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Shared Services, a con- troversial program which consolidates certain de- centralized services across the University is continu- ing, aſter facing reserva- tions from staff members. e program, which be- gan in 2013, aimed to cen- tralize human resources, finance, procurement and technology services in one place to potentially save $30 to $40 million annu- ally. is program is set to continue through the 2022 fiscal year. University spokes- man Gary Susswein said that aſter two fis- cal years, UT has spent $8.7 million dollars on Shared Services. Jamie Southerland, as- sociate vice president of Shared Services and busi- ness transformation, said the implementation of some new business man- agement applications are still being planned as they modernize business affairs for UT. Southland said the majority of the new ap- plications will launch in 2017. Southerland said one application involved with Shared Services is Aca- demic Technology Ser- vices — which supports the desktop and comput- ing needs on campus in places such as the Col- lege of Liberal Arts, the Dell Medical School Campus carry and the cost of higher educa- tion dominated a panel discussion between four Texas university system chancellors Saturday. “I was not in favor of the bill, but having said that, now that the law has passed, our responsibility is to make sure that we carry out the law, not only the letter of the law, but also the spirit of the law,” UT System Chancellor William McRaven said. “ere were some second and third or- der effects that were unan- ticipated, but we’re working through them.” McRaven, Texas Tech Chancellor Robert Dun- can, University of North Texas System Chancellor Lee Jackson and Texas State University System Chan- cellor Brian McCall spoke as members of the panel “Chancellor Confiden- tial” at e Texas Tribune Festival on Saturday. Jackson said he thought campus carry was not as important as other higher education issues. “We’ve had arrests on our UNT campus in Den- ton for illegally bringing weapons on campus in the last decade,” Jackson said. “Not a single one of those arrests has involved a CHL permit holder. So they have apparently obeyed the law more than people who didn’t have the CHL permits.” Marjorie Hass, president of Austin College and au- dience member, said, as a private institution, Austin College will likely opt out of campus carry. Under the campus carry law, pub- lic universities must allow campus carry, but private institutions may choose not to implement the law. “Nothing in the public debate around campus car- ry has led our stakeholders When Jennell Benson moved from the small city of Hillsboro, Texas, to attend an institution with the fiſth-larg- est single-campus enrollment in the nation, she expected to be welcomed into a diverse community of students from a variety of different back- grounds and to certainly find more students who look like her. “I thought, ‘Well it’s a big- ger university, so there have to be more black people than there were at my high school,’” Benson said. “And there are more black peo- ple, but in terms of ratio, it’s the same.” Benson, alumni relations officer for the UT Black Stu- dent Alliance, is one of the 1,995 black students at UT, who constitute 3.9 percent of the total student popula- tion. at figure has hovered around 4 percent for the past decade — despite efforts to make the University a more diverse and inclusive place for minority students. “If our non-black students are not exposed to what it means to be black or what it’s like to be black, if they don’t have a cultural understanding or haven’t made an impact on that community, I don’t think that in their future they could do that,” said Benson, an African and African diaspora studies sophomore. Racial issues at UT were highlighted in 2008 when Ab- igail Fisher, a rejected UT ap- plicant, filed a discrimination lawsuit against the University, which she said denied her ad- mission because she is white. While the Supreme Court did not rule on her case in 2013, the Court announced in June it would rehear the case. Earlier this month, at- torneys from the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund conducted a questionnaire with members of UT’s Black Student Alli- ance to gather information for a brief which the NAACP Monday, October 19, 2015 @thedailytexan facebook.com/dailytexan Serving the University of Texas at Austin community since 1900 dailytexanonline.com bit.ly/dtvid COMICS PAGE 7 SPORTS PAGE 6 LIFE&ARTS PAGE 8 Texas Language Center promotes innovation. PAGE 3 Engineers develop physi- cal therapy robot. PAGE 3 NEWS Campus carry interferes with professors’ jobs. PAGE 4 The state needs to do more to lower tuition. rates. PAGE 4 OPINION Swimming and diving sweeps season opener. PAGE 6 Volleyball extends winning streak over Texas Tech. PAGE 6 SPORTS UTLEA brings entrepre- neur festival to college. PAGE 8 UT professor studies ball moss, green roof tech. PAGE 8 LIFE&ARTS Check out our recommen- dations for free events in Austin to attend this week. dailytexanonline.com ONLINE REASON TO PARTY PAGE 7 LEGACY Bevo XIV dies after 11 years as mascot Chelsea Purgahn | Daily Texan Staff UT’s mascot, Bevo XIV, died on October 16, 2015 at the age of 13. In hindsight, Bryant McK- enzie says, it makes sense. For months, Bevo XIV had stopped eating as much. McKenzie and the longhorn’s other handlers thought Bevo XIV was trying to outsmart them. “We assumed it was because he knew we were trying to hal - ter (rope) him,” said McKen- zie, an advertising senior and Silver Spurs member. “[And he] thought we were trying to trick him.” In Fort Worth on Oct. 2, though, McKenzie realized more was wrong. Bevo XIV laid down more than usual. His hips looked different, and he did a “weird thing stretch- ing and sucking.” e steer was soon diagnosed with bovine leukemia virus. He retired on Tuesday and died on Friday. Ricky Brennes, Silver Spurs executive director and Bevo XIV’s regular traveling partner, said the 13-year-old steer was “cool, calm and smart.” “Bevo XIV was so much more than a traditional mascot — he was so big and strong, but he had such a sweet personality and a gentle soul,” Brennes said. “His last few days provided great memories, but we miss him already.” Bevo leaves behind his longhorn best friend, Spike, and owners John T. and Betty Baker. He died at 13 aſter 11 years of service to the Univer- sity. Betty Baker called him “baby” because he assumed the role so young. In fact, when- ever she yelled “Bevo, baby” in a high-pitched voice, the steer recognized the call and came running. McKenzie said the Bakers’ close relationship with Bevo XIV made the passing that much more difficult. “It felt like my dog had been diagnosed with a terminal ill- ness,” McKenzie said. “My sec- ond thoughts were about Mr. and Mrs. Baker, since [Bevo]’s like their child.” Bevo XIV manned side- lines for a host of events in his 11-year tenure. He cheered the Longhorns to victory in the 2006 National Champion- ship game, attended President George W. Bush’s second presi- dential inauguration and spent time with actor Matthew Mc- Conaughey. Bevo XIV’s last official function was the Horns’ 50-7 loss to No. 4 TCU. He was too sick to travel to Dal- las for Texas’ 24-17 Red River Rivalry upset. Before his diagnosis, Bevo XIV attended all home games and gave Friday night pre- game appearances at the UT Golf Club. He also attended private functions, generating more than $250,000 to support underprivileged students in Austin through the Neigh- borhood Longhorn Program. Summer schedules were lighter By Jori Epstein @JoriEpstein WHITE UNDERGRADUATE DIVERSITY ASIAN AFRICAN AMERICAN HISPANIC OTHER UNIVERSITY Students criticize diversity issues at UT Infographic by Virginia Scherer | Daily Texan Staff CAMPUS Chancellors discuss gun control, tuition By Caleb Wong @calber96 UNIVERSITY Centralized UT services persist with controversy By Matthew Adams @MatthewAdams60 BEVO page 2 SERVICES page 2 MCRAVEN page 3 DIVERSITY page 3 By Julia Brouillette @juliakbrou
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Shared Services, a con-troversial program which consolidates certain de-centralized services across the University is continu-ing, after facing reserva-tions from staff members.
