The UT System has located 21,000 potential new well sites on its oil lands, which could generate significant rev-enue for the System.

University Lands, a divi-sion of the System’s Office of Business Affairs, manages 2.1 million acres that were grant-ed to the System more than a century ago and make up the Permanent University Fund, a state endowment for public higher education. Through technological advances such as horizontal drilling, the UT System has located new po-tential well sites in its oil-rich land in West Texas to add to its current 9,000 active sites.

Philip Aldridge, UT System Business Development asso-ciate vice chancellor, said the addition is technology-driven. Advances in areas such as hy-draulic and horizontal drilling increase the profit potential for companies leasing the

land. According to the leasing contract, when the companies make more money, UT also gets a larger sum which goes into the PUF.

“In the short run, [the rev-enue change will be] not much because prices are so low right now, and the drilling activity has slowed down consider-ably,” Aldridge said. “Over time, as prices recover for oil and natural gas, there should be a lot of opportunities to in-crease revenue.”

Alyssa Ray, external rela-tions officer for University Lands, said the company will hire 15–20 interns from UT-Austin and Texas A&M Uni-versity to analyze the sites over the summer. There are currently more than 200 com-panies leasing land for the 9,000 active wells, producing 220,000 barrels of oil and gas.

“The Lands will serve as a giant laboratory that will not only increase PUF revenues

The Commission on Ac-creditation for Law Enforce-ment Agencies, an international authority that provides stan-dards for law enforcement, is assessing the UT police depart-ment’s policies and operations this week.

Lt. Darrell Birdett said the CALEA officials examine whether the department is fol-lowing a variety of standards set by the agency, including use of force and disciplinary

procedures. Birdett said UTPD met CALEA standards on its first assessment in 2007 and has since been re-accredited twice.

“Accreditation shows a level of professionalism and that we’ve met the standards for the best practices that they set out,” Birdett said.

The assessment has previ-ously been performed every three years, but the agency will now review the department once every four years.

While the assessment was already scheduled and not a response to the recent homi-

cide on campus, several parents raised concerns about inad-equate lighting in certain areas and the homeless community.

Joell Sullivan-McNew, member of Texas Parents’ As-sociation, said she compiled a list of responses from 115 parents in the organization and spoke on various collective pa-rental concerns about safety on campus during the forum.

“I’m really hoping for change and action,” Sullivan-McNew said. “Not only from parents, but I’m hoping that Student Gov-

Glow-in-the-dark yoga and an adult coloring session are just some of the many ac-tivities offered by the Coun-seling and Mental Health Center during its inaugural Mental Health Promotion Week, which seeks to help students dealing with mental health issues.

The event kicked off with an interactive activity called “Leave Your Mark,” win which students wrote their thoughts on mental health on a big whiteboard in the East Mall. Students who partici-pated and liked the counsel-ing center page on various so-cial media platforms received a T-shirt, stress ball or a stick-er promoting the campaign.

Kelsey Lammy, mental health promotion coordina-tor for the CMHC, said the stigma around mental health makes it difficult for people to have serious conversations.

“If someone breaks a bone we think, ‘Oh, you should probably go to the doctor,’ [but] with mental health, it can be harder for students or for anyone to talk about what they’re going through,” Lammy said. “We know that community, social connect-edness and talking to others is so beneficial. … College can be really exciting, but it can also be really stressful, so

providing a space for students to start that conversation is so important.”

Rhetoric and writing junior Tori Steffan, who stopped by the CMHC booth yesterday, said she is happy to see the counseling center making an effort to help students.

“[Mental health] affects a lot of people in varying degrees,” Steffan said. “For

The South Mall lawn and the Union outdoor patio are popular locations for UT stu-dents to enjoy warm weather and sunshine, and Student Government passed a reso-lution last Tuesday to pro-vide another option — ham-mocks along the planned Speedway Mall.

The Speedway Mall proj-ect will bring large grassy areas and about 300-400 new oak trees to the area between Martin Luther King Boule-vard and Dean Keeton Street, providing an ideal oppor-tunity for hammocks to be placed permanently, accord-ing to the resolution.

Taral Patel, government senior and co-author of the resolution, said ham-mocks provide an al-ternative option to rest on campus.

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Institutions of higher education must work with each other and the public and private sectors to fund their programs in light of decreased state funding, said top higher education officials and lawmakers.

Former U.S. Sen. Kay Hutchison (R-TX) and former University of Cal-ifornia-Berkeley Chan-cellor Robert Birgeneau spoke at a press confer-ence Wednesday before a closed-door meeting about higher education funding.

“Historically, higher education funding has al-ways come back after a recovery,” Birgeneau said. “This time, it has not.”

The meeting comes after the American Acad-emy of Arts and Sciences released a report, known as the “Lincoln Project,” last Thursday, warning that state support for higher education has declined an average of 34 percent over the past decade. Hutchison, chairman of the Texas Exes and UT alumna, served as an ad-visor to the report, and Birgeneau co-chaired the report committee.

“For the moment, [pub-lic institutions of higher education] have main-tained their educational and research missions,” the report said. “But this trend is not sustainable.”

