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Mason Ayer, CEO of Ker-bey Lane Cafe, said Kerbey Lane Cafe is fortunate to have had the opportunity to serve the Austin com-munity for 35 years.

“We wouldn’t be around today if it weren’t for the countless Austinites who have dined with us and supported our business for all these years,” Ayer said in a statement. “We deeply value our community and want to celebrate this mile-stone by giving back. Unit-ed Way for Greater Austin is a first-rate organization that truly practices its mot-to of making Austin great

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Regents back limits to records requests Bill proposes halving UT’s portion of PUF for UHThe UT System Board of

Regents and Chancellor Wil-liam McRaven sent a letter Monday to Attorney General Ken Paxton arguing that in-dividual regents’ access to re-cords can be subject to limi-tations in certain situations.

At a specially called meet-ing Monday morning, eight members of the board voted unanimously to file a brief with the AG’s office outlining the System’s official stance on

regent information requests. The ninth regent, Wallace Hall, abstained from the vote.

System counsels filed the brief in response to an ap-peal Hall’s private attorney filed with Paxton on April 20. Hall’s attorney, Bill Aleshire, asked Paxton to formally provide advice on Hall’s re-quest to review thousands of documents related to UT-Austin admissions and asked whether the Board or the Chancellor had the authority to prohibit Hall from obtain-ing copies of those records.

Hall is attempting to re-view the thousands of docu-ments Kroll Associates, Inc. used in an independent investigation earlier this year. The Kroll report found President William Powers Jr. intervened in a handful of admissions cases, but con-cluded Powers did not violate any policies.

When Hall asked to review the Kroll documents, three regents, including Hall himself, voted to grant him

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Zoe Fu | Daily Texan StaffUT System chancellor William McRaven, center, and Daniel Sharphorn, general counsel and vice chancellor for the UT System, right, met with the Board of Regents on Monday.

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UT’s portion of the Perma-nent University Fund (PUF) might be cut in half to help fund The University of Houston.

Last week, Rep. Sylvester Turner (D-Houston) laid out a bill and constitutional amend-ment before the House Higher Education Committee that, if passed, would be a step toward adding UH to the PUF, an en-dowment that is currently desig-nated to fund university opera-tions at the UT and Texas A&M systems through the Available University Fund (AUF).

Chief financial officer Mary Knight said this could have a significant financial impact on the university.

“As far as the overall budget, a hundred million dollar re-duction to any of our sources would be a very major reduc-tion to the budget,” Knight said. “A lot of research and scholar-ships are funded from the AUF, so we would have to make re-ductions somewhere to be able to account for this.”

Since the state constitu-tion dictates that only UT and A&M receive the funds, the constitution must be amended to add UH to the short list of the fund’s recipients. Addition-ally, Turner’s complimentary bill must pass.

Currently, $263 million of UT’s $2.658 billion budget comes from the PUF, accord-ing to Knight. UT receives two-thirds of the $17 billion fund, while A&M receives one-third of the money. Turner’s pro-posals would cut UT’s portion and transfer part of it to UH,

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Kerbey Lane celebrates 35th anniversary

Charlotte Carpenter | Daily Texan StaffKerbey Lane Cafe celebrated its 35th year in business on Monday. All their proceeds from the day went to United Way for Greater Austin, a charity organization that funds other local nonprofits.

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New organization brings speakers to UTPoll: Americans find gas prices reasonable

An increasing number of Americans believe the cur-rent gasoline prices, which range from $1.93 to $3.29 per gallon nationally, are relatively reasonable, ac-cording to the UT Energy Poll released Wednesday.

In September 2014, 90 percent of Americans be-lieved gasoline prices were too high, but now that number has dropped to 66 percent.

“There’s been such a deep decline in the price,” said Sheril Kirshenbaum, director of the UT Energy Poll. “ I’m paying as much now to fill up my own car as I did in the late 1990s. I think a lot of people are noticing a big differ-ence in how much it costs

to travel.”The sharp decline in oil

prices this past year can be attributed to a lack of demand from consumers across the world, accord-ing to Carey King, assis-tant director of the UT Energy Institute.

“Oil production in North America has increased relatively quickly,” King said. “It has increased faster than the demand for gasoline. There’s more oil than people are prepared to consume.”

But people shouldn’t get used to these low prices, King said.

“[These prices] will be around for six months to a year, at most,” King said.

However, high gas pric-es have their own set of

A new wave of speakers will come to campus thanks to Speak, a new organiza-tion that already has a list of high-profile individuals scheduled to speak in the fall, according to the organi-zation’s president.

Students organized Speak as a way to get students in-volved in bringing high-profile speakers to campus. Before the club’s conception, Andrew Watts, president of the club and management information systems sopho-more, was involved in bring-ing speakers such as Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cu-ban and Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel to campus.

Watts said the organiza-tion will teach those who join how to design and de-velop these events from be-ginning to end.

“This goes from contact-ing speakers all the way to managing volunteers on the day of the event,” Watts said.

“Students will get hands-on experience by working with others, leading teams and de-veloping marketing strategies.”

No application is need-ed to join, according to

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Carlo Nasisse| Daily Texan StaffAndrew Watts, management information systems sophomore, founded Speak as a way to get students involved in bringing high-profile speakers to campus.

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access. Under Regent Rule 19801, “Policy on Transpar-ency, Accountability, and Ac-cess to Information,” UT Sys-tem employees must respond to information requests “without undue delay” if two or more regents vote in sup-port of the request.

