Student Government intro-duced legislation Tuesday op-posing a national bill that would force sexual assault survivors to decide whether to report their as-sault within 48 hours.

H.R. 3403, or the Safe Cam-pus Act, would only allow colleges and universities to in-vestigate allegations of sexual assault if the survivor reports the incident to law enforce-ment within 48 hours of the crime. According to the bill, if

it is not reported immediately to the police, the university has only 15 days to take certain ac-tions such as helping the sur-vivor switch classes or dorms.

Taral Patel, SG chief of staff and co-author of the legislation, said SG members, among oth-ers, decided to write the legis-lation because they think the House bill will discourage sur-vivors of assault from reporting incidents — both because of the short time frame students have to report and because it would limit the University’s ability to help students.

“This legislation would help stifle the voices of many survi-vors who would want to report to the University and would go strongly against the efforts of groups … who are working hard to make sure more stu-dents break free from the stigma created by rape culture,” Patel said. “This skyrockets the level of difficulty for universities to sus-pend or sanction rapists until the incident is reported to the police, charges are pressed, the case is brought to trial and a conclusion

The Construction Indus-try Institute, a research-based group within the Cockrell School of Engi-neering, signed a three-year and $3 million contract working with the Singapore Economic Development Board for better chemical processing facilities.

The project’s lead in-vestigators are Carlos Caldas, professor in the Cockrell School’s Depart-ment of Civil, Architec-tural and Environmental Engineering, and Stephen Mulva, associate direc-tor of Construction In-dustry Institute and as-sociate lecturer in the Cockrell School.

Mulva said UT start-ed working with com-panies in Singapore in spring 2014 and con-tinued its work during summer 2015.

Based on the work Con-struction Industry Institute has done for the last 32 years, Mulva said the team would apply this same initiative in Singapore.

“The objective is to im-prove the productivity of refining processed chemi-cals in Singapore,” Mulva said. “What we mean by productivity is improve the worker productivity in order to use less workers and produce more quanti-ties of work.”

Mulva said Singa-pore is an important re-gion for the refining and

A team of UT scientists have launched a crowd-funding effort for research on what they are calling “supermouse” — a mouse that cannot get drunk.

Jon Pierce-Shimoura, associate professor of neu-roscience, will lead the team of postdoctoral re-searchers, undergraduate and graduate students who will use supermouse to ex-plore possible treatments of alcoholism. UT alumna Angela Ozburn, a profes-sor of behavioral genomics and head of a research lab at Oregon Health and Sci-ence University, will also be involved in the super-mouse project.

Researchers will ma-nipulate what is known as the BK channel in the nervous system, which is responsible for the body’s reaction to alcohol. The

The Alamo Draft-house Cinema began with a couple’s love for movies and their uncon-ventional plan to open a theater with no experi-ence in the industry, ac-cording to founder and CEO Tim League.

League, the first speaker in the Col-lege of Communication Council’s speaker se-ries, discussed Tuesday the origins of the busi-ness, its growth over the last two decades and his role as CEO. The com-pany began with limited experience, manual labor and a very small amount of money, League said. Before founding Alamo Drafthouse, League and his wife, Karrie, lived in California but always wanted to move to Austin.

“We loved Austin, and so we took 200 seats, a projector and a screen

— whatever we could, re-ally — put it in a truck and moved it to Austin,” League said. “We really built it ourselves, and we didn’t have much money. Karrie’s parents mort-gaged the house, my par-ents gave me a loan and we had about $250,000, so we just built The Alamo Drafthouse.”

League and his wife left

their jobs at Shell and a research biology company, respectively, to make a ca-reer out of their passion for movies, which League called a risky move.

“Honestly, I was pretty bold and stupid,” League said. “I think that when you are bold and stupid, you don’t realize how truly

A team of University students, the Guadaloop-ers, is designing a pod to compete in a high-speed rail competition.

The challenge is to bring life to the Hyper-loop, SpaceX’s proposal of a

ground transport vehicle that could take passengers from Los Angeles to San Francis-co in 30 minutes by travel-ing at transonic speeds. The competition will accelerate the development of a proto-type and encourage student innovation, according to Ari Garcia, aerodynamics team leader and aerospace

engineering and physics graduate student.

The high-speed rail has the potential to advance U.S. in-frastructure, said James Mc-Ginniss, team leader and me-chanical engineering masters and Ph.D student.

“I find it frustrating that

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petrochemical hub in Asia. However, because of the country’s small size, the number of workers allowed on the projects is limited.

“In order to get a lot of construction work done, they are reliant on workers from other countries,” Mulva said. “So it’s making it even more crowded. The government puts a limit on the number of workers you can have on a construction project. To low-er the cost of projects, they want to limit the number of foreign workers.”

According to a University press release, the research team will come up with proposals for measurement and management across 15 pilot projects and will share knowledge through annual workshops.

