New fundraising ef-
forts by UT Interfraternity 
Council (IFC) and Univer-
sity Panhellenic Council 
(UPC) for the 86th annual 
RoundUp weekend attract-
ed more than 15,000 people 
and raised nearly $100,000 
for charities.
This year, IFC increased 
its prices on non-UT stu-
dents wristbands. IFC 
charged $20 per wrist-
band for non-UT students, 
compared to $10 last year. 
RoundUp is free for UT 
students, but this year UPC 
held a fast-pass option that 
charged students $10 dol-
lars to cut in wristband 
lines. IFC and UPC donated 
money raised with wrist-
band sales and personal 
donations to charities of 
their choice.
Wesley Sparr, finance 
sophomore and IFC phi-
lanthropy chair, said this 
year the organization 
chose the B+ Foundation 
as its main charity. The 
foundation helps children 
fighting cancer. 
“I think the Greek com-
munity is a great commu-
nity of adults,” Sparr said. 
“People focus a lot on the 
negative [aspect] of Greek 
life. We strive in school, phi-
lanthropy and social situa-
tions and although it doesn’t 
get the same attention, we 
choose to do the philanthro-
py because it feels good.” 
Will Deer, finance ju-
nior and IFC president, said 
many fraternities and sorori-
ties have sponsored children 
in the foundation, and de-
cided to use RoundUp as the 
Booming music, thousands of 
bodies and colored powder filled 
the air around the LBJ lawn as 
students gathered to celebrate the 
Hindu celebration, Holi.
Hosted by the Hindu Stu-
dent Association, Holi, which is 
celebrated every year, involves 
public dancing and singing as 
students throw different colored 
powders at each other’s faces 
and bodies. 
Health and society junior 
Krishan Sachdev, who is the 
financial director of HSA, said 
Holi is a festivity that symbolizes 
two significances — one spiri-
tual and the other for the coming 
of a new season. 
“The religious and spiritual 
significance behind is that ev-
eryone is joined and unified by 
color,” Sachdev said. “There’s 
no race there’s nothing, it’s all 
love. The second significance 
is celebrating the incoming of 
spring. Back in India all the 
sources of income were farm-
ing, [and] the winter was a very, 
very harsh time. This was the 
start of the new crops and the 
better weather.” 
Sachdev also said this reli-
gious celebration allows people 
be themselves and not worry 
about the outside world. 
“Our goal is to get every 
person of race and gender to 
join in and celebrate just being 
alive and being happy and just 
unify as one; to bond,” Sachdev 
said. “Everyone looses the stress 
of the social life and joins in as 
one body.” 
More than 9,000 people at-
tended the event this year, and 
the number of attendees has in-
creased by 1,000 each year, Sa-
chdev said. 
Business freshman Kristen 
The Nike Clyde Little-
field Texas Relays have been 
around for 89 years, but the 
21,006 fans that filled Mike 
A. Myers Stadium on Sat-
urday afternoon saw some-
thing that’s never happened 
in the event’s history. 
Texas senior Morolake 
Akinosun flew by the packed 
and brightly colored east 
stands of the stadium and 
cruised by her competition 
in the women’s 100-meter 
dash. The senior crossed 
the finish line with a time 
of 11.07 seconds, taking her 
third-straight win in the race 
— a first for the Texas Relays. 
“I realized about halfway 
through the training season 
that I could be the first one to 
ever do that,” Akinosun said. 
“It’s an incredible feeling.” 
The moment, however, 
was slightly bittersweet for the 
Illinois native. Her teammate, 
freshman Teahna Daniels, 
Gina Hinojosa saw stunning 
examples of public servants 
dedicating their lives to their 
communities almost everyday 
in the form of her parents, both 
legal aid lawyers.
Despite growing up in that 
world, Hinojosa — who has 
served on the Austin ISD School 
Board since 2012 — didn’t think 
she would ever want to be a 
part of it.
“When you’re in public 
service, it’s like you belong to 
everybody,” Hinojosa said. “I 
didn’t like that my dad belonged 
to everybody, I wanted him to 
belong just to us.”
After serving on the board, 
Hinojosa decided to jump 
into a crowded field of candi-
dates for an open state House 
of Representatives race so she 
could move the needle at the 
state level on one of her top 
priorities: education.
“We’ve been making good 
progress [at the board], but our 
biggest challenge is funding,” 
Hinojosa said. “That’s a state 
issue. So whenthis seat came 
open, I just felt like I had to try.”
Earlier this month, Hinojosa 
emerged victorious from the 
pack of six other qualified candi-
dates for House District 49 with 
around 57 percent of the vote, 
avoiding a runoff election. 
Although he remained neutral 
throughout the campaign, long-
time state Rep. Elliott Naishtat 
— who is currently serving in 
the interim session until the leg-
islature reconvenes next year 
— said he was pleased his suc-
cessor aligns with his stances, 
including opposing campus car-
ry, and prioritizes public health 
and education funding.
“She is focused on issues I’ve 
The UT System respond-
ed Thursday to a request 
from top state officials 
asking for information on 
student debt, college loan 
affordability and college 
completion rates. 
The system’s report de-
fended recent tuition in-
creases as necessary to the 
quality of their institutions. 
The letter cited statistics 
showing that UT-Austin 
students typically only pay 
40 percent of the listed tu-
ition price and that net tu-
ition in 2014 was $500 less 
than in 2004 after tuition 
de-regulation. 
“UT System institutions 
are among the most afford-
able in the state, and mod-
est tuition increases will not 
impact that,” according to 
the report.
Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick and 
Senator Kel Seliger, chair-
man of the Senate Higher 
Education Committee, said 
they were “alarmed” by re-
cent tuition increases at UT 
System institutions in a let-
ter written in early March. 
