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As President William Pow-ers Jr. prepares to step down, UT’s next president, Gregory Fenves, said his goals for the University center around ad-dressing persistent issues, such as increasing access to research opportunities and engaging in more productive dialogue with the UT System Board of Regents.
In an interview with The Daily Texan, Fenves, execu-tive vice president and pro-vost, also said he hopes to explore issues of accessbil-ity and affordability, closely echoing his predecessor.
Fenves said his initial goal will be to manage the cost of education, an issue Powers, UT System Chancellor Wil-liam McRaven and previous chancellors and regents have acknowledged.
“I think the most impor-tant issue that’s facing the University is, ‘How do we provide high quality educa-tion at a reasonable cost?’” Fenves said.
In an interview with The Daily Texan in April, Pow-ers said the solution to af-fordability is not clear-cut. He said he was sure that fu-ture administrations would continue to grapple with
the issue.“There’s no single bullet,”
Powers said. “We just always keep trying [to operate the University] as efficiently and as high quality as you can.”
Fenves said one of his educational goals is to con-nect undergraduate and
graduate students to campus research opportunities.
“What I feel is the most im-portant theme for education at the University of Texas is how we link our undergradu-ate education mission with our research mission,” Fenves said.
Fenves said his previous
experiences as dean of the Cockrell School of Engi-neering and as provost have helped him form relation-ships with the regents and UT administrators.
“I can work with almost anybody, and I’ve had good working relationships with
members of the board,” Fenves said. “In my cur-rent role as provost, and my previous role as dean, I’ve had a lot of interaction with them through the presiden-tial search process and the
The one-year-old De-nius-Sams Gaming Acad-emy in the Moody College of Communication released its first video game Friday.
The academy, composed of 20 video game students from across the country, hosted a release party during which attendees could play the game “The Calm Before.” The game took nearly seven months to develop, accord-ing to academy participant Zachary Lubell.
“The Calm Before” is a first-person shooter computer game inspired by the games “The Legend of Zelda” and “Deus Ex,” according to the game’s website. Players must
fight beasts and solve puzzles to save an island from an im-pending storm.
The academy focuses on teaching leadership and man-agement skills within the vid-eo game industry because the participants already under-stand the basics of develop-ment, according to program coordinator Joshua Howard.
“The participants ex-perienced going through the process of concept and pre-production green light, presenting to potential cli-ents or a board of directors, then journeying though the different phases of game pro-duction, all while building an actual product for release,” Howard said.
Two robots, Wall-E and Eve, are helping the Austin Fire Department incorpo-rate technology into fire-fighting so that they can ultimately assess situations in advance of their human firefighting counterparts.
The two robots are micro-technical ground robots the department obtained from the federal Combating Ter-rorism Technical Support Office. Wall-E and Eve, named after the Pixar movie and both optimized for use in tunnels, communicate with each other while explor-ing their surroundings, AFD Lt. Lyzz Donelson said.
“When we send our ro-bots down into these tun-nels, or perhaps a confined space or a building collapse, it’s possible that we could use these robots to push in further than a firefighter could,” Donelson said. “We can use the cameras on these robots to glean information from the surroundings.”
The firefighters started training with the robots by making them do simple tasks, such as moving back and forth. Now, the firefight-ers can make the robots find mannequins, retrieve pipes from them and place those pipes into buckets.
Most officers haven’t had trouble operating the robots, Donelson said.
“The controllers are rela-tively intuitive,” Donelson said. “For some of our team members who have a lot of experience playing video games or operating remote-control toys, a lot of it’s re-ally similar.”
A new initiative from the provost’s office, the Senior Countdown program, will reward members of the class of 2016 for committing to graduate at the end of the upcoming school year.
Students who go to their academic adviser and
confirm they will graduate in four years can sign up for the program. In return, students can get help registering for courses they need to gradu-ate, receive career counsel-ing, earn access to network-ing events and get free gifts.
“This is simply a reminder to the students that there is a path, that they have this … contract with us that says
we’re making sure they get what they need,” said David Laude, senior vice provost for enrollment and gradua-tion management.
The program, which de-buted last week, is one of a number of efforts to boost four-year graduation rates at the University. Four-year graduation rates have re-mained above 50 percent
over the past decade, and President William Powers Jr. set a goal for the class of 2017 to leave with a 70 percent four-year graduation rate.
Laude said he believes students don’t always gradu-ate in four years because of a culture in which four-year graduation isn’t seen as nec-essary. Another contribut-ing factor, Laude said, is the
occasional student’s inability to enroll in courses neces-sary to graduate.
“Over and over, I talk to people who give up on try-ing to find that coursework, because it gets too difficult,” Laude said. “This is some-thing that we really have to work on to fix. I think that
Campus organizations and students filled Speed-way Plaza on Friday for Bike to UT Day, an event for pro-moting bicycle safety and appreciation on campus.
