In Kori Rady’s and Taylor Strickland’s time as Student Government president and vice president, the executive alliance completed 13 out of 28 of its total platform points.

The remaining 15 initia-tives are still in progress, Rady said, although he said he ex-pects them to be implement-ed in the coming semesters.

“When you see the final product you work on, it’s a nice feeling, and you know you’re helping people,” Rady said. “It’s unfortunate that some of the things we worked on, we won’t be around to see.”

Rady and Strickland are still working to finalize on-campus student tailgating for football games, which they said will occur for the up-coming football season.

Other platforms they list online as incomplete are in-

creasing student parking on campus, increasing branding at the University, and see-ing the use of student ID as a form of voter IDs. The legisla-ture has not yet voted on the final issue.

“We’ve lobbied effectively on our end, but I’d really like to see that — not only for UT, but for the state of Texas,” Strickland said.

Rady said he thinks he and Strickland succeeded in rep-resenting UT’s diverse popu-lation as well as completing their most important plat-form points.

“There’s the larger umbrel-la that Student Government doesn’t always live up to, which is representing a lot of students and actually getting tangible things done,” Rady

said. “We’ve done almost ev-erything we’ve wanted to do. … It proves that Student Gov-ernment is really effective.”

One of the first initiatives Rady and Strickland complet-ed was the SafeRide/uRide program, which provides students free rides on week-end nights from downtown

UT students, many of whom wore graduation caps and gowns, testi-fied at the Capitol against a bill that would elimi-nate in-state tuition for undocumented students.

If passed, SB 1819 would repeal Texas’ version of the DREAM Act. Currently, un-documented students who have lived in Texas for at least three years and graduated from a state high school may qualify for in-state tuition at public institutions, a policy passed in 2001 and support-ed by Governor Rick Perry. Additionally, students must sign an affidavit agreeing to apply for citizenship if the opportunity arises.

The bill was heard in the Senate Subcommittee on Border Security on Mon-day. Sen. Campbell (R-New

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The UT System Board of Regents will meet Wednesday to consider facilitating requests from Regent Wallace Hall Jr. to look into information gathered about controversial UT admis-sion practices.

In early March, Hall asked to meet with Bill Nugent, se-nior managing director for Kroll, an investigation compa-ny, regarding a report released in February. The report, which the UT System commissioned, came in response to an investi-gation into admission policies at UT-Austin.

The investigation under-taken by Kroll found that UT-Austin President William Powers Jr. had pressured ad-mission officials to admit a “select handful” of applicants each year. McRaven defended the admission process because no laws or rules were broken, but McRaven said he would attempt to institute changes in the future.

The UT System commis-sioned Kroll to conduct an external investigation of the admissions process after Hall alleged that UT-Austin ad-ministrators were admitting under-qualified applicants with connections to promi-nent legislators.

A few days after his request to meet with Nugent, Hall re-quested an opportunity to read through “any and all informa-tion, confidential and other-wise, that is related to the Kroll investigation that was origi-nally slated for destruction,”

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Carlo Nasisse | Daily Texan Staff Karina Alvarez (left), an alumna of Texas A&M International University in Laredo, and Mirla Lopez, a UT alumna, go over their speeches before testifying at the Capitol against a bill that would eliminate in-state tuition for undocumented students.

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SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY STUDENT GOVERNMENT

Yik Yak tests photo feature on campuses

Marshall Tidrick | Daily Texan file photoYik Yak promotes the new photo feature for its app on select college campuses.

Yik Yak is piloting a pho-to-sharing feature on select campuses after receiving a number of requests from users, according to Yik Yak CEO Tyler Droll.

“Yakkers have told us

that they’d love the option of adding a picture to their yak, so this is something we’re currently testing out on a handful of campuses,” Droll said in a statement to Mashable last week. “There have been some great photo

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Rady/Strickland’s platform incomplete

Marshall TidrickDaily Texan file photo

During their time as Student Government ex-ecutive alliance, vice president Taylor Strickland (left) and presi-dent Kori Rady completed 13 out of 28 of their platform goals.

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Butler Music Hall and Bass Performing Arts Center were evacuated Monday after a bomb threat was reported to the Butler School of Music.

UTPD responded to a call that reported a bomb threat in the Butler School of Music area around 8:50 p.m. The Performing Arts Center and then the Butler Music Hall were evacuated completely in response to the threat.

This event is the second

threat to UT this semester — the first being to a food trailer in West Campus this February. There was also a threat in September 2012 re-sulting in the evacuation of the entire campus. In both cases, UTPD did not prop-erly notify students.

UTPD did not send out an email notifying students of Monday’s potential threat, but the official UTPD Twit-ter account sent out two tweets about the threat.

Although both build-ings were cleared for entry,

there was confusion among UTPD regarding the loca-tion of the threat.

“The PAC was also evacu-ated,” UTPD Lt. Darrell Birdett said. “Originally, the PAC got evacuated, and then we came over here. There was some confusion, I think, about what building the ac-tual threat came into.”

Birdett said he was not sure how many people were evacuated in the threat, al-though UTPD mandated a

full evacuation of all pos-sible buildings.

Attendees of a concert at the Performing Arts Center were evacuated to the Dar-rell K. Royal-Texas Memo-rial Stadium for 30 minutes. James Ellerbock, an attendee and teacher at Bowie High School, said there were armed police officers on the scene.

“We were watching a show, and this woman came

in and said there was a se-rious threat, and we were asked to leave,” Ellerbock said.

