The disappearance of 43 students in Mexico shows the Mexican state is in crisis, Javier Sicilia, Mexican writer and peace activist, said at a talk on campus Monday.

At the event, sponsored by the Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies Ben-son Latin American Studies and Collections, Sicilia spoke on the failures of the Mexican state to protect its citizens and to control widespread violence, referencing the recent abduc-tion and suspected murder of 43 students in Iguala, Mexico.

Sicilia, formerly a poet, founded Movement for Peace with Justice and Dignity in 2011, after his son was mur-dered by gang-related violence in Mexico. Sicilia and other members of the group traveled by bus, advocating for the legal-ization of drugs as a way to re-duce cartel violence in Mexico.

According to the Mexi-can Attorney General, Jesús Murillo Karam, the mayor of Iguala and his wife allegedly ordered Iguala police to kid-nap the students and deliver them to a local gang.

This alleged act of collu-sion between authorities and organized crime demonstrates a problem that has existed in Mexico for years, according to Sicilia. During the search for the 43 missing students, local authorities found nine graves containing 20 bodies in the outskirts of Iguala. Early DNA tests show the bodies do not belong to the missing students.

Raj Patel, research profes-sor in the LBJ School of Public Affairs, advocated for more community-based alternatives to end hunger and malnutri-tion in Africa during a talk at Townes Hall on Monday.

The lecture was the last event in the Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice’s

Health & Human Rights Col-loquium series.

According to Patel, during a summit in 2013, the G-8 countries launched the “New Alliance of Food Security and Nutrition in Africa,” set-ting a goal to lift 50 million people from poverty by 2022.

“It was launched in the United States as a public-private partnership under the Obama administration,” Patel

said. “What they said was, ‘We are never going to end hun-ger in Africa without private investment.’ There are things that only companies can do — like building silos for stor-age and developing seeds and fertilizers. What’s interesting about that is it’s wrong.”

The New Alliance model is too reliant on the private sec-

During her undergradu-ate years at the University of Florida, Brittany Rhea Dep-uty wanted to be in Disney parades and on Broadway. But she realized she was too tall to be Tinker Bell, and, once she graduated, she end-ed her musical theater career. When she got a research job through the University, she fell in love with libraries.

Rhea Deputy started re-reading old archives and da-tabases in her office. She did not feel like it was a profes-sion. Her new career would lead her to rural Alabama and eventually to Texas. Rhea Deputy is now a com-munications librarian at UT and works in a corner office at the Perry–Castañeda Library. She wears plaid, long-sleeved

shirts to stay warm in the air conditioning. She carries a walkie-talkie, in case some-one has a research meltdown, and displays her engagement photos on her desk. Although she organizes books, she said that is only a fraction of her job. She holds one-on-one consultations with graduate students and professors when they work on their research.

She said not all librarians have cats or wear cardigans. Instead, she said librarians

have special interests — her specialty is playing piano with her fiancé, who is a composer.

Rhea Deputy enjoys her job but is frustrated by the large size of UT. She wants to make genuine connections with the patrons. She does not expect much, but she believes her humor, knowledge and sto-ries will help her students grow.

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A group of protesters met with Thomas Gilli-gan, dean of the McCombs School of Business, on Monday to ask him to re-quest the school’s name-sake, Red McCombs, break his real estate firm’s lease that will pave the way for the construction of the big-gest immigrant detention facility in the nation.

The real estate firm, Koontz McCombs, signed the lease with U.S. Immigra-tion and Customs Enforce-ment and the Corrections Corporation of America to build the facility in Dilley, Texas. The facility, named the South Texas Family De-tention Center, projects a capacity of 2,400 detainees and is part of a government effort to address the surge of children and families

Parking and Transporta-tion Services officials say they anticipate a reduction in the number of parking citations they issue over the next few years because of a plan to address the Univer-sity’s parking assets and re-duce surface parking spots on campus.

Bob Harkins, associate vice president for campus safety and security, told The Daily Texan last week

that, under the 2012 Cam-pus Master Plan — which outlines development of the University campus for the next 30 years — the Uni-versity intends to construct buildings on current surface parking lots, creating the need for the construction of more parking garages. PTS is also planning to propose increased parking costs to help fund the new parking garages, he said.

Dennis Delaney, PTS events/operations manager, said PTS has already seen

a decrease in parking cita-tions, as more buildings and projects have taken up parking spaces over the past few years, and he an-ticipates seeing a further decrease with the imple-mented parking plan.

“As parking spaces are more concentrated, this would limit the number of locations that a violation can occur,” Delaney said.

Delaney could not provide an average number of daily

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The group of protesters, which included students, sought to speak with the dean about the business school’s position on the sub-ject. Cristina Parker, immi-gration projects coordinator at Grassroots Leadership and one of the six protesters who spoke with Gilligan, said one of her main concerns was McCombs’ involvement with the facilities.

“I think we all have a claim to UT as Texans, and we want to talk to him about our concerns,” Parker said. “It’s problematic for us that a man whose name is on the build-ing is profiting from a mod-ern day internment camp.”

Parker and other immi-gration advocates said de-tention facilities, which are located across the country, put the detainees through conditions that should be

considered violations of hu-man rights. Allegations of sexual assault and abuse led the Obama administration to end immigrant family de-tention at the T. Don Hutto Residential Center, which is also located in Texas and operated by the Corrections Corporation of America.

