FORT HOOD — A soldier shot and killed four people, including himself, and in-jured 16 at the Fort Hood military base, located outside of Killeen, on Wednesday af-ternoon. The casualties mark the second mass shooting at Fort Hood in five years.

Nine patients are in treat-ment in the intensive care unit at the Scott & White Hos-pital in Temple. Three were in critical condition Wednesday night, according to Deontrea Jones, a hospital spokesman.

The soldier, who was identi-fied by U.S. Rep. Michael Mc-Caul, R-Austin, as 34-year-old Ivan Lopez, suffered from “un-resolved” mental and behavior health issues and was in treat-ment, according to Lt. Gen. Mark Milley. Fort Hood offi-cials said they would not con-firm Lopez was the shooter.

According to Fort Hood officials, the shooter fired at individuals in the 1st Medi-cal Brigade area of Fort Hood a little after 4 p.m. He died of self-inflicted injuries after a military police officer ap-proached him.

Milley said though the shooter had not been formal-ly diagnosed, he was under-going the diagnosis process for post-traumatic stress dis-order. The shooter served in Iraq for four months in 2011 and had a wife and children who lived near the base.

“That’s a lengthy diagno-sis,” Milley said.

Ben Armstrong, director of UT’s Student Veteran Ser-vices, said many veterans at UT have served at Fort Hood or have other close connec-tions with the base, although there is no way of tracking

an exact number. Armstrong said he and other members of Student Veteran Services have not yet decided on a course of action or support plan.

“The immediate thing we’re worried about is the families and soldiers that are on base,” Armstrong said. “Right now I think that all we can do is hope and pray for the people that are on base, and we can go from there once we figure out what the realities of the situation are.”

In 2009, Nidal Malik Hasan, a U.S. Army major and psy-chiatrist, shot and killed 13 people and injured more than

Federal laws that restrict what loans advisers are al-lowed to mention to students mean that students are not provided with informa-tion that could save them money, according to Tom Melecki, director of Student Financial Services.

Federal law currently prevents institutions from recommending, promot-ing or endorsing private student loans, which are defined broadly enough to include loans offered by the state of Texas. One state loan program, the B-On-Time program, offers a no-interest loan that is fully forgiven if the stu-dent graduates on time for their degree with a GPA of at least 3.0. According to Melecki, advisers are not allowed to recommend this loan to students unless they specifically ask to be put on the waiting list.

Melecki said the restric-tions on what information an adviser can share means many students never find out about options like the B-On-Time loan. According to Melecki, $32 billion in B-On-Time money went unused in Texas in 2012, though more of the money was accessed in 2013.

“The B-On-Time loan can support students in achiev-ing on time graduation be-cause if we can provide them with B-On-Time money, they wouldn’t necessarily have to go out and work and earn money [during col-lege],” Melecki said, “They’d have more time to work on their studies.”

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A new Supreme Court decision that overturned restrictions on campaign contribution limits could in-crease wealthy donors’ abili-ties to influence elections, according to law professor Lucas Powe.

In a 5-4 decision Wednesday, the Supreme Court ruled that federal limits on the number of candidates and politi-cal committees a person could donate to in an elec-tion cycle were in viola-tion of rights protected by the First Amendment. In the case, McCutcheon v. Federal Election Com-mission, the court ruled that current aggregate limits, or the amount of

money an individual can give to committees and candidates in a two-year period, also posed an unconstitutional burden.

“The basic idea is that Congress can’t regulate the total amount a person can give to lots of different candi-dates,” law assistant professor Joseph Fishkin said.

Powe said while the rul-ing might lead to more transparency in the po-litical system, it could also give wealthy, upper-class donors more ability to influence candidates.

“We might see a little more transparency because contributions to a candi-date have to be reported, so contributions to super PACs might be more transparent,”

With April Fools’ Day passing Tuesday, the slew of practical jokes has seem-ingly ceased, but The Daily Texan once published a much more permanent jest to commemorate the day.

In 1982, The “Deadly” Texan made its way into the newspaper boxes littered around campus. The insert, full of satirical pieces akin to that which the Texas Trav-esty would publish today, held no punches in terms of content or possible offen-siveness.

One of the articles, titled “Fetishes of the deans,” graced the pages of this former gag issue. The ar-ticle detailed the “objects of extreme or irrational rever-

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McCarthy, senior policy analyst at the National As-sociation of Student Finan-cial Aid Administrators, one option provided to the University is to advertise a list of approved, indepen-dent lenders to students, with the hopes that those lenders recommend alter-native loans. McCarthy said most universities choose not to use this option be-cause they cannot guarantee the trustworthiness of the independent lenders.

“[Universities] are kind of stuck between a rock and a hard place,” McCarthy said.

Melecki said independent lenders can be a risky option.

“Oftentimes, those loans turn out to be more expen-sive for students and cer-tainly federal student loans,” Melecki said. “We don’t particularly want to be in a position of recommending to our students loans that may not be as good for them as the federal loans that are available to them.”

When the Higher Edu-cation Act preventing the information sharing was implemented in 2012,

the state allocated the University more than $6 million in B-On-Time funds, but students only used 59 percent of the al-location. In 2013, more students accessed the loan and used 99 percent of the state allocation. Melecki said he was not sure how students became more educated about the loan but said he appreciated the increased interest.

“What we want to do is be in a position where we can utilize this to the maximum extent every year,” Melecki said. “This is a fabulous loan program for students.”

A bill to amend the Higher Education Act is currently be-ing reviewed by the House Committee on Education and the Workforce. Eight UT Stu-dent Government members are working to create an aware-ness campaign to lobby in sup-port of the bill, H.R. 3371.

Philip Wiseman, govern-ment senior outgoing chief jus-tice for the SG Judicial Court,

said he has not heard any op-position to the bill from state representatives with whom SG has discussed the loan.

While the bill is in commit-tee, Wiseman said he plans to inform students about the B-On-Time loan through

postcards to families, social me-dia and campus-wide emails.

“In the mean time, while the University is handicapped, we are go-ing to serve as the liai-son to the student body,” Wiseman said.

30 others at Fort Hood. In 2010, former Secretary of De-fense Robert Gates ordered the military to better identify potential workplace violence, improve information sharing between agencies and review emergency response capabili-ties at installations.

At a press conference in Chicago, President Barack Obama expressed grief and frustration that another shooting happened on a military base.

