The Dell Foundation promised Tuesday to match donations, dollar for dollar, up to $25 million for the Seton Healthcare Family’s teaching hospital to help cover the remain-ing costs.

The hospital will be lo-cated next to the under-construction Dell Medical School, to which the Foun-dation donated $50 million in 2013. The 211-bed teach-ing hospital is slated to open in 2017 and will cost an estimated $295 million.

Because of Dell Medical School construction, the Uni-versity removed hundreds of “C” parking spots in lots near the Frank Erwin Center and School of Social Work, caus-ing frustration among some commuting students as they returned to campus for the spring semester.

According to UTPD spokes-woman Cindy Posey, Lot 108, south of the Erwin Center, lost approximately 290 spots at the end of the fall semester. All of Lot 80, near the social work building, is being used to con-struct a chilling station for the Dell Medical School complex, Posey said.

“About 200 spaces will be returned to this lot at the completion of the project,” Posey said. “The parking needs when these spaces re-turn will dictate the designa-tion for these spaces, but I am certain that student park-ing will be a part of the mix.”

Austin Hill, mechanical engineering senior, said stu-dents who commute to cam-pus often have difficulty find-ing a place to park.

“Today, I drove around for almost 10 minutes in circles waiting for a spot to open up — along with about five other cars,” Hill said. “And, sometimes when you find a spot, it’s a carpool spot, which I didn’t know was a thing until I got a ticket for it last Thursday.”

Hill said he used to park in Lot 80, but, because of the closure, he now tries to park mainly in Lot 70, just north of the closed-off area. Hill said he does not park in the lots east of I-35 because of how far they are from his

Two UT alumnae are using video game technology to help students better understand math concepts.

Carmen Petrick Smith and Barbara King earned their Ph.D.s from UT in mathemat-ics education. Together, they conducted a study using a Mi-crosoft Kinect sensor, a type of technology used in video games that tracks movement, to examine how students use physical movement to learn math. For the study, Petrick Smith and King had students stand in front of the sen-sor and play a game that re-quired them to analyze angle measurements. The sensor tracked students’ arm move-ments as they created dif-ferent angles, and the screen turned different colors based on the student’ responses. The researchers found that stu-dents who participated in the game better understood the

math concepts.Petrick Smith said she

thinks the hands-on na-ture of the game helps stu-dents better engage with math concepts.

“The classroom can be dominated by a lecture-based instruction model, and it’s hard for students to see that as relevant and for that to be engaging,” Petrick Smith said. “One way [to do that] is through games … to get stu-dents acting out math con-cepts with the Kinect.”

Piyush Khandelwal, computer science graduate student, said a Kinect sen-sor is useful for games in-volving precise movements because it captures the im-age of a room as well as ob-jects in the room relative to that space.

“The sensor on the Kinect makes it easier to process information when com-pared to a regular camera,” Khandelwal said.

Petrick Smith said the

objective of the Kinect game is for the students to develop a better understanding of the classification of geometric angles. Each new level gives them additional information about different types of angles.

King said she thinks using

movement will help students understand more abstract math concepts and make the subject more exciting for them. King said the research-ers want to try to bring the

State legislators in the House and Senate filed identical bills Monday that would allow University students, faculty and staff with proper licenses to carry concealed handguns in campus buildings.

Under current Texas laws, licensed students, faculty and staff at universities are

allowed to keep handguns in cars on campus, but gen-eral “campus carry” is illegal even with a permit.

The two bills, HB937 and SB11, which five represen-tatives and 19 of the 20 Re-publican senators authored, prohibit University officials from creating rules to ban concealed handguns on cam-pus in general. Sen. Kel Seliger (R-Amarillo), an author of

SB11, said the bills give more freedom to independent and private schools because the in-stitutions are not regulated by the state as strictly.

Rep. Allen Fletcher (R-Cypress), primary author of HB937, said the bill would only apply to students over the age of 21 who have completed train-ing and background checks.

“As long as they are concealing their gun as law

requires with a license, we don’t want them to have to unarm themselves to [go to class],” Fletcher said.

Each bill does provide some leeway in certain areas and buildings on campus. According to the bill, admin-istrators could still prohibit concealed handguns in resi-dence halls, university-oper-ated hospitals, sports games and on-campus preschools,

elementary schools and sec-ondary schools. UT currently has an on-campus preschool.

UT spokesman Gary Susswein said it is not clear whether Seton’s planned teaching hospital, made in conjunction to Dell Medical School, will be considered a hospital as defined by the bill. He said it will depend on

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The new hospital will work in affiliation with the medical school, ac-cording to a legal agree-ment between UT, the UT System Board of Re-gents and Seton Health-care Family.

“UT Austin and Seton will also work to expand the healthcare infrastruc-ture, workforce, and ser-vices available to all resi-dents of Central Texas,” the agreement states.

Sen. Kirk Watson (D-Austin) released a state-ment shortly after the an-nouncement in support of the donation.

