Four presidential cam-paign advisers discussed the state of the presidential elec-tion and the effects of digital media on the 2016 landscape with Texas Tribune editor-in-chief and CEO Evan Smith on Thursday.

The campaign consultants, made up of three Republicans and one Democrat, debated the relevance of national polls and the extent of their effect on party primaries at the LBJ Presidential Library.

“[Republican primary vot-ers] want someone who, in their mind, is speaking the truth,” Rob Johnson, a for-mer senior adviser to Rick Perry, said. “They want someone to not go change Washington, they want some-one to take a sledgehammer

to Washington.”The other campaign ad-

visers were Vincent Har-ris, a digital consultant with the Rand Paul campaign; Johnson; Ted Cruz pollster Chris Perkins; and Tessa Si-monds, digital organizing director for the Democratic National Committee.

Simonds said she believes the successful nominees in both parties will win through a strong digital campaign focus-ing on social media and data.

“You can not have a strong campaign without digital, both from a messaging per-spective and for motivat-ing your voters,” Simonds said. “I think from all the campaigns we’ve seen on the Republican and Demo-cratic side, the strongest campaigns will be the ones

Chancellor William McRa-ven presented new UT System projects and goals to produce top research and recruit diverse faculty members at the Board of Regents meeting Thursday.

McRaven, a former Navy SEAL credited for leading the mission to assassinate Osama Bin Laden, said he wants to drive collaboration throughout the UT System using his expe-rience as a leader of multiple units in the military. McRaven, who has been in office for less

than a year, said the System has been conducting a strate-gic assessment of the system’s academic competitiveness since May.

The information discov-ered serves as a basis for ways the System must improve, McRaven said.

“Today, I come prepared to show you how the UT System will use our size, our talent and our diversity to solve the dif-ficult problems that face us,” McRaven said. “A rigorous and disciplined process will help us prioritize our efforts.”

The Board of Regents ap-

proved a plan on the first day of meetings to develop a cam-pus of approximately 332 acres, south of the UT Health Science Center at Houston. McRa-ven said a task force has been formed to assess the options for this property, but for now the land should be open to all UT institutions.

“It will have a footprint that will hopefully be very simi-lar to a university,” McRaven said. “We don’t know what that property is going to be, but it is an opportunity for us

Urban Outfitters on Gua-dalupe Street reopened its doors for a soft opening Thursday after a little over a week of renovations.

Urban Outfitters bought the space formerly occupied by Mellow Mushroom and Manju’s to open a new men’s clothing store and a courtyard which will have a space for food trucks, an outdoor seat-ing area, restaurants — Pizze-ria Vetri and Symon’s Burger Joint — and a place for events and live music. The new, ex-panded area is called Space 24 Twenty and is only one of three “lifestyle” store formats operated by Urban Outfitters in the United States.

Rachel Albright, director of creative marketing and content for Urban Outfitters, said she hopes to see the new space blend into the Austin

atmosphere and become a part of the UT community’s everyday life.

“It’s really a space for people to gather,” Albright said. “We want the community at UT to hang out here between classes and come to our events and hang out in the courtyard and meet other people like them and meet some designers they might be really into.”

The men’s clothing store occupies 3,161 square feet, Pizzeria Vetri occupies 2,739 square feet and Symon’s Burger Joint occupies about 4,000 square feet. In total, Urban Outfitters is taking up about half an acre of land. Urban Outfitters declined to comment on the cost of the renovations.

Although Urban Outfit-ters wants to fit into the daily lives of students, psychology sophomore Kayla Doherty said she thinks a lot of stu-dents are angry that Urban

Outfitters is taking up a huge space that used to belong to other popular locations.

“I miss Mellow Mushroom, what the heck?” Doherty said. “I hope this burger joint is good at least because I like burgers, but I hate Urban. I think Urban has like shitty

clothes, not good material and is overpriced.”

Albright said Urban Outfit-ters is not trying to take over the Drag, but instead wants to create a place everyone loves, a message she hopes resonates with the community — espe-cially after the grand opening

Standing by a lone beehive across the street from Speed-way Garage, Michael Bet-tati, a mechanical engineer-ing junior and hive manager for the BEEVO Beekeeping Society, grabbed the nearby beehive smoker, lighting a flame to create a thick smoke. He removed the top layer of the white, rectangular hive and provoked a few puffs of smoke from the metal con-traption. Reaching into the hive — with his peers watch-ing intently, camera phones in hand — Bettati pulled out a horizontal wooden rod, its bottom made up of honey-comb and packed with bees.

The group is one of many projects on campus funded from the Green Fee — a $5 per semester fee included in student tuition, which is aimed at supporting en-vironmental projects and

NASA selected the UT Cockrell School of En-gineering for a five-year, $1.3 million grant for the expansion of their science, technology, en-gineering and math, or STEM, program.

Founded in 2010 with funding from NASA Re-search Opportunities in Space and Earth Science and the Texas Space Grant Consortium, the pro-gram serves about 12 high school students and three teachers each summer. With the new funding, the program will expand to 250 teachers and students every summer. The fund-ing will also expand the Center for Space Research’s internship program, as well as launch a new online earth science program for high schoolers.

The STEM program, which will allow high school students and teach-ers across the country to work alongside UT en-gineers at UT’s Center for Space Research, will focus on analyzing data gathered from NASA’s Earth Observing System to investigate and ana-lyze changing earth and weather patterns.

“Climate change re-search is important for every single person on this planet,” Robert Dull, senior research fellow in UT’s environmental science institute, said. “The more

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to have access into Houston and tap into energy, aerospace and medical [fields]. I would like to see it as an intellectual hub to bring all the campuses to Houston.”

Chairman Paul Foster said he applauds McRaven’s initia-tive for acquiring this property in Houston and expanding UT.