“Our thoughts and prayers are with the entire commu-nity, and we’re going to do everything we can to make sure Fort Hood has what it needs,” Obama said. “Folks there sacrifice so much on behalf of our freedom. … They serve with valor and distinction. When they’re at their home base, they need to feel safe. We don’t know what happened tonight, but obviously that sense of safety has been broken again.”

Sociology sophomore Sara Tracy, who attended UT as a freshman and will be re-turning in the fall, lives in Killeen just a few miles away from the Fort Hood base and has family and friends who work there.

Tracy said she still has vivid memories from the 2009 shooting, which hap-pened when she was a ju-nior in high school.

“The first time this hap-pened, we couldn’t leave school,” Tracy said. “It was just scary, because a lot of my friends couldn’t get ahold of their parents be-cause the cell service is ter-rible when a lot of people use their phones. People were worried because they have parents who work there, and it’s just like the same thing all over again.”

Tracy said the whole community is affected by the shootings.

“It’s emotional — ear-lier I just cried,” Tracy said. “You just don’t expect it to happen again … you want everybody to be safe.”

Veteran John Daywalt, a government junior from Killeen whose father still works at the Fort Hood base, said another shooting at the base was not something he expected to happen.

“Hearing that it hap-pened a second time is even more devastating,” Daywalt said. “I just hope that the families are all OK and they get the proper respect that they deserve. It just kind of hits you by surprise.”

Daywalt, who served as a paratrooper in Afghani-stan, said gun regulation on army bases is more strin-gent than people realize.

“I think there’s definitely a misconception that every-one on base is always car-rying a weapon,” Daywalt said. “You think that just because they’re in the mili-tary, they’re always carry-ing a weapon. In reality, you are not allowed to touch a weapon without specific or-ders … so it’s not like if there was something like that you would be able to just respond immediately.”

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Powe said. “We’ll also prob-ably see much more big money because it gives the wealthy more control of the system. The Republicans are probably dancing in the streets right now.”

The decision still limits the total amount of money a donor can give to any one candidate to $2,600.

“A donor can now give a maximum contribution of $2,600 to as many indi-viduals as he wishes,” Powe

said. “So with 33 Senate races and 435 House races, he can now give $2,600 to each and every candidate in that race.”

Under the previous laws, donors could only give to 18 candidates per election cycle, for a total donation limit of $123,200.

In his decision, Chief Jus-tice John Roberts said he had no problem removing some donation limits be-cause he felt most campaign contributions were not made to unfairly influence candidates.

“Spending large sums of money in connection with elections, but not in con-nection with an effort to control the exercise of an officeholder’s official duties, does not give rise to such quid pro quo corruption,” Roberts said.

Roberts said the decision was based on the fact that aggregate limits infringed on donors’ First Amend-ment rights of free speech and association.

“The government may no more restrict how many candidates or causes a

donor may support than it may tell a newspaper how many candidates it may en-dorse,” Roberts said.

Powe said he was con-cerned about how the new ruling might affect other campaign finance laws.

“[The Supreme Court] didn’t strike down all cam-paign finance legislation, but they’re certainly poised to do so,” Powe said. “This is just the beginning. It has the seeds of knocking every-thing else out.”

The ruling will formally go into effect in 25 days.

ence or devotion” for each of the University’s deans.

The first dean described was Billye Jean Brown, for-mer dean of the nursing school. Brown is described, vividly, as having a distinct fetish toward blood. “There’s nothing like fresh blood in the morning,” the article humorously attributes to Brown. “You walk into that room, where there’s a patient who bleeds a lot. … And there it is. His blood. Drip-ping into the hemovac. My hand grips the bed rails.”

Brown then begins to treat the patient, who then asks, “Is there anything wrong, Nurse?”

“I look at him, tears well-ing in my eyes, biting my bottom lip, trying to control myself,” Brown said. “‘No, it’s just my type of blood, OOOh.’”

As the article continues to survey the sundry fetishes of the deans, it attributes a leather obsession to John Sutton Jr., who was dean of the law school at the time.

“It started with mah first pair of booties,” said Sutton, who is described as hav-ing a noticeable drawl. “Ah

still have ’em. They’re not bronzed, jist well-awled.”

In response to his duties as dean, Sutton responds by invoking his favorite secret, “Once ya git all those straps and snaps and belts tight-ened up, it’s hard to thing of anything else.”

The article goes on to de-scribe the drug habit of James Doluisio, who was dean of the pharmacy school when this issue was published.

“I try to keep up with the poisons that young people are putting into their bodies these days,” Doluisio said, removing a “vial of pills from his labcoat.” “These

little jewels give you the sen-sation that you’ve complete-ly left your body and are va-cationing at Lake Tahoe.”

Doluisio then “popped a couple of the little pills into his mouth and washed them down with a handy glass of water.” As the drugs kick in, Doluisio said, “If you need to reach me, I’ve left the name of my hotel with my secretary.”

While these fetishes are meant solely for the sake of humor and do not accurate-ly reflect the statements or actions of any of the deans included, the article’s open-ing disclaimer proves the

only veritable paragraph in the piece. “We often forget that deep down inside deans are ordinary people just like ourselves … [and] people are sometimes a little … er, ah, eccentric.”

Ukraine isn’t enough of a U.S. priority to warrant mili-tary involvement, although Russia has shown its will-ingness to use military force, according to government professor Robert Moser in an on-campus roundtable discussion Wednesday.

Slavic and Eurasian stud-ies professors discussed the ongoing situation between Russia and Ukraine as part of “Putin’s Russia and Eastern Europe,” sponsored by the International Affairs Society.

Moser, who also serves as chair of the government department, said the U.S. doesn’t plan to go to war with Russia.

“Ukraine is more im-portant to Russia than it is to the United States and western Europe,” Moser said. “Ukraine has been historically viewed as sort of part of Russia, in its sphere of influence. If you lose Ukraine, from a certain perspective … you lose sort of the heart of the Slavic homeland, and there’s gen-uine fear that core interests — military, social, political, as well as economic inter-ests — would be violated if Ukraine became part of the [European Union].”

Moser said the U.S. gov-ernment remains firm in its decision to refrain from taking military action be-cause of the notable ef-fects economic sanctions have had on the Russian economy. He also said each

country’s military view of Ukraine differs greatly — with Russia having higher stakes in the region because of its proximity.

