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Not On My Campus re-launched its campaign to increase awareness of sex-ual assault after receiving 2,000 signatures on an online pledge last spring.
Last semester’s cam-paign, where students posted photos on social media with ‘#NotOn-MyCampus’ written on their hands, expanded this year to include a # K n ow l e d g e O n My C -ampus Resource Chal-lenge. The challenge consists of posting the photo with a caption that has two pieces of educa-tional information about sexual violence.
“Sexual violence is still an issue on campus, and we will continue work-ing to address the prob-lem as long as it exists,” Christina Breitbeil, Ex-ecutive Board member and Plan II and English junior, said. “On top of bringing awareness to the issue, our goal with the relaunching of this cam-paign, #KnowledgeOn-MyCampus, is to add a layer of education about the resources offered at the University.”
To obtain information for posts, Breitbeil said organizers share posters of relevant information on campus about facts and resources for vic-tims of sexual violence. Breitbeil said she be-lieves it is important for students to be informed about campus support programs such as the UT Counseling and Mental
The application process for undergraduate admis-sions at UT is becoming more difficult as the Uni-versity decreases the per-centage of automatically admitted students.
Texas high school students applying for undergraduate admissions into the Uni-versity for fall 2017 must be in the top seven percent to be automatically admitted into the university. This is a change from students ad-mitted in summer and fall of 2016, who were automati-cally admitted if they were in the top eight percent of their class.
Joey Williams, interim communications director in the Office of the Executive Vice President and Provost, said state law requires the university to reserve 75 per-cent of admissions spots for
Texas applicants. The other 25 percent is open to students who go through the holistic review or are out-of-state
or international students, according to Williams.
“The university prepares for these percent changes
two years in advance,” Wil-liams said. “It is the law. It is not a decision we get
Business honors pro-gram senior Samuel Gar-cia fell in love with goats at the age of eight when his father, a prominent lawyer in the Rio Grande Valley, accepted a small herd as payment for his legal ser-vices. Over a decade later, Garcia plans to use the farmyard animals of his childhood to combat pov-erty in his home region.
In early August, Gar-cia published a book titled, “How Goats Can Fight Poverty: Complex Problems Do Not Always Need Complex Solutions,” which jumped to the top of two Amazon bestseller lists in 12 hours. The book outlines Garcia’s plan to donate goats to 30-40 fam-ilies in poverty-stricken areas of the Valley known as colonias. The goal is for the families to share the costs and benefits of pro-ducing cheese and milk on a larger scale, as part of a cooperative.
“The whole point is to give every family a steady source of income,” Garcia said. “Ten or 20 dollars a day doesn’t sound like a lot to you or me, maybe, but
I’ve seen those families stretch a dollar so far with the things that they do.”
Garcia found inspira-tion for his idea while studying abroad in Ar-gentina, where he learned about farmers who formed
cooperatives to compete with larger firms. Garcia said he then drew upon his experience raising goats to apply this concept to the Valley, and founded a non-profit called the Sus-tainable Dairy Goat Initia-
tive (SDGI). “I soon came to realize
that the idea was transfer-able to any place because goats are incredibly versa-tile creatures,” Garcia said. “The Rio Grande Valley is a very harsh climate. I
thought that if this could work in the Valley, it could work anywhere.”
Garcia blends anec-dotes and practical ad-vice in his book to create
A member of University Democrats started a petition calling for Texans to stand with Planned Parenthood in response to the program’s re-moval from the state’s Medicaid program.
The defunding of Planned Parenthood in Texas comes weeks after the House of Rep-
resentatives passed a bill that would cut its federal funding, although the bill has not yet gone through the U.S. Sen-ate. Republicans put the bill through the House after con-troversy arose surrounding videos that showed Planned Parenthood officials discussing the sale of fetal tissue for medi-cal research.
The petition, started Mon-day on change.org with the
title “Don’t Defund Planned Parenthood,” has almost 300 supporters, a number that pe-tition starter, Joseph Trahan, public relations sophomore and University Democrats campus director, said he hopes will increase as he tries to spread awareness on campus. Trahan said he hopes the peti-tion can give a voice to those in Texas who do support access to Planned Parenthood.
“Being literally across the street from the Capitol, we need to take a more proactive role in being vocal and supportive of Planned Parenthood as well as other advocacies and missions to prevent the state of Texas from going backwards,” Trahan said.
Trahan said anyone — not just students — can sign the petition. He said he hopes the campaign will expand on cam-
pus through tabling, passing out flyers and the support of other student organizations.
“We do plan on going fur-ther,” Trahan said. “The petition is just the ground work. We also plan to work with other orga-nizations on campus, leaders on campus and we’re trying to push an awareness campaign that can be used in the form
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Briana Vargas | Daily Texan StaffThe father of business honors senior Samuel Garcia once accepted a small herd of goats as payment for his legal services. Now Samuel Garcia hopes to use goats to help maximize the income of poor families in the Rio Grande Valley.
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Dancers, comedians and singers will perform in a display of black tal-ent as part of the African-American Culture Com-mittee’s (AACC) annual “Culture Shock” showcase in the Hogg Auditorium Friday evening.
According to an ac-countability report re-leased in January, African-Americans make up just 3.9 percent of the UT stu-dent population compared to 45.1 percent for whites. AACC Chair Kristin Braye, who helped orga-nize the event, said events such as the annual “Cul-ture Shock” showcase can help better promote black culture on campus.
“For the person outside looking into the black
community, maybe they don’t know what all areas are within the African di-aspora and what all talents and abilities fall within,” Braye said. “Someone can come here — and may-be they’re unfamiliar to things that pertain to the black community — and they get to see what’s dear to us and what is special to us.”
