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Many Texas players saw their first collegiate postseason action Sunday afternoon, and the fifth- seeded Longhorns were shaky at times before pull- ing away from No. 12 seed Penn, 79-61 in College Park, Md. Head coach Karen As- ton’s team struggled early, repeatedly trading leads with the Quakers early in the first half as neither team led by more than four points. Texas fell behind soon af- ter, as 12 first-half turnovers and poor shooting kept the Longhorns stuck at 17 points for more than nine minutes. Sophomore guard Celina Rodrigo finally broke the drought with a jumper, but the damage had already been done. “They came ready to play and they’re a good basketball team,” Aston said in a statement after the game. “I think we just didn’t know how good they were.” It was Aston’s first time in the tournament since tak- ing over as head coach for the Longhorns, but she had been there before, when she helped lead Texas to the Final Four as an associate head coach in 2003. Monday, March 24, 2014 @thedailytexan facebook.com/dailytexan Serving the University of Texas at Austin community since 1900 dailytexanonline.com bit.ly/dtvid COMICS PAGE 7 NEWS PAGE 3 SPORTS PAGE 6 UNIVERSITY CITY TSM votes to keep the Texan daily Shweta Gulati / Daily Texan Staff Roderick Hart, dean of the Moody College of Communication, speaks at the Texas Student Media board meeting Friday. New stops proposed for urban rail project At its annual budget meeting Friday, the Texas Student Media board voted to keep The Daily Texan on its five-day a week print schedule after Roderick Hart, dean of the Moody College of Communication, promised to ask President William Powers Jr. for tran- sitional funding to prevent TSM bankruptcy. “Moody will have a viable business plan in place by fall of 2017 that will put TSM on road for success,” Hart said in the meeting. “I am highly optimistic about our abil- ity to turn around the TSM budget proposal.” TSM oversees five prop- erties — The Daily Texan, Texas Travesty, KVRX, TSTV and the Cactus Year- book — and has faced ad- vertising revenue challeng- es in keeping with national trends over the last several years. In January, the Texan reported that TSM proper- ties would be moved from under the domain of the Office of Student Affairs and into Moody college. In his original proposal, Frank Serpas, interim direc- tor of TSM, introduced a plan that would cut the Tex- an’s print schedule to once a week, which he said was the only viable solution if the board wanted to avoid drain- ing TSM reserves. By Nicole Cobler @nicolecobler Officials from Project Connect, a transportation project designed to reduce traffic congestion and im- prove transportation meth- ods in Austin, defined and evaluated final alternative modes of transportation for the project and proposed 16 locations for stops — includ- ing three by the University — along urban rail or bus routes in an advisory meet- ing Friday. The Central Corridor Advisory Group, which examines ways to increase transportation service and connectivity around cen- tral Austin, focused on de- fining certain parameters, such as number of stops and system alignments for both urban rail and bus rapid transit, which are the two modes of transporta- tion being considered. John-Michael Cortez, Capital Metro community involvement manager, said the committee surveyed groups around Austin whom the project would af- fect in order to determine the most beneficial places for route stops. “We are making sure to reach out to diverse commu- nities and get as many differ- ent perspectives as we possi- bly can,” Cortez said. Scott Gross, program manager for Austin urban rail, said the routes would be broken up into three large sections — East Riverside, downtown to UT and Han- cock to Highland — with five or six stops in each section. By Natalie Sullivan @natsullivan94 TSM page 2 CONNECT page 3 It is rarely quiet for Nicole ompson Beavers, but she savors silence in her office when she can. Leaning back in her chair, she calmly gazed into the coffee between her hands. Sighing, she raised the cup to her — “BLAM!” en she set the cup down on the — “BLAM!” Swiveling to her computer, ompson Beavers, a graduate program co- ordinator, pushed the disturbance from the weight room above her office out of her consciousness, a practice that took weeks to master. e repetitious pounding continued above in the Bellmont weight room facility in Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium, where UT students and faculty are permitted to exercise in a historic environment. Fiſty years ago, Bellmont contained the training facility for the Long- horn football team. But if ompson Beavers taught all those decades ago, she would never have had an issue with the thuds of heavy iron. Before the 1970s, liſting in football was discouraged — even banned. Now, most Longhorns hoops surpass preseason hopes BASKETBALL Men’s program falls, but future is bright Women nab first tourney win since ’08 Gail Burton / Associated Press Sophomore center ImanI McGee-Stafford and teammates cel- ebrates a late shot in Texas’ 79-61 win against UPenn. Michigan manhandled the Longhorns in a 79-65 loss during the Round of 32 of the NCAA Tourna- ment on Saturday, but the team can still fly home from Milwaukee, Wis., with a few ounces of moxie intact. Aſter all, the future is bright at Texas. No. 2 seed Michigan proved to be a 3-point shoot- ing buzzsaw against the Longhorns. e Wolverines converted a school tourna- ment-record 14 treys and shot a blistering 50 percent behind the arc. They played almost per- fect offensive basketball and stymied a team that’s had issues scoring consis- tently all season. The Long- horns are a scrappy, young group but they cannot be confused with the most tal- ented bunch. Saturday, the Longhorns COMEBACK page 5 LOSS page 5 By Rachel Wenzlaff @RachelWenzlaff By Chris Hummer Daily Texan Columnist @chris_hummer UT football weight training develops from feared to embraced activity CARRYING THE LOAD TRAINING page 3 Average height and weight for UT linemen By Brooks Kubena @BKubena ’63 ’73 ’83 ’93 ’03 ’13 6’1 208 lbs 6’3 224 lbs 6’4 250 lbs 6’4 260 lbs 6’4 292 lbs 6’2 296 lbs Illustration by Albert Lee / Daily Texan Staff Frank Medina Head trainer 1945-1977 Pat Moorer Head trainer 2014

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Many Texas players saw their first collegiate postseason action Sunday afternoon, and the fifth-seeded Longhorns were shaky at times before pull-ing away from No. 12 seed Penn, 79-61 in College Park, Md.

Head coach Karen As-ton’s team struggled early, repeatedly trading leads with the Quakers early in the first half as neither team led by more than four points.

Texas fell behind soon af-ter, as 12 first-half turnovers and poor shooting kept the Longhorns stuck at 17

points for more than nine minutes. Sophomore guard Celina Rodrigo finally broke the drought with a jumper, but the damage had already been done.

“They came ready to play and they’re a good basketball team,” Aston said in a statement after the game. “I think we just didn’t know how good they were.”

It was Aston’s first time in the tournament since tak-ing over as head coach for the Longhorns, but she had been there before, when she helped lead Texas to the Final Four as an associate head coach in 2003.

Monday, March 24, 2014@thedailytexan facebook.com/dailytexan

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COMICS PAGE 7 NEWS PAGE 3 SPORTS PAGE 6

UNIVERSITY CITY

TSM votes to keep the Texan daily

Shweta Gulati / Daily Texan StaffRoderick Hart, dean of the Moody College of Communication, speaks at the Texas Student Media board meeting Friday.

New stops proposed for urban rail projectAt its annual budget

meeting Friday, the Texas Student Media board voted to keep The Daily Texan on its five-day a week print schedule after Roderick Hart, dean of the Moody College of Communication, promised to ask President William Powers Jr. for tran-sitional funding to prevent TSM bankruptcy.

