Moving into your first apartment is arguably the single greatest moment of adulthood — assuming you will never find a job you love, settle down with a life partner, raise a family or win the Texas Mega Mil-lions. While the process of compressing your life into 1,000 square feet can be frustrating, these steps can help improve your move-in experience.

1. Pack. Everything. “Too much stuff, not enough space” was a man-tra created by quitters. Of course you’ll remember to pack the essentials, but don’t forget about the trin-kets that made up your for-mative years. Nothing gives you that “started from the

bottom” feeling like bring-ing your most nostalgia-in-ducing pieces to your first adulthood apartment. If you even question whether or not you’ll need some-thing from your childhood room back home, bring it. The art projects you were required to make in el-ementary school — save ’em. Those neon band tees you haven’t worn since high school — take it all. Your yearbooks filled with “HAGS,” “2 cool + 2 b = 4 gotten” and that little shit who always signed the crack — those are a given. Honestly, if Cody Smith’s eighth grade reminder

that “u r cool” and to “nvr change” won’t keep you humble, what will?

2. Move in with wild, child-like abandon

Just because you’re an adult, it doesn’t mean you’re the most quali-fied adult in the vicinity. When it comes to moving, your older family mem-bers probably have more experience on the subject, so it only makes sense to leave most of the moving up to them. I get it. We all get it. Being a young adult is hard. Instead of doing

UT may continue us-ing its holistic review admissions policy.

While Fisher has said she was willing to take the case back to the Supreme Court, she again requested on July 29 that the 5th Circuit hear the case en banc.

Fisher argues that the three-judge panel failed to follow the Supreme Court’s mandate. The petition ar-gues the University did not

clearly state its critical mass goal, and that the panel disobeyed the Supreme Court’s request for the ap-peals court not to give any deference to UT.

The University uses race as part of an admissions process that determines 25 percent of the student body, and race is one of sev-eral factors that, combined, determines four-fifths of an applicant’s personal achievement index. Some of the other factors include essay scores, leadership,

extracurricular activities and special circumstances such as the applicant’s so-cioeconomic status, average SAT or ACT score com-pared to the student’s high school’s average, family re-sponsibilities and race. That personal achievement score is in turn combined with the applicant’s academic index score to determine University admission.

According to court documents, UT would

Football: Strong making his presence felt as new boss

It didn’t take new football head coach Charlie Strong long to demonstrate the toughness and discipline that his teams have been

known for. Strong has yet to coach a game at Texas, but given the way he came down on several Longhorns over the past couple weeks, his message is clear: Get on board now or get off the bus.

Despite the loss of sev-eral key players to gradua-tion and several more that

Strong has now booted off the team, this year’s edition of the Longhorns is still full of promise.

The defense is loaded with talent, and given Strong’s defensive background, they will be expected to be one

Months after delivering what would become a popu-lar commencement speech at the University, Naval Adm. William McRaven is in line to become the UT System’s next chancellor.

The UT System Board of Regents named McRaven, 58, sole finalist to replace Fran-cisco Cigarroa as chancellor in late July. A UT alumnus, he is known for overseeing the operation resulting in the death of Osama bin Laden in 2011 and will retire from his current position as U.S. spe-cial operations commander in late August.

“We are pleased that he would agree to forgo a host of gainful private sector em-ployment opportunities in order to lead UT System in a time of exciting transition and unparalleled growth,” board Chairman Paul Foster said during the meeting.

Foster was part of the search committee for the new chancellor along with vice chairmen Steve Hicks and Gene Powell. Although McRaven does not have a background in higher

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education, Foster said the committee determined the chancellor position does not require one.

“This job is a huge admin-istration job that requires administration skills and leadership skills,” Foster said. “We felt that the chancellor’s role was more one of man-agement than academia.”

Foster said McRaven will officially be appointed chan-cellor at the Aug. 20-21 re-gents meeting. Under state law, the regents must name any finalists for chancellor at least 21 days before an ap-pointment is made. Foster said McRaven’s salary would be finalized at that time as well.

Once officially appointed by the regents, McRaven will begin his tenure as chancel-lor in January 2015. In a statement, McRaven said he is excited to return to Austin.

“I thank the regents for

their trust and confidence in my leadership, and I look forward to this extraordi-nary responsibility with enthusiasm and gratitude,” McRaven said.

In May, McRaven deliv-ered the spring commence-ment address at the Univer-sity, sharing life lessons he learned from Navy SEAL basic training. The speech has received significant at-tention online, including more than 2 million views on YouTube.

“If you take some risks, step up when the times are toughest, face down the bullies, lift up the down-trodden and never, ever give up — if you do these things, then next genera-tion and the generations that follow will live in a world far better than the one we have today,” McRa-ven said in his speech.

A San Antonio native, McRaven graduated from the University in 1977 with a degree in journalism before

joining the Navy. He later received his master’s degree from the Naval Postgradu-ate School. In 2012, McRa-ven received a Distinguished Alumnus Award from the Texas Exes alumni associa-tion.

Reporting to the board of regents, the chancellor over-sees the System, which con-sists of 15 institutions, and is responsible for its opera-tions.

The transition in leader-ship comes after the System has been the subject of con-troversy over the past few years. One of the board’s regents, Wallace Hall, has been the subject of a House Select Committee on Trans-parency in State Agency Operations investigation for more than a year and could be the first nonelect-ed official in Texas history to be impeached. Hall has been accused by state leg-islators of overstepping his authority as a regent and working to remove Univer-

sity President William Pow-ers Jr. from his position.

In July, Cigarroa re-ceived negative backlash from University students, faculty and alumni for re-questing Powers to resign by October. Cigarroa cited communication and trust issues with Powers as rea-soning for asking him to re-sign. Cigarroa later agreed for Powers to resign in June 2015, after next year’s legislative session.

Foster said he thinks McRaven will be “well-received at all levels.” Since McRaven’s naming as sole finalist, some state legisla-tors have praised the regents’

decision, including Texas House Speaker Joe Straus, R-San Antonio, and state Sen. Kirk Watson, D-Austin.

“The value of Admiral McRaven’s service to our state and nation cannot be overstated,” Watson said in a statement. “I’m confident that he will continue to be a strong leader and dedicated public servant.”

Cigarroa announced his resignation in February and will remain chancellor through the fall 2014 semes-ter until December. In Janu-ary 2015, he will return to practicing medicine at UT Health Science Center at San Antonio.

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A group of UT students participated in the “Texas Stands with Gaza” protest of more than 3,000 at the Texas State Capitol on Saturday, Aug. 2.

Saturday’s protest was the most recent of five events that have taken place at the Capitol during the summer. Jauzey Imam, a protester and UT student, said the protesters advo-cate that Israel to leave the Gaza Strip.

“We’re joining protesters around the world in de-manding that Israel end its occupation of the Palestin-ian territories and imme-diately cease its collective punishment of the Gaza Strip [which include] aerial bombardment, targeting of water and sewage infra-structure and deliberate strikes in residential areas,” said Imam, who is also a computer engineering and Plan II senior.

During Saturday’s event, protesters chanted, “Free, free Palestine. Occupation is a crime. Free, free Gaza.” Speakers addressed the crowd in front of the Capitol as protesters held signs, as

well as the Palestinian, Texan and American flags.

Imam, a member of the Palestine Solidarity Com-mittee student organiza-tion, worked on the rally organizing committee. The Palestine Solidarity Com-mittee has worked with The Interfaith Community for Palestinian Rights to orga-nize the protests along with other groups.

“We’re also demanding that the U.S. government condemn and sanction Is-rael for its brutal acts of war against civilian populations and its expansion of settle-ments in direct violation of international law and, furthermore, withdraw its three to four billion dollars per year of aid to Israel,” Imam said.

Texans for Israel was con-tacted before Saturday’s pro-test and gave a statement through Tracy Frydberg, former president of Texans for Israel and a senior major-ing in Middle Eastern studies and journalism.

“Israel is in Gaza to en-sure that Hamas’ numer-ous sophisticated terror tunnels which lead to the front door of Israel’s homes and schools will not be used to kidnap civilians or

commit acts of terror. In this process, Israel is us-ing every means necessary to avoid civilian casualties. We mourn the tragic loss of life on both sides and hope for an end to the Hamas- instigated crisis.”

