Lawmakers are working to increase the number of off-campus work-study opportunities in the pri-vate sector.

On Wednesday, the House Higher Education Committee heard HB 2365,

which, if passed, would expand off-campus work-study opportunities for the Texas College Work-Study Program, a state-funded program that offers part-time jobs to students with financial need at private and public institutions.

State schools would of-fer off-campus programs

based on the size of the city in which the institu-tion is located. The bill, authored by Rep. Jim Mur-phy (R-Houston), was left pending in committee.

The Senate gave final ap-proval to a similar bill last Thursday requiring that institutions offer up to 50 percent of their work-study

jobs off campus.The current version of

Murphy’s bill would re-quire UT to have at least 25 percent of its work-study options located off campus. Universities in cities with more than a million people would need 50 percent of their oppor-tunities off campus.

Murphy said the bill would provide work-study students the opportunity to get experience working in their chosen field while still using work-study benefits.

“Employers today, we’re hearing, want to have peo-ple with real-world, rele-

The Texas Senate passed a bill Wednesday that would ban red light cameras throughout the state.

SB 714, which state Sen. Bob Hall (R-Edgewood) au-thored, will prohibit all red light cameras throughout the state because he said they vi-olate the constitutional rights of individuals to be able to talk with the person who wit-nesses the violation. If the bill passes the House, it will go into effect in September.

Throughout the bill, Hall cited a study which claimed that the presence of cam-eras didn’t contribute to safer roads.

Austin currently has 10 intersections with active red light cameras, which

helps Austin Police De-partment officers patrol in-tersections, APD Lt. Robert Richman said.

“The red light cameras that we have assist us because we don’t have enough officers to be able to be out at every sin-gle intersection monitoring it 24/7,” Richman said.

People run red lights at all times of the day, Rich-man said.

“In 2014, there were 11,571 citations issued for running red lights at those locations,” Richman said. “If you take a look at that and think about how many of those were is-sued by officers, about 9,000 of those were issued by of-ficers. Running red lights is probably the third-highest factor besides impairment and

This fall, students will log in to a new, customiz-able portal called MyUT to access common func-tions, such as registration and class schedules, in-stead of the current UT-Direct system.

Administrators said MyUT will show users information tailored to their classification and major and allow stu-dents to add links to their individual portals.

“It’s completely custom-izable,” said Joey Williams, communications coordina-tor for the Office of the Ex-ecutive Vice President and Provost. “It’s going to be tailored to the user. It’s all about getting the informa-tion you need as efficiently as possible.”

Williams said administra-tors decided to switch from UTDirect to MyUT because UTDirect could not display custom information for each student or appear in a natu-ral format on all electronic devices, such as mobile phones or tablets.

“Technologies have changed quite a bit,” Wil-liams said. “A lot of what’s behind the EID right now isn’t responsive. It’s not cus-tomizable.”

Jody Couch, program di-rector for student adminis-trative systems, said MyUT will gradually include more features that integrate stu-dent data after fall 2015.

“Over the next year, we will roll out features like

Some Texan businesses are banding together to show their support for the LGBT community through Texas Competes, a coalition of businesses and pro-busi-ness organizations working toward workplace equality, according to a Texas Com-petes spokeswoman.

“As far as we know, this is a historic first that busi-nesses around Texas are saying in a unified voice that the brand of LGBT needs to change as an economic imperative — especially businesses in Texas that have progressive policies,” Texas Competes managing director Jessica Shortall said. “It varies — for some businesses, it’s a value thing; others see it as a competitive advantage. But in talking to business leadership, we started to realize that while individ-ual workplace measures are important and necessary, they are not going to pro-tect the competitiveness of Texas when it comes to get-ting top talent.”

Mercedes Ballard, inter-national business senior and

president of the Gay Busi-ness Student Association, said the pledge is symboli-cally important.

“It … lets [LGBT stu-dents] know there is a safe place to work and that people are actively trying to make an effort for their

voice to be heard,” Ballard said. “In a lot of companies, especially in conservative industries, LGBT things are not recognized.”

When Texas Competes formally launched its mis-sion on April 14, it had 100 signing members, with

which it had worked since last November. Now, Shortall said, Texas Competes has more than 200 signatures.

Southwest Airlines, IBM, Intel and Whole Foods Market are some of the signing companies. See-ing such a strong response

from Texas businesses is important for millennials to see, Shortall said.

“Millennials are over-whelmingly showing that LGBT rights and being included and welcoming

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A student group is at-tempting to turn the Tower blue, instead of its typical burnt orange, for autism awareness.

