The lead sentence of a Sept. 11, 1984 Daily Texan article reads, “Denouncing the system that rejected his final pleas, Timothy Baldwin early Monday died in Louisi-ana’s electric chair for beat-ing an elderly, blind neighbor to death with a frying pan.”

According to the article, Baldwin had been accused of beating to death Mary James Peters, the godmother of his youngest son, with a telephone, a skillet and a stool in 1978. Baldwin, whose appeals were rejected by the U.S. Supreme Court, maintained until his death that he was innocent.

“I’ve always tried to be a good sport when I’ve lost at something,” Baldwin said. “And I see no reason not to leave this world with the same policy.”

A sheriff ’s deputy swore during the trail that officers had beaten and tortured a confession out of Baldwin, and, by the time defense lawyers found a hotel receipt proving that he had been 100 miles away on the night of the murder, it was already too late.

Capital punishment has become an issue of even greater contention today. With approximately five

Austin City Council may choose to vote on banning so-called “stealth dorms” at its meeting Thursday, even though a study assessing the impact of the ban on housing affordability con-cluded that there was not sufficient time to deter-mine the potential effects of

the ban.The study, which was

released Monday, was conducted in six weeks, although Sheryl Cole, city councilwoman and mayor pro tem, originally pro-posed that an eight-week period be allowed. The council ultimately voted in favor of Councilman Chris Riley’s amendment to shorten the analysis

period to six weeks, which passed 6-1.

In February, Austin City Council made an initial vote to pass the city code amendment, which would lower the number of un-related adults who can live together in a house or du-plex from six individuals to four. The amendment would only apply to resi-dential complexes built in

the future.The amendment must

be voted on two additional times before it is passed, with the second vote sched-uled for Thursday, though Cole, speaking at a Student Government meeting Tues-day, said there is a possibil-ity the council will take both the second and final votes necessary Thursday.

The economic study

was conducted by the Aus-tin Board of Realtors, who worked with Civic Ana-lytics LLC, a research and consulting firm.

Civic Analytics founder Brian Kelsey, who was the principal researcher of the analysis, said in the report he thinks a more in-depth analysis is necessary if City

After missing the NCAA tournament last season for the first time under head coach Rick Barnes, No. 7-seeded Texas is set to face No. 10-seed-ed Arizona State in the Midwest region of the tournament Thursday in Milwaukee, Wisc.

“We felt great seeing our name up there [on the bracket], especially af-ter last year,” sophomore guard Demarcus Hol-land said. “It’s just an op-portunity to keep playing basketball and play at the highest level. Every team that is in this tournament has a chance to win.”

This is just the fifth time Texas and Arizona State have faced each other, and the first time in the NCAA tournament. The last time these two schools matched up was in 1999.

The Longhorns (23-10, 11-7 Big 12) and the Sun Devils (21-11, 10-8 Pac-12) are evenly matched head-ing into the second round of the tournament. Both teams possess a strong de-fensive front but are prone

to struggle on offense. Ad-ditionally, neither team fin-ished its season strongly: Texas lost five of its last eight games, while Arizona State fell in five of its last seven contests.

“We’ve been struggling lately, but I promise you coming into the NCAA tournament we’ll be ready,” freshman guard Isaiah Tay-lor said. “We’re ready to face anyone.”

Only junior forward Jonathan Holmes, the lone upperclassman on the team with a scholar-ship, has played in the tournament previously. Texas fell to Cincinnati

two years ago in its first game, 65-59.

For the rest of Holmes’ young teammates, this will be their first chance at the

One of the largest fraterni-ties in the nation announced earlier this month that it would eliminate pledging.

As of March 9, Sigma Al-pha Epsilon had implement-ed a new program called the True Gentlemen Experience with the goal to improve the educational and leadership experience of its members. If they choose to, local chapters and colonies may continue recruiting prospective mem-bers as they do currently, but new members must be initiated within 96 hours of receiving a membership bid.

Brandon Weghorst, as-sociate executive direc-tor of communication at Sigma Alpha Epsilon, said

members of the board of di-rectors were elected this past summer and have worked to find a solution to improve the undergraduate member expe-rience. Weghorst said no one event or incident prompted the Supreme Council to make this decision.

A Bloomberg News in-vestigation revealed last De-cember that since 2006, nine people have died in events related to Sigma Alpha Epsi-lon chapters nationwide, the most of any Greek organiza-tion. One of those deaths oc-curred at UT in 2006.

That year, Tyler Cross, a pledge at the UT chapter of Sigma Alpha Epsilon, died from a fifth-floor fall at an off-campus dormitory. Ac-cording to police investiga-tors, Cross and other pledges

endured hazing that night as they were forced to con-sume large amounts of alco-hol, were beaten with bam-boo and paddles and were sleep deprived.

Members of the frater-nity’s UT chapter were con-tacted for comment on the elimination of pledging but did not respond.

Weghorst said he would not have access to know whether the UT chapter accepts or rejects the new policy. He said he has not received any information about any chapter rejecting the new policy. According to Weghorst, stiff consequences would occur as a result of not following the new policy.

“If there are chapters

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Council members want to know the impact the ban would have on housing affordability.

Kelsey said he does not know how long a more in-depth analysis would take but thinks it would be bene-ficial to make any significant conclusions.

“You really need a hous-ing economist to weigh in on this, or at least somebody much more familiar than I am with housing economics,” Kelsey said. “If more time leads to a more thoughtful analysis and results in a more data-driven evaluation of the proposed policy, then I’m all for it.”

According to Kelsey, the report reflects a city-wide issue rather than one that pertains only to University students. Kelsey said the city requested data from UT that could not be produced in the six weeks allotted for the report.

“It’s a preliminary analy-sis that was done in a span of about 72 hours after waiting nearly four weeks to collect as much data as we could,” Kelsey said. “My hope is that it presents a

new way of analyzing the issue and that it can un-dergo some peer review and further refinement if anybody is interested in additional study.”

Lorre Weidlich, Hyde Park Neighborhood Association steering committee co-presi-dent, said she does not think the progress of the amend-ment will be affected by the report’s findings.

