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Legislators recognize ‘Chris Kyle Day’ APD begins to enforce hands-free ordinanceGov. Greg Abbott declared
Feb. 2 “Chris Kyle Day” in Texas to honor the decorated ex-Navy SEAL sniper killed last February. Abbott and legislators gathered at the Capitol on Monday to sign the proclamation honoring Kyle and other soldiers.
Kyle is a hero, Abbott said, and should be honored for his service to the country.
“[Heroes are people] who take risks and suffer
consequences most Ameri-cans cannot comprehend, but which all Americans should deeply honor,” Abbott said.
Marine Corps veteran Eddie Ray Routh shot and killed Kyle and his friend Chad Littlefield in February 2013 at a shooting range in Erath County, Texas. Kyle, who had 160 confirmed kills throughout his four tours in Iraq, was honorably dis-charged in 2009.
The film “American Snip-er” recounts Kyle’s life and is nominated for Best Picture
at the Academy Awards.Kyle is just one of many vet-
erans worth honoring, accord-ing to Abbott.
“We have so many of those heroes from here in the state of Texas,” Abbott said. “One of them we are naming this day after, Chris Kyle, but as Chris himself would tell you, he’s one of a band of brothers and sisters who fought side by side for the greatest country in the history of the world.”
This is not the first time the Texas legislature has addressed
Kyle’s service in Iraq. Legisla-tors passed The “Chris Kyle Bill” during the 83rd legislative session in 2013. The bill re-quires that military experi-ence, such as Kyle’s, be recog-nized on occupational licenses — making it easier for veterans to find jobs.
Daniel Hamilton, inter-national relations and global studies junior and Marine veteran, said he hopes the day will help civilians re-member that people in the military are fighting for ci-vilians’ everyday freedoms.
“The things we have aren’t just here because we woke up and got them this way,” said Hamilton, who served in both Iraq and Afghanistan. “They are here because a lot of young men and women have done an extraordinary thing with their life.”
Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick said he supports Abbott in mak-ing Feb. 2 “Chris Kyle Day.”
“I appreciate his efforts to recognize this Ameri-can and Texas hero whose
By Eleanor Dearman@ellydearman
Jan. 1, a City of Austin ordinance declared Austin hands free, prohibiting the use of hand-held devices while driving or biking. After a 30-day grace pe-riod which ended Sunday, Austin Police Department can now issue citations for violations of the hands-free ordinance.
“Luckily, we’re a safe city, but we want to be safer in traffic-related in-cidents,” Austin Police De-partment Commander Art Fortune said.
APD reported 10 fatal traffic-related accidents in the month of January, an increase from two fatalities last January. Fortune said mobile phone use caused two of the 10 traffic acci-dents so far this year.
The police department announced a safety initia-tive for the month of Febru-ary, which directs officers to focus on violations of the hands-free ordinance. People who violate the or-dinance can receive up to a $500 fine.
Campus police will still not give citations to viola-tors on campus, UTPD of-ficer William Pieper said.
“Because it’s a city ordi-nance, and the University of Texas is state property, the city ordinance doesn’t apply,” Piper said. “Since it is within the city limits of Austin, we could stop peo-ple, but I don’t venture we’d be issuing citations on cam-pus. Our hope is that stu-dents understand the spirit behind that law.”
Beyond Campus, people should expect citations now that the grace period is over, Fortune said. This does not mean every violator will re-ceive a $500 fine, however.
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MSA shares culture on World Hijab Day
Students of all races, gen-ders, cultures and religions tried on hijabs — tradi-tional headscarves worn by Muslim women — for an event the Muslim Students’ Association (MSA) held Monday to celebrate World Hijab Day.
World Hijab Day was on Sunday, but the MSA delayed its event to better engage the UT community in raising awareness about Muslim customs. MSA stu-dents were available to pro-vide information about the culture and set up a table filled with a row of hijabs for students to try on.
“There are so many peo-ple on campus who wear one, and I think it’s really important to see who these people are, why they wear it, why it empowers them and what it means to them,” said Maryam Siddiqui, MSA outreach director and Middle Eastern studies and Arabic junior.
It is a common miscon-ception that women are told they have to wear hijab, ac-cording to Siddiqui, who said she wears hijab to ex-press her religion and finds the garment empowering.
“I wear hijab because it was solely my decision,” Siddiqui said. “No one asked me to wear it. The hijab is a way for me to get closer to God.”
Wearing hijab creates a community among oth-er Muslim women, said
Rawand Abdelghani, MSA president and psychology junior, who has worn hijab daily for almost a year.
“It’s been a really good ex-perience,” Abdelghani said. “Walking around campus, if you see someone else wear-ing hijab, even if you don’t
know them, there’s a little bond in a way. You say hi or you say salaam.”
While Muslim men do not wear the garment, Usa-ma Malik, MSA vice presi-dent and governor senior, said they are expected to be equally modest. Malik
said the hijab is more than a headscarf. It also repre-sents respectful interactions between genders. MSA will host an event Friday dis-cussing this in depth called “How men wear the hijab.”
Carlo Nasisse | Daily Texan StaffFrom left to right, Business freshman Subah Ahmed and neuroscience freshman Khadija Saifullah help undeclared sopho-more Charlotte Friend put on a hijab. The Musim Student Association held an event Monday celebrating World Hijab Day.
By Eleanor Dearman@ellydearman
In order for startup ideas to become a reality, entre-preneurs need a strong foundation, according to Tony Ayaz — serial entre-preneur and chief revenue officer of Founder.org — who visited the University on Monday to discuss key components of building a billion-dollar company.
Founder.org is a com-pany that invests in student entrepreneurs around the world to help them build companies. Ayaz said the company looks for ideas and startup teams it feels it can work with.
