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Sarah Montgomery | Daily Texan StaffUT President William Powers Jr. gives his last State of the University address Monday afternoon.

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UTPD holds a three-day class to educate women in self defense. The class aims to teach women techniques to defend themselves against assaults.

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A losing Texas Longhorns football team may not only affect game attendance but also registration for intramu-ral flag football, according to a Division of Recreational Sports official.

Between 2011 and 2013, the number of total regis-tered teams for intramural flag football in the fall de-creased 12.9 percent, from 387 to 337, according to Rec Sports. As of Monday, there are 284 teams registered for this season. Darci Doll, se-nior assistant director for Rec Sports, said the regis-tration deadline has been extended to Friday to give teams more time to sign up.

Doll said the highest num-ber of flag football teams in recent years was 416 in fall 2006, a few months after Texas’ national champion-ship win at the Rose Bowl.

The Counseling and Mental Health Center began its annual “Suicide Prevention Week” on Monday to combat death by suicide, which, according to the Suicide Prevention Re-source Center, is the second leading cause of death among college students.

Suicide Prevention Week first took place at the University

in 2009 and primarily focuses on spreading awareness and promoting self-care. Monday’s event aimed to inform students on the importance of listening to those who are struggling with mental health.

Marian Trattner, suicide prevention coordinator for the Counseling and Mental Health Center, or CMHC, said it is important to show

A group of 25 wom-en learned how to per-form choke holds, kicks, punches and eye gouges in UTPD’s training room Monday night.

The women were partici-pating in a UTPD-offered 12-hour rape aggression defense course, which is de-signed to teach women self-defense techniques they can use against attackers.

UTPD officer Carolina Villarreal, who teaches the rape aggression defense course, or RAD classes, said it aims to provide women with informa-tion about what to do in dangerous situations.

“We focus on aware-ness — how women can be attacked, different targets that attackers look for, how attackers think,” Villarreal said. “In case of an attack, we want women to know how to defend themselves and survive.”

Villarreal said the course

is broken into three separate sessions, which typically run about four hours each.

“First, we talk about how to minimize risk, awareness, date rape and how to avoid unsafe situations,” Villar-real said. “Then we prac-tice offensive and defensive

tactics, and participants get the chance to practice with equipment.”

According to Villarreal, the classes provide a safe environment for women to practice real-life situations.

“At the end of the course, we do an optional simulation

where women face off against a supposed attacker,” Villarreal said. “Everybody’s in protective gear — pads, headgear, and extremi-ties — so it provides a con-trolled environment where women can practice these

The launch of a national campaign Friday addressing sexual assault prevention on college campuses highlights University efforts to tackle sexual violence, according to a University health official.

President Barack Obama announced the “It’s On Us” campaign, the latest effort from an ongoing White House initiative to reduce the number of sexual assaults among college students. The campaign encourages by-stander intervention, par-ticularly from men, through public service announce-ments featured nationwide.

According to Obama, about one in five women is sexually assaulted during college, but only 12 percent of victims report the assault.

Erin Burrows, health education coordinator at the Counseling and Mental Health Center, or CMHC, said the “It’s On Us” cam-paign can start conversations about the role of students in sexual assault prevention.

“This campaign is really about what students can do at the grassroots level to take action,” Burrows said.

The University program BeVocal, which launched in April, addresses tac-tics students can use to prevent violence, such as sexual assault, suicide and domestic violence.

Jane Morgan Bost, the as-sociate director of Preven-tion and Outreach Services

During his ninth and final State of the University Ad-dress on Monday, President William Powers Jr. said one of the keys to making UT the best public university in America involves being able to take specific pro-gram designs and use them to focus on the Univer-sity’s large-scale mission of achieving excellence.

Powers, who will step

down from his post in June, said one example is the Freshman Research Initia-tive, a program intended to teach students to solve prob-lems and find new solutions, therefore creating innova-tive thinkers.

“Lectures by faculty who create the knowledge are good experiences for our students, but they just give our students the product of research,” Powers said. “They don’t expose our students to the process of

research with all of its dead ends, failures and frustra-tions. The Freshman Re-search Initiative does. So we get more bang for our buck by designing the FRI the way we do.”

Powers praised the signa-ture courses of the School of Undergraduate Studies for their ability to expose students to the thought pro-cesses of disciplines outside their chosen major. Powers said more classes should be

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“When the campus com-munity is excited about a cer-tain sport, they want to be in-volved in it as more than just a fan,” Doll said in an email.

In an interview, Doll said, while fall flag football regis-trants have been declining, the popularity of intramu-ral soccer has been increas-ing over the past four to five years. The number of total registered fall soccer teams has increased 5.2 percent, from 232 in 2013 to 244 this season, and is still rising, ac-cording to Doll.

Doll said the growth in soccer registrants could be a result of both the popu-larity of the summer’s FIFA World Cup in Brazil and the increase in prevalence of the sport across the state.

“We see more students who have enrolled in UT who have played recre-ational soccer all their lives,” Doll said.

Men and women are

exposed to soccer more equal-ly, Doll said, unlike football, which is primarily played by men.

Doll also said the decline in number of flag football teams could stem from the addition of a spring intra-mural football league. Since the league was first piloted in spring 2013, registration expanded from 64 teams to 96 teams by spring 2014, ac-cording to Doll.

“Since students [know] they could play again in the spring, they may be play-ing on fewer fall teams,” Doll said.

Chad Zimmerman, a Rec Sports graduate assistant, said the number of flag foot-ball registrants could also be affected by this year’s increase in registration fee from $100 to $120, but, since the fee increase applies to all sports, it should be affecting more than just flag football.

“If it were really a decrease because of the fee, then you would think it would be even spread across all sports,”

Zimmerman said.Nicholas Hodges, an in-

tramural supervisor and flag football referee, said the fee increase could have a larger effect on students who play on multiple teams. He said this may cause students to opt to play on only one team to avoid paying more money.

