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The University Leader-ship Initiative held a rally Wednesday in front of the Martin Luther King Jr. stat-ue on the East Mall to show support for immigrants who have been deported.

Rally representatives said the ideals of the Civil Rights Summit do not align with current U.S. policy toward undocumented immigrants.

Students involved in the rally held a number of signs, one of which said “we have a dream 2,” and chained them-selves to the statue.

Rhetoric and writing sophomore Maria Reza said the group gathered because it believes the discussions at the summit need to better acknowledge the rights of undocumented immigrants.

“As we talk right now, fam-ilies are being separated — deportations are happening,”

Reza saidIn 2012, Immigration and

Customs Enforcement, the investigative arm of the U.S. Department of Homeland Se-curity commonly known as ICE, announced the U.S. had deported a total of 409,849 im-migrants — the largest num-ber in the agency’s history.

Engineering sophomore Juan Belman, who said his father is at risk of deportation, said Austin needs to show support for families who have

to deal with deportation.“If we are a progressive

community here in Austin, we need to show that,” Bel-man said. “We need to show Texas how to move forward.”

According to ICE, 2,614

Bill Russell and Jim Brown were already utiliz-ing their status as high pro-file athletes to strengthen the civil rights movement in their early 20s — the same age as many of today’s col-lege students.

At the Civil Rights Sum-mit on Wednesday, Russell, Brown and Harry Edwards, sociology professor emeri-tus at the University of Cali-fornia, Berkeley, noted that the two athletes’ opportu-nity to contribute to the movement at such a young age came as a result of their strong upbringings.

“I was very fortunate to have a great mother, a great coach, Ed Walsh, and a great mentor, Kenny Molloy,” Brown said. “They were im-peccable from the standpoint of advocating education and self-determination. Because I was helped at a young age, I knew my life’s work would be to help others.”

The two influential Af-rican-American athletes continually cited parental leadership throughout their

childhood as the source of their confidence and desire to advocate change.

“The first thing I knew about life was my mother and father loved me,” Rus-sell said. “My mother, in her first conversation with me, said, ‘There’s nobody on this planet better than you. Also, there’s nobody that you’re

better than them.’”Brown, a three-time

NFL MVP, said there had never been a time in his life when he was unaware of the civil rights move-ment. He said he has long supported the notion that the key to the movement’s success was economic de-velopment in the African-

American community.“I was always a person

that advocated econom-ic development because America is a capitalist soci-ety,” Brown said. “That was the way I felt we could gain equality quicker than doing anything else.”

Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and former President Lyndon B. Johnson had an amicable relationship, even as King and others pressured Johnson to introduce new civil rights leg-islation, according to Andrew Young, former United Na-tions ambassador.

The second day of the Civil Rights Summit began with the “LBJ and MLK: Fulfilling a Promise, Realizing a Dream”

panel, a discussion that featured Young, as well as LBJ’s special assistant Joseph Califano Jr. and historians Taylor Branch and Doris Kearns Goodwin.

“[Johnson originally] said,

On May 4, 1961, a few months before President Barack Obama was born, John Lewis and the rest of Freedom Riders were pre-pared to die as they rode pub-lic buses through the deep South to protest segregation.

“Some of us signed notes and wills that, if it took our death — as Dr. King said — to redeem the soul of America, I think that some of us were prepared,” Lewis, who is now a Demo-cratic U.S. representative from Georgia, said at a Civil Rights Summit panel on Wednesday. “I thought I was going to die on that bridge [during the march from Selma to Montgomery, Ala., in 1965]. I thought I saw death, but I was not afraid.”

Former President Bill Clin-ton emphasized the issue of voter ID laws during his speech Wednesday at the Civil Rights Summit, saying they disenfran-chise voters and do not align with the goals of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Clinton also said students should be able to use their student IDs to vote.

“Here in Texas, the con-cealed carry permit counts, but there’s one photo ID that doesn’t count: one from a Texas institution of higher education,” Clinton said at the Lady Bird Johnson Auditorium. “This is a way of restricting the franchise after 50 years of expanding it.”

Clinton, who was the sec-ond president to appear at the summit after former President Jimmy Carter spoke on Tues-day evening, said the U.S.’s vot-ing laws impair some people’s

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CIVIL RIGHTS SUMMIT Civil rights icons relate dangers of social shifts

Shelby Tauber / Daily Texan StaffGuests of the Public Affairs Alliance for Communities of Color watch a live stream of former President Bill Clinton’s speech on Wednesday evening at a watch party at Scholz Garten.

Shelby Tauber / Daily Texan StaffFrom left: Jim Brown and Bill Russell, high profile athletes during the civil rights movement, spoke in a panel alongside Harry Edwards, sociology professor emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley, during the Civil Rights Summit on Wednesday afternoon.

Lauren Ussery / Daily Texan StaffJoseph Califano Jr., special assistant to former President Lyn-don Johnson, speaks at a panel at the Civil Rights Summit on Wednesday.

Lauren Ussery / Daily Texan StaffPatrick Frerro sits chained around a statue of Martin Luther King Jr. as part of a rally held by the University Leadership Initiative on Wednesday afternoon.

Clinton blasts ‘restrictive’ voter ID laws

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Most UT undergraduates are members of the technol-ogy-driven, plugged-in gen-eration of Millennials. But just 20 years ago, the Internet was still in its infancy.

On Aug. 29, 1994, The Daily Texan published a sto-ry detailing the exciting new features of the UTnet sys-tem, a network of more than 10,000 computers on cam-pus that allowed students to connect to the Internet, play games and join chat rooms.

Computers on campus were few and far between in 1994, and access to the Internet was even harder to come by. Some students had to stand in long lines just to

have access to a computer for even a short amount of time.

“When due dates rolled around people queued up for computers like camped-out wristband seekers,” the ar-ticle said.

