R.B. Brenner, deputy di-rector of the journalism pro-gram at Stanford University, will be the new director of the School of Journalism in the Moody College of Com-munication starting in Au-gust, according to Moody college dean Roderick Hart.

In May 2013, the journal-ism school’s current director Glenn Frankel announced he would retire to work as an author full-time. Hart said Brenner’s official paperwork was signed Wednesday. “We had a search committee that had a bunch of people on it,” Hart said. “When they said he was an applicant, I was very pleased. When he came to campus he just kind of wowed everybody.”

Brenner, who worked in a number of editing positions at The Washington Post, said one of the biggest challenges

facing modern journalism is the rapid development of new technology.

“The more technology speeds us forward, the more you also have big issues be-tween some of the real tradi-tional values of journalism,” Brenner said. “You’ve seen that in the last few years, in the coverage of the Newtown shooting and the Boston Marathon bombings, with

Human biology junior Cameron Crane is one of four finalists for the student regent position on the UT System Board of Regents.

Crane is the only cur-rent UT student who is a finalist, according to the candidates’ applications ob-tained from the governor’s office by The Daily Texan through the Texas Public Information Act.

The student regent is a non-voting position on the board, intended to give students representation in board decisions. The student regent is appointed by the governor from applicants from any of the System in-stitutions. The current stu-dent regent Nash Horne, a UT communication studies senior, will finish his one-year term on May 31.

If Crane is selected, he will be working alongside a familiar face, as Regent

Ernest Aliseda is his uncle. Crane’s father is a U.S. dis-trict judge, his mother is the president of the McAllen Independent School District School Board and another one of his uncles is the city

commissioner in McAllen.Crane listed Aliseda as a

reference on his application, though he said he did not consult Aliseda before ap-plying. Aliseda declined to comment on his nephew’s

application but said Horne has been helpful to him in his work on the board.

“It’s important to have a student’s perspective on

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On Sept. 24, 1943, Peggy “Toe” Neuhaus came home from her date at 12:45 a.m. to a man crouched on the floor of her room in the Tri Delta house. An article published in The Daily Texan on Sept. 28 detailed the bizarre en-counter that followed.

Although most stu-dents don’t anticipate find-ing homeless men in their rooms, the sort of crime de-tailed in the September 1943 article is not all that uncom-mon for current students liv-ing in the area.

A Daily Texan article pub-lished Feb. 12 of this year stated that 1,114 crimes were reported by residents of five apartment complexes in West Campus over the last seven years. Similarly, a still-unconfirmed kidnap-ping was reported earlier in February of this year, and both Student Government presidential candidates made West Campus safety a part of their campaign platforms. But none of these reports, though serious, were as strange as Neuhaus’ post-date drama in 1943.

In the quiet vicinity of the sorority house, Neuhaus nev-er expected to find someone

Two UT students have made translating thoughts into a display of lights, sounds and 3-D graphics possible in their latest artistic exhibition.

Yago de Quay and Joao Beira, both working toward dual doctoral degrees in dig-ital media, have developed a rare artistic performance that intersects the arts with new technologies. They have created “BioMediation,” a choreographed display of 3-D graphics and sounds that incorporates the per-former’s thoughts.

“We’re trying to see how we can start using our brains as machines that produce the art itself, without the body,” de Quay said.

De Quay and Beira are both part of the UT Portugal pro-gram. The program works to advance exploration of emerg-ing technologies across the nation of Portugal by offering extensive studies in digital me-dia. It requires de Quay and Beira to complete part of their coursework in Portugal and part of it in Austin.

In mid-January, de Quay and Beira began work on “Bio-Mediation.” Their collabora-tive work in interactive digital

art performances in the past led to their recent commis-sion by the Ammeman Cen-ter for Arts and Technology at Connecticut College. This commission gave them the funding and resources needed to complete their research for

“BioMediation.”“This technology lets you

actually use your brain and thoughts as an interface for creative content to establish a way to express sounds and visualizations,” Beira said.

The project is a complicated

system that integrates the mind of the user with a depth-sensor camera that uses tech-nology similar to an Xbox Ki-nect. It also uses a computer and an electroencephalogram headset, which tracks electric activity on the scalp.

First, the headset is attached to a person’s head. The way the person feels and thinks creates the electric activity that is then mapped and translated by the computer into sound and

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Lauren Ussery / Daily Texan StaffHuman biology junior Cameron Crane is one of four finalists to serve as student regent on the UT System Board of Regents. The student regent will be appointed by Gov. Rick Perry.

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The Shared Servic-es Steering Committee sent a report to Presi-dent William Powers Jr. on Wednesday with rec-ommendations for the

implementation of the Shared Services Plan.

Powers is currently re-viewing the report, which outlined the findings and recommendations pro-duced by the commit-tee through its explora-tion of Shared Services

implementation at UT. The original Shared Ser-vices Plan called for the centralization of a variety of University procure-ment, information tech-nology, human resources and finance services at various colleges, schools

and units. According to Kevin

Hegarty, executive vice president and chief finan-cial officer, the logistics of Shared Services have changed based on feed-back from campus dia-logue sessions.

“One of the things that we’ve learned as we’ve gone through this dia-logue phase on campus, and in looking at a num-ber of experiments that are already happening on

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this constant competition between speed, accuracy and credibility. News out-lets have to ask themselves, ‘How important is it to be first if it ends up damaging your reputation?’”

Brenner said he has ideas for potential changes at the journalism school in mind, but he is not ready to share them until he has a chance to familiarize himself with the school.

“I think it’s premature,” Brenner said. “I am a jour-nalist and reporter at my core. The way I think about anything is, ‘Would it be smart for a reporter?’ I think it would be bad for me, from several miles away, to make claims on best practices for

the school.” Frankel, who also worked

at The Washington Post and Stanford before joining UT, said Brenner’s academic and professional experience will be valuable when he be-comes the director.

“I think that people felt strongly that we needed some-one with a real solid ground-ing in professional journalism because of the huge changes transforming news at every level,” Frankel said. “He’s just a very warm, communicative person who listens carefully, who respects students, who really loves students and then is collaborative.”