Hodges said he also thinks changes to park-ing could be affecting flag football team registration this semester. People who park at Whitaker Fields, where students play intra-mural football and soccer, are now required to have a University parking pass at all times, whereas, in previ-ous years, parking was free after 5 p.m.

“For me, I have a car, but I don’t have a parking pass,” Hodges said. “I don’t want to buy a parking pass just so I can ref. If I want to have a team, I have to think about, ‘Oh, can my whole team get there? Do we all have park-ing passes?’ And so that’s my main issue.”

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students the issue exists and empower them to gain the skills and knowledge to com-bat the problem. According to Trattner, 18 percent of undergraduate students have seriously considered suicide, and 8 percent of them have made a suicide attempt.

“While those numbers are really hard to hear, the good news is that we can prevent suicide by talking about it and by letting students know, who are suffering in silence, that they are not alone, that people care about them and that there are re-sources on campus to help,” Trattner said.

The CMHC will hold events through Thursday, ad-dressing ways to reduce the risk of suicide, promote self-care, highlight firearm safety and inform students on how they can be support systems for their peers. Jane Mor-gan Bost, associate direc-tor for the CMHC, said the department aims to detach any shame that is associated with suicide.

“We’re trying to raise aware-ness for an issue that, a lot of times, has shame connected to it,” Bost said. “We’re trying to bring it out of the shadows and into the light.”

Bost said, since she started working at the University 23 years ago, she has noticed a paradigm shift away from the stigma associated with going to the CMHC for aid.

“I find that more and more people are feeling … less reluctant about com-ing to get help,” Bost said. “However, we still have

students who have told me the hardest thing they’ve ever done is coming to the counseling center.”

The CMHC offers indi-vidual counseling as well as a 24/7 “crisis line” for students to call to speak with trained staff about urgent concerns. Trattner said students can get involved by volunteer-ing to help spread awareness, even though the counseling center is staffed by mental health clinicians.

Neurobiology senior Mai-sha Rumman has been vol-unteering to help plan the week since the early sum-mer and said she is involved with the CMHC because she believes everyone is sus-ceptible to struggling with mental health.

“I have friends and fam-ily who have mental health problems, and I’ve experi-enced firsthand how damag-ing it can be to your family and your life,” Rumman said. “I feel strongly that, at some time in your life, you’re going to encounter someone with these problems. That’s the reason I got involved.”

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techniques and know they’ll be successful.”

UTPD Sgt. Brian Dil-lenberger, who teaches the class along with Villarreal, said sexual assaults are es-pecially prevalent among women in their early 20s.

“One in three college women will be victims of sexual assault or attempted assault in their lifetimes,” Dillenberger said. “Most of the sexual assaults UTPD records are among victims who knew their attackers.”

Dillenberger said, al-though 2.3 million women reported attempted sexual assaults in the U.S. last year, 71 percent of women who took a self-defense course, like RAD, were able to avoid rape.

Nutrition senior Gen-esis Valdes said she came to the classes after feeling unprotected while traveling abroad.

“I was in Costa Rica this summer, and, sometimes, when you’re alone, you feel kind of defenseless,” Valdes said. “By taking this class, hopefully, I’ll at least be able to do something or be able to protect myself in an

unsafe situation.”Villarreal said UTPD

started offering the classes in 2001, and holds two RAD sessions each year, one in September and the other in October. Classes are open free of charge to both students and faculty and staff.

Dillenberger said the classes are designed so that the techniques are easy to learn.

“You don’t need a black belt to be able to use these techniques,” Dillenberger said. “We just want women to realize what they can do with what they have avail-able to them.”

Psychology sophomore Anissa Garcia, who at-tended the class, said, while teaching women to protect themselves is beneficial, she still thinks men should be taught not to assault or rape women.

“In today’s society, I feel like people always blame the victim, so I feel like women should learn how to protect themselves,” Gar-cia said. “But to teach men not to rape — that aspect is going to take a while, so I think, in the meantime, do-ing something like this is a good idea.”

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designed to give students a variety of experiences be-yond their chosen field.

“We need to push our debate about how to teach our students into every nook and cranny of our curriculum, and we need to be relentless about that,” Powers said. “We also need to remember that our out-puts come not from just one class but from a four-year experience in an entire ecosystem of learning.”

Powers also called for increased flexibil-ity for faculty to promote more innovation.

“They can’t innovate if our rules are so inflexible that degree requirements and rules about faculty teaching loads stifle them,” Powers said.

Robert Svoboda, urban studies and advertising se-nior, said he agreed with Powers’ thoughts on cur-riculum creation.

“It’s not for adminis-trators to design cours-es,” Powers said. “Faculty does that. Administra-tors shouldn’t direct how individual faculty struc-ture their research or the questions they ask. But [administrators] do need to make broad-brush de-cisions about what areas to support and how our

research effort aligns with our teaching method.”

In one of the final por-tions of his speech, Pow-ers highlighted the Uni-versity’s need for adequate resources to fund both re-curring operations and for capital projects.

Student Government President Kori Rady said Powers — who discussed topics spanning from tech-nology advances to the positives and negatives of faculty tenure — covered everything he anticipated.

“It was a remarkable event in terms of the atmo-sphere,” Rady said in refer-ence to the large amount of alumni who came to sup-port the University.

Rady said the students, faculty and alumni in at-tendance believe in Powers’ goal for UT to become the best public university in the country.

“I think and hope we can do exactly that,” Rady said.

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We’re trying to raise awareness for an issue that, a lot of times, has shame connected to it. We’re trying to bring it out of the shadows and into the light.

—Jane Morgan Bost, CMHC associate director

Two health advocates discussed the main fac-tors of health disparity at the Rapoport Center’s Fall 2014 Health and Hu-man Rights Colloquium on Monday.

