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CONTENTS
NEWSAdm. William McRaven and Richard Fisher among chancellor finalists, and APD starts car theft awareness campaign. PAGE 3President Barack Obama speaks on economic progress in Austin speech. PAGE 6
OPINIONStarbucks contributes to higher education privatization. PAGE 4College Republicans finance director says minimum wage should not be raised. PAGE 5
LIFE&ARTSHear from the first students to participate in UT’s PACE program. PAGE 13 Learn about the science of sunscreen use. PAGE 14
COVER PHOTO BY MENGWEN CAOPresident William Powers, Jr. embraces Martha Hilley, former Faculty Council chair, after the announcement that he will stay in his position until June 2, 2015 on Wednesday afternoon.
SPORTSAustin Aztex develop a strong base of local soccer fans as they prepare to make the jump to the USL. PAGE 12
COVER STORYWith President Powers’ end date set, the System and the University look to move forward. PAGE 8
ACTIVE AUSTINMondayPunk Rock Bastille Day: Celebrate the storming of the Bastille with French street food and punk music.
Restaurant Week Wrap Party: Enjoy a pig roast on East Fifth Street.
Damien Lemon: See the come-dian behind Guy Code, Hip Hop Squares and “Russel Simmons: The Ruckus” at Cap City Comedy Club at 8 p.m. Reserved seat-ing and general admission seating are available.
Pooch Parade: Parade through campus with your dog to cel-ebrate the open-ing of “In the Company of Cats and Dogs” at the Blanton Muse-um. The march starts at 10 a.m. with other events all day.
TuesdayCarl Russo: Carl Russo’s blog Mafia Exposed became a full bound book with “The Sicilian Mafia.” Meet the author and learn about popular Mafia hotspots at the Barnes and Noble in the Arboretum.
Barton Creek Live: Relax at the Omni Barton Creek Resort & Spa and listen to live music from Cory Morrow at the third Barton Creek Live show of the summer. Admission is only available to resort guests.
Gospel Brunch: Have a lazy Sunday with barbecue and gospel music at Stubb’s.
Cinema East: This summer film se-ries focuses on festival movies, like “Joy Kevin” starting at 9 p.m.
Sound&Cinema: Henry + The Invisibles set the stage, or the screen, for a showing of the 1982 classic, “E.T.” Phone home from the Long Center lawn starting at 7:30 p.m.
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Naval Adm. William McRaven and Richard Fish-er, president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, are among the finalists to for the UT Sys-tem chancellor position, a source close the UT Sys-tem told The Daily Texan on Sunday.
The news was first re-ported by Paul Burka of Texas Monthly on Friday. UT System spokeswom-an Karen Adler declined to comment.
In addition, The Dal-las Morning News reported
July 11 that Kyle Janek, state health and human services executive commissioner and reportedly Gov. Rick Perry’s choice for the position, is also a finalist.
McRaven is commander of U.S. Special Operations Command and is known for leading the mission that resulted in the death of Osama bin Laden. Before becoming a Navy SEAL, McRaven graduated from UT with a journalism de-gree in 1977.
In May, he delivered the commencement address at the University, sharing life lessons he learned from basic training.
“If you take some risks, step up when the times are toughest, face down the bullies, lift up the down-trodden and never, ever give up — if you do these things, then next genera-tion and the generations that follow will live in a world far better than the one we have today,” McRa-ven said.
A video of the speech on YouTube has received over 2 million views.
Fisher, who is not a UT graduate, became head of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dal-las in 2005.
In 1993, Fisher won the Democratic primary in
a special election to fill Lloyd Bentsen’s vacant Sen-ate seat. Fisher lost to Kay Bailey Hutchison, who was recently named Texas Exes president.
Fisher himself served in President Bill Clinton’s ad-ministration as deputy U.S. trade representative from 1997 to 2001. He serves on one of Harvard Univer-sity’s governing boards and has served on the board of directors of the UT In-vestment Management Company, better known as UTIMCO.
Outgoing Chancellor Francisco Cigarroa an-nounced his resignation
in February to return to practicing medicine at UT Health Science Center at San Antonio, launching a search for his replace-ment. Paul Foster, Board of Regents chairman, said
he hopes to find Cigarroa’s successor before the start of fall 2014 semester. At a re-gents meeting July 10, Fos-ter said several candidates have been interviewed for the position.
3JACOB KERR, NEWS EDITOR | @thedailytexanMonday, July 14, 2014
SYSTEM
CITY
By Jacob Kerr@jacobrkerr
By Mary Huber@marymhuber
The Austin Police Depart-ment Auto Theft Interdic-tion Project launched the “Watch Your Car” campaign this July to bring awareness to the heightened risk of car thefts and burglaries in the month of July.
APD Sgt. Robert Smith said he thinks the high July rate can be attributed to so many people traveling dur-ing summer months and leaving their cars unat-tended while on vacation. In Austin, 978 vehicles were burglarized and 165 stolen in July 2013. Twenty-four of the burglaries and thefts oc-cured in West Campus.
In the past 30 days, 43 ve-hicles were burgalarized in the West Campus and North
Campus areas, according to the APD crime search web-site. West Campus and North Campus were the hardest hit in the area, according to the Central Austin Community Development Corporation.
Smith also said 50 percent of break-ins occur because thieves find hidden keys.
“Usually they leave their own keys in their own cars,” Smith said. “It’s hard to believe. The second most expensive thing you ever buy. And you leave your
keys inside.”According to the Auto
Theft Interdiction Project, the most frequently stolen car in Austin in 2013 was the Honda Accord.
