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CONTENTS
NEWSThe 5th Circuit rules in favor of the University in Fisher v. UT. PAGE 3UT researchers use a mutant protein to block intoxication in worms. PAGE 5
OPINIONUrban rail proposal isn’t ideal, but it’s better than nothing. PAGE 4Celebration of Fisher decision ignores black enrollment. PAGE 4
LIFE&ARTSLocal band The Dead Space releases its debut album, and the Quesoff queso competition gets under way. PAGE 10
COVER PHOTO BY MENGWEN CAOMetroRapid will launch route 803, which will run alongside route 801 on Guadal-upe Street and continue wto the Pickle Research Center.
SPORTSThe Austin Aces develop a strong following despite rough starting season. PAGE 9
COVER STORYMetroRapid plans to launch a new route to replace the Pickle Research Campus shuttle, and Austin City Council plans to discuss bond language for urban rail. PAGE 6
ACTIVE AUSTINMondayThe Opener: See open mic com-edy every Mon-day at 8 p.m. at Hotel Vegas.
Love and a 45 Re-cord Player Party: Bring a few of your favorite 45’s and be a DJ at Rio Rita Lounge.
National Tequila Day at 508 Tequila Bar: Taste free tequila at 508 Tequila Bar’s happy hour at 4 p.m.
Hotter’n a Fire-cracker Follies: Join the Esther’s Follies cast as they satirize hot-button political issues at 8 p.m.
East Austin Hand-made Arts Market: The Vortex The-ater joins with Austin artists and artisans to bring this outdoor market to Manor Road every Saturday, starting at 11 a.m.
TuesdayTiki Tuesdays: Relax and cool off with frozen drinks at Hotel San Jose on South Congress. Surf rock band The Avocados will be there to provide some summer tunes.
Bangerz & Sass Sing-Along: Jam out to all your favorite pop stars, includ-ing Miley Cyrus, Katy Perry and Ariana Grande, at Action Pack’s tribute starting at 10 p.m.
Cruise Control: The Tom Cruise Marathon: Embrace your love for Tom Cruise and join Tough Guy Cinema for a marathon of five films featuring the star of “Top Gun,” starting at 1 p.m.
The Who’s Tommy: Live through the story of the “deaf, dumb and blind kid,” who became a pinball wizard, at the ZACH Theatre. It’s perfect for fans of both the 1969 album and the original stage produc-tion. Show starts at 7:30 p.m.
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CORRECTION
The affirmative action case Fisher v. University of Texas has been ongoing since 2008, but on July 15, the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals determined UT’s holistic review admis-sions policy meets the strict scrutiny standard, allowing the University to continue using race as a factor in its admissions decisions.
“The backdrop of our ef-forts here includes the reality that accepting as permissible policies whose purpose is to achieve a desired racial effect taxes the line between quotas and holistic use of race towards a critical mass,” Judge Patrick Higginbotham wrote in the 2-1 majority opinion. “We have hewed this line here, persuaded by UT-Austin from this record of its necessary use of race in a holistic process and the want of workable alternatives that would not require even greater use of race.”
Abigail Fisher, a rejected undergraduate UT appli-cant, sued the University in 2008 for discriminating against her based on her race, claiming the admissions policy was in violation of the 14th Amendment.
The case reached the Su-preme Court in 2012.
In an unexpected decision, the Supreme Court determined the 5th Circuit court had failed to apply strict scrutiny to the University’s race-conscious admissions policy and sent the case back to the appeals court to determine whether the University’s policies are nar-rowly tailored and necessary to achieve a “critical mass” of minority students.
In a statement Tues-day, Fisher said she is com-mitted to continuing the lawsuit and will appeal to the Supreme Court.
“It is a shame that for the last six years, hundreds of UT applicants were denied admis-sion because of UT’s racial and ethnic preferences,” Fisher said.
