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The College of Pharmacy and the Forty Acres Pharma-cy partnered with UTPD on Saturday to collect expired or unused medications as part of National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day.

From 10 a.m.-2 p.m. out-side the Pharmacy Building, students and other members of the Austin community were allowed to return any unused or expired drugs to make sure the medications were disposed of properly. The program reduces the risk of drug misuse and prevents the drugs from being flushed down toilets, which can cause harm to water supplies.

The Drug Enforcement Administration worked with communities around the country for National Pre-scription Drug Take-Back Day. Although Saturday marked the first time the University participated in the program, APD has par-ticipated in the past.

Pharmacy professor Caro-lyn Brown, clinical assistant professor Nathan Pope and pharmacy graduate student Andrew Thach worked with the Green Fee Committee to receive a grant which helped cover costs to bring the event to campus.

Brown said one of her goals for the event was to show how important it is for older adults to keep track and dispose of unused or ex-pired medications.

“Through this event, we want to encourage the older adults to come out,” Brown said. “This is to help encourage them to clean out their cabinets and get rid of the medicine they

The UT System will fur-ther consider divesting funds from Russia as rela-tions between the U.S. and the Russian governments worsen because of conflict in Ukraine, according to System officials.

At a Board of Regents meeting in September,

Regent Alex Cranberg brought up the possibility of divesting from Russia

“It is important because Russia is threatening the USA through NATO,” Cran-berg said in an email. “As President Obama has said, Putin has ripped up the ‘rule book.’ He is resurrecting the national and ethnic rivalries, which were so devastating to the 20th century.”

The University of Texas Investment Management Company, or UTIMCO, has about $200 million invested in Russia currently, accord-ing to Bruce Zimmerman, CEO and chief internal of-ficer of UTIMCO. Zimmer-man said this is a relatively small amount of money compared to the $35 bil-lion the organization has invested in other parts of

the world. “Divesting from Rus-

sia, in and of itself, would not necessarily be an overly significant event,” Zimmer-man said at the meeting in mid-September. “The larger concern I think would be if we did begin putting in changes to the investment policies related to political

A recent University report aimed to find which prac-tices could increase the rate of course completion among students who enroll in a two-year college. Of these students, 54 percent either receive a de-gree, earn a certificate or are still enrolled six years later.

The report, developed by the Center for Community College Student Engagement in the College of Education, re-vealed 13 “high impact” prac-tices that would help raise the current percentage of comple-tion, including supplemental instruction, tutoring, learn-ing communities and struc-tured academic goal setting and planning.

Titled “A Matter of Degrees: Practices to Path-ways,” the report was the

final piece of a three-year study conducted by the center and funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates and Lumina foundations. Ev-elyn Waiwaiole, the center’s director, said the study was

intended to improve the stu-dent experience as a whole, in addition to closing the gap between students who enroll in classes and students

Jo Worthy, language and literacy studies professor, and Tasha Beretvas, as-sociate dean for research and graduate studies in the College of Education, both received the College of Education Dean’s Distin-guished Teaching Award,

the college’s most prominent award, last week.

Worthy, a former elemen-tary and middle school teacher, specializes in chil-dren’s reading interests and bilingual education. She also focuses on the alternatives to ability grouping, which she said is the method of categorizing and section-ing young students based

on expectancy of success in academics.

“Putting kids into these ability groups can be really harmful,” Worthy said. “If we’re not teaching them as a whole, then they don’t get the equal treatment that en-courages success.”

Worthy said group

LAWRENCE, Kan. - The Longhorns never got into an offensive rhythm Satur-day, but some big plays on defense helped them blank Kansas 23-0 to move to 1-0 in conference play.

“You look at the road, and it is tough to go into some-one’s place and beat them, especially when playing within the conference,” head coach Charlie Strong said. “This is a big win for us.”

The Texas secondary intercepted four Jayhawk passes in the game, the first being a tipped pass grabbed by senior corner-back Quandre Diggs in the end zone to prevent Kansas from scoring in the first quarter.

Junior cornerback Duke Thomas had two intercep-tions, one of which he re-turned for 24 yards to set up a seven-yard touchdown run by sophomore quarter-back Tyrone Swoopes in the second quarter.

Thomas made another huge play in the third quar-ter when he broke up a pass on fourth down to force a turnover after the Jayhawks

had driven 79 yards to the Texas five-yard line.

To cap it off, senior line-backer Jordan Hicks added to the team’s interception total with a pick early in the fourth quarter, the second

interception of his career, which resulted in a 42-yard field goal by junior place-kicker Nick Rose.

The Texas defense has now recorded nine intercep-tions on the season, after

picking off only 10 passes in all of 2013.

“We are attacking the ball,” Diggs said. “We are catch-ing those things; we’re not dropping them. I think that’s tremendous difference. And

those guys up front are con-tinuing to eat, so they make our job so much easier.”

Swoopes picked up his first victory as a starter but

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cannot use.” Volunteers for the event

collected over 90 pounds of medications by the end of the day.

“I feel like this was a good turnout,” Thach said. “It was a good mix of faculty, students and community members that showed up today. One thing that helped

us was the advertising we had in The Daily Texan, on Facebook and flyers around campus and at the Forty Acres Pharmacy.”

According to the DEA website, the Secure and Re-sponsible Drug Disposal Act in 2010 paved the way for increasing the amount of medication drop-off sites. Previously, unwanted medi-cations could only be turned into law enforcement. As

the DEA continues to make changes to its policies, phar-macies might be able to take back unused or expired medications year-round, which means National Pre-scription Drug Take-Back may not continue after this year.