“Houston has 30 percent of the population of the state of Texas,” Foster said. “Many of our institutions will estab-lish a presence there, just like as many of our institutions have presences throughout the state already.”

As part of the strategic

assessment, McRaven said all institutions will adopt the “Rooney Rule” to diversify the faculty. For senior-level posi-tions such as dean or higher, the position cannot be filled without interviewing a quali-fied woman or minority can-didate sometime in the future, McRaven said.

“What was clear is we need our faculty to reflect more of our student population,” McRaven said. “Where we are now, we have a very large Hispanic population. We are doing a great job serving the Hispanic community, but our faculty does not necessarily re-flect that. This will take decades to begin move the needle, but if we don’t start now, our faculty

won’t look too much different.” Student regent Justin Drake

said he appreciated the bold-ness of McRaven’s speech and his dedication to leader-ship across the System. Drake said this was the first time he heard about UT’s version of the “Rooney Rule,” but UT is head-ing in the right direction.

“Faculty diversity has been really acknowledged as being poor,” Drake said. “I think one of the numbers I saw up there for African-Americans was pretty dis-appointing and in terms of gender equality, it’s also disappointing. It will draft a lot of criticisms, but at the same time it reinforces UT’s dedication to diversity.”

on Dec. 4.“We’re not trying to take

anything away. We didn’t force anyone out,” Albright said. “There were some emp-ty lots, and we took them, and we definitely want to create a space for people to hang out so hopefully all the people who think that will like hanging out here.”

David Aguirre, marketing and anthropology freshman, said he is really impressed with how the new place turned out and is excited there is finally a place designated for men to buy clothes on the Drag.

“I think its really modern, really trendy, really cool,” Aguirre said. “I think this is really adding to the Drag, put-ting up new places instead of going to the same places over and over again.”

Although the renova-tions are new, Albright said she hopes Austin will turn Space 24 Twenty into a place that feels local and feels like home.

“We want to provide a place for local people to come and sell their own things, and all of the events we’re doing are with local people and artists,” Albright said. “We want to work with everyone and we want to know everyone.”

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people we get involved in this research now, the bet-ter prepared we will be as a society to deal with future environmental changes.”

The program will be managed by co-investi-gators Wallace Fowler, a professor in the Depart-ment of Aerospace Engi-neering and Engineering Mechanics, and Margaret Baguio, a senior educa-tion and outreach coordi-nator for the Texas Space Grant Consortium.

The expansion of the program aims to increase interest and performance in STEM disciplines among high school students.

“STEM majors turn into more than just a learning experience,” Bailee Sutton, a senior at Brandeis High School in San Antonio, Texas, said. “People who pursue these degrees become a part of careers that involve end-less possibilities and ex-ploring subjects that are still unknown.”

Students in the pro-gram will work on NASA research using NASA re-sources, while teachers will learn how to effective-ly deliver STEM instruc-tion using NASA content, according to a press re-lease. Faculty in the Cen-ter for Space Research will create a web-based high school program that will be accessible to participating schools.

“The projects being worked on are not made up. The students are ana-lyzing real data and col-lectively providing valu-able information about our planet Earth,” Baguio said. “Exposing more students to the wealth of data and information we receive from NASA and inspiring more students to enter STEM careers is the most exciting part of this initiative.”

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that focus on digital.”Harris said the use of na-

tional polls in determining which candidates get to stand on each debate stage has disadvantaged some Republican candidates and said he believes early states are more important in pre-dicting election outcomes.

“It’s the early states that are going to determine the rest of the election,” Har-ris said. “It’s not voters in California and Florida, even who are being counted equally in these surveys.”

Marcos Duran, public affairs graduate student, said he believes there is a value in national polls, but

agreed that there should be a bigger focus on the early states.

“I actually went to cam-paign in New Hampshire for Obama in 2008, and as you saw, him winning Iowa gave him a huge boost,” Duran said. “I agree that [national polls] shouldn’t be overem-phasized, the way I think it is now, but they shouldn’t be discarded.”

The analysis and conver-sation on the presidential campaign was put on as part of the LBJ Library’s Future Forum, an initiative of the li-brary to encourage members to engage with each other and learn about public pol-icy through speaker events and discussions, according to Future Forum founder Catherine Robb.

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research at Texas universities. The fee has provided funding for 83 projects at UT since it was introduced in 2011, but its future is unclear. The fee may come to an end on cam-pus come summer 2016, as the Texas Legislature and the UT System have conflicting ideas on how to renew the fee.

A 2009 bill by Rep. Elliott Naishtat (D-Austin) allowed UT to set up the fee for five years, following approval in a student body vote. Based on the UT System’s interpre-tation of the law, legislative action was needed this past session to reinstate the fee on campus, but the neces-sary legislation did not pass, thus temporarily closing that route of renewal and leaving the fate of the fee — and the student projects that depend on it — in limbo.

Although the System in-sists the state legislature must pass legislation to authorize a renewal of the fee, Naishtat said the original 2009 bill was drafted with the inten-tion that the fee, and its re-newal, would be handled on a university level after its initial implementation.

To clear up the confusion, Naishtat filed one of two bills during the past legislative session clarifying that the fee could be renewed every five years by a student body vote. The bill passed through the House, but got stuck in the Senate and ultimately failed. Naishtat said he hopes to re-introduce the bill in the com-ing legislative session, but in the meantime, students are taking the fee’s implementa-tion into their own hands.

Government senior Tan-ner Long and Jaclyn Kachel-meyer, an international re-lations and global studies senior, are looking to renew the fee through the Tuition Policy Advisory Committee (TPAC), a group of students, faculty and administrators that submit recommenda-tions for changes to Univer-sity tuition and fees.

The UT System Board of Regents previously indicated that they would consider a 2 percent tuition increase at UT System schools, prompt-ing the TPAC committee to discuss the increase. If the board approves a tuition in-crease, the green fee could potentially receive some of the funds, creating a more permanent source of money for the fee.