Edward Blum, director of the Project on Fair Rep-resentation, a program that has provided funding for Fisher’s case, said in a state-ment he was not surprised by the ruling.
“While disappointing, this opinion was not unexpected based upon the questioning and comments made by the court during our last hearing in November,” Blum said.
In November, attorneys for both Fisher and the University presented arguments to the ap-peals court. Representing the University, attorney Greg Garre said although UT does not use specific numbers to determine a critical mass, the University is still able to determine when this mass has been met.
The University uses race as part of an admissions pro-cess that determines 25 per-cent of the student body, and race is one of several factors that, combined, determine 4/7 of an applicant’s personal achievement index. That score is in turn combined with the applicant’s academic index score to determine if the ap-plicant should be admitted to the University.
During a press conference Tuesday, President William Powers Jr. said he is glad the ruling upheld the constitu-tionality of UT’s admissions process and emphasized race is one of many factors involved in
admissions decisions.“The University of Texas will
be able to continue using race as one of many factors — one of many factors — in a holis-tic review in order to shape a diverse student body,” Powers said. “One of our core argu-ments all along has been the educational value of diversity to all of our students, regardless of their background.”
Law professor David Gon-zalez said the ruling means the University’s admissions process does the best job it can do in achieving diversity from a legal standpoint.
Student Government Presi-dent Kori Rady said the ruling is a victory for the University.
“When our admissions policy is held up in a high court of law, it shows that what we’re doing is fair and right,” Rady said.
In a dissent, Judge Emilio Garza said the University does not pass the strict scru-tiny test, which includes determining whether the Uni-versity is using race as little as possible while still meeting its goal of diversity.
“A proper strict scrutiny analysis, affording the Univer-sity ‘no deference’ in its strict scrutiny claims, compels the conclusion that the University’s race-conscious admissions process does not survive strict scrutiny,” Garza wrote.
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3JACOB KERR, NEWS EDITOR | @thedailytexanMonday, July 21, 2014
UNIVERSITY
Appeals court rules in favor of UT admissions policy in Fisher case
By Amanda Voeller@amandaevoeller
Amy Zhang / Daily Texan Staff President William Powers Jr. speaks to the media alongside student leaders after the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals announced their decision on Fisher v. UT at Austin on Tuesday afternoon.
MultimediaReview the Fisher case and past UT affirma-tive action cases on dailytexanonline.com
As the University celebrates what could be considered a victory in the Fisher v. University of Texas case, one has to wonder what there is to celebrate. Sure, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit seemingly gave a stamp of approval to UT’s holistic admissions review process, which allows the University to take race into account, but, unfortunately, the capacity to use race as a decision factor narrowly benefits racial minority groups that are in vogue, while another — black applicants — is disadvantaged by the system.
Let’s be frank. When the term “affirmative ac-tion” was first associated with race, the intended beneficiaries were black people who had histori-cally experienced de facto and de jure discrimi-nation based on their skin color. Positive dis-crimination, or affirmative action, was used to correct legal inequalities that had oppressed the black community for such a long time.
UT, along with many universities in the South, is certainly no stranger to racial controversy concerning admissions. In the case of Sweatt v. Painter, for example, the Supreme Court ruled that the University could not deny admission to the Law School based on race. Edwin Dorn, the former dean of the LBJ School of Public Affairs, once said, “The University desegregated slowly and reluctantly.” And, while today, admissions numbers do not reflect a university reluctant to accept all minorities, the numbers do show an institution headed in the wrong direction as far as black students are concerned.