Although Fenves was not involved in the cre-

ation of the report, he hosted a press conference about its findings and said he was “very supportive” of its goals.

The report makes several recommendations to help universities thrive with de-creased state support, includ-ing “establish[ing] annual cost and efficiency targets,” beefing up their giving pro-grams, providing financial aid to low-income, in-state un-dergraduate students, track-ing student performance in real-time, and improving the transfer process from com-munity college and online “gateway courses,” among other priorities.

“However, considering the importance of these institu-tions to students, local com-munities, and the nation, we must all assume responsibil-ity for their future,” the report reads. “We cannot allow these essential institutions to erode. The burdens of stewardship fall upon us all.”

Hutchison said state leg-islatures cut higher educa-tion funding because it is perceived that these institu-tions have the ability to make up the difference through private funds.

“Tuition has gone up high-er when the legislature was in charge of making those decisions,” Hutchison said. “The public institutions, have in fact, under the direc-tion of the Board of Regents, cut costs.”

In Texas, top state law-makers have criticized UT System institutions over recent tuition increases af-ter UT-Austin increased its tuition by about $300 per semester by fall 2017. In a letter sent to the presidents of the System’s institutions, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick and Kel Seliger, chairman of the Sen-ate Higher Education Com-mittee, said higher education has been funded at “historic levels” and a tuition increase would “increase the financial burden faced by students and their families.”

State budgets face increas-ing costs for programs, such as Medicaid and prisons. This tends to make higher educa-tion the “balance wheel,” or the program that can be easily cut, Birgeneau said.

“Some states spend more money putting people in prison than educating their college [students],” Birge-neau said. “The states are under horrific pressures with all of these programs.”

Birgeneau said the fed-

eral government, the states, companies and other stake-holders are going to have to work closely with uni-versities to make higher education affordable for students and competitive in research fields.

“We need a 21st century budget model for public re-search universities,” Birge-neau said. “This is a lot to ask for, but the resources are out there, so this … can happen.”

which we do have, but sometimes they aren’t used that much,” Patel said. “This is a new and creative way to relax.”

Gregory Gymnasium of-fers hammocks that can be rented out from RecSports, but the hammocks are not often used, and many cam-puses around the country are banning use of personal hammocks on campus be-cause of concerns for tree and student safety, according to the resolution.

Rebecca Sostek, resolu-tion co-author and rhetoric and writing and psychology junior, said she has met with the University’s landscap-ing company and the Divi-sion of Recreational Sports, and feedback for the idea has been positive. Sostek said the hammocks will be placed on stands rather than tied to trees.

“After talking to the land-scaping company, I realized

that it’s going to be for the best to have hammocks on stands rather than hang-ing on trees, mostly be-cause hanging hammocks in trees can be detrimental to the trees’ health,” Sostek said. “These trees on the Speedway project will be baby trees, so that would require a lot of time for them to grow.”

Sostek said she received a $1,250 grant from SG’s spe-cial projects fund, which will allow for a trial period, when hammocks will be placed around the Blanton Museum of Art, Jester Dormitory and Gregory Gymnasium.

“This trial period will be a good way to see if these hammocks will hold up over the semester and to see if they’ve been used and posi-tively received,” Sostek said. “After the trial period, if the hammocks are received well and things go as planned, I’ll start reaching out to other entities such as Student Gov-ernment, the [Texas] Ham-mocking Club and UT Par-

ents’ Association for funding and suggestions.”

Nursing freshman Al-len Tan said he thinks per-manent hammocks would provide a space for students to rest during the day, es-pecially if they live far from campus.

“It would be good for stu-dents who live off campus and don’t want to have to go back home just for a 30-min-ute nap,” Tan said.

Tan said he thinks maintenance may be an issue in providing permanent hammocks.

“[The hammocks] would have to be constantly cleaned and checked for damage,” Tan said. “Es-pecially when it rains, which it hardly ever does, the hammocks would get wet and nasty.”

UT Facilities Services spokesperson Laurie Lentz said the decision to install hammocks on the Speedway Mall would be a campus de-cision and would take place after construction of the mall

ernment gets involved as well and incorporates safety and awareness into orientation.”

Washington said he ad-vises parents to speak with the UTPD if they have additional concerns about the safety of their children.

“Getting to know the po-lice department more is a relationship that you build if you have concerns,” Wash-ington said. “It takes all of us in order for things to work out for the best.”

Birdett said interviews with community members, business owners and depart-ment employees are just as important as reviewing documents to determine how well the department meets the required standards.

As part of the on-site evaluation, community members and agency em-ployees were invited to offer their comments and provide feedback at a public forum Monday afternoon in the Student Activity Center.

Two CALEA assessors not affiliated with UT, Blythe Frausto and Capt. Zandral Washington, led the meeting.

After the review is com-plete, Frausto said they file a report based on observa-tions, and the commission de-cides whether to accredit the agency or not.

Birdett said the results are released to the department in July.

Frausto said it is impor-tant to incorporate public comment to understand the community’s perspectives on UTPD’s performance and what changes they think could be made.

