1 SPORTS PAGE 5 COMICS ANTHOLOGY ON SALE TOMORROW LIFE&ARTS PAGE 8 Serving the University of Texas at Austin community since 1900 @thedailytexan facebook.com/dailytexan Friday, February 28, 2014 dailytexanonline.com bit.ly/dtvid CAMPUS LBJ Library to host Obama, past presidents By Madlin Mekelburg @madlinbmek President Barack Obama will deliver a keynote ad- dress at the LBJ Library and Presidential Museum’s Civil Rights Summit in April celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Obama’s address will follow two days of speeches from former presidents Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton. Former president George W. Bush is also tentatively scheduled to speak. The three-day summit, which will begin April 8, is one of many events related to civil rights that the Uni- versity, LBJ Library, LBJ School of Public Affairs and the LBJ Foundation will host over the next sev- eral years. “We are truly honored to host President Obama as the keynote speaker at the LBJ Presidential Library’s Civil Rights Summit in April,” said library director Mark Updegrove in a press release. “As our irst Afri- President, can-American [Obama] is the fulillment of the promise of the civil rights legislation delivered by President Johnson and a bipartisan Congress.” Former first daughters Lynda Johnson Robb and Luci Baines Johnson will also make presentations at the summit, alongside a list of speakers including Presi- dent William Powers Jr., former UT president Larry Faulkner, former NBA cen- ter Bill Russell and former Jim running back NFL OBAMA page 2 STUDENT GOVERNMENT / ELECTION RESULTS SG President & Vice President Kornel “Kori” Rady & Taylor Strickland GSA President & Vice President David Villarreal & Brian Wilkey University Wide Representatives Braydon Jones Andrew “Cowboy” Rindler Piper Vaughn Taral V. Patel Conner Patrick Shannon Geison John Brown* Wes Draper* University Co-op Board of Directors Alex Bryan Jake Schwartz Editor-in-Chief Riley Brands See a complete list of election results at dailytexanonline.com *Tie for 8th representative. A runoff to determine the win- ner will be held Wednesday and Thursday. Government and corporate communications senior Kori Rady embraces current Student Government president Horacio Villareal after being elected SG president Thurs- day evening. Rady plans to deliver on platform points including, an extended Thanksgiving break and creating an upperclassmen shadowing day. Rady / Strickland win with 51.9% / page 3 Watch the winners’ reactions / online Shelby Tauber / Daily Texan Staff HEALTH CAMPUS Online drinking game gains notoriety Podcast discusses science of love By Leila Ruiz @leilakristi While chugging a six pack in ive minutes is not the av- erage college party trick, the drinking game “neknomina- tions” encourages students to do that on camera to earn bragging rights. In the game, a player is recorded drinking a large amount of alcohol and then nominates another person, challenging him to top the drinking feat by making his own video and posting it to a social networking site. Some of the videos from UT include a person taking seven shots in a row, a per- son drinking a six pack of beer in approximately five minutes and a person chug- ging a Four Loko, according DRINK page 3 By Alex Wilts @alexwilts Sex and hook-ups are only a few of the topics discussed on thoselovegeeks.com, a student- run website featuring podcasts focused on academic research involving relationships. Brian Wilkey, Lucy Hunt and Jennifer Shukusky, hu- man development and family sciences graduate students, created the website and its podcast to inform listeners of scientiically proven infor- mation about human attrac- tion and relationship trends. “It can take a long time for the public to ind out about [relationship] study indings, and then they’re getting [in- formation] from journalists who may not get it quite right,” Hunt said. “We thought, ‘Why not just give the correct infor- mation directly to whoever Miriam Rousseau / Daily Texan Staff Grad students Lucy Hunt, Jennifer Shukusky and Brian Wilkey host the “Those Love Geeks” podcast. wants to listen?’” Wilkey, creator and pro- ducer for the podcast, said he came up with the idea when he transferred from Texas A&M University to UT and was unable to get involved in the local theater scene. “I wanted to do something that was kind of dramatic and something big,” Wilkey, who was elected as Graduate Stu- dent Assembly vice president hursday evening, said. “hey say do what you know, and what I happened to know was PODCAST page 2 Illustration by Alex Dolan / Daily Texan Staff 2 Friday, February 28, 2014 NEWS FRAMES featured photo 2 Volume 114, Issue 114 CONTACT US Main Telephone (512) 471-4591 Editor Laura Wright (512) 232-2212 editor@dailytexanonline.com Managing Editor Shabab Siddiqui (512) 232-2217 managingeditor@ dailytexanonline.com News Ofice (512) 232-2207 news@dailytexanonline.com Multimedia Ofice (512) 471-7835 dailytexanmultimedia@ gmail.com Sports Ofice (512) 232-2210 sports@dailytexanonline.com Life & Arts Ofice (512) 232-2209 dtlifeandarts@gmail.com Retail Advertising (512) 471-1865 joanw@mail.utexas.edu Classiied Advertising (512) 471-5244 classiieds@ dailytexanonline.com The Texan strives to present all information fairly, accurately and completely. 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Box D, Austin, TX 78713. 2/28/14 Texan Ad Deadlines Monday .............Wednesday, 12 p.m. Tuesday.................Thursday, 12 p.m. Wednesday................Friday, 12 p.m. Thursday.................Monday, 12 p.m. Friday......................Tuesday, 12 p.m. Classified Word Ads 11 a.m. (Last Business Day Prior to Publication) Geography junior Joel Chavez demonstrates his lasso skills Thursday afternoon. to gain recruits for the Longhorn Rodeo Club. Jonathan Garza / Daily Texan Staff STUDENT GOVERNMENT Voter turnout increases despite glitch By Nicole Cobler @nicolecobler Ater two days of voting and two hours of technical delays, Kori Rady and Taylor Strick- land were elected Student Government president and vice president hursday night. Rady, a government and corporate communications senior, and Strickland, a corporate communications junior, defeated government senior Kenton Wilson and Caroline Carter, a marketing and international relations and global studies senior, with 51.9 percent of the vote. According to Election Su- pervisory Board chairman Ryan Lutz, 7,822 students voted in the election — a voter turnout rate of roughly 15.02 percent, using fall en- rollment numbers. “We ran such a positive campaign,” Rady said. “I feel like we deserve all that has happened here tonight, and we can move forward and do great things for the University.” In addition to the executive alliance election, students also cast ballots for University- wide representatives, repre- sentatives for each school and college, the president and vice president of the