Smith said most sto-len cars are taken for joy rides and later recovered. As for stolen trucks, they are often used for human smuggling and usually found down south, com-pletely demolished. When
Finalists for chancellor include Adm. McRaven, Richard Fisher
THEFT page 6
July has highest rate of car thefts
Richard FisherCEO, Federal Reserve Bank-Dallas
William McRavenNaval Admiral
Usually they leave their own keys in their own cars. It’s hard to believe. The second most expensive thing you ever buy. And you leave your keys inside.
—Robert Smith, APD sergeant
On June 15, Starbucks announced its Col-lege Achievement Plan in partnership with Ar-izona State University. Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz and many news headlines, including the company’s website, lauded Starbucks as offering “full tuition reimbursement” for Star-bucks employees who are completing a bach-elor’s degree at ASU. Unfortunately for these working students and us at UT, who are also facing privatization, that promotion is false.
The Starbucks plan only applies to Star-bucks employees pursuing an online degree, which has consistently fallen short of goals around retention, passing, metrics of learn-ing and degree completion.
Starbucks will bear no more than 30 per-cent of any student’s four-year tuition and fees. There are two parts of the Starbucks plan: a scholarship that reduces the sticker tuition amount and reimbursements for out-of-pocket payments. The scholarship is funded by ASU, not Starbucks, and reduces tuition about $6,500 from the $30,000 for freshman and sophomore years, and $12,600 from $30,000 for junior and senior years. Af-ter that, a student may have his tuition further reduced by federal grants, military education benefits or need-based aid. Then, juniors and seniors must pay out-of-pocket (or take out loans) for what remains. If they complete 21 credits, which costs about $10,000, within 18 months, Starbucks will issue a reimbursement for that amount. Starbucks will not reimburse any tuition for freshman and sophomores, meaning that ASU’s scholarship for those first 2 years is essentially paying students to work while they are in school.
Working students consistently have higher levels of stress, lower academic outcomes and less time for extracurricular activities. These conclusions are consistent across scholarly studies of this issue but are also obvious to most students, especially since the average student is working over 20 hours a week. The Starbucks plan is only available for students working there 20 hours a week on average. A recent survey showed that students who work 20 or more hours a week typically have to reduce their academic course load to deal with the stress. However, Starbucks will not
reimburse tuition unless a student completes 21 credits within 18 months, which puts working students in a precarious position.
Fourth, Starbucks is not doing this for charitable reasons. It has two profit-related goals, the first of which is broad public rela-tions. This is evident from the Starbucks press release and a variety of major news headlines falsely stating that Starbucks will fully reim-burse their workers’ tuition — one headline even states that Starbucks is paying them to get a degree! Starbucks, like most retail com-panies, consciously attempts to remove the negative sting of profit-making and capitalism by selling an image of intimate relations to its customers and workers. The second goal is to advertise the Starbucks brand to the college. The ASU-Starbucks contract shows that ASU will be fulfilling most of the responsibilities to run the program, but it also requires ASU to assist Starbucks with marketing projects such as joint press releases, promotional “swag”, so-cial media communications, and online adver-tising for anyone on Starbucks wifi. Starbucks advertising will be present even within educa-tional spaces: ASU must work with Starbucks to develop a mandatory, one-week, non-credit course for students in the Starbucks plan, de-velop coursework such as “modules on retail management”, construct ASU study spaces inside Starbucks stores, and deliver course-work over Starbucks wifi. They seem to want students who are working at a Starbucks store to also complete their college education there, with a few tasty beverages to get through the boring videos and all-nighters.
Starbucks is a company in a capitalist econo-my; its bottom line is the profit-motive, and its plan for ASU students is privatization, which has been hitting universities across the nation, including UT Austin. In reaction to the un-democratic attempt by the UT System Board of Regents to fire UT President William Pow-ers Jr., there were outpourings of support for Powers from the Texan and other papers. All of these evaluated his record incredibly positively, but without any mention of the waves of priva-tization over which he has presided over. Most recently, Powers has begun pushing for a priva-tization overhaul of student services, staff jobs and faculty recruitment as part of the “Smarter Systems” plan. UT hired consulting company Accenture to develop this plan, despite its
notorious failures with the state of Texas. Af-ter a 2005-2006 privatization contract with the Texas Health and Human Services Commis-sion, Accenture was denounced by the Comp-troller for forcing unnecessary “massive state worker layoffs.” Smarter Systems advocates UT implementing “Shared Services,” a controversial administrative centralization plan which UT students, staff and faculty have opposed due to staff layoffs. Smarter Systems advocates restrict-ing faculty recruitment and research to “corpo-rate leaders” and areas with greatest “commer-cial success” — essentially, applying the profit motive to education. Like the Starbucks plan, Smarter Systems seeks to profit from students: it advocates privatizing student dorms, food and parking. This would mean that Jester, other dorms, and all of the subsidized UT cafeterias and parking lots would be run by private com-panies and thus also have higher costs, euphe-mized in Smarter Systems as “market rates.” Under Powers, UT has already implemented the in-store study spaces part of the Starbucks plan — the Student Activity Center and Texas Union are food-monopolized by private com-panies (with a Starbucks in each).
