Joseph McCormick and Susan Fisher-Hoch, husband-and-wife disease detectives from the UT-Brownsville School of Pub-lic Health, lectured Thurs-day at Welch Hall to dissect the facts of the West Afri-can Ebola epidemic and its misconceptions.

“Recently, many people

who are on television have said all sort of things about Ebola — some correct and some incorrect,” McCormick said. “One of the most bla-tantly incorrect was that we don’t know much about Ebo-la. I have to tell you we know a lot about Ebola.”

According to Fisher-Hoch, the U.S. wasn’t interested in Ebola

Three members of the Lit-tle Rock Nine spoke on cam-pus Thursday and recalled their experience entering the halls of Central High School while being escorted by the 101st Army Division.

In 1950, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Brown v. Board of Education that “separate was inherently un-equal,” which led to the in-tegration of public schools. The Little Rock Nine were the first nine students to in-tegrate Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, fol-lowing the Supreme Court’s decision. Three members — Ernest Green, Terrence Roberts and Carlotta Walls LaNier — spoke Thursday at the LBJ Presidential Library.

“I remembered Brown v. Board of Education,” LaNier said. “A week after [this de-cision], it was discussed at my home.”

The three all agreed that gaining an education is what motivated them to

endure the retaliation from white students.

“Without the presence of the army, we’ve might have been killed,” Roberts said. “I didn’t think the opposition would be as it was.”

LaNier said she experi-enced the harassment each day when she went to school.

“I needed to carry my

books with me all day,” LaNier said. “I had a dif-ferent guard every Monday morning.”

LaNier also stressed the importance of getting an education.

“It was about an access to an opportunity,” LaNier said. “I wanted a piece of that American Dream.”

Amaree Austin, the grand-niece of Little Rock Nine member Thelma Mothershed-Wair, said she still notices kids at her school who tend to sep-arate themselves according to race and ethnicity.

“You can’t move forward unless you know where

University parking rates are likely to increase over the next five years, ac-cording to the draft of a report by the Commit-tee on Parking Strategies, which will present rec-ommendations on how to increase parking revenue to the UT community next week.

Bob Harkins, chair of the committee and

associate vice president for campus safety and se-curity, said an increase in the cost of daily parking rates and faculty and stu-dent permits will be used to support the expenses of Parking and Transporta-tion Services, or PTS, and the construction of new parking garages.

“We haven’t raised park-ing rates a lot — less than 2 percent per year over the last 10 years,” Harkins said. He said PTS wanted

to keep parking fees down since faculty salaries were not rising and the cost of attendance for students is increasing.

The Committee on Parking Strategies — made up of faculty, staff and students — was cre-ated in 2013 after the University’s Committee on Business Productivity published a report titled “Smarter Systems for a

The men’s basketball team heard the hype all offseason.

After being ranked No. 10 to start the season, expecta-tions are much higher than in recent memory for a Texas team that surprised many last year by qualifying for the NCAA tournament and ad-vancing to the second round.

The Longhorns know they won’t sneak up on anyone this year; they return virtu-ally their entire roster from last year. They also brought in ESPN’s No. 2-ranked pros-pect for the class of 2014, 6-foot-11 center Myles Turn-er, to be the anchor of a ros-ter that has already boasted one of the nation’s top front-courts.

Texas gets the opportunity to start living up to expecta-tions Friday when it opens the season at home against

When Greg Abbott laid out his higher education plan in September, he said afford-ability would be key. With Abbott now set to become governor in January, Barry McBee, UT System vice chancellor and chief govern-mental relations officer, said he thinks Abbott will work toward that goal.

“Affordability is going to be on the mind of any Texas governor,” McBee said. “My sense is that he sees afford-ability as ensuring students can move through college and attain a high quality edu-cation in as quick a time as possible.”

According to State Sen. Judith Zaffirini, D-Laredo, Abbott will need to balance affordability and efficiency with providing high-quality education in his new term.

“I believe that Governor-elect Abbott will prioritize research, that he understands the value and is committed to excellence,” Zaffirini said. “He shares the enthusiasm about issues like affordability and accessibility and cost ef-ficiency and productivity. We all support all of those con-cepts but not at the expense of excellence, and I hope Ab-bott shares that perspective.”

In his higher education plan, Abbott, a UT alum-nus, focused on using on-line courses and accepting community college credits at four-year institutions as a

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means to make college more accessible. Zaffirini, who serves on the Senate Com-mittee on Higher Education, said she can see the value of online courses, but that they shouldn’t take the place of person-to-person education.

“I believe that online cours-es are important and valuable, but we need more than that,” Zaffirini said. “Sometimes the options provided by online courses aren’t good enough. I believe it has its place, but it is not a cure-all, and, on its own, it is certainly not sat-isfactory to meet standards of excellence.”

Victor Sáenz, education administration associate pro-fessor, said Abbott seems to be following in his predeces-sor’s steps in regard to higher education.

“I think that he is definite-ly … on the surface pursuing similar policy ideas, [with] more of a move toward a

performance-based budget and funding in higher educa-tion,” Sáenz said.

One of Abbott’s early re-sponsibilities as governor will be appointing three new members to the UT System Board of Regents. Zaffirini said those decisions play a huge part in shaping higher education in Texas.

“The appointments are certainly some of the most important,” Zaffirini said. “Higher education is so im-portant to the future of our state. It defines excellence. It defines our future goals.”

Citing regents Steve Hicks and Robert Stillwell, Zaffirini also said, if Abbott appoints regents of the same caliber as some of Gov. Rick Perry’s appointees higher education will benefit. She said she does hope to see a change in the board’s methods of operation.

