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As state lawmakers are threatening to decrease funding for the Hazlewood tuition exemption program, the state judiciary has declared restriction of the program unconstitutional. The Hazlewood tuition exemption benefits Texan veterans and their dependents to increase college affordability. Currently, the program states veterans who served 181 days in any branch of the
military and were honorably discharged are allowed to receive 150 hours of free tuition to an in-state Texas college for themselves or a child. In January, a judge ruled it unconstitutional to restrict the program to include only veterans who enlisted or registered as Texas residents. The judge said the program must expand to include current Texas residents who previously enlisted in any state. Soon after the judge’s ruling, the state appealed the decision. The decision of that lawsuit
has not yet been announced so still only Texan veterans can use the program. At the same time as the judiciary moved to deny the restriction, the legislature continues to make attempts to reduce the program because of financial concerns. With the state’s current budget, there is no plan to fund the exemption as it stands. Paul Theobald, Defense and Veteran Affairs Committee clerk, said committees will
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In order to promote sustainability on campus, University Health Services composts 400 pounds of solid waste each month from its healthcare facilities. The clinic’s composting system, which was piloted in the spring but began officially this fall, diverts 15 pounds of solid waste each day. Composted materials include alcohol pads, gauze, sanitary wipes, wooden tongue depressors, wooden Q-tips, paper towels and exam table paper. “University Health Services is just one of over 105 sustainability programs on campus,” Karen Blaney, program coordinator in the Office of Sustainability, said. “College campuses are one of the best places to come up with solutions to global issues since we are educating citizens at the same time as innovating through research.” Prior to the composting initiative, the clinical areas of University Health Services had no recycling or composting bins. The new composting initiative has diverted almost all of the clinic’s waste from the trash bins into the recycling and composting bins, according to Kathy Mosteller, director of nursing services. “Eventually, we want composting to become a regular part of routine trash pickups, instead of having our students and faculty responsible for transporting the compost each day,” Mosteller said. “The students and faculty here at the clinics are excited about the initiative, and have even been coming up with additional ways to reduce our carbon footprint.” Student volunteers such as
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UT decreases water use with increased efficiency
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Drought, flood, negotiate, repeat — it’s the Texas water cycle. Water policy in Texas is in flux as stakeholders wrestle with competing priorities of municipal and agricultural uses. As growing cities increase their water use, UT serves as a model of efficient expansion by using innovative methods to reduce use and switch to reclaimed sources, according to UT officials. “If cities were to watch us and use us as an example, they could implement some of the stuff we’re doing here, and, as they grow, maybe they can actually save water,” UT irrigation coordinator Markus Hogue said.
Despite recent rainfall, sources of water have not recovered. On Nov. 4 the state approved changes to the Lower Colorado River Authority’s Water Management Plan for Central Texas that provides more water to cities during drought by reducing supply to downstream agricultural customers. While some farmers and environmentalists are concerned with the plan, the authority is working to accommodate large projected increases in municipal water demand under the threat of drought. UT is one player in a complex issue. The authority works to develop policy with the state, the City of Austin
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Female representation and involvement in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields can be improved by reducing stereotypes held by students and faculty in all levels of education, according to a panel featuring women in STEM during a discussion at the Avaya Auditorium on Wednesday. Stereotyping occupations begins at the age of three because children recognize genders are not equally distributed among jobs, panelist Rebecca Bigler, psychology and women’s and gender studies professor, said. “Girls begin to identify more with female dominated careers because young children make rigid classifications,” Bigler said. “As kids get
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to the age of 11 and 12, boys continue to endorse occupation stereotypes compared to girls. If girls believe they can do anything but boys don’t, they will face a wall.” According to panelist Catherine Riegle-Crumb, curriculum and instruction
in STEM education professor, young women do not have to believe in these stereotypes to be hurt by them. “If people around you think that you are not capable, it has a negative impact on your sense of belonging,” Riegle-Crumb said.
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Studies show putting down cell phones improves grades. PAGE 8
Malcom X Lounge vandalism investigated by UTPD. PAGE 3
Forum: A life-changing conversation. PAGE 4
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UT alumnus makes film about late Austin musician. PAGE 8
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Mathematics junior Victoria Dominguez said she has not experienced blatant stereotyping but has experienced micro-aggressions such as peers pointing out that she is a minority woman in the
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The empowerment of indigenous people includes teaching how colonization contributes to the way North American society looks today, First Nations Canadian activist Glenda Abbott said at an event Wednesday evening. Abbott talked about indigenous rights at a discussion that was part of a two-day event put on by the Native American and Indigenous Collective to dispel myths about Thanksgiving, according to Serena Sonnenberg, the organization’s finance co-director and architecture senior. “The purpose, in context of the Thanksgiving holiday, is to bring attention to Native American communities, who are central to the Thanksgiving story, but who are misrepresented,” Sonnenberg said. According to Abbott, 25 percent of indigenous Canadian children grow up in poverty compared to 10 percent of Canadian children overall, and indigenous communities struggle with health problems
such as diabetes and tuberculosis at higher rates. “There was a long time in my life where I didn’t understand how, as an indigenous person, how I had been impacted by colonialism,” Abbott said. According to Abbott, indigenous peoples’ contact with Europeans had a revolutionary impact. Initially, they traded pieces of old clothing for tools, but, as Europeans made their way farther inland and as missionaries began to impose belief systems, the way of life for indigenous peoples was disrupted. For example, Abbott said that under the new colonial system, women were not allowed to own property, whereas in some traditional communities, women had previously owned most of the property. Abbott said problems indigenous people face today, such as increased rates of certain illnesses and broken families, are a result of internalized colonization, and recognizing this is part of the decolonization process. “If you have been told for 200 years — that you are savage, that you are evil, that your
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Serena Sonnenberg, architecture senior and Native American and indigenous Collective finance co-director, hosted a panel discussion on indigenous rights.
parents are evil — the impact of that across generations is what we call internalized colonization, where you begin to internalize what the colonizers have told you,” Abbott said. While indigenous communities in both Canada and the United States face issues related
to colonization, Abbott said Native Americans in the United States are more invisible. Latin American Studies Institute graduate coordinator Perla Miranda said she came to the event because she thought the topic was especially relevant with Thanksgiving coming up.