The program, which be-gan in 2013, aimed to cen-tralize human resources, finance, procurement and technology services in one place to potentially save $30 to $40 million annu-ally. This program is set to continue through the 2022 fiscal year.
University spokes-man Gary Susswein said that after two fis-cal years, UT has spent $8.7 million dollars on Shared Services.
Jamie Southerland, as-sociate vice president of Shared Services and busi-ness transformation, said the implementation of some new business man-agement applications are still being planned as they modernize business affairs for UT. Southland said the majority of the new ap-plications will launch in 2017.
Southerland said one application involved with Shared Services is Aca-demic Technology Ser-vices — which supports the desktop and comput-ing needs on campus in places such as the Col-lege of Liberal Arts, the Dell Medical School
Campus carry and the cost of higher educa-tion dominated a panel discussion between four Texas university system chancellors Saturday.
“I was not in favor of the bill, but having said that, now that the law has passed, our responsibility is to make sure that we carry out the law, not only the letter of the law, but also the spirit of the law,” UT System Chancellor William McRaven said. “There were some second and third or-der effects that were unan-ticipated, but we’re working through them.”
McRaven, Texas Tech Chancellor Robert Dun-can, University of North Texas System Chancellor Lee Jackson and Texas State University System Chan-cellor Brian McCall spoke as members of the panel “Chancellor Confiden-tial” at The Texas Tribune
Festival on Saturday.Jackson said he thought
campus carry was not as important as other higher education issues.
“We’ve had arrests on our UNT campus in Den-ton for illegally bringing weapons on campus in the last decade,” Jackson said. “Not a single one of those arrests has involved a CHL permit holder. So they have apparently obeyed the law more than people who didn’t have the CHL permits.”
Marjorie Hass, president of Austin College and au-dience member, said, as a private institution, Austin College will likely opt out of campus carry. Under the campus carry law, pub-lic universities must allow campus carry, but private institutions may choose not to implement the law.
“Nothing in the public debate around campus car-ry has led our stakeholders
When Jennell Benson moved from the small city of Hillsboro, Texas, to attend an institution with the fifth-larg-est single-campus enrollment in the nation, she expected to be welcomed into a diverse community of students from a variety of different back-grounds and to certainly find more students who look like her.
“I thought, ‘Well it’s a big-ger university, so there have to be more black people than there were at my high school,’” Benson said. “And there are more black peo-ple, but in terms of ratio, it’s the same.”
Benson, alumni relations officer for the UT Black Stu-dent Alliance, is one of the 1,995 black students at UT, who constitute 3.9 percent of the total student popula-tion. That figure has hovered around 4 percent for the past decade — despite efforts to make the University a more diverse and inclusive place for minority students.
“If our non-black students are not exposed to what it means to be black or what it’s like to be black, if they don’t have a cultural understanding or haven’t made an impact on that community, I don’t think that in their future they could do that,” said Benson, an African and African diaspora studies sophomore.
Racial issues at UT were highlighted in 2008 when Ab-igail Fisher, a rejected UT ap-plicant, filed a discrimination lawsuit against the University, which she said denied her ad-mission because she is white. While the Supreme Court did not rule on her case in 2013, the Court announced in June it would rehear
the case.Earlier this month, at-
torneys from the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund conducted a questionnaire with members of UT’s Black Student Alli-ance to gather information for a brief which the NAACP
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Texas Language Center promotes innovation.
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Engineers develop physi-cal therapy robot.
PAGE 3
NEWSCampus carry interferes
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LEGACY
Bevo XIV dies after 11 years as mascotChelsea Purgahn | Daily Texan Staff
UT’s mascot, Bevo XIV, died on October 16, 2015 at the age of 13.
In hindsight, Bryant McK-enzie says, it makes sense. For months, Bevo XIV had stopped eating as much. McKenzie and the longhorn’s other handlers thought Bevo XIV was trying to outsmart them.
“We assumed it was because he knew we were trying to hal-ter (rope) him,” said McKen-zie, an advertising senior and Silver Spurs member. “[And he] thought we were trying to trick him.”
In Fort Worth on Oct. 2,
though, McKenzie realized more was wrong. Bevo XIV laid down more than usual. His hips looked different, and he did a “weird thing stretch-ing and sucking.” The steer was soon diagnosed with bovine leukemia virus. He retired on Tuesday and died on Friday.
