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Over the winter break, two court cases related to the University continued.
Abigail Fisher v. Univer-sity of Texas II
The Supreme Court heard a second round of arguments for the case, which could determine the use of affirmative action at the University and the rest of the nation, on Dec. 9.
Fisher, a rejected UT ap-plicant who is white, claims she was not accepted to UT in 2008 on the basis of her race. The case was heard in the Supreme Court in 2012, where it was then sent back to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. When the Fifth Circuit ruled that Fisher
failed to make her case, Fisher appealed to the Su-preme Court again in 2015.
The Court’s role this time around is to determine if the Fifth Circuit’s previous ruling, which endorsed the University’s use of race in
undergraduate admissions, should be upheld.
At the hearing, the Court heard arguments from both sides about the case.
Fisher’s attorney, Bert
Although most students were not on campus over winter break, UTPD re-ported at least one instance of crime each day.
According to Campus Watch reports, UTPD re-corded 125 crimes between the end of finals and the last day of break, including 21 instances of graffiti, 13 instances of theft and 10 incidents involving intoxi-cation. Here are some of the most notable incidents:
On Jan. 6, UTPD spot-ted a man who was not affiliated with the Univer-sity throwing objects into the turtle pond. Although the man told the officers he was feeding the turtles bagels, the officers asked
him to stop. After the man stopped feeding the tur-tles when asked, he then walked away from the pond and started yelling. His ac-tions resulted in a criminal trespass warning.
UTPD officers found a person who was not affili-ated with UT sleeping on a bench inside the Engi-neering Teaching Center on Jan. 6. When the offi-cers woke the person up, they found out the person had been issued a crimi-nal trespass warning prior to that night, and conse-quently took the person into custody.
On Jan. 7, when a UT police officer saw a driver make an illegal turn onto a road and barely missed hitting a motocyclist, the police officer pulled the
driver over. While ques-tioning the driver, the po-lice officer found out the driver did not have a valid driver’s license or proof of insurance. The officer de-termined the driver was driving under the influ-ence of alcohol, and also found the driver had two additional arrest war-rants for not appearing in court and another in-stance of driving without a valid license.
Police officers received a call on Jan. 8 about an intoxicated man inside the Jesse H. Jones Communi-cation Center. The subject was found sleeping inside a restroom stall when offi-cers arrived. When he was awakened, he was not able
The future of Uber, Lyft and other ride-hailing com-panies continuing to provide services in Austin is uncertain as a fingerprint-based back-ground check ordinance is set to go into effect on Feb. 1.
Austin City Council mem-bers voted to increase regula-tions at its Dec. 17 meeting. After nearly five hours of
debate, council members vot-ed 9-2 to increase regulations — including fingerprint-based background checks — on transportation network companies such as Uber and Lyft.
“It is the intent and de-sire of this community to have drivers that are fin-gerprinted,” Mayor Steve Adler said during the December meeting.
Originally, the council’s
proposed regulations were set to be mandatory once in ef-fect, prompting Uber and Lyft officials to threaten to leave the city if fingerprint background checks and other regulations were approved.
Since ride-hailing com-panies have left cities, such as San Antonio, after facing new regulations, Austin City Council members drafted an updated framework of regulations that establishes
implementation dates for compliance with the regula-tions. The ordinance also uses incentives to try and push drivers to get background checks and companies to hire drivers with approved background checks.
Council members in sup-port of the ordinance argued the updated regulations were a compromise they believed the companies could support.
Although the ordinance
is set to go in effect in a few weeks, the issue hasn’t been resolved at City Hall. Since the December council meeting, opponents of the ordinance have organized a group called Ridesharing Works for Aus-tin, which is currently at-tempting to collect at least 20,000 valid signatures to force the council to put the issue up to the voters on the
The Division of Housing and Food Service has prohib-ited the use of hoverboards in residence halls and dining facilities, according to director of residence life Mylon Kirksy,
The 2015-2016 DHFS Residence Hall Manual bans students from playing sports in residence halls, “[includ-ing], but not limited to, play-ing Frisbee, rollerblading, skateboarding, tossing balls … and/or riding bicycles or hoverboards.”
DHFS decided to imple-ment restrictions on hov-erboards, a type of electric skateboard with wheels, after researching general safety con-cerns and noticing the limita-tions other universities put on the devices, Kirksy said. While there is not an official hover-board ban on the UT campus, more than 30 U.S. universi-ties have decided to ban hov-erboards on their campuses because of safety concerns, ac-cording to an Associated Press article written Jan. 7.
DHFS sent an email to stu-dents on Jan. 7 regarding the use of hoverboards in resi-dence halls that contained a link to the updated version of the residence hall manual.
“The residence hall is a
place where there are hun-dreds of students, and there’s a lot of traffic,” Kirksy said. “We want to just be thought-ful about whether or not people can really be safe riding hoverboards.”
Despite the prohibition on hoverboard use in students’
dormitories, students are still able to store the devices in dorm rooms or charge them in resident hall areas.
James Johnson, fire marshal for Fire Prevention Services, collaborated with DHFS re-garding appropriate restric-tions on hoverboards because
of recent reports of fire safety issues. The National Asso-ciation of State Fire Marshals has investigated some reports of hoverboards spontane-ously igniting because of their lithium ion batteries. He said there is currently no discus-sion of a University-wide
policy restricting hover-board use throughout the entire campus.
“Certainly, as additional in-formation becomes available, the practices and policies of the University are subject to
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Uber, Lyft face increased regulationsBy Forrest Milburn
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Hoverboard use banned in residence hallsBy Mikaela Cannizzo
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UTPD reports daily crime over break despite students’ absence
University-related court cases progress through December
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Proposed increase in tuition spurs discussion
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Matthew Adams | Daily Texan file photoAbigail Fisher stands with her attorneys after the Supreme Court heard Abigail Fisher v. University of Texas II on Dec. 9.