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“I appreciated how she differentiated the decolonization process because it’s twofold,” Miranda said. “It’s not just unplugging from Western institutions, it’s reclaiming knowledge and history that colonization has negatively affected.”
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WATER continues from page 1 is a customer of the authority, and UT purchases water from the city. Jim Walker, director of the UT Office of Sustainability, said the University’s water use has been decreasing even though municipal use is growing. “This is the challenge on the large scale — as the population grows, how do you still consume resources wisely?” Walker said. UT has the means to invest in efficiency that many other customers lack. The trend of decreasing water usage on campus is driven by innovation in a few key areas. According to Hogue, campus irrigation has been improved with networks of sensors, smarter nozzles and defenses against squirrels,
This is the challenge on the large scale — as the population grows, how do you still consume resources wisely? —Jim Walker, Director of the Office of Sustainability
which have a habit of chewing through pipes. Hogue also works with the city and the authority to supply data that helps define best practices. “We want to be considered a living laboratory,” Hogue said. About half of UT’s water use goes to utilities. Clay Looney, operations manager for the University’s power plant and chilling stations, said more efficient power generation, a refined pipe network
and chilling stations that use reclaimed water have helped reduce use. “We’re doing the right thing by using water from the waste treatment plant instead of fresh water, which could be used for a higher type of usage,” Looney said. Hogue and Looney both said the impetus for improving campus systems was drought. “It ultimately drives the conservation wheel,” Looney said. “It creates incentive to do it better.”
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“I’m excited [about the possibility of the program’s expansion],” O’Hanlon said. “Education is expensive and my sister and I both want to go to graduate school. Any extra help would be useful.” Theobald said it is unlikely for there to be any change before the 2017 session, but denial of the appeal of the judge’s ruling may cause immediate change. “The results of that case, if decided before the next legislative session, may possibly warrant some kind of emergency policy change before there is an opportunity for a legislative fix,” Theobald said. Journalism senior Melyssa Fairfield, an exemption recipient, said as a senior she will not likely be affected by the cuts. “I am very proud of my stepdad’s service in the Navy, and I feel he definitely earned the exemption because of his dedication to serving our country,” Fairfield said. “Having the Hazlewood exemption makes me feel extremely less stressed about college. If it was cut or made smaller before this year, I would have to take more loans to cover the cost of tuition which would make school significantly more stressful for me.”
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propose bills in the 2017 legislative session. “The key will be to discover the best solutions which uphold Texas’ promise to Veterans and their families while ensuring that the Hazlewood Act is financially solvent,” Theobald said in an email. In this current legislative session, House Speaker Joe Straus has given the Committee of Higher Education and the Committee of Defense and Veteran Affairs an interim charge to find new solutions to make the program viable. The legislature is grappling with the hefty price tag of the program, which has ballooned to millions more than budgeted. The value of awards given in the exemption’s first year was $24.7 million. That number has increased to a current $169.1 million and is projected to reach $379.1 million if the law remains unchanged. This prediction does not account for an expansion to veterans from all states. Communication studies freshman Julia O’Hanlon said she is currently excluded from the program because her veteran father enlisted in Pennsylvania.
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Students participated in guided meditation, snacked on exotic fruits and learned about being healthy from different organizations Wednesday at the International Wellness Fest. The International Office created the event to expose students to other cultures and promote mental and physical wellbeing. The event included performances by the Bliss Meditation Club, the Austin Chinese Dance Company, Longhorn Salsa and the UT Tango Club. The Food Studies Project provided samples of pomegranate, starfruit and tamarind, among other fruits native to foreign countries. Students earned stickers from different tables in order to get food, which was catered by Halal Bros and Clay Pit. Business freshman Myriam Jimenez said the event was a nice break from studying and said she learned about a lot of fitness opportunities. “There’s a lot of free stuff to do,” Jimenez said. “I thought most of this would cost money, but there’s free yoga classes and free salsa dancing.” Sports management junior Matthew Schonland said his organization, Partnerships to Advance Language Study and Cultural Exchange Program, or PALS, matches
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The Malcolm X Lounge’s administration is working with UTPD and the Campus Climate Response Team after it was vandalized in September, according to lounge director David McDonald Jr. “We have been having constant communication [with CCRT] since then about the lounge, about its importance, sharing what students would like to see in the space and how we could communicate through campus the importance of the space,” McDonald said. “We have also been working closely with UTPD about this incident specifically but also about how UTPD can be more inclusive or can work on best practices for working with minority students on campus with regards to incidents like this.” According to witness Johnesha Daniels, a mathematics and African-American studies senior, the Malcolm X Lounge was trashed during the early morning of Sept. 23. Daniels said she returned to the space and found part of the lounge covered with cookies and beads, a hot glue gun plugged into an outlet and a heated clothes iron in the microwave. UTPD declined to comment on the incident — an act of criminal mischief according to its report — because it is still an open investigation. McDonald said he hopes new security measures and awareness of the lounge will prevent future incidents. “I am very hopeful … that we will be able to prevent future incidents like this to happen again because we will have system in place to be able to identify who did it,” McDonald said. —Zainab Calcuttawala
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American students with international students. “It’s important to be open to the notion of learning about new cultures,” Schonland said. “Sometimes people are kind of closed off and don’t want to put themselves out there. We try to promote as worldly a view as possible.”
