Name: GREAT PROMISE; Width: 60p0; Depth: 2 in; Color: Process color, GREAT PROMISE; Ad Number: - 1Friday, November 11, 2016@thedailytexanfacebook.com/dailytexanServing the University of Texas at Austin community since 1900dailytexanonline.com bit.ly/dtvidSPORTS PAGE 6LIFE&ARTS PAGE 8COMICS PAGE 7SYSTEMCAMPUSSystem project analyzes sexual assaultUT officials discuss work on Speedway Mall projectBy Will Clark@_willclark_ Ravi Teja | Daily Texan fileUT School of Social Work recently launched the Cultivating Learning and Safe Environments project. UT School of Social Work launched a new, multi-year research project last week to better under- stand student experiences with sexual assault and interpersonal violence. UT System Chancellor William McRaven requested a project across the System to assess campus sexual as- sault “climate” after seeing a similar survey conducted on UT-Austin’s campus. The resulting project, called the Cultivating Learn- ing and Safe Environments project, officially launched when the researchers sent an email last Monday to all UT-Austin freshmen ask- ing them to participate in a survey. Some aspects of the CLASE project began last year, however, when re- searchers conducted focus groups at other UT System institutions such as UT- El Paso, UT-Dallas, UT Medical Branch and UT-Austin. The project is unique because it includes 13 of the 14 UT System in- stitutions and takes place over four years, according to CLASE project director Caitlin Sulley. “It’s critical for students to learn their voices so that our institutions can respond to them and support them and prevent these forms of violence from happen- ing,” Sulley said. “Their voices are so valuable STATEState lawmakers urge reform for CPSBy Lisa Dreher@lisa_dreher97Chase Karacostas | Daily Texan StaffUT Alumnus Will Francis works as the government relations director of the Texas Chapter of the National Association of Social Workers and helps children in the foster care system. Members of the Texas Sen- ate Finance Committee pro- posed emergency funding Monday for the state’s Child Protective Services to hire more caseworkers and raise current caseworkers’ salaries to keep up with foster care children’s cases. “Ultimately they’re going to need to sustain a higher level of investment to have more caseworkers and they’re going to need to raise the pay so they can retain good and experienced casework- ers for this very important work,” said Gina Hinojosa, District 49’s State House Representative-elect. Members suggested $75.3 million in funding, with $67.6 million from state general funds and the remaining $7.7 million in federal funding, according to an article by the Texas Tribune. According to the Texas Sen- ate Finance Committee, the caseworkers’ raise would be $12,000 per person. “I think all of our case- workers do need a raise,” said Shari Pulliam, media specialist for the Texas Department of Family and Protective Ser- vices. “When you have other higher paying jobs, espe- cially in a metropolitan city, of course they’re going to gravitate towards those jobs.” Christine Johnson, director of the School of Social Work’s Child Welfare Education Col- laboration, said the Child Welfare League of America, which advocates for fam- ily and child welfare, recom- mends 12 to 15 cases per social worker, but being overworked with more cases is common. “We never really get the funding that we need,” The ongoing transfor- mation of Speedway into a pedestrian mall has contributed to students’ familiarity with construc- tion. However, many have been left wondering when the construction will end and how the 36 million dollar project will cater to their needs. An information session updating the status of the Speedway Mall project Thursday answered these questions and allowed at- tendees to interact with UT officials, architects and others involved with the project. The new Mall, which is scheduled to be com- pleted in January 2018, will provide an outdoor learning space with more tables and electrical out- lets, landscaping and lighting, said Jim Walker, director at the UT Office of Sustainability. There will also be four food truck locations along the new Mall with two at 21st Street and Speedway, and two at 24th Street and Speedway. “Speedway will pro- vide a space for students to gather informally, an area where student activi- ties and student organiza- tions can be promoted, a place for campus-wide festivals, performances by student music and dance groups,” said Mark Brooks, project manager at the UT System Office of Facilities Planning and Construction. “A campus transformation with the Speedway Mall project will make a significant enhancement in the edu- LAWMAKERS page 3UNIVERSITYSYSTEMStudent advising finds new approachForty-one percent of univer- sities, including UT–Austin, are using predictive analytics for targeted student advising, adaptive online coursework or forecasting class size and fi- nancial aid need, according to a research paper released by think tank New America. Manuela Ekowo, one of the paper’s researchers and policy analyst at New America, said when she started working on the paper she was inter- ested in learning more about how universities were using different analytical tools to support students of color, low- income students and first-gen- eration college students. “Predictive analytics [are used] to recruit students, to offer them financial aid, but also for powering the early alert system that helps identify students who may be at risk of either failing a course or drop- ping out of school,” Ekowo said. “Advisors intervene be- fore those outcomes pan out.” Data used by universities to predict success includes current student transcripts, By Van Nguyen@nguyen__vanANALYTICS page 1PROJECT page 2Regents hear recommendations for 2017 The final UT System Board of Regents meeting scheduled for the year was held Wednesday, where members of the board lis- tened to recommendations on how to proceed into the upcoming year. The 85th Texas Legisla- tive Session begins in Janu- ary, and the System has be- gun to prioritize issues that will affect students at its 14 institutions. Barry McBee, UT System vice chancellor and chief governmental re- lations officer, presented a preview of its priorities. Stable funding for all of the institutions is a top priority for the System and most public universities in Texas, McBee said. “We will seek funding at the same rates as were provided to us in 2015, to account for additional stu- dents plus some inflation factors,” McBee said. One of the ways Texas universities provide finan- cial aid is through tuition set-asides. This practice takes a percentage of each student’s tuition and allo- cates it to financial aid for students in need. McBee said this is usually the only financial support middle- class students receive. Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick has condemned this practice by Texas universities and has stated before he considers it a hidden tax on students. “This has increasingly been portrayed as a subsidy By Van Nguyen@nguyen__vanREGENTS page 2Joshua Guerra| Daily Texan StaffChancellor William McRaven speaks at the first day of meeting for The Board of Regents on November 4, 2015. By Name Here@twitterhandleBy Meraal Hakeem@meraal_hakeemLAWMAKERS page 3 22NEWSFriday, November 11, 2016Emmanuel Briseño| Daily Texan StaffAmita Batra, a mechanical engineering sophomore, performs Thursday afternoon during UT’s Diwali festival. 