@THEDAILYTEXAN | THEDAILYTEXAN.COM FALL PREVIEW | MONDAY, AUGUST 13, 2018 VOLUME 119, ISSUE 10 SERVING THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN COMMUNITY SINCE 1900 N E W S OP IN ION L IFE&AR TS SPOR TS Wizards to Fly Fishing: UT offers a wide variety of student orgs. PAGE A2 Students should take advantage of UT’s extensive library system. PAGE A6 Students team up with multiple universities to change the way movies are reviewd. PAGE A8 Texas’ unlikely trip to the College World Series all started on March 15. PAGE A5 photos by juan figueroa, anthony mireles, angela wang | the daily texan staff STATE CAMPUS Students help campaigns Political campaigns enlist UT students to canvass off campus. By Eilish O’Sullivan @EVOSULLIVAN T his summer, government junior Andrew Herrera had an opportu- nity most college students won’t. Herrera tried to help elect more than 20 Democratic candidates across Williamson County as a coordinated campaign executive director. Through the full-time job, Herrera coordinates all volunteer management and training, and runs outreach eforts, such as phone-banking and block-walking, which is where a volunteer goes door-to- door to get name recognition and voters for their preferred candidate. Herrera also formulates the county party’s strategy and messaging to reach disafected voters, and helps manage four oices to “get out the vote” in Georgetown, Round Rock, Cedar Park and Taylor. “This is a really big opportunity for someone as young as I am,” said Herrera, president of University Demo- crats. “A lot of younger people don’t really get the chance to be this involved in the decision-making.” But Herrera isn’t the only UT student involved in political campaigns. Biochem- istry senior Saurabh Sharma is at the fore- front of volunteer eforts for the “Chip Roy for Congress” campaign. Sharma is chair- man of Young Conservatives of Texas, and he said after the group endorsed Chip Roy in the race for the 21st Congressional Dis- trict of Texas, the organization became CAMPAIGN page a2 College of Education selects new dean By Meara Isenberg @MEARAANNEE Long before Charles Martinez was selected as UT’s new dean of the Col- lege of Education, he was a irst-generation college stu- dent, leaving home in San Diego to pursue a degree. “My dad sort of waved me goodbye on the curb of our home in San Diego and said, luck, Mijo,’” Martinez said. “That was basically the orientation ex- perience that I had.” ‘Good With a background in clinical psychology, Marti- nez said he hopes to bring a unique perspective to UT’s education school and a ho- listic look at how kids are impacted both in and out- side a school setting. “In education, we often think of inluencing stu- dents who are sitting in chairs in a classroom, but I think about all the other ac- tion that happens with kids, all these teachers, mentors and parents and commu- nity elders who really make an inluence on our lives,” Martinez said. Martinez, a third-gener- ation Mexican-American, attended Pitzer College in Claremont, California, where he studied psycholo- gy. While in school, Marti- nez worked a full-time job to help pay for his tuition and graduated in four years with honors. “I really took my educa- tion seriously,” Martinez said. “I was always that kid who sat in the front row of the class, that dorky kid, because I was paying to be there. It was so valuable to me.” Earning his master’s and doctoral degrees from the California School of Pro- fessional Psychology, Mar- tinez has spent the past 20 years at The University of Oregon, where he has held multiple positions aimed at diversity and inclusion. promoting Martinez began serving as UO’s vice president for institutional equity and di- versity in 2005, where he worked to ensure the cam- pus environment was sup- portive of students from all backgrounds and cultures. The result, Martinez said, was UO’s irst-ever cam- puswide equity and inclu- sion plan, which was imple- mented for each individual college and school at UO. Body “Athletics, the Student the Association, DEAN page a2 Aspen is coming to West Campus Fall 2018 aspenwestcampus.com @AspenWestCampus eddie gaspar | the daily texan staff Goverment junior Andrew Herrera works with multiple Democratic candidates across the state and coordinates with volunteers to spread the word on who is going to be on the Democratic ballot this upcoming election season. Name: 6826/Aspen Heights Partners; Width: 60p0; Depth: 2 in; On Page: 1; Color: Process color; Ad Number: 6826; Size: 12 in CAMPUS FALL PREVIEW CAMPAIGN continues from page a1 very active in the campaign. “We were very passionate about helping him out,” Sharma said. “We would just (block-) walk for Chip Roy and knock on doors, and it was a great expe- rience for our members, a lot of them had never block-walked to that extent before.” For a whole semester, Shar- ma block-walked for Roy’s cam- paign every weekend. Sharma said because of his consistent involvement with the cam- paign, he was put in charge of block-walking right before the runof election. In the past, Sharma has also worked full-time in the Texas Capitol and district oice for Sen. Van Taylor. This inspired him to change his future plans and switch from pre-med to pre-law. After graduating from UT, he wants to go to law school and study intellectual property and patent law. Sharma irst got involved with politics after joining YCT. “My political beliefs had evolved quite a bit, I kind of came to conclusions as far as what is it that I believed,” Shar- ma said. “I decided I wanted to join a group that would allow me to kind of develop those ideas and further exercise my political ideas.” Herrera, who is from Wil- liamson County, said he is thankful for the opportunity to have a seat at the table, and he hopes he can be a voice for millenials as well as encourage people who have hesitations about getting out and voting as a Democrat. “For the most part, people haven’t seen a Democrat run- ning in some of these local races for years and so they don’t even know what a Democrat looks like,” Herrera said. “There’s a caricature that people invoke about (Williamson County) as being so extremely conserva- tive, that a Democrat can’t win here, and that they shouldn’t run, but that’s not true.” Herrera has dreams of going to the LBJ School of Public Af- fairs to study public policy and then eventually working at the federal level. “What I want to focus on is a broad, ‘What do we need to do to make the most dif- ference in the most people’s lives?’” Herrera said. UT Registration Plus is an extension created by computer science sophomore Sriram Hariharan. The extension brings together informa- tion for speciic courses from sites such as RateMyProfessor and eCIS evalutation pages. carlos garcia | the daily texan staff Extension eases registration UT Registration Plus compiles instructor, grade information. By Eilish O’Sullivan @EVOSULLIVAN C omputer science sophomore Sriram Hariharan has al- ways had a hard time registering for classes. So to make it easier, Hariha- ran developed an extension for Google Chrome called UT Registration Plus. “It’s really annoying for me to go through (registration),” Hariharan said. “I’m pretty sure for a lot of people it’s that way. This last semester, I just got so annoyed that I was like, ‘I’m gonna make something that makes it better.’” For each course in the UT’s course schedule catalogue, links are provided to the Rate- MyProfessor and eCIS evalua- tion pages for that instructor, as well as syllabi from when the professor taught the class in the past, through the ex- tension. It also gives users the course description and high- lights things such as prerequi- sites and restrictions. The extension shows an graph for the distribution of grades students have received in the past. It also lets users save courses, and then high- lights and crosses out what courses would conlict with the saved ones. “I want it to help people with registration, streamline the process and take out a lot of the headache from inding courses,” Hariharan said. The extension was just rolled out on July 23 and al- ready has nearly 700 users, Hariharan said. Krishna Chittur, a comput- er science and mathematics senior, is one such user. “Overall, it’s a massive said. timesaver,” Chittur “Usually, is missing, it’s not the exten- sion’s fault. … Sometimes, UT doesn’t have the syllabus for a if something course, and oftentimes, a pro- fessor won’t have a RateMy- Professor page.” It took Hariharan less than a month to make UT Reg- istration Plus, all with little experience using JavaScript, an advanced programming language. Hariharan creat- ed it with no outside help, other than that from Google search results. “I also wanted to use this to learn more about web de- velopment, and I didn’t really know JavaScript that well be- fore this, so it took a lot of late nights, googling and trying to igure stuf out,” Hariharan said. “I’m not like a genius or anything. I’ve seen this at oth- er schools, but I didn’t see it at UT, so I thought it would be really cool.” After creating the exten- sion, Hariharan told a friend to post it in the UT ’22 Face- book group as a test run. “I actually wasn’t planning on telling anyone about this until like the start of the se- mester … but I told one of my friends as, like, a beta test to just put it in the upcoming freshman Facebook group, just to see how it works with the people who are actually registering,” Hariharan said. “I went to sleep and it just blew up over night. … It had like a hundred downloads, it was crazy.” Civil engineering freshman Singh Arwinder wrote a ive- star review for the extension to express his gratitude. “I usually don’t write reviews, but this app has made this registration pro- cess sOooOoo much easier,” Arwinder said in the review. “I felt the need to let everyone know how helpful this app is!” Hariharan said he would love to collaborate with the University on making this a new way students register, but has not put much thought into his next steps. 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HI 96º LO 75º HI 95º LO 75º spent my summer in a basement, wbu? copyright david pottinger, and reproduced with permission Charles Martinez will begin his appointment as the dean of the College of Education on Jan. 1, 2019. Until then, he is serving as dean-designate and will visit campus intermit- tently this semester. DEAN continues from page a1 President’s Oice — every department and college had to have their own very speciic equity plan,” Martinez said. “It was an amazing experience, (but) very challenging.” In 2012, Martinez founded UO’s Center for Equity Promotion to help better understand the vul- nerabilities inside systems of education and health that create challenges for certain populations of stu- dents. The center brought faculty schools from across campus together to conduct research, Marti- nez said. “Sometimes, that’s about things like the fact that students of color get referred more for disci- pline and school exclu- sion. … Sometimes, it’s about access to health care and parenting inter- vention, we really cover a lot diferent areas,” Mar- tinez said. “It’s one of the hardest things for me to give up in coming to UT, this amazing center that I created there.” Currently Martinez serves as UO’s Philip H. Knight Professor in the De- partment of Educational Methodology, Policy, and Leadership, as well as chair of the Oregon State Board of Education. He will begin his position as education dean at UT in January. Michael Thier, a gradu- ate student in educational methodology, policy and leadership at UO, worked with Martinez at the cen- ter and said students, col- leagues and administra- tors know him as a person, not just as “Dr. Martinez.” equity is at the forefront of ev- erything he does,” Thi- er said. “Charles puts at the center of his re- search some of the most vulnerable populations.” “Educational APPLY to work at THEDAILYTEXAN.COM/PARTICIPATE Name: 7288/Riddle & Bloom; Width: 60p0; Depth: 20 in; On Page: 3; Color: Process color; Ad Number: 7288; Size: 120 in A4 FALL PREVIEW CAMPUS CAMPUS Meet Dr. Patricia Carter, UT’s own in-house “sleep doctor” and instructor of the UGS class, “Sleep: Are We Getting Enough?” Dr. Carter breaks down the importance of sleep to a science, literally. anthony mireles | the daily texan staff Unusual UGS classes range from napping to horror By Abigail Rosenthal @AE_ROSENTHAL Two unusual classes ill up fast every fall, with irst-time UT students attracted to ideas and topics not commonly found in the classroom. These courses are part of the signature course program, which incoming freshmen and transfer students are required to take to experience college-level learning and research at UT. English Associate professor Elizabeth Richmond-Garza’s course, “Modernity, Anxiety and the Art of the Uncanny,” is cen- tered around the idea that things feel “secretly familiar,” something she experienced as a child living in San Francisco, London, Oxford, Paris, Florence and Rome, where she felt simultaneously at home and not. “It’s this notion that you see something or experience some- thing (that) is simultaneously ‘Oh, I know that’ and ‘Wait a minute, ’” said Richmond-Garza, director of the comparative literature pro- gram. “It’s that cognitive gap that makes you want to explore it.” To help her class of 240 explore that gap, she turns to a multitude of sources. Readings including “Dracula,” “The Picture of Dorian Gray” and Sigmund Freud’s “The Uncanny,” and scenes from “In- ception” and “Get Out” ofer a visualization of that feeling, while Richmond-Garza’s class-spe- ciic Spotify playlists provide the soundtrack. “A lot of the media Dr. Rich- mond-Garza shared with us in class was incredibly thought-pro- fascinating,” said voking and Justin Lau, a recent chemistry graduate who took the course his sophomore year. “It also came from both traditional and modern sources, which was ex- citing because it reinforced that these concepts were relevant … and contemporary.” While Richmond-Garza teach- es around the things that keep us up at night, Dr. Patricia Carter helps her students understand sleep in her course, “Sleep: Are We Getting Enough?” something she irst studied while earning her doctorate from the University of California, Los Angeles. There have been rumors one can get credit in the course for napping. Carter said that while this isn’t true, she’s not going to interrupt anyone catching up on sleep in her class. “My preference, of course, is that they sleep well (outside of class and) don’t feel compelled to sleep in class,” said Carter, an associate professor in the School of Nursing. “But I also under- stand that just like if somebody was talking to you about a really wonderful, lavorful meal that they had, that your mouth might start watering. If I’m talking to you about sleep, people start to get sleepy.” Instead, she teaches tips on how to take an efective nap based on a speciic need. To catch up on lost sleep, a 90-minute snooze is helpful. A 20-minute nap can ofer a “power boost.” For “emer- gency purposes only,” she em- phasizes, there’s what she calls the “nappuccino.” “Cafeine takes about 20 min- utes to hit its full potential,” Car- ter said. “You drink your cafeine, you lay down, set your alarm clock for 20 minutes, you wake up in 20 minutes and you’re refreshed from the nap (while) also getting the cafeine hitting about that same time.” Carter said because everyone sleeps, it’s not hard for students to ind something interesting in the course. She also believes her pas- sion for the topic is what makes the 250-student course popular. “If I’m passionate about what I’m teaching now and I’m pas- sionate about the importance of the skills that we’re trying to help them either gain or polish, then that sort of goes a little bit further and helping them be convinced that maybe it is important,” Carter said. “Fortunately for sleep, every- body loves sleep.” Unconventional clubs to check out, join this fall By Meara Isenberg @MEARAANNEE From sports clubs to religion clubs, there are plenty of ways to get involved on UT’s cam- pus. But what about a “Harry Potter”-themed service organi- zation or a club that meets up to eat at Austin restaurants to- gether? Yup, UT has those, too. With about 1,200 student or- ganizations on campus, there’s no shortage of unconventional clubs to choose from. Claire Norris, president of Keep Austin Wizard, said she initially joined the organization as a fan of the “Harry Potter” books, but quickly realized there was more to the club than just discussing the series. “It’s not just a fan club about ‘Harry Potter,’ it’s also an op- portunity to do volunteering and community service and work on actual issues,” said Norris, a radio-television-ilm senior. “That’s something that’s become a lot more interesting to me.” By tabling with “butterbeer,” a drink straight out of the books made with cream soda, caramel and whipped cream, Norris said the club raises money for organizations that promote lit- eracy and education in Austin. While the club currently has about ive members, according to Norris, the smaller group size does not keep the team from volunteering at places such as the Inside Books Proj- ect, which promotes literacy and education within the Texas prison system by mailing books to prisoners. Also uniting students with a speciic interest, the Texas Fly Fishing Club was started last spring to help students bond over ishing with artiicial ly bait, club president Riley Carew said. “Fly ishing is a much more diicult way of ishing,” said Carey, an international rela- tions and global studies senior. “Instead of casting with one luid stroke, you have to build up your cast with the line, go- ing back and forth with the ly … and place it in the exact spot where you want it for the ish to bite.” Carew said the group cur- rently is made up of about 25 men but is open to anyone to join. Also available for students to join this fall, Coders Across Disciplines is meant to bring students from schools across campus together to learn more about how coding its into their speciic ields, club president Carl Karouta said. While includes the club STEM majors, chemical engi- neering senior Karouta said it also brings in students from other majors such as economics and linguistics. “Some people are interested in natural language processing, (which is) how companies like Google and others will inter- pret your speech and process that natural kind of speech to literally (form) words out of it,” Karouta said. “That’s what lin- guists care about, but it’s also a heavy software application.” Another group on campus is bringing students togeth- er using the ultimate uniier: food. The Dinner Club, found- ed by advertising senior John Parker, is a club that meets up at new and classic restaurants around Austin. Parker said the club usual- ly sees around seven people show up to eat and has checked out eateries such as Hula Hut, Lucky Robot and Blue Dahlia Bistro. Through sitting down and enjoying a meal, Parker said he has seen students from diferent backgrounds get to know each other. “It’s meant to be kind of re- laxing, and a space for people to meet each other,” Parker said. “(Food) gives you something to share and talk about, and con- versation just goes from there.” zara sharaf | the daily texan staff RIDE FREE WITH UT ID Your UT student ID gets you around campus and anywhere else in Austin with FREE RIDES on all Cap Metro services. Just swipe & ride! RIDE FREE W/ VALID UT ID $915! UNBEATABLE LOCATION | STUDI0, 1 & 2 BR FLOOR PLANS PRIVATE & SHARED BEDROOMS | STUDY ROOMS ROOFTOP SUNDECK | ON-SITE LAUNDRY | FREE TUTORING LARGE UNIT SIZES | STATE-OF-THE-ART FITNESS CENTER SPARKLING POOL | CAFETERIA WITH UNLIMITED MEAL PLANS | LIMITED SUMMER & SEMESTER LEASE TERMS AVAILABLE HURRY! DON’T MISS THIS DEAL! UNIVERSITYTOWERS.COM 801 W. 24TH ST | 512.472.5846 Go, Horns, Go! . T U / g r o o r t e m p a c Texas’ unlikely turnaround BASEBALL ALEX BRISEÑO SPORTS EDITOR @TEXANSPORTS March 15: the turning point en route to the College World Series. By Travis Hlvanika @TRAVHLAV A t irst glance, Texas’ the appearance at College World Se- ries was just a 0-2 outing — in other words, a dis- appointment. What the Long- horns’ quick elimination failed to show, though, was the un- likely turnaround they had to perform just to qualify for the NCAA tournament. Pierce saw 11 players on his roster head to the MLB after his irst year in Austin, including dominant pitcher Morgan Coo- per and ofensive superstar Kacy Clemens. Longhorn fans’ expec- tations weren’t exactly through the roof. After a nightmarish 9-9 start to the season, all those expectations seemed to do was sink. That’s why, despite the back- to-back losses in the College World Series that sent Texas home immediately, Pierce exuded nothing but pride as he relected on his team’s run in his inal news conference in Omaha. almost “There’s nobody in this room and nobody in the country ex- pected this team to be here (in Omaha),” Pierce said. “And (the team) did a heck of a job from the start to inish, from the fall ball into early spring. The things that they had to accomplish to get here is incredible.” Early in the season, Texas did not resemble a team capable of hosting or even qualifying to play in a regional tournament, much less a trip to Omaha. After dropping ive consecutive games to a pair of top-10 teams in Stan- ford and Arkansas, Texas was oicially a .500 team. Then, the Longhorn baseball program received news that ex- ceeded everything that unfolded in their ive-game losing streak. Senior second baseman Kody Clemens attempts to ield a ball at the College World Series at TD Ameritrade Park in Omaha, Nebraska. Texas reached Omaha despite getting off to a 9-9 start to the season but was eliminated after going 0-2 in the tournament. anthony mireles | the daily texan file The day after the inal loss to Arkansas, on March 15, leg- endary head baseball coach Augie Garrido, who led the Texas baseball program for 19 seasons and won two national championships in eight College World Series appearances in his tenure, passed away. The death rocked the university and the college baseball landscape for the remainder of the season. However, it supplied Pierce and his team with the inspira- tion it needed to press the restart button on the season. From that point on, the team would lose only nine of its next 37 games en route to a Big 12 regular season championship. One of the major contribut- ing factors to the astounding recovery can be attributed to the historic efort from junior sec- ond baseman Kody Clemens. Clemens, who was a con- sensus All-American, Big 12 Player of the Year and Golden Spikes Award inalist inished the year with a .351 average and 24 home runs, second most in the country. Clemens, who had his irst fully healthy year at Texas since his arrival, was the team’s catalyst all year and one of the most dangerous players in the country. “What a year Kody Clem- ens had,” Pierce said. “It’s sec- ond to none. And for us to be able to witness and see what he did all year and be a part of that and the energy he brought back to the University of Texas was incredible.” Going into the postseason, Texas would host a regional tournament at UFCU Disch- Falk Field in Austin, where it would go 3-0 including an 8-3 win over Texas A&M. The Longhorns would then host a Super Regional tourna- ment against Tennessee Tech. After going down 0-1 in the best-of-three series, Texas ju- nior pitchers Chase Shugart and Matteo Bocchi would put up two of the season’s best pitching performances, allowing Texas to take the next two games and se- cure a spot at the College World Series in Omaha almost three months after its 9-9 start and the loss of Augie Garrido. “It’s kind of a crazy thing that we’re celebrating his (Augie’s) life just a couple months ago,” redshirt junior pitcher Parker Joe Robinson said. “And then to have us perform it seems like right after he passed away. Our team kind of lipped a switch. I don’t know, maybe Augie was with us.” There, the team would lose its only two games to Arkansas and Florida, ending the Longhorns’ dreams at a national title almost immediately. But Texas’ 0-2 ap- pearance wasn’t viewed as a fail- ure by any sense of the imagina- tion. In just his second season, Pierce and the baseball program showed Texas fans something the three major sports ha- ven’t earned in quite some time: success. Name: 7350/Bridge Insights & Media; Width: 60p0; Depth: 10 in; On Page: 5; Color: Process color; Ad Number: 7350; Size: 60 in A5 MONDAY, AUGUST 13, 2018 SUMMER QUOTES Top four Longhorn quotes from this summer By Ross Burkhart @ross_burkhart From Kody Clemens’ home runs to Mo Bam- ba’s jump to the NBA, the last three months have been filled with memo- rable Texas sports mo- ments. With those come quotes from some of UT’s athletes most premier and coaches. the Here’s a recap of some lasting words Austin around of from this summer: Following Clemens lets Texas know how he feels about the Aggies June’s highly-anticipated match- up between Texas and Texas A&M on the base- ball diamond, slugger Kody Clemens vocalized the feeling of many Long- horn fans when asked if there was anybody he dis- liked more than A&M. “Um. No,” Clemens said during a post-game news conference. Clemens made his feel- ings about the Aggies very apparent during the game, as well, by hitting two home runs en route to an 8-3 victory in the NCAA tournament. Hager steals the show at Big 12 Media Days As head coach Tom Herman and four Texas football players fielded questions at July’s Big 12 Media Days in Frisco, there never seemed to be a dull moment with one ath- lete: Breckyn Hager. During the event, both QUOTES page a11 A6 MONDAY, AUGUST 13, 2018 LIZA ANDERSON EDITOR-IN-CHIEF @TEXANOPINION Hit the books, save money with UT Libraries COLUMN By Emily Caldwell columnist The UT library system is doing its best to help students not spend money on un- necessary things. The only problem is that not enough students take advantage. UT Libraries consistently ranks as one of the largest research libraries in North Amer- ica and quite easily as the largest one in Texas. With materials such as these at their disposal, all UT students should use library resources to save money and make their lives easier. According to Michele Ostrow, the as- sistant director of teaching and learning services for UT Libraries, there are 60 librarians, 170 staffers and 220 student staffers waiting to help students with whatever they may need — locating re- search resources, attending skills work- shops, checking out course materials or simply finding answers to random ques- tions. “We’re just there waiting, and we like (answering questions),” Ostrow says. “That’s why we became librarians.” UT Libraries has more than 10 mil- lion physical items throughout its col- lections — not to mention the countless number of journals, papers, e-books and movies. Research projects can be daunt- ing, but UT students have more than Every student should have the “How to save money with the UT Libraries” guide bookmarked on their browser. Stu- dents often end up spending money on course packets and textbooks when they really could have accessed them for free using the library. “If you have readings, see if we have them in the library before you pay for a course pack,” Ostrow said. “There are a lot of things in the library that are on your syllabus that you can get for free here.” Textbooks are undeniably expensive, but if a student is willing to sacrifice a little bit of time and (sometimes a whole lot of) effort, they can reduce the cost of their class materials. From databases to textbooks on reserve and standardized test prep materials, UT’s library system is a fountain of free information with not enough use. “We spend millions of dollars on subscriptions, and they’re right there at your fingertips, whether you’re on or off campus,” Ostrow said. Academic skills workshops, 10 million books and access to class materials — all 100 percent free. UT Libraries is a re- source that we have access to as college students, and it’s time we realize what we’re missing. Caldwell is a Latin American stud- journalism sophomore from ies and College Station. victoria smith | the daily texan staff enough resources. “I think it’s really important for