In a speech Thursday, af-ter receiving the David Starr Jordan Prize, integrative bi-ology professor Dan Bolnick said he believes his research has the potential to help other scientists learn more about how genetic varia-tions increase the surviv-ability of a species.
Bolnick received the award as recognition for his work studying the evolution of sticklebacks — a type of fish found in the Northern Hemisphere as far north as the Arctic Ocean — and other organisms. Professors from Cornell, Stanford and
Indiana University created the award to honor young scientists in biology whose research has the potential to impact the field in an inno-vative way.
Bolnick’s research found a relationship between genetic variability and survivability of a species.
“Are less variable popu-lations more prone to ex-tinction?” Bolnick said. “It turns out, they are. We can create more geneti-cally variable populations — track [fruit flies] for 25 generations and see that less variable populations go extinct more often than Pual Horstman | Daily Texan Staff
Tony Ayaz, chief revenue officer of Founder.org and serial entrepreneur, discusses his eight se-crets to building a successful startup company at the Liberal Arts Building on Monday evening.
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bravery, courage and ulti-mate sacrifice reminds us all that our freedom has a price,” Patrick said.
The Arab Students As-sociation declined to com-ment on Abbott’s declara-tion of Chris Kyle Day.
Although Hamilton said he does not think every-thing Kyle did was moral or representative of veterans as a whole, he said it is danger-ous to judge someone’s ac-tions when they were in a war and are not here to de-fend themselves.
“I understand the kind
of conflicts people are hav-ing about the things that he said and the things that he did, but anything in war is not going to be clean-cut,” Hamilton said.
Jeremiah Gunderson, co-ordinator of student veteran services, said, regardless of the political controversy sur-rounding Kyle, he and the veteran services center are
glad there is a day recogniz-ing the efforts of veterans.
“I know there have been issues and controversy about him,” Gunderson said. “But for us, any time that we can emphasize the sacrifices of veterans and bring to life some of the issues that were seen in the movie as far as PTSD, we try to emphasize on that.”
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[Heroes are people] who take risks and suffer consequences most Americans cannot comprehend, but which all Americans should deeply honor.
—Greg Abbott, Governor
“Officers can still use dis-cretion and can still write a warning,” Fortune said. “As officers, we understand this is a new law, and we want voluntary compliance.”
APD also plans to col-lect data on the number of people who violate the ordinance and will ad-just the distribution of their officers if they no-tice more violations in a particular area, according to Fortune
“Data drives intelligent policing now,” Fortune said. “You look at the data and for-mulate strategies on where to put your resources.”
Accounting junior Lauren Saunders said she under-stands the reason the law is in place but thinks the city should not have banned all mobile-device use.
“I would most likely keep it as a ‘no-texting’ ordi-nance,” Saunders said. “I do understand that hold-
ing a phone while driv-ing can be distracting. My biggest problem with the ordinance is the fact that it prevents drivers from hold-ing their phone to use it as a GPS.”
Paul Khermouch, com-puter science and electri-cal engineering junior, is a member of the Longhorn Bike Coalition, an organiza-tion dedicated to educating students about bike safety. Khermouch said the ordi-nance may not be enough to prevent traffic accidents.
“Even if you’re using a hands-free phone while driving or biking, it is defi-nitely distracting you and making you less aware of what’s happening around the road around you,” Kher-mouch said. “This is going to help improve safety for bicyclists and pedestrians and drivers, but it’s not the final step in achieving a safer environment.”
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Team Roden Analytics, a group of engineering students interested in entrepreneurship, is a competing finalist in the global British Petroleum Ulti-mate Field Trip competition in Houston in April.
BP hosts the competition each year to engage with college students who may be interested in the oil and gas industry. UT students have reached the UFT national level the last two years, but none have yet to win the grand prize, an exclusive trip to Trinidad and Tobago.
Malvika Gupta, biomedi-cal engineering junior and Roden Analytics team mem-ber, said she has already learned a lot from the com-petition, and she is glad her team has been exposed to the oil and gas industry.
“There will be teams from six other universities, includ-ing MIT, Penn State, Rice, A&M, University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign and the University of Oklahoma,” Gupta said. “Every team had to have a pretty great idea for them to have gotten this far, so it’s really hard to tell who our biggest competitor will be.”
The competition began with a quiz designed to test the stu-dents’ knowledge of oil and gas. Students were then tasked with creating a workable so-lution for a realistic problem confronting those working in the oil and gas industry.
This year’s challenge in-volved creating a solution that would reduce surplus water produced from routine opera-tions in an oil or gas plant and find an efficient use for that water. Teams then present their plans to three BP judges. The winning teams continued as fi-nalists to the national competi-tion in Houston.
The competition gives stu-dents an opportunity to gain real-world experience, accord-ing to Jason Terrell, a talent ac-quisition manager at BP.
“[The goal is] to provide stu-dents an opportunity to explore the industry, while, at the same time, enabling students to em-brace new and exciting ideas head-on,” Terrell said.
College students from the U.S., the U.K., Canada and An-gola participate in UFT, and winners from each country are selected to go on the two-week grand prize trip, where they are exposed to the mechanics of a BP operation.
Julia Harvie-Liddel, head of resourcing at BP, said she hopes UFT helps students start learning about the oil and gas industry and get a head start on their careers.
“We hope that this will give students a real insight into our industry and show them a career in oil in gas is a platform from which they can make a real difference,” Harvie-Liddel said.
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“We don’t have any gar-ment that we put on, but we observe other practices such as respecting women — we avert our gaze,” Malik said.
Undeclared sophomore Charlotte Friend said she was interested in trying one on herself at UT’s World Hi-jab Day after seeing a video of women trying on hijabs in New York.
“It was really interesting, [but] nothing like wear-ing it all day,” Friend said. “I felt more connected with the girls who were wearing hijabs, obviously for reli-gious reasons. I just felt like I could respect their culture more because I knew more about it and could experi-ence it firsthand.”