“The research findings will give Singapore’s petro-chemical industry a clear sense of where it stands globally, in terms of pro-ductivity, and they will set the stage for its improve-ment,” Caldas said in the press release.

inconceivable your plans are. But I wanted to model what we think the life cy-cle of the human being re-ally is. There’s birth, then a lot of really great movies and then death.”

Communication stud-ies sophomore Sara Leon-ard arranged the event. She said the speaker se-

ries was in need of a guest from the film industry to attract radio-television-film students to the event, which Leonard said led to League’s appearance.

“We have always lacked a lot of radio-television-film speakers,” Leonard said. “I really wanted to try and find someone that could relate to this major. I’ve heard he is a really great and candid speaker,

so I reached out to him.”Public relations ju-

nior Avery Fazende said League was surprisingly honest about how he draws from the ideas of others to make Alamo Drafthouse unique.

“I loved that honesty,” Fazende said. “Because it’s a fact that there are really no truly original ideas, and, as a CEO, he was so honest about that.”

original research, now used by Pierce-Shimo-mura in upper-level neurogenetics classes, is successful in preventing worms from experienc-ing the effects of alco-hol. Researchers hope their supermouse will produce the same posi-tive results.

“Sure, the mouse can’t get drunk, but it’s a lot bigger than that,” Wil-liam Shawlot, mouse genetic engineering fa-cility director, said. “In humans, alcoholism is a vicious cycle. Mak-ing a drug to prevent withdrawals would have huge ramifications for addiction treatments.”

The supermouse team launched their crowd-funding campaign Oct. 21 through the UT fun-draising site Horn Rais-er. Donors can make

contributions through Nov. 20. According to Pierce-Shimomura, su-permouse research is different because it only costs $12,000 to finance, whereas typical research projects can cost hun-dreds of thousands of dollars per year.

“We felt that it was im-portant for supermouse to be born in Texas and supported by the UT community,” Pierce-Shi-momura said. “Rather than buy a six-pack of beer this weekend, if 1,600 UT students do-nated the same amount of money to supermouse, we would be on our way to making an amazing scientific discovery.”

Researchers hope the supermouse project will advance the field of alcohol withdrawal treatments. Pierce-Shimomura said cur-rent treatments mimic the sedative effects of

alcohol and are often in-effective methods of ad-diction treatment.

Positive results from the supermouse project would eventually lead to a drug development for humans that would re-duce the effects of with-drawal and ideally, pres-ent patients a smoother road to sobriety.

“Withdrawal is the perfect point of inter-vention for breaking the cycle of alcohol abuse,” Luisa Scott, UT research associate and supermouse team mem-ber, said. “Research supports the idea that minimizing the physi-ological and psycho-logical discomfort of withdrawal helps re-duce chances of relapse. Hopefully, supermouse research will result in treatments that provide support and guidance to patients experienc-ing withdrawal.”

the United States, a progres-sive and innovative country, doesn’t have any high-speed rail,” McGinnis said. “We have the technology, the re-sources and the demand to build a high-speed rail, and yet we have failed to do so.”

The team will present a preliminary design in No-vember. If its proposal pass-es, the team will progress to the next two phases: design and build. Teams will pres-ent a formal design at Texas A&M University in Janu-ary, but the Guadaloopers’ ultimate goal is to reach the final round, where they will

build the pod and test it at a SpaceX test track in June.

The pod design is challeng-ing because it is up to the stu-dents to continue the original idea of the Hyperloop, Mc-Ginnis said. The team estimat-ed its pod will cost $12,675.

“There are numerous challenges involved in the actual design, as it’s an un-proven concept. The [pro-posal of the Hyperloop] was by no means comprehen-sive.” McGinnis said. “On top of that, we are looking to find funding. So, there are a lot of big challenges, but that’s really the fun of it.”

Electrical engineering graduate student Vik Part-hiban said he expects con-

struction on the new trans-portation system to begin early next summer.

“The track is being built as we speak, and as soon as the designs are presented in June, the project will be set in mo-tion,” Pathiban said. “I defi-nitely see the project running within the next five years.”

McGinnis said the Hyper-loop project will have a substan-tial impact on transportation.

“Imagine being able to get between major cities like San Francisco and LA in 30 minutes, instead of 8 hours,” McGinnis said. “It would change the way people live by allowing them to commute from far greater distances.”

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to the case is reached.” The Safe Campus Act is

backed by the Fraternity and Sorority Political Action Com-mittee (FSPAC), a national lob-byist committee.

Lee Lueder, business senior and president of UT’s Interfra-ternity Council, said he supports the action taken by SG against the bill and called the name of the bill — Safe Campus Act — ironic because he thinks it would not keep anyone on campus safe.

