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UT will participate in a na-tionwide campus sexual assault survey that many of its peer in-stitutions rejected, followed by a second, in-house survey later this year, to gather information about the prevalence of sexual assault on campus.

The survey, conducted by the Association of American Universities, will be designed to help university officials bet-ter understand sexual assault on college campuses. Some

institutions have expressed con-cern that the survey, which will cost each participating univer-sity $87,500, will not be specific enough to address the needs of each individual campus.

UT is one of 60 members of the AAU, and President Wil-liam Powers Jr. serves as the group’s former chairman. Of the 60 member institutions, only 27 members — and one non-member university — agreed to distribute the sur-vey. Powers announced UT’s participation during a faculty council meeting last week.

16 policy researchers from 13 universities expressed their problems with the AAU survey in a Nov. 17 letter, alleging that only two members of the advi-sory committee that designed the survey have experience in sexual assault assessment.

“We are writing to you to ask urgently that each of you not commit to signing an $85,000 contract on a sexual assault and campus climate survey with a consultant for the [AAU],” the letter read. “Accuracy of data

As new buildings emerge and older buildings are renovated, the University is tackling the remaining spots on campus that violate the Texas Accessibility Stan-dards, a Texas government code in keeping with the na-tional Americans with Dis-abilities Act.

“With a large campus and an older campus, there are certainly problems,” said Emily Shryock, assistant director of Services for Stu-dents with Disabilities. “That always comes to the top of the priority list, when some-one approaches us with [ac-cessibility complaints]”.

Project Management & Construction Services apply the Texas Accessibility Stan-dards to projects at UT. The Texas Accessibility Stan-dards are a list of require-ments all structures in Texas must meet in order to com-ply with the ADA Amend-ments Act of 2008.

In 2014, 14 out of 52 of the Services’ completed projects were in noncompliance. In 2010, 43 of the department’s 67 projects were in violation, according to Mike Debow, associate director of project management with Project Management & Construc-tion Services.

In past years, projects costs have ranged from as low as $10,000 to as high as $1.46 million, according to Debow. Debow said average jobs, such as renovating a re-stroom for compliance with the Texas Accessibility Stan-dards, cost between $150,000 and $200,000.

Debow said cost is not the only factor administrators keep in mind when tackling a new project. Construction crews must also renovate old-er buildings without harming their aesthetic.

The Journal of Geophysi-cal Research recognized a UT researcher this month for his work in understand-ing the changes occurring in the bottom layers of the ice in Greenland, a discov-ery that will inform the debate surrounding green-house gases and rising sea levels.

Joe MacGregor, research associate in the Institute for Geophysics, and Mark Fahnestock, a glaciolo-gist from the Geophysical Institute at the Univer-sity of Alaska-Fairbanks, used 3-D imaging to

capture features of the layers of ice scientists had never seen before.

MacGregor said one of the key discoveries he and Fahnestock made was of the Eemian ice, a layer of ice believed to be 115,000-130,000 years old, at the bottom of the ice shelf. The climate during the Eemain ice period was likely simi-lar to today’s climate, Mac-Gregor said.

The researchers dis-covered this ice is located in Central and Northern Greenland, where the lack of snowfall causes the ice to move slowly.

On Saturday, the Long-horns’ struggles started early.

No. 19 Texas men’s basket-ball’s team hit a new low in an already-tumultuous season with a 23-point loss to No. 20 Baylor in Waco on Saturday.

Now, with three straight losses and just 10 games re-maining on their schedule, the Longhorns are left won-dering how exactly to fix their bevy of issues.

“We’re just trying to figure out what we need to do to win games again,” senior forward Jonathan Holmes said.

The same issues that plagued the Longhorns in their previous two games reared their ugly heads again in the 83-60 loss to the Bears. The Texas big men struggled to make their presence felt against Baylor’s smaller front-court, while the defense did little to slow Baylor’s potent three-point barrage.

Texas’ puzzling inability to exploit its size down low once again proved fatal. Freshman forward Myles Turner scored a career-low 2 points. Juniors Conner Lammert and Prince Ibeh combined for 0. And junior center Cam Ridley missed a series of easy lay-ups at the beginning the game that allowed Baylor’s early

lead to balloon.The Longhorns attempted

26 three-pointers and made just five. Holmes was 1-of-7 from beyond the arc. Junior guard Javan Felix was 2-of-6. Turner, Lammert and sopho-more guard Kendal Yancy went a combined 0-for-6.

