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Instead of using their lap-tops to watch Netflix on Thurs-day morning when classes were delayed, some students logged on to online courses to complete class work.
Inclement winter weather Wednesday night and Thurs-day morning led University officials to close campus until 1 p.m. and delay classes until 2 p.m. Thursday.
Even when the UT cam-pus closed, journalism ju-nior Felicia Rodriquez still had to log on to her Social
Media Journalism online class, in which students are assigned to update social media sites during assigned shifts. Rodriguez said she didn’t mind doing her class work even when campus classes were canceled.
“In some ways, I never view Social Media Journal-ism as a class because it’s just fun for me and I love using social media,” Rodriguez said. “Also, I was enjoying my breakfast at the same time, and I had Netflix on in the background, so it was a very
The Senate Committee on Nominations approved three candidates for appointment to the UT System Board of Regents on Thursday.
The appointees — David Beck, Steve Hicks and Sara Martinez Tucker — must now go before the Texas Sen-ate for a vote in order to take
their positions on the board. Martinez Tucker was ap-proved unanimously, while the committee approved both Steve Hicks and David Beck by 6–1 votes.
Sen. Konni Burton (R-Col-leyville) voted against Hicks and Beck. In light of investi-gations into UT admissions and the UT School of Law’s forgivable loan program, Burton said Hicks, a current
regent, and Beck, who was president of the UT Law School Foundation from 2002–2006, have contributed to a lack of transparency.
“[Hicks and Beck] have presided over a period of secrecy, privilege and sharp rises in tuition at the Uni-versity of Texas,” Burton said in a statement. “The University of Texas is in need of a fresh start, with
Regents concerned first and foremost with improving the strength of the University, getting tuition under con-trol, and ensuring an admis-sions process that rewards the brightest students and not those with connections.”
Sen. Troy Fraser (R-Horse-shoe Bay), who also sits on the nominations committee, had no objections to any of the candidates, according to Fraser
spokesman Will McAdams. “Senator Fraser listened
to the testimony from all three candidates and read the recommendations from the Governor’s Office,” McAdams said. “[He] believed the Gov-ernor’s Office had done their due diligence, and that’s why he voted for the nominees.”
Martinez Tucker is the CEO of the National Math + Science Initiative, a foun-
dation that seeks to improve student performance in sci-ence, technology, engineer-ing and math. Beck is a part-ner at the Beck Redden law firm in Houston.
If approved by the Senate, Martinez Tucker and Beck will replace current regents Robert L. Stillwell and Vice Chairman William Eugene Powell on the board. Hicks’ term will be ex-tended until 2021.
More students are includ-ing genuine personal infor-mation when creating fake IDs for themselves, accord-ing to UT police.
“Lately, we’ve been see-ing driver’s licenses that [have] the person’s picture on it, has their name on it, has their address on it, has their driver’s license num-ber on it — has everything on it, except a different date of birth,” UTPD officer Wil-liam Pieper said. “What stu-dents don’t realize is that we tend to run those driver’s license numbers, and, when we run it, the computer
comes back with their cor-rect date of birth.”
A public relations soph-omore, who requested anonymity to avoid legal repercussions, said he uses his fake ID at least once a week at grocery stores and bars downtown.
“It’s a pretty legit one — it’s not paper, it’s actually laminated — and has my name, my face, basically everything about me, ex-cept my address,” the stu-dent said.
Police officers usually encounter students with fake driver’s licenses af-ter they stop students for other criminal ac-tivity, such as underage
drinking, Pieper said. “When I ask to see their
driver’s license, [students] hold it very close to their chest … because they don’t want me to see their drink-ing ID,” Pieper said.
Pieper said officers are
sworn to uphold the law, which prohibits people un-der 21 from drinking al-cohol, but said officers can sometimes use their own discretion when deciding
After a University-wide Stu-dent Government election in which no executive alliance ticket captured over 50 percent of the vote, candidates Bray-don Jones and Kimia Dargahi will enter a runoff election against Xavier Rotnofsky and Rohit Mandalapu.
The Jones-Dargahi alliance received 46.34 percent of the
student vote, and Rotnofsky-Mandalapu received 26.9 per-cent. The other two executive alliances on the ballot, David Maly and Steven Svatek and Baylor Morrison and Matthew Normyle, received a combined total of 26.74 percent.
“We’re not as nervous any-more,” Rotnofsky, associate editor at humor publication Texas Travesty, said. “Sur-prised, for sure. … I’m pretty sure this has been the most
successful [Texas Travesty] campaign ever. Travesty al-umns have reached out to us and said they loved the campaign. That’s been the best reward.”
The Texas Travesty, a humor publication, enters a team in SG elections each year.
Jones, who has described himself as the candidate with the most Student Govern-ment experience, said he is optimistic about his team’s
odds for the runoff election.“Our numbers looked
great the first time,” Jones said. “We’re going to do ex-actly what we’ve been doing.”
Nicholas Molina, Election Supervisory Board chair, said it was difficult to predict the results of the Executive Alli-ance race in advance.
“I wouldn’t necessarily say it’s a surprise,” Molina said. “[Both teams have] been campaigning so well.”
According to Molina, 9,108 votes were cast in the election, an increase of 14 percent in voter turnout over last spring.
Arjun Mocherla, an agent on Jones and Dargahi’s cam-paign, said the run-off will allow more time to get stu-dent input for their platform.
“Obviously, we’d love to win [the election] straight out, but Xavier and Rohit are hilarious guys,” Mocherla said. “This is a
great opportunity to continue to meet students on campus and see what students need.”
Texas Travesty editor-in-chief Chris Gilman said he attributes Rotnofsky and Mandalapu’s success to reach-ing out to smaller and more diverse groups of students.
“I think they’re taking all the right moves,” Gilman said. “They’re talking to
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Griffin Smith, Daulton Venglar | Daily Texan Staff Student Government Executive Alliance candidates Braydon Jones, second from left, and Kimia Dargahi, far left, will compete against fellow candidates and Texas Travesty editors Xavier Rotnofsky, second from right, and Rohit Mandalapu, far right, in a runoff election next week as neither alliance received over 50 percent of the vote.
