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Though the neighbor-hoods surrounding the UT campus are statisti-cally safer than other areas of the city, certain private apartment complexes are more dangerous than oth-ers. In the last seven years, residents of five apartment complexes in West Cam-pus reported a combined total of 1,114 crimes, rang-ing from vehicle burglar-ies and assault to alcohol-related offenses, according to “krimelabb,” a police re-port aggregation site that draws data from the Austin Police Department.

In the West Campus neighborhood, which stretches from Guadalupe to Lamar Street and from 38th Street to MLK, the 26 West apartment complex had the highest crime rate,

with a total of 346 crimes re-ported over the course of the last seven years. The Castil-ian student housing com-plex on Guadalupe, had the

second-highest crime rate in the area. Both properties have been owned by Ameri-can Campus Communities since 2012.

Gina Cowart, vice presi-dent of investor relations and corporate market-ing for American Campus Communities, said the

company has taken major steps to improve the safe-ty of the properties since

UTPD reported a credit card theft at Gregory Gym on Sunday, the second credit card theft report at the gym within a two-week period.

According to the report, the theft occurred between 9:50 a.m. Friday and 6:10 p.m. Sunday. Officer Wil-liam Pieper said the vic-tim reported there has been one fraudulent charge made to the card since being stolen.

On Jan. 30, UTPD arrest-ed a student outside Greg-ory Gym for credit card or debit card abuse after reviewing security camera footage and records from a card proximity reader. Pieper said the same meth-ods could be used to inves-tigate Sunday’s theft.

“It’s up to the detective who was assigned that case, and they have a variety of different techniques they can use,” Pieper said.

Surveillance cameras can be used to identify suspects, and card proximity read-ers keep records of swipe-ins, which can tell officers who was in the gym at any given time. The department can also use subpoenas to locate suspects.

“If it’s a credit card or debit card that’s used to make a purchase, sometimes they’ll have it delivered some place

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Website analyzes West Campus crime

Filing period ends, campaigns beginTwo executive alliances

kicked off campaigns for Stu-dent Government president and vice president Wednesday.

Kornel “Kori” Rady, a gov-ernment and corporate com-munications senior, is running for president alongside vice presidential candidate Taylor Strickland, a corporate com-munications senior. Govern-ment senior Kenton Wilson

is running for president with Caroline Carter, a marketing and international relations and global studies senior. The filing deadline was noon Tuesday.

Fifty-eight undergraduate students signed up to run for various SG positions, includ-ing University-wide represen-tatives and college representa-tives. Two graduate students ran for Graduate Student Assembly president and vice president positions.

Rady, who is currently the

external financial director on the SG executive board, said he felt his experience in SG would help him effectively run for student body president.

“Being on the executive board in Student Govern-ment really helps with cre-ating all kinds of initiatives,” Rady said. “Having this expe-rience with individuals, who are obviously in a position I’m hoping to be in next year, gives me an edge I’m hop-ing a lot of people who aren’t

necessarily involved on the executive side of SG have.”

Rady said he will run with Strickland on the platform of student life, spirit, safety and transportation, academ-ics and civic issues. These points include extending hours in buildings closer to West Campus, expanding the URide program to all neighborhoods and working closer with Senate of Col-lege Councils and Graduate Student Assembly.

“The general goal is to make sure we reach as many people as possible with this campaign,” Rady said.

Wilson, chair of the as-sembly this year, said his campaign would be on five main points with a strong focus on maintaining bus routes, diversity training and a student activity center in the Riverside area.

Wilson said he believes his

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Rhode Island Governor Lincoln Chafee said during a speech at the LBJ School of Public Affairs on Tuesday that the recently increased levels of partisanship in American politics have prevented politicians from leading effectively.

According to Chafee, he lost re-election as a Republi-can senator in 2006, despite high approval ratings, be-cause Rhode Islanders want-ed a Democratic majority in the Senate.

Chafee said the increased polarization is partly due to members of Congress spend-ing far less time together than in past years because of the ease of transportation today.

“[Former South Carolina Senator] Strom Thurmond used to say, when jet travel came in, the Senate changed because everybody would go back to their districts,” Chafee said. “But that’s the reality, you want to be seen in your home district.”

Chafee said politicians should value their integ-rity as representatives of the people more than gathering

votes for the next election.“My colleagues in the

Senate value their member-ship in the Senate — that exclusive club membership — more than what’s best for our country,” Chafee said.

Robert Hutchings, the dean of the LBJ School of Public Affairs, said the best way to combat polarization is to fix things one at a time. He

called to those dissatisfied with politics to take it upon themselves to work toward a solution by getting involved.

“Not everything is broken in government,” Hutchings said. “We’re in a bad pe-riod now, and there’s a lot of cynicism right now, but the best way to fight cyni-cism is to enter the arena … don’t complain, go out [and]

make a difference.”Pete Phillips, an Austin

resident and ex-marine who attended the talk, said he believes a major problem to overcome is politicians whose only motivation is to stay in office, as opposed to working together toward a common goal. Phillips said

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Popularity of pizza bests health concerns

Pu Ying Huang / Daily Texan Staff Classical archaeology senior Trevor Davis digs into some pizza with his group members at Austin Pizza on Monday night.

America is a pizza-hungry nation, and UT is no exception. University dining venues sold a combined total of 257,392 slic-es of pizza last semester alone — 6.5 slices for each of the Uni-versity’s approximately 40,000 undergraduate students.

In a study released Monday, the U.S. Department of Agri-culture reported 13 percent of the U.S. population consumes pizza on any given day — with young people representing the bulk of the consumers.

