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Campus to get new Wi-Fi network UTPD boasts more women officers than US averageThe UT campus will shift

over to a new Wi-Fi network over the next two months as part of an attempt to keep the network in line with modern security standards.

UT spokesman Kevin Al-masy said the “restricted.utex-as.edu” Wi-Fi network that the UT community uses will be deactivated May 26. The re-placement network, “utexas,”

became available for students, faculty and staff Monday. Technology staffers are work-ing to transfer students, faculty and staff before the old net-work is shut down.

“Moving is easy. Like join-ing any network, users will just have to go to their wireless preferences, forget or delete restricted.utexas.edu and then select utexas and log in using their UT EID,” Almasy said.

There are more than 180,000 devices connected to the current

Wi-Fi network, Almasy said. William Green, director of

networking and telecommu-nications, said the change in the Wi-Fi network came about as a result of efforts to heighten network security.

“It’s like when your bank sends you a new credit card with a different number for security reasons,” Green said. “You have to change the credit card number with all the

By Josh Willis@JoshWillis35

As the Austin Transpor-tation Department seeks feedback about improving Guadalupe Street, Student Government’s City Rela-tions agency is working to amplify student voices in the conversation.

The Guadalupe Corridor Transportation Project is a long-term project focused on making necessary and desired improvements to Guadalupe Street.

The Austin Transporta-tion Department, which oversees the project, re-ceived 783 responses on an online survey it published earlier this month. The sur-vey included questions such as how often individuals used public transportation on Guadalupe Street and whether sidewalks needed improvements.

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Students participate in Drag improvementsCITY

Griffin Smith | Daily Texan StaffThe Guadalupe Corridor Transportation Project seeks to clean up and redesign Guadalupe Street for transportation. The Austin Transportation Department hopes to hear more from UT students about suggestions for improvements throughout the project.DRAG page 2

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Ten women serve as offi-cers win UTPD, making up 16 percent of the staff, and that number is higher than the national average of 13 percent among police de-partments nationwide.

Julie Gillespie started her career at UTPD in 1987 as a security guard after graduat-ing from UT with an educa-tion degree.

Gillespie, now retired, worked at UTPD for 28 years in multiple positions. During her tenure, Gillespie became the first female lieutenant and the first female captain.

When Gillespie started working at UTPD, she said there were a handful of fe-male officers and only two female sergeants.

“I remember going to training classes and staff meetings where I was the only female, but, since then, I think policing has taken a very strong part in recruit-ing women,” Gillespie said. “It was tough, but you have to realize we’re all the same, and everybody wants the same thing and are working toward the same goals.”

Diversity in the workplace is important regardless of the industry because it brings different perspectives to the job, according to Gillespie.

“Women bring a totally different perspective to po-licing,” Gillespie said. “Usu-ally you have to have the brut and the physical strength,

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Study: Acute HIV less infective than thought

Panel debates paying student athletes

UT researchers found the HIV virus is not as infectious after transmission as previ-ous studies suggested.

Postdoctoral researcher Steve Bellan and integrative biology professor Lauren Meyers co-authored a paper in which they concluded drugs that prevent the spread of HIV post-infection are more effective than methods focused on early diagnoses of the virus.

More than 1.2 million peo-ple in the U.S. are living with HIV, but almost one in seven infected people are unaware of their infection, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

There are two main stag-es to the disease, the first of which is known as the acute phase — a months-long phase of infection when levels of virus in the bloodstream spike. If left untreated, the acute phase is followed by a decade-long

chronic phase of infection that precedes AIDS.

Bellan said many claim modern drugs used to pre-vent HIV are ineffective. These claims stem from the belief that the levels of in-fectivity, the ability of the virus to establish an infec-tion, during the earliest phase of HIV infection — between the patient’s infec-tion and the patient’s treat-ment — are significantly higher than the infectivity levels during other phases of the disease, according to Bellan.

Bellan said infectiv-ity levels during the acute phase of infection are actu-ally much lower than previ-ous estimates.

“We found that people are less likely to spread HIV to others during this early stage than has been believed for many years,” Bellan said in a statement released by the University.

In their paper, which was

Texas athletes-turned-lawmakers at a panel on Monday discussed the mer-its and challenges associated with paying student athletes a stipend for playing on uni-versity sports teams.

Although the panelists agreed that student athletes deserved a minimal stipend to be able to afford basic ne-cessities, they also expressed concerns about the possi-bility of creating a financial distraction from the athlete’s academic career and the complications of determin-ing the amount for an ap-propriate stipend.

Many student athletes’ economic situations do not guarantee that they even have enough money for full meals, according to Sen. Royce West (D-Dallas), who participated in the panel.

“When you begin to think about some of these athletes who sign and sell jerseys, some of them are doing that to get a few dollars to be able to get a meal,” West said. “We

should not allow that type of system to persist when we know that’s an issue.”

New streams of revenue have raised the funds to make paying student ath-letes feasible for Division I schools, said Rep. Travis Clardy (R-Nacogdoches), who took part in the panel.

