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Texas’ newest football coaching staff became official Wednesday evening when head coach Charlie Strong formally announced the as-sistants who will work along-side him during his first year

with the Longhorns.Strong hired four new de-

fensive coaches, including Vance Bedford as defensive coordinator and secondary coach. Bedford comes with Strong from Louisville, where he led a 2013 Cardinals de-fense to a No. 1 ranking in total defense, third-down-

conversion defense and sacks.The former Texas defen-

sive back has a reputation for turning his defensive teams into aggressive playmakers who shut down opponents’ offenses. Bedford’s defense at Louisville let up only 251.5 yards per game and 12.2 points per game in 2013.

Before Bedford started with the Cardinals in 2010, Lou-isville’s defense gave up 26.2 points per game and 371.1 yards per game in 2009.

“What he also does a great job of is making sure he puts them in a position to make

Citizens and stakeholders raised concerns about the city’s plan to renovate Sixth Street at a public meeting Wednesday. Carl Daywood, bar owner and Sixth Street Association board member, said some who attended the meetings failed to under-stand how the plan’s con-struction would affect area businesses.

“I think there’s a lot of misrepresentation and mis-understanding by the gener-al public at these meetings,”

Daywood said. According to Daywood,

the city’s plan will eliminate parking spaces, increase traf-fic and unnecessarily replace storm drains.

Bar owner Jason Carrier said 87 members of the asso-ciation — 76 percent — are against the city’s plan.

“We want to get ahead of [the project’s implementa-tion] and say, ‘Wait, wait, you may think this is a great idea, but it’s really not’,” Carrier said.

According to Daywood, the association has proposed an alternate plan he said

would preserve the historic nature of the district, includ-ing exposing the original brick streets and maintaining the historical architecture.

“We want to take [the street] back to the 1920s,” Daywood said. “We like the ambiance of the histori-cal French quarter in New Orleans. Would you go back if they destroyed its historic nature?”

Carrier said the associa-tion will focus on informing the public that its alternate plan will not hurt business.

Texas Student Media and its entities, including The Daily Texan, are being moved under the domain of the Moody College of Com-munication, though many

questions about the impli-cations of the move remain unanswered.

TSM, the umbrella or-ganization that manages a number of student-pro-duced media properties, including Cactus Yearbook, Texas Travesty, Texas Stu-

dent TV, KVRX 91.7 FM and The Daily Texan, is currently housed under the Division of Student Affairs and has been under severe financial constraints for the last several years.

Roderick Hart, dean of the Moody college, said he

agreed to assume oversight of TSM after President Wil-liam Powers Jr. asked him personally to do so. Hart said he does not have ex-tensive background knowl-edge about current TSM operations.

“All I can say is the

president called me over to his office. That was it,” Hart said. “I don’t know anything about the TSM Board, or what its procedures are.”

Powers, who is currently in Washington, D.C. for a

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Two new Active Learning Classrooms in the McCombs School of Business will be opening fall 2014, supported by a $500,000 grant from the professional services firm Deloitte.

The new classrooms will be converted from the current Millennium Lab, a computer lab and student collaboration workspace in McCombs. The lab is set to close on the last day of final exams and then be redesigned into the Active Learning Classrooms during the summer.

“It’s not very easy to do group work, and it’s not really technologically enhanced in those rooms, so this just makes it a lot easier, and that takes down a barrier to doing that type of class approach,” Associ-ate Dean David Platt said.

The Active Learning Class-rooms will feature a podium in the middle of the room, wall-mounted white boards, multiple projection systems and tables around the room. As a result, the classroom will have no front or back.

Platt said a concern from many students was not having access to software only avail-able in the Millennium Lab.

To help prevent that po-tential problem, James Coombes, assistant direc-tor for computer services, designed a remote applica-tion service called mCloud for business students who need to easily access software found at the Millennium Lab. The application can be accessed with a remote desk-top client to run on students’ own computers.

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Shelby Tauber / Daily Texan StaffFootball head coach Charlie Strong finalized his staff Wednesday. Strong, whom Texas lured away from Louisville, is bringing a few Cardinals staffers with him, but has also brought in several other coaches from around the country. In all, there will be coaches from seven different schools on the staff.

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Pu Ying Huang / Daily Texan StaffPlans for Sixth Street renovations, such as adding 18-foot-wide sidewalks and reworking the traffic system, have raised concerns for stakeholders who believe construction would affect businesses.

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Pu Ying Huang / Daily Texan StaffCourtney Miller helps rake gravel at the construction site of a food trailer on East Sixth Street on Wednesday evening. Rather than hiring a construction crew, Miller, the owners and another friend are taking it upon themselves to build a zen-like environment for their future sushi business.

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White House conference on higher-education access for low-income students, was

unavailable for comment. Although Hart and Gage

Paine, vice president of stu-dent affairs, attended a TSM board meeting in September to solicit feedback about a potential move to the college, no decisions were made at the meeting, and multiple mem-bers of the TSM Board, in-cluding board President Dave Player, said they had not been made aware of any part of the negotiation process.

“No one ever contacted me about it from the administra-tion, or from the [Moody college],” Player said. “This is how much they value student input: not at all.”

Player said he was con-cerned about the lack of de-tail provided to board mem-bers about the implications of the move.

“We want to make sure we preserve the autonomy of the paper,” Player said. “We

put a high value on being a student-run publication with student managers — student content decided by students — and we want to make sure that’s preserved.”

Cliff Avery, president of Friends of the Texan, a re-cently formed alumni group, said his organization was also unaware a decision had been made.

Robert Quigley, jour-nalism senior lecturer and member of the TSM Board, said he was optimistic about the move.

“I want to see [TSM] sur-vive, and I think this is an im-portant step in making that happen,” Quigley said. “I’m under the assumption that the trust will remain relatively intact, that we’ll still have a board and a director and all that. I don’t want to say for sure that one thing’s going to happen over another.”

University spokesman Gary Susswein said Powers is aware there are unanswered questions.

