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HB100 may cause return of Uber and Lyft to Austin By Mikaela Cannizzo @mikaelac16
The Texas House of Representatives approved a bill Wednesday that would invalidate Austin’s local ride-hailing ordinance, a move that could potentially prompt Uber and Lyft to return. House Bill 100, authored primarily by state Rep. Chris Paddie, R-Marshall, strips cities of their authority to regulate certain ride-hailing companies. Instead, the bill proposes a statewide approach to regulating and licensing these companies. According to the bill, the new law would address transportation systems that operate through digital networks such as apps, and would not have any effect on taxis, carpools or limousine services. Austin is one of 20 cities in Texas with local ride-hailing rules. Paddie said the bill would prevent disparities in driver requirements and operational standards among
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OPINION Xbox Scorpio won’t save gaming consoles PAGE 4
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Frat houses vandalized, Fenves responds By Kayla Meyertons @kemeyertons
The words “racist” and “rapist” continue to deface fraternity houses off-campus. The same black graffiti seen on the Phi Gamma Delta (Fiji) and Pi Kappa Alpha houses earlier this week appeared on the Kappa Alpha and Kappa Sigma houses Wednesday afternoon. Two white pillars of the KA house were defaced with “racist” and “rapist”
in large black letters with the front door reading “up security like Fiji did.” Similarly, the stones surrounding the Kappa Sigma house were graffitied with “racist” and “rapist” along with the same security message on the door. The concrete wall by the front steps read “hang rapists.” The fraternity vandalism started Monday morning when the words “racist” and “rapist” were graffitied on three stone pillars outside the front gate of
the Fiji fraternity house located on West 27th Street. The Pi Kappa Alpha house was vandalized with the phrase “kill the frats” Tuesday morning. UT President Gregory Fenves released a statement Wednesday addressing the original report of vandalism at the off-campus Fiji house. “At the University of Texas of Austin, we will not tolerate vandal-
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Rachel Zein | Daily Texan Staff
The words “hang rapists” were visible on the wall of the Kappa Sigma fraternity house on Wednesday afternoon.
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Candlelight vigil held for Nancy-Jane David By Kayla Meyertons @kemeyertons
The words of “Amazing Grace” rang through a crowd of somber, candlelit faces Wednesday evening, honoring the life of UT junior Nancy-Jane David. “It doesn’t make sense that Nancy-Jane was taken from this earth so soon,” public relations junior Abby Harkins, David’s best friend and roommate, said. “She is the last person that deserves this, but God truly takes his children when their time on Earth is done, when they’ve served their purpose and His. She’s home.” David, a youth and community studies junior, was killed in a head-on collision with a school bus Monday evening while driving a moped, according to an Austin Police Department press release.
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Angel Ulloa | Daily Texan Staff
Youth and community studies junior, Nancy-Jane David was killed in a head-on collision with a bus while riding her moped Monday night. Her sisters of the Chi Omega sorority held a vigil in her honor on the night of April 19.
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Satirical ad campaign shows issues with campus carry law
Annual fashion show honors senior designers
By Catherine Marfin
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The students behind the “Cocks Not Glocks” protest on campus last fall released a satirical ad campaign Tuesday to coincide with potential changes to the state’s existing campus carry law. “Student Body Armor” was created by the protest-turned-student group Cocks Not Glocks after they were approached by an advertising agency last December. The agency has since heavily contributed to developing the concept and online campaign material, said UT alumna Jessica Jin, founder of Cocks Not Glocks. The satirical online “shop” includes bulletproof burnt orange hoodies, T-shirts and fullbody “Hurt Locker” armor suits, “offering a unique balance between school pride and blunt trauma protection from high-velocity rounds,” according to the campaign website. “The ad is meant to give people a very tangible sense of the implications of this culture,” Jin said. “There’s a very romanticized,
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“Student Body Armor” was created by the protest-turned-student group Cocks Not Glocks after they were approached by FCB last December.
self-defense and heroism sort of attitude when it comes to promoting campus carry, but I think the reality of it is that there’s a lot of other factors of safety that people haven’t thought about.” The “campus carry” law went into effect Aug. 1, 2016 and allows individuals to carry a concealed handgun on public college campuses and in certain buildings as long as they have the proper licensing. To voice their disapproval of the law, anti-campus carry groups passed out dildos in a campus-wide protest on the first day
of classes last fall in order to “fight absurdity with absurdity.” The campaign was released the same day a Texas House committee passed legislation allowing people over the age of 21 to carry a handgun without a license, a decision that makes the ad especially timely, Jin said. A separate bill, which would lower this age to 18, extends to public college campuses and is still pending approval. “Cocks Not Glocks and Student Body Armor
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Senior fashion designers debuted their unique clothing collections, showing off pieces they have been working on since the fall semester at the annual University of Texas Fashion Show on Wednesday evening at the Frank Erwin Center. The event, one of the largest student-run fashion shows in the country, was organized by the University Fashion Group. Marketing sophomore April Owusu, assistant social media director of the group, said the show highlights student work. “Every collection that comes out is so astounding,” Owusu said. “These people are my age and they’re creating all of this. A lot of people don’t associate UT with fashion, but we have a lot of great designers at this school.” Maiya Evans, merchandising and consumer sciences senior, showed her dress design during the pre-show exhibition. She drew inspiration from dandyism, a gentlemen-esque style usually associated with men, which she transformed to create a more gender-neutral design.
