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Clinton blasts ‘restrictive’ voter ID laws

CIVIL RIGHTS SUMMIT

By Julia Brouillette 
& Amanda Voeller
@thedailytexan

Former President Bill Clin-
ton emphasized the issue of 
voter ID laws during his speech 
Wednesday at the Civil Rights 
Summit, saying they disenfran-
chise voters and do not align 
with the goals of the Voting 
Rights Act of 1965. Clinton also 
said students should be able to 
use their student IDs to vote.

“Here in Texas, the con-
cealed carry permit counts, 
but there’s one photo ID that 
doesn’t count: one from a Texas 
institution of higher education,” 
Clinton said at the Lady Bird 
Johnson Auditorium. “his is a 
way of restricting the franchise 
ater 50 years of expanding it.”
Clinton, who was the sec-
ond president to appear at the 
summit ater former President 
Jimmy Carter spoke on Tues-
day evening, said the U.S.’s vot-
ing laws impair some people’s 
CLINTON page 3

Civil rights 
icons relate 
dangers of 
social shits

By Alyssa Mahoney
@TheAlyssaM

On May 4, 1961, a few 
months before President 
Barack Obama was born, 
John Lewis and the rest of 
Freedom Riders were pre-
pared to die as they rode pub-
lic buses through the deep 
South to protest segregation.

“Some of us signed notes and 
wills that, if it took our death — 
as Dr. King said — to redeem 
the soul of America, I think 
that some of us were prepared,” 
Lewis, who is now a Demo-
cratic U.S. representative from 
Georgia, said at a Civil Rights 
Summit panel on Wednesday. 
“I thought I was going to die on 
that bridge [during the march 
from Selma to Montgomery, 
Ala., in 1965]. I thought I saw 
death, but I was not afraid.”

HEROES page 3

Shelby Tauber / Daily Texan Staff
Guests of the Public Affairs Alliance for Communities of Color watch a live stream of former President Bill Clinton’s speech 
on Wednesday evening at a watch party at Scholz Garten. 

Athletes link childhood to drive for change

By Stefan Scraield
@StefanScraield

Bill Russell and 

Jim 
Brown were already utiliz-
ing their status as high pro-
ile athletes to strengthen 
the civil rights movement in 
their early 20s — the same 
age as many of today’s col-
lege students.

At the Civil Rights Sum-
mit on Wednesday, Russell, 
Brown and Harry Edwards, 
sociology professor emeri-
tus at the University of Cali-
fornia, Berkeley, noted that 
the two athletes’ opportu-
nity to contribute to the 
movement at such a young 
age came as a result of their 
strong upbringings.

“I was very fortunate to 
have a great mother, a great 
coach, Ed Walsh, and a great 
mentor, Kenny Molloy,” 
Brown said. “hey were im-
peccable from the standpoint 
of advocating education and 
self-determination. Because 
I was helped at a young age, 
I knew my life’s work would 
be to help others.”

he two inluential Af-
athletes 
rican-American 
continually cited parental 
leadership throughout their 

Lauren Ussery / Daily Texan Staff
Joseph Califano Jr., special assistant to former President Lyn-
don Johnson, speaks at a panel at the Civil Rights Summit 
on Wednesday.

LBJ, MLK relationship 
unfazed by civil rights

By Alyssa Mahoney
@TheAlyssaM

Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. 
and former President Lyndon 
B. Johnson had an amicable 
relationship, even as King and 
others pressured Johnson to 
introduce new civil rights leg-
islation, according to Andrew 
Young, former United Na-
tions ambassador.

he second day of the Civil 
Rights Summit began with 
the “LBJ and MLK: Fulilling 
a Promise, Realizing a Dream” 

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panel, a discussion that featured 
Young, as well as LBJ’s special 
assistant Joseph Califano Jr. and 
historians Taylor Branch and 
Doris Kearns Goodwin.

“[Johnson originally] said, 
RELATIONSHIP page 3

Shelby Tauber / Daily Texan Staff
From left: Jim Brown and Bill Russell, high proile athletes during the civil rights movement, 
spoke in a panel alongside Harry Edwards, sociology professor emeritus at the University of 
California, Berkeley, during the Civil Rights Summit on Wednesday afternoon.

childhood as the source of 
their conidence and desire 
to advocate change.

“he irst thing I knew 
about life was my mother 
and father loved me,” Rus-
sell said. “My mother, in her 
irst conversation with me, 
said, ‘here’s nobody on this 
planet better than you. Also, 
there’s nobody that you’re 

better than them.’”

Brown, 

three-time 
a 
NFL MVP, said there had 
never been a time in his 
life when he was unaware 
of the civil rights move-
ment. He said he has long 
supported the notion that 
the key to the movement’s 
success was economic de-
velopment in the African- 

American community.

“I was always a person 
that advocated econom-
ic development because 
America is a capitalist soci-
ety,” Brown said. “hat was 
the way I felt we could gain 
equality quicker than doing 
anything else.”

ATHLETES page 3

Students rally against immigrant deportation

By Adam Hamze
@adamhamz

he University Leader-
ship Initiative held a rally 
Wednesday in front of the 
Martin Luther King Jr. stat-
ue on the East Mall to show 
support for immigrants who 
have been deported.

Rally representatives said 
the ideals of the Civil Rights 
Summit do not align with 
current U.S. policy toward 
undocumented immigrants. 

Students involved in the rally 
held a number of signs, one 
of which said “we have a 
dream 2,” and chained them-
selves to the statue.

Rhetoric 

and writing 
sophomore Maria Reza said 
the group gathered because 
it believes the discussions at 
the summit need to better 
acknowledge the rights of 
undocumented immigrants.
“As we talk right now, fam-
ilies are being separated — 
deportations are happening,” 

Reza said

In 2012, Immigration and 
Customs Enforcement, 
the 
investigative arm of the U.S. 
Department of Homeland Se-
curity commonly known as 
ICE, announced the U.S. had 
deported a total of 409,849 im-
migrants — the largest num-
ber in the agency’s history. 

Engineering 

sophomore 
Juan Belman, who said his 
father is at risk of deportation, 
said Austin needs to show 
support for families who have 

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to deal with deportation.

“If we are a progressive 
community here in Austin, 
we need to show that,” Bel-
man said. “We need to show 
Texas how to move forward.”
According to ICE, 2,614 
RALLY page 3

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Patrick Frerro sits chained around a statue of Martin Luther 
King Jr. as part of a rally held by the University Leadership 
Initiative on Wednesday afternoon. 

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Most UT undergraduates 
are members of the technol-
ogy-driven, plugged-in gen-
eration of Millennials. But 
just 20 years ago, the Internet 
was still in its infancy. 

On Aug. 29, 1994, he 
Daily Texan published a sto-
ry detailing the exciting new 
features of the UTnet sys-
tem, a network of more than 
10,000 computers on cam-
pus that allowed students to 
connect to the Internet, play 
games and join chat rooms.

