It was all once so promis-ing for Limas Sweed.

His heroic late fourth-quarter touchdown catch against No. 4 Ohio State kept Texas’ undefeated season alive en route to a national championship. Falling backwards with a de-fender draped over him, he was able to corral the Vince Young pass to give Texas a one-point lead with just over two minutes left.

His seven straight games with a touchdown catch from freshman quarterback Colt McCoy the following season set a Texas record. He went on to catch 12 pass-es that year.

The 6-foot-5 receiver was getting looks in the first round of the draft.

After a wrist-injury ended his senior year, he slid a bit in the draft. Still, the Pitts-burgh Steelers took a chance on the high upside receiver

in the second round.Everyone seemed to

praise the pick.“Ten years from now, we’re

going to say Limas Sweed was the most productive and most talented wide receiver in the 2008 NFL Draft class,” ESPN Analyst Todd McShay noted after the draft.

But that was as good as things would get for Sweed.

Sweed struggled holding on to the ball at the

next level. By the end of his rookie season, he caught a pedestrian six passes for 64 yards to go along with two big playoff drops — one of those being an easy 50-yard touchdown in the AFC Championship game.

Yet, the Steelers were able to hang on and lift the Vince Lombardi Trophy, giv-ing Sweed both an NCAA championship and a Super Bowl ring.

His sophomore season went even worse for him individually. In December, the Steelers took him off the active roster. In train-ing camp the next year, he tore his Achilles, ending his season and effectively his NFL career.

“I think every athlete wants to play until they’re about 75 anyway, but I’m

Students signed white-boards on Gregory Plaza thanking the University’s donors as part of the Uni-versity Development Office’s fifth annual Thanks Day on Thursday.

Marsha Reardon, the student philanthropy and special campaigns coordi-nator who organized the event, said Thanks Day was created in 2010 to educate students about the signifi-cance of donations to the University’s budget.

“The main idea is for stu-dents to say thanks to who makes school happen,” Rear-don said. “They can learn that tuition and fees only pay for less than half of what the school needs, and, without donors and other sources, the school would have to

Gov. Rick Perry appeared in court Thursday as his lawyers attempted to refute indictments for his abuse of power charges.

A grand jury originally prosecuted Perry in Au-gust for abuse of an official capacity and coercion of a public servant — Travis County District Attorney Rosemary Lehmberg. Perry

vetoed state funding for Lehmberg’s investigative unit after she refused to step down following her drunken driving conviction.

Thursday’s proceedings focused on two issues — whether special prosecutor Michael McCrum was prop-erly sworn in as the case’s prosecutor and whether doc-uments relating to the case were filed correctly.

McCrum said the defense was not challenging the oath

properly because there is no law that requires a written order to be filed about it.

“There’s a procedural bar to what they’re trying to do,” McCrum said. “Mr. Perry and his lawyers can’t invent or create a law that’s not there.”

Tony Buzbee, Perry’s law-yer, admitted the defense’s argument was based on a technicality, but he said the

EL PASO — The UT Sys-tem Board of Regents hon-ored outgoing Chancellor Francisco Cigarroa and ap-proved the establishment of a doctoral nursing program at UT during a meeting Thursday.

Held in El Paso to cel-ebrate the 100th anniversary of UT-El Paso, Thursday’s meeting served as Cigarroa’s last meeting as chancellor, barring any specially called meetings. Cigarroa will step down from his position in December to return to prac-ticing medicine at UT Health Science Center-San Antonio.

“He’s returning full-time to his first love — transplant surgery,” Chairman Paul Foster said at the meeting. “He never really left it. He’s been the hardest working chancellor in America for the last six years — leading the UT System and per-forming surgery a few times a month.”

Cigarroa previously served as president of UT Health Science Center-San Antonio before being hired as chancellor in 2009.

“I set out on this remark-able journey with the trust and the support of the Board of Regents, and, for that, I am exceedingly grateful,” Cigarroa said in a speech to the board. “We have truly made higher education in Texas more accessible, and

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Austin,” Wilkes said. “In the 2009 plan, it was, ‘What can Austin do to be better for bi-cycling?’ Now we’re saying, ‘What can bicycling do to meet [Austin’s] goals?’”

The three main points the master plan addresses include creating an infra-structure of protected bike lanes that people would feel comfortable using, connect-ing the network of lanes to make all of Austin accessible by bicycle, and changing the way people take short trips — 3 miles or under — from automobile to bicycle.

Wilkes stressed that the 2014 bicycle master plan is not the same as the 2009 master plan.

“I wanted to speak a little to the project level imple-mentation process — how we get projects on the ground,” Wilkes said. “This is the master planning pro-cess. What’s in the 2009 plan

is not going to be on the ground verbatim. It has to be tested by the public.”

According to Wilkes, the planning process of the cur-rent master plan started two years ago.

“We kicked this off in August 2012,” Wilkes said. “We started public outreach about a year after we kicked off. Those meetings contin-ued until February 2014. We received a lot of positive feedback; we received 2,000 some comments in support.”

According to Wilkes, the bicycle plan and the urban trails plan are intertwined, and the success of one relies on the success of the other.

“This network is not just made up of protected lanes,” Wilkes said. “The urban trails are a key component of this network. Without those, it would be fragmented. The investment is a $151 mil-lion investment, includ-ing the investment in the urban trails.”

The City Council also opened the land development code rewrite, CodeNEXT, up for public hearing. Several members of the community testified about their prefer-ences on how to approach rewriting Austin’s land devel-opment code.

City staff and the hired con-sultant firm Opticos recom-mended “The Deep Clean” approach as the best way to approach rewriting the code. “The Deep Clean” would completely reformat and re-organize the code, while only implementing a “medium” extent content rewrite. Some citizen speakers were in favor of “The Complete Makeover” approach, which would con-sist of a more extensive rewrite and take longer than “The Deep Clean.”