under- grads, in particular, to understand that, as librarians, it’s our job to help them do research,” Ostrow says. “Even if they were super library users in high school, a humongous research library is a completely diferent thing, so that’s what we’re here for.” The services and resources offered to UT students by the library system deserve more attention and more use — especially because they’re 100 percent free. COLUMN COLUMN Be strategic with how you use your meal plan By Jacob Palmer columnist College is the irst time students inde- pendently choose what food to buy where. Each student who lives on UT’s campus receives a meal plan. While these plans seem to map out all food expenses for students, that’s not neces- sarily the case. Students should take advantage of UT’s unique dining experience to practice running a personal budget. UT’s dining plan is some- what difer- ent than most schools. Rath- er than giving students a set number of meals or a va- riety of meal every plans, o n - c a m p u s gets student din- 1,800 ing dollars and 200 Bevo Bucks as a part of room and board fees. Rene Rodri- direc- guez, tor of dining at University Housing and Dining says the “system gives our students that live with us total control over how to spend their money.” Those 1,800 dining dollars for two semes- ters of food might sound like a lot or maybe not much at all. Regardless, it’s easy for students to burn through if they aren’t careful of how and where they spend them. This is a major concern for the more than 7,000 Longhorns who live on campus. UT’s dining plan allows students to get into the habit of budgeting the dollars they spend by focusing on a single expense. So rather than hav- ing to think about rent, utilities, transportation, etc., with a meal plan, students can use their time on campus to focus on budgeting for food. This is a great opportunity for students to practice bud- geting before their expenses get too complicated. Rodriguez encourages this budgeting of din- ing dollars and Bevo Bucks. He also advises that “the value for (on campus students’) money is in all-you-care-to-eat locations.” Special education junior Lillie Saunders can conirm this. Living in Jester West her fresh- man year, she ate at J2 regularly. “I could get as much food as I needed for the time being and it saved me a pretty good bit of money,” Saunders said. She also encourages other students “to be conscious of how much things cost and where you could get them cheaper,” especially with produce and healthy snacks. Budgeting for food early on can smooth the transition from on campus to Students of. should take time to think through how much they can spend each month, week, or even day on food. This bud- get should take account into Bevo Bucks and personal trips to outside stores such as HEB or Target. there, From students can decide wheth- er spend their money at bufet-style or to retail locations. Students can track their dining dollar spend- ing on My Housing. Also, both Numbers and Excel ofer templates for personal budgets. Apps such as Wally or EveryDollar also ofer free basics on how to budget and track expens- es. These are great resources for students to fo- cus on their food expenses, but also can serve the needs of students who live of campus. UT also ofers a commuter meal plan for stu- dents living of-campus. This can continue to help simplify a food budget. And if UT’s current dining plans don’t meet your needs, Rodriguez holds regular meetings to listen to student input. Students should take advantage of the bud- geting opportunity that the UT dining plan pro- vides. If they work to develop skills and habits in budgeting, they will be better prepared for life of-campus and even post-graduation. Palmer is an English senior from Coppell. kathleen quinn | the daily texan staff diane sun | the daily texan staff UT stands out for not providing free printing By Siara Shoemaker columnist Of all the major public universities in Texas, The University of Texas at Austin is the only one that does not provide any form of free printing credit. Even smaller universities in the UT Sys- tem, such as UT-El Paso and UT-San Antonio, have credit systems in place. Since it is still common for professors to require printed-out materials for class, UT-Austin should provide students with an allotment of free printing each semester. Current printing costs require payment of 10 cents for each black-and-white single-sided sheet. Students can pay for this with Bevo Bucks or via debit or credit card through the online My Print Center system, which requires a $5 prepaid minimum. Although UT has more than 50,000 stu- dents, many other large universities are able to provide their students with some form of free printing. Texas A&M has the greatest number of students enrolled at a single university in Texas, yet the school is able to provide its stu- dents with a printing allowance of $30 a semes- ter at the cost of 9 cents per sheet. Even better, Texas State provides its students with 2,500 free pages per semester. Chris Carter, director of organizational efec- tiveness of UT Libraries, says that “the cost of printing at the libraries pays for hardware, sup- plies and support of both the print system and the scanning system, but we make scanning free as a beneit to our users and to encourage re- duced use of paper when possible.” This system is admirable, as UT prides itself on environmen- tal initiatives and reducing waste, but it isn’t always practical since some professors still require hard copies. Advertising senior Nicole Mock said, “I’ve had professors that would require us to print out worksheets everyday, sometimes up to 6 pages front-and-back. I would sometimes spend up to $5 a week for material for one class.” The University’s 2017–2018 operating bud- get states that printing services generated $183,003 in revenue for Information Technol- ogy Services. According to Travis Willmann, communications oicer of UT Libraries, this is only the revenue provided from UTprint services run by ITS. The print services ofered through UT’s libraries, however, run on a sep- arate budget. Because our tuition includes several required fees for library and informa- tion technology services, we should be able to receive an allotment of free printing coverage. Indiana University, for example, uses a system that provides students with credits based on how many hours they are enrolled in, covered by fees the students pay in their tuition. Certain departments at UT already provide their students with discounted or free printing. The Department of Civil, Architectural and En- vironmental Engineering provides its students with a $40 print quota per semester at the dis- counted cost of 6 cents per page from their lab computers. If this is doable, the rest of UT’s students should also be able to receive some form of free printing credits each semester. As Mock shared, printing at UT can be ex- pensive, especially when the minimum fee re- quired to print can be $5. UT should give all students an equal opportunity to save money when it comes to printing costs. Shoemaker is a senior government major from Kingwood. Financial bars put undue burden on student registration COLUMN By Laura Laughead columnist A UT student stares at her computer clock. It’s 9:29:55 am. She idgets with a list of unique codes on a blank page. Five seconds later, she pastes a code only to receive a note in a bold, black font: “Financial bar: Registration is not available at this time.” Her schedule falls apart in less than 15 seconds. This registration nightmare is common at UT and has made registration infamous as one of the most unpleasant, anxiety-inducing times of year. Our registration system needs an overhaul. For fall 2017, UT admitted 8,238 full-time, irst-time freshman. That’s an 18 percent in- crease since 2014, and students say they’re seeing the repercussions — especially during registration. Here’s the problem: those extra 1,500 to 2,000 students will be ighting with you for the last seat in your 9:30am core. Catherine Harpold radio-televi- is a sophomore whose unfortunate sion-film registration experience for fall 2018 is de- tailed above. With the apparent disintegra- tion of her class schedule during registration last April, Harpold worried her degree plan would be in limbo and she would be set back a semester or even a year. “I didn’t get any of the classes that I need- ed,” Harpold said. “(The day after registration), I couldn’t register because I had to wait 24 hours for the bar to go away, and I wasn’t sure what I was going to do because all my classes, including my major (classes), were gone.” Harpold had a grant from Hurricane Harvey relief that interfered with her loans and sud- denly manifested itself as a inancial bar the morning of her registration. “I think (the UT Administration) needs to do a better job alerting me if I do have a bar be- cause (the night before) I checked and I didn’t,” Harpold said. Harpold, however, ended up being one of the lucky ones. A new section opened up at the last minute. But many students, including myself, weren’t so lucky. While our online registration system might work for a small college, UT’s massive pop- ulation makes it ulcer-inducing. To ix it, UT should do more of what worked for Harpold: opening up more sections and adding more seats in prerequisites and cores. At the same time, UT should also put a sys- tem in place to decongest classes by limiting the students in crowded schools who take more ma- jor classes a semester than needed or required. me who can only take one of those classes right now,” Harpold said. UT is crowded. But when the balance of your upcoming semester — or for some, your academic future — lies in the seconds it takes for you to paste number codes before your classmates, there is a problem. Simultaneously, UT should create a bet- ter system to communicate inancial bars and waitlist statuses to students in an efort to cut through the bureaucratic burnt orange tape surrounding registration. Ultimately, the best way to douse the regis- tration inferno would be to hire more faculty and create more classes. But the easiest solution is the one no one wants to discuss — admitting fewer students. Either way, let’s put an end to this scheduled sign-up sufering. Laughead is a journalism and rhetoric and “They’re taking spots away from people like writing junior from Houston. LEGALESE | Opinions expressed in The Daily Texan are those of the editor, the Editorial Board or the writer of the article. They are not necessarily those of the UT administration, the Board of Regents or the Texas Student Media Board of Operating Trustees. SUBMIT A FIRING LINE | Email your Firing Lines to editor@dailytexanonline.com. Letters must be more than 100 and fewer than 300 words. The Texan reserves the right to edit all submissions for brevity, clarity and liability. RECYCLE | Please recycle this copy of The Daily Texan. Place the paper in one of the recycling bins on campus or back in the burnt-orange newsstand where you found it. EDITORIAL TWITTER | Follow The Daily Texan Editorial Board on Twitter (@TexanOpinion) and receive updates on our latest editorials and columns. FALL PREVIEW A7 Last week’s solution is right here! 3 8 4 4 8 5 3 6 2 9 4 7 4 1 3 9 3 5 6 7 6 3 8 2 4 3 7 8 1 6 9 2 7 5 SUDOKUFORYOU 2 1 9 6 4 3 7 8 5 3 8 6 5 7 9 1 2 4 5 7 4 8 2 1 9 3 6 9 6 2 4 1 5 3 7 8 4 3 7 9 8 6 2 5 1 1 5 8 7 3 2 4 6 9 6 2 5 3 9 4 8 1 7 8 9 3 1 6 7 5 4 2 7 4 1 2 5 8 6 9 3 A8 MONDAY, AUGUST 13, 2018 RUBEN PAQUIAN LIFE&ARTS EDITOR @THEDAILYTEXAN FILM nathan dinh | the daily texan staff Hooked on Movies aims to change face of ilm criticism Online platform intends to make demographics of ilm criticism more diverse. By Tina Woodard @TIANAROCHON M creators’ great- any est ideas come from everyday mishaps or conversa- friendly tions. For radio-television-film junior Ben Lively, one of his greatest ideas came from an on- line article about film criticism’s unvaried demographics. “For a job that you would ex- pect to require diversity, it re- ally didn’t show in the demo- graphics,” Lively said. “People our age are some of the biggest demographics to see movies, and it should be more diverse than just white guys.” Lively then brought this info to business junior and high school friend Zac Powell, who also saw fault and potential in this startling information. Their collaborative efforts produced Hooked on Mov- ies, an online platform officially launched on July 7, where students from all walks of life can contrib- ute to the homogenous field of film criticism. Powell, who serves along- side vice president of media Lively as Hooked on Movies’ president, said he hopes the organization’s reviews also hope to serve as a guide for students weary to spend money potentially dissatisfying films. on “Our money and our time are more valuable than they have been ever before,” Powell said. “If you have people that align with some of you, you can at least have a bit of a better idea that this will be worth my time, this will be worth my money.” Only requiring college enroll- ment and two reviews a month, Hooked on Movies’ participation isn’t limited to just UT students. Students from at least seven uni- including Oklahoma versities, State and Florida State, contribute to the group’s growing pool of re- views, an aspect that Powell said adds to their mission of diversity. “If we have on a broad level ev- eryone that’s reviewing just from UT-Austin, they will still be some- what influenced by what Austin brings,” Powell said. “But then, if you get people from different schools, northeastern southern schools or California schools, those are going to bring different per- spectives as well.” Hannah Mathes, radio-tele- vision-film and public relations sophomore and Hooked on Mov- ies director of social media, said the collective’s setup allows her to express herself without fearing judgment from other film critics. “I can feel comfortable to like a movie that isn’t genius but I can say, ‘Hey, this is worth a watch because I enjoyed it’, or ‘I it,’” Mathes said. “It’s not about the camera lens or the editing soft- ware — it’s about connecting to people.” learned something from Breanna Ellis, biology sopho- more and Hooked on Movies staff writer, said that the platform gives her creative opportunities that her high school did not. “There’s not a formula of what a review is supposed to look like in high school,” Ellis said. “I feel like I have more freedom to actually be honest.” Despite their success, Powell worries that a limited film back- ground might deter potential writ- ers from applying for Hooked on Movies. To dispel their concerns, Powell said that a lack of film ex- pertise they’re is exactly what looking for. “We’re not looking for estab- lished critics,” Powell said. “We’re looking for the average college student or the average moviegoer. If you’re worried that you’re not as well versed in movies or you’ve never really done film criticism for, that’s exactly who we’re looking for for this site.” NOW LEASING FOR FALL 2019 Discover the Muze in West Campus for reimagined student living. Enjoy a community with high-end social spaces and quiet sanctuaries. For more information, such as renderings and updates, please visit MuzeATX.com. Enjoy social spaces and endless amenities. 