People experience preju-dice worldwide for wearing a hijab, according to Siddiqui, but she said she hasn’t faced much prejudice while wear-ing her hijab on campus. Siddiqui said she believes it is important to educate peo-ple about what it means to
wear a hijab and about Islam as a whole to avoid conflicts, such as those that happened at Texas Muslim Capitol Day last week, when state Rep. Molly White asked Muslims to publicly pledge allegiance to American law.
“I think what happened at the Capitol was a really great thing because no one really knew that Muslim Capitol Day was that day until a bunch of these protesters came out,” Siddiqui said. “It created a dialogue, which I think is so important.”
Events such as these are a small way to educate people about Islam and hopefully prevent protests at events, such as Texas Muslim Capi-tol Day in the future, Abdel-ghani said.
“We may not get all of UT to come out, but I think the people we do get to stop at the table — that’s one more person who knows, so that person can educate someone else,” Abdelghani said. “It’s kind of like a domino effect.”
genetically diverse ones.”Variations within popu-
lations of organisms, such as fruit flies and flower beetles, have occurred as a result of genetic mutations, according to Bolnick. He said he chose to study fruit flies because they have short life cycles and tend to have many genetic mu-tations, which make them easier to study.
Bolnick also studied the evolution of the host-par-asite relationship between sticklebacks and tape-worms, according to his lab
technician Kum Shim.“[Bolnick] was study-
ing some populations in Vancouver Island,” Shim said. “He found that some of the lakes had fishes with tapeworms, and some lakes didn’t have any.”
According to Shim, Bol-nick studied how the stick-lebacks acquired genetic mutations that made them more resistant to the tape-worm parasites.
“Generally, we’re inter-ested in the processes that give rise to variation be-tween individuals,” Bolnick said. “We want to know, as a lab, why within a species individuals are different
from each other, and that requires an understanding of the genetics, individual differences, as well as how those individual differ-ences are functioning in a natural setting.”
According to Peter Wain-wright, a professor of evolu-tion and ecology at the Uni-versity of California-Davis, Bolnick’s experience in a number of different fields of biology is what sets him apart from other scientists.
“He is an ecologist with a remarkable ability to integrate across specia-tion, microevolution, ge-netics and immunology,” Wainwright said.
“We have our operational, financial focus that helps you develop a five-year busi-ness plan with very concrete details,” Ayaz said.
The two key components startups should think about are the startup team and the customers, according to Ayaz.
“Those things are really gonna make it,” Ayaz said. “The technology will even-tually come together, but [the company] won’t come together without the right team and customers that want to buy it.”
UT computer science stu-dents — senior Sidhant Sri-kumar and recent graduates Michael Pfister and Ai Liu — founded the startup hard-ware company Noki, which is part of Founder.org’s class of 2015.
Noki is building a wear-able device that slips over people’s hands to allow them to type without an actual keyboard, according to Pfister.
“We’re [trying] to make typing [become] on-the-go and more productive,” Pfister said.
The Noki cofounders said they believe their involve-ment with student out-reach companies provided their startup with access to
helpful resources. “With entrepreneurship,
you have to do a hundred different things — you have to be good at selling, re-cruiting talent and manag-ing projects,” Srikumar said. “They just don’t teach you that at school.”
Top UT teams pitched their startup companies and received personalized feed-back at the event Monday night. Among the students who pitched ideas was Mitch Chaiet, a radio-television-film freshman in Founder.org’s Launchpad program. He presented ConcertCam, a program that enhances video from professionally recorded audio.
“[ConcertCam] allows you to enhance your con-cert experience,” Chaiet said. “Once we get a lot of people on board, you’ll be able to take a video at a con-cert and have something you can actually watch.”
Ayaz said he was im-pressed with the startup pitches from students.
“We’re finding student entrepreneurs are com-ing up with crazy, disrup-tive ideas but are lacking the execution,” Ayaz said. “We try to provide them with the other elements to be successful.”
Mormon settlers in the late 19th century played a significant role in the colonization of indigenous land, according to Erika Bsumek, author and history associate professor.
In a lecture Monday, Bsumek talked about the his-tory of Western American Indian tribes and Mormon settlement and discussed her upcoming book, “Damming Zion: Mormons, Indians and the Transformation of the Colorado Plateau.”
Mormons in the mid to late 1800s settled in the West to create their own Zion, or religious homeland, accord-ing to Bsumek. While Mor-mons settled with the inten-tion of being good stewards of the land, Bsmumek said American Indians faced neg-ative consequences.
“[Mormons] went there to create a better life for themselves, but their settle-ment patterns disrupted the indigenous communities,” Bsumek said.
According to Bsumek, Mormons often used the American Indian popula-tions as a kind of buffer zone to protect themselves against non-Mormon persecutors. They cut down trees, hunted wildlife and created irrigation systems that took natural re-sources away from the Amer-ican Indians, Bsumek said.
History professor Seth
Garfield said the book pres-ents a new perspective on conflict between the two groups that is not usually seen in history books.
“It’s a fascinating paper,” Garfield said. “The chapter provokes an interesting dis-cussion regarding the his-tory of environmental and intercultural conflict in the American West.”
Mormon attitudes toward American Indians ranged
from “friendly to hostile,” Bsumek said, and Mormon settlers believed it to be their duty to convert Native Americans to their religion. Mormon settlers not only impacted the landscape and environment, according to Bsumek, but also intensified the separation between in-digenous communities.
“The Mormons and Indi-ans traded on and off upon the arrival of the Mormons in
the Utah territory,” Bsumek said. “As the Mormons got more populous and power-ful, trade relationships be-came increasingly uneven.”