Students rehearsing and preforming in the Butler building were asked to leave, as well. While most were evacuated, UTPD failed to notify music performance sophomore Adam Lundell of the threat.

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UTPD ordered an evacuation of Bass Concert Hall on Mon-day night because of suspicious activity and a bomb threat.

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to on-campus dorms or West Campus.

Since the program’s imple-mentation in September, Rady said more than 5,000 students have used the service.

“[SafeRide/uRide] was one of the first things we really got confirmed,” Strickland said. “We were able to really see how students used it, how stu-

dents approached it, what they wanted to see change in it, and we got to modify it as it went along. I really think that was one of our best initiatives.”

The pair also succeeded in extending hours of the Flawn Academic Center to being open 24/7, as well as advocat-ing for a week-long Thanks-giving break.

The Faculty Council ap-proved the extended break last semester, but it needs to be ap-

proved by current-President William Powers Jr. and Pro-vost Gregory Fenves before the break can occur in 2016.

Dean of Students’ Soncia Reagins-Lilly said she enjoys seeing legislative student or-ganizations, Rady and Strick-land’s included, make changes at the University.

“Every year is dynamic, is rich,” Reagins-Lilly said. “It is a journey and a learning ex-perience … to watch the stu-

dents take on these big roles with these big ideas. That pro-cess is incredibly dynamic.”

Rady said being president was a massive job, but it was one he said he believed was worthwhile.

“There’s a lot of pressure — there’s no doubt about that — but you grow, and you learn, and you make mistakes,” Rady said. “You look forward and you do a better job. You can see a tangible change.”

yaks so far, depicting ev-erything from questions to sports victories to random funny moments. We’re excited to see what these communities share.”

Yik Yak is an anonymous social media application in which users post “Yaks,” which are 200-character messages viewable to us-ers within a 10-mile radius. Yik Yak staff will moder-ate the new photo-sharing feature to keep inappro-priate photos and photos that depict illegal activities from being posted, Droll said. Users will be able to take pictures directly from the app.

Madeline Smith, a Yik Yak campus representative and economics junior, said the feature could detract from the anonymous na-ture of the application but might also be used to pro-mote positive causes such as philanthropic sales.

“I would hope they would introduce in a way that would be positive,” Smith said. “Kind of like the Snapchat campus sto-ry — they post things like people selling cupcakes for charity in the West Mall.”

Although Yik Yak is popular among college stu-dents, the app has received critical feedback because of threats and harassment posted on the application, according to an article from digital news website TechCrunch. Anonym-ity on the app has led to more harmful comments being posted, according to Katy Redd, Counseling and Mental Health Center interim program director.

“Users are probably more willing to say [and] to comment in a differ-ent voice than they would normally use if they were representing themselves,” Redd said. “I think that we behave differently when it’s our public persona versus [an attitude of] ‘no one’s ever going to be able to identify me.’”

Law enforcement can sometimes identify us-ers who post inappropri-ate content on Yik Yak, Smith said.

“They have been able to track someone down based on something they posted on the app,” Smith said. “Anonymous can only go so far. There becomes a point where if you say some-thing, you’ll be punished for it. Law enforcement has been involved with [cer-tain content] that has been posted on the app.”

Braunfels), the bill’s primary author, said at the hearing she thinks state residents should fill university class spots — not undocumented students.

“At the end of the day, I think there are a finite num-ber of spots at universities and that those should be pre-served for Texas residents,” Campbell said.

According to Campbell, there was a major increase in the number of undocument-ed students benefitting from in-state tuition since the act’s start. Campbell said she be-lieves the number of students receiving benefits now num-bers in the tens of thousands.

“The question is: Is Texas

going to subsidize the dol-lars for having in-state versus just out-of-state tuition [for undocumented students]?” Campbell said.

Many undocumented stu-dents, especially those eli-gible for schools like UT, are top students in the state, ac-cording to ethnic studies ju-nior Lizeth Urdiales. She said she believes these students are not taking spots from other students and the bill would stop top students from attending state schools.

“You’re just basically low-ering the value of a degree of any institution of higher education in Texas,” said Urdiales, who testified at the hearing.

According to University spokesman Joey Williams,

about 700 students filed an affidavit with the UT last fall. Chancellor William McRa-ven submitted a written tes-timony to the committee stating he thinks providing undocumented students in-state tuition is “the morally right thing to do.”

Journalism sophomore Marlon Saucedo attended the hearing to testify. Saucedo said he has been living in Texas for 14 years and thinks it would be unfair to “not be considered a Texan.”

“I am myself an immi-grant student,” Saucedo said. “I come here because of the same reason everyone is here. I’m passionate about holding on to this right that took awhile for this com-munity to even receive in the

first place.” Sen. Kirk Watson (D-Aus-

tin) said he believes SB 1819 would create a less diverse economic work force. He said we should be “applaud-ing” the successes of un-documented students in the state, rather than removing tuition benefits.

“It’s insulting to our hard-working students and their families that those in control of the Senate have decided that in-state college tuition is a border security issue,” Watson said in an email. “The students affected by this legislation are Texans. They have attended Texas schools and excelled.”

As of press time, the hearing on the bill had not yet concluded.

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New UT System vice chancellor named

The UT System appoint-ed Lynda Chin on Thurs-day to the position of as-sociate vice chancellor for health transformation and chief innovation officer for health affairs.

Chin, the former scientific director of the Institute for Applied Cancer Science at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, stepped down from her posi-tion Monday.

