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Students from the archi-tecture school showcased their furniture pieces at an exhibition Thursday.
Specialist Mark Macek taught six architecture stu-dents, many of whom had no prior experience with woodcrafting, in his wood design class. They learned about several species of wood, studied furniture design history and visited local craftsmen.
“What’s unique about furniture is that humans use and interact with it,” Macek said. “Students have to be very tactile.”
Architecture graduate stu-dent Grace Dixon said the course helped her learn basic woodcrafting skills and ap-ply her knowledge to con-struct something practical.
“I didn’t even know how to operate power tools be-fore the course, but Mr. Macek guided us along the way,” Dixon said.
Although the students plan to pursue various ca-reers in architecture and
design outside of wood-working, Macek said they learned valuable skills that will help them in their respective fields.
“They share a common objective, which is to learn how to build,” Macek said. “Designers need to under-stand the process of mak-ing their designs. The only
way to truly do this is by physically using the tools and materials.”
Architecture graduate student Jordan Teitelbaum said learning about the steps that go into making a furni-ture piece will help him ap-ply similar skills to architec-tural design.
“As a designer,
understanding the pro-cess of building will allow me to design in a much more intelligent way,” Teitelbaum said.
Macek gave students six weeks to work on their projects. Teitelbaum said he and other students worked
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TA task force calls for lighter workload Abbott aims to recruit high-profile researchers
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The College of Liberal Arts TA task force released recommendations Thursday addressing issues concern-ing graduate TAs and assis-tant instructors (AIs). The recommendations include defining TA responsibilities more clearly, alleviating the amount of grading and in-creasing job security.
The task force distributed a survey to 1,300 current or former TAs and AIs assessing their satisfaction with current job policies. The task force re-ceived 681 survey responses.
Based on the responses, the task force put together a report of recommendations, which will be passed off to chair members and com-mittees for consideration, according to Esther Raizen, COLA associate dean for
research and graduate studies. “The College is commit-
ted, from the dean down, to making sure their recom-mendations are seriously considered and implement-ed to the degree that it’s pos-sible,” Raizen said.
The recommendations included both a contract be-tween the TA and the pro-fessor and a TA handbook. Justin Doran, task force member and spokesman,
said both measures are in-tended to decrease confusion about job responsibilities and to protect TAs from excessive amounts of work. Accord-ing to the report, 26 percent of survey respondents work more than 20 hours a week.
“One of the things that we found is that [a majority of the] time of graduate teaching assistants is spent on grad-ing,” Doran said. “Grading is a chore. It’s extremely time
consuming because it increas-es linearly with the number of students you have.”
Doran said he hopes ini-tiatives, such as the contract, will help avoid unnecessary amounts of grading. The task force will reconvene at the end of the semester to review their recommendations.
The Graduate Student As-sembly will look at the issue
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Legislator, protestors disrupt Muslim rally
By Samantha Ketterer@sam_kett
Gov. Greg Abbott pro-posed the creation of a fund Thursday to incentivize uni-versities across the state to hire prestigious faculty.
Under Abbott’s new pro-posal, the University Re-search Initiative, colleges and universities across Texas would be eligible to receive a portion of the fund to recruit nationally recognized, es-tablished researchers to join their faculties.
The money would come from the elimination of the Texas Emerging Technology Fund, founded by the legisla-ture at the request of former Gov. Rick Perry in 2005. The fund, currently worth $485 million, was created to give Texas an advantage in the technology field.
Fifty percent of the TETF fund would go to the Texas Enterprise Fund, a fund to at-tract and retain businesses in the state. The other half of the TETF would go to the High-er Education Coordinating Board to fund the University Research Initiative.
According to a statement released by the governor’s of-fice, researchers who qualify under the proposal would be either a Nobel Laureate, Academy Member or some-one of an equivalent achieve-ment level.
In the statement, Ab-bott said he encouraged universities to recruit
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State Rep. Molly White (R-Belton) drew criticism Thursday after asking Mus-lim visitors to the Capitol to “renounce Islamic terrorist groups” during an event UT students helped plan.
About 600 people attend-ed Muslim Capitol Day, an annual event hosted by the Texas chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Rela-tions, to voice their legisla-tive priorities and advocate for religious tolerance.
Rep. White, who is out of town visiting her dis-trict, instructed her staff to tell Muslim visitors to publicly pledge allegiance to American law.
“I did leave an Israeli flag on the reception desk in my office with instructions to staff to ask representatives from the Muslim commu-nity to renounce Islamic Michael Baez | Daily Texan Staff
Muslim students and community leaders walk away from the Capitol after a rally hosted by the Council on American-Islam-ic Relations on Thursday morning. Thursday marked the eighth annual Muslim Capitol Day.PROTEST page 2
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Professor discusses book on black British artist histories
According to Eddie Cham-bers, art and art history as-sociate professor, black artists from Africa, South Asia and the Caribbean faced exclu-sion from British art galler-ies and museums because of their race and ethnic back-grounds. In a lecture Thurs-day, Chambers discussed his book, “Black Artists in Brit-ish Art: A History Since the 1950s,” on the undocumented history of black British art-ists who included elements of their heritage into their art.
Chambers said many of the artists incorporated their strug-gles with identity into their work because of the influence of their immigrant parents.
“A generation of people who [were] born to migrant parents — primarily Carib-bean migrant parents — came [to England] in the mid ’50s to late ’60s,” Chambers said. “All these tussles of retention and assimilation are present in the works of these artists.”
Cherise Smith, director of
the Warfield Center of Afri-can and African American Studies, said many black British artists have not re-ceived attention for their work, even though they re-main a prominent part of the British art community.