“We felt really disgusted that such a big represen-tative of UT is McCombs, and he is associated with this deal,” protester Clau-dia Munoz said. “We’re here to ask peacefully that the dean uses that relation-ship to tell [McCombs] that it’s his responsibility to stand up for immigrant families and children.”

According to Munoz, the dean told the group he will reach out to McCombs about the lease. She said Gilligan stated he is against the sys-tem of the detention cen-ters and believes McCombs

will listen to the claims of the protesters.

While University of-ficials would not confirm what Gilligan said during the meeting, UT spokes-man J.B. Bird said Gilligan shared the protesters’ con-cerns with McCombs.

Munoz, who was detained in Detroit for 20 days, said she is proof that the ste-reotype of detainees in the facilities being criminals is false because she has a clean

criminal record. According to Munoz, McCombs’ re-lationship with the facility could compromise the integ-rity of the University.

“To think that children would have to be put through that experience is horrify-ing,” Munoz said. “We have a deep investment in mak-ing sure that UT remains the institution that my nephews and nieces want to go to school to.”

Dave Kalloor, a protester

and UT alumnus, said he believes McCombs and University officials need to take into account the mes-sage they are sending if they play a role in the establish-ment of a facility that harms children and families.

“The motto of the Uni-versity is ‘what starts here changes the world,’ but what McCombs needs to decide is whether he wants to change the world for the worse or the better,” Kalloor said.

tor to be in the best interest of Africa, according to Patel.

“It’s hard for anyone to think of doing things without the private sector,” Patel said.

Instead, Patel argued a com-munity-based alternative mod-el in Africa could improve the crops grown and stop hunger.

“They intercrop: Farmers themselves become scientists, and there’s peer-to-peer net-working of farming and ag-riculture research,” Patel said. “In doing that, they have these farmer-scientist days where they work on their crops.”

According to Patel, there was still a high infant malnu-trition rate in Africa, and he believes this is linked to gen-der inequality.

“Harvesting is women’s work,” Patel said. “So is carrying water, catching firewood, cook-ing, breast-feeding. So the fa-thers themselves come up with a Food Network-style recipe days. These moments become spaces where there is equality.”

Daniel Brinks, co-director of the Rapoport Center, said Patel’s method may be diffi-cult to expand beyond small-er communities.

“It’s a challenge for us to think differently about how we address food insecurities,” Brinks said. “To move away from philanthropy and top-down effort and promote more bottom-up community efforts.”

International nutrition se-nior Maddy Bennett said she’s followed Patel’s work and found his presentation informative.

“[Patel] is very charismatic,” Bennett said. “I’ve read two of his books, and it changed my mind about what I want to do with my life.”

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The Center for Rus-sian, East European and Eurasian Studies invited James Koranyi, a history lecturer at Durham Uni-versity in the United King-dom, to discuss his book, which is still in progress, on British travelers in the Carpathian Arc.

Koranyi discussed Mon-day the travelers Charles Boner, David Thomas Ansted and Lion Philli-more. According to Ko-ranyi, the travelers dealt with the idea of modernity and how industrialization was changing ways of life in Europe. As the countries became more industrial-ized, some people began to long for the old way of life.

Koranyi said that, in 1863, Boner, who was the son of a German immigrant, de-veloped a relationship with British artist John Consta-ble. During his time with Constable, Boner discovered a painting that inspired him to journey outside of Brit-ain. During these travels, Boner looked for the culture Britain had lost during in-dustrialization by examin-ing German-Saxon culture.

“[Boner] began searching in 1853 in German areas,” Koranyi said. “In 1863, he would publish his work on his travels in Transylvania. He shows a sense of the division between East and West Europe but also the nostalgia of nature and the loss of life.”

Throughout his travels, Boner found better natural materials, such as honey, in

rural regions than in South-ern England, where he lived. Koranyi said Boner and Thomas Ansted became in-spirations for later British explorers who travelled to the Carpathians.

“[Boner and Thomas Ansted] mapped out routes through Transylvania and the Southern Carpathians and presented it in a way that

other travellers could follow,” Koranyi said.

The last person Koranyi discussed was Phillimore, a wealthy British woman who travelled to the Car-pathians with her husband. During her travels, Koranyi said Phillimore became torn between accepting the progress of modernity and rejecting it for a simpler

way of life. Mary Neuburger, director

for The Center for Russian, East European and Eur-asian Studies, said much of her work ties into Koranyi’s research. Neuburger has published two books on the topics of minorities and to-bacco in Bulgaria and is now working on a third book re-lating to American mission-

aries in Bulgaria. “[Koranyi] invited me to

Durham in the U.K. to work on a project because he was interested in what I did,” Neuburger said. “He asked if he could come give a talk.”

Lauren Gieseke, history senior at Southwestern Uni-versity in Georgetown, said she has been attending these lectures for her research

and was excited to hear Koranyi speak.

“My current research is focused on this same topic and time period — but in-stead looking at Yugosla-via,” Gieseke said. “This idea of the differences between East versus West Europe and modernity are something I should look into.”

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citations, but he said the de-partment issued 37,923 cita-tions last year.