Braye, a human develop-ment and family sciences junior, said the lack of representation on campus keeps issues such as af-fordable housing and the recent arson in the Mal-colm X Lounge from being brought to light.
“I will say that the black community at UT, even though we are at 3.9 per-cent, we are a very strong
Showcase to feature black student talent
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Automatic admission standards to riseBy Matthew Adams
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SHOWCASE page 3 ADMISSION page 2
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Popular campaign launches new agendaBy Mikaela Cannizo
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CAMPAIGN page 3
2004 - 10%
2011 - 8%
2012 - 8%
2013 - 8%
2014 - 7%
2015 - 7%
2016 - 8%
2017 - 7%
UT In-State Acceptance Rates
2010 2011 2012 2013 2014
87% 77% 78% 80% 72.5%
Percentage of Entire Freshman Class Automatically Admitted
Source: 60 Minutes, Alcade and University of Texas Admissions Office.
The “I’m a Veteran” campaign, an effort to raise awareness of the culture of veteran stu-dents on campus, officially started Wednesday.
The campaign, orga-nized by the Student Vet-eran Services (SVS) at the Office of the Dean of Students, leads up to Veterans Day on Nov. 11, when the SVS will hold a campus-wide conversa-tion over donuts and cof-fee to encourage veteran and non-veteran student interaction. Jeremiah Gunderson, director of the SVS, said the campaign aims to break barriers and foster understand-ing between veteran and non-veteran students.
“We’re trying to answer a few simple questions, [such as] ‘What is a vet-eran?’” Gunderson said. “We also want to show that the veteran experience is not the end of their story. We’re building a commu-nity, not a division, among the veterans and the gen-eral students population.”
Gunderson said 533 out of around 50,000 students are using veteran benefits on campus this fall. Av-erage ages for incoming non-veteran students are between 18-23 years old, while the average ages for veteran students are be-tween 25-30 years old. Many of the veteran stu-dents are married and have children. The combination of these differences can feel isolating to veteran students, Gunderson said.
28-year-old Dan Ham-ilton, an international re-lations and global studies and Middle Eastern stud-ies junior, said he found his sense of community through the SVS.
“We want to bridge the gap between veterans and [non-veterans],” Hamilton, who serves as president of Student Veteran Associa-tion, said. “[It’s like saying,] ‘Hey, I’m a veteran, but I’m also a bunch of different things too. This is what I’m majoring in; this is what I’m passionate about; this is where I’m from; I’m a Longhorn and we have a lot of [similarities].’”
After graduating next year, Hamilton said he wants to pursue a graduate program in international relations. He said he enjoys current events and foreign
affairs such as America’s role in the world and the ways in which America uses its power.
“My dream job, if I could run for office, would be a senator from Texas,” Hamilton said.
Mechanical engineering sophomore Allison Calder, whose father is an Air Force veteran and whose significant other is serving in the Navy, said people sometimes fail to recog-nize veterans for their lives outside of service.
“They are students, sib-lings, spouses, leaders and workers in addition to vet-erans,” Calder said. “They still have interests outside of the military and can – and probably want to – have conversations that have nothing to do with their service.”
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of having other organizations share the petition.”
One of these organizations who is working with Universi-ty Democrats is Students of the World, an organization that uses creativity and storytelling to start progress on campus, according to Joy Youwakim, economics sophomore and president of the UT chapter. Youwakim said she hopes that more student organiza-tions will spread the petition to show this issue can transcend politics to become something every student cares about.
“It’s something different when student orgs take it into their own hands and say yes, this is something real, we’re educated, we support it, we as students are spreading aware-ness,” Youwakim said.
Although Trahan said Uni-versity Democrats hopes to spread awareness to several organizations on campus, the UT chapter of the Young Con-servatives of Texas oppose
the petition and are in favor of the defunding of Planned Parenthood, according to Al-lison Peregory, government sophomore and president of the organization.
“There have been several videos of wrongdoings that should concern citizens re-gardless of their partisan-ship,” Peregory said. “This petition is misplaced be-cause defunding Planned Parenthood is not about taking away women’s health. It’s about standing up for the
moral integrity of Texas.”Trahan said he feels defund-
ing Planned Parenthood is a regression in women’s health-care and hopes he can help support other Texans who feel the same way.
“I hope to accomplish cred-ibility to the claim that Texans do support access to qual-ity healthcare for low income men and women in the state,” Trahan said. “The petition will serve as a way to get numerical context for those who do sup-port that.”
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‘I’m a Veteran’ campaign raises awarenessBy Eunice Ali
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to make.”In 1997, the Texas
Legislature passed a law known as the top 10 percent rule to increase diversity at Texas public universities. Some students who attend schools in suburban areas may face more competi-tion and may not meet the required percentage to gain automatic admission.
Kathy Ryan, associate high school superintendent for Austin Independent School District (AISD), said some
schools with a large minor-ity will not be affected but schools with lower diversity such as Bowie High School might be impacted by the percentage change.
“I don’t think it is targeted to affect minorities and I don’t think it will,” Ryan said.
Williams said even if stu-dents are not automatically admitted, students still have a chance to be admitted into UT.
“The holistic review is an-other way not only to assess grades but continue looking at the overall qualities of a student,” Williams said. “UT
is still looking to get the best students that represent the population of Texas.”
To make sure the univer-sity complies with the law, Williams said the university looks at previous classes to understand the best per-centage of students to accept without going over the limit.
Ryan, who is in her 11th year with AISD, said she has seen automatic admissions decrease from 10 percent to seven percent.