Ricky Brennes, Silver Spurs executive director and Bevo XIV’s regular traveling partner, said the 13-year-old steer was “cool, calm and smart.”
“Bevo XIV was so much more than a traditional mascot — he was so big and strong, but he had such a sweet personality
and a gentle soul,” Brennes said. “His last few days provided great memories, but we miss him already.”
Bevo leaves behind his longhorn best friend, Spike, and owners John T. and Betty Baker. He died at 13 after 11 years of service to the Univer-sity. Betty Baker called him “baby” because he assumed the role so young. In fact, when-ever she yelled “Bevo, baby” in a high-pitched voice, the steer recognized the call and came running.
McKenzie said the Bakers’ close relationship with Bevo
XIV made the passing that much more difficult.
“It felt like my dog had been diagnosed with a terminal ill-ness,” McKenzie said. “My sec-ond thoughts were about Mr. and Mrs. Baker, since [Bevo]’s like their child.”
Bevo XIV manned side-lines for a host of events in his 11-year tenure. He cheered the Longhorns to victory in the 2006 National Champion-ship game, attended President George W. Bush’s second presi-dential inauguration and spent time with actor Matthew Mc-Conaughey. Bevo XIV’s last
official function was the Horns’ 50-7 loss to No. 4 TCU. He was too sick to travel to Dal-las for Texas’ 24-17 Red River Rivalry upset.
Before his diagnosis, Bevo XIV attended all home games and gave Friday night pre-game appearances at the UT Golf Club. He also attended private functions, generating more than $250,000 to support underprivileged students in Austin through the Neigh-borhood Longhorn Program. Summer schedules were lighter
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to protect Bevo’s health.“[Brennes] tries not to do
summer events because it’s so hot for us and for [Bevo],” McKenzie said. “He sits directly in the sun and gets dehydrated.”
Caring for a dehydrated longhorn, like any state of a longhorn, is no small task. McKenzie said the handlers gave Bevo XIV water from a roughly 30-gallon bucket to properly hydrate him. He ate 60 pounds of hay and feed daily.
Bevo XIV was 82 inches long from one horn tip to the other
and roughly 2,100 pounds. He succeeded Bevo XIII, originally named Sunrise Express, who died in 2006 after 16 years of service — still a program re-cord. Texas beat Oklahoma immediately preceding Bevo XIII’s death as well.
Zach Mafrige, another Sil-ver Spur and handler, said Bevo XIV warmed to the han-dlers as they spent more time together. By October, Bevo XIV let his handlers pet him, brush him and touch him. But they “never grew the relation-ship we wanted to” in their shortened job stint.
Even so, McKenzie says
they have fond memories of preparing the longhorn for ap-pearances. The most memo-rable: when McKenzie took too long to halter Bevo XIV to travel to an event. The usu-ally calm Bevo XIV swung at McKenzie and caught him in the ribs.
“It sucked at the time,” McKenzie said. “But that’s something you can tell your grandkids.”
The Silver Spurs Alumni Association will oversee the search for Bevo XV. They hope to find a steer before the 2016 football season, which will mark 100 years of Bevos.
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and the Provost Portfolio which includes the Blan-ton Museum and Harry Ransom Center.
Despite the success of Academic Technology Ser-vices, some applications such as Central Business Offices, Southerland said, are still under scrutiny for efficiency.
“With CBO, we brought in units from the Provost Office, the College of Edu-cation, Dell Medical and several others [which] all
had different ways of doing things,” Southerland said. “What we learned is that it is not a sustainable model for us to continue doing things the way they used to do them.”
In April 2014, students and faculty members held a protest in the Tower against Shared Services, and 18 students were ar-rested and charged with criminal trespassing.
Anne Lewis, an advo-cate against Shared Ser-vices and senior professor in radio-television-film, said Shared Services could reduce the quality of ser-vices provided to indi-vidual colleges and affect the overall education of the University.
“Quality of work impacts us all,” Lewis said. “To have people assigned to specific tasks rather than function-ing in a series of relation-ships with faculty, students and other staff makes us vulnerable to the gaps, and the system becomes less re-sponsive to faculty and re-search needs.”
Susswein said laying off faculty was not part of the plan but understands peo-ple may have thought that when Texas A&M Universi-ty was cutting faculty at the time through their Shared Services program.
“We consciously tried to do it differently than A&M where the chancellor had announced this is what they were doing — they were outsourcing,” Susswein said. “We had a process that allowed for input with the public hearings and with the discussions.”
Mary Knight, chief fi-nancial officer for the University, said miscon-ceptions about Shared Services are less com-mon now because fears about the initiative have not materialized.
“Through the fact that none of this has happened, I think that’s why a lot of things have settled down,” Knight said. “We’re all long-term employees and we love working here just like everyone else.”
Despite these plans, Suss-wein said while former UT President William Pow-ers still stressed education over business, UT had to find ways to improve its business services.
“President Powers said when he unveiled all of this, that the University is not a business and should not always act like it is one,” Susswein said. “But in the areas where we are like business: payroll, account-ing, travel reimbursements — we need to figure out how to do things efficiently and smartly.”
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will file in the Fisher case.The University has fiercely
defended its race-conscious admissions policies that ac-company the “top ten percent rule” — a statewide provision intended to promote ethnic diversity in public universi-ties that allows automatic ad-mission of Texas high school students who graduate in the top 7 percent of their class.
Toyin Falola, a history and African studies professor, said in his 20 years at UT he has seen substantial improve-ments in the racial climate on campus, and the Univer-sity is not entirely at fault for its relatively low number of black students.
“One must praise the Uni-versity, instead of just criti-cizing it — the changes have been truly impressive,” Falola said. “There’s still a lot of work to do in terms of strengthen-ing the quality of our high schools, in terms of improv-ing the elementary schools. Bear in mind that the lower level schools feed into col-leges, so as we spend more money on the high schools, and we spend more money on the elementary schools, so too will the rest of us benefit from that.”