Longhorn Autism Alli-ance is calling for the Uni-versity to light the Tower blue on April 2, 2016, for World Autism Awareness Day, according to Alec De Jong, biology junior and volunteer chair for the alliance.

“Families of those af-fected with autism live this every day and [Autism Speaks] are asking that as many people as possible recognize that for World Autism Day,” Jong said.

Special education stud-ies sophomore Lindsey Robertson said she is glad to see awareness being

raised about autism.“This is an awareness

for all students,” Robert-son said. “Autism affects so many lives, and in many ways, people do not know about it. This is a differ-ent and unique way to raise awareness.”

Autism Speaks, a national

autism advocacy organiza-tion, started the movement Light It Up Blue, which lights up landmarks blue around the world to raise autism awareness. Some of these places include the Empire State Building, Ni-agara Falls in Canada and the Great Pyramids of Giza

in Egypt. Jong said the group

knew the idea of lighting the Tower a color other than burnt orange was possible after it was lit blue during a graduation ceremony in 2013.

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Jong said one of his fa-vorite things about the al-liance’s outreach is clearing up some misconceptions, most recently with the measles outbreak spark-ing a national conversation about vaccines.

“The reason for measles outbreak is there is a lot of hate for anti-vaccinations

people, and [others] imme-diately assume the Autism community is anti-vacci-nation,” Jong said. “Autism Speaks used to be anti-vac-cination, but they fully ap-prove them and try to edu-cate people about it.”

In preparation for an out-reach campaign on West Mall on Wednesday, the group or-ganized singers from various UT choir groups to perform. Theatre studies freshman

Anna Lehnhoff said she ap-preciates helping with the petition because she has a brother who was diagnosed with autism.

“I am honored to be a part of this and asked to sing,” Lehnhoff said. “I en-joy singing, but it makes me feel like I am able to help my brother’s cause. Hopefully, one day the Tower will be lit, and I can send a picture of it to my brother.”

speeding that we have in seri-ous injuries and fatal crashes.”

There are no red light cameras on campus at this time, but with heavy foot traffic, pedestrians still have to worry about people run-ning lights, UTPD officer William Pieper said.

“On a college campus, my first thought is the safety of pedestrians,” Pieper said. “When you look at the red lights that are around cam-pus, typically there’s a great deal of college students who are crossing those intersec-tions on foot, and when a vehicle fails to stop or yield at a red light, … that could be very devastating for the pedestrian.”

Since the red light camera implementation in Austin in

2008, 2.6 million people have ran the lights, Richman said.

Petroleum engineering freshman Sean Moore said the cameras should stay in place, even though he ini-tially thought the bill would be good.

“I honestly think in some ways, red light cameras — they prevent people run-ning them,” Moore said. “It would be nice to say that we’re not being monitored and give drivers more free-dom, but the reality of it is that you need some more enforcement of red lights. … And cops in cars only go so far.”

Richman said the entire idea of the cameras is to help officers keep intersec-tions safe.

“I wasn’t a huge propo-nent of the red light cam-eras at first either because I didn’t think that they would be that helpful because you can’t have somebody there witnessing it,” Richman

said. “But I think what we’ve found is that, with traffic, if there are things that you can bring attention to people for them to actually change their behavior, then any-thing [helps].”

vant job experience — even people who just got out of their degree [program],” Murphy said.

UT currently offers some off-campus work-study op-tions. According to the Uni-versity website, students can participate in federally fund-ed community service work-study programming, which includes tutoring and certain research and administrative opportunities off campus.

Jamie Brown, communi-cations coordinator for the Office of Student Financial Services, said there are no UT students using work-study in the private sector. According to a Center for Public Policy Priorities report Murphy cited in crafting the bill, no institu-

tions in 2014 used the Texas College Work-Study Program in the private sector.

More than 800 students are receiving work-study funds at UT. Of these stu-dents, 746 work on campus and 98 work off campus, according to Brown.

Most students at UT choose to work on cam-pus for their work-study, Brown said.

“With on-campus work-study, the student is continu-ously in the college environ-ment,” Brown said. “They don’t have to concern them-selves with leaving campus.”

The University will have to review its work-study program and find new off-campus opportunities

if the bill were to pass, ac-cording to Brown.

Murphy said he thinks increased off-campus work-study opportunities could save universities and the state money.

When students receive a job under the Texas College Work-Study Program, the state pays portions of the students’ salary. Universi-ties, colleges and nonprofits pay 25 percent of the salary, while private sector employ-ers pay for 50 percent of the cost, according to Murphy.