The 84th legislature, the 
letter pointedly said, had 
provided for a “dramatic” 
increase in funding for 
higher education.
“It is discouraging to see 
Texas Higher Education 
institutions seek to increase 
the financial burden faced 
by students and their fami-
lies rather than developing 
methods to cut costs,” said 
Patrick and Seliger in the 
letter. “The cost of higher 
education must remain at 
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By Forrest Milburn@forrestmilburnHINOJOSA page 2TRACK & FIELDJoshua Guerra | Daily Texan StaffSenior Morolake Akinosun sprints ahead of a Purdue runner during one of the weekend’s relay events. Akinosun won the 
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By Jacob Martella@ViewFromTheBoxRELAYS page 6By Caleb Wong@caleber96TUITION page 2Thousands of students gather 
on LBJ lawn for Holi festivitiesRoundUp rounds up nearly 
$100,000 for several charitiesCAMPUSCAMPUSStephanie Martinez-Arndt | Daily Texan StaffMembers of the Texas Baseball Diamonds attend a party 
hosted by Sigma Chi on Saturday during RoundUp weekend. 
Rachel Zein | Daily Texan StaffRang, or colored powder, is thrown in the air during the annual 
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By Anusha Lalani@anusha_lalaniBy Cassandra Jaramillo@cassandrajarROUNDUP page 2HOLI page 2

Cervantessaid she enjoyed 
her first Holi celebration even 
though it involved strangers 
coming up to her and throwing 
color on her. 
“It was a lot of fun,” Cer-
vantes said. “We danced and 
we were throwing color. Ev-
erybody was so nice because 
people were just throwing col-
or at other people and nobody 
would get mad. You would 
think they wouldn’t like it, but 
it was fun.”
Business freshman Mi-
norie Vaidya, who is Hindu, 
said Holi can help people 
look past any social barriers 
between them. 
“There’s no division be-
tween people,” Vaidya said. 
“Everyone looks the same 
with color on them. Everyone 
is equal and it kind of promotes 
unity between people, which I 
think is really good, especially 
since nowadays there’s a lot of 
division and social issues. This 
is sort of a good way to bring 
everyone together.”
always tried to address,” Na-
ishtat said.
The two first interacted 
with each other back in 2015, 
when Hinojosa was actively 
advocating against a bill that 
would have stopped the pro-
active monitoring of birth 
defects. Hinojosa, whose 
first child passed away from 
birth defects, said she went to 
testify in front of the House 
Public Health Committee, 
which included Naishtat 
as a member.
“There’s was such comfort 
in knowing that there was no 
hidden agenda on his part,” 
Hinojosa said. “He was hon-
est and … to know that your 
legislator was on board and 
has integrity — that’s huge.”
After her primary win, Hi-
nojosa said she has received 
an outpouring of support 
and advice from members 
of the Travis County del-
egation and Naishtat on 
how to operate as a new 
member in the House of 
Representatives, where Re-
publicans have an enormous 
membership advantage.
Hinojosa said she hopes to 
address state public educa-
tion funding, and the rising 
costs of living prices and 
higher education tuition rates 
as some of her top focuses in 
the student-heavy district.
“In 2011, we had major 
cuts to public education,” 
said Maliha Mazhar, Uni-
versity Democrats com-
munications director and 
government senior. “In the 
last legislative session we 
got some of those back, but 
there’s still a lot of funding 
that can be given back to 
schools, which should be a 
top priority.”
While she has a head start 
on getting her staff in order 
for the next session — un-
like members who have 
general election opponents 
— Hinojosa said she is tak-
ing in as much advise as 
possible as she prepares to 
succeed Naishtat in January.
“I mean, those are big 
shoes to fill,” Hinojosa said. 
“There’s a lot of work to do 
to begin earning that trust.”
opportunity to make a larger 
impact for the charity. IFC 
last year adopted a young boy 
named Karter who is battling 
acute lymphoid leukemia.
“Being around Karter and 
his family and spending time 
with him like at UT baseball 
games and Dave & Buster’s 
gave us inspiration to make 
RoundUp bigger than a party 
weekend,” Deer said.
While IFC hosted the big 
parties, several sororities 
held cookouts throughout 
the weekend to raise mon-
ey. Kassidy Knight, elec-
trical engineering senior 
and president of UPC, said 
they use the large crowds 
in West Campus looking 
for a mid-afternoon meal 
to spread awareness of 
their philanthropies.
“It’s a great opportunity to 
take time out of your day to 
spread awareness on philan-
thropy and learn where their 
$5 on quesadillas are going,” 
Knight said.
Knight said she was pleased 
to see how much money was 
raised with its fast pass.
“This year is the first year 
we have done it,” Knight 
said. “We weren’t sure how it 
was going to do. But we were 
very happy to have raised 
nearly $2,000 with it.”
Knight said UPC’s funds 
on the fast pass fundraiser 
will go to Circle of Sister-
hood, a charity that helps 
girls around the world get 
resources for an education.
a level that is within reach of 
all Texans.” 
Tuition will be raised by 
$300 at UT-Austin by fall 
2017, the first time tuition has 
increased since 2011.
Asked about plans to reduce 
student loan debt, the System 
report said 51 percent of stu-
dents borrow money to attend 
UT-Austin compared to the 
national average of 69 percent. 
According to the report, pro-
grams such as the University 
Leadership Network and the 
Texas Interdisciplinary Plan 
help more students at risk of 
not graduating to graduate on 
time from UT in four years. 
According to the Tuition 
Policy Advisory Committee, 
the state has only restored $50 
million of funding to UT after 
cutting $92 million of funding 
in 2012-2013.