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continues from page 1 Lovesimrjit Sandhu, biology senior and sustainability coordinator for University Health Services, takes the composted materials to the Division of Housing and Food Services each night where it is then transferred to a composting site. “I love it when the staff comes to me with ideas about improving composting because this shows they really care,” Sandhu said. “It feels really good to know I’m working to reduce our negative impacts on the environment.” University Health Servic-
The International Office held two raffles for baseball caps and gift cards. At the Counseling and Mental Health Center booth, students could write self-care tips and anti-stress techniques on sticky notes and take one in exchange. Students of the World recorded students saying one thing they es is one site on campus that has initiated composting as part of the Green Fee which was enacted on campus in 2010. While the Green Fee is currently in the last year of its five-year cycle, University Health Services said this will not affect its current composting system. “Many of the students and staff here have even begun practicing sustainability in their own homes as a result of our initiatives,” Mosteller said. “The idea of this composting is to take steps now that will allow us to change our habits and help Austin, as a community, achieve sustainability.”
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If [girls] believe they can learn and grow, they are less likely to be influenced by stereotype[s]. —Tricia Berry, Director of the Women in Engineering Program
one they are in the wrong field, according to panelist Jennifer Glass. “My high school physics class had three girls and thirty men,” Glass, a sociology professor, said. “The professor asked a question and was waiting for an answer, so I raised my hand and answered the question correctly because I was tired of waiting. The professor said, ‘Boys, are you going to let a woman beat you?’ and from then on I shied away from the hard sciences.”
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loved about themselves for one of their documentary projects. Other groups with informational tables included University Health Services, the Longhorn Wellness Club, UT Art of Living and Recreational Sports. Biomedical engineering sophomore Mackenzie Clayton, representing Texas State
Parks Club, said she was hoping to encourage more students to join. “We thought if people are interested in health and wellness, they might be interested in our club,” Clayton said. “We go visit different state parks every month, get outside, exercise and breathe fresh air.”
Clayton said there are many benefits to enjoying nature, such as getting a healthy dose of vitamin D and stress relief. “I hope [students] leave with more motivation to go outside, even without our club,” Clayton said. “It’s good to get away from it all, every now and then.”
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This week, the Daily Texan forum will discuss mental health and suicide prevention efforts on the University of Texas campus. This important topic — coupled with our discussion of sexual assault prevention just a few weeks ago — will hopefully shed some light on the ongoing University efforts to improve systemic issues of depression, suicidal thoughts and other mental illnesses. A 2010 survey of College Counseling Directors found that 44 percent of those seeking mental healthcare assistance at counseling centers nationwide had severe psychological problems — a startling uptick from the 16 percent reported in 2000. Perhaps this is due to the lowering of stigma — as colleges and the American population recognize and combat the stigma surrounding
mental health issues, more people are incentivized to seek treatment. Despite some successes, the numbers are startling. Students, now more than ever before, are under tremendous amounts of stress. Many hold part-time jobs in addition to heavy course loads. The introduction of the Internet and social media have made managing a social circle its own type of job, often demanding and emotionally tasking. It is no wonder that students often have difficulty coping with those issues. Thankfully, there are a dedicated team of professionals employed by the University to help ameliorate these problems. The Counseling and Mental Health Center have resources that aid University students undergoing men-
tal health crises and work to lower the incidence of suicide and improve outcomes for students on campus. Today, we will hear from some of the people who provide these services, Marian Trattner, the suicide prevention and outreach coordinator for CMHC, and Jackson Clifford and Katie McDermott, both of whom are students involved in suicide prevention on campus. The discussion will take place, as always, in the Texas Union Sinclair Suite, at 11 a.m. The talk will center on resources and procedures currently in place to limit the incidence of suicide and improve mental health services and outcomes. Fountain is a government senior from Pelham, New York.
A life-saving conversation
By Marian E. Trattner Daily Texan Columnist
In my work as coordinator for the Be That One (BT1) Suicide Prevention Program, I’ve heard countless stories from students about how a suicide or suicide attempt of a loved one has directly impacted their life. I’ve also heard from students who have had thoughts of or attempted suicide in the past and now want to get involved with this issue on campus. Created in 2008 by the Counseling and Mental Health Center, BT1 has addressed suicide prevention on our campus in a comprehensive manner. We are raising awareness about the issue of college student suicide, and empowering faculty, staff and students to take an active role in preventing suicide. But we can’t do this important life-saving work alone. We need your help. I have hope that if all faculty, staff and students work together, we can prevent suicide. Of students who experience thoughts of suicide, two-thirds of them first tell a friend, partner or family member about their thoughts. This is why it is so important for all students to know how to help a friend. Here are three ways to take action on campus to prevent suicide: 1. Learn to recognize when your friend is having thoughts of suicide. Students who are experiencing mental health distress or thoughts of suicide often communicate through behaviors known as warning signs. BT1 offers one-hour free interactive workshops for all students, faculty and staff about how to talk with and support students who
We need your help. I have hope that if all faculty, staff and students work together, we can prevent suicide. are experiencing mental health distress and/or thoughts of suicide. To find out more and book a workshop, go to cmhc.utexas.edu/bethatone. 2. Choose to respond to a friend in need and connect them to resources. There can be many barriers to talking about suicide with your friend. To help you overcome them, think about motivations for intervening. If you were struggling, would you want someone to say something? If this was your sibling, partner or another loved one, would you want someone to say something? The only way we can 100 percent know if a student is experiencing thoughts of suicide is to ask them directly about it. You can say something like, “Are you having thoughts of ending your life?” Please note that talking about suicide will not put the idea in a student’s head. If the student says yes, it’s important to validate their feelings. You can say something like “This must be really hard for you. I hear you’re in a lot of pain. I’m impressed you’ve done this well, considering how you’re feeling.” It is important to listen without judgment. Thank the student for feeling safe to disclose their thoughts with you. The next step to helping the student is to
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connect them to supportive resources that can help, like CMHC. You can say something like, “I may not be able to understand exactly how you feel, but I want to help. Would you be open to talking with someone about this?” Continue to be there for your friend. If you continue to be concerned for your friend’s safety, contact the Behavior Concerns Advice Line at (512) 232-5050. 3. If you’re struggling, reach out for help.