“It will be nothing but sadness for our students be-cause less of them will have automatic admittance,” Ryan
said. “We would like to see it go back up to the top 10 per-cent, like other [universities], but we understand it is not.”
Madsen Baum, a junior at Pearland Glenda Dawson High School, said the auto-matic admissions percent-age change could impact students because they might feel it is too difficult to be admitted outside of the top seven percent.
“It’s unfair to those kids who try their hardest to get what they want but are de-nied the ability to go to the college of their choice auto-matically,” Baum said.
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community,” Braye said. “When things happen, domestically, that’s the time we come together the most.”
Some of the acts in-clude group vocal num-bers, solo dance per-formances, a comedy routine and a group step dance performance.
Public health sopho-more Chioma Ujari, a step performer in the show-case, said “Culture Shock” is a place where a diverse selection of talents can be showcased to increase black representation on campus.
“I feel it’s really impor-tant for us to do as much as we possibly can to show that we are a presence on campus and that we are a strong presence,” Ujari said. “Even though there’s
a small amount of us, we can still do stuff.”
Undergraduate studies sophomore Guadalupe Robledo said he’s excited to see the showcase be-cause he believes events like “Culture Shock” are necessary in order to pro-mote black culture to the rest of the campus.
“It’s a good thing to
become aware of other cultures and to gain some diversity,” Robledo said. “I think it’s cool that they’re showcasing different per-formances that represent them and their culture.”
“Culture Shock” starts at 7 p.m. Friday in the Hogg Auditorium and is free to all students with a UT ID.
Sixty-five percent of 17,000 pet euthanasias that occur in the U.S. each day are performed because of financial reasons, ac-cording to Alan Abrams, CEO and co-founder of the Steve Abrams Memorial Foundation.
The Steve Abrams Me-morial Foundation, also known as Petsavers, Inc., is a nonprofit organiza-tion that provides grants to pet owners so they may treat their sick and injured pets that would other-wise be euthanized due to financial restrictions.
Launched in June, Pet-savers, Inc., expanded to 14 major U.S. markets, adding Austin sponsor vet-erinarians in July. The of-fice is based in Arizona, but employs veterinarians across the country. Spon-sor veterinarians work from their home cities and refer pet owners to the founda-tion for the opportunity to
apply for a grant. If their grant application is ap-proved, Petsavers, Inc., will pay for their pet’s operation.
Petsavers, Inc. was founded in memory of Steve Abrams, father of Alan Abrams and grand-father of Zac Abrams, co-founder and Foundation President. Steve Abrams was a veterinarian in Los Angeles for 55 years and was known for never euth-anizing an animal, despite any financial constraints, according to Zac Abrams.
“My grandfather was the greatest person I ever knew,” Zac Abrams said. “Even people who met him for 30 seconds re-member him. If he had the opportunity to start this foundation himself, he would have.”
According to Alan Abrams, the foundation’s expansion happened much more swiftly than their team expected. When they launched in June, Petsav-ers, Inc. quickly garnered national attention.
“Social media is a huge part of today’s society,” Melinda Mooney, the foundation’s social media director, said. “Every time a follower on Facebook or Twitter likes or shares one of our posts, we are able to reach out to more
people. Social media has really helped drive the business forward.”
Donations to the foun-dation can be made through their website in any amount. Individual donations are strictly used for grants, while
sponsor donations keep the foundations’ opera-tions running. Alan and Zac Abrams said they feel there is an inherent need for this kind of organiza-tion in today’s society.
“I’d rather have 1,000 people donate $10 than
have one person donate $1,000,” Alan Abrams said. “Even small amounts can take care of an animals’ pain medicine. Telling someone that we can save their best friend is more important than anything else we do.”
The preservation of fish reproduction sites is most effective in balancing fish-eries and fish conservation, according to UT assistant professor in marine science Brad Erisman.
The paper, published in the Fish and Fisheries jour-nal, is a perspective article written as a campaign to inform fisheries managers, conservation groups and policy makers about the im-portance of fish spawning aggregations — reproduc-tion sites — and to make the management of spawning aggregations a global prior-ity, according to Erisman.
“It’s exciting — we’ve got a lot of feedback,” Eris-man said. “We’ve had over 150 reads in a week on Re-searchGate, and [our article] was picked up by National Geographic [among other news outlets].”
Erisman said fish gather to release eggs and sperm during their reproductive seasons and this spawning effort only works in large groups. Because of over-fishing, there are often not enough fish left to trigger
reproduction. Historically, marine ecosystem preser-vation has always included making a choice between fisheries and conservation, but Erisman said preserving the reproduction sites can address both issues.
“When you protect these aggregations, it shows re-covery that benefits both fisheries and conservation,” Erisman said.
Co-author William Hey-man, a former associate pro-fessor in geography at Texas A&M, said he has been col-laborating with Erisman for 10 years and the article con-tains information worth 20 years of work.
“Finally this phenomenon is explained in ways I’ve nev-er seen it explained before,” Heyman said. “Fishermen find aggregations before sci-entists. And when they do, their natural tendency is to fish them … they’re inter-ested in the short-term ben-efits. But when we [educate] them on the long-term sus-tainability of fisheries, their response is, ‘Oh, I get it. I’m willing to stop fishing.’”
Heyman said he and Er-isman share a “magical ex-perience” of swimming in massive aggregations of
spawning fish worldwide.Recent marine and fresh-
water biology graduate Mark Lopez said he experi-enced Erisman’s passion for fish when he took Erisman’s
spring 2015 class on ma-rine fisheries. After working with Erisman over the sum-mer to measure character-istics of fish in relation to their spawning potentials,
Lopez said he hopes to col-laborate with Erisman in the future as he prepares to pur-sue a graduate program in fisheries ecology.