“In 2015, college sports teams have the television contracts, merchandising, EA sports video games and much more,” Clardy said. “A whole lot of people are making money because of

a bunch of kids putting on a jersey with a particular school’s colors on it. So I think there is plenty to go around; we just have to fig-ure this out.”

Even though a stipend system, in theory, would help alleviate financial issues for student athletes at big schools, Clardy said, those schools with weaker sports programs would struggle to budget for the system.

“Funding issues are not as much of a problem in big schools like the University

of Texas and the University of Michigan, but what do you do when you get down to the Division II, Divi-sion III, and Division IV schools?” Clardy said. “Fac-tor in Title IX issues, [and] you really get into some very difficult economic issues.”

Title IX provisions pre-vent institutions that receive federal funding from dis-criminating for or against parties based on gender, so both male and female

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Moderator Daron Roberts and John Kuempel, a former UT football player, participate in a panel discussing the payment of student athletes in the Tower on Monday night.

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things tied to it, like your mo-bile phone bill, before the ex-piration date on the old card.”

Green said when any de-vice connects to the Univer-sity’s Wi-Fi, it checks the cre-dentials of the network to be sure the network won’t dam-age the device. The creden-tials, called digital certificates, are issued by companies and expire regularly, requiring the certificates to be renewed.

“The company won’t renew the certificate again because the certificate they issued to the University back in 2006 is now considered weak,” Green said. “So the company is issu-ing a different certificate, and all the devices have to be con-figured to recognize that new certificate as the University’s Wi-Fi network.”

Green said the University was required to act quickly because devices would recog-nize the certificates as expired and not allow a connection.

“If the University doesn’t

do anything, then after the expiration date, as devices are deciding whether to trust and connect to the University’s Wi-Fi, they’ll notice the cer-tificate has expired, and most will refuse to connect,” Green said. “The device is trying to protect its user.”

The new network won’t mean any increase in speed, according to Green. Howev-er, the University is currently working to upgrade half of the wireless access points throughout campus.

Finance and economics sophomore Mark Albin said he needs the Wi-Fi to com-plete homework, participate in research and stay connect-ed with those around him.

“One of my classes requires that I have Wi-Fi to connect to specialized statistics software,” Albin said. “Without a consis-tent Internet connection, the classroom would not work.”

Green said the process of switching to a different Wi-Fi network will occur again in the future when the new cer-tificates expire.

but women bring more intel-lect, and they think through things, and we’re not so quick to get into physical fights be-cause we’re trying to use our brain instead of our strength, so it’s good to have both.”

When Gillespie left UTPD, she said 22 percent of the sworn officers were women. As more women joined the force, Gillespie said she and other female officers helped mentor them.

“All the women were kind of a tight knit-group, and I still catch up with some of the women that went on to other jobs,” Gillespie said. “I still keep in touch with them and mentor them. It’s fulfilling to mentor young officers.”

Gillespie helped mentor and welcome Lt. Laura Davis when she first came to work for UTPD. Davis started her career at UTPD after selling diamonds in a jewelry store while she was waiting for her

application to be processed for the Secret Service, she said.

After meeting her hus-band during her training at the police academy and hav-ing a child, Davis said she decided to stay at UTPD be-cause she liked the work she was doing.

Although female officers are a minority in the makeup of UTPD’s force, Davis said she doesn’t notice it often.

“It’s noticeable, but it’s not,” Davis said. “I’ve got several females on my shift, and so it’s funny because we don’t have many people in the locker room. You’re so used to doing your job, so you’re not really thinking about it.”

Rhetoric and writing se-nior Bria Moore said she has only seen female officers a few times, but, when she does see them, she notices them immediately.

“Female officers do catch my eye because they are fe-male, and it’s still a slightly unusual thing to see,” Moore

said. “This isn’t prime-time TV where every other cop is some strong-willed, inde-pendent yet always gorgeous phenom. Many workplaces are still pretty gendered.”

Besides working the eve-ning shift, Davis is the coor-dinator for the Rape Aggres-sion Defense System for UT and the rest of Texas. Putting on the three-day class al-lows Davis to empower other women and females on cam-pus, she said.

“What we get to do is teach self defense to women across campus, and I’m very proud that UT is such a strong sup-porter in that program,” Da-vis said. “You know a lot of the students who come here come from a small town, and they’re meeting new friends and having their experi-ences, but what we’ve said is we believe in this program so much we want to teach self defense so they can rely on themselves and feel safe on campus.”

Davis said she start-

ed teaching the class in 2001 and said she en-joys helping other women protect themselves.

“In those three days, you see a true reliance on them-selves that they didn’t know they had, and it’s just life-changing,” Davis said. “You may get a girl who’s never said no, and then on that third night, she’s in a situ-ation where she has to fight her way out, and you see this change, and she’s very proud. It’s not that see didn’t have that in her before, but it’s just a different aspect.”

29 percent of respondents, and that signifies an uptick in student involvement, ac-cording to Robert Svoboda, co-director of the SG City Relations agency.

Svoboda, an urban studies and advertising senior, said the agency has been involved with the transportation proj-ect since last fall.

“There was a town hall in the fall, and it was open to the public,” Svoboda said. “We tried to make students aware of it once we found out about it. People from the task force [attended], and a lot of architecture students attend-ed. The turnout was not great for students, so we knew we needed to ramp it up.”