Lovell Jones and Mitchell Katz both spoke in Townes Hall during the free, pub-lic event about the impor-tance of improving national health and eliminating dis-parities in health care provi-sions.

Jones, professor emeritus at both UT M.D. Anderson Cancer Center and the UT Graduate School of Bio-medical Sciences, talked about the lack of discus-sion in health disparities and the silence of racism in today’s society.

“The real issue stems around the disconnect be-tween discovery and deliv-ery,” Jones said. “Despite all the money that’s been used for health disparities, not

much has been done but [it’s] gotten worse.”

Referencing The Journal of the American Medical Association to support his claims, Jones said African-American women are 45 percent more likely to die of breast cancer than white women in Houston, al-though it is home of the largest medical centers in the world.

“The racial disparity gap in breast cancer mortality rate in Houston is higher than national average … and is worsening,” Jones said. “You would think this article would launch an ef-fort, and I’m still waiting.”

Jones said he does not want to play “the blame game,” but, rather, he wants to have an open dialogue between respected leaders to discuss long term solu-tions for improving health care distribution.

Katz, director of the Los Angeles County De-partment of Health Ser-vices, discussed political

intervention op-tions, including zon-ing and tax incentives, for addressing chronic health problems.

“The idea is [for gov-ernment] to make it easy for people to make a posi-tive choice in their life,” Katz said.

According to Katz, to see a real difference in health, the initiatives need to be geared toward the people who need it most. He said those in the lowest income bracket live in areas where it is unsafe or inconvenient to exercise, and zoning poli-cies can make a difference in social structure.

Rhiannon Hamam, a sec-ond-year law student, was pleased with the outcome of the seminar and impressed with both speakers.

“The statistics about health disparities were re-ally surprising,” Hamam said. “I realized they ex-isted objectively, but delv-ing into why they exist was really important.”

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Stephanie Tacy | Daily Texan StaffLovell Jones, professor emeritus at both UT M.D. Anderson Cancer Center and the UT Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, speaks about the different factors that affect the health care system in America at Townes Hall on Monday evening.

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UC-Davis professor Charles Walker discusses new book

By Matthew Adams@MatthewAdams60

Author and professor Charles Walker discussed his new book, “The Tupac Amaru Rebellion” at an event Monday in Garrison Hall.

Walker’s book is a nonfic-tion account of a Spanish and Inca man who led a rebellion against the Spanish empire. Walker, professor of history and director of the Hemi-spheric Institutes of America at University of California-Davis, spoke at the event hosted by The Institute for Historical Studies, the Atlantic World Speakers Series and the Teresa Lonzano Long Institute of Lat-in American Studies.

“Walker is a renowned scholar of the late colonial Andes whose new book cov-ers one of the most important rebellions to shake the Span-ish in the Americas,” history professor Seth Garfield said in introducing Walker.

Walker’s new book,

published in April 2014, was published years after his first book, “Smoldering Ashes.” His first book was published in 1999 and briefly mentioned Túpac Amaru. Walker said he started his research on “The Tupac Amaru Rebellion” in 2007 in Seville, Spain.

According to Walker, the sto-ry of Túpac Amaru takes place in Cuzco, Peru. A half-Spanish and half-Incan man named José Gabriel Condorcanqui worked for the Spanish crown as a representative of the indig-enous population. After seeing the Spanish oppression toward the indigenous people first-hand, Condorcanqui took the Inca royal name, Túpac Amaru, and began leading a rebellion against the Spanish empire. Af-ter Amaru’s death in 1781, his second son, a cousin and anoth-er family member continued to carry out the rebellion. More than 100,000 fatalities occurred.

Although Amaru became a mythical figure, he would become a part of Peruvian

history and is now seen as an icon around the world, accord-ing to Walker. For the present generation, Amaru’s first name is commonly associated with the rapper, Tupac Shakur.

“There have been other good books written on the Túpac Amaru Rebellion,” Walker said. “What I wanted to avoid with my book was focusing on just one aspect of Amaru’s life. I wanted to build upon what oth-ers had done and try to show the whole story. I hope that, from my research, more people will reach out and find more de-tails on Túpac Amaru.”

History associate profes-sor Susan Deans-Smith said she liked that the book gives the reader more of an insight into the life of Amaru.

“This book really shows us how little we know about this rebellion,” Deans-Smith said. “It shows all the phases, from the beginning with Túpac Amaru, the middle with fam-ily taking over and the over-all impact it had.”

at the CMHC, said the Be-Vocal program was created to promote a student culture that stands against violence.

“We want to create culture change and say Longhorns care for Longhorns,” Bost said. “We don’t just stand by and watch something hap-pen to another Longhorn.”

Burrows said BeVocal pro-vides student organizations with intervention training that presents direct and in-direct ways students can en-gage a high-risk situation.

“There is no hierarchy in intervention,” Burrows said. “Depending on what the circumstances are in the

situation, you really need to figure out how to best use the tools that you have.”

Bost said students often will not act in a case of sexual assault because of “group-think” mentality.

“If a person sees there’s a problem going on, but no one is doing anything about it, that person might think, ‘I must be wrong. No one here is responding.’” Bost said.

Burrows said indirect methods of intervention can be an effective way for in-dividuals to counteract the pressure of intervening.

“For example, if there’s a stranger-based situation down on Sixth Street, and you don’t know what the deal is, then it might be

your best bet to get other people involved like the bouncer or the bartender,” Burrows said.

Public health junior Lili-ana Vasquez said she hopes to see more men take re-sponsibility for sexual as-sault prevention because, according to a report from the U.S. Department of Justice, almost 99 percent of sexual assault offenders are male.

“If you look at a lot of the violence prevention work, it’s mostly headed by women, which, in fact, it shouldn’t be,” Vazquez said. “It should be the other way around or a lot more balanced so that people are working together to shift culture.”