If you’re experiencing thoughts of suicide, reach out for help. Know you’re not alone. CMHC is here to connect you with the supportive resources you need. You can also call the free 24/7 CMHC Crisis Line at (512) 471CALL (2255). For more information about CMHC, visit www.cmhc.utexas.edu. Trattner is the suicide prevention coordinator in the Counseling and Mental Health Center.
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Student engagement, advocacy It’s OK to not be OK: Learning to reduces mental health stigma recognize warning signs saves lives By Jackson Clifford
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College is a difficult time: Many students transition to a new place or live on their own for the first time. Coupled with the stress of rigorous coursework and many students being an age in which many mental health disorders manifest, almost every college student struggles. Despite how common struggles with mental health are, almost no one seems to talk about them — and that is a problem. Mental health resources are readily available to all UT students. The UT Counseling and Mental Health Center has a wealth of knowledge on many topics, such as information about common concerns for college students, information for parents, and details on the services offered by the center. Besides individual appointments conveniently in the Student Services Building, CMHC offers free group sessions on various topics every semester, such as resilience, stress management or coping with grief — many of which are drop- in. UT also offers a 24-hour crisis hotline, which can be accessed from everywhere. These resources are augmented and improved constantly to reach as many students as possible and to make it convenient for them to access. For example, a recent bill now requires Texas universities to provide information about mental health and suicide during new student orientation in a live or digital format. Despite all students being a phone call or a click of a button away from information and resources that can and will help, many either don’t know how easy it is or choose to not use them. Having such resources is essential to promoting mental health on campus, but it is not sufficient. The stigma surrounding issues of mental health keeps many students from talking about it or from taking advantage of resources to help
College students need to be willing to talk to others and especially to listen. There shouldn’t be shame in advocating for health. them. College students, who are so willing to advocate for themselves and others in many aspects of life, don’t tend to advocate for mental health and for self-care for fear of seeming weak or that something is “wrong” with them. As a CMHC volunteer for UT’s Suicide Prevention Week, one of our biggest challenges is developing events and presenting information in a way that students will want to attend — many students will not go to an event focused on mental health due to the surrounding stigma. Many don’t see it as worth their time and try to just push through feelings such as depression or loneliness. If more students would learn about mental health and share their experiences, we would better see that it’s normal and OK to struggle. So many students have similar concerns, yet people feel like they’re alone since no one discusses it. Knowing that other people have felt the same way or have used CMHC resources will reduce the stigma surrounding mental health. To make these resources more effective, students need to be engaged in mental health — and that responsibility falls on us. College students need to be willing to talk to others and especially to listen. There shouldn’t be shame in advocating for health. Be willing to take advantage of resources that are here specifically for you, and know that you’re not alone. Dermott is a psychology senior from Austin and a CMHC volunteer for UT’s Suicide Prevention Week.
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You are not alone. You are loved. You are beautiful. I wish I’d said these things to my childhood friend before she made the decision to take her life. As you can see, the topic of suicide prevention and mental health comes across as taboo as talking about losing a friend or loved one. The stigma surrounding the conversation about suicide prevention is exactly what advocates for mental health awareness are trying to change. I initially got involved with raising awareness about this stigmatized issue at UT when I joined the Tejas Club. In 2010, a recent graduate of the University and former member of Tejas took his own life. As he was a friend to many and full of life, the tragedy was unexplainable. It was after this event that members of our organization asked the UT Counseling and Mental Health Center how we could help ensure that other students learn about ways to practice mental health and prevent suicide. As the current Tejas Club officer for suicide prevention, I’ve learned that it is completely normal for someone to be troubled, experience bouts of depression or be unhappy with their current situation in life. It is OK not to be OK. It is an upsetting reality, however, that suicide is the second leading cause of death amongst college-aged students. That is why the Counseling and Mental Health Center created the Be That One Program with a mission to raise awareness for suicide prevention. The CMHC and Be That One Program provide several resources for members of the UT community to practice self-care, including: Mental health and suicide prevention workshops Individual and group counseling In-house psychiatric services Mind/body labs to help students manage
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Everything starts with a simple conversation. Who knows, your actions may very well change the course of someone else’s life. It is easier than you could imagine for you to truly be that one. The most impactful way that we can help is to learn about how to recognize when others are dealing with depression and potentially struggling with thoughts of suicide. Two-thirds of students tell someone in their personal support network that they’re thinking of suicide before telling a counselor. This is why it is even more critical that we know how and when to help. When someone opens up regarding this issue, it is best to empathize rather than sympathize. Simply listen to someone when they want to discuss what they are experiencing. If you see a friend or loved one who looks like they are going through a particularly hard time, ask about it. Everything starts with a simple conversation. Who knows, your actions may very well change the course of someone else’s life. It is easier than you could imagine for you to truly be that one. Clifford is an accounting junior from Frisco. He is the current officer for suicide prevention in Tejas Club.
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Senior Cory Bowersox dives in the OrangeWhite meet on Sept. 25. The team competes in the Texas Diving Invitational this weekend.
