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Madison Wickham, CEO and president of the company that started To-tal Frat Move and Total So-rority Move, spoke at the SAC on Tuesday about his experiences in the world of startups.

Wickham, a graduate of Texas State University, said he had decided to abandon the idea of starting a compa-ny after being part of several failed projects.

“Screw this whole plan to start my own business,” Wickham said. “I don’t know what I’m doing. I just need to go work for some-body else that knows what they’re doing.”

However, after only months of working a desk job, Wickham said he felt ready to start a company of his own — but for different reasons from before.

“The thing that

Norman Martin, philoso-phy and computer science professor emeritus, received the French government’s highest decoration last week for his service during World War II.

Martin received the dec-oration — Chevalier de

l’Ordre national de la Légion d’honneur, or the Knight of the National Order of the Legion of Honor — during a ceremony in connection to a “Salute to Veterans” celebra-tion in San Antonio on Fri-day.

The award is equivalent to the Medal of Honor and the

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Amy Zhang | Daily Texan StaffMadison Wickham is the president and CEO of Grandex Inc., the media company behind Total Frat Move and Total Sorority Move. Wickham spoke to students as part of the Delta Sigma Pi fraternity’s “DSPeaks” series Tuesday evening.

Photo courtesy of Olive G. ForbesThe French government honored Norman Martin, philosophy and computer science professor emeritus, for his military service in World War II.

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Football becoming bowl eligible took resiliency.

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Mike McGraw | Daily Texan StaffState Rep. John Zerwas, R-Simonton, (right) speaks on a panel discussing the Affordable Care Act at KUT Studios on Tuesday.

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Panelists discuss Affordable Care Act

With enrollment for cov-erage under the Afford-able Care Act now open for 2015, four panelists at KUT Studios in the Belo Center for New Media on Tuesday discussed the impact of the act so far.

The panel included State Rep. John Zerwas, R-Simonton; Bee Moorhead of Texas Impact; Sam Rich-ardson, assistant professor in the LBJ School of Public Affairs; and Austin Ameri-can-Statesman reporter Tim Eaton. The group examined the impact the health care act had on Texas communi-ties during its first year and discussed what they hope to see in the next session.

According to Zerwas, polling shows people are not happy with what has hap-pened as a result of the act.

“In general, the Afford-able Care Act is not well re-ceived by Americans across

the country and certainly in Texas, also,” Zerwas said. “If you talk to most people about it, they don’t like what it does. … More people are paying more for their insurance coverage as a

consequence of the health care reform act and [are] getting less options.”

Richardson said individu-als with fewer options may be uninformed.

“For those who don’t fall

into the Medicaid gap, they typically get very cheap in-surance coverage,” Richard-son said. “For people who qualify for subsidies under

Judge Bert Richardson overruled a motion Tues-day to dismiss indictments against Gov. Rick Perry and said that the prosecutor in the case was properly qualified.

Perry’s attorneys previously argued that the indictments against him were not valid because the prosecutor for the case, Michael McCrum, was improperly sworn in as attorney pro tem. Tony Buz-bee, one of Perry’s lawyers, said McCrum did not follow the correct sequence of events when signing his oath and took the oath before signing his anti-bribery statement.

Perry’s defense also argued some documents related to the case were not filed correctly. However, Richardson ruled Tuesday that McCrum was properly sworn into office.

“The court holds, therefore, that the actions taken by Mi-chael McCrum as Attorney Pro Tem are valid and that Mr. McCrum has the authority to act in his capacity as Attorney Pro Tem in this case,” Richard-son said in a ruling filed with the 390th District Court.

Richardson still has not is-sued a ruling for other issues the defense raised relating to Perry’s indictments.

A grand jury originally prosecuted Perry in August for abuse of an official capac-ity and coercion of a pub-lic servant, Travis County District Attorney Rosemary Lehmberg. Perry vetoed state funding for Lehmberg’s inves-tigative unit after she refused to step down following her drunken driving conviction.

Beginning in January, the University will double the amount of time students can watch Netflix on campus or study online.

The University is increas-ing its default bandwidth allocation, which all off-campus students are given as a part of their tuition fees, from 500 MB per week to 1 GB per week beginning Jan. 12. That is the equivalent of

600 web page views or three hours of Netflix — double the current amount — ac-cording to a University Infor-mation Technology Services network report. Students will still have the option to pur-chase additional bandwidth.

According to ITS, the new bandwidth policy will cost the University $215,000 a year. This increase fol-lows an attempted policy change in August when ITS unsuccessfully tried to re-move the default bandwidth

allocation, which required students to purchase a band-width tier.

“In the end, the commu-nity came back and said they still desired to have some de-fault allocation for academic use,” said William Green, ITS director of networking and telecommunications.

Bandwidth amounts for TAs will also be extended to a base of 50 GB, or 31,000 web-page visits per week. Other than doubling the default bandwidth amount,

next semester the band-width system will be the same. Students will have the option to buy 10 GB, 50 GB, 200 GB or 500 GB of addi-tional bandwidth for $3, $5, $6 or $8, respectively.

“I don’t think more In-ternet usage connection is ever a bad thing,” psychol-ogy sophomore Katy Giuffre said. “I don’t think it’s a big deal to have to pay for it, but I’m not going to complain if they want to give me more bandwidth for free.”

Green said students pro-gressively needed more gi-gabytes of bandwidth for their academics, and that led to the switch to 1 GB of bandwidth. Green estimates about 80 percent of student Internet use is non-academ-ic. Giuffre said she is usually studying online when she is on campus.