During his tenure, former UT President William Pow-ers Jr. emphasized diversity, establishing two ethnic stud-ies departments — one of which is devoted to African and African diaspora stud-ies. His successor, President Gregory Fenves, has main-tained a similar focus since taking office. Following pres-sure from the student body and a formal request from UT’s Student Government, Fenves oversaw the removal of Confederate President Jef-ferson Davis’s statue from the Main Mall, a move distanc-ing the University from its southern roots.
Black faculty at UT play a significant role in helping black students feel integrat-ed on campus, said corpo-rate communications senior Danielle Smith, but the fac-ulty at UT is overwhelm-ingly white. University data shows only 147 of UT’s 1,549 tenured teaching profes-sors were black or Hispanic in 2014.
“Minority faculty and staff should not be the only people responsible for caring about [minority] issues,” Smith said. “While it might be more prevalent to them being in the same race, it’s important that our president, our top faculty on
campus are understanding these issues, reaching out and wanting to know more.”
Smith, a member of UT Black Student Alliance, said she thinks UT should fo-cus its efforts on targeted recruiting and fostering a welcoming campus environ-ment to attract and retain black students.
“A lot of [black stu-dents] think that UT is just not a place that’s welcom-ing of minority students, particularly Latino and black students, because the percentages are so low,” Smith said. “It’s extremely important for those students to know the possibilities, and
that they can survive on this campus. If you get through and you make it, you’re open to a large network that you probably wouldn’t have been introduced to.”
The Supreme Court’s rul-ing on the Fisher case could put an end to affirmative ac-tion at UT — a practice that allows colleges to achieve a “critical mass” of minor-ity students necessary to achieve diversity. Critical mass has traditionally been defined as the point when minority students are com-fortable expressing opinions amongst their peers, and no longer see themselves as representatives of their
entire race.UT law professor Joseph
Fishkin said UT’s race-con-scious admissions policies help the University find mi-nority students from outside the state, or students who would add diversity to cer-tain academic programs.
“I think it’s just a question of, ‘do we have admissions through rigid rules, or can we have admissions through considering the whole appli-cant?’” Fishkin said. “That’s what it comes down to. UT benefits from having at least part of its admissions be con-sidering the whole applicant — I think UT really wants to guard that.”
With or without affirma-tive action, UT needs to be attracting more black stu-dents, said Summer Wil-liams, a pre-social work and applied learning and development junior who is also a member of UT Black Student Alliance.
“I think [UT] broadcasts that it’s super diverse, but it doesn’t feel super diverse,” Williams said. “I think they definitely need to work on making us feel more integrat-ed while we’re here, but also bring in more, too, because there are obviously other mi-norities who have the abilities and credentials to get here — they just don’t get here.”
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to strongly believe that we should change our current policy, which is that hand-guns are not allowed on our campus,” Hass said.
On the subject of tuition, Duncan said rising costs are in part because of lower funding from the state af-ter the economic downturn in 2009. Public universi-ties now receive $9 to $10 less per weighted semester credit hour from the legisla-ture than before, according to Duncan.
“About 1.4 billion dollars was taken out of the higher education budget,” Duncan said. “That’s where we’ve not been able to catch up. I look forward to the opportunity
to work with the legislature to deal with these issues.”
Funding research and campus growth attracts students to public universi-ties in a competitive aca-demic market, especially at UT-Dallas, according to McRaven.
“Students want to come to great emerging research universities,” McRaven said. “Make no mistake about it, it costs money to do it right.”
Natalie Nehls, interna-tional relations and gov-ernment sophomore, said the rising cost of tuition since the 1960s demands a solution.
“No one really has a set so-lution to what we can do to decrease costs,” Nehls said. “I didn’t feel like there had been anything implemented.”
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Rachel FuDaily Texan Staff
Robert Duncan, left, chancel-lor of the Texas Tech University System and Wil-liam McRaven, right, chancellor of the University of Texas System, along with two other chancel-lors discussed various higher ed issues at a panel at the Texas Tribune festival on Saturday.
Rachel Zein | Daily Texan StaffJennell Benson, African and African diaspora studies sophomore, said she was surprised to find that black stu-dents constitute less than four percent of the UT student population.
Rachel Zein | Daily Texan StaffDanielle Smith, corporate communications senior and member of the UT Black Student Alliance, said she foresees that UT’s student body will become more diverse if the University places more effort in the recruitment of minority students.
Consistent with University admissions over the last decade, campus diversity is at a characteristic low. While white students make up an uncontested plurality of stu-dents at 45 percent, Asian and Hispanic students matriculate at 17.2 and 19.5 per-cent, respectively, as rates of Black enroll-ment dwindle at 3.9 percent. Although the University has insisted that diversity is a top priority in admissions, even testifying to that effect before the Supreme Court, the numbers plainly suggest otherwise.
A substantial increase of Black students in the last couple decades from an abysmal starting place does not make UT a diverse institution. In the last decade, the percent-age of Black UT students has hovered bare-ly above or below 4 percent, while African-Americans make up 11 percent of Texans. If UT is attempting to increase diversity on campus, as it has stated as part of its de-fense in Fisher v. Texas, why has there been nearly no positive, lasting change in diver-sity at UT in a decade?
The top ten percent rule was created in order to increase diversity at public institu-tions in Texas, like UT. Yet, as it is apparent in the case of UT, it is unsuccessful.
This issue extends to faculty recruitment,
which perpetuates a standard of low diver-sity. In 2014, only 147 of UT’s 1,549 ten-ured teaching professors, or 9.49 percent, were Black or Hispanic.
A lack of minority voices on campus poses a number of problems, including in-creased pressure on professors of color to act as role models for students. Because of the sheer number of Caucasian faculty members, those professors don’t hold the same responsibility to be an active mentor to each of their white students.
