Campus carry will allow licensed handgun owners to bring concealed handguns on campus starting Aug. 1, but students can also freely carry other types of weap-ons, such as stun guns or Tasers, around campus as a self-defense mechanism.

UTPD officer William Pieper said there is no specific policy regarding stun guns or Tasers on campus. He said the law regarding handguns should not affect students’ abil-ities to continue carrying stun guns and Tasers.

“Stun guns and Tasers aren’t qualified as a firearm and it’s really not a part of that law,” Pieper said.

While there are no poli-cies in place regarding use on the general campus, stun guns and Tasers are restricted in all on-campus residence halls, according to the Division of Housing and Food Services’ Residence Hall Manual.

While the manual does not provide a detailed list of pro-hibited items, it forbids “any weapons that could inflict bodily harm or result in distur-bances of the peace,” including

stun guns and Tasers.“Safety and security is our

top concern in the residence halls,” residence life director Mylon Kirksy said. “That’s the motivation for having the poli-cy in the residence halls.”

Pieper said understanding the difference between the two devices is important for students to know. While stun guns are contact devices that require someone to be within arm’s reach of their attacker,

Tasers fire out two prongs at a distance of up to 18 feet in or-der to temporarily immobilize an offender.

Mathematics sophomore Alexa Lewis said she owns a stun gun and carries it with

her when she stays on campus late at night. Despite never us-ing the device on anyone, she said it makes her feel safe when walking back to her apartment

The UT System took a play from the NFL on Thursday to eliminate gen-dered differences in pay and promote faculty and staff diversity.

All System institutions must invite minority can-didates to interview during the final rounds of inter-views for “senior adminis-trative positions” and sub-mit a plan to the System to end the gender pay gap in five years, effective imme-diately. The plan is based off the Rooney Rule, a policy which requires NFL coaches to interview mi-nority candidates for head coaching jobs.

Chancellor William McRaven said in a state-ment that the rule would ensure faculty and staff at each System institution would reflect the diverse student bodies they serve.

“We want to ensure that qualified women and mi-norities have an opportu-nity to be considered for every senior level position,” McRaven said in a state-ment. “Making sure our leadership, faculty and staff reflect the changing look of Texas is not just about fairness. It’s also about ef-fectiveness. Change starts at the top. We need admin-istrators, campus leaders and faculty whom women and minority students can look to as role models and mentors, and who better understand the students they’re serving and where they’re from.”

Across all UT System institutions, 53 per-cent of the students are women compared to 42

Admiral William McRaven gave students a memorable piece of advice during UT-Aus-tin’s 2014 commencement cer-emony: If you want to change the world, start by making your bed.

Mere months later, the UT System Board of Regents ap-pointed him as chancellor of the UT System starting Jan. 5, 2015 — just a few weeks from the start of the 84th Texas leg-islative session. McRaven has received both positive and negative feedback from the UT System community regarding changes made during his first year as chancellor.

McRaven launched a $1.7 million initiative last August to study sexual assault, an issue he

has also addressed while in the military, across the UT System. Rachel Osterloh, president of Senate of College Councils, said she was impressed by his willingness to address sexual assault on campus.

“He’s a champion for stu-dents,” said Osterloh, a govern-ment and philosophy senior. “This sexual assault [initia-tive] is incredible, especially

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University Democrats had its first glimpse at can-didates vying to represent it in an open state House seat Wednesday before the group makes an endorsement in the coming weeks.

The speaking candidates, who are running in a field of seven Democrats for House District 49, were Austin ISD School Board member Gina Hinojosa, attorney Kenton Johnson, former legisla-tive aide Huey Rey Fisch-er and UT law professor Heather Way.

Way said she believes her platform — which includes providing more affordable housing, getting guns off

campuses, legalizing mari-juana and funding higher ed-ucation — will resonate with students throughout campus.

“There’s been a 26 percent drop in investment in higher education since 2008 and tu-ition is on the rise,” Way said. “Nationally, student debt is at an all-time high at over $1 trillion, and that’s unaccept-able. We have to be investing in students to ensure that they have the opportunity for an affordable, quality education.”

Fischer, a 2014 UT gradu-ate, said he is running as the student choice who can ac-tively push for student debt relief and fight against guns on campuses.

“We need somebody to sort of push back against those sort of attitudes at the

Capitol, and nobody is re-ally listening to us from either party,” Fischer said. “This is our opportunity for youth representation, and we’re go-ing to seize it.”

Nora Martinez, govern-ment and Hispanic studies senior, said she is leaning to-wards endorsing Huey, but plans to endorse a candidate who is honest and who has experience working with the legislature.

“I am really interested in Huey because he’s in con-tact with all of us,” Martinez said. “I feel like it’s important to have a vision for what we want in the legislature.”

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For the 2015 Austin City Limits Music Festival, Safi Jenkins was looking for a quick way to make some cash that could work around her schedule. For Jenkins — like many UT students wanting a source for extra money not bound by 8-hour retail shifts — it was Uber’s flexibility and easygoing atmosphere that pushed her to become a driver.

“You get to drive when-ever you want. I can drive between classes, I can start really late and I can start really early,” said Jenkins, a human development and family sciences junior. “For finals, I was able to take off for a whole week, which is something that’s really hard for a normal job.”

While ride-hailing com-panies such as Uber and Lyft debate about regula-tions passed in December with City Hall, students like Jenkins are stuck

in a complex situation that starkly contrasts the simplicity that initially attracted them.

In the latest round of debate, City Council mem-bers voted 7-4 Thursday to approve an initiative called “Thumbs Up!” that would provide incentives, such as free metered parking, to Jenkins and other transpor-tation network company drivers who voluntarily get their fingerprints scanned.