“Moody will have a viable

business plan in place by fall of 2017 that will put TSM on road for success,” Hart said in the meeting. “I am highly optimistic about our abil-ity to turn around the TSM budget proposal.”

TSM oversees five prop-erties — The Daily Texan, Texas Travesty, KVRX, TSTV and the Cactus Year-book — and has faced ad-vertising revenue challeng-es in keeping with national trends over the last several years. In January, the Texan

reported that TSM proper-ties would be moved from under the domain of the Office of Student Affairs and into Moody college.

In his original proposal, Frank Serpas, interim direc-tor of TSM, introduced a plan that would cut the Tex-an’s print schedule to once a week, which he said was the only viable solution if the board wanted to avoid drain-ing TSM reserves.

By Nicole Cobler@nicolecobler

Officials from Project Connect, a transportation project designed to reduce traffic congestion and im-prove transportation meth-ods in Austin, defined and evaluated final alternative modes of transportation for the project and proposed 16 locations for stops — includ-ing three by the University — along urban rail or bus routes in an advisory meet-ing Friday.

The Central Corridor Advisory Group, which examines ways to increase transportation service and connectivity around cen-tral Austin, focused on de-fining certain parameters, such as number of stops and system alignments for both urban rail and bus rapid transit, which are the two modes of transporta-tion being considered.

John-Michael Cortez, Capital Metro community involvement manager, said the committee surveyed groups around Austin whom the project would af-fect in order to determine the most beneficial places for route stops.

“We are making sure to reach out to diverse commu-nities and get as many differ-ent perspectives as we possi-bly can,” Cortez said.

Scott Gross, program manager for Austin urban rail, said the routes would be broken up into three large sections — East Riverside, downtown to UT and Han-cock to Highland — with five or six stops in each section.

By Natalie Sullivan@natsullivan94

TSM page 2

CONNECT page 3

It is rarely quiet for Nicole Thompson Beavers, but she savors silence in her office when she can. Leaning back in her chair, she calmly gazed into the coffee between her hands. Sighing, she raised the cup to her — “BLAM!”

Then she set the cup down on the — “BLAM!”Swiveling to her computer, Thompson Beavers, a graduate program co-

ordinator, pushed the disturbance from the weight room above her office out of her consciousness, a practice that took weeks to master.

The repetitious pounding continued above in the Bellmont weight

room facility in Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium, where UT students and faculty are permitted to exercise in a historic environment.

Fifty years ago, Bellmont contained the training facility for the Long-horn football team. But if Thompson Beavers taught all those decades ago, she would never have had an issue with the thuds of heavy iron. Before the 1970s, lifting in football was discouraged — even banned. Now, most

Longhorns hoops surpass preseason hopesBASKETBALL

Men’s program falls, but future is bright

Women nab first tourney win since ’08

Gail Burton / Associated PressSophomore center ImanI McGee-Stafford and teammates cel-ebrates a late shot in Texas’ 79-61 win against UPenn.

Michigan manhandled the Longhorns in a 79-65 loss during the Round of 32 of the NCAA Tourna-ment on Saturday, but the team can still fly home from Milwaukee, Wis., with a few ounces of moxie intact.

After all, the future is bright at Texas.

No. 2 seed Michigan proved to be a 3-point shoot-ing buzzsaw against the Longhorns. The Wolverines converted a school tourna-ment-record 14 treys and shot a blistering 50 percent behind the arc.

They played almost per-fect offensive basketball and stymied a team that’s had issues scoring consis-tently all season. The Long-horns are a scrappy, young group but they cannot be confused with the most tal-ented bunch.

Saturday, the Longhorns

COMEBACK page 5LOSS page 5

By Rachel Wenzlaff@RachelWenzlaff

By Chris HummerDaily Texan Columnist

@chris_hummer

UT football weight training develops from feared to embraced activity

CARRYING THE LOAD

TRAINING page 3

Average height and weight for UT linemen

By Brooks Kubena@BKubena

’63 ’73 ’83 ’93 ’03 ’136’1

208 lbs6’3

224 lbs6’4

250 lbs6’4

260 lbs6’4

292 lbs6’2

296 lbs

Illustration by Albert Lee / Daily Texan Staff

Frank MedinaHead trainer 1945-1977

Pat MoorerHead trainer 2014

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At Friday’s meeting, Ser-pas said the budget for this year originally showed a loss of $115,000, but actu-ally produced a loss of over $147,000.

In the meeting, Hart also promised TSM would have access to Moody college’s six-person development team and said the team would give TSM a “prominent but not dominant” role in the devel-opment portfolio.

“I think there are alums out there who are concerned and want to help, but devel-opment takes a long time, unfortunately,” Hart told the Texan after the meeting. “The idea is to build a structure — but the president has to help us in the interim because de-velopment takes time.”

In an interview in Janu-ary, Powers said he was open to considering short-term solutions like the tran-sitional funding.

“There have been all kinds

of suggestions for the reve-nue gap — even to the point of some bridge help from the University,” Powers said. “I think [TSM properties] are very important, both in terms of learning and com-munity building on campus. I’m a big supporter.”

Powers said he wanted to be cautious of the line be-tween assistance and control.

“[The Daily Texan] really does need to be indepen-dent, and the board does need to be independent of the administration,” Powers said. “On the other hand,

we’re here to help.”Dave Player, TSM board

president and third-year law student, said Hart’s an-nouncement came as a ma-jor source of relief.

“That’s welcome news,” Player said. “This apocalyp-tic threat we’ve been jug-gling is much more imagi-nary than it was yesterday.”

TSM board members also discussed the properties’ digi-tal future and outreach efforts.

Jennifer Hammat, assis-tant vice president for stu-dent affairs, said one com-plication in TSM’s efforts

is that it is unclear who is charge of the website.

Hammat expressed con-cerns that administrative efforts to redesign the website, or include adver-tisers in digital messaging, would be taken as content infringement by TSM stu-dent managers.

“[We need to] look at the process, and do better at clarifying what is process and what is management,” Hammat said. “You have to take a closer look at how content is defined, and how it is interpreted.”

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“We identified a base set of 12 stations and then a broad-er set of 16 stations,” Gross said. “The evaluation we’ve done thus far points to more stops as better. The advan-tage is, by having fewer stops you have travel time savings, [but] those advantages are not enough to outweigh the greater access that having more stops provides.”

Proposed stops around the University include locations near Dean Keeton Street, Dell Medical School and Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadi-um. The latter would require the group to carefully con-sider how the routes would interact with student traffic on campus, said Steve Roth, technical services manager for the committee.

“San Jacinto is envisioned to become a transit corri-dor,” Roth said. “There are a couple of considerations that would need to happen relat-ed to crowd control and pe-destrian activity, particularly on game day.”

Advisory group member Martha Smiley said the stop at Dell Medical School would play a crucial role in ensuring

students could access campus easily.

“That’s where the engineer-ing and science area of the cam-pus is,” Smiley said. “It’s critical to make that connection.”

The committee also evalu-ated options to connect South and Central Austin by cross-ing Lady Bird Lake, which they have discussed in pre-vious meetings. Mayor Lee

Leffingwell said he favored a tunnel that would go under the lake, even though it would cost more than the first op-tion, a bridge over the lake.

“Building the tunnel elim-inates many above-ground problems we would face, such as slope grade and pe-destrian traffic,” Leffingwell said. “Twenty years into the future, we don’t want to say,

‘We should have done this years ago.’”

