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Statues move to make room for medical school

Charles Umlauf ’s “Three Muses” sculptures received a new temporary home Mon-day after being removed from Centennial Park on Red River Street to make way for the construction of the Dell Medical School.

The sculptures were moved to the Umlauf Sculp-ture Garden and Museum, where they will undergo res-toration until being moved back to campus in 2016, the scheduled completion year for the medical school.

University Operations spokeswoman Rhonda Wel-

don said the construction plans include straightening out Red River Street, while parts of the school will be built over a sec-tion of the Frank Erwin Cen-ter’s parking lot and Centennial Park, where an underground time capsule is also located.

“[The time capsule] will have to be preserved,” Wel-don said. “All of this is going to somehow be incorporated back into the medical district when it’s complete.”

Robert Boland, business manager for Vault Fine Arts Services, the company in charge of transporting the sculptures to the museum,

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While there may be soar-ing expectations for football head coach Charlie Strong, his predecessors can attest to the challenges — both on and off the field — of being a first-year head coach in Austin.

Since 1950, six Texas coaches have made their Longhorn coaching debuts, featuring a 67.6 winning per-centage in their first years. In comparison, former head coach Mack Brown went 9-3 in his first season, but stepped down in December after three seasons in which the program produced a 62-percent win-ning percentage.

“When you’re a top

program in the country, you have to be about champion-ships,” Strong said at a Jan. 15 press conference.

Only three of Texas’ 28 previous head coaches won a conference championship in their first season: Eugene Van Gent in 1916, Berry M. Whitaker in 1920 and Fred Akers in 1977.

Akers’ team finished 11-0 in the regular season and fell just short of a national title with a loss to Notre Dame in the Cotton Bowl.

But even his fruitful first campaign was preceded by challenges, namely the off-field politics of the sport. Although

serving nine years on popular head coach Darrell Royal’s staff eased the transition to Austin for Akers, his hire still drew

criticism from many alumni and former players who want-ed long-time Royal assistant coach Mike Campbell to take

over and disagreed with Akers’ elimination of the wishbone system in favor of the ‘I’ forma-tion and single-back sets.

“I was a young guy who didn’t fully understand some

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Daily Texan Staff PhotosIn their first-years, six different football coaches averaged a 67.6 winning percentage — just a few percentage points higher than what Mack Brown performed in his last three years. Five of those six are photographed here: Darrell Royal (1), Fred Akers (2), David McWil-liams (3), John Mackovic (4) and Mack Brown (5). New coach Charlie Strong (6) will face high expectations come in the 2014 season.

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In a 22-page letter accompa-nied by 97 pages of notes made public Monday, UT System Chancellor Francisco Cigarroa responded to requests for Sys-tem-related information made

by the house committee inves-tigating Regent Wallace Hall.

Committee co-chairs, state reps. Carol Alvarado, D-Houston, and Dan Flynn, R-Canton, sent a letter to Cigarroa in December out-lining the committee’s inten-tion to continue monitoring

the System. The House Select Committee on Transparency in State Agency Operations requested a variety of infor-mation, including any open-records requests that regents or System employees plan to file in the foreseeable future.

The Transparency Committee

is trying to determine whether Hall overstepped his duties as a regent and whether he should be recommended for impeachment. Hall filed open-records requests with the Uni-versity for more than 800,000 pages of information, even though, in his letter, Cigarroa

said the System believes fewer than 100,000 pages were actu-ally provided to Hall.

Regents and System employ-ees have made 10 requests since the committee submitted its supervision plan to the System, according to documents in-cluded in Cigarroa’s letter. Hall

made seven of the 10 requests.At one Board of Regents

meeting in October, board Chairman Paul Foster said he would recommend a new screening process for regent information requests before

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Despite changes to Texas Voter ID Law, UT students are not having many issues with voter registration, according to a Hook the Vote official.

Beginning with the 2013 fall elections, voters in the state of Texas are now re-quired to present an ap-proved form of photo iden-tification to vote in all Texas elections, according to the Office of the Texas Secretary of State. Acceptable forms of photo identification include a Texas driver’s license is-sued by the Texas Depart-ment of Public Safety, also known as DPS, a U.S. pass-port or a U.S. citizenship certificate containing the

person’s photograph.At a Hook the Vote

sponsored event Monday in Gregory Plaza, Arjun Mocherla, Hook the Vote director and Plan II and pre-med senior, said he ini-tially thought out-of-state students without applicable Texas photo identification would be affected the most by the law. Hook the Vote is a bipartisan student organi-zation that promotes voter registration and awareness.

“So far we haven’t had that issue,” Mocherla said. “[The Texas Department of Public Safety] was really great about setting up one of the camera stations the week before the election last fall to help make IDs for anyone who didn’t have an ID. It may impact

people, but, as far as students are concerned, I haven’t heard of any issues.”

Monday was the last day to register to vote in the March primaries. Tanner Long,

a government junior and council member of Hook the Vote, said he believes the up-coming Texas gubernatorial

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the next regent meeting in November.

According to Cigarroa, Foster’s recommendations include a clarification to ex-isting language detailing the board’s authority and duties. The recommendations also mandate the establishment of a UT System email address for each regent, which they will be encouraged to use for all exchanges involving a dis-cussion of policy or UT busi-ness, rather than using their personal email addresses.

Cigarroa also responded to the committee’s request for an outline of the actions tak-en by the System to “prevent the mishandling of confi-dential student information.” Cigarroa said the Office of the General Counsel is in the process of drafting policies to guide the System and its in-stitutions in complying with federal privacy laws.

