1 LIFE&ARTS PAGE 8 COMICS PAGE 7 SPORTS PAGE 6 @thedailytexan facebook.com/dailytexan Thursday, November 6, 2014 dailytexanonline.com bit.ly/dtvid Serving the University of Texas at Austin community since 1900 CITY No backup with derailed Prop. 1 By Jackie Wang @jcqlnwng With Austin voters re- jecting Proposition 1 on Tuesday, the city will have to look at new options in order to continue its eforts to im- prove Austin’s transporta- tion infrastructure. Prop. 1 proposed allocat- ing $600 million in bond money toward a 9.5-mile urban rail line running from to ACC- East Riverside Highland, with three of the proposed stops located along the east side of the UT campus. he plan also required the city to acquire $400 million to complete road improvements. he bond proposal was defeated Tuesday with 57.2 percent of voters against the plan. One of the plan’s biggest supporters, Mayor Lee Lef- ingwell has repeatedly em- phasized that the city had no backup plan to improve trans- portation infrastructure. John Julitz, Capital Met- ro and Project Connect spokesman, said the city and CapMetro will continue working to improve traic congestion but, in light of the urban rail plan failing, will have to step back to look at the situation. “he mayor has said it — there’s no plan B right now because we felt it was the best plan,” Julitz said. “We need to look at it from a sys- tem perspective for what the next step is going to be.” According voters to Julitz, against the RAIL page 2 People walk past a Proposition 1 sign outside the Flawn Academic Center on Wednesday afternoon. Daulton Venglar | Daily Texan Staff FAC begins around-the-clock service STATE Abbott lays out plans for term as governor By Madlin Mekelburg @madlinbmek Governor-elect Greg Ab- bott reiterated points from his campaign platform and discussed upcoming meet- ings at a media brieing Wednesday morning. “It is an honor to have been elected governor of the state of Texas, but, as I told people last night, it’s time to put the elec- tion behind us and begin the process of getting to work, and that is exactly what we are doing,” Abbott said. “The people of Texas elected me to do a job and we began working on that job today.” Abbott, the current state attorney general, said he has several diferent meet- ings scheduled throughout the week, including a meet- ing with Kyle Janek of the Health and Human Services Commission on Wednes- day aternoon to discuss the Ebola virus. “Things have improved with regard to the cur- rent situation about Ebola, and the extent to which Texans can be exposed to the disease,” Abbott said. “However, we can never let up on these challenges because of how deadly the disease is. … We need to be vigilant going forward knowing that Ebola still ex- ists in West African coun- tries and could travel to other places.” Abbott said Texans can expect him to live up to the ABBOTT page 3 CAMPUS By Eleanor Dearman @ellydearman he Perry–Castañeda Li- brary is no longer the only study spot on campus to be open for all-nighters. On Wednesday, Student Government President Kori Rady announced in an email to students that the Flawn Academic Cen- ter will remain open 24 hours a day, seven days a week for the rest of the semester. The FAC previ- ously closed at midnight on weekdays. The plan to extend the hours has been in the works since the start of the semester, when Rady co-authored a resolution with other SG in support of members the initiative. “Initially, I was conident that it would get done this se- mester, and it did,” Rady said. his is not the irst time SG has worked to open a FAC page 2 Daulton Venglar | Daily Texan Staff Undeclared sophomore Marilu Sanchez studies at the Flawn Activity Center on Wednesday evening. The FAC is currently in a trial phase but could be open 24/7 permanently if the trial is successful. Panel recaps midterms, voter turnout UNIVERSITY CITY COLA TA Task Force to extend research into 2015 By Eleanor Dearman @ellydearman he TA Task Force, a group of 22 teaching assistants and academic instructors from the College of Liberal Arts, decided Wednesday to ex- tend its research time for about two months longer than originally anticipated. With this decision, the task force will postpone the deliv- ery of its inal recommenda- tions to COLA administrators so they can continue research- ing issues related to graduate students in the college. he task force was previously plan- ning to make its inal recom- mendations at the beginning of the spring 2015 semester but will now continue their re- search until Jan. 28. “We’ve basically given our- selves an extra two months over the break to inish up our research and make our said recommendations,” Justin Doran, force member and spokesman. task Since September, the students have been meeting to examine issues related to COLA TAs and AIs. he task force is divided into ive com- mittees that work to establish guidelines with professors, deine TA responsibilities, examine job security and as- signments, work to make sure employment and de- gree plans align and set stan- dards for TA workload and compensation. According to Doran, they are determining this informa- tion through extensive surveys that will be sent to administra- tors and faculty members. He said they are also conducting student surveys, for which re- sponses have been collected. he task force will then report their indings to administra- tors for consideration. to “We want department function as mediators between the COLA administration and chairs,” the Doran said. “So, [we want to be] both fact-inders and then TA page 2 By Josh Willis @joshwillis35 Professors and campaign professionals gathered at the Belo Center for New Media on Wednesday to dissect and analyze Tuesday’s elec- tion results at an event host- ed by the New Politics Fo- rum at the Annette Strauss Institute for Civic Life. Election Day in Texas saw Republican candidates win all statewide races with large, double-digit margins. At Wednesday’s election de- brieing, Regina Lawrence, journalism professor and Strauss Institute director, said voter turnout is what makes the democratic pro- cess efective. “Elections are kind of an imperfect way of measuring the will of the people, and they get less and less perfect, the fewer and fewer people who show up,” Lawrence said. “In a way, elections are all about who shows up.” Lawrence said the elec- tion Tuesday demonstrated the increasing popularity of Daulton Venglar | Daily Texan Staff Sharon Navarro speaks on a panel at the 2014 Post-Election Debrieing hosted by the New Politics Forum at the Annette Strauss Institute for Civic Life. early voting in Texas. Actually we saw, in a con- tinued trend, an increase in early voting so that we had about one-third of Texas registered voters actually voting before yesterday,” Lawrence said. state has been low, but Law- rence said Texas had the lowest turnout in the coun- try in 2010. “I’m here to tell you that the early returns suggest that Texas was not dead last yesterday,” Lawrence said. Voter turnout across the Ross Ramsey, executive editor and co-founder of he Texas Tribune, said turnout is always an is- sue when to election time. it comes “There’s a big emphasis in politics, not just in this POST-ELECTION page 2 NEWS FORUM SPORTS LIFE&ARTS ONLINE REASON TO PARTY Professor says tectonics led to biological explosion. PAGE 3 Guest lecturer discusses Latino identity. PAGE 3 Student Government, Senate of College Coun- cils and Graduate Student Assembly leaders discuss ongoing initiatives. PAGE 4 Volleyball dominates in sweep of Texas Tech. 