Students, faculty and alumni raised their glasses to toast the departing presi-dent and CEO of the Uni-versity Co-op, George H. Mitchell, on Monday night at an awards ceremony for academic excellence at the undergraduate level.

The 17th Annual Univer-sity Co-op George H. Mitch-ell Student Awards for Aca-demic Excellence honored students who have made

an extraordinary contribu-tion to their fields of study. This year, the congratulatory dinner also honored Mitch-ell’s retirement, including a medley performance by his son Brian Mitchell.

Plan II and English se-nior Nell McKeown won the $10,000 grand prize at the end of the evening. In ad-dition, three $3,000 awards and three $2,000 awards were given.

Michael Hasler, chairman of the Co-op board of direc-tors and senior lecturer in

the department of informa-tion, risk, and operations management, said Mitch-ell’s legacy is not limited to UT.

“He has been in this in-dustry for over 50 years total,” Hasler said. “There’s not a college student in the U.S. in the past cou-ple of decades that hasn’t benefited from him,” said Hasler, program director for the master’s degree in business analytics.

Hasler said giving back

The UT Police Depart-ment addressed safety concerns in collaboration with the Austin Police De-partment, Campus Safety & Security and other com-munity agencies at a town hall meeting on campus Monday afternoon.

The campus safety co-alition meeting, which UT hosts once or twice a year, was pre-scheduled for this date and therefore not reactionary to the re-cent homicide on campus. Speakers addressed par-ents’ concerns about the safety of their students, the difference between the homeless population and

criminal transients, and the importance of students playing an active role in keeping police informed.

Austin Police Chief Art Acevedo said the depart-ment has continued to increase police patrols in West Campus throughout the past several years. He said while the department is working diligently with UTPD to provide more security cameras and foot and bike patrols for the area, students also have a responsibility to help make campus safer.

“The students are our eyes and ears,” Acevedo said. “When they see prob-lems, issues or challenges, they need to report it.”

Instead of monitor-

ing the homeless popula-tion in this area, Acev-edo said the department will be focusing on the criminal transient, whom

he defined as those that happen to be home-less but are engaged in

Starting this summer, all in-coming and transfer students will be required to watch a new video about mental health resources and suicide preven-tion during orientation be-cause of a newly implemented state law.

Senate Bill 1624, which went into effect June 18 last year, requires incoming college students to be informed about mental health and suicide pre-vention. The video was released April 21 by a task force managed by UT and comprised of public and private higher education in-stitutions from across the state.

Mark and Kathleen Walker pro-posed the bill after their son Lee, a UT student, died by suicide in May 2014.

After the University shows the video at orientation, stu-dents will also receive a link to it by email. Current incoming students must complete online alcohol awareness modules and view videos about campus re-sources and safety, but there is no specific required video about mental health.

Chris Brownson, director of the University’s Counsel-ing and Mental Health Center, who led the task force along with the Texas University Counseling Center Director’s

Law enforcement of-ficers within the Texas Department of Public Safety will soon learn how to better interact with individuals living with communication im-pediments during traffic stops, agency officials announced Monday.

The new officer train-ing is part of a wider ini-tiative from several gov-ernmental and nonprofit organizations aiming to raise awareness on how to better communicate with individuals living along the autism spec-trum who may have dif-ficulties interacting with law enforcement.

“We are pleased to of-fer these new training initiatives, which will be powerful tools in enhanc-ing understanding of law enforcement, as well as help prepare and [build] confidence in potential drivers,” said Major Ja-son Hester from the DPS Education, Training and Research Division.

DPS officials an-nounced the new training program at a press confer-ence alongside the Texas Governor’s Committee on People with Disabilities and Aspergers101, a non-profit advocating for indi-viduals living with high-functioning autism and Asperger’s syndrome.

Biology sophomore Shiv Desai, treasurer in UT’s Texas Neurodiver-sity group, said his organi-zation — which advocates for the mental wellbeing of all individuals — has discussed how able-ism forces some autistic

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to the UT community was important to Mitch-ell, especially the projects he supported.

“His vision is to re-ally make donations from the Co-op to UT,” Hasler said. “But beyond the gifts, it’s how [the money has] been given.”

Eve Nicols, textiles and apparel distinguished se-nior lecturer, said Mitch-ell’s generosity allowed the UT Fashion Show to grow from a small student event to a full-scale professional fashion show viewed by 5,000 people.

“His support made the show professional in pro-duction value, quality and design,” Nicols said. “It has launched many careers

for students, and they’ve gone on to work at plac-es like Ralph Lauren and Under Armour.”

When Mitchell observed the students preparing for the fashion show, he realized their work was important, Nicols said.

Hasler said when he took the job, he knew his number one priority would be to find Mitchell’s replacement.

“It’s been the hardest chal-lenge, but I believe we’ve found the right person,” Hasler said.

UT alumna Cheryl Phi-fer, who took over as cur-rent president and CEO of the Co-op, said she liked the idea of profits that benefit the community.

