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While most treatment for stuttering comes at a high price, the University will now offer free stuttering treatment to people who need it.

UT announced in a state-ment Wednesday that it received a $3 million dona-tion to establish the Michael and Tami Lang Stuttering Institute, a research center devoted to treating children and adults who stutter free of charge.

“People get really un-comfortable around people that stutter,” said Court-ney Byrd, director of the Lang Stuttering Institute. “They just don’t want to be around it. Nobody knows what to do.”

According to Byrd, 97 percent of undergraduate students studying speech-language pathology leave their universities with little to no exposure to stuttering. Byrd said most clinicians feel uncomfortable treating the disorder altogether.

“People who stutter are not getting proper treat-ment,” said Elizabeth Cra-vens, a UT alumna and speech-language patholo-gist who studied under Byrd. “And because it’s a specialized treatment, [pa-tients] would have to spend a lot of time and money seeking it out.”

Treatment is inaccessible because of financial bound-aries, such as insurance poli-cies that lack the coverage, according to Byrd.

“When insurance doesn’t cover it, there’s so many people we’ve had to say no

Attorney General Greg Abbott swiveled in his seat, put his elbows down on the table and asked State Sen. Wendy Davis, D-Fort Worth, with a half-smile, “Do you regret voting for Barack Obama?”

Davis ignored Abbott’s

question at Friday’s guber-natorial debate in Edinburg — the first gubernatorial debate ever held in the Rio Grande Valley — and in-stead focused on her goals as governor instead of her voting past.

“I’m running for gover-nor,” Davis said. “I’m work-ing to make sure every hardworking Texan can go

as far as they dream. Texas is at a turning point. That’s what’s important at this election. I believe we need a governor who will fight for all hardworking Texans be-cause their futures depend on this.”

Davis and Abbott debated border issues, funding and abortion. Davis repeatedly referenced Abbott’s “third

world” comment from Feb-ruary about South Texas and said she supported the surge of border patrol officers to the Rio Grande Valley region.

“I would start by listen-ing to the local law enforce-ments and officials who know best,” Davis said. “If the federal government does not secure the border,

Texas must. We must be sensitive to the reputation of this community. Comments from [politicians] calling this ‘third world’ are inap-propriate.”

The two candidates also debated over health care options. Davis said she sup-ports abortion, while Abbott

Both candidates vying to become the state’s next lieu-tenant governor, state Sens. Dan Patrick, R-Houston, and Leticia Van de Putte, D-San Antonio, discussed educa-tion, bipartisanship and health care at the 2014 Texas Tribune Festival on Satur-day in separate one-on-one interviews.

At the event held on cam-pus at the AT&T Executive Education and Conference Center, Patrick said he sup-ports the voucher system and explained his reason-ing for wanting students to leave schools if they feel the need to get a better education elsewhere.

“No child should be forced to go to a failing school,” Pat-rick said. “Almost 10 percent

of our schools we rate in the state as failing. Can you imagine sending your child to a school rated as a failure?”

According to Patrick, stu-dents should not be locked into a school district and should be able to cross dis-trict lines if their home district allocates them to a failing school.

“You should have the op-portunity to go to a char-ter school,” Patrick said. “If you can’t find a public or charter school, then you can apply for a schol-arship from private busi-nesses to go to a Catholic school, Christian school or private school.”

Van de Putte spoke more about education after high school. She said she sup-ports paying for Texan

Closing The Texas Tri-bune Festival on Sunday morning, Gov. Rick Perry reviewed his 14-year tenure as the state’s executive at the AT&T Executive Education and Conference Center, dis-cussing health care, educa-tion and the Texas economy.

In an interview with Evan Smith, Texas Tribune CEO and editor-in-chief, Perry repeatedly refused to an-swer any questions about his Travis County grand jury indictment. When Smith jokingly threatened to stop asking questions and sit in silence, Perry said he was fine with that.

“It’ll be a long hour,” Perry said. “I had a date like that one time.”

Public education has been adequately funded by the state legislature, according to Perry.

“I don’t judge progress by how many dollars we spend,” Perry said. “I think it’s simplistic to say you’re not spending enough mon-ey. I suggest the result is hard to argue when you look at the number of kids going to college today and when they got a job out of school.”

Perry also said he still supports providing in-state tuition for undocu-mented students, and it should be no issue for the Texas Legislature to aid stu-dents in earning a higher education degree.

“I think it’s important for young people to move up, get that certificate or diplo-ma,” Perry said.

Perry defended his stance against the Affordable Care Act.

“I’ve asked Washington

multiple times for more flexibility to deal with the issue of health care and how we could receive the money from D.C. and re-structure these programs so more people could have ac-cess,” Perry said. “In 2009,

President Obama said Medicaid was broken, and I agree with him. So why would we want to expand a broken system?”

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According to Red Throat House, you are dying. The good news is they can help.

Red Throat House is a weekly online publication that launched in April and serves as a platform for art-ists to collaborate and mix mediums.

“The nature of this proj-ect is to be very social,” co-founder Ben Clancy said. “We’re really just interested in seeing what happens when we put artists together and give them as much free-dom as we possibly can.”

Clancy, a communica-tions graduate student at Texas State University, wrote the website’s slogan, “You are dying. We can help.” He said it is meant to provoke a feeling of ambiguity, and could be interpreted as both saving artists from death or helping artists along with

the process of dying. That slightly morbid outlook has become a theme on the website.

“I thought that symbolized

the way that I conceptual-ize a lot of artistic practice,” Clancy said. “Something that helps us either feel as if we are alive in certain

moments or as something that helps us contextualize or understand death.”

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Byrd said the institute would also allow students to have greater exposure to patients who stutter, giving them better understanding of evidence-based practices involved in stuttering treat-ment.

“I think it’s going to be the beginning of more people investing into the communication sciences and disorders department,” said Roderick Hart, dean of the Moody College of Com-munication. “[The depart-ment] has just got a lower profile, but it’s some of the best work being done here at the college.”

Byrd said she has es-tablished a method of us-ing multimedia, like video games, to implement stutter-ing treatment for children.

“I have three boys myself, and it speaks to them in a

way you can’t understand,” Byrd said.

Byrd has established this and other methods in the University-affiliated Dr. Jennifer and Emanuel

Bodner Developmental Stuttering Laboratory. Ac-cording to Byrd, the meth-ods will be implemented in the institute along with the development of

clinical training tools and innovative treatment for stuttering patients.

A celebratory event for the Lang Stuttering Insti-tute will take place at the

Belo Center for New Media next Monday. Speakers will include donors Michael and Tami Lang, Byrd, Hart and President William Powers Jr.