The Texan reporter who wrote the article was excited and optimistic about the possibilities the new UTnet system offered students in terms of communication and accessibility.

“That’s all well and good, but what can you do with [a UTnet] account?” the article said. “The answer is: a heck of a lot. … Probably the most popular feature is e-mail, or electronic mail. It is just like sending a letter to someone via the Post Office, except it is much faster.”

In the age of Dropbox and Google Docs, when students can simultaneous-ly work on group projects,

chat with their group mem-bers and probably squeeze in a few social media up-dates along the way, today’s students might wonder in amusement at the idea that email — something that is seemingly vital to the daily functions of a college student — was a relatively unexplored frontier at UT in 1994.

The article encouraged students to get out and take

advantage of UT’s access to the Internet, despite any qualms they might have had concerning the new medium.

“The Internet is a tremen-dous resource,” the article said. “Don’t be afraid to ex-plore and ask questions. … The technical lingo can be daunting, but also can be overcome. Don’t let this, like so many other opportunities you will have at the Univer-sity, pass you by.”

Indeed, the Internet, and especially the advent of Google, has tremendously changed the way college students interact, work and research. The phrase, “Just Google it,” has become com-monplace, pound signs have been replaced with hashtags and the word “selfie” has become so prominent that it earned itself a spot in the Oxford English Dictionary.

Although students could use the UTnet system from their dorms or off-campus housing, it was hardly as accessible as the Univer-sity’s Wi-Fi system is now. They also didn’t have Apple MacBooks to tote around campus and shove into their backpacks at will. A picture that ran beside the article was captioned, “Dinosaurs like these [computers] were still used by certain Univer-sity departments up until recently. The University is steadily replacing these arti-facts with newer machines.” A picture below the picture of the old computers show-cased the new computers, which would be considered well past dinosaur status and well on their way into fossil territory in 2014.

Twenty years ago, comput-ers on campus were in such high demand that upper-classmen resorted to pranks to keep others from trying to use the computers.

“Legend has it that in the early days of the Computa-tion Center, some hooligan played off technological fears by placing a sign in the ground above the build-ing saying, ‘Danger! 10,000 ohms,’” the article said. “This was a source of great amuse-ment to the physics-literate.”

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Obama also offered words of support for the soldiers’ families.

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‘I just don’t have the power,’” Young, who also served as a congressman and mayor of Atlanta, said. “I thought it was arrogant for him to say that … [but] we went to Sel-ma on the second of January, and by the end of March the president had all the power he needed to get the Civil Rights Act introduced.”

Young said both Johnson and King were adept poli-ticians, and he overheard phone calls between the two men that suggested they had a close relationship.

“I heard them on the phone talking like brothers, like pas-tor and member,” Young said.

According to Branch, people have disagreed about what Johnson’s views about race were — whether he

changed his views over time, or if he consistently sup-ported the enfranchisement of African-Americans.

“I think Johnson had an empathy his whole lifetime,” Branch said. “I think those were his sincere views, and my guess is that they were formed long before it was popular to believe they were there.”

Goodwin said although she knew Johnson only during the last few years of his life, it was clear he was proud of passing civil rights legislation in 1964 and 1965.

“There was no question in the time I spent with him … he was proudest of the Civil Rights Act than anything he had ever done,” Goodwin said.

Branch said Johnson had several advantages that Pres-ident Barack Obama does not, including an Ameri-can public that possessed a

patriotic sense of sacrifice and an optimistic attitude following World War II.

“To change the mood of the country from cynicism to op-timism is not something that is wholly in the purview of the presidency,” Branch said.

Young said he thinks is-sues should not be consid-ered on the basis of race.

“Looking back to every-thing I did to help people helped black and white people together,” Young said. “We’ve got to de-racialize these issues to get people to look at them a bit more objectively.”

Young said he thinks poor people of all ethnicities still struggle economically.

“We really still have to have a way to make democracy and free enterprise work for poor people of all dollars,” Young said. “We’ve come a long way. We’ve got a long way to go.”

Russell, who won 11 championships in 13 NBA seasons, talked about his decision to take over as coach of the Boston Celtics and the historical significance of that choice.

Russell, who was still a player at the time, became the first black coach in major American professional sports when he was hired in 1966.

“If Red [Auerbach] had ever said to me that [me be-ing coach] was a great social experiment, I would have had nothing to do with it,” Russell said. “The only reason that I would [take over as coach] is because I’m convinced that I’m the best person for the job.”

Edwards asked for Russell and Brown’s thoughts on two of the most controversial top-ics in sports today: unioniza-tion of college athletes and the acceptance of gay athletes.

Both took a strong stance against the NCAA as a gov-erning body for collegiate athletics but also suggested that unionization is not the best solution.

“I don’t like the NCAA,” Brown said. “I think it’s an organization that’s totally unfair to the players. But, I’m totally against a union in col-lege. I’m an advocate of going back to four years of college. Lets have the NCAA support these students so they can have a decent life while they get a great education.”

Russell said the issues faced by gay athletes today are simi-lar to what he and Brown ex-perienced in previous decades.

“A lot of questions they ask today about gay athletes are the same questions they used to ask about us black athletes,” Russell said.

people were deported from Travis County jails in 2012, which is roughly 19 per week, as reported by the Aus-tin American-Statesman. ICE also reported that 85 percent of the non-criminal deportations in 2013 were individuals attempting to enter the U.S. unlawfully.

Approximately 40 people attended the rally, and the group led a series of chants,

such as “we have nothing to lose but our chains,” and “it is our duty to fight for our free-dom.” Members of the organi-zation also read Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech aloud. Three UTPD of-ficers were also present.

The Travis County Demo-cratic Party supported the Uni-versity Leadership Initiative’s event and are in the process of passing a resolution opposing Travis County’s cooperation with the Secure Communities program, which is designed

to identify undocumented immigrants in American jails that are subject to deportation.