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The University’s Peace Corps organization is work-ing to increase the number of volunteers it recruits after seeing a decrease in volun-teers over the past year.
During an open house in the International Of-fice on Nueces Street on Thursday, volunteers who have returned from ser-vice discussed their expe-riences abroad and spoke about what the organiza-tion is doing to attract more applicants.
The Peace Corps is a government-run volun-teer program in which vol-unteers serve a two-year commitment to improve the social, economic or health conditions in other countries. Each year, thou-sands of college students and alumni from across the
country volunteer. Scott Stanford, a former
urban planning graduate student who worked to pro-vide better water quality and access to communities in Nepal from 1992–1994, said some prospective volunteers may be discouraged from applying because of tough conditions volunteers face.
“Unfortunately, during the projects, the water lines would get contaminated,” Stanford said. “We had to deal with dysentery, giar-dia, and I even got worms at one point. In that situation, you just have to take what medication you have and keep going.”
In 2012, 61 undergradu-ate alumni volunteers served abroad through the Peace Corps, according to a sur-vey from the Peace Corps. The University produced 47 volunteers in 2013, a year in which the number
of Peace Corps volunteers decreased across the board among universities.
Judy Schneringer, who served in South Africa from 2006–2008, said she thinks simplifying the ap-plication process and giv-ing volunteers the option of choosing where to serve will help the Peace Corps
recruit more volunteers. “At the time when I was
applying, we did not get our first choice of location,” Sch-neringer said. “By having the option to choose where to serve and a shorter process can help Peace Corps.”
Omar Gamboa, Latin American studies senior, said he is still assessing what
role he could serve in the Peace Corps.
“I would be interested in looking into being an English teacher, but I do not know if teaching literature is a de-mand in countries,” Gamboa said. “Right now I am trying to see if that is possible and see other ways I can serve in the organization.”
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easy ‘snow day.’”Gavino Abrigo, senior
administrative associate for University Extension, the UT online and evening class program, said online classes usually follow what the Uni-versity does when it comes to cancellations, but, this time, some online classes contin-ued since students could complete their work online.
Online classes appeal most to students who may need extra hours or are looking to get additional credit when normal classes don’t fit into their schedules, Abrigo said.
“Usually it’s convenient in their schedule, and more about the availability of them not being able to attend a regular Monday-Wednes-day-Friday class or Tues-day-Thursday class,” Abrigo said. “The reason most UT students take our evening courses is they just don’t have the availability in their day-time schedules.”
One online course,
Government 312L: U.S. For-eign Policy, canceled its on-line session because the lec-ture is live-streamed.
“Our course is a live, on-line course with a large pro-duction team [of] over 10 people,” Patrick McDonald, the government associate professor who teaches the course, said. “When the Uni-versity closes, we cannot re-quire them to come to work, so we chose to follow Univer-sity guidelines.”
McDonald said teaching the class online means mak-ing up for cancellations is fairly easy, since professors can tape the missed lecture and then post it to Canvas for students to watch later.
Caroline Hunt, communi-cation studies and human re-lations junior, said she would have been frustrated if her online classes were canceled.
“As an adult, snow days are really not as big of a deal — if anything, they can just kind of be annoying,” Hunt said.
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In 2014, the University Writing Center provided 11,105 one-on-one writing consultations for undergrad-uate students in only 15,000 square-feet of space.
The center’s tight quarters are one of the motivators for its decision to move to the ground floor of the PCL come next fall. Patricia Roberts-Miller, director of the Center, said the move to the PCL will give students easy access to the Center and to research resources. She said it will also allow for growth in em-ployment and programing, including more resources for graduate students.
Mary Hedengren, an as-sociate director at the Writ-ing Center, said the space has become too small for its clientele.
“This space really can’t handle it,” Hedengren said. “Especially at our busiest times you’ll see every table taken. Our back room will be full of people coming in and out. It’s a lot.”
The Writing Center re-ceives about $670,000 from the College of Liberal Arts to fund its services, and $439,602 of that total is giv-en back to student workers in wages.
The Center tracks the
number, classification and major of students receiving consultations through the surveys it distributes after each session. Consultations are recorded and evaluated using the surveys, which ask questions regarding the sat-isfaction and productivity of the visit.
The survey results are used to create an annual report that the center uses to adjust its services and gage its suc-cesses and shortcomings.
“One of the things that is really important is getting a sense of who we serve,” said Alice Batt, program coordinator for the Writ-ing Center. “Who is coming in? When we get that infor-mation we can think better about what we can do to support them better.”
Nicole Troup, internation-al and global studies sopho-more, said that she has gone to the Writing Center for almost every writing assign-ment in college and only ever had one negative experience in a consultation.
“Just because you had a bad experience one time, I don’t think that should pre-vent anyone from going back again,” said Troup.
The Writing Center em-ploys 33 undergraduate con-sultants and 51 graduate con-sultants. All undergraduate consultants must complete
the Writing Center Intern-ship course, which John Ruszkiewicz, English and rhetoric and writing profes-sor, teaches.
Ruszkiewicz said once the Writing Center evaluates sur-vey results, and makes chang-es to procedures based on that feedback, he alters his course to adjust to the new policies.
“It’s those policies and procedures quite often de-signed to make consulta-tions better — more effec-tive, more sensitive — that then become part of my course,” Ruszkiewicz said.
The most recent annual report found that, while stu-dents from most colleges use the Writing Center, liberal
arts and natural sciences stu-dents use it most often. Those colleges make up 23 and 21 percent of the Writing Cen-ter’s business, respectively.
In order to address this variance of majors using the center, Roberts-Miller said she is hoping to double the amount of workers from different majors once they
move into the new space.“We’re operating at ca-
pacity for most of this semester, but we would like to get a lot more stu-dents working here who are from the sciences, for instance,” Roberts-Miller said. “We’d like to be a lot more diverse in the kinds of consultants.”