“In terms of finances, and some of the financial ques-tions that have been raised, that still has to be worked out,” Susswein said. “We want UT to be able to maintain the Texan as a strong, indepen-dent student newspaper.”

Hart said it was important to recognize the ongoing nature of the situation and the uncertain state of TSM finances. Currently, TSM is without a director, as former director Jalah Goette an-nounced her resignation in December. The University has yet to appoint someone in the interim.

“I really don’t have anybody in my thoughts [to oversee op-erations] . . . There are just a lot of unknowns,” Hart said. “The president and I both agreed

that we have to have a function-ing fundraising operation, and that’ll be really helpful. It’s not going to help in the short term, but, in the long term, philan-thropy can hopefully become part of the solution for [TSM] . . . It’s something I haven’t really had a chance to get my teeth into. It’s in a very sort of still-working-it-out stage.”

Hart said that, although he had reservations about the move initially, he felt strongly about the work TSM entities do.

“This is not something I lusted for, but I’m a real fan of [TSM], in all its pieces and parts,” Hart said. “If I can be helpful in the process, I will do so. That’s what I told the president. I don’t have any great expertise to bring to it at this moment.”

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install on their own computer or just don’t want to go through the hassle,” Coombes said.

Coombes said mCloud has been in its pilot phase since the beginning of the school year and should become an official service by the end of the semester. Once it becomes an official program, Coombes said students will be able to access the software on their own laptops without having to use the Millennium Lab.

To make sure all students’ needs were met during the transition to the new Active Learning Classrooms, Platt worked with a committee of McCombs students to en-sure the important functions

of the Millennium Lab were conserved in other ways.

“The initial reaction was negative because students didn’t know how McCombs was going to make up for the space that was going to be lost,” said Jordan Costen, supply chain management

senior and committee member. “It’s important for students to understand that we will have all the resourc-es available, if not more.”

Michelle Patterson, management information systems senior and committee member, said the

committee was particularly fo-cused on replacing the space.

The committee gave Platt ideas to give students a place to use the software, print documents or collaborate on assignments. Patterson said the group plans to advertise mCloud more this semester, in

the hope that students will be more aware of what the school now offers.

“The opportunity to be ahead of the curve on some of the new technology that’s being developed in higher education is huge for Mc-Combs,” Patterson said.

“We have the plan that will preserve the historic aspects

of the area without having to tear up the streets — without putting local businesses out of business,” Carrier said.

Daywood said that so far

no changes have been made to either the city’s design or the alternate design proposed by the association. He said the association hired independent

consultants to work with the city’s team, which he hopes will alter the current design.

Susan Garnett, Capital Out-puts program coordinator in the Public Works Department, said 30 percent of the project design is completed. Accord-ing to Garnett, the estimated cost of the city’s current proj-ect design is $19 million, and the source of funding has yet to be determined.

In the next two weeks, Garnett said, the project team will ask for input from boards and commissions that show an interest in the project design.

“I cannot speculate as to what type of feedback will be given at these meetings, nor do we have any comments to provide on the updates the Sixth Street Association has made to their alternate plan,” Garnett said.

“If it’s the people who ac-tually own the buildings and that’s their livelihood, then maybe we should listen,” Carrier said.

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For his work on the lithi-um-ion battery, engineering professor John Goodenough will receive the Charles Stark Draper Prize for Engineering — one of the world’s preemi-nent awards for engineering achievement from the Nation-al Academy of Engineering.

Goodenough, a profes-sor in the departments of mechanical engineering and electrical and computer en-gineering, has worked at the University for 28 years.

“It was a pleasant surprise,” Goodenough said.

Goodenough and his collab-orators Yoshio Nishi, Rachid Yazami and Akira Yoshino will accept the award at a ceremony in Washington D.C., on Feb. 18 and split the $500,000 prize.

Goodenough first began work on the lithium-ion bat-tery after a series of oil-price shocks caused an energy cri-sis in the ’70s. In 1979, he was able to show that by using lithium cobalt and graphite, he could create a stable bat-tery with a high density of stored energy. The battery was licensed to the Sony Corp.

“The Sony Corp. made the first cell telephone, and that initiated the wireless revolu-tion,” Goodenough said.

Electrical engineering senior Angus Ranson said Goodenough’s work on the battery has had a major im-pact on virtually all modern consumer electronics.

“The lithium-ion battery has revolutionized the world of portable electronics by pro-viding lightweight, high-ener-gy density means of providing power to common and popu-lar devices like cell phones and laptops,” Ranson said.

John Halton, associate dean at the Cockrell School of

Engineering, said Goodenough’s work had a universal impact.

“He invented something that has affected the life of every person on the planet because we would have no hope of having mobile com-munication without the lithi-um-ion battery,” Halton said.

In 2001, Goodenough re-ceived the Japan Prize for his work on the lithium-ion battery, and in 2013 he was awarded the National Medal of Science for his lasting con-tributions to materials sci-ence and technology.

Halton said that despite his age and many existing accomplishments, Good-enough is still hard at work.

“He’s very passionate, very hard working,” Halton said. “At his age, over 90, he’s still as sharp as he was when he was a teenager.”

Goodenough said he and his colleagues are still working to improve the lithium-ion battery.

“We are developing new strategies for the lithium-ion battery to try to make it cost-competitive with fossil fuels, so that we can have electric cars and store electrical energy coming from wind farms and solar farms,” Goodenough said.

In a report released ear-lier this week, private legal counsel representing the UT System concluded there was “no credible evidence” that Regent Wallace Hall violat-ed a state law regarding the protection of confidential information.

Philip Hilder, outside counsel to the System, submitted a report outlin-ing his conclusions to the House Select Commit-tee on Transparency in State Agency Operations on Monday. The commit-tee is investigating Hall to determine whether Hall overstepped his duties as a regent and whether he should be recommended for impeachment.

Hall has been accused of conducting a “witch-hunt” against President William Powers Jr. after he filed open-records requests with the University for more than 800,000 pages of information.