Texans for Israel is the largest UT pro-Israel student organization and was not present at the Capitol during the protests. On Friday, the organization’s leaders said they hope the protesters will

also comment on Hamas’ actions.

Sofia Khan, a protester and social work graduate student, said Israel’s actions constitute genocide.

“For me, this is just geno-cide again,” Khan said. “This is a group of people living in their own country, and [Israel is] oppressing them, and they’re just trying to fight back.”

Biochemistry junior and protester Yasmeen

Abu-Rezeq said the conflict has affected her personally at a July 16 protest.

“I have family over there, and this is such a personal situation for me. People like my family are scared,” Abu-

Rezeq said. “The killing needs to stop.”

Students on both sides of the issue said that UT stu-dents should be proactively educating themselves on the conflict.

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A group of UT students, along with more than 3,000 other pro-testers, demands that Israel end its occupation of Palestine at the “Texas stands with Gaza” pro-test on Saturday at the Texas State Capitol.

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Students will be affected immea-surably by statewide elections this November. Claims that “this is an election like no other” begin to blend together as useless cliches after a while, but the claim rings true this year. For all the non-judicial state elections, seven in all, no incumbent has been renominated by a major party.

Countless positions, such as the railroad commissioner, lieutenant governor and comptroller are all up for grabs this year in elections that will indubitably prove to be exciting. But the most fireworks, unsurpris-ingly, have come from the governor’s race.

State Sen. Wendy Davis, D-Fort Worth, is facing off against Repub-lican Attorney General Greg Abbott. Abbott is highly favored to win, but the political obituary has surely yet to be written on Davis, who has pulled upset victories before. The election is important, not only because every action taken by the State Legislature and officials can affect all Texans, in-cluding college students, but because it could affect the University.

Gov. Rick Perry has now been in office for a long time, 14 years in all. Throughout that extended tenure, he has packed every state office with his loyalists, and the UT System Board of Regents is no exception. As the state moves to a new governor, students would be wise to find a governor who will place individuals with their val-ues on the board.

Whatever students care about, it’s a good bet that some political exten-sion of it will be up for debate in this fall’s campaign.

Petroleum engineering students would be wise to examine how fracking is discussed in the race for railroad commissioner, while ac-counting students could likely get a kick out of hearing discussions over methods for estimating the state’s revenue in the comptroller’s race.

But none of these debates can be had if the candidates stray from the ambits of the jobs for which they are running and instead thump their chests on issues over which, if elected, they will have no control. State Sen. Glenn Hegar, R-Katy, the Republican nominee for comptroller, talks ad nauseum about his work in the Legislature combating abortion. Ryan Sitton, the Republican nominee for railroad commissioner, has had a field day talking up the immigration issue and castigating supporters of so-called “amnesty” along our south-ern border. Once again, not much to do with the job at hand.

All students with a sagacious interest in politics, Democrat or Republican, owe it to society to pressure these candidates to stay on track. There are honest debates to be had over a plethora of divi-sive topics, but they will only occur if the politicians stay on topic and in line. Only we can make them do that.

The search for the next president of the University can begin in ear-nest after a finalist for the position of UT System chancellor was named last week. Assuming no truly fright-ful skeletons emerge from Admiral William H. McRaven’s closet in the three-week waiting period mandated by state law, his ascension to the post is all but certain.

But why does that matter at the University level?

Early last month, news leaked that Francisco Cigarroa, the current chan-cellor of the 15-campus university system, had given UT President Wil-liam Powers Jr. an ultimatum: step down or risk being fired. Ultimately, Powers was “spared” in the sense that Cigarroa agreed to let him resign next June. Tensions between Powers; Cigarroa; the regents, who choose the chancellor and president, approve University investments, set tuition rates and oversee contract negations; and Gov. Rick Perry, who appointed the current crop of regents, had long been simmering largely over Powers’ resistance to a number of market-driven proposals introduced in 2008 to change higher education in Texas. Since 2008, the feud has at times de-volved into farce, as when Regent Wallace Hall embarked on a witch hunt against Powers that saw him pull in hundreds of thousands of pag-es of documents that cost the Univer-sity close to $1 million to provide. It still isn’t entirely clear what leverage Cigarroa thought he had last month to deliver the death blow to Powers. Some have speculated that it may have involved new information re-garding Powers’ role in what has been called an admissions “scandal” to ad-mit to the University the underquali-fied acquaintances of state legislators. When asked in writing for help in securing such applicants admission to the University, Powers had been known to pass along the letter to the appropriate department and respond with a form letter. Given the lack of any further information, we doubt that any smoking gun actually exists.

Now that Powers has announced his resignation, the regents will begin to search for his replacement, a task that will be made much easier by the presence of a leader at the helm of the System. While the plan all along was for Cigarroa’s replacement to be in place before Powers’, McRaven’s se-lection will likely do two things: cata-lyze interest in the position and give it direction. The mere presence of a leader will lend an air of security and stability, while onlookers until now on the fence about applying will be-gin to self-select as a result of McRa-ven’s military credentials. Some may appreciate his leadership ability while others of a purely academic bent may turn their noses up at his lack of aca-demic credentials.

It remains to be seen exactly what effect the appointment of McRaven will have, so students should pay close attention this fall.

On July 29, the UT System Board of Regents confirmed Admiral William H. McRaven, commander of U.S. Special Operations Command, as the sole final-ist for the position of UT System chancel-lor. Under state law, McRaven will have to wait at least 21 days, in this case until the regents’ August meeting, to be offi-cially appointed. McRaven is best known for leading the 2011 operation that took down Osama bin Laden and, more re-cently, for a rousing commencement ad-dress at UT last semester.

The decision didn’t come as a surprise. News outlets across the state had been reporting the likely selection for days, many with clear signs of boredom and exhaustion.

Since current Chancellor Francisco Cigarroa announced his resignation in February, the board has never once openly discussed his replacement, except to announce the hiring of an executive search firm to assist it.

This sort of secrecy is all too common within the System, not just in the search for a new chancellor, but in its more general operations. Early in July, it was only through a leak to Breitbart Texas and several other outlets that the news of President William Powers Jr.’s potential firing became public. Powers was ulti-mately “spared” in the sense that Cigar-roa accepted his offer to resign in June 2015. And the ongoing drama between Powers and Cigarroa, as well as inter-loper Wallace Hall, has unfolded largely behind closed doors.

We understand that not all personnel discussions need to be made public. In fact, doing so would encumber both the regents and the public with an unrealis-tic expectation of openness in the case of the former and attentiveness in the case of the latter.

However, the chancellor is no pencil pusher. As the leader of the 15-campus University of Texas System, he or she serves as the face of a group of universi-ties and health institutions with an oper-ating budget of $14.6 billion. With such a great level of responsibility, the University community and taxpayers deserve more transparency in the selection process.

Unfortunately, the current regents do not seem likely to grant us that basic right. After all, if they exposed all the forces at play in their decisions, the al-ready aggravated tensions between them and the public would likely be strained to the breaking point.

We don’t necessarily dislike the re-gents’ choice of McRaven, but we can’t fully support a decision whose under-pinnings we don’t understand.

McRaven seems to have the near-universal support of the UT commu-nity, and although he is not an academic, the military has produced such great academic leaders as James Earl Rudder, former president of A&M and the A&M University System.

Thus it remains to be seen how McRaven will perform. He seems to have all the tools at his disposal to succeed, but until the regents and System lift the shroud of secrecy from his appointment, we cannot throw our full support behind it.

Election years are wearing enough with the normal crowd of candi-dates fighting it out to win elected office. Compounding the campaign-induced exhaustion this year is the decision to move city elections to November. In the past, it was hard enough to remember who you had to vote for at the state level, but now, at least in Austin, voters will have doz-ens more to contend with.

In November 2012, Austin voters approved a plan to create a better rep-resentation plan for the City Council. Until then, Austin had been the larg-est city in the country with at-large districts only, meaning that the entire voting population had a say in who held every seat. The new plan, known as 10-1, keeps the mayor elected city-wide but introduces a system of 10 geographic districts that will each send a representative to City Hall downtown. Since every seat is up for grabs, the free-for-all has begun with more than 60 candidates adding their names to the ballot for one of the dis-trict seats.