In her role at the UT Sys-tem, Chin will work to pro-mote access to affordable health care throughout Texas and the country, according to a statement from the UT Sys-tem. UT System Chancellor William McRaven said he ex-pects Chin to make progress toward achieving these goals.

“If we want to transform the way health care is deliv-ered, then we need bold and innovative solutions,” McRa-ven said. “Dr. Chin is a very talented physician scientist who has the vision and the ability to get it done.”

Chin said she intends to utilize technology to im-prove health care.

“A system redesign is needed,” Chin said. “Today’s social, mobile and cloud technology along with big data and cognitive analytics can be the keys to a much-needed transformation.”

—Josh Willis

Indigenous Australian writ-ers are consistently overlooked and having their identities erased by the non-indigenous majority, according to the founder of an Australian pub-lishing house.

Sue Abbey founded black&write! to create a plat-form for indigenous writers in Australia to share their work.

Each year, black&write! holds a writing competition to encourage aspiring Aborigine authors to share and possibly publish their work.

Approximately 30 tran-scripts are submitted, and a panel of judges decides who is deemed the winner. Black&write! keeps in touch with contestants in hopes that they find an avenue to publish their work, black&write! indig-enous editor Ellen van Neer-ven-Currie said.

Van Neerven-Currie said growing up in Australia, she was not exposed to any Ab-origine literature or writing un-til she started college.

“This history wasn’t taught in schools — certainly not where I went to school,” van Neerven-Currie said.

The continuous discarding of Aborigine stories and identi-ties is an issue that has persisted since the country’s inception, van Neerven-Currie said.

The first well known Aborig-ine writer was David Unaipon, whose early 20th-century lit-erature wasn’t attributed to him until several decades later.

Much of the Aborigine peo-ples’ culture was traditionally passed down through an intri-cate, complex oral history that spans 60,000 years, Abbey said.

Before Australia was colo-nized by the British, more than 250 distinct languages were spoken by the country’s indig-enous population. Today, that number has fallen to 18, ac-cording to Abbey.

“Everything was handed down,” Abbey said. “[Aborigi-ne people do not] take lightly in using descriptions or songs that are explaining the landscape. It would be the same oral text, and they didn’t stray from it.”

While at the University of

Queensland Press, Abbey no-ticed a lack of indigenous au-thors. She said she decided to create black&write! in order to increase the amount of oppor-tunities for Aborigine people to publish their work.

“I sat in on a few discus-sions and heard black writers

talk about how there is no ac-cessibility,” Abbey said. “It was through that, seeing that there’s a need, and thinking, ‘I’ll give it a hurrah.’”

Including Aborigine litera-ture in the school curriculum can make people aware of the rich heritage that exists in Aus-

tralia, said Brenda Machosky, visiting scholar from the Uni-versity of Hawaii-West Oahu.

“Bringing [indigenous writ-ing] into courses, incorporating them into classes, … my stu-dents have never read anything from Australia until I introduce it to the class,” Machosky said.

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Study: Music therapy may benefit premature babies

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By Katie Keenan@thedailytexan

RESEARCH

Music therapy could help prematurely born babies re-gain brain functionality and go home up to two weeks sooner after birth, saving more than $2,000 per day, according to a visiting professor.

Music therapy research in the field of neonatology aims to reduce the amount of time a premature baby spends in the hospital, said Jayne Stand-ley, a professor at Florida State

University. Using the therapy, the baby can begin living a nor-mal life at home without the physical and mental burdens of medical treatment, according to Standley.

The faster a premature baby begins a normal life, the lower the baby’s chances of develop-ing major learning disabili-ties as the baby grows up are, Standley said.

“If the baby remains over-stimulated from hospital sounds, lights and sensa-tions, brain cells divide in an

overstimulated state, which leads to faulty wiring in the brain,” Standley said. “Later on, in older children, we see hyper-activity and attention deficit disorder. … Every new stimu-lus causes the child to look around and try to focus, but they just cannot pay attention.”

Marcie Moynihan, a reg-istered neo-natal intensive care nurse at Seton Medical Center, also said loud noises and bright lights could work against giving babies the best care possible, but modern

NICUs train their nurses to limit these disturbances.

“When I started in NICUs in the 1970s, they were loud with alarms going off,” Moynihan said. “Nowadays, it would be a pretty unsophisticated NICU to not address those noise and light issues.”

Music therapy teaches premature babies how to breathe regularly, and Stand-ley said doing so helps the children become indepen-dent from their medical life-support systems.

“In seconds after the music starts playing, oxygen saturation in the lungs begins to rise be-cause the baby begins to breathe in rhythm with the quiet music,” Standley said. “Music makes pleasure hormones flood the baby’s neurological circuits.”

NICUs in general hospi-tals have too many other ex-penses to consider starting a music therapy program, Moynihan said.

“If you have a list of a whole bunch of things that you need in a NICU, I would consider

music therapy a lower priority,” Moynihan said.

Local opera singer Alison Trainer said the research’s find-ings strongly corresponded with her personal experiences with deaf babies’ reactions to hearing music for the first time after cochlear implants.

“I have a dear friend whose baby was born with severe hearing loss,” Trainer said. “When the baby got cochlear implants, his response to the opera singing was obvious — obvious and profound.”

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Publisher creates Aborigine platform

RESEARCH

Professor: Shakespeare’s logo suggests earlier rise to fame

An ornately designed logo printed on Shakespeare’s works suggests an earlier rise to prominence than previ-ously thought, according to a UT professor.