“It’s great to be back and to be doing professional work that gives back,” Phi-fer said. “[Mr. Mitchell]

has left a strong founda-tion, so the question is how can we take this and make it a lab for students to enhance their academic experience further.”

criminal activity. UTPD Chief David

Carter said officers started hearing anecdotes from students, faculty and staff in 2014 of a perceived in-crease in the number of transients along Guada-lupe Street. However, this did not match department data for the area because there was a lack of official reports of suspicious activ-ity, Carter said.

Carter said officers are

strategically placed in ar-eas statistically shown to have higher crime rates and that a lack of reporting prevents the police from making the best use of their resources. He encour-aged students to call 911 if a dangerous or threatening situation arises.

Jennifer Comstock, parent of a UT student, started a private coalition called SafeHorns, which comprises UT parents. Comstock said the group is committed to improv-ing safety and security

for students, faculty, staff and visitors.

In addition to advo-cating for more security measures, such as limiting building access to the pub-lic and adding more light-ing and cameras, Comstock said students need an alter-native method of reporting incidents other than call-ing 911, such as an app.

“As much as [the police departments] say it, I really do not think they’re going to be able to transition a group of students who have grown up their whole lives

understanding that 911 is for extreme emergencies,” Comstock said.

Bob Harkins, associate vice president of Cam-pus Safety & Security, said students are not us-ing services such as SURE Walk or UTPD vans. He said DPS troopers re-ported students walking alone at night and failing to pay attention to their surroundings shortly after the homicide.

Colton Becker, nutri-tional science sophomore and Student Government

member, said he thinks students resist taking ad-vantage of these resources because of the culture at the University.

“I think we need to find innovative approach-es to implement SURE Walk around campus,” Becker said.

Becker said he has plans to make students more aware of these types of services by starting a UT safety campaign with face-to-face interaction, similar to the Not On My Campus initiative.

individuals to conform to the environment around them in uncomfortable situations.

The new officer trainings will combat this problem by teaching officers how to in-teract with autistic individu-als rather than forcing them to conform to a mold they do not fit in, Desai said.

“If [someone] gets pulled over by an officer and [they’re] avoiding eye con-tact, that could be seen as suspicious,” Desai said. “We want to fight that. We want to say that a lot of these in-dividuals communicate dif-ferently, and just because they communicate different-ly doesn’t mean they don’t want to be there or they don’t want to talk.”

While officials work to better train officers, the DPS is trying to spread aware-ness that individuals diag-nosed with certain medi-cal conditions — such as autism spectrum disorders, stuttering or hearing impair-ment — have the option to request that a communica-tion impediment notice be placed on their driver’s li-cense or another form of state identification.

This voluntary designa-tion informs officers of an individual’s communication impediment when officers request a license and regis-tration during traffic stops, Aspergers101 CEO Jennifer Allen said.

“You don’t have to put this on your driver’s license if you have autism; it’s if you want to,” Allen, whose son

lives with Asperger’s, said. “Many times, this is very often the reason many peo-ple don’t drive — because they are very frightened of what could be misconstrued communication when being pulled over by law enforce-ment officers.”

DPS officials are also working alongside Asperg-

ers101 in setting up sum-mer camps that aim to teach individuals living along the autism spectrum how to bet-ter communicate with law enforcement officers during stops and other interactions. The camps, as well as the overall new initiative, are expected to be completed and in effect later this year,

officials said.“Like my son said at the

press conference, he feels safer just having a safety net,” Allen said. “I am so proud of all these gentle-men who have made this happen for our citizens and just coming in at the end of Autism Awareness Month, I just think it’s great.”

Association, said the video is es-sential because students should have some basic knowledge on the early signs of mental health issues or suicidal thoughts.

“Giving people the tools to know how to deal with those situations and what resources are available on campus can save a life,” Brownson said.

TUCCDA president-elect Andrew Miller said the video emphasizes a bystander inter-vention approach, encourag-ing students to notice early signs of mental health issues or thoughts of suicide in their peers and report this right away. This approach will be more effective when dealing with people who have men-tal health issues because stu-dents find it easier to relate to their peers than professionals, Miller said.

“So the idea to use students to deliver that message makes it

more likely that the individuals we’re targeting will hear about the information and pass it on,” Miller said.

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Salim Memon, who knows a college student who died by suicide, said the video teaches students how to deal with this sensitive topic.

“It gives them the idea that they can reach out to an advisor or other students who they’re close to,” Memon said. “It gives tips on how to approach it as

well, which is ideally very im-portant because students nor-mally can be confused as to how to approach a delicate situ-ation such as this.”

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I’ll start my advice with how you should start your day: breakfast. Several studies show that breakfast improves short-term memory and alert-ness, according to the journal Medicine. You also won’t have a growling stomach in the qui-et library, which might distract you and your study buddies.

Breakfast is important, but you can’t consume just any-thing. Scientists have found that whole grains are positive-ly associated with test scores in elementary-aged students, whereas juices lead to lower scores, according to an article in the Journal of the Ameri-can College of Nutrition. And let’s be honest — we’re not that different than elementary students. Oatmeal or whole wheat toast are good options — pass on the OJ.