“[The researcher] drew some correlations, but, aside from that, he couldn’t draw any causations,” Wei-dlich said. “I don’t think the city council members will find this report any more useful than I did. I doubt that [they’ll request more time].”

According to Weidlich, the association cannot af-ford to wait much longer for the amendment to pass because historic houses

would be torn down by de-velopers and replaced with large duplexes.

“This ordinance is only for two years,” Weidlich said. “Take that two years and do a good analysis during that period, and then revisit the question.”

When the council origi-nally debated and passed the first vote, councilman Bill Spelman — the only council member who voted against the ordinance — said he felt the data was neces-sary in order to make an informed decision.

“We’re flying blind,” said Spelman, who also serves as a professor in the LBJ School of Public Affairs. “We’re talking about a po-tentially enormous change in land usage in the city without any analysis, with only qualitative affordability assessments.”

that don’t want to com-ply or follow the policies that are set forth by the national organization, they won’t hesitate to take corrective action [such as] suspending, expelling a few members, to clos-ing an entire chapter,” Weghorst said.

Elizabeth Medina, assis-tant dean of students, said the Office of the Dean of Students hopes Sigma Al-pha Epsilon will meet the expectations of the na-tional organization, but she thinks it is too soon to tell what impact the ruling may have on the UT chapter.

“The national head-quarters very recently articulated these expecta-tions, and so now it’s going to be a process of, at least for that individual chap-ter and that organization, meeting those expecta-tions and walking through that process,” Medina said. “I think that is something that will take some time to play out.”

times the number of pris-oners executed than in second-place Virginia, Texas leads all other U.S. states in number of ex-ecuted prisoners since 1976. As of Wednesday’s execution of prisoner Ray Jasper, Texas has executed 511 prisoners — all via le-thal injection — since the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1976 decision to reinstate the death penalty.

Jaspers, an aspiring rap-per who slit a music stu-dio manager’s throat in 1998 during a recording session before an accom-plice killed the victim by inflicting 25 stab wounds, was executed last night around 6 p.m. He had written a letter condemn-ing the United States’

education and penal sys-tems for their treatment of people of color.

“Under the 13th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, all pris-oners in America are considered slaves,” Jas-pers wrote. “We look at slavery like it’s a thing of the past, but you can go to any penitentiary in this nation and you will see slavery.”

Debate continues over whether retributive jus-tice is the result of mere blood thirst or human rights can actually be protected by what many would argue to be, para-doxically, a violation of human rights.

UT law student Kim Dusseldorp said she feels that, although the laws of a nation must represent the norms of that society, a government should not preach by example that capital punishment is war-rantable, considering there are other punishments that suffice, such as life without parole.

“I feel the death penalty has more to do with ven-geance than justice,” Dus-seldorp said. “It is about how civilized people are. It is inhumane and [in-volves] lowering yourself to the level of the convict. … There is also no proof that capital punishment has a deterrent effect on other potential criminals.”

Because Rashad Ow-ens, the intoxicated driver charged with plowing into a crowd of festivalgoers Thursday during South By Southwest, is, ac-cording to APD, likely to be charged with capital murder — making him eligible for the death pen-alty — it’s possible that issues regarding capital punishment will become even more relevant in the coming months.

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Because of an editing error, a story about a tuition proposal on the March 19 issue of The Daily Texan misstated the proposed percent increase for in-state undergraduate tuition. The proposal is recommending a 2.6 percent increase.

Lauren Ussery / Daily Texan StaffUndeclared sophomore Alisa Zambrano and radio-television-film senior Madison Probus sit at Littlefield Patio Cafe.

2 NEWSThursday, March 20, 2014

Robert Strauss, UT alum-nus and former Democratic Party leader, died in his Washington, D.C., home on Wednesday. He was 95.

Strauss, who received his undergraduate and law de-gree from UT, worked as a special agent for the FBI following his graduation in 1941. Later, he established his own law firm in Dallas, which eventually became known as Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld.

Strauss has deep ties to UT, as he and his law firm en-dowed the Robert S. Strauss Center for International Se-curity and Law to UT. Strauss also served as the Lloyd Bensten chair at the LBJ School of Public Affairs.

In 1989, the UT System

Board of Regents established the “Robert S. Strauss En-dowed Presidential Scholar-ship in Law” to benefit the School of Law. Funds for the scholarship were provided by Strauss’ law firm in his honor.

Strauss’ political career started when he was still an undergraduate student at UT, as he had the opportunity to work on President Lyndon B. Johnson’s first congressio-nal campaign. Later, Strauss managed both of President Jimmy Carter’s presidential campaigns and advised pres-idents Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush while they were in office. While work-ing under Bush, Strauss was sent to serve as the U.S. am-bassador to the Soviet Union because he was a self-defined “expert on people.”

Strauss is survived by three children. His wife,

Hellen Strauss died in 2006. No memorial service has been scheduled.

Strauss — who was re-nowned for his quick wit, bit-ing humor and self-reflective nature — reportedly told anyone who would listen:

“It ain’t braggin’ if you’ve done it.”

Parts of this story was compiled using reports from the Associated Press.

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While many universities continue to grapple with un-clear policies regarding recently popular electronic cigarettes, UT set a clear ban on them during the 2012 tobacco-free initiative.

Adrienne Howarth-Moore, director of UT’s Human Re-source Services, said the deci-sion to include other smoking devices that do not directly use tobacco, including e-cigarettes, in the tobacco-free campus initiative was based in part on the unknown potential health risks e-cigarettes pose to nonsmokers.

“E-cigarettes are not cur-rently regulated by the FDA and there is not sufficient safety information available to address bystanders’ con-cerns of being exposed to e-cigarette vapors,” Howarth-Moore said. ”The University benchmarked the definition used by other institutions al-ready tobacco free and con-sulted with the Austin Travis County Health and Human

Services Department.”Howarth-Moore said ban-

ning e-cigarettes was part of the stipulation for tobacco-free campus funding from the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas, or CPRIT.

“CPRIT does include e-cig-arettes as a prohibited item for purposes of certifying an entity as meeting their tobacco free criteria,” Howarth-Moore said. “To allow e-cigarettes would jeopardize CPRIT funding.”