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Approximately 500 enter- ing freshmen who are least likely to graduate are identi- fied using predictive analytics and offered a spot in the Uni- versity Leadership Network, which aims to help students graduate in four years, said UT-Austin President Gregory Fenves at the Board of Regents meeting Wednesday. Through advising and lead- ership training, the program is able to help students gradu- ate on time. Up to $20,000 in scholarships are also offered to students in the program, along with opportunities for on-cam- pus internships, Fenves said in his presentation. At the meeting Fenves said the program has been a success in helping under- privileged students who need financial assistance. “It’s not who gets to go to college, it’s who gets to gradu- ate once they’re in college and that’s the problem we’re start- ing to address,” Fenves said. Predictive analytics are also used at UT to forecast four- year graduation rates, accord- ing to Fenves’ presentation. He also said the Class of 2017 ULN students have a 33 per- cent chance of graduating in four years, while the Class of 2017 non-ULN students have a 56 percent chance of gradu- ating in four years. Other universities have also used predictive analytics to great success, Ekowo said. At Austin Peay State Univer- sity in Clarksville, Tennessee, they have a course recommen- dation system, called Degree Compass, which uses predic- tive analytics to recommend courses to freshmen based on their high school transcripts, said Bill Persinger, executive director of public relations and marketing at APSU. For upperclassmen, courses are recommended based on past performance. Persinger also said the sys- tem can accurately predict a student’s grade in a class using past data. “In some cases it helped motivate students to beat the system,” Persinger said. “It’s become a critical component to us to help [students] get through in four years.” Despite the success of the program, Ekowo said she still has concerns with increases in its usage by universities. “We do have concern that if [predictive analytics] become heavily used, that they can potentially become restrictive, where students don’t have the option other than to do what the recommended system is saying that they should pur- sue,” Ekowo said. Infographic by Megan McFarren | Daily Texan StaffANALYTICScontinues from page 1and critical.” The study aims to survey 1,200 students once a semes- ter over four years to gauge students’ experiences with forms of violence since they enrolled at UT. The only UT System institution that did not participate was the UT Health Science Center at Tyler, which had too few members to participate and preserve anonymity. Wanda Mercer, a UT Sys- tem associate vice chancel- lor, said while these issues are not more pressing at UT than anywhere else, the campuses have an obliga- tion to support the students who suffer from sexual and domestic violence. “Our campuses are mi- crocosms of society,” Mercer said. “So it would be silly of us to think that these kinds of things didn’t exist on our campuses.” Sulley said the research team hopes to empower stu- dents through their work and will collaborate with Title IX coordinators, deans of stu- dents and administrators at the various UT institutions who work with students on a daily basis. “We want to be able to understand what happens over the course of the col- lege experience and to use what we have learned to better serve students and prevent these forms of violence from happening in the first place,” Sulley said. Mercer described the project taking place in “shal- low dives,” “medium dives” and “deep dives,” with vary- ing levels on engagement with participants. The shal- low dive consists of analyz- ing the data from the climate survey, while the medium dive researchers conduct focus groups with students from other UT institutions, and the deep dive will in- clude tracking students’ ex- periences at UT Austin over four years. “The comprehensive na- ture of this research project is going to give us lots of information,” Mercer said. “I’m proud that we are do- ing this significant research project to hear our students, but more importantly to re- spond to our students.” Physics freshman Greg Pauloski said he chose to participate in the study because a research mem- ber came to his UGS class and personally explained the importance of this re- search. He also said the prospect of a $20 gift card from the University Co-Op encouraged him. “[The researchers] ex- plained the premise of the survey was to get an under- standing around the culture around things like domestic violence here at UT, how prevalent it was, how often it’s something I see, engage with and encounter on a daily basis,” Pauloski said. “Hopefully the answers I gave on the survey helped them to improve the com- munity here at UT over the next four years.” by some students for other students, when in fact ev- ery student’s education is subsidized because the state appropriations and tuition don’t pay the cost of the education of any one of our students on the campuses,” McBee said. Patrick has also pushed to repeal the DREAM Act, which allows undocumented students to pay in-state tu- ition. The System has made it a priority to make sure the act makes it through the leg- islative session as well. Other priorities include addressing Texas men- tal health needs, changes to the top 10 percent rule and preserving the current campus carry law which allows presidents to declare certain zones gun-free. Mental health has been a top priority for the Sys- tem, and in 2015 UT Aus- tin received $2,552,268 for two projects over the next three years, one be- ing the after-hours mental health crisis line. Currently, all students at the 14 UT institutions have access to this pro- gram. A counselor is avail- able to speak to 24/7, in- cluding holidays, and they are trained to respond in crisis situations. Chris Brownson, UT- Austin associate vice presi- dent for student affairs, provided updates on sys- tem-wide programs imple- mented in 2015. He helped implement the after-hours mental health crisis line, at UT-Austin. In August alone, there were a total of 301 calls to the crisis line throughout the system, and Brownson said close to 17 percent of these calls are urgent. “It is not unusual for these [calls] to be life-sav- ing endeavors that occur,” Brownson said. Brownson shared one incident in which the cri- sis line helped avert a sui- cide. A student who had a gun in one hand and his phone in the other called the crisis line because he saw the advertisements on campus and the counselors were able to contact police to get the student to safety, Brownson said. Other programs imple- mented last year include bystander intervention initiatives, alcohol educa- tion programs and cen- ters for recovering addicts. Funding for several of these programs will need to be re- newed in 2018. At the meeting, Board members also approved to unanimously provide $392.2 million from the Permanent University Fund bond to be split up among nine build- ings across the System, with $100 million going to UT- Austin’s new Energy Engi- neering Building. The PUF consists of UT System in- vestments from land in west Texas owned by the UT and A&M Systems. “We’re trying to do the best we can right now [in ar- eas] where we think we can drive the universities to the next level,“ Chancellor Wil- liam McRaven said. REGENTScontinues from page 1PROJECTcontinues from page 1 UT students wondering what the future holds follow- ing the election of Donald Trump attended a talk by jour- nalism professor Robert Jen- sen Thursday night at the Uni- versity Teaching Center, where he argued Trump’s election is not a fundamental change, but rather a continuation of trends that have long been present in American politics. The Undergraduate Busi- ness Council organized “When the Circus Leaves Town: A Talk By Robert Jen- sen” to give the journalism professor the chance to an- swer those questions. Jensen said nationalist, eco- nomic and technological fun- damentalism is dangerous re- gardless of which party holds the White House. “The modern political or- der, made up of the Republi- can and Democratic parties, is defined by these three fun- damentalisms,” Jensen said. “To be considered a serious political candidate in this country is to be required to sign on to this belief system I’m talking about.” Jensen gave a talk for UBC last year and business fresh- man Kiyahn Ebrahimi-Navis- si said the group was eager to hear from the professor again, due to his unique perspectives and insight. “Throughout his career as a journalist he’s had a lot of strong opinions on a lot of political views,” Ebrahimi- Navissi said. “We wanted to get a conversation started.” Jensen said while there are common themes exhibited by every party or candidate, 2016 showed the different ways in which parties exploit those fundamentalisms. “I don’t care if you voted for Trump or Clinton, I don’t think it’s a controversial state- ment to say that the Trump campaign relied upon white racial resentment.” Jensen said, “That was a campaign technique of one, not both.” Jensen said he couldn’t focus solely on the election, due to his inability to process the results. “Many of you came to- night to talk about what just happened,” Jensen said. “I’m still working through the intellectual analysis of what happened, but also how to feel.” Business honors sopho- more Andrew Jones said he enjoyed the talk because he agreed with Jensen’s as- sertion that an economy could balance business and humanitarian