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But with so many places to swim, picking a place may seem over- whelming, or maybe you just want to try someplace new. Here are a few dif- ferent options to help you beat the heat this summer. Deep Eddy Pool Hours: 8 a.m.–8 p.m. Price: varies between $1-$8 Pool has been a prime swimming spot for locals for over 100 years. It is the oldest swimming pool in Texas and is listed as a historic landmark by the Texas Historical Com- mission. The cool spring water pool accommodates people of all ages, includ- ing lap lanes and a deep end for adults with a beach entry and a gradual shal- low-to-deep end area, for kids. Prices for entry range from $1 to $8, and during the summer, Deep Eddy Pool also ofers poolside movie events. McKinney Falls State Park Hours: 8 a.m.–10 p.m. Price: $6 STUDENT LIFE along Onion Creek, which allows visitors to swim and hang out. With just a short drive and a $6 en- try fee, you are able to do a variety of activities such as swimming, hiking, bik- ing and ishing, making McKinney Falls a more versatile place to spend a summer’s day. Named as one of Travel Channel’s top 10 swimming holes in 2016, the park ofers two places to swim, Upper Falls and Lower Falls. The water varies from shallow to deep and is a good place to bring loaties and tubes. The scenery alone, makes this location one to visit. beautiful Now operated by the City of Austin, Deep Eddy While McKinney Falls is not a pool, the state park is SWIM page a9 Embrace local outdoors with hike, bike trails By Ruben Paquian @RUBENPAQ Everyone knows Austin is a little different than most Texas towns, some- thing we are very proud of. One distinguishing feature separates us from the rest is the plethora of green spac- es and trails. No matter that where you are in the city, there is most likely a trail right around the corner. Whether you are already an outdoor enthusiast looking for some new trails to trek or just look- ing for a place to escape the hussle and bussle of the city, you will nev- er be short on places to go in Austin. Here a few trails loved by locals to check out. Shoal Creek The closest to campus and one of Austin’s old- est, Shoal Creek Trail is the perfect hike and bike route for a quick post class or morning work- out. Stretching from 38th Street to Ladybird Lake, the trail functions as a scenic alternative route to the heart of the city. TRAIL page a9 FALL PREVIEW A9 SWIM continues from page A8 Azul Rooftop Pool Hours: Varies, weekdays Price: Free with the exception of Sundays. Now, moving from sights of nature to a view of the Austin cityscape, the Azul Rooftop Pool is located at the heart of downtown at The Westin Aus- tin Downtown Hotel. Open to the public during the week- days with limited hours, the rooftop pool and bar has been an Austin hotspot on the past few years. The pool is the high- est rooftop pool in Austin and prides itself for being “sleek and chic.” Along with swim- ming, the Azul Rooftop Pool also has an impressive out- door bar, rated as Austin’s No. 1 outdoor bar by Eater. Bartholomew Pool Hours: 11 a.m.–8 p.m. Price: varies from $1–$3 Located on the east side, Bartholomew Pool is the most kid-friendly swim spot on this list. After its renovations in 2014, Bartholomew Pool has become Austin’s own mini waterpark. Between its three pools, Bartholomew has wa- ter slides, a lily pad bridge, a diving board and a lap pool for kids of all ages to try. anthony mireles | the daily texan staff From the viewpoint of the Westin’s Azul Rooftop Pool, you are able to see most of downtown Austin’s notable features, including the skyline itself, the South Congress bridge, Lady Bird Lake and Frost Bank Tower the city’s most prominent feature. TRAIL continues from page a8 along Running Shoal Creek, the trail passes by Pease Park, 9th Street BMX Park and Heath Eiland and Morgan Moss Skate Park. The closer you get to downtown, the more gorgeous the trail becomes. The thick vegetation that grows along Shoal Creek beautifully contrasts with the concrete jungle above. This trail, combined with the Town Lake Butler Trail, works as a perfect scenic route to Zilker Park. Butler Trail Easily the most crowded trail on the list, Butler Trail, also known as Town Lake or Lady Bird Lake trail, brings in more than two million vis- itors a year according to The Trail Foundation. Smack dab in the heart of the city, the 10- mile trail starts underneath MoPac and runs along Lad Bird Lake, passing I-35 and running through East Austin neighborhoods. If you’re not feeling the whole 10 miles, crossing at I-35 cuts the loop to 7 miles and using the famed pedestrian bridge cuts it down to 3. The mostly grav- el trail is excellent for biking, running or walking. With this one trail, you can hit Austin icons such as the Congress bat bridge and Zilker Park. Barton Creek Greenbelt The mother of all trails, the Barton Creek Greenbelt, more commonly known as the Greenbelt, offers out- door enthusiasts 12.5 miles of beautiful trail covered by thick green trees. With seven scattered across the city, there are trailheads always new routes to be found along Austin’s favor- ite backyard getaway. Take a dip in one of many swim- ming spots along Barton Creek or break a sweat tak- ing on one of the many rock walls perfect for climbing. Spend an afternoon here and you’ll forget you’re still in Austin. Bull Creek Greenbelt Trail If you’re looking for a trail with less foot traffic but just as much greenery as some of the other trails on the list, Bull Creek is the place to go. Running along the North Cap- ital of Texas Highway, Bull Creek is a great destination for a quick daytime excursion, running just under 3 miles. Doubling as a fun swimming spot, the trails Main, Lower and Hidden Falls make for ex- ceptional pit stops to cool off. Daiquan Brown rides through the boardwalk section of the Ann and Roy Butler Trail Hike-and-Bike Trail, otherwise known as “Town Lake” to native Austinites. The 10-mile loop extends from MoPac in the west to Lakeshore Boulevard in East Austin. anthony mireles | the daily texan staff by the No Minimum Balance 300+ Free ATMs 24 Locaions Mobile App with Remote Deposit 512-302-5555 | www.afcu.org Federally Insured by NCUA Take FREE CHECKINGYour Community Credit Union!Join Online Today!Horns A10 FALL PREVIEW McKnight’s secret to success FOOTBALL McKnight earns players’ trust via toughness and relatability. By Alex Briseño @alexxbriseno S trength and conditioning coach Yancy McKnight as watched the defensive line dom- inated the offensive line for several reps during blocking drills at practice on Tuesday. on Recently hired offensive line coach Herb Hand was visibly frustrated, while se- nior defensive end Charles Omenihu started chirping at the offensive line. “We need some assholes out here,” McKnight said laughingly, as both sides of the ball lined back up for another rep. McKnight arrived as a part of head coach Tom Herman’s staff from the University of Houston two years ago. Since then, Her- man praises him for his contributions in the weight room any chance he gets. After just one offseason of McKnight’s workouts, the team lost 525 pounds of body fat and added 385 pounds of muscle mass, ac- cording to Texas Sports. “I definitely felt his presence immediately,” senior defensive back P.J. Locke III said. “ … In the first year we saw substan- tial gains. It was crazy. Then again this year we just did a couple of max outs right after a full con- ditioning workout and had guys’ maxes jump up 100 pounds. It just shows you coach McKnight knows he’s doing.” During Big 12 Media Days, Herman dedicat- ed a portion of his open- ing to McKnight and his team’s statement just joshua guenther | the daily texan file Strength and conditioning coach Yancy McKnight speaks to the media Thursday ahead of Texas’ irst day of preseason camp. Since McKnight’s arrival in 2017, the team has shaved off 525 pounds of fat and added 385 pounds of muscle mass after just one offseason. in accomplishments the weight room. He reported 42 players who can power clean 300 pounds, 34 play- ers who can squat over 500 pounds and three who can squat over 600. At the moment, these just seemed like meaning- less numbers. Then ESPN released a video of a mo- ment in the weight room. Every player on the roster crowded around sopho- more Marqez Bimage who successfully squatted 700 pounds. “People are just so hap- py to see our teammates get personal records or squat that much weight,” junior wide receiver Col- lin Johnson said. “That’s unreal. That’s unheard of. When he does it, I feel like I do it too. That’s the whole team atmosphere. When he got under that bar with 700 pounds on it, we were all ready to see him do it.” What the team’s cel- ebration said about the culture McKnight and the Longhorn coaching staff has instilled is nearly as impressive as Bimage’s 700-pound squat. Herman confidently said McKnight is “as good as there is in the country,” and was adamant that this was stat- ed without hyperbole. “He’s as good as I’ve been around at blending toughness with relatabili- ty,” Herman said in a news conference on Thursday. “ … He’s a guy that can be so hard on our players but they also know that the reason he is, is because he loves them and he has their best interest in mind.” McKnight was later asked about what the se- cret was to unlocking the combination of perfect toughness and relatabili- ty that Herman attribut- ed him with. He spent a decent chunk of time an- swering the question but returned to three words: consistency, discipline and time. “Some of these guys come from different back- grounds,” McKnight said. “So when you can offer that and then they know you care about them — they’ve got to filter through that sometimes, you’ve got to explain some to them, especially the young guys. That’s the blend of being tough and firm and not going over the line per se.” things The Longhorns have their “They’ve completed second offseason under McKnight, and while his job is never over, it’s fair to say he’s been successful at Texas thus far. And not just be- cause of the numbers post- ed in the weight room. just got to know you’ve got their back. That requires long hours, that requires early mornings and spending extra them,” time with McKnight said. “That’s the stuff you’ve got to do as a coach — strength coach or football coach it doesn’t matter, but the good ones, that’s what they do.” VISIT THE HARRY RANSOM CENTER Enjoy exhibitions, attend programs, and engage with collections of literature, art, photography, film, and performing arts Open August 11! Ed Ruscha: Archaeology and Romance 21st and Guadalupe Streets Free admission www.hrc.utexas.edu Don’t miss the Gutenberg Bible and First Photograph, on permanent display. MONDAY, AUGUST 13, 2018 A11 QUOTES continues from page a5 Hager and Herman good on us on? We are. Now that you’re here, get it on.” he and Tom Herman discussed turning the point in their relationship after it got off to a rocky start last season. Here’s what happened: Hager recorded a sack on third down during a game against Oklahoma State and jogged over to the sideline. What hap- pened next changed their relationship for good. “It’s like out of a mov- ie, it’s the craziest thing,” Herman said. “I give him a little low-five like ‘Hey, good job.’ He stopped in his tracks, takes his hel- met off, looks at me and goes, ‘Coach, I’m sorry!’” “I said, ‘For what?’ I started looking out on the field. Is there a flag? Did he facemask somebody? I said, ‘Breckyn, what? Sorry for what?’” “He said ‘For being such an a-hole. I love you, coach!’” have been terms since. McConaughey pays a visit to Texas baseball What would a se- mester on campus be without a Matthew McConaughey sighting? Just before the Long- found out who horns their oppo- regional nents would be in the first round of the NCAA tournament, the famed alumnus addressed the team with some words of encouragement. “It’s go time. You played all season, you won the Big 12, but now you’re in,” McConaughey said. “You’ve got to where you want to go. It’s 0–0 now. It’s a dance, what I do, which is similar to what you guys do, I believe.” McConaughey continued, “You’re responsible for turning yourself on. He (head coach David Pierce) it, but who’s can say for turning responsible Smart praises Bamba be- fore NBA Draft Freshman standout Mo Bamba’s lone season at Texas is in the rear- view mirror, but before the center was selected sixth overall in June’s NBA draft, Texas head coach Shaka Smart talked about the potential that Bamba has to excel at the next level. “He’s the type of guy that you don’t want to just coach for one year or even four years,” Smart said during a news con- to ference. “You want coach that guy for 15 years. So whoever gets him is going to get a phe- nomenal person, but also someone that is a long- term player, I can’t really think of anyone that I’ve been around or even seen that has more potential than him.” Just like Shaka, we’re in our feels. angel ulloa | the daily texan file Senior linebacker Breckyn Hager sacks Oklahoma State quarterback Mason Rudolph during Texas’ 13-10 double-overtime loss at Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium on Oct. 21. 