In the meantime, Pope said the Forty Acres Phar-macy will continue to work with the DEA to keep the program running.

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and or social issues, then there could very well be a substantial domino effect.”

In an interview Thursday, Zimmerman said it is the System’s policy that UTIM-CO make investments based upon economic factors and not to become involved in political situations. Zim-merman said many com-panies and organizations participate in divestment movements to make a po-litical statement, such as the Rockefeller family, who is planning to divest $860 million of its charity out of fossil fuels to try and fight climate change.

“Once you decide there is one political or social is-sue that merits an invest-ment decision, where does the list end?” Zimmerman said. “The context of all this is if you make economic decisions based on noneco-nomic reasons, there’s an economic cost.”

The regents have agreed to continue discussing the divestment issue at future board meetings.

“There comes times in

the Board’s life and in the nation’s life that we may need to take a look at some of these things,” Regent Gene Powell said at the meeting in September. “I would encourage us not to foreclose in considering these items.”

Zimmerman said if the System does decide to di-vest from Russia, UTIMCO would be selling $40 million of its private equity below market price.

“If we were to try to sell that position today, we might only get about $20 or $30 million for it, so there would be an immediate cost,” Zimmerman said.

Cranberg said the System should not make invest-ment decisions based on matters of personal choice, such as opinions on alcohol or tobacco, or based purely on the domestic policies of other countries.

“Our policies as a public investment vehicle should be based only on maximiz-ing legal returns for our students and mission, other than factors materially af-fecting the security of the United States and our armed forces,” Cranberg said.

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categorizing students dis-courages them to break apart from the labels they are given. The most well-known categorization is to break up students into gift-ed and talented in middle school and regular or dis-tinguished in high school.

According to Worthy, her method of teaching in-volves getting to know stu-dents on a personal level.

“It is important to me to know what the students need and especially what they’re interested in learn-ing,” Worthy said.

Beth Maloch, associate dean of teacher education and chair of the award’s committee, said Worthy has designed and taught a signature undergraduate studies course, which has received exceptional course evaluations.

Beretvas teaches statistics and psychometrics in the Department of Educational Psychology. Her course, “Introduction to Statistics,” helps students understand how to apply statistics to their own respective fields.

“There are a lot of people coming in who are fearful of math,” Beretvas said. “When they’re shown in a way that they can grasp it, they can easily use [statistics] with their own interests.”

According to Maloch, the committee bases its decisions off student and faculty-peer evaluations for both graduate and under-graduate teaching.

“Research is important at a top-tier institution like UT,” Beretvas said. “But we also value teaching and see-ing these awards really does substantiate that.”

Both Worthy and Be-retvas have previously re-ceived honors, including the Regents’ Outstanding Teaching Award.

“They’ve invested all across the college through-out the years,” Maloch said. “It’s a long way to say that it was not surprising that they were nominated.”

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who complete them.According to Waiwaiole,

many colleges offer the suggested “high impact” practices, but not as many students are taking advan-tage of such resources.

“While increasing numbers of institu-tions are offering such practices, only small numbers of colleges require them, and far too few students are participating in them,” Waiwaiole said.

Developmental educa-tion students who take student success courses are five times more likely to complete a develop-mental English course, but only 25 percent of students are taking ad-vantage of the resource, Waiwaiole said.

Waiwaiole also said that although fiscal re-sources are limited for community colleges, many of the practices — such as a required atten-dance policy — do not require much funding.

“Colleges are being asked to do more with less,” Waiwaiole said. “But some of the practices dis-cussed above are relative-ly low cost.”

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Marshall Tidrick | Daily Texan StaffPharmacy senior Connor Zheng sorts through and catalogues unused drugs on National Drug Take-Back Day. Pharmacy students teamed up with the DEA to ensure the proper disposal of unused drugs.

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CROSS COUNTRY | JAMES GRANDBERRY

WOMEN’S TENNIS | KYLIE HOPKINSSOCCER | DANIEL CLAY

WEEKEND RECAPS

Texas cross country faced its longest race so far at the Roy Griak Invitational in Minnesota this weekend, where the 8K and 6K races showed both the men and women, respectively, that there is room for improve-ment. The men’s team placed all five scoring runners in the top 90 out of 300, while the women struggled early to run as a team.

It wasn’t a struggle for ev-eryone, however, as senior Craig Lutz led the men’s race from the start, only re-linquishing the lead to two

other runners throughout the race. He surged back to cross the line at second place, less than two sec-onds behind the individ-ual champ, Nate Jewkes of Southern Utah.

Fellow senior Mark Pina-les kept up with Lutz for the majority of the race, slipping toward the end to a finish in 10th-place.

The men’s team earned sixth place, with freshmen Jacob Pickle in 36th and Robert Uhr at 90th, joined by junior Brady Turnbull at 77th.

The women’s team broke apart early, leaving some runners to fend for them-selves in the pack, which ultimately resulted in their 22nd-place finish, led again by sophomore Sandie Raines, who finished up at 69th place.

The Longhorns now have a three-week hiatus before heading to Terre Haute, Indiana, on Oct. 18 for the NCAA Pre-Na-tional Invitational — the same course the Longhorns hope to return to for the NCAA Championships.

The Texas women’s tennis doubles teams of freshmen Ryann Foster and Danielle Wagland, and junior Lana Groenvynck and sopho-more Pippa Horn, won their pre-qualifying opening matches during the ITA All-American Championship on Saturday.

Foster and Wagland posted an 8-6 win over Houston’s Elena Kordol-aimi and Despoina Vo-gasari, before winning their second match Sun-day against Northwestern’s Lok Sze Leung and Manon Peri for a berth in the qualifying rounds.