A few speakers advised against the City Council making a decision at all. Zilker neighborhood resi-dent David King used the tale of Goldilocks as an ex-ample of how simplistically the City Council sought to solve the code rewrite.

“I don’t think any of these proposed options reflect Austin’s values and culture,” King said. “I would ask that we take the time to build an Austin option — not a ge-neric one, two, three. If you make a decision on the code alternatives, you are locking the next Council into that decision. What is the rush to make the decision now? There’s plenty of work to be done on the new project without making a decision now. It can wait until the new Council.”

Without City Council member Bill Spelman on the dais, the City Council stayed divided between the two ap-proaches. They will discuss CodeNEXT again on Nov. 20.

close in November.” According to Reardon,

activities organized for Thanks Day included writ-ing “Thank You” cards to donors. The day ended with a celebration in front of the UT Tower, complete with fireworks to recognize the success of The Campaign for Texas, the University’s eight-year, $3 billion fund-raising campaign that ended in August.

“At the end of Thanks Day, we want to celebrate this by showing our do-nors the gratefulness of the

students,” Reardon said.Reardon said colleges,

athletic units and various organizations also contrib-ute to the event.

“My signature course encouraged me to volun-teer for the event,” said Kayla Marks, speech pa-thology freshman. “And I have noticed that a great goal for Thanks Day is to form a mutual apprecia-tion for students, campus and faculty.”

In addition to the activi-ties offered on Gregory Pla-za, Reardon said students also had the opportunity to get involved in the event by posting on social media

using #UTTHANKSDAY and posting their stories online.

“These activities have left an impact in the com-munity,” Reardon said. “Students become more aware of how their school keeps on going and also realize the impact they are creating.”

According to Reardon, there has been an increase in young alumni donors since the first Thanks Day.

“Students are not the only ones who are participating,” economics freshman Shel-by Gaylor said. “Teachers also come and participate, which, for me, shows the event is serving its purpose.”

Cristina Fernandez | Daily Texan StaffSarah Celentano walks by a puddle near Quack’s Bakery on Wednesday morning.

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judge should still follow the letter of the law.

“If you’re going to pros-ecute someone, you’d better follow the letter of the law,” Buzbee said. “If Mr. McCrum did not properly qualify as attorney pro tem, that means everything he’s done up to this point is absolutely void.”

Buzbee also said Mc-Crum did not follow the correct sequence of events when signing his oath and took the oath before signing his anti-bribery statement.

“It’s very clear that he did it absolutely backwards,”

Buzbee said. “That means he failed to qualify. He cannot act. Game over.”

McCrum repeatedly said the defense team was using red herrings to expand its scope of allegations on the oath and discussing matters not relevant to the issues of the case. He said the oath was properly administered and read from an affidavit about the oath of office document in which Judge Bert Richard-son swore him in as attorney pro tem.

“The point is — I have the authority; I took the oath,” McCrum said. “This

is a non-issue. The defense is asking the court to create a new law to suit Mr. Perry’s personal situation.”

Additionally, Buzbee called the case “a comedy of errors” and argued nec-essary documents relating to the case were not in the correct file.

McCrum said all docu-ments were filed, stamped and available to the public.

“Not only do the docu-ments have a file stamp showing they were … filed with the district court, all of the documents were freely open to the public,”

McCrum said. “All any-body ever had to do was ask for them.”

Several witnesses were called to the stand, includ-ing Linda Estrada, senior employee in the Travis County district clerk’s of-fice, and Virginia Vasquez, a court coordinator from the 390th district court who re-moved herself from the case. They were questioned about whether documents relat-ing to Lehmberg’s recusal were filed in the right place. Estrada’s and Vasquez’s tes-timonies revealed that oath-related documents were in

the courthouse in two dif-ferent places because no case file was created before the indictment.

Richardson said instead of issuing a simple ruling, he would need to issue find-ings. He said he would talk with both sides and issue a ruling by next Wednesday or Thursday.

After the hearing, Perry said he stood by his decision to veto the funding.

“[The constitution] clearly outlines the authority of any governor to veto items at his or her discretion,” Perry said. “I stand behind that

authority, and I would make that veto again. Exercising proper jurisprudence is not a technicality. It is a require-ment essential for the rule of law.”

Perry said the proceeding would not affect his duties as governor.

“I’m able to multitask pretty good, so the ques-tion is, ‘Am I able to get my work done?’ which I am,” Perry said. “Over the last six months, we’ve had multiple issues of pretty major size and scope to deal with. … I think we’ve handled all those pretty well.”

we have made it more af-fordable to the hundreds of thousands of students who seek a better future.”

Retired Naval Adm. Wil-liam McRaven will succeed Cigarroa as chancellor in January. McRaven graduat-ed from the University with a degree in journalism in 1977 and is known for over-seeing the operation that re-sulted in the death of Osama bin Laden.

“He is an experienced and effective leader with impec-cable integrity and a long and distinguished career of service to our nation,” Cigarroa said. “Bill McRa-ven has my full support, and the System will be in

excellent hands.”After honoring Cigarroa,

the regents approved to es-tablish a Doctor of Nursing Practice degree program at the University.

“This is a professional program, and it is a profes-sional program motivated and designed for workforce needs,” President Wil-liam Powers Jr. said dur-ing a presentation to the board Wednesday.

There are currently 11 doctoral nursing programs in Texas — but none in Central Texas. The pro-gram will provide addi-tional doctoral preparation to nurses who will be able to serve as clinical faculty

in other nursing programs across Texas. Nationally, only 14 percent of nurses have a master’s degree or higher.

Powers said the pro-gram would start with 12 students but grow to 20. Tuition is expected to start at $30,000 for five semes-ters. He said the program would be self-supporting, since its revenues are ex-pected to cover all costs associated with the pro-gram — including faculty and staff compensation, materials and required University and student fees, according to the agenda book.

