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Alumna backs online sexual assault reporting

UT alumna Tara DeMar-co launched a petition on change.org on June 8, call-ing on Chancellor William McRaven to implement an online reporting system for campus sexual assaults.

DeMarco, a sexual as-sault survivor, encourages the chancellor to imple-ment Callisto, an online reporting system for sexual assaults on college cam-puses, through her petition. The petition has gathered

over 1,500 signatures. De-Marco also published an open letter to football head coach Charlie Strong on burntorangenation.com, asking that he not allow football players accused of sexual assault to play in games. The petition even caught the attention of foot-ball player Malik Jefferson, who retweeted it.

Callisto, founded by Jes-sica Ladd, enables victims to report their assault on-line before informing a po-lice officer, preserving their statement in a secure, dated

document. The program also provides the option to keep a victim’s report sealed until someone else reports the same assaulter, at which point the victims would be able to see that they were not the only ones victimized by that individual.

Although she was as-saulted in 2013, after she had graduated from UT, DeMarco felt the need to speak up now about what happened because she felt Callisto could help assault survivors who don’t know how or when to report the incident.

“When I saw Jessica Ladd’s TED Talk [about Callisto], it seemed like an obvious, easy-to-under-stand solution that people could get behind — a con-crete step rather than more vague conversations around (still much needed) research and consent training,” DeMarco said in an email.

Since the petition was launched, Chancellor McRa-ven and DeMarco have met.

DeMarco said McRaven emphasized his own desire to prevent sexual assault on campus through a four-year research study, Cultivating Learning and Safe Environ-ments (CLASE), conducted by the UT System.

CLASE analyzes sexual assault, dating violence, sex-ual harassment and stalking crimes at 13 campuses in the UT System, according to research associate Leila Wood, who is working on the study.

Wood said there is no single reason why sexual as-saults occur on college cam-puses but that it is a mixture of multiple factors, such as being in a new environ-ment or becoming older and more social. She also said that although society is gen-erally more aware of what sexual assault is, identifying it still remains a problem for some people.

“Middle schools, high schools are talking more about sexual assault and how to recognize it, but

those conversations are still not happening as regularly as they need to be so that people can identify some of the behaviors that are asso-ciated with somebody who is going to be perpetrating a sexual assault,” Wood said.

Title IX Coordinator Latoya Smith said the Uni-versity created its own on-line reporting form this academic year based on Cal-listo. Smith said the original reporting system could not be used because “there’s a lot of information that’s being housed that the Uni-versity doesn’t own,” such as Facebook login informa-tion through the program’s matching feature, which al-lows assault victims to see if the assailant was reported before by another victim.

“However, those are things the students really liked so we are taking a look as to how can we implement something like that on our campus and also exploring if Callisto is the best plat-form to do that,” Smith said.

Despite conduct expec-tations set by the Dean of Students, it is not uncom-mon for freshmen attend-ing New Student Orienta-tion to attend fraternity parties or consume alcohol when the day’s activities are through.

This is according to of-ficer William Pieper, a member of the UT-Austin Police Department’s Crime Prevention Unit.

“We have officers out on patrol every night to look for a litany of suspicious activities, including alco-hol consumption [or pos-session] by minors,” Pieper said. “Every summer dur-ing orientation sessions, we have to deal with these situations.”

Since the first orienta-tion session on June 6, UTPD has recorded over four incidents of alcohol possession or consumption by incoming freshmen in the Campus Watch, a dai-ly report of recent crimes in the campus area that UTPD sends to subscribers via email of recent crimes in the campus area. Two of these incidents resulted in UTPD calling Austin-Travis County EMS for treatment of alcohol poi-soning, and one resulted in an arrest.

While there may have been other incidents of public intoxication involv-ing prospective students, Pieper said the Campus Watch has only featured a handful, since the re-port only includes a lim-ited number of crimes selected by UTPD from the

previous day.Before attending ori-

entation, prospective students are required to watch a series of videos outlining conduct expec-tations during their ses-sion. Students must agree to attend all mandatory activities, remain on cam-pus at all times, return to their residence hall by 1:30 a.m. and perhaps the rule most frequently broken — refrain from drinking alcohol and using illegal drugs.

“I don’t drink, but I know a lot of people do go out and party, even during this week,” communication studies freshman Elizabeth Miget said. “My roommate actually went out the very first night.”

According to the New Student Services website, students who violate these rules will not be able to register for classes and will be required to meet with an orientation staff mem-ber or Soncia Reagins-Lilly, the Dean of Students, for further discussion of the issue.

“If you want to get in-volved with that kind of thing, it’s really on you

to be smart about it,” computer science fresh-man London Bolsius said. “It should be your respon-sibility to inform yourself of the dangers [and con-sequences] that go along with that.”