“When [Erisman] need-
ed a break from reading or writing, he went and took a fish break for 30 minutes,” Lopez said. “So he just went fishing and came back with a few fish to cut.”
Health Center and Voices Against Violence.
Latoya Hill, UT associ-ate vice-president and Title IX coordinator, said the University is partaking in research that will promote transparency about how students’ perceptions relate to interpersonal violence, sexual assault and stalking.
According to Hill, a cam-pus climate survey will be re-leased Nov. 4, and a four-year cohort study will examine the academic, emotional and financial impacts of assault.
“It’s important that the students, faculty and staff know that the university’s committed to providing an educational environment that’s free from inappropri-ate conduct,” Hill said.
William Herbst, co-pres-ident and co-founder of Not On My Campus, said
he wants to help educate students about what sexual assault is and challenge stu-dents to help others when they see a situation arise.
“I kept hearing stories from friends about how people would try to take advantage of them, whether it was at a party or at a bar or some social gathering,”
Herbst said. “Most people think sexual assault is some stranger attacking you in an alleyway, but that is not the only form of sexual assault, nor is it the most common.”
Breitbeil said the relaunch is intended to overlap with Domestic Violence Aware-ness Month, which takes place throughout October.
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sites is the most effective way to balance fisheries and fish conservation.
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Thalia Juarez | Daily Texan StaffDance junior Jordyn Marsh practices a dance routine at the Hogg Auditorium on Thursday afternoon for the “Culture Shock” showcase that will take place Friday evening.
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The Steve Abrams Memo-rial Foundation, also known as Petsavers, Inc., is a nonprofit organization that provides owners with the financial stability needed in order to treat their sick and injured pets as opposed to eu-thanizing them.
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said. “We would like to see it go back up to the top 10 per-cent, like other [universities], but we understand it is not.”
Madsen Baum, a junior at Pearland Glenda Dawson High School, said the auto-matic admissions percent-age change could impact students because they might feel it is too difficult to be admitted outside of the top seven percent.
“It’s unfair to those kids who try their hardest to get what they want but are de-nied the ability to go to the college of their choice auto-matically,” Baum said.
Graeme Hamilton | Daily Texan file photoThe founders of Not On My Campus, pictured here, are relaunching their campaign to increase awareness of sexual assault after receiving a lot of student support last spring.
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It’s well known that lawyers are overrep-resented in government, with 220 out of 535 congressmen in 2013 holding law degrees. These legislators grasp that understanding the country’s legal system is a prerequisite for substantive legislation. However, there are other laws which govern our lives.
Laws of science, which are more univer-sal than man-made laws and far less open to interpretation, are dismissed by politicians who neither trust nor understand them. In the face of threats like climate change and disease, we can no longer accept the willful ignorance of so many of our leaders.
Scientists are sorely underrepresented in government, with only two currently in congress. The effect this has on public pol-icy is comical but moreso disheartening. It’s tempting to laugh, but 2015 is shaping up to be the hottest year on record and previously eradicated diseases like measles are reap-pearing — this isn’t funny.
The absurd ways lawmakers treat science affects more than just climate policy and public health. Most scientific research is fed-erally funded, and scientists can find it dif-ficult to explain and defend their research to scientifically illiterate legislators.
Neurobiology senior Morgan Merriman expressed her frustration with the way poli-ticians dismiss scientific research.
“Politicians are dumb dingbats,”
Merriman said. “Every few years people who work in basic science have to go defend what they do. There is a huge push for translation-al science that is directly clinically relevant. However, a lot of that stuff starts at basic sci-ence. That’s why when people ask me what I do, I say alcoholism research. To them, it sounds better than saying ‘I study the pro-teins that change in the brain in certain areas after alcohol drinking that are part of a path-way involved in alcoholism in mice.’”
Unfamiliarity with science also makes lawmakers more susceptible to manipula-tion. Sahotra Sarkar, integrative biology and philosophy professor, said he believes un-scrupulous special interests exploit the igno-rance of lawmakers to influence legislation.
“Lawmakers are systematically misled by
fraudulent self-styled experts. For instance, those who argue against compulsory vacci-nation,” Sarkar said. “In the case of climate change they are also misled by those whose narrow interests (dependent on fossil fuels) can be affected. So, it is not just a case of sci-entific illiteracy. It is also a case of deliberate deceit on the part of special interests.”
Not every politician needs to be an expert, but basic scientific literacy among lawmak-ers is necessary for sensible public policy. Questions of legality and constitutionality are important for lawmakers to consider. However, so are questions of science — ul-timately, we all live in the real world, even if politicians seem to forget it sometimes.
Jensen is a neuroscience junior from Houston.
The ongoing gridlock between the Austin City Council and Transportation Network Com-panies (TNC) has put companies such as Uber and Lyft in the spotlight in recent months. Last week, the council passed a resolution to develop requirements for fingerprint-based criminal background checks for company drivers. While TNCs have continuously resisted this require-ment, it may be in their best interest to work with the city council to promote public safety.
TNCs currently operate on the basis of name-based background checks. This method of hiring concerns those who fear these checks result in inaccurate identification. Name checks run applicants on a limited amount of records and are based on personal identifiers that may not be unique to the person, such as their race, sex and name. Conversely, auto-
mated fingerprint identification systems have been shown to produce error rates less than 1 percent. Ride-hailing services should look to adopt this measure and put public safety at the forefront of their service instead of looking to maximize their number of drivers.
Uber representatives maintain that the pro-cess of fingerprint-based checks creates “fric-tion” and hurts customer response time. The
company relies heavily on the number of driv-ers available at one time.