At the regents’ meeting

Wednesday, Bruce Zim-merman, CEO and chief internal officer of the UT Investment Management Company, announced that System endowment funds invested in stocks, bonds and equity interest had a 15.1 percent return for the fiscal year ending Aug. 31.

“I am pleased to report such strong investment re-turns for the previous fiscal year, which generated ap-proximately $4 billion in ad-ditional financial resources for the University of Texas and Texas A&M systems,” Zimmerman said. “Over the past decade, investment returns have surpassed $15.5 billion.”

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Dual-degree plan combines social work, Latino studies

Starting next fall, UT will offer a degree to suit the growing demand of social workers with an un-derstanding of Latino and Latino immigrant culture in Texas.

The School of Social Work and the Teresa Lo-zano Long Institute of Latin American Studies, or LLI-LAS, will offer a dual-de-gree program at the gradu-ate level, combining social work skills with compe-tency in Latino culture and languages. Those who com-plete the program will re-ceive a Master of Science in Social Work and a Master of Arts with a major in Latin American studies. The pro-gram is the first of its kind in the country, according to LLILAS spokeswoman Su-sanna Sharpe.

Jane Kretzschmar, as-sistant dean for the Master of Science in Social Work program, said there has been a gap between so-cial work in Texas and the needs of its diverse Latino and immigrant population. Kretzschmar said the new program is looking to at-tract mostly people who speak a Latin American language.

“I have been in Texas for a long time, and I know a lot of social workers who wish they had that background,” Kretzschmar said.

Former LLILAS gradu-ate student Cintia Huitzil

petitioned for the degree program by working with students from the School of Social Work and the Cen-ter for Women’s and Gen-der Studies. According to Sharpe, Huitzil started col-lecting the signatures for a letter proposing the degree program in spring 2013.

“I hope that in com-bining these disciplines, LLILAS and the School of Social Work can foment a more critical and conscien-tious student body with the theoretical and practical background to best serve the Latinos and Latin American immigrants in this country,” Huitzil said in a statement.

Huitzil, a second-gener-ation indigenous Chicana, was a social worker based in Los Angeles before get-ting her graduate degree at UT. She worked with indigenous immigrants to help them gain access to social services.

Sharpe said there used to be a “disconnect” con-cerning Latin American studies. The degree used to focus on observing the countries from afar rather than actually partner-ing with the people from those countries in order to understand their culture and politics.

“That’s partly what this de-gree is about — making [so-cial workers] serve as part-ners,” Sharpe said. “It would be so much more helpful if we knew more about the so-cial and political context of these people.”

By Wes Scarborough@westhemess13

Shelby Tauber | Daily Texan file photoOutgoing Chancellor Francisco Cigarroa will leave his position in January. The UT System Board of Regents honored Cigar-roa at a meeting Thursday.

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Jeff Corwin, the well-known conser-vation biologist and television person-ality, visited UT on Monday to present a program called “Tales from the Field.” As a fellow biologist, I had been looking forward to Corwin’s talk. I have a broad admiration for people who promote a conservationist message to a general au-dience, especially since I believe that the key to the protection of the natural world is to teach people why they should care about a rapidly disappearing wilderness.

But that’s not what Corwin delivered. In fact, he seemed to offer up his thoughts on everything but.

What struck me first was how poor Corwin’s public speaking abilities were. Not only did he engage in meandering, all-encompassing monologues, but he also peppered them with obnoxious jokes and stunts, as when he yanked a marine toad out of a small plastic bin and tossed it into an audience member’s hands.

I quickly realized that instead of an ed-ucational program, this was a circus act — a comedy show with live animals.

Of particular importance to me, as a herpetologist, is the public’s image of rep-tiles and amphibians. Though archaic, the public perception of these fascinating animals is still often relegated to visions of slime, scales and creepy-crawling. In fact, this is a very real issue among con-servation biologists: Some animals are perceived by the public as being more im-portant, more relatable or more valuable than others. In other words, why protect a nematode worm when you can protect a giant panda instead? The answer is that all species are vital to ecosystem health, no matter their appearance.

Jeff Corwin has long been a fan of herps — reptiles and amphibians — and features them prominently in his programming; in fact, all the animals he brought that day were herps. A giant alligator snapping turtle was poked in the side repeatedly to display its sizable jaws; an alligator, writh-ing, was thrust into volunteers’ arms. As audience members held each animal, Cor-win spurted a few comments related to the life history of the animals on display. But again, he perpetuated the negative stereo-types against the creatures by emphasiz-ing their power to kill, even going so far as to mention alligators and boas consuming humans if given the opportunity (which happens extraordinarily rarely, if at all). All his points encouraged a fearful mind-set of these animals, not exactly what you would expect from someone whose sup-posed purpose is to convince you of their worthiness for preservation.

Finally, the question period arrived. About half of the questions were typically ones you would expect a TV host to be asked, questions like, “What is your fa-vorite animal?” Others were really good. For instance, an audience member asked about Corwin’s opinion on conservation efforts directed at Tasmanian devils. In-stead of answering the question, however, Corwin engaged in a rambling discourse about the life history of these animals and

how neat they are; he made no mention at all of conservation efforts.

His responses to other questions didn’t make up for this. A colleague of mine asked whether the hands-on approach Corwin employs in these programs is the most effective way to communicate with the public. His response, with no justi-fication whatsoever, was: “I have found that, yes, it is.”

A female first-year graduate student asked if he had any advice for young scientists looking to engage the general public in wildlife conservation. Corwin’s response was a drawn-out argument to support the notion that women in science were rapidly overtaking the field.

Other interesting questions arose, such as, “Why has the Animal Planet network [which supports Corwin’s shows] changed over the years, and begun displaying less educational content?” The response from Corwin was a comment on how helpful an extinction of the Kardashians would be, which led to a listing of his favorite TV shows.

