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The Gender and Sexual-ity Center allowed students to experiment with different fashion styles through a gen-der-inclusive clothing swap Monday.

Dance senior Kelsey Ron-deau said the clothing swap is a comfortable place for students to try on clothes for all genders without soliciting stares from strangers.

“It’s interesting because you can find clothing here from both genders and leave with clothing from either gender,” Rondeau said. “It’s an environment where you won’t be judged for trying on a skirt or a top.”

Rondeau said when trying on women’s clothes, onlook-ers will occasionally stare, but shopping is generally more comfortable in Austin.

“When I go to Buffalo Exchange, everyone gets ex-cited,” Rondeau said. “But that’s here in Austin. If I were shopping anywhere else, I would be judged for tak-ing a top from the women’s section.”

Undeclared sophomore Stephanie Salazar said the clothing swap helps build community.

“[The event is] trying to create solidarity within the community by way of ex-pressing ourselves through

Expected low voter turn-out in Tuesday’s election might result in an inabil-ity to effectively assess the impact of Texas’ new voter ID law, according to Travis County officials.

“Is this election going to be an adequate trial run for us to really see what kind of voter ID issues we’re going to have, or is the turnout so low that it’s really not going

to tell us the whole story?” Travis County Tax Assessor Bruce Elfant said. “We just don’t know.”

In the early voting period, between Oct. 21 and Nov. 1, voter turnout included only 5 percent of registered vot-ers, Elfant said.

One concern with the new voter ID law is that it will prohibit registered vot-ers without acceptable IDs from voting, Elfant said. A list released by the secre-tary of state names 37,000

registered voters in Tra-vis County who do not have state-issued forms of identi-fication, Elfant said.

Elfant said 20 percent of early voters had to sign af-fidavits confirming their identity, a lower percentage than he had predicted.

“Some people have made a squawk about that, but … you don’t have to vote provisionally, so I don’t think that’s a serious issue,” Elfant said.

Voting provisionally

means people who do not present a valid form of ID can still vote, but the vote won’t count unless they re-turn within six business days with an acceptable form of ID.

In Travis County, four people have cast provisional ballots because they did not have the right form of ID, Elfant said.

“My concern is for every 100 people who cast a pro-visional ballot, how many are going to come back and

cure it?” Elfant said. “We don’t have 100 people who have cast a provisional bal-lot so it’s not a significant is-sue right now, but next year in the governor’s race, who knows what it’s going to look like when you have 10 times the people voting?”

Renee Frederick, a Plan II and human development and family sciences sopho-more, said she was con-cerned about how the voter

Austin Mayor Lee Leffin-gwell declared the city a “state of disaster” Monday in re-sponse to last week’s flooding events, which severely dam-aged Austin neighborhoods.

Three people were found dead in Onion Creek in addi-tion to at least two other flood-related deaths.

In the declaration, Leffin-gwell said hundreds of Austin residents have been displaced, businesses were damaged and the city government is incur-ring extraordinary expenses as a result of the widespread se-vere flooding and high winds.

At the peak of the flooding events, there were more than 1,100 evacuated homes, with 15 deemed uninhabitable, according to a City of Austin press release.

The mayor sent a letter to Gov. Rick Perry outlining the flooding’s impact and empha-sizing the critical need for ad-ditional state and federal sup-port to begin recovery efforts.

UT Facilities Services spokeswoman Laurie Lentz said the University did not face any remarkable damage from last week’s severe weather.

“[With] heavy rains, sometimes water comes under doors or there’s spot leaks here and there, but there weren’t any kinds of exceptional issues during the flooding that affected other parts of Austin,” Lentz said.

The declaration will remain in effect for seven days until it is ratified by the Austin City Council. The last time the city was involved in a state of emergency, the city helped provide housing for victims of Hurricane Katrina in 2006.

The council will also consider approving an ordinance waiv-ing permitting and develop-ment fees for homes damaged during the flooding events.

The council is scheduled to meet Thursday.

The University’s lease ex-tension with the U.S. Postal Service shows the variations in UT’s leasing agreements with non-University entities.

Late last month, the Postal Service extended its lease with the University through February 2016, for which it will pay an annual fee of $1.

Postal Service spokes-man Sam Bolen said the low price of the lease is because the post office provides a public service to the campus and sur-rounding community. The Postal Service has similar leasing agreements with

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ID law would affect her be-cause her driver’s license and her voter registration card have different addresses.

“I was worried my ID

wasn’t going to match the address that I was registered in,” Frederick said. “I wanted to vote in Austin, but my ID has an address in Houston.”

Nathan Roberts, Hook the Vote agency assistant direc-tor, said low voter turnout

also demonstrates a problem of community apathy.

