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en-senior quarterback Case McCoy set back to pass and unleashed a floating dag- ger that found the hands of wide receiver Mike Davis for a touchdown en route to a 36-20 win over Oklahoma in 2013. McCoy’s Longhorns were the last to beat the Sooners and only the second Texas team to win the Red River Showdown since 2009. As Texas prepares for the 110th renewal of the Longhorn-Sooner rivalry game, redshirt freshman quar - terback Jerrod Heard remem- bers the 2013 game. “[My favorite moment] was two years ago, when Case Mc- Coy beat OU, and he threw that deep ball to Mike Davis, and the crowd erupted,” Heard said. “When I look back at that, that’s what I want to do.” Much like McCoy’s Long- horns, Heard and the team enter this season’s rivalry as Daulton Venglar | Daily Texan Staff Redshirt freshman quarterback Jerrod Heard says his favorite moment of the Red River Rivalry game was former Longhorn Case McCoy’s touchdown pass to Mike Davis in 2013.. Saturday, Heard has a chance to create his own moment. By Nick Castillo @Nick_Castillo74 Friday, October 9, 2015 @thedailytexan facebook.com/dailytexan Serving the University of Texas at Austin community since 1900 dailytexanonline.com bit.ly/dtvid NEWS PAGE 3 COMICS PAGE 6 SPORTS PAGE 7 NATIONAL UNIVERSITY UT affordability ranked 40th in US Professor to withdraw in response to Senate Bill 11 UT ranked 40 out of 179 top American colleges for efforts in economic diversity, accord- ing to e New York Times’ College Access Index. UT-Austin placed third of five of other Texas schools included on the list. Rice had the highest rank of schools in Texas, at 28, while Texas A&M University in College Station ranked 29. Trinity University and Texas Christian Univer - sity were the other two Texas schools on the list, ranking at 117 and 177, respectively. e study includes data from 2011-2015, but weighs recent years’ information more heavily in creating rankings. Trina Manor, associate direc- tor for the Office of Financial Aid, said she believes UT’s fi- nancial aid has improved since 2011 and the data from that year might have negatively contributed to UT’s ranking. “We had already seen the writing on the wall in 2011,” Manor said. “Since that year, we have added more scholar- ships such as the Texas Ad- vanced Initiative and [secured] a commitment from Houston endowment. We can always do more, but we are definitely making the steps to help stu- dents pay for their education not just [for] one year but for multiple years.” e Times compiled the in- dex based on three factors: Pell Grant, net price for middle in- come students and graduation rate. Only colleges with a five year graduation rate of 75% or higher were included in the rankings. Pell Grants are typically giv- en to families who make less than $70,000. e net price for middle income students is how much the average student pays for tuition, fees, room and board aſter taking into account federal, state and institutional financial aid. Psychology junior Jalesa Blueford said she felt frustrat- ed with the financial aid office, because she was given a Pell Grant her freshman year but has not been able to requalify ever since. “I never found out why I didn’t get my Pell Grant again,” Blueford said. “My family isn’t making money so I don’t know why I’m not qualified. I’m having to take out a lot of loans right now just to pay for school. Many of my friends who went to A&M were of- fered a lot of money. It’s sad UT isn’t able to do more.” Advertising junior Jesus Acosta said he doesn’t get any financial aid, but doesn’t care much about it because he per- sonally doesn’t need any aid. “I have a neutral opinion of the office because it doesn’t really affect me,” Acosca said. “But I do have friends from my home in the [Rio Grande] Val- ley who have only been able to come to UT because of the fi- nancial aid they received.” By Rachel Freeman @rachel_frmn COLLEGE AFFORDABILITY RANK (ENDOWMENT PER STUDENT) (28) Rice: $729K (29) Texas A&M: $171K (40) University of Texas at Austin: $64K (177) Texas Christian University: $134k FOOTBALL TX-OU meet for annual showdown HEARD page 7 In a recent resignation letter to President Gregory Fenves, a UT professor emer- itus said the new campus carry law would diminish the university’s ability to attract new faculty. e new campus carry law, which has received backlash from UT professors and cur- rently has a working group deciding university-specific regulations, will take effect on Aug. 1 2016. According to economics professor Daniel Hamer- mesh, the new law will lower the quality of higher educa- tion in Texas because it will discourage talented profes- sors from teaching at uni- versities that allow guns on campus. Hamermesh had re- tired in 2014 and agreed with the economics department to teach classes in fall 2015, fall 2016 and fall 2017, but said in his letter he will not return to teach aſter this semester. “is just makes UT a less attractive place, and people we want to recruit have lots of alternatives,” Hamermesh said. “I think it’s going to make it very much harder to hire faculty, and essentially what the legislature did was worsen the quality of higher education in the state of Tex- as.” UT spokesperson Gary Susswein said he appreciates that Hamermesh wrote his letter to Fenves because it is important for students and professors to raise their con- cerns about the concealed- carry law. “e concern we have heard from Professor Ha- mermesh is similar to what WITHDRAW page 2 Nightclubs discuss alter- native queer scene. PAGE 3 Panel celebrates history of Tejano studies at UT. PAGE 3 NEWS Check out the video from this week’s Texan Talks about a moderated debate over the campus carry law. ONLINE OPINION Volleyball ready for their own Red River Rivalry. PAGE 6 Julia Dyche brings laugh- ter to Texas’ locker room. PAGE 6 SPORTS ACL poster artist Sophie Roach discusses design. PAGE 8 alt-J discusses their recent album This Is All Yours. PAGE 8 LIFE&ARTS Follow The Daily Texan’s reporters and photogra- phers as they cover ACL Weekend Two at dailytexanonline.com ONLINE REASON TO PARTY PAGE 7 CITY NATIONAL Whole Foods plans to reduce workforce New FAFSA timeline simplifies financial aid For students starting col- lege in the fall of 2017, a streamlined application aims to make applying for federal financial aid easier. On Sept. 14, the Obama administration announced an update to the schedule for the Free Application for Federal Student Aid, or FAF- SA. When the new rules go into effect next fall, students planning on entering college in 2017 will be able to apply for federal aid as early as Oc- tober and receive their fed- eral aid award information early that same fall. e new schedule aims to alleviate the financial stresses students ex- perience during the college application process. Prior to this updated schedule, stu- dents did not have access to the FAFSA application until January, and did not receive their federal aid information until late spring, long aſter they had applied to college. e new schedule will al- low students and families to view federal aid information much earlier. Carolina Arroyo, a se- nior at Louis D. Brandeis High School in San Antonio, Texas, said she feels the new FAFSA schedule will help al- leviate the already stressful college application process. “It’s already so