But the Longhorns’ biggest

problems were on defense. They allowed Baylor to start the game 8-for-8 from the field, and by the time Baylor finally missed a shot — at the 11:59 mark in the first half — the team trailed 21-9.

Texas especially struggled to contest Baylor’s shots from behind the arc, as the

Bears went 12-of-22 on three-point attempts.

“We just haven’t been good on defense,” Holmes said. “It doesn’t help when you’re not making shots on offense. It’s not good on both ends.”

“It starts on defense,” Hol-mes added. “If you’re not making shots, the urgency on

defense should be even high-er. It starts on defense and we have to go from there.”

The loss dropped Texas to 3–5 in conference play, four games behind first-place Kan-sas. Chances at a Big 12 title appear increasingly unlikely

Marriage is linked to health through sociological, behavioral, psychological and physiological “path-ways,” according to sociology professor Debra Umberson.

Women performed more “emotional work” in relation-ships compared to men, and men generally benefit from marriage more than women, Umberson said. Umberson presented her preliminary research Friday during a lec-ture hosted by UT’s Popula-tion Research Center.

Umberson said that al-though the labor force has become significantly

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regarding sexual violence has been known for years to be very sensitive to the way it is mea-sured … we have [concerns] about the not-yet-designed AAU survey, which neither ac-ademic experts nor university presidents have seen.”

Barry Toiv, vice president of public affairs at AAU, said the survey’s results will be distrib-uted in aggregate form to all participating universities.

Toiv said each university will be allowed to include a few institution-specific ques-tions in the survey their stu-dents receive.

“Except in one respect, the survey will be identical to all institutions,” Toiv said. “Each university will be able to in-dividualize five questions, so they can focus on specific pro-grams, offices, policies at their own institutions that may have certain needs.”

Beyond the AAU survey,

the University will conduct its own sexual assault climate survey that will provide more campus-specific results, ac-cording to UT spokesman Gary Susswein. Susswein said UT officials hope to conduct the campus-specific survey next fall and said the second survey’s cost is still unknown.

“The AAU questions will be used across universities as part of [their] own survey,” Susswein said. “But by doing our own survey, we’re hoping to get a fuller picture of what’s going on around campus.”

Steve Kloehn, associate vice president of news and pub-lic affairs at the University of Chicago, said UChicago chose to develop its own survey in place of the AAU survey. Kloehn said the university would prefer to use techniques developed by their own staff.

“University of Chicago has announced plans to undertake its own climate survey, which will be shaped in part by a committee of our own faculty

members who have a particu-lar expertise and understand-ing of our culture and the needs of this campus,” Kloehn said.

Toiv acknowledged the cost of performing a large survey between dozens of universi-ties, but said the $87,500 op-erating cost is justified.

“The truth is that quality research of this kind, partic-ularly research involving this many potential participants, is expensive,” Toiv said. “One of the things that makes it ex-pensive is the effort that goes into notifying, encouraging students to participate.”

Despite the criticism the survey has generated, Suss-wein said the UT administra-tion felt it was a good invest-ment toward understanding sexual assault on campus.

“We understand that there was a robust conversation, but we do believe that participating is the best option for our uni-versity,” Susswein said. “There’s really no downside in doing this survey.”

“The challenge we al-ways get into, with the things we address, is … in the older buildings on cam-pus,” Debow said. “How do we make adjustments to these older buildings, and, in some cases, being sensi-tive to 1930s architectural things that are pretty im-portant? If we’re going to do something that impacts the Main Building, how do we ensure that accessibil-ity happens and not nega-tively impact the original, historically based architec-ture that’s very valuable to the University?”

All deficiencies, which a registered accessibil-ity specialist — an inspec-tor of building deficiencies — notes, must be corrected within 270 days of the defi-ciency being recorded. Un-der the Americans with Disabilities Act, a noncom-pliant building is subject to

fines not exceeding $75,000 for a first violation. Subse-quent violation fines can run as high as $150,000.

“Two-thirds of the time we don’t have deficiencies, but about one-third of the time, we do,” Debow said. “We then budget for and specifi-cally address those to make those corrections.”

David Wiginton, a help desk specialist in the Moody

College of Communica-tion who uses a wheelchair, said he has not had extreme difficulty when navigating the campus.

“The campus is actually set up really well for wheel-chair users,” Wiginton said. “I would say for anybody who has a mobility issue, UT has done what they can to accommodate people, both through major renovations,

like curb cuts, to taking care of special needs that I may have, like a time to come in to the office.”