At one committee

hearing in November, UT System lawyers testified Hall was mistakenly given access to private student information — possibly in violation of federal privacy laws — which lawyers say he subsequently shared with his private attorney. Fran-cie Frederick, general counsel to the board, said regents can have access to protected information if they have an

educational purpose. “In this case, the docu-

ments were inadvertently in-cluded by UT-Austin because there had been a continuous request not to send Regent Hall anything that was [pro-tected],” Frederick said. “It had not been determined in advance that he had a legiti-mate educational interest.”

In a report released in

January, private legal coun-sel representing the UT Sys-tem concluded there was “no credible evidence” that Hall violated a state law re-garding the protection of confidential information.

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election has increased stu-dent engagement.

“A lot of people don’t necessarily care about the primaries,” Long said. “But I’ve definitely seen a lot of students interested in the governor race com-ing up because it is cru-cial for the Democrats here on campus support-ing Wendy Davis and the Republicans here sup-porting several candi-dates. You hear more con-versation going on about the governor’s race just walking around campus.”

Biology freshman Tristan Emborgo said he became a U.S. citizen in August of 2013 and believes every de-cision a government official makes affects him.

“It is my responsibility as a citizen to vote,” Emborgo said. “So it is important that the person I believe in goes to office.”

Hook the Vote regis-tered 15,000 people in 2008, though the number of new registrants in this cycle will not be available until Tuesday.

Mocherla said the orga-nization will continue to push registration but plans to start providing candi-date, party and platform information for students on its website.

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said the moving process involved separating the fig-ures from the external por-tion of the base, securing them to boards and wrap-ping each sculpture to en-sure that their surfaces are protected. According to Bo-land, it is a simple method.

“You have to know what you’re moving and how it’s built, [especially] the weight-balance,” Boland said. “I guess it’s more tech-nical than anything.”

Weldon said the Universi-ty has not made the decision as to where the sculptures will reside at the completed medical school. Museum cu-rator Katie Robinson said she hopes Umlauf’s work will be placed in an area away from trees, where it can be easily seen by the public.

“The trees encourage birds, and guano is really damaging to the surface,”

Robinson said. “We would like to get them out into a place where we could keep the [protective] wax on.”

Umlauf created the muses, inspired by Greek mythology, in 1963 while he was an art professor at the University. According to Robinson, the sculptures were originally on the roof of what is now the Peter T. Flawn Academic Center

but were moved to Cen-tennial Park in 1984. Since then, people have vandalized the sculptures by doing the makeup of the Muses and painting their nails.

“We want people to know not just about Um-lauf ’s sculptures, but that all sculpture and all art has a life and can be damaged and needs to be cared for,” Robinson said.

of the politics and some of the pressures that come with hailing an icon as a head football coach, Darrell Royal, and I had to learn to deal with that,” Akers said.

Strong will face a similar sit-uation as he attempts to build upon Brown’s legacy while jug-gling the needed changes to the program. He has met resistance already in his first month on the job — notably, Texas bil-lionaire patron Red McCombs calling Strong’s hire a “kick in the face” because he and a few other boosters were not in-volved in the selection process. McCombs later apologized to Strong for the comment.

It is a pressure-packed, push-pull atmosphere that dominates the football envi-ronment at Texas. The Long-horns had a $165.7 million op-erating revenue for 2012-2013, the highest in college athletics. This creates financial flex-ibility and donors with hefty influence. David McWilliams, former Texas coach and cur-rent UT associate athletic di-rector, says the school features the most passionate fan base in America, but that comes with a caveat for coaches.

“The great thing about the alumni at Texas is they know football,” McWilliams said. “And the bad thing about Texas is they know football.”

McWilliams, like Akers, was a long-time assistant coach at Texas before as-cending to the head role in

1987 after one season at Tex-as Tech. He was accustomed to the responsibilities placed upon coaches at Texas, but says they could be a bit over-whelming at times, between recruiting, coaching and alumni demands.

“You would like for there to be more hours in the day because you can certainly use them,” McWilliams said.

Free time has proven to be fleeting for Strong in his first month with the Longhorns. He described his first nine days on the job as being “pulled in dif-ferent directions,” and, between recruiting, personnel and speaking engagements, Strong has not exactly had time to meditate on the position.

Nonetheless, Strong is considerably more comfort-able at Texas because of his experience at Louisville.

“This transition was a lot eas-ier because I have head coach-ing experience, and I have been around it,” Strong said at his Jan. 15 press conference. “The

first time around you take the job and you get to your office and you think, ‘What do you do?’ or ‘Where do you go?’ Now you have a plan together, and just follow the plan.”

Of the top 10 revenue-pro-ducing programs in the FBS last season, six of the schools — Notre Dame, Alabama, Michigan, Florida, Ohio State and Nebraska — have hired their active coaches in the past seven seasons. A decorated group overall, the six coaches had mixed suc-cess in their first seasons, with a combined 70-percent winning percentage

This number is greatly boosted by Urban Meyer’s 12-0 campaign at Ohio State in 2012 and Brady Hoke’s 11-2 season with Michigan in 2011, but Florida’s Will Muschamp had a much more reserved 7-6 re-cord at Florida in 2011, as did Notre Dame’s Brian Kelly when he finished 8-5 the year prior. Perhaps the most notable ex-ample comes from Nick Saban,

who went a pedestrian 7-6 at Alabama in 2007 before reeling off three national champion-ships over the next six seasons.

Despite the mixed history of early success, champion-ships, as Strong stated, will still be the expectation. It is a perilous environment, which McWilliams says can be nav-igated with patience.