The current capitalist era is one with Gilded Age levels of inequality. This
comparison also holds in terms of higher education and affordability. Industrialist and robber baron Andrew Carnegie was one of the wealthiest individuals in the world, with annual earnings thousands of times greater than those of his company’s steelworkers, and yet he maintained image with philanthropic endeavors in higher education, as well as in other areas. Similarly, Starbucks has one of the highest CEO-to-worker pay ratios in the country, with CEO Howard Schultz making $28.9 million annually while the average full-time barista makes $17,580 — that’s 1,644 to 1. The robber barons are not interested in lessening the affordability gap, and it’s not just a problem at ASU. Half of UT Austin students graduate with debt, the average amount being $26,097, and are entering a job market that is still unfriendly to the idea of paying off that debt. The Texan, to its credit, recently pub-lished a series on student debt and affordabil-ity. However, we have to start talking about the cause of these problems: an unequal econ-omy which forces students to work while they study, take out loans and pay more with each privatization scheme.
Rathi is a computer science honors junior from Austin.
COLUMN
Starbucks contributes to education privatizationBy Mukund Rathi
Guest Columnist
Ted S. Warren | Associated PressStarbucks CEO Howard Schultz speaks at the company’s annual shareholders meeting, in Seattle, Wash. Schultz is collaborating on a book about veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
4RILEY BRANDS, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF | @TexanEditorialMonday, July 14, 2014
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OPINION Monday, July 14, 2014 5
COLUMN
By Taylor GriffinGuest Columnist
GALLERY
Many students have worked in minimum wage positions before their college careers, and some continue to work for similar wages while they study to receive their di-plomas. Because the minimum wage debate has such a substantial impact on young adults, it is important to open discussion and thought in this setting. After all, it doesn’t appear to be going away anytime soon. In the past few months alone, Presi-dent Barack Obama signed an executive or-der increasing the minimum wage for fed-eral contractors, the Austin City Council followed suit with a resolution for city con-tractors, and Seattle became the city with the highest minimum wage in the country.
If I wanted to write something that would be appealing to everyone, I could simply say something like, “The minimum wage needs to be doubled. And you know why it needs to be doubled? Because the mini-mum wage is too low.” If you want me to tell you what you want to hear, stop reading this. The truth is not always easy to hear.
The vast majority of the people who sup-port a minimum wage increase are not the ones that would be picking up the tab. Now this may seem like common sense, but so is the argument that business owners should not be told how to run their businesses by people who have no stake in them. It is very easy to decide how much someone deserves to be paid when the money is not coming from your wallet.
The businesses that will hurt the most from a wage increase are the small busi-nesses. When business owners are told to pay more money to their employ-ees, they are forced to cut jobs and/or raise prices and/or spend less on
expanding their business. This then leads to more unemployment and a handicapped economy. Considering that a significant portion of Texans are employed by small businesses, it is probably not the best policy to put in place.
Texas’ unemployment rate for May 2014 was calculated to be 5.1 percent, not bad considering the rates across the 50 states which range from 2.6 percent in North Da-kota to 8.2 percent in Rhode Island. I know I just said that 5.1 percent unemployment is “not bad,” but we need to despise content-ment when it comes to our economy. We need to continually push our economy to be stronger and stronger because a healthy economy naturally leads to higher wages.
How can we do better? I think a good exercise is to look at the environments that are thriving. As mentioned earlier, the state with the lowest unemployment rate is North Dakota, with a rate of 2.6 percent. The city in Texas with the low-est unemployment rate is Midland, with a rate of 2.6 percent as well. What do these two economic environments have in com-mon? They are energy-focused and cre-ate a friendly environment for businesses. Texas needs to continue to support energy production and fight anything that might curtail this growth.
So, as we learn at this University, may we work to create an environment that will allow businesses to flourish. Raising the minimum wage sounds great, but in reality it hurts job growth. Politicians love to have people focused on raising the minimum wage rather than on improving the econ-omy. For them, more focus on the former leads to less accountability on the latter.
Olsen is an economics and finance senior from Argyle. He is the finance director of UT’s College Republicans.
Minimum wage should not riseBy Clay OlsenGuest Columnist
I’m spending my summer studying abroad in Barcelona, Spain, and what’s great about being in the city is the opportunity to travel easily throughout the rest of the country! For a little weekend excursion, my friends and I took a train to Seville, which is located on the southern coast of Spain.
My favorite part about this city from the beginning was the small-city feel; Barcelona is huge and provides more of a modern, busy environment while Seville was more tradi-tional and a lot more relaxing. We stayed on the edge of the city and were a little concerned about getting to things, but as it turns out we were able to walk everywhere. My second favorite thing was the food. The food there was amazing, and we definitely treated ourselves. “Tapas,” small starter-like dishes, are very popular here so most of our meals were split and shared. One of my fa-vorite places was called Coloniales; I highly recommend stopping in! Also the gelato, had to get gelato. We hit most of the tourist
spots, and a map with the big monuments marked really helped plan the weekend once we arrived. The Cathedral of Seville is worth waiting in line for. It is huge, beautiful and has an amazing view of the entire city from the tower. Another must-see is the historic bull ring, Plaza de Toros, where you can take a short tour and see the arena where live bull fights are still fought today! The entire build-ing is burgundy, yellow and white so the colors combined with the sky made for un-real pictures. The entire city is beautiful, and there are blue and white tiles everywhere!
Overall, Seville really blew all of my expec-tations out of the water, and I was sad to leave. I think it was important to see how the local people live in a smaller city and to experience the culture and history of Seville. I really en-joyed seeing a different side of Spain, too. I’m glad I studied abroad because I am able to have weekends like this, but I have also learned a lifetime’s worth in just five short weeks; study-ing abroad was one of the best decisions I have ever made!
Griffin is a public relations junior from Fort Worth.
