Clay Johnston, inaugural dean of the Dell Medical School, speaks after Monday’s groundbreaking ceremony. Jonathan Garza / Daily Texan Staff Illustration by Crystal Garcia Daily Texan Staff 1 NEWS PAGE 3 SPORTS PAGE 6 LIFE&ARTS PAGE 8 @thedailytexan facebook.com/dailytexan Tuesday, April 22, 2014 dailytexanonline.com bit.ly/dtvid Serving the University of Texas at Austin community since 1900 UNIVERSITY Medical School to begin construction CAMPUS Oddly hued bluebonnets to remain on campus By Christina Breitbeil @christinabreit he mysterious maroon bluebonnets on campus are here to stay, and their origins seem to be more from UT- based roots than the previously speculated Texas A&M ones. Alpha Phi Omega, a UT service fraternity, planted the bluebonnets in spring 2012, according to Sam Faries, en- vironmental sciences junior and APO president. Faries said the organiza- the lowers, tion planted which weren’t intended to be maroon, in a few diferent places on campus as part of a service project. “I don’t really know where all this conspiracy A&M stuf came from,” Faries said. “[he lowers] were all blue when we got them.” Markus Hogue, program coordinator irrigation for and water conservation, said UT would uproot the lowers early last week, but the Uni- versity released a statement hursday saying the lowers would remain on-campus. Jerry Parsons, former A&M horticulturist who is credited with assistance in the creation of the maroon bluebonnet, said the lowers on campus were not a prank but, rather, a seed mix-up during packaging, which is common when mass-pro- ducing seeds. “Shame on those folks who blamed the innocent Aggies,” Parsons said in an email. Parsons said the lowers were too pink to be A&M’s color. “hat’s not the true maroon anyway,” Parsons said. “If they want some real maroon, we can plant real maroon.” Reggie Love, a former personal aide to President Barack Obama, spoke at the Student Activity Center on Monday evening. Shelby Tauber Daily Texan Staff By Madlin Mekelburg @madlinbmek he University launched construction of the Dell Med- ical School on Monday during a groundbreaking ceremony with state, city and University oicials in attendance. he medical school will feature an education and administration building, a research building, a medical oice building and a park- ing garage, totalling 515,000 square feet. he predicted cost is $334 million and will be located at the intersection of 15th Street and Red River. Seton Healthcare Family, which runs several hospitals in Austin, committed $295 mil- lion last year to build a teaching hospital for students enrolled at the medical school. he school is scheduled to accept its irst class of students in 2016. At the ceremony, President William Powers Jr. asked the speakers at the event and community members in at- tendance to write one word on a poster board, summa- rizing their individual hopes for the medical school. Pow- ers wrote, “Innovation.” “If we all express our hopes and then pull together to make those hopes a real- ity, we will have a true trea- sure in our community and a great new source of health and healing,” Powers said. Clay Johnston, dean of the Dell Medical School, said he wanted to focus on advanc- ing medical practices in the new facilities. “We have a responsibility DELL page 2 CAMPUS Snake-watchers Herpetologist studies snakes in Waller Creek By Natalie Sullivan @natsullivan94 For Travis LaDuc, UT’s assistant curator of herpetology, wading through Waller Creek to grab snakes is part of what he calls “snake CSI.” LaDuc, assistant curator at the Texas Natu- ral Science Center, tracks and studies blotched water snakes, a species of nonvenomous wa- ter snake that lives throughout Texas. LaDuc said the snakes could potentially be harmed by the construction of a tunnel under Waller Creek if it physically divides the population. Every six weeks, LaDuc and several students go out to the creek to capture the snakes and collect data on their habits and habitat pref- erences. He uses both microchips and radio technology, which he inserts into the snakes under anesthesia in order to track them. “It’s a serendipitous sport,” LaDuc said. “You see a snake, reach in to grab it and hope you come up with one. he radio telemetry lets us track snakes 24/7, so we get an overall snapshot of the creek and how they use their habitat.” Biology junior Andrew Coulter, who went out to track and study the snakes in his vertebrate natural history class, said working with snakes allowed him to learn more about their behavior and mis- conceptions people have about snakes. “I feel like a lot of people think they’re aggressive and want to bite you, but they’re actually pretty calm,” Coulter said. LaDuc said he chose to study the snakes in Waller Creek because the population was large and easy to access. “hey’re the largest, most common snake in the area, so not a lot of people study them,” LaDuc said. “I wanted to ind out how the population has been able to persist, despite everything that’s been thrown at it.” Despite living near the University in an urban habitat, the snakes still man- age to survive and thrive, according to LaDuc. SNAKES page 2 BUSINESS CAMPUS Perfumery launches Longhorn fragrance By Christina Breitbeil @christinabreit he Longhorn fans can now pur- chase University-themed co- logne and perfume fragrances, released by Masik Collegiate Fragrances, a company that distributes perfumes and co- lognes for 20 state universities. fragrance company received input from students, faculty and staf to inform its decision ingre- regarding dients for the scent. Katie Masich, founder and CEO of Masik Collegiate Fragrances, said the UT men’s cologne includes a hint of sot leath- er reminiscent of the boots worn during football season, and the women’s perfume in- cludes spring scents reminis- cent of the Texas bluebonnet. scents by unique signature inspired “hese are elements, such as the school colors, campus style, lowers and trees, traditions, and loca- tion,” Masich said. “We pitch our perfumers a ‘fragrance brief’ that outlines these school speciic elements along with pictures of the university cam- pus, sporting events, students and alumni. Once we formulate scent options for the school, the universities conduct smell ses- sions to determine which fra- grances they like best.” he UT fragrance, which both the Co-op and the com- pany’s website are selling for $39.50, was released directly following the launch of a fra- grance for the University of Oklahoma, though Masich said the coinciding releases had nothing to do with the schools’ rivlary. FRAGRANCE page 3 By Jeremy Thomas @jeremyobthomas From his experiences as President Barack Obama’s former personal aide, Reg- gie Love said in an on- campus lecture Monday