“I was never really one for the polarity of hypermasculinity and hyperfemininity,” Evans said. “I think we should all live in between, and my design incorporates elements from both of those polar ideas.” Radio-television-film sophomore Julienne Bajusz, who modeled the design, said she loved the piece and the concept behind it. “The colors are really great, and it’s a really interesting mixture of designs but it all works together,” Bajusz said. Evans said constructing her piece took about three weeks of work in sewing studios at home and in school. “A lot of us worked in (the Mary E. Gearing building) day and night pulling all nighters just to make all of these beautiful garments,” Evans said. Hundreds of people attended the show, which was televised by the Longhorn Network. Active Sportswear, Evening, Best Technical Collection and Most Marketable were among some of the challenges. The winners included Elexis Spencer for Bridal, Dee Ting for Most Innovative Collection, Veronica Lozano
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cities in Texas. “This patchwork of ordinances demonstrates the need for a statewide regulatory framework that first and foremost works to ensure consumer safety, but also provides this growing industry with a regulatory certainty that will allow continued growth in this industry,” Paddie said during the House session Wednesday. Currently, 41 states have statewide laws pertaining to these transportation companies, and Paddie said his legislation pushes for Texas to join what has become
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standard practice across the country. Uber and Lyft decided to leave the city last May after voters supported regulations mandating these companies provide fingerprint-based background checks, rules put into place by the Austin City Council in December 2015. While HB 100 does not include a fingerprint requirement, companies would have to review driving records of potential drivers and complete background checks that include searches on the sex offender registry and criminal records. Uber and Lyft representatives expressed support for
the bill at a public hearing last month. Trevor Theunissen, Uber’s public affairs manager, said statewide regulation of services would better suit users who tend to travel between cities. He said drivers who use Uber to travel from one city to another — 26 percent of all Texas trips in 2016 — would be confused by the variances among city laws. “Uber wishes to be in many more cities in Texas and our hope is that one day we can cover the entire state,” Theunissen said during the hearing. “The local regulations under which we currently operate vary as much as the Texas land-
scape and it presents unique challenges when it comes to moving people across multiple lines of jurisdiction.” April Mims, senior public policy manager at Lyft, said she believes the bill expands transportation options for Texans through elimination of certain city rules that limit the number of drivers. “HB 100 provides the greatest opportunity for the most (ride-hailing companies) to compete in Texas, which will ultimately benefit the consumer,” Mims said during the hearing. Mayor Steve Adler said he believes ride-hailing operations are beneficial to the city and have the ability
to lower DWI rates while providing opportunities for people to make extra money. However, Adler said he opposes the bill’s statewide approach at regulating these entities because it devalues local citizens’ rights to choose what is best for their city. “The ability to have that measure of local guidance is important,” Adler said. While the House tentatively approved the bill by a 110-37 vote, it needs one more vote to officially pass out of the House and into the Senate. If signed by Governor Greg Abbott, the new law could go into effect as early as this summer.
“Many students understandably feel concerned and vulnerable. I want them to know we are committed to making UT Austin a safe environment for all our students.” The UT police department is working with the
Austin police to increase neighborhood patrols and to review video footage, and the University is providing crisis support, advice and guidance to the affected students and groups, Fenves said.
“The Office of the Dean of Students is investigating, in accordance with the recently issued Hate and Bias Incident Policy, (and) the incident has also been referred to the Campus Climate Response Team,” Fenves said in
a statement. According to complaints filed with the Campus Climate Response Team, the Fiji fraternity was the center of controversy for hosting a “border patrol” party in spring 2015.
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provide a platform that highlights issues that are often overlooked,” said Ana Lopez, president of Students Against Campus Carry who helped coordinate filming efforts for the campaign video. “Campus carry passed because no one was properly informed of what was to come, and Cocks Not Glocks has put absurd gun laws on the map.” The website’s disclaimer “Student Body Armor is a joke. Campus carry is not,” makes it clear the items “for sale” — which range from $700 to $30,000 per item — cannot actually be purchased. However, the website does encourage individuals to contact their local representatives to express concerns about the campus carry law and includes instruc-
tions and tips on how to do so. “I respect the work (Cocks Not Glocks) is doing and it’s good they’re standing up for it, since the law in a sense is ridiculous,” said Snovia Moiz, an international relations and global studies sophomore. “But if someone were really going to (shoot others on campus), they would do it anyway, a law wouldn’t change that. We live in Texas, and people are really attached to their guns here.” Texas is currently one of nine states with a campus carry law in place, with at least 13 other states currently considering campus carry laws. “We need to address these fears and talk about why our community is so unsafe that people feel like they might not survive class,” Lopez said. “Vigilance is a very important thing in fighting this culture of violence.”
who loved life and lived it to the fullest. “It was impossible to have a bad time when you were with her,” Harkins said. “I can’t event count the number of times we would be downtown and she would literally jump into the middle of a dance off. She exuded confidence and happiness.” Harkins said David was passionate about special education and planned to become an occupational therapist to help those with disabilities. A lover of elephants, John Mayer and the Dallas Mavericks, David was a member of Sil-
ver Spurs and an assistant new member educator in Chi Omega. “How fitting of a job for Nancy-Jane, and she did it flawlessly,” Harkins said. “She attended weekly bible studies and was the most perfect example of a Christ-following, God-loving woman I have ever known.” Harkins said David had Proverbs 16:9, “A man’s heart plans his way, but the Lord directs his steps,” tattooed on her right foot when she was 18. The tower bells rang 21 times at the end of the vigil in David’s honor.
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Van Anh “Annie” Le and all senior designers walk the runway with their creations. The 2017 UT Fashion Show allowed all 22 senior fashion designers to showcase the collections that they’ve been creating for two semesters.
