernalia to symbolize their efforts. According to a recent Gallup poll, protests are something that many Muslim com-munities have been seeing lately, especially with the recent rise in Islamophobia in America.

The largest religious group other than Chris-tianity in the state of Texas is Islam, according to the 2010 U.S. Religion Census, with a fair amount of Muslim students within the UT system. UT has diverse student voices and activism, but in-troducing campus carry would discourage Mus-lim students and other minority voices from ex-pressing views properly due to fear-mongering.

“The reason why they use guns during these protests is to instill fear in the Muslim commu-nity,” Omair Siddiqi, outreach coordinator for the DFW chapter for Council on American-Is-lamic Relations, said. “We are seeing an increase

in Islamophobic rhetoric from elected officials, therefore more ‘patriots’ are using guns to add to their statements of hate.”

Hate crime against Muslims is still five times as common today as it was prior to 9/11 — it is the second highest rate of hate crimes in America. These hate crimes are constantly on the news. Notable crimes occurred in Chapel Hill, Dallas and Houston — all of which have resulted in gun violence. As the number of places that allow guns increases, especially in an environment like UT, there will be an increase in acts of Islamophobia.

“I think that the idea of access to guns in rela-tion to Muslim students and their safety increas-es the state of uncomfortability on campus,” said Omar Salim, Vice President of UT’s Muslim Stu-dents Association and architecture senior. “It’s a challenge to approach racial tension and bigotry, and increasing the possibility of people to have access to places with guns increases the risk of identifying Muslim on campus.,”

Although the campus carry legislation only af-fects students 21 years or older with a concealed carry license, it does become impetus for the pos-sibility of being a racial minority and identifying as Muslim as dangerous. The growing rate of Is-lamophobia, paired with lenient gun policies, has seen to be dangerous for Muslims everywhere else in the country. There should be no reason why the same pattern will occur right here at UT.

Choudhury is an economics freshman from Dallas.

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COLUMN

High prices of guns place power with the wealthy

Many argue that gun culture in America dates all the way back to the country’s colonial begin-nings. After all, in the 18th century, it was the American Long Rifle that helped us fend off the British in the Revolutionary War. The Spencer Repeating Rifle was used by the Union in the Civil War. Former U.S. President Teddy Roos-evelt was seen donning the famous Winchester Rifle in many of his portraits.

The prevalence of guns both now and in the past has created an idea that those with the guns have the power, and the objective of SB 11 is to put the power back into the hands of the stu-dents. It’s a win-win for everyone, right?

Wrong. Just because a Senate bill makes it legal to

carry guns around campus doesn’t necessarily mean that everyone will. In fact, many of them can’t — not because of legal issues, but because of financial issues.

Guns aren’t cheap. Buying a gun typically costs around $500, a price not everyone can afford. In addition to buying guns, Concealed Handgun Licenses cost about $140. This means

not everyone will be able to own a gun, and the ones who will often will come from a back-ground of means.

This isn’t just a hypothetical scenario. In a study by the College of Williams and Mary, only 32 percent of people in Colonial America from poorer backgrounds owned guns, while 70 per-cent of individuals from richer backgrounds owned guns. Power in itself derives from the idea of control, and so long as guns can control peo-ple, the rich are the only ones who have power.

How does this affect life on campus, though? In a world where guns are power, students with-out guns find themselves in a situation where they are defenseless and powerless. In fear of get-ting shot or a gun pulled on them, students with-out guns may not voice their opinions against someone who may have a gun — essentially limiting their First Amendment rights.

This problem escalates tremendously when race is taken into account. Race becomes a ma-jor factor when determining wealth and, subse-quently, who has access to guns. According to the Pew Research Center, wealth inequality has wid-ened along racial lines, illustrating the fact that white individuals are wealthier than non-white individuals. Pew, in 2014, found that 41 percent of white individuals have guns, while only 19 per-

cent of black individuals have guns. While there may be other factors that dictate why guns are more prevalent among white individuals, one of the biggest factors is definitely wealth.

At UT-Austin, a school with 45 percent white students and only 4 percent black students, more probable than not, guns are going to be in the

hands of white students, and racial division will be perpetuated.

The foundation of our entire country predi-cates on this notion that all men are created equal. So long as these systemic biases exist, we’re not doing justice to the ideals we embody.

