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For the 16th year in a row, students celebrated Israeli cul-ture at a block party on the East Mall on Monday, while, right across Speedway, dozens of students yelled and chanted in protest of the event, as they have almost every year since the block party’s inception.

Student leaders at both the Israel Block Party and the pro-test said they have wanted to exchange dialogue with each other for many years, but at-tempts at dialogue have never resulted in peaceful resolution.

The party, the largest event organized annually by Texas Hillel, had over 100 volunteers and many different booths for students to experience Is-raeli culture. Six main booths focused on educating event attendees on topics ranging from Israeli technological and medical innovation to the structure of the Knesset,

the legislative branch of Israeli government. Other booths highlighted food, offered free smoothies and focused on the integration of different

cultures in Israeli society.Across the street, protes-

tors argued that the Pales-tinian voice is silenced each year at the event.

Jauzey Imam, computer engineering and Plan II se-nior, said he wants to start a

Visiting professor explains why peppers are hot.

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John Schwartz defends modern journalism.

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Students protest tuition proposal Naval Adm. McRaven to speak at graduationStudents filled the back of

the Student Activity Center’s legislative assembly room during three student leader-ship meetings last week to oppose a proposal that may

recommend an increase in tuition next year.

An ad hoc committee in-cluding seven student lead-ers will submit a proposal that may increase tuition by up to 2.6 percent for in-state undergraduate students and 3.6 percent for out-of-state

undergraduate students, which works out to increases of $127 and $609 per long semester, respectively. The proposal will not recom-mend an increase for graduate student tuition.

By Wednesday, the com-mittee must submit a pro-

posal to President William Powers Jr. who will then make his own recommenda-tions to the UT System Board of Regents. The board typi-cally sets tuition for two-year periods every other year and in the past, has announced its decision during its scheduled

May meeting. This time, the board will only set tuition for one academic year.

Computer science sopho-more Mukund Rathi, who has protested the proposal, said he was disappointed by the

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Grad student makes UT’s first 3-D filmIn the secluded spaces of

the CMB, surrounded by bright lights, vibrant green walls and a rolling camera, a solemn moment transpires between a man in black battle gear and a futuristic-looking woman with pink hair. Through the use of special cameras, 3-D glasses and special effects, Deepak Chetty, radio-television-film graduate student, is in the process of making the Uni-versity’s first 3-D film.

In fall 2013, UT’s radio-television-film department began UT3D, a program for students interested in learn-ing about 3-D production techniques. Funded by the Moody Foundation to run for at least five years, it is the only 3-D program in the country offered to students.

The program is not meant to take attention away from the curriculum students al-ready have planned. It is a sequence of two courses — one introductory and one advanced — and a required internship or special project that can be integrated into a student’s degree plan. With around 40 undergraduate students currently in the

program, UT3D is not only available to radio-televsion-film majors. Applying to the program is possible for those with an interest and background in film. Ap-plications for fall 2014 will close Monday.

Chetty, who is in his fourth year of graduate school, is using the teach-ings and technologies that the UT3D program offers to create an action-packed science-fiction thriller for his thesis project. The short

film will feature a young detective who is at the crossroads of an impending artificial intelligence revolu-tion and is forced to choose between two sides. Because of the large amount of spe-cial effects being used in the

film, it will not be completed until August.

“My original intent was just to shoot it 2-D,” Chetty said. “But, basically, the timing was just right to

Shelby Tauber / Daily Texan StaffRadio-television-film graduate student Deepak Chetty directs on set of the University’s first 3-D film Monday night. The movie is a part of UT3D, a program for students interested in 3-D production techniques.

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Jarrid Denman / Daily Texan StaffStudents pass by the 23rd Street mural Monday evening. The University Co-op has asked the original artists for their help in restoring the work after it was tagged by vandals in January.

Shelby Tauber / Daily Texan StaffComputer science senior Ali Khan speaks at the Palestinian-rights protest of Israel Block Party on Monday afternoon.

Artists may not be paid for mural restoration

The artists of two murals that were vandalized in Janu-ary will be restoring their original works over a period of 10 weeks, but may not be paid for their time.

The University Co-op asked original artists Kerry Awn, Tom Bauman and Rick Turner to renovate the murals after

the city removed the graffiti in the Renaissance Market area, which is located on Guadal-upe and 23rd Street. A Uni-versity Co-op security guard first noticed graffiti on the south wall of the Renaissance Market building Jan. 7 at ap-proximately 6 a.m., according to Brian Jewell, University Co-op marketing director.

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Naval Adm. William McRaven will deliver the ad-dress at UT’s Spring Com-mencement on May 18.

McRaven, known for his leadership of the military op-eration that led to the death of Osama bin Laden, gradu-ated from UT in 1977 with a bachelor’s degree in journal-ism and a minor in Middle Eastern Studies.