According to Delaney, failing to pay a meter and failing to display a valid permit are the two most commonly issued citations, with some areas around campus more prone to cita-tions than others.

“The meters off Uni-versity [and San Jacinto] Boulevard have a high concentration of citations,”

Delaney said.UTPD spokeswoman

Cindy Posey said UTPD does not issue parking cita-tions but can issue criminal citations for violations of University parking and traf-fic regulations.

One type of citation UTPD can issue is called a “University citation,” and the other is a court ap-pearance ticket, according to the PTS website. PTS collects the money from University citations, while fees from court appear-ance tickets are sent over to

the Justice of the Peace in Precinct 5.

UTPD statistics show UTPD officers issued 420 warning, parking or moving citations last year.

Harkins said parking cita-tions account for 6 percent of PTS’ overall revenue.

According to PTS di-rector Bobby Stone, PTS is a self-funded auxiliary department of the Uni-versity, which means that no faculty or staff sala-ries or tuition dollars go toward supporting the parking system.

“The Mexican state is in crisis, but we don’t want to ac-cept it,” Sicilia said through a translator. ”This is a corrupt state that is showing what will happen if we do not reform.”

Sicilia said this crisis stems from the state’s economic priorities and the U.S.-spon-

sored war on drugs. Sicilia said he believes that legaliz-ing drugs in the U.S. would reduce violence in Mexico. He contrasted the threat of drugs with guns, which he said were more harmful.

A panel followed Sicilia’s talk, in which Hector Domin-guez-Ruvalcaba, a panelist and associate professor in the Department of Spanish and

Portuguese, said he believes the first step to ending the violence and corruption in Mexico is to jail corrupt politicians. Domin-guez-Ruvalcaba said Mexicans should work toward an end to impunity rather than burning down the presidential palace in Mexico City, as protesters at-tempted to do last week.

Panelist Yoalli Rodriguez Aguilera, a Latin American

studies graduate student, said he believes Mexicans should dismantle the state and cre-ate a new form of organiza-tion. Rodriguez Aguilera said Mexicans should follow the example of the Zapatistas, who started an autonomous move-ment in the 1990s.

“We need to imagine an-other way of organizing,” Ro-driguez Aguilera said.

Guest lecturer discusses Carpathian Arc travelersCAMPUS

Mariana Muñoz | Daily Texan StaffJames Koranyi, a history lecturer at Durham University in the United Kingdom, discusses his upcoming book Monday afternoon. The book explores the effects of industrialization on British travelers in the Carpathian Arc.

By Matthew Adams@MatthewAdams

Mariana Muñoz Daily Texan Staff

Javier Sicilia, a Mexican writer

and peace activ-ist, speaks on the failures of

the Mexican state to protect its citizens at a

talk on cam-pus Monday.

He referenced the situation in Iguala, Mexico,

where 43 college students have gone missing,

allegedly at the hands of Mexi-

can government.

UNIVERSITY

For president search, System makes website

On Monday, Paul Foster, Board of Regents chair-man, announced a new UT System website to ac-cept nominations from the public for the next UT-Austin president.

With President Wil-liam Powers Jr. set to step down from his position in June 2015, the website pro-vides a tentative timeline for the presidential search process and allows people to provide input about Powers’ successor.

“UT Austin is one of the most influential institutions in the world, and we want to do everything in our power to find an energetic and in-novative leader who will continue to enhance and advance UT Austin’s edu-cation, research and health care missions,” Foster said in a news release.

The Presidential Search Advisory Committee and Spencer Stuart, an executive search consulting firm, are also aiding in the presiden-tial search process. Accord-ing to the System, Spencer Stuart has already assembled a list of potential candidates whom they have sought out or who have expressed inter-est in the position.

The committee — led by Pedro Reyes, System executive vice chancellor for academic affairs, and Larry Faulkner, UT-Aus-tin president emeritus — will meet for the second time Tuesday.

In accordance with System rules, the Presi-dential Search Advisory Committee will make the final recommendations for potential candidates to the Board of Regents, which will make the final decision on who will re-place Powers.

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From Oct. 27 - Nov. 10, the Society for Islamic Awareness hosted events this in memory of Hus-sain ibn Ali’s revolution against injustice in the tragedy of Karbala, in which the grandson of the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) and his family and close companions were brutally massacred after they stood up against tyranny and oppression. The events are designed to create awareness and soli-darity for those who are oppressed. The tragedy of Karbala is religiously commemorated by the Shia sect of Islam, but the message of Karbala is univer-sal and is a historical reference for many activists and intellectuals.

The following is some history that set the stage for what Mahatma Gandhi described as a lesson in “how to achieve victory while oppressed.” Af-ter Ali ibn Talib, the fourth caliph, was murdered, Hassan ibn Ali looked to rightfully succeed him as Caliph. However, Mu’awiya, governor of then-Syria, incited a civil conflict for power, and Has-san, for a myriad of reasons, including a lack of support and concern for Muslim unity, signed a peace agreement with Mu’awiya. Among the clauses in the peace agreement, one of them stat-ed that Mu’awiya was not to appoint a successor, thereby allowing Hassan’s brother, Hussain ibn Ali, to succeed him. Mu’awiya broke this promise and appointed his son, Yazid. According to one historical account, “Like his father Mu’awiya, Ya-zid used all possible means like bribery, coercion, pressure, threats, and force to receive the people’s acceptance of him as the legitimate ruler.” How-ever, his greatest threat to power was Hussain, who had legitimacy and a following. Unlike Yazid and his like, Hussain’s actions were a reflection of the morality that is attributed to Prophet Muham-mad’s legacy; Hussain acted out of his moral and religious convictions not out of vice.

