For the next round of elec-tions, voters might be able to cast their ballots with a cell phone in hand.

Current state law prohib-its voters from having their cell phones within 100 feet of the voting area, but the State House of Representatives on Monday heard and initially passed a bill that would allow voters to use their cell phones in polling stations, with cer-tain limitations.

The bill, authored by Rep. Greg Bonnen (R-Friend-swood), permits voters to “access information that was downloaded, recorded or cre-ated on the phone” before the voter enters his or her polling place.

Bonnen described the bill as allowing people to use their phone as they would on airplane mode — no surf-ing the web, making calls or texting, but voters would be able to access pre-made notes about candidates.

“The legislation doesn’t specify what the docu-ment can be,” Bonnen said. “It can be anything that you wish. The main issue is

Enactus, a social entrepre-neurship club, is preparing to open a coffee stand in the atri-um of the McCombs School of Business, but the stand is missing one essential thing — a name.

Enactus is a global organi-zation with a presence in 36 countries and on 250 university campuses in the U.S. According to Dennis Passovoy, the club’s faculty adviser and a manage-ment lecturer, Enactus allows

its members to hone their indi-vidual abilities through creative projects that ultimately benefit the community.

“These kids are mostly busi-ness students, but they come from all over campus, and they vary in where they are in their education,” Passovoy said. “What unifies them is their passion for social issues. They want to give back to their com-munity and participate in mak-ing the world a better place.”

Enactus held a school-wide competition to find a name for the stand. The club accepted

submissions from April 13 through Saturday and will pick finalists for students to vote on sometime next week. The top three finalists will re-ceive a free month of coffee.

“We received about 153 submissions, but narrow-ing them down will be dif-ficult because there were so many great ones,” said Farahn Hughes, Enactus member and business sopho-more. “Some that stood out were Texan Beans Business,

In an effort to demonstrate the risks associated with tex-ting while driving, students tested their abilities to mul-titask behind the wheel in a simulation on campus spon-sored by UTPD and Allstate’s Reality Rides initiative.

The event, held Monday, was part of Reality Rides’ na-tionwide tour designed to ed-ucate university communities on the life-threatening risks of distracted driving, according to Kelly Conway, co-founder of the Fleming and Conway branch for Allstate Insurance.

“The reason we are tar-geting college campuses is because the number one

The UT System Board of Regents voted to name Greg-ory Fenves, executive vice president and provost, UT’s next president.

The regents met by phone call for a special meeting Monday to vote on Fenves’ appointment, with eight of the nine regents voting in

favor and one abstaining.Reflecting on an uncertain

and, at times, rocky relation-ship between the Board of Regents and past presidents, Fenves said he looks forward to working together for the benefit of UT.

“As the leader of UT-Aus-tin, I look forward to working with the entire Board of Re-gents in advancing our great university,” Fenves said.

UT System Chancellor William McRaven said he has become familiar with Fenves in his time as chancellor.

“I’ve had an opportunity to work with Dr. Fenves closely here over the last three-and-a-half months in my time as the chancellor, and I think he is an excellent choice for the job,” McRaven said.

Fenves said his ultimate goal for UT is to move

forward and help the Uni-versity continue to become a world-class institution.

“We want to move forward in a positive way,” Fenves said. “I think we need to agree on a common purpose and a vi-sion for the University, agree on what our goals are and how we’re going to achieve those goals.”

Steven Abrams, chair of the Department of Pediatrics at UT-Austin’s Dell Medical School, spoke Monday morn-ing to doctors and nurses from Austin about his vision for the department’s future.

Abrams addressed several issues important to his goals for the medical school during his talk. One of Abrams’ most pressing challenges will be to connect already-established pediatric care centers and the medical school, according to S. Claiborne Johnston, dean of Dell Medical School.

“There are a lot of great things going on in pediat-rics in Austin, and [there are] groups that are established and used to doing things a certain way,” Johnston said. “We need to work with them even if they’re fearful of us. [Abrams is] the perfect person to show them our goal is to make everyone better.”

Abrams said one of his main goals for pediatric care in Aus-tin is to have better communi-cation between facilities.

“I think the medical school stands not as part of hospital competition, but to serve the community,” Abrams said. “We

can’t change that there is com-petition in health care. That’s an inherent part of it.”

Tim George, a neurosurgeon at the Dell Children’s Medi-cal Center, said Abrams only provided a brief framework of his goals, and he would like more depth in the discussion of coordinating the medi-cal school’s work with other pediatric clinics.

“There are tactical things we need to accomplish so we can solve the problems that face us and fulfill the goal of having a unique ecosystem,” George said. “How do we pay for it? These are all open questions.

Once we figure that out, we can figure out how to better teach and care.”

Abrams also said he intends to provide more comprehen-sive health care for children in Austin as well as preventative care to address the growing problem of childhood obesity.

“The University of Texas at Austin is an amazing place and one of the reasons why I’m so excited to be here,” Abrams said. “We need inno-vative curriculum, committed to creating not just physicians, but dietitians and nurses who will understand the needs of

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what the bill doesn’t allow, [which are] voice calls and text messaging.”

The bill is intended to al-low people of all ages use to their phones as another way of preparing for election day, Bonnen said.

“It’s easier for some people to have the information sim-ply stored on their device as opposed to a printed-out pa-per document,” Bonnen said. “It’s just a matter of providing them that ease of use.”

Zachary Foust, history senior and vice president of UT Votes, a non-partisan student organi-zation that encourages voting among students, said he usu-ally writes down candidates on a piece of paper but might use his phone if the bill were to pass.

“I will say that in Texas, we vote for a lot of different posi-tions, so it is helpful to have something in front of you so you can see all the different [positions],” Foust said. “All of

those things combined make for a pretty lengthy list.“

People who use cell phones at polling stations are not generally prosecut-ed for the offense, accord-ing to Bonnen.