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LIEUTENANTcontinues from page 1students’ community col-lege with the “Texas Tuition Promise Fund.”

“It’s not a subsidy; it’s an investment,” Van de Putte said. “Our rainy day fund, even with the withdraw of the water and transporta-tion, will probably be sit-ting at $8.4 billion. You can take a one-time allo-cation of $2 billion to the voters, and the proceeds from that could fund ev-ery qualified high school graduate for two years of community college.”

Van de Putte and Patrick both called for health care reform, although in different ways. Patrick said the gov-ernment is too involved in health care.

“I want our money to

come back in the terms of block grants in the state of Texas,” Patrick said. “Our hands are tied in many ways. The federal govern-ment is heavily involved. We need to continue and try to provide health care for every Texan.”

Van de Putte chastised Patrick for his lack of pub-lic appearances. She said his first press conference, which happened Friday, was too little, too late.

“If voters can’t depend on their leaders to be accessi-ble and accountable to them before they’re elected, then what kind of behavior will that instill when they are elected?” Van de Putte said.

Patrick said he has been accessible enough, hold-ing more than 1,300 meet-ings with individuals and groups across the state, and

stressed his focus on protect-ing Texans from any dangers across the border and out of the country.

“My one responsibility is to protect the public,” Patrick said. “The [Department of Public Safety] estimates we have 100,000 gang members here illegally. We must have legal immigration reform in Washington, but, before that comes, we must secure the border.”

Van de Putte said she also supports securing the border, but the topic needed to be ap-proached in a sensible manner.

“Just like many people, I am so frustrated at Wash-ington, D.C.,” Van de Putte said. “[Immigrants] need to have a pathway, they need to pay taxes, not be a criminal, be proficient in English, and they need to get in line.”

Tanner Long, government

junior and Student Govern-ment representative, said he was disappointed the candi-dates did not address each other directly.

“I would have preferred Van de Putte and Patrick,” Long said. “However, I think that Van de Putte definitely stayed on message. She conveyed her ideas that put her in a good light, that show her issues with the Patrick campaign.”

said he believes life is sacred.“Texas is ensuring we

protect more life and ensur-ing we protect the health of women,” Abbott said. “Women still have 5 months to make a very difficult de-cision. But, after that, Texas has an interest in protecting innocent life.”

In the debate, Davis said that she supports the death penalty. Alexander Parker, a Plan II, business honors and finance sophomore and Col-lege Republicans communi-cation director, said he liked Davis’ more conservative answers.

“I did appreciate how Re-publican Davis sounded,” Parker said. “On many

issues, such as Perry’s actions on the border and the death penalty, she provided no contrast to the Republican stance. I think Davis has re-alized that the average Texan disapproves of her party’s stance on a wide range of issues.”

The two clashed when Davis asked Abbott what he would say about the un-derfunding of Texas public schools and when he would settle a lawsuit filed by dis-tricts around Texas.

“There is something be-tween me and settling this lawsuit, and it is a law you voted on in 2011,” Abbott said. “I want to focus creat-ing on as governor a better education system for this state. My goal as governor is to [elevate] the Texas educa-

tion system.”Max Patterson, history

senior and University Dem-ocrats president, said he thought Davis should have pushed Abbott harder on this issue.

“Though Gen. Abbott tried to persuade people in the de-bate that he cared about our underfunded schools, Sen. Davis is the only candidate in the race that has proven her support for our schools and will be a tireless advocate for public education once elected,” Patterson said in an email.

Davis closed by saying she has shown Texas her true self.

“I’ve shown it by fighting for every 4 year old to have access to pre-K and for every high school student to have

affordable access to college,” Davis said. “I will fight for equal pay for equal work, and I will close loopholes for giant corporations. I am you. I have never forgotten who I am or where I come from, and I will fight for you every single day.”

Abbott said he would continue to fight for Texans’ freedom.

“As your attorney gen-eral, I’ve been fighting for your liberty against an overreaching federal gov-ernment,” Abbott said. “I want to fight for the future of Texas as your next gov-ernor. I will work to fulfill that aspiration. I will keep Texas the land of opportu-nity, the place where more freedom and less govern-ment still matters.”

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President William Powers Jr. and Clay Johnston, Dell Medical School dean, par-ticipated in Texas Tribune Festival education panels Saturday.

At a higher education panel on completion rates, Powers said the University is making progress toward its goal of increasing the four-year graduation rate to 70 percent by 2016.

In recent years, four-year graduation rates at the Uni-versity have been at over 50 percent. Powers said stu-dents taking longer to grad-uate from the University be-come a resource issue.

“If somebody stays longer, there’s not room for other people to come in,” Powers said. “We have students who are taking 145 credit hours. That’s using our resources. That’s using their resources.”

When students switch majors, certain courses they have previously taken no longer count in their new degree plan, Powers said, making it more diffi-cult for them to graduate in four years.

“Degree plans are too complicated,” Powers said.

“They’re too specified and narrowed. We’ve got to have a lot more flexibil-ity in that so students can navigate that.

Another panelist, State Rep. Dan Branch, R-Dallas, said demographers report about 60 percent of jobs in the future are going to re-quire some form of higher education or certification, making it increasingly im-portant to receive a col-lege degree, even if it may take longer.

“We’re not nearly at that level,” said Branch, chair-man of the House Higher Education Committee.

Johnston discussed the need for more doctors in Texas with three other medi-cal educators and state Sen. Kirk Watson, D-Austin, dur-ing a health care panel titled “The State of Medical Edu-cation.”

During the discussion, Watson said Texas is still be-low the national average of the number of doctors per 100,000 people.

“The national average is around 240 doctors per 100,000,” Watson said. “In Texas, it’s 170, and in the [Rio Grande] Valley, it’s 107. In the area of pediatrics and psychology, we’re below

60 percent of the national average.”

The doctors on the panel also discussed the need for more primary care doctors, positions that don’t offer as many financial incentives as specialty care, in rural areas.

“We need to look at what is drawing people away from rural areas and what is draw-ing people away from pri-mary care,” Johnston said.

Johnston said technologi-cal changes in the medical field are significantly chang-ing medical education.

“Facts aren’t worth as much as they used to be,” Johnston said. “Human memory is very fallible and a cell phone and Google are much less so. Learning how to find information and syn-thesize it and how to use that to problem solve with patients is another aspect of how medical education is changing.”

George P. BushGeorge P. Bush, Republi-

can candidate for land com-missioner, opened the festi-val by discussing his family’s history and his stance on global warming.

