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Sustainability office releases survey Campus carry faces increasing oppositionThe Office of Sustain-

ability released a survey to students, faculty and staff on Monday to gather input on the first-ever UT Sus-tainability Master Plan.

The survey asks stu-dents to choose their high-est priority among topics such as fresh and local food availability on cam-pus, bike and pedestrian

accessibility on campus and classroom education on sustainability concepts and renewable energy.

The Sustainability Mas-ter Plan will use public input to establish sustain-ability-related goals and policies within a proposal that will be implemented over the next 15 years ac-cording to director of sustainability Jim Walker. These goals and policies will include plans on how

to accommodate growth on campus, engage in aca-demics and research as well as bring into effect UT community ideas for sustainability on campus.

“During the first round of the Plan process a cou-ple weeks ago, we gathered feedback on the values that should guide the Plan as well as ‘big ideas’ and priorities people imag-ined for campus,” Walker said in an email. “We don’t

really have a ‘plan’ for the Plan going in - we re-ally are interested in what students, staff and faculty think is important for sus-tainability at UT Austin.”

The working group for the Sustainability Master Plan has had four public forums, where they dis-cussed sustainability at UT and brainstormed the planning process for creat-ing the sustainability plan, according to Garrett Saw-

yer, a women’s and gender studies graduate student who attended one of the forums and also took the survey. Sawyer said he thinks the group who cre-ated the survey did a good job implementing key points brought up in the public forums but does not know if the average stu-dent will care about some questions in the survey.

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Magician reveals secrets behind tricks

The Department of Spanish and Portuguese re-leased a statement, backed by the signatures of 70 UT students, voicing their opinion on campus carry.

Jossianna Arroyo, in-terim chair of the depart-ment, wrote on behalf of the group asserting their firm disapproval of campus carry.

“We strongly believe that concealed guns should not be allowed in any building, or on the perimeters of the campus of The University of Texas, Austin,” Arroyo said in the statement.

Arroyo said the group feels the idea that allow-ing students to carry guns will make classrooms safer is incorrect.

“As an intellectual com-munity, we simply reject the premise that guns will make our classrooms, of-fices and social spaces saf-er,” Arroyo said. “As a ra-cially, culturally, ethnically and sexually diverse de-partment, we are aware of the social-power dynam-ics behind gun culture and the potentially disruptive and dangerous state of af-fairs the law allowing con-cealed weapons in campus buildings will bring to our courses, pedagogies, free-dom of speech and finally, our security and lives.”

UT alumnus Patrick Lawrence said he agrees that a college campus is not the place to allow guns to be carried.

“A line has to be drawn, and that line is here,” Law-rence said. “Academic and educational facilities re-quire a sense of safety and trust. People shouldn’t have to be thinking about

By Kahlil Said@kahlelo

UT alumnus Brian Brushwood closes his eyes, leans his head back and lowers a flaming metal skewer down his throat. A few seconds later, he pulls it out, ready for his next trick.

Brushwood is an en-tertainer known for his “punk-rock-blood-and-guts magic show” in which viewers watch him eat fire, hammer nails into his nose, read minds and stick skew-ers through his tongue.

“Some of [my stunts] are totally real, and some are totally fake,” Brushwood said. “But my favorite part is that middle ground when you’re not really sure what’s what. I want people con-stantly guessing what’s real.”

Until 2014, Brushwood toured colleges across the country with his magic show and has since settled down in Austin, produc-ing three podcasts, run-ning a YouTube series and occasionally perform-ing live. Last month he starred in “Dance Show-down,” a YouTube spin-off of “Dancing With The Stars.”

“I did it because it terri-fied me,” Brushwood said. “There is something great

about the abject terror of stepping outside your comfort zone.”

His YouTube series “Scam School,” which has gained over 1.3 million subscribers since its 2008 premiere, teaches street cons and bar tricks that anyone can try at home.

Brushwood said most of the tricks he teaches are re-invented versions of stunts he found in 100-year-old magic books.

The familiar adage “a magician never reveals his tricks” has never sat well with Brushwood. Instead, he said, anyone willing to

sit through his explanation on “Scam School” is wor-thy of knowing the secrets behind his tricks.

“To me, if you love an art, you want more people doing it,” Brushwood said. “The more people we have doing magic, the better magic does as an art.”

Brushwood’s career in magic began with a simple card trick that a friend taught him before he left for college. When his friend wouldn’t share how it was done, Brushwood became determined to learn the

By Katie Walsh@katiehwalsh_atx

Matt Robertson | Daily Texan StaffUT alumnus Brian Brushwood performs his signature fire eating trick in his practice space near Dripping Springs. Brush-wood is an entertainer, magician and the creator of the YouTube channel and book series “Scam School.”

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Alumnus pursues wheelchair rugby dreamVacant security post raises student concern

Reymundo Padron, night operations manager and UT employee since 2005, was let go Oct. 6 for unknown reasons.

Following Padron’s re-lease, Devin Guthrie, psy-chology junior and presi-dent of the Quad Resident Hall Council, created a Facebook event to provide a platform “for people to both contact Rey, offering their condolences and sup-port, and express their dis-satisfaction or opinions on the situation.”

