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Faculty Council is con-tinuing discussion on a man-date from a UT System task force to add five questions to course evaluation forms and may approve the changes at its next meeting in April.

The System Office of Aca-demic Affairs established the Task Force on the Evaluation

of Faculty Teaching in the spring of 2012 to assess the student and peer faculty evaluation process. The task force developed a list of five questions all institutions within the System must add to their evaluation forms.

Pedro Reyes, education professor and executive vice chancellor for academic

In poll data released last week, the Pew Research Cen-ter reported 61 percent of Republicans and those who lean toward the Republican Party aged 18 to 29 favor the legal marriage of same-sex couples, as opposed to the 27 percent aged 50 and older.

College Republicans, a conservative student group on campus, adheres to the official ideology of the GOP, according to Zach Berberich, accounting junior and com-munications director for the organization. Berberich said students coming into UT tend to have a high respect for individual liberty.

“College students tend to come in with really libertar-ian viewpoints,” Berberich

said. “A lot of students think it’s not the government’s job to intervene at all in marriage. A lot of us tend to say ‘it’s not our business. As long as it’s not hurting us, then let it be.’”

Steph Salazar, social work sophomore and co-commu-nity relations chair of Queer People of Color and Allies, said she hasn’t seen a major shift in conservative opinion.

“I’ve noticed a change in my lifetime, but I don’t see the conservative community as a total ally to the LGBTQ com-munity,” Salazar said. “While certain conservative folks are doing a great job as queer advocates individually, over-arching legislation about the well-being of queer bodies in this country says otherwise.”

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Morry Gash / Associated PressCameron Ridley saved Texas’ season on Thursday night, netting the game-winner after the team blew a big lead against ASU.

Austin City Council gave final approval to a city code amendment reducing the number of unrelated adults who can live together in a single-family dwelling from six to four, in a 6-1 vote on Thursday.

Without additional pub-lic comment, the council heard both the second and third readings required to pass the amendment, which will go into effect for two years, beginning in 10 days, according to the Austin-American Statesman. The ordinance will affect greater central Austin in the areas from U.S. 183 to William Cannon Drive. The city code amendment contains a grandfather provision, so those who currently reside in a single-family house will not be affected by the amendment.

Councilman Bill Spelman, who is also a professor at the LBJ School of Public Affairs, said that although the code change is intended to disin-centivize developers from building high-occupancy dwellings, the code change will affect students more than developers.

“[What] concerns me the most is that any restrictions we put on people being able to live together in single-family houses is going to put the biggest restrictions on students, not the people who are building the stealth dorms,” Spelman said.

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Caleb b. Kuntz / Daily Texan StaffSenior biological sciences lecturer Dee Silverthorn practices with student Jon Cozart for UT’s own rendition of “Dancing with the Stars.” All event proceeds will go to support Texas 4000’s ride to Alaska.

Ballroom dancing can take a lifetime to master, but three UT students have learned it in only a few months. These students will be judged to-night on their newly ac-quired skills at the second-ever “Dancing with the Stars: UT,” an event hosted by Tex-as Ballroom and Texas 4000.

The competition is struc-tured like a scaled-down ver-sion of the television show where a celebrity performs with a professional dancer and is then judged by a panel. Each participant must learn a social dance, such as the two-step or swing, and a ballroom dance, such as the foxtrot or cha-cha.

All the event’s proceeds will go to Texas 4000 to fund the members’ ride to Alaska for cancer research. In addition to the dance competition, the event will have social dancing and performances by various

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1. The instructor clearly defined and explained the course objectives and expectations.2. The instructor was prepared for each instructional activity.3. The instructor communicated information effectively.4. The instructor encouraged me to take an active role in my own learning.5. The instructor was available to students either electroni-cally or in person.

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A lot of students think it’s not the government’s job to intervene at all in marriage. A lot of us tend to say ,‘it’s not our business. As long as it’s not hurting us, then let it be.

—Zach Berberich, Accounting junior and communications director for College Republicans

Just when it looked like a Jonathan Holmes air ball had Texas and Arizona State bound for overtime, sophomore cen-ter Cameron Ridley picked up the loose ball, looked toward the rim and put up a prayer.

The ball came off his left hand, sailed over the fin-gertips of Arizona State’s se-nior center Jordan Bachyn-ski, kissed off the backboard, bounced around the rim and dropped through the basket,

giving the Longhorns the 87-85 victory at the buzzer.

For the first time in more than three years, Texas won an NCAA Tournament game, squeaking past the Sun Dev-ils in Milwaukee, Wis. The March Madness victory was the Longhorns’ first since they beat Oakland University on March 18, 2011.

After struggling to score throughout the Big 12 tour-nament, the Longhorns couldn’t miss early on against Arizona State. Texas con-verted each of its first six

field goal attempts, scoring 13 points in less than three minutes to open the contest.

The Longhorns managed to hold on to a lead for most of the game, but the Sun Devils closed the gap late in the second half. The two teams traded leads down the stretch before Ridley’s lay-in sealed the victory for Texas.

Ridley’s last second bucket will be what gets remem-bered, but no individual per-formance stuck out for Rick

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Jonathan Garza / Daily Texan StaffNori Sounny-Slitine, 10 months, plays with balloons at the School of Human Ecology ambassadors’ spring event Thursday.

FRAMES featured photo broadcast journalism senior and communications director for the UT chapter of Young Conservatives of Texas, said the organization doesn’t have an official stance on the issue of same-sex marriage.

The increase in social lib-eralism within young Re-publican groups also extends to same-sex adoption. The poll reports that 18 percent of conservatives under 30 and 59 percent for conserva-tives aged 50 and up consid-er same-sex couples raising children as “bad for society.”

Michelle Willoughby, gov-ernment junior and commu-nications director for Uni-versity Democrats, said she can see the legalization of same-sex marriage nation-wide from her interactions with political groups at UT.

“In past debates with Col-lege Republicans, we’ve defi-nitely seen them take a more favorable stance towards the LGBT community than their party does as a whole,” Wil-loughby said. “I think that the fact that young people on both sides of the aisle are finding some common ground of this issue shows that legalizing gay marriage is going to happen sooner or later.”

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affairs, serves on the task force. Reyes said the mem-bers of the task force want-ed to develop consistent questions for all institutions to use in their evaluations.