However, Council Member Ann Kitchen, chairwoman of the Mobility Committee, said this reasoning doesn’t have merit within the resolution.
“We’re not talking about an erroneous pro-cess; we’re talking about a process where peo-ple have multiple options,” Kitchen said. “The fingerprint process itself doesn’t take long and the FBI process of checking the database doesn’t take long either.”
Austin, San Antonio and Houston have con-tended with how to implement fingerprint-based checks. Uber recently began to reoperate in San Antonio after leaving the city due to these ordi-nances. Lyft no longer services the Houston area. Given Austin is in the top three of Uber’s most profitable locations, the company has incentive to stick around. But with a growing number of complaints, these companies are not the experts when it comes to public safety. Cities must stand
firm in their resolutions.Part of the motivation in looking to hold
these companies responsible to a more strin-gent background check comes from the alarm-ing amount of assaults reported in relation to these ride-hailing services. Maintaining that one assault is too many, the city council is feel-ing the responsibility to protect its citizens.
“The bottom line is that it’s our responsibil-ity to protect public safety,” Kitchen said. “We don’t have to choose between having transpor-tation options and protecting people. It’s not an either-or question.”
Leaving yet another city due to background checks would be a slap in the face to loyal cus-tomers and would show little regard for cus-tomer safety. The best option for these services would be to cooperatively work with the city to employ background checks that put their users’ well-being at the top of their priorities.
Arevalo is a journalism freshman from McAllen.
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@alexparevaloRide-hailing services should look to adopt this measure and put public safety at the fore-front of their service instead of looking to maximize their number of drivers.
There are few symbols in the upcoming presi-dential election as easily recognizable as Donald Trump’s “Make America Great Again” hat. First Trump wore it, then Tom Brady wore it, and now, strangely enough, me. When I first saw it, all lurid and assuming, I knew I had to have it. But I did not want to contribute any money to Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, who I find morally, politically and personally repug-nant. Thus, I was stuck in a bit of a quandary.
Fortunately, in this not-yet-great-again America, countless knockoffs exist on the Internet. I promptly ordered one and eagerly awaited its delivery. When it arrived, I imme-diately donned the hat and began wandering around campus in an attempt to evoke a reac-tion one way or another.
The entire experience, however, led me to contemplate a few questions. What, exactly, con-stitutes a great country? When was America last great by this standard? And, obviously, how do we make it great again? I’m looking for specifics, which naturally is why I was drawn to the hat. Sadly, Donald Trump has been lacking on those ever-so-important details. Instead, he has merely offered strange panaceas that operate completely independently of the realm of reality.
Trump’s entire platform at this point con-sists of a loosely-organized plan to build a gi-ant wall along the Mexican border. Would that make America great again? East Germany had a wall, but I think few people would say the wall made that country great.
So did any of the fellow Longhorns with whom I communicated think walls make America great? Not really.
This led me to thinking, admittedly in a somewhat self-aggrandizing manner, that what can make America great again is not walls or hats or any of those superficial platitudes. Rath-er, the ability to talk, debate and otherwise bick-er about these topics are what has always made — and continues to make — America great.
Trump obviously struck a chord with mil-lions of Americans. I must assume that is why he has been dominating the polls for the Re-publican presidential nomination since July. I fear it has to do with xenophobia and other bouts of blatant racism, but I must think there can be an upside of some type. Perhaps it is that Americans of all stripes simply wish to see this country reach its full potential.
Liberal or conservative, I think most every American could aspire toward that goal. Let’s make America great again. Let’s just do it — as most of the left and right would agree — without Trump.
Horwitz is a government senior from Houston.
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With a third GOP debate on the horizon next Wednesday, likely Republican voters have yet another chance to evaluate the field. However, the crowded field of candidates is guaranteeing a long nomination process.
Republican candidates have not had the time to paint a full picture of themselves on a nation-al stage. Right now, Marco Rubio has less debate time than Martin O’Malley. According to the British website oddschecker.com, a conglomer-ate of various bookie organizations, Rubio is a consensus 2/1 favorite to win his party’s nomi-nation. O’Malley is a 100/1 long shot to win his.
Voters need to trim the field to hear more developed policy positions. Yet paradoxically, no candidate has had the time to stand out by delivering those positions.
Candidates only have enough time to gloss over topics. Those who have spoken about re-pealing the Affordable Care Act have not indi-cated how they would replace it. On the question of Russia, most candidates have spent their time stating disagreement with Obama, rather than explaining how they would deal with Putin.
Beyond lack of depth, not every candidate is asked to address every topic. At the CNN de-bate, only Ben Carson and Scott Walker were
asked to discuss the minimum wage. Less than half of the candidates addressed their tax plans. Moderators are allowing candidiates to dodge questions outside of their comfort zones.
For students in particular, this missing in-formation is crucial. Students need to know how candidates will tackle college affordability or make it easier for them to find well-paying jobs after graduation. A vague guarantee of jobs does not satisfy this expectation.
Fixing this means starting to thin the crowd, which seems to be an impossible task right now. CNBC invited the same field of candi-dates as CNN (excluding Walker, who has since dropped out) after all ten met its requirements. Despite the issues this presents, government professor Daron Shaw said media outlets are right to continue inviting large fields.
“The field of candidates polling between 4 and 7 percent is too muddled right now,” Shaw said. “If you invite Rubio, you have to invite Jeb, and so on. They have no reason for them to trim from ten to eight.”
Right now, a smaller field seems unlikely. With nothing driving candidates out of the race, Shaw said only the long primary season seems likely to pare them down. One can hope Texas students will know what their votes will get them come March.