At one committee hear-ing in November, UT Sys-tem lawyers testified Hall was mistakenly given ac-cess to private student in-formation — possibly in violation of federal privacy laws — which he subse-quently shared with his private attorney. Francie Frederick, general counsel to the UT System Board of Regents, said regents are only allowed to view documents with informa-tion protected by the Fam-ily Educational Rights and Privacy Act — known as FERPA — if the regents have a “legitimate educa-tional purpose” for doing so.

At the same hearing, State Rep. Trey Martinez Fischer, D-San Antonio, requested a review and response from the UT System regarding the po-tential violation. Martinez Fischer also motioned to have Rusty Hardin, legal counsel to the commit-tee, review Hall’s actions in sharing confidential

documents and determine whether Hall committed a crime.

In his letter, Hilder said Hall requested all infor-mation protected by FER-PA be redacted from the documents, but UT failed to completely remove all potentially problematic information when provid-ing Hall with the requested documents. Hilder con-cluded Hall did not violate privacy acts because the University “never deter-mined that Regent Hall did not have a legitimate educa-tional interest” in viewing the information.

“Regent Hall specifically asked that documents with potential FERPA informa-tion be withheld,” Hilder said. “However, when potential FERPA docu-ments were provided by UT-Austin, in response to a regental information re-quest, issues surrounding UT-Austin’s admissions process came to Regent Hall’s attention.”

Hilder said the role of a

regent includes maintaining admissions standards con-sistent with the mission of institutions in the UT Sys-tem, so, once Hall read the documents in question and identified potential issues with the admissions pro-cess, he would have an edu-cational purpose.

In the letter, Hilder said Hall did not violate FER-PA when he disclosed the emails because UT did not intend to give Hall access to the information, and Hall did not intend to receive it, demonstrated by his request for all information protect-ed by FERPA to be redacted.

State Rep. Carol Alvarado, D-Houston and co-chair-woman of the committee, said she is glad the System followed the committee’s request by submitting a re-port.

“We appreciate them get-ting this to us in a timely manner, and I’m looking forward to reviewing the main report from our own general counsel [Hardin],” Alvarado said.

Austin Scarlett, a fashion designer and former contes-tant on the Lifetime reality series “Project Runway,” came to UT to discuss his research on the Harry Ransom Center’s “Gone With The Wind” exhi-bition, which will open Sept. 9.

Scarlett said one of his main purposes in research-ing the collection was to gain inspiration for his fall 2014 line of clothing.

—Cinnamon Cornell

President Barack Obama awarded chemistry professor Allen Bard with the Enrico Fermi Award, a $50,000 prize he will share with Andrew Sessler, director emeritus of the Lawrence Berkeley Na-tional Laboratory in Califor-nia. The award, which honors distinguished research in en-ergy science and technology over the course of a scientist’s career, is given through the U.S. Department of Energy and was announced Monday.

Chemistry professor Jona-than Sessler, whose father won the award alongside Bard, said Bard has made an impression on him since his early days at UT.

“I have admired Al Bard since I first arrived at UT in 1984. He was already famous back then,” Sessler said. “He remains one of my true he-roes: a scientist’s scientist.”

Electrochemistry is the com-bined study of various kinds of energy, chemicals and electri-cal systems. Bard said electro-chemistry is necessary for cre-ating many complex chemicals that are a vital component of many modern devices.

“[Electrochemistry is] used widely to obtain a lot of chemicals that you can’t make

because they don’t occur nat-urally in nature, like chlorine and aluminum,” Bard said. “All the batteries we have to-day are made through elec-trochemical systems.”

Chemistry lecturer Sara Sutcliffe, who was a student of Bard in the ’90s, said Bard has always been a memorable and thoughtful instructor.

“I took his class called ‘Elec-tronics for Scientists’ and it was a wonderful experience I will never forget,” Sutcliffe said. “He was patient and would take the time to really help you.”

Sutcliffe said she recalls a particular lesson in which Bard wanted to emphasize the importance of caution. According to Sutcliffe, Bard brought a television into class one day, adjusted the televi-sion’s wires and then touched one of them with a screw-driver, producing sparks, smoke and a powerful smell.

“He got the reaction out of the class he wanted,” Sutcliffe said.

Chemistry graduate student Michelle Robinson said Bard’s award speaks to the quality of researchers at the University.

“As a graduate student in the department of chemistry, hav-ing a recipient of the Enrico Fermi award is very exciting,” Robinson said. “It enhances the reputation of the department.”

The first of two can-didates vying for the prestigious Carlos E. Castaneda Postdoctoral Fellowship presented his research, which focuses on militarization along the Mexican-American border from 1848 to pres-ent, to a faculty commit-tee Wednesday.

C.J. Alvarez, a doctoral candidate from the Uni-versity of Chicago, said his research interests are in-spired in large part by his personal background.

“I grew up [near the border]. I witnessed the changes that happened there,” Alvarez said. “I am a historian, and I was try-ing to understand where it fit with my thesis.”

The fellowship is of-fered through the Center for Mexican American Studies and grants the winner a one-year resi-dency at UT, along with

several perks, including a $48,000 stipend. The se-lected fellow has to teach one undergraduate class and conduct a public lecture.

“This interview process is more than judging how to teach a class, but to see intellectual promise, professionalism and con-tribution to the unit and UT-Austin more broadly,” said Nicole Guidotti-Hernandez, American Studies associate pro-fessor and the center’s associate director.

Castaneda — the name-sake of the fellowship and the University’s Perry-Cas-taneda Library — was one of the first Mexican-Amer-ican studies scholars and activists, and graduated and taught at UT.

The second finalist for the fellowship is Pris-cilla Leiva, a doctoral student at the University of Southern California who will give a presenta-tion Wednesday at the

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“The opportunity to be ahead of the curve on some of the new technology that’s being developed in higher education is huge for Mc-Combs,” Patterson said.

Amy Zhang / Daily Texan StaffPresident Barack Obama recently named chemistry profes-sor Allen Bard a recipient of the Enrico Fermi Award.