In January, The Daily Texan reported Texas Stu-dent Media, the umbrella organization that manages a number of student-pro-duced media properties,

including Cactus Yearbook, Texas Travesty, Texas Stu-dent TV, KVRX and the Tex-an, would be moving under the domain of the Moody college. According to Hart, this move has not yet offi-cially taken place.

Brenner said he is unsure of what role Texas Student Me-dia will play in the journalism school moving forward.

“What’s really important for student media, first and foremost, is for it to be in-dependent, that students are running student media,” Brenner said. “I don’t think the days of anything being print alone exist anymore. It’s essential for [publica-tions] to understand the specific needs and wants of their audience.”

Additional reporting by Nicole Cobler.

things,” Aliseda said. “I think that having someone there that would give that perspec-tive … has been beneficial for me. It’s great to have that perspective before having to make a decision that might impact students at all of our institutions.”

Crane said the student re-gent position is vital to the board and its decision mak-ing process.

“Regardless of [the student regent’s] voting power, their voice is still heard and is very important to the Board of

Regents and the decisions that they make,” Crane said. “I think the student regent is one of the most important positions with-in [the board] because they are there for the students.”

Despite recent tensions between the board and Presi-dent William Powers Jr. over

the past few years, Crane said he thinks Powers and the board are resolving their relationship and the existing tension did not affect his de-sire to apply for the student regent position.

“I think President Powers is a great president for UT,

and I hope that he stays here in the long term,” Crane said. “I think that [the tension] has kind of gone away in a sense. It’s definitely not as height-ened as it used to be. I think that President Powers is doing a great job at reaching out to regents, he’s doing a good job

at rebuilding and re-establish-ing a good relationship, which is beneficial for the board and students at UT.”

Crane said as a student re-gent he hopes to address stu-dents’ concerns about higher education costs.

“I think the biggest issue right now, at most institu-tions, is affordability,” Crane said. “At UT, it’s not just tu-ition affordability, it’s hous-ing affordability and I think something definitely needs to be done with that … If we want to continue on the cutting edge and being the premier public university system in the country, some-thing has to be done, wheth-er it’s increasing tuition or cutting costs.”

According to his application, Crane is a member of Sigma Alpha Lambda, Alpha Lambda Delta and the Republican Na-tional Committee, and he vol-unteers at St. David’s Hospital. In November 2012, Crane was detained at the Austin-Berg-strom International Airport after an expandable baton was found in his backpack during a routine baggage screening. Crane — who has volunteered at the McAllen National Air-port as an airport operations intern, overseeing internal security, since 2009 — said he simply forgot to remove the ba-ton from his bag.

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SHARED continues from page 1our campus, is that maybe the approach ought to be different across different units,” Hegarty said. “I do think that the transforma-tion from where we are to-day to where we ultimately get, it can’t be done [im-mediately] — it’s not logi-cal and it’s too risky to take one giant step from a very decentralized model to a very centralized model. Maybe you two or three step it.”

The report included a list of five common themes the committee heard from campus dialogue sessions. According to information provided in the report, campus feedback consist-ed primarily of concerns about transparency and community involvement in the plan’s development and the potential impact of implementation on people working at UT.

In the report, the com-mittee provided recom-mendations on how best to conduct a pilot version of implementation. According to the report, the commit-tee will take a closer look at existing forms of Shared Services on campus, par-ticularly those at the Col-lege of Liberal Arts and Mc-Combs School of Business, as well as pursue test-runs in colleges, schools and units that volunteer and have structures conducive to centralization.

In the report, the com-mittee said it will determine the success of a pilot based on whether the centralized services maintain or im-prove service quality, based on feedback it receives from faculty and staff within a particular college, unit or

school and through moni-toring the volume, accuracy and cycle-time of a central-ized service.

According to the report, it will be difficult for the University to see financial benefits from the pilot pro-grams, but UT will work to establish an accurate esti-mate of savings based on the other information ob-tained in a pilot program.

In a post on his blog, “Tower Talk,” Powers said he is currently review-ing the recommendations submitted to him by the committee.

“Change is never easy, but I believe we must share services across the campus for three reasons,” Powers said in his post. “To im-prove service, to improve career paths for our staff, and to reduce costs, allow-ing us to better serve our core missions of teaching and research.”

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CORRECTIONSBecause of an editing error, a story about the archery club in the March 5 issue of The Daily Texan misstated the club president’s name. It is Hannah Jane DeCiutiis.

Because of an editing error, a story about the gubernatorial primaries in the March 5 issue of The Daily Texan mislabeled a dateline. Greg Abbott’s election party was in San Antonio.

Because of a reporting error, a story about tracking gas emissions in the March 4 issue of The Daily Texan misstated when UT began tracking indirect emissions. UT tracked indirect emissions in 2009.

Change is never easy, but I believe we must share services across the campus for three reasons: to improve service, to improve career paths for our staff, and to reduce costs, allowing us to better serve our core missions of teaching and research.

—William Powers Jr.,President

sitting in her empty room, let alone a strange man. Startled, Neuhaus confront-ed the man, asking about his intentions.

“What are you doing here?” Neuhaus said. “Don’t you know that this is a girls’ sorority house?”

The “very masculine bur-glar,” after shushing the girl, responded that his name was “Junior Robertson and … [he didn’t] have any place to stay.”

The article stated that the encounter roused several of the other girls from their sleep, at which point they “helped the man, who was attired in the uniform of a

soldier from the Third Army, don the shoes that he had in-conspicuously hidden at the foot of the back stairs and, with the help of the aston-ished housemother, he was escorted from the house.”

Feeling excited from the whole ordeal, the Tri Delta sisters sang “My Tri Delta Man,” according to the ar-ticle, as they walked him from the sorority house, all of them still wearing their pajamas. One of the girls had apparently called the police to sort the situation out, too.

“No sooner had [Junior] gone than the police arrived and picked up two khaki-clads on the opposite side of the street,” the article said. “The Tri Deltas couldn’t bear

to see this mistake, so they dashed out of the house.”

The article stated that, af-ter the girls had informed the police officers of the mis-take, the officers conducted a quick search of the area but never found the man that had made himself tempo-rarily at home in Neuhaus’ room that night.