Over the past few years, the percentage of un-dergraduate students who identify as black has constantly declined from a number that wasn’t so high to begin with despite an increase in the black population in every major city in Texas be-sides Austin. In 2009, black students comprised 4.9 percent of the undergraduate population, and
enrollment for the fall semester of 2013 was down to 1,701 students, which is now 4.3 percent of the undergraduate student body. The number of black graduate students is even lower with roughly 300 black students total enrolled in graduate pro-grams. Conversely, Hispanic students, correlating with an increase in the state population of His-panics, have the second highest representation on campus behind white students, making up 21.7 percent of the population, which is equivalent to more than 8,000 students. The percentage of Asian undergraduates has remained relatively constant. Certainly, it could be argued that black students have been and will continue to be underrepresent-ed because the number of applications submitted by black students barely exceeds 2,000, but the ad-missions rate is still lower for black students than it is for the largest minority groups on campus.
The lack of a substantial black population, which includes a faculty of which black teachers make up roughly 3.7 percent, is quite noticeable. Home-coming coronations, probates and step shows are probably foreign ideas to most students who aren’t black. Yet any given student has probably heard of
the Holi festival held during the spring semester ev-ery year, for example. The importance of diversity does not lie within simply increasing the number of non-white students on campus. Diversity fosters understanding between cultures, and black culture is not highly prevalent on UT’s campus, leaving few people aware of what it means to be black. Of course traditions often associated with historically black colleges and universities are not the only aspects of black culture, but they are good introductions to the community on a college campus.
The University should take advantage of the opportunity to increase diversity on campus, but extended opportunities for admission cannot be unique to “buzz minorities.” The decision by the appellate court means nothing if UT continues to maintain a black student quota of just over 2,000 students out of more than 50,000 total students enrolled at the University. With this ruling, the administration has the responsibility to move forward and not just allow the number of black students on campus to dwindle.
Davis is an international relations and French junior from Houston.
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4RILEY BRANDS, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF | @TexanEditorialMonday, July 21, 2014
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Urban rail proposal better than nothing
EDITORIAL COLUMN
Diversity goals do not benefit black studentsAcceptance rates for largest minority groups in Fall 2013
38%29%
52%
Hispanic
Hispanic
Black
Black
Asian
Asian
Enrollment percentages for largest minority groups, Fall 2009 - Fall 2013
2009 2010 2011 2012 20130
5
10
15
20
16.2%17%
17.6%18.4%
19.1%
15.5% 15.2% 15.1% 15.2% 15.4%
4.5% 4.3% 4.2% 4.1% 4.0%
Source: The University of Texas at Austin Office of Information Management and Analysis
Transportation: It’s an issue that invariably sets the teeth on edge in this town and one for which, until now, no serious solution has been enacted. As the roads clog up with ever-greater traffic and the public transportation system continues on in mediocrity, grinding along in city traffic or on the Red Line’s freight-train rails, Austinites steam about the lack of high-quality options for getting around town, underscoring the need for some sort of action.
We say “until now” because it is once again possible that urban rail, which notably failed on a Drag route back in 2000, could win the approval of voters this November. The route that has been proposed was recently endorsed by both the Capi-tal Metro Board of Directors and the Austin City Council. Cap Metro will operate the line while the city will own it. If placed on the November ballot (a near certainty) and approved, the line will start on Riverside Drive, cross the river on a newly built bridge, make three stops on campus and then fi-nally end up at the future ACC Highland.
We have established in previous editorials that we do not agree with the currently proposed path, at least in comparison with the alternatives. While we appreciate the fact that UT students will not be left out completely, we also know that they, as well as other potential riders, would be better served by a Guadalupe/Lamar line, which would run through already dense areas, than by a line plotted through areas where density is projected to exist at some future date.
Proponents of the current plan hope that the Federal Transit Administration will fund half of the $1.38 billion price tag and counter density ar-guments by saying that the agency would be loath to put up money for a project that would run side-by-side with the new MetroRapid bus line. That may well be true, and it is unfortunate that greater planning couldn’t have been exercised to reserve the Guadalupe/Lamar route for urban rail. But given the current state of affairs and keeping in mind that 14 years have passed since the last viable effort at urban rail was put forward, we offer our grudging support for the current plan.