“I can speak on behalf of the IFC to say that we are not associat-ed with whoever is funding it, we are not making any contributions, and we definitely don’t make con-tributions to the FratPAC,” Lueder said. “It is embarrassing from a public-perspective standpoint that a group, which on the face of it represents fraternities, is the one that is backing it.”

Rachel Osterloh, president of the Senate of College Council and co-author of the legislation, said she hopes SG’s legislation will send

the message that students are not okay with the Safe Campus Act.

“As a campus community, we have a moral obligation to pro-tect our survivors of sexual as-sault,” Osterloh said. “The rates of reporting sexual assault are low. By mandating that survivors of assault report to the police in addition to their university, it re-stricts the survivors’ options for reporting on their own terms.”

Patel said the legislation cites recent results from the Associa-tion of American Universities’ sexual assault survey in order to give explain why the House Bill should be an important is-sue to students.

Patel said if the resolution is passed, it will be sent to Uni-versity officials. Patel said he hopes this bill will impact the University’s stance on the con-troversial legislation.

“A lot of organizations and communities at UT and across the nation support going against this bill called the Safe Campus Act, because it truly doesn’t seem to make campus safe,” Patel said.

A crowd of 50 students gathered Tuesday at the San Jacinto Amphitheatre to sup-port survivors of relationship violence as they shared their experiences.

Laramie Gorbett, who works with survivors of rela-tionship violence, and spoke at the event and said she has experienced relation-ship and domestic violence in her own partnerships and also witnessed abusers hurt her mother throughout her childhood.

“I was in a situation where I could leave, where I could shut the door and change the locks,” Gorbett said. “I know that not everyone is that lucky, so I tell you my story tonight to remind you that nobody is immune, that we are all survi-vors, and that we all have the power to grow and to heal.”

The survivors spoke as part of UT Voices Against Vio-lence’s annual “Breaking the Si-lence” event to commemorate Relationship Violence Preven-tion Month. The event aims to provide a safe place for survi-vors to share their stories and give advice to those in need.

“It’s a space where there’s a community of support, a community where people are going to believe folks who make the very brave choice to

come forward and share what is often some of the most dif-ficult experiences of a young person’s life,” Erin Burrows, health education coordinator for VAV said.

The event included perfor-mances from VAV’s Theatre for Dialogue class, UT’s aca-pella group Ransom Notes

and South Austin poet Kevin Burke. Several audience mem-bers shared their experiences with relationship violence at an open mic set up by VAV.

The event also showcased an interactive art installation called the Visual Voice Project, which featured numerous pur-ple cards, etched with stories

of relationship violence vic-tims under the age of 30 who died last year, hung on pieces of string around the amphi-theater. Audience members could also write positive mes-sages on heart-shaped cutouts and hang them adjacent to the project.

“The Visual Voice Proj-

ect is just an opportunity for people to express themselves who aren’t walking up to that open mic,” Burrows said. “For survivors, they’re here to con-nect with people, they want to express themselves.”

Psychology freshman James Ener said he came to the event to see his roommate’s

boyfriend share his experience.“I’ve been in two relation-

ships myself, and I’ve been cheated on in both of them,” Ener said. “I haven’t been harmed in any sort of way, but I have been emotion-ally harmed, which I feel is similar, and so it hits home with me.”

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An extinct species of turtle made its way to the present when a student began study-ing its remnants, only to dis-cover the reptile was unlike any turtle ever found — it had a nose similar to that of a pig.

Geological doctorate stu-dent Joshua Lively started working on the specimen as part of his master’s thesis at the University of Utah. The research paper was published in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology on Oct. 21.

Lively said because the pig-nosed turtle was found only in southern Utah at the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, the discovery confirmed ob-servations made in the past 20 years that turtles roamed only in northern and southern America dur-ing the Cretaceous period, approximately 76 million years ago.

“One of the highlights of this animal is that it’s so different from other tur-tles,” Lively said. “It doesn’t look like a normal turtle. It looks like it has a pig’s nose, and that’s where the name came from.”

Lively said this spe-cies of turtle is uncom-mon because it has two

bony nostrils, unlike other turtles with only one nose opening and no division. But like other discoveries, the pig-nosed turtle is given a scientific name, Arvinach-elys goldeni. “Arvinachelys,” consists of arvina, which means pig fat or bacon, and chelys, which means tortoise or turtle. The second part, goldeni, is named after Jerry Golden, a volunteer who prepares fossils. The literal translation would be “golden bacon tortoise,” according to Lively.

Lively’s thesis supervi-sor, Randall Irmis, cura-tor of paleontology at the National History Museum of Utah and associate pro-fessor at the University of Utah, said they were able

to find most of the turtle skeleton’s skull and shell to-gether, which allowed for a clear picture of the turtle’s anatomy, but Irmis said it was difficult to analyze the fossils because they were filled with rock.