“It’s probably actually more academic,” Giuffre said. “Sometimes I’m on

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Xintong Guo | Daily Texan StaffMariella Fiore, 15 months, plays with her mom in The Thinkery on Tuesday afternoon.

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Presidential Medal of Free-dom in the U.S. The French award is divided into five degrees: knight, officer, com-mander, grand officer and grand croix. Martin received the knight ranking, for which a minimum of 20 years of

public service is required along with distinguished merits during the active duty period.

Martin said it was a great honor for him to be consid-ered a knight.

“I think it is neat to get to be a knight (‘chevalier’),” Martin said in an email. “I never thought of myself as aristocracy.”

His service during World War II was commended — as he was assigned to Field Artillery, the first division landing on Utah Beach on D-Day, as an assistant for-ward observer. Thirty-seven days after the landing, Mar-tin received 14 wounds, five of which were life threaten-ing, while fighting in the area south of the landing beaches.

After four months in var-ious British hospitals, Mar-tin rejoined his division in Luxemburg and fought in The Battle of the Bulge. Martin was medically dis-charged at the end of the war in Europe.

“Although I had been rath-er inclined towards pacifism, when it came up, I decided my moral duty was to resist the Nazi rule of Europe,” Martin said.

Martin said he hopes many more people will do the same if a similar situation arises.

“I did what I honestly thought was my duty un-der the circumstances of the time,” Martin said. “I can hope that college students (and non-college men and women will too, if the situa-tion requires it).”

motivated me to start my own company was that I didn’t want to be controlled by a boss,” Wickham said. “The thing that you kind of find out once you start your own company is that you’re working for yourself, and you’re going to be harder on yourself than any boss out there.”

Wickham said there isn’t an accurate depiction of Greek life in the media de-spite the significant number of students involved.

“The premise was kind of that nobody in the enter-tainment world had done a good job of capturing Greek life authentically,” Wickham said. “Anytime you see a movie or a TV show that portrays a frat guy, it’s always some kind of watered-down Hollywood rendition.”

Total Frat Move is set apart from other online media because it has care-fully planned brand as-sociation, according to Wickham.

“If you were to personify the TFM brand, you could

imagine what that person is,” Wickham said. “You can imagine how they dress, what they like, what they don’t like, what bars they go to.”

With a growing pres-ence on college campuses, Total Frat Move has po-tential for a film spin-off, Wickham said.

“With TFM and the other media sites, we are at a point where we have a big enough audience where there are people in the kind of Hollywood film realm that are inter-ested in working with us to

co-produce various things,” Wickham said.

Journalism junior Shan-non Smith said she was surprised by the company’s small size.

“It surprises me that they

are really successful years later after they first started, but their team isn’t a hun-dred people,” Smith said. “To be really successful doesn’t mean everything has to be really big.”

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If you were to personify the TFM brand, you could imagine what that person is. You can imagine how they dress, what they like, what they don’t like, what bars they go to.

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UT ranked among research institutionsThe University has been

ranked among the world’s most productive scientific research institutions by the journal Nature.

According to John Bird, director of media outreach in the Office of the Presi-dent, the journal used a new system called the Na-ture Index to determine the ranking.

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journals,” Bird said. “UT made the ranking be-cause its authors pub-lish very successfully in these journals.”

Bird said UT ranked 15th out of U.S. universi-ties and seventh out of public universities. To create the ranking, he said the journal surveyed an outside panel of ex-perts and compared their thoughts with a global survey of scientists to de-termine the top-68 natu-ral science journals based on where prominent sci-entists aim to have their work published.

According to Bird, the specific form of productiv-ity the Nature Index mea-sures is by commercial ap-plications, patents, business ideas and medical applica-tions, as well as develop-ments in science and pub-lished research.

“UT is one of the coun-try’s elite academic re-search institutions, and we are especially strong in the natural sciences, including geoscience, physics, math, chemis-try and the life sciences,” Bird said. “The University has been a powerhouse in these areas for years,

but, as part of our push for excellence over the past decade, we’ve gotten even stronger.”

Bird said this new rank-ing validates the overall strength of the University in the core areas of research that are changing gradu-ate-level education in the natural sciences.

President William Pow-ers Jr. said in a statement that the ranking reaffirms the world-renowned pro-ductivity of UT’s scientific researchers.

“Across the physical and life sciences, UT faculty and scientists are in truly

elite company, publishing highly relevant, highly cited research that is changing the world and shaping the careers of thousands of stu-dents,” Powers said.

Bird said UT should be proud of the ranking.

“UT has the publica-tion bona fides to back up our reputation. In fact, we see from this survey that, in scientific research, our productivity performance is truly outstanding,” Bird said. “This is something all UT students, faculty, staff, alumni and friends can justifiably take great pride on.”

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Xintong Guo | Daily Texan Staff William Green, Information Technology Services director of networking and telecommunications, speaks at a Student Government meeting Tuesday and presents an ITS plan to double the default bandwidth allocation offered to students at no extra charge.

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Zerwas said he would like to see officials come together next session to help individu-als with no coverage.

“My hope is that, through this period of time, there has been more conversations with the members of the leg-islature, a better understand-ing of what this could do for their community in particu-lar, and that we come back and have a conversation that is less tainted by politics and is more about trying to solve a solution,” Zerwas said. “I don’t care if it’s the ‘John Zer-was Texas’ solution or if it’s somebody else’s plan — we have a million to a million-and-a-half people that fall into a gap.”

Voters in Texas were not educated on what their legis-latures were saying about the act, according to Moorhead.