The state budget allocated about $9.4 million to the Texas College Work-Study Program this year, and uni-versities review eligible stu-dents on an annual basis.

Government senior Betta-ny Valsin worked two work-study jobs while at UT — one in the University’s financial aid office and another at St. David’s Medical Center. Val-sin said she prefers on-cam-pus work-study programs because of the convenience that comes with on-campus work. However, Valsin said having an off-campus work-study job that would benefit one’s major would be worth the inconvenience of travel-ing off campus.

“I think that if the off-campus work-study posi-tion were extremely ben-eficial, like something that would look really good on any résumé, I would be all for it,“ Valsin said.

of LGBT are important to LGBT and non-LGBT people alike,” Shortall said. “Look-ing at those who signed the Texas Competes pledge is a fantastic representation of where business values lie in Texas. When students are coming out of schools and looking where to work, I think young people are look-ing at which businesses and which states are standing up for the LGBT community on these issues.”

Kyle Campbell, finance and business honors junior, said he asked about each company’s “diversity groups” when he looked for intern-ships over the summer,

“Lots of companies have LGBT diversity groups that have social functions, pro-vide support networks [and give] presentations on being gay in the workplace,” Camp-bell said. “Every time I was recruiting with a company, I asked them, ‘What do you

have in terms of that?’”Sabee Grewal, electrical

engineering and physics junior, worked at Intel dur-ing the fall 2014 semester. The company was very in tune with diverse needs, Grewal said.

“They seemed very recep-tive of anyone’s particular needs,” Grewal said. “They had a prayer room, sev-eral different prayer rooms for different faiths, and, in terms of gay and lesbian is-sues, I don’t remember any-thing specific, but there was nothing I could interpret as unfriendly.”

Although Texas Competes does not communicate di-rectly with the Texas Leg-islature, the message is im-portant for everyone to hear, Shortall said.

“It’s really important to send a message that this is our Texas,” Shortall said. “One that is welcoming and would like top talent in the world to call this place home. That’s the Texas that Texas Competes represents.”

targeted messaging, cal-endar integration and the ability for colleges to add content for their stu-dents,” Couch said.

Williams said MyUT will save students time by al-lowing them to use a single login to access secure por-tals, such as Canvas and other internal services.

“The goal is to have a single login across MyUT,” Williams said. “Now, that’s

not going to be completely done on the initial rollout, but that’s going to be the end goal.”

Williams said the ease of access to custom infor-mation will not reduce the need for students to visit an academic adviser.

“It’s going to give students access to information in a more efficient way,” Wil-liams said. “There’s noth-ing that going to replace a face-to-face relationship with your academic adviser and make sure your advis-

er is going to give you the right advice.”

Undeclared freshman Alison Seitz said she usually searches Google for specific links she needs instead of using UTDirect.

“It’s kind of confusing,” Seitz said. “I don’t really use it that much. Normal-ly, when I need to click on a certain [link], say, like, Bevo Bucks, I kind of just Google ‘UT Bevo Bucks’ to click on that in-stead of like actually going to UTDirect.”

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Tuesday was the 26th anniversary of the day 10,000 Chinese students gathered in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square to mourn reform leader Hu Yaobang in the now-infamous Tiananmen Square protests and massacre.

As many as 1.2 million people gathered over the course of the student-led movement before the Chinese government ordered a military crackdown against the peaceful protesters, which killed an unknown number of its par-ticipants and purged as many as 10,000 of their supporters afterward. Though the Tiananmen Square protests ended in tragedy, they are re-membered today as a powerful moment when young people stood up for their beliefs against an iron system.

Though half a world away, the 40 Acres has a similarly poignant history of student activism. The first University protest took place in 1897, and there have been dozens if not hundreds of student demonstrations since.

According to John Woodrow Storey ad Mary L. Kelley’s Twentieth-Century Texas: A Social and Cultural History, student activism was the catalyst for the University’s full racial integration in 1965, and the fear of Vietnam War protesters rushing the Tower brought about the installation of the hedges and groves now decorating the West Mall in the late 1960s. Last December’s “die-in” for Eric Gar-ner, the black man killed by a white police offi-cer in New York over the summer, was another example of the bold activist spirit ingrained in the culture of the student body.

The recent debate between Unify Texas and UTDivest is the most recent incarnation of student activism on UT’s campus. On April 7, the first debate about the BDS movement, or Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions, took place in the weekly Student Government meeting between student groups UTDivest and Unify Texas. Since then, our campus and this opin-ion page have been alight with powerful and well argued statements to the virtues of both causes.