Wesley Howard, a gov-ernment and international and global studies senior and director of programs for the society, said the topic was chosen for the round table in January, before most people knew about the events going on in the region.

“We didn’t expect the cri-sis to occur in the timely manner it did, but … a lot of interest got spurred … [and] the professors were relatively talkative and wanting to join onto the panel,” Howard said. “A lot of people pretty inter-ested in the region think it seems difficult for the region to overcome because what precedent does it set for fu-ture invasions or future Rus-sian power proliferations?”

Mary Neuburger, profes-sor and chair in the depart-ment of Slavic and Eurasian studies, said she thinks re-ports from and about the situation are lacking per-spective from the region where Ukraine used to be part of Russia.

“There’s an easy way to watch the media and go, ‘Yeah, Russia’s evil,’… and I think there’s this story that‘s being fed to Americans — a very uncomplicated narra-tive of Russia’s evil, Putin’s evil, they’re taking up the Ukraine … and I think part of the problem is a consisten-cy problem for us on foreign policy,” Neuburger said.

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Autism diagnoses in the U.S. have been increasing, partly because more doc-tors understand the symp-toms, local autism aware-ness advocates said at an on-campus panel on World Autism Awareness Day on Wednesday.

One in every 68 children is diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder, which encompasses a number of social, communicative and behavioral development dis-orders, according to a report released Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

According to Suzanne

Potts, interim executive di-rector of the Autism Society of Greater Austin, the rise in autism spectrum diagno-ses, which is up from 1 in 88 in 2012, is because of an improved understanding of symptoms that occur at a young age.

Potts said she believes diagnosing autism is a challenge in itself because of a lack of distinct medi-cal guidelines regarding diagnosis.

“There is not currently a medical test to diagnose au-tism,” Potts said. “There are assessment tests, but those become subjective to the person doing the testing. [Autism] is a spectrum dis-order, which means no two

people with autism are the same, making diagnostics even more difficult.”

According to Potts, creat-ing an accepting environ-ment for autistic people allows them to develop socially.

“Social perception is vital in the way they feel about themselves,” Potts said. “Peo-ple identifying them in ways other than having autism provides support.”

Thor Gudbrandsson, chief operating officer of the Golden Hat Founda-tion, said understanding an autistic person’s ability for comprehension is often underestimated, leading to a belief that there is noth-ing that can be done to

improve the person’s qual-ity of life.

“Despite [the] very odd behaviors that some kids ex-press, they are intellectually capable,” Gudbrandsson said. “They can be taught. They have dreams and aspirations and hopes for the future like everyone else.”

After doctors told him his son had a mental capacity of a 2-year-old, Gudbrandsson said he had little hope for his

son’s future until he and his wife produced a documen-tary about autism symptom improvement.

“We realized he was so intelligent and could do so much more than we ever thought,” Gudbrandsson said. “Now he is interested in composing music and we look forward to him debut-ing his music at Carnegie Hall in December.”

Maria Hernandez,

president and founder of Growing Roots, an organiza-tion that empowers and edu-cates children with disabili-ties, said there is still room for improvement in autism awareness.

“Every year we learn more about autism, and it’s more prominent in the me-dia,” Hernandez said. “But there are still many cultures that don’t have this type of awareness.”

Powers endorses final Shared Services report

President William Powers Jr. endorsed the final report and recommendations pro-duced by the Shared Services Steering Committee in a let-ter dated Monday.

In the letter, addressed to the UT community, Powers said he expects Kevin Hegarty, vice president and chief financial of-ficer, to carry out the change in a “thoughtful manner.”

“I thank the Shared Services Steering Committee, Vice Pres-ident Hegarty, the campus lead-ers who have volunteered to participate in this next critical phase of transformation, and all members of the UT staff for the important work they do every day,” Powers said in the letter.

As defined by Hegarty, Shared Services is a plan to centralize University services across campus. The plan out-lines the elimination of 500 jobs — primarily through at-trition and retirement, accord-ing to University officials — to centralize finance, information technology, human resources and procurement services.

The committee’s final re-port, endorsed by Powers, outlines the findings and recommendations produced by the committee through its exploration of Shared Ser-vices implementation at UT.

In the report, the commit-tee provided recommenda-tions on how best to conduct a pilot version of implementa-tion. According to the report, the committee will take a closer look at existing forms of Shared Services on campus, particularly those at the Col-lege of Liberal Arts and Mc-Combs School of Business, as well as pursue test runs in col-leges, schools and units that volunteer and have structures conducive to centralization.

Now that Powers has en-dorsed the plan, UT spokes-man Kevin Almasy said the Shared Services project team will start meeting with pilot participants to begin devel-oping a transition plan.

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Blake Mycoskie, founder of TOMS, said he attributes his company’s success to its commitment to giving back as part of the Texas Cow-boys’ Annual Lectureship on Wednesday.

Mycoskie said TOMS’ “one for one” business ap-proach, which is specific to social entrepreneurship, engages customers more ef-fectively than other business models do. TOMS, founded in 2006, began by selling canvas shoes and donating one pair for each pair pur-chased and has expanded this system to other products such as eye wear and coffee.

“When I first started this, I had this spontaneous re-sponse to helping kids, and I had this amazing feeling about giving, and giving felt really good, and it still feels amazing,” Mycoskie said. “As we were develop-ing more shoes over the last

couple of years, I started to recognize that everyone was calling us a shoe busi-ness, but I always thought of TOMS as the ‘one for one’ business.”

Mycoskie said TOMS’ success comes from allow-ing the customer to experi-ence giving back while buy-ing the product.

“I always thought that the magic of what we were doing wasn’t necessarily just in the shoe,” Mycoskie said. “While I love our shoes … The [cus-tomer] gets to experience the brand or experience the idea that they buy something and help somebody at the same time, and that’s the ‘one for one’ business,”

TOMS has donated roughly 10 million pairs of shoes to children in need since 2006, according to the company’s website.

“Giving doesn’t just feel good,” Mycoskie said. “It’s ac-tually really good forbusiness.”

Matt Bowman, a me-chanical engineering

senior and committee coordinator for Texas Cow-boys, said Cowboys looks to inspire students at the Uni-versity in hopes of develop-ing future entrepreneurs.