Computers on campus 
were few and far between 
in 1994, and access to the 
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THROWBACK

Ubiquitous Internet once a tech marvel

have access to a computer for 
even a short amount of time. 
“When due dates rolled 
around people queued up for 
computers like camped-out 
wristband seekers,” the ar-
ticle said.

he Texan reporter who 
wrote the article was excited 
and optimistic about the 
possibilities the new UTnet 
system ofered students in 
communication 
terms of 
and accessibility. 

“hat’s all well and good, 
but what can you do with [a 
UTnet] account?” the article 
said. “he answer is: a heck 
of a lot. … Probably the most 
popular feature is e-mail, or 
electronic mail. It is just like 
sending a letter to someone 
via the Post Oice, except it 
is much faster.”

In the age of Dropbox 
and Google Docs, when 
students can simultaneous-
ly work on group projects, 

chat with their group mem-
bers and probably squeeze 
in a few social media up-
dates along the way, today’s 
students might wonder in 
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At a memorial service at 
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Wednesday 
aternoon, 
President Barack Obama 
spoke about 
the recent 
shooting that let four dead 
— including the shooter 
— and more than a dozen 
injured, and called for in-
creased support for Ameri-
cans sufering from mental 
health issues.

“Part of what makes this 
so painful is we’ve been 
here before,” Obama said. 
“We cannot ever eliminate 
every risk, but, as a nation, 
we can do more to counsel 
those with mental health 
issues and to keep irearms 
out of the hands of those 
having such diiculties.”

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Obama 

ofered 
words of support for the 
soldiers’ families.

“We hold each other up, 
we carry on and, with God’s 
amazing grace, we somehow 
bear the things unbearable,” 
Obama said. “his army and 
this nation stand with you 
for all these days to come.”

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advantage of UT’s access 
to the Internet, despite any 
qualms they might have had 
concerning the new medium. 
“he Internet is a tremen-
dous resource,” the article 
said. “Don’t be afraid to ex-
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he technical lingo can be 
daunting, but also can be 
overcome. Don’t let this, like 
so many other opportunities 
you will have at the Univer-
sity, pass you by.” 

Indeed, the Internet, and 
especially 
the advent of 
Google, has tremendously 
changed 
the way college 
students interact, work and 
research. he phrase, “Just 
Google it,” has become com-
monplace, pound signs have 
been replaced with hashtags 
and the word “selie” has 
become so prominent that 
it earned itself a spot in the 
Oxford English Dictionary. 

Although students could 
use the UTnet system from 
their dorms or off-campus 
housing, it was hardly as 
accessible as the Univer-
sity’s Wi-Fi system is now. 
hey also didn’t have Apple 
MacBooks to tote around 
campus and shove into their 
backpacks at will. A picture 
that ran beside the article 
was captioned, “Dinosaurs 
like these [computers] were 
still used by certain Univer-
sity departments up until 
recently. he University is 
steadily replacing these arti-
facts with newer machines.” 
A picture below the picture 
of the old computers show-
cased the new computers, 
which would be considered 
well past dinosaur status and 
well on their way into fossil 
territory in 2014.

Twenty years ago, comput-
ers on campus were in such 
high demand that upper-
classmen resorted to pranks 
to keep others from trying to 
use the computers. 

of 

“Legend has it that in the 
early days of the Computa-
tion Center, some hooligan 
played 
technological 
fears by placing a sign in 
the ground above the build-
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 Washington,” Young said.

Lewis said people who 
participated in sit-ins and 
marches were oten pre-
dominantly women, and he 
thinks male chauvinism was 
a contributing factor.

“here were men who said 
they couldn’t be nonviolent,” 
Lewis said. “You can be non-
violent. You can stand in line 
and keep the peace.”

Bond said he avoided tak-
ing an oicial position on 
same-sex marriage while he 
was NAACP chairman be-
cause he did not think the or-
ganization would support it.

“One day ater I was not 
chairman anymore … some-
body sat down there and 
said, ‘I move that we sup-
port same-sex marriage,’” 
Bond said. “I’m thinking no, 
no, no, this is not the time.”
Bond, who said he personal-
ly supports same-sex marriage, 
said he was surprised when 
60 out of 64 NAACP board 
members voted to support 
same-sex marriage in 2012.

Lewis said there is still a lot 
of work to do, and encour-
aged younger generations to 
increase their civic and politi-
cal participation to advance 

civil rights, especially regard-
ing immigration policy. 

“We need to set people 
on the path to citizenship,” 
Lewis said. “I don’t accept 
this idea that individuals are 
illegal. here’s no such thing 
as an illegal human being.”

Young said younger gen-
erations play a key role in 
creating a truly multicul-
tural and multiracial demo-
cratic society.

“We’ve got to mobilize and 
organize,” Young said. “here 
are still forces in America 
that want to make it harder 
for people to participate.”

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HEROES
continues from page 1

Lewis, 

former NAACP 
chairman Julian Bond and 
Andrew Young, former U.S. 
congressman and U.N. am-
bassador, reminisced about 
their experiences 
the 
movement and discussed is-
sues not oten addressed in 
the movement’s history, in-
cluding the gender discrimi-
nation that persisted within 
civil rights groups.

in 

Bond said even though 
the Student Nonviolent Co-
ordinating Committee had 
more gender equality than 
other civil rights organiza-
tions, there was still conlict 
between men and women.

“here were enormous ten-
sions over the role each would 
play,” Bond said. “Had it not 
been for women, there would 
not have been a movement.”

Young said despite women 
playing a key role in advanc-
ing the movement, gender 
discrimination persisted.

“he sin of the movement 
to me was that [civil rights 
and women’s rights activ-
ist] Dorothy Height didn’t 
get to speak at the March on 

CLINTON
continues from page 1

abilities to vote.

“Anytime you erect a barrier 
to political participation that 
disenfranchises people based 
on their income or race, it un-
dermines the spirit of the Civil 
Rights Act,” Clinton said.
Clinton emphasized 

the 
importance of the civil rights 
movement in the election of 
the last three Democrats to 
win the presidency.

"We’re here because the 
Civil Rights Act and the Vot-
ing Rights Act made it pos-
sible for Jimmy Carter, Barack 
Obama and I to become 
president of the United States,” 
Clinton said.

he Civil Rights Act out-
lawed discrimination in pub-
lic places based on race, color, 
religion, sex or national origin, 
while the Voting Rights Act 
extended federal oversight of 
elections to prevent discrimi-
nation in voting. President 
Lyndon B. Johnson lobbied 
for and signed both landmark 
pieces of legislation.

Student Government Presi-
dent Kori Rady said the elimi-
nation of obstacles such as 
Texas’ current voter ID restric-
tions is crucial to increasing 
voter turnout on campus. 

RALLY
continues from page 1

people were deported from 
Travis County jails in 2012, 
which is roughly 19 per 
week, as reported by the Aus-
tin American-Statesman. 
ICE also reported that 85 
percent of the non-criminal 
deportations in 2013 were 
individuals attempting 
to 
enter the U.S. unlawfully. 

Approximately 40 people 
attended the rally, and the 
group led a series of chants, 

Jack Plunkett / Associated Press
Former President Bill Clinton speaks during the Civil Rights 
Summit on Wednesday.

“We can get 

the ball 
rolling and get this conversa-
tion started, and having a for-
mer president of the United 
States start the conversation 
deinitely helps,” Rady said.