“You have to be a little tough-skinned, and I think he is,” Mc-Williams said. “You have to be able to take criticism.”

Akers says he did not start to feel the pressure of win-ning at Texas until his sev-enth year. He credits that to being familiar with the environment in Austin, but he also admits that early

wins, which helped estab-lish a strong support system, played a significant role in his level of comfort.

“You’ve got to have sup-port,” Akers said. “I think he’s going to step up and declare, ‘We’re going to do what Mack’s intention was — get it back on track.’ And [Strong] is the one who’s going to do it.”

election has increased stu-dent engagement.

“A lot of people don’t necessarily care about the primaries,” Long said. “But I’ve definitely seen a lot of students interested in the governor race com-ing up because it is cru-cial for the Democrats here on campus support-ing Wendy Davis and the Republicans here sup-porting several candi-dates. You hear more con-versation going on about the governor’s race just walking around campus.”

Biology freshman Tristan Emborgo said he became a U.S. citizen in August of 2013 and believes every de-cision a government official makes affects him.

“It is my responsibility as a citizen to vote,” Emborgo said. “So it is important that the person I believe in goes to office.”

Hook the Vote regis-tered 15,000 people in 2008, though the number of new registrants in this cycle will not be available until Tuesday.

Mocherla said the orga-nization will continue to push registration but plans to start providing candi-date, party and platform information for students on its website.

“I think a lot of students either don’t know an elec-tion is going or maybe don’t know what’s on the ballot,” Mocherla said. “This attempt is to change that. We still think, for students, it might be a little easier for them to access one central access point for information.”

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POLICE

APD combines units to fight human trafficking

The White House es-tablished a task force last month designed to increase federal agencies’ ability to identify and rebuild the lives of human trafficking victims in the U.S. Locally, Austin social workers, law enforce-ment and government agen-cies join forces to combat human trafficking.

Noel Busch-Armendariz, an associate dean for re-search in the School of So-cial Work, said one of the biggest problems with hu-man trafficking is it often goes undetected.

“It’s a big hidden problem, with both labor trafficking and sex trafficking,” Busch-Armendariz said. “We think there is a lot more going on, but it’s hard to uncover.”

The Austin Police Depart-ment’s human trafficking unit helps investigate sus-pected cases of trafficking, which are usually reported by victims or professionals who come into contact with them. When investigating possible trafficking cases, of-ficers look for signs of physi-cal and mental coercion in the victims.

“We’re really looking at whether or not they have the freedom to really make those choices that are being made,” Sgt. Bob Miljenovich said. “Are they free to come and go? Are they being forced to pay off some type of debt, or is there some other way they’re being held, even if it’s not physically? Those are the things we look for.”

Many trafficked individu-als are foreign-born and brought into the United States, according to Linda Edwards Gockel, a spokes-woman for Texas Health and Human Services. Once rescued, these victims are considered as refugees and become eligible for many federal health-care and fi-nancial services.

“Texas has the largest number of refugees in the country, with roughly 6,000 to 9,000 settled in the state,”

Gockel said.Social service providers

assist the victim in the pro-cess of mental healing and finding a safe place to live, Busch-Armendariz said.

“Law enforcement is re-ally in charge of investigat-ing the crime, but the social worker actually is the per-son charged with support-ing the victim through that process emotionally and psychologically,” Busch-Ar-mendariz said.

Funding for housing, language, social and medi-cal services for victims may come from a mix of federal and state agencies, accord-ing to Busch-Armendariz.

Miljenovich said there is a shortage of safe and im-mediate housing for traf-ficking victims who are res-cued in Austin.

“The biggest area that we have trouble with is having facilities that can take care of the victims once they’re found and taken out of the situation,” Miljenovich said.

Miljenovich said facilities that provide both immedi-ate housing and medical at-tention are essential because they provide a higher level of security for victims who may need further treatment.

“You don’t want a facility where people can just come and go, because sometimes [victims] don’t really agree that it’s best that they leave that lifestyle, maybe because they’re on drugs or feel they have no other choice,” Milje-novich said.

Laurie Cook Heffron, re-search coordinator in the School of Social Work, said public education is impor-tant to help end human trafficking, especially for foreign-born victims.

“There’s less focus on whether there are people exploited in our hometowns on construction sites or in migrant farm work, and I think this is partly due to the anti-immigrant senti-ment in the United States,” Heffron said. “One of the things all of us can do is learn a little bit about it and educate ourselves.”

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FIRST YEAR PERFORMANCE AT TOP 10 REVENUE PRODUCING SCHOOLS

TexasNotre Dame: Brian Kelly, 8-5 in 2010Alabama: Nick Saban, 7-6 in 2007LSU: Les Miles, 11-2 in 2005Michigan: Brady Hoke, 11-2 in 2011Florida: Will Muschamp, 7-6 in 2011Oklahoma: Bob Stoops, 7-5 in 1999Georgia: Mark Richt, 8-4 in 2001Ohio State: Urban Meyer, 12-0 in 2012Nebraska: Bo Pelini, 9-4 in 2008

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Are they free to come and go? Are they being forced to pay off some type of debt, or is there some other way they’re being held, even if it’s not physically?

—Bob Miljenovich, UTPD sergeant

Shelby Tauber / Daily Texan StaffConstruction workers remove one of the “Three Muses” stat-uesfrom Centennial Park on Red River Street on Monday.

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affects West CampusMinutes after midnight

Tuesday, electricity went out in several large swaths of West Campus. Apartment complexes, including the Block on Leon, the Block on 25th and Waterford, were af-fected, as well as the 7-11 on the corner of San Gabriel and 24th Street and the Orange Market on 25th Street.