“Our community’s goal

of transforming health care in Austin and be-yond requires a modern, 21st century teaching hospital,” Watson said. “This generous donation from the Dell Foundation helps us reach that goal.”

Watson said the hospi-tal and the medical school are vital to completing his “10 Goals in 10 Years” plan to improve health care in Central Texas.

“We’re well on our way to accomplishing the 10 goals in 10 years that I laid out in 2011, and the Dell Foundation has proved an invalu-able partner,” Watson said. “It’s exciting to see this much momentum and progress.”

classes. If he can’t find an open spot, Hill said he just pays to park on the streets around campus.

Dennis Delaney, operations manager for Parking and Transportation Services, said there are a sufficient number of empty parking spaces east of I-35.

“Before Lot E was closed on any given day, we had anywhere from 200 to 300 empty spaces on the other side of I-35,” Delaney said. “We’re still finding those locations empty — not as many as before, but there are still empty spaces that can accommodate people with a ‘C’ permit.”

Delaney said the parking services department has sold 2,264 “C” permits and 1,635 “C+” permits over the course of this academic year.

“Basically, we sell as the demand is there, so, if people are asking for them, we’ll sell them,” Delaney said.

English senior Heath-er French said she does not regret purchasing her “C+” permit, but she is still frustrated with her

parking situation.“The PTS site makes it

sound like parking across 35 is an easy option, when, in reality, the bus system is so unreliable that one has to plan a ton of time for taking the bus, which is not a viable alternative,” French said.

The University is building a new parking garage near the site of the new medical school in order to make up for lost spaces, Posey said.

“The garage will have 100-plus spaces, and it will serve the medical school district, including students,” Posey said. “The overall net gain for parking spaces on campus because of the Dell Medical School will be about 600-plus spaces.”

Delaney said the new parking spaces at the medical school garage will be accessible to all students.

“At the medical school, the only people who are prob-ably going to want to park over there are the nursing school students and medi-cal school students, so the demand that’s there from them is what’s going to drive how popular that garage is,” Delaney said.

how the state interprets “hos-pital” — if the bill is passed.

The bills also contain pro-visions that would prevent universities from being liable for the actions of concealed handgun owners.

Sen. Brian Birdwell (R-Grandbury), an author of SB11, said he thinks that al-lowing licensed students to carry concealed handguns on campus will increase safety.

“This bill acts as a deter-

rent, as criminals will no lon-ger be able to assume their victims are unarmed on a college campus,” Birdwell said in an email.

President William Powers Jr. said he would not support campus carry policies at UT.

“I think the general view is there are situations that can be volatile, and — when a gun is present and alcohol is in-volved, or whatever — I think in the aggregate, that’s a dan-gerous situation,” Powers said.

Chancellor William McRaven could not be reached

for comment. However, UT System spokeswoman Jenny LaCoste-Caputo said McRaven does not support campus carry.

“Chancellor McRaven plans to send a letter to Gov. Greg Abbott outlining his thoughts on the issue,” LaCoste-Caputo said.

During the 83rd Legislative Session, Fletcher filed a simi-lar campus carry bill that was passed in the House and the Criminal Justice Committee in the Senate. The bill did not make it to the Senate floor for vote because Sen. Kirk Wat-

son (D-Austin) blocked it.The three-fifths rule

change last week allows a bill to be heard with 19 votes — which corresponds with the 19 senators supporting the bill. Fletcher said that with the current number of sup-

porters, the bill will pass in the Senate. He anticipates it will pass in the House this legislative session as well.

“Things have changed, and I do believe I am going to get a vote in Senate this time,” Fletcher said.

Kinect game into classrooms.“The students were re-

ally excited to be using some-thing that they’re used to playing with at their house or with their friends,” King said. “Now, the biggest thing is thinking about how we could use this activity with a full class.”

Jon Reidel, a commu-nications specialist at the University of Vermont, said Kinect could be a useful tool for teachers.

“The kids like it, and the teachers love it because it helps [students] under-stand,” Reidel said. “It’s just another tool in the teacher’s kit, and it’s going to be very impactful in how we teach students math.”

According to the Institute of International Education, UT ranks second in the nation in number of students studying abroad. The University is also in the top 25 for international student enrollment, with more than 6,000 students enrolled.

“We realize the impor-tance of international and hands-on experience in education,” said Fiona Ma-zurenko, a public affairs spe-cialist at the International Office. “It turns students into global-citizens, and this is important in an increasingly

global marketplace.” UT sends more than 2,800

students to more than 80 countries each year. The des-tinations with the highest enrollment include Spain, France, China, Brazil, South Africa and Australia. Pro-gram lengths range from three weeks to an entire se-mester, and many programs offer internships or are linked to existing classes at the University.

According to Mazurenko, students who study abroad enhance their educational experience, cross-cultural communication skills and personal character.

“Living alone in a foreign country and studying among peers from different nation-alities taught me to adapt, be independent and work with diverse groups of people,” said finance senior Yaffa Meeran, who studied in Paris in spring 2013.