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all the right people … and taking it day-by-day.”
Maly-Svatek received 1,161 votes, and Morrison-Normyle received 1,009. Morrison-Normyle said Sunday they were going to
withdraw from the race, but, according to Molina, the duo never officially removed themselves from the ballot.
“I’ve heard two people say they were confused about why Baylor and Matthew were still on the ballot … that those thousand would have turned the election,”
Molina said. “The correct answer for that, is that even though Baylor [Morrison] and Matthew [Normyle] ex-pressed to [The Daily Tex-an] that they were dropping out, they never officially dropped out.”
Jones said Morrison-Nor-myle being on the ticket may
have impacted the results.“With Baylor and Matthew
withdrawing and still being on the ballot, some people may have gotten confused and messed up the numbers,” Jones said.
Morrison said he does not think having his and Nor-myle’s name on the ballot
affected the outcome of the election and said that he was pleased with the results.
“I don’t think it affected the vote,” Morrison said. “It’s the happiest I’ve ever been for fourth place.”
Maly congratulated the run-off teams and said he enjoyed campaigning for the election.
“It was an interesting race and a good learning experi-ence,” Maly said.
Jones-Dargahi and Rot-nofsky-Mandalapu will be allowed to spend an addi-tional $150 each on cam-paigning. The two teams will compete in the runoff elec-tion March 11–12.
what charges to file. “If [someone is] involved
in another offense — say we stop somebody for mi-nor in possession of alcohol — and they’re also in pos-session of a driver’s license and a fictitious [license], we may file one charge and not the other, but we’ll just document that they were in possession of a fictitious one,” Pieper said.
Most of the time, the pun-ishment for having a fake ID is a Class C misdemeanor in-volving a fine of up to $500, Pieper said. The offense can be a felony under certain cir-cumstances, he said.
“You get into felony grade where you’re talking about producing your own [ID] or tampering with a govern-ment document, or having one to defraud or harm some-body else,” Pieper said. “Then you’re going to prison — not a local jail, prison — for at least a year,” Pieper said.
Political communications junior Sebastian Lopez, who works as a bouncer for a bar on Sixth Street, said he sees fake IDs every night.
“Nearly one out of 20 IDs [is fake], and there could be nearly hundreds of people in and out of the bar through-out the night,” Lopez said.
“The easiest way [to prove an ID is fake] is when a patron shows a picture of someone that is clearly not them.”
Lopez said he denies those with fake IDs entry into the bar and then either keeps the fake or gives it back based on the person’s attitude.
Pieper said he wants stu-dents to assess if having a fake ID is worth it in the long run.
“A big reason for that age is based on maturity levels and based on experience levels — when people are younger and drinking, they’re more like to partake in risky behavior and be a harm to [themselves],” Pieper said.
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As the anti-vaccine controversy dominated the news cycles, many politicians weighed in, including potential Republican candidates for president. Sen. Rand Paul, heir apparent to his father’s movement, and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, considered by many to be a moderate Northeast Republican, both stated that vaccines should be voluntary.
Christie stated his belief in the importance of vaccines, and that his children are vaccinated. However, he also stated, “Parents need to have some measure of choice in things as well.”
Christie, usually blunt, appeared to be walk-ing a tightrope between the opposing sides. Paul stated in an interview with CNBC: “The state doesn’t own your children. Parents own the chil-dren, and it is an issue of freedom.”
However, there is a contradiction in conser-vative philosophy and the Republican Party plat-form. If we take conservative arguments against mandatory vaccines and replace the word “par-ents” with “women,” and “children” with “uterus,” conservatives believe the opposite when it comes to abortion: The state doesn’t own your uterus. Women own their uterus, and it is an issue of freedom.
UT’s chapter of the Young Conservatives of Texas professed the same conflicting statements regarding the two issues: “YCT is 100% pro-life,” and “YCT is not against vaccinations but we do believe that individuals should have the right to opt-out.”
Conservative philosophy argues that the gov-ernment does not have the right to legislate par-
ents’ decisions for their children, but argues that the government has the right to legislate women’s decisions concerning their own bodies. It’s more than simply an “issue of freedom.”
For the sake of argument, let’s consider the conservative belief that abortion is morally wrong. In this case, a woman’s decision affects the fetus in her womb and herself. Abortion is a private decision. Not vaccinating your children contributes to the resurgence of deadly diseases that present a serious danger to the entire popu-lation. Plus, the scientific community has de-bunked the claim that these vaccines have such negative effects. A parent’s decision not to vac-cinate their children affects many beyond their own children. It’s a public decision. It becomes a public health concern.
You can’t falsely shout “Fire!” in a crowded theater, you can’t drive a car as fast as you would like and you can’t drive drunk. You aren’t allowed to do these things because doing so puts many other people at risk of injury or death.
Not vaccinating our children puts many other people at risk of serious illness and death. You need to vaccinate your children, and the gov-ernment should make us. We all hate speeding tickets, but without speed limits the roads would be much more dangerous. We should not sacri-fice health and safety for the sake of blind free-dom. Freedom for the sake of freedom is not good policy.
While the GOP probably views it as a neces-sary compromise, the hypocrisy undermines their platform. The first Republican President, Abraham Lincoln, famously said, “A house di-vided itself cannot stand.”
The Republican Party will not fare well in 2016 if the candidates have to split their alle-giance between the social conservatives and the libertarians still in the closet. Republicans either need to embrace personal freedom across the board or cut the tea party loose.
What if the anti-establishment conserva-tives had to fend for themselves? What if all the
pot-smoking gun enthusiasts had a party to call their own? What if there was a new legitimate third party? A new libertarian party could pull a substantial amount of Republicans out west (Colorado and Washington), socially-liberal-fiscal-conservatives and many young people disillusioned by Democrats’ and Republicans’ similarities. A Libertarian party free from the Re-publican establishment has real potential. If the
right candidate went viral on the Internet, he or she could poll at 15 percent and participate in the presidential debates.
