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For the 2015 legislative session, the UT System is seeking funding from the Texas Legislature for large infrastructure projects at each of its educational insti-tutions through tuition rev-enue bonds.

In a July meeting, the Board of Regents approved

the System’s plan to request $1.9 billion in tuition rev-enue bonds, also known as TRBs, from state lawmak-ers. UT-Austin’s share in the proposal includes two build-ing renovation projects: $100 million for Welch Hall and $105 million for the Mc-Combs School of Business.

If authorized, the pro-posed TRBs will pledge a revenue stream serviced by

income from tuition charges levied against students with the expectation that the state will later reimburse the expenditures.

Barry McBee, System vice chancellor and chief gov-ernmental relations officer, said the lack of TRBs has contributed to overcrowd-ing in classrooms and more limited access to labora-tories at many of Texas’

public universities. While the System has used fund-ing alternatives, such as the state’s Permanent Univer-sity Fund and philanthropic contributions, to keep some projects afloat, they are not enough to meet all the needs of higher education institu-tions, according to McBee.

“A good example in Aus-tin would be the engineer-ing building; that was a TRB

request last time,” McBee said. “It was the highest pri-ority for UT-Austin, and it was obviously not funded, but we were able to put to-gether funding for the proj-ect to proceed. That prob-ably means that some other priority project on the cam-pus had to be delayed.”

The legislature historically

A research consortium led by the University of Texas Marine Science Institute re-ceived a $9.2 million award to further investigate the effects of dispersants and oil spills in the Gulf of Mexico and their impact on public health.

The seven-institute con-sortium, led by Edward Buskey, UT-Austin marine science professor, received the award from the Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative. Buskey said the award will help the consortium con-tinue its research.

“It’s based on the $500 mil-lion BP pledge for indepen-dent research over 10 years,”

Buskey said. “[The program launched] after the Deepwa-ter Horizon Oil Spill [and is] headed by Rita Colwell.”

According to Buskey, this is the second grant the consortium, Dispersion Research on Oil: Physics and Plankton Studies, has received. Its first set of re-search was funded by the Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative in 2012.

“[In 2012,] they put out a number of proposals and de-cided to have a consortium of universities,” Buskey said. “You’d have people from dif-ferent disciplines working on the project. We got our first grant of about $6 million and then another request for proposals of consortiums

came out. We applied and got funded again. Now, there are 12 consortiums studying some aspect of oil spills.”

Buskey said dispersants are essentially detergents that break up oil, and the Deepwa-ter Horizon spill was the first time dispersants were used.

“They directly applied detergent to the oil as it was coming out of the well. That breaks it up into really small droplets so the small droplets rise really slowly,” Buskey said. “The droplets are so small that they inter-act with marines in the sea base of the food web, like plankton in the sea actually eat them. We’re ending up

African author Taiye Se-lasi spoke at the Symposium for African Writers at the Student Union on Tuesday.

Four other authors sat in the front row to see Selasi, as

she spoke about her inspi-rations, writing techniques and recent exploration of African literature.

Selasi, author of “Ghana Must Go: A Novel” and sev-eral other novels, said her writing reflects that she nev-er quite understood her own

life and her family’s position in the world.

“Our class position was always in question, growing up the way that I did,” Selasi said. “My racial identity, my cultural identity, everything

Student Government voted unanimously to approve its new Code and Rules of Proce-dures at Tuesday’s SG meeting.

The code’s content, which the SG Rules and Regula-tions Committee has been reviewing since September, is a compiled version of SG’s formerly separate bylaws and procedures and serves as a detailed explanation of SG operations and rules. The code is used alongside a more general constitution that was updated last spring.

The formatting of the code has been under review since summer, after controversy over the handling of inter-view notes for external and internal positions last spring. The controversy led to a de-cision by the Office of the Vice President for Legal Af-fairs that releasing interview notes violated the Family Ed-ucational Rights and Privacy Act. The release of interview notes was not discussed at Tuesday’s meeting.

At an SG meeting Nov. 12, SG agency leaders spoke out against an agency review process that was added to the document, saying they were not aware of the addition and asked that the code not be passed until they voiced their concerns and suggestions.

“It’s good to reevaluate what agencies do and make sure they are still relevant in serv-ing students, but I personally had an issue with the makeup of that committee,” said Am-ber Magee, Diversity and In-clusion agency director.

Rules and Regulation committee members said

As the Cockrell School of Engineering aims to achieve gender balance in its classrooms, some en-gineering women still feel outnumbered.

According to statistics from the Women in Engi-neering Program, or WEP, the gap is largest in the electrical, aerospace and mechanical engineering de-partments, where, this fall, 15.0, 15.4 and 18.8 percent of undergraduate students are women, respectively.

“Those departments are really focused on trying to improve that gap because, if I look at biomedical engi-neering, it’s over 40 percent women, but mechanical and electrical are under 20 percent,” Cockrell School dean Sharon Wood said. “So, if your two biggest de-partments are the ones with the smallest ratios, that’s where the efforts are being concentrated.”

While there is a large number of women in bio-medical engineering senior Samantha Collins’ biomedi-cal engineering courses — where 44.9 percent of

undergraduate enrollees are female — courses she has taken in electrical en-gineering have been male- dominated.

“There were definitely some girls in there, but

it wasn’t as well-distrib-uted as the BME classes,” Collins said.

Civil engineering senior Kirstin Rose said she was one of two girls in a me-chanical engineering design

course she took her fresh-man year. She said her civil engineering courses tend to be more gender balanced, but there are still more male students.

According to WEP, 38.3

percent of the undergradu-ate civil engineering stu-dents are women.

To combat the gender imbalances in mechanical

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Taiye Selasi is the author of “Ghana

Must Go: A Nov-el” and several

other novels and short stories. She

spoke about her inspirations and techniques used in her stories at the Symposium

for African Writers in the Student

Union on Tuesday afternoon.