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when people are not willing to talk about sexual assault on campuses.”

McRaven also dove into the Texas legislative session dur-ing his first months in office, where he opposed the passage of campus carry — and now is expected to implement the law across the UT System.

Howard Prince, a faculty member in the Lyndon B. Johnson School, said McRa-ven’s leadership on campus carry and other issues has balanced University interests while carrying out the law.

“I think he’s done very well,” Prince said. “It’s [his] duty to support whatever the decision is, and he’s working to help campuses come to grips with this in a way they can live with and support.”

However, there have been clashes in the legislature over other issues. McRaven has faced opposition from Texas lawmakers on an expansion into southwest Houston and has made several controversial remarks doubting the effec-tiveness of the top 10 percent rule in increasing diversity at Texas public universities.

Student Government repre-sentative Santiago Rosales de-

fended the top 10 percent rule as a way to help students from a wider variety of backgrounds get into UT-Austin.

“Personally, I believe the top 10 percent rules help with diversity,” finance sophomore Rosales said. “I’ve met count-less students from other parts of the state who got in as part of the top 10 percent rule, and from the student perspective I’ve seen, the top 10 percent has assisted in the goal of in-creasing diversity.”

As part of his strategic plan for the future of the UT Sys-tem, McRaven recently an-nounced he would implement a required leadership program

for students at UT System in-stitutions. Annie Albrecht, Plan II and corporate com-munications junior, said she thinks the leadership program will help students learn more about themselves and how they can use those skills in the service of others.

“I’m really encouraged by his new push for making sure students have leadership expe-rience on campus,” Albrecht said. “I think my positions of leadership are the way I’ve grown most and contributed to UT and the city of Austin, and I think leadership is valu-able and students should have this opportunity.”

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Rows of UT ROTC cadets watched a contracting officer for the Air Force talked about his experiences in the service, especially Iraq and Afghani-stan, on Thursday.

Lieutenant Colonel Ronnie Doud works in aircraft main-tenance at the 89th airlift wing, which provides flights for the president, vice president and heads of state. He is also a con-tracting officer, the one who de-cides which companies can best provide needed goods and ser-vices and making contracts to buy them.

“I have 20 aircraft, four dif-ferent types, and we support the vice president on down to some of the combatant-com-manders,” Doud said. “I’m a contracting guy launching the president … What a freaking

awesome job.”Doud said his first contract

was for $5 million, which in-creased to spending $14 mil-lion a week for the Air Force when he was serving in Iraq. Costs were higher for things like transportation due to the risk involved, but Doud learned to haggle to find more reasonable prices.

“Car dealers hate me,” Doud said.

His job requires sift-ing through many differ-ent government regulations, Doud said.

“The book I use to buy stuff … is about 1,500 pages. The Department of Defense Sup-plement is another thousand pages. The Air Force supple-ment, thank God, is about 80 pages. That’s what it takes to buy something from the Air Force,” Doud said.

Doud said he had to im-merse himself in the customs and culture while working in Afghanistan and Iraq in order to successfully make deals.

“I got personal contact with the contractors, you get to know their culture, get outside the wire,” Doud said.

When it comes to training, Doud emphasized the impor-tance of leadership.

“It’s important to have ex-cellent officers when you’ve got a thousand 18-year-olds armed to the teeth,” Doud said.

Doud used his experiences

to encourage cadets in at-tendance to become leaders and keep learning to develop their careers.

“There’s nothing special about me,” Doud said. “You could be here one day.”

Sociology sophomore Michelle French said she joined ROTC because she is from a military fam-ily, and Doud’s talk helped her see the advantages of her

career choice.“I wanted to go to college be-

fore I enlisted,” French said.Petroleum engineering

freshman Joseph Vo said he learned a lot from the talk and thought more about the military as a future job option afterwards.

“I was always interested [in the military] but never re-ally thought of it as a career,” Vo said.

Mary PistoriusDaily Texan Staff

Lietenant Colo-nel Ronnie Doud, a contracting officer for the Air Force, speaks to a group of ROTC students at the College of Liberal Arts building on Thursday morn-ing.

issues from all candidates run-ning in local races, UDems will meet separately with Cen-tral Austin Democrats so the organizations can decide on endorsements. If both groups end up endorsing the same candidate, then he or she will have the backing of the Austin Progressive Coalition, which carries a lot of weight in local

Democratic politics.“It’s big because we’re a co-

alition that will be active in the community for you,” govern-ment senior Maliha Mazhar said. “We’ll spend money, we’ll volunteer, we’ll blockwalk and we’ll phone bank for you.”

Attorney Aspen Dunaway, former NARAL Pro-Choice Texas counsel Blake Rocap and attorney Matt Shrum were not in attendance during the meeting. The seven candidates

are all running for longtime Democratic state Rep. Elliott Naishtat’s seat after he decided not to seek re-election back in December.

Although she won’t be able to attend the endorsement meeting and candidate forum, biochemistry freshman Renee Raines, who is still undecided, said she wants a representa-tive who will take progressive stances on immigration, the death penalty and lowering

student debt.“I really like the candidates

who are focused on the stu-dents and come out to these meetings. It really shows that they are interested in the young community, which is important in getting those votes,” Rains said. “It’s really important in politics for can-didates to be really straight-forward and honest with the people they’re representing, so that’s a big thing for me.”

in West Campus.“If a homeless person ever

got too close, I would pull [the stun gun] out and maybe zap it to let them know that I have it,” Lewis said. “I feel pretty safe on campus though, so if I ever had to use it, it would probably be in West Campus.”