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continues from page 1 More than three hundred individuals gathered in front of the Tower steps and lit candles in David’s honor at the end of the ceremony. Meg Mathias, president of Chi Omega, said the chapter has been overwhelmed by the outpouring of love and kind words about David. “Her natural ability to make everyone she met feel cherished did not go unnoticed,” Mathias said. “This incredible woman touched the lives of so many, and this gather-
At the end of the show, each senior designer walked the runway alongside their models for the Grand Finale. Evans said she wants to continue designing in the future. “I’m a very creative person and I feel like design has the possibility to never grow stale,” Evans said. “You can always make something new.” ing just goes to show how much of an impact she had on such a large, wide array of people.” Harkins, said she met David at freshman orientation, and they were inseparable ever since. “It is unfathomable and heartbreaking what has happened to our sweet friend,” Harkins said. “She was thoughtful, meaningful, selfless, hilarious, sensitive and so much more. Everything that I could ever imagine in a best friend, Nancy-Jane was.” Harkins said she will remember David as a person
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UT students encourage more organic farming By Lawrence Goodwyn @Tyler_Goodwyn
UT students might be accustomed to organic food stands and specialty food stores in the heart of Austin, but organic farming is just catching on in the rest of the country. Members of the UT community give insight to how organic farming benefits the Earth. The organic food industry saw its largest annual dollar gain ever in 2015, producing $43.3 billion total in organic product sales, of which, $39.7 billion were organic food sales, according to the Organic Trade Association. James Collins, a government and environmental sciences junior and ambassador at the Campus Environmental Center, said that he became interested in organic farming in his hometown of Buda, Texas, and continues the practice here at UT’s Microfarm. “Personally, there’s a lot of reasons I find organic farming intriguing,” Collins said. “To me, a large part of organic farming is learning how to work in conjunction with the land, plants, and even bugs on the farm as opposed to dominating and controlling them.” The U.S. Department of Agriculture defines organic farming as a production
system that integrates cultural, biological and mechanical practices to foster the cycling of resources, promote ecological balance and conserve the lives of plants and animals in the region. Organic farmers commonly apply manure to crops instead of fertilizer, recycle water supplies, refrain from conventional pesticides and keep antibiotics out of livestock, in order to conserve the contents of the soil and preserve farming yields in their most natural state. One third of all the greenhouse gas emissions around the globe come from industrial farming, according to a 60-country study by the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research. The study found that the use of fertilizers is the main source of these emissions. Collins said industrial farming uses simple techniques which don’t always address complicated environments. He says organic farming can work better and produce more substantial yields in diverse environments than conventional farming techniques. Raising 2.5 acres of organic corn uses roughly 10,000 megajoules of energy, according to Sustainable America. Cultivating the same plot of land using conventional
methods requires 70 percent more energy. “Most fertilizers that industrial farmers use are forms of energy: nitrogens and nitrates are put on plants in very large quantities,” said Steven Moore, UT architecture professor. “When it rains, those nutrients go directly into the water table or into local streams and rivers, which is a major source of pollution.” Moore added that it takes more energy to add and get rid of these nitrogens than fertilizers produce, which makes using fertilizers a losing a battle for overall environmental quality. One way to get around this large amount of pollution, Moore said, is to build environmentally-conscious structures. “One of the things that we can begin to do is integrate the built environment and organic agriculture,” Moore said. “Organic urban farming, for example, helps produce local foods and radically reduces the energy that goes into farming because it’s not transported from places like California and Mexico, which contributes to air quality issues and climate change.” Moore added that organic farming is good for people as well as the planet. “I think people enter organic farming because they
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want to eat well themselves, while simultaneously contributing to public health,” Moore said. Collins and Moore also had a few tips on how to achieve a greener lifestyle. Collins said he squeezes the most he can of the products he consumes. “I compost my table scraps; travel as close to the ground as I can; carry silverware, a cloth napkin, and a water bottle; and don’t buy things if I don’t need
them,” he said. “I’ve been learning how to build and repair bikes, and I’d like to learn how to sew and mend clothing soon.” Moore said he tries to buy as much organic produce as he can. “On Saturdays my wife and I always go to the farmer’s market, we buy produce from people we know,” Moore said. ”When we go to major grocery stores, we buy as little as we can, and try to buy from ones that sell organic produce.”
Bees retain microbes for millions of years By Angela Kang @angelaa_kang
Nothing lasts forever, but bacteria living in the guts of some bees have been around for 80 million years. Nancy Moran, UT integrative biology professor, recently worked with Waldan Kwong, evolutionary biology postdoctoral researcher at the University of British Columbia, to study different kinds of social bees, which live in hive environments. The study found that a group of five gut bacteria has been passed down through generations of social bees, suggesting that these bees have an important relationship with their gut bacteria. “All animal species, from insects to humans, interact with microorganisms,” Moran said. “(The) research is aimed at understanding how these interactions work, and how the microorganisms affect the host.” Moran said bees are different from other insects because they have specialized gut microbes, or bacterial environments within the gut, from spending so much time in
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close contact with each other throughout their lives. Kwong said this social behavior allows for microbes to be shared among bees and stay within colonies for a long time. “(The relationship between bees and their gut microbes) is similar to how people in the same household are more prone to pass an infectious cold to each other,” Kwong said. “Except here, bees live in colonies of tens of thousands of members, and the microbes involved are beneficial.” According to Kwong, having a consistent microbiome helps the bees’ health. “In bees, we have evidence that their gut bacteria can help in digestion,” Kwong said. “The gut bacteria can also stimulate the bee immune system and have been associated with decreasing infection.” The researchers extracted DNA from the guts of 27 bee species across four continents to help identify the gut bacteria within each of them. Moran said the similarities and differences in gut bacteria across bee species can also help explain the evolutionary history of bees.