Mylon Kirksy, director of resident life in the Depart-ment of Housing and Food

Service, refused to com-ment on the details of Pad-ron’s unemployment.

Guthrie said his under-standing is that Padron’s unemployment came at the end of a six-month pro-bationary period after be-ing promoted from night desk supervisor.

“It was done without warning and without any backup plan,” Guthrie said. “It created a lot of chaos within night staff.”

Guthrie said he be-lieves DHFS is still strug-gling without a night operations manager.

“Having weaker over-head supervision creates

By Claire Allbright@claireallbright UT alumnus Jeff Butler

faced a decision not many 25-year-olds have to make. Like most recent gradu-ates, he wanted to pursue a career. But he also had the opportunity to pursue his lifelong dream: competing for Team USA in wheel-chair rugby at the 2016 Rio Paralympics.

“I’ve done a lot of soul-searching the past year — do I pursue this Paralympic thing and potentially delay some of my career goals?” Butler said. “But I’m pretty confident and comfortable with the choice I’ve made to go after the Paralympics

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“I don’t necessarily know if from the day-to-day, students are entirely aware of the work that’s been going on in sustain-ability on campus,” Saw-yer said. “I certainly think that giving them kind of the topics that were in the survey will allow them to … be kind of aware of the topics that could touched upon going forward and make them aware of that in their day to day lives.”

Nutrition freshman Tatum Galliete said bike theft and energy-efficient buildings should become prominent parts of the sustainability plan.

“Whatever benefits the students I think they should make priority,” Galliete said in a text mes-

sage. “I believe that with the population of Austin increasing, the environ-ment is taking a turn for the worse. With a great amount of students at-tending UT Austin, pol-lution is only going to get worse. I think tending to the public and informing them about these issues will ultimately help pre-vent this.”

Walker said while there are many programs working on sustainability for campus already, the future of the sustainability plan depends on the UT community.

“There are a lot of great sustainability ini-tiatives already happen-ing on campus, and those will certainly shape the foundation of the Plan,” Walker said. “The goals for 2030 will be shaped by campus input.”

whether the person next to them in class or in the library has a gun on them.”

Lawrence said oth-er measures can be taken to combat mass school shootings.

“People argue that al-lowing campus carry might make shooters re-consider shooting up a school,” Lawrence said. “While that might be true in some cases, other measures can be taken by law enforcement and security officers rather than allowing students to carry guns.”

UT alumnus Sam Saldivar said he sup-ports campus carry for several reasons.

“Campus carry requires a concealed carry license, which subjects applicants to background checks and firearm safety courses,” Saldivar said. “Prohibit-ing campus carry would not stop a criminal from taking a gun to campus, and it is a way to deter shootings when police response is not as rapid as necessary.”

Sarah Goetz, first-year UT law student, asserted her support of the state-ment released, stating that guns should absolutely not be allowed on campus.

“It’s unfathomable to me that anyone could think campus carry is a good idea,” Goetz said. “Espe-cially after the amount of school shootings this past year.”

holes in the system of se-curing the residence halls that aren’t good,” Guthrie said. “It was especially bad the first week, and since they are still assessing the situation, there remains [sic] things that are defi-nitely problematic.”

With a staff of 35 mem-bers, adjustments will be made to compensate for his absence, Kirksy said.

“Even in the absence of the area manager po-sition, there is a plan,” Kirksy said. “The plan is being implemented, and all of the things that were happening are happening, and they are continuing to happen.”

Kirksy said Padron’s ab-sence is providing the de-partment with a chance to assess the position and see if it is adequately serving the University.

“I don’t think it would benefit anyone if we rushed back into

immediately hiring some-one without really under-standing what it is that position was designed to do and what we want to ul-timately accomplish at the end with our operation,” Kirksy said.

Kirksy said while at the University, Padron worked to build the community with residents.

“There’s no denying that, throughout the en-tire time that Rey worked at the University, he made outstanding connections with individuals, and I believe that individuals will most likely miss that

aspect of their connection with him,” Kirksy said.

Aarti Bhat, Plan II and human development and family sciences sophomore and a member of the Quad Residence Hall Council, said Padron cared about all the residents.

“He was just always a friendly face behind the desk,” Bhat said. “No mat-ter how rough of a day or night you had or were going to have because of copious amounts of ne-glected homework, it was always great to see Rey and hear all the stories he had to tell.”

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“Campus carry requires a concealed carry license, which subjects applicants to background checks and firearm safety courses,” Saldivar said. “Prohibit-ing campus carry would not stop a criminal from taking a gun to campus, and it is a way to deter shootings when police re-sponse is not as rapid as necessary.”

Sarah Goetz, first-year UT law student, asserted her support of the state-ment released, stating that guns should absolutely not be allowed on campus.

“It’s unfathomable to me that anyone could think campus carry is a good idea,” Goetz said. “Espe-cially after the amount of school shootings this past year.”