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Before a packed audience at the Paramount Theater on July 10, President Barack Obama said the economy has improved since the economic recession from 2008 to 2009 in an address on the economy that criticized political grid-lock in Washington, D.C.
“By almost every mea-sure, we are better off now than when I took office,” Obama said.
Obama credited the American people with help-ing the nation recover from the recession while also cit-ing his administration’s deci-sions regarding the economy, including recent efforts to create gender equality in the workforce, raising the federal minimum wage to $10.10 per hour, expanding manu-facturing jobs and reforming the student loan program.
Before the speech, Obama met at Magnolia Cafe with public relations junior Kinsey Button, who sent Obama a letter a few months ago expressing concerns about her financial situation.
“When you see the trajec-tory of Kinsey’s family, in some ways it’s a little bit a
story of what’s happened in America,” Obama said.
At the event, Button opened for the president and talked about her struggle to pay for college.
“As a current student at the University of Texas at Austin with two unemployed parents, my family has found it very difficult to financially sustain the average American lifestyle, much less afford a full college tuition,” Button said.
A presidential memoran-dum issued by Obama in June allowed nearly 5 million students to cap their student loan payments at 10 percent of their income.
“I don’t want our future leaders straddled with debt before they start out in life,” Obama said. “Whenever and wherever I have the power, the legal authority, to help families like yours — even if Congress is not doing anything — I will take that opportunity.”
According to the most re-cent employment numbers from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the U.S. unem-ployment rate is 6.1 percent. Obama noted this is the low-est unemployment rate since September 2008.
A handful of protesters ral-lied outside the theater during
the speech, as tensions grow on the U.S.-Mexico border and increasing numbers of unaccompanied children are apprehended and deported.
Gov. Rick Perry said on July 6 on ABC’s “This Week” that Obama had ignored
his requests for additional National Guard troops along the Texas border.
“I don’t believe he particu-larly cares whether or not the border of the United States is secure,” Perry said on the program.
Obama met with Perry Wednesday afternoon but did not extend his Texas visit to make a personal trip to the border region.
On July 8, Obama asked Congress for $3.7 billion to address the border crisis.
During his speech, Obama criticized House Republi-cans for refusing to vote on a Democratic bill to secure the border.
“Cynicism is a choice,” Obama said in closing. “Hope is a better choice.”
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vehicles are burglarized, Smith said it is usually because owners leave valuables in plain sight.
Journalism senior Jessica Brown said her car was bur-glarized last July in the park-ing lot of her North Austin apartment complex. Brown said the thief broke the back window and stole several shopping bags of clothing that were in plain view.
“The funny thing is I was going to donate those clothes to Buffalo Exchange,” Brown said. “If they wanted them, they could have just had them.”
Smith said large apart-ment complexes are magnets for burglars.
On campus, 43 vehicles were burglarized and 8 sto-len in 2013. Although these numbers are not particularly
higher than those of other areas of Austin, Gonzalo Gonzalez, UTPD patrol di-vision captain, said he still believes it is important for students to practice safety measures. UTPD educates incoming freshmen at sum-mer orientation about how to best protect themselves and their property.
Meanwhile, the APD Auto Theft Interdiction Project is
raising awareness with mo-bile billboards on taxicabs throughout the city. The department will also offer free VIN-etching services periodically this July, put-ting a small imprint of the vehicle’s VIN number on each window.
“With the VIN etching, it’s impossible to sell some of the parts, and that detracts thieves,” Smith said.
Amy Zhang / Daily Texan Staff In July 2013, 978 vehicles were burglarized and 165 were stolen in Austin. In the past 30 days, West and North Campus were among the areas hardest hit, with a total of 43 burglaries.
Obama at Austin speech: ‘Hope is a better choice’
Sarah Montgomery / Daily Texan StaffPresident Barack Obama speaks at the Paramount Theater on July 10. His speech focused on the state of the economy.
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On July 2, Cigarroa requested Powers resign by October — a timetable that Cigarroa said would allow Powers to finish both his $3 billion fund-raising campaign and his chairmanship of the As-sociation of American Universities. In a letter to Cigarroa on July 4, Powers said he would prefer to leave at the end of the 2015 legislative session.
News of Cigarroa’s request to Powers broke on July 4 after it was leaked out to multiple me-dia outlets by unnamed sources. Students, fac-ulty and alumni voiced their support for Powers in reaction. Student leaders started a petition and planned a march. Faculty Council called an emergency meeting to rally support for Powers. Newly minted Texas Exes President Kay Bailey Hutchison released a statement with the alumni association’s chairman calling Powers’ potential firing “a travesty.”
Some state legislators also expressed support for Powers and the House Select Committee on Transparency in State Agency Operations co-chairs asked the regents on Monday not to
remove him, citing the committee’s investiga-tion into Regent Wallace Hall.
Before the unexpected decision on July 9, Cigarroa had said he would discuss Powers’ employment with the Board of Regents at the board’s July 10 meeting. While Cigarroa has called Powers time at the University “superb,” he has said repeatedly that his decision is not related to one particular instance, but rather his overall difficult relationship with Powers.
“From my perspective, it’s an issue of ‘Can we trust each other with communications without it going viral?’” Cigarroa said after the July 10 board meeting. “Because it’s really hard to have a pro-ductive relationship when a chancellor and a pres-ident can’t have discussion on sensitive matters.”
After the news was announced at the emer-gency Faculty Council meeting July 9, Powers said he was pleased with the agreement.