“This time around, one of the things that advocates are committed [for] legisla-tures to do is to work with them and to work with their constituents to make sure people at least under-stand, so that, if a legisla-ture takes the step of say-ing, ‘I want to do that right thing for my state,’ that their constituents are re-ally clear that they are do-ing the right thing for their state,” Moorhead said.

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Pinterest or shopping if I have a little downtime. If I’m using my Internet connection on campus, it’s usually to study or sub-mit papers or to find stuff on campus.”

According to the Uni-versity ITS network re-port, at 50 percent aca-demic use, about 85 percent of students do not exceed their bandwidth al-

location. When increased to 1 GB, almost 95 percent of students are estimated to not exceed their band-width use.

The Internet will still be slowed if the 1 GB is exceed-ed, but Green said students can easily use Canvas and other academic sites.

“We think most basic needs are made when they exceed that bandwidth,” Green said. “Everyone has the option to purchase more bandwidth.”

Bandwidth use is not free and unlimited because of cost and liability con-cerns, Green said. Since bandwidth is a service funded by student fees and tuition through the cen-tral budget, Green said if use were free past 1 GB, then students would be paying for non-academic Internet use.

“Students consume differ-ent amounts of bandwidth depending on what they are doing,” Green said. “Not

saying it’s right or it’s wrong — it may or may not be re-lated to the mission. But do you really want students to be subsidizing somebody watching Netflix?”

Having students pay for bandwidth also protects the University from being held responsible for any il-legal activity students do on campus since the students are paying for additional, non-academic bandwidth to accompany their 1 GB of academic bandwidth.

“They may just be watch-ing calculus videos, but they may go hack something, or they may be distributing material that is copyrighted and owned by someone else,” Green said.

Also, allowing students to buy their own bandwidth prevents the need for the University to block non-ac-ademic websites.

“We as the University can let you do whatever you want to do, legally,” Green said.

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“Net neutrality” is a contentious subject. The debate itself exists somewhere in the crosshairs of arduously written Federal Communications Commission regulations, fumbling politicians and the lack of popular understanding of “big data” — where it exists and who has the power to manipulate it. If your aim is to alienate Ameri-cans almost everywhere, sprinkle in some good old bipartisan hostility and you’ve got yourself the perfect recipe.

Yes, net neutrality is certainly complex to confront. But with both sides screaming “stifled innovation,” we must ask ourselves who the real winners and losers in this fierce debate are. What is the reality behind “net neutrality”?

The trouble is, the concept of net neutrality is a double-edged sword. Net neutrality, or the con-cept that internet service providers should treat all content equally, cannot be dismissed by the simple “big business versus big government” no-tion that exists in the standard debate. The cur-rent status quo is far more complex and so are the potential winners and losers.

Internet service providers, the big guys such as Comcast and AT&T, can offer “fast lanes” to companies willing to cough up extra cash — of-fering prioritized service to content providers, freezing out the chance of competition from smaller start-ups, etc. For those of you who say this could never happen, think again. A little over a year ago, Comcast bullied Netflix into paying more for the data it used and slowed down the service speed for consumers until they complied. While this instance raises a host of different ques-tions surrounding bandwidth and efficiency, the crux of the matter is that large providers have both the ability and the economic interest to treat content providers preferentially.

The fact that broadband providers win big from this arrangement probably shocks almost no one. But the question here lies beyond the big guys, or our own hazy notions of online egalitari-anism. What about investors and network infra-

structure? Does the internet’s new FCC classifi-cation limit the incentive to expand?

Without the flow of extra cash from content giants, ISPs of the world might be hesitant to in-crease existing capacities for a surging demand. In fact, some venture capitalists contend that the longtime preferential status-quo is a necessary component of emerging internet business models.

“Vertical integration of new features and ser-vices by broadband operators is an essential part of the innovation strategy companies will need to use to compete and offer customers the ser-vices they demand,” said Adam Theierer, a senior research fellow at George Mason University, in a 2004 article he wrote entitled “Net Neutrality: Digital Discrimination or Regulatory Games-manship in Cyberspace?”

Leonid Bershidsky, a columnist at Bloomberg View, likens the “vertical integration” to Skype. The company, which provides free video-chats, was fought by telephone operators at every turn, and Skype was initially rejected by almost all mo-bile networks because its free service conflicted with traditional voice plans.

“Skype eventually succeeded because it made deals with carriers, not because the government intervened on its behalf,” Bershidsky said. “It’s an example of [initially] disruptive startups and incumbents innovating successfully to the con-sumer’s benefit — perhaps because competition wasn’t disrupted by regulators in the name of “fairness’.”

Net neutrality is a lot of things, at its core. It is so many things, in fact, that trying to write about them all makes my brain hurt a little. But it’s not a partisan debate, despite what Sen. Ted Cruz’s Twitter feed might have you believe. And it’s not a scheme to limit innovation, because there are certainly content providers who stand to benefit from the arrangement. What it boils down to, es-sentially, is the idea of regulatory restraint. How much do we trust our government to enforce the organic concept of open internet?

Whether the FCC will approve the new regu-lations likely won’t be decided until later this year. And the “forbearance” they choose to implement can’t really be predicted yet. So like most other things in government, Americans everywhere will just have to do what we do best: cross our fingers, tweet our tweets and wait and see.

Deppisch is a government senior from League City.