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Higher education in Rwanda needs to bridge both a quality gap and an accessibility gap in order for students to become successful, according to Kepler CEO Christopher Hedrick.

Hedrick spoke at an event Monday hosted by the Ronya George Kozmetsky Center for Philanthropy and Com-munity Service in the LBJ School of Public Affairs.

Students of Kepler, a non-profit university program in Rwanda, are enrolled in a de-gree program from Southern New Hampshire University called College for America and are able to graduate with U.S. accredited degrees in communications and health-care management, Hedrick said. The tuition is $1,000 per year, similar to that of a Rwandan public university.

“Human potential is not being utilized,” Hedrick said. “Kepler helps to reduce the gap between how much po-tential young people have and

how much they get to fulfill it.” The value of higher educa-

tion lies in economic oppor-tunity, Danielle Rutherford, public affairs graduate stu-dent, said.

“Higher education is the ticket to economic prosperity not only in Rwanda, but across the globe,” Rutherford said.

Kepler was developed be-cause many Rwandan uni-versities were poorly run with overcrowded lecture halls and facilitated little interaction with potential employers, Hedrick said. At Kepler, students are able to obtain a degree, gain technology skills and are con-nected to potential job oppor-tunities, according to Hedrick.

Kepler uses a competency-based program, forcing stu-dents to demonstrate a mas-tery of a subject before they can advance, Hedrick said.

“Up until the time they were in Kepler, these students were rewarded on how well they could memorize and re-gurgitate information,” Hed-rick said. “Kepler creates criti-cal reasoning capabilities.”

A main benefit of this pro-gram is that students are able to learn English, social work graduate student Sara Acebe-do said. Because many gradu-ates leave Rwanda to take an international job, English is taught to expand the breath of

graduates’ qualifications. “The presentation talked

about how Kepler created economic and work study opportunities, but more importantly, Kepler stu-dents learn in a Western-style classroom and learn

how to navigate two differ-ent types of work cultures,” Acebedo said.

According to Hedrick, only 7 percent of students in Africa have any sort of access to higher education.

“Conversely, six out of ten

of the fastest growing econ-omies in the world during the past few years were found in Africa,” Hedrick said. “Economic growth in Africa would be even faster if it wasn’t constrained by the 7 percent.”

Author Namwali Serpell joined UT faculty, students and community members for an afternoon reading and discus-sion of her recent and upcom-ing works.

Serpell, a Zambian fic-tion author and University of California-Berkley professor, read aloud sections of three selected works, “Bottoms Up,” “The Sack” and “Book of Fac-es” at an event sponsored by the Ethnic and Third World Literatures program in the De-partment of English and the Michener Center for Writers. Guests asked questions about

different elements and themes in Serpell’s work and how she crafts her writing.

Serpell said she chose the works based on her cultural identity.

“I am a literal African Amer-ican, like Barack Obama,” Ser-pell said. “I am both Zambian and have lived in the states for a long time. So I’m going to read an American story, [‘Bottoms Up,’] a Zambian story, [‘The Sack’] and a story that is set in the Internet, [‘Book of Faces.’]”

Before the readings began, Serpell was introduced by Abbey Chung, a fellow at the Michener Center for Writers, who organized the event along with English graduate student

Fatma Kola. Chung said the process of getting Serpell to come to campus was remark-ably easy.

“I started talking to Fatma over the summer about bring-ing Namwali here,” Chung said. “I hope this becomes a model to show creative writing stu-dents here so we can make the kind of literary events we want to see on campus.”

As Serpell read aloud her work, members of the audi-ence asked questions about various elements of the piece. During the Q&A, Serpell said she is turning the short story “The Sack” into a longer novel with the same characters that cumulate in the last chapters as

a reprint. After the reading of the “The

Sack,” one member of the au-dience, Jim Magnuson, direc-tor of the Michener Center for Writers, said he wonders how the story would be a part of the larger book Serpell is writing.

“I think the story is so beautiful,” Magnuson said. “It’s so mysterious. One of the great things about it is every-thing you leave out — it feels very clean. But wanting to deal with Zambian history, I think, well, gosh, it’s not going to be thick with fact and how to deal with that.”

In response to his question, Serpell said her book will have a variety of genres mixed in it.

A UT alumnus explored spiritual exercises performed by Mexican Catholics in 1874 and the globalization of the Church in a talk hosted by the Institute for Historical Studies on Monday.

Brian Stauffer, who has a Ph.D. in Latin American His-tory from UT, said Mexican Catholics transported them-selves mentally to places in Europe, Mexico and the Holy Land. When a liberal party regained power in Mexico in 1867, they continued secu-larizing reform, which led to anti-clerical legislation that prohibited Catholics from carrying out the pilgrimages in person. Mexican Catho-lics and other conservatives eventually rebelled against the government.

“I’m a godless, communist atheist,” Stauffer said. “But the funny thing about studying religion is that the more you listen to people from the past,

the more sympathy you end up having for them.”

Stauffer, who is a post-doctoral fellow at UT, also discussed “Romanization,” a term used by historians to describe the Vatican exert-ing more control over Latin American churches. However, Stauffer said it fails to capture the complete situation.