According to Kyle Kea-hey, lead consultant for the project, the committee will continue to finalize station locations and lake crossing options for their next meet-ing on April 11, with a final evaluation of the project pre-sented in May and a council vote for funding in June.

colleges have a strength and conditioning program with facilities built specifically to advance players’ strength.

Part of the history behind that idea lies roughly 100 yards north of the Bellmont facility in the H.J. Lutcher Stark Cen-ter for Physical Culture and Sports, built in 2008 by direc-tors Terry and Jan Todd.

At the start of the 2013 football season, Terry Todd felt he had to do something to honor the 50th anniver-sary of the 1963 champion-ship team and coach Darrell Royal, who died Nov. 7, 2012.

Todd designated a section of the exhibit hall for a large banner of the ’63 team photo to drape down in the main hall and for pictures and items from the life of Royal to be arranged on the walls nearest to the entrance.

While a tribute to a former football coach doesn’t raise any questions, Todd — a UT tennis player in the late ‘50s — knows weight train-ing was looked down upon at Texas until Royal changed that perception.

“It had a terrible reputation that it would stiffen you and slow you down,” Todd said.

Todd tested the theory during the summer after his senior year of high school.

“I played tennis and never did calisthenics or any other

exercise, so my right arm was like a crawfish that lost one of its claws and it was just half-grown back,” Todd said. “I did curls, presses and stuff, and I could feel that it was working.”

Todd gained 30 pounds that summer and continued train-ing during his college career, setting him at odds with head coach Wilmer Allison — the co-namesake of the Penick-Allison Tennis Center, where the Longhorns currently play. At one point, Allison threat-ened to reduce Todd’s scholar-ship to a half-scholarship.

Todd quit the team his junior year, focusing on a weight lifting course instead.

Strengthening to 270 pounds in 1960, Todd gained a reputation as the strong man on campus and word of his strength even reached Royal.

Royal’s 1960 team finished at 7-3-1 and in early 1961, Todd was unexpectedly called to Royal’s office.

Royal explained that he had heard of Todd from a few of his players and knew of his dispute with coach Wilmer.

But then Royal asked a question that he wanted to keep quiet at the time.

Todd recalled Royal saying, “I want to know more about it because I keep hearing a few other schools are starting to do it. So explain this to me: Why do people believe that [weight lifting is] bad for you?”

Royal grew up in a time where it was believed weight

lifting was detrimental and could make you so tight you would be unable to brush your teeth.

But Todd explained how weight training helped him in his athletic career and cit-ed how LSU had implement-ed a weight training program and won the national cham-pionship in 1958.

But according to Todd, Royal could not start a simi-lar program at UT because head trainer Frank Medina would never allow it. Roy-al couldn’t force the issue

either, if he insisted the play-ers lift and injuries resulted or they had a poor season, Royal could lose his job.

Texas won three national championships in the ’60s, but despite the success, Royal’s fear kept the Longhorns from heavy training until the 1970s.

“The only weights that [Me-dina] ever had us using was when we’d hold them in our hands and do sit-ups and stuff like that,” said Leslie Derrick Jr., a member of the 1963 national championship team. “I don’t know if coach Royal was really excited about [weight lifting] or anything … I don’t think Diron

Talbert ever worked out with a weight in his life.”

Talbert, a 6-foot-5-inch defensive lineman at Texas from ’63-’66, played in the NFL for 14 seasons. Before he left Texas, the coaches set him up to meet with Todd, who had established himself as a national champion lift-er, to test Talbert’s strength. The coaching staff realized for sustained success after college, Talbert would have to “put a little meat” on his bones, according to Todd.

Todd wanted to first test

him in the bench press and placed 135 pounds on the bar. Talbert only pressed two reps.

“I thought, ‘My goodness,’” Todd said. “He must just be such a gifted player, so agile and quick and so aggressive. How could you be that weak and be able to be really domi-nant on the line?”

Heavy weight training was not fully integrated into foot-ball weight rooms around the country until the ’70s, reach-ing a new generation of athletes such as former UT strength and conditioning coach and presi-dent of the College Strength and Conditioning Coaches

Association, Jeff Madden.Madden grew up in Cleve-

land, Ohio during the ’70s, when athletes were beginning to eliminate the weight lifting barriers of fear in sports.

“We had to break that pho-bia in my household, first of all, so that I could start train-ing,” Madden said.

Throughout his 30 years of coaching, Madden helped lead strength and condition-ing into the modern era. He’s watched as football players have grown substantially as the years have progressed. The weight listings of Texas players tell this story.

On the 1963 Longhorns football team, the average weight of a defensive and offen-sive lineman was 208 pounds. On the 2013 team, 296 pounds.

“You’ve got to be bigger, faster and stronger because everybody else is bigger, faster and stronger,” Madden said.

Recently graduated defen-sive end Jackson Jeffcoat said Talbert’s example of the past makes the difference clear.

“That’s the difference, we lift weights a lot more and lift a heavier weight style,” Jeffcoat said. “Like me, I had two [pectoral] injuries and I was still able to lift a bench 18 times. When my dad came out [in 1983], he benched 225 pounds 18 times.”

Typical lifting workouts for Jeffcoat consisted of ei-ther bench press or incline bench press, alternating with

dumbbell bench or leg work-outs like squats. Other days, there are “power” lifting work-outs for the lower body such as leg cleans, where a standing Jeffcoat would lift a weighted barbell off the ground.

None of these workouts were a part of football train-ing 50 years ago. But Jeffcoat said he understands the fears coach Royal and others had about losing flexibility.

“Shoot, I see where [Royal’s] coming from because I know some guys that lift so much but they don’t stretch, and that’s why they get so tight,” Jeffcoat said. “But if you’re stretching and you’re lifting, you’re going to be able to do all your nor-mal functional things.”

As Jeffcoat enters the NFL Draft, he progresses into the future of football and weight lifting and said he does not know what changes to expect.

“Who knows?” Jeffcoat said. “Fifty years from now I might look back and see that they’re doing something different and making people bigger but there’s not many injuries … But every year you see they come out with something new, so who knows what they’ll come up with next.”

Much has changed since a Pro Bowl defensive lineman could only bench 135 pounds twice. And as innovations continue, strength and condi-tioning coaches, football play-ers and coordinator Thomp-son Beavers, will have to adapt.

Photo courtesy of Texas AthleticsWeight room facilities have increased in size and supply in the recent years. New workouts have also developed such as tire lifting, where an athlete flips a tire from one end of the floor to the other.

Jonathan Garza / Daily Texan StaffAlthough the Bellmont weight facility has been updated since housing the Longhorn football team, its faded floors and walls provide a museum-like look at years past. In the ’60s, the space had much less equipment than it holds today.

With the help of col-leagues, one UT professor is attempting to alleviate waiting room times when patients do not show up for their appointments.

Kumar Muthuraman, as-sociate information, risk and operations management pro-fessor, along with two profes-sors from Purdue University produced an algorithm that computes variables such as the probability a patient may not show up to an appoint-ment based on past history, as well as weather conditions and day of the week, accord-ing to Muthuraman. Those variables will allow schedulers to suggest to patients the best available appointment times.

“The algorithm minimizes the chances of extremely large waiting times, nobody waiting in the waiting room and it minimizes the chances of physician’s status of the feeling,” Muthuraman said. “So it tries to be intelligent about the utilization with all the knowledge to rescue the total amount of time people

wait and the total amount of time that physicians have no patients in the waiting room.”