“The people typically appointed are passionate about their alma maters, and they should be,” Zaf-firini said. “You have people

enthusiastic about serving, and what’s important is that every appointee understands the standards of governance.”

McBee said he looks for-ward to working with the

governor-elect.“We were encouraged

by a number of elements of Governor-elect Abbott’s plan,” McBee said. “First, the desire to elevate research

institutions like UT-Austin as the flagship for the UT system and for emerging UT institutions. We look for-ward to working for him in that regard.”

until the virus came to the country. She said if aid isn’t given to West Africa, the Ebola virus will con-tinue to spread.

“It doesn’t matter how many places there are in Africa [with Ebola], but it will not bring attention here until, unfortunately … a ‘white face’ gets it,” Fisher-Hoch said. “If we don’t con-trol Ebola in West Africa, it will continue to come to the United States.”

Fisher-Hoch reminded students that Ebola will

not mutate if a vaccine is made.

“There is no antigenic pressure to make it mutate,” Fisher-Hoch said. “This is not like HIV. It’s not adap-tive. … We don’t really have to worry too much about the vaccine becoming ineffective.”

Symptoms of Ebola in-clude fever, vomiting, di-arrhea and muscle pain. Fisher-Hoch said hosts don’t die from bleeding but from hypotensive shock, otherwise known as low blood pressure.

“The virus does not kill directly,” Fisher-Hoch

said. “The virus’ effect on the immune system kills the host.”

Vaccines such as ZMapp, Brincidofovir and Hy-perimmune plasma have been effective for Ebola suppression, according Fisher-Hoch.

McCormick said one can only transmit Ebola through the exchange of body fluids, such as blood, vomit and diarrhea — but not urine, perspiration or saliva. He said the virus will spread but will not be as disruptive in other countries.

“With thousands of cases … it’s totally inevitable that

other countries are going to see some cases,” Mc-Cormick said. “I want to emphasize we are not go-ing to have an outbreak from Ebola.”

Biology sophomore Vic-toria Ramirez said global awareness is key to subsiding panic and outbreak.

“Ebola was scary for a few weeks because we thought it was going to get to us,” Ramirez said. “[We need to] pay more attention to unde-veloped countries that have these outbreaks … because, even though they are not af-fecting us, that doesn’t mean it’s not a problem.”

Rachel Zein | Daily Texan StaffAustinites enjoy one of the many fluorescent displays at the Waller Creek Light Show on Thursday evening.

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Amy Zhang | Daily Texan Staff Governor-elect Greg Abbott will be tasked with appointing three new UT System regents to replace outgoing members when he becomes governor in 2015.

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Greater UT,” stating that PTS could earn $96 mil-lion in revenue over the next 10 years by increas-ing parking prices.

“Currently, there is an annual gap of $9.2 million between mar-ket rates and what UT charges for parking,” the report said. “A rate increase of 7.5 percent per year for 15 years would put UT equal to the market.”

According to Harkins, after the Committee on Parking Strategies did its own research, it deter-mined PTS could more realistically earn about $38 million in 10 years in revenue. The draft of the committee’s report shows the cost of Class C and Brazos Garage resi-dent parking permits are expected to increase $6 and $23.60 per year, re-spectively. Resident per-mit costs in Manor Ga-rage are not anticipated to rise.

Harkins said, even if the Committee on Busi-ness Productivity had not published its find-ings about University parking, PTS still needed to look into increasing parking rates.

In 2013, the UT Sys-tem Board of Regents ap-proved the 2012 Campus Master Plan, which out-lines development of the University campus for the next 30 years. Har-kins said, according to this plan, the University intends to build build-ings on current surface parking lots, creating the need for the construction of more parking garages.

PTS director Bobby Stone said the number of parking spaces in surface lots is presently equal to the number of spaces in parking garages. Once new buildings begin replacing surface lots, Stone said he expects 75 percent of parking spots

to be garage spaces.“The impact that will

have on the community at large is it costs me a lot more money to build a parking garage space than it does a surface space,” Stone said. “And it costs me a lot more money for me to main-tain that space.”

Stone said, since PTS is an auxiliary depart-ment — meaning no fac-ulty or staff salaries or tuition dollars go toward supporting the parking system — it needed to find a way to pay for new parking garages to be able to provide about the same number of spaces the University has now.

The Committee on Parking Strategies will present its recommenda-tions to Student Govern-ment, and the Graduate Student Assembly and at a campus-wide town hall meeting Tuesday, along with the Staff Council on Thursday.

SG President Kori Rady said it makes sense that PTS plans to in-crease parking rates.

“Obviously, we don’t want the money to come from students, but there’s nothing we can really do about it, unfortu-nately,” Rady said. “The money has to come from somewhere.”

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A panel of four professors and a greenhouse and food industry employee debated Thursday the health effects of genetically modified organ-isms, or GMOs.

The panel, hosted by the Polymathic Scholars Stu-dent Leadership Panel at the O’Donnell Building, was divided in to two groups — those who believe GMOs af-fect human health, and those who believe GMOs have no critical effect.

Panelist Mona Mehdy, molecular biosciences asso-ciate professor, said relying on genetic engineering is helpful because the planet is

currently undergoing many changes, such as the accu-mulation of carbon dioxide, a growing population and the scarcity of water.

“Genetic engineering is a tool to improve our agricul-ture, and we’re going to need all the tools that we need,” Mehdy said.

According to Jason Avent, a member of the greenhouse and food industry, the prob-lem with risk within the general public is having too much reliance on corpora-tions for information. He said corporations have the power to design the studies strategically to test the effects of GMOs on human health.