Though the bizarre occur-rence ended peacefully and no one was harmed, accord-ing to the article, some girls in the Tri Delta sorority were riled up after witnessing the night’s events.

“The other girls … quite carried away by all the ex-citement, dashed up and down the street shouting that they had been robbed.”

UTPD Police Chief David Carter joined a group of local law enforcement officials in a press conference Wednesday to caution students about alcohol abuse in preparation for spring break.

Carter said while underage drinking is not condoned, UTPD recognizes the com-monality of drinking among college students.

“Clearly our preference, if you’re under the age of 21, is that you don’t drink because it’s illegal to do so,” Carter said. “However, we do understand the majority of college students actually do from time to time drink, and many of those students are actually underage.”

According to Carter, heavy

alcohol consumption can lead to sexual assault.

“One in five college wom-en are sexually assaulted, and the vast majority of those cases actually involve alco-hol,” Carter said. “Go with friends. Have a plan before you go out.”

Carter also encouraged students to call 911 in alco-hol-related medical emer-gencies, even if the students involved are underage.

“If you find one of your friends who is in medical distress, even if you’re under-age, we need you to call 911,” Carter said. “Understand that you will not receive an alcohol citation or violation if you’re actually trying to help your friend out.”

Doug Shupe, a public af-fairs specialist for AAA, an auto club membership

organization that offers road-side assistance, warned against riding with drunk drivers as well as drunk driving.

“Drinking and driving is never safe,” Shupe said. “The decision you make to never drink and drive and never get into a car trapped with someone who’s drunk is one of the most crucial decisions you will ever make in your lifetime, and that’s because you will live to talk about it.”

Shupe said preventing DWI incidents is a shared responsibility.

“DWI affects everyone here in Texas. It affects pe-destrians, bicyclists, drivers and runners,” Shupe said. “Because we are still losing lives as a result of DWI, there is clearly a continuing need to talk about this.”

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Six drinks — beer, wine, spirits, coffee, tea and cola — have played major roles in de-fining history, Tom Standage, lead digital editor at The Economist, said in a lecture at the Etter-Harbin Alumni Center on Wednesday.

The lecture, cosponsored by the IC2 Institute, the Moody College of Communication and the McCombs School of Business, covered Standage’s new book, “A History of the World in 6 Glasses.”

According to Standage, beer was the first drink to shape history. He said that it was accidentally discovered with wheat and became so popular that it was one of the main contributing factors for the switch to agriculture from a hunter-gatherer lifestyle.

Standage said that since beer was something that couldn’t be stored before 800 B.C., wine was created. Ac-cording to Standage, the drink aided the creation of a sophis-ticated society and attributed to a separation of classes.

“You get a cultural and a social hierarchy as a result, where everyone drinks wine, but which wine you drink matches your social status,” Standage said.

Standage said spirits became prevalent for long journeys overseas and played a part in the economy of their time pe-riod because they were used as currency during the slave trade.

He said coffee was a revo-lutionary drink because cof-feehouses were places where intellectuals would gather to discuss important topics.

“The coffeehouse that peo-ple go to discuss stock trades was eventually what created the London Stock Exchange,” Standage said.

Spanish freshman Sofia Mi-tre said she believes Standage’s ideas are plausible and thinks students should look into fresh ideas that are presented on campus through lectures.

“It’s definitely a nontradi-tional way of thinking,” Mitre said. “I think it’s always impor-tant to look at things in various perspectives and create your own [opinions] instead of ac-cepting what one person tells you or what one textbook says.”

Bruce Kellison, associate di-rector of the IC2 Institute, said he believes Standage’s style of thinking is important, which is why he helped bring him to UT.

“It makes history come alive and accessible,” Kellison said. “It brings in three very active departments on campus who are interested in these topics but in a new and fresh way.”

While other students at campuses around the coun-try are taking advantage of the “super single” option — rooms with double the space but only one resident — no students are choosing the option at UT, according to UT officials.

Laurie Mackey, director of administrative services at the Division of Hous-ing and Food Services, said DHFS offers basic single rooms, which are 135 square feet, and two types of larger single rooms, both of which are referred to as premium singles. According to Mack-ey, out of all 6,956 rooms in on-campus residence halls,

only 250 are single rooms, and fewer than 200 students have taken advantage of the single option.

“We offer all of the pre-mium singles that we have, which is why I do not see the trend increasing to of-fer more premium singles in the future,” Mackey said.

DHFS also allows double rooms to be used as singles in San Jacinto Residence Hall, assigning them on the basis of request and avail-ability. Students have to pay as much as they would have to if two people were living in the room, but, according to Mackey, no students are currently utilizing the “su-per single” option.

“Less than 10 expressed an interest, and, when

extended an offer, did not accept it,” Mackey said.

Mathematics freshman Erica Herod said she thinks, if she lived alone, she would have been discouraged, lonely and unmotivated to be productive.

“When one of us is feel-ing stressed or has a big test, we’re always there to sup-port each other,” Herod said. “Since I’m brand new and don’t have many friends yet, it’s nice to know that when I come home I have a friend, and [that] I live with her and I get to see her all the time.”

Mallory Foutch, Eng-lish and history senior, said she thinks it’s good to have a roommate when go-ing through a period of transition in order to have

someone to talk to about the experience. According to Foutch, living with a room-mate also teaches students important lessons for later in life.

“I also think that having a roommate prepares you for life, in general, where you’re going to have to work with people eventually at some point,” Foutch said. “Learn-ing how to live with some-one, I think, is great practice for learning how to work in teams or in an office.”

The first transatlantic flight to arrive in Austin touched down at Austin-Bergstrom Airport on Mon-day afternoon at approxi-mately 4:50 p.m. The service is the first of many to come for the new route offered by British Airways.

Austin and London resi-dents will now have the luxury of flying directly be-tween Heathrow Airport, British Airways’ main hub, and Austin-Bergstrom. The new service is also the only Austin flight provided on a Boeing 787 Dreamliner.

John McDonald, vice president of British Air-ways, said Austin is a prime destination because of the city’s growth and student population.