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All articles, photographs and graphics, both in the print and online editions, are the property of Texas Student Media and may not be reproduced or republished in part or in whole without written permission. TOMORROW’S WEATHER High 67 Low 52 Really? Professional accounting senior Hortencia Campbell performs at the Cactus Cafe on Wednesday evening as part of the Ensemble 109 concert. Marshall Tidrick | Daily Texan Staff POST-ELECTION continues from page 1 campaign, but in a lot of places on voter registration and the importance of voter registration,” Ramsey said. “Voter registration doesn’t matter if you can’t peel them off the couch when its time to vote.” Lawrence said despite the meager voter turnout, there were more open races on Tuesday than there has been in Texas since 1906. “So we had a really his- toric opportunity for voter engagement, but we saw it unmet,” Lawrence said. Young voters are com- monly the most underrep- resented, and, according to Lawrence, this year was no diferent. Lawrence said her experience in the classroom has given her an idea of why this occurs. “I can tell you, at least an- ecdotally, over the years of teaching, that the young peo- ple that I teach tell me again and again that one of the big- gest reasons that they do not vote consistently is that they don’t feel informed enough,” Lawrence said. Lawrence said young vot- ers might also vote less than other age groups because they feel isolated from the major political parties. “Of course, we know that for many young people, these days particularly, there’s not as much of a strong connection to politi- cal parties, to those tradi- tional political identities of democrat and republican,” Lawrence said. Institute, Edward Espinoza, execu- tive director of the Texas Research said there was little the Demo- crats could have done fend off Republican to opponents. “Had the Latino outreach been better, that would have taken [Democrats] from 39 percent to maybe 43 percent, but there was no stopping that wave,” Espinsoza said. TA continues from page 1 mediators who are looking out primarily for the inter- ests of graduate students and to kind of negotiate between higher level administrators and department administra- tors so we can all work to- gether on improving graduate student life.” COLA executive assis- tant Lauren Apter Bairn- sfather said Esther Rai- zen, COLA associate dean for research and graduate studies, supports the task force’s decision to delay its inal recommendations. “hey have approached their research with an ambi- tious agenda, and they need the time to complete the research and analysis before making inal recommendations,” Bairnsfather said in an email. “We are grateful for their FAC continues from page 1 UT facility for 24 hours a day. In 2012, SG worked with administrators to open the PCL on a 24/5 sched- ule. Since then, the PCL has run on a 24/5 basis each semester, beginning around midterms. According to government senior Alexander Dickey, who originally brought the idea of a 24-hour FAC to SG, having multiple study spaces open all day and night on campus is long overdue. “If we’re going to culti- vate young minds of the future, then we’re going to have to accommodate their odd times of sleep- ing, especially in the col- lege environment where you’ve got cramming ses- sions all night,” Dickey said. “The PCL 24/5 is great, but why not make it all year round?” Taral Patel, an author on the resolution to keep the FAC open on a 24/7 basis, said administra- tors and the FAC build- ing management staff were supportive of hav- ing an around-the-clock study facility. “As it came closer and closer, the administration really thought this was a vi- tal thing that students need- ed,” Patel said. Patel said he has also seen support from UT students for the 24-hour building. “A lot of students have this op- been wanting tion too, so I think it’s a perfect time for the FAC to be open 24/7 because finals are coming up,” Patel said. To keep the building secure, Patel said they selected a security plan three UTPD that hires guards at $35,000 each per year. Rady they had said “We to make few other tech- to keep nical changes the safely building operating 24/7. security have guards this semester that are going to be making sure students are safe,” Rady said. “There’s not too much too different in terms of logistic use. You just have to keep the lights on. And, of course, there are student proctors that are being trained to help students at the FAC when it’s 24 hours.” Rady said the 24/7 FAC is in a trial phase, but if it is successful, it could become permanent. is “Everything kind of a test in this kind of a situation,” Rady said. “You want to make sure people are using it, but of course, if no one is utilizing the extended hours, things could change. I’m confi- dent people will.” commitment the work to and for their willingness to continue working into the spring semester.” Since September, the task force has been formatting and sending out surveys to share with students, faculty and administrators. According to Doran, the irst round of surveys was sent to all COLA grad students and looks at how students perceive COLA and its administrators. Doran said the task force received responses from over 50 per- cent of the students. Doran said the responses are still being analyzed. “Because of research re- strictions, we won’t be able to give anyone access to raw data about that, but prob- ably in our preliminary re- port you will see executive summaries of that data,” Doran said. Doran said the second round of surveys will go to administrators and faculty members to get an idea of how particular departments are being run. “he inal report will in- clude how administrators see things are going on,” Doran said. “So we will be able to compare how graduate stu- dents perceive what is going on and how administrators are intending things to be happening.” Additionally, Doran said the task force plans to work with Liberal Arts Instruc- tional Technology Services to format digital tools that allow administrators to share information about their de- partments’ policies. he col- laboration is still in the pre- liminary phase. “It turns out that nobody has really pinpointed the fact that this is really an information sharing pro- gram,” Doran said. “Since our task forces goal was basically to uncover all of this information, what we have discovered is that this information isn’t just out there, and since it isn’t just out there, nobody can be analyzing it.” Vance Roper, Graduate Student Assembly vice presi- dent, said he thinks TA and IA positions are important for graduate students because the jobs provide a source of income and educational op- portunities. 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In January, the City Council will begin operating under the 10-ONE system, in which each council member will represent one of 10 geo- graphic districts instead of being elected at-large. Julitz said presenting a rail plan like Prop. 1 would need to address each council mem- ber’s speciic district. “he route that we pro- posed was the irst phase of urban rail,” Julitz said. “Sub- sequent phases would have included extensions to Lamar, to Guadalupe [and] to the air- port. Giving the makeup of the new council, they’re going to be focused on ‘What im- pact is this going to have on my district?’ We need to pres- ent some planning as to ‘Here is the full system plan. Here’s the cost. Here’s the phasing and how its going to help your neighborhood.’ Not just ‘Here’s the irst line, and we’ll do some additional lines.’ If people were able to see the whole plan, it might provide a little more perspective.” Mayoral candidate Steve Adler said moving quickly on another solution is crucial in containing Austin’s traic con- gestion problem. While the thorough process for Prop. 1 was not an issue, he said, this time around, the City Council needs to step it up. “Looking forward, we need to have a sense of urgency, so whatever process we go through moves more quickly than processes have moved in the past,” Adler said. “he problem with the plan that the voters had was they did not believe it would do enough to solve the traic congestion and crisis for the price it had.” “Certain Council member Kathie Tovo said she heard similar concerns from citizens, and the most frequent issues she heard fell into two categories. people were supportive of high capac- ity transit but felt this route would not be as successful as other options,” Tovo said. “he other concern that I heard oten was the cost — that right now, many people are facing rising taxes and feeling the burden of that and taking on another debt was more than they felt was appropriate right now.” Despite advocating for an urban rail alignment on Guadalupe Street and Lamar Boulevard, Student Govern- ment endorsed Prop. 1 in October. Robert Svoboda, SG City Relations agency co- director, said while the plan was not perfect, it was a step in the right direction. “What was presented was the best option at this mo- ment in time,” Svoboda said. “he last time that it failed was in 2000, and the city of Austin had to wait for 14 more years for it to be voted on again. hat gap in time is really costing the city in terms infrastructure.” NEWS Thursday, November 6, 2014 3 W&N 3 RESEARCH Shiting geology allowed for more complex organisms, study suggests By Chris Mendez @thedailytexan New research from geo- sciences professor Ian Dal- ziel suggests the cause of rising sea levels and bio- logical expansion 530 mil- lion years ago was a major tectonic shit. Dalziel’s study, which was published in the No- vember issue of The Jour- nal of Geology, suggests that the shift resulted in the emergence of major organisms, multicellular fish and mol- such as lusks during this era, the Cambrian period. According to Dalziel, he had been collecting geo- logical evidence on various continents, primarily in Ant- arctica, when he discovered a link between the evidence he had been collecting and existing research that indi- cated the Paciic and Atlantic Oceans were once a single body of water. “One night, I thought there had to be a connection between the two oceans,” “I’d been Dalziel said. concentrated the continents and not on the ocean.” on Dalziel proposed a re- construction of Earth in- volving the supercontinent called Gondwanaland that was composed of Australia, Antarctica, Africa, India, and South America and Laurentia, the geological ancestor of North America. In Dalziel’s model, Gond- wanaland and Laurentia oceans were separated by the Pacific and ancestral Atlantic oceans. “I’ve been working on the study of the Earth be- fore Cambrian for quite a number and in Antarctica,” Dalziel said. “North Amer- ica and Antarctica were previously joined.” Dalziel said a rit opened up between the Paciic and ancestral Atlantic oceans, which led to the rise in sea levels. Dalziel said he utilized previous research to come to his conclusions. “We know the chemistry of the Atlantic Ocean af- fected the chemistry of the Paciic,” Dalziel said. “[his the has made possible] connection the between previous, well-documented research and what’s been done recently.” John Goodge, environ- mental sciences professor at the University of Minne- sota who read Dalziel’s pa- per, said that this tectonic shift caused the buildup of oxygen in the environ- ment, which made prime conditions for the rise of modern species. “We have shallow seas en- croaching on land,” Goodge said. “North America [had a] warm climate and nutrient- rich waters. It’s possible that that’s what set the stage for the expansion of these living organisms.” As research on this topic continues, Dalziel said he would like for more people to piece together evidence supporting his claims. “here are students and faculty around the world that will be able to collect evi- dence,” Dalziel said. “I hope they continue piecing it to- gether and understand this far-reaching problem.” Marshall Tidrick | Daily Texan Staff Governor-elect Greg Abbott hosts a press conference at the Texas State Capitol building Wednesday morning. Abbott discussed his goals and plans for his coming term. ABBOTT continues from page 1 Americans want people in ofice to ad- dress their priorities. … [They] want the government to get out of their lives as much as possible. —Greg Abbott, Governor-elect of Texas on big With pick- ups Tuesday, Republicans took control of the U.S. Senate. Abbott said the new Republican is a reflection majority of what the American people want. “A message was sent by Americans last night,” Ab- bott said. “It was a mes- sage focused on policy priorities. Americans want people in oice to address their priorities. … [hey] want the government to get out of their lives as much as possible.” promises he made during his campaign — includ- ing job creation, improving schools, border security and infrastructure. Abbott also said if legis- lation allowing irearms to be carried openly in public came to him, he would sign it into law. “If open carry is good for Massachu- enough setts, it’s good enough for the state of Texas,” Abbott said. RESEARCH Lecturer explores millennial Latinos’ struggle with identity By Adam Hamze @adamhamz Millennial Latinos in the United States often struggle with identify- ing as both citizens of America and “Americans” as a result of racialization and exclusion, according to University of Illinois at Chicago professor Nilda Flores-González. During a lecture at the Student Activity Center Flores- on Wednesday, González, an associate pro- fessor of Latin American and Latino studies, said she drew her conclusions from a study she conducted on the protestors involved in the surge of marches across Chicago in 2006 for immigration reform. She interviewed 113 Latino millennials — people born between 1980 and 1995 — and asked questions about how they identify racially, and how their experiences may have afected these identities. Her research pri- marily focused on how La- tinos identify in the “racial middle,” which encompasses the races other than black and white. “illegal” According to Flores- González, the majority of the Latinos she interviewed racism had experienced or had been stereotyped as immigrants, which makes them feel un- welcome. Flores-González said she believes this is the reason why many millen- nial Latinos feel as though they have to choose be- tween an American or Latino identity. “We need to also pay at- tention to how the histori- cal moments, coupled with the racial experiences are making Latinos and Lati- nas feel like they don’t re- ally belong here,” Flores- González said. he U.S. Census Bureau estimates there are approxi- mately 54 million Hispanics living in the country, which is roughly 17 percent of the population. According to Flores- González, Latinos who grew up in predominantly white neighborhoods or in middle-class families are labeling them- prone to selves as white. She said she believes this is a result of assimilation and the individuals trying to feel more American. “Becoming American is not about becoming white,” Flores-González “It is not about downward assimila- tion, but instead it is about becoming Latino.” Flores-González was invited to speak at the University as part of her application for a senior social scientist and asso- ciate professor position at the Center for Mexican American Studies. Luis Guevara, program coor- dinator the CMAS, said the atmosphere of the for University was not as welcoming to the Latino population when he first arrived in 1991 as it is now. “I wouldn’t say it was hos- tile, but there were events that would happen that made it a stressful time,” Guevara said. “he University as an institution has worked dili- gently to foster a more wel- coming for Latinos, African-Americans, Asians and diferent groups that make up the University.” Eric Bybee, a cultural environment studies education and graduate student who is La- tino, said although there is racialization of his ethnic group, he feels comfortable on UT’s campus. “I think that UT, com- pared to other places, there is a very strong La- tino presence compared to other places I’ve lived,” Bybee said. “My experi- ence being here at UT, and part of the CMAS, has been one that has been very racially fulfilling.” Name: 3028/House; Width: 29p6; Depth: 10 in; Color: Process color, 3028/House; Ad Number: 3028 FFF 3-DAY PASS GIVEAWAY VISIT AND “LIKE” ANY OF THE TSM FACEBOOK PAGES FOR YOUR CHANCE TO WIN! Free Food & Fun! MLK & Brazos look for the daily texan tent 4 hours before kickoff AMIL MALIK, FORUM EDITOR / @TexanEditorial Thursday, November 6, 2014 A BIWEEKLY PUBLICATION OF THE DAILY TEXAN EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT 4 Forum page opens up space for SG, Senate, and the GSA the table. So this issue of Forum focuses on the three main elected bodies on campus — Student Government, the Senate of College Councils and the Graduate Student Assem- bly — highlighting what each of these three groups has done for students on campus thus far. SG President Kori Rady wrote on behalf of SG. Senate President Geetika Jerath wrote on behalf of Senate. And GSA President Bri- an Wilkey — who assumed the presidency at the beginning of the semester when former president David Villarreal stepped down — wrote on behalf of GSA. As a refresher, some of the platform points the Rady-Strickland team campaigned on included extending hanksgiving break, ex- tending facility hours at places like Belo and the Union, expanding URide — a program that gets university students home from the downtown entertainment district ater mid- night — lighting the Tower for academics and forgiving irst-time parking tickets. Some of the platform points Jareth campaigned on, in an election internal to Senate, included expanding interdisciplinary opportunities, strengthening the involvement of organiza- tions through the Invest in Texas campaign, analyzing budget priorities and publishing online voting records. Some of the points the Villarreal-Wilkey team campaigned on in- cluded improving graduate student housing options, increasing participation in the GSA, a push to improve graduate student health services and professionalizing GSA’s proce- dures. For more information on campaign plat- forms visit www.http://radystrickland.com or www.dailytexanonline.com where we have a link to the online version of Jerath’s cam- paign. Malik is a business honors, inance, and Plan II junior from Austin, Texas. By Amil Malik Forum Editor @amil_malik94 Election season is oten rife with promises from elected candidates on all they plan to achieve during their time in oice — if they are elected. Yet, when the time comes to carry through on these promises, a lot is let on COLUMN Senate focuses on academics By Geetika Jerath Guest Columnist As the oicial voice of students in academic afairs, the Senate of College Councils has been working hard this year to enhance the academic sphere of UT in various ways. We kicked of the year with our annual Aca- demic Expo, during which students learned more about Senate’s internal structure and our initia- tives. Since then, our six committees have been working on university-wide events and legisla- tion. Recently, our Academic Integrity Committee hosted IntegrityUT Week, a weeklong celebration of academic integrity and the new honor code that Senate helped to create. We hosted a series of Lunch and Learns with distinguished faculty and administrators, including President Powers. A thousand students received t-shirts with the new honor code to wear on test days to promote academic integrity. More than a thousand stu- dents also memorized the honor code and signed a huge honor code board to show their commit- ment. President Powers also signed it to support our students. During Senate’s last General Assem- bly, we passed legislation to include the new honor code and a statement regarding Student Judicial Services’ procedures on syllabi. We have many more academic themed weeks and initiatives coming up. he Faculty Afairs Committee is planning Faculty Appreciation Week 2015 and are soliciting applications for Professors and TAs of the Month. he Under- graduate Research Committee is currently seek- ing applicants for a $1000 undergraduate research grant and planning for Research Week 2015. he Recruitment and Retention Committee is pre- paring to host Ready Set Go, a college readiness program for high school students. hey are also leading our recently announced Transfer Student Ad-Hoc Committee, which will include a work- ing group and focus groups for transfer student issues. We passed legislation and are hoping to create a Transfer Student Experience Program within the First Year Experience Oice in order to promote resources and four-year graduation rates for transfer students. In November, the Academic Enrichment Committee will be hosting Academic Enrich- ment Week, which will include events about in- ternships, study abroad, research, and academic service learning. On November 19, the Academic Policy Committee with the Undergraduate Stud- ies Council will host our irst Student Series Campus Conversation on Technology in Higher Education from 5-7pm in the Gregory Gym Games Room. We invite every student to attend and participate. We hope students will share their opinions concerning these university-wide issues. We hope to create new legislation based on these conversations and report recommendations to UT’s future president. Our coordinators are working hard this year to support the mission of Senate from managing our media and outreach eforts to implementing legislation previously passed in our assembly con- cerning faculty exit surveys, an online handbook, and supporting student ownership of intellectual property among other pieces. In addition to our internal work and eforts to support our 20 college councils, Senate is a part of Invest in Texas, a student lobbying campaign at the Texas Legislature with the GSA and SG. Our Invest in Texas Co-Director is planning for our Invest in Texas Day at the Capitol and will be reaching out to our student body to identify stu- dent priorities. We plan to also engage other UT System Schools during this process. At the beginning of the year, we welcomed 50 new At-Large members into Senate. hey are pur- suing their own individual initiatives which in- clude expanding the FRI model to other colleges, creating an IntegrityUT Campaign, tackling reg- istration issues, creating a medical excuse policy, streamlining the pre-law program and more! We encourage all students to connect with us through our website, utsenate.org, or through social media by following us on Facebook and @ utscc on Twitter. Our General Assemblies are ev- ery other hursday at 7pm in the SAC Legislative Assembly Room with our next one on November 13th. Our meetings are open to any student and we would love to hear about your ideas for legisla- tion or events. We look forward to serving the student body through various events, initiatives, and legislation pieces. We are launching some big surprises in the coming months, so stay tuned! In Senate, what starts here changes the university. Jerath is the president of the Senate of College Councils. She is an international relations and global studies senior from Friendswood. Jonathan Garza | Daily Texan Staff From left to right: Kori Rady, president of Student Government; Brian Wilkey, president of the Graduate Student Assembly; and Geetika Jer- ath, president of the Senate of College Councils. COLUMN COLUMN GSA works to better student experience, focuses on health SG recaps its achievements By Brian Wilkey Guest Columnist For those who haven’t experienced it, graduate education is … indescribable. I don’t mean in the “it’s a form of rapture and ecstasy that’s indescribable” way. I’m just not sure how to put this experience or its value into words. here are so many moving parts in graduate education that explaining various aspects of the graduate experience is far easier than giving someone a com- prehensive description. Vice-President of Student Afairs Gage Paine recently framed this frustration well; she said, “It’s like a ish attempting to describe water. It just…is.” his lack of description for graduate educa- tion frustrates me because earlier this year I took on the mantle of the presidency of the Graduate Student Assembly (GSA) — an organization that dedicates itself to add- ing more value the experience of the 13,000 graduate and professional students at UT Austin. How, though, do we determine the value of these experiences? here is a de- sire to boil down the value that comes from of the moving parts that compose a gradu- ate education to a dollar amount, but, as both undergraduate and graduate students can attest, the value of our experience