According to Howarth-Moore, there was a student survey given in 2011 about opinions toward cigarettes on campus, but there was never a similar survey for e-ciga-rettes. Howarth-Moore said the ban on e-cigarettes was approved by representatives from multiple organization on campus, including Student Government, Staff Council and Faculty Council.

English junior Alexa Ca-pareda said she doesn’t think e-cigarettes are bothersome in the same way as regular cigarettes. But she said when people are allowed to smoke

them in enclosed spaces, it can be uncomfortable.

“They don’t smell so they aren’t as bad, but I saw some-one smoking one on the bus and it caught me off guard,” Capareda said. “Maybe people shouldn’t be allowed

to smoke them in enclosed spaces, like on a bus.”

Elysse Alvarado, interna-tional and global relations junior, said she believes e-cigarettes do not seem to be a problem on campus.

“I’ve never seen anyone

smoking an electronic ciga-rette, I didn’t even know they were banned,” Alvarado said.

Aaron Dugan, part owner of smoke shop Austin City Vapors on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, said hav-ing an on-campus ban on

e-cigarettes has not been det-rimental to business.

“I don’t feel like the ban has affected business because this is something that people are using to quit,” Dugan said. “If they want to quit, they are going to use it.”

The Society for Islamic Awareness hosted Canadian rights activist and journalist Eva Bartlett to speak of her experience living in and re-porting from the Gaza Strip since November 2008, and to explain the type of human rights violations committed by the Israeli Defense Forces that she witnessed during her stay.

Bartlett went to the Gaza Strip with the International Solidarity Movement, a grassroots organization that works to aid the Palestinian population. Bartlett said she directly worked with citizens and witnessed firsthand the nature of the situation, saying the United Nations and other organizations argue that, be-cause Israel controls the Gaza Strip, it has an obligation to support the well being of its people.

“Instead of looking after the well being of Palestin-ians in Gaza, [Israel’s] poli-cies are designed to find and attack every aspect of life in Gaza and make it literally unbearable,” Bartlett said.

According to Bartlett, Israeli forces fire live am-munition at fishermen and farmers near Israeli borders, regardless of the fact that they operate within the legal boundaries. During her pre-sentation, Bartlett showed a number of videos of these events, all of which she was

present for.The Gaza Strip spans

140 square miles, with a population of 1.7 million. In 2013, its unemployment rate was 31 percent. Bartlett said Israeli forces impose tight restrictions on the re-gion’s imports and exports, severely affecting the health of Palestinians. According to Bartlett, 80 percent of the population relies on food aid — a 70 percent increase from 2001.

“Until mid 2010, Israeli authorities were banning everything from entering Gaza, except for 40 items,” Bartlett said. “This is how sadistic their policies are.”

Bartlett said she believes Western media does not show the hardships experi-enced by Palestinians.

“A scene you will never see in our corporate media is a Palestinian suffering.”

Bartlett said.Tracy Frydberg, Middle

Eastern studies and journal-ism junior and president of Texans for Israel, referred to the conflict as a complex and emotional issue, saying the Israeli policies were put in place to protect the people of Israel.

“The Israeli Defense Force is an incredibly moral army, based on defending the state of Israel and its people.” Frydberg said.

Christina Noriega, jour-nalism junior and president of Palestine Solidarity Com-mittee, said the conflict has been inaccurately portrayed to the public by the media.

“This is not a war of equal sides but, rather, a blatant Israeli occupation involv-ing the systematic displace-ment of the indigenous Palestinian community,” Noriega said.

With the UT men’s bas-ketball team scheduled to head overseas to play a regu-lar season game in China in 2015 against the University of Washington, Univeristy officials said they hope to strengthen and expand UT’s global brand.

The game, which was announced Saturday, will be the first regular season basketball game to be held in the country for any U.S. collegiate or professional team. UT men’s head athlet-ic director Steve Patterson, a proponent of Pac-12’s Glo-balization Initiative to pro-mote goodwill and cultural exchange, said he sees the game as an opportunity for expansion and strengthen-ing of the Longhorn brand.

“We have national adver-tising and marketing pro-grams through the Longhorn Network and other broadcast and digital outlets, but we are excited about initiatives like the China game, as it

provides a high profile way to showcase the UT brand and our long-standing global phi-losophy,” said Kathleen Mab-ley, director of brand market-ing and creative services for the University.

The decision to hold a game overseas comes as the National Basketball Associa-tion hosts its current season with 10 games played over-seas in eight different coun-tries, the most international games played in one season in NBA history. China spe-cifically is a target for mar-keting basketball, as it is the NBA’s second largest market outside of the United States, according to an article in The New Yorker.

Asian studies professor Chiu-Mi Lai said basketball was the first major profes-sional sport to target the Chinese market. According to Lai, international play-ers, such as former Houston Rockets player Yao Ming, as well as popular March Madness tournament brack-ets, have helped to increase that popularity. Lai said he

believes the excitement for the game overseas will be infectious, as there is a large demographic of Chinese and Taiwanese UT alumni and students in China.

“The UT name is well-known, and having a degree from UT is well-regarded [in China],” Lai said. “Having a strong brand in China is not only good business sense but important to increase one’s global presence.”

Carleton Teel, finance ju-nior and UT basketball fan, said he thinks the game is an interesting and highly bene-ficial step toward increasing UT’s overall brand around the world.

“There’s no doubt — if you go around places now — ev-eryone knows what ‘hook ’em’ is around China,” Teel said. “It’ll prompt people to do more research on UT as a whole — not just athletics.”

The game will be broad-cast on ESPN and is tenta-tively scheduled for 11 a.m. in Beijing on Nov. 14, 2015, or 9 p.m. in Austin on Nov. 13, 2015.

Overseas basketball game to help strengthen international UT brand

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Men’s head athletic director Steve Patterson at his introduc-tory news confer-ence in Novem-ber. Patterson announced Saturday that UT will play one regular season men’s basketball game in China in 2015.