“There is a misconcep-tion that because a student is only here for a certain amount of semesters, they shouldn’t participate in deci-sions being made about this

area,” Roberts said. “I think students should pay more attention to local issues be-cause even if the outcome won’t affect them, odds are it will affect future students who won’t have had the op-portunity to cast a vote on

the issue.”Elfant said he is concerned

about people’s lack of interest in this year’s election.

“I have a very grave con-cern for democracy when 90 percent are delegating to oth-ers,” Elfant said.

both profit and nonprofit organizations.

“It varies by institution,” Bolen said. “Some univer-sities have their own mail operations, some of them

contract it out, some of them do it in-house. For schools that are really large like the University of Texas, our pres-ence on campus [was] re-quested roughly 50 years ago.”

Campus Real Estate Direc-tor Amy Wanamaker said the lease pricing has historically always been $1 annually. The University does not expect the extension to affect finan-cial aspects of the lease.

The public services lease held by the Postal Service is uncommon for the Uni-versity and greatly dif-fers from the contractual agreements between food service vendors and Uni-versity Unions, which in-cludes deals with Wendy’s, Starbucks and Chik-Fil-A among other outlets. Uni-versity Unions Executive Director Andy Smith said these contracts operate on a revenue share deter-mined by the amount of total income generated.

“Each of these contracts,

generally speaking, are con-figured differently but none of them are leases of space,” Smith said. “Sometimes [the vendors] are under a straight percentage and then there are times where the percent-age goes up or down as you reach certain trigger figures in the gross sales. So it might be 10 percent on the first 1.5 million and then after that it might be 12 percent between that number and another trigger number.”

The post office has main-tained its location in the West Mall Office Building since 1962, according to archived blueprints of the University building. Though alternative places for the relocation of the on-campus branch had been considered in meetings between the University and the Postal Service, University Operations spokeswoman Rhonda Weldon said the extension times were not to give the service time to seek out a new home.

clothes,” Salazar said.The clothing swap was

intended for students on a budget, as well as the com-munity the Gender and Sexuality Center serves, ac-cording to Elizabeth Elsen, program coordinator of

the Division of Diversity and Community Engage-ment, who organized the clothing swap.

“A lot of our students aren’t super rich, so free clothes are always great,” Elsen said.

Ilse Munoz, a Plan II and geography junior, said she wants others to have the opportunity to wear nice

clothing without spending a lot of money.

“I like recycling cloth-ing a lot,” Munoz said. “When I was younger, my family didn’t have enough money to buy new clothes, so for us it was nice to get good quality clothes for cheap. I want some-one else who might be in

a similar situation to be fashionable, to feel good about themselves.”

Leftover clothing from the swap usually goes to local community organizations.

“This year, any leftover clothes are going to those im-pacted by the flood in Travis County and Dove Springs.” Elsen said. “We usually

donate to SafePlace and the settlement home.”

The event, which began two semesters ago as a cloth-ing swap after a student’s suggestion, has since added a book swap.

“A lot of students were talking about not getting much for their books at Half Price Books,” Elsen said.

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The UT System Board of Re-gents met in executive session Monday to discuss issues in-cluding “individual personnel matters,” though no decisions were reached, according to Sys-tem representatives.

This meeting was the fifth special meeting the board has called in the past three months and was assembled to discuss personnel matters, unspecified pending legal is-sues and concerns related to matters that the Texas Leg-islature’s House Select Com-mittee on Transparency is set to review, according to the agenda.

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than 120,000 documents led state legislators to argue that he was on a “witch hunt” to find sufficient grounds to dismiss President William Powers Jr. The committee is scheduled to hear testimony again on Nov. 13.

The board’s meeting also coincides with UT’s search for a new men’s head ath-letic director, as two re-gents sit on the Univer-sity’s search committee. Powers had said the timeline for finding a new athletic di-rector was a “month or two” from October.

The meeting recessed to executive session in the dis-cussion over these issues. UT System spokesperson Jenny LaCoste-Caputo said no decisions or recommenda-tions were reached and de-clined to elaborate on what was discussed.

The board’s next regular meeting will take place on Nov. 13 and 14.

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“It is my understand-ing that it’s always been, for those extension periods, that we were going to assess what the needs of the campus were versus what services were be-ing provided,” Weldon said.

Weldon said the Univer-sity has not been in contact with delivery service com-panies such as UPS Inc. or FedEx regarding the West Mall Building space or fu-ture partnerships, but avail-able space on campus is always desirable.

“When space becomes available at the University, there is always an academic or research entity interested in making use of it,” Weldon said. “I am not personally aware of any specific entities interested in that space.”