Muthuraman said this specific algorithm typically applies to clinics with one physician. He said with the Dell Medical School being built, his team is working on scheduling mechanisms that would work in com-plex networks such as larger clinics and even hospitals.

Assistant nursing profes-sor Terry Jones said sched-uling is challenging because schedulers must predict how long certain visits will take and schedule visits at times convenient for the patients. Jones said most clinics have some idea of what their no-show rate is, and when clinics overbook their schedules, it is in response to no-show rates.

“If I know that I have 100 spots open in my practice or clinic, and I know that on av-erage 20 percent of the patients don’t show up, then I’m prob-ably going to overbook by 20 percent counting on the fact that some people are not go-ing to show up or cancelation, and that my schedule is still going to be OK,” Jones said.

“If, on the other hand, nobody canceled that day, then you really are overbooked, and so patient dwell times then are going to get larger because we are backed up.”

Mark Lawley, biomedi-cal engineering professor at Purdue University, said his main role was to work in the field to understand and clearly define the prob-lems health care workers expressed with scheduling.

“We wanted to develop methods to create optimal outpatient schedules that balance patient access and patient satisfaction with clinic revenue and clinic costs such as overtime and patient waiting,” Lawley said. “Our models do a very good job of balancing these things and increasing the number of patients you can see.”

Jones said she believes more health care-efficient innovations will continue in the future, but one aspect will remain the same.

“… At the end of the day, we deal with humans, and you can never, with 100 percent [accu-racy], predict what some peo-ple are going to do,” Jones said.

Amplify Austin raises $5.7 million in funds

Amplify Austin, a 24-hour “festival of giving,” ex-ceeded its goal of $4 million on Friday, raising a total of $5.7 million dollars for more than 400 local nonprofit or-ganizations.

The event, which ran from 6 p.m. Thursday through 6 p.m. Friday, provides a means for on-line donations to nonprofit organizations of choice among those participat-ing, and amplifies the do-nations by incentive dol-lars from sponsors. Larger sponsors also awarded fi-nancial prizes to top earn-ing nonprofits.

Donna Vliet, founder and director of ACCESS to Learning, Inc., an organi-zation working with mu-seums and schools to pro-mote learning and one of the nonprofits participating in the event, said Amplify Austin is the primary means by which the organization raises funds.

“We participated last year, so this is our second year, and the first year, we were very fortunate in that [donations from the event] doubled our budget,” Vliet said. “I think they’ve im-proved the event this year. They showed visually what we do through pictures, and the testimonials were good too … We need the fund-ing and this is a wonderful opportunity.”

In its second year, Am-plify Austin raised $2.8 million last year, and is a program of I Live Here, I Give Here, a campaign to support philanthropy in the Central Texas area.

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20,000 wristbands distributed at Roundup festivitiesThe University Panhellenic and Interfrater-

nity councils distributed 20,000 wristbands to students bearing college IDs for the annual Greek event Roundup, a collection of parties and philanthropic events that began Thurs-day and lasted until Saturday night. Roundup, an event that began in the 1930s, stopped be-ing an official University event in 1990 after a slew of controversial race-based incidents. The weekend meant heightened police pres-ence in West Campus, with a noticeable in-crease in city police and security officials.

The Interfraternity Council, which serves as the governing body for 25 men’s social fra-ternities, helped issue wristbands to ensure Roundup attendees are verified college stu-dents. In the photo above, Roundup attendee

Austin Nguyen enjoys a Crawfish Boil hosted by Acacia Fraternity, which featured perfor-mances by Brandon Ray and Highway Run.

Other musical performances included a show by Waka Flocka Flame hosted by Alpha Tau Omega and a show by Yung Joc hosted by Delta Tau Delta.

Biology sophomore Vina Cao, who also at-tended Roundup events last spring, said she thought security officers enforced stricter ca-pacity restrictions at parties.

“This year, they were giving fines to fraterni-ties for being over capacity,” Cao said. “They were pretty active Saturday night shutting down parties, and I saw a few people get ar-rested as well, which I didn’t see last year.”

—Julia Brouillette & Jordan Rudner

Shweta Gulati / Daily Texan Staff

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Professor produces algorithm to minimize patient wait times

By Jeremy Thomas@jeremyobthomas

I had two [pectoral] injuries and I was still able to lift a bench 18 times. When my dad came out [in 1983], he benched 225 pounds 18 times.

—Jackson Jeffcoat, Former defensive end

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Moody College Dean: For me, TSM acquisition is personal

Why would any sane dean opt to oversee a student-based media operation during a time of upheav-al? For me, the answer is simple and it’s personal. And it goes back a long way.

By Roderick HartGuest Columnist

QUOTES TO NOTE

Do I wish I could eliminate tensions between UT-Austin and the system and the Legislature and the board? Yeah.

—Francisco Cigarroa,Former UT System Chancellor

Quotes to note: Stealth dorms, e-cigarette ban

I was teaching happily at Purdue Uni-versity when I got a job offer from UT in January of 1979. I accepted the offer and the next thing I did was take out a mail-order subscription to the Daily Texan. Knowing I’d be moving to Austin in June, I figured that reading the Texan would help me get to know the UT student body before arriving on campus.

So my connection to Texas Student Me-dia is a long one, and I now find myself in charge of its administrative side. Many de-tails remain to be worked out, but, having spent the last three months studying TSM, our college is ready to take on the challenge. We’re honored, as well.

But why would any sane dean opt to over-see a student-based media operation during a time of upheaval? For me, the answer is simple and it’s personal. And it goes back a long way.

I hail from a blue-collar town in the Northeast. My uncle, Roy Hart, drove one of the big trucks that delivered copies of the Providence Journal to newsstands through-out Rhode Island. He got up at 3 o’clock in the morning to do so. An uncle on my mother’s side, Jim Sullivan, spent his career as a transmitter engineer for WJAR radio; he had the evening shift and got home when my uncle Roy was getting out of bed.

My father-in-law, Dave McVey, spent forty years laying out the pages of the New Bedford Standard Times. Like many of those employed by a metro daily, Dave worked odd hours, so his neighbors would have a newspaper on their doorsteps at 6 a.m.

Ancient times, those. We now tuck our newspapers-cum-mobile devices under our pillows when going to sleep and we wake up with them — refreshed — eight hours later.

But it’s still the people, not the devices, who make journalism what it is.

Each day, I labor in the shadow of Dewitt

Reddick, the first dean of my college and the person who taught journalism to Lady Bird Johnson, Walter Cronkite and Bill Moyers.

Each day, I work with dedicated faculty members like Tracy Dahlby, Wanda “Fluffy” Cash and Glenn Frankel who teach today’s students those same values. I work, too, with younger faculty members like Rob Quigley, Kris Wilson and Marla Camp who help our students write for a digital age.

When I think about the Daily Texan, then, my mind turns to the people I’ve known over the years, including those who are no longer with us — people like Mike Quinn, who covered the Kennedy assassination, and Red Gibson, who wrote for the Chicago Tribune and the New York Daily News before coming back to Texas to teach our students.

I think, too, about the former Daily Texan staffers I’ve gotten to know during my years as dean — people like Karen Elliott House, Karen Tumulty, David Powell, Mary Walsh and Beth Frerking, all of whom became top-notch professionals because of their work on the Texan, and all of whom say yes whenever I ask for their help.