The driving campus force for the removal of the Jefferson Davis statue was the cre-ation of a more welcoming and inclusive campus climate. When Greg Fenves chose to remove it, he showed that the University is perfectly capable of making decisions for the purpose of creating a more tolerant campus. But as the rates of diversity show, it rarely chooses to make tangible decisions for this purpose. Furthermore, as the low four-year graduation rates for Black stu-dents demonstrate, not only does the Uni-versity not do enough to get Black students here, it isn’t doing enough to support the students who are.
For a University which has defended its use of affirmative action to the Supreme
Court, it does an astonishingly poor job of actually accomplishing anything. The Uni-versity may claim to care about diversity,
but it has chosen to only maintain the level that it is comfortable with, and that is not good enough.
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Campus carry has affected many people, but there is one group on campus who has the larg-est stake in the new legislation: professors. They carry the burden of maintaining a learning envi-ronment, and promoting their voices should be a priority of the working group.
Professors have been interested in the issue of campus carry since the bill’s inception in the Senate. Plan II adjunct professor Alfred McAli-ster was invited to testify before the state Senate, where he presented evidence combating the mis-belief that more guns means less crime.
McAlister has another more striking point of view on campus carry. One day in 1966 he watched two friends, one pregnant, walk to class, expecting to meet them a few minutes later in the Union. Instead, the next time McAlister saw them they were lying lifeless on the ground, vic-tims of the UT Tower shooter.
“When I heard there was a shooter I ran onto Guad, and I saw bodies, and I couldn’t do any-thing,” McAlister said. “I was an Eagle Scout, I’m trained to respond, but it was too late.”
Even so, McAlister said he did not wish he was armed, especially since armed civilians had ac-cidentally shot at officers approaching the Tower.
Almost 50 years later, the line of what is per-missible in the name of self-defense is still fuzzy, even among law enforcement. Asking profes-sors who do not have law enforcement training to deal with the possibility of weapons in their classroom is out of line.
While not all professors are opposed to cam-pus carry, the many who are have made their sentiments known. They have signed petitions, staged protests and come out to public forums to advocate for gun-free classrooms.
University representative Gary Susswein said even before campus carry passed, both Chancel-lor William McRaven and President Greg Fenves raised concerns that SB 11 might impede recruit-ment of potential faculty. Their fears came to fruition two weeks ago when professor emeritus Daniel Hamermesh withdrew from his teaching position next fall, citing concerns about campus carry in a letter to Fenves.
“If you feel unsafe and have the ability to take your talent and your resources elsewhere, I think you should act on that,” said business freshman Kendall Talbot, a student in Hamermesh’s class.
Taking “talent and resources elsewhere” is not a phrase that bodes well for an internation-ally recognized university like UT. If we greatly expand the reach of guns on campus, we are at odds with regions where gun control is stricter, thus discouraging educators from these regions to consider coming to UT.
“I have heard people on the faculty very infor-mally say they’re not so happy to be on the fac-ulty here anymore,” McAlister said. “I feel quite sure that there will be people who are deterred from coming here once they learn about this.”
While UT must enforce the law when it comes to campus carry, the University should ensure that classrooms remain spaces where our professors are comfortable. Doing so will benefit both the school and its students.
Hallas is a Plan II and human development freshman from Allen.
Thalia Juarez | Daily Texan StaffA group of professors protest campus carry at the “Gun Free UT” protest in the Main Mall on Oct. 1.
Considering how Texas residents pay as much as $5,369 for tuition per semes-ter. the University stretches students for their money. However, the school isn’t the only one to blame.
State investment in higher education has declined since the 1980s, and as a re-sult, the burden of tuition is falling more and more on individual students and their families. A decrease in state revenue due to the recession of 2008 accelerated tuition increases even further.
In addition to falling tax revenues, tu-ition increases can be attributed to com-petition amongst universities. Colleges attempt to attract top talents in different areas such as professors, presidents and athletic coaches, and colleges also push for up-to-date technology in infrastruc-ture and libraries. All of these factors skyrocket the costs students have to pay, according to American studies associate professor Julia Mickenberg.
“I definitely think states and the federal government should invest more in higher education because the public payback is huge,” Mickenberg said. “Especially in a state like Texas, UT is a huge asset for the state economically, yet the legislature keeps pulling back funding.”
The factors contributing to higher tu-ition add a privatized characteristic to public universities. In a counterproductive way, colleges strive for the best in academ-ics and athletics and, in doing so, drive up costs that lock out qualified students from lower economic backgrounds. Even with scholarships and financial aid, the cost of attendance may still be too steep.
Mathematics freshman Pooja Bhula currently struggles to pay for tuition. Prior to attending the University, Bhula’s family experienced financial difficulties, and federal student aid did not completely lift the heavy strain.
“I may have chosen another school that offered a lower tuition cost, or I would have had to take out loans that my family really could not afford,” Bhula said.
Earlier this month, the UT Board of Re-gents approved a two percent increase in tu-ition for the 2016-2017 academic year, and this increase will lead to about a $100 in-crease per semester. Although this amount may seem small, these increments accumu-late over time. Since 2005, tuition has risen over $1,200 for the average student.
Ultimately, state governments need to contribute more to higher education. Ris-ing tuition costs present a problem that can’t be solved overnight, and institutions of education shouldn’t procrastinate on fixing the problem. Tuition hikes should be seen as a last resort, and UT needs to seek alternative plans without compro-mising too much from any side.
Chan is a journalism freshman from Sugar Land.
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Ultimately, state governments need to contribute more to higher education. Rising tuition costs present a problem that can’t be solved overnight, and institutions of education shouldn’t procrasti-nate on fixing the problem.
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“If the student had not come across RECESS that story would not have happened,” Thevenow said. “He found the article in the newspaper and applied to the competi-tion. I hope that students from UT see this article and apply to The Pitch.”