Jason Chang, assistant professor of history and Asian American studies at the University of Connecti-cut and former UT lecturer, said Bsumek’s research into American Indian-Mormon relationships applies to his own field of study. He said
the information Bsumek presented at the lecture gave him insight into the relation-ships between settlers and indigenous peoples.
“Her research into Indian-Mormon relationships paints a much more complicated picture, and understanding this conflict helps us under-stand how the United States maintained irrigation and water management infra-structure,” Chang said.
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Yizhou Ma | Daily Texan StaffHistory associate professor Erika Bsumek speaks at Garrison Hall on Monday afternoon. Bsumek spoke about her upcom-ing book, “Damming Zion: Mormons, Indians and the Transformation of the Colorado Plateau.”
Photo courtesy of The Bolnick LabIntegrative biology professor Dan Bolnick received the David Starr Jordan Prize for his work on how genetic variations increase the survivability of a species.
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On Monday, the Texan reported that the University will participate in a com-prehensive study by the Association of American Universities (AAU) to measure the prevalence of sexual assault on cam-pus. On principle, this decision is a good one, as those of us on campus should know the extent of this horrendous epidemic predominantly affecting young women. Last year, when the federal government released a bombshell report indicting 85 colleges for doing far too little about this issue, UT Austin was not included (though UT Pan American, one of our sister schools, did make the list). Still, the extent of this problem on the 40 Acres needs to be measured in an accurate and compre-hensive way.
Accordingly, we believe the AAU sur-vey is not the correct way to do just that. Already, a majority of the member uni-versities of this organization have opted out of the survey, which cost an enor-mous $87,500, because of concerns over its implementation. These have mainly included the alleged lack of experience in dealing with sexual assault on the part of the researchers undergoing this project. The Texan article noted that critics point to only two experienced members of the advisory committee.
However, perhaps more importantly, we have concerns with the lack of indi-viduality required in the AAU survey. The organization will allow for very limited customization from university to univer-sity when it comes to the actual content of the survey. Accordingly, in response to criticisms, the University announced that — most likely by the end of this year — it would commission their own compre-hensive survey. This one, with a price tag to be determined, would focus far more substantially on the complex nuances of this campus in particular. We think this survey will provide far more helpful and eye-opening data on the plague of sexual assault around campus.
All this begs the question of, in that case, why the AAU survey is needed in the first place. UT spokesman Gary Susswein was confident, however, that there was “no downside in doing the [AAU] survey.” We disagree.
The University should take the small fortune required to implement the AAU survey and instead invest that money in its own survey. That way, instead of two
watered-down products that only tell part of the story, perhaps the University will be able to gauge a more comprehensive and accurate overview of the prevalence of sexual assault here.
Sexual assault is a terrible problem at universities across this country, includ-ing this one. A great deal of actions needs to be taken to address it, which includes accurately gauging its prevalence on cam-pus. The best way to do that is by a unique, comprehensive study, not a derided cook-ie-cutter method being implemented around the country.
Like a lot of my peers, I don’t enjoy get-ting up early, I do enjoy watching videos on the Internet, and I have the attention span of a campus squirrel. And so, like a lot of my peers, I often find myself wondering why UT doesn’t offer more “flipped classroom” cours-es, especially when I’m trudging toward the RLM at 7:45 on a Monday morning.
In a flipped classroom, professors post lectures online, which students watch before coming into class to discuss the material and solve challenging problems. In their more extreme iterations, flipped classrooms don’t include a classroom at all, giving students access to all lectures and assessments with-out requiring them to put on pants.
With tuition costs rising across the country and the UT System Board of Re-gents hell-bent on keeping Texas public schools at least somewhat affordable, on-line or flipped courses could provide an av-enue for scaling back on some unnecessary classes. For instance, calculus lecture halls could be easily replaced by a single online course supplemented by in-person TA ses-sions, given that the math department of-fers a standardized assessment for all cal-culus students anyway. There’s already a precedent for that sort of system at UT in the form of the introductory government course, GOV 310L. And as far as I know, there are no complaints alleging that the online version of the class has led to a no-ticeable drop-off in the average student’s knowledge of the Constitution.
There’s also no grounding to the argu-ment that lecturing online makes professors seem remote and inaccessible. That strikes me more as a shortcoming of individual lecturers than an indictment of the system
as a whole. I’ve been in classes with 250 stu-dents that felt intimate and engaging, and I’ve been in tiny seminars whose profes-sors would’ve failed the Turing test. A good teacher is a good teacher, regardless of how they convey their message. Steve Ballmer’s TED talks would be just as compelling in person, and Ben Stein’s economics lecture in "Ferris Bueller’s Day Off " wouldn’t have kept anyone awake even if it were offered on You-Tube — unless students were bored enough to switch to a cat video before dozing off.
But any potential savings online classes offer in cost and efficiency are countered by some serious logistical concerns. Notably, there’s no adequate online replacement for class discussions. Professors can enable in-stant-messaging feeds during their lectures, as long as they’re interested in combining the enthusiasm of a lecture-hall discussion with the civility of an internet comment fo-rum. That’s a set of terms and conditions no one should accept, and it renders the online system especially unviable for humanities or upper-division STEM classes which re-quire careful analysis and discussion.
The problems are even more severe for the types of open-enrollment online courses that were once considered a game-changing ad-dition to the world of higher education. Al-though anyone with an internet connection and some self-discipline can learn calculus from Khan Academy or ancient Mediterra-nean history from a few well-sourced Wiki-pedia articles, it's impossible to say whether or not the self-taught are actually learning anything because online classes don't pro-vide great outlets for evaluation. It's tough to give a fair multiple-choice or short-answer test online without someone finding a way to cheat the system, and even tougher to as-
semble a team of TAs superhuman enough to thoughtfully grade thousands of papers. That would make any type of assessment at best unreliable, and probably unviable.