In 680 AD, Hussain, the grandson of the Prophet Muhammed (pbuh), his family and close companions made a journey to the city of Kufa after he had received 12,000 letters from the Kuf-

fians pleading for him intercede and free them from Yazid and his agents. In these letters, Hus-sain was promised support, but all the while, Ya-zid who had caught wind of this, suppressed the uprising through bribery, threats and the like. On the way to Kufa, Hussain and his 71 companions were stopped and sieged in Karbala by a military regiment of, by some accounts, 30,000 men. On Ashura, or the 10th day of Muharram, the first month of the Islamic Calendar, after three days without water under the hot desert sun, Hussain and most of his companions were slaughtered, with just a few of the party surviving. Every age group was represented among Hussain’s compan-ions, including his 6-month-old baby. Hussain had begged for mercy and water for his baby, but he was cruelly denied. This is one story of many, and it is the gruesome atrocities of the event that led Charles Dickens to conclude that “if Hussain had fought to quench his worldly desires … then I don’t understand why his sister, wife, and chil-dren accompanied him. It stands to reason there-fore, that he sacrificed purely for Islam.” After the massacre, the women of his family and his sickly child Zain Ul-abideen were bound and marched to Syria where they were further humiliated and oppressed.

The horrors of the tragedy simply cannot be described in a single piece; however, it is impor-tant to be aware of this historical event and its rel-evance to us, Muslims and non-Muslims alike. It’s clear that Ghandi and Dickens were inspired, and I believe we, too, can be inspired. Thomas Carlyle, a Scottish historian and essayist, stated that Hus-sain “...illustrated that the numerical superiority does not count when it comes to the truth and the falsehood. The victory of Husain, despite his mi-nority, marvels me.”

There is oppression everywhere. From the Uni-versity of Texas, to Capitol Hill, to nations abroad, people and the environment are suffering. One of the cited reasons for Hussain’s refusal of allegiance is that Yazid hoarded the treasury and political power for himself and allies. Another example is Yazid’s known womanizing. Hussain fought against economic and moral oppression. These are the very issues we face today, and that is why there is the saying that “every land is Karbala, and every day is Ashura,” implying that every day we must be a voice against oppression and injustice.

Rizvi is a government senior from Dallas.

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Don’t treat Putin with kid gloves, but neither with a heavy hand

Hussain ibn Ali’s story of suffering reminds Muslims to fight injustice

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By Syed RizviDaily Texan Columnist

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By Jeremi SuriDaily Texan Columnist

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Illustration by Shannon Butler / Daily Texan Staff

As observers of international affairs, we have a tendency to divide the world into good guys and bad guys, friends and foes. Old maps from the Second World War show the allied coun-tries in one color, the axis countries in another. Cold War maps depict our allies in blue or white, the communists usually in red. Since Sept. 11, 2001, American policymakers have divided the world roughly between our friends in the war against terrorism, and those states that support or house terrorists (what former President George W. Bush infamously called the “axis of evil”).

Russia, under its dictatorial president, Vlad-imir Putin, poses a problem for these some-what unavoidable colors on our maps. Putin’s actions in the last year have clearly shown that he aims to challenge American and West Eu-ropean influence in the territories around his state. Putin has invaded South Ossetia (for-merly part of the republic of Georgia), Crimea and eastern Ukraine to prevent those regions from joining the European Union or the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, despite strong support in each nation for cultivating these Western connections. Putin has flagrantly ve-toed efforts in the United Nations to punish Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad’s genocidal at-tacks on his own population. On July 17 para-military forces in eastern Ukraine operating Russian weapons shot down a civilian aircraft, Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, killing 298 civil-ians. Undaunted, Russia has continued to sup-port this kind of reckless behavior, including provocative military aircraft flights near E.U. and U.S. borders.

Some observers have diagnosed a new Cold War, with a renewed division in Europe, but that exaggerates the Russian threat. For all his brutality, Putin is not seeking to close off Russia to Western capital, people or ideas. If anything, he wants his chosen allies at home to benefit from foreign investments, high-skilled workers, innovative technologies and modern media. Putin recognizes that Russian power and prosperity require integration, not separa-tion, from global capitalist markets and knowl-edge industries. His goal is to manage Russia’s global integration for his maximum benefit, minimizing what he perceives as the advan-tages of the U.S. and E.U. Putin has shown little concern for the freedoms and living standards of his own citizens; his priority is the power of the state that he controls.

Condemning Putin as an aggressive tyrant is not sufficient, and it creates a self-fulfilling prophecy. Cornered and isolated dictators al-most never back down; they usually turn to more threatening policies. Similarly, ignoring Putin’s misdeeds and hoping for the best in ne-gotiations will not work, either. Aggressive and self-righteous tyrants seek to exploit opportu-nities; they will push against their neighbors until someone pushes back.