Weldon said there are no

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“If the U.S. Postal Service doesn’t occupy the space, then that space would be repurposed for academic or research use,” Weldon said.

Weldon said the revalua-tion of campus mailing ser-vices did not come as a result of budget constraints.

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Proposition 2Proposition 2 would repeal the constitutional provision requiring the

creation of a State Medical Education Board and a State Medical Edu-cation Fund because no loans have been made from the fund since 1988, and the board has no appointees or funding. This is intended to simplify the Texas Constitution.

Proposition 3Proposition 3 would allow political subdivisions, such as counties,

cities and school districts, to extend the amount of time aircraft parts can remain in Texas without being subject to taxation based on their value. Currently, merchandise and goods, including aircraft parts, may remain in Texas for up to 175 days before being taxed, but if this amendment is passed, it would allow the merchandise to remain in the state tax-free for up to 730 days.

Proposition 4Proposition 4 would allow tax exemptions on the residence of a par-

tially disabled veteran, or that person’s spouse, as long as the home was donated to the veteran by a charity, according to the secretary of state’s website.

“It’s designed to give benefits to a very specific class of veterans, and obviously the advantage of it is you’re providing aid to deserving citizens,” UT accounting professor Michael Granof said. “The disadvan-tage is that you start singling out certain groups for specific treatment, then you’re undermining the universality of taxes because certain people are getting benefits while others aren’t.”

Proposition 5Proposition 5 would authorize loans allowing a conversion of home

equity into cash, known as reverse mortgage loans, for purchase of homestead property — a house and a lot, according to the secretary of state’s website. This type of mortgage loan is available for people older than 62, and Texas is the only state where reverse mortgage loans for home purchases are not available for senior citizens, according to a report by the Texas House of Representatives.

Proposition 1Proposition 1 would provide spouses of armed services members

who died in action a tax exemption on all or some part of the market value of the late spouse’s residence, according to the secretary of state’s website. Spouses are eligible for this tax exemption if they have not remarried. This exemption would have to be authorized by the Texas Legislature.

Proposition 6Proposition 6 would create a new fund for projects that would ex-

pand water supplies to keep up with the state’s economic and popula-tion growth, law school research fellow Jeremy Brown said.

Two billion dollars from the Economic Stabilization Fund, otherwise known as the Rainy Day Fund, would create the State Water Imple-mentation Fund of Texas. In 2012, the Texas Water Development Board issued a plan stating that if Texas didn’t develop new water supplies, it would fail to meet the projected water demand, harming the state’s economy, Brown said. The plan recommends conserva-tion, reservoirs, interbasin transfers of surface water and other water management policies.

Brown said the amendment would create new jobs if it passes and works the way it is intended to.

“The exact jobs would depend on the nature of the expenditures,” Brown said. “The construction of a new reservoir, for instance, would create different sorts of jobs than the installation and maintenance of water-efficient technologies.”

Brown said if the amendment passes, the water development board will create regulations to implement the 2012 plan recommendations, and then work with local governments to begin the projects. Brown said the local governments will provide funding for the projects.

Proposition 7Proposition 7 would allow a home-rule municipality, such as Austin,

to fill a governing official’s vacancy if the unexpired term is one year or less, according to the secretary of state’s website. Currently, a home-rule municipality must conduct a special election to find someone to fill the vacant seat until the term expired, and then it must conduct a general election for a new term. This amendment would allow munici-pal officials to make appointments to fill vacancies.

Proposition 8Proposition 8 would repeal a constitutional provision that caps the

property tax rate of a Hidalgo County hospital district at 10 cents per $100 valuation. This proposition would amend a provision of the Texas Constitution that has not been amended since its adoption in 1959. This county will house the UT System’s upcoming regional medical school, in Edinburg, as part of the merger between UT-Pan American and UT-Brownsville.

Proposition 9Proposition 9 would expand the State Commission on Judicial Con-

duct’s ability to warn the public about judges who have misbehaved in some way or have been accused of activity that does not fit their position as a judge, government professor Raul Madrid said. Cur-rently, once a judge has been through formal proceedings, he or she is eligible for public censure or a recommendation of removal from office. If the proposition passes, judges will face increased punishments, in-cluding the requirement they receive additional training or education, among other sanctions.

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With over 86 percent of students enrolled at the University choosing to live off campus this year, according to the Division of Hous-ing and Food Service, there’s no question that hundreds of students get stuck in traffic jams down Interstate 35 while on their way to school — some 20 minutes late to classes regularly, others unable to consistently com-mit to meetings or appointments held on campus.

So why do students look for housing be-yond the immediate vicinity of campus? The answer has two parts: rent prices and livabil-ity.