Plus, if UT is supposed to help prepare students for life beyond the Forty Acres, it should provide more than an introduction to debt and bureaucracy to go along with an excellent education. On the first day of an 8 a.m. lecture with mandatory atten-dance that I took last year, the professor announced that “90 percent of life is get-ting your ass out of bed." Unfortunately, he wasn't wrong. In spite of the proliferation of digital media, the modern world is still largely reliant on face-to-face interaction. There's value in learning that not every-thing is as conveniently accessible as a URL.
If UT eventually develops more Web-based courses, it would be well-served to do so on a closed system, with classes taught by UT faculty and open only to UT students. Until then, the remaining lecture-based courses that still require students to get their asses out of bed should probably adopt a hybrid system, offering some short lectures online and combining brief review with new material at the beginning of class. That pro-vides struggling students with an opportu-nity to refresh themselves on anything they couldn’t learn beforehand without bogging the rest of the class down with redundancy, or taking away time that professors can use for discussion or problem-solving.
If that requires changing out of my plaid sweatpants, so be it. Might as well practice now. As long as there's no such thing as a flipped workplace, it'll pay off.
Shenhar is a Plan II, economics and gov-ernment sophomore from Westport, Conn. He writes about campus and education issues.
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The University should take the small fortune required to implement the AAU survey and instead invest that money in its own survey. That way, instead of two watered-down products that only tell part of the story, perhaps the University will be able to gauge a more compre-hensive and accurate overview of the prevlance of sexual assault here.
We live in an impatient moment, when everyone wants immediate results. The In-ternet has encouraged this attitude, allow-ing anyone with a computer and a wireless connection instant access to videos, music and texts from around the world. An almost unlimited global supermarket of ideas and products is only a few clicks away.
Immediate results encourage expecta-tions of easy and guaranteed success in most endeavors. If you can have it all with a few clicks, why shouldn’t you be able to achieve all you want with limited effort? With the right techniques and connections it seems that everything should be possible. In this context, learning becomes essentially about fixed paths and straight roads, rather than uncertainties, surprises, adventures and challenges. The sure things at the top of the search engine replace the personal creations that defy easy categories.
This is how we frequently approach in-ternational education, and it explains why “global instruction” is often underwhelming. We send more students overseas than ever before, and that is good, but many of them have formulaic experiences of sharing their distant classrooms with other study abroad students, living with other study abroad stu-dents and drinking heavily with study abroad students. They return to our campuses with the fond memories of their foreign par-ties, limited knowledge of foreign societies and the professional branding of a student who traveled to another culture. They came, they saw and they conquered. Few attitudes change, little depth of international under-standing is achieved, and life at home goes on as it had before. This is not true international education; it is a grand tour that gives young Americans the instant entertainment and bragging rights they crave.
Real international education is what I witnessed this weekend, when I visited Abu Dhabi to give a series of lectures. Among the many people whom I met from count-less countries was a former student of mine (Plan II and Middle Eastern Studies) who is now working as an entrepreneur in the Mid-dle East. She is a shy, Christian Texas girl who gained fluent Arabic from years of te-dious practice, repeated trips to the Middle East and many hours of studying the region and international affairs in general. She has done all the standard things, but she has also
pushed herself outside the bounds of the obvious and the comfortable to experience foreign cultures in non-American ways. My former student has made herself speak Ara-bic on a regular basis, she has taken a job in the region that forces her to build business relationships with people who are unfamil-iar and even suspicious of her background and she has self-consciously dropped her presumptions about American superiority. She loves America, but she is making herself a deep and personal part of another region and way of life. She is not merely bridging cultures; she is living in multiple mindsets at the same time.
A simple incident this weekend revealed my former student’s international edu-cation. As I met with various local hosts, businesspeople and dignitaries in Abu Dhabi, I caught a glimpse of her mingling with a similar crowd, not as a visitor (like me), but as a neighbor, a friend and a new contact. She was no longer a student on a formulaic educational experience; she was now an international operator in her own right, acting within the culture of her for-eign residence.
Americans are so poor at achieving this depth of connection with foreigners. We speak few foreign languages. We travel in predictable bubbles and demand predictable encounters. We know so little about people and cultures beyond our borders (as well as
those within). We are strong and rich, and we instinctively expect the world to work with us on our terms, even when we are in other people’s homes. I see this less as ma-licious imperialism than ignorance born of our very superficial ways of thinking about international education.
As the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have proven, the stakes are very large for Ameri-can citizens who frequently have to con-vince others to work with us in dangerous circumstances. The example of my student this weekend convinced me that we can do a lot better, but we must begin early and we must stretch ourselves beyond the normal, limited routines.
So here is what I propose for students: Seek depth over breadth in your interna-tional education. Identify a region that fasci-nates you, study its language and history and then force yourself to visit, explore, work and connect as an individual, not a participant in a heavily guided program. Our University should do more to encourage serious adven-ture, with adequate preparation and reason-able risk-taking. The learning involves living as a foreigner, not as an American tourist. Future success as an international citizen comes in crossing the mental boundaries that matter much more than the lines on a map or a job application.
Suri is a professor in the LBJ School of Pub-lic Affairs and the Department of History.
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Professors can enable instant-messaging feeds during their lec-tures, as long as they’re interested in combining the enthusiasm of a lecture-hall discussion with the civility of an internet com-ment forum.
UT spokesman Gary Susswein was confident, however, that there was ‘no downside in doing the [AAU] survey.’ We disagree.
Editor’s note: In 300 words or less, this series spotlights people in our community whose stories typically go untold.
Carolyn Robinson, a ca-shier at Littlefield Patio Cafe, keeps a family portrait tucked safely inside her wal-let at all times. The photo shows Robinson dressed in a pink blazer, sitting proud-ly next to her son, daughter and three grandchildren. But the people she’s cared for in her lifetime extend well beyond the photo’s crisp, white edges.