“There’s another process going on, which is more of a back-and-forth,” Stauffer said. “It’s a more cultural process.”

Instead, Stauffer said he prefers to use the term glo-balization when talking about “ultramontane” Catholi-cism, which refers to national churches accepting the infal-libility of the Pope.

“Mexican Catholics in the 19th century weren’t just pas-sively taking a bunch of trends from Europe,” Stauffer said. “They were also making argu-ments about the value of their own devotions and their own holy places in Mexico.”

Vasken Markarian, a gradu-ate student in Latin American

history, said he was raised in Armenian Orthodox Christi-anity and is interested in the friction between the Church and the state government.

“From my experience, I did see how, in Armenia, religion plays such an important part in shaping national identity,” Markarian said. “I want to study how religion brings to-gether a nation.”

Urban studies senior Rob-ert Davila, a member of the University Catholic Center, said if his religious rights were infringed upon by the government today, a similar rebellion would ensue. He said adoration in the Catho-lic faith, where people adore Jesus in the exposition of the Eucharist, is similar to the spiritual pilgrimages under-taken by Mexican Catholics in the 19th century.

“It’s kind of like a long mo-ment of silence,” Davila said. “It strengthens your faith by putting aside your everyday problems and focusing on the Eucharist.”

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Kepler CEO discusses Rwandan higher educationBy Ashley Tsao

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Kepler CEO Christopher Hedrick talks to students about improving higher education in Rwanda at the LBJ School of Public Affairs on Monday after-noon. Kepler developed as a nonprofit uni-versity program for students in Rwanda that allows them to graduate with U.S. accredited degrees.

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Zambian author explores diverse cultures through storiesBy Rachel Freeman

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Qiling Wang | Daily Texan StaffNamwali Serpell, Zambian fiction author and University of California-Berkeley professor, speaks after a reading and Q&A about her recent and upcoming works on Monday after-noon. In 2015, Serpell won the Caine Prize for African Writing for one of her short stories and is currently working on her first novel.

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Graeme Hamilton | Daily Texan StaffPostdoctoral fellow Brian Stauffer spoke Monday about the history of Catholicism in Mexico.

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Editor’s Note: Muñoz has previously worked for The Daily Texan as a photographer.

When I was younger, my single mom worked two jobs to support my siblings and me. Sometimes, she would take us to her sec-ond job in an okra factory, where we stood for eight hours straight in a mosquito-infested room, separating the good okra from the bad and complaining every step of the way.

“I want you to hate it,” my mother would explain. “I want you to understand how im-portant it is for you to study — so you won’t have to do the kind of work that I do.”

Looking back, I realize how much those

long, hot, achy afternoons shaped my path. I come from a high school in the Rio Grande Valley with a high Latino population — and a high dropout rate. Year after year, I watched friends and classmates walk through the dou-ble doors and never come back. They didn’t do it because they weren’t capable or didn’t care but because when they looked around at the poverty and crime that riddled our streets, there was no evidence of education as the route to a better alternative.

The message students in my community got from broader society only further con-firmed what they were learning in the neigh-borhood. The media is more likely to offer stereotypes about low-income Latinos than examples of people like us excelling through

hard work, passion and intelligence. When I first came to UT-Austin, I thought I’d

play a role in changing this as a journalist myself. But as I learned about systemic inequality, I start-ed to wonder about opportunities to have a more direct impact. I wanted to be part of a movement.

As this desire crystallized in my mind, I thought about my unlikely path to UT and the people who paved it — my teachers. I my-self could have easily gone down the wrong path if I hadn’t had incredible teachers who supported and believed in me. Reflecting on how crucial those teachers were in shap-ing my path out of poverty, I’ve decided to follow in their footsteps. After graduation, I will be joining Teach For America — the same program through which many of my

influential teachers came to my schools.As a teacher, I will have the opportunity

to show my students that they can succeed. I know the barriers they face. But I also know that their futures aren’t written yet. It’s up to my fellow educators and me to help them real-ize that they are the architects of their destiny.

Hispanic Heritage Month just ended, but together, we can keep the momentum of the celebration and advocacy going all year long. I know the work will be hard, but I also know the progress will be powerful. It’s up to us to give our kids the sturdiest foundation possible so they can build the futures they deserve.

Mariana Muñoz is a senior. She is a member of the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas, Student Conduct Board and Euphoria ATX.

It’s become very obvious that the me-dia has a dramatic effect on the outcome of politics, and specifically, the presidency. Last Wednesday, Facebook and CNN part-nered together to present to America the upcoming election’s first Democratic de-bate. According to viewer polls by CNN, Slate and TIME Magazine, Senator Bernie Sanders was the clear champion. This was not the case for the editors of these specific multimedia entities, however. CNN titled its post-debate headline as “Clinton’s Confi-dent Sweep,” Slate as “Hillary Clinton Won,” and Time as “Clinton in Control.”

There’s a stark difference between the polls and the media conglomerates. One says Sanders won. The other says Clinton won.