“For the education that 
we’re getting, we’re on the 
cheaper end,” said Xavier 
Rotnofsky, Student Govern-
ment president and Plan II and 
linguistics senior. “In order to 
maintain where we are with 
our education and academics, 
tuition does need to be adjusted 
accordingly because if the state 
isn’t going to fund us, there’s 
no other place we’re going to 
get that money from.”
In a separate letter ad-
dressed to Patrick and Seliger, 
UT President Gregory Fenves 
said UT has an “exemplary 
record of offering an afford-
able education to all Texans.” 
Fenves included information 
in the letter showing that UT 
receives less funding from the 
state compared to other schools 
while keeping tuition low. 
“While tuition increases are 
never desirable, the UT-Austin 
proposal approved by the Board 
of Regents was designed to 
maintain the balance of sharing 
the costs of a first-class educa-
tion among taxpayers, students 
and other sources of funds,” 
Fenves wrote in the letter. 
Fenves said unfunded man-
dates from the state, such as the 
Hazlewood exemption from 
tuition for military veterans and 
their dependents, puts pressure 
on tuition costs. At the same 
time, he said, tuition revenue 
has remained constant while 
state funding has decreased. 
“The fact we remain compet-
itive with other national flagship 
institutions while receiving less 
money from taxpayers is clear 
evidence that UT is a bargain 
for these students, their families, 
and the State of Texas,” Fenves 
said in his letter. 
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Considering the recent suicide bombings 
in Belgium and Pakistan, millions of Ameri-
cans are understandably fearful of Islamic 
extremism. Unfortunately, politicians such as 
Ted Cruz have deployed increasingly Islamo-
phobic rhetoric, exploiting our fear for their 
own political gain. Calls to ban, monitor and 
profile Muslims might make some Americans 
feel safer, but these discriminatory proposals 
are also irrational and deeply hypocritical. 
Before we even get around to deciding 
which group we should unconstitutionally 
discriminate against, we should ask ourselves 
if such extreme action is even justified. Given 
the sensationalized media coverage terrorist 
attacks typically receive, perhaps it’s not sur-
prising that 75 percent of Americans consider 
fighting terrorism to be a top priority. How-
ever, less than 400 Americans have died in 
domestic terror attacks since 9/11. To put that 
number in perspective, you’re about as likely 
to be crushed to death by a falling TV as you 
are to die in a terrorist attack. But unlike TVs, 
dangerous jihadis probably aren’t lurking be-
hind every corner. 
Even if we conclude that defeating terror-
ism requires drastic, politically incorrect so-
lutions, profiling Muslims en masse is still a 
profoundly stupid idea. Contrary to popu-
lar belief, Muslims aren’t disproportionately 
responsible for acts of terror. For example, 
many of the perpetrators of mass shootings 
and terrorist attacks in 2015 were not Mus-
lims and none were Syrian refugees. Accord-
ing to some reports, a total of 81 American 
Muslims were arrested on terror charges in 
2015, a number which comprises less than 
0.000025 percent of America’s 3.3 million 
Muslims. Targeting such a large, diverse and 
mostly innocent group of people would be 
costly, ineffective and likely radicalize many 
otherwise peaceful Muslims. 
To truly grasp the absurdity of treating all 
Muslims as potential terrorists, consider ap-
plying the same logic to a demographic group 
that really is linked with violence — men. 
Not just Muslim or Syrian men, but all men. 
While there’s virtually no link between ter-
rorism and Muslim Americans, men are re-
sponsible for over 90 percent of all homicides.
Men are more likely to be psychopaths, 
and within both genders higher testoster-
one levels are significantly correlated with a 
higher likelihood of aggression and psychopa-
thy. A young American man is more likely to 
commit murder than a Muslim American 
woman, so why hasn’t Ted Cruz proposed that 
we stop and frisk America’s ruggedly handsome 
men as well? After all, even if we stubbornly ig-
nore the noisy protestations of our Constitution 
and conscience, men, not Muslims, would be 
the most logical group to profile. 
In all seriousness, the vast majority of men 
still aren’t violent psychopaths and treating 
them as such would be morally reprehensible. 
So if we believe profiling men is wrong and 
unjustified, how can we propose doing the 
same to Muslim Americans. Discriminating 
against Muslim Americans may prevent some 
acts of terror as well, but it would be at least 
as unethical as demonizing all men. Never 
forget that the goal of terrorism is to spread 
terror, and that our best defense against it will 
always be compassion and reason, not irratio-
nal fear and prejudice.
Jensen is a neuroscience junior from The 
Woodlands.
Whether or not you agree with morality 
of abortion, House Bill 2 violates the undue 
burden standard, and cannot be allowed to 
stand. HB 2, passed in the summer of 2013, 
is a broad group of restrictions on abortion, 
including a ban for pregnancies past 20 weeks 
— no exceptions for rape — and stringent 
requirements for physicians and clinics who 
perform abortions. 
The controversial issue of regulating abor-
tion has a longstanding history that is still 
in flux today. The first precedent was Roe v. 
Wade, which determined that a woman’s de-
cision to terminate her pregnancy is a “liber-
ty” protected by the due process clause of the 
14th Amendment.
In 1992, Planned Parenthood v. Casey up-
held the decision made in Roe v. Wade and 
added the “undue burden” test. This test 
found illegal laws whose “purpose or effect is 
to place substantial obstacles in the path of a 
woman seeking an abortion before the fetus 
attains viability.” 
The most current case, Whole Woman’s 
Health v. Hellerstedt, will reexamine the limits 
on states’ ability to regulate abortion in re-
sponse to the overt attempt to deny women 
access to abortion. 
HB 2 attempts to disguise itself as a legiti-
mate government action to protect women’s 
health, but it is now the Supreme Court of 
the United States’ job to reel in these over-
reaching restrictions. 