overwhelm- ing trying to apply to college in the first place,” Arroyo said. “It’s comforting to know that earlier information will prevent students from pick- ing a college and finding out later that they aren’t able to go.” An expanded College By Catherine Marfin @ccaaatheeerineee FAFSA page 2 Whole Foods Market, an Austin-based com- pany, plans to cut about 1,500 entry-level jobs to lower prices and invest in technology, according to a press release Sept. 28. According to the press, over the ensuing eight weeks — until the end of November — the company will reduce its workforce as part of its commitment to lower customer prices and advance upgrades in technology while improv- ing its cost structure. “We believe this is an important step to evolve Whole Foods Market in a rapidly changing mar- ketplace,” Walter Robb, co-CEO of Whole Foods Market, said in the release. The 1,500 workers who will be laid off represent about 1.6 percent of the company’s more than 90,000 total workers, ac- cording to the press re- lease. Whole Food’s press release stated the com- pany anticipates most of the reductions will occur naturally through attri- tion, which is the gradual reduction of a workforce when positions lost from retirement or resignation are not replaced. Plan II freshman Olivia Hartwell said she can’t af- ford to shop at Whole Foods on her own, but it’s the only supermar- ket her family shops at in Connecticut. She said the Whole Foods in her hometown has a program to hire people with dis- abilities for entry-level positions. “If those type of people [with disabilities] were going to get laid off, I’d be really frustrated because I think that’s a really cool program, but I’m for new technology, so I guess it all depends on the other By Lauren Florence @laurenreneeflo FOODS page 2 Jesús Nazario Daily Texan Staff Whole Foods Market plans to lay off about 1.6 percent of the company’s more than 90,000 total workers in order to lower prices and invest in technology, according to a Sept. 28 press release. By Nashwa Bawab @nashwabawab
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Then-senior quarterback Case McCoy set back to pass and unleashed a floating dag-ger that found the hands of wide receiver Mike Davis for a touchdown en route to a 36-20 win over Oklahoma in 2013.
McCoy’s Longhorns were the last to beat the Sooners and only the second Texas team to win the Red River Showdown since 2009. As Texas prepares for the 110th renewal of the Longhorn-Sooner rivalry game, redshirt freshman quar-terback Jerrod Heard remem-bers the 2013 game.
“[My favorite moment] was two years ago, when Case Mc-Coy beat OU, and he threw that deep ball to Mike Davis, and the crowd erupted,” Heard said. “When I look back at that, that’s what I want to do.”
Much like McCoy’s Long-horns, Heard and the team enter this season’s rivalry as
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Daulton Venglar | Daily Texan StaffRedshirt freshman quarterback Jerrod Heard says his favorite moment of the Red River Rivalry game was former Longhorn Case McCoy’s touchdown pass to Mike Davis in 2013.. Saturday, Heard has a chance to create his own moment.
By Nick Castillo@Nick_Castillo74
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NATIONAL UNIVERSITY
UT affordability ranked 40th in US Professor to withdraw in response to Senate Bill 11UT ranked 40 out of 179 top
American colleges for efforts in economic diversity, accord-ing to The New York Times’ College Access Index.
UT-Austin placed third of five of other Texas schools included on the list. Rice had the highest rank of schools in Texas, at 28, while Texas A&M University in College Station ranked 29. Trinity University and Texas Christian Univer-sity were the other two Texas schools on the list, ranking at 117 and 177, respectively.
The study includes data from 2011-2015, but weighs
recent years’ information more heavily in creating rankings. Trina Manor, associate direc-tor for the Office of Financial Aid, said she believes UT’s fi-nancial aid has improved since 2011 and the data from that year might have negatively contributed to UT’s ranking.
“We had already seen the writing on the wall in 2011,” Manor said. “Since that year, we have added more scholar-ships such as the Texas Ad-vanced Initiative and [secured] a commitment from Houston endowment. We can always do more, but we are definitely making the steps to help stu-dents pay for their education not just [for] one year but for
multiple years.” The Times compiled the in-
dex based on three factors: Pell Grant, net price for middle in-come students and graduation rate. Only colleges with a five year graduation rate of 75% or higher were included in the rankings.
Pell Grants are typically giv-en to families who make less than $70,000. The net price for middle income students is how much the average student pays for tuition, fees, room and board after taking into account federal, state and institutional financial aid.
Psychology junior Jalesa Blueford said she felt frustrat-ed with the financial aid office,
because she was given a Pell Grant her freshman year but has not been able to requalify ever since.
“I never found out why I didn’t get my Pell Grant again,” Blueford said. “My family isn’t making money so I don’t know why I’m not qualified. I’m having to take out a lot of loans right now just to pay for school. Many of my friends who went to A&M were of-fered a lot of money. It’s sad UT isn’t able to do more.”
Advertising junior Jesus Acosta said he doesn’t get any financial aid, but doesn’t care much about it because he per-sonally doesn’t need any aid.
“I have a neutral opinion
of the office because it doesn’t really affect me,” Acosca said. “But I do have friends from my home in the [Rio Grande] Val-ley who have only been able to come to UT because of the fi-nancial aid they received.”
By Rachel Freeman@rachel_frmn
COLLEGE AFFORDABILITY RANK
(ENDOWMENT PER STUDENT)
(28) Rice: $729K
(29) Texas A&M: $171K
(40) University of Texas at Austin: $64K(177) Texas Christian University: $134k
FOOTBALL
TX-OU meet for annual showdown
HEARD page 7
In a recent resignation letter to President Gregory Fenves, a UT professor emer-itus said the new campus carry law would diminish the university’s ability to attract new faculty.
The new campus carry law, which has received backlash from UT professors and cur-rently has a working group deciding university-specific regulations, will take effect on Aug. 1 2016.
According to economics professor Daniel Hamer-mesh, the new law will lower the quality of higher educa-tion in Texas because it will discourage talented profes-sors from teaching at uni-versities that allow guns on campus. Hamermesh had re-tired in 2014 and agreed with the economics department to teach classes in fall 2015, fall 2016 and fall 2017, but said in his letter he will not return to teach after this semester.
“This just makes UT a less attractive place, and people we want to recruit have lots of alternatives,” Hamermesh said. “I think it’s going to make it very much harder to hire faculty, and essentially what the legislature did was worsen the quality of higher education in the state of Tex-as.”
UT spokesperson Gary Susswein said he appreciates that Hamermesh wrote his letter to Fenves because it is important for students and professors to raise their con-cerns about the concealed-carry law.