Chase is a Plan II and economics junior from Royse City.
estimates he read the book cover to cover 20 times while editing it over the summer.
“He does this a lot,” Jack-son said. “He’ll call me and say, ‘Hey, is this a good idea?’ I knew he was go-ing to do it from the start, because a lot of the themes in the book were things that Sam has actually been through in his life.”
SDGI has partnered with La Union de Pueblo Entero (LUPE), a commu-nity union in the Valley, to identify families in colo-nias who have previous ex-perience raising animals. So far, SDGI has delivered goats to two families in colonias around Garcia’s hometown of Mission, and Garcia said they hope to reach five soon. As Gar-cia developed his ideas, he also consulted Brian Rich-ter, an assistant professor in the business, govern-ment and society depart-ment, who said he has faith in Garcia’s ability to achieve his goal.
“It seems to make fun-damental sense that if you can help people do small-scale business, that that’s going to work,” Richter said. “[Garcia] clearly wants to get things done, and if he gets his mind on something, he’s going to carry through with it.”
Garcia will be giving a talk at TEDxSt. Edward’s this Saturday, where he will discuss his idea. Gar-cia said he views his idea as a way of carrying on the legacy of his father, David Garcia, who passed away a month before Samuel be-gan college. Jackson said that like his father, Samuel Garcia continues to fight for the underdog.
“There’s a lot of David Garcia in Sam,” Jackson said. “After his dad’s pass-ing you could definitely tell that Sam was hell-bent on making a huge impact on the world.”
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When news of a Gilmore Girls Netflix revival hit the Internet earlier this week, many fans offered praise and congratulations to UT alumni Kevin T. Porter and Demi Ad-ejuyigbe. While the two don’t take credit for the show’s re-turn, they do stand as leading figures in the reemerging fan-dom as a result of their Gilm-ore Girls centered podcast show, Gilmore Guys.
Their podcast discusses the 2000s mother-daughter series episode by episode, providing explanations for the various cultural references, character discussions and a final epi-sode rating. Co-host Porter, a longtime fan of the show, is accompanied by Gilmore Girls newcomer Adejuyigbe, who watches each episode for the first time before recording
the podcasts. “Demi could have hated
it, in which case we probably wouldn’t be where we are now,” Porter said. “After a season we both got comfortable talking about the show in a generally affectionate and very sincere way, but also making fun of certain little faults of the show just like you would make fun of a friend for their quirks.”
The two met through work with the Upright Citizens Bri-gade comedy troupe in Los Angeles. Gilmore Guys started after Adejuyigbe responded to Porter’s tweet about starting a Gilmore Girls podcast to ac-company the release of the show’s episodes on Netflix.
The show features a range of guests from around the media, as well as guests linked directly to the Gilmore Girls series for the special “Gilmore Gabs” ep-isodes. Previous guests include Gilmore Girls actor Scott
Patterson and comedian Jason Mantzoukas. Porter said the guests’ differing perspectives on the series allow Gilmore Guys to expand beyond com-edy podcasting.
“We really want to talk to them and say — what was this show?” Porter said. “Let’s examine this moment in time and put it in a context of the early 2000s on the [WB televi-sion network]. Let’s really look at the whole picture, rather than just saying ‘I like this’ and trying to be funny.”
The show faced assump-tions early on that a male-hosted Gilmore Girls podcast would be tongue-in-cheek. Porter said he avoided this by treating the series the same as he would any other beloved show. Omar Gallaga, host of Austin-based podcast “States-man Shots,” said that this bal-ance of respect and criticism for the television series makes
Gilmore Guys engaging to listeners.
“They’re what you want fans to be,” Gallaga said. “They’re not afraid to make fun of certain things or make jokes, but overall they have a genuine love and appreciation for the show. They’re not there to just mock everything and be cynical.”
Adejuyigbe, a Daily Texan alumnus, said that unlike writing, podcasting captures his unfiltered personal-ity as an entertainer. Cur-rently a digital producer on the Comedy Central show “@midnight,” he plans to focus on comedy writ-ing after the completion of Gilmore Guys.
“The biggest difference with podcasting is that it’s sort of just live reaction,” Adejuy-igbe said. “I’m responding not only to [Gilmore Girls], but I’m bouncing off of someone.
I’m not just writing off into the void saying ‘Here’s what I think.’”
The recently announced Gilmore Girls revival presents changes for Gilmore Guys’ time frame. The podcast, cur-rently working through sea-son five out of the seven in the series, is set to end its Gilmore Girls coverage sometime in summer 2016. Porter said he hopes to cover Gilmore Girls director Amy Sherman-Palla-dino’s 2012 series “Bunheads” in a similar podcast format before taking a hiatus until the return of Gilmore Girls on Netflix. Upon hearing news of the revival, Porter said he felt excitement as both a fan and podcaster.
“I immediately started cry-ing,” Porter said. “Just imagine getting to talk about some-thing you love all the time. It’s been one of my favorite things of my life.”
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Historically, few teams can say they have the Long-horns’ number. Yet, Kansas State consistently gives Texas fans headaches.
The Wildcats boast an 8-3 record against the Longhorns since joining the Big 12 in 1996. Head coach Bill Snyder is 6-3 against Texas, and Kan-sas State has won six of the last seven meetings.
“Give K-State credit be-cause those guys go out there and play their tails off for Coach Snyder,” junior de-fensive tackle Paul Boyette Jr. said. “They have an excel-lent program at Kansas State … They’re really, really good technicians. They do the Xs and Os of the game. They go out there and execute and play hard for the coach.”