In 2012, McRaven received a Distinguished Alumni Award from the Texas Exes, the University’s alumni or-ganization. The same year, he was a keynote speaker at the Texas Access to Justice Commission’s Champions of Justice Gala Benefiting Veterans, which helped fund legal services for low-income veterans in Texas.

“Adm. McRaven is one of the great Americans of our time, a Distinguished Alum-nus and a quintessential model of discipline and lead-ership,” President William Powers Jr. said in a statement from the University. “I’m thrilled that our graduates will have the benefit of his wisdom as they embark on their own journey.”

McRaven has served in the Navy for 37 years and has contributed to a variety of projects, including the devel-opment of an “Iron Man” ad-vanced combat suit. McRa-ven currently commands 67,000 special operations forces around the world.

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Shelby Tauber / Daily Texan StaffRadio-television-film sophomore Allyson Holland climbs a rock wall at the Israel Block Party on Monday afternoon.

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Awn, one of the three original artists, said he is concerned they will not meet their fundraising goal of $30,000. As of Sunday, the artists raised $13,570 through an online fundrais-ing campaign that began Feb. 15 and will end April 16.

“I don’t think we’re going to hit our total goal of what we’re trying to raise,” Awn said. “We’ve hit a wall.”

According to Bauman, the artists must provide funding for anti-graffiti coating on the murals, and whatever is left over will pay the artists for their labor.

Julia Narum, Travis County Health and Human Services program supervi-sor, said the city removes graffiti but has a limited role in restoring murals.

“Once [the city is] fin-ished cleaning it, I don’t know that there [is] much else to do,” Narum said.

Narum said she thinks the public’s response has been integral to the Renaissance Market murals’ restoration.

“There’s been a big enough outcry about it,” Narum said.

According to Awn, paint company Winsor & New-ton donated paint and sup-plies, and the Co-op donated $5,000 to the artists to work on the project but asked them to raise the rest of the money needed to complete the reno-vations. Awn said he thinks the artists will break even.

“The Co-op seems to think that we’ll just come in there and do it for free,” Awn said. “We can’t take two months of our lives and do that. We have to live and pay rent.”

According to Awn, most of the money raised will fund the artists’ labor and transportation costs. Awn said he and Bauman com-mute about 20 miles each way to work on the mural, and Turner, who lives in New York, must pay for his airfare and accommoda-tions to be able to work on the mural.

Awn said the renovations on both murals are sched-uled to be completed by June 1. Currently, the artists are working on the 12-year-old mural of Texas and hope to complete it by April 15, after which they will begin reno-vations on the 40-year-old mural of the Austin skyline.

Awn said, no matter how much money is raised, the artists will restore the mu-rals and potentially make additions, even though they may not be paid for their time.

“We probably will put more stuff on there, because that’s who we are,” Awn said. “It’s a labor of love for us.”

dialogue with students about human rights violations as-sociated with the Palestin-ian conflict — information he said is being left out of the block party.

“We need some sort of representation of the Pales-tinian conflict,” Imam said. “We want people to start taking this seriously.”

Imam, who has protested the block party for three years in a row, said the group should do more to acknowl-edge Palestinian difficulties.

“Four and a half million Palestinians are living under occupation in Israel,” Imam said. “That’s a huge portion of the population, and they’re just not represented in things like the Israel Block Party.”

Rebecca Hanai, advertising sophomore and co-chair for the block party, said accusa-tions of apartheid — a form of systemic, legal discrimina-tion — are unwarranted.

“I lived in Israel for a year after high school, and I saw firsthand that Israel really believes in human rights and how they believe in equality for all its people,” Hanai said. “You can receive the same benefits and opportunities you get in the United States.”

Andrea Hiller, public re-lations sophomore and the other co-chair for the block party, said she doesn’t like focusing on the protests dur-ing a time of celebration and hopes to come to an agree-ment in the near future.

“If anything, we wish there was change only in that we wish we could have a

dialogue,” Hiller said. “We would love to sit down and talk, and I’m sure we’d have more shared opinions than differences.”

Hiller said all students are invited to attend the party, and she hopes the groups can co-exist peacefully in the future.

“If they would like to en-joy this party, they are more than welcome,” Hiller said. “The hardest part of the event is seeing students walk by because they are afraid to engage and afraid to learn more. That shouldn’t be the situation.”

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process the student leaders used to court student feedback.

“It’s worth pointing out that, while the student leaders have said they want a full discussion of this issue, their only attempt to contact the student body was one email sent out on the Fri-day before spring break,” said Rathi, who is a former Daily Texan columnist.