Here’s the problem: Most people, when looking online for the victor, are only go-ing to see the large bolded headlines rather than the polls. Viewer polls aren’t the sole determinant in the outcome of the debate, but they should have some influence. While it is very valid to say the debate went very well for Clinton, it’s ridiculous to say that it didn’t go well for Sanders — especially con-sidering the fact that nearly every poll said that Sanders did well. By reading headlines such as “Hillary Clinton Won” or “Clinton in Control,” the audience assumes Clinton won, and therefore Sanders lost. Phrasing opinions as facts has historically allowed media to influence politics.

The function of any form of media is to relay information to the people. Thus, the media has the onus of providing informa-tion that is pure and unbiased. To many, this was not the case in the post-debate head-lines. According to the Natural Bureau of Economics, “70 percent of Americans be-lieve that there is either a great deal or a fair amount of media bias in news coverage.”

We see this bias manifest not only from the post-debate headlines but also from the overall coverage of the debate. CNN and MSNBC conveniently decided to cut out Bernie Sander’s attack on the media after he defended Clinton and her emails.

With all this happening, it seems fair to say that CNN is biased toward Clinton. The argument becomes stronger when one realizes Time Warner Cable, the par-ent company of CNN, is the seventh larg-est donor to the Clinton campaign. When Americans read this information on social media and notice its omission in tradition-al media sources, they feel that politics is ultimately corrupt.

Oftentimes, this idea of the government being corrupted leads to political apathy and lower voter turnouts, therefore limit-ing the effects of democracy.

With such bias in the media, there seems little we Americans can do other than ac-tively search for the truth. Instead of form-ing opinions based on superficial, biased headlines, the American people must go to a variety of sources that both confirm and deny their initial opinions. Political educa-tion is the only solution to deterring the sphere of political bias.

Syed is a biochemistry freshman from Houston.

Campus carry certainly is a divisive issue, but nothing unites us quite like our excretory sys-tems. Everyone poops. But when guns are al-lowed on campus next August, public bathrooms might prove an unlikely mess.

Gun owners are often tempted to remove their holsters and rest their weapons in the various nooks of the stall when they use the restroom, raising the chances of leaving the weapon behind — or worse — accidentally discharging it.

People have found guns in the bathrooms of churches, movie theaters, government build-ings, airports and schools. Removing your weapon to drop trou is neither safe nor proper procedure, but then again, there is no proper procedure for gun handling when you “have one in the chamber.” And even one mishap would give serious ammunition (pun intended) to the movement against campus carry.

A member of the U.S. Capitol Police recent-ly forgot his loaded gun in a stall in the Capitol Visitor Center restroom, and it was found by a 7-year-old tourist. This is one of three inci-dents this year in which a gun was left in a pub-lic bathroom by the U.S. Capitol Police. These are professionals charged with the safety of our Congressmen and who carry guns for a living.

What will happen when student gun owners — preoccupied with problem sets, parties and pumpkin spice lattes — go between classes?

Maybe we could hang “Don’t Forget Your Gun” signs above the toilet paper. At least then we’ll have something new to ponder upon the porcelain thrones of UT. But jokes aside, “bath-room carry” is not as silly as it sounds.

In 2009, a Tampa woman accidentally shot herself in the leg while using a hotel restroom. Last September, an elementary school teacher injured herself when her gun went off while she was relieving herself in a school bathroom.

But Don Dougherty, a chief firearms in-structor for Ready Learning Academy, said these are isolated incidents of carelessness and shouldn’t be cause for concern.

“Out of the hundreds of thousands, if not

millions, of concealed carriers, both profes-sional and civilian, a small fraction of a small fraction have erred in forgetting to retrieve their firearm after putting it down for any number of activities,” Dougherty said. “It’s rare and in no way represents any real issue requir-ing monitoring. Just remember to be mindful of your heightened level of responsibility when

carrying concealed.”With such a stink surrounding campus carry,

student gun owners will be under intense scru-tiny when the policy is enacted. Hopefully, they will be as diligent with their weapons in rest-rooms as they are elsewhere.

Schmidt is a physics and aerospace engineering sophomore from Austin.

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because this is not some-thing that I’m able to do later in life.”

Butler has been play-ing wheelchair rugby since high school. He played recreationally for the In-dianapolis club team in his home state of Indiana. But his goal of qualifying for the Paralympics drove him to search for more competitive opportunities. Butler transferred from In-diana University to UT to play for Austin’s club team, the Stampede.

“The head coach of the club team in Austin also is the head coach of Team USA,” Butler said. “If you want to be the best and want to reach your goals, you go wherever your best chance of doing that is.”

Head coach James Gum-bert’s knowledge and men-torship kept Butler moti-vated when he tried out for Team USA four times before making the cut. But-ler upped his training regi-men to five days a week, including practices, work-ing on endurance, agility and court drills. He began focusing more on game

strategy and technical as-pects of the sport to meet the demands of playing for Team USA.

“[Gumbert] was the one who was saying don’t give up … on this dream of yours,” Butler said. “It’s also helpful to have a coach who’s incredibly knowl-edgeable about the game who can tell you in great detail what you need to be doing and why you need to be doing it.”