Other sponsors include Soft-layer, an IBM company that is giving $1,000 a month of host-ing credits to each team that applies to Pitch and up to $10k a month in hosting credits to the winning team from each school. Pivot, a TV network, is also sponsoring the Social
Entrepreneurship Special Pitch Category which will choose a team to meet and pitch with their executives. Violina Rin-dova, director of the Herb Kelleher Center for Entrepre-neurship, said these resources will help students looking to start their own careers in the entrepreneurship field.
“UT provides so many op-portunities for our students to become entrepreneurs,” Rindova said. “RECESS will provide our students with an integrated experience of learn-ing, developing social rela-tions, feeling challenged and inspired, and having fun in the process of considering their own paths to entrepreneurship and innovation.”
The Pitch, a college version of the ‘Shark Tank’ competition, gives
students the opportuni-ty to take their business ideas and turn them into startups. The winning team will attend RECESS Field
Trip in Los Angeles, Cali-fornia, with free flights from Southwest Airlines. Teams will pitch to investors, receive feedback and meet
successful entrepreneurs. Groups have gone on to raise over $12 million in funding from investors.
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engaging event like this will spark many sparks,” Rindova said. “And will help the rest of the resources on campus catch fire.”
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For his band’s newest release, Deerhunter’s lead singer Brad-ford Cox created an interactive influence map, which included R.E.M. and Tom Petty. Fad-ing Frontier, released Friday, is the band’s convoluted at-tempt to join the ranks of these pop-rock titans.
Most fans agree that the At-lanta band’s crowning achieve-ment came in 2010 with their psychedelic pop titan Halcyon Digest, but Deerhunter is any-thing but stagnant. The group constantly changes inspira-tions. Whether it was noise pop, garage rock or post-punk, each of the band’s previous six releases took on its own iden-tity. This time around, Fading Frontier features an agreeable pop rock sound, dabbling in shoegaze to produce an acces-sible and consistent listen.
At the core of Fading Fron-tier is a pop sensibility absent from Deerhunter’s previous projects. Each track builds with layers of instrumenta-tion, keeping guitar at its core
but incorporating intricately arranged sounds. This keeps songs steady and helps create a lasting effect with listeners.
Cox’s songwriting approach for this project isn’t original. Bands such as The Flaming Lips have used similar pop formulas to create genre-de-fining albums such as their psychedelic pop hit The Soft Bulletin. Fading Frontier’s lead track “All The Same” exempli-fies this methodology, incor-porating shoegaze influence and the cock of a Remington shotgun as percussion. This sound develops into an odd but intriguing experience.
Other songs follow suit, with “Leather and Wood” standing out because of its minimal-ist approach to a piano ballad as well as synths that change the track’s dynamics quickly. The album’s conclusion, “Car-rion,” is arguably the standout of the album with its dark hu-mor, bringing the record to a close with a bittersweet yet residual feeling.
The album’s uniformity slips up at some points, but most minor mistakes are forgivable.
However, no lapse in judgment is as obvious as the record’s lead single “Snakeskin.” Com-ing out of nowhere, this song has the confidence to become a smash hit, but its funk influ-ences and overdone percussion make it stand out for all the wrong reasons.
Cox makes up for a track’s occasionally uncomfortable sound with his poetic yet re-vealing lyrics. Channeling his emotions from his recent car accident into “Breaker,” Cox sings, “Jack-knifed on the side-street crossing, I’m still alive and that’s something to say, and when I die, there will be noth-ing to say except I tried not to
waste another day,” expressing his sense of gratitude for sur-viving the incident. Overall, the record benefits from Cox’s in-depth songwriting, making it an experience any fan, new or old, could enjoy.
Upon first listen, some lis-teners could be confused with Deerhunter’s new sound, but after multiple listens it be-comes apparent that Deer-hunter isn’t the type of band to restrict themselves to one
genre and think within the box. Fading Frontier combines layered instrumentation, Cox’s revealing lyrics and a surpris-ingly happy mood to build on Deerhunter’s legacy as a mul-tifaceted group of musicians.
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Courtesy of Ryan Strong Alternative band Deerhunter released its new album New Frontiers on Friday. The band com-bined shoegaze with a pop sensibility for its seventh album.
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The pool was half the length it was Friday at the Lee and Joe Jamail Texas Swimming Center, but the Longhorns’ results Saturday were the same — two Texas victories.
Men’s swimming and diving won 154-108 against Indiana and 162-100 against Florida in 25-yard short-course events Saturday to cap off a 4-0 weekend. Texas beat In-diana 201-98 and Florida 179-121 in the 50-meter long-course Friday.
“Middle of October is really a tough time to have a meet because we’re in the middle of heavy training,” head coach Eddie Reese said. “In fact, we call October ‘Rock-tober’ because I rock them with hard practices.”
Texas wasn’t as domi-nant as it was on Friday, but it did start strong with wins in the 200-yard
medley relay and 1,000-yard freestyle. The Longhorns managed to stay ahead of Florida, but Indiana pushed Texas, taking the 100-yard breaststroke with all Hoo-siers in the top three.
“The teams that travel, they’re always at a disadvan-tage,” Reese said. “Once they had been here for a full day, they got a lot better today.”
Sophomore Joseph Schooling helped Texas make up ground in the meet with a first-place finish in the 200-yard butterfly. Schooling also finished first in the 100-yard butterfly with junior Jack Conger placing second.
Longhorn junior and reigning NCAA champion Will Licon helped Texas pull away from Indiana for good. Licon finished first in the 200-yard breast-stroke with a time of 1:58.84, edging Indiana’s Tanner Kurz.
The two had a bit of a
rivalry in long-course Friday as well, as Licon beat Kurz in the 100-meter and 200- meter breaststroke.
“You just have to swim almost a perfect race,” Licon said. “You just can’t go in
and hope it comes easy. You have to go in with every-thing you’ve got and attack it from the beginning and finish hard.”