Arabic sophomore Maggie Rake said she thinks pizza has a major presence on col-lege campuses because it’s in-expensive and easy to share.

“I probably eat pizza two or three times a week — maybe four if I have a club meeting, since it’s such a common food for groups,” Rake said. “Pizza is a social food.”

Rake said, in her mind, pizza is exempt from the nu-tritional worries that plague many college students.

“I just eat pizza to feel happy.

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I don’t care about the nutri-tion,” Rake said. “Sometimes I get a veggie pizza to feel bet-ter about myself, but my main concern is just convenience.”

The Division of Hous-ing and Food Service offers whole-grain pizza crust op-tions in the Kinsolving and J2 dining halls for students who want to make healthier substitutions, according to Lindsay Wilson, the divi-sion’s registered dietician.

Wilson, who provides guidance on the recipes on-campus eating facilities use, said she understands college

and then we can get a subpoena for that P.O. box or that address to find out who lives there,” Pieper said.

Pieper said theft out of the gym is a common oc-currence because of stu-dents’ tendency to leave items unsecured in lockers.

“Theft at Gregory Gym is very common, not just of credit or debit cards, but cash, iPods and cloth-ing,” Pieper said. “There are a variety of different things that students come with and leave unsecured in their lockers or on the basketball courts.”

UTPD will continue to focus on public education as a means of crime preven-tion, according to Pieper.

“As far as prevention is concerned, we always look at public information programs like the cam-pus watch, media stories and things of that nature,” Pieper said.

he believes politicians too often allow the wills of spe-cial interest groups to sway their votes rather than fo-cusing on the best interests of their constituents.

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Chafee said polariza-tion is harming President Lyndon Johnson’s legacy of using government to create helpful social programs.

“I think President John-son would be dismayed at some of the attacks on the beneficial social programs that helped grow the mid-dle class, particularly in education,” Chafee said.

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taking ownership.“We’ve got a very active

management program at the community, so I don’t believe that crime has really been an issue for us since we’ve owned 26 West,” Cowart said. “We work with the local commu-nity to make sure everybody is aware of their surround-ings, we send out safety no-tices and we communicate a lot about resident safety.”

Mollie Mallin, Castillian resident and undeclared soph-omore, said her main secu-rity concerns are the building’s stairwells and surroundings.

“Sometimes, I worry there’s not a lot of security,” Mallin said. “People sometimes hang out in the stairways, and that’s

kind of worrisome, and the homeless people are always right there. But, overall, I feel pretty safe.”

Development company Greystar manages The Villas on Guadalupe and Rio West Apartments, which had the third- and fifth-highest crime rates, respectively. Campus Living Villages’ Dobie Center, also located on Guadalupe, had the fourth-highest crime rate. Campus Living Villages and Dobie managers could not be reached for comment.

Psychology sophomore Ashley Kuvet, a Dobie resident, said she thinks the high-rise building makes her feel safer.

“I think that since it’s a high-rise, it’s harder for people to break in from the ground, but I’ve never had to think about it,” Kuvet said.

“The only time I’ve felt a lit-tle scared was going up the stairs at night, but I feel better knowing the security guards make you show your ID after 11.”

Austin resident Jack Dar-by, who runs the “krimelabb” website, tracks all police re-ports made in the city. Darby said although crimes occur in West Campus on a regu-

lar basis, the neighborhood is still safer than other areas in Austin.

Police have been more vis-ible in the West Campus area in the last few weeks, as the Austin Police Department has investigated reports of an assault and a possible kidnapping, which occurred within a few blocks of each other on Feb. 3 and Feb. 4.

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APARTMENT COMPLEXES WITH THE HIGHEST CRIME RATES IN WEST CAMPUS

1. 26 West – (346 crimes)2. The Castilian – (220 crimes)3. Villas on Guadalupe – (218 crimes)4. The Dobie Center – (182 crimes)5. Rio West Apartments – (148 crimes)

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involvement in over ten or-ganizations — including SG, Texas Cowboys and the Tejas Club — sets him apart from his opponent.

“I have a wide variety of experience from all around campus, and I really want to bring that experience to Stu-dent Government to reach out and better this campus,” Wilson said.

This year, to avoid cam-paign impersonation, the candidates will be required

to disclose an up-to-date list of their workers. In a Daily Texan article, Philip Wise-man, chief justice for the SG Judicial Court, said workers are now defined as people who directly collaborate with those who are running.

Rady, whose campaign staff consists of roughly 50 to 60 members, said the new change was a hassle but a necessary part of running an honest campaign.

“It’s a little frustrating, but it does make a lot of sense and we can survive,” Rady said.

Wilson said the require-

ment to disclose campaign workers was a much-needed addition to the election code.

“I think it’s a long-needed change and puts everyone on a level playing field,” Wilson said. According to Wilson, his central campaign staff consists of more than 100 members.

Student body president Horacio Villarreal said he hopes it will be a fair race.

“I hope nobody is dis-qualified,” Villarreal said. “I hope it’s a clean race, and I hope students can pick who they actually want in these positions.”

I don’t care about the nutri-tion,” Rake said. “Sometimes I get a veggie pizza to feel bet-ter about myself, but my main concern is just convenience.”

The Division of Hous-ing and Food Service offers whole-grain pizza crust op-tions in the Kinsolving and J2 dining halls for students who want to make healthier substitutions, according to Lindsay Wilson, the divi-sion’s registered dietician.

Wilson, who provides guidance on the recipes on-campus eating facilities use, said she understands college

students’ fixation on pizza but hopes they will consider ways to make pizza healthier.