Both stun guns and Tasers have significant drawbacks, Pieper said. He said the prox-imity involved in using a stun gun against an attacker is his biggest concern for that device.

“It takes time for the full ef-fect of [the stun gun] to work and until that time is met, the person who’s attacking you has an opportunity to continue to

attack you or even worse, take the stun gun from you or use it against you,” Pieper said.

He said Tasers also have shortcomings including the requirement of both prongs needing to make contact with the attacker for the attempted defense to be successful. Due to the separation of prongs once fired, Pieper said stu-dents who carry Tasers should

know how to use them and be prepared before attempting to use one in a stressful situation.

While criminal charges would not be issued to stu-dents using either of these weapons for self-defense on campus, Pieper said students using them to cause inten-tional harm to others could face simple or aggravated assault charges.

Austin police officers of-ten delay action when re-sponding to low-priority crimes around the city, such as petty theft, due to a lack of officers.

Currently, the depart-ment is understaffed with at least 118 vacancies. Austin Police Department Commander Troy Offi-cer said the shortage is a result of the city’s rapid population growth.

“The city has grown faster than the police de-partment has been able to expand,” Officer said. “You have to plan years ahead to maintain your authorized strength, but when your city is growing as fast as we have and the police depart-ment has not grown to meet that challenge, you start falling into a shortage, and I think that’s where we are at this point.”

Officer said APD is not sure if crime rates for lower-level crimes have increased significantly despite the de-lay in response times,

The shortage in Austin is not unique and is part of a nationwide problem of po-

lice departments operating without a full staff, accord-ing to Officer. He said the time-consuming qualifica-tion process makes it diffi-cult to hire new officers.

Officer said APD is tak-ing initiative by increasing staff involvement in recruit-ing and training programs to produce an appropriate sized workforce for the city.

APD Commander Darryl Jamail said the department compensates for vacancies by recruiting officers to serve overtime. Jamail said overtime officers provide immediate responses to high-priority calls that have a potential impact on public safety such as car crashes, robberies or assaults.

“We are going to allocate our resources to be sure those calls that affect pub-lic safety are answered on time,” Jamail said. “How-ever, some of the less ur-gent calls may be delayed because of the shortage be-cause we don’t have the of-ficers we would if we were fully staffed.”

Instead of 40-hour work weeks, some officers work 60 hours a week. While requiring officers to work overtime is essential due to

the shortage, Officer said there are consequences in the extended hours of-ficers commit to the job. According to Officer, this difference in time commit-ment can be draining and potentially result in of-ficers retiring, quitting or suffering injuries.

“In the long term, it’s not good for individual officers or the department if you’re

constantly maximizing the number of hours your of-ficers work,” Officer said. “Plus, when emergencies come up, you don’t want to have to pull from existing resources; you always want to have reserved resources to pull from.”

UTPD Captain Don Verett said while Univer-sity officers work closely with APD, their primary

jurisdiction is any property owned, leased or rented by the UT System. He said the staffing levels of APD do not significantly affect the actions of UTPD.

Verett said more UTPD officers have started patrol-ling areas close to campus, such as Guadalupe Street, on bicycle and on foot in order to ensure the safety of students.

“Our primary responsi-bility is the main campus, but we realize we have high concentrations of students living in the area west of campus,” Verett said. “We have a responsibility to keep our people safe so we’re go-ing to be out patrolling in those areas where there’s either reports of crime or a perception that things are not safe.”

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know how to use them and be prepared before attempting to use one in a stressful situation.

While criminal charges would not be issued to stu-dents using either of these weapons for self-defense on campus, Pieper said students using them to cause inten-tional harm to others could face simple or aggravated assault charges.

percent of the faculty, and 39 percent of stu-dents identify as His-panic compared to 11 percent of the faculty, according to a UT Sys-tem press release. Wom-en faculty members are paid 90 percent of what their male colleagues are paid at doctoral institutions, accord-ing to data released in 2014 by the Ameri-can Association of University Professors.

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said that they don’t want anything that penalizes non-fingerprinted drivers,” said Josh Jones-Dilworth, a member of the “Thumbs Up!” task force. “We’ve been really careful to only add in new stuff that is not taking [anything] away. We want to never hurt a driver’s abil-ity to earn their living, and we want to make it easier to go through this process.”

Anyone opting to get fingerprinted could go to an HEB or City Hall, for example, equipped with

fingerprint scanners to get background checked, Jones-Dilworth said.

Members of the council argued that the “Thumbs Up!” ordinance would only work if TNCs could come to a compromise with City Hall, but officials have al-ready come out against the initiative.

“It’s been very clear that there is not going to be co-operation,” councilmember Delia Garza said.

In the December ordi-nance, the council vot-ed to make regulations voluntary by setting up compliance dates for the

companies that wouldn’t begin until May 1, but TNCs and their support-ers didn’t believe it was an efficient compromise.

“The existing regulations that are in place — they are working,” bar owner Su-zette Christensen said at the meeting concerning the comparatively few existing pre-initiative regulations. “I see things that you guys don’t see at two or three in the morning … people are not drinking and driv-ing when they leave the bar at night.”

On Jan. 19, Ridesharing Works for Austin — a group

of local nonprofits backed by TNCs — announced it had collected 65,103 signa-tures on a petition, requir-ing City Council to either roll back regulations them-selves or put the issue up to voters.

“The city council pissed off the people in the city of Austin, and they responded with a 65,000-person peti-tion that legally mandates us to either adopt the or-dinance or hold an elec-tion,” councilmember El-len Troxclair said during the meeting.