We cannot have a real debate or productive dialogue with such ideological contradiction. All I’m asking for is consistency. Be true to your-selves. And please, for society’s sake, vaccinate your kids.
Burchard is a Plan II senior from Houston.
One year ago on March 6, I was se-lected to serve as the Overall Director for Texas THON.
On a weekly, if not almost daily basis, I get asked why I do THON, what makes Texas THON special and what Texas THON even is. My answers are always simple:
Nothing can explain the mission of Texas THON better than the story of a Miracle Child.
Little Sara was just three years old when she was diagnosed with Stage III Burkitt’s lymphoma, an aggressive form of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Despite the odds, Sara proved her fighting spirit as she suc-cessfully underwent more than 10 rounds of chemotherapy in just six months at Dell Children’s Medical Center of Central Texas
to be cancer-free today. She loves dancing and cheerleading, the
color pink, parties and her little brother Drew. Every year at Texas THON’s Day Of, Sara schools me on the dance floor and en-thralls the room with her spunk, personality and love of life.
Sara inspires me again every year. She is truly a miracle, and one of many Miracle Children helped by Dell Children’s.
I THON, I dance and I stand for little Sara, for Stephanie, for Princess, for Caleb, for Harley, for Patton, for Amanda, for Oliv-ia, for Skyler, and for EVERY Miracle Child treated at Dell Children’s — so that no child fights alone.
That’s the mission of Texas THON, an en-tirely student-run philanthropy at UT and the largest dance marathon (which is exactly as it sounds) in the state of Texas. To raise funds and awareness for a medical center
that treats 17 children every hour, every day, 365 days each year — many who fly in from around the nation.
To help foster a sense of philanthropy and create a culture of inclusivity here at UT. To allow over 500 UT students — with more joining each day — to realize the motto of “What starts here changes the world” by be-ing a part of something bigger than them-selves: a dance marathon movement through which college students like you and me have raised over $14 million for Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals, a nonprofit that raises funds for children’s hospitals and of which Dell Children’s is a member, around the nation.
Texas THON is special because it helps bond the UT community by bringing over 75 student organizations and people from all areas of UT together on our 12-hour Day Of event — one day for one common
purpose, and that one day of common pur-pose makes a life-long impact on the lives of UT students and families and kids at the hospital.
Just like nothing can explain the mis-sion of Texas THON like the story of a Miracle Child, nothing can show you why we do what we do like our 12-hour stand. Although uncomfortable, standing for 12 hours allows us to raise money for chil-dren who need medical care. This year our Day Of is Sunday from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. in Gregory Gym. To register as a Miracle Maker for the kids, visit TexasTHON.org and click on the “Register Now!” link to sign up with your student organization or residence hall, or come check out the event with a visitor pass available at the Day Of for $5 per hour.
Caton is Overall Director of Texas THON.
Within the confines it has created for it-self, Student Government works. It’s very effective at upgrading library and facility hours as the student body sees fit, and it frequently attempts to make itself more ef-fective by tinkering with its organizational structure. But because of those same con-fines, Student Government doesn’t work ef-ficiently, and it doesn’t work for everyone. Don’t expect that to change if Braydon Jones and Kimia Dargahi win next week’s runoff election for Student Government president and vice president, respectively.
According to SG’s website, the organiza-tion has passed just 25 bills, not including resolutions, over the past two years, the vast majority of which address internal issues that hold little relevance to anyone outside the assembly. It touts improper fractions like 24/5 at the PCL and 24/7 at the FAC as major accomplishments, but ignores calls to reform other elements of campus life, like on-campus dining or transportation from Riverside. And worst of all, it considers a voter turnout rate below 20 percent as a signal of student apathy rather than a reflec-tion of an out-of-touch political system. For
the average student living east of Nueces or south of MLK, it hardly matters what elected candidates say to take their oath of office (last year’s AB 9) or how the Co-op distrib-utes the money from its ornament sales (this year’s AB 5).
The problem with Student Government isn’t that the students don’t care enough. It’s that, for a silent majority of UT students, SG hardly even exists.
Through their “Let’s Talk Texas” cam-paign, Jones and Dargahi have done an ad-mirable job trying to prove that SG cares about that silent majority. But as The Daily Texan noted in its endorsement of their ticket, their platforms look a lot like those of previous administrations.
Because of Jones’ extensive behind-the-scenes experience, I have no doubt that he and Dargahi will turn in a solid performance conducting business as usual within the as-sembly. The problem is that for SG to truly speak on behalf of the students it ostensibly represents, it needs to do anything but. With an insider like Jones at the helm, that’s un-likely to happen. It’s very difficult to reform a system from within that system.
That’s what makes this year’s Texas Trav-esty ticket so compelling. Instead of mock-ing SG’s infrequent but well-intentioned efforts to improve campus life, as previous joke campaigns have done, Xavier Rotnofsky and Rohit Mandalapu are taking aim at the system’s most glaring shortcomings.
Their platforms perfectly satirize the art of clichéd humility and subtle
self-aggrandizement that can turn any poli-tician into a hollow facsimile of a public servant. Their videos expose the inanity of West Mall canvassing and student organi-zation endorsement-mongering, the latter of which led Jones and Dargahi to reveal some embarrassingly inconsistent posi-tions regarding campus carry and domestic partnership benefits.
And they wrap their entire campaign around the idea that political spectacle should not supersede the promotion of co-gent and inclusive platforms. Embedded within their ridiculous schtick is a genuine — and increasingly necessary — call for a student government that actually matters to its constituents.
But the duo’s more outrageous antics are more than just an entertaining sideshow. They serve as the centerpiece of Rotnofsky-Mandalapu’s greatest strength. A campaign creative enough to deliver such incisive sat-ire would also be creative enough to consider unique solutions to any problems that arise in the middle of their term. A great execu-tive needs the skills to address unplanned circumstances and unknown unknowns. Through their improvisational routines, Rotnofsky and Mandalapu display those skills better than anyone else on the ballot.