“The concern we have heard from Professor Ha-mermesh is similar to what
WITHDRAW page 2
Nightclubs discuss alter-native queer scene.
PAGE 3
Panel celebrates history of Tejano studies at UT.
PAGE 3
NEWSCheck out the video
from this week’s Texan Talks about a moderated debate over the campus
carry law.ONLINE
OPINIONVolleyball ready for their own Red River Rivalry.
PAGE 6
Julia Dyche brings laugh-ter to Texas’ locker room.
PAGE 6
SPORTSACL poster artist Sophie Roach discusses design.
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alt-J discusses their recent album This Is All Yours.
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ONLINE REASON TO PARTY
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CITYNATIONAL
Whole Foods plans to reduce workforceNew FAFSA timeline simplifies financial aid
For students starting col-lege in the fall of 2017, a streamlined application aims to make applying for federal financial aid easier.
On Sept. 14, the Obama administration announced an update to the schedule for the Free Application for Federal Student Aid, or FAF-SA. When the new rules go into effect next fall, students planning on entering college in 2017 will be able to apply for federal aid as early as Oc-tober and receive their fed-eral aid award information early that same fall. The new schedule aims to alleviate the financial stresses students ex-perience during the college application process. Prior to this updated schedule, stu-dents did not have access to
the FAFSA application until January, and did not receive their federal aid information until late spring, long after they had applied to college. The new schedule will al-low students and families to view federal aid information much earlier.
Carolina Arroyo, a se-nior at Louis D. Brandeis High School in San Antonio, Texas, said she feels the new FAFSA schedule will help al-leviate the already stressful college application process.
“It’s already so overwhelm-ing trying to apply to college in the first place,” Arroyo said. “It’s comforting to know that earlier information will prevent students from pick-ing a college and finding out later that they aren’t able to go.”
An expanded College
By Catherine Marfin@ccaaatheeerineee
FAFSA page 2
Whole Foods Market, an Austin-based com-pany, plans to cut about 1,500 entry-level jobs to lower prices and invest in technology, according to a press release Sept. 28.
According to the press, over the ensuing eight weeks — until the end of November — the company will reduce its workforce as part of its commitment to lower customer prices and advance upgrades in technology while improv-ing its cost structure.
“We believe this is an important step to evolve Whole Foods Market in a rapidly changing mar-ketplace,” Walter Robb, co-CEO of Whole Foods Market, said in the release.
The 1,500 workers who will be laid off represent about 1.6 percent of the
company’s more than 90,000 total workers, ac-cording to the press re-lease.
Whole Food’s press release stated the com-pany anticipates most of the reductions will occur naturally through attri-tion, which is the gradual reduction of a workforce when positions lost from
retirement or resignation are not replaced.
Plan II freshman Olivia Hartwell said she can’t af-ford to shop at Whole Foods on her own, but it’s the only supermar-ket her family shops at in Connecticut. She said the Whole Foods in her hometown has a program to hire people with dis-
abilities for entry-level positions.
“If those type of people [with disabilities] were going to get laid off, I’d be really frustrated because I think that’s a really cool program, but I’m for new technology, so I guess it all depends on the other
By Lauren Florence@laurenreneeflo
FOODS page 2
Jesús NazarioDaily Texan Staff
Whole Foods Market plans to lay off about 1.6 percent of the company’s more than 90,000 total workers in order to lower prices and invest in technology, according to a Sept. 28 press release.
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we’ve heard from other pro-fessors and from students as well,” Susswein said. “We hear what they are saying and we understand their concerns and that’s why it is important that we all work collaboratively to help de-velop these regulations.”
Susswein said although opinions are important in the regulation process of the campus carry law, the legisla-tion prohibits the university from prohibiting concealed-carry guns on campus.
“We are not allowed, un-der state law, to prohibit guns on campus, but the conversations that we’re having now and the heart-felt concerns being raised by Dr. Hamermesh and oth-ers are an important part of this process right now,” Susswein said.
Madison Yandell, govern-ment junior and president
of College Republicans, said she thinks the law could cause an issue when recruit-ing professors who do not understand Texas culture, but once the law is imple-mented, more people will come to the realization that life can go on as normal. Yandell she understands why professors may have similar concerns to Hamermesh’s but thinks the law should still be implemented the way the legislature intended.
“It definitely is a concern that in an attempt to ap-pease the faculty and staff that they’re just going to make this law as strict as possible but a lot of things that the anti-campus carry people are trying to advo-cate for are really not fea-sible in the way the law is written,” Yandell said. “We have pretty good faith that they’re going to apply this law on campus in the spir-it that the legislature had when they passed this bill.”
Hamermesh said he does not think what he did was an act of protest, but rather a sensible reaction to what he claims could be a danger-ous law.
“What I hope to accom-plish is nothing — I just want everything to be ethi-cally correct,” Hamermesh said. “What I hope happens, not because of me, is that Texas can do something and try to repeal that law, but until then I hope that on campus, the gun law is as re-stricted as possible.”
WITHDRAWcontinues from page 1Scorecard, which includes
information about s school’s tuition, degrees and gradu-ation rates, was released Sept. 12, just days before the federal government an-nounced the change in the federal aid schedule. The expanded scorecard and the new FAFSA rules will help families to make more in-formed decisions about the college application process, according to the U.S. De-partment of Education.
“This new rule definitely would have helped with fi-nancial stress I experienced during the college appli-cation process,” psychol-ogy freshman Chris Tru-ong said. “I wish I had this information available to me when I applied, but hope-fully the earlier information will help families make bet-ter financial decisions in the coming years.”
Amy Nguyen, freshman international relations and
global studies major, said that for her, money played the biggest role in deciding where to apply.
“Even if a college may have had good academics or have been in a city I loved, money was a much larger factor in choosing where to go to school,” Nguyen said. “Receiving information earlier would have made it much easier not only to confirm myself at a specific university, but also to com-plete housing and tuition requirements much sooner.”
work prospects of the peo-ple that are getting laid off,” Hartwell said.
The company expects a significant amount of af-fected workers will find another job through one of the nearly 2,000 open positions in the company or through new jobs that will be created from the 100 Whole Foods stores in development, the press re-lease read.
Robb said in the press release that workers who lose their jobs will be paid in full over the next eight
weeks while they decide what to do next.
“This is a very difficult decision, and we are com-mitted to treating affected team members in a caring and respectful manner,” Robb said in the press re-lease. “We have offered them several options in-cluding transition pay, a generous severance, or the opportunity to apply for other jobs.”