“What Josh did was

he CT-scanned the skull, that is, digitally removing the rock to see inside the skull,” Irmis said. “That’s something that the Uni-versity of Texas at Austin is famous for.”

Lively said the fos-sils are now deposited

at the National History Museum of Utah as a col-lection to be displayed in future exhibits.

Studio art senior Hill-ary Minne first learned about the discovery when she took Lively’s class called Age of Dinosaurs in

summer 2015.“[When the paper was

published,] I saw it trending on Facebook and emailed ev-eryone in our class, ‘Hey, this is what he talked about in class!’” Minne said. “It was the best grade I’ve ever received in science.”

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UT student researcher discovers extinct pig-nosed turtle species

By Forrest Milburn@forrestmilburn

By Eunice Ali@euniceali

Rachel Zein | Daily Texan StaffGeosciences doctoral student Joshua Lively discovered the fossil of an extinct species of turtle while performing field research in southern Utah. The turtle, which was not known to have existed prior to Lively’s discovery, was named for its unique pig-like snout.

Jesús NazarioDaily Texan Staff

Psychol-ogy sophomore Sonia Uthuph volunteered at Breaking the Silence, an event hosted by Voices Against Violence on Tuesday. The event is held every year as part of Rela-tionship Vio-lence Preven-tion Month and aims to provide a safe place for survivors to share their sto-ries and receive support.

What Josh did was he CT-scanned the skull, that is, digitally remov-ing the rock to see inside the skull. That’s something that the University of Texas at Austin is famous for.

—Randall Irmis,National History Museum of Utah

curator of paleontology

When applying for college, prospective stu-dents are asked the dreaded question: “What’s your intended major?” Before even truly ex-periencing the subject matter, students are ex-pected to choose a major that will define their next four years. UT should encourage students not to declare a major until the end of their freshman year, after they have sampled poten-tial majors and found their favorite.

Choosing a major should be no worry — one can easily change majors, and statistics show a tenuous connection between ma-jor and career. Studies show that 75 percent of students change their major at least once and the average student changes their major three times. On top of that, it is estimated that only 27 percent of college graduates work in a job directly related to their undergraduate degree. If students are so indecisive about majors anyway, it’s detrimental to have them declare a major before even entering college.

Currently, there is a stigma around being undeclared in college. But there’s absolutely no reason to be ashamed of being undeclared — in fact, it’s probably a smarter decision. Un-declared students can survey various subjects without the pressure of organizing a schedule around future, major-specific classes. They

can decide to major in English instead of biol-ogy upon learning that medical schools don’t require a specific major. They can take classes on particular interests and discern whether that interest fits them.

In an article for The New York Times, au-thor Jeffrey Selingo speaks of the importance of finding the major that fits the student. He gives an example of a journalist he knows who says most of his coworkers are not journalism majors, but their commonality is that they “all majored in what [they] were interested in.”

However, declaring late or changing majors could lead to more years spent in school. UT is strongly pushing four-year graduation, and another year adds extra costs in tuition, thus the appeal of choosing a major and sticking with it. David Spight, UT’s assistant dean for advising, dispels this myth by pointing to the

lack of correlation between changing majors and four-year graduation rates.

“Whether someone starts with a major they keep or not is not really that important in terms of whether a student graduates on time or not,” Spight said.

Colleges should encourage students not to

declare a major before they’re ready. The em-phasis should be on finding what major you love and experiencing what college has to of-fer — both of which are better achieved by having students wait to declare their major.

Bordelon is a philosophy sophomore from Houston.

Illustration by Victoria Smith | Daily Texan Staff

What was Hillary Clinton’s greatest ac-complishment as secretary of state?

If you were unable to answer that ques-tion, you’re not alone — Clinton herself has repeatedly been unable to do so.

At the second Republican debate, Carly Fiorina said, “If you want to stump a Dem-ocrat, ask them to name an accomplish-ment of Hillary Clinton.” When CNN’s Wolf Blitzer subsequently asked Clinton in an interview to name her “No. 1 accom-plishment as secretary of state,” she avoided the question, instead mentioning how Re-publicans didn’t discuss certain issues dur-ing the debate.

Clinton’s turbulent tenure as secretary of state should make Democrats think twice about supporting her.

The push for a “Russian reset” only wors-ened the relationship between the United States and Russia. And the withdrawal of troops from Iraq enabled the rise of ISIS.

And then there’s Benghazi.According to her recently released

emails, Clinton was warned of the poor se-curity facing the consulate prior to the at-tack and did nothing to strengthen it.

And in the days following the attack, Clinton repeatedly blamed it on an anti-Islamic YouTube video. Yet in an email sent less than 24 hours after the attack, she said, “We know that the attack in Libya had nothing to do with the film. It was a planned attack, not a protest.”