that, when dealing with crisis, people must be em- pathetic, understand their opponents’ points of view and allow them to express their feelings. Known as President Obama’s “body man,” Love spoke to about 50 people at the SAC auditorium as he shared his experiences and life lessons as a per- sonal aide. Love worked in that po- sition alongside the presi- dent from the 2008 cam- paign until 2011, when he left his position to com- plete his MBA at the Uni- versity of Pennsylvania. Former Obama aide shares experiences Love said it is important for people to focus on how they can negotiate with each other. “It may not be an equiv- alent one-to-one swap, but the gesture is typically ap- preciated,” Love said. “I think solutions are impor- tant, but, in some cases, there’s not an actual solu- tion out there that is going to be 100-percent [admis- sible] to all parties within the ecosystem.” Love said he began his work in politics ater be- coming a staf assistant in then-U.S. Sen. Obama’s oice. He worked in the mail room, where he re- ceived what he called his “big break” by digitizing the mailing process for ev- ery letter received and sent back to constituents. People working on Obama’s cam- paign then promoted Love to work as Obama’s personal aide during the 2008 presi- dential campaign. 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Rex Bennett, Phillips 66 president of spe- cialties and business devel- opment, said the company looking for is constantly new, young employees. “Phillips 66 is always looking for new voices with unique thoughts and difer- ent perspectives to help our company succeed,” Bennett said. “We’ve built a strong pipeline at the University of Texas that will enable us to recruit those who will help us all prosper — both now and in the future.” According to Kelsey Evans, College of Natural Sciences spokeswoman, Phillips 66 donated be- tween $5,000 and $10,000 to the computer science department. Evans said the University and Phillips 66 have developed a con- nection over the years as the company has become more involved with dif- ferent schools within the University. “Since Phillips 66 split of from ConocoPhillips and became a separate company [in 2012], they’ve done a remarkable job investing in our students and in building a relationship with UT-Aus- tin,” Evans said. Evans said, while these companies do recruit stu- dents through these pro- grams, they also donate to the University for more gen- erous reasons. “Across the board, all the companies that support UT … do it because they’re phil- anthropic,” Evans said. UNIVERSITY By Adam Hamze @adamhamz Phillips donated 66 $500,000 to the Univer- sity to support programs within the Cockrell School of Engineering, McCombs School of Business and College of Natural Sci- ences, the University an- nounced Friday. A large portion of the git, which will be split be- tween the three schools, will help fund the Phillips 66 SHIELD Scholar program, which provides a number of resources, including schol- arships, professional de- velopment and community service opportunities, for students pursuing careers in the energy industry. According to Donnell Roy, corporate and founda- tion relations director at Mc- Combs, the business school received $156,000. 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DELL continues from page 1 to take advantage of our new- ness, to test out diferent ways of doing things that could be- come models for the rest of the country,” Johnston said. State Sen. Kirk Watson, D- Austin, who has supported the addition of a medical school in Austin, said the school will transform the Central Texas area. “We’re all going to experience this transformation — it will be big,” Watson said. “Really, it probably had to be big. I don’t know that this community would have come together for something incremental, some- thing folks might or might not notice as they went about their lives. We invested in something that will change what it means to live in Central Texas.” Mayor Lee Leingwell and UT System Chancellor Fran- cisco Cigarroa attended the event. In February, Cigarroa announced he is resigning as chancellor in order to practice medicine full-time as head of the pediatric transplant team at the UT Health Science Center at San Antonio. Construction for the medi- cal school will result in vari- ous road closures, while the University works to com- plete multiple construction projects simultaneously. he Erwin Center, along with the Denton A. Cooley Pavilion site, on Red River will be re- located in the next six to 15 years to make room for the medical school. Because of the extensive con- struction on Red River, the road will be closed between 15th Street and the Erwin Center be- tween May and December. Powers said he hopes the medical school will contrib- ute to advancing the Austin community. “It’s a great day for Central Texas,” Powers said. “It’s a great day for health.” Texas Student Media Board of Operating Trustees Meeting Friday, April 25, 2014 Executive Committee Meeting 12:00 p.m. Board of Operating Trustees Meeting 1:00 p.m. Flawn Academic Center Room #328 2304 Whitis Avenue Visitors Welcome We encourage any community member who has any kind of temporary or permanent disability to contact Texas Student Media beforehand so that appropriate accommodations can be made. Anyone is welcome to attend. T E X A S S T U D E N T M E D I A The Daily Texan • Texas Student Television • KVRX 91.7 FM • Texas Travesty • Cactus Yearbook • Longhorn Life 3 FRAGRANCE continues from page 1 “When a school rivalry launches, we typically do get questions about the other school, but [UT’s fragrance launch] wasn’t directly related [to OU’s launch],” Masich said. “hough we do hope to go to the Red River Rivalry this year and promote and spray fans with OU or Texas.” Jo’Nell Pierpont, Univer- sity Co-op representative who handles ladies’ fra- grance, said sales of the fra- grance have been proitable since the product launched three weeks ago. “he reception has been surprisingly strong,” Pier- pont said. “We are thrilled to be able to ofer this prod- uct, as there are no other options available for a li- censed Texas fragrance.” Architecture freshman Jessica Bonaventura said she does not see why the fra- grance has been successful and will not buy the perfume unless it is inexpensive. “Anyone who cares enough to wear perfume or cologne most likely has their preferred brand, and, if they are going to spend the kind of money one needs to spend for those products, they are going to go to a brand name, not the Co-op,” Bonaventura said. “I don’t know if you can capture the smell of a uni- versity in cologne.” Illustration by Aaron Rodriguez / Daily Texan Staff DELIVERY SO FAST WE ALREADY DID! W&N 3 Phone thets double