The City Clerk is ex-pected to announce it has

validated enough signa-tures — at least 20,000 by law — to either force the council to solidify exist-ing TNC regulations or let voters decide.

“We believe the city council’s action should be guided by the over 65,000 Austinites who trust their voice of disapproval will be heard,” Lyft official Chelsea Wilson said in a statement.

The debate between the city and TNCs will contin-ue into the coming weeks, when the City Clerk contin-ues to work on the petition, and the council discusses it in a work session next week.

Humanity First — Texas Chapter is holding a book drive that aims to assist underprivileged children in the greater Austin community. Unlike usual fundrais-ers, the book drive provides a more per-sonal and unique approach to donation by transferring knowledge from college stu-dents to younger children.

These books will act as a means of educational giving between the two age groups. The initiative should be recog-nized because of its motive of promoting the perpetual utility of books.

Humanity First’s national chapter has been running international campaigns that work on helping developing coun-tries. These previous initiatives raised over $2,000 to provide drinkable water world-wide and almost $10,000 for marginalized youth in Bosnia.

The organization’s Knowledge for Life campaign is an ongoing project through-out the fall and spring semesters, which has the goal of building schools and pro-viding uniforms and books for a basic ed-ucation system in countries such as Guate-mala, Nigeria and Pakistan.

However, HF catered the Charity Book Drive to focus on the local community of Austin. This initiative promotes the prin-ciples of providing education and knowl-

edge for the underprivileged, as does the Knowledge for Life campaign.

“We work to help better community however we can,” said Al Hirani, Human-ity First national programs director. “We hosted a blanket drive that was held dur-ing last semester’s winter and sandwich making for around 200 homeless people in Austin. We felt that one initiative that was lacking in our communities is the transfer of education ... that initiative is beneficial regardless of where you are in the world.”

This is a unique way of “giving back,” especially as a means of transferring knowledge from college students to younger children.

According to the National Institute for Early Education Research, reading at a young age has a vital role in fostering early literacy development by building back-ground knowledge and forming concepts. The book drive is a small step to improving reading comprehension in young children.

An important principle of the Knowl-edge for Life campaign is realizing of the utility of knowledge and the value of spreading it to others. This drive is essen-tially a platform that encourages growth for both —college students and children beginning their educational journey.

“We take a lot of our smallest belong-ings for granted,” Hirani said. “Some of our books are just collecting dust on our bookshelves. The book on your shelf may inspire this next kid. This is one way that

will strike up and could help out future college students develop their knowledge.”

One of the best things donors can do to increase their own knowledge and skill set is to give back that knowledge that will teach them an important set of les-

sons. As UT students, we should be a part of the solution to promoting reading for younger children and providing books for the underprivileged.

Saifullah is a neuroscience sophomore from Richardson.

In 1928, east of East Avenue and south of the City Cemetery became the only place “non-Caucasians” could receive utility services when Austin instituted the Koch and Fowler City Plan. In the 1940s, Interstate 35 was built right down the same line, physically separating predomi-nantly white west Austin and predomi-nantly black east Austin.

The history of segregation has left a pro-found divide in Austin to this day. This foundation of geographic separation, al-though no longer officially planned, still enforces cultural segregation.

The black student population in the Aus-tin Independent School District has been declining since the mid-1990s. According to Mia Sneed, a state equity specialist with The Center for the Elimination of Dispro-portionality and Disparity, this is due to a variety of factors.

“[The population shrinkage is due in part to] the gentrification that has happened along the east side, and the cost of the hous-ing that is replacing the original housing,” Sneed said. “Affordability of housing and gentrification is [a huge problem].”

Now, instead of just affecting AISD, this divide has crept into surrounding areas.

Since 1995, the African-American stu-dent population enrolled in AISD schools has declined from 19 percent to 8.2 per-cent. Meanwhile, districts north and east of Austin, such as Pflugerville, have experienced increases of up to 7 percent in African-American enrollment. How-ever, more affluent districts west of Aus-tin, such as Eanes and Lake Travis, have seen virtually no growth in their African American populations.

Even within AISD, segregation is still prevalent. The consequences of this are not only geographic and economic, but cul-tural as well.

In 1907, E. H. Anderson High School was

built on the east side of Austin to educate exclusively black students. Despite Ander-son’s status as one of the few well-perform-ing schools on the east side, in 1971 AISD forced the permanent closure of “Old” An-derson High School.

In response to that closure, AISD opened L.C. Anderson and Lyndon B. Johnson High School. The two new schools straddle I-35, once Austin’s symbolic white-black divide, and show the results of Austin’s historic ra-cial schism. Today, Anderson High School to the west has 7 percent African-American enrollment, while LBJ to the east has 40 per-cent African-American enrollment.

“Two different schools, two different realities,” said Angela Ward, a staffer for AISD’s Department of Cultural Proficiency & Inclusiveness.

Today, 15 percent of kids in Austin live in extreme poverty, according to the Burnt Orange Report.

“Growing up in poverty has serious con-sequences for children, especially in educa-tion,” author Katie Singh wrote.

Unsurprisingly, these numbers dispro-portionately affect Hispanic and African-American children. Austin’s lingering seg-regation means that these “consequences” disproportionately affect east side schools.

Directly to the west, Eanes ISD borders AISD. Since 1995, one percent of EISD stu-dents were African-American. In 2014, 0.8 percent of its students were African-Amer-ican. The next district to the west, Lake Travis ISD, had less than two percent Af-rican-American enrollment in 2014. These numbers have held true since the time of le-gal segregation and are not likely to change any time soon.