For the majority of the University’s his-tory, the second-most convenient alternative to living on campus has been living in West Campus. However, living so close to campus doesn’t come cheap.

In mid-October, West Campus’ premier student apartments collectively announced their increased rent prices for the 2014-2015 school year (chiming in at $900 to $1,000 a month at 26 West, 2400 Nueces and The Quarters on Campus, according to repre-sentatives of those complexes). Although expected to drop before students begin signing new leases, numbers like these are what force thousands of students into living farther from campus in the first place. Sec-ondly, along with its higher rent prices, West Campus has other stigmas — one of them being its infamous reputation for not being

minority-friendly. Many students simply do not feel as though they belong there.

The University itself is home to 14 resi-dence halls with a total of 7,300 beds — clearly not enough for UT’s 52,076 students. According to Hemlata Jhaveri, director of the Division of Housing and Food Service, “Any student that applies for a housing contract can get one.” Still, a majority of students live off campus, possibly because of the lure of the comparative freedom available in an off-campus apartment.

If students who live on campus have easier access to their classes and professors, what about students who live off campus but still in close proximity to UT?

West Campus apartments are just a short walk to campus — students don’t have to deal with highway traffic jams before their classes, and on-campus events or meetings are much more accessible.

“I lived in West Campus last year and never had any issues with coming to school for anything during any part of the day,” said psychology junior Zamaria John.

As a junior, I feel like this school year has been my busiest one yet. This year is also my first year of opting to live farther from cam-pus, and I have never been so late to so many things in my life.

It’s no secret that the farther you get from campus, the faster the rent prices drop. But at what cost to students? In my time at UT, many students I have met who live far from the University tend to not get as involved with campus organizations because they know that commuting back and forth to campus multiple times a day would be too much of a burden.

“West Campus is definitely somewhat worth the cost stigma the apartments have,” John said. “I could run home between classes and always still be on time throughout the day. Living down I-35 seems somewhat close when you make the decision to live there, un-til you get caught in weekday traffic almost every day.”

Depending on whether or not predicted rent prices for next school year remain at their remarkably high rate in West Campus, students who have to deal with arduous com-mutes on a daily basis should consider look-ing past the downsides of West Campus and should try to stay closer to the University and to everything hosted at it.

Neilson is a public relations junior from Houston.

In my time at UT, many students I have met that live far away from the University tend not to get as involved with campus organiza-tions because they know that commuting back and forth to campus multiple times a day would be too much of a burden.

According to an article published on the Daily Texan website Monday and in Tuesday’s paper, the United States Postal Service pays UT just $1 a year for its spot in the West Mall. That figure hasn’t changed at all in the Post Office’s 50 years on campus, according to campus real estate director Amy Wanamaker. That means that in terms of inflation, the USPS has been cut a very generous break over the years. To

put numbers to it, $1 in 1963 had the same buying power as $7.65 today, an increase of 665 percent, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Consumer Price Index Inflation Calculator. With prices rising on nearly every other common good, it’s nice that the Post Office is being recognized for its value to the UT community, even if its days are numbered.

Microsoft announced Monday that it is entering a 20-year deal to purchase energy from a soon-to-be-built wind farm near Fort Worth. While the computer giant didn’t say how much it was paying for the deal, it’s a good sign that major companies are starting to invest heavily in renewable, environmentally friendly energy sources — and in Texas, the nation’s largest producer of wind energy.

In the wake of the government shutdown, the Republican Party’s approval ratings are down to 22 percent nationwide, according to a NBC/WSJ poll, and it’s clear that the GOP is in trouble. Many would think that these national numbers will undoubtedly transfer over to the upcoming elections here in Texas, where a recently released UT/Texas Tribune poll shows Republican gubernatorial candidate Greg Abbott leads over his Democratic opponent Wendy Da-vis by only five percentage points. But there is much more to the picture.

The governor’s race does not take place for another year, giving the GOP a year to rebuild.

“If the moderate Republicans are able to maintain control for the next year, then this is just a little blip and everything goes back to normal,” said Bill Spelman, city coun-cilman and professor at the LBJ School of Public Affairs.

Depending on how those in the GOP go about things, there is a possibility that they could be back on top in no time, with this whole fiasco forgotten.

And though it’s tempting to assume the blame for the shutdown has been placed squarely on the shoulders of Republicans, according to an Associated Press poll, only 62 percent of people blame the Republicans for the shutdown. This means that Demo-crats in Washington are still getting some of the blame.