“[Feedback] is really one of the tenets of the commis-sion for accreditation because we want to see how they work within the community and to ensure that the community is a part of the agency and vice versa,” Frausto said.

Other accredited univer-sity police departments in-clude those at California State University-Fullerton, Cali-fornia State University-Los Angeles and the University of Washington.

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Pizza, snow cones and a DJ were all part of the kickoff event for Cam-pus Fusion on Monday at Gregory Plaza.

Students for Equity and Diversity is hosting Cam-pus Fusion, a three-day event during which differ-ent organizations showcas-ing diversity team up for a series of workshops and performances to promote unity among students.

Monica Torres, director of internal relations at SED, said the group is bringing back Campus Fusion after a decade-long absence.

“So back in ’04, ’06, dur-ing that time, they actually would put up Campus Fu-sion as a week of dialogue but with a social justice component,” said Torres, a social work and Mexican American studies junior.

Torres said this event is necessary because issues of diversity are still evident on campus.

“We should still celebrate our different cultures, dif-ferent ethnicities, different backgrounds here at UT,” Torres said.

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junior Jackie Tellez said Campus Fusion had a larg-er turnout in the past.

“It was put on by both the [Division of Diversity and Community Engage-ment] and Student Gov-ernment in collaboration,” Tellez said. “It was a cam-pus-wide event, and they had a lot of people come out and sponsor it.”

Tellez said the event in-cludes not only cultural organizations, but any or-ganization that promotes diversity on campus.

“Diversity is not just different countries or de-termined by ethnicities,” Tellez said. “We also have organizations like the [Gender and Sexuality Center] talking about gen-der. We have queer [orga-nizations] and neurodiver-sity [organizations]. We’re not trying to cover just race, but all that diversity has to bring, which is all of those things together.”

Tellez said although the University encour-ages diversity, the differ-ent student organizations operate separately.

“UT is a very diverse school, but I feel like those communities don’t always interact with each other,

and this is a space where those communities can come together and see each other all together instead of being separated through-out campus,” Tellez said.

“We’re here, but we don’t always get the opportunity to come together.”

Sam Tedford, geogra-phy senior and co-direc-tor of social justice for

SED, said Campus Fusion is not just a good public relations event.

“We don’t wanna just use [diversity] as a buzz word,” Tedford said. “We’re ac-

tively trying to make a di-verse space in a multitude of ways. We want to work with other students to help promote and preserve their cultures.”

but also promote oil and gas industry knowledge and re-search,” Ray said. “With the advent of technology such as horizontal drilling, mul-tiple layers of hydrocarbon-producing rock beneath the Permian Basin are able to

be targeted. We’re trying to address the complexities of these technological advance-ments within University Lands’ leasing agreements to ensure that the acreage is ef-fectively developed.”

Vu Nguyen, a petroleum engineering graduate stu-dent, will be one of the in-terns with University Lands

this summer working on making the oil business in Texas more efficient.

“We will be doing pro-duction optimization for wells,” Nguyen said. “[We will study] the performance of the wells. They want to hire students to go there and to find a way to improve the performance.”

myself, personally, my own struggles with mental health issues have impacted my stay here at UT, so I really like to see them having a lot of resources readily avail-able for students. I felt I was able to seek [these resources] out when I first came here, but I’m glad they’re mak-ing it more well known and more accessible.”

Gustavo Molinar, psychol-ogy junior, proposed Mental Health Promotion Week to the CMHC. Molinar worked as a peer educator for the

center from 2014–2015 and initiated the idea after work-ing on another campaign during Suicide Prevention Week. Molinar said this type of campaign is important be-cause of the hectic lifestyles students lead.

“The college student ex-perience is one that encom-passes more than studying,” Molinar said in an email. “There are many factors such as friends, stress, and [aca-demic] pressures that can af-fect mental health. Students should understand that ev-eryone has a different college experience, that they are all doing the best that they can.”

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Mariana Gonzalez | Daily Texan StaffA student checks out booths as a part of Campus Fusion on Monday afternoon at Gregory Plaza. Campus Fusion is a three-day event that brings together different organizations on campus so students can experience different cultures.

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We know that community, social connectedness and talking to others is so beneficial … College can be really exciting, but it can also be really stressful.

—Kelsey Lammy, Mental health

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Donald Trump has a dream. In No-vember, the businessman and Republican front-runner imagines thousands of Dem-ocrats ditching their party and voting for him. And for once, Trump may be right.

In a recent poll, 25 percent of voters who support Bernie Sanders say they would not vote for former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton if she becomes the Democratic nominee. In comparison, only 14 percent of Clinton supporters cannot see them-selves supporting the Vermont senator.

It’s not unusual for diehard supporters to reject calls for unity after a long pri-mary battle. In 2008, a similar number of Clinton supporters refused to support Barack Obama after she lost the nomina-tion to him. In fact, 10 percent of Demo-crats eventually voted for the 2008 Repub-lican nominee Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) over Obama.

Eight years later, some Sanders supporters are ringing a similar tone. It’s “Bernie or Bust” as they put it, pledging to support anyone but Clinton, even if that’s Trump.