However, McRaven told Hall that Hall’s requests ven-tured into independent “in-quiry and investigation” and therefore would require a majority board vote for ap-proval. In a terse email ex-change, McRaven told Hall his requests for information go beyond “any reasonable

desire to be better informed as a regent.”

“This current request for information … is detrimental to the overall well-being of the system,” McRaven wrote in an email to Hall.

The brief filed Monday, which represented McRaven and the Board of Regents’ official position on Hall’s ap-peal, argued that Hall’s attor-ney did not have standing to seek formal advice from Pax-ton in the first place.

“An individual Regent is not authorized to seek an opinion of the Attorney General in his official capacity without the consent of the Board, nor may an individual Regent be repre-sented in his official capacity

by private counsel,” System lawyers wrote. “In addition, the Attorney General gener-ally declines fact-finding and answering hypothetical ques-tions, both of which would be required in answering the questions presented.”

Even if Paxton did agree to provide Hall advice, Hall’s requests for the documents should still be denied, ac-cording to the brief. System counsel said Regents’ Rules and federal laws exist to regu-late individual regents’ access to records, especially when student privacy is a consider-ation.

“A Regent’s access to in-formation is not ‘unfettered,’” the System counsel wrote.

“Given the potential volume of a request for information by an individual member of the Board and the impact on workload priorities, it is in-herently reasonable that the Regents’ Rules provide checks and balances.”

In his letter to Paxton, Hall’s attorney argued that Regents do have an unfettered right to agency records.

“A regent is not a mere figurehead, passive servant of corporate management,” Aleshire wrote. “Other opin-ions of the Attorney General also demonstrate that a re-gent’s inherent right of access to the agency records is not subject to judgement of the other board members (or of

the Chancellor).” After the meeting Monday,

Regent Alex Cranberg, who originally voted to grant Hall access to the Kroll records, explained his vote in support of the brief to the AG.

“I certainly feel it’s very important to express the need for individual regents to have [the] capacity to ask hard questions, even as the majority of the board might feel uncomfortable, but I don’t think this response sug-gests that the regents don’t have that capacity,” Cranberg said. “[I believe the response suggests] merely that there might be some limits placed on what a regent might rea-sonably ask for.”

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Amanda Barrington, corpo-rate communications junior and vice president of Na-tional Speaking Events. Bar-rington said she and Watts designed the organization to be as inclusive as possible.

“The one thing that we both agreed on when we were talking about Speak becoming a thing at UT was the inclusive and exclusive parts of organizations on campus,” Barrington said. “We really wanted to make it open to the whole cam-pus so everyone could get involved in the entrepre-neurial community and the entrepreneurial scene.”

Speak aims to bring a large and diverse group of leaders to campus, according to Sier-ra Salinas, business freshman and Vice President of Inter-nal Communications. She said the current line-up of speakers are business-related, but the lineup has potential to expand and to include professors, authors, athletes, scientists and artists.

“I think the most exciting thing about this organiza-tion is knowing that our op-tions are limitless,” Salinas said. “The more people we get, the more comfortable we will feel reaching out to companies or individuals, and the more variety we will be able to have in the future.”

Speak’s future line-up in-cludes Yik-Yak co-founders and the senior director of digital and social market-ing for Taco Bell. Speak’s long-term future depends on those who decide to join, Watts said.

“I hope people are en-couraged to join because they have a crazy idea for a speaker to come to campus and have the drive to make that event happen,” Watts said. “This can help the or-ganization go beyond just being simply a speaking-events-oriented club, but more of a community for students to take part in.”

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While the University works to provide a broad spectrum of languages for students, the University is canceling some language courses because of a lack of interest.

Each year, a select few Ful-bright scholars are allowed to attend the University and teach their language. Often, enough students don’t sign up, so the course is not of-fered. These scholars are reassigned to teach Russian or another Central Asian language, and students who were enrolled must find something else to take.

Umedjon Sharifov, a Ful-bright scholar employed by the University to teach Ta-jik, said he began teaching children and adults English as a second language in his home country of Tajikstan. According to Sharifov, he was excited about the op-portunity to teach at UTand disappointed when he dis-covered his course was no longer going to be offered.

“Fulbright is a great pro-gram to be a part of,” Shari-fov said. “I was so fully pre-pared. I came with a book, and I was so prepared for it. When I came, it was a little sad no one signed up.”

Initially it was hard to ad-

just to life in a foreign country, Sharifov said. He spent his first semester as a TA for a Rus-sian class, and Sharifov said he spent the second semester tak-ing classes on his own while teaching one student Tajik.

“We [would] meet once a week, and we’d compare Tajik and Farsi,” Sharifov said. “He speaks fluent Farsi, which helps him better un-derstand both languages.”

While Sharifov enjoyed his experience at the Uni-versity, he said the Central Asian language programs

would improve if they were separated from the Russian and Slavic languages be-cause most, such as Tajik, do not have anything in com-mon with these languages.

“[Tajik is associated with] Central Asia or Middle East-ern Islam — no one will find Tajik in the Russian depart-ment,” Sharifov said.

According to Sharifov, his student said that if he had known where Tajik was, he would have taken the course.

Agnes Sekowski, a gradu-ate coordinator for the Rus-

sian department, said that seeing the two of them meet and only speak Tajik twice a week was impressive.

Sekowski said although a formal course was not of-fered, the department found ways to teach the language and culture.