Human rights activist coversplight of Palestinians in Gaza

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Andrea KurthDaily Texan Staff

From the imposing glare of James Stephen Hogg on the South Mall to the iconic mus-tangs outside Darrell K. Royal stadium, the statues around campus all tell a part of our collective history as Longhorns, as Texans

and as Americans. Take a video tour of the many statues on campus and their history with The Daily Texan’s new interactive map at www.dailytexanonline.com

—Dan Resler

Robert Strauss Former Ambassador

Sarah Montgomery / Daily Texan StaffCanadian activist Eva Bartlett speaks as a part of her 2014 tour around the U.S. to discuss issue of human rights in Palestine.

Aaron Dugan, co-owner of Austin City Vapors, smokes a vanilla and banana-fla-vored vapor from his electronic cigarette. The e-cigarette ban on campus has not affected sales at the store, Dugan said.

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It’s been nearly a year since I assumed the editorship of the Texan, but in many ways, it feels like I’m right where I was when I first took the job. On Friday, the Texas Student Media Board of Trustees, which oversees the opera-tions of The Daily Texan as well as TSM’s four other student media properties, will consider potential solutions to the newspaper’s persis-tent and ever-growing budget shortfall. On the table will be, just like last year, a drastic cut to The Daily Texan’s print schedule. This year, the cut under consideration is even larger — from a five-day-a-week Daily Texan to a one-day-a-week Daily Texan, if, as many have suggested, a paper that prints only one day a week should even continue using “Daily” in its name.

Because the Texan — like most newspapers — is heavily dependent on the revenue gener-ated from print advertising, cutting the paper’s print product would mean cost savings, but it would also cut into the Texan’s main source of revenue at a time when there is no reasonable plan to replace it. Consequently, such a cut would be less of a “strategic move to digital” than a desperate move toward declining rev-enue and subsequent slow death.

The difference is that the Texan, unlike most newspapers, is at the behest of University ad-ministrators, from President William Powers Jr. on down. And given their inability to do anything more than lament the paper’s dire situation, the Texan’s end looms imminent.

In the past five years alone, the role of TSM director has changed hands three times. Most recently, former TSM Director Jalah Goette abruptly resigned in December in yet another example of administrators running from the

problem instead of attempting to solve it. Even the Texan’s impending move from

its current home, the Division of Student Af-fairs, to the Moody College of Communica-tion, which was announced in January, has yet to produce any tangible benefit for the paper or TSM as a whole. Though Powers told the Texan he considered the move “a plausible so-lution” to TSM’s troubles, his confidence in the Daily Texan’s future under the School of Com-munication can’t be that high, as he and the two other administrators involved in the deci-sion — Gage Paine, vice president of student affairs, and Moody college Dean Rod Hart — all refused to take credit for ordering the move.

In short, if you’re holding your breath for a strong administrative hand to reach in and save UT’s student newspaper, don’t.

Of course, I haven’t yet made the case for why we should save the Texan in the first place. It’s often said that no one cares about the campus newspaper, and having walked past piles of unretrieved Texans on far too many West Campus lawns, I recognize that for many students on this campus, that statement rings true.

I also recognize that the print media market is an evaporating puddle, that college media outlets across the nation are struggling, that the Texan is in want of major organizational changes and that the paper I’ve made the cor-nerstone of my college experience may never turn a profit again.

But that doesn’t change my belief that a uni-versity as large, important and historic as UT needs a strong, independent student newspa-per as much as it needs a Student Government or a classics department or a president or even a football team. Because teaching students that their actions are newsworthy, that their opin-ions have a place in the public domain and that

authority must be checked by a fourth estate is crucial to teaching them how to be good citi-zens of the state.

Yes, it’s true — the Texan is a business, and a struggling one at that. But the problems now plaguing the Texan are bigger than the ques-tion of whether to go digital or to stay in print. And, as eventual bankruptcy is the probable outcome of both keeping the current print schedule and of slashing it, both are no more than buckets with which to bail water out of a quickly sinking ship.

Going into Friday’s board meeting, the ques-tion shouldn’t be whether or not the Texan will go bankrupt, because barring the sudden

resurgence of print media or the appearance of an extremely generous donor, it will.

Nor should it be whether the Texan, in whichever form it comes to exist, deserves to continue serving students on this campus.

The question should be whether or not Powers, who, as University spokesperson Gary Suswein told the Texan, “has spoken many times about his commitment to The Daily Texan, to [TSM] and to student journalism,” is willing to do anything stronger than say aloud how much he believes the Texan should exist before it ceases to.

Wright is a Plan II senior from San Antonio, Texas.

On Wednesday, The Daily Texan reported that an economic study assessing the impact of the “stealth dorm” ban on area housing affordability concluded that there was not sufficient time to determine the economic effects of the ban. Originally, Sheryl Cole, city councilwoman and mayor pro tem, proposed that eight weeks be allowed for the study. But the council

ultimately voted to shorten the analysis period to six weeks. Even though we have writ-ten in support of the “stealth dorm” ordinance, we still need more data on how banning “stealth dorms” would affect the availability of affordable student housing. Horns down to the City Council for not caring enough about “stealth dorms” to allocate an adequate amount of time to understand an issue that our city cares deeply about.

College is an exceptional time in our lives when we can partake in activities that soci-ety otherwise frowns upon, such as drink-ing Keystone beer and playing hacky sack in public. One potentially ruinous side effect of pursuing a higher education, though, is tak-ing out the loans to pay for it. According to a May 2013 estimate by the Consumer Finan-cial Protection Bureau, there are $1.2 trillion in outstanding student loans in the U.S. Stu-dent loans now make up the second-largest sum of debt held by Americans, behind mort-gages. The swelling bubble of student debt is a well-trod narrative — rising costs of school combined with declining job prospects make post-grad financial realities difficult — but a less-explored dimension of student loans is the market forces behind them.

Student loans hold a special place in an-nals of American finance. Because pursuing an education is considered a worthy goal, the federal government has long guaran-teed publicly made loans and set an unwav-ering, comparatively low interest rate for the students who take them. Before 2010, public student loans were mostly made by commercial banks directly to students and guaranteed by the federal government. But this arrangement was phased out, and loans from commercial banks were re-placed with loans directly from the U.S. federal government in 2010 under the Stu-dent Aid and Fiscal Responsibility Act. By squeezing out private banks from public student lending programs, it became more difficult for banks to make a profit from student lending.