Bush, the grandson of Pres-ident George H.W. Bush and nephew of President George W. Bush, was asked whether the magnetic pull of his sur-name drew him into politics.

“I would describe it more as a desire to serve others,” Bush said. “Always think about others before you think about yourself.”

Bush also said he is not sold on the true cause of global warming.

“What we can agree is, over the course of human history, is that there are climatic chang-ing,” Bush said. “The bigger debate is if it’s man-made. We need to depoliticize the debate and allow scientists to make a definitive call and look at it through a long-term lens.”

— Jackie WangJoe Straus

Joe Straus, Speaker of the Texas House of Representa-tives, discussed controversies regarding the UT System Board of Regents on Saturday.

Straus said he thinks there is a disproportionate focus on the goings-on at the University.

“I’m sick of [UT] being the only campus in the state of Texas that gets this much attention,” Straus said. “It’s crazy. It’s too much focus on UT-Austin — too much turmoil here. It all ties back, I believe, to the dysfunction of the Board of Regents.”

Straus called the System’s investigation into legislative in-fluence over the University’s ad-missions process unnecessary.

“There’s no expectation that [a student] will get in be-cause I write a letter,” Straus said. “Every letter I write, I expect to see it on the front page of the newspaper — I’m not embarrassed about it.”

Straus said he is hopeful the turmoil on the board is coming to an end.

“I think it’s an excel-lent thing that [retired

Admiral William McRaven] is coming in,” Straus said. “I think we’re, hopefully, about to work our way through this.”

— Madlin Mekelburg

John CornynU.S. Sen. John Cornyn

criticized the inefficiency of Congress on Saturday.

Cornyn, the Senate’s mi-nority whip, noted that al-though President Barack Obama’s approval rating is at a low 17 percent, Congress’ approval rating is much lower.

“I agree that Congress is dys-functional, but largely, it’s the Senate,” Cornyn said. “We’ve been largely relegated to show-boats and anticipation of the election and not addressing the problems of our country.”

Ted CruzIn discussing foreign policy

at the festival Saturday, U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz clarified his statement from August about bombing the Islamic State group back to the Stone Age.

“The President’s approach is fundamentally unserious,” Cruz said. “Throughout the course of discussion, I have en-deavored to ask, ‘How do you distinguish the good guys from the bad guys?’ Consistently, the admin has not been able to give a satisfactory answer.”

President Barack Obama signed the measure to arm and train Syrian rebels to fight the Islamic State group Friday. Cruz said resolving the Syrian civil war should not be the ob-jective of the United States.

“It is not our job to turn foreign nations,” Cruz said. “If there are people who pose a clear and present danger to our national security, the ob-jective should be to take out that threat.”

Wendy DavisLess than 24 hours after

her gubernatorial debate with Attorney General Greg Abbott, state Sen. Wendy Davis, D-Fort Worth, dis-cussed the race Saturday.

“I had an opportunity to show, in stark contrast, these two people who are asking to serve Texas as its next gover-nor,” Davis said. “I think I was able to demonstrate that I will be a governor who will fight every single day for the people of this state.”

Davis also talked about the importance of higher education and getting students into col-lege. One thing hindering stu-dents from college, she said, is the price hike of in-state tuition.

“Our tuitions have doubled or more than doubled in some of our universities, and, at the same time, we’ve seen a decline in financial aid,” Davis said. “The legislature made the deci-sion to thin down the amount students could get. If we want to make sure we have the work force for the jobs of tomorrow, we have to invest in our kids.”

Davis said she supports giv-ing in-state tuition to undoc-umented students and would veto a bill that threatened to take away that in-state tuition.

— Jackie Wang

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hospitals around the coun-try exemplify the future of government-run health care, according to Perry.

“The VA is a debacle,” Perry said. “I think one of the ways you fix health care is [to] get Washington out of the regulatory side of it and to allow the state to run it.”

Although he is largely satisfied with his 14-year run as governor, Perry said he regrets his handling of his 2007 vaccine mandate for HPV.

“I would have done it dif-ferently,” Perry said. “I would have engaged the public more. I thought the public understood this from the standpoint of a cancer. The execution was wrong. I was thinking out my heart in-stead of my head, and I want to make the people of Texas be more engaged. We’re not executive order types.”

Citing his run in the 2012 presidential elec-tion, Perry said he has not yet decided about another presidential run.

“I went through a very humbling and frustrating process in 2011 and 2012,” Perry said. “I was not pre-pared. It was obvious. I may or may not run for presi-dency, but, in order to give myself that option, you have do the work that is required.”

Undeclared sopho-more Lauren Hodges said she appreciated Perry’s performance.

“There were parts where he was being humble, and he’s not known for being humble,” Hodges said. “But when he dodged the whole hypocrisy question, I thought that was kind of pathetic.”

Displaying a chart show-ing job growth in Texas, Perry also spoke about how the Tex-as Enterprise Fund — an in-centive program that encour-ages businesses to come to

Texas — has aided economic growth for the past decade.

Perry said, although the program has benefited Tex-as, it is up to the legislature to discuss the lifespan of the incentive bill and see wheth-er it should continue.

“I think if they want to change them, if they want to unilaterally get out of the economic development busi-ness, that’s their call,” Perry said. “But, I would suggest over the last decade, we have been successful in large proj-ects and small projects.”

Smith said he thought Perry interviewed especially well Sunday.

“I’ve interviewed him many times over the past years, and I thought this was the most relaxed I’ve seen him,” Smith said after the interview. “We’ve had some contentious inter-views over the years. I would have liked to talk more about the indictments, but I under-stand he was constrained by the legal process.”

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THE TEXAS TRIBUNE Festival

Dan ReslerDaily Texan Staff

A Texas Tribune Festival panel of educators, in-cluding President William Powers, Jr., discuss col-lege completion rates in Texas on Saturday.

Shelby Tauber | Daily Texan StaffState Sen. Wendy Davis, D-Fort Worth, speaks at The Texas Tribune Festival on Saturday evening.

Recap: Tribune Fest keynotes

Powers, Johnston deliberate education at Tribune Festival

MultimediaFor more discussions on higher education at The Texas Tribune Festival, check out our video coverage at dailytexanonline.com.

By Alex Wilts@alexwilts

Editor’s Note: In the run-up to the November election for mayor, the Texan will be running Q-and-A’s with the candidates. Voting is open only to those registered to vote in Austin and regis-tration continues through Oct. 6. Early voting starts Oct. 20 and ends Oct. 31. Election Day is Nov. 4.

Daily Texan: So what made you decide to run for mayor?