English professor Douglas Bruster said his research shows that Shakespeare created a type of brand and gained recogni-tion from his peers earlier in his career through an ornate design that Bruster refers to as “Lady 8.” The logo depicts a fe-male face, birds and leaves and appears on the title pages of the poems “Venus and Adonis” and “The Rape of Lucrece.”

The design previously ap-peared only on the inside pages of books and often ac-companied the names of aris-tocrats, Bruster said.

“Getting such a sumptuous image on your title page may have said, to Elizabethan read-ers, that something quite ele-gant, and important, was inside these books,” Bruster said.

English sophomore Taylor Moore said Bruster’s find-ings confirm what she has al-ways thought and heard about Shakespeare.

“He had to work extremely hard to overcome class and educational boundaries to situ-ate himself as a respected writer within the Elizabethan era,” Moore said. “The discovery of an ornamental brand, used to signify prestige to readers, just further supports this idea.”

Richard Field, Shake-speare’s friend and publisher, was very deliberate in his use of ornaments and printed the design on the title page of each of Shakespeare’s poems, Bruster said.

Shakespeare lacked the educational background that other writers during his time had, but his poems “Venus and Adonis” and “The Rape of Lucrece” cemented his reputation as a leading writer, Bruster said, and the Lady 8 ornament that embellished these poems added a visual luxury to his poetry and came

to stand for his achievement.“The Lady 8 ornament was

employed for a few books earlier,” Bruster said. “But when it was used for his first publications, it came to stand for them, their suc-cess and eventually the era he represented. It stands as a long-neglected ‘brand’ for a writer who was much more famous — much earlier than we sometimes like to think.”

Moore said Bruster’s re-search may change the way society views Shakespeare’s rise as a poet.

“I think these findings will force modern readers to think even more about the impact class had on the reception of Shakespeare’s work,” Moore said.

English professor Mary Blockley said Bruster’s research offers new knowledge about the highly acclaimed poet.

“The forging of this link … does prove there is always more to be known about even this best-known of English au-thors,” Blockley said.

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according to a statement re-leased by the UT System.

No one from Kroll will be in attendance at the meeting Wednesday, according to UT System spokeswoman Jenny Caputo.

The board now operates under a new rule, which was adopted in February 2014, that specifies all information requests must go through the chairman and chancellor, Ca-puto said. If either person has concerns, then the request is discussed at a meeting with all regents present.

In accordance with the rule, Chairman Paul Fos-ter and Chancellor William McRaven decided to call a meeting with the other re-gents to decide whether Hall’s

request would be granted. If two or more regents agree that Hall’s requests should be allowed, then the requests, “will be filled without delay,” according to the statement.

“The purpose of the rule is to demonstrate the board’s com-

mitment to providing transpar-ency to the public to the fullest extent allowed by law, while en-suring protection of confiden-tial information and personal privacy,” Caputo said.

Kroll could not be reached for comment.

yaks so far, depicting ev-erything from questions to sports victories to random funny moments. We’re excited to see what these communities share.”

Yik Yak is an anonymous social media application in which users post “Yaks,” which are 200-character messages viewable to us-ers within a 10-mile radius. Yik Yak staff will moder-ate the new photo-sharing feature to keep inappro-priate photos and photos that depict illegal activities from being posted, Droll said. Users will be able to take pictures directly from the app.

Madeline Smith, a Yik Yak campus representative and economics junior, said the feature could detract from the anonymous na-ture of the application but might also be used to pro-mote positive causes such as philanthropic sales.

“I would hope they would introduce in a way that would be positive,” Smith said. “Kind of like the Snapchat campus sto-ry — they post things like people selling cupcakes for charity in the West Mall.”

Although Yik Yak is popular among college stu-dents, the app has received critical feedback because of threats and harassment posted on the application, according to an article from digital news website TechCrunch. Anonym-ity on the app has led to more harmful comments being posted, according to Katy Redd, Counseling and Mental Health Center interim program director.

“Users are probably more willing to say [and] to comment in a differ-ent voice than they would normally use if they were representing themselves,” Redd said. “I think that we behave differently when it’s our public persona versus [an attitude of] ‘no one’s ever going to be able to identify me.’”

Law enforcement can sometimes identify us-ers who post inappropri-ate content on Yik Yak, Smith said.

“They have been able to track someone down based on something they posted on the app,” Smith said. “Anonymous can only go so far. There becomes a point where if you say some-thing, you’ll be punished for it. Law enforcement has been involved with [cer-tain content] that has been posted on the app.”

Xintong Guo | Daily Texan file photoRegent Wallace Hall Jr. filed an information request in March regarding UT admission practices.

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Zoe Fu | Daily Texan StaffSue Abbey, founder of black&write!, speaks on Monday afternoon about encouraging devel-opment of an indigenous writing community in Australia.

New UT System vice chancellor named

The UT System appoint-ed Lynda Chin on Thurs-day to the position of as-sociate vice chancellor for health transformation and chief innovation officer for health affairs.

Chin, the former scientific director of the Institute for Applied Cancer Science at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, stepped down from her posi-tion Monday.

In her role at the UT Sys-tem, Chin will work to pro-mote access to affordable health care throughout Texas and the country, according to a statement from the UT Sys-tem. UT System Chancellor William McRaven said he ex-pects Chin to make progress toward achieving these goals.

“If we want to transform the way health care is deliv-ered, then we need bold and innovative solutions,” McRa-ven said. “Dr. Chin is a very talented physician scientist who has the vision and the ability to get it done.”