Wiginton said he knows not all students share his per-spective.

“I don’t have to go up and down any hills,” Wiginton said. “That’s nothing any-body can control. That’s just, ‘Welcome to Austin, here’s a bunch of hills.’”

According to Mac-Gregor, Fahnestock led the charge in studying the internal layering of ice sheets and found an im-portant discovery in his early work.

“He ended up discover-ing a spot at the bottom of the ice sheet which was warming very rapidly due to geothermal heating,” MacGregor said. “Essen-tially, he found a spot under Greenland with a geother-mal flux as warm as Yellow-stone. With this under an ice sheet, it can cause some unusual behavior.”

The researchers collect-ed data from the ice using technology from NASA’s Operation IceBridge. Planes flew over Green-land as a radar transmitted electromagnetic pulses, and these pulses reflected off the ice and created sig-nals. NASA was involved

in the operation as part of its six-year commitment to using 3-D imaging to cap-ture the changes in Green-land and Antarctic ice.

Fahnestock said the team was also able to create a sys-tem to trace and map the in-ternal layers of Greenland.

“There are things in the flow field of the ice sheet that suggest there are processes going on at the bottom,” Fahnestock said. “This stratigraphy allows us to map where condi-tions at the bottom of the ice sheet are different from place to place.”

MacGregor said 3-D imaging technology has been hugely useful during field studies.

“Before, all we could do was make a sketch and have an estimate,” MacGregor said. “Now with the grid-ding system, we now have [the layers] to refer to.”

more diversified, and more and more people opt out of marriage, women are still at more of a disadvantage in marital relationships than men.

“If you look at things like inflammation and immune function, it looks like mar-riage is way worse for the health of women than for men,” Umberson said. “I think we also have to take into account that all things are not equal, that there is this relative disadvantage — this baseline disadvantage

that women are providing more emotional support, providing more emotion work and social control and experiencing more relation-ship strain.”

Umberson presented an-ecdotes collected from a study on women and men who experienced severe stress, such as one partner’s diagnosis of a chronic illness, as a couple. Umberson said women still bore the brunt of relationship stress, putting their health second to their partner’s — even when they themselves were suffering.

“Women do emotion work whether they are the

sick partner or the caregiver, whereas men don’t,” Umber-son said.

Both partners in a marriage can challenge each other to maintain better health habits, according to Umberson.

“Partners influence each other’s health habits in vari-ous ways that then translate into better health,” Umberson said. “[When] your spouse is telling you, ‘Don’t eat so much,’ you’re pouring out the whiskey bottles or watering it down. Women do that to men more than men do that to women.”

LBJ doctoral fellow Jaehee Choi said Umberson provided

useful personal insight into marriage and health.

“I think I can apply this to my own relationships in the future,” Choi said. “It’s like a life lesson, and she’s actually studying it academically.”

Sociology graduate stu-dent Letisha Brown said Umberson’s work deserved more recognition.

“This project is not get-ting as much attention as it should get, considering the changing dynamics of Amer-ica,” Brown said. “Thinking about how this research is coming out of Texas … it’s amazing, and I think it’s go-ing to be great.”

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The latest sensational addition to Land-marks, the University’s public art collection, is Nancy Rubin’s Monochrome for Austin, a terrific sculpture by a celebrated, but chal-lenging artist.

Installed on Speedway during the winter break, it follows recent Landmarks installa-tions of Turrell’s The Color Inside and Sol LeWitt’s Circle with Towers, two equally spectacular works by luminary artists of the Minimalist era. Few other campuses or municipalities — or for that matter even art museums — can boast so distinguished a collection of public art as is now repre-sented by the Landmarks collection on the 40 Acres.

Reactions to Monochrome for Austin range widely. It’s a playful, puzzling explo-sion that inspires delight and wonder. It is also confrontational in ways that may pro-voke consternation or offense.

Monochrome for Austin falls convention-ally into the tradition of 20th-century art that stridently defies conventional expecta-tions about what is and isn’t art and what is and isn’t sculpture. It’s not a statue. It’s not bronze. It’s made of salvaged, conspicuously battered canoes and rowboats (though the rowboats are curiously shiny and new.) It’s not representational. Its scale is exaggerat-ed. It does not perch securely on its plinth. It gives the appearance of rough-and-ready DIY fabrication, with none of its mechanics hidden from view.