“Teaching is really im-portant to the whole Sys-tem,” Reyes said. “When we accessed that data [from evaluation forms], there was a lot of diversity throughout the campuses … What we decided to do is ask some really great fac-ulty members from across the System, and students as well, to come together and develop a way we could systematically ap-proach this and gain more meaningful information about how students regard their teachers.”

UT System spokeswoman Jenny LaCoste-Caputo said while these questions are mandated, institutions are allowed and encouraged to include other questions.

In order to accommo-date the new questions, Faculty Council’s Educa-tional Policy Committee looked at the existing eval-uation forms for questions that could be deleted. Mary

Rose, associate sociology professor and chair of the committee, presented a report to Faculty Coun-cil at its meeting Monday and will present a revised report based on feedback from the assembly at its next meeting.

Rose said some of the Sys-tem’s new questions were similar to existing questions in UT’s evaluation form, which the committee has proposed to remove.

“I think one of their ques-tions was worded exactly the same as one we had and oth-ers were different in word-ing, but you could argue they were similar in spirit to other questions we had,” Rose said.

According to Rose, the content of the form is not altered frequently, despite requests from the UT community.

“We got [requests] early [last] year, and we took it very seriously and spent a meeting discussing it and also just tried to figure it out,” Rose said. “When we priced that out, it was in-sanely expensive to do it, so having the System provide us with these mandating changes kind of gave us a nice opportunity to reevalu-ate the entire form.”

Although the mandated

questions provided Rose with this opportunity, she said it was frustrating to have the System order changes to the form.

“No one likes to be told what you have to do,” Rose said. “There is so much variability in what teaching looks like and what students want to say and reflect on and maybe the needs at UT Austin are different than at other campuses.”

What we decided to do is ask some really great faculty members from across the System, and students as well, to come together and develop a way we could systematically approach this and gain more meaningful information about how students regard their teachers.

—Pedro Reyes, Executive vice chancellor for academic affairs and education professor

Thousands register for presidential keynote

More than 7,500 stu-dents signed up for the Civil Rights Summit at the LBJ Library and Presidential Museum within 24 hours after the student ticket lot-tery opened Wednesday.

President Barack Obama will deliver a keynote ad-dress on April 10 at the event, which will celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. His address will be among two days of speeches from former presidents Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush.

The University will award a limited number of tick-ets through a lottery dis-tribution system to cur-rent students who fill out a HornsLink profile. Lottery registration will close at 11:59 p.m. Monday. The gen-eral public will have access to free tickets on March 31.

“It’s really important for us to make sure students can be involved because this is such a historic event to have four presidents coming to speak,” said Sara LeStrange, commu-nications manager for the Of-fice of the Dean of Students.

According to LeStrange, it has not been determined how many tickets will be distributed to students.

The LBJ School also has its own lottery for students in the college. According to Kerri Battles, communica-tions manager for the LBJ School, there have been 163 entries since the lot-tery opened on Wednesday. Currently, there are 319 stu-dents enrolled in the school.

Students will be notified March 28 if they have re-ceived a ticket.

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According to Mayor Pro Tem Sheryl Cole, the council has not sufficiently addressed the concerns of neighbor-hood associations or Univer-sity students.

“We have not really heard enough with the students in-volved,” Cole said. “I think we need to reach out to our university students not only at UT but throughout the city in our other colleges and universities more and get their input.”

Spelman, who voted against the measure, said the ordinance will nega-tively affect lower-income individuals, including those who have not come forward to give their input because they are undocu-mented immigrants.

“They just don’t have very

much money and have de-cided to double and qua-druple up to share the cost in single-family houses because it’s the only way that they can live,” Spelman said.

Councilman Chris Riley said he does not think the amendment fixes an under-lying issue of affordability.

“It’s going to affect those who would like to live in high-occupancy [houses], and it’s going to continue to affect the neighborhoods in central Austin because we’re going to continue to see those development pressures manifested in some other way,” Riley said.

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Political conflict in East-ern Europe has not only af-fected Russia’s relations with the West, but also UT sum-mer study abroad programs in the region.

Russian Express, a lan-guage and culture pro-gram that has students spend four weeks in Kiev, Ukraine, and four weeks in Moscow during the sum-mer, was forced to move the location from Ukraine three weeks ago after po-litical unrest erupted in the country, according to Elliot Nowacky, adminis-trator and resident direc-tor for the program.

The 11 students partici-pating in Russian Express selected Irkutsk, Russia, located in Siberia, as the new destination, Nowacky said.

Nowacky is also the ad-ministrator for the Mos-cow-Texas Connections Program, where students spend 10 weeks in Mos-cow at the Higher School of Economics. Nowacky said this program will continue as scheduled.

“We’ve gotten no indi-cation from our partners at the Higher School of Economics that it’s going to be a problem getting the visas, which is required for [the students] to go to Russia in order to study,” Nowacky said.

The five-week Moscow Plus Program was canceled on March 6 by Thomas Garza, Slavic languages and literature associate profes-sor, mainly because of a low number of participants, according to Betsy Brown, program and outreach co-ordinator for the Texas Lan-guage Center.

According to Brown, the summer program had more than six applications this year, but participants kept dropping out for personal reasons or to join another program where they could receive grant support, such as Moscow-Texas Con-nections. Brown said there eventually ended up being only a few participants who had confirmed enrollment by March 1.

“That doesn’t really make a study abroad pro-gram,” Brown said. “We thought we would be able

to merge [Moscow Plus] with another program, but it just kept getting smaller and smaller.”

Garza said his decision to cancel the Moscow Plus Program was affected by the heated relations between the U.S. and Russia over Russia’s intervention in Crimea and Ukrainian politics.

“The added complication of the Crimea crisis and the effect that it might have on securing visas this spring certainly weighed on my decision, but it was the low [participation] that per-suaded me to postpone this year’s program,” Garza said. “I hope to run the program again in the future.”

Zachary Berru, interna-tional relations and global studies sophomore who planned to participate in Moscow Plus, said even if the program is held in the future, he is no longer sure if he wants to travel to Russia.

“This situation [between the U.S. and Russia] is esca-lating way too rapidly, and I’m fearful things will get only worse,” Berru said. “I personally don’t feel like it would be safe at this point.”

CAMPUS

Turmoil in Ukraine results in uncertainty for study abroad

First renovations for Harry Ransom Center since 2003

Health center names new director

The new Center for Health Communication at the Moody College of Communication recently named its founding direc-tor, Jay Bernhardt, a former marketing director for the Center for Disease Control and Prevention.