“Some feel that the president and the Democrats refused to negotiate on the debt ceiling,” said Clay Olsen, economics and fi-nance senior and communications director for College Republicans of Texas,

“Among the tea party [Republicans] [the shutdown] was very popular,” Spelman said. “A whole bunch of tea party people are en-ergized that ‘we almost shut down the gov-ernment and we caused all sorts of trouble.’”

This energy could transfer into more ro-bust support for tea-party candidates that could in turn help to get those candidates elected.

But Democrats are energized as well.Last month, San Antonio Judge Carlo

Key switched from the Republican Party to the Democratic Party, saying at a press con-ference outside the Bexar County Court-house that, “[He] did not leave the Republi-can Party, it left [him].”

“In the past few weeks, you have seen the ugly face of the Republican Party,” Key said. He then went on to say that the GOP is more interested in taking care of its pri-mary base than in taking care of Americans and Texans.

While the recent drop in the Republicans’ approval ratings may just be a blip on the radar, demographics are changing in Texas. Mexican-Americans — a group that tends to align itself with the Democratic Party — make up a large number of Texans, and this number is growing. There is much at play here in Texas. If students have a stake in the political future of the state, it would behove them to fight for their beliefs — no matter their side.

Garza is a public health sophomore from Kyle.

“Among the tea party [Re-publicans] [the shutdown] was very popular. A whole bunch of tea party people are energized that ‘We al-most shut down the govern-ment and we caused all sorts of trouble.’”

—Bill Spelman, Professor of public policy

On Tuesday, the polls open across Texas for the Nov. 5 ballot election, which boasts nine propositions for state constitutional amend-ments and, in Austin, one for the creation of an affordable housing bond. Students looking to vote in between classes can go to the Flawn Academic Center, where they can cast their ballots anytime between 7 a.m. and 7 p.m.

Yes, we know — we’ve been harping on this election for quite some time, but if you feel the temptation to slip through the day without visiting the ballot box, consider the possible implications of the failure of the af-fordable housing bond proposition.

The affordable housing bond, if passed, would allow Austin to borrow $65 million to invest in the creation and maintenance of af-fordable housing projects across the city. Aus-tin has the highest median housing prices of any major Texas city, and helping those who currently cannot afford decent housing has more benefits than just the satisfaction of be-ing charitable. For one, as we mentioned in

our endorsements yesterday, a community in which people aren’t struggling to stay in housing is a safer, more stable, more prosper-ous community. And the bond is expected to pay for itself, without raising taxes at all — despite the shrill claims of the Travis County Taxpayers’ Union, who succeeded in being as abhorrent as possible by comparing the bond to rape during a protest in October.

A similar initiative failed last year, and we worry that history could repeat itself this time around. That was in large part because of the fact that, according to a poll conducted later by Austin Housing Works and Ending Community Homelessness Coalition, about one-fifth of those polled said they voted no because they hadn’t been informed about the bond beforehand and didn’t understand the vague language of the ballot description. There’s no good reason for that to happen again, so if you vote for nothing else tomor-row, it’s important that you at least support this highly beneficial project.

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For the first time in his three years at Texas, ju-nior running back Mal-colm Brown is on pace to play an entire season for the Longhorns.

Brown battled foot and ankle injuries through-out his first two years and missed nine games during that stretch. His sopho-more season was especial-ly difficult, as a nagging ankle ailment cost him six games and held him to 324 rushing yards on just 61 carries.

While the running back has yet to miss a game this season, another ankle injury at the start of this season limited him to 63 rushing yards in his first five games. Despite this, Brown never doubted his ability to persevere, and with each reoccurring in-jury, he still managed to keep his mind focused on returning.

“That’s just how I was raised,” Brown said. “I talked to my parents a lot, and I talked to my dad a lot. He just told me to keep faith and keep praying and eventually good things would happen for me.”

Good things have cer-tainly happened for Brown in the last three weeks. The junior emerged as the Longhorns’ primary goal-line option, scoring six touchdowns while rushing for 290 yards on 60 carries. This all came after he re-ceived just 23 carries in his first five contests.

Brown’s turnaround this season started against Oklahoma, when he rushed for a season-high 120 yards on 23 carries. He followed

this up with a two-touch-down effort against TCU, and then exploded for a career-high four rushing touchdowns against Kan-sas on Saturday, leading the Longhorns with 119 yards on the ground.

Brown’s physicality al-lowed him to take over as Texas’ short yardage back, a position previously held by junior running back Joe Bergeron. While this role demands Brown to seek contact and run be-tween the tackles, he re-mains unconcerned with the possibility of getting injured again.

“As I’m playing in the game, it really doesn’t go through my mind at all,” Brown said. “I’m healthy, so I’m going to do what I can for the team. That’s a role I’ve taken on be-ing the short yardage

guy, so I need to stick my head in there.”