It’s everything we wouldn’t expect in public art. That is if we were living in 1915 rather than 2015. In our day, if you’ve been paying attention, none of these materials or methods are shocking novelties in art.

This gigantic spectacle of a work uses startling incongruities to unsettle and con-tradict our assumptions about public space and public monuments, about artisanship and accident, about space and motion and function and ornament. Monochrome for Austin explores and inverts the relation be-tween complex, emergent structure and un-derlying elements.

To take just one obvious incongruity — or maybe it’s an impropriety — the sculpture is located at a very public campus crossroad surrounded by earnestly serious academic buildings. But unlike statuary or well-mannered, abstract modernist sculpture — sometimes called “Plop Art” — the work pays no deference to those buildings. It’s not a discrete ornament in “their” space. It’s not a solemn memorial.

It crowds the space. It menaces the road. It draws attention away from the buildings

and serves as a dramatic counterpoint to their sobriety. It challenges them. And us. Where they project a blockish monumen-tality and permanence, the sculpture is an eruption frozen in space and time evok-ing energy and entropy. The counterpoint dramatically heightens the aesthetics of the buildings and the space and the sculpture. And that’s pretty cool.

Like much post-modern art, Mono-chrome for Austin uses enormous scale and prolific repetition to achieve surprising emergent effects that would not be predicted from its underlying elements.

But Monochrome for Austin playfully flips the molecular metaphor of imperfect, familiar, manufactured objects in our day-to-day reality resolving microscopically into the exotic perfection of atomic substruc-tures bound by mysterious forces. Instead it gives us a “what-in-the-world-is-that” mac-rostructure that resolves comically into a substructure of unmistakably familiar, cast-off canoes held together with wire and bolts.

Monochrome for Austin least of all asks for complacent acceptance. It would be a to-tal failure if it did not provoke puzzlement, inquiry, challenges and even controversy. It’s a successful work — and maybe even a great work of art — because it rewards hon-est inquiry and controversy with so many rich visual interpretations and possible so-lutions.

The way we see and interpret the world is not a passive, hard-wired necessity. We have enormous latitude about how we look at and see the world around us. Artists like Nancy Rubins bust up our visual contentment to remind us of that.

Monochrome for Austin is a thought pro-voking, debate-worthy work of art and a perfect choice for a public art program on the campus of a premier research univer-sity. We’re enormously fortunate to have it, as well as the Landmarks program, on the 40 Acres, where the tide of rigorous inquiry raises all boats.

Dempster is dean of the College of Fine Arts.

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However competent a writer you are before you start at the Texan, your skills will grow more than you ever expected as a result of the job. At the Texan, you’ll learn through practice and example how to quickly pro-duce intelligent, professional and compelling work on a deadline. The Texan provides the chance to hone ways of thinking that are dif-ferent from what you’ll learn in a classroom. You’ll represent something much bigger than yourself alongside some of the most talented and driven members of the UT community, while developing friendships with people who will both encourage and inspire you. The friendships you’ll make while working toward a common goal will likely be some of your strongest.

As an opinion columnist in particular, you’ll have your views read, considered and critiqued by an audience of thousands on one of the nation’s biggest university cam-puses. You’ll choose your topic so you can find what’s important to you, and you’ll have a space to show the rest of the 40 Acres why your issue of choice should be important to all of us, too. As wide-ranging as your col-umn’s impact can be, the words will be yours to show off, now and for years to come.

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Ellyn Snider | Daily Texan StaffFiona Mazurensko works as a public affairs specialist for the University’s international office. UT was recently ranked second in the nation for the number of students it sends abroad.

The University of Texas has the sec-ond highest number of students studying abroad in the country and the Interna-tional Office is encouraging even more students to apply. However, the idea of studying abroad can be intimidating. Not only do you have decide where to go, but you also have to plan how you are going to pay for it.

Studying abroad is not cheap, but nei-ther is studying at the University of Tex-as. In fact, semesters in some cities are cheaper than a semester in Austin. These cities typically do not top students’ lists, though. Students looking to study abroad should consider a nontraditional location as the experience can be richer and much cheaper.

“An average price for rent in West Cam-pus is around $700 to $800,” said manage-ment information systems junior Majid Breland, who studied abroad in the fall of 2014. “In Bangkok, that would get you a high rise penthouse in the nicest part of the city.”