“We provided both office and classroom space for the [Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant Program] all year, and he was very ac-tive at our departmental events,” Sekowski said. “He even taught people at Explore

UT traditional Tajik dances.”Political communications

senior Meagan Leahy, who took Bosnian/Croatian/Serbain to fulfill her foreign language requirement, said students don’t take languages such as Tajik because they seem insurmountable or not practical.

“People don’t know they exist, and they seem really hard,” Leahy said. “People want to take German or Spanish because they’ve heard of it, and they know it’s useful.”

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granting each institution one-third of the fund.

At Wednesday’s hear-ing, Turner said he thinks The University of Houston is underfunded compared to A&M and UT. This year The University of Houston received $143 million in gen-eral revenue state appropria-tions compared to about $262 million and $252 million at UT and A&M, respectively.

The University of Hous-ton, which is Texas’s third tier-one research institution alongside UT and A&M, should become Texas’s third flagship university, according to Turner.

“We do need to have a major conversation, and we do need to find ways of making sure we have addi-tional flagship universities that are funded at the same or similar levels to benefit other students as we move forward,” Turner said at the hearing Wednesday.

Shaun Theriot-Smith, civil engineering junior and Uni-versity of Houston student government president, said he believes UH is deserving of the PUF funding but said it should not come at the finan-cial expense of UT and A&M.

“As far as the student per-spective goes, any chance to increase funding for the Uni-versity is always a good thing, but I don’t think any [UH] student is really interested in a situation which might com-promise another University, such as UT or A&M,” Theri-ot-Smith said. “It would result

in A&M or [UT] receiving a smaller slice of the pie, but there’s a way to apportion for [UH] in a way that would not compromise the financial sta-bility of [UT] or A&M.”

University spokesperson Gary Susswein declined com-ment on the legislation, which is pending in committee.

Student government presi-dent Xavier Rotnofsky said he thinks legislators should con-sider the impact that cutting PUF funds will have on UT when engaging in a conversa-tion around adding The Uni-versity of Houston to the PUF.

“Public institutions in Texas should be involved in the dialogue of appro-priations, but we have to keep in mind the impact that cutting from PUF to UT would have consider-ing the population size of not only UT-Austin but also the UT system as a whole,” Rotnofsky said. “We get a lot of our fund-ing from PUF, so it’s a huge asset of ours. We have to keep in mind the impact of adding another entity.”

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$263 million: How much of UT System’s budget came from the PUF this year$143 million: How much the University of Houston received in generate rev-enue state appropriations this yearTwo-thirds: Portion of PUF fund UT System receives

every single day.” United Way for Greater

Austin is an organization that has financially sup-ported local charity groups since 1924.

Sarah Karney, the mar-keting and communications coordinator for United Way for Greater Austin, said the organization has a dual mis-sion to give everyone in the Austin community the op-portunity to be a philanthro-pist and to work with fami-lies to overcome barriers to

economic opportunities. United Way runs programs

in the areas of early child-hood education, high school dropout prevention and fi-nancial stability, according to Karney. It also funds other nonprofits in Austin that do work in these areas.

“Kerbey Lane Cafe is do-nating 100 percent of net profits from six locations to us,” Karney said. “That mon-ey will then be reinvested in the Austin community in a number of ways to be deter-mined by KLC and our Re-source Development team.”

Kerbey Lane has six lo-

cations, exclusively in the Austin area, four of which are open 24/7. The first restaurant was established in a house on Kerbey Lane, the restaurant’s namesake.

In addition to the fes-tivities, the restaurant con-cluded their “35 Days until 35” social media promo-tion, during which partici-pants were presented with the opportunity to win T-shirts and pancake mix.

Kerbey Lane’s success can be attributed to their food’s consistent quality and their attention to customers, ac-cording to Chris Wills, a

manager at Kerbey Lane Cafe on Guadalupe Street.

“We always do what we can to ‘wow’ the guest. Customer service is a big deal for us, and we’re al-ways open to feedback,” Wills said. “I think that’s one of the reasons people like us. Customers can voice their opinion.”

The UT community would not be the same without Kerbey Lane Cafe, advertising junior Rachel Murchison said.

“Kerbey Lane is an es-sential part of campus life,” Murchison said.

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advantages. Kirshenbaum said that when the price increases, the public usu-ally takes a greater interest in energy conservation.

“When gas prices were very high, we saw a lot more concerns over what people were paying — maybe some more interest in the adoption of renew-able technologies or driv-ing hybrid cars,” Kirshen-baum said.

When gas prices decline, number of large vehicles purchased goes up, said Michelle Foss, chief energy economist for the Jackson School of Geosciences.

“When gasoline prices are lower, people tend to use more,” Foss said. “In our country, people have started buying SUVs and trucks again. If the cars people buy are more fuel efficient, which they are, then less gasoline will get used than before.”

The findings in the poll don’t have much signifi-cance, according to Foss, because any small price fluctuation in the oil in-dustry has a considerable effect on the U.S.

“We have not had big changes,” Foss said. “Oil prices stabilized a bit. In the U.S., any change in oil price, high or low, gets translated directly to the pump. This is especially true in Texas.”

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Umedjon Shari-fov, a Fulbright scholar who came to UT to teach Tajik, spent a semester as a TA for a Russian class after no students signed up for the Tajik course. Some language classes are canceled each year due to a lack of interest, and instructors are moved to teach different languages.

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UT graduates 52 percent of its students within four years. That’s a terrible mark in comparison to those of other highly ranked public flagships, like the University of Virginia (86 percent, as of 2014) and UC Berkeley (72 percent, as of 2012).