The party’s communica-tion director Joe Deshotel said his organization fully supports the families of de-ported immigrants.

“We are particularly con-cerned about those families that are being torn apart and the children of undocu-mented immigrants who live in fear of racial profiling and their parents’ deporta-tion,” Deshotel said.

abilities to vote.“Anytime you erect a barrier

to political participation that disenfranchises people based on their income or race, it un-dermines the spirit of the Civil Rights Act,” Clinton said.

Clinton emphasized the importance of the civil rights movement in the election of the last three Democrats to win the presidency.

"We’re here because the Civil Rights Act and the Vot-ing Rights Act made it pos-sible for Jimmy Carter, Barack Obama and I to become president of the United States,” Clinton said.

The Civil Rights Act out-lawed discrimination in pub-lic places based on race, color, religion, sex or national origin, while the Voting Rights Act extended federal oversight of elections to prevent discrimi-nation in voting. President Lyndon B. Johnson lobbied for and signed both landmark pieces of legislation.

Student Government Presi-dent Kori Rady said the elimi-nation of obstacles such as Texas’ current voter ID restric-tions is crucial to increasing voter turnout on campus.

“We can get the ball rolling and get this conversa-tion started, and having a for-mer president of the United States start the conversation definitely helps,” Rady said.

Clinton demonstrated commitment to civil rights in multiple areas during his presidency, according to Greg-ory Vincent, vice president for the Division of Diversity and Community Engagement.

“He made a very conscien-tious effort to have his cabinet reflect the diversity of Ameri-ca,” Vincent said.

Law assistant professor Cary Franklin said Clinton’s legacy is tainted by the De-fense of Marriage Act, which

he signed in 1996.“I don’t think the marriage

equality story is a very happy one from Clinton’s presiden-cy,” Franklin said. “He wasn’t enthusiastic about signing that bill. ”

Clinton said in order to progress civil rights, people should focus less on their ra-cial and gender differences.

“We are genetically 99.5 percent the same,” Clinton said. “Why are we risking the future of this great experiment, the wide horizons that Lyndon Johnson and his colleagues open to us, by spending 99 and a half percent of our time on that half percent of ourselves that is different?”

Lewis, former NAACP chairman Julian Bond and Andrew Young, former U.S. congressman and U.N. am-bassador, reminisced about their experiences in the movement and discussed is-sues not often addressed in the movement’s history, in-cluding the gender discrimi-nation that persisted within civil rights groups.

Bond said even though the Student Nonviolent Co-ordinating Committee had more gender equality than other civil rights organiza-tions, there was still conflict between men and women.

“There were enormous ten-sions over the role each would play,” Bond said. “Had it not been for women, there would not have been a movement.”

Young said despite women playing a key role in advanc-ing the movement, gender discrimination persisted.

“The sin of the movement to me was that [civil rights and women’s rights activ-ist] Dorothy Height didn’t get to speak at the March on

Washington,” Young said.Lewis said people who

participated in sit-ins and marches were often pre-dominantly women, and he thinks male chauvinism was a contributing factor.

“There were men who said they couldn’t be nonviolent,” Lewis said. “You can be non-violent. You can stand in line and keep the peace.”

Bond said he avoided tak-ing an official position on same-sex marriage while he was NAACP chairman be-cause he did not think the or-ganization would support it.

“One day after I was not chairman anymore … some-body sat down there and said, ‘I move that we sup-port same-sex marriage,’” Bond said. “I’m thinking no, no, no, this is not the time.”

Bond, who said he personal-ly supports same-sex marriage, said he was surprised when 60 out of 64 NAACP board members voted to support same-sex marriage in 2012.

Lewis said there is still a lot of work to do, and encour-aged younger generations to increase their civic and politi-cal participation to advance

civil rights, especially regard-ing immigration policy.

“We need to set people on the path to citizenship,” Lewis said. “I don’t accept this idea that individuals are illegal. There’s no such thing as an illegal human being.”

Young said younger gen-erations play a key role in creating a truly multicul-tural and multiracial demo-cratic society.

“We’ve got to mobilize and organize,” Young said. “There are still forces in America that want to make it harder for people to participate.”

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A lot of the questions they ask today about gay athletes are the same questions they used to ask about us black athletes.

—Bill Russell, NBA hall of famer

Shelby TauberDaily Texan Staff

Former NAACP chairman Julian Bond speaks at a panel during the Civil Rights Sum-mit on Wednes-day afternoon.

Jack Plunkett / Associated PressFormer President Bill Clinton speaks during the Civil Rights Summit on Wednesday.

On Wednesday, in an address given at the Civil Rights Summit, UT President Wil-liam Powers Jr. spoke about the University’s great strides in advancing civil rights over its history. In the same speech, Powers ac-knowledged that the University has his-torically tended toward discrimination and segregation, most notably in its resistance to integration in the 1950s. He also pointed to the University’s present-day holistic review admissions process as an attempt to address racial inequality.

“We take ethnicity into account [in the ho-listic admissions process] as one of many fac-tors in a holistic review of the students who are not automatically admitted under the top 10 — now seven — percent rule,” Powers said. “Not being able to do that would be a real setback to diversity, not just on our cam-pus, but on campuses across the country.”

In mentioning the possibility that UT may not be able to take race into account during the admissions process, Powers was referenc-ing the Fisher v. UT case, which reached the Supreme Court in October 2012. The case pitted a white woman denied admission to UT in 2008 against the University and its consideration of race in the admissions pro-cess. Though the case was knocked back to the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals without

the court changing UT’s admissions policy, it raised the possibility of the Supreme Court striking down race-based admissions policies in the future. But though Powers has spoken out about the importance of affirmative ac-tion in creating a diverse college campus, stu-dents should remember that diversity at UT does not benefit substantially from the Uni-versity’s current holistic admissions process.