“We don’t want to worry about the side effects, and

we simply trust the corpora-tions,” Avent said.

Mehdy also said other scien-tists often reviewed the stud-ies conducted on the effects of GMOs, and researchers con-cluded the data did not corre-late to the conclusions made.

While all panelists agreed there are unknown risks, mo-lecular biosciences professor David Herrin said there are no health risk factors associ-ated with genetic engineering.

“There aren’t any health causes, and the benefit is lower food prices,” Herrin said. “Ben-efits far outweigh the cost.”

According to Mehdy, the public is often misled about the truths concerning genet-ic engineering.

As a solution to the issues

around GMOs, Mehdy said more educational and finan-cial investment in agriculture is needed.

“A greater investment for agriculture is certainly need-ed,” Mehdy said. “One idea is to begin to diversify our crops. Second, there needs to be more public support for the economic livelihoods of farm workers.”

Panelist Randy Linder, integrative biology associ-ate professor, said he agreed education can serve as a rem-edy to help the general public learn more about GMOs and their potential side effects.

“One important thing to get out of education is to learn what you don’t know,” Linder said.

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Rachel Zein | Daily Texan Staff At a panel in the O’Donnell building on Thursday evening, biosciences professor David Herrin argues that the benefits of genetically modified organisms, or GMOs, ultimately outweigh the potential health risks.

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institutions like UT-Austin as the flagship for the UT system and for emerging UT institutions. We look for-ward to working for him in that regard.”

you’ve been,” Austin said. “It’s not done. Integration within the world is not done.”

It is important to be

educated about the lives that African-Americans are liv-ing, according to Roberts.

“[We need to] recognize it so that more can understand it,” Roberts said.

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started the Little Rock Nine Foundation, in which each of the nine gives a scholarship to a disadvantaged student and becomes a mentor to the recipient.

“It seemed to be

appropriate for us, who were so very keen on education, that we should make certain that other kids who wanted to pursue higher education who didn’t have the funds could do so,” Roberts said.

Panelists debate health concerns of GMOs

Amy Zhang | Daily Texan Staff Governor-elect Greg Abbott will be tasked with appointing three new UT System regents to replace outgoing members when he becomes governor in 2015.

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Governor-elect Greg Abbott has made no se-cret of his support of gun rights in Texas. In De-cember 2013, Abbott created a “We the People” petition, proposing legislation that would allow Concealed Handgun Licensing (CHL) holders to, at a minimum, openly carry holstered weap-ons, as well as allow concealed weapons on col-lege campuses. He also made the protection and expansion of gun rights a cornerstone of his gu-bernatorial campaign, stating on his campaign website that he is currently preparing to challenge federal legislation that would restrict Americans’ ability to own and carry weapons. Though a con-troversial topic, to Abbott, the issue of gun rights was settled in 1791 with the penning of the Bill of Rights. But that is an oversimplification if I’ve ever heard one, and not coincidentally, the crux of the battle for gun ownership in America.

If you’re not worried about Abbott expand-ing laws regarding guns in Texas, you should be. While it is not within his constitutional powers as governor to expand the Second Amendment, which was part of his platform, nor to contest federal legislation in Congress, he can support bills that would make it easier for people to ob-tain and carry weapons. Additionally, his success in fighting restrictions of the Second Amend-ment suggests he may succeed in passing leg-islation to the same effect. In 2008, Abbott suc-cessfully argued for an individual’s right to bear arms before the Supreme Court in District of Columbia v. Heller, a victory that struck down a handgun ban in Washington, D.C. But if you are anti-gun, your problem isn’t men like Abbott or the gun lobby, two things that most people blame for ongoing contention over gun rights. It’s that the Constitution protects such rights.

The Constitution states the American people have the right to keep and bear arms, plain and simple. For many people, including Governor-elect Abbott and the most powerful lobby in America, the story of gun rights begins and ends with that statement. But it doesn’t for me. Al-though the Constitution is without a doubt one of the most stunning documents ever to have been written from a philosophical and historical perspective, it has left significant leeway for bit-ter debate throughout American history, from equal freedoms for all in the abolitionist move-ment to the fight over the Second Amendment today. Luckily, the Constitution allows for correc-tions to be made in the case that lawmakers vote to amend it, as Congress did when the wrongs of slavery and civil inequality were righted by the Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amend-ments. Therefore, saying that gun rights should

be allowed on the singular basis that our found-ers wrote it into the Constitution is overly sim-plistic. The founders didn’t believe in their irre-futable correctness. Why should we?

The Second Amendment is out-of-date. It was written soon after the start of the American Revolution when the memory was still fresh of quartered British soldiers confiscating any weap-ons that could be used against them in colonial homes. But more importantly, categorical gun rights are irresponsible and dangerous. Scholar-ship is bursting with empirical studies proving how harmful weapons in the home are. Besides, some people really are crazy. We cannot trust all gun owners not to take advantage of their con-stitutional right to own a gun, and then use it to harm others. If you don’t believe me, ask the families of any of the 467,321 people the Office of Justice found to be victims of crimes committed with a gun in 2011. Or better yet, look at your own campus with a discerning eye: The pock-marked stonework around the South Mall is a daily reminder of the bullets that rained down on students in 1966, and this campus has yet to forget the 2010 shooter in the Perry-Castañeda Library. First and foremost, gun rights are a pub-lic safety issue. The right of Americans to be safe from violent crime is greater than the right of practically anyone to own and carry a gun. If it’s not, it should be.