Mike Martinez: I’ve served this community

for 22 years. I started out as an Austin firefight-er, I spent 13 years in the fire department, led the Austin Firefighters Association as its presi-dent in the last three years of my career, and then some community folks came to me and said we think you should run for city council. It was an open seat, at the time I told them I thought they were crazy, I would never quit being a firefighter, it’s one of the greatest pro-fessions in the world and I loved what I did. But I thought about it, and two weeks later I decided to run for city council and I daresay it’s been the best decision that I’ve ever made in terms of my professional career. You know, I think that experience matters, I think that my service as a firefighter and as a council mem-ber speak to the knowledge that I have of how government works, how it can benefit those who need it the most.

DT: So if elected mayor, what specifically

would you do for UT students? MM: I think there are quite honestly two

things that affect you all the most: transpor-tation, public transportation and affordabil-ity. Can you rent an apartment and live here and go to school and study without having to work 40-60 hours a week if you don’t want to. Transportation: I’ve chaired Capital Metro. In 2010 I took over as chairman. The agency was on the brink of being dissolved by the state

legislature. We were given 19 state-law man-dated marching orders to implement by 2016. We were also told, at that time our reserves had gone down to about $7 million, we were also told, bring your reserves up to $36 million by 2016. I took over as chairman, and by 2013 we implemented every recommendation, and they weren’t easy. It wasn’t ‘paint your busses blue.’ It was serious structural changes. And at the end of this year we will have $102 million in financial reserves so that we now can take this next step of asking you all, whether or not you would consider urban rail. I promise you that urban rail, we would not even be able to have a discussion about urban rail had we not turned the agency around and shored up its fi-nances. We’ve done that, and it’s a testament to the leadership style I brought to the board, but also to our president, CEO, and other board members, I don’t do this alone, but without public transit in Austin, can you imagine what the city would be like? As it relates to afford-ability: it’s not just about keeping things cheap. If you’ve watched the things we’ve championed in office, I’ve fought to ensure things like the minimum wage are increased, whenever and wherever I can impart that at a city rule, $11 an hour is the minimum. I’ve also begun a study this year that says, what is the new living wage for Austin? Because the living wage of $11 an hour started in 2003 when I was president of the Austin firefighters, so we’re basing today’s living wage on a 10 year old study. We need a new study that says, what is the new living wage for an Austinite today? Is it 13, 14, 15 dol-lars an hour? Because that’s going to impact af-fordability. That’s going to help those folks that are out there struggling to make ends meet have a little bit more of an opportunity.

DT: You’re familiar with the contention

about the chosen rail route. A lot of people want the Lamar, Guadalupe corridor. Why is the Central, Eastside corridor the right choice?

MM: There’s a couple of things, I want La-mar as well. The Federal government just gave us $38 million for Bus Rapid Transit in the Lamar corridor. We have to take those pre-cious dollars and use them wisely. If we were to started a conversation to plan now rail on a corridor where they just gave us $38 mil-lion, conventional wisdom was we would not qualify for federal matching grants because we misspent their $38 million by putting BRT and immediately going for rail along the same cor-ridor. The other issue with the alignment has to do with a study on future growth and where that growth will occur. As you see the Airport boulevard corridor transition, as Highland mall transitions, we know exponentially that that is where future growth is going to be. Density already exists on the Lamar/Guadal-upe corridor. Density is here on West Campus. We know that if we stuck a rail line on that cor-ridor, it would be wildly successful. But we just put BRT there, and we had to pick an align-ment that makes us the most competitive we can be for receiving that federal match.

DT: How certain are you that you’re going to

get matching funds for the corridor that’s be-ing proposed?

MM: We’re not. We’re certain based on

what we know, what we’ve been told by FTA to make ourselves as competitive as possible. The assurances that we’re giving you all, the voters, the bond covenant, which is the legal binding agreement between the city and the citizens, the bond covenant will explicitly state if we do not receive a one to one match, we will not spend a penny of your taxpayer dollars on urban rail.

DT: Anything else you want UT students to know?

MM: Like many UT students, I came here

to make a better life for myself and I fell in love with the city. Unlike many UT students I didn’t have the same opportunities. I wasn’t raised in a family that had the finan-cial means to support me through college, so I started attending UT at the age of 40 because it’s a personal goal. I’ve lived two dreams of a lifetime: I got to be a firefight-er; I got to be a Council Member. I have a beautiful family, two boys. I don’t neces-sarily need to finish but I want to because it’s that important to me. It’s important to set an example for my boys. So I guess the commonalities between us, we’re trying to make better lives for ourselves. Get a better education. Love the city that we’re in and be a part of it. Most UT students fall in love with Austin and don’t leave.

Dr. Rick Hodes, a CNN Hero and the subject of the HBO documentary, “Making the Crooked Straight”, will be speaking at Texas Hillel (at the northeast corner of 21st and San Antonio streets) at 7 p.m. Tuesday. Hodes, an American doctor who has lived and worked in Africa for over 25 years, is the medical director of Ethiopia for the international nonprofit American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee. After training in internal medicine at Johns Hopkins, Dr. Rick, as Ethiopians call him, went to Ethiopia as a relief worker during the 1984 famine and has been there ever since. He has worked with refugees in Rwanda, Zaire, Tanzania, Somalia and Al-bania. Currently, he is the senior consultant at a Mother Teresa’s Catholic mission helping the impoverished and sick with heart disease, spine disease and cancer.

This past summer I had the opportunity to travel to Ethiopia when Liberal Arts Honors awarded me a “Wise Wanderer Scholarship.” There I witnessed Hodes’ amazing work. As I stood in the examination room at the Cure Hospital in Addis Ababa, I was struck with awe while watching Hodes examine patient after

patient with severe spine and heart disease. The line was endless and in only one day we exam-ined over 70 patients — twice the number of pa-tients a doctor in the U.S. would see, all present-ing some of the worst spinal cases an American doctor would see in his lifetime.

With such limited access to health care in Ethiopia — one doctor for every 10,000 Ethio-pians — and with him personally running the only spine clinic in the country, Hodes feels it is his duty to work at every waking moment. With-out any arrogance, he said to me, “If I didn’t help them — all these people (his constant influx of patients) would die.” Hodes works at three dif-ferent clinics seeing patients for free, sometimes even giving money from his own pocket to pay for expenses such as the patients’ bus fare so they can continue to visit. In a typical day he will see anywhere between 50 and 90 patients, diagnos-ing a vast variety of illnesses simple and complex. Above all, he is known for helping young people with diseases of the spine, which devastate East African countries. Hodes goes above and be-yond to care for his patients, even opening his home for people recovering from surgery and providing them with food and shelter.