Today, UT’s holistic admissions policy fa-vors white applicants. From 2007 to 2011, the UT Office of Admissions reported that the process admitted a proportionally smaller percentage of African-American and La-tino students than automatic admission did. While black students made up 6 percent of those admitted automatically in 2010, black students only comprised 5 percent of those admitted through the holistic review process. Similarly, Hispanic students made up 28 per-cent of automatic admits in 2010, but only 12 percent of those admitted through holistic review.

For those who question the value of admit-ting more minority applicants to the Uni-versity, the disturbingly low numbers above should illustrate the lack of diversity on the UT campus. But ultimately, while it’s cer-tainly a good thing that Powers has his eye on the problems affecting minority students on

campus, his singular focus on holistic review as a means for increasing diversity on campus should be reevaluated. There are so many is-sues affecting students on our campus — for example, the importance of the DREAM Act, the availability of financial aid and the preva-

lence of sexual assault on college campuses. A single-minded focus on holistic review, especially given that the process fails to ad-mit as many minority students as the Top 10 Percent Law, is simply not productive in the push for greater diversity on campus.

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When it was first announced that four of the five living presidents would be coming to UT, the campus was electrified. We were on the brink of a historical landmark, and students would get to see it play out firsthand. The Civil Rights Summit would present students the op-portunity to re-examine what the American promise “all men are created equal” means in present day. What they soon discovered, how-ever, was that not all students are created equal when it comes to getting a seat in the audience.

Of the limited seats available in the audience, an undisclosed number were first allocated to-ward guests of the presidents and panelists. Stu-dent access was limited from the start. Students were told that the online live streams would make up for the lack of available tickets.

“A president says, ‘I’d like this many guests to come,’ and he gets to do that because he [is or was] the president,” LBJ Library spokeswoman Anne Wheeler said. “Then, we have approxi-mately 60 panelists that have spouses and fami-lies that want to attend too, and that varies from program to program.”

There will always be priority seats for events of this nature. The better question, then, would be why the summit is taking place in the Lady Bird Johnson Auditorium, which seats only 967 patrons.

After family, VIP guests, security and me-dia eat up another roughly 200 spots per event. Then, an additional 340 tickets were given to faculty, community leaders and guests.

According to UT officials and the LBJ Li-brary, out of the 1,400 tickets left for students, 435 were distributed via a lottery exclusive to the LBJ School of Public Affairs. This left only 875 tickets for the Office of the Dean of Stu-dents for distribution to the general student body. But before they threw all 875 tickets in the lottery, the office reserved eight of the 75 tickets to President Barack Obama’s address for incoming and outgoing presidents of Student Government, the Senate of College Councils and the Graduate Student Assembly and mem-bers of Texas Student Media, the Texas Unions board and the Campus Events + Entertainment board. Another 10 tickets out of 100 for former President Bill Clinton’s address were also put aside for student leaders in organizations re-lated to student affairs, such as advisory coun-cils for RecSports, University Health Services, University Residence Halls and the Gender and Sexuality Center.

Additionally, tickets were given to other of-fices besides the Office of the Dean of Students and were distributed to exclusive groups. The six Larry Temple scholars were offered tickets to every single one of the events — including all presidential addresses except the one by former President George W. Bush. Select Terry Foundation scholars were also offered tickets. Eighty students involved in the Texas Program in Sports and Media also snagged tickets. It is

unclear how many other prestigious student groups got their hands on tickets.

The remaining spots — likely less than 800 — were all thrown in six different lotteries, where 9,035 hopeful students vied for the opportunity to attend an event. That means that, at best, less than 9 percent of interested students were able to attend after all the VIP student invitations.

And adding insult to injury, not all of those 9 percent attended the afternoon panels on Tues-day. As Madlin Mekelburg reported in the Daily Texan on Wednesday, low attendance left many seats empty, seats that could have been occu-pied by students who were denied tickets in the initial lottery. The University did, however, decide to offer “standby” lines for the afternoon panel discussions on Wednesday and Thursday.

Given all the limitations on student atten-dance, it’s worth asking why the University decided to hold the event in the Auditorium to begin with.

“First, this is Lyndon Johnson’s presidential library, and it’s the 50th anniversary of the 1964 Civil Rights Act,” Wheeler said. “His last public appearance was in this auditorium, during the civil rights symposium.”

Additionally, Wheeler explained that another reason behind the venue was its proximity to the Cornerstone of Civil Rights exhibit, where four key civil rights documents are located, includ-ing a signed copy of the Emancipation Procla-mation, the Senate resolution where President Abraham Lincoln proposed the 13th Amend-ment, the signed Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the signed Voting Rights Act of 1965.

While I can personally appreciate the his-torical weight of the auditorium and library, I don’t think it quite justifies hosting all but one of the events in a venue that leaves so many stu-dents excluded from such a landmark occasion. There are many students desperate to attend the presidential addresses, and I can’t help but think that moving those events to venues like the Frank Erwin Center, where the capacity would increase more than sixteen-fold, from 967 to 16,734, would obviously greatly increase attendance and make the event much more eq-uitable.

What this venue choice tells us is that the summit isn’t really for the student body at large. Choosing the auditorium over a larger, more general venue is perhaps symbolic of the inten-tion behind the summit — hosting only the few most distinguished students and guests in one of the most distinguished settings on campus.

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After a slew of controversies over university research, UT has doubled down on attempting to define and control the line between where a professor’s job ends and their private activities begin. Two policies in particular have drawn pointed critiques from UT faculty: The “UT 180 Conflict of Commitment” policy, which requires professors to disclose and seek ap-proval for outside activities that might affect their ability to do objective research, and the HOP 7-1210 Financial Conflict of Interest pol-icy, which requires an extra set of financial dis-closure forms for professors who may be con-ducting research on behalf of companies they work for, or other organizations that could present the appearance of impropriety. Both of these policies had a deadline of March 31.

Here’s the problem: More forms and mod-ules probably won’t address the conflicts of interest and might, instead, lead to unneces-sary bitterness.