Graduate Stu- dent Assembly, Texas Student Media, the University Co-op and University Unions. According to Lutz, the two- hour technical delay, which began when the voting web- site crashed 15 minutes before the polls closed, was caused by a third-party technical dii- culty. Lutz said the board will resolve the issues before the runof election for the eighth University-wide representa- tive position, which will be held Wednesday and hurs- day. he two candidates in the run-of, Wes Draper and John Brown, each received exactly 2,080 votes for the position. Rady cam- continued paigning on social media when it was announced that polls would close almost two hours later than expected. Dean of Students Son- cia Reagins-Lilly said ap- proximately 50 additional students voted between 5 and 6:45 p.m., when polling hours were extended. “Technology can be your best friend, it can be your worst enemy and something somewhere in the middle,” Reagins-Lilly said. “I think people just understand tech- nology can be unpredictable.” Rady said he plans to de- liver on platform points in- cluding an extended hanks- giving break, creating a SafeRide program to taxi stu- dents home from downtown and creating an upperclass- men shadowing day to pair freshmen with seniors. Wilson said he was happy his campaign was able to in- involvement among crease students who did not have Stu- dent Government experience. “It was close, and obviously we would have liked to come out on top, but overall [Rady and Strickland] are highly qualiied and they’ll do a great job next year,” Wilson said. he Election Supervisory Board heard four complaints Wednesday night, with one resulting in Graduate Student Assembly candidates David Villarreal and Brian Wilkey being forced to cease cam- paigning until 5 p.m. hursday because of a campaign worker sending unsolicited emails. Despite the board’s decision, Villarreal and Wilkey won the executive alliance race for GSA. here were 507 gradu- ate students who voted in the GSA presidential election. challenge for the beginning episodes, which began airing in October 2012, was hav- ing the right equipment. A year ater starting the proj- ect, Wilkey said the group purchased equipment from a friend that upgraded the sound quality of the podcast. “We have a mixing board now and the correct mics,” Wilkey said. “Now the chal- lenge is time.” According to the students, it takes about three hours a week to prepare the literature, set up the equipment, create the podcast and then edit the audio content aterward. “It doesn’t sound like a lot, but when you’re a graduate student, three hours becomes precious pretty quickly,” Hunt said. “But we love [the pod- cast]. We’re committed to it.” Wilkey said despite the tech- nical issues in early episodes, he has always been conident in the content they produce because of the conversational form of the podcast. “We like to have fun,” Wilkey said. “If you listen to the episode we do on ovula- tory cycle change and how that makes a diference, you’ll hear me just use the word ‘follicular’ over and over again because it’s my favorite word. It’s not even in context. hen Jennifer’s like, ‘You’ve got to stop saying that word.’” According to Shukusky, the universality of relationships is part of what makes the pod- cast and the ield of relation- ship science interesting. “I feel like somewhat everyone is always trying to get into a relationship, maintain a relationship or get out of a relationship,” Shukusky said. “To me, this is applicable to everyone. I’m studying everyone.” he Love Geeks will post their next podcast episode hursday and will discuss nontraditional forms of rela- tionship initiation. OBAMA continues from page 1 Brown. First lady Michelle Obama will accompany the president. History professor Henry Brands said the Civil Rights Act had an incomparable impact in the civil rights movement. legislation “The reason for the cel- ebration of the 1964 Civil Rights Act is that it did more than any other piece of to secure equal rights to African- Americans,” Brands said. “It ended the Jim Crow system of segregation that had existed for decades, and it brought the South into line with the rest of the country. The modern South, including Texas, would not have come into being without it.” In May 2013, Obama visited Austin on his Mid- dle Class Jobs and Op- portunity tour, as part of his campaign to promote manufacturing and inno- vative research. NEWS BRIEFLY Texas Warrant Roundup to begin this Saturday 300 Law enforcement agen- cies and courts from more jurisdictions than across Texas will take part in the “Great Texas War- rant Roundup” starting on Saturday. he roundup, which is expected to last several days, is a statewide efort to arrest citizens with traic, parking, city ordinance, pe- nal code and higher charge warrants from participat- ing jurisdictions. Both the Travis County Constable and the Austin Municipal Court will be making ar- rests this weekend. John Walker, a spokes- man for the Austin Munici- pal Court, said the number of warrants cleared each year decreases signiicantly. Walker said individuals, once arrested, are taken to appear before a judge. “hen, if needed, which is seldom, they are re- manded to the county jail,” Walker said. About two weeks ago, law enforcement and court oicials sent hundreds of thousands of notices to in- dividuals across the state with outstanding warrants. hose individuals were urged to dispose of their cases voluntarily to avoid the inconvenience and em- barrassment of arrest at home or work. According to Walker, the roundup originated in Austin in 2001, and did not become a state- wide operation until 2006. Since 2011, nearly 20,000 arrests have been made during roundups. Walker said individuals should contact participat- ing agencies for informa- tion about how to clear war- rants prior to arrest. —Julia Brouillette System announces new $102 million building UT System employees and services will be consoli- dated into one new building on Seventh Street between Lavaca and Colorado streets in downtown Austin. Currently, the System op- erates out of ive buildings : O. Henry Hall, Claudia Taylor Johnson Hall, Ash- bel Smith Hall and the Lavaca and Colorado build- ings. According to Sys- tem spokeswoman Jenny LaCoste-Caputo, the Lavaca and Colorado buildings will be demolished to make room for the construction of the new building. According to an email sent to System employees from Scott Kelley, executive vice chancellor for business afairs, the estimated cost of the project is $102 million. Kelley said projected sav- ings for the System could be between $2 million and $8 million a year. In the email, Kelley said construction should be complete by late 2016 or early 2017. —Madlin Mekelburg NEWS Friday, February 28, 2014 CAMPUS om page 1 Music piracy declines among students W&N 3 By Justin Atkinson @jusatk he rise in popularity of Spotify and iTunes radio, two