Svoboda is part of a task force comprised of SG and Campus Environmental Center representatives, as well as some students from the architecture school.

“We’re focused on improv-ing the Drag itself from an

aesthetic standpoint in terms of design and how it looks, including the sidewalks, be-cause, from a student’s stand-point, that’s what’s used the most,” Svoboda said. “We tried to involve ourselves in the pro-cess as much as we could. We really just been trying to make sure students had input on the Guadalupe corridor.”

Geography senior Jacob Brackmann helped found My Guadalupe, an organiza-tion that focuses on bringing student voices to the Drag’s improvement project.

“Right now, we’re brand new,” Brackmann said. “We just had a couple prelimi-nary meetings to figure out what we wanted to do to make sure student voices in the past were heard and they didn’t come to naught.”

Brackmann said My Gua-dalupe is trying to make sure past student efforts to bring improvements to Guadalupe Street would be heard during this corridor study.

“Creating an official group and Facebook page and gain-

ing traction among students would help put pressure on the individuals implementing the plan,” Brackmann said. “We’re trying to get an open house with the firm that’s going to be drawing up construction plans for Guadalupe.”

Project manager Alan Hughes said the Austin Transportation Department expects to improve the mo-bility and safety of the public with the Guadalupe Corridor Transportation Project.

“Improving mobility for all users is the desired outcome,” Hughes said. “What that will look like exactly is what the corridor study will determine. There are representatives from various departments in-cluded in the process.”

Hughes said short-term ideas could be implemented right away if there is room in the budget.

“Longer term reconstruc-tion projects may require bond funding [and] would be implemented at a later date once funding is se-cured,” Hughes said.

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student athletes would have to receive stipends.

Rep. John Kuempel (R-Seguin), who participated in the panel, said paying athletes high stipends could prevent them from getting the quality of education they will need to sustain themselves after college.

“I disagree with hav-ing paid players,” Kuempel said. “What is the percent-age of people who go on to make money in professional sports? It’s miniscule. Once you start paying athletes, they will not pay attention

to what’s going to keep them afloat for the rest of their lives. In the end, sports are there to teach you what to do with the rest of your life.”

Paying student athletes more than a minimal stipend would remove the school spirit aspect of college sports, according to Sen. Lois Kolk-horst (R-Brenham), who participated in the panel.

“I want to make sure that the athletes can have meals and they get the stipends, but I don’t want to make it pro-sports because it kills the spirit of what college means,” Kolk-horst said. “Nothing can rally you as much as school spirit.”

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published in online journal PLOS Medicine last week with help from researchers from McMaster University and Yale University, Bellan and Meyers analyzed data from previous research that directly measured the infectivity levels during acute phase HIV among heterosexual couples in Rakai, Uganda.

Meyers said the research proves that preventative drugs could reduce the spread of HIV.

“If newly infected peo-ple are not as infectious as

previously believed, then we can be more optimistic about the global impact of HIV treatment as preven-tion efforts,” Meyers said.

Computer science fresh-man Daniel Mendoza said he believes preventative treatments are the first step to reducing the number of HIV cases.

“Preventing the spread of the virus will help re-duce the amount of people infected with HIV, which is one step in the right di-rection to eradicating the virus,” Mendoza said.

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“A celebration of culture does not require supporting a political entity. However, the Holi festival on the LBJ Lawn makes it un-apologetically clear that it promotes India and proactively legitimizes the state.”

“A celebration of culture does not require supporting a political entity. However, the Pakistani Student Association’s Basant cel-ebration makes it unapologetically clear that it promotes Pakistan and proactively legiti-mizes the state.”

In all likelihood, you haven’t heard any-one make such ridiculous arguments. And if you did, you’d correctly identify them as racist strawmen.

You most likely take for granted that the people of India should hold the power to govern themselves within the state of In-dia, and that Pakistanis hold that same right within Pakistan.

You understand that Indians and Paki-stanis of any religion or nationality, like all peoples, enjoy the right to celebrate their re-spective customs, free from harassment and persecution.

And you accept that people of all races, re-ligions, and ethnicities are entitled to define the sounds and flavors of their culture as af-firmations of a collective identity, not as po-litical statements. By extension, you accept that a cultural event is not a political event, and that while protesting the latter is an es-sential feature of a free civil society, protest-ing the former dehumanizes the event’s par-ticipants, signaling that their very existence should be called into question.

So if student groups were to disrupt either Holi or Basant to call attention to military or ethnic conflicts in Kashmir, Gujarat, or Balochistan, you would (or should) criticize their behavior as intolerant and cruel.

But when an association of Israeli and Israeli-American students organized just such a cultural celebration, they were greeted with the following message, pub-lished on the event page of a protest or-ganized by members of the Palestine Solidarity Committee:

“A celebration of culture does not require supporting a political entity. However, the Israel Block Party makes it unapologetically

clear that it promotes Israel and proactively legitimizes the state.”