The principle behind the first policy — to protect the University’s reputation and monitor what its employees are doing — seems admi-rable. After all, UT’s reputation doesn’t end at the 40 Acres, or in academic conference halls. It continues in political and personal activi-ties in the public square, where an individual professor’s position carries weight. The second policy attempts to clamp down on potential quid pro quos in areas such as engineering, ge-ology and sociology, where professors’ expert opinions are called upon by outside groups to settle public debates with potentially lucrative deals on the side for their testimony or reports.

Although these policies have a basis in real concerns, they risk becoming just another paperwork burden for professors who don’t engage in activist and consulting work, a danger to those who do so ethically, and meaningless to those who don’t care as much about the University as they do their own pocket books. While these forms will allow for greater transparency regarding consult-ing work, the policies also risk exposing fac-ulty to unnecessary intrusion into their per-sonal lives by University officials. The forms further blur the line between public and pri-vate in an age where every piece of public in-formation is searchable, and most University records are subject to public records requests — even a professor’s email account.

When the regulations on financial con-

flicts of interest were first announced last year, some faculty bridled at what they saw as overreach. As KUT reported in January 2013, some professors believed that the regulations missed the point, broadly targeting cases that had little to do with conflict of interest.

Jon Olson, an associate professor of petro-leum and geosystems engineering, told KUT he would have to fill out forms because he was con-ducting a project for a company he owned stock in. He argued that this was an administrative burden because he was not evaluating any of the company’s own property. Government profes-sor Daron Shaw said in that story that private family financial information could be exposed through open records requests because of the new policy.

Brian Evans, electrical and computer engi-neering professor, also sharply criticized the UT 180 policy last May; both Evans and the Faculty Council said the regulations stymie legitimate political activities. In a follow-up summary last semester, Evans gave several examples of activi-ties now subject to University approval, such as innocuous volunteer work for nonprofits and participation in organizations such as unions and the National Rifle Association.

These professors have a point. Leaving the protection of private information to redactors, who many times fail to shield sensitive infor-mation from disclosure, increases the chance of identity theft and of further harassment of public figures. For examples of redacting fail-ures, one need only look at the accidental FER-PA-protected records released in the case of UT System Regent Wallace Hall, who, accord-ing to a recent investigation, “manipulated” his role as a regent to push through an inquiry into UT President William Powers Jr., including his burdensome requests for information. On that note, I agree that these policies risk hampering engagement with the public sphere. However, greater self-reflection by faculty could lead to less draconian legislation in the future. Un-scrupulous professors are not stopped by pa-perwork but by the vigilance of their peers.

Overall, these regulations seem like win-dow dressing. UT never lacked regulation but, rather, the political will to enforce the common sense policies we already had on the books. Whether this is due to conflict with the UT regents or just plain slothful-ness, I’m skeptical UT will enforce these policies more vigorously and fairly than the previous ones. The administration’s focus on profits and business partnerships to fill their coffers in an age of austerity even seems to encourage financial conflicts, and the Tower only seems to move when a scandal actually breaks at its doorstep. But, even then, the Tower’s first reaction seems to be to wash its hands of any responsibility, to encourage ev-eryone to take side deals and to hope a new set of rules would scare would-be wrong do-ers. Such hope is naive. Without breaking our addiction to the language of business over learning, and without a sense of shared stewardship and ethical self-policing from the departments themselves, these policies will be as ineffective as the ones we already have.

Knoll is a first-year graduate student in Latin American studies from Dallas.

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Jonathan Garza / Daily Texan StaffPresident William Powers Jr. speaks at the Civil Rights Summit on Wednesday.

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UT never lacked regulation, but, rather, the political will to enforce the common sense policies we already had on the books.

[The summit] would present stu-dents the opportunity to re-exam-ine the American promise “all men are created equal.” What they soon discovered, however, was that not all students are created equal when it comes to getting a seat in the audience.

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Local human rights activ-ist Luz Guerra said increased awareness has not translated into decreased instances of sexual violence at the 13th annual Take Back the Night event on the South Mall on Wednesday.

“There is now more infor-mation, there are places to go for support, there is more openness and talking about it,” said Guerra, the event’s keynote speaker. “But we still have not brought down the amount of sexual assault that occurs in our society.”

According to a 2012 study by the Centers for Disease Control and Pre-vention, 19 percent of fe-male undergraduate college students admitted experi-encing attempted or com-pleted sexual assault since entering college.

Guerra said she believes the existence alone of out-reach programs such as Voic-es Against Violence, which hosted the event, shows the change that has occurred in the past 30 years.

“In 1973, there was no gender sexuality center, no LGBT support system — not even a women’s studies

program,” Guerra said. “Those institutions exist be-cause people fought to have them instituted and funded.”

Guerra said she believes students have the power to change attitudes toward sex-ual violence on campus.

“The only way we can change the world and this campus is coming together and telling the truth about the stories of sexual violence in this world,” Guerra said.

Erin Burrows, prevention and outreach specialist for Voices Against Violence, said she hopes the event empow-ers people to stand up against sexual violence.

“We all have the power to address an issue that can sometimes feel overwhelm-ing,” Burrows said. “It re-ally starts with looking at our own behavior and how we hold ourselves account-able to practicing consent in every interaction that we have.”

Sydney Wilkins, a Voices

Against Violence volunteer, said Take Back the Night provides the opportunity to hear from survivors of sexual violence.

“The best part of Take Back the Night is that it em-powers survivors to speak about their own experi-ences,” Wilkins said. “You’re hearing how people really

feel, not other people’s bias coming into the story.”

Guerra said change is needed to make sexual vio-lence less of a threat.

“Sexual assault happens, and you have a right to not be afraid when you walk down the street at night,” Guer-ra said. “So let’s take back the night.”