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was always in question.”Selasi said that, while class

position remained a constant question in her everyday life, the hospital where her parents worked as doctors showed a different picture.

“The one thing that was clear to me, even as a young person, when I went to the hospital, was that all peo-ple were equal,” Selasi said. “Strangely, the hospital — the illness, it occurs to me now — became this space in which color and class did not exist.”

Selasi said her stories rarely move in an organized, linear method because it is not natural.

“I think that I had a sort of constitutional impatience with purely linear narrative,” Selasi said. “I think ‘Driver’ is the only thing I’ve ever written, including my jour-nal entries, that just goes from point A to point Z. My mind doesn’t work that way, I am not convinced that any-

one’s mind works that way.”English lecturer Aaron

Bady said Selasi’s writing brings a different perspec-tive to African culture.

“An important part of what she’s doing is writ-ing about middle-class Af-rica, writing about Africans outside of the narratives through which Africanness is traditionally construed in the media, but in a way that is not triumphant — it’s just very human,” Bady said.

English professor emeri-tus Bernth Lindfors said ever since Chinua Achebe — the first African author to visit

UT — spoke in 1969, students have developed new perspec-tives and garnered greater in-terest in African literature.

“It was important for our students to address him about the literature he had written,” Lindfors said. “He had pub-lished four fast-breaking nov-els by that time and was a well-known figure who contributed enormously to the awareness of students not only about Nigerian politics — what was going on in Nigeria at the time — but also an insight into what African writers were doing to address some of the problems in their own society.”

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agency members were given opportunities to add input on the code, and the stu-dents went into debate. The code failed to pass and was subsequently sent back to the committee for further review and agency input.

Before Tuesday’s meet-ing, SG representatives and agency representatives have been meeting with the Rules and Regulations committee to address such changes to the document.

“We asked everyone to send in amendments, com-ments, etc., and our com-mittee took input for every single one,” said Melysa Barth, Rules and Regula-tions committee chair. “We met, I want to say, five or six times from the last time we were up here, so we did

spend a lot of time not only hearing everyone come to our meetings and talk to us, but, also, we went through them and the code making sure it was up to snuff.”

According to the code, the review process required agency members to be as-sessed on performance by “Student Body President, Student Body Vice Presi-dent, Speaker of the Assem-bly, Two Representatives from the Assembly chosen by the Speaker, the Agency’s Policy Director, and the ex-officio member being the Deputy to the Dean of Stu-dents” every other year.

The new version also clar-ifies that agency directors can amend the information in the document about their specific agency.

“There is a very nice amendment process in [the new code],” Magee said. “You can just submit it through the policy direc-tor and the chief of staff, so I feel like the Rules and Regulations committee was very gracious in giving us time with the whole assem-bly to work on it.”

Braydon Jones, SG speaker of the assembly, said the assembly board will meet during winter break to determine what next semester will look like under the new code.

“These rules are going to take immediate effect,” Jones said. “So we are at these guidelines now, fortunately. They will be sent to the Of-fice of the Dean of Students as well the Vice President of Student Affairs for final ap-proval, but we’re going to be functioning under these now unless otherwise told.”

engineering, the Cockrell School began an initiative in January to increase the number of women entering the program to 35 percent in five years.

WEP has also developed programs such as “Intro-duce a Girl to Engineering Day,” which gives young girls the opportunity to come to the UT campus to meet professors and learn about engineering.

WEP director Tricia Ber-ry said the program has also designed initiatives to reach out to female high school students admitted into the engineering college.

“At the Cockrell-school level we also phone call, email and meet female pro-spective students and admit-ted students all in an effort to recruit them to come,” Berry said in an email.

According to Berry,

since WEP started in 1992, the percentage of women in the Cockrell School has grown from 16 to 25 percent.

“[The growth] is from the fact that there has been these outreach activities over a long period of time — over 15 years of trying to get kids excited and thinking of engineering as an opportu-nity,” Wood said.

Wood said the growth in the number of wom-en studying engineering could also be attributed to the most recent finan-cial crisis, since most people who get out of college today don’t want to worry about finding a good job along with a burdening debt.

“Engineering gives that stability in jobs, and plus there was all that press about how many more engineers we’re going to need as we move forward,” Wood said.

with a mathematical model that will predict what [will] happen when you use dis-persants and where it’ll go and how it will affect the food web. We’re trying to do a cost-benefit analysis.”

Zhanfei Liu, marine sci-ence assistant professor, worked closely with Buskey to analyze how hydrocar-bons can be degraded in the Gulf of Mexico.

“It’s all new research. There’s a lot of things we don’t know,” Liu said. “When you have oil spill in the gulf, we still have no idea how long oil persists or can degrade. We can’t make predictions. Or another way to look at it is whether you want to apply dispersant or not. There’s a lot of debate.”

In the Dec. 2 edition of The Daily Texan, an article on professors becoming members of the American Association for the Advancement of Science incorrectly quoted Arumugam Manthiram. The quote should have been, “My research focuses on new materials which can lower the costs and enhance the operational life.”

Graeme Hamilton | Daily Texan StaffStudent Government President Kori Rady speaks about spring semester plans for SG at the SAC on Tuesday evening.

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UT researchers have discov-ered a network of genes that could work together to help predict alcohol dependence.

Sean Farris, postdoctoral fellow at the Waggoner Cen-ter for Alcohol and Addic-tion Research, led the study. He said scientists focused on identifying one gene in pre-vious research, whereas, as the study showed, it is actu-ally a network of genes that work together to determine alcohol dependence.

“At the beginning of our study, we sought out to char-acterize changes in gene expressions of alcoholics in comparison to non-alco-holics,” Farris said. “These changes in gene expression may be due to alcohol and other factors — not just in-herited genetic factors. Our approach was able to identify a co-expressed gene network associated with the lifetime consumption of alcohol.”