Butler also had a mentor in close friend and former teammate Emily Shryock. They were teammates in Indiana and both moved to Austin to play for Gumbert with the Stampede. Shryock is now the assistant director at the Services for Students with Disabilities at UT.

“Jeff ’s always had the enthusiasm and the drive to become a great athlete,” Shryock said. “That’s one of the reasons he’s reached the level he has — because it wasn’t something he just talked about and wanted — it was really something that he was willing to work toward.”

Butler’s hard work and training is paying off. He returned home with a Team USA silver medal from the

World Wheelchair Rugby Challenge in London last week. Team USA lost by one point to Canada on the first day of the tourna-ment. It then went on to win four games straight. But Canada again plagued the team in the gold medal match on the final day, de-feating Team USA 54-50 to win gold.

“This is [Butler’s] first big international competi-tion, so it’s been exciting to see him get to that point,” Shryock said. “We used to be at home together watch-ing Team USA play games, and now he’s the one out there actually competing in them.”

Butler’s road to taking the court at the Paralym-pics next summer is far from over. The London tournament served as a measuring stick to gauge where Team USA stacks up against five of the top teams in the world, but they still need to get through a Para-lympics qualifying tourna-ment early next year.

Butler feels confident his team can do it. Winning a silver medal among the top-seeded teams in the world isn’t a bad start for the No. 2-ranked Team USA.

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Editor’s note: Whita-ker Fields closed Monday for renovations and will reopen in fall 2016. Below is a col-umn from one intramural participant who fought for a flag football championship on Thursday night, the last night Whitaker hosted flag football this year.

Today, we played in the intramural championship. Today, we took a picture to go up in Greg for eternity. Today, we fought hard until the end and went out there to compete. Today, we fought to win. Today, we walked away struck with an overwhelm-ing feeling.

Starting at 7 p.m., we faced the top team in the division, the EcclesiATH-LETES. Last time, we lost by two touchdowns against this team. Seeking revenge, we snapped the ball to start the clock and focused on the goal: getting the shirt. We played a no-huddle offense while they milked the whole play clock. With one play left in the first half on their own 30-yard line, they attempted the short-throw, lateral trick play. Scrambling to grab the defender, we swiped them

at the 20-yard line to save the touchdown. Wait. Flag. Push in the backfield on the defense. The ref snatched the ball, walked to the spot of the foul and took ten Shaq-sized steps forward. One play remaining. We rushed hard, passed the line and pulled the flag of the quarterback behind the line of scrim-mage. Relief. 7-7. Halftime.

At the start of the second half, the EcclesiATHLETES started with the ball to no success. Again, operating in their slow offense, we con-tained them and got the ball back off of a punt. Fast-forward, eight minutes left, we have the ball. Hike, rush, score. Miss the extra point; we’re up six.

With the ball again and six minutes left, our QB drops back, interception. Their ball.

With the ball on their own 15, we stop them on first down. On second, the ball’s in the air, we swat it down and begin to celebrate. Flag. Pass interference. Auto-matic first down. Next play, stopped. This continued on for two more downs and they called a timeout pondering fourth-down options. They elect to punt with four min-utes remaining. Ball’s in the air, our punt receiver catches

the ball — juke, juke, juke – shakes off six defenders and hobbles into the end zone for the score. We miss the extra point, and they get the ball on their own 15. We’re up 12 with six plays remaining.

First play, 80-yard bomb, caught, score (with an ex-tra point). Up five on our own 15, first down. The play call? Run four times, try for a first down; if not, we punt to them with one play left. Ready for the play, long snap count, false start. Move it back. Next play, hike, scramble, pres-sure, fake the throw, run a little, still behind the line of scrimmage, spike attempt, defender gets a hand under the ball, interception.

Up five, four plays to go. Their ball, red zone. First down, throw for no gain. Second down, scramble, ball’s up, we get two hands on the ball and can’t hold on. Third down, hike, scramble, roll out, run around, a little more time, lob in the end zone, touchdown.

EcclesiATHLETES up one, go for two and get it. One play left, we plan a tip play, launch one down the field to their 30, four defenders in the area — interception.

Game over. Lost by three.

With lower tempera-tures and a calm breeze for their home tourna-ment, the Longhorns completed the first day of the Betsy Raw-ls Invitational in 4th place. Texas shot a 583, 7-over par.

Senior Tezira Abe had a strong showing, shoot-ing consecutive rounds of 73-70 to finish in the top five at 1-under par. Junior Julia Beck and freshman Maddie Luitwieler are currently tied for 16th at 2-over par. Sophomore Sophia Schubert shot 4-over par to tie for 28th, while ju-nior Haley Mills finished 14-over par for a tie for 65th.

Senior Natalie Karcher finished tied for 36th, and junior Anne Hakula finished in 69th. Both are playing as individuals for Texas.

Kent State took the

outright lead with a team score of 575 to lead by just one shot over UNLV and Texas Tech. Senior Taylor Kim of Kent State, junior Ju-lie Houston of UTSA and freshman Elizabeth Prior of UNLV are tied at 3-under par for first place to lead the group of 75 players.