Head coach Mack Brown has noticed a re-newed confidence in the running back, and he be-lieves Malcolm Brown possesses the necessary size and skill set to suc-ceed near the goal line. After all of the injuries, Mack Brown is pleased to see the junior back on the field and embracing his new role.

“He’s one of the nicest young people and the ul-timate team guy,” Mack Brown said. “He’s always giving so much credit to everybody else. He’s never griped once about being hurt. He’s never griped at all about not getting the ball as much. I’m glad for us, but I’m also glad for him that all this is hap-pening well for him now.”

Malcolm Brown has al-ready set a new career-high with seven rushing touch-downs this season, and he maintains an outside chance of surpassing the career-best 742 rushing yards he racked up as a freshman in 2011. For now, though, he is just happy to be back on the field and healthy once again.

One year ago, junior running back Joe Bergeron was considered one of Tex-as’ main offensive forces. Today, it’s rare to hear his name at all.

Although he was hyped up as being one of three strong running backs en-tering the year, Bergeron has yet to make his mark on this season. But the back is handling this new-found situation in the best way he can.

“Joe has handled it re-ally well,” head coach Mack Brown said. “He’s not get-ting as many touches at running back [but] is tak-ing all the energy, and he’s channeled all of that en-ergy into things that will help our team.”

At this point in the sea-son last year, Bergeron had 104 carries and 16 touchdowns. This year he has been given the ball

only 31 times, tallying just two scores in eight games this season.

There have been many reasons for Bergeron’s di-minished playing time, the biggest of which is the rise of running backs ju-nior Malcolm Brown and sophomore Johnathan Gray. Brown and Gray have stepped into the role Bergeron was hoping for this season, recording 779 and 503 all-purpose yards respectively. The two have combined for 12 of Texas touchdowns.

One of Bergeron’s most impressive features was his ability to pound the ball into the end zone in goal-line situations. But Brown has taken over the primary role Bergeron used to have.

“Malcolm is healthy and he’s playing at a very high level, and he and Johna-than both are really be-ing productive right now,” Mack Brown said. “What

we’ve got to do is con-tinue to run the ball like we’re running it.”

Another problem for Bergeron is the fact that he has fumbled in many prominent situations. Against Iowa State, the ju-nior fumbled in Longhorn territory, which led to a Cyclone score.

Nevertheless, Bergeron hasn’t let this reduced play turn negative. He has become a force on spe-cial teams, showing up on kickoff coverage, kickoff returns and even on the punt team.

“He’s on just about every special teams and he’s one of the best special teams players,” Mack Brown said. “These guys are really bought in right now. It’s a team that is really wanting to do anything it can do to help each other. They real-ly believe in each other and there’s no griping and they all want to do whatever they can do to help us win.”

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Shelby Tauber / Daily Texan file photoAfter suffering two straight seasons with injuries, junior running back Malcolm Brown has found full health once again. In the past few weeks, Brown has surfaced as an offensive powerhouse for Texas.

Five games into their conference schedule, the Longhorns stand in what, a month ago, would have been an almost inconceiv-able position: They are 5-0 and first in the conference. Texas rebounded from a dreadful 1-2 start with both of the losses being in the double digits. But with a crucial stretch approaching that features three-straight games against ranked op-ponents, the Longhorns have a long way to go to claim a Big 12 title.

Through its first batch of conference games, Tex-as went largely untested, winning all but one of its games by two scores. The team’s victories have been especially dominant lately, with the Longhorns win-ning their last three games by an average of 17 points. But only one team in that stretch was ranked, as Tex-as beat Oklahoma 36-20 in Dallas. With stiffer compe-tition ahead, how will this team respond?

The first thing that jumps out about the teams Texas has yet to play is their of-fensive firepower. The Long-horns’ final three opponents — Oklahoma State, Texas Tech and Baylor — average 39.1, 40.5 and 63.9 points per game, respectively. This marks a huge contrast from what Texas has seen so far. The highest scoring Big 12

team it’s faced this year, Kan-sas State, averages just more than 32 points per game.

If Texas is to compete in those games, the Long-horns must find a way to hinder the opponents’ of-fensive success. It won’t be easy, but the Longhorns are capable of the feat. Of the five conference oppo-nents it has faced, Texas held three of them to their lowest scoring outputs of the season. The Longhorns have yielded an average of 18.2 points per game in Big 12 play.

Because of their style of play, which emphasizes running the ball, control-ling the clock and playing defense, the Longhorns are built to handle high-powered offenses. Led by the two-headed monster formed by sophomore running back Johnathan Gray and junior running back Malcolm Brown, Texas averages 203 rush-ing yards a game, which is the perfect way to main-tain possession and keep the ball out of the hands of explosive offenses.