“There’s a significant busi-ness travel corridor between Austin and London, but, ob-viously, Austin is a huge stu-dent city; we’re very aware of that,” McDonald said. “We’re keen to encourage as many students as we can to visit the UK [and] Europe and really get that cross cul-tural experience.”

McDonald said he is ea-ger to work with the Uni-versity with hopes of back-ing the business populace around campus.

“We’ll certainly be talk-ing to the University seeing what we can do in terms of ‘how do we effectively get prices in the market [and] stay competitive’ … we’re really keen to work with [students] not just in terms of getting them on board … but how we actually work with students, support en-trepreneurialism [and] sup-port that element of the student community,” Mc-Donald said.

Riane Corter, Interna-tional Office program coor-dinator, said the new route will make travel arrange-ments easier for UT stu-dents in international and study abroad programs and incoming exchange students traveling to America.

“I think it’s going to be helpful for exchange part-ners to send their students directly to Austin,” Cor-ter said. “Before, my stu-dents coming from Lon-don would have to fly into Houston or Dallas and then get another shuttle or an-other flight to connect to Austin. So, now, this direct

route is going to be really helpful for them.”

Only on the market for two years, there are cur-rently 122 Boeing 787s in service with more than 60 airlines operating the airliner. Skip Thompson, Boeing’s director of Air-line Marketing Services, said the 787 Dreamliner is leading the way in aircraft technology.

“[The 787 is] the most advanced commercial jet-liner in service,” Thompson said. “It’s an all composite fuselage. It’s an entirely new way of manufacturing a new airliner.”

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Claire Trammel / Daily Texan StaffThe lead digital editor for The Economist, Tom Standage, speaks about the six drinks that influenced the way society developed at the Etter-Harbin Alumni Center on Wednesday afternoon.

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school and through moni-toring the volume, accuracy and cycle-time of a central-ized service.

According to the report, it will be difficult for the University to see financial benefits from the pilot pro-grams, but UT will work to establish an accurate esti-mate of savings based on the other information ob-tained in a pilot program.

In a post on his blog, “Tower Talk,” Powers said he is currently review-ing the recommendations submitted to him by the committee.

“Change is never easy, but I believe we must share services across the campus for three reasons,” Powers said in his post. “To im-prove service, to improve career paths for our staff, and to reduce costs, allow-ing us to better serve our core missions of teaching and research.”

NEWS Thursday, March 6, 2014* 3

On Monday, the Austin American-Statesman reported that Gov. Rick Perry’s choice for UT System chancellor, Kyle Janek, was being considered by the UT System Board of Regents. Janek, who is currently Health and Human Services executive commissioner, would take the place of Chancellor Francisco Cigarroa, who announced his resignation in early February. Janek’s current position as exec-utive commissioner entails managing the state’s Medicaid rolls, integrating technol-ogy into health care and maintaining the Health and Human Services Commission. It’s not academia, but for the position of chancellor, it just might be the right kind of experience.

As a doctor and expert in the field of health management, Janek, if chosen, could help guide the Dell Medical School through its early years. Though the forth-coming medical school has a more-than-able dean in the recently chosen Dr. Clay Johnston, having a doctor in the System’s leadership could prove to be beneficial to

the medical school as it finds its place in the massive System network.

On the other hand, while Janek has the basic qualifications, he’s done nothing re-markable to deserve the position of chan-cellor. His tenure as a Texas senator was nothing if not mediocre.

Janek’s legislative record seems innocu-ous enough. He authored bills on things such as asbestos claims and reductions in mandatory appraisal increases for proper-ty tax. Janek’s time under the dome shows his ability to craft measures to appease Re-publican Party leaders, but did nothing to mark him out as the sort of person fit to lead a massive university system.

And while Janek’s undistinguished time in the Senate doesn’t throw up any red flags, his performance as executive com-missioner of the human services commis-sion has been more concerning.

As commissioner, Janek refused to be-lieve census data showing that more than a quarter of Texans don’t have health insur-ance. Accordingly, he did little to stop the problem of under-insurance in the state.

Though it’s no surprise a Republican has skewed perceptions of health care, it’s still worthy of criticism. Janek’s views may mirror those of older Texans, but what if he were to continue to ignore the more progressive views of younger Texans as chancellor? The University would not ben-efit from an out-of-touch older man push-ing vestigial norms on today’s students.

We should also be wary of anything Perry pushes for in the System. He has shown on several occasions his disregard for the Uni-versity’s interests in favor of pursuing his own warped ideas for what higher education should look like. Perry might not see Janek as the best man for the job so much as he sees him as the best man to achieve his agenda.

Though Perry’s endorsement carries clout with the regents, all appointed by him, it’s no guarantee. Perry’s last en-dorsement fell on deaf ears as the board ultimately went with Cigarroa instead of his proposed candidate. Janek isn’t the worst choice, but he leaves a lot to be desired. Hopefully the regents can come up with a more compelling candidate to move UT forward.

Breland is a Plan II senior from Houston.

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Janek’s views may have represented older Texans, but if he were to continue to ignore the more progres-sive views of younger Texans as chancellor, the Univer-sity would not benefit from an out-of-touch older man pushing vestigial norms on today’s students.

Primary results show tea party’s power in Texas

By Ali BrelandDaily Texan Columnist

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UT System can do better than Perry’s choice for chancellor

By Alexandra TrioloDaily Texan Columnist

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When parking on UT campus, you don’t get what you pay for

Despite the many positive aspects of liv-ing in a vibrant, growing metropolis such as Austin, every Austinite knows that getting on Mopac Expressway between the hours of 4:30 p.m. and 7 p.m. without necessity is a fatal mistake, and finding affordable and convenient parking on campus is just as frustrating. Even though our campus and city bus systems are getting better, students are not immune to parking problems and many are rightfully fed up with UT’s park-ing garage policies.

Particularly frustrating? The on-campus garage rule that UT “reserve[s] the right to relocate permit holders as needed.” More specifically, in order for students to pur-chase a parking spot, they must sign a con-tract agreeing that they will move their cars out of their purchased parking spots when the University needs more spaces for its vis-itors and events. The University’s strategy of “double booking” its students’ parking spaces is insulting considering the amount of money students are being asked to pay to reserve the spaces in the first place.