Representatives from Aus-tin Energy and City of Austin Utilities could not be reached for comment.

“Everything just shut off at once, it was actually kind of funny,” said Cesar Trevino, African and African diaspo-ra studies junior.

Many UT students tweet-ed about the power outage using the hashtag “#West-CampusBlackout.”

—Anthony Green, Jordan Rudner & Amanda Voeller

NEWS BRIEFLY

Anybody who has seen the tear-jerking 1989 classic “Field of Dreams” knows that, if you build it, they will come. What Austin’s city council and many of its con-stituents don’t seem to understand is that, if you don’t build it, they will still come — and car traffic, rents and other metrics of our city’s livability will get worse and worse.

For the past three decades, there has been a dangerous “no-growth” movement among a rather selfish and shortsighted segment of Austin’s population who are obsessed with maintaining a “college town” atmosphere in our city.

It only takes one look at Austin’s skyline or the Manhattan-like bustle of the Drag on a weekday afternoon to realize they lost all hope of winning that battle about 15 years ago. The secret is out: Austin is pret-ty amazing, and, according to Forbes, the Austin metro is now growing faster than any other city in the country. Intentionally obstructing infrastructure improvements until traffic becomes truly apocalyptic is not the best way to voice opposition to Austin’s rapid growth.

The main fear driving the no-growth movement is that, if Austin’s rapid urban-ization continues unabated, we will “turn into Dallas” and will no longer be able to “keep Austin weird”. But I think this fear is unfounded. Austin is simply growing up, and becoming a more cosmopolitan, sophisticated version of its old weird self, while maintaining its true progressive character. The no-growth movement’s backward-looking urban planning philos-ophy is based on fear and will only lead to

stagnation.As reported by the Austin American-

Statesman, in his last State of the City Ad-dress, Mayor Lee Leffingwell emphasized that traffic congestion is the number one problem threatening Austin’s future. Con-sequently, the mayor has made combating the traffic problem his number one priority in his final term in office. Yet, despite the in-creased attention the problem has received both in the media and in city government, progress toward a solution has so far been limited to stopgap half-measures such as the brand new MetroRapid buses, which, despite their questionable effectiveness, have taken a lane away from busy streets like Guadalupe and Lavaca. Clearly, the problem requires a more comprehensive solution and a greater commitment from city government.

The first step to alleviating traffic is to build urban rail, and to build it in the right place. The currently proposed route is most certainly not the right place. The next step is to continue to increase den-sity in Austin’s urban core. The closer people live to their places of work or edu-cation, the less time they’ll spend in a car, contributing to traffic congestion. The third step is to improve Austin’s two main highway arteries, I-35 and Mopac. Mopac is off to a good start with the express lanes currently under construction, but I-35 is a mess and SH 130, the toll-road bypass constructed far to the east of the city in a foolhardy attempt to divert traffic from I-35, was a useless, expensive mistake, no matter how high its speed limit is.

Right now, Austin is at a crossroads. While growth is inevitable, the form that growth takes is entirely up to politically in-volved citizens. We can become a sprawl-ing, gridlocked mess of inadequate road infrastructure where it takes two hours to commute to work, or we can become a denser, well-organized metropolis with smart and efficient mass transit. If you want Austin to remain vibrant and livable, contact your local city council member and tell them Austin needs a transporta-tion system that can handle the demands of the coming decades and, most impor-tantly, vote in November. Vote against poorly planned urban rail proposals that will degrade the credibility of mass tran-sit in future election cycles. Vote for local politicians who support a progressive and forward-thinking transit agenda. Vote for the Austin you’ll actually want to live in 10 years from now.

Burks is an English and history junior from Plano.

The Austin metro is now growing faster than any other city in the country. Intentionally obstructing infrastructure improvements until traffic becomes truly apocalyptic is not the best way to voice opposi-tion to Austin’s rapid growth.

HORNS DOWN: TEXAS’ REFUSAL TO FOLLOW EPA REGULATIONS

A report released Thursday by the Corporation for Enterprise Development, a national non-profit focused on alleviating poverty, said that 49.8 percent of Texas households are “liquid asset poor,” meaning they lack funds to pay for three months of basic expenses in the case of a crisis, such as losing a job. According to the Texas Tribune, our state ranks 30th in the country for

liquid asset poverty and 37th in overall financial security. In the 2014 Asset and Oppor-tunity scorecard the CFED compiled, Texas ranked 48th in the small business ownership rate, 42nd in the number of low wage jobs and 37th in the number of small business loans made per worker. Considering Republicans often tout our economy as an example that the rest of the nation should follow, these findings are particularly discouraging. We hope that all Texans will soon be able to reap the benefits of our state’s supposed prosperity, rather than just the select few sitting at the top.

For years, conservatives in Texas have argued that the EPA’s regulations cripple the economy, but, in this case, the opposite seems to be true.

At 2 p.m. on November 19, as I was sur-rounded by fellow University students, a homeless woman on Guadalupe randomly attacked me. I had no affiliation with her, and I had not provoked her in any way; the attack was completely random. After calling the police, I realized that neither APD nor UTPD were prominently sta-tioned on Guadalupe to be able to pro-tect students from the potential threat of problematic individuals. I was so shocked by this scenario that I didn’t even file a police report. I, therefore, pose these questions of safety: How well are students protected during their inevitable interac-tion with this area? Have homeless people threatened or attacked other students? Have students ever felt uncomfortable or unsafe on Guadalupe?