The Friends of the Daily Texan, the Tex-an’s alumni association, buoy me up as well. People like Griff Singer, Cliff Avery, John Reetz and Jeff Cohen constantly reach out to me, asking how they can help.

Surely this is strange. All these successful people still worried about an extracurricu-lar activity from their youth. At this point in their lives, they can all afford good scotch. Why not just sit back and drink?

Three reasons: They love journalism, they understand its importance, and they know it must be protected at all costs. I believe in these things too, but I believe even more in young people. I believe in Laura Wright, the glorious editor of this paper. I believe in Su-sannah Jacob, Laura’s predecessor and a suc-cess waiting to happen. I believe in Jody Ser-rano, as hard-headed a reporter as you can find, and I believe in Sarah-Grace Sweeney, a lilting writer who, like most journalists, can’t keep a secret.

Texas Student Media has its challenges, but the challenges don’t stand a chance be-cause we’ve got people on our side. We’ve got a president who believes in a free press and who works for a university that values truth above all else. We’ve got a school of journal-ism celebrating its centennial this year, and we’ve got faculty and alumni who cherish TSM. Mostly, though, we’ve got the students. They are brash, nosy, relentless, cold-blood-ed, often bad-mannered, and constantly impatient. They work sixty hours a week for TSM, and I respect them profoundly. I love them too. For me, it’s personal.

Hart is the Dean of the Moody College of Communication.

In a recent Daily Texan column, I bemoaned the “race to the right” that had emerged as a general Republican strategy and lamented the fact that ugly purity tests of “true republican-ism” had become so common in the state’s primary contests. Unfortunately, we’re now seeing the same tactics on the other side of the aisle in the primary contest for the Agriculture Commissioner Democratic nominee.

That primary is dominated by Richard “Kinky” Friedman, a former musician — known for performing such gems as “They Ain’t Makin’ Jews Like Jesus Anymore” — turned politician. He ran for Governor as an independent in 2006, finishing in fourth place in the contest where Rick Perry was re-elected with a slim 39 percent plurality. Because of Friedman’s past — not to mention a few off-color comments he has made — this has stilled an unshakeable suspicion among many of the Democratic top brass.

“It’s impossible for me to view Friedman as a serious candidate,” said Harold Cook, a Democratic strategist and lobbyist. “In fact, given that he’s run as a Republican, an inde-pendent and a Democrat, it’s impossible for me to view him as anything other than a rank opportunist.”

State Senator Leticia Van de Putte, D-Bexar County, the Democratic nominee for lieuten-ant governor, took it a step further by actively campaigning against Friedman in the primary.

Her preferred candidate, Hugh Fitzsimons, received a plethora of establishment support but finished dead last in the election. Fried-man and Jim Hogan, a dark horse candidate who has made no attempt to campaign, ad-vanced into a runoff election that will be held at the end of May.

Hogan, who has no website, no cash, no desire to campaign and was recently called a “ghost” by Evan Smith of the Texas Tribune, is not a serious candidate. However, this has not stopped many Democratic activists from sup-porting him by default because of an irrational hatred of Friedman. My requests for comment from Hogan were firmly rebuffed.

“My concern with Friedman is that he does not take the duties of Agriculture Commissioner as seriously as Hogan,” said Huey Fischer, a State Democratic Executive Committeeman and a former President of the UT’s University Democrats, of which I am a member.

“I think Hogan could do a better job than Kinky in November. His strategy is a unique and interesting experiment in Texas politics.” This position was affirmed by many other members of the University Democrats. The group looks likely to endorse Hogan in the runoff.

However, Hogan’s “strategy” is to refrain from any campaigning whatsoever. Hogan has stated that both raising money and creating an online presence, two hallmarks of modern campaigns, would be “silly.” His complacency with mediocrity is damaging to the party and the State.

Friedman, mind you, is no perfect candi-date. He stumbles in interviews when asked about the more complex nuances of the job and he does not have a strong background in agriculture. But he shows up and has an actual interest in a campaign. And he is cer-tainly not the first democratic candidate to have a bipartisan history. David Alameel, the likely Democratic nominee for the US Senate, has given thousands to Republicans over the years. Wendy Davis, the Democratic nominee for Governor, both donated money to George W. Bush and voted in Republican primaries as late as 2006. Purity tests stink in general but they are especially rancid when applied arbi-trarily and capriciously among candidates.

Friedman, for his part, is not confrontation-al about the lost love.

“I think [Democrats] get very frustrated when they realize for some candidates how difficult it’s going to be to beat the Republicans in November,” he said. “So maybe it is just hu-man nature to pick on someone on your own side.”

“I’m an old-time, Harry Truman, blue dog Democrat,” Friedman said on the question of his Democratic credentials. But my main con-cern is that he has credentials at all. If Hogan is nominated, the battle for Agriculture Com-missioner will surely be lost for the Demo-crats, but we should not forget this situation next time around. Democrats will not win statewide if they maintain ridiculous stan-dards for their candidates.

Horwitz is a government junior from Houston.

By Noah M. HorwitzDaily Texan Columnist

@NmHorwitz

Given that [Friedman]’s run as a Republican, an independent and a Democrat, it’s impossible for me to view him as anything other than a rank opportunist.

—Harold Cook, Democratic Strategist

Democrats lack good options in race for Ag Commissioner

“Moody will have a viable business plan in place by fall of 2017 that will put TSM on road for success.”

—Moody College of Communication Dean Roderick Hart on The Daily Texan finances discussed at the Texas Student Me-dia annual budget meeting this past Friday.

“E-cigarettes are not currently regulated by the FDA and there is not sufficient safety information available to address bystand-ers’ concerns of being exposed to e-ciga-rette vapors.”

—Adrienne Howarth-Moore, director of UT’s Human Resource Services on the University tobacco ban extending to e-cig-arettes.

“[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,”

—Austin city councilman Bill Spelman on the council’s vote in support of restric-

tions on “stealth dorms” occupancy limits. “Do I wish I could eliminate tensions be-

tween UT-Austin and the system and the Legislature and the board? Yeah. But we’ve been able to move the ball forward.”

—Former UT Chancellor Francisco Cigarroa

“Though we’ve seen progress in reduc-

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—Marc Levin, director of the Center for Effective Justice and co-author of a Texas Public Policy Foundation report on minor detention.

“The added complication of the Crimea crisis … certainly weighed on my decision, but it was the low [participation] that per-suaded me to postpone this year’s program.”

—Slavic languages and literature associ-ate professor Thomas Garza responding to UT’s cancelled study abroad programs caused by tensions in Ukraine.

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ran into a supremely tal-ented unit on a great day. It was nothing more than that. Texas can only go so far on effort, and without further developed talent, it hit its ceiling for the season against Michigan.

But next year, that ceil-ing may prove to be the floor. With a roster boast-ing only one scholarship upperclassman — junior forward Jonathan Holmes — Texas will return every scholarship player. It’s a group that gelled well to-gether all season, and an ad-ditional offseason of work-ing with each other could reap significant benefits.

The team remaining in-tact is the foundation of Texas’ future success, but the individuals that com-prise the roster will provide the greatest growth.

Freshman point guard Isa-iah Taylor has been a spark plug for the Longhorns all season. An unheralded re-cruit entering college, Taylor finished his season among the top freshmen in the country in a group popu-lated by future lottery picks. With an offseason of work, Taylor can develop his shaky outside shot, which would make him an even better of-fensive threat.