since 2012 Illustration by Connor Murphey / Daily Texan Staff information was stolen from her. She said she attributes that to the methods she took ater her phone was stolen. “Luckily, I registered my phone through ‘Find My iPhone,’ so we were able to shut of my phone, so no one could retrieve my data,” Rosenield said. “I was also able to call my service pro- vider, AT&T, and they could blacklist the phone, so, if anyone tried to resell it, it would call another line.” Top phone manufactur- ers, including Apple and Samsung, and wireless car- riers announced April 15 that they would start imple- menting basic anti-thet tools on all smartphones sold in the U.S. ater July 2015. Features include en- abling users to remotely lock their device and re- motely erase any data on the phone if it is lost or stolen. Bremner said it is impor- tant to remind people that cell phones are just property. that how valuable it is,” Brem- ner said. “But don’t ever try to engage somebody where it turns into a robbery be- cause you get hurt or there’s loss of life.” “We understand RideShare CEO stresses interpersonal communication as essential to success NEWS Tuesday, April 22, 2014 POLICE By Jeremy Thomas @jeremyobthomas Approximately twice as many cell phones were lost or stolen in the U.S. in 2013 than in 2012, according to a report released hursday by Consumer Reports. he annual State of the Net Survey found 3.1 million devices were stolen last year — up from 1.6 million in 2012. he survey projected that more than one million smartphones were lost and never recovered last year. In the Austin area, more than 1,700 mobile devices were stolen last year, accord- ing to Austin Police Depart- ment. Veneza Bremner, APD senior police oicer, said most thets occur downtown and in Northwest Austin. “[Downtown and North- west Austin are] where more people are and have their cell phones out freely,” Bremner said. “You visit restaurants, coffee shops, bars, and you think your phone is safe. You put it down for a second, talk to somebody else, and then the phone is gone. You be- come easy targets for these cell phone thefts.” Bremner said the CAMPUS replacement cost of the phone determines the degree of of- fense, ranging from a Class C to Class A misdemeanor. UTPD Officer William Pieper said there are count- less motives for people to steal a mobile device. Some people sell them on Craig- slist or ship them to other locations, and some peo- ple use the stolen phones themselves. and and learning Rebecca Rosenield, ap- and de- plied human velopment development family sciences senior, said she met her friends at a downtown in bar around midnight January, and someone stole her iPhone 5 from her purse. Rosenield said she was shocked it happened to her because she considers herself a responsible person. “First, it was panic,” Rosenield said. “I don’t think about my phone as an expensive item because I use it so daily, but, the minute I realized it was gone, I real- ized that’s not just a thing I can easily go get a new one of. A phone’s more than just a phone. It’s almost like someone’s lifeline.” Rosenield said, to her knowledge, no personal and your walk has to be as good as your talk.” Kopser said he believes entrepreneurs should never pass on an opportunity for national attention, even if the media is capitalizing on an unusual aspect of business. “We went into San Fran- cisco wanting to talk about its tech- RideScout and nology, but the only thing the media cared about was how I am a 40-some- thing-year-old [who] can effectively work with a 20-something-year-old,” Kopser said. “That was the coolest thing to them, and it got us great publicity.” R adio-tele vision-f i lm freshman Gabriella Grant, who attended the lecture, said many of her peers believe hav- ing a good product is all that matters to business. think, if you know what people want, you can succeed,” Grant said. “But it’s so much more than that. It’s about every aspect of the game. Every piece has “People By Nicole Stiles @nicolestiles42 he secret to a successful business is to build a good team of employees, accord- ing to Joseph Kopser, CEO and co-founder of RideS- cout, who gave an on-cam- pus lecture Monday. At the lecture, which was hosted by Communication Council, Kopser used his experience with RideScout — an app for consolidat- ing and tracking alterna- tive transportation services to help users travel quickly and conveniently — to dis- cuss aspects of business ranging from tech and in- novation to communica- tion and teamwork. Kopser said he believes there is no distinct defini- tion of an entrepreneur, but there are three key things that helped him become successful. “You have to love what you do,” Kopser said. “You have to show humility … LOVE continues from page 1 Love said, in Washington, D.C., everyone is constantly keeping score against anoth- er, and people hold grudges over legislation or projects not passed. “Ultimately, it doesn’t al- low you to move forward when that thing happened a long time ago,” Love said. “A lot of people aren’t able to move on to the next play be- cause they are so focused on that last thing that happened adversely to them.” Maria Nunez, journal- ism sophomore and pub- licity officer for Campus Events and Entertainment, said she appreciated Love’s focus on having a passion in life with future jobs and opportunities. “He didn’t just focus on the politics but just life in general, like how you should love what you do,” Nunez said. Biology junior Barron Preston said Love provided the perfect insight into work- ing in the political world. “This just inspires me more to do something in politics,” Preston said. “The experiences Love ex- pressed and the lessons he learned from being in poli- tics just makes me even more passionate about wanting to use that experi- ence to create change.” Michelle Toussaint / Daily Texan Staff Joseph Kopser, CEO and co-founder of Ridescout, an Austin- based startup, speaks at Burdine Hall on Monday afternoon. to it together.” “Easy Kopser said being able to communicate with his team in order to problem-solve is key. problems don’t come to me because my team can ix them [when they oc- cur],” Kosper said. “But, if it’s not easy, we have to put our heads together and discuss whatever it takes until the problem is solved.” Rene Dailey, interper- communications sonal associate professor, said communication skills are vital to the workplace. “Interpersonal commu- nication skills are always one of the top characteris- tics employers are looking for in their job candidates,” Dailey said in an email. “Interpersonal skills help us be more effective in ac- complishing tasks, as well as in building rapport with co-workers.” FREAKY FAST DELIVERY! ©2013 JIMMY JOHN’S FRANCHISE, LLC ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. 