popular online music stream- ing applications, has reduced UT students’ motivation to illegally download media, ac- cording to UT oicials. Tom Butler, associate di- rector of the Legal Services for Students department, said he attributes the decline of copyright violation notic- es sent from UT to students over the past three years to the popularity of alternative music streaming services. “ITunes and Spotify have taken the impetus out of il- legally downloading,” Butler said. “If you can have access to music for a fairly small amount of money and you don’t get in trouble, then people will start to move that direction.” As long as it is relatively easy, UT students generally lean toward the more lawful option when downloading their music, said undeclared freshman Briana Boston. “I would imagine down- loading Spotify is certainly easier than looking around individually for songs on the Internet,” Boston said. “It deinitely removes the temp- tation to do illegal things.” Students whom copyright- catch companies holding DRINK continues from page 1 to economics sophomore Ahmad Nassif. At least ive men young- er than 30 have died ater playing the game, accord- ing to CNN. Jessica Wagner, Universi- ty Health Services manager, said she has not heard of the game, but the small number of students who participate in binge drinking games draw far more attention from the general public than the 59 percent of students — according to UT surveys — Illustration by Aaron Rodriguez / Daily Texan Staff illegally downloading media usually receive an informa- tional referral email from Cam Beasley, UT’s chief in- formation security oicer, that warns against continu- ous copyright infractions. Re- peat ofenses can lead to a loss of Internet access on campus and a signiicant ine from the copyright holder. Beasley said these violations have stabi- lized in recent years. “It isn’t unusual for the campus to receive about 50 re- ports of alleged violations each month,” Beasley said. “It was probably about three years ago where UT would get around 150 notices of copyright in- fringement a month.” Butler, whose department provides free help to stu- dents wanting legal counsel, said punishment for break- ing copyright law can vary among individual cases. “Sometimes the student gets a cease and desist no- tice, and in that situation, we usually write a letter to the company on behalf of the student basically saying that they’re sorry and that they’ll never do it again. But sometimes they still demand money,” Butler said. “I have seen letters that threaten a lawsuit ater one instance of copyright violation, but usu- ally we can ind a settlement that works for both parties.” Even with the decline in re- cent years, issues with copy- right violations haven’t entire- ly disappeared, Butler said. “It’s not a big numeri- cal problem anymore, but it hasn’t completely gone away,” Butler said. “It’s something we still try to warn about.” who are moderate drinkers. “hings like the neknom- inations can deinitely inlu- ence perspective,” Wagner said. “here are [alcohol trends] that come around every semester even or ev- ery year that’s kind of the new alcohol scare.” Nassif said he is friends with many UT students who have participated in neknominations, although he has never partaken. Nassif said he doesn’t think students would play the game if they couldn’t show off their drinking feats to their friends. “You’re doing it just for others to see,” Nassif said. “I think half of [the moti- vation] is the pride and the bragging rights that comes with it.” UTPD spokeswoman Cindy Posey said it is dii- cult for UTPD to prosecute underage students who participate in the game, al- though UTPD has jurisdic- tion if the video was ilmed in Travis County, because there may not be enough probable cause to know a crime occurred without evi- dence other than the video. “It would require more actually investigation to determine whether or not the person [was] consum- ing alcohol and becoming intoxicated, or simply pre- tending,” Posey said. Sara LeStrange, dean of communications students manager, said the University can take action for on-cam- pus violations, but Student Judicial Services does not jurisdiction for of- have campus crimes and ofers amnesty from disciplinary action to students who call 911 in cases of suspected al- cohol poisoning. 3 SXSW Longhorns’ ilms debut at SXSW ilm festival By Nicole Bueno @itsmorebueno Eleven ilm projects made in part by UT students, faculty and alumni will be featured at this year’s 28th annual South By Southwest Film Conference and Festival, alongside projects from aspiring ilmmakers and experts from around the world. According to the SXSW website, ilm submissions have increased over the past few years, making the 133 feature ilm and 110 short ilm spots even more competitive than before. his year, 5,716 ilm submissions were considered for the spots. Nine features and two short ilms created by alumni and current Univer- sity students and faculty will screen at the festival. Paul Stekler, chair of the radio-television-ilm de- partment, said SXSW helps grow the overall ilm com- munity in Austin, and more people are staying because it’s been successful. “he whole ilmmaking world here knows about SXSW,” Stekler said. “UT and SXSW both reinforce each other.” In 2013, more than 155,000 people attended the SXSW conference and festival from 58 foreign countries, breaking the event’s previous attendance records. he international van- tage point is a key draw for ilmmakers, said radio-televi- sion-ilm lecturer Kat Candler. “Having a feature ilm at SXSW is always a phenomenal opportunity for exposure to new audiences,” said Candler, who has had three of her proj- ects shown at the festival. “It serves as a launching of point for sending your ilm out into the world, and the folks at SXSW support their ilmmak- ers every step of the way — be- fore, during and months ater the festival is over.” Although attendees’ inter- est in SXSW is 75 percent in- dustry-based as opposed to fan-based, exposure doesn’t necessarily equal employ- ment, said radio-television- ilm lecturer Steve Mims. “I think the biggest beneit of the fest is the attention you get from the people in the indus- try — that’s a very real thing,” Mims said. “I don’t think you can say people walk into SXSW with a ilm and walk out with a job, but it’s certainly a great way to get your work out and meet the industry head-on.” Mims’ SXSW feature ilm, “Arlo and Julie,” was produced in his radio-television-ilm class “Feature Film Work- shop” at the University, with 15 students participating in the creative process. he ilm portion of the fes- tival will be open March 7-15 across Austin venues. 