How he thought that his answers were in any way related to the questions asked was beyond me. At best, his responses were tangential and incoherent, constant-ly avoiding the topic of conservation. At worst, his behavior and treatment of ani-mals seemed to actually damage the pres-ervationist cause.

It eventually became clear that the ques-tions Corwin was most enthusiastic to an-swer had nothing to do with the conserva-tionist image he promotes on screen. On television, he prides himself on being a champion of the natural world, but noth-ing he did during those two hours I spent watching him did anything to convince me of this. What’s more, it seems that his talk did not teach much of anything to the audience other than to fear these crea-tures with reasons that were now justified.

And this, for me, was the most frustrat-ing aspect of all. Most of the people who made up the audience were people who believe the messages Corwin is convey-ing. These are also the people who care about the fate of the natural world, and can make a difference.

Corwin urged the audience to get chil-dren off couches, to stop encouraging a culture disconnected from the natural world. Of course, I agreed. But again, Corwin completely overlooked the most critical element of this entire conversa-tion – he failed to ask why. Why does it matter? Why should we care?

Conservation is, ultimately, about re-spect – a respect for the natural world and the recognition that we have a duty to protect it. If Corwin’s program taught me anything, it’s that there is a need now more than ever for public education on wildlife conservation, but that it cannot keep taking this form. Education pro-grams should not induce fear of the very animals we are trying to protect, and must instead be informative and clear. If we can achieve this while the cameras are rolling, fine – but let us take care not to let it slip when the show’s over.

Chambers is an integrative biology grad-uate student from Toronto.

I spent Tuesday night at the Driskill in a circle of Democrats as we all swapped our phones out with the one charger someone had brought along so we could continue poring over election returns as they rolled in.

As the night progressed, the atmosphere became more grim. You can’t sugarcoat Tuesday night — it was bad for Texas, and it was bad for the country. But I can’t think of anyone I’d rather have spent the eve-ning with than my friends, whom I’d been standing alongside for the past 18 months, as they poured their hearts and their pas-sion and their energy into what President Dwight Eisenhower once called “the no-blest of professions”: politics.

You see, my friends believe in a daunt-ingly brilliant future. They envision a Texas with bright skies, clear air and clean water. They want to see a Texas that ranks first in voter engagement, not dead last. They envision a Texas in which public schools are celebrated and supported be-cause they know a well-educated populace

plants the seeds for the prosperity of the next generation. They want to see a Texas that supports minimum wage workers and the elderly and people who can’t access the healthcare they need. In short, they want to see a Texas that works on behalf of all its citizens.

And they believe our government can help us do all these things and live up to our potential. They believe in government as a tool to achieve great and noble goals, because they know that no single entity is ever as strong as our collective hearts and minds. And so in the face of Tuesday night, my friends are going to fight on.

Because let me be clear: The Republican party hardly has a mandate in this state. Twenty-eight percent of voting-eligible Texans voted in the election, which means that less than a fifth of eligible Texans voted for Greg Abbott, the Republican candidate. Young people and people of color overwhelmingly supported Wendy Davis, the Democratic candidate, and de-mographically speaking, that’s where this state is headed.

We’ve known for years that Texas has a serious problem with voter engagement.

That’s why organizations such as Battle-ground Texas and the Texas Democratic Party worked tirelessly to register citizens in the face of harmful, repressive and dis-enfranchising legislation, because we be-lieve in the right of every citizen to make their voice heard.

Our home county, Travis, is a fantas-tic example of this. We registered almost 50,000 new voters this cycle, which helped Davis see an increase of 27,000 Travis County votes over Bill White, the previ-ous Democratic gubernatorial candidate, in 2010. Our get out the vote efforts have re-elected a slate of wonderful progressive candidates and managed to flip the only elected office in the county with a Repub-lican incumbent.

And we plan to continue the fight. Tra-vis County shows that it isn’t enough to register as many voters as you possibly can before the deadline. The Democratic Party’s message is one of diversity and in-clusion and opportunity for all, and dur-ing the past six years we’ve had the chance to pass terrific legislation that works to achieve just that. Since President Barack Obama has taken office, 4.5 million jobs

have been created and unemployment is predicted to drop to 5.4 percent next sum-mer. Now, it’s our job to share that mes-sage with the American people.

But we also have to spend the next two years engaging the American public on the issues. To start, we’re going to continue to register as many people as we can. If Tues-day night showed us anything, it’s that the American public overwhelmingly sup-ports progressive issues, even as they elect Republican candidates. We’ll save that dis-sonance for another article. In the words of Jeremy Bird, senior advisor to Battle-ground Texas, “We’re not going anywhere.”

I was so proud to be a part of this pro-gressive movement in Texas. Together, thousands of Texans fought for a future they knew to be worthy of the great state we live in. And as Ted Kennedy once said, “For all those whose cares have been our concern, the work goes on, the cause en-dures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die.”

Adams is the communications director for University Democrats. She is a me-chanical engineering senior from Dripping Springs.

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At Monday talk, Jeff Corwin danced around main issues

It’s a puzzling day when video game culture and politics intersect. So when I caught wind of an Austin politician whose city council platform was largely about the gaming industry, I knew something was amiss. Could this strange com-bination be chalked up to eccentric politicians, targeting what is perhaps their oddest and most specific subculture yet? Or has something lurk-ing in the video game culture become so dark that our candidates risk delving into a trivially politicized industry by taking a stand?

The latter, it seems, is what many believe, and is likely what prompted Mackenzie Kelly, a can-didate from District 6, to risk her entire candida-cy on highlighting the flaws within a sexist video game industry as part of a widespread movement that has come to be known as “GamerGate.”