By David DavisAssociate Editor
Neuroscience researchers at the University reported they successfully prevented mutant worms from becom-ing intoxicated by alcohol in “The Journal of Neurosci-ence” in July.
The researchers were able to alter a human alcohol tar-get known as the BK channel and successfully insert it into a species of worms. A human alcohol target is essentially a nerve cell that binds to al-cohol. The BK channel is re-sponsible for a wide array of functions, including regulat-ing activity of blood vessels, neurons, bladder and the re-spiratory tract.
“We are developing our own drugs to target the BK channel, with the hope that some of them may help peo-ple overcome alcohol addic-tion,” Scott Davis, graduate student and lead author of the paper, said.
The research took four years to complete as re-searchers found the muta-tion, engineered the human protein into the worm and performed the physiol-ogy experiment. Neurosci-ence professor Jon Pierce-Shimomura, who worked with Davis on the study, said the research could lead to the development of pharmaceutical drugs that prevent intoxication.
“These results provide promising evidence that this portion of the channel may be targeted in the future with drugs to prevent alco-hol from having an effect on the BK channel in humans,” Pierce-Shimomura said.
Although the research-ers are hopeful that their findings will be valuable to pharmaceuticals, Davis said researchers have much more
to do before this will happen.“You have to keep in mind,
there are still other proteins involved in the behavioral effects of alcohol, so many more studies need to be done to study the effects of this mutation in a mammalian system,” Davis said. “How-ever, if a drug that solely
targeted the BK channel turns out to be effective, an optimistic model could be 10 years to get through clinical development.”
The mutation discovered does not disrupt any of the BK channel’s other functions and only affects its response to alcohol.
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SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
By YoungJee Jung@yjeejung
Researchers block intoxication in worms
Illustration by Crystal Garcia | Daily Texan Staff
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City transportation projects move forward
With both Capital Metro and Austin City Council endorsing Proj-ect Connect’s recommended route for urban rail, the council is ex-pected to discuss bond language in August for the $1.38 billion proj-ect connecting East Riverside to ACC Highland.
If Austin residents approve a bond proposal in November, a three-year environmental assessment and engineering process will deter-mine how to safely construct the rail, the bridge across Lady Bird Lake and the possible tunnel through North Austin.
“Things could change,” project lead Kyle Keahey told The Daily Texan last month. “There’s lots of opportunity for public involvement at this stage.”
The urban rail proposal is a part of Project Connect, a collaborative vision for Austin’s transportation system between the city, Cap Metro and other Central Texas planning organizations. The approved route will run along Trinity Street through downtown and travel on San Ja-cinto Boulevard through the UT campus. Three of the rail’s proposed stops are on campus at the future site of the Dell Medical School, Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium and on the northeast side of campus.
While some have complained about a lack of public engagement in the planning process, Mayor Lee Leffingwell said Project Connect and Capital Metro have hosted more than 200 public meetings to re-lay information about the rail and hear from the community.
“I believe that this has been one of the most open, transparent and inclusive processes I’ve ever seen,” Leffingwell said.
Capital Metro will launch MetroRapid 803, the city’s second bus rapid transit route, on Aug. 24, replacing a UT Shuttle at the start of the fall semester.
The new MetroRapid route will run from The Do-main to the Westgate Transit Center along Burnet Road and Lamar Boulevard. The route will also make stops near campus along Guadalupe Street via a shared path-way with MetroRapid 801, which launched in January.
“It hits some major destinations in this community,” Cap Metro CEO Linda Watson said.
MetroRapid 803 fleet hit the streets on July 15, ahead of the route’s launch later this month. During the full-scale system test, all 15 buses operated like a regular service day, to make sure the technology and route timing works.