The University of Texas at Austin is known for its top-notch academics, pow-erhouse athletics and iconic hand signal. But, when relishing in the positives of this esteemed University, students rarely pause to consider the dangers of Guadal-upe and the fact that the University does not have any control over this unavoid-able area. From picking up your books at the Co-op to making the inevitable trek back to your West Campus apartment, Guadalupe serves almost as many stu-dents as the campus itself. Beside high student foot traffic, Guadalupe is also a large gathering ground for many individ-uals of the Austin homeless community, who loiter the street and find themselves in confrontation with UT students.

On campus, students are relatively safe, considering the diligence and proactiv-ity of the UT police system. However, once students cross the invisible border between campus and Guadalupe, they often forget that UTPD does not have ju-risdiction over this somewhat question-able area. West Campus and Guadalupe are under the jurisdiction of the Austin Police Department, because this area is part of the city of Austin. UTPD can help patrol this area, but they cannot act upon the crimes that occur. Despite the police presence on Guadalupe, it simply doesn’t seem to be enough to prevent crime from occurring in this high-traffic area.

“The homeless population [on Guada-lupe] is a threat to student safety,” said

geography sophomore Emily Tally. “There needs to be a policy of no loitering or sit-ting and sleeping on ‘Guad,’ for any ex-tended period of time.”

Even though a policy similar to Tally’s suggestion is in place, Austin Police De-partment Lieutenant Tyson McGowan said that officers have to give sleeping or loitering individuals 30 minutes to move locations. Even if these individuals only move one inch, it is still considered mov-ing, and they are technically in a new spot. Once again, officers must approach them to move and allow the 30-minute time frame, and this process can repeat itself for eternity. McGowan stated that the officers “don’t have time” to deal with this merry-go-round. It is clear this pol-icy definitely needs some modifications.

But mechanical engineering junior Trenton Makare had a different take on the issue. “I’ve never felt threatened by the homeless personally, but my girlfriend has needed me to back people off of her.”

Concerning the University’s jurisdic-tion over Guadalupe, Joshua Cook, as-sistant director of the Office of Student Affairs, said, “Our main goal is keeping students safe. We offer safety training to all staff and students.” However, Cook said, “We do not have jurisdiction or con-trol over Guadalupe Street or any area off campus.”

When asked if UTPD would ever be able to gain jurisdiction of the drag area from APD, McGowan said, “We’ve talked about it before, but it’s a matter of pos-sibility.” He explained that the issues APD are forced to confront on Guadalupe and in West Campus are the result of city ordi-nances that UTPD does not have the right to enforce. Though UTPD can respond to crimes off campus, the area off cam-pus it is not technically their jurisdiction, and they must cede jurisdiction to APD. However, he stated that both police teams heavily work together to patrol Guadal-upe in the best way that they can, often times on bikes. McGowan said for APD, manpower is an issue in West Campus.

“The obstacle APD faces is that Guada-lupe Street is a revolving door,” McGowan said. “It is not illegal to be homeless. We can only enforce city ordinances such as sleeping on the sidewalk in a no-sleeping zone or creating a public disturbance. Once a citation is given to the offend-ing individual, nothing is stopping them from coming back the next day and doing it all over again. There are many quality-of-life issues in Austin; after all, we live in a big city. I wish there was some way we could clean up all of Austin, but a utopia is just not possible.”

Students have tried to set up programs to help each other navigate off-campus ar-eas in a safer way. Sure Walk, for example, is a service established by Student Gov-ernment that escorts students through ar-eas of campus at night.

Ultimately, though there are many stu-dents who are comfortable on Guadalupe, many feel the need for greater West-Cam-pus security. It is up to students to ad-vocate for change through the induction of new policies in order to create a safe college experience for all students — both now and in the future.

Triolo is a journalism freshman from Hollister, California.

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By Christian BurksDaily Texan Columnist

Illustration by John Massingill / Daily Texan Staff

There are many quality-of-life issues in Austin; after all, we live in a big city. I wish there was some way we could clean up all of Austin, but a utopia is just not possible.

— Lieutenant Tyson McGowan Austin Police Department

HORNS DOWN: TEXAS HOUSEHOLDS ARE FINANCIALLY INSECURE

A report released Thursday by the Corporation for En-terprise Development, a national non-profit focused on alleviating poverty, said that 49.8 percent of Texas house-holds are “liquid asset poor,” meaning they lack funds to pay for three months of basic expenses in the case of a cri-sis, such as losing a job. According to the Texas Tribune, our state ranks 30th in the country for liquid asset poverty

and 37th in overall financial security. In the 2014 Asset and Opportunity scorecard the CFED compiled, Texas ranked 48th in the small business ownership rate, 42nd in the number of low wage jobs and 37th in the number of small business loans made per worker. Considering Republicans often tout our economy as an example that the rest of the nation should follow, these findings are particularly discouraging. We hope that all Texans will soon be able to reap the benefits of our state’s supposed prosperity, rather than just the select few sitting at the top.

Considering Republicans often tout our economy as an example that the rest of the nation should follow, these findings are par-ticularly discouraging. We hope that all Texans will soon be able to reap the benefits of our state’s supposed prosperity, rather than just the select few sitting at the top

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Kathryn Stouffer, Plan II and nutrition sophomore and Spoon writer and pho-tographer, works for Spoon because she wants to pass along her knowledge of food to others.

“Writing gives me an outlet to be creative with recipes and explore new av-enues in the food world,” Stouffer said.

Spoon staff photographer Kathleen Lee, a natural sci-ences student, discovered her interest in food pho-tography in fifth grade, when she filmed a sushi how-to video.