Typically, an advisory com-mittee is created as early as Au-gust and committee members meet for months to hammer out a proposal based on di-rectives issued by the regents. This year, the regents originally issued a directive forbidding tuition increases for all in-state undergraduate students, so the advisory committee recom-mended in December to in-crease tuition for only out-of-state students. On Feb. 25, the regents issued a new directive allowing a maximum of a 2.6

percent increase.Andrew Clark, Senate

of College Councils presi-dent who was a member of both the original and newly formed committees, said that, along with the email, the Senate, Student Government and the Graduate Student As-sembly used social media as a way to reach out and inform students of the meetings in addition to the email they sent before spring break.

Rathi said he would have preferred to see fliers and announcements made in class to reach out to more students in what became a shortened time frame fol-lowing the new directives.

“There hasn’t really been a serious attempt made to involve students in this very short time frame of discussion,” Rathi said. “These people on the ad hoc committee should de-mand a longer time frame from the regents.”

Rathi also said the

committee should consider asking the regents to allo-cate money from the Perma-nent University Fund to the Available University Fund to offset the cost of tuition.

The Permanent University Fund is a 137-year-old state endowment that supports the UT and Texas A&M Systems. Though, according to the Tex-as Constitution, the fund can-not be spent, the fund’s assets are invested and a portion of the profit makes up the Avail-able University Fund. Money from the Available Univer-sity funds can be used in more flexible ways, including cover-ing university costs.

“It’s supposed to be used to maintain UT-Austin, so there is no constitutional reason that the regents should be withholding those funds,” Rathi said. “The amount they need to allocate from the permanent funds is only a fraction of interest, which is generated on the

fund each year.”Linguistics graduate stu-

dent Adam Tallman said, even though graduate stu-dent tuition will not be con-sidered in the revised pro-posal, he believes the regents could change tuition every year if students do not resist.

“If you don’t question them and you give them too much leeway, then they could increase graduate stu-dents’ tuition,” Tallman said.

The students on the ad hoc committee sent a let-ter to the Board of Regents on Monday explaining their frustration with the limited time frame they were given to complete the proposal.

“I’m personally very frus-trated by the lack of time,” Clark said. “If it is clear that this is not just some-thing UT-Austin is unsatis-fied with, we’ll definitely be making sure that opinion is heard loud and clear with the Board of Regents.”

invited to speak at this com-mencement, it is that the University is not only about the strength of your GPA, your class standing or your accomplishments on the field [but] about how it prepares you for life,” McRaven said.

Bobby Inman, professor in

the LBJ School of Public Af-fairs and former director of the National Security Agen-cy, has known McRaven for the past five years and said he is an exceptional individual.

“He is a warrior,” Inman said. “Not only is he incred-ibly physically fit, [but] he can think fast on his feet. And I can promise you he has not — despite all of the places he

has gone and all of the things he has done — lost any of his affection for UT-Austin.”

Andrew Clark, Senate of College Councils president, worked alongside other student leaders and admin-istrators on the committee charged with selecting the commencement speaker. He said McRaven’s status as an alumnus and his extensive

military service contributed to their decision.

“He’s a military man,” Clark said. “His sense of integrity will show. That’s something we get a lot of from military leaders. He’ll also bring leadership cer-tainly. He’s been in high-stakes and high-profile situ-ations and he’s had to lead under those circumstances.”

The field of journalism is not dwindling because of the digitalization of media but is instead adapting and thriving, according to John Schwartz, UT alumnus and national correspondent for The New York Times.

Schwartz spoke at Belo Center for New Media on Monday about the current state of journalism and the “chaos” of the changes that accompany the consistent in-troduction of new technology.

According to Schwartz, the change is demonstrated by which New York Times story attracted the most readers this

year: “How Y’all, Youse and You Guys Talk,” which was not a typical “narrative” story but an interactive graphic. Schwartz also said he has be-come a part of the digital tran-sition by creating web features, writing blog posts and tweeting out quotes.

“All of it was journalism,” said Schwartz, who served as editor-in-chief of The Daily Texan in the 1980s. “All of it deepens the story. There’s a mini renaissance going on. I’m the genera-tion that has to give way to the people who know how to do data visualization, and that’s fine. … It’s up to us to reinvent journalism.”

The survival of journalism

depends on journalists’ ability to adapt, Schwartz said. Glenn Frankel, journalism professor and director of the school of journalism, who introduced Schwartz at the lecture, said it is a time of transition for jour-nalism, and those involved must learn to change their methods accordingly.

“This is such a dynamic, fluid time,” Frankel said. “The digital revolution has changed almost everything about journalism. … It’s both an exciting and scary time. … I do think that young journalists — all jour-nalists — need to develop a curious and inquisitive sen-sibility about the new media and about how to use the

new media to tell stories.”Sidrah Syed, commu-

nication science and dis-orders freshman who at-tended Schwartz’s lecture, said she can understand how the change within the field of journalism can fill the public demand for accessible information.