Equally importantly, they lace their com-edy with undertones of constructive ideal-ism, rather than destructive cynicism. It isn’t that Rotnofsky and Mandalapu want to turn Student Government into a joke. They just recognize that, as far as most of the student
body is concerned, Student Government is already perceived as a joke. Through their off-the-wall unorthodoxy, Rotnofsky-Man-dalapu convey an impactful message to a subset of the population that otherwise wouldn’t have any reason to listen. That’s why this election is going to a runoff.
During Monday’s candidate debate, Man-dalapu described SG’s greatest challenge as “being relevant to 90 percent of the school.” Even at their most ludicrous, he and his run-ning mate are the candidates best equipped to tackle that challenge, metaphorically or — in the case of the Jefferson Davis statue — physically. It’ll be quite a travesty if UT doesn’t give them the chance.
Shenhar is a Plan II, govern-ment and economics sophomore from Westport, Connecticut.
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EXECUTIVE ALLIANCE RESULTS
Braydon Jones and Kimia Dargahi: 46.34 % of the total election votes with 3,760 votes Xavier Rotnofsky and Rohit Mandalapu: 26.9% if total election votes with 2183 votesDavid Maly and Stephen Svatek: 14.31% of the total election votes with 1,161 votesBaylor Morrison and Matthew Normyle: 12.43% of the total election votes with 1,009 votes
By Lauren CatonGuest Columnist
On the political matrix, social conservatives occupy the top-right quadrant, while the Tea Party and Libertarians occupy the bottom-right quadrant.
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Arrested Development fans everywhere should rejoice that Bananarchy exists. The frozen banana stand is set to come out of winter hibernation in mid-March and will soon de-light Austinites once more. You can build your own banana or choose from their specialties. AD fans will obviously go for the GOB, named for one of the show’s main characters. The Hippy Dippy — covered in gra-nola, craisins and cinnamon — is another standout. It’s located in the South First Food Park and prices range from $2.75–$7.50.
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stead of working against each other,” Ramirez said. “If you just join forces with people who are good musicians, you can get a lot further than just shit-talking people.”
The artists that record under Moonburn Collec-tive said they are reluc-tant to define themselves as artists of just one genre. Ramirez and Romo prefer to let listeners define the sound — ‘psychedelic beach rock’ and ‘post chill-wave’ are two ways they’ve heard Tapes described.
“When we write music with our compadres, we nev-er say, ‘Hey, play this this way’ or ‘Hey, play this that way,’” Romo said. “We kind of just make a canvas and let people paint over it.”
To make Tapes’ music, Ramirez creates melodies on his computer that Romo then complements with guitar tracks. Ramirez said the col-laboration between himself
and Romo reflects both of their personalities.
“I think it’s a beautiful thing when it all comes together and we play shows together,” Ramirez said. “You can really feel the characteristics of our individual selves in the music. It’s kind of like we’re speaking, but we’re not speaking.”
Although Romo and Ramirez said they aren’t fans of computers, they acknowl-edge that machinery helps them create their music.
“It’s computers on comput-ers on computers mixed into computers that come out of computers,” Romo said.
Romo and Ramirez are working on Tapes’ first album and preparing for a week of shows during South By South-west. After that, they said they are interested in writing movie scores.
“The whole thing behind Tapes is: Do what you want to do, and do it because you love it,” Ramirez said. “Do it with your best friends. Make memories. That’s really the whole point, I think.”
commissions a power suit set meant for a Champion of Earth to wield. Unfortunate-ly for the people of Earth, the suit accidently falls into the hands of four local idi-ots, who band together as heroes to protect the planet.
Rooster Teeth produced “Lazer Team” with a bud-get of $2.5 million mostly crowd-funded through an Indiegogo campaign. The film is the most funded campaign on the site to date. Rooster Teeth intern Mack-enzie McMahon, a radio-television-film freshman, said some fans donated as much as $10,000 toward the movie. Those who donated significant amounts received special perks, including an executive producer title and a small role in the film.
“[Rooster Teeth has] such huge fan support,” Mc-Mahon said, “It was com-pletely amazing just to see how much the fans were
willing to contribute and how they blew away their Indiegogo goal.”
Hullum said he made sure every penny earned from the campaign ben-efited the film. According to the film’s Indiegogo page, nearly 17 percent of the money raised went directly toward producing high-end special effects.
“We wanted to make ev-ery dollar count toward the production value,” Hullum said. “[We wanted to] make it look and feel like a big cin-ematic experience.”
Biology junior Michael Li, an extra in “Lazer Team,” said he was excited to work with Rooster Teeth. He said the company’s distinct movies are what attract audiences.
“Rooster Teeth has its own unique flavor as far as comedic talent and story-telling goes,” Li said. “It’s one that resonates with a lot of the community.”
Li said that the crowd-funding campaign allowed
the creators to make what they envisioned without dealing with overbearing, outside forces.
“Without a producer looming over their head, they had a lot more cre-ative control over their own
project,” Li said. “I look forward to seeing the live-action Rooster Teeth vision.”
Hullum said that “Lazer Team,” like all of the con-tent Rooster Teeth produc-es, couldn’t have happened without the support of the
company’s fans. He aims to attract current Rooster Teeth fans and the general moviegoer population once the movie is released, some-time in the next year. The full trailer premieres March 16 during SXSW.
“It’s going to be like Roost-er Team content in terms of talent and humor,” Hullum said. “We’re definitely tak-ing it up several notches in terms of production value and the big, sweeping epic of it all.”
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partnered with someone who is, because that would embarrass them. It’s just a super chillax environment, where you don’t have to worry if you sound bad.“
HarmoNation used to be comprised solely of singers, but this semester they wel-come instrument-playing musicians, neuroscience freshman and creative di-rector Khiem Hoang said. The group now incorporates guitar, ukulele, piano and a human beat boxer into their weekly jam sessions and are looking for more instru-ments to add to the mix.