Syed is a biochemistry freshman from Houston.

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Greek life is often put under the spotlight for instances of racism. However, organi-zations directly affiliated with UT are also plagued by it. Spirit groups, the University’s official student organizations, were estab-lished to support and better the University and the Austin community. Despite the pres-sure of upholding their esteemed reputa-tions, racism against members has wiggled its way in. It is now the responsibility of the students, organizations and the university to get it out.

Isaiah Carter, government sophomore and a member of Texas Wranglers, said that al-though spirit groups are held to higher stan-dards of conduct, he still experiences racism.

“‘You’re not really black’ or ‘you don’t act black’ is something I hear a lot in my organiza-tions,” Carter said. “Frankly, there is no worse insult. That is a form of racism that I experi-ence often. What that means is ‘you do not fit the negative stereotypes that I put on black people,’ … ‘you’re smart, and I do not expect that,’ ‘you are articulate; I do not expect that. ’”

Racism within spirit groups is not always violent or aggressive. It’s usually framed as micro-aggressions — in jokes, cultural ap-propriation or unassuming comments.

“Nobody has ever called me any ra-cial slurs. Just stereotype jokes like ‘smile, where are you, it’s dark outside,’” said Alex Denney, a Texas Wranglers member and economics senior.

Subtlety doesn’t dilute the pain, discom-fort or harm racism causes students. And

while many members don’t realize they’re being racist, some don’t have an understand-ing of what jokes or actions are inappropriate and why. This is fixable through education.

“In my spirit group, I’ve heard ignorant comments, but I’ve been quick to educate the person on why their commentary was inappropriate,” said Christine Nbemeneh, a member of Texas Royals and government and public relations senior.

Education also needs to be paired with outreach. The spirit organizations oftentimes solely interact with other spirit organizations, sororities and fraternities, many of which are predominantly white.

“Spirit community is more diverse, but [minority] numbers are still small. They don’t engage with minority students,” said Carissa Weber, a Texas Spirit and mathe-matics senior. “It’s easy to say that the num-bers are small because the majority of UT is white. But we need to take more respon-sibility to reach out to minorities. We need to not be passive but actively try to engage with those communities.”

Just reaching out to communities of colors will help students learn about, understand and fight racism.

However, this fight is not just students’ responsibility. The University does not have strong consequences for or guidelines against racism. The student handbook de-fines discrimination but neglects to define racism. UT needs to spell out what a racist act is and develop firm policies against it so when racism happens, people of color will be protected by the System.

Maria Kroeger is a human relations senior from Corpus Christi.

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Selena Gomez is all grown up — at least, that’s what she’s trying to prove on her latest album, Revival, released Friday.

For Gomez, the transition from Disney Channel actress to full-fledged pop sensation has been gradual but undeniable. Although the former “Wiz-ards of Waverly Place” starlet avoided the shock tactics of fel-low Disney alums such as Mi-ley Cyrus and Britney Spears, Gomez has seen her share of media scrutiny.

Criticism of her very public relationship with Justin Bieber and her recent weight gain in tabloids and from Internet gos-sipers fuel lyrics throughout the album. “Rise,” a positive-attitude anthem with a chorus reminiscent of Ellie Goulding, features lyrics such as, “The Earth can pull you down with all its gravity/And the measure of your worth is sometimes hard to see.” After almost a de-cade in the public eye, it’s no

wonder the 23-year-old is al-ready in need of a “revival.”

At its best, songs such as the album’s title track let Gomez simmer over a relaxed groove, while downplaying her vocal shortcomings. However, the record’s more disappointing moments — such as the bland “Survivors” — can’t overcome weak lyrics and overt attempts to make an artistic statement.

The most blatant examples of Gomez’s artistic overreach-ings are the album’s spoken-word interludes. The first ten seconds of the LP feature her saying, “I dive into the future/But I’m blinded by the sun/I’m reborn in every moment/So who knows what I’ll become.” Although these moments were likely intended to come across as inspiring, they wind up sounding more pretentious than poetic.

The album’s first single, the A$AP Rocky-assisted “Good For You,” builds on Gomez’s momentum from last year’s chilled-out smash “The Heart Wants What It Wants.” With its sexed-up and breathy vo-

cals, the tune also serves as a jumping-off point for what the singer’s signature sound should be.