While many UT students will not register to vote in Austin, it is now more critical than ever that they pay attention to who is vying for their vote, even if the previously cited number of candidates is enough to put them off voting for the rest of their lives. Granted, the district boundaries aren’t ideal – in fact, they separate the majority of campus and residential areas West Campus and North Campus, in District 9, from the eastern part of campus and resi-dential areas to the east, which lie in District 1. And, as one would expect, the more distant student neighbor-hoods of Riverside and Far West are situated in different districts, 3 and 10, respectively. However, for the first time, students who live in the Univer-sity area will have more direct access to the halls of power through their locally elected City Council member.

As we approach the fall semester, several important issues loom large. From University and UT System politics to the November elections, the following issues will be making headlines throughout the fall semester. The commentary below has been prepared by Editor-in-Chief Riley Brands and Associate Editors David Davis Jr. and Noah

M. Horwitz.

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Spend any time with your ear to the ground on campus, and you will be sure to hear some griping about Shared Services. The dispute, at its core, revolves around cost-cutting measures currently employed by the University on a pilot basis to weed out redundancies in the system.

This much sounds noncontrover-sial, but the devil lies in the details, as always. The aforementioned “redun-dancies” are more than just numbers on an expense sheet — they are peo-ple’s jobs. More than 500 jobs could be slashed as a result of this new Shared Services plan, namely in finance, hu-man resources, procurement and information technology. The plan would focus on strenuously consoli-dating administrative positions into fewer offices. Once again, perhaps on paper this looks like a no-brainer, but faculty and staff have expressed grave concerns with the effectiveness of fewer administrators providing support for such a wide assortment of services. Indeed, “sharing” the ser-vices may force many to bite off more than they can chew.

Another concern is the consulting firm Accenture, with its notorious mismanagement of aspects of the state’s food stamp and Medicaid pro-grams, representation on the commit-tee that recommended changes to the University and pricey bill for imple-mentation. Millions of dollars later, the plan presented looks to have more holes in it than a piece of Swiss cheese.

Student and faculty support has been almost completely one-sided. For all except the especially zealous libertarian faction on campus, no one wants to see hundreds of job losses, especially when coupled with possi-bly inferior services. Some parts of the campus community have even mo-bilized completely against it. In late April, a protest was held in front of the Tower, followed by a sit-in at the office of UT President William Powers Jr.

Considering the major leadership transitions coming to UT in the next academic year, the brouhaha over this dispute will most certainly not be dy-ing down anytime soon. And the con-versation will be sure to include a di-verse range of topics, as it always has.

Reasonable arguments exist on both sides of this dispute. On one hand, services that are actually dupli-cative do little to improve the Univer-sity, and saving jobs just to save jobs appears frighteningly Luddite. And while there are sure to be opponents of this proposition with such a mind-set, the dispute runs far deeper. If the savings produced by this program are miniscule once Accenture’s chunk of the profits is garnished, would it still be worth the bad press? And a ques-tion that must be repeated once more is whether the allegedly overlapping services are actually capable of pro-viding the same quality of service in the new no-frills environment.

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The University’s McDonald Observatory rests in a seven-county light ordinance zone, deep in the Davis Mountains of West Texas, protecting it from the light pollution that plagues most cities and mak-ing for some of the darkest skies in the country.

Founded in the 1930s, the observatory is one of the leading centers for astro-nomical research, education and outreach, boasting more than six advanced telescopes.

Bill Wren, a spokesman for the observatory, said on any

given night you can see thou-sands of stars there.

“The places you can go to see a naturally dark sky are vanishing,” Wren said. “We are raising people that have never seen a naturally dark sky.”

Wren said this is because light pollution, created when light is shone upward into the sky, interferes with our ability to see clearly.

Irresponsible lighting wastes energy and costs Americans an estimated $2.2 billion a year, according to the Interna-tional Dark-Sky Association. The initiative was launched in 2010 to raise awareness about the effects of light pollution.

“This is not an anti-light campaign,” Wren said. “It’s about putting the light where it’s needed.”

Light ordinances encour-age shielding light, aiming it downward and using solar-powered, LED lights when possible.

The biggest threat to dark skies at the observatory is the growing oil and natural gas industry in the Perm-ian Basin region, Wren said. According to the Railroad Commission of Texas, more than 9,000 drilling permits were issued in the Permian Basin in 2012 alone.

“In the spectrum of

environmental concerns, light pollution is probably low on the list for oil and natu-ral gas companies,” said Colt McCarthy, who owns a drill-ing supply company. “People don’t really pay attention until it affects their pocketbooks.”

Chevron spokeswoman Dolores Vick said McDon-ald approached the energy company earlier this year to discuss its lighting practices near the observatory.

“We are researching cur-rent lighting practices used in our West Texas opera-tions to determine if there are ways to safely reduce light that emanates from our

operations,” Vick said.In Austin, more than 400

miles away from the observa-tory, the city set aside $15 mil-lion in 2012 to replace the bulbs and fixtures on approximately 70,000 street lamps to combat light pollution in Central Texas.

By 2015, Austin Energy anticipates all the city’s street lamps will be automated, with LED bulbs and flat-glass lenses that focus light downward in-stead of scattering it toward the sky. The “smart street lights” will conserve energy, as well as reduce light pollution.

“We are one of the few cities in the country that are both au-tomating their street lights and

making them dark sky compli-ant,” Austin Energy spokesman Carlos Cordova said.

With the observatory more than a six-hour drive away, Wren said the best place to see a dark sky in the Austin area is at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport. Wren said pilots are particularly opposed to bright lights and use shielded lighting to safely depart and land planes.

The astronomy depart-ment also hosts Wednesday night public viewings with its telescope on the roof of Rob-ert Lee Moore Hall, as well as Friday and Saturday night viewings at Painter Hall.

UT Observatory works to reduce light pollution

Photo courtesy of McDonald ObservatoryThe McDonald Observatory, located in West, Texas, owned by UT and works with the department of astronomy, is one of the top centers for astronomical research and education. The observa-tory takes measures to prevent light pollution enabling it to operate under some of the darkest skies found in the country.

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Students will be re-quired to apply for admis-sion to transfer into the international relations and global studies major after Aug. 15.

Currently, all students who meet the minimum eligibility requirements for internal transfer are admit-ted. According to Megan Conner, the program’s aca-demic advising coordinator, the change became necessary after demand for the major began to exceed the number of students its faculty can ac-commodate.

“If you want to offer enough [classes] for peo-ple to be able to graduate in four years, you have to kind of clamp down on the numbers a little bit,” Con-ner said. “So, it’s not just to be exclusive. It is more, ‘Oh my gosh, we have to be sure we can teach enough classes for the students we have.’”

The program is a multi-disciplinary major, drawing its classes from a number of departments within the Col-lege of Liberal Arts, includ-ing government, economics, sociology and anthropology. The program has only three classes and three professors

exclusive to it.Conner said it is those ac-

tual international relations and global studies classes — in particular, the capstone course in which professors give students individual instruction on a thesis — that constrain the number of students the program can accept.

“We were just getting to where, if you want to keep the nature of the class, you can’t have more than 25 [stu-dents],” Conner said.

The program has grown rapidly since its inception in the fall of 2009, when it started with 87 students, to 917 stu-dents this spring, according to Conner.

Analia Perez-Solis, an international relations and

global studies senior from Mexico, said she origi-nally liked this major be-cause it was smaller than other majors.

“Another reason I liked it is it required you to do a se-mester abroad, so, you know, who doesn’t love that?”

Perez-Solis said.Conner said the pro-

gram’s selective admission process is modeled after the process used by the psy-chology department, which also grants admission to el-igible applicants on a com-petitive basis.

“I think they were up to 2,200 at some point in the late ’90s, and they had the same thing where their fac-ulty said, ‘We cannot teach this many people effectively,’” Conner said.

After the Aug. 15 dead-line, students who apply to

transfer into the major will not be guaranteed admission and will have to attend one of five information sessions this fall and apply to trans-fer. The first internal trans-fer application for the major will open Oct. 1 and is due Nov. 1.