“[We are] all about giv-ing back to the community, whether it be the University or our philanthropy,” Bow-man said. “[Mycoskie] does so much to give back to his com-munity, [through] his ‘one for one’ model, and what we re-ally want to do is bring him to the University and spread his knowledge … Maybe one day we’ll develop the next TOMS.”

Tom Rhea, psychology junior and Texas Cowboys Lectureship co-chair, said the Cowboys was not inter-ested in attracting a speaker for the sole purpose of “fill-ing seats.”

“We are meant to serve not only the University, but the entire city of Austin,” Rhea said. “We wanted to bring someone who had that mindset of service and passion to our campus.”

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TOMS founder Blake Mycoskie speaks at Hogg Memo-rial Auditorium on Wednesday night. Founded on the prin-ciple of providing shoes to children in need for every pair sold, the company has since expanded to sell eyewear and coffee.

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Thor Gudbrands-son, (center), chief operating officer of the Golden Hat Foundation, speaks at a panel discussion about Autism at the School of Social Work on Wednesday.

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After Chapter, a Christian event started by the current Chaplains of each Panhellenic sorority, has shown that women of the Greek community are much more than stereotypical “sorority girls” concerned only with partying, booze and boys. With more than a 400-partici-pant turnout on After Chapter’s opening night, Greek women are using their personal time to better themselves through a community built upon strong values. As stated on After Chapter’s Facebook Page, the event is “open to all Panhellenic sororities at UT Austin. It is a night of worship, music, talking, listening and getting to know your sisters.”

After Chapter was designed as a play on After Dark, a Christian event whose purpose was “to expose college students to the person of Jesus so they can decide for themselves if they feel like He is in any way relevant to their lives today.” The difference between After Dark and After Chapter, however, is After Chapter’s emphasis on sisterhood through the relation of similar values and the common ground of good morals and faith. Despite After Chapter’s Panhellenic premise, the Panhellenic Council is not involved in the event. After Chapter, unlike After Dark, is an event only open to women, which is one of its greatest strengths. And, as a woman who has participated in After Chapter, I can attest to the value of the event’s authentic premise to women in the Greek community.

As an out-of-state student from California, I did not anticipate that part of UT’s culture would include mass participation in worship, especially within the Greek community. The prominence of Christian practices and be-liefs is demonstrated through the mass quan-tity of women who attend After Chapter. It is important that these women be commend-ed for their actions, which are far from the Greek stereotypes perpetuated in movies like Animal House.

At first glance, After Chapter may be per-ceived as exclusionary toward sorority mem-bers with different beliefs, women not affili-ated in Greek life and even men. The essence of the event, however, is sisterhood through the foundational religion of most Panhellenic

sororities: Christianity. Therefore, it is logical to base After Chapter upon the long-standing Christian guidelines upon which these sorori-ties were founded.

But, unlike some group events for women, After Chapter doesn’t aim to be matchmak-ing 101. On the contrary, it’s a testament to the event’s authenticity that it doesn’t allow males to participate. This truly shows that women us-ing their free time to attend After Chapter have no ulterior motives. They are there strictly to better themselves and create a community of esteemed women who encourage their shared goals and aspirations.

The opportunity that the chaplains of these respective Greek organizations, who col-lectively organize these events, present their members is much more than a Bible reading. The values discussed in these events are uni-versal and applicable to women of all religious backgrounds, allowing for group discussion, debate an individualized interpretation of faith.

After Chapter was first proposed by Chi Omega Chaplain Sara Davies during a Pan-hellenic chaplain meeting organized by Alpha Delta Pi Chaplain Alexa Babin. Davies wanted to create an event not only for worship but to unify all sororities under the universal connec-tor of faith. To prove this universality, the event is housed in everyday places. The first two Af-ter Chapter gatherings took place Feb. 15 and March 25 in the Sigma Phi Epsilon Fraternity gymnasium. (Though the event was held in a fraternity gym, no men were present during the event.)

As Delta Delta Delta Chaplain Lauren Gas-kill said, “We wanted to show sorority women at UT that Christ is here at UT. He is every-where, not just church. He can be anywhere; like the Sig Ep gym. After Chapter is designed to remind girls that God is in Greek life, and [Greek life] is not the dark place that some make it out to be.”

But the value of the event is best expressed by the women who participate in After Chap-ter. With glowing reviews, Greek women view the event as a time that allows them to be united regardless of their affiliation and unite as sisters under their common moral and re-ligious beliefs.

Triolo is a journalism freshman from Hollister, Calif.

Editor’s note: Triolo is a member of a Panhel-lenic sorority involved in the organization of the event but is not permitted to disclose her par-ticular sorority affiliation to the press. We have included her column in spite of this because we believe it is a valuable viewpoint.

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Pat Sullivan / Associated PressThis May 2008 photo shows the gurney in Huntsville where Texas’ condemned are strapped down to receive a lethal injection. U.S. District Judge Vanessa Gilmore’s injunction to disclose the origins of the state’s newest batch of execution drugs was overturned Wednesday.

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While the relationship between money, politics and corruption is certainly complex, horns down to the fact that the court’s decision could make it easier to buy influence in America’s electoral process.

On Tuesday, the Supreme Court announced its deci-sion in McCutcheon v. FEC, striking down 40-year-old overall campaign contribution limits in what is the most significant campaign finance ruling since 2010’s Citizens United. It is important to note that the court only struck down the limit on overall contributions made to multiple candidates. The limit on how much an individual can do-

nate to one particular candidate still stands. While the previous overall cap of $123,000 per election cycle was so high that it affected only the wealthiest Americans, this ruling means even more money could find its way into the political sphere. While the relationship between money, politics and corruption is certainly complex, horns down to the fact that the court’s decision could make it easier to buy influence in America’s electoral process.

U.S. District Judge Vanessa Gilmore issued a prelimi-nary injunction on Tuesday ordering the Texas Depart-ment of Criminal Justice to disclose all information on the process used to procure execution drugs, which includes both the supplier of the drug and any testing involved. However, that decision was quickly overturned by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, and Thursday’s scheduled

execution will proceed as planned. Texas’ criminal justice department has consistently refused to reveal any of the information about the drugs’ origins, arguing that such a disclosure would threaten the manufacturer. Refusing to disclose detailed information about the drug used to execute Texas prisoners on death row seems to be a clear violation of constitutional rights, and Gilmore was right to push the criminal justice department to increase the transparency of the execution process. It’s deeply disappointing that the circuit court has overturned what would have been a step toward greater justice for inmates.