Groenvynck and Horn defeated USC’s Meredith Xepoleas and Gabrielle Smith 9-7, but fell Sunday to Florida’s Peggy Porter and Josie Kuhlman 8-3. In

singles, sophomore Neda Koprcina lost to Kuhlman 6-4, 0-6, 0-6.

The qualifying rounds for women’s doubles begin Tuesday in Los Angeles.

The Longhorns (6-4-2) made their 2014 Big 12 de-but with a hard-fought 1-0 overtime win against No. 6 Texas Tech (9-1-0) on Fri-day night, followed by a 2-0 loss to No. 17 West Virginia (8-2-2) on Sunday.

Both keepers played bril-liantly in Friday’s game to keep it scoreless in regula-tion. Texas junior keeper Abby Smith blocked a hand-ful of close-range rockets, and Red Raider sophomore keeper Lauren Watson, flashed some acrobatic skills to keep Texas off the

scoreboard through the first 90 minutes.

Texas finally hit the back of the net seven minutes into overtime. Freshman forward Olivia Brook re-ceived a pass at the top of the box, turned and floated a left-footer over Watson and into the top left corner of the net for a golden goal.

“I just think that we talk-ed about it at halftime, and we decided we just need to go for it, and we need to take more shots and take advantage of every opportu-nity,” Brook said. “I think we

did that.” Texas struggled out of the

gate in its Sunday contest against WVU, but it held the Mountaineers score-less until a 10-yard shot in the 43rd minute by junior forward Kelsie Maloney de-flected off a Texas defender into the net.

A goal from sophomore forward Ashley Lawrence in the 62nd minute sealed the win for WVU.

Texas will continue con-ference play with a road contest against Iowa State on Friday at 7 p.m.

Ryann FosterFreshman

Danielle WaglandFreshman

Mike McGraw| Daily Texan StaffJunior forward Kelsey Shimmick hustles after the ball in the Longhorns’ 2-0 loss to No. 17 West Virginia on Sunday. The Mountaineers outshot the Longhorns 17-11 throughout the game.

interception, senior corner-back Quandre Diggs picked off Kansas sophomore quarter-back Montell Cozart in the end zone in the first quarter, pre-venting a potential go-ahead touchdown for the Jayhawks. Junior cornerback Duke Thomas added two more in-terceptions for the Longhorns, including one in the end zone to stymie Cozart’s Hail Mary pass attempt at the end of the first half.

“We are attacking the ball,

and we are catching [inter-ceptions] and not dropping them,” said Diggs, whose defense is tied for second in the country with nine picks already this season. “The guys on the defensive line continue to work hard and make our job easier.”

The Longhorn defense has been strong nearly all season and single-handedly carried Texas to victory at Memorial Stadium. But with confer-ence powerhouses — No. 4

Oklahoma, No. 7 Baylor and No. 23 Kansas State — all on the schedule in October, sophomore quarterback Ty-rone Swoopes and his of-fense will have to do better to pull off any upsets.

“Our defense has done a really good job, so I think they can hold them as well,” senior wide receiver Jaxon Shipley said. “It’s ultimate-ly about the offense right now. We need to match the defense.”

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playing in games.Most recently, Strong

dismissed junior offen-sive tackle Kennedy Estelle on Tuesday.

“The blueprint of this program has been and al-ways will be the change in helping direct the lives of young people,” Strong said. “I’m sorry that another play-er had to be dismissed, but when you’re told something over and over again, then you want to make sure that you’re provided with the right resources so that you can change lives.”

John Clayton, ESPN se-nior NFL writer, said in an interview that Goodell met with Strong in hopes of expanding his re-sponse resources and developing a long-term disciplinary plan.

“Strong has been dealing with issues at his school,

and what the league and what the players associa-tion want to do is try to find different types of ideas that they can use to come up with some kind of a plan be-cause I think it’s pretty evi-dent they don’t have a plan that’s working right now,” Clayton said.

The blueprint of the program has been and always will be the change in help-ing direct the lives of young people.

—Charlie Strong, Head coach

struggled at times, com-pleting only 19 of his 34 at-tempts for 218 yards and two touchdowns.

The Longhorns got off to a shaky start, turning the ball over on downs on their first possession and then fum-bling a snap on the Kansas five-yard line on their sec-ond drive.

Senior receiver Jaxon Shipley broke the game open with a 41-yard punt return to set up Texas’ first score — a one-yard toss from Swoopes to junior tight end M.J. Mc-Farland, giving Texas a 6-0 lead it never relinquished.

Senior receiver John Har-ris continued his breakout

season, hauling in six passes for a team-high 89 yards and a touchdown. Harris has scored in each of Texas’ first four games.

Texas struggled all af-ternoon to sustain drives, with each of its four scoring drives starting from within Kansas’ 30-yard line. Texas’ longest drive of the after-noon went for 78 yards but ended with the aforemen-tioned fumbled snap inside the Kansas five.

“We just got to find a way to just be consistent and score points,” Strong said. “And when we get a chance, when we are driving the ball, we are the one who is stop-

ping ourselves, stopping the drives.“

Kansas outgained the Longhorns on the ground, 173 to 111. Running backs Johnathan Gray and Mal-colm Brown combined for just 73 yards on 25 carries because the holes simply weren’t there for Texas.

“The run game is criti-cal; we need to open it up,“ Strong said.

The game was Texas’ first shutout on the road since it defeated Baylor 62-0 in 2005. On Sunday, Kansas fired head coach Charlie Weis, who finished with a 6-22 record through two-plus seasons at Kansas.

