The mystery surround-ing the death of one of Argentina’s top officials illustrates the flaws in the Argentine justice system, according to law clinical professor Ariel Dulitzky.

Alberto Nisman, the offi-cial, was investigating a 1994 terrorist attack on the Jew-ish Community Center in Buenos Aires that killed 85 people. He died hours before he was scheduled to present evidence accusing current Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner of playing a role in covering up the attack.

A majority of the Ar-gentine society has a deep mistrust of the judicial system because of its pre-vious track record, accord-ing to Dulitzky, who spoke at the College of Liberal Arts on Wednesday.

“Argentina is very deeply polarized,” Dulitzky said. “We cannot understand ev-erything that’s published about Nisman, and we have to take [differing attitudes] into account.”

Norberto Zylberberg, a native Argentine and senior vice president at LatinWorks, an Austin-based advertising company, said he was frus-trated with the judicial sys-tem’s inability to be impartial in the past.

“Why do we expect justice [in cases like these] when it is

Mellow Mushroom and Manju’s are leaving Guadalupe Street because of Urban Out-fitters’ upcoming expansion across five neighboring stores.

Urban Outfitters bought out the leases of five stores on Gua-dalupe Street, including Man-ju’s and Mellow Mushroom. Austin-based BHF Guadalupe LLC, a business service com-pany, owns all of these stores except for Mellow Mushroom, which the Washoe Company of

Luling, Texas, owns.“Starting in March, we will

begin a renovation where we will add two restaurants, a larger selling space and some other great features,” said Andy Schmidt, Urban Outfitters store merchandiser. “We hope to be 100 percent complete with the additions by fall.”

Chase Bank’s lease did not expire in January, so Urban Outfitters’ expansion will not affect it. Urban Outfitters has bought the lease for its back parking lot, though.

Urban Outfitters is currently

applying for a wine and beer retailer’s permit with the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commis-sion, according to a sign posted on the abandoned Texadelphia building. The permit would al-low the store to sell alcohol on its premises and require it to provide seating for customers. The company plans to expand its retail space and add areas for food and drink.

There are no definite de-sign plans as of yet for the expansion, Schmidt said.

Three local nonprofits will have the opportunity to improve their organiza-tions and increase com-munity outreach through funded research because of grants from a UT Humani-ties Institute program.

The Community Sab-batical Research Leave Program awards $5,000 each to three nonprofit organization members in Central Texas every year, giving each recipient a month to research poten-tial solutions for organi-zational obstacles, accord-ing to institute director Pauline Strong.

On Monday, the institute awarded the grants to the Literacy Coalition of Cen-tral Texas, which works to increase literacy in schools across Central Texas, Tex-as Folklife, which seeks to preserve traditional Texas culture, and the Telling Project, which tries to help veterans tell their stories

through community per-formances.

One representative from each organization will work with a UT professor to complete the research. The grant program began 10 years ago after nonprofit representatives met with UT officials to explain ways the University could help such organizations suc-ceed, Strong said.

“Nonprofits tend to be understaffed and under-funded,” Strong said. “Non-profits provide their time and expertise to help edu-cate our students [through internships], so we asked what we could do in return, and they said … they really felt that time and research collaboration would really be helpful.”

Max Rayneard, senior writer and producer for The Telling Project, said he will use the money from the grant to raise aware-ness of the work his orga-nization does.

The late Bob Ross, art-ist and host of the TV show “The Joy of Painting,” made painting accessible to mil-lions of viewers, according to two visiting lecturers.

Doug Blandy, art educa-tion professor at the Univer-sity of Oregon, and Kristin Congdon, film and humani-ties professor at the Univer-sity of Central Florida, spoke at a lecture in the Art Build-ing on Wednesday about how Ross’s PBS show touched the lives of viewers in more ways than painting.

“The most important part of Bob’s work is how he became a master of relational aesthet-ics,” Congdon said. “Bob Ross brought together all kinds of individuals … across classes and educational backgrounds all over the world.”

The television show was therapeutic for many view-ers, Blandy said.

“People credited him with introducing them to going to art school, and people said he saved their lives,” Blandy said. “He got them through divorces.”

Ross’s commercial suc-cess also came from his structured lessons about artwork, according to art education associate professor Christina Bain.

“[He] wanted to provide en-couragement through his art instruction,” Bain said. “Any-one can pick up a paintbrush, and he was leading them

through very structured les-sons and demonstrating, ‘This is how you do it, but you can also make your own alterna-tions.’ He was just trying to mo-tivate people and make them feel that art was accessible.”

Ross’ encouraging person-ality and a carefully stylized public image helped him earn millions of dollars in

the television industry, ac-cording to Blandy.

“Every aspect of the se-ries was well-thought-out in advance,” Blandy said. “This included the clothes that Bob Ross wore — he wanted to always look current, no mat-ter how many series would

The UT System estimates “campus carry,” if passed, would cost UT campuses $39 million in additional security measures, but a UT-Austin fiscal note said the bill would have no significant fiscal im-pact for the school.

According to UT-Austin’s fiscal note, which estimates expenses associated with campus carry, the policy would not cost the Universi-ty any additional funds. The System gathered the docu-ments and submitted them to the Legislative Budget Board for review.

UT-Austin spokesman Gary Susswein said the note operates under the assump-tion that students would fund any storage costs for guns in residence halls. Suss-wein said it is early in the

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legislative session, and the University budget for cam-pus carry is not official and may change as the session continues.