The challenge for American and European policy is to contend with the current realities

and the likely reactions from Putin toward var-ious Western actions. Many of our discussions of policy caricature our adversaries, while they simultaneously overstate our power and understate the range of our options. Like the simple lines and colors on our maps, our stra-tegic vision of the world is much too simple. The key task for policy observers is to avoid di-chotomies between good and evil and instead conceptualize how the United States can dis-courage Putin’s continued aggression without further antagonizing the Russian dictator by backing him into a corner.

What the United States needs is a policy that builds what former Secretary of State Dean Acheson called “situations of strength” while also offering Russia dignified exits from con-frontation. Rhetoric about “stopping” Russia overstates our capabilities, and efforts to hu-miliate Putin make the resolution of conflict more difficult. Backing down is hard for every-one, especially political strongmen who rule through intimidation. Firmness, preparation and respect — even for brutal regimes — are key elements of a workable relationship. Politi-cal efficacy requires reasonableness in addition to moral indignation.

So what does a firm, prepared, respectful and reasonable U.S. and E.U. policy toward Russia look like? Historical experience points to three basic elements. First, the U.S. and E.U. should state clearly why we believe that Ukraine, Georgia and other countries around Russia deserve the right to join the E.U., NATO and other Western organizations if they wish. We must show consistency, seriousness and interests beyond immediate gains for our own societies. An adversary, like Russia, cannot ap-preciate our interests and values if we do not articulate them effectively.

Second, attention to Ukraine, Georgia and other countries does not mean that Russia should be ignored. Quite the contrary, U.S. and E.U. leaders should reach out explicitly to show that we value dialogue with Russia. We should give Putin reasons to want to do the right thing.

Third, and perhaps most important, Wash-ington and Brussels must truly represent global opinion. Instead of falling into Putin’s trap of conceptualizing the conflict as a battle of the rich West against the rest, President Barack Obama and his counterparts must appeal to other major countries in East Asia, Latin Amer-ica and Africa. Putin must see that there is little sympathy for his behavior around the globe. World opinion matters, and skillful diplomatic work to mobilize world opinion on behalf of democracy and national sovereignty is crucial.

Although the lines on the maps still matter, they should not force our thinking into rigid “us” versus “them” assumptions. Putin’s Rus-sia is a threat, but it is a manageable threat. Policy leadership on this topic is more about diplomacy, negotiation and creativity than the moralistic rhetoric that dominates our public discussions. We can indeed help to lead the world without simplistically dividing it.

Suri is a professor in the Department of His-tory and the LBJ School of Public Affairs.

For all his brutality, Putin is not seeking to close off Russia to Western capital, people or ideas. If anything, he wants his chosen allies at home to ben-efit from foreign investments, high-skilled workers, innova-tive technologies and modern media.

What the United States needs is a policy that builds what former Secretary of State Dean Acheson called ‘situations of strength’ while also offering Russia dignified exits from confrontation. Rhetoric about ‘stopping’ Russia overstates our capabilities...

EDITORIAL

Bill filed to curb firing authority must be spared Abbott’s veto pen

Last week, Sen. Kel Seliger, R-Amarillo, filed a bill that would add restrictions to regents’ power. One of the bill’s most notable provisions would require members of the UT System Board of Regents to receive a recommendation from the chancellor before firing a president of one of the 15 UT institutions the board governs. A similar bill passed overwhelmingly in both the House and the Senate in 2013, but Gov. Rick Perry vetoed it, unsurprisingly because it would have limited the power of nine people he appointed. Since 2005, all of the regents have been Perry’s appointees be-cause of his longevity in office. Even though the current regents likely share many of Gov.-elect Greg Abbott’s political views, Abbott probably doesn’t have as strong a preference toward the re-gents as Perry did. This could mean Abbott will be more reasonable in deciding whether to veto bills limiting regents’ power. In February, three of the regents will be appointed by Abbott, but this is merely one-third of the board.

The regents’ rules do contain their power to an extent, especially after a rule change earlier this year. Now, the rules state that when a regent files an open records request, the regent must include the intention behind the request (which isn’t re-quired of regular citizens). Regent Wallace Hall has used this rule to defend himself by stating that some of his thousands of pages of open records requests have been for him as an individual citi-zen, not as a regent. This bill limits power in a dif-ferent way, because it requires regents to abide by restrictions created by legislators rather than by

the regents themselves.Requiring a recommendation from the chan-

cellor is best for the whole UT System because it adds an extra step to the process of firing a presi-dent. While some may think this step is unneces-sary, it’s crucial to maintaining order and fairness throughout the process. The chancellor’s views on what makes a good president may be differ-ent from the regents’, and different viewpoints help ensure the decision-making process is well thought-out and fair. Granted, the chancellor probably shares some of the regents’ views, but because both regents and outside consultants select the chancellor, it’s unlikely that he or she embodies just one person’s interests. The chan-cellor directs “management and administration of System Administration and all institutions of the UT System,” so making a recommendation to the regents before they can remove a presi-dent from office would make perfect sense. This has essentially already happened this year, when Chancellor Francisco Cigarroa asked President William Powers, Jr., in July to step down, which Cigarroa probably wouldn’t have done if at least some of the regents weren’t on board. Requiring the chancellor to make a recommendation to the regents before firing a president is by no means an unreasonable or difficult proposal.