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Editor’s Note: This is the third in a series of columns on conservatives on the UT campus.

“What starts here changes the world.” We regularly encounter this phrase. We are

the future leaders of Texas. We are expected to be at the forefront of progress and inno-vation in America. With these expectations in mind, I am a conservative college student because conservative values and policies empower individuals to better themselves and society.

Conservatism revolves around the prem-ise of limited government, free enterprise, liberty, fiscal responsibility and personal prudence. Conservatives look at a prob-lem and think, “How can the private sector, charities, grassroots organizations, religious groups and I create a solution?” In contrast, liberals look to raising taxes, deficit spend-ing, bureaucracy and extensive regulation. The conservative model produced Uber, Airbnb, Apple and Starbucks; while services run by the federal government — Social Se-curity, the U.S. Postal Service and Medicaid — are largely unsustainable or bankrupt.

Growing up, I was aware of the local econ-omy and how it impacted people’s livelihood. In my home state of Michigan, we had eight years of a Democrat-controlled state gov-ernment. This resulted in Michigan having the second highest unemployment rate in

the union. The state budget had a $1.5 bil-lion deficit. Morale was low and people were leaving the state in droves. I can even re-member losing friends because their parents had been laid off and could only find jobs in other states.

After moving to Texas, I quickly noticed the contrast in state government models. This year Texas is ranked number one in job creation across all pay levels. Our system of low taxes and reasonable regulation has made Texas an attractive location to create and run a business.

The primary purpose of attending a uni-versity is to increase your salary and em-ployment opportunities. In order for this to occur, we need to enter a strong and growing economy upon graduation. The pro-growth economic policies that conser-vatives champion make an optimal hiring market that recent graduates can thrive in. However, since President Barack Obama took office, the national unemployment rate for recent college graduates has grown to 8.5 percent. In Obama’s America, well after graduation you are expected to still be financially dependent on your parents. Twenty-six-year-old “children” can stay on their parents’ health care plans. How-ever, I, for one, refuse to accept this path for myself.

Nabozny is a history and government ju-nior from Farmington Hills, Michigan. She is the president of College Republicans.

On Sept. 22, President William Powers, Jr. delivered his final state of the univer-sity address. In that speech, he laid out nicely the path ahead.

Among UT’s “serious challenges,” he finds “[t]oo many families are being left out of higher education because they can’t afford it.” Affordability is a national issue. President Barack Obama has called on universities to restrain tuitions and make themselves more accountable to students. Tuition increases nationwide over the past quarter-century have outstripped in-flation and healthcare cost increases, and forced students to amass historic debt, which, for the first time, exceeds credit-card debt. In 2011, the Texas Higher Edu-cation Coordinating Board commissioner warned, “If we keep going the way we are, a baccalaureate degree at a public univer-sity will cost $100,000 at some institu-tions in five years. We can’t go there.”

To increase affordability, the Powers administration has employed “technol-ogy to develop online and blended cours-es, flipped classrooms, and MOOCs.” His successor would do well to build on this. This might include examining the re-cently launched Affordable Baccalaureate Program. This online, competency-based program targets a group highlighted by President Powers’s observation that the “demographics and needs of our stu-dents are changing.” The new majority of students seeking postsecondary educa-tion are “nontraditional”— over 25, and/or working fulltime, and/or supporting families. All programs won’t work every-where, but the affordability crisis should prompt UT’s next president to examine this innovation’s applicability.

Also contributing to declining afford-ability are declining teaching loads. Re-searchers William Massy and Robert Zem-sky find this decline a logical response to the fact that faculty promotions are based primarily on publications, which also

enhance a school’s ranking. Here UT’s next president might consider THECB’s proposal to “improve credit hours pro-duced per full-time equivalent faculty member by 10 percent.” Any such effort must be, says President Powers, “consis-tent with [UT’s] soul”— with its “tier-one teaching and research” mission.

To achieve consistency, UT’s next president might consider raising the teaching loads of tenured faculty who have not been publishing for some time, thus increasing teaching without hindering research.

Another tuition-inflation driver is ex-ploding administrative budgets. Benja-min Ginsberg’s 2011 national study finds that, from 1947 to 1995, “[a]dministrative spending … increased by a whopping 235 percent. Instructional spending, by con-trast, increased only 128 percent.” UT should be praised for steps already taken under President Powers to reduce admin-istration. The new UT president might consider expanding them.

A national Pew survey finds 75 per-cent of prospective students deem col-lege simply unaffordable. How to address their concerns? State funding is not the recourse it once was. As President Powers observes, “Other demands [e.g., Medicaid and K-12] on diminishing public resourc-es are growing.” Given these straitened circumstances, restoring affordability must come through university budget-cutting, just as families have had to do this past decade.

Important as affordability is, President Powers rightly notes that UT’s “real goal is increasing the student’s abilities to think critically and communicate.” Hence educators are troubled by the results of the national study, Academically Adrift, which employed the Collegiate Learning Assessment (CLA) to measure under-graduate learning. It finds that, after four years in college, 36 percent of students demonstrate “small or empirically non-existent” gains in critical thinking and written communication.

To address this, roughly 200 universi-ties administered the CLA last year. Al-though the Washington Post reports that UT-Austin scores in the lowest quartile among peer schools on the CLA, the UT System should be commended for caring enough about student learning to pioneer the CLA’s use. Reformers hope to make UT the model for the state, proposing legislation requiring public universities to administer the CLA to all students, and publish institutions’ results annually.