“I love food because there are infinite possi-bilities in taste, texture and presentation, which can really culminate in some-thing beautiful,” Lee said. “I love photography because

pictures provide a physical memory of my life and act like a journal for me to look back on later.”

What sets Spoon apart from other food publications is its specific focus on college students, Stouffer said.

“Everyone should read and follow Spoon be-cause it caters to every-one’s needs,” Stouffer said. “It is geared toward col-lege kids and is written by your peers, so the pieces aren’t dry and boring, [but] relatable and helpful to you.”

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Taiwan. The cream puff shell is made up of four basic in-gredients: egg, flour, butter and water. Perfecting the ratio of the ingredients and oven temperature proved to be a challenge. It took Yang several attempts to finally find the right consistency.

Two weeks before the grand opening, Cream Whiskers hosted a five-hour “free puffs” event outside the bakery. Two-hundred students were in-vited to try vanilla cream puffs and fill out feedback surveys. The students also

suggested other flavors they wanted to see the bak-ery offer, such as coffee and chocolate.

“I live right across from Cream Whiskers and thought it looked welcoming, so I de-cided to check it out,” finance senior Johnathan Haryono said. “It’s a nice place to study, play board games and hang out with friends. Since I live close, I come almost every day.”

Sun and Yang plan to open two or three more bakeries in Austin before expanding their business to other parts of Texas. The owners promote their busi-ness through social media

platforms and by attending sponsorship events.

“Right now, our primary marketing strategy has been through word of mouth and apps like UMeTime,” Yang said. “John and I are defi-nitely looking into paid ad-vertising, event catering and online ordering to grow our business.”

Sun’s and Yang’s favorite part of being business own-ers is the learning process and adventure involved.

“Take risks and do every-thing one step at a time,” Sun said. “Accept the fact that hard times are inevitable, but never give up. The end result is well worth it.”

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hand, is more forward-thinking, anticipating de-signs he thinks will be in-teresting.

From there, the team col-laborates to create a boot de-sign that evolves the brand.

“We all tend to be re-ally excited and you have to kind of scale it back,” Brown said. “There are de-sign constraints and time constraints. It’s not like the sky’s the limit. But we’ve gotten really good at chal-lenging that.”

Each pair of finished boots costs around $400.

It is a product that is sup-posed to last for years. Helm’s typical customers are men between the ages of 25 and 55, although the company explores mak-ing the boots in smaller sizes to accommodate some women.

“Ideally, we’re making a product that can be passed on from generation to gen-eration,” Bilheimer said. “You can buy four pairs of $60 shoes or one pair for $400.”

Hunter Lawrence, sales associate and product pho-tographer, spends long hours in his Helm boots, wearing them all day for

wedding photo shoots and other work.

“They’re super comfort-able,” Lawrence said. “I went fly-fishing and got them wet. They’re super durable. I wear them for 12 hours a day. You can tell they’re quality made.”

In addition to their styl-ish take on a work boot, Bingaman said what makes Helm Boots special is its dedication to staying local and staying small.

“We’re sourcing as much as we can here,” Bingaman said. “There’s a lot of heart behind [Helm]. We keep it personal, keep it like a mom-and-pop shop.”

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For the first time in more than three weeks, No. 15 Texas will be the favorite Tuesday night when it takes to the court at Daniel-Mey-er Coliseum in Fort Worth.

The Longhorns, who have now reeled off four consecutive upsets over ranked opponents, will take on last-placed TCU (9-11, 0-8 Big 12) at 7 p.m.

“I think we’re in a pretty good place,” junior forward Jonathon Holmes said. “We’ve won six in a row, in-cluding four against top-25 teams, so we’re in a pretty good place. We’ve got some pretty good momentum. We just got to keep getting bet-ter and get ready for TCU.”

Texas (17-4, 6-2 Big 12) moved up 10 spots — the biggest jump of any team — in this week’s AP Top-25 poll and now sits comfort-ably in second place in the conference.

That comfort, combined with the fact that the Long-horns are overwhelming fa-vorites against the Horned Frogs, is what has some la-beling tonight’s contest as a dreaded “trap game.”

Texas has used its en-ergy and underdog mental-ity to overpower opponents throughout its current the winning streak. Now, as the hunted rather than the hunter, Texas must maintain that intensity.

“It is such a fine line between winning and los-ing,” Texas head coach Rick Barnes said. “If you start drinking the poison and think that you are there, it all gets away. We have a long way to go.”

Drinking the proverbial poison is certainly some-thing the Longhorns have to be conscious of, but, given the way they’ve been performing lately, they have reason to be confident.

Led by freshman guard Isaiah Taylor, Barnes’ squad looked unstoppable in its romp of No. 6 Kansas on Saturday. Texas domi-nated the Jayhawks from the opening tip to the fi-nal whistle and displayed a confidence nobody could’ve expected from such a young bunch.

“It was a big learning process for me, taking on a leadership role in the team,” Taylor said. “I had

a tough stretch at the be-ginning of the Big 12. [My teammates] have just been encouraging me on and off the court. Just keep it go-ing. Just keep attacking the basket.”

Taylor’s aggressiveness and confidence driving to the basket have been the main source of his recent success. The speedy point guard was named the Phil-lips 66 Big 12 Rookie of the Week on Monday, after

posting 23 points against Kansas. That performance came only a week after he scored a career-high 27 on the road against Baylor.

Sophomore guard Javan Felix, who takes turns run-ning the offense alongside Taylor, will be forced to sit out tonight’s game after suf-fering a concussion against Kansas. Felix’s absence will likely mean additional min-utes and even greater re-sponsibility for Taylor.