By Mikaela Cannizzo@mikaelac16
A proposed 3 per-cent tuition increase has been met with both support and pushback from UT students as the University strives to rein in rising costs while remaining affordable.
President Gregory Fenves submitted a pro-posal to the Board of Regents to increase tu-ition by 3.1 percent in the 2016-2017 academic year and 3 percent in the 2017-2018 academic year — an average in-crease of $150 per se-mester. Tuition increases will fund initiatives to improve the graduation rate, raise faculty salaries, provide scholarships to disadvantaged students and maintain campus facilities, according to the Tuition Advisory Policy Committee.
Yanett Heredia, a neuroscience and Span-ish sophomore who re-ceives financial aid, said she thinks the proposed tuition increase would contradict UT’s stated goal of increasing student diversity. She described her financial situation as “tight” and said the mon-ey used to go to tuition could buy books or pay for food.
“I definitely think that will have a negative im-pact on students, espe-cially the students I usual-ly interact with on a daily basis,” Heredia said. “You might see an increase in drop-out students.”
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Rein, said he thinks the University needs to be clearer on its use of race as a factor in admissions. Fisher said she hopes the case will end racial prefer-ences at the University.
Representatives for UT argued that even if race had not been considered, Fisher would still not have been admitted into the University, and said the top 10 percent plan, which automatically ad-mits students in the top 10 percent of their high school class to a Texas public university, provides necessary diversity and educational benefits.
UT President Gregory Fenves said UT’s use of race in admissions is con-stitutional and within the University’s best interests.
The Court is expected to reach a decision on the case by the end of June.
Hall v. McRavenA state district judge
dismissed a lawsuit by UT System Regent Wal-lace Hall on Dec. 15 that involved Hall’s at-tempt to access confi-dential admissions re-cords. Hall said he will appeal the decision, which means the case will continue.
Hall filed a lawsuit against UT System Chan-cellor Bill McRaven in June, after McRaven de-nied his request for docu-ments in the Kroll report, which detailed cases where former UT Presi-dent William Powers Jr. influenced the admissions process. McRaven cited Family Educational Rights and Privacy Acts laws as a reason for denying Hall’s request.
“Where federal or state law makes confidential information that relates to a specific individu-al, whether it is private health information or an individual student’s pro-tected information, it is our duty to ensure that we strictly comply with those confidentiality re-quirements,” McRaven said in a June statement.
According to court documents, Judge Scott Jenkins did not give a written reason for dis-missing the case. Because of the dismissal, Hall can-not file another suit on the controversy.
In a statement released Dec. 15, McRaven said he did not think Hall should have access to confidential records but expected Hall to appeal the dismissal.
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change, and they’ll be up-dated accordingly,” Johnson said. “At some point, there may be a University-wide committee that talks about prohibition [of hoverboards] on campus, but currently they would probably fall into a skateboard category, so you can ride them where you can ride skateboards.”
Johnson said the limited availability of data on hover-boards, because of their nov-elty in the market, prevents the University from having an accurate idea about the devices’ safety. According to Johnson, no incidents involving hoverboard mal-functions on campus have been reported.
Mechanical engineer-ing junior John Peng said he thinks hoverboard use should be limited on campus because of possible safety is-sues, including the danger of new hoverboard users running into other students on campus.
“I don’t think hover-boards are particularly safe for widespread use on cam-pus because of the potential fire hazards they hold if not charged properly,” Peng said in an email. “Additionally, they may present a cause for physical hazards.”
The Consumer Product Safety Commission is cur-rently reviewing the risks to personal and property safety from hoverboard use.
“There’s not an absolute in-terpretation that hoverboards at large are unsafe,” Kirksy said. “We’re not looking to overly restrict our students but just to make sure that they remain safe.”
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While the United States is developed in many respects, such as technology and higher educa-tion, the U.S. falls behind in ensuring women have the most basic rights: to give birth to and raise their children. The United States is one of only three countries in the world that does not guarantee paid leave for new mothers. Under the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993, qual-ifying parents in the U.S. are able to receive 12 weeks off, but the time is not necessarily paid.
Only 12 percent of American companies of-fer paid time off. By contrast, paid maternity leave for new mothers is guaranteed for quali-fying mothers in France for up to 16 weeks at 100 percent of their salaries. Many other Euro-pean countries offer similar benefits and have more comprehensive policies. California is one of four states with a mandatory paid leave program, under which anyone who is taking care of a newborn, foster child, adopted child or ill family member can receive six weeks of wages at a reduced level. According to the White House Council of Economic Advisors, 90 percent of people affected by California’s programs had a positive experience or saw im-
provement in their lives. Furthermore, states with paid family leave programs saw a decline in those needing public assistance.
The idea that women can or cannot “have it all” should not be debated — women should be able to have both children and a career. Women cannot be fired for getting pregnant or taking legal leave, but they do not necessarily have to be paid. Living without a wage for an extended period of time is not productive in any scenario, especially when trying to raise a child. More-over, work-life balance is improved when paid leave is offered. Single parents should not be ex-pected to take 12 weeks off of work without pay.
The alternative to paid leave is to go on wel-fare, which is paid for by taxpayers. Working mothers are not lacking as mothers in com-parison to stay-at-home moms and should not be penalized for wanting a career.
Companies that value the women they hire should want their employees to be able to have children and continue with their work. Child-care is an obstacle for many families, especially because it is not affordable. Expecting women to stay at home and take care of the kids while the husband goes to work puts society back 75 years. Working parents need flexibility.
Kashar is an English freshman from Scarsdale, New York.
Today is Jan. 19, 2016. We are 19 days into the new year. The statement is obvious, but important nonetheless. For 19 days, we have gone about our lives. In the same 19 days, 23 children were shot.