“Using molecular sequences, we can reconstruct the evolutionary trees for both the bees and for the bacteria living inside the guts of the bees,” Moran said. “By looking at the (relationship) between the evolutionary trees, we can see that the bacteria must have colonized the social bees.” Moran said the team constructed an evolutionary tree that connected multiple modern-day bee species back to one common ancestor. She said five different species of bacteria that entered and colonized the gut of this common ancestor 80 million years ago have been passed down to today’s bees. “For me it was very rewarding to see that the bacteria have a long history of evolving with social bees,” Moran said. “It’s something I first suspected way back in 2008, when we first started studying the bee bacteria, and saw similar bacteria in a bumble bee and in a honeybee.” Moran added that after acclimating to the bees’ gut environment, the gut bacteria can no longer live outside the environment. The bees have
also changed physiologically to accommodate the bacteria, with lower of levels of oxygen present in their gut than in the atmosphere. Kwong said he hopes to continue exploring the relationship between bees and their gut bacteria.
“How gut microbacteria evolve alongside their hosts is not well understood, so it is an important area of research right now,” Kwong said. “There are over 700 known species (of bees) ... so there is a lot of diversity out there that has yet to be examined.”
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campus and learn about the benefits of individual trees or search for trees by location, size or species. “For most people that look at it, at first it’s not something that sparks their interest, but if you take a little time looking at what it’s saying, it’s pretty interesting,” said Jim Carse, assistant manager of urban forestry. “Typically, people look at a tree and don’t think past what it looks like, but it’s more than just aesthetics.” The site is part of a threepart project to collect and store data on campus trees;
landscape services also adapted software to edit and update information on trees and built a mobile website that landscapers can access in the field, according to Carse. “Every tree on campus is there and you can go and search it, and we have the way to track all of our maintenance, track all of our plantings, track all of our removals, in a much easier way than we once did,” Carse said. “It enables us to track what we do better (and) put budget dollars where they should be.” Carse said the website al-
lows anyone to access the data. “We really wanted a place where we could put the data where people can see it and use it as a learning tool,” he said. “We get quite a few requests every year (from classes) that want to learn more about the trees or learn about a particular species or a particular spot on campus.” The project cost $45,000. This price included hiring a contractor, buying inventory software and preparing a report. The Davey Resource Group was contracted to survey trees and enter data. Carse
said these steps helped Landscape Services find and take care of urgent tree issues, such as broken or decayed limbs, that had gone unnoticed. “There’s no way that our 70odd landscape staff was going to spot everything in all the trees on campus,” Carse said. “This was a way to get a separate pair of eyes that looked at nothing but tree concerns and tree issues around campus. At the very minimum, it created a safer environment.” Read the rest online at http:// bit.ly/2phnVA6
Money does grow on trees — at least in the form of air filtration and keeping buildings cool. Using a new interactive website, curious Longhorns can now see exactly how much UT’s trees are worth. UT landscape services launched myTreeKeeper, a website that displays statistics for almost every individual tree on campus over the past year, in January. The site is interactive, allowing users to zoom in on any location on
The Local Harvest Dinner at J2 and Kinsolving Dining Halls Hosted by: Division of Housing and Food Services Date: April 20 J2: 5-8 p.m. Kinsolving: 4:30 - 7 p.m. Dining halls are continuing a tradition of serving completely locally sourced food, featuring interactive games, food samples and prizes. Tabling Fair Kickoff at East Mall Hosted by: Campus Environmental Center Date: April 21 9 a.m.-2 p.m. A tabling fair consisting of organizations on campus who are proactive in keeping UT sustainable and educated about the environment. Yes, there will be t-shirts. Build Your Own Succulent Terrarium at East Mall Hosted by: Campus Environmental Center Date: April 21 9:30 a.m. - 2 p.m. An event where members of the UT community can get creative with cacti by building their own plant decor.
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By Julianna Hodges
This April UT has gone green. Along with billions of people worldwide, the Longhorn community celebrates environmental awareness through a series of eco-friendly events leading up to Earth Day this Saturday. The festivities, which are led by UT’s Office of Sustainability, encourage students to connect, commit and act to promote sustainable practices. Earth Week events for the remainder of the week include the following:
Zero Waste Weekend at UT Baseball and Softball Field Hosted by: Texas Athletics Dates: April 21-23 4:30–6:30 p.m., 6:30–8:30 p.m., 7–10 p.m. A three-game series spanning Earth Day weekend. In an effort to bring awareness to sustainable practices, all the waste generated from the games will be recycled and composted instead of sent to a landfill. March for Science Austin Date: April 22 Times: All day UT’s March for Science event will meet at the West Mall at 10 a.m. and meet up with the official March for Science Austin at the Capitol. The march will then leave the Capitol around noon and walk to the Earth Day celebration at Huston-Tillotson University. Earth Day ATX Date: April 22 Time: Noon -7pm Earth Day ATX, held at Huston-Tillotson University, will feature live music, self-driving vehicle demo rides, a Thoughtful Living Showcase hosted by Treehouse, a vegetarian food sampling circuit and a kids zone.
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O’Rourke Senate bid must channel Sanderism By Cuillin Chastain-Howley
Beto O’Rourke speaks to Texas voters on Wed. April 3. Although he faces an uphill battle in his race against Sen. Cruz, O’Rourke still has several advantages.