The east-west divisions don’t just spell separation. Eanes and Lake Travis are cur-rently ranked in the top 10 districts in Texas by Niche, a website that compares, reviews and ranks schools across the nation. To the east, Austin is ranked 80th and Pflugerville is ranked 173rd. That is what segregation looks like, and separate is still not equal.

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Iowa, Iowa, Iowa. New Hampshire, New Hampshire — or is it Vermont? With the presidential race in full swing, and the Iowa caucus next week, one might think these two states are the greatest and most impor-tant places on the Earth (they are, right?).

The Iowa caucus and New Hampshire primary are historically the first two states to conduct primary elections in presiden-tial election years. New Hampshire is even required by state law to reschedule its pri-mary if another state schedules its primary too close to, or before, New Hampshire’s.

This is a very strategic move. Two states that might otherwise receive little to no at-tention in presidential campaigns are sud-denly front and center. Every politician proclaims their profound love for Iowa, as though loving a state shows their capabil-ity to run a country.

This hubbub is not necessarily bad, but it is misguided. These primaries act as indicators for the political climate of the country — failing to perform well in them tumbles into a failure to gain a nomina-tion. For instance, George H. W. Bush was expected to lose after placing third in the Iowa caucus in 1988, but he won the nomination. Many candidates would have dropped out after such an abysmal first showing.

Herein lies the problem with these early primaries — they’re almost treated as fi-nal, but they do not always act with final-ity. If a Texan voter intended to support Kasich or O’Malley in their primary, they might not be able to do so because those

candidates may have dropped out after an early, poor showing by a largely unrepre-sentative base. Of course, this could also be construed as a good thing, because now that Texan voter can place a vote that actu-ally “matters,” as opposed to “wasting” his vote on a losing candidate.

Continuing this thought, one may reach the conclusion that complaining about the order of primaries is irrelevant to the politi-cal process. Government sophomore John Jacobs elucidates this idea by arguing that even if the primaries were all done at one time on the same day, the outcome would be the same as the staggered primaries.

“It’s not the best way to do it,” Jacobs said. “But, do I really think it’s going to cause a huge difference if they do it oth-erwise? No. Either way, I think the same people are going to get chosen, and it’s not going to cause a huge difference.”

The problem with the primaries, then, does not seem to lie in their distortion of political outcomes, but rather in their arbitrary, traditional basis that just adds one layer of complexity to the convoluted world of politics. This convolution may confuse and direct one (a columnist) to write about them instead of what really matters.

The issue is still important, however. Traditional presuppositions are just one more hindrance in the march of “prog-ress,” one more aspect we think is fine but just might be subtly affecting us. If any-thing, the staggered primary system that disproportionately weighs two small states as the end-all must be examined like any-thing else, and not backed merely because it is “the way things are.”

Bordelon is a philosophy sophomore from Houston.

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Longhorns back in pool to face Arizona on road

Texas swimming and diving will jump back into the competition, traveling to Tucson to take on Ari-zona this weekend.

Unlike the Lee and Joe Jamail Swimming Center, Tuscon provides an out-door pool for its compe-tition. Men’s head coach Eddie Reese said the outdoor meets give valu-able information as to the team’s stance under tougher conditions.

“I remember one meet I didn’t let the guys get out of the bus while I went out and kicked all the ice off of the starting blocks,” Reese said. “It can be

cold. I just tell the guys, ‘Don’t let anyone know you’re cold. Just go out and swim and keep going.’”

Junior Clark Smith will lead the No. 1 Longhorn men’s team after taking down NCAA and Ameri-can records in the 1,000 freestyle in last month’s Texas Invitational.

The No. 4 Texas wom-en will be led by junior swimmer Madisyn Cox and senior diver Meghan Houston. The duo earned Big 12 Swimmer and Div-er of the Week awards, re-spectively, following their performances in the USA Swimming Arena Pro Swim Series held in Aus-tin two weeks ago.

The 7-2 Longhorns will

compete in a two-day meet against the No. 14 Wild-cats in one of their last outings before conference championships. The two-day dual meet will start with a traditional 16-event competition on Friday in Tuscon followed by an unscored competition on Saturday. Like the men, Arizona’s outdoor pool will be a change of scenery for the women’s squad.

“Arizona is a well-coached team and they’ve got some talent,” wom-en’s head coach Carol Capitani said. “We only have two dual meets left so now’s the time when you fine-tune and decide the last little pieces we need to work on before championship season.”

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No. 10 Texas is set to begin its spring season at the Arizona Intercollegiate in Tucson at the Sewailo Golf Club.

The 54-hole tournament begins Friday with 36 holes and will conclude Saturday with 18 holes. The course is a Par 71 that stretches 6,707

yards and was designed by former PGA Tour player, Notah Begay III.

The 16-team field in-cludes two other ranked teams No. 21 California and No. 23 Washington. Fellow Big 12 team Iowa State will also compete.

Junior Beau Hossler and sophomore Scottie Schef-fler will lead a group of five Longhorns in the team

competition, while junior Kalena Preus and redshirt sophomore Branson Davis will compete individually.

After having a three-month hiatus from team action, the Longhorns are eager to be back on the course.

“More than anything, I’m just excited to have some jitters on the first tee,” Hossler said. “[I’m]

really excited to get into the competitive mode.”

Head coach John Fields wants the Longhorns to hit the ground running and gain some momentum out of the weekend.

“What I’d like to do is start building some consis-tency on this team,” Fields said. “I’m hopeful we can go down there and get our-selves in position on the last day to win.”