Kelly, an energetic, personable candidate who models in her spare time, has quickly become a prolific and passionate advocate for #Gamer-Gate. When followers learned the candidate was an avid gamer, they urged her to take a stand to promote ethical treatment of women within the admittedly eccentric culture of “gaming journal-ism.” A curious cause that has never before re-ceived political discourse, Kelly knew that choos-ing to speak up would be a risky political move.

“I know no one in Austin is going to vote for me based on how I believe in ethics in gaming,” admitted Kelly. “But I do what I feel is right. I stick to the facts and the truth of the situation … I want to see the right things done.”

GamerGate is an odd movement of consumer revolt-turned-viral-Twitter hashtag, a controver-sy borne in response to the misogyny that some believe riddles the video game culture. When a video game developer took to the web to publicly accuse his video game journalist girlfriend of cheating on him with other developers, diehard gaming groupies everywhere went berserk. They organized a conspiracy against her, with recur-rent death threats and even the public release

of her address and phone number. A term first coined by actor Adam Baldwin, GamerGate’s broader goal seeks to combat the marginalization of women in gaming.

And while some have dismissed the ongoing controversy as a “tone deaf rabble of angry obses-sives,” the problems it seeks to remedy — violent harassment and sexual threats against women — are certainly worth redress.

“GamerGate has been diluted quite a bit from what its base value was,” said Kelley, addressing the distortion that occurred when the movement went viral. “But at its core, I still believe that there’s a group of people that believe it’s about ethics.”

While Kelly was admittedly a far cry from win-ning office — her campaign ranked dead last in spending in District 6 with a mere $300, and she earned a mere 9 percent of the vote — her future political efforts have certainly not been thwarted. And most of all, she is proud to embrace her pas-sionate, pro-gaming identity.

“There’s no reason not to be proud of being a gamer,” laughed Kelly. “I’m not in my mom’s house eating Cheetos. I’m in real life, making a positive influence on society, and I play video games.”

An unexpected candidate seeking to champi-on a little-known cause; a social movement with only a hashtag as its manifesto, it seems that for both Kelly and GamerGaters everywhere, their promising futures have only just begun.

Deppisch is a government senior from League City.

GamerGate controversy has ramifications in local politics

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By Anne ChambersGuest Columnist

And while some have dis-missed the ongoing [Gamer-Gate] controversy as a ‘tone deaf rabble of angry obses-sives,’ the problems it seeks to remedy — violent harassment and sexual threats against women — are certainly worth redress.

Marshall Nolen | Daily Texan file photoRetro gaming enthusiast and graduate student of graphic design Rachel Weil founded FEMI-COM, a museum to preserve and celebrate feminine themes in retro video games. Feminist issues are a major part of the GamerGate controversy.

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French techno-pop duo Yelle has taken the world by storm since their 2005 MySpace debut single “Je Veux Te Voir” became an Internet hit. They have been producing upbeat electronic pop albums ever since, influenced by an ev-er-present Euro-pop house music vibe that is univer-sally accessible, Franco-phile or not. Complètement Fou, their 2014 album re-lease, is perhaps the duo’s most relaxed, defined ef-fort so far.

Orange StageWho: The Pains of Being Pure at HeartWhen: Saturday at 4:40 p.m.

Since 2007, The Pains of Being Pure at Heart have been one of the most con-sistent indie-pop bands in the United States, from their distortion-filled de-but to the now jangle and dream-pop influence on this year’s Days of Aban-don. No matter which direction band master-mind Kip Berman and his cohorts head in, the result is still just as hook-filled and glorious as it was before.

Who: Angel OlsenWhen: Sunday at 2:30 p.m.

Angel Olsen is a won-derful mixture between old Americana and new indie singer-songwriter, with her trademark croon-ing vocals and understated

acoustic harmonies. Her latest album, Burn Your Fire for No Witness, was released this year and is a far cry from her debut in 2010, which explored much heavier basslines, reminis-cent of garage rock. Olsen’s stage presence this year, at shows such as SXSW in the spring, has consistently been described as under-stated and intimate but never restrained.

Who: FoxygenWhen: Sunday at 3:35 p.m.Psychedelic rock band Foxygen formed in 2005 when the Los Angeles based duo started releas-ing home-recorded albums during high school. Foxy-gen recently released their third album, ...And Star Power. Although they call their music experimen-tal, this album is reminis-cent of classic rock bands such as the Rolling Stones and The Kinks, both of whom Foxygen has cited as major influences.

Yellow Stage Who: Majical CloudzWhen: Friday at 7:20 p.m.

Majical Cloudz is the electronic duo of Mat-thew Otto and Devon Welsh. It’s a simple setup, with Otto producing the band’s melancholic beats and synths while Welsh emotes his sparse but emo-tionally filled lyrics. The band manages to turn what would be a terribly boring set into something far from that, conveying every piece of pathos in their songs in a live setting, frequently causing complete silence to fall over the crowd and tears shed.

But for Stay Gold, we’re very inspired by the record Our Mother the Mountain by Townes Van Zandt. It’s an old record that has these amaz-ing string arrangements, and we just love how psychedelic and dramatic and beauti-ful they were — a very ’70s

sound. We also listen a lot to Fleetwood Mac. We love Stevie Nicks. There’s this Ca-nadian sister duo, Kate and Anna McGarrigle. Everyone tells us, ‘Your harmonies are really cool, and you’re sisters,’ but it’s hard for us to grasp what that means. But listen-ing to other sibling duos, you can tell there’s something special about it.

DT: What has been your favorite moment in your ca-reer so far?

JS: It’s really hard to pick, but I’ll never forget when we performed for Patti Smith. There’s this thing in Swe-den called the Polar Prize, and it’s basically the Nobel Prize for music. Smith was awarded the prize, and we got to perform her song

‘Dancing Barefoot’ for her. She cried when we played the song. It was intimidat-ing, but she was so sweet. We got to open for her on her tour later.