Meeran now serves as a peer advisor for the Interna-tional Office.

“It was cool because you won’t get this opportunity at any other time of your life,” Meeran said. “It was the best decision I made in college.”

Mazurenko said she ad-vises students not to be apprehensive about

studying abroad. “Students have the most

apprehension over the cost and being alone,” Mazurenko said. “It’s scary, but it’s so re-warding. You learn to trust yourself and be prepared for anything.”

According to Mazurenko, the International Office em-phasizes proving flexible and accessible options so that the barriers financial need poses are collapsing. NAFSA: Association of In-ternational Educators re-cently recognized the Inter-national Office for its First Abroad Scholarship, which provides first-generation

college students the oppor-tunity to study abroad by reducing the overall financial cost. English senior Omar Gamboa received the Gilman Scholarship, which is award-ed to undergraduates who otherwise would not be able to study abroad, in 2014 to pay for his summer research-ing literature in Argentina.

“The study abroad office was helpful in presenting students with the numerous financial aid options,” Gam-boa said. “Though, besides merely presenting them to us, they really encouraged students to follow through with applying for them.”

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In a lecture Tuesday, vis-iting Israeli professor Julia Chaitin presented her find-ings on how elderly Israelis near the Gaza Strip cope with violence. Chaitlin, who lives in the area, conducted research in the Eshkol re-gion of Israel after the First Gaza War in 2009.

Despite the violence they faced, many Israelis did not talk about their experiences

during the war, Chaitin said.“We assumed that people

were going to talk about their experiences and how hard it was and what they did to cope,” Chaitin said. “They were just saying that there were so many other adversities in their life that they had faced over the years, that [those memo-ries] didn’t seem to be so strong.”

Chaitin said she was also surprised that the people she interviewed said they

felt more fear in their early days in the country than they do today. Although re-lationships between Israelis and Palestinians have been tense for several decades, especially in the last few years, most interviewees did not refer to Palestinians in a derogatory or adversarial way, Chaitin said.

“They don’t present them as the enemy,” Chai-tin said. “When they talk about them, they talk about them more as when they

first came to settle this area in Israel.”

Chaitin said before the modern state of Israel was established, Israelis and Palestinians would build shared communities. Many Israelis still recognize them-selves as pioneers, Chaitin said.

“They really presented themselves as people, as these pioneers, and that’s who they still are today, that’s how they see them-selves,” Chaitin said.

History freshman Ra-chel Sasiene said she at-tended the lecture to get a more personal view of Israeli history.

“I wanted to get a first-hand perspective on what’s going on,” Sasiene said. “I’ve been to Israel a couple of times. It’s been a really big part of my Jewish identity.“

The Israel Trauma Coali-tion, an organization fo-cused on providing clinical and emergency care in the

Gaza region, funded Chai-tin’s study in the hopes of helping those who have struggled to cope with the ongoing conflict. Accord-ing to Chaitin, these fresh insights from people living in a war-torn zone can help achieve peace.

“We know people’s sto-ries, and then that’s good when you want to make peace so you have bet-ter understanding of how people see things,” Chaitin said.

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This bill acts as a deterrent, as crimi-nals will no longer be able to assume their victims are unarmed on a college campus.

—Brian Birdwell, Sen. (R - Grandbury)

Despite steady rainfalls over the past six months, University researchers have found that Texas is still far from replenishing its groundwater supply, which is depleted because of a drought that began in 2011.

Data gathered from sat-ellites showed that, out of the 76 million acre-feet of water lost during the peak of the drought in 2011, only about 10 percent has been recovered as of No-vember of last year. An acre-foot of water, which equates to about 326,700 gallons of water, covers an acre of land at a depth of one foot.

These drought num-bers are part of a larger project called the Grav-ity Recovery and Climate Experiment, which NASA and DLR — the German national space agency — operate. In 2002, the two space agencies launched twin satellites that use month-by-month grav-ity data to collect statistics about the distribution of water in the earth.

Gordon Wells, a research associate at the Univer-sity’s Center for Space Re-search, said the satellites’ data point to a larger issue with water storage in the state. According to Wells, water supply levels are not where he thought they might be with the recent surge of rain, furthering a notion that the drought is deeply rooted.

“When we go through a big event, like the drought in 2010 and ’11, we may have seen a reduction in our total water stor-age that is so great that it’s going to take a much longer time for that to be restored,” Wells said. “There’s a deeper drought

than we’re observing by simply looking at rain-fall and how healthy the precipitation is.”

Bridget Scanlon, senior research scientist at the Bureau of Economic Ge-ology, said policy makers’ focus on the water budget will play an important role

in getting clearer answers.“It’s crucial that [policy

makers] get this, because we need more state re-sources to monitor data in factors like soil moisture and ground water pump-age to know more about why the water recovery is slow,” Scanlon said.

Sherri Greenberg, a lec-turer at the LBJ School of Public Affairs and for-mer member of the Texas House of Representatives, said she thinks this issue will be a key talking point in the current legislative session.