College Prowler, an online company that offers current UT students ratings of dif-ferent aspects of their school, grades UT’s parking a C-, UT’s lowest grade out of all of the ratable categories. Our own University’s website paints no rosier a picture: the trans-portation services website says that “Park-ing on [the UT] campus is a very critical commodity. There are about 14,000 parking spaces...to satisfy the multiple daily require-ments for the 70,000 staff, faculty, students, and visitors...to accommodate the maxi-mum number of customers, PTS strives to use spaces and lots for multiple purposes.” With parking for only 23 percent of the UT population, students are bound to find frus-tration in this ordinary task. But the Uni-versity doesn’t have to make it more frus-trating with their needless relocation rules.

Psychology freshman Jared Hahne parks his car in Trinity Garage.

“It’s annoying that the University is charging me more than $700 for a park-ing spot this year,” Hahne said. “On top of that, they make me move my car to another garage about twice a week so that they can charge other people to use my parking spot that I’m already paying for, in order to make even more money. I mean, I understand that there’s limited space, but I’m paying a lot of money for convenience, and moving my car twice a week is not convenient in any way.”

The 2011-2012 annual report posted on the transportation services website explains that the average student parking garage spot costs between $677 and $743, and the Uni-versity brings in between $16 and $17 mil-lion in parking revenue annually. Obviously, revenue is an essential aspect to running a successful University, but parking rates are becoming unfair and excessive, especially considering how inconvenient parking on campus has become. I, too, park my car in Trinity Garage, and am constantly bom-barded with emails asking me to relocate my car. It is unfair to pay close to a thousand dollars for a semi-permanent parking spot.

To make matters worse, students who have to relocate their cars to temporary ga-rages are sometimes fined for where they relocate their cars to.

“When I comply with the University’s rules and move my car to another garage that is not even mine and not what I am pay-ing for, I am punished for not parking on the correct floor of the temporary garage, and I received a ticket,” Hahne said. “How am I supposed to know the rules of each temp ga-rage when they’re not explicitly told to me?”

When transportation services Direc-tor Bobby Stone was asked multiple times about student parking policies and new garage construction, he said he “should be able to have some answers” but never replied further.

As both Austin and UT expand, it is time for the University to revamp its student parking garage policy. Even though there may not be an obvious solution to this feat, it is clear that more garages are needed to accommodate students in the way that they deserve, and non-student parking spaces are needed to house visitors for special events.

Triolo is a journalism freshman from Hollister, Calif.

Voters across the state turned out Tues-day to vote in elections at the federal, state and local levels. The results weren’t unex-pected — state Sen. Wendy Davis, D-Fort Worth, and Attorney General Greg Abbott will go on to the governor’s race, a near-cer-tain outcome going into the primaries. But tea party conservative Dan Patrick’s vic-tory Tuesday in the Republican primary for lieutenant governor and the lower-than-ex-pected margin of victory for Davis were the strongest sign yet that Battleground Texas, the Democratic effort to turn Texas blue, has a long way to go.

Beyond the tea party dominance that Tuesday’s outcomes demonstrate, the re-sults deserve close attention for two rea-sons. First, in Texas the general election is usually decided by the primary since there is relatively little competition between two major parties. Second, this year saw the greatest number of open races of any elec-tion in Texas in more than a decade. Obvi-ously, we can’t call any of the general elec-tions yet, but Tuesday’s results do give us a good feel for how things will turn out in November.

Lieutenant GovernorStudents may not have kept a close eye

on the primary for lieutenant governor this year, but its results were perhaps the most surprising. Sure, we expected the primary to go to a runoff, but we didn’t expect tea party favorite Patrick, a state senator from Houston, to best incumbent David De-whurst by more than 10 percentage points. With his reputation for anti-immigrant rhetoric and Bible-thumping speeches, a win for Patrick in the powerful position of lieutenant governor would mean a major change come the 84th Legislature.

Patrick was kept from a nomination-clinching majority by Dewhurst, also from Houston, who won 28 percent of the vote and will face Patrick again in a May runoff. That leaves two unpalatable choices, but one whose policies we can swallow a little more easily than the other’s. As columnist David Davis Jr. recently pointed out in The Daily Texan, all four candidates in the race were pulled to the right by U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz’s rhetoric, whose polarizing and obstruction-ist tea party-inspired tactics in Washington have set a new standard for Texas Republi-cans. However, Patrick blared his conserva-tive horn louder than the rest. Like the other candidates, Patrick objected to the Dream Act, which allows undocumented college students to pay in-state tuition. But he was the only candidate with the track record to prove that he would actually try to repeal it. Dewhurst still doesn’t look great, but he sure looks better than Patrick.

GovernorThe most closely watched race this year

on a national level, the primary for gover-nor, went exactly as expected. Abbott de-feated three opponents with more than 90 percent of the vote. On the Democratic side, Davis won the nomination easily, al-though with a smaller share of the vote than many predicted: just under 80 percent

against political unknown Reynaldo Mad-rigal, a judge from Corpus Christi.

U.S. SenateVoters also chose their nominees for one

of Texas’ seats in the U.S. Senate. Incumbent John Cornyn, who was belatedly endorsed by first-term Sen. Ted Cruz on Wednesday, beat back a challenge from more conservative tea party candidates and will face in the general election either Dallas dentist David Alameel, who has donated money to both Democrats and Republicans in the past, or disavowed Democratic candidate Kesha Rogers, who has gone so far as to call for both the impeach-ment and execution of President Barack Obama. Neither Alameel nor Rogers secured more than 50 percent of the vote, so they will head to a runoff in May — a runoff that,

like the one between Patrick and Dewhurst, leaves voters with two bad choices: Alameel, the one with the divided loyalties, or Rogers, the fringe activist whom the Democratic Par-ty has openly disavowed. Can we have a do-over? Sure, Alameel is the lesser of two evils, but with much better qualified candidates on the ballot, we really wish neither of the top two vote-getters were in the running for such an important position.

With Republican primary voters swing-ing even further to the right than expected, students should pay attention to the rheto-ric from the soon-to-be-minted nominees. While the general election is still eight months away, the dominance of the Repub-lican Party in state politics means most of last night’s winners will be winners again in November.