“Pizza’s never going to be the healthiest option avail-able, but there are so many al-terations possible when mak-ing it to make it better for you,” Wilson said. “For ex-ample, opting with a whole-grain crust means you’re not getting as much of the dough, carbs and empty calories.”

Last semester, J2 and Kin-solving served a combined total of 144 gluten-free pizzas, and 4,545 whole-grain pizzas.

Wilson said she has no doubt pizza will continue to be a staple in on-campus din-ing locations, even if there are

some nutritional changes.“Pizza is something I’m

sure we’ll probably always have on the menu and will always be popular with stu-dents,” Wilson said. “But, from my standpoint, we should try to get a couple more healthy options in re-gards to it.”

Undeclared freshman Vic-toria Grefer said pizza has been a steady presence in her life over the course of her transition to college.

“It’s just a common food item,” Grefer said. “I usually don’t think about it when I order [pizza]. I think we all grow up eating it without a second thought.”

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neighborhood is still safer than other areas in Austin.

Police have been more vis-ible in the West Campus area in the last few weeks, as the Austin Police Department has investigated reports of an assault and a possible kidnap-ping, which occurred within a few blocks of each other on Feb. 3 and Feb. 4.

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UT alumnus David Ber-teau spoke Tuesday about the current debt ceiling and bud-get issues Congress is work-ing through, citing it as an example of the complicated nature of managing the na-tion’s finances.

Berteau, senior vice presi-dent and director of the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington D.C., said the president gives his ini-tial budget but only starts with the total amount and later dis-closes the specific breakdown. This budget is followed by the House budget and the Sen-ate budget. After deliberations among the three parties, the fi-nal allocation budget is created.

According to Berteau, the process of creating and passing a final budget often involves an extended timeline. The yearly budget is supposed to be due from the president by the sec-ond Tuesday in February, but

delays often happen. “Technically, it was due

today, but the president has chosen to delay the budget,” Berteau said. “He didn’t know the starting point of that bud-get from [the] fiscal year 2014 for the 2015 budget.”

The decision to raise the debt ceiling, which was passed by the House on Tuesday, presents its own challenges.

“The debt ceiling was a dif-ferent problem, and, by this point, the president had come so close to default that there’s a little bit more trepidation,” Berteau said. “There’s a lot fewer people on the Republi-can side thinking that bank-ruptcy’s such a bad thing. Of course, the fact that the global market kind of relies on it [makes it] non-trivial.”

Berteau’s talk was part of the LBJ School of Public Affair’s GPS International Speakers Colloquium Series. Public af-fairs graduate student Ash-ley Haustein said Berteau’s time working in D.C. and his

specific knowledge of re-cent events gave a more ex-perienced perspective to the discussion of America’s financial state.

“My prime motivation was the shutdown in the fall,” Haus-tein said. “I wanted to know more about where we are on the shutdown … and get an insider input. I’m just really glad he had the opportunity to come down. It’s really nice when alumni in the policy world come back … It makes our education seem more insightful and practical.”

Haustein said she enjoyed Berteau’s level of interactiv-ity during the lecture. Public affairs associate professor Eugene Gholz said people benefited from Berteau dedicating time to mapping out all the concepts he refer-enced during his speech.

“[There were] lots of great details about really big bud-get challenges facing the U.S.,” Gholz said. “It was short term specifics, but in broader con-texts, so it was useful.”

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In a talk hosted by the School of Law Tuesday, at-torney Vincent Warren spoke about leading a “stop-and-frisk” case, and the need to reform laws that allow ra-cial profiling. Warren — the attorney and executive direc-tor of the Center for Constitu-tional Rights, an organization focused on advancing and defending civil rights — repre-sented the plaintiffs in Floyd v. City of New York, a 2013 court case involving New York City’s “stop-and-frisk” law.

The law, which is currently under reform, allows police officers to stop and search people on the city’s streets in an effort to prevent crime and other violent behaviors. The Fourth Amendment, which prohibits unreason-able search and seizure, pre-vents officers from searching someone without a probable cause, but Warren said police were abusing the law and dis-proportionately searching mi-nority groups, which led him to suspect racial profiling.

“From looking at police logs, we found that African-Americans and Latinos were stopped 87 percent of the time, but they only make up 23 percent of the New York City population,” Warren said.

According to Warren, liti-gants found evidence that spe-cifically showed police used racial profiling to stop people.

“[Police captains] would tell the officers, ‘You gotta stop the right people,’” War-ren said. “There was an order [from the precinct captain] to stop every black kid they saw with a backpack com-ing out of the train station at 3:00 in the afternoon.”

Helen Gaebler, senior re-search attorney at the Wil-liam Wayne Justice Center for Public Interest Law, said she found the effects of the stop-and-frisk law on New York interesting.

“There was an increase in clients picked up for trespass-ing,” Gaebler said. “The police could stop you for almost any-thing: for being in a high-crime neighborhood or just [by] fit-ting a certain description.”

Warren said the stop-and-frisk law was designed to stop crime before it started, but it often made police jump to conclusions based on race, sometimes leading to disastrous results.

“In 1999, there was a black kid named Amadou Di-allo who was stopped by the NYPD,” Warren said. “Ac-cording to the police log, he made ‘furtive movements,’ so they thought he had a gun. He got shot 41 times just

because he was pulling out his wallet for [his] ID.”

Warren went to court against the NYPD to try and resolve the issue, and although the case went back to appeals court several times, he eventu-ally succeeded in proving the NYPD was unconstitutionally stopping and frisking people.

The NYPD expects to re-form its stop-and-frisk prac-tices within three years.