This is a terrible, horrible, no good, very

bad idea.Trump’s extremist positions are the po-

lar opposite of Sanders’ views. On immi-gration, Trump wants to round up all il-legal immigrants and deport them, while Sanders wants to create a pathway for im-migrants to obtain citizenship. On chang-ing the minimum wage, Trump says to leave it alone, while Sanders says raise it. Unsurprisingly, Clinton also wants a path-way to citizenship and believes in raising the minimum wage. In fact, Clinton and Sanders agree on almost every single issue — including the idea that Trump would be a disaster for the country.

“I honestly don’t understand how any-one, much less those who consider them-selves progressives, could support the kind of vitriolic nonsense coming from Donald Trump,” said Charlie Bonner, a Plan II government sophomore and Texas stu-dent outreach coordinator for the Clinton campaign. “[Trump’s] candidacy is built upon a bedrock of hate and racism, and the thought that Bernie’s supporters would join in that is completely foreign to me.”

Sanders supporters have their reservations about Clinton, and rightfully so. But those reservations cannot translate into a protest vote for Trump. When Democrats voted for

McCain in 2008, they were voting for an honest war hero. Democrats who choose to vote for Trump in 2016 will be voting for a liar who makes fun of war heroes.

If Clinton becomes the nominee, Sand-ers supporters should think twice about

not voting for her. She may be a polarizing candidate to them, but a united Democratic party is the only way to defeat Trump and make America great again.

Poludniak is a history sophomore from San Antonio.

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Pop music is popular for a reason, should not be disregarded, trashed

Pop music should not be dumbed down, manufactured to make cash

By Alyssa FernandezDaily Texan Columnist

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By Jake SchmidtDaily Texan Columnist

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Sanders supporters must also back Clinton

UT faculty should diversify to support diverse student body

Teaching is a tough job. The profession requires one to inspire, encourage and en-gage with his or her students. This becomes an even more difficult task when a teacher and student are coming from two differ-ent cultures. At the University of Texas at Austin, our overwhelmingly white faculty, through no fault of their own, has failed to adequately support the needs and dreams of its minority students.

A study conducted by John Hopkins and American University found that white teachers had particularly low expectations for their black students, especially black males. These teachers were less likely than their black coworkers to believe that their black students would graduate high school and go on to college.

At UT-Austin, we have a teaching staff composed of 66.4 percent white and 5.4 per-cent black professors. A majority of these black professors can be found in the African and African Diaspora Studies Departments, which is great for the black students who study AFR, but what about the rest of us? Who believes in and encourages the black engineers, the black mathematicians or the black scientists?

Ethnic representation, or lack thereof, in college faculties matters for students. It af-fected me when, growing up, the only school faculty I saw who looked like me were either coaches or custodians. It affected me when I had my first black professor my freshman year of college and suddenly felt a connec-tion to a classroom culture I didn’t know ex-isted before — a culture that looked a whole lot like mine.

This connection is particularly important for minorities who are first generation col-

lege students. When minority students sits in a classroom led by someone who looks like them, the limitations that were once placed on them are slowly lifted. They’re no longer confined to a football field or a garbage can. Whether it’s a master’s or a Ph.D., for the first time they have proof that it’s achievable.

This isn’t merely a black and white issue. Asians make up 23 percent of our student body, yet only 5.5 percent of professors are Asian here. Latinos are also underrepre-sented in multiple departments. Unfortu-nately, UT largely consists of white profes-sors trying to connect with an increasingly diverse student body. A more representa-tive faculty would create better relation-ships between professors and students.

Having a diverse teaching staff doesn’t solely benefit minority students. Research indicates that diverse environments help foster various kinds of creativity for all students. We mature as people and as stu-

dents as we begin to understand that the same world can be experienced in a thou-sand different ways. With a staff as uni-formly white as ours, we can only grow so much.

Student bodies are temporary, but a faculty is much more stable. Our leaders and educators on campus are the long-standing representatives of who we are as a University.

Yet, these leaders look nothing like me. They look nothing like the interna-tional student who sacrificed so much to be here. They look nothing like the La-tino student whose immigrant parents gave up everything in hopes that they could live a better life. But they should. Every student in every major deserves to be represented and, more importantly, deserves to be supported.

Brookins is a junior psychology major from McKinney.

Pop music sounds fake, and it should stay that way. All the Mileys and Britneys didn’t spontaneously apparate into the world. They were created in the same stu-dio their songs were produced in. They are the test tube musicians necessary to perform those catchy hooks that get stuck in your head. Most importantly, they are the face of a product, and you, the listen-er, are the consumer.

The music industry is a business, and a business’s primary concern is making money. If a company already has a suc-cessful product, why change the formula? Coca-Cola tried that with New Coke to compete with Pepsi and unintentionally wrote a cautionary tale about not chang-ing the merchandise if it ain’t broke.

Just like Coke, pop music follows this same mantra and sticks with a style that listeners are familiar with. Of course, to make sure the music is especially standardized, a large chunk of the top 20 hits of the past two decades have been created by a small group of Swedish producers. But what is familiar is comforting, and that’s what turns a profit.