“I’m pretty confident that there are already incidents of people using their cellular device in a polling location, albeit probably not for a voice call,” Bonnen said.

According to Foust, if poll workers were to try to monitor how voters use their phones at polling stations, it could lead to privacy concerns.

“If the Internet is not al-lowed, but having the cell phone is, then that kind of leads one to expect that your cell phone use can be

monitored,” Foust said. “That might either influence your behavior in the voting booth, or the people who are moni-toring you might accidently or purposely see who you’re voting for.”

Christine Rafie, biochem-istry and Plan II sophomore, said she would probably ac-cess the Internet at a polling location if phone use were al-lowed, although she said oth-ers might not.

“I think having access to information about the can-didates is really important,” Rafie said. “If you go into the situation not know-ing much about the other candidates, it could be use-ful to do a last-minute check-up.”

the Bean Counter and Cap. X Expresso.”

The coffee stand will open after O’s Campus Cafe closes at 2:30 p.m. and will be run by student volunteers. The club members are still finalizing stand hours and menu options, according to Hughes.

“We are discussing reaching out to a local coffee partner in order to better help the com-munity,” Hughes said.

The stand’s profits will pro-vide ongoing money for the club’s projects.

According to management junior Emily Bennett, the late-night stand will be a welcome addition because many college students study late at night.

“A lot of students study in the atrium and O’s later in the eve-nings,” Bennett said. “It is un-fortunate that O’s closes so ear-ly, as you have to pack up and leave the building to find food or coffee.”

Hughes said she believes the late-night coffee will be well received.

“Coffee for college students — especially at McCombs, es-pecially late at night — is neces-sary,” Hughes said.

Regent Alex Cranberg voted against naming Fenves as the sole finalist for the position last month, but he voted in favor of Fenves on Monday. Cranberg said he worried about how Fenves would handle growth at the University.

“I voted against naming Pro-vost Fenves as the sole final-ist in the last meeting mostly because of my concerns about the opportunity for growth in undergraduate education at the University of Texas at Austin — balancing extensive growth and desired growth,” Cranberg said.

Regent Wallace Hall also voted against naming Fenves the sole finalist to be UT’s next President at the meeting in March. Hall said he would pre-fer UT’s new leadership to have come from outside sources.

“I’ve expressed my strong and unambiguous desire for fresher leadership from out-side the University,” Hall said.

“This should not be taken as criticism of Dr. Fenves, man or the leader.”

Because of unanswered questions regarding admis-sions policy at UT, he ab-stained from the vote Monday, Hall said.

“I look very much forward to working with him as our president in years ahead,” Hall said before the vote. “But due to the lingering and unresolved questions concerning the previous and ongoing admis-sion processes, I will abstain from voting.”

UT-Austin has committed to working with the UT System to resolve issues regarding the ad-missions process, Fenves said.

“Clearly there are a lot of discussions about admission,” Fenves said. “We have commit-ted as a campus, and I commit as the leader of the University, to work with the chancellor and the board in establish-ing policies for admission going forward.”

Fenves will take his position as president June 3.

children. We have to educate all groups in health care pro-viders, such as critical issues like on-time vaccinations. We have an opportunity to think carefully of that and think of the pediatric education, make pediatrics a field [medi-cal students] want to go to and understand the value of a pediatric education.”

Le-Wai Thant, a doctor at the CommUnity Care clinic that aims to help the underserved population of Austin, said she is

optimistic about the more well rounded health care children would receive with the medical school and outpatient clinics such as the one she works with.

“This will be the begin-ning, and we’ll start having a connection,” Thant said. “We haven’t set up an official way of communicating yet. It’s a big population we serve around here, and having the structure and way to commu-nicate among specialists and the community medical school — to double up treatment — would be the best for the whole community.”

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Two UT School of Journal-ism alumni received Pulitzer Prize awards Monday.

Lisa Falkenberg, a columnist at the Houston Chronicle, won the Pulitzer Prize in Commen-tary for her series of columns about abuses by a grand jury that led to the conviction of an innocent man.

Robert Cohen and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch photog-raphy staff won the Pulitzer Prize in Breaking News Pho-tography. The team won the award for their photo coverage of events in Ferguson, Mis-souri, following the death of Michael Brown.

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killer of people between the ages of 11 to 27 is actually auto accidents, and one of the most common things that cause these accidents is using cell phones while driving,” Conway said.

The City of Austin passed a municipal ordinance last year that made using a handheld device while driving a citable offense associated with up to $500 in fines. APD has issued nearly 1,000 citations since the ordinance came into effect on Jan. 1, the Austin American -Statesman reported.

UTPD urges students to refrain from using handheld devices in their cars, UTPD of-ficer William Pieper said.

“[The ordinance] is not something we enforce on cam-pus because it is a city ordi-nance, and the campus is state property, but we understand how serious of a problem it is, and we encourage students to dedicate themselves to not be texting while driving,” Pieper said.

The widespread and inces-sant use of technology has made it difficult for police de-partments to convince people of the risks of texting while

driving, Pieper said.“When using technology

becomes such a norm to do, it always becomes a natural thing to use it while driving,” Pieper said. “So getting them to realize that this is something danger-ous is challenging. No text is that important. No phone call is that important.”

A lack of education regard-ing vehicular risks causes many students to take distracted driving lightly, according to mathematics sophomore Joseph Garcia.

“What we students con-sider one of the most be-nign objects, [vehicles], are

actually the deadliest objects we encounter on a regular basis,” Garcia said. “I feel that if this was part of freshman education, we would be more aware of the risks involved in driving.”

UTPD considers distracted driving to be as deadly as driv-ing while intoxicated, as they can both lead to fatal conse-quences, Pieper said.

“Whether it’s drunk driv-ing or texting while driv-ing, it only takes a second of inattention to cause some-thing that could lead to some devastating consequences,” Pieper said.