Clinton 

demonstrated 
commitment to civil rights 
in multiple areas during his 
presidency, according to Greg-
ory Vincent, vice president for 
the Division of Diversity and 
Community Engagement.

“He made a very conscien-
tious efort to have his cabinet 
relect the diversity of Ameri-
ca,” Vincent said.

Law 

assistant professor 
Cary Franklin said Clinton’s 
legacy is tainted by the De-
fense of Marriage Act, which 

he signed in 1996.

“I don’t think the marriage 
equality story is a very happy 
one from Clinton’s presiden-
cy,” Franklin said. “He wasn’t 
signing 
enthusiastic about 
that bill. ”

Clinton said in order to 
progress civil rights, people 
should focus less on their ra-
cial and gender diferences.

“We are genetically 99.5 
percent the same,” Clinton 
said. “Why are we risking the 
future of this great experiment, 
the wide horizons that Lyndon 
Johnson and his colleagues 
open to us, by spending 99 and 
a half percent of our time on 
that half percent of ourselves 
that is diferent?”

such as “we have nothing to 
lose but our chains,” and “it is 
our duty to ight for our free-
dom.” Members of the organi-
zation also read Martin Luther 
King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” 
speech aloud. hree UTPD of-
icers were also present.

he Travis County Demo-
cratic Party supported the Uni-
versity Leadership Initiative’s 
event and are in the process of 
passing a resolution opposing 
Travis County’s cooperation 
with the Secure Communities 
program, which is designed 

to 
identify undocumented 
immigrants in American jails 
that are subject to deportation.
he party’s communica-
tion director Joe Deshotel 
said his organization fully 
supports the families of de-
ported immigrants.

“We are particularly con-
cerned about those families 
that are being torn apart 
and the children of undocu-
mented 
immigrants who 
live in fear of racial proiling 
and their parents’ deporta-
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ATHLETES
continues from page 1

Russell, who won 11 
championships in 13 NBA 
seasons, talked about his 
decision to take over as coach 
of the Boston Celtics and 
the historical signiicance of 
that choice.

Russell, who was still a 
player at the time, became 
the irst black coach in major 
American professional sports 
when he was hired in 1966.

“If Red [Auerbach] had 
ever said to me that [me be-
ing coach] was a great social 
experiment, I would have had 
nothing to do with it,” Russell 
said. “he only reason that I 
would [take over as coach] is 
because I’m convinced that 
I’m the best person for the job.”
Edwards asked for Russell 
and Brown’s thoughts on two 
of the most controversial top-
ics in sports today: unioniza-
tion of college athletes and the 
acceptance of gay athletes.

Both took a strong stance 
against the NCAA as a gov-
erning body for collegiate 
athletics but also suggested 
that unionization is not the 
best solution.

3

A lot of the questions 
they ask today about 
gay athletes are the 
same questions they 
used to ask about us 
black athletes.

—Bill Russell, 
NBA hall of famer

that’s 

“I don’t like the NCAA,” 
Brown said. “I think it’s an 
organization 
totally 
unfair to the players. But, I’m 
totally against a union in col-
lege. I’m an advocate of going 
back to four years of college. 
Lets have the NCAA support 
these students so they can 
have a decent life while they 
get a great education.”

Russell said the issues faced 
by gay athletes today are simi-
lar to what he and Brown ex-
perienced in previous decades.
“A lot of questions they 
ask today about gay athletes 
are the same questions they 
used to ask about us black 
athletes,” Russell said.

RELATIONSHIP
continues from page 1

‘I just don’t have the power,’” 
Young, who also served as a 
congressman and mayor of 
Atlanta, said. “I thought it 
was arrogant for him to say 
that … [but] we went to Sel-
ma on the second of January, 
and by the end of March the 
president had all the power 
he needed to get the Civil 
Rights Act introduced.”

Young said both Johnson 
and King were adept poli-
ticians, and he overheard 
phone calls between the two 
men that suggested they had 
a close relationship.

“I heard them on the phone 
talking like brothers, like pas-
tor and member,” Young said.
to Branch, 
people have disagreed about 
what Johnson’s views about 
race were — whether he 

According 

changed his views over time, 
or if he consistently sup-
ported the enfranchisement 
of African-Americans.

“I think Johnson had an 
empathy his whole lifetime,” 
Branch said. “I think those 
were his sincere views, and my 
guess is that they were formed 
long before it was popular to 
believe they were there.”

Goodwin said although 
she knew 
Johnson only 
during the last few years of 
his life, it was clear he was 
proud of passing civil rights 
legislation in 1964 and 1965.
“here was no question in 
the time I spent with him … 
he was proudest of the Civil 
Rights Act than anything he 
had ever done,” Goodwin said.
Branch said Johnson had 
several advantages that Pres-
ident Barack Obama does 
not, including an Ameri-
can public that possessed a 

patriotic sense of sacriice 
and an optimistic attitude 
following World War II.

“To change the mood of the 
country from cynicism to op-
timism is not something that 
is wholly in the purview of the 
presidency,” Branch said.

Young said he thinks is-
sues should not be consid-
ered on the basis of race.

“Looking back to every-
thing I did to help people 
helped black and white people 
together,” Young said. “We’ve 
got to de-racialize these issues 
to get people to look at them a 
bit more objectively.”

Young said he thinks poor 
people of all ethnicities still 
struggle economically.

“We really still have to have 
a way to make democracy and 
free enterprise work for poor 
people of all dollars,” Young 
said. “We’ve come a long way. 
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Thursday, April 10, 2014

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EDITORIAL

Holistic review fails to address racial inequality

On Wednesday, in an address given at 
the Civil Rights Summit, UT President Wil-
liam Powers Jr. spoke about the University’s 
great strides in advancing civil rights over 
its history. In the same speech, Powers ac-
knowledged that the University has his-
torically tended toward discrimination and 
segregation, most notably in its resistance to 
integration in the 1950s. He also pointed to 
the University’s present-day holistic review 
admissions process as an attempt to address 
racial inequality. 

“We take ethnicity into account [in the ho-
listic admissions process] as one of many fac-
tors in a holistic review of the students who 
are not automatically admitted under the 
top 10 — now seven — percent rule,” Powers 
said. “Not being able to do that would be a 
real setback to diversity, not just on our cam-
pus, but on campuses across the country.” 

In mentioning the possibility that UT may 
not be able to take race into account during 
the admissions process, Powers was referenc-
ing the Fisher v. UT case, which reached the 
Supreme Court in October 2012. he case 
pitted a white woman denied admission to 
UT in 2008 against the University and its 
consideration of race in the admissions pro-
cess. hough the case was knocked back to 
the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals without 

the court changing UT’s admissions policy, it 
raised the possibility of the Supreme Court 
striking down race-based admissions policies 
in the future. But though Powers has spoken 
out about the importance of airmative ac-
tion in creating a diverse college campus, stu-
dents should remember that diversity at UT 
does not beneit substantially from the Uni-
versity’s current holistic admissions process. 
Today, UT’s holistic admissions policy fa-
vors white applicants. From 2007 to 2011, the 
UT Oice of Admissions reported that the 
process admitted a proportionally smaller 
percentage of African-American and La-
tino students than automatic admission did. 
While black students made up 6 percent of 
those admitted automatically in 2010, black 
students only comprised 5 percent of those 
admitted through the holistic review process. 
Similarly, Hispanic students made up 28 per-
cent of automatic admits in 2010, but only 12 
percent of those admitted through holistic 
review.