Nutrition sophomore Sydney Benator said she shops at Whole Foods ev-ery two or three weeks and sometimes goes there to get dinner. Benator said she was upset to hear about the
job cuts, but said if Whole Foods can lower their pric-es as a result, then it will be a better decision for the long-term.
“I feel like that’s totally against what Whole Foods stands for because their mission is very community-based,” Benator said. “But I understand that as a busi-ness sometimes you have to make decisions that are best for you and they’re also try-ing to make things cheaper for the population in gener-al. And if more people can get access to healthy food because things are cheaper then that’s probably better in the long run.”
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CORRECTIONAn Oct. 2 article titled “Austin Public Library to charge non-residents” stated that out-of-state students and students who are not originally from Austin will have to pay a fee to obtain a public library card. In actuality, anyone who lives in the City of Austin, may obtain a library card for free if they provide proof of residency in Austin. The article also stated that since 2009, state funding allowed the Library to waive a non-resident fee. These were actually waived starting in 2008 and ending in 2011.
Kiese Laymon, a black writer from the South, said racial jus-tice addresses issues beyond Confederate monuments and symbolism within the U.S.
Laymon read an excerpt from his essay, “How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America,” and answered ques-tions from students and fac-ulty members during a talk Thursday afternoon.
Laymon said he agrees with the principle of removing symbols such as the Confeder-ate flag, but he said he believes arguments for meaningful ra-cial justice are scarce among white people.
“Taking a symbol down should be the easy part of ra-cial justice, but it’s not,” Lay-mon said. “When all those things come down, their lives won’t change one bit.”
Public relations sophomore Madison Comstock said she believes Confederate monu-ments are an integral part of U.S. history.
“For me, it’s about our country’s history and you can’t just erase part of our country’s history that some people don’t like because it happened,” Comstock said. “I don’t think the [Confederate] symbol should be on our university’s property, but I do think it is being slowly erased from our history and that’s not okay.”
Daniela Rosiles, journalism and corporate communica-tions junior, said she thinks it is important to ease racial tension through everyday in-teractions and refrain from stereotyping people by race.
“Especially as students, I think we need to address [problems] as opposed to band-wagoning on getting rid of all of the confederate flags and statues,” Rosiles said.
Laymon said he thinks con-centrated groups willing to work for racial justice, such as Black Lives Matter, have the potential to make an impact because they focus on im-proving living conditions for a specific race of people. Com-paring current movements to the Civil Rights Movement, he said he believes activism today will follow a similar pattern.
According to Laymon, the root of systematic racism is education. As an educator, Lay-mon said he wants students to be able to work and learn in an environment that creates a lov-ing atmosphere for black peo-ple. He said he believes there is a lack of love and care toward black peole in creative works today.
Laymon said he practices reformed education, such as exposing teachers to diverse perspectives, in an effort to eradicate the anti-black senti-ment in the country.
“My problem with edu-cation is you have all these administrators who have never taken an identity-based course,” Laymon said. “We should perpetually be just-ly educated, and that’s just not happening.”
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Hamermesh said he does not think what he did was an act of protest, but rather a sensible reaction to what he claims could be a danger-ous law.
“What I hope to accom-plish is nothing — I just want everything to be ethi-cally correct,” Hamermesh said. “What I hope happens, not because of me, is that Texas can do something and try to repeal that law, but until then I hope that on campus, the gun law is as re-stricted as possible.”
job cuts, but said if Whole Foods can lower their pric-es as a result, then it will be a better decision for the long-term.
“I feel like that’s totally against what Whole Foods stands for because their mission is very community-based,” Benator said. “But I understand that as a busi-ness sometimes you have to make decisions that are best for you and they’re also try-ing to make things cheaper for the population in gener-al. And if more people can get access to healthy food because things are cheaper then that’s probably better in the long run.”
Daniel HamermeshEconomics professor
CAMPUS
Speakers discuss importance of Tejano cultureFollowing a Mariachi
performance detailing Mexican and Texas history on Thursday, five panelists discussed the significance of Mexican-Americans and Tejanos on the development of Texas.
Andrés Tijerina, an Aus-tin Community College history professor, said that although Tejanos have tre-mendously impacted Texas’ culture and economy, their historical significance has been silenced in favor of the memories of the Alamo, Sam Houston and Stephen F. Austin.
“It’s the Mexican, it’s the Tejano that makes Texas unique,” Tijerina said. “Ev-erything we brag about in Texas – the longhorns, the mustangs, the mavericks, the herds, the cattle trails – everything is Mexican, but it’s been silenced.”
The panel of professors and community leaders met in the Gordon-White Building as the fourth event celebrating Hispanic
Heritage Month spon-sored by the Center for Mexican Studies.
“I think part of what we’ve heard here today is the idea of making history,” associate journalism pro-fessor and panelist Maggie Riveras-Rodriguez said. “When I got to UT a million years ago as a student, I felt like I was in a candy store because there were Tejano studies classes. Because that history had been so hidden from my view, I didn’t know anything about it.”
Other panelists, includ-ing history professor Emilio Zamora, discussed the lack of Tejano and Mexican-American history in the public school system as a major problem affecting the community.
“We want these chil-dren to understand that
their heritage is a source of pride,” Zamora said. “We’re not just doing things to in-crease the number of vot-ers to vote their interests and their conscience. In the process of doing that, we are affirming values among ourselves.”
History graduate student
Maria Hammack said she thought the panelists have fought hard to embed Te-jano culture within estab-lished institutions.
“When they were in col-lege, [Tejano history cours-es] did not exist,” Hammack said. “You have to sort of break through the doors,
and I think they have done a very good job for us to be able to take classes in Teja-no history when before they were not available.”
Rivas-Rodriguez said she thinks Tejanos and Mexi-can-Americans have come a long way and have reached a point where they can look
back and reflect on all of their accomplishments.
“With all of us together, collectively, we can move up that mountain,” Rivas-Rodriguez said. “We can get to the top of the top and we can say ‘Okay, this is what we’ve been able to accomplish.’”
By Forrest Milburn@forrestmilburn
Mike McGrawDaily Texan Staff
Austin Com-munity College professor Andres Tijerina speaks on a panel at the Gordon White building on Thursday eve-ning. The panel-ists discussed Tejano history and a monument commemorating Tejano’s through Texas history.
CAMPUS
Diversity lacking in Austin queer nightlife scene, panelists say
Small queer nightlife and music venues in Austin pro-vide a safe place for individu-als to celebrate who they are and simultaneously make a statement in the commu-nity, according to disc jockey Saul Mojica.