The prospect of self-driving cars is no longer an unattain-able myth. According to a UT researcher, the once-deemed-unrealistic idea is now closer to being a present-day transporta-tion option.

The primary hindrances to making self-driving cars ac-cessible to the public are in the hands of insurance companies and lawmakers, computer sci-ence professor Peter Stone said.

“The technology to make it possible is already there,” Stone said. “The insurance industry has to figure out what to do with it, the legal industry, and the cost has to be reasonable.”

Stone, who studies artificial intelligence and machine learn-ing, has created a full-size self-driving car in his lab.

Once self-driving cars de-but in the marketplace, which some automobile companies say will happen within the de-cade, more people will be eli-gible to “drive” them, according to Stone. The elderly, visually impaired and children would have access to a car that doesn’t require driving skills in order to transport them to their desired location, Stone said.

Rhonda Weldon, director of communications for Univer-sity operations, said UT Park-ing and Transportation Services

recognizes this developing change in regards to self-driving cars but has not made any preparations for it. She said PTS will follow the same protocols employed when electric cars became more signifi-cant in the marketplace.

“We would make prepara-tions for that type of item when it became a significant part of the automobile market,” Wel-don said. “When electric cars became a more significant portion of the market, the University made changes that would accommodate

that technology.”Stone acknowledged the

potential increase in cost be-cause of technology used for self-driving cars but said the benefits include more than just a convenient, futuristic appeal.

“The biggest advantage is that they’ll be safer,” Stone said. “Most accidents are caused by people, by human error. Those will be largely removed.”

With new transportation projects underway across the country, Stone said fac-toring in new technology

such as self-driving cars dur-ing construction is essen-tial to paving the way for an inevitable change in the automobile industry.

French junior Rachel Krenek said she thinks having self-driv-ing cars on a college campus like UT won’t make much of a dif-ference for students.

“I think it’s a great idea, but, for my situation, it’s almost easier to take the bus,” Krenek said. “Assuming it costs money, I would definitely take the bus over self-driving.”

With 35 students receiv-ing the National Science Foundation Fellowship this year, UT was ranked No. 12 in the country for the highest number of recipients.

The research-based grant, which is awarded to both undergraduate and graduate students in en-gineering, science, tech-nology and mathematics, provides a $34,000 annual stipend for three years.

For many of the award-ed students, this kind of funding is something that could be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, especially in a growing professional field that gets less money every year, ac-cording to Bruno Rego, fellowship winner and biomedical engineering graduate student.

“Showing that the NSF has faith in you and your work can carry a lot of weight when you apply for other fellowships or even research grants,” Rego said. “For students getting their doctorates now, we have no idea how shallow the funding pool will be after we graduate, so hav-ing a history of being able to ‘get money’ is becom-ing that much more cru-cial when trying to land a post-doc and eventually a faculty position.”

The fellowship is also helpful to students who want to pursue major projects in school and in the future, said Wiley Jennings, fellowship win-ner and civil engineering graduate student. Wiley said he plans to use the grant to reduce water-associated disease in the U.S. and Cambodia.

“The interesting thing

about this science and engineering fellowship is that [the NSF] is re-ally interested in funding people who show a strong history of commitment to science- and engineering-related social issues,” Jen-nings said.

One problem that many students face when going through graduate school is being able to fund re-search work as well as tu-ition at the same time, said Michelle Dose, fellowship winner and chemical engi-neering graduate student.

“It will allow me to con-tinue with my project and branch out into areas that interest me the most, rath-er than being somewhat constrained by the re-quirements of being fund-ed purely by an industrial sponsor,” Dose said. “The pay increase will be very helpful with covering liv-ing expenses and having a bit more fun outside of research and classes.”

According to Rego, the University’s ranking for the grant is not surprising, considering the amount of engineering talent at UT.

“I think when the NSF gets applications from UT, and they see how we speak about our work, they see the ambition we have,” Rego said.

Sharon Wood, the dean of the Cockrell School of Engineering, was elected president of the Ameri-can Concrete Institute last week.

ACI is a nonprofit company dedicated to spreading educational resources about con-crete and providing ex-pertise for construction projects. Wood said she decided to run for president because the position provides the opportunity to influ-ence the future of the entire institute.

“My primary objectives are to increase the value of ACI membership and de-fine the relevance of ACI within a competitive, glob-al concrete community,” Wood said.

Wood said she ini-tially joined ACI because the organization aligned most closely with her research interests.

Wood has previously held multiple leadership roles within ACI, includ-ing chair of the Technical Activities Committee and International Advisory Committee. Wood said she believes her past po-sitions in ACI have pre-pared her for the presi-dent position.

“Serving as a techni-cal committee chair and guiding the consensus pro-cess in developing techni-cal documents taught me to listen to people who did not share my opin-ion and to compromise,” Wood said. “Listening and compromising are essen-tial qualities for serving

as president.Although her presidency

will prove to be demand-ing, Wood will retain her position as the dean of the engineering school.

“Balancing the roles of dean and president will certainly be a challenge,” Wood said. “I will sched-ule my international travel during the summer or between semesters, and I may not be able to accept all the invitations that I receive.”

Tedmund Chua, public health junior and presi-dent of the Gamma Beta

fraternity chapter at UT, said he believes presi-dents need to promote a combination of stabil-ity and change in order to be effective.

“An effective president at any level, whether it be for a club or an entire university, has a certain drive and motivation to change the organiza-tion for the better,” Chua said. “An effective presi-dent also realizes that changing certain sys-tems just for the sake of change will usually have negative consequences.”