4A OPINION LAURA WRIGHT, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF / @TexanEditorial Tuesday, April 22, 2014 4 EDITORIAL Administrator compensation deserves scrutiny On Sunday, the Austin American-States- man reported that, while UT President Wil- liam Powers Jr. served as dean of the Law School, he received $325,000 under a deferred compensation agreement that was apparently not approved by the UT-System Chancellor. Although receiving the money without the Chancellor’s approval violated no laws, it did go against a UT System regents rule which states that “no [UT-System] oicer or employee … shall accept remuneration” from an external entity whose primary ob- jective is to support the UT-System or any of its 15 academic and health institutions without explicit approval of the Chancellor. Power’s past misstep was revealed by the Statesman just as student groups began calling once again for the resignation of Regent Wal- lace Hall, the embattled member of the board of regents who is currently under investigation by the House Select Committee on Transpar- ency in State Agency Operations. hat com- mittee is considering recommending Hall’s impeachment, an unprecedented move, and recently issued a report claiming that Hall may have illegally viewed conidential student data. It’s worth noting, however, that this student data was compromised in the course of Hall’s massive open records requests to the Univer- sity, which he has said he made in an efort to ind information on alleged misdeeds com- mitted by UT oicials in regard to admissions decisions and loans gited to employees of the law school. So what does Powers’ violation of this rule mean for the battle between Powers and the UT-System regents? Given that Powers’ action broke no laws and, by many indicators, appears to be an unintentional mistake, probably not much. It also says little about the ultimate intentions of Hall. But the revelation does demonstrate how much money is being exchanged between higher-level administrators at the Univer- sity and how much UT depends on obscure rules to keep these transactions fair and above ground. he regents’ rule against System oicials receiving large sums of money without the Chancellor’s approval, which Powers vio- lated, is an attempt to avoid the problem of conlicts of interest in the dispersal of funds provided to the University by associated nonproits. As recent history will tell us, that problem is very real: Larry Sager, Powers’ successor in the law school, was asked by the president to resign from his position ater it was revealed that he had received a $500,000 forgivable loan from the same nonproit foundation from which Powers received money while dean at his own suggestion. Powers and Sager, however, were not the only faculty members that received retention payments from the UT Law School Founda- tion without a chancellor’s sign-of. According to the Statesman, about 20 professors received such forgivable loans, ranging from about $75,000 to $500,000 between 2006 and 2010. UT President William Powers Jr. at the Dell Medical School groundbreaking Monday. Jonathan Garza / Daily Texan Staff It’s likely that Powers did not realize he was violating a rule in taking the money. Although he failed to mention the lack of disclosure to the Statesman when the pa- per inquired about it a year ago, Powers has since provided them with the necessary in- formation, calling his initial failure to do so an “honest mistake.” he recent revelation may not point to wrongdoing on the part of Powers, but it should certainly cause students to relect on the recent eforts to “Stand with Powers” and stand against Hall. Powers’ lack of disclosure, although potentially accidental, is yet another reminder of how much money is being ex- changed at the highest levels of University ad- ministration and how few eyes — of Texas or otherwise — are watching these transactions. COLUMN COLUMN his Pride Week, UT should shun gay male stereotypes UT budget should set aside more money for employees By David Davis Daily Texan Columnist @daveedalon his week, LGBTQ students are able to enjoy an opportunity that would not have been aforded to them 40 years ago when gay advocacy organizations were neither allowed to meet on campus nor recognized as oicial student organizations. Pride Week at UT is a celebration of how far both the University and the gay community have come on cam- pus. But rits among gay students, speciical- ly gay males, reverse the goals of Pride that include equality, acceptance and tolerance. In an increasingly progressive society, people are no longer forced to lock them- selves in a closet as a result of a rational fear of legal and societal persecution. Although homosexuality is still a topic of controversy and probably always will be, the discussion of whether someone is gay is no longer as much of a social taboo. Today, gay men who decide to live openly and freely are faced with a new question: How gay are you? his question is posed by other gay men who re- inforce societal pressures to lead a hetero- normative lifestyle. In Texas, and most likely in many other places too, the slightest act that isn’t macho is referred to as gay. Crying is gay. Walking a certain way is gay. Listening to the music of a fabulous singer is certainly gay — even the very act of saying the word “fabulous” is gay. “Gay” does not adhere to the denotative meaning of happiness; being called gay as a young child and in many other circumstanc- es is certainly pejorative. In the South, where social conservatism permeates everyday life, men — homosexual men included — carry this disdain for all things gay into their adult lives. Gay stu- dents at UT are all too familiar with Grindr proiles with dismissive warnings: “No fems! In Texas, and most likely in many other places too, the slightest act that isn’t macho is referred to as gay. Crying is gay. Walking a cer- tain way is gay. Listening to the mu- sic of a fabulous singer is certainly gay — even the very act of saying the word ‘fabulous’ is gay. ‘Gay’ does not adhere to the denotative meaning of happiness... Everything that bigots hate about gay men is reinforced by gay men themselves who want to be per- ceived as ‘straight-acting.’ Certain men within the gay community denounce non-manly behavior so that straight people won’t think that they are any different. Masc only. If people can tell that you’re gay by the way you talk or by the way you look (this includes arched eyebrows, manicured nails and tight-itting clothes) do not mes- sage me!” It is perfectly understandable that a gay male would not want to date someone who closely resembles a woman. But no one deines exactly what being femme is. Is it a lisp or a high voice? Gay men rate each other on an arbitrary sliding scale with femininity and masculinity as the two ex- tremes, although such a judgment is con- sidered inappropriate for anyone outside the gay community. Unfortunately, such a scale works to exclude and debase those who have, quite frankly, a highly prevalent characteristic in the gay community — ef- feminate mannerisms. While I would probably be character- ized as a butch queen, there are times when Beyonce starts playing, and my re- action would not fit the hyper-masculine behavior associated with that label. Even though I am an out and proud gay man, if I censor myself as far as the way I act or the way I talk, it is usually around other gay men. Admittedly, I am afraid that I would be labeled as being femme, so I sometimes deepen my voice and try to talk with my hands less. In a way, I feel as though I am back in the closet. Besides the overarching theme of being proud in general, Pride celebrations aim to remind fellow citizens that being gay does not make someone a second-class citizen. But everything that bigots hate about gay men is reinforced by gay men themselves who want to be perceived as “straight-act- ing.” Certain men within the gay commu- nity denounce non-manly behavior so that straight people won’t think that they are any diferent. But gay men are diferent, very dif- ferent, and homogeneity should never be the ultimate goal as it disallows individual- ism and true pride. So during Pride Week, gay students shouldn’t just pride themselves on being out — they should celebrate the ec- centricities that make the gay community unique. Davis is an international relations and French junior from Houston. By Alberto Martinez Guest Columnist Five years ago, many staf and lecturers lost their jobs at UT-Austin. In the Austin Amer- ican-Statesman, philosophy professor Rob- ert Koons asked that each unit’s budget be posted online. With public oversight it would become possible to make judicious decisions about cuts. Koons complained, “he Univer- sity’s budget is nearly as diicult to access as the black -ops budget of the CIA.” It’s not quite that bad. A copy of the bud- get is available at the PCL and shorter re- ports are available online. But Koons was right that some information is not easily accessible. When I joined Faculty Council in 2012, I asked to become a member of the Advisory Committee on Budgets. I hoped to study UT’s budget. But, in our irst meeting, the chair told us that “we don’t actually look at numbers.” We did not get the budget, or a summary or any numbers whatsoever. We were just “an advisory committee.” But how could faculty advise on UT’s budget if we did not see it? I was stunned. I wondered about the members of Faculty Council who wrongly assumed that the budget committee actually looked at the budget. Months later, President William Powers Jr. kindly met with us. I suggested that we should either study the actual budget or rename our group. He readily agreed that we should ana- lyze the budget; he said that a past chair had shited the committee away from that. Subsequently, we had several helpful meetings with UT’s inancial oicers, Kevin Hegarty, Mary Knight, Dan Slesnick and Steven Leslie. I understood some of their concerns. For example, inlation accounts for about $36 million per year that has to come from somewhere. I worry that the Shared Services plan to eliminate 500 staf jobs is related to this. However, I see the budget diferently. A senior colleague used to say, “It’s not really a lack of funds — it’s a problem of distribution.” We oten hear that the Legislature funds a decreasing percentage of UT’s operat- ing costs. Such concerns stem partly from looking at state appropriations as a per- centage of general revenue. Since other sources of revenue increase, then it seems as if the percentage of state support de- clines. In 2000-2001, state appropriations to UT were $279.4 million. For 2013-2014, appropriations are $315.5 million, a growth of 13 percent. If we take inlation into ac- count, $279.4 million in 2001 is equivalent to $373 million in 2014 dollars. hus, state appropriations have increased but have not kept up with inlation. I think that UT’s budgetary condition is not caused mainly by decreasing state ap- propriations. Instead, it’s caused by UT’s growth rate. In 2000-2001, the budget for faculty If the faculty had not grown at all, the expense for faculty salaries would be at around $222.6 mil- lion. Hence, most faculty salaries have not kept up with inlation. salaries was $185.5 million. That’s about $247.5 million in 2014 dollars. Yet the budget for faculty salaries is now higher — $278.3 million — because the num- ber of full-time equivalent faculty ap- pointments has grown by 20 percent, from 2,027 to 2,446. If the faculty had not grown at all, the expense for faculty salaries would be at about $222.6 mil- lion. Hence, most faculty salaries have not kept up with inflation. Meanwhile, departmental budgets have shrunk. In 2000-2001, UT budgeted $50.3 million for departmental operating expens- es, which in 2014 dollars would be $67.1 million. Yet today those expenses are much lower, $48.2 million. At the same time, the annual budget for UT’s Instructional Administration (and I don’t know what that encompasses) has grown by 307 percent: from $14 million in 2000-2001 to $57 million in 2013-2014. It stands out as one of the greatest growth rates. In contrast, in these 13 years, staf beneits have grown by 129 percent, and UT’s net as- sets have similarly grown by 113.5 percent, from $3.8 billion to $7.2 billion. Meanwhile, income from tuition and fees has grown by 125 percent, from $260 mil- lion to $594 million. As is well known, this far exceeds the rate of inlation. Why? I don’t know. hat’s the mystery. And the answer will not be found in this year’s budget alone but in its history. We should compare a past, balanced bud- get with today’s budget. I encourage readers to carry out this analysis. Last year, students complained that Accenture was paid $1 mil- lion to igure out what to cut. I was stunned when it turned out to be more than $4 million. hat’s equivalent to paying lecturers to teach roughly 600 to 700 courses. hese are real needs. In 2010, the College of Liberal Arts cut its budget for lecturers by $4.7 million. Some imagine that scores of employ- ees should be cut “to improve eiciency.” Instead, I know staf to be eicient, hard- working and underpaid. Last September, President Powers rightly said, “We are fall- ing behind in our ability to attract and re- tain our staf as well. So we need to focus our resources to rectify that as well. Let me put it bluntly: We need raises, even if we have to stop doing some other important things to get them.” Martínez is an associate professor in the department of history and a member of UT’s Faculty Council. LEGALESE | Opinions expressed in The Daily Texan are those of the editor, the Editorial Board or the writer of the article. 