Breland continued: “I was paying around $250 a month for my own room, though. Food is really cheap, like a dollar a plate cheap if you’re eating from street vendors. Spend $5 to $10 at a restaurant and you’re living really large.” In the case of Southeast Asia, which is rapidly devel-oping, Breland told us he found it exciting

to see a part of the world that won’t be the same in 10 years.

The understood purpose of studying abroad is to experience a culture and a way of life different than your own. Life at Western European and Australian univer-sities, two of the most popular locations for students to study abroad, is not so dif-ferent from our own. Mia Collins implores students to go to the extreme.

Collins, a geography and international relations senior, studied for a summer in Botswana and a semester in Istanbul. Col-lins told us that for her, learning the lo-cal language was definitely an obstacle, but important enough that she overcame it quickly.

“There are so many unprecedented situ-ations where you just have to figure things out, and that’s a highly valuable skill to have,” Collins said.”Needless to say, I picked up the language pretty quickly.”

Studying abroad in nontraditional plac-es is cheap and doable even if you do not know the language. Students considering studying abroad but intimidated by the prices should without a doubt do it. Em-brace the culture shock and take on the challenge of going somewhere far beyond your comfort zone. You’ll come out on the other side an adept problem solver and likely save a bit of money.

Douglas Dempster Dean, College of Fine Arts

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Texas beats SMU and No.11 Arizona The Texas women’s swimming and diving team pulled away from its competition Saturday afternoon and placed second overall.

Texas knocked off No. 11 Arizona and was able to pull away from SMU at Lee and Joe Jamail Texas Swim-ming Center. The Longhorns dominat-ed the Wildcats, 213–159, and then handled the Mus-tangs fairly easily as well for a 224–146 beatdown. Texas managed to beat out Arizona in the 200-yard medley relay, thanks to sophomore Tasija Karosas, senior Gretchen Jaques and freshmen Mimi Schneider and Rebecca Millard, who together finished with a time of 1:39.96. Jaques, No. 2 swimmer in the nation in the 100 backstroke, continued a string of great performance. She emerged victorious, posting a time of 59.91.

In platform diving, the one-two punch of All-American senior Emma Ivory-Ganja and sopho-more Murphy Brom-berg led the Longhorns. Ivory-Ganja posted the winning score of 290.50, while Bromberg — former U.S. national champion in the event — took second with 262.30.

Texas finishes the regular season off on Friday, when it hosts TCU on Senior Day.

—Aaron Torres

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No. 9 Texas men’s tennis continued its undefeated sea-son with a 4—2 victory against SMU on the road Saturday.

The Longhorns dropped two of three matches in dou-bles play — with the lone win coming from the senior duo of Lloyd Glasspool and Søren Hess-Olesen — but managed to remain undefeated on the back of four singles victories.

Texas won the first set in five of its six singles matches to continue its strong singles play. Three Longhorns improved

to 5–0 in singles play this sea-son — junior Nick Naumann and seniors Adrien Berkowicz and Hess-Olesen won their matches in straight sets. The Longhorns faced an atypi-cally large audience against the Mustangs, who had a rau-cous crowd thanks to a packed house at the new SMU Tennis Complex.

The 5–0 Longhorns will have two home matches — against No. 62 Washing-ton and No. 75 Rice — next weekend before they head to

Chicago for the ITA National Indoor Championship on Feb. 13.

In their second weekend of the season, the Longhorns had impressive outings at the UW Invitational in Seattle and the Howie Ryan Invitational in Houston.

At the UW invitational, Tex-as produced its strongest show-ing of the weekend in shotput, as junior thrower Ryan Crous-er registered a throw of 20.95 meters (68–9.00) to secure a victory and leave the event with a No. 1 world ranking. The Longhorns also won the pole-vaulting event, as junior Reese Watson improved to No. 7 in the country after clearing a height of 5.46 meters (17–11.0). Freshmen Kally Long tied for

first in the women’s pole vault after clearing the bar at 4.26 meters (13–11.75).

Texas sent a group mostly composed of sprinters to the Howie Ryan Invitational in Houston.

Sophomore hurdler Spencer Dunkerley-Offor finished sec-ond after displaying a personal best in the semifinals and the finals of the 60-meter hurdles. Dunkerley-Offor ran the event in 7.89 seconds, which moved him into the top 25 in the nation.

Texas will split up again next week, sending a group to the New Mexico Collegiate Classic in Albuquerque and another to the Meyo Invitational at Notre Dame.

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Imani McGee-Stafford led the-Longhorns with

22 points and eight rebounds.