Texas will be paired with New Mexico and Texas State tomorrow for the final 18 holes to fin-ish out the third round. There will be a shotgun start with tee times at 8:30 a.m.

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Jinkens finds success in senior yearPeter Jinkens read the play

perfectly, held his ground and slung TCU quarterback Trev-one Boykin to the ground.

Jinkens — a 6-foot, 230-pound senior strong side linebacker from Dallas — ap-peared to set the tone of the game with a tackle on third and one during TCU’s open-ing drive. But his tackle soon faded to the background of the 50-7 loss to the Horned Frogs on Oct. 3.

Much like the tackle, Jinkens’ performance this sea-son has fallen to the shadows behind the hype surrounding freshman linebacker Malik Jefferson. It’s a rarity to see a senior lurking in the shadow of a freshman, though Jinkens does just that. Jefferson earned National Player of the Week honors after Texas’ 24-17 win over Oklahoma, but Jinkens leads the Longhorns with 48 tackles.

Although Jinkens may not be in the limelight like Jeffer-son, he attributes his success this season to his teammates and coaches.

“[My teammates and coaches have] just put me in the right place,” Jinkens said. “They know my strengths and weaknesses, so they put me in the right situations, so where I can utilize my strengths to make plays.”

Texas head coach Charlie Strong said he enjoys watch-ing Jinkens’ and Jefferson’s performances this season.

He’s also enjoying watching Jinkens’ breakout season.

“You look at two guys who are doing very well,” Strong said. “They’re playing off one another. … Pete [Jinkens] can kind of sit back, and where Pete’s done a great job is just attacking and making a lot of plays. I’m happy for him just to see him having the year up to right now the way he’s playing.”

Before 2015, Jinkens had played in 39 games and

started 11. He’s had an up-and-down career at Texas. As a freshman, he recorded 29 tackles and one interception. He showed vast improve-ment as a sophomore with 49 tackles and a forced fumble. But he saw his production drop last season, recording a career-low 27 tackles.

After a rough junior year, Jinkens committed to spend-ing extra time watching film and getting help from his coaches. Jinkens said he

wants to make the best of his senior season.

“I feel like I’m more hun-gry,” Jinkens said. “It’s my last year, so I just want to make an impression.”

Jinkens’ teammates have noticed his newfound focus and have been impressed with his performance thus far.

“Peter has always been a fiery kind of guy,” senior cornerback Duke Thomas said. “He’s worked really hard this offseason to really up

his mental part of the game. We had [Jordan] Hicks in our [locker] room last year, and he really had the bulk of that. Peter really did a great job moving forward and tak-ing more of the mental as-pect of the game more seri-ous. You can see the year he’s been having.”

While Jinkens hasn’t been in the spotlight as much as his linebacker counterpart, he still relishes the opportunity to make plays.

Graeme Hamilton | Daily Texan StaffOther players on the Texas defense have taken the spotlight, but senior linebacker Peter Jinkens has found success this year, leading the team with 48 tackles through six games this season.

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Neal dominated the of-fensive end of the court, tallying 19 kills with only three hitting errors. She also added an ace and as-sisted on two blocks.

This season Neal has racked up 25 aces and carries a .285 hitting percentage.

This is the second time Neal has won the weekly award. She is the fourth Longhorn to win a weekly conference award this season.

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Senior Tezira Abe had a strong showing, shooting consecutive rounds of 73-70 to finish in the top five at 1-under par.

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During Halloween sea-son, demons, ghosts and witchcraft haunt movie-watchers everywhere, but Students Against Cruelty to Animals are bringing a real-life horror to the screen — animal abuse.

Students Against Cru-elty to Animals will show what they call “the scariest movie ever” at 6 p.m. in SAC 2.412 on Wednesday. The group chose not to re-veal the film’s title or what it’s about, but a Facebook page promoting the event warns that it’ll contain “unsettling and unpleas-ant things.” As an incen-tive, the group is offering to pay attendees $5 to get the message across but can only guarantee cash for the first 200 people who show up. Attendees can choose to instead donate the mon-ey to a local animal shel-ter. Free vegan ice cream will also be served to all attendees.

Jacek Prus, SACA co-president and philosophy senior, said the event’s purpose is to impact stu-dents in a way a simple speech could not. He said actually showing examples of animal mistreatment is more powerful than hearing about it.

“There’s one thing about talking about something or someone’s condition,” Prus said. “There’s another thing about witnessing that condition.”

This isn’t the first time SACA has offered money to students in exchange for hearing their views. Last year, the group paid stu-dents $1 to watch a four-minute clip. They also held successful protests that led to campus dining halls adopting “meatless Mon-days,” when students have the option to purchase vegetarian meals.

Prus said the group wants people to think about how animals are cruelly treated on a dai-ly basis, being used as food, science, clothing and entertainment.

“When you bring aware-ness, you bring change or at least the possibility of it,” Prus said. “It’s a con-versation that’s pushed under the rug. Maybe 100 or 200 years from now, people will look at the way we used to treat animals, and they’ll be honestly appalled.”