Sadly, such behavior is not unusual for the PSC, whose Facebook cover photo imperi-alistically features a silhouette of both Israel and Palestine draped in the colors of the Palestinian flag. By framing the self-deter-mination of the Israeli people as a political controversy, it attempts to justify targeting anything related to the state or its inhabit-ants with aggressive and racially charged theatrics.

There are obvious moral concerns with this tactic, which directs vitriolic hatred towards a group of people on the basis of a charac-teristic as immutable as ethnicity. There is nothing Israeli students can do, save for re-nouncing their right to live in a safe haven from oppression and genocide within their ancestral homeland, to appease those willing to protest their culture and their customs.

That’s because the protest against the Is-rael Block Party falls within a broader move-ment intended to “anti-normalize” Israel, which requires that anything that might make an Israeli feel normal or human must instantly be shouted down, regardless of its relation to the country’s politics. The boy-cotters and their sponsors aren’t trying to protest settlement policies, call attention to security dilemmas, or question the morality of asymmetric warfare. They are targeting an event that, by sharing Israeli music and food and technologies and humor with the UT community at large, is designed to por-tray the Israeli people as more than a thorny

political problem. By doing so, they’re targeting Israelis for

exercising their basic right to human dignity. In that regard, the boycotters bear a strong resemblance to members of the Westboro Baptist Church, which uses similar protest strategies to promote an equally obstinate and equally shameful bigotry towards the LGBT community.

The protest’s organizers cloak this intoler-ance through the argument that the Block Party “excludes the voices” of Palestinians living outside of Israel. But that line of rea-soning is both flawed and irrelevant.Because the Israel Block Party is exclusively a cultural festival, the political persuasions of its at-tendees are as tangential as they would be at a South by Southwest concert or a Memorial Day barbecue. And because the event specifi-cally celebrates Israeli culture, its organizers emphasize Palestine as little as they do Aus-tralia, Bhutan, or Zambia. In other words, the protesters are calling out an event that has nothing to do with Palestine for not fea-turing their particular brand of a Palestinian agenda. By their own logic, they should be incensed by Events & Entertainment bring-ing Ra Ra Riot to campus instead of Rashid Khalidi.

Their bellicose racism doesn’t belie the protesters’ right to peaceably assemble. But, as with any hate group, no one should take their rhetoric seriously.

Shenhar is a Plan II, government and economics sophomore from Westport, Con-necticut.

March is my favorite time of year: the end of winter, spring break and, of course, March Madness. I am a college basketball junkie. I used to play myself and I love the excitement, the team play, the win-or-go-home attitude and the frequent up-sets. (Virginia’s loss on Sunday destroys my bracket!)

This seems an appropriate moment to reflect on student-athletes — the talented college students who are performing for us on the court throughout the NCAA tourna-ment. These young men are extraordinary athletes, playing under enormous pressure. They have trained hard all season, they have won games against great odds, and they have pushed themselves beyond usual physical and mental limits. They represent their uni-versities with pride, and we take great pride in their accomplishments — even when they lose tough games, as happened with the Uni-versity of Texas basketball team Thursday against Butler.

As I enjoy the games, I also feel a sense of remorse. Most of the players we watch will never make it into the NBA. Most will never earn a dime for their play. What will they do? Are they getting a quality education that prepares them to succeed as non-athletes

in our society? What do they get for their performances on the court? What have we encouraged them to expect?

I am a deep believer in the ideal of the well-rounded citizen, and for that reason I view athletics as central to university excel-lence. The best students should be intellec-tually sharp, musically adept and athletically skilled. Great universities support greatness in all areas.

My concern is that college athletics no longer fits that ideal. What we are watching on our television screens are players who see themselves as full-time athletes and part-time students, at best. Their studies are re-ally only an afterthought. The quarterback for the national champion Ohio State foot-ball team was unique only in his willingness to admit, in a widely circulated tweet, that he viewed classes as a waste of his time. Too many college athletes are encouraged to feel the same way. Classes are required to qualify them to play — which is what they really think they are supposed to do at university.

The fault is not entirely or even primarily with the athletes. All of us, as spectators, are comfortable watching these great players, suspending our concerns about their work in the classroom. We learn their names dur-ing the NCAA tournament, but we rarely, if ever, ask about what they study or what they intend to do after their brief moments of March Madness fame pass away. We are content to cheer their athletic performances and then forget them when they no longer entertain us. They really do lose and then go home, and for many college athletes, home is not a pretty place.

I want our sports programs at the Uni-versity of Texas to improve, and I want to continue watching better college athletes perform at the highest level. They make me proud and I enjoy seeing them do their stuff, especially when they crush Big 12 oppo-nents. My concern is that we address, head-on, the true challenges of educating college athletes. How can we make sure they get a

serious education while they are in college? How can we make sure they are prepared for post-athletic careers?

During the 14 years that I have been a pro-fessor at two leading college sports campuses, I have seen overwhelm-ing evidence that we are not educating our college athletes as we should. Reports from recent scandals at the University of North Car-olina at Chapel Hill and Syracuse University re-inforce this observation.