Another transparency-in-outcomes measure the next UT president might consider involves grading. Why? Profes-sors Stuart Rojstaczer and Christopher Healy’s research demonstrates that, in the early ‘60s, an A constituted 15 percent of grades nationwide. Today, an A is the most common grade (43 percent); 73 per-cent of all grades today are A’s or B’s.

For Rojstaczer and Healy, students are grade inflation’s victims, because they are being deceived. That said, when I was in college, I loved grade inflation! I was

wrong. It can take years post-graduation to grasp fully that the professors who challenged you to work harder than you thought capable were your best friends, because life after college grows increas-ingly difficult. As President Powers cau-tions, “Global competition is increasing.”

To enhance grading transparency, a number of universities now place on stu-dent transcripts, next to the grade the stu-dent received for each class, the average grade for the class awarded by the profes-sor. This aids job applicants whose hard-fought A’s currently get lost in a plethora of mostly-A’s-and-B’s transcripts.

These outcomes-measurements would help answer President Powers’ charge to examine “improv[ing] student success.” In the process, UT’s next president would faithfully build on his predecessor’s ac-complishments.

Lindsay is the director of the Cen-ter for Higher Education at the Texas Public Policy Foundation and editor of SeeThruEdu.com.

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Next president should prioritize affordability of educationBy Thomas K. Lindsay

Guest Columnist

By Amy NaboznyGuest Columnist

Article leaves out black voicesThe original intent of the Ferguson to

Palestine panel, covered by Kylie Fitzpat-rick in a story that ran online Thursday under the headline “UT Palestine group discusses connections between Ferguson, Gaza,” was to facilitate a discussion on the shared experiences of institutionalized racism and militarized state violence. By connecting the recent events of Ferguson, Missouri, to what is occurring in Palestine and Gaza, the panelists and audience be-gan a critical discussion on these pressing issues. However, the article covering the event a) failed to recognize black student voices, b) mislead readers in the title and c) failed to adhere to journalistic integrity and objectivity.

The voices of black students at this event were entirely excluded from the cover-age or even noted as participating mem-bers of this discussion. The original article failed to note that the event was co-hosted by the Pre-Law National Black Law Stu-dent Association and Association of Black Psychologists. The article failed to include any means of representing black students in this discussion. This is ironic because a substantial proportion of the discussion related to how the media lacks coverage of (or misrepresents) the struggles of minority groups. Rather, the author made the choice to include a volunteered comment by an in-dividual from the organization Texans for Israel who was not in attendance.

I found the title, “UT Palestine group discusses connections between Ferguson, Gaza,” to be misleading. “UT Palestine group” suggests only pro-Palestine stu-dents organized this event. The title also suggests that the reader might learn more about what “connections between Fergu-son and Gaza” were addressed in the dis-cussion. Unfortunately, nowhere in the story does it explain the actual content discussed, which included the use of Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicles on civilian populations, how media cover-age portrays minority struggles of racism and the respectability politics of minority groups that turns the victims into the re-sponsible parties.

As an unaffiliated participant in the event, I can say the author did not pres-ent a true representation of the event and its purpose. The author failed to adhere to

journalistic objectivity by focusing more on the overlapping of the event with a re-ligious holiday than on trying to convey the scope of the discussion that took place. She did this while largely ignoring the black student organizations that co-spon-sored this event and the black students who participated in the discussion by not quoting them.

As readers we must always question the integrity of the journalist, any journalist. It is the responsibility of the journalist to be objective and accurate when reporting on what takes place in the day-to-day. All consumers of any kind of media have to ask themselves how the facts are represented, what sources were used and whose voices are included or excluded. If the motto of UT is “What starts here changes the world,” then we need our journalists coming from UT to ensure that world is represented accurately.

— Megan Maldonado, an international relations and global studies and sociol-ogy junior from Houston, in response to a Thursday news article that ran under the web headline “UT Palestine group discusses connections between Ferguson, Gaza.”

Coverage of panel shows biasAfter reading the article, I felt com-

pelled to express my disappointment with this newspaper. Wednesday’s event was co-hosted by two black student groups and discussed struggles of African Ameri-cans, but Ms. Fitzpatrick failed to include comments from any black voices. She did, however, decide to include comments from Texans for Israel, who had no in-volvement in the event.

As a reader, it suggests to me that Ms. Fitzpatrick, the editorial staff and possibly even the entire organization, The Daily Texan, are heavily biased against the Pal-estinian human rights cause, the move-ments in Ferguson and speaking out about blacks’ struggle in America.

The whole lot of you ought to be ashamed of such an article and the mes-sage The Daily Texan has sent by ap-proaching the article the way it has.

Black voices matter and, without ques-tion, should have been included in this ar-ticle. The Daily Texan obviously disagrees.

— Moureen Kaki, a UTSA student, in re-sponse to the same article.

Article on Ferguson to Palestine panel omits crucial viewpoints

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Conservatism can grow economy

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Jonathan Garza | Daily Texan File PhotoUT President William Powers Jr. at the Dell Medical School groundbreaking April 21, 2014.

Ethan Oblak | Daily Texan File Photo In a March 31 file photo, Republican Land Commissioner candidate George P. Bush speaks to the UT chapter of College Republicans.

a warehouse where we store creative things that happened 100 years ago but where creativ-ity happens live in the moment, and I think the music and art con-nections is a great way to demonstrate that,” Bennett said.

The performances are included with ad-mission prices and are free for museum members, UT students, faculty and staff. Clin-ton hopes his com-position will change the way the audience looks at the artwork he is interpreting.