Ashley Alcantara, communications di-rector for University Democrats and Plan II and government junior, said partisanship has played a role in the investigation.

“Voters should look at these events more as efforts by certain Republicans to bring Clinton down and less as a reflection on Clinton’s qualifications,” Alcantara said.

Even if these are attempts “to bring Clin-ton down,” Clinton grossly mismanaged the situation, which led to the deaths of four Americans.

In addition to Clinton’s inexcusable for-eign policy blunders, her history of flip-flopping on the issues makes her unfit for the presidency, according to finance sopho-more Robert Guerra, communications di-rector for College Republicans.

“The former secretary has consistently demonstrated a pattern of changing her views at politically advantageous times,” Guerra said. “For many, this history makes it difficult to believe that she will follow through on the promises she has

campaigned on.”In the past, Clinton has been against gay

marriage, supported the Second Amend-ment and stood behind her vote to declare war against Iraq. Today, she tells a different story on these issues.

There are plenty of candidates with ridiculous

foreign policy positions, such as forcing Mexico to build a wall along the border. What makes Clinton unqualified, in addition to her tenden-cy to flip-flop, is her history of ridiculous for-eign policy failures.

Ethier is a journalism freshman from Westport, Connecticut.

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Safe Campus Act endangers assault victims

While UT students have been fighting sexual assault through efforts like Not On My Campus, Texas representatives in the U.S. House have written legislation to make that fight much more difficult.

The Safe Campus Act, sponsored by Matt Salmon (R-Arizona), Pete Sessions (R-Texas) and Kay Granger (R-Texas), would cripple university administrators’ abilities to discipline students who break univer-sity codes of conduct on sexual assault and rape in the name of expanding the rights of those accused. If passed, the bill would require that victims sign a written request that local law enforcement press charges within 48 hours of their assault for any uni-versity to open its own investigation.

Last night, Student Government intro-duced a resolution declaring its opposition to the Safe Campus Act. Hayley Cook, co-author and university-wide representative, said this legislation is key to showing that UT takes sexual assault, and the well-being of its victims, seriously.

“Most people I know do not report it to the police,” Cook said. “The only step they can feel comfortable taking is going to their university.”

The hard data backs up her claims. Studies and interviews repeatedly find that victims do not trust law enforcement to do them justice. Only 5 percent of attempted campus rapes

are reported to police, and only 18 percent of those reports resulted in a conviction. Consid-ering the massive social stigma victims face when they do report, it is no wonder that re-porting is as low as it is.

Not On My Campus is among at least 28 anti-sexual assault movements on campuses across the country that have worked to coun-teract this stigma. The campaign has stated its opposition to the bill, citing experiences with victims who felt the police “punished [them] more than their perpetrator,” which can lower the number of reported rapes.

What makes this process all the more dis-turbing is that it is being pushed by the Fra-ternity and Sorority Political Action Com-mittee. The group, better known as FratPAC, ostensibly exists to “protect the fraternal ex-perience.” The group recently hired former Senate minority whip Trent Lott to lobby for the bill. Lott resigned from his Senate lead-ership position after praising segregationist Strom Thurmond, and has since represented Goldman Sachs and Shell.

The group’s efforts are troublingly ironic. Research has shown that sorority women en-counter sexual assault at four times the rate non-sorority women do. While the group claims to represent Greek women, its actions seek to make their lives more dangerous.

Fraternity and sorority members across the nation have been speaking out against the bill. Finance senior Lee Lueder, UT In-terfraternity Council president, called the group’s actions “embarrassing” and said he

does not support the legislation.“Sexual assault is the biggest issue for us,”

Lueder said. “More red tape makes it harder to get anything done.”

National fraternity leaders who are wor-ried about their organizations’ reputations on sexual assault would be wise to follow Lueder’s lead. They should be working to address rape culture, rather than making

the issue harder to tackle by artificially de-flating the numbers of crimes reported.

What is clear is that the Safe Campus Act will make colleges less safe. While we can take pride in our University’s progress in combating sexual assault, their work could be destroyed unless this bill fails.

Chase is a Plan II and economics sopho-more from Royse City.

By Alexander ChaseDaily Texan Columnist

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Briana Vargas | Daily Texan StaffStudent Government representatives Hayley Cook (left) and Jenny McGinty (center) and Grace Gilker (right), Women’s Resource Agency director, discuss AR 14 on Oct. 27.

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UT should push students to wait before declaring major

Clinton’s past makes her poor presidential candidate

Currently, there is a stigma around being undeclared in college. But there’s absolutely no reason to be ashamed of being undeclared — in fact, it’s pobably a smarter decision.

The value of college has traditionally lain in its breadth — in its ability to ex-pose students, regardless of their majors, to a wide range of disciplines and ideas. However, college is seem-ingly becoming an endeavor of narrower and narrower purpose, in which students feel pressured to study fields with high career prospects, rather than subjects they’re passionate about.