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On Saturday I had the privilege of deliver-ing the keynote speech to the 2015 Honors Day Convocation of undergraduates at the University of Texas. The students inspired me to think deeply about how educated young people can improve our society. Here are some of the words I delivered to the audience of 4,000 undergraduates, families and faculty:

We are a society of great power and wealth, but we cannot continue to go on as we are today. We are destroying too much as we overspend, overmilitarize and overconsume. The last 25 years have witnessed a remark-able burst in the creativity of our technology and our science, but our political and social thought has not kept pace. As human beings we have stagnated, even fallen behind. Just look at how old and out-of-date our ideas and our policies are. Just listen to how formu-laic, useless and offensive our public rhetoric has become. Our technical ingenuity is not matched by the necessary humanistic creativ-ity to move our society forward, and improve our lives — all of our lives.

As our most talented young citizens en-ter diverse professions, you have a collective choice: Will you maximize the value you can provide for yourself and your family, or will you find a way to do well but also do good? Will you define your success by your pay-check or by the larger purpose of your pur-suits? These are not either-or propositions

— you can live comfortably and help others — but they pose real choices about priorities. How will you turn your talents and opportu-nities into human value for others?

These are fundamentally questions of char-acter. This is a word we do not talk enough about. In the past it was sometimes a code word to exclude people who did not come from the “correct” backgrounds. That misuse of the word should not lead us to forget its deeper and more inclusive meaning.

Character is the quality of seeing beyond the immediate to a deeper meaning in human interactions. It is a historical sensibility about past inheritances, present possibilities and future responsibilities. A person of character does not live for herself or for the present, but for a broader set of human purposes. A per-son of character derives wisdom and judg-ment from extensive reflection on what really matters, and what really endures for humans as a whole.

Citizens of character avoid simple solu-tions and slogans; they take on the more diffi-cult and uncertain challenges that determine larger outcomes. They lead by example, they acknowledge their failures and they always strive to make themselves and others bet-ter. Citizens of character succeed for reasons beyond their brains and brawn. They display three fundamental qualities that draw others to them.

First, citizens of character display decency toward others. They do not make less talent-ed and privileged people feel inadequate or inferior. They do not take all they can when they know others have so much less. Decency requires humility — a recognition of self-imposed limits on greed, even if society does not always enforce those limits. Decency stands for fair play, not profit maximization. In promoting justice rather than victory, acts of decency replace competitions for accumu-lation with cooperation to share the bounty.

Second, to gain character one must ac-cept sacrifice. Nothing comes for free, and anything worth having requires giving some-thing else up. Citizens of character do not

market their talents for money alone — that is too easy. Citizens of character use their talents to achieve higher goals — that is the hard road that produces positive changes. Sacrifice builds character because it makes citizens strive for what they really value, not the goodies offered to them instead.

Third, and perhaps most important, char-acter requires hope. It is too easy to look at our troubled world in a learned way and la-ment that things “cannot change.” Resigned to the present, one can feel free to profit from the problems of our day, as many of us do. Character comes from the courage to imag-ine a better world and believe in it. Character expresses itself not with easy promises and sound bites but real thought about how the world could be better and how we can start to get there. Great leaders of character inspire people to pursue big, realistic dreams.

I have hope because I see the decency in our talented students every day. I have hope

because I know our students are ready to sacrifice for big dreams, if only we will en-courage them to do so. Too many older and tired citizens are telling our students to think small, focus on their families and get rich. There is nothing wrong with being rich, but wealth does not create character or human fulfillment.

American society was built by great men and women of character, and it is time we recognized that we need another gen-eration of character to take over the reins from those who have displayed a striking absence of character in recent years. Soci-eties renew themselves when talent is com-bined with decency, sacrifice and hope. We are ready for that long overdue renewal. I see it coming the eyes of my students and the fears of their elders. Character beats fear every time.

Suri is a professor in the LBJ School of Pub-lic Affairs and the Department of History.

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Instead of settling, we should work toward a better deal with Iran

Perhaps more than anything else, what is troubling about the potential US-Iranian deal is that there are no indications that it will make the Middle East a more peaceful region. More likely, the deal will only escalate the conflicts between Sunnis and Shiites as well as help Iran establish hegemony over the region and domi-nate the other countries.

Supporters of the deal cite the fact that both the U.S. and Iran are currently fighting against the Islamic State as a central reason to support the deal, but that objective is shortsighted. What happens after we defeat the Islamic State militants? The ugly reality is that there are few common goals for the U.S. and Iran to work together on because we are on opposing sides in virtually every other conflict in the Middle East.

This deal doesn’t force Iran to give up its nu-clear enrichment program. This deal doesn’t

change the fact that Iran is supporting the Houthi Rebels in Yemen, the terrorist organi-zation Hezbollah and the genocidal dictator Bashar al-Assad in Syria. What the deal does do is lift decades of sanctions off Iran, giving it the opportunity to grow even more powerful (economically, militarily and politically) and better fund their terrorist, rebel and genocidal allies.

I would argue that the U.S. made this mis-take once in the past already, when it normal-ized relations with the People’s Republic of China. At the time, the goal was to play the weaker China against the more powerful So-viet Union, but what we ended up doing was letting the enemy pawn become the enemy queen. Today, China is our biggest geopolitical foe, and in hindsight, the Soviet Union prob-ably would have fallen without normalizing relations with China. This time, the mistake could be more catastrophic, as the Middle East is in a greater state of turmoil and chaos.

By suspending the sanctions on Iran, we will see similar results; there will be no peace and stability in the Middle East. A more powerful Iran is a more dangerous Iran. In particular, the potential deal would only limit Iran’s abil-ity to develop nuclear weapons for 10 years. A

limit that Iran is in a better position to violate once other countries start investing in them, because it would be a lot harder for the inter-national community to come together and re-impose sanctions retroactively. Iran also has a history of lying, deceiving and violating inter-national agreements.

The terms of this deal are felt as a betrayal by our allies and a threat to their very existence. First-year law student and former Texans for Israel President Ben Mendelson summed up this sentiment.