And Taylor is far from be-ing the only freshman guard who should develop nicely. Martez Walker, Kendal Yan-cy and Demarcus Croaker all have noticeable holes in their games but will elevate their skills by working with head coach Rick Barnes. Walker is the player to watch: He’s shown an aptitude for the spotlight late in the year, and it would not be surpris-ing to see him getting the start over sophomore guard Javan Felix next season.

Still, it’s Texas’ front-court that stands to make

the biggest jump.Sophomore center Cam-

eron Ridley transformed from a pudgy freshman into one of the Big 12’s best players in 2013. At 6-feet-9-inches and 280 pounds, Ridley has the potential to be a force next season as his endurance and range of post moves continue to improve. It’s as Barnes said

of Ridley: his next step is to “dominate.”

Elevated play from Rid-ley and Taylor would give Texas a one-two, inside-out combo that could take the team far.

After missing the tour-nament for the first time in 15 seasons last year, ex-pectations were nonexis-tent at the beginning of the

season and Barnes’ job was on the line.

Now, after a pleasantly surprising year, this ener-getic, hard-working team can hold solace in the fu-ture. And the Big 12 Head Coach of the Year honoree is here to stay.

Expectations for Texas basketball have returned. This team has earned them.

SPORTS Monday, March 24, 2014 5

the inning. In the sixth, Davis gave up a two-out walk and an error which placed runners at the corners, but got a fly out to right to end the threat.

“I knew they were going to hit the ball and then fi-nally [Hawkins] hit the ball, so I reset and just moved on,” Davis said.

At the plate, the Long-horns (19-15, Big 12 1-0) threatened to score in each of the first three innings, get-ting a runner to second, but failed to break the scoreless tie. But in the fourth inning, freshman left fielder Stepha-nie Wong reached on a bunt hit and freshman first base-man Holly Kern reached on an error, positioning Texas runners on second

and third with one out.After a foul out by Davis,

sophomore catcher Mandy Ogle finally opened the scor-ing with a three-run shot to right field.

“She saw the ball extremely well today,” Clark said.

Texas added another run in the top of the seventh inning when Davis singled up the middle to score Wong.

After a tough up-and-down nonconference schedule, Texas opens con-ference play 1-0 for the seventh straight season.

“The practice games are over and it’s about chasing championships,” Clark said.

The Longhorns next play Texas A&M-Corpus Christi on Wednesday at home.

Morry Gash / Associated PressTexas freshman guard Isaiah Taylor struggled mightily against Michigan guards Nik Staus-kas and Caris LeVert in Saturday’s NCAA Round 3 game. Taylor shot 8-for-22 from the field.

Among Texas’ chal-lenges was scraping off the rust. The Longhorns hadn’t played a game since March 9, when West Vir-ginia defeated them in the semifinals of the Big 12 Championship series. The Longhorns finally seemed to get warmed up at the end of the first, though on a 14-6 run to cut the deficit to seven.

Texas continued its spurt after halftime, featuring a complete role reversal after Penn’s dominance nearly took Texas’ chances.

“We told them at half-time: either you wanna go home or you don’t,” Aston said.

Apparently, they didn’t. The Longhorns newfound energy and drive, sinking the first two baskets en route to a lead around the 14-min-ute mark. Within minutes, Penn found itself dug deep into a hole.

The Quakers — playing in

front of a supportive crowd only two hours away from home — knew they had lost with just over a minute to go. As each player returned to the bench, she received a standing ovation from the crowd and hugs from coaches before settling into watching the season end.

The Longhorns’ victory was their first NCAA tour-nament win since 2008, and they will face fourth-seeded Maryland on Tuesday at 6 p.m. The Terrapins will be playing on their home court.

“We’re gonna have to play harder for 40 minutes,” Aston said.

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The pitching staff con-tinued its dominance this weekend, but it was the Texas bats that stole the show against Columbia.

No. 19 Texas played nearly flawless baseball this week-end, sweeping Columbia in its three-game series. The Long-horns tallied 24 combined runs, showcasing a new ele-ment that the team has been searching for all season.

Game 1 was the closest of the weekend, but Texas used timely hitting to defeat Columbia 7-3, behind six strong innings from junior pitcher Dillon Peters. The Longhorns started a rally in the fourth inning after junior outfielder Collin Shaw tripled to score sophomore shortstop C.J. Hinojosa, before scoring himself on a double by fresh-man catcher Tres Barrera.

Texas pounced on Columbia again in the next inning when Shaw singled with the bases loaded to put two more runs on the board, making the score 5-0. Shaw finished the game with three hits and three RBIs to lead the team.

“[Shaw] is making it look easy,” head coach Augie Gar-rido said. “You don’t always get a hit. The weakest ball that Ben Johnson has hit in a week was a hit. So this busi-ness of hits, I told Ben it is just about luck — maybe hitting is

about being lucky. But, Shaw did a great job.”

In Game 2, Texas pulled out in front in the first in-ning with an RBI ground-out by Hinojosa. Columbia answered with a run of its own in the top of the second, but it would be the only run the Lions could push across against the Longhorns.

The Longhorns ended up taking the game 6-1 behind 7.1 strong innings from ju-nior pitcher Parker French, who struck out six while al-lowing just six hits. Junior second baseman Brooks Marlow buoyed the offense with a 2-for-4 and two RBI performance while Hinojosa added two RBIs of his own.

Game 3 was the most lop-sided win of the weekend, and perhaps of the year for Texas. Senior pitcher Na-than Thornhill starred with his eight innings of scoreless baseball on the mound. When the dust settled, Texas had compiled 11 runs on 13 hits, taking the game 11-0.

The biggest surprise of

the third game was the 4-for-5 effort by Barrera, who has struggled at the plate all season. He, along with three other Longhorns, posted two RBIs a piece in the blowout.

Texas will look to keep the offense firing on all cylinders when they host Texas State on Tuesday night.

6STEFAN SCRAFIELD, SPORTS EDITOR / @texansportsMonday, March 24, 2014

SIDELINEBASEBALL | (19) TEXAS 11, COLUMBIA

Texas dominates ColumbiaBy Matt Warden@TheMattWarden5

Jenna VonHofe / Daily Texan StaffAgainst Columbia on Saturday, junior second baseman Brooks Marlow went 2-for-4 with two RBIs in Game 2 of the series. Texas finished 3-0 with a combined 24-4 run advantage this weekend, pouncing on the Lions in consecutive 7-3, 6-1 and 11-0 wins.

Showing new maturity, Davis stays calm

Head coach Carol Capitani says her team must never take a top-10 finish for granted. With a third consecutive ninth place finish, Texas showed a com-plete team effort from both its swimmers and divers. The Longhorns tallied up 144 total points in the three-day champi-onship event but came up short against back-to-back cham-pion Georgia (528 points) and runner-up Stanford (386).

Texas senior diver Maren Taylor capped off her final NCAA Championships with two runner-up finishes. Taylor tallied 399.30 total points in-cluding a meet-best 73.5 that led her to a second-place finish in the three-meter diving event.

“My hat’s off again to our

divers,” Capitani said. “They are incredible. It’s great inspiration. It’s fun to be working together as a team.”