Mojica, who is known by stage name “DJ Boyfriends,” spoke as part of a panel hosted by the Harry Ransom Center that included representatives from queer nightclubs and or-ganizations House of Shakur, Body Rock ATX, Cheer Up Charlies, BLXPLTN, and The Glitoris. Mojica said that his role in the Austin commu-nity is to create an alternative environment to more visible queer nightlife areas, such as Fourth Street.
“There isn’t anywhere that is really a home base for gay musicians and DJs,” Mojica
said. “That is where I saw an opportunity for myself to make a little niche in queer nightlife in Austin, somewhere that a queer person can go and feel completely safe in their culture and state that they’re part of it.”
The mainstream gay and lesbian bar culture on Fourth Street falls short of a safe and authentic environment for queer nightlife culture in Aus-tin because straight people party there, disc jockey DJ Glitoris said.
“I would go to Fourth Street and I was really happy to be out and proud and for some rea-son I just didn’t feel accepted on Fourth Street,” DJ Glitoris said. “I felt like I wanted to be accepted as part of the commu-nity but didn’t find my authen-tic safe space there.”
Government senior and event attendee Rodolfo Reyna-Govea said that it is also hard for him to find a safe place to express himself and came to
the panel seeking the advice of industry professionals in the queer community.
“I am an undocumented queer Latino,” Reyna-Govea said. “I find it hard to find a place where I can express the things that I like. I wanted to get a perspective from profes-sionals on the things that they deal with.”
Queer nightlife with the in-tention of creating a safe and exclusive environment is also a statement and a vehicle for political change, said Adzua-Gette Cole, a spokesperson for House of Shakur.
“Being a black queer in this town, I am without a doubt automatically politicized, so whatever space I am going to be a part of will automatically be politically charged in some way,” Cole said. “I don’t stray from putting political messages in my music, because a night club can be a pivotal space as well as a safe one.”
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Mikaela Cannizzo@mikaelac16
Author encourages complex, meaningful dialogue on race
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Christina Severson | Daily Texan StaffKiese Laymon, a writer and professor from the South, speaks Thursday afternoon about racism in America and the call for education based on justice.
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Saul Mojica, also known as DJ Boyfriends, talks at a panel discussion in regarding to the politics of queer nightlife at the Harry Ransom Center on Thursday afternoon.
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Texas Longhorns Football, 122, died Saturday, Oct. 10, 2015, at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas following a long and dif-ficult struggle with an Oklahoma offense coordinated by a man who graduated high school just last week.
Further complications arose when he was hit with Baker Mayfield’s whip.
He leaves his estranged wife of 121 years, Texas A&M; his younger, yet more talented, siblings, TCU and Bay-lor; his daddy, Bob Stoops; and zero close friends.
Texas fell ill suddenly on the first drive of the 2010 National Championship Game and never recovered. The state of the program took an even steeper down-turn when he was unable to procure the miracle drug Nick Saban.
When it became apparent Tex would never recover, he was rushed to South Bend, Indiana, for last rites. What he re-ceived, however, was anything but right in the eyes of God.
Before his illness, he lived happily in Oklahoma’s shadow — comfortably near, but not quite at the top of the Big 12. Tex-as was known as a charitable man, even gift-wrapping the Sooners five-straight wins from 2000-04.
Baylor and Texas A&M were incredibly thankful when Tex handed them Robert Griffin III and Johnny Manziel. Legend has it, Texas once tried to recruit Kevin Durant himself as a defensive back.
Although Texas ended up pawning all four of his national title trophies and both Heismans for booze to numb the pain on gameday, his only remaining possession, The Longhorn Network, will be donated to Comedy Central — al-though there won’t be a marked change
in programming.Texas enjoyed watching many football
greats during its lifetime, although very few were actually on his sideline.
Among one of the best to play in Aus-tin was Vince Young, whose younger clone, Jerrod Heard, was suiting up in burnt orange before Texas’ pretty timely death. The resemblance was uncanny, so long as you squinted your eyes and low-ered your expectations.
The two even found common ground in the ‘13’ on Heard’s jersey, about as high as Young can count.
Texas spent much of his later life delu-sional, even losing to Oklahoma State in his final weeks.
His condition worsened to the point Sarah McLachlan took pity and produced a commercial featuring hungry assistant coaches.
Tex is truly now in the arms of an angel.
Tex was surrounded by family at the time of his death, including life partners DeLoss Dodds and Dan Beebe, who were responsible for most of the showers of undeserved respect he received
Noticeably absent at the time of death were step-father Steve Patterson, who singlehandedly RKO’d Texas’ health into the ground, and son David Ash.
Ash, whom Tex always insisted on calling a “quarterback,” does not remem-ber his time at Texas or what he had for breakfast this morning.
Texas is preceded in death by Okla-homa legend Darrell K Royal; Case Mc-Coy, who was ushered into the next life by Eric Striker back in 2013; his lovable uncle, Nebraska; and Charlie Strong’s chances of winning a championship.
The family has asked that in lieu of flowers, donations be made to a GoFund-Me page that has been set up for former Texas assistant coaches who can no lon-ger afford to pay for their own meals.
Sooner fans: It wasn’t easy losing so consistently. We had to get truly creative to face you at 1-4. Opening with a quar-terback who hails from a town less than 4 percent the size of our student body? Done. Shanking an extra point at home when our kicker can actually connect from 80 yards out? Nailed it. Fumbling a snap to give Oklahoma State a field goal in the final seconds? We did that, too.
It required ample creativity to enter this rivalry matchup with the lowest ranking in 59 years. We had the best minds of our generation exploring new ways to screw up a punt. That’s how committed we are to embarrassing you this weekend. In the spirit of Donald Trump, we’re going all out. We thought: If we’re going to lose football games, then dammit they’re go-ing to be the most amazing, jaw-dropping, confounding losses we can find. Nearly every team in the country will lose this year. But Texas’ will stand out.
It’s working, too. Even as we sit at the bottom of the Big 12, all anyone can talk about is Texas. Can anyone even remem-ber the last time OU lost? It’s not that it hasn’t happened recently (as Clemson can attest). It’s just that no one cares.
The real ruse, though, is that we lost this all on purpose. When Case McCoy and our unranked Longhorns thumped you in 2013, it was embarrassing. But that team was 3-2 and went to a bowl game. Imag-ine how bad it will look on Saturday when your Top 10 team loses to a squad too busy releasing rap singles and tweeting to even hear the plays. It will be the biggest em-barrassment since your parents told their friends where you were going for college.