The arguments in front of the Court center 
upon two clauses of HB 2 that put restrictions 
on physicians and clinics. The first requires 
that physicians have admitting privileges at a 
hospital within 30 miles of the facility. The sec-
ond requires that all abortion facilities meet 
the standards of ambulatory surgical centers 
(ASCs), including facilities that only provide 
medical abortion.
The Texas Policy Evaluation Project has 
studied the effects of these two clauses. TxPEP 
found that since HB 2, there has been a sharp 
decline in both the number of physicians and 
facilities that provide abortion services.
TxPEP also found that the severe decline 
in the number of clinics means that there is 
no longer sufficient capacity to meet demand. 
Dr. Daniel Grossman, a TxPEP researcher, 
said that the closure of clinics across the state, 
brought on by HB 2, delays or prevents wom-
en seeking abortion.
Further, TxPEP found that there is “no evi-
dence” that admitting privileges improve the 
safety of an abortion. Instead the requirement 
has limited the number of doctors and clinics 
that can offer the service. 
“Some women we have interviewed re-
port attempting to self-induce their abor-
tion because their nearest clinic closed 
and they could not travel to the next near-
est clinic. If the Supreme Court decides 
that HB 2 can fully go into effect, there 
will only be nine or 10 facilities provid-
ing abortion care in Texas, and we antici-
pate that all of these negative outcomes 
will worsen for women across the state,” 
Grossman said.
The state is not acting in the interest of 
promoting health, and this law obviously 
does “place substantial obstacles in the path 
of a woman seeking an abortion.” Solicitor 
General Donald W. Verrilli Jr. put it best 
when he suggested that HB 2 made abortion 
a right that “only really existed in theory and 
not in fact.”
MacLean is a advertising freshman from 
Austin.
Capital trials sound like the height of de-
mocracy, being respectful yet high stakes 
contests. Frankly, they aren’t. It is not un-
common for lawyers, jurors and even judges 
to fall asleep. This is a system where para-
noid schizophrenics are allowed to represent 
themselves, subpoenaing Jesus Christ him-
self. Just last week, a man with bipolar disor-
der was issued a stay hours before his execu-
tion when an appeals court ruled he hadn’t 
been adequately represented.
In a literal life and death scenario, these re-
alities don’t feel like justice. 
And for criminals with serious mental 
illness, the state needs to tighten up its 
arbitrary handling of mental health cases, 
if not abolish the death penalty for these 
defendants altogether. 
Many death penalty case issues are due 
to bad lawyering. When death sentences 
increase from just a quarter of the national 
average to the national average, error rates 
more than triple. But problems also occur 
on the other side of the bench — mentally 
ill defendants don’t always make the best 
clients. Capital cases can go through four 
or five sets of defense lawyers as the client 
exhausts his appeals and is entitled to new 
counsel. If a defendant cannot articulate past 
problems with his case, it is difficult to find 
compelling arguments for an appeal, keep-
ing them on death row. 
“It is very hard for them, if not impossible 
for them to help their lawyers,” said Jim Mar-
cus, co-director of the Capital Punishment 
clinic at the UT School of Law. “Their symp-
toms get in the way of their understanding 
of the world.”
Texas has the most active execution cham-
ber in the nation, but its sentencing is by 
no means uniform. If Harris County were a 
state, it would have the most executions in 
the country (excluding Texas of course). Your 
chances of execution have less to do with your 
crime than where you are prosecuted. 
Harris County jail has another claim to 
fame — it’s the state’s largest mental health 
care provider.
“The fact that the criminal justice system 
has been ineffective in preventing that from 
happening, it’s appalling,” said Kathryn Kase, 
executive director of Texas Defender Service.
Even with such high levels of mental ill-
ness in the justice system, the verdict of not-
guilty by reason of insanity is rarely used. 
Many jurors and judges still feel inclined to 
think that someone with mental illness is 
“faking it,” even when defendants have been 
considered mentally impaired since child-
hood, or in the case of Andre Thomas, rip 
out their own eyes. 
“For lawyers who are litigating these 
cases, who represent someone who is seri-
ously mentally ill, you really don’t want to 
put [mental illness] in front of the jury if 
you don’t have to,” Kase said. “I think that 
over time there is an emerging consensus 
that these folks should not be facing the 
death penalty.”
A 2014 Public Policy Research poll found 
that Americans did not favor using the 
death penalty on mentally ill individuals 
on a 2-to-1 margin. Life in prison without 
parole is just as effective as a death sentence 
at protecting the public from a mentally ill 
criminal, and saves $1.2 million in the pro-
cess. If we spent even half of this money 
on early detection and treatment of mental 
illness, hundreds of potential victim’s lives 
would be saved.
If the state insists on using the death 
penalty on the mentally ill, we can at least 
make sure that process is treated with the 
gravity it deserves. Cases should be taken 
to court slowly, giving time to assess the 
full impact of mental illness on a defen-
dant, who should then be ensured reason-
able counsel. Anything less could hardly 
be considered justice.
Hallas is a Plan II freshman from Allen.
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@maclean_josieTexas’ execution process fails mentally ill 
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Source: CNN News, US Consumer Product Safety CommissionInfographic by Elizabeth Jones | Daily Texan StaffPlans to profile Muslims ignore basic statisticsHB 2 restrictions leave Texas residents out of optionsFor lawyers who are litigating these 
cases, who represent someone who 
is seriously mentally ill, you really 
don’t want to put [mental illness] in 
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Executive director, Texas Defender ServiceHB 2 attempts to disguise itself 
as a legitimate government action 
to protect women’s health, but it 
is now the Supreme Court of the 
United States’ job to reel in these 
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To truly grasp the absurdity of treat-
ing all Muslims as potential terror-
ists, consider applying the same 
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ity. Cranston plays Teller’s 
father, who is also on the 
market for a new job, but 
he’s having trouble find-
ing anyone who will 
interview him. 