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PAGE B5 photos by angel ulloa, gabby lanza, alexander thompson, anthony mireles | daily texan file CAMPUS CAMPUS Construction will continue this fall Welch Hall remains under construction; West Mall gateway now in the works. By Savana Dunning @SAVANAISH W ith every semes- ter, some stu- dents prepare to come to campus for the irst time and others prepare to leave, but one thing remains con- stant: campus construction. Most are smaller renovation projects such as repainting or adding new scafolding to buildings, but others are more noticeable changes to campus. “We have in the project management team four to ive hundred projects active at any given point in time, so there will always be some- thing that’s underway,” said Jill Stewart, project man- agement and construction services associate director. One recently completed project was new Student Ac- tivity Center patio. Started in 2013 and completed this June, the patio was built to ill out the space between the SAC and Gregory Gym to make it look more appealing. Project manager Hirokazu Horikoshi said the area had drainage issues and wasn’t usable or functionable until Student Government desig- nated a portion of tuition fees to go to renovating the area in 2013. “The student body at the time wanted to make some improvements to the Stu- dent Activity Center, spe- ciically the outdoor space,” Horikoshi said. “They want- ed to make it more usable which means increased seating, increased function- ality, so access to power, Wi-Fi and couple of other unique features.” Horikoshi said the actu- al design was drawn up in 2017, featuring campus’ irst outdoor ireplace, a water fountain, wheelchair accessi- ble seating and Wi-Fi enabled light poles. Across Speedway, Welch Hall has been undergoing reconstruction signiicant since June 2017. The current project removed asbestos and lead based paint from the building’s 1978 wing, the side of Welch facing Speed- way. There are also plans to update the interior and add a small cafe. Jim Shackleford, direc- tor of Capital Planning and Construction, the depart- ment that typically works on the larger projects on campus, said the hazard- ous materials in older parts of the building, such as the original 1929 wing, have al- ready been removed and the project will be completed in January 2020. “The purpose of the proj- ect was to update the project CONSTRUCTION page b7 Psychology senior Maria Rana, left, and computer science sophomore Waleed Rana walk through construction in the West Mall on Wednesday evening. juan figueroa | the daily texan staff Students waited in line for hours at the FAC to vote in the primary elections this spring. To reduce wait times, a second polling location will open at the PCL for the general election. anthony mireles | the daily texan staff New on-campus polling location to open at PCL By Savana Dunning @SAVANAISH To encourage student voting by reducing wait times in line, a second polling location will open on campus for the 2018 general election, potential- ly in the Perry-Castañeda Library (PCL). The Flawn Academic Center (FAC) has served as UT’s sole polling location since 2005, with the Co- Op store on Guadalupe oc- casionally operating as an overlow location to reduce line wait times. Howev- er, voter turnout in Travis County and at UT has in- creased signiicantly since 2012 and the FAC saw wait times of up to 2 or 3 hours during the 2016 election and the 2018 general election primaries. Maya Patel, vice presi- dent of TX Votes, said these increased wait times dis- courage voting for students who need to attend class or don’t have time to wait in line for hours. “A lot of students end up not voting because they see the long lines and they decide they have oth- er things to do other than wait in a three-hour line to vote,” chemistry junior Patel said. Patel and TX Votes president Zachary Price teamed up with the Uni- versity Democrats, who had been working on the same project with Rep. Gina Hinojosa. The two organizations then passed legislation with the help of Travis County Clerk Dana Debeauvoir, who designated the PCL as the optimal location for a new polling place due to its distance from the FAC and for its accessibility non-student voters. Although legislation has been passed for a second polling location, the PCL still needs to be approved the Travis County by Commissioners Court be- fore it can be made the of- icial location said Ronald Morgan, Travis County deputy clerk. “Vote centers have certain requirements,” Morgan said. “The coun- ty clerk’s oice and the elections division makes a recommendation to the court as to where those go, and we’re very happy to recommend the PCL as the second voting center, but it is not oicial until the court approves it.” Allie Runas, Universi- ty Democrats president, said the second polling location was a kind of passion project for her af- students ter witnessing line before leaving getting to vote in order to attend class. the “Every election day we know how bad lines are going to get because not a lot of students vote ear- ly and it all compounds one day where into POLL page b7 B2 Photo FALL PREVIEW ANTHONY MIRELES THE DAILY TEXAN STAFF Lunch: Home Slice Pizza, located near the corner of South Congress and Elizabeth Street, serves some of the best pizza in Austin with the atmosphere of a New York pizzeria. Its unique location means that after eating your pizza, you can explore other Austin venues. Longhorns continue quest ANTHONY MIRELES THE DAILY TEXAN STAFF Breakfast: Located in front of the San Antonio Garage in West Campus and adorned with puppy paraphernalia, Lucky Lab Coffee Company is a popu- lar place for students to start the day and grab their daily dose of caffeine and breakfast pastries. FROM BREAKFAST TO DESSERT: AUSTIN BITES ANTHONY MIRELES THE DAILY TEXAN STAFF Dessert: Next door to Lucky Lab Coffee Co. is Bananarchy, a food truck that centers its entire menu on the banana. You can customize your own dessert or choose from a variety of specialties. ANTHONY MIRELES THE DAILY TEXAN STAFF Dinner: Past the intersection of 27th and Guadalupe is Don Japa- nese Kithcen. Don’s has a casual atmosphere and is known for its distinctive large boxes of fries. 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From delivery to assembly, our services can help lighten your to-do list. In-home services provided by Independent Service Providers. © Inter IKEA Systems B.V. 2017 B4 FALL PREVIEW FALL PREVIEW CAMPUS Will Ross, coordinator of the Student Emergency Services food pantry, organizes various types of donated food on Tuesday, Aug. 7. carlos garcia | the daily texan staff Resources to ight food insecurities UT created its irst food pantry in May 2018 to help students facing food insecurities. By Grace Ann Hornfischer @THEDAILY TEXAN W ith about a quarter of UT stu- dents dealing with food insecu- rities, as reported by The Daily Texan in May, the University has multiple resources for students to ight the growing problem. to According their website, Student Emergency Services recorded a 28 percent increase in the number of students helped with food-related needs, between 2015–16 and 2016–17. Food insecurity can appear lots of diferent ways said Will Ross, coordinator of Student Emergency Services, including lack of funds, skipping a meal, or having to sub- stitute healthy food with unhealthy food. In 2012, about 100 food pantries existed on college campuses, said Brandon Mat- thews, associate director of The College and University Food Bank Alliance in a 2017 in- terview with USA Today. As of June 4, 2018, CUFBA has expanded to 641 members. UT is a recent addition to its ranks. UT established its irst food pantry, the UT Outpost, in May to ight food insecurity on campus. “Since we are in our inaugural year of the UT Outpost, we are really trying to build our volunteer base and get our student leaders connected to this program,” Ross said. “A lot of our marketing says how to donate, utilize and get involved.” Ross also said the UT Outpost will work this year to break the stigma surrounding food pantries donation-based, students are limited to one food package per month. “We want to show students that this is a common thing,” Ross said. “That it is OK and that there are resources. (This stigma often) becomes a barrier for students to get those resources.” Biology sophomore Breanna Ellis con- sidered using the Outpost after it opened in May, but said she “feels weird about using it” because she is worried other people have a greater need than she does. “I’ll be living on my own (this fall), I’ll have to be budgeting more,” said Ellis, who is preparing to move from a dorm to an apartment this fall. “I’m obviously not going to rely on (the Outpost), but if I need it, then yeah, I’ll probably go. I mean, that’s what it’s there for.” The Outpost is available to all stu- dents. However, because the pantry is The Outpost is located in the UA9 build- ing on University Avenue, and it is open Wednesdays from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. and Thursdays from 2 to 6 p.m., according to the Outpost’s website. Other resources exist for students battling with higher levels of food insecurity. “If there is signiicant inancial concern due to an emergency (the Student Emer- gency Fund) will help pay up to $300,” said Katy Soucy, director of Student Emergency Services. “That additional support can help so that food is not an issue for the student.” Whether you are a freshman eating in University dining halls, an upperclassman shopping for groceries on your own or even a graduate student taking night classes, Ross said he wants students to remember “that life happens.” CAMPUS STUDENT GOVERNMENT On-campus organizations can help students ind place, home on 40 Acres By Kendall Tietz @TIETZKENDALL With more than 50,000 students on campus, it can be daunting stepping onto the UT campus for the irst time, but there are ways of getting involved on campus that can make the 40 Acres feel smaller. The beginning of freshman year brings a lot of change and new experiences. Freshmen learn to navigate their way around campus and adapt to college classes while also accli- mating to dorm life. But college is not just about learning how to feed yourself, do laundry and manage money, it’s a time to meet new people and embark on new opportunities. UT has more than 1,300 student and organizations clubs available to students, according to UT’s website, providing an abundance of ways for students to get in- volved and build a community on campus. UT The “We hear RecSports department is home to nearly 30 intramural sports and 44 sports clubs that host various itness and wellness classes. often from students that RecSports be- comes students’ home away from home,” said Jennifer Speer, the senior director of communications, assessment and development for recre- ational sports, in an email. “There is always something going on.” to In addition student organizations, UT also has more than 70 sororities and fraternities, various spirit orga- nizations and Campus Events + Entertainment, which puts on more than 120 events annually for students on campus. “Getting involved with Greek life helped me meet people and to establish that community at also There UT and to make campus feel more like home,” student body president Colton Becker said. “Once you have that communi- ty, that home base, that support system established, that is going to help you tremendously.” are two legislative bodies that fresh- men have the opportunity to get involved with: Student Government and the Senate of College Councils. Nutrition senior Becker said SG can give freshmen an introduction to leadership positions and op- portunities to work with stu- dents from across campus. Liberal First-year Arts Honors students have the op- portunity to propose a proj- ect that will better the Austin community through the En- vision Austin Contest. Owen McGeary, government and eco- nomics sophomore and a win- ner last year, won funding for his nonproit UT organization, Horns for the Homeless. “(The) nonproit provides care packages with more nu- anced items that homeless peo- ple wouldn’t be able to get from homeless shelters or church- es,” said McGeary, co-found- er and treasurer of Horns for the Homeless. is in The nonproit the process of setting up commu- nications and merchandise. Now, Horns for the Homeless encourages other UT students to get involved by volunteering with the organization. Information about all of UT’s organizations is available online at HornsLink. Wheth- er you join the Chess Club or the Harry Potter-themed club, “Keep Austin Wizard,” there are all kinds organizations to choose from on campus. If you don’t see anything that suits your fancy, then you can start your own student organization by submitting an application and a $20 fee to Oice of the Dean of Students. Colton, Mehraz prepare for upcoming year By Kendall Tietz @TIETZKENDALL There was voting, a revote and then finally a runoff before Colton and Mehraz Becker elect- Rahman ed student body presi- dent and vice president this spring. were This summer, as they prepare for the upcom- ing school year, Becker and Rahman are meet- ing with students, facul- ty and administrators to figure out the best way to accomplish the initia- tives on their platform. R a h m a n , a market- ing and Plan II senior, said she and are Becker working to sure make the student body has a better under- standing of what people involved in Student Gov- ernment do. “ O n e the big of things that we are trying to do is empower students to take on their own ini- tiatives,” Rahman said. “(We want to) make sure that students who are passionate about the is- sues are the ones who are working on those issues, because those are the peo- ple who are going to do the best job.” president, vice Rahman serves as the chair of the Student Ser- vices Budget Committee. Rahman said the budget has not increased in many years, which does a