The U.S. is once again on track to have more child gun injuries or deaths than days in the year. In 2015, the total number was 692; the year before, 628. Tragedy naturally fol-lows stories of injured or killed children, but the worst part is that many of these shootings are accidental. Texans must support gun safe-ty through legislation and personal practice to help stop preventable deaths.
Safe gun ownership, like anything else, can require expert guidance. In pediatric exams, doctors often ask about home environment, such as whether you own a pool, chemical cleaning supplies or guns. The idea is that pediatricians can help parents keep their kids safe by offering advice on how to store poten-tially deadly items (such as guns).
However, House Bill 2823 would have Texas follow Florida’s lead in removing the g-word from doctors’ vocabularies. Pediatricians would no longer be able to ask about gun stor-age or give advice to parents because some feared doctors would file the information and give it to the federal government.
Of course, parents could always just ask to not talk about guns in their appointments.
Doctors are uniquely placed to provide tailored advice to families. Gun safety might mean different things for someone who owns a Glock in a Dallas penthouse than a hunting rifle on a ranch. While many doctors aren’t experts in gun ownership, reinforcing the im-portance of parents locking up their guns can’t hurt when the life of a child is at stake.
Proper healthcare requires that doctors know us on an intimate level, and our gun ownership is no exception. Making it harder for doctors to do their jobs will only increase the likelihood of child injuries and deaths.
Nancy Hazen, professor of human devel-opment and family sciences, said part of the reason many young children act on their curiosity about guns despite parents’ precau-tions is that the consequences of guns are ab-stract and difficult to understand.
“Most children haven’t been severely in-jured, and they don’t understand death; they don’t really fear anything until they have ac-tually been hurt,” Hazen said. “They are just curious about any object that is new to them, especially things they see grown-ups do.”
This means that child-focused gun pro-grams, such as the NRA’s Eddie Eagle Gunsafe campaign, cannot be fully depended on. If dis-obeying their parents to touch a gun feels the same to a young child as sneaking a forbidden treat, they are much more likely to have a lapse
in judgment when it comes to guns.Personal awareness is the first line of de-
fense for gun safety. In a column printed in The New York Times, Plan II senior Zachary Stone details his experience applying for a concealed handgun license and the definition of responsible gun ownership.
“I think that understanding your limitations is a big part of that,” Stone said. “There are a lot
of these rules that most gun owners are aware of, but there are also a lot of accidental shootings.”
Texas is one of the top three gun-owning states in a country that accounts for 87 percent of child gun deaths in the developed world. The state needs to ensure it has every parent and professional working together to keep kids safe.
Hallas is a Plan II and human development freshman from Houston.
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Nearly two years ago in the Texan, I lament-ed the arms race mentality that had permeated Republican primary politics in this state. In do-ing so, I examined a handful of rural districts considering whether to throw out their long-time, pragmatic Republican state representa-tive in favor of firebrand Tea Party upstarts. (For what it’s worth, neither of the represen-tatives examined, Byron Cook and Jim Keffer, lost in their primaries). However, I did not ask the more pressing question, one relevant to all Texans: Is there such a thing as “too extreme” for Republican primary voters?
The answer is obviously yes. For example, in 2014, a man named Larry SECEDE Kilgore — he legally changed his middle name — ran in the Republican primary for governor against the eventual winner, Greg Abbott. At the time, Kilgore told me his three biggest priorities if elected were, and I quote, “SECEDE! SECEDE! SECEDE!” He told others that LGBT people should be put to death, though he measured those comments by noting he would still wel-come the support of gay secessionists. Need-less to say, Kilgore did not win.
But Jonathan Stickland did. Readers of the Texan’s editorial pages will surely be familiar with the sophomore Republican state rep-resentative from Bedford, a suburb of Fort
Worth. Stickland’s antics this past legislative session include threatening to fight another representative and killing a bill seeking to limit the euthanasia of puppies.
Still, Stickland drew a primary challenger, local pastor Scott Fisher. While it is tempting to think this demonstrates officeholders may be deemed too conservative, Fisher’s website and literature does not give that impression. In fact, it suggests that Fisher — not Stickland — is the legitimate conservative in the race.
For 32-year-old Stickland, it would be rather difficult to contend he has possessed conserva-tive value for “decades.” But the comments serve as a different kind of jab at the incumbent.
Near the end of last year, Fisher’s cam-paign provided information regarding Stick-land’s past online comments to the political site Quorum Report. The posts highlighted Stickland’s past use of marijuana. However, following more research by Quorum Report’s editor, Scott Braddock, more recent online comments show Stickland apparently endors-ing marital rape.
“Rape is non existent in marriage, take what you want my friend [sic],” Stickland said in now-deleted posts on a Fantasy Football fo-rum. He was responding to a question posed by another user regarding sex advice.
According to The Texas Tribune, Fisher soon jumped on this revelation as an opportunity to contend Stickland is weak on protecting the victims of sexual assault. Fisher pounded Stick-
land over his opposition to last year’s House Bill 189, which would have lengthened the statute of limitations on civil suits for such offenses.
The usual actors, for their parts, have taken their place. Tea Party groups and other right-wing assortments have backed Stickland, as have his few legislative allies. But others, including law enforcement groups and for-mer Gov. Rick Perry, have backed Fisher. Of course, the irony — Perry backing the com-
parably moderate candidate in a primary within his party — is unmistakable.
Cook and Keffer were renominated, but they were in pragmatic districts. Similarly, Kilgore lost, but he was an extremist outlier. But this primary, between archconservative Jonathan Stickland and Scott Fisher, will be a true test of if, even in one of the most conservative constit-uencies in Texas, there is such a thing as too far.
Horwitz is a government senior from Houston.
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Mandalapu, who serves on the committee, said most students understand the need for a tuition increase and argued that the low turnout at tuition feedback forums signals their tacit acceptance of higher tu-ition costs. The committee recommends the amount of tuition to the UT President.