The increased competition for pieces of a smaller pie forced several major banks, including JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup Inc. and Bank of America, out of the student lending industry. Meanwhile, bigger play-ers in the industry, such as Sallie Mae, have grown to dominate it. This is an issue because private student lenders offer less favorable rates that are dependent on stu-dents’ lending histories. Whereas public student loans have a universal, low inter-est rate for all borrowers regardless of their credit scores or borrowing histories, private student lenders predicate their rates on the borrower’s ability to repay the loan. For a

young person with little credit history and an older adult with only a high school edu-cation, these rates can end up being prohibi-tively expensive.

Ideally, private loans would only be used to cover the difference between loans avail-able from the government and the amount needed to finance an education. Typically, the government will issue Federal Stafford Loans, the main type of public student loan, to students who demonstrate financial need up to a certain level. But as the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau warned in a 2013 report, young borrowers may not un-derstand the comparative advantages public loans direct from the government have over those from private banks. According to Fi-nAid, private student loans are expected to continue growing at a double-digit rate in the foreseeable future.

Because private student loans are ex-tremely difficult to discharge — it’s unlikely a bankruptcy court would forgive the debt — high interest loans have the potential to saddle a young person with crippling debt for decades to come.

In 2012, Arne Duncan, the U.S. secretary of education, criticized this business model that preys on under-informed borrowers, remarking to Daily Finance that “Subprime-style lending went to college, and now stu-dents are paying the price.” Sallie Mae and student lenders are exposed to very little risk in the event of a consumer defaulting on the loan, creating a conflict of interest between the lender, borrower and third-party pur-chaser of securitized loans similar to the conflict of interest that arose in securitizing mortgages in 2008. If it is not in the interest of the lender to ensure the borrower doesn’t default, that lender could be inclined to in-tentionally give the borrower, particularly a financially illiterate college student, terms that he cannot afford.

The evolving student loan marketplace creates a space for aggressive lenders to take advantage of vulnerable, information-poor consumers. Student loans should be a stepping stone to a better future, not a crippling burden that lenders expect to end in default. Loans are a vital part of funding higher education in America, but the burden falls on us, as students, to do our research and make sure we’re getting the most favorable terms. If we approach the student loan marketplace with an in-formed, critical mindset, hopefully we can leave our debt where we leave our campus parking fines and mandatory math classes: in the past.

Matula is a finance junior from Austin.

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HORNS DOWN: STEALTH DORM VOTE TO PROCEED WITHOUT DATA

Even though we have written in support of the ordinance, we still need more data on how banning “stealth dorms” would affect the availability of affordable student housing. Horns down to the City Council for not caring enough about “stealth dorms” to al-locate an adequate amount of time to understand an issue that our city cares deeply about.

GALLERY

Lucy Griswold / Daily Texan Staff

According to a report by the College of Education’s Center for Community College Student Engagement, white male students show a higher rate of academic success in community colleges across the nation than male students of color do. This, disturbingly, comes despite the fact that male students of color show higher levels of engagement in their college commu-

nities and have higher aspirations, according to the study, which blames a lack of col-lege readiness for the disparity. This is disheartening news, and we need to do what we can to not only encourage students of color to pursue higher education, but also to ensure that high schools across the nation are preparing all of their graduates for college- level coursework.

HORNS DOWN: LOW RATE OF SUCCESS FOR STUDENTS OF COLOR

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such a remarkable turnout and a big female presence Austin — it’s one of the best cities to host the poetry slam.”

Roop placed sixth in the competition in 2011.

“I feel like why I was so successful last time is that I was really dedicated to my work,” Roop said. “I had a really clear mind and a good plan. If I get to the final stage, that’s amazing, and if I don’t, that’s cool too.”

In addition to com-petitors’ performances, the four day festival will

include other themed open mics, poetry workshops, performances, speakers and after parties. Another slam competition, Spitfest, will take place within the festival Friday night at 11 p.m. Spitfest is a quarterly poetry slam competition held in Austin.

“We haven’t had something of this caliber event since the National Poetry Slam was hosted here in 2007,” Charles said. “I think it’s important for people to see how poetry is done in other places, and it’s good for the poets to see the uniqueness and the culture of Austin.”

larger clump of papers with results on or around that magic “.05” number than we would expect by chance alone. And this clump is higher than it was 40 years ago, par-tially because computers are more readily available now. Rather than having to break out the slide rule or reserve processor time, scientists can calculate p-value on their laptops while taking data, stopping early if they get the results they want or throwing out data that raises the number too high. Some have even cynically described the re-sults of several papers to be little more than a fairly accurate measure of the researchers’ bias.

For this reason, it is important for those out-side the scientific com-munity to take newspaper headlines with a healthy dose of skepticism. Just

because scientists found a result doesn’t make it so. Also, the question shouldn’t be “Is there an effect?” It should be “What is the size of the effect?” Overloaded stud-ies can produce certainty with minute effect sizes, but if said effect is so small that it requires mil-lions of subjects to un-cover it, even if it is genu-ine, how significant can it really be?

One of science’s great-est strengths is that it isn’t decided by a single experiment but by many that converge on the same answer. If several experi-ments manage to rep-licate the results of the dead fish study, maybe we need to rethink our views on the thought processes of post-mortem salmon. Until then the only major conclusion the research can lead us to is that when properly prepared, store-bought fish can be quite tasty.

Feline expert mediates cat fightLOS ANGELES — The

large cat that attacked a baby and trapped an Oregon fam-ily in a bedroom touched off an Internet uproar that worries Jackson Galaxy, star of Animal Planet’s “My Cat from Hell.”

Cats don’t become ferocious felines that turn on their fami-lies for no reason, said Galaxy, who is heading to Portland soon to work with the 4-year-old part-Himalayan pet named Lux. Galaxy will film the visit for his show’s fifth sea-son, which kicks off April 26.

“Every parental site on the Internet blames the cat for this confrontation. Ev-ery pet site blames the fam-ily,” Galaxy said, adding that something is wrong if the cat is acting out. “We need to step away from the hysteria. There is a story behind all this. Don’t assume anything.”