One business sopho-more, who asked to re-main anonymous, said he chose his current academic path because of the job se-curity a business degree from UT provides. He said while he now feels more comfortable about post-graduation job prospects, his coursework leaves him feeling unfulfilled.

“I’m a big reader, so if I could, I would probably be studying literature or some-thing in that vein,” he said. “But my parents expect me to make money, and know-ing about Dickens won’t re-ally do that for me.”

Many students think the best part of college is its facilitation of intellectual exploration, but the pres-sure to study within high-paying fields can hamper this process.

Jaclyn Kachelmeyer, a Plan II and geography se-nior, said she finds herself at the intersection of these du-eling pressures. As she nears

graduation, Kachelmeyer said she is unsure what ca-reer path to pursue.

“I know the formula for financial comfort,” Kachel-meyer said. “You major in finance or something lu-crative like that, and you’re set for life. But I can’t bring myself to study something I don’t love. It’s sad that we can basically be penalized for that.”

The merit of an under-graduate degree appears to be increasingly tied to its sheer economic value. Ac-cording to a recent report by the American Council of Trustees and Alumni, over 80 percent of colleges don’t require students to take any history or foreign language courses. Even as university core curricula decline, the value of a college educa-tion in the job market con-tinues to rise. Some Texas universities, including UT-Arlington, have begun of-fering $10,000 bachelor’s degrees that skimp on broad core requirements.

The existence of these de-grees raises the questions of whether college has become little more than a pre-pro-fessional requirement and whether this leaves students such as Kachelmeyer — who study what they love rather than what engen-ders job opportunities — at a disadvantage.

For many, such as eco-nomics and computer sci-ence senior Corey Mon-real-Jackson, it becomes necessary to set passions aside for something more practical. Despite Monreal-Jackson’s dream to one day write novels and compose music, he is currently pur-suing a career in financial analysis. Monreal-Jackson said concerns about his eco-nomic well-being played a part in that decision.

“It’s disheartening in a

sense, because it would be nice to pursue my pas-sion and study what I care about,” Monreal-Jackson said. “But at the same time, I know that the odds of go-ing to a conservatory and getting really good at an in-strument isn’t all that high.”

Monreal-Jackson’s expe-rience is not unique. Ac-cording to the National Center for Education Sta-tistics, up to 80 percent of students change their major at least once during their college career. The deci-sion to pursue one career over another is perhaps the most important one college students make, but it is not clear whether universities give students the necessary tools to make these deci-sions properly.

A landmark study by soci-ologists Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa showed criti-cal thinking skills among college students improve little between freshman year and graduation. Meanwhile, the importance of another metric — employability — has risen to ever-greater heights. Kachelmeyer said she questions this trend.

“Why do we value what we value?” Kachelmeyer said. “Why is it that a poet is worth less than a banker?”

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You major in finance or something lucrative like that, and you’re set for life. But I can’t bring my-self to study something I don’t love. It’s sad that we can basically be penalized for that.

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Students weigh passions against professions

Former 2013 first-round draft pick Kenny Vaccaro is on pace for a career high in tackles this season. During the Saints’ victory over the Colts on Sunday, Vaccaro re-corded five tackles, including his first sack of the season. Just six games into the season, Vaccaro has already totaled 44

tackles. With nine games to go, Vaccaro expects to surpass his previous marks of 74 tack-les in 2014 and 79 in 2013.

Vaccaro attributes much of his recent success to over-coming a rash of injuries. At the end of his rookie season, Vaccaro injured his ankle. He returned to the field four months later for what was con-sidered a year-and-a-half-long recovery process. The injury continued to bother Vaccaro for months, and in his first game of 2014, Vaccaro tore his hamstring. He then suffered a quad injury that was never officially reported and con-tinued to trouble him through the season.

“I’m one of those guys that’s going to be hard to sit on the

bench,” Vaccaro said. “I’m go-ing to play through any type of injury so I can be on the field.”

Vaccaro played safety for the Longhorns from 2009 to 2012. His brother Kevin, now a Texas safety, has 15 tackles this season. Kenny Vaccaro was a defensive captain at Texas alongside Alex Okafor. He was also a first-team All-American his senior year.

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WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

Basketball brings together Johnson family On Mar. 5, 2011, Emily

Johnson scored eight points and tallied four assists in the UIL 5A Texas state champion-ships. As the buzzer sounded, finalizing Georgetown’s 74-51 loss to Irving MacArthur, Em-ily took in the crowd of 8,937 one last time. The then-high school senior wondered if she’d ever play at the Frank Erwin Center again.

Emily grew up 30 miles away from the Erwin Center and attended many games there with her family. Her mom, dad and brother are all UT alumni. But Emily’s dream to play college basketball took her nearly 1,000 miles away to Colorado State.