The photo doesn’t show Randy, a boy she treated like a son. He was her favorite of all the people she spent 21 years caring for at Tra-vis State School, a facility for people with mental disabili-ties. Randy used a wheelchair and could not speak. Every morning, she prepared him for school, and on the week-ends, she invited Randy into her home to spend time with her family.
Also while at Travis, she
helped hundreds of people with mental disabilities acquire jobs. She spent several years assisting with supported employ-ment, which helps people with various ranges of de-velopmental issues enter the workforce.
After the state school closed down, Robinson worked for three years as a local caregiver. She spent her days taking one wom-an in a wheelchair to the LBJ Library or to shopping centers. She spent her eve-
nings helping another man bathe and get to bed.
Her experience sup-porting people with dis-abilities doesn’t end there. For the past 13 years, she’s awarded individuals from Marbridge, a commu-nity for adults with men-tal disabilities, with the Philip Bunton award. The award honors dedicated athletes in the commu-nity’s sports department. Marbridge asks Robinson to annually present the award in memory of her
brother and former Mar-bridge volunteer coach, Bunton, who died of a heart attack.
Now in her second se-mester working at UT, Robinson spends her days at Littlefield Patio Cafe smiling and conversing with students — the stu-dents she feels honored to be around.
“I really feel privileged to be able to look at all you young people every day — tomorrow’s future,” Robin-son said. “I love my job.”
There’s no arguing it: Hip-hop is the most excit-ing genre of music right now. And 2015 looks as if it will be equal in mag-nitude, if not greater, than 2014 for hip-hop fans. Joey Bada$$ con-tributes to this upward trend with his latest release “B4.DA.$$.”
“B4.DA.$$” — meaning “before the money” — is Bada$$’s commercial de-but. Before “B4.DA.$$,” Bada$$ appeared as a guest on other rappers’ records, independently released a few of his own mixtapes and almost signed to Jay-Z’s label. His consistency makes him the most relevant rapper in terms of the revitaliza-tion of the classic New York hardcore hip-hop sound. He is the at the head of a movement to bring back rap styles from 20 years ago, when Big-gie Smalls, Nas and Wu-Tang Clan released their best material.
The list of producers is immense, featuring the likes of DJ Premier, Chuck Strangers and Hit-Boy. The produc-ers on “B4.DA.$$” have struck the perfect chord between a sparce, un-derproduced album and an obnoxiously overpro-duced one.
Bada$$’s previous mix-tapes were good, but they pale in comparison.
Unfortunately, this al-bum suffers from a a lack of originality. As much as I like Bada$$ and this al-bum, his influences are apparent. Sure, other peo-ple are stealing some of Bada$$’s style, but if this album was judged solely
on its originality, it’s not entirely unique.
My favorite section of the album is right in the middle. Tracks seven and eight dem-onstrate Bada$$’s skill in full force. “Like Me” has some playful, sexual imagery in the begin-ning but turns dark as the song progresses. In “Belly of the Beast,” Bada$$ describes his up-bringing, and the sense of danger and entrap-ment is clear. The rest of the album proves his versatility and ends with emotional cuts.
“B4.DA.$$” is a per-fect display of the young and talented Bada$$. The album may be light on originality, but if a lis-tener wants some food for thought, this album is perfect.
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The produers on “B4.DA.$$” have struck the perfect chord between a sparce, underproduced album and an obnoxiously overproduced one.
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Carolyn Robin-son is a cashier at Littlefield Patio Cafe. Be-fore working for the University of Texas, Rob-inson spent 21 years at Travis State School helping hun-dreds of people with mential disabilities acquire jobs.
Despite the rivalry’s end, Texas and Texas A&M still seem to find a way to compete off the playing field. The latest battle between the two played out in the men’s basketball AP poll, in which Texas beat out Texas A&M for the lastt spot in the top 25.
Although Texas outranked Texas A&M for the 25th spot, this week’s AP poll marks the latest fall in the rankings for the Longhorns after their worst loss of the season — an 83–86 loss at Baylor on Satur-day. Texas opened at No. 10 in the AP Poll in the preseason but has fallen sharply with three straight losses to confer-ence opponents.
Elsewhere in the Big 12, Kansas moved up one spot to eight while Iowa State jumped four spots to 11.
Big 12/SEC Challenge movedConference play typically
marks the beginning of a long and gruelling stretch with-out much a break. But next year, Big 12 teams will get a bit of a break in January to step outside of the rigorous conference schedule.
The Big 12 and SEC an-nounced Thursday that their annual Big 12/SEC challenge will move from December, when it has been played in re-cent years, to Jan. 30 starting
next season.While the SEC boasts pe-
rennial powerhouse Kentucky and a top contender in Flori-da, the rest of the conference doesn’t quite match up to oth-er top basketball conferences. That should give Big 12 teams the respite they need for the second half of conference play.
In this season’s tourna-ment, Texas drew a challeng-ing game at Kentucky against the Wildcats. But, given the
overall talent level in the SEC, most teams should be able to pick up easy wins.
Matchups will be an-nounced at a later date.
OU’s Spangler takes home Big 12 weekly award
The Big 12 named Oklahoma junior forward Ryan Spangler the Big 12 Player of the Week on Monday, after being a key factor in the Sooners’ wins over Okla-homa State and Texas Tech last
week. Spangler posted a season-high 20 points in the 81–36 shel-lacking against the Red Raiders and followed it with 13 points against the Cowboys. He com-bined for a 78.6 shooting per-centage and was 10-of-13 from the free throw line.