The school’s administration has tried to raise that number in recent years, and it hopes that 70 percent of the class of 2017 will graduate on time. In pursuit of that goal, the provost’s office recently implemented an initiative designed to nudge rising fourth-year students into gradu-ating by next May.

Promoting four-year graduation should benefit both students and the University. Those who graduate on time wind up spend-ing less in tuition and, ideally, earning salaries earlier than those who don’t. From the school’s standpoint, a high rate of student turnover means more future donors and a boost in the irrationally important yearly college rankings.

But don’t expect the new policy to have much of an impact. By offering carrots to stu-dents who commit to graduate when they’re supposed to, the initiative carries the implica-tion that UT’s lackluster four-year graduation rate is the consequence of an aimless student body.

That scenario rests on the implausible premise that a high proportion of belated graduates are simply choosing, for one reason or another, to accumulate several thousand dollars’ worth of extra debt and delay their entry into an increasingly competitive job market.

It’s more likely that delayed graduates get waylaid by coursework-related problems. Those could stem from a wide variety of factors, like excessive Q-dropping, rigorous dual-degree programs and a flawed registra-tion system. The first two issues are difficult to address without promoting grade inflation or consolidating general education require-ments across different colleges. But neither of those solutions would be easy to implement, and the former is ethically sketchy enough to risk endangering the University’s reputation.

Fixing registration, on the other hand, is a simple way to help push those in danger of graduating late back onto the four-year track.

Last year’s revamp reordered registration times based on a student’s degree completion percentage rather than their classification,

helping seniors avoid the nightmare of getting closed out of a required course and having to put off graduation. But it created a lot of prob-lems for underclassmen in the process.

Because their degree progress largely de-pends on the number of credits they earned as high schoolers, there’s a huge variation among registration times for first- and second-year students, and those at the back of the pack can find themselves locked out of important re-quirements and prerequisites.

Not only does that stall their progress to-ward graduating, it prevents them from get-ting earlier registration times in the future by curtailing their degree completion, driving them into an unavoidable doom loop of ter-rible course access.

The problem is even more severe for internal transfers, many of whom have accumulated an olympiad’s worth of hours in their previous majors without making any progress toward their new desired degree. Students who change their majors midstream already face an uphill battle toward graduating on time, and the new system does them no favors.

If the University wants to maximize its four-year graduation rate, it should structure the registration period such that the longest-ten-ured students (measured by the total number of enrolled semesters) get the first chance to design their schedules, regardless of the num-ber of hours they’ve taken or how close they are to finishing their degree.

Students in the same prospective graduating class can be ranked by the number of hours they’ve taken so that those who have already completed their general education require-ments don’t wind up stuck in redundant or un-necessary classes. That kind of system would send a lifeline to those currently left behind without hurting anyone on the cusp of gradu-ating. Its biggest downside is that it could dis-advantage anyone who plans on graduating early, a problem that could easily be allayed through the academic advising offices of indi-vidual departments.

There’s no reason for a student’s MyEdu dream schedule to go as soul-crushingly awry as a March Madness bracket or a New Year’s resolution. If the University plans on boost-ing its graduation rate through institutional support, it should focus its efforts on the AP-less freshmen and major-switchers who could otherwise wind up stranded at school for half a decade. Offering benefits to students who choose to graduate of their own accord does nothing to help those who the registration sys-tem has left without such a choice.

Shenhar is a Plan II, government and eco-nomics sophomore from Westport, Connecti-cut. He writes about campus and education issues.

What does it mean to be an educated person? This is the most important question we must ask ourselves on a college campus.

Universities, by definition, turn us into edu-cated citizens — men and women with more access to the accumulated learning in various disciplines (biology, history and engineering, to name a few) than the average person who has not attended a similar campus. The college ex-perience is an immersion of the individual in a sea of ideas, perspectives and provocations. It is like jumping into the ocean and then swimming in various directions to see different coastlines.

This exercise is designed to stimulate life-long reflections about nothing less than the purpose of existence. “Who am I?” every col-lege student asks. “What do I want to become?” “How will I get there?”

College is about asking these questions re-peatedly. An educated life is about continuing to pose these questions in other professional, family and spiritual settings. The educated per-son is self-reflective and self-aware. The edu-cated person knows many things, of course, but she recognizes there are many things she does not know. To be educated is to be humbled by the enormity of the world and the limits of even the most talented individual.

The “universal” root of “university” is the recognition of how enormous the world and its elements are. The educated person does not think he can master everything, or even a frac-

tion of it. He seeks to make some sense of the enormity, to chart worthwhile pathways and to find meaning that gives the journey enduring value.

The learning that college opens for the grad-uate is about the many sources of meaning and value that individuals can pursue amid a disori-enting and competitive world. Returning to the ocean metaphor, life without higher education is like swimming without full vision. Education helps us to see more.

College, then, is not about earning power, al-though it increases the income of nearly every graduate. College is, instead, about adventure and growth. It is a mind-expanding enterprise, setting its participants on a path of continued exploration and learning that is hard to repli-cate any other way.

College is an intensive training of the in-tellect and the senses. Educated men and women are not always smarter, but they have a richer and more complex understanding of their surroundings. To be educated is to ap-preciate — and ultimately benefit from — the many colors, shapes and sizes of the human experience.