“When we launch on [Aug. 24] we want to be prac-ticed and we want it to be perfect and, so, we just wan-na make sure that all the parts and pieces work well together in advance of that,” said Dottie Watkins, Cap
Metro vice president of bus and paratransit services. The route will replace the Pickle Research Cam-
pus route and complement Route 3, running along a similar path. Running every 12-20 minutes, MetroR-apid 803 will offer faster transit time by decreasing the number of stops compared to regular bus routes. Route 3 runs every 30-40 minutes.
“One of the key benefits of [more frequent stops] is that, when it’s that frequent, you really don’t have to rely on a schedule anymore,” said Todd Hemingson, vice president of strategic planning and development for Cap Metro. “You, basically, can walk out to the stop and know that, just within just a few minutes, the next bus will be there.”
Anthropology graduate student Sierra Castedo said she took a class at the Pickle campus last year and said service to campus would have benefitted from MetroR-apid service because the PRC shuttle runs once an hour.
“I had a class that started right in between those hours, and so I had to arrive more than an hour early and leave more than an hour later,” Castedo said. “It was ridiculous. I spent my entire Friday going out there.”
Just like the 801 route, the new buses will use prior-ity lanes and are equipped with signal priority technol-ogy, which can extend a green light to help a vehicle stay on schedule. They also offer free WiFi and run on clean diesel fuel, meeting the latest emission standards from the Environmental Protection Agency.
The concept of rapid transit in Austin began in 2004, with Cap Metro’s “All Systems Go” plan, which was fol-lowed by years of planning to determine routes. The Federal Transit Administration awarded Cap Metro a $38 million grant in 2012 to bring that concept to re-ality. The grant covered 80 percent of the cost of the MetroRapid project. Cap Metro paid for the remaining 20 percent.
Along with the Pickle campus and Barton Springs, Hemingson said the 803 route will also serve popular food destinations, such as Whole Foods Market, Cen-tral Market and Wheatsville Co-op.
“We really have tried to include a number of dif-ferent features and have it go where students actually want to go,” Hemingson said. “If you like food, it’s a great route to ride.”
By Mary Huber@marymhuber
By Kylie Fitzpatrick@mllekyky
Amy Zhang | Daily Texan StaffAt its launch in August, MetroRapid 803 will replace the Pickle Research Campus route and run from the Domain to the Westgate Transit Center. MetroRapid 803 will be Capital Metro’s second bus rapid transit route following MetroRapid 801.
City Council to consider urban rail bond proposal
Cap Metro to launch new MetroRapid route in August
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City transportation projects move forward
With both Capital Metro and Austin City Council endorsing Proj-ect Connect’s recommended route for urban rail, the council is ex-pected to discuss bond language in August for the $1.38 billion proj-ect connecting East Riverside to ACC Highland.
If Austin residents approve a bond proposal in November, a three-year environmental assessment and engineering process will deter-mine how to safely construct the rail, the bridge across Lady Bird Lake and the possible tunnel through North Austin.
“Things could change,” project lead Kyle Keahey told The Daily Texan last month. “There’s lots of opportunity for public involvement at this stage.”
The urban rail proposal is a part of Project Connect, a collaborative vision for Austin’s transportation system between the city, Cap Metro and other Central Texas planning organizations. The approved route will run along Trinity Street through downtown and travel on San Ja-cinto Boulevard through the UT campus. Three of the rail’s proposed stops are on campus at the future site of the Dell Medical School, Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium and on the northeast side of campus.
While some have complained about a lack of public engagement in the planning process, Mayor Lee Leffingwell said Project Connect and Capital Metro have hosted more than 200 public meetings to re-lay information about the rail and hear from the community.
“I believe that this has been one of the most open, transparent and inclusive processes I’ve ever seen,” Leffingwell said.
Council members voted to limit public discussion to 30 minutes for both sides before they voted on June 26, excluding several in at-tendance that hoped to address the council. Among them was Jamie Nalley, an architectural engineering senior and Student Government representative.
“Students are a highly transit-dependent population,” Nalley wrote in his prepared speech, given to the Texan. “This current plan fails to take us into account.”