“We have a great faculty and a great group of students. I’m humbled and gratified by all the work we’ve done together and your support,”
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After days of speculation, UT System Chancellor Francisco Cigarroa and President William Powers Jr. agreed July 9 to set Powers’ resignation date for June 2, 2015, giving him almost 11 months to complete his remaining goals for the University.
Powers prepares for 2015 resignation
Photos (clockwise from above) by Aaron Berecka, Amy Zhang, Aaron Berecka | Daily Texan StaffAbove: Cigarroa speaks with press after the July 10 regents meeting. Upper left: President Bill Powers addresses the UT Board of Regents in regards to the Progress of the Dell Medical School. Upper right: The UT Board of Regents meet in a public session July 10.
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remove him, citing the committee’s investiga-tion into Regent Wallace Hall.
Before the unexpected decision on July 9, Cigarroa had said he would discuss Powers’ employment with the Board of Regents at the board’s July 10 meeting. While Cigarroa has called Powers time at the University “superb,” he has said repeatedly that his decision is not related to one particular instance, but rather his overall difficult relationship with Powers.
“From my perspective, it’s an issue of ‘Can we trust each other with communications without it going viral?’” Cigarroa said after the July 10 board meeting. “Because it’s really hard to have a pro-ductive relationship when a chancellor and a pres-ident can’t have discussion on sensitive matters.”
After the news was announced at the emer-gency Faculty Council meeting July 9, Powers said he was pleased with the agreement.
“We have a great faculty and a great group of students. I’m humbled and gratified by all the work we’ve done together and your support,”
Powers said. “This is a career path that makes sense for our family.”
After the meeting, Student Government President Kori Rady said he believes Cigarroa’s decision to keep Powers on until June 2015 was influenced by the support shown by students, faculty and alumni.
“He received massive support from every en-tity,” Rady said. “I really think that made the dif-ference, and, of course, I think it’s very difficult to fire someone based on communication differ-ences if that person has that amount of support.”
“Unfortunate chapter”With Powers’ end date fixed, Chairman
Paul Foster expressed disappointment with “insulting and disparaging comments” sent to Cigarroa over the past week and called on the board, System and University to move forward at the July 10 meeting.
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After days of speculation, UT System Chancellor Francisco Cigarroa and President William Powers Jr. agreed July 9 to set Powers’ resignation date for June 2, 2015, giving him almost 11 months to complete his remaining goals for the University.
Powers prepares for 2015 resignation
By Jacob Kerr@jacobrkerr
Powers’ goals in his final months include:
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Completing $3 billion capital fundraising campaign
Increasing student success, particularly four-year graduation rates
Implementing efficient business models, such as Shared Services
Preparing the Dell Medical School for its launch in 2016
Securing a sufficient budget for the University from the Texas Legislature during the upcoming legislative session
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“I sincerely hope we never revisit this unfortunate chapter in the history of this great state,” Foster said. “There’s much good work to be done and the state and the nation are watch-ing, and the future is bright.”
After the meeting, both Foster and Cigarroa refused to iden-tify who sent the comments but said they were not threaten-ing and were from parties and individuals outside the board.
Foster, who said he was pleased Cigarroa and Powers agreed July 9 to set Powers’ resignation for June 2015, also asked the Texas Legislature not to try influencing board decisions.
“The point is the board has a role. It’s not political. We’re not politicians,” Foster said after the meeting. “I believe we should be left alone to do our business.”
Clarifying, Foster said he was not criticizing the transpar-ency committee’s investigation into Hall or its right to do so.
The regents also approved recommendations from Cigar-roa for improving admissions processes at System institu-tions. While presenting the recommendations, Cigarroa said his decision to ask Powers to resign was not related to the System’s investigation into the University’s admissions, which will be conducted by an outside firm.
Cigarroa recommended increasing transparency in
admissions processes; namely, he proposed prohibiting the consideration of recommendation letters submitted outside the prescribed process in admissions decisions. .
“What concerns me is how external input outside the for-mal admissions process is handled administratively and with-in the University of Texas,” Cigarroa said.
In May, a limited System inquiry into the University’s admissions determined there was no structured system of wrongdoing, but there were instances in which letters of rec-ommendation sent directly to Powers or a dean likely influ-enced admissions decisions.
Search for the next presidentFoster said he will form a search committee for Powers’ re-
placement in August. According to Cigarroa, the committee “will include representation of faculty, deans, students and community representatives of the University, as well as at least two current presidents from UT institutions and at least one member of the Board of Regents.”
Cigarroa announced his own resignation in February to
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Aaron Berecka | Daily Texan StaffUT System Board of Regents Chairman Paul Foster speaks to press at the July 10 Board of Regents meeting.
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Within a year, we will have a new chancellor and a new president at UT-Austin. I sincerely hope that much sooner than that we also have a new collaborative and ben-eficial relationship with the various organizations who share our love for this great flagship university.
—Paul Foster, Chairman of the UT System board of regents
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MULTIMEDIAWatch a video for a recap of the UT Fac-ulty Council meeting in the multimedia section of dailytexanonline.com
Mengwen Cao | Daily Texan StaffCollege of Natural Sciences professor Jennifer Moon celebrates after hearing that President William Powers Jr. will be staying in his position until June 2015.
return to practicing medi-cine at UT Health Science Center at San Antonio. His replacement is expected to be announced before the start of the fall 2014 semes-ter. With change ahead, Fos-ter said at the July 10 meet-ing that he hopes the System and the University will start working better together.
“Within a year, we will have a new chancellor and a new president at UT-Austin,” Fos-ter said. “I sincerely hope that much sooner than that we also have a new collaborative and beneficial relationship with the various organizations who share our love for this great flagship university.”