That is why I have never left college.As a professor I have the unmatched oppor-

tunity to research, analyze and teach about the many dimensions of human society. Every day I immerse myself in observing how different people have formulated policy around issues of security, sustenance, justice and reform. I study decision-making and its effects. I examine the influences that drive policy change in vari-ous organizations — including governments, militaries, businesses and schools. I analyze the consequences and lessons of these policies for our own challenges today.

Ultimately, life in the university provides me the opportunity to deepen and expand our collective understanding of how humans orga-nize themselves and how they use their power. I love studying and teaching this stuff! Some-times my readers and students feel the same way…

I have written this weekly column for the

Daily Texan throughout the academic year because I fear we have lost sight of why educa-tion matters, even as we benefit from it every day. Think how little we talk about learning and meaning at a great university. We obsess about other important, but still less central, topics in-stead.

Although money, buildings and sports mat-ter, our business is learning, and our focus must remain on that topic above all. Education is our core mission and our distraction from it allows the other issues to define how we behave toward one another and how outside groups behave to-ward us.

My goal in writing these columns has been to provoke a vigorous discussion about the most valuable things we do at a university to educate through research, teaching and dia-logue. My faith is that most of us understand but few of us communicate effectively about

these issues, especially to those who have not had the privilege of spending time on our campus.

We must devote more effort — as individu-als and as an institution — to describing what we really care about. That is how we can ensure our actions match our aspirations. We must also devote more effort to describing what we really care about so that we can convince people across our society to value, support and join our efforts. We must become a more articulate cam-pus with clearer voices and fewer walls.

Our educational mission is the most power-ful antidote to the cynicism, pettiness and par-tisanship of our time. We must lead by educat-ing. We must lead by modeling how educated people can inspire and improve themselves as well as others.

Suri is a professor in the LBJ School of Public Affairs and the Department of History.

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To be educated is to be hum-bled by the enormity of the world and the limits of even the most talented individual.

Issues such as racism and sexism have been in the spotlight in many places dur-ing the past few years, and UT is no ex-ception. Past and present victims of racism and sexism have tried to speak up and let their voices be heard, and it is important that students understand these issues and be aware of how they have affected cam-pus.

The Student Government Student Af-fairs Committee seems to be in agreement, as they discussed a resolution April 29 that, according to The Daily Texan, would “support all student-led efforts to raise awareness of racism and sexism on cam-pus.”

One of the aims of the resolution is to “reform” classes carrying Cultural Diver-sity flags by distributing a pamphlet that chronicles incidents of racism and sexism at UT over the past 75 years.

This is an interesting idea. While UT, like every other college campus, has no doubt had its share of incidents involving racism or sexism, such moments tend to be unknown to much of the student popu-lation. Many students have limited knowl-edge of UT’s history in general, and most of them probably aren’t combing through archives trying to find mentions of racism or sexism.

The pamphlet would be a good way to begin to educate students on how these issues have affected UT. While a single pamphlet obviously would not encompass the entire scope of the issues, it would be a way to make students more aware of the ways that racism and sexism (and the movements against them) have played a part in both day-to-day interactions and larger events on campus. Students would

be able to use them as a pathway to discov-ering more about UT.

Obviously, the idea of distributing a pamphlet in Cultural Diversity classes isn’t perfect. It would be naïve to think that many students wouldn’t just throw the pamphlet away or ignore its contents. There is also a question as to how the pamphlets would be integrated into these classes. Would there be time given to dis-cuss the pamphlets in class, or would stu-dents just be given the pamphlets with the expectation that they would read them?

Distributing a simple pamphlet to stu-dents might also seem somewhat … sim-ple. Most college students have a good deal of knowledge about racism and sexism, and the pamphlet would probably rein-force many things that they already knew. However, as resolution author and govern-ment senior Bryan Davis pointed out in the Texan, the pamphlet “isn’t meant to be an end-all be-all to the racism discussed…just a beginning to the entire process.”

Despite the reservations some may have, what makes the proposed pamphlet stand out is the fact that it deals with specific events in UT’s history. While it is easy to give students general facts about rac-ism and sexism, giving them a document about incidents that have affected cam-pus makes the issues seem a lot closer to home. As with many issues, it is easier to raise awareness about racism and sexism if students know how those specific issues in the past have affected how they live their lives in the present.

It is all too easy to look at racist or sex-ist events that happen in other states or countries and dismiss them because “they don’t affect me.” However, when one is confronted with specific events that have occurred in the places they live and work, it becomes harder to ignore those same is-sues. The pamphlet could go a long way in making students realize that racism and sexism are present everywhere, and that it is important fight against them whether they are highlighted on campus or across the world.

Racism and sexism will unfortunately continue to be present in society. How-ever, even a pamphlet could help raise awareness of these issues among students and encourage them to fight against them. Pamphlet or no pamphlet, it is important that we continue to strive for an equal and fair society.

Dolan is a journalism freshman from Abilene.

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One of the aims of the resolu-tion is to ‘reform’ classes carry-ing Cultural Diversity flags by distributing a pamphlet that chronicles incidents of rac-ism and sexism at UT over the past 75 years.

golf defeated Alabama 3–2 to win the program’s first ti-tle since 1972. That fall, vol-leyball won its first national championship since 1988 by defeating the Oregon Ducks. In March, men’s swimming and diving won its first na-tional title since 2010 — its 11th total.

169: Losses by the major three men’s sports. Base-ball, football and basketball have amassed 169 combined losses over the past four sea-sons, the most since the 171 total losses endured by the class of 2001. If the baseball team drops five more games, the Class of 2015 will be the losingest senior class in

school history.21: Losses by Texas foot-

ball. The Longhorns gave up 21 losses from 2011–2014, tying it with 2010–2013 and 1988–1991 for the most losses over a four-season span since 1986-1989, when the Long-horns dropped 24 games.