Hodes works tirelessly to find and diagnose Ethiopians and match them with funding, sur-geons and facilities to undergo surgery. When I was there I witnessed the process from start to finish, from patients timidly coming in to meet Hodes and going through intensive medical tests to flying from Addis Ababa to Accra, Gha-na, where they would receive life-saving surger-ies. As all of the patients stood side by side, I felt as though I could make out a word from the twisted spines.

I was incredibly inspired by Hodes; he com-bines a love for others with practical application. Please do not miss the rare opportunity to hear him speak at UT.

Kogutt is a psychology and liberal arts honors junior from Dallas.

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Mayoral candidate Martinez discusses plans to help UT students

Editor’s Note: This is the second in a se-ries of columns by Davis about conservatism on campus.

Those who identify with the right wing of the political spectrum are often associated with the image of the “bad guy” — the evil, clever insider who abuses government to protect his friends, his money, his guns and his traditional values. But conservatives, especially in Texas, don’t break a sweat when it comes to discussing jobs and the economy.

With Republicans controlling the Texas government, the case for conservative fiscal policy makes itself; no one can deny the “Texas Miracle” phenomenon of economic growth for which quintessentially conservative ideals of low taxes and decreased government regulation are supposedly responsible. Unfortunately, the lack of synergy among fiscal conservatives and social progressives in Texas leaves independent voters with a difficult decision to make in November.

Over the course of the gubernatorial election campaigns, both candidates have expressed in-terest in continuing the successful legacy of the Texas economy, but the economic plan prof-fered by state Sen. Wendy Davis is not tenable, and conservative fiscal policy, though flawed, makes the most sense for our state.

It would be nice if the “Texas Miracle” were the result of growth of high-paying jobs across

the state, but the reality is that this miracle is mainly sustained by low-wage jobs. And al-though the hope among all is not to have to scramble for a minimum wage job, the reality is that many people have to, or at least do their best to, support their families on $7.25 an hour. The solution to this problem, however, is not to simply increase the minimum wage. Instead, the state fiscal policy should focus on attracting more companies to Texas.

Davis, the Democratic gubernatorial candi-date, has proposed a minimum wage increase of $10 per hour, which would immediately help many Texans living below the poverty line. Un-fortunately, common sense shows that such an immediate increase has clearly negative con-sequences for the same workers the increase should be helping. If employers’ costs increase immediately, this would force them to decrease the number of people they employ in order to minimize costs and maximize their profits. In-creasing the minimum wage could possibly de-rail the “Texas Miracle” in the long term.

Conversely, conservatives and liberals alike should consider the moral implications of sustaining this so-called miracle. Should we pride ourselves on the fact that our economy is growing because an obscene number of grown adults are earning minimum wage, whether it be $7.25 or $10 per hour? Perhaps both guber-natorial candidates should consider the answer to that question when developing state fiscal policy. But for now, the state should continue implementing conservative fiscal policy be-cause I’m certain that to a man trying to sup-port his family, a minimum wage job is better than none at all.

Davis is an international relations and French junior from Houston.

Wage increase will stifle ‘miracle’COLUMN

Photo courtesy of Mike Martinez for Mayor

Photo courtesy of Elan KoguttDr. Rick Hodes, a doctor for the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, has diag-nosed and found funding and surgeons for many sick Ethiopians.

Don’t miss opportunity to hear doctor in Ethiopia speak at UT

By Elan KoguttGuest Columnist

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Dr. Rick, as Ethiopians call him, went to Ethiopia as a relief worker during the 1984 famine and has been there ever since. He has worked with refugees in Rwanda, Zaire, Tanzania, Soma-lia and Albania.

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Three organizations host-ed a party Friday to promote their latest innovation: so-lar panel charging stations on campus.

At the party, the UT Green Fee Committee, Science Undergraduate Research Group and Sol Design Lab celebrated the installation of two solar charging stations intended to promote a greener envi-ronment on the University campus. According to Me-gan Archer, environmental science senior and Green Fee Committee student as-sistant, the project’s main goal is to inspire conver-sations about renewable energy, starting with the solar-powered charging station. Both charging sta-tions, which were installed in June, provide 12 110-volt electrical outlets, six USB

charging ports and Wi-Fi.“This solar panel, for ex-

ample, will still work and provide electricity if there is a blackout. That’s why solar itself is so important. We want to spark environmen-tal initiative.”

In 2011, Archer collabo-rated on the project with Beth Ferguson, founder of Sol Design Lab. Ferguson, who graduated from the University with a master’s in design, first thought of the idea when she was a student.

“The idea of solar panel charging stations became my thesis project when I bought an electric scooter and had no place to charge it,” Ferguson said. “That was back in 2008.”

Ferguson provided the solar charging stations from her lab in San Francisco, but throughout every step of the process, UT students from different departments were involved in learning how to

design with solar and fabri-cation model making.

“Basically there is a charge controller that acts as the ‘brain’ and is connected to solar panel and battery,” Ferguson said. “Then, the battery is connected to the inverter, and the in-verter is connected to the outlet, which provides the DC power.”

The two stations are located near the Perry-Castañeda Library and the Art Building and Museum. At Friday’s party, which was held at the station near the Art Building and Museum, chemical engi-neering junior Eddie Zhan

said he was impressed with the station’s wide range of capabilities.

“I learned it harnesses so-lar energy to create electric-ity and allows you to charge anything, [like] electric cars [and] phones,” Zhan said.

Ferguson will teach app-building workshops hosted by the University the next three Sundays.

“We actually did our first round two years ago where kids made solar charging station designs, but now these upcoming workshops will be focused on creating apps to promote the solar panel charging stations,” Ferguson said.

While conducting re-search along the California coast, Bryan Black, marine science assistant professor, discovered instability among the Californian marine life.

Birds and fish native to that region rely heavily on upwelling, or the movement of nutrient-rich water to the ocean’s surface, according to Black. During the winter, however, low occurrences of upwelling resulted in low food supplies and low repro-ductive success among birds and fish.

“The birds and fish were synchronized with one an-other,” Black said. “They were both responding to the win-ter environment.”

Through Black’s study, the Californian currents have become further understood as highly fluctuating because of the ecosystem’s variability.

“Right now, we’re in a highly variable time,” Black said. “It’s stressful on the ecosystem.”

Black’s investigation used professors from other uni-versities who each brought different skill sets to the re-search. In particular, David Stahle, a geosciences pro-fessor at the University of

Arkansas, directed the col-lection of tree ring data from California’s blue oak trees to better understand the region’s ecological history.