But the second half of the Amendment is what really complicates things: “the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be in-fringed upon.” That is why, as attorney general, Abbott was able to argue against laws that re-stricted the right to bear arms. And that is why he will be able to propose legislation in Texas that would open the acquisition of guns and the ability to carry them to even more people. But just because the Constitution guarantees a right, doesn’t mean it isn’t lawful to limit a right to protect the whole as opposed to serv-ing the wishes of the individual. For example, the right to freedom of speech is limited when it is in conflict with the good of others, such as in national security incidents and libelous or slanderous verbal assaults. So what is stop-ping us?

Though the Constitution’s direct meaning is contested, the path for increased public safety is clear. It is irresponsible to strip away current restrictions placed on gun holders, as Greg Ab-bott wishes to do. Though we live in a red state, where support for gun rights is popular, it would be a disservice to Texas residents for our new leg-islature not to take the needs of the whole into account in the upcoming legislative season. Like laws restricting advertisements for tobacco and the drinking age, the fight over gun rights is a public safety issue and should be treated as such.

Smith is a history junior from Austin.

If you turned on a television in the immediate lead-up to this year’s general elections, chances are that you may have seen one of many attack ads involving Medicaid expansion.

Since the Affordable Care Act (colloquially known as Obamacare) expands eligibility for Medicaid, the federal healthcare program for low-income Americans started by former Presi-dent Lyndon B. Johnson’s Great Society program, Republicans have been particularly quick to con-nect the popular Medicaid program with the un-popular health care reform heralded by President Barack Obama.

“[Wendy Davis] even wants to expand Obam-acare in Texas by executive order,” spouted a commercial by Greg Abbott, who was decidedly elected governor over Davis last week, referenc-ing Davis’ support for the expansion of Medicaid. It expands eligibility to families making less than 138 percent of the federal poverty line, up from 100 percent now.

While many states with Republican governors such as Arizona, Michigan, North Dakota and Pennsylvania have chosen to expand Medicaid, thus being eligible for big federal benefits they are paying for anyway, Texas has confidently chosen to walk the other way. Gov. Rick Perry ruled out any Medicaid expansion last legislative session, and common sense would assume that Abbott will continue in such a tradition. But the evidence points that there is a chance, however minor, of a change in fortunes.

Earlier this week, Abbott — in his first major decision as the governor-elect — chose Cameron County Judge Carlos Cascos as his secretary of state, a powerful position that not only carries out the governor’s foreign policy agenda with Mexico, but manage over an impressive legal and election bureaucracy. Cascos, a Republican elected in one of the most Democratic and most Hispanic counties in the state, disagrees with Ab-bott on Medicaid expansion. And he has strongly insinuated he will not just sit quiet about them.

“It’s contrary to what the leadership in Austin is recommending, but we thought it was impor-tant enough to take a position,” Cascos told Na-tional Public Radio regarding his position.

When the Texas Tribune pressed Cascos on how his opinion would differ from that of his boss, he calmly retorted that he was planning on “not just going to go along to get along.”

But the news for Medicaid expansion gets even better. On Wednesday, the board of the Texas In-stitute of Healthcare Quality and Efficiency voted to back the expansion of the program. The 15 board members, all appointees of Perry, noted to the Tribune that “We’re trying to take the politics out of it,” but admitted that Medicaid expansion would effectively maximize “available federal funds through the Medicaid program to improve health care for all Texans.”

Cascos and this state board of Republican-leaning professionals join an already diverse choir of folks from both political parties in this state in backing Medicaid expansion. Harris County Judge Ed Emmett, who represents more than 4.3 million constituents, has been a particu-larly vocal advocate.

Medicaid expansion is a rather straightfor-ward idea that has been unfairly maligned by partisan one-upmanship. Contrary to common misconception, it does not involve any new gov-ernment healthcare schemes. Rather, it merely expands the eligibility of an existing government program, one that is rather efficient, successful and popular.

Originally under the Affordable Care Act, the expansion of Medicaid was mandatory. If states did not participate, then all of their Medicaid funding would have been revoked. However, when the Supreme Court largely upheld the act in 2012, they ruled 6-3 against what they called the “coercion of states” implicit in the rules gov-erning Medicaid expansion. Thus, the decision to accept 90 percent free federal funds in order to help poor sick people became voluntary.

But even though the program was only ex-panded through Obamacare, it should not be confused for the still uncertain results of the gov-ernment subsidies and exchanges behind that program. If anything it should be called “LBJ-care.”

Abbott is in a special position with regard to the future of healthcare in Texas. He can con-tinue following his party’s small-minded ideol-ogy, pathologically opposing anything with the president’s name on it despite how little they have to do with his original policies. Or he can follow mavericks in his party such as pertinent professionals and his own choice for secretary of state. On behalf of the 6.3 million Texans without health insurance, the choice is remarkably clear.

Horwitz is a government junior from Houston.

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Many people at the University of Texas, in-cluding both students and faculty, believe in the “zero-sum game” regarding Israelis and Palestinians. Essentially, they believe that Is-raeli success equals Palestinian failure and vice versa. As a member of Texans for Israel, the pro-Israel organization at UT, I can say that this could not be further from the truth. As an advocate for Israel, I want nothing more for the Palestinian people than for them to live in peace and prosperity alongside Israelis. The very essence of Zionism, the movement that calls for the Jewish people to have a state in our historic homeland, requires coexistence with Israel’s neighbors. In Syed Rizvi’s recent article, he argues that support for the Palestin-ian people is not a religious issue, but a hu-manitarian issue. We cannot agree more. To achieve peace, Israel advocates and Palestin-ian activists must come together in open dia-logue and finally bring an end to the cycle of hatred. This can start today on UT’s campus.