“It is an epic fail when you’re [frisking] people at a larger percent than they oc-cur in the population, when you’re policing neighbor-hoods using racialized stereo-types and assumptions, and [when you’re] not getting the job done,” Warren said.

According to Warren, one important aspect of the Floyd case was how it helped promote social justice.

“Usually, a court case by itself is not enough to ac-tually change people’s be-havior,” Warren said. “But, with this case, the genesis came from wanting to evoke social change.”

Law student Kallie Dale-Ramos said she thought the case was important for its ability to make reforms.

“I’m interested in public-interest cases, so I thought it was neat how the case actu-ally had an impact on public policy,” Dale-Ramos said.

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Caleb Kuntz / Daily Texan Staff Vincent Warren, the attorney and executive director of the Center for Constitutional Rights, delib-erates at the Townes Hall on Tuesday afternoon.

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Computer science senior Michael Goldstein spoke Tues-day night about the digital cur-rency Bitcoin — created by the pseudonymous company Sa-toshi Nakamoto five years ago.

Whether Satoshi Nakamo-to is one person or a group of people remains unclear. The anonymity of Satoshi Naka-moto allows Bitcoin to be free from outside influence, mak-ing any fluctuations of the value dependent solely upon the market.

Goldstein, who also serves as a consultant to companies interested in incorporating Bitcoin, believes the curren-cy could be useful outside of its current application.

“I believe it is highly un-dervalued,” Goldstein said. “I think it offers a lot more than what we’re using it for now.”

In contrast to credit cards, when an individual makes a purchase over the inter-net with Bitcoins, all that is transacted are the Bitcoins. This takes out all the per-sonal information that would otherwise be shared between the two transaction parties if a credit card were used for the purchase.

Alan Rochard, finance sophomore and a colleague of Goldstein’s, said the lack of personal information

associated with Bit-coin use makes online shopping safer.

“With Bitcoin, you can eas-ily send money to Amazon or whatever without them having to hold your informa-tion [and] without you hav-ing to trust them with your information,” Rochard said.

Bitcoin eliminates all third parties in regards to acquir-ing and storing money.

“With Bitcoin, you are your own bank,” Goldstein said.

Operating on a peer-to-peer network, transactions made us-ing Bitcoins come at no cost to either the buyer or merchant.

This is achieved using Public-Key Cryptography, a type of encryption software used by credit card compa-nies and bank account se-curity systems. The software

also allows transactions to be made more securely.

Bitcoins are also currently free of governmental juris-diction and regulation.

Lefteri Christodulelis, government senior, believes that the independence of the currency was paramount to Satoshi Nakamoto.

“The goal is [Satoshi Na-kamoto] wanted to create a currency that’s of the peo-ple, [and] that’s not of the state intermediary.”

The worth of each indi-vidual Bitcoin is dictated by the holders and accepters of the currency.

According to Rochard, Bitcoin operates in a way that follows the trend to con-duct transactions online.

“It’s currency for the digital age,” Rochard said.

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Fabian Fernandez / Daily Texan Staff Michael Goldstein, computer science major and president of Satoshi Nakamoto Institute, gives a presentation on Bitcoins.

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APARTMENT COMPLEXES WITH THE HIGHEST CRIME RATES IN WEST CAMPUS

1. 26 West (346 crimes)2. The Castilian – (220 crimes)3. Villas on Guadalupe – (218 crimes)4. The Dobie Center – (182 crimes)5. Rio West Apartments – (148 crimes)

Data collected the Austin Police Department from 2007 to present, using police report aggregation website krimelabb.

Last week, while riding my bike through West Campus, a police officer called me and several other cyclists over for not coming to a complete stop at a stop sign. Honestly, I was a bit surprised. In the two years I’ve been riding my bike around campus, this is the first time I’ve ever been stopped. From personal observation, my bad habit — even if I think I’m reasonably safe for at least slow-ing down at intersections — seems to be the norm around campus. UT and its populated perimeter are crowded with people trying to get where they need to go, and there is a lot of frustration between people with differ-ent modes of transportation. With so much congestion, it’s tempting to disregard others for a spot on the road. Road etiquette is a safety issue, a legal matter and a way to re-ally make or break a person’s day. Here’s an argument for awareness and respect between all mobile parties: cyclists, pedestrians and drivers alike.

In terms of safety, according to a 2011 report by the National Highway Traffic Safety Admin-istration, bicycle-related crashes account for 2 percent of all motor vehicle traffic fatalities and 2 percent of crash-related injuries. These num-bers may seem small, but they are concerning because they are also increasing at a steady rate.

The number of cyclists killed in 2011 was 9 per-cent higher than the number in 2010. Further-more, 59 percent of these fatalities did not occur at intersections. We can’t rely on one side to pre-vent traffic accidents from happening. Drivers and cyclists alike need to be more conscious of their surroundings overall — especially with the growing number of bicyclists on campus due to factors like the new bike sharing program on the Drag and the increasing number of bike lanes.

Road etiquette, of course, is also a legal matter. Although there is no new official ini-tiative within Austin Police Department to target cyclists more heavily than in the past for traffic violations, according to data from the City of Austin Municipal Court, APD issued 180 more non-motor vehicle-related citations in 2013 than in 2012. APD will continue to patrol areas such as West Cam-pus randomly, and it’s best to avoid the large fines, which can be as much as $200. Respect the law, and, if you do get called over, respect your officers. While I am uncertain about all the reasons why I got away with a warn-ing, I’m sure it helped that I was polite and apologetic when the officer was taking down my information. As for the other cyclist who was stopped with me last week, I suspect that the officer, who had to ask him to remove his headphones while they were speaking, was less sympathetic.