On Oct. 29, the halls of the Tower echoed with chants, yells and finally a banner drop calling on students and faculty to join United Students Against Sweatshops (USAS) in their demand that the University cut ties with VF Corpora-tion, the company that supplies our school with imagewear and garments sold at the Co-Op and various stores on the Drag. While students wear and use their products, those behind the scenes who make the products are suffering. The Uni-versity needs to terminate its contract and look elsewhere for suppliers, specifically for ones that care about the conditions their workers face.

Unfortunately, mass production, while con-venient for consumers, often comes with a steep price paid in human lives. Following the devas-tating Bangladesh garment factory collapse in 2013 that killed 1,135 workers and injured 2,500 more, more than 150 companies with ties to that country’s garment industry signed the Accord on Fire and Building Safety, which ensures the pro-tection of workers from accidents in hundreds of buildings. In a nutshell, this agreement would ensure regular inspections and safety training to prevent another horrific incident from happen-ing. Unlike the many signatories, however, VF Corporation refused to comply with the terms for their Bangladeshi factories and associate with the Accord. While the company may be trying to protect its bottom line, it is unconscio-nable that impoverished men and women work-ing excessive hours to make ends meet have to fear for their lives during their shifts.

The garment workers in Bangladesh are paid the lowest wage in the world, hardly enough for a reasonable standard of living. These same fac-tories that VF Corporation uses to produce their garments have come under fire as even children as young as nine are employed in the shocking conditions. The high demand for cheap apparel forces many children into the business for life, leaving them illiterate as they cannot attend school if they want a roof over their heads.

While VF Corporation claims to care about worker safety, little is done until outsiders cause a scene. While VF is a member of the Alliance for Bangladesh Worker Safety, this group is op-erationally weak in comparison with the Accord and has performed only mediocre inspections,

leading to yet another factory collapse in June which left 29 workers injured. The Alliance uses the company’s own private inspectors and forces the local factories, also under financial pressures, to take out loans to pay for the necessary remod-eling of unsafe buildings. In stark contrast, the Accord legally binds parent companies to pay for remodeling, permanently employs local en-gineers and inspectors to check 50 factories a week and even performs regular checks on the work of the inspectors for an added measure of accountability.

According to USAS, the Worker Rights Con-sortium achieved victory earlier this year after a 14-month campaign to convince UT to affili-ate humanitarian group. But the fight isn’t over. Now, USAS emphasizes the desperate need to advocate for foreign workers by simply switch-ing to another, safer garment provider. So far, student-led labor rights groups have found vic-tory in the same request at 14 other universities — most recently at Cornell University, which saw a similar protest against that school’s in-volvement with JanSport just this fall.

To aid in the solution beyond merely elucidat-ing the problem, USAS suggests an alternative to VF: Alta Gracia, a Central American company that makes campus gear while paying salario digno — a wage with dignity. While President William Powers Jr. has yet to respond, weeks later, to the letter requesting a contract termina-tion, the group patiently waits while continuing to spread word of their cause.

It’s unsettling to see such adamant nationwide support for a humanitarian effort go unnoticed and the problems these groups protest go un-changed. The apparel industry has no shortage of suppliers. If the University is truly committed to their core value of responsibility, it can seek out another apparel provider. It is not a question of whether it is right to make garment workers work in conditions where they constantly fear for their lives. Rather it is a question of what we can do to change it. UT can start here by termi-nating their contract with VF Corporation and change the lives of people half a world away. “What starts here changes the world” is plastered all over campus to inspire students, but it means nothing if the University as an institution is not willing to do something so fundamental as end their direct support of human rights violations.

Griffin is a journalism freshman from Hous-ton.

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I am an atheist. Admittedly, I don’t know exactly what that means. Depending on who you talk to, it could mean a lot of things. To some, it means that I am amoral at best and I live a life of ultimate insignificance. In a 2012 appearance on “The Colbert Report,” former Chair of the Texas State Board of Education Don McLeroy, on the subject of atheists, placed a rock on a table and said, “Nothing is what a sleeping rock dreams of.” So, if you ask McLeroy, maybe I, as an atheist, share the phi-losophy and worldview of a rock.

Fortunately for me, I am not a rock. And, contrary to what I hope is not a popular opin-ion, I do not believe in “nothing.” In fact, I be-lieve in many things: I believe in the United States Constitution; I believe if you give a per-son a chance, they can surprise you in some truly extraordinary ways; I believe the Dallas Cowboys will continue to disappoint me so long as Jerry Jones operates as general manag-er — that is, until I have evidence to the con-trary. I also believe in treating your neighbor as you would have them treat you. I believe murder is wrong. I believe in being charitable and giving back to those who have not been as fortunate as I have been. I believe that what I believe is not wholly dissimilar to the beliefs of anyone else in our country or state.

And yet that different term, “atheism,” has been synonymous with notions of deviance, anarchy and malice, connotations that may very well be applicable to some atheists (not to mention some religiously oriented people), but not to most. In this day and age, atheists, agnostics and those who don’t affiliate them-selves with a religion come in all shapes and sizes — the agnostic grocer at HEB, your reli-giously unaffiliated dentist, the atheist veteran who served two tours in Iraq — but there is an apparent stigma against these people that they are somehow less fit to be productive members of a community than those who are “normal” and “religious.”

According to a recent poll conducted by

the Pew Research Center, “religiously unaffili-ated” is the largest-growing “religious belief ” in the country, yet being an atheist is one of the most detrimental qualities one could pos-sess in seeking elected office, even more detri-mental than being involved in an extramarital affair. It is not unreasonable to conclude that the United States as a whole is wary of, if not hostile toward, atheists.