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Although there is some uncertainty among students about how this change will afect their ability to grab a seat in required courses, this is a positive change in registration that will better suit students with few require- ments let — especially if those classes have The change would reduce the number of students registering during the first two days from 39 percent to 22.5 percent, mean- ing more students who consider themselves in their final year of studies would have the first chance to register. limited seats. True seniors who are checking of the last empty spots in their degree plans will have a better shot, although those con- sidered seniors purely by credit hours — and not near graduation — will be pushed back to a later registration time. hat might upset students who racked up college credit in high school and beneited under the old system, but those students’ degree progress will not be discounted by the change. If they are further along than their peers, they will still register before them. his change is actually a more speciic version of the classiication system used previously, in that now only students who are truly seniors will have preferential access to classes. Students in dual degrees or certiicate programs will be placed according to the degree that is furthest along. David Laude, senior vice provost for en- rollment and graduation management, said the change would reduce the number of stu- dents registering during the first two days from 39 percent to 22.5 percent, meaning more students who consider themselves in their final year of studies would have the first chance to register. No senior should have to spend an extra semester on cam- pus, paying for tuition or housing because they missed out on a single requirement for graduation — and unfortunately that hap- pens far too often. Vice Provost and Registrar Shelby Stan- ield said the degree audit system is updated oten to prevent glitches and will be moni- tored to make sure the completion rates ac- curately relect student progress. he percentage-based system will also eliminate other disadvantages unintention- ally caused by the previous system. “he last system made it so that it took your classiication, alphabetized the last names of people with that classiication, and attributed registration times that way,” said chemistry senior Katherine Teasdale. “So a sophomore with a senior classiication and last name beginning with A would register ahead of seniors of last name Z who might really be about to graduate. his new system does away with the alphabet and only looks at your degree status. It’s much more fair, es- pecially since my name is at the back of the alphabet.” We hope the change doesn’t discourage the most ambitious of students on campus who have multiple degree plans — if they are pursuing both simultaneously, they may have to register later than students who are on a single degree plan and are further along. he students who may be impacted the most are those switching from one major to another and in essence starting over. Al- though any core credit would still count to- ward a degree program they would register later, the introductory courses to any degree are generally more open than upper-division classes seniors might need. We don’t want This new system does away with the alphabet and only looks at your degree status. It’s much more fair. — Katherine Teasdale, Chemistry Senior to see this new system discourage students from exploring new majors or forcing them to stick with one they are unhappy with, but registration time alone should never be a de- termining factor in such a decision. Laude said the University is working to expand the change to notify students when they are within a year of graduation. With this feature, students would be able to con- irm that they plan to graduate on time and their senior status would be ensured. his, Laude said, goes to show that the University is not making a random change in its reg- istration policy but is instead working to- ward relieving a few of the many issues stu- dents encounter when selecting classes. his change obviously won’t perfect the registra- tion process, but the improvement is worth supporting. COLUMN TAKE YOUR SHOT Friday Firing Lines: Police in the wrong, fund our museums Every Friday, the Daily Texan edito- rial board will publish a selection of tweets and online comments culled from the Daily Texan website and the various Daily Texan Twitter accounts, along with direct submis- sions from readers. Our intention is to continue the tradition of the Firing Line, a column irst started in the Texan in 1909, in which readers share their opinions “concerning any matter of general interest they choose.” Just like in 1909, the Texan “will never express its approval or dis- approval of opinions given under the [Firing Line] header.” In other words, take your shot. Submissions can be sent to editor@daily- texanonline.com. THE REAL MEN ARE COMING, MS. STEPHENS Please let Amanda Jo Stephen know that the “real men” of the state of Texas have been acting on her behalf for much of the day, and this efort will continue until what was wrong is made right. We do not allow our citizens in Texas to be treated in this manner, and especially our women. I’m 54 years old, and I’m old school, and believe in the code of the West. Part of that code is that men re- spect women, and treat them right, or sufer consequences. he police chief of Austin has made comments likened to that of a Gestapo leader, and the oicers behaved like we are in a communist police state. And that pitiful at- tempt at an apology, and the excuses, will not suice. APOLOGY NOT ACCEPTED! hey have embarrassed my homeland, Texas, the state I was born in, and they have humiliated her on a world level. hey’ve done a woman wrong, and it won’t stand. If all involved will look Amanda in the eye and apologize from the heart, on camera, I’ll try to call of what is being organized. No written apologies read to a camera will do. he chief and his oicers will humble themselves, or face the wrath of the men of the great state of Texas. And this is MY BUSINESS because you’ve brought this shame on Texas, and I CANNOT let the world think that the men of Texas don’t have the courage and backbone to set this right. Please tell her that. he chief says the public has overreacted. He has no clue as to what that looks like. he wrath of the men of Texas is starting to build, and it’s coming his way. And we are the type of men who aren’t afraid. Every senator, representative and the governor will be in on this before it’s over. And if we have to actually come to Austin, the chief won’t have enough resources to put down the protest, and there won’t be enough jail cells, or prosecutors and courts to handle what will happen if the chief tries to stop it. Yes, Amanda, the real men are coming. —Don Hanson, submitted via email OPINIONS USUALLY ARE Lauren Schafer @laurenschafey @thedailytexan article endorsing Rady-Strickland is one of THE most biased articles I have ever read. SAVE THE MEMORIAL MUSEUM he University has