“It’s important to study be-cause it’s an important part of British culture and all of art history that has been left out until now,” Smith said. “Cura-tors just didn’t recognize art-ists of color who were black and who were of Asian de-scent as recognizable artists.”
The artists started their own exhibitions in the 1980s as part of the Young British Artists (YBA) movement, which in-fluenced contemporary artists such as artist-turned-director Steve McQueen and Chris Ofili, who incorporates ele-phant dung into his paintings.
“The effects of the YBA continue right up to the present day,” Chambers said. “They’ve influenced several generations of artists that’ve come up after them.”
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Students exhibit handmade furnitureBy Rund Khayyat
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Griffin Smith | Daily Texan StaffThe Materials Lab showcased finished furniture pieces created by students in Mark Macek’s wood design class.
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Maryam Ohadi-Hamadani, an art history graduate student who studies black British art-ists, said she understands the importance of studying this unknown part of art history.
“The fact that there’s been so little written on this part of history,” Ohadi-Hamadani said. “So having any sort of book that is able to bring any-thing to that is interesting.”
Chambers said he wanted to write the book to document the history of artists who continue to diversify the art community.
“The art world now is very different than how it was 20 or 30 years ago,” Chambers said. “As for the presence of black artists in the British art world, I think it’s still quite tenuous.”
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Griffin Smith | Daily Texan StaffNational Rent-A-Fence employees Jaquarius Jenkins and Anthony Fresch disassemble a fence recently used for construction near the FAC on Thursday.
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Mariana Muñoz | Daily Texan StaffEddie Chambers, art and art history associate professor, discusses his book “Black Artists in British Art: A History Since the 1950s” at the new Black and Latino Studies Building on Thursday afternoon.
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researchers who specialize in math, science, technology and engineering.
UT System spokeswoman Karen Adler said the TETF has given some money to higher education in the past, but Abbott’s plan would ben-efit the UT System schools to a greater degree.
“The Emerging Technol-ogy Fund has been ben-eficial to higher education, and we are grateful for it,” Adler said. “We appreci-ate Gov. Abbott’s recogni-tion of the value of the state helping universities recruit faculty to advance learn-ing, research and the state’s economy and look forward to working with him and the legislature as his pro-posal works its way through
the process.”UT spokesman Gary
Susswein said although the administration is still re-viewing the governor’s pro-posal, it looks like a step in the right direction.
“Obviously, one of the keys to maintaining and in-creasing your excellence as a university is to have the very best faculty,” Susswein said. “They create a robust learning environment, they help students, and they help foster world-changing re-search. Having the resourc-es to be able to hire the best faculty, who, in turn, help cultivate the best students, is very important.”
The elimination of the TETF will not adversely impact Texas’ economy,
according to Abbott. “Texas will continue to
make meaningful and effec-tive investments in job cre-ation,” Abbott said. “Now, we must also harness our resources to elevate Texas’ higher education institutions as integral participants in our economic advancement.”
Abbott said his plan will attract renowned research-ers, help stimulate the state’s economy and benefit Texas universities. In his plan, Ab-bott said Texas universities have the potential to have five schools among the top 10 in the country.
“Texas will be home of the research centers and great minds that will trans-form the next generation,” Abbott said.
terrorist groups and pub-licly announce allegiance to America and our laws,” White wrote in a public Facebook post. “We will see how long they stay in my office.”
Government senior Usama Malik, vice presi-dent of UT’s Muslim Stu-dent Association, said Muslims should not have to work harder to prove their patriotism.
“It’s kind of a double stan-dard,” said Malik, who orga-nized the event. “Seeing her comments [does] not really enrage us. It just shows us that we have a lot of work to do in this country, and that this attitude of having to apologize for the actions of others needs to end once and for all.”
Shiyam Galyon, who graduated from UT in 2012, traveled from Houston with the Syrian-American
Council for the rally. Galyon said people of all religions should have the right to assemble and voice their opinions.
“When a group wants to organize for their rights, we want to support that,” Galyon said.
While visitors from across Texas rallied for the seventh annual Muslim Capitol Day, protesters arrived holding signs with phrases such as, “Save America, Stop Is-lam,” and interrupted the rally speakers throughout the event.
Rick Ellis, a protester at the rally from Axtell, Tex-as, said he thinks Muslims should not practice their religion in America.
“If they want to come as Americans, fine,” Ellis said. “If they want to come and live as Muslims, go back to the Middle East.”
Muslim Student Associa-tion President Rawand Ab-delghani, psychology junior, said she was disappointed
that the protesters inter-rupted the rally, which was meant to be peaceful.
“Most Muslims, espe-cially the younger gen-eration, were born in the U.S., and they consider themselves Americans and part of the commu-nity,” Abdelghani said. “It was meant to be an event that brought the commu-nity together and brought Muslims together, Muslims and non-Muslims.”
Malik, the event co-planner, said it is university students’ responsibility to address people’s ignorance about Islam.
“It’s now imperative for us to take this to another level and defend Islam from these types of things,” Ma-lik said. “Because we un-derstand where the hatred is coming from and what the types of ignorance are — in light of this coun-try’s history — and how to combat that.”
of TA rights in its upcom-ing Graduate Student Bill of Rights legislation, according to Elizabeth Cozzolino, GSA stu-dent affairs director. She said both the task force and GSA might face problems enforcing the recommendations.
“Even if the recommenda-tions are expected by the col-lege, there is no enforcement mechanism,” Cozzolino said.
The goal is to get TAs to work only 20 hours a week, Doran said, but that may mean increasing the number of TAs and decreasing their pay.