Bernhardt said he is en-thusiastic about how the po-sition will allow him to work closely with the new Dell Medical School.

“It’s a really exciting time at UT now with the new col-lege of medicine coming on-line as well as the new Center for Health Communication,” Bernhardt said. “There’s a lot of increase, advancement and emphasis on health at UT. I fully expect for there to be very close collaboration between the new Center for Health Communication and the new [medical school].”

Bernhardt said the ex-panding field of health com-munication comes down to

how information about med-icine and health is shared at a personal and national level.

“Health communications is an area of practice and research that’s been around for several decades, but it’s really been growing rapidly in recent years,” Bernhardt said. “In essence, it involves everything from how doc-tors communicate with pa-tients, to people looking up health information on the Internet, to developing national campaigns to help kids not smoke.”

Moody College Dean Roderick Hart said health communication is becom-ing an important factor in medicine, which may in-trigue students.

“You can’t really talk about health and medicine anymore without featur-ing communication ,” Hart said. “The most important thing [for students] to real-ize is ‘Oh my gosh, I thought I knew what the college of communication does: it’s journalism and film and all

these other things…’ [But health communication] is an area that’s so important. I hope [students] turn around and say, ‘Hey, wow, I never thought of that.’”

Associate advertising pro-fessor Lee Ann Kahlor said the health communication center will help the Univer-sity benefit from experts in both health and medicine who will join the program. Kahlor said communication is becoming an important factor in medicine.

“One of the key things we are gaining with the center is presence as a group of scholars and prac-titioners who can and will impact health care practice and health outcomes local-ly and nationally,” Kahlor said. “Communication has the potential to improve health care, whether it’s by helping practitioners to overcome barriers in pa-tient communication or finding ways to harness mass communication to change harmful behaviors.”

UNIVERSITY

WORLD

The Harry Ransom Cen-ter is currently undergoing exterior renovations, the first outdoor maintenance on the archive and museum building since it was built in the early 1970s.

The $400,000 project, which is entirely funded by the UT System’s Library Equipment Repair and Re-habilitation Fund, will clean the building exterior and replace or repair damaged seals, mortar joints and win-dow gaskets. Although the age of the building and time since renovations do not add complications to the project by University standards, the recent cold weather has made the work more difficult, espe-cially when re-pointing joint panels, according to project director Sang Lee.

“Compared to other build-ings in UT main campus, [the] about 40-year-old HRC

building is a kind of a young building,” Lee said. “Joint ma-terial is mortar, and to install mortar, temperature has to be above certain temperature … All those cold days prevented contractors from working, so the schedule is pushed back.”

Lee said although the building might look brighter because of power-washing, there will be no other visible changes to the exterior ap-pearance of the building.

Jennifer Tisdale, direc-tor of public affairs for the center, said staff members monitor the building to as-sess when renovations are necessary. The center’s first two floors and basement were renovated in 2003, and a roof replacement, sprin-kler installation and creation of a cold storage and low hu-midity vault for acetate film have all been completed in the past decade, Tisdale said.

“As with all buildings, maintenance is an ongo-ing process,” Tisdale said.

“Collection acquisitions have also been supported by [Li-brary Equipment Repair and Rehabilitation Fund] fund-ing, including the acquisition of J.M. Coetzee’s archive and Julia Alvarez’s archive.”

Tisdale said upcoming ren-ovations include an upgrade to the Center’s Prothro The-ater, as well as the replacement of the building’s heating and cooling system, which will be funded by the University.

“The staff is trying to pre-serve the items by keeping the building to a certain humidity point and temperature so that the items will not be dam-aged,” said Jim Janknegt, the center’s building manager.

The renovations will serve to better insulate the center’s collections, which are val-ued at about $1.4 billion. The Ransom Center’s tools, such as a clean steam humidifier and the cold storage and low humidity vault, further allow more specific temperatures for preserving artifacts.

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Helen Fernandez / Daily Texan StaffAustin City Council voted to reduce the number of unrelated adults who can live together in a single-family dwelling, Thursday.

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A resident cycles past soldiers in unmarked uniforms stand-ing guard outside the Ukrainian Military Pros-ecutor’s Office in Simferopol, Crimea, Thurs-day, March 20, 2014.

Daulton Venglar / Daily Texan StaffA worker power-washes the exterior of the Harry Ransom Center on Thursday afternoon. Along with the revamping of the exterior, the HRC center plans to renovate its interior.

After 11 years of war, human rights vio-lations and genocide, the conflict in the Sudanese region of Darfur persists. A brief cease-fire brought temporary peace to the area, but 2014 has ushered in a flare-up of atrocities in the region. The International Criminal Court has charged Omar al-Bashir, the current president of Sudan, with three counts of genocide.

That genocide has claimed the lives of 400,000 Sudanese and displaced millions more, yet, despite international outcry against the atrocities in Sudan, the UT System continues to maintain its financial holdings in companies involved in Sudan — companies that contribute to the coun-try’s genocide.

The University of Texas Investment Management Co., known as UTIMCO, manages the System’s $20 billion endow-ment. According to a 2011 Texas Observer article, roughly $5 million of the endow-ment is invested in companies that have directly helped contribute to Sudanese genocide (although that number may have changed since then). Companies on the list include PetroChina, which has bought oil from the Sudanese government, there-by indirectly contributing to the state-sponsored slaughter of non-Arabs in the Darfur region, and Dongfeng Motor Co., a company that has sold military equipment to Sudanese militias.

UTIMCO’s dirty investments have led me to start Texans Against Genocide, a group founded with the intention of trying to get UTIMCO to draw the line at genocide, an incontrovertibly bad thing.

Bruce Zimmerman, the chief execu-tive officer and chief investment officer of

UTIMCO, is clearly good at the financial side of his job. He has grown the endow-ment tremendously, and as of 2011 he has regularly beaten general market returns. Regardless, good business doesn’t make good ethics.

Zimmerman declined to comment for this piece.

Zimmerman has said in the past that UTIMCO doesn’t “take social or political concerns into account.” He has said that fac-toring social responsibility into UTIMCO’s investment could lead to a slippery slope of investment restrictions that could potentially hurt the fund.

Zimmerman told the Observer in 2011, “What you’ll learn in Econ 101 is any exter-nality has an economic cost. That’s not a pre-sumption. It’s an economic reality.”

Zimmerman is right. Taking ethics into ac-count does make investing harder but does not make it impossible. In the last decade, several universities, including Harvard, Stan-ford and Yale, among others, have divested or eliminated their holdings from companies linked to the genocide in Sudan. These col-leges have endowments comparable to UT’s, and show that an endowment can still thrive while making ethically sound investments.