UT President William Pow-ers Jr. said although the Uni-versity has made great strides in advancing civil rights, his-torically, UT has been on the “wrong side” of the argument.

“The University of Texas has had a special role in the history of civil rights — first, of course, on the wrong side of those is-sues as a segregated school and in Sweatt v. Painter, on the wrong side of that case,” Powers said in an address at the Civil Rights Summit on Wednesday.

Powers said today, UT

continues to emphasize di-versity and equality, despite its history.

“We’re thrilled to host this summit because diversity and civil rights embody our cam-pus values — a campus where students learn in a diverse atmosphere, learning how to work and live in a diverse world,” Powers said. “One of LBJ’s greatest legacies was civ-il rights and diversity, and we honor that not just this week, but on our campus every day.”

Powers touched on the ongoing Supreme Court case Fisher v. University of Texas, which deals with UT’s

affirmative action admissions policy and the role of race in the admissions process. Pow-ers said he strongly believes universities should be able to follow race-conscious admissions policies.

“We take ethnicity into ac-count as one of many factors in a holistic review of the stu-dents who are not automati-cally admitted under the top 10, now seven, percent rule,” Powers said. “Not being able to do that would be a real setback to diversity, not just on our campus, but on cam-puses across the country.”

Powers said the summit

allows UT students to hear a firsthand account of history.

“There is a difference be-tween reading about some-thing in the history books and listening, yesterday, to Presi-dent Carter talking about his growing up in a very segregat-ed South,” Powers said. “Part of moving civil rights forward is having the next generation of leaders understand where we all have come from.”

Rhetoric and writing sophomore Maria Reza par-ticipated Wednesday in a protest in support of im-migrants who have been deported and their families.

Reza said she believes the University could do more to support student immigrants.

“Last semester, we had to fight a lot for a simple reso-lution from Student Govern-ment about undocumented students,” Reza said. “You can argue that the University does a lot for diversity, but you still have to fight a lot to actually see it.”

Powers also briefly ad-dressed the controversy surrounding UT System Regent Wallace Hall, who is under investigation by the House Committee on Transparency in State

Agency Operations for po-tentially overstepping his role as a regent, including targeting Powers. A report of the investigation, writ-ten by Rusty Hardin, special counsel to the committee, suggests Hall likely commit-ted impeachable offenses. Powers said he has not read the entirety of the report and declined to comment on its content.

“I think I’ll leave it to [the committee] on how to evalu-ate the report,” Powers said. “This has been a difficult time, and it has diverted the campus from a lot of important work.”

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1947Jackie Robinson becomes the first black player in major league baseball when he is picked up by the Dodgers.

Gordon becomes first openly gay DI player

Derrick Gordon, a soph-omore starting guard for the University of Massa-chusetts Amherst, became the first openly gay player in Division I men’s college basketball after opening up to ESPN.

The 22-year-old told his family, coaches and team-mates at the beginning of April after the Minutemen were ousted by Tennessee in their first game of the NCAA Tournament.

“I just didn’t want to hide anymore, in any way,” Gordon told ESPN. “I didn’t want to have to lie or sneak. I’ve been waiting and watching for the last few months, wondering when a Division I player would come out, and finally I just said, ‘Why not me?’”

Gordon, who transferred to UMass from Western Kentucky, averaged 9.4 points per game, starting in all 33 contests.

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There are few things more exciting than watching David Barrett’s rendition of “One Shining Moment” each April. It’s a moment many fans miss if they dare switch off the tele-vision before postgame festivi-ties conclude — or if they don’t watch the title game at all. But the montage of sparkling cheerleaders, slam-dunking NBA prospects, devastated fans whose teams just suf-fered an upset and a remain-ing myriad of emotions truly encapsulate what the NCAA Tournament is all about.

Because come March, all expectations fade. The top seeds hold a tenuous advan-tage beyond maybe the first round. Upsets pile on upsets. The Big Dance doesn’t favor the most glamorous slippers — it’s made for those who clean the floor, able to work its magic on a hot streak.

So what prevented Texas from making a run to Arlington?

For one, the Longhorns peaked early and faded late. A January mid-conference explosion did wonders for their ranking. Texas jumped from 25th to top-15 just by shutting out Kansas’ fresh-man guard Andrew Wiggins — who didn’t fare any better in the tournament than the Longhorns did. They used their youth as an excuse for not knowing how to lose. But after winning nine of 10 games in the midst of their rise, the Longhorns dropped five of their last eight entering the tournament, including getting run over by Baylor in the Big 12 Tournament.

Once in the tournament, Texas did exactly as was ex-pected of a team that stag-nated in the lower half of the Big 12 last year, missing the madness altogether and put-ting head coach Rick Barnes’ job security in question. The Longhorns won the game they should have and were silenced by powerhouse Michigan.

But come next year, Texas can do more. With all five

starters returning and increased experience, Texas seems posed to be nothing but bigger and better for next season. The team might not be a top-five seed next year, but does seeding really matter?

With No. 7 Connecticut top-ping No. 8 Kentucky on Mon-day, it’s clear that seeding only dictates so much. The seed-ing process is well-analyzed, methodical and relatively fair — just don’t ask SMU or Min-nesota. Both the Wildcats and the Huskies started the season strong, and both dropped just enough games to be underesti-mated in postseason play.

But Texas must not only aim to improve from this year. In the regular season, the Longhorns proved respect-able. They didn’t lose that in the tournament. But it takes more than fundamentals to be a national title contender. It takes a springtime hot-streak, bursts of energy, the mentality that anything can happen and a bit of magic.

UConn’s road to the cham-pionship wasn’t smooth. Every

tournament game but one was double digits. The Hus-kies even needed overtime to best 10th-seeded St. Jo-seph’s in the round of 64. Had Hawks senior guard Langston Galloway hit his jumper with five seconds left, the 2014 na-tional champions would have been knocked out by a rela-tively unknown team.