For those who question the value of admit-
ting more minority applicants to the Uni-
versity, the disturbingly low numbers above 
should illustrate the lack of diversity on the 
UT campus. But ultimately, while it’s cer-
tainly a good thing that Powers has his eye on 
the problems afecting minority students on 

Jonathan Garza / Daily Texan Staff

President William Powers Jr. speaks at the Civil Rights Summit on Wednesday.

campus, his singular focus on holistic review 
as a means for increasing diversity on campus 
should be reevaluated. here are so many is-
sues afecting students on our campus — for 
example, the importance of the DREAM Act, 
the availability of inancial aid and the preva-

lence of sexual assault on college campuses. 
A single-minded focus on holistic review, 
especially given that the process fails to ad-
mit as many minority students as the Top 
10 Percent Law, is simply not productive in 
the push for greater diversity on campus.

COLUMN

COLUMN

New regulations on research 
are burdensome, unnecessary 

Lack of tickets, venue’s size 
shut students out of summit

By Travis Knoll
Guest Columnist 
@tknoll209k

Ater a slew of controversies over university 
research, UT has doubled down on attempting 
to deine and control the line between where a 
professor’s job ends and their private activities 
begin. Two policies in particular have drawn 
pointed critiques from UT faculty: he “UT 
180 Conlict of Commitment” policy, which 
requires professors to disclose and seek ap-
proval for outside activities that might afect 
their ability to do objective research, and the 
HOP 7-1210 Financial Conlict of Interest pol-
icy, which requires an extra set of inancial dis-
closure forms for professors who may be con-
ducting research on behalf of companies they 
work for, or other organizations that could 
present the appearance of impropriety. Both of 
these policies had a deadline of March 31.

Here’s the problem: More forms and mod-
ules probably won’t address the conlicts of 
interest and might, instead, lead to unneces-
sary bitterness.

he principle behind the irst policy — to 
protect the University’s reputation and monitor 
what its employees are doing — seems admi-
rable. Ater all, UT’s reputation doesn’t end at 
the 40 Acres, or in academic conference halls. 
It continues in political and personal activi-
ties in the public square, where an individual 
professor’s position carries weight. he second 
policy attempts to clamp down on potential 
quid pro quos in areas such as engineering, ge-
ology and sociology, where professors’ expert 
opinions are called upon by outside groups to 
settle public debates with potentially lucrative 
deals on the side for their testimony or reports.
Although these policies have a basis in real 
concerns, they risk becoming just another 
paperwork burden for professors who don’t 
engage in activist and consulting work, a 
danger to those who do so ethically, and 
meaningless to those who don’t care as much 
about the University as they do their own 
pocket books. While these forms will allow 
for greater transparency regarding consult-
ing work, the policies also risk exposing fac-
ulty to unnecessary intrusion into their per-
sonal lives by University oicials. he forms 
further blur the line between public and pri-
vate in an age where every piece of public in-
formation is searchable, and most University 
records are subject to public records requests 
— even a professor’s email account.

When the regulations on inancial con-

UT never lacked regulation, but, 
rather, the political will to enforce 
the common sense policies we 
already had on the books. 

licts of interest were irst announced last 
year, some faculty bridled at what they saw as 
overreach. As KUT reported in January 2013, 
some professors believed that the regulations 
missed the point, broadly targeting cases that 
had little to do with conlict of interest. 

Jon Olson, an associate professor of petro-
leum and geosystems engineering, told KUT he 
would have to ill out forms because he was con-
ducting a project for a company he owned stock 
in. He argued that this was an administrative 
burden because he was not evaluating any of the 
company’s own property. Government profes-
sor Daron Shaw said in that story that private 
family inancial information could be exposed 
through open records requests because of the 
new policy.

Brian Evans, electrical and computer engi-
neering professor, also sharply criticized the UT 
180 policy last May; both Evans and the Faculty 
Council said the regulations stymie legitimate 
political activities. In a follow-up summary last 
semester, Evans gave several examples of activi-
ties now subject to University approval, such as 
innocuous volunteer work for nonproits and 
participation in organizations such as unions 
and the National Rile Association.

hese professors have a point. Leaving the 
protection of private information to redactors, 
who many times fail to shield sensitive infor-
mation from disclosure, increases the chance 
of identity thet and of further harassment of 
public igures. For examples of redacting fail-
ures, one need only look at the accidental FER-
PA-protected records released in the case of 
UT System Regent Wallace Hall, who, accord-
ing to a recent investigation, “manipulated” his 
role as a regent to push through an inquiry into 
UT President William Powers Jr., including his 
burdensome requests for information. On that 
note, I agree that these policies risk hampering 
engagement with the public sphere. However, 
greater self-relection by faculty could lead to 
less draconian legislation in the future. Un-
scrupulous professors are not stopped by pa-
perwork but by the vigilance of their peers. 

Overall, these regulations seem like win-
dow dressing. UT never lacked regulation 
but, rather, the political will to enforce the 
common sense policies we already had on 
the books. Whether this is due to conlict 
with the UT regents or just plain slothful-
ness, I’m skeptical UT will enforce these 
policies more vigorously and fairly than the 
previous ones. he administration’s focus on 
proits and business partnerships to ill their 
cofers in an age of austerity even seems to 
encourage inancial conlicts, and the Tower 
only seems to move when a scandal actually 
breaks at its doorstep. But, even then, the 
Tower’s irst reaction seems to be to wash its 
hands of any responsibility, to encourage ev-
eryone to take side deals and to hope a new 
set of rules would scare would-be wrong do-
ers. Such hope is naive. Without breaking 
our addiction to the language of business 
over learning, and without a sense of shared 
stewardship and ethical self-policing from 
the departments themselves, these policies 
will be as inefective as the ones we already 
have.

Knoll is a irst-year graduate student in 

Latin American studies from Dallas. 

By Rachel Huynh
Daily Texan Columnist 
@racheljhuynh

When it was irst announced that four of the 
ive living presidents would be coming to UT, 
the campus was electriied. We were on the 
brink of a historical landmark, and students 
would get to see it play out irsthand. he Civil 
Rights Summit would present students the op-
portunity to re-examine what the American 
promise “all men are created equal” means in 
present day. What they soon discovered, how-
ever, was that not all students are created equal 
when it comes to getting a seat in the audience.
Of the limited seats available in the audience, 
an undisclosed number were irst allocated to-
ward guests of the presidents and panelists. Stu-
dent access was limited from the start. Students 
were told that the online live streams would 
make up for the lack of available tickets.

“A president says, ‘I’d like this many guests to 
come,’ and he gets to do that because he [is or 
was] the president,” LBJ Library spokeswoman 
Anne Wheeler said. “hen, we have approxi-
mately 60 panelists that have spouses and fami-
lies that want to attend too, and that varies from 
program to program.”

here will always be priority seats for events 
of this nature. he better question, then, would 
be why the summit is taking place in the Lady 
Bird Johnson Auditorium, which seats only 967 
patrons.