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Charlie Pearce | Daily Texan StaffStarting this fall, Students who wish to transfer to the international relations and global studies major at the College of Liberal Arts, above, will now have to go through an application process in addition to meeting the minimum transfer requirements.

College of Liberal Arts major to reduce admissions

Use of UT’s fastest wireless sys-tem will require students to pur-chase a bandwidth subscription plan beginning in the fall semester, the University announced in an email to students Wednesday.

In past semesters, students had access on UT’s “first-class” network on a data-limited, 500 MB basis, but the new policy will require all users to pay. Those who don’t pay the fee to Infor-mation Technology Services will be placed on the slower “second class,” network service. Since the majority of students already purchase bandwidth beyond the basic allocation, the change has been a long time coming, according to William Green, UT’s director of networking and

telecommunications.“The current 500 MB allocation

and strategy is from 2005, and the goal was to move toward all band-width purchased by students,” Green said.

Students will be able to pur-chase plans starting at the pro-rated price of $3 per academic se-mester for a data allocation of 10 GB per week.

High speed Internet access on campus is necessary to the fulfill-ment of UT’s mission, and thus 95 percent of the cost associated with providing networking ser-vices on campus is drawn from sources other than the new fees, Green said.

“That last five percent, through this charge, is freedom to choose: academics, research, Netflix,” Green said.

A great deal of student Internet use is not tied to academics, and the installment of required network

fees is not out of the question, Green said.

The plan exempts on-line University services, in-

cluding Quest, Blackboard and Canvas, from the data allocation policies, and the University al-ways places these on the “first-tier”

network, even if a student is out of bandwidth.

Some students, such as econom-ics sophomore Elizabeth Vigant, support the change. Vigant said the fee is a practical way to im-prove the efficiency of on-campus internet andmost students living off campus already have internet access at home. The fee should not view the change as an imped-ance to public Internet access, Vigant said.

Chemistry junior Munaum Qureshi, who said he has purchased additional bandwidth each semes-ter he has been enrolled at UT, said the University’s fee is significantly less than the amount he pays in his off-campus housing.

“Compared to the $60 a month fee for Internet in my apartment, $3 for a semester is nothing,” Qureshi said.

Not all students support ITS’s new fee system. David Lessen-berry, international relations and global studies junior, said he ques-tions whether rates will increase in future semesters.

“What concerns me is that this is just the beginning,” Lessenberry said. “What will future rate increas-es look like?”

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According to court documents, UT would not have admitted Fisher even if she had received a perfect personal achievement score.

not have admitted Fisher even if she had received a perfect personal achieve-ment score. In 2008, UT offered provisional ad-mission to some students with lower combined aca-demic indexes and per-sonal achievement indexes than Fisher’s. Five of these students were black or Latino, and 42 of them were white.

In 1997, Texas imple-mented the Top Ten Per-cent Rule, which auto-matically admits students in the top ten percent of their graduating class into any public Texas college, although UT-Austin is a slight exception. In 2009, legislators amended the law to allow the University to cap the amount of stu-dents it automatically ac-cepts at 75 percent of each freshman class, so some-times UT-Austin only ac-cepts the top eight or sev-en percent, depending on

the year.The law came after the

1996 Hopwood v. Texas decision, in which the 5th Circuit ruled that UT’s law school could not consider an applicant’s race when determining admission.

In 2003, the Supreme Court reversed the Hop-wood decision, affirming the constitutionality of a race-conscious admissions process that may favor un-derrepresented minority groups but also considers other individual factors.

The Court said this is con-stitutional partly because it does not outline a spe-cific quota of minority students. This contributes to the reason UT hasn’t explicitly defined what a “critical mass” of minority students is.

In the petition filed July 29, Fisher argues that no evidence exists to show that students admitted through holistic review make a more meaning-ful educational contribu-tion than students admit-ted automatically. Fisher

also argues that UT failed to prove that the reasons for racial classification are “clearly identified and un-questionably legitimate.” In November, 5th Circuit Judge Emilio Garza called UT’s articulations of criti-cal mass “subjective, circu-lar or tautological.”

It is unclear when the 5th Circuit will release its decision on whether or not to rehear the case. In 2011, the court declined to rehear the case about six months after Fisher filed her appeal.

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The 2014-15 school year will be President William Powers Jr.’s last as University president.

In early July, UT System Chancellor Francisco Cigarroa asked Powers to resign by October or he would discuss Powers’ employment with the Board of Regents. Powers declined but was willing to discuss a timetable for exiting after the 2015 legislative session. Once news of the resignation request broke, students, faculty and alumni expressed their support for Powers through statements and letters to System officials. The Faculty Council called an emergency meeting to rally support for Powers ahead of the regents meeting. Cigarroa and Powers eventually agreed to set Powers’ resigna-tion for June 2, 2015.

Board Chairman Paul Foster said a search committee for Powers’ replacement would be formed in August. Powers said he will return to teaching at the School of Law after his term as president ends.

President Powers prepares for his resignation in 2015, search for his replacement to begin

In June, the UT System announced it would launch an external investigation into the University’s admissions process. In May, the System released its findings from a limited investigation into how letters of recommendations from state legislators affect the admissions process, and this raised questions about the admissions process by the public. The System found that although there is no structured system of favorit-ism or wrongdoing at the University, there were instances in which letters sent from state legislators to either President William Powers Jr. or a dean likely influenced the admissions process.

“With the undergraduate data, there is at least the strong appearance that the letters of recommendation from legislators, regardless of the strength of the substance of the recommendations, count more in admissions decisions than other letters of recom-mendations,” the report stated.

At a Board of Regents meeting in May, Chancellor Francisco Cigarroa suggested ending the practice of allowing letters not submitted through the prescribed process to be considered in admissions decisions and said he would review System-wide ad-missions processes by meeting with institution presidents and admissions officials to develop new recommendations for change.

System opens UT admissions investigation, Cigarroa limits use of recommendation letters

As Austin’s population increases, the city is implementing more methods of public transportation which include urban rail and rapid-transit buses. The urban rail is a $1.38 billion proposal that Austin residents will vote on in November, and the city hopes to finance half of the project with federal funds. The project would also include a bridge across Lady Bird Lake and a possible tunnel through North Austin. The rail would run along the east side of campus, with three stops on campus and twelve stops north and south of campus. Some people argue that the rail should run along Guada-lupe and Lamar Boulevard instead of along San Jacinto, but the mayor has said this is impractical because Guadalupe and Lamar already have a rapid-transit bus route, so this would decrease Austin’s likelihood of securing federal funding for the project.

Austin currently has one rapid-transit bus, called MetroRapid, but Capital Metro will open a second rapid-transit route on Aug. 24. Rapid-transit buses are differ-ent from regular buses because they run more frequently, have fewer stops and have signal-priority technology, which holds traffic lights green for a few seconds longer when the bus is running behind schedule.

Implementation of urban rail in Austin begins, and new rapid-transit bus route to open

Regent Wallace Hall has been the subject of a Texas House committee investiga-tion for more than a year and could be the first nonelected official in the state to be impeached.

During the 2013 legislative session, Hall was accused by state legislators of over-stepping his authority as a regent through large records requests and working with other regents to remove Powers from his position as president. In June 2013, the House Select Committee on Transparency in State Agency Operations opened an in-vestigation into him to determine if his actions warranted impeachment. In April, the Travis Country District Attorney’s office opened a criminal investigation into his actions to determine if he violated federal privacy laws.

In May, the transparency committee determined grounds for Hall’s impeachment and began drafting articles of impeachment against him. At the committee’s most re-cent meeting in July, the members discussed alternative options to drafting impeach-ment articles, such as a public censure or reprimand. The committee is scheduled to meet again on Aug. 11.

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After four years of prepa-ration, the University in-stalled two solar-powered charging stations, one out-side the Perry-Castañeda Library and the other outside the Art Building and Muse-um, in June.