She also tied with sophomore

guard Brady Sanders for a

team high of four turnovers. Texas

ended up turning the ball over 25

times.

Bears down Horns for third straight loss

After taking down Okla-homa last week, Texas’ struggles returned Saturday.

Junior center Imani McGee-Stafford scored 22 points with eight rebounds, but turnovers plagued Texas as it fell to TCU, 64–59, in Fort Worth.

The Longhorns played well in the first half, jump-ing to an early 8–0 start.

However, Texas’ turnover problems came back in full force, allowing the Horned Frogs to gain momen-tum. In the first half, the Longhorns had 15 turn-overs, most of which they caused themselves.

As a result of those unforced turnovers, Tex-as did not have as many opportunites to score.

In the second half, TCU heated up from behind the arc, shooting 64 percent,

while Texas turned the ball over 10 more times to in-crease its total to 25.

The Longhorns had a chance to slip away with a victory after they tied the game at 57 with less than two-and-a-half minutes remaining — but TCU for-ward Chelsea Prince hit a 3-pointer soon after, and the Horned Frogs scored 5 quick points to claim their fifth Big 12 win.

McGee-Stafford led

Texas with her season-best game, which included scor-ing 16 of Texas’ 24 first-half points, but she comitted four turnovers. Sophomore center Kelsey Lang and freshman guard Ariel At-kins also claimed double-digit point totals with 13 each.

Texas, who was the pre-season favorite to win the Big 12, now faces a challenge halfway through the confer-ence schedule. The Long-

horns have lost five of their last seven games and have since moved to fifth place in the Big 12. Unfortunately, Texas’ schedule only gets tougher from here.

The Longhorns travel north to Manhattan, Kansas, to face Kansas State on Wednesday before hosting Baylor at home. The Wildcats sit just one place behind Texas while the Bears currently hold first place in the conference, ahead of Oklaho-ma and Iowa State.

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It was a great day for Crouser becoming the world leader for the season ... More impor-tantly, he had multiple throws over 67 and 68 feet.

—Mario SategnaHead coach

appear increasingly unlikely with each loss, and while head coach Rick Barnes declined to say whether his team has dug a hole, he said he knows they need to turn things around.

“Where we are, we’ve got to turn it around. We have to win games. It’s simple. We’re not what we want to be. We’re not where we need to be. There’s a lot of basketball left. I think ev-ery night is going to be a chal-lenge.”

The Longhorns have now dropped four of their last six games after starting the season 10–1. Despite these struggles, Felix insisted after the game that nobody in the Texas locker room is giving up.

“We’re very frustrated,” Fe-lix said. “No one likes losing. We’re down, but we’re not di-vided. We’re just going to stick together, and we’re going to get through this.”

GAME BREAKDOWN

Stock Up: Sophomore point guard Isaiah Taylor: Taylor did all he could to will the Longhorns to victory in Sat-urday’s game against Baylor, but he had no help. Taylor did have a career game, putting up 16 tough points in 38 minutes to go along with a career-high 10 assists.

What made his performance even more impressive was that Baylor put its big men on him for most of the night. And while junior center Cam Ridley put up 12 points, it was Taylor’s dishes that set Ridley up for easy dunks.

Stock Down: Senior forward Jonathan Holmes: Holmes started off the year at a torrid pace, but lately, nothing’s been falling for the senior. Baylor gave Holmes room to shoot from the corner, and he still couldn’t do anything with it. Holmes went 1-for-7 from behind the 3-point arc, turning down multiple open looks in the process. Since his struggles began, Holmes has been hesitant and has lacked the confidence a shooter needs.

Next Up?: Texas takes on Oklahoma State on Wednes-day in a crucial home matchup, in which the Longhorns look to end their three-game losing skid.

In the season home opener Saturday, the No. 23 Texas women’s tennis team took down No. 32 Rice, 4–3.

The Owls opened the match well, as they took the doubles point. Rice was able to take the first two doubles to capture the point, although Texas sophomore Ratnika Batra and junior Lana Groen-vynck won the third round of doubles, 6–2.

In the singles competition, the Longhorns turned the game around and dominated the Owls. Texas gained its four points from the match, as sophomores Batra and

Neda Koprcina and freshmen Ryann Foster and Danielle Wagland completely swept their competition.

In fifth singles, Wagland tied the score 3–3 with a 6–1, 6–3 win against Rice sopho-more Alison Ho. And in sec-ond singles, Foster secured Texas’ victory, defeating Rice senior Liat Zimmermann, 6–2, 6–3.