Last week, a front-page story in The Daily Texan reported that the UT Tower, the grand monument at the center of our campus, is more than half vacant. Moreover, the Univer-sity plans to empty and repurpose the remain-ing office space: Seventeen of the building’s 32 floors are formally categorized as “vacant” or “future storage space.” Though the upper floors of the Tower may never be used regu-larly by UT students and staff again, there is one working plan that may keep them of use to the University: The space may be used to store plant specimens from the plant resource center, which currently occupy six of the Tow-er’s lower floors. Plants, unlike people, won’t crowd the stairways in the event of a fire, and it is these safety concerns that have led to the emptying of UT’s most prominent building.

The remaining offices in the upper levels of the Tower will soon be vacant as well, as these concerns about evacuation safety — the upper levels of the Tower have only one staircase, and one exit is not nearly enough to allow office workers to safely evacuate in the case of a fire — have led UT to empty them once and for all.

According to UT Fire Marshal James John-son, the chances that the higher levels of the Tower will ever be safe for occupants are slim.

“There’s no way we are ever going to be able to build another stairwell — it’s impossible,” Johnson told the Texan last week.

Fire code concerns aside, it’s worth asking how UT’s most monumental building be-came so monumentally empty. The answer, as a consequence of its own architecture, is a keen reminder of the importance of build-ing spaces that are both beautiful and usable in a year in which the University will break ground on the new Dell Medical School.

The Tower is part of a group of buildings built from 1910 to 1942 which, as architec-ture professor Larry Speck wrote in “The Texas Book,” “demonstrated

palpably to its public the ambitions of an emerging institution.”

In the original designs of Cass Gilbert, the nationally renowned architect employed by the UT-System Board of Regents who began craft-ing a master plan for the UT campus in 1910, the design of the Main Building was at first a grand dome, then a pillared temple, then, fi-nally, a tall, thin tower situated on a broad base.

Twenty years later, construction began on UT’s new Main Building when French-American architect Paul Cret began his con-tract with the regents in March 1930. In 1931, the Texas Legislature had just authorized the creation of the Permanent University Fund, a pool of money funded by oil income that the regents were afraid the Legislature would quickly snatch away. Scared of this possibility, the regents ordered Cret to put the money to-ward building quickly, and he did, designing 10 buildings, among them the Main Building, which was built in two phases in 1933 and 1937. The Tower, both in its style and place-ment, was exactly the way Gilbert had envi-sioned it more than a decade before.

The Tower was meant to house both ad-ministrators and a grand library, the remains of which are still open to students in the form of the Life Science Library.

But despite the Tower’s striking profile, not everyone admired the building. Legendary folklorist and former UT professor J. Frank Dobie once referred to the top of the Tower, with its deeply recessed balconies and proud columns, as a “Greek outhouse.”

Now, trips to the top of the structure are rare, as even current students must buy tickets and reserve a date in advance. The University first closed the Tower after en-gineering student Charles Whitman took several rifles and a sawed-off shotgun to the top of the building and killed 16 people and wounded 16 others in 1966. The Tower

briefly reopened after the shooting, but sev-en suicides later, it was closed to the public. In 1999, it reopened with precautionary rails and set tour times.

Now, enough years have passed that we can look at the Tower without — as John Schwartz, editor-in-chief of the Texan in the 1980s, put it in “The Texas Book” — see-ing the top of the Tower as “a perch known mainly for its association with mass murder.” But we still can’t see it as Willie Morris, an-other former editor-in-chief of the Texan, saw it when he first came to UT in 1952. In his memoir, Morris wrote the following of his first day at UT: “That first morning I took the elevator to the top, and looked out on those majestic purple hills to the west, changing to

lighter shades of blue or a deeper purple as wisps of autumn clouds drifted around the sun; this, they would tell me, was the Great Balcones Divide, where the South ended and the West began.”

The Tower may now be nearly empty, but the Texas we view from the top is hardly the one Morris saw that morning in 1952 — the country not nearly as mythic and the Uni-versity not nearly so new. But even if the Tower stays empty, it will certainly always stay grand, and the University must now reflect on what the Tower truly stands for: a proud monument to the campus’ past or a daily, unavoidable reminder of the limi-tations of working off of a centuries-old University structure.

Caleb Kuntz / Daily Texan StaffUT’s Tower stands nearly half empty as the last few offices it houses are re-purposed into stor-age space, because of fire safety concerns of the building.

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Smith said of Sunday’s event. “But according to Tennessee, we’re still legal strangers to each other.”

Dozens of the couple’s close friends and fam-ily members were on hand for the celebration, but there was a notable ab-sence — Megan’s father, who is a minister. “He was

worried about what his church would do,” she said.

For all the couples, the fast pace of gay marriage litigation has added some extra excitement to the wedding planning.

“As soon as we entered the contest, the court deci-sions started coming out,” Jeff Robertson said. “We’re living a civil rights move-ment right before our eyes.”

—Associated Press

form, all of the events have common purposes: to challenge barriers, give power back to survivors and ultimately promote prevention. Erin Bur-rows, prevention and out-reach specialist for Voices Against Violence, said two of the most important ways to challenge mind-sets toward violence are starting conversations and redefining consent.

“We all come from dif-ferent cultures and back-grounds where talking about sex at all is taboo and talking about sexual vio-lence is especially taboo,” Burrows said. “I really do believe every time we have a conversation about sexu-al violence we are moving toward prevention.”

According to Bur-rows, properly defining consent is also key. Vio-

lence is not reported out of fear or shame, or because many victims would not define their experience as abuse. According to the Counseling and Mental Health Center, consent is “an active agreement to engage in a certain act or be exposed to a certain situation.”

Clarifying that survi-vors are not victims is also a significant part of the program. The organiza-tion is hosting a workshop a few days before Take Back the Night to help prepare survivors who want to speak and share their stories at the event. The workshop will help participants process what they experienced and de-cide what they want oth-ers to know. If survivors want to tell their stories but aren’t ready to speak in front of others, they can write on notecards that will be hanging at

the event. Burrows said the organi-

zation has shifted toward a focus on prevention and strives to raise awareness and have conversations now, instead of when it’s too late.