Ater family, VIP guests, security and me-
dia eat up another roughly 200 spots per event. 
hen, an additional 340 tickets were given to 
faculty, community leaders and guests. 

According to UT oicials and the LBJ Li-
brary, out of the 1,400 tickets let for students, 
435 were distributed via a lottery exclusive to 
the LBJ School of Public Afairs. his let only 
875 tickets for the Oice of the Dean of Stu-
dents for distribution to the general student 
body. But before they threw all 875 tickets in 
the lottery, the oice reserved eight of the 75 
tickets to President Barack Obama’s address for 
incoming and outgoing presidents of Student 
Government, the Senate of College Councils 
and the Graduate Student Assembly and mem-
bers of Texas Student Media, the Texas Unions 
board and the Campus Events + Entertainment 
board. Another 10 tickets out of 100 for former 
President Bill Clinton’s address were also put 
aside for student leaders in organizations re-
lated to student afairs, such as advisory coun-
cils for RecSports, University Health Services, 
University Residence Halls and the Gender and 
Sexuality Center. 

Additionally, tickets were given to other of-
ices besides the Oice of the Dean of Students 
and were distributed to exclusive groups. he 
six Larry Temple scholars were ofered tickets 
to every single one of the events — including 
all presidential addresses except the one by 
former President George W. Bush. Select Terry 
Foundation scholars were also ofered tickets. 
Eighty students involved in the Texas Program 
in Sports and Media also snagged tickets. It is 

[The summit] would present stu-
dents the opportunity to re-exam-
ine the American promise “all men 
are created equal.” What they soon 
discovered, however, was that not 
all students are created equal when 
it comes to getting a seat in the 
audience.

unclear how many other prestigious student 
groups got their hands on tickets.

he remaining spots — likely less than 800 — 
were all thrown in six diferent lotteries, where 
9,035 hopeful students vied for the opportunity 
to attend an event. hat means that, at best, less 
than 9 percent of interested students were able 
to attend ater all the VIP student invitations. 

And adding insult to injury, not all of those 9 
percent attended the aternoon panels on Tues-
day. As Madlin Mekelburg reported in the Daily 
Texan on Wednesday, low attendance let many 
seats empty, seats that could have been occu-
pied by students who were denied tickets in 
the initial lottery. he University did, however, 
decide to ofer “standby” lines for the aternoon 
panel discussions on Wednesday and hursday.
Given all the limitations on student atten-
dance, it’s worth asking why the University 
decided to hold the event in the Auditorium to 
begin with. 

“First, this is Lyndon Johnson’s presidential 
library, and it’s the 50th anniversary of the 1964 
Civil Rights Act,” Wheeler said. “His last public 
appearance was in this auditorium, during the 
civil rights symposium.”

Additionally, Wheeler explained that another 
reason behind the venue was its proximity to the 
Cornerstone of Civil Rights exhibit, where four 
key civil rights documents are located, includ-
ing a signed copy of the Emancipation Procla-
mation, the Senate resolution where President 
Abraham Lincoln proposed the 13th Amend-
ment, the signed Civil Rights Act of 1964 and 
the signed Voting Rights Act of 1965.

While I can personally appreciate the his-
torical weight of the auditorium and library, I 
don’t think it quite justiies hosting all but one 
of the events in a venue that leaves so many stu-
dents excluded from such a landmark occasion. 
here are many students desperate to attend 
the presidential addresses, and I can’t help but 
think that moving those events to venues like 
the Frank Erwin Center, where the capacity 
would increase more than sixteen-fold, from 
967 to 16,734, would obviously greatly increase 
attendance and make the event much more eq-
uitable.

What this venue choice tells us is that the 
summit isn’t really for the student body at large. 
Choosing the auditorium over a larger, more 
general venue is perhaps symbolic of the inten-
tion behind the summit — hosting only the few 
most distinguished students and guests in one 
of the most distinguished settings on campus. 
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Take Back the Night implores 
action against sexual assault

By Nicole Stiles
@NicoleStiles42

Local human rights activ-
ist Luz Guerra said increased 
awareness has not translated 
into decreased instances of 
sexual violence at the 13th 
annual Take Back the Night 
event on the South Mall 
on Wednesday.

“here is now more infor-
mation, there are places to 
go for support, there is more 
openness and talking about 
it,” said Guerra, the event’s 
keynote speaker. “But we still 
have not brought down the 
amount of sexual assault that 
occurs in our society.”

According 

to a 2012 
study by the Centers for 
Disease Control and Pre-
vention, 19 percent of fe-
male undergraduate college 
students admitted experi-
encing attempted or com-
pleted sexual assault since 
entering college.

Guerra said she believes 
the existence alone of out-
reach programs such as Voic-
es Against Violence, which 
hosted the event, shows the 
change that has occurred in 
the past 30 years.

“In 1973, there was no 
gender sexuality center, no 
LGBT support system — 
not even a women’s studies 

program,” Guerra 
said. 
“hose institutions exist be-
cause people fought to have 
them instituted and funded.”
Guerra said she believes 
students have the power to 
change attitudes toward sex-
ual violence on campus.

“he only way we can 
change the world and this 
campus is coming together 
and telling the truth about 
the stories of sexual violence 
in this world,” Guerra said.

Erin Burrows, prevention 
and outreach specialist for 
Voices Against Violence, said 
she hopes the event empow-
ers people to stand up against 
sexual violence.

CIVIL RIGHTS SUMMIT

5

Luz Guerra deliv-
ers the keynote 
speech at the 
13th annual 
Take Back the 
Night event on 
South Mall on 
Wednesdsay. 
Guerra said de-
spite increased 
awareness, in-
stances of sexual 
violence have not 
decreased.

Andrea Kurth
Daily Texan Staff

“We all have the power 
to address an issue that can 
sometimes feel overwhelm-
ing,” Burrows said. “It re-
ally starts with looking at 
our own behavior and how 
we hold ourselves account-
able to practicing consent 
in every 
interaction that 
we have.”

Sydney Wilkins, a Voices 

Against Violence volunteer, 
said Take Back the Night 
provides 
the opportunity 
to hear from survivors of 
sexual violence. 

“he best part of Take 
Back the Night is that it em-
powers survivors to speak 
about 
their own experi-
ences,” Wilkins said. “You’re 
hearing how people really 

feel, not other people’s bias 
coming into the story.”

Guerra said change 
is 
needed to make sexual vio-
lence less of a threat.

“Sexual assault happens, 
and you have a right to not be 
afraid when you walk down 
the street at night,” Guer-
ra said. “So let’s take back 
the night.”

Recognizing past prejudice, Powers applauds UT’s cultural diversity

By Madlin Mekelburg
@madlinbmek

UT President William Pow-
ers Jr. said although the Uni-
versity has made great strides 
in advancing civil rights, his-
torically, UT has been on the 
“wrong side” of the argument.