After two years as a Ram, Emily needed a change.

“There was a coaching change, and it became a re-ally unhealthy place for me to be in terms of basketball,” Emily said.

Emily transferred and be-came the fourth member of her family to attend UT, but her basketball future was still undecided.

“I didn’t know if I wanted to play anymore,” Emily said. “I knew that if you play here you can’t be half in — you have to be all in.”

She found a compromise and joined the team as a manager in the fall of 2014.

While she had considered walking on, Emily began to take these considerations more seriously over winter break. She wanted to follow in her mother’s footsteps.

Debbie Johnson, Em-ily’s mother, walked on to the 1983–1984 women’s basketball team and played under hall-of-fame coach Jody Conradt.

One day at practice, head coach Karen Aston asked Emily why she wasn’t playing anymore.

“I didn’t have a good an-swer, and she said they would love to have me on the team,” Emily said. “I guess she could tell I didn’t completely suck.”

Emily proved Aston right the first time she suited up.

“They were all like, ‘It’s about time, Emily,’ and, ‘Took you long enough,’” Emily said.

Emily said her mother nev-er persuaded her to transfer to UT or walk on, but Debbie said she was happy that her daughter did.

“I was excited and obviously quite proud, as having an op-portunity to play at one of the

most successful and tradition-strong universities is a bless-ing,” Debbie said.

Emily has yet to play her first game in burnt orange and white. But Emily and her mother will share the bond of Texas basketball forever.

“This is cool,” Emily said. “I’m kind of ‘like mother, like daughter,’ in a sense.”

Rachel Zein | Daily Texan StaffAfter two seasons at Colorado State University, senior Emily Johnson transferred to UT prior to the 2014 season. Johnson became the fourth member of her family to attend UT, including her mother Debbie, who walked onto the program in 1983.

By Jasmine C. Johnson@AllThatJasss

FOOTBALL

Texas wide receiver coach and play-caller Jay Norvell and redshirt freshman quar-terback Jerrod Heard ad-dressed concerns over Tex-as’ mediocre passing over its last two games at Tuesday’s press conference.

Each said he’s confident in the team’s passing game.

Here are three takeaways from Norvell and Heard’s media address:

Longhorns see offensive improvement coming

Texas had its way run-ning the ball in its wins over Oklahoma and Kan-sas State, but the Long-horns’ passing game has been lackluster.

Heard only threw for 152 yards in his past two starts, but Heard believes Texas’ running ability will help the passing attack.

“There’s definitely going to be some big shots com-ing up,” Heard said. “Ev-eryone thinking we’re go-ing to run first, so it’s going to open up some lanes for our receivers.”

Norvell believes the Longhorns can bounce back in the passing game because of their throwing ability during practice.

“We throw the ball good in practice,” Norvell said. “The last two games, I think, were somewhat un-usual games in the way that we wanted to attack the teams. … I think we’ll show improvement in the pass-ing game. We’re not really

concerned about it.”

Texas focusing on one game at a time

Norvell said he isn’t wor-ried about the Longhorns’ stats at the end of the year. Instead, he said he’s focused on each individual matchup.

“I understand, when you look at the stats, it’s somewhat one-sided,” Norvell said. “For us, it’s more about finding ways to win one game at a time and doing what we need to do. We’re less concerned with balancing out our yearly stats.”

Longhorns’ confidence growing

With two consecutive wins, Heard said the Long-horns are looking to keep their confidence growing.

“The coaches have to-tal trust in us, and we have trust in them,” Heard said. “It’s one of those things where we’ve learned to ad-just and just have fun.”

Heard, Norvell look to improve passing game

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MEN’S BASKETBALL

Smart addresses students at Student Government meeting

Head coach Shaka Smart stressed establishing a re-lationship with the student body when he spoke at the UT Student Government meeting Tuesday night.

Smart asked whether there is anything he can do as the head basketball coach to support Student Govern-ment or the student body.

“I really think it’s all about a relationship or anything that we can be doing in the athletic department,” Smart said.

Senior Tanner Long, SG speaker of the assembly, said he reached out to Smart a few months ago to speak at a meet-ing to help establish a relation-ship with the first-year coach.

“I know its useful for them to try and get con-nected to the student body and then also find out how we can help him in his new role,” Long said.

Long said members of the Student Government are working on initiatives to promote UT athletics, add-ing that Smart said he is open to help.

“If there’s things that I can do, or if there’s things once in a while that I can have our team do, that can connect us more with the students here at the University of Texas, then it’s definitely something I want to think about doing,” Smart said.

Sophomore business rep-resentative Ben Norton said he was surprised with how willing Smart is to connect with students.

“I thought that was re-ally cool that he’s very open to helping us with that and connecting with the students

more than just his players,” Norton said.