“If our decision ends up different than our assump-tion, there could be some costs to the University,” Susswein said.

Sen. Brian Birdwell (R-Granbury), author of SB 11, which would implement campus carry, said in a state-ment he thinks these addi-tional funds are not neces-sary expenses.

“It is patently absurd to suggest that additional se-curity resources would be needed to accommodate faculty, staff or student [concealed handgun license (CHL)]-holders on Texas campuses,” Birdwell said in a statement. “I think it is bor-dering on offensive to sug-gest that t[CHL-holders] will conduct themselves any less

thoughtfully or lawfully the moment they set foot inside a university building.”

A recent UT/Texas Tri-bune poll found that Tex-ans are split on campus carry. Forty-seven percent of those polled are in favor of the policy, whereas 45 percent are opposed.

“UT leadership on the University level and the Sys-tem level has been very clear in their opposition to the idea of campus carry, and I think that remains the case,” Susswein said.

Susswein said there are currently not any anticipated additional costs for UTPD.

“There would be some new training that is added, but that would be part of their ongoing and regular training,” Susswein said.

There might also be addi-tional costs associated with enhanced security systems, Susswein said, but it is not clear whether these mea-sures will be required.

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“It’s clear that there are inherent safety risks in a medical setting that pres-ent specific challenges, such as medical equip-ment, the presence of chemicals held under high pressure, safety concerns for patients and provid-ing necessary storage for

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UT-Dallas, UT-El Paso and UT-Rio Grande Val-ley have also requested additional funds to accom-modate campus carry if the bill were to pass. Com-bined, the institutions re-quested about $630,000 for security measures.

“The total UT System budget is $15.6 billion,” LaCoste-Caputo said in an email. “Still, $39 million is a substantial amount of money that would have to be covered through exist-ing funding. It’s too early to say where that money would come from, but it would have an impact.”

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“I think it’s good for the block,” Schmidt said. “It needs a little love.”

Mellow Mushroom man-ager David Torres said the only thing he is sure of is that the restaurant’s lease will ex-pire in June.

Urban Outfitters’ expan-sion into alcohol and food parallels an Urban Out-fitters in Brooklyn, New York, called Space Ninety 8. Described as “a unique retail concept” by its web-site, Space Nintey 8 offers a bar, restaurant and gal-lery in the same area as its

retail store. Urban Outfit-ters currently has more than 400 stores worldwide and has a market capital-ization of $5.07 billion.

Manju’s owner, Ka-vita Sajnani, said she will not be able to renew her lease because of Urban Outfitters’ purchase.

“We didn’t know really what was happening until two, three months back,” Saj-nani said. “We knew [BHF Guadalupe LLC was] doing something with the property, and they put the sign up next door that Urban Outfitters

is applying for permits [for] the six stores down this way. [Texadelphia] has been closed for a while.”

Sajnani opened the cloth-ing store 37 years ago with her husband after moving to Austin from India. BHF Gua-dalupe LLC originally told Sajnani to close at the end of February, but the company gave her a three-week exten-sion to close out.

Aerospace engineering se-nior Francisca Jaramillo has been working at Manju’s since last May. She applied for a job at Tyler’s when she heard Manju’s

was closing, but said she would miss Sajnani as a boss.

“I just wanted a job for the summer,” Jaramillo said. “It’s a good place to work, and [Sajnani is] really nice. She’s like a mom. She really cares about us. She treats us like daughters. She keeps snacks for us in the back, stuff like that.”

Mellow Mushroom may relocate to Round Rock, Tor-res said, but that move is not definite. Manju’s will not re-locate unless a location near campus opens up, according to Sajnani.

be broadcast. He had the minimalist set, the mock acting-ness as if he were only talking to a single viewer.”

Ross’ unusually positive legacy partly stems from his company’s reluctance to make his family mem-bers available for interviews, Blandy said.

“We were clearly shut out from interviews with fam-ily members who were as-sociated with Bob,” Blandy said. “No one would talk to us except Bob’s second wife’s sister.”

Art education graduate student Marie Petersen said Ross inspired her to become an art teacher.

“I used to watch Bob Ross on TV, and I cannot make art to save my life, but I love art and learning about art and teaching about art, so he re-ally got me interested in how can I teach in a cool, inspir-ing, fun way,” Petersen said.

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Two Bangladeshi-sweat-shop-eradication activists urged students to petition for UT to cut its contract with the VF brand — which owns clothing lines such as The North Face, Wrangler and Vans.

Kalpona Akter, executive director of the Bangladesh Centre for Worker Solidar-ity, and Mahinur Begum, a survivor of the Rana Plaza factory collapse, which killed more than 1,130 Bangladeshi garment workers in 2013, spoke Wednesday against factory working conditions.

The conditions in the sweatshops were inhumane, according to Begum. The workers worked from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. and coped with a lot of physical and verbal abuse, Begum said.

“When the company people came to do the au-diting, the factory man-agers trained us on what to say,” Begum said. “We had to claim we were not abused and conditions were safe.”

The Rana Plaza factory collapse was entirely pre-ventable and was a result of negligence by the brands and corporations, Begum said,

“If companies thought we were human, these ac-cidents would not happen,”

Begum said. “The respon-sibility was on the factory owners, my government and the brands sourcing those factories.”