The Longhorns look to shed some demons against the Wildcats on Saturday. Texas’ confidence is sky-high coming off a signature win against No. 17 Oklahoma and a bye week. Yet, the team knows it can’t be complacent.
“We have to practice up again, and you have to forget about [the win],” senior guard Sedrick Flowers said. “Don’t forget about how you played and how you prepared, but forget about all the patting on the back and all the accolades you got.”
The Longhorns will try to take advantage of the Wild-cats’ struggling defense. Kan-sas State is giving up a confer-ence-leading 47.7 points per game since Big 12 play start-ed. The Wildcats are coming off two straight performances with at least 50 points sur-
rendered — including a 55-0 loss to the Sooners. Redshirt freshman quarterback Jerrod Heard said the Longhorns’ eyes lit up when watching Kansas State struggle.
“Watching [Oklahoma’s] offense move fast like that — that’s what we want to do,” Heard said. “Seeing how they move against that defense and put up points — that’s our objective — to move fast, ex-ecute and put up points.”
Texas wants to replicate Oklahoma’s success against the Wildcats. However, the team
isn’t expecting the same poor performance from the Wild-cats. The Longhorns know the frustrated feeling following a blowout loss. After losing 50-7 to No. 4 TCU on Oct. 3, Texas turned its frustration into a signature win against the Sooners. Now, the Long-horns expect Kansas State to test them with that same fire.
“They were unlucky with that score on Saturday, and I know that’s not who that football team is,” head coach Charlie Strong said. “I told our team yesterday, the same thing
happened to us against TCU, we were able to bounce back and beat Oklahoma. So, you’ve got to be ready for a team that’s going to be ready to come and play — a team that’s mentally and physically tough.”
Defensively, Texas will try to build on its six-sack per-formance against Oklahoma. Kansas State has struggled to protect junior quarterback Joe Hubener, ranking No. 98 in sacks allowed. If the Long-horns can consistently get into the Wildcats’ backfield, it will go a long way towards
reeling in the win.Texas has an opportunity
to string back-to-back wins together for the first time this season. Defensive coordina-tor Vance Bedford says the team needs a foundation of multiple wins to sustain con-fidence. Texas’ first chance to build upon that foundation comes on Saturday.
“It’s a one-game season,” senior cornerback Duke Thomas said. “We’re going to K-State knowing that we’ve got to get another W and keep this momentum going.”
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7JORI EPSTEIN, SPORTS EDITOR | @texansportsFriday, October 23, 2015
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Stephanie Tacy | Daily Texan StaffAfter watching Kansas State’s defense struggle against Oklahoma’s offense, Jerrod Heard said his eyes lit up. The redshirt freshman quarterback acknowledged that he wants Texas’ offense to “move fast, execute and put up points.”
TENNIS
The men’s tennis team returns to action this week-end at the USTA/ITA Texas Regional Championship in Houston. The tourna-ment showcases individual
singles and doubles draws, and features all of the Divi-son I men’s tennis schools in Texas. The Longhorns send eight of their 12-man roster to compete.
Senior Micheal Riechmann, junior George Goldhoff, soph-omores John Mee and Adrian
Ortiz, redshirt sophomore William Jou and freshmen Harrison Scott, Liam Caruana and redshirt freshman Julian Zlobinsky will compete in the singles draw.
Ortiz and Riechmann, Goldhoff and Caruana, Good-win and Jou, and Mee and Scott
will team up to compete in doubles play.
Riechmann, Mee and Jou make their second appearance at this tournament.
The tournament champi-ons will earn automatic entry into the ITA National Indoor Intercollegiate Champion-
ships in New York City, which is held at the same site as the U.S. Open.
This weekend’s tournament is held at the George P. Mitch-ell Tennis Center. The tourna-ment begins Saturday and will conclude with a crowning of the champion next Tuesday.
SOCCER
Angela Kelly said the same thing during Texas’ difficult nonconference sched-ule.
Texas’ head coach constantly articulated that the Longhorns’ difficult schedule — they faced four ranked opponents in their first five games — would get them ready for the conference schedule.
So a loss to then-No. 5 North Carolina didn’t really worry Kel-ly. It’s the experience of playing teams of that level that she looks forward to.
“Ultimately it comes down to: in order to be the best, you have to play the best,” Kelly said. “I’ve always had that philosophy.”
The Longhorns started slow to begin the year: after
eight games, their record was 3-2-3. But they now boast a 7-3-4 record and a 4-1-1 conference record.
“The harder teams that we play, it’s preparing us for the more difficult times during the season,” senior goalkeeper Abby Smith said. “And helping us get over those humps, just because everybody goes through those.”
Texas’ biggest roadblock for much of the year was scoring goals. Through nine games, the Longhorns only managed six goals. There were a number of games where they had more than 20 shots, but didn’t score or only managed one goal.
But in their last five games, the Longhorns have scored nine goals. Their tough schedule instilled the belief that they can play confer-ence opponents well, having
played such a tough noncon-ference schedule.
“It just gives us more confi-dence that we’ve played these teams,” Smith said. “And that it kind of prepares us. And we know that everybody plays dif-ferently but it helps us adjust to how we’re going to play.”
If the Longhorns win both games this weekend (against Oklahoma on Fri-day and Baylor on Sunday) and West Virginia loses one game, then Texas will share the Big 12 Championship.
Smith can accomplish a mile-stone this weekend. She needs one more shutout to set Texas’ all-time shutout record.
“We’d love to see her reach that accomplishment,” Kelly said. “And that’s going to be something we’re all going to work hard towards.”
VOLLEYBALL
The two best teams in the Big 12 Conference will battle it out at Gregory Gym on Fri-day night when No. 2 Texas takes on No. 7 Kansas.