Powers’ final monthsWith almost 11 months
left as president, Powers will work to finish his $3 billion capital fundraising cam-paign and help bring the Dell Medical School closer to being ready for its launch in fall 2016, according to UT spokesman Gary Susswein.
Susswein said Powers will also work to improve the University’s four-year graduation rates. In 2012, Powers set a goal of pushing the University’s four-year graduation to 70 percent by 2016. Graduation rates from the classes of 2007 to 2013 have fluctuated between 50 and 52 percent.
In his July 4 letter, Powers also cited implementing effi-cient business models as one
of his goals. The University has slowly moved closer to implementing Shared Ser-vices centralization plan de-spite disapproval from some faculty members. In the let-ter, Powers also said the 2015 legislative session will have a significant impact on the University, particularly in setting its budget.
Powers will also work with Cigarroa and his successor to ensure a smooth transition for Powers’ replacement but will likely not be part of the search process, Susswein said. Powers himself has said he will return to teaching at the School of Law after his term as president ends next year.
Additional reporting by YoungJee Jung and Christina Noriega.
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12STEFAN SCRAFIELD, SPORTS EDITOR | @texansportsMonday, July 14, 2014
The Capitol serves as a backdrop as cars zoom past House Park and thousands of fans begin to pack the home stands. It’s an American football field, but for Aus-tin’s Premier Development League soccer team, it’s a makeshift pitch.
The Austin Aztex have been the Texas capital’s lone source for professional soc-cer since 2011. In their in-fancy the Aztex have been successful; the team claimed its first PDL championship in 2013. With one game re-maining in the 2014 season, they have already clenched the PDL Mid South division and have been chosen to host the PDL’s Southern Confer-ence Championships.
With Austin’s success, the
team will jump to the United Soccer League in 2015 with the ultimate goal of one day becoming a Major League Soccer team. But the jump to a new league will require an increase in fan attendance.
At the Atzex’s latest game Friday, attendance was a sea-son-high 2,380, far above the PDL average but well below the USL average. Accord-ing to a recent statement by USL President Tim Holt, the league’s average attendance is between 3,000 to 4,000 fans.
The lack of fans is a con-cern for the Aztex, especially after Austin lost its previous USL Division II team when it moved to Orlando, Florida.
Fans may not be coming to Aztex games at House Park because it doesn’t provide a professional atmosphere, primarily because the Aztex can’t sell alcohol at House
Park. As a result, the own-ership is looking for a new place to play. Austin signed a short-term deal with House Park to continue playing in its current facility until 2015. But the Aztex are considering the Kelly Reeves Complex in
North Austin and Burger Center in South Austin once they make the move to the USL. The team hopes to one day build a soccer-specific stadium as part of its plan to make the leap to MLS.
Despite the attendance
concern, the current wave of World Cup fever has brought a new group of fans to House Park. While it may not be the typical soccer pitch, the fans have found a way to create a fun and energetic environ-ment at House Park.
Eberly’s Army, the team’s fan club, can be heard throughout Aztex games chanting and rooting the team on. During the team’s most recent game, a contest with the Midland-Odessa Sock-ers, the fans could be heard yelling American soccer’s sig-nature chant, “I believe that we will win!” In the end, the Aztex fought their way back to tie, a result that they could live with, especially after the team’s sloppy play.
When asked about the atmosphere created by the fans, all head coach Manuel Buentello could do was smile and credit them for giving the team a spark when they need it.
While soccer may not be as popular as football, the Austin Aztex have provid-ed a soccer haven for fans throughout Central Texas.
By Nick Castillo@Nick_Castillo74
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Germany, on the verge of a penalty shootout end-ing with Argentina for the FIFA World Cup title Sunday, earned a victory from a strike delivered by substitute forward Mario Götze in the 113th min-ute of extra time, making them the first European nation to win a World Cup hosted in the Americas.
“It’s an unbelievable feel-ing,” Götze, the FIFA Man of the Match, said, “I don’t know how to describe it. I just took the shot and didn’t know what was hap-pening. For us, the dream has become a reality.”
The scoreless draw was broken when a perfect lob pass from Andre Schürrle in the 113th minute of ex-tra time came down feet away from the goal line on Götze’s chest. From there he volleyed it past Argentina’s Sergio Rome-ro for the latest goal in World Cup Final history.
A German side that had been waiting for this mo-ment since its last World Cup victory in 1990 re-joiced, while Argentin-ians, who dominated the crowd inside the stadium, saw their hopes of victory slip away.
“We started this proj-ect 10 years ago,” German coach Joachim Löw said. “We’ve made constant progress, we believed in the project, we worked a lot, and, if any group deserves it, it’s this team. Every player in this team gave everything they had.”
—Sebastian Herrera
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Aztex provide soccer haven for AustinitesSOCCER
Charlie PearceDaily Texan Staff
The Aztex, Austin’s only professional soc-cer team, have begun to garner more attention as they prepare to move up to the United Soccer League in 2015. They hope to one day play in Major League Soccer.
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As with any prequel, audi-ences head into “Dawn of the Planet of the Apes” already knowing how it ends. Obvi-ously, the super-intelligent apes led by Caesar (Andy Ser-kis) prevail, so the film has to find another way to get view-ers invested in an inevitable outcome. “Dawn of the Planet of the Apes” takes an unusual route, populating both sides of the human-ape war to come with likable, intriguing characters, and telling its story as a grand tragedy. The result is an effective and wrenching summer blockbuster in which the action actually matters, and is ultimately one of the summer’s best films.