“That they view the painting differently, that there might be a story behind it and that it might be dif-ferent from the one they’ve seen,” Clinton said. “That it inspires somebody else.”

on the other hand, offers a quick fix and easy satisfac-tion to those looking to find mutual attraction.

Beyond filtering by uni-versity email address, Thread also plays matchmaker by filtering through interest cat-egories. Thread requires us-ers to choose their top picks for food, classes and general activities. The app highlights three of 15 possible choices for the categories and builds upon a user’s profile with this additional information. Geared toward UT students, these categories offer up plac-es such as Clay Pit and Barton Springs as possible prefer-ences. Campus life is defined for each user through these categories, developing indi-vidual profiles beyond just one uploaded photo.

Like Tinder, Thread ac-cesses the latest profile pictures from Facebook. Underneath the photo and first name, there is space for

a brief personality descrip-tion. While Tinder’s limit of 500 characters can allow for cheesy quotes, a lengthy life story or a description of any romantic intentions, Thread’s 70-character limit appears to be a setback. Most personality descrip-tions are stiflingly short and leave little room for any sort of accurate self-expression. Reduced to 70 characters, people tend to cop out with descriptions like, “Idk,” “Hook ‘em” and “Netflix is life.” Thread backtracks in its intention to create an online dating space completely free of stigma by restricting a thoughtful description.

Flaunting its tagline, “Stay classy,” Thread may not live up to its expectation in cre-ating an ideal space for on-line dating among college students. Ultimately, though, Thread is the closest median between a stigmatized app like Tinder and a profession-al online dating service like Match.com.

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to think about another way to build relationships to an industry that is very much a part of our lives and also very much a destructive one.”

In addition to the 70-foot sculpture, Brooks published photographs of articles in pamphlets given to visitors. The articles he and a team of UT students came across

were used by field workers to date sediments. By plac-ing a daily newspaper with the core sample, the samples were chronologically ar-chived. The articles cover everything from national events, like the Red Scare, to old advertisements indica-tive of the era.

“It takes a serious team to do these kinds of projects, and everyone involved had an en-thusiastic spirit about them,

and I think the project suc-ceeded with a perfection only possible with this kind of com-munity spirit,” Brooks said.

A little over a year ago, Jade Walker, the director of the Visual Arts Center, asked Brooks to be an artist-in-res-idence at UT.

“David is a perfect fit for this project as his artistic practice spans disciplines and in a collaborative na-ture,” Walker said.

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6GARRETT CALLAHAN, SPORTS EDITOR | @texansportsMonday, September 29, 2014

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Texas escapes despite shaky offenseLAWRENCE, Kan. —

Kansas’ 23-0 loss to Texas on Saturday proved to be the last straw for the Jayhawks, as they fired head coach Charlie Weis on Sunday morning.

But, if it weren’t for such a dominant performance by the Longhorn defense, the Charlie in Austin could just

as easily have been the one in hot water.

While the scoreboard displayed a comfortable victory for head coach Charlie Strong and the Longhorns, that wasn’t ex-actly the case in Kansas on Saturday.

Without some key stops and a couple of timely in-terceptions by defensive co-ordinator Vance Bedford’s

defense, Texas might have found itself on the losing end of a major upset.

“The guys came up with big plays at the right time,” Strong said of the defense. “Any time you defensively get a shutout, it’s really great for the defense.”

Offensively, the Long-horns weren’t any better than the lowly Jayhawks. Each of Texas’ four scoring drives

started inside the Kansas 30-yard line, and the Longhorns only outgained Weis’ offense by a total of 16 yards.

But the Texas defense turned in its best perfor-mance of the season, posting the program’s first road shut-out since 2005. While the Jayhawk offense isn’t exactly known as a powerhouse, a shutout in conference play is always an impressive feat.

“They had the same amount of time to prepare to put that ball in the end zone as we did to keep them out,” said senior linebacker Jordan Hicks, who recorded his sec-ond career interception in the contest. “[The shutout] means a lot to this defense and to this team.”

In addition to Hicks’

By Stefan Scrafield@stefanscrafield

Sarah Montgomery | Daily Texan Staff Senior safety Mykkele Thompson and senior linebacker Jordan Hicks work to hold Kansas senior wide receiver Tony Pierson to just three yards. Although quar-terback Tyrone Swoopes completed only 19 of 34 passes, Texas’ defense dominated the Jayhawks, allowing zero points while forcing four turnovers.

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Last season, Texas came within one game of advanc-ing to the College World Se-ries final, and it hasn’t been easy to forget.

“It took a little bit of time,” senior pitcher Parker French said. “It definitely stung and hurt.”

In June, Vanderbilt, the eventual national champion, captured a 10th-inning walk-off infield single to end the Longhorns’ hope of a sixth national championship. But, as fall practice begins this sea-son, Texas will look to start its season strong.

“I don’t think there’s much of a hangover effect,” French said. “I think it’s more guys are just hungry. We all have a common goal, we know what that is. We got a little bit of taste of success last year, but we’re not done, and we want more, and I think that’s the biggest thing.”

The Longhorns know they must work hard in order to

repeat last season’s success. “The first day is exciting,

but there is a lot of hard work to be done, so we’re ready to get after it,” senior outfielder Collin Shaw said.

Last year’s team was built on a basis of solidar-ity, which helped the group make a deep run into the postseason. With the addi-tion of 15 freshmen, howev-er, the upperclassmen must show leadership and unify the team — a process Texas is taking day-by-day.

“I know what we’re going to do today, then we’re going to see how they respond to it, and then we’ll decide what we’re going to do tomorrow, and you just take it a day at a time,” head coach Augie Garrido said.