Even if you’re not studying for biochemistry, take some time to think about omega-3 fatty acids. These essential fats not only sound intelligent, but they also play a role in brain activity. DHA, a certain type

of omega-3, is highly concen-trated in the brain, according to the Journal of Biomedical Science. DHA helps create synapses, transmit messages between neurons and aid in learning processes.

A study found that omega-3 fatty acid consumption in stu-dents from ages six to 16 was positively related to cogni-tive performance, according to Frontiers in Evolutionary Neuroscience. This same pa-per suggests that the high in-take of omega-3 fatty acids in Eastern countries could attri-bute to their higher scores in international testing.

DHA is mostly found in fatty fish, such as salmon and mackerel, but your friends would probably prefer you eat it outside of the lecture hall. Algae is another source — the seaweed wrapped around sushi counts! Talk to a doctor or registered dietitian before taking supplements.

If surf and turf isn’t your thing, think about incor-porating more blueberries, blackberries and strawberries in your diet. A study pub-lished in the British Journal of Nutrition showed that a berry-supplemented diet im-proves working memory and the growth and development of nervous tissue. Now that’s berry cool!

Knowing which foods to steer clear of can be just as beneficial. Say no to saturated fats and sugar — rodents that received high-sugar and high-saturated fat diets scored low-er on memory and retention tests than those that received a low-fat, complex-carbo-hydrate based diet, accord-ing to a study published in

Physiology & Behavior. Pizza and cheese are the

largest saturated fat sources in America, according to the Harvard School of Public Health. Like anything else, these foods are fine in mod-eration, but consider other options before ordering a

late-night pizza delivery to the PCL.

My final word of wis-dom: Stay away from energy drinks. You may be buzzed for an hour or so, but the sugar will zap your energy in the long run. The high sugar content in many en-

ergy drinks also increases the risk for obesity and Type 2 diabetes, according to the In-ternational Journal of Health Sciences. The even larger con-cern is the stress put on your heart — excessive energy drink consumption has been associated with chest pain,

increased heart rate and ir-regular heartbeat, according to the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners.

Study smarter, not harder — fueling your brain is cru-cial for finals. Study up on these foods, and you may just score yourself an A.

officials said.“Like my son said at the

press conference, he feels safer just having a safety net,” Allen said. “I am so proud of all these gentle-men who have made this happen for our citizens and just coming in at the end of Autism Awareness Month, I just think it’s great.”

The Texas Federalist So-ciety and the Strauss Center hosted a debate Monday to explore the balance be-tween privacy and security.

The event’s title, “FBI vs. Apple”, was derived from a federal case filed in Febru-ary, in which the FBI peti-tioned the central Califor-nia district court for Apple’s help in unlocking an iPhone used by a perpetrator of the mass shooting that occurred in San Bernardino, Califor-nia, last December. Com-plying would compromise security for all their users and set “a dangerous prec-edent,” Apple said. The FBI dropped the case on March 28 when an anonymous third party came forward and helped the FBI get into the phone.

The debate was moder-ated by Robert Chesney, associate dean for academic affairs for the UT School of Law. Julian Sanchez of the Cato Institute, who repre-sented Apple’s side, said requiring developers, such as Apple, to create a flaw in the encryption of their devices that is exploitable to law enforcement could be dangerous.

“If governments get to force developers to em-ploy their keys this way,

we’re really living in a world where none of our devices are truly secure,” Sanchez said.

Representing the FBI’s side, Susan Hennessey, managing editor of the Lawfare blog, said the gov-ernment shouldn’t abstain from imposing its authority on issues of encryption and that it would be unwise to “outsource” compliance to Silicon Valley firms.

“When law enforcement is armed with legal process — we’ve all decided — they get to see something, and they get to do it in or-der to investigate crimes, to bring people to justice,” Hennessey said.

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ance of the debate. “I really appreciated how

neither side was overly pas-sionate about their stance, more that they were taking a neutral view and con-ceding to the other side,” Tellez said.

Hennessey said the gov-ernment doesn’t have a great track record with technology issues and that any legislation created to address the matter needs to be competent and ac-commodating of the type of technologies used to facilitate secure trans-actions on websites or protect customers.

“It can’t possibly be as simple as just, ‘figure it out,’ or banning end-to-end encryption, or adopting these kind of broad man-dates,” Hennessey said.

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Lately, there has been a lot of debate sur-rounding abolishing a practice that is in-grained in the service industry — tipping. In order for this plan to work, employers must raise server’s wages to match what they currently make. But getting there can be problematic.

Anyone in the restaurant industry is all too familiar with the grueling hours spent on the floor but also with the substantial compensation those hours bring. A server that rings up at least $1,200 in sales during eight hours should be making $200 to $250 in tips — that’s close to $32 per hour. While not every server will ring that much in sales, they can still make some serious money.

Employers won’t match that if they were to get rid of tipping at their restaurants and raise server’s hourly wage to a “liv-ing wage.” Anyone who has been follow-ing the debacle around California raising its minimum wage would know that it is easier said than done.

Texas has a minimum wage set at $7.25 per hour, but for servers the wage is set at a low $2.13

per hour. Every waiter, myself included, has received a voided check on payday be-cause those two dollars pay the taxes on their tips.