“If the University’s aca-demics go down, then the value of our degrees [goes] down,” Mandalapu, a Plan II senior, said. “I think a lot of students see it as some-thing that really stinks, but given the situation right now, we’re in a situation
where our backs are against the wall.”
The proposed increase is the first time tuition has risen since 2011. From 2003 to 2013, tuition rose by 80 percent, accord-ing to an analysis by the Texas Tribune.
Government sophomore Jennell Benson said if the proposition goes through, it will personally affect her as well as other students us-ing financial aid.
“I have to pull out more financial aid and more sub-sidized and unsubsidized loans,” Benson said. “This is something that needs to be talked about statewide and country-wide.”
Trish Manor, associate
director for the financial aid office, said financial aid administrators were not sure if they would be able to cover the tuition in-crease for students who re-ceive financial aid because the University and the state have not allocated money to the financial aid office yet. She said many students do not take out the maxi-mum amount of loans of-fered because they want to reduce their debt load.
“The bottom line is: We’ll use whatever avail-able funding we have,” Manor said. “If there’s no increase in grant funding, we’ll have to go with what we have.”
Even as Mandalapu
defended the tuition in-crease, he said more work needed to be done to mini-mize the financial burden on students. He said the next Student Government leaders should work with elected officials to reduce the impact of tuition on students during the next legislative session.
“The next administra-tion is really important if they want to start a conversation about how money is appropriated to public universities,” Man-dalapu added. “They will be there when the legis-lature is starting. That’s the important time to discuss issues related to higher education.”
The seven candidate vying for an open state House seat include a former University Democrats president and a UT law professor, setting up a competitive race that could propel higher turnout rates among the large stu-dent population throughout the district.
On March 1, voters in House District 49 — the dis-trict covering West Campus — will head to the ballot box to select a nominee to replace longtime Democratic Rep. Elliott Naishtat (D-Austin), who announced his deci-sion not to seek reelection on Dec. 10, just days before the filing deadline.
Because no Republican
filed to run, whichever candi-date emerges victorious from the Democratic primary is virtually guaranteed to rep-resent the district when the Legislature meets in 2017.
Two of the seven candi-dates have UT ties — 2014 graduate Huey Rey Fischer — a former University Demo-crats president — and UT law professor Heather Way.
Fischer, the only openly LGBT candidate in the field, has established a campaign platform filled with progres-sive causes, including tack-ling high college tuition rates and the student debt crisis as some of his top priorities.
“I think being the reaction-ary party has gotten us no-where over the past 20 years in Texas,” Fischer said. “If we want to start winning this
state, then we need to push back with an agenda that is positive and meaningful.”
Describing herself as a Democrat in the mold of Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Way has also said she would focus on progres-sive issues, including pass-ing comprehensive back-ground checks, to combat the conservative leadership in the legislature.
“The voters are really look-ing for strong and bold lead-ership, especially now with the House and the Capitol turning hard to the right,” Way said. “I’ve been knock-ing on doors, and people have been very receptive and ex-cited about what I can bring to that office.”
Gina Hinojosa, Austin ISD School Board president,
announced her candidacy for HD 49 on Thursday night. Fischer announced his on Jan. 10, block-walking around neighborhoods throughout the district.
Fischer’s campaign has stressed reaching out to the UT community and campus organizations to encourage students to vote and support him at the ballot.
The other candidates in the race are attorney Aspen Dunaway, attorney Kenton Johnson, former NARAL Pro-Choice Texas counsel Blake Rocap and attorney Matt Shrum.
In an early show of sup-port, Hinojosa has already been endorsed by more than 200 organizations and local Democratic groups, includ-ing the Texas State Teachers
Association and Liberal Aus-tin Democrats.
“You don’t normally get a politician who gets the big picture; Gina gets the big pic-ture,” Education Austin Presi-dent Ken Zarifis said. “There [are] too many [legislators] looking at little pictures and little ideas.”
With Texas has some of the lowest turnout rates in the country, all of the candidates said they would focus on reaching out to UT students
and potential voters across the district in an attempt to bring them to the polls.
“I think it could be a really great way to get students to turn out,” University Demo-crats communications di-rector Maliha Mazhar, an international business and government senior, said. “We think Naishtat did an awe-some job and was a vocal pro-gressive voice in the House, but it’s exciting to have a fresh face in the Legislature.”
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UT connection could benefit House candidatesBy Forrest Milburn
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TUITIONcontinues from page 1
November ballot.“Hundreds of thousands of
Austinites open the Uber app each week, either to get a ride or make a little extra money,” Uber spokeswoman Debbie Hancock said in a statement Monday. “We hope the Mayor and City Council keep them in mind as they move forward with regulating ridesharing.”
Council members Don Zimmerman and Ellen Trox-clair, who voted against the ordinance in December, ar-gue that the city benefits from ride-hailing companies as they provide late night, cost-effec-tive alternatives to drunken driving or calling a taxi.
Biology junior Michelle Rus-sell, who uses ride-hailing ser-vices because she has no car, said she believes the companies are a better alternative to taxis.
Supporters of the ordi-nance argue the ride-hailing companies would not be burdened by the regulatory requirements outlined in the ordinance, especially since
the regulations more closely match taxi regulations in City code.
Textiles and apparel sopho-more Natalie Arriaga, who has used Uber as a safer al-ternative to driving, said she would feel even safer if she knew her driver passed a background check.
“I don’t see how they’re bur-dened,” Arriaga said. “I think [the regulations] make me feel a whole lot safer, knowing that if anything were to happen, they’d be able to find this per-son and take whatever further action was needed.”