“If there’s one thing the Jewish people have learned in 2,000 years, it’s that if someone says they want to kill you, believe them,” Mendel-son said.

I do not believe that diplomacy should be off the table with Iran, but there should be a few more conditions that are met for such a deal: Iran must foster peace in the Middle East, give up its nuclear enrichment program and stop supporting terrorists, rebels and dictators.

These conditions are not something I came up with. In fact, President Barack Obama stated in a 2012 presidential debate and in numerous other instances that Iran needs to end its nuclear program before sanctions can be lifted. Democrats and Republicans, as well

as the United Nation, have supported these conditions. Once these conditions are met, I would be the first to write in favor of a deal with Iran. But they weren’t met.

Under the current deal, Iran would pose an even greater threat in the future. This is be-cause they are allowed to keep their nuclear weapons program at a level conducive to the development of nuclear weapons within a year. In addition, there can be no peace in the Middle East as long as Iran continues support-ing terrorists, rebels and dictators, as it regu-larly does.

We should not be making a bad deal only to accomplish short-term objectives, such as defeating the Islamic State. We should not be making a deal that does not set the founda-tion for long-term peace and stability in the region. At minimum, we should never make a deal that leaves the region worse off than before, which is precisely what this deal does. This is not a question of deal or no deal, but rather terrible deal or no deal. Though it might be tempting to accept any deal as better than nothing, we are just getting ripped off and swindled here.

Hung is a first-year law student from Browns-ville.

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SG, students should debate boycottsI strongly disagree with Friday’s edito-

rial, which claims “Student Government is the wrong place to deal with [the Israeli-Palestinian issue] because such contentious issues have nothing to do with the steward-ship of this University.”

Who or what the University supports economically through its investments mat-ters. This editorial serves as a cop-out for debating about world events we all have a stake in.

Regardless of the obvious complexity and intractability of this specific conflict, this editorial sets a dangerous precedent on other pending issues like petroleum divest-ment and the campaign to improve working conditions in the factories that UT uses to produce its clothing. It also fails to wrestle with the historical precedent of university activists who pushed for divestment from South Africa’s apartheid state at a time when federal state actors turned a blind eye to — some claim even supported — the Afrikaner regime.

Again, I am not arguing that Israel is an

apartheid state. Rather, I contend debates involving the politics of the University’s in-vestments, which fund many of our schol-arships and fellowships, should take place with both sides of this issue having a chance to make their case before the students’ rep-resentative body.

With so much private money flowing into the University to sponsor various projects, centers and student scholarships, our com-munity is not served by ignoring the social impact (conservative or progressive) of the University’s dollars.

In an era when the University is a busi-ness, its branding, as well as its social con-science, should matter to students, to faculty and to those who have to decide which in-vestments balance the University’s core mis-sion of “changing the world” through teach-ing and research with the practical needs of everyday funding.

— Travis Knoll, second-year master’s stu-dent in Latin American studies, in response to the Friday editorial titled “SG should vote down divestment bill.”

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Erica Ndubueze | Daily Texan Staff

The last 25 years have witnessed a remarkable burst in the creativity of our technology and our sci-ence, but our political and social thought has not kept pace.

By Daniel HungDaily Texan Columnist

the airport every other weekend to fly.

“You get this rush that you really don’t get with driving,” Dube said. “There’s no limitations on where you can go. Last sum-mer, I got to fly my family around Maui and the other Hawaiian islands.”

Dube went through a lengthy certification pro-cess to fly airplanes solo. In addition to the ba-sics of piloting planes, he had to study physics and aeronautical engineering.

“You have to know how that [airplane’s] engine works because it’s not like a car — you can’t just pull over while you’re in the air if you get into trouble,” Dube said. “And you’ve got to be a meteorologist, too, so that you don’t go flying into storms.”

Dube enjoys both the freedom and the responsi-bility that his pilot’s license gives him.

“I’ve done plenty of flights where I don’t even know where I’m going to end up,” Dube said. “I like having that freedom. But I also like being able to take my mom on business trips or take my friends to the

San Antonio River Walk for the day.”

One of Dube’s favorite aspects of flying is sharing the experience with other people. When Dube took his friend, biomedical en-gineering sophomore Peter Kenny, on one of his plane flights, it was the first time that Kenny had ever flown.

“My first thought was, ‘This thing can fly?’” Ken-ny said. “It was a small plane, and only one or two people were needed to push it. But I trusted Dube completely, though. He has this deep calm about him.”

Although Dube does not plan to pursue flying planes professionally, he said he values the respon-sibility and the flexible thinking that piloting air-planes taught him.

“I would recommend flying to everyone,” Dube said. “Once you’re a pilot, you’re a pilot for life.”

dynamics presented in “The Room” between men and women have changed since the movie’s been re-leased?

TW: I don’t think so. I al-ways say about girls that you don’t have to wear jeans to be tough. The ladies have a certain different approach in life. I don’t think this has been changed in decades. You may change environment, but if you look at the relationship between man and woman or friends, it has not changed that much.

DT: How do you feel about people who en-joy the movie but enjoy it because they perceive it as terrible?

TW: If you enjoy it and say it’s terrible, that’s your choice. But with the same token, if you know how I created “The Room” and all its obstacles, you may change your mind. I don’t think “The Room” is terrible.

DT: You stated in previ-ous interviews that you tend to dislike mainstream me-dia and the politics in Hol-lywood. What advice do you have to filmmakers who will one day encounter the

Hollywood system? TW: Just ignore media if

they write about you. If you believe deeply about what they write, it’s not right for you. Believe in your project, and eventually you’ll have people who will actually respect you and will admire whatever you accomplish. It can be some-times brutal, and you have to be strong and keep going.

DT: Why did you choose to establish your own under-wear line?