“I do think that there is a stigma against nontheists, especially those of us that use the label atheist,” said Rick Korzekwa, president of Texas Secular Humanists, in an email. “It is not hard to find people who say, either im-plicitly or explicitly, that atheists are immoral or untrustworthy. I’ve had conversations with strangers in which they brought up religion, found out I don’t believe in God, and their tone and approach toward me changed en-tirely.”

There was once a period of American his-tory when being an atheist was essentially synonymous with being a Communist. In fact, it was during the era of the Red Scare, in 1956 to be precise, that the U.S. changed its official motto from “E Pluribus Unum” — meaning, “from many, one” — to “In God We Trust.” Today, it seems that much of that sentiment against atheism is still intact, which is truly sad because I, along with many others, am living proof that one can simultaneously be proud to be an American and also proud to be an atheist.

Yet politicians like McLeroy make it hard for many atheists, especially in Texas, to stay engaged with the political process — not to mention the fact that some states’ constitu-tions still say people can’t hold public office without believing in a “supreme being,” al-though the 1961 Torcaso v. Watkins case ruled that states can’t enforce this. This only perpet-uates the belief that atheists don’t care about anything. Whether we like it or not, we live in a constantly changing Texas within a con-stantly changing America, and the sooner we accept and tolerate others for their differences, the sooner we will find how our differences only make us stronger. E Pluribus Unum.

Sundin is an English and radio-television-film senior from San Antonio.

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Midway through my third semester at Brandeis University, a private college just out-side Boston, I decided to redirect my attention to local politics and journalism, as well as the aca-demic coursework that goes along with it. As a native Houstonian, I decided that this University would be the ideal place for me, so I filled out an application to matriculate beginning the follow-ing spring — with about 12 hours to spare on the application process. I got accepted, immediately decided to transfer and completed all the requi-site paperwork. My first day on campus, I wan-dered into the Texan office, and I never looked back. At least, that’s the press release version that I tell in pleasant conversation.

As an external transfer student, especially one matriculating in the spring rather than the fall, the University provided almost zero support or guidance. Luckily, many of my longtime child-hood friends had attended the University since they were freshmen, so all my questions were an-swered. However, I cringe to think of what would have happened had I not been lucky enough to

know people that helped me along the way.Mid-year orientation for transfers like me was

an optional, one-day session, as opposed to the several-day full immersion experienced by my peers. The individuals providing the informa-tion were kind and helpful, and the program was undoubtedly a positive experience, but there was just too much information to cover in a few hours for new students. Course requirements (University-wide or for one’s college) were never explained sufficiently, and even basic campus ge-ography was not reviewed.

Accordingly, I was happy to hear that the Senate of College Councils has put together its first-ever Transfer Student Ad-Hoc Committee, which will hopefully work to mollify much of the confusion faced by transfer students, both inter-nal and external.

Coming to a new university is stressful and overwhelming, but the feelings are only multi-plied when it is one of the largest such institu-tions in the world. Freshmen receive the needed guidance for a transition into this unique envi-ronment, but those who show up a tad bit later — particularly in the middle of an academic year — should be extended the same opportuni-ties. Whether that means a longer orientation or more specific information distributed electroni-cally, I’m not completely sure. But the status quo is not working, so I look forward to whatever solutions this new committee may come up with.

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the goal of the event is to get people excited about improv.

“It’s less about competi-tion,” Normandin said. “It’s that concept of engag-ing everyone and teaching about improv.”

Normandin said The Hideout Theatre orders waffle mix and has volun-teers from all over the city make waffles continuous-ly during the festival.

“Just like in improv, everything is made up the day of the event,” Normandin said.

The theater will pro-vide waffle pairings for guests based on the flavor of the show one is about to attend, according to Normandin.

While the waffles offer a tasty incentive, Nor-mandin said the real treat is getting to see some of

the best improv teams in Austin.

“Not only is it live the-ater with live people, but it’s live theater with live people who have no idea where the story is go-ing to go or the show is going to take them,” Normandin said.

Hope Carew, theatre and dance junior, has been a member of Gigglepants since her freshman year. She said improv offers her the creative outlet she needs as an actress.

“To me, improv is just the purest form of perfor-mance,” Carew said. “It’s such an amazing experience to be with people that are your friends and just make something together out of nothing.”

Unlike the cutthroat improv scenes of New York and California,

Austin is more laid-back, according to Carew.

“It’s a cool way to expe-rience the different sides of Austin,” Carew said. “You get to meet a lot of eager, friendly people who are excited you are there.”

Carew said having a hu-morous approach to art makes it more accessible and relatable.

“I think that humor is the most effective tool for social change,” Carew said. “With dramatic works, people get their guard up and distance themselves from it, but, with humor, you can’t help but laugh.”

to act on its passion for philanthropy. A quarter of proceeds from clothing sales are donated to sup-port nonprofit organizations conducting a broad range of philanthropic work.

Srivastava asked Plan II sophomore Caroline Read to model cloth-ing for Clothes for Causes’ catalog.

“I was so excited because I really believe in what she’s doing,” Read said. “I really believe in Anisha’s goal to raise money for disease education and other charities.”

Srivastava plans to release multiple fashion collections, each inspired by different philanthropic causes.

“The designs, colors and cuts of the clothes embody the message and spirit of the cause,” Srivastava said.

Clothes for Causes

recently released its first collection, called Cause Col-lection: Fight Against HIV/AIDS. Proceeds from this collection go to the Right Now Foundation, a U.K.-based organization that sup-ports HIV-positive children across India.

Business honors sopho-more Jenny Lai took the pho-tos featured on the Clothes for Causes website. Lai said the photos are meant to cap-ture fashionable clothes in a philanthropic light.