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The Texas swim teams are usually front and center, but the divers assume that role this week. The Longhorn divers get their turn in the spotlight as they host the Texas Diving Invitational this weekend. The No. 6 Texas women will dive against Houston, Trinity, North Texas and Colorado State. The men’s and women’s teams both compete against TCU, Wisconsin, California, Arizona State and Miami (FL). Diving coach Mark Scoggin said invitationals prepare divers for the big-competition format they’ll see later in the
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season. Scoggin said the Invitational will also resemble the hype of the NCAA finals in the spring. “[Invitationals are] a great dress rehearsal at this time of season,” Scoggin said. “Everyone all over the country’s put in a lot of work. It gives the athletes the chance to go through three events in a three-day period, which is similar to conference, zones and NCAAs.” The No. 1 Texas men are no stranger to the postseason. Three-time All-American senior Cory Bowersox has qualified for the NCAA championships every year since he was a freshman. He’s also placed in the top five every year at the Big 12 Championships in both the 1-meter and 3-meter events.
All-American junior Mark Anderson won the platform event at the Big 12 Championships last year. Senior Meghan Houston and freshman Meghan O’Brien have anchored the Texas women’s team all season. Both divers have placed in the top three at every meet this fall in both 1-meter and 3-meter diving events. Texas women have yet to win an event this year but are still 6-1 in meets this season. The trio’s consistent top-five finishes help push the Longhorns past opponents by canceling out first-place points. Houston, O’Brien and Rauzi took second, third and fourth place, respectively, in the 3-meter event against A&M on Nov. 6. The points matched A&M
junior Madison Hudkins’ first-place points. “Our divers were huge and gave us big points [against A&M],” women’s head coach Carol Capitani said. “Everybody had something to hang their hat on.” Scoggin also said the Invitational competition will give the Longhorns a benchmark. “Some of the top teams in the country have sent their diving teams to compete,” Scoggin said. “We feel very fortunate. I’m looking for my divers to show some good legs this week.” The Texas Diving Invitational kicks off Thursday at 11 a.m. with the men’s 1-meter preliminaries. The women’s 3-meter preliminaries begin at 1 p.m.
this season. He shouts encouragement and pats his teammates on the back. “Especially if someone messes up, that’s not a time to be down on them,” Perkins said. “Just say, ‘do better,’ say
‘you’ll get it next time’ or just say something positive. It really helps. It’s like surprising. I never really believed that it helped that much, but it does.” For now, Perkins hopes
to bring Texas its first national championship since 1996. He’ll transform on the way to Phoenix or the pitch or sometime in between. Win or lose, his head will stay up.
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No. 11 Texas routed Northwestern State 86-33 on Wednesday in front of thousands of screaming elementary and intermediate school students at the Frank Erwin Center. Children from 48 Central Texas schools trekked to Austin for the annual 40 Acres Field Trip. Before the game, Texas Athletics encouraged the students in attendance to pursue higher education. “I thought the crowd energized us from the very get,” head coach Karen Aston said. “It’s a special game for our player involvement with the community.” Texas (2-0) senior center Imani Boyette impressed the kids by scoring eight of her 25 points in the first five minutes of the game. Northwestern State (1-2) freshman forward Emerald Mayfield, who stands at 5 feet 11 inches, proved no match for 6-foot-7 Boyette. Boyette finished 12-of13 from the floor while snagging 14 rebounds. Texas outrebounded the opposition 47-18. Sophomore guard Brooke McCarty came off a career-high 22 points against UTSA to notch 15 on Wednesday with 6-of11 shooting. Junior guard Brianna Taylor added 11 points off the bench. Entering the game when Texas led 10-4, Taylor dove into the first row after successfully throwing the ball out of bounds off a Northwestern State player. On consecutive plays, Taylor drew a charging foul and then banked in a midrange jumper after securing an offensive rebound. She canned a 3-pointer on the Longhorns’ next trip down
My role coming off the bench is to bring energy and help us get going. —Brianna Taylor Junior guard
the floor, extending Texas’ lead to 15-6. “My role coming off the bench is to bring energy and help us get going,” Taylor said. “Now, I’m more comfortable in that role. I’m embracing it.” The Longhorns strung together 26 consecutive points, swelling the lead to 43-11. A Northwestern State free throw with 3:08 remaining in the second quarter ended the Demons’ scoreless streak. Beginning the second half trailing 49-12, Northwestern State rattled off 8 points in a row, but Boyette got Texas going with a jumper to make it 51-20. The Texas defense surrendered 15 points in the third quarter — more than it gave up in the first half. The Longhorns tightened up in the final frame, only giving up six. Both Aston and Boyette, however, said it’s the Texas offense that has been the most impressive in the Longhorns’ first two games. “It’s always been the narrative about Texas that they can’t score,” Boyette said. “We made a really big focus on that in the offseason, so nobody can say that anymore.” Boyette needs 8 points to become the 38th player in Texas history to reach 1,000 career points. Texas heads to Houston on Saturday to take on Rice at 2 p.m.