For her first release since leaving Disney-owned Holly-wood Records, Gomez worked with a slew of producers and hitmakers to attempt to cre-ate her own distinct style. In-stead of developing an origi-nal sound, however, she crafts songs that borrow heavily from other current artists.

The most notable of these producers is Max Martin, the Swede behind Taylor Swift’s “Blank Space.” Martin’s stamp on the radio-ready “Hands To Myself” elevates the song by re-lying on an infectious beat in-stead of depending on Gomez’s vocals. It’s a model that works again on the catchy, danceable “Me & the Rhythm” and less so on “Kill Em With Kindness,” which overuses a stale, whistled hook to carry the song.

Gomez collaborated with Charli XCX for the album’s second single, “Same Old Love.” The single, which is one of the best songs on the

record, features backing vo-cals from Charli, as well as a songwriting assist. As a result, it sounds like it would be more at home on Charli’s album than Gomez’s.

Overall, Revival excels in establishing Gomez’s sound. In her first release as execu-tive producer, Gomez makes stylistic choices that suit her. Mid-tempo rhythms and a laid-back approach set Gomez apart from recent, over-the-top pop divas. But Gomez’s em-phasis on creating a serious, adult pop album keeps the re-cord from reaching its poten-tial as a collection of modern pop anthems.

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Heard, Swoopes spark Texas offenseThere’s never been a

question about the rela-tionship between redshirt freshman quarterback Jer-rod Heard and junior quar-terback Tyrone Swoopes. Each is the other’s biggest fan — even when they compete for playing time.

“Both of those guys are each other’s best ally, best friend,” quarterbacks coach Shawn Watson said. “They help each other out. They push each other. They love competing with one another. When somebody makes a big play, the first guy down there is whoever was out.”

Heard and Swoopes don’t just have a good rap-port in the locker room — the two quarterbacks compliment each other on the field, too. Heard emerged as the team’s pri-mary field general after displaying mature deci-sion-making and big-play ability. Swoopes found a role picking up short yard-age in a personally tailored “jumbo package.”

Now, the two-quarter-back offense is paying off. The duo produced all five of Texas’ offensive touch-downs in the last three games, three of which came from Swoopes’ short-yard-age package. As the two quarterbacks keep finding success, their confidence continues to rise.

“Both of those guys — they play with some confi-dence,” head coach Charlie

Strong said. “[Watson] has done a great job of giv-ing them confidence and building them up.”

The system’s success thrives from the two quar-terbacks’ varying styles and physical tools. A speedster at six-foot-two-inches, 195 pounds, Heard is a dual-threat quarter-back. He’s made a monu-mental difference for Tex-as’ offense with his ability to make something out of nothing when plays break down. He also consistently puts balls on target as a

pocket passer.Swoopes, on the other

hand, gives the Longhorns power and versatility. With a six-foot-four-inches, 244-pound frame, he’s dif-ficult to bring down in short yardage. Yet he can still throw when defenses sell out on his running abil-ity. The Sooners fell victim to the latter in their 24-17 loss to Texas on Saturday.

“You know, no, [we didn’t expect Swoopes’ passing touchdown],” Heard said. “But we kept on running that same package with

Swoopes, and we know eventually that after the second time that they were going to load that box. We were just ready for it. It happened, and it turned out great.”

Swoopes’ best contri-butions have come after losing the starting job to Heard earlier this season. He stayed ready despite his demotion and knows the Longhorns can call his number at any moment.

“I was excited,” Swoopes said. “It was just another chance to get on the field

and help the team out.”Each quarterback will

aim to continue boosting the team in his respective role going forward. Strong said any quarterback must win over the locker room to see success this season. Now, it’s safe to say that the team has embraced the two-quarterback system.

“Both [are] great guys, both [are] talented guys and both [are] guys that can help this team,” senior running back Johnathan Gray said. “Hopefully, we can utilize both of them.”

By Ezra Siegel@SiegelEzra

Stephanie Tacy | Daily Texan StaffJunior quarterback Tyrone Swoopes no longer holds the starting quarterback job, but he remains a vital part of the offense. Swoopes had both a passing and rushing touchdown against Oklahoma on Saturday.

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Collins gives Longhorns steady hand on offense

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The setter position on a volleyball team is often over-looked. A big hit, block or hard-earned dig earn loud cheers from a crowd, but the second touch rarely does.