“[The state] has had

various water plans since the 1990s — we have one now — but it is not wholly funded,” Green-berg said. “This has been a long standing issue. I know that water is on the minds of a lot of people, but clearly funding is the issue.”

There’s a deeper drought than we’re observing by simply looking at rainfall and how healthy the pre-cipitation is.

—Gordon Wells, Research associate

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If you’re a student at UT, either just starting or returning, it’s safe to assume that you’re in-terested in learning valuable skills, preparing for a career and making a name for yourself. If you fit that description and don’t have a multi-million-dollar NFL contract awaiting you, there’s no better place at UT to accomplish all three of those goals than The Daily Texan.

However competent a writer you are before you start at the Texan, your skills will grow more than you ever expected as a result of the job. At the Texan, you’ll learn through practice and example how to quickly produce intelligent, profession-al and compelling work on a deadline. The Texan provides the chance to hone ways of thinking that are different from what you’ll learn in a classroom. You’ll repre-sent something much bigger than yourself alongside some of the most talented and driven members of the UT community, while developing friendships with people who will both encourage and inspire you. The friendships you’ll make while work-ing toward a common goal will likely be some of your strongest.

As an opinion columnist in particular, you’ll have your views read, considered and critiqued by an audience of thousands on one of the nation’s biggest university campuses. You’ll choose your topic so you can find what’s important to you, and you’ll have a space to show the rest of the 40 Acres why your issue of choice should be important to all of us, too. As wide-ranging as your column’s impact can be, the words will be yours to show off, now and

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The Texan began as a weekly publication in 1900 and began publishing twice a week in 1907. In 1913, the student body voted to make the publication daily, and in 1915, the paper became free to the public — a subscription had formerly cost $1.25 per year. Texan staff-ers report not only campus and local news, but also more wide-ranging, historical news, sometimes traveling across Texas — or even the U.S. — for a story. The Texan has thor-oughly covered stories ranging from President John F. Kennedy’s assassination in 1963 to the 2013 fertilizer plant explosion in West. Our first priority is ensuring students remain well-informed of news developments — both local and national — that affect their lives, and as a Texan staffer, you can play an important part in this mission.

Obviously, this is a hiring pitch, but let it also serve as a word to the wise. The Texan is one of the largest and most award-winning student newspapers in America, and Texan staffers go on to great things in a multitude of industries. Many of them can attribute much of their success to their time here. Don’t let the opportunity go to waste.

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On August 1, 1966, a disgruntled student named Charles Whitman climbed to the obser-vation deck of the Tower, unloaded a barrage of weaponry and began shooting at random. He murdered 17 people (and an unborn child) while wounding 31 others in one of the most extreme, abhorrent and memorable acts of vio-lence in this country’s history.

In the nearly fifty years that followed, this massacre still looms large over any discussions to amend state laws governing the possession of firearms on this campus. Currently, holders of concealed handgun licenses may not carry their weapons on campus. We believe this continues to be a good thing, even as the policy looks slat-ed to change. Senate Bill 11, co-sponsored by all but one of the Republicans in the upper house, would rescind this ban.

Carrying a handgun on your hip while walk-ing around Main Mall would not have stopped Whitman. It was only the concerted, valiant efforts of a trio of well-trained Austin Police

Department officers who ended the hellish or-deal. Nor would it have likely stopped the terror caused by Colton Tooley, who in 2010 fired off his assault rifle multiple times in the Perry-Cas-taneda Library before killing himself. Even pro-ponents of the “Guns on Campus” bills concede this point. Instead, they argue that the bill could protect students from would-be attackers in the dead of night.

The only problem with this is that, generally speaking, the people walking around campus in the dead of night are those who live on campus, who are overwhelmingly below 21 (the mini-mum age to receive a CHL). Thus, the ostensi-ble benefit is quite limited. But the drawback — disgruntled students, faculty and visitors during the day — is not.

UT System Chancellor William McRaven recently came out against this misguided pro-posal, just as how former Chancellor Francisco Cigarroa did a few years back. President Wil-liam Powers, Jr. has also been an incessant critic of these bills.

Legislators need to stop grandstanding to gun lobbies and their Tea Party bases at the expense of university students and faculty all around this state. In 2013, when this idea came peril-ously close to passage, a compromise measure was floated that would have allowed university administrations to opt-out of the program. Even at more conservative schools, such as Baylor University, where students recently touted their support of a similar measure, the administrations have unanimously condemned the idea.

This should not come as a surprise. Universi-ties are unique spaces where many different parts of life are brought together and intermixed. Guns simply should not be one of them.

Shweta Gulati| Daily Texan File PhotoCollege of Communications Dean Roderick Hart speaks at the March 2014 meeting of Texas Student Media Board of Operating Trustees. The board oversees five student media entities, including the Texan.