No. 84 Longhorn junior Breaunna Addison struggled against No. 24 Rice senior Natalie Beazant, and fell 6–1, 5–7, 7–5. Likewise, Rice ju-nior Solomiya Zinko knocked off Groenvynck in sixth

singles, 6–1, 2–6, 7–6.Texas heads west to South-

ern California to play its next dual-match on Valentine’s Day weekend against Pepper-dine and USC.

Ratnika Batra Sophomore

Ryan Crouser Junior

Ellyn Snider | Daily Texan StaffJonathan Holmes struggles to pass the ball out of a double team. With the loss, Texas’ Big 12 title hopes are in jeopardy.

BY THE NUMBERS19.2: Texas’ 3-point

percentage — its worst of the year. The Long-horns went 5-of-26 from deep, making it hard to get points on the board.

3: Number of free throw attempts for Texas. Head coach Rick Barnes has continually called

for his team to get to the charity stripe more, but the Longhorns have had trouble making their way there.

1988: Texas’ last lop-sided loss to Baylor. In March 1988, the Bears beat the Longhorns by 24 in an 84–60 blowout.

—Evan Berkowitz

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When you’re hungry and in a hurry, there is a health-ier way to snack — one that doesn’t require excess change or waiting to see if the bag of chips gets caught in coils. Homemade treats that you can make in advance, such as bliss balls, are the best way

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Snacking brings back up energy levels, helps you focus and stabilizes your metabolism. If you’re not choosing the right snacks for your body, you’re just consuming empty calories that don’t provide any nutri-tion — keeping you hungry, and putting you at risk for weight gain.

Swap out candy bars for more complex snacks that are full of fiber, protein and natu-ral sugar — crucial nutrients

that keep your body running strong all day.

Whip up some hum-mus in a blender and use raw or steamed veggies as the dipping vehicle. Don’t know how to put down that can of Pringles? Fill it up with homemade kale chips that require less than five minutes of prep time.

If you have more of a sweet tooth, there are still healthy options available that won’t cause a crazy spike in your blood sugar. Look for an easy option, such as pairing

Up until a couple of years ago, Rebecca Gray spent her days as a biologist testing mice in labs — and her nights dis-covering the world of cat cafés.

“I saw and knew immediate-ly I wanted to work in a cat café or open a cat café,” Gray said. “I put it out of my mind because it just seemed so unattainable.”

Unhappy and uninspired with her biology career, the UT alumna finally decided to move back to Austin to pur-sue the unlikely task of open-ing Austin’s first cat-centric restaurant — Blue Cat Café. Gray plans to open her doors before the end of 2015. To raise money for the café, Gray will launch a Kickstarter campaign next week.

Gray said she valued her time working in a lab, but she said she ultimately feels she can do more good in the world by pursuing her passion.

“We need doctors and vets, but, if you’re not happy, you’re not going to contribute some-thing that is going to move that whole field along,” Gray said. “I’m not saying I’m building a field of cat cafés, but do what you want to do.”

The world’s first restaurant-meets-adoption facilities

popped up in Japan about 10 years ago. The cafés provide a space for customers to eat a meal while spending time playing with adoptable ani-mals. Gray said cultural taboos surrounding eating near ani-mals kept cat cafés out of the Western hemisphere. Gray remembers hearing news of the first café opening in North America late one night on NPR.

“My stomach dropped,” Gray said. “I was like, ‘Oh man — this thing is coming.”

Gray said one concern she faced when planning the café was the possibility of health code violations — she needed to adhere to codes while still allowing cats to roam around. To solve the problem, Gray said she intends to break up Blue Cat Café into two “zones.” The first zone is the cat roaming area, where cus-tomers can interact however they please.

“If you want to just read a book, you can,” Gray said. “If you want to just study, you can. If you want to put a feather in their face and play, you can. It’s pet therapy, and it’s whatever you need.”

The second zone will be re-served for eating. The outdoor patio will be home to a number of vegan food trucks. Gray said

food truck partnerships are in the early stages, but her ulti-mate goal is to provide healthy, socially conscious food.

“This is a place where we love animals, so we can’t eat them,” Gray said.

The biggest misconception Gray wants to correct is the idea customers can bring their own cats.