Additionally, Smart de-scribed what fans can ex-pect when the season tips off in two weeks. He said one his goals is to make Texas one of the toughest home court advantages in the Big 12.

“I can promise you’re going to have fun,” Smart said. “I can promise you it’s going to be an exciting atmosphere, and I’m just looking forward to getting to know the entire student body here.”

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Women’s golf finishes fall season

Texas completed its final tournament of the fall season with a seventh-place finish at the Las Vegas Collegiate Showdown on Wednes-day, shooting a three-day 25-under par for a total score of 839.

Sophomore Sophia Schubert led the team with a top-five finish, shooting a three-day score of 203. Schubert made seven birdies and one bogey for a round of six-under par to finish in fourth overall.

Senior Tezira Abe and junior Haley Mills fin-ished tied for 45th at two-under par for the tourna-ment. Mills finished her third round with a bogey-free three-under par while Abe carded two bogeys for a round of two-over par.

Junior Julia Beck and freshman Maddie Luit-wieler tied for 53rd after they both shot a one-un-der par round of 71. The pair ended even par for the tournament.

University of Nevada-Las Vegas and Vanderbilt charged up the leader-board to tie for first place. The teams finished 33-un-der par for a 54-hole score of 831. San Diego State finished in third place, just three strokes be-hind, as Tennessee’s Anna Newell finished in first place, individually.

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Just as Dr. Frankenstein brings his infamous monster to life, the UT Wind Ensemble plans to energize the story’s movie adaptation by accompa-nying it with a live score.

The 1931 version of “Fran-kenstein” screened in theaters without any thematic music but, in 2002, composer Michael Sha-piro wrote a score that plays into the film’s most frightening and dramatic moments. In honor of Halloween, UT’s Wind Ensem-ble will perform this score with the movie’s screening Friday at Bass Concert Hall.

Conductor Jerry Junkin said the score adds another dimen-sion to the film by creating ten-sion and an “air of suspense.”

“The shared experience is what makes it interesting,” Junkin said. “Music has the ability to move people. People respond to it. Coupled with film, I think it adds a great deal to that experience. Music can tap into people’s emotions, their fears and anxieties.”

Shapiro said the black-and-white film, which stars Boris Karloff as the monster, can feel outdated, but the score’s modern music helps bring the movie into the 21st century.

When writing the piece, he said he looked for key emo-tional moments within the film to underscore with dramatic instrumentation. Shapiro then

developed musical themes for particular characters. He said, at first, low chords represent the monster, but the music changes as his character evolves.

“It’s always tied to what’s in the movie,” Shapiro said. “What is the drama trying to say? You want to amplify that without getting in the way, to underline what the director’s intending.”

Associate professor James Buhler, who studies film soundtracks, said dissonant chords, quick and agitated notes and a composition’s key can draw fear out of the listener.

“Music conveys emotion, but it also helps us accept the fantasy of the film or the meld-ing of our world in a different way,” Buhler said. “The music helps give that substance and helps us believe in it. It also marks it as a little bit on the magical side of things.”

Even when movie monsters such as the one in “Franken-stein” aren’t on screen, Buhler said the score can give a “myth-ological dimension” to the film.

“There are certain things about the sound that make it feel

unsettling,” Buhler said. “In con-text of the suspense of the film, [music] helps us understand the scene as being dysphoric. A nor-mal scene with creepy music tells us something might happen.”

The ensemble includes both graduate and undergraduate students who play instruments such as oboe and clarinet. Se-nior flautist Margaux Filet

said the composition presents challenges such as staying syn-chronized with the on-screen action and playing around the film’s dialogue. To help make sure the music matches up for the movie’s key moments, Junkin watches the time as he conducts.

“Every time we play with the movie, it’s different just a

little bit,” Filet said. “As a live performer, I try to add some-thing. I try to improve my per-formance each time. I try to change the way I play certain things and see how it works in the context of the piece.”

Shapiro said the combina-tion of the live performance with the movie’s visual ele-ment makes the “Frankenstein”

program compelling because most people have never expe-rienced anything like it before.

“There’s something about the live acoustic you can’t get no matter how good the head-phones are,” Shapiro said. “Hearing the live music with the recorded film is a new art form, and just the sound is penetrative. It’s a great artistic experience.”

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UT musicians bring ‘Frankenstein’ to lifeBy Megan Hix

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Graeme Hamilton | Daily Texan StaffConductor Jerry Junkin directs the UT Wind Ensemble during a practice run of the score to the 1931 classic film “Frankenstein.” The new score was composed by Michael Shapiro, and will be performed live with a screening of the movie Friday at the Bass Concert Hall.

UT WIND ENSEMBLE PERFORMANCE OF “FRANKENSTEIN”

Where: Bass Concert HallWhen: Thurs. Oct. 29 at 7:30 p.m.Admission: $10–$40

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