While other campuses, such as Stanford University and Hampshire College, have introduced similar charging stations, these stations are the first solar-powered, per-manent fixtures on the UT campus. Powered through a roof composed of three so-lar panels, each station can charge up to six cell phones, laptops or electrical bikes at a time, among other electron-ics. Each station’s six batter-ies allow users to charge their electronics at night and on

cloudy day.The Green Fee Committee,

an on-campus organization made up of students, faculty and staff members, decided in 2010 to fund the student proposal for the charging sta-tions as part of its mission to support environmentally-conscious campus initiatives. Karen Blaney, program co-ordinator of the Green Fee Committee, said while the stations may not significantly offset the use of fossil fuel-based energy on campus, they can teach students and com-munity members about solar energy in an interactive way.

“It reminds people that solar energy is an option and that it’s a growing technol-ogy,” Blaney said.

During her freshman year, Megan Archer, environmental and biological sciences senior, pushed the original proposal

for a solar-power project on campus as part of a class as-signment with now-alumni Eric Swanson and Austin Jorn. Archer said her team originally had proposed solar panel roofs on University buildings, but budgetary restraints stood in the way. They decided to stick with their idea of solar-pow-ered technology because they wanted to see solar energy on campus for the first time.

“We liked the idea of how restrictive [working with so-lar power] was,” Archer said. “UT didn’t have anything that was solar-powered then.”

Archer collaborated with Beth Ferguson, a UT alum-na and founder of Sol De-sign Lab, a design company that has helped create solar charging stations at other universities, to rent a tempo-rary charging station for the PCL plaza in 2012. During

workshops, students in en-vironmental science classes contributed ideas for the fi-nal model.

“Solar power is hard to un-derstand, so we wanted the project to be hands-on,” Archer said. “We wanted students to have that hands-on experience with our solar station to create their own and modify [their stations] to meet their needs.”

With funding from the Green Fee Committee and the Science Undergraduate Research Group, the custom-ized charging stations, which cost about $60,000 each, were constructed.

Nicholas Phillips, mechani-cal engineering senior and president of student group Engineers for a Sustainable World, said he hopes the de-mand for renewable energy products increases on campus.

“The main hindrance with

renewable energy advance-ments is the lack of awareness of the current technologies that are available,” Phillips said in an email. “By having more projects on campus, we are making sustainability be-come a staple in our campus and, by extension, our lives.”

The final phase of the charg-ing station project will include a customized touch screen device, which will display the

station’s available stored en-ergy, according to Blaney. Stu-dents are working on a mobile feature, such as a website or phone application, that will al-low users to check the station’s available energy, Blaney said.

The University will cel-ebrate the installation of the charging stations on Sept. 19 outside the Art Building and Museum with a series of so-lar energy workshops.

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Amy Zhang | Daily Texan Staff The University installed solar-powered charging stations, one outside the Art Building and Museum and the other outside the PCL which replaced the tempo-rary charging station that was previously there. The station can charge up to six cell phones, laptops or electrical bikes at a time.

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Tower shooting memorial honors those lostCurrent and former Univer-

sity students gathered on the Main Mall on Aug. 1 for a living memorial 48 years after Charles Whitman opened fire from the observation deck of the UT Tower.

The memorial service be-gan at the Littlefield Fountain and moved to where each vic-tim fell, to remember the 16 people who were killed and the 31 wounded after archi-tectural engineering student Whitman’s shooting spree on Aug. 1, 1966.

Many of the survivors of the shooting were in attendance, including Claire Wilson James, who was one of the first people shot while eight months preg-nant. Her boyfriend at the time, Tom Eckman, was killed in the attack, as was their unborn child.

“This is the first time that I’ve been able to be part of a community that was involved in this, and I’ve longed for it. I’ve longed for it for all of these years, and I’m incred-ibly touched,” James said.

A group called UT Students of the World organized the event. Hannah Whisenant,

event coordinator and radio-television-film junior, learned that an official memorial ser-vice had never been held for the victims while working as an intern on an upcom-ing documentary film on the shooting.

“The turtle pond is built as a memorial, but it’s a very tiny plaque, and a lot of people have been upset about that and with the recent shoot-ings and with mass shootings kind of becoming a recur-ring problem, it seemed like a good time to revisit that issue,” Whisenant said.

The walk finished at the

turtle pond behind the tower, where the memorial ended with a speech from adjunct associate professor Alfred McAlister and a moment of silence. McAlister said less guns in fewer hands and better mental health care for people were the keys to preventing mass shootings.

“Actually, the same way you prevent mass killing is how you prevent suicide,” McAlister said. “It’s exactly the same thing — school psychologists, mental health experts at the grassroots level finding and helping dis-turbed people.”

James said she didn’t feel traumatized by the event, but rather that she is a proud sur-vivor and said she thought it was good that people can talk about it.

“Remember how impor-tant it is to try your best

to talk to somebody when something like this hap-pens,” James said. “I think it’s better if they didn’t focus so much on the kill-er, but you know, person-ally, I just always felt sorry for him.”

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Sarah MontgomeryDaily Texan Staff

Radio-Television-Film majors junior Justin Perez, senior Victoria Prescott and senior Hannah Whisenant stand outside the UT Tower as a part of the memorial service presenta-tion organized for the anniversary of the 1966 Tower shooting. As president of the Students of the World organiza-tion, Whisenant organized the event that memorialized victims of the shooting.

This is the first time that I’ve been able to be part of a community that was involved in this, and I’ve longed for it. I’ve longed for it for all of these years, and I’m incredibly touched.

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By Nick Castillo@Nick_Castillo74

Myles Turner: Men’s Basket-ball, Forward, Freshman

Incoming freshman for-ward Myles Turner has yet to step on the court for Texas, but the hype surrounding him is comparable to that of Kevin Durant when he first arrived on campus. While he may not play the same posi-tion as the former Longhorn legend, the expectations for Turner, who was a five-star recruit coming out of Bedford, are just as high as they were for Durant when he played for Rick Barnes.

Jonathan HolmesSenior forward

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Jonathan Holmes: Men’s Basketball, Forward, SeniorAs the only senior playing for Rick Barnes this

year, forward Jonathan Holmes has seen Texas at its worst and was also part of the surprisingly success-ful season the Longhorns enjoyed last year. During the 2013-2014 season, Holmes averaged 12.8 points and 7.2 rebounds per game. As the only senior four year guy on the team, Holmes will have a major leadership role for the young Longhorns this season.

The Longhorn football team is full of big names this year, a few of whom you might see playing on Sundays in the near future. But off the grid-iron, there are several other Longhorn athletes who, although you may not hear of them as of-ten, are just as capable at their own respective sports. Here is our look at the top non-football players to watch in burnt orange this season:

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Volleyball, hoops highlight fall scheduleEvery fall, Texas students

pack Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium to watch the Longhorn football team. Football is certainly king in Texas, especially on the 40 Acres, but over the last few years, while the football team has struggled, many other Longhorn teams have con-tinued to excel. If football just isn’t your thing or you’re looking for something to do on a bye week, there are plenty of other ways to get your burnt orange fill this fall. Here is our list of the top non-football games to watch:

Volleyball: Arizona vs. Texas, Sept. 12

Coming off of a final four run that ended with a disap-pointing semi-final loss to Wisconsin, the women’s vol-leyball team opens up the season with four road games. Texas’ first home game is against the Arizona Wild-cats in the 26 West Long-horn Classic. Also compet-ing in the tournament are Florida A&M and Central Florida. All games will be held at Gregory Gymnasium.

Volleyball: Texas vs. West Virginia, Sept. 24

The Longhorns went un-defeated through the Big 12 last season, and Texas will look to extend its conference winning streak when they travel to West Virginia to open Big 12 play against the Mountaineers.

The game will be broadcast on ESPNU on Sept. 24 at 6 p.m.

Volleyball: Zheijiang (Chinese Club Team) vs. Texas, Oct. 27

The Longhorns will wel-come Zheijiang, one of the top Chinese women’s club

teams, to America as they meet in the first of back-to-back exhibition games in late October. The rare inter-national exhibition matchup will give Texas a chance to play against a talented oppo-nent with a slightly different style of play than what North American volleyball fans are used to.