Chin said she intends to utilize technology to im-prove health care.

“A system redesign is needed,” Chin said. “Today’s social, mobile and cloud technology along with big data and cognitive analytics can be the keys to a much-needed transformation.”

—Josh Willis

when the evacuation be-gan. He said a group mes-sage between other music students notified him of the threat. Lundell was in the building for about an hour before leaving.

“I texted one of my friends, and he said he told an officer what room I was in, and he came in, and [the officer] came in and got me,” Lundell said.

Lundell said it was ex-citing at first, but then he grew nervous because he knew he should not be in the building.

“I was scared for a little bit, so I kept playing the piano to calm my nerves,” Lundell said.

Music studies junior Hugo Ramirez said he was asked to evacuate after a concert, but he was not too shocked by the threat because he was previously evacuated during a previ-ous University bomb threat.

“At this point, this is, like, the second time that I’ve been here that this has hap-pened,” Ramirez said. “I was a little surprised, but in the end I wasn’t too shocked.

Additional reporting by Wynne Davis

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On Thursday morning, KLRU hosted an on-campus conversation between Texas Tribune showrunner Evan Smith and Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-VT, a potential 2016 presidential candidate and one of the only independents on Capitol Hill. Despite the prominence of the speakers and the acces-sibility of the event, a quick glance around the studio revealed disappointingly few students among the audience.

Later that same day, the Strauss Center

for International Security and Law and the Clements Center for History, Strategy and Statecraft, along with several other cam-pus organizations, hosted an on-campus lecture featuring Sen. Kelly Ayotte, R-NH, widely regarded as one of Congress’ fore-most experts on foreign policy. And, for the second time in eight hours, a quick glance around the auditorium exposed a crowd largely devoid of young people.

As frustrating as it might be to see low student turnout at events featuring some of America’s most influential leaders, there are plenty of valid reasons underlying such a poor attendance level. Given the amount of energy it takes to balance working hard enough to succeed and resting well enough to avoid burnout and illness, most students don’t have a whole lot of time to spend ex-temporaneously attending presentations, no matter how interesting or informative they might be. That means that a presenta-tion on campus will probably never reach the same turnout as a home football game or a lecture hall on exam day, regardless of its subject matter or the speaker’s notabil-ity.

Still, the unlikelihood that students will turn out en masse to hear famous or dynamic or controversial public figures doesn’t absolve the University of its respon-sibility to facilitate access to its own events.

Somehow, UT has made it to 2015 with-out consistently posting livestreams of

on-campus speakers. Doing so would ac-commodate anyone who can’t attend a presentation during its scheduled time-frame. The Internet is already a godsend for students seeking to fit TV shows into their hectic calendars; there’s no reason it couldn’t provide similar benefits to those interested in the thought-provoking events the University has to offer.

Event planners should also consider re-structuring question-and-answer sessions to include online submissions, a tactic em-ployed at presidential debates to improve audience engagement. At Ayotte’s lecture, moderator William Inboden was able to identify by name a large proportion of the questioners he selected. But while handing the mic to those well-connected enough to get recognized by the director of the Cle-ments Center is a good way to maintain a high-quality discussion —one of the few audience members Inboden randomly called on launched into a tirade about a “clash of civilizations” between the West and Islam — it doesn’t exactly encourage participation among the general public. Al-lowing attendees and non-attendees alike to submit questions online can reconcile the trade-off between providing access to everyone and expecting coherence from everyone.

A more challenging problem for the University is how to balance its obliga-tions to its students with its commitment

to engaging the broader Austin commu-nity. Last year, UT’s Civil Rights Summit jolted thousands of students out of their daily routines by bringing to campus a star-studded array of visitors that included four U.S. presidents, four Hall of Fame athletes and dozens of activists, philanthropists and academics. But because the Summit reserved so many seats for Austinites and VIPs, Longhorns made up a tiny fraction of the event’s audience.

As a public university, UT is right to provide some perks to the taxpayers re-sponsible for keeping it afloat. But shut-ting interested students out of high-profile presentations sends a terrible message to America’s future leaders and innovators. To its credit, the University did livestream most of the Summit’s speeches, and it set up a huge monitor in front of the Tower to send President Barack Obama’s address booming over the South Mall. Still, when the football stadium seats over 100,000 people, there’s no need to exclude anyone from major events, regardless of their rela-tionship to the University.

If it wants what starts here to really change the world, UT should let its stu-dents engage with those currently chang-ing the world.

Shenhar is a Plan II, government and economics sophomore from Westport, Con-necticut. He writes about campus and edu-cation issues.

Editor’s Note: With new Student Govern-ment President and Vice President Xavier Rotnofsky and Rohit Mandalapu being sworn in Tuesday evening, we thought we would take one last look at the accomplish-ments and failures of the outgoing adminis-tration of Kori Rady and Taylor Strickland.

One year ago, the Executive Alliance team of Kori Rady and Taylor Strickland, after winning their election by a hair, came into office with big hopes toward the fu-ture. They unveiled an ambitious platform to help the average University student in a variety of ways. This included promises of a more inclusive Student Government, but it also included more specific planks. When it comes to these specific promises, the Rady/Strickland administration has a mixed record in living up to their word.

For example, the Flawn Academic Cen-ter has now extended its hours to be a 24-hour space for students to study or use for other purposes. This comes on the heels of a broader promise by Rady/Strickland to extend hours in student buildings. Cer-tainly, they — and the rest of Student Gov-ernment — are to be commended for this achievement. However, it is important to note that momentum on this issue was also

generated by external sources, such as a Firing Line in the Texan.