“We would love it if there were more graduate TAs, but as I understand it, there is a set budget for teaching as-sistants and assistant instruc-tors, and that money hasn’t increased for many years,” Doran said.
The survey found 64 per-cent of students surveyed were dissatisfied with their current TA compensation based on
their typical workload.As a result of increased
living expenses, TA stipends are approximately $3,500 less than the cost of attending the University, according to Rai-zen. She said the number of TAs decreased by 12 percent between 2008 and 2013.
“Over time, Austin also has become so expensive that the cost of living here has skyrocketed, and we have not kept up,” Raizen said.
The task force proposed the option for TAs to receive stipends over a 12-month pe-riod, as opposed to the cur-rent 9 months.
“We don’t have money, and there’s no question that we want to increase TA sti-pends, because [TAs] don’t meet the cost of attendance,” Raizen said. “If we reduce the number of TAs at some point, we’ll get to the point where we will not be able to do what we [need] in terms of instruction. There needs to be some new thinking about resources that we can apply.”
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about 100 hours outside of class in the woodshop — four to eight hours a day — to complete their pieces.
The exhibition took place in the University Co-op Ma-terials Lab, which features a library of over 27,000 mate-rials, including translucent concrete and aerogel — the lightest material on Earth.
Architecture senior Claire Fontaine works in the lab and encourages students to take advantage of all the re-sources it offers.
“The Material Lab is a hid-den gem on campus,” Fon-taine said. “It is an amazing resource and reference for all UT students, professors and even professionals around the area.”
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CORRECTIONSIn the Jan. 29 edition of The Daily Texan, the article “Recent graduate to release first art book” included three quotes copied verbatim from a USA Today article title “Texas student uses visual art to inspire social change.” The Daily Texan takes all instances of plagiarism seriously and formally apologizes for the violation of our readers’ trust.
In the same article, Lakeem Wilson was misidentified as a cofounder of Red Throat House. He is a contributor.
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their typical workload.As a result of increased
living expenses, TA stipends are approximately $3,500 less than the cost of attending the University, according to Rai-zen. She said the number of TAs decreased by 12 percent between 2008 and 2013.
“Over time, Austin also has become so expensive that the cost of living here has skyrocketed, and we have not kept up,” Raizen said.
The task force proposed the option for TAs to receive stipends over a 12-month pe-riod, as opposed to the cur-rent 9 months.
“We don’t have money, and there’s no question that we want to increase TA sti-pends, because [TAs] don’t meet the cost of attendance,” Raizen said. “If we reduce the number of TAs at some point, we’ll get to the point where we will not be able to do what we [need] in terms of instruction. There needs to be some new thinking about resources that we can apply.”
Throughout the long governorship of Rick Perry, which extended throughout the first one and a half decades of this century, a key cornerstone of economic policy was investment funds. Ostensibly, they would provide incentives, subsidies and other advantages to job-creating enti-ties, enticing them to do business in this state and — in the process — stimulating the economy. In practice, however, these programs were thinly veiled slush funds, in which Perry’s friends and benefactors would all too often receive plush payouts. Numerous audits suggest the economic benefits were minimal.
Accordingly, we were excited to hear that Gov. Greg Abbott proposed the elimi-nation of one of these funds, the Texas Emerging Technology Fund. Since its cre-ation 10 years ago, it has doled out hun-dreds of millions of dollars. In 2011, the state auditor’s office penned a scathing report that lambasted the fund’s lack of transparency, prompting many to ques-tion its underlying effectiveness. Make no mistake: The elimination of this ex-ample of crony capitalism would be good for Texas.
But it was Abbott’s suggestion for the fund’s replacement that truly elated us. The new governor’s plan would take half the ETF money and forward it into a new fund named the Governor’s University Re-search Initiative. This fund, in turn, would provide matching funds for any state uni-versity that seeks to recruit renowned faculty, namely Nobel Prize laureates and members of the National Academy. There would be an exception for any university that seeks to poach faculty from another Texas school, but anywhere else across the
nation would be fair game. Abbott’s office particularly homed in on academics in the so-called “STEM” category of science, technology, engineering and math.
Unfortunately, Abbott’s plan dedicates the remainder of the ETF money to anoth-er controversial Perry-era slush fund: the Texas Enterprise Fund. The TEF was par-ticularly in the news during the guberna-torial election last year, when unscrupu-lous dealings of some of its beneficiaries came to light. In light of the positive steps Abbott took in heralding the elimination of the ETF and pledging more money to-ward university faculty improvement, we are disappointed to see some continued commitment to cronyism.
However, most importantly in our view, this proposal shows Abbott’s con-tinued attention to academic and scho-lastic excellence within institutions of higher education. This sharply contrasts with Perry’s typical approach of treating higher education like a business and at-tempting to squeeze the most products out regardless of other costs. Abbott un-derstands that the true value of a college education extends to something deeper, something that transcends just the class-es one takes. A huge part of that boils down to the quality of the professors at the school in question.
Be it his recent picks for state univer-sities’ respective boards of regents or this recent action, Abbott has truly blazed a new trail on higher education issues that is markedly different from his predecessor’s. It is more pragmatic, less ideological and far more centrist. We hope higher educa-tion is not the only issue he takes that ap-proach on.
4RILEY BRANDS, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF / @TexanEditorialFriday, January 30, 2015
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Charlie Hebdo shootings should force discussion among UT media
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I’m not proud to say that in the over half-dozen times I’ve been to France, I never even noticed Charlie Hebdo. But I think it’s safe to say that Charlie Hebdo was unknown to many other Americans before the tragedy earlier this month.