According to Farris, the study, published this week in the journal Molecular Psychi-atry, involved the comparison of genetic code from brain tis-

sue of alcoholics and non-al-coholics. Using this compari-son, Farris said the researchers discovered a network of genes that co-expressed together in individuals that consume the most alcohol.

“This provides the most comprehensive picture to date of the gene sets that drive alcohol dependence,” said R. Adron Harris, direc-tor of the Waggoner Center, in a statement. “We now have a much clearer picture of where specific traits re-

lated to alcohol dependence overlap with specific expres-sions in genetic code.”

The study aimed to iden-tify genetic networks related to alcohol dependence and start developing pharmaco-therapies for excessive alco-hol consumption, Farris said.

“We hope our model can serve as a type of Wikipe-dia of alcohol dependence, helping to break down the complexities of alcohol de-pendence and becoming a reference for future research

into drug therapies,” Farris said in a statement.

Farris said several re-searchers from the College of Natural Sciences contrib-uted to the study, which the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism sup-ported and funded through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.

“We hope that with these findings we will continue with further research to de-velop a new treatment for alcohol abuse,” Farris said.

At a lecture Tuesday, lin-guists from the University of Gothenburg in Sweden discussed their research on the existence of Swedes and the Swedish language in the United States.

Swedish professor Benja-min Lyngfelt and doctoral student Henrietta Adams-son Eryd, both from the University of Gothenburg, discussed their current project in the United States, which consists of record-ing interviews with present day American Swedes to capture the different types of Swedish dialects within the U.S.

According to Lyngfelt and Eryd, more than a mil-lion Swedes immigrated to the United States in the late 19th and early 20th cen-turies. While this meant there once was a large pop-ulation of Swedish-speak-ing individuals in America, there are currently only a few Swedish-speaking communities left.

“It was shocking to find out that the majority of those who speak Swedish live in rural areas, and it makes sense,” Lyngfelt said. “If you live in the city, you interact with more Ameri-cans and adapt to them — you’re more likely to speak English.”

Collecting data is im-portant because it has to be done before there are no more native Swedish

speakers within the United States descending from the migrating generations, ac-cording to Eryd. Interviews are conducted in Swedish, and then data is collected on the speaker’s back-ground and its relation to the manner in which he or she speaks.

Eryd said the process of searching for a word and asking questions such as, “What’s it called?” are all clear indicators that Swedish is no longer their dominant language.

Eryd and Lyngfelt have been able to collect data within Texas during the cur-rent U.S. trip.

“We’ve made some in-terviews already, and we’re very glad to be in Texas,” Eryd said. “We met with more people than we thought we would and found that Swedish is alive in Texas. The visits will be used in my studies.”

Economics junior Rachel Iwanicki said hearing about the Swedish language and its attributes is different and more helpful when it is from a native Swede.

“Having Swedish native speakers helps us learn about an outside culture aside from learning it from just the American perspective,” Iwanicki said. “For example, my Swedish professor is an American grad student and he studied abroad, so, while he informed us about ev-erything, it is not the same as hearing it from a native speaker.”

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Amy Zhang | Daily Texan StaffUniversity of Gothenburg doctoral student Henrietta Adams-son Eryd, in Burdine Hall on Tuesday afternoon, discusses her research on the Swedish language.

Photo courtesy of Martha BerkmanSean Farris, postdoctoral fellow at the Waggoner Center for Alcohol and Addiction Re-search, led a study to indentify genes that could determine alcohol dependence.

TRBcontinues from page 1passed new TRB legislation every other session, but law-makers have not authorized new TRBs since a special session in 2006. Up until 2013, TRBs were consistent-ly passed over because of budget concerns, according to McBee.

“Higher education collec-tively had an expectation in 2009 that we would return to what we call a TRB session,” McBee said. “But it was re-ally something the state just could not afford at that time and it was sort of cut off again in 2011.”

In 2013, the House of

Representatives and Senate proposed different versions of TRB legislation but, in the last days of the session, failed to pass a bill. McBee said 2015 is the next opportunity to negotiate with legislators over the need for state sup-port for construction.

State Sen. Kel Seliger, R-Amarillo, filed Senate Bill 150, a $2.86 billion proposal that would fund 64 con-struction and renovation projects at higher education institutions across the state with cash either from direct appropriation or from the Rainy Day Fund, a savings fund that allows the state to set aside surpluses in revenue for use in times of unexpected

revenue shortfall.Another construction fi-

nancing bill, filed by State Sen. Judith Zaffirini, D-Lare-do, proposes roughly $5 bil-lion for infrastructure proj-ects, according to Seliger.

“If we’re going to take mon-ey from the Rainy Day Fund, which I think is a legitimate way to do it, a $2.85 billion dollar subtraction is far more feasible than something over $5 billion,” Seliger said.

Sean Griffin, Zaffirini’s chief of staff, said Zaffirini wanted to take a broader approach with her bill, po-tentially granting institu-tions more funding. The bill’s cost will likely change to re-flect the legislature’s budget

and priorities. “Our bill is different be-

cause we want to discuss it with the entire legislature; it’s an open discussion of where we should put our resources,” Griffin said.

Seliger said he believes his bill, if passed, will help universities make significant progress in terms of infra-structure without piling on excess debt.

“I’m not a big believer in debt,” Seliger said. “I think it appropriates forward to the tune of $200-250 mil-lion dollars every biennium for a long time, and, if you have the cash for one-time projects to fund and then not deal with again, I think that’s

a good opportunity.” University spokesman

Gary Susswein said TRBs are an important factor in funding new building con-struction as well as keeping tuition stable.

“We used these bonds to build the Seay Building in the late 1990s and the Nor-man Hackerman Building in the late 2000s,” Susswein said. “These facilities have ensured that our students and faculty have access to state-of-the-art lab space and classrooms.”