“I was editor-in-chief [of the school newspaper] in high school, so stuff in print is valuable to me,” Syed said. “I think it’s becoming a lost art, but I also think it’s great that we’re using so many new techniques and technolo-gies to get stories across to people, because that’s what I think news is supposed to be — tangible to everyone.”

Hot wings are a college game day staple, but stu-dents don’t often question what brings the heat. Vis-iting natural history pro-fessor Joshua Tewksbury spoke Monday on why chil-li peppers are so hot.

Tewksbury said the main component to the heat when eating chili peppers is the capsa-icin, which is a type of capsaicinoid. Accord-ing to Tewksbury, heat in peppers is determined by genetics.

“Capsaicin is the ac-tive ingredient that makes chilies hot. There are about 30 orthologs called ‘capsaicinoids,’ two of which we respond to,” Tewksbury said.

A chemical ecologist by trade, Tewksbury said that chemistry is not so essential to his work of understanding why chilies are hot.

“You don’t have to be a true chemist to do this work. … I’m an ecologist first and a chemist because that’s where my questions have led me,” he said.

Biology assistant profes-sor Shalene Jha said the chemical ecology aspect of plant species and how they interact with one another relates to the development of a protection mechanism in the plants, which occurs over time. In the case of chil-ies, the protection mecha-nism is the heat-producing capsaicinoids.

“Chemistry governs or is extremely important

for species interactions, so, whether you’re talk-ing about insects chewing on plant tissue or poking their little mouth parts into berries, chemistry dictates a lot of what hap-pens and what can hap-pen,” Jha said. “When people talk about chemi-cal ecology, especially when it’s related to a de-fense compound like a plant defense or herbivory predation to their seeds, it’s costly to [plants] to produce this weapon.”

Haldre Rogers, ecology and evolutionary biology faculty fellow at Rice Uni-versity, said her research in the spread of seeds by birds shows another way in which plants ensure the continu-ation of their species. Dis-persion of seeds, such as production of capsaicin, is a protection mechanism.

“The research that I do also looks at the role of seed dispersal by birds in plant populations,” Rog-ers said. “The similarity is that, in both [chemis-try and ecology] systems, there are a multitude of ecological interactions happening and to figure out which ones are the most significant for deter-mining the plant popula-tion and what’s going on with the plant population.”

Tewksbury noted that, while capsaicin doesn’t pre-vent human consumption of chilies, the protection mechanism is effective in most cases.

“We are the only mammals I’ve ever seen that eat chilies,” Tewksbury said.

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Jarrid Denman / Daily Texan StaffUniversity of Washington professor Joshua Tewksbury discusses the ecology of chili peppers during a talk in the Moffett Molecular Biology Building on Monday afternoon.

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Michelle Toussaint / Daily Texan StaffJohn Schwartz, UT alumnus and national enviornmental correspondent for The New York Times, gives a talk at the Belo Center for New Media on Monday. Schwartz believes the survival of journalism depends on journalists’ abilities to adapt to the digital revolution.

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Calling last Tuesday’s Student Government meeting on tuition issues a “town hall” — as named by the student leaders who organized it, SG President Horacio Villarreal, Senate of College Councils President Andrew Clark and Graduate Student Assembly President Columbia Mishra, all members of the ad-hoc committee assembled by UT administrators to propose a tuition rate — is kind of like call-ing Jester a luxury dormitory or the “pizza” in the Littlefield Cafe actual pizza.

The evening was marked by a series of no-tably undemocratic proceedings that starkly contradicted the title of “town hall.” First, the agenda was never announced at the beginning of the meeting, prompting many students who were there for the tuition discussion to leave when another topic was brought up. Second, the students who stayed were prohibited from speaking during the presentation of the ad-hoc committee unless an SG representative would yield to them, although students could speak in a confusing open forum before the presentation. And third, the procedure for recognition was never made public.

More disturbing than the false claims to the evening’s inclusive, democratic design, however, was the groups’ embrace of the tired narrative on tuition issues, presented with the aid of a PowerPoint and adminis-trators Dan Slesnick and Don Aleman.

The group reminded us that, with appro-priations from the legislature on the decline, the University must find a way to offset the loss in revenue. They showed us graphs revealing that UT is relatively inexpensive compared to “comparable” universities. Finally, they recom-mended tuition increases based on the sugges-tions of the 2011 Tuition Policy Advisory Com-mittees report, which they cited as the most recent “comprehensive” document in which the student opinion was “adequately surveyed.”