“If you have a xylo-phone or a banjo or some-thing, bring it in here,” Hoang said. “If you have it, we’ll work with it.”
The officers said they try to make all their members feel comfortable so that they may grow as singers and people. They don’t ad-vertise the organization as
a confidence booster but said confidence-boosting is often exactly what hap-pens. The group meets 7 p.m. Wednesdays in varying locations.
“Our goal isn’t neces-sarily to make it, so you can perform Madison Square Garden or some-thing — if you’re comfort-able here, then we’ve done the most important thing,” Nednur said.
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Our goal isn’t neces-sarily to make it, so you can perform Mad-ison Square Garden or something — if you’re comfortable here then we’ve done the most important thing.”
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In its fifth and final tour-nament before the confer-ence season begins, Texas (13–7) travels to Chapel Hill, North Carolina, to compete in the Carolina Classic.
Although the team was originally scheduled to start the tournament against North Carolina on Thurs-day, the Longhorns never took the field because of inclement weather.
As a team, the Long-horns are coming off a 4–0 performance in the Texas Invitational. Their success comes from a combination of offense and defense. Texas’ leadoff batters, known for setting the tone early, reach the bases over 40 percent of the time — while from the circle, freshman Erica Wright has pitched up to her hype with a 5–3 record, three solo shutouts, six complete games and an impressive 1.54 ERA.
Texas, ranked No. 25 last
week, dropped out of the rankings this week.
With three games re-maining in the tourna-ment, weather permitting, the Longhorns face Ohio at 11 a.m. Friday.
So far, the Bobcats (4–9) have struggled to find a consistent positive rhythm — the team is currently on a five-game losing streak, though select Ohio play-ers have stepped up to the plate. Junior outfielder Sloan Walker, who has played in all 13 games this season, has displayed a stellar batting performance, hitting .404 with nine runs on the season. Although she’s only played in four games so far, freshman outfielder Michaela Dorsey records a team-best .429 batting average for the Bob-cats. Three other players join Sloan and Walker in hitting over .300 for the team.
The last and only meeting between the Longhorns and the Bobcats, five years ago, ended in an 11–5 Longhorns’
victory. In the remaining two games of the tournament, Texas will play North Caro-lina on Friday and Charlotte on Saturday.
North Carolina (11–4) started the season on a posi-tive note, and the Tar Heels’ freshmen do the most work to carry the team. Freshman infielder Taylor Wike is bat-ting .432 with four doubles and two triples and fresh-man pitcher Kaylee Carlson maintains a 2.58 ERA with a 6–2 record and 37 strike-outs. Junior outfielder Aq-uilla Mateen also hits .429 and has started in all of the team’s games this year. The Longhorns last played the Tar Heels in 2014, defeating them 7–3.
Texas will meet Charlotte for the first time in program history Saturday. Charlotte (8–6) is 2–2 on a neutral site this year and provides a bal-anced batting lineup. Four players hit over .300, and the 49ers have outscored their opponents 73–41.
The Longhorns’ march to-wards the NCAA champion-ship continues this weekend with the Phillips 66 Big 12 Women’s Basketball Champi-onship, where they sit with the No. 6 seed.
Texas (20–9, 9–9 Big 12) actually finished the Big 12 regular season in a four-way tie for third place, and NCAA tiebreaking rules determined the conference champion-ship seeding between Tex-as, TCU, Oklahoma State and Iowa State. The Long-horns went 2–4 in games against the other teams tied for third.
As a six seed, Texas re-ceives a first-round bye in the Championships, which start Friday at American Air-lines Center in Dallas. In the quarterfinal round Saturday, the Longhorns face TCU, who they beat in a 79–45 blowout Tuesday.
“I thought it was probably one of our best efforts from start to finish from an energy perspective, if not our best,” Longhorns head coach Karen Aston said. “I hope that they remember the energy level and what it felt like to encourage each other, because our team
is so much better when we’re like that for whatever reason. We played freely — and very energetic — so that’s what we have to take to Dallas with us.”
On Tuesday, Texas shot 48 percent from the field and 47 percent from behind the arc to exploit TCU’s zone de-fense and use of five guards. Texas only turned over the ball 13 times.
“I thought our decision-making was better against
their zone,” Aston said. “We cut our turnovers down. It was just a great way for the seniors to go out. We wanted to win 20 games. We wanted to get out of the Friday game in the Big 12 tournament, so there was a lot of motive tonight.”
Texas will continue to find motivation against the TCU team that defeated the Long-horns in Fort Worth earlier last month. In that matchup, Texas turned over the ball a
season-high 25 times.Outside of limiting turn-
overs, Texas looks to use its height as an advantage as it did Tuesday.
“We really worked on keep-ing the ball high and not bring-ing it down,” said sophomore center Kelsey Lang, who was named to the All-Big 12 Second Team. “We just tried to punish them in the paint for either try-ing to play five guards because their posts were in foul trouble
or because that’s how they have been playing.”
The third game between Texas and TCU is slated to begin 8:30 p.m.
“When everybody is en-gaged, the bench is contribut-ing and everybody is jumping up and down, then that’s the way we like to play,” sopho-more guard Brianna Taylor said. “If we play like that all of the time, then I don’t think anybody can stop us.”
Isaiah Taylor’s game-win-ning overtime shot Monday earned him the title “hero” — but it was really Prince Ibeh who wore the cape in the team’s huge win over No. 14 Baylor.
Although he scored no points, grabbed just three rebounds, and was ejected in overtime, the junior cen-ter was the best player on the floor.
And it was all because of his defense.
In the closing seconds of regulation with the game tied, Baylor senior Kenny Chery came off a screen to a mismatch at the top of the arc. The 5-foot-11 point guard was isolated against the 6-foot-10 Ibeh. A quick move gave Chery a step or two on the towering Ibeh, and it looked like he was going to have an easy lay-up to put the Bears up. But — somehow, someway — Ibeh recovered and swatted Chery’s shot to save the game.