Moreover, the logic that a business’ sole responsibility is to make a profit, irrespective of its social or ethical cost, is riddled with problems. Ostensibly, we hold human beings to a general set of normative ethical and social standards. We expect people to respect our auton-omy and not to hurt us or do generally bad things. The idea that a group of peo-ple working together to make money is somehow exempt from these standards doesn’t make sense. If I personally gave a government committing genocide mil-lions of dollars and military supplies, you could call me a bad person. UTIM-CO participating in these sorts of invest-ments for the betterment of the UT Sys-tem doesn’t absolve it from this. It just makes it opportunistic.

Obviously, issues like this aren’t cut-and-dried. If UTIMCO is forced to in-vest in accordance with sound ethics, the group could lose out on potentially lucra-tive investments. But while investment in morally gray areas, such as tobacco and fossil fuels, is up for debate, an investment in genocide is not.

We can avoid Zimmerman’s slippery slope by making it clear that we draw the line at mass murder. Right now, the UT System doesn’t draw the law line any-where. Until it does, it implicitly supports genocide.

Breland is a Plan II senior from Houston and the president of Texans Against Genocide, an organization founded in the interest of get-ting UT to divest its endowment from corpo-rations that fund or facilitate genocide.

Gov. Rick Perry has never been shy about singing Texas’ praises — not least since his presi-dential campaign a few years ago. Perry has spent the past few years traveling around the country trumpeting what he calls the “Texas miracle,” or the relative resilience of our economy in the financial crisis, to lure businesses to the state. In ads and speeches, Perry has touted the state’s low taxes and generally business friendly environ-ment as incentives to set up shop in Texas. It’s impossible to know how many companies have been swayed by Perry’s rhetoric, but the move-ment of jobs to the state shows that many compa-nies find Texas an attractive place to do business. From January 2013 to January 2014 alone, the state added 322,400 jobs.

All those new jobs translate into a low state-wide unemployment rate. According to the Texas Workforce Commission, the unemployment rate stood at 5.7 percent in January, the lowest it had been since November 2008. But recent data from the Brookings Institution shows that in many of Texas’ largest metropolitan areas, including Austin-Round Rock, astonishingly high percent-ages of young people are being left out of the job market. In the Austin metropolitan area, the em-ployment rate for 16- to 19-year-olds stands at 24.1 percent, while the employment rate for 20- to 24-year-olds comes in at 64.1 percent. Both of these figures put the city in the bottom half of the nation’s 100 largest metropolitan areas. For pur-poses of comparison, the San Antonio area had the 50th-highest employment rate for the younger group and 45th highest for the older group. The

Houston area fared even worse, with a 77th-place ranking for the 16- to 19-year-olds and a 56th-place ranking for the 20- to 24-year-olds.

What this data shows is that while Perry may be happy with the state of the Texas economy, he’s for-getting about young Texans when he declares the health of the Texas economy a “miracle.” While the state continues to add jobs, it is clearly not reach-ing young people like it should.

Admittedly, the youth employment rate is al-ways lower than the general employment rate, even in a good economy, according to Martha Ross, a fellow at the Metropolitan Policy Pro-gram in Washington, D.C., and a co-author of the report. This is especially true in areas with high numbers of college students, like Austin, or high numbers of high school dropouts, like the McAl-len area, which posted the lowest employment rate for the 20- to 24-year-old age group. But while the statewide employment rate continues to rise, the youth employment rate has decreased significantly since 2000, particularly in the Aus-tin area. As reported in the Austin American-Statesman, from 2000 to 2012, the employment rate for 16- to 19-year-olds in Central Texas fell by 17.8 percentage points, while the employment rate for 20- to 24-year-olds fell by 7.3 percentage points. Both of these decreases put the area dead last among Texas metropolitan areas.

But while the youth employment rate has its flaws as a measure of the health of the economy, the downward trends in Austin and disappoint-ing youth labor markets in other major Texas cities cast a definite pall over the job searches

of both current students and recent graduates of UT. Instead of trumpeting the universal suc-cess of the Texas economy, Perry should focus on those who haven’t benefited from the mass influx of jobs and search for ways to bring them into the fold. Luckily, he won’t be starting from square one. While there are no easy solutions to the youth unemployment problem in Texas, several groups are already trying to suss out its causes and bring it under control.

In Central Texas, one of those groups is the Austin Chamber of Commerce.

Drew Scheberle, senior vice president of educa-tion and talent development, said Thursday that the chamber has been tracking the youth em-ployment rate in the region and hasn’t figured out what’s keeping it so low.

“[The problem has] been on our radar for the past two years,” Scheberle said. “We

haven’t been able to figure out why it’s hap-pening, but once we figure that out, we can figure out how to address it.”

That’s not to say the Chamber of Commerce doesn’t have its theories. As Scheberle noted, the Austin area has created a significant number of jobs in retail and hospitality, but those jobs, which require little education, seem to be largely bypassing young people. Scheberle mentioned this trend in reference to local high school stu-dents, but given the local youth employment fig-ures, it could just as well apply to college students.

The current state of the youth labor market in Texas defies easy explanations or solutions, but that doesn’t mean it’s a problem worth ignor-ing. Clearly, Texas has done well at attracting new jobs, but Perry needs to focus more on the problem of youth unemployment in Austin and throughout the state.

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EDITORIAL

Friday Firing Lines: Emissions, bag bans, Internet fee proposal

TAKE YOUR SHOT

‘Texas Miracle’ leaves out young workers

By Ali BrelandDaily Texan Columnist

@alibreland

Companies supporting Sudan don’t deserve UT System’s money

COLUMN

Every Friday, the Daily Texan editorial board will publish a selection of tweets and online comments culled from the Daily Texan website and the various Daily Texan Twitter accounts, along with direct submissions from readers.

Our intention is to continue the tradition of the Firing Line, a column first started in the Texan in 1909, in which readers share their opinions “concerning any matter of general interest they choose.” Just like in 1909, the Texan “will never express its approval or disapproval of opin-ions given under the [Firing Line] header.” In other words, take your shot.

Submissions can be sent to editor@dailytexanonline.com. Submissions are edited for length.