The collapse led to a legally binding contract called the Accord on Fire and Building Safety in Bangladesh, according to United Students Against Sweatshops member Andy

Flores. The accord holds brands legally account-able for insuring worker safety and paying workers living wages.

Twenty-one million peo-ple are victims of forced labor, a label that includes sweatshop workers, accord-ing to the International Labour Organization. The organization also reports

that the U.S. generates $150 billion in illegal profit from forced labor each year.

UT has a contract with the VF brand, one of the biggest apparel brands in the world, Flores said. VF refused to sign the accord, so United Students Against Sweatshops is fighting for UT to cut the contract with the corporation.

“We need to seek out more ethical and moral ap-parel brands who will uphold worker safety,” Flores said.

United Students Against Sweatshops clubs have pushed universities across the country to cut their con-tracts with brands that use sweatshop labor. As a re-sult, the companies began to work with the workers and

make improvements, ac-cording to Flores.

Students and workers have power to improve labor conditions when they show solidarity, Akter said.

We create a power sand-wich that puts pressure on universities and corpora-tions,” Akter said. “We are only asking administration to do the right thing.”

Richard Allen Finnell, journalist and long-time print adviser for The Daily Texan, died Saturday at the age of 70.

Finnell, a UT alumnus, was a mainstay of support for Texan staffers over the course of his 17-year ten-ure as adviser, according to former managing editor Jennie Kennedy.

“When I told Richard I wanted to be managing edi-tor, I was dumb, and 20, and had all these beautiful ideas — and he supported me in every direction I wanted to go,” Kennedy said. “The thing I loved about Richard is that no matter what we wanted to do, he had our backs.”

Finnell worked long hours, reading each article before pub-lication until his retirement in 2009. Erin Inks, who served as managing editor in 2004, said the staff appreciated his dedica-tion — especially when techni-cal delays meant the workday extended long past deadline.

“When I was managing editor, we had some dif-ficulty implementing new software, so we were hav-ing tons of technical issues,” Inks said. “He was always the only adult there, sitting with us [and] finishing the paper. We were there so late, and he didn’t have to do it,

but he stayed there with us. He was there to help.”

Finnell had an extensive background in journalism. Before working at the Tex-an, he served as the editor and manager of Hill Coun-try News from 1983–1993 and as the managing edi-tor of Taylor Daily Press for four years. Despite his ex-perience, he let Texan staff-ers make their own mis-takes, Inks said.

“For someone who had as much experience and knowledge as he did, I’m sure at times it was hard to pull back and let us be a tru-ly student-led newspaper,” Inks said. “But that’s what he did. He was there for us to give advice, to circle some-thing in red [and] to tell us what was really bad — but he was never overbearing.”

Finnell was known for his honesty, Kennedy said.

“Richard pulled no punch-es,” Kennedy said. “When he thought something was crappy, he told us. When he thought something was good, he told us.”

Kennedy, who was manag-ing editor for three semes-ters, said she couldn’t imag-ine a better adviser.

“There was nobody bet-ter in the world to support a bunch of college kids trying to write a paper,” Kennedy said. “At the end of the day,

he taught us to use our good judgement. He taught us that no one was the boss of us.”

And Finnell, known for stroking his carefully culti-vated mustache — and oc-casionally leaving the office basement to help his son run a fireworks stand — was funny, too.

“There’s just something about having an adviser that will look at your stuff at midnight and still crack up about it,” Kennedy said. “I advise everyone to get one of those.”

Finnell is survived by his sister, Carmen Shinn, and his son, Cory Finnell.

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not well-deserved in Argen-tina?” Zylberberg said.

The mystery surrounding Nisman’s death — whether it was a suicide or a mur-der — adds to the public’s mistrust of the government, Dulitzky said.

Some Argentine citizens are encouraging their gov-ernment to seek internation-al intervention to solve the case, according to Dulitzky.

“An international pres-

ence could be useful in terms of providing some le-gitimacy to whatever is the result of the investigation,” Dulitzky said.

Kirchner is unlikely to be indicted because analysts cannot find any evidence she planned to cover up the at-tack, sociology professor Ja-vier Auyero said.

“In the 290 papers that he wrote, there is not even one clue to prosecute the

president,” Auyero said.The outcome of the in-

vestigation has the potential to affect the future politi-cal landscape of Argentina because Kirchner will be up for re-election in six months, Dulitzky said.

“This issue will define how the Argentine democratic society is able to handle these very difficult matters in the context of a presidential campaign,” Dulitzky said.

“I hope to be able to get conversations started about the kind of projects that we’re undertaking and the benefits thereof and ways in which we can improve,” Rayneard said.

Sylvia Gale, associate di-rector of the Bonner Center for Civil Engagement at the University of Richmond, said her work at the UT

sabbatical program has led her to create a similar pro-gram at her university.

“We are crafting the pro-gram … around creating space and infrastructure for the visiting local leaders to engage in reflective dia-logue,” Gale said in an email.

The UT program, which is working to expand its influence, has helped non-

profits in the fields of health, housing, immigrant ser-vices, sexual violence, legal aid and the arts, Strong said.

“Each year, we are able to broaden the range of nonprofits that we serve,” Strong said. “What I’d like to be able to do to is extend the program … to grow our budget so that we can serve even more organizations.”

be broadcast. He had the minimalist set, the mock acting-ness as if he were only talking to a single viewer.”