“he University of Texas has 
had a special role in the history 
of civil rights — irst, of course, 
on the wrong side of those is-
sues as a segregated school 
and in Sweatt v. Painter, on the 
wrong side of that case,” Powers 
said in an address at the Civil 
Rights Summit on Wednesday. 
today, UT 
said 

Powers 

continues to emphasize di-
versity and equality, despite 
its history.

“We’re thrilled to host this 
summit because diversity and 
civil rights embody our cam-
pus values — a campus where 
students learn in a diverse 
atmosphere, 
learning how 
to work and live in a diverse 
world,” Powers said. “One of 
LBJ’s greatest legacies was civ-
il rights and diversity, and we 
honor that not just this week, 
but on our campus every day.”
Powers touched on the 
Supreme Court 
ongoing 
case Fisher v. University of 
Texas, which deals with UT’s 

airmative action admissions 
policy and the role of race in 
the admissions process. Pow-
ers said he strongly believes 
universities should be able 
to 
race-conscious 
admissions policies.

follow 

“We take ethnicity into ac-
count as one of many factors 
in a holistic review of the stu-
dents who are not automati-
cally admitted under the top 
10, now seven, percent rule,” 
Powers said. “Not being able 
to do that would be a real 
setback to diversity, not just 
on our campus, but on cam-
puses across the country.”

Powers said the summit 

allows UT students to hear a 
irsthand account of history.
“here is a diference be-
tween reading about some-
thing in the history books and 
listening, yesterday, to Presi-
dent Carter talking about his 
growing up in a very segregat-
ed South,” Powers said. “Part 
of moving civil rights forward 
is having the next generation 
of leaders understand where 
we all have come from.”

Rhetoric 

and writing 
sophomore Maria Reza par-
ticipated Wednesday in a 
protest in support of im-
migrants who have been 
deported and their families. 

Reza said she believes the 
University could do more to 
support student immigrants. 
“Last semester, we had to 
ight a lot for a simple reso-
lution from Student Govern-
ment about undocumented 
students,” Reza said. “You 
can argue that the University 
does a lot for diversity, but 
you still have to ight a lot to 
actually see it.” 

the 

Powers also briefly ad-
dressed 
controversy 
surrounding UT System 
Regent Wallace Hall, who 
is under investigation by 
the House Committee 
on Transparency in State 

Agency Operations for po-
tentially overstepping his 
role as a regent, including 
targeting Powers. A report 
of the investigation, writ-
ten by Rusty Hardin, special 
counsel to the committee, 
suggests Hall likely commit-
ted 
impeachable ofenses. 
Powers said he has not read 
the entirety of the report 
and declined to comment on 
its content.

“I think I’ll leave it to [the 
committee] on how to evalu-
ate the report,” Powers said. 
“his has been a diicult time, 
and it has diverted the campus 
from a lot of important work.”

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By James Grandberry
@_JGrand_

Ater three torn tendons 
ended the irst half of his ju-
nior season six months ago, 
Kramer Hickock is back and 
looking better than ever. 

During his summer of ama-
teur golf in 2013, Hickock 
began to feel a slight pain 
in his right wrist. In a dis-
play of toughness, Hickock 
played through the pain un-
til it became too much to 
struggle through.

Hickock would eventually 
ind out that he had torn three 
tendons in his right wrist, ar-
guably the most important 
joint in a golfer’s swing. 

“I was playing so well I 
didn’t want to even think 
about there being an injury,” 
Hickock said. “In hindsight, 
I guess I should’ve slowed 
things down ater feeling that 
little tweak.” 

John Fields, who has 
coached the Longhorn men’s 
golf team since 1997, was also 
hoping that Hickock’s wrist 
pain was only supericial.

“Kramer has the tendency 
to work extremely hard,” 
Fields said. “So, at that point, 
I was just hoping that it was 
overuse, that it was something 
that he could take some time 
of and just be ine.” 

Hickock did take the neces-
sary time of in order for the 
wrist to heal properly, under-
going doctor visits and a blood-
spinning procedure meant to 
increase the amount of platelets 
the blood can contain.

Fields, who has led Texas 

Junior Kramer 
Hickock had 
to battle back 
from three torn 
tendons. But 
after missing the 
irst half of the 
year, Hickock 
is leading the 
Longhorns in a 
late surge.

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HISTORY

1947

Jackie Robinson 
becomes the 
irst black player 
in major league 
baseball when he 
is picked up by the 
Dodgers.

SPORTS 
BRIEFLY
Gordon becomes first 
openly gay DI player

Derrick Gordon, a soph-
omore starting guard for 
the University of Massa-
chusetts Amherst, became 
the irst openly gay player 
in Division I men’s college 
basketball ater opening up 
to ESPN. 

he 22-year-old told his 
family, coaches and team-
mates at the beginning of 
April ater the Minutemen 
were ousted by Tennessee 
in their irst game of the 
NCAA Tournament. 

“I just didn’t want to 
hide anymore, in any way,” 
told ESPN. “I 
Gordon 
didn’t want to have to lie or 
sneak. I’ve been waiting and 
watching for the last few 
months, wondering when 
a Division I player would 
come out, and inally I just 
said, ‘Why not me?’”

Gordon, who transferred 
to UMass from Western 
Kentucky, averaged 9.4 
points per game, starting in 
all 33 contests. 

—Evan Berkowitz

to three top-ive inishes at 
the NCAA Championships 
and ive top-10 appearances 
in the inal national rankings, 
noticed how much his team 
struggled without Hickock on 
the course.

“It’s just harder on every-
body,” Fields said. “You have 
expectations and desires that 
are diicult to fulill when 
somebody as great as Kramer 
Hickock is out of your lineup.” 
Hickock hit only low-im-
pact putt and chip shots in the 
meantime, and by the time the 
hiatus was over, one of Texas’ 
most crucial players had missed 
nearly six months of golf. 

But except for a taped-up 
wrist, most people would not 
know that.

Hickock has come back 
from the injury to set up a se-
ries of impressive inishes in 
the Longhorns’ past ive tour-
naments, including three top-
10 performances. 

Ater only one 

tourna-
ment back in action, Hickock 
carded a career-best tie for 
second place at the Bayou City 
Intercollegiate Championship 
in Humble, in late February. 
Hickock also inished tied 
for sixth at the Schenkel In-
vitational in Statesboro, Ga., 
in mid-March.

Hickock’s most recent out-
ing with the team, the 3M Au-
gusta Invitational last week-
end, yielded his third top-10 
inish in the last ive competi-
tions, where he was part of a 

three-man tie for eighth place.
“He played great over the 
summer and now in the spring 
he’s been playing great,” senior 
Toni Hakula said. “We knew 
we didn’t have the strongest 
fall and we knew once he got 
back he would be a solid part 
of the team.” 

Hakula was a sophomore 
on the 2012 NCAA champi-
onship team, and he knows 
what the stakes are at this 
point in the season.

“All the focus is on late May,” 
Hakula said. “Going to the na-
tional championship, getting 
closer and closer, and I think 
everyone’s getting sharper.” 

With Hickock back in the 
ive-man competing squad, 
Texas has quickly built up 

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some momentum, racking up 
three top-ive team inishes in 
its last ive tournaments. 