WE SHOULD ALL WORK HARDER TO LOWER EMISSIONS

I found myself concerned after recently reading “University conducts new, comprehensive inventory of greenhouse gases.” It’s upsetting to hear that, although there are recent efforts to collect more information on greenhouse gas emissions, there is nothing being done to combat the problem. What is the point of having all this knowledge if there is a lack of effort to solve this monumental issue?

We already know global warming is rising quickly and significantly. Rather than focus-ing on finding more accurate numbers on the greenhouse gas emissions, it might be more beneficial to look at the bigger picture and take steps to solve the present problem at hand. If the people of Austin were more informed on the information about greenhouse gas emis-sions and global warming, they might be more willing to take action. It is important to use this information collected by the University Campus Planning and Facilities Management as evidence for the rising effects global warming has on our planet currently and in the future. Steps need to be taken immediately.

— Mary Forster, economics sophomore

IN RESPONSE TO OUR CALL FOR ABBOTT TO DEFEND BAG BANS

Austin Kinghorn @AustinKinghorn@thedailytexan @TexanEditorial The AG’s job is to construe state statutes, not make a political decision on the propriety of the ban.

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Genocide has claimed the lives of 400,000 Sudanese and displaced millions more. And yet, despite international outcry against the atrocities in Sudan, the Univer-sity of Texas System continues to maintain its financial holdings in... companies that contribute to the country’s genocide.

Even under the new proposal, UT will continue to allow unlimited transfers to other Uni-versity sites (e.g. www.utexas.edu, Blackboard, etc.). This would only affect access to services not on campus. As more services move to the cloud (e.g. Canvas, Box, UTmail), having In-ternet bandwidth will become more of a necessity.

As for having “no data on the type of bandwidth students use”, that is a bit more complicat-ed. The University does have data on what sites people are accessing, but determining wheth-er or not it is course-related is not really feasible. If someone is watching a Netflix video, it could be class-related, or it could be recreational. There are people who do research on social networking, so accessing Facebook and Twitter for them might be school-related, whereas for most others, it probably is not. Also, as more content is hosted on shared cloud resources (e.g. Canvas is hosted on Amazon Web Services, but so are a number of other sites and ser-vices), it gets even more difficult to distinguish what traffic to Amazon is course-related and what is not. Under this proposal, the University would *not* be the ones determining what activity is school-related and what isn’t (and taking measures to limit or block the latter).

— Online commenter “Jason,” in response to Amanda Almeda’s opinion column, “Planned fee for campus Internet saddles students with extra cost”

INTERNET FEE PROPOSAL NOT AS BAD AS FEARED

YOUR COLUMN ON ALCOHOL SALES AT GAMES IS RANDOM

@thedailytexan @TexanEditorial does the Daily Texan write about the randomnest shit?

YonBone @YonSlice

SPORTS 5

Barnes’ squad Thursday night.Ridley led all scorers with

17, but freshman guard Mar-tez Walker was most impres-sive, posting a career-high 16 points for Texas off the bench. Walker, who was given more playing time than he is used to, attacked the rim through-out the night, drawing sev-eral fouls in the lane. Nine of his points came from the free throw line.

Each of the Longhorns’ other four starters also scored in double figures. Sophomore guard Demarcus Holland had

14, while Holmes, sophomore guard Javan Felix and fresh-man guard Isaiah Taylor each had 11 points in the game.

Defensively, Texas went with a zone for much of the contest in an attempt to clog up the paint and deny Bachynski. The 7-foot-2-inch sophomore was able to post 25 points despite the added attention, but the ex-tra defenders in the paint pre-vented the Sun Devils’ guards from getting in the lane.

The Longhorns’ victory sets them up for a third-round matchup with Michigan on Saturday. The Wolver-ines are the two-seed in the Midwest bracket.

Fresh off a 20th place finish at the NCAA Indoor Track and Field Champi-onships, the Longhorns will travel to San Anto-nio this weekend for the start of the outdoor track and field season at the UTSA Invitational.

After a successful indoor season full of impressive performances, the men must quickly adjust to the outdoor conditions in or-der to be prepared for the upcoming meet.

The athlete to watch for the entire outdoor season is sophomore shot put-ter Ryan Crouser. Crouser, who already holds Texas’ indoor and outdoor shot put records, is coming off an individual national championship in shot put last week.

It may seem like Crous-er has little left to prove, but head coach Mario

Sategna disagrees.“The sky is really the

limit for Ryan,” Sategna said. “And he’s kind of his own toughest critic. So no matter how far he throws, he’ll find some-thing to still be working on and improving.”

The women are just one week off of a second-place finish at the NCAA In-door National Champion-ships, and they expect to continue finishing with the top scores in the na-tion as they transition to running outdoors.

“We had a great indoor season on both the men’s and the women’s side,” head coach Mario Sategna said in a statement. “[The athletes] are going to ex-pect the same type of per-formances as we head into the outdoor season.”

Running outdoors may be a significant boon to

the team’s performance at meets. Because UT does not have an indoor track facility, the team was un-able to regularly practice running the tighter curves and shorter distances of an indoor track.

This weekend’s meet marks a return to com-peting outdoors and will prepare the Longhorns for their first big challenge of the season at the Texas Re-lays held March 26-29.

TRACK & FIELD / GRANT GORDON & DANIEL CLAYWEEKEND PREVIEW

Ryan CrouserSophomore shot putter

Stellar season still sinking in for Texas before tournament

5STEFAN SCRAFIELD, SPORTS EDITOR / @texansportsFriday, March 21, 2014

Offense finally clicking for HornsAfter blanking Dallas Bap-

tist 5-0 on Tuesday night, Texas believes it has found its consistency — again.

When the Longhorns (16-6, 1-2 Big 12) have been able to put multiple runners on base this season, they push across enough runs to win. Following a disappointing opening Big 12 series last weekend, head coach Augie Garrido stressed the impor-tance of getting back to that.

“We took some of our bet-ter at-bats with runners in scoring position tonight, and that’s the way the team func-tioned earlier in the year as well,” Garrido said in a state-ment after Tuesday’s win. “So I thought, coming off what happened on the weekend, put that together with the way they reverted back to … when they were playing best, with a clear mind, aggressive, and confident, was a huge turn-around for a team to do.”

Junior pitcher Lukas Schiraldi threw a season-high eight scoreless innings against the Patriots, bringing the team’s combined ERA down to a stellar 2.09 for the year. The Longhorns’ pitching has

been strong all year, but the way the defense is beginning to play behind its pitchers has made the team tougher to beat.