“We wanted to create a brand that would appeal to socially conscious college students,” Lai said.

Srivastava cites businesses such as TOMS as an inspira-tion for Clothes for Causes’ business model.

“This love of products paired with causes will help us support initia-tives on a scale not always

achievable through fund-raising,” Srivastava said. “Our products tell the story of the cause and, through that, provide an opportunity for customers to advocate for the cause.”

“Merima is a beautiful player, and, when she plays the accor-dion, it has a very personal voice, and my role in the composition is to fill out the texture of that voice — to accentuate it,” Knopp said.

The concert’s musical jour-ney of the book is accompanied by Woodstrup’s video imagery, which is projected on the wall behind Ključo and Knopp while they perform.

“I took inspiration from the aesthetic quality — the textures — of the illuminated manuscript and the book’s actual journey through history and combined them,” Woodstrup said.

The concert is one of a num-ber of collaborations between the Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies and Texas Per-forming Arts. Robert Abzug, director of the Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies, said it is a great idea for people to be exposed to Ključo’s concert.

“Ključo’s performance cel-ebrates the continued relevance of the artifact,” Abzug said. “The book is not only a symbol of the survival of the Jewish people, but also of the possibility of har-mony among the Abrahamic religions, and that is a very im-portant hope to hold out today.”

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Photo courtesy of Merima KljučoMerima Ključo will perform her 12-movement composition for the multimedia concert “The Sarajevo Haggadah: Music of the Book” on Wednesday and Thursday. The accordionist wrote the piece after reading “People of the Book,” a novel written by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Geraldine Brooks.

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D’Onta Foreman to undergo surgery

Freshman running back D’Onta Fore-man will miss Texas’ regular season fi-nale against TCU on Thanksgiving Day af-ter suffering a hand injury Saturday against Oklahoma State.

Foreman will undergo surgery on his hand this week and then begin re-habilitation, according to Anthony Pass, associ-ate athletic trainer-head football trainer.

The freshman out of Texas City rushed for 73 yards on 15 carries for the Longhorns this sea-son. He rushed for a ca-reer-best 37 yards in the season opener against North Texas.

Foreman was expe-riencing an increase in touches lately, tallying at least three carries in each of the three games before Oklahoma State. He recorded a career-high five carries for 13 yards and added a 7-yard reception against West Virginia before the injury.

Texas announced the news about Fore-man’s injury in a press release Tuesday.

—Peter Sblendorio

SPORTS BRIEFLY

As the football season draws closer to an end, the Big 12 is winding down to three contenders.

Baylor, Kansas State and TCU are at the top of the conference standings, each having only a single con-ference loss, and, with only a few more weeks in the season, all three are com-peting for the top spot.

This past weekend, the Horned Frogs played a road game against Kansas in what was believed to be a fairly easy matchup for the highly ranked Frogs. However, TCU was forced to make a fourth-quarter comeback to keep its Big 12 hopes alive.

TCU was down 17-27 with less than four min-utes remaining in the third quarter before mounting a late rally, which would lead to a 34-30 victory.

The Frogs were the only one of the top-three teams to play last weekend, but, going forward, all three will face tough games to close out the season.

Kansas State will face West Virginia on Thursday in Morgantown, West Vir-ginia, where both Baylor and TCU struggled in pre-vious games. The Wildcats cannot get caught sleeping in one of the toughest envi-ronments in the Big 12.

The Horned Frogs will have a bye this weekend, along with the Longhorns,

before their showdown on Thanksgiving night. The Longhorns have won three straight matches and could be trouble for TCU.

In addition, Baylor will be back in action Saturday, hosting Oklahoma State in Waco. Despite several key injuries that have translat-ed into losses this season, the Cowboys are a formi-dable foe with the ability to create an upset for Baylor.

The road to the Big 12 title for Baylor will not be as difficult as many think, though. The Bears have two remaining home games and a game played against Texas Tech on a neutral field to end the season. Baylor quarter-back Bryce Petty has a solid opportunity step up and get the job done for the Bears.

The latest College Foot-ball Playoff rankings put TCU on top of the four leading teams in the na-tion. The Horned Frogs have played the toughest teams in the conference, only losing to Baylor by a field goal.

However, Baylor may have a shot to sneak past TCU if Kansas State can re-main unbeaten this week-end at West Virginia. But, if the Bears can win against the Wildcats in early De-cember, the momentum from beating another top-15 team may just be what it takes to put a Big 12 team into the College Football Playoff.

No. 5 Texas volleyball was in the same situation Saturday that it had been against Okla-homa in October, when the Sooners upset the Longhorns in a sweep at Gregory Gym.

After three sets Saturday, Texas trailed Oklahoma 2-1 at McCasland Fieldhouse in Norman, Oklahoma. But, un-like their first match against the Sooners, the Longhorns (20-1, 12-1 Big 12) were able to overcome their strug-gles and beat Oklahoma in five sets.

With the win, Texas clinched its fourth-straight Big 12 championship and gained confidence with the comeback victory.

“We wanted to get revenge after losing to them at home,” junior outside hitter Amy Neal said. “The way we came out — I thought we were up and down during the game, but I think we really stayed together as a team. We were really focused on that game. … We really just wanted to come out and play well against OU.”

The Longhorns will now look to finish the season off strong to help springboard them into the NCAA Tournament.

“Right now, we are just working on some areas that we feel we have deficiencies in,” head coach Jerritt Elliott said. “There’s that three-week

tough period that we are kind of getting over, so we are trying to get them accli-mated. But we have a tough schedule still.”