Ross’ unusually positive legacy partly stems from his company’s reluctance to make his family mem-bers available for interviews, Blandy said.

“We were clearly shut out from interviews with fam-ily members who were as-sociated with Bob,” Blandy said. “No one would talk to us except Bob’s second wife’s sister.”

Art education graduate student Marie Petersen said Ross inspired her to become an art teacher.

“I used to watch Bob Ross on TV, and I cannot make art to save my life, but I love art and learning about art and teaching about art, so he re-ally got me interested in how can I teach in a cool, inspir-ing, fun way,” Petersen said.

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I am saddened by the passing of Richard Finnell, mentor, friend*, possessor of griz-zled wisdom, proponent of no bullshit, long caretaker of, adviser to and tireless advo-cate for The Daily Texan.

Richard didn't teach me how to write a lede, or how to edit a news story, but I learned more from him about the ineffable qualities that make a good journalist than from pretty much anyone else I ever worked with in the field. He encouraged me to run for editor of the Texan. He encouraged me, once editor, to pick my battles and to fight like hell to win them. He encouraged me not to fear authority, but to always conspire against it.

When last I spoke to Richard, in the late summer of 2009, he was on the verge of re-tiring from Texas Student Media, a place that he somehow seemed to love just about as much as it infuriated him. Richard saw and railed against the mismanagement that turned the once profitable Texan into a shadow of its former self. In 2009 he aptly described TSM as “absurd and tragic.”

As the Moody College of Communication takes the lead in saving TSM from itself, I do hope they honor Richard's legacy by grant-ing the Texan the autonomy it has so long deserved. Nothing would be a better tribute to Richard than to resolve the bureaucratic dysfunction that brought him such angst.

*I am using “friend” a bit ironically here because one of the last emails I ever re-ceived from Richard was back in August of 2009 and titled “Facebook signups." That email read, in full: “There has been a flood of people signing up to be my ‘friend’ on Facebook. Do you know why this flurry has occurred right now?” For Richard, there al-ways had to be a motive.

— A.J. Bauer, Daily Texan Editor, 2005-2006

Finally, the left and right wings can agree on something.

Recent bipartisan and presidential support behind net neutrality, in addition to the FCC chairman's sudden announcement of full sup-port Feb. 4, brought the U.S. several steps for-ward in the battle over the Internet, but stirred up controversy within the government and much debate online. While the discussion over what Internet service providers can and can-not do to users’ Internet access might not be on every student’s radar, net neutrality should be enforced to promote free speech and take strides toward equality.

For those who don’t know, net neutrality is the term used to describe a limit on compa-nies’ control of what Internet users have com-plete access to. As of now, large ISPs like AT&T and Comcast can make access to certain sites faster or slower depending on their popular-ity and how much sites are willing to pay for a faster speed. This leaves smaller pages stuck with a slow connection when users attempt to gain access.

It may not seem like a pressing issue to all until the question of who actually benefits from this deal is examined. Large companies in opposition want to give the benefit of speed to those backed by money and leave behind those who may not have the ability to pay. That leaves everything from social justice blogs try-

ing to make a change in the world to indepen-dent labels attempting to start up their career unable to reach those they aim to. When giv-ing a voice to the voice-less or even attempting to stop injustice, paying extra for people to go to a site can be a burden.

Under Obama’s proposal, the Internet would have utility-style regulation under Title II of the Tele-communications Act of 1934. With regula-tions against paid speed prioritization, Inter-net conditions would improve as the FCC would have more legal control over the dis-criminatory actions of Internet companies.

Section 202 of Title II prohibits any "discrimi-nation in charges, prac-tices, classifications, regulations, facilities, or services for or in connection with like communication service."

This would prohibit ISPs from creating fast lanes, leveling the playing field for all sites, no matter their budget. This means any business or person, from startups to bloggers, can get their name out there with no trouble or restric-tions from ISPs.

Opponents argue that net neutrality would be a step backward from the freedom Ameri-cans have gained over the years. In a point made by UT alumna Chelsea McCullough on the Texas Enterprise blog, she claims, “Title II means that apps like Instagram, your Kindle, anything that transmits Internet connectivity could be subject to an intense level of regula-tion, taking us back 80 years.” What really takes us back, though, is a situation wherein powerful people side with the rich, trivializing the customers' experience.

Limited access to sites not backed by money

causes a shortage in what individuals are ex-posed to, again meaning those using their First Amendment right to freedom of speech to call out wrongdoings or expose crooked corpora-tions may not be heard — or heard after an un-necessarily slow buffering time.

Slowing small sites down if they can’t pay up could make a huge difference in income and job opportunity. Nowadays, most Americans access information and ideas online — cir-cumstances different from when the Internet was originally created. With this shift in popu-larity, laws and regulations need to be modi-fied in order to protect users and keep the In-ternet free and open. ISPs don’t have the right to control how much or what knowledge their consumers have access to. In order to win the fight for equality, ISPs shouldn’t be able to pro-vide their services with bias.

Griffin is a journalism freshman from Hous-ton.

I am sure that we are all familiar with a somewhat daunting word in the world of writing: plagiarism. Since lower school, we have been warned about the consequences of using another person’s words without proper attribution. The repercussions of such an act can result in anything from a failing grade on an assignment to suspen-sion or expulsion. But what if you could pay someone to write your papers for you without getting caught?