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A heated argument broke out between two men on Gua-dalupe on Tuesday at 2:15 p.m. near the University Co-op — the fight escalated to physical violence, and then one of the men produced a knife.

UT police officers re-sponded and arrested the man wielding the knife, who was charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. The charge is categorized as a second degree felony.

The unarmed man was not cut or stabbed by the 3-inch pocketknife, according to the UTPD report.

UTPD officer Jimmy Moore said the incident poses no im-mediate risk to students walk-ing up and down the Drag.

“There shouldn’t be more prevalent of a safety risk for people walking by than there would be any other day,” Moore said.

Both men involved in the fight regularly spend long stretches of time on the Drag, Moore said.

The man in possession of the knife was transported to Travis County Central Booking.

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He invented something that has affected the life of every person on the planet because we would have no hope of having mobile com-munication without the lithium-ion battery.

—John Halton, Associate dean of the

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Amy Zhang / Daily Texan StaffC.J. Alvarez, a doctorate candidate in the history department at the University of Chicago, presents “The Shape of the Border: Policing the U.S.-Mexico Divide, 1848-Present” at the Student Activities Center on Wednesday afternoon.

Daily Texan Editor Willie Morris once wrote, “The Daily Texan is bigger than any one man.”

But it took only one man, President William Powers Jr., to make a major decision about the future of this University’s 113-year-old indepen-dent student newspaper, which he did when he asked Roderick Hart, the Dean of the Moody College of Communication, to absorb the ad-ministration of The Daily Texan and its parent organization, Texas Student Media, known as TSM, into the Moody college. Prior to this deci-sion, TSM was housed in the Division of Student Affairs, where a Board of Trustees ensured its in-dependence.

Not a single student manager in any of TSM’s five media properties, which include The Daily Texan, KVRX radio station, the Cactus Year-book, Texas Student Television and the Texas Travesty, were consulted about the change or even made aware of it, outside of a brief conver-sation with Hart and Gage Paine, vice president for Student Affairs, at a September meeting of the TSM Board of Trustees. During that discussion, student managers expressed concerns about moving to the communications school, includ-ing the potential for censorship and limiting the paper’s independence.

In response, Hart repeatedly reassured stu-dents that he had no interest in interfering with the workings of the paper, and, honestly, didn’t much want it in the first place. As he told a Daily Texan reporter on Wednesday, “[TSM] is not something that I lusted for.”

The Moody college, however, has the fund-raising resources that the Texan lacks. Whether or not Hart “lusted” after TSM, he will now be tasked with providing TSM the funds it needs, assuaging President Power’s fears about the paper struggling financially in the Division of Student Affairs.

“President Powers has spoken many times about his commitment to The Daily Texan, to [TSM] and to student journalism. [TSM’s move into the college] is another way to show support and help maintain the excellence of the student journalists we have on campus,” Gary Susswein, a University spokesman, said on Wednesday.

This editorial board believes in the good in-tentions of both Hart and Powers. Financially troubled media entities, after all, aren’t the most attractive business acquisitions, and the dean has better business to take care of than nit-picking at the Texan’s articles. Powers has, as Susswein said, consistently stood up for the independence of stu-dent journalism on the UT campus.

But that doesn’t change the fact that neither of them has adequately confronted the potential challenges to the Texan’s independence that come with a move to the Moody college. And, though we trust Hart’s promise to refrain from interfering with the paper, it’s possible to imagine a college’s dean who feels differently, and it’s this worst-case scenario that has to be discussed. If a dean is able to limit the content printed in the Texan, hire and fire the TSM director, or challenge editors who defy him by threatening to tighten the paper’s purse strings, the core values of The Daily Texan — independence and student control — may be under fire. Worse yet, control of The Daily Tex-an could be granted to professors, who may feel more comfortable with a paper that conforms to their idea of perfection than one that fails — and learns — at the hands of students.

Which is why we are so distressed that no one involved in the decision, as yet, has adequately ex-plained how TSM will maintain its independence under the Moody college’s umbrella.

As Dean Hart himself said Wednesday, “There’s just a lot of unknowns …. It’s in a very sort of still-working-it-out stage.”

In regard to why the student members of the Board of Trustees were not alerted of the move, Hart said, “All I can say is the president called me over to his office. That was it. I don’t know any-thing about the TSM board, or what its proce-dures are.”

We’re happy that President Powers saw fit to turn his eyes on our beloved, and financially floundering, newspaper. We’re happy he saw fit to order a drastic action to save it. But we’re shocked and concerned that questions about preserving the Texan’s independence were answered briefly, poorly and unconvincingly by administrators at all levels. The editorial independence of one of the nation’s greatest college newspapers is not some-thing with which to play fast and loose.

Before TSM makes its move to the communi-cations school, students should demand to know how the TSM trust, which protects the paper’s in-dependence, will be amended and when.

Students should demand to know whether, as Dean Hart put it, “solidifying the management structure” includes strengthening or weakening elected student leadership.

Most importantly, students should demand a concrete answer to the question of how the com-munications school will absorb the paper without squelching its independence. That members of the UT administration have repeatedly prom-ised not to meddle with TSM properties is not enough: It is easy to make promises when there is nothing holding you to them.

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Just days after Charlie Strong was intro-duced as the University’s new head football coach, booster Red McCombs took to the air-waves to voice his thoughts on the new hire. In an interview with ESPN 1250 San Antonio, McCombs, a former owner of the San Anto-nio Spurs, Denver Nuggets and Minnesota Vi-kings, described the University’s decision as a “kick in the face.”

“I don’t have any doubt that Charlie is a fine coach. I think he would make a great position coach, maybe a coordinator. But I don’t be-lieve [he belongs at] what should be one of the three most powerful university programs in the world right now at UT-Austin,” McCombs added.

McCombs’ comments came off as insensi-tive, pompous and racist given that he reacted so strongly to the hiring of Strong, the Univer-sity’s first African-American men’s head coach and only the second African-American head coach in school history. To say that Strong isn’t the right man for the job is one thing, but to dismiss his accomplishments as only warrant-ing a position coach or coordinating job is downright degrading.