Texas’ first match after winning the Big 12 is tonight against Baylor. In their first match against Baylor, the Longhorns had no trouble running past the Bears as they swept them. Texas had a .473 hitting percentage, whereas

the Bears only hit .047.“They struggled here,” El-

liott said. “They were a little nervous and uncomfortable early on, and we played at a high level, so the game was never really close. Based on some of their recent scores, they are playing well, and we will get a chance to look at them more today.”

The Bears have lost six of their last 10 games, but

despite Baylor’s strug-gles, Neal says she ex-pects the Bears to put up a good fight.

“I think they’re going to come out really strong,” Neal said. “I think all teams come out strong against us and make really good plays. I think they’re a really good team, so it will be a fun game, and [it’s] always fun to play there.”

While the Longhorns ex-pect to get a challenge from Baylor, they are only focusing on making themselves better.

“We just want to focus on how we can improve and get better every day,” Neal said. “In practice, we need to go hard and not let up at all be-cause every game is going to be hard, and everyone is go-ing to come out and play well against us.”

The football team entered Manhattan, Kansas, last month in search of its first signature win under head coach Charlie Strong.

Many fans were excited about the prospects of an upset and the progression of the offense. But the crowd’s energy did not travel with the team or translate to the players on the field.

The Longhorns looked lethargic, particularly on offense, even though they only possessed the ball for one-third of the game. At the game’s conclusion, the team was left to pon-der how it would avoid a similar performance in the future.

“After that game, we kind of sat in that locker room, and I expressed my feelings to the team and to the se-niors,” Strong said. “It may have been the turning point for us because that was just one of those games where we kind of went out there with no emotion, no energy and just didn’t play well.”

The loss dropped the Longhorns to 3-5 and made the idea of going bowling seem impossible.

“We felt like we went out there and let ourselves

down and lost,” senior wide receiver John Harris said. “We wanted to get to a bowl game, and everybody go-ing in the media saying, ‘Hey, your season is pretty much over.’”

For all intents and pur-poses, many thought Tex-as’ season was over. The team would need to win three of its final four con-tests to extend its season into December.

“There was a time in the season when it seemed hope was lost from everyone on the outside,” senior line-backer Jordan Hicks said. “But, on the inside, every-body stayed focused.”

Over the past three weeks, the Longhorns have been able convert that fo-cus into winning results. After averaging just over 20 points per game in the first eight contests, the Long-horns scored 95 points over the course of the three-game winning streak. They surrendered only 12 points per game over that stretch,

after allowing, on average, over 24 points in the first eight games.

The elevated play can be partially attributed to the mentality of the players themselves.

“I felt we didn’t believe in ourselves at first,” junior defensive tackle Malcom Brown said. “Now that ev-erybody is believing and more confident in them-selves, we are gaining a lot of confidence.”

The Longhorns have shown themselves to pos-sess a certain type of tough-ness, which has been absent in Austin since 2009.

“We’ve been resilient all year,” senior cornerback Quandre Diggs said. “We could have easily packed it in three games ago and said we wasn’t going to fin-ish the season out. But these guys continued to fight, and this is a great opportu-nity to continue to build on something that will get us going in the right direction next year.”

Big 12 champ Texas aims to improve

Daulton Venglar | Daily Texan StaffJunior outside hitter/libero Amy Neal and Texas clinced their fourth consecutive Big 12 title Saturday, but they remain focused on continuing to improve before the NCAA Tournament.

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Shelby Tauber | Daily Texan StaffSenior linebacker Jordan Hicks and the Longhorns have won three consecutive games to improve to 6-5 on the year and become eligible for a bowl game.

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Mardy Chen had only been living in New York City for two years when the terrorist at-tacks on Sept. 11, 2001, rocked the nation. For many people, 9/11 was a frightening event. For Mardy, a UT alumna, it changed her entire career path.

“After graduation, I moved to New York because I’d always wanted to live and work there,” Mardy said. “I was living in the city when 9/11 happened, and it was a big eye-opener. I thought, ‘I need to get back home to my family.’ So I quit my job.”

Mardy, a Texas native, chose to attend UT because it was close to home. At the time, UT had the top accounting pro-gram in the nation, and, since she wanted to go into finance, she enrolled and graduated with business honors in 1999.

While in New York, Mardy met her husband, Jeff Chen, who was also working in fi-nance at the time. When the couple decided to move to Austin, his company was flex-ible enough to allow him to work from Texas. Shortly af-ter making the move, Mardy committed to a nine-week training session to become a yoga instructor. In 2003, she opened her first studio in Westlake, Pure Bikram Yoga, and fell even more in love with the practice.

“With yoga, it’s instant feed-back,” Mardy said. “You get to see someone come in for their first class and struggle a little. And, over time, they im-prove — they get the hang of it. I’m very fortunate [to] get to connect with people through yoga practice. It’s a very per-sonal thing, and to be a part of

people’s journeys is a huge gift.”Robin Hancock, a close

friend of Mardy, said Mardy wants to use yoga as a healing mechanism.

“She lives and breathes it,” Hancock said. “She knows how to lead you and guide you be-cause it’s a part of her.”

Over the last 10 years, Pure Bikram Yoga has expanded to more locations across Austin, and, in 2008, Jeff decided to

follow in his wife’s footsteps and quit his job to pursue yoga.

“[Mardy] and I were both into yoga,” Jeff said. “I’d al-ways wanted to go to a teach-er training, but I needed to find the [nine weeks] to go. It took me a while, but I finally went. It was the best thing I could have done, and I have never looked back.”