Americans’ lack of knowledge was clear when the public outcry, “Je suis Charlie,” seemed to morph into what sounded like “Je suis Char-lie?” followed by “Wait, who exactly is Charlie?” The media seemed equally confused. Reports, broadcasts and tweets documented a mix-ture of assertions about freedom of speech and voices of anger about a lack of sensitivity toward French Muslims.
Weeks after the event, I’m still struggling to come to a resting point on the issue. My under-standing has reached a frustrating dead end and I feel conflicted and powerless.
The only solution, I believe, is to shift the de-bate to an arena where I have some influence. Here at UT, we can all learn from the events at Charlie Hebdo to start building our own brand of satire. We’re in a perfect microcosm for debating free speech, cultural issues and the merits of ir-reverence, and we have the luxury (and liability) of instant feedback from the campus community. Let’s start the experiment!
We already have our very own humor publi-cation, the Texas Travesty. These Onion-ites in training have the capability of pushing our but-tons for a higher purpose and I think we should let them push a little harder.
The Travesty is primarily an entertainment and humor paper. Chris Gilman, the Travesty’s editor-in-chief, says the publication is open to covering controversial issues in a tasteful man-ner. But would our student body be open to this?
A recent discussion about satire and Char-lie Hebdo with my fellow journalism students showed just how divided and sensitive we are. Some were offended by the magazine’s apparent mocking of religion in general, not just Islam.
“I’ve seen the cartoons of the pope,” said Te-resa Mioli, a Latin American studies master’s stu-dent and journalist. “That like makes me mad as a Catholic.”
Others vented frustration at how uptight ev-eryone seems lately.
“People will keep getting offended,” said jour-nalism master’s student Andrea Nedorostova. “That’s something you cannot change.”
But, Nedorostova says, the blow of pointed commentary can be softened with humor that can appeal to everyone.
“If they make it really funny and let’s say 90 percent of people laugh at it, I think that’s a suc-cess,” she says, especially when international stu-
dents and people of various ethnicities and back-grounds all get the joke.
The portrayal of the Prophet Muhammad of-fended the Travesty’s own illustrator and graphic designer, Hazel O’Neil, who says she doesn’t ac-cept the excuse that Charlie Hebdo is an equal opportunity offender.
These interactions have taught me that stu-dents value cultural sensitivity just as much as the ability to have a thick skin. So how do we trans-late these values into our own campus legacy of satire?
For starters it should exist. The Travesty does a good job of lightly poking fun at issues, and has rightly avoided attacking “low-hanging fruit,” Gilman said. But they could shape them-selves into a respected voice for dissent, or at least irreverence, on major issues that affect the campus community.
The Travesty already has the will and intelli-gence to do this. Gilman has said that UT’s Stu-dent Government is ripe for satire. He wants to poke fun at how its insular nature may lead to a lack of perspective from student leaders.
“It’s pretty much predetermined who’s going to run and who’s going to win [in Student Govern-ment],” Gilman says.
We also need to utilize the hundreds of experts on campus to help make our brand of satire intel-ligent. These experts can push our satirists to be as informed as possible before taking a crack at an issue. We can harness this knowledge to make our satire legacy less about provoking and more about starting a discussion.
And the discussion certainly wouldn’t be one-sided, with the Travesty holding all the cards. Social media provides readers the opportunity to give instant feedback. This would either help build a thick skin for Travesty writers, or help refine their message. The Travesty’s increasing presence over the past two years is evidence that it’s prepared to engage with the campus community, but its mea-ger record of complaints, says Gilman, may mean it’s not challenging readers enough.
Lately, it feels like we’re in an era of apathy. Perhaps our devices are satiating our emotional needs, but that can’t last forever. Now is the per-fect time to shake things up and grab students’ attention. Satire is the perfect medium to bring difficult issues to the fore without boring students or scaring them away.
Most of us will never fully relate to the French experience after Charlie Hebdo. All we can do is create our own legacy of satire at UT to know what it’s like to balance free speech with the sensi-tivities of marginalized groups. We can’t be afraid to offend, but let’s let our offenses serve the high-est purpose possible.
Covington is a journalism graduate student from Laguna Niguel, California.
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Marshall Tidrick| Daily Texan StaffGov. Greg Abbott speaks at a press conference following his victory over Wendy Davis in November.
GSA tackles graduate housing
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Improving graduate student housing options has been discussed for years at the University. The average wait time for graduate students to rent a University apartment is one-and-a-half years — about as long as it takes most master’s students to finish their degree. To tackle this problem, the Graduate Student Assembly last semester formed a special housing commit-tee consisting of six members. Its progress was discussed at Tuesday’s GSA meeting, the first of the semester.
“We have been hearing from our constituents for many years that they want to have a place that’s close to campus and affordable,” GSA Presi-dent Brian Wilkey told the Texan.
GSA Vice President Vance Roper told the Tex-an that the housing committee has been design-
ing surveys, planning to do focus groups to de-termine the ideal housing for graduate students.
However, their work won’t be easy. The cost of living in Austin has been rising for years now, and the options closest to campus tend to be cen-tered on undergraduates.
The good news, according to Wilkey and Roper, is that administrators are listening to graduate students’ concerns and often turn to GSA for information about graduate student housing needs.
To answer their questions, the committee will continue to gather information from the gradu-ate student body in the coming months to best tailor its solutions.
As a graduate student, I applaud the commit-tee’s dedication to better accommodating UT’s large community of graduate students.
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Mariana Gonzalez| Daily Texan StaffGSA President Brian Wilkey speaks at Tuesday’s meeting.