If this bill passes, we would like to see Abbott begin his governorship by recognizing the impor-tance of a reasonable distance between the board and the universities, and refrain from vetoing this bill.

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to Texas. She likes Austin be-cause she said it reminds her of the diverse communities in Florida. She said Austin is a town full of cowboys and start-up companies.

“It wasn’t that big of a jump from singing mu-sicals to being a librarian because plays are stories,” Rhea Deputy said. “I went from musical stories to re-search stories. These are just as important.”

what happened. So far it has worked out really well.”

Fisher said he and Kamel first met at Flipnotics Cof-fee, a small coffeehouse and music venue that closed earlier this year. Fisher was playing a jam session at the venue when Kamel ar-rived, dressed in his hospi-tal scrubs and carrying his mandolin, asking whether he could join.

Kamel said his musical career has been a series of small steps toward progres-sively bigger things.

“I started small, I went to blue grass jams, I met other blue grass players, and I started a band that was just for fun called My Pet

Possum,” Kamel said. “There’s nothing more im-portant than practicing; if you’re going to compete in this town, you have to be good. I just happened to be passionate enough about it to practice really hard.”

Fisher said the success of Wood & Wire and The Gravy Brothers is partially because old-time and bluegrass mu-sic are not as common in Austin as other genres.

“Austin is a great com-munity that fosters a lot of creativity,” Fisher said. “I am always noticing that most of the music in Austin is people trying to do something new or trying to offer a new per-spective on a certain kind of music. It’s a great place for people to get together and be creative.”

attention as products men-tioned in like Vogue.”

The Hip Humanitarian’s online store also offers a wide range of lifestyle products such as jewelry, cosmetics and home dé-cor. Kahina Giving Beauty, a line of organic beauty products that donates a percentage of profits to support programs that im-prove women’s lives, and Canvas Home, which sells

home décor made of eco-friendly materials and gives 10 percent of its profits to organizations supporting artisan groups, are some of the vendors featured on the website.

“The companies that produce these products are not nonprofits,” Swin-dell said. “They’re creat-ing jobs and sustainable ways of life for people that wouldn’t have them other-wise. That’s the good that they do. Of course, all their materials and products

aren’t made in sweat shops. They’re made responsibly and in good conditions.”

Sam Wakefield is a co-founder of Crystal Creek Moonshine, a local dis-tillery that donates a per-centage of its profits to Glimmer of Hope — an organization that aids im-poverished Ethiopians. Wakefield helps Swind-ell discover and research the products she wants to include online or in the boxes.

“It shouldn’t be that

difficult to find high-end products that also do good for the world,” Swindell said. “But it is. You really have to search, and that’s part of our mission … to help make that process easier for people who don’t have the time.”

Wakefield said people’s response to The Hip Hu-manitarian has been over-whelmingly positive.

“People love the whole idea,” Wakefield said. “It just seems like a more sustainable way of doing

business. It also brings these smaller brands that are good into the limelight where previously they don’t have the budget or means of larger companies.”

Eventually, Swindell hopes to have a physical store.

“We would like to get to the point where we can donate a percentage of the profits to somewhere,” Swindell said. “That’s defi-nitely where we see things going. We’ll just let it grow and continue to expand so we can do more good.”

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The Gravy Broth-ers, an Austin-based old-time music duo, is made up of Tony Kamel and Dom Fisher, who are the artists-in-residence at the Cactus Cafe this month.

Yelling and being frustrat-ed at college football rank-ings is a tradition as old as the sport itself.

People love to say how much a particular poll is off in judging a team or just how wrong a ranking is — see the BCS, for example.

But with the next round of the College Football Playoff rankings coming out Tues-day night, and especially af-ter what happened last week, it would be wise for folks to take some advice from Aaron Rodgers, Green Bay Packers quarterback, and just “relax.”

The rankings that come out Tuesday are not the final rankings. Nor are next week’s or even the week after’s. There are four weeks remaining in the regular season, and, if we haven’t already learned this by now, this is still a very fluid situation.

Last week, the two big-gest issues that people had were with TCU being fourth while Baylor was behind in seventh — even though the Bears beat the Horned Frogs by 3 points last month — and Florida State dropping to third be-hind Oregon despite still being undefeated.

This week, the likely is-sues will be whether Ohio State deserves to be in the

coveted fourth spot, whether Mississippi State should stay in the top four — also open-ing up the debate of wheth-er the SEC should get two teams in the playoffs — and whether TCU should still have a higher ranking than Baylor. But no matter what the Week 13 rankings reveal, there shouldn’t be a loud up-roar over these issues, at least not yet.

The issue of whether Ohio State, and the Big 10 by vir-tue, should be in the play-offs will likely work itself out on the field. Any of the teams ahead of the Buck-eyes could easily still lose. Alabama still has to play Au-burn; Oregon will likely face off against a pesky Arizona

State team; Florida State still looks vulnerable; and Bay-lor and TCU each have a losable game. So regardless of the Buckeyes’ ranking, folks in Columbus should be patient.

The same can be said for Mississippi State fans. The Bulldogs have a potential loss against Ole Miss coming up but could also make the SEC title game if Alabama were to lose. That, combined with the likelihood that the SEC probably won’t get two teams because of the parity, should calm people both in and out of Starkville, Missis-sippi, until the last rankings come out.