Last March, outgoing Communication Dean Roderick Hart came to a meeting of the Texas Student Media Board of Operating Trustees, which oversees five student media entities, including the Texan, and relayed a message from President William Powers Jr.’s office: Don’t worry.

Worry about our finances, that is. The president’s office, Hart has told us, would give TSM $250,000 a year annually for three years to help stem the hemorrhaging of funds that TSM has experienced in recent years.

We naturally applauded Powers’ largesse, and still do. The emergency funding, we hoped, would see us through the worst and prime us for the best.

But it’s not available in quite the way that

we imagined.The way the funding is set up, it is likely

that TSM won’t see a single penny until this summer. That’s about a year and a half af-ter we were told by Hart that we were being thrown a much-needed lifeline.

We appreciate the help and understand the challenges of securing money, especially in a bureaucracy like UT’s. But the main point here is that the administration doesn’t entirely seem to grasp the severity of our fi-nancial situation.

That’s not to say that they’re ignorant of it — far from it. They’ve seen our financials. Anyone can, they’re public record. But Hart’s comments, as well as others we’ve heard from college officials, just don’t seem to suggest any real motivating urgency on their part.

That puzzles us because there’s no real way of sugarcoating the situation: TSM has been burning through its reserves to stay afloat for the past several years, and without the money from Powers’ office, we’re just about broke. Up-to-date financial information likely won’t be available until around the time of the board’s next meeting Feb. 6, but as of the end of last semester, the situation looked very bleak.

Again, we thank the administration for its offer of help but fear that they might not have fully grasped the severity of the situa-tion. Like most other newspapers, the Texan has recently faced some serious financial hurdles. Only serious solutions will compre-hensively fix them.

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The president’s office, Hart has told us, would give TSM $250,000 a year annually for three years to help stem the hemmorhaging of funds that TSM has experienced in recent years. We naturally applauded Pow-ers’ largesse, and still do.

[The Whitman massacre] still looms large over any discussions to amend state laws governing the possession of firearms on this cam-pus. Currently, holders of [CHLs] may not carry their weapons on campus.

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Rivas-Rodriguez said. “They were treated as Americans for the first time, not just as Mexican-Americans. It gave them the chance to com-pare themselves with other people and let them know their skin color had nothing to do with what they were capable of.”

Maria Sally Salazar, one of the women interviewed for

the VOCES project, served as a Private First Class in the Women’s Army Corp. Her interview was a source inspiration for Martinez’s dissertation. In an interview for the VOCES project, Salazar recounted her expe-rience arriving home after the war.

“To me, it was an expe-rience I would not change for anything in the world because not just anyone can have that,” Salazar said.

“My nightmares are with me, and my dreams are with me.”

Martinez was struck that many of the women, de-spite the difficulties associ-ated with serving, said they would do it all over again.

“Just hearing their strug-gles and knowing that these women made these choices for themselves just fascinat-ed me,” Martinez said. “Ma-ria Sally Salazar used her sister’s birth certificate to

join, and a lot of the wom-en did things like that, too. The fact that these women were determined to do this out of the bounds of the law was amazing.”

Rodriguez and Marti-nez both said, for service-women such as Salazar, the fight did not end when they returned home. Though they served alongside other Americans, they struggled to assert their rights as American citizens.

“A lot of veterans came back home wanting first-class treatment,” Martinez said. “Even in uniform, many of them recounted being denied service. A lot of the Hispanic men were spearheading the fight for their rights, but it’s important to recognize that the women, also as veterans, were a part of that struggle.”

Martinez said she found it crucial to convey the con-tributions of these women

to the future generations of Latinas.

“These women have no idea how important they are,” Martinez said. “That was something I wanted to show them and to show the country. The biggest joys that I’ve had have come from letting these women and their families know the importance of what they did. They’re a part of his-tory. These women will get a book written about them.”

said she gained first hand ex-perience showing her work at a PrintAustin-affiliated gallery Friday.

“I think it’s really good experience for undergrads like me because most of us don’t have any experi-ence with exhibitions or re-ally showing our artwork,” Bair said.

One of PrintAustin’s up-coming events is PrintExpo, where work from local art-ists is sold. Each individual artist involved in the expo designed a handmade origi-nal handkerchief, which will also be for sale. The expo will feature printmak-ing demonstrations. Perrin said she believes the expo is an important platform to help connect artists with their audience.

“We love to support re-gional talent and people who are doing innovative things with printmaking,” Perrin said. “And trying to get connected here in our community — what would be interesting to see here in Austin that’s different

and fresh?” As a student artist with

aspirations to incorporate

printmaking into her port-folio, Shipman said these events encourage her to

keep making art. “The fact that PrintAus-

tin exists proves to me that

as a young student artist, there is a community look-ing out for us,” Shipman

said. “There are a group of people interested in what we’re doing.”

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say it’s too slow, and it is re-ally slow. [But I like] anything that helps get an advantage, like watching film. I can’t play the game, but I can talk the game with just about any-body, and I think that [my emphasis on strategy] helped [the team].”