We’ve created every last reason for you to win, short of our players assaulting women to kick even more guys out of the program. We leave that to Frank Shannon and your team. But can you handle us?
You have a new starting quarterback
again, Baker Mayfield, a former Texas Tech walk-on who knows us well. The transfer didn’t surprise us. It’s a long-standing OU tradition to recruit rejects from Texas schools.
Lucky for Mayfield, he joins the legacy of NFL “greats” Sam Bradford and DeMarco Murray. On that note, Philadelphia wishes you warned it about Sooner players’ NFL shelf life. Really, Murray leaves Texas and drops to 1.6 yards per carry? And Chip Kelly expects players’ ACLs to last longer than three years. But we understand that the Oklahoma medical landscape — like its racial and gender stereotypes landscape — is about half a century behind the times.
To meet you where Norman seems to be in time, we compiled our worst record since 1956. For context, that was before the Civil Rights movement peaked but af-ter Brown v. Board of Education. Yes, the courts did order integration of schools. We invite Oklahoma to join the rest of the country in accepting it.
Coming to Dallas must be like time-travel-ing to the future for your fans. With world-class museums, galleries, fashion, and architecture, Dallas offers plenty of cultural enrichment.
Then again, finding a Sooner fan in a museum or art exhibit is like finding an OU SAE at a civil rights march. The only explanation is that he must be really lost.
Perhaps it’s fitting we sunk to our 1956 record — the last Red River Rivalry match before Darrell K. Royal got the heck out of Oklahoma and found success here. This time, we’ve got a coach and we’re sticking by him. Your famous coaches are always welcome in Texas, though. Maybe Barry Switzer and Bob Stoops could transfer to the Huntsville Correctional Facility. There, they could continue their favorite hobby: watching over felons.
In this forward-thinking, innovative state, NASA scientists in Houston recent-ly made a discovery. On Sept. 28, 2015, the team discovered water on the surface of Mars. While they could not confirm whether that meant the existence of life outside of Earth, researchers did announce one definitive conclusion: OU still sucks.
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It required ample creativity to enter this rivalry matchup with the lowest ranking in 59 years. We had the best minds of our generation exploring new ways to screw up a punt.
Finding a Sooner fan in a museum or art exhibit is like finding an OU SAE at a civil rights march. The only explanation is that he must be really lost.
The family has asked that in lieu of flowers, donations be made to a GoFundMe page that has been set up for for-mer Texas assistant coaches who can no longer afford to pay for their own meals.
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Among one of the best to play in Austin was Vince Young, whose younger clone, Jerrod Heard, was suiting up in burnt orange before Texas’ pretty timely death. The resemblance was uncanny, so long as you squinted your eyes and lowered your expectations.
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GUH: I think it’s the mo-ment when you see some-one in the crowd, with their eyes closed, having their own kind of private mo-ment. Of course, it’s great seeing people excited and singing along to our songs, but seeing someone who doesn’t care about anything but the music in that mo-ment — it’s amazing.
DT: Have you guys had any moments where it felt like all of the effort you guys have put in was finally worth it?GUH: I mean, you get them all the time really. Tour-ing and everything can be very tough, but it’s also very awesome. I don’t think I can even think of a specific mo-ment. We’re just so lucky to have gotten where we are.
DT: Did the making of this album help the band get over Sainsbury’s depar-ture?GUH: We obviously miss him, but I think certainly having a job to do and knowing we couldn’t just sit around really helped us move forward.
DT: What are some goals that you guys have going forward?GUH: We’re not really a goal-oriented band. We just want our music to get better and better with every listen.
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by trial and error. Though she didn’t originally study art, she began experiment-ing with graphic design and eventually majored in photo media.
“I realized with graphic design you have to do what other people want you to do,” Roach said. “When you’re an artist or illustrator you kind of get to have your own style, and that was what I was more
interested in.”Inspired by her experi-
ence growing up in Austin, she began designing the poster in April. The post-er utilizes a wide-ranging color palette of blues, yel-lows and purples to capture the city’s offbeat nature. The image’s cascading water sur-rounds the hodgepodge of clustered skyscrapers.
“Growing up here turned me into the artist I am,” Roach said. “I just like the overall vibe of Austin. I
try not to be too specific with my work, but there are some [Austin] buildings that are recognizable.”
Her complex and thought-provoking style caught the attention of Stacey Ro-drigues, event merchandise manager at ACL’s production company C3 Presents.
“I like the intricacy of [her work],” Rodrigues said. “It looks like really sophisticated doodles. It invites you to take a closer look.”
When tasked with making
this year’s artist selection for the official commemorative poster, Rodrigues said she sought to change the festi-val’s tendency to highlight male artists. Until Roach, all 13 previous poster artists had been men.
“This year we really want-ed to work with a female art-ist,” Rodrigues said. “We felt they’ve been underrepresent-ed in our selection of poster artists the past years.”
After the close of the first weekend of the festival,
Rodrigues said she was im-pressed by the popularity of Roach’s design.
“People love it and it’s been one of our best sellers,” Rodrigues said. “[It’s] a great voice for the 2015 festival.
Plan II freshman Cade Stone attended this year’s festival. The native Austinite said the design accurately captured the atmosphere of the city.
“I think it really showed what the event means to Aus-tin,” Stone said. “I like how it
shows the Austin skyline in a very abstract form.”
Now that the festival is coming to a close, Roach said she is excited for the fu-ture projects she’ll be able to focus on.
“I’m working on mu-rals right now,” Roach said. “Maybe the next project will be live-drawing at a festival. I [just] really like the flexibility and diversity of projects that come with being an artist be-cause I can get really bored if I’m doing just one thing.”
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you kind of go from A to B to C, and I’ve found that quite appealing. At Cornell I had exposure to all of the equipment and studios that the architecture school had, and I think when
you’re given the space your work kind of expands into it.”
While Corkery has yet to determine how ex-actly she will arrange the stones, she said she in-tends for it to be open to interpretation.
“The idea is that these
individual stone pieces will be installed in such a way as to be reminiscent of an arti-ficial ruin structure,” Cork-ery said. “You’ll kind of be wondering whether they’re being constructed or de-constructed. They could either be premonitions or reconstructions.”
Jesús Nazario | Daily Texan StaffLandscape artist Elizabeth Corkery works on medium-density fiberboard (MDF) “stones” for a new project set to debut Friday. Corkery is completing her week of residency at UT as part of the Guest Artist in Print Program.
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The idea is that these individual stone pieces will be installed in such a way as to be reminiscent of an artificial ruin structure. You’ll kind of be wondering whether they’re being constructed or deconstructed.