U.S. Senate

Governor

Lieutenant Governor

Democrat

Democrat

Democrat

Republican

Republican

Republican

J. CornynS. StockmanD. StovallL. Vega

D. AlameelK. RogersM. ScherrH. Kim

G. AbbottL. FritschM. MartinezL. Kilgore

D. PatrickD. DewhurstT. StaplesJ. Patterson

L. Van de Putte

W. DavisR. Madrigal

778,912250,746 140,40350,063

1,219,83158,74235,41619,021

550,742376,164235,972165,777

451,211

238,618110,160 89,73545,324

432,065114,458

59.4%19.1% 10.7%3.8%

91.5%4.4% 2.7%1.4%

41.5%28.3% 17.8%12.5%

100%

47.1%21.7% 17.7%8.9%

79.1%20.9%

Graphic by Omar J. Longoria / Daily Texan Staff

Dan Patrick’s victory Tuesday in the Republican primary for lieutenant governor and the lower-than-expected margin of victory for Davis were the strongest sign yet that Battle-ground Texas, the Democratic effort to turn Texas blue, has a long way to go.

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“I’m just trying to enjoy the game and play and not get consumed with the num-bers,” Stephens said.

The increased offense has helped the Longhorns’ pitching staff.

“It takes a lot of pressure

off of us as pitchers,” junior pitcher Gabby Smith said. “It’s a confidence boost.”

The Judi Garman Classic will present a much tougher challenge for the Long-horns. After facing Hous-ton on Thursday, Texas will play No. 10 Arizona State, No. 6 Washington and No. 5 Michigan, as well as Long Beach State.

“We have to focus on us and what we’re doing,” Smith said.

and my whole thing was just pursuing something that I love doing.”

While at Texas, Kabongo turned the ball over 23 percent of the time and connected on only 40 percent of his field goal attempts. Following his sophomore season, Kabongo declared for the NBA draft , only to go undrafted.

Kabongo is now working

with the Toros to become the type of point guard coaches covet: a floor general.

“A great point guard takes care of the ball,” Kabongo said. “They can do it all. They can play defense. They can change the tempo of the game.”

Kabongo appears to be mak-ing progress, hitting 44 percent of his shots this season, and turning the ball over just more than two times per game. Ac-cording to Kabongo, consisten-cy remains the biggest obstacle.

“One game I have a great game, and the next game I have a so-so game,” Kabongo said. “As I’m learning along the way, it’s just finding my niche and, when I find it, just stick-ing with it.”

Playing so close to where he went to school, Kabongo said he stays in touch with ev-ery player on the Longhorns’ roster. But Kabongo sees the Longhorns as a reminder of what he aims to achieve.

“Right now, I feel like I’m

still in college. I feel like I’m in my junior year, and the only thing is I’m not show-ing up to class and getting paid a little bit on the side,” Kabongo said.

Kabongo knows he still pos-sesses the traits of hard work and athletic ability that made him a highly touted prospect, and those skills have the op-portunity to drive him to the NBA. After a recent practice he tweeted, “Can’t wait for my time to come back around.”

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Not even beer could bring excitement to a lethargic matchup at the Frank Erwin Center on Wednesday night.

In the first game at which alcoholic beverages were served at a home Texas bas-ketball showcase, the Long-horns took on a lowly TCU in front of a lackluster crowd. Texas outlasted the Horned Frogs 66-54 in the Long-horns’ last home game of the season.

“I think this was a good win for us,” freshman guard Isaiah Taylor said. “Coming off a tough loss at Oklahoma, we needed this one to help move us forward.”

Texas dominated most of the first half after sopho-more center Cameron Ridley started the Longhorns’ scor-ing with a two-handed slam. Texas (22-8, 11-6 Big 12) was able to move the ball well and make open shots as it took an 11-5 lead to start the game.

The Longhorns had little trouble stopping the Horned Frogs (9-20, 0-17 Big 12) on defense, except for guard Kyan Anderson, who scored

18 of TCU’s 27 points in the first half. It wasn’t until the 5:20 mark in the period that another Horned Frogs player recorded a basket.

In the second half, Texas never trailed TCU, but al-lowed the Horned Frogs to hold onto hope of gain-ing their first Big 12 win. Both teams lacked energy and consistency as they exchanged baskets un-til Texas eventually wore down TCU.

“Fouls kept them in the game,” Taylor said. “We kept fouling and putting Ander-son and [Hudson] Price on the foul line. Putting them on the foul line stopped the flow of the game. And they are a good free throw team so it kept them in it.”

Texas’ senior night — with no seniors — was led by Taylor with 21 points and five assists. The Longhorns were without starting for-ward Jonathan Holmes, who missed the game with a right knee injury. Both Ridley and sophomore forward Connor Lammert, who stepped into his place, recorded a double-double on the night. Ridley’s 14 points and 10 rebounds

tallied for his third straight double-double while Lam-mert recorded a career-high 13 rebounds.

“Unfortunately we had to deal with Holmes being out again,” Lammert said. “But we know the team isn’t about one person. I knew my team-mates would have confidence with me so I just went out there and gave it my all.”

The Longhorns have had little trouble at home this season. They finish with a 16-2 mark at the Frank Er-win Center, which is one shy of their single-season record for most home wins.

Texas, who has put a large focus on confidence, especial-ly after trouble on the road, now has a chance to finish tied for second in the confer-ence if it can win its last regu-lar season game against Texas Tech at 3 p.m. on Saturday in Lubbock.

“I don’t think our guys have lost any confidence,” head coach Rick Barnes said. “Why wouldn’t we be [con-fident]? We got a group of guys that on Saturday have a chance to finish second in the best conference in the country.”

In between the Louisiana Classic at the beginning of the season and the Texas Invita-tional this past weekend, the Longhorns offense struggled with consistency, scoring six or fewer runs in eight games.

But this past weekend, the Longhorns averaged just more than eight runs per game and run-ruled their opponents in four of the five matchups.

Now the trick for Texas will be repeating that perfor-mance against tougher teams in the Judi Garman Classic this weekend.

One of the biggest improve-ments the Longhorns made

over the weekend was driving in runners. Texas had left an average of eight runners per game on base coming into the tournament, but, in the last five games, the Longhorns left just more than six runners on base.