When UTPD investi-gates these incidents on campus, officers will typi-cally return the student to their residence or put them in the custody of a sober friend or adult. If the indi-vidual is causing a public disturbance, officers will issue a citation, or a “tick-et,” which requires the stu-dent to pay a small fine — but stays on the student’s criminal record.

However, when UTPD is involved in alcohol incidents, officers pri-oritize student safety over making arrests or issuing citations.

“When we come across people who need medi-cal attention, they clearly haven’t been informed of the dangers of what they’re doing,” Pieper said. “But we try not to be too ‘preachy.’ Our job is to enforce the laws … and our primary concern is student safety.”

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In an unexpected move, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the University’s use of race-based affirmative action in its current admissions poli-cy last Thursday. While this move may have been bad for most fantasy supreme court leagues (yes, those are a thing), it is decidedly a good one for the near-future of college admissions for under-represented students. Allowing the University of Texas to correct for the glaring deficiencies of the state’s education system is integral to ensuring ev-ery student has a chance to succeed.

Those interested in that mission cannot see this narrow ruling as a total victory. The future of race-based affirmative actions is by no means settled. While the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed UT’s current policy, there is no guarantee future policies will receive the same verdict. Now is the time to craft the future of admission in a way that protects affirmative action while preparing for a day when it may no longer be an option.

The policy that they considered splits the ap-plication process in two. Those who graduate in the top seven to eight percent of their high school class are guaranteed automatic admission through House Bill 588, better known as the top 10 percent rule. State law caps the percentage of a class admitted under this provision at 75 per-cent. The other 25 percent are admitted through a holistic review process that takes into account a variety of factors, among them is race.

Fisher was only eligible for a spot in that sec-ond group, and the U.S. Supreme Court was never able to consider whether the top 10 percent rule itself was good for diversity. When compar-ing the University’s enrollment to the general population of the state, it seems clear that a bevy of changes can be made to ensure that every stu-dent is given the opportunity to get into, afford and graduate from a university of this caliber.

The importance of diversity in the University’s student body cannot be overstated. There is no better way to ensure rigorous intellectual dis-cussion than by the inclusion of students with diverse experiences and perspectives, not only the presence of students of different races and

ethnicities, but also from the inclusion of people of different socioeconomic backgrounds, nation-alities, talents and beliefs. Further, adjusting for the additional barriers that students of color and of low socioeconomic standing face improves the chances that the students with the highest poten-tial are those who actually attend.

But in order to be a university that best serves the people of Texas, rather than one that allows itself to become an enclave of privilege, UT must attempt to closer reflect the demographics of a state which includes significant low income and minority and populations. As it stands, 45 per-cent of UT students are white despite making up 30 percent of Texas students, and 17 percent of UT students are Asian despite making up four percent of Texas students. On the other hand, Hispanic and black students are underrepresent-ed at UT, making up 20 percent and four percent of the student body despite making up 52 percent and 13 percent of Texas students respectively.

On some level, this vast divide in racial repre-sentation reflects the failure of Texas to effectively tap the potential of its minority students. While the Texas Supreme Court did rule that the state’s public education system is constitutionally ade-quate, that system gives less money and resources to economically disadvantaged students, who are disproportionately black or Hispanic. As long as the state continues to stack the deck against these 60 percent of students, the University will have to choose between diversity and prestige.

Over the past two decades, the state govern-ment decreased university funding per student by 20 percent, prompting Texas public univer-sities to raise their tuition and shifting the bur-den of paying for college towards students. This makes it harder for universities to garner enough funding, oftentimes putting programs that spe-cifically serve minority and economically disad-vantaged students, such as the Texas Interdisci-plinary Plan, on the backburner. This further incentivizes them not to apply to the University.

Funding gaps affect admissions in even less obvious ways as well. Many poorer districts have

forgone college counselors to keep costs down, increasing the need for colleges to directly recruit the sorts of students capable of adding diverse perspectives to their incoming classes. Texas A&M University has been able to achieve similar levels of minority enrollment to UT through ag-gressive recruitment strategies centered around the idea that these students are worth having on campus. UT would be wise to adopt similar strat-egies, especially given its already strong name recognition among these students.

In the long term, the University needs to con-sider its options outside of its current system. The University of California System has managed to massively increase the number of minority black and Hispanic students without race-based affirmative action by giving greater weight to students who did not speak English at home and were first in their family to attend college. UT should consider adopting at least some elements of their system should another future Supreme

Court decision render the current system unten-able, or even advance of future rulings.

We recognize that the Texas legislature is un-likely to implement any of these measures in the midst of debating gun rights, regulating women’s bodies and arbitrating who is allowed to use bathrooms. The the U.S. Supreme Court ruling presented a win for UT, an affirmation that status quo practices are acceptable measures of attain-ing diversity. But the state’s underlying system for educating its minority and low income students is broken and the only people capable of fixing it seem more interested in breaking other things.