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Ted Cruz’s performance in the 2016 presidential race, combined with increasing dissatisfaction with Donald Trump has made the 2018 Texas Senate race — a race that a Democrat hasn’t won for 30 years — the most winnable it’s been in decades. Cruz’s craven pursuit of power, at the expense of his own personal dignity, can’t have sat well with voters. On the national stage, Cruz was so awkward and emotionless that he quickly earned comparisons to the zodiac killer. Cruz fulfilled these characterizations when he reluctantly endorsed and phonebanked for Donald Trump even after Trump called Heidi Cruz ugly and insinuated that Cruz’s father assassinated JFK. After Cruz’s disastrous presidential campaign, any challenge to his senate seat is bound to get attention. Americans and Texans alike are sick of Ted Cruz and are jumping at the opportunity to get rid of him. Although Beto O’Rourke’s campaign announcement came at the perfect time, I had my misgivings. I thought that people would enthusiastically support any warm body that opposed Cruz, but was skeptical that O’Rourke would be able to mount a serious opposition in a hard-fought campaign. However, O’Rourke’s young campaign has a lot of potential, in no small part due to its many echoes of the Bernie Sanders campaign. O’Rourke isn’t a socialist like Sanders — that ideology is still disqualifying in a conservative state like Texas, and is likely a big reason Sanders lost the Texas primary. But like Sanders,
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O’Rourke’s campaign has rejected Super PACs and corporate money. Like Sanders, O’Rourke has made efforts to appeal to traditionally conservative voters, and many of his campaign stops in his weeks-old campaign have been to deeply red small towns. Sanders’ message has been proven to work among the white working class in places such as Wisconsin, which the Democrats lost to Trump in the general election. Many of these voters are fed up with business as usual and respond positively to candidates such as Sanders that reject the status quo. O’Rourke’s rejection of PAC money is
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a good first step to appeal to these voters. Another factor that may prove to be a boon to O’Rourke’s campaign is his newcomer status on the political stage. This means that even though he’s running as a Democrat, he can distance himself from the radioactive Democratic party. Several polls conducted after the election have shown the Democrats with an even worse approval rating than Donald Trump, no doubt due in large part to their continued friendliness with big business and shameful inability to oppose Trump’s policies. Beto O’Rourke, running as a revolutionary,
fresh new voice in a political climate that is sick of both Ted Cruz and establishment Democrats may have more of a chance than many realize. O’Rourke still has many roadblocks to a serious campaign to oppose Cruz, but the early feedback to his campaign has been positive. Even though most Texans heard his name weeks ago, O’Rourke is tied with Cruz in polling. As more Texans become exposed to his message, it’s not unthinkable that a #feeltheBeto campaign has a lot of potential to shock the state. Chastain-Howley is a rhetoric and writing junior from Dallas.
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Xbox’s Project Scorpio cannot save future of console gaming By Ryan Young
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Non-student employees serve food to students at a dining hall on campus. Although both students and non-students work on campus, they do not make equal wages.
Students and non-students deserve equal pay on campus By Ratnika Batra
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Many students work part-time at UT dining halls. Some work to keep their loans down and some work for their monthly grocery shopping. The basic student assistant position — an attractive name for its non-student equivalent, food prep — pays only $8.25 as a starting salary, compared to their non-student counterpart who earn $10.06. Many students don’t think twice about this disparity. Students don’t see it because they are being fooled into thinking that they are getting a good paying job for the amount of experience they have. Students might also think, as advertised by DHFS, that they will get to an opportunity to “enhance personal growth.” But neither of them are just reasons for paying students less money. The food prep jobs are very basic, requiring almost no experience and there is little to learn in them. The concept of the society that college students are kids and have menial issues compared to the “real adults” does not help anybody. In 2016, 70 percent students ended up with loans after graduating, averaging $37,172. Additionally, the competition in the job market is ever increasing, and there are teachers that aim to have a certain amount of students in each grader letter — these are real, adult problems. If a student works 15 hours a week, they could make about $750 extra each semester. That would reduce their loans by $6000 in a four year graduation — that is a huge difference. According to Melanie Grice, Director of Human Resources, these salaries are set by the University and human re-
sources together and said that students get paid less because they get more benefits than their non-students counterpart. “We have a lot of flexibility, there is a lot of benefits for the student positions and great opportunities for students employees to join our team with little to no experience,” Grice said. The job helps them “gain valuable skills that they can take with them once they graduate.” As a former student assistant at Kinsolving Dining Hall, I can vouch that students had flexibility in scheduling and that it was a friendly environment for both student and non-student employees. But it doesn’t add much to your skillset and there aren’t any opportunities like one would get by working at any education related job. An increase in salary will attract more and better students that would benefit DHFS as they are looking for students assistants all year long. Motivated students improve performance and increase fiscal turnout which DHFS can invest in the students assistants again so that they are not hiring fewer people. Moreover, any food place on or near campus probably earns enough to increase students salary without having any negative impact on anyone. Not many people, including the students, are seeing this inequality. Students are selling themselves short because of the societal concept that it is not a big deal to pay young ones a little less. Students deserve higher pay if not equal to their non-student counterparts, because having flexibility in choosing hours does not make a $750 difference. Batra is a computer science and rhetoric and writing junior from New Delhi., India.