Undoubtedly, Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza suffer. Checkpoints can cause jour-neys of short distances to take hours; unem-ployment has reached 25 percent; and wars have decimated major cities, killing many ci-vilians. No knowledgeable person denies these facts, and no compassionate person ignores them. Yet many people forget the cause of the Palestinians’ suffering. According to CBS’ “60 Minutes,” Yasser Arafat, the beloved leader of the Palestinians for over 40 years and founder of the Fatah party, diverted “over $1 billion in public funds to insure his political survival, [and] a lot more is unaccounted for.” He liter-ally stole money from his impoverished peo-ple. This blatant corruption has plagued the Palestinian leadership ever since they received autonomy in the historic Oslo Accords of 1993. When Israel pulled out of Gaza in 2005, the people, tired of Fatah’s corruption, elected Hamas to power. Hamas’ charter calls for the destruction of the state of Israel as well as the murder of every Jew on the planet. Corruption caused the civilian population to get desper-ate, giving a terrorist group the ability to take over Gaza. Hamas, like Fatah, has neglected the Palestinian people and, instead, has spent

millions of the dollars given for aid on weap-ons and tunnels to murder Israeli civilians. The only reason Israel established the checkpoint system is to prevent terrorists from attacking Israeli civilians. In fact, as the number of terror attacks has declined, so too has the number of checkpoints. However, the recent wave of ter-ror attacks has escalated tension and can pos-sibly lead to an increase in security.

Unfortunately, the pro-Palestinian move-ment on college campuses has been manipu-lated into becoming a crusade against the state of Israel. Pro-Palestinian student leaders should relish the opportunity to meet with Is-rael advocates and find common ground. We, at Texans for Israel, resent the accusation that we see the Palestinian people as “collateral damage that is executed by Israel for security reasons,” as Rizvi wrote, and we reach out our metaphorical hand to anyone who wishes to promote the coexistence between Palestinian and Israeli people. The next time there is an event promoting the Palestinian cause, we ask that Rizvi or another Muslim student leader invite a representative of Texans for Israel. I promise we will make the utmost effort to help.

On campus, advocates have a moral obliga-tion to promote human decency throughout the world, but we must remember that the prosperity of one people does not impede the success of another and that corrupt leadership will not stand. Both peoples have suffered long enough. It is time for advocates of Israel and Palestinians to, as Rizvi said, “break bread” as we call for an end to the corrupt leadership and the beginning of peaceful times between Israeli and Palestinian people.

Finally, Rizvi’s accusation that Zionism equals racism is extremely offensive. I truly hope that it came out of ignorance and not malice because to say that Jews, a long-perse-cuted minority, have no right to a homeland would mean we are destined to live as minori-ties in lands that have historically discrimi-nated against us.

— Kevin Lefkowitz, a history freshman from Houston, in response to Syed Rizvi’s Monday column titled “Palestine issues are humanitar-ian.”

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North Dakota State at 7:30 p.m. The team has enjoyed the lavish preseason recognition, but none of it matters once the season begins.

“It’s always a good thing when your program gets notoriety,” head coach Rick Barnes said. “That’s what we were used to for a long time. When season starts, it doesn’t mean anything. You got to win games.”

While the debut of Turner figures to draw the most at-tention Friday, the projected rise of sophomore point guard Isaiah Taylor is also something to look out for. Taylor began receiving con-siderable acclaim earlier this month when he landed on the Southwestern region’s cover of Sports Illustrated’s annual basketball preview.

Taylor was second on the team in scoring last year with 12.7 points per game, while also leading Texas with four assists per game. He appears poised for an even bigger season this year, and junior forward Connor Lammert be-lieves the point guard could be the Longhorns’ most impor-tant player.

“Our team will go as far as [Taylor] takes us,” Lammert said.

Another major story line fo-cuses on how well senior Jona-than Holmes can transition to the small forward position. Holmes, who led the Long-horns with 12.8 points per game last season, has played power forward throughout his career but is moving to the three to accommodate the ad-dition of Turner.

“I work at it every day in practice,” Holmes said. “I feel comfortable playing the whole

game at the three.”With Holmes moving to

small forward, Texas possess-es one of the most dynamic frontcourts in the nation. Holmes joins Turner and ju-nior center Cameron Ridley, who broke out last season to average 11.5 points and a team-high 10.5 rebounds per game, to form a trio of players each capable of double-digit points and rebounds on any given night.

That frontcourt, coupled with the growth of Taylor, figures to be the blueprint for success for the Longhorns his season. Now, it’s up to the play-ers to put that plan to work.

“Last year, some ranked teams didn’t make it to the tournament,” Barnes said. “Some teams that were left for dead made it. You got to win. Got to take care of business. Starting Friday night, they all matter.”

Texas (19-1, 11-1 Big 12) can now clinch the Big 12 champi-onship against the Sooners on Saturday night.

With a victory against Okla-homa, Texas would win its sev-enth conference title in eight years.

But the task won’t be easy. In the October match against Oklahoma, Texas had a below average .230 hitting percent-age, committed 15 attack er-rors, 14 service errors and two blocking errors. Also in that game, Oklahoma’s kill leader, junior outside hitter Kierra Holst, recorded 16 kills. De-spite Texas’ poor performance in its first game against the Sooners and Holst’s dominat-

ing performance, head coach Jerritt Elliott is looking for-ward to the rematch.

“I think it’s something that we need,” Elliott said. “It’s some-thing that’s exciting to be a part of. I think they’re feeling pretty confident about playing us af-ter they beat us 3-0. We feel like we can play at a much different level. I would imagine our girls would come in with a little bit of an edge. It’ll be a chaotic en-vironment for us. It’s everything that we need as we prepare for the tournament.”