concerns. “As business students, we come to UT, and this is the way I tell people morally how I feel about being a business stu- dent,” Jones said, “I’m learning how to work in a capitalist sys- tem and to help it move more towards the middle.” Name: SUPERCUTS; Width: 19p4; Depth: 4 in; Color: Process color, SUPERCUTS; Ad Number: 5132W&N 3NEWSFriday, November 11, 20163CAMPUSProfessor discusses future of politicsCAMPUSAnti-Trump graffiti pops up around UT campusAnti-Trump graffiti ap- peared in several areas around campus in the wake of the Republican president-elect’s rise to the White House on Tuesday night. Electrical boxes on the out- side of the Phi Gamma Delta house on 27th and Guadalupe streets, buildings and trash cans along Guadalupe Street and a dumpster in an alleyway behind the Quarters Sterling apartment complex all bear graffiti reading “[Expletive deleted] Trump.” A building on Guadalupe Street and 38th Street displayed a different message, reading “No more illegals 1-20-17.” An “[Expletive deleted] Trump” graffiti incident at Walter Webb Hall has been reported to the UT Police De- partment, but the additional incidents have not been for- mally reported to UTPD, ac- cording to Cindy Posey, associ- ate director of communications for University Operations. “There’s [anti-Trump] graf- fiti written all along the side- walk in chalk outside where I live on Rio Grande Street,” public relations junior Ma- layna Ellis said. “I think people are so emotionally exhausted from the last 48 hours that at this point they’d probably rather just ignore it than re- port it [to UTPD].” Anica Ali, a supply chain management junior, said the graffiti simultaneously dis- plays and abuses a citizen’s right to freedom of expression. “I think art is a good form of expression, but this person used graffiti on public proper- ty and I don’t agree with that,” Ali said. “I think outrage and quick, impulsive thought led to this person committing this act. I can relate to the anger, but do I agree with this meth- od of coping? Not at all. I don’t think it’s appropriate.” Shazin Bhimani, an early childhood development senior, said this type of reaction will persist for a while, but people need to be more understanding of the presidential outcome. “[These reactions] will continue for a bit of time but will slowly die down,” Bhimani said. “People need to respect our president even if it’s not something everyone supports.” On Wednesday, over 250 students protested Trump’s election in the Main Mall, marching around campus and through downtown Austin. Similar protests have erupt- ed on college campuses across the country. Texas State Uni- versity, Texas A&M University in College Station, the Univer- sity of California Los Angeles, Yale University, the University of California San Diego and the University of Southern California have all reported widespread student protests since the president-elect’s vic- tory in Washington. Posey said students should report incidents of graffiti to UTPD at 512-471-4441. By Catherine Marfin & Anusha Lalani@thedailytexanThomas Negrete | Daily Texan StaffJournalism Professor Robert Jensen speaks on American exceptionalism, fundamentalisms and other issues Thursday evening in the wake of the presidential election. By JT Lindsey@juliotorontoCAMPUSCourtesy of Associate Professor Deji AkinwandeAssociate professor Deji Akinwande from the Cockrell School of Engineering recieved a grant of $825,000 to continue developing the world’s thinnest silicon transistor. Professor, inventor works under fellowship programBy Wesley Story@wesleystory0CAMPUSUT students collect clothes for activistsTwo UT graduate students are collecting winter clothing donations to deliver to Stand- ing Rock Sioux protesters in North Dakota this Thanksgiv- ing break. Education graduate student Andrew Gonzales and School of Information graduate stu- dent Jain Orr decided to begin the clothing campaign after hearing about the protesters’ need for more winter gear. “I’ve been watching what’s happened in Standing Rock since April, and I was particu- larly troubled as the violence has escalated,” Gonzales said. “I think that it’s more impor- tant now than ever to express solidarity.” In partnership with several campus programs, the students set up five different donation boxes around campus where students can drop off items. The drop-off areas include the Native American and In- digenous Studies office, the Department of American Studies, the Women and Gen- der Studies Center, the School of Information and the Multi- cultural Engagement Center. Orr said she wants to collect as much clothing as possible to support the Sioux people, as the Dakota Access Pipeline could potentially spoil the tribe’s only water resource. “Although the pipeline is not directly within the tribal territory, it will be going un- der a waterway that is 100 percent where the Standing Rock Sioux gets their water,” Orr said. “If there was a leak, the end result would just be catastrophic for this group of people.” Orr said carbon levels in the water have already reached 400 parts per million, and could increase with the build- ing of the pipeline. The clothing drive is part of an earlier campaign that began in September to send protest- ers needed supplies. “We didn’t expect the pro- test to keep going, but so many people, especially native peo- ple from all around the coun- try and even the world, are supporting the Standing Rock Sioux tribe,” Orr said. Luís Cárcamo-Huechante, director of the Native Ameri- can and Indigenous Studies program and a member of the indigenous community, said it is important for students to engage in the issues facing Na- tive Americans. “Any protest against proj- ects that threaten our natural environments and indigenous territories are of the utmost importance for us,” Cárcamo- Huechante said. “Native peo- ples have that kind of vision to represent themselves as pro- tectors of the land, because of the deep sense we have for our natural environments.” Cárcamo-Huechante said the drive will continue until Nov. 18, and a teach-in will be held the day before to educate students interested in the pipe- line controversy. By Jenan Taha@Jenan_a_taha“that if become can restrictive, have the what system is pur- StaffPauloski chose to study mem- class explained this re- the card Co-Op ex- of the under- culture domestic how often engage on a said. answers I helped com- over the Johnson said. “All [casework- ers] get out of it is helping peo- ple. It’s hard work [and] you go home crying a lot of days.” Court-appointed special masters Kevin Ryan and Francis McGovern, who are leading the reform of CPS, said current caseloads should be cut in half and not ex- ceed more than 14 cases at a time. Currently the aver- age caseload for Texas case- workers is about 30 cases each, according to the Dallas Morning News. UT alumnus Will Francis worked alongside CPS case- workers through the Child Welfare Education Col- laboration program before graduating and working for them officially. Francis said some CPS case- workers lack social work skills and move from case to case quickly without engaging with the child. “We have to bring some value into their interactions with kids,” said Francis, the government relations director of the National Association of Social Workers’ Texas Chap- ter. “CPS has to move away from numbers.” Francis said his internship with CPS was valuable and he was inspired by UT’s School of Social Work. “It was really wonderful be- ing in this environment where you had a whole lot of people passionate about social justice and changing the world.” Francis said he tells his col- legues that working for CPS only requires “thirty percent of social work,” while the rest is less interacting with the families and children in- volved. Francis said this lack of emphasis on relationships needs to change. He said he is passionate about working closely with people, and so doing less of that with CPS was upsetting. “When I graduated and completely went to work for CPS, I sort of carried over the momentum of that kind of op- timism from school,” Francis said. “It just got more challeng- ing as it went along because it was further and further away from social work.” cational experience of all UT-Austin students.” All traffic in the area will be limited to emergency and University vehicles. Parking on Speedway will also be eliminated. “This shouldn’t be a street where cars or buses have the same access as ev- eryone else,” Walker said. “This should be a place where pedestrians