Daulton Venglar | Daily Texan file photoJunior Madisyn Cox swims in the Big 12 Swimming and Diving Championships on Feb. 27, 2015. The Longhorns swim against Arizona in Tuscon this weekend.

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Prince Ibeh left the Erwin Center court to a standing ovation on Tuesday night; his double-double perfor-mance earned him the well-deserved honor.

It was a long time com-ing for the senior center.

Ibeh sat behind fellow senior center Cameron Ridley for most of his Texas career. He started just six games in his first three sea-sons, averaging 2.6 points and 2.9 rebounds per game. Even in the first ten games of this season, Ibeh played no more than 14 minutes in a game and averaged 1.2 points and three rebounds.

But that changed on Dec. 27.

Ridley went down with a fractured left foot in practice, sidelining him indefinitely. Suddenly, Ibeh found him-self in the starting lineup.

“[Head coach Shaka Smart] told me that there’s no other guy in [the] coun-try perfect for stepping up than me,” Ibeh said.

But, Ibeh and the Long-horns struggled through the first four games with-out Ridley.

Ridley averaged 12.7 points and 10 rebounds a game for the Longhorns through 11 games. Ibeh and junior forward Shaquille Cleare — the other half of the “big man rotation” — averaged just nine points and 11 rebounds in the first four games without him, going 1-3 in the process.

But it was more than the statistics that changed when Ridley went down. Texas found success ear-ly in the season with an “inside-out” approach on offense. But without Ridley, the Longhorns’ focus turned away from the post and more toward outside shooting.

“There was a game earlier in the year where [Ibeh] kind of said half-jokingly, ‘We keep throwing it into Cam, but what about me?’” head coach Shaka Smart said. “I learned a lesson there.”

Ibeh kept working through it. After not get-ting many minutes early in his career, he said every minute on the court helped him find his place on the floor and gain confidence.

“Now I am out there no matter what,” Ibeh said. “I’m depended on. I’m just getting more and more comfortable.”

In his last five games, Ibeh is averaging 6.4 points and 6.8 rebounds a game, but he’s also made an im-pact on the defensive end. He swatted away seven shots at Kansas on Satur-day and followed it up with five blocks against TCU.

Ibeh said defense is the best part of his game.

“My presence changes the game,” Ibeh said. “Opposing teams know I’m out there.”

The TCU game Tuesday was his breakout moment.

Ibeh posted a career-high 17 points along with 10 rebounds — his second career double-double. But

the most surprising part of his game came at the free-throw line. A career 39 per-cent free-throw shooter, he shot 5-of-6 from the line, each made shot garnering as loud of a cheer as one of his thunderous dunks.

“We know that Prince has always had the poten-tial to do what he wants,” junior guard Isaiah Tay-lor said. “I think that he’s starting to show that now.”

But with Vanderbilt com-ing to Austin on Saturday and over half of the Big 12 season remaining, Ibeh said he still has to work on “ev-erything” to get the Long-horns into the postseason.

“The biggest thing for me is just not feeling set-tled and complacent and to keep working,” Ibeh said.

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Texas lands four-star cornerback

Cornerback Eric Cuffee, a four-star recruit from Waco High School, is tak-ing his talents to the Uni-versity of Texas. Cuffee made his announcement official on ESPNU’s Thurs-day edition of “Recruiting Nation.”

According to the ESPN Top 300, Cuffee is ranked as the nation’s 11th best cornerback and the state of Texas’ 19th best recruit.

Cuffee says the deciding factor in his commitment was how comfortable he felt with Texas head coach Charlie Strong.

“I love Coach Strong and the entire coach-ing staff,” Cuffee said on ESPNU. “I had a great time with Coach Strong when he came for the in-home. My family really liked him. He was really straightforward, and I ap-preciated that from him. I loved my official visit, and my mom loved it, too.”

Cuffee says the program is heading in the right di-rection and it will only be a matter of time until Tex-as returns to prominence.

“Texas is definitely a program on the rise,” Cuffee said on ESPNU. “They had a bad year last year, but there is a lot of talent for a bounce back year. Deshon [Elliott], Malik [Jefferson] and P.J. [Locke] all recruited me. And they are all young and will help the program grow. It’s going to be good in the future.”

Cuffee is the 14th player in Texas’ 2016 recruit-ing class and is the first big domino to fall in the Longhorns’ last big push before National Signing Day on Feb. 3.

—Mark Skol

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Joshua Guerra| Daily Texan file photoSenior center Prince Ibeh goes for a basket in Texas’ 66-71 loss to UConn on Dec. 29. Ibeh has been in the starting lineup for the Longhorns since senior center Cameron Ridley’s foot injury in December. He had 17 points and 10 rebounds against TCU on Tuesday.

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No. 6 Texas ready to move past 1,000th win

It’s not often that a team has to find a way to refo-cus its efforts after earn-ing the 1,000th victory in school history.

Only four other teams have ever had to do it. Texas is now the fifth af-ter a victory over Kansas on Wednesday.

Head coach Karen Aston said that the anticipation leading up to the milestone was not a distraction for her team.

After the game, however, confetti poured over the team as women’s athletics direc-tor Chris Plonsky addressed the crowd. The screens at the Frank Erwin Center played a video to commemorate the achievement.

It’s a milestone that can be celebrated, but something Aston said shouldn’t distract the Longhorns.

“When we have seemed to accomplish something if it is part of what we are trying to do, we will check it off and look toward the next one,” Aston said. “So I think this is something we can check off, but I don’t think they have been distracted.”

Aston said that winning the 1,000th game in pro-gram history did not surface as a goal until after the sea-son started. What the Long-horns have been eying since the beginning of the season is a conference title.