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The No. 5 Longhorns came into Wednesday’s match with Baylor poised to keep their stronghold on the conference after a week during which they took down Big 12 rivals Kansas and Iowa State on the road. Head coach Jerritt Elliott didn’t want his team to suffer a letdown akin to the Longhorns 3-0 loss to TCU on Oct. 28, so the 15-year coach had a pregame trick up his sleeve. “We showed a motivational video,” Elliott said. “Sometimes you got to change it up for them a little bit to give the team some things to think about.” It seemed to work against the Bears, as Texas (23-2, 13-1 Big 12) played three solid sets en route to a 3-0 victory at Gregory Gym. It was the Longhorns’ 17th sweep on the season. The match’s first set was a back and forth affair. Neither team stretched the lead to more than four points until a thunderous ace by senior outside hitter Amy Neal gave Texas a 25-20 first set victory. Neal said she established a good flow with junior setter Chloe Collins, which helped her rack up 13 kills and three aces on the night. “I got
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into a good rhythm with Chloe,” Neal said. “The coaches told me to get to the ball quickly and open up the net which helped.” The Longhorns overpowered Baylor throughout set two. In the 2518 victory, six different Longhorns had a kill as Texas accumulated 14 for the set. Neal had six kills in the second set as Texas
exhibited one of its finest offensive performances of the season. With the match firmly in their hands, the Longhorns didn’t let up in the third set opening with a 5-1 run. Texas has become accustomed to holding big leads and Wednesday was no different. Baylor made it close in the third frame, but Texas eventually won
the set 25-21 and the match 3-0. Junior outside hitter Paula Prieto Cerame added 10 kills in additon to Neal’s 13. “We played well enough to win tonight,” Elliott said. “We played well in spurts, and came through when we needed some points.” Texas’ next match comes on Saturday against unranked Kansas State at
Gregory Gym. The Longhorns hold a one-game lead over second place Kansas, with just two matches left in the regular season. But Elliott knows that nothing is certain in the Big 12. “Right now my focus is getting them ready for Kansas State,” Elliott said. “They’re focused and good enough competitors here to be ready to play.”
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Lee Perkins evolves into leader on pitch By Aaron Torres @aaron_torres95
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Søren Hess-Olesen, a former UT tennis player, said he enjoyed opposing fans getting to cheer and heckle at matches last season.
Cheering finds way to tennis events after Big 12 rule change By Alana Kaufman @akauf810
Søren Hess-Olesen took the tennis court in Fort Worth. He was in the middle of a singles match in April with a TCU player when he heard a group of about 10 Horned Frog fans behind him. After every point, they called him “Esben,” the name of his twin brother who plays at UNC. “I actually thought it was funny, so it didn’t bother me,” the former UT tennis player said. “And as a college player, you also have to remember that you never get to try that again after college. So if you can embrace it and kind of enjoy it, I think you can use it to your advantage.” Big 12 schools said goodbye to traditional tennis fan etiquette and hello to cheering, screaming and heckling during match play towards the end of last season, prompting HessOlesen’s experience. College tennis is experiencing a decline. Since 1970, about 600 varsity tennis programs have folded, according to Intercollegiate Tennis
Association. To keep fans, the Big 12 shortened matches last season with no-ad scoring. Tennis has since gained recognition. “The NCAA had relaxed its rules and the ITA coaches association endorsed a more fan-friendly tennis environment as a way to generate additional interest,” said Bob Burda, the Big 12 associate commissioner for communications. “Prior to the start of last year, our coaches met annually during the offseason, so they recommended the adoption of the ITA rules.” The change worked. Matches are now more spirited, with fans bringing posters and painting their bodies and cheering loudly throughout the match. “For all sports you’re looking for ways to engage the next generation of fans and to help grow your fan base,” Burda said. “It is hoped that … allowing the more festive atmosphere around the tennis matches will help to do that,” Burda said. While the new change aimed to attract more fans, many say the policy should be tweaked to fos-
ter a more positive atmosphere. Burda agrees and said that administrators don’t want tennis to devolve into a sport devoid of sportsmanship. Hess-Olesen played under the decorum policy last season in the rules’ inaugural year. “Overall, I think it’s a good idea,” Hess-Olesen said. “Tennis is not a very big sport in college, and I think we have to do everything we can to save it and make it more interesting for spectators.” College tennis is naturally chaotic, often featuring six simultaneous matches on consecutive courts. Traditional cheering — which had taken place after the end of a match point — distracted players on nearby courts mid-rally. “I still think people should come because they like to watch tennis,” Hess-Olesen said. “Some people come just so they can be loud. But if that creates a more lively atmosphere, I think they are more than welcome. This is one step towards saving college tennis, so the more people we can get out there, the better it is.”
After the Eggo chocolate chip waffles in the morning and occasionally pasta with Pesto in the afternoon, Lee Perkins jumps into his red Toyota Corolla and lets the metamorphosis unfold. His eclectic playlist of 50 Cent, LCD Sound System, Arctic Monkeys and Eminem echoes inside the car. “I blast that all the way up on the way to the game,” Perkins said. Perkins — a striker and a captain for Texas’ club soccer team — exits the car and trots onto the field where the transformation completes. “Honestly like a switch is flipped,” senior midfielder Mariano Afuera said. “He’ll be the most mellow person off the field.” But on the field, teammates say, Perkins plays with a unique aggressiveness. “A lot of times in practices, he’ll get after people, be clipping people, elbowing people, and everyone else is sort of playing at a lower level,” Afuera said. “He brings a level of intensity to whatever he does.” Perkins’ aggresivnes dates back to high school. But this year, it’s something he’s tried to scale back on. He doesn’t say much during games, but his body language sends a message. When he gets frustrated, his shoulders slouch, his head drops and his palms
face up. “You could tell that he was visibly frustrated,” head coach Matt Prewett said. “Sometimes he would get frustrated with teammates that don’t see the game as quickly as he does. And again, he would scold them or his body language could be negative.” Perkins’ eruptions sometimes take place when he doesn’t have the ball, and his position demands it. “Those guys, they’re really dependent on the rest of the team to get the ball,” Afuera said. “And if he’s just not, for whatever reason, just not getting the ball a lot, then like, he’ll get frustrated.” His teammates and coaches say he’s one of the most competitive people they’ve been around. They say his passion is a powerful tool. He uses it to achieve wins, and he doesn’t like spending time on the sideline. But sometimes his passion backfires. “A lot of people will, like, get frustrated,” Afuera said. “And they’ll yell back.” Perkins said he wanted to improve his demeanor this year. In late August, he and Prewett met at Miltos Mediterranean Café. Perkins asked his coach how he could become a better leader. Prewett emphasized the importance of body
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Lee Perkins is a forward and captain for the Texas club soccer team. Perkins has 10 goals on the season and looks to lead UT to the national tournament in Phoenix.