That second touch and the setter who delivered it are crucial parts of a team’s offense.

Junior setter Chloe Col-lins is not only showing Texas fans how important a good setter is — she’s also trans-forming the position into something much bigger.

“I can see a difference in Chloe this season,” senior outside hitter Amy Neal said. “A setter can tell us what to do, and she’s not afraid to. She has been running the court really well and getting the hitters good balls.”

No. 2 Texas slots second in the Big 12 Conference in team hitting percentage, largely because of Collins’ performance. She boasts the fourth-most assists in the conference with 601 and is the primary setter for the Longhorns.

Equivalent to a quarter-back in football, a setter holds play-calling responsibilities on the volleyball court. Col-lins has to make quick deci-sions regarding whom to set up based on an opposing team’s defense. She has to know what kind of set each hitter prefers — a high, arch-ing set or a quick, short set — and be able to execute that set from anywhere on the court.

“We work a lot on our tem-pos with our sets,” head coach Jerritt Elliott said. “One of the things Chloe does well is she feels the speed of [the hitters]. She’s getting really confident in the offense, and her de-fense is much improved.”

Collins’ confidence stems from the experience she’s gained through two and a half seasons with the Long-horns. Her chemistry with the hitters has improved, and she’s found success blocking despite her small figure.

“It falls back on routines, just being consistent and steady,” Collins said. “Know-ing each hitter’s preference and making sure I’m setting it in the right location.”

Although Collins stands at just 5-foot-7-inches, she has the team’s third-highest block total with 33. She has 30 kills on the season, most of them coming from heads-up plays.

As a left-handed setter, Collins can send the ball over the net on a strong hit that defenses aren’t expecting. Her development as an all-around volleyball player has boosted Texas, but Collins credits her strong performances to her team and just wants to see the Longhorns succeed.

“I’m just most excited about how we work together as a team and what we’re ca-pable of,” Collins said. “I’m feeling a lot more confident and comfortable. It allows me to just go out and play and do what I know I can do.”

By Claire Cruz@claireecruz5

Mike McGraw | Daily Texan StaffJunior setter Chloe Collins has been a big part of Texas’ 15-1 run to start the season, averag-ing 10 assists per set and coming up with 30 kills so far this season.

The Texas Longhorns beat the Oklahoma Soon-ers 24-17 on Saturday. As a 17-point underdog, the Longhorns managed to win outright and con-tinued a three-year trend of covering against the Sooners as underdogs.

Talking about college sports and betting lines is a subversive yet routine practice in the United States. With information readily available from ESPN and easy access to daily fantasy sites such as FanDuel and DraftK-ings, sports betting has become mainstream. But concerns about propriety arise when one considers the NCAA’s opposition to all forms of legal and illegal sports wager-ing while the athletes themselves are not paid.

A spike in college sports betting came in the wake of DraftKings’ $250 million advertising deal with ESPN. ESPN made a name for itself by broad-casting college sports, with its first broadcast-ing rights agreement be-ing made with the NCAA. ESPN’s 12-year, $5.64 billon agreement in 2012 with the NCAA to air the College Football Play-off — as well as other conference and team-specific deals such as the Longhorn Network — indicate that ESPN has remained tied to the NCAA.

This history of NCAA and ESPN entanglement has given the network an undue influence over the college sports landscape. The addition of daily fan-tasy sports has further complicated this arrange-ment as ESPN has been encouraged to provide betting lines for nearly

every college football game. So, when ESPN de-cided to provide a “Cover Alert” for a Michigan State-Western Michigan game in Sept. 4, it re-ceived heaps of negative press and commentary from NCAA officials.

Big 12 Conference com-missioner Bob Bowlsby did not approve of ESPN’s new interest in wager-ing, according to a USA Today report.

“I don’t think those are things that ought to be a part of the presentation of college football, but maybe that’s the environ-ment in which we find ourselves,” Bowlsby said.

Wagering on college sports puts into question the lack of compensation for the college athletes who determine the out-come of bets. Although the NCAA continues to peddle amateurism as an ideal and a selling point, it continues to rake in billions of dollars in broadcasting rights deals as a nonprofit organiza-tion. This means NCAA President Mark Emmert can make $1.7 million in 2012, while 2012 Heisman winner Johnny Manziel can earn nothing.