“[In practice] we really fo-cused on any time someone came up to the plate,” head coach Connie Clark said. “Bases were loaded or runners were at second and third to simulate that we need to push runs across.”

Sophomore utility Lindsey Stephens has led the charge for the Texas offense with 34 RBIs and seven home runs. In the Texas Invitational, Stephens

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When senior guard Hel-en Tau suits up before each game, she doesn’t worry about playing time. Tau doesn’t think she deserves more than the 22 minutes she has stepped on the court all season. And she’s not concerned that all she has is one free throw on her career.

Because until recently, Tau never thought she’d have this chance.

“It’s just all unexpect-ed and I still feel like I don’t deserve it so ev-erything I get is bonus,” Tau said. “I’m just happy to be here, whether it’s sitting on the bench or getting my last two min-utes in — which are so totally sweet.”

Starting and lettering all four years at Brazoswood High School, Tau wanted to pursue college athlet-ics but couldn’t decide between basketball and tennis. She decided she wasn’t good enough for ei-ther and instead focused on studying as a business

honors student.She wanted to serve

as basketball team manager but was re-jected both years as an underclassman.

“The third year, I decided it was a new coaching staff, I’d put myself out there one more time,” Tau said. “If I got rejected, it just wasn’t meant to be.”

Apparently it was. As a manager for the

entire season last year, Tau didn’t interact with the players much. She de-scribed her job as “grunt work behind the scenes” with high expectations but little credit. “Sometimes we’d get treated kind of badly,” Tau said.

And she certainly didn’t get close to the players.

“They wanted to keep it pretty distant to begin with, and I’m pretty shy when-ever I start in new places,” Tau said.

But on Oct. 30, injuries left the roster thin and head coach Karen Aston added Tau to the roster as a walk-on.

“The most notice-able thing about Helen is her approach and at-tention to detail,” Aston said. “When you tell her to do something, she does it to the best of her abili-ties. You don’t have to tell her twice.”

When Aston asked Tau to join the team one day during scrimmag-es, Tau didn’t believe her. She said Aston was

“really nonchalant and chill,” but Tau was freaking out.

“Maybe she didn’t think it was a big deal, but in my head I was like, ‘Holy crap, what’s going on?’” Tau said.

The transition wasn’t easy — she sleeps less, is “a little behind on her work” and said she doubts every day that she deserves her position, especially after a bad practice. Her team-mates cheer her up.

Tau’s first practice, the team needed to run four suicides in under 32 sec-onds, repeating each one that didn’t make the cut.

Tau ran seven — but she didn’t run them alone.

“After the sixth, I couldn’t really do it,” Tau said. “I had Nneka [Enem-kpali] pulling me from the front and Empress [Dav-enport] pushing me from the back to make sure I made the times. From then, I was like, ‘OK, I can do this.’”

As Texas (20-10, 11-7 Big 12) enters the Phillips 66 Big 12 Women’s Bas-ketball Championship this weekend with its first No. 3 seed since the 2004-2005 season, Tau’s DI time nears its end.

“Instead of finding a job, which I still need to do, I’m just playing basketball, which I’m totally OK with,” Tau said. “Instead of look-ing forward like my class-mates are doing, I’m all up in the moment.”

Myck Kabongo is still in the place where his once bright career flatlined.

But he’s trying to get back into a position where he can be recognized for his talents, not his short-comings.

A former Longhorn basket-ball star, Kabongo is working to find his way onto an NBA roster with the Austin Toros, a subsidiary basketball franchise of the San Antonio Spurs and a member of the NBA’s Develop-mental League. It’s been nearly a year since Kabongo’s tenure as a Longhorn ended in disappoint-ing fashion, but he hasn’t lost his edge or desire to be great.

Kabongo, like former Longhorns Cory Joseph and

Tristan Thompson, was a highly touted Canadian-born prospect that turned his eyes to Texas after a successful high school campaign at Findlay Prep in Henderson, Nev.

Stepping onto the 40 Acres, Kabongo had the size, speed, vision and charisma to become one of the best point guards in the country. But, after a rocky freshman season, Kabongo’s upward trajectory was struck by a 23-game NCAA suspen-sion for accepting impermis-sible benefits from NBA mega-agent Rich Paul.

“It was just tough sitting down and not being able to play for something. That was unfortunate,” Kabongo said. “My situation was pretty weird,

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When the storm called South By Southwest rolls into town next week, it will be hard not to rip those pretty little badges off the necks of festival-goers. While thousands of people flock to Austin every year for the festival, many people living in Austin area are left with a traffic nightmare and hour-long waits for food. Locals tend to try to keep away from the influx of out-of-towners. Here are some ways you can do that, too.

First things first, if the traffic weren’t already bad here, it would be about to get 10 times worse. Roads downtown and in South Austin will be blocked off, and bus routes will be dis-rupted, not to mention that about 50,000 people at-tend the festival, many of whom are flooding in from other places.

In the case of traffic — and avoiding SXSW in general — North Austin is your friend. Geographi-cally, it is the farthest Aus-tin area from downtown. Another way to avoid the bumper-to-bumper frustra-tion is to keep away from motor vehicles altogether — cabs will be almost im-possible to hail, and buses may run later than usual. Walking is going to be the most efficient method of transportation. Just try not to drive downtown, and, whatever you do, avoid I-35 and MoPac. Parking will only be a sad dream during this time.

Second, your favor-ite Austin food places are probably going to be out of the question during SXSW, unless you like a four-hour wait. That means no Home Slice, no Polvos, no East Side King, no Franklin Bar-

becue and no Hopdoddy. These restaurants, which al-ready have lines on normal weeks, will be packed.

As an alternative, this week would be a great time to brush up on those cooking skills you’ve been meaning to work on. Get to Whole Foods or H-E-B. to stock up as soon as possible before the stampedes arrive. If you don’t want to cook, try going to chain restaurants and stores not within close proximity to the festival. That means Jimmy John’s, Whataburger and Chipo-tle are some good friends of yours.