DT: How have you and your music changed since your first album?

JS: I think in many ways, we’ve grown more

confident on stage and in our songwriting and sing-ing. Our voices have grown even more attuned to each other, and our harmonies are even tighter. This re-cord is more about us. I think if you feel like you’ve experienced something to write about, then write and dare to be more private in your songs.

DT: What can the audi-ence expect from you guys at Fun Fun Fun Fest?

JS: A lot of harmonizing. A lot of head banging. Gold outfits. Hopefully, they’ll be moved by our songs. Pretty much our only goal in play-ing is that we give an honest performance and that people feel something when they hear our music.

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Gardens & Villa explores second album

Photo courtesy of Neil FavilaIndie rock band Gardens & Villa is playing on the Orange Stage at Fun Fun Fun Fest at 1:30 p.m. Sunday. The quintet released its second album earlier this year.

Formed in Santa Barbara, California, indie rock quin-tet Gardens & Villa recently released their second album, Dunes, and will be performing at Fun Fun Fun Fest on Sun-day. Their first self-titled studio album came out in 2011 under the record label Secretly Cana-dian. The Daily Texan spoke with Adam Rasmussen, one of Gardens & Villa’s founding members, about the band’s ori-gins and its latest album.

The Daily Texan: How did Gardens & Villa come together?

Adam Rasmussen: Chris [lead vocalist] and I had met down at the harbor in Ven-tura, and we ended up going out one morning. We started talking about music and had a lot of similarities. We started a musical friendship, and we’ve been making music for about 10 years or so, and Gardens & Villa is one of those incarna-tions. Levi, the drummer, was also part of that original crew, and, about five years ago, we met Shane and Dustin.

DT: Who would you say are your major influences as artists?

AR: I really love Brian Eno’s work, especially re-cords like Another Green World or Taking Tiger Mountain (by Strategy). We also really love soul mu-sic and a lot of proto- and post-punk bands from the mid ’70s.

DT: How have you all developed as artists since your first album?

AR: We learned how to play our instruments. I mean, I’m joking, but that’s honestly part of it. When we put out the debut, we were all work-ing as mechanics or bartend-ers and all sorts of stuff, so making a record in that envi-ronment is a lot of work. Now, we’ve restructured our ideas and transitioned to more of a music-structured lifestyle and had a chance to explore the potential of the project.

DT: Do you think it’s hard to make a name for yourself in the industry?

AR: I think music has al-ways kind of seemed exponen-tial. Like in the ’60s, as many

records came out in a year as many records come out in like a week now. So that’s crazy, but there’s also the force of chang-ing and evolving as a musi-cian, and, unless what you’re trying to do is exactly what someone else is trying to do, you can kind of do your own thing and not have to pay at-tention to every banjo-centric band or saxophone resurgence that comes around.

DT: What are your fu-ture goals as a band?

AR: We’re kind of just try-ing to open up, or evolve and focus on music that gets played more and more. To make music that’s aware and genuine. We’d also like to tour to Asia and Australia. We’ve spent a lot of time in Europe

and the States, and we’d like to continue seeing the world to change as artists and as people.

DT: What kind of impact did the change in recording venues from Santa Barbara to Lake Michigan have on the band?

AR: They’re like differ-ent worlds in the truest sense. Even though they’re contained within the same grouping of states, they feel like worlds away, as far of being a creative platform for projects and musical expres-sions. I think we’re gonna bring the next record back to the west coast. Michigan was cool, but it was also very cold, and this next record we’re working a lot more on more of a self-produced record.

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The last time the Long-horns played a Big 12 match in Gregory Gym, they left the game with a bad taste in their mouths.

After beating Oklahoma in every match in Austin since 2008, Texas finally fell 3-0 due in large part to unforced errors, including seven service errors.

“The girls were very up-set about it, and the coaches thought about it and looked at a lot of film [to] evaluate everything,” head coach Jer-ritt Elliott said. “But at the end of the day, you get back and understand that losses are a part of college athletics.”

Since that loss, the Long-horns have won their past four matches, including games against Texas Tech and Iowa State on the road and the two exhibition matches against Zhejiang.

But Texas will now face its toughest Big 12 match since that loss when it goes up against No. 22 Kansas State at home Friday.

“That game against Okla-homa — we did not play our game at all, and we played a little intimidated, and we were just shaky,” freshman libero Cat McCoy said. “So we’re just going to come out and dominate and play how we normally play.”

Before the loss to Okla-homa, the Longhorns were undefeated and running through conference play with relative ease. Even at the start of the match, Texas had a 10-5 lead in the first set before it all went downhill with errors.

However, the Longhorns

have rebounded well after the loss. Despite dropping a set, Texas took care of busi-ness against Iowa State, a team that has been difficult for them in the past. On Wednesday night, the Long-horns dominated every facet of the game in a clean sweep of Texas Tech in Lubbock.

In those two road games, Texas posted hitting percent-ages of .259 and .262 and combined for nine service errors and two reception er-rors — two things that hurt in the loss to Oklahoma.

“It just shows that we’re doing the simple things right,” McCoy said. “We’re executing at a high level right now, which is good.”

The going is about to get a little bit tougher with Kansas State coming into town. While the Wildcats will likely fall from their No. 22 ranking after losing to Iowa State on Wednesday, they remain a contender for the conference title if Texas were to stumble again down the road. Kansas State also ranks second in the conference in kills, assists and blocks per set.

Offensively, freshman out-side hitter Kylee Zumach, who is third in the Big 12 with 325 kills and fourth with 355 points scored, leads the Wildcats. On the defensive end, senior middle blocker Natali Jones leads the confer-ence with 114 blocks.

Still, Elliott said the team’s focus is on the Texas side of the net and being more consistent.