Voices Against Violence was first created in 2001 by Jane Bost, associate di-rector at the Counseling and Mental Health Center, to meet the needs of an ever-growing awareness of on-campus violence. Be-fore the organization was created, the mental health center estimated it only re-ceived 10 reports of sexual violence per year. Since it was established, the center has had roughly 900 cases. Bost said the programs have been successful in creating a more open and friendly environment in which students feel safe to report such crimes.

“We’re trying to reach and prevent these kinds of

issues way before you get to the point where you’re call-ing the police,” Bost said. “So we have conversations now about healthy rela-tionships. We have reached thousands and thousands together with the Theatre for Dialogue and Get Sexy. Get Consent.”

Burrows, who first wanted to be involved with sexual violence after her close friends was a vic-tim of it, suggests students remember the acronym BLOG when they confront violence. It stands for believe, listen, offer op-tions and get support. Al-though offering options is

significant, listening to and believing in someone’s story is the most impor-tant method of support, according to Burrows.

“Even just knowing that there’s efforts going on on this campus to not only address sexual violence, not only to get resources in the hands of those who need it most, but to have the foresight to prevent sexual violence,” Burrows said. “We want everyone to feel safe here and con-nected here, and one way to do that is to ensure that we’re having hon-est conversations about real issues.”

conducting themselves in a professional manner, like simply showing up on time.

“There will be shows where load-in is at 7, doors at 9, show at 10,” Lawyer said. “Don’t show up at 9:45 with your drum kit.”

Since so many bands are emailing these book-ing agents on a daily basis, the majority of them will end up getting rejected. This is often not as harsh as it sounds. Sometimes, Lawyer and Taylor will tell bands to stay in touch and reach back out when they have more experience playing together.

“There are bands that I just don’t think are ready to play Holy Mountain, in which case I try to encour-age them to keep at it and touch base at a later date,” Taylor said.

One thing bands can do to improve their chances of booking a show is find a couple of other bands they are friends with and go to the venue with a pre-made lineup. If a band can do this, it benefits the venue because, then, the booking agent doesn’t have to worry about seeking out two or three other bands to flesh out the lineup. Sometimes new bands will also only draw a few fans that leave after the set, but, if all the bands are friends, there’s a greater chance that people will stick around and buy more drinks, which is how venues make money.

Lawyer stressed that ven-ues aren’t always the best places for bands to start. His advice is that a band plays a house show for friends first. House shows serve as com-fortable settings that don’t have the added pressure of being in a venue where the band might be worried about bringing a lot of peo-ple out to the show.

“If you can pack a house show, you can bring a com-fortable crowd to a venue,” Lawyer said.

as much time.But trying to put a num-

ber on the importance of practice may be missing the point.

Variance, the number that scientists are trying to use, has a strict math-ematical definition but has a hazy meaning when it is applied to actual data. Variance helps determine the degree of correlation between one particular measurement and another. Outside of chess, it is much harder to find reasonable measurements of ability to correlate.

For example, the same paper that pooled data from chess studies did the same with music perfor-mances. The standards used to compare musicians in the various studies, includ-ing counting incorrectly played notes during a sight-reading test, could not be completely diagnostic,

since there is always much more to music than reading what is on the page.

The results showed that about 30 percent of the players’ variance in ability could be attributed to de-liberate practice. And there are plenty of other factors that make up that other 70 percent.

For example, there’s starting age. The best performers tend to start younger, which is still true when the study is controlled for total hours spent practicing. Addi-tionally, a person’s current age matters. This is even the case for chess, a game in which players tend to peak in their late 30s, though it may be more ob-vious in other areas. After all, it’s not like a person is going to become an over-night pop sensation when he is 48 years old.

Intelligence also matters. In order to become an ex-pert chess player, athlete or musician, a person should

also be smart — unless that person is Derek Paravicini, the brilliant pianist who can’t count to three.

At the end of the day, a person’s genes cannot be ignored — they definitely matter. Twin studies have revealed that even creativ-ity, chess skills and musical ability are at least some-what affected by a person’s DNA. This is even more true when a talent depends on physicality: No matter how much a person prac-tices, he is not going to make it in the NBA if he is only 5-foot-3.

Not just anyone can be brilliant at everything, or, for that matter, anything. No one can predict from the outset who will be the next Charlie Parker, Mo-zart or Lady Gaga. Practice comes with no guarantees, and there is no magic num-ber telling a person how much he will need. The only way to see what you are truly capable of is to give it your all.

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Photo courtesy of Associated PressJeremiah Pyant (left) and Jeff Robertson will get married aboard a hot air balloon taking off from Texas, where same-sex marriage is banned, and flying over the border into New Mexico, where it is legal.

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Senior shortstop Taylor Thom had a career night Wednesday, launching two home runs, including a grand slam, and plating seven RBIs in a 19-7 win against Texas State.

After a stellar junior season, this year hasn’t been as kind to Thom, who had just three home runs and 21 RBIs on the season entering Wednesday night’s game.

“It felt like my old self,” Thom said. “I have been strug-gling this year, so for me to put together a game like that going into Big 12 — that’s a great feeling.”

With a weekend off from Big 12 play, the threat of a slow start seemed like a real possibility for the Longhorns, especially with an offense that at times has struggled to take advantage of run-scoring opportunities.

But Texas got things go-ing early in the game against Texas State. After the first two runners reached base, Thom belted a three-run home run

to left. In the second inning, the Longhorns capitalized on three Texas State errors — the biggest being a bobble by Texas State left fielder Lexi Fryar that allowed three runs to score — scoring six runs in the inning.

In the third, freshman third

baseman Devon Tunning hit her first career home run and sophomore right fielder Lind-sey Stephens hit a deep shot to dead center.

Thom then added to the home run barrage again with a two-out grand slam to deep

right-center field to put the Longhorns up 18-7.

Despite Texas’ strong of-fensive output, Texas State battled back, taking advan-tage of Longhorn mistakes to stay in the game. After only managing two hits through

the first two innings, the Bobcats scored five in the top of the third, forcing out freshman pitcher Tiarra Davis — who had only al-lowed three runs in her last four starts — after only 2.1 innings.

Not many people know who junior Grant Martin or sophomore James Bar-ton are outside the doors of the home locker room at UFCU Disch-Falk Field.