“That’s our only option on the table right now,” Long said.

Student Government president Xavier Rotnofsky, who serves on the commit-tee, will be pushing to keep the fee on campus. However, he said the TPAC committee

would not make an explicit request for the fee in the tu-ition increase proposal.

“Once the tuition increase is approved, and tuition does get increased, then it would be a top administrative level decision to decide where all the money goes,” Rotnofsky said. “At that point, it would be up to President [Gregory] Fenves to allocate the money for the green fee.”

Fenves is supportive of looking into including the fee during the tuition set-ting process, according to University spokesperson Gary Susswein.

Although discussions about how to renew the fee are taking place along-side talks of tuition in-creases, Kachelmeyer said re-instituting the green fee would not technically increase tuition.

“Really what you’re doing is subtracting five dollars and then adding five dollars,” Kachelmeyer said.

UT System spokesper-son Jenny LaCoste-Caputo indicated that

students could look into the tuition-setting route.

If the fee does not return to campus, new projects will not start as a result of the funding, something Mariana Silva, who works for Texas Green Tours, a fee-funded project, said she thinks would be detrimental to UT’s sustainability — es-pecially since the fee allows students to take the lead on projects that might not happen otherwise.

Silva, a civil engineer-ing senior, said students who are paid using the fee would also be impacted if it were eliminated.

As of June, 115 students have held the 63 campus jobs “related to sustain-ability,” most of which were implemented using the fee, according to an Office of Sustainability report.

“You have to have an in-centive, if you’re dealing with students,” Silva said.

Graduate student Elise Worchel — who used the funding for part of her dis-sertation research on the

impact of fungi on plant drought tolerance — said the loss of the fee would espe-cially affect doctoral students who rely on the funding for their dissertation research.

“It’s so hard that you have such a great institution but then projects are limited be-cause you get funding, and it shouldn’t be something that graduate students stress about,” Worchel said. “It should be the science.”

The Microfarm, one of UT’s longest running green fee projects, would be mostly unaffected by the loss of the fee. The Green Fee only funds projects for five years, and UT Microfarm is currently in its fifth and looking to become self-substantive and remain operative through a possible institutionaliza-tion, according to Stephanie Hamborsky, Plan II and biol-ogy senior and development director for the farm.

If the fee is not renewed on campus, self-sustainability may be one option if project leaders want their work to continue after their green fee

money runs out. Farm Stand, a new project led by environ-mental science sophomore Daniela Pachon that part-ners with the Department of Housing and Food Services to sell produce to students, plans to do just that by oper-ating off of proceeds.

Another option is the fru-gal route, like the one the BEEVO Beekeeping Society is taking. They have enough funding to keep their project up for the next few years, but are saving their money in case they are not able to re-apply for the fee.

“We only developed a plan and a budget for two years, so it kind of made us think ‘oh, crap,’ maybe we shouldn’t be buying all of the things we were going to buy this year,” Melanie Brown, a nutrition junior and the club’s founder, said.

For other projects, re-maining operative after this school year in the cur-rent capacity may not be possible without the fee. Green labs, for instance — a project that recycles lab

materials such as Styrofoam, cold packs and single-use batteries — requires a pur-chase order each semester to offer Styrofoam recycling services. Without the fee, that aspect of the project may not be able to continue, graduate student Nathalie Kip, who works on the project, said.

“We’ve come this far and if we just disappear it would be sad,” Kip said. “There’s definite-ly a need for funding for us,”

Still, even with the unsure fate of the fee, Karen Blaney, assistant manager in the Of-fice of Sustainability, said there is support to try and keep the fee on campus — the question is how.

“To our knowledge, there’s no one in the upper ad-ministration that’s against [the fee]. It’s just a mat-ter of how it can be carried forward based on the rules and laws, and things like that, that apply to it,” Blaney said. “There is no bad guy. There is no, like, anti-envi-ronmental or anti-green fee boogeyman person.”

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Mike McGraw | Daily Texan StaffTexas Tribune CEO and editor-in-chief Evan Smith, left, moderates a panel about digital media in the presidential campaign at the LBJ Library.

Rachel Zein | Daily Texan StaffLEFT: Elise Worchel, fifth year biology Ph.D. student, received funding from the UT Green Fee to research the effects of fungi on drought tolerance in plants. ABOVE: Jaclyn Kachelmeyer, international relations and global studies senior, left, and govern-ment senior Tanner Long have been working with the Tuition Policy Advisory Committee to renew the fee.

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Stephanie Hamvorkski, Plan II and biol-ogy senior, pulls weeds during a workday at the UT Microfarm. The farm was able to start in part due to fund-ing from the UT Green Fee, which may not exist in the future.

Yesterday, LaToya Hill, associate vice-presi-dent and Title IX coordinator, distributed the long-anticipated Cultivating Learning and Safe Environments (CLASE) survey. This marks the first step in the UT System’s goal to conduct a four-year comprehensive study of sexual assault on UT System campuses.

The release of this survey comes at a watershed moment: the Association of American Universi-ties’ sexual assault study found that roughly one in five UT women and one in four American female students nationally are sexually assaulted during their undergraduate careers.

Additionally, the widely reviled Safe Campus Act is currently before Congress, which aims to restrict universities’ abilities to investigate sexu-al assault allegations. For every student who was selected to participate in the optional survey, this is an opportunity to identify the contribut-ing factors of what this Board considers one of the most serious, pervasive social plagues of our generation. We urge you to take this survey.

The urgency of this issue must supercede any of our generation’s usual political apathy. This survey has the power to create greater change than any one of the seven propositions Texans voted on in Tuesday’s election. If you are at all angry with Texas legislators for pass-ing a law that allows people to bring guns into your classrooms without your permission, use this survey to exercise your right to control

what policies are applied on your campus. The University has shown that this is an is-

sue of great importance, and the administra-tion is doing what it can to ensure students’ safety. It is your responsibility to help them keep you and your peers from experiencing the trauma and shame that sexual violence causes. Not taking the survey is remaining apathetic towards an endemic that plagues college campuses across the country. Not tak-ing the survey condones the injustices against one in five women on this campus. “Not hav-ing the time” is not a valid excuse.