As they enter this deci-sive stretch of make-or-break games, the pressure is mounting and the Long-horns will be tested like they haven’t been before. But thanks to a revital-ized defense and a clock-controlling ground game, they appear equipped to make a serious run for the Big 12 crown.

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After impressive second season Bergeron finds diminished time

Longhorns still have tough schedule ahead

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He’s one of the nicest young people and the ultimate team guy ... I’m glad for us but I’m also glad for him that all this is happening well for him now.

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Elisabeth Dillon / Daily Texan file photoJunior running back Joe Bergeron attempts a rush against TCU. Despite recording 16 touchdowns last season, Bergeron has seen limited time at running back.

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Cut Copy’s newest album, Free Your Mind, is a tremen-dous dance record that per-fectly recreates the feeling of euphoria that accompanies the last energetic dance be-fore the club closes.

Cut Copy, one of this year’s headliners at Fun Fun Fun Fest, has always been an ex-pert at taking the somewhat stale sounds from ’80s pop and making them fresh and invigorating again. On the band’s last record, 2011’s Zo-noscope, Cut Copy indulged too much in cheesiness, crafting songs that came too close to sounding like they were written by Men at Work. This time around, the Australian group created an album almost exclusively for the club, one that contains sequencing so perfect that it almost feels like a memo-rable disk jockey set.

The two qualities that show up immediately on the title track are the house-like beat alongside tropical sounding synths. The band manages to sustain this throughout the entire al-bum, from the driving “We Are Explorers” to the expan-sive and epic “Meet Me In a House of Love.” Cut Copy takes a note from European dance acts such as Delorean and John Talabot this time around, focusing more on building and carrying mo-mentum rather than build-ing up to big drops.

Free Your Mind would be boring if it were all peaks, but instead it builds as a journey, like albums by Pri-mal Scream. In its valleys, the record gives a near per-fect ballad to play at sun-set with “Dark Corners &

Mountain Tops,” and ends on a sense of exuberant tri-umph on the soaring “Walk-ing in the Sky.” Free Your Mind reaches a high point midway through the album with the one-two punch of “Footsteps” and “In Memory Capsule.” The former builds up tension steadily, turning into a near rave-like jam. The latter has a propul-sive bass line that launches into a wonderful chorus that lightly floats over the whole affair.

Rather than containing two or three monster sin-gles, Free Your Mind is best experienced as a complete set. Even the scattered in-terludes feel like necessary pieces, providing brief mo-ments to take a short break

from dancing. Cut Copy has continued its trend of great records with its best one yet. Free Your Mind takes listen-ers on a trip they will not want to come down from.

People love to discuss music in extremes, deem-ing records or artists either brilliant or trash, with-out leaving much middle ground. The latest Eminem album is not as bad as the consensus claims, but it will try the patience of even his staunchest fans. Eminem is arguably one of the great-est rappers of all time, not based off of his popular-ity but rather his body of work — especially his first few releases. But in the past few years, the quality of his music has fallen off, growing repetitive and stale — and The Marshall Mathers LP2 follows suit.

To begin on a high note, Eminem’s latest is a show-case of his lyrical talent. Eminem has always been, and still is, one of rap’s most gifted lyricists, stringing together rhymes with un-paralleled skill. He weaves and twists together convo-luted phrases with impres-sive proficiency, no matter how disturbing the lyrical content can be.

But rampant misogyny and violence run through his well-executed lyrics. He drops homophobic slurs far too frequently, and goes into gratuitously gory detail about the physical harm he wants to cause to women. These aspects made him provocative early in his career, when he coupled them with songs that were risk-taking and innovative enough that their content was defensible. This time around, he ran out of fresh ideas, lazily partaking in the overused practice of rapping over classic rock songs in-cluding in “Rhyme Or Rea-son” and “Love Game.” Most of his pop-culture references are also woefully out of date, making Eminem look like an out-of-touch dad.

There is a solid Texas connection as Denton folk singer Sarah Jaffe sings background vocals on the opener “Bad Guy.” The strangest moment comes with “Headlights,” which features vocals from Nate Ruess of Fun. and basi-cally sounds like one of the band’s pop songs with Eminem rapping the verses.

While it does not entirely work, it does showcase Eminem’s strongest work on the album, as he makes a starkly emotional apol-ogy to his mother — his confessional style com-ing off as self-aware and refreshingly sympathetic.

The Marshall Mathers LP2 shows that Eminem is well past his prime and seems unwilling to push out of his comfort zone. The album is not the creative resurgence many hoped it would be, but that won’t stop die-hard fans from downloading it for themselves.