“We’ll have a game where we’ll hit .400 or .500 and then hit .200,” Elliott said. “So it’s coming out and managing our game.”

It’s a new season for Tex-as women’s basketball.

After losing to Maryland in the second round of the NCAA Tournament last season, the Longhorns will open their season Sunday with the hope of grabbing a third Big 12 title.

After a strong finish last season and a long off-season, Texas is now the preseason favorite to win the Big 12 conference ti-tle for the first time since 2004. The Longhorns have an impressive No. 3 pre-season national ranking from SLAM Magazine and are ranked No. 9 by ESPN.

“I’m really, really look-ing forward to seeing what this team is capable of do-ing,” head coach Karen As-ton said.

After two home games, the Longhorns will have early tests this season when they travel to the west coast to play No. 6 Stanford and No. 23 UCLA. In addition to the games on the west coast, Texas will also battle No. 4 Tennessee and No. 5 Texas A&M before the confer-ence season begins.

Aston, in her third con-secutive season as head coach, said she favors the

tough start in non-confer-ence play.

“We are in better shape this year and that prob-ably comes from the third year of training,” Aston said. “We have a base now, where we can really play a lot of different ways.”

However, Aston isn’t afraid to admit her fresh-men players — including High School Player of the Year and freshman guard Ariel Atkins — don’t have all the plays under their belts yet, and, despite the confidence boost from high expectations, the team still has a long road ahead.

“One game at a time — that’s really the only thing we need to focus on,” Aston said.

Texas has 10 returning letter-winners this sea-son, including 6-foot-7 junior center Imani Mc-Gee-Stafford, who fouled out in the final minute against Maryland.

Stafford was given pre-season All-Big 12 honors while Atkins was named the Preseason Freshman on the Year.

In addition to the Long-horns’ strong return-ing core, ESPN recently ranked Texas’ recruiting class No. 11, giving Aston more confidence in her team.

“We have experience to go along with some young ones that will bring us a different level of energy and, to say the least, tal-ent,” Aston said.

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7GARRETT CALLAHAN, SPORTS EDITOR | @texansportsFriday, November 7, 2014

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

Karen Aston brings the program back Nearly three years ago,

newly named women’s bas-ketball head coach Karen As-ton sat in front of a room of familiar faces, thanking them for their belief in her and her efforts to make the team a tra-ditional power in the sport.

“My job is to make Texas proud of the women’s bas-ketball program,” Aston said. “I will do everything I can to get Texas where it needs to be again.”

Aston, a Texas associ-ate head coach in charge of recruiting under Hall of Fame coach Jody Conradt from 2000 to 2006, took over a program that had not won a tournament game since 2008.

Aston believed the pro-gram needed a new direction and a change in culture.

“There is work to be done,” Aston said. “I understand that.”

The 2012-2013 season, Aston’s first full season as Texas head coach, ended with the Longhorns finishing at 12-18 overall and eighth place in conference with a 5-13 record.

“Those were the times that were difficult,” Aston said.

Despite the losing season, Aston said the coaches and the players learned how to deal with adversity and grow

as a program.“Last year, that was the

elephant in the room. We were unfamiliar with each other,” Aston said at the 2013 Big 12 Media Day. “I didn’t know the players, and the players didn’t know me. Everyone has bought in now.”

That buy-in for Texas resulted in a 22-12 overall record in the 2013-2014 season — good for third place in the Big 12. As-ton’s philosophy of aggres-sive and competitive play showed as the Longhorns

topped the Big 12 in field goal percentage defense and rebounding margin.

Texas also made the postseason and won its first round game before it lost to Maryland in the next round.

Now, in year three, As-ton and her coaches have a program selected as the pre-season favorite to win the Big 12 and have preseason ranks of No. 9 in the Associated Press Poll and No. 12 in the Coaches Poll.

The coaching staff also signed a top freshmen

recruiting class with for-ward Diani Akigbogun, Gatorade Colorado Girls Basketball Player of the Year; guard Ariel Atkins, Morgan Wootten National Player of the Year; Tasia Foman, a top-25 guard in the class of 2014 by ESPN; and guard Brooke McCar-ty, a top-15 overall recruit by ESPN.

“You can tell the upper-classmen get what Coach [Aston] wants, and they’re just trying to coach and help us through that,” Akins said. “I want to contribute

as much as I can and get them to go as far as they can possibly go. It’s Krystle and Nneka’s senior year, and I look up to them a lot. They deserve it, so just to get as far as we can.”

Reflecting back on the past two years, Aston said she thinks the team has a good blend of players for the first time in three years.

“It feels a little better than it did three years ago when I sat in this chair — a little less nerve-wracking,” Aston said in October. “I’m excited about the season beginning.”

By Jeremy Thomas@JeremyOBThomas

VOLLEYBALL

Longhorns return home, set to battle Kansas State

Daulton Venglar | Daily Texan StaffFreshman libero Cat McCoy is averaging four digs a set on the season and will look to increase that number against No. 22 Kansas State on Friday.

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

By Jacob Martella@ViewFromTheBox

Texas tips-off new season Sunday as favorites to win conference title

By Courtney Norris@courtneyknorris

Griffin Smith | Daily Texan Staff Freshman guard Ariel Atkins looks to help the Longhorns build upon last season when they went 22-12.

extremely grateful for the opportunity that I had and the chance to be on a great team that made it to the Su-per Bowl; it was all a bless-ing,” Sweed said.

Whether injuries or his five drops in 20 targets, Sweed was unable to catch onto another team. Af-ter failed tryouts with the Bears, Bengals and Giants, Sweed looked to Canada.

The Saskatchewan Roughriders signed him, but, before he even played a game, he left for “personal reasons.”

“The media never re-ally knew, but my daughter’s mama had thyroid cancer,”

Sweed said. “That’s why I left Canada. I needed to be there for my family. It was unfortunate, too, because they won the Grey Cup. I would have had the three major championships.”