have priority, where students have priorities in the mid- dle of campus.” Significant attention has also been placed on lighting, communica- tions manager for Uni- versity Operations Laurie Lentz said. “We focused on not having the lights cov- ered by the trees so that at night, it’s going to be a well-lit place,” Lentz said. “There has been a lot of importance placed on pe- destrian safety, both night and day.” There has been an em- phasis on quickly com- pleting the two phases of the project in front of Jester Center and Gregory Gym, which are sched- uled for completion in January 2017. “With all the new im- provements, we’re ex- pecting students to say ‘How did we ever survive without this?’” Walker said. “They’re going to look at old pictures and go ‘How did you guys live like this?’” SPEEDWAYcontinues from page 1LAWMAKERScontinues from page 1A UT professor will re- ceive $825,000 over the next three years to help reach his goal of creating the world’s thinnest silicon transistor. Associate professor Deji Akinwande from the Cock- rell School of Engineering was among five inventors selected by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation for a fellowship program on Nov. 2. The program, new to the foundation this year, aims to recognize innovators early in their careers. Akinwande was chosen for his cutting-edge work with silicene, a 2-D silicon structure as thin as an atom. He hopes to use the silicon structure to make transistors. Transistors are used in virtually all electronic devic- es, including cell phones and computers. A hyper-thin silicon structure could pro- vide a tenfold increase in en- ergy efficiency for integrated circuits within those devices, according to the Gordon and Betty Moore Founda- tion website. Akinwande said in the three-year time frame of the fellowship, his goal is to reach the next level of pro- totype development and generate interest among industry partners. “We’re going to focus on what we’ve been doing, but now we’re going to take it to the applied level of devel- opment,” Akinwande said. “Commercialization could take another decade or so, but it’s too early to say.” Gordon Moore, one of the foundation’s founders and a co-founder of Intel, noticed in 1965 that the number of transistors per square inch on the integrated circuit doubles every year. This ob- servation became known as “Moore’s Law” and helped set the pace for modern digital technology. Bob Kirshner, chief pro- gram officer for science at the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, said the foundation wanted to mark the 50th anniversary of Moore’s Law with the new fellowship program. “We thought as a tribute to Gordon Moore, it would be appropriate to do some- thing that emphasized the role of scientific inventors, of whom Gordon Moore is a very good example,” Kirshner said. The foundation plans to invest nearly $34 million in the next ten years to support 50 Moore Inventor Fellows, and accelerate progress in scientific researchAhmed Tewfik, chair of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, said students could have the opportunity to get involved with Akinwande’s research at the college. “That’s one of the advan- tages to being in a research university as opposed to a teaching-only university,” Tewfik said. 4 OPINIONLEAH KASHAR & JORDAN SHENHAR, FORUM EDITORS | @TexanEditorialFriday, November 11, 20164A WEEKLY PUBLICATION OF THE DAILY TEXAN EDITORIAL DEPARTMENTLEGALESE | 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 (@TexanEditorial) and receive updates on our latest editorials and columns. FORUMCOLUMNFORUMForum: Learn from our past, fight for your futureDemocracy requires our efforts after Election DayGrieve for Clinton loss, prepare to stand for justiceWe’ve been writing about this election for far too long. For many of you on campus, the way it ended was a disappointment; for others, a begrudging victory or a vindica- tion. But to believe it is the end would be to learn yet another wrong lesson from a campaign cycle full of them. I joined The Daily Texan shortly after most candidates announced their candi- dacy last fall with the intention of writing about transportation and environmental policy. I wanted to help bring light to the sorts of obscure, simple changes that can greatly affect our lives. But I also did so because I knew that many of those changes require putting the right people into the right offices and checking the right boxes when key ballot measures come our way. As a Canadian citizen, I didn’t have the right to vote. I still don’t. Like much of this campus, I threw my- self into this election and sought to find the ways that we could guide change. In March, we effectively elected a new state representa- tive for campus, and in April, our city opted to hold firm on its regulations of the ride- hailing industry. But the marathon race for president was the one that captured most of our attention, for better or worse. There are a few moments I remember while standing in my kitchen in June of 2015, before I ever considered writing for The Daily Texan, chopping zucchini and watching Jon Stewart play footage of Donald Trump descending an escalator in Trump Tower before declaring his can- didacy. I remember hearing Marco Rubio lay out what I thought would be the new Republican climate policy in the second Republican debate — and repeating the same line over and over during the eighth. And I remember Bernie Sanders claiming that America is “sick and tired of hearing about [Hillary Clinton’s] damn emails” over a year before the election. Covering this election has been a gut- wrenching experience, and not always be- cause of the results. It gave students a chance to divide themselves behind different candi- dates over and over. We found new reasons to be fearful of one another and to lose faith in institutions that we should want to have faith in. And even as we get charged up to vote by Nov. 8, we were witnesses to a massively consequential moment in American history where nearly half of all eligible voters stayed home. We should be embarrassed about that. After writing and editing hundreds of thousands of words worth of articles about national and state politics, I ask that you not mistake powerlessness over the Electoral College for inability to affect change over government institutions that affect you. If you care about immigration policy or polic- ing, then help like-minded people get elect- ed to the commissioner’s court and sheriff’s office on the county level. Work at the State Capitol to guide legislation in this next ses- sion and help make education in Texas fairer for everyone. Follow local reporters on Twit- ter to hear about the events that will affect you as early as you can. And most of all, erase the idea that democratic involvement ends at the ballot box. Avoiding the issue is not an option. Un- friending people on Facebook who disagree with you and hiding deeper in a bubble of confirmation bias will only further insulate you from policy issues that do not affect you, but do affect elections. And please, if I can convince you of nothing else, do not threaten to move to Canada, no matter how great things seem there. They’ve confront- ed their problems and voted against anti- Muslim fearmongering. It’s our job to stick around and guarantee that our politics — on both sides of the aisle — is dominated by ideas, not fear. Chase is a Plan II and economics senior from Winnipeg, Canada. In 1881, a wealthy, protectionist New York Republican with no political experience and funny-looking hair took the Oath of Office, to much of America’s horror. He had no popular mandate — he was named VP to satisfy the pro-corruption wing of his party, and became President when James Garfield was killed by a disgruntled madman motivated by the era’s toxic political climate — and no apparent in- terest in public policy. Partisan hacks and re- gressive forces rejoiced: Their only barrier to the powers of the White House was narcissis- tic, manipulable and owned 80 pairs of pants. And over the next four years, Chester A. Arthur stunned his supporters and critics alike. In the face of public pressure, he turned on his faction and championed his predeces- sor’s signature anti-corruption bill — the Pendleton Act, which ensures a competent and nonpartisan civil service, is still in effect today. He simplified the tax code and he re- built the Navy. He avoided conflicts overseas. His apathy towards racial justice cut both ways: In accordance with popular will, he both stopped