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It has been said for years that the pen is mightier than the sword, but in a time when technology and education are merg-ing together more and more each year, a new question arises: is the pen mightier than the laptop?

Upon coming to the University of Texas this fall, I was wary about my own answer to that question. Though I have always used pen and paper to take notes, I knew I might be in a slight minority among my peers. I made the assumption that most college classrooms would be dotted with glowing apples, and that technology was the most popular source of learning for students and professors alike. What I did not assume was that many professors at the University of Texas prohibit electronics of any kind in the classroom. I believe this decision is benefi-cial to students’ learning, and furthermore believe that a professor is well within his or her right to decide how their classroom en-vironment will be structured.

As it turns out, professors who ban elec-tronics have the right idea. In this age, students tend to think that technology is good and a lack of technology is bad. When looking at studies on the topic, however, the truth of electronic learning comes out. Researchers have concluded that students who take notes on laptops simply don’t process the information like students who take notes by hand. Longhand note-takers are usually slower at note-taking than their classmates, but this is hardly a disadvan-tage; writing down important parts of the lecture allows these students to absorb, sort, and understand the information bet-ter than those that are typing every word.

Bringing a laptop to class also provides

a screen for students to hide behind, in an institution where classes are meant to en-gage students in discussion and foster ac-tive participation in intellectual pursuits. In all likelihood, the chances of being able to actively defend an argument while check-ing Facebook are slim. Furthermore, laptop screens distract not just the student on the laptop, but anyone who can see their screen. In a study conducted in 2010, research-ers determined that students using laptops were on “distracting” screens (including email, games, and general web surfing) for at least 42 percent of the lecture. Studies of this type are numerous and substantial.

Despite the disadvantages of using tech-nology in the classroom, students argue that they should have the right to choose how they will take notes and participate in class. While student activism definitely has an important role in the UT community, this is not a necessary place to take such activism. Professors who prohibit electron-ics in their class do not do so because they don’t understand technology, or for any other proposed generation gap in under-standing. Rather, they usually just want to lecture in a studious, distraction-free en-vironment, a wish that students should be respectful of. We trust our professors for their knowledge on difficult and extensive subjects- we should be able to trust their judgment on matters like this as well.

It is time to take a step back from the screens and give thought to the concrete, expansive learning environment available at the University of Texas. If students tru-ly wish to have a great experience in their classes, and a solid GPA along with that, we need to reconsider the electronic approach to classroom learning.

Weisz is an English freshman from Hous-ton.

We live in a time when everything seems too big or too small. We are told that the federal government is too big, too bureau-cratic and too threatening to individual liberties. The same critics say that our military is too small, our oil pipelines are too limited and our economic growth is too constrained. People want houses that are bigger than ever before, but they want them to feel small and cozy. They drive hulking trucks while demanding the fuel efficiency and light carbon footprint of small cars.

The same contradictions characterize international politics today. The majority of citizens in Scotland voted last week to remain part of Great Britain, but 45 per-cent said they wished to secede. Many of those who voted to stay in the union agreed that the political institutions based in London were too big and too threat-ening to Scottish freedom. The fact that Scots receive more money from London than they pay in did not deter this argu-ment about alleged repression. At the same time, many advocates of independence believe that Scotland should join an even larger set of institutions: the European Union. They like the trade and currency benefits that could come from integrating their economy more closely with the con-tinent. Many Scots want to be small and big simultaneously.

The Middle East has more tragic ex-amples of the same phenomenon. Sunni extremists in Syria and Iraq want to free themselves from these big, oppressive states, but they call for an even bigger state (a “caliphate”), and they are killing thou-sands of people who want neither the old states nor the new caliphate. The Kurds show similar, although far less violent, in-clinations. They want to free themselves from Iraq, Iran and Turkey, but they are intent on creating a larger Kurdistan. They want to be smaller and bigger, too.

So what is the correct size for political authority? How can we build institutions that ensure local freedoms but still nurture the strength and diversity of large num-bers? How do we preserve the specificity of small with the benefits of big?

The founders of the United States thought about these precise issues. Their innovative solution was what we call “fed-eralism”: the belief that big and small pow-ers should be mixed in the same govern-ment. According to this system, the United States was to have a series of nested politi-cal institutions — nation, state, county and town — that would exercise overlapping authorities for taxation, infrastructure

and security. From Congress to the county board, representative bodies of different sizes would share power, working together at times, checking each other more often. The founders believed that this kind of mixed system would allow big and small to coexist for the sake of building a strong nation that protected local freedoms.

Great Britain, many states in Europe and most regimes in the Middle East are highly centralized. They have unchallenged na-tional powers that make governing simpler, but also less responsive to local needs. In an age when media often magnify ethnic and cultural cleavages, they would benefit from implementing the kinds of federal reforms that empower more local gover-nance, on the model of the United States, as well as Germany, Mexico and India. Messy, divided federalist authorities have a better historical track record for national unity and citizen freedom than other alter-natives, especially secession.

Federalist systems, like the United States, would also do well to re-examine the other side of the equation. Politicians spend so much time condemning national leadership these days, especially in Texas, that we forget how important central au-thority remains in a government of mixed powers. Washington, D.C., protects our national safety, it regulates our financial system and it provides the funding for ba-sic research, emergency relief and social security, among many other things. We would be a less prosperous and peaceful society without a strong national govern-ment. Big government, balanced by local authorities, has historically contributed to American freedom.

The appropriate debate, then, is not be-tween big and small. Secession for Scot-land would not make things better for the Scots. Nor would bigger states in the Middle East solve the problems of faction-al warfare. Good politics balance big and small, central and local. The correct bal-ance is not formulaic. It changes over time.