Here is a proposal: Let us all be better peo-ple by opening our eyes and ears to what is around us. Let us obey the law and be polite to the officers who enforce it. Let us not zoom our bikes through intersections when there is a car there first. Let us not honk at cyclists going up a hill. Let us not use the crosswalk on 22nd and Guadalupe during a green light. While headphones may cancel out noise, they do not cancel out the awkward pre-collision dance between bikes and pedestrians. And, while we may not wholeheartedly believe in what Austin Cycling Association calls “burn-ing those extra calories” by pedaling after you have brought your bike to a full stop, I am sure we all can agree with their recommendation to live a life in which we get flipped off less.

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In an ongoing effort to reshape high school curriculum in Texas, the State Board of Edu-cation has voted to eliminate algebra II as a graduation requirement starting next year. Instead, Texas high schools will offer alge-bra II along with two alternative courses: statistics and algebraic reasoning. These two courses will be designed and implemented at the district level, with help from the Texas Education Agency.

The restructuring comes as a result of new specialized diploma paths in areas such as science and technology or business, accord-ing to the Texas Tribune. The paths will de-termine which math course each individual student needs to graduate. The Austin Amer-ican-Statesman reported that these new re-quirements will replace the “4x4 graduation” plan, which the state set in place only five years ago. That plan required students to take

courses in English, science, history and math during each of their four years of high school.

The new graduation requirements open the door for students to have a greater say in the courses they take in high school and are meant to better prepare them for certain career paths before they have even applied for college. The plan, however, is lacking key components necessary for a successful launch. Algebra II is just one example of how the effort to revamp the system overlooks real long-term benefits for students.

As a requirement, algebra II held students to a certain standard of problem solving and foundational math skills that would be ex-pected in more advanced courses, including calculus. Algebra II may not have been the perfect course, but it was one that all Texas students entering college had under their belt. Those skills were taught across the board and up to the state’s standards, although be-tween districts and among teachers there was bound to be variation in the course material. Now, with the increased variety of equivalent courses, students entering college in Texas will likely struggle to keep up.

The new alternatives also assume that high school students choosing a diploma path outside of science and technology will never need the skills taught in algebra II and will never change their mind about their prospec-tive career paths in the future.

“Algebra II, which establishes the founda-tion for quantitative reasoning, is increasing-ly necessary for most career choices today,” said mathematics professor William Beckner.

“Students would have to make up the mate-rial from algebra II before they took even the most introductory class in mathematics at any university or college of recognized qual-ity. Not only math, but they wouldn’t be able to take intro classes in astronomy, chemistry, computer science, economics, physics and statistics — or be admitted to programs in business or engineering.”

Beckner said that high school courses should be focused on giving students insight into how mathematics is used across disciplines, instead of dismissing its use in those fields that are not directly centered on math skills.

But does that mean algebra II is the only appropriate course to prepare students for college-level math courses? Curriculum and instruction professor Walter Stroup thinks other courses can likely stand in for algebra II as long as the rigor is preserved and the skills it imparts are not sacrificed. Stroup that said the course itself serves mainly as a precursor to calculus and that other, broader math courses may better prepare students for college statistical courses offered throughout UT. We agree that other courses specially de-signed for non-math students will likely pre-pare them adequately, but we still must raise our concern at the lack of central oversight of the courses’ syllabi.

By allowing school districts to write their own syllabi, the Board of Education has made it more difficult to analyze student success, according to education consultant Cynthia Schneider, who works with Texas school dis-tricts. The set of standards used now will not

be applicable across the board and the experi-mental curriculum will confound meaningful inter-district comparisons.

Regardless of whether students plan to pursue a career in math or science, the skills taught in a course like algebra II will serve them well into their careers and shouldn’t be discounted as mere high-school drudgery. That goes for everyone involved: students, teachers, administrators and board members alike. The state should be focusing on what mathematics skills students can learn to ap-ply outside of the classroom as well as incor-porating them into a new set of standards for our math courses — for all students. When we can turn those needs into a course and those courses into a degree plan the state will be on the right track and so will its students.

Late last month, researchers at UT’s Bureau of Eco-nomic Geology published a study about the source and fate of water used in the hydraulic fracking industry of the Barnett Shale in Texas as a case study. The study found that 92 percent of the total water used in hydraulic fracking in that area was abstracted from surface water or groundwater — most of which comes from the Trinity

Aquifer, one of the most depleted aquifers in the state. According to an article last Tuesday in the Texas Observer, the correlation between gas production and water use in the fracking industry is almost perfect, yet this industry does not seem at all concerned with the implica-tions this water use will have for the drought in Texas. Horns down to the irresponsibility of these fracking companies, whose potential to bring economic growth to Texas is undermined by their lack of environmental consciousness.

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The new alternatives also assume that high school students choosing a diploma path outside of science and technology will never need the skills taught in algebra II and will never change their mind about their prospective career paths in the future.

While headphones may cancel out noise, they do not cancel out the awkward pre-collision dance between bikes and pedestrians.