Unfortunately, this story is not true.Though state revenues have declined over-

all in recent years, legislative appropriations to the University have fluctuated greatly in this period, resulting in a “decrease” in fund-ing that is not even statistically significant. The relationship between state appropria-

tions and tuition rates is unclear, given that increases in state appropriations have failed to generate reductions in tuition and that tuition cost has increased 27.4 times faster than state appropriations have decreased. Rather than directly supplanting legislative appropriations, as the ad-hoc committee sug-gested, the money generated from a tuition increase go beyond covering these “losses.”

The graph presented on tuition cost at UT relative to other, similar-tier universi-ties is also misleading. The graph, detailing the cost of total appropriations and tuition cost per student, shows UT at the bottom, leading the observer to believe that UT can afford to raise tuition and continue to re-main “competitive.” However, this fails to account for cost-of-living considerations and income levels across states, which are undoubtedly tied to tuition rates.

Only one of the 11 schools included in the presentation — Indiana University — is in a city where the cost of living is lower than in Austin, and only two schools are in states where the median family income is lower than it is in Texas. Considering these factors, UT’s location on the bottom of this graph has less to do with its relative afford-ability than it does with socioeconomics.

Finally, the suggestion that the $127 in-crease in tuition per in-state student is mar-ginal fails to account for the already egre-giously high tuition rates that have been on the increase during a period of decreasing financial aid and grant support to students. Calling this increase “small” only serves to mask these patterns and muddle the reality that such a measure would disproportionate-ly affect working-class and minority students.

If student leaders want to represent the student voice they should look beyond recycled PowerPoint slides and uphold the first and only student referendum on tuition, which showed that students over-whelmingly opposed tuition increases when it was voted on during general SG elections two years ago. Not only is this document more recent than the 2011 TPAC report the committee deferred to, but it is the only isolated measure of the student voice on record.

Griswold is a government senior from Indianapolis.

Recently, I was invited to join a Facebook event titled “Against UT tuition increases.” The group’s goal was to galvanize students against possible tuition hikes that may be suggested by student leaders in a proposal to be sent to the UT System Board of Regents on March 26.

The Facebook group creator, computer sci-ence junior and former Daily Texan colum-nist Mukund Rathi, asked students to attend town hall forums held by legislative student organizations to discuss the possible tuition hikes and make their objections heard.

I attended one of these forums, but not to voice objections to the proposed tuition rates. Yes, I would prefer not to have to pay more for tuition, but, with the constant de-cline in state funding, as well as UT’s striv-ing to be a leading research university, the necessity for tuition increases is inevitable. And let’s get one thing straight: Student lead-ers are not being asked to consider tuition increases just for the hell of it.

During the fiscal year 1984-85, the Uni-versity received 47 percent of its funding from the Texas legislature. This year, state funds have dwindled to only 13 percent of the school’s budget.

In the past, substantial aid from the Legis-lature kept tuition rates artificially low. Dur-ing the SG public forum held last Tuesday, Rathi said, “Students shouldn’t have to get a part-time job. Students should not have to deal with tuition increases.” Unfortunately, the reality is that we don’t live in a utopia where the cost of everything, including a col-lege education, is equal to everyone’s financial capabilities, and any measure taken by the UT administration is not going to solve income inequality overnight. Also within this reality is a harsh truth: Money rules everything.

A key factor in student opposition to the tuition hike is the lack of information stu-dents have on the matter. The sentiment that I gathered from attending the forum was that the burden of the bulk of UT’s budget was being placed on students.

That’s simply not true, and it wouldn’t be even if tuition were to increase. During the 2012-13 fiscal year, after tuition revenues, there was more than $1 billion left in op-erating expenses. Even if the University in-creased in-state tuition rates by 2.6 percent as proposed, the increase would only mean, on average, about $127 more per year per Texas resident student for the University, which would add only approximately $4.5 million to the school’s budget. About $2 million would be added from out-of-state

tuition revenues. With operating expenses of more than $2.4 billion last fiscal year, and tuition covering only about $500 million, the increase in tuition would be a drop in the bucket for the University’s budget.

During the public forum, Plan II honors senior Scott Wahl proposed an active pro-test outside of the Board of Regents office. Although I cannot be sure as to what the Regents will decide, tuition increases for Texas residents are improbable. Last year, when President William Powers, Jr. submit-ted a recommendation to the Regents for a student-approved tuition increase, the re-quest was denied. The Texas Tribune report-ed that the Regents Chairman Gene Powell was in favor of freezing in-state tuition in order to reduce the burden on students and their families.

Last tuition-setting year, in order to resolve the budget problem and offset tuition increas-es, the Regents allocated money to the Uni-versity from the Available University Fund. That money makes up the Permanent Uni-versity Fund, a public endowment to support certain Texas public higher education institu-tions. The University cannot depend on this fund as a solution to its financial problems, though. Despite the PUF’s assets totalling nearly $16 billion, only 4.25 to 5 percent of the funds can be used for the Available University Fund. That percentage of money is not just up for taking by the University, as it is shared with the A&M system, as well as between all 15 UT system institutions.