Hula hooping isn’t just for schoolchildren anymore. The school-yard pastime has evolved into an entire hoop-ing culture that provides ex-ercise and an outlet for artis-tic expression to those who try it.

Laura Scarborough has been hooping since 2004 and teaches hula-hoop exer-cise classes at Galaxy Dance Studios and other studios in Austin.

“There is a huge move-ment that has happened really heavily in the past five years and it’s amazing,” Scarborough said. “You see them a lot at festivals … but I’m really interested in bringing hoops to people who maybe wouldn’t go to a circus or a music festival and using it as a form for meditation, exercise and just fun playfulness.”

Scarborough said not to be intimidated by the challenge of hula hooping.

“I gave the hoop a spin and I was a complete di-saster,” Scarborough said. “I could not keep it up to save my life. I got after it the next day and the next day, and I decided that I wanted to take something that was really challeng-ing for me and become [a] master at it.”

To make her class less in-timidating for new students, Scarborough structures it in a three- to four-week series,

with each class adding on to the next. This results in a final piece of hula hooping choreographed to music.

“It creates a bit of class camaraderie,” Scarborough said. “We are all moving together, everyone knows what was covered last week. So the idea is to follow an accumulative structure.”

The fun, come-as-you-are atmosphere of the class cre-ates an environment that stu-dent Stephanie Delk said is more enjoyable than going to the gym.

“I’ve pretty much done ev-ery workout you can name over the years,” Delk said. “But this, it’s lots and lots of cardio and it’s fun. A lot of times you get with a work-out, and it’s like, ‘Alright I’m going to go to the gym and run on the treadmill,’ and it gets really boring, but with this, there’s something new all the time.”

Scarborough said hula hooping differs from oth-er classes such as yoga or spinning by serving as an artistic outlet as well as exercise.

“There’s a bit of improvi-sation with hooping where you start to craft it,” Scar-borough said. “It’s a form of expression and I think that’s what’s a little different than some of these other classes. Yoga is about achieving this precision in your poses, where as [with] hooping there’s a precision we want to go for, but there is a lot of freedom and creativity that’s

in the mix of it.” As a physical activity,

hula hooping provides in-tense cardiovascular ex-ercise that is comparable to running.

“It immediately gets the blood flowing through the body, so it’s an excellent thing to do as a warm-up before other exercises,” Scarborough said. “What’s also great about it is that you get that heavy heartbeat without having the impact,

so for people that don’t want to run or do a heavy-impact sport, hooping is really good for that.”

Scarborough, who lost 30 pounds after one year of hooping, experienced the effects of hula hooping first-hand in a process that she calls “growing younger.”

“It really started to cre-ate a lot of change in my life,” Scarborough said. “I started just lighting up, which is why I call it

‘growing younger’ in the hoop. And I’ve seen it in a lot of my students or people that I have just gotten into hooping over the years. I see them a year later and their bodies are transformed … And they’re just glowing.”

Although Scarborough loves for people to come to her class, she said it is more important for peo-ple to start exploring hula hooping individually and to learn which methods

work best for them. One of her students, Erica Lang, does this by reading books and watching YouTube vid-eos in addition to the hula hooping classes.

“Once you learn one trick, then a second trick and a third trick, then you begin to feel like you’re a real pro,” Lang said. “You can string a few things to-gether. It’s a very positive way to get your exercise in and get your groove on.”

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By Eleanor Dearman@EllyDearman

By David Sackllah@dsackllah

Jarrid Denman / Daily Texan StaffLaura Scarborough dances in the dark with a LED hula hoop after her class on Oct. 28. Scarborough leads hula-hoop exer-cise sessions for novice hoopers in various dance studios around Austin.

By David Sackllah@dsackllah

CUT COPY

Album: Free Your MindLabel: Modular RecordingsSongs to Download: “Meet Me In The House Of Love,” “We Are Explorers” and “Footsteps”

Photo courtesy of The Windish AgencyCut Copy will play this year’s Fun Fun Fun Fest on Friday at 7:45 p.m. on the Orange Stage.

Cut Copy brings back psychadelic dance beats

Provocative Eminem album falls short of creative resurgence

ALBUM REVIEW | ‘THE MARSHALL MATHERS LP2’ ALBUM REVIEW | ‘FREE YOUR MIND’

EMINEM

Album: The Marshall Mathers LP2Label: InterscopeSongs to Download: “Survival,” “Bezerk” and “Headlights”

Hula hooping serves as fun exercise

Photo courtesy ofShady Records

Eminem’s latest record proves

the rapper is not willing to step

outside of his box.

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