Bryan Davis, a government senior and presi-dent of the Society for Cultural Unity, felt Mc-Combs’ remarks were “subjective, personal and rooted in something other than football commentary.”

Kevin Cokley, a professor of educational psychology and of African and African dias-pora studies, added, “I think Strong will prob-ably be scrutinized even more closely than perhaps a white coach, in part to see how he deals with the influential big-money boost-ers who are part of the ‘white Texas good ole boy’ club. Also, given the negative stereotypes that exist about African-American intelligence I would not be surprised if some critics start questioning his play calling and his decision making to a greater degree than occurred with Mack Brown.”

Even though McCombs is the only booster who has publicly spoken out against Strong, it is an indication of the uphill battle to come, es-pecially when considering the fate of the Uni-versity’s last and only other African-American head coach, Bev Kearney.

Kearney, who filed a $1 million lawsuit against the University, claims she was fired for having a consensual relationship with a student-athlete, while other UT white male employees in similar relationships —

particularly Major Applewhite — did not face equal disciplinary action.

The University has failed to clearly illus-trate why Kearney was fired while Applewhite merely received a pay cut for committing the same offense. So it seems as if race and gender play a bigger role in the case than the Univer-sity is letting on.

Though the University has only had two African-American head coaches, it is important to note how both have faced questionable treatment seemingly because of their race. From McCombs’ dismissive comments about Strong’s accomplishments to the University’s handling of Kearney’s consensual student relationship, it’s com-mendable that Strong still wants to accept the position.

When asked about McCombs’ comments, Strong replied, “There are going to be state-ments made … once you win some football games, you’re going to change a lot of people’s attitudes.”

However, there are many people on campus whose opinions differ from McCombs’.

Curtis Riser, a physical culture and sports sophomore and offensive guard on UT’s foot-ball team, said, “I’m glad to have our first Af-rican-American [men’s head football coach] at Texas. [Red McCombs] is entitled to his own opinion, but I’m just happy to move forward with our new coach.”

But under no circumstances is the hiring of Strong enough to compensate for the dispro-portionately low number of African-Amer-icans on campus. After all, the football team was predominantly black before Strong’s ar-rival. When the presence of black males at UT expands beyond the football field, then and only then will true progress be made.

“The hiring of Charlie Strong is certainly wonderful and is very exciting for UT. How-ever, I would caution us to not make this a panacea for race relations,” Cokley said.

Even if Strong’s presence doesn’t immedi-ately fix race relations at UT, having a man of color in a position of such power is monumen-tal, given that black males make up less than 2 percent of the University’s total population.

“UT hiring its first black football coach is symbolic in terms of exhibiting black leader-ship that has potential to further discourse about race relations here,” Davis said.

McCombs has since apologized for his de-rogatory comments about the hiring of Strong, but his insistence that he was unaware of the racist undertones of his comments further emphasizes that race relations continue to be an issue at UT. While McCombs has taken responsibility for his actions, as a man whose name is plastered across the University’s busi-ness school, McCombs should exercise better judgment.

Johnson is an undeclared junior from DeSoto.

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Jonathan Garza / Daily Texan Staff President William Powers Jr. and Roderick Hart, Dean of the Moody College of Communica-tion, at the School of Journalism’s Cenntential celebration on Monday.

Important questions were left unanswered by dean, president

them successful,” Strong said. “That is what you look for on defense a guy that can disrupt an offense, which he does with pressure.”

Strong also brought an-other championship coach into the mix at Texas. Former Alabama defensive line coach Chris Rumph was hired for the same role with the Long-horns this past week.

Rumph, who helped the Crimson Tide to two back-to-back national titles in 2011 and 2012, brings more toughness to the Longhorns. During his stints at Clemson and Ala-bama, he was known for his in-tense and lively attitude, which kept his players in line. Rumph also adds skillful recruiting, as he has been known to have a great rapport with players and potential recruits.

“He is a guy with a lot of ex-perience being around cham-pionship teams, so he has competed at the highest level,” Strong said. “That is what you want to get into this program.”

During his switch from Louisville, Strong also took linebackers coach Brian Jean-Mary with him to Texas. Jean-Mary, who has developed NFL

players such as Gerris Wilkin-son and Chris Reis in his time at Georgia Tech, has gained invaluable experience in build-ing up diminishing linebacker groups — an area Texas has had trouble with in past seasons.

Strong rounded out his defensive staff with Chris Vaughn as the defensive backs coach and special teams coordinator. Vaughn comes from Memphis, where he built up an aggressive passing defense that moved up 42 spots nationally after he started with the Tigers. In addition, Vaughn, a Mur-ray State alumnus, devel-oped wide receiver Marshay Green into a cornerback at Ole Miss. Green would later become an NFL cornerback and special teams player.

Strong’s final assistant is Pat Moorer, the strength and conditioning coach, whom he brought with him from Louisville. In his three years at Louisville, Moorer instilled toughness and ac-countability into his play-ers, another area in which the Longhorns have lacked since their 2009 national title appearance.

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Sam Ortega / Daily Texan file photoTexas’ defense was solid at times in 2013, but head coach Charlie Strong and his defensive coaches will look for more consistency in 2014.

Unprecedented number of underclassmen leaving for NFL draftSouth Carolina defensive

end Jadeveon Clowney and Texas A&M quarterback Johnny Manziel headline a record number of under-classmen entering the NFL draft heading into Wednes-day night’s deadline.

At least 90 players who had college eligibility remain-ing are expected to enter the draft, shattering last year’s re-cord number of 73.

“It’s a humongous num-ber, so the first reaction is it makes you step back a little bit,” said NFL Network draft analyst Daniel Jeremiah, a former scout with the Bal-timore Ravens, Cleveland Browns and Philadelphia Eagles. “What I’m hearing is that the agents always have to make the sales pitch to get these to come out. This

year, what I’ve been told is the sales pitch is that all your money right now is coming from the second contract, so you need to come out early so you can get to that second contract a year earlier — and apparently it’s been pretty effective.”