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Thu. 5 Jun. through Sun. 8 Jun. 512-462-0492 • ppdi.com text “ppd” to 48121 to receive study information visit dailytexanonline.com DailyTexanClassiieds.com RECYCLE RECYCLE RECYCLE RECYCLE 6 SPTS STEFAN SCRAFIELD, SPORTS EDITOR / @texansports Tuesday, April 22, 2014 Following loss, bright future for rugby CLUB SPORTS By Daniel Clay @dclay567 he University of Texas Rugby Club’s season came to an end on Saturday with a 64-10 beat down at the hands of the U.S. Naval Academy in the Varsity Cup quarterinals. “I knew it was going to be a long day, and we would have to be our best,” irst- year head coach Christopher “Bus” Hopps said of the loss to the Midshipmen. “On a day we needed to be our best, we just weren’t.” hat brutal loss is just a small part of what has been an otherwise spec- tacular season for the young Longhorn squad. he same Texas team that nearly lost to Stephen F. Aus- tin at the beginning of the year found itself compet- ing last month against Texas State in the Southwest Con- ference Championship. he much-improved Longhorns blew out the Bobcats 40-17 in San Marcos to cap of a regular season that saw the team go undefeated in Texas, satisfying the demands of its new head coach. “We just want to perform at or above our potential,” Hopps said. “I think, this year, what that ended up be- ing is seeing [the Longhorns] become the premier program in the state of Texas. We’ve taken the lead in Texas, and, next, we are taking the lead in the nation.” Two weeks ago, the Long- horns sought to take their cause outside of Texas, as the squad began competi- tion in the Varsity Cup, the BASEBALL Sam Ortega / Daily Texan ile photo During practice Jan. 30, the UT rugby team executes a line-out, in which they lift economics senior Rafael Lopez Segovia for the ball. Segovia and his team captured a conference championship on their rise to the national spotlight in college rugby. in most prestigious post-season tournament collegiate rugby. he team traveled to South Bend, Ind., to take on highly touted Notre Dame in the opening round of the 12-team single elimination tournament. he underdog Longhorns erupted out of the gate against the Fighting Irish, piling on points early en route to a 55-33 victory. “We just came out strong, and we didn’t let of,” said Danny Camara, club presi- dent and graduating psy- chology senior. “It was prob- ably the best game of rugby [Texas] has played since I’ve been here.” he win propelled Texas rugby to relevance on the national stage, where the Longhorns hope to become a ixture in the next couple of years. “We learned that we were able to play to a standard that we had never played before,” Hopps said. “It’s not a lash in the pan. It’s not a luke that we got here.” he loss to Navy may not have been the conclusion Ca- mara and his fellow seniors were hoping for, but, with only four starters graduating, the future looks bright for Hopps’ Longhorns. “[Our freshman class] is as any I’ve ever been around in rugby, and I said the same thing about our freshman class last year,” Hopps said. “With those two groups of young men together, I think you can expect to see good things from Texas rugby for the next three or four years.” One of the strong fresh- man Hopps is talking about is lanker Reed Hogan, who has been a ixture in the Longhorns’ starting lineup this season. Hogan and the rest of the freshman may have served as solid start- ers, but the youngster knows that he has not reached his full potential. “It deinitely helped the team having freshman who had played [rugby before coming to UT], but we can only get better,” Hogan, a communication studies freshman, said. “I expect us to win our conference again and beat A&M and OU.” With a strong core of young players, the new kids on the block should be get- the ting comfortable on center stage. FOOTBALL | COLUMN Malcom Brown could follow in Jefcoat’s path year in which he helped clog the middle of Texas’ defense, he appears primed to make the leap into a more domi- nant role this year. On Saturday, Brown em- barrassed the interior ofen- sive linemen on several plays, looking every bit like a player on the cusp of a breakout season, which will only be bolstered by Strong’s reputa- tion for molding great defen- sive players. he ofense looked anemic and disoriented at times Sat- urday, and, while defenders typically play better in these games anyway, it still is clear that this defense will be the dynamic, playmaking unit for this team. If Brown wasn’t excited about Strong taking over be- fore, he is now. Texas fans know that Jefcoat and Reed combined for 23 sacks last year, which was the second highest number of sacks by two players on the same team in all of Divi- sion I in 2013. he only players to beat out the Jefcoat-Reed duo were Marcus Smith and Lorenzo Mauldin, who had none other than Strong as their coach at Louisville. And, although Brown is unlikely to have a double- digit sack season because of the position he plays, he has the potential to emerge as the poster boy of the defensive- minded Strong era. By David Lefler Daily Texan Columnist @lefler_david In large part because of monster seasons by defensive ends Jackson Jefcoat and se- nior Cedric Reed, the defen- sive line was a clear area of strength for the Longhorns last year. With Jefcoat now gone and Reed surely to gar- ner extra attention from of- fensive lines, junior defensive tackle Malcom Brown has the chance to emerge as the latest standout along this Texas line. Brown was a force in Sat- urday’s spring game, main- taining a constant presence in the backield and prevent- ing sophomore quarterback Tyrone Swoopes from feeling comfortable in the pocket. Swoopes inished the day be- ing tackled ive times, hur- ried once and tackled for a loss once in the irst glimpse at the beginnings of the Charlie Strong era. his kind of production should be expected out of Brown. At 6-foot-4-inches and 320 pounds, he was ranked the second-best de- fensive tackle in the country when he came to Austin. Ater a solid season last Sam Ortega / Daily Texan Staff Junior defensive tackle Malcom Brown chases down quarter- back Miles Onyegbule during Saturday’s Orange-White game. Michelle Toussaint / Daily Texan Staff Sophomore C.J. Hinojosa takes a swing during Texas’ weekend series agaisnt TCU. The Horned Frogs swept the Longhorns as Texas had lashbacks to last year’s struggles. Longhorns look to rebound ater disappointing weekend By Matt Warden @TheMattWarden While