“I was very pleased with to-night,” Garrido said. “Schiral-di was really good, and the team behind him functioned very well.”

The thing that has set Texas apart in wins this season is its ability to get lead-off hit-

ters on base. Junior infielder Brooks Marlow went 1-for-2 and drew three walks Tues-day, allowing senior outfield-er Mark Payton to drive him in multiple times, a pattern that found its way down the entire lineup card.

“That’s what they are ca-pable of doing, and I think we are getting to a point where we can run that down through six or seven guys right now,”

Garrido said. “It takes that in this small-ball offense. It takes five guys to score a run a lot of times. There are no home runs.”

Against Columbia (5-9), a team that enters this week-end’s series with a combined 5.25 ERA, the Longhorns should continue to thrive. Freshmen Tres Barrera and Zane Gurwitz both had two hits against Dallas Baptist,

which could add an extra gear to the team if the young play-ers can get going consistently. “If they can start to be con-sistent at the plate, and be a little more aggressive like they were tonight, they can add another element to the team,” Garrido said.

If Texas continues to get runners on base for its big hitters, it will be a dangerous team beyond this weekend.

BASEBALL

Sam OrtegaDaily Texan Staff

Senior outfielder Mark Payton raised his team-high average to .427 after a 2-for-3 and 2 RBI performance against Dallas Baptist on Tues-day evening.

Texas is set to open Big 12 play Saturday in Waco with the first of a two-game series against the Baylor Bears. The Longhorns are coming off a 5-4 loss to Houston in which they surrendered the winning run in the final in-ning, abetted by several de-fensive miscues.

When asked if her young team could rebound from the loss heading into con-ference play, head coach Connie Clark said the loss was suggestive of the team’s youth.

“I think they are excited,” Clark said. “We left a lot of people on [base] again tonight and the freshmen have to grow up quick in the circle — that’s all there is to it. I really wanted to stay with [freshmen pitcher Lauren Slatten]. I left a long leash on her tonight because I want to see if they can get it done. Unfortunately, we came up short tonight, but they have to learn and get

through those experiences to make them better.”

Despite using three dif-ferent pitchers Wednesday night, and much speculation about who would take over for Blair Luna coming into the season, Clark believes freshman Tiarra Davis is the frontrunner.

“Pitching is one area where we have as many an-swers as we have now and we will start over with a 0-0 scenario trying to win a Big 12 championship,” Clark said. “Tiarra Davis is the ace and we are going to have to ride her primarily most of the time.”

Senior shortstop Taylor Thom captured the career RBI mark at Texas after go-ing 0-3 through her first at-bats Wednesday.

“It is an amazing feeling to be the RBI record holder here at The University of Texas,” Thom said. “There have been some great play-ers that came before me, and for me to be in the same league with them is just an amazing feeling.”

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It hasn’t hit sophomore center Imani McGee-Staf-ford that she’s playing in the NCAA Tournament for the first time. It hasn’t set in that her Longhorn team earned a No. 5 seed, its best since 2005 when Texas was slotted No. 3.

“It probably won’t hit us until we lace up our shoes for that first game,” McGee-Stafford said.

But it has hit her that the team needs to win and break a five-game tournament losing streak dating back to 2008.

“We finally get a chance to partake in March Mad-ness and not sit at home watching others teams do what we worked so hard for,” McGee-Stafford said. “It’s [our] reward for running sprints and waking up at ungodly hours.”

Coming off a 67-60 semifi-nal loss in the Big 12 Tourna-ment to No. 7 West Virginia, the Longhorns spent no time moping around. The team focused on preparing for the tournament, building off of Big 12 mistakes as a founda-tion for improvement.

“We got a little too high

when we beat Oklahoma in the [Big 12] tournament,” head coach Karen Aston said. “In less than 24 hours we had to turn around and play again and we didn’t get our motors going. If we’re fortunate enough to win one game, we’ll learn how to better prepare ourselves for the next.”

Advancing past Ivy League champion Penn (22-6, 12-2) is among Texas’ goals for its first NCAA postseason game since 2012. The Longhorns hold a 32-25 record in their 26 past tournament appear-ances, but just one title in 1986 to show for it.

Although Texas (21-11,

11-7) faced the 10th-tough-est schedule in the nation this year compared to Penn’s 130th, Aston isn’t taking her competition lightly. She said she watched a lot of film over spring break to scout out the competition.

“We have talent and really good players,” Aston said. “It’s just a matter of them believ-ing they’re good and putting the chemistry together. The core group is talented enough to go places. I don’t think we’re through yet at all.”

Texas faces Penn for the first time in program history at 2 p.m. Sunday in College Park, Md. The game will be televised on ESPN.

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UT starts Big 12 play behind freshman arm

Jonathan Garza / Daily Texan StaffFreshman pitcher Tiarra Davis has emerged as the ace for the Longhorns this season. Davis currently holds a team-best 2.34 ERA through 89.2 innings pitched.

Mengwen Cao / Daily Texan file photoJunior forward Nneka Enempkpali will carry the load for the Longhorns in the NCAA Tournament after leading the team with 12.3 points and 8.8 rebounds per game this season.

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After a month with-out competition, the women’s golf team heads back to the course Monday for the SDSU Farms Invitational.

Hosted by San Diego State, the horns will face conference competitor No. 13 Oklahoma State, as well as 15 other top teams from around the country.

Among these are USC and UCLA, who are the No. 1 and No. 2 teams nationally.

The Longhorns, who have struggled early this season, finishing near the bottom in their first two tournaments, will look to junior Bertine Strauss to lead the team against these tough opponents.

The first round of the three-day tournament be-gins Monday morning.

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Dayton notches first big tournament upset

Dayton is re-configur-ing the college basketball map in Ohio.

It no longer runs through Columbus after senior guard Vee San-ford’s layup with 3.8 sec-onds left secured 11th-seeded Dayton’s 60-59 victory over sixth-seeded Ohio State in the second round of the of the NCAA tournament on Thursday.

“I guess they called us the little brother, or whatever,” Flyers ju-nior guard Jordan Sibert said. “We can’t be called that anymore.”

Sibert has seen it from both sides after transfer-ring to Dayton following two seasons at Ohio State.

“To be able to go out there and play with this group of guys, to be able to come up with this win, it’s unbelievable,” Sibert said.

Leave it to another transfer, Sanford, to se-cure the victory in a back-and-forth game that featured 15 lead changes between two schools sep-arated by some 75 miles.

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and that’s kind of what’s contributed to any accolades that have come.”