The vibrancy of character, passion of pur-pose and dedication to an issue whose com-plexity frightens most away from serious consideration was a powerful and inspiring ex-perience for me as a student. During one of the most formative times in all of our lives, where we spend our days learning and becoming our truest selves in four years devoted to self-dis-covery, the BDS debate often left me wonder-ing: What more could I do for this campus, for this world?

For this reason and many others, I feel blessed that this movement happened on cam-pus. It is imperative that more debates on cam-pus happen, too. Though the issue was decided by Student Government Tuesday night against the resolution, I hope that an environment of open discourse is nurtured by this University. It is important for students to be able to speak freely about the issues that matter and be chal-lenged so that we as a student body may grow stronger in our personal convictions, which only an environment of open discourse can ensure. So, to all of my fellow students who contributed to that, please let me say thank you.

However, in future on-campus debates, I hope participants will exercise restraint and sensitivity, which I often felt was lacking over the last two weeks. Though I admired the de-baters’ passion, this cause engendered more hate between students than I felt comfortable

witnessing. By the time SG voted, accusations of bigotry and virulent personal character at-tacks on student leaders in both movements became the name of the game. For shame.

Inspiring others and fighting for justice is noble. What this debate devolved into over the last two weeks was not. This debate mattered. Protecting the integrity of it was sacred. Hurt-ing someone else is not the same as helping yourself.

Now that this debate is over, it would be too easy for one side or the other to become complacent with self-satisfaction at winning or rueful of their loss. Protect yourselves from such temptation.

As student activists, we can capture the voice of campus. We can make change happen.

We can inspire our fellow students. Or we can hurt them, ourselves and our

cause. To all of the participants in the fight over BDS, many of whom I believe did not take part in the mudslinging of the baser parts of the last few weeks, I urge you to serve our cam-pus by holding your peers accountable to their cause when some may bow to the temptation of fighting with anything other than reason.

Conduct yourselves with the dignity your cause demands of you as its representatives. If the cost is to the students around us and a community of openness, nothing is worth it. Fight the good fight, Longhorns. Just be wary of the repercussions.

Smith is a history and humanities junior from Austin.

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On April 11, Texas Traditions presented the Texas Revue, the largest and most diverse student-run talent show held on campus. This annual student tradition showcases a variety of acts from a conglomeration of hip-hop and violin by Shreyas Panda, to the blending of tra-ditional Bhangra and modern hip-hop by Pun-jabbawockeez. Two Indian dance teams (Nritya Sangam and Dirty South Dandiya) took home the awards of best overall and most technical, respectively, at this entertaining cross-cultural extravaganza on campus.

Texas Revue has been one of the most eye-opening experiences of my college career so far. This being my first UT-wide performance event, I, like many others, was exposed to cultural dances and performances that I had never seen before. It made me reflect on the importance of interpersonal cultural diversity.

Interestingly, “culture” was the most popular word of the year in Merriam Webster’s diction-ary in 2014. In addition to serving as a catch-all term for the beliefs, art and customs that differ-entiate one society from the next, “culture” can also mean work ethic and company values. For instance, in a Forbes article, an interviewed CEO said that “calling people back the same day” was part of his culture — so he monitors this behav-ior because, to him, good customer service is of paramount importance.

I believe that exposure to new cultures is an integral part of the UT experience. Not only does

it prepare us to pursue our future aspirations, but it enables us to understand the world better and learn from people who come from different walks of life.

We live in a country that is often referred to as a melting pot. Many of our nationalities are hy-phenated. As a Pakistani American, I am forever bound to two entirely different countries and cultures.

In many Western societies, we might be tempt-ed to assume that being bilingual is an unusual phenomenon. However, according to “A Parent and Teacher’s Guide to Bilingualism” written by Colin Baker, 75 percent of the world’s population may be bilingual to some degree. That’s more than 4 billion people who appreciate the differ-ence in people’s background and history.

Growing up in a bilingual home, my parents alternated between speaking in Urdu, the na-tional language of Pakistan, and English. I hesi-tate when answering questionnaires that ask me what my first language is because there is not one answer.

The reason for my hesitation is that I believe it is important for me to know my origins, di-verse as they may be. If not, I feel I have failed to consider the beginning of my story, and I fear I will find myself yearning for something I have forgotten.

As French novelist Marcel Proust put it, “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeing new lands but in seeing with new eyes.” Proust realized that by working with other people from diverse cultural backgrounds, we begin to ex-plore new ideas and prospects.

This past Saturday was about appreciation. The talent show brought the enjoyment of per-formance, but more importantly, it empowered a campus celebration of our own diversity.