By not matching what waiters are cur-rently making, employers will have them taking a pay cut. Say the wage is increased to $15 per hour — what an entry-level job would pay — why would a server stick around? If you’re going to take a pay cut, it should be to move on to a company that has room for growth, not one that will

have you running your butt off during eight-hour shifts.

If restaurant owners want to be “fair” and help their em-ployees make a “living wage,” then they should raise the minimum wage for servers while also allowing them to keep tips. Outlawing tips to-morrow means that prices for food will go up 18–20 percent to account for increased wag-es. That’s not going to sit well with patrons.

Contrary to popular be-lief, many of the people tak-ing your orders and deliver-ing your drinks are not career servers. Many of them work these jobs because it allows them the time off to pursue their dreams of becoming nurses, lawyers, etc.

Abolishing the practice of tipping in Texas does not make sense when the mini-mum wage for servers is

set so low. Instead of taking away server’s hard-earned tips, businesses should let

the tipping stay while also increasing their hourly wages.

Suazo is an international re-lations and global studies junior

from Honduras.

There were 372 mass shootings in the United States in 2015 — more shootings than days in the entire year. Texas’ cam-pus carry bill disrespects the great num-ber of people who are killed in shootings annually, 475 in the last year. The bill will make carrying a gun more accessible on campus, blatantly ignoring how this could increase the already high anxiety levels on campus. UT must be held accountable for the policies it intends on implement-ing with regards to campus carry should something go wrong.

Mass shootings are not a new phenom-enon. In 2012, 28 people were killed in Newtown, Connecticut at Sandy Hook Elementary School, when Adam Lanza brutally murdered 6- and 7-year-old children and their teachers for unknown reasons. The parents of these children are, rightfully, seeking justice for this atrocity. In their search for accountabil-ity, they are looking beyond the shooter to the gun manufacturer.

Gun manufacturers are shielded from liability for illegal actions involving their guns by the 2005 Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act. The argument is that as far as they are concerned, all guns are legally obtained, and will be used for their intended purposes. The proposed Gun Dealer Accountability Act would

take away some of that freedom and re-quire stores that tend to put guns in the wrong hands, directly or indirectly, be subject to more inspections and scrutiny.

The problem is that we have seen time and time again that this is not the case. Less than 10 percent of murders are com-mitted with legally obtained guns. Gun manufacturers know this, and take ad-vantage of it anyway. The gun Lanza used was obtained from his mother; he was not licensed to use it.

The parents of Sandy Hook victims are suing the gun manufacturer, arguing that gun manufacturers and gun dealers have been negligent in ensuring the safe and legal use of their guns. Furthermore, they are claiming that the gun manufac-turer took a gun originally for military use and “peddled it to the civilian mar-ket,” according to CNN. They did so in

order to make money and not for the good of society.

As Gregory Fenves recently finalized campus policies regarding campus car-ry, he stated concerns about faculty and student recruitment and retention. This is understandable, especially in light of the recent high profile departure of Fritz Steiner, the dean of the School of Architec-ture. As of now, there is no plan of action as to who will be held accountable should these campus carry policies go awry.

While the intentions of protection

seem sound, they are unrealistic. We are in a high-pressure environment, and one in which guns are rarely used for good. Ultimately, the accountability standard has not been established. If this case re-verses precedent, the makers of the policy should be held accountable for any mis-use of the campus carry policies. Because the University and state government are enabling the ownership of guns on cam-pus, they must also accept responsibility.

Kashar is an English freshman from Westchester, New York.

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Tipping workers is unfair, uneven, should be abolished

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Gun manufacturers are shielded from liability for illegal actions involving their guns by the 2005 Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act. The argument is that as far as they are concerned, all guns are legally obtained, and will be used for their intended purposes.

Americans give $42 billion — twice the bud-get of NASA — in tips to waiters, valets, barbers, caddies and many others every year. But this money spent in the name of quality service ac-tually hurts business, employees and customers.

Ominously, the history of tipping in the Unit-ed States starts with slavery. As the Civil War ended, wealthy Americans traveling Europe brought the practice of tipping home to avoid paying wages to the newly liberated slaves. The public viewed this as un-democratic and anti-American, and six states eventually passed (but later repealed) anti-tipping laws.

Ironically, the anti-tipping movement took root in Europe and Asia, where tipping is virtu-ally nonexistent today. But in the United States, tipping became so ingrained that now our ser-vice professionals cannot survive without it.

Once the option to reward good ser-vice, tipping is now the obligation to main-tain a server’s livelihood. Forty-two states pay tipped employees less than the federal minimum wage, expecting them to recoup the difference in tips. Of these, Texas and 19 other states only guarantee $2.13 an hour. Almost 15 percent of waitstaff live in poverty, compared to 7 percent for other jobs. Their life-line is the fickle generosity of cus-tomers, who, ironically, determine an employee’s financial fate more than their employers — without oversight or regulation.