Expecting pop music to be extensively artistic or original is like asking for my bottle of Coke to have the same nutritional content as kale. That’s not what it’s made for. While it’s true that most pop uses a third grader’s vocabulary, that doesn’t mean that it’s easy to craft the perfect summer hit. Rebecca Black’s 2011 single, “Fri-day,” is proof that songwriting can go comically wrong. Some people can’t get over the lack of authenticity in pop music, but crafting it re-quires some serious brainpower.

None of this means that music is dead. It’s quite the contrary. There are plenty of channels to access quality music, such as SoundCloud, where

struggling artists post their work to the public. The downside of this influx of artistic music is that extra work is required to discover it. With pop music, it’s as easy as turning on your radio or looking at the Billboard charts.

From a note to a chord and a catchy hook, every carpool karaoke and solo shower session begins with a song. More than anything, pop music is so appealing because it offers an expe-rience, and that’s what the consumer pays for. If you’re looking for something deep in pop, you’re looking in the wrong place. But pop is still worth putting your hands up in the air for.

Fernandez is a Spanish and rhetoric and writing junior from Allen.

From proverbs such as “you are what you eat” to movements such as veganism, the conscious consumption of food is a value woven through-out our modern culture. But another commodity as ubiquitous as food suffers from a startling lack of consumer scrutiny: pop music.

Yes, we have the Billboard 100 and album reviews, and anyone can post their musings about Taylor Swift’s latest hit to social media. But this is all discussion of taste, not substance. If we’ve learned anything from the candy binges and stomach aches of childhood, we

know not everything that delights our senses is healthy.Modern pop production is like a modern

slaughterhouse — designed for efficiency and profit, machines and software transform even the most emaciated performance into a ho-mogenized, chart-topping product.

For most pop musicians, the entire songwrit-ing process is managed with ruthless precision. After producers lure artists into attractive con-tracts, they commandeer creative direction down to individual notes and words.

The average pop song has almost as many writers as a Big Mac has preservatives. Covert networks of producers, including Lukasz “Dr. Luke” Gottwald and his mentor, Max Martin, have collectively written and produced hundreds of Grammy winners and top-40 hits. Katy Perry, Taylor Swift, Miley Cyrus, Nicki Minaj, Britney Spears, Pitbull and many others are oftentimes just the mouthpieces of these middle-aged white men and their squadrons of beat producers, lyri-cists and melody writers capable of manufacturing up to 60 songs per week. In such a high-stakes environ-ment, more than the quality of the music can suffer.

And still we listen. We like pop music for the same reason we like our bacon in evenly cut strips and our hamburgers in symmetric pat-ties: consistency. The perverse form of qual-ity control Dr. Luke and Co. employ keeps us coming back for more but sterilizes the music.

The formula for a hit song has become so profitable that the industry follows it mechani-cally. Even artists are noticing the similarities between songs. Kelly Clarkson voiced concern that her song “Already Gone” sounded like a copy of Beyoncé’s “Halo.” The same man, Ryan Tedder, produced both, and both were hits.

Pop music, like Spam and hot dogs, is great as an occasional treat, but great music cannot be manufac-tured. Great music, like the most nutritious food, is created without the industry additives and is some-times an acquired taste. Don’t be fooled by the next pop hit just off the conveyor belt — music is not meat!

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diophile, Ball has collected 6,000 CDs, which he listens to on a stereo system he said costs more than his car.

“I used to dream, when I was younger, about pre-siding over the care of a big chorale of fine pianos and working with major artists,” Ball said. “I’ve kind of achieved that.”

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Loveless – My Bloody Val-entine

After the band’s first release Isn’t Anything, My Bloody Valentine’s status as a cult fa-vorite was enough to establish themselves in the scene, but it wasn’t until their next album, Loveless, that the band’s legacy was cemented as a pioneering rock group.

Loveless took two years to create, nearly bankrupting the band’s label in the process. But what emerged, however, was worth their efforts — a mas-terpiece of rock that became the defining album for shoe-gaze.

Building off the sound es-tablished in Isn’t Anything, My Bloody Valentine ramped up the enchanting melodies and biting vocals, walking the listener through 11 separate moments in a vague story of love.

Although the group was not

able to follow Loveless properly because of frontman Kevin Shields’ writer’s block and ap-parent meltdown, it would have been nearly impossible to complete another album as far-reaching as Loveless. For-tunately for fans, the group re-united in 2007, hitting the re-set switch and releasing a new self-titled record m b v.

Tracks to listen to: “Only Shallow,” “When You Sleep,” “Sometimes”

Homogenic – BjörkAfter her second and third

albums, Debut and Post, re-spectively, found mainstream success, Björk was primed to become art pop’s next huge star. However, with Homo-genic, she turned to electronic beats and string instruments to drive her creative impulses, a choice that furthered her reputation as one of the bright-est minds in modern music.

Tearing down her image as an Icelandic pop singer, Björk shed her precious

appearance for a more bru-tal and deep one. Sonically, this album ventures into the abstract, combining stutter-ing and clanky electronic production with live, and of-ten dark, string instruments. Her sound alternates between light and dark to convey raw emotion.