Cutting algebra II hurts Texas students long-term

Around campus, cyclists and cars should follow regulations

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HORNS DOWN: TEXAS STUDENTS NOT LIKELY TO FINISH COLLEGE

According to data analyzed by two state agen-cies and presented to the Texas Tribune on Tuesday, eighth-graders in Texas have only a 20 percent chance of completing any sort of college degree within six years of high school graduation. The numbers are even worse for black, Hispanic and economically dis-

advantaged students. This disturbing information signals a serious problem for what is often called Texas’ “education pipeline,” in which a vast majority of students are simply not continuing their education beyond high school. As Texas Higher Education Com-missioner Raymund Paredes told the Tribune, “If your final number is 19 out of 100 students receiving some form of post-secondary credential, you know there’s an awful lot of leakage in the pipeline.” But, while it is certainly bad news that so many Texans don’t ever receive college degrees, we must be careful in how we move forward to ad-dress the problem. The data are far from perfect, since the study overlooked students who pursued alternative, yet productive, post-secondary plans — such as professional internships and military service — and we shouldn’t assume that a college degree is the only measure of success. Nevertheless, 20 percent is shockingly low, and we should be disappointed in our public schools for not preparing Texans for college.

The numbers are even worse for black, hispanic and economical-ly-disadvantaged students. This disturbing information signals a serious problem for what is often called Texas’ “education pipe-line,” in that a vast majority of students are simply not continuing their education beyond high school.

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It didn’t matter if he pulled up in transition, off the pass on the wing or spotted up in the corner, the results were all the same for Javan Felix.

No matter where they came from, the shots fell. The stout Louisiana native converted six of his eight 3-point attempts en route to a 27-point showing Tuesday night, leading Texas to an 87-68 victory at the Frank Erwin Center over Oklahoma State.

“I know I can make those shots,” Felix said. “It was just a matter of me taking them. I took my open looks tonight, within the flow of the of-fense, and it paid off.”

Felix’s shooting perfor-mance was highlighted by a stretch midway through the first half when he scored eight points on three-con-secutive possessions for the Longhorns. The sophomore guard also opened the sec-ond half with back-to-back triples to balloon the Texas lead to 27 and eliminate any possibility of a second-half Cowboy comeback.

Sophomore forward Con-nor Lammert contributed from the land beyond as well, hitting a few 3-pointers of his own. Lammert got the start in place of junior forward Jonathan Holmes, who was out with a right knee injury, and took advantage of the extra minutes. The San Anto-nio product had nine boards to go with his nine points.

“[Lammert] showed a lot of guts tonight,” Texas head coach Rick Barnes said. “His

ankle was swollen up after rolling it in practice yester-day. The last thing I said to him before the game was that he better shoot it every time he’s open, and he did that tonight.”

The most exciting moment of the game came early in the second frame as freshman point guard Isaiah Taylor pushed the floor in transition and lobbed an alley-oop pass to fellow freshman Martez Walker, who finished it off with a two-handed slam. The hijinks brought the crowd to its feet as Taylor flashed a

quick smile before heading back on defense.

“Against Kansas State last game, we were just stagnant,” Walker said. “Tonight, we came out ready, played with intensity and got the results.”

The demoralizing defeats continue to mount for Okla-homa State, who has now lost five straight and six of its last seven games. Combine those struggles with the absence of sophomore superstar Mar-cus Smart, who will miss the next two games as part of his suspension for pushing a Tex-as Tech fan, and it’s obvious

that the Cowboys aren’t in a good place right now.

As for Texas, the big win was much needed as they head into a tough three-game stretch with Holmes’ status still up in the air. The Long-horns welcome a sizzling-hot West Virginia team this Sat-urday before hitting the road for a couple contests against

Top 25 opponents Iowa St. and Kansas next week.

“I think Holmes will play, but we aren’t going to do any-thing until the doctors clear him,” Barnes said. “The game against West Virginia will be a physical game. We’ll have to play against their 1-3-1 zone defense and they’re shooting it very well.”

6STEFAN SCRAFIELD, SPORTS EDITOR / @texansportsWednesday, February 12, 2014

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Longhorns trample Cowboys

The 10th-ranked Long-horns will play their home opener Wednesday when they host the San Antonio Roadrunners, who will take on a high-powered Texas offense led by senior All-American Taylor Thom. Texas junior pitcher Gabby Smith will likely get the start, trying to pick up her third win in as many games and improve the Longhorns to 5-2 on the season.

For UTSA freshman and Austin native Nicole Mer-rill, Wednesday’s game will be a homecoming of sorts. A star player at Cedar Ridge High School, Merrill led her team to a playoff berth her senior season and was named to the Austin area’s annual all-star game. Mer-rill got the start when the Roadrunners took on La-mar in their second game this season, allowing two runs on four hits through five innings.

Merrill played for the

Texas Blaze select team alongside current Texas freshman Stephanie Wong. Known for her control and ball movement, Merrill throws upwards of 60 mph and uses a wicked change-up to keep hitters off balance.

Four days after picking up her 700th career win, Texas head coach Connie Clark looks for her team to continue their string of opening day successes, hav-ing won every home opener in the last six years. Histori-cally, the matchup has been lopsided, with Texas getting the better of UTSA.

The previous four times these two teams have faced each other, Texas won each time by a combined score of 28-3. The two teams met in 2010 and again in 2011, in which the Longhorns won 3-2 and 2-1 respectively. Most recently in 2012, the then 18th-ranked Long-horns routed the Road-runners in a 15-0 victory, featuring 19 hits. Catcher Mandy Ogle is 3-for-3 with 2 RBIs.

Over the past four sea-sons, the Longhorns have combined for a 122-22 re-cord at home, and are com-ing off a season with a .836 winning percentage and a top-four finish at the College World Series.

Expect Texas to come out swinging after a strong of-fensive showing to start the season. The team has scored 37 runs while surrender-ing 25 through the first six games.

Pitching remains an un-certainty with Texas, how-ever. With an inexperienced staff headlined by junior Gabby Smith, Texas pitch-ers can expect to see a lot of action this season as the coaching staff tries to estab-lish a reliable rotation be-fore conference play begins.