With that, his playing days ended.

Now, at 29, he roams the hand-drawn, uneven side-lines of the Chapa Middle School football field in Kyle, Texas, a small town less than 30 miles south of Austin.

“I like coaching these knuckleheads,” Sweed said, teasing three of his students that followed him out to the bleachers after school. “I can lead them in the right direction. I’ve been there and know what it takes.”

He’s been there just three

months — his first stint as a coach and teacher — and is still getting used to it.

“The hardest thing is ad-justing to the administration,” Sweed said. “It’s like being a rookie all over again. The coaching part is easy to me.”

But most importantly for Sweed, he gets to be there for his kids.

“I’m at peace here,” Sweed said. “It allows me to see my children as needed and watch them grow up and not miss out on their lives.”

However, Sweed can only look back on what was once such a promising career.

“I can still play, man; I can still play,” Sweed said, mentioning that he can still probably run a 4.47 40. “In-juries, though. Injuries.”

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Varsity rower wins Rhodes Scholarship

Jessica Glennie, varsity rower and architecture senior, became the 29th Texas student and the ninth Texas athlete to be awarded a Rhodes Schol-arship on Thursday.

Glennie will study at the University of Oxford, focusing on environmen-tal policy and change.

“On behalf of the whole Longhorn family, I con-gratulate Jessica on this great honor,” UT President William Powers Jr. said.

—Evan Berkowitz

SPORTS BRIEFLY

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Three years ago, head coach Karen Aston inherited a Texas team that hadn’t won an NCAA tournament game in eight years. Now, her team is ranked No. 9 in the As-sociated Press Preseason Poll.

Texas soccer ready for semifinal matchup

The women’s soccer team will play a semi-final match against No. 9 West Virginia on Friday at 5:30 p.m. in Kansas City, Missouri, after ad-vancing on penalty kicks against No. 10 Texas Tech in the quarterfinal round of the Big 12 tournament.

Texas dropped a 2-0 home contest to West Virginia back in Septem-ber that started an eight-game Mountaineer win-ning streak that shows no signs of stopping.

A confident Texas team will not be able to rely on stout defense alone to up-set the top-seeded team in the Big 12 tournament. The West Virginia offensive machine is averaging 2.37 goals per game, and four Mountaineers have at least five goals on the season.

Fortunately for the Longhorns, junior mid-fielder Chantale Camp-bell has played her best soccer in the Big 12 Championship, notching five points over her career in the tournament, in-cluding a crucial penalty kick against Texas Tech on Wednesday.

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First Aid Kit discusses album, performance

When Johanna and Klara Söderberg of the Swedish folk duo First Aid Kit began planning their current tour, they told their manager they had to find a way to come back to one of their favor-ite cities — Austin. In 2008, the two sisters, at 17 and 15, began touring after their covers of country and indie ballads gained popularity on YouTube. The duo came to America in 2010 after the debut of their first album, The Big Black and the Blue. This summer, the band re-leased its third album, Stay Gold. The Daily Texan spoke with First Aid Kit about their work and their upcoming performance Saturday at Fun Fun Fun Fest.

The Daily Texan: Where did the name ‘First Aid Kit’ come from?

Klara Söderberg: The idea behind it is that music really helps you. That’s what

music did for us when we were younger and still does. It makes you feel less lonely, and that’s what we wanted to do. We wanted to give that gift to people.

DT: What’s it like work-ing with each other?

KS: Horrible. The worst. Johanna Söderberg: Yeah.

We hate each other. KS: No, no — Johanna and

I know each other better than anyone else in the world. It’s a very intimate relationship, and, when we sing, it’s great because we don’t really have to talk to each other. It’s just something that comes so natural to us. It’s just a very, very special thing, and I’m just so lucky to have a sister with such a beautiful voice.

DT: What or who are your music inspirations? Is there anything particular that inspired Stay Gold?

JS: We have so many in-fluences; it’s an endless list.

Fun Fun Fun Fest is upon us again, overtaking Auditorium Shores this weekend with a multitude of headliners and smaller, lesser-known gems ap-pearing at the Black, Blue, Orange and Yellow stages. Here is The Daily Texan’s list of not-to-be-missed shows this year:

Black StageWho: IceageWhen: Saturday at 4:05 p.m.

Iceage, who were origi-nally one of the most

cathartic and noisy post-hardcore bands in re-cent memory, have changed into something much more dynamic with their new-est album, Plowing Into the Field of Love. Infusing stron-ger Gothic influences while incorporating the likes of horns and violins into their music, Iceage forged ahead with a more mature sound. The band was already a force of nature when it performed previously, so it will be in-teresting and well-worth it to see how the set changed to fit Iceage’s new style.

Who: The BotsWhen: Sunday at 12:45 p.m.

Brothers Mikaiah and

Anaiah Lei make up the Los Angeles grunge rock band The Bots, who re-leased their first full-length album, Pink Palms, just last month. New to the music scene, the two produced their first album when they were still in grade school, and they have since performed alongside re-nowned bands, such as the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. The al-bum draws on punk, rock and some blues and folk influences to create a mod-ern and energized garage band sound.

Blue StageWho: Run the JewelsWhen: Friday at 4:15 p.m.

Although technically

only formed in 2013, Run the Jewels have decades of experience behind them. The duo is the coming together of southern hip-hop extraordinaire Killer Mike and New York City mainstay El-P. Together, they make hip-hop that is even more intense, bru-tal and unrelenting than they do on their own. Their latest album, Run the Jewels 2, manages to build on everything they accomplished with their self-titled album from last year. It’s a grimier, crueler and bleaker collection of tracks, with the spitfire in each verse more palatable

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Shweta Gulati | Daily Texan file photoA band performs on the Black Stage at Fun Fun Fun Fest on Nov. 10 last year.