According to Abhijith Ravinutala, business and history graduate student and founding team member, the team has contributed to changing relations among competing dance teams at UT by making things friendlier through mixers and collaborations.

“It definitely used to be more cutthroat, but the Punjabbawockeez are a re-ally social group and they’ve worked to make it different,” said junior Nikunj Govind, co-president of the Indian Students Association and Taal coordinator.

Though the Punjabba-wockeez take pride in their awards, that won’t be their main focus at Taal.

“If people like us and

want to award us, that’s great,” said Shreyas Panda, a mechanical engineering

and English honors senior and team member. “But we’re just about showing

people what we like doing and bringing that joy to everybody else.”

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lineage. It’s intimate and slightly uncanny.”

Mabry began conceptual-izing the installation about eight months ago when she proposed her idea to Pump Project gallery director Re-becca Marino. Marino said she accepted Mabry’s pro-posal because of the com-plexity and ambition of the idea.

“I really liked the idea of her fitting her fam-ily context into the his-torical context,” Marino said. “I thought conceptu-ally it was very strong and the idea was very strong. When she said she want-ed to recreate her fam-ily’s kitchen, I just loved it. There’s a real, genuine

interest, and I was person-ally intrigued by the idea as a whole.”

Mabry’s installation only shows the pieces of the kitch-en that she remembers and contains some of her fam-ily’s heirlooms, such as an old rocking chair, a drawing of their town in Germany and a refrigerator filled with German sugar cubes that her grandmother used to buy.

“There’s this terrifying problem of this family lin-eage of fighting for Nazi Germany that’s in her letter and this image of Nazi war craft,” said Jeff Williams, an assistant art history profes-sor. “So, it blends this thing that’s comforting and home-ly, that you identify with,

your most secret and warm feelings, and that’s kind of flipped on its head with this horrifying realization of this hidden past.”

According to Mabry, the installation allowed her to present the complex layer-ing of her family in a hu-manistic and comprehen-sive way.

“I love doing installa-tion sculptures — this basic phenomenal form of expe-rience,” Mabry said. “If you move through it physically and spatially, it’s this all-encompassing experience. It’s a different relationship than you would have to a painting. This couldn’t be as simple as a painting or a book.”

The exhibition provides people the opportunity to reflect on their own heri-tages, Williams said.

“I think one of things that someone walking to the space should take away is that hopefully it gets them to, at the very least, question their own con-struction of their memo-ries and biography,” Wil-liams said. “That it’s very much Randi, but you think about your own personal history and the various stories within the family and complex relationships with how your ancestors ended up in America and their hardships and the in-securities of going through that endeavor.”

Jonathan Garza / Daily Texan Staff Management information systems senior Arpan Amin rehearses one of the bhangra dances for the Punjabbawockeez’s dance competition.

“Each star has to do two dances, and for each of the dances, they have a Texas Ball-room officer or member who is going to teach them a rou-tine,” said Caroline Suh, one of the professionals and a Texas 4000 alumna. “Dancing with the Stars: UT” will feature four “stars” and seven profession-als. The stars are UT students Mina Ghobrial, Jon Cozart and Jennifer Sunshine Garrison, as well as senior biological sci-ences lecturer Dee Silverthorn. The professionals are officers and members of the UT Texas Ballroom club.

Similar to the TV show, most of the UT competitors are ballroom dance novices.

“This is my first time do-ing any kind of real ballroom dancing,” said Garrison, who is also a part of the UT improv group Giggle Pants. “I mean, I have probably faked doing ballroom dancing on the stage during a show at some point, but this is true technique-based ballroom dancing.”

The only dancer with real ballroom experience is Silver-thorn, who has been dancing since she was a child, and per-formed with dance compa-nies in Charleston, S.C., and Mobile, Ala.

“I grew up in New Orleans and everybody took ballroom dancing,” Silverthorn said. “In the sixth and seventh grade that was the standard thing to do, and I’ve danced other ways — jazz, modern, ballet — a lot my whole life.”

Suh said the student stars have natural dancing ability, but even so, it can be a chal-lenge to teach them choreog-raphy on top of learning the dances themselves.

“What’s really hard is hav-ing to teach them all of the basic technique and then

having a routine on top of that in like four months,” Suh said. “It’s not as bad as the real show where they do a new dance each week.”

Grasping the basics of ball-room dance, including steps, rhythm and choreography, can be difficult. Cozart said allow-ing himself to make errors was a learning process in itself.

“Being comfortable with somebody enough to screw up and drop them and un-derstanding that it’s OK to fail, was the biggest challenge for me,” Cozart said. “Just getting over that mindset, I should be perfect.”

Contestants on the real “Dancing with the Stars” wear elaborate costumes that are intentionally flashy, and the stars for UT’s version will be no different. They are borrowing competition attire from members of Texas Ball-room for the event.

“I just got the dress for [the foxtrot] and it’s way over the top,” Silverthorn said. “It’s hot pink and regular pink with layers in the skirt and big sleeves. The top is totally covered in sequins and rhinestones.”

The stars and instructors have been putting in two or three hours of work per week into their routines, but Gar-rison said learning to dance is worth the effort.

“It can be challenging at times. But once you get [the dance] down, you feel so good that you did it, and you see the progress as you’re going along,” Garrison said. “It’s something that I hope I won’t ever forget.

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In the Quadrangle room of the Union Building, dancers wearing a mix of snapbacks and tradition-al Indian clothing move quickly around the space, yelling words of encour-agement with each step. The performers, members of the UT Indian Students Association, are fusing hip-hop with traditional Indian dance for Taal, UT’s South Asian show-case on March 29.

Taal, which means “beat” in Hindi, offers dance teams, singers and a capella groups the chance to be awarded cash priz-es by a panel of judges. A variety of UT talents will compete, bringing a

combination of modern and traditional takes on South Asian culture.

The Punjabbawockeez — an all-male, bhangra and hip-hop dance team — will perform in Taal. Bhangra is a fast-paced folk style of dance that originates from a north-ern territory of India called Punjab. The Pun-jabbawockeez, who have grown in popularity since their start four years ago, have created their own style by mixing hip-hop songs with traditional Indian music.

“It has really taken off in the sense that it’s gotten a lot more dance-centric, but we still try to preserve that culture,” said Arpan Amin, co-captain and management information

systems senior.Amin said the team be-

gan in 2010 when a group of students, who had no prior dance experience, decided to create a group for the sake of something fun to do.