Texas isn’t worried about

added pressure or expecta-tions this year. Instead, Garri-do said the team is focused on the task at hand, with thoughts of last season’s bitter end still in their heads.

“I’m not over [the World Series loss] yet,” Garrido said. “I don’t want to get over it. I want to be moti-vated by it. I’m excited to get us started.”

Although the season doesn’t start until February, Texas hopes to start eliminating its shortcomings now. Falling short last year may be the mo-tivation the Longhorns need.

“Like anything — whether it’s a failure or a success — you can use that for the fu-ture,” French said. “You can learn from anything … so, we’ll use those experiences moving forward.”

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Amy Zhang | Daily Texan Staff Since arriving at Texas, head coach Charlie Strong has dis-missed nine players from the football program. The Longhorns hold a 2-2 record after shutting out Kansas on Saturday.

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Although the Longhorns didn’t return from Lawrence, Kansas, until late Saturday night, head coach Charlie Strong was back at work Sunday morning. NFL Com-missioner Roger Goodell and Troy Vincent, the NFL’s executive vice president of football operations, met with Strong to seek his advice on the moral dilemmas plagu-ing the league.

“[Strong’s] emphasis on character [and] respect over talent is molding the next generation of football talent,” Vincent tweeted. “Commissioner and I are focused on strengthening relationships with colleges. Thank you for your time to-day [Charlie Strong].”

The NFL has recently come under fire for its lax discipline policies. The league received broad criti-cism for waiting to dis-cipline Ray Rice, former Baltimore Ravens running back, following allegations of domestic violence. Af-ter the accusations spread and video footage went vi-ral, the Ravens terminated Rice’s contract Sept. 8. The Minnesota Vikings placed running back Adrian

Peterson, who was in-dicted for child abuse, on the Exempt/Commis-sioner’s Permission list on Sept. 17.

Throughout the month, the NFL has worked to re-store its image and cred-ibility amid criticism from a wide range of outlets. Goodell visited the National Domestic Violence Hotline in Austin for three hours on Saturday night. The fol-lowing morning, he and Vincent met with 11 for-mer NFL players, followed by Strong.

“This morning, [Goodell] [and] I met [with] [Coach Strong] to discuss core val-ues, game integrity, [and] college relations. Great meeting, great input,” Vin-cent tweeted.

Strong’s “core values” have attracted national attention during his time at Texas and at Louisville. Strong requires players to be honest, treat women with respect and refrain from drugs, steal-ing and guns — all policies he actively enforces. Since arriving in Austin, Strong has dismissed nine play-ers who violated team rules and three other players are currently suspended from

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This weekend, the Texas men’s tennis team began competition in the Saint Francis Health System ITA Men’s All-American Championship in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Junior Michael Riech-mann, the only Longhorn who competed over the weekend, fell to freshman Skander Mansouri of Wake Forest (7-5, 6-1) in the opening round of the pre-qualifying draw.

Sophomore George Goldhoff, senior Adrien Berkowicz and junior Nick Naumann will begin com-petition in the qualifying draw Monday. All three players enter competition ranked, with Goldhoff leading the way at No. 56 and Berkowicz and Nau-mann following at No. 106 and No. 113, respectively.

Senior All-Americans Søren Hess-Olesen and Lloyd Glasspool, who automatically qualify for the main singles and doubles draw, will begin play Thursday.

Hess-Olesen is cur-rently ranked at No. 5 in singles, and Glasspool is ranked at No. 31. As a doubles team, they are ranked No. 4.

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In the atrium of the Blanton Museum of Art, students from the Butler School of Music gathered to find something inspir-ing. Each of the students then composed a per-sonal composition in re-sponse to the piece of art that stood out to them the most. The result is the Midday Music Series.

On Tuesday, students from the Butler School of Music will showcase the products of their inter-pretations to the public as part of the Blanton’s Midday Music Series. The compositions are all based on artworks currently on display in the museum.

“We’re lucky enough that they’ve written new pieces about works in our collection,” said Adam Bennett, manager of pub-lic programs at the Blan-ton. “We did a project like this last year, [and] there was so much in-terest that it couldn’t be contained within just one program. It’s sort of an extension and a sequel to that program.”

The creative process for the event began at the end of the last spring semester with an open tour of the Blanton for composition students who were

interested in the concept. The students were told to choose an art piece that stood out to them.

Brandon Clinton, music composition graduate stu-dent, chose the Shirazeh Houshiary painting titled “Night of Light.”

“The title, ‘Night of Light,’ is pretty evocative,” Clinton said. “Basically, I just thought, first of all, it was really striking. What could it be, this little light in the distance?”

Stephen Sachse and Christopher Prosser, both music composition

graduate students, chose to interpret Morris Louis’ painting “Water-Shot” but in very different ways. Sachse’s piece uses an elec-tric guitar and a computer, while Prosser’s uses clari-net, flute, viola and cello.

“The idea, it’s so stripped down in a way,” Sachse said. “It’s just drops of paint that fall down. I really liked the idea of doing a piece that’s based on a descending kind of theme.”

Prosser also found something inspiring in the minimalist techniques

used by the artist.“The piece is kind of

quirky,” Prosser said. “It has melodies that come back [and] can represent different colors of the painting — greens, yel-lows [and] reds.”

Bennett hopes the Mid-day Music Series and other similar events that the museum hosts can get people to think of the mu-seum as not only a place that houses art but as an active and creative space.

“The museum isn’t just

Last May, over 400 people crowded into Evan Rauch’s Houston home, with a line spilling out the door. The cops even came to investi-gate the unruly neighbor-hood scene. At the center of it all was Rauch, an adver-tising freshman, selling her jewelry at the fourth trunk store of her career.