Recently, I was surprised to find out that there are fliers on campus advertising an easy out in academics: services that allow students to purchase essays with a simple phone call. While I am sure that we have all heard about online websites that allow students to buy papers, seeing a flier for

this on campus gave me an uneasy feeling. Apparently, in the course of one phone

call or 10 minutes online, students can save themselves hours of work and poten-tially earn a better grade on an assignment than if they had done it themselves. For students who are overloaded with course-work or aren’t doing well in a class, this might seem like an appealing offer. It also seems to be the perfect solution for those students who don’t like writing. But I feel strongly that these reasons do not justify claiming another person’s work as your own.

UT defines plagiarism as “[represent-ing] as your own work any material that was obtained from another source, regard-less how or where you acquired it.”

Unfortunately, a solution to this prob-lem seems rather out of reach. Professors and TAs are typically faced with a large number of students in each class. This, along with the fact that our courses last only a semester, makes it nearly impos-sible for them to learn the writing styles of each student. Therefore, it would be dif-ficult for a teacher to identify work com-pleted by someone other than the student who turned it in.

While there are programs that allow professors to check written works for pla-giarism, these only work if the writer has copied or closely paraphrased words from another essay, a website, etc. If the person being paid to write the essay produces an original piece, it would be undetectable by this software.

While the school outlines a series of ac-

ademic consequences for students caught plagiarizing, I believe the personal con-sequences of such actions, especially for the students who do not get caught, are far greater. Each time we choose to give less than our full effort, we are sacrificing the value of our education. Not only does this apply to buying assignments, but also to skipping classes and failing to complete assigned work.

When students choose to purchase as-signments rather than completing them themselves, they learn nothing. It is im-possible to improve your writing if you do not write — it is through our mistakes that we learn. It concerns me that it is possible for students to get away with graduating college without writing at least one paper. What happens to these students when they get jobs and can no longer take such an easy way out?

Students today should be empowered by the amount of information so readily available to them — we should not use it as an excuse to give the minimum effort possible. While it might help you through a test, SparkNotes can’t replace a book for your literature class. Binge watching House of Cards won’t help you study for government. And Breaking Bad can’t teach you chemistry. Going to class and getting to know your professors is the only way to take advantage of the four years we have here. Most importantly, submitting an-other person’s work as your own will only impede your education.

Brookman is a pre-public relations soph-omore from Fort Worth.

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Fifty-four years ago, the CVS on the Drag was the Texas Theatre, a popular place for students to go, as long as they were white. With its doors closed to African-American students, the theater became the site of a series of peaceful pro-tests in an effort to integrate.

In December 1960, more than 100 UT students lined up outside the Texas Theatre to purchase tickets. Accord-ing to an article published in the The Daily Texan, the students began their first of many peaceful pro-tests by repeating the same mantra as each approached the ticket booth.

“I would like to buy a ticket if everybody is being admitted,” the students said.

Ticket sellers denied the request repeatedly, and the group of African-American and white students would return to the end of the line only to try again.

In response to the policy they deemed unfair, a group of people came together to protest in December 1960. Despite inclement weath-er and the Texas Theatre

manager’s efforts to keep them at bay, the students were persistent in their ef-forts to make a change.

The “stand-ins,” which continued through May 1961, lasted anywhere from one to four hours. In re-sponse to the demonstra-tions, theater manager Leon-ard Masters moved the ticket selling operation indoors.

“I’m not going to have arguments going on in my theater,” Masters said. “We (Trans-Texas Theaters) have a policy and I have to enforce it. My feelings have nothing to do with it.”

In light of the stand-ins, UT student Gwen Jordan spoke to the Texan about student life as an African-American.

“I came to UT very naive, looking for more oneness,” Jordan said. “I would rather say ‘no thanks’ [when white friends invite her to the the-ater], than explain over again to them why I can’t go. They just forget sometimes.”

Students such as Jordan fought to integrate the the-ater and other establishments on the Drag, but they found the disapproval of more than just business owners. Upset by these efforts, student Egan Tausch shared his thoughts

on integration. “Segregation is the right

way to end this whole mess,” Tausch said. “Proprietors have the right to refuse ad-mittance to whomever they want to. I believe that seg-regationists are now the minority group.”

In spite of the opposition, students continued their demonstrations, eventu-ally receiving support from former first lady Eleanor Roosevelt. As UT students returned from winter break, they opened up their copies of the Texan to see Roosevelt’s approval of the protests.

“I admire so much the stand which the students at The University of Texas have taken,” Roosevelt said. “I am personally grateful to the Texas students for making the effort to bring about the end of this kind of segregation.”

With Roosevelt’s support, the protests continued until Masters, the theater man-ager, agreed to a one-month trial period during which African-American students were admitted into the the-ater. At the end of the trial period, the theater threw out its old policy and opened its doors to all students.

This year’s Texas Union Film Festival submissions in-clude a thriller about a Mino-taur, a documentary following the UT Quidditch team, and a comedy about a trouble-some cat.

The festival, now in its sixth year, is a screening that fea-tures 11 short films UT stu-dents of all majors made. Each film last 10 minutes and will play back to back for about an hour and a half.

Blaine Brezina, radio-television-film and studio art sophomore and co-director of the festival, said the quality of the submissions was much higher than he’s seen in previ-ous years. He said the festival committee chose 11 films based on the merit of the cine-matography and engagement level of the story line.