58.33%: Men’s basket-ball’s winning percentage. Texas has had its lowest win percentage over a four-sea-son span since it only won 58.08 percent of its games from 1995–1999. Texas’ 57 losses over this time were the most the program had re-corded in four seasons since the Longhorns dropped 63 games from 1983–1987.

2004: The last time the women’s basketball team advanced to the NCAA

Tournament’s second weekend. The No. 5-seeded Texas women knocked off No. 4-seeded Cal 73–70 in Berkeley to advance to the second round, but the Longhorns fell to the even-tual champion, No. 1-seeded Connecticut Huskies, 105–54 in the Sweet 16.

58.26%: Baseball’s win-ning percentage. Texas had its lowest winning percent-age since winning 57.09 percent of its games from 1998–2001. Barring win-ning the Phillips 66 Big 12 Championship in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Texas baseball will miss the NCAA Tourna-ment for the third time in the Class of 2015’s four seasons in Austin.

2013: The year softball

finished the season ranked No. 3 in the country. The No. 3 ranking in 2013 was Texas’ best final ranking in program history. This also marked the team’s first appearance in the Women’s College World Series since 2006.

4: Big 12 Conference titles for volleyball. The Longhorns went 61–3 in conference play and did not lose more than one confer-ence match in a season.

0: The number of dou-ble-digit win seasons by football, single-digit loss seasons by men’s basketball or 50 plus-win seasons by baseball. The last Univer-sity of Texas class to witness none of the three feats while enrolled in school was the class of 1969.

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.256 team batting average and ranks third to last with a .349 team on-base percentage.

And even when runners are on base, Longhorn batters have failed to drive in runs. Against Texas Tech this past weekend, Texas got 31 run-ners on base but scored only five runs.

“We do it over and over,” Garrido said.

The struggles at the plate

came after a blistering start to the season for the offense. The Longhorns opened up their home schedule with a 14-run effort against UTSA and followed that with 31 runs in a four-game series against Minnesota.

But since starting 5–1 in Big 12 play, the bats have gone silent. Texas has scored under four runs per game in the last five conference series, and the five runs they scored this weekend is a team low since tallying just three runs at

Nebraska in late March.Johnson, who will be

suspended for Tuesday night’s game for his ejection from Sunday’s game, said after Sat-urday’s game that it’s been frus-trating not being able to get the runs in.

“You just got to stick with it and stick with the process,” Johnson said.

Facing the Bobcats, how-ever, might just be what the Longhorns need to get going again on offense. Texas has scored 13 runs in the two wins

against Texas State this season, including five home runs.

But even if they suddenly find the answer on offense and win their four remain-ing regular season games, the Longhorns will need nothing short of a miracle to have an-other long postseason run.

Still, Barrera said they don’t plan on going down without a fight.

“We have a bunch of fight-ers in this locker room,” Bar-rera said. “There is still a chance; we’re not giving up.”

Olympian medalist, made the move to join coach Mario Sategna at Texas, and Akinosun had no hesitation in following her mentor.

“I wanted to continue my career with her as my coach,” Akinosun said. “However, after just being on the campus for a visit, I fell in love with it and didn’t want to go anywhere else. She’s my mom away from mom.”

Buford-Bailey’s training has produced wins upon wins for Akinosun this year. In the outdoor sea-son alone, she has amassed victories in the 100m dash, 200m dash, 4x100m relay and the 4x400m re-lay. Akinosun attributes her success to the coaching staff at Texas.

“They give me amazing coaching strategies and helped develop me into an athlete that can run 100-400 meters and be on both relays,” Akinosun said.

Off the track, Akino-sun is known on the team for being a character and someone who brings joy to the locker room.

“If I was stranded on an island and could only

have two teammates, it would be [senior sprinter] Morgan Snow and [sopho-more sprinter] Chris Ir-vin,” Akinosun said. “If I’m stranded on an island, I at least want to be able to laugh, and Morgan does that. And if we’re stuck on an island, we need someone to get us off. Chris would be the guy to figure that out.”

When her running days are over, Akinosun has her next step figured out.

“When I’m done run-ning track — hopefully af-ter a couple Olympic games — I would love to pursue a master’s degree in biome-chanics,” Akinosun said. “I want to build rehab equip-ment and prosthetics to help athletes or just people in general.”

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A meet like this is one of the very few times in track and field that the team concept comes to mind; you’re not just running to win. You’re running for your team.

—Akinosun, Junior sprinter

Junior sprinter has earned a superlative from track and field head coach Mario Sat-egna. “She’s Texas track’s most versatile athlete” Sategna said.

Akinosun smiles humbly and turns the personal praise into a team tribute.

“It means a lot, but what it really means is that I have his trust,” Akinosun said. “At a meet, practice or even the training room, I will do any-thing to help my team.”

To every question, Akino-sun gives a calculated an-swer, emphasizing the team. After her leg in the winning women’s 4x100m relay at Saturday’s Longhorn Invita-tional, Akinosun was already preparing for the team’s trip

to the Big 12 Championships.“We’ve been putting in the

hard work since September, and now it gets to really be seen,” Akinosun said. “A meet like this is one of the very few times in track and field that the team concept comes to mind; you’re not just running to win. You’re running for your team.”