Kendrick occasionally 
pops up as Teller’s girlfriend 
— she’s there to complain 
about how messy the guys 
are and kiss Teller, then learn 
to use pot. Her character has 
no narrative purpose except 
to hit us over the head with 
the film’s theme, which is 
“don’t sell your soul for 
money.” That’s a funny idea 
coming from a production as 
soulless as this one.
Brandon T. Jackson, 
Christopher Mintz-Plasse 
and Nicholas Braun also 
feature in subplots that lead 
nowhere. Jackson’s charac-
ter works in stock trading, 
and his storyline revolves 
groan-inducing skits about 
bodily fluids. Mintz-Plasse 
plays a tech expert who de-
velops an app that allows 
users to stalk other people, 
but he’s a riff on every other 
Mintz-Plasse role. Braun is 
a pothead chemistry teacher 
and basketball coach. Like 
Kendrick, none of them 
serve the story — they’re 
all here to fill up space that 
Teller and Cranston can’t.
“Get a Job” never rises 
above generic. It doesn’t 
have wit or energy, and the 
writing is clunky. Character 
moments that are supposed 
to be heartfelt or emotional 
aren’t organic or earned — 
they are just sporadically 
tossed out between unfunny 
“funny parts” and executed 
with little to no grace. Every 
conversation either preaches 
an idea or recounts an event 
that a better film would’ve 
allowed us to see — listen-
ing to Cranston boast about 
a successful interview or 
Jackson complain about cost-
ing his firm big money isn’t 
exciting. That’s not to say 
watching those events may 
have been entertaining, but at 
least it would’ve been slight-
ly more involving.
It’s not a spoiler that “Get 
a Job” has a happy ending, 
and by God is it unearned. 
The movie closes with a 
vapid montage about why 
we all need to “be special,” 
and viewers are supposed 
to be glad that these charac-
ters have found places for 
themselves. They won’t be 
— not when they have only 
a skin-deep understanding of 
who these people are. There 
is zero meaning to Teller’s 
voiceover, and you’ll leave 
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than inspired.
Something worth noting 
is the film’s weird obsession 
with the “Halo” video games. 
Nearly every gathering in the 
protagonists’ crappy house 
involves them sitting around 
the TV and watching some-
one play it. The “Halo” theme 
is distractingly loud, and it 
never jives with the dialogue. 
Not that their words are in-
teresting enough to listen to. 
The music, on the other hand, 
is gold. 
Allison Brie’s character, 
a colleague of Teller’s, best 
sums up the experience of 
sitting through “Get a Job.” 
She relentlessly hits on Tell-
er, and when he’s finally had 
enough, he demands, “What 
is wrong with you?”
“I’m really bored,” 
she replies.
So are we Allison. So 
are we. 
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was scheduled to start 
alongside Akinosun in the 
race after the two pushed 
each other during the 
indoor season.
But Daniels fell in the 
first handoff in the women’s 
4x100-meter relay with a 
pulled quad, according to 
head coach Mario Sategna, 
forcing her to miss the rest of 
the meet.
“It broke my heart to see 
Teahna go down like that,” 
Akinosun said. “She’s been 
such a tremendous training 
partner for me. I was looking 
forward to that race with her.”
Still, Akinosun’s win capped 
off a strong day for the Long-
horns in their home meet.
Akinosun and Daniels 
started the final day of the 
event strong for Texas, help-
ing the women’s 4x200-meter 
relay team to a second place 
finish behind Louisiana State 
University. Akinosun then 
ran a strong third leg in the 
4x400-meter race, while se-
nior Courtney Okolo pulled 
away in the anchor leg to lead 
Texas to a win with a time of 
3:26.54 seconds.
“You just try to open up the 
gap a bit so that it doesn’t leave 
any room for a battle at the 
end,” Okolo said.
Meanwhile, the men’s relay 
teams barely missed out on 
two wins. The 4x100-meter 
relay team beat perennial 
powers LSU and Texas A&M, 
but just missed on the win by 
.1 seconds as TCU surprised 
the field.
Texas led for most of the 
4x400-meter relay, the last 
race of the day, but LSU senior 
Michael Cherry passed Texas 
junior Zack Bilderback in the 
last leg. Bilderback fought 
back in the final 200 meters, 
but couldn’t retake the lead 
as the Longhorns finished .36 
behind the Tigers.
“I just tried to hang onto 
him on the hip,” Bilderback 
said. “At the end, I tried to feed 
off the crowd, but my legs just 
weren’t there today.”
Freshman distance runner 
Alex Rogers nearly took first 
in his first Texas Relays mile 
run, but couldn’t close the gap 
on University of Texas at El 
Paso’s Johan Koech in the final 
50 meters.
“Coming into that last 50, 
I was like ‘You can pass him, 
you can do it, just maintain 
your form,’” Rogers said. 
“But I just couldn’t do it.”
Freshman John Burt 
struggled in the 110-meter 
hurdles. He finished the fi-
nal race in last with a time 
of 14.18 seconds. But Burt, 
who’s splitting time between 
running hurdles and spring 
football, said that while it 
was “an honor” to make the 
finals, he’s pushing himself 
to be better than his last-
place finish.
“I wouldn’t be out here if 
I didn’t want to win,” Burt 
said. “What’s the purpose if 
you’re not going to compete 
at the highest level?”
The meet is just the sec-
ond of the outdoor season 
for the Longhorns, but 
Akinosun already has her 
eyes on a much bigger prize. 
Not an NCAA title, but a 
spot in the 2016 Olympics 
in Rio in August.
After her performance 
Saturday and with more 
meets to come against top-
level athletes, Sategna said 
it’s more than just a dream 
for Akinosun.
“That’s a definite benefit,” 
Sategna said. “If you can get 
through the trials and to the 
final, anything can happen.”