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to tell the officers what the correct date was and the officers decided he had consumed so much al-cohol that he was in danger and a danger to
other people. After a woman tried
to trip a member of UT’s staff on Jan. 8 on Gua-dalupe Street, police of-ficers found the suspect. The staff member was not injured and the woman admitted she did try to
trip her. The woman also divulged the fact that she had been smoking marijuana beforehand.
An officer saw three men carrying street signs along San Jacinto Street on Jan. 9. Upon seeing the patrol car, the suspected
sign thieves fled to Waller Creek. The subjects, all of whom were under the age of 21, were found to be intoxicated, and one was in possession of a fake ID. Police officers issued criminal trespass warn-ings to all of them.
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Hundreds of thousands of Austinites open the Uber app each week, either to get a ride or make a little extra money.”
—Debbie Hancock, Uber spokeswoman
I think being the reactionary party has gotten us nowhere over the past 20 years in Texas. If we want to start winning this state, then we need to push back with an agenda that is positive and meaningful.”
—Huey Rey Fisher House candidate
Senior center Imani Boyette put the ball off the glass and through the basket to cut Baylor’s lead to 70-64 with 2:00 min-utes left — Texas’ small-est deficit since early in the second quarter.
But No. 6 Baylor respond-ed by ending the game on a 10-3 run — reminiscent of the way the Bears played for most of the game — handing the Longhorns their first loss of the season, 80-67.
Texas opened the game with a three from sophomore guard Brooke McCarty. The No. 4 Longhorns built a 16-9 lead late in the first quarter, but it wouldn’t last long.
Baylor (18-1, 5-1 Big 12) went on a 15-1 run in a two-and-a-half minute span to gain a 24-17 advantage over the Longhorns.
Texas crawled to with-in four points early in the
second quarter, but Bay-lor brought a 41-29 lead into halftime.
“We did some uncharac-teristic things, like foul re-peatedly,” head coach Karen Aston said. “[We] couldn’t get a grip of how the offici-ating was going in the first half. I thought it got us so out of sync.”
The Longhorns (16-1, 5-1
wBig 12) committed 13 first-half fouls to the Bears’ six.
As sloppy as the Long-horns were in terms of fouls, they were just as messy when it came to taking care of the basketball, turning the ball over 14 times in the first half.
“I think it was the loss of Celina [Rodrigo] and Brooke
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6JACOB MARTELLA, SPORTS EDITOR | @texansportsTuesday, January 19, 2016
Texas falls just short of another titleVOLLEYBALL
Women’s tennis struggles in tourney
The Longhorn wom-en’s tennis team’s time in Coral Gables was marked by struggles both with their opponents and the weather.
All of Friday’s matches of the Miami Spring In-vite were canceled be-cause of rain, while most of the women’s tennis tournament’s matches were delayed on Saturday.
Texas took on Ole Miss once tournament play finally started. Senior Breaunna Addison de-feated Ole Miss sopho-more Natalie Suk 6-1, 6-1. Sophomore Dani Wa-gland also brought home a win, edging Ole Miss freshman Tea Jandric by a 6-1, 6-1 count. Senior Lana Groenvynck, junior Neda Koprcina and fresh-man Chelsea Crovetti Crovetti all lost their matches.
The Longhorns then faced Vanderbilt in sin-gles play. Addison was the only one to bring home a win, beating junior Syd-ney Campbell 6-3, 5-7, 1-0.
In doubles competi-tion, Addison and Wa-gland teamed up against Ole Miss senior Mai El Kamash and sophomore Arianne Hartono and lost 6-3. Groenvynck and Ko-prcina also paired up and were defeated 6-1 against Ole Miss’ Suk and fresh-man Allie Sanford.
Addison and Wagland snagged a 7-5 win against Miami senior Stephanie Wagner and sophomore Wendy Zhang as the Longhorns wrapped up competition on Sunday.
The Longhorns will return to action next Sat-urday in Alabama against Purdue at the ITA Kick-Off Weekend.
—Alana Kaufman
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Seniors Kat Brooks, left, Amy Neal and Molly McCage fight back tears after falling to Nebraska in the NCAA champion-ship match Dec. 19. The senior class reached the Final Four all four years.
WOMEN’S BASKETBALL
Foul trouble, turnovers lead to Texas’ first loss of season
By Tyler Horka@TexasTy95
Longhorns fight off late run by Cowboys
MEN’S BASKETBALL
By Jacob Martella@ViewFromTheBox
Junior guard Isaiah Taylor stepped to the free-throw line with just a three-point lead.
The Longhorns had led by as many as 23 points 15 min-utes prior, but cold shooting allowed Oklahoma State to get back to within 20. Then 15. Then 10. And now, three.
But Taylor hit the first of four free throws he would take in the waning seconds to seal a 74-69 win for the Long-horns on Saturday.
“It’s something we’ve got to learn from because if we do that on the road, it might be a different story,” senior for-ward Connor Lammert said.
Just days after knocking down 13 3-pointers, Texas began the game missing each of its first five 3-pointers and scoring just two points in the first four minutes against the Cowboys.
But the funk wouldn’t last for long.
Lammert hit a 3-pointer,
followed by one apiece from Taylor and freshman guard Tevin Mack. Within a four-minute span, the Longhorns turned a 4-2 deficit into a 15-6 lead.
Meanwhile, the Long-horns’ defense remained steady throughout the half, holding the Cowboys to 34.6 percent shooting from the floor and just 25 percent from the behind the arc.
“We just banded togeth-er,” Taylor said. “We got a couple of stops on the defen-sive end. We translated that into offense.”
But it nearly fell apart at the end.
After taking a 23-point lead with 15 minutes to go, the Longhorns couldn’t get anything to fall. Possession after possession, Texas came down the court, missed a 3-pointer and then fell back to play defense.