“Dawn” picks up 10 years after its now illogically titled predecessor, “Rise of the Planet of the Apes,” left off: Humanity has been reduced to ruin by an outbreak of the Simian flu, the same virus that made Caesar and his band of apes super-intelligent. Caesar leads a massive colony in the forests outside San Francisco, and they’re enjoying a peace-ful life when they stumble across a small band of hu-mans led by Malcolm (Jason
Clarke). From there, conflict is inevitable, even as Caesar and Malcolm scramble to hold onto the fleeting peace.
Although Serkis’ perfor-mance is remarkable, “Dawn” is able to impressively round out an entire cast of apes. As Koba, an ape from the first film who was tortured by hu-man scientists, Toby Kebbell gives a beautifully complex performance. Koba is a sav-age, wounded soul, driven entirely by his anger toward humanity, and shares a fasci-nating dynamic with Caesar — a conflict between two apes that feels human, and is ulti-mately devastating thanks to the strength of the performers.
Much like in the first film,
the human characters aren’t as interesting as their ape counterparts, but director Matt Reeves stocks the hu-man side of the conflict with reliable performers. Jason Clarke’s Malcolm has built a family with Ellie (Keri Russell) and Alexander (Kodi Smit-McPhee), and their drive to protect that unit is made all the more powerful by the slight fear in their performances — each character has lost a family before, and they never take this one for granted.
“Dawn of the Planet of the Apes” isn’t the best film of the summer because of how stubbornly it refuses to follow
When Robbie Hinojosa checked his “My Status” page last spring, the first thing he saw was a rejected application to the University of Texas.
“At that point I had been checking my admission sta-tus pretty much every single day,” Hinojosa said. “I had a mental breakdown for five minutes, then I went back and read it.”
It wasn’t until he took a second look that Hinojosa realized he was among the first group of students to be offered admission to a new program called PACE, or the Path to Admission through Co-Enrollment program.
PACE is an initiative to give students an alternative outlet for admission. Stu-dents who accept the PACE offer have a year to complete 24 hours of classes in resi-dence at Austin Community College Rio Grande campus, as well as at least six hours of classes at UT.
After successfully com-pleting PACE, students transition to attend UT full time, and are automatically
accepted into the school of Undergraduate Studies. They can also choose to apply to the school of their choice.
PACE began in spring 2013 as an idea between UT president William Powers Jr. and ACC President and CEO Richard Rhodes. In its first year, 92 students accepted admission into PACE. This year almost 200 students are in PACE.
“For UT, [PACE] helps us provide more paths for students to get into UT, and for ACC it acknowledges the fact that ACC helps prepare a lot of students for UT through transfer,” said Cassandre Alvarado, PACE program director.
In the pilot year, PACE students encountered plen-ty of obstacles. Students weren’t able to apply for on-campus housing, a decision Alvarado said was based on the lack of projections on how PACE would impact the UT campus.
“I was somewhat disap-pointed at first because I wanted to be a part of UT but felt isolated,” said Sarah Brown, an undeclared PACE student. “If they had allowed me to live in the campus
dorms, I believe that would have helped. I wasn’t involved on either campus and felt lit-tle sense of community.”
Now in its second year, PACE has undergone chang-es that Alvarado said better reflects the needs of students. Participants can now apply for on-campus housing and are offered a wider range of resources. PACE students must now complete the pro-gram in one year, instead of completing 42 hours of core curriculum in two years. Tu-ition is calculated based on the number of hours each student is enrolled for and is paid to both schools.
Hinojosa skipped the sec-ond year of the pilot program and transferred to UT as a computer science student. Abby Solomon, an unde-clared PACE student, is com-pleting the second year, and will apply to the College of Liberal Arts to study psychol-ogy when she transitions.
“Most people have trans-ferred or are in the process, but I didn’t have a lot of credit yet,” Solomon said. “I’m glad they have this pro-gram because the transition to UT is a little startling at times and a little difficult.”
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A new program called PACE, or Path to Admis-sion through Co-Enrollment, allows students in the program to compelete classes at UT and Austin Com-munity College while still living on campus.
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Courtesy of Twentieth Century Fox Film CorporationJason Clarke, as Malcolm, foreground, and, background from left, Andy Serkis, as Caesar; Toby Kebbell, as Koba; and Karin Konoval, as Maurice; in a scene from the film, “Dawn of the Planet of the Apes.”
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After a tough winter full of snow, ice, thunder, sleet and other weather phenom-ena we didn’t know existed, Austin has finally made it to summertime. With day after day of 90+ degree weather and nonstop sunshine, you’re going to need to put sun-screen on today or risk pink, splotchy skin tomorrow.
Keep in mind that there is no such thing as a healthy suntan. Even if you survive a day in the sun without turning bright red, you may increase your risk of skin cancer. Sunburn is also not the best way to judge sun exposure since the UVB radia-tion that causes burns is not the same as the UVA radiation that can lead to cancer.
Not all sunscreens protect against UVA, the deadlier of the two. Make sure that what-ever sunscreen you buy offers “broad spectrum” protection, which guards against both kinds of ultraviolet radiation. A high SPF is good, but only to a point because the numbers are meaningless above 50.
More important than the SPF is consistency: Apply sunscreen throughout the day. Some sunscreens are “very water resistant,” which means that they stay effective even after four 20-minute
swims. But there are reasons to question the real world ap-plicability of this claim, since, during testing, subjects don’t dry themselves with towels after going in the water.