Hickock, Hakula and Fields 
all believe a national champi-
onship run is in the cards for 
this season.

“I really think if we get a win 
in one of these next few tour-
naments and get some mo-
mentum going into the Big 12 
Championship, Regionals and 
the NCAAs … we can dei-
nitely win the national cham-
pionship,” Hickock said.

Looking at the progress that 
the team has made so far, the 
future is promising for Texas. 
If Hickock stays healthy and 
the team can stay hot, anoth-
er championship is certainly 
within reach. 

MEN’S BASKETBALL | COLUMN

Can the Longhorns have their ‘One Shining Moment?’

By Jori Epstein
Daily Texan Columnist 
@JoriEpstein

here are few things more 
exciting than watching David 
Barrett’s rendition of “One 
Shining Moment” each April. 
It’s a moment many fans miss 
if they dare switch of the tele-
vision before postgame festivi-
ties conclude — or if they don’t 
watch the title game at all. 
But the montage of sparkling 
cheerleaders, 
slam-dunking 
NBA prospects, devastated 
fans whose teams just suf-
fered an upset and a remain-
ing myriad of emotions truly 
encapsulate what the NCAA 
Tournament is all about.

Because come March, all 
expectations fade. he top 
seeds hold a tenuous advan-
tage beyond maybe the irst 
round. Upsets pile on upsets. 
he Big Dance doesn’t favor 
the most glamorous slippers 
— it’s made for those who 
clean the loor, able to work 
its magic on a hot streak.

So what prevented Texas from 

making a run to Arlington?

For one, the Longhorns 
peaked early and faded late. 
A January mid-conference 
explosion did wonders for 
their ranking. Texas jumped 
from 25th to top-15 just by 
shutting out Kansas’ fresh-
man guard Andrew Wiggins 
— who didn’t fare any better 
in the tournament than the 
Longhorns did. hey used 
their youth as an excuse for 
not knowing how to lose. 
But ater winning nine of 10 
games in the midst of their 
rise, the Longhorns dropped 
ive of their last eight entering 
including 
the 
getting run over by Baylor in 
the Big 12 Tournament.

tournament, 

Once in the tournament, 
Texas did exactly as was ex-
pected of a team that stag-
nated in the lower half of the 
Big 12 last year, missing the 
madness altogether and put-
ting head coach Rick Barnes’ 
job security in question. he 
Longhorns won the game they 
should have and were silenced 
by powerhouse Michigan.

But come next year, Texas 
can do more. With all ive 

starters returning and increased 
experience, Texas seems posed 
to be nothing but bigger and 
better for next season. he 
team might not be a top-ive 
seed next year, but does seeding 
really matter?

With No. 7 Connecticut top-
ping No. 8 Kentucky on Mon-
day, it’s clear that seeding only 
dictates so much. he seed-
ing process is well-analyzed, 
methodical and relatively fair 
 — just don’t ask SMU or Min-
nesota. Both the Wildcats and 
the Huskies started the season 
strong, and both dropped just 
enough games to be underesti-
mated in postseason play.

But Texas must not only 
aim to improve from this year. 
In the regular season, the 
Longhorns proved respect-
able. hey didn’t lose that in 
the tournament. But it takes 
more than fundamentals to 
be a national title contender. 
It takes a springtime hot-
streak, bursts of energy, the 
mentality that anything can 
happen and a bit of magic.

UConn’s road to the cham-
pionship wasn’t smooth. Every 

Lauren Ussery / Daily Texan ile photo
Sophomore forward Connor Lammert scores against TCU. Texas 
won seven-straight games and four against ranked teams at 
one point, a run that would be helpful before the tournament. 

tournament game but one 
was double digits. he Hus-
kies even needed overtime 
to best 10th-seeded St. Jo-
seph’s in the round of 64. Had 
Hawks senior guard Langston 
Galloway hit his jumper with 
ive seconds let, the 2014 na-
tional champions would have 
been knocked out by a rela-
tively unknown team.

Texas’ irst matchup didn’t 
play out too diferently, except 

that sophomore center Cam-
eron Ridley made the winning 
buzzer-beater against Arizona 
State. For a night, the Huskies 
and Longhorns were dancing 
to the same beat. Both were 
No. 7 seeds, elated just to be 
able to play another day.

So next year, the Long-
horns need 
that 
to 
momentum a little further. 
It’s time for Texas’ “One 
Shining Moment.”

take 

Northwestern appeals to NLRB

WASHINGTON — North-
western University is asking 
the National Labor Relations 
Board to overturn a region-
al director’s ruling that the 
school’s football players are 
employees under federal law 
and thus entitled to unionize.

Northwestern said 

he university iled a formal 
appeal to the board Wednesday.
it had 
presented “overwhelming evi-
dence” that its athletic program 
its 
“is fully 

integrated with 

academic mission, and that it 
treats its athletes as students first.”
he players are set to vote 
by secret ballot April 25 on 
whether to form a union.

Former 

Northwestern 
quarterback Kain Colter and 
Ramogi Huma of the Col-
lege Athletes Players Associa-
tion met in Washington with 
members of Congress earlier 
this month to press their case 
for unionization.

—Associated Press

Lauren Victoria Burke / Associated Press
Former Northwestern quarterback Kain Colter (right) and Ramogi Huma, 
founder of Northwestern’s association, arrive at Capitol Hill on April 2.

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Photo blog celebrates diverse campus life

CAMPUS

By Danielle Lopez
@ldlopz

With cameras and ques-
tions on hand, public relations 
sophomore Crysta Hernandez 
and advertising freshman Amy 
Tingle are always ready to cap-
ture snippets of the lives of peo-
ple on campus. he duo shares 
these snapshots and conversa-
tions with the public through 
Humans of UT. 

Less than a month ago, Her-
nandez and Tingle launched 
their page, Humans of UT, 
on Facebook. Since then, the 
page has reached more than 
1,000 likes and continues to 
gain popularity daily. Like the 
original site, created by Bran-
don Stanton, Humans of UT 
features photos of random peo-
ple on campus and excerpts of 
conversations that Hernandez 
and Tingle have with them. 

Humans of UT derives from 
Humans of New York, a popu-
lar blog created by Stanton, a 
photographer, four years ago. 
He originally set out to docu-
ment photos of 10,000 New 
Yorkers, but, along the way, he 
began collecting and telling 
their stories. His project turned 
from a simple blog to a New 
York Times best-selling book. 

“Humans of UT is certainly 
not an original idea on our 
part,” Hernandez said. “We’re 
just taking [Stanton’s] idea and 
making it relevant to UT.”

A love for Humans of New 
York is a main reason that Tin-
gle agreed to join Hernandez in 
this project. 

“I think it’s a powerful idea to 
look at people and say, ‘You’re 

MUSIC

special, we’re a part of this com-
munity and there’s something 
similar about you and me, and 
I want to ind out what that is,’” 
Tingle said. 

Hernandez solidiied her 
idea for Humans of UT when 
her creative problem solving-
class required her to do a per-
involved 
sonal project that 
developing and solving a prob-
lem. She proposed that UT 
lacks a strong sense of commu-
nity and, setting a goal of 200 
likes, used Humans of UT as 
her solution.