Saifullah is a neuroscience sophomore from Richardson.

Mariana Gonzalez| Daily Texan StaffUniversity-wide representative Kallen Dimitroff speaks at the SG Student Assembly meeting on Tuesday. The Assembly voted down the divestment resolution after much debate.

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Griffin Smith| Daily Texan StaffThe new mural on the Spider House Ballroom’s exterior wall depicts a cow in a bikini.

Spiderhouse mural concerns readerCOLUMN

Dear Spiderhouse,What’s up with the obscene art that you just

plastered on the side of your building? Did you notice that there’s a cow with breasts? It’s kind of offensive to humans. The cow in a bikini or a bra or whatever it is should be removed im-mediately. Did it cross anyone’s mind that that might be perceived as the work of a sexist and in fact objectifies women in a way that is ab-surdly inappropriate? Not to mention the fact that it displays the the obvious lack of creativ-ity and talent of a second-rate tattoo artist? At least this can be removed and should be imme-diately.

I believe that you will find that the new art is not going over well with your neighbors. What a shame that you covered up some clever and well done art to give space to this offensive

low-concept crap. A skull happy face? Really? Why not put Hello Kitty up there? That’s about how creative this is. In this extreme case of bad judgment, I am very motivated to do anything that is necessary to move your establishment toward ceasing to insult all women who are so unfortunate as to look at your mural. Did someone in your establishment sign off on that? Maybe that person should re-evaluate this concept; positioning women as animals is degrading to women. Duh.

All oppression is rooted in the same system of domination and embracing any form of op-pression reinforces all oppressions. By display-ing this image, you have reinforced a dehu-manizing pornography that must be removed.

— Angela Temple, former UT staff and alum-na.

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Marshall Tidrick |Daily Texan StaffNritya Sangam performs at Texas Revue 2015.

Lewis Hall stood in Bartle Hall in Kansas City, Mis-souri, next to the court on which he would play in the National Collegiate Vol-leyball Federation Men’s Division III Bronze Bracket championship game.

Hall took out his phone, opened Snapchat and took a picture of court No. 9, his late mother’s favorite number. He captioned the photo, “Playing on Mom’s favorite number.” Glancing down at his mother’s pink water bottle, which he used all weekend, he soaked in the moment.

Last year, Hall, now a 27-year-old educational ad-ministration graduate stu-dent, was unable to play in the NCVF Championships because his mother had been diagnosed with cancer. She moved to Austin so he could take care of her, but this past February, Hall’s mother died. Two months later, he found himself in Kansas City with a chance to play for a national championship.

“If you didn’t know what he was going through, you wouldn’t be able to tell by his outer personality,” said biomedical engineering freshman Zach Murray, one of Hall’s teammates. “It takes a strong person to push through such adver-sity, and Lewis is definitely that person.”

Hall and his mother were extremely close. Despite her illness, she encouraged him to continue playing, and

that same encouragement allowed him to gather the strength to continue playing after her death.

“I know she would’ve been really proud,” Hall said. “I knew that [playing volley-ball] was my way of fighting for her.”

Texas ended up defeating Michigan in the title game, winning the first game 25–12 and the second game 25–18. Hall was able to honor his mother by claiming a nation-al championship, a culmina-tion of a season Hall used as a coping mechanism ever

since his mother’s death.“It was an outlet for me to

be able to play volleyball,” Hall said. “It was a good stress reliever and [gave] me peace of mind with the tough times we were dealing with.”

Hall began playing vol-leyball as a freshman at Quartz Hill High School in California. He simply had an interest in picking up a sport, and he had multiple friends trying out for the team. Hall went on to found a club volleyball team as an undergrad at California State University-Monterey

Bay before playing on the club team as a graduate stu-dent at Texas.

Once he completes his graduate degree in May, Hall plans to look for an opening at UT. He would be open to the idea of becom-ing an assistant coach for the club volleyball team and giving back to the program that gave him so much.

“Being a part of some-thing that really connects you to a campus and is big-ger than yourself — I think those things are priceless,” Hall said.

The Penn Relays is an event that every track team in the country circles when the schedule comes out every year.

Widely known as the crown jewel of track and field, the competition, held at the University of Pennsylvania since 1895, provides a massive test for the Texas track and field team.

Head coach Mario Sat-egna’s group will once again hope to find its place on the podium at the historic event. At last year’s edition

of the famed meet, both the men’s and women’s 4x400-meter relay teams excelled and placed in the top two.