People also generally spend more time in the sun when they wear sunscreen. It’s this psychological effect that, ironically, may lead to an increased risk of skin cancer if sunscfeen is used inadequately.
As far as actual risks from the sunscreen itself, there aren’t many. The chemicals involved in sunscreen are very safe, very rarely causing anything more than a mild allergic reaction. There’s the potential for it to have a minor effect on estrogen levels and some studies that show extremely small hints of toxicity, though it’s clear that the benefits of sunscreen out-weigh possible risks.
This all specifically refers to sunscreen, however. It may be tempting to use products that combine bug spray with sun protection, but this is not
advisable. While the chemi-cals in sunscreen are very safe, even when continually applied throughout the day, the chemi-cals in insect repellent are not. Put the bug spray on once in the morning if you think you’re going to need it and the sun-screen on throughout the day.
In the end, there are a few simple pieces of advice that can help prevent sunburn and cancer risk and they all begin with sunscreen. Apply it properly at least every two hours and more often if you’re sweating or spending time in the water, regardless of claims of water or sweat resistance. The FDA also advises staying out of the sun during peak hours, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., stick-ing to the shade and wearing hats, sunglasses and loose, long-sleeved clothing.
But, mostly, make sure you wear plenty of sunscreen: It’ll keep your skin looking young and let you enjoy the Austin summer without worrying about a painful sunburn or something much worse.
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the easy blockbuster formula — Matt Reeves’ steady hand, the visually and emotionally
stunning performances from Serkis and co., and the deli-cate, painful story all make it a must-see. But it’s also a film that challenges its peers to be better, demonstrating great
advances in visual effects and sophisticated storytelling, and it’s the ambition in every as-pect of “Dawn of the Planet of the Apes” that makes it the summer’s best film.
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walkway 5 Go the way of
snowmen 9 Rapidness14 “Phooey!”15 Operatic solo16 ___ vortex
(winter weather phenomenon)
17 Curse18 Curse19 High, as
expectations20 T e l e p h o n e
h a n d s e t
23 Sounds from a sound sleeper?
24 Morn’s counterpart
25 Cigarette dropping
28 C o r s e t p a r t
32 Perform in a play
35 Vote in favor
36 South Dakota’s capital
37 Teaser40 High’s opposite42 Condescend
(to)43 Former
secretary of state Colin
45 Deface47 Split ___ soup48 A r m y u n i t
52 Nav. rank53 ___ Francisco54 Trail for Hansel
and Gretel58 T h r e e
s t r i k e s … or a description of the theme clues
61 Rome’s home64 Codger65 “The Naked
Maja” artist66 End of an
Aesop fable67 Cabbagelike
vegetable
68 Revise, as copy69 Tick off70 Hollywood Walk
of Fame feature71 Unit of force
DOWN 1 Garbage boats 2 Amtrak service 3 One-up 4 Cling (to) 5 Your ___ (way
to address a queen)
6 Singer Clapton 7 Queue 8 Went along the
tarmac 9 “Delightful!”10 “You ___
thing!”11 Keebler figure12 “Please, have
some!”13 Like deserts21 “Oedipus ___”22 #2 exec25 Take ___ down
memory lane26 Beetle’s boss,
in the comics27 “Laughing”
animal29 Fish that can
give you a shock
30 Actress Watts31 “What did I tell
you?”32 Golden
Delicious, e.g.33 Sing like Bing
Crosby34 Villages
38 Ryan of “When Harry Met Sally …”
39 Antiquated
41 Used to be
44 Perjurer
46 ___ scale (earthquake measurer)
49 Features of some daring sweaters
50 Mined metal51 Gently elbowed55 Subject to
emotional swings
56 Poker entry fee57 Misery or
Missouri
58 Serb or Pole
59 Perfectly
60 Pepsi-___
61 Mischievous kid
62 It may be tapped when you listen to music
63 “Come as you ___”
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15 Modern-day sanctuary
16 Mostly
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18 Jumps all over
19 Place for un bateau
20 Donkey : mule :: ___ : huarizo
22 Admission ticket
23 Cut down to size, maybe
25 Sweet Jazz sound?
27 Meant ___
28 Serape wearer
30 Have ___ at
32 Nick, say
33 Complex data
35 The middle Andrews sister
37 Heartening words
40 Corrupted
41 Show up at dinner?
42 WorkCentre maker
43 Elect
44 Construction material for several theme parks
46 Ruptures
50 Where 24-Down began his managerial career
52 Proverbial battlers
54 Eastern wear
55 Flavorer once labeled a “milk amplifier”
57 Burn to the ground
59 Bunkmates, often
60 Orion’s hunting companion
62 #164 Jumped all
over65 Professor ___66 Like some
Hmong67 Solution for
storing contacts?
DOWN 1 All ___ 2 Flaunt 3 Relief provider
since 1916 4 1974 John
Wayne title role 5 Not just tear 6 What many
racers race on 7 Lightning strike
measure 8 River between
two Midwestern states
9 Malt finisher?10 Enrich11 Reuben
ingredient12 Denouements13 Plant said to
repel bugs14 Decayed21 Yearn for24 See 50-Across26 See 8-Across29 Kind of artery
31 Pipe accompanier
34 Las, e.g.
36 People plot things around it
37 Recreation hall staple
38 High
39 Confirm
40 Yellow type?
42 Valentine letters
45 Boards
47 One might get past a bouncer
48 Blue, in Burgundy
49 Moral duty?
51 Get 180 on the LSAT, say
53 Boob56 Wyndham
alternative58 Elevator at the
bottom?61 Suffix with
28-Across63 Mate
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