We’ve written before about the impor-tance of making the survey mandatory, so as to avoid distorting the responses with selec-tion bias. It’s unfortunate that that’s not the case, and it makes it that much more impor-tant that every one of the selected students complete the survey in its entirety. If only

the students who have experienced sexual violence feel the survey is necessary to take, the results will not accurately reflect the cur-rent climate, making the issue that much more difficult to address.

The term “rape culture” can be used as a term to end a conversation — to insinuate that sexual

assault is an epidemic that’s unsolvable with-out a massive, vaguely defined cultural reform. This survey does the opposite, tackling the issue head on by shedding light on what sexual as-sault means and who it impacts the most. That’s a critical first step towards addressing the prob-lem, but it cannot succeed without your help.

Congress passed the Bipartisan Student Loan Certainty Act of 2013 that pegs the in-terest rates of federal student loans to 10-year Treasury note yields, a market-based rate. The interest rate for the duration of a single loan won’t change, but loans taken after July 1 of ev-ery year may see different interest rates.

However, 10-year Treasury note yields are on the rise, meaning that interest rates for new loans taken after July 1, 2016 could be higher. This is due to speculation that the Federal Reserve would raise short-term interest rates if the US economy continues to add more jobs.

Even if this means that the interest rate for federal student loans could rise, it shouldn’t be a long-term change. Economics profes-sor Olivier Coibion said he believes that this rise is a result of expectations that the Fed would raise rates, and there would be little difference in the long-term.

“Long-term interest rates (like 10-year Trea-suries) primarily depend on the market’s ex-pectation of future short term interest rates,” Coibion said in an email. “[To] the extent that the Fed raises rates along the timeline current-ly anticipated by financial markets, there will be little to no effect on long-term rates from the Fed raising short term rates.”

While those with federal student loans may not see their interest rates rise, they still face

financial difficulties. From 2004 to 2014, stu-dent debt upon graduation increased by 56 percent. Current student loan debt is believed to be around $1.3 trillion.

The UT Board of Regents approved a plan in October to increase tuition rates roughly 2 percent. Business and government fresh-man Doug Snyder believes that if the Sys-tem increases tuition, it should also provide financial support.

“The rate of tuition here should not be raised without accommodations given towards lower income families,” Snyder said. “We lag miles behind the world in regards to college costs, with pretty much every other developed coun-try either offering some form of free college education or assisted payment program.”

While tuition increases are controversial, they are vital to the University’s financial sta-bility. If UT functioned solely on tuition from students, the University would shut down during the first week of November.

The US economy is undoubtedly improv-ing, providing a better job environment for graduating students. Even with the rise in short-term interest rates, interest rates for federal student loans are largely unaffected. However, students face massive financial burdens, illustrated through record-high student loan debt and prospects of tuition increases. If these problems are not ad-dressed properly, the US will face massive economic repercussions in the long-term.

Dam is a linguistics and Spanish freshman from Cedar Park.

Since President Obama took office in 2009, Texas has sued the Environmental Protection Agency 22 times. The state has only won four of those cases, each concerning air quality and cli-mate change policy. This comes at a time when only 14 percent of Texans reject the idea of global warming, according to a poll by Yale University. These same findings show that more than half of the state’s population feels that something should be done at both the federal and state levels to remedy global warming. This discrepancy in numbers shines a light on how Texas politicians obstruct sensible climate policy.

Currently, public beliefs on environmental policy are not reflected in the state legislature’s actions. If politicians seek to win re-election, it’s crucial that their constituents’ voices are more accurately represented in all levels of Texas government. The first step in doing so is working in conjunction with the federal gov-ernment to curb global warming.

The most recent lawsuit was filed two weeks ago and pits a coalition of states, including Texas, against the EPA over the Clean Power Plan, a joint project between the federal agen-

cy and the presidential administration. The plan looks to cut 32 percent of carbon pollu-tion from the power sector by 2030. The state’s Attorney General, Ken Paxton, was reported to have spent $24,000 on the lawsuit by July of this year. At that time, the plan had not even been finalized. These premeditated attacks on climate change initiatives impede progress and are evidence of public view taking a backseat to economic priorities.

Paxton’s rationale for the lawsuit rests in his belief that the “federal government has yet again proven its readiness to sacrifice American jobs” in order to push its “liberal agenda”. Ironically, almost 70 percent of Texans believe that cor-porations and industry should be doing more to address climate change. Calpine and Royal Dutch Shell are among a number of corpora-tions which support the litigation.

Luke Metzger, director of Environment Tex-as, a citizen-based environmental advocacy or-ganization, said this is an example of politicians failing to hold big business accountable.

“The core problem of the disconnect is that powerful industries spend millions of dollars on campaigns and lobbying, and the result is that politicians are catering to the interests of big donors,” Metzger said.

The politics of money has always been an

influential and sometimes deciding factor in the outcome of state legislation. How obvious it’s become, however, is a disgrace to the citizens who elected these officials. The negligent atti-tude adopted by Texas politicians toward their voters may not rear its ugly head tomorrow, but

it will soon enough. It’s time for Texas to put a stop to the $400,000 and counting they’ve spent on suing the EPA, and start representing the people who have put them in their position in the first place.

Arevalo is a journalism freshman from McAllen.

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In 2015 alone, the United States has experi-enced 44,366 gun-related incidents, 11,175 gun deaths and 283 mass shootings. In the face of the increasingly high profile problem of gun violence, politicians such as Ted Cruz and Ber-nie Sanders have claimed that mental illness is a root cause of gun violence.