While the ball is essentially in the legislature’s court, UT must waste no time in implementing every change they can to improve the situation in the interim. This means diverting more resources to recruit students of color or commissioning its researchers to study how to better treat the prob-lems on their end. No less than guaranteeing the educational future of the state is at risk.

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Recent rainfall brings rare orchids to Lake Austin area

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A strangely vivid purple flower was recently found in the forested area at Bracken-ridge Field Lab, located on Lake Austin Boulevard.

The purple species, Hexalectris grandiflora, is a native orchid species of Texas that has not been spotted in over 50 years. The species was thought to be restricted to Mexico and the Trans-Pecos region of West Texas.

Dr. Rob Plowes, an ecol-ogy research scientist at Brackenridge, said this im-portant find was followed by the discovery of a second rare orchid called Hexalec-tris arizonica about 50 yards away from the first orchid. Plowes has been study-ing these orchids, which are both coral root orchids, since their discovery.

Both of these plants ap-pear to live most of their lives underground and only sprout above ground when it is time for their seeds to be pollinated. Plowes said that H. grandiflora seems to be pollinated by a particular type of bee but that H. arizo-nica appears not to have any specific pollinator.

“That is another mystery that we’re trying to solve,” Plowes said. “We don’t know what species of bee even pol-linates [H. grandiflora].”

Five different species of coral root orchid species have been found in the lab field area since 1996. Ac-cording to Dr. Lawrence Gilbert, an integrative biol-ogy professor and Director of the Brackenridge field

stations, these rare coral or-chids are different than any other known orchid species.

“Coral root orchids rep-resent a lifestyle that has evolved independently over 20 times across more than 25,000 species worldwide,” Gilbert said. “They not only lack leaves, but have lost any ability to carry out pho-tosynthesis. Instead, they depend entirely on fungal symbionts for nutrients.”

These “mycoheterotro-phic” orchids have a sym-biotic relationship with an ectomycorrhizal fungi found in the soil. The fungi connect the orchids to roots of trees. Gilbert said that studies in-dicate that these orchids ob-tain nutrients from the trees through this fungi.

Each of the six H. gran-diflora plants in the field had six to eight flowers that open over a period of six weeks. Plowes said his cur-rent hypothesis is that the plant flowers over a certain period of time to train pol-linators to know when to pollinate. H. grandiflora uses a pollinator to carry off it seeds and distribute them for reproduction.

The second orchid, H. arizonica, is a creamy red flower and is even more rare than H. grandiflora. Only two H. arizonica plants with six flowers each were found. Plowes said that an inter-esting fact about H. arizo-nica is that its flowers don’t fully open, limiting polli-nators’ access to the pollen inside. Instead, the plant self-pollinates and feeds off of ectomycorrhizal fungi in the soil.

“If you think about it, it’s

not surprising that a flower as rare as this would adapt to self-pollination as we have not found a species that pol-linates it,” Plowes said.

Plowes said that these species may be growing in the Austin area for the first time because of sur-plus rainfall over the past two years.

“The El Niño event may have provided sufficient moisture and resources that caused the plant to flower,” Plowes said. “It’s not un-common in nature for other plants and insects to have these long periods of 15 to 20 years between their reproductive events.”

Because these orchid spe-cies survive severe droughts by adapting to seek out moist conditions under rocks, it makes sense that they were found at the Brackenridge Field Lab, which was previ-ously a limestone quarry. Gilbert said that coral root orchids appear to associate with plants and trees found in limestone areas. How-ever, the native environ-ment of these rare orchids is currently unknown.

Plowes intends to use these specific plants to learn more information about how and where these spe-cies grow, pollinate and disperse, and how they manage to survive in a way not documented in other orchid populations.

“That way we will under-stand a little more about why they are where they are, how they manage to live, and why they flower so erratically over long periods,” Plowes said. “We don’t understand the basis of what they do.”

It is so ordered.The Supreme Court of the United States considered three prominent cases feauturing Texas.

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For many, the Supreme Court’s 4-3 deci-sion on June 23 in favor of UT-Austin’s con-sideration of race in its admissions policies in the Fisher v. University of Texas case is con-sidered a victory.

With the death of Justice Antonin Scalia in February and the recusal of Justice Elena Kagan from the decision making process be-cause of her role as Solicitor General when the lower court was making its decision, the case was left to the decision of seven justices. Justice Anthony Kennedy delivered the opinion of the Court, saying “ … although admissions officers can consider race as a positive feature of a minority student’s ap-plication, there is no dispute that race is but a ‘factor of a factor of a factor’ in the holistic-review calculus.”

“The court has affirmed UT’s efforts to develop a diverse student body that brings with it educational benefits for all students,” UT President Gregory Fenves said in a state-ment Thursday. “We must make sure all of our students are able to excel in the wider world when they leave campus — educat-ing them in an environment as diverse as the United States is one of the most effective ways to do so.”