Lux became a worldwide phenomenon after owner Lee Palmer called 911 and said

the cat had cornered him, his girlfriend, their baby and the family dog inside a room.

Palmer said his 7-month-old pulled Lux’s tail, and he kicked the animal af-ter it scratched the child. Then, the cat “just went off over the edge,” Palmer told an emergency dis-patcher after the family barricaded themselves.

“He’s charging us,” Palmer said, as the cat was heard screeching in the back-ground. Officers arrived and caught Lux with a dog snare.

Palmer said the cat had a history of violence, but the family kept Lux until Mon-day, when they turned him over to a Portland-area shel-ter. But the family assured Animal Planet they were go-ing to keep the cat and agreed to therapy with Galaxy.

Palmer didn’t return a call from The Associated Press seeking comment Tuesday.

The behaviorist, who has

worked with tens of thou-sands of cats, said the thing that bothered him most about Lux was his continued aggres-sion the day Palmer called 911, including the animal’s ongo-ing assault on the door even though the threat was gone.

But the word “attack” doesn’t sit well with Galaxy because 75 percent of the

time, it’s tied to a grouchy mood or a warning, he said.

“If I have a headache, I won’t be the nicest guy in the world. I may snap at you,” Galaxy said. “This may have been Lux’s way of snapping. Hypothetically speaking, someone pulling his tail may have been the last straw.”

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John Chapple / Associated PressCat behaviorist Jackson Galaxy is concerned by Internet hys-teria that erupted on March 7 when an Oregon family called 911 to report their cat had them trapped in a bedroom.

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Her hope is that people out-side of Austin who don’t have as many resources can hear her music and relate to Feral Future’s message.

Relle said the band’s mes-sage is about standing up for yourself, other people and doing the right thing, even if it’s hard. Drummer Hunter Ross summed it up succinctly.

“Don’t take any shit,” Ross said.

The band is playing a local show at Beerland on Sunday,

and will open for Perfect Pussy at Hotel Vegas in May. It is also planning a short Oklahoma tour in April fol-lowed by an East Coast tour this summer. Feral Future will play local shows on a monthly basis, yet, rather than playing every day to the same 40 people in Austin, it is said to be selective about the shows it books and who it plays with.

“We want to play with bands we admire and re-spect,” bassist Steph Muel-ler said. “There’s a way to get sucked into playing all the time in Austin and just

playing to play.”The members have all

found a home in the Austin music scene but believe the biggest issue is that most of the local punk shows, at venues such as Hotel Vegas and Beerland, are 21-and-up shows.

“I think really what the Austin music scene is lacking is an all ages venue so we can be able to include more of the younger kids and bring that all together,” Mueller said.

The band members ad-vocate for social and po-litical change through their art and actions, sometimes

in humorous ways. The al-bum credits contain a short thank you note that ends, “No thanks to Rick Perry, he sucks.” Relle said she added that in because the al-bum was recorded while the members were all protest-ing at the Capitol last sum-mer, and being in Austin is part of what makes the band so assertive.

“People are starting to get fed up and say something,” Relle said. “That’s part of why we do it the way we do it. We’re right on the front lines of our rights being taken away.”

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The NCAA tournament is upon us, and with it comes a welcome dose of chaos.

As usual, the big dance was full of surprises last year, including Wichita State becoming the first No. 9 seed to reach the Final Four since 1979.

With madness sure to ensue following the tip-off of Thursday’s games, here’s a look at some of the great first-round upsets of years past.

Although we have yet to see a No. 16 seed down a No. 1 seed, matchups be-tween No. 15 seeds and No. 2 seeds have had their share of wild games. One of the marquee first-round upsets came in 1993, when Steve Nash and Santa Clara shocked the world by top-pling Arizona 64-61. Prior to 2011, though, Nash and Co. were only one of four No. 15 seeds to sur-vive the first round — giv-ing the group a combined 4-104 record.

Since then, three No. 15 seeds have won games in the past two tourna-ments, including Florida Gulf Coast last March. who alley-ooped their way to an easy 78-68 win over Georgetown.

The matchups between No. 14 seeds and No. 3 seeds have been more gen-erous to the underdogs. The favorites have lost 17 times

since 1985, including last year when Harvard downed New Mexico en route to its first tournament victory in school history. Another classic upset took place in 2005, when Bucknell shocked Kansas in a thriller.

This year, keep an eye on North Carolina Cen-tral. Despite their modest seeding, the Eagles have an explosive offense and own a 15-1 conference record. If any No. 14 seed has a chance to advance, it’s them.

Though the gap between No. 4 seeds and No. 13 seeds is large, things have not played out that way. A No. 13 seed has advanced 25 times in tournament history. The most historic upset in this seeding match-up came in 1996, when

Princeton ousted de-fending champion UCLA 43-41 to send shock waves throughout the nation.

At this point, victories by No. 12 seeds over No. 5 seeds shouldn’t come as a surprise — three teams pulled off the upset last year alone, making it 25 times in the past 15 years. A few 12 seeds to watch are Harvard and North Carolina State.

Without a doubt, there will be a handful of surpris-es this year. Some seem fair-ly predictable — NC State is a popular upset pick — but there is bound to be a team or two that comes out of no-where to pull off a shocker. Until then, cross your fin-gers and pray an underdog doesn’t bust your bracket in one fell swoop.

6STEFAN SCRAFIELD, SPORTS EDITOR / @texansportsThursday, March 20, 2014

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Houston out-muscles TexasBy Scarlett Smith

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Amy Zhang / Daily Texan StaffDespite falling to Houston and a seventh inning rally 5-4, senior shortstop Taylor Thom became the Texas all-time leader in RBIs with an RBI single in the sixth. Thom has been a staple in the Texas offense, batting in the three hole.

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Longhorns head to NCAA Championship

Andrea Kurth / Daily Texan StaffJunior Kaitlin Pawlowicz swims at the Big 12 Championships at the Lee and Joe Jamail Texas Swimming Center. Pawlowicz’s time qualified her for the NCAA Championships for the third time.