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Last Friday, Microsoft confirmed that Project Scorpio, a refresh of its Xbox One gaming console, will be revealed at the E3 this June. Much like Sony’s Playstation 4 Pro that released last November, Scorpio hopes to win over gamers with substantially enhanced graphics power and compatibility with existing games. Thanks to a beefier processor and larger and faster system memory, Scorpio is rumored to be capable of playing at 4K resolution. Gamers and hardware enthusiasts will soon be obsessing over performance numbers and screenshot comparisons. Such speculation misses the point. Scorpio — and the new Playstation, for that matter — represents a swan song for the gaming industry, a fleeting shimmer of hope in the inevitable death of the home console. The console market is shrinking. For years, sales have been on a long, continuous decline. Video games, however, are more popular than ever. Mobile gaming is where the growth is occurring and its revenue is projected to soon surpass that of traditional console gaming. The future belongs not to the Xbox and the Playstation, but to the iPad and the iPhone. Today’s children know Angry Birds and Clash of Clans, not Super Mario Brothers and Sonic the Hedgehog. Console gamers can rant all they want about their “hardcore” platform of choice, but the advantages of mobile gaming are clear. Consumers value playing wherever and whenever they want on devices they already own. Mobile gaming means gaming for everyone, not just a select few with expensive machines. Besides the new competition, there’s a deeper reason behind the decline of consoles. They
simply aren’t innovative enough anymore. Until now, each generation of consoles has been defined by a host of revolutionary new features. The Playstation 3 and Xbox 360 sported high-definition graphics and online multiplayer. Today, the selling points of the Playstation 4 and Xbox One are ... even higher-definition graphics and social media-enabled gaming. Fundamentally, nothing has changed. The consoles aren’t wowing us anymore — they’re rehashes of what gamers already had. Gaming consoles have worked themselves into a corner. What new technologies on the horizon would befit a new golden age of console gaming? Motion controls? Nintendo’s Wii struck gold with its unique, intuitive Wiimote controls at an affordable price, but it’s an anomaly in a long-running trend of declining Nintendo console sales. Meanwhile, the camera-based motion controls developed by Sony and Microsoft have not proved nearly as popular. Virtual reality? Nintendo tried over 20 years ago with the Virtual Boy and failed miserably. Nobody seems to be sure how exactly the technology could enhance the gaming experience. Every year has been declared the year of virtual reality, but every year, it fails to catch on. No wonder mobile gaming is taking off. The consoles are stagnant and going nowhere fast. Project Scorpio only promises prettier graphics — in other words, more of the same. Gamers will continue to see new and refreshed consoles like Scorpio, but don’t expect any game changing innovations. The decline of the gaming console marches on. And someday, far into the future, it will feel as obsolete as the neighborhood arcade. Young is a computer science junior from Bakersfield, California.
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Longhorns shutout Tigers for fourth straight victory By Leah Vann
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Junior catcher Michael Cantu says his experience as a high-school quarterback provided him with the leadership experience necessary to be a good catcher.
Players’ experience with multiple sports provides valuable mindset By Vanessa Le @vanessale
Every college baseball player shares the same dream: to taste victory in the College World Series after battling at the highest level of competition. But this isn’t a dream that every kid realizes right away. Growing up, some athletes are given opportunities to compete in multiple sports before they choose to focus on baseball. Long before there were any aspirations for Omaha, a young ball player develops a hunger for winning in the first sport he plays, regardless of its rules. “When you’re in that many different types of competition, you learn that there’s multiple ways to win in everything,” volunteer coach Phil Haig said. “Whether you could just flat out physically perform somebody, or mentally, you have to be that much tougher in that moment.” Haig’s athletic career precisely defines this idea of winning in multiple sports. Before he joined the Longhorns as
a volunteer coach, Haig was a five-sport athlete at Henry Sibley High School in Inver Grove Heights, Minnesota, where he earned a total of 10 all-conference honors in baseball, tennis, football, wrestling and basketball. But realizing the significance of a College World Series title comes with much more than having the desire to win. In baseball, there are so many strikeouts, groundouts and flyouts that a young player will deal with before he finally hits that gamewinning homerun. A baseball player can learn more quickly about how to succeed when it matters most after he has already learned to grow from failure in multiple forms of competition. “You’ve been through some terrible, terrible defeats,” Haig said. “You’re able to deal with failures, you’re able to deal with a lot of things so much easier when you’ve done it before.” Redshirt sophomore catcher Michael McCann — who lettered as a quarterback at Cedar Ridge High School in Round Rock — argues that the
physical and mental toughness required in baseball can actually be developed to a greater extent in football. “There’s things in football that you learn that baseball really doesn’t show you,” McCann said. “Aggressiveness and having that physical toughness in football really overlaps in baseball.” Junior catcher Michael Cantu also lettered as a quarterback when he went to Moody High School. Similar to McCann, the Corpus Christi native excels at catching as a result of carrying over the leadership skills he learned as a quarterback. “The mentality of being a quarterback — you’re sort of the quarterback of the baseball field (as a catcher),” Cantu said. “It’s having good leadership, good body language and taking blows.” When a baseball player who has competed in multiple sports steps into the batter’s box in a big NCAA game, he isn’t just swinging a bat. Every club, stick or racket he has ever held aids in his efforts, making him ready to swing for the fences.