The pair have also had success in ex-panding the Safe Ride program that pre-vents drunk driving by transporting stu-dents from downtown bars to their homes in West Campus or Riverside.

On other issues, progress will be slower as initiatives churn through the University administration. For instance, Rady and Strickland promised an extended Thanks-giving Break, which was endorsed last semester by the Faculty Council and will likely take effect in two years.

But elsewhere, progress has been almost nonexisten. Namely, during the campaign, the ticket promised to “lobby for student IDs meeting voter requirements.” Literally, the administration has done this, as the Texan reported time and again last semes-ter. However, these exercises in lobbying don’t seem to have been particularly suc-cessful. Anyone can try and fail at a task at hand, but the students expect leaders who can actually deliver results.

Be it alcohol at football games, forgive-ness for first-time parking offenders or more kosher and halal eating options for students on campus, there are a number

of other issues that we can find almost no progress on since Rady/Strickland took office.

Obviously, it would be the height of naivete to completely fault Rady/Strickland for not being able to wave a magic wand and completely enact their admittedly sometimes far-fetched agenda. However, if an idea was not realistic to begin with, candidates have no business wooing prospective voters with its fantastic siren

songs. Furthermore, much of the platform ar-

guably was stymied by a dysfunctional and sometimes broken Student Government Assembly. Petty internal dramas ate up a considerable amount of valuable legislative time this academic year, leaving far less time for deliberating and debating perti-nent issues. Additionally, even when the Assembly resigned itself from superficial squabbles and actually did its job, it was often unwilling to prioritize the big-pic-ture issues with which Executive Alliance candidates’ platforms are replete. Alter-natively, the Assembly sometimes valued insignificant and sometimes downright extraneous issues, such as recently wading

into foreign policy. Serving at the helm of this University’s

Student Government is not an easy task. Indeed, both recurring constraints and new challenges beset leaders year after year. Rady and Strickland have faced par-ticularly tough constraints and still man-aged to accomplish plenty, but they could have done more.

Hopefully, Xavier Rotnofsky and Rohit Mandalapu, who will be sworn in as Stu-dent Government president and vice presi-dent, respectively, Tuesday evening, will be able to learn from their mistakes, but also double down on the countless posi-tive steps that the old leaders were able to fortunately take during their year in office.

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Despite the prominence of the speakers and the acces-sibility of the event, a quick glance around the studio revealed disappointingly few students among the audi-ence.

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Marshall Tidrick | Daily Texan File PhotoOutgoing Student Government President Kori Rady and Vice President Taylor Strickland have had a mixed record of success.

University should make on-campus guest lectures more accessible

FIRST MEETING OF THE 109TH STUDENT GOVERNMENT ASSEMBLY

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Since high school, Cham-bers has volunteered with EMTs. However, after his cousin, a police officer, died in the line of duty in 2006, Chambers decided to become a firefighter. During his seven years as a firefighter, the de-partment honored Chambers for his heroism after he saved a disabled person from their burning home.

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enjoy doing. For me, I couldn’t sit home and program all day. That would get me down.”

In order to gain more knowledge and build a larger support network for students, Chambers became part of the Sexual Assault Response and Resource Team of Tra-vis County. Chambers doesn’t know how many cases will come in each day, but he waits patiently in his office to give his full attention to concerned students.

“In my previous job as a firefighter, I never really fol-lowed up with people,” Cham-bers said. “Here, we continue to work with students through the crisis and see how resil-ient the students are and how they can succeed against a lot of struggles.”

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After sweeping Texas State this past weekend in a two-game stint, Texas faces Texas A&M-Cor-pus Christi at Red and Charline McCombs Field on Tuesday.

The Longhorns (26–9) have earned an 11–3 re-cord at home, winning the last three on walk-offs. Proudly possess-ing an eight-game win streak, Texas, which has outplayed Texas A&M-CC on the stat sheet this season, looks to extend its success against the Islanders, who are on a four-game streak of their own but control a mere 7–8 away record.

With early boosts prov-ing effective, the Long-horns have scored in the first inning in seven straight and have hit a total of 51 runs in the first frame this season — almost a quarter of the team’s run total and the most scored in any inning.

Texas will have the offensive advantage in Tuesday’s noncon-ference matchup. In

their 26 wins, the Long-horns have come from be-hind in 10 of them, post-ing five walk-off victories.

Outscoring the Island-ers (12–21–1) this season 223–119, the Longhorns have more than doubled their opponent in tri-ples and near-doubled in RBIs. The Islanders have hit 15 long balls, just three more than ju-nior outfielder Lindsey Stephens alone.

Texas A&M-Corpus Christi struggled early on, losing its first eight games before posting a tie against South Dakota and then losing three more. Since then, the Is-landers have earned a 12–10 record, defeating opponents ranging from Houston to Nicholls to Sam Houston State — their great margin of vic-tory of the season: six.

In the circle, Texas A&M-Corpus Christi sophomore pitcher Liz Carter allows over just over 3.5 runs per seven innings, striking out 75 in 129 innings. In 23 fewer innings, Texas ace freshman Erica Wright boasts a 2.44 ERA with

102 strikeouts.From behind the bat,

the Islanders maintain a solid lineup with team-leading senior shortstop Hayley Galloway batting .321, followed by senior outfielder Mickayla Co-chran and sophomore catcher Brittney Morse batting .307 each.