Longhorn junior diver and UCLA transfer, Emma Ivory-Ganja, had a roller coaster ride in the final. Ivory-Ganja began to climb the standings two rounds into the five total from fifth place. She jumped her way into third place with her 1.5-twist somersault be-fore just one round remained. Ivory-Ganja saved her best for last, scoring 76.80 with a final dive that catapulted her into first place. USC diver Haley Ishimatsu eclipsed Ivory-Gan-ja’s total with her last dive of the event, but Ivory-Ganja still provided Texas with significant points in a second-place finish.

The Longhorns capped off the meet finishing fifth in the

400 free relay consolation final. The relay team was led by se-niors Ellen Lobb, Alex Hooper and Samantha Tucker, as well as junior Gretchen Jacques.

“I’m proud of the leadership and how the upperclassmen are passing the torch down to our younger kids,” Capitani said. “Gretchen [Jacques] has definitely grown up.”

SOFTBALL | TEXAS 4, (12) BAYLOR 1

WACO — One of the hard-est things for a freshman to do is limit one bad play from be-coming two or three bad plays.

But freshman pitcher Tiarra Davis can bounce right back af-ter a bad play, she proved again Saturday. After not allowing a hit through the first three in-nings, Davis gave up a solo home run to start the bottom of the fourth and cut the Texas lead to 3-1.

She then retired the next three batters and allowed only

one other hit to help the Long-horns defeat No. 12 Baylor 4-1 to open Big 12 play.

“With this being the start of conference play, I went out with the mindset that this is a clean start,” Davis said.

Texas was supposed to play the second game in the series on Sunday, but it was postponed because of rain and has not been re-scheduled as of press time.

On Saturday, the first three innings went smoothly for Da-vis in the circle. She opened by striking out the first two batters, only allowing a base runner on

a two-out walk in the third.But to start the fourth inning,

Davis went to a full count against second baseman Ari Hawkins. Hawkins hit the next pitch over the wall in center field.

Head coach Connie Clark walked out to the circle to reassure Davis.

“[Davis] was behind in the count and the only thing that beats you when you’re up three to nothing is if you start issuing the free passes,” Clark said.

So Davis settled down, re-tiring the next three batters in

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Neither the wind nor the Cyclones managed to faze the Longhorns on Friday night as No. 21 Texas swept Iowa State 7-0, the team’s second shutout of the season.

Texas won the doubles point with victories from freshman duo Ratnika Ba-tra/Neda Koprcina and senior-freshman tandem

Juliana Gajic/Pippa Horn.In singles play, senior

Elizabeth Begley won 6-1, 6-1 when Sami Budai’s re-turn fell short of the net at match point.

Batra remained calm against a frustrated Meghan Cassens, who yelled at herself constantly with each error made. Batra nearly shut out

Cassens with a 6-0, 6-1 win.Koprcina swept her first set

and pulled ahead 4-0 in the second with a left-side return at the net. Her 6-0, 6-2 win over Ana Gasparovic clinched the match for the Longhorns.

The Longhorns also shut out West Virginia on Sunday, moving to 8-9 (3-1 Big 12) on the season.

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While all the qualifiers for last weekend’s NCAA Indoor Championships remained in Austin, a group of athletes traveled to San Antonio for the first meet of the outdoor season at the UTSA Texas Challenge Invitational.

“We had a chance to take most of the team which was not at nationals,” head coach Mario Sategna said. “It was important to compete out-doors before next week’s re-lays, where the expectations pick up.”

On the men’s side, freshman Robert Uhr clocked a strong performance of 1:51.87 in the 800 meters, finishing first in his debut outdoor meet.

In the absence of national champion Ryan Crouser, ju-nior Will Spence posted a sol-id shot put mark of 61 3/4 feet to place second in the event. He also came in fourth in the discus with a throw of 182 feet, 2 inches, nearly enough to eclipse his personal best.

Even with the top com-petitors resting, the Long-horn women displayed the depth that makes them national title contenders.

Freshman Nia Dorner debuted outdoors with a 400-meter victory and

showed that she will be able to contribute to the Long-horn’s already excellent arse-nal of 400-meter sprinters.

Senior Katie Hoaldridge and junior Morgan Snow added second-place finishes in the 800-meter and 100-me-ter hurdles respectively, while sophomore Melissa Gonzalez rounded out the Longhorn effort with a 400-meter hur-dle time of 1:00.42 en route to another second-place finish.

Since the Longhorns did not bring their complete squad to the meet, they couldn’t compete for a team title. The men finished in fourth place, while the women slotted fifth out of six teams.

Though the meet offered an early season stepping stone, the outdoor season will amp up quickly this upcom-ing Wednesday at the four-day 87th Clyde Littlefield Texas Relays in Austin.

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It was important to compete outdoors before next week’s relays, where the ex-pectations pick up.

—Mario Sategna, Head coach

Stanford knocks off No. 2 Kansas 60-57

ST. LOUIS — Kansas knows all about Stanford now.

The Cardinal couldn’t deny a slight at a news con-ference a day earlier fueled them just a bit before pull-ing their second — and much bigger — upset of the NCAA tournament.

Kansas freshmen An-drew Wiggins and Wayne Selden Jr. ducked their heads and giggled Saturday when asked about Chasson Randle, Stanford’s leading scorer.

“We definitely saw that video,” Randle said Sunday after the No. 10 seed Cardi-nal beat the second-seeded Jayhawks 60-57 to advance to the Sweet 16 in the South Regional. Coach told me not to talk about it but I definitely took it as a challenge. It was a little big extra motivation.”

Wiggins was held to four points on 1-for-6 shooting in what could have been his final college game. He accepted his share of the responsibility for the loss.

“I let a lot of people down,” Wiggins said. “If I would have played better, we wouldn’t be in this situ-ation, you know? I blame myself for this.”

The 6-foot-8 Wiggins, a likely NBA lottery pick if he decides to leave school, was saddled with four turnovers for Kansas (25-10). Wiggins had averaged 28 points the previous four games but the Jayhawks were missing 7-foot freshman Joel Em-biid who was sidelined by a stress fracture in his back.

Kansas head coach Bill Self thought Stanford’s height up front bothered Wiggins, but added, “I think he had an off-game, too. Give them credit for that, we put him in position to make some plays.”

Self said the game seemed like “a struggle from the opening tip.”

—Associated Press

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After decades of career questionnaires and apti-tude tests, a new online test called Pymetrics hopes to change the interview pro-cess by introducing brain-stimulating games to test character traits. The new software matches students with career options and is currently being tested at top business schools, including the McCombs School of Business.

An MIT and Harvard Business School startup, Pymetrics uses the results of brain stimulating games to match users with po-tential career options and job offers.

“Questionnaires often assess interests and moti-vations while games assess traits,” said Matthew Malter Cohen, the company’s head of product. “Question-naires can really only give back what you tell them, which makes them subject to bias. Games provide an unbiased assessment of an individual’s cognitive, so-cial and emotional profile, and performance cannot be faked. They also often assess strengths and weak-nesses outside a person’s awareness that traditional questionnaires would never pick up on.”

This way of matching people with careers was first developed by Frida Polli, CEO of Pymetrics, when she went back to school to get her MBA at Harvard. As she filled out numerous career and skill assessments, she was confused by the number of questionnaires used. She was convinced that studying behavior rather than simply asking ques-tions is the most accurate

method to truly find char-acter traits and skills. Using games could allow compa-nies to see traits in poten-tial employees that they could not get otherwise based on an oral interview. In her second year at Har-vard Business School, Polli and an old friend and col-league Julie Yoo teamed up to create Pymetrics.