ESPN analyst Mel Kiper Jr. released a mock draft Wednesday in which 23 of the 32 first-round picks were early entries. Kiper had Manziel going first overall and included Clowney, UCF quarterback Blake Bortles and Clemson wide receiver Sammy Watkins as top-five picks. Jeremiah’s list of the top 50 draft prospects in-cludes early entries in the top three spots: Clowney at No. 1, Watkins at No. 2 and Auburn offensive tackle

Greg Robinson at No. 3.“It’s going to be a huge

number of underclassmen that go high and have long careers,” Jeremiah said. “And there are going to be some other guys who don’t get drafted and will be in a tough spot and would have been better served to go back to school. It works both ways.”

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Here’s a breakdown of some of the early entries at quarterback and running back in this year’s draft.

QUARTERBACK: Man-ziel, Bortles and Louisville’s Teddy Bridgewater are all projected first-round picks. Although the 6-foot-1-inch Manziel lacks the size of Bortles and Bridge-water, the 2012 Heisman

Trophy winner played tougher competition in the Southeastern Conference. Jeremiah ranks Manziel as his No. 7 overall prospect, with Bridgewater 10th and Bortles 22nd. Kiper’s mock draft has Bridgewater get-ting taken eighth. Wyo-ming’s Brett Smith isn’t regarded as highly as the other three quarterbacks, but he could get chosen later in the draft.

RUNNING BACK: Au-burn’s Tre Mason boosted his stock by rushing for 663 yards against Alabama, Missouri and Florida State over his final three games. Jeremiah rates Mason 47th overall and second among running backs, behind Ohio State senior Micah Hyde. Other notable run-

ning backs to enter the draft include Arizona’s Ka’Deem Carey, Washington’s Bishop Sankey, Oregon’s De’Anthony Thomas, LSU’s

Jeremy Hill, UCF’s Storm Johnson and Florida State teammates Devonta Free-man and James Wilder Jr.

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South Caro-lina defensive end Jadeveon Clowney walks around the field carrying the trophy after South Carolina defeated Wiscon-sin 34-24 in the Capital One Bowl NCAA college football game in Orlando, Fla., on Jan. 1.

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Developing quarterback Tyrone Swoopes into Texas’ quarterback of the future wil be one of the many challenges the Longhorns’ of-fensive coaching staff will face in 2014.

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Bruce Chambers (TE)Chambers returns to

Texas as the only hold-over from Mack Brown’s last staff. His connections on the recruiting trail as well as familiarity with the area will make him an important member of new head coach Charlie Strong’s coaching staff. Although Chambers was seen by some as the weak link to Brown’s staff, his continuity with the team and high schools will be essential to Texas’ in-state recruiting success.

Les Koenning (WR)Koenning played for Tex-

as from 1977 to 1980, and was a graduate assistant for

the Longhorns from 1981 to 1983. In total, he has 33 years of coaching experi-ence, and has coached at four other schools in the state of Texas during that span of time. He was most recently the offensive coor-dinator and quarterbacks coach for Mississippi State, and under his watch the Bulldogs’ offense reached unprecedented heights. Al-though many question why Strong brought him in rath-er than retain Wyatt, his ties to the state and school should make his tenure a successful one.

Tommie Robinson (RB) Robinson is well-sea-

soned as a coach for vari-ous offensive assignments, but doesn’t have much in the way of substantial

ties to the state. Robin-son is a solid coach, but, as with most of the staff, his hire suffers in percep-tion because it is not the splash hire most fans were begging for.

Shawn Watson (Asst. Head Coach/QB)

Watson served as of-fensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach under Charlie Strong at Louisville, where he helped develop quarterback Teddy Bridge-water into a potential No. 1 overall draft pick in the 2014 NFL draft. Watson’s first big tasks will be devel-oping quarterback Tyrone Swoopes and 2014 commit Jerrod Herd into elite play-ers. His ability to do so will likely dictate how success-ful the Strong era will be

at Texas, though carrying him from Louisville could be Strong’s biggest regret if Watson doesn’t succeed.

Joe Wickline (Offensive Co-ordinator/ OL)

Although much is un-known about his ability to call plays — he last did so at Delta State in 1987 — Wickline is considered to be among the best in the busi-ness coaching the offensive line. At Oklahoma State, he developed Russell Okung from a three-star prospect to the No. 6 pick in the 2010 NFL Draft, a unit into which Texas has not had a player drafted since Tony Hills in 2008. Wickline should be able to develop the position immediately and is arguably the most impressive hire of the coaching staff.

By Drew Lieberman@DrewLieberman

Head coach Karen As-ton officially has a winning record at Texas. The Long-horns’ 70-58 win Wednesday night against Kansas gave Aston an all-time record of 24-23 on the 40 Acres.

“I feel good about that and just that we won,” Aston said. “I’m not re-ally paying a whole lot of attention to that. I’m really pleased that our team is continuing to im-prove. We’re just worried about trying to get better every game.”

Although Texas (12-5, 3-2) walked away with the win, it didn’t start the game as gracefully as it ended it. In the first half, the Longhorns seemed slightly out of sync, as the Jayhawks grabbed re-bounds and forced four turn-overs. Junior forward Nneka Enemkpali missed an un-guarded layup only to have a collision with sophomore guard Brandy Sanders on the rebound, before finally sink-ing the two-point shot.

Despite looking confused in the first 10 minutes of the period, the Longhorns man-aged to go into halftime with a 12-point lead.

“We have had a tenden-cy to relax between the 12 and eight-minute mark, and we talked about that at the 12-minute time-out,” Aston said. “We said ‘OK, this is where we seem to be having a lull.’ And I thought after that we re-focused and sort of gained momentum again.”