announced that next year it will cut the Texas Memorial Museum budget by $600,000, essentially putting it out of business. At the same time, with lit- tle publicity, the University has taken over the inancially troubled Lady Bird Johnson Wildlower Center. he wildlower center started as a modest farm in East Austin designed to honor Lady Bird by providing free seeds for highway beautiication, one of Lady Bird’s favorite projects. hen the center changed focus, moved to Circle C and got in trouble. Now it is an architec- turally interesting suburban garden center and arboretum with a $9 entry fee, worth a visit, but it primarily serves an audience of middle-class, middle-aged people like me. he Texas Memorial Museum serves school kids who pile out of buses and seem truly impressed to meet their irst dinosaur. Over the years I’ve met a number of UT students from poor backgrounds whose introduc- tion to UT was the museum; without it they might not be here. It says something for the priorities of the administration — and those who pressure it — that the museum serving average kids is being defunded while the middle class memorial garden is being supported. So, before it goes, you should take a look at the museum. Say goodbye to the 40-foot West Texas reptile lying over the gems in the great hall. hen go down a loor and check out the slightly tatty display of Texas wildlife, especially the hungry-looking snakes. Finally in the basement say goodbye to the 30-foot–long Onion Creek monster and the huge fossil armadillo. hey quietly sit there reminding us that evolution happened, that 10 million years isn’t really that long and that a C on the midterm isn’t the end of the world. —David Miller, submitted via email A statue of Jefferson Davis on UT’s Main Mall on February 27, 2014. Shelby Tauber / Daily Texan Staff UT’s troubled past still stands By Chuck Matula Daily Texan Columnist @chucketlist Earlier this month, the desecration of a statue of civil rights icon James Meredith shocked the country and pushed back into the spotlight the issue of race at the Univer- sity of Mississippi. In the ensuing coverage, several news outlets pointed out that the statue of Meredith, who became the irst African-American to enroll at the University of Mississippi in 1962, is located only a few hundred yards from a monument to Con- federate soldiers. hat such seemingly disso- nant memorials coexist on the same campus can be perplexing, and it would serve UT well to further examine what statues on the 40 Acres say about our collective history. You could easily be forgiven for not being able to name the people whose statues adorn UT. On a campus that has the deining fea- ture of a 307-foot bell tower piercing the Texas sky, some decorations understandably become background details. But if you do pay attention, you will notice that the idols that populate the 40 Acres relect a disjoint- ed, sometimes dysfunctional, history. he monument to Barbara Jordan, another civil rights leader who became the irst South- ern black woman elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, stands near the statues of Confederate icons like Robert E. Lee Jr. and Jeferson Davis that populate the South Mall. he Martin Luther King Jr. and Cesar Chavez The idols that populate the 40 Acres reflect a disjointed, some- times dysfunctional, history. statues were both erected in the past 15 years, ater the overt segregation that had once been the rule at the University had disappeared. UT’s recent strides forward, as evidenced by the King and Chavez statues, stand in striking relief against the backdrop of Con- federate heritage. In 2010 the administration renamed a dormitory, Simpkins Hall, which had been named for a prominent Klansman. Lawsuits lodged against UT for policies on race, such as Fisher v. Texas and Hopwood v. Texas, take objection with the University’s diversity policies, a far cry from the Sweatt v. Painter ruling that modiied Texas’ “sepa- rate but equal” policy. Even President Wil- liam Powers Jr. acknowledged in 2006 that the campus’ proudly displayed Confederate heritage has raised “understandable and le- gitimate concerns.” Powers formed an advi- sory committee to investigate if the statues should remain standing, which, as any UT student can attest, they still do. hese devel- opments, whether or not they in themselves are the best policies, relect a University rec- onciling its dark past with a transformation into an institution that honors the diverse ideals upon which all educational institu- tions should be founded. Although the statues on campus may be the most visible and obvious representation of a university’s values, it is ultimately up to the students to deine the attitude of the campus and pressure the administration to relect those attitudes. In light of the ongo- ing FBI investigation of the James Meredith statue vandalism, University of Mississippi student Caroline Connolly wrote in a cap- tion on an instagram photo of the University of Mississippi campus that “what those three freshman did was not acceptable. hey cer- tainly do not represent the views of the Ole Miss community … I hope those young men learn their lesson as they’re being charged.” hose words should resonate well at UT, where students should understand and ac- knowledge both the proud and shameful parts of the University’s past while collec- tively moving forward. Matula is a inance junior from Austin. 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SPORTS 5 STEFAN SCRAFIELD, SPORTS EDITOR / @texansports Friday, February 28, 2014 5 BASEBALL —Augie Garrido, Head coach Jonathan Garza / Daily Texan Staff Sophomore Imani McGee-Stafford is second on the team in points this season, averaging 10.2 points per game. WOMEN’S BASKETBALL Horns can’t aford to look past Red Raiders By Rachel Wenzlaff @RachelWenzlaff It’s been a week of celebra- tions for the women’s basket- ball team. he ladies rang in sopho- more guard Brandy Sand- ers’ 21st birthday Tuesday, and came back to protect the drum and defeat TCU that same day, breaking losing three-game their streak. And on Wednes- day, team celebrated sophomore guard Empress Davenport’s birthday. the heoretically, Texas should have no trouble keep- ing the party going with an easy win over Texas Tech on Saturday at 2 p.m. in Lub- bock. he Red Raiders are the lowest-ranked team in the Big 12. Tech has managed to put up a ight against teams, forcing the occasional overtime, but the Raiders have no conference wins. In the Raiders’ meeting with the Longhorns earlier this season, the Texas Tech defense was nearly invisible to Texas. he Longhorns shot 75 percent from the ield in the irst half, which is the highest shooting per- centage for Texas in a half this season. Additionally, Texas’ 51 points in the irst period were the highest this season. But as head coach Karen Aston always stresses, it’s the Big 12, and no team is just going to roll