Elliott will hope to replicate Texas’ performance against West Virginia, as the Long-horns recorded a season high .512 hitting percentage. He will also continue to rely on senior outside hitter Haley Eckerman, who amassed 18 kills against

the Mountaineers.Like Prieto Cerame, Ecker-

man recognizes that the Long-horns have played much better since suffering their only loss this season.

“We’ve obviously gotten bet-ter from that match on, and that’s the biggest thing,” Eck-erman said. “It’s not like we have to get revenge. We’re just going to go in there the same way we have. We aren’t going to treat it any differently. We’re just going to use it as a target on our backs.”

Texas and Oklahoma square off Saturday at 7 p.m.

“Hopefully [Oklahoma] can play well, and we can play at our peak, and we can come out with a win,” Elliott said. “We have a chance to clinch on their home court.”

Mike McGraw | Daily Texan StaffThe last time the Longhorns faced Oklahoma, they suffered a defeat in front of their home crowd. This time, when they travel to Norman, they look to clinch the Big 12 crown.

“Our zone is bigger than some NBA teams,” Hol-mes said of a lineup that could possibly include him being paired with the 6-foot-9 Ridley, the 6-foot-11 Turner and the 6-foot-9 Lammert.

Holmes’ switch encapsu-lates everything he stands for on the team. As the lone remaining member of the seven-man 2011 recruit-ing class, the quiet and re-served senior is the leader

of a not-so-young-anymore Texas team.

“He is able to communi-cate better and lead more verbally than he has in the past,” assistant coach Chris Ogden said. “More impor-tantly, what he says has a lot of meaning.”

He doesn’t just lead ver-bally — but also by action. He’s one of the hardest workers Barnes has ever coached, and it rubs off on the rest of the team.

“Jon’s work ethic is ridicu-lous,” junior guard Javan Fe-lix said. “He’s always in the

gym working, and he takes different steps to make him-self better. He’s improving as a leader, and he’s talking more. Jon’s not the type to open his mouth up and say a lot, but he’s starting to learn how to do that.”

When asked about soph-omore point guard Isaiah Taylor’s spot on the regional cover for Sports Illustrated, Barnes was happy for his floor general, but he couldn’t help but add, “I would have [liked to see] Jon Holmes on the cover for everything he stands for.”

midfielder Sharis Lachap-pelle said. “We came out with what was to be called two ties against two top-15 programs, and so, for our program, that’s just incredible.”

If the Longhorn defense and its stalwart junior goal-keeper Abby Smith, who conceded just one goal in two matches last weekend, can play like it did in Kansas City, Texas could find itself mak-

ing a deeper run than many expected at the beginning of the year.

However, Texas will need all 11 of its players to mesh if it wants to knock off the Owls. Rice finished the season with a 14-3-3 record and played well against opponents from the top conferences, tieing Arkan-sas and losing by a goal in over-time to a strong Baylor team.

The Rice offense — led by junior forward Lauren Hughes and her 14 goals — has lit up the scoreboard all

season. The Owls also boast the Midfielder of the Year in senior Quinny Truong.

Rice will pose a chal-lenge for the Longhorns, but a strong end to the season and an ever-improving crop of young talent should put the team in good position to make a tournament run.

“We can do this,” freshman midfielder Morgan Murphy said. “We can hang with any-one, and I don’t even think we think we’ve played our best soccer yet.”

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Texas basketball. It shows there is once again excitement sur-rounding the program, and, for the first time in years, the student body is excited for head coach Rick Barnes’ team.

After last season, when the Longhorns won their first NCAA tournament game since 2011, students started gaining interest again. And when Texas signed Myles Turner, ESPN’s No. 2 recruit, a real shift began.

Now, the Longhorns sit No. 10 in the preseason rankings and are predicted to be a No. 4 seed in the

NCAA tournament.However, the real excite-

ment this season for Texas fans will be Turner, a 6-foot-11 freshman from Bedford, Texas, who has been compared to former Longhorn star Kevin Durant.

He is known for his elite shot blocking, in addition to his ability to make shots from the perimeter. With a team re-turning all of its starting play-ers from last season, Turner is expected to do big things on the court.

Furthermore, with the addi-tion of Turner and the return of starters such as junior center Cameron Ridley and senior forward Jonathan Holmes,

Texas fans should expect more wins this season. Last season, the Longhorns built a team that was able to work together, and, instead of having individual su-perstars, each player produced points and added to each game.

And, as Texas players men-tioned during media days this season, over the last few months, Texas has created a chemistry with its new players that should easily transfer to the court.

Although the Frank Er-win Center was mostly empty burnt orange seats in previous years, expect more excitement and anticipation surrounding Texas this season.

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SPORTS BRIEFLYCross Country fights for NCAA bid

Texas heads to Fayette-ville, Arkansas, on Friday to make its final push for an NCAA Championship bid at the NCAA South Central Regional.

The top two teams from every region automatically make the championships. The Longhorn men, who have qualified for the cham-pionship six-years straight, are currently ranked second in the region. The women are ranked seventh and looking to make it back to the championship after missing the mark last year.

With few at-large bids available, a first- or second-place finish is paramount for the Longhorns.

“We are a better team than seventh place in the conference,” assistant coach Brad Herbster said of the women. “I know that, the girls know that, so we just got to step up and do a bet-ter job.”

Herbster is planning to use the disappointing fin-ishes at the Big 12 Cham-pionship two weeks ago as motivation for both teams to excel Friday afternoon.