The Student Government assembly has passed resolutions in re-cent years calling for an urban rail alignment along Guadalupe Street and Lamar Boulevard instead of the recommended alignment on the east side of campus.
The route on San Jacinto is incorporated into the University’s 2012 Campus Master Plan and was recommended to Project Connect by University officials.
A light rail on Guadalupe and Lamar was proposed in 2000 and lost a bond election by a narrow margin. The city later pursued bus rapid transit along those streets, and the Federal Transportation Ad-ministration awarded Austin $38 million in 2012 for the MetroRapid service, which began running in January.
“It would be near impossible to justify additional FTA funding for this corridor so soon,” Leffingwell said.
The city will seek FTA funds to cover half of the project’s cost, with the remaining portion locally funded. The Central Texas Regional Mobility fund has set aside $600 million for urban rail, leaving $100 million unfunded.
Mike McHone, who represents businesses, churches and residen-tial communities near UT on behalf of University Area Partners, said
STOPS NORTH OF UT | Urban rail: St David’s, Hancock, Airport Blvd, ACC Highland MetroRapid 803: Includes Pickle Research Campus, The Domain, North Loop, Central Market North
STOPS SOUTH OF UTUrban rail: Capitol, East 7th, Con-vention Center, South Central Wa-terfront, Travis Heights, Lakeshore, Burton, Pleasant Valley, Grove MetroRapid 803: Includes ACC Rio Grande, State Capitol, Austin City Hall, Barton Springs / ZACH Theatre
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he feels the city has placed MetroRapid where urban rail should be.“We’ve been given buses instead of light rail. We never thought
buses were the right way to go, but we got them,” McHone said. “So we’re going to compound a mistake?”
Thomas Butler, transportation director for the Downtown Austin Alliance, an organization with the goal of improving downtown Aus-tin, said the route is designed for what the city will look like a decade from now. Butler said it will serve a population growing to the east, as well as the future ACC Highland campus, the Dell Medical School and an innovation zone for technology development expected to flourish in the northeast corner of downtown.
Butler emphasized the route’s connectivity to the larger transporta-tion system, including the rapid bus lines and MetroRail. Robert Svo-boda, co-director of the Student Government city relations agency, said his main concern was that Project Connect failed to seek input from the student population, and he hopes student government will be-come more involved in city politics in the future.
“The plan approved is not perfect, but it’s a step toward more options for transportation and all students want that,” Svoboda said. “It’s been a hands-off relationship with city gov-ernment, and we want to change that. Our goal is to educate students so they can vote.” Stadium
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TENNIS SIDELINERoddick-led Aces amass fan support
The Austin Aces’ inaugural season hasn’t exactly been a smash hit, but it has pro-vided a new experience for many fans.
The Cedar Park Center, the Aces home arena, is filled with music, cheering and excitement during the nearly four-hour events. While the team may not sell out its games, Austin coach Rick Leach claims that it has the best fans in the Mylan World TeamTennis league.
“I’ve been so impressed with [the fans’] enthusiasm,” Leach said. “I’ve been seeing the same kids at the auto-graph line — great response and great crowds.”
Led by Austin resident and former Grand Slam cham-pion Andy Roddick, the Aces have spent the past month participating in the league’s regular season against six other teams.
Unlike conventional ten-nis, Mylan league matches consist of five different sets — one set of men’s singles, women’s singles, men’s doubles, women’s doubles and mixed doubles. Each game won gives a team a point, and the first team to win five games wins each set.
The unique scoring system gives every team an opportu-nity to contend for a champi-onship. The league’s scoring keeps matches from becom-ing exhibitions by ensuring competitiveness throughout the match.
“No team is ever out of it in World TeamTennis,” said league co-founder Billie Jean King at a luncheon in Austin
on June 10. “The overtime and super tiebreaker always set up an exciting finish.”