The task we face today — at home and abroad — is to rethink how we can get the most from national, state and local authorities. Instead of recrimination and name-calling, we need more creative mix-ing. Effective politics are about building institutions that are neither too big nor too small. Democracy needs many young Goldilocks-inspired thinkers to help us find the sizes and shapes that are “just right.”

Suri is a professor in the LBJ School of Public Affairs and the Department of His-tory.

At the Texas Tribune Festival this weekend, Republican politicians galore touted the mer-its of so-called “school choice.” Better known as vouchers, a serious campaign to allow public funds to go toward more charter and private schools will undoubtedly be underway next year when the Legislature meets. State Sen. Dan Patrick, R-Houston, the overwhelming favorite in the lieuten-ant governor race, has been a particularly vo-ciferous proponent of charter schools. Given the lieutenant gover-nor’s almost dictatorial control over the state Senate, significant ac-tion on this topic will likely occur in the next session.

But despite what Patrick and many others may have to say, charter schools are not the panacea they are all too often made out to be. Charter schools, which are subject to less governmental regulation, directly compete with public schools. Nationwide, many have an ugly history of “cher-ry picking” students from wealthier families in an effort to inflate test scores.

This is precisely what has occurred recently in Texas. Education Commissioner Michael Wil-liams received a thorough rebuke from the State Board of Education, nobody’s idea of a liberal board, for going around the board to bring in a chain of charter schools infamously renowned for the aforementioned “cherry-picking.” Spe-

cifically, the chain faced vivid criticism from Tennessee for allegedly operating their schools exclusively in rich neighborhoods.

Though Patrick and others may shed croco-dile tears over arguments such as school choice for children and free markets for families, their

true intentions are some-what murky. The destruc-tion of the urban school district, in their plan, ultimately leads to a full voucher system, wherein students are compelled to attend private schools of their choosing.

But, unsurprisingly, when this voucher sys-tem was tested some years back in Cleveland, the state of Ohio gave par-

ents a meager $2,250 a year, a pittance compared to the tuition and fees of most private schools, which often exceeds the cost of in-state universi-ty tuition. Except for the independently affluent, students overwhelmingly were routed into paro-chial schools affiliated with the local archdiocese, where they received religious instruction on the state’s dime.

The public school system was created to pro-vide a neutral, secular and rigorous environment where all students, irrespective of class or culture, would have equal opportunity to succeed. Today, some tough challenges are facing these schools within Texas’ major cities. But the solution is surely not to abandon them and go back to the dark ages.

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Sunni extremists in Syria and Iraq want to free themselves from... big, oppressive states, but they call for an even bigger state (a ‘caliphate’), and they are killing thousands of people who want neither the old states nor the new caliphate. The Kurds show similar, although far less violent, inclinations.

[Great Britain, many states in Europe and most regimes in the Middle East] have unchallenged national powers that make governing simpler, but also less responsive to local needs. In an age when media often magnify ethnic and cultural cleavages, they would benefit from imple-menting the kinds of federal reforms that empower more local governance...

But despite what [Dan] Patrick and many others may have to say, charter schools are not the panacea they are all too often made out to be.

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aspect of a tiny home should have two purposes in order to preserve space.

“You have to think, ‘How can I make a bookshelf a lad-der?’” Weber said. “How can I make windows vents as well?”

Weber said small objects often inspire his design. He turned a bowl from World Market into a sink and used items he found in the trash. He recently found tree branches that he plans to use as a railing for the loft bed. The building process has not been without ob-stacles. Weber has to make sure the home meets liv-ing regulations and register the home with the city. He said, each time he has had his doubts about the proj-ect, people encourage him to keep working.

Before coming to UT, We-ber worked as a lifeguard and nanny for friend Julie Riekse. Riekse is one of several peo-ple who donated to Weber’s project.

“The tiny house reflects who Joel is,” Riekse said. “He is taking care of his own basic needs in a creative way while caring for the environment.”

According to Weber, his passion for design spurs from his desire to leave places better than he found them.

“I love to be designing objects and spaces that give

back more to the Earth than they take away,” Weber said. “It’s an honor to be a part of the beginning of this move-ment. I feel like it’s going to leave lasting effects on us as a society.”

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to be a musician.Dominguez said he

wanted to attend UT be-cause he was impressed with the music professors. He said most music majors choose programs based on the students in the pro-gram, and UT’s flute pro-gram was what he wanted. When he was accepted into

UT, he started to collabo-rate with music students in the wind ensemble.

“UT’s program is so small, and everyone is profession-al,” Dominguez said. “We have to work together, but I love it. I love collaborating. It’s fun.”

Holly Roper, another flut-ist at UT, has played with Dominguez in ensembles and in the studio.

“[UT students] have a

special bond with each oth-er,” Roper said. “We are al-ways competing but always building up each other.”

Last year, music school alumna Nicole Routhier told Dominguez about a job op-portunity teaching elementa-ry school students at the Cla-vier-Werke School of Music.

“I knew he would be an excellent candidate to teach because of his pas-sion for every aspect of

music,” Routhier said. “His passions for music theory, music history, conducting, performance and in-depth knowledge of scores have driven him to explore these disciplines with zeal.”

When Routhier first pro-posed this to him, Domin-guez did not know whether he was right for the job.

“I feel like, if you can teach elementary school kids, you can teach

anything,” Dominguez said. “You can’t assume anything with them and cannot not get excited about it.”

Dominguez said after feel-ing clueless during the first two weeks of school, he be-gan to fall in love with teach-ing. He hopes music educa-tion helps change the way people think about music.

“I think the future of mu-sic is about having a love for music,” Dominguez said.

“Making music with people without words teaches you how to be vulnerable. I hope kids understand music is an-other way to express them-selves, and that it’s OK.”

As for Dominguez’s future, he wants to be a conductor but would not be opposed to teaching.