Although Björk moved on from this sound and certainly isn’t defined by this release, Homogenic is still her most complete and impressive ef-fort, forcing listeners to con-sider it as one of the best elec-tronic albums of its era.

Tracks to listen to: “Hunter,” “Jöga,” “Bachelorette”

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before breaking out into an anthemic final chorus, are the last truly engag-ing tracks before the al-bum hits a wall, becoming formulaic and losing the momentum it built in its first half.

None of the album’s later songs are bad — most are actually beautifully writ-ten — but they all draw from the same somber sonic palette. When played back to back, they become repetitive, slowly lulling the listener to sleep. By the time “Sick In The Head”’s whisper-sung melody rolls around, it’s clear the band is more focused on avoiding the sophomore slump than developing new ideas or recaptur-ing the playful energy of their debut’s “Flapper Girl” or the cheeky fun of “Classy Girls.”

One exception is the pained “My Eyes,” dur-ing which Schultz sings with all the scorn of a man betrayed. Lines such as, “They fed you the lines (they fed you to lions) / You always confuse your servants for friends / But you couldn’t see how it ends / It’s all or noth-ing to you,” are sung over

an enchanting piano ar-rangement, giving the album a bittersweet end. The instrumental track “Patience” picks up seam-lessly where “My Eyes” leaves off, playing out with a piano track that would be well suited for a music box.

After taking four years to craft Cleopatra, the Grammy-nominated band leaves the listener with a cohesive, if underwhelm-ing album. Though their approach may be more cal-culated than most Ameri-cana outfits, the record carries enough highlights, such as “Ophelia” and “Angela,” to make it worth a listen. Like any journey, the album also has its lows, but by Cleopatra’s end, it’s clear we can still expect great things from The Lumineers.

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After taking four years to craft Cleopatra, the Grammy-nominated band leaves the listener with a cohe-sive, if underwhelming album.

end of the book he realizes it’s meaningless.”

Directly below the crown is the number 22, his lucky number, in roman nu-merals. Though the two

aren’t related, they both symbolize positivity.

Every time I’ve got-ten a job or gotten into a school I wanted, it was on the 22nd; it’s my lucky number,” Lumus said. “I liked the crown with the aesthetic of the roman numerals.”

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SIDELINEBASEBALL COLUMN

Longhorns take success to HoustonBy Michael Shapiro

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Gabriel Lopez | Daily Texan StaffStrong performances at the plate have vaulted junior second baseman Zane Gurwitz from the nine-hole to the fifth spot in the Texas lineup. Gurwitz’s hot streak will be challenged next Tuesday against a strong Houston team.

Despite dropping the finale of a three-game set with Kan-sas State on Sunday, the Long-horns (14–18, 5–4 Big 12) were still upbeat as they made their way back to Austin. Texas took the series after winning the first two matchups on Friday and Saturday, playing more like a team with conference title aspi-rations than one near the cellar of the Big 12.

But taking two of three from the Wildcats was far from a monumental task. Kansas State came into the series winless in the conference, having lost 11 of the last 13 games they played. But this iteration of Texas baseball isn’t looking to rip off win streaks; it’s simply looking to get back on track.

The weekend series marked the Longhorns’ third series win of the year, and since de-feating Texas State on March 1, the Longhorns have lost 15 of their last 24 games. While the trip to Kansas State wasn’t a referendum on Texas’ ability to compete for a Big 12 title, it was certainly a step in the right direction.

Following the successful weekend away from Austin, the Longhorns will take to the road again on Tuesday, facing off against Houston at Constel-lation Field in Sugar Land. But despite the proximity to Hous-ton, the Longhorns will be the home team.

The Cougars look to pro-vide a more difficult battle than Kansas State. Houston currently sits at 19–12 on the year, with wins over then-No. 23 Alabama and then-No. 19 East Carolina.

Fueling Houston this season is freshman catcher Joe Davis. Davis, who hails from Bowie High School in Austin, has been one of the

premier freshman in the country in 2016, bashing seven home runs in addi-tion to 32 RBIs. His prow-ess at the plate earned him American Conference Player of the Week on April 10 in addition to a spot on the 2016 College Classic All- Tournament Team.

But Davis’ bat alone hasn’t been enough to power

Houston’s offense in the past four games. The Cougars have averaged just 1.5 runs per game in that span, good news for a Texas pitching staff that has struggled in its past two Tuesday night contests. The Longhorns used seven pitch-ers in their 5-0 loss to Texas A&M Corpus Christi on April 5, with no pitcher going lon-ger than two and one third

innings. They’ll need more consistent pitching against a Cougars offense that ranks tied for third in the American conference in home runs.

Texas couldn’t complete the sweep against Kansas State but moved forward in its climb back to a winning record. That climb will continue on Tues-day as the Longhorns look to win a matchup with Houston.

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SOFTBALL COLUMN

By Daniel Clay@dclay567

The Red River Rivalry once again commences this weekend, but no, we’re not talking about the an-nual football showdown in Dallas.