Women’s Basketball: Texas vs. Stanford, Nov. 20

Head coach Karen As-ton had much more suc-cess in her second year at Texas, leading the women’s

basketball team to an im-pressive 22-12 finish and a second round appearance in the NCAA tournament. The Longhorns will look to build off of last season’s suc-cess with their toughest test coming early on. Texas will play the Stanford Cardinals in a non-conference play as they travel to Palo Alto, Cal., who made yet another Final Four appearance last season.

Men’s Basketball: Texas vs. Connecticut, Nov. 30

After a surprising 2013-2014 season where the

Longhorns went 24-11 and made the NCAA tourna-ment, expectations are high for Texas’ 2014-15 season. The already lofty expectations ballooned af-ter highly ranked recruit Myles Turner decided to come to Texas over Kansas, with many touting Rick Barnes’ squad as a pre-season top-10 team.

One of the Longhorns first real tests will come early when they play the defending national cham-pion Connecticut Hus-kies in the 2K Classic in

Storrs, Connecticut. The game will be televised nationally on ESPN2.

Men’s Basketball: Texas vs. Kentucky, Dec. 5

Less than a week after tak-ing on the reigning national champions, the Longhorns will take on the national runner-up when Texas trav-els to play Kentucky in the Big 12/SEC challenge. Fresh off an impressive NCAA tournament run, coach Cali-pari and his Wildcats will be one of Texas’ biggest chal-lenges throughout a tough

non-conference schedule.

Women’s Basketball: Texas A&M vs. Texas, Dec. 21

The Longhorns will face long-time rival Texas A&M in the Big 12/SEC Chal-lenge. The Aggies, who made it to the Elite Eight of last year’s NCAA tour-nament, have continued to grow as a powerhouse in women’s basketball since joining the SEC, so Texas can expect another tough contest when they head to Little Rock for the neutral site game.

of the best units in the Big 12 this year. Led by senior superstars Cedric Reed and Quandre Diggs, the defense will be physical and aggres-sive, serving as the backbone of this year’s team.

Offensively, the ques-tion remains whether ju-nior quarterback David Ash can stay healthy all season. We know how great run-ning backs Malcolm Brown and Johnathan Gray can be in the Longhorn back-field, but the receiving corps is very thin and the offensive line is relatively

inexperienced. Given the strength of the defense, Ash’s health and the ability to play well consistently will likely determine how successful the Longhorns can be in Strong’s first season at the helm.

Men’s Basketball: Turner, returning starters drive high expectations for Horns

After a couple down years that had many Longhorn fans calling for head coach Rick Barnes’ firing, his young Texas team had surprising success last season, finish-ing 24-11 and making an

appearance in the Round of 32 in the NCAA Tournament.

Every player, including all five starters, from last year’s team is back this sea-son, but the biggest name on this year’s squad is the new guy on campus — in-coming freshman Myles Turner. Turner, who came out of Euless-Trinity ranked as the second-best recruit in the nation by ESPN, brings plenty of hype with him to the 40 Acres. Depending on how Barnes is able to fit Turner into a rotation chalk

full of returning players, the Longhorns have a chance to make a deep run in this year’s NCAA Tournament.

Women’s Basketball: Aston looks to build on last season’s success

Much like Barnes, Karen Aston was in jeopardy of losing her job after her first season at Texas went hor-ribly. But the Longhorn women, led by forwards Imani Mcgee-Stafford and Nneka Enemkpali, bounced back last year, posting a 22-12 record before losing

in the second round of the NCAA Tournament. Mc-Gee-Stafford and Enemkpali are back and highly-touted freshman Ariel Atkins leads a strong class of newcom-ers as the Longhorns look to build on last season’s success and make an even deeper NCAA tournament run.

Volleyball: Eckerman, Horns look to make third consecutive Final Four appearance

Expectations were so high for the top-seeded Longhorns last season that their loss to Wisconsin

in the semi-finals of the NCAA Tournament felt like a major disappoint-ment. Star outside hitter Haley Eckerman is back for her senior season while many of the underclass-men who contributed to last year’s success will get an opportunity to assume starting roles. Head coach Jerritt Elliot has reloaded for the 2014 season and, given the success he has had over the past couple seasons, all signs point to another trip to the Final Four in 2014.

Shweta Gulati | Daily Texan file photoSenior outside hitter Haley Eckerman returns as the Longhorns look to make yet another run to the Final Four. Texas has made it that far each of the last two season, winning the national championship in 2012 and losing to Wisconsin in the national semi-final game last season.

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Nneka EnemkpaliSenior forward

Craig Lutz Senior runner

Cameron Ridley Junior center

Isaiah Taylor: Men’s Basket-ball, Point Guard, Sophomore

Sophomore point guard Isaiah Taylor had a tremen-dous freshman season, av-eraging 12.7 points and four assists per game last season. The wily point guard will be expected to produce at a similar level this season as the leader of Texas’ offensive attack.

Craig Lutz: Cross Country/Track and Field, Senior

Senior runner Craig Lutz enters his last year on the team and is looking to im-prove after his individual 15th place finish and the cross country team’s 14th place finish at the NCAA Championships last season.

Lutz has been recognized four times as an all-Big 12 runner in both cross country and track and field.

Nneka Enemkpali: Women’s Basketball, Forward, Senior

As the Longhorn women’s basketball team looks to build on the success of last season’s NCAA tournament run, it will rely on upper-classmen like senior forward Nneka Enemkpali for leader-ship. Enemkpali, a Pfluger-ville native, has continued to improve throughout her career at Texas, as she was named to the all-Big 12 first team for the first time this past season. Enemkpali av-eraged 12 points and 8.6 re-bounds per game last year.

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Haley Eckerman Senior outside hitter

Isaiah TaylorSophomore point guard

Cameron Ridley: Men’s Basketball, Center, JuniorJunior center Cameron Ridley had a breakout year as

a sophomore, highlighted by his put-back to beat the buzzer against Arizona State and push Texas into the Round of 32 in the NCAA Tournament.

Ridley averaged 11.2 points per game and 8.2 re-bounds last season. Given the potential for this year’s team to make a tournament run, Ridley will be expected to lead Texas as one of the few upperclassmen on the roster.

Haley Eckerman: Volleyball, Outside Hitter, SeniorThe Longhorns’ volleyball team will look to make it

back to the Final Four yet again in 2014. In doing so, the team will rely heavily on its experienced seniors, includ-ing senior outside hitter Haley Eckerman.

Eckerman is a two-time All-American and was named 2013 Volleyball Magazine Player of the Year. She was also named Big 12 Player of the Year for the second consecu-tive year in 2013 and was a finalist for the 2013 Honda Sports Award for Volleyball.

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Freshman 15: A guide to the cityWelcome, freshman. Your

choice is simple: Go out and find yourself among the doz-ens of local coffee shops and small businesses this town has to offer, or stay in the cold, dark, damp loneliness that is your dorm room.

These are the 15 scenester basics of living in Austin. Start out with these essen-tials to find your own favorite spots in the city.

1. Tacos You are now obligated to

eat tacos more frequently than you thought possible — some tacos will come to you; thers you will have to find yourself. Taco Deli tacos can be found in coffee shops on campus. Venturing farther into the city, you will find El Chilito and Matt’s El Rancho. The list goes on.

2. BatsOn a good evening, 1.5

million bats fly out from under the South Congress

Bridge. Attend Bat Fest in late August or just go out there on your own time and see the largest urban bat colony headed out for their nightly hunt.

3. Zilker Park and Barton Springs

Zilker Park is not only a great day park for picnics, Ultimate Frisbee and yoga, but it is the center of most of Austin’s outdoor festivals, including Austin City Limits and Kite Fest. Right across the street you will find one of Austin’s sacred gems: Bar-ton Springs, which remains a refreshing 68 degrees year round.

4. Spider HouseSpider House is an all-

in-one space. Close to cam-pus, it’s a place to get a cof-fee and study, a restaurant with a pretty outdoor setup and good food, a bar where people under 21 can hang out, and it hosts a variety of

events and concerts in its connected ballroom. This combination makes it a han-dy place to hit up for all kinds of occasions.

5. Whole Foods Market at 6th and Lamar

Whole Foods Market has become the cornerstone of shopping for the health-conscious, with food bars of international cuisine, a juice cafe and hundreds of local and organic products to shop from. This location is the chain’s flagship and comes with a multi-level parking garage and, in the winter, a rooftop ice rink. Get lost among the hemp soap and kale of this two story health superstore.