TW: I decided to design underwear because I didn’t like what I saw in regular retail stores, to be honest. I have all kinds of different

underwear. We all wear it, un-less you don’t want to wear it. I put [my underwear] in “The Neighbors” [Wiseau’s new sitcom on Hulu] for product placement, but I wanted to see how people would react, and we did get a reaction. People were laughing.

DT: What are your plans for future projects?

TW: I’m working on a movie about foreclosure. I’d like to produce three or four movies a year, but I think I will produce at least one for sure. I’m also working on a vampire movie, and I’d like to work on that this year, as well.

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Mikaila’s mother, D’Andra Ulmer, deals with the com-pany’s marketing. D’Andra said the business belongs to Mikaila and that her role is mostly supportive.

“It’s her business,” D’Andra said. “It really is. She started it in kindergarten, and she worked hard, and now that [the lemonade] is sold at Whole Foods, it wouldn’t be fair to take her business away

from her.”Journalism senior Mikayla

Martinez began her intern-ship at BeeSweet two years ago, acting as D’Andra’s right hand. Martinez’s involve-ment ranges from writing public relations pieces to testing new flavors. She said everything she does — and everything anyone does — must first be approved by Mikaila.

“D’Andra has always em-phasized that [everything] has to come from Mikaila,” Martinez said. “Mikaila has to have a say in everything.”

Mikaila’s main du-ties range from holding

workshops on how to save honeybees to coming up with new flavors. Mikaila said she usually deals with BeeSweet-related work after school, but her mind is always on the clock.

“I made up the prickly pear [flavor] while I was at school doing my math homework,” Mikaila said.

Last month, “Shark Tank,” a reality show on which entrepreneurs pres-ent business ideas to a group of judges who de-cide whether they want to invest, featured BeeSweet Lemonade. Daymond John, one of the show’s judges,

agreed to invest $60,000 in BeeSweet for a 25 percent stake in the company. Mi-kaila accepted his offer.

Mikaila said she has high hopes for the com-pany’s future. She said she looks forward to continuing to be the owner of BeeSweet, ex-panding the company into the snack realm with cupcakes and start-ing a clothing and home goods line.

“I want a BeeSweet Lemonade line, like the Hello Kitty line,” Mikaila said. “I want BeeSweet everything.”

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BASEBALL SIDELINE‘RBI maker,’ freshman Baker shines

After a three-hit, one-RBI night earlier this month, freshman shortstop Joe Bak-er found himself in the mid-dle of his first media scrum, where he was given a surpris-ing nickname.

Despite only recording three RBIs so far in his freshman campaign, he was dubbed “the RBI maker,” a name that, at the time, didn’t quite fit.

“This is a great opportuni-ty,” Baker said. “To be at The University of Texas — it’s an honor to be here. But I like that name.”

Baker, a native of McKin-ney, lived up to his moniker Sunday against Kansas as he hit his first collegiate home run and finished with a team-high four RBIs.

While he earned his nick-name because of his offen-sive performance, his de-fense has kept him on the field. Baker has completed numerous highlight plays for outs at shortstop.

Baker made a sliding grab against Wichita State, diving toward third base and making a long throw to first to get the out. The play was even featured on SportsCenter as the No. 6 play of the day.

He has become a successful addition to the Texas start-ing lineup, and his teammates have taken notice.

“All of these guys are hard workers like Joe,” senior second

baseman Brooks Marlow said. “Joe is coming in at a tough spot playing shortstop. Joe is playing so hard right now. He’s getting the job done right now. I’m proud of Joe.”

Before coming to Texas, Baker missed his senior sea-son of high school because of an injury. But during his ju-nior season, he hit .383 with 17 RBIs and 18 stolen bases for the McKinney Lions. Baker

was named to the All-District 10-5A second team as a sopho-more and a freshman.

Baker’s breakout year comes as the Longhorns struggle to find their way out of a slump. Before defeating Kansas, 16–7, and securing its first three-game series victory since March 22, Texas had lost three-straight weekend series and 11 out of its last 15. He’s currently hitting .262 with 16 hits and 8 RBIs.

“Joe Baker, at shortstop, [is] another bright spot,” head coach Augie Garrido said. “Some great plays by Baker. There are individual perfor-mances that are really good. We have good players, but they’re not able to extend the rallies.”

Texas (20–18, 8–7 Big 12) hopes its series win against Kansas can fuel a late-season rally. The Longhorns also hope Baker continues to live

up to his nickname and keep up his defensive performance when they take on Texas State on Tuesday.

“We have to pick each other up,” Baker said. “No matter what coach says where to go, we just do our job.”

Texas beat the Bobcats, 6–4, in their first meeting in San Marcos on March 24. First pitch is scheduled for 6 p.m. Tuesday at UFCU Disch-Falk Field.

By Nick Castillo@Nick_Castillo

Lauren Ussery | Daily Texan file photoFreshman shortstop Joe Baker hit his first collegiate home run and exploded for four RBIs in Texas’ 16–7 win over Kansas. Baker has been a successful addition for the Longhorns as they try to make a last-season run.

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Ridgeway provides strong replacement

Quidditch provides students opportunity for fun, friends

When you watch your first Quidditch game, you’ll see a field full of players on brooms trying to catch the golden snitch — and it will be hard to separate the sport from what you know about “Harry Potter.”

While many of the play-ers on the Texas Quidditch teams initially joined be-cause of their love of J.K. Rowling’s series, they quick-ly realized the sport was more than just a fan club. Since the group formed in 2010, Quidditch at UT has become highly competitive.

“Quidditch is not just so popular nationally. … It’s becoming a global sport,” physics senior Audrey Wright said. “Almost every major city I go to, there’s a Quidditch community there, and they know of Texas Quidditch.”

The sport, which got its start in 2005 and is gov-erned by the International Quidditch Association, has more than 300 teams with more than 4,000 ath-letes nationwide.