The Longhorns’ season is consistently inconsistent through 11 games.
They have a 4-3-4 record, they’ve had great wins — upsetting UCLA — and bad losses — a 2-0 defeat at the hands of University of Cali-fornia- Santa Barbara.
There are times when the mood in the locker room can be darkened.
Then, junior midfielder Julia Dyche spontaneously erupts in a dance and it lightens the mood.
“It makes people laugh,” senior goalkeeper Abby Smith said.
There isn’t a concrete ex-planation to Dyche’s meth-ods. It’s who she is.
“It’s kind of like she doesn’t really care,” Smith said. “She does the awk-ward things to make people more comfortable.”
Dyche hasn’t been danc-ing for very long — she sim-ply loves doing it.
“But everyone on the team will tell you that I’m a horrible dancer,” Dyche said. “And pretty much all my friends make fun of me for it.”
While her friends might make jokes about her danc-ing abilities, she won’t be made fun of for her soc-cer skills. Dyche picked up the sport when she was four years old, playing for a YMCA team called The Lady Bugs. She didn’t wear a headband back then, instead sporting a giant red bow on her head.
She tried basketball, she played volleyball, she did cross-country and ran track. But soccer filled her heart.
“I guess I’m a really com-petitive person,” Dyche said. “I think soccer, because it’s a contact sport, was the first chance I got to be competi-tive, and I think that’s why I fell in love with it.”
She dropped everything but soccer in eighth grade. She played for her high school team and her club team which was coached by Ryan Higginbotham — TCU’s assistant coach. Dyche and Smith played for the same club team but in different age groups.
They became friends and have become closer since they first arrived at Texas. They would text each other, go to dinner and eat sushi — even though Dyche doesn’t like sushi.
“Sophomore year, when she was in the dorm, she would always come to our apartment to hang out,” Smith said.
Now, both are ready to take on TCU and Higginbo-tham on Sunday — but first they’ll play Iowa State on Friday night.
When asked about what it’ll be like to play against Higginbotham, Dyche wasn’t nervous.
“It will be good to see him,” Dyche said.
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While most will tune in to the gridiron ri-valry at the Cotton Bowl this weekend, Texas will compete in another ri-valry matchup at Gregory Gym. Sunday, No. 2 Texas squares off against un-ranked Oklahoma.
The Longhorns enter the match as heavy fa-vorites over the Sooners. Texas has won its last 10 matches, the most recent four against Big 12 oppo-nents. But despite the re-cent success, head coach Jerritt Elliott won’t allow his Longhorns to take Oklahoma lightly.
“They tend to play us really tough,” Elliott said. “They’re very good defen-sively and when we play, nothing is easy. We’re go-ing to try and keep do-ing what we’re doing and improve our record in Big 12 play.”
Despite boasting a 7-8 record on the year, the Sooners’ performance against Texas in 2014 gives more than enough reason to worry Elliott and his squad. Texas eked out a
five-set win against Okla-homa in November 2014 after falling to the Soon-ers in October earlier that season. The loss, in straight sets, came before a record
crowd of 4,402. “It’s a wake-up call,” junior
setter Chloe Collins said after the loss. “We need perspec-tive that every team is go-ing to play their best and we
need to be ready. As a team, we just need to get back in practice and prepare.”
The Longhorns have been playing their best volleyball of the season
recently, but Oklahoma presents a whole new set of challenges to the Texas squad. Texas tips off against Oklahoma at 1 p.m. Sunday.
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Gabriel Lopez | Daily Texan StaffAs the Longhorns get set to take on Oklahoma on Sunday, junior setter Chloe Collins says she and Texas need to be ready for every team’s best shot. This season, Collins has accumulated 558 assists and 105 digs.
Addison advances to round of 16
In her third day of play at the ITA All-American champion-ships, senior Breaunna Addison defeated Vander-bilt’s Frances Altick 7-5, 6-3 to advance to the round of 16 in the main singles draw.
Addison has yet to lose a set so far and has outscored her four opponents a com-bined 49 games to 28.
The senior advanced quickly through the quali-fying draw, defeating Geor-gia Tech’s Paige Hourigan, Syracuse’s Valeria Salazar Garza and Virginia’s Steph-anie Nauta to earn her way to the main singles draw. With Thursday’s win over Altick, Addison has vault-ed her way into the round of 16.
This means Addison stands just three wins away from her first title in the ITA All-American cham-pionships after losing in the second round last year. A win would add to an al-ready historic run for bthe two-time All-American, marked by achievements such as Big 12 cham-pion and Big 12 Player of the Year.
Addison will resume play Friday against top-seeded Brooke Austin from the University of Florida. Austin defeated Missis-sippi State’s Jasmine Lee 6-2, 7-6 (8) Thursday. This will be Addison’s toughest match yet, as Austin shares a similarly impressive pedi-gree including 2015 SEC Player of the Year and All-American standing in both singles and doubles.
The ITA All-American championships are the first of three national champi-onship events for college tennis this season.
—Samuel Williams
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Dyche dances, lightens mood in locker room
Daulton Venglar | Daily Texan StaffJunior midfielder Julia Dyche began to play soccer at four. She grew up playing basketball, volleyball, cross country and track and field. Ultimately, soccer took her heart.
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Texas continued its winning ways Thursday night with a 13-0 victory over Temple.
The Longhorns pounded out 10 hits in the contest, improving to 3-0 in their fall schedule.
Head coach Connie Clark said she was most impressed with the young bats in the order.
“You can see the newcomers getting some more innings un-der their belt and getting more confident,” Clark said. “That’s good to see them getting more comfortable.”
Sophomore Paige von Sprecken is one of the new
batters. Texas accepted her because of her arm, but she pitched into the scoring bo-nanza, plating two runs on an RBI single in the 6th.
“Even though I have a year of experience from another school, this is special,” von Sprecken said. “Texas is a new level.”
On the other hand, Temple couldn’t find the barrel of the bat. The team’s lone hit was an infield chopper in which the runner beat out the throw.
Junior Tiarra Davis got the start, throwing three hitless innings with four strikeouts. Coach Clark said the impor-tant thing was Davis looked like herself.
“We’re working this fall on
getting Tiarra back up to 100 percent, and she looked much healthier tonight,” Clark said.
The fall schedule tends to make evaluating based on results a fruitless effort. And Clark mentioned that after the game.
“In fall ball, it’s about keep-ing things simple and building on the positives,” Clark said. “We’re not focused on out-comes, we just set goals and hope to achieve them.”