Yet the Longhorns’ top four batters rank higher than all of the Islanders, led by Wong hitting with a .387 average and followed by Stephens, Shireman and junior first baseman Holly Kern with .368, .333 and .330, respectively.

On an individual lev-el, hitting just below .300, sophomore short-stop Devon Tunning has reached base in a career-best 20 straight games. Just behind her, sopho-more outfielder Stepha-nie Wong has reached in 18 straight, and Ste-phens and junior catcher Erin Shireman have both reached in 10 straight.

After the game against Texas A&M-Corpus Christi on Tues-day at 4:30 p.m., Texas will host Oklahoma at home Friday.

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So far this season, it’s been a tale of two halves for the Longhorns.

Texas opened the sea-son taking two out of four games at Rice and Stanford, swept Minnesota and start-ed conference play with a 5–1 record.

But the Longhorns have fallen on hard times re-cently. After Sunday’s loss at Oklahoma State, the team has now lost sev-en-straight games — the most since Texas lost eight straight in 1956 — and has fallen either out of or to the bottom of most of the rankings. In the process, Texas has also dropped to fourth in the Big 12 stand-ings with a series against TCU still looming.

Now, the Longhorns will look to snap the los-ing streak and jump-start the offense in a midweek showdown against Wichita State on Tuesday.

“It’s just about run scor-ing and being able to get the runners on base and capitalize with timely hit-ting, and we’re not doing that,” head coach Augie Garrido said.

The bulk of the issues for the Longhorns in their recent dive have been just that: struggling in the batter’s box. Texas ranks last in the Big 12 with a .245 team batting average and have struck out 245 collectively, the most in

the conference.And even when the

Longhorns have gotten on base, they’ve had trouble finding their way home. In the three games at Okla-homa State, Texas left 33 total runners on base, in-cluding 19 in the 18-inning game Friday.

In that game, the Long-horns had five chances in the nine extra innings to take the lead, includ-ing a great opportu-nity in the 12th with a

runner at third and one out. However, they failed with each opportunity, al-lowing the Cowboys to win in the 18th.

“A lot has been done to try to give them the con-fidence to take the at-bat with nobody on base,” Gar-rido said. “If you have the runners in your head, then you can’t be fully focused on the ball, which is really all you can do as a hitter.”

And the lack of hitting has spoiled strong pitching for

the Longhorns.Senior starting pitcher

Parker French is eighth in the conference with a 2.31 ERA, and sophomore starter Kacy Clemens had only given up two runs in his previous three starts before Sunday.

Things start to get a little easier for the Longhorns on Tuesday against the Shockers. Wichita State comes in with a 13–18 record and is just 4–9 on the road this season.

The Shockers’ pitching staff is considerably lighter

than what the Longhorns faced this past weekend in Stillwater, Oklahoma. Wichita State pitchers have combined for a 5.16 ERA and have allowed oppo-nents to post a .280 batting average against them.

Even with all of the recent struggles, Garrido said the team isn’t going to make any excuses.

“We understand the re-sponsibilities we have,” Garrido said. “Momentum is what gets it rolling.

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Baseball tumbles in major Top 25 polls

The Longhorns started off the season ranked as high as No. 6, but after losing seven consecutive games, Texas (17–15, 5–4 Big 12) dropped out of the top 25 in four of the five major polls. The only poll where the Longhorns remain in the top 25 is the NCBWA poll. Texas will look to climb out of its losing slump when it takes on Wichita State today at 7 p.m. at UFCU Disch-Falk Field.

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Longhorns try to snap losing skid

Thalia Juarez | Daily Texan file photoJunior outfielder Taylor Stell lays down a bunt in a recent home game. Stell and Texas are slumping at the plate and will look to ignite their offense against Wichita State.

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SOFTBALL

Men’s TennisAfter cruising to a 4–1

victory against No. 22 Texas Tech on Saturday, No. 9 Texas will square off against two unranked op-ponents this week, taking on UTSA on Tuesday and Texas A&M-Corpus Christi on Wednesday.

Both matches will be home matches for the Long-horns, as Tuesday’s match will be at the Caswell Ten-nis Center, and Wednesday’s will be at the Westwood Country Club.

The week’s matches will be Texas’ first back-to-back since the ITA National Team Indoor Championship. The contracted schedule for the Longhorns is the result of a rainout against UTSA on March 2.

The two matches will pro-vide the Longhorns an op-portunity to fine-tune cer-tain aspects of their game, especially at the doubles positions. Texas has lost the doubles point in its previ-ous two matches, with three losses from the doubles lines coming in tiebreakers.

Following this week’s matches, the Longhorns will have a week off before facing off against No. 2 Baylor on April 15 at the Caswell Ten-nis Center in Austin.

It will be the Longhorns’ fifth match this year against a top-10 opponent, and it will be the penultimate match of the season for Texas be-fore the Big 12 Men’s Tennis Championship on April 24.

Women’s TennisOver Easter weekend, No.

29 Texas added two new non-conference Tuesday matches to its schedule, in-cluding this week’s match against Abilene Christian University. After a tough loss to No. 19 Ohio State, the Longhorns look to

take home a win on their home court.

The Wildcats have gone 1–4 on the road this season and are still waiting to claim their first road-win against a conference team. Abilene Christian is part of the Southland Con-ference and will play Texas first in a string of three nonconference matches.

No. 29 Texas has the advantage going into the matchup with multiple past victories against unranked teams under its belt so far this season, including vic-tories against Iowa State and West Virginia.