The structure of the league is what makes coach-ing the Aces so enjoyable for Leach.
“I like TeamTennis be-cause you have men and women playing together,” he said. “I just think it’s fun and exciting and fast-paced. I think they can root for the home team as much as they want.”
The league’s atmosphere is one of the many reasons Roddick and team owner Lorne Abony created the Aces organization.
“It’s kind of fun and funky,” Roddick said about the league. “Most people tell you to be quiet at matches; we tell you to be louder.”
While the atmosphere at games has been exciting, the Aces haven’t had the best season as they’ve gone through growing pains throughout their first year. The Aces are currently in last place in the Western Conference with a 4-7 re-cord. Their struggles con-tinued Saturday as they saw their playoff hopes get even
smaller after a tough loss to the San Diego Aviators. Although Austin will likely miss the playoffs, Leach be-lieves that the team will im-prove over time.
“I think we’ll keep getting better,” Leach said. “We lost some close matches. Unfor-tunately, some players came
in with some injuries and Treat [Huey] got hurt when he got here. With only four players, it’s pretty tough on you.”
The Aces will finish the season on the road against the Texas Wild, Philadelphia Freedoms and San Diego Aviators this week.
By Nick Castillo@Nick_Castillo74
Charlie Pearce | Daily Texan Staff Led by former Grand Slam champion Andy Roddick, the Austin Aces have generated impres-sive fan support in their inagural season, despite their struggles on the court. The Aces are 4-7 on the season and sit in last place in the Mylan World TeamTennis league standings.
This Week in Sports
The top-seeded Aztex begin playoff competi-tion as they host the Adrenaline in the USL PDL 2014 Southern Conference Cham-pionships at House Park on Saturday at 7:30 p.m. If they win, the Aztex will move on to the Conference Championship game on Sunday.
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There is something off-put-ting about The Dead Space’s de-but LP, “Faker”. Released three weeks ago on local label 12XU, the album is not extremely loud or noisy, like expected. What it does have is a quiet intensity — an inescapable sense of tension and bleakness at the core of ev-ery track.
According to bassist/vocalist Quin Galavis, this darkness is deliberate.
“I’ve always been into the darker, the post-punk, since I’ve been old enough to re-member,” Galavis said.
The band formed when Ga-lavis met guitarist Garrett Had-den at McCallum High School. The two bonded over a shared teenage love of nu-metal.
“Probably one of the first
conversations that Quin and I ever had was, we were in English class together, and he said, ‘Hey, you play gui-tar, right? You know any Marilyn Manson songs?’” Hadden said.
The band started to take form in 2008, with Galavis and Hadden playing along to a drum machine. They quickly recruited fellow schoolmate Jenny Arthur to play drums, and the band ex-panded from there.
“We had Jasmine, who played bass, and at one point we even had a keyboard player,” Hadden said. “Russ moved to Portland and we played with Jasmine for a number of years, to about 2011. Eventually, we ended up with just the stripped down trio of us, and I feel like kind of what we’re doing
now was born out of that.”Once the band settled on
their current configuration as a trio, they started working on re-cording their album. But it took four years before the band so-lidified their sound and released the album.
Part of the problem was in the band’s interactions with the Austin scene, and playing with other Austin bands.
“We had this whole dark vibe, and when we were first playing shows, every band was a rock and roll band,” Arthur said. “We would play shows with the OBN IIIs and the Flesh Lights … And that honestly kind of affected our songs somewhat because we were trying to match the energy of the shows we were playing.”
Eventually the band was able to reach a point where they
were happy with their material and finished recording.
What the band made was “Faker,” an album composed of ten knotty and taut Gothic post-punk songs. Opening track “Fall Away” sets the tone with its driving bass lines and restrained drumming,
waiting to give way to some sort of climax but never does. The band creates clas-sic sounding Goth rock with the likes of “Behind The Wall,” buzzing guitar catchiness with “Right Now,” and bleak drone rock with closer “So Long.” All the while, The Dead Space
holds onto that sense of tension and darkness that is crucial to their sound.