Fisher’s seven-year legal battle has raised important questions about UT’s evaluation of academic records.

Fisher, who graduated from high school with a 3.59 GPA and scored 1180 out of 1600 on her SAT, was not in the top 10 percent of her class, and therefore was not automatical-ly accepted under Texas’ top 10 percent law (a law requiring public universities to auto-matically accept high school students in the top 10 percent of their graduating class. Be-cause of a special modification, UT currently accepts those in the top seven percent).

Fisher was therefore evaluated under UT-Austin’s standard holistic admissions process, where applicants are evaluated un-der two different categories — Academic Index (AI) and the Personal Achievement Index (PAI). Under AI, UT-Austin considers class rank, high school GPA and SAT/ACT scores. Under PAI, an applicant is evaluated by their essays, personal achievements, ex-tracurricular activities and yes — race.

The University has argued that this AI-PAI score, combined with the top 10 percent law, has contributed to increased campus diversity and considers race and ethnicity in a limited manner, consistent with prior court rulings.

While Fisher wasn’t accepted into UT-Austin directly, she was offered placement in the Coordinated Admission Program (CAP), a program that guarantees automatic acceptance into UT-Austin after students complete their freshman year at another UT System institution. Fisher declined this offer and instead attended Louisiana State Uni-versity. She has since earned a bachelor’s de-gree in finance and now works as a business analyst in Austin.

“There are many [people of color], and women, who would not have made it into UT without affirmative action and have put in the work needed to show they deserved it — something Abby did not do,” said Jazmine Batts, a math sophomore of Filipino descent. “Sadly, it feels a lot like a ‘If I can’t have it, then no one else can situation.”

Supporters of Fisher, however, argued that UT-Austin’s admissions policies promote racial discrimination as a result of the sig-nificant pressure from accrediting agencies and government subsidy programs to which higher education institutions are often subjected to.

“Higher education has historically been

more prone to race discrimination than other industries rather than less so,” reads an amicus curiae, or “friend of the court,” brief submitted to the case in support of Fisher by the California Association of Scholars. “The Constitution and its command of Equal Pro-tection should not be and is not oblivious to this.”

However, this time around, the Supreme Court firmly decided in favor of affirmative action admissions policies, holding in its written opinion that the “race-conscious ad-missions program in use at the time of peti-tioner’s application is lawful under the Equal Protection Clause.”

“The University articulated concrete and precise goals — e.g., ending stereotypes, promoting ‘cross-racial understanding,’ pre-paring students for ‘an increasingly diverse workforce and society,’ and cultivating lead-ers with ‘legitimacy in the eyes of the citi-zenry’— that mirror the compelling interest this Court has approved in prior cases,” reads the opinion.

The Court, however, also advised UT to continue reviewing its admissions proce-dures and holding them to constitutional standards, adding that their decision “does not necessarily mean the University may rely on that same policy without refinement. It is the University’s ongoing obligation to en-gage in constant deliberation and continued reflection regarding its admissions policies.”

Students predict upcoming abortion ruling

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The Supreme Court of the United States is expected to rule on a Texas abortion law known as HB 2 on June 27.

In the case, Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt, the plaintiff is arguing the key provision that mandates all abortions, both surgical and medical (administered by a pill), must be completed in ambulatory surgical centers — which do not require overnight hospital stay after surgery — poses an undue burden on women.

The current law requires a doctor who is an abortion provider to be able to admit a patient to a hospital within 30 miles of the abortion clinic. The bill also includes re-vised building codes for the facilities, simi-lar to those for a hospital.

Many abortion clinics statewide have closed since the law was enacted.

Charlotte Lichtenheld, advertising and women’s & gender studies sophomore, said the law that is up for review is completely uncalled for and has nothing to do with protecting a woman’s health.

“An abortion is an extremely safe pro-cedure,” Lichtenheld said. “It is safer than liposuction and it is 11 percent safer than

giving birth. Any restrictions that have been placed on abortion are complete-ly unnecessary and are only to restrict abortion access.”

Lichtenheld said regulation of abortions is important.

“Abortion is only unsafe when it is per-formed illegally because it is unsterile, un-regulated and is not performed by medi-cal professionals the majority of the time,” Lichtenheld said.

Ryan Bullard, a political strategy and government senior, said he be-lieves the case is less about the law itself and more about the state’s abilities to regulate abortions.

“Although I am pro-life, the main reason why I support the respondents, the state of Texas, is that I believe key parts of HB 2 are in the interest of public health,” Bullard said. “The Texas State Legislature, a demo-cratically elected body, [has] the right and obligation to pursue legitimate state inter-ests such as public health.”

Humanities junior Zoraima Paeza, is president of Texas Rising, an organiza-tion on campus that advocates for repro-ductive rights. He said if the law is up-held, it could have an effect on access to abortions nationwide.