“Amy is a freshman, and 
I’m a transfer student, so last 
semester we were both new to 
UT,” Hernandez said. “I’m re-
ally happy to be here, but I felt 
lonely and awkward and want-
ed some kind of connection.”

Hernandez contacted Tingle 
about her idea ater meeting in 
a photography class. he two 
made extensive plans about 
how far their project would go. 
hey hoped to talk to profes-
sors for advice and attempted 
to contact Stanton, himself, but 
months passed, and nothing 
went as planned. 

“Life got busy, and we said 
we’d meet in two weeks and 
then another week and then 
another until, inally, [Hernan-
dez] said she was just going to 
put up the page and [that], if I 
could put up photos too, that 
would be great,” Tingle said. 

he night Hernandez re-
turned from spring break, she 
pinned posters promoting the 
page around campus kiosks. 
hat Monday, she launched 
Humans of UT with a couple of 
photos, and by Tuesday night, 

By Kritika Kulshrestha
@kritika88

Songwriting is personal, but 
it also has to be a conversation 
with people, according to UT 
alum Jeremy Burchard, who 
is one half of the two-member 
band Moonlight Social.

and 

Burchard 

fellow 
UT graduate Jennica Scott 
formed Moonlight Social 
in 2011 and recently re-
leased their debut album, 
Heading South. Burchard 
and Scott perform at he 
Domain Lonestar Court 
on hursday. 

is 

“Jeremy has 

this deep, 
booming male vocal, and 
Jennica 
the Texas 
like 
country version of Christina 
Aguilera,” said Matt Noves-
key, record producer at Orb 
Recording Studios. 

Noveskey produced Heading 
South for the band and serves 
as a mentor for the duo.

“When I met them, they 
were trying to igure out their 
voices,” Noveskey said. “Now 
their work is stronger. hey 
have igured out who they are.”
Scott and Burchard’s friend-
ship was nurtured when they 

both began playing with the 
Longhorn marching band in 
2009. Burchard is also a for-
mer associate editor of he 
Daily Texan.

“When you go into a band, 
they ask you to try a bunch of 
things, and you can play what 
you are the best at,” Scott said. 
“For me, it was a choice among 
French horn, percussion and 
trumpet, and I asked my mom, 
‘What instrument will give 
me the most solos?’ She said 
trumpet, and I decided to play 
the trumpet.”

Scott, born in Illinois, moved 
around all over the country and 
eventually moved to Austin in 
2008 to pursue a degree in so-
ciology. Having been raised in 
a musical family, Scott loved 
singing and knew she would 
pursue a career in music. In 
her junior year, she joined 
Longhorn Singers.

“I never had a problem in 
getting up on stage in front 
of people,” Scott said. “Being 
in Longhorn Singers taught 
me about the fundamentals 
of singing. I also knew I was 
just singing as opposed to 
giving a performance, and 
that’s what Longhorn Singers 

helped me with. It taught me 
about performance.”

While in college, Burchard 
and Scott began penning lyr-
ics and playing covers and soon 
landed their irst gig at New 
World Deli in December 2010. 
“I was terriied,” Scott said. 
“I had written some of the 
songs, and Jeremy had writ-
ten some. It’s a deeply emo-
tional thing to write a song, 
and this was the irst time 
I was sharing it with other 
people. I was afraid people 
wouldn’t like it.”

But the gig was a success, 
and that’s when Scott and 
Burchard decided that this 
was something they could do 
— that they could start their 
own band.

heir irst song that they are 
both proud of, “Weight Of 
My Shoulders,” is included on 
Heading South. 

“It’s about meeting some-
one who always gets his way,” 
Scott said. “he idea of the 
song is [that] you are walk-
ing away from that person. 
You are getting the weight of, 
knowing that you are better of 
without being involved with 
that person.”

Public relations sophomore Crysta Hernandez and advertising freshman Amy Tingle created the Facebook page Humans of 
UT. They intend to increase the sense of community at the University by telling stories of people on campus.

Mengwen Cao / Daily Texan Staff

the page had hit 500 likes. Her-
nandez and Tingle have made 
it a point not to widely share 
with others that they are the 
creators of Humans of UT. he 
gains in popularity have mainly 
come from people sharing the 
photos they appear in. 

When looking for a sub-
ject to photograph, the girls 
search for members of the 
campus community. Typically, 
they ind students with a story 
to tell, but, on occasion, the 
people they photograph have 

been alumni visiting campus or 
people on the Drag.

“he people we usually take 
pictures of seem pretty enthusi-
astic,” Tingle said. “If they don’t 
know what Humans of New 
York is, I explain, and they seem 
pretty interested to be involved.”
In approaching people for 
photos, Hernandez and Tingle 
begin conversations with them 
and try asking questions simi-
lar to those asked by Stanton.

“We’re working on it. We’re 
trying to make everything 

have a really strong message 
that’s relevant to people of UT,” 
Hernandez said. 

Hernandez and Tingle have 
high hopes for Humans of UT 
and plan to make it a long-term 
project. hey want to branch 
out onto other social media 
outlets, create a website and 
get more people involved with 
their project. 

“We just didn’t expect for it 
to take of so quickly,” Tingle 
said. “Other universities have 
had similar things happen 

and they’ve fallen through 
the cracks.”

heir current struggle is 
iguring out how to stay rel-
evant throughout the sum-
mer. he duo hopes to stay 
true to their original message 
and keep Humans of UT un-
til they graduate and can pass 
it on.

“Our mission statement is 
cheesy but true,” Hernandez 
said. “You pass by so many peo-
ple everyday and don’t stop to 
think that they have a story, too.”

From marching to touring, local country duo recounts origin

For Scott, inspiration for 
songwriting has oten stemmed 
from strong emotions and, at 
times, from anger. She said she 
can never really write happy 
songs. Love songs are harder 
to write. 

“Love songs can be about 
something that you genuinely 
love or connect with, and I 
don’t think I’ve found that sub-
ject matter,” Scott said. 

In 2009, Burchard and Scott 
both joined GRAMMY U, a 
college program conceptual-
ized by the Texas Chapter of 

the Recording Academy to 
help college students get started 
in the music industry. Bur-
chard served as the UT ambas-
sador for GRAMMY U while 
Scott used the program to 
foster connections in the mu-
sic business and participate in 
program events.

“It’s one of those things 
where college kids have no idea 
of all of the diferent possibili-
ties in the music industry,” Bur-
chard said. “And these really 
opened up for us.”

Starting 

June, Moonlight 

Social begins the band’s irst 
out-of-state tour in Wisconsin, 
where they will perform at the 
Country USA Music Festi-
val, followed by performances 
in Indiana and Chicago, and 
later in October, they per-
form in Toronto at the Indie 
Music Festival.

“Music can always get bet-
ter,” Scott said. “You always 
have to grow by exposing 
yourself to all kinds of mu-
sic and surrounding yourself 
with people who are better 
than you.”

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UT alumni Jer-
emy Burchard 
and Jennica 
Scott recently 
released their 
debut album 
as Moonlight 
Social and will 
begin their 
irst out-of-
state tour 
in June.

Ethan Oblak
Daily Texan Staff

 

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