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SPORTS BRIEFLY Strong addresses job rumors, injuries
Head coach Charlie Strong said Wednesday that he’s not considering leaving Texas despite various reports linking him to the Miami coaching vacancy. “It’s all a rumor,” Strong said. “We’re here to build a program. That’s why I came here. We still have a ways to go. … Everyone’s on board and we know that we have to get things done here.” Strong said he tries to tune out the noise, but he is frustrated with the rumors. He emphasized that he has an “unbelievable” job at Texas, and he said he doesn’t know the rumor’s source. Additionally, he said he still feels wanted at Texas despite two six-loss seasons in his first two years. “Our president [and] our [athletic director] have been very supportive of this program,” Strong said. “I feel like [I’m supported.]” Strong also discussed the injuries the Longhorns are dealing with. Texas is using its bye week to get healthy after suffering several injuries during its 38-20 loss at West Virginia. Strong said senior running back Johnathan Gray and freshman guard Patrick Vahe are day-today, while sophomore running back D’Onta Foreman is out after finger surgery. “Those three guys are the major concerns right now,” Strong said. “Everyone else — we have a few bumps and bruises — but everyone else is out there practicing.” All three injured playes are key pieces for the Longhorns’ stout running game. Vahe has excelled as a run blocker, while Foreman and Gray have accounted for 55 percent of the team’s rushing yards. Strong said he wasn’t sure whether those players will play against Texas Tech. However, he’s confident in the team’s depth to fill in. “We still have 25, [freshman running back] Chris Warren, and then [freshman running back] Kirk Johnson is still there,” Strong said. “We have options there at that position.” —Ezra Siegel
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DANIELLE LOPEZ, LIFE&ARTS EDITOR | @thedailytexan Thursday, November 19, 2015
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Study: Cell phones hinder student performance
By Ellen Airhart @ellenairhart
Constant notifications from texts, emails and Facebook might be responsible for students’ poor grades. Those struggling to pass may benefit the most from turning off their phones. UT assistant economics professor Richard Murphy, and colleague Louis-Philippe Beland surveyed academic performance in 91 British schools before and after cell phone bans. They defined a ban as complete prohibition of cell phones from campus or an enforced roundup of cell phones at the beginning of the school day. They found that the cell phone bans caused high-stakes test scores to increase slightly across the whole student population — about the same increase as administrators could expect with the addition of five more days of school. However, the grade improvement was not equal
between students of different backgrounds and achievement levels. High-achieving students were not significantly affected by the cell phone bans, but students in the lowest quartile of their class improved more than twice as much as average. Students in special education and free and reduced lunch programs also experienced higher-than-average gains. “Maybe these students have higher cost of self-control, and therefore phones can be very distracting,” Murphy said. “Maybe higher-ability students find it easier to selfdiscipline and are therefore less likely to be distracted.” Murphy’s study measured cell phone bans from 2001 to 2011. Since then, new apps such as Snapchat have only increased cell phones’ ability to defeat student motivation. “My phone is this box I carry around in my pocket with endless possibilities,” biology senior Anisha Maheshwari said. “Endless possibilities to make plans, endless possibilities to Google things, endless, distracting possibilities.” Although Murphy’s study was done on high school students, other studies confirm that college students have not outgrown their propensity to be distracted by cell phones. When students check Facebook or text while
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studying, they don’t learn the material as well and end up with lower overall GPAs, according to a study in the journal Computers & Education. The use and disadvantages of cell phones may not be spread equally among American college students, just as they were not equivalent across British high school populations in Murphy’s study. There may be a discrepancy around how much different groups of college students use cell phones. Women, African-Americans
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and students in the highest income bracket spent the most time talking on the phone and sent the most text messages, according to a study done in the journal Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking. Murphy does not ban phones in his own classroom, despite the results of his study. He said he trusts that his students will be selfdisciplined enough to monitor their own cell phone use. “Students at UT are pretty respectful,” Murphy said. “No
one’s forcing you to go to class.” College students must handle the responsibility of managing their own time and resources, which often means making sure cell phones don’t distract from study time. This may take more effort than switching phones to silent mode — students may need to keep them completely out of sight. College students did worse on complex performance tasks when they could see a phone, even if the phone was off,
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according to a study in the journal Social Psychology. “The presence of phones does impede learning, so maybe when you’re studying you don’t want to be constantly checking your phone,” Murphy said.
FILM REVIEW | ‘HI, HOW ARE YOU DANIEL JOHNSTON?’
Short film celebrates life of local artist, musician Daniel Johnston
Joe Nick Patoski’s documentary, “Sir Doug and the Genuine Texas Cosmic Groove” captures the life of lesser-known but largely influential Texas musician Doug Sahm.