In a battle of powerful de-fenses, Kansas pretty evenly matched Texas — a rare oc-currence for the Longhorns, who rank first in the Big 12 in field-goal percentage de-fense and second in scoring defense. Initially, Texas fell victim to Kansas’ ability to

hold its opponents to low shooting percentage and also its own inability to properly set up and sink shots.

Sophomore center Imani McGee-Stafford, who scored 17 points in the first period alone, outshined Enemkpali, who is currently the team leader in points, rebounds and field-goal percentage. For the first time in her last 45 games, Enempkapli didn’t get to start last night, giving Stafford extra play-ing time and more oppor-tunities to use her height to swoop in and convert offen-sive rebounds into a total of 24 points.

“My goal today was to take a shot if I had it, and it worked out,” Stafford said.

The Longhorns continue conference play and will at-tempt to maintain Aston’s winning record Sunday when they take on TCU at 1 p.m.

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Head coach Rick Barnes had never missed an NCAA tournament in 14 years at Texas until the Long-horns’ 16-18 campaign last season.

Now, a team led by only two upperclassmen and a wiry, hardworking bunch is in a position to start a new streak for Barnes. The team hasn’t made any excuses about its youth this season, and neither has the coach. When asked at the begin-ning of the year if Texas (13-4, 2-2 Big 12) could make the NCAA tourna-ment, Barnes responded emphatically.

“No doubt, we have enough talent,” Barnes said. “We can compete ev-ery night we go out on the floor with anyone.”

Texas has done nothing to suggest its coach assessed incorrectly at the beginning of the season. There have been moments when youth flashed, but the team has grown quickly. The Long-horns made second-half comebacks in two of their first three games, and the team’s scrappy attitude has persisted throughout the season.

With 14 games remaining on the team’s schedule, the Longhorns will likely need seven wins to safely make the NCAA tournament, as anything less will land the team on the bubble.

The Big 12 is a potential minefield for the Long-horns. Texas still has eight matchups remaining with

teams ranked in the top 25, and the other programs in the conference aren’t guaranteed wins either. Baylor, Iowa State, Kan-sas and Oklahoma State have separated themselves from the rest of the con-ference early in the sea-son, and Texas will have a tough time toppling any of these teams.

But if the Longhorns could surprise with an up-set in one of their seven remaining games against these teams, it would be a huge boost to their tourna-ment chances. A win over

a top-15 team looks great to the NCAA Tournament Selection Committee and would give Texas a little more leeway with the re-mainder of the schedule.

As it sits now, the Long-horns could not afford a loss to a team outside the Big 12 elite. But con-sidering the parity of the conference — each team in the Big 12 is .500 or better overall — that will be challenging.

Texas must sweep the conference’s worst teams: Texas Tech, West Virginia and TCU. Those schools

are the only Big 12 mem-bers to have more than five losses this season, and de-feats in any of Texas’ four reamaning games against these schools would be a tremendous blow.

More than likely, the Longhorns’ tournament hopes will come down to matchups with Oklaho-ma and Kansas State, two teams in similar positions to the Longhorns.

Each has the talent to make the NCAA tourna-ment, but it’s hard to envi-sion the Big 12 receiving seven bids. This will likely

leave out one or even two of these schools.

Texas has the ability to make a tournament push, but finishing out the sea-son 7-7 will be difficult. Conference play intensi-fies everything, and Texas’ young team must once again prove it can shine under pressure.

By Chris Hummer@chris_hummer

Lauren Ussery / Daily Texan StaffImani McGee-Stafford led the Longhorns to a 70-58 victory over Kansas at home Wednesday night. McGee-Stafford had a double-double with 24 points and 10 rebounds on the night. Texas moved to 12-5 on the season with the win and head coach Karen Aston moved to 24-23 in her career at Texas..

Pu Ying Huang / Daily Texan StaffTexas guard Demarcus Croaker throws down a dunk in transition against Texas Tech. The Longhorns have been better than expected so far this season, putting themselves in position to make the field of 68 in the NCAA Tournament..

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Shirts and gear using the words “Stronghorns,” “Texas Strong” and “UT Strong” showed up for sale both online and in some stores, but those items were pulled after merchants were contact-ed by UT athletics.

The UT System has al-ready moved to trademark “Stronghorns,” according to records with the United States Patent and Trade-mark Office. The applica-tion was filed Jan. 7, two days after UT announced Strong’s hiring.

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The AIDS epidemic con-tinues to devastate the world, particularly in Southern Af-rica, where the World Health Organization estimates that some countries have infection rates as high as 26 percent. Without a cure, the best way to combat the disease is through prevention, which, in recent years, has led many to look to circumcision as a possible way to reduce the spread of HIV.

Three major studies in South Africa, Kenya and Uganda have shown that removing foreskin results in about a 50 percent re-duction in the risk of HIV con-traction. Though these findings are still somewhat controversial because the mechanism for this reduction isn’t understood, they are generally accepted.

Even if we take the results of the study at face value, a 50 percent reduction is not nearly as impressive as the 90-95 per-cent reduction offered by latex condoms, when used correctly. Those in favor of circumci-sion point out that the two

prevention techniques could be used in tandem. Additionally, while condoms need to be used consistently, circumcision is a one-time procedure.

As opposed to condoms, this 50 percent reduction is one-way only. It protects hetero-sexual men from their infected female partners. Circumcised men who are HIV positive are at least as likely to pass the dis-ease on as uncircumcised men.

In regions plagued by HIV, circumcision may be a small part of the solution. But in this country, where less than 1 percent of the population is infected and heterosexual men are among the least at risk, foreskin removal is a solution in search of a problem. While circumcisions may have been performed as many as 15,000 years ago, the procedure’s ori-gins in the U.S. date back to the late 19th century, when John Harvey Kellogg recommended it — along with his new corn flakes cereal — as a means to prevent children from mastur-bating. There’s no compelling evidence that either method is effective.