Regardless of the fact that other developed countries experience only slightly lower rates of mental illness yet far fewer mass shootings, these claims raise an important issue. Mental illness alone does not cause violence, but has played a role in previous mass shootings and it is an undeniably serious problem that adversely affects millions of Americans every year. How-ever, government policies blocking psychoac-tive drug research demonstrate our collective failure to adequately address mental illness. Po-litical rhetoric condemning a national “mental health crisis” rings hollow when our govern-ment has banned clinical research into these potentially life-saving drugs for over 40 years.

Psychedelic drugs such as cannabis, LSD, MDMA and psilocybin are part of a diverse group of compounds that alter sensory percep-tion and cognition, often inducing feelings of pleasure, euphoria and altered states of con-sciousness. They are popular among recreational drug users and the DEA classifies them as Sched-ule I drugs, or addictive substances with high po-tential for abuse and no medical uses.

Neuroscience professor R. Adron Harris, who leads the Harris lab at the Waggoner Center for Alcohol and Addiction Research, said he believes this classification is dubious at best.

“The classification of psychoactive drugs is very arbitrary,” Harris said. “There’s a huge gulf between what the federal government is saying about drugs and our current understanding of them.”

Cannabis has several known medical uses, but the public isn’t as aware that hallucinogens also show therapeutic potential. MDMA has been shown to help veterans with PTSD, psilo-cybin has eased the depression and anxiety of terminal cancer patients, and LSD effectively treats cluster headaches. The current pariah sta-tus of psychoactives is based more on irrational fear than scientific research.

Of course, large-scale clinical research is need-ed to verify these preliminary claims, but if these drugs are really as dangerous and ineffective as the DEA claims, clinical research would vindi-cate them. Blocking research doesn’t accomplish anything other than obscuring the truth.

Drugs, including currently accepted pharma-ceuticals, are never a panacea for psychological distress. Support from others and the patient’s own determination are arguably the most important elements in the successful treatment of mental ill-ness. Fundamentally, drugs are just chemical tools which can catalyze the healing process. Psychoac-tive drugs pose risks and they may or may not live up to our expectations, but allowing veterans with PTSD and terminal cancer patients to suffer be-cause of our willful ignorance is unacceptable.

Jensen is neuroscience junior from Houston.

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No. 5 Texas could have succumbed to a lack of fo-cus against unranked West Virginia on Thursday. The Mountaineers came into the match at the bottom of the Big 12 in addition to never beating the Longhorns in four contests.

Those figures held after match as the Longhorns (20-2, 10-1 Big 12) decimated West Virginia in straight sets at Gregory Gym. It was a high-quality performance for the Longhorns throughout and one the team needed to see after a disappointing 3-0 loss to TCU on Oct. 28.

“We just tried to get back in a rhythm and get ready to play at a high level before next week,” head coach Jerritt Elliott said.

Texas’ firepower was in full force against the Mountaineers, with four players compiling double-digit kills. The Longhorns consistently attacked the Mountaineers — their 45 kills came with just four er-rors on the evening.

“It’s absolutely great,” junior setter Chloe Col-lins said. “Knowing you have hitters who can go up and terminate the ball, it’s pretty awesome.”

After claiming the first set by a score of 25–14, Texas scuffled out of the gate in the second set, falling behind 15-13. But following a timeout by Elliott, Texas rebounded with a 12-5 run en-route to a 25-20 second set victory.

“For us it was just com-

municating,” senior middle blocker Molly McCage said. “It was getting good touches for our defense and getting everyone on the same page.”

The match’s third frame was more of the same as the Longhorns took care of

business, winning the set 25-9, and the match 3-0. Thursday’s victory was Tex-as’ 10th conference win of the year and its 16th sweep of the season.

The Longhorns will travel to Lawrence, Kan-sas on Nov. 11 to face No.

8 Kansas in a match that will most likely decide the Big 12 champion. In what looks to be the biggest match of the Longhorns’ season, Elliott knows his team will need to bring a stellar effort if it wants to come away with a strong-

hold of the conference.“[We need] some men-

tal toughness,” Elliott said. “There’s urgency for every practice and every match, and now we need to go and win in their house.”

Texas women’s tennis will compete in the Kitty Har-rison Invitational in North Carolina starting Friday. Nineteen teams, including a heavy ACC presence, will

play in the tournament, held at UNC’s Cone-Kenfield Tennis Center and also at Duke University.

This is the first action for head coach Howard Joffe’s Longhorns since the ITA Texas Regional Cham-pionships in late October. Senior Breaunna Addison

captured the singles title with a three-set comeback victory over Houston’s De-spoina Vogasari at the re-gional championships, her first title in that event.

Senior Lana Groenvynck advanced to the round of 32 before falling, while sophomore Dani Wagland

and freshman Chelsea Crovetti were both elimi-nated in the round of 64. Junior Neda Koprcina also competed, but lost in the round of 128.

Addison, a two-time All-American and former Big 12 Conference Player of the Year, will look to con-

tinue what has been a suc-cessful season thus far. The other Longhorns will aim to use their tournament ex-perience to build on their past performances.

The Longhorns will play Michigan and Duke in dou-bles Friday and VCU in sin-gles. Saturday will include a

doubles matchup with LSU and singles against South Carolina. Texas will end the tournament Sunday with a singles play against Penn State. Doubles play for the Longhorns will begin promptly at 10 a.m. Friday at Duke, followed by singles play at 3 p.m.

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Texas has little room for error.

The Longhorns’ bowl hopes are slipping away with a 3-5 record. The team now needs to win three of its remaining four games to become bowl-eligible.

“I told our guys just look at it as a one-game [season],” head coach Charlie Strong said. “We can’t waste and we can’t blow any more opportu-nities. We’ve got to take advantage of it.”