By Kunal Patel@kunalpatel104

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With recent surge of upsets, Cinderella dream looms large

The NCAA Champion-ships will begin Thursday and run through Saturday night at the University of Minnesota’s aquatic center. Nine swimmers and three divers will represent the No. 6 Longhorns. Along with those individuals, all five of Texas’ relay teams qualified for the championships.

The Longhorns are well acquainted with the NCAA Championships, having won seven in their history, in addition to three second-place finishes, and reaching a meet-record 746 points in 1991.

The Longhorns will be led by senior All-Americans El-len Lobb, Samantha Tuck-er and Lily Moldenhauer, making their fourth con-secutive appearance in the NCAA Championships.

Diving coach Matt Scoggin also has his share of experience heading into the champion-ships. Senior Maren Taylor is making her fourth appearance, while junior Emma Ivory-Ganja, a transfer from UCLA, and freshman diver Mur-phy Bromberg will be mak-ing their first appearances at the championships.

Lobb is seeded 12th in the 50 freestyle and 35th in the 100 freetyle. On top of that, she is seeded 29th in the 100 butterfly. Moldenhauer, the Texas record holder, is seeded seventh in the 100

backstroke. She is seeded 12th in the 100 butterfly. Tucker is seeded 16th in the 200 freestyle.

The Longhorns also have three junior swimmers, Gretchen Jaques, Kelsey LeNeave and Kaitlin Paw-lowicz, who are each mak-ing their third consecutive appearance. The two fresh-men swimmers, Madisyn Cox and Tasija Karosas, are making their championship debuts. Even without much experience at a meet of this magnitude, Cox ranks 10th nationally in the 200 indi-vidual medley, and Karo-sas is seeded 11th in the 200 backstroke.

The Longhorns are not the favorite to win the meet, as head coach Carol Capitani’s alma-mater, California, and her previous employer, Geor-gia, are ranked No. 1 and No. 2 respectively.

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Texas senior RHP/infielder Ty Marlow un-derwent Tommy John surgery successfully Wednesday morning to reconstruct his ulnar col-lateral ligament in his right arm, according to associate athletic trainer Michael West.

The surgery will side-line Marlow for the rest of the 2014 season. He should be cleared to play next season and will re-ceive a medical red shirt.

Marlow, who had been battling elbow tendinitis, made two appearances for the Longhorns this sea-son, throwing two score-less innings.

Marlow has a career 2.16 ERA for the Long-horns after transferring from McLennan College. He made 18 starts in the field, while appearing 24 times on the mound.

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The Longhorns fell to the Houston Cougars 5-4 on Wednesday evening at Red and Charline McCombs Field after blowing a two-run lead in the seventh.

The matchup began as a pitching duel as freshman Tiarra Davis got the start against senior Diedre Outon of Houston. Diedre Outon, whose catcher is her twin sis-ter Haley Outon, threw five innings in the Cougars’ win.

Texas head coach Connie Clark’s team started strong, but fell prey to a defensive lapse in the top half of the third inning, surrendering two runs on dropped balls in center field and by sopho-more Holly Kern at first base.

Davis, a burgeoning force in the circle, got her seventh start in eleven games. Davis lasted three innings Thurs-day before being replaced, af-ter several defensive miscues gave the visiting Cougars an early two-run lead.

Clark had planned to pitch by committee, mak-ing three changes through-out the game. Junior Gabby Smith took over for Davis to start the fourth, working out of a bases loaded jam to hold the Cougars scoreless in the inning.

Senior shortstop Taylor

Thom was shut down Thurs-day through three at-bats be-fore an RBI single in the sixth moved her into sole posses-sion of first place on the Texas all-time RBI list. Texas finally broke through in the bottom of the fifth, scoring two runs off sophomore utility Lind-sey Stephens’ one-out double,

her 41st and 42nd RBIs of the season to lead the Big 12. Freshman second baseman Stephanie Wong’s leadoff double in the bottom of the sixth got things started for Texas. Wong eventually came around to score on a squeeze by senior catcher Mandy Ogle, giving the Longhorns

their first lead of the game.Freshman pitcher Lauren

Slatten then replaced Smith in the top of the sixth inning and was later pulled for Da-vis, who returned to a 5-4 deficit after Houston scored three runs to take the lead for good in the top of the seventh. Davis pitched well,

allowing only two hits while striking out six and walk-ing two on the night. The loss drops Texas to 18-15 on the season.

Texas will get out on the diamond again Saturday to kick off Big 12 play when it travels to Waco to take on Baylor in a two-game series.

The Longhorns are well acquainted with the NCAA Champion-ships, having won seven in their history, in addition to three second-place finishes, and reaching a meet-record 746 points in 1991.

tournament.“It’s exciting,” Taylor

said. “Especially going against a Pac-12 team. I think I can speak for the rest of the team, that ev-erybody is excited.”

Sophomore center Cameron Ridley will pro-vide one of the most in-teresting matchups of the game when he faces the Sun Devils’ 7-foot-2-inch

center Jordan Bachynski, who leads the nation with 4.1 blocks per game. Rid-ley comes in three inches shorter, but leads his team with 8.2 rebounds per game.

Barnes uses Texas’ win against UNC ear-lier this season to de-scribe how he thinks his team is ready for its opening matchup.

“If you go back to the North Carolina game, there is a great picture of them,” Barnes said. “They are walking off the court arm in arm, but not too emotional. Not jumping around like we didn’t ex-pect this. They know they can win.”

The game will start at 8:40 p.m. CST and will be broadcast on CBS.

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17 Meter reading

18 Like the first two “Brandenburg” Concertos

19 City known as “Florence on the Elbe”

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9 Nabokov novel after “Lolita”

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12 Nickname for Michael Jordan, with “His”

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40 Pitcher’s woe

41 George Eliot and George Sand

43 Balance

45 Musical middle name

46 Time spent doing time, say

49 Dry

50 Marseille mates

51 “Glee” girl

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56 Arabic name meaning “highly praised”

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A study published in the now defunct Jour-nal of Serendipitous and Unexpected Results fea-tured researchers show-ing several pictures of people interacting to a subject who sat inside an fMRI machine that took brain measurements.