“We were trying to be a band that we weren’t, and I think with this record, we were finally comfortable and said, ‘This is the record we want to make,’” Hadden said.
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HANNAH SMOTHERS, LIFE&ARTS EDITOR | @DailyTexanArts 10Monday, July 21, 2014
Kayla Galang | Daily Texan StaffThe Dead Space members, Quin Galavis, left, Jenny Authur and Garrett Hadden started playing music together in 2008. The Gothic post-punk trio released its debut LP, “Faker” earlier this month.
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Zach Braff discusses his directorial experience
Local teams get cheesy at fourth annual QuesoffBy Sam Limerick
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The Daily Texan talked to Zach Braff, actor and di-rector of “Garden State,” about his new release, “Wish I Was Here” and the personal touches he adds to his films. Read the full interview at dailytexanonline.com.
There are a lot of things Aus-tinites care a little too much about. Local beer and breakfast tacos rank high on the list, but almost nothing beats the fer-vor for which locals live and breathe for queso. Saturday af-ternoon, teams of self-claimed queso aficionados came to-gether at the Mohawk to fight for the Best Queso title at the fourth annual Quesoff, Austin’s definitive queso competition.
The Quesoff pitted 20 teams representing Austin restaurants, social clubs and
family recipes against each other in four different catego-ries: meaty, spicy, veggie and wild card. A panel of judges included radio personalities, local journalists and musicians.
Adi Anand, the creative mind behind the Quesoff, to-gether with the Mohawk own-er James Moody, had been plotting a queso competition for some time before the duo finally cemented the idea four years ago after a long night of Jameson cocktails.
“Our inspiration was the love for queso we saw amongst our friends and, ob-viously, our own unending
love for the dish,” Anand said.Siena Magallanes, third
year law student, entered the competition under the moniker “Thunda Fromu-nan” with her green chile and pineapple Sriracha queso. Magallanes and friends won the veggie category in 2012, but since the Quesoff attracts large crowds, competition is difficult for independent en-trants like Magallanes.
“It only took us an hour to run out of queso,” Ma-gallanes said.
Contestants at this year’s competition brought in a record 100 quarts of queso,
and the slow cookers and coolers were scraped clean by the end of the day.
After much deliberation, the panel of judges decided that Freedmen’s Brisket Queso was the absolute best Austin has to offer — at least until next year’s competition.
QUESOFF 2014 WINNERSFreedmen’s: Best Meaty Recipe and Best in Show for their Brisket QuesoQueso Beso: Best Spicy RecipeFrank: Best Veggie RecipeCream Team: Best Wild Card recipe for their ice cream queso
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51 Tally (up)
54 Maple syrup sources
57 Boxer played by Will Smith in a 2001 biopic
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39 Weeded, in a way
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63 Gymnast Korbut
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50 Pull (out)
51 New Testament money
53 ___ Andric, Literature Nobelist before John Steinbeck
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56 Sign at the end of a freeway, maybe
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59 Former Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi, for one
60 Team whose playing venue appears on the National Register of Historic Places
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4 Greek consonants
5 Twins, e.g.
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7 Best Actor nominee for “American History X”
8 Fall asleep fast
9 Cylindrical pasta
10 Rare blood type, for short
11 Ching preceder
12 Asian capital
13 Wild olive
14 Boreal
21 Kojak’s love of lollipops or Reagan’s love of jellybeans, e.g.
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26 Disobey directives, say
28 Gathers on a surface, chemically
30 Charms
32 Novel ending?
33 Time keeper?
34 “America’s oldest lager beer”
35 First person outside NASA to receive a moon-rock award, 2006
36 Accelerated
39 1937 film based on a Gershwin musical
43 ___ of life
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48 Sitter’s choice
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