is not the money we make ater we graduate. Since coming into oice, the Assembly has undertaken some fantastic projects, some of which are on-going. Perhaps that which we are most proud of at the moment is the revision of our govern- ing documents. For years our governing documents were amended in isolation to help address a problem the GSA faced and when I took oice, they were in complete disarray – contradicting each other and making the business of improving gradu- ate student lives a bit more challenging than it already is. Over the course of the summer, seven dedicated members tackled these documents, and, ater much discus- sion with the Assembly and administra- tors, the documents were approved. We now have a solid foundation from which the Assembly can build. Our members and directors work hard to connect to the wide set of needs that graduate students have. Just recently, the GSA undertook our second annual Gradu- ate Student Professional Development For years our governing docu- ments were amended in isola- tion to help address a problem the GSA faced and when I took ofice, they were in complete disarray — contradicting each other and making the busi- ness of improving graduate student lives a bit more chal- lenging than it already is. Week (GPDW). Four nights of speakers and panels were dedicated to helping grad- uate and professional students, no matter their career path, prepare for the next step in Academia, Industry, Non-Proits. he events were well-attended and rewarding to participants, moderators, and guests with many thanks to our Academic Afairs Director, Deepjyoti Deka, and Programs Director, José La Torre. We have sent a delegation to the fall sum- mit of the Student Advocates for Graduate Educate (SAGE). he delegates shared best practices with Graduate Assemblies at peer institutions, and planned its agenda to take to Washington D.C. and discussed the is- sues facing graduate students nationwide. he Assembly has great plans for the rest of its legislative session. We have a surplus budget at the moment and hope to use it to fund as many graduate student organizations and award as many travel grants as we possibly can. We have several programs to connect graduate students all over campus with social hours and re- search collaborations. We will establish two semi-autonomous agencies, the Grad- uate Student Health Agency (GSHA) and Entrepreneurship and Industry Agency (EIA). he GSHA will help graduate stu- dents navigate the very complicated busi- ness of health insurance (school provided or not) and get access to good mental health and medical services. he EIA will help graduate students connect their ex- pertises to local business and startups, and more importantly, help the GSA become self-sustaining. he EIA hopes to establish sponsorships and begin the process of cre- ating an endowment. he GSA is doing wonderful things, at- tempting to improve whatever the gradu- ate student experience may be. his year, we’re going to attempt to study and explain the value of graduate education. We want to add the intangibles to the “dollars and cents” perspective of value and articulate what it really means to be a graduate stu- dent. he Graduate Student Assembly is going to take the lead on what we hope becomes a national discussion and truly deine the value of the graduate student experience. he moment when a TA helps a student to make a breakthrough or the discussion with an advisor that will lead to paradigm shits in your ield – these are the moments that should come to mind when we talk about the value of graduate edu- cation, not just the proitably of a depart- ment. We want to change the national dis- cussion about the importance of what we do, while simultaneously thanking the in- stitutions that train and support our work. Ater all, although graduate students, as a whole, don’t always identify with their graduate institution in the same way they identify with their undergraduate institu- tions, I believe every graduate Longhorn at UT Austin wants to live up to the maxim of starting here and changing the world. Wilkey is the president of the Graduate Student Assembly. He is a human develop- ment and family sciences graduate student from Vandalia, Ohio. Hello, Longhorns! Since our term began last spring, we’ve been working hard to create changes that make student life at the University of Texas safer, more convenient and all around better than ever. As promised, we have accomplished several of our platform points, and we are pleased to de- tail some of the tangible beneits that we’ve helped implement thus far on behalf of students on this campus. he irst of these beneits is SafeRide! By work- ing with the company URide, with funding pro- vided by the Oice of the President, Student Gov- ernment has created a free, alternative method to help students get home safely at night from down- town. In addition, at the beginning of this semes- ter, we began a pilot program with URide which ofered students free rides home from the PCL late at night. We are excited to announce that due to the success of the pilot program, this service will be expanding operations to 24 hours a day, 5 days a week. his will enable students to go to the PCL and study for as long as they need to without hav- ing to worry about getting home safely. Another new development is the Longhorn Advocates Program. his is a group of 31 students, paired with 31 UT alumni, who meet with the 31 members of the Texas Senate. We created this program with the intent of magnifying student in- volvement and presence at the Capitol. We believe that this program will help us build and maintain a strong relationship with our state legislators, and we expect several positive beneits for students around the state in years to come as this program grows. As of now, the FAC will be open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Last spring, one of our major platform points was to provide students with safer, more convenient locations for students to study and further their academic pursuits. A fellow stu- dent, Alex Dickey, suggested that we consider the FAC for this purpose. We oicially announced the opening earlier this week, and we are excited for the beneits that students will receive from this initiative. Keep an eye out for info on the kickof event later this week. Currently, we are in the process of working with Texas Athletics to help improve the gameday ex- perience. hrough the creation of a student leader group which meets speciically with administra- tors in the athletics department, we hope to estab- lish a channel of open communication between UT students and Texas Athletics. In addition, we are also discussing the possibility of an on-campus student tailgate with Athletics. Furthermore, we are pleased to announce the success of our hanksgiving Break initiative. By working with Staf Council, Faculty Council and the University Academic Calendar Commit- tee, we have extended the break to include the Wednesday before hanksgiving, beginning in 2018. his will provide students with an extra day to travel home and spend time with their families during the hanksgiving Holiday. I, along with the rest of the Student Govern- ment Executive Board, am extremely grateful for the opportunity to serve students and to have accomplished several of the platform points on which we originally campaigned. If anyone has any ideas or any changes they would like to see happen, feel free to stop by the Student Govern- ment Oice in SAC 2.102, and chat with with us, or contact us on Facebook or Twitter (@ut_sg). Rady is a government and corporate communi- cation senior from Houston. CLASS 5 Study reveals rapid lizard evolution LIFE&ARTS Thursday, November 6, 2014 SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY anoles are small animals — no more than 8 inches long, most of which is tail — and their toe pads only increased in size by about 4 percent to 6 percent over this time. It’s not just later-genera- tion lizards growing larger toes, though. Stuart and his team concluded that this was the result of evolution- ary adaptation. “I