“If we lose, then it’s terrible because this stands as a precedent,” Paeza said. “Then Republican-led legislatures will take this law and pass it, and we’ll see massive closures nationally.”

Paeza said if the law is struck down, but the Supreme Court fails to define what an “undue burden” is, the legislature can drum up a whole new slew of bills that put restrictions on providers.

Bullard said he believes the court will likely strike down some parts of HB 2.

“There are four liberal justices on the Court,” Bullard said. “A fifth, Justice Ken-nedy, helped author the Planned Parent-hood v. Casey plurality decision, which lays the foundation for the pro-abortion argument. Kennedy will likely back the lib-erals, causing a 5-3 split and a win for the pro-abortion side.”

Lichtenfeld said she thinks the Supreme Court will vote in favor of Whole Woman’s Health as well.

“If the Supreme Court rules in favor of Whole Woman’s Health or if it is a mixed decision, the remaining 19 clinics will keep their doors open,” Lichtenfeld said. “The decision will pave the way for other clin-ics to reopen and help solve the abortion access crisis in Texas.”

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Matthew Adams | Daily Texan file photoAbigail Fisher and Edward Blum stand outside of the Supreme Court on Dec. 9, 2015. Fisher lost her case against the University for a second time on Thursday.

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The U.S. Supreme Court was split, 4-4, in United States v. Texas on June 23, affirming the injunction on Presi-dent Barack Obama’s executive order on immigration, which would have protected nearly five million undocu-mented immigrants from deportation.

Because of the court’s inability to reach a decision, the lower court’s ruling stands, blocking the imple-mentation of the Deferred Action for Parents of Americans and Lawful Per-manent Residents (DAPA) program and preventing the expansion of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arriv-als (DACA) program. Under DAPA, undocumented adults could remain in the U.S. if they meet certain residency requirements and have children with legal status. Under DACA, children would be allowed to stay in the coun-try if they were brought to the U.S. be-fore the age of 16.

The president, who has been press-ing for a change in immigration pol-icy, expressed his disappointment with the decision. Obama attributed the court’s deadlock to the lack of a ninth justice.

“This is part of the consequence of the Republican failure so far to give a fair hearing to Mr. Merrick Garland, my nominee to the Supreme Court,” Obama said in a statement. “It means that the expanded set of common-sense deferred action policies — the ones that I announced two years ago — can’t go forward at this stage, until

there is a ninth justice on the Court to break the tie.”

House Speaker Paul Ryan, on the other hand, approved of the court’s decision.

“This is a win for the Constitution, this is a win for Congress,” he said in a statement. “Presidents don’t write laws, Congress writes laws.”

Mayte Lara, a Crockett High School graduate who recently received na-tionwide recognition for her tweet about being an undocumented im-migrant, said although the ruling is a setback for immigrants, she hopes the push for reform continues.

“Although DACA and DAPA didn’t go through yesterday, it will if people keep striving and fighting for it,” Lara said. “However, even when DAPA and the extension of DACA are put in place, people should and will contin-ue to fight. These programs are only temporary, and what we really need is comprehensive immigration reform.”

University Leadership Initiative (ULI), an organization led by un-documented youth that advocates for the rights of the undocumented com-munity at the local, state and national levels, held a press conference Thurs-day discussing the decision made by the court.

Sheridan Lagunas-Aguirre, lead coordinator of ULI and radio-televi-sion-film senior, said the ruling was unfortunate for the millions of people who have been waiting for relief from the government.

“Five million people have been waiting close to a year and a half for

the DAPA and expanded DACA pro-grams to be implemented,” Lagunas-Aguirre said. “It’s frankly just a shame that all this waiting has resulted in the case being sent back down to the court in Brownsville, Texas where this whole political game started.”

Although Texas led the case against the Obama administration, some state officials believe the court made a mis-take in its ruling.

Travis County Judge Sarah Eckhardt released a statement earlier today condemning the decision because of social and economic contribution by undocumented immigrants.

“If [DAPA and DACA] had become available, thousands of undocumented parents in Travis County, who already contribute enormously to the eco-nomic and social fabric of our county, would be able to more fully participate in our community,” Eckhardt said in a statement. “Travis County will be safer when fears of deportation are al-leviated, when undocumented victims and witnesses are no longer afraid to work with law enforcement officers and when children are not separated from their parents.”

Finance junior Zahra Jaffer, who im-migrated to America eight years ago, said she is not satisfied with the court’s ruling because of the many immi-grants who have lived in the U.S. for so long and have established a life here.

“The U.S. should allow people to stay here,” Jaffer said. “The court’s rul-ing goes against what America stands for. People deserve to be free and have a better life.”

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Joshua Davis is officially an old man in his business. The artist known as DJ Shadow released his plunderphonic masterpiece Endtroducing..... 20 years ago, displaying his im-mense attention to detail and setting forth a new style few could match.