According to Susswein, the failure to pass TRB leg-islation in recent years has made it more difficult for the University to maintain state-

of-the-art facilities. “Our goal of becoming the

top public research institu-tion in the nation is far more difficult to achieve without access to adequate funding, including tuition revenue bonds,” Susswein said.

McBee said he is cautious-ly optimistic that lawmakers will approve TRB legislation in the upcoming session.

“We recognize legislators have to make difficult deci-sions about funding Med-icaid and roads, and public education, and higher educa-tion,” McBee said. “We would hope that the collective voice of higher education pointing out our needs will be persua-sive to the legislature.”

since WEP started in 1992, the percentage of women in the Cockrell School has grown from 16 to 25 percent.

“[The growth] is from the fact that there has been these outreach activities over a long period of time — over 15 years of trying to get kids excited and thinking of engineering as an opportu-nity,” Wood said.

Wood said the growth in the number of wom-en studying engineering could also be attributed to the most recent finan-cial crisis, since most people who get out of college today don’t want to worry about finding a good job along with a burdening debt.

“Engineering gives that stability in jobs, and plus there was all that press about how many more engineers we’re going to need as we move forward,” Wood said.

In 2005, higher education institutions ini-tially requested $3.1 billion in tuition revenue bond authority for 119 projects, requiring an annual debt service of $286.7 million. The Legislature did not act on these requests during the regular session.

In 2006, the Legislature requested that the Coordinating Board develop new criteria by which TRB projects could be evaluated for funding decisions. A total of 155 proposals valued at $4.5 billion were resubmitted for review and the Legislature approved 63 proj-ects, totaling $1.86 billion.

After there were no approved TRBs in 2009, institu-tions of higher education again submitted TRB proj-ect requests during the 2011 and the 2013 legisla-tive sessions. Legislation was filed but not approved.

On Nov. 10, Senators Judith Zaffirini, D-Laredo, and Kel Seliger, R-Amarillo, filed bills related to the issuance of rev-enue bonds to fund capital projects at public institutions of higher education.

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After the Nov. 24 decision by a grand jury not to indict Darren Wilson, the former Fer-guson, Missouri, police officer who fatally shot Michael Brown, tensions ran high among the citizens of Ferguson as well as across the na-tion. The majority of protesters have no per-sonal connection to the Browns but recognize a bigger issue at stake. While there are mixed opinions on whether Wilson was justified in his act, there is an undeniable trend of black males being killed by police. Those who have taken to the streets have the right idea in mind, but could potentially be more effective with different approaches.

The majority of protest coverage came from the neighborhoods of Ferguson, with a stream of images and video of burning buildings, looting and seemingly out-of-control crowds. An expected symptom of contemporary sen-sationalized news, many media outlets por-trayed Brown supporters as criminals and animals, although the majority of the protests were peaceful. While the surface level showed violence, even a cursory examination reveals the fervor is an outlet for long-felt pain and suffering. This story is bigger than Brown. In the eyes of protesters, it’s the thousands of oth-ers like him — unarmed, with only their race as a trigger.

Although instances of arrest and police brutality occur against every racial and ethnic group, the percentage of African-American and Latino victims is disproportionately high in relation to their make-up of the population, especially in drug-related cases. There aren’t statistics proving the racial motivations or bias in these cases, but the racial correlation supported by the data is eerie. After months of protesting with only heavy military and po-lice force as a response, these people wanted

to be heard in any way possible. But instead of compassionately portraying the hurt that the protesters feel, the media painted them as monsters, wild and out of control rather than merely exasperated.

An unspoken yet ubiquitous societal man-tra teaches that African Americans are not en-tirely human and therefore more dangerous, just another reason intentionally or uninten-tionally racist officers, in fear for their lives, will grab for the gun in lieu of using a slower, less lethal method. Violent revolt will only re-inforce racial stereotypes and worsen the situ-ation. Everyone has a right to be angry about the loss of human life, but it’s the reaction that defines individuals, and even an entire cause.

The variety of protests over the decision mirror those of the Civil Rights Movement a little over 60 years ago, with the peaceful peti-tioning aligning with Martin Luther King Jr.’s philosophy and the more radical opposition with Malcolm X’s. The two symbolize what can be seen as a nonviolent versus violent ap-proach to change. Both men were great lead-ers in the movement, although King’s ideology was arguably more effective with its persever-ance and refusal to give in to anger. We see the same stark differences today between the vari-ous protests in response to Ferguson and other similar incidents. And again, King’s methods will prove to be more effective in combating the racial prejudices that spark police violence against racial and ethnic minorities.

Austinites and UT students were perfect models of how to put King’s teachings into practice as they organized and stood in soli-darity Nov. 25. The chants of “Protect black life” and “Black lives matter” not only diffused the message of their marches to passersby, but demanded the attention of the Austin Police Department, which has its own record of us-ing lethal force against black and Latino men. Writing letters to local and state officials, peacefully protesting and most of all exercis-ing patience and perseverance are key to erod-ing the system of bias that perpetuates the continued loss of life. Racial prejudices weren’t formed overnight, so it can’t be expected that their extinction will be a swift process. Clearly, the peaceful widespread opposition is making a difference, as Wilson recently announced his resignation from the police department. Again, the most important motif in these events is solidarity to address the widespread issue of racism. The anger and hurt of one demographic alone cannot change the status quo. Every group needs to stand together to stop injustice and do so in a peaceful manner.

Griffin is a journalism freshman from Houston.