Cook said finding a

targetable advantage in a player’s performance or an opposing team’s strategy mo-tivated him. The relationships he formed with the players and coaches, however, motivated Cook more. Not long into the internship, Cook began assist-ing coaches with practices. His favorite memory is helping the team make it to the College World Series in 2009.

“We didn’t expect to make

it to the World Series that year, but, once we got there, we were like, ‘Well, we might as well try to win the whole thing,’ and we almost did,” Cook said. “It was a great experience with great friends. I’m trying to follow all of their careers now because every time [one of my players makes it], a part of me goes pro too. And now I’ve gone pro in my own way. But it’s never about me. It’s always about us.”

After working with the team for four years, his peers within the athletic department pushed him to pursue a graduate de-gree in advertising at UT.

During Cook’s time as a graduate student, one of his professors suggested he work for the MLB Network. Cook said he would have turned down the network position if it weren’t for his experience in UT’s baseball program.

Cook began his four-month contract with the MLB Net-work two weeks ago, and he said the learning curve is almost vertical.

“I’m learning a lot on the fly,” Cook said, “But I work with a great bunch of people, and they’re always wanting to help. Being around some of the analysts, former players and Hall of Famers, my base-ball IQ is just going up even

more because of these people that know more about this [game] than anything. And I’m a really curious person, so I ask a lot of questions.” De-spite his challenges, Cook said he attributes his success to his relationships with others more than anything else.

“Talk to everyone; you never know where it will lead,” Cook said. “I got way more than I dreamed of.”

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Against Kansas on Sat-urday, No. 19 Texas took nearly seven minutes to get the ball to the post. How do head coach Rick Barnes and his towering starting lineup go so long without feeding the highly recruited big men?

“Good question. I’ve been asking these guys the same thing,” Barnes said.

It seems simple. With one of the tallest starting lineups in the nation, the Longhorns should be pounding the post hard and often. Among 6-foot-9 junior center Cam Ridley, 6-foot-11 freshman forward Myles Turner and 6-foot-8 senior forward Jona-than Holmes, the Longhorns shouldn’t be worried about getting the ball down low, but about which one of their big men is going to score when they do.

“They’re huge,” Kansas sharpshooter Brannen Greene said after a 75-62 win Satur-day. “They start like 21 feet of big men.”

Having a game plan and ex-

ecuting one are two different things, as Barnes has learned lately. He knows Texas needs to have more of an inside-out game. He’s enforcing it in practices. But he’s “baffled” as to why his players won’t do it in games.

“We’re one of the big-gest teams in the country,” Holmes said. “I don’t think we take advantage of it like we should.”

In a pair of recent losses, the Texas offense looked lost and confused. They aren’t in the top 100 in points per game. They aren’t in the top 150 in field goal percentage.

“We’re not quite sure of our identity,” Barnes admitted.

More than midway through the season, that’s not ideal.

But for the first time in a while, Texas final-ly started looking to the post with a purpose Mon-day night. Turner got in a groove to give Texas an early boost. But as the game got away from the Long-horns, naturally, so did the inside-out game.

There are more advantages

to working the ball down low than just points in the paint. It would open up many other opportunities, as many teams are prepared to double be-cause of the height difference. Double teams down low could open up easier outside shots or lead to open drives for the guards.

Instead, the Longhorns have relied on shots from be-hind the arc, where — despite a 10-for-15 second half per-formance Monday — they are still shooting just .325 in conference play.

“I’m disappointed in the fact we settled for so many jump shots,” Barnes said.

With the Big 12 title hopes quickly evaporating, the play-ers are starting to finally real-ize how costly their poor shot selection is, and they are ready to make adjustments.

“I got to do a better job of feeding the post,” sophomore guard Isaiah Taylor said.

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Longhorns ignore big men on campusBy Evan Berkowitz

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Texas is no stranger to tough opponents.

Last season, the Long-horns made the six-hour trip to Lafeyette, Louisiana, for the regional round of the NCAA tournament to face the Ragin’ Cajuns, who had a decisive home-field ad-vantage. And with that ad-vantage, Louisiana-Lafeyette ended Texas’ postseason run early.

In order to score the home-field advantage for the first round of the postseason, the No. 25 Longhorns are going to have to pull out some big wins against quality opponents in their non-conference schedule.

For the second straight year,

Texas will open up the season on the road, heading west to play in the Kajikawa Classic in Tempe, Arizona, next week-end. There, the Longhorns will square off against No. 2 Oregon and No. 16 Arizona State as well as Northwest-ern and Stanford, who each received votes in a preseason coach’s poll.

Later in February, Texas will face No. 12 Georgia, No. 7 UCLA, No. 17 Missouri and No. 22 Notre Dame at the Mary Nutter Collegiate Classic in California.

The key for the Long-horns in these tough pre-season tournaments will be putting up good perfor-mances against Women’s College World Series con-tenders. They will need to come away with a few impressive wins to show the

committee they deserve to be one of the top-16 seed-ed teams to open at their home field.