Brezina said the festival gives student-filmmakers a chance to show their work to a live audience.

“This is like an incubator for the directors to kind of see where their films lie and what they need to work on for making them more audience friendly,” Brezina said.

Radio-television-film ju-nior Thomas Houser’s short, “And if I Die,” one of the fes-tival’s picks, is a non-dialogue narrative set in 1942 about

two World War II soldiers. “It’s a story about an inter-

nal battle with your emotions as opposed to it being a war film,” Houser said.

Houser, a self-proclaimed history buff, said he had to conduct research for the film in order to be historically ac-curate. To stay true to his vi-sion, he rented World War II costumes and guns and then decided to film on a ranch.

“As students, I feel like we limit ourselves to sticking with modern-day times because that’s easier for us,” Houser said. “So this was a really fun experience for me because I got to do something I’m really interested in as opposed to do-ing something kind of normal.”

Houser said his acceptance to the festival has not only en-hanced his college and film experience, but it assured him that his career is on the right path.

“It’s a really good feeling to know that other people are going to see your work ’cause you can post it online, but that doesn’t necessarily mean any-one’s going to see it,” Houser said. “And with this industry, the more exposure that you have is really what’s going to separate you.”

Radio-television-film grad-uate student Joel Fendelman wrote and directed “Auction,” which centers around a cattle auction in the small, rural

Gonzales, Texas. Fendelman, who grew up in Miami and has lived in large cities for most of his life, said filming “Auction” offered a chance to explore a topic that was alien to him.

“I generally stick with the theme of exploring things I don’t know about,” Fendelman said. “I feel like I was able to glimpse a receding way of life.”

Fendelman said he focuses on exploring different cultures and customs in his films to show people they are all the same at the core.

“I try to focus on my strengths by tapping into the subtleties and subtextual things, diving into worlds and having a very anthropological look,” Fendelman said. “The underlying objective being that we connect with people — these are people just like us.”

The festival takes place Thursday at 7 p.m. in the Texas Union Theatre. Brezi-na, Houser and Fendelman said they are eager to en-gage with the community of young filmmakers.

“This is a way for the stu-dents that are interested in film that are not from the radio-television-film de-partment to come and see films that they wouldn’t otherwise see and support their fellow longhorns in their artistic endeavors,” Brezina said.

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two World War II soldiers.

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Texas All-America sophomore Jack Con-ger broke the American 200-yard butterfly record Wednesday morning at the Big 12 Championships trials session. Conger swam the event in 1:39.31, eclipsing the record Mi-chael Phelps previously held and setting a new NCAA, American and U.S. Open record. Con-ger is the first Longhorn to set an American record while swimming at the college level since Olym-pic gold medalist Dave Walters did so in 2008. The Texas swimming and diving teams will com-pete until Saturday in the Big 12 Championships at the Lee and Joe Jamail Texas Swimming Center in Austin. —Claire Cruz

Few people are good enough and devoted enough to become consen-sus All-Americans while pursuing a petroleum engi-neering degree.

Doug Dawson, a for-mer Texas offensive line-man, managed to succeed in both.

Dawson, an academic and consensus All-Ameri-can who played from 1980–1983, became a starter by sophomore year. But man-aging his full-time studies and full-time football ca-reer wasn’t easy.

“It means you have no life,” Dawson said. “The old college experience, you know, ‘Hey we’ll meet you out on one of the lakes,’ or ‘We’ll meet you out at Barton Creek’ — that was not my college experi-ence. My college experi-ence was studying and playing football.”

But the sacrifices Daw-son made on the 40 Acres paid off. His accomplish-ments across the board at Texas caught the eye of teammates and general managers alike.

“Doug excelled at the fundamentals,” said Vance Bedford, current Texas de-fensive coordinator and a collegiate teammate of Dawson’s for two years. “He did the little things ex-tremely well. The work eth-ic; you couldn’t say enough good things about Doug.”

The St. Louis Cardinals, currently known as the Rams, took Dawson in the second round of the 1984 NFL Draft. Dawson played in eight seasons in the NFL. But what set Dawson apart from other NFL players is the way he prepared for his career after football.

Always wanting to stay a step ahead of the curve, Dawson began thinking

about life after football as soon as he joined the NFL. After his rookie season, he passed the test to become a licensed stockbroker. Not long after that, he signed on with Northwestern Mutual and found himself balanc-ing two careers at once.

“I had a couple of inju-ries about halfway through my career that kept me out of a couple of seasons during that 11-year span,” Dawson said. “That is when I decided to become a financial adviser.”

In the final season of his career, Dawson started as offensive lineman for a playoff-bound Cleveland Browns, which Bill Belich-ick coached. But he soon found out he was mak-ing more money work-ing in his new job in his spare time.

When the 1994 sea-son ended with a second-round playoff loss to the Pittsburgh Steelers, Daw-son, then-33, decided to retire from football and become a full-time financial adviser.

“I kind of hit the ground running,” Dawson said. “When they start offering you less to play pro football than you make in your reg-ular business … you start thinking it’s time to grow up and get a big-boy job.”

Although the careers are on opposite spectrums, Dawson finds many simi-larities between his for-mer and current career — they have the same basic principles.