By Olive LiuAssociate Editor
Late in the second half against rival No. 24 Okla-homa Thursday night, No. 14 Texas once again found itself trying to pull out a late win.
With 13:49 left in the game, the Sooners held an 8-point lead, but the Long-horns erased the deficit on a 17-9 run to tie the game and send it into double overtime, in which they eventually pre-vailed 84-81.
Head coach Karen Aston said she thought the team’s resilience was intrinsic to its victory.
“Obviously we’ve been through some adversity the last couple of weeks,” head coach Karen Aston said. “I thought we didn’t let [the game] get away from a mental perspective. This team had fight in it tonight. They never showed any signs that they were down on themselves.”
The Longhorns (15-4, 4-4) did have a lot to feel down about in the month of Janu-ary, finishing this month with an even .500 record.
The Longhorns went 2-4 in a six game stretch in the middle of the month to push them four games out of the conference lead.
Moving into the lat-ter half of the conference schedule, the Longhorns will work to prevent op-ponents from outscoring them in the second half. In eight games this month, the team has only outscored three opponents in the sec-ond half. In all of its losses, Texas was outproduced by a total of 143-108.
Aston said the team learned more from those losses than its wins.
“In the last couple of games that we lost, we had certain points where we can reflect back and say, ‘these are things that we need to learn from,’” Aston said. “And tonight we took those and didn’t make the same mistakes again, which I really thought was the difference [tonight].”
The Longhorns also saw injuries in January, which in-cluded senior forward Nneka Enemkpali, who is out for the season with a torn ACL.
The injuries have pushed in-experienced players straight into the mix, making bench points critical for the Long-horns as they enter the latter half of the conference sched-ule. So far this season, Texas has averaged nearly 23 points per conference game off the bench.
Aston said everyone had an equal part in Texas’ success over the Sooners on Thursday.
“I said all along from the very beginning this team has
to be about [that],” Aston said. “This is by far one of the best team wins and team per-formances of the year.”
Junior center Imani Mc-Gee-Stafford, who scored 15 points and grabbed 11 rebounds, said she knows it is important to take ev-ery opportunity to claim a win.
“All of the older people re-member freshman year, and we remember how losses can spin out of control,” McGee-Stafford said. “So we knew
that we needed a win and get our confidence back up.”
Despite their struggles, the Longhorns will still look for-ward to the next few months. Freshman guard Ariel Atkins said she hopes the team will build momentum off the ad-versity they’ve faced.
“If you noticed, after ev-erything that happened we huddled together, and that was our way to bring each other back into the focus and focus on the team goal,” At-kins said.
Head coach Karen Aston finally captured a major mile-stone Thursday night.
Aston achieved her 150th victory with the No. 14 Long-horns after beating No. 24 Oklahoma in double over-time 84–81.
“Just really, really proud of our basketball team,” Aston said. “Obviously we’ve been through some adversity the last couple of weeks. We’ve been in a little bit of a lull, but hopefully this will give us some excitement.”
Freshman guard Ariel At-kins started things off by win-ning the tip and immediately putting two points on the board for Texas. However, the Longhorns found themselves behind for most of the first 30 minutes despite Atkins’ 7 points in the first half.
At the break, Oklahoma led 33–30, and the Sooners started the second half with 4 straight points that forced Aston to call a timeout.
That’s when Texas started its comeback.
Junior guard Brady Sand-ers knocked down a 3-point shot, closing the gap to within 10. Shortly after, sophomore center Kelsey Lang drew a foul and completed a 3-point play, leaving Texas down by only 4 points.
The Longhorns held Oklahoma to just 38.5 per-cent shooting in the second half and out-rebounded the Sooners 31–28. Several
players finished with mul-tiple blocks, including junior center Imani McGee-Staf-ford, whose block late in the game pushed the momentum back to Texas. McGee-Staf-ford also had her best game since returning from her in-jury, but the win mattered more to her.
“I didn’t even know I had a good game until now,” Mc-Gee-Stafford said. “I just care about winning. It’s nice to know I am playing better, but I’m just focused on winning.”
Following Sanders’ layup that tied the game, junior guard Empress Davenport made two free throws, giv-ing the Longhorns the lead with 5:30 left. However, Oklahoma would eventually even it up to send the game to overtime.
One extra period wouldn’t be enough, though, as the game went into a second overtime. With a minute left, Lang scored to give Texas the lead, which it held for the remainder of
the game. “A lot of players made a lot
of plays,” Aston said. “Every-body that came in the game contributed, which is what I said all along from the very beginning this team has to
be about.”Atkins tallied a career-
high 21 points, while four other Longhorns shot in the double-digits.
Texas will take on TCU in Fort Worth on Sunday.
Texas will split up to com-pete in the Howie Ryan Invita-tional and the UW Invitational this weekend.
The Longhorns are sending a small group — most of whom are sprinters — to the Howie Ryan Invitational in Hous-ton, hosted by the University of Houston.
The Howie Ryan Invitational will feature top-25 talent in the men’s and women’s hurdles. On the women’s side, junior Mobo-laji Adeokun currently ranks No. 24 in the country with a time of 8.42 seconds. Sopho-more Spencer Dunkerely-Of-for ranked No. 31 this season with a time of 7.95 will compete in the men’s hurdles. He will face off against Houston’s Isaac
Williams, who is ranked No. 1 in the country with a time of 7.72.
Texas will send its pole vault-ers and throwers to Seattle for the UW Invitational, hosted by the University of Washington.
Junior All-American pole vaulter Reese Watson will have his hands full as he goes up against some of the best pole vaulters in the country. Three athletes who are currently in the top 10 will compete in the men’s pole vault.