“[Blue oak trees] can live for more than 500 years, and their ring width time series are exceptionally valuable proxies of precipitation and large-scale climate history,” Stahle said.

By collecting this data, Black and his colleagues traced the origins of the current’s high variability back to 1950. Other collaborators, such as Ryan Rykaczewski, a marine sci-ence program and biological sciences assistant professor at the University of South Caro-lina, linked the unsteadiness in California’s currents to the El Niño pattern.

“The impacts associ-ated with El Niño events are known to lead to reduced productivity at many tro-phic levels in the California Current, and the frequency of these El Niño events have been especially high since 1950,” Rykaczewski said.

Although the El Niño cli-mate pattern has been attrib-uted to the low occurrence of upwelling during the winter, Black hasn’t claimed global climate change as a factor af-fecting these upwelling pat-terns or the variability of the coast’s climate.

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SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY CAMPUS

UT professor studies marine current shift

By Chris Mendez@thedailytexan

Photo courtesy of Bryan BlackBryan Black, marine science assistant professor, found that low upwelling occurances in the California Current impacted the reproductive success of birds.

Claire Schaper | Daily Texan StaffStephaine Perrone (left), project manager of the Energy & Water Conservation Program, speaks to UT staff members at the solar panel charging station launch party Friday.

Groups introduce solar power to UT By Ariana Guerra

@thedailytexanThe idea of solar panel charging sta-tions became my thesis project when I bought an electric scooter and had no place to charge it.

—Beth Ferguson, Founder of Sol Design Lab

It’s clear from the box score that the Longhorns lost their third game in a row 1-0 against No. 1 UCLA on Friday. That being said, Texas gave the de-fending national champion its best challenge of the season thus far, and a 2-0 win on Sun-day over Texas State should quell any fears of a stagnant offense. Texas’ performance against collegiate elite showed this team has the necessary attributes to make a run in the postseason.

“If that’s the number one team in the country, I’m really excited about where we are,” head coach Angela Kelly said. “We’re just going to crank up the tempo, crank up the heat and continue to move forward.”

As soon as the Longhorns kicked off to start the game, UCLA stole the ball away and hoverd dangerously around the Texas goal. The Longhorn defenders sprinted around the field to pressure the Bruins, but less than three minutes into regulation, Bruin senior mid-fielder Sam Mewis received a line drive cross right in front of

the Texas net and tapped it in to take an early lead.

The Longhorns’ tight press defense continued after con-ceding the goal, but the of-fense failed to harness Texas’ energy and hustle. The Long-horns charged forward when they gained possession, but when they rushed the follow-up passes, UCLA defenders positioned themselves to re-gain possession.

“We were intercepting passes in the first half, and we weren’t having the confidence on the ball to execute a second pass,” Kelly said. “Now we just have to have composure in the mid to the attacking third with the final pass.”

The Texas offense settled down in the second half and began stringing together passes for some extended possession. Four of the Longhorns’ five shots in the game came in the second half, as did all three of their shots on goal.

Three shots on goal may seem like a disappointing total, but that is the highest total that the smothering UCLA defense had allowed on the season since Pepperdine managed two shots on goal.

The Longhorns’ best chance of the night came with 24 min-utes remaining, when senior midfielder Sharis Lachapelle slid to meet a cross with only the goalie between her and pay dirt. The shot, however, popped up harmlessly for an easy save by UCLA senior keeper Katelyn Rowland.

The Bruins had a flurry of

shots to end the game, but a diving save by junior keeper Abby Smith and high pressure from the Texas defenders held the Bruins scoreless for 87 min-utes after their initial goal.

“We kept them in front and besides that one opportunity, I think we did well,” Smith said. “We created a new standard for ourselves.”

The Longhorns lived up to that new standard Sunday when they defeated Texas State 2-0. Lachapelle and sophomore forward Jasmine Hart provided the scoring and helped Texas unleash 26 shots, including 11 on goal.

Texas’ next action comes Fri-day at 7 p.m. in the Big 12 open-er at home against Texas Tech.

Texas expected a tough battle against former Big 12 volleyball rival Nebras-ka over the weekend, and it certainly got one.

The Longhorns needed five sets Saturday for the first time this season to pull out a 3-2 win over Ne-braska. Senior outside hit-ter Haley Eckerman, Amy Neal, junior libero and out-side hitter, and Khat Bell, senior middle blocker and outside hitter, all recorded double-digit kills.

“We had a hard time finding our rhythm today,” head coach Jerritt Elliott said. “Nebraska played well, but we just couldn’t get our offensive system going, and we made a lot of errors that we haven’t been making.”

The battle started early on in the first set of the match for Texas. Neither side led by more than two points, with 13 ties throughout the set. How-ever, Texas managed to close the set out 25-23 on a 5-2 run behind two kills each from Eckerman and Neal.

“We were fortunate to pull out game number one or else this could have been a different match,”

Elliott said.Momentum from the

first set victory faded quickly in the second set. The Cornhuskers took an early 12-7 lead and never looked back. Although the Longhorns tied the set at 17 on a 6-2 run eventu-ally, they were outscored 8-4 the rest of the set and fell 25-21.

The environment in Lin-coln, stands packed with 8,312 fans, shook some of the new players on the court, especially early in the match.

“They couldn’t settle down,” Elliott said. “We challenged them pretty strongly in the locker room between games two and three, and I felt like we slowly got better as the match went on.”

Texas came out of the intermission break much stronger than it had been in the second set, taking a 9-6 lead before Nebraska fought back to a slim 13-11 go-ahead. However, unlike the second set, the

Longhorns didn’t let the Cornhuskers’ run take over the match. Instead, they executed a 7-1 run to win the set 25-19.

In the fourth set, Texas found itself in a favorable position to close out the match, leading 14-11. But when Nebraska pulled off a 9-2 run, including seven straight points, to take a 20-15 lead, the Longhorns couldn’t rebound. Ecker-man’s three kills elevated the Longhorns to a 23-22 lead, but a late 3-0 run gave the set to the Cornhuskers.

In contrast to the first four sets, Texas dominated the fifth set much more smoothly. The Longhorns jumped out to a 10-6 lead and closed with a 5-2 run to take the win.

Elliott said the team fi-nally found its rhythm in the last set.

“We stayed a little more consistent, and I thought [Nebraska] started mak-ing some more errors and gave us some opportunities to widen the gap there,”

Elliott said. “When you are a good blocking team and you play good defense, you can wear your opponent down.”

The victory marks Texas’ second win against a ranked op-ponent on the road this season. Eck-erman led the Longhorns with 20 kills, while Neal posted a career day with 15 kills and 15 digs.