College athletes re-ceive extensive tutoring, but they are consistently encouraged to stay away from difficult majors and challenging classes. College athletes are told they must attend class, but they have practice and game schedules that often make it virtually impossible for them to show up. When they do show up, especially near the end of the semester, their bodies are broken down. I have had football and bas-ketball players come to class who can barely walk and hold their heads up in November and March. Their goal, echoing the advice they receive from their tutors, is to “just get through.”

That should not be enough for great uni-versities. My dream is for the University of Texas to become an even greater athletic powerhouse with true student-athletes who play hard and study hard. I want our athletes to model, for all students, what it means to be a successful person: balancing studies,

athletics, relationships and health. This will never happen if we do not acknowledge the imbalances today and act to address them.

The University of Texas is the largest college athletic program in the country. It is time we step up and lead, showing how we can truly educate the best student-ath-letes of our time, showing their stuff in the classroom as well as on the playing field. We should have a plan for all-around ex-cellence and nothing less. We should start now, and everyone on campus should be a part of it.

Suri is a professor in the LBJ School of Pub-lic Affairs and the Department of History.

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Rotnofsky, Mandalapu will enter office with great expectations

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As I enjoy the games, I also feel a sense of remorse. Most of the players we watch will never make it into the NBA. Most will never earn a dime for their play.

As the school year starts to wind down, so begins the transition and adjustment period of Student Government’s new president and vice president, Xavier Rotnofsky and Rohit Mandalapu.

Following in the wake of their hugely suc-cessful social media campaign — that played a large role in them winning over veteran SG shoo-ins Braydon Jones and Kimia Dar-gahi — comes a huge responsibility, that is to implement the change they spoke of on the campaign trail.

The stakes are now higher than ever for an SG president and vice president to de-liver on campaign promises, especially with so many first-time voters being inspired to “rock the ballot” because of Rotnofsky-

Mandalapu’s appeal to the average, under-represented UT student.

If Rotnofsky and Mandalapu can keep these voters involved through the use of so-cial media, then we at the Texan predict their term will be particularly impactful. Transpar-ent clothing jokes aside, keeping students in the loop is crucial in order to maintain the loyalty of the student body and preserve the belief that the little guys should have a voice, too.

In order to avoid a schism between SG veterans and these newcomers, Rotnofsky and Mandalapu should take the time to learn the ins and outs of SG. They don’t have the experience that the typical SG president and vice president candidate

typically have, and as much as we hate to say it, steps must be taken to remedy this inexperience in order to avoid tension. This action will have a two-fold result: one being to show current SG members they are committed to their new posi-tions, and two, to demonstrate to UT’s stu-dent body as a whole that they are more than just two jokesters trying to make a political statement.

The reality of the present SG situation may call for fewer jokes, but certainly not less hu-mor. It is important that these two strike a balance between being the funny guys and the guys that actually get things done. This past election was certainly one for the books, but Rotnofsky and Mandalapu are going to have

to work twice as hard to win over opponents who weren’t wooed by their comedic charm. At the end of the day, not everyone is into hu-mor. Rotnofsky and Mandalapu should keep these people in mind in order to expand their fan base, but take care not to lose the support of all those who liked their funny take on tra-ditional campaign strategies.

With all eyes on them, including those of national news sources and comedy publica-tions, the pressure is on. As the underdogs, they are expected to fail. Luckily for them, there is much left to be desired about Stu-dent Government as it currently stands. Just getting elected is the first of hopefully many refreshing changes to be made to the institution.

After four years on the diamond for Texas softball, Karina Scott had a hard time leaving. However, she soon found out she didn’t have to.

After appearing in 38 games as a freshman, Scott started in 41 games the following year. Scott ranked highly on the team in nu-merous batting categories and achieved a perfect fielding percent-age as a sophomore.

The coaches soon saw poten-tial for Scott — not for a career at first base, but in the dugout. At the end of Scott’s second season, the coaches offered her a spot on the coaching squad upon graduation.

“I was shocked, and I was like, ‘Are you guys talking to me? Are you serious?’ ” Scott said.

Despite the surprise, it took little convincing to sway Scott.

“I jumped on it,” Scott said. “I knew what I wanted to do, and I knew it would be a great way to build my résumé and get started.”

When she was offered the job of volunteer assistant, Scott had only recently begun consider-ing coaching because she had begun to support many of her teammates. Scott said she always played the role of “the big sister” and stepped up when the team-mates needed help.

After months of offseason training, the Longhorns took the field for their first game of the year in early February in Tempe, Arizona. No longer sporting a player’s jersey, Scott stepped out of play in a new wardrobe: a coaching uniform.

“I think it was a great moment for me,” Scott said. “The

other seniors graduated, but I still get to do ‘The Eyes of Texas’ on the field, and I still get to do the other things, so it’s like I never left.”

Even with her new ti-tle, Scott’s characteristi-cally friendly attitude to-ward her former teammates hasn’t diminished.

“She’s still playful with us. She still interacts with us,” junior out-fielder Lindsey Stephens said. “She’s still that friend, that team-mate we had last year.”

Scott even offers a special

perspective that some of the other coaches can’t give their players.

“She’s struggled, just like we all have, and she’s succeeded, just like we all have,” Stephens said. “It’s a little more recent [than the other coaches], and that’s re-ally helpful and comfortable for us as players.”