Junior pole vaulter Kait-lin Petrillose, the defending NCAA champion, is currently ranked No. 9. Petrillose will compete against University of Washington’s Diamara Planell Cruz, who is ranked No. 22.
Each year, the Texas men’s swimming and div-ing team quietly climbs their way to the top — and this year should be no different.
The Longhorns have comfortably retained the No. 1 national spot since Dec. 11 and will look to protect their rank in this weekend’s double-dual meet against No. 14 Ari-zona and SMU.
In their last meeting with SMU, almost exactly two years ago, the Long-horns cruised past the Mustangs by a 76-point margin. And about one year later, Texas handed the Wildcats a defeat
194-153.Four Longhorns — John
Murray, Clark Smith, Will Licon and Joseph School-ing — hold the country’s top times in five individu-al events. Texas also holds the nation’s fastest times in the 200-medley relay and 200-freestyle relay.
Most impressively, and most recently, two Long-horns earned interna-tional recognition. Sopho-more Jack Conger secured the world’s best time in the 100-butterfly at the USA Swimming Arena Pro Swim Series with se-nior Tripp Cooper com-ing in a touch behind him with the world’s second
best time in the event.Texas takes to the wa-
ter at the Lee and Joe Ja-mail Texas Swimming Center for this weekend’s meet at 5 p.m. on Fri-day and continuing into Saturday afternoon.
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With the official start to the 2015 season two weeks away, the Longhorns will take to the diamond in the annual Alumni Game on Saturday.
The current Longhorn lineup will go up against some of the best to play at UFCU Dicsh-Faulk Field, including pitcher Huston Street, outfielders Drew Stubbs and Jordan Danks, and catcher Tay-lor Teagarden.
Street, who plays for the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, is the most no-table name of the alumni with the 2005 American League Rookie of the Year, two All-Star game appear-ances and 275 saves in his 10-year career.
In addition to the former players who have made a name for themselves in the major leagues, the alumni team features two players who led the Longhorns to an appearance in the College World Series last year: Mark Payton and Nathan Thorn-hill. In the MLB draft last June, the Minnesota Twins selected Payton in the 31st round, and the Philadelphia Philllies selected Thornhill in the 13th round.
The current Longhorns will be available for auto-graphs before the game and fans arriving early can play catch in the outfield.
The Longhorns will of-ficially open up the sea-son on Feb. 13 in Houston with a four-game series against Rice.
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Fresh off their second consecutive loss and fourth defeat of conference play, the Longhorns enter Saturday’s road game against No. 20 Baylor desperate for a win.
If they fail to leave Waco with a victory, the team’s already re-mote chance of earning a regu-lar season Big 12 title will likely be over.
In the past two seasons, the winner of the Big 12 fin-ished conference play with only four losses. And in each of the seven years before that, the conference cham-pion finished with fewer de-feats than that. Texas already sits at 3–4 in conference play with little room to add to the loss column.
Not losing again is far easier said than done. Tex-as has struggled to take advantage of its
size against No. 9 Kansas and No. 15 Iowa State. The team frequently settled for outside jumpers instead of getting the ball down low.
Even though the Long-horns finally found their 3-point stroke late in their loss to the Cyclones on Monday, they realize their real strength is an edge in size.
“We know that we are an inside-out team,” sopho-more point guard Isaiah Taylor said. “We have a lot of size in the inside. We have plays where we get it to our bigs.”
Baylor presents a different challenge in its above-aver-age size for a Big 12 team, especially in junior forward Rico Gathers, who leads the team with 11.9 rebounds per game.
Although Baylor rivals the Longhorns, Texas still has
the size edge with 6-foot-9 senior center Cam Ridley and 6-foot-11 freshman forward Myles Turner. Texas must feature these big men as much as possible, taking advantage of their size.
The Longhorns have also struggled in recent games on defense. Their 2-3 zone has been exposed, as the guards on both Kansas and Iowa State had little trouble getting past Texas’ perimeter defenders.
Baylor also boasts a tal-ented squad of perimeter players, including junior forward Taurean Prince, who leads the Bears with 12.2 points per game. Senior
guard Kenny Chery also av-erages 11.0 points per game and rarely leaves the floor.
While Texas tries to make these adjustments, head coach Rick Barnes said the team needs to make changes quickly to keep any hope of a Big 12 title alive.
“I think there is a sense of urgency every game,” Barnes said after the Kansas loss. “There is a long way to go. … I do believe that we could win every game we play. I think we could go on a run and do it, but we aren’t going to do that until we understand what goes into it.”
Following back-to-back home victories to start the ITA Kick-Off Weekend, the Texas men’s tennis team will attempt to bring home its fifth straight victory Saturday.
The Longhorns travel to Dallas this weekend to take on undefeated Southern Methodist University at the SMU Tennis Complex. Both teams are undefeated so far this season. However, Texas remains ranked No. 9 in the nation, while SMU is cur-rently unranked.
Last season, the Longhorns cruised past the Mustangs in their season opener, winning by a score of 7 — 0. Junior Søren Hess-Olesen produced a strong performance — one of many from Texas during the match.
Hess-Olesen, a two-time All-American and reign-ing Big 12 Player of the Year,
has been the catalyst for the Longhorns again this season. He has won his last six match-es, including back-to-back straight set victories against No. 46 Minnesota and No. 33 Florida State.
Following Saturday’s match, Texas will have two more home matches before heading to Chicago for the ITA National Indoor Cham-pionship on Feb. 13.