Akinosun’s original plans had her succeeding next to her sister, Moriyike, as team-mates at the University of Il-linois. But as fate would have it, she left the frigid north for Austin.

“My initial draw to Texas was coach [Tonja Buford]-Bailey. While at Illinois, I de-veloped an amazing relation-ship with her.”

Buford-Bailey, a former

Down 5–1 in the eighth inning against Texas Tech on Sunday, junior left fielder Ben Johnson stood at the plate with a 3–1 count, two outs and the bases loaded.

Two pitches later, John-son was called out on strikes. Both of them could have gone either way to end what started as a promising inning. He was then ejected for arguing with the home plate umpire. He threw his helmet in frus-tration before returning to

the dugout.It’s been that kind of sea-

son for a Longhorn offense that has scored only 226 runs this year — second-worst in the Big 12 conference. With just over two weeks before the Big 12 tournament — a tournament Texas has to win

to ensure a spot in the NCAA tournament — that’s going to have to change quickly, start-ing against Texas State on Tuesday night.

“You always have an op-portunity [to fix things] when you have another game to play; that’s the beauty of

baseball,” head coach Augie Garrido said following the loss on Sunday. “We’ll try again in a different way be-tween now and Tuesday. That is our job.”

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Offensive struggles leads to tough season

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Joshua Guerra | Daily Texan StaffJunior left fielder Ben Johnson walks off the field after being ejected from Sunday’s game against Texas Tech. The left fielder was ejected after arguing balls and strikes after he struck out. Johnson has been successful on offense, while the rest of the team has struggled.

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Class of ’15 sees Texas’ ups and downs

Ethan Oblak | Daily Texan file photoFormer Texas cornerback Quandre Diggs chases TCU’s quarterback Traevon Boykin in the team’s battle against the Horned Frogs last Thanksgiving. Diggs and the Longhorns lost the game and finished their season with a 6–7 record.

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Dalton Venglar | Daily Texan StaffOn the track, junior sprinter Morolake Akinosun has had success in the 100m and 200m dashes and 4x100m and 4x400m relays.

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1973Secretariat wins the 99th Kentucky Derby.

Men’s golf selected as No. 2 overall seed

No. 2 Texas men’s golf was selected as the No. 1 seed in the NCAA Re-gional in Lubbock. The Longhorns are also the No. 2 overall seed. After winning its third-straight Big 12 championship, Texas received the confer-ence’s automatic bid. The Lubbock regional will be held May 14-16.

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Friday marks the final day of classes for those who are graduating in just a few weeks. Since arriving on the 40 Acres as freshmen in Au-gust 2011, the Class of 2015 has seen mixed results for Texas Athletics..

Longhorn Network launched a mere two days after the Class of 2015 be-gan school. The tenures of former football coach Mack Brown and former basket-ball coach Rick Barnes came to a close.

Through it all, there were some triumphs but plenty of struggles. Here are some numbers, dates and stats that define the Class of 2015’s time at the University of Texas.

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In a rural Belizean village, Kathryn Redd, UT’s assis-tant director for prevention and outreach, hoped to find her passion in life.

Unsure of what career to pursue, Redd joined the Peace Corps and went to Belize after graduat-ing from college. She was struck by the strong ties between the people who lived in the village, and during her time there, she bonded with the communi-ty through their struggles and hardships.

“There were a few deaths in the village during my time there,” Redd said. “At one funeral, 500 people came out. They didn’t have much, but they were all so ready to help each other. That really struck me be-cause [Americans are] so reserved in what they go through.”

The support systems the Belizeans had built into their community were vastly differ-ent from what she was familiar with, according to Redd, who said resources and support for wellbeing were sorely lacking in the U.S. In the absence of those resources, Redd finally found her calling.

Once she returned to the U.S., Redd wanted to help facilitate more conversa-tions about mental health, which she said people of-ten avoid. She accepted a position at UT’s Coun-seling and Mental Health Center in an attempt to help college students, who she believed needed more

exposure to information about health issues.

Redd created a group of peer educators — students who meet to discuss im-portant health issues before

leading stress management workshops. Seeing students continually ask for a way to get involved with the CMHC was not only re-warding for Redd but also

proof that conversations about mental health were becoming normalized.

“Our first class of peer educators were the stu-dents who wanted this to

happen,” Redd said. “There’s a growing acceptance of mental illness. It’s some-thing that exists, and people don’t need to be ashamed of getting help.”

Peace Corps trip inspires CMHC worker

By Cat Cardenas@crcardenas8

When Mumford & Sons replaced their suspenders and banjos with leather jack-ets and electric guitars during the Saturday Night Live show on April 11, the “gentlemen of the road” gave fans a taste of their new rock and roll ve-neer. Along with the banjos and accordions, Mumford & Sons locked away their folk vibes in favor of a rock sound for their new album Wilder Mind, released May 4.

The album is part of the band’s attempt to reestab-lish its image. While origi-nal fans may be disappoint-ed the group is turning away from the signature banjo that played a role in its rise to fame, Wilder Mind proves Mumford & Sons holds its own in the rock realm.

The group supplements the tracks with a variety of guitar riffs and drum beats not heard on previous Mumford tracks. In alter-ing their sound, Mumford & Sons displays similarities to other rock groups. They fill songs such as “Believe” with strong atmospherics found in Coldplay tracks and incorporated short, repetitive beats in songs such as “Ditmas” and “Wilder Mind” that re-semble instrumentals from The Strokes.