No. 6 Texas (19-1, 8-1 Big 12) sits tied at the top with Baylor in the Big 12 standings. The Longhorns’ only loss of the season was against the Bears on Jan. 17.

Texas followed that up by squeaking out a seven-point win at TCU and then picked up home victories over No. 19 Oklahoma and Kansas. Instead of dropping more games, and dropping out of the championship chase, the

Longhorns have won three straight games.

That, Aston said, is the key to keeping the team’s Big 12 title hopes alive.

“It’s happened to us be-fore where one disappoint-ing loss can turn into two or three,” Aston said. “And [then] you find yourself in the middle of the pack and not having an opportunity to win a championship.”

Senior guard Celina

Rodrigo said that it was great to be a part of a moment that means so much for Texas basketball. But she knows this isn’t what her team has been working for this season.

“We definitely have a spe-cial team this year,” Rodrigo said. “I think we’re just go-ing to build on it from here. It was a great milestone, but we’re looking forward to get-ting even more wins.”

Rodrigo and fellow

seniors are halfway through the final regular season in conference play of their ca-reers. When they travel to Manhattan, Kansas, to take on Kansas State on Saturday, it will be the last time the se-niors play them on the road.

“It makes us think we have to play every game like it’s our last because it’s com-ing to an end,” Rodrigo said. “We don’t want to have any regrets in the long run.”

By Tyler Horka@TexasTy95

Joshua Guerra | Daily Texan StaffSenior guard Celina Rodrigo avoids a Baylor defender in Texas’ 80-67 loss to the Bears on Jan. 17. The Longhorns won their 1,000th game in program history on Wednesday by beating Kansas.

Ibeh fills starting role in wake of Ridley’s injury

Imagine a thin string at-tached to the ceiling. It enters the top of your scalp, runs taut through your body and connects the balls of your feet to the ground. Focus on your breath.

Deep in meditation, you relax your mind and body and begin attending to your inner self — something fun-damental to the mission of Meditation Bar, a studio re-cently opened by UT alumni Cathy Bonner and Lauren Foreman. Bonner believes meditation should be a part of people’s daily life and cre-ated the studio to help people new to meditation get started.

Bonner said she has already begun seeing the benefits of meditation in her students. In addition to reducing stress, meditation can improve sleep cycles and reduce anxiety, leading to a more present, mindful life.

“Living mindfully just means living aware,” Bonner said. “You have a calmness

about you that allows you to not get so excited over things that really don’t matter, so you can focus on things that do matter.”

It’s common for students to get emotional while focusing on their heart and mind — Foreman said some have bro-ken out in tears. One student, a businessman who spends half of each week in Austin and the other half in New York, has lost 22 pounds since he started attending classes. Foreman said his meditation simply made him conscious of when he felt full and made him more aware of where his food was coming from.

“When you practice a love and gratitude meditation, you think about things all the way back to the seed,” Foreman said. “It’s been really reward-ing to see what’s happening in peoples’ lives since they started coming.”

The Meditation Bar offers a “flight” of classes, includ-ing “Fundamentals,” which is recommended for beginners, “Breathe,” which focuses on the physical aspects of meditation,

and “Happy Hour,” where the group takes “shots” of fruit-infused water after the practice. Bonner said there is something special about meditating in a group as opposed to an indi-vidual setting.

“There’s this energy from the group that is kind of hard to define and sounds a little woo-woo,” Bonner said. “There’s this energy from a group that can transfer [within the group].”

Bonner starting meditating when she retired from a hectic life as an entrepreneur. Fore-man began in college when her roommate, dedicated to her meditations, woke her up each day at 5 a.m. Almost all of the students at Meditation Bar have never meditated before, and most of their business comes from young adults hoping to relieve stress.

UT integrated health coun-selor Elana Bizer manages the MindBody Lab on campus, which provides meditations involving breathe exercises, body scans and silent tech-niques. Bizer said meditation increases mindfulness and can help students deal with

stress, tough decisions and negative situations.

“There are a variety of medi-tations students can access to begin finding out what is helpful for them,” Bizer said. “I think different people respond better to different meditations.”

UT alumnus Premkishore

Shivakumar, who led the Sahaj Marg Meditation club while at UT, said there are plenty of opportunities for students to meditate. His meditations focus on a sense of calm and peace found from within, which he calls “heartfulness.” He said his happiness, calmness and focus

have drastically improved with years of meditation.

“You give the mind some kind of resting place [because] if not, it’s always going in all directions,” Shivakumar said. “Being in touch with your in-ner self can really help bring you joy.”

For the second year in a row, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences nominated 20 white actors for all the acting Oscars. Even esteemed movies fea-turing people of color that received nominations, such as “Straight Outta Comp-ton” and “Creed,” only did so for white cast and crew members. African-American director Spike Lee and Afri-can-American actress Jada Pinkett Smith will boycott the ceremony.

The Academy’s image has suffered a blow — but in truth, the organization did not have a diverse field to choose nominees from in the first place.

In 2015, the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies at UCLA conducted a study which re-vealed there are more than two white film leads for ev-ery minority lead, two white directors for every minority director and three white writ-ers for every minority writer. Women only make up one-eighth of film directors and one-fourth of the writers in the film industry.

Radio-television-film asso-ciate professor Mary Beltrán, who specializes in race and gender studies, partially at-tributed the lack of diversity in Hollywood to white-cen-tric tastes in America.

“It doesn’t mean everyone is experiencing racism every minute they don’t fit into [the white] category, but we don’t

really question that most movies are about white peo-ple,” Beltrán said. “We have come to take it for granted, and we go pay to watch those movies.”