6STEFAN SCRAFIELD, SPORTS EDITOR / @texansportsTuesday, February 4, 2014

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Horns strive for seven straight winsBy Stefan Scrafield

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Shelby Tauber / Daily Texan StaffFreshman guard Isaiah Taylor drives to the hoop during Texas’ upset of No. 6 Kansas on Saturday. Taylor and the Longhorns travel to Fort Worth on Tuesday as they try to add another victory to their six-game win streak.

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CLUB SPORTS

Those mourning the end of the resonating hits and world-class athleticism of football season need weep no more.

The Texas Rugby Club carries the thrills of foot-ball season into the spring semester. The club begins 15-man rugby play at the Whitaker Fields, typi-cally used for intramurals, against North Texas on Friday, hoping to build on a fall semester that saw the Longhorn seven-man rugby team finish the season 12th in the nation.

“We don’t set goals in terms of wins or losses,” first-year head coach Christopher “Bus” Hopps said. “Our goal is to be-come the best team in Texas.”

Hopps takes control of a team that finished sec-ond in its conference last year, losing only to Texas A&M, but the coach has his work cut out for him, as the Longhorns are one of 12 teams that have been invited to compete in the Varsity Cup, the top post-season tournament in col-legiate rugby.

The new coach inherits a core of veterans, including captain Danny Camara, who oversaw the club’s transition from a casual, recreational sport to one of the premier competitive rugby programs in the nation.

“The team culture has definitely switched from a fun thing to do on the weekends to a professional, legitimate program,” Ca-mara, a psychology senior, said. “Everyone who comes to Texas rugby realizes it’s something special.”

Hopps also has the privi-lege of coaching an enticing newcomer, flanker Reed Ho-gan. Hogan, a communica-tion studies freshman, comes to the Longhorns from na-tional high school rugby powerhouse St. Thomas, in Houston, where he won three state championships and was named 2013 Texas Forward of the year.

Chemical engineering senior John Boudreaux, a current teammate of Ho-gan’s and his former high school team captain, said Hogan will be a star player this year.

“We expect to give him the ball a lot and to let him make things happen,” Bou-dreaux said.

Hogan’s rise from the bench of the sevens B team exceeded all expectations of a freshman player.

“Sevens is so demand-ing and there is so little room for error that we don’t want [freshmen] in that environment right away,” Boudreaux said. “[Hogan] showed that he could not only hang with us but with the top players of the nation as well.”

Hogan’s success in high school and with the Long-horns caught the eye of USA Rugby scouts, who invited him to Phoenix to tryout for the under-20 national team over winter break. Although Hogan did not make the national team on his first attempt, he has two years of eligibility to left to try again.

If recent history is any indication, Hogan is more than capable of bulldozing through initial discourage-ment, rising to the top of the player pool and leading the Longhorns to victory on the rugby pitch.

“I want to be the No. 1 team in our conference by the end of the season,” Ho-gan said. “I want to do what-ever the team needs me to do to achieve that goal.”

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FOOTBALL | COLUMN

Wednesday will mark a milestone in Texas foot-ball when the Longhorns partake in college foot-ball’s National Signing Day without Mack Brown for the first time since the late 1990s. With the na-tion’s most talented high school players set to de-clare their destinations for this fall, the eyes of Texas will be fixed sharp-ly upon head coach Char-lie Strong’s first Long-horn recruiting class.

Strong has big shoes to fill as he takes over a Tex-as program that has been among the nation’s recruit-ing elite with Brown at the helm, garnering seven top-five ranking classes and 20 five-star recruits since 2002. The Longhorns did experience a major dip in recruiting last year, though, dropping to 24th nationally and failing to land a five-star player for just the third time in the past 15 years.

When Strong took the Texas head coaching position, the first thing discussed was how his presence in Austin would affect recruiting, espe-cially with out-of-state players. Thanks to his ties to Florida and other Southeastern states, pop-ular sentiment is that he will bring in a far greater distribution of players from outside of Texas than Brown did.

During his time at Florida, he was part of a staff that had four top-five recruiting classes,

including consecutive top-three classes from 2006-2008 that paved the way for two national championships. The Ga-tors failed to land a five-star player on just one occasion in Strong’s time there, a mark of the pro-gram’s consistent ability to bring in top players, most of whom were from the Sunshine State.

After taking over the head coaching position for a historically weak Louisville program that ranked 77th in recruit-ing prior to his arrival, Strong turned in three straight top-50 classes from 2010-2012, includ-ing the 29th-ranked class in 2011 — the school’s highest in more than 15 years. Although he did not land a five-star recruit during his time with the Cardinals, Strong vastly improved the school’s national reputation and fielded the nation’s top defense last year.

No matter the outcome of Strong’s first recruit-ing class, he has had little time to gain an in-state foothold for recruiting up to this point. The future looks bright for Texas’ new coach, though. With deep ties to football-rich Florida, combined with the prestige the Longhorn brand carries throughout the Lone Star State, Strong has an opportunity to ce-ment this program’s pres-ence in two of the coun-try’s most talent-heavy pools. With 29 players in the 2015 Rivals Top 100 being from Texas or Flor-ida, Strong will strive to use this opportunity.

Rugby team looks to continue success with standout freshman

Strong’s recruiting ties to prove useful to Texas

Thanks to his ties to Florida and other Southeastern states, popular sentiment is that he will bring in a far greater distribution of players from outside of Texas than Brown did.