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I don’t know if the grand jury investiga-tion into former Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson’s actions in shooting and killing Mike Brown was a sham. A big part of me thinks it was. I don’t think that the flood of more than a thousand pages of doc-uments to the grand jury was reasonable. In fact, I think it was a debilitating hindrance for those responsible for drawing meaning from the chaos of Aug. 9. I don’t think that the lack of diversity of the members of the grand jury created the greatest opportunity for justice to be served. Furthermore, its composition of nine white members and three black members certainly didn’t put the watching masses in a position to trust its decision. These factors have greatly swayed my view of the grand jury’s proceedings, but I remain unresolved for one important rea-son: I don’t believe that anyone knows what actually happened when Michael Brown met Darren Wilson because of the abundance of conflicting testimonies from eyewitnesses whose words could have had sovereign pow-er, if only they had all said the same thing. In that regard, at least, the proceedings of the grand jury undoubtedly failed. I wish I knew if the grand jury of Darren Wilson saw justice served, but I don’t. Whether in the riots that followed the grand jury’s decision or in the courtroom itself, I think people are working for the interests of their own group when we should be working together.

I don’t believe that Michael Brown de-served to die because he shoplifted a pack of cigarillos and assaulted the store clerk, a charge that has been laid against those who, like me, continue to question exactly what happened that day. Many have argued that Wilson should not have shot to kill, a heavy-handed charge on the coattails of the irrefut-able fact that there is too much police bru-tality. If it was a fight to the death, as Wilson asserted, I couldn’t agree that he shouldn’t have exercised his maximum potential for self-defense. But I do believe that Brown’s fate was written the minute he reached for Wilson’s gun, and that’s because our society has empowered the police to make that de-cision time and again. Herein lies the true problem with which our society must wres-tle as we move forward.

I don’t believe that the riots in Ferguson are about Michael Brown. I believe that the crowd’s rage is about a deeper problem in America that the crowd is responding to — maybe an institutional problem or a social problem, but probably both. A mob does not decide someone’s innocence or guilt; a

jury does. I believe that owing to a mix of past social and institutional grievances, the crowd isn’t able to trust the legitimacy of the grand jury’s decision. Such widespread civilian suspicion is formidable. The law is supposed to serve and protect all of its citi-zens. It is a powerful systemic failure when citizens can’t believe that it does.

So why aren’t we talking about it? A true dialogue about race in America isn’t taking place in an instance that demonstrates a tre-mendous need for it, just fumbling narratives by newscasters wrestling with the affair’s complexity and radio silence from Ameri-can leadership. It’s no secret that America’s legacy of subordination of minorities has created an atmosphere in which whites and minority groups cannot talk frankly about contemporary race relations. Living in the 21st century, it is remarkable that it persists but the burn of Ferguson’s riots and national rage is a blistering reminder of how closed off racial groups in America are to each oth-er. As a white woman, in the face of so much rage because of the injustices and harm that my racial group has caused, I feel, and have been made to feel by my peers, that I am not entitled to have an opinion and certainly not entitled to express it. That feeling, which I am sure has been experienced by members of every racial group in America, will per-petuate inter-community silence, which is a tremendous danger to our collective future. The riots in Ferguson as well as Dallas and Austin are a polarizing force. They have a destructive capacity far greater than any quantifiable damage in the riots themselves. The rage of the rioting and silencing capac-ity of white guilt has closed the conversa-tion before it could even start. For whatever reason, American leadership has allowed a legitimate dialogue to stay unhad, but we can’t let it continue. We have a dire need to understand the mistakes happening every day, every hour. We have a desperate need to fix them so that we are never faced with the ethical quagmire of Michael Brown’s shooting and Darren Wilson’s questionable grand jury again. But we aren’t having that conversation.

I am mad about what’s going on in my country. I am not mad at the rioters — my feeling would be better characterized as profound disappointment at the squander-ing of finite American sympathy — but I am furious at the continuation of a racial war that Americans have too much heart and promise to let continue. I am ashamed of what’s happening in my country. I am sad. But most importantly, no matter your color or mine, I am with you. Let me show you. Let’s talk.

Smith is a history junior from Austin.

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Protests should stay peaceful in response to no indictment

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Marshall Tidrick | Daily Texan StaffUT alumna Mayte Salazar protests the Ferguson decision in front of the Texas State Capitol Nov. 25. Hundreds of protesters marched from the Austin Police Department headquarters to the Capitol building.

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Music school stuck in wrong era

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Although instances of arrest and police brutality occur against every racial and ethnic group, the per-centage of African-American and Latino victims is disproportionately high in relation to their make-up of the population, especially in drug-related cases.

As a (very busy) designer of K-12 and higher education music technology curriculum pro-grams around the country, and as an alum of UT Austin, I find [the music school’s freezing of admissions to the music recording technology and music business programs] so out of touch with the current and future music culture as to be sadly humorous (and it clearly illustrates the administration’s lack of foresight). I am per-sonally ashamed that the UT administration is so backward-thinking. Why cut out the ONLY music program a student has a chance of mak-ing a decent living in music with and force a 300-year-old dead music microcosm on our students (who blindly trust UT to show the way for their musical financial future)? Hate to say it, but classical musicians today are not moving forward, and many can never get well-paying jobs. Yet there are myriad opportuni-ties in the production, recording and music business industries right inside Austin itself!

Are the heads of the UT adminstration so archaic that they don’t realize classical music is an elitist dead-end in terms of job prospects? Taking away the Music Recording Technol-ogy and Music Business programs at the But-ler School of Music to focus on classical mu-sic is like eliminating the business programs in the McCombs School of Business to focus on telegraph production and manufacturing techniques (yeah, telegraph!). UT was making good strides during the past few years in trying to catch up with the ‘80s and was close to get-ting there, e.g., senior lecturer Gary Powell’s In-tro to Audio Recording class. With the discon-tinuation of the recording and music business program, UT has slunk back to the myopic and misguided focus of classical music only, a la the ‘70s — days when I played the harp and organ as a UT student because there wasn’t an electric or electronic instrument anywhere in sight (and forget recording back then — just

like next semester. I guess that’s progress, folks, back to the ‘70s!). Maybe in the ‘20s UT can once again try to catch up with the ‘80s or even the ‘90s. Even in Fort Wayne, Indiana, where the music industry and recording industry are minimal at best, we have a thriving music tech-nology program at the University of St. Fran-cis that houses about 130 recording and music business students and another music technol-ogy/recording program at Indiana University - Purdue University Fort Wayne, with about 80 students (also soon to unveil a master’s in music technology). They mostly all get placed into decent jobs, with benefits! That’s on the strength of the music tech and recording in-dustries now, growing ever more present every day. Can you say iTunes?