“I thought I had a clear lane,” said Chery, “But, obvi-ously, he kept playing, and he blocked it. There’s nothing I can do about that.”
The defensive skills Ibeh showed weren’t isolated to that moment. He’s been showing them since his emergence in Manhattan, Kansas, nearly a month ago.
Until that game, Ibeh struggled to find the court. He was averaging just over eight minutes a game in the first-half of conference play after averaging over 13.5 against the Big 12 last year.
“We need to score,” Barnes said a few weeks ago on why Ibeh doesn’t get more min-utes. “His problem has been
the same. It’s consistency.”On that Saturday after-
noon, he got 20 minutes off the bench and forced Kansas State forward Thomas Gip-son into a difficult shot to seal the all-important victory.
“You have to give Prince credit,” junior forward Con-nor Lammert said after that game. “He earned it today be-cause of his defense. Prince is key for us, and we need that from him each game.”
Ibeh heeded the call. In the eight games since the game against Kansas State, Ibeh has seen his minutes increase to around 11 a game. He doesn’t light up the stat sheet; in fact, he’s only averaged 1.5 shot attempts per game in that stretch with nearly all of those coming off of alley-oops.
“He is our best defender in the post,” Barnes said. “We’re not expecting him to score.”
He has more blocks in that time span (17) than shot attempts (12).
“He’s got a second bounce to him,” Baylor head coach Scott Drew said. “I thought several times Prince jumped at a three-pointer, got down and still was able to get back in the play. Normally, when you have a seven footer jumping for a blocked shot at the three, it takes four days for him to get back down in the paint — he is obviously a talent.”
Texas will need Ibeh to maintain his presence as defensive force as it hosts Kansas State at 3 p.m. Sat-urday in yet another game they must win as it rides that fine line that is the NCAA tournament bubble.
“If we lose, we know our chances of getting in NCAA tournament are about non-existent,” senior forward Jonathan Holmes said.
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Two teams with momen-tum in opposite directions will come head-to-head this weekend.
No. 35 Texas is on a four-game losing streak and No. 34 Houston is on its fifth- straight win.
At 1 p.m. Saturday, the two teams will battle in Houston to see if the Cougars can keep their continuity going — or if they’ll fall to the Longhorns, taking Texas out of its losing slump it’s in.
Texas’ last four losses were all road games, and if the team can’t dominate singles, this
match will likely result in the same outcome. Texas (2–5) has only racked up three sin-gles wins and one doubles win against its last four opponents combined. In order to win, the Longhorns will need to defeat more opponents in the upcoming dual match than they have the past four games.
Houston has gone 6–1 in dual-match play at home (9–4 overall) and swept Texas A&M Corpus Christi last week.
Both teams have a singles player in the ITA Top 50. For the Cougars, it’s No. 34
Despoina Vogasogari (10–2) and for Texas, it’s No. 47 Breaunna Addison. Last month, Addison was named the Professional Tennis Regis-try’s Female Player of the Year, however, she has not played since being awarded that title.
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Sophomore center Kelsey Lang has pro-vided a steady hand in the paint for Texas going into the Big 12 tourna-ment with 11 points and 6.4 rebounds per game.
Missed opportunities doom Texas baseball
Three times the Long-horns had the bases loaded — and each time, the Long-horns finished the inning with zero runs.
Meanwhile, Stanford drilled two home runs as Texas struggled to capitalize with runners in scoring po-sition, leading to a 5–3 de-feat in Palo Alto on Thurs-day night.
After Stanford (8–6) took the lead on back-to-back doubles in the bottom of the second inning, junior out-field Ben Johnson launched a two-run home run to left field to give No. 12 Texas (8–5) a 2–1 lead in the top of the third.
The Cardinals came back in the bottom of the inning, striking on a three-run home run by freshman third baseman Mikey Diekroeger to take a 4–2 lead. Stanford added another in the follow-ing inning on a solo home run by junior designated hitter Austin Barr.
Johnson pulled the Long-horns back to within two runs with a solo home run in the top of the fifth.
Texas had a chance to tie and take the lead in the ninth. Junior shortstop C.J Hinojosa led off the inning with a double and then scored on a wild pitch with two outs. The bases were loaded for junior designated hitter Taylor Stell after two walks and a single.
But Stell’s line drive on an 0–2 count was snagged by the second baseman to end the game.
The rest of the team struggled to capitalize on run-scoring opportunities. Texas went 3-for-20 with runners in scoring position, although only Johnson’s first home run resulted in a run scoring. The team also left 11 batters on base.
The Longhorns had the bases loaded with only one out in the top of the fourth; however, sophomore cen-ter fielder Zane Gurwitz and Stell each struck out to squander the opportu-nity. Texas had bases loaded again in the top of the sixth after three consecutive walks but failed to capitalize as senior right fielder Col-lin Shaw struck out to end the inning.
Junior starting pitcher Chad Hollingsworth, who made his first start in almost two weeks, went five in-nings, giving up six hits and three walks in addition to the five runs.
The loss is the third-straight defeat after the Longhorns had won seven-straight games.
Texas and Stanford will square off at 8 p.m. Friday before finishing the series with games Saturday and Sunday afternoon.
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with a 5–3 record and 1.54 ERA.
Although Punxsutawney Phil prophesized that winter would continue, the weather is gradually starting to warm up here in Austin. As tempera-tures rise, students will need to cool off with frozen treats of all varieties. The Daily Texan compiled a list of underap-preciated frozen sweets you should check out this spring.
Yeti Frozen Custard is a lo-cal company working to churn out the dreamiest custards in town. Go ahead and forget about Sandy’s, because Yeti rules the custard landscape with flavors such as cinnamon toast, roasted strawberry and coffee house. Their strongest offering is blueberry pancake. You have full permission to have a bite — or several pints — for breakfast. Find Yeti pints
in grocery and convenience stores across Austin for about $8 each.