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Taylor named Big 12 Rookie of the Week

Freshman point guard Isaiah Taylor has been named the Phillips 66 Big 12 Rookie of the Week, the Big 12 Conference an-nounced Monday.

Taylor recorded back-to-back 20-point per-formances in Texas’ last two victories, which in-cluded a career-high 27 points against Baylor. Last Saturday, Taylor led the Longhorns with 23 points in Texas’ upset of No. 6 Kansas.

The freshman also leads his team in assists (3.5 apg) and ranks sec-ond in scoring (12.2 apg), steals (22), and minutes played (29.1 mpg).

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As electrical engineering and microbiology graduates, UT alumni John Sun and Tina Yang never expected to return to Austin as owners of a cream puff bakery.

Cream Whiskers is located on 22 ½ Street, between Rio Grande and Pearl Street. The bakery opened Oct. 5 and has a variety of cream puff custards, such as strawberry cheesecake, cookies and cream and pumpkin spice.

After graduating in 2004, Sun worked at a computer manufacturing firm while Yang went to pharmacy school. What started as a middle-school friendship resulted in a college relation-ship, with the two eventually marrying in 2009.

Neither of them ever considered opening a bak-ery until they were visiting relatives in Taiwan, when they ordered two cream puffs to go at a bakery in

a train station. Both Sun and Yang were pleasantly surprised.

“I’m not really a fan of most desserts because they are too sweet for me,” Yang said. “When I first tried a cream puff, however, I was instantly taken by sur-prise. It had such a light, airy taste.”

In early 2013, Sun left his job to open Cream Whiskers. Yang continued to work at the pharmacy, but joined Sun in creating and opening the bakery.

“We loved the cream puffs so much that we wanted to bring them to America,” Sun said. “We de-cided to start our business in Austin because people in Austin are not afraid to try new things.”

Cream puffs are served at several bakeries around Aus-tin, but Sun and Yang mod-eled their recipe after the pastries they had tasted in

Although there are many to choose from, local busi-ness owner Joshua Bin-gaman’s favorite pair of shoes is a pair of Italian Vasque hiking boots from the late ’70s or early ’80s. The boots, suede with blue lace and a black Vibram sole, belonged to his dad and are as old as Bingaman himself. Bingaman’s love affair with shoes has been long-term, but, only re-cently, has his multi-faceted career as an entrepreneur landed him in the boot- making business.

Bingaman began design-ing men’s shoes and boots in 2009, when he started a business called Helm Boots — a men’s boot retailer. Bin-gaman said he felt there was a niche missing in shoe design that he had an urge to fill.

“There was a middle ground; I wasn’t able to find where a boot would cross with a sneaker,” Bingaman said.

Originally operated as a design company with mate-rials sourced from Istanbul, Helm Boots opened its own store on Austin’s East Side in 2013 and moved production to Maine. The store was built mostly from recycled build-ing products and is currently one of three physical loca-tions where customers can purchase the high-end boots.

Hillary Bilheimer, a brand

and social media editor, said there is something about be-ing able to manufacture the footwear stateside. With the transition, the Helm team can now travel more easily to the factory and oversee

quality control more ef-fectively. Additionally, 90 percent of the boot mate-rials now come from the United States.

“It’s changed everything,” Bilheimer said. “We’re

very proud.”Before the boots touch

the production line, they endure an 18-month design process. The design team, made up of Bilheimer, Bin-gaman and studio manager

Ethan Brown, comes to the design table with an array of ideas based on their own personal experiences. Each member of the design team brings a different outlook to the table.

Bilheimer said she designs from a vintage standpoint and looks at things such as classic lines that endure over time. Brown, on the other

HANNAH SMOTHERS, LIFE&ARTS EDITOR / @DailyTexanArts 8Tuesday, February 4, 2014*

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Ethan Oblak / Daily Texan StaffSales associate Hunter Lawrence displays a boot at the Helm Boots retail store on Austin’s East Side. Helm’s boots are designed in Austin and produced in Maine, with 90 percent of the boot materials originating in the United States.

Spoon University, a food publication created by col-lege students for college stu-dents, made its Texas debut in the city of food trucks, breakfast tacos and barbecue last month. The magazine is currently on 22 college cam-puses around the country and started its UT branch in January.

Spoon was created at Northwestern University in 2012 as a resource to aid stu-dents in the pursuit of cheap, healthy food. After a fresh-man year of junk food and cafeteria meals, co-founders Sarah Adler and Mackenzie Barth quickly realized the

need for more knowledge and wisdom when it comes to eating.

UT is the first univer-sity in the state of Texas to launch Spoon, but Sarah Strohl, editor-in-chief of the UT branch, thinks more Texas universities will pick up the publication soon. Strohl and her partners, Christin Urso, photogra-phy director, and Jenna Jarnagin, business direc-tor, accepted applications throughout November to put together a team of more than 30 students who are passionate about food.

The UT edition of Spoon covers a variety of topics, some of which are tailored to the Austin area, such as a

review on the best Austin food truck phone app and a breakdown of the best three local happy-hour locations.

Other articles are more general, but focus on college students, such as a tutorial article that gives instructions for making microwaved brownies in a coffee mug.

The team worked throughout winter break to prepare the site for its January launch. For now, the magazine will remain online, but Strohl hopes that, like its predecessor at Northwestern, UT Spoon will eventually make the transition to print.

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Letitia Smith / Daily Texan StaffUT alumni John Sun (left) and Tina Yang recently opened Cream Whiskers, a cream puff bakery near campus. While cream puffs are served at other bakeries around Austin, the husband-and-wife duo model its recipe after the pastries they tried in Taiwan.

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