Texas is off until Nov. 13 when it travels to swim North
Carolina in Chapel Hill.“We got to work on the
little things,” Reese said. “The simple things. It always kills you in every sport. Just do the little things right and everything else works.”
Since his arrival in Austin prior to the 2001 season, head coach Jerritt Elliott has never lost a match to Texas Tech. That streak continued Saturday as No. 2 Texas (16-1, 6-0 Big 12) took down unranked Texas Tech (13-8, 2-5) in straight sets. In the 90th all-time meet-ing between the programs, the Longhorns prevailed once again, earning their 12th win in a row and sixth straight win against Big 12 opponents.
“We’ve been building a lot of confidence in our teams these past several games,” junior middle blocker Chiaka Og-bogu said. “We’re playing hard, and we have been working on what we need to be working on heading into the tournament.”
The Longhorns struggled out of the gate Saturday as the combination of shoddy Texas passing and a stout Texas Tech defense put the Longhorns ahead 15-13 prior to a time-out by Red Raiders head coach Don Flora. But the Texas at-tack proved to be too much for the Red Raiders as the set wore on. Texas went on a 10-5 run to close out the set 25-18. Se-nior outside hitter Amy Neal provided the spark for the Longhorns offense, filling the stat sheet to the tune of seven kills, three digs and an ace in the opening set.
“I’ve been trusting my teammates and trusting the system,” Neal said. “That’s been my biggest thing this year. Don’t swing away at ev-ery attempt, and don’t expect to get a kill every time.”
While it looked as if Texas would cruise to an effort-less victory following the first set, the match’s second frame was more difficult. Throughout the set, the Tech defense stifled the Long-horns, bringing the Red Raiders within two points of claiming the second set at 23-21. However, Long-horn veterans came through to take four consecutive points — including two kills by Neal — to close the set 25-23.
“The leadership on this team has been really solid this year,” Elliott said. “There’s a lot of trust on this team, and they have confidence in crunch-time to get the job done.”
The Red Raiders pro-vided another quality ef-fort in the third set, but quickly ran out of gas fol-lowing the intense second set. Texas jumped out to a 11-7 lead in the final set and never looked back, taking the set 25-17 and the match 3-0.
Following the victo-ry over Tech, the Long-horns will continue chas-ing a fifth-straight Big 12 title as they take on unranked Kansas State on Wednesday in Manhattan, Kansas.
The Longhorns notched seven wins in the 25-yard short-course meet Saturday to sweep their season opener, defeating Florida 155-105 and Indiana 141-115. The Long-horns also won the long-course meet Friday, beating Indiana 168-130 and Florida 171-129. Texas tallied 12 total wins this weekend.
“It was a little bit strange the first day out on the long course,” head coach Carol Cap-itani said. “I like starting off this way. It makes them tougher, makes them do the little things right. We do have to make some progress, but I do like where we are.”
All-American junior Madi-syn Cox added three short-course wins in addition to her two wins Friday in 50-me-ter long-course events. Cox posted a 1:47.93 win in the 200-yard freestyle over seven-time All-American Florida senior Ashlee Linn. Cox also won the 200-yard breaststroke, narrowly defeating Indiana freshman Miranda Tucker by seven-tenths of a second. Cox finished in 2:12.83 and Tucker in 2:12.90. Cox dominated the 400-meter individual medley, winning by almost 4 seconds.
“I feel good just seeing this team as a whole,” Cox said. “A lot of the freshmen stepped up, and that’s great to see. I’m just really excited for the direction we’re headed.”
Freshman Joanna Evans put up a strong short-course per-formance in her first collegiate meet, notching two wins Sat-urday. Evans’ endurance held up in the 1,000-yard freestyle. She pulled ahead in the last 10 laps to win in 9:55.24. Evans won the 500-meter freestyle in thrilling fashion with a 4:49.67, narrowly beating Indiana se-nior Haley Lips’ time of 4:50.08.
“It was [Evans’] first short-course meet,” Cox said. “She did really well and it’s so inspir-ing to see that.”
Freshman Olivia Anderson earned another close win for Texas in the 100-yard breast-stroke. Anderson finished in 1:01.54 — only a tenth of a sec-ond faster than Indiana fresh-man Lilly King’s second place time of 1:01.64.
“[Anderson] touched out [King] who touched her out yesterday, and [King] is good,” Cox said. “Olivia took that
fire from yesterday — getting touched out — and came back today and got her.”
Freshman Quinn Carrozza made her collegiate debut in the long-course Friday with a win in the 200-meter back-stroke. She continued her suc-cess Saturday, winning the 200-yard backstroke in 1:56.43. Freshman Remedy Rule came in third with 1:58.15. Rule add-ed more points for Texas with a second-place finish in the 100-yard butterfly.
“We lost some key players in our seniors, and I feel like [the freshmen] have eased the pain of that,” Capitani said. “I’m glad of how they stood up, and I’m happy with how they got out of their comfort zone, and most of them did. Most of them sur-prised themselves at how good they were right now.”
Texas faces A&M in College Station on Nov. 6 at 6 p.m. for its next meet.
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Jack DuFon| Daily Texan StaffReigning NCAA champion junior Will Licon checks the scoreboard for his time. Texas won its season opener, defeating Florida and Indiana in long- and short-course events.
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Men’s golf completes third tournamentThe Texas men’s golf team closed out its third tour-nament of the season Sunday at the United States Collegiate Championship at The Golf Club of Georgia in Alpharetta, Georgia. The Longhorns finished in a tie for sixth out of 17 teams at 5-over par.
Junior Beau Hossler led the way for the Longhorns after posting rounds of 70, 71 and 71 to finish tied for eighth and 4-under for the tournament. It’s Hossler’s second top-10 finish of the season in as many starts af-ter winning the Nike Golf Collegiate Invitational two weeks ago.