Now, Mardy and Jeff co-own Pure Bikram Yoga and

have started a nonprofit to-gether called PURE Action.

“The goal is to heal the world with yoga,” Mardy said. “We research the benefits of yoga to find the connec-tion between ancient yoga and modern medicine. The point of yoga isn’t to twist yourself into some crazy pos-ture. Each pose was actually created to heal some system in your body.”

In addition to conducting research, Mardy and Jeff also reach out to members of the local community, specifically those in some form of physical or mental rehabilitation.

“We go to centers where people have been abusive to their bodies in some way,” Mardy said. “Then we in-troduce them to something self-healing. I want people to live the life they envisioned

for themselves.”Jeff said Mardy’s compas-

sion makes her the best at what she does.

“You see people with all kinds of issues,” Jeff said. “There are so many things that can impact people, and she can relate to every type of per-son. She senses it. She knows it. She knows how to deal with people, and it’s always with compassion.”

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ALUMNI

Yogi applies business background to studio

Photo courtesy of Mardy ChenUT alumna Mardy Chen (middle), founder and co-owner of Pure Bikram Yoga, placed first in the Texas Yoga Asana Championships in Dallas on Nov 8.

CITY

WaffleFest to exhibit various Austin improv comedy groups

Stacks of fresh waffles, un-limited toppings and hours of comedy will take the cen-ter stage at The Hideout The-atre for this year’s WaffleFest improv festival.

The Hideout Theatre will host more than 25 improv troupes from every cor-ner of Austin at Wafflefest. The event will take place from Thursday through Saturday, and UT’s Gig-glepants Improv Com-edy Troupe will perform at the event.

Mathematics senior Nicholas Marino will per-form with Gigglepants at

WaffleFest for the third time. He said improv has gained popularity with the help of events such as WaffleFest.

“We have seen our audi-ence grow throughout the years,” Marino said. “This year we had over 100 people audition. You can definitely see how interest is growing.”

Marino said Gigglepants has 23 members, and it’s a fun challenge to perform with new members.

“We are never the same troupe; every year we change and grow. Its kind of a beauti-ful thing,” Marino said. “You can play off each other’s en-ergies in a very comfortable way, and that comes across

very well.” According to Marino,

many troupes at WaffleFest will perform long-form im-prov — performing one topic for a continuous amount of time. Gigglepants pre-fers short-form, using sug-gestions from the audience to conduct quick games, similar to “Whose Line is it Anyway?”

“It’s refreshing for them to see a different format and different styles of scenes,” Marino said. “We have things unique to us that I think peo-ple haven’t seen before.”

WaffleFest producer Paul Normandin said

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FASHION

Student uses fashion to raise money for worldwide causes

Chris Foxx Daily Texan StaffAnisha Srivastava, business and Plan II sophomore, launched her own philanthopy-based fashion website, Clothes for Causes, which seeks to empower customers to effect change.

Flowing maxi dresses, screen-printed shirts and delicate jewelry fill the pages of Clothing for Causes’ online catalog. The organization’s trendy website represents a pur-pose that goes beyond style. Through fashion, Clothes for Causes aims to create a positive impact on the world.

Anisha Srivastava, busi-ness and Plan II sopho-more, founded Clothes for Causes out of a desire to effect change through her interests in business and fashion.

Before moving to Tex-as, Srivastava lived in Thailand for five years and developed her inter-est in philanthropy work through her experiences in Thailand and summers spent in India.

“I enjoy working cre-atively with design-ers, photographers and models,” Srivastava said. “I love applying what I learn in class to proj-ects, and it is very ex-citing actually applying concepts and creating a business.

Clothes for Causes’ mission is to empower the younger generation

By Megan Kallus@megmayumi

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CAMPUS

Undergoing a 600-year od-yssey as rich as the content of the book itself, the “Sarajevo Haggadah”, a medieval illumi-nated manuscript and Jewish prayer book, has withstood near destruction at several points. A multimedia con-cert, “The Sarajevo Haggadah:

Music of the Book,” will take the stage Wednes-day and Thursday at the McCullough Theatre.

Merima Ključo, a Bosnian-born composer and internation-ally acclaimed concert accordi-onist, wrote the 12-movement composition for the concert af-ter reading “People of the Book” — a novel written by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Geraldine

Brooks. The Schusterman Cen-ter for Jewish Studies and Texas Performing Arts collaborated to present this performance, which also incorporates video art by Bart Woodstrup.

“Being inspired by this amazing book, I became obsessed with the idea of the project that would musically and visually follow the Hagga-dah’s journey,” Ključo said.

Ključo was raised in Saraje-vo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, while it was still a republic in the for-mer Yugoslavia, and also lived through part of the Balkan con-flicts of the 1990s before fleeing the country in 1993. Ključo had to leave her country because of violence caused by ethnic and cultural divisions.

“The ‘Sarajevo Haggadah’ reminds me of my own life

and the exodus I had to ex-perience,” Ključo said. “I was forced to leave my own coun-try, under the strangest and heaviest circumstances.”

Ključo views life’s challenges as inspiration for her develop-ment as a person and an artist.

“With every journey, I get a new scar — positive or negative — but I keep my dignity and get richer by travelling through

different circumstances and sharing culture with oth-ers through my music,” Ključo said.

Seth Knopp — Ključo’s friend, classical pianist and founding member of the Na-umburg Award-winning Pea-body Trio — is the pianist for the concert and helped write the composition.

Bosnian composer draws on medieval book’s journeyBy Bri Zamora@whateverwillbri

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