What makes the experi-ment somewhat unusual is that the subject was an At-lantic Salmon — 18 inches long, 3.8 pounds and dead. After taking measurements, the scientists cooked and ate it.

And yet, even this dead fish produced re-sults that suggested its brain actively responded

to the stimulus with a 99.9 percent certainty.

These results are, to put it mildly, absolutely absurd, yet the study has taken on a life of its own, earning accolades from other scientists as well as the prestigious Ig Nobel Prize, which is offered to achievements that “first make people laugh, then make them think.” That’s because the point of the experiment had noth-ing to do with measuring brain waves of dead fish — it was a demonstration showing that research-ers can’t blindly trust statistical methods.

In this particular case, the fMRI generates such an astounding amount of data — about 130,000 points per measure-ment — that some of the noise will appear to be signal and produce ap-parent correlation out of coincidence.

This same kind of prob-lem permeates research by scientists unbeknownst to them. In order to publish,

the scientists need to do statistical tests that pro-duce a probability value, referred to as a p-value, below .05. This indicates that there is less than a 5 percent chance of get-ting the same results if there is no correlation between the two things being compared.

But formulas can’t take human error or potential bias into account.

With the dead fish study, the scientists didn’t state what they were expecting to find before they went look-ing for it and found a result where none existed. This is like throwing a dart at the wall and drawing a target around it.

The extent of the problem can best be

summarized by the title of a theory paper published in 2005: Why Most Pub-lished Research Findings Are False. Nearly 10 years old, the paper still ranks as the second-most viewed on the PLOS Medicine web-site. As the paper explains, if researchers don’t take into account the probabil-ity of a finding being true prior to an experiment, they will produce a lot of results that fizzle out upon closer inspection.

The science commu-nity is slowly becoming aware of how bad this “p-hacking” problem is. Stud-ies have looked at results across several journals and discovered there is a much

HANNAH SMOTHERS, LIFE&ARTS EDITOR / @DailyTexanArts 8Thursday, March 20, 2014

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Lauren Ussery / Daily Texan StaffFrom left, Kate Moyer, Hunter Ross, Relle Sonnenschien and Steph Mueller of the feminist/queer punk band Feral Future recently released their album Hae-matic and will be performing at Beerland on Sunday.

For the seventh year in a row, 72 women from around the U.S. and Canada will gather in Austin to compete against each other using only their words and a stage. The Women of the World Poetry Slam showcases up-and-coming women with power-ful voices in the world of spo-ken word performance. The kickoff for the festival was Wednesday at Spider House Ballroom. The preliminary rounds, called “bouts,” will begin Thursday at Love Goat and Spider House.

“It’s just an outlet specifi-cally for women to express themselves in ways they possibly couldn’t in other arenas and give them a na-tional platform,” said Tova Charles, the event’s host chair coordinator.

Each poet’s performance will be scored by five judges on a scale of one to 10. Af-ter each of the five scores is given, the highest and low-est will be removed, and the three remaining scores will be averaged. The top 12 po-ets with the highest scores will move on to the finals, which will be held Saturday at Paramount Theatre, where the winners will receive cash prizes and trophies.

Internationally renowned poet Andrea Gibson won the first competition in 2008

in Detroit. “I was so flipping excited,”

Gibson said. “The finals bout included some of my favor-ite poets in the world — po-ets I had admired for years. I think I smiled for a solid month after that.”

Gibson’s work is fa-mous for highlighting is-sues surrounding gender roles and rights for the LGBTQ community.

“I think any event in the world that highlights women’s voices is impor-tant,” Gibson said. “I think WOWPS is a place where women are consistently re-minded that their voices are needed and valued and vital.”

Local poet Lacey Roop will represent Austin in the poetry slam. In December 2013, Roop competed at Spi-der House against other local poets for the spot.

“Austin is definitely one of the best places for poetry, espe-cially for women,” Roop said. “It’s great that we have a poetry slam every Tuesday and it’s always packed. For us to have

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Photo courtesy of Charlotte Style Magazine Andrea Gibson won the first ever Women of the World Poetry Slam in 2008. Gibson said the event, which starts Thursday, reminds women that their voices are needed and valued.

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The members of Feral Future want their music to make listeners feel un-comfortable. The feminist/queer punk band based in Austin released its album, Haematic, in February on local label Western Medical Records. The album con-tains nine songs of blistering punk that hone in on issues of abuse, rape, alcoholism and the struggle for queer rights, often going into vivid detail. The lead singer of Fe-ral Future, who goes by the name Relle, said its songs are grounded in real-life issues.

“I think that these things we sing about have a lot do with frustrations and anger we all have but feel like we can’t say really,” Relle said.

Feral Future writes songs that are aggressive and uses them as a platform to share stories of survival. “Hostile” tells the story of Relle trav-eling to confront her rapist, which she wanted to share so other survivors could find music to relate to. “No Means Nothing” takes an unusual angle by telling a story of at-tempted sexual assault from both the aggressor and tar-get’s point of view.

“I thought that it would be an interesting idea to see it from both sides and broach the idea that victims of abuse often become abusers and vice versa and that it is a huge problem with rape culture,” Relle said.

The band has been playing in Austin for a little less than two years. While each of the band members has different influences and bands she ad-mires, they all point to The Slits and ESG as post-punk bands they enjoy.

While the band has some riot grrrl influences, it doesn’t identify with the movement because of its is-sues with queers and people of color. Instead, it is trying to move forward with other like-minded bands that

identify as feminist. “Unless we can time trav-

el back to 1993, we’re not a riot grrrl band,” guitarist Kate Moyer said. “Inevita-bly, if you’re ever in a semi-aggressive girl-fronted punk band, you’re going to get that

comparison forever and ever.” The band members hope

they can spread their mes-sage through their music to other people who are strug-gling with the same issues they went through. Moyer said growing up in a small

town, she had a hard time finding like-minded people who cared about punk mu-sic. She said she didn’t meet anyone who had heard of Bikini Kill until she was 22.

What makes the experiment somewhat unusual is that the subject was an Atlantic Salmon — 18 inches long, 3.8 pounds and dead. After taking mea-surements, the scientists cooked and ate it.

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Women, words war in continental poetry slamBy Sarah Montgomery

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