Does the UT administration not know what most people (read: their kids!) spend their time doing? Answer: listening to music or trying to listen to music (and very little of it is classical music)! All that music has to be written, re-corded, mixed, mastered, duplicated (posted), distributed, marketed, sold and attached rights to, and somebody gets paid to do each step (not to mention the same job-inducing processes for all the hundreds of hours of new music daily on cable and web shows!). Since the UT administration has abolished the only truly forward-looking music degree program, UT Austin students will not be able to participate in the new music economy until UT’s adminis-trators gets their heads out of the 18th century. So ironically sad, especially since it’s due to ambiguous “budget cuts” from one of the rich-est universities on the planet in the middle of one of the foremost music economy cities on the planet.

— UT alumus Kenny Bergle, in response to Eleanor Dearman’s Monday article titled “Butler School of Music removes programs in response to budget cuts.”

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Reilley noted the defi-cit of women in leader-ship positions in science and technology fields and in business.

“Even in the most pro-gressive companies, the percentage of women managers and women ex-ecutives lags behind the percentage of women in the workforce,” Reilley said. “I have observed that women are less apt to mar-ket their skills, abilities and talents in the work-place, and that’s one of the

reasons I’m a proponent of mentoring.”

Leadership and the vis-ibility of women in STEM fields can play help even out the gender gap, according to Reilley.

“There is a lot of opportu-nity, but it requires concert-ed effort early in the educa-tional process,” Reilley said. “Female mentors can be valuable because they can help give younger women perspective and offer a con-structive space to evaluate their strengths and areas that need development.”

Reilley recently attended a youth business forum at UT, and the number of students interested in globalization and

international volunteer ser-vice encouraged her.

“I would encourage young men and women to consider factors like how a prospec-tive organization’s values align with their values,” Reilley said. “I have had the opportunity to partici-pate in projects that I really believe in.”

John Buchholz is a former colleague of Reilley’s who now works at Pitney Bowes in Stamford, Connecticut.

“What’s impressive about [Reilley] is how fearless she is,” Buchholz said. “She is comfortable counseling the company’s senior-most ex-ecutives and traveling across the globe to represent IBM to those in need.”

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room throughout the process with this group of fantastic women has been an enormous gift,” Suter said. “The first mo-ment when I got to say, ‘How do you think your character might say that?’ was important.”

Nicole Oglesby, a the-atre and dance and Eng-lish junior who plays the character Raquel in “Hold Me Well,” said a group ef-fort went into producing the play.

“There are some very in-tense moments in the play that have challenged us as a group,” Oglesby said. “We

are all really passionate about the work and eager to work together to make ‘Hold Me Well’ as beautiful as it can possibly be.”

MFA playwriting alumna Katie Bender, the director of the play, said the cast and crew have a bond with the

play itself.“[We] are all figuring

out the story in the room together,” Bender said. “I think we all feel an invest-ment in the piece that we might not feel if we had been working on Shakespeare or Chekhov.”

“Mix the ingredients in a pressure-sealed vessel like a pressure cooker and add the liquid nitrogen while churn-ing,” Mukerji said. “The [ni-trogen] will boil off into the atmosphere as soon as you open the lid, leaving no trac-es of nitrogen.”

Mukerji, a member of the International Gastron-omy Society, said Spun Ice Cream would not be the first place to use liquid ni-trogen. Sub Zero Ice Cream and Yogurt, which also uses liquid nitrogen to make its ice cream, opened in 2004 in Utah and has expanded to Texas. But Christina said locally sourced and organic ingredients will set Spun apart from other shops

like it.“[Using liquid nitrogen]

wasn’t just for show, but it made a big difference in flavor and texture,” Ashley said. “Because we can make the ice cream fresh to or-der, it also means we don’t need to use preservatives or stabilizers.”

The sisters’ ice cream par-lor will also put a heavier focus on their homemade seasonal toppings, such as old-fashioned pie crumble, candied citrus confetti and Texas pecan brittle. Chris-tina said she’ll be using the nitrogen-spun ice cream as more of a canvas to ex-periment with fun topping ideas and unexpected flavor combinations.

“The beauty of using liq-uid nitrogen is that the fla-vors come out really pure and intense,” Christina said. “We’re sourcing our milk, nuts, herbs, chocolate as sus-tainably and locally as possi-ble, so we want the purity of those ingredients to shine.”

Ashley said, even though she and her sister are famil-iar with the restaurant in-dustry, this ice cream shop is totally different from what their parents did. She said there are days when they feel like they don’t know what they’re doing, but that’s why she’s so glad they are in it together.

“Food is how we commu-nicate in our family,” Ashley said. “It’s just what we do.”

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The Texas basketball big men dominated the paint on defense all night long.

Their performance proved to be just enough to allow the Longhorns to overcome their sloppiest offensive perfor-mance of the season and eke out a closer-than-expected 63-53 win over UT-Arlington.

No. 6 Texas recorded a school-record-tying 13 blocks, including eight in the first half, while out-rebounding the Mavericks 52-25. Freshman forward Myles Turner and his five blocks led the Longhorns and forced UT-Arlington to settle for shots outside the lane throughout the game. The Mavericks finished the game just 20-of-55 from the field.

The Texas offense made just 18-of-60 field-goal at-tempts, good for a season-low 30 field-goal percentage. It marked the third game in its last five that Texas got off to a slow start offensively. The Longhorns began the game just 2-of-14 from the field, including 1-of-9 from beyond the 3-point arc, and trailed 15-7 after 6-and-a-half minutes.

“We came out slow,” senior forward Jonathan Holmes said. “We’ve got to do a bet-ter job.”