The results are hardly fair.“Blondes get better tips than

brunettes. Slender women get bet-ter tips than heavier women. Large breasted women get better tips than smaller breasted women,” said Michael Lynn, a professor at the Cornell School of Hotel Ad-ministration and national leader in tipping research. One of Lynn’s studies also shows non-white servers are tipped 56 percent less than their white coworkers.

The way we tip doesn’t encour-age quality service like we think it does. We tip a percentage of our total bill, regardless of the amount of actual work performed — the effort to open a $150 bottle of wine and a $30 bottle is the same, but the for-mer will land a much bigger tip. In fact, Lynn found that only 4 percent of tip size is determined by the quality of service the customer received.

Tipping is also linked to crime. Countries with a higher prevalence of tipping also tend to have higher rates of corruption, according to a Harvard study, and the IRS states that 40 to 50

percent of tips to waiters go unreported as tax-able income — $10 billion in lost tax revenue.

Recently, some restaurateurs have forbidden tipping in their establishments, and the results are intriguing. One no-tip restaurant in San Di-ego that implemented a flat 18 percent service charge reported its servers make more under the new system, and income is more fairly dis-tributed to those not normally tipped but just as responsible for the customer’s experience, such as cooks.

A service charge incentivizes employees to provide quality service just like tipping does but without the possibility of discrimination. Regu-lating the gratuity process also reduces the odds of employee tax evasion and ends the awkward-ness and indecision many customers experience when tipping.

The transition to a tipless society will not be easy, but the livelihoods of the millions of people working tippable jobs in our country are at stake. Many establishments have tried and failed to eliminate tips — but because of poor execution, not a flaw in the concept. Many establishments also suffered temporarily when they banned smoking, too.

After dedicating decades of his life to studying tipping, Lynn was clear — “I would outlaw it.”

Schmidt is a physics and aerospace engineering sophomore from Austin.

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Employers won’t match that if they were to get rid of tipping at their restaurants and raise server’s hourly wage to a “living wage.” Anyone who has been following the debacle around California raising its minimum wage would know that it is easier said than done.

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the Oklahoma State series and that the sophomores on the staff will be ready to produce if they’re called on.

“We work well together,”

von Sprecken said. “Coach Clark has said many times that it takes a village, and we prove that.”

Clark has praised her team for being deep throughout the roster, and that quality will be leaned upon as Texas looks to finish the season strong.

works]. It doesn’t mean he’s correct or that he’s disprov-en the idea.”

Further analysis in “The Book” suggests that in a situation when offense is at a premium, the differ-ence between a runner at first with no out and a run-ner at second with one out is less exaggerated, though still against the idea of sacrifice bunting.

Fewer home runs, an ef-fect exacerbated by the vast confines of Disch-Falk Field, mean that college teams need to rely more heavily on balls in play to score runs.

“We don’t have guys that are going to hit double af-ter double, home run after home run,” junior third baseman Tres Barrera said. “We know our game, and I know if we stay within our game we’re going to be productive.”

Home runs, Garrido ad-mits, are the easiest way to more runs. But when the long ball is not an available option, coaches like Garrido prefer to get creative with their offense.

“The more important the game, the more [defensive errors] happen,” Garrido said. “That ball gets clum-sier to handle, so let’s get it in play.”

Garrido’s penchant for bunting with the top of his order, though, is the ex-act kind of situation that Major League statistics frown upon.

A sacrifice surrenders an out, and at the top of the lineup, that means Texas’ best hitters lose opportuni-ties to move a runner over with a base hit. The advice of Major League number crunchers has made the non-pitcher sacrifice bunt quite a rarity.

At the same time, most teams still prefer to have a baseball lifer like Gar-rido, and not a statisti-cian, making the calls from the dugout.

“I love the modern em-phasis, but it’s always going to be an aid,” Mauk said. “It’s never going to be the final answer because there’s al-ways a way to beat it. I like the fact that math helps. I also like the fact that it doesn’t turn the game into a robot.”

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LONGHORNS IN THE NBA

Aldridge, Durant set for Western semifinal bout

The first matchup of the second round of the NBA Playoffs is set — a showdown between former Longhorns.

2016 All-Stars Kevin Durant and LaMarcus Al-dridge will clash in a best-of-seven series to be held in San Antonio.

Durant and the Oklahoma City Thunder cruised through the first round of the playoffs, defeating the Dallas Maver-icks in five games, by a total point differential of 93 points. In the series, Durant averaged a team-high 26 points per game, complemented with 6.4 rebounds per game. Not everything went smoothly for Durant, who was ejected in the series’ fourth game for a flagrant foul on Mavericks rookie Justin Anderson.

LaMarcus Aldridge, in his first playoff series with the San Antonio Spurs, domi-nated the Memphis Grizzlies. Aldridge scored 58 points in the four games and snagged in a team-high 32 rebounds to

win his second playoff series of his 10-year career. Because the Spurs won by an average of 22 points per game over Memphis, Aldridge received substantial amount of rest in the series, allowing his dislo-cated finger to heal during the long playoff push.

The No. 2 seed Spurs hold home-court advantage over the No. 3 seed Thunder in a series between annual Western Conference heavy-weights. This will be the third meeting in five years between the Thunder and Spurs in the playoffs but the first postsea-son matchup between Durant and Aldridge.