Yesenia Ramirez, SACA media relations coordina-tor and nutrition junior, said she thinks people will be more conscious about animal rights after viewing the film.

“We all know beef comes from a cow, but we don’t re-ally think about how it gets to our plate,” Ramirez said. “Once people see that, it’ll be harder to make that de-cision. We just want peo-ple to make a connection to the decisions they’re making every day.”

SACA member and English junior Dani-elle Gonzalez hopes the film will help students see what’s actually hap-pening to animals and spark passion into a controversial topic.

“I think we talk about it, but we don’t actually feel about it,” Gonzalez said. “We don’t feel com-passion or sentiment that the animals are actually suffering. It’s even joked

about. This [event] takes away any sort of humor or denial. You can’t deny it when you actually see what’s happening.”

While the goal of the event is to help students rethink how they view an-imals, Gonzalez said the group doesn’t look to force students to change.

“Hopefully it combats the apathy we encounter,” Gonzalez said. “I don’t know if anyone is going to change their lifestyle, and that’s not even the goal. It’s to raise awareness to the cruelty inflicted on animals. Even if 50 to 100 people get that little shock they need to start thinking about animals as more than objects, that does a ton.”

trick himself, diving head-first into the world of magic.

After years of busking on Sixth Street and open-ing for a local magician in college, Brushwood gradu-ated in 1997, performing a 30-minute magic show as his Plan II thesis. He drudged through a series of day jobs while perform-ing magic on the side be-fore deciding to pursue magic full-time in 1999.

“I would work all week,

but I was really living for those Wednesday nights [when I performed],” Brushwood said.

After quitting, Brush-wood went on tour with the magician he opened for in college and made no money for the first year. By the third year, he was performing at over 150 colleges per year, booking gigs on the Tonight Show and touring with Brooks & Dunn for their Neon Cir-cus tour.

Physics professor Rory Coker was Brushwood’s Plan II thesis advisor.

Although he does not call himself a magician, Coker said he understands the art and gave Brushwood sug-gestions that he still uses in his shows today.

“I’ve had several stu-dents who wanted to do magic, but [Brushwood] was one of two who I thought would succeed,” Coker said. “He thought about [magic] constantly. Too many magicians will just do any trick they see in a catalog, but he always carefully chose things that fit with his act.”

Almost every trick in

Brushwood’s repertoire has given him a minor in-jury. He said he gave him-self a concussion attempt-ing to break a 30-pound brick with his head and stripped the sealants off his teeth eating glass light-bulbs. Brushwood said he is open to anything as long as it doesn’t run the risk of killing him.

“I’m scared of every-thing,” Brushwood said. “I’m terrified constantly. But I do it anyway. The best thing you can do for your-self is become comfortable being uncomfortable.”

Mick Vann still remem-bers the sweet smell of hon-eysuckles growing on his family’s property from his childhood. Vann, now a staff horticulturist for the Col-lege of Natural Sciences, said these early memories helped him begin a lifelong botani-cal journey.

For more than two de-cades, Vann has been in charge of UT’s biological greenhouse. His respon-sibilities include giving tours to various groups and local schoolchildren.

He said the most enjoy-able part of his job is show-ing young minds how fas-cinating plants can be. He often tells the story of the 10-year-old Madagascarian slave who created the modern vanilla industry.

“Vanilla plants can only be pollinated by a certain insect in its native region of Popotla, Mexico,” Vann said. “But this 10-year-old slave figured out he could pollinate them with a paintbrush. Now almost

all vanilla plants are pol-linated by hand, which just blows my mind.”

Vann said his specialty is finding exotic seeds for curious faculty members and plant enthusiasts.

“The Internet makes

that a lot easier,” Vann said. “The world is full of wack-os who are tuned into just a small part of this huge planet of plants. They hold these first-come-first-serve auctions, and my job is to track them down.”

After graduating from UT, Vann became a dishwasher at a friend’s restaurant and eventu-ally helped open several eater-ies in Austin and San Antonio. After tiring of the restaurant industry, Vann worked as an organic farmer at a friend’s

plant nursery before finally being hired at UT.

Vann, who is also a restau-rant consultant and a food writer for the Austin Chron-icle, said despite his many ventures and 23-year tenure at UT, life at the greenhouse

remains interesting.“Right now, I’ve got a Bo-

ophone disticha coming in from South Africa that’s got the most incredible flower you’ll ever see,” Vann said. “There’s always something new blooming here.”

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Junyuan Tan | Daily Texan StaffMembers of Students Against Cruelty to Animals promote their latest event, “The Scariest Movie Ever,” a screening of an undis-closed film that will contain “unsettling and unpleasant things.”

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Mick Vann, horticulturist for the College of Natural Sciences, spends his days working in UT’s biological greenhouse. Vann, who has worked for UT for more than 20 years, enjoys the wide variety of exotic plants he gets to work with.

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I understand why you would want to put something on your body that’s super meaningful. But at the same, what if you put something on your body that loses its meaning over time or becomes a painful reminder?

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