To maintain this hy-pocrisy, the NCAA must avoid sports betting and anything that resembles it. So, the NCAA has offi-cially barred student-ath-letes from participating in any fantasy league games with a paid entry fee.

ESPN’s partnership with DraftKings has mud-dled the college sports landscape. This is why transparency is key. The legalization of sports bet-ting appears to be inevi-table, so the NCAA must develop a plan to pay its athletes and ensure fair play. Purposefully ne-glecting sports betting will not make it go away.

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Jefferson tallied six total tackles, two sacks and two tackles for loss in Texas’ 24-17 win over No.19 Oklahoma on Sat-urday. He was a part of a Longhorn front seven that held the Sooners to just 67 yards rushing and tallied six sacks.

This season Jefferson is second on the team with 37 tackles, two sacks and a recovered fumble for a touchdown.

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it took to launch UT alum-nus Yousef Okasheh into Internet fame.

Okasheh created an online company — Netflix and Chill Condoms — which sells sets of three FDA-approved con-doms packaged in wrappers that read “Netflix and chill.” The business, created Oct. 5, targets people who “Netflix and chill,” a euphemism for sex that has recently gone viral on social media.

“The [Netflix and Chill Con-doms] business is serious, I guess, but the concept is defi-nitely a joke,” Okasheh said. “I tried to make [the website] as jokey as possible.”

The idea hit Okasheh when he saw a meme on the Inter-net last week. Okasheh said the site went live Tuesday and has received 40 orders as of Friday, sparking articles from Fusion, The Daily Dot and a tweet from the CEO of Netflix. Okasheh said he is currently negotiating with a Russian cosmetic distributor to get the condoms in boutiques across Eastern Europe.

The company is not Okasheh’s first step into the business world. He launched the mobile app Who’s Hungry in spring 2014 and a snorkeling tour guide company, Snorkel ATX, this September.

“My true passion is trying out my ideas,” Okasheh said. “I feel like I call my dad every two weeks with a new com-pany idea or a new company actually going. He is used to hearing this.”

Although still in develop-ment, the Who’s Hungry app had a strong start with more than 80 followers on Twitter.

Snorkel ATX, on the other hand, was shut down several weeks after opening because it lacked of proper permits. Okasheh said all his business ventures are attempts at mak-ing temporary income to sup-port himself while he begins to pursue a Ph.D., which he plans to apply for next fall.

UT alumnus Josh Green-field runs the business’s Twitter page with psychology senior Steven Rivas. Greenfield said he accepted Okasheh’s offer

because he thinks the proj-ect is hilarious, and the two worked together in the past on Who’s Hungry.

“I think [the product’s popu-larity] has a lot to do with this millennial generation and how crazy capitalism has gotten,” Greenfield said. “We’re not re-ally taking ourselves seriously with this product. It’s just funny how people latch onto some-thing this ridiculous.”

Students on social media have questioned whether his

idea is legal. Okasheh said he thinks the company is cov-ered under fair use, an excep-tion to copyright laws that protects parodies.

“I typically err on side of risk,” Okasheh said. “If I see on the Internet or in a TV show that [a business idea] may be legitimately protected, I’ll prob-ably just trust it. YOLO.”

Twenty-seven-year-old entrepreneur Kori Williams also created a website selling the same product. Okasheh

said he thinks his own web-site launched first, but it’s hard to tell because they went live around the same time. He said he believes both businesses can continue to peacefully coexist.

Okasheh said he does not consider himself an entrepreneur and that his condom business falls into the e-commerce category, which is typically less re-spected in the business world. As long as it remains a side project and doesn’t

take up too much time, he said he is willing to go wher-ever the business takes him. If he makes enough money to cover a month’s rent, he said he’ll consider it a big success.

“I think it would be fuck-ing hilarious to literally be at a ‘Netflix and chill’ event and whip one of [our con-doms] out,” Okasheh said. “That would be so funny and it makes sense to try and provide that.”

By Katie Walsh@katiehwalsh_atx

Graeme Hamilton | Daily Texan StaffAlumnus Yousef Okasheh founded the online company Netflix and Chill Condoms. The packaging reads “Netflix and Chill,” a euphemism for sex popular on social media.

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