over and give up. Texas came out slow against low-ranked TCU, but it can’t aford to do so against Texas Tech. WEEKEND PREVIEWS MEN’S TRACK AND FIELD / GRANT GORDON he Longhorns travel to Ames, Iowa, this weekend for the most important meet so far this season — the Big 12 Championship. he 26 athletes competing are looking not only to de- fend Texas’ conference title, but also to capture spots in the national meet by record- ing top-16 marks in their single events. While junior shot put- ter Ryan Crouser has es- sentially earned his spot in the national meet as the top-ranked thrower in the country, several other Long- horns are toeing the line for national placement. Sophomore pole vaulter Reese Watson, sophomore runner Zack 400-meter freshman Bilderback and Senoj-Jay Givans in the 60 meters are ranked 14th, 15th and 16th, respectively, in their individual events. But there’s still work to be done in order to solidify their place in the national meet. he country’s best athletes will be unleashed this weekend for postseason events, and the Texas trio will likely need to exceed its best marks in order to retain a top-16 spot. WOMEN’S TRACK AND FIELD / DANIEL CLAY Ater a well-earned bye week, the No. 5 Longhorns begin their irst postseason as a combined program with the Big 12 Indoor Champi- onships in Ames, Iowa. At this point in the season, individual times take a back seat to the ultimate goal of beating the competitor in the next lane. “I feel heading into the conference meet that we are right where we need to be,” irst-year head coach Mario Sategna said. “We’re going in there not worrying about time, distances, performanc- es. It’s about beating people head-to-head.” Texas faces tough com- petition, including No. 12 Texas Tech and host No. 20 Iowa State. But with the top 4x400 meter relay team in the nation and junior pole vaulter Kaitlin Petrillose — who looks to claim her third-straight conference title — the Longhorns pos- sess the tools necessary to outperform their competi- tors and bring home a con- ference championship. WOMEN’S TENNIS / CHRIS CARAVEO he No. 26 Longhorns en- ter this weekend’s matches against No. 30 Houston and No. 6 USC on a six-match losing streak. Ater spending the irst month and a half of the spring season in the top 20, Texas fell back eight spots ater its recent to Northwestern losses and Vanderbilt. he team’s 4-3 loss to the Commodores marked the irst time Texas had scored more than two points since its last win a month ago. It has not been all bad for Texas during the streak, as individuals have stepped up their play. Sophomore Breaunna Addison tallied two ranked wins two week- ends ago, moving up to No. 16 in the singles ranking. With a 3-6 record so far this season, winning at home in the next four non- conference matches would be a huge conidence boost- er for Texas as Big 12 play approaches. Texas wraps up February with a game against the Cou- gars and begins March play- ing against the Trojans. Sam Ortega / Daily Texan Staff Senior pitcher Nathan Thornhill made three appearances out of the bullpen for the Longhorns this season, posting a 3-0 record with a 0.61 ERA. Thornhill has only given up one run in 14.2 innings. Texas travels to Houston to compete in College Classic saw them tally 44 combined hits and 34 runs. In the last two games, games in which the team split wins, Texas has only managed seven runs on 11 hits. Texas was forced to rely on four bench players, who made up the winning com- bination in the bottom of the 11th against UTPA on Tuesday. Ater going 8-for- 10 in the Stanford series, se- nior Mark Payton recorded just one hit in four at-bats against the Broncos. “his game doesn’t reward you all the time,” head coach Augie Garrido said ater the 2-1 win over UTPA. “But [the bench players] got re- warded for the attitude that in an they demonstrated This game doesn’t reward you all the time. But [the bench players] got rewarded for the attitude that they demonstrated in an extremely dificult situation. extremely diicult situation.” Despite the glaring 11-5 loss to Stanford on Sunday, this season’s pitching staff picked up right where it left off last season, total- ing a combined 2.51 ERA heading into this week- end. The bullpen has been streaky at best — account- ing for most of the 33 earned runs the team has allowed this season — but with senior pitcher Nathan the Thornhill making transition to the closing role, things are looking up. hornhill has made three relief this appearances season, surrendering one earned run while striking out seven in 14.2 innings. He holds a 0.61 ERA. he team will get a chance to keep proving its worth when it battles Rice to open the tournament Friday at 7:05 p.m. Red River Rivalry heads to Oklahoma By Matt Warden @TheMattWarden5 Ater a thrilling walk- of win Tuesday night, the Longhorns’ next battle away from home won’t be a walk in the park. No. 15 Texas (6-3) will this to Houston travel weekend to compete in the Houston College Classic after winning three of its last four contests. For the first time in the history of the tournament, the entire field is made up of Texas teams, including Rice, TCU, Houston and Sam Houston State. he Longhorns’ ofense has slowed down a bit ater a ive-game win streak that MEN’S BASKETBALL By Garrett Callahan @CallahanGarrett With three games let in the regular season, No. 24 Texas looks to hold on to its spot near the top of the Big 12. hat goal starts Saturday, when the Longhorns (21- 7, 10-5 Big 12) travel north to Norman, Okla., for an aternoon matchup with rival Oklahoma (20-8, 9-6 Big 12). Texas sits in third place in the league, a game ahead of the Sooners, who are coming of an 8-point loss to Kansas. he Longhorns, on the other hand, ended a two-game skid this week, when they knocked of Baylor in a narrow victory Wednesday night. Sophomore Ja- van Felix, who made seven 3-pointers in Wednesday’s guard SOFTBALL Shweta Gulati / Daily Texan Staff Sophomore Connor Lammert goes up for a dunk in Texas’ narrow win against Baylor on Wednesday night. Lammert is averaging 5.7 points and 4.9 rebounds per game this year. win, looks to lead Texas as it tries to regain its strength on the road. he Longhorns have lost their last three away games. he last time Texas and Oklahoma met was in January for the Longhorns’ irst conference game of the season. he Sooners won the matchup with an 88-85 victory. Ofense must show up in Texas Invitational By Jacob Martella @ViewFromTheBox At the beginning of the season, the ofense was sup- posed to carry the Long- horns while a young pitch- ing squad igured out how to replace the holes let by Blair Luna and Holly Kern. But through 17 games this season, the offense has been inconsistent. Af- ter averaging 7.5 runs per game in their first four games — all wins — Tex- as has only scored seven or more runs in three of the last 13 games. The Longhorns have left 135 runners on base and have