Finally, the Baylor-TCU debate will likely continue

until the end of the season, but Baylor fans would be better off waiting until after the Kansas State game on Dec. 6 before making their argument, as Baylor could easily lose that game. Also, TCU could lose to Texas before that game even hap-pens. A win in that game, though, would equal the résumés, which the com-mittee has said would bring about the head-to-head tie breaker, which the Bears own.

But the point is that there’s no need to be fuming after the rankings are released. Yes, it’s okay to disagree with them, but it’s pointless to lose sleep over the order of the teams before it’s final.

There’s always a benefit to a fresh perspective — some-thing head coach Charlie Strong is well aware of.

Entering his first year at Texas, Strong didn’t bring preconceived notions of what works and what doesn’t. He didn’t assume stars from 2012 and 2013 would auto-matically be team leaders in 2014. Instead, he let each player prove himself during off-season training.

As a result, Strong has given a host of true freshmen serious playing time. Among them, wide receiver Armanti Foreman has secured his spot on the field. Playing in every game this season except the UCLA contest, Foreman has established himself as a pres-ence on Texas’ offensive and special teams units.

“He’s still a young receiver, still learning, but he’s going to develop into a really good player,” Strong said.

Against Oklahoma State in Stillwater, Oklahoma, last weekend, Foreman learned at least one thing: what it feels like to catch a touchdown. Driving home a 45-yard re-ception from sophomore quarterback Tyrone Swoopes in the fourth quarter, Fore-man capped off Texas’ 28-7 win. He also became the first freshman on the 2014 squad to score.

Swoopes said Fore-man and the other rook-ies elevated their level of play Saturday.

“It was great seeing young guys come in and step up,”

Swoopes said. “We’ve told them all season to stay ready because you just nev-er know. So it was great see-ing [Foreman] come in and have a big part in the win.”

Strong, too, commended the play.

“He made an unbeliev-able catch on that one that Tyrone laid out,” Strong said. “It looked like he hit another gear and went and got that ball, which was re-ally a big catch.”

Foreman has made big catches before. Ranked as

the No. 15 wide receiver in the class of 2014 by ESPN, Foreman caught 149 pass-es for 3,067 yards and 32 touchdowns throughout his high school career. He didn’t claim District 24-4A MVP in 2013 alone. In-stead, he and his brother D’Onta, freshman running back for Texas, shared the MVP honors. But Armanti Foreman has skills, and they don’t only extend to the offensive domain. The 2013 first-team All-District defensive back from Texas

City also has a knack for throwing off defenders.

“We put him back on kickoff return because he’s a guy that can make people miss,” Strong said. “You like to get him in because, once he gets in the open, he can make people miss and he can outrun people.”

Foreman still has a ways to go. But he’s moving for-ward, both figuratively and literally, as he posted a career-high two receptions for 74 yards this weekend. Although he only scored

directly on the second play, his initial 29-yard catch in the third quarter positioned Texas to kick a field goal. His presence on the field translates to the scoreboard quickly, and those points on the score-board translate to a win. Strong says many things help a program, but none more so than a win.

“Winning solves a lot of problems for you,” Strong said. “When you win games, guys start believing in the system.”

With senior Malcolm Brown graduating and ju-nior Johnathan Gray pos-sibly leaving early for the NFL draft, Texas is going to be looking for its next stable of running backs to lead the balanced running at-tack that head coach Charlie Strong wants.

Three backs in the 2015 recruiting class have already committed to the Long-horns, each with their own set of skills that could bolster the run game for the next four years.

Committed since April, Tristian Houston is a 5-foot-10, 203-pound speedster from North Shore High School in Galena Park, Texas. Rated as a four-star prospect by ESPN, Houston also held offers from UCLA, LSU and Mississippi State, among others. Houston ran for 18 TDs and almost 1,500 yards as a junior, net-ting almost 10 yards a carry.

On tape, it’s clear that Houston will not be used in short yardage situations, as he tends to rely on quick cuts

and shifty moves over physi-cal running, similar to Gray.

When Kirk Johnson end-ed his junior year at Valley Christian High School in San Jose, California, his only col-lege offer was from the Uni-versity of Texas. The 6-foot-1, 200-pound bruiser battled in-juries his junior year, leading to poor showings at a Nike event last summer and unim-pressive highlight tapes.

His father, former Long-horn legend Johnnie Johnson, said Kirk was only ever at 60 percent last season, caus-ing him to miss games and make a few colleges back off their recruitment. Assum-ing the younger Johnson can heal enough to play as well as his sophomore tape suggests, Texas could be glad other schools backed out. Johnson has the potential to combine his sub-4.5-second 40-yard dash speed and strong legs into a dangerous back, with the ability run through and past defenders.

Jordan Stevenson — of the football powerhouse South Oak Cliff High in Dallas — is a smaller back than the pre-vious two. At only 5 feet 9

inches and 185 pounds, Ste-venson will have to rely on his speed to be successful out of the backfield. He ran a 4.37-second 40-yard dash at the Dallas Nike Football Training Camp event in 2013, which matches most elite high school track stars. Although he’s not going to be able to

transform into a power back in college, his ability to get a low center of gravity and run behind his pads makes him difficult to bring down in the open field. One of Stevenson’s best attributes is his speed, and he runs laterally as little as possible to take advantage of his quickness.