Today in the U.S., some-where between 50 and 60 per-cent of all newborns leave the hospital circumcised, though this number varies significantly from year to year and from re-gion to region. In 2009, for in-stance, 24.6 percent of children born on the West Coast under-went the procedure, compared to 75.2 percent in the Midwest. The reasons for circumcision are largely religious or cultural,

and, though there are some medical benefits to perform-ing the surgery, it’s difficult to justify it to the degree that it’s currently employed.

One of the more significant positive effects of circumci-sion is that circumcised indi-viduals are less likely to suffer from urinary tract infections. Though the risk is fairly small in boys, with only about 1 or 2 percent experiencing the infections in the first 10 years of their lives, one way to look at it is that for every 111 cir-cumcisions performed, one

infection is prevented.It’s worth noting that these

infections are typically treated fairly easily with a round of antibiotics and aren’t espe-cially debilitating. There are also other specific conditions such as phimosis, the inability for foreskin to retract, that cir-cumcision can treat or prevent, though this is much less com-mon than a urinary tract infec-tion, and can be dealt with on a case-by-case basis. But while the positive effects are minor, it’s unclear if there are any neg-ative consequences that come

from removing the foreskin.Studies have looked into per-

sonal satisfaction of those who have undergone circumcision as adults and the results are mostly just confusing. A paper from a 2002 issue of Journal of Urology states, “We found that adult circumcision appears to result in worsened erectile function, decreased penile sen-sitivity and improved satisfac-tion.” Because of the nature of these studies, and the impos-sibility of achieving a genu-ine double-blind control, it’s not surprising that the results

varied from person to person, likely influenced by cultural and psychological cues.

Unfortunately, science can’t tell us what to do — it can only inform our decisions and, in the case of circumcision, it’s clear there are some benefits. But at the same time, these benefits may be overstated and, even with very few risks of complications — when performed by a qualified doc-tor — it’s not immediately ob-vious if performing unneces-sary surgeries is a great idea, especially on newborns.

Many plants found in com-mon retailers such as Lowes and Home Depot are actually invasive species that pose a threat to native Texas plants.

This weekend, the Water-shed Protection Department is pairing with the Austin parks foundation to try to reverse some of the damage.

The department called upon local organizations, such as the parks foundation, to gather volunteers to restore the native plant populations in the grow zones of local water sources. Urban sprawl and invasive plants have caused water contamination and habitat destruction. Re-moving invasive plants helps purify the water and provide animals with a habitat.

“A lot of native plant species are lost due to growth, build-ing and that kind of thing,” said Elias Guerrero, horticulturist at the Lady Bird Johnson Wild-flower center. “But also they are being displaced by invasive species — plants not native to this country.”

Saturday and Monday are dedicated to planting seeds and removing invasive species in Onion Creek Park, Bar-tholomew Park, the Robert E. Lee Tributary and the Giv-ens Park Greenbelt. Although there are currently no plans to host seeding volunteer days at UT, the parks foundation has done work on campus before, and future projects are not out of the question.

Austin’s heavy and rapid development has caused the number of native plant species in the area to decrease significantly.

“There are a lot of areas that are outside of city parks and county parks and nature preserves that are forested and that are being rapidly de-veloped,” said Bill Stout, vol-unteer manager and environ-mental educator for the parks foundation. “Most of the land in Texas is privately owned, so any and all development cuts back on wildlife and native plant habitats.”

City development has also led to an increased number of invasive plant species as peo-ple and buildings use foreign plants in their landscaping.

“For homeowners, it’s a big challenge because they are enticed to buy these non-na-tive invasive species because they don’t have any competi-tors here. They grow really fast, and they produce a lot of feed,” Stout said. “So what those plants are doing is they are suffocating and outcom-peting the native plants that native wildlife require.”

Guerrero said the issue of invasive species is one that has always been present.

“Gardening and the use of plants was more of a sta-tus thing,” Guerrero said. “As [early Americans] traveled the world, they would bring plants back from other coun-tries and different locales — kind of like one-upmanship.”

To combat the foreign plant species, the watershed depart-ment focuses heavily on na-tive plant revitalization for its volunteer opportunities, such as the multi-park event this weekend. Although the ini-tial invasive removal process is important, it is also vital to seed the surrounding areas so that native plants can be re-established. The department set up ways for volunteers to do this.

“There are two types of projects [volunteers] will be doing,” Stout said. “One is just simply going in and broadcasting native wild-flower and native grass seeds and then our volunteers will rake that into the ground so that it has a chance to have contact. Then the other project they are working on is called seed island planting.”

Seed island planting is a process of planting on the

beds of streams and creeks that the watershed depart-ment is working to perfect.

“On urban streams, a lot of them cross parkland and tend to be mowed frequent-ly, so there is no vegetation along the stream bank,” said Ana V. Gonzalez, an envi-ronmental scientist with the watershed department. “The vegetation along the stream bank, particularly the trees and shrubs, provides a lot of ecological services for water quality, water quantity and other services like wildlife food, refuge and shade.”

The department is working to decrease the frequent mow-ing of the beds in parks. In-stead, their seed islands would be established and allowed to grow freely so nature can take its course and sustain the health of the habitats.

The native plants have tap roots that store and save water

in accordance with drought and rain patterns. The adapta-tion makes them more suit-able to bipolar Texas weather.

“In an 8-by-8 plot we add manure-free compost — when you’re close to the creek you don’t want anything that has nitrogen,” Gonzalez said. “That has the potential to con-taminate the water. To cover the whole plot we use an all natural erosion blanket.”

After that, the watershed department allows the beds to grow freely with little or no recurring care. To en-hance the success of the seed islands, the department will fill them with 50 different species of plants — mainly grasses, shrubs and wild-flowers. There are ways to help with native plant loss in the home as well, the main being to select seeds for Texas plants when gardening. Native plants

require little maintenance, so they are easier to sustain than non-Texan plants.

“Wild flowers and native plants have lived in this en-vironment way longer than we have been, and they are used to the cycles of drought and water,” Guerrero said. “You’ll notice some fields, and, some years, there will be better stems of cer-tain types of flowers and other years different ones. They’re kind of cyclic in how they work.”

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