had at least the tying run at the plate in the last in- in seven of their ning nine losses. he team will have a chance to improve its con- sistency this weekend at the Texas Invitational — its only tournament without a ranked opponent. Texas will host Texas Southern, and Louisiana-Monroe Southern Mississippi. Louisiana-Monroe comes in with the best record of the four teams at 12-4, but has yet to beat a ranked opponent. Ofensively, the Warhawks are led by fresh- man inielder Vanessa Garcia, who’s batting .439 Senior outielder Brejae Washington ranks second on the team with a .375 batting average and irst in hits with 21. Jenna Von Hofe / Daily Texan Staff with three home runs and 16 RBIs, while redshirt se- nior Samantha Hamby has dominated in the circle with a 7-1 record and a 1.75 ERA in 48 innings pitched. @thedailytexan Follow us for news, updates and more. 6 Friday, February 28, 2014 COMICS 6 COMICS Crossword Edited by Will Shortz No. 0124 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 17 22 26 29 35 38 48 52 56 58 ACROSS 1 Frigid 7 Question at the door 15 Miss out on a board 16 “’Sup?” 17 Subject for a golf lesson 18 Emphatic approval 19 Petition 20 51-Down and others: Abbr. 21 Nighttime 22 Hunky-dory 23 Clobbered 25 Birds in a clutch 26 Group that no one on earth has ever joined 29 Sun disk wearer, in myth 30 Petition 31 “That’s quite enough!” 35 Abridged 37 “What’s it gonna be?” 38 Feature of a certain bandit 39 20-Down, e.g. 40 Nut 41 What a nonconformist ignores 44 “___ magnifique!” 46 Big employer in Hartford, Conn. 47 Canal checker?: Abbr. 48 One who’s trustworthy? 49 Doesn’t just grab 50 Green shade 52 Public, as views 54 Instruments played with mizraabs 56 “I’d like you to leave” ANSWER TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE D U E T S S H E B W H E R E J O N A V E C M I M I A S S U M E F I G S L U R R Y I N O E V A T E N S E R N E W K I D O N T H E BLOCK A D E D R A I N S T Y X O O Z E B U X O M B U T C H E R BLOCK P A R T I E S A T S E A A Z U L D R E W S U E D E I C E BLOCK B U S T E R M O V I E E B B D O N A L D A L I A P O G E E L E T S E W E R S E L O I S E A R A R K A Q A B A L U N E L A N D O 57 Nips in the bud 58 Bank guards? 59 Ambush locale in Episode 1 of “The Lone Ranger” DOWN 1 “Cute” remarks 2 Thallium sulfate, e.g. 3 Figure out on the street? 4 Stick with it 5 One way to pay 6 Civic leader? 7 “Beg pardon?!” 8 Shop alternative 9 Takes credit? 10 Gabriel or Giorgio 11 Basic library stock 12 Iron-pumper 13 Australia’s ___ Rock 14 Lose a lot? 20 Nissan ___ 22 Italian friend 24 Question in a long-distance relationship 25 Humble dwellings 27 Civil engineering safety feature 28 Square, in old slang, as indicated by forming a square with one’s hands 16 18 19 20 21 23 24 25 27 41 44 45 30 32 33 34 36 37 39 40 42 46 43 47 49 50 51 53 55 28 31 54 57 59 PUZZLE BY IAN LIVENGOOD 32 1969 hit with the repeated lyric “Big wheel keep on turnin’” 33 So that one can 34 Takes some hits 36 Red states 37 Humble dwellings 39 Short trunks 42 Possible protein shake ingredient 43 Sample in a swab test 44 Weber per square meter 45 Turn red, say 48 Drill bits? 49 Away from port 51 Christopher Columbus Transcontinental Hwy. 53 Kind of port 54 Pouch 55 Frequent form request: Abbr. 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UT Amnesty In- ternational hopes to give the residents an opportu- nity to experience a bit of Austin life. “hey’re convinced that they can’t go back to their na- tive lands because they want a future for their families and [to start] over,” Wazirali said. “he only way to do that is to get back into so- ciety, but most haven’t even seen Austin.” Chiofalo said Casa Mari- anella residents are looking forward to their irst time at- tending the festival. “We love it when our resi- dents can experience Austin just for fun and just enjoy themselves,” Chiofalo said. UT Amnesty International members hope to get students talking more about global is- sues and create stronger com- munity connections. “I told myself we have to make UT a place where people can talk about human rights because its not really a major topic,” Wazirali said. “We’re making the dialogue more presentable and more fun, which is important.” you don’t get to see on a day-to-day basis that you may not be conscious of. 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Scan this code > 8 L&A HANNAH SMOTHERS, LIFE&ARTS EDITOR / @DailyTexanArts Friday, February 28, 2014 8 ‘Vagina Monologues’ encourages dialogue THEATER By Carmen Rising @Carmen_Rising In an efort to raise money and awareness for women who are victims of violence, UT social work student Caroline Tray- lor decided to direct and produce a play. Ater taking a women’s studies class and seeing “he Vagina Monologues” her freshman year, Traylor wanted to put on her own production of the award- winning play that’s mission is to end violence against women. he production takes place this Saturday and Sunday at the 21st Street Co-op at 7 p.m.. Roughly 20 years ago, playwright Eve Ensler trav- eled around the world and interviewed women about their vaginas and turned their stories into “The Va- gina Monologues.” As part of V-Day, a movement com- mitted to ending violence against women, all proceeds from the play go to an or- ganization that promotes women’s rights. For this weekend’s produc- tion, Traylor chose to donate the proceeds to Planned Par- enthood and local nonproit SafePlace. “I’ve been volunteering at SafePlace and I chose it because local and it’s it provides health care to victims of sexual assault,” Traylor said. “They provide counseling and shelter, but they’re really big on com- munity education and they recognize the power dy- namics of the patriarchy that perpetuates violence against women.” THEATER By Kritika Kulshrestha @kritika8 ideas that are Abe Koogler’s quiet persona masks the swirl- ing the driving force behind the experiences he theater tries to create, combin- ing music, language and dance. He pauses during the conversation to gath- er his thoughts during the interview. He begins, realizes those were not the words he would have liked to use and instead, slowly begins to channel his thoughts. His emphasis on his choice of words to describe who he is as a playwright matches his approach to scripting his plays that emphasize the importance of language. Koogler — a writing graduate student — pres- ents his latest play, “Ad- vance Man,” as part of the seventh UT New heatre annual showcase on Fri- day. he showcase allows emerging playwrights from UT to present their latest works. Koogler moved to Austin in 2011 when he joined the Mi- chener Center for Writers to pursue his Master of Fine Arts in playwriting. “‘Advance Man’ has been a big step forward in my writing,” Koogler said. “It combines language that is really musical with what I hope is a compelling narra- tive and story.” Koogler’s play is centered around a small town called Bear