“Your cat doesn’t want to come, trust me,” Gray said. “Honestly, this place will be cat first and you later — because I

want to take care of the cats.” Gray, a self-proclaimed

“crazy cat lady,” said she urges customers to stave off any pre-conceived notions of what it means to be crazy in love with your cat. Dan Maxwell, Gray’s business consultant and for-mer boss, believes this posi-tive attitude will make Gray a successful business owner.

“She’s just crazy enough about cats to make everyone else feel normal,” Maxwell said. “When you do that, you

open the door for everyone else who’s maybe bashful about how much they want to be around cats.”

When UT advertising graduate Fatima Jafri visited a cat café in Hong Kong, the cafe’s clean and inviting at-mosphere struck her. Jafri said she believes Blue Cat Café will thrive in Austin’s inclusive environment.

“Austin is a city known for all its odd things to do,” Gray said. “I think [Blue Cat Café] is a

great thing to add to its roster of strange things.”

Whether customers visits Blue Cat Café for temporary cat-therapy or with adoption in mind, Gray said she hopes all will enjoy the connections they make with cats and with each other.

“My greatest hope is that everyone that walks in, walks out a little bit happier,” Gray said. “A little bit more uplifted and ready to do the thing that makes them happy.”

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UT alumna Re-becca Gray plans to open the Blue Cat Café, a café where visitors will have the op-tion to play with cats. The café will be divided into two zones, keeping the food and cat areas separated.

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Snack attack: keep hunger at bay with healthier options

Just over a year ago, Paul del Bosque, Austin-based art-ist and UT alumnus, picked up a prayer card and found a Catholic saint staring back at him — and inspiration struck.

The cards, distributed at the funeral of a friend and fel-low artist, depicted saints sur-rounded by meaningful sym-bols. Del Bosque realized the cards could be storytelling de-vices, capable of relaying mes-sages without saying a word.

The cards gave del Bosque the idea to draw charcoal por-traits of his friends. He said he hopes each drawing provides information about the sub-ject’s life, passions and fears. On 30-inch wood panels, del Bosque portrays his friends in varying ways. One friend is depicted barbecuing, while an-other painting more seriously captures its subject’s inner con-flicts. Del Bosque’s portraits are on display through April 4 at the Barrientos Mexican American Cultural Center.

“The cards are more than just portraits of the saints,” del Bosque said. “They tell stories

of who the saints are. I wanted to use Mexican-Americans as the storytellers in my portraits. Our stories are pretty univer-sal, from our struggles to our inspirations, to the things that we love. They can all be under-stood by anybody.”

Del Bosque said some of the friends he hoped to paint for his collection re-quired some convincing to participate.

“I asked my best friend over the phone, and that one was pretty much a no-brainer,” del Bosque said. “But convincing some of the other people was a much more in-depth pro-cess. It’s a strange request to ask someone — to have their face in a gallery where someone might buy it and take it home. I had one person agree, and, after thinking about it, they backed out.”

UT alumna Nicole Casta-ñon, del Bosque’s childhood friend, said she eagerly agreed to help del Bosque. Castañon said she is lucky to have been able to watch del Bosque’s art develop and grow.

“These charcoal drawings are the most personal things he’s created,” Castañon said.

“Each of the people have their own personalities, but he still managed to bring us to life using just one color.”

UT graduate student Sergio Delgado, another childhood friend, said striking the bal-ance between representing the Mexican-American commu-nity as a whole, and acknowl-edging the differences between individuals, was an important element of the project.

“We’re all from the same cul-ture, but we’re different people,” Delgado said. “By putting us in this artistic space, depicting us in these saint cards, it was something we were all familiar with. It was easy to gravitate toward our own identities. It was able to show that we’re just regular people.”

Del Bosque works to cap-ture the human element of his subjects in hopes his audience identifies with the portraits.

“I hope the portraits will al-low people to recognize some-thing in themselves or some-one they know,” del Bosque said. “I hope it allows them to think more deeply about peo-ple in general and the stories they’re telling with their eyes and expressions.”

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an apple with homemade nut butter or sprinkling cinnamon on stovetop popcorn, to keep you wide awake during that 3 p.m. class.

Dates, a fruit high in fiber and minerals, are found in the bulk or refrigerated sections of grocery stores around Austin. Bliss balls, a combination of

dates and nuts, are an excel-lent option to bust your sweet cravings. Make them on a Sunday and keep them in your fridge to snack on all week long. Dates, although sugary, are full of fiber and minerals that promote overall health, making them the perfect base for a very blissful snack.