6. SoCoAlso known as South Con-

gress, this street is a long line of some of the best food and shopping in the city. Hit up Hopdoddy, shop the Satur-day artist booths and top it off with some treats from Hey Cupcake! or Big Top candy shop.

7. The CapitolAll true Texans know a

few things about the pink

building perched on a hill on Congress Avenue. It’s big-ger than the nation’s Capitol in Washington D.C., it’s the home of the Texas legislature, and it was featured on an epi-sode of “Friday Night Lights.” Explore the halls and rooms of the building any day or sit in on a legislative hearing during a session.

8. Lake AustinLocated right next to

downtown, Lake Austin is surrounded by a running and bike trail and provides a place to go kayaking, canoeing and paddle boarding — which is like surfing on stagnant wa-ter with a paddle — against an urban backdrop.

9. ChinatownLocated on North Lamar

just past 183 stands a giant red-roofed archway that wel-comes you to Austin’s small “Chinatown.” The area in-cludes a large Chinese food market, a French-Chinese fusion bakery and authentic Chinese food restaurants. Escape your dorm food for an afternoon by tak-ing the MetroRapid going north and getting off at the Chinatown stop.

10. The Violet Crown Movie Theater

Forget ever going to the movies at a regular the-ater again. This place is like watching a movie in the comfort of your living room, but better. Located in the upscale Second Street district, The Violet Crown provides a place to watch the latest independent or art film and is complete with unlimited popcorn refills, reclining leather seats and a full bar. If that’s not enough, there is free parking for movie patrons.

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Epoch, Blue Velvet Vin-tage and Breakaway Records on North Loop. This shop-ping center really has all the essentials: a great selection of vintage pieces, vinyl to add to your collection and 24-hour coffee. Epoch is filled to the brim pretty much all hours of the day and night if you’re ever looking for an

alternative to the PCL.

14. Graffiti WallPerfect for your new Face-

book profile pic. Take your friends and model in front of a gallery of constantly chang-ing legal street art. The wall holds everything from the best street artists in the city to high school scribbles pro-claiming things like “Lauren and Derek forever.”

15. Mt. BonnellA large flight of stairs

stands between you and the tallest point in Austin. Look-ing over the city and the Colorado river, Mt. Bonnell is a place to get away from the noises and smells of the city and campus. Watch the sunset behind the UT Tower in the distance with a few of your closest friends, or watch it rise and soak in a view of the city that will be your home for the next four years.

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Mengwen Cao| Daily Texan StaffBarton Springs pool is a man-made swimming pool located on the grounds of Zilker Park. The pool is fed from an underground spring. The temperature is 68-70 degrees all year round, ideal for swimming.

Helen Fernandez | Daily Texan Staff People sit and eat outside Spider House Cafe on a summer afternoon. Spider House is a combination of a bar, restaurant, coffee shop and performance space.

Amy Zhang | Daily Texan StaffPeople paddle board, kayak and swim on Lake Austin, a center of urban water sporting activities.

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Spoon’s newest album, They Want My Soul, is its first in four and a half years — a long time for a band that used to release an al-bum ever year. There is some merit in wondering whether the band could slip back into its old groove and return to being the kings of tightly wound indie rock.

That was probably the mentality behind releas-ing “Rent I Pay” as the first single off the album. A taunt and knotty track, with its just fuzzed enough guitar riffs and thunder claps for drum beats, it is already a Spoon classic in the making. It is the biggest recurrence that

Spoon is back, great as ever.It is also a massive fake

out. They Want My Soul is actually the album where Spoon stretches their legs out, less concerned with keeping their songs in a perfectly compacted form, instead experimenting with added atmosphere and let-ting sounds carry on a little longer if they feel like it.

Synths are smeared ev-erywhere on They Want My Soul — possibly a result of

adding Alex Fischel, the synth player from Britt Dan-iel’s other band, Divine Fits. The instrument’s presence is not engulfing, but it does add a new dimension to Spoon’s sound, which, with the help of space-rock pro-ducer David Fridmann, the band is more than happy to explore.

Just listen to the second track, “Inside Out.” On this synth-filled track, the band is more atmospheric than ever.

The only indication that it’s a Spoon song comes from the always right rhythm section. It could not be more differ-ent from “Rent I Pay,” but it serves to better showcase the undercurrent of sound on this album. Or look to the

It hasn’t been a great summer for big movies, with plenty of mediocre-to-terrible fare clogging the multiplex. Though “Planet of the Apes” and “Edge of Tomorrow” provided select bright spots, “Guardians of the Galaxy” comes along at the tail end of the sum-mer movie season to liven things up in a big way. It’s enormously fun, juggling a fantastic ensemble of char-acters, and co-writer/direc-tor James Gunn acquaints himself beautifully with the Marvel cinematic palette, producing an easy highlight of a dreary summer.

The film opens on an unexpectedly sad note, as young Peter Quill watches his mother’s last minutes on Earth and is immedi-ately whisked away to space. Years later, he’s better known as Starlord and played by an unusually muscly Chris Pratt. After Quill steals the sort of ancient, powerful MacGuffin that most Mar-vel movies thrive on, he finds himself thrown into a high-security space prison along with a handful of his pursuers.

Among these pursuers are bounty hunters Rocket Rac-coon (Bradley Cooper) and Groot (Vin Diesel), a talk-ing, machine gun-wielding raccoon and a monosyllabic tree that functions as the

Han Solo and Chewbacca of the motley crew and help to cement the unabashed weirdness of this particular franchise. Rounding out the ensemble are Gamora (Zoe Saldana), a lackey of generic but intimidating villain, Ronan the Accuser, (Lee Pace) who is sent to retrieve Quill’s MacGuffin, and Drax (Dave Bautista), a perma-nent resident of the prison who has a personal thirst for revenge on Ronan.

Once the gang teams up to break out of the high-securi-ty space prison, they end up making up the best ensemble cast of any Marvel film to date, and the real appeal of “Guardians of the Galaxy” is how every scene is up for grabs, letting every actor get at least one great moment in the spotlight. Saldana gets to be appropriately badass, and Pratt has an enormously charming wounded puppy demeanor, but the biggest

To call “Lucy” science fic-tion is a bit of a stretch, since the film’s basic premise — a woman is given a special drug that allows her to access 100 percent of her brain, rather than the usual 10 percent — is based on a profoundly stupid platitude. Even so, the film tackles its premise in creative, unexpected ways, and though “Lucy” is totally daft, it’s a recklessly enter-taining ride with undeniable momentum.

The film doesn’t waste a second of its 89 minutes, starting off with Lucy (Scar-lett Johansson) being co-erced to deliver a briefcase to a hotel by a sketchy man she met in a club. She’s im-mediately abducted and turned into a drug mule, but the bag of drugs sewn into her stomach springs a leak. As the mystery drug pours into Lucy’s bloodstream, she unlocks more and more of her brain’s potential, while the film gets dumber

and dumber.There are plenty of in-

teresting touches of ambi-tion sprinkled throughout “Lucy,” which make the film worthwhile. The film’s open-ing conversation employs a classical editing style, jux-taposing Lucy’s trip into the hotel with shots of predators hunting their next meal with equal parts of cleverness and sledgehammer subtlety. The film’s final sequence, on the other hand, is out of control, taking Lucy to some very unexpected places and defy-ing the wildest expectations with its audacious imagery. It’s the last ending you’d ex-pect from this type of film, and it’s a welcome surprise to Luc Besson’s throw-every-thing-at-the-wall approach to science fiction.

Unfortunately, for every moment where “Lucy” man-ages to surprise, there’s an-other that fails to impress. There are only a handful of memorable action beats throughout the film, but for the most part, Besson’s stag-ing of pivotal set pieces is

unremarkable. The climax of the film is the most disap-pointing, a muted shootout that unfolds with minimal urgency and distracts from far more interesting things happening elsewhere. Bes-son’s character work is also very thin, especially for Morgan Freeman’s character, who is relegated to the role of Dr. Exposition, deliver-ing lengthy speeches about the human brain and stand-ing around while action scenes happen.