“We cannot go into the region meet on the men’s or the women’s side and ex-pect them to let us into the national meet because we’re Texas.” Herbster said “We’ve got to work. ”

—James Grandberry

The preseason pick to win the women’s basketball Big 12 Conference begins its regular season Saturday at 2 p.m. in the Frank Erwin Cen-ter when No. 9 Texas opens against UTSA.

In preparation for the regu-lar season opener, the Long-horns played an exhibition match Sunday and defeated the Oklahoma City University Stars, 102-56.

Heading into Saturday’s game, head coach Karen As-ton said she is excited about the team’s speed.

“I’m really looking forward to seeing what we can do de-fensively and in transition with our level of speed,” Aston said. “I think with the older players, we have a lot of consistency with [them]. Now, where are the young players going to plug in and what can they con-

tribute to our team immedi-ately and maybe unexpected.”

The Longhorns will be without junior center Imani McGee-Stafford and fresh-man forward Diani Akigbo-gun because of injuries. As-ton said she has been pleased with how McGee-Stafford, her star center, has handled the injury.

“It was interesting to watch how [McGee-Stafford] would react to her injury and wheth-er she would be invested in the team or be a little distant,” As-ton said. “She’s been extremely invested — almost taken on a little bit of a coach role all of a sudden.”

No timetable is set for ei-ther injured players’ return, but, according to Aston, there is a “great possibility” that McGee-Stafford will play this season.

“Having a couple of injuries was a setback for our mind-sets to begin with, but it’s exciting,”

Aston said. “It’s exciting the potential of this team, and I’m cautious with the ‘poten-tial’ word because that’s what it is right now. You’re asking [the sophomores] to step for-ward, and the freshmen not to be freshmen and contribute heavily to our team.”

While expectations are high for the team, there is no reason to jump to conclusions after the first couple of games.

“But I also think that this team, from a chemistry per-spective, is going to take some time to gel, and it’s going to take some time,” Aston said. “But I’m really encouraged by where I think we will be.”

Ultimately, Aston believes the team will put a good product on the floor for fans to watch.

“Our team is going to be ex-citing,” Aston said. “It’s going to be one of those teams where the word is going to get out that we’re a fun team to watch.”

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After losing a heartbreak-ing penalty shoot-out against No. 9 West Virginia in the sec-ond round of last weekend’s Big 12 tournament, all the Texas women’s soccer team could do was cross its fingers and hope that a late-season surge would be enough to get them back to the NCAA tournament for the first time since 2011.

The results exceeded even head coach Angela Kelly’s expectations. Texas ended up getting not just a tournament bid but also the opportunity to host the opening round in Austin against the Con-ference USA champion Rice

Owls on Friday at 5 p.m. “Its great to have the se-

niors play in front of the home crowd for another time when you really weren’t ex-pecting it,” Kelly said. “That’s like icing on the cake for our senior class.”

The Longhorns will en-ter their second postsea-son tournament with a huge boost of confidence following last weekend’s strong showing against two ranked opponents in the Big 12 Championship.

“We did everything cor-rect, and it’s just a testament to our program and how much we’ve grown since the beginning of the year,” senior

Texas volleyball entered the season with two goals: win the Big 12 title and win a national championship. However, after a loss to Oklahoma on Oct. 25, the first goal was in jeopardy.

While the Longhorns’ loss

to the Sooners hurt Texas’ Big 12-title hopes, it helped the team refocus and fueled them to four-straight Big 12 wins.

“We are focusing on doing well in the conference,” sopho-more outside hitter Paulina Prieto Cerame. “Our main goal is to win the national championship, but we also

want to win our conference. Because we have a loss, that puts a little more pressure on our backs. We embrace that.”

With a 3-0 sweep against West Virginia on Nov. 7 and an Oklahoma loss to Iowa State on Wednesday, No. 5

Senior forward Jonathan Holmes needed to move from the four to the three. In simpler terms, he is mov-ing positions from the power forward to the small for-ward because the addition of freshman forward Myles Turner created a logjam in the frontcourt.

From an individual per-spective, the move will im-prove Holmes’ chances of playing at the next level — 6-foot-8 power forwards typically don’t make it in the NBA.

But, at 254 pounds, Holm-es wasn’t in the right shape for the change.

“Coach said to lose weight if I was serious about moving out to the wing,” Holmes said. “On the inside, it’s a lot more physical. On wing, it’s a lot more agility.”

So, with that, Holmes be-gan the shift.

He gave his Tiff ’s Treats to junior center Cameron Rid-ley, stopped eating pizza and started working out more.

“It felt like prison,” Holmes said.

By the time fall prac-tices started, Holmes had trimmed down to 232, shedding more than 20 pounds.

“He’s at the weight he needs to be if he wants to play some three,” junior forward Connor Lammert said.

But playing the position takes more than just having the right physical shape. Hol-mes has to be able to run with

the other teams’ wings, and he needs to be able to defend the smaller, quicker guys.

“Whether or not he plays, there will be [results] if he’s able to defend on the wing,” head coach Rick Barnes said a few weeks ago.

All indications point to Holmes being the three to start the season.

“I work on it every day in practice,” Holmes said. “I feel comfortable playing the three the whole game.”

The change will do

wonders for a talented Texas team that boasts a lofty No. 10 ranking. It makes the team more versatile and gives Barnes the option to go with a bigger lineup.

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Shelby Tauber | Daily Texan Staff or Associated PressFor his first three years in burnt orange, senior forward Jonathan Holmes was producing from the four, or power forward posti-tion. Now, after dropping more than 20 pounds, he will be making the change to the three, or small forward postition

Sarah Montgomery | Daily Texan Staff The Longhorns open the season at No. 9, but will be without junior center Imani McGee-Stafford because of an injury. For her career, she has averaged 11 points and 8.3 rebounds.