“Music doesn’t seem like a necessity, but people still do it,” Dominguez said. “It must still be important.”

and businesses are better trained with more energy into it and to try to shape what’s going on. And that’s their job, but it’s not al-ways the truth, so report-ers have to dig.”

Woodward empha-sized that it is important for journalists to pick the “hard topics.”

“We may be going through one of those

hinges in history where big decisions have been made that set the country on a path that is defining,” Woodward said.

According to Wanda Cash, the associate di-rector of the journalism school, the event is timely in light of Obama’s deci-sion to send strike forces to defeat the Islamic State group. Citing Woodward’s extensive knowledge on how Bush handled the war in Iraq and Nixon’s

ending of the war in Viet-nam, Cash said that Wood-ward’s perspective pro-vides an arc in the story.

“Woodward is impor-tant to us because [his] and Carl Bernstein’s re-porting on Watergate in-spired a whole generation of investigative reporters and set so many people on the path to reporting be-cause they were inspired to learn what a couple of intrepid rookies could do,” Cash said.

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to accept.“I have not worn it for the

past few weeks because I’ve wanted to acclimate my-self and make new friends before they realize how strange I am,” Maset said.

“But it’s really encouraging to see a large group of peo-ple who are actually dressed up themselves.”

Although walking around dressed in Japanese fashion attracts a lot of stares from people, Elaine Weiss, an international re-lations and global studies

sophomore and the club’s historian, does not let that get to her.

“People aren’t necessarily welcoming to things they don’t understand,” Weiss said. “I feel like that’s their problem, and other people shouldn’t stop you from do-ing what makes you happy.”

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Sophomore quarterback Tyrone Swoopes declared Texas to be college football playoff material Monday, despite already losing two games this season.

This came as a bold state-ment by the sophomore quar-terback from Whitewright, Texas, whose confidence has been questioned since he took his first steps on campus. While it’s an almost impos-sible feat for the Longhorns to make an appearance in col-lege football’s first final four, Texas has a puncher’s chance at running the table for a Big 12 Championship.

If the Longhorns want to compete for a Big 12 title, they will have to find the mentality they had last season when they started off the year in the same position after dropping two of their first three games. Much like Texas rallying behind its then-second-string quarter-back Case McCoy, it will have to put its faith in Swoopes.

“[Swoopes] realizes this is his offense,” Texas head coach Charlie Strong said. “His con-fidence is just building each and every day, and that’s what you like out of him. … The thing he’s doing now is be-coming a student of the game which he didn’t before.”

The Longhorns also need their seniors to step up and play the best football of their collegiate careers.

“I told the seniors it’s all about their leadership,” Strong said. “Their senior year, you like to see them go play their best foot-ball, and some of our seniors

aren’t playing their best football. It’s not going to change until we start developing pride and we have pride within ourselves and pride within the team.”

While playoffs may be out of the question, Swoopes said the bare minimum at Texas is becoming bowl-eligible. The road to bowl eligibil-ity begins this weekend when the Longhorns start a tough eight-game stretch against Big 12 opponents with a match against lowly Kansas.

Texas should escape Law-rence, Kansas, with a .500 record before facing its two toughest opponents — No. 7 Baylor on Oct. 4 and No. 4 Oklahoma on Oct. 11.

If the Longhorns want any chance at contending for a Big 12 Championship, they’ll have to find a way to beat the Bears and Sooners.

The only way Texas can beat those teams is if its de-fense performs at an elite level — something that hasn’t been seen since Will Muschamp was defensive coordinator. Play-ing elite defense against Baylor will be challenging, as the Bears rank first in total offense, third in the nation in passing offense and 28th in rushing offense.

On the offensive side of the ball, the Longhorns will also have to find a way to score points at will as the Bears and Sooners feature explosive offenses.

But, if the Longhorns somehow upset the No. 7 and No. 4 teams in the nation, they’ll be in prime position to run the table in the Big 12.

“It’s game by game,” Strong said. “I don’t look down the road. I just say let’s take it one at a time.”

While Texas didn’t play an opponent this past week-end, it will now face a slate of eight straight weeks of Big 12 competition starting this Saturday with a trip to Lawrence, Kansas, to face the Jayhawks. Despite having the week off from competition, the Longhorns continued to grind to improve following their disheartening loss to UCLA earlier this month.

“We just worked on the lit-tle things we didn’t do against UCLA and just really worked on getting better as a team,” sophomore quarterback Ty-rone Swoopes said. “It was mainly just executing on third downs, staying on the field, and I think if we want to get better in the future, we have to start doing that — staying on the field after third down.”

The emphasis on convert-ing on third downs should benefit the Longhorns as they try to contend for the Big 12 title. Through Texas’ first three games of the sea-son, the Longhorns only converted on 27.3 percent of their third-down attempts, the lowest percentage in the Big 12. In the Longhorns’ two losses, the team record-ed eight conversions on 29 third-down attempts to their

opponents 12-of-32 — a more than 10 percent higher conversion rate.

To combat their strug-gling offense, the Longhorns are looking for an increase in “explosive plays”, which, rough-ly speaking, are plays that go for long gains from scrimmage. Through the team’s first three games, Texas has recorded only 31 plays of 10 yards or more, which is tied for last in the con-ference with Iowa State.

“Hopefully, we’ll be able to go more vertical down the

field,” senior wide receiver John Harris said. “I know we haven’t been able to do that a lot, so, hopefully, we will have a lot more explosive plays than what we’ve had these past two games. And I mean maybe that can be hindering the offense a little bit, but I think that’s some-thing we’ll be able to see a lot different is more explosive plays by the receivers and running backs.”

One of the key reasons for Texas’ struggles also lies

with the inexperienced line up front, which has only 15 combined starts as a unit. Only two of its preseason expected starters are currently on the offensive line for Texas, while several other starters are playing out of their opti-mal positions. Despite these setbacks, Harris continues to see improvements from the unit after gaining experience and during the bye week.