dis- service to UT students. “Some of our larger As initiatives … (such as) the creation of a northwest campus gym and secur- ing long-term funding for SURE Walk are or will be much more challenging and difficult to achieve fee under structure,” nutrition se- nior Becker said. “We will be pushing for a re- vision to that structure at the legislature.” the current Becker said some of the biggest projects SG is working on right now include adding more re- spaces around flection campus, specifically in the engineering school, interperson- instituting al violence training and i m p r o v i n g health the well- and ness of UT students. “ W e ’ v e gotten ver- bal approval for consent e d u c a t i o n in all (First- Year Inter- est Groups) and (Trans- f e r - Y e a r I n t e r e s t G r o u p s ) , ” Becker said. “So now all f i r s t - y e a r students at the Univer- sity by March 2019 will be engaged in a dia- logue and a discussion about consent.” Becker said another way they plan to improve the wellness of UT stu- dents is through easier food to healthy access options around campus, and he plans to reach out to student entrepreneurs about drafting a pitch to Whole Foods and seeing about getting a vendor on campus. SG page b7 One of the big things that we are trying to do is empow- er students to take on their own initia- tives.” Mehraz Rahman, student body vice president kasim kabbara | the daily texan staff Freshman Victoria Michaels, center, signs up for a club at the oreintation organization fair. The organization fair is an opportunity for incoming students to learn about clubs on campus in preparation for the upcoming school year. B5 Name: 7484/Part of the Pride; Width: 29p6; Depth: 10 in; On Page: 17; Color: Process color; Ad Number: 7484; Size: 30 in A9 MONDAY, AUGUST 13, 2018 STUDENT LIFE 5 places to cash in your UT student discount By Tiana Woodard @TIANAROCHON college Although stu- dents are among the most debt-ridden individuals in America, they’re also some businesses’ most sought- out targets. Many business- es offer student discounts, but with so many of these offers kept quiet, where do you start? Start with The Daily Texan and our five ways your UT ID and stu- dent email can be put to good use. Alamo Drafthouse Cinema Let’s face it — movie tick- ets aren’t cheap, especially when college students ar- en’t paying the children’s or seniors’ prices. Places such as Alamo Drafthouse Cinema can make movie nights with friends easier on your wallet, however. At Alamo Drafthouse Cinema, students with a current stu- dent ID can purchase movie tickets at the matinee price all day long. So when you’re not drowning in tedious coursework, head over to any of the six Alamo Draft- house Cinema locations in the Austin area to enjoy a discounted movie. Amy’s Ice Creams to yourself Most incoming freshmen are afraid of catching the in- famous “freshman 15,” and for good reason, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t some treat good ice cream from time to time — specially when your UT ID guarantees you discounted ice cream. At the Austin-based Amy’s Ice Creams location on Guada- lupe Street, a quick flash of your UT ID can get you 10 percent off any of their homemade ice creams, ices, milkshakes or frozen yo- gurts. Offering eye-popping scenery and innovative fla- vors ranging from jalapeño bacon to chocolate wasabi, Prime and then all of its benefits for $6.49 a month. Their student plan lasts for four years or until grad- uation, whichever arrives first. So when you can’t find what you need at the University Co-Op or Do- the bie Target, explore unknown wonders of the virtual Amazon with your discounted membership. Spotify and Hulu Whether to liven up long walks across campus, en- ergize miserable study ses- sions or break the ice at parties, music is a necessary part of any college student’s life. But with some music streaming services’ high membership rates, many students are forced to make costly decisions or listen to ad-interrupted music. Ser- vices such as Spotify give students a bit of financial leeway. At $4.99 a month for students, Spotify gives unlimited, ad-free access to its 30 million-plus song catalog. Along with music, the plan also gives paying members access to Hulu’s al- streaming to make their own s o u n d t r a c k to col- their lege years and spend their time b i n g e - w a t c h - latest the ing a at releases cheap price. lowing students services, this local ice cream joint is a great way to entertain your eyes and taste buds when your closest dining hall can’t. Office 365 During your years as a UT student, it’s unlikely that you won’t run into any Mi- crosoft Office applications while completing an as- signment. Unlike the other items on the list, this Mic- rosoft Office deal isn’t a dis- count — it’s free. While any- one else hoping to legally download Microsoft Office 2016 can expect to sacrifice at least a hundred bucks to get this accomplished, this software is offered to stu- dents and teachers free of charge. The Office 365 stu- dent bundle includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneN- ote, Teams and other help- ful tools. Although its name might be misleading, Office 365’s free subscription lasts longer than a year; you’re qualified for renewals as long as you’re enrolled at the 40 Acres. Amazon On Amazon, you from can find any- thing toilet night- lights and pizza scis- sors to s t u d e n t perks. In- stead of annual, Amazon membership fee, Amazon offers q u a l i f y i n g a students free, six- month trial of Amazon its $99 Prime nikole peña | the daily texan staff Limited spaces remaining! 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B6 MONDAY, AUGUST 13, 2018 LIZA ANDERSON EDITOR-IN-CHIEF @TEXANOPINION EDITORIAL Last year’s issues aren’t going anywhere Gun control, sexual misconduct and racism still plague the 40 Acres. nathan dinh | the daily texan staff By The Daily Texan Editorial Board O ver the last school year, the University of Texas commu- nity has experienced a range of challenges — from the con- tinued blowback of national conversa- tions surrounding gun rights and sexual assault to outright hostility among stu- dents about race. As we reflect on the lessons of the past year, it’s clear that unanswered questions will play a de- cisive role in how we move forward as a community. National issues came into focus at UT this year. Debates over gun control ex- ploded into spectacle as the “March for Our Lives” demonstrations garnered widespread attention. The #MeToo movement resonated with many UT students, inviting them to tell their sto- ries of harassment, voice their concerns and call for more from their peers and the University. Weakened federal pro- tections for immigrants and minorities evoked fear and resentment among many students, and a hostile student govern- ment election made the campus climate worse now than it’s been in years. Gun control and gun violence have long played a role in shaping UT’s his- tory. The 1966 Tower shooting initiat- ed a history of violence, echoed in the implementation of campus carry on the shooting’s 50th anniversary. This year, a movement sparked by mass shoot- ings in Las Vegas and Parkland, Flori- da, demanded greater gun control mea- sures nationwide. Many UT students participated in an ensuing “March for Our Lives” protest at the Texas Capitol in March. Attempts to increase gun protections reflect a long-term struggle at UT. Both students and professors vocalized oppo- sition to the August 2016 enforcement of statewide campus carry laws, which allow licensed gun owners to carry con- cealed weapons on public university campuses. Three UT-Austin professors sued the school and the state over cam- pus carry in 2016, initiating a legal battle that will carry into this academic year. It’s safe to say that guns — and debates over guns — have become commonplace at UT. This April, two abandoned hand- guns were found in campus restrooms within 48 hours. “Gun Free UT” signs adorn office windows in most University buildings, making it impossible to walk across campus without remembering that guns are a part of life at UT. Last October, allegations against Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein sparked a cultural revelation about the prevalence of sexual assault and harass- ment. Many UT students participated in the movement by sharing their sto- ries and challenged the University to improve policies aimed at alleviating sexual misconduct on campus. In the fall, the University’s unortho- dox system for disciplining sexual assault came under intense scrutiny. Last Octo- ber, The Daily Texan revealed the unusu- al amount of power President Gregory Fenves exerts over individual disciplinary cases. Unlike the presidents at most pub- lic universities, UT’s president acts as the inal decision-maker in appeals for stu- dent conduct violations, including rape. This power was tested in court when a male student who had been suspended for sexual misconduct sued Fenves for due process violations. The University set- tled the lawsuit for an undisclosed sum in November. It’s not yet clear how this out- come will afect UT policy. Earlier this summer, the Editorial Board reported on English professor Coleman Hutchison’s violation of the school’s conduct guidelines by making inappropriate comments toward stu- dents. The school’s response revealed systematic problems with UT’s system for addressing misconduct — problems unlikely to go away anytime soon. The UT community also felt the effects of national crises surrounding race and immigration. In the aftermath of the 2016 presidential election, hate crimes rose nationwide and many people of color felt abandoned and attacked by the highest levels of government. When President Donald Trump announced the revocation of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program last Sep- tember, UT responded by pledging its continued support for undocumented students. At the same time, the City of Austin faced legal challenges and possi- ble defunding from the state of Texas for its distinction as a sanctuary city. These widespread racial tensions manifested on campus this spring. The Student Government election descended into outright racial animus, as students on both sides of the ballot endured un- precedented attack and prejudice. The election’s conclusion — Colton Becker and Mehraz Rahman pulling ahead of Guneez Ibrahim and Hannah McMorris, two women of color — further divided the campus. Many interpreted their win as an example of institutionalized power drowning out minority voices. Campus climate remains one of the biggest hurdles facing UT this year. As we continue to grapple with a complex history of prejudice, the 2018 SG elec- tion reminds us that our community is not immune to the racial tensions seen nationwide. In the wake of a particularly tumul- tuous year at UT, it’s important that we look back as a lesson for the future. Unresolved questions from the past year hang in the air around campus, and it will be our job this year to solve them. As always, if you have questions about this issue or any other, contact us at editor@dailytexanonline.com. Students can ind career guidance at Vick Center COLUMN By Emily Caldwell columnist Tucked away in a corner on the irst loor of Jester, it’s easy to miss the Vick Center for Strategic Advising and Career Counseling. But students with anxieties about future career prospects or doubts about the practicality of diferent career paths shouldn’t be so quick to glance it over. Students should use the variety of resources available to them through the Vick Center so they can feel conident about their post-graduation plans. Molly Gully, director of the Vick Center, un- derstands that anxiety about the future runs amok on every college campus. Gully emphasiz- es the impact career counselors at the Vick Cen- ter can have on students, especially those facing trepidation concerning their future plans. ”Exploration at this time in your life is normal — it’s what’s supposed to be happening,” Gully says. “The career counselors can help normal- ize that exploration behavior, and then they can help provide students with insight into them- selves as to what’s going to be a good it.” Figuring out the future is daunting, but the Vick Center proves that students have allies in their struggles and that there are resources avail- able to help. “The main goal of the Vick Center is to help students make informed decisions about their career and academic choices,” Gully says. “We really put that emphasis on ‘informed,’ because we want it to be intentional. We want a student to mel westfall | the daily texan staff have thought through things like their values, interests, personality and skills when making a long-term choice of a career.” The career resource library, another resource within the Vick Center, ofers the most basic yet critically important part of iguring out your fu- ture — the opportunity to know what’s out there. The library is a collection of literature organized by job type. The books can’t be checked out, so they’ll always be available in the waiting room for perus- al. For instance, if you were looking for a career in the outdoors you could start your exploration at the “Outdoors” section in the library. “Just browsing through some of the books can journalism sophomore from College Station. LEGALESE | Opinions expressed in The Daily Texan are those of the editor, the Editorial Board or the writer of the article. They are not necessarily those of the UT administration, the Board of Regents or the Texas Student Media Board of Operating Trustees. SUBMIT A FIRING LINE | Email your Firing Lines to editor@dailytexanonline.com. Letters must be more than 100 and fewer than 300 words. The Texan reserves the right to edit all submissions for brevity, clarity and liability. RECYCLE | Please recycle this copy of The Daily Texan. Place the paper in one of the recycling bins on campus or back in the burnt-orange newsstand where you found it. EDITORIAL TWITTER | Follow The Daily Texan Editorial Board on Twitter (@TexanOpinion) and receive updates on our latest editorials and columns. oftentimes help generate