Anyone has access to the online test and can go through the career-match-ing process, but the system is still being developed and perfected. UT is among oth-er schools with top 20 MBA programs that have been chosen to host student-led

teams that are continuing to develop and perfect this new career service. The schools began testing three months ago and expect to complete the process by next fall.

“[UT has] such a diverse and ambitious student body that this seemed like a great way to begin gathering data for Pymetrics,” biology ju-nior Madeline Nash said.

Nash is one of three people on UT’s student-led team working on the software along with advertising junior Emily Bradford and econom-ics junior Siddharth Gutta.

Gutta decided to join UT’s student team after playing

the games himself. “I believed in the vision of

the company and wanted to spread it to as many students as possible so they could ben-efit from this system,” Gutta said. “The combination of neuroscience and business also interested me greatly.”

To find a career match, the participant must play 12 short games. The first level, called “Stop 1,” shows a quick succession of red and green circles. If a red circle appears, the user has to quickly push the space bar. If a green circle appears, no action is neces-sary. This test measures the participant’s attention span and gives them feedback

about their ability to pay at-tention. The rest of the games work in a similar manner, testing specific brain skills and delivering insights.

After the test is complete, the results reveal a variety of strengths such as emo-tional identification, atten-tion duration and trust. The result is a comprehensive profile that generates top jobs that require the user’s skills. A pie chart reveals numerous career paths from the jobs with the high-est percentage of matched skills to the lowest, offering a detailed description of the user’s top three matches. The software is open to any

major and measures skills for multiple fields including education, finance, consult-ing, entertainment, health care, retail, entrepreneur-ship and product develop-ment, among others.

Though the software is still being tested, any student can make a profile on Pymetrics’ website and play the games to receive an analysis.

“It’s a quick and easy way to gain some informa-tion on your career fit and get ahead in the recruiting process,” Gutta said. “Shar-ing the website with your friends and classmates is a great way to get involved as well.”

ALAMOGORDO, N.M. — New Mexico environ-mental regulators are blocking two compa-nies from digging up an Alamogordo landfill in search of a rumored cache of what some consider the worst Atari video game of all time.

Game cartridges for “E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial,” based on Steven Spielberg’s blockbuster hit film, were reportedly dumped in the landfill in the 1980s, ac-cording to the Alamogordo Daily News.

New Mexico Environ-ment Department spokes-man Jim Winchester said Wednesday an approved waste excavation plan, or WEP, is needed before any dig can begin.

“A WEP must be approved in advance of any excava-tion, and that includes even the city of Alamogordo,” Winchester said.

Alamogordo city commis-sioners approved the search in June. However, Win-chester said state environ-mental officials have control of the WEP’s final approval, and it was rejected Feb. 27. The companies haven’t yet submitted a new one, Win-chester said.

Fuel Entertainment and LightBox Interactive re-cently announced plans to search the landfill for the game that proved a finan-cial drain for Atari. The companies plan to record the dig for a documentary to be released by Micro-soft Corp. for the Xbox One console. Filmmakers have even offered fans the chance to enter a giveaway of anything that might be unearthed.

Catherine Pasciak, a pro-ducer for LightBox, said the company still plans to travel to Alamogordo if and when the project gets approval.

Atari paid Steven Spiel-berg tens of millions of dollars to license the wild-ly popular 1982 movie’s name, and game develop-ers completed the proj-ect in just six weeks. In the game, the player takes on the role of the titular alien and tries to elude FBI agents while collecting pieces of a telephone to call E.T.’s spaceship.

The end result was a huge commercial dud that caused the troubled company’s worth to sink even further.

Atari purportedly dis-posed of millions of game cartridges and other equip-ment by the truckload at the landfill. The area’s sup-posed role as a gaming burial ground has snow-balled into mythic status over the years.

A 2004 study found el-evated levels of several chemicals in the landfill, prompting the New Mexico Environment Department to request further testing. Test results found “22 com-pounds of concern,” accord-ing to the agency.

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Students pilot new game-based aptitude test

NETANYA, Israel — When 18-year-old Israeli beauty queen Linor Abargil was crowned Miss World in 1998, the tears streaming down her cheeks appeared to be the overwhelming joy of a young woman fulfill-ing a childhood dream. Few knew the painful truth be-hind them — that just six weeks earlier she had been raped at knifepoint.

Unlike most victims of sexual assault, Abargil re-fused to keep quiet. She pressed charges, spoke out publicly and testified at a trial that sent her attacker to prison for 16 years. Her ordeal inspired other Israeli women to break their own silence and in the process, she became a national sym-bol who helped destigmatize rape in the country.

Today, the 34-year-old mother of three’s crusade against sexual violence is going global, thanks to an international speaking tour and new documentary,

“Brave Miss World,” in which she details her ordeal and speaks to dozens of oth-er victims, many of whom shared their tales of terror for the first time.

In “Brave Miss World,” director Cecilia Peck chron-icles Abargil’s journey from teenage rape victim to out-spoken lawyer and finally to a wife and mother who discovered a newfound com-fort in her Jewish faith. In-terviews with her family and friends shed light on how the rape altered her life but also how her strength helped transform her into an unlike-ly ambassador.

“There is something about Linor that gives credibility to rape survivors. They know that they will be believed; it helps relieve that burden of shame,” Peck said.

According to the Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network, America’s largest anti-sexual violence organiza-tion, one out of six American women has been the victim

of rape or an attempted rape, with 60 percent of them un-reported to police. The figures are similar in Israel and other Western nations and far high-er in the developing world.

Abargil said she was drawn to the project since she was not the type of person to just seek “justice for myself and then walk away.” Rather, she felt she had a responsibility to break the taboo around rape and give other women the courage to talk about it.

“It was one of the hardest things I ever did in my life,” she said. “A lot of the time I didn’t have anything to say to the things that I heard.”

Abargil’s own story was just as horrific. She was in Milan, Italy, in October 1998 auditioning for model-ing jobs when she asked Uri Shlomo Nur, an Egyptian-born Israeli who ran a travel agency there, to arrange a flight back to Israel.

Nur offered to drive her to Rome where she could catch a plane. During the

ride, Nur pulled the car into a thicket, stabbed her, strangled her and raped her at knifepoint. She managed to escape and call her moth-er, who told her daughter not to shower, to report the rape to police and give DNA evidence at a hospital. That helped convict Nur in Israel. Still in prison, he is slated for release this summer.

Throughout the trial, Abar-gil refused to have her name concealed or her face or voice distorted in media coverage, insisting that there was no reason to be ashamed.

She said the “stupid crown” she won for Miss World would have meant nothing to her were it not for the plat-form it provided to speak out.

“I think I have a lot of very good things to say to women around the world,” she said, as her 4-month-old daughter cooed in the background. “I realized [the rape] doesn’t define me, it can’t define me.”

—Associated Press

Illustration by Stephanie Vanicek / Daily Texan Staff

By Courtney Runn@courtney_t_runn

Search for Atari game in landfill interrupted

Former Miss World inspires rape victims

Atari purportedly disposed of millions of game cartridges and other equipment by the truckload at the landfill.

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Former Miss World Linor Abar-

gil poses with her 4-month-old daughter at her home in Netan-

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