The Long-horns open up conference play W e d n e s d a y on the road against West Virginia.

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By Jacob Martella@ViewFromTheBox

By Daniel Clay@dclay56

SOCCER

Longhorns fall to UCLA, rebound vs. Texas State

Joshua Guerra | Daily Texan StaffSenior midfielder Sharis Lachapelle slid for a shot against No. 1 UCLA on Friday night with 24 minutes remaining. Lachapelle missed her shot, leaving Texas scoreless in the 1-0 loss.

Texas swept the compe-tition for the second con-secutive time on Friday night at the UTSA Ricardo Romo Classic.

Both the men’s and wom-en’s teams boasted first-place finishes in their races, along with a handful of runners cracking the top 10.

In the men’s 5,000-meter race, it was sophomore Rob-ert Uhr who led the pack to the finish, followed by fresh-men Jacob Pickle and Zach Hamstra, creating a 1-2-3 finish for the team.

On the women’s end, Ar-kansas transfer Sandie Raines lived up to her reputation, finishing five seconds ahead of the second-place runner to win an individual title and position the squad well for a team victory. Freshman Sa-mantha Young, sophomore Mary Beth Hamilton, fresh-man Kendra Melendez and junior Marissa Pekarek fin-ished fourth through seventh, respectively, to round out the

scoring for the women.Texas’ underclassmen dom-

inated the race, which is a good sign for the difficult stretch of the season approaching.

“We really controlled the race with confidence,” said Brad Herbster, assis-tant coach for distance and cross country. “The men and women both got out front and took control of the race early, which was nice to see. Now we get into what I call the regular season next week. All the races from here on are important, and we have got to continue to perform well like we did today.”

The “regular season” com-mences this weekend in Minnesota at the Roy Griak Invitational, the first race that will pit the nation’s top-ranked teams against the Longhorns. The matchup will give a more accurate litmus test than this weekend’s race as to how the team will fare in the rest of the season’s more competitive races.

CROSS COUNTRY | BY JAMES GRANDBERRYWEEKEND RECAPS

The men’s tennis team split its squad between events in Louisiana and California over the weekend and racked up 14 wins.

Sophomore George Gold-hoff, senior Adrien Berkow-icz, freshman John Mee and junior Michael Riechmann represented the Longhorns at the Cajun Tennis Classic in Lafayette, Louisiana, while seniors Søren Hess-Olesen, Lloyd Glasspool, Jacoby Lew-is and junior Nick Naumann competed in the Porsche Napa Valley Tennis Classic in St. Helena, California.

The team started off strong in Lafayette with Mee upsetting No. 57 sophomore Jordan Daigle of LSU (6-3, 7-6) and Goldhoff defeat-ing TCU senior Will Stein in three sets (6-3, 6-7, 6-1). In the quarterfinals, Mee defeated Oklahoma State sophomore Lucas Gerch (6-4, 6-4), but Goldhoff, Riechmann and Berkowicz landed in the consolation

round. Goldhoff advanced furthest in the consolation bracket, defeating Daigle (6-4, 6-4) and LSU junior Tam Trinh (6-1, retired) to set up a rematch against Stein in the finals. Stein advanced in a walkover.

In doubles play, Berkowicz and Goldhoff fell 8-6 to the Louisiana-Lafayette duo of redshirt senior Damian Fari-nola and junior Edgar Lopez. Mee and Riechmann picked up two wins before falling to LSU’s junior tandem of Andrew Korinek and Trinh, 3-6, 7-6 (7-5), 1-0 (6-4), in the semifinals.

In St. Helena, the Long-horns struggled through-out, as all four Longhorns dropped their initial sets.

Two-time all-American Hess-Olesen, who advanced to the finals of the 2012 Napa Valley Classic, broke the los-ing streak with a win over No. 63 senior John Morrissey of Stanford (6-1, 6-3).

No. 5 Hess-Olesen then

downed No. 23 freshman Ronnie Schneider of North Carolina (6-1, 6-2) to advance to the shootout round, but freshman Sebastian Beltrame of Harvard cut Hess-Olesen’s run short with a 1-0 match.

The Longhorns found more success in doubles play against Stanford as Hess-Ole-sen and Naumann defeated the duo of junior Maciek Ranowicz and Morrissey 8-5.

The Longhorns return to action next weekend at the ITA All-American Champi-onship in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

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Texas lands 14 on 2015 Special Olympics World Games teams

When the 2015 Spe-cial Olympics World Games hit Los Angeles in July, Texas will be well-represented.

Team USA features 22 Texas participants, including 14 athletes, four head coaches and two coaches. The bulk of Texas’ competitors will face off on the basketball court, as nine members of the Richardson Road-runners’ women’s bas-ketball team will enter the events. Other Texas athletes will compete in distance running, kayak-ing and sailing.

The 2015 Special Olympics World Games will welcome 7,000 ath-letes and 3,000 coaches representing 177 coun-tries. Event coordina-tors anticipate 500,000 spectators, making it the largest sports and humanitarian event in the world in 2015.

ESPN will broadcast the event.

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Clancy and philosophy senior Amyn Kassam were first inspired to create Red Throat House after col-laborating on an e-book that combined Clancy’s poems with Kassam’s pho-tography. With the e-book, Clancy said he felt his work would become more acces-sible to potential readers who are more likely to be drawn in by pictures than by writing.

“We’re really interested in whether [collaboration] cre-ates tension between the two media or whether they com-pliment each other nicely,” Clancy said. “We’re really interested in the idea that by having people mix genres of media, it presses the bound-aries of both of those things.”

Kassam said when they finished the book, Clancy had the idea of creating an online place for other peo-ple to collaborate the way they had.

“We don’t like the idea that artists are solitary crea-tures, who write in their bedrooms and drink coffee and are lonely,” Clancy said. “When Amyn and I were initially working together on that poem book, we felt a

certain energy that neither of us had ever felt when we were working alone before, and we wanted to bring that to other people.”

Kassam and Clancy often ask their artist friends to contribute to the website, but they also receive submissions from people who have dis-covered Red Throat House on their own.

“People will submit indi-vidual poems to us or indi-vidual stories or just ideas, and we will pair them with other artists with the inten-tion of having them produce something more integrative,” Clancy said.

Kassam’s friend Daniel Regueira, a photojournal-ism senior, was given a poem and asked to take a picture to go along with it for Red Throat House. Reg-ueira said that after work-ing to figure out the per-fect photo to pair with the poem, his appreciation for poetry deepened.