Radio-television-film pro-fessor Tom Schatz said that it is tough for minorities and women to break into the film business because it is domi-nated by white men.

“I’ve spent a lot of time with people in the industry, and it’s a boys’ club,” Schatz said. “[People in the industry] like people with similar back-grounds, similar sensibilities.”

Studios’ business practices are also responsible for the diversity issue. Filmmaking is an expensive endeavor, so the studios attempt to minimize the risk involved. Among other tactics such as testing movies on focus groups and churning out sequels, studios tend to look toward racial demographics in the United States to determine who their films should appeal to, which leads to the underrepresenta-tion of certain groups.

Beltrán recounted an in-terview she had with Asian-American director Justin Lin, famous for directing three “The Fast and the Furious” films, in which Lin said the industry felt the Asian popu-lation was too small to war-rant making films for.

“It’s really kind of sad [the studios don’t feel they] need to tell all these stories, to think about doing it for all the com-munities in the U.S.,” she said.

Beltrán noted that studios believe white stars are an important selling point, and

often hesitate to cast minority leads as a result.

Schatz argued film schools should help remedy the prob-lem by cultivating the talent of minority and female stu-dents in production classes. He and other faculty mem-bers of UT’s film department are currently striving to diver-sify their student body.

On the Hollywood side of things, Beltrán suggested stu-dios should take more chanc-es on films and actors of color, as the fear that minorities and females won’t attract au-diences is unwarranted. She pointed to Universal’s “The Fast and the Furious” as a lucrative series that defies ex-ecutives’ expectations that the

white male hero is what sells. Similarly, last year’s most

commercially successful movie, Lucasfilm’s “Star Wars: The Force Awakens,” starred a white female, a black male and Hispanic male.

While it’s tempting to think bashing the Oscars is an effec-tive way to change Hollywood, Schatz warned that simply

making a ruckus over the nominee list and boycotting can cause people to lose sight of the larger problems at hand.

“[Lee and Pinkett Smith] ought to be using the Oscars to address the deeper issues,” he said. “Hopefully, the roil-ing controversy this year will keep us thinking beyond Os-car night.”

Singer-songwriter Vanessa Carlton, who catapulted to fame in 2001 with “A Thousand Miles” and “Ordinary Day,” will perform at the Parish on Sat-urday. Carlton caught up with The Daily Texan to talk about touring, motherhood and her new album, Liberman:

The Daily Texan: How’s your tour going?

Vanessa Carlton: It’s been probably our best tour so far. I think the shows have been really good. We mostly play Liberman, and people seem to really connect to the new re-cord, so it feels good.

DT: This album is more

mellow than much of your previous work. What in-spired that choice?

VC: We wanted [the album] to feel dreamy, almost watery. I think working with [produc-er] Steve Osborne was a huge part of that, because working with his aesthetic is kind of ee-rie and beautiful.

DT: How long did it take for Liberman to come together?

VC: It was tricky in the be-ginning to get the sonic palette right. We tried a few differ-ent things, but once we got it, it was the best feeling. We recorded the majority of it in England, so I had to go over there a couple times before we got it right.

DT: How has motherhood

impacted your music or how you go about planning a tour?

VC: The majority of the album was written and done before I got pregnant, but having a baby on the road is a whole new game. I think this has been a total experiment to see if I could do it, and it’s kind of working, which is great because it means I can perform around the country and still keep my family to-gether. The other way [my daughter] really affected me is in the performance every night. When you become a mom, there’s something about it that makes you very much in the moment. Your baby doesn’t care about your stupid problems, they’re just these pure little beings that want to connect with you.

DT: Initially, how did you approach writing new material after “A Thousand Miles?” Was there added pressure to write another hit?

VC: Honestly the way I look at that is I kind of pre-tend it didn’t happen. This tour is not a nostalgia tour for us — we play mostly new material. [“A Thousand Miles”] was almost a differ-ent lifetime ago. I understand people know that song and love that song, but if they’re still connecting with me now, it’s not really about that song anymore. The people who do come to the show just to hear that song often end up con-necting to the new stuff, and that’s good. I feel no obliga-tion to fulfill anyone’s expec-tations from that earlier era.

I’m 35 years old. I’ve grown up. I’ve moved forward.

DT: How do you think loca-tion, whether it’s recording in England or moving to Nash-ville, impacted this record?

VC: Working in England is really incredible, because you’re kind of in the middle of nowhere. It’s very isolating, in a good way, for an artist. You live like a monk — all you do every day is work on your project. There’s something somber about the record, and I think that really reflects the tone of where we were. Rainy England is a feeling on this album. Nashville is a differ-ent thing. We played anything we could get our hands on to create the tracks and to cut the songs in a way that really

linked in with what I’d done in England. I think your envi-ronment absolutely affects the kind of music you’re making, at least to a certain degree.

DT: Is there a song you’re most proud of or that was particularly difficult to write?

VC: I love the story of “Matter of Time,” because it was such a quick and natural recording. and my husband plays with me. I had written the song on piano, and it just didn’t sound right. I asked him to play guitar, and he did this finger picking that was really beautiful. It just made the song. When I started sing-ing over it, it just sounded so good. We ended up taking the first take. It was one of those magic moments in the studio.

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Illustration by Jason Cheon | Daily Texan Staff

Edward Torres | Daily Texan StaffUT alumni Cathy Bonner and Lauren Foreman advocate a regular routine of meditation at their Meditation Bar, providing space and instruction for others trying to develop a healthier lifestyle.

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Vanessa Carlton talks touring, motherhood, new album