Texas’ first matchup didn’t play out too differently, except

that sophomore center Cam-eron Ridley made the winning buzzer-beater against Arizona State. For a night, the Huskies and Longhorns were dancing to the same beat. Both were No. 7 seeds, elated just to be able to play another day.

So next year, the Long-horns need to take that momentum a little further. It’s time for Texas’ “One Shining Moment.”

WASHINGTON — North-western University is asking the National Labor Relations Board to overturn a region-al director’s ruling that the school’s football players are employees under federal law and thus entitled to unionize.

The university filed a formal appeal to the board Wednesday.

Northwestern said it had presented “overwhelming evi-dence” that its athletic program “is fully integrated with its

academic mission, and that it treats its athletes as students first.”

The players are set to vote by secret ballot April 25 on whether to form a union.

Former Northwestern quarterback Kain Colter and Ramogi Huma of the Col-lege Athletes Players Associa-tion met in Washington with members of Congress earlier this month to press their case for unionization.

—Associated Press

By Jori EpsteinDaily Texan Columnist

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After three torn tendons ended the first half of his ju-nior season six months ago, Kramer Hickock is back and looking better than ever.

During his summer of ama-teur golf in 2013, Hickock began to feel a slight pain in his right wrist. In a dis-play of toughness, Hickock played through the pain un-til it became too much to struggle through.

Hickock would eventually find out that he had torn three tendons in his right wrist, ar-guably the most important joint in a golfer’s swing.

“I was playing so well I didn’t want to even think about there being an injury,” Hickock said. “In hindsight, I guess I should’ve slowed things down after feeling that little tweak.”

John Fields, who has coached the Longhorn men’s golf team since 1997, was also hoping that Hickock’s wrist pain was only superficial.

“Kramer has the tendency to work extremely hard,” Fields said. “So, at that point, I was just hoping that it was overuse, that it was something that he could take some time off and just be fine.”

Hickock did take the neces-sary time off in order for the wrist to heal properly, under-going doctor visits and a blood-spinning procedure meant to increase the amount of platelets the blood can contain.

Fields, who has led Texas

to three top-five finishes at the NCAA Championships and five top-10 appearances in the final national rankings, noticed how much his team struggled without Hickock on the course.

“It’s just harder on every-body,” Fields said. “You have expectations and desires that are difficult to fulfill when somebody as great as Kramer Hickock is out of your lineup.”

Hickock hit only low-im-pact putt and chip shots in the meantime, and by the time the hiatus was over, one of Texas’ most crucial players had missed nearly six months of golf.

But except for a taped-up wrist, most people would not know that.

Hickock has come back from the injury to set up a se-ries of impressive finishes in the Longhorns’ past five tour-naments, including three top-10 performances.

After only one tourna-ment back in action, Hickock carded a career-best tie for second place at the Bayou City Intercollegiate Championship in Humble, in late February. Hickock also finished tied for sixth at the Schenkel In-vitational in Statesboro, Ga., in mid-March.

Hickock’s most recent out-ing with the team, the 3M Au-gusta Invitational last week-end, yielded his third top-10 finish in the last five competi-tions, where he was part of a

three-man tie for eighth place.“He played great over the

summer and now in the spring he’s been playing great,” senior Toni Hakula said. “We knew we didn’t have the strongest fall and we knew once he got back he would be a solid part of the team.”

Hakula was a sophomore on the 2012 NCAA champi-onship team, and he knows what the stakes are at this point in the season.

“All the focus is on late May,” Hakula said. “Going to the na-tional championship, getting closer and closer, and I think everyone’s getting sharper.”

With Hickock back in the five-man competing squad, Texas has quickly built up

some momentum, racking up three top-five team finishes in its last five tournaments.

Hickock, Hakula and Fields all believe a national champi-onship run is in the cards for this season.

“I really think if we get a win in one of these next few tour-naments and get some mo-mentum going into the Big 12 Championship, Regionals and the NCAAs … we can defi-nitely win the national cham-pionship,” Hickock said.

Looking at the progress that the team has made so far, the future is promising for Texas. If Hickock stays healthy and the team can stay hot, anoth-er championship is certainly within reach.

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Lauren Victoria Burke / Associated PressFormer Northwestern quarterback Kain Colter (right) and Ramogi Huma, founder of Northwestern’s association, arrive at Capitol Hill on April 2.

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Junior Kramer Hickock had to battle back from three torn tendons. But after missing the first half of the year, Hickock is leading the Longhorns in a late surge.

Lauren Ussery / Daily Texan file photoSophomore forward Connor Lammert scores against TCU. Texas won seven-straight games and four against ranked teams at one point, a run that would be helpful before the tournament.

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Songwriting is personal, but it also has to be a conversation with people, according to UT alum Jeremy Burchard, who is one half of the two-member band Moonlight Social.

Burchard and fellow UT graduate Jennica Scott formed Moonlight Social in 2011 and recently re-leased their debut album, Heading South. Burchard and Scott perform at The Domain Lonestar Court on Thursday.

“Jeremy has this deep, booming male vocal, and Jennica is like the Texas country version of Christina Aguilera,” said Matt Noves-key, record producer at Orb Recording Studios.

Noveskey produced Heading South for the band and serves as a mentor for the duo.

“When I met them, they were trying to figure out their voices,” Noveskey said. “Now their work is stronger. They have figured out who they are.”

Scott and Burchard’s friend-ship was nurtured when they

both began playing with the Longhorn marching band in 2009. Burchard is also a for-mer associate editor of The Daily Texan.

“When you go into a band, they ask you to try a bunch of things, and you can play what you are the best at,” Scott said. “For me, it was a choice among French horn, percussion and trumpet, and I asked my mom, ‘What instrument will give me the most solos?’ She said trumpet, and I decided to play the trumpet.”