the Longhorns didn’t blow their chances at postseason play this weekend, three losses to TCU straight took them back to last season, if just for those three games. their he Horned Frogs’ pitch- ing dominated Texas (30-11, 9-6 Big 12) last weekend, as the Longhorns tallied only one run in the three-game series. Although TCU boasts one of the best pitching stafs in the country, the lack of runs mirrored Texas’ 2013 campaign when hits didn’t always translate into runs. The Longhorns notched 17 hits in the three-game series, which makes their one run that much more glaring in the box scores. Head coach Augie Gar- rido said the weekend served as a measuring stick, as solid pitching is all the Longhorns will see in postseason play. Gar- rido said TCU was by far the best pitching Texas has seen all year. “Yes, [the TCU pitch- ers] distracted them from their hitting plan, and that’s what you saw,” Garrido said. “hey started swinging at pitches outside the strike zone. hey got disoriented. hey have never seen pitch- ing like this.” Perhaps the only bright spot for Texas over the weekend was senior out- ielder Mark Payton, who extended his reached-base streak to 80 consecutive games in Game 3 of the series. Payton tallied three hits over the weekend while sophomore shortstop C.J. Hinojosa led the team with four in the series. The Longhorns will look to get back on track Tues- day night when they face off with UTPA for the sec- ond time this season. In the first meeting between the teams, the Broncs gave Texas everything it could handle before the Long- horns eventually pulled out the 2-1 victory in extra innings. Payton still leads the team Texas vs. UTPA Day: Tuesday, April 22 Time: 6 p.m. On air: LHN with a .345 batting average, but Texas now has a com- bined eight hitters with an average of .250 or better, as compared to just four hit- ters for the Broncs. As always, the Long- horns will look to their pitching staff, which still boasts a stellar combined ERA of 2.13 despite allow- ing eight runs last week- end. The Longhorns now sit in third place in the Big 12, three games be- hind Oklahoma State for first place. Tuesday’s game, which starts at 6 p.m. at home, gives Texas an opportunity to ind its swing again and get its momentum back as it heads into another important con- ference series this weekend against conference-leading Oklahoma State. 6 SIDELINE NHL Playoffs DUCKS STARS BLUES BLACKHAWKS PENGUINS BLUE JACKETS NBA Playoffs First Round GRIZZLIES THUNDER TOP TWEET David Ash @david_ash14 Proud of all my boys this weekend! Esp. @ tyroneswoopes1 @ MilesOnyay17. We know that all our hard work under Coach Strong will pay off. SPORTS BRIEFLY Boston Marathon sets new record numbers With the names of the victims scrawled on their bodies or their race bibs, more than 32,000 people crossed the starting line Monday at the Boston Marathon in a powerful show of deiance one year ater the deadly bombing. he runners this time hit the streets under ex- traordinary security that included a battery of sur- veillance cameras, more than 90 bomb-sniing dogs and oicers posted on roofs. continued By late aternoon, as runners to drag themselves across the inish line more than six hours into the race, state emergency oicials reported no security threats, other than some unattended bags. In what some saw as altogether itting, Meb Kelezighi, a 38-year-old U.S. citizen who came to this country from Eritrea as a boy, became the irst American in 31 years to win the men’s race. As he was presented with the trophy and laurel wreath, “he Star-Span- gled Banner” echoed over Boylston Street, where the explosions rang out a year ago. Later in the day Mon- day, at 2:49 p.m., the time the bombs went of, a moment of silence was observed at the in- ish line. It was followed by some of the loudest cheers of the day as peo- ple whooped, clapped and rang cowbells. “Boston Strong” — the unoicial slogan adopted ater the bombing — was everywhere as the sec- ond-largest ield of run- ners in the 118-year his- tory of the race took part. Many of them were run- ners who had to abandon the race last year because of the attack. —Associated Press COMICS Tuesday, April 22, 2014 7 COMICS 7 Crossword Edited by Will Shortz No. 0318 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 17 20 31 38 43 56 62 67 70 ACROSS 1 Corrupt 4 Outfielder Ty 8 Brainy 13 Amman’s Queen ___ International Airport 15 Law office worker, for short 16 Talented newbie 17 Home-invading Gore? 19 Opera’s birthplace 20 Response to “Are not!” 21 Señor chaser? 23 Elevator pioneer Elisha 24 Area for aristocrats? 28 Mistake 30 Bush’s labor secretary 31 Eight fluid ounces 32 Retrovirus material 34 Obstructs, as a pipe 38 W.W. I novel … hinted at by 17-, 24-, 52- and 64-Across 43 Liszt’s “Consolation No. 3” is in it 44 Story of one’s life 45 Irritating cry 46 Leading inits. in frozen desserts 49 Visual gag character of British TV 52 Exchange of vows again for the Grim Reaper? 56 Railroad chartered in 1832 57 Old Testament prophecy book: Abbr. 58 “X-Men” character with blue fur 62 Remove gradually 64 Emmy, Oscar and Grammy-winning reptile? 67 Dwelling changes, in Realtor-speak ANSWER TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE T S A R A T T I C C A R D F R E D O H E X A L E E R G A M E W A R D E N I R A E N I L S H I P G E M S T A T E L I E U S E E M E C C A T O T G I M M E F I V E A V E S I N E R T R U L E S C A N M A J O R A V I D G O M E R P Y L E N I P A D A N O H I S L A D E G U M B A L L S S O U P U N U I F S O G Y M N A S T I C S E A T S A I S L E P E E N S T Y E U L E E S A W R Y A N T 68 “Don’t take ___ seriously!” 69 Oscar nominee Garr 70 Neighbor of Minneapolis 71 Keep in check, with “in” 72 Explorer’s aid DOWN 1 Yeast cake made with rum 2 Eisenhower vis-à-vis West Point, informally 3 Malicious gossip 4 E-file preparer 5 Rower’s need 6 Alternative to a ponytail 7 Like Latvia or Lithuania 8 Discovery Channel subj. 9 Razr maker 10 One instrumental in history? 11 Old object 12 Secret meeting 14 To the max, ’60s-style 18 Editor Marshall of financial publications 22 Residue in a fireplace 25 Oslo’s home: Abbr. 26 Hue 27 Burrito alternative 28 Yellow-brown color 29 Translucent gem 31 Heel 33 Edmonton’s province: Abbr. 35 Whale of a movie? 14 15 18 16 19 27 21 22 23 24 25 26 28 29 30 32 33 34 35 36 37 39 40 41 42 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 57 58 59 60 61 63 65 66 44 55 64 68 71 45 69 72 PUZZLE BY DAVID KWONG 36 Agent under Hoover, informally 37 Yemen-to- Zimbabwe dir. 39 Turned in, in a way 40 Help make an impression? 