Despite the changes, Wilder Mind maintains the powerful lyrics and

energy apparent in their previous albums, Sigh No More and Babel. In typical Mumford & Sons fashion, the songs on Wilder Mind start off with soft and slow intros. At the chorus, lead singer Marcus Mumford delivers his explosive vig-or, especially in anthems such as “The Wolf ” and “Just Smoke.”

Their lyrics, which are known for religious and literary references, take a more honest, questioning approach to love and be-lief in Wilder Mind. In past songs such as “Sigh No More,” Mumford croons to the line: “Love, it will not betray you, dismay or enslave you; it will set you free.” In the new song “Only Love,” the band members seem to question the valid-ity of that statement when they sing, “Didn’t they say that only love will win in the end?”

While Mumford repeats the Shakespeare quote “Serve God, love me and mend” in “Sigh No More,” Wilder Mind is filled with skeptical lines, such as “I don’t even know if I be-lieve” in the song “Believe.” The album’s change in per-spective could be because all band members, two of whom had just gotten out of long-term relationships, played a role in writing the lyrics. For past albums, Mumford handled most of the writing.

They continue to evoke

a sense of a new belief system in the song “Cold Arms.” While in “White Blank Page” from their first album, Mumford belts the line: “lead me to the truth, and I will follow you with my whole life,” in “Cold Arms,” with a quiet, re-signed tone, Mumford de-clares: “maybe the truth’s not what we need.” Listen-ers will appreciate the new, bold honesty apparent in these tracks.

A complete and sudden change in image might deter some old fans from listening to the album, but Mumford & Sons cer-tainly caught people’s at-tention with Wilder Mind. Not only was their altera-tion attention-grabbing, it also shows they can suc-ceed without the novelty of jamming on a banjo. Their former image may have been fleeting, but their strong song writing and energy are not going anywhere soon.

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After spending the fall se-mester in her home country, Tanzania, Loyce Gayo, Af-rican and African diaspora studies junior, stuffed her suitcase full of leftover cloth scraps and flew home ready to start a business.

Upon her return to UT for the spring semester, Gayo used the tribal-printed scraps of cloth to create fab-ric button earrings for her jewelry company, Tunda, which means fruit in Kiswa-hili — a language spoken in Tanzania. She said the pieces she sells are a celebration of her heritage.

“Fruits symbolize prosper-ity,” Gayo wrote on her page on Etsy, an online platform for selling handmade goods. “That often comes after hard work. This ideology is what remains central in the pieces I make.”

Gayo spent the first 12 years of her life in Tanza-nia before moving to Hous-ton to live with her mother. When she decided to study abroad, Gayo said Tanzania was an obvious choice. After a semester of independent research in the Tanzanian city Dar es Salaam, Gayo sought out a seamstress in

search of a piece of traditional Tanzanian clothing before leaving the country.

At the seamstress’, Gayo said she noticed a grow-ing heap of cloth scraps in the corner of the room. The scraps were too small for the seamstress to use for cloth-ing and would eventually be thrown away.

“When I saw [the heaps of unused cloth,] I saw an oppor-tunity,“ Gayo said. “I thought, ‘This would be really dope for small jewelry.’”

Inspired by the colorful nature of the fabric, Gayo took the scraps the seamstress intended to toss out, brought them across the Atlantic and started making fabric button earrings at her bedroom desk.

“When I’m making my ear-rings, I just plug in and go at it,” Gayo said. “Everything else is no longer in my peripheral vi-sion. It’s just me and the fabric.”

So far, Gayo has relied on word of mouth to market her products, but Gayo said the overwhelming demand and positive reception has her thinking about expanding Tunda’s customer base. She plans to expand her store on Etsy. From there, Gayo said she wants to add headbands, computer bags, cloth-based shoes and other types of jewelry to her line.

English senior Arati War-rier said she bought a pair of earrings from Gayo because they were affordable and unlike anything she found in stores.

“They are really simple be-cause they are just a circle, but the print on each of them is so different because she gets the fabric from Tanzania,” Warrier said. “Each pair is unique and really adorable.”

Now that Gayo has found success selling her earrings in Austin, she said she needs a way of getting more scraps to continue her business. She intends to create a network of seamstresses in Tanzania to sell her their scraps.

“I want to go back home and show [the seamstresses] that saving these pieces of cloth can be lucrative for them as well,” Gayo said. “I can ac-tually pay [the seamstresses] for giving me the scraps of cloth that they were going to throw away anyway.”

Gayo said she also plans to teach the Tanzanians how to repurpose the fabric to create products.

“There are so many dif-ferent avenues [to solve the issue of wasted cloth],” Gayo said. “It’s just a matter of how I am going to position myself to make this advantageous for everybody involved.”

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Student repurposes fabric to make Tanzanian jewelry

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Joshua Guerra | Daily Texan StaffLoyce Gayo, African and Africa Diaspora Studies junior, started her own jewelry company, Tunda, hosted on Etsy. Gayo uses tribal-printed scraps of cloth to create her fabric button earrings.

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Mumford & Sons released

their new album Wilder Mind on

May 4. The band stripped away

their folk vibes and took on a

more rock and roll sound for

the album.

A complete and sud-den change in image will deter some old fans from listening to the album, but Mumford & Sons certainly caught people’s attention with ‘Wilder Mind.’

Stephanie TacyDaily Texan Staff

Kathryn Redd, UT’s assistant director for prevention and outreach, works to facilitate con-versations about mental health issues. Redd was inspired to pursue this career path after serving in Belize as part of the Peace Corps.