The Longhorns look to take advantage against Kansas on Saturday. The winless Jayhawks haven’t beat Texas since joining the Big 12 in 1996. Texas can’t afford to take them lightly after losing to Iowa State last week — a team that had only beaten the Longhorns once before this season.

“In this conference you can’t roll out and beat any-one,” junior tight end Ca-leb Bluiett said. “You have to prepare for everything that they might throw at you. In this league, on any given day, any team can get beat by anyone… We have to keep our heads down and grind.”

Texas’ matchup with the Jayhawks is key for salvag-ing the team’s dwindling momentum, especially on offense. The Longhorns rank No. 122 in passing of-fense and threw for just 3.9 yards per attempt against the Cyclones.

“We’ve got to throw the ball better,” play-caller Jay Norvell said. “We have capable players, capable schemes. We have to throw the ball better. It’s not rocket science.”

Kansas gives the Long-horns an ideal opportunity to work out their passing issues. The Jayhawks rank No. 127 in passing defense — second to last among all FBS teams — and No. 8 in turnover margin in the Big 12.

Redshirt freshman Jerrod Heard remains the team’s

starter, despite an expand-ing role for junior quar-terback Tyrone Swoopes. Heard remains confident, even though he’s failed to surpass 100 passing yards his last four games.

“Really, nothing is dif-ferent,” Heard said. “I can’t say I Iost my confidence. I’m [not] ever going to lose it. It’s just [sitting] back there and letting it all come to you and [reacting.]”

The Longhorns also hope to re-establish momentum on defense against the Jay-hawks, who rank No. 115

in total yardage. Texas’ previously gelling defense took a step back while sur-rendering 24 points and over 200 rushing yards to Iowa State. Junior defen-sive tackle Hassan Ridge-way said the Longhorns’ defense can re-attain its mojo through focus and preparation.

“A lot of it is technique and making sure that you’re not doing some-body else’s job, and doing your job,” Ridgeway said. “It’s making sure every day that you’re doing the little

things right.”Texas is urgent to get its

season back on track. In must-win mode, the Long-horns will look to play their best football going forward. Their first chance comes against Kansas on Saturday.

“From now on it’s going to be a grind and it’s going to be a fight,” Heard said. “We can’t sleep on Kansas and can’t sleep on the rest of our opponents. We have to come out and give 100 percent every day and get to this bowl game.”

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Three players on the Texas men’s golf team will head to El Paso for the 41st annual Sun Bowl Western Refining College All-America Golf Classic. The tour-nament will showcase the best college golfers in the country at the El Paso Country Club (Par 71, 6,781 yards).

The long drive con-test and putting contest will be held Friday, the first and second rounds will be Saturday and the final round will be Sunday. Juniors Beau Hossler and Gavin Hall and sophomore Doug Ghim will represent the Longhorns at the prestigious tournament. Hossler is the No. 1 player in the country according to Golfweek.com and was the Big 12 Golfer of the Month for October.

In two starts this sea-son, Hossler has won and tied for No. 8. In three starts, Hall has tied for No. 50 twice and tied for No. 19. In three starts, Ghim has tied for No. 6, tied for No. 31 and tied for No. 22.

Randy Simmons was the last person to win the All-America Golf Classic in 1975. Past participants of the tournament include major champions Tiger Woods, Phil Mickelson, Davis Love III, Jerry Pate, Webb Simpson and for-mer Longhorn Jordan Spieth. This is Texas’ last fall competition. The team will begin their spring season Jan. 29-30 at the Arizona Intercollegiate in Tucson.

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Thalia Juarez | Daily Texan file photoCharlie Strong and the Longhorns have reason to be concerned. Texas’ second-year head coach is at risk of missing out on a bowl game with a 3-5 record. Texas needs to win three of its last four games in order to be bowl eligible.

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Joshua Guerra | Daily Texan StaffJunior point guard Isaiah Taylor was the Longhorns starting point guard last season. The starting lineup Friday could evolve as the season progresses.

Matt Robertson | Daily Texan StaffJunior Brynne Wong says that the matchup against A&M will push Texas because both are good teams.

Shaka Smart was named the Texas men’s basketball coach April 3.

Seven months, two scrim-mages, a Navy SEAL train-ing session and countless practices later, the new-look Longhorns are ready for their final tune-up before the regular season.

“We’ve been here seven months and [the] guys have been very receptive,” Smart said. “As I said a few times at media day, I think receptiv-ity is the first step to buy in, but the next step is those guys taking complete ownership of what we want to do.”

Texas will get its first chance to take ownership on Friday when D-II Tarleton State visits the Frank Erwin Center for an exhibition game at 5 p.m.

The Longhorns played an open intrasqaud scrimmage at Gregory Gym on Oct. 21 and a closed scrimmage against Stephen F. Austin on Oct. 31. But Friday is the first time Texas will publicly play an opposing team on the Frank Erwin Center floor.

Smart said Tarleton State is a good matchup to see where Texas stands. Tarleton State went 31-4 and reached the Final Four of the NCAA D-II Men’s Basketball Tournament last season.

“Our opponent is really good,” Smart said. “I mean, they’re No. 1 in preseason for Division II. One thing that we’ve been talking a lot about in the past week or so is just the decision on the part of our players in how we want to approach our opponents.”

The open intrasquad scrimmage gave Texas a chance to play in front of a crowd in a game-like setting. The closed scrimmage against Stephen F. Austin allowed the Longhorns to play a different team and practice different in-game situations.

Friday’s game will combine those elements.

“It’s been a simple transi-tion for us because [Smart] coaches us on things we can control,” senior guard De-marcus Holland said after the Oct. 21 scrimmage. “Like, you know, our attitude, being coachable, effort.”

Part of the transition in-volved a long off-season,

which junior guard Isaiah Taylor said was the hardest he has been through.