Both teams are unde-feated in conference play. Texas is 17-1 overall this sea-son and Kansas is a perfect 19-0. This game is impor-tant for both team’s confer-ence title runs and could be a defining moment in their respective seasons.
“I think the advantage we have is that we’ve been in this situation,” head coach Jerritt Elliott said. “The upperclass-men know that you can’t look ahead and have to take one game at a time. They have a lot of confidence and they get the job done.”
Kansas and Texas come into this game ranked first and third, respectively, in team hitting percentage in the conference. The Jayhawks are hitting .318 as a team and Texas counters with a .305
hitting percentage. Nine hit-ters in this matchup have re-corded more than 100 kills this season.
Because Kansas and Texas have such strong offenses, both defenses will need to be solid to give their team a chance. The Jayhawks have a slightly better back row de-fense, but Texas has one of the best blocks in the conference. The Longhorns will use that tall front line to try and con-tain Kansas’ attack.
“Not many teams are going to hit over us,” junior middle blocker Chiaka Ogbogu said. “As long as we’re pressing and talking to each other with our timing, we get touches on [a hit]. We’re playing well togeth-er and trust our teammates.”
This powerhouse battle is expected to draw in an at-capacity crowd, and that’s something Elliott said his team wants.
“It’s always nice to have a sold-out crowd come out and support us,” Elliott said. “We’ll have a huge crowd and a great student section.”
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The final tune upThe Longhorns head to
Boulder City, Nevada to compete in UNLV’s Las Ve-gas Collegiate Showdown at Boulder Creek Golf Club Sunday through Tuesday Oct. 25-27. The 54-hole event showcases 19 teams.
Coming off last week’s fourth place finish in the Betsy Rawls Invitational, Texas is ready to close out the season on a high note. Coach Murphy noted there were “a lot of positives” after last week and they hope to carry that momentum into next week.
“I don’t have to convince them they are winners,” Murphy said. “They’ve won, and they know in their mind they are good.”
Junior Julia Beck claimed fourth place individually in Texas’ home tournament with a career-best finish. Beck and her teammates will take the positives with them into their final tour-nament this fall.
“I just know I need to stay in the moment and have pa-tience and it will work out,” Beck said.
Texas will play the first 18 holes on Sunday with shotgun tee times starting at noon PDT. They will be the only Big 12 school to compete in their last tournament of the season. The par 72 and 6,277-yard course will be the final test for the Longhorns before their spring season begins in February.
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SIDELINE
Smith can set record this weekend
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Senior goalkeeper
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Diana Pfen-ninger.
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Not many teams are going to hit over us. As long as we’re pressing and talk-ing to each other with our timing, we get touches on [a hit].”
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By Maluly Martinez Benavides@thedailytexan
People who still think red, yellow and blue are the only primary colors need to forget what their elementary art teachers taught them. Whether
they’re using a brush or a cursor, different mediums require different basic color palettes.
Artists and printing business-es in the 18th century used the red-yellow-blue (RYB) primary color set, combining these color pigments to make others. Mixing red, yellow and blue as primaries, however, yields a relatively small range of colors, because RYB col-or combinations don’t align with the primaries detected by human color vision.
The original RYB model es-tablished accurate and impor-tant ideas in the fields of color theory and perception. The idea that three primary colors com-bine to make all other colors was correct, but RYB wasn’t the right trio. Scientific research has since proposed more versatile prima-ry color models such as cyan-magenta-yellow-key (CMYK) and red-green-blue (RGB) models to use in printing and screen displays.
Mediums that use light to produce different colors, such as televisions and computers, use red, green and blue as primaries. Screens combine emitted light to create a range of colors using an additive color system. Additive color models, such as RGB, describe how in-tangible colors, such as a beam of light, combine. This model manipulates the wavelengths of light beams by adding or emitting light at particular wavelengths that come from a dark background.
The perception of color re-lies on the way light interacts with the environment. Differ-ent materials absorb certain wavelengths of light when il-luminated, but reflect others. The wavelengths that bounce off objects are then translated by our eyes into color. The hu-man eye detects different colors using three kinds of color recep-tors — called cone cells — each of which is attuned to absorb not just one color, but a broad range of wavelengths.
Since there is some overlap in the range of wavelengths that different kinds of cones can identify, the eye processes colors in opposition to each other af-ter cone cells detect light wave-lengths. Red can’t be identified at the same time as green, and blue can’t be identified at the same time as yellow.
The ways humans perceive col-ors have influenced the way cul-tures identify and name colors.
Languages that have only two color terms will always distinguish black from white — or more accu-rately, dark colors from light col-ors. Some New Guinea Highland languages, for example, only have terms to distinguish between dark colors and light colors.
Those that identify a third color term will always introduce red. Languages that distinguish four and five colors will name green and yellow in no particular order. Those that can name six colors split green into two, coining a name for blue.
It might seem strange to Eng-lish speakers who can distinguish the difference between teal, tur-quoise and aqua, but many lan-guages don’t distinguish between green and blue. Navajo, for ex-ample, uses a single term for both blue and green. Linguists use the term grue — a blend of green and blue — to describe such words. In Vietnamese, both tree leaves and the sky are described by the color word “xanh.”
Media that uses pigments to pro-duce different colors, such as ink and paint, use CMYK as primaries. Print-ers and artists combine pigments using a subtractive color system. Subtractive color models, such as CMYK, describe how tangible colors, such as ink or paint, combine. This model manipu-lates the light wavelengths that bounce off objects to produce colors by sub-tracting or blocking particular wave-lengths off a white background.
Languages that have only two color terms will always distinguish black from white — or more accurately, dark colors from light colors.
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