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MEN’S BASKETBALL
Longhorns focus on feeding big men
MEN’S TENNIS | MICHAEL SHAPIRO
Søren Hess-Olesen Junior
WEEKEND PREVIEWS
By Peter Sblendorio@petersblendorio
Ethan OblakDaily Texan file photo
When junior center Cam Ridley has scored in double-digits in Big 12 play, the Longhorns were 3-0. But in each of the four losses, Ridley has scored fewer than 10 points, and Texas has taken more outside shots.
WOMEN’S TENNIS | REANNA ZUNIGA
After a shutout loss to Van-derbilt Sunday, No. 23 Texas women’s tennis (1–1) looks to redeem itself this weekend against Rice (1–2).
The match will be the first home contest for the Longhorns this season at the Weller Indoor Tennis Center.
Both teams started the season at the ITA Kick-off Weekend event last weekend, but neither team advanced to the National Women’s Team Indoor Championship in February.
The Longhorns defeated DePaul 4–3 before losing to Vanderbilt, earning them a second place finish in the four-team tournament. Rice trav-elled to Illinois but lost both matches and placed fourth.
Texas is the third of six con-secutive top-40 opponents
the Owls play this season, and Rice has yet to defeat a ranked team on the road.
At the top of the lineup for Rice is senior Natalie Beazant, who was ranked No. 24 in the preseason singles rank-ings. Two-time All-American sophomore Breaunna Ad-dison will lead the lineup for the Longhorns.
Breaunna Addison Sophomore
We know that we are an inside-out team. We have a lot of size in the in-side. We have plays where we get it to our bigs.
-Isaiah Taylor,Point guard
From his childhood in Mexico, Frank Vega distinctly remembers the foreign look of Michael J. Fox’s Nike Air Mags in “Back to the Future.”
“You see [actors], and you want those type of clothes,” Vega said. “The movies influenced a lot of people and showed them what America was like.”
Vega now co-owns Monkies Vintage and Thrift with Martin Escobedo. Located behind the recently closed Veggie Heaven on Guadalupe Street, Monkies offers reasonably priced vintage clothing.
The fashion of Hollywood stars in the ’80s sparked Vega’s lifelong passion for vintage clothing. Since moving to the U.S. 20 years ago, Vega has been in the vintage clothing in-dustry for 15 years.
“With vintage clothing, it can be a half-century old and still kicking it,” Vega said. “They made things that lasted back then. Now, companies want their clothes to go bad so that you will buy more.”
According to Vega, Monkies’ prices and fearless fashion taste set it apart. Vega said he thinks expressing individuality through clothing is important, especially in a city such as Austin.
“We are not afraid to put something weird out there,” Vega said. “You can go to the mall and buy an Abercrombie T-shirt, but chances are that you’re going to see multiple kids wearing that same shirt. But you’re not going to find another kid wearing [someone’s] grand-father’s World War II jacket.”
Abby Myers, Plan II, Asian studies and international rela-tions and global studies sopho-more, said she agrees. Myers, an avid thrifter, said she is a proponent for one-of-a-kind
goods at low prices.“Actual vintage finds at rea-
sonable prices make Monkies the Drag’s best hidden gem,” Myers said.
The store has a wide variety of clothing for sale. Customers can find ponchos, 1930s-style cocktail dresses and vintage sports jerseys. The store selec-tively sifts through warehouses of secondhand clothing and flea markets across the country looking for vintage pieces.
“We’ll take anything that catches our eye,” employee Rigo Escobedo said.
Every week, they add new pieces to the shelves and upload photos of the noteworthy items Instagram and Facebook. Cus-tomers can comment or call the store to request to hold a piece that catches their eye. Follow-ing the request, customers can pick up the item in-person or have it be shipped through the store’s Etsy account. Vega wants customers to know that prices are not set in stone.
“Finding vintage clothes is like dating,” Vega said. “If you find something you love, and it looks good on you, then we want you to have it. It’s not like GAP with small, medium and large sizes. It’s unique — one size — so if it fits you, then we will try to make it happen.”
The store plans on moving into a larger building in the future. The new location will include a tattoo parlor in the back and additional space for clothes. Happy hours, which the store holds twice a month, will continue. During these happy hours, customers receive 25 percent off any purchase.
“We want the atmosphere of the store to be relaxed,” Vega said. “We want you to know that you’re going to find some-thing cool. Because when you look good, you work better, and you feel good about yourself.”
Although “Amira & Sam” takes place in New York City, the film concentrates on a small, intimate love story. This isn’t a flaw; the story is com-pact and tight. It may seem difficult to make a romantic-comedy about a soldier who’s returned from overseas, but director and writer Sean Mul-lin succeeds by pulling the sto-ry away from the actual war. He focuses intensely on the strongly developed main char-acters, who are a joy to watch.
Military veteran Sam (Mar-tin Starr) returns from combat overseas and finds work as a security guard, while un-successfully trying to make it as a stand-up comedian. When completing a favor for friend and fellow veteran Bas-sam (Laith Nakli), he has an awkward encounter with his friend’s niece Amira (Dina Shihabi) — an illegal Iraqi immigrant. They meet for a
second time when Bassam asks Sam to hide Amira from the police, who are threatening to deport her. Slowly, the pair grow closer and eventually fall for one another. Determined to not be separated, the two seek a way to keep Amira in the country.
The strongest aspect of the film is the relationship between the leads. The pair has wonderful chemistry and serves as a perfect example of opposites attracting — Amira is brash and initially dislikes authority figures, whereas Sam is introverted and ambitious.