“I think we had our first weightlifting session, our first conditioning session and it was me, Jordan [Bar-nett] and Danny [New-some],” Taylor said at Big 12 media day. “That was prob-ably the hardest workout I had ever been through in my life.”

Smart said he hasn’t de-cided a starting lineup and rotation but Friday’s lineup is subject to change.

“I think the ‘rotation’ and who’s playing and how many minutes, that’s really going to be up in the air for some time now I would say over the next several weeks,” Smart said.

Texas has a quick turn-around after the game. The Longhorns fly to China on Saturday for their season opener with Washington on Nov. 13 in Shanghai. Friday will be a benchmark.

“If we can be better in November than we were in October, then that’s a victory,” Smart said. “But then we’ve got to be bet-ter in December than we were in November.”

Texas faces no ordinary op-ponent when it travels to Col-lege Station to take on rival Texas A&M Friday.

Both teams’ early-season momentums add another dimension to the classic in-state rivalry. The No. 3 Longhorns enter their sec-ond meet of the season after sweeping Florida and In-diana in the season opener three weeks ago. No. 15 A&M is 4-0 and finished fourth at the NCAA Cham-pionships last season. Head coach Carol Capitani said the meet against A&M will test the Longhorns against tougher competition.

“We haven’t raced anybody real fast yet, so I don’t think we’ve been challenged,” Capi-tani said. “We match up pretty well [against A&M], but they have some holes and we have some holes.”

Since the season opener, Tex-as has trained for three weeks to fill those holes. Capitani said the team focuses on getting race-fit from September to November and then moves forward to spe-cific training in December.

The team’s strength and stamina will play a key role against the Aggies. Physical ex-haustion plagued junior Brynne Wong against Florida and Indi-ana. Wong said she’s been work-

ing on her strength and learning to “swim tired” to push through exhaustion. But swimming against the Aggies hypes up the Longhorns.

“The rivalry is so strong, which really helps us because they’re a good team that can push us,” Wong said. “This meet’s great because you could be so exhausted, but you get up on the blocks and you’re like, ‘Alright, let’s go!’”

Capitani said many of her swimmers grew up with the rivalry. Capitani and A&M head coach Steve Bultman also coached together at Georgia.

“There is some animosity between the teams, and hope-fully it’s respectful and normal,” Capitani said. “I have a lot of respect for [Bultman]. He’s an Olympic coach who does an incredible job with his team, but that doesn’t mean I don’t want to come away with a win.”

The Longhorns haven’t faced many challenges yet with only one meet under their belt. Al-though a win over A&M won’t come easy, Capitani feels Texas can rise to the occasion.

“When you challenge this team, the better your competi-tion, the more you rise up to meet it,” Capitani said. “It’s going to be interesting to see how they can tune up from the last meet. We’re expecting some kids on our team to really stand up, and hopefully it doesn’t look like we have any holes.”

Texas, Texas A&M renew rivalry Friday

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Alex Giannascoli, who makes music under the pseudonym Alex G, was regarded over the past few years as the Internet’s best-kept secret. Known for low-tech record-ing from his bedroom in Philadelphia, the singer-songwriter released his most recent album, Beach Music, on Domino Re-cording Company in early October. The artist is set to perform his intimate brand of off-kilter rock at a Fun Fun Fun Fest Nites show.

The Daily Texan: How is the new album different from your previous work?

Alex Giannascoli: All of the songs sound a little more diverse than my other albums. Beach Mu-sic was made in multiple sittings where I’d be on tour for a month or so and come back and record a couple songs. I made [the past albums] more in one sitting. That gave them more of a sonic theme than Beach Music.

DT: In the song “Brite Boy” and others on the new al-bum, you distort your voice to different pitches. Do you intend for those to be different characters?

AG: It’s not something that I would want to put

a concrete message on. It’s just supposed to be an ob-vious shift in perspective. I think that it just makes more of a trip for the lis-tener, which is my goal, I guess. I usually write from a perspective that’s my own, but warped enough to the point that it becomes its own character. I use my-self as a compass because I want to make things that seem honest.

DT: When you’re working by yourself at home, do you do anything to help you stay focused?

AG: No, it just sort of happens at any time. Ev-ery day, I’ll try and play guitar for as long as I can. I try and just keep going. I don’t put ideas down and come back to them later, because I just won’t come back to them if I don’t get on it right away. I guess that’s a method I use — just going right ahead with it and not saving any-thing for later.

DT: You have a lot of older content open to people on Bandcamp. How do you feel looking back on your older releases?

AG: I think it’s good that people like them. That’s all that I care about. Some-thing that rubs me the wrong way is when people are just like, “Wow, you have like seven albums al-ready. Look at that.” Stuff

like that makes me want to take them down just because I don’t want to be significant because of the quantity of music that I have out there. I just want to be significant because it’s good. Having a lot of albums might give people the impression that I sort of cast stuff off and that I don’t try. I’d like to avoid that. It’s not me anymore, but it’s nice to look back and listen to shit you made when you were a young kid and see how it’s kind of oddly similar to your perspective now. It’s kind of funny.

DT: Why do you name all of your songs with one word titles?

AG: I just always did. I think something that runs through most of my stuff is that I don’t want to pin-point anything. The longer the title is, the more of a defining effect it has on the song. I like that I can have one word and it’s sort of just like this blanket that you could put over the whole song, but it doesn’t sum up the song. It sets the tone slightly and leaves a lot for interpretation.

Fun Fun Fun Fest has grown exponentially since its beginning in Waterloo Park in December 2006. Even when prices increased and venues changed, the three-day event has stayed true to its original goal of providing festivalgoers with underground music and comedy. This year’s festival features a stellar lineup, as well as some key improvements in the event’s structure.

Slow Magic – Nov. 5, 8 p.m., Parish and Nov. 6, 4 p.m., Blue Stage

Labeled as “your imagi-nary best friend,” masked man Slow Magic focuses on creating calming and serene electronic hits. He might not be the most welcoming or energetic performer, but his slower contemplative songs and remixes should combine to create a low-energy but fulfilling performance.