But in the five years since the release of Shadow’s last full-length LP The Less You Know, the Better, he’s lacked the charisma that made him so impactful and has struggled to

keep up with younger produc-ers. However, with his latest ef-fort, The Mountain Will Fall, DJ Shadow dives into some new experimental facets, creating what is an admittedly flawed yet intriguing album.

While his debut inspired fu-ture musicians, The Mountain Will Fall draws from the past, namely instrumental hip-hop of the 2000’s. The album’s open-ing track declares this as boldly as almost any song on the al-bum, kicking off with hazy sounds and slight funk similar to those of Oh No on Dr. No’s Experiment in 2007.

The album’s eyebrow-raising second track “Nobody Speak” features Run the Jewels, and although Killer Mike and El-P may not be at their most po-tent here, the prominent feature is a surprise in itself. And the experiment pays off — “No-body Speaks” comes off as a fun-loving song with a decent amount of replay value. Other appearances from producers Nils Frahm and Ernie Fresh bring Shadow out of his com-fort zone to immediate success, finding the ground between old-school sample-based beats and modern electronica to cre-

ate two colorful and hard-to-ignore tracks.

Unfortunately, some of these risks don’t pan out. “Three Ralphs” feels vintage, but the drum beats come far too quickly to be something Shad-ow hand-mixed on his Akai MPC 3000. While computer-made beats aren’t necessarily horrible, this is out of character for him, and other songs take it too far. The iTunes bonus track “Swerve,” for example, is eas-ily the weakest on the album, built from the foundations of cartoon pings and lackluster sound effects.

Although not every mo-ment translates perfectly, each song on The Mountain Will Fall builds into the al-bum’s experience — for bet-ter or worse. The difference between The Mountain Will Fall and all of DJ Shadow’s releases since 1996’s Endtro-ducing..... is that this record pulls the listener in, demand-ing attention to detail. And although Davis might not execute every single time, he comes through on his prom-ise often enough to war-rant excitement for releases to come.

Art history senior Hanna Bernbaum joins her competi-tors in the isolation area, hand-ing over her cell phone and leav-ing her teammates behind. She has only a moment to look at the wall — 10 seconds later, she’s scaled it.

Bernbaum is an officer in Texas Rock Climbing, UT’s rock climbing team, which competes in six competitions per year, as well as regional and national championships. Climbers participate in one of three divisions — boulder-ing, speed climbing or sport climbing. Bernbaum special-izes in bouldering, a no-rope climb at a maximum height of 10 feet, as well as speed climbing, where climbers scale a 10-meter wall as fast as they can.

“If I’ve had a bad day, there’s no doubt I’ll be going climbing

to filter out all the toxins and bad emotions,” Bernbaum said. “I feel beautiful while climbing.”

The team is comprised of 65 undergraduate and graduate students. Beginning in 2012, Texas Rock Climbing won na-tionals three years in a row. For the past two seasons they have placed second, making them one of the top five teams in the nation.

Their coach, John Myrick, started the team in 2008, when there were few opportunities for college climbers to compete. To help bridge the gap between youth leagues and adult profes-sional competitions, Myrick coordinated with college teams around the country to host the sport’s first Collegiate National Championships. The year the series began, there were 45 teams participating. Now, there are over 200.

“When I was in high school, I had a dream to see climbing become a college sport,” Myrick

said. “How cool would it be if you could get a scholarship to go to college for climbing and represent your school?”

Myrick has been showing people the ropes from a young age. When he was 10-years-old, he went on a Boy Scout camp-ing trip and taught his Scout masters how to climb and belay. Later, he joined the Navy and developed a training program which included climbing skills for people that were about to en-ter the search and rescue school. During this time, he was in-spired to create what would later become the team’s philosophy: “FES” — focus, execute, send.

“It’s a way to approach any obstacle or challenge you face in life,” Myrick said. “If you can use that to stay poised and help give you confidence in high pressure situations, that’s huge in life.”

While some climbers like Myrick have been climbing since childhood, many of the

team’s members are new to the sport. Bernbaum, for example, didn’t begin to climb competi-tively until her second year at UT. After leaving the NCAA rowing team, she said she was looking for a more communal and down-to-earth sport.

“[Our community] is root-ed in this sense of adventure,

and it’s also based on trust,” Bernbaum said. “Every day at practice, you’re trusting some-body with your life — that translates socially.”

Mechanical engineer-ing senior Michael Sulkis, the team president, said the group dynamic is his favorite part of climbing. Last season,

he earned the Most Valuable Player award, which was pre-sented to him at the team’s annual banquet.

“I’m not the strongest climber on the team, but I put a lot of work into [it] and I care about it a lot,” Sulkis said. “It means a lot for my teammates to recognize that.”