Texas went on a 32-13 scoring run from there to enter halftime with a 39-28 lead. But the Mavericks kept hanging around. They made just enough shots to take advantage of the Longhorns’ struggles and keep it close, trailing by as few as 5 points with under 7 minutes remaining in the game.

“[Head coach Rick Barnes] really just wanted us to put this one away and get ready for the next game because this is behind us,” Turner

said. “We’re going to watch film and get better from it.”

Turner was the only player to score in double digits for either team, tallying 18 points despite connecting on only 2-of-10 shots. He went 14-of-17 from the free-throw line.

Holmes tied his career high with 16 rebounds to lead Texas, but he scored 9 points on 3-of-11 shoot-ing and went just 1-of-7 on 3-pointers. Junior center Cameron Ridley had another down game, grabbing just two rebounds after failing to

record any Sunday against UConn. He played 17 min-utes, his fourth consecutive game of under 20 minutes.

The narrow victory was alarming for Texas, consid-ering that No. 1 Kentucky dominated UT-Arlington in its 92-44 victory last week. The Longhorns take on the Wildcats in Lexington on Friday, but Holmes said the players weren’t looking ahead during their game against the Mavericks.

“We made a conscious effort,” Holmes said. “We

watched a lot of film on these guys. We game planned for this game just like we game plan for every other game. We talked amongst ourselves that this team isn’t someone we can look over because they play really hard.”

With the victory, the Longhorns improved to 7-0 on the season and 4-0 at home. They know they’ll have to play much better Fri-day against Kentucky, which is widely considered the na-tion’s best team, to keep their undefeated season alive.

The fourth-ranked Longhorns women’s bas-ketball team will continue its six-game home stand at the Frank Erwin Center on Wednesday at 7 p.m. against New Mexico.

Texas, now 5-0, ended a five-game losing skid against Tennessee with its win over the Lady Volun-teers on Sunday.

The Longhorns had four players score in double digits, including senior forward Nneka Enemk-pali, who scored 17 points for Texas. Freshman guard Ariel Atkins scored 12 and sophomore guard Brianna Taylor followed with 11.

For Enemkpali, there was only one more chance to break the losing streak against Tennessee.

“It feels amazing,” Enem-kpali said. “We have to stay humble and remember this is just the beginning.”

Texas led 30-20 at half-time. Sophomore center Kelsey Lang scored an impressive 18 points and Texas continued its blazing start with a 72-59 win.

“I have gained so much confidence because they have confidence in me,” Lang said. “I couldn’t do what I do without my teammates giving me the kinds of passes that they have been giving me.”

Texas claimed its sec-ond consecutive Phillips 66 Big 12 honor this week when Lang was named

Phillips 66 Big 12 Player of the Week, one week after Enemkpali was given the same title.

Head coach Karen Aston believes her players’ efforts are paying off, allowing a special era of basketball to unfold at Texas this season.

Texas has beaten two top-10 teams, including Stanford, in just five games this season.

Texas moved up two spots to No. 4 in the As-sociated Press Top 25 on Monday. It is the Long-horns’ highest ranking in both polls since December 2008 (No. 4/4) after start-ing the season 11-0.

An injury report con-firms junior center Imani McGee-Stafford is not cleared to participate Wednesday because of a leg injury.

Texas will put its win streak on the line against the 1-5 Lobos.

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Freshman forward Myles Turner (52) was the only Texas player to score in double digits on Tuesday against UT-Arlington.

The men’s basketball team found itself in a close one against an unranked UT-Arlington team but pulled out a 63-53 vic-tory in the end. Freshman forward Myles Turner led the Longhorns with an 18 point, 10 rebound double-double. Here are some notes from Tuesday’s game.

Javan Felix’s left footNear the end of the first

half, junior guard Javan Felix went down and was slow to get up. The play continued as Felix lay on the ground clutching his left foot — the same one that caused him to miss the game against St. Fran-cis last Tuesday. He walked off the court under his own power before being examined by the medical staff. He returned before halftime and appeared to be all right. Head coach Rick Barnes acknowledged that Felix is banged up but didn’t seem too concerned. He will go against Kentucky on Friday.

Texas’ poor 3-point shooting

Going 5-27 (18.5 per-cent) from deep may have cut it against a weaker

UT-Arlington squad, but it won’t against Kentucky or the majority of the Big 12 teams on Texas’ sched-ule. Senior forward Jona-than Holmes connected on just 1-of-7. Felix only got 1-of-4. Those are Tex-as’ two best shooters. The shots weren’t contested, forced shots, either, as many of them were wide-open looks.

“We had so many wide-open shots,” Barnes said. “Some nights they don’t go in.”

Jordan Barnett and Damarcus Croaker struggle

The two wings have found themselves in Barnes’ doghouse. With a lesser opponent, UT-Ar-lington, in town, though, they got some minutes and did nothing to im-prove their chances of getting into the rotation. Barnett, a 6-foot-6 fresh-man wing forward, went 0-for-6 from the field in 8 minutes. Barnett is still struggling to hit shots from the corner pocket — which was supposed to be his shot. Croaker splashed an early three then disap-peared. He finished with a team-worst +/- of -7 in just 4 minutes, including a bad shot on 3-point heave

that no one expected — drawing the ire of Barnes.

Kendal Yancy’s emer-gence

Sophomore guard Ken-dal Yancy is stepping up at just the right time. He was the most efficient Long-horn guard Tuesday night, notching 9 points on 3-of-5 shooting in 30 minutes. His +17 was the best on the team as the offense seemed to thrive while he was playing. Since sopho-more guard Isaiah Taylor went down, Yancy’s min-utes have more than dou-bled, and he’s made the most of them.