Rauch was first inspired to make jewelry in eighth grade when someone gave her a beading kit. It was just a fun hobby until her classmates started making requests and asked to buy her creations. She started out making woven, cuffed bracelets and now cre-ates high-end jewelry with semiprecious stones.

Rauch’s style has evolved over time. She loves work-ing with pendants and charms, mixing golds, greens and grays to create trendy, yet timeless, pieces. She said her favorite pieces to use are Buddha charms and pyrite stone.

“[My style] is a little boho but more traditional,” Rauch said. “I like simple, fun pieces that are versatile. You could take a necklace I made and wear it with a white but-ton-down and jeans.”

Roughly a year ago, she opened an Etsy store to expand her clientele. She has also caught the eyes of multiple stores and sells her jewelry at four boutiques, including the Houstonian, Cuatro and Annie Albrit-ton in Houston and c.jane in Austin.

“She has one of the best eyes I’ve ever seen,” c. jane co-founder Julie Copp said. “Not a day goes by that someone doesn’t talk about Evan.”

Rauch is the local bou-tique’s youngest seller but also one of the most popu-lar. Rauch said she delivers up to 10 pieces to the store every two weeks.

“My clients have definite-ly changed,” Rauch said. “It used to be eighth graders, and, now, it’s their moms.”

The transition from high school to college has affect-ed Rauch’s pace. It takes her about an hour to make each piece and, with a demand-ing course load, she can only make about one per day. Rauch is determined, however, to continue mak-ing and selling her jewelry at UT.

“I love it; I never get tired of it,” Rauch said. “It’s an addiction.”

Her friends and fam-ily have been supportive of

her throughout the process. One high school friend, psychology freshman Mary Hotze, has watched her jewelry evolve since high school and owns pieces of Rauch’s work.

“I bought a necklace from her four years ago that I still

wear,” Hotze said. “It doesn’t go out of fashion.”

To keep up with the trends and stock up on new supplies, Rauch goes to beading conventions at least twice a year.

“I bring a suitcase; peo-ple think I’m crazy,” Rauch

said. “It’s my thing. It’s the best weekend ever.”

Rauch hopes to someday turn her Etsy store into a storefront, allowing her to spend her time designing. If that doesn’t work out, she wants to have a high-cou-ture line on the side with

a shop in her house. She’s currently majoring in ad-vertising and hopes to com-plete the Business Founda-tions Program as well.

“People say I’m going to be the next Kendra Scott,” Rauch said. “And I’m like, ‘Oh my gosh, I wish.’”

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Ellyn Snider | Daily Texan StaffEvan Rauch was first inspired to create jewelry in the eigth grade. Now a freshman, Rauch’s style has evolved to include pieces that are sold at four different boutiques.

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UT artist-in-residence shows work at gallery

When walking into the Visual Arts Center Vaulted Gallery, it looks a little like the room is under repair. Building scaffolding holds up a 70-foot long core sam-ple. The sample stretches di-agonally from one corner of the ceiling to the opposite ground side of the gallery, where it exits through a hole in the gallery window and re-enters the earth.

David Brooks, who has a Master of Fine Arts from Columbia University and works out of Brooklyn, is the Vault Gallery artist-in-residence. His exhibition, “Repositioned Core,” which opened Sept. 19, blends his knowledge of science and art. His artwork highlights the dynamics between indi-viduals and nature and of-ten the disconnection that exists between the two. For example, he placed a section of the tropical rainforest in the Museum of Modern Art in New York to represent his perspective on humans and nature.

Each year, the Visual Arts Center invites working art-ists to show their artwork at the gallery. During the selection process, faculty determine which artist is

invited to work at the Uni-versity based on their need for resources and desire for collaboration.

“As this is one of the coun-try’s great research universi-ties, this was certainly an op-portunity I was delighted to take,” Brooks said.

At the beginning of the process, Brooks explored the Jackson School of Geo-sciences for inspiration. As he toured the facilities, he realized geological material resembled sculpture. Along with the physical nature of core samples, he drew inspi-ration from Texas oil culture.

“As a Northerner. when I think of Texas — for bet-ter or for worse — I think of oil,” Brooks said. “I wanted

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I wanted to think about another way to build relationships to an industry that is very much a part of our lives and also very much a destructive one.

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‘Thread’ app promises to string couples together

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Grad students interpret music from art

Smartphone dating apps aren’t always taken too seri-ously. Whether someone is experimenting with “Tinder,” “Grindr,” “Cudlr” or “OkCu-pid,” there’s the potential for awkwardly meeting matches in real life, leading to nervous eye contact while both people try to find the right words to transition from digital chat to real conversation.

“Thread,” the latest of the popular dating apps, hopes to offer a medium for substantial

relationships in cyberspace. While apps like Tinder and Grindr are synonymous with the “hook up” culture, Thread hopes to break through this superficiality.

Thread’s main attraction is that it is only accessible to college students, requiring users to register with a “.edu” email address. While Thread offers a new approach to the fast-growing market of dat-ing apps, the larger question is whether Thread has the potential to surpass the ste-reotype of online dating and create real relationships in a

student population.The exclusivity of the app

doubles as a safety net. Stu-dents may particularly be drawn to Thread because of its filtering mechanism, as other dating applications generally draw unwarrant-ed or inappropriate atten-tion from people outside of the University.

The app’s second strategy is limiting the number of po-tential matches per day to 10. This forces users to take a hard look at their options before saying “yes.” Tinder,

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