The difficult schedule away from Austin also gives Texas a chance to boost its RPI, a calculation that many NCAA postseason selection committees use to determine seedings. Following Texas’ loss to Louisiana-Lafayette last year, head coach Con-nie Clark said the defeat proved the importance of RPI, especially to the younger players on the team.

“It motivates you to re-ally understand the RPI and really understand what it’s about to work your tail off to be in the top 16,” Clark said.

Of course, winning these non-conference games is eas-ier said than done. Oregon is

coming off a near miss at the title a year ago, after falling one game short of the final. Georgia and UCLA each have something to prove this year after being upset on home turf in the Super Regionals last year.

But even picking up two or three wins against ranked

opponents could make a dif-ference in determining the host teams for the NCAA tournament. And it will be important to pick up those wins in the non-conference schedule because once con-ference play begins, it will be hard to pick up those quality wins in the Big 12.

Nonconference season important in rebound yearSOFTBALL | COLUMN

Once upon a time, Barnes’ Longhorns weren’t the de-fense-first kind of team they are now and, instead, relied on a fast-paced, high-scoring offense. The strategy worked and produced results unprec-edented for the Longhorn basketball program.

Over a seven-season span from 2002-2008, the Long-horns danced into the NCAA tournament’s second weekend five times — nearly doubling their all-time Sweet 16 ap-pearances from before 2002. The five trips to the round of 16 included three to the Elite Eight, as well as Texas’ first and only Final Four appearance since 1947.

During that stretch, Texas’ lowest scoring rank was 55th in the country in the 2007-2008 season — still higher than it has ranked since 2011-2012.

That team also played some

pretty good defense, rank-ing 82nd in the country in points allowed per game. This balance on both sides of the court earned Texas a No. 2 seed and set them up for a run into the Elite Eight.

Since that season, however, the Longhorns have often failed to get both sides of their games together.

Following the departure of point guard D.J. Augustin, the Longhorns saw a bit of a drop-off in scoring, but, more importantly, they lost the team’s playmaker, who car-ried them to a school-record 31 wins in one season.

The 2009-2010 Longhorns finished the season ranked sixth in scoring per game but were awful defensively — ranking 216th in points allowed per game. The team collapsed, finishing the year 24-10 after starting 17-0.

2010-2011 featured a mix-ture of offense and defense, but that balance was not enough to overcome the poor fun-

damentals and slew of errors that led to an early exit from the tournament.

Both the 2011-2012 and 2012-2013 teams struggled defensively, dropping a handful of close contests in the process.

Last season’s team won many games it was not ex-pected to win, but it ultimate-ly struggled on both offense and defense, ranking outside the top 100 in both points scored and points allowed per 100 possessions.

This season’s team is statis-tically the best defensive team Barnes has ever had on the 40 Acres, allowing fewer than 59 points per game — the lowest in his tenure.

Without a strong offen-sive presence the past two seasons, the Longhorns’ per-formance on the defensive end has been the deciding factor. Texas is 31-1 when it holds opponents to less than 40-percent shooting from the field, while it’s only 7-16 when

opposing teams break that 40-percent mark.

This season, Texas has al-lowed seven of its last nine opponents to shoot 40 per-cent or better from the field, resulting in five losses. This streak comes after Texas held its first 11 opponents below that mark. In the last 11 games, eight Longhorn opponents scored 60 points

or more, which began af-ter Texas gave up 60 points only to Kentucky in its first nine games.

Texas still has the defen-sive prowess to turn the sea-son around, but, because of its inability to score — 112th in points per game nation-ally — there is tremendous pressure on that side of the ball.

Offensive struggles not the norm in Barnes’ tenureBy Drew Lieberman

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Jenna VonHofe | Daily Texan file photoJunior guard Demarcus Holland has been one of the Long-horns’ best defender. Offense is a different story, however.

Shelby Tauber | Daily Texan file photoWhen freshman Myles Turner gets the ball in the post, he is dangerous. However, this season, Texas has struggled to feed the post, as its offensive woes continue.

Jenna VonHofeDaily Texan file photo

Junior infielder Stephanie Ceo will

be an important cog for the Long-

horns’ offense as they look to

bounce back from an early exit in the 2014 postseason.

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The Atlanta Tipoff Club on Tuesday named Texas signees Lashann Higgs, from Round Rock, and Jordan Hosey, from Pearland, to the Naismith Trophy mid-season watch list for High School Player of the Year.

The announcement named the 15 best high school players in the nation.

The duo highlights a recruiting class that ESPN ranked as No. 5.

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Softball debuts in preseason top 25

For the 12th time in 13 years, Texas ap-peared in the preseason ESPN.com/USA Softball collegiate ranking, coming in at No. 25.

Texas will face eight teams from in the top 25 this season — No. 2 Oregon, No. 3 Oklahoma, No. 6 UCLA, No. 10 Georgia, No. 11 Bay-lor, No. 16 Arizona State, No. 17 Missouri and No. 21 Notre Dame.

