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Although the longest serv-ing faculty member in the journalism school said he feels like he is not ready to leave, Gene Burd is retir-ing after 42 years of teach-ing. Burd’s last day will be Thursday.

“Forty-two years, my gosh,” Burd said as he glanced over his 28-page re-sume. “I would have stayed on indefinitely here because

I love what I do, despite a lot.”Although Burd has had the

longest tenure at the journal-ism school, he said he is still one of the lowest paid faculty members and has not had a promotion in 39 years.

Burd’s most recent post-tenure review, which evaluat-ed his past six years of teach-ing, said he is not an active participant in the operation of the journalism school, which includes catching up with technology. In 2012, the school introduced an

updated curriculum to inc lude classes centered around new media.

“I could’ve stayed on with these certain condi-tions,” Burd said. “New technology — I’m behind on it and that’s a weakness in journalism.”

Burd said he has taught classes at the graduate and undergraduate level, and started at the University teaching basic reporting,

Next semester, Hogg Me-morial Auditorium will close for an eight-month long ren-ovation, requiring student groups to find alternate ven-ues for their annual events held at the facility.

Hogg will close this Sep-tember and is projected to be re-opened May 2015. During that time, crews will address issues with the auditorium’s seating, audiovisual capabili-ties and lighting.

“[We’re] bringing it to

the 21st century while still maintaining its rich history of campus, so you will find that its character will remain the same,” Hogg Audito-rium manager Cecilia Lopez Cardenas said.

Lopez Cardenas said cur-rently, most of the seating is outdated, suffering from issues including broken springs. Hogg is also lacking in theatrical lighting and isn’t equipped with audiovisual capabilities, so students who use the facility must purchase or rent their own.

“I think that over the last

two years we’ve brought the magic back to Hogg with a lot of student events in this space,” Lopez Cardenas said. “I imagine once we reopen with even more infrastruc-ture we’re going to be able to serve them even more so.”

Built in 1933, Hogg, the first theater on campus, was almost completely financed by student and alumni efforts. Though the facility was managed by Texas Performing Arts in the late ’90s, the auditorium be-came a part of the University

While the University often cites state law as a reason it can-not provide certain benefits to LGBTQ students and faculty, others say there are ways to cir-cumvent these obstacles.

Mandatory diversity train-ing, gender inclusive housing and same-sex insurance ben-efits are still not available on campus, much to the frustra-tion of several organizations that have pushed LGBTQ legislation for years. Though LGBTQ-friendly legislation of-ten garners significant student support, it is stopped one step short of implementation, at the UT System Board of Regents or at the Texas Legislature.

UT’s Queer Students Al-liance successfully passed legislation through Student Government in support of gender-inclusive housing and same-sex insurance ben-efits in 2012, but SG resolu-tions do not have the power to enact change unless they are approved by the regents.

Currently, students are only allowed to live with peers of the same sex on campus, which can make students who iden-tify as transgender uncomfort-able, according to Marisa Kent, marketing sophomore and co-director of QSA. The Board of Regents have never approved any resolutions calling for gen-der-neutral housing, according to UT System spokeswoman Jenny LaCoste-Caputo.

Hemlata Jhaveri, director of residence life for the Division of Housing and Food Services, said the division considered implementing a pilot program in Jester, but the floor plans in the residence halls made it impossible because residence halls have 35 to 55 students on one floor and usually have community bathrooms.

Jhaveri said universities that offer this housing do so through apartment style liv-ing because up to four stu-dents can live together with private bathrooms.

The University has several

With determination, skill and persistence, the sixth-seeded Longhorns outplayed tough Big 12 op-ponents to finish second in the Big 12 Championship this weekend.

Competing on their home

course at the University of Texas Golf Club, the team recorded a collective 878 on the weekend, 17 strokes be-hind first-place Oklahoma.

Breaking Texas’ previ-ous 2011 record of 872, the Sooners shot an 861 to take home their third Big 12 title.

Sophomore Natalie Karcher led the Longhorns

throughout the weekend. Karcher fired a career low-69, in Saturday’s second round, leading the individ-ual leaderboard and propel-ling the team into second place overall, two spots ahead of its Round 1 finish.

The team remained con-sistent throughout the final round on Sunday,

shooting a collective 292. Baylor rounded out the top-three with a score 884 on the weekend.

Selections for the NCAA Regionals will be an-nounced Monday afternoon during Golf Central, Golf Channel’s daily signature news show, with dedicated segments airing throughout.

The Longhorns overcame a one-shot deficit Sunday afternoon to claim their sec-ond Big 12 Championship crown in a row.

No. 18 Texas defeated weekend rival Texas Tech to finish the tournament with a three-stroke lead, giving the Longhorns their fifth over-all Big 12 title and bringing them into the fold of Texas’ Big 12 2013/2014 champi-ons, including volleyball, men’s and women’s swim-ming and diving, men’s ten-nis and women’s indoor track and field.

The Longhorns were led by surging freshman Beau Hossler, who ended the weekend with an even-par score, tying with Oklahoma State’s Talor Gooch for third place. Hossler finished in the top 10 along with senior Toni Hakula, who tied for fifth, and junior Kramer Hickok and fellow junior Brax Mc-Carthy, who shared the tie for ninth place with six other golfers.

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news writing and feature writing. Burd has also taught senior fellows courses sev-en times — more than any other faculty member in the school.

“I would be frustrated and have some problems as well as successes in almost any institutional, corporatized, bureaucratic setting, which is the nature,” Burd said.

According to Burd, his interest in cities and urban communication began as a young boy when he moved from the Missouri Ozarks after the Dust Bowl to Los Angeles in the 1930s. Burd practiced journalism at The Kansas City Star, Al-buquerque Journal, Hous-ton Chronicle and sev-eral other weekly papers, and gave away more than $1.6 million of his savings for research — includ-ing money to create The Urban Communication

Foundation, to improve the research of journalism and communication.

Journalism school direc-tor Glenn Frankel said Burd made the decision to retire, and the Moody College of Communication Budget Council and Dean Roderick Hart unanimously voted for Burd to be granted emeri-tus status because of the

enormous impact Burd has had on the school. The pro-posal must be approved by President William Powers Jr.

“He was a very important figure in the school, and I think [in] making the school a fairer, more equitable place where students came first and where everyone had a voice,” Frankel said.

Mercedes De Uriarte, a

close colleague of Burd’s who taught interdisciplinary courses in American stud-ies, Latin American studies, women and gender studies and journalism, said she and Burd’s common interests al-lowed them to connect when she came to the University in 1987.

De Uriarte said Burd’s broad knowledge of the field

of journalism will be a huge loss for the school.

“I think the University makes a mistake when they don’t find roles for people who have been there for 42 years,” De Uriarte said. “When they don’t find ways to draw upon all the knowl-edge that’s been acquired over that period of time — I think that’s a serious loss for not just the University, but for the students who come along who could benefit.”

Burd admitted that his lack of knowledge of the new media technology was a barrier for teaching jour-nalism as it evolves, but he felt like he has extended himself into many areas and departments.

“When you’ve been around 80 years you collect more than lint,” Burd said.

Burd said emeritus sta-tus will allow him to finish things he’s put off because of being a professor, such as poetry and finishing several manuscripts.

“There are scores of un-published things that I’m trying to assemble,” Burd said. “On my tombstone, you know what it should say? ‘Poet.’”

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“I think the University makes a mistake when they don’t find roles for people who have been there for 42 years,” De Uriarte said. “When they don’t find ways to draw upon all the knowl-edge that’s been acquired over that period of time — I think that’s a serious loss for not just the University, but for the students who come along who could benefit.”

Burd admitted that his lack of knowledge of the new media technology was a barrier for teaching jour-nalism as it evolves, but he felt like he has extended himself into many areas and departments.

“When you’ve been around 80 years you collect more than lint,” Burd said.

Burd said emeritus sta-tus will allow him to finish things he’s put off because of being a professor, such as poetry and finishing several manuscripts.

“There are scores of un-published things that I’m trying to assemble,” Burd said. “On my tombstone, you know what it should say? ‘Poet.’”

apartments in its housing in-ventory, but none are located on campus.

As efforts to change regent policy have stalled out, some UT faculty and staff have turned to the state legislature to lobby for LGBTQ-friendly legislation — also without much luck.

Pride and Equity Faculty Staff Association, a university resource group established in 2006 to promote the interests of LGBTQ faculty and staff, has advocated University do-mestic partner benefits at each legislative session since 2009. Invest in Texas, a lobbying group established by SG and the Senate of College Councils, also includes domestic partner benefits in its platform.

State Rep. Elliott Naishtat, D-Austin, has introduced bills to allow Universities to offer domestic partner ben-efits for the last three legis-lative sessions and will push for the bill again in January.

Naishtat said UT’s inabil-ity to offer domestic partner benefits means the Univer-sity is less competitive when attracting and retaining top faculty and staff.

Shane Windmeyer, ex-ecutive director and co-founder of the national non-profit Campus Pride, said many universities are able to offer these benefits even when they are in states with

constitutional amendments banning same-sex marriage, similar to Texas’ Defense of Marriage Act. This includes Michigan State University, the University of Florida and Ohio State University.

“Much of the work that happens in conservative areas has to happen under the radar or in partner-ship with state legislatures,” Windmeyer said.

While this legislation for gender-inclusive housing and same-sex insurance ben-efits, QSA is currently writ-ing student legislation that would require members of student organizations to go through mandatory diversity training, though this legisla-tion would also require re-gent approval.

According to Kent, di-versity training would edu-cate students about the needs and experiences of different minority groups on campus, including stu-dents with disabilities and LGBTQ students.

Kent said she hopes the diversity training require-ment will not encounter as much resistance on the path to approval as gender-neutral housing resolutions have experienced.

“I think that’s one of the most frustrating parts about this — we get the support of the student body, but once we send it to the Board of Regents, we see a lot of hesi-tation from them,” she said.

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Shweta Gulati / Daily Texan StaffMarijane Smitherman speaks at a panel about women in politics and gives advice to students on starting their own politi-cal careers at the SAC Ballroom Saturday morning.

The competitive nature of politics could contribute to women’s lack of politi-cal involvement and lead-ership roles, according to several community leaders who spoke in a panel on campus Saturday.

A group of female po-litical leaders, including Martha Liner and Marijane Smitherman from Austin Republican Women and Mayor Pro Tem Sheryl Cole spoke at a panel about their experiences as women in politics, and gave advice to students about starting their own political careers.

According to the Women’s Campaign Forum, a nonpar-tisan, nonprofit established to encourage more women to run for office, 50 percent fewer women than men con-sider running for office.

Smitherman said the fear of failure might discourage some women from partici-pating in politics.

“You have to be willing to lose, and I think that draws many women away,” said Smitherman, whose hus-band, Barry Smitherman, is a Texas Railroad Commis-sioner and former candidate for attorney general. “When you’re in a campaign, it’s competitive, and you’re tak-ing that chance. The biggest thing is just to realize that you have to get back up and be resilient.”

Women are also less likely to be recruited into politics compared to men, accord-ing to Liner.

“They’re less likely to be approached by a party to campaign,” Liner said.

Cole, who agreed with Liner, said it is crucial for women to take ini-tiative when it comes to

political involvement.“I was very active in

school issues, and I took it upon myself to run,” Cole said. “You just have to get out there and do it.”

Plan II senior Andrea Onuigbo, who works on state Sen. Wendy Davis’ gu-bernatorial campaign, said she thinks the confidence gap between men and wom-en in politics could also play a role.

“Women are afraid to go into the race, to enter into that goal of campaigning, unless they’re very confident that it’s going to be competi-tive and they’re going to do well,” Onuigbo said. “It’s that confidence gap — wom-en don’t typically feel like they’re as supported if they go into campaigns, so they tend to wait and establish themselves a little bit more, versus a male who would be like, ‘I’m going to go straight

for office,’ without as much experience.”

Liner said one motiva-tion behind her entry into politics was the ability to enact change.

“I realized there was a lot of inefficiency and weird stuff going on in govern-ment … [and] I saw the op-portunity to make changes,” Liner said. “At the state level, you have the opportunity to be more local, and so you see change happen much faster. That’s why I enjoy state government — you can see change, and it can hap-pen very quickly.”

Liner said she encour-ages all women considering a career in politics to find a mentor.

“Especially for women in politics, it’s crucial to find a mentor and be a men-tor,” Liner said. “It cre-ates a support system and builds confidence.”

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Texas leads the pack when it comes to capi-tal punishment. Since the start of this year, the Department of Criminal Justice has ended the lives of seven people, with yet an eighth execution scheduled for early next month. In comparison, the other 49 states combined have put to death 12 people in that time. Once again, as is assumed, the status quo of this horrifyingly beloved institution still looks to be popular. Recent polling consistently shows upwards of 60 percent support, including majorities on both sides of the aisle. How-ever, controversy over the source of execution drugs has kept this issue in the limelight of the gubernatorial election.

Gov. Rick Perry, under whose watch almost 300 prisoners have been executed, openly brags about how much “justice” has been ac-complished throughout his lengthy adminis-tration. However, both parties’ nominees to succeed him as governor, disappointingly, ap-pear to share that sentiment.

“I support capital punishment and I believe that, as it has worked in this state, it’s been one that has provided due process in a way that I think we all would hope would occur,” said

Wendy Davis, a state senator and the Demo-cratic candidate for governor.

That belief has been echoed by Attor-ney General Greg Abbott, the Republican nominee for governor, who has repeatedly litigated in state courts on behalf of the death penalty mechanisms.

But recent conversation on the death penalty has focused on smaller disputes, such as the fight over the form of execution drugs used. Pentobarbital is a powerful anesthetic that the state of Texas uses in executions; it injects a le-thal dose of it into condemned prisoners. Fac-ing boycotts and professional sanctions, fewer and fewer reputable pharmacists are willing to sell the drug to the state. Accordingly, the state has taken matters into its own hands, purchas-ing from a confidential compounding phar-macy, a significantly less regulated counterpart. By keeping these matters seacret, prisoners will have no way of determining the safety of the drugs, thus ensuring an execution with minimal pain.

Abbott, for his part, refused requests by the state to make the drug sources secret just two years ago. Alas, now that is he is running for governor, all that has changed. But transpar-ency in the process is just the tip of the iceberg. The criminal justice system is, of course, not perfect, so mistakes are inevitable. Whether it has been Cameron Willingham, Carlos DeLu-na or Leonel Herrera, Texas has likely executed the wrong man on numerous occasions. Until one of the political parties grows the courage required to buck public opinion, however, little will be done on these issues.

It is always immoral to kill someone who is not a danger to yourself or others. Simply put, an individual sentenced to life behind bars in a maximum security facility is not a dan-ger to others. My belief that this is the case is predominantly guided by religious convic-tions — “Thou shall not kill” always seemed pretty straightforward to me — as well as an expansive view of the Eighth Amendment to the constitution, which forbids cruel and unusual punishment.

I understand that these views put me in the minority, especially in Texas. Accordingly, when outlets such as the Associated Press cov-er election stories relating to the death penalty, it has little to do with talk of total abolition.

Horwitz is a government junior from Houston.

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Firing Line: Scrutiny of compensation is misguided

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Editor’s Note: In anticipation of the May 1 deadline for admitted high-school students to chose to attend the University, we asked stu-dent leaders on campus to tell us why they came to UT. This submission, from former Senate of College Councils President Andrew Clark, is the first of several that will run this week. It has been minimally edited for style.

For me, attending The University of Texas was meant to be. I grew up in a house divided; my dad went to Texas A&M and my mom is a proud Texas Ex. There are even two sets of baby photos in my house, one of my younger brother and I wearing maroon, another in burnt orange. I grew up thinking there were only two possible schools I could attend: UT and A&M. As I neared senior year of high school I realized there was far more avail-able than just these two Texas flagships, but I couldn’t help but feel a connection to those schools. Despite the efforts of my parents, I went in with an open mind, looking at schools from across the state and the country. Inevita-bly, all it took was a visit to the 40 Acres one day in September to realize that this was the place for me. And no disrespect to the Aggies — including my brother, who kept our house evenly divided — but considering four years in Austin or four years in College Station practically made the decision for me.

Reflecting on that choice now, I realize that it was one of the best decisions I’ve ever made. But it wasn’t easy, as I was one of only two students from my graduating class to come to Texas. Though I already felt quite an affin-ity for UT, it was an intimidating proposition to move to Austin without really knowing anyone. It even led me to keep A&M in the running until the last minute because I had several friends going there. But once I arrived, I was fortunate to quickly find my niche on

campus in the Senate of College Councils, one of UT’s three legislative student organizations. I had the privilege and honor of representing the students of this campus through Senate, culminating with my term as Senate president this year. The people I encountered through Senate over my four years are without ques-tion the most remarkable people I’ve ever met, and they are what truly made my college experience meaningful. UT offers its students an incredible breadth of experiences, with world-class academics, a second-to-none ath-letics program, an active lifestyle in one of the most popular cities in the country and the op-portunity to make a positive impact on cam-pus. I received an outstanding education, but in my case, the experiences I had outside the classroom are what most define my four years at UT. I learned by serving the students of the campus and working with extraordinary people, and in the process, I made memories that I’ll never forget.

For anyone still considering UT that may be reading this, our president, Bill Powers, says a great university “opens up a world of ideas to you. You may show up and think you don’t belong. But you do belong because it changes your life.” I am living proof that these words are true. My experience at UT has made me the person I am today. The 40 Acres expanded my worldview, showed me success and failure, gave me lifelong friends, and taught me more than I could imagine. Ultimately, that’s what college is all about. UT gave me far more than I could ever give in return, and as I prepare to graduate I have more people to thank than I can count. But the best thing about UT is that my story is just one of many you’ll find on the 40 Acres. I encourage you to attend the University of Texas and write your own story. You certainly won’t regret it.

Clark is an international relations and global studies senior from Canyon Lake. He will be graduating in May.

The Daily Texan’s editorial on Tuesday, “UT administrator compensation deserves scrutiny,” which was in light of an article by the Austin American-Statesman, deserves the scrutiny that the Editorial Board called for, rather than President Powers’ compen-sation. The Statesman article, and the edito-rial by extension, completely misconstrue the nature of the situation in May 2001. The University followed all of the proper steps in the compensation approval process, and it is the UT System’s fault for failing to accu-rately keep its own records in order. There is documented evidence in the public record, which has been available for over two years, that the UT System was informed about the compensation arrangement.

Yet both articles seem to question the ac-tions of President Powers while failing to accurately portray the burden of responsi-bility. The Statesman article states that then-Chancellor Dan Burck was not being able to remember whether or not he approved the

arrangement. I don’t think that it is surpris-ing that he would not remember a routine procedural action that occurred nearly 13 years ago that is supposed to be kept in UT System’s records. Reeve Hamilton of the Texas Tribune has quoted Chancellor Burck as saying that the idea that President Pow-ers is trying to hide something is “ludicrous” and that he likely would have approved such an arrangement.

The suggestion that students should re-flect on efforts that support President Pow-ers and stand against Regent Wallace Hall is misguided and prompted by a non-issue. The idea that a minor administrative mix-up, which was out of Powers’ hands and oc-curred 13 years ago, should cause students to question a movement that opposed Regent Hall, who is the subject of a Transparency Committee investigation for impeachment and an inquiry to a criminal investigation by the state’s Public Integrity Unit, is unwise at best and absurd at worst. Rather, students should reflect on President Powers’ accom-plishments in raising the profile of UT glob-ally and examine more carefully the actions of Regent Hall. I highly recommend reading the Transparency Committee’s report, which provides significant insight into Regent’s Hall’s protracted campaign against President Powers and UT in general. While the ac-tions of public officials deserve examination, Regent Hall’s actions certainly demand the real scrutiny.

— Submitted by finance, business honors and government senior Robert Belanger

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HORNS UP: DISTRICT ATTORNEY OPENS HALL INVESTIGATION

Gov. Rick Perry, under whose watch almost 300 prisoners have been executed, openly brags about how much “jus-tice” has been accomplished throughout his lengthy admin-istration. However, both parties’ nominees to succeed him as governor, disappointingly, ap-pear to share that sentiment.

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According to a report by the Texas Tribune on Friday, the Travis County district attorney office’s public integ-rity unit will open an investigation into the behavior — and potential criminal misconduct — of UT System Regent Wallace Hall. Over the past several months, the House Select Committee on Transparency in State Agen-cy Operations has been investigating Hall, and now that

prosecutors are officially involved, we could be one step closer to the end of this long, dramatic saga that has distracted us all from the true mission of the board of regents. According to a report by the legislative committee’s special council Rusty Hardin, “Hall’s improper use of confidential information violated federal and state privacy statutes, violated the Texas Penal Code and constituted ‘official misconduct’ under the Texas Public Information Act.” While the district attorney’s office mulls possible criminal charges, the legislative committee is expected to vote on potential articles of impeachment on May 12.

The suggestion that students should reflect on efforts that support President Powers and stand against Regent Wallace Hall is misguided and prompt-ed by a non-issue.

Now that prosecutors are officially involved, we could be one step closer to the end of this long, dramatic saga that has distracted us all from the true mission of the UT Board of Regents.

Last week, gun rights advocates staged a rally outside Austin City Hall carrying firearms and waving a flag that read “Come and Take It.” The procession included a group of men, women and children smiling and waving at onlookers while openly carrying firearms. Though such demonstrations, while contained, may not seem to be too threatening, it’s important to recognize how quickly such

tactics can lead to dangerous outcomes — irrespective of which side of the aisle you lie on in the debate on open carry. And yet, groups like Open Carry Texas are not only engaging in such processions — which involve mobilizing crowds carrying shotguns, hunting rifles, AR-15s and AK-47s — but are also taking this armed demonstration strategy to other states as well. There are ways to fight for changes to gun policies, but this should not be one of them.

“Each college and school handles their own commencement ceremony, and that’s where diplomas are handed out. I haven’t heard of any discussion [about banning self-ies] when we meet with all the colleges and schools, but I think that would be handled on a school-by-school basis.”

—Rod Caspers, Director of University Events, on whether or not the University will be banning selfies at graduation.

“We’re not going away. We’re here and we’re having our voices grow louder and louder every day, because this plan is unpopular.”

— Government Senior Huey Ray Fischer on the arrest of students protest-ing the University’s Shared Services plan

through a sit-in in President Power’s office last Wednesday.

“I think all of us as Student Government representatives value due process. We were not willing to support a resolution that specifically condemned Wallace Hall for his actions based on an investigative report which has not been proven in a court of law. … I voiced my con-cerns in several different conversations with several different members of the executive board and the none of the legislation changed. That’s where I drew the line and said progress isn’t being made and I can’t support it.”

— Liberal Arts representative Sergio Cavazos on the decision of the Student Government as-sembly to withdraw support of a resolution call-ing for the resignation of Regent Wallace Hall

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bases once, getting run-ners at the corners twice, but junior pitcher Gabby Smith kept them off the board. Smith said she just focused on compet-ing whenever she got into a jam.

“I really just needed to compete out there and take it slow,” Smith said. “I got the outcome because of that.”

All hands were on deck this weekend for Texas. Sophomore first base-man Holly Kern injured her arm in a collision at first base Saturday, forc-ing freshman second

baseman Kelli Hanzel to start her first career game on Sunday. Freshman ace pitcher Tiarra Da-vis threw 187 pitches in the first two games, and Smith came in to give her the day off.

Clark said the team’s depth has been a key part of its success this season.

“We don’t even call our bench players ‘bench play-ers’; we actually call them ‘difference makers,’” Clark said. “There’s going to be a time when we have to tap into a difference maker or two or three, and that worked out well for us.”

Texas continues confer-ence play Friday, hosting Kansas at 7 p.m.

Though Texas headed into the Big 12 Men’s Champion-ship ranked No. 2, the team fell 4-0 to No. 3 Oklahoma in the semifinals. The match took place Saturday in Fort Worth at the Friedman Ten-nis Center.

The Longhorns, along with Baylor and Oklahoma, shared the Big 12 regular season title this year. But after defeating TCU 4-2 on Friday in the Big 12 quarterfinals, the Sooners carried over their winning streak to the next day.

Junior Lloyd Glasspool, who plays 1- and 2-seed sin-gles regularly, did not compete in singles during the match because of illness, resulting in major changes in the lineup.

Although the team lost 4-0, Longhorns appeared in all three of the last matches that didn’t finish.

The Longhorns now await the announcement of their seeding in the NCAA Champi-onship, which will begin May 9.

The Longhorns failed to advance to a third con-secutive Big 12 tournament championship after they lost to Oklahoma State 4-1 in Sat-urday’s semifinals.

The loss eliminated Texas (12-12) from qualification for an automatic bid to the NCAA Championship.

No. 15 Breaunna Addi-son netted the Longhorns’ lone point. With Texas down 3-0 the sophomore avoided a third set against No. 44 Viktoriya Lushkova, win-ning 6-2, 7-6 (5). Addison wrapped up the conference season undefeated at 10-0.

Texas had two singles matches suspended while leading in the third set. The Cowgirls’ Maria Alvarez quickly handled junior Lina Padegimaite in a third-set tiebreaker 6-1, clinching the

match and advancing Okla-homa State to the finals. Had the set been closer, senior Elizabeth Begley and fresh-man Neda Koprcina could have closed out their matches to keep Texas alive.

The NCAA Championship committee will announce the 64-team field Tuesday after-noon. The tournament be-gins May 9.

Freshman Gavin Hall rounded out the Texas team, coming in with a tie for 21st.

Hossler led the team all weekend, finally seeing his hard work through the season reach fruition.

“It’s come a long way, it had been frustrating because I wasn’t seeing results until the last three or four weeks,” Hossler said. “I’m enjoying playing for this team because I’m around a lot of really com-petitive guys, and that’s only helped me improve as a player. It’s nice to get [a win] under our belts and prove we can do it.”

Head coach John Fields, who has seen plenty of suc-cess in his career at Texas, knows that this win can serve as important mo-mentum for the last two

tournaments. Fields said he is proud of his team’s performance.

“This was hard-fought,” Fields said. “This whole entire season has been a mixed bag for us in regards to overcoming a lot of ob-stacles. We had Kramer’s [right wrist] injury to begin the year, and our guys have persevered and worked hard. I’m super ex-cited for them. I’m excited for our program.”

Fields also said he knows exactly what the win really means: on to the next one.

“Now we’ll enjoy this for a few minutes and then we’ll get ready for the NCAA Regional and NCAA Championship,” Fields said.

The Longhorns will head out for the NCAA Regional Championships May 15-17, at a site to be announced.

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SEC nonconference games to continue

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — The Southeastern Confer-ence has decided to stick with its current football scheduling format of eight league games and a perma-nent non-division rival.

The conference’s presi-dents and chancellors ap-proved the so-called 6-1-1 format Sunday at a special meeting in Atlanta. SEC teams will continue to play each of their six divi-sion rivals, plus one per-manent crossover rivalry game and another non-divisional opponent that will rotate.

However, starting in 2016, all SEC teams will be required to play at least one game against a team from one of the other Big 5 conferences — the Atlantic Coast Conference, Big Ten, Pac-12 and Big 12.

“Critical to maintaining this format is the noncon-ference opponent factor which gives us the added

strength-of-schedule we were seeking while allow-ing continued scheduling flexibility for institutional preferences, and acknowl-edges that many of our institutions already play these opponents,” Com-missioner Mike Slive said in a statement.

Alabama head coach Nick Saban was one of the few vo-cal proponents of moving to a nine-game conference schedule.

The permanent cross-over rivalries have also been a point of conster-nation for some in the conference. LSU has been the most vocal opponent. The Tigers have Florida as their permanent rival. Their West Division ri-val, Alabama, has Ten-nessee, which has been down for much of the last decade. Still, the storied rivalry is highly valued by each school.

—Associated Press

Sam Ortega / Daily Texan file photoSEC leadership ruled to keep nonconference games in teams’ schedules, such as the Ole Miss-Texas game Sept. 14.

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Despite its rousing ap-plause for seniors Madison Carter, Jacob Felts, Weston Hall, Mark Payton, Alex Sil-ver and Nathan Thornhill be-fore Sunday’s game, the rau-cous crowd wasn’t enough to save Texas from Oklahoma State’s offense.

The Longhorns fell to the Cowboys 8-3 in Game 3, keeping them three games behind in the Big 12. Okla-homa State struck first with a two-run homer in the top of the second, before chasing Thornhill from the mound after another two-run homer and five runs in the fourth.

Texas looked poised to make a comeback in the bottom of the second when freshman catcher Tres Bar-rera sent the first pitch he saw over the left field wall to cut the lead to 2-1. But af-ter the five-run outburst in the fourth by the Cowboys, Texas’ only threat came in the ninth on an RBI-double by Payton.

The Longhorns got the series started with a 3-0 vic-tory on Friday night, behind a two-hit shutout from ju-nior pitcher Parker French and sophomore Chad Hol-lingsworth. Texas outhit the Cowboys 7-2 behind a 3-for-4 performance by freshman third baseman Zane Gur-witz, his 13th multiple-hit game of the season.

“He [Gurwitz] provides leadership without saying a word and by his pres-ence on the field,” head coach Augie Garrido said. “He is really a gift. He is a ballplayer through

and through.”The weekend went down-

hill from there, though, as two losses allowed Okla-homa State to clinch the series 2-1. The Longhorns’ lack of runs was arguably the most disconcerting part of the weekend.

After surrendering just two hits to the Cowboys in Game 1, the Longhorns recorded only two hits of their own in the second game, falling to Oklahoma State 2-1 on Saturday after-noon. Texas jumped ahead early but couldn’t solve the puzzle of the Cowboys’ pitching in a game that mirrored the first. Payton

and sophomore outfield-er Ben Johnson recorded Texas’ only hits in the ball game.

“When you lose, it isn’t always because you are bad. Sometimes you lose to the scoreboard — we lost to the scoreboard today,” Garrido said. “They didn’t do much

more than we did today. They got on base more and had more opportunities, but we battled our way out with our pitching and defense and played the game pretty darn well.”

Texas will look to rebound Tuesday when it faces Prairie View A&M at home.

It took almost the entire weekend, but senior cen-ter fielder Brejae Washing-ton finally broke the Texas career hits record Sunday against Oklahoma State.

Washington reached on her signature bunt base hit for her 246th career base hit, passing Lexi Bennett for first on the Texas all-time hit list.

“It felt good to finally get it over with,” Washing-ton said, after her team-mates pied her in the face to celebrate.

Washington added a second-inning RBI to help Texas come back from a tough Friday loss to secure a series victory with a 3-0 win over Oklahoma State on Sunday.

“No team is going to lay down, so to come back after that and pull off the series win — we couldn’t ask for more,” Washington said.

Washington, who had a hit in each of the first two games of the series to tie the record, used her speed and the perfectly placed bunt to get to first base without a throw in the first inning. Head coach Connie Clark said she was excited for Washington, who also holds the program record for sto-len bases as well when the hit came.

“She’s … just processing and continuing to not get too anxious up there,” Clark said. “I’m sure it was in the back of her head, but she didn’t play like it.”

In the first game of the series, Texas held a 3-1 lead

going into the top of the seventh, but Oklahoma State rallied with four runs in the inning to tri-umph 5-3. Saturday, the Longhorns shut down any chance of a repeat, scorch-ing the Cowgirl’s pitching staff for 12 runs across two innings for a 12-1 run-rule win.

Sunday’s game looked eerily similar to Friday’s. The Longhorns scored all of their runs in the sec-ond inning, thanks to two walks and three big hits. The Cowgirls continued to threaten, loading the

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Horns drop series, fall to No. 4 Cowboys

Daulton Venglar / Daily Texan StaffFreshman infielder Zane Gurwitz grabbed his 13th multiple-hit performance with a 3-for-4 performance Saturday. Though Texas dropped its weekend series against Oklahoma State, Gurwitz led the team to outhit the Cowboys 7-2 in Saturday’s 2-1 series win.

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In OSU win, Washington moves to top all-time hits

Daulton Venglar / Daily Texan StaffWith her 246th career base hit, senior center fielder Brejae Washington broke Texas’ school record Sunday against Oklahoma State. The Longhorns stole the series with a 3-0 win Sunday.

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Texas sprinters perform at historic Penn Relays

The Longhorns wrapped up competition at the three-day Penn Relays, where Texas got a chance to compare itself to some of the top teams in the nation.

“This meet is about beat-ing people and making finals,” head coach Ma-rio Sategna said. “This is a good experience for us before the conference and national meets.”

Friday’s action includ-ed strong performances across the board for the No. 3 Longhorn women sprinters. In the 4x100-meter relay final, junior Morgan Snow, sophomore Courtney Okolo, sopho-more Morolake Akinosun and junior Ashley Spencer finished fourth at 43.95.

Saturday, the Long-horns’ 4x400-meter relay team showed the speed of a national championship contender. Senior Briana Nelson, Okolo, freshman Kendall Baisden and Spen-cer followed up their solid prelim performances with

a blistering performance in the final. Texas thrashed No. 4 Oregon by nearly five seconds for an easy first-place finish and the fourth-best time in collegiate history.

The No. 15 men got off to a good start. Thursday saw graduate student Navy transfer Chris Galvin fin-ish first in the 10,000 me-ters with a time of 29:34.31, beating his personal best. Galvin beat out a field of 40 competitors for the victory.

More success followed Saturday, when the men’s 4x400-meter team finished second at 3:05.13, besting its season-best time for the second time in as many days. The young team of freshmen Chris Irvin, An-drew Whyte and Senoj-Jay Givans, along with sopho-more Zack Bilderback, hopes its time, which ranks 10th best in the nation for the year, will make the NCAA West qualifying meet.

The regular season wraps up at home next weekend at Saturday’s Longhorn Invitational, the final meet before the Big 12 Championships.

Shelby Tauber / Daily Texan file photo Junior sprinter Ashley Spencer, pictured here at Texas Relays on March 30, anchored the 4x100-meter relay at Penn Re-lays this weekend. The Longhorns finished fourth in the race.

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They didn’t do much more than we did to-day. They got on base more and had more opportunities, but we battled our way out with our pitching and defense and played the game pretty darn well.

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Mariners top Rangers in Harrison’s return

SEATTLE — Matt Harrison’s return to the mound after more than a year started perfectly be-fore it was overshadowed by the Seattle Mariners’ comeback win.

Harrison, pitching for the first time since April 6, 2013, threw six strong in-nings and the Texas Rang-ers built an early five-run lead before Seattle’s Kyle Seager hit two late home runs to lead the Mariners to a 6-5 win Sunday.

Harrison was the Rang-ers’ opening day starter last season but only pitched two games before going on the disabled list with an inflamed nerve in his lower back. He had two back surgeries in a nine-day span a year ago, and another surgery on his right side in Septem-ber. He battled stiffness in his back and neck during spring training, starting the season on the dis-abled list.

“Glad to be back,” Har-rison said. “It’s been a long road.”

Seager has five home runs in four games, a power surge that started with a two-homer game against the Astros on Wednesday. He’s also had at least two hits in all four games, tying a career-best streak.

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Chris Deyo, math senior and president of Longhorn Singers, recalls the first time they hosted their biannual showcase at Hogg.

“We were in McCullough Theatre, but then Mc-Cullough started getting pro-fessional groups, and Bass [Concert Hall] was being used for other things,” Deyo said. “There wasn’t room for us to do our show there any-more, so we had to seek the opportunity that opened up.”

With Hogg closing, Deyo now faces the issue of relo-cating the showcase for the next two semesters. While Longhorn Singers and other organizations were notified

of the closure and referred alternative venues last fall, location options such as those managed by Texas Performing Arts are already reserved for select week-ends, and the cost involved limits pre-show rehearsals.

“We just definitely have to make a lot of changes for our expectations of our show,” Deyo said. “I know Hogg needs to be renovated but it’s definitely affecting us in a pretty huge way.”

Kyle Clark, associate direc-tor for New Student Services, which hosts a part of fresh-man summer orientation out of Hogg, said he will take the tentative renovation timeline into account when planning orientation for next summer.

“Part of that conversation is going to be, ‘What’s our plan, 2015 orientation for Hogg opening and not open-ing, or being delayed,’” Clark said, “I kind of hope it’s all or

nothing. I think it would be weird to try to plan a summer-long program where you’re in Hogg for part of it but not all of it. That’s doable, but I think it’d be a challenge.”

While the renovation re-quires New Student Services to create a contingency plan, Clark said he looks forward to how the renovations and restoration will contribute to the orientation program.

“I do think renovation and upgrade is going to really help give a great first impression,” Clark said. “There’s a lot of students who select to go here and they haven’t come for a campus visit, so to come to orientation and to go to the opening program and really see this beautiful space. Then to find out that it’s a space that’s also built for student use, I think that’s going to be a really great point to make students, and something they can really get excited about.”

As radio-television-film graduate students, Annie Silverstein and Monique Walton were advised to stray away from using animals and children as primary sub-jects in their filmmaking.

“They tell you not to use them because they pose too much of a challenge,” Silver-stein said. “Animals espe-cially are the only ones that don’t care that they are on a movie set.”

With a love for nature and working with children, Silver-stein accepted this challenge by directing her second fic-tion film, “Skunk,” as a part of her thesis project, which will have its first international de-but at the Festival de Cannes. Silverstein and Walton, pro-ducer of the film, along with other crew members will travel to Cannes, France, next month to promote “Skunk,” one of the 16 films selected out of 1,631 film school en-tries around the world.

“We have been work-ing really hard just as far as getting ourselves together for the festival,” Silverstein said. “It’s a great opportu-nity to pitch ideas and I’ve been working on developing ‘Skunk’ into a feature film.”

Hoping to expose the desire for human connec-tion and the power dynam-ics young people face, Sil-verstein created “Skunk,” a 16-minute short film, about 14-year-old Leila whose pit bull kills a skunk. Leila, a teenager growing up on a failed subdivision in Central Texas, forms a relationship with Marco, an older neigh-borhood boy. But things begin to spin out of control, forcing Leila to protect what she loves most at the cost of

her own innocence.“I want people to feel that

they watched an honest sto-ry,” Silverstein said. “It’s pret-ty simple, I guess. I tried to be sensitive to the boy’s char-acter and how our feelings of shame can create situations that get us in trouble.”

Before attending graduate school, Silverstein lived and worked as a youth worker on Native American res-ervations in Washington. Through the use of film, Sil-verstein found a therapeu-tic tool for youth to express themselves while facing dif-ficult challenges.

“I fell in love with the craft and I always loved storytell-ing in any form,” Silverstein said. “It was through those experiences as a social work-er and youth-driven work that I really became interest-ed in coming to film school.”

Walton’s efforts to recruit actors with little to no expe-rience were based on Silver-stein’s comfort in working with children.

“A lot of the times we went from door to door look-ing for places and people to shoot,” Walton said. “We wanted to feel like you were there, that there wasn’t much

done by us but it takes a lot more work to achieve that.”

Radio-television-film pro-fessor Stuart Kelban worked closely with Silverstein throughout her graduate ca-reer in screenwriting. As her thesis supervisor, Kelban said Silverstein wrote some of the best scripts he has seen in over 20 years of teaching.

“[The film] deals with a kind of cultural set with characters from rural and economically deprived areas but it does so with incred-ible insight and sensitivity,” Kelban said. “In the end, it’s about Annie’s ability to work with and create this incred-ible nuance of characters.”

While Silverstein admits to the film’s challenges, she em-phasizes the pleasure she was granted from combining all three of her life’s passions. As filmmaker and social worker, Silverstein hopes to combine both professions into one.

“My life path has taken different turns so far,” Sil-verstein said. “I love fiction filmmaking but I also love documentary and its really important to me to do com-munity work. It’d be a great life to interweave the three of them. I’d be very fulfilled.”

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The pulse of downtown es-calated as bar-hoppers filled the streets and the dinner mu-sic of nearby bars and lounges faded into a chorus of club beats. As Fourth Street filled with a layer of cigarette smoke, UT history and French senior Dylan Jones pulled up to Hal-cyon coffee bar and lounged on his pedicab.

Around 8:30 p.m., Jones begins his long night of work. A slim young man of average height, Jones rides his pedi-cab with ease and poise. Sev-eral empty pedicabs sit next to Jones on Fourth and Lava-ca, while other drivers circle the coffee lounge, scoping out the scene for potential passengers. Two pedestrians confidently approach an idle pedicab driver and imme-diately begin to negotiate a price. Jones explained that he can often tell whether or not people will be interested in taking a ride.

“The way that my boss put it to me along time ago, is that if you’re sitting on a cor-ner, you can look at people walking by and you can tell it’s either a yes, no or maybe,” Jones said. “So you only have to say something if their face says maybe.”

Jones began working as a pedicab driver for Capital Pedicab roughly four-and-a-half years ago and imme-diately enjoyed the flexibil-ity of the job and meeting a

diverse range of passengers. With the freedom to create his own schedule, Jones opts to work three nights a week starting between 7 p.m. and 9 p.m. He rides through the early hours of the morning until the end of what pedicab drivers call the “power hour” from 2 a.m. to 3 a.m. when the demand for pedicab rides is at its peak.

“There’s a man who owns the actual pedicab and I pay him a lease to use it, but be-cause it’s arranged like that, I’m sort of my own boss,” Jones said. “I can start work

whenever I want. If I want to take a break, it doesn’t’ mat-ter when I do it, but it’s nice to have that sort of freedom.”

Working in the hustle of Austin nightlife, Jones says it’s inevitable to find himself dealing with difficult cus-tomers. Jones saide he once rode a frustrated passen-ger around until they found their lost car. Jones said that he often deals with highly intoxicated people stumbling around on Sixth Street, too.

“I think what I don’t like about it is some of the pas-sengers, but like any nightlife

service job, you have to deal with people who’ve had way too much to drink,” Jones said. “Sometimes they get ‘fighty’ and sometimes you have to deal with that.”

Though some passengers can be discouraging, Jones explained that he often meets entertaining people. Of all the rides he gives, Jones’ fa-vorite is picking up brides and grooms from their wed-ding ceremony.

“People will arrange to be taken away from their cere-mony on a pedicab, and I tend to work a lot of those — it’s

my favorite thing to do,” Jones said. “Everyone’s in a good mood and all the guests are in a good mood. They generally want to go to their hotel or just ride around downtown.”

Philosophy sophomore and former pedicab driver Correy Crawford said he used to enjoy meeting people from around the world.

“I met the most interest-ing people in my life and I learned a lot from people,” Crawford said. “I wasn’t in school when I was a pedicab and I met people who were from all over the world even

as far as Australia. So many different people visit Austin.”

After working late into the night and encountering a myriad of interesting passen-gers, Crawford said a cama-raderie stems among pedicab drivers from their experienc-es and stories.

“We all go trough the same thing and we all talk about the crazy stuff that happens at the end of the night,” Crawford said. “So much can happen. A lot of people say that pedicabs, at the end of the year, have aged three years.”

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Ethan Oblak / Daily Texan StaffHistory and French senior Dylan Jones begins his shift as a pedicab driver in front of Halcyon Coffee Bar and Lounge on Saturday night. Jones has worked for Capital Pedicab for more than four years.

By Carmen Rising@Carmen_Rising

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Photo courtesy of Jenna HoltzmanRadio-television-film alumni Annie Silverstein, left, and Monique Walton will travel to Cannes, France, next month to promote their film “Skunk.”

By Alexandra Dubinsky@DailyTexanArts

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