Texas softball makes the 372-mile trek across the state border to face Okla-homa in what recently be-come a one-sided affair. The Sooners have won 12 out of the last 16 meetings between the two teams, including five series in a row.

But if this Longhorn team has its eyes set on getting past the regional round, tak-ing the series in Norman for the first time since 2006 is a must.

Make no mistake, the Longhorns are having an-other solid year. With the se-ries win over Texas Tech this weekend, Texas improved its overall record to 27–10 and got out of the cellar of the Big 12. And success in the nonconference portion of the schedule has set the

team up to be good enough to make the NCAA tour-nament for a 12th-straight year.

But that’s what this team has been since it made the Women’s College World Se-ries in 2013 — good enough, but not great. The Long-horns have always been a re-ally good team, but breaking through the barrier between good and great has been a challenge.

This team has a chance to do that. Junior pitcher Ti-arra Davis has put the team on her back as the ace of the pitching staff. She leads the conference with a 1.63 ERA and is third with 130 strike-outs. And the hitting has shown its upside with senior centerfielder Lindsey Ste-phens leading the team with a .407 batting average and 29 RBIs and newcomers Celina Felix and Reagan Hathaway each with over 20 RBIs this season.

But now it’s about putting it all together. If Texas is go-ing to become a great team, it needs fewer games like

Friday night, when struggles at the plate doomed a solid pitching effort, and more games like Sunday, when the offense broke out for eight runs while Davis held Texas Tech to just one earned run.

Of course, this weekend

won’t make or break Texas’ chances of getting into the postseason. The Longhorns played a strong nonconfer-ence schedule and should win the rest of their con-ference games to get into the tournament.

But if the goal is to go from good to great, and if the goal is to get into the Super Regional round and make a run at their first Women’s College World Series, then winning this weekend’s se-ries is a must.

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Six Longhorns set to compete in the NBA playoffs

Six former Longhorns are among the 240 players participating in the NBA Playoffs hoping to hoist the Larry O’Brien Trophy this June.

The playoffs commence on Saturday, April 16. Of the six Longhorns partici-pating in the tournament, five are pursuing their first championship, while To-ronto Raptors point guard Cory Joseph is aiming for his second.

Since 1995, every single champion has been a top-three seed in their respec-tive conference. Four Long-horns belong on teams that fit this criteria.

Kevin Durant continues to hunt for his first ring with the Oklahoma City Thun-der. Durant last reached the NBA Finals in 2012, but his Thunder were ousted by the Miami Heat in five games. This year, Oklahoma City is positioned at the No. 3 seed in the West and will likely have to upset the two juggernauts of the confer-ence — Golden State and San Antonio.

LaMarcus Aldridge led the San Antonio Spurs to a franchise-best 65 wins and West’s No. 2 seed. He has proven to shine in the play-off spotlight before joining the Spurs. Aldridge aver-aged 29.8 points and 11.2 rebounds per game when his Trail Blazers blazed through the first round in 2014. With a different team, Aldridge has adapt-ed to playing for the five- time champions.

Two Longhorns, Tristan Thompson and Cory Jo-seph, are crucial role play-ers on the top two seeds in the East. On the No. 1 seed Cavaliers, Thompson looks to use his 2015 NBA Finals experience (10 points, 13 re-bounds per game) to propel them to a potential matchup with Joseph’s Toronto squad and an eventual second straight title appearance. Joseph was instrumental in Toronto’s franchise-best 54-win season.

Avery Bradley and Myles Turner are the two other Longhorns competing in the 2016 playoffs. Bradley’s Celtics are currently No. 4 and Turner’s Pacers No. 7 in the East. Bradley has had three seasons of prior playoff experience, while Turner, the rookie, is new to the event.

—Steve Helwick

The Texas Tech Red Raid-ers torrid streak continued last weekend against then-No. 16 Oklahoma State.

The Red Raiders traveled to Stillwater having just split a two-game midweek road se-ries against then-No. 5 Flori-da State and kept the momen-tum going with a three-game sweep of the Big 12 leaders, punctuated by a 15-5 run rule shortened drubbing on Sunday.

Sophomore infielder Mi-chael Davis led the Texas Tech charge on Sunday with a seven RBI performance in-cluding a three-run double in the third inning. The second baseman hit .400 and tal-lied 11 RBI over the week en route to Big 12 Player of the Week honors.

The sweep gives Texas Tech a 10-game winning streak in conference play and 13 wins in the last 15 games.

Horton powers Horned Frog staff

TCU freshman pitcher Dalton Horton twirled a gem in just his second career start.

The southpaw allowed just five hits and two walks over a career-high seven innings of work during TCU’s 8-0 vic-tory at Kansas on Saturday. The freshman also extended his scoreless innings streak to 9.1 frames and pitched well enough to earn Pitcher of the Week honors.

The Horned Frogs ended up taking two out of three games against the Jayhawks to hold on to second place in the conference with a 6–3 re-cord, one game ahead of third place Texas.

Gray wins Newcomer of the Week

West Virginia outfielder Kyle Gray only played two games over the weekend but made the most of his limited opportunities.