Big 12 names Cyclone guard conference newcom-er of the week
Although he is relatively un-known among the nation, senior
guard Bryce Dejean-Jones is starting to become a familiar name in the Big 12 — and to Texas. The Big 12 named De-jean-Jones Newcomer of the Week on Monday after averag-ing 17 points in the Cyclones’ wins over Texas and TCU last week. Dejean-Jones scored 18 points against the Long-horns before tallying 16 points against TCU. He also averaged a 77 percent field goal percent-age in the two games.
In a winter filled with recruiting victories, head coach Charlie Strong had another reason to celebrate after receiving commitments from three four-star athletes in the past three days.
Defensive backs Holton Hill and Kris Boyd an-nounced their pledges to Texas on Friday, and four-star quarterback Kai Locks-ley flipped his commitment to Texas Monday night.
Hill, who played at Lamar High School in Houston, ranks as the nation’s No. 7 cornerback after totaling 11 interceptions and two special teams touchdowns in his senior year. At 6 feet 2 inches, he possesses the size to cover taller wide re-ceivers and is a likely can-didate to be an immediate contributor on defense and special teams.
Boyd, who played in Gilmer, Texas, ranks closely behind Hill as a prospect as the nation’s No. 11 cor-nerback. At almost six feet, Boyd also has good size for his position and proved himself as a playmaker with two interceptions and four passes broken up his senior year. His younger brother Demarco Boyd is commit-ted to join the Longhorns in 2016.
The duo adds to an al-ready strong defensive back class that features four-star defensive backs Davante Davis and DeShon Elliot. With the Big 12 producing five top-20 passing offenses in 2014, the Longhorns will need to develop a strong secondary, especially with cornerback Quandre Diggs departing this offseason. The Longhorns now have two of the top-three ranked cornerbacks in the state, ac-cording to 247Sports. They are looking to maintain their stout pass defense, which ranked in the top 15 in passing yards allowed in 2014.
Locksley, who was previ-ously committed to Florida State, will give Texas a much needed boost at quarter-back. Locksley, a ESPN 300 quarterback out of Gilman High School in Baltimore, is the No. 25 ranked quarter-back in the nation. At 6 feet 4 inches and 190 pounds, he adds another option in Tex-as’ quarterback battle next season, as Texas works to improve upon a weak point this past year.
This weekend, Texas also made the radars of other top prospects who have yet to make their final com-mitment. Damarkus Lodge, Cedar Hill’s four-star wide receiver, included the Longhorns in his top-three
choices Friday. Daylon Mack, Gladewater’s five-star defensive tackle, said Sat-urday he made his decision after receiving in-home vis-its from Strong and compet-ing coaching staffs this past week. Both Lodge and Mack will announce their final de-cisions on National Signing Day on Wednesday.
However, Texas also re-ceived some bad news.
Five-star quarterback Kyler Murray announced Thursday he is staying with Texas A&M after taking an unofficial visit to Texas the previous weekend. The Longhorns tried to flip Mur-ray’s commitment from the Aggies, which would have been a huge boost to Texas’ recruiting class.
The Longhorns took an-other potential hit Sun-day when three-star safety commit Jamile Johnson re-opened his recruitment for the third time after decom-mitting from Texas.
247Sports currently ranks Texas’ 2015 class at No. 9, and Texas still has several top prospects considering coming to Austin. The re-cruiting class has the poten-tial to be ranked as a top-five class come National Sign-ing Day, and if momentum keeps trending in Texas’ fa-vor, the Longhorns will have a lot to be excited about next fall.
After a disappointing end to its 2014 season, the Texas team has its eyes on a national championship.
“We started the year with a team that can com-pete for a national cham-pionship, and that hasn’t changed,” head coach John Fields said.
Texas finally starts its four-month journey to a potential title this week-end at the Amer Ari/Big Island Intercollegiate Golf Tournament in Waiko-loa, Hawaii. The beautiful island setting will serve as merely a backdrop for the Longhorns, who are looking for their first title since 2012.
No. 5 Texas boasts a roster capable of finding its way to the National Championship in Florida this May.
Sophomore Beau Hoss-ler and freshman Doug Ghim highlight the 12-person team. Both were selected to the All-Amateur team, which is made up of the 20 best am-ateur golfers from around the world.
Hossler secured first-team honors after winning the Western Amateur and placing second at the Por-ter Cup. Ghim earned sec-ond-team recognition fol-lowing runner-up honors at the U.S. Amateur Public Links and after advancing to the round of 64 at the U.S. Amateur.
“Beau Hossler has ab-solutely had a great role this year, even better than when he was a freshman,” Fields said. “He had a great summer, along with his teammate Doug Ghim, who had an exceptional summer as well.”
Freshmen Taylor Funk and Scottie Scheffler, along with senior Kramer Hick-ok, join Hossler and Ghim to round out the five-man team lineup for the Big Island Intercollegiate.
“Those are the five spots right now, but the lineup fluctuates week-to-week to promote
competition within the team,” Fields said. “Es-sentially right now, Hoss-ler and Ghim are showing they will maintain where they are, and the fifth spot will typically move week-to-week.”
Among those compet-ing for the fifth spot on the five-man team are redshirt juniors Will Grif-fin and Tayler Termeer and redshirt senior Brax McCarthy. The three will compete in the Big Island tournament this week as individuals, and aren’t far from finding their way into the lineup for the Longhorns.
“We have eight play-ers in the event for us this week,” Fields said. “This gives us the best opportu-nity to stay sharp and el-evate the team.”
This weekend marks a starting point on the road to a national champion-ship for Texas. And with the necessary tools to compete, the Longhorns have a promising opportu-nity ahead of them.
“We can have success, and winning the U.S. Col-legiate Championship last fall in Georgia was proof of that,” Fields said. “Our goal is to come together and win championships.”