By Scarlett R. Smith@ScarlettRSmith1

Shelby Tauber / Daily Texan file photoSenior shortstop Taylor Thom and the Longhorns will face UTSA in Austin on Wednesday. Texas has beaten the Roadrunners in the two team’s last four contests.

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Sam Ortega / Daily Texan StaffTexas sophomore guard Javan Felix shoots against Oklahoma State on Tuesday evening. Felix led the team with 27 points, including 6-of-8 shooting from behind the arc. The 27 points represents Felix’s second-highest scoring output of the year.

By Stefan Scrafield@stefanscrafield

Sophomore guard Em-press Davenport has left her nerves behind. She’s grown into her position on the court, not just adjusting to but also excelling at her role.

“I think, since we clocked so many minutes last year, we know what to expect,” Davenport said of her sopho-more class. “Now we need to hand it down to the fresh-men. … The sky is the limit.”

Lately, Davenport has played up to her talents. She’s reached double fig-ures in each of the last two games, including a career- and team-high 15 points off 7-for-9 shooting against the Red Raiders.

After Sunday’s 71-64 up-set of Iowa State, head coach Karen Aston said Daven-port helped “not only hit big shots,” but she also brought “a real life from an emotional standpoint.”

“I thought [Davenport] was a difference for us on [Iowa State guard] Jadda Buckley, who really hurt us in the first half,” Aston said. “We had to go with a lineup that was smaller and a little bit better defensively — so proud of them for making the adjustment.”

For Davenport, an adjust-ment was nothing new. Dav-enport has altered her game at many points this year. She’s almost doubled her shooting percentage, from less than 26 percent in 2012-2013 to more than 42 percent this season. And she’s more than tripled her output from behind the arc — upping her shooting percentage from .118 to .394. But Davenport doesn’t focus on what she’s managed to im-prove. Instead, she points out what she could do better.

“I didn’t get as many re-bounds as I needed to, but, as a whole, we’re trying to make the effort to get better,” Davenport said Feb. 5 after beating Texas Tech. “Every-one was taking shots, feeling good and it had to do with our focus and how it came into the game.”

Davenport’s rebounding average has dropped from 3.7 rpg last season to just 2.6 rpg this year. Though she still managed to grab five re-bounds against Kansas on Jan. 15, Davenport isn’t getting the boards she wants con-sistently. Instead, her team-mates have stepped up down low. As Davenport makes the shots, a well-rounded in-side game has transformed Texas into an in-paint power house. Through the last two games, the Longhorns boast a 40-8 points advantage in the paint. Pair that with a huge rebounding effort — a +12.3 advantage that’s good for fourth in the nation — and Big 12 rebounding leader Nneka Enemkpali (9.3 rpg) picks up where Davenport levels off.

As Texas (16-7, 7-4) treks to Manhattan to face the Wildcats (9-13, 3-8) on Wednesday, Davenport will have a chance to step up in what should be a slower game before Sunday’s highly touted matchup with No. 7 Baylor.

Experience key for Davenport’s growth

By Jori Epstein @JoriEpstein

Roy Oswalt to retire after 13 MLB seasons

Roy Oswalt’s agent, Bob Garber, confirmed Oswalt’s retirement Tues-day and said the pitcher would come to work for his agency.

Oswalt, 36, had a 163-102 career record with a 3.36 ERA. His best season came with Houston in 2004, when he went 20-10 with a 3.49 ERA. The du-rable pitcher — a three-time All-Star and 2006 NL championship series MVP — went over 200 innings seven times in his career but dealt with inju-ries in recent years.

He was 0-6 with an 8.63 ERA in nine outings and six starts for Colo-rado last year. He signed a minor-league deal with the Rockies in May 2013 but missed time with a strained left hamstring.

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Against Kansas State last game, we were just stagnant. Tonight, we came out ready, played with intensity and got the results.

—Martez Walker, freshman guard

Women’s golf finishes 11th in opening event

The Texas women’s golf team completed its sea-son-opening tournament Tuesday at the Northrop Grumman Regional Challenge in impressive fashion. Finishing in 11th place overall, the team came back from a tough first day to end with a team total of 25-over-par, 23 strokes better than its opening-round finish.

Leading the team was junior Bertine Strauss, who was the Longhorns’ low-finisher at +6 (73-74-72), placing her in 15th place on the indi-vidual leaderboard. Not far behind Strauss was freshman enrollee Lara Weinstein, finishing just six strokes behind Strauss to tie for 35th place in her collegiate debut.

Sophomores Tezira Abe (77-75-78) and Nata-lie Karcher (80-73-77) tied for 60th at +17, while freshman Julia Beck (84-83-74) rounded out in 85th place.

The tournament was stacked with many of the nations premier champi-onship teams. Top-ranked Southern California (288-279-299=866) swept the team and individual titles.

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MOVIE REVIEW | ‘ROBOCOP’

Untold stories captured on filmFor Evan Roberts, there’s

nothing better than see-ing a someone’s personal story embodied on the big screen.

Roberts, a radio-television-film graduate student, ex-plores the untold narratives of the LGBTQ community in his films and with his upcoming documentary, “Arvind.”

“I think I’ve always been interested in people’s life sto-ries and how they tell their own lives,” Roberts said. “I think it’s powerful when peo-ple see their story on screen.”

Graduating this May, Rob-erts has been focused on cre-ating a short documentary about 16-year-old Austin native Arvind Hathaway. As filming comes to a close in March, Roberts is working to get Hathaway’s story known and funded.

“It’s a literal and figura-tive coming-of-age story,” Roberts said.