Meanwhile, the Cow-boys used the opportunity
The Longhorns exited the court on Dec. 19 with their heads hung low. As streamers fell from the rafters of the Cen-turyLink Center in Omaha, Nebraska, Texas knew another year had passed without a na-tional title. After a 3-0 defeat at the hands of Nebraska in the national championship game, the memory of the Longhorns’ 2012 title seemed more and more distant.
But 2015 was far from a failed season for Texas. Despite the loss to Nebraska, the Long-horns achieved another Big 12 title and another Final Four ap-pearance — both with an air of camaraderie and togetherness unseen from past Texas teams.
“It’s a tribute to the young women that are in this pro-gram,” head coach Jerritt Elliott said prior to the national title game. “Their unity and will to play for each other really stood out to me. It’s a special group.”
The Longhorns entered the 2015 season under the weight of familiar expectations. They came into the year sporting four consecutive Big 12 titles and three-straight runs to the Final Four. As is now custom-ary on the Forty Acres, the talk around the Longhorns was championship or bust.
“We expect to be in that po-sition every year,” Elliott said. “We want to put ourselves in a position where we can contend for Final Fours. That’s the cul-ture we’ve tried to create here.”
But expectations of a title run were met with caution early in the season. Texas’ 2015 roster was without some key pieces from the 2014 team, most notably outside hitter Haley Eckerman. Eckerman left the Longhorns program as one of the most decorated — and dominant — players in pro-gram history, racking up three First-Team All-American hon-ors during her time in Austin.
“Haley was a great player here and a great leader for us,” junior middle blocker Chiaka Ogbogu said in a preseason interview. “But it’s up to us to come and make up for her loss. It’s on everyone.”
It quickly became evident
that making up for Eckerman’s departure would not be a one-woman effort. The 2015 season saw an increase in production throughout much of the Long-horns squad, specifically from senior Amy Neal.
Neal, an outside hitter from Austin, took charge as Texas’ most potent offensive threat. Her combination of pinpoint execution and heady play more than made up for Eckerman’s absence, as she was named Big 12 Player of the Year.
Texas’ regular season acted as a formality. The Longhorns steamrolled its way through Big 12 play once again, earn-ing a 15-1 conference record en route to a fifth consecutive Big
12 championship.They hit their stride entering
the NCAA tournament, and comfortable defeats over Fair-field and Purdue in the opening two rounds only solidified the Longhorns as championship contenders. Following a mara-thon five-set victory over Flor-ida in the Elite 8, they headed to Omaha to participate in a fourth-straight Final Four.
But Texas couldn’t complete the title chase. A raucous pro-Nebraska crowd, combined with the stifling Cornhuskers defense shut down Texas’ po-tent attack in the championship game, reducing the Longhorns to a shadow of their high-flying selves. Another year
in Austin passed by with no national championship.
“I’m disappointed for our team,” Elliott said postgame. “They fought all year but just couldn’t get it going tonight.”
But despite the lack of hard-ware, 2015 was far from a failure for Texas volleyball. A Final Four appearance is a no-table accomplishment in itself, even more so when it happens nearly every year. The Elliott machine seems to run itself at this point, no matter which six players are on the court.
“We’ve set a standard at this program,” Elliott said. “We expect to be in a position to compete for a championship every year.”
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Joshua Guerra | Daily Texan StaffSophomore guard Brooke McCarty and the Longhorns struggled against Baylor on Sunday, committing 26 fouls and 21 turnovers in their first loss of the season.
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[McCarty] at the point posi-tion that hurt us,” Aston said. “I just couldn’t get [the bench] to slow down. They were try-ing to do some things that you would do maybe against a lesser opponent.”
Senior guard Celina Ro-drigo played only 20 minutes because of early foul trouble. McCarty played 27 minutes but also had to sit much of the first half with two fouls.
Baylor led 58-42 with 1:41 left in the third quarter be-fore McCarty drilled a corner three. She secured a defen-sive rebound on Baylor’s next possession and found senior guard Empress Davenport for a layup plus a foul to make the score 58-48.
Like Rodrigo and Mc-Carty, Davenport was also limited by fouls. Despite
going just 3-of-9 from the field, the senior knows that one game won’t define her team.
“We’re just taking it one game at a time,” Davenport said. “This game is just like any other game. We don’t think of it [as] big or small — it’s just another game.”
The loss also stops Texas’ undefeated run through Big 12 play. The Longhorns started their conference schedule 5-0 for the first time since 2003.
Boyette said although it stings to lose to Baylor at home, she isn’t interested in the Bears anymore. Instead, she’s focused on what’s ahead.
“We have 12 more Big 12 games,” Boyette said. “We just have to make sure that we come in tomorrow and go to work. We have TCU on Wednesday. It’s a great team. [We] have to get ready.”
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to find a way back into the game. Oklahoma State hit five 3-pointers and shot 39.5 percent as the deficit began to dwindle.
“We hit a little bit of a low where we weren’t guarding with the same tenacity and en-ergy,” head coach Shaka Smart said. “Then [the Cowboys] went zone on us, and we got a little stagnant on offense.”
But time turned out to be on the Longhorns’ side. Texas forced just enough missed shots and hit 8-of-10 free throws down the stretch to game onto the win.
Taylor said they “didn’t drop their heads” as the Cowboys closed the gap.
“Coach told us to stay engaged and stay poised as a team,” Taylor said.
The win puts the Longhorns above .500 in conference play for the first time this season. Texas previously posted wins at home against Iowa State and Kansas but dropped road games at Texas Tech and TCU.
The schedule only gets hard-er for the Longhorns. Texas heads on the road to face West Virginia on Wednesday and Kansas on Saturday, where the team is just 1-5 over the last three seasons. But Taylor said he’s excited for these games away from Austin.
“Playing on the road is fun,” Taylor said. “There’s excite-ment on the road. Everyone’s against you. All you have is your team.”