Out of Texas’ three run-ning back commits, Steven-son has the best chance to get on the field early and often. Johnson is a bit of a wild card after an injury-plagued sea-son, and Houston hasn’t been utilized enough at North Shore to see what all he is capable of.

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Foreman gets chance to play in first year By Jori Epstein

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Shelby Tauber | Daily Texan Staff Freshman Armanti Foreman has played in the shadows of other receivers this season, but he caught the fans’ attention with a 45-yard touchdown reception against Oklahoma State on Saturday.

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Horns will need to reload at running back positionBy Brooke Daily

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Shelby Tauber | Daily Texan Staff Junior running back Jonathan Gray has one more year of eligibility left, but, with not a lot of depth behind him, the Longhorns will have to recruit more running backs.

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Volleyball moves up in AVCA Rankings

After clinching its fourth-straight Big 12 Championship with a win at Oklahoma on Saturday, the Longhorn volleyball team moved up two spots to third in the latest rankings by the American Volley-ball Coaches Association on Monday.

Texas benefited from the second- and third-ranked teams in last week’s rankings losing twice in the past week. Undefeated Washing-ton dropped its matches against Colorado and Utah — both in five sets — while Florida State lost its first two matches of the season to North Carolina and Duke in four sets.

In the Ratings Percent-age Index rankings, which is based on a computer formula that has played a large role in determining at-large and top-16 teams in the tournament — the Longhorns moved up to second, placing them in a good position to be a top-ranked team in the NCAA tournament.

The Longhorns fin-ish out conference play with matches at Baylor on Wednesday night, at home against Kansas on Saturday and at TCU on Nov. 26. Texas ends the regular season with a home match against No. 6 Florida on Nov. 29.

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Of all the music floating around Austin, the banjo-heavy twang of old-time music is not the most com-mon sound echoing in the streets. Tony Kamel and Dom Fisher, or The Gravy Brothers, have been deter-mined to bring that style back to the current Austin music scene.

Throughout November,

The Gravy Brothers are the artists-in-residence at Cactus Cafe. They play every Mon-day night at 9 p.m. after an opening act plays at 8 p.m.

Kamel and Fisher primar-ily play in a larger Austin-based bluegrass band called Wood & Wire, but they use The Gravy Brothers as an outlet to play a different kind of music.

“Old-time is more of a meditative kind of mu-sic than the hard-driving

bluegrass we play [with Wood & Wire],” Fisher said. “It’s very repetitive. It’s more about the melody, and it has simple stories in the lyrics. It’s a very pared-down music for sitting around in a circle and playing and trading that melody back and forth.”

One of the defining char-acteristics of old-time mu-sic is a style of banjo pick-ing called clawhammer, in which a musician picks up with fingers and down with

the thumb. This is quite dif-ferent from the three-finger style used in typical blue-grass bands, such as Wood & Wire, which has the thumb, index and middle fingers rapidly picked one after the other.

Although Fisher and Kamel have been play-ing music together for a long time, they come from different backgrounds.

Before their careers in music, Fisher studied

jazz at Ithaca College in up-state New York, and Kamel worked full-time in medi-cal sales selling orthopedic prosthetic implants for total joint replacement surgeries.

“It was a lucrative field, and I was good at it and I ac-tually loved it, but this thing

was growing fast enough, and I saw an opportunity to make a career making music,” Kamel said. “I am a firm believer in ‘you only have one life,’ and I figured I would just dive in and see

When UT alumna Hayley Swindell was still in col-lege, she and her sorority sisters set up pop-up shops on South Congress Avenue, selling clothes they rarely used to whomever was will-ing to buy.

Once they sold every-thing, Swindell and her sisters took the money they made and donated it all to local nonprofits. This ex-perience helped Swindell create her socially respon-sible online boutique, The Hip Humanitarian.

“People don’t usually know what socially responsible means exactly,” Swindell said. “What I tell them is that each of our products that we sell online and all the products in our boxes have to meet standards. They either have to be fair trade, eco-friendly, organic or come from a com-pany that is extremely phil-anthropic in some way.”

After graduating in 2012, Swindell founded her business when she de-cided she needed to turn her love of philanthropy into a living. This Octo-ber, The Hip Humanitarian launched online.

Although there are indi-vidual products for sale, the main feature The Hip Hu-manitarian offers is a “sub-scription box.” Customers can sign up for different payment plans to receive monthly boxes that come with pre-selected items. The boxes come in three different styles to offer a more-tailored product to each consumer. The choices include The Minimalist, The Hollywood and The Free Spirit.

“The boxes’ purposes are to introduce people to all the amazing ethically made products out there,” Swindell said. “A lot of the time they don’t get as much

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Marshall Tidrick | Daily Texan StaffUT alumna Hayley Swindell combined her love of fashion and philanthropy in her online boutique, The Hip Humanitarian. On the site, Swindell offers products only from companies with an environmental, social or humanitarian focus.

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Austin-based old-time band plays at Cactus CafeIt’s more about the melody, and it has simple stories in the lyrics.

—Dom Fisher, Member of The Gravy Brothers