think the reason we can say that so conidently is that we ruled out all the other possibilities,” Stuart said. For another instance, possible explanation could be that the toe pad size and stickiness weren’t coded into the lizards’ genes but were the result of the environ- ment. he feet of a tribe of humans barefoot-running will look very diferent than those of street-walking Aus- tinites, and it has nothing to do with genetics. Stuart and his co-authors took green anole eggs from several diferent islands and raised them in identical con- ditions. he anole hatchlings islands invaded from the grew stickier larger and toes than those that weren’t, strongly suggesting this was a genetic change. he team also performed genetic analysis of diferent By Robert Starr @robertkstarr As a child, Yoel Stuart played with snakes. Now as a postdoctoral researcher at UT, he plays with anole liz- ards as a scientist. A recent study he worked on has received a lot of at- tention ater his group pub- lished the paper in Science. he study looked at one species of lizards, green anoles, living on islands of the coast of Florida and what happened ater a diferent species of liz- ards, brown anoles, invaded. When to compete, evolutionary pressures forced the green anoles to develop larger and stickier toe pads for climbing trees. forced hough evolution is oten considered a slow process that takes hundreds of thou- sands of years, careful mea- surements allowed Stuart and his team to detect this change ater only 15 years, or 20 generations of lizards, which is impressive when one considers just how subtle of a change this is. Green Postdoctoral researcher Yoel Stuart holds a green anole lizard, which he is currently researching. Marshall Tidrick | Daily Texan Staff species of green anoles from to make islands separate sure that larger-toed green anoles hadn’t migrated to the islands during the 15-year study and created the illusion of adaptation. he diferent islands all had lizard populations about equally distinct from each other genetically, suggest- ing that the larger-toed liz- ards on the diferent islands evolved independently. the A further analysis showed that island popula- tions themselves were all about equally diverse, which wouldn’t happen if larger- toed lizards migrated to cer- tain areas and added their genes to the pool. he anoles from the in- vaded islands do tend to climb higher than those from the non-invaded ones, and there are other studies that show that these traits do correspond to better climbers in many other lizard species, but one can never be too sure. A hy- pothesis is only as strong as the tests it’s subjected to, and, if Stuart and his colleagues are correct, then further tests will only increase their conidence. Of course, follow-up stud- ies are also a good excuse to spend more time with the green anoles. “hey’re just neat crea- tures,” Stuart said. “hey’re fun to observe and catch and hang out with.” POOR BOYS continues from page 8 YOGA continues from page 8 character deinitely has made this a lot easier.” With “Poor Boys’ Cho- rus,” Kettler and Novacek hope the audience can ind an escape from reality, if only for a short time. “I’d love for them to have that feeling that they’re lost in this kind of fun, dan- theatrical world gerous, and have them kind of for- get that they’re on the UT campus for a little while,” said Kettler. “So that’s my hope, that when the play’s over it would be like wak- ing up from a dream or something.” ideal to Wanderlust. “I feel like we are so much more than a yoga studio,” Kutchey said. “We feel like our space is more of a com- munity space.” he growing popularity of diferent types of yoga has led to the creation of more classes at the festival. evolved “I think yoga has grown and so much and continues to evolve,” Kutchey said. “It’s a fun way for people who are in- timidated by a traditional yoga class to participate by coming to a black light yoga class or coming to a hula hoop class.” Brown said that yoga gives her a healthy escape from the stress of day-to- day activities. “You’re taking a little bit of time to turn introspec- tive, and turn inward, shut out all of the noise, all of these fast-paced hectic problems,” Brown said. Brown explained that she was very preoccupied as a UT student and had dii- culty managing her stress. She said she wishes she had discovered running and yoga much earlier in life. “It’s one of the most wel- coming and comforting things to be a new person in a yoga class because there are people there who want to help you and show you what to do,” Brown said. “Do something that scares you.” Roberts explained the festival is a social melting pot and an opportunity to be exposed to people who come from diferent back- grounds and experiences. He said participants will have the chance to take classes with some of the best teachers in the world and be inspired mentally and emo- tionally in their practices. is a common “here denominator in the en- ergy and the attitude of the people,” Roberts said. “It’s a very no-judgment zone.” THE DAILY TEXAN CLASSIFIEDS CLASSIFIEDS Self-serve, 24/7 on the Web at www.DailyTexanOnline.com A D R U N S O N L I N E F O R F R E E ! w o r d a d s o n l y 790 Part Time 510 Entertainment - Tickets 5 FILM Professor to show dark comedy in ilm series By Noah Brooks @NTBrooks1011 According to Kathy Full- er-Seeley, “To Be or Not to Be,” a comedy that openly ridiculed Nazis at the begin- ning of America’s entrance into World War II, is the strangest movie that radio star Jack Benny starred in, but it was also his best. Fuller-Seeley, a radio-tele- vision-ilm professor at UT, will be screening the ilm, directed by Ernst Lubitsch in 1942. he ilm is about an acting troupe in Nazi-occu- pied Poland who attempt to help a Polish resistance sol- dier ind a German spy that has plans that could destroy the resistance movement. Fuller-Seeley irst wanted to present the ilm because of its humor, as well as the critical recognition the ilm received from magazines such as TIME and Variety. Additionally, Fuller-Seeley wanted to show the ilm because of Jack Benny’s un- characteristic performance. Prior to the ilm’s release, Benny was famous for his radio show, “he Jack Benny Program,” which ran for three decades. Fuller-Seeley is cur- rently writing a book about Benny and his radio career. “his is his best perfor- mance,” said Fuller-Seeley. “It’s his most unusual performance because he’s playing a charac- ter who’s not Jack Benny.” “TO BE OR NOT TO BE” When: Nov. 6, 6:30 - 9 p.m. Where: Belo Center for New Media, 2.106 Cost: Free She also wanted to show the ilm because of its legacy. Both Fuller-Seeley and Tom Schatz, a radio-television- ilm professor, said that the ilm was signiicant because it satirized the Nazis. “It was one of the few Hol- lywood movies, especially this early in the war, that dealt with Nazi Germany and dealt with the Nazis in a comedy,” Schatz said. “he fact that this was made at all was interesting.” As a result, the ilm has been noted as one of the irst “black comedies.” Schatz said the ilm helped expand the role of comedy by making controversial subjects, such as Nazism, fair game to ridicule. Fuller-Seeley hopes that the screening will allow the audience to see how talent- ed a performer Benny was, even in a ilm that was not typical of his normal work. “Not a lot of people have seen [the ilm], so I want them to enjoy a very smart comedy — a very well made ilm,” Fuller-Seeley said. Next month, Fuller-Seeley will present another talk about Benny’s work as a radio and television personality. Amy Zhang| Daily Texan Staff Radio-television-ilm professor Kathy Fuller-Seeley will be screening “To Be or Not to Be” at the Belo Center for New Media tomorrow at 6:30 p.m. ADVERTISING TERMS There are no refunds or credits. In the event of errors made in advertisement, notice must be given by 10 am the fi rst day of publication, as the publishers are responsible for only ONE incorrect insertion. 