No. 47 Texas junior Breaunna Addison will look to win against Abilene Christian junior Kaysie Hermsdorf, her sixth-straight singles match at No. 1 singles. Hermsdorf is the leading singles win-ner, alongside junior Nada Marjanovic. Both players have nine singles wins so far this season.

The Longhorns will take on the Wildcats at the Whitaker Tennis Courts at 4 p.m.

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Daulton Venglar | Daily Texan StaffJunior outfielder Lindsey Stephens and the Longhorns look to extend their eight-game win-ning streak against Texas A&M-Corpus Christi.

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With a big smile on his face, David Chambers, coordinator for Student Emergency Ser-vices, welcomes students in cri-sis to his office. He offers a list of resources to get back on top, deems any student’s concern an emergency and works overtime to help overwhelming situations seem less scary.

“I’m kind of a hugger,” Cham-bers said. “There’re many times I just want to hug you and make it all go away.”

Although Chambers has an undergraduate degree in

SES coordinator helps students amid crises

By Olivia Lewman@thedailytexan

Zoe FuDaily Texan Staff

David Chambers, coordinator for Student Emer-gency Services, provides support and resources for students going through difficult situations. He devotes his time to alleviating students’ crisis.

UT alumna Rasika Mathur works as an actor, comedian and writer. Mathur will perform Tuesday at the Union. Mathur spoke with the Texan for a Q&A.

The Daily Texan: How did you get into comedy and performing?

Rasika Mathur: I wasn’t really the class clown in high school, but I like to observe people and pick up on the weird things they did.

I used to make funny speeches in my high school classes. I did these little stand-up, 10-minute comedy acts. It started as an as-signment, but then people began asking me to do them just for fun.

DT: What did you do while you were at UT?

RM: I was an advertising major, and I thought that I was good. But then I got a particu-lar professor that was brutal, and that kind of scared me. I started to think that I should do

something different with my life. I focused on extracurricu-lar stuff instead. It was actually when I performed at the Indian Student Association talent show that I thought, “Oh, maybe I can make something out of this stand-up thing.”

DT: In your comedy album “the Sari (W)rap,” you talk about growing up as an Asian-American immigrant in Hous-ton. How has that influenced your perspective?

RM: The immigrant circle

when I was growing up in Alief, Houston, was really tight-knit. Me and the other kids spent a lot of time hanging out and making fun of our parents and the com-munity aunties, pointing out things about the way they talked or acted, and that developed into something that I focused on during my acts. I grew up with these very tense, fearful people in my house, and now I’m start-ing to realize where they were coming from.

DT: What are some of the

biggest challenges you’ve faced in your career?

RM: You have to know your self-worth in the industry, but you also have to ask for help from people who are better than you. You need to know how to talk to people more famous or more accomplished than you, and I think that I let myself get intimi-dated sometimes in circles where I thought I was the weakest link, and I didn’t speak up. It was sad because those might have been big opportunities for me to learn.

Sometimes after a show that I’d flopped, I’d beat myself up about

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Passover, the annual fes-tival celebration of the Jews’ liberation from Egyptian slav-ery, began Friday and will last eight days. Over the course of the holiday, those observing Passover adhere to a host of food-related rules.

Breads and leavened prod-ucts are off-limits because the biblical story of Exodus says the Jewish people left their homes so quickly after being freed that they didn’t have time to let their breads rise. Matzah, a flourless cracker, takes the place of bread during Passover.

Any food that contains rye, barley, oats or spelt is considered hametz, or non-Passover friendly. This lim-its most pastries from being consumed and rules out flour-containing items, such as cereal or pasta.

Passover-friendly equiva-lents of wheat products, such as pizza and bagels, can be

found in grocery stores. It’s important to remember that just because a product is glu-ten-free, it does not mean it is certified kosher, much less certified kosher for Passover. Most kosher-approved prod-ucts are labeled as such.

Most fresh meats and pro-duce are acceptable to eat, and, as usual, meat should not be paired or mixed with dairy. But be careful: Frozen vegetables and some ground meat are hametz because of the way they are processed and packaged. Raw fish is kosher-friendly unless it has been glazed, which would re-quire certification of the glaze.

Some oils are off-limits during Passover as well. Canola oil, peanut oil and all other oils, with the exception of olive oil, are not allowed.

For Ashkenazi Jews, kit-niyot items are another subgroup of food prod-ucts not allowed. Kitniyot items have hametz grains mixed into them or were processed in the same

way as hametz. Vegetables such as corn, edamame and green beans are con-sidered kitniyot, as well as mustard and sesame seeds.

Ground spices must be Passover-certified, as well, be-cause certain hametz facilities process spices. Some spices are kitniyot altogether, such as cardamom and caraway.

If you are making desserts during Passover, watch out for sweeteners that contain corn syrup, processed honey or maple syrup. Brown sugar might also be hametz.

Snacking on campus this week will be difficult. Keep in mind that dried fruits can be treated with oils that are hametz. Raw nuts don’t require certification, but many shelled nuts are made with preserva-tives and additives that would require certification.

To make an easy and Passover-friendly vegan chocolate mousse, go to www.dailytexanonline.com.

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Passover rules, recipes for successful yeast-free week

Elisabeth Dillon | Daily Texan StaffMany Jewish students on campus this week will be observing Passover, which brings with it a host of food-related rules.

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You have to know your self-worth in the industry.

—Rasika MathurActress, comedian, writer

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