During the 2015–16 regu-lar season, Aldridge’s Spurs and Durant’s Thunder each claimed one victory from the two occasions they collided. Aldridge’s floor spacing is one of the Spurs major advantages in this matchup. This could lure Oklahoma City’s big men out of the paint to defend the high post.

To counter San Antonio’s attack, the high-ball screen to Durant has become a focal point for the Thunder, provid-ing Durant the option to pul-lup for a 10-14 foot jumper (54.7 percent this season) or drive into the paint, utilizing his 6-foot-11-inch frame as a weapon against defenses.

When the series concludes, only one Longhorn will be re-maining in the West, closer to his first championship.

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For much of the season, the Longhorns lineup looked dead. Following a 3-2 loss to Houston on April 12, Texas ranked seventh in the Big 12 in batting average, RBIs and runs. The Longhorns were ad-ditionally shut out three times and failed to muster over two runs in six other contests.

The lack of run support had the Longhorns dejected.

“We’re just in a hole, and we have to get out,” junior first baseman Kacy Clemens said after Texas’ 5-0 loss to Texas A&M-Corpus Christi on April 5. “It seems like ev-erything that could go wrong has gone wrong.”

But the despair that sur-rounded the Longhorns for much of the season has now turned to optimism after an offensive explosion over the past week. Texas has won five of its last six games, av-eraging a staggering 9.5 runs per game.

“We’ve been more patient at the plate and maintained our aggressiveness,” head coach Augie Garrido told 104.9 The Horn following Sunday’s 17-1 beatdown of Texas Tech. “We’re not swinging at balls outside the strike-zone, and

it’s forcing [the pitcher] into giving us better pitches to hit.”

Key to the offensive im-provement has been the top of Texas attack. Sophomore out-fielder Travis Jones has settled into his role in the leadoff po-sition, hitting an average .380 in his last six games in addi-tion to scoring seven runs.

The Longhorns have devi-ated from the tenants of Augie ball over the last week, instead relying on extra-base hits to

fuel their lineup. And while the bunt is still an integral part of Garrido’s strategy, the Longhorns scored 12 of their 17 runs on Sunday via extra base hits, including seven through the long ball.

The surplus of run support has also aided Texas’ pitching staff. After giving up 13 unan-swered runs on Friday night’s 13-6 loss, the Longhorns gave up just five runs in their next two games. Sophomore right

hander Kyle Johnston noted the lack of pressure Texas’ staff feels when the lineup gets going.

“We don’t have to put it all on ourselves,” Johnston said. “We can just focus on pound-ing the zone, throwing strikes and know the offense will be there for us.”

Heading into Tuesday night’s contest with Texas State at UFCU Disch-Falk Field, the Longhorns sit at

19–21, 9–6 Big 12. Texas cur-rently sits at fourth place in the conference, trailing the Red Raiders by three games.

With 12 matchups left in the regular season slate — including nine against Big 12 opponents — there is still ample time for the Long-horns to climb the standings. But if they want to dethrone Tech and perennial power TCU, their bats will need to stay hot.

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Adding up the “Augie Ball” strategySIDELINE

According to Texas head coach Augie Garrido, the sac-rifice bunt is a key element in his NCAA record 1,969 career victories.

According to major league baseball statistics, however, the sacrifice bunt is an un-successful anachronism that ought to be avoided in most situations.

In one of the best respected sources for baseball analyt-ics titled, “The Book: Play-ing the Percentages in Base-ball,” data compiled from Major League games from 2000–2004 suggests that in a situation with one runner on first and no outs yields .906 expected runs. A runner on second and one out, the situ-ation found after a success-ful sacrifice bunt, yields .700 expected runs.

“The idea is when you bunt, you’re decreasing your chances of having a big in-ning,” said Michael Mauk, a professor of neuroscience and teacher of a Dean’s Scholar’s seminar about baseball ana-lytics at the University. “You might increase your likeli-hood of scoring a run this in-ning, but you decrease your overall run expectancy for the

game because you’re basically sacrificing the possibility of a big inning.”

So why then does Garrido often tell his best hitters to bunt even early in the game?

“Because I didn’t fol-

low the [famous baseball statistician] Bill James nu-merical system,” Garrido said. “The margin for error and the speed of the game at the ma-jor league level is completely different than it is here.”

Were Garrido a Major League manager, the numbers say he would indeed be cost-ing his team runs. But the dif-ferences in the college game may indeed be swinging the balance in favor of bunting.

“There’s more home runs hit in a major league game; there are fewer errors made,” Mauk said. “It means we don’t know [whether Augie Ball

Rachel Zein | Daily Texan StaffTexas head coach Augie Garrido has accrued an NCAA record 1,969 career wins, but his taste for sacrifice bunts is the sub-ject of much debate among statisticians.

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Outfielder Travis Jones has thrived in the leadoff spot. The sophomore has hit at a .380 clip over his last six games and been a consistent pro-ducer at the top of the order.