Scott, born in Illinois, moved around all over the country and eventually moved to Austin in 2008 to pursue a degree in so-ciology. Having been raised in a musical family, Scott loved singing and knew she would pursue a career in music. In her junior year, she joined Longhorn Singers.

“I never had a problem in getting up on stage in front of people,” Scott said. “Being in Longhorn Singers taught me about the fundamentals of singing. I also knew I was just singing as opposed to giving a performance, and that’s what Longhorn Singers

helped me with. It taught me about performance.”

While in college, Burchard and Scott began penning lyr-ics and playing covers and soon landed their first gig at New World Deli in December 2010.

“I was terrified,” Scott said. “I had written some of the songs, and Jeremy had writ-ten some. It’s a deeply emo-tional thing to write a song, and this was the first time I was sharing it with other people. I was afraid people wouldn’t like it.”

But the gig was a success, and that’s when Scott and Burchard decided that this was something they could do — that they could start their own band.

Their first song that they are both proud of, “Weight Off My Shoulders,” is included on Heading South.

“It’s about meeting some-one who always gets his way,” Scott said. “The idea of the song is [that] you are walk-ing away from that person. You are getting the weight off, knowing that you are better off without being involved with that person.”

For Scott, inspiration for songwriting has often stemmed from strong emotions and, at times, from anger. She said she can never really write happy songs. Love songs are harder to write.

“Love songs can be about something that you genuinely love or connect with, and I don’t think I’ve found that sub-ject matter,” Scott said.

In 2009, Burchard and Scott both joined GRAMMY U, a college program conceptual-ized by the Texas Chapter of

the Recording Academy to help college students get started in the music industry. Bur-chard served as the UT ambas-sador for GRAMMY U while Scott used the program to foster connections in the mu-sic business and participate in program events.

“It’s one of those things where college kids have no idea of all of the different possibili-ties in the music industry,” Bur-chard said. “And these really opened up for us.”

Starting June, Moonlight

Social begins the band’s first out-of-state tour in Wisconsin, where they will perform at the Country USA Music Festi-val, followed by performances in Indiana and Chicago, and later in October, they per-form in Toronto at the Indie Music Festival.

“Music can always get bet-ter,” Scott said. “You always have to grow by exposing yourself to all kinds of mu-sic and surrounding yourself with people who are better than you.”

With cameras and ques-tions on hand, public relations sophomore Crysta Hernandez and advertising freshman Amy Tingle are always ready to cap-ture snippets of the lives of peo-ple on campus. The duo shares these snapshots and conversa-tions with the public through Humans of UT.

Less than a month ago, Her-nandez and Tingle launched their page, Humans of UT, on Facebook. Since then, the page has reached more than 1,000 likes and continues to gain popularity daily. Like the original site, created by Bran-don Stanton, Humans of UT features photos of random peo-ple on campus and excerpts of conversations that Hernandez and Tingle have with them.

Humans of UT derives from Humans of New York, a popu-lar blog created by Stanton, a photographer, four years ago. He originally set out to docu-ment photos of 10,000 New Yorkers, but, along the way, he began collecting and telling their stories. His project turned from a simple blog to a New York Times best-selling book.

“Humans of UT is certainly not an original idea on our part,” Hernandez said. “We’re just taking [Stanton’s] idea and making it relevant to UT.”

A love for Humans of New York is a main reason that Tin-gle agreed to join Hernandez in this project.

“I think it’s a powerful idea to look at people and say, ‘You’re

special, we’re a part of this com-munity and there’s something similar about you and me, and I want to find out what that is,’” Tingle said.

Hernandez solidified her idea for Humans of UT when her creative problem solving-class required her to do a per-sonal project that involved developing and solving a prob-lem. She proposed that UT lacks a strong sense of commu-nity and, setting a goal of 200 likes, used Humans of UT as her solution.

“Amy is a freshman, and I’m a transfer student, so last semester we were both new to UT,” Hernandez said. “I’m re-ally happy to be here, but I felt lonely and awkward and want-ed some kind of connection.”

Hernandez contacted Tingle about her idea after meeting in a photography class. The two made extensive plans about how far their project would go. They hoped to talk to profes-sors for advice and attempted to contact Stanton, himself, but months passed, and nothing went as planned.

“Life got busy, and we said we’d meet in two weeks and then another week and then another until, finally, [Hernan-dez] said she was just going to put up the page and [that], if I could put up photos too, that would be great,” Tingle said.

The night Hernandez re-turned from spring break, she pinned posters promoting the page around campus kiosks. That Monday, she launched Humans of UT with a couple of photos, and by Tuesday night,

the page had hit 500 likes. Her-nandez and Tingle have made it a point not to widely share with others that they are the creators of Humans of UT. The gains in popularity have mainly come from people sharing the photos they appear in.

When looking for a sub-ject to photograph, the girls search for members of the campus community. Typically, they find students with a story to tell, but, on occasion, the people they photograph have

been alumni visiting campus or people on the Drag.

“The people we usually take pictures of seem pretty enthusi-astic,” Tingle said. “If they don’t know what Humans of New York is, I explain, and they seem pretty interested to be involved.”

In approaching people for photos, Hernandez and Tingle begin conversations with them and try asking questions simi-lar to those asked by Stanton.

“We’re working on it. We’re trying to make everything

have a really strong message that’s relevant to people of UT,” Hernandez said.

Hernandez and Tingle have high hopes for Humans of UT and plan to make it a long-term project. They want to branch out onto other social media outlets, create a website and get more people involved with their project.

“We just didn’t expect for it to take off so quickly,” Tingle said. “Other universities have had similar things happen

and they’ve fallen through the cracks.”

Their current struggle is figuring out how to stay rel-evant throughout the sum-mer. The duo hopes to stay true to their original message and keep Humans of UT un-til they graduate and can pass it on.

“Our mission statement is cheesy but true,” Hernandez said. “You pass by so many peo-ple everyday and don’t stop to think that they have a story, too.”

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