The men’s team, an-chored by junior Zack Bil-derback, placed second in an incredibly strong 4x400-meter field. The women, a group that has gained a lot of chemistry over the past two years, won the 4x400-meter relay with a time of 3:25.05 — a Penn Relays record.

In the NCAA rankings, the men’s team held strong at No. 6 in the country while

the women stayed at No. 3.This meet begins Thurs-

day morning and runs all the way through Saturday.

Isaiah Taylor has until Sun-day to figure out whether he’s as ready for the NBA as Johnny Manziel was for the NFL. There’s no question in my mind: Taylor should stay for his junior year, further develop his skills and delay entering the NBA draft.

Taylor is a 6-foot-1-inch tall point guard who is astonish-ingly quick, has a unique ability to drive the ball and is a feisty on ball defender. But he lacks a con-sistent jump shot and weighs a mere 170 pounds.

If Taylor chooses to stay at Texas, he’d be the driving force for head coach Shaka Smart’s new offensive and defensive scheme.

Taylor was already the head of the snake whenever the Longhorns decided to press opponents last season. He only averaged one steal per game in 2014–2015, but Smart’s “havoc” system will increase that num-ber — Smart’s system demon-strably produces steals.

Since Taylor flourishes in the open court, the up-tempo pace Smart employs on offense will allow Taylor to drive the ball and have the defense on its heels.

Furthermore, with Taylor breaking down defenses as a re-sult of his driving, he’ll be able

to produce shots not just for himself, but also for his team-mates. Texas’ two incoming recruits, Eric Davis and Kerwin Roach, are both players who can shoot and attack.

When Taylor blows by his man, it will force the next de-fender to help on the drive, if that defender helps off some-one such as Davis, Roach, ris-ing senior guard Javan Felix or any other player Texas has that can shoot (sorry, Demar-cus Holland). From there,

they’ll have fairly open looks at the basket.

Taylor’s drives will have the defenses scrambling from all over even with the knowledge that Texas has shooters on the perimeter. It’s often not the first drive that hurts the most — it’s the second drive. If Da-vis, Roach or Felix can drive the ball after getting a kick out pass from Taylor, then that will put even more pressure on the defense.

In order for Taylor to be as

effective as possible, he will have to develop a jump shot. Without a jump shot, the chain of events that he causes as a result of his drives are unlikely to happen because Taylor’s de-fender could simply play off him. A consistent jump shot would make Taylor the best point guard in the nation be-cause of all the threats he would pose. It’d be hard to guard someone with his quickness and a consistent jump shot. The jump shot wouldn’t just

elevate Taylor’s game to a whole other echelon, but it would im-prove his draft stock. A former Arizona State point guard told me that when he would go up against point guard Avery Johnson, he would play off him because Johnson didn’t have a consistent jump shot.

Taylor would be guarded similarly, but his unique skill set merits something different. He should stay at Texas and develop those skills further.

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Okolo honored with Big 12 weekly award

Junior sprinter Court-ney Okolo won the Big 12 Conference Track and Field Athlete of the Week honor.

This is the first time Okolo has earned the award.

Over the weekend, Okolo defeated Sanya Richards-Ross, Olympic gold medalist and Texas alumna, at Michael John-son Classic with a time of 50.99 seconds — the fastest time in the world this year.

Okolo was trailing Richards-Ross in the fi-nal 50 meters of the race, but she was able to push through at the end for the victory.

This is the third time Texas track and field has received an athlete of the week award — ju-nior sprinter Morolake Akinosun has won the award twice this year af-ter emerging victorious three times in two meets this year.

—Aaron Torres

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Isaiah Taylor would be the driv-ing force for head coach Shaka Smart’s offensive and defensive schemes.

It was an outlet for me to be able to play volleyball. It was a good stress reliever and [gave] me peace of mind with the tough times we were dealing with.

—Lewis HallGraduate student

Isaiah Taylor should remain a Longhorn

After finishing up its last two home games, Texas heads to Waco this week-end for the Big 12 Women’s Tennis Championships.

To begin the postseason, the No. 5-seeded Longhorns will play TCU, which earned the No. 4 seed.

Earlier this season, Texas faced the Horned Frogs and dropped the match, 4–0.

No team has defeated No. 17 TCU in the month of April, and the team is coming off an im-pressive 4–0 win against the No. 15 Texas Tech.

History appears to be repeat-ing itself. In 2014, Texas suf-fered a loss to the Horned Frogs

during the regular season but then opened up the Big 12 Championships with a win against them, which propelled the Longhorns to the semifinals.