using the military to expropri- ate Native lands and signed the Chinese Ex- clusion Act. He quit after one term, at which point Democrats took back the presidency. But there’s a darker side to Arthur’s story. As the first president to serve a full term in the post-Reconstruction era, Arthur and his backers could have set the precedent for ag- gressive federal enforcement of civil rights provisions in the South. In the interest of par- tisan and national reconciliation, they didn’t. Lynchings, poll taxes and Jim Crow followed. Chester A. Arthur might have improbably brought the country together. But he could only do so by abandoning the black lives he was tasked to protect. And so, in many re- spects, we are still grappling with the legacy of Arthur’s greatest failure. On Tuesday, America most likely did not elect the reincarnation of Chester A. Arthur. We elected a bully and a sociopath, one who will soon wield military, economic and cul- tural power that Arthur could never have imagined, who has threatened to use that power against the most vulnerable among us. But the triumphs and failures of the Ar- thur administration can offer us a few im- portant lessons on how to move forward in the months and years ahead. To those elat- ed by the result, do not let strength become the enemy of compassion. To those dispir- ited, do not let fear become the enemy of progress — and never lose faith in your ability to make a difference, both out on the streets and in the halls of power. And most importantly, to the majority of Americans hoping to just move on from an acrimoni- ous campaign, do not let unity become the enemy of justice. Our Forum today tackles some of these lessons. Guest columnist Sophie Jerwick writes on why so many Americans are grieving this week — and how to translate that grief into action. And editor-in-chief Alexander Chase discusses the political ap- proach it’ll take to mitigate the damage this election has wrought. We’ll have lots more coverage from many more angles in the weeks to come. Now more than ever, we encourage the communi- ty to share their thoughts and reactions with us at editor@dailytexanonline.com. In the meantime, we hope you remain encouraged by our country’s successes thus far, vigilant against any efforts to undermine them, and motivated by how much work lies ahead in the pursuit of a more perfect union. Shenhar is an economics, government and Plan II senior from Westport, Connecticut. Our new fight has a martyr, and her name is Hillary Clinton. As we painfully watch our beloved champion lose, we are thrust into the seven stages of grief. This is a scientific theory suggesting experience of particular emotions when a person is faced with loss. The cam- paign that we donated to, volunteered for, passionately informed our Facebook friends about and sacrificed pleasant family dinners to make a point of, is dead. Now, we must ac- knowledge our numbing despair, take time to heal and harness this love for progressive politics into concrete action. We may have lost this race, but now it is our duty to use ev- ery ounce of power to prevent Donald Trump and his cronies from turning back the clock on our liberties. However, on Tuesday night I was far from this fired up, social justice warrior, let’s-go- protest attitude. I was in the first stage of grief: shock and denial. It took the form of tapping out around 11 o’clock on election night, unable to bring myself to watch the nightmare unfolding before us. Wednes- day morning, I woke up heartbroken. More deflated, depressed and disappointed than angry. Even though political activism is the crux of my personal identity, I felt so power- less and small that I wanted to quit studying government. This was stage two: pain and guilt. For some of us, it may also include regretting not going to that phone bank, canvassing event or protest. Next, comes the anger and bargaining phase. I saw this take form in hating Trump’s supporters and blaming those who voted for a third party. In our frustration, some of us scapegoated our fellow citizens in the similar fashion of white supremacists. We must remember that sympathizing with each other’s grief and supporting one another makes us stronger together. Our purpose now is not to antago- nize Trump supporters, it’s to unite. After frustration, you should expect reflection, loneliness, and depression. May- be this will hit us around the inauguration, when Trump designates cracking open our oceans for oil, or sets off a trade war by ag- gravating China. Immigration Customs En- forcement will start tearing families to pieces by ending visa programs, Trump’s new task force will stop and frisk young black Ameri- cans with racism instead of a warrant, and the Syrian refugees desperately knocking on America’s gates will be told to go back to homes that no longer stand. We have more pain ahead of us. But this suffering will be the power fueling our battles. The love for our families, friends and communities will bring us to an upward turn in the fifth stage. Here we will begin to find hope again. In the sixth stage of reconstruction, we will orga- nize our communities. We will find which issue we want to dig our heels into, whether it’s justice for black lives, the right to practice your religion, your body being your choice or keeping your immigrant family intact. Let our new martyr inspire you to go to that first NAACP meeting or scream louder at that climate change protest. This woman dedi- cated the past 30 years of her life to fight- ing tooth and nail for our human rights. We owe it to Hillary Clinton to preserve her life’s work. This seventh stage will be acceptance and hope. A hope so fierce it awakens our country from this cesspool of bigotry. I walked to class in a tear-stained fog Wednesday morning, but was jolted awake by Hillary’s words in her concession speech: “Please never stop believing that fighting for what’s right is worth it. It’s always worth it. And we need you keep up these fights now and for the rest of your lives.” Take these few days to recuperate and acknowledge your grief. We will heal. We will organize. Through such agony and oppression will bloom a pro- gressive outcry that Trump cannot ignore. Somewhere, a girl is watching the news and plotting how to break this damn ceiling. Maybe she’s you. Jerwick is a Plan II and government sopho- more from Leawood, Kansas. Illustrations by Jason Cheon, Albert Lee, Rachel West and Melanie Westfall | Daily Texan file By Jordan ShenharDaily Texan Forum Editor @jshenharBy Alexander ChaseDaily Texan Editor-in-Chief @alexwchaseBy Sophie JerwickDaily Texan Forum Contributor @s0phjAnd please, if I can convince you of nothing else, do not threaten to move to Canada, no matter how great things seem there. recipient of one of the Big Me- dium fellowships for event par- ticipants, said she also believes the tour is helping bring atten- tion to Austin area artists on a a larger scale. “It brings a really diverse group of people out to meet the makers, artists and crafters that are residents of Austin and you get to speak with them on a more personal level that you wouldn’t be able to if you were out in pub- lic or at an art opening,” Johnson said. “You are in a very intimate space because that is where art- ists spend time making their work.” EAST, Nimura said, has be- come a representation of the growing Austin art community working with one another. “I think it really helps to knit us together more,” Nimura said. “I think Austin artists [are supportive] towards one another and I think institu- tions are starting to catch up to that supportiveness.” Jhalak a lot of them understand how actually integrated music and dance is into our culture,” Raghunandhan said. “They learn more about how Bollywood isn’t just meaningless dancing, it’s more about performing and ex- pressing our culture in a variety of ways.” Although classical Indian dances typically reflect tradi- tional cultural elements, Nritya Sangam incorporates current stories and issues into its dances. Last year, the group choreo- graphed a dance to depict the refugee crisis. “I was really proud of that one because it touched a lot of people and it was very topical at the time,” Shriram said. Although she won’t compete at Jhalak for the $3,000 grand prize, Shriram still enjoys per- forming in front of the UT community as part of Nritya Sangam at the event. “The greatest thing about do- ing it at UT, besides performing for those you know and love, is when people that you don’t know come up and say ‘I really liked