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Texas athletics sent out a full-blast email to students Wednes-day asking them for a favor.

The email, with the subject line “Burnt Or-ange Blowout,” asked stu-dents and faculty to wear burnt orange all day Fri-day in preparation for the Texas men’s basket-ball home opener against North Dakota State. While it is a typical practice

for schools to ask stu-dents to dress up, it is far from a common request in Austin.For the past few season, the Longhorns have strug-gled to gain any passion or support behind their basketball program. After getting knocked out in the third round of the NCAA tournament in 2011, Texas had trouble filling the burnt orange seats of the Frank Erwin Center.

However, Wednesday’s email represents a change in

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For Kendra Chambers, life is a constant workout. A former member of the UT track team, Chambers now works as a production assistant for the Longhorn Network, leads her own personal fitness group four days a week and drives to and from San Antonio al-most every day to train for the Olympics.

Passionate about be-ing the best that she can be in every aspect of her life, Chambers’ drive to compete in the Olym-pics comes not from the quest for fame — but from an internal want for accomplishment.

“When you want to do something the best that you can physically, there’s certain steps you have to take,” Chambers said. “For track and field, it comes with being on the world-class stage. I know if I’m in that setting, it will help push to max out my full potential.”

Chambers makes the dai-ly drive to San Antonio in order to be trained by coach Rose Monday, the middle distance chair for USA Track & Field.

“It’s great to be around the best of the best at what you do,” Chambers said. “We do a lot of workouts geared toward the 800 [meter] and the 1,500 [me-ter]. I’m learning a lot, and I’m excited.”

With the Olym-pics constantly on her mind, Chambers’ other dream of working for the

Longhorn Network keeps her in Austin. A few months after graduating, an adviser suggested Chambers apply for an open position at the Longhorn Network.

“[He] remembered that I was really into Long-horn Network, and that’s ultimately what I wanted to do after I graduated,” Chambers said. “A position opened up, and he was like, ‘Would you like to come in and interview for it?’ and I was like, ‘Of course,’ and it kind of just went from there.”

It didn’t take long be-fore Chambers realized she could use her own skills to help out fellow Longhorns. Chambers started her own training group, KC’s Fit-ness Crew, in order to ac-cess a larger amount of stu-dents and friends asking for her help.

“I created [KC’s Fitness Crew] after spending a month or two with friends [who] wanted me to help them work out,” Cham-bers said. “It evolved into other people wanting to come work out, and it just kind of snowballed into this.”

The fitness program has served as the perfect trial run for a future busi-ness venture, according to Chambers. When she is done competing, she plans to get her personal train-ing certificate and pur-sue training on a more professional level.

Courtney Coleman, busi-ness and marketing senior and Chambers’ boyfriend, often attends or watches the fitness sessions. Coleman said Chambers’ motivation has made a positive impact on his life.

“Her motivational at-titude was definitely one of the main things that at-tracted me to her,” Coleman said. “It helps me be the best that I can, and we help sup-port each other in any way we can.”

Stacey-Ann Smith, for-mer Texas athlete and one of Chambers’ best friends, said Chambers’ attitude helped her pursue her goals, too. Smith ran track at UT and lived with Chambers while they were students. Smith also spends her time pursu-ing a goal of competing in the Olympics while running her own physical boot camp.

“Kendra and I are go-getters,” Smith said. “We’re always trying to help other people, and we’re always trying to do things to better ourselves. I think the camp is something that’s helped us accomplish those things.”

When more than 270 girls were kidnapped from a school in Chibok, Nigeria, earlier this year, dance senior Tawny Garcia was shocked to see how quickly the story left the media spotlight.

This story, as well as other stories of violence against women, became the inspi-ration for Garcia’s dance production, “Gone,” which will debut Friday as part of the Department of Theatre and Dance’s annual “Fall for Dance” program.

“Initially, I had heard the story on social media,” Gar-cia said. “It was one of those stories that had a couple days notice, and then everyone was on to the next thing. I had a baby in January; I think that gave me a different outlook on it because, for the first time, I was seeing this as a mother rather than just as something that happened over there.”

Garcia said she found inspiration for her chore-ography from images her professor showed in a his-tory course that covers the Holocaust.

“I felt like the isolation and the mistreatment was all very similar as far as the mo-tion behind it,” Garcia said. “I knew I needed to some-how recreate the emotion that I felt when I saw these images in my piece.”

One movement Garcia based off these images in-volves the dancers cluster-ing together while one tries to reach out through them.

Garcia said this reminded her of images of people trapped under rubble, trying to escape.

The dancers’ costumes were picked with these themes in mind as well. Rebecca Bagley, a dance senior who is one of the dancers representing the Nigerian girls, said she will wear two costumes during the performance. She will begin dressed in a blue top and gray skirt — similar to that of a school-girl in Chibok — but will change into a nude-col-ored dress to represent be-ing taken and stripped of her identity.

Bagley said she en-joyed seeing how the production evolved.

“It was cool to be includ-ed in the process because, sometimes, a choreogra-pher can come in and give you a movement, and you don’t know where it is com-ing from,” Bagley said. “We were very informed about everything, so that definitely influences how we perform it because we are so invested in where this piece came from and what it is inspired by.”

Garcia said she learned a lot about violence against women during the creation of her dance.

“I think [these stories] are in the news,” Garcia said. “But I think we don’t really know how to take it in and change it because the vio-lence is almost too much to expect — that people could do that. But we need to ac-cept it for what it is and make it a larger story.”

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