Texas entered Sunday’s 
contest against Oklahoma 
with a chance to win its sec-
ond straight Big 12 series. A 
loss on Friday night was re-
deemed with a 5-3 victory on 
Saturday, and the Longhorns 
looked to find some momen-
tum in what had previously 
been a disappointing season.
But the Sooners — along 
with Mother Nature — had 
other ideas. With the score 
tied at 3-3 in the ninth, Okla-
homa had a man on first with 
one out. Sophomore closer 
Connor Mayes induced a 
pop-up into foul territory 
on the first base side, an easy 
play for junior first base-
man Kacy Clemens. How-
ever, there was nothing easy 
about this pop-up. A gust of 
wind blew the ball past Cle-
mens, causing it to drop in 
fair territory.
An intentional walk load-
ed the bases with just one 
out, placing Mayes in an 
undoubtedly difficult jam. 
Mayes couldn’t escape, al-
lowing a single along with the 
winning run. Oklahoma took 
the game 4-3, along with the 
series. And in a season full of 
them, Sunday was another 
difficult loss for head coach 
Augie Garrido’s squad as 
Texas’ season record dropped 
to 12–16.
Texas trailed from the out-
set. After going down 1-2-3 
to begin the game, sopho-
more Kyle Johnston gave up 
a solo shot to Oklahoma ju-
nior shortstop Sheldon Neu-
se. For the second time in the 
three-game series, a first in-
ning home run put Oklaho-
ma ahead. But unlike Friday 
— where the Sooners cruised 
to a 6-1 victory — Texas 
fought back.
Clutch hitting fueled Texas 
throughout the early part of 
Sunday’s matchup. With two 
outs in the top of the third, 
freshman outfielder Tyler 
Rand rocketed a double to 
left center, scoring junior 
Zane Gurwitz from second. 
After three, the score was 
knotted up at 1-1. 
Rand replicated his two-
out heroics in the fifth. A 
single up the middle scored 
sophomore catcher Michael 
Cantu, putting the Long-
horns up 2-1 — but the lead 
wouldn’t last. 
After Johnston issued a 
leadoff walk in the bottom of 
the sixth, Neuse hit a routine 
ground ball to shortstop. But 
the traditionally sure-hand-
ed freshman Kody Clemens 
couldn’t field the ball cleanly, 
allowing Neuse to reach base. 
With men on second and 
third, Johnston was replaced 
by senior reliever Travis 
Duke. Duke, the rubber-
armed senior, made his team-
high eighteenth appearance 
on Sunday. But after helping 
secure the victory on Sat-
urday, Duke couldn’t stem 
the tide. 
Upon entering the game, 
Duke promptly surrendered 
a single down the left field 
line. The base hit scored 
two Sooners, tying the game 
at three. 
After two innings of in-
activity, the Sooners scored 
in the ninth, giving them 
the series victory. Once 
again Texas had an oppor-
tunity to get back on track 
on Sunday. And once again, 
that chance slipped through 
their fingers.
6 SPTS6JACOB MARTELLA, SPORTS EDITOR | @texansportsMonday, April 4, 2016SOFTBALLLonghorns recover to win weekend seriesSIDELINENCAAWUCONN
OREGON ST.
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Jordan Spieth@JordanSpiethTOP TWEETTODAY IN 
HISTORY1986Wayne Gretzky 
sets an NHL 
record with his 
213th point of 
the season.
Hossler wins as No. 1 
Texas comes up shortNo. 1 Texas men’s golf 
fell short of winning the 
3M Augusta Invitational in 
Georgia on Sunday, finish-
ing second at 24-under par 
and three shots behind No. 
2 Illinois. 
“We know Illinois is a 
great team, today that got 
the better of us,” head coach 
John Fields said.
But the runner-up finish 
was not without a silver lin-
ing — junior Beau Hossler 
picked up an NCAA-best 
fifth individual victory of 
the season and sixth of his 
career, winning by two 
shots at 11-under par.
The win moves Hossler 
into second on Texas’ all-
time single-season wins 
list. Only Ben Crenshaw 
has more wins in a single 
season, with seven victories 
in 1972. Hossler is tied with 
Bob Estes for third on Tex-
as’ all-time career wins list.
Sophomore Doug Ghim 
posted a final round 1-un-
der 71 to finish at 6-under 
for the tournament and in a 
tie for eighth. Ghim has fin-
ished inside the top-10 five 
times this season.
Redshirt sophomore 
Taylor Funk fired a career-
low 3-under 69 on Sunday 
to finish at 4-under overall 
and in 12th place, the sec-
ond-best finish of his career.
Junior Gavin Hall tied 
for 13th at 3-under after fir-
ing a 2-under 70 in the final 
round. Sophomore Scottie 
Scheffler shot an even par 
72 on Sunday to finish in a 
tie for 41st at 5-over.
“Our guys played very 
solid today,” Fields said. 
“We are not hitting on all 
cylinders yet, but that is the 
goal as we head into post-
season. We had four play-
ers in the top 13 this week 
in a field that resembles an 
NCAA Regional.”
The Longhorns will close 
out their regular season 
schedule, Apr. 15-16, at 
the Maxwell Intercollegiate 
in Ardmore, Oklahoma, 
before heading to Trinity, 
Texas for the Big 12 Cham-
pionship, Apr. 29-May 1.
“We are enjoying this 
year as a team and aspire for 
championships,” Fields said.
—Trenton DaeschnerSPORTS 
BRIEFLYIt’s not about how you start, 
but about how you finish.
That’s the mentality Texas 
used this weekend against 
Brigham Young University at 
Red and Charline McCombs 
Field. The Longhorns lost 3-1 
to the Cougars on Friday, but 
turned it around Saturday to 
sweep the doubleheader and 
win the series.