Shihabi manages to make the abrasive Amira incred-ibly likeable through her boldness in acting. Starr gives the timid and reserved Sam a sharp, quiet sense of humor. It’s enjoyable seeing the relationship of these two unfold through a series of lighthearted sequences, such as when Sam takes Amira boating on New York’s bay. The culmination of their
relationship, detailed in the film’s surprising ending, is incredibly heartwarming and satisfying.
Although the story tack-les tough themes, such as a struggling veteran readapting to civilian life, the movie isn’t bogged down by these seri-ous topics. Sam isn’t a battle-worn soldier struggling with post-traumatic stress disorder. He’s just trying to readjust to life by talking with old friends and engaging in his passion for comedy. The film’s humor, packed with clever one-liners, certainly helps alleviate these serious undertones.
Despite the strong leads, the secondary characters fall flat. Sam’s cousin Charlie (Paul Wes-ley) plays a scumbag business-man who has little else to offer. Amira’s uncle Bassam is decent as a caring guardian, but he gets very few scenes.
A lack of variety also plagues the secondary cast. With the exception of Bassam, every other minor character
is a businessman or stockbro-ker. The main reason Mullin includes this group of New York socialites is to highlight how Amira and Sam are out-siders in the world of wealthy business leaders. The film briefly explores issues of race and cultural understanding between the two groups. A prime example is when a so-cialite asks Amira whether she is “required” to wear her hijab. Despite Mullin’s attempt to in-sert his message, it’s still jarring that a subplot about business deals and the 1 percent is jux-taposed with a romantic story.
“Amira & Sam” offers a small, complex love story between two people with incredibly different back-grounds. Despite its weak secondary characters, the film manages to keep the fo-cus on the main, emotional crux of the tale. Ultimately, Mullin successfully enacts his vision of a multicultural romantic-comedy through two brilliant characters.
Corporate communica-tions senior Stephanie Ro-balino walks out of class and heads to a nearby coffee shop. She has a few hours to kill, so she sits down and flips open her laptop. Instead of turning on Netflix or sifting through Buzzfeed articles, she rebuilds a company’s website and ana-lyzes competitors. By the time her next class rolls around, she’s earned $30.
Robalino is part of the trend of students across the nation working in virtual internships. From the com-fort of a coffee shop between classes or her bedroom at 1 a.m., Robalino completed a seven-month-long internship for Too Good Strategy, a busi-ness-consulting agency. She helped build a new website for the company, researched competing agencies and or-ganized her boss’ notes — all done without stepping foot in the office.
“Virtual working in general is pretty normal,” Robalino said. “You see a bunch of peo-ple working in coffee shops every day. It was a big selling point for me.”
Virtual internships allow people to gain experience while working remotely for a company. Interns communi-cate with their employers via email, text, Skype and other forms of digital communica-tion. Over the past few years, websites such as Internships.com and InternMatch.com have added virtual options to their sites.
“I’d say that it’s growing, and it’s a huge value added for students,” said Robert Vega, director of career services in the College of Liberal Arts. “You can do a virtual intern-ship with someone, say in San
Francisco or London, during the semester.”
Instead of going into the office for meetings, Robalino had weekly 20-minute phone calls with her boss and the rest of the team. She logged her 10 hours a week on an on-line accounting software and earned $10 an hour.
“I wanted an unstructured environment,” Robalino said. “I like being able to work on my own time and not be tied down by certain time restrictions.”
Over the summer, jour-nalism sophomore Jazmyn
Griffin interned at an online music publication called AB-Scream Media, but her boss lived nearly 2,000 miles away in Boston. She interviewed musicians and wrote stories for the site at the same time she was taking summer class-es at UT.
“You get to write for a type of publication that may not be available in your area,” Griffin said. “Some people live in the middle of nowhere, so they might not have a local music magazine that they could be a part of.”
While this type of intern-ship eliminates commuting to work, provides flexible hours and saves companies work-space, it comes with challeng-es and criticisms.
“Some of the challenges for students, especially for those where it might be their first professional opportunity, are, ‘How do you communicate with a supervisor virtually?’” Vega said. “‘How do you receive feedback? How do you become integrated into a team when you might be the only person who’s not in the office?’”
Vega said the lack of a struc-tured learning environment is one reason why virtual intern-ships often do not qualify for academic credit. The College of Liberal Arts, for example, does not allow students to use their virtual internships to gain academic credit.
Similarly, the Moody Col-lege of Communications’ website states that the “college will award academic credit for virtual internships in very rare instances.” The college reasons that “an intern left to learn by themselves … is
rarely engaged in a learning experience worthy of aca-demic credit.” Robalino was one of those exceptions and gained credit for her internship.
Even though these in-ternships rarely qualify for credit, career services in colleges across campuses continue to promote these virtual opportunities.
“I definitely see this as a big thing,” Robalino said. “I think that millennials are dif-ferent in the way that we want more freedom out of our jobs in general.”
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SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Students find work through virtual internships By Marisa Charpentier
@marisacharp21
Mariana Gonzalez | Daily Texan StaffCorporate communications senior Stephanie Robalino completed a seven-month-long virtual internship for Too Good Strategy, a business-consulting agency. Virtual internships allow students to gain experience while working remotely.
FILM REVIEW | “AMIRA & SAM”
‘Amira’ explores multicultural relationshipsBy Alex Pelham@TalkingofPelham
Courtesy of Drafthouse Films
Veteran Sam (Martin Starr) and Iraqi immigrant Amira (Dina Shihabi) build a beautiful and convincing relationship in “Amira & Sam.” The film explores mul-ticultural rela-tionships and the struggles of returning veterans.
CITY
Thrift shop provides affordable vintage
By Katie Walsh@thedailytexan