Although a love for “Harry Potter” is what at-tracts many players to the sport, the players said the sport exists entirely sepa-rately from the books and is, by itself, fairly gruel-ing. As with any other club sport, the team trains regu-larly and competes in na-tional competitions.

“I didn’t think it would be

much more than some oth-er ‘Harry Potter’ fans hang-ing out,” Wright said. “It was just something totally not what I expected. It was so athletic and so cool and so unlike any other sport that I’d heard of. ‘Harry Potter’ is what brought me in, I sup-pose, but it’s definitely not what kept me in Quidditch.”

Texas itself has six differ-ent Quidditch teams: two traveling teams — varsity Texas Quidditch and Aus-tin Quidditch — and four house teams that compete only with each other for the House Cup trophy. The four house teams compete just once a month under Sly-therin, Ravenclaw, Gryffin-dor and Hufflepuff banners.

Although the on-campus teams adopt both the names of the Hogwarts houses and the basic gameplay from the books, players forget about the sports’ origins on the field.

“The connection of ‘Harry Potter’ and Quidditch is really just so severed,” Wright said. “It’s not even there. I’ll see someone in a black cloak at the World Cup, … and it takes you a second [to remember].”

The sport even draws non-“Harry Potter” fans who are simply interested in exercise and want to meet new people.

“My old coach from the Slytherin dynasty — he has never read the books,” chem-ical engineering junior Ryan Davis said. “He doesn’t know the basic plot. He knows there’s a guy named Harry Potter, and that’s about it. He was our captain, and he was

in it 100 percent for just be-ing able to run around and tackle people.”

As other Texas teams are fumbling, Texas Quidditch has shined, gaining national attention for its success. The varsity Texas Quid-ditch team recently won its third-consecutive World Cup championship with a 120–90 victory against Lone Star Quidditch in Rock Hill, South Carolina.

“World Cup 8 competi-tion was so fierce,” Wright said. “[Our final game] was the most fun, the most stressful, the most competi-tive and probably the fiercest competition I’ve ever felt.”

The more aggressive com-petition at this year’s World Cup, known as World Cup 8, demonstrates the sport’s growth overall — but also shows the UT players have been able to adapt and thrive.

“Going from World Cups 6, 7 and 8, it really shows how much overall Quidditch has become so much more com-petitive,” Wright said. “And it really speaks so much louder for UT that we’ve been able to stay on top through all these changes.”

The teams at Texas accept new members at the begin-ning of each year, regardless of skill level or level of fandom.

“How many times in your life do you get to try some-thing so new?” Wright said. “It’s a great way to meet peo-ple. It’s an awesome place to get involved, and we have many different aspects to our club.”

Junior defensive tackle Hassan Ridgeway has big shoes to fill.

With departing defensive tackle Malcom Brown pro-jected to be taken in the NFL Draft’s first round, the Long-horns are looking to replicate the production and leader-ship Brown brought to the defensive front.

“Replacing Malcom? I don’t know,” Ridgeway said. “It’s not about replacing him. It’s about stepping up and do-ing the job.”

Although Ridgeway won’t necessarily be replacing Brown, the Longhorns will need him to play a similar role. Ridgeway burst onto the scene last season while filling in for injured senior Desmond Jackson, and he immediately became one of Texas’ biggest playmakers, finishing second to Brown in sacks with six while record-ing nine-and-a-half tackles for loss.

If he can replicate, or even improve upon, his produc-tion from last season, Texas’ defense will be in good shape.

“He’s so strong, so pow-erful, and he can get off blocks and make plays,” head coach Charlie Strong said last season.

While Ridgeway stood out as one of the Longhorns’ de-fensive staples in 2014, he’s still looking to improve upon his weaknesses. He has the skill set to become a force on Texas’ defensive line, but he said he can work on the tech-nical aspects of his position.

“This year, that’s the one thing that I’m trying to focus on — to get my fundamen-tals down and get better at the little things that I didn’t do right,” Ridgeway said.

If spring play is any indi-cation, Ridgeway seems to be doing his job. Strong has recently used words such as mainstay and great to de-scribe Ridgeway and his play through the offseason.

In Saturday’s Orange-White scrimmage, Ridgeway made only three tackles, but he was still able to cause

disruption in the backfield and get pressure on the quar-terback. Ridgeway’s play helped the entire defensive line control the trenches, and that is something of which he is especially proud.

“The defensive line is the one that always has to stand up,” Ridgeway said. “It’s al-ways been up front. If you’re not good up front, the whole defense collapses.”

Ridgeway has led the unit with his play, but the next step is stepping into a leader-ship role in the locker room.

“I see Hassan Ridgeway leading the D-Line room,” senior cornerback Duke Thomas said.

While his coaching staff and teammates have shown confidence in him as a lead-er, Ridgeway envisions the entire team stepping up.

“You can’t do it by yourself, so everybody has to grow a little bit,” Ridgeway said. “In our positions, everybody has to take a little bit of leader-ship and step up on their own. We’re going to obvious-ly have somebody lead it, but everybody has to grow up.”

Ridgeway has been per-sistent about the Longhorns improving this season. And with over three months un-til the Longhorns travel to South Bend, Indiana, to take on Notre Dame in the sea-son opener, he and his team-mates still have time to re-store the defense’s dominant presence from last season with the same determination Ridgeway has shown so far.

“We might be tired and barely making it, but we’re still going to keep going,” Ridgeway said. “We aren’t going to give up, and we aren’t going to bow down to anybody.”

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newcomer awardFreshman catcher Mi-

chael Cantu was honored with his second Big 12 co-Newcomer of the Week on Monday. Cantu led the Longhorns in their series win over Kansas with a 7-for-14 outing with three doubles and three runs scored. Cantu caught two games and played first base on Sunday. He didn’t commit an error all se-ries. Cantu has been stel-lar during Big 12 play. He currently leads the Long-horns with a .333 batting average and .460 on-base percentage in conference play. Cantu shared the honor with TCU fresh-man designated hitter Connor Wanhanen.