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Mixed bag for Texas over breakCAMPUS
By Daniel Clay@dclay567
Texas students have, un-til today, been freed from the bonds of schoolwork for almost a month. Texas athletics, however, con-tinued to make headlines while the rest of the student body was catching up on sleep. Here’s what you might have missed during the past six weeks.
Volleyball falls just short of national title
While everyone else was frantically scrambling for last-minute gifts, Texas vol-leyball was busy reasserting its position as the most suc-cessful Longhorn sports pro-gram in recent history.
Texas rode a seven-game winning streak to finish the regular season ranked No. 3 in the country and cruised into the finals of the NCAA Championship tournament against Nebraska.
But 11-kill efforts from All-American junior Pau-lina Prieto Cerame and freshman Yaasmeen Bedart-Ghani were not enough to
bring home a champion-ship. Texas fell 3-0 to the No. 4 Cornhuskers and will have to wait another year to light up the tower with a No. 1.
Men’s basketball faces ups, downs
On the hardwood at the Erwin Center, the Texas men’s basketball team up-set then-No. 3 North Caro-lina thanks to a split-second buzzer beater by senior guard Javan Felix, and then came back to pull out a three-point win over then-No. 17 Iowa State.
But the Longhorns’ suc-cess was stymied by the loss of senior center Cameron Ridley, who broke his foot in practice in late Decem-ber. That, along with road losses to Texas Tech and TCU, have put a damper on the otherwise successful winter break for new head coach Shaka Smart and his Longhorns.
Texas swimmers find suc-cess over break
The top-ranked men’s swimmers had argubly the
most successful break.All-American junior Jack
Conger turned in a winning performance in the 200-yard butterfly, an event in which he holds the American record, to help propel the Longhorns over No. 8 Auburn, while freshman Townley Hass’ two wins in the 500 and 200 freestyle helped Texas edge the No. 3 Bulldogs and set its sights upon repeating as national champions.
Strong makes changes to offensive staff
Arguably the biggest change of the break though, came from a team that played just once in Decem-ber. Texas football has seen a bit of a coaching shakeup since it failed to qualify for a bowl game.
Head coach Charlie Strong fired former of-fensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach Shawn Watson. An offense that finished 2015 ranked 92nd in the nation in total yards combined with Watson’s inability to develop highly touted quarterback prospects
Tyrone Swoopes and Jerrod Heard led to the downfall of the former crowned jewel of Strong’s staff.
Strong named Tulsa offen-sive coordinator Sterlin Gil-bert, who honed his craft un-der Baylor coach Art Briles, as Watson’s replacement, but it remains to be seen whether new coaching rather than new quarterbacks is the so-lution Texas football needs to match the elite success of the rest of the Longhorn athletic program.
Arguably the biggest change of the break though, came from a team that played just once in December. Texas football has seen a bit of a coaching shakeup since it failed to qualify for a bowl game.
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Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables – The Dead Kennedys
After their breakout per-formance on the Bay Area Music Awards, the Dead Kennedys quickly became the biggest name in western punk with their strong left-wing political statements and Jello Biafra’s distinct voice.
Their debut album, Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables, established the American punk scene, founded on loud guitars and drums, accompanied with spat-out lyrics that at-tack anything from heroin junkies to money-obsessed
individuals. In no way is this record subtle — in fact, it climbs down your throat with its vicious sarcasm and unwavering aggression.
Tracks to listen to: “Kill the Poor,” “Califor-nia Über Alles,” “Holiday in Cambodia”
You’re a Woman, I’m a Machine – Death From Above 1979
When Death From Above 1979 formed in 2001, very few duos existed in the mainstream, but the beauty of DFA is in the duo — the fact that two people can make such a large and empowering noise is per-plexing. With Sebastien Grainger’s frantic vocals and exhilarating drumming and Jesse F. Keeler’s overdriven
bass lines, the band’s debut album You’re a Woman, I’m a Machine contains a steady dose of punk rock hits.
In this 30-minute album, Keeler’s bass guitar plays both roles during different points in each song, ensur-ing that any guitar riffs are not missed. After the mas-sive success of their first album, DFA toured relent-lessly, contributing to their eventual personal and cre-ative differences and an abrupt breakup. When the group returned in 2011, fans hadn’t forgotten their en-ergy. The band faced sold-out shows, people scalping tickets for hundreds of dol-lars and even a riot at their 2011 South by Southwest festival performance.
redeeming qualities in their sound. With lead singer Brendon Urie at the helm, these debates will likely continue as Death of a Bach-elor deviates very little from Panic’s signature style, creating a more modernized version of the group’s sound.
The two standout moments of the record are oddly the most out of place. Urie chan-nels his inner Frank Sinatra during the album’s title track and “Impossible Year,” croon-ing as if he were in the swing era. Although this style defi-nitely isn’t something a lis-tener would expect to hear from Urie, it still helps create a couple of entertaining and impressive songs.
Aside from these two songs, Urie has sporadic breakout moments with his vocals or lyrics, but nothing in particular stands out. Most songs are textbook bubble gum pop with some extra guitar moments and emo-esque lyrics, just so the songs can be classified as some-thing other than pop music. “Crazy=Genius” sounds like
it could have been on any of Panic’s previous albums and will likely please fans with some tricky sampling and in-triguing lyrics to make it a fun and notable song, but the next track, “LA Devotee,” has al-most no enduring impact be-cause of how bland it sounds in comparison.
In terms of produc-tion, very few risks are taken, if any at all. The en-tire middle of the album, from the album’s third track, “Hallelujah,” to its eighth, “Golden Days,” becomes a blur after one listen, with each song blending into another due to extremely bland song-writing and dynamics.