that, that was inspiring,’” Shriram said. “It’s really nice to know that you’re reaching audiences that you didn’t think you would just because the UT community is so diverse and supportive.” Above all, Jagada said the teams competing at this level are the best in the country. “We do pure dance and that’s why we have such a high stan- dard,” Jagada said. “I think it’s really imporant to be able to share the Indian culture and spread what the South Asian community stands for at UT.” Decoding language is a dy- namic exchange. The linguist poses a question, gets a re- sponse, then interprets it based on what came before. Watching Denis Villeneuve’s sci-fi master- piece “Arrival” is a similar expe- rience. His narrative unfolds a step ahead of its audience, build- ing from a beautifully acted, emotionally rich, slow-burning drama to a mind-bending twist finale. Linguistics professor Louise Banks (Amy Adams) is grieving from a divorce and the death of her daughter when 12 alien orbs land on earth. The U.S. military brings her and mathematician Ian Donnelly (Jeremy Renner) to a landing site in Montana to approach the aliens, decipher their language and pose a simple yet crucial question: “What is your purpose on earth?” Adams’ emotionally trans- parent but intellectually driven performance ranks among 2016’s best. Renner adapts the charisma of his arrow-wielding hero Hawkeye to a bookish, comical role with ease. Lou- ise and Ian’s romance spans an age-old dichotomy between art and science, but their down-to- earth interactions and subtle flirtations temper the film’s intellectual weight. “Arrival”’s trailers promised a race between America and other world powers to decode the aliens’ language. Other na- tions think the aliens arrived to incite war, so when they promise a weapon, the race begins. The first to translate their language gets the upper hand. Villeneuve builds large-scale tension and piles on timely questions of unity versus division and hostil- ity versus pacifism, despite his claustrophobic adherence to Louise’s perspective. The film is largely confined to tents in a field in Montana, but perfectly timed glimpses of soldiers’ communication rooms and news broadcasts reveal the global stakes of this individual encounter: widespread pro- tests, violent panic and other nations threatening attacks. If nations expect hostility from the aliens, they might provoke a world war with their weap- on. If they expect amity, the tool the aliens promise might transcend borders. “Prisoners” and “Sicario” showed Villeneuve’s mastery of dark drama, incipient suspense and slow horror. “Arrival” is lighter fare, but his introspec- tive tone, attention to detail and deliberate pacing still shine. He emphasizes the human experi- ence of global alien contact. Students’ texts ding, filling Louise’s lecture hall before she learns of alien contact, the he- licopter reflection blinks in the frame above Louise’s bed before its roar shakes her awake, the cherry picker slowly raises her and Ian into the dark orb, grav- ity shifts when they enter a tun- nel. Accentuating ordinary de- tails in extraordinary situations, Villeneuve generates Spielber- gian wonder but emphasizes unease over spectacle. Beneath “Arrival”’s narrative smolders unexpected mystery. Pay at- tention to plot holes, emo- tional flashbacks and uncanny parallels between past and pres- ent. Like the inconsistencies Louise works around in the aliens’ language, what many may mistake for narrative flaws are hints to a groundbreaking payoff, and unlike many Hol- lywood twist endings, this one doesn’t overthrow the previ- ous story or themes. It only enhances them. Like “Interstellar” or “2001: A Space Odyssey,” “Arrival” plunges into the depths of time and percep- tion but surfaces closest to the human heart. Enraptured by the story, we hold on for the ride, drifting away from famil- iar logic, universal laws and credible science, hoping to emerge enlightened. “Arrival”’s twist isn’t its centerpiece. It’s icing on the cake of a masterpiece equal parts emotional catharsis and intellectual adventure. An in- terstellar voyage for the mind and an earth-bound space od- yssey for the soul, “Arrival” de- mands to be seen twice. 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Fertility tested and ready to go. 830 - 998 - 5233MEDICALCACTUSYEARBOOK.COMTOURcontinues from page 8DANCEcontinues from page 8LIFE&ARTSFriday, November 11, 20165MOVIE REVIEW | ARRIVALSci-fi film ‘Arrival’ unfolds into mind-bending finaleBy Penn Harrison@PennHarrisonCourtesy of ParamountVillenueve’s moody sci-fi drama “Arrival” will thrill, inspire and amaze. ARRIVALScore: 5/5Rating: PG-13Run time: 116 minutesJHALAK DANCE COMPETITIONWhen: Saturday Nov. 12 at 7p.m. Doors open at 6:30Where: Hogg Memorial AuditoriumAdmission: $8 ICA Mem- bers, $10 pre-sale, $15 at the door COMICS 7COMICSFriday, November 11, 20166Today’s solution will appear here next issue SUDOKUFORYOU 7 9 1 8 4 2 6 5 34 5 6 1 9 3 8 2 78 3 2 5 6 7 9 4 19 6 8 4 7 1 5 3 22 1 5 6 3 8 7 9 43 4 7 2 5 9 1 6 81 2 4 9 8 5 3 7 66 7 9 3 1 4 2 8 55 8 3 7 2 6 4 1 9 7 5 4 9 1 3 9 2 1 2 8 3 6 9 4 7 2 3 83 4 5 5 7 3 2 8 6 9 7 5 8 4 There is a decidedly differ- ent attitude amongst the Long- horns this week compared to two weeks ago. Texas was reeling in mid- October coming off of a 21-24 road loss at Kansas State. The burnt orange sat at 3–4 and looked like a team prepared to limp to the season’s finish line. “I really couldn’t tell you [why it’s happening],” senior defensive lineman Paul Boyette Jr. said following the loss to the Wildcats. “I think what’s real crazy is we allow, like, outside influences to get in our heads … We can’t use any more ex- cuses. We have to get over this hump.” But two weeks and two wins have turned around the mood in the Longhorn locker room. After knocking off then-No. 8 Baylor in Austin and a high- powered Texas Tech offense in Lubbock, the team is suddenly brimming with optimism. “It’s just the confidence fac- tor, man,” senior linebacker Tim Cole said. “We knew what’s at stake, and we all just stepped our game up as far as our preparation, how we prac- tice. It correlates to the field.” The doom and gloom of mid-October has now ceded the way to chest-thumping conviction. And the Longhorns can thank their stud running back for the increase in both wins and morale. Junior D’Onta Foreman decimated opposing defenses the past two weeks, adding fuel to his Heisman aspirations. His biggest game came last week in a 45-37 victory over the Red Raiders — a 341-yard, three touchdown performance. Whenever the Longhorns need a big play, it can rely on Fore- man to deliver the goods. “[Foreman] wants the ball every play,” freshman quarter- back Shane Buechele said. “I say it every week, but he’s done an amazing job. It keeps show- ing. He keeps having better performances, even when peo- ple stack the box against him.” Foreman must continue his impressive play if the Long- horns plan on defeating No. 16 West Virginia on Saturday. Star cornerback Rasul Douglas leads the Mountaineers’ stout defensive unit with his Big 12- best five interceptions. West Virginia has only allowed one opponent to cross the 30-point threshold this year, while Texas has allowed over 30 points six times. The Mountaineer defense thrives off its discipline and sound tackling. And while head coach Dana Holgorsen is known for his innovative offenses, he has installed a de- fense that leads the conference in points allowed per game. “They’re stingy, they’re good, they’re solid,” Gilbert said. “They graduated a bunch of guys last year, they had a bunch of guys get drafted, and then they replaced them some good older guys. They’re sound on that side of the ball, and they’re very physical.” Texas has seized control of its season over the past two weeks, and the team is now flying high heading into Sat- urday’s matchup with one-loss West Virginia. The team looks to keep its momentum going and clinch a bowl game with a win over the Mountaineers this weekend. “I think winning these two [games] has been a good confidence builder for them,” Strong said. “Now they feel like, ‘Hey, let’s go get the next one, work hard, not take these two for granted.’ We know we still got a lot of work to get done.” Last November, Tex- as opened up its season with a loss to Washing- ton in Shanghai, China. This year, the Longhorns hope to get started on a better track. No. 21 Texas tips off its season with a matchup against Incarnate Word at 7 p.m. on Friday at the Frank Erwin Center. The home opener won’t pro- vide the same spectacle as a trip overseas, but head coach Shaka Smart is happy to start the sea- son in front of a burnt orange crowd. “We’re glad to be open- ing up [at home],” Smart said. “It gives us a level of normalcy in terms of rou- tine as we start the year. I’m excited to see how our team responds.” The meeting will be the first between the two programs. The Cardinals finished last season with a 17–12 record but lost their four leading scorers this offseason. Junior guard Shawn Johnson highlights the team’s returning lineup after averaging 9.5 points per game and racking up 34 blocks last season. He’s expected to carry the load on both sides of the floor for the young Cardinal’s team. With sophomore guards Kerwin Roach Jr. and Tevin Mack suspend- ed for the opener, Texas turns to sophomore Eric Davis Jr. and freshman Andrew Jones to man the point guard respon- sibilities. Davis and Jones scored 12 and 17 points, respectively, in Texas’ exhibition game against Angelo State. Davis has expressed his eagerness to be Texas’ go- to option late in games. And although Smart said the Longhorns probably won’t have one player who always has the ball in his hands, he said Davis has the potential to be the “big moment guy.” “Eric can be as good as he wants to be,” Smart said. “But Eric needs to understand there’s a set of things that go into being the best you can be, and he also needs to know that to whom much is given, much is expected.” The Longhorns also hope for big perfor- mances from their fresh- men. Guard Jacob Young led the team in scoring against Angelo State with 21 points, followed by Jones and forward Jar- rett Allen, who scored 14. Allen was named to the 50-player 2017 Nai- smith Award Preseason Watch List on Thurs- day, an award given to the best player in college basketball. Smart said he’s excit- ed about his freshmen’s progress so far and thinks they’ll continue to get better as they gain expe- rience. With three games slated for the next week, the Longhorns will be tested early. Still, they’re ready for the challenge. “We’re definitely at the point where it’s time to start playing some games,” Smart said. “That’ll give us a chance to gain experience and learn. I’m sure there’ll be some things that we feel we need to really get better at in a hurry and we’ll continue to address those things.” COMICS 77EZRA SIEGEL, SPORTS EDITOR | @texansportsFriday, November 11, 2016FOOTBALLOptimistic Longhorns face tough taskBy Michael Shapiro@mshap2Emmanuel Briseno | Daily Texan StaffJunior running back D’Onta Foreman raced by defenders all day against Texas Tech last Saturday. The Heisman hopeful will have a harder time gaining yards against a West Virginia squad that ranks No. 4 in the Big 12 in rushing defense. MEN’S BASKETBALLDavis leads confident group into Smart’s second seasonBy Claire Cruz@claireecruz5Gabriel Lopez | Daily Texan StaffSophomore guard Eric Davis Jr. only averaged 7.4 points per game in his freshman season, but he’s ready to be head coach Shaka Smart’s go-to player in both of their second seasons. VOLLEYBALLTexas aims to gather its last road victory By Steve Helwick@s_helwickJoshua Guerra | Daily Texan StaffSenior setter Chloe Collins and the Longhorns take their last road trip of the regular season to Ames, Iowa. SIDELINEBULLS HEAT TODAY IN HISTORY1987Pitching for the Boston Red Sox, Longhorn legend Roger Clemens wins his second consecutive AL Cy Young Award. “I think I was born to play on those 2000- 2009 Texas teams.” Quandre Diggs@qdiggs6TOP TWEETCross country shoots for NCAA ChampionshipSPORTS BRIEFLYThe stakes are high for the Longhorns as they travel to Fayette- ville, Arkansas, for the NCAA South Central Regional Championship on Friday. Hosted by the Uni- versity of Arkansas, the championship features teams from all over Ar- kansas, Louisiana and Texas. And while it’s not the largest meet the Longhorns have com- peted in thus far, it bears a lot of weight. Only the top two teams are guaran- teed a spot in the NCAA Championship later this month, while others rely on an invite from the NCAA. Sophomore Alex Rog- ers hopes the men’s team controls its own destiny with a big performance this weekend. “We have to place in the top two,” Rogers said. “We have to try our best to get back to the national meet. We’re going to see who has the most guts and I know we do.” The Longhorn wom- en also hope to make a splash this weekend. Though they finished seventh in the Big 12 Championship two weeks ago, they can draw on ex- periences from finishing second at last year’s South Central Regional. Despite what’s on the line for the team as a whole, the championship holds extra meaning for one particular member of the women’s team. Senior Sandie Raines transferred to Texas from Arkansas two years ago, and she knows this is her last run at achieving All-Ameri- can status. “It’s the course I started my career on as a fresh- man,” Raines said. “This is my last year of cross probably in my life. So this meet means a lot to me.” The women’s 6,000-me- ter race is set to begin at 11 a.m., followed by the men’s 10,000-meter run at noon. —Maria CowleyThe Longhorns hit the road to play Iowa State this weekend in Ames, Iowa. Texas hopes the next time it has to travel will be further down the line in the middle of a lengthy tour- nament run. Last year, the Longhorns traveled to Norman, Okla- homa, to take on the Soon- ers in the final week of the regular season. They didn’t venture away from Austin again until they played in the NCAA Championships in Omaha, Nebraska. Now, Texas hopes to earn another long home stand through the postseason. “To have the next four matches after Iowa State at home is awesome, especially since we potentially have the chance to host our regional here,” senior setter Chloe Collins said. Earlier this year, the Cy- clones tested the Longhorns in Austin. Texas led 2–0, but Iowa State sparked an impressive comeback to send the match to a fifth set. The Longhorns ultimately regrouped by the final set, claiming a 15-10 vic- tory to narrowly escape their in-conference opponent. The match served as a turn- ing point in Iowa State’s sea- son. After falling to 8–8 with the loss, the Cyclones have charged through Big 12 play, winning seven of their last eight. Iowa State has swept four teams in this timespan, emerging victorious in Ames three out of four contests. But Texas owns the series, winning seven straight against the Cyclones, dating back to 2013. Texas has recouped from a tough loss at Kansas in late Oc- tober to win two straight. On Wednesday night, the Long- horns took advantage of their home court to sweep Baylor in Gregory Gym. “I think we’re definitely ac- cepting of the challenges we’ve faced this year,” Collins said. “[We’re] not letting it get to it mentally at a team.” Collins proved crucial in sweeping the Bears. Her 33 assists, eight digs and a season- high three kills helped edge the Longhorns over Baylor in the first two sets. In the final set, Texas fired out to a 25-16 vic- tory paved by the team’s 13-3 block advantage in the match. “We’re just getting back into practice and just building off of what we’re capable of doing,” Collins said. “Coming off the sweep is just fun.” Texas looks to retain its mo- mentum from the sweep to earn its final road victory. The team also hopes to work out its kinks before the postseason. “Our defense continues to improve,” head coach Jerritt El- liott said. “There’s some things we can definitely work on. We need to work on non-setter setting and getting some better swings for our pins.” Texas and Iowa State be- gin play at 4 p.m. Saturday in Ames, Iowa. BROWNS RAVENS Dan Leach had already jumped 82 times, but this one was different. He was saying goodbye to the armed forces, relishing the airborne plunge for the last time. At the University, Leach is president of the Student Veter- ans Association, and this year will be his second Veteran’s Day since he served. After graduating from Ohio University, Leach, now an electrical engineering gradu- ate student, joined the Army and went straight into the special forces. He spent five years there and became a com- munications sergeant before leaving to pursue a master’s degree with the ultimate goal of working for Raytheon, a military supplier. When he enlisted, Leach joined the First Battalion, First Special Forces Group, a small 12-man team. “It’s a lot more close-knit than other units, and so a lot of the friends I made in the military are friends for life,” Leach said. “I’m planning to have [one