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Running a business requires maintaining a tight schedule, but most business owners aren’t concerned with making an 8 a.m. economics class. But finance senior Bradley Roofner and rhetoric and writing senior Logan Brown don’t mind at-tending classes if it means they can still do what they love.
“We’ve found a way to skip all the stuff in the middle and jump to the stuff we enjoy,” Brown said.
Two years ago, Roof-ner and Brown launched their own hedge fund and venture capital group called, respectively, Dav-enforth Investments and Davenforth Ventures. They use clients’ money to invest in companies around Austin.
When Roofner and Brown were freshmen, they met at an event for their Christian fraternity, Beta Upsilon Chi. One week later, they cre-ated their business HatTee. Roofner said the premise behind the company is to make the game of golf easier by providing a place to put golf tees on a hat. Their ex-perience working on HatTee gave them contacts and a starting point for their more recent endeavors.
Business honors junior Kade Thomas, an inves-tor in Davenforth, said he has no doubt the company will succeed.
“Davenforth Ventures is a relatively new company, but the people running it are far beyond their years,” Thom-as said. “I feel honored to have gotten involved in the early stages.”
Despite his age, Brown said he thrives under the
variation each week brings and the com-petitiveness of the investment industry.
“It’s one of the most com-petitive industries there is, so we really like to challenge ourselves and compete,” Brown said. “Everything else just seems really boring com-pared to competing on that kind of level.”
Roofner said they want to make money, so they can give it away to charity to set an ex-ample for others.
“A big mission of ours with the hedge fund is to kind of show a different way of living to the people in the financial services community,” Roof-ner said. “It’s an industry that’s got a big problem with greed and opulence.”
The two said they are driven by their faith and see their work as part of a greater calling.
“Bradley and I believe we were put together for a purpose,” Brown said. “It’s beyond just making money and even beyond giving
it away.”Since their freshman year, the
two have bonded over the com-mon goal of charity for a greater purpose. Brown said they have become extremely good friends and spend most of their time together.
“I’ve never seen or read about any partnership in the world quite like Bradley and I’s,” Brown said. “It’s re-ally unique that we have a kind of selflessness when it comes to each other that we’ve aimed for. We are
always willing to sacrifice for one another.”
After graduation, the two plan to remain in Austin and build upon Davenforth Investments and Daven-forth Ventures. They plan to
invest in startups to help gen-erate jobs in the Austin area, Roofner said.
“I plan on working with Bradley until I die, until one of us buries the other,” Brown said.
A crying baby, a storage building and a chicken pecking at ice all have one thing in common — they play a part in artist Dani Leventhal’s short experi-mental video “54 Days this Winter, 36 Days this Spring for 18 Minutes.”
“It’s not a traditional film that has a beginning and a climax and an end,” Leventhal said. “I shoot, and then I edit the footage in an intuitive way. Some-times, I have something very specific I’m trying to communicate and other times it’s less that way.”
The film, which premieres Tuesday at 4:30 p.m. in the Art Building, was filmed with a small, handheld cam-era that functions as an ex-tension to Leventhal’s arm. With it, she captures clips of her everyday life. Leven-thal, an assistant professor in the Department of Art at Ohio State University, creates additional artwork through different mediums. Aside from videos, she com-bines photos and abstract illustrations to create works of art using charcoal and oil pastels.
Leventhal’s interest in art began at a young age. She was born in Columbus, Ohio, and moved to upstate New York when she was 8 years old. Levinthal briefly taught English as a second language before deciding to pursue art. She then worked in Rosendale, New York, at a women-run artist residen-cy program before going to graduate school in Chicago.
“I loved the arts because there was a lot of freedom in it,” Leventhal said. “I
gravitated toward the art world because I could be myself, I guess. You have room in the art world to be whoever you want to be.”
Mad Stork Cinema, an on-campus experimental cinema group, screened a number of Leventhal’s videos last semester. After seeing the audience’s posi-tive reactions, UT assistant art professor Kristin Lucas decided to invite Leventhal to campus.
“[Leventhal’s] work stood out to me because, as a viewer, you can feel her connection to each video clip,” Lucas said. “Each shot has so much weight to it and has a way of touch-ing your soul.”
Leventhal’s experimen-tal videos do not progress chronologically and do not follow a particular plot. Leventhal compares her videos to writing in a di-ary. Through her films, she said, she strives to express what she is going through in her life.
“Recently, my grand-mother died, and I made a set of drawings and vid-eos that were an homage to her,” Leventhal said. “I was grieving the loss of her, so I made artwork that ad-dressed that.”
Rachel Stuckey, stu-
dio art graduate stu-dent and member of the Experimental Response Cinema, said she believes Leventhal’s work stands out because of how she pieces together montages in a jarring and abrupt way.
“Conversations with loved ones are interrupted by examinations of road-kill,” Stuckey said. “Mam-mograms and heart sono-grams jut into lingering images of plant life, folds of skin and ornate pressed tin ceilings.”
The Department of Art and Art History, in con-junction with the Experi-mental Response Cinema, is hosting Leventhal on Tuesday. The screening is followed by an artist talk at 5 p.m. Leventhal will talk about her story, from her experience at undergraduate school to becoming an artist and professor.
Leventhal said she wants viewers to leave her screen-ing feeling more coura-geous in their personal pursuit of art.
“I try not to cause harm, and I try to be free of op-pressive constructs that come from outside or in-side myself,” Leventhal said. “Mostly, I want wom-en to feel courageous to make their work.”
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I loved the arts because there was a lot of freedom in it. I gravitated toward the art world because I could be myself, I guess. You have room in the art world to be whoever you want to be.
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Griffin Smith | Daily Texan Staff Finance senior Bradley Roofner, left, and rhetoric and writing senior Logan Brown have launched a hedge fund and venture capital group to invest in companies around Austin.
Davenforth Ventures is a relatively new company, but the people running it are far beyond their years.
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