Occasionally, Urie attempts to do something different with a track’s composition, adding an array of shrill digital ef-fects to jazz up songs. Death of a Bachelor’s lead track and second single, “Victorious,” is playful but incessantly annoy-ing with its shrill auto-tuned vocals during the chorus. Even worse are the track’s lyr-ics, which include lines such as “skin as cool as Steve Mc-Queen,” and “eyes like broken Christmas lights.”
During the same song, Urie sings about how a
character is “livin’ like a washed up celebrity,” during a party. It’s hard to tell if he’s is making up this person or if he’s actually talking about himself.
The obvious truth is that, although Urie might be creating music similar to Pan-ic! At The Disco’s style, he is using the group’s name to help get attention for releases and shows.
Whether that sales tactic will work should become ap-parent soon. However, for anyone who’s heard a Panic! At The Disco album before, there’s little new to experience here. Longtime listeners of the group should definitely buy the album, but beyond that audience, Death of a Bachelor falls flat.
As classes commence and we settle back into old routines, spice up your first week of school with these four up-and-coming artists to watch in 2016.
After leaving indie rock group The Hush Sound, in which she sang and played the piano, Greta Morgan started her indie pop solo project, Springtime Car-nivore, in 2014. Morgan’s echoey vocals drip with warmth and sentiment in “Two Scars” and “Find A New Game,” while “Col-lectors” and “Name on a Matchbook” bring a bouncy, upbeat vibe to her 14-track debut. According to Springtime Carnivore’s Facebook page, Morgan is wrapping up on a second album with an unknown release date.
Artists you might like:
Alvvays, Best Coast, FeistBased out of Bard Col-
lege in upstate New York, queer punk band PWR BTTM hit the music scene in 2014 with EP Cinderella Beauty Shop. A year later, the duo put out 11-track LP Ugly Cherries, which got the attention of NPR’s All Songs Considered pod-cast and won the duo a glowingly positive review from Pitchfork. With lyr-ics such as “I want a boy who thinks it’s sexy when my lipstick bleeds / I want a boy who can go all night without stopping / I want a boy knows exactly what he needs,” PWR BTTM’s lyr-ics speak honestly about sexuality, growing up and gender identity.
Artists you might like: Pansy Division, Limp Wrist, The White Stripes
Synth-pop duo Marian Hill released their debut album Sway last summer
before launching a tour across the U.S. Comprised of production artist Jeremy Lloyd, vocalist Samantha Gongol and often featur-ing saxophone cuts from jazz musician Steve Davit, Marian Hill adds a sultry, jazzy edge to traditional synth-pop music.
Artists you might like: Lorde, Sylvan Esso, Broods
After reaching rela-tive fame in their home-land of Iceland, indie rock band Kaleo moved to Austin after signing with Atlantic Records. The group performed at South by Southwest, garner-ing considerable press from Esquire and NPR for their three released singles, and are cur-rently touring around the country, hitting several notable music festivals.
Artists you will like: James Bay, Bon Iver, Vance Joy
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While most students are familiar with the cramming and stress of finals or midterms, few capital-ize on the fresh start offered each time a new semester rolls around. This spring, ditch the bad habits by tak-ing advantage of these UT resources for a productive, stress-free semester.
One major component of a successful semester is learn-ing to manage time early on, Sanger Learning Cen-ter director Michelle Jewell said. Before getting weighed down by your assignments, Jewell said it’s important to get organized.
“There’s not a single per-son who doesn’t struggle to make enough time,” Jewell said. “Read your syllabi, make a deadline cal-endar, arrange when your projects are due, reverse en-gineer how many hours you’ll have to put in to meet dead-lines — no one should write a paper overnight.”
Sanger Learning Center offers workshops on every-thing from time manage-ment and study techniques to GRE prep classes. This semester, Jewell said work-shops on succeeding in online classes will be added to the mix. Workshops and tutoring begin Jan. 25.
“Talk to your professor about your first assignments if you don’t know what they mean [on the syllabus],” Jew-ell said. “The worst thing you can do in those early weeks is be shy about asking for help or refreshing yourself on the basics.”
UT career counselor Lynn Chang said it’s never too early in one’s
college career to utilize the University’s career services. Specialists can help answer questions about what careers fit each major and even help secure first jobs for those about to graduate.
“The most important thing to do is explore, explore, explore beyond your major,” Chang said. “If you’re interested in one thing, get
really involved in that one thing. That means not just classes but maybe joining an organization or getting involved in the community. Think about how to use your time to highlight who you are.”
Whether students are looking for a part-time job or need help polishing a resume, Chang said UT offers forms of help, such
as job and internship data-base hireutexas.edu or re-sume workshops and mock interview setups.
Katy Redd, the assistant director for prevention and outreach at UT’s Counsel-ing and Mental Health Cen-ter, said that with so much going on in students’ lives, it’s crucial to manage stress and the beginning of the semester is a perfect time to
create healthy habits.“One of the great things
about being in an academic environment is that you get a fresh start twice a year,” Redd said. “Getting enough sleep is a really good habit to start building now, really setting a fairly regular sleep schedule and really thinking about how you’re managing and structuring time.”
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students include things such as exercise and social interactions in their schedules to help reduce stress. She said the CMHC offers workshops and therapy groups for those interested in learning more about stress management, as well as the Mind Body Lab, where students can relax or learn deep breathing techniques.
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With all but one member of the group leaving, Panic! At The Disco is a shell of the four-piece rock outfit that used to dominate radio stations across the country. In the release of their new record, Death of a Bachelor, Brendon Urie shows his lust for the past, tweaking the band’s notoriously upbeat style as little as possible.
Panic! At The Disco has always been a highly debated group. While some fans be-lieved the group defined mid- to late-2000s trends through their incorporation of synths and drum machines into emo and pop rock, others found few
Panic! releases disappointing LP
Courtesy of Leah EdwardsPanic! at the Disco’s new album released on Friday, Death of a Bachelor, does not offer anything new and ultimately falls flat.
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