GoodPops are all-natural and locally sourced popsicles created by former UT student Daniel Goetz. The popsicles can be found in stores across town, including Whole Foods
Market, and come in a variety of flavors. They’re all under 100 calories, so you might as well grab a couple boxes while you’re at it. The chocolate milk flavor will make you “moo” for more, and the strawberry
Hilarious dialogue, fast-paced action and great ani-mation are trademarks of Austin production company Rooster Teeth. The next project on the company’s list: a crowd-funded sci-ence-fiction comedy.
Rooster Teeth, known for its popular animated web series “Red vs. Blue” and “RWBY,” will soon release its first feature film, “Lazer Team.” Matt Hullum, Roost-er Teeth CEO and UT alum-nus, directed the movie, which stars studio regulars Michael Jones and Gavin Free, along with co-founder Burnie Burns. Hullum said the movie will retain Roost-er Teeth movies’ trademark strain of outrageous humor.
“Sci-fi, comedy and ac-tion has always been the heart and soul of what we do at Rooster Teeth,” Hullum said. “We thought it would be fun to do something similar [to Red vs. Blue] but in live-action.”
The film follows the story of extraterrestrial beings who make contact with the U.S. government. Af-ter discovering a race of evil aliens preparing to in-vade Earth, the government
A bicycle hung from the ceiling of the red bedroom that doubles as a recording studio. At the desk directly underneath the bike, Carlos Ramirez sat in front of his computer and a wide array of beat-machines and syn-thesizers. He checked sound levels for the ambient guitar track that his band mate, Serge Romo, was in the mid-
dle of recording. They were hoping the dog
would stop barking long enough for them to get a clean take.
Once they finally did, Romo nodded his head and took off his headphones.
“Could you pass me that beer?” he asked.
Ramirez and Romo were working on a track for their new band, Tapes, which they formed in mid-February. Although Tapes is a new
project for Ramirez and Romo, this isn’t the first time they’ve worked together. In summer 2014, with the help of some friends they met af-ter moving to Austin, they created a record label called Moonburn Collective.
Moonburn Collective is a conglomerate of Aus-tin-based musicians who write music and record to-gether. Ramirez, a radio-television-film senior at UT, said the group’s varying
interests are beneficial to the collective.
“When we all come togeth-er, we’re able to do videos, to do photography or music videos,” Ramirez said. “We can write songs, book shows and network. It all blends to-gether really, really well.”
When asked how they de-cided on the name “Moon-burn,” Ramirez and Romo, an economics major at Tex-as State University, launch into a dramatic tale of a
broken-down car and a mysterious stranger they met in Louisiana. It prob-ably isn’t true. The real story behind their name remains a mystery.
At its core, Moonburn Collective is just a group of friends making music and throwing shows together.
“We found that through our collaborative efforts, we could work together in-
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In order for HarmoNation to prosper, first, its members must fail. Fittingly, the of-ficers of HarmoNation can often be found staking out a cappella information sessions — because they look to take rejected students under their musical wing.
Chemical engineering soph-omore Dakota Stormer found-ed HarmoNation, a musical group open to all students, two years ago. Stormer founded the organization with the vi-sion of a totally inclusive a cap-pella group in mind. He lured students with flyers around campus which posed a simple question: Do you like to sing?
Interested students congre-gated in the stairwells of Jester, where they said the acoustics were cool (and the run-ins with annoyed students were awkward, but still fun). The group quickly grew much larg-er based on how many people were interested.
“It was crazy how we grew just from that small span
of time from singing in the stairwells and just being this random group of dorks who liked to do music together to becoming a large orga-nization full of people who wanted to sing and have fun,” Stormer said.
Competitions and awards are not on the group’s radar — they meet for the sole pur-pose of musical enjoyment through collaboration.
Physics and astronomy sophomore Adarsh Nednur, the group’s secretary, said Har-moNation’s low-pressure envi-ronment is appealing to music lovers who might lack the time or skill set required to fully im-merse themselves in a campus a cappella group. The organiza-tion offers a place where mu-sicians can meet other musi-cians, no audition required, to play songs and have fun.
“There’s not really a place for musicians who don’t necessarily want to be com-petitive,” Nednur said. “Or who can’t practice everyday or don’t want to put on big choreographed performances.”
Officers encourage Har-
moNation singers to proudly belt out any song they’re feel-ing into that day — and try to make sure no one feels judged. Radio-television-film freshman Maria Forsythe, HarmoNation’s logistics coor-dinator, said she is a lover of
musical theater and isn’t afraid to show it.
“We’re still a large orga-nization full of dorks who like to sing and have fun,” Forsythe said.
Electrical engineering soph-omore Joshua Richardson,
HarmoNation’s public relations officer, said the members have a wide variety of music tastes, so no genre is off-limits. Al-though classical music is his fa-vorite, Richardson said he loves everything from Frank Sinatra to Daft Punk.
“I wanted to find my per-fect duet partner and be able to sing with them,” Richardson said. “Granted, I’m not the best at singing, [and] I’m pretty sure I don’t want to be
Don’t worry, bad singers: HarmoNation is hereBy Olivia Lewman
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Griffin Smith Daily Texan Staff
HarmoNation is an a cap-pella organiza-tion that aims to be totally inclusive, with membership open to anyone who likes to sing. Officers of HarmoNa-tion, pictured, here, seek to include anyone who enjoys singing without pressure of competition or judgment.
Photo courtesy of Kate ZimmermanOne option for a delicious frozen treat is Yeti Frozen Custard, available in convenience stores across Austin.
Ellyn SniderDaily Texan Staff
Sergio Romo, economics
major at Texas State Univer-sity, left, and radio-televi-
sion-film senior Carlos Ramirez
are two co-founders of the local record la-bel Moonburn
Collective. In addition to
their involve-ment with the
record label, Ramos and
Ramirez also formed a band,
Tapes, in mid-February.