A California native, Scott did not personally adopt softball un-til her teen years, although she grew up surrounded by the sport. Scott used to spend most of her time on the baseball or softball

field because her uncle and older brother played often.

Just before high school, Scott picked up softball at the age of 13 with an ulterior motive sepa-rate from the competition and winning aspects.

“I realized I needed a way to get to college, and I wanted a scholar-ship, so I told my parents I wanted to start playing softball,” she said.

Scott thrived instantly. A four-year letter winner in high school, a recipient of All-California recogni-tion and various other accolades,

Scott finished her senior year of high school batting over .400, slug-ging over .600 and with a spot on the Texas softball team.

While she strives to complete her goal of becoming a head coach, Scott plans to return to school soon to pursue a degree in education or sports management. Currently in a one-year position, Scott hopes her time doesn’t stop anytime soon.

“I would love to be the head softball coach at Texas,” she said. “[Connie] knows I want her job, and she said I could have it.”

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Jonathan Garza | Daily Texan fileAfter playing for the Longhorns, Karina Scott returned to Texas to coach after being offered a spot on coaching staff. Scott currently serves as a volunteer assistant for the Longhorns.

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Texas finds groove in 21 outs, looks to keep confidence high

The Texas starters were down 15 runs when their turn to bat in a practice came last week.

The result wouldn’t go in the record books. It wouldn’t be a loss or a win. The Long-horns were playing a game called 21 outs hoping to find their confidence again.

The premise for the drill was simple: One team fields, and the other one bats until it reaches 21 outs. A come-back against the Texas sec-ond-string team would be the boost the team needed as the Longhorns were search-ing for their groove again.

After a disappointing 6–5 mid-week loss to UT-Arlington on Tuesday when the Longhorns gave up a 5–2 lead in the ninth in-ning, Texas was in search of confidence.

Texas pitching coach Skip Johnson has wanted to play 21 outs during practice for years. Eventu-ally, head coach Augie Gar-rido gave in to Johnson’s game in hopes of helping his team.

“We looked to develop confidence and trust in each other,” Garrido said.

As the starters tried to chip away at the second team’s lead, they did some-thing they’ve done too often this season — they tried too hard. The starters received eight straight outs on missed hit balls. How-ever, they settled down, found their groove and won with two outs left.

Although it’s a simple game one might find at the sandlot, it helped Texas get back into the swing of things.

“We came out and got refocused,” sophomore pitcher Kacy Clemens said. “It was a good practice. Ev-erybody was upbeat and alive. It just got us ready for the weekend.”

The practice game and the two practices Texas had after losing to UT-Arling-ton helped, as the Long-horns swept Kansas State this past weekend.

“They came with a dif-ferent level of confidence,” Garrido said. “The offensive players hit the balls hard throughout the series. They hit the balls deep. They could’ve taken the opportu-nity to be frustrated and dis-appointed. … That is a sig-nificant improvement over what most teams and most

players are able to do.”In Texas’ 6–1 win over the

Wildcats on Sunday, senior right fielder Collin Shaw said the victory was the team’s most complete game of the season.

“I think [it was the best game] for sure,” Shaw said. “We have great pitch-ing and really great de-fense, and we took good at bats 1-9 throughout the lineup.”

With their confidence growing, the Longhorns look to build off of their se-ries sweep Tuesday, when they take on Texas State (10–12–1, 6–3 Sun Belt). The Bobcats are coming off of a 2–1 series loss to South Alabama.

Despite Texas State’s be-low-.500 record, the Long-horns look forward to play-ing an in-state team.

“It’s always a fun game [against Texas State],” Shaw said. “We know a lot of guys on their team, and they know a lot of guys on our team just [because we’ve grown] up in the state of Texas. They’re always a competitive team, and they’ll be ready to play. It’ll be a fun game.”

First pitch Tuesday night is scheduled for 6 p.m. in San Marcos.

Rick Barnes is fading fast.Barnes has been Texas’

head coach for 17 seasons and, in that time, he has done very little to merit staying here longer. It’s time for there to be a new head coach for the Longhorns.

Over the course of his ten-ure, Barnes has coached Texas into the NCAA Tournament 16 times — but he has been to just five Sweet 16s, three Elite Eights and only one Final Four.

In 11 of those 16 tournaments, Texas hasn’t advanced past the second or third round. Fans bare-ly get a chance to enjoy the Long-horns in the tournament before they are eliminated, and Barnes goes home with yet another postseason loss.

It’s not like Barnes has suffered from a lack of talent in his teams. Through 16 seasons, Barnes has had 16 players drafted. He’s had two National Players of the Year: T.J. Ford in 2003 (also the year of Barnes’ only Final Four appearance) and Kevin Du-rant in 2007, when Texas was eliminated in the third round to USC, a team led by junior guard Nick Young.

This past season, the Long-horns were not only a con-tender for the Big 12 conference championship — they might’ve been National Champions. They gave No. 1 Kentucky a good game.

They had the ability.Texas had arguably the best

front court in the nation with

freshman forward and phe-nom Myles Turner and the very intimidating junior center Cameron Ridley.