of them] officiate my wedding.” His 12-man team special- ized in “unconventional war- fare,” which usually required them to train soldiers from other nations in fundamental tasks. In some cases, his team would take soldiers up into an aircraft and show them how to perform high-altitude para- chute drops. However, language barriers often existed between his team and the soldiers since they were training combat units in Thailand, Japan, the Philip- pines, India and Afghanistan. “It’s challenging, but it’s re- ally rewarding,” Leach said. “Especially in the Philippines, their scout rangers — even though we didn’t speak the same language — those guys were really motivated and re- ally easy to train.” Leach said the most re- warding part of his work was when he heard the soldiers he trained successfully fought off attack. But he still always wor- ries that they might not be prepared enough for combat. “I’m always scared of me- diocrity,” Leach said. “They’re going to use that training in combat and if you don’t train them to the best of your abili- ties, it could have some pretty severe consequences.” But the team had fun times, too. Once, in Mindanao, in the Philippines, he and the other soldiers played “Fancy” by Iggy Azalea and made a humorous music video in time with the combat training. SVA member and former Marine Dan Hamilton, who served from 2005-2009 and 2010-2011, said he has en- joyed working with Leach because he is driven to reach out and help as many stu- dents, veterans and civilians as possible. “We have a mutual under- standing of the difficulties that we faced in the military,” Hamilton said. “Those experi- ences shaped us and brought us to essentially the same place in life, and that provides a bond for us as leaders within the organization.” SVA’s vice president Derek Moniz, an Army veteran who served from 2004–2015, said he appreciates all of Leach’s work and drive to make SVA as wide-reaching as possible. They both also worked as paratroopers in the Army. “[We] have built a really solid friendship, and we work really well as a team,” Moniz said. “We think alike and have the same ideas of try- ing to have a bigger vision for our group, and [Leach] just charges forward.” Even though this is his second Veteran’s Day, Leach said he doesn’t focus on himself as a veteran. Instead, he thinks about his friends, family and fellow soldiers that have served. Today, his fiancee, Amy Yau, is deployed in Afghani- stan as an army doctor and their roles have been re- versed: He’s at home, while she’s away helping the coun- try. “It’s tough, but I think about my family, and my military family,” Leach said. “When I think about all of the student veterans on cam- pus, I’m just overwhelmed with pride.” Rap beats and Kanye West’s voice replace veena, cymbals and flute notes. Jahnavi Shriram and a dozen of her teammates move across the floor, practic- ing a traditional Indian dance, Bharatanatyam. “My story is similar to a lot of other people’s on the team in that there’s a moment when you realize Bharatanaty- am is something that’s go- ing to be in your life forever,” Shriram said. Plan II and biology ju- nior Shriram, who’s done Bharatanatyam since the age of four, is co-president of Nritya Sangam, a dance troupe which focuses on Indian classical dance, specifically Bharatanaty- am and Kuchipudi. Both dances incorporate a myriad of hand gestures, complicated footwork and facial expressions that typi- cally convey spiritual ideas from Hindu texts. Nritya Sangam is one of many Southeast Asian dance teams on UT’s campus and will be an exhibition act on Nov. 12 at the Jhalak Dance Competition hosted by the Indi- an Cultural Association in Hogg Auditorium. Starting out as a small tal- ent show on campus, Jhalak has grown to become a na- tional competition, welcom- ing skilled Bollywood fu- sion performers from across the nation. Marketing sophomore Paayal Jagada, Jhalak’s hospi- tality director, said the main goal of the competition is to allow participants to fuse In- dian and western cultures through dance. “It’s a huge expression and sharing of Indian culture,” Jagada said. “What I love about it is that it’s not just the Indian culture — [it’s] how we express it in our generation, so in terms of the dancers and the ways that they develop the routines over the year, it’s all coming from their personal experience.” Finance senior Sonya Raghu- nandhan, an organizer of Jhalak and captain of UT Jazba, said if you ask someone who isn’t in- volved with Indian culture what they know about it, a lot of the time their answer will be “Bol- lywood” because it’s the only thing they typically associate with Southeast Asian or Indian culture. “I think that after going to Amidst the cool November weather, 1,800 yellow, Japanese lucky cats are currently sitting on an East Austin lawn, in a perfect Fibonacci spiral, ready to bring warmth and joy to the visitors of the 15th East Austin Studio Tour. Entirely hand made by UT alumna and local artist Teruko Nimura, the display is meant to visually represent one-tenth of the animals rescued every year by the Austin Animal Center, the largest no-kill animal rescue center in the United States Each of the cats can be purchased by donation to help the shelter. “My auntie that just passed away a couple of years ago was a real connection to my culture,” Nimura said. “She had [cats] that were about half of an inch [tall], all the way up to these gi- ant ones. They were these sort of talismans for her, but when I see them anywhere I [connect] these symbols to her and to the rest of my family and my own culture.” Nimura’s work usually focus- es on her Asian American iden- tity, Japanese cultural traditions and female stereotypes within the Asian American commu- nity. For this piece, she used her Japanese heritage to create something with which she feels personally connected. She said she hopes the tra- dition of good fortune will follow the lucky cats into the lives of those who take one home like an exponential good luck charm. “They are glazed in differ- ent shades of yellow so it is this bright, optimistic, cheery image and the history is sup- posed to add to the good for- tune for both the animals and the people that buy them,” Nimura said. The piece, titled 1,800 Lucky Cats, will be on display on Nov. 19 during the EAST Austin Stu- dio Tour. The event, founded in 2003 by three friends in an Aus- tin warehouse studio, has gained more than 500 participants in the past 15 years and consists of free, self-guided tours around the east Austin art scene. Exhi- bitions will last throughout the weekends of Nov. 12–13 and Nov. 19–20. EAST was originally created by several artists who banded together, hoping to draw more attention to their work by put- ting on a collective exhibition rather than just one opening. Hannah Packard, Director of Development at EAST’s host company Big Medium, said the tour has succesfully attracted wider audiences. “The old school way was that you had to have a gallery representative or had to wait for acceptance in the art world,” Packard said. “There is some- thing really special about when artists can connect with a per- son [and] directly show them their process, not just their end result.” Nimura said she thinks EAST has become a much anticipated tourist event and gives excellent exposure to local artists. Alexa Johnson, 8 L&AELIZABETH HLAVINKA, LIFE&ARTS EDITOR | @thedailytexan8Friday, November 11, 2016CAMPUSStudent veteran reflects on past in militaryBy Chase Katacostas@chasekaracostasCAMPUSDance team Nritya Sangam to perform exhibition at JhalakBy Rajya Atluri@rajyaatluriJenan Taha | Daily Texan StaffMembers of the Nritya Sangam dance team practice for their upcoming exhibition at Jhalak Dance Competition this weekend. The team dances in the style of Bharatanatyam. My story is similar to a lot of other people’s on the team in that there’s a moment when you realize Bharatanatyam is something that’s going to be in your life forever” —Shriram, Plan II biology juniorARTLocal artist showcases work at East Austin Studio TourBy Acacia Coronado@acaciatree18Jenan Taha | Daily Texan StaffLocal artist Teruko Nimura will have her work featured in the EAST Austin Studio Tour in Novem- ber. Teruko’s piece, inspired by her Japanese heritage, will benefit the Austin Animal Center. Alex Dolan | Daily Texan StaffDan Leach, president of the Student Veterans Association and electrical engineering student, will celebrate his second Veteran’s Day since he served in the Army. DANCE page 5TOUR page 5