41 Exec’s car, maybe 42 Star of “Fringe,” Anna ___ 47 Home of the Bahamas, once: Abbr. 48 Emphatic affirmative 50 Early film star Daniels 51 Put up 52 Caterpillar rival 53 Acted in a human way? 54 Need for some fish dishes 55 Beatrice’s adorer 59 “Excuse me” 60 Lab fluids 61 Excursion 63 Finnish hockey star Tikkanen 65 “Try ___ might …” 66 ___-Tiki Annual subscriptions are available for the best of Sunday crosswords from the last 50 years: 1-888-7-ACROSS. 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Sewn on the Street will be on dis- play at City Hall on hurs- day from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. he artists said they will enlist people passing by to help create part of a T-shirt on one of their 10 sewing machines, which will be housed underneath a tent. “If we can get them to sit down and spend time at the sewing machine, we can pay them a rate that a sweatshop worker would make, which is probably pennies,” Lay- ton said. “hat’s mostly as a symbolic thing, to get the connection that these are the clothes we wear every day, who’s making them and what are they getting paid for.” he walls of the tent will be lined with lists of sweatshop workers’ wages from diferent countries around the world, such as Honduras and India. Layton explained, while sweatshops vary from region to region, a common practice is the creation of “fast cloth- ing,” or clothing that is cheap and easy to make, but not necessarily of the best quality. “[Fast clothing is] very Ethan Oblak / Daily Texan Staff Textile artists Rebecca Layton (right) and Monika Jakubiak prepare for their art installation Sewn on the Street, a single-day pop-up sweatshop. According to the artists, the purpose behind the installation is not activism, but, rather to raise awareness of where most clothing comes from. much parallel with fast food,” Layton said. “When you think about how fast food is made, it’s made with the cheapest ingredients, and it actually takes less time to prepare. It oten has the tri- fecta of fat, sugar and salt. So you can say that fast clothes were probably made with the cheapest actual material.” he production of fast clothing in sweatshops has become more common as the demand for newer styles has increased in trendy fash- ion stores, such as H&M, explained Layton. She said, today, high-quality clothing has deteriorated so signii- cantly that “fast fashion” is now the standard. Both Layton and Jakubiak said that the purpose behind Sewn on the Street is to raise awareness of where most clothing comes from — not to take a political stance. “It’s not activism,” Jaku- biak said. “Rather, it’s an artistic project. It’s a perfor- mance where members of the public can try to stitch something together.” On Saturday, Fusebox will be hosting a discussion with the Sewn on the Street artists called the Noontime Wale Chat. he chat, which ofers complimen- tary wales, will cover topics ranging from how clothes are made and distributed to the potential implementation of a “slow clothes” movement. Ann Beeson, founder of Hatch, an organization co- presenting the chat, will be the Noontime facilitating Wale Chat discussion. “It’s a fun and creative kind of element,” Beeson said. “he whole idea is to get people in- volved in conversation. hey’re going to be on picnic blankets in the sculpture garden, and it’s a diferent kind format than the usual conversation.” Jakubiak hopes that hav- ing participants create T-shirts from scratch will provide some insight into the amount of ef- fort that goes into producing, for example, a single T-shirt. “I realized that the crat, the tools and technologies of fashion and clothes-making is very simple and very mod- est,” Jakuibiak said. “It’s uni- versal and around the world, no matter where I go.” Missing plane continues to enthrall Americans PERTH, Australia — From the disappearances of avia- tor Amelia Earhart to labor union leader Jimmy Hofa, there’s just something about a good mystery that Ameri- cans ind too tantalizing to resist. Perhaps that’s why the saga of missing Malaysia Air- lines Flight 370 has contin- ued to rivet the country long ater people elsewhere have moved on. Why did interest remain so high in the U.S. when the story lost steam elsewhere? It dropped from most Aus- tralian front pages and web- sites weeks ago, despite the search being coordinated of its western coast. CNN In- ternational, CNN’s overseas network, tapered its coverage when other big news broke, such as the crisis in Ukraine and the Oscar Pistorius trial in South Africa. But CNN in the U.S. continued its heavy focus on the plane. But Americans yearned for more. Many found it impossible to believe that a modern Boeing 777 carrying 239 people could just vanish without a trace in an age when an iPhone can be tracked just about anywhere. “I ind myself drawn into watching or reading about it because it has taken on seemingly mythic worldwide importance,” Paul Mones, an attorney from Portland, Ore., wrote in an email. “In this modern world, we simply refuse to accept that some- thing so concrete can get so out of our physical reach and understanding. ... People just Flight oficer Rayan Gharazed- dine, on board a Royal Australian Air Force AP-3C Orion, searches for the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 in southern Indian Ocean, Australia. Rob Grifith Associated Press boxes were heard. CNN covered the drama for weeks, once heavily breaking into one of its pro- grams to report that objects recovered from the sea could be trash — which is exactly what they proved to be. hey featured tons of go-to foot- age from a light simulator and a nonstop spool of spec- ulation from talking heads. Everyone had a theory, with some sounding more like a Twilight Zone rerun than a newscast: Could a black hole or even something supernat- ural be behind the aircrat’s March 8 disappearance? CNN declined to com- ment for this story despite re- peated requests from the AP. A combination of popular TV shows and a history pep- pered with real-life detec- tive dramas, from who shot President John F. Kennedy to the identity of Watergate source “Deep hroat,” may have been factors that tempt- ed Americans to latch onto it. “It’s almost like all the seasons of ‘Lost’ was the promotional period for this story,” said Robert homp- son, a pop culture expert at Syracuse University. “We have always kind of put a lot of our popular national narrative into these mysteries and conspiracies and all of the rest of it,” he added. “And this is a pretty powerful one.” —Associated Press refuse to concede that the cause of the disaster will like- ly forever remain unknown.” Ater six weeks of breath- less reporting, not one shred of hard evidence has been found from the jetliner. An unmanned underwater sub- marine is now using sonar to comb the ocean loor at a depth exceeding 4.5 kilome- ters (2.8 miles) of the west coast of Australia. 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