To add to that, Texas had sophomore Isaiah Taylor — ar-guably the best driving point guard in the nation. If Taylor de-veloped a consistent jump shot, he could be the best point guard in the nation. But, despite all the talent, and a deep bench, Texas still just barely made it to the NCAA Tournament.

Through 17 seasons, Barnes has had enough time to make the adjustments he’s needed to build a national championship run. When his offensive and de-fensive systems weren’t working, he should have adjusted them to fit the needs of his team.

Basketball is ultimately about what the players do, but it’s the coach’s job to provide guid-ance — look to Kentucky head coach John Calipari, Michigan State head coach Tom Izzo, Duke head coach Mike Krzyze-wski and Louisville’s Rick Pitino for examples.

Barnes has struggled to give that guidance in recent years, most noticeably when poor clock management helped Iowa State’s buzzer beater in the Big 12 tournament when Texas failed to take the last shot.

Coaches are sometimes praised for their ability to do “more with less” — as SMU head coach Larry Brown did in the NBA — but Barnes seems to have a knack for doing “less with more.”

It’s time for a new era in Texas basketball.

After rough season, Barnes should leave

By Nick Castillo@Nick_Castillo74

By Aaron Torres@aarontl11

Daulton Venglar | Daily Texan StaffAfter 17 seasons at Texas, head coach Rick Barnes’ career may have reached the end of the line.

Thalia Juarez | Daily Texan StaffSenior right fielder Connor Shaw has helped the Longhorns build confidence with his explosive hitting. Shaw hit a two-run home run in Texas’ win against Kansas State on Sunday.

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Texas women’s track and field greats Carlette Guidry and Sanya Rich-ards-Ross will have two events named after them at the Nike Clyde Littefield Texas Relays.

The University/College Women’s 4x100-meter relay will be named after Guidry, and the Univer-sity Women’s 4x400-meter relay will be named after Richards-Ross.

During her career at Texas, Guidry earned 23 All-American honors and was a 12-time NCAA Champion. Richards-Ross won four Olympic gold medals during her career. At Texas, Richards-Ross was a five-time NCAA champion and earned 11 All-American honors at Texas.

Both events are sched-uled to take place Saturday.

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Over the past 35 years, lo-cal mixed-media artist James Talbot has watched Austin change from the front porch swing in his “Peter Pan” Nev-erland-inspired funhouse.

“It’s like a new city has floated up to my ship here in-stead of me going someplace new,” Talbot said.

In 1979, Talbot bought his 1,110 square foot house several blocks west of South Congress Avenue for $13,000. He immediately started re-modeling to create a three-story, 2,500-square-foot wonderland he calls Casa Neverlandia, which the first movie Talbot ever watched, “Peter Pan,” inspired.

Talbot hosts hour-long tours of his home, taking spec-tators through Casa Never-landia while explaining each of his design choices. Tours can be scheduled by emailing or calling Talbot directly.

“I’ve noticed that people like delight,” Talbot said. “They like fun. They like less rational approaches to things. They like playfulness, and that’s a language I under-stand. That’s my strong suit.”

Vibrant colors and reflec-tive mosaic tiles coat the house’s exterior. Instead of a

conventional doorbell, a xy-lophone hangs from the front door. The aesthetic continues inside with a talk tube, which allows communication be-tween rooms, and four altars that represent earth, wind, fire and water.

In the backyard, an elevated footbridge connects the third floor of the house to a four-story wooden tower. Talbot said he built the tower as part of a self-growth seminar that instructed participants to “do the impossible” in 24 hours.

Although he didn’t make deadline, Talbot said, with his friends’ help, he was able to sleep on the tower just 60 hours after the project started.

“When you read fairy tales, and the protagonist is given an impossible task, what happens?” Talbot said. “The mice come in; the insects come in; something from out of nowhere happens.”

Casa Neverlandia’s con-struction has largely been a collaborative effort. In 1996, Talbot’s former partner, Kay Pils, moved in and helped him with much of the redesign. Tal-bot said Pils left after the feel of the neighborhood changed, as rising costs forced out the local artists and hippies.

Talbot said the gentrifica-tion of the Bouldin Creek area, where Casa Never-

landia stands, jaded him, too. This process, which began a couple of decades ago, has left Talbot surrounded by a neighborhood drastically different from the one he moved into.

Nevertheless, Talbot said he does not plan on leaving. Tal-bot said Casa Neverlandia is a continual work in progress both in terms of decor and en-vironmental sustainability.

Despite its size and extrav-agance, Casa Neverlandia’s

environmental impact is sig-nificantly lower than most homes in the area. It uses solar panels, a grey water col-lection system that funnels water to trees in the back-yard, compost bins, a com-posting toilet, and the house lacks both air condition-ing and heating. Talbot said his electric bill ranges from $10-$20 per month.

“I was a boy scout, and there is something about leaving your campsite as

good or better than you found it,” Talbot said. “There is just something about not pissing in your water supply — not fouling your nest.”

Aside from working on Casa Neverlandia, Talbot has created pieces for Bouldin Creek Café and The Green Classroom, and he made the sculpture reminis-cent of a spider on South Con-gress Avenue.