“I think they’ve gotten bet-ter,” Harris said. “You know, offensive line is all about

chemistry. I think they are getting better with time. They got better with the UCLA game. As you can see, we were able to run the ball a little bit better. They’re a young group, so they are just growing with time, and they are just growing, as well as Tyrone [Swoopes], as he’s growing. I think they’ll make another big step this week and, hopefully, we will be able to run the ball a little more and give a little more protection to Tyrone to throw the ball down the field.”

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While Texas rested its feet this weekend, underdogs around the country gave top-10 opponents a run for their money. Jameis Winston, the Heisman-winning redshirt sophomore quarterback who was suspended Saturday night after yelling obscenities on campus, helped under-dog Clemson stand a chance against No. 1 Florida State. Behind redshirt sophomore quarterback Sean Maguire, the Seminoles barely escaped with a 23-17 overtime win against Clemson. Maguire threw for 305 yards, includ-ing a 74-yard game-tying touchdown pass, in his start-ing debut. Although he threw two interceptions, he was thrilled to get the victory.

“Coach [Jimbo Fisher] al-ways prepares us if one man goes down — it just hap-pened to be our best player this time,” Maguire said. “I can’t thank the coaches and this team enough. It was awesome.”

The game was just the Seminoles’ fifth overtime ap-pearance in school history and the first since their triple-overtime loss to Penn State in the 2006 Orange Bowl.

Upset in Louisiana In the SEC, Mississippi

State downed then-No. 8 LSU in Baton Rouge, Loui-siana, for the first time since 1991. Junior quarterback Dak Prescott tallied two passing touchdowns and a 56-yard rushing score. The Bulldogs erased a 14-game losing streak against the Tigers, despite being out-scored by the Tigers 19-3 in the fourth quarter.

“I just stayed true to my-self, trusted my teammates,

trusted the coaches, and we got it done,” Prescott said. “Everyone’s happy right now.”

Alhough Prescott’s “every-one” didn’t include any of the Baton Rouge locals, LSU head coach Les Miles did com-pliment Prescott as a “very quality competitor” who “ran their offense very well.” The Tigers fell nine spots to No. 17 in the AP ranking.

Oregon escapes narrow upset

No. 2 Oregon nearly suc-cumbed to the same fate as LSU when the Ducks al-lowed Washington State, a 24-point underdog, to score 31 points. Washington State’s primary threat came via its nationwide top pass-ing attack, which this week took the form of redshirt senior quarterback Connor Halliday’s 68 percent com-pletion rate for 436 yards and four touchdowns. Even so, Oregon’s redshirt junior quarterback Marcus Mari-ota rivaled the playmaker’s threat, completing 84 per-cent of his passes for 329 yards and five touchdowns. Oregon head coach Mark Helfrich had only one word to desribe Mariota’s perfor-mance: “ridiculous.”

“He did a great job of rattling the defense in the second half,” Helfrich said. “The guy is special.”

Oregon (4-0) pulled off the 38-31 win to remain undefeated.

Aggies blow out former SWC rival

No. 6 Aggies also main-tained their perfect mark, although with much less ad-versity. Destroying SMU to the tune of a 58-6 blowout in Dallas, the Aggies took ad-vantage of SMU’s instability in its first home game since

the resignation of former head coach June Jones. The Mustangs remain winless fol-lowing the 52-point loss Sat-urday, in which A&M sopho-more quarterback Kenny Hill recorded 322 yards of offense to secure a 38-3 lead at the half. While Hill and fresh-man quarterback Kyle Al-len split playing time, it was sophomore wide receiver Jer-emy Tabuyo who starred on offense, scoring two touch-downs for a total of 80 yards.

“Jeremy, he’ll be in my office Monday morning, wanting to start,” A&M head coach Kevin Sumlin said. “Two catches, what did you have, 80 yards and two touchdowns? Kind of hard to argue with him.”

SMU’s only points came from field goals in the sec-ond and fourth quarters.

Oklahoma grabs first Big 12 win

Texas rivals, Oklahoma and West Virigina, com-menced their Big 12 play this weekend as the Moun-taineers hosted the Soon-ers in Morgantown, West Virginia. The No. 4-ranked Sooners claimed their first win of conference play with a 45-33 victory over West Virginia despite a valiant ef-fort by the Mountaineers.

Oklahoma freshman run-ning back Samaje Perine ran for 242 yards and four touchdowns to help the Sooners escape from a 24-24 halftime tie. He became the first Sooner to surpass 200 yards in a single game since DeMarco Murray completed the feat in 2010.

“You know about how pow-erful and strong he is, but he has great vision,” Oklahoma head coach Bob Stoops said. “He has great stamina and is a very conditioned athlete.”

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Few people embody true journalistic inten-tions more so than Bob Woodward. The impact of his work when covering the infamous Watergate scandal inspired a new era of investigative reporting. This Wednesday, Wood-ward will participate in a speaking event at the Belo Center for New Media.

This event is part of the continuing series of guest speakers celebrating the centennial of the School of Journalism. The discussion will be a Q&A session be-tween Woodward and R.B. Brenner, the director of the School of Journalism.

Brenner said, even though much has changed in the American political realm in the last 40 years, Woodward has remained a constant and is able to give a unique perspective on a variety of issues.

“Bob Woodward is in-credibly high on the list, if not atop it, of the most influential journalists in my lifetime,” Brenner said. “Over the past half-century, he’s carried out journalism’s most essential

functions — to find out important infor-mation that the pub-lic otherwise wouldn’t know and to hold the powerful accountable.”

Brenner hopes to discuss a variety of topics — from general questions about changes in journalism and transparency within the presidency to more specific questions about current events.