“It was tremendous for us 
to get the series,” head coach 
Connie Clark said. “We played 
well [Friday] night, but the 
balls didn’t drop. Today things 
went our way and I’m real hap-
py to get production.” 
In Friday’s contest, BYU got 
an early lead behind junior first 
baseman Ashley Thompson’s 
two-run blast to right field. 
They added another run in the 
top of the third on consecutive 
walks from sophomore pitcher 
Kristen Clark. 
Junior shortstop Devon 
Tunning’s RBI single in the 
bottom of the third got Texas 
on the board, but that was 
all it could muster. Kristen 
Clark gave up six hits and six 
free passes and took the loss 
for Texas. 
On Saturday, the Longhorns 
got the doubleheader started 
with a 5-0 victory and took the 
rubber match, 7-0.
“The fact that we can drop 
one and learn from it and then 
take the next two as wins is 
extraordinary,” senior center 
fielder Lindsey Stephens said. 
Texas got its first run in the 
third after Stephens hit a lead-
off triple to left-center field 
and came across on junior 
left fielder Stephanie Wong’s 
RBI groundout. 
A two-out rally in the fourth 
gave the Longhorns some 
cushion. Sophomore catcher 
Randel Leahy ripped a two-
RBI double down the left field 
line and Stephens followed 
with a RBI double to left of her 
own. Stephens came across for 
Texas’ final run on a RBI single 
from Wong. 
Junior pitcher Tiarra Davis 
improved to 13-7 on the sea-
son behind a five-strikeout, 
complete game effort. 
Solid offense and a hot bat 
from Stephens carried Texas to 
victory in game three. 
Stephens scored in the first 
inning after a leadoff walk, sto-
len base and RBI single from 
Davis, who was in the desig-
nated player role. In the sec-
ond, Stephens blasted a two-
run bomb over the scoreboard 
in center to increase Texas’ lead 
to 3-0. To keep her great day 
going, Stephens ripped a RBI 
double to center in the fourth. 
“I was just seeing the ball 
and making good contact,” Ste-
phens said. “We approached it 
aggressively and did very well.” 
A three-run fifth sealed the 
win for Texas. Davis started 
the frame with a solo homerun 
to right field and fellow pitch-
er, sophomore starter Paige 
von Sprecken, helped herself 
with a two-RBI double. Von 
Sprecken earned the two-hit, 
shutout win. 
“It felt great to be able to 
help myself,” von Spreck-
en said. “I knew my team 
was going to get it done, 
but that I could partici-
pate was cool. This is good 
momentum for going into 
this week.”
By Claire Cruz@claireecruz5BASEBALL | OKLAHOMA 4-3 TEXASGabriel Lopez | Daily Texan StaffFreshman outfielder Tyler Rand knocked in two runs for Texas 
in the series finale against Oklahoma, but the Longhorns lost 
the game and the series.
Texas drops to four 
games under .500By Michael Shapiro@mshap2No. 34 Texas lost its first 
home game of the season 
to Oklahoma State, 4-2, 
on Friday but finished up 
the weekend by defeating 
Oklahoma, 4-1.
“Losing the [Oklahoma 
State] match is disappoint-
ing, but when I look at what 
the six people that played 
in the match did,” head 
coach Howard Joffe said. “I 
see they’re squeezing every 
ounce of effort and ability out 
of themselves.”
Oklahoma State claimed 
the third doubles win, but the 
17th-ranked Longhorn duo of 
senior Breaunna Addison and 
sophomore Dani Wagland re-
mained strong at first doubles 
against 23rd-ranked Oklaho-
ma State duo Maria Alvarez 
and Kelsey Laurente coming 
out victorious, 6-3.
Texas’ tandem made up of 
junior Neda Koprcina and 
freshman Daniella Roldan 
kept it close against No. 38 
Viktoriya Lushkova and Car-
la Tur Mari, saving a match 
point and breaking Okla-
homa State’s serve. Going to 
a tiebreaker after Koprcina 
held serve, the Cowgirls 
stole the win 7-2, taking the 
doubles point.
Addison and Wagland won 
the only two Texas singles. 
No. 12 Addison notched her 
101st win over No. 33 Kata-
rina Adamovic at first singles 
and Wagland beat No. 38 
Vladica Babic at third singles. 
Texas, however, rebounded 
with a stout performance 
against rival Oklahoma on 
Sunday afternoon. 
Addison and Wagland 
clinched the first Longhorn 
doubles win over Lily Mi-
yazaki and Emma Devine 
6-1, but Oklahoma would 
put up a fight and win at 
second doubles. 
The freshman Texas team 
of Chelsea Crovetti and Katie 
Poluta came from behind af-
ter being down 2-5 and bring-
ing the score up to a tie 5-5. 
Withstanding the Texas heat, 
the duo clinched the 7-5 win, 
giving Texas a 1-0 lead. 
Addison, Koprcina and Po-
luta all tacked on singles wins 
to help the Longhorns to the 
4-1 win.
The Longhorns go on the 
road next weekend and chal-
lenge Texas Tech on Friday and 
Texas Christian University 
on Sunday. 
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WASHINGTON
Joshua Guerra 
Daily Texan StaffSenior center 
fielder Linsd-
sey Stephens 
scored the 
first run of the 
game for Texas 
in both of its 
wins over BYU 
this weekend. 
Stephens is 
hitting a blis-
tering .426 for 
the Longhorns 
this season. 
Joshua Guerra | Daily Texan StaffSophomore Dani Wagland (above) and doubles partner, se-
nior Breaunna Addison, earned a pair of wins this weekend.
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While spending the sum-
mer in a small, West Texas 
trailer, Kelsey Shipman wit-
nessed her mom’s suicide 
attempts and physical abuse. 