The two finance majors walk through the halls of the McCombs School of Business unrecognized by even the biggest Texas baseball fans.

While Martin’s team-mates spent the majority of their vacation on the base-ball diamond, he sat at a desk, crunching numbers as an intern at Blue Sage Capital, a private equity fund in Austin.

For the two walk-on bull-pen catchers, playing ball is not about the glory or the prospect of going pro.

“I love being a bullpen catcher,” Barton said. “I love being out there with the guys, warming them up and feeling like I am contributing to the game while it’s going on.”

Their role is different than most. They aren’t expected to fill up the box score; in fact, they know they will never get into a game.

On game day, they sit in the Texas bullpen waiting to warm up any pitcher, know-ing they will be there from the first pitch to the last out.

But, as the only bullpen catchers, they have built a bond, taking pride in their inglorious role.

“We have had some great bullpen guys before us, and we are excited to continue the legacy,” Barton said.

Both were exceptional catchers at the high school level. Martin earned all-district first team honors three times at Burnet High School. Barton was all-state at Hyde Park Baptist School.

Both passed up small-school baseball opportuni-ties to focus on academics and pursue degrees at Texas, thinking they were leaving the game they loved behind.

But Longhorn pitching coach Skip Johnson found out Martin was coming to Texas. He knew the catcher from his select days with the Austin Wings, where he played with current

Longhorns including start-ing pitcher Parker French, second baseman Brooks Marlow and outfielder Collin Shaw.

“He asked if I wasn’t quite ready to hang up the cleats and be a bullpen catcher,” Martin said. “I said, ‘Absolutely.’”

But once Martin and Barton joined head coach Augie Garrido’s ball club, they realized how difficult the transition from high school baseball to the col-lege game really was.

“I didn’t know everything playing at the University of Texas would entail,” Barton said. “The time commit-ment and how hard it is.”

They quickly discovered that, scholarship or no scholarship, everyone on the team is treated equally.

“I learned right away you’re not treated any differ-ently,” Martin said. “We do the same amount of running. Same amount of practice. The only thing that’s different is that I pay my tuition.”

But knowing that they will never take the field on game days, Martin and Bar-ton make sure to take time to enjoy the little things, such as Barton eating two desserts before every game. One is his, and the other belonging to a starter.

They’ll never hear their names called in the MLB Draft, but being a

bullpen catcher isn’t exact-ly a dead-end job. For Mar-tin, it could be just the be-ginning. He’s already been approached by a family friend to gauge his interest in being a bullpen catcher at the professional level.

“Not many people get the chance to choose whether to be an investment banker or a bullpen catcher,” Martin said.

So, while their team-mates are taking bat-ting practice and fielding grounders in preparation for this weekend’s series against Baylor, Martin and Barton are worried about their intermediate finance homework and a test they have coming up.

“As they teach you in fi-nance, it’s all about maxi-mizing your return on your investment,” Martin said. “We have to make our dollar go further. We are still paying for school, all while playing baseball on the side.”

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Sophomore out-fielder Lindsey Stephens rounds the bases after hitting a home run against Texas State. After riding the bench much of last season, Ste-phens is having a breakout year, having smashed 11 home runs — more than twice as much as any other Longhorn.

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For this year’s men’s club lacrosse team, the toughest challenge has been dealing with a small roster after several players left the team.

Josh Francis, econom-ics senior and the team’s president, said this year’s recruiting class was one of the largest in a while, but many of the players were unable to perform because of school and work-related priorities.

“Even with the small numbers, the core of the team has remained intact, and we’ve worked really well with what we have,” Francis said.

Because they have such a small team, the Long-horns have to make sure they continue to stay healthy throughout the rest of the season and into playoffs. The team strug-gled with injuries last year and knows a repeat of that would cause even greater problems for this year’s undermanned team.

“Our team isn’t neces-sarily as deep as it has been in the past few years,” said Turner Kerr, senior captain and archi-tectural engineering se-nior. “But I am more than confident that everything will work out.”

Despite being short-staffed, the Longhorns have been impressive in their quest to defend their 2013 Lone Star Alliance division title. Texas (8-3, 3-0 LSA) already has eight wins on the season and has scored more than 20 points in all three of its divisional contests.

“Our main objective is just to go out there, have fun and keep winning,” Kerr said.

The team has won the Lone Star Alliance championship in each of the past three years, but each year, Texas was seeded lower than it had expected. This year, the Longhorns scheduled tough non-conference games against ranked opponents in an attempt to improve their seed heading into the nation-al tournament.

“Right now we’re just focused on getting to the playoffs and win-ning one game,” Francis said. “Once we move past the first game, I have no doubt we will succeed.”

One benefit of having a smaller roster is that it brings the players closer. The team has been on the road playing two or three games every weekend since Jan. 31. The travel time has given the play-ers a lot of time to bond, which has proven to be beneficial on the field.

Andy Garrigan, who is in his second year as head coach, said the best part of coaching the team has been observing the matu-rity level his players have demonstrated.

“They don’t have to be here,” Garrigan said. “But they all are, every prac-tice, and with that kind of dedication, it really shows they care.”

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NEW YORK — With two famous names on the sideline, the NIT championship has a New York feel.

One coach is a rising young star, while the oth-er is in the twilight of his Hall of Fame career, both with boyhood ties to the Big Apple.

Richard Pitino leads Minnesota into the title game Thursday night against 73-year-old Larry Brown and SMU at Madi-son Square Garden, a building both basketball junkies revere.

SMU (27-9) and Min-nesota (24-13) were both disappointed to be left out of the NCAA tournament on Selection Sunday, but each squad received a No. 1 seed in the NIT and made the most of it.

“I think really the only tough game, honestly, was the first game. I think that was where everybody was kind of let down a little bit,” said Richard Pitino, in his first season at Min-nesota. “We’ve got three seniors who don’t want their college career to be over, and then we have got some younger guys who have an opportunity to win a championship.”

SMU is looking for its first NIT title.

—Associated Press

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The jazz legend Charlie “Bird” Parker once told an interviewer that he put in at least 11 to 15 hours a day on his saxophone for more than three years. That is more than the 10,000 hours writer Malcolm Gladwell said are essential to become an expert in his popular book “Outliers.” But it took more than just practice for Parker.

Scientists often look to chess to get an idea of the influence of practice, since the game has no physical restrictions but does have objective rankings that can be used to compare players.