And, if students fear that increasing tu-ition now would set a precedent for future tuition increases, they shouldn’t: the Leg-islature has mandated a fixed tuition plan for the incoming class of Fall 2014. This plan would allow students to opt into pay-ing the same tuition for a period of twelve consecutive semesters.

But the main problem with arguments against tuition increases is the egocentrism of students. We think about the now and how it affects us in this moment. The ire surround-ing the tuition debate only came about once the proposal included a 2.6 percent in-state undergraduate tuition increase. The original proposal submitted in December 2013 only called for increases in undergraduate tuition for out-of-state students. I didn’t hear many UT students protesting that increase.

Students who are against the increases are simply not considering the situation from the administration’s point of view. The Uni-versity has to plan for its financial position years from now, even after current students are gone, and the University cannot con-tinue its success without adequate funding. Tuition increases are a necessary evil, and, while student leaders should represent the voice of their constituents, the voices of in-formed students should carry more weight in the tuition discussion.

Davis is an international relations and French junior from Houston.

In recent years, the so-called “Texas Mir-acle” has ushered in unprecedented job and population growth in our state. But, accord-ing to a report by Richard Florida released last week by The Atlantic’s Cities blog, Texas is struggling when it comes to one crucial mea-sure of economic success: the gap between the rich and the poor. Texas now has the dubious distinction of leading the nation in income segregation, or, as Florida defines it, “the in-creasing tendency of affluent people to live in neighborhoods where almost everyone else is affluent, and poor people to live in neighbor-hoods where almost everyone else is poor.”

Among large metropolitan cities, which Flor-ida defines as those with more than 1 million people, San Antonio is the nation’s most segre-gated. Houston clocks in at number four, Dallas-Fort Worth at number eight and Austin at num-ber 10. And among all cities — large and small combined — El Paso tops the list, with Laredo in second, McAllen in third, College Station in sixth, San Antonio in eight and Brownsville in ninth.

But what does income segregation actually look like? In Austin, the 10th-most income segregated large metropolitan city in the coun-try, it comes in the form of an imposing, physi-cal barrier between rich and poor: I-35. Last month, the Austin American-Statesman’s Dan Zehr mapped the average income and educa-tion levels of each of Austin’s zip codes, with a color code that showed the concentration of a particular income or education level —

income segregation, in other words. There was a bright line along the interstate, where nearly every neighborhood west of it was a dark shade of red, for affluence, and every neigh-borhood east was dark blue, for low income. Interestingly, the Central Austin ZIP code home to UT — 78705 — was among the least segregated; it was a rare, light shade of blue in a sea of the red, affluent ZIP codes west of the highway.

Bill Spelman, a member of the Austin City Council and a professor at the Lyndon B. John-son School of Public Affairs, thinks that Aus-tin’s rapid growth, and the resulting high levels of wage inequality, may have something to do with its high levels of income segregation.

“Fast moving economies — adding a lot of jobs — tend to add to wage inequalities,” Spellman said. That wage inequality drives segregation and prevents lower wage work-ers from living in more affluent areas.

Unfortunately, the solution to income segregation is just as complex as its cause. But it is certainly a problem worth solving, since segregated low income neighborhoods have less human capital and, therefore, pres-ent less opportunities for the children who grow up in them. Heather Way, the director of the Entrepreneurship and Community Development Clinic at the UT School of Law, said that income segregation “further entraps households in poverty.”

On the other hand, there are small steps we can take to get Austin moving in the right

direction. For one, more apartment com-plexes should accept residents with Section 8 public housing vouchers. If a complex has rents that are below the average for an area, they are eligible to accept the vouchers. How-ever, many of them do not, and the ones that do are mainly concentrated in Rundberg or on the East Side — two of Austin’s lowest in-come, most economically segregated areas. If more complexes accepted Section 8 vouch-ers, it “would open up a whole lot of [hous-ing] on the north, south and west sides that [low income renters] can’t get into right now,” Spelman said. “So that would, in a small way, contribute to the mobility of people with very modest means to be able to live all through the city. Right now, they can’t do it.”

Second, Texas could also allow local governments to raise the minimum wage, which is currently forbidden by law. Raise the minimum wage could go a long way towards eliminating Austin’s high levels of wage inequality, which could in turn help reduce income segregation.

Ultimately, Austin’s segregation problem is the legacy of the city’s racist past. In the early- and mid-twentieth century, the Aus-tin City Council did everything it could to segregate Austin’s black and Hispanic com-munities on the East Side. Today, this flawed logic of “separate-but-equal” still haunts Austin in the form of its unacceptably high level of income segregation. It’s time we did something about it.