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Texas looking to boost RPI in final games

As the regular season winds down, every game remaining on Texas’ schedule is crucial to its postseason hopes.

The Longhorns are current-ly ranked fourth in the Big 12 following their series sweep of Oklahoma State and will likely end the season in third. Okla-homa is the heavy favorite to win a fifth-straight conference championship and clinch the automatic tournament bid.

“With OU being so far out in front right now, it comes down to RPI,” head coach Connie Clark said. “As we get down the stretch, every win matters, so we have to come out and really take care of business.”

Texas is No. 32 in the NCAA RPI rankings, which is based

on a team’s strength of sched-ule and its record at home, on the road and at neutral sites. The Longhorns can boost that standing — and their potential seeding in the postseason — if they sweep their last two con-ference series against Kansas and Iowa State, which is defi-nitely possible.

A pair of Wednesday games against Texas Southern and North Texas will give the Longhorns a chance to fine-tune their play and cushion their record. Arguably the toughest contest remaining is the season finale against Baylor, which won the first two games of the series back in March.

More consistent offensive production and better control in the pitching circle will be key factors in Texas’ ability to win out.

Offensively, junior short-stop Devon Tunning hasn’t been up to par at the plate. She led the Longhorns in batting average and on-base percentage in 2015 but is hit-ting just .230 this season, and her struggles to get on base have moved her from the lead-off spot to the six hole in the lineup.

“[Devon’s] been working through some things,” Clark said. “Hitting well is about confidence, so we have to get her confidence back. We’ve been working during the week to do that, so we’ll just have to stay at it because we really need it.”

Fortunately for Texas, sophomore pitcher Paige von Sprecken has proved to be an offensive weapon. She cur-rently boasts a .480 batting average, and her 14 RBIs are

fourth-best on the team. Von Sprecken has a knack for de-livering big hits when Texas needs them most, and Clark has rewarded her with more plate appearances.

In the circle, von Sprecken

and the rest of the Longhorn staff are still issuing too many free passes. Clark said that Davis was struggling through some physical things during

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Joe Baker takes home conference honors

Joe Baker’s successful weekend was enough for the sophomore shortstop to earn the Big 12 Play-er of the Week honors on Monday.

Baker swung the bat at a .467 clip and scored six runs in a productive week for the Longhorns. Bak-er’s strong week helped give Texas a crucial se-ries victory on the road at conference leading Texas Tech and a Tuesday win over UT Rio-Grande Val-ley, good for a 3–1 record over the week.

Baker’s week was high-lighted by a career day at the plate in Sunday’s 17-1 drubbing of the Red Raiders. The sopho-more notched a career-high four hits and six RBI. He also added three extra base hits includ-ing a pair of doubles and his first home run of the 2016 campaign.

Since returning from an injury earlier this month, Baker’s pres-ence has helped reju-venate a Texas offense that had previously been the weak spot of the 2016 Longhorns.

Baker’s conference honor is the first of the sophomore’s career and the third for the Long-horns this season after Ty Culbreth and Tres Bar-rera received conference Pitcher and Player of the Week respectively.

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Joshua Guerra | Daily Texan StaffSophomore pitcher Paige von Sprecken’s arm, as well as her bat, could be important catalysts in Texas’ run to the postseason.

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Over the past 15 years, Mi-chelle Rivera helps hundreds of students passing through UT’s Counseling and Mental Health Center keep their appointments, prescriptions and paperwork straight — honing her skills as an organizational queen.

As the assistant supervisor of the front desk and referral office in the CMHC, Rivera coordinates groups and ap-pointments for counselors and the CMHC’s clinical director. Midway through her college ca-reer at UT, Rivera started work-ing for the University, first as work-study and later in various positions to pay for her living expenses and education.

Outside of work, Rivera spent much of her time back home, helping her father, who was not a U.S. citizen, fight a

deportation suit that began in 2007. For six years, Rivera went to every court meeting, trans-lated his Spanish to English and collaborated with lawyers to keep her father in the U.S.

Rivera saw this as an opportunity to repay her

father for all of the op-portunities he provided for her. Finding work as a welder, her father moved to the United States to join her mother so Rivera could receive citizenship and a college education.

“When you see something you have to fight for, you do it,” Rivera said. “It consumed a big part of my youth, but it was worth it.”

Rivera, who was a first-gen-eration college student, said once she realized that going to

college was an option in the ninth grade, UT became her dream school.

Rivera was often over-whelmed by the responsibilities involved with her financial aid as a student, and she said secre-taries at the Dean’s office helped

her stay on track. The most ful-filling part of her job, she said, is providing similar services and opportunities to students, and “paying it forward.”

“I’ve spent most of my lifetime here,” Rivera said. “[It’s] home.”

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Michelle Rivera, employee at the Counseling and Mental Health Center, has helped hundreds of students who have come to the Center for a myriad of reasons. During her time as a UT student, financial aid secretaries helped her stay on track, so she enjoys “paying it forward” to students now.

Pink Flag — WirePossibly the most original al-bum to come out of the initial wave of British punk, Pink Flag sounds like punk went to art school and refined itself down to its core, forgoing the predictability of groups such as the Ramones for oversim-plified chord progressions and a strong message.