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Sophomore Oscar Song boulders a wall at the South Austin Rock Gym. Song is a part of Texas Rock Climb-ing, UT’s rock climbing team and one of the top five teams in the nation.

To give the convenience of ride-hailing back to driv-ers and riders after Austin’s rejection of Proposition 1, two Boston business-es are bringing selfies to the rescue.

Starting on Aug. 1, all Austin transportation net-work companies will be re-quired to have at least half of their drivers fingerprint-ed. Confirm.io, an identity verification company, part-nered with MorphoTrust, which owns the Texas con-tract for FBI fingerprinting, to design software that will help drivers comply.

Kyle Kilcoyne, director of marketing at Confirm.io, said that ride-hailing com-panies Get Me and Arcade City already plan to inte-grate the partnership’s ser-vices into their applications using Confirm.io’s software development kit, or SDK.

“Our solution helps de-crease driver enrollment time while also enhancing driver identity architec-ture,” Kilcoyne said.

Instead of going to the Department of Public Safe-ty, drivers can complete the identity verification process by taking a selfie to match their photo ID. Both photos are taken us-ing the software designed by Confirm.io that scans fa-cial texture, shape and skin for comparison.

MorphoTrust is also in-corporating a blinking “liv-eness” test into the selfie to confirm that the selfie is be-ing taken in real time. If the software determines the two match, license informa-tion is provided to the ride-sharing company, which then registers the driver for a background check.

According to Confirm.io’s website, the process runs without a human and takes only six seconds.

After identity approval, drivers are required to visit a MorphoTrust IdentoGO center for fingerprinting. There is currently one such center in Austin. IdentoGO claims a turnaround of sev-eral days, but Confirm.io hopes to expedite the pro-cess by providing an Iden-toGO appointment booking service. That way, the entire driver checking process will be incorporated into one platform.

Kilcoyne said that an-other time saving feature of Confirm.io’s software is its digital onboarding plat-form, which quickly signs up drivers with ride-hail-ing programs. Some ride-hailing companies still hire Driver Onboarding Special-ists to recruit, sign up and orient new drivers with their apps.

“Physical onboarding is time consuming and labo-rious for the ride-hailing companies,” Kilcoyne said.

Kilcoyne said that with Confirm.io’s plat-form, onboarding is completely digital.

Ralph Rodriguez, CTO of Confirm.io and MIT fel-low, said that the integrated SDK performs digital foren-sic tests on driver’s licenses and passports at a high success rate.

“With a high quality un-compressed image we can detect over 99 percent of all fake IDs,” Rodriguez said.

The facial recognition technology is built by Mor-phoTrust, who makes simi-lar solutions for border pa-trol and U.S. Customs.

“We’re excited about tak-ing this high-grade technol-ogy to a consumer market.

It’s a new step for Con-firm.io and MorphTrust,” Kilcoyne said.

Kilcoyne said that the most challenging part of identity verification has been obtaining quality user submitted images from mo-bile devices. Photos taken with glare or low light are difficult to scan for security features. While the recom-mended resolution for the ID scan is compatible with most common phones, some mobile devices may not be able to capture a quality image. For now, drivers can use the technol-ogy on any phone, but Con-firm.io will soon add Devi-ceID, which will verify that the user is the owner of the phone to add an aditional layer of security.

Confirm.io’s mobile so-lution can be used for any transaction that benefits from proof of identity, ex-tending their product beyond the ride-hailing market. Kilcoyne said that selfies may be the future of online shopping. For example, Amazon recently patented technology that would allow users to pur-chase goods with facial rec-ognition instead of a pass-word. Confirm.io is looking into similar avenues. No longer just fun atten-tion grabbers, selfies have gotten serious.

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A few nights ago, Eddie Re-ese lay in bed at 3 a.m., unable to sleep.

This isn’t abnormal. Some-times he wakes up in the middle of the night, and if he can’t doze off again, he’ll pick up a book or hop on his sta-tionary bike. He acknowledges he isn’t a good sleeper, but it’s tough to sleep peacefully when you’re the head coach of Texas’ men’s swimming team, head-ing to Omaha for the Olym-pic Swimming trials, which began Sunday.

Although it’s a nerve-rack-ing time, Reese’s responsibility is helping his swimmers make the U.S. Olympic team.

“The Olympic trials, in the United States, is the tough-est meet in the world,” Reese said. “It is the toughest top 30

places and only two people out of every event, except for relay events, get to make the team.”

Reese isn’t the only one with nerves on over-drive heading into this weekend. Thirty-nine Longhorn swimmers from both the men’s and wom-en’s team are headed to the Olympic trials.

“Nervousness is good. You don’t want to get too nervous,” Reese said. “And the good thing about that is splash-ing water on your face or go-ing in the water has a very calming effect.”

But Texas’ swimmers can’t be in the water every time they feel nervous. So they de-veloped methods to combat their anxiety.