Creek, a tight-knit community of people who Agatha Secall rehearses her lines for “The Vagina Monologues,” an award-winning production that raises awareness about violence against women. The pro- duction will take place Saturday and Sunday at the 21st Street Co-op at 7p.m. Lauren Ussery / Daily Texan Staff The monologues details issues like sexual assault, as well as humorous sto- ries of women discover- ing their own anatomy. UT alumna and actress in the play, Claire Murphy Mayberry, said the sto- ries are very candid about women’s experiences with their bodies. “People go- ing to come and have it be are not like the bible of feminism and an all-encompassing message,” Murphy May- berry said. “hey are going to ind something diferent — it’s more imperfect than that. It’s just women talk- ing about themselves and their bodies in a diferent way, and we don’t see that a lot, so it’s going to be a good conversation starter.” Each monologue intimately tackles an issue surrounding women. Mur- phy Mayberry explained that part of the goal of the pro- duction is to force the audi- ence to confront diicult and uncomfortable topics. “It’s crazy to see how many people, especially young men, will be uncom- fortable to see a woman on talking about her issues and her body,” stage said. Murphy Mayberry “So, we hope to get people uncomfortable on a basic level and confront their dis- comfort to really tackle why they’re uncomfortable.” Aside from entertaining, ‘he Vagina Monologues” aims to educate people about women’s anatomy and the challenges and experiences that surround it. “I think that it’s a to completely new way look at women because a lot of the pieces and the moods that are go- ing into the performance are both vulnerable but very strong and empower- ing,” said Kendall Edison, psychology and actress in the play. “So, you get to see this dynamic that VAGINA page 7 senior Student written play to be showcased CITY Shweta Gulati / Daily Texan Staff Abe Koogler, a MFA candidate in playwriting at the UT Michener Center, is presenting his latest play, “Advance Man,” as part of the seventh UT New Theatre annual showcase on Friday. look out for each other and who have a largely shared set of political beliefs. In the play, “advance man” works for the president. He arrives in Bear Creek prior to the president’s impend- ing visit to look into things and to ensure there are no visible threats. During his time there, he befriends one of the locals and seeks her help to prepare for the president’s visit. “I’m in the interested way people make sense of political power,” Koogler said. “I’m interested in the ways in which they choose to participate or not par- ticipate I’m interested in the way peo- ple work out their values through conversation with one another.” in politics. Koogler pursued acting and writing in his younger years, but left it to pursue a degree in political sci- ence from Yale Univer- sity. A summer internship with the Financial Times in London quickly made him realize he didn’t want to be a reporter. After graduating in 2006 from Yale, Koogler spent a few months working on po- litical campaigns and con- tinued to work as a free- lance political consultant for a few years by writing speeches for politicians. He then decided it was time to go back to what he missed being a part of — theater. Koogler said he is es- pecially fond of play- ing and creating darker, weirder in his productions. characters “I can’t really help it,” Koogler said. “For bet- ter or for worse, whatever emerges when I sit down in front of my computer is the type of the play that I’m writing and it tends to be funny, a little bit dark and definitely strange.” It was last year that Koogler met UT MFA grad- uate Will Davis, director of “Advance Man.” “ADVANCE MAN” When: Feb. 28, 8 p.m. Where: Lab Theatre Cost: $12 is “Abe incredibly creative and has got a fantastic vision,” Davis said. “He’s a playwright who thinks a lot about rhythm the way and words and language can convey emotions.” Koogler began writing “Advance Man” in one of his writing classes at UT and it took him almost a year and a half to develop and refine it. It was in one of his classes that Koogler met Steven Wilson, an ac- tor and protagonist in “Ad- vance Man.” “Abe’s primary tool in his plays is language,” Wilson said. “For most perform- ers, an internal connec- tion to the character is the primary jumping-off point in crafting a character. For Abe’s plays, one must give over to the language and embrace it. Only then will the character begin to develop.” ‘Advance Man’ has been a big step for- ward in my writing. It combines language that is really musical with what I hope is a compelling narrative and story. —Abe Koogler Playwright UT junior Sahare Wazirali and sophomore Marilyn Adams of are members of the UT Amnesty International chapter. Miriam Rousseau / Daily Texan Staff Group to bring refugees to Zilker Kite Festival By Danielle Lopez @ldlopz Casa Marianella, a home for immigrant refugees in East Austin, receives hun- dreds of volunteers to assist in carrying out legal, medi- cal and educational services for its residents. But one UT human rights group will expose a taste of Aus- tin life to Casa residents by bringing them to the Zilker Kite Festival. On Sunday, UT’s Amnesty International chapter will take about 20 Casa Mari- anella shelter residents to the 86th annual Zilker Kite Fes- tival as part of its eforts to establish a stronger relation- ship with the shelter. Amnesty International is a global organization, and UT’s chapter is one of many across the nation. he UT group has existed on campus for ive years, with roughly 25 members who work to make a diference in human rights injustices around the world by taking action lo- cally in Austin. “he goal of Amnesty is to get anyone thinking that they can make a change in human rights,” said Sahare Wazirali, biology pre-med sophomore and the chapter’s publicity coordinator. “You don’t have to be in power or have any political power to make change.” Vice president Marilyn Adams, a psychology and women’s and gender stud- ies sophomore, said the or- ganization covers a broad scope of issues that makes it easy for all students to ind something they are interested in. “I’m interested in women’s and LGBT rights and I want- ed to ind an organization to talk about those rights on an international scale rather than just the U.S.,” Adams said. Volunteer work and aware- ness events in Austin are a large part of UT Amnesty International’s purpose. hey begain working with Casa Marianella this year. “For local interactions in previous years, there hasn’t really been anything that’s continuous,” Wazi- rali said. “We want to build a really strong relationship with Casa.” Casa Marianella volunteer coordinator Jackie Chiofalo said that prior experience with members of UT Am- nesty International has been great for the residents. you get KITE page 7 “Sometimes