TCU has two players ranked in the top 100: No. 44 senior Simona Parajova and No. 79 senior Stefanie Tan. Tan has played at the No. 1 spots in both singles and doubles for the en-tire season.

The winner of the TCU–Tex-as game will play the victor of the match between Baylor and its opponent, which has yet to be determined.

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Alternative band Chip-per Jones always strives to do better. For the duo, this means touring more, writ-ing more and making mu-sic a full-time career.

UT alumnus James Lambrecht and childhood friend Charlie Martin both moved to Austin from Dallas, their hometown, and only rekindled their friendship when they ran into each other on cam-pus two years ago. Since that moment, the Chip-per Jones bandmates have been inseparable.

“I kind of recognized him on campus,” Lam-brecht said. “We started talking, and slowly, we started to get time to play together.”

Austin-based media label company Raw Paw will host a release party at Spider House Cafe & Ballroom for the duo’s two-song vinyl, Tropics | Cosm. The band members said the record plays more like a full-length album even though it is only two songs. The release party kicks off the band’s East Coast and Canadian tour, which runs through May.

The songs on Tropics | Cosm will be featured on

Chipper Jones’ upcoming full EP. The duo recorded the vinyl at Orb Studios using multitrack record-ing techniques, which the band members said re-sults in a fuller, more dy-namic sound than their previous live-recorded EP, Two Rooms.

The band’s music, which does not include vocals, has been described as cap-turing African-influenced, electronic melodies. Cle-mentine Kruczynski, di-rector of operations at Raw Paw and host of the release party, said Chipper Jones is a refreshing dose of music in Austin.

“They are the creative energy of Austin made audible,” Kruczynski said. “The purity of opti-mism settles over you as you listen.”

Since its first house show in December 2013, the band has gone on two tours, and this upcom-ing one will be its third. Its first tour in July 2014 ran through the Midwest regions, including Dallas,

Oklahoma and Colorado. Earlier this year, the band toured through the West Coast, going from New Mexico all the way up to Seattle.

“Any time a new band tours a new region for the first time, you have to make sure you give an awesome live perfor-mance every time,” Lam-brecht said. “You’re not just playing to friends or family anymore.”

Lambrecht said the two appreciate the feeling of returning home to the di-verse and supporting mu-sic scene in Austin.

“We always love com-ing back to Austin because there is so much love and support,” Lambrecht said. “It’s from touring that we notice Austin is such a great place to call home.”

They are the creative energy of Austin made audible. The purity of optimism settles over you as you listen.

—Clementine Kruczynski, Director of operations at Raw Paw

One hundred years ago, a failing heart meant a death sentence. Now, with cardiopul-monary resuscitation, or CPR, a pulse can be restored.

CPR is an emergency pro-cedure for people who have stopped breathing and are unresponsive. Successful CPR provides blood circulation to deliver necessary oxygen and nutrients when the heart stops working. Lack of circu-lation causes brain damage that is often irreversible, even if the heart later recovers to full functionality.

Preferably, CPR is used with an automated external defibrillator, or AED. AEDs are portable electronic devices that apply electrical shocks to help the heart re-establish a normal rhythm.

The aims of CPR and AED use are clear, but the practice constantly changes. In 2010, the American Heart Associa-tion changed its standards for CPR performed on adults. The association now empha-sizes high-quality chest com-pressions, which should be at least two inches deep and

performed at a rate of at least 100 compressions a minute. Singing the Bee Gee’s “Stayin’ Alive” is an easy way to hit 100 beats per minute.

Louis Gonzales is the co-founder of TAKE10, a program in which participants learn CPR in two minutes and spend eight more minutes practicing their technique. TAKE10, and programs like it, only teach the compression portion of CPR and how to use an AED. The class avoids subjects that might keep people from CPR, such as the fact that CPR usually breaks the patient’s ribs.

“Your ribs can heal, but if you die, it doesn’t matter,” Gon-zales said. “Talking about the things that deter people from CPR is not beneficial to the car-diac arrest victim.”

Theatre and dance junior Jane Hayes is the director of Longhorn EMS and has worked for three years as an emergency responder.

“There is no better feeling in the world than finding a once absent pulse,” Hayes said.

If CPR and the AED are used properly, the likelihood that a patient will walk out of the hospital increases from

7 percent to 38 percent, as shown in a study in the Jour-nal of the American College of Cardiology.

Despite the high success rate, bystanders don’t usually perform CPR. The American Heart Association reported that only about 30 percent of the population is trained to perform CPR. The goal of classes such as TAKE10 is to increase this number by abbre-viating the time it takes to fin-ish a CPR instructional course.