Sophomore Scottie Scheffler finished tied for 18th and even par for the tournament after shoot-ing 73, 73 and 70. Sopho-more Doug Ghim tied for 22nd at 1-over after post-ing 72, 73 and 72. Junior Gavin Hall finished in a tie for 50th and redshirt sophomore Taylor Funk tied for 79th.
Auburn and Wake Forest shared the title after finishing in a tie for first at 9-under, four strokes clear of Clemson. Four players tied for first in the indi-vidual standings. Stanford junior Maverick McNealy, Virginia junior Derek Bard, Wake Forest fresh-man Cameron Young and Auburn junior Will Long all finished at 6-under to share the individual title.
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Jack DuFon | Daily Texan StaffAll-American junior Madisyn Cox earned five wins in Texas’ season opener against Florida and Indiana.
Charlotte Carpernter | Daily Texan StaffSenior outside hitter Amy Neal goes up for a kill against Texas Tech on Saturday. Texas swept Tech in straight sets.
When most people pass Texas trees, they don’t notice the spiky-looking colonies of ball moss. But when UT alumnus William Niendorff sees the pale green plants, he sees untapped potential.
“Tillandsias are remark-able plants, and they are re-ally misunderstood, so that is a reason I wanted to study them,” Niendorff said.
For the past two years, Niendorff has been investi-gating ball moss, Tillandsia recurvata, as a plant to be used for plant-covered roofs, or green roofs. Niendorff, who initially received fund-ing for the project through the Lady Bird Johnson Wild-flower Center, worked on the research under the late Mark Simmons, who was the Director of Research and Experimental Design at the Wildflower Center. Green roofs can regulate temperature, substantially reduce energy consumption and provide an aesthetically pleasing habitat for native insects and other animals,
according to a 2001 study in Energy and Buildings. Currently, most green roofs are made with soil-based plants, such as grasses or suc-culents. Niendorff ’s idea of using a rootless, completely soil-free plant is a new con-cept in green roof design.
“One of the greatest things about Tillandsias is that they don’t need soil at all, which means that if you’re using them for a type of green wall or green roof, you don’t have to worry about that ex-tra weight on the structure,” Niendorff said.
In his recent study, Nien-dorff created three-dimen-sional models to test the ball moss plant’s capability to provide the traditional ad-vantages of green roofs, such as temperature control, de-creased runoff and habitats for native species. The study proved that ball moss green roofs are feasible projects, and Niendorff plans to con-duct further trials to explore the most efficient models.
The ball moss models are low maintenance and obtain water from the air, nitro-gen from bacteria and other
nutrients from blown dust. Ball moss is not actually a moss, but an epiphyte, meaning it does not affect its host plant.
Since they obtain ev-erything they need in-dependent of a host, ball mosses can grow on almost anything — trees, rocks or wire models. Niendorff ’s models are constructed around metal frames, and instead of being restricted to a single layer, the plants can be arranged in many different configurations.
“One of the things that I like most about my project is that it’s ridiculously simple,” Niendorff said. “It’s a concept that already works in nature.”
One downside to the project is that the ball moss green roof models contain only one species of plant, while most green roofs are composed of several dif-ferent species. Diversity in green roofs is an advantage because it makes the system more adaptable to change in environmental conditions.
The next step for Nien-dorff ’s project is investigat-ing the logistics of ball moss
green roofs, and finding out which arrangements work best. Niendorff also wants to explore the public’s opinion on ball moss through sur-veys at the UT School of Ar-chitecture. He is eager to see data on what people think of ball moss, especially since the plant has a history of being unpopular.
“Lady Bird Johnson actually had them removed from the trees at the Wildflower Center because she herself hated them, so I think it’s kind of funny that I’m doing a research project on them [through the Wildflower Center],” Niendorff said.
Niendorff hopes to pub-lish his research next summer and his paper will add to the
small amount of literature on ball moss available. Niendorff said even books written spe-cifically on the genus Tillandsia make little to no mention of ball moss.
“Ball moss is a discarded plant, which makes it so excit-ing for me,” Niendorff said. “It’s like how to turn trash into treasure.”
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The Herb Kelleher Center for Entrepreneurship and UT Longhorn Entrepreneurship Agency will bring RECESS to college, letting students on campus “play” in the business world for a day.
RECESS, an entrepreneurial festival, will come to Austin on
Friday for the first time. RE-CESS at UT will contain a full day of events including a pitch competition, a networking fair and a speaker series featur-ing exclusive keynote speaker Mike Dinsdale, chief growth officer of DocuSign, and Ais-linn Murray, assistant Market-ing Manager for L’Oreal Paris.
“There is so much to learn from students and their ideas,”
Murray said. “And schools that facilitate creativity and idea generation really reap the ben-efits from students that go on to do big things after their years on campus.”
RECESS originally began as a college music festival at Indiana University in 2010. Co-founders Jack Shannon and Deuce Thevenow sent Mark Cuban, owner of the
Dallas Mavericks and Land-mark Theaters, an email to ask for his thoughts on their idea to make the festival into a hub for college entre-preneurship. He responded with an offer to invest which started the partnership that turned RECESS into what it is today.
“We wanted to help college students who are like us that
have an aspiration to start their own businesses,” Theve-now said. “We were a college startup ourselves and know the struggles firsthand, so RE-CESS was formed in 2013 as a platform and resource to help college entrepreneurs.”
Thevenow said 23-year-old student, Jay Perkins, became a successful entrepre-neur after the RECESS pitch
competition in Las Vegas in 2014. He built an automated alcoholic beverage machine for use in bars and restaurants as a senior design project at Purdue University in 2014. He sent an email to Cuban to ask if he would invest in the company, and Cuban ended up investing in the company for 25
Thalia Juarez | Daily Texan StaffUT alumnus William Niendorff created ball moss models to test the the plant as an alternative to soil-based plants for green roofs.