Parking and Trans-portation Services (PTS) hosted the annual event to connect students with cy-cling organizations, show appreciation for bike rid-ers and encourage more students to bike to cam-pus, according to Jeremy Hernandez, bike coordi-nator for PTS.
The University benefits in several ways from increased biking to campus, which re-duces motor vehicle traffic, Hernandez said.
“We care that they are rid-ing their bike on campus,”
Hernandez said. “It decreases the amount of driving traffic on campus and frees up some parking spaces for maybe some commuters who aren’t able to ride their bike.”
On Bike to UT Day last year, APD issued 47 tickets to cyclists in North Cam-pus. UTPD officer William Pieper said he was not aware of any increased law en-forcement initiatives to issue tickets to cyclists.
“We have not heard of any increased enforcement on cycling or step enforce-ment,” Pieper said. “That being said, if a police of-ficer sees someone violat-ing a traffic law, be a cyclist [or] a motor vehicle driver, they’re probably going to take action.”
PTS is tentatively orga-nizing a initiative to have bike-safety educators stand
near stop signs around campus and encourage en-courage fellow cyclists to follow road laws, accord-ing to Hernandez.
“We hope to have some groups, maybe next se-mester, be near stop signs,”
Hernandez said. “What we hopefully plan to do is to bring more awareness to students near stop signs and things of that nature in an educational way.”
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the degree plans should be much simpler, and a student’s choice of available courses to be able to graduate should come a lot easier.”
Kathy Uitvlugt, Senior Countdown program man-ager, said the University largely pushes for four-year graduation rates to save stu-dents money in tuition.
“On average, our students incur about $19,000 in debt if they graduate in four years,” Uitvlugt said. “It re-ally makes a difference.”
Biology junior Jacque-line Lim said she will most likely not register for Senior Countdown because she is already guaranteed access to courses she needs through her four-year freshman in-terest group.
“I was going to [sign up],
but getting an appointment with the adviser to talk to her about it is really difficult at this time, since registra-tion is going on, and walk-ins have a really long wait time,” Lim said. “The only incentive for me to sign up for it would be the free gifts, and, still, I’m still not sure it’s worth the trouble of waiting to see an adviser in the biol-ogy department.”
Kim Saindon, interna-tional relations and global studies junior, said she can’t see any downsides to sign-ing up for the program.
“I don’t know if that kind of a program is going to make a difference for [everyone], but I think it’s a nice incentive for people who are already on that path,” Saindon said.
Laude said the provost’s office has spent a lot of ef-fort over the past few years trying to increase four-year
graduation rates.“Now, it’s time to shift our
attention to the back-end and deal with the issues that students face when they’re getting ready to graduate,” Laude said. “It’s prompted consideration we’ve given to what exactly a graduating se-nior was going to want to see made available to them in terms of resources as they’re getting ready to graduate.”
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selection process.”One challenge preparing for
the presidency poses is that issues and opportunities for change often remain unseen until one actually takes the po-sition, according to former UT President Larry Faulkner.
“I don’t think any president should come in with a firm idea
of what all [his or her] goals are,” Faulkner said. “I don’t think that you know enough until you’re in the job, what is really ripe, what are the best op-portunities for the institution, and in fact, opportunities will appear while you’re serving.”
Faulkner said he would advise Fenves to take steps to learn more about the Uni-versity but said Fenves is po-sitioned differently than he
was when he first came into the job.
“When I came in, I didn’t know the people, [and] I didn’t know the intricate issues fac-ing the institution, and I had to learn about those,” Faulkner said. “Greg Fenves has been here for years now, and so he is more prepared on that scene than I was.”
Working with the state Legis-lature night pore a greater chal-
lenge for Fenves when he be-comes president, Faulkner said.
“What I don’t think [Fenves] has had is an oppor-tunity to talk to people in the state,” Faulkner said. “Even though Greg Fenves would have gotten some of that ac-tivity while he was dean and provost, it’s nothing like be-ing president.”
Fenves said he has gained valuable experience working
with the Legislature in previ-ous roles at UT.
“I have considerable experi-ence working with the Legis-lature,” Fenves said. “I’ve been working with the Legislature since soon after I joined the University of Texas. I think I’ve developed great relationships with many members. I under-stand the legislative process.”
Fenves will begin his ten-ure on June 3.
Because robots can go places firefighters can’t, the possibilities for their use are endless, especially in search-and-rescue missions, Donel-son said.
“I joined 12 years ago, and at the time, this wasn’t even something on our radar,” Donelson said. “I joined to fight fire and to help people in emergencies with my hands, so to have this opportunity to start using technology out there is very exciting.”
While the department continues to research situa-tions in which robots could be useful, Gilbert Rodri-guez, electrical engineering senior and member of the IEEE Robotics and Automa-tion Society, said one im-portant factor to consider is that robots can operate in different environments than most human beings.
“I could see a huge benefit from firefighters using auton-omous robots since it makes it safer for them to operate in disaster areas,” Rodriguez said. “It also brings forth huge
design challenges because the robots need to operate in ex-treme conditions, such as the heat of a fire.”
Donelson said one possi-bility for robot development is giving them the ability to tell those who are trapped that help is on the way.
Public health junior Yana Maskov said she would be relieved to interact with any help, human or robot, if she were trapped in a dangerous situation.
“I would actually feel OK, and I would trust [the robot] because if you’re about to die and you have no options left, then I would do anything,” Maskov said.
Donelson said innovations such as this are a rarity in the firefighting business.
“It’s not very often that changes come along in the fire service that can funda-mentally alter the way we ap-proach an emergency scene,” Donelson said. “The possi-bilities of using robotics to take firefighters out of harm’s way, while at the same time helping us access our pa-tients much faster and safer — that’s groundbreaking.”
Howard said graduates of the academy will have an advantage over video game developers who follow tradi-tional career paths.
“Having the simulation of a working studio allows us to pull the participants out of dif-ficult situations as they are hap-pening [and] then examine the circumstances, repercussions and solutions from both the inside out to see what they can learn from it,” Howard said. “The results leads to graduates of the program having knowl-edge and experiences that it would take years to develop in a traditional career path.”
Lubell said presenting the game in March at the Game Developers Conference, the largest event for video game developers, proved to be the toughest challenge in the
development process.“We had to make some real-
ly tough decisions in that very short window to prepare and to polish and to do all sorts of things that we would not have traditionally done during the middle of development just to prepare for [Game Developers Conference],” Lubell said.
Gerard Manzanares, an employee at Cloud Imperium Games, said “The Calm Be-fore” has some impressive qualities but could use addi-tional features that would help improve its overall quality.
“The art style and environ-ment is great, and there was no lag at all,” Manzanares said. “[The game] has a good basis but needs something more like a compass, or objective marker, or any type of direction.”
“The Calm Before” is free to download on the game’s website, www.thecalmbefore-game.com.
In order to reduce bike thefts, UTPD officers at Bike to UT Day demonstrated how thieves circumvent cable locks and U-locks to steal bikes.
“There are a lot of thieves that can cut off a cable quick-ly,” Pieper said. “[Cyclists] are really subjecting their bike to bike theft. We want to en-courage people to use a U-lock as a minimum degree of security for their bicycle.”
Biking is a way for stu-dents to lose weight and gain lean muscle, according to Lindsay Wilson, registered dietician with the Division of Housing and Food Service.
“Even though you are ped-aling a lot, you are using your arms to support yourself,” Wilson said. “It’s definitely a full-body activity.”
Advertising junior Joe Welbes said he bikes around campus for environmental and practical reasons.
“The environmental aspect appeals to me too because I’m not using my car as much,” Welbes said. “[There is] more freedom than taking a bus.”
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Currently, the Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court are debating the right to gay marriage. The debate has invoked the same themes that have surrounded this issue for decades: mo-rality, church and state, biology, the defini-tion of marriage, constitutionality and the rights of citizens. While the debate remains contentious and the ruling could go either way, the proceedings have reminded me of the discrimination that persists at the Uni-versity of Texas at Austin, discrimination that is not perpetuated by the University it-self, but by the state of Texas.
Specifically, I am referring to domestic partner benefits, or “competitive insurance benefits” as they are sometimes called. In the state of Texas, domestic partnerships and same-sex marriages are both prohibited. Ac-cordingly, state law prohibits this University, a state institution, from providing health in-surance to the domestic partners of LGBTQ
faculty members as they are only permitted for “spouses.”
Personally, I find this abhorrent. Regard-less of your stance on the morality of same-sex marriage, how could anyone logically assert that two people providing the same services should not be given the same ben-efits?
To use an analogy offered by Chief Justice John Roberts, if Joe can extend benefits as a University employee because he married Sue, why can he not receive those same benefits if he marries Tom? Does Joe all of a sudden be-come less deserving of those benefits? Does his work suffer? Is there any logical reason to treat him differently as an employee because he loves a man instead of a woman? No, it’s illogical, it’s unconstitutional and it’s hurting our University’s competitiveness in recruit-ing and retaining top-tier faculty and staff.
Beyond the moral debate, there’s a strate-gic one at play. For years, potential applicants have forgone the opportunity to teach and research at UT because their partners cannot receive benefits: “In sum, we fail to make the best hires because UT does not offer same-sex spouse benefits,” said Nicolas Shumway, chair of the Department of Spanish and Por-tuguese. “I’m certain that versions of this story get played out across campus every year. Indeed, without a meaningful change on same-sex spouse benefits, UT will always be at a hiring disadvantage in comparison with the best universities in the country, both public and private.”
Indeed, many other college campuses across the nation provide domestic partner
benefits. In fact, 304 universities — includ-ing every Ivy League school — provide the benefits.
Of the 304 schools, some are private, some are public, some are in Texas and some are elsewhere around the country. However, any of them may appeal to potential faculty for a variety of reasons better than we can. For example, a faculty member at this Univer-sity earning $80,000 per year loses out on approximately $8,108 in benefits because of the lack of domestic partner benefits. Further, partners who are ineligible for this University’s health care coverage can face insurmountable expenses through other in-surance policies. This doesn’t even mention the difficulties faced by partners who have no access to any health care at all.
Fortunately, there might be some change on the horizon. State House Bill 1797 is pending in the State Affairs Committee. HB 1797 authored by state Rep. Marisa Marquez, D-El Paso, seeks to change the State Insur-ance Code. These alterations would allow UT to provide insurance benefits to the do-mestic partners of faculty and staff. I under-stand that this is part of a much larger de-bate in our nation about marriage equality. However, the next time you turn on CNN or read about the debate on Facebook, remem-ber that it isn’t just some case about abstract ideas. Rather, it’s a case that impacts many of your friends, professors and the University you attend. Indeed, this is a very close issue.
Dimitroff, a University-wide representative in Student Government, is a history and gov-ernment junior from Houston.
In 2011, Texas implemented legislation that required a registered citizen to bring one of seven forms of photo ID to the polls in order to vote. It is estimated that this re-quirement could prevent 600,000 registered Texas voters from voting because they lack an acceptable form of ID.
While photo ID requirements look like they’re here to stay, one state representative is working to help ease the burden it places on students. House Bill 733, filed by state Rep. Celia Israel, D-Austin, would make voting more accessible for UT students by allowing them to use a school ID or a Vet-eran Health Identification Card at the vot-ing booth.
The current forms of photo ID that are accepted are often inconvenient or expen-sive for students, especially for out-of-state students who don’t have a Texas driver’s li-cense.
Current law would require them to go to the Department of Public Safety in order to get a state-issued ID to vote. While they can be issued an election identification certifi-cate there free of charge, it can be difficult for students without a car to get to the DPS, as the closest driver’s license office is nearly four miles from campus.
Students also have the option to get a passport card in West Campus, but it will cost them $55 — too high a price to exer-cise a constitutional right. Short of getting a concealed handgun license, joining the military or applying for a citizenship cer-tificate (if they are American citizens who were born overseas), students are suddenly out of options for being able to vote if they can’t afford these options or didn’t bring the necessary paperwork with them to college.
In contrast, if HB 733 became law, UT students would be able to use their student ID issued by the University. For out-of-state students, this would allow them to use a non-Texas license to obtain a student ID. Instead of requiring a trip to the DPS, they could go to the Flawn Academic Center on
campus. HB 733 would also make Veteran Health Identification Cards an acceptable form of ID, making voting even easier for over 1,000 student veterans at UT.
While many supporters of having strict photo ID requirements would argue that this opens up the possibility of voter fraud by those ineligible to vote, this is simply not the case.
Individuals must still comply with eligi-bility requirements, such as being a citizen when they register to vote in Texas, and this information is subsequently verified. Since 2000, only two people in the state of Texas have been convicted of in-person voter im-personation, which voter ID is supposedly intended to address.
This lack of evidence that voter fraud is occurring anywhere near a significant amount would suggest that the procedures previously in place were already adequate. However, in order to address the two cases of voter fraud that could have been prevent-ed by a photo ID, hundreds of thousands of Texans could now be lacking the identifica-tion necessary to vote.
Many of these Texans are specifically out-of-state students, who would benefit from Israel’s bill. When students move to Aus-tin, they become a part of our community and they deserve the right to vote here. By making it exceedingly difficult for students to vote where they live, the current voter ID laws deny them this right and prevent them from becoming civically engaged. If we want students to vote and have a voice in issues affecting them, we must first make sure they have the ability to vote.
HB 733 doesn’t come close to solving all of the issues that come with photo ID re-quirements. It still creates an effective poll tax and hundreds of thousands of Texans will still lack access to an acceptable ID. However, it is a commendable effort to amend the Legislature’s previous decisions. By expanding the types of ID accepted, HB 733 specifically makes voting more acces-sible for all students.
Alcantara is a Plan II sophomore from Houston. She is the communications director for University Democrats.
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I want to thank you for the wonderful arti-cle in the Daily Texan — “Student volunteers disappointed by potential closure of Austin State Supported Living Center.”
My brother who has Down syndrome and Alzheimer’s dementia has been living at Aus-tin State Supported Living Center since 2007. He receives excellent care from the physi-cians, dentist, nurses, therapists, pharmacists, chaplain and direct care staff at this specialty care center at Austin State Supported Living Center.
I am very grateful that so many student vol-unteers share their time with our loved ones who live at Austin State Supported Living Center.
I attended the University of Texas at Aus-tin from 1962 until graduation in 1966, and I volunteered at Austin State Supported Liv-ing Center (formerly known as Austin State School) while I was a student. I know the joy it brings to one’s life to be able to share a daily activity with a resident of Austin State Sup-ported Living Center.
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The Perry-Castañeda Library will start renovating the ground floor in December 2015. The 7,400-square-foot area will be re-constructed as space for research and study-ing by graduate students and faculty.
While plenty of attention is paid to the undergraduate services offered on campus the services offered to graduate students often seem minimal. As part of its Scholars Common pilot, designed to provide gradu-ate students more visible help, the PCL plans to utilize its capacity and resources more effectively to make graduate students and faculty aware that there are PCL spaces and services just for them.
“On the entry level, I want the graduate students coming to see there’s something for them dedicated to their needs and the way they expect to use space,” said Jenifer Flax-bart, head librarian of research and infor-mation services for the PCL.
It is generally acknowledged that people have different study patterns: Some per-form better when studying by themselves, while others are more productive working in groups.
Though the PCL offers about 135 closed study rooms for Ph.D. candidates, the num-ber of students on the waiting list generally ranges from 5 to 20, according to Flaxbart. With the establishment of Scholars Com-mon, graduate students will have the option of studying in a quiet space or, if they prefer, going to the student landing spot to network with other students.
In addition, the renovation is a pilot pro-gram that may have a bigger impact. After polling key constituencies, the PCL plans to use what it has learned to create larger, more compelling commons to accommo-date more people on other floors.
For now, I just hope that this is a good way to reorganize the space, which can be fully utilized by students’ purposes.
The PCL is currently completing a survey seeking the opinions of graduate students, faculty, post-docs and staff about the servic-es, spaces and technology support they wish the library could provide. To participate in this survey, visit the following link: http://bit.ly/1GCVAkW.
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Texas’ heads are hot, but bats are coldLate in the ninth inning
Sunday, Texas Tech sopho-more Stephen Smith slid hard into freshman shortstop Joe Baker. As the two barked at each other, the Texas bench ran on to the field in a rare sign of emotion for the Longhorns.
“It’s just baseball,” sopho-more catcher Tres Barrera said. “We’re just sticking up for our teammate. We saw a guy went in hard. You just got to back up your guy at all times, no matter what the score is.”
The move, about protec-tion, was equally the result of raw emotion spilling onto the field as the Texas season hung in the balance. In a must-win game, Texas faltered to Texas Tech, 5–1, in a decisive se-ries finale, just as it has done most of this season. The Red Raiders took the series with a 2-1 advantage.
“It’s like going to the same movie over and over again,” head coach Augie Garrido said. “We continue not to take quality at-bats with runners in scoring position. When we have opportunities to score runs, we fail offensively to take our walks and sustain the rally that we need.”
Garrido said the team en-tered the weekend with the hope of sneaking into the NCAA Tournament. But the Longhorns flew off the radar in front of 6,284 faithful fans Sunday as a two-run home
run by Texas Tech freshman shortstop Orlando Garcia sailed over the left-field wall in the fifth inning.
Despite recording eight hits, the Longhorns failed to pro-duce any run-scoring drives as their only run came across on a walk. Texas played 24 innings of scoreless baseball over the weekend. It plated three runs in the fifth inning of Friday’s 3–0 win and one run in each of its losses.
“We haven’t capitalized when we needed to,” Bar-rera said. “We haven’t been able to put timely at-bats and timely hitting when we have runners in scoring position.
That’s just the way it’s been.”Texas has a .500 record and
has failed to win back-to-back Big 12 games since late March. The team also dropped three mid-week games this sea-son against UT-Arlington, Texas A&M–Corpus Christi and Sam Houston State. The Longhorns’ struggles started in early March when the team dropped a doubleheader against San Diego.
“We had a lot of success, a lot of fight and a lot of expec-tations,” Garrido said. “I think when we lost the first three-game weekend, we started to feel differently about their ability to come back and win
the game. We’ve had problem with RBIs.”
The Longhorns offense start-ed off hot but quelled as the season grew. Texas put plenty of runners on base — as it did against the Red Raiders — but failed to bring home many runs. The biggest issue that hurt the Longhorns was their focus on their batting average, Garrido said.
“We became one dimen-sional; we only had one goal,” Garrido said. “Anybody who’s been around baseball for a long time … they know that the biggest demon of all the ones that are around is batting average.”
With four games left in the regular season, the team’s postseason hopes likely ride on winning the Big 12 Cham-pionship, a shock consider-ing Garrido called this team as good as the 2005 national championship team earlier this season.
Despite all the negativity surrounding this season, the players still believe a comeback is possible, according to fresh-man pitcher Connor Mayes.
“[The batters] are staying with it and going through the process that coach talks about, and that’s all we can do,” Mayes said. “We might be unlucky, but we just got to stay with it.”
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After seven rounds and 256 selections in the 2014 NFL draft, Texas had no names on the selection board.
But by the time Mr. Ir-relevant — the name given to the last player drafted — was picked in the 2015 NFL draft, Texas had made its presence felt.
Five Longhorns, the most since 2010, were selected in this year’s draft, which was hosted in Chicago over the weekend. The Longhorns first got on the board Friday, when the New England Pa-triots drafted defensive end Malcom Brown No. 32 over-all, and the team’s involve-ment ended when the Dallas Cowboys selecting tight end Geoff Swaim with the 29th pick of the seventh round.
“It was just a relief — the past four or five hours have been pretty intense,” said Swaim, who will be join-ing former Texas teammates Donald Hawkins and Chris Whaley, in a statement. “It’ll be cool to play with the guys that I’ve known and have a re-lationship with.”
Defensive backs Mykkele Thompson and Quandre Diggs were taken in the fifth and sixth rounds, respective-
ly, of the NFL draft. The New York Giants selected Thomp-son with the eighth pick in the fifth round, while the Detroit Lions picked Diggs with the 24th pick of the sixth round.
“It’s great,” Diggs said of being drafted on the same day as Thompson, who is one of his closest friends. “Mykkele’s my brother; that’s my best friend. He’s one of the people who definitely pushed me.”
Another person who pushed Diggs was head coach Charlie Strong, whom Diggs developed a close relationship with in Strong’s inaugural sea-son at Texas.
“He can cover and may not have top-end speed, but he makes up for it with his intel-ligence,” Strong said. “He plays within himself, studies receiv-ers, studies splits [and] studies everything the offense does.”
The Philadelphia Eagles selected linebacker Jordan Hicks with the 20th pick in the third round.
“I’ve been talking to [Phila-delphia] for a while, actually,” Hicks said in a statement. “I went on a pre-draft visit there and had a great time, felt re-ally comfortable and enjoyed meeting with all the coaches and getting a feel for the place.”
Four other Longhorns
found teams in the NFL af-ter the draft ended. Once the draft is over, players have the chance to sign with teams as rookie free agents.
Wide receiver John Harris will be joining Hicks after sign-ing a free agent deal with the Eagles, while long snapper Nate Boyer signed as a free agent with the Seattle Seahawks. The St. Louis Rams picked up run-ning back Malcolm Brown, and defensive end Cedric Reed signed with the Buffalo Bills.
“It was great,” Boyer said. “[Seahawks] coach [Pete] Car-roll called me, actually. He called and said, ‘I want to invite you out to training camp,’ and he actually said, ‘I hope you ac-cept my invitation.’ Obviously, ‘yes’ was the answer to that.”
Before playing at Texas, Boyer was a member of the Green Berets. He joined the team in 2012 with no prior football experience.
“The thing about Nate is he’s such a hard worker,” Strong said. “Any time some-one represents your country, when you talk about courage, you talk about honor, that’s what it’s all about. I love him so much.”
By the end of the weekend, the Longhorns had nine play-ers headed to the NFL — a distinct turnaround from last year.
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Texas sweeps Cowgirls thanks to home runs
After dropping two of three to Texas Tech last weekend, Texas bounced back to sweep Oklahoma State this past weekend in Stillwater, Oklahoma.
Freshman Erica Wright pitched a one-hit shutout to start the series off for Texas (35–14, 10–5 Big 12) to grab an 11–0 victory over Okla-homa State (21–31, 3–13 Big 12) on Friday.
“[Wright] was really just beginning to get into a groove,” head coach Con-nie Clark said. “I thought her velocity was excep-tional tonight, and with her movement, she was locat-ing the ball well.”
On the offensive end, Texas continued to display a solid hitting performance this weekend. Coming into the weekend, Texas had outhit its opponents, .342 to .251, and the team continued to do so against Oklahoma State, outhitting the Cow-girls, .413 to .164.
The Longhorns comple-mented Wright’s pitching efforts in the first game, connecting on 11 hits, in-cluding three home runs.
After junior center fielder Lindsey Stephens and fresh-man third baseman Randel Leahy hit back-to-back home runs in the first, junior sec-ond baseman Stephanie Ceo eagerly joined in on the fun. With bases loaded in the top of the fifth, Ceo blasted a grand slam to left-center, Tex-as’ sixth of the season, to put
the Longhorns in position for another run-rule victory.
“We were ready to hit the field from pitch one, and we were ready to fight,” Ceo said. “All of the preparation at-bat happens in the dugout and once you get out there, you just keep your eye on the ball.”
Sophomore Tiarra Davis took the mound in the sec-ond game. Despite battling injury all season, she struck out four and brought her record up to 5–4.
“For Tiarra to get in five innings today from the circle was really exciting,” Clark said. “I don’t know if she had her best stuff physically today, but mentally, that’s as good as I’ve seen her.”
From the plate, Ceo homered again while Ste-phens and sophomore shortstop Devon Tunning each went 2-for-4 to lead the Longhorns to victory over the Cowgirls, 9–0.
“Man, [Ceo] just saw the ball all weekend and was one of our strongest hitters,” Clark said. “Really happy to get that production from the bottom of the order.”
The third game wasn’t much different. Wright kicked it off with five strike-outs, one hit and two walks in four innings to improve to 16–6. Before the end of the game, senior Gabby Smith and sophomore Lauren Slat-ten also saw the mound and earned two strikeouts apiece to lead Texas to a 7–2 victory.
“It was a goal today going in to get Gabby and Lauren a little work, and that was accomplished,” Clark said.
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Charlotte Carpenter | Daily Texan file photoFreshman pitcher Erica Wright pitched a one-hit shutout in Texas’ 11-0 win on Friday.
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Texas track and field sweeps both men’s and women’s bracket
As the semester comes to a close, the Texas track and field team is look-ing to ace the final test of the season.
At Mike A. Myers Stadium on Saturday, head coach Mario Sat-egna’s group swept both the men’s and women’s brackets at the Long-horn Invitational. The team excelled at the final meet before conference championships and other opportunities, picking up seven wins over the course of the day.
The men’s squad, which edged out Akron by 8 points, had three wins on the day. Sophomore hurdler Spencer Dunker-ley-Offor posted the second-best time in the NCAA this season in the 110-meter hurdles. His wind-aided time of 13.54 seconds is his personal best and puts him in con-tention at the Big 12 Out-door Championships in two weeks.
The women crushed the competition, beat-ing second-place Akron by more than 80 points thanks to four victories. The 4x100-meter relay team of senior Morgan Snow, freshman Caitland Smith, junior Morolake Akinosun, and sopho-more Kendall Baisden took the event with a time of 45.31 seconds. Snow and Baisden each nabbed individual titles as well, with Baisden taking the 100-meter dash and Snow besting the competition in the 100-meter hurdles.
Texas will now have two weeks to rest up be-fore heading to Ames, Iowa, for the Big 12 Out-door Championships from May 15–17.
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R adio-te lev is ion-f i lm student John Hanby owns a professional film pro-duction company that produces commercials for businesses around Austin — and he’s only a freshman.
Hanby’s company, Fractal Visuals, shoots commercials for businesses ranging from small low-budget startups to multimillion dollar com-panies, such as Southwest Foodservice Excellence. He started Fractal Visuals dur-ing his junior year of high school after helping create an advertisement for the security company where his dad works.
Hanby’s parents support-ed his endeavor from the start, buying him his first professional-level camera. After Hanby started produc-ing ads for more clients, he used his profits to purchase better camera equipment and contract freelance film professionals to help him with his projects.
“The fact that I’m [run-ning the company] on my own now is exciting,” Hanby said. “But my parents gave me all the encouragement in the world. I owe it all to them.”
Although Fractal Visuals’ ads boast good production values, Hanby tailored the
company to support small and medium businesses that can’t afford to pay high pric-es for ads.
“[Other companies] charge so much money,” Hanby said. “A full-scale production for three min-utes of video costs $50,000. Small to medium businesses get hurt by that. I try to help them in a way.”
Hanby discovered his love for making films when he was 8 after making a docu-mentary for a school proj-ect. The video was about Tukong Moosul, a Korean style of martial arts that he practices. As he got older, Hanby continued to make videos for personal proj-ects, school announcements and events before creating Fractal Visuals.
Beyond his corporate work, Hanby produces short films that tackle dark sub-jects and themes. One of his shorts, “Beautiful,” which tells the story about a soldier and his lover torn apart by World War II, screened at South By Southwest in 2014. For these personal proj-ects, Hanby often teams up with his friends and spends hours shooting with them on weekends.
“My friends are all fantas-tic,” Hanby said. “Everybody that helped found a role they were good at.”
Hanby’s friend Michael Castoro, finance freshman
at the University of Hous-ton, has been the camera-man for his shorts. Castoro said Hanby always pushes for excellence from his crew-members and strove to make his films as good as possible.
“Everything [we’ve] done, we’ve tried to make the best we could,” Castoro said. “We didn’t give up until [a video was] perfect.”
Hanby’s martial arts in-structor, Ali Brown, has starred in a few of his vid-eos. In one short, he and Hanby face off in a choreo-graphed fight sequence that demonstrates their martial arts prowess.
Brown, who has known Hanby since he was 4, said he has enjoyed watch-ing him grow into a
strong filmmaker.“[Hanby] is really good
at being collaborative,” Brown said. “I’ve helped [with stunts] on films such as ‘Sin City.’ [Hanby] keeps things on schedule in a way that you don’t find on movie sets.”
Hanby said he hopes he will work in the future as a director on Hollywood
film sets. His goal is to cre-ate movies that emotionally impact audiences in the way films such as “The Termina-tor” affected him.
“I had nightmares for a week after [seeing ‘The Terminator’],” Hanby said. “Having that emotional re-sponse was the coolest thing. I want to share that experi-ence through my work.”
Photojournalism profes-sor Eli Reed’s sharp eye and natural curiosity keep him behind the lens and on the move. From violence in war-torn Lebanon to portraits of Hollywood movie stars, he has captured meaningful moments around the world.
In his retrospective photo book, “A Long Walk Home,” released Monday, the Magnum photographer chronicled a wide range of life experiences through 261 black-and-white images, which he said together represent what it means to be a human being. `
“It’s not something that’s just flowery,” Reed said. “I want to get people to think.”
Reed’s 40-year career has taken him from his hometown in Perth Amboy, New Jersey, to witness dramatic struggles and scenes of everyday life in coun-tries around the world. Reed’s photographs will be exhibited at the Leica Gallery in SoHo, New York, which opens Thurs-day and runs through June 20.
At 68, Reed cannot flip through his book without pausing to tell a story or two about his adventures. Each im-age, from a soldier blissed out amongst hippies to two bratty kids peering through a win-dow, has a rich tale behind it.
“I didn’t just want to do a retrospective of my favorite pictures,” Reed said. “Every-thing that’s ever been written, shot or filmed — wouldn’t you want to know what’s going on and see it?”
Reed is rarely seen with-out his signature mammoth tusk necklace or Sony camera strapped to his side, always ready to snap a photo at a mo-ment’s notice. Reed said his job as a photographer is to
document history and answer life’s basic questions.
“In a way, all photogra-phers are aliens; all writers are aliens,” Reed said. “Because you observe stuff and report back to the masses.”
Reed dedicated “A Long Walk Home” to his mother and father. The preface of the book reads like an intimate letter to his mother, who died when he was 12. Reed calls it his “personal poem.”
“I have tried to capture the complicated beauty of life in
a visual form,” Reed wrote. “I continue the search and live and breathe and wonder at the beauty of it all.”
Colleen Devine Ellis, the UT Press publicist behind Reed’s book, said Reed’s work stands out among the four to five photography books UT Press publishes a year because the photographs span across a large time period and cover such a wide range subjects. She said Reed’s technical skills and unique perspective result in truly affecting images.
“There’s a lot of emotion and sensitivity in his photos,” Ellis said. “His concern with the poor and with children, [especially]. He treats those subjects with a lot of sensitiv-ity and respect.”
When Reed is not off on an assignment, he’s in front of the classroom teaching. He said he hopes his students learn how to follow their instincts and form their own opinions about photography.
“The biggest thing is think-ing past this technical stuff
— understanding the value of saying something and not just being like everyone else,” Reed said.
Photojournalism senior Hannah Vickers took Reed’s darkroom class when she first arrived at UT. She said hav-ing Reed as a professor taught her to constantly seek out new perspectives because although everyone has a camera, not everyone is a photojournalist.
“He opened my eyes to the fact that only the people who are working the hardest will
succeed,” Vickers said. “I feel like being taught under him has given me the idea that you should always strive to be different.”
Reed said moments that re-veal the human spirit inspire him. He said he is interested in how people live their lives and the legacies they leave behind.
“I don’t look for a com-monality,” Reed said. “Every-one has their preconceived notions, but you have to look past that and see what is the reality.”
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Photojournalism professor releases bookBy Mary Cantrell
@mkcant
Marshall Tidrick | Daily Texan StaffPhotojournalism professor Eli Reed recently released his book, “A Long Walk Home,” which chronicles his experiences through 261 black-and-white images in an attempt to represent what it means to be human. Reed’s images will be exhibited at the Leica Gallery in SoHo, New York, and will run until the end of June.
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UT freshman owns, runs a production companyBy Charles Liu@CharlieInDaHaus
Michael Baez | Daily Texan Staff Radio-television-film freshman John Hanby is the owner of Fractal Visuals, a film production company. Fractal Visuals creates commercials for small businesses and short films.