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Point/Counterpoint: Should undergraduate tuition be increased? UT students oppose tuition hike Raising tuition helps UT’s future

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The evening was marked by a series of notably undemocratic proceedings that starkly contra-dicted the title of “town hall.”

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ballplayers have to be able to do,” Garrido said after Clemens went hitless in the Kansas series two weeks ago. “Both [he and fresh-man catcher Tres Barrera] have power, if they can start to be consistent at the plate and be a little more aggres-sive, they can add another element to the team.”

After a slow start, Clem-ens’ hitting has shown great improvement as of late, es-pecially his plate discipline after recording two hits and drawing three walks against Columbia last weekend.

His work in the field, however, has been spectacu-lar since opening day.

Clemens is currently sporting a .985 fielding percentage with just four errors at first base this sea-son, where he sees more action than any other de-fender. His stellar defen-sive play seems to be rub-bing off on his teammates too, as the Longhorns have committed just two errors over the course of their current four-game win streak.

Texas has recorded 29 runs on 42 hits during the win streak, and, if Clemens can get his bat going, the wins will continue. Clem-ens and the Longhorns will get their next chance to

continue the hitting display against Texas State on Tuesday.

The Bobcats will travel to Austin from San Mar-cos to face the Longhorns, sporting a respectable 15-8 record this season. Texas State is coming off of an impressive series with Western Kentucky, in which it won two of three games while scoring 21 combined runs.

But the Bobcats’ 3-4 re-cord on the road and a 3.76 combined ERA plays strongly into what the Long-horns are doing well at the moment. Texas State can score plenty of runs, aver-aging just over five runs per

contest, but bad pitching against a hot Texas lineup cannot happen.

The Longhorns are play-ing well in all facets of the game as of late, and, if Clemens and other young players can expedite the learning curve, the possi-bilities are endless for this Texas team.

showed accountability in the comeback. The effort helped Texas grab its first NCAA Tournament win since 2008 and advance to the Round of 32. Against No. 11 Maryland (25-6, 12-4 ACC), the Long-horns (22-11, 11-7 Big 12) are the underdogs, as they have been throughout the two teams’ history. Maryland leads the all-time series 3-1 and beat Texas in the teams’ only other NCAA Tourna-ment matchup.

But that 79-71 Terp victory was in 1989, when no current player on either team had even born yet, so Texas must take advantage of its newfound drive and a fresh start if it wants to advance to the regionals for the first time in a decade.

“Our team is really fortu-nate to have won the game [against Penn],” head coach Karen Aston said at a press conference following Sunday’s game. “It’s huge. Everything that we set forth to do this year we have checked off. One of those was obviously to make it to the tournament, and we ac-complished that. The next one was to win a game. That was a step I feel like this program needed to take.”

With all initial goals checked off, Texas has noth-ing to lose and no reason to slow down. It must capitalize on its strengths, as it did from the free-throw line Sunday, but also realize it’s not playing

a pushover. While the Long-horns boast a .365 3-point shooting average for the sea-son, the Terps just barely trump them at .366. Texas’ 14.8 assists per game are its most this millennium, but Maryland posted a superior 19.6 average on the season. Even the Longhorns’ +11.7 re-bounding margin, which puts them fifth in the nation, trails Maryland’s +12.2 margin.

Texas will have its hands full Tuesday night at 6 p.m. CST, as it plays in College Park, Md., which is home court for the Terps.

“I think we learned that we just have to stick together through everything,” senior guard Chassidy Fussell said at a press conference Mon-day. “We are going against the team and the fans that are yell-ing at us; we just have to com-municate and stick together.”

linebacker never managed to make a significant impact on the field, despite being a highly touted recruit in 2010.

Spring practice does not appear to have slowed down Strong and his staff on the recruiting trail, as they landed their eighth and ninth commit for the class of 2015 last week. Last Tuesday, Texas received a commitment from Deshon

Elliot, a three-star lineback-er/safety hybrid, who had of-fers from Texas A&M, Bay-lor and Oklahoma, among other schools. Landing El-liot was crucial in getting some recruiting momentum back from the Aggies, who were seen as the Longhorns’ biggest competitor for his services.

On Saturday, Under Ar-mour All-American Toby

Weathersby chose the Long-horns over the Aggies and Sooners. Weathersby be-came Texas’ third offensive line commit of the 2015 class, joining Patrick Vahe and Ronnie Major.

Texas also offered high-ly touted offensive tackle Matthew Burrell from Vir-ginia. Although landing the tackle will be tough, Texas fans should appreciate the

new coaching staff ’s will-ingness to recruit players from all over the country. A key reason that the pre-vious regime failed was an overreliance on in-state re-cruits, even in years that the talent wasn’t there. Strong can avoid this problem by continuing to go after top out-of-state talent that in-dicates interest in playing for Texas.