ideas, and generating ideas is one of the irst parts of the exploration process, just iguring out what is out there,” Gully says. The Vick Center exists for the sole purpose of helping undergradu- ates igure themselves and their futures out, and more of us should take advantage.” The Vick Center offers appointment scheduling online and holds drop-in career advising Monday through Friday, 1–3 p.m. in JES A115. You wouldn’t be a college student if you didn’t feel at least a slight amount of hesitancy, doubt or confusion about what you want to do after graduation. But you don’t have to face these doubts and anxieties alone. The Vick Center ex- ists for the sole purpose of helping undergradu- ates igure themselves and their futures out, and more of us should take advantage. Caldwell is a Latin American studies and B7 POLL continues from page b1 everyone waits in line for three hours,” Runas said. “We wanted to make sure we had a second location to support the volume of people voting on campus. It just breaks my heart seeing kids who want to vote get out of line because they need to go to class and they’ve been waiting for two hours already.” Patel said although a sec- ond polling location is open- ing, they need students to vote there in the fall in or- der to keep the location up and running. “While a lot of students are used to voting at the FAC, just try not to forget there’s a sec- ond option now,” Patel said. “If we want to keep this polling lo- cation for elections to come, we have to get students voting at it and voting early at it.” CONSTRUCTION continues from page b1 to serve the needs of the Col- lege of Natural Sciences, both in terms of the teaching they do and the research they do,” Shackleford said. “The build- ing was built in 1978 and had not been signiicantly reno- vated in its lifetime, so it was overdue for renovation, and all of the equipment that was in the building was at the end of their service lives and need- ed to be replaced.” On West Mall, the old fountain is being removed to make way for a sign intended as a formal gateway to UT’s campus. Construction began this July and is expected to be inished by December. Stewart said construction services starts working on these larger construction proj- ects over the summer to min- imize disruption during the school year. “Every summer, we always have large projects,” Stewart said. “We don’t always know what they are until we get into the fall and we start reviewing the requests and information about projects, so I don’t know what next summer is going to bring.” FALL PREVIEW FALL PREVIEW CITY Students’ guide to public transportation By Abigail Rosenthal @AE_ROSENTHAL Mason Sheu found that he needed to call a Lyft home after venturing away from campus one day his freshman year. For those new to Austin, many may face the same issue as Sheu as they learn to navi- gate the diferent public transport options. “I was wanting to go north, but I got on a bus headed south,” said Sheu, a supply chain management senior. “It dropped me of in this really sketchy part of South Aus- tin, and the buses run so infrequently on some routes, it was faster to wait 20 min- utes for a Lyft to come get me.” Even for those who have used public transportation before, navigating Austin with its more than 70 bus routes can be complicated. Returning students might also have to learn a new way home, as Cap- ital Metro has recently changed several bus routes. On June 3, Cap Metro, which ofers free transportation with a UT ID, altered more than half of its routes in an overhaul known as “Cap Remap.” The bus service changed, eliminated and implemented new routes to update the 33-year-old sys- tem, said Peter Partheymuller, communi- cations specialist for Cap Metro. “The biggest impact from (Cap Remap) is the increase in frequency to our bus routes,” Partheymuller said. “Instead of waiting half an hour to 45 minutes for the next bus to come, there are 14 routes that come every 15 minutes.” Partheymuller said routes 801 and 803, which are part of the bus service’s SG continues from page b4 “UT could serve as a lab, of sorts, for Whole Foods to identify and test out new ways of reaching college students,” Becker said. Becker said that while the administration works on tan- gible solutions to pursue the initiatives they were elected to accomplish, they also want to ensure the student body feels like they are being rep- resented in SG. “We are getting ready over the summer to take on a year that is going to be difficult and challenging, but also re- ally, really rewarding and ful- filling,” Rahman said. high-frequency MetroRapid routes, partic- ularly help to serve UT students. Moving south, the routes converge at the stops on 31st and Guadalupe streets and diverge at the southbound stop on 4th and Guada- lupe streets — this means students can hop on the 801 or the 803 to head downtown. Austin hosts other ways to get around without a car. The dockless scooters and bikes seen throughout Austin don’t require the vehicle to be returned to a speciic area. Dockless vehicle apps are a more expen- sive option for a direct trip, with scooters usually costing $1 to start and 15 cents per minute after. City-run bike-sharing company Austin B-cycle is also expanding after launching a student pilot program in February. Stu- dents can sign up using their UT email address and get free, unlimited 60-min- ute rides from station to station. Of 63 jonathan daniels | the daily texan staff docking stations in Austin, there are cur- rently 11 stations serving the campus area, said Elliott McFadden, Austin B-cycle executive director. Austin B-cycle plans to add 13 stations and 100 bicycles to its existing leet of 500 in Central Austin in August, McFadden said, making the city more accessible to the nearly 12,000 students who have signed up for the pilot program as of July. Sheu was not deterred by his unexpect- ed trip to South Austin — he used Cap Met- ro about ive times a week his sophomore year. His advice is to download the Cap Metro app and hop on the bus. “A new user should also take routes they might need well ahead of time so they can get familiar with it and give themselves breathing room, in case they get on the wrong bus or something comes up while trying to get to the bus,” Sheu said. After two rounds of voting and a runoff, Colton Becker and Mehraz Rahman were elected student body president and vice president. This summer, they have been planning initiatives for the upcoming school year. juan figueroa | the daily texan staff ALEX BRISEÑO SPORTS EDITOR @TEXANSPORTS MUST-WATCH Texas’ top ive must-watch games in fall semester By Alex Briseno @ALEXXBRISENO As the summer comes to a close, some of Texas’ larg- est sporting events of the year are now in sight. From Texas football’s highly anticipated re- match with USC to Longhorn volleyball’s date with the defend- ing champion, No. 1 Stanford, there will be a healthy dose of much-watch games from now until the end of the semester. Here are the top ive games Longhorn fans can’t miss: No. 5: Texas women’s basket- ball vs. Mississippi State (Dec. 2, Austin, Texas) Last year, head coach Karen Aston’s squad was seconds away from taking down their biggest opponent of the season, then-No. 1 UConn. Tex- as won’t get another shot at UCo- nn during the season, but it will have a chance at taking down another juggernaut when it hosts Mississippi State. Preseason polls place the Bulldogs at No. 8 with Texas a few spots behind them at No. 10. And if the Longhorns’ match- up with the Bulldogs isn’t big enough, No. 9 Tennessee comes to Austin the very next week. No. 4: Texas football vs. Oklahoma (Oct. 6, Dallas, Texas) Baker May- ield won’t lead the ofense for Oklahoma, but the atmosphere in the Cotton Bowl on Oct. 6 won’t be any less electric. With the Sooners’ irst-round MLB draft pick Kyler Murray opting to be their quarterback over pursuing a professional baseball career with the Oakland A’s, the Red River Rivalry will have no shortage of electricity. With huge home games against USC and TCU along with GAMES page b9 WOMEN’S BASKETBALL Longhorns continue quest B8 MONDAY, AUGUST 13, 2018 Texas benefits from grad transfer, new brand of basketball. By Stephen Wagner @STEPHENWAG22 M are istakes expect- to be ed at summer practices. Turn- overs, bad shots, missed layups, miscommu- nication — it all happens when a team plays togeth- er for the first time after a long summer. But if there’s one thing head coach Karen Aston won’t lack of effort. tolerate, it’s Aston looked sternly upon a practice inside Cooley Pa- vilion on an Aug. 8 after- noon. She stood at half court when she blew her whistle, interrupting the competition. “Jada! Get in for Jo. She’s standing around too much for me,” Aston instructed with her tone of disapproval. and no-nonsense philosophy are a testament to her transfor- mation of Texas basketball. In her first season with the Longhorns, her team went 12–18 and finished eighth in the Big 12. Aston’s discipline That’s not the case any- more. Aston has turned the Longhorn program into a na- tional contender every year and now have their sights set on a Big 12 Championship for the 2018–19 season. A major key to Aston’s past success is simple: re- cruiting, and not just from the high school level. With the addition of grad transfer Danni Williams and an im- pressive freshman class, Tex- as hopes to have found the missing piece for a deep run in March. “I want to help Texas win the Big 12,” Williams said. “I want to help Texas get a ring.” The Texas A&M grad transfer brings with her a Head coach Karen Aston yells at her team at the Frank Erwin Center last season. The Longhorns in- ished the season with a 28–7 record but were eliminated in the Sweet 16 after an 84-75 loss to UCLA. juan figueroa | the daily texan file quick trigger and smooth stroke from the three-point line, as well as a high bas- ketball IQ and competitive- ness. While her transition to Texas was initially uncom- fortable, she has spent the summer getting to know her former rivals who are now her teammates. “You don’t think about how long it takes to get com- fortable, but some of the words she used to tell me earlier in the summer were, ‘I’m so uncomfortable,’” As- ton told The Daily Texan. “Being here this summer was a huge help. There’s an undoubtable contribution that she’ll make to our team because of the way she can shoot the basketball.” Despite the “miraculous” improvement of offseason the the sophomores and the pleasant surprise of freshman class, Aston is still faced with the task of transitioning a traditionally guard-heavy team into one revolving around post play. But this isn’t the Long- horns’ toughest challenge of the summer. That occurred when reports of incoming freshman Sedona Prince’s horrific injury came flooding in. leg Prince suffered from a broken leg when she was competing on the United States under-18 team at the FIBA championships in Mex- ico City, but Aston remains confident team’s ability, despite the blow to the roster. in her “We have depth at that position,” Aston said. “(Se- dona) will bounce back. Her work ethic speaks for itself, and work is what it takes to come back from an injury.” Aston still plans on using this team’s size and athleti- cism to her advantage, em- phasizing the value of her team’s depth and versatility. that we have balance at every position think “I and scoring ability at every position, and I think more than anything we have some depth at every position,” As- ton said. “I do think we have some versatility in the post that we haven’t had, we can shoot some from the out- side, that way we can stretch the floor.” Although this young team has a long voyage ahead of it as the team attempts to sur- pass the accomplishments of last year’s team, assistant coach Jamie Carey isn’t wor- ried about March just yet. “We’re a long ways from the Sweet 16,” Carey said. “We’re just trying to focus on getting better every day. That’s your ultimate goal, of course, but it’s not where we’re at right now; we’re just trying to improve every day.” Texas’ quest to finally get past the Sweet 16 begins on Nov. 8 when the Long- horns host Duquesne at the Frank Erwin Center for their season opener. angela wang | the daily texan file Junior outside hitter Micaya White spikes the ball during the Longhorns’ 3-1 victory over Texas A&M at Gregory Gymnasium on April 4. Name: 7129/College of Liberal Arts; Width: 29p6; Depth: 10 in; On Page: 20; Color: Process color; Ad Number: 7129; Size: 30 in “he opportunities the College of Liberal Arts allowed me to pursue, ranging from Russian studies to international economic policy, provided me with an immeasurable head start to compete and excel in a rapidly changing workforce. My career as a CBS News correspondent/anchor & CNN contributor would not have been possible without the liberal arts education I received at UT.” Bianna Golodryga, B.A. Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies ’00 WHY LIBERAL ARTS FALL PREVIEW B9 BASKETBALL Texas’ season-deining storylines for 2018 By Stephen Wagner @stephenwag22 As the inal buzzer sounded at the close of a thrilling overtime Longhorn upset against West Virginia, head coach Shaka Smart breathed a sigh of relief. Texas basketball was on the bubble to make the NCAA tournament after fail- ing to qualify in 2017 and the pressure was mounting on the third-year head coach, but this win was just enough to get the Longhorns to the big dance. Two weeks later, Smart was sweating bullets again after the Longhorns blew a 14-point second-half lead before losing to Nevada in the Round of 64. Now, as Shaka enters his fourth season, he has zero wins in the NCAA tournament to show for them, and the statement ‘Shaka is on the hot seat’ is no longer a hot take. Here are the biggest storylines head- ing into Smart’s decisive year: The Andrew Jones comeback, Roach’s summer scare While junior guard Andrew Jones continues his courageous comeback from battling leukemia, it is unclear if he will be ready for the upcoming season. He has told Smart that’s his goal, but ul- timately nothing is concrete. Returning three premier starters in leading three-point shooter senior Ker- win Roach, leading assist man sopho- more Matt Coleman and top returning scorer senior Dylan Osetkowski, Shaka will look to performances from his big three to save his tenure at Texas. But one of the members of Smart’s core group had a scare this summer. While participating in a non-contact drill at the CP3 (Chris Paul’s) Elite Guard Camp, Roach sustained a torn meniscus. Roach underwent successful surgery, though, on Aug. 7, Texas Ath- letics announced. Back to the good ol’ days Mo Bamba’s departure also gives Shaka the opportunity to get back to his winning ways in a similar way he did at VCU: with an experienced core. This year’s team will not feature a young NBA Draft pick, but instead ofers experience and chemistry. When Smart took VCU to the Final Four in the 2010–2011 season, he had four seniors who contributed not only large amounts of minutes but provid- ed veteran leadership. Texas has yet to beneit from this luxury during the Smart era. Now that Smart and the Longhorns aren’t expecting to lose the best fresh- man at the conclusion of this season, as it has done for the past two seasons, this is his opportunity to inally build a com- plete team. Sophomore leap Head coach Shaka Smart coaches during Texas’ 78-60 victory over New Hampshire on Nov. 14 at the Frank Erwin Center. Smart likely needs a victory in the NCAA tournament to save his job for one more season. katie bauer| the daily texan ile With Bamba gone, Smart inds him- self with 7-foot hole to ill, likely with sophomore forward Jericho Sims, who backed up Bamba last season. While Sims isn’t as imposing as Bamba, he is an athletic, explosive and tenacious big man with a smooth pick-and-roll game alongside sophomore Matt Coleman. Sophomores Jase Febres and Royce Hamm Jr. will also have an opportunity to compete to get large chunks of playing time as well. Winning when it counts Texas is yet to inish a season ranked under Smart since his arrival at Texas in 2015. The Longhorns also haven’t de- feated a top-ive opponent since Decem- ber of Shaka’s irst year. With pressure mounting, Smart looks to secure his position with a bounceback season with the Longhorns. Texas basketball followed a common theme in Texas athletics last season: al- most. Texas almost beat Duke in over- time then nearly pulled of a phenom- enal upset against Kansas. And Texas should have defeated Nevada to advance past the Round of 64 for the irst time in ive years. Texas will have plenty of opportuni- ties to right its wrongs, though. Running through the Big 12 gauntlet is a daunting task by itself, but with a non-conference tournament against North Carolina, UCLA and Michigan State on Black Fri- day, Texas’ schedule has top programs all over it. It’ll be a long three months until Smart’s deining season begins, and the Longhorn fans who have grown im- patient will look for Texas to eliminate its almosts. GAMES continues from page b8 a tough road game against Kansas State before Oct. 6, Texas won’t exactly cruise into Dallas. If both teams can reach the Cot- ton Bowl with minimal damage, the Texas-Oklahoma rivalry could inally return to the national stage. No. 3: Men’s basketball vs. North Carolina (Nov. 22, Las Vegas, Neva- da) Head coach Shaka Smart’s fourth season won’t even be one month old when the Longhorns travel to Las Vegas to take on North Carolina in the semi-inal round of the Continental Tire Las Vegas Invitational. Texas hasn’t knocked of a top ive opponent since its 84- 82 buzzer-beating victory over the Tar Heels at the Frank Erwin Center in 2015. Three seasons later, Texas and North Carolina will meet again. This time it’ll take place at a neutral site. It is worth noting that presti- gious basketball programs UCLA and Michigan State will both par- ticipate in the tournament as well. No. 2: Texas volleyball vs. No. 1 Stan- ford (Sept. 14, Austin, Texas) After head coach Jerritt Elliott’s repeat- ed success, expectations for Texas volleyball have peaked: Final Four or bust. The Longhorns ripped of an undefeated record in Big 12 play, but Texas’ biggest challenge will come before conference contests. Texas is set to travel to Palo Alto, California, to take on the defend- ing national champions in Stan- ford on sept. 11.. That’s not all. After this match- up, Texas and Stanford will then return to Austin for a matchup on Sept. 14 at Gregory Gym. This doesn’t seem eicient at all, but don’t complain. It’ll be fun. No. 1: Texas football vs. USC The bad news is, if you don’t have tickets yet, you probably won’t get your hands on any un- less you want to drop a decent amount of money to witness the Texas-USC rematch. USC won’t show up with Sam fans Darnold, but Longhorn will still be looking for revenge after last season’s heartbreak- ing overtime loss at the Los Angeles Coliseum. Texas should enter week three 2-0 with games against Maryland and Tulsa in the irst two weeks, but we saw what happened last year. There is a strong possibility that USC could come to Austin with a loss after a tough road contest with Stanford set for the week before. While having both Texas and USC take the ield with a 2-0 re- cord could bring College Game Day to Austin, this will be the biggest sporting event of the fall semester despite their records. Freshman quarterback Sam Ehlinger dives into the end zone during Texas’ 29-24 loss to Oklahoma on Oct. 14 at the Cotton Bowl. gabriel lopez | the daily texan ile Save up to $200 on a new MacBook® Buy a Mac or iPad Pro. Get Beats.* Save when buying Dell! Get $100 with select purchases on Dell PCs.* For the latest Back to School offers, visit www.campuscomputer.com/backtoschool * The Apple offer expires 9/25/18. Qualiied purchasers receive promotion savings then purchasing an eligible Mac or iPad Pro and a eligible pair of Beats in a single transaction. The Dell offer expires 10/15/18. Cash back for Dell offer comes in form of a rebate and is non-transferable. For more details visit http://www.identit-e.com/dellpromo2018. 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For those whose taste buds are easily bored by routine, bufet-style options, chefs also prepare special dishes on request, with spe- cials such as shrimp pancit and brisket-illed baked po- tatoes popping up each week. Out of UT’s eight dining halls and cafes, we recommend starting with Kinsolving Dining or Jesta Pizza irst. Making friends is dificult. With more than 50,000 students enrolled at UT, befriending any of these strangers might seem im- possible. When you’re lost during your pursuit of new friends, seeking out student organizations is your best bet. Instead of spending your time after class napping in your dorm, seize the oppor- tunity to attend an organiza- tion info meeting. In some ways, a larger campus makes your friend search easier because you can easily ind groups that are speciically tailored to your interests. UT students have come together to create a group for almost anything you can think of, ranging from All-Write, All- Write, All-Write to Intro- verts’ Social Club. Like many other parts of your college experience, making friends is what you make of it. Ofice hours can wait. When you’re juggling so many things in your hectic college life, taking the time to attend your professor’s oice hours can seem like a chore. But oice hours are more than opportunities to ask about upcoming assign- ments — they’re opportuni- ties to make connections that may last a lifetime. Even if it’s for a moment, introduce yourself, inquire about their current research and ask for advice on nonacademic af- fairs. Discuss anything with your professors to make you more than just another face in their large lectures. And yes, this means you will have to pay attention in class. Missing out on oice hours during your time at UT may result in poor class perfor- mance and a lack of job ref- erences, making the tran- sition to your post-college career much more diicult. I don’t deserve to be here. As an incoming student at a Public Ivy, feeling that you can’t compete with the rest of the student body is normal. With thousands of students each bringing their own unique spark to the ta- ble, comparing your skills to others is useless. No matter where you feel you stand coming into the 40 Acres, always remember that these four or so years will leave you graduating a better person emotionally and mentally — and with hundreds of stories to share for a lifetime. From left, Glenn Towert, Brian D. Bowers and James E. Burnside discuss “Monochrome for Austin” by Nancy Rubins on Wednesday, Aug. 8. juanfigueroa | the daily texan staff ART continues from page b11 VAC The Visual Art Center is located directly north of the football stadium. Inside, a large gallery space, auditorium and courtyard host events open to students year round. Its mission as an arts cen- ter is to be a space where students and academics can attend lectures, workshops, screenings and exhibitions in order to develop the processes for learning and teaching studio art, art history and art education. The VAC is a great place to attend artists’ lectures and to engage with art students and their work. FALL PREVIEW mel westfall | the daily texan staff THINGS TO KNOW to 3 secondhand smoke exposure; even brief 1 There is no risk-free level of exposure can be harmful to your health (Heart Disease, Lung Cancer and Stroke). 2 Cigarette waste is extremely toxic to our environment and adds to campus litter and pollution. 3 Cigarette related incidents are one of the top five causes of campus fires nationwide. GET INVOLVED: ADDRESS TOBACCO USE ON CAMPUS A ssume the person is not aware of the policy B e polite and friendly C lear the Air! Explain that tobacco use is not permitted on any University-owned-and-operated property The University of Texas is 1 of over 1000 Tobacco-Free Campuses Nationwide RUBEN PAQUIAN LIFE&ARTS EDITOR @THEDAILYTEXAN ART B11 MONDAY, AUGUST 13, 2018 STUDENT LIFE Don’t fret: debunking 5 common myths about your college experience By Tiana Woodard @TIANAROCHON advice Incoming Longhorns are usually swamped with op- portunities to learn about college, but even a lengthy from orientation, peers and online resourc- es can still leave you feeling unprepared for this next chapter in life. Because col- lege preparation often leaves your biggest questions un- answered, The Daily Texan is here to disprove ive com- mon misconceptions about college life. There’s nothing to do on campus. Throughout your irst likely be year, there will Friday nights when you’re sitting alone in your dorm, frustrated by the seemingly small number of activities available. But no matter how empty the 40 Acres appears after Friday classes end, this campus is always buzz- ing with life, ofering many engaging, fun-illed oppor- tunities for students, 24/7. With world-renowned art- ists and U.S. vice presidents making the 40 Acres their travel destination, you nev- er know who’s coming to UT next. When celebrities aren’t making guests appearanc- es on campus, student-run events such as blockbuster ilm screenings and drag shows are bound to keep you occupied. Sean Min, left, and Rose Miller, Arabic and anthropology junior, visit the “Austin” by Elsworth Kelly on Wednesday, Aug. 8. juan figueroa| the daily texan staff Where to ind art on campus Want to check out fine art installations on the 40 Acres? Start here. By Helen Galli @OHHHELNO “The Color Inside” “The Color Inside” by James Turrell, sits atop the Student Ac- tivity Center. Opened a few years after the building was opened, the installation gives speciic attention to the organization of the structures and walkways in the oddly shaped place. “The Color Inside” is one from a series of hundreds all over the world, known as Turrell’s “Skyspaces.” This series follows the pattern of a precisely designed chamber with an aperture in the ceiling open to the sky. It is open on certain days during the week at sunset. The idea behind Turrell’s art is to bring together space and light, both natural and artiicial. The light of the sunset and sunrise are key components in viewing this piece. “Austin” Gifted to the city by the late artist Ellsworth Kelly, Austin is a monument adorned with inter- national artistry, such as colorful glass windows, limestone, marble and live oak. While “Austin” may feel out of place next to the dreary PCL and Jester halls, this piece of art has had moving efects on visi- tors. Ellsworth Kelly was loved by many for his art, and Austin was released just two years after his death as his inal piece and only structure. “Austin” is free to stu- dents everyday of the week and is free to all on Thursdays. “Ancestral Modern” At the bottom of campus where Speedway dead ends into MLK Boulevard is the Blanton Museum of Art. It is the largest collection of international permanent and traveling art in Austin, and this means it is host to ine art ban- quets and big purchases. The cur- rent traveling exhibition on view is called “Ancestral Modern.” It features paintings and sculptures from the early ’90s and 2000s made by Australian aboriginal artists. The detail of these paint- ings is ine and intricate, as with a million tiny dots composing a larger picture, minuscule lines and vibrant colors. It is a bright collection of works and will be on display through Sept. 9. “Monochrome for Austin” “Monochrome for Austin,” by Nancy Rubins, is the enormous canoe structure outside the Nor- man Hackerman Building just of Speedway. Every canoe is made of aluminum, all held together by an intricate web of steel rope. The idea behind the piece is to show the complexity of how things are held together. Literally, a viewer engages with an intricate design, but on a larger scale, the piece remarks on the fabric that holds together what we can and cannot see. The inspiration for “Mono- chrome for Austin” comes from the materials themselves. Alu- minum is cheaper to recycle than to mine, and so every element of the sculpture has come from somewhere else. The material itself has a life, evoking the life of the individuals or masses that share it. ART page b10 MYTHS page b10 LESS THAN 1,000 FEET TO CAMPUS! Live on Rio Live Better LEASING NOW FOR FALL 2019! 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