Johansson is having a gen-uine moment right now, and this year alone she has done fantastic work in “Her,” “Un-der the Skin,” and “Captain America: The Winter Sol-dier.” Though “Lucy” doesn’t ask much of Johansson, she delivers on all fronts, very ef-fective and vulnerable in the film’s opening scenes before becoming increasingly dis-affected as her brain capac-ity extends beyond human empathy. Though Lucy’s increasing disregard for hu-man life as the film goes on is troubling, Johansson

shoulders difficult material ably, beautifully demonstrat-ing her range and her ability to carry a film.

It’s rare for a film as un-apologetically dumb as “Lucy” to be as entertaining as it is. Though action master Besson fails at what he does best, he makes up for it with the fearlessness with which he commits to this incred-ibly stupid premise and the insanity of the film’s ending. “Lucy” is like listening to a sixth grader who just tried cocaine for the first time: ill-advised, badly planned, but so energetic and hilariously dim that you can’t look away.

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showstoppers are Rocket, Groot and the hilariously deadpan Bautista.

Centering many of the film’s most emotional and funniest moments around Rocket and Groot, its least human characters, is a bold gambit by Gunn, who has never worked on a film of this scale before. His last film, “Super,” was an in-credibly barbed take on the superhero film, but he proves just as adept at a straightforward take on the genre. “Guardians of the

Photo courtesy of MarvelChris Pratt plays Starlord in the Disney-Marvel movie, “Guardians of the Galaxy.”

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Photo courtesy of Constant Artists Originally from Austin, indie rock band Spoon’s latest release, They Want My Soul, is a solid addition to the band’s discography.

the physical work on your move-in day, channel your inner toddler and desig-nate yourself as “move-in crew support captain.” As a glorified motivator, you will cheer your crew to victory by keeping them calm, cool and hydrated. It’s a lot more fun than do-ing the heavy lifting, and you’ll have the opportu-nity to make a few trips to Starbucks or JuiceLand in the process.

3. Buy all your furniture at full price

Skip the used furniture listings through the UT Facebook groups and the economical IKEA tinker toys. You don’t want to save money on a short-term purchase when you could find furniture that’s ex-pensive, big and “uniquely you.” Couches, recliners, bar stools, a California queen-sized water bed — think of the possibilities. Investing your government subsidized

financial aid in pricey, time-less pieces will ensure that they’ll last through all future damages from food, pets, roommates, odors, earth, water, air, fire. You’ll prob-ably use this furniture for years to come, well into your late 20s and early 30s, never thinking to resell or throw away your statement pieces. Do the big spending while you can.

4. Stock your pantry/take up a low-risk fad diet

You’ve just started a new chapter of your life in your first apartment, so what bet-ter time than now to jump-start the semester with your latest health-kick? Choose from the paleo diet, the raw meat diet, the juice diet or any other diet endorsed by your favorite reality show celebrity. Because healthier, organic foods are often more costly, your best option is to become a member at your local Costco and buy your food in massive, dramatic amounts. Being stocked on your health-kick grub for months is a foolproof way

to guilt yourself into finish-ing what you started, even if you decide that it’s the worst decision you’ve ever made in regard to your health and wholeheartedly regret it. Sure, you could take the easy way out while grocery shop-ping by purchasing foods you know you’ll eat, but YOLO. Treat your body like the temple society tells you it should be!

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likes of “Outlier,” which is filled with bubbling synths and a groovy beat and could have easily been a Divine Fits song in another time.

Not that Spoon has up and discarded its old sound. “Do You,” with its instantly

catchy acoustic guitar riffs, and “Let Me Be Mine,” with its start-and-stop momen-tum, could have fit on any of Spoon’s other albums.

Spoon did not come roar-ing back. Instead, they choose to expand their sonic pallet

and to dive into new territory where they had only previ-ously dabbled. They Want My Soul might not be Spoon’s greatest work, but it is an immensely enjoyable one, a properly solid record in a line of consistently solid releases.

showstoppers are Rocket, Groot and the hilariously deadpan Bautista.

Centering many of the film’s most emotional and funniest moments around Rocket and Groot, its least human characters, is a bold gambit by Gunn, who has never worked on a film of this scale before. His last film, “Super,” was an in-credibly barbed take on the superhero film, but he proves just as adept at a straightforward take on the genre. “Guardians of the

Galaxy” is propulsive and entertaining, full of mem-orable lines of dialogue and sharp comedic tim-ing. The film’s action beats are roundly exciting, and though the film concludes with the stock Marvel fina-le — a giant object falling from the sky and destroy-ing a city while our heroes fight around it — it’s got a strong enough handle on the characters that the fight carries more weight than your typical destruction-heavy climax.

“Guardians of the Gal-axy” has its share of prob-lems — namely the weak villain and its tendency to fall into the cliches of oth-er superhero films — but when it’s letting the central cast bounce off each oth-er, it’s absolutely sublime. James Gunn brings an ab-surd amount of fun to the proceedings, and his sharp jokes and perfect cast make “Guardians of the Galaxy” a stand-out of a weak sum-mer and one of the best Marvel films to date.

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“Write drunk; edit sober” is often attributed to Ernest Hemingway, even though he never said it. Still, there may be something to the sentiment. Hemingway was certainly known for his indulgences in libations, as were Faulkner, Poe and Shakespeare, and that’s

just the tip of an iceberg that extends well past the written page and into other fields. This has left many struggling artists wondering whether the secret to overcoming a creative block may only be a few drinks away.

A 2012 study from the jour-nal “Consciousness and Cogni-tion” attempted to answer this question using the Remote Associates Test, in which sub-jects are given three words and asked to find another word they all connect to. For exam-ple, the words “motion,” “poke” and “down” all connect to the word “slow”: “slow motion,” “slowpoke” and “slow down.”

The researchers discovered that the subjects who received a few cranberry-vodka drinks actually did better on this test. While most problem-solving

tests involve focused think-ing, it’s best to let your mind wander a bit for the Remote Associates Test. The belief is that, by impairing your con-centration, alcohol actually improves your ability to find solutions on this test.

So does that mean that you should down a few shots be-fore beginning that essay for your comparative literature class? Probably not.

For the sake of this study, the scientists only brought the subjects up to a blood-alcohol content of around .07 — buzzed to be sure, but still below legal intoxication. Eth-ics prevented the researchers from finding out how subjects would do if they were rip-roaring drunk, but it’s likely that there’s a limit to this effect.

Ethical considerations also prevented women from par-ticipating in the study, on the off chance that they may have been unknowingly pregnant, so, while it’s unlikely, it’s pos-sible that only men receive this “creative boost” from alcohol.

Additionally, while the Remote Associates Test does require creative solutions, a strong performance doesn’t necessarily mean that the per-son is more creative. Quickly coming up with a word to connect three unrelated terms is a far cry from writing “A Farewell to Arms.”

The point is that this is one study with severe limitations, and although there are cer-tainly implications, they may not be meaningful.

Other research has used

surveys to look at connections between alcohol use and cre-ativity in a broader sense without any significant results. Alcohol doesn’t fuel creativ-ity, and, similarly, it doesn’t ap-pear that creative individuals flock toward alcohol or drugs. There’s no shortage of famous names associated with alcohol-ism, but, unfortunately, that’s probably just a result of the prevalence of alcohol abuse in our society. Alcoholism also exists in non-famous people who fight their inner demons less publicly.

But this is a tricky subject to nail down scientifically, and all these studies can do is look at correlations, or lack thereof. For that rea-son, it’s impossible to tell whether, for instance, Amy

Winehouse could have made her two studio-produced al-bums without alcohol. But it is undeniable that alcohol is responsible for her inability to record a third.

As with all things, enjoy your alcohol in moderation. If it seems to help you creatively or socially, then enjoy its advan-tages. However, if the relation-ship turns from assistance into reliance, seek help. Whatever benefits alcohol may have, it’s not worth risking your life for.

But if you happen to let your friends Jack and Johnny write that paper with you, be sure to edit it once they’re out of your system. After all, plen-ty of “creativity” takes place Friday nights on Sixth Street, but it doesn’t mean you’re proud of it Saturday morning.

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