Woodward has been involved off and on with UT’s journalism depart-ment over the years. He and Brenner were colleagues at the Washington Post years ago, and he also hired the journalism school’s previ-ous director, Glenn Fran-kel, to work for the Post. The last time Woodward spoke at UT, he was accom-panied by Carl Bernstein, his partner on the Water-gate report, and actor Rob-ert Redford, who played Woodward in the film ad-aptation of his book “All the President’s Men.”

Woodward plans to ad-dress the lack of transpar-ency between the press and the presidency from his beginnings as a journalist with the Nixon adminis-tration to the present.

“The bottom line for me is we do not know enough about what is going on,” Woodward said. “We still have to worry about secret

government and that the message managers in Con-gress and the White House

Seated at a table in the SAC with a giant backpack full of sheet music and a flute, Ce-sar Dominguez admitted band kids are weird, and he became one. Growing up, he liked soccer and tailgates but never thought about the arts. Once he was injured and couldn’t play soccer, he began to consider music a hobby.

“I went into a music shop by chance,” Dominguez said. “They only had clarinets or flutes. I didn’t want to be like Squidward, so I chose

the flute.”Dominguez, a music stud-

ies senior, moved to Houston his freshman year of high school. Soon after, he became involved with youth orches-tras in Houston.

“I became the weird kid that liked classical music,” Dominguez said.

During his time at the Houston Youth Symphony, Dominguez realized how much he connected with mu-sicians. He made most of his friends through the sympho-ny and, after winning several solo competitions, decided

Wood paneling sur-rounds the fewer than 150-square-foot home. The unfinished structure sits atop an 18-by-7.5-foot trailer with no roof and no air conditioning. This is just the start of Joel Weber’s new living space, but he has big plans for his tiny home.

For Weber, a transfer student and design sopho-more, the decision to lead a more sustainable life start-ed with a one-way ticket to Nicaragua. In 2012, Weber moved to Central America — not knowing when he would be back.

“I wanted to get away from the culture here be-cause it was weighing me down,” Weber said. “I wanted to experience a new language, a new culture and new perspectives.”

While living with peo-ple he met on the beaches and local families, We-ber gained an appre-ciation for the culture’s way of life.

“They were so happy with so little, and I was so happy with so little,” We-ber said. “Modern necessi-ties, that we would just call standard, a lot of people do not have.”

After spending three months abroad, Weber re-turned to the U.S. with a new outlook. He soon stumbled across a commu-nity of people building “tiny homes,” or small, sustain-able living spaces that can be driven from place to place

on trailers. When Weber got accepted to UT, he thought living small would be the most efficient way to combat housing prices.

Weber’s tiny house is still in progress back home in Dallas, but he said he hopes to have it finished and

moved to Austin by the end of the year. According to Weber’s friend, speech/lan-guage pathology senior Er-ika Lovfald, Weber is con-stantly sketching ideas for the home.

“I didn’t know it was pos-sible to make that, and then

he showed me his plans, and I saw how efficient it was,” Lovfald said. “It definitely beats paying so much to live in West Campus.”

The tiny home will include such features as a loft, a guest loft, a propane stove and an energy-efficient water

heater. After acquiring the proper funds, Weber plans to add solar panels and pos-sibly a garden on the roof as well. He also plans to harvest rainwater and recycle his own water. Weber said every

Sitting down and drink-ing tea, social work senior Michelle Merritt wears a frilly pink blouse and fluffy skirt while her handmade flower crown sits on top of her pale-colored wig. In the span of 15 minutes, a number of people stop to tell her how beautiful she looks and that they love her style.

“For me, it’s not a prob-lem to wear this on campus,” Merritt said. “I’m not afraid of doing this anymore, but I’ve been doing it for years. I’m just used to people staring at me.”

Merritt is the creator and president of the newly instated Japanese Street Fashion Club, created

as an outlet for students interested in Japanese street fashion subcultures.

“Honestly, people tend to like it more than they tend to mock, but it does hap-pen because walking from our club meeting last week, we did get yelled at,” Mer-ritt said. “I think it’s cool to bring this freedom that I have and create a group so more people are comfort-able doing it.”

These fashion subcultures include Lolita, mori girl, fairy-kei, decora and gothic. Essentially, everything from lacy pastel blouses and bows to chains and black cloth-ing are incorporated into the cultures.

“The one I am most fa-miliar with is Lolita,” Mer-ritt said. “It is basically big puffy petticoats that take

inspiration from Victorian eras. Sometimes, people who do it look like a giant cup-cake or Marie Antoinette, but it’s very opulent and fun.”

The club plans to host so-cial events in order to show these are style choices— not Halloween costumes or fetishes. According to Merritt, events will include things like jewelry classes,

tea parties and fashion shows for the public.

“I feel naked when I’m not [dressed up] — like I’m not the real me,” psy-chology freshman Am-ber Nong said. “People who disapprove are pretty

close-minded, and some-times it’s fun to do some-thing different, even if it surprises people.”

One of the main goals of the Japanese Street Fashion Club is to facilitate the inter-est of members and spread

awareness when it comes to Japanese street fashion. Un-declared freshman Rebecca Maset believes the unique-ness of Japanese street fash-ion is what makes it hard

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Design student builds his own sustainable homeBy Marisa Charpentier

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Design sopho-more Joel Weber is building his own, eco-friendly home. His time abroad in Nica-ragua inspired him to seek more sustainable ways to live.

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Stephanie Tacy | Daily Texan Staff Music Studies senior Cesar Domingez is a flutist who teaches music to elementary school children at the Clavier-Werke School of Music.

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Electrical and computer engineering sophomore Linda Xie, international relations sopho-more Elaine Weiss, and psychology fresh-man Amber Nong pose in Japanese Street fashion on the Drag.

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“I’m not afraid of do-ing this anymore, but I’ve been doing it for years. I’m just used to people staring at me.”

—Michelle MerrittSocial work senior