In under 36 minutes, Wire cranked out 21 songs full of dissident sounds and interplay between instru-ments. Lead singer Colin Newman can be hard to make out at times because of the strain on his vocals, but his abstract lyrical delivery ties into the album’s sound perfectly, creating a concen-trated impact with such a small number of notes.

Considering how minimal this album is, Wire manages

to cram in a vast range of sounds, transitioning from its signature slow and haunt-ing guitars to power pop and even hardcore vocal rants from track to track. Wire’s influence can be seen in Brit-ish punk, directing the genre down a path with more dy-namic and simpler sounds for the better.

Tracks to listen to: “Ex Lion Tamer,” “Mannequin,” “1 2 X U”

Out of Step — Minor ThreatSometimes all it takes is one album to make a band the stuff of legends, and in Minor Threat’s case, Out of Step did exactly that.

Providing a blueprint for future hardcore punk bands, Minor Threat emerged from the Wash-ington D.C. scene as a pioneer in the DIY style, marketing, distributing and promoting its music on its

own. Minor Threat actually started the straight edge movement, a trend that centered around the avoid-ance of drug and alcohol abuse, withing punk, with their song “Straight Edge” at the heart of the crusade.

These nine songs made a massive impact, discussing personal and social politics

with a fiery revivalist sound few bands could match. Their songs were as straight-forward as they were impact-ful, poking fun at everything, including the band’s own im-age and the looming worries of modern society.

Tracks to listen to: “Be-tray,” “Look Back and Laugh,” “No Reason”

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Courtesy of Phil SharpPunk band Wire changed the future of British punk rock with the release of their album Pink Flag.

To ensure his parents wouldn’t get mad about his two forearm tattoos, philoso-phy senior Bradley Byrom dedicated his new ink to them for their anniversary.

“My dad collected elephant figurines all throughout my

childhood, and my mom did the same thing with turtles, so I incorporated that into the tat-toos,” Byrom said.

Byrom said his plan worked, and his parents reacted posi-tively to his tattoos.

“They loved it. They even encouraged me to get more and thought about getting their own,” Byrom said.

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Editor’s note: Tat-Tuesday is a weekly series that fea-tures students around campus and their tattoos. Check

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“Star Fox Zero” could eas-ily be confused as a modern remake of 1997 classic, “Star Fox 64.” The game features the same antagonist, locations, bosses and cheesy dialogue the original did, making the se-quel a nostalgic experience but not one worth the long wait.

“Star Fox Zero” can be bold — just not in the way fans might have been hoping for. Taking a risk by imple-menting a nontraditional control scheme, Nintendo developed the game with the Wii U’s unique hardware in mind. Utilizing the Wii U GamePad’s second screen as a first-person cockpit view, the new control scheme radi-cally changes how the game is played. In theory, this combi-nation of merging the third-person view with a first-per-son GamePad would create a highly immersive and precise control scheme, but the con-trols are tolerable at best.

This unconventional control

scheme works well for some segments of the game. During the on-the-rails parts, when controlling your Arwing’s movements is less demand-ing, using the GamePad to shoot adds a level of precision to combat that just didn’t exist in the previous games. Rather than having to align your ship to move your line of fire, play-ers can utilize the GamePad’s gyroscope to aim anywhere in their field of view.

This quickly becomes a double-edged sword when en-tering off-rail segments, where players have to split their focus between the TV and Game-Pad to properly play. While the controls are never so clunky that the game becomes unplayable, they never feel as natural or comfortable as they did in “Star Fox 64.” Nintendo should have poured more time into making “Zero” distinct from its predecessors rather than playing around with an already solid control scheme.

However, even when the player gets to a point where they can look past the

controls, they are likely to be disappointed with what they find. New mid-game trans-formations have been added, letting players switch piloting from an Arwing to a walking ship, but none of these trans-formations do an adequate job distinguishing them-selves. These transformations seem to have been imple-mented solely for the purpose of doing something different with little thought on how to shake up the series’ gameplay in a fresh, exciting way.

Another new feature in the game is a hovercraft used in stealth segments of the games. There is little to say about the hovercraft segments other than they are highly tedious and seem like they were placed in the game purely to showcase the Wii U’s gyroscope. They are mundane and slow, which

is out of place for a game about fast, extreme combat.

The game’s best aspects come from its aesthetic de-sign, which is cohesive and boasts sophisticated visuals that range from the vast void of space to futuristic cities with cyan skies. The art ele-

ments of “Zero” echo the lasers, radiant stars and ex-plosions seen in “Star Wars” films. The sound effects and grand musical score blend to-gether to immerse the player in epic space combat, height-ening the impact of the game’s more dramatic moments.

“Star Fox Zero” is an uneven tech demo crafted to showcase the hardware of a console that is already at the end of its life. Even with its clumsy, unnecessary control features out of the picture, the game simply doesn’t live up to its beloved predecessors.

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Courtesy of Nintendo‘Star Fox Zero’ is stunted by its awkward control scheme and uninspired gameplay that simply pales in comparison to its predecessors.

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