Junior Will Licon doesn’t obsess over the trials. He pur-sues other activities, hoping to distract his mind. He plays Call

of Duty and NBA 2K16. He hangs out with his roommates.

“I try not to think about it,” Licon said. “I just try to take my mind off it.”

Licon is competing in per-haps the toughest events: the 100-yard breaststroke, the 200-yard breaststroke and the 200-yard IM. He might be one of UT’s most decorated swim-mers, but making it to Rio de Janeiro would top it all.

“I’d say so,” Licon said when asked if making the team would surprise him. “I’d shock myself.”

It’s ironic calling a six-time national champion and an American Record holder in the 200-yard breaststroke an underdog in the 200-yard IM. But when legends Michael Phelps and Ryan Lochte are in the same pool, even the most accomplished collegiate swimmers can be overlooked.

“I think between those two, they have something like 12 of the fastest times in the history of that event,” Licon said. “So they’re pretty good.”

Madisyn Cox admits she’s the nervous type. The junior swim-mer is competing in the 200-yard IM, the 400-meter IM and the 200-yard breaststroke.

Women’s head coach Carol Capitani often says, “If you are nervous that means you care.” But Cox isn’t fond of the feel-ing. So she runs errands. She binge-watches Grey’s Anatomy on Netflix.

Cox admits it’s gotten worse. She’s been watching five or six episodes a day. Her roommate keeps her company.

“You don’t want to just sit there in your own mind and sit alone without anyone to talk to,” Cox said.

Cox tried not to dwell on the trials.

“That’s a constant effort,” Cox said. “To have to, like, put it aside and just think about my normal life. Honestly there’s a little anxiety sometimes.”

Finding distractions might be tough once Licon and Cox

are on the edge of the pool at Omaha.

Nerves will agitate, stom-achs will tighten. There won’t be Grey’s Anatomy or Call of Duty.

The only choice is getting in the water.

Mario Sategna already knows he’s going to the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro — the track and field head coach is an assistant on Team USA. He just doesn’t know which of his former athletes will join him.

Starting on June 30, a mix of 10 current and former Longhorns will compete for spots on the Jamaican and U.S. Olympic teams. Team USA will host its tri-als in Eugene, Oregon, while Jamaica’s will take place in Kingston, Jamaica.

“We really tried to hype it up with the alumni at Texas Relays to show what this year meant,” Sategna said. “Any-time an Olympic year rolls around we know it’s going to be big in our sport of track and field.”

Juniors Senoj-Jay Givans and Chrisann Gordon cur-rently stand as top-five runners in Jamaica going into the trials. Gordon has international experience after running on the Jamai-can team at the 2016 World Indoor Championships, but Givans hopes to be a new-comer to the global compe-tition. If Givans makes the

100-meter finals, he will line up against the world’s great-est: Usain Bolt, Asafa Powell and Yohan Blake.

“I’ve just gotta do what I always do,” Givans said, “Line up and run with the wind. The first, second and third fastest guys in the world will be in that final and if I think about that it’ll slow me down.”

Three former Longhorn women have a chance to represent the U.S. in the 400-meter: Sanya Richards-Ross, Ashley Spencer and Courtney Okolo.

Okolo, who just graduated, recently set the collegiate re-

cord 400-meter time of 49.72 at the LSU Alumni Gold In-vitational. She stands as one of the favorites to make the team at the Olympic trials.

“My mindset is that I’m an underdog” Okolo said. “Some of these women have been to the Olympics and have more experience than me, but I consider being the underdog a good position to be in.”

Joining Okolo as recent Tex-as graduates are sprinter Mo-rolake Akinosun and thrower Ryan Crouser. Akinosun was part of the team that took first in the 4x400-meter re-lay at the NCAA Champion-ships, along with third in the

100-meter and fourth in the 200-meter. Crouser is a four-time NCAA shot put champion and cur-rently holds the collegiate record with a throw of 21.73 meters.

Former Longhorns Trey Hardee, Leo Manzano and Richards-Ross have all me-daled in the Olympics before, but have to qualify again in Eugene. In addition, for-mer Longhorn and Buffalo Bills wide receiver Marquise Goodwin will seek to qualify and potentially earn his first Olympic medal.

“You go into every Olym-pics thinking you have a

chance,” Manzano said. “You have to think like that. You also got to be realistic. You have to know who your competitors are. Everybody competing at that level is extremely good.”

There are no guarantees at the Olympic trials, but as-sistant coach Tonja Buford-Bailey said that’s part of the experience.

“I don’t know who is going to Rio,” Buford-Bailey said. “There were times where I shouldn’t have been on the team and I was because other people didn’t have a good day. Everybody has an equal chance in the finals at trials.”

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SWIMMING & DIVING

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Joshua Guerra | Daily Texan StaffJunior Will Licon swims in a practice on June 21. Licon and other Longhorns travel to the Olympic trials this week.

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