“As an offensive lineman, my job was to serve my quarterback and to block, and it’s a role where you’re not in the limelight,” Daw-son said. “The more you learn to serve other peo-ples’ needs, the more suc-cessful you’ll become. In business and in work, you have got to serve other peo-ple’s needs to be successful.”

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With the help of its bench, Texas found its fourth consecutive victory Wednesday night.

The Longhorns tallied a to-tal of 22 points from its bench players and recorded a 39 percent shooting percentage in its 59-42 win over Okla-homa State.

“The last two games, our bench production has been really the difference in the games,” head coach Karen Aston said. “So them coming in and us not losing anything, and in fact gaining with them coming off the bench, has probably been a positive thing for us.”

Junior guard Empress Davenport, who received a standing ovation coming out of the game, led the Long-horns with 15 points, tying her career-high mark. While she started earlier in the year during non-conference play, Davenport learned a lot from her time on the sideline.

“Coming off the bench, you can see things,” Dav-enport said. “You can see

openings like from the side-lines that they can’t really see running the game, so, from the sidelines, coach tells me to guard [players], and that’s what I tried to do.”

Despite Texas’ lack of box-ing out and rebounding, the Cowgirls still had trouble on offense. Oklahoma State grabbed 14 offensive boards accounting for 11 second chance points. The Cowgirls out-rebounded the Long-horns 43-39, becoming just the second Texas opponent all season to accomplish that feat.

The Texas defense held Oklahoma State to just 29 percent shooting. Despite Oklahoma State junior guard Brittney Martin and senior center LaShawn Jones com-bining for 34 points, star se-nior forward Liz Donohoe struggled throughout the game. Being heckled by the crowd with “airball” chants every time she touched the rock, Donohoe recorded only 2 points Wednesday night.

“[Junior center Imani Mc-Gee-Stafford] and [sopho-more center] Kelsey [Lang] picked it up a lot in the second

half,” Aston said. “I thought all the big guards did a good job of neutralizing Donohoe, who I think has been playing really well for them.”

Wednesday’s victory posi-tions Texas (19–8, 8–8 Big 12) in a tie with Oklahoma State for third place in the Big 12. The Longhorns are now in position to have a first-round bye in the conference tournament.

Aston said the team will shift its focus to its upcoming game against West Virginia on Sunday. When the team returns for senior night Tues-day, seniors Nneka Enemk-pali and Krystle Henderson will be back on the court to formally end their careers.

“It should mean some-thing to our fans to show up for [Enemkpali] because it is her final walk on the Erwin Center floor,” Aston said. “[Henderson] has accepted a role and been a big part of our program. These games mean something. We’re not just playing to be playing. I would like for everyone to understand that the crowd makes a big difference for us, and we need the win.”

After a strong start to the season, the Longhorns offense fell silent for the first half of Wednesday night’s 5–4 win against UT-Pan American.

Down 4–0 after four in-nings, the Longhorns began their comeback. With runners on first and second and two outs in the fifth, junior short-stop C.J Hinojosa drilled a sin-gle back up the middle to get the Longhorns on the board.

Two innings later, senior right fielder Collin Shaw re-corded Texas’ first extra base hit of the night — an RBI dou-ble to cut the deficit to 4–2. In the next inning, Texas senior second baseman Brooks Mar-low led off the inning with a walk and scored on freshman third baseman Bret Boswell’s double. Two batters later, Bo-swell came home to tie the score on a single by sopho-more center fielder Zane Gur-witz.

Brones starting junior pitcher junior Parker Gallegos held Texas (8–2) without an extra base hit for just over six innings. His defense played a big role in that, including sophomore first baseman Vic-tor Garcia Jr., who made a div-ing stop in the sixth inning to rob Marlow of a hit.

Trailing 4–1 in the seventh, No. 6 Texas scored on a double by Shaw. The Longhorns then tied the game in the eighth with an RBI double by Boswell and an RBI single by Gurwitz.

With runners on the cor-

ners and two outs in the bot-tom of the ninth, Boswell singled up the middle to bring in Shaw and give Texas a 5–4 win.

“I thought I was going to get a hit, and I was just looking to hit it up the middle and get a good swing on it,” Boswell said.

Texas’ early difficulties at the plate didn’t come from failing to get the bat on the ball — the Longhorns were sent down on

strikes only twice in the game. The issue was getting the hits past the defenders.

After escaping a jam in the top of the ninth when UTPA had runners at first and third with two outs, the Longhorns found themselves in the exact same position. However, with a full count, Boswell just sneaked the ball past the shortstop to win the game.

Head coach Augie Garrido said that’s what Boswell does.

“He’s a big-game player and a big-game performer,” Gar-rido said.

Freshman starting pitcher Connor Mayes struggled in his second collegiate start. After posting a perfect first inning, Mayes allowed two runs in the second inning, including one that came after he dropped the ball while covering first base. He then allowed another run off a blooper single before be-ing pulled from the game.

Two of those runs for UTPA (5-3) came on errors by the de-fense, which had its struggles during the night as well. Fresh-man catcher Michael Cantu al-lowed his first passed ball of his career and Hinojosa bobbled a ground ball — both of which led to runs.

Texas returns to action Friday night at 7:30 p.m. to start off a three-game series against San Diego at home this weekend.

Stephanie Tacy| Daily Texan StaffFreshman third baseman Bret Boswell hit a walk-off single Wednesday night to help the Longhorns come back from a 4-0 deficit to beat UTPA, 5-4. Boswell finished the night with three hits and two RBIs.