Benjamin Booker – Nov. 6, 6:35 p.m., JASH Yellow Stage

As a member of the new crop of bluesmen, Benjamin Booker draws from the elec-tric blues, as well as modern

garage rock and punk. With his wide scope of influences, including T-Bone Walker and The White Stripes, the New Orleans-based musician grew to an overnight sensa-tion upon the release of his self-titled debut album. His high-energy performance style will likely translate well at this year’s festival, making him a must-see for any fans of rock music.

Late Night Basement – Nov. 6, 10 p.m., 616 Lavaca St.

Late Night Basement is a Brooklyn-based comedy show out on the road for the first time. Hosted by Chris Rose, the show will feature appearances from The Lucas Brothers and Austin local Terance McDavid. Not only do they have free beer, but Rose’s comments on current events are sure to get almost anyone laughing. Be sure to show up early to this show to make sure you get a seat.

Big Freedia – Nov. 8, 5 p.m., Blue Stage

Known for her energetic beats and house music vocals, Big Freedia has been active in the bounce scene, which includes a call-and-response style and hypersexual themes,

since the 1990s. However, she only gained mainstream exposure in 2010 with her album Big Freedia Hitz Vol. 1. Her live performances are notoriously spirited, which means her set could be one of the best of the entire festival. Not only is she a great per-former, but she’s also offering twerking lessons.

Rozwell Kid – Nov. 8, 9:30 p.m., 611 E 7th

Drawing comparisons to pre-millennia Weezer, Rozwell Kid captures the original spirit of pop-rock with their fun and animated songs. Their songs aren’t only catchy though — the four-piece band turns to some high-pitched guitar riffs and breakdowns to keep their

audience on the edge of their seats. Their music is fun in almost every setting, but their performance during the FFF Nites program will likely be a more intimate experience.

Air Sex World Champion-ships – Nov. 8, 1:35 p.m., JASH Yellow Stage

A show of coordina-

tion and showmanship, the Air Sex World Champion-ships are a celebration of sexual freedom. The event is simple — comedians re-enact humorous fake sexual scenarios on stage, but the possibilities are almost end-less. If you want a guilt-free laugh, go check out the event.

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Marshall Tidrick | Daily Texan file photoFun Fun Fun Fest 2015 will take place from Friday through Saturday at Auditorium Shores in downtown Austin.

By Chris Duncan@chr_dunc

This year’s Fun Fun Fun Fest promises to showcase some of music’s best inde-pendent acts. With genres ranging from emo punk rock to New Orleans bounce music, the festival offers en-tertainment suited for any personality type. Here is a guide to help attendees navi-gate the madness and have a “fun”tastic time.

Transportation: Before head-banging to

your favorite punk band or laughing to the point of crying at the yellow stage, you still need to find a way to get there. Auditorium Shores is located just across Lake Austin, between the South Lamar and South First bridges. The area is easily accessible by car, bi-cycle or on foot. There will be bicycle parking at the southwest corner of the intersection of South First Street and West Riverside. Those not biking or walk-ing can drive, but remem-ber parking in the Bouldin Creek neighborhood will be prohibited. Fun Fun Fun Fest will also provide free shuttles to pick up pa-trons at the intersection of

East Fifth and San Marcos starting at 11 a.m.

Getting In: The doors for the festival

open at 11 a.m. today with music starting at 12:30 p.m. If you have a child or are be-ing accompanied by a mi-nor for some reason, Fun Fun Fun Fest is free for all children under the age of nine. Make sure all water bottles and thermoses are empty. Don’t bring a Cam-elBak because they will not be allowed inside the festival doors. However, don’t fear because Fun Fun Fun Fest will provide free water at one of their numerous filling stations. Visit the website to check what else will and won’t be allowed.

Stage Selection: Once you’ve dealt with

logistics, the real fun can begin. The most notable feature of Fun Fun Fun Fest is the breakdown of stages by genre. Blue stage pres-ents hip-hop and dance. Orange stage presents al-ternative. Black stage holds hard rock and metal. Yellow stage holds comedy. But of course, some acts don’t fall into one distinct genre, so be mindful. I suggest down-loading the Fun Fun Fun

Fest app and creating a cus-tom lineup that will notify users during the festival. Given the relatively small size compared to larger festivals like ACL, jumping from stage to stage also isn’t such a hassle for those who like to wander. The festival also provides more than just music — be sure to check out a skateboarding half-pipe competition and pro-wrestling ring.

Food and Vendors: Of course all that dancing

is going to make you hun-gry, and Fun Fun Fun Fest has you covered with fried and fatty foods. Enjoy local favorites like Chi’lantro, East Side King and Austin’s Pizza, or venture beyond your com-fort zone and try Cazamance, an African fusion restaurant serving smoked pork and curry dishes. There will also be other vendors such as Aus-tin Facial Hair Club and Blue Lux fashion boutique. All purchases may be made with either cash or credit, but I rec-ommend taking some cash to avoid any possible malfunc-tions with the payment sys-tems. Remember purchases can stack up, so budget your money to avoid those alarm-ing and often tragic Monday bank statements.

Sarah Montgomery | Daily Texan file photoFun Fun Fun Fest will celebrate its 10th anniversary this year.

By Thomas Boswell@thomasboswell11

Alex G talks Internet music fame, recording new album

By Rachel Roscoe@rachelrascoe

Courtesy of Jeff Allen

DIY singer-songwriter Alex G, set to play a Fun Fun Fun Fest Nites show, discussed his songwriting process and newest album, Beach Music.

Maximize your fun: get the most from Austin’s independent music

ALEX G, TITLE FIGHT, AND GIRLPOOL

When: Friday, Nov. 6Where: 611 E 7th St.