With just a few weeks of bonding, von Sprecken already notices something special about this team.
“It’s the most welcoming group I’ve ever been a part of,” von Sprecken said. “We’re like a family.”
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—Abby Smith, Goalkeeper
heavy underdogs. Oklahoma is ranked No. 10 and has a perfect 4-0 record. The Sooners have an electric passing game led by junior quarterback Baker Mayfield, who has thrown for 1,382 yards and 13 touchdowns in 2015.
The Longhorns’ defense has struggled this season, giv-ing up 296.6 passing yards per game – worse than 117 of 127 FBS schools. Texas allowed 376 passing yards and six touch-downs to TCU in its 50-7 loss. Defensive coordinator Vance Bedford said the Longhorns will have to eliminate their mis-takes against the Sooners.
“If you live in the past, the past will come back to get you,” Bedford said. “If you learn from
it, move forward and say, ‘What can we do to get things going in the right direction?’ … Let’s not make the same mistakes again.”
In addition to Texas’ de-fensive struggles, the Long-horn offense is in a rut. Heard compiled just 48 passing yards against TCU. And the Long-horns only managed to find the end zone once – in the fourth quarter, when junior quarterback Tyrone Swoopes connected with sophomore wide receiver Lorenzo Joe for a 21-yard touchdown.
Head coach Charlie Strong said Texas will need a much better performance from its offense to match a challenging Sooner defense.
“[Oklahoma’s defense is] athletic,” Strong said. “They are one of the most athletic fronts we are going to play against.
They fly to the ball, and they don’t make a lot of mistakes. So when you face a team like that, you have to execute and drive down the field and take what they give you.”
Despite Texas’ lowly 1-4 re-cord, Strong said the rivalry game came at the right time for his team.
“It’s time for us to get our confidence back and get these guys back on track,” Strong said. “Yes, [the game] falls at a great time for us. So we’ll see just how much we are going to go out and go compete, and how much we’ve got to get them prepared and get them focused.”
Heard and the Longhorns will need plenty of focus against the Sooners. They’ll need some luck they haven’t had yet, and maybe a McCoy-esque floater by Heard.
nstead of tak-ing notes dur-ing her classes at the Univer-
sity of Washington, Austin-based artist Sophie Roach began her artistic career doodling in her notebook.
Over the years, the self-taught artist has worked on murals around the city, designed posters for South By Southwest and cre-ated custom pairs of hand-painted shoes for Vans. Last year, Austin City Limits selected Roach to create the festival’s 2015 commemorative poster, which is featured on t-shirts as well as billboards and jumbotrons that are around the city.
“It was an honor because they pick one artist to represent the festival every year,” Roach said. “Past [artists] have been heroes of mine. It feels really good to be invited to do that.”
Without prior training, she said develop-ing her artistic abilities in college was marked
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After meeting at Leeds University in 2007, the members of indie-rock band alt-J quickly began re-cording their first songs on GarageBand. In 2014, the band released their sopho-more album This Is All Yours, which garnered crit-ical acclaim and received a Grammy nomination for Best Alternative Music Album. The Daily Texan spoke with keyboardist and backing vocalist Gus Unger-Hamilton about the
band’s latest album and the departure of bassist Gwil Sainsbury.
Daily Texan: alt-J is kind of known for being hard to describe or fit into any one genre. How does that im-pact the way you guys make your music?Gus Unger-Hamilton: I think it’s very freeing. It’s nice not to have to feel pressured to write certain kinds of songs. We like the band to de-velop naturally, so we don’t really set out with any expectations.
DT: Were there any major differences in the way you all approached your most recent album?GUH: I think in a way, we tried to recreate the same feel as the first album. I think we always made sure there’s a certain atmosphere where we don’t take things too seriously. We make things first and foremost about having a good time and making music together.
DT: What’s your favorite part of performing?
Charlotte Carpenter | Daily Texan Staffalt-J performs at Austin City Limits on Sunday evening. The band released their sophomore album “This Is All Yours” in 2014.
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Resident Artist in Printcreates campus exhibition
Throughout her career, Australian-born artist Eliz-abeth Corkery has found inspiration in the streets of Madrid, the ornate walls of the Palace of Versailles and the countryside of Glasgow, Scotland. But whenever she visits a historic building, she finds herself drawn to the gardens surround-ing it rather than the structure itself.
Corkery, a printmaker who focuses on represent-ing gardens in her work, is now completing her week of residency at UT as part of the Guest Artist in Print Program. In her cur-rent project, “Ruin Follies,” Corkery uses medium-density fiberboard (MDF) cutouts in the shape of stones to represent the ruin structures common in gar-dens in the 18th century. The exhibition will open at the School of Architec-ture’s Materials Lab at 12 p.m. Friday.
“Much of my work can be heavily linked to experi-ences of travel and of visit-ing specific sites abroad,” Corkery said. “These sort of travels that I’ve taken, I think I can identify as re-ally being markers through
which different periods of my work have developed.”
For the program, fac-ulty members at UT se-lect one print artist a year to come give a lecture and work with students on a project of the artist’s choosing. UT art lecturer Jason Urban, who was a member of the group that selected Corkery as this year’s Guest Artist in Print, said Corkery’s research on representations of gardens throughout history aligned with UT’s status as a research institution.
“Everyone comes for one strength or another, but one of [Corkery’s] strengths is this idea of research,” Urban said. “There‘s this background that helps gen-erate the work. Plus, I think she’s got a very nontradi-tional contemporary aes-thetic, which is good. It’s nice when someone has a solid traditional skillset but they’re making things that are not predictable.”
Students in the art de-partment, such as studio art senior Joshua Ors-burn, have been help-ing her throughout the week to develop the in-dividual stones. Orsburn spent four hours Tuesday morning taking photos of sample rocks from the
School of Architecture’s Materials Lab, tracing the patterns in Adobe Il-lustrator and then cre-ating vector files to la-ser the designs into the MDF “stones.”
“I think in our depart-ment, print is the most community-based,” Ors-burn said. “If there’s a grand project that needs to happen, print is where you would go if you want multiple people to work on it. That’s just the natural result of having a commu-nal space that we all have to share.”
Corkery’s recent work utilizes both installations and printing processes to surround visitors with rep-resentations of elements of gardens such as hedges or glasshouses. She said she focused on printmaking af-ter her freshman year at the University of New South Wales in Australia, but be-gan to create three-dimen-sional installations during graduate school at Cornell, where the art school was linked with the architecture and planning programs.
“I just really clicked with the methodical ap-proach to print,” Corkery said. “It’s a process that