Some of her uncles went to 
jail, exposing her to the in-
carceration system when 
she was as young as five 
years old.
“The only way I was able 
to escape my difficult child-
hood was through art and 
school,” Shipman said. “It is 
like emotional regulation. If 
you write about it, you have 
control over the feeling, and 
you can transform it into 
something beautiful.” 
In 2009, Shipman found-
ed the Freehand Arts Proj-
ect, a volunteer-run program 
that teaches creative writing 
and poetry to minimum, me-
dium and maximum security 
inmates at Travis County 
Correctional Complex. The 
volunteers meet with groups 
of students for eight weekly, 
hour-long sessions. 
At the end of the pro-
gram, the teachers pick each 
student’s best two poems 
to publish in an anthology, 
and others are uploaded to 
their website.
“I tell [students], ‘Isn’t 
this cool how you can turn 
an experience that was pain-
ful, or a feeling of anger or 
disappointment, and you 
can write a poem about it?’ 
And suddenly this negative, 
painful, embarrassing thing 
becomes a piece of art,” 
Shipman said. 
UT alumna Shannon Per-
ri, a volunteer at Freehand 
Arts Project, said the classes 
are a great opportunity for 
inmates to escape their day-
to-day struggles. Some of 
her students are incarcer-
ated because they cannot af-
ford to post bail. Others are 
college educated and were 
writers before they ended up 
in jail. 
“My greatest hope is that 
they know their experiences 
deserve to be heard and are 
a part of the human experi-
ence,” Perri said. “I think a 
lot of them have talked about 
how writing is therapeutic in 
itself [and] helps them orga-
nize their thoughts.”
Shipman said 95 per-
cent of students in the 
program are generation-
ally poor. They were often 
raised in households with 
unhealthy, abusive relation-
ships and parents usually 
deprived them of education. 
Most did not finish high 
school and found them-
selves unable to leave the 
working class.
“They are people who 
didn’t seem to have much 
of a chance from the be-
ginning,” Shipman said. 
“I got a scholarship to go 
to Southwestern [Univer-
sity] and I see how I got 
out, and I want my stu-
dents to feel like they can 
get out.”
Heather Lefebvre, an-
other Freehand Arts Project 
teacher, met Shipman in the 
English department at Texas 
State University. Lefebvre 
wanted to teach creative 
writing as a way for in-
mates to respect each other 
and create an environment 
of trust. 
“They want to learn, and 
they aren’t afraid to ask 
questions,” Lefebvre said. 
“It’s a way of express-
ing yourself and a way of 
learning about yourself and 
Since the release of their 
1996 experimental album 
Pinkerton, Weezer’s ca-
reer has been defined by 
its inconsistency.
Although the band has 
had its shining moments in 
the past 20 years, including 
the underappreciated Mal-
adroit and their most recent 
LP Everything Will Be Alright 
in the End, most fans have 
been disappointed with the 
power pop group’s attempts 
to create anthemic hits. How-
ever, with their newest album 
Weezer, also known as The 
White Album, the group ap-
pears to have hit their stride 
once more, honing in on a 
successfully brighter sound.
It’s appropriate that Wee-
zer selected white — a color 
traditionally associated with 
renewal — for this album’s 
theme. Just two years after 
Rivers Cuomo, the band’s 
lead singer, guitarist and 
songwriter, declared that the 
group didn’t care about the 
mainstream, he’s dumped 
long-time producer and for-
mer Cars frontman Ric Oc-
asek in favor of Jake Sinclair, 
a producer and musician 
known for his work with big 
names such as Taylor Swift, 5 
Seconds of Summer and Fall 
Out Boy.
Sinclair’s influence re-
sults in heavy over-dubbed 
vocals and stiff percussion, 
two components to a poorly 
constructed rock album. But 
Cuomo plays into this sound 
with quirky songwriting and 
guitar melodies that make 
the entire record come to-
gether with an oddly enjoy-
able sound.
The Beach Boys’ influence 
on this album is obvious on 
songs such as “King of The 
World,” Cuomo’s lover letter 
to his wife, filled with refer-
ences to their relationship 
and even her fear of airplanes 
when Cuomo suggests they 
take a Greyhound bus to 
the Galapagos.
Other songs follow these 
same patterns, bringing in 
fictional characters to weave 
peculiar stories and catchy 
tunes. “L.A. Girlz” is eas-
ily Weezer’s best single since 
2001’s “Island in the Sun,” 
incorporating geographical 
references to Santa Monica 
beaches and ripped lines 
from the nonsense poem 
“Jabberwocky.” These shout-
outs to seemingly random 
things only help to build 
on the jubilant sound of 
this album.
Even the occasionally seri-
ous moments soar, especially 
“Do You Wanna Get High?,” 
which deals with Cuomo’s 
addiction to prescription 
drugs in the early 2000s. 
Other songs, such as “Sum-
mer Elaine and Drunk Dori” 
and “Endless Bummer” bring 
back the original Weezer 
Though it was released 
in theaters and on video 
streaming services on 
March 25, slacker comedy 
“Get a Job” was filmed back 
in 2012 and shelved — and 
it should’ve stayed that way. 
It’s got three big stars: 
Miles Teller, Anna Kend-
rick and Bryan Cranston, 
who are clearly in it for 
the cash. What the movie 
doesn’t have are an engag-
ing story, memorable laughs 
and characters whose 
names are worth remem-
bering. Throughout its brief 
runtime, we are dragged 
through multiple storylines 
as the protagonists navigate 
the competitive modern 
economy in search of jobs.
Teller plays the lead char-
acter, a wayward millennial 
who specializes in making 
videos, and he manages to 
land a position developing 
video resumes. He’s upset 
because the big bad estab-
lishment, i.e. his bosses, 
are snuffing out his creativ-
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