The Longhorns will kick off their season Feb. 6 at the Kajikawa Classic in Tempe, Arizona.

—Evan Berkowitz

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From the Topo Chico bottle sitting on the kitch-en counter to the Rolling Stones T-shirt at the bottom of a laundry basket, famil-iar prints-turned-brands are easy to overlook. UT alumna Elvia Perrin and her business partner Cathy Savage are try-ing to change that — for the two of them, prints serve as a source of inspiration and income.

“So much of the artist goes into making prints — each one is made by hand, each one takes time, each one is specifically unique — and so

there’s a lot of love and pa-tience and a part of yourself that goes into each and every print,” Perrin said.

The printmaking process includes engraving, etching and serigraphy — a process more commonly known as silkscreening. Alhough the practice requires great tech-nical skill, Perrin said print-making constantly evolves as a medium, so no two prints are the same.

Two years ago, Perrin and Savage decided to bring the world of printmaking to the Austin art scene. After countless gallery visits and intensive planning, the art-ists saw their vision come

to fruition in the form of PrintAustin. PrintAustin is a month-long printmak-ing festival that features over 80 events including exhibits, workshops and demos in creative spaces throughout Austin.

Studio art sophomore Jessilee Shipman has at-tended PrintAustin since its inception. She said Print-Austin events exposed her to an inclusive com-munity that encourages young artists.

“I was so impressed to see how extensive [the fes-tival] was,” Shipman said. “It included every type of artist, demos, workshops,

everything — students, professionals, big galleries, small galleries.”

Shipman, who has worked at the Art Store at the Co-op since her first semester at UT, said the store receives an increasing number of calls

regarding printmaking sup-plies during PrintAustin.

The Co-op will be sell-ing art supplies during the festival.

In addition to work-ing with Austin business-es, PrintAustin provides

opportunities for students to display their prints in pro-fessional settings. For $100, artists can reserve a table at the festival to sell their work. Studio art senior Toni Bair

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KAT SAMPSON, LIFE&ARTS EDITOR | @thedailytexan 8Wednesday, January 28, 2015

CAMPUS

Grad student researches WWII Hispanic female vetsHistory graduate stu-

dent Valerie Martinez has read scores of books about WWII but only a few chapters about the subject of her dissertation — the conflict’s Hispanic servicewomen.

“There was a lot of great material available on the Hispanic men who served in World War II, but there were only chapters here and there that spoke to the servicewomen,” Martinez said. “They deserve to be honored in more than just a chapter.”

Martinez placed ads in local newspapers, trav-eled across the country and sent out over 400 letters to Latino veterans in the hopes of determining the whereabouts of the service-women. Although it took almost a year-and-a-half for her searches to yield any results, Martinez wasn’t discouraged. Martinez met with a number of Latino servicewomen, and even-tually turned to UT jour-nalism professor Maggie

Rivas-Rodriguez’s VOCES Oral History Project as a source for additional infor-

mation. Rivas-Rodriguez’s project interviews Hispanic war veterans and records

their stories to preserve the triumphs and struggles of the contributors.

“A lot of these people who had grown up in segregated communities are thrown

in with the general popu-lation in World War II,”

By Cat Cardenas@crcardenas8

ART

PrintAustin uncovers mysterious world of printmakingBy Mary Cantrell

@mkcant

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ALUMNI

Alumnus joins big leagues after UTBy Claire Smith

@claireysmith

The hardest part about sports for UT alumnus Geoff Cook is his permanent position on the sidelines.

Born with cerebral palsy, Cook spent his childhood in a wheelchair. Until he moved to Texas for an internship with the UT baseball team in 2009, he had never lived outside New York. Five years later, Cook moved to Secau-cus, New Jersey, to work as a media relations freelance co-ordinator for the Major League Baseball Network.

“[I live] right on the other side of the river from New York City,” Cook said. “I’m so close I can tell you the color of the Em-pire State Building.”

But Cook’s view was not always so favorable. From kin-dergarten to his high school graduation, Cook went to school with only four other stu-dents who had developmental disabilities. As an escape from the structure of the specialized classroom environment, Cook spent a considerable amount of time with his brother and grandfather watching baseball.

“I love a lot of sports just about equally,” Cook said. “But

baseball was the one sport where I felt — for lack of a better word — normal. Go-ing to the baseball field has al-ways been a kind of sanctuary for me.”

Cook quickly learned that the structure he once loathed in the classroom was the reason he loved baseball. When Cook landed an internship with the UT baseball team in 2009, which required him to watch hours of game footage, he was in his element.

“The strategy of baseball is awesome,” Cook said. “People

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UT history gradu-ate student Valerie Martinez has spent the last two years researching for her dissertation, which focuses on Hispanic servicewomen in World War II. Seeing that there was an ex-tensive amount of material on the Hispanic men who served in the war, Martinez chose to focus her dissertation on the service-women and their achievements.