It was one of the quieter victories at Red and Charline McCombs field Wednesday night as Texas shut out Texas Southern 5-0. “At five o’clock midweek non-conference, people are getting off of work,” head coach Connie Clark said. “It’s tough to feed off any energy in the stadium because there’s not a lot of people in the stands yet. But you have to always remember maybe that one fan or that one kid that shows up and it might be the only opportunity they see Texas softball play. What impression do you want to leave?” Most of the energy came from the first two rows of the bleachers, and the Longhorns had them jumping with excitement early. In the first inning, freshman outfielder Kaitlyn Washington reached first on a fielder’s choice and
advanced on a wild pitch. A single by senior third baseman Celina Felix and a sac fly by freshman catcher Taylor Ellsworth brought Washington home for a 1-0 score. Felix reached home on a throwing error to make the game 2-0. Ellsworth started a doubles trend with a fence-hit to left center in the third inning. Sophomore Bekah Alcozer came in as pinch runner, rounding the bases for a 3-0 score on a double by junior catcher Randel Leahy. Senior Kelli Hanzel doubled to left center for RBI to extend the Longhorn’s lead to 4-0. In the fifth inning, Texas would score its final run on a walk by Alcozer and a single coupled with a fielding error by junior Paige von Sprecken. All five Texas pitchers had time at the circle. Standing out was sophomore Erica Wright, who continued to dominate as a starter. In 48 innings, Wright has only allowed 17 hits, including three
complete-game one-hitters. In her one inning of work, Wright had two strikeouts and no hits. “She is somebody who wants the ball in her hand in the biggest opportunities and that’s something I wish I could teach, but that’s not typically something you teach.” Clark said. Senior Tiarra Davis and sophomore Kristen Clark followed, each getting one inning of work for a combined two hits and one walk. Von Sprecken and sophomore Brooke Bolinger finished the game for the Longhorns at the circle with one hit and one walk in four innings. When the final fly ball from Texas Southern was caught, the two bleachers roared with cheers. Texas will have a bigger crowd for the Iowa State series this weekend, and will look for their fifth consecutive victory. “It’s about us.” Clark said.
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Freshman catcher Taylor Ellsworth had an RBI double in the Longhorn’s victory over Texas Southern Wednesday night.
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Patterson, Boothe headline No. 3 recruiting class By Dalton Phillips @Dalton_Tweets
The next generation of Texas talent hit the hardwood for the second time in a month at the women’s Jordan Brand Classic on April 14. Texas commits Chasity Patterson and Rellah Boothe make up the Longhorns’ No. 3 recruiting class. The top point guard and forward tandem established Texas as one of only two programs to sign multiple top-ten prospects, and the only university to have two of the top five. Both players competed in the McDonald’s High School All-American Game, and Boothe was named MVP. It’s too soon to tell how both players will adjust to the college game, but one thing has become abundantly clear: The duo is already clicking. “I cannot wait to play on her team,” Boothe said of Patterson. “She’s one of those teammates that everyone wants to have. When we’re on the court, she makes sure that you’re seen.” The fall roster is stacked with top-talent. With the inclusion of Patterson and Boothe, Texas boasts eight former All-American players. And with two potential stars gelling this early in the process,Texas head coach Karen Aston said that the ceiling for this team may be higher than any she’s coached before. “If we mature like I think we can, and the players who come in as freshmen — and newcomers — if they buy into the process this summer... I do think we have the ability to be as well-rounded as we’ve been,” Aston said. Boothe and Patterson’s relationship extends beyond the basketball court. The two have quickly become close
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Head coach Karen Aston has high-expectations for her squad next year. With the additions of All-Americans Chasity Patterson and Rellah Boothe during the recruitment period, Aston believes this could be the most well-rounded team she’s coached at Texas.
in their short time spent together, sharing rooms at events and making jokes at shootarounds. “We can relate to each other, as far as personal experience and stuff like that,” Boothe said. “I also like her as a person too. She’s goofy. She’s very goofy. Even when I think about her I laugh because I know every time I see her she’s gonna do something to make me laugh.” On the court Patterson, a 5-foot-6 point guard out of Houston’s North Shore High School, is every bit the lethal shooter of Texas’ leading scorer
Brooke McCarty. She adds a long range scoring threat to an elite team that only averaged four three-pointers a game last season and was outscored from behind the arc in almost every matchup. “The one thing I will tell you about Chastity is that she’s pretty legit in a sense of what she brings to the table,” Aston said. “And even though Chassity is being labeled as a point guard — and she is — we recruited her for her shooting ability.” Boothe offers another level of dynamism. The supremely talented wing/forward will
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make for nightmare matchups on both ends of the floor with her size and skillset. At 6-foot-3 inches, Boothe comes to Texas mirroring last year’s prospect Joyner Holmes, who gave Texas 12.1 points and 8.2 rebounds in her first season. Both Boothe and Holmes entered as the No. 2 recruit, and both have the versatility to fill a variety of roles. “Rellah is a scorer,” Aston said. “I wouldn’t say she has a label. Or a position. Very much like Joyner. But she does have the capabilities of stretching the floor.”
Boothe averaged 27.5 points and 9.8 rebounds her senior year of high school. Her lefty jumper and handles are further developed than Holmes at the same stage of her career. When asked about the similarities, Boothe acknowledged the different roles the two would fill. “She’s versatile,” Boothe said. “Very versatile. I’m also the same. She can play outside, she can play inside. We’re pretty much built the same.” The difference? “I can play one through
five,” Boothe said. “I can play point guard.” Boothe and Holmes’ versatility coupled with Patterson and McCarty’s shooting spells trouble for the Big 12 next season. “I think we are most certainly headed in the correct direction,” Aston said. “If you talk about where we were five years ago, and now we’re contending for conference championships. And we’re really a shot away or two away from one, with a young team — (it) makes you excited for the future.”
