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Problems with cell recep-tion in and around UT are nothing new, especially af-ter kickoff at Saturday foot-ball games, but a campus distributed antenna system is constantly working to better reception quality and manage demand.

Originally deployed in 2008, the campus distributed antenna system is a partner-ship between Information Technology Services and wireless networks AT&T, Ve-rizon and Sprint to provide improved wireless coverage across campus.

The networks’ participa-tion in the project is entirely voluntary and the vendors rely on reports of coverage is-sues provided by the Univer-sity. Last month, AT&T add-ed additional 3G coverage and completed LTE upgrades to the system, although the

Despite recent initiatives to increase four-year gradu-ation rates, the preliminary Fall 2013 Enrollment Analy-sis released Monday shows there has been little to no change in the statistic.

In May of 2011, Presi-dent William Powers Jr. an-nounced a goal to increase four-year graduation rates to

70 percent by 2016. Accord-ing to the analysis, four-year graduation rates actually de-creased from 52.2 percent in spring 2012 to 52 percent in spring 2013. Five-year and six-year graduation rates both increased, by 1.9 percent and 0.7 percent, respectively.

David Laude, UT senior vice provost of enrollment and graduation manage-ment, said UT has re-empha-sized alternate ways to earn

academic credit — AP, dual enrollment, summer school and online credit — to speed up the graduation process with the class of 2017.

“This is a reality of the modern college campus,” Laude said. “There are multi-ple ways to earn the … credit needed each academic year for a traditional 120-hour degree plan.”

Government sopho-more Irina Yaremchuk is a

transfer student from Aus-tin Community College who plans to graduate on time. She said her academic

adviser was very help-ful in providing her with

It’s safe to say not many national champions are crowned by catching a snitch. The Texas Quid-ditch team, which earned a national championship last spring at the 2013 Quid-ditch World Cup VI in Kis-simmee, Fla., has no desire to be conventional. After all, when playing a modi-fied version of a sport from the magical world of “Harry Potter,” concessions have to be made.

“Quidditch can’t escape the fact that it’s different, but it’s the smartest game I’ve ever played and requires the most strategy,” said Kenny Chilton, theatre and dance junior and the team’s co-captain. Chilton sealed the final match of the World Cup last year by catching the snitch.

That difference is what inspired prospective play-ers running sprints aboard broomsticks at 9 a.m. for fall travel team tryouts. Those trying out may have been re-enacting a game created in the mind of J.K. Rowling, but

the media presence, which included five writers and photographers, reflected the intensity and buzz that sur-rounds a team preparing to defend its title.

The success of Texas Quidditch is remarkable considering it is entering just its second year as a club. As scrimmages began, it

became clear the tryouts weren’t just fans of Rowling, but hopeful athletes interested

in competing in a contact

Former UT graduate stu-dent Jared Hall appeared in his fourth episode of the quiz-style game show “Jeopardy!” Tuesday night as friends and co-workers gathered to cheer him on.

Hall graduated with a mas-ter’s degree in global policy studies from the LBJ School of Public Affairs in May 2013. He currently works as a researcher in UT’s Interna-tional Office. He will appear in several more episodes this week and may return for a champion tournament match next year.

Hall said both his research and studies at the University played a large part in his suc-cess on the show so far.

“I think the coursework that I had at the LBJ School exposed me to a wide range of different subjects — in terms of current affairs, history and economics — that helped to further broaden my hori-zons,” Hall said. “It exposed me to all sorts of different

facts and bodies of knowledge that came in handy as I com-peted on the show.”

Hall’s journey began in March of 2012, when he took his first online trivia test.

“I didn’t know what to ex-pect going into it,” Hall said. “I really had no idea what it would be like.”

After passing two written trivia tests, Hall joined other prospective contestants from the region for an audition in New Orleans. In the months leading up to the audition, Hall said he prepared by rou-tinely watching the show.

“I saw what types of ques-tions were asked and worked on how I play the game,” Hall said. “I used a reference book, I used different trivia guides, I made flashcards and I read a lot of Wikipedia articles.”

In March of 2013, Hall re-ceived a call from a contestant coordinator in Los Angeles and taped his first episode a few weeks later.

“I was pleasantly surprised by all of the people involved

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After using Blackboard for 13 years, UT professors and students will soon make the switch to Canvas, a new learning management system.

Blackboard will be com-pletely phased out by August 2015. Last school year, Can-vas was implemented on a tri-al basis in select classrooms. Faculty and student survey responses showed that 80 per-cent of faculty and 66 percent of students were in support of Canvas. Based on these re-sults, the Course and Learn-ing Management Evaluation Steering Committee voted in favor of the transition 16 to 1.

When the trial period be-gan, management professor Dennis Passovoy, who used Canvas in its first testing stages, said he eagerly signed on to try the new system.

Passovoy said many stu-dents and faculty find Black-board difficult to navigate and that Canvas offers a user-friendly interface com-parable to Facebook.

“The biggest difference is the way Canvas organizes a stu-dent’s schedule,” Passovoy said. “When they first log in, they see all the assignments they have due in the next seven days.”

Students also have the op-portunity to predict many possible grade outcomes based on how they do on upcoming assignments and assessments.

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with the system were solved over the trial period, but a small issue remains in the communication aspect of Canvas, Passovoy said.

“When a student sends me a message from within Can-vas, I have to go into Canvas to read and to respond it,” Pass-ovoy said. “I can’t respond via regular email.”

Currently, Informa-tion Technology Services maintains the Blackboard system, according to Brad Englert, chief information officer for IT Services.

“Blackboard is host-ed in our campus data center on University-owned equipment,” Englert said. “The current servers and storage are nearing the end of their useful life. The equipment replace-ment cost is estimated to be

$330,000 as follows: $150,000 for servers, $135,000 for high-performance primary storage and $45,000 for utility-grade backup storage.”

Because the developer of Canvas does the trouble-shooting, IT Services does not control as many of the system’s features, but still has a part in maintenance.

Overall, Blackboard expenses for the current fiscal year are $700,000, while Canvas is estimated to cost $635,000 annually. The estimated one-time transition cost is $63,500, Englert said.

Instructional technology specialist Mario Guerra said UT’s transition process will last two years, though other schools have transitioned from Blackboard or another system to Canvas in a se-mester or a year. He said UT is lengthening the process

in order to allow profes-sors to move their course material from one system to the next.

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in the process: the contestant coordinators, the produc-ers, Alex [Trebek] himself … They’re all just really great people and really friendly and want you to do well,” Hall said.

Liz Smith, who serves as assistant director of spon-sored student programs in the International Office and as Hall’s supervisor, said Hall excels in high-energy envi-ronments. Smith said Hall’s work often involves creative problem-solving.

“In our office, you have to think fast on your feet,” Smith said. “There’s a lot of problem-solving that’s involved — you

have to react quickly, and I think that’s something [Hall] also had to do on ‘Jeopardy!.’”

Current graduate student Laura Struve worked with Hall in the International Of-fice and said Hall gained an advantage from working with a diverse student body.

“I think his cultural com-petency is higher or more nu-anced as a result of working with the International Office,” Struve said.

Hall said he had always liked “Jeopardy!,” but he only began watching the show reg-ularly during college.

“It was just one of those things that had always been a goal of mine,” Hall said. “I was like, ‘Hey, I could be on ‘Jeop-ardy!’. I should give it a shot.’”

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Debby Garcia / Daily Texan StaffMembers of Challah for Hunger knead chocolate challah bread to be sold on the West Mall to raise money to fight hunger.

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Debby Garcia / Daily Texan StaffJared Hall, a LBJ School of Public Affairs graduate, recently ap-peared on “Jeopardy!” after two trivia tests and an audition.

information, including which of her transferred classes counted for her de-gree. She said other depart-ments and administrators were less than helpful.

“I wish I could praise UT’s financial aid office as well, but I honestly can’t,” Yarem-chuck said. “While their on-line tools are helpful, I found it nearly impossible to get in touch with them.”

In response to decreases in state funding for higher education in recent years, Laude said the UT System has directed recurring and one-time allocations toward specific programs to improve graduation rates.

“Degrees earned in the STEM colleges like the Cock-rell School and Natural Sci-ences are a bigger concern,” Laude said. “I will say that at-tention to this student popu-lation is our biggest priority in making 70 percent four-year graduation rates a reality.”

Sacha Kopp, associate dean for curriculum and pro-grams, said the measures UT has implemented so far will require more than two years to come to fruition, and the freshman and sophomore years are critical to higher four-year graduation rates.

The report stated that the one-year retention rate for the entering classes in fall 2011 and 2012 increased from 93.2 percent to 93.6 percent, which is the high-est one-year retention in UT history.

“The rate of passing grades in introductory biology, chemistry and calculus … were improved,” Kopp said. “[Students] who do not pass a course in their freshman year have a significantly low-er likelihood of graduating on time, so this improvement is welcome news.”

The biggest difference is the way Canvas organiz-es a student’s schedule. When they first log in, they see all the assign-ments they have due in the next seven days.

—Dennis Passovoy, management professor

impact of this additional coverage is still unkown.

“A distributed antenna system, or DAS, is a network of small antennas designed to enhance wireless service within an area or building,” said Briana Gowing, AT&T spokeswoman for the Austin market. “A DAS boosts net-work capacity, helping lessen the pressure on wireless net-works when thousands of people close together are us-ing their mobile devices all at once.”

For some, the system’s initiatives still seem to fall short of solving cel-lular data issues at sport-ing events. Public relations sophomore Solimar Ser-rano is one of the many students who complain of poor connections.

“Game day reception is notoriously horrible,” Serrano said. “I like tak-ing pictures at football games and sharing them to friends not present, but by the time I’m able to post them, the game is over. It’s really annoying.”

Gowing said AT&T’s

distributed antenna sys-tem was tested before Saturday’s game and was found to satisfy the major performance metrics. She said consistent cell phone reception is contingent on a variety of things.

“Wireless network per-formance can still vary throughout a venue based on a number of factors, in-cluding location, type of de-vice and overall traffic on the network at any given time,” Gowing said.

William Green, director of networking and tele-communications for Infor-

mation Technology Servic-es, said the vendors with whom IT Services works conduct annual perfor-mance reports which are shared with the Univer-sity. The next reports are expected to be released in late spring, and Green said he feels hopeful for the continued progress and enhancement of the dis-tributed antenna system.

“The University and the vendors managing our DAS continue to work with all the carriers to improve cel-lular services on campus,” Green said.

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Student employees re-ceived career advice Tues-day at a workshop where they discussed how they can accomplish work goals and manage pri-orities in order to be suc-cessful in their fields and at school.

Alisa Hagan, a partner at Human Resource Services, covered job performance basics as the main topic of discussion. The event was offered to all students, but was geared toward student employees.

The workshop was held by the Student Employee Excellence Development program, which focuses on students who are inter-ested in enhancing their skill set, knowledge base and leadership potential.

The employment ba-sics workshop covered many behavioral attri-butes, such as commu-nication, reliability and

professional demeanor. Amy Greenspan, the stu-

dent employment coordi-nator at Human Resource Services, conducts work-shops through the program to instill in students values they can take with them following their college ca-reer. In addition to gaining that experience, UT stu-dent employees are com-pensated with a paycheck ranging from $8 to $20 an hour.

“Having a job in college can help students learn both time management and practical workplace skills,” Greenspan said. “So I do think it’s a valuable experi-ence, particularly if student employees take advantage of professional develop-ment and other growth opportunities like the SEED program.”

Hagan discussed how students can be strong performers in the work environment.

“A top-performing stu-dent may or may not be a

top-performing employee,” Hagan said.

In her presentation, Hagan said that to be a good student, one must prioritize. Likewise, she said, prioritization is a quality good employees ex-hibit as well.

Student employees at the workshop were exposed to key elements of developing and balancing their work-load through school and their career field. Elements such as how to deal with a supervisor and how to work well with coworkers were explained.

Geography junior Sarah Villarreal, who attended the workshop, explained how her job as a first-year inter-est group mentor.

“Working with fresh-men, I put them first and they are always in the back of my mind,” Villarreal said. “It is all about bal-ance and understanding. I have homework, but I have them to worry about as well.”

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Gabriella Belzer / Daily Texan StaffAlisa Hagan, a partner at Human Resources Services, speaks to students about job performance basics at a Student Employee Excellence Development seminar on Tuesday afternoon.

Student employees receive advice for career success in workshop

It is no secret college students are stressed. The real secret is how to handle the stress.

In a stress management workshop Tuesday, Dr. Laura Ebady, UT Counseling and Mental Health Center staff psychologist, talked to students and young adults about how to deal with overwhelming stress, both on their own and with services offered through UT. The event was hosted by the Student Employee Excellence Development Program.

In the 2012 National Col-lege Health Assessment Sur-vey taken by the UT Wellness Network, students indicated stress is their biggest handi-cap to academic perfor-mance. This finding has been reflected in the same survey for several years.

“Clearly, for us, that is a big indicator that students are needing additional help in managing work in addi-tion to other things they are involved with,” Ebady said. “I

think college students have stressors that are unique to them, in that this is the first time they are living on their own. Especially in a school the size of UT, it can be over-whelming figuring out where you fit in … It’s a whole lot to learn all at once.”

Ebady recommended deep breathing to the workshop participants as a way to pro-vide perspective to stress-ful situations. In addition, stress-management services are provided to all students through the UT Counsel-ing and Mental Health Cen-ter. These services include a MindBody Lab, a Stress Re-cess website and counseling.

Dr. Jane Bost, UT Coun-seling and Mental Health Center associate direc-tor, said students experi-ence more stress in college now than in previous years. University counseling cen-ters have seen more crises over the last 10 to 15 years than ever before, according to Bost.

“There’s more pressure [now] just to get into college,

and then the academic stan-dards have gotten more rigor-ous,” Bost said. “It seems that it is a harder balance for students to handle and balance all of the demands in their lives.”

With all of these factors in play, some students feel that a certain degree of stress is inevitable. Neurobiology sophomore Taylor Lindgren said stress is not necessarily a bad thing.

“I think that a healthy amount of stress is an inher-ent part of college,” Lindgren said. “Things important to you should stress you out — like getting good grades — but not overwhelmingly.”

Bost said it is important to be able to differenti-ate healthy stress from un-healthy stress.

“One of the things we talk about with stress is it’s not that we want to get rid of it. It’s not a bad thing,” Bost said. “Most of us, without some level of stress, wouldn’t perform well. It’s not a case of getting rid of stress, it’s a case of managing it and trying to keep it at a level to maximize performance.”

Program eases student stress

Debby Garcia / Daily Texan StaffJared Hall, a LBJ School of Public Affairs student, recently ap-peared on “Jeopardy!” after two trivia tests and an audition.

Jarrid Denman / Daily Texan StaffBenjamin Spear, UT Counseling and Mental Health Center staff member, speaks at a stress management workshop on Tuesday afternoon.

said her academic adviser was very helpful in providing her with information, including which of her transferred classes counted for her degree. She said other departments and administrators were less than helpful.

“I wish I could praise UT’s financial aid office as well, but I honestly can’t,” Yarem-chuck said. “While their on-line tools are helpful, I found it nearly impossible to get in touch with them.”

In response to decreases in state funding for higher educa-tion in recent years, Laude said that the UT System has directed recurring and one-time alloca-tions toward specific programs to improve graduation rates.

“Degrees earned in the STEM colleges like the Cockrell School and Natural Sciences are a bigger con-cern,” Laude said. “I will say that attention to this student population is our biggest pri-ority in making 70 percent four-year graduation rates a reality.”

According to Sacha Kopp, associate dean for curriculum and programs, the measures that UT has implemented so far will require more than two years to come to fruition.

Kopp said the freshman and sophomore years are critical to higher four-year graduation rates. The report stated that the one-year retention rate for the entering classes in fall 2011 and 2012 increased from 93.2 percent to 93.6 percent, which is the high-est one-year retention in UT history.

“The rate of passing grades in introductory biology, chemistry and calculus … were improved,” Kopp said. “[Students] who do not pass a course in their freshman

Last Saturday night, the Longhorns took on the Ole Miss Rebels and lost 44-23. It was dis-appointing and upsetting to watch, and there’s no denying that our school’s football program isn’t what it used to be. But that doesn’t excuse the behavior of fans at recent games. Leaving early and booing a coach who has dedicated 15 years of his life to UT is downright rude. Espe-cially when our team is losing.

Regardless of our team’s success, the fans are an important part of our school’s identity. My parents, both alumni, used to claim that UT-Austin had the best fans of any school. I always swelled with pride at UT’s “Come Early, Be Loud, Stay Late, Wear Orange” phi-losophy, believing that my University’s fans were better than all the rest because we loved our school in defeat and in victory.

But lately that’s begun to change. When at-tending games in recent years, I’ve noticed that few fans stay until the end. Nowadays, most only show dedication and loyalty to the team when that team is winning the game.

Last year, I wrote a similar article for this

paper decrying the lack of dedication that fans displayed at the Red River Showdown (though I still think of it as a shootout.) I described the disappointment I felt at seeing our lack of support for the team against one of its biggest rivals. The late-game attrition that I have repeatedly seen in the few games of this season shows me that nothing has changed, and that fewer people care.

True fans stay until “The Eyes of Texas” is sung. That’s what I was taught by my parents, who have gone to every home game since they graduated. I’ll teach my children to do the same, because it is disrespectful to the team and to the coaches to leave the stadium early, especially when we are losing and they need the support most. If you were playing in a game and your parents, family or friends left early because you were losing, how would you feel?

Just like in life, confidence comes from ac-cepting our strengths and weaknesses and taking steps to improve ourselves. But leav-ing the stadium before the end of the game shows nothing but shame. If there’s one thing I learned from losing every game of youth soc-cer while growing up, it’s that losses only hurt you if you let them. If you accept your mistakes and move on, then you can learn from them and grow. How can we be proud of our Uni-versity and everything it does when we show the world that we only stay if we’re winning?

I am ashamed of my fellow fans. Ashamed of our turn to fair-weather fandom. Ashamed that we boo Mack Brown, who reinvigorated our football program. I am ashamed of what we’ve become.

Adams is a government and economics ju-nior from Plano.

According to U.S. Census data released Tuesday, Texas has the highest rate of people without health insurance and one of the highest rates of people living in poverty. While Texas’ current economic policies are a boon for the state in the short term, our leaders need to realize that a population without access to basic needs is a population without a hope for a vibrant future.

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Point, Counterpoint: Should Texas fans leave the stadium early?

Don’t blame students leaving early for Longhorns’ football failures

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Fans should stand by their team regardless of its success or failure

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I didn’t go to the football game last Sat-urday. However, had I have been there, it’s possible I would have joined in the so-called “tragedy” of hordes of students bolting to-ward the stadium exits with eight minutes left to play in the fourth quarter. Though this might outrage many of the Longhorn faith-ful, when the football program fails to pro-vide the student body with a team that can deliver on the field, it is our prerogative — and possibly even our duty — to spend our hard-earned money and our precious time on something that is actually worthwhile.

As I begin my fourth and final year on the 40 Acres, I can’t help but look back fondly on nearly every experience I’ve had as a Long-horn. I’ve met lifelong friends, learned more than I ever thought I could and made memo-ries that will last forever.

But my experience with Longhorn football — and I mean my entire experience — has been fraught with disappointment, frustra-tion, anger and disillusionment. As a senior in high school, I was thrilled to watch the Longhorns in the 2010 national champion-ship game, and I couldn’t wait to be in Austin in the fall to watch Garrett Gilbert, who then looked like a promising young quarterback. But that excitement quickly gave way to con-fusion and then just as quickly to frustration. Before I knew it, the once-mighty Long-horns had fallen to their first losing season in 13 years.

It only got worse from there. The debacle

that was the Longhorn Network not only meant that students would lose access to several games every year as cable providers refused to pick up the channel, but it also spelled the end of our historic rivalry with Texas A&M — the real Texas football trag-edy of the last three years.

Gilbert, our five-star quarterback recruit of the future, was a flop who got hurt and then transferred to SMU. A promising de-fense failed to deliver and we were stuck with a mediocre win in a mediocre bowl game, two years in a row. And then, as if all of that wasn’t enough, we saw the total collapses at BYU last week and again against Ole Miss on Saturday. When I decided to attend this school, I expected to get more from our foot-ball program. And we, as the student body of the University of Texas at Austin, have the right to do what we can to ask for it.

I love our Longhorns and want to do whatever I can to see them succeed. How-ever, when the University spends such an unthinkable amount of money and resources on our football program, and when expec-tations are so high — both on campus and around the nation — it’s easy to see that the performances in the last three years are sim-ply unacceptable. The real tragedy isn’t that students walked out with eight minutes to go in the game on Saturday, it’s the consistent failures on and off the field since 2010. The University owes us a better product, and un-til we get it, I see no problem with heading for the exits as we get walloped by yet an-other non-conference opponent.

Nikolaides is a government and Spanish se-nior from Cincinnati.

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GALLERY

McLeroy tries once again to discredit scientific fact

Some politicians just don’t know when to let things die. That much was made clear Tuesday at a meeting of the State Board of Education. The meeting was called to dis-cuss seven high school biology textbooks that will be voted on in November for pos-sible use beginning next year. The textbooks have been criticized by socially conservative reviewers who believe they lack adequate coverage of alternative theories, including creationism and intelligent design. At the meeting, former Board of Education Chair-man and well-known creationist Don McLe-roy advocated the adoption of the textbooks on the assumption that the alleged flaws in the evidence would win students over to his evolution-doubting side.

McLeroy’s new approach is a pleasant de-parture from his old, paternalistic ways. In 2009, McLeroy, at that point still the chair-man of the board, managed to insert into the state science curriculum language that required teachers to point out aspects of the fossil record that undermine the theory of evolution, despite the fact that these aspects of the fossil record are largely seen as imma-terial objections to the theory.

While McLeroy may have changed his rhet-oric, he remains steadfast in his misguided be-liefs about evolution. And he’s not an isolated case. Although McLeroy was defeated in a 2010 primary and the social conservatives no longer

hold a majority on the board, a recent poll by YouGov, an Internet-based market research firm, found that just 21 percent of Americans believe human beings evolved without divine intervention, up slightly from 14 percent in 2004. Americans are more evenly divided on the issue of what to teach in schools, but the creationists still come out ahead, with 40 per-cent of those surveyed supporting the teaching of creationism and intelligent design.

This raises an important question. Why is public opinion on this issue changing so slowly (a cynic might compare it to the rate of biological evolution) when other peren-nial debates have made much more dramatic progress in the same nine-year period? Take gay marriage, for instance. Today, according to Princeton Survey Research Associates, 55 percent of the American public is in favor of equal marriage rights for same-sex couples, while in 2004, 61 percent of respondents op-posed gay marriage, with 38 percent identify-ing themselves as strongly opposed.

Because Americans don’t seem to be quite so flexible on the issue of evolution, we oddly find ourselves agreeing with McLeroy. While textbook publishers can edit their products before the November vote, we hope the board tosses aside any submissions that present the “alternative theories” as equally valid. We also hope — and are confident — that McLeroy’s reasoning will backfire.

Lauren Moore / Daily Texan Staff

HORNS UP: HIGH RATINGS FOR ENERGY CONSERVATION

HORNS DOWN: TEXAS-SIZED POVERTY NUMBERS

Austin has yet another reason to pat itself on the back. In a report released Tuesday by the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy, Austin was given high marks for its efforts to conserve energy, ranking sixth in the nation. Although water usage remains our Achilles’ heel, Austin’s steps to limit energy use deserve special recognition.

The Texas Retailers Association has dropped its law-suit against the city of Austin’s single-use plastic bag ban. We don’t have much sympathy for companies wish-ing to return to their prior wasteful ways, and feel that the bag ban — while by no means solving the problems of pollution and waste — is at least in the right kind of conservationist spirit.

HORNS UP: BAG BAN IS HERE TO STAY

ESPN football analyst Lou Holtz enthusiastically de-fended Mack Brown in an on-air debate over whether the UT coach should keep his job. After being outvoted by his fellow broadcasters, Holtz exploded, yelling, “I am damn sick and tired of everybody jumping on Coach,” before stomping off the set. We hope Brown considers listing Holtz as a reference while he looks for a new job.

HORNS DOWN: LOU HOLTZ TO THE RESCUE

Eric Gay / Associated PressDon McLeroy testifies before Tuesday’s meeting of the State Board of Education.

Nowadays, most [fans] only show dedication and loyalty to the team when that team is winning the game.

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Eric Gay / Associated PressState Board of Education member Thomas Ratliff listens to testimony during a public hearing on proposed new science textbooks on Tuesday in Austin.

AUSTIN — The State Board of Education’s mull-ing approval of new science textbooks for classrooms across Texas reignited old tensions Tuesday, as some conservatives sought to de-emphasize lessons on evolution and climate change while experts ar-gued that doing so would let ideology trump facts.

Around 60 science ex-perts, parents and activists testified during a packed public hearing before the board, which will vote in November on proposed textbooks and digital books in math, science and tech-nology that could be used starting next fall by most of the state’s five million-plus public school students.

“I ask you not to let Texas once again become a national embarrass-ment,” said Ron Weth-erington, an anthropol-ogy professor at Southern Methodist University in Dallas who is no stranger to the state’s long-running textbook debates.

In the spotlight this time are seven proposed high school biology books that could be used in class-rooms at least through 2022. A law passed by the Texas Legislature two

years ago means school districts can now choose their own books and e-readers, but most have continued to use board-sanctioned books.

Publishers originally submitted 15 books for ap-proval but committees of volunteer reviewers, some nominated by current and former board of education members, said previously that eight didn’t sufficiently cover the state-mandated curriculum.

One reviewer argued that creationism based on biblical texts should be taught in science classes, while others objected that climate change wasn’t as settled a scientific matter as some of the proposed books say.

Publishers can edit their proposed books prior to November’s vote, and board Chairwoman Barbara Car-gill, a Republican from The Woodlands, asked Tuesday that they post their texts online so the public can see them.

Battles over how to teach evolution versus the idea that a higher power cre-ated the universe, as well as whether climate change is scientifically accepted, have been raging on the

board of education for more than a decade. Previ-ously, a bloc of board social conservatives insisted that Texas students be taught “all sides” of matters such as evolution, and pres-sured textbook publishers to insert skepticism over global warming.

Don McLeroy, a dentist from Bryan who is a former board chairman but lost his re-election bid in 2010, testified Tuesday that the books should be adopted because they will “strike the final blow to the teaching of evolution.”

“What we see in the world around us supports what the Bible says but what we see in these books supports what the Bible says too,” McLeroy said. He said the proposed texts “have no evidence that supports evolution.”

When pressed about what evolutionary evi-dence was there, McLeroy said, “It’s weak. Let the stu-dents see how weak it is.”

What the board will ap-prove remains to be seen. McLeroy’s and other re-cent electoral defeats for social conservatives means the bloc no longer holds a majority among the board’s 10 Republicans and

five Democrats.About 200 other activ-

ists, many wearing green “Stand up For Science T-Shirts” and hoisting signs with slogans such as “Your kids deserve the truth” and “Public schools, not Sun-day schools,” rallied prior to the meeting.

“We don’t want to send our children into the in-formation and technology age with a science educa-tion from the dark ages,” said Kathy Miller, president of the Texas Freedom Net-work, a progressive watch-dog group.

Mark Cadwallader, a 56-year-old chemical engi-neer from The Woodlands who testified against the proposed books, shook his head, saying, “The old evi-dence that used to be held up as proof of evolution, the apeman for instance, has been debunked.”

“Textbooks ought to reflect the controversy surrounding evolution,” Cadwallader said. “In-telligent design and the complex design of the universe need to come into play. When you look, it’s clear that we can see an intelligent designer at work.”

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When Kansas State se-nior linebacker Tre Walker said laying down in games is “just what [the Long-horns] do” at Big 12 Media Day in July, Texas players were offended.

“It’s basically a slap in the face,” said senior safety Adrian Phillips. “You don’t want to hear that. You want to be known for being physical, fighting through-out the whole game, get-ting wins. When you have a player talking like that, it’s a slap in the face. Our team took it personally.”

The Longhorns have the opportunity to prove Walker wrong this Sat-urday when they host Kansas State for their Big 12 opener. More im-portantly, they are eager to snap a dubious streak against the Wildcats that has plagued them for the past decade.

Texas enters Saturday with a five-game losing streak against Kansas State, dating back to 2006. These losses include a 42-24 drubbing in last year’s reg-ular season finale, allow-ing the Wildcats to clinch a share of the 2012 Big 12 title.

“It’s time to break that hold that Kansas State has on us,” Phillips said. “They have had it on us for the last few years. I don’t know why. I couldn’t tell you why. We have to get a win this Saturday.”

While many players stress the importance of ending the streak, co-offensive coordinator Major Applewhite looks at

Saturday’s matchup as just the next game on the schedule. Applewhite real-izes many of the contribu-tors from earlier in the decade no longer play, and he believes past games have no bearing on this one.

“All those games carry their own identity,” Apple-white said. “They all were played a certain way with certain players. [Kansas State head coach Bill] Sny-der isn’t telling them the 1999 game matters. He’s talking about 2013.”

That said, it is difficult to ignore the Wildcats’ stranglehold over Texas in recent history. Since Mack Brown took over as head coach in 1998,

the Longhorns are just 2-7 against Kansas State while posting a .788 win-ning percentage against all other opponents.

“Some teams seem to match up better than oth-ers,” Brown said. “They get the confidence that whatever happens we’re going to win the game. We got to flip that switch this weekend.”

Senior defensive end Jackson Jeffcoat said he expects the team to be prepared and determined to defeat the Wildcats and pick up their first conference win.

“It’s all in the past,” Jef-fcoat said. “It’s all about this year, all about what

we’re going to do this year. We’ll have to see what they do on film, where we can capitalize on things they do, what kind of technique we have to play with, how we can beat them.”

Between Walker’s com-ments in the summer and the lingering losing streak, there is no shortage of mo-tivators for the Longhorns to win this week. Following a 1-2 start to the season, the Texas players know that no storyline is more important than picking up a win.

“We’ve been waiting on this game since [Big 12] Media Day,” Phillips said. “The game is more amped up now. For us being in

the place that we’re in, the defense knows the game is going to be on us. We’re just ready for Saturday.”

The University of Texas may not have an NCAA Di-vision 1 soccer team, but that hasn’t stopped students from joining the UT Men’s Club Soccer team and continuing to play competitively.

“We’re the top level of soc-cer here,” said right backer and club president Rob Jelinek. “The talent level is very high because there is no Division 1 soccer team here and a lot of people want to come to Texas for other reasons.”

The club has a rich his-tory, which includes two NCSA National Club Soc-cer Championships and two NIRSA National Club Soccer Championships. Texas now plays in the Texas Collegiate Soccer League, where they finished first in 2003, 2006, 2007 and 2008 and made it to the National Champion-ship Round of 16 four times

since 2000. The team will try to con-

tinue their success, despite a new flock of players taking larger roles on the team.

“We had 11 seniors gradu-ate and go. So a lot of experi-ence disappeared,” club head coach Matt Prewett said. “The team has a lot of fresh-men, sophomores and new faces and hopefully we’re go-ing to rebuild.”

The team is trying to accel-erate the rebuilding process by having players participate in bonding events such as game watching parties, FIFA soccer nights, team dinners and big brother night – where older players take younger players under their wings.

“It really brings guys to-gether off the field and we think that’ll make a difference on the field,” Jelinek said.

The team hopes their ef-fort to gel makes an impact, because they have a tough

schedule that includes games against in-state rivals Texas A&M, Southern Method-ist University Texas State and Texas Tech.

The club struggled against its first opponent, Texas A&M, in a 1-0 loss. Texas had trouble maintaining possession and made mistakes, which Prewett credits to lack of cohesion.

“We’ve got some talent in that first group, but they don’t necessarily understand how each of them plays yet. It’s go-ing to take time,” Prewett said.

The outcome of the A&M game often determines the conference champion, but Prewett and the team hope as the season progresses they will be in the hunt to qualify for regionals and ultimately nationals.

Texas was able to rebound with a 6-1 victory over UT-San Antonio. The team will try to continue improving as they prepare for their game against SMU on Sept. 22.

By Nick Castillo@NCHammer74

Horns look to topple K-StateQUIDDITCHcontinues from page 1

6CHRIS HUMMER, SPORTS EDITOR / @texansportsWednesday, September 18, 2013

Longhorns expect success despite youth, inexperience

FOOTBALL

By Peter Sblendorio@petersblendorio

MEN’S CLUB SOCCER

Since 2006, Texas is 0-5 against the

Wildcats, losing by an average of 14:Year Score

2006 45-42

2007 41-21

2010 39-14

2011 17-13

2012 42-24

Elisabeth Dillon / Daily Texan file photoTexas will look to knock off Kansas State for the first time since 2003 this weekend. The Longhorns are 0-5 during that stretch, with a total point differential of -70. A win over the Wildcats would bring Texas back to .500 on the season.

Fabian Fernandez / Daily Texan Staff After several strong seasons, including four national championships, Texas Club Soccer looks to rebuild in 2013. The team had 11 seniors graduate in 2012.

sport without pads.“I didn’t know much

about the team,” said Michael Duquette, sport management sophomore and one of many play-ers who caught the eye of the captains during a scrimmage. “I just want-ed to come out here, get involved and be part of something special.”

Special is appropri-ate when describing the 2013 quidditch champs. After losing key pieces be-tween the fall and spring seasons, the team was forced to come together, with everyone contributing as they advanced through the World Cup tournament.

“They don’t know what it is, but they heard we won something,” said Augustine Monroe, a co-captain and social work graduate student. “The key to success this year will be building a new World Cup-caliber team, not trying to replicate the 2013 team.”

In the weeks follow-ing the victory, the team was unsure if the Uni-versity would light the tower in its honor. Af-ter all, the players aren’t on scholarship.

“They told us they would light the tower for us, it was just a matter of when,” said Becky Schmader, ra-dio-television-film junior and the team’s secretary last season.

Two weeks after the win, the tower was lit. Al-though the tower lighting was in conjunction with national championships in powerlifting and rock climbing, knowing their hard work and accom-plishments were recog-nized by the University served as validation.

This year, they’ll be try-ing to light it again.

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8 L&A

East Side Compost Ped-allers is trying to make transporting compost around Austin on bicycles the new norm.

A little more than a year ago, the program began with the idea to be a resource for Austinites who wanted to cut down their excess waste through composting. For $16 a month, the program provides individuals with a compost collection bin and transports the compost to nearby urban farms and community gardens once a week.

Since their first collec-tion in December 2012, the program has provided 8,891 pounds of compost to lo-cal growers and kept 35,565 pounds of scrapple — com-postable food scraps and organic materials — out of landfills. The program also received two Austin Chronicle Best of Austin Awards, Critic’s Choice and People’s Choice for Best Green Business.

Dustin Fedako, founder of East Side Compost Pedallers and a UT alumnus, first launched the 100 percent bicycle-powered program 13 months ago. Initially

a program tailored to the composting needs of neigh-borhoods, it has expanded to include restaurants, cafes, office buildings, commercial kitchens and events.

“We had this fun ‘com-post election’ where people were invited to cast their vote for composting, and [whichever] neighbor-hood picked up the most votes won a free month of our service,” Fedako said. “It turned out we gathered over 800 votes from all across Austin. Since then, we’ve just continued to have a growing interest.”

None of what the pro-gram does would be possible without its team of bikers. A typical workday for biker Stephen Bonett means arriv-ing at the program’s head-quarters in East Austin by 6 a.m. on collection days, where he and a couple of co-workers prepare and load their bikes. The bikes are products of Portland com-pany Metrofiets, and each has a special cargo platform in front of the handlebars to carry the 55-gallon plas-tic tubs used to transport the compost.

On a normal route, each biker gathers at least 250 pounds of compost.

“The bikes are not that

much bigger or more cum-bersome than normal bikes,” Bonett said. “So it allows us to move quickly through the neighborhoods but still carry a lot of compost.”

The program also spent the past year collecting compost every Sunday at the HOPE Farmers’ Mar-ket from vendors and in-dividuals who aren’t on its bike routes.

“[The program is] so fo-cused on connecting all of the people that use their service,” Alexa Senter, di-rector of the HOPE Farm-ers’ Market, said. “We re-ally enjoy working with them and they offer a lot to the market.”

In just a little over a year of service, the news of the program’s successes have spread beyond Austin.

“We’ve had people reach out from Australia and dif-ferent parts of the world that appreciate what we’re doing and either want to support us or emulate [us],” Fedako said. “It’s really great to be able to reach an audi-ence that maybe has never thought about composting or supporting local foods, and getting them interested and excited. We definitely have big plans to grow to all of Austin.”

SARAH GRACE SWEENEY, LIFE&ARTS EDITOR / @DailyTexanArts 8Wednesday, September 18, 2013

EVENT PREVIEW

Group fuses dance, electricityAllison Orr has turned the

linemen of Austin Energy into performance artists.

PowerUP, the newest production from Forklift Danceworks, highlights the employees and machinery of Austin Energy. Forklift Danceworks is dedicated to choreographing dance per-formances using unorthodox materials and performers.

“We do performance projects that involve people you don’t typically think of as dancers using move-ments that come from ordi-nary life,” said Orr, artistic director of Forklift Dance-works. “For this project, we have been working with our public power employ-ees: the power linemen and technicians who work for Austin Energy.”

More than 50 Austin Ener-gy linemen have been work-ing to learn complex, labor-intensive choreography that mimics their daily work. Orr used the linemen’s everyday equipment, such as bucket trucks and cranes to create the dance.

“The very beginning of the show there are six of us and it starts off with us checking the pole, kind of like stuff we’d normally do on the job,” Austin Electric employee Mark Herndon said. “[Orr] has really thrown together one heck of a show. It’s go-ing to be so cool to see what everyone does — from the underground people, to the overhead guys, to even the transmission guys. It’s like a little taste of what everyone

does at Austin Energy.” In order to create this

show, Orr and her team studied and met with Aus-tin Energy representatives over the past two years. Af-ter watching the workers, Orr was able to work with them to create the most effective choreography.

“All of the choreography was really created in collabo-ration with the performers,” Orr said. “The choreography is derived from their work and it really comes from the employees themselves.“

Orr raised funds through a Kickstarter campaign to hire

a live string orchestra to ac-company the show. The mu-sic was written by Graham Reynolds, who is known for his work on films like “Ber-nie” and “Before Midnight.”

“Part of what I love about collaborating in general is that it pulls me in directions that I wouldn’t otherwise go if I just sat down at a piano like I normally might,” Reyn-olds said. “The shows that Allison does bring entirely different kinds of collabo-rators that normally aren’t thought of as artist[s], which really brings me to a whole new place, so that’s a part of

the process I really enjoy.” Orr hopes the audience

gains a new understanding of the work that goes into pro-viding Austin with the elec-tricity it needs.

“I’m really inspired by tell-ing the story of people whose jobs sustain us, but who most people know little or nothing about,” Orr said. “I’m hoping that I will create a work that really connects and inspires people on an artistic level, aesthetically through the movement, but also educates us about the community and the people who may seem invisible but whose work we

really rely on for our lives to go well.”

Herndon said he and the other employees at Austin Energy are proud of the work they do for the community.

“It’s really kind of edu-cating the audience, and the tax payers of Austin to see the art of what we do for a living,” Herndon said. “We’re so proud of what we do and we are just happy to be able to show it off to someone.”

Forklift Danceworks ex-pects an audience of more than 6,000 people for its two performances of PowerUP at

the Travis County Expo Cen-ter this Saturday and Sunday.

“You are never going to see anything like this ever again in your life,” Orr said. “But also, you’re going to learn something about all the work it takes to turn on that light switch in the morning.”

By Eleanor Dearman@EllyDearman

Gabriella BelzerDaily Texan Staff

Three of Austin’s electric line-men climb their poles during a rehearsel Tuesday morning for PowerUP. PowerUP is a show created by Forklift Dance-works, a dance company that incorporates unconventional performers and materials.

CITY

“PowerUP”When: Sept. 21 and 22 at 7:30 p.m.Where: Travis County Exposi-tion and Heritage CenterHow much: Free

East Side Compost Pedallers bikes to collect local waste

Jarrid DenmanDaily Texan Staff

Dustin Fedako created East

Side Compost Pedallers to be a resource for locals looking

for a way to compost ex-cess waste.

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