Ridley’s disappearanceStarting junior center

Cameron Ridley recorded only two rebounds against UT-Arlington in just 17 minutes. That’s two more rebounds than he got at UConn. He’s found his way to the bench, as Barnes goes to Turner more and more. Ridley’s disappearance isn’t a re-sult of foul trouble either. Yes, UTA did have a small-er lineup on the floor, but Ridley still got three early touches deep in the post and didn’t do much with them.

“He’s not confident right now,” Barnes said.

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When writing gradu-ate student Eva Suter steps into a darkened theater, she sees more than a stage and rows of seats; she sees a place where a kind of magic happens.

“Theater is the home of cheap magic,” Suter said. “Not like sleight of hand — but more the way that fish-ing line can make an object fly, or a person can trans-form into a whole other be-ing in front of your eyes.”

Suter completed her undergraduate degree at

Western Washington Uni-versity and then spent time working in Portland before moving to Austin to study at UT’s Michener Center for Writers. At the center, she is a Master’s of Fine Arts can-didate in writing with a con-centration on playwriting.

“There’s something magi-cal in the coming together of all the parts to make a play happen,” Suter said. “I like that what is on the page is more of a map to a place than the whole world contained.”

Suter’s play, “Hold Me Well,” will be showcased Thursday and Saturday

as part of UT New The-atre, an annual presenta-tion of work by third-year students in UT’s MFA in Playwriting program.

“Hold Me Well” tells the story of a group of women protecting a cooler contain-ing the last hope for hu-manity’s future after a war wipes out the half of the human population with a Y-chromosome.

“[‘Hold Me Well’] start-ed out as a bit of a project of stealing the plot from ‘Othello’ and combining with it influences from ’70s feminist science fiction and a slew of other things,”

Suter said. “You throw a lot of things in the pot some-times and stir it around and see what comes of it.”

Suter said she came up with the concept for her play the year before she moved to Austin.

“I read a lot of real science stuff, and I grew up reading science fiction,” Suter said. “Movies and vague memo-ries of TV shows [influence me] as often as theater.”

Feedback from the direc-tor and actors has played a huge role in shaping the progression of “Hold Me

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Xintong Guo | Daily Texan Staff Writing graduate student Eva Suter’s original play, “Hold Me Well,” will be showcased Thursday and Saturday as part of UT New Theatre. Suter believes theater is magic that can make objects transform in front of people’s eyes.

Sisters set to serve up nitrogen-spun ice cream

Sisters Ashley and Chris-tina Cheng grew up play-ing in their kitchen, trying to impress each other with whatever weird concoction they could invent. Now that they’ve grown up, they’re showing the rest of the world what they can make — ice cream.

Spun Ice Cream, open-ing early 2015, will make its ice cream using a technique called “spinning,” in which liquid nitrogen mixes with cream and flavorings. The nitrogen freezes the water molecules in the milk, turn-ing liquid to creamy ice in under than a minute. Spun will be located in a shopping center off East Seventh and Chicon streets.

Christina and Ashley are familiar with what it takes to make a restaurant successful. Their parents own and oper-ate Chinatown restaurants, which have several locations around Austin. Growing up

around their parents’ res-taurants fostered a lifelong interest for the culinary arts.

After getting her master’s degree in journalism from UT, Christina went to culi-nary school and began mak-ing desserts for restaurants and caterers around Austin.

“Luckily for me, my sis-ter grew up to have real tal-ent in the kitchen,” Ashley said. “When she was ready to open her own place, I had just moved back home and had the time to help her out. Who better to do your mar-keting and PR than your big-gest fan since childhood?”

Ashley said molecular gas-tronomy has been a big food trend in recent years, but they loved the idea because they could integrate science into the process of making food. Chemical engineering senior Aditya Mukerji, who used liquid nitrogen to make ice cream in high school, said the process is actually pretty simple.

UT alumna Kelly Reil-ley fondly recounts a humid summer she spent working alongside local businesses in the Chinese province Gui-zhou. Since Reilley had no experience speaking Man-darin, local students acted as her interpreters and guides.

“The university interns introduced me to WeChat,

a Chinese mobile chat app,” Reilley said. “We still use it to keep in touch with one an-other, and we celebrate each other’s holidays.”

Reilley traveled to China through IBM’s Corporate Service Corps program, in which she worked as a pro bono consultant to local companies to help solve in-frastructure problems. Her current position as senior business unit advisor at IBM

incorporates communica-tions, leadership and finan-cial problem solving.

“I interact with people in diverse fields, which makes my work challenging,” Reil-ley said. “I have to find a way to talk about complex topics in a digestible manner.”

A huge proponent of vol-unteerism, Reilley said she values the opportunities she has had during her career to volunteer internationally.

“The United States is in a privileged position in terms of global business,” Reilley said. “I think it’s important that we use our knowledge and resources to aid develop-ing economies.”

Sandy Dochen, manager of corporate citizenship and corporate affairs at IBM, said Reilley is intelligent and compassionate about her work and her community.

“Kelly is the best of the

best at IBM,” Dochen said. “Only a very small number of IBM-ers are accepted into the Corporate Service Corps each year.”

Reilley was born and raised near College Station.

“Most people I went to high school with wanted to attend Texas A&M for col-lege,” Reilley said. “But I was determined to come to Austin.”

As an undergraduate at

UT, Reilley studied English, and, although her career path led her away from jobs typical for English gradu-ates, she still values the benefits of her broad liberal arts education.

“I find it sad that so many college students these days are strongly discouraged from being English or lib-eral arts majors,” Reilley

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Photo courtesy of Spun Ice CreamSisters Ashley and Christina Cheng are opening a nitrogen-freezing ice cream shop, Spun Ice Cream, in 2015.

Amy Zhang | Daily Texan Staff Kelly Reilley spent a summer working in Guizhou, China, as a pro bono consultant within IBM’s Corporate Service Corps program to help local companies solve infrastructure problems. As a senior business unit advisor at IBM, Reilley, a UT alumna, emphasizes the need for female leadership and visibility in STEM fields.

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