By Katie Walsh @katiewalsh_atx
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Journalist documents local music legend Doug Sahm through film By Rachel Rascoe @rachelrascoe
During Joe Nick Patoski’s many decades as a journalist capturing the lives of Texas legends such as Selena and Willie Nelson, the UT alumnus feared that one story would get away. That story belonged to the late musician Doug Sahm, an Austinite whose legacy left a lasting impact on the Texas music scene. Patoski’s publishers rejected his initial idea for a Sahm biography as too obscure. In Patoski’s directorial debut documentary, “Sir Doug and the Genuine Texas Cosmic Groove,” he captures the adventurous life of the diverse artist, who Patoski said he sees as a largely unsung hero of Texas music. The film screens Thursday at the Bullock Texas State History Museum as part of the museum’s Texas Focus film series. The documentary traces back to Sahm’s roots in San Antonio as a child prodigy, following his participation in the British Invasion with the hit song “She’s About A Mover,” as well as his time in San Francisco during the Summer of Love and eventual return to Texas. Patoski said a film, rather than a book, ended up being a better fit for capturing the larger-thanlife tale. “I think this is just a great, wild, almost unbelievable youcan’t-make-stories-like-this-up tale,” Patoski said. “He’s Forrest Gump in American music, but this Forest Gump happens to be one of the most talented, authentic individual musicians that I’ve ever come across. I just
wanted to tell that story.” UT alumnus and “Sir Doug” producer Dawn Johnson said he was interested in making a documentary about Sahm for 10 years before the project began. Johnson said Patoski’s experience with Texas storytelling, as well as his established relationship with the Sahm family, allowed him to effectively tell the story. “He’s from Texas, and he is just sort of pure Texas,” Johnson said. “He knows his landscape and he’s studied the culture of Texas for years through his writing. He has his own perspective on what makes Texas unique.” The film debuted to a soldout theater at this year’s South by Southwest festival, after which Patoski launched a Kickstarter campaign to gain the rights to the music and archival footage used in the film. The rights would allow him to show the the film outside of its current circuit of festivals and nonprofit events. The campaign raised $90,000 for the cause. Johnnson said he hopes the funds will be combined with television revenues to release “Sir Doug” to wider audiences through Netflix and DVD. The Kickstarter page also included a petition to get Sahm into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Patoski said he hopes Sahm will be nominated in 2016. Radio-television-film professor Paul Stekler said he remembers hearing Sahm’s hit songs on the radio growing up. He said the documentary effectively covered the lesser-known parts of Sahm’s musical career, revealing the variety of genres and
SIR DOUG AND THE GENUINE TEXAS COSMIC GROOVE Where: Bullock Texas State History Museum When: Thursday at 7:30 p.m. Cost: $5, $3 for members
projects he took part in during his lifetime. “It’s really nice when you’ve got a film that remembers somebody who you kind of remember fondly, but don’t know much about,” Stekler said. “Especially for those of us in Texas, it’s really nice to see the wide range and amount of music [Sahm] was part of and the fact that so many good musicians were touched by him.” Patoski said he attributes Austin’s current status as a cultural center to the musical events of the 1970s involving Sahm. Patoski’s next project, a book on the history of Austin’s outsider culture, will continue his exploration into Austin’s cultural roots. “He was the secret ingredient to what I call the Austin creation myth,” Patoski said. “There was always Austin and a music scene, but what happened here in the early 70s changed everything, and it informs the city that Austin is today. Everything that has happened since expanded from what Doug organized.”
In 15 minutes, director Gabriel Sunday invites viewers into the mind and home of Austin icon and artist Daniel Johnston with short film, “Hi, How Are You Daniel Johnston?” After eight years and a successful Kickstarter campaign, “Hi, How Are You Daniel Johnston?” is available online to rent on Vimeo for $1.99. The 15-minute short film does not want to eclipse the 2005 full-length documentary, “The Devil and Daniel Johnston.” Instead, it intends to provide a brief look inside Johnston’s head. The short begins and ends with Johnston, who has schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, in his living room. In the first scene, Johnston approaches a stack of shelves piled with old tapes and pulls out his 1983 cassette album, Hi, How Are You? and sticks it inside a tape player. His voice from 30 years ago floods the room and present-day Johnston responds, opening a dialogue between the two that continues throughout the short. Two illustrated versions of Jeremiah the frog, one from 1983 and a fatter, hairier version from 2015, narrate the short, mirroring the dialogue between the past and present Johnston. Jeremiah the frog was made famous by
the original album artwork for 1983’s Hi, How Are You? and the subsequent mural on 21st Street, painted by Johnston 10 years later. Present-day Johnston reveals his despair as he sits with his mini chord organ, crooning about Laurie, the one that got away. Actual footage of Laurie that Johnston recorded decades ago plays on his television in the background. That old footage is woven between flashback scenes of Laurie, played by French musician Soko. Halfway through, the short transitions into a black-andwhite scene inside a small garage-turned-recording studio. Present-day Johnston sits with the 1983 version of himself, played by Sunday, as he records Hi, How Are You?. The two discuss songwriting, heartbreak and happiness. In the last scene, 1983 Johnston asks his present-day self whether he is happy. He says no at first, but then explains that writing, drawing and his cat keep him happy. His last words, “There really isn’t a world with me. It’s my own world” hang in the air as the credits roll and Lana Del Rey’s haunting cover of Johnston’s “Some Things Last A Long Time” plays. Del Rey is one of many musicians, including Kurt Cobain and Wilco frontman Jeff Tweedy, who cites Johnston as a source of inspiration.
The short brings the audience inside Johnston’s cluttered and memory-filled home. The dim, smoky space is a metaphor for Johnston’s mind – hazy, dark and brimming with nostalgia. During a conversation, presentday Johnston reminds his younger self that, “You have a chance as Dan Johnston to go wherever you want. I chose the darker side, but you should go with the light.” The shots of Johnston are incredibly genuine. He’s clad in sweats on his couch, a cigarette perpetually dangling between his fingers. He stutters and squints, causally making side remarks under his breath as if a camera weren’t pointed directly at his face. The short accomplishes exactly what the director set out to do eight years ago – portray an accurate and intimate image of who Daniel Johnston is today. The camera angles and casual tone allow audience members to forget the physical barrier between themselves and Johnston and imagine themselves sitting on the couch next to him. Sunday shows rather than tells the audience about Johnston’s mental state. Through the setting and perfectly chosen sound bites from past and present Johnston, “Hi, How Are You Daniel Johnston?” is a poetic and understated tribute to a key figure in Austin’s musical history.
Courtesy of Gabriel Sunday
Director Gabriel Sunday takes viewers inside the mind of Austin artist Daniel Johnston in short film “Hi, How Are You Daniel Johnston?”