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California man makes marijuana-infused vodka By Stephen Acevedo @thedailytexan
As marijuana users and drinkers argue over which is the better vice, micro-distiller Abe Stevens decided to bring the two together with his newest product — marijuana-infused vodka. The sativa-flavored vodka, made at the Humboldt Distillery in California is infused with food-grade legal hemp buds to attain a taste unlike any other vodka on the market. “Our area of Humboldt county is kind of a wellknown region for illicit marijuana cultivation,” Stevens said. “I would run into people out in the field kind of joking and asking when we were going to put some local flavor into our vodka.” For a long time, Stevens said he would just shrug off the idea, as a marijuana vodka product would be a legal nightmare for a distillery. Finally, after more badgering from his community and a little more research, Stevens found a legal way
to infuse Humboldt’s finest into his vodka. “Marijuana would be illegal to infuse into our vodka, but using legal food-grade hemp isn’t, and would allow us to capture some of that flavor,” Stevens said. Head of sales and marketing and Daily Texan alumnus Jim Sweeney said although they found a way to legally infuse marijuana into their vodka, the company doesn’t necessarily plan on switching over to cannabis with THC pending possible changes in the law. “When you go to a bar, you know where you are relative to the intensity of how much you drink or the intensity of marijuana you might smoke,” Sweeney said. “When those products get combined, the beverage alcohol community is taking 100 percent responsibility to try to figure out what the self-medication level for high-intensity marijuana and 80 proof vodka (is).” Stevens said he agrees it might not be responsible for them to mix two drugs
in one product, and combination should be left to the discretion of consumers. For anyone who’s wondering what the benefit of a weed-infused vodka is when it doesn’t even get you high, Sweeney said it’s a flavor that reintroduces some class to the vodka game, which has been rapidly declining in popularity as of late. “(The industry) has moved in this silly direction with stuff like marshmallow and banana, and we’ve brought it back to a level of infusion integrity,” Sweeney said. “It’s just been a little more interesting to see vodka back on the signature list rather than only seeing brown spirits.” Sweeney said the reception of Humboldt’s Finest from mixologists has been as positive as they hoped, with a number of mixologists comparing this new vodka to craft ryes and bourbons. “A lot of mixologists these days are looking for interesting things to mix with new cocktails, and we’re kind of
helping them meet that need by offering a unique product,” Sweeney said. “What I’ve had some of the more popular mixologists in California and Miami say is that this really makes vodka cool again.” The flavor of Humboldt’s Finest is very similar to that of gin, with a taste that leans heavily on the side of herbal and floral. It has a mild and inviting nose, and upon the first sip, you’re immediately hit with the nice earthy flavor of the sativa with the slightest hint of what tastes like celery. Only after letting the flavors rest and swallowing the spirit does the little burn of the vodka set in. Humboldt’s Finest would be best suited in something equally herbal and savory like a bloody mary or a thyme-based cocktail. Stevens said it can also replace gin in most gin cocktails. It’s a pleasantly versatile flavored vodka that shines a light on how successful and notable vodka infusion can actually be.
Courtesy of Humboldt Distillary
Humboldt Distillery found a way to infuse the flavor of actual cannabis into their vodka without any trace of THC.
CITY
GRAV Labs aims to weed out stigma around recreational smoking By Jose Gonzalez @jose_thewriter
When creating glass pipes and other smoking devices, GRAV Labs usually aims for practicality. But they took the plunge to step out of their comfort zone when they forged Goliath, the world’s largest water pipe. GRAV, a company founded in 2004 by David Daily, is an Austin-based facility that manufactures smoking appliances out of Pyrex glass. The company’s name is derived from its popular namesake product, the Gravitron, an all-glass gravity smoking device. In 2014, GRAV was approached by the TV show Shipping Wars to make the world’s largest water pipe a reality and deliver it from Austin to Denver. Glassblowers like Stephan Peirce worked on the project at GRAV, taking dynamics like centrifugal forges into account. Kate Csillagi, Chief of Sales
at GRAV, is a former glassblower and said she respects Peirce’s ingenuity, especially since he took on such a large challenge. “Stephan Peirce is a mad scientist and a glass genius,” Csillagi said. “He has broken a lot of unspoken records around glass, so he thought about doing the biggest (water pipe) for a long time.” As a result of her own experience, Csillagi said she knew the complications that this project involved, like annealing, the complex process of heating glass. “To stabilize the glass, you have to raise it to a certain temperature and then (bring it) back down so that the actual molecular structure of the glass is stable and won’t just crack on you,” Csillagi said. Originally three giant pipes were made but only one survived the annealing at 11 feet tall. Maria Hansen, creative director at GRAV, said she named the giant water pipe Goliath and saw for herself that it wasn’t
just meant for display. “We would go up to the first story roof, and then people would try and hit it from there, and some were successful — it actually did work,” Hansen said. “I thought it needed a vacuum to get the smoke up, but it turns out you just need strong lungs.” Originally destined for Denver, Colorado, the facility where it was going to be held had a 9-foot ceiling– two feet too short for Goliath. So, the pipe was then sold off to a client in New Orleans for $6,000. GRAV once collaborated with a shop in Austin called 420Science on building the tallest STAX pipe, a water pipe that stood at 16 feet tall. However, Csillagi said it doesn’t compare to making a solid glass piece that stands on its own like the Goliath. In thirteen years, GRAV has innovated with products like the STAX pipe, which allows clients to mix and match components and customize their
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Stephan Peirce and another glassblower at GRAV anneal the glass as they forge Goliath, the world’s largest water pipe, standing at 11 feet tall.
Rayna Rosenzweig Daily Texan Staff
pipe to fit their needs. As an ancillary business, brand director Tanya Rosenzweig said GRAV doesn’t like to be exclusively associated with the marijuana industry as glass pipes serve various purposes. Rosenwzweig said GRAV aims to expand as a household brand and educate customers that recreational
smoking is a normal thing. “A lot of people, when I tell them what I do, they always have this chuckle,’ Rosenzweig said. “We’re all adults, and there are a lot of people out there that are users, so we wanna help shed away some of those stigmas.” Though events like 4/20 draw a lot of attention, Hansen
said she loves the niche clientele GRAV has attained because the product sells itself. “I don’t have to push anything on anybody, “ Hansen said. “At the end of the day, what we’re trying to do is supply (people) with an experience, whether it’s to have fun with friends or for comfort reasons.”
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