As suggested by the @SXSWLikeaLocal Twitter account, “Move ‘lunch’ to 10:30 so you don’t acciden-tally strangle anyone wear-ing a badge on your way to Jimmy John’s.” If it is impos-

sible to stay away from your favorite coffee joint, go be-fore 9 a.m., when all of the badge-holders will still be sleeping in their overpriced hotel rooms.

Third, any standard Aus-tin activities are out of the question. This means Zilker Park, Alamo Drafthouse and South Congress will be so crowded that you’ll want to pull your hair out.

Instead, try going some-where not in Austin. The Hamilton Pool Preserve and Enchanted Rock are great options, consider-ing they are well outside the city limits and far away from the chaos. If transpor-tation outside of the city is an issue, try thrift-shopping at the Blue Hanger store on Burleson Road in South-east Austin. If you want to see a movie, the theater in

Pflugerville might be your best bet. Mayfield Park is a good substitute for Zilker, and it has peacocks you can Instagram — what more could you ask for? There are also the beautiful gifts of Netflix and your bed, which can entertain you at any time of the day for as long as you want them to.

Lastly, stay away from Twitter, where your badge-holding friends will be boasting about the acts and celebrities they’re seeing.

Social media will also be flooded with status updates detailing SXSW

surprise guests and endless parties, most of which are conveniently unattainable without a badge or almost impossible to get to. Try shutting down your Twit-ter and Facebook accounts for a week. If you can’t re-sist, follow people and ac-counts that sympathize with your situation. You’d be surprised how many of your neighbors will com-plain about the sea of peo-ple that has landed outside their door steps. Misery loves company, especially when you’re an Austin local during SXSW.

With thousands of people coming from around the world to attend South By Southwest, there’s no doubt they will leave behind a lot of trash — not to mention the gas required to fly and drive them in, the increased water use in Austin businesses and countless other potential en-vironmental damages.

The people who run SXSW have been working to control the waste issue, but it is no easy task.

“As far as trash goes, peo-ple are always alarmed at the amount of trash at SXSW, but that’s because we are not a fenced festival,” said Ellen Alger, program and special events coordinator for SXSW Eco. “It’s not like ACL or Fun, Fun, Fun where it’s in a fenced area and we can con-trol all the waste.”

This unfenced festival style leads to decreased control over the festival’s sustainability.

“We work really hard ev-ery year to try and come up with plans to lessen that foot-print, but it’s really difficult because we don’t have con-trol,” Alger said. “We have a limited number of resources and a limited amount of say about what we can and can-not do in the city.”

Even with these challeng-es, SXSW has come up with ways to decrease its ecologi-cal footprint. One way the festival is decreasing waste is by establishing a zero-waste initiative that encourages re-cycling and composting.

“Thus far we have been

able to get well above 80 per-cent on our events for the past three years, but we are striving for 100 percent,“ said Chris Sonnier, SXSW Eco program manager.

They will also be provid-ing reusable water bottles for many of the festival’s speak-ers and panelists in confer-ence areas and decreasing paper use for festival events and advertisements. With the help of Green Mountain Energy Co., the SXSW Eco team will also be offsetting the carbon footprint of all of

this year’s panelists.In addition to these mea-

sures, SXSW accepted video submissions digitally this year instead of having them mailed in.

“This is actually cutting down over 1,000 pounds of electronics that are very dif-ficult to recycle as well as reducing the shipping cost and the pollution from that,” Sonnier said.

Last year SXSW began hosting a three-day festival in October called SXSW Eco that brings in environmental

experts to talk to guests about sustainability. There will be a SXSW Eco launch party on Saturday to pro-mote the event.

“We started SXSW Eco be-cause what we do very well is throw events, and if we could throw successful events around sustainability, then we’re hoping this could really help to catalyze action across the world,” Sonnier said.

The smaller festival allows for green programs to be tested and later implement-ed at SXSW in March. One

successful initiative from last year’s SXSW Eco is SpinFish Event Solutions, a company that comes in and reuses waste from the festival’s trade show.

“An example would be we’re going to get a lot of cardboard and foam board and some wood pallets and 2-by-4s, so we are finding organizations that can use those,” SpinFish co-founder Stephanie Hansen said. “In-stead of them going in the trash when the event’s going, we are collecting them and

redistributing them.”SpinFish’s process alone is

estimated to prevent 10,000 pounds of trash. If its suc-cess at SXSW Eco is a pre-monition of what’s to come for SXSW, then it seems this year’s festival will be the most sustainable yet.

“At Eco this year we had an incredible amount of materials that were reused,” Alger said. “We only ended up with one little cardboard box of stuff that had to go in the garbage from the entire trade show.”

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visual compositions in real time. In addition, the cam-era tracks physical movement and spatial positioning, then projects the visuals and sound back onto the user in a virtual reality display.

“A good analogy is we are us-ing brainwaves as sound waves and imagination as visuals,” Beira said. “It’s all very abstract and experimental.”

De Quay and Beira recently took “BioMediation” to Con-necticut to show the progress they have made. Once the headset is attached to de Quay, he positions himself in front of the camera and meditates. His thoughts as he meditates are re-corded and translated through the system and displayed back onto him in an array of graph-ics and sounds.

“The idea is that I will be creating this environment by thinking about it and creat-ing these images and sounds that are being shot at me with a projector with speakers,” de Quay said.

De Quay and Beira hope to perform “BioMediation” at a School of Information show-case in April. They will have an installation that allows audi-ences to experience their proj-ect firsthand. “For example, by going into a meditative state and closing their eyes slowly and deeply, they can alter the sound from a busy, noisy area to a nature inspired sound,” Beira said. “And the visuals will also change.”

UT music professor Bruce Pennycook, who specializes in new media, audio technologies and interactive music perfor-mances, supervises de Quay and Beira’s doctoral studies and projects.

Pennycook said people like him, de Quay and Beira have been working on this type of artistic expression for a decade. With technology advancing more and more rapidly, he said he thinks highly of what the two students have ac-complished during their time in Austin.

“To put things in the simplest of terms, they’re working to make art,” Pennycook said.

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While thousands of people flock to Austin every year for the festival, many people living in Austin area are left with a traffic nightmare and hour-long waits for food.

By Brigit BenestanteDaily Texan Columnist

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