By pooling the results of six studies with a total of roughly 1000 participants, a paper published in 2013 showed that “deliberate practice” only accounted for about 34 percent of the variance between chess players’ abilities.

This means that practice is essential, but not suffi-cient, for a person to mas-ter something. It can only partially explain why some people are grandmasters and others are not. Con-trary to Gladwell’s hypoth-esis, plenty of the chess

players accumulated more than 10,000 hours and didn’t receive more than an intermediate ranking, yet half of the masters in one study reached that skill lev-el without spending nearly

How to book local venues for young bandsMUSIC

Austin has more than 200 venues that put on multiple shows a week. For young bands trying to book their first shows, figuring out how and where to start can be overwhelming. Venue cal-endars are often full with national touring acts and established local acts, mak-ing it difficult for smaller local bands to break into the schedule.

The barrier between these bands and the stage is typi-cally a booking agent or club manager.

“I probably get 10 sub-missions a day,” said Max Meehan, a booker at Beer-land. “In a whole week, maybe two or three are worthwhile. Most of them are either terrible fits or just plain terrible.”

Booking agents are look-ing for fairly basic require-ments from submissions they get from new bands. James Taylor, manager of Holy Mountain, explained that what most young bands need to work on is sim-ply being able to write a

coherent email with links to music or live videos. Some booking agents, such as Taylor, require some sort of recording from prospective bands, while others prefer live clips to get a feel for the band’s stage presence.

“It’s so easy to get a cheap recording these days, [that] there’s really no excuse,” Taylor said.

There are plenty of ven-ues in town including Beerland and Holy Moun-tain that mostly book lo-cal bands. There are also larger companies, such as Transmission Events, which handle the booking for Mo-hawk, Red 7, Fun Fun Fun Fest and occasional shows at venues such as The Par-ish, The Belmont, Hotel Vegas and ACL-Live. While Transmission focuses on booking and promoting touring acts, it also books local acts to support those touring acts, and sometimes to headline its own shows.

Marcus Lawyer, a talent buyer associate for Trans-mission, books the local bands for those shows. While other Transmis-sion employees book the

national touring acts that come through Austin, Law-yer’s job is almost entirely focused on finding and breaking local bands. Bands have to work their way up,

though, as Lawyer typically won’t book a local band to open for a touring act or play a festival slot unless he already has a relationship with them.

“I usually have to work with the band a few times before I add them as sup-port because I want to know they’re the right band for the bill,” Lawyer said.

In order to work their way up to that point, bands have to prove themselves by play-ing slots on local bills and

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Voices Against Vio-lence, a student organiza-tion, will be hosting mul-tiple events throughout April to promote Sexual Assault Awareness Month.

Take Back the Night, the biggest event of the month, will take place on Wednesday on the Main Mall and will offer the public a chance to hear from keynote speaker Luz Guerra, a human rights activist who has worked against violence for the past 30 years. Participants can also watch perfor-mances, enjoy art install-ments and take advantage of free food, while learn-ing about various resourc-es the University offers. Observed by different groups around the coun-try, Take Back the Night serves as a protest and ral-ly against sexual violence.

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By Courtney Runn@courtney_t_runn

NEW YORK — The American Civil Liberties Union’s primary work is litigation, but this month it is moonlighting as a wedding planner as part of its role in the cam-paign to legalize same-sex marriage nationwide.

The beneficiaries are five gay and lesbian couples from across the U.S. who, out of a field of some 400 entries, were announced Wednesday as winners of ACLU’s My Big Gay (Il)legal Wedding contest.

Each couple lives in a state where same-sex mar-riage is outlawed. They will get logistical and financial help — up to $5,000 — from the ACLU to get married the week of April 28 in one of the 17 states, plus Wash-ington D.C., which do allow gay marriage.

The contest, launched in December, has coincided with a surge of court victo-ries for supporters of same-sex marriage in several states that currently ban it. Federal judges have struck down bans in Michigan, Utah, Texas, Oklahoma and Vir-ginia, and ordered Kentucky and Tennessee to recognize out-of-state gay marriages, though stays have been is-sued pending appeals.

James Esseks, director of the ACLU’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgen-der Project, said the wed-ding contest highlights the type of problems faced by gay couples in the nearly 30 states where marriage-equality lawsuits have been filed.

“We live in this crazy time, with a patchwork of protections, where you can go across the border and get married,” Esseks said. “The problem is that when you turn around and go back, you’re not going to be considered married by your home states. That’s not the way it should work in America.”

The winners were selected by contest organizers from a total of 25 couples who received the most votes in online balloting. The ACLU said nearly 200,000 votes were cast. The winners:

— Jeromy Manke and Brian Jensen of Reno, Nev. Jensen, a hair stylist, and Manke, a human resources consultant, have been en-gaged since June 2012 and plan a California wedding at

nearby Lake Tahoe.— Tamara Sheffield and

Maryja Mee of Salisbury, N.C. They’ve been a couple since meeting in college 24 years ago and have become activists in the quest to le-galize same-sex marriage in North Carolina.

— Humberto Niebla and Rafael Vasquez of Paradise Valley, Ariz. The couple, who have been dat-ing for six years, expressed hope of having a 1920s-themed beachfront wedding in California.

— Jeff Robertson and Jer-emiah Pyant of Houston. Pyant, a flight attendant, and Robertson, an ad executive, met four years ago aboard a plane that Pyant was work-ing on. They got engaged in December and hope to marry aboard a hot air bal-loon taking off from Texas, where same-sex marriage is banned, and flying over the border into New Mexico, where it is legal.

— Megan and Lind-sey Smith of Chattanooga, Tenn. Megan Smith, a real estate agent and insurance broker, and Lindsey Smith, a nurse, met three years ago. Since then they have found-ed an advocacy group called Tennessee Marriage Equal-ity. Lindsey Smith recently changed her last name as a show of commitment; she had entered the contest as Lindsey Wagoner.

The couple had a wedding celebration in Chattanooga on Sunday, even though Tennessee does not recog-nize gay marriages. They plan to be legally wed in a few weeks in Washington, D.C., outside the U.S. Su-preme Court building.

“It was beautiful,” Megan

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The problem is that when you turn around and go back, you’re not going to be considered mar-ried by your home states. That’s not the way it should work in America.

—James Esseks, ACLU project director