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The Longhorns sit in sixth place after a strong first round at the SDSU Farms Invitational on Monday. Sophomore Natalie Karcher led Texas with a 2-over 74 on the day, finishing 20th on the individual leaderboard.

Trailing right behind Karcher was junior Bertine Strauss (75), who finished one stroke behind Karcher

to tie for 28th place. Be-hind her was freshman Juila Beck, who carded a 76 to tie for 35th. Fresh-men Anne Hakula (77) and Lara Weinstein (79) are tied for 40th and 55th places, respectively.

Texas tees off the second round at 10:45 a.m. Tuesday morning alongside No. 4 Arizona State and No. 5 USC.

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Freshman catcher Tres Bar-rera, along with freshman Kacy Clemens, have propelled the Longhorns’ lack-luster offense this season. Both players have combined for 38 hits so far.

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I think we learned that we just have to stick together through ev-erything. We are going against the team and the fans that are yell-ing at us; we just have to communicate and stick together.

—Chassidy Fussell, Senior guard

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Despite the team-first ap-proach of head coach Augie Garrido’s small-ball system, freshman infielder Kacy Cle-mens has already found a way to stand out.

Entering his first collegiate season, most of the focus was on Clemens’ name. As the son of Roger Clemens, former MLB all-star and Longhorn legend, expecta-tions were very high, with the spotlight fixed on his every move.

While Clemens is just starting to find his rhythm at the plate, currently hit-ting .224 with just three RBIs through 25 games, his abil-ity to do the small things has made him stand out in Garrido’s mind.

“He is another example of not bringing any fear into this game from that other game, and that is what

Texas moved a little bit closer to the 2014 regu-lar season last week with the start of spring prac-tice. This marks the second of new head coach Char-lie Strong’s five phases of college football.

Strong recently outlined his cycle as follows: winter conditioning, spring prac-tice, summer conditioning, preseason camp and the regular season.

During Texas’ first prac-tice, senior quarterback Da-vid Ash practiced with the rest of the quarterbacks, an indication that he should be cleared to play once the

season begins. The Long-horns appear to have attempt-ed to bolster their quarter-back depth by moving senior Miles Onyegbule to quarter-back, a position he played in high school but has yet to try at the collegiate level. At the moment, it appears Texas’ of-fense will rely on the health of Ash, considering his backups will enter the fall without hav-ing proven their ability to suc-ceed at the college level.

Last week, just a couple days after dismissing two players, the Longhorn football program lost two more who decided to leave the sport. Seniors Bry-ant Jackson and Aaron Ben-son have both opted to forgo their final year of eligibility. Jackson’s career ends for

medical purposes, after he suf-fered a foot injury that cost him the 2013 season and may have been what ended his ca-reer. Jackson came to Texas as

a defensive back out of high school before moving to receiver in 2011.

Benson, the younger cousin of former standout running

back Cedric Benson, decided to end his career to focus on academics. The senior

Texas’ perfect 18-for-18 foul-shooting performance, en route to a 79-61 win over 12th-seeded Penn (22-7, 12-2 Ivy League), proved that free throws can make the difference between winning

and losing.“Anytime you go 100 per-

cent from the free-throw line is great,” sophomore cen-ter Imani McGee-Stafford said at a press conference following Sunday’s game. “Every time they fouled us, we capitalized.”

Motivated by a drive to

prolong its season, Texas rebounded from a first-half deficit to blow out the Quak-ers. McGee-Stafford led Tex-as with 20 points on 8-for-11 shooting and 12 rebounds. She scored 15 of her points after the half.

“I don’t want to say I freaked about the score, but

it was in my mind,” McGee-Stafford said. “I just wanted to come out and give my team what they deserved from me.”

The entire Texas team adopted this mentality, as each player stepped up and

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Sam Ortega / Daily Texan StaffFreshman infielder Kacy Clemens bats against Dallas Baptist last week. Clemens, who is the son of former Longhorns’ star Roger Clemens, is hitting .224 and has become a vital part of head coach Augie Garrido’s team.

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Charlie Pearce / Daily Texan file photoSenior quarterback David Ash drops back against New Mexico in August. Ash, who was injured early in the 2013 campaign, practiced with his team on the first day of spring practice.

New evidence shown in Oscar Pistorius trial

PRETORIA, South Af-rica — Oscar Pistorius and Reeva Steenkamp argued fiercely in the tur-bulent weeks before he killed her, and the ath-lete’s girlfriend told him she was sometimes scared by his behavior, which in-cluded jealous outbursts in front of other people, according to phone mes-sages revealed at the Olympian’s trial Monday.

“I