“Obviously, when you’re exposed to something, you have a little bit more of an appreciation for it,” Regueira said. “I was not only exposed to it, but I had to digest it and come up with something based on it. When you do that, it totally helps you un-derstand the medium.”

Project ATX6 began on a whim. Six singer-song-writers and Chris Brecht, an Austin-based documen-tary filmmaker and Project ATX6 producer, set off from Austin to perform music and share their stories in Toronto at the North by Northeast Music Festival. This experience is the first episode in a series of six episodes that will document the artists’ travels to various festivals across the globe.

The six artists Brecht chose to feature in the documen-taries are Dana Falconberry, Mrs. Glass, Aisha Burns, Leo Rondeau, Carson McHone and Jesse Moore. This group of artists, or the “Austin Six,” knew little of each other be-fore the beginning of this project. Some of the artists are members of well-established local bands, such as Burns of Balmorhea and Moore of East Cameron Folkcore, but Brecht showcases each of the

artists in solo performances.“The solo performance is

most revealing of their charac-ter,” Brecht said. “It has to be a very naked feeling. I know be-cause I performed solo myself for a very long time.”

Project ATX6 is funded partially by the Austin Mu-sic Office, a music marketing company, and local music venues. So far, the group has performed in Toronto and Germany, at North by North-east and Reeperbahn Festival, respectively. Brecht plans to bring them to Denmark, Ice-land and other locations in the upcoming year.

Radio-television-f i lm sophomore Lara Ksiazek as-sists in filming Project ATX6. Ksiazek said, as an aspiring documentary filmmaker, she has learned how to shoot art-ist footage from Brecht.

“His style is like a docu-mentary style but even more raw than that,” Ksiazek said. “It’s a raw style with shaky and smooth shots.”

Falconberry has lived in Austin for 10 years and has

established herself as a well-known local artist, playing at South by Southwest last year.

“It really brings to light the idea that there are many ways to tour and get your music out there.” Falconber-ry said. “It doesn’t have to be the traditional model, and, in fact, that doesn’t even re-ally exist anymore.”

Falconberry said the behind-the-scenes work of the music scene often goes unrecognized.

“It’s always so different than it looks on the surface,” Falconberry said. “You can’t see the struggle and hard-ship behind the tour posters and event posts, and I think that shouldn’t be hidden

because it is very real.”Brecht hopes the se-

ries shows insight into the lives and struggles of these six artists.

The first episode is on the project’s website, projec-tatx6.com. The second epi-sode’s release date has not been determined.

“[It offers] transparency into what it means to be an musician in Austin who puts it all on the line,” Brecht said. “I want to create something that benefits these indepen-dent artists on a level that is hard for them to reach on their own. As a group per-forming and traveling togeth-er, they bring in a widespread interest into the project.”

Morgan Edgerton is the girl dancing to hip-hop mu-sic in the studio across the hall. She is the music blast-ing through radio speakers on Monday nights. She is the brains behind the design of a student-run website. Edg-erton’s passion for dance, art and technology has taken her just about everywhere on the UT campus.

Edgerton, a computer sci-ence junior, is involved in a multitude of dance programs around Austin. She taught a hip-hop class at TRU Dance Project in North Austin last summer and currently dances with the UT-founded iGotSole company. Edgerton, who started ballet training at age three, dances on a weekly basis with iGotSole.

“I did a music video with iGotSole last year and will be in one coming up,” Edgerton said. “That’s one thing I’d love to do in the future — is to be in music videos and keep dancing.”

UT alumnus Jonathon “JT” Thomas is the founder of iGotSole and dances with Edgerton in rehearsals. He said she has brought a sense of hard work and enthusiasm to the company.

“Morgan is one of my dancers that just commits 100 percent to everything,” Thomas said. “She’s very

supportive when it comes to any of the concepts when we’re working on the produc-tion. She’s a great student, and she knows how to take criticism correctly.”

Thomas also said Edg-erton’s talent is evident during rehearsal.

“As far as being a dancer, she is phenomenal,” Thomas said. “She has a style that nobody else in the company necessar-ily has. She knows how to in-fuse her personality into danc-ing, and she doesn’t stop trying until she gets it right.”

Edgerton also hosts a ra-dio show with her boyfriend on KVRX every Monday at 10 p.m. called “The Cat’s Pa-jamas,” which they’ve done for two years. Edgerton plays funk music on the show, and her boyfriend plays electronic music.

“[Radio] is definitely a hobby. It’s something I never thought I would do, but it’s just one of those things that the campus offered, and I had to try it,” Edgerton said.

Edgerton is also involved with web design. Unlike her

love of dance, she said she didn’t discover her interest in technology until she got to college.

“I have always been inter-ested in art and dance,” Edg-erton said. “When I started college is when I found tech-nology and how much I loved technology. Throughout col-lege I’ve been joining activi-ties in both of those areas — dance and technology.”

She is currently working on web design for a new stu-dent-run magazine, “Middle Class White Girls,” and is a

part of the startup Choreo, a phone app designed for dancers and dance enthu-siasts. Choreo, which is set to launch in November, is one of the startups in this year’s Longhorn Startup Lab. Ben Dyer, the program’s en-trepreneur in-residence, is a mentor for Morgan and her group.

“Morgan and her team came highly recommended to me back in August by an-other one of our students,” Dyer said. “I encouraged her to apply for [the program].

Choreo is a very strong group, and I can see they are doing all the right things to solidify their idea.”

Edgerton said she co-founded the app after no-ticing there was not a social platform geared toward dancers.

“It’s a social networking platform as well as a lot of tools dancers need,” Edger-ton said. “I’ve been wanting to find a way to combine those things. I am find-ing a way to combine art and technology.”

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Dancer unifies tech, art with app

Lauren Ussery | Daily Texan Staff Computer science junior Morgan Edgerton learns a new routine during a dance rehearsal at the Student Activity Center on Saturday afternoon. In addition to dancing, Edgerton has developed an interest in web design and is currently involved with the startup Choreo, a phone app designed for dancers.

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By Mary Cantrell@mkcant

Documentary brings together ‘Austin Six’

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MULTIMEDIAUT houses more than 1,200 student-run organi-zations. Among that 1,200 is one you have prob-ably never heard of: Longhorn Lockpicking. They seem to like it that way. Check out our video on the organization at www.dailytexanonline.com.

Photo courtesy of Project ATX6

Project ATX6 documents six Austin singer-

songwriters as they travel the

world.

It really brings to light the idea that there are many ways to tour and get your music out there. It doesn’t have to be the traditional model, and, in fact, that doesn’t even really exist anymore.

—Dana Falconberry, Musician