Hathaway’s story involves his day-to-day teenage ex-periences, from learning to drive with his father to his first date with a boy. The documentary also covers the return of his estranged and mentally-ill mother, who returns from prison and at-tempts to make contact with Hathaway. As this is going on, Hathaway works on his play, “Mommy.” The play is based on his experiences with his mother and is writ-ten from her perspective.

Roberts’ own history strongly influenced his choice of Hathaway as the subject for his last project before he graduates. Be-fore coming to UT in 2010, Roberts worked in radio and photography, with film

always remaining an option he was too intimidated to try.

“I always wanted to even-tually head toward film, but I guess I always put it off, even though that was my real dream,” Roberts said. “I was worried that if I wasn’t good at the one thing I was passion-ate about, there wasn’t going to be anything left to do.”

Roberts taught LGBTQ youths in radio and film workshops in San Francisco and Austin. He also spent time in the Middle East doing photography workshops for children in Palestine. Dur-ing his time there, he began speaking with elders in the refugee camps. It was their stories that inspired him to make personal narratives.

“It was sort of the beginning of my interest in oral history,” Roberts said. “I got home and continued to work in photography, but I started to do photo projects that included interviews with my subjects.”

Roberts has a theory that everybody has a personal story they desperately want known. These experiences and ideas led to the found-ing of his company, Audio Heirlooms, in 2005. The company creates audio por-traits of families, individu-als and businesses who hope to preserve their stories through recordings that Au-dio Heirlooms puts together. Once they are finished, the recordings are given to the

subjects as keepsakes.“After I interviewed my

grandmother about her life, and I saw how my mom re-acted to receiving that pres-ent, I started to offer that service to other people,” Roberts said.

These experiences show through Roberts’ projects at UT.

“My first two films at UT were narrative shorts and they both have a young, gay protagonist,” Roberts said. “I found it easy to write those because I can kind of weigh my past now, and it’s easy to look back at my own stories and package them.”

His past films, “33 Teeth” and “Yeah, Kowalski!,” tell stories of young, gay men

coming into their sexuality. Roberts uses these films to convey untold stories and perspectives of the LGBTQ community in ways that are not typically expected. This theme is part of what brought Roberts and Hatha-way together.

“Mine and Evan’s views on how to portray gay characters are pretty similar in that their being gay should not be the center of the story, it should just be a part,” Hathaway said. “Just because someone is gay does not mean their life revolves around that, and I think that’s something that’s coming up a lot in the modern day.”

Through a Kickstarter campaign, Roberts raised

$16,406 for the project.“We reached our initial

goal of $10,000 in the first seven days,” Roberts said.

Roberts plans on wrapping up production with these funds, as well as entering the film into a variety of festivals. His largest goal for “Arvind” is to hopefully have it aired on PBS’s documentary films showcase, “POV.”

As of right now, Roberts is unsure of where film will take him once he graduates, but he hopes to continue on with similar projects.

“I would like to take part in stories that have a social-change component,” Roberts said. “Stories that need to be told by people that are off the margins in society.”

It’s not hard to make fun of a premise like “RoboCop”’s. The film, a remake of an ’80s classic, is taken from the idea of mashing two sub-jects into one and calling it a day. Despite such a premise, this reimagining of “Robo-Cop” gives a seriousness to the story — while preserv-ing the fun of its ludicrous idea — making a solid ac-tion film that suffers from minor imperfections.

After policeman Alex Murphy (Joel Kinnaman) is severely injured in an attempt on his life, he becomes resur-rected by Dr. Dennett Nor-ton (Gary Oldman) through an artificial body. Norton’s

funders — OmniCorp, led by CEO Raymond Sellars (Mi-chael Keaton) — want to use Murphy’s new body to turn him into a crime-stopping machine, effectively using his success to springboard the use of drones to protect the people.

“RoboCop” starts the plot by establishing heavy themes, such as the domi-nance of machines in ex-change for restrictions on human rights. It’s not long, however, until these themes take a backseat to the origin of the title character. It’s al-most a shame, considering the opening sequence plays with great visual represen-tations of repression. The parody of politics in “Ro-boCop” plays out quietly in

the background and doesn’t get in the way of RoboCop delivering sweet justice. It would make for a more meaningful and relevant movie had the character’s tale been more intertwined with how machines cohab-it with ordinary citizens. The film alludes to this but mostly leaves those elements to the imagination.

Director Jose Padilha keeps the action moving. The visuals and the design of RoboCop and the other ma-chines are sleek and memo-rable. The cinematography is occasionally shoddy, mostly due to some irritating usage of shaky camera. While the action sequences are decent, several shots of RoboCop’s point of view makes the

scenes play out more like a videogame than a well-craft-ed action montage.

The acting is subpar and dull. Kinnaman is a blank slate for the audience to project the fantasy of being RoboCop on. He gets a pass, though, considering a plot point makes him emotionally

sterile. When he does convey emotion, he spends it pon-dering whether he is more man or machine, although the brief bout of agony he suffers through doesn’t make up for stale acting. Samuel L. Jackson’s role as a conserva-tive talk show host and sup-porter of the drone program is the film’s most memorable role. He provides comic relief and serves as a great satirical

embodiment of a public voice for the American people.

“RoboCop” isn’t a perfect action movie, but it plays out as good, dumb fun while faintly pointing out some serious ethical questions about man and technology. Fans of the original may see this remake as an unneeded update, but the film stands up alright on its own as a gritty sci-fi flick.

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Kerry Hayes / Associated PressJoel Kinnaman, left, and Gary Oldman act in a scene from “RoboCop.”

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