—Nick Castillo

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Texas-Notre Dame game time set

The Longhorns open up the 2015 football sea-son against Notre Dame in Fort Bend, Indiana, on Saturday, Sept. 5. Kickoff is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. on NBC, Texas Athletics announced Sunday. Texas has played the Fight-ing Irish 10 times. Notre Dame holds the series lead with an 8–2 record. The last meeting between the two teams was in 1996, when Notre Dame beat Texas 27–24 in Austin.

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Getting stung by a bee was the best thing that ever happened to 10-year-old entrepreneur Mikaila Ulmer.

Mikaila is the founder, owner and CEO of BeeSweet Lemonade, an Austin-based, family-run lemonade com-pany that donates 20 per-cent of its proceeds to or-ganizations who help save honeybees. The company’s motto is “Buy a bottle, save the bees!”

“It makes me feel very special that I own my own business, and I’m only 10,” Mikaila said. “I get to go to really fun, fancy events, and I get to stay up late at them.”

When bees stung her twice in one week six years ago, Mikaila said she began researching bees to gain

a better understanding of how they work. That same week, Mikaila started ex-perimenting with her great-grandmother Helen’s 1940s flaxseed lemonade recipe in preparation for Acton Children’s Business Fair, an event in which kids are encouraged to launch their own startups by running a booth to sell a product they created.

Mikaila said her new-found passion for helping honeybees drove her to tweak her grandmother’s recipe to use locally sourced honey as a sweetener.

Lemonade sales were good, so Mikaila continued to sell her drinks at youth entrepreneurial events until the owner of East Side Pies, an Austin-based pizza com-pany, suggested she bottle it. Mikaila agreed and moved the lemonade production

from her family’s kitchen to a small commercial kitchen.

Today, BeeSweet Lemon-ade sells 12-ounce bottles of freshly squeezed lemonade with flavors such as origi-nal mint, ginger, prickly pear and iced tea. They can be found in Whole Foods

When exams are over, most college students head downtown to dance, drink and forget about school-work. But when biomedi-cal engineering freshman Ryan Dube wants to get away from school, he takes to the skies.

Dube is the youngest of a four-generation lineage of pilots. For Dube, flying planes is not just a hobby — it’s also a family legacy.

“Our family has been flying practically since planes were invented,” Dube said. “My great-grandfather flew for the French during World War I before air combat had

become common.”Dube’s father flew

planes while he was grow-ing up but had to abandon the hobby after college be-cause he could no longer afford to rent airplanes. However, the younger Dube had always been in-terested in flying planes, and he wanted to pre-serve the family tradition.

When Dube turned 15 and was able to take piloting classes, his father joined him in renewing the family passion.

“We both learned to fly together, which was a pretty cool thing to share.” Dube said.

“After my dad got back into flying, he spent months looking for the

perfect airplane to buy. We both fly that plane now.”

Although Dube started piloting planes because of his family’s tradition, he continues to fly planes simply because he enjoys the thrill of the experi-ence. During the school year, Dube heads out to

Director and actor Tom-my Wiseau created 2003’s “The Room,” which many people claim is one of the best “worst movies” of all time. Online entertain-ment company RiffTrax, famous for mocking popu-lar films, will broadcast a live “riffing” of “The Room” on May 6 in hun-dreds of movie theaters. After reading The Daily Texan’s article about The Texas Travesty’s special screening of the film last week, RiffTrax reached out to the Texan and set up a Q&A with Wiseau.

The Daily Texan: Why did you choose film to ex-press your version of art?

Tommy Wiseau: I like to direct. I like to share what I have in my head. I always say you need ambition

before you do anything. Without a vision, you don’t have anything. When you present it, you have to also take a risk because you don’t know if people embrace your project. As you know, some people call “The Room” ‘this way, that way and whatever,’ but I still feel that it’s my responsibility to present the world as I see it for a better tomorrow.

DT: What, in your view, makes a great movie?

TW: I personally think that when you present something real with emo-tion, that’s a part of it. But you cannot just use one word. Good mov-ies relate to vision. If you have a vision, that’s one step, but the second step is the rehearsal process and how you present it. It’s a lot of preparation. You have production and

performance, then you put everything together.

DT: Your co-actor Greg Sestero has stated that you have a “fascination with all things America.” Can you elaborate what he means by that?

TW: I honestly don’t know what Greg Ses-tero said. I read his book, [“The Disaster Artist”], but it’s [an] exaggeration. I love America because I’m American. I’ve lived in this country for quite a few years. My uncle grew up in New Orleans, and I grew up there as well. You may go to Europe, you may even go to Canada and find that they don’t have as much freedom as we [do]. I think this is the best country in the world.

DT: Do you think that the relationship

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Freshman spends free time flying airplanesGriffin Smith | Daily Texan staff

Biomedical engineering freshman Ryan Dube stands in front of the plane he regularly rents from a flight school at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport. Dube is a fourth-generation pilot and often flies with friends and family.

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Child entrepreneur runs local lemonade company BeeSweet

Charlotte Carpenter | Daily Texan staffMikaila Ulmer arranges her lemonade display outside of Whole Foods on Saturday. At 10 years old, Mikaila is the founder, owner and CEO of BeeSweet Lemonade, a company that donates 20 percent of its proceeds to help save honeybees.

Tommy Wiseau discusses cult hit “The Room,” offers advice

Illustration by Lindsay Rojas| Daily Texan staff

It makes me feel very special that I own my own business, and I’m only 10. I get to go to really fun, fancy events, and I get to stay up late at them.

—Mikaila Ulmer,Founder, owner and CEO of

BeeSweet Lemonade

You get this rush that you really don’t get with driving. There’s no limitations on where you can go.

—Ryan DubeBiomedical engineering

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