“The original guys, they came in and basically learned Punjabi dance off of YouTube,” Amin said. “They had a little help from existing teams who had knowledge of bhangra.”

Punjabbawockeez per-formances last for about seven minutes. There are no designated choreog-raphers on the team, and every member has the chance to bring in his own ideas and take charge of a song. The team members take moves they learn from videos and make them

their own.“You build off of this

existing stuff you watch and then slowly you get the hang of it,” said Suraj Makhija, biomedical en-gineering senior and co-captain.

The Punjabbawockeez have been recognized by UT leadership award com-mittees for best recreational organization and have been awarded best overall at UT talent shows, such as the Texas Revue.

“We really pride ourselves not on just dancing, but being a very well-rounded team in terms of doing community service,” Amin said. “We’re into not do-ing just dance, you know,

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Jonathan Garza / Daily Texan Staff The Punjabbawockeez rehearse their dance sequence Thursday evening for UT’s Indian Students Association’s fourth an-nual South Asian showcase, Taal, at the Recreational Center.

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THEATER

Austin-based performer presents one-man cabaret show

The challenge of portray-ing dark, complicated and seductive characters is what Josh Wechsler craves in every stage show. He is interested in scripts that embrace the elements of magic, mystery, love and spirituality.

Wechsler, an Austin-based musical theater per-former, combines all of these elements in his one-man cabaret show “Here With You! Unexpected Songs from Sondheim to Zeppelin,” which he will perform at City Theatre this Sunday.

According to Wechsler, cabaret is a complex, entertaining hybrid of song, music, drama and

personality that explores common themes such as love, jealousy and hope, providing the audience a personal glimpse into the characters in the show.

In his performance, Wechsler sings 17 songs from different eras and styles, and the title for the show, ‘Here With You!,’ is taken from the lyrics of one of the songs.

Wechsler, who has per-formed in concerts and caba-rets in Oklahoma City, Okla., and Dallas, said a cabaret show is not about the specta-cle but about the interaction with the audience.

“I’ll be directly address-ing the audience, creating an intimate musical experi-ence for them,” Wechsler said. “‘Here With You!’ also

represents the theme of the show, of just being pres-ent with the people that you’re with. You’re alive in a room with people having a good time.”

Wechsler, originally from Dallas, moved to Austin in 2009 after graduating from Oklahoma City University with a bachelor’s of music in 2008.

Since then, he has sung, performed and acted in a se-ries of theatrical productions in Austin, such as “Spring Awakening,” “Falsettos” and “Corpus Christi.”

When Wechsler’s grand-mother took him to see a touring production of “The Phantom of the Opera” when he was 9 years old, Wechsler realized musical theater was

what he wanted to pursue. “My grandmother was the

one to help me experience theater,” Wechsler said. “She exposed me to the theater that I’ve grown up loving.”

Wechsler is now the vocal director for the pre-profes-sional company in ZACH Theatre’s education depart-ment. His first professional job was in 2011 with ZACH Theatre, when he performed in “Spring Awakening.”

“I like the idea of arche-types,” Wechsler said. “So the character I played in ‘Spring Awakening’ was dark and se-ductive, and he was a little bit of a troublemaker. When I set out to do a role like this, I think of an archetype. I think about how what those char-acters have in common, and how I relate to them.”

It was while performing at ZACH Theatre that Wechsler met Jennifer Young, the pre-professional program coor-dinator, who gave him the vocal director job.

“His most defining quali-ties are his voice and his commitment to his charac-ters,” Young said.

While working on the 2012 production of “Corpus Chris-ti,” Wechsler met Jeff Hinkle, director-in-residence at Aus-tin Theatre Project.

“Musicals are his strength, and he shines in that theatri-cal genre,” Hinkle said. “He has a charismatic stage pres-ence and really knows how to bring emotion to the songs he sings.”

Wechsler said his perfor-mances are not for personal glory, but instead a way to reach out to the audience through well-told stories of

love and hope.“The most important

thing for me is to put out a show that means something to my audience,” Wechsler said. “With the cabaret show I’m doing now, there are no restrictions by a script or a pre-set score. The whole music means something to me, and I wish to share it with my audience.”

By Kritika Kulshrestha @kritika88

Dance team fuses folk and hip-hop

ART

Fabian Fernandez / Daily Texan StaffRandi Mabri, studio art and philosophy double major, sits in her senior art display that was inspired by her family history.

Student art piece depicts German family history

Faded family portraits hang off of white wallpa-per covered in pictures of strawberry plants. Letters from a father at war are strung across half-built walls on the other side of the room. A soft voice speaks in German, and a wooden cuckoo clock chimes in the background. The poorly lit kitchen is the architecture of philosophy and studio art senior Randi Mabry’s childhood memory.

It is also her latest art piece and installation.

At the age of 18, Mabry’s mother received a letter her grandfather wrote in 1941 that revealed he was a Ger-man sergeant in World War II. The letter intimately de-tails his time spent in Nor-mandy, where he was shot and cared for at a French sickbay. Roughly a year ago, Mabry’s mother gave her the letter, which Mabry had someone translate into English. To cope with the weight of the knowledge of her heritage, Mabry turned to her favorite medium of expression —

installation art — to create a full-scale model of her grandmother’s kitchen. The exhibition, titled “me-ine karten sind durchlo-chert: my maps are full of holes,” is currently on dis-play at Pump Project’s Flex Space. The exhibition’s closing reception with tra-ditional German food and discussion will be held on March 29.

“It just seemed natu-ral to create a space and tell a narrative, a narra-tive that was beyond writ-ing another letter or story in words,” Mabry said. “I wanted to create a space and invite people back into my memory of my grand-mother, who is really my strongest connection to that

By Carmen Rising@carmen_rising

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MEINE KARTEN SIND DURCHLOCHERT: MY

MAPS ARE FULL OF HOLES

When: March 7-29, 7-11 p.m.Where: 1109 Shady LaneCost: Free

JOSH WECHSLER’S HERE WITH YOU!

When: Mar. 23, 8:30 p.m.Where: City TheatreCost: $10-$20

Pu Ying Huang / Daily Texan StaffJosh Wechsler, musical theater performer and vocal director, will perform his one-man cabaret show this weekend, in which he will sing 17 songs from different eras and styles.

I like the idea of archetypes ... The character I played in ‘Spring Awakening’ was dark and seductive, and he was a little bit of a troublemaker.

—Josh Wechsler, Musical theater performer