The freshman tallied five hits along with a pair of RBIs and hit .625 in the three-game se-ries that saw the Mountaineers drop two out of three against visiting Furman University. Gray’s strong performance was enough to earn the fresh-man conference Newcomer of the Week.

Gray is currently second on the team with a .302 batting av-erage heading into a key home matchup Tuesday against the rival Pitt Panthers.

Haley wins national honorsSooner senior leftfielder

Hunter Haley’s fantastic week prompted Collegiate Baseball

News to name the senior Lou-isville Slugger National Player of the Week.

In four games, Haley hit at a .429 clip and slugged 1.071 thanks to three home runs. Haley capped off his week with a two-homer performance

in the Sooners’ 7–6 series winning victory over Baylor on Sunday.

Haley’s strong week helped propel the Sooners up to a 4–5-conference record, putting them in a three-way tie for fifth place in the conference.

Mike McGraw | Daily Texan StaffJunior lefty Tiarra Davis’ 130 strikeouts and team-leading 1.63 ERA have anchored the Long-horn staff throughout the 2016 season.

Joshua Guerra | Daily Texan StaffTexas Tech infielder Michael Davis has been a key part of the Red Raiders’ recent torrid streak through the Big 12.

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When Charles Ball re-flects on the hundreds of pianos he’s come across in the past 50 years, he sees a nine-foot Steinway UT ac-quired in 1938. He sees the fixer-upper his friend’s grand-mother played until the day she died. He sees the dents from their teething son in its wooden frame.

As the Butler School of Mu-sic’s head piano technician, Ball tunes, voices and rebuilds pianos for practices and per-formances. With 220 pianos on campus, Ball said he feels “like a bee gathering pollen,” migrating around campus to fix each one. Ball began tuning pianos as a teenager, tinker-ing with their parts in his east Tennessee home.

“I wouldn’t say I’m the most mechanically minded person in the world,” Ball said. “I never fixed my own car or was one to do carpentry jobs. But I was fascinated with

the way [pianos] worked.”After putting himself

through college by tuning pianos, Ball started pursuing a master’s degree in compara-tive religion at Vanderbilt in

1973. But because seminary students received exemption from the draft, he had dif-ficulty finding a job in the oversaturated field. Instead, he returned to piano tuning,

moved to Austin in 1980 and began his UT career.

For almost 30 years, Ball also taught a music elec-tive course and recently, he performed with the Choral

Arts Society. Ball said his performance anxiety and lack of talent prevented him from playing piano professionally. Instead, he enjoys sharing his per-

formance with “an empty house” and listening to other musicians.

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Editor’s note: In 300 words or fewer, this

series spotlights people in our community whose

stories typically go untold.

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Rachel Zein | Daily Texan StaffCharles Ball is the Butler School of Music’s head piano technician. Every day, he is tasked with the job of tuning and fixing UT’s 220 pianos, which are spread across campus.

Editor’s note: Tat-Tuesday is a weekly series that features students around campus and their tattoos.

On his right arm, English Senior Ethan Lumus has a tattoo of the crown from Maurice Sendak’s “Where

the Wild Things Are.” “For me, the crown tattoo

is about giving up control; once I did that for myself a lot of good things started happening,” Lumus said. “In Where The Wild Things

Are, the protagonist tries to control all of these wild things, but it doesn’t work. He wears the crown as a symbol of control, but at the

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ALBUM REVIEW | ‘CLEOPATRA’

The Lumineers take listeners on a journey with ‘Cleopatra’

On The Lumineers’ new album, Cleopatra, singer Wesley Schultz begins by telling his lover to “pack yourself a toothbrush, dear,” immediately setting the tone for the tracks that follow. The record is a jour-ney, and this song is just the beginning.

With warm vocals and building instrumentation, the track “Sleep On The Floor” sets high expecta-tions for that trip, but as the album progresses, the band misses a turn and gets lost trying to match the success of their self-titled 2012 debut instead of push-ing themselves artistically.

The second song on the album, “Ophelia,” is its most energetic moment. The single is built around a fluttering piano riff with a chorus in the same vein as their singalong hit “Ho Hey,” making it a safe pick for the trio’s existing fan base.

“Ophelia” is one of three songs named after a wom-an. The others, “Angela” and “Cleopatra,” complete a trio of the best songs on the album. The album’s namesake tune follows a first-person narrative,

with Schultz singing from the perspective of an ac-tress — not the historical Cleopatra — ready for love after a series of romantic letdowns. His masculine voice delivering a woman’s narrative makes the story all the more riveting, and it easily becomes one of the record’s standouts.

A warm and delicate ballad, “Angela” is one of the most captivating mo-ments on Cleopatra. The soaring chorus plays well against the understated guitar strumming, and the song picks up as more in-struments enter near the halfway point, when the

simplicity gives way to a rowdier composition.

“Angela” and “Gun Song,” which sees Schultz croon-ing over a steady snare

Courtesy of Big Hassle Media | Daily Texan StaffOn Cleopatra, The Lumineers show newfound maturity, proving they aren’t just a one-album wonder.

By Megan Hix@meganhix95

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