“As students, we spend hun-dreds of hours studying mate-rial that may or may not be rel-evant to us in the future,” Hayes said. “It is possible to learn CPR in a single afternoon, which may actually save lives.”

Gonzales said people may be unwilling to perform CPR for different reasons even if they have been certified. They may feel uncomfortable touching strangers who are obviously unwell or feel anxiety about remembering the details about performing CPR.

“Most people want to help, but they’re afraid of hurting someone by not doing CPR perfectly,” Gonzales said.

Gonzales emphasizes that imperfect compressions are better than no attempt at CPR.

“Knowing how to perform CPR does not save lives,” Gon-zales said. “You have to com-bine that with the willingness to act. It may not be perfect, but doing something is more effec-tive than doing nothing.”

The sounds of cars rushing down the street and students shuffling into class aren’t just noise to public rela-tions senior Daniel Sahad — they’re melodies.

“I just hear music like a crazy person,” Sahad said. “There’s music all around me. It’s kind of like madness.”

Although he can’t read music, Sahad can translate what he hears into music with his weapon of choice — the piano.

Aside from the few piano lessons he took as a kid, Sa-had’s experience with music is largely self-taught. During his freshman year of college, he spent his free time teach-ing himself to play the piano at dorms on campus. Now, over three years later, he’s preparing to release his first full-length album, Love & War, at the end of May.

“I was playing [piano] because college is hard,” Sa-had said. “It helped me calm down. It helped me feel. With so many things going on, it was a way for me to slow down.”

During the summer after his sophomore year, Sahad began recording original songs and worked as an in-tern at Capitol Records in Los Angeles. He spent the days organizing calendars for

artists such as Emeli Sandé and Coldplay and spent the nights writing his own mu-sic. After recording his first song, “Cream,” in his closet in LA, he showed it to his best friend and video pro-ducer Dustin Ratheal.

“It was just a keyboard and him,” Ratheal said. “It wasn’t something that was supposed to be good, and it was great.”

A few months later, he be-gan putting together the al-bum of 11 songs. He goes by the artist name Naji Rose — his parents’ first names.

“I am first generation Do-minican-American, so my par-ents both grew up in the Do-minican Republic,” Sahad said. “They’re both doctors. They worked to get here, and that’s definitely the reason I work — to merit their sacrifices.”

In January, Sahad began working with InfiniD Music, a student-run music label that has helped him produce the album. Dashon Moore, music production sopho-more and founder of InfiniD Music, said he sees influenc-es of artists such as Alt-J and Macklemore in Sahad’s work.

“[Sahad] is one of the best singers that I’ve ever heard,” Moore said. “Even after hear-ing one of his songs once, I can hear myself singing it in the shower. It just gets stuck in my head.”

Sahad has not released any of his music online.

He said he only wants to share his music once it is completely finished.

“I was never the kind of guy who posted videos of myself playing piano or progress,” Sahad said. “I only showed people I could play my music whenever I thought it was good enough.”

During spring break in

2014, however, Sahad de-cided to gauge how people would react to his songs. With the help of Ratheal, he created a minute-and-a-half-long video of himself sing-ing “Cream” and posted it to Facebook for 24 hours.

“It got 356 ‘likes’ and 75 ‘shares’ from people I don’t even know,” Sahad said. “I

was like, ‘Maybe this isn’t a joke. Maybe I’m not crazy. Other people want to listen to it, too.’”

But Sahad says it’s not fame he’s after. He just wants to make music. After college, Sahad said he wants to go to production school and open a publishing firm or record label. His ulti-mate goal, however, is to help

with education reform in the Dominican Republic, where most of his extended family still lives.

“I don’t want to be the guy on stage because that’s a diffi-cult life,” Sahad said. “It sounds glamorous, but it’s hard. I don’t want so much attention around me. I just want to do what I love.”

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Joshua Guerra| Daily Texan Staff Public Relations senior Daniel Sahad plays the piano in the grand piano room in Jester West Dormitory on Saturday evening. A self-taught pianist, Sahad is set to release his first full-length album at the end of May.

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Courtesy of Bryan Parker| Pop Process InternationalUT alumnus James Lambrecht and childhood friend Charlie Martin perform for alternative band Chipper Jones. The band will have a release party at Spiderhouse Cafe on Friday.

Austin-based alternative band Chipper Jones to release vinyl

CHIPPER JONES VINYL RELEASE PARTYWhere: Spiderhouse CafeWhen: Friday at 8 p.m.Admission: $7

MultimediaTo learn more about CPR courses, check out our video at dailytexanonline.com.

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