In the future, Talbot said he hopes to start a casual lecture series about fantasy

architecture, which is ar-chitecture that focuses on aesthetic appeal over practi-cality. He said fantasy archi-tecture, which his house em-bodies, appeals to the masses because it is not rational.

“Our attraction to a lot of these ‘fantasy places’ has some kind of [spiritual] con-nection to this part of our-selves that we don’t know very well or trust as much but is every bit as important to us,” Talbot said.

Modest Mouse is the band that should have never been. Al-though the cards were stacked against it, the group prevailed for almost two decades.

Strangers to Ourselves’ re-lease on March 13 ended an almost eight-year gap since Modest Mouse’s last album. The biggest question going into the record is one of style: Will Modest Mouse keep up the in-die-rock sound that made the group famous?

The answer is pretty re-sounding — no. Strangers to Ourselves splits off in every direction, creating an array of experimentation that proves to be an enjoyable listen.

Modest Mouse’s early albums tackled dense subject matter. The group’s fourth album, Good News for People Who Love Bad News, brought its indie-rock sound into the mainstream.

The group’s hit songs, such as “Float On” and “Dashboard,” are infectious and still get air time on radio.

The group’s lovable alterna-tive rock hits made the band famous, but Modest Mouse abandons this style in Strangers to Ourselves for a much more

forward-thinking approach.The band’s ambitious spirit

runs throughout the entire al-bum, especially in the rough disco-infused “The Ground Walks, with Time in a Box.”

Fans of the band’s old style would argue this track’s over-production ruins its range, simplifies its tones and creates a lack of dimension. It doesn’t build up like previous Modest Mouse hits do.

The album’s first single, “Lampshades On Fire,” is about how we’ll have to find another planet to live on after partying on Earth for too long. It’s worlds different from all of the other tracks but still blends well with the rest of the album.

The over-production of Strangers to Ourselves helps songs like “Lampshades On Fire.” Without the producers’ ex-tensive work, this album would have felt far too disjointed in-stead of the psychotic collage it feels like in its current state.

Modest Mouse’s risks con-tinue through the album, and some don’t end well. “Pistol (A. Cunanan, Miami, FL. 1996)” is a strange tale about fash-ion designer Gianni Versace’s killer Andrew Cunanan’s feel-ings before he murdered five people, yet the song is set to an

industrial dance beat one would hear in a club. It sounded much more like a Beyoncé song than a Modest Mouse tune.

An industrial dance album would be interesting, but the group follows it with “Ansel,” which applies the production of new wave music from the ’80s to Modest Mouse’s rough style from the mid-’90s. Each track has its own direction, but “An-sel” and “Pistol (A. Cunanan, Miami, FL. 1996)” don’t belong on the same album.

Strangers to Ourselves doesn’t pack the emotional punch of the band’s previous releases, but what matters is that Modest Mouse still wants to take risks. Modest Mouse didn’t have to change its style, but the group did anyway.

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KAT SAMPSON, LIFE&ARTS EDITOR | @thedailytexan 8Tuesday, March 24, 2015

Artist hosts tours of Neverland-inspired homeCITY

By Katie Walsh@katiehwalsh_atx

Joanna Pope has only one son, but, to everyone who works in the Student Activities offices, she’s “Mama Pope.”

Pope, an administrative as-sociate of UT Student Activi-ties, spends her day answering emails and phone calls to en-sure that the staff is able to help student organizations. To Pope, her job description is making

sure “everyone is taken care of.” Besides her day-to-day

clerical tasks, Pope unofficially serves as a listening ear. When the students she encounters in her office feel homesick, she’s there to hear about their troubles. When colleagues have problems outside of work, she acts as a sounding board.

The roles reversed in 2010, when a routine doctor’s appoint-ment turned her life upside down with two words — breast cancer. A doctor discovered three can-cerous tumors in her breast.

Rounds of chemotherapy, weeks of radiation and a surgery filled the following year. She had to use all of her vacation time and sick days. To avoid missing work, she would use her lunch breaks to get radiation treatment.

“You feel like huge weights are on your body, but I had to keep pushing,” Pope said.

During that time, Pope re-ceived support from friends, family and colleagues. After she reached her five-year anniver-sary of being cancer-free ear-lier this year, the staff, decked in pink, gathered for a photo, which currently hangs in her office.

Pope now uses her expe-rience with breast cancer to spread awareness. After speak-ing with the director of Susan G. Komen, a nonprofit breast cancer organization, Pope co-founded a program called Women in Strides in 2012.

The Austin-based group fo-cuses on helping African-Amer-ican women with breast cancer. Pope has also spoken to different student organizations on campus.

“You have to find some good,” Pope said. “Even though it was a devastating visit to the doctor, I was able to share my experiences with other people.”

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ALBUM REVIEW | STRANGERS TO OURSELVES

Carlo Nasisse | Daily Texan StaffJoanna Pope, administrative associate of UT Student Activities, was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2010. She has been living cancer-free for five years and has used her experiences to spread awareness about the illness.

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In 1979, local mixed-media art-ist James Talbot began remodeling the then-1,100 square foot house he now calls Casa Neverlandia. The house is open to the public via scheduled tours.

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