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Available via Amazon.com SEE WHAT OUR ONLINE SYSTEM has to offer, and place YOUR AD NOW! dailytexanclassifieds.com WATCH FOR DOUBLE COVERAGE TOMORROW FOR THE WEST VIRGINIA GAME VOLLEYBALL By Jacob Martella @ViewFromTheBox Texas volleyball let no doubt who the better team was in Lubbock on Wednes- day night. Texas dominated almost every statistical category — including posting a .262 hitting percentage to the Red Raiders’ .000 — en route to an easy sweep of Texas Tech. Texas wasted no time as- serting itself as the dominant team in the match, jumping out to a 4-3 lead and then going on a 7-0 run behind the serving of senior outside hitter Haley Eckerman. Eck- erman racked up a service ace and a kill during the run, while senior middle blocker Khat Bell logged three straight kills during that stretch. he Longhorns inished out the set with two scoring runs of 5-0 and hit .435 to the Red Raiders’ -.103 to win the set 25-10. he second set proved to be a slightly more diicult set for the Longhorns. Texas jumped out to leads of 6-2 and 15-7, but Texas Tech hung around and managed to close the gap to as close as 18-15. However, kills by Bell junior outside hitter and FOOTBALL 6 SPTS Thursday, November 6, 2014 Horns dominate in sweep of Texas Tech NBA Senior outside hitter Haley Eckerman posted nine kills, a service ace and ive digs in the Longhorns’ win over Texas Tech Wednesday night. Head coach Charlie Strong may not be su- persitious about the color of his turtleneck, but the Longhorns are 2-0 this season when he wears his burnt orange turtleneck. Ethan Oblak Daily Texan Staff 6 SIDELINE HAWKS SPURS KNICKS PISTONS PACERS WIZARDS RED WINGS RANGERS TOP TWEET Sheroid Evans @sheroidevans If we rollin and Long Live A$AP ain’t playing, then it ain’t my car. TODAY IN HISTORY Cleveland Browns owner Art Modell announces he is moving the team to Baltimore. It’s the city’s irst NFL team since the Baltimore Colts left for Indianapolis in 1984. Texas soccer advanc- es on penalty kick in Big 12 Tournament Texas soccer entered Wednesday’s game against No. 10 Texas Tech need- ing a win to keep their waning Big 12 and NCAA tournament hopes alive. he game will go down as a 1-1 draw, but the Long- horns advanced on penal- ties to keep their postsea- son hopes alive. he Longhorns got on the board irst with 10:12 let to play in the irst half thanks to a goal by junior midielder Chan- tale Campbell, but the two Texas teams went into overtime knotted up at one goal apiece. he Longhorns outshot the Red Raiders 8-1 dur- ing the two 10-minute overtime sudden-death periods, but none of those shots found the back of the net, forcing the game to be decided on penalty kicks. he winner came in the seventh round of penal- ties when senior mid- ielder Sharis Lachapelle’s goal was followed up by a Texas Tech chance that smashed of the crossbar. he Longhorns next challenge will come in the semiinal match Fri- day at 5:30 p.m. against the top-seeded West Virginia Mountaineers. —Daniel Clay Ethan Oblak Daily Texan Staff NHL Amy Neal, as well as a cou- ple errors by the Red Raid- ers, allowed the Longhorns to win the set 25-18 going into the intermission. he third set, by com- parison, was much easier for the Longhorns. Texas again jumped out to an early 11-3 lead over Texas Tech behind the serving runs of Neal and sophomore middle blocker Chiaka Ogbogu. Ogbogu also added two kills during that run. he Red Raiders tried to close the gap from there, go- ing on a 6-2 run to trim the Longhorns’ lead to 13-8. But that would be as close as it would get. Texas ired back with a 5-2 run of its own on its way to a 25-13 set win to inish of the sweep. Texas inished the night with the edge in every statistical cat- egory except attack attempts, which Texas Tech led 107 to 103. he Longhorns posted 39 kills, ive service aces and eight blocks while the Red Raiders managed 24 kills, one service ace and two blocks. and Eckerman led the Long- horns with 10 kills, while Ogbogu sophomore outside hitter Paulina Prieto Cerame each had seven kills. Cerame and junior middle blocker Molly McCage each posted ive blocks, and fresh- man libero Cat McCoy led the team with 15 digs, as she has all season. Texas shut down Teas Tech junior outside hitter Jenna Allen — who came into the match sixth in the confer- ence in kills — to only nine kills in the match and held sophomore middle blocker Lauren Douglass to just a .200 hitting percentage ater she came into the match with a .334 season hitting per- centage. he Longhorns also forced four Red Raiders into negative hitting percentages. Texas returns home to play Kansas State on Friday at 7 p.m. Strong not superstitious about orange turtleneck WEEKEND PREVIEW MEN’S TENNIS | BY JASMINE JOHNSON FOOTBALL | COLUMN By Stefan Scraield @StefanScraield Like Steve Spurrier’s vi- sor, Bill Snyder’s pullover, or Bear Bryant’s fedora, Texas head coach Charlie Strong’s game-day attire is most rec- ognizable by one thing: the mock turtleneck. Against North Texas, Strong debuted the garment, a turtleneck in which the neckpiece is not in fact folded down, in 95-degree heat. No matter the temperature or cir- cumstance, Strong sports the ’90s fashion item with pride. Recently, however, the Long- horns’ new coach added some variety to his sideline wardrobe, going with a burnt orange top against Iowa State instead of the white one he had worn through the team’s irst six games. Despite beating the Cy- clones in his irst game wear- ing the new color, Strong made the curious decision to go back to white in the team’s next game and sure enough, the Longhorns were shut out by Kansas State. But, ater another burnt orange vic- tory in Lubbock last weekend, Strong is now a perfect 2-0 in the school’s color. “My daughter, Hailee, she told me I can only wear orange from here on out,” Strong said. Some of his players have noticed the trend, too, and if senior defensive back Quan- dre Diggs had his way, the whole team would be wear- ing the lucky shirt. “I told him before the game that’s the one he needs to wear,” Diggs said. “I think everybody needs to wear a little mock tur- tleneck this week. And I think if we play as well as we did, we all need to continue to wear it.” While superstition doesn’t appear to play into Strong’s reliance on game-day turtle- necks, a few Longhorns have found a link between certain wardrobe decisions and on- ield success and seem con- vinced it’s a case of causation, not just correlation. “I’m very superstitious,” Diggs said. “I have to have two thin wristbands on my legs. I’ve got to have high After a week off from action, the men’s tennis team will compete in the Florida Invitational while senior Søren Hess-Olesen competes in New York. Representing the Long- horns at the Florida Invi- tational are seniors Adrien and Berkowicz Lloyd Glasspool, along with junior Nick Naumann. Sophomore George Gold- hoff and redshirt fresh- man William Jou will also make the trip to Gaines- ville, Florida. he Longhorns, how- ever, will be without leader Hess-Olesen. he ith-ranked two-time All- American received an at- large bid to compete at the USTA/ITA Indoor Inter- collegiate Championships in Flushing, New York, be- ginning Nov. 6. No. 106 Berkowicz looks to bounce back from a strong showing at the Texas Regional Cham- pionship, which ended with a semifinal loss to unranked freshman Cam- eron Norrie of TCU. Jou, a Houston native, looks Adrien Berkowicz Senior to improve a 1-3 singles record after going winless in singles play at his Texas Regional debut. Naumann, who was ranked 113th in ITA pre- season rankings, is still looking for his first singles victory this season while No. 31 Glasspool looks to improve a 1-3 singles re- cord. Neither Naumann, Glasspool, nor No. 56 Goldhoff competed in the Texas Regional. he Florida Invitational will begin Nov. 7 and run through Nov. 9. Play in New York will also run through Nov. 9. socks that I can pull down and scrunch up, and my main thing is having the long shirt under my jersey. hat’s some- thing I’ve been wearing for the last two or so years. I feel like it’s been working for me.” hey may not be quite as obvious, but sophomore quarterback Tyrone Swoopes has a few quirks of his own. “Every time I put my pads and shoes on, I’ve got to do it a certain way every time or I won’t feel right,” Swoopes said. “I always put my let side on before I put the right side on.” Superstition, the idea that one event causes another with- out any natural process linking the two, has long been a polar- izing topic in sports. Some players rely on a whole slew of odd rituals, while others believe it to be total nonsense, taking credit away from the time and efort spent working on their crat. Senior wide receiver John Harris is an example of an athlete who doesn’t care much for the notion. “I say when we throw the ball, everything’s going right,” Harris said, when asked if he was superstitious. “Whenever we have that ball in our hands, it’s going to be a good day.” Strong seems to have a sim- ilar perspective, preferring to keep it simple and denounce any suggestion that he might be the least bit superstitious. But Saturday, superstitious or not, he’ll be wearing orange. Horns need repeat vs. top teams By Peter Sblendorio Daily Texan Columnist @petersblendorio For the irst time in recent memory, Texas played a com- plete football game last Satur- day against Texas Tech. he Longhorns scored their highest point total in a road game this season, while hold- ing the Red Raiders to just 13 points, tied for their few- est of the season. Sophomore quarterback Tyrone Swoopes played an inspiring game ater sculing against Kansas State, and Malcolm Brown became the irst Texas running back to rush for 100-yards in a game this season. Couple this with the fact that there were no glaring spe- cial teams errors, something that’s become a norm for Tex- as this season, and the Long- horns inally have a balanced performance to be proud of. Still, I wouldn’t bank on this being a sign of things to come. he plain truth is that Texas Tech is, simply put, a lousy foot- ball team, and the Longhorns did what teams have been do- ing all year against them. Actually, in a lot of ways, they did less. To put things into context, the Red Raiders surrendered a Big 12 record 82 points against TCU the week before play- ing Texas and have allowed 35 points to opponents six times in 2014. he Longhorns managed 34 points, which seems a lot less signiicant when you consider the only teams to score fewer than that against Tech are UT-El Paso and Kansas. And while the Longhorns’ defense did play admirably, it becomes quite a bit less im- pressive when you consider the Red Raiders were relegat- ed to using their third-string quarterback, freshman Vin- cent Testaverde. Testaverde didn’t exactly resemble his father, former NFL star Vinny Testaverde, on the football ield Saturday night. he Longhorns showed promise against Texas Tech, but the reality is that they’ll need to play even better this week to have any chance of knocking of No. 23 West Vir- ginia. It’d be nice to see Texas build of some of the things they did well against the Red Raiders, such as running the ball and defending the pass well, but the Longhorns have had an issue with stringing to- gether consistent performanc- es in 2014. For example, Texas went down to the wire with No. 12 UCLA and shut out Kansas in back-to-back weeks at the be- ginning of the season before coming up completely lame against Baylor one week later. Likewise, the Longhorns failed to build of their 48-point per- formance against Iowa State and got shut out the next week against Kansas State. For Texas to maintain any chance of qualifying for a bowl game this season, beat- ing West Virginia at home this Saturday is a must. To do this, the Longhorns will need to play the type of consistent, mistake-free football they’ve failed to exhibit for any pro- longed stretch of 2014. he Longhorns inally showed balance for four quar- ters last weekend, but unfor- tunately for them, they’ll have to do it against much stronger opponents for a chance at a bowl game. COMICS Thursday , November 6, 2014 7 COMICS 7 MCAT® | LSAT® | GMAT® | GRE® Prep to Name: Untitled 9; Width: 29p6; Depth: 1 in; Color: Black, Untitled Available: In Person LiveOnline the highest degree. Use promo code DailyTexan$150 to save $150 on classroom prep. 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Some classes aren’t THEATER & DANCE based in yoga or running at all, such as the DIY fabric dyeing workshop. he festival will include live music; DJ sets will set the scene during yoga classes. here will be vendors, a mixture of out- of-state and local businesses, ready to provide the festivalgo- ers with items like headbands and athletic clothing. In addition to the world-re- nowned instructors recruited by Wanderlust to teach classes at the festival, local instruc- tors are also participating. Wanderlust yoga instruc- tors and UT alumni Ben Rob- erts and Jennifer Howard- Brown explained how yoga can help relieve stress and help confront problems, es- pecially for students in high- stress environments. “he state that students are in is a great opportunity to start learning great habits,” Roberts said. According to Roberts, the negative stress relievers that college students tend to turn to only hide stress temporarily. He said yoga provides a quiet time to address problems and learn how to move past them. “Yoga, as the antithesis to [more common stress reliev- ers], is an opportunity where you are forced with confront- ing it,” Roberts said. “It’s just you on your mat for an hour. You’re in your head, and all you’re doing is breathing.” Joanna Kutchey, co-found- er of the Wanderlust studio in Austin, said that their studio has an inclusive atmosphere. She hopes to bring this same YOGA page 5 Wanderlust yoga festival is returning to Austin for the second year, offering classes such as black light yoga and hula-hooping workshops. Photo courtesy of Wanderlust Festival ‘Poor Boys’ Chorus’ to premiere Friday at SAC theater By Alejandra Martinez @ahl3h In a small town where poor boys can’t talk to rich girls, an unlikely friendship begins between the richest girl in town and one of its poorest boys. his is the premise of “Poor Boys’ Chorus,” a new play set to premiere Friday at the Student Activity Center’s Black Box heater. According to Brian Kettler, the play’s writer and a theatre and dance graduate student, what follows is a coming-of- age love story. “I was really inspired by what I see as some classic coming-of-age stories — so movies like ‘Stand by Me,’ movies like ‘My Girl,’” Ket- tler said. “It was really an at- tempt to tap into the feelings [that are] evoked by those kinds of stories.” For Natile Novacek, the- atre and dance graduate stu- dent, being the director of the play was about bringing human feelings and conlicts to the stage. “It’s also a story about people choosing to make a connection against all odds, people choosing to em- brace the light or the dark in them,” said Novacek. “And people who are forced to make choices very early on about what their life is going to look like.” “Poor Boys’ Chorus” has been a departure from what Kettler usually writes. “I tend to write a little more naturalism or realism,” Kettler said. “his play is not that. It’s a lot more poetic. here’s a chorus of three boys that drives the action. I’d never written a chorus before into a play.” he irst time Novacek and Kettler began to work together on “Poor Boys’ Chorus” was in a classroom. “I was lucky enough to be in a class together with “POOR BOYS’ CHORUS” When: Nov. 9 at 2 p.m. Where: SAC Black Box Theater Cost: Free Brian, and we were paired to work on it together,” Nova- cek said. In the same class was Will Douglas, the theatre and dance undergraduate who will play Steeds. For Douglas, the amount of time spent playing the character in class prepared him for his time on stage. “When you don’t have a performance that you’re getting ready for, you have Name: 3331/House; Width: 60p0; Depth: 10 in; Color: Process color, 3331/House; Ad Number: 3331 Will Gibson Douglas and Malori Carr rehearse a scene from “Poor Boys’ Chorus,” which will premiere Friday. 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