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Blacks underrepresented within STEM workforce

TEDxAustin was nearly everything Kevin Foster, associate professor of Afri-can and African diaspora studies, expected it to be — informative, thought-pro-voking and intriguing. The only problem: Nearly all the speakers were white.

Foster said TEDxAustin lacked a wide range of mi-norities’ perspectives, such as those of African-Ameri-cans. This left the audience with an incomplete under-standing of educational re-search, American culture and academic opinions. He decided to create “Blacka-demics TV,” a 30-minute TV show that features black scholars and professors from across the nation.

The program tapes in front of a live audience at the KLRU-TV studio on the UT campus. The show’s third season premieres in the fall.

“I don’t see anything on the landscape that looks ex-actly like what we’re doing,” Foster said. “This is just the early 21st-century version of black studies. People like W.E.B. Du Bois, like Carter G. Woodson — all of these folks were scholars who lived in action.”

Gabe Whitaker, UT alumnus and “Blacka-demics” volunteer, said the show “Blackademics” is similar to a big brain-storming session in which influential leaders from different African-Ameri-can communities come to-gether to educate people on the need for positive change.

“You have people talk-ing about these heartfelt emotions and causes and

problems that we have in society,” Whitaker said. “Last year was tough re-garding minorities in this country because of police brutality, incarceration rates and drop-out rates — and that’s all the negative stuff. But also you have the rise of professionals that are people of color.”

“Blackademics” aims to carry on the legacy of Af-rican-American pioneers from years past. The televi-sion show is part of a larger

organization, the Institute for Community, University and School Partnerships, which provides academic tools and programs for stu-dents who want to obtain higher education.

Kendra Chambers, UT alumna and associate pro-ducer for “Blackademics,” found out about the TV program through a high school engagement event. Chambers said “Blacka-demics” is a much-needed resource that teachers in

high school and college settings use.

“[‘Blackademics’] ig-nites perspective; it ignites conversation; it ignites discussion at a scholarly level,” Chambers said.

The first two seasons are available online at www.klru.org. Chambers said the show creates an alternative path to educa-tion because the program is free. From university professors to people who are curious to know more,

“Blackademics” provides a way for traditionally mar-ginalized groups to have a chance to share their views on trends in society, Whitaker said.

Foster said he views eas-ily accessible media as an opportunity to present content that can supple-ment current education. He said Texas schools don’t offer a full pic-ture of black history or the history of racism in America. Programs such

as “Blackademics” aim to close the gaps that tradi-tional educational institu-tions have left open, ac-cording to Foster.

The challenge is that anybody with a computer can generate content, and it might be inaccurate,” Foster said. “So it’s incum-bent upon scholars, par-ticularly scholars of color, to speak about marginal-ized groups and to gener-ate high-quality content so they don’t get drowned.”

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Imagine investing $100 into a bank account that grows with interest over time. If the account had the same growth rate as the number of black people in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields, it would gain just $2 in 45 years.

A 2013 survey the U.S. Cen-sus Bureau carried out found that only 6 percent of the STEM workforce identifies as black — a 2 percent increase since 1970. The census defines black as any person having origins from a black racial group in Africa or identifies as African-American, Sub-Saharan African or Afro-Caribbean. Additionally, there is an option for people who identify as a personal definition of black or African-American.

In the U.S. population, there is one black person for every six white people, but, within STEM field, this jumps to one in 12. Entering a STEM field is difficult, regardless of race, and many students drop off before earning their degrees. Not everyone who is aiming for a career as a scientist makes

it. However, the percentage of black students dwindles at a faster rate than that of their white peers.

According to the census data, black students represent 15.4 percent of enrolled col-lege students — and these stu-dents only earn 7.1 percent of STEM degrees. Additionally, only 6 percent of STEM jobs go to black workers, and those people end up earning 15 per-cent less than their white peers.

Research attributes under-representation within STEM fields to negative stereotypes about blacks, a limited number of black role models because of historical barriers, a knowl-edge gap between parents who did not attend college and col-lege-bound children, and even unintentional discouragement by mentors.

Additionally, black women face double jeopardy because they encounter both racial and gender biases.

The American Association of University Women, with the backing of the National Sci-ence Foundation, researched the social basis for gender dis-crimination in STEM fields. The study found home and

school environments to be leading predictors for academic achievement, specifically stem-ming from unconscious beliefs about gender.

A new study by the Ameri-can Psychological Associa-tion, which sampled more than 1 million incoming col-lege freshmen over 10 years, showed an increase in the number of black women en-tering college who expressed interest in STEM fields.

The survey found that black women tend to be more in-terested than white women in pursuing degrees in STEM fields. Black women are less likely than white women to associate STEM fields with masculinity, and they are more likely to major in STEM fields.

If the underrepresentation of black people in STEM fields seems daunting, it should.

The American Associa-tion of University Women makes eight recommenda-tions to bring in and retain more students, including ac-tive recruitment, education for educators about stereotypes, and revision of admissions policies to help work toward equal representation.

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Xinton Guo | Daily Texan StaffKevin Foster, associate professor of African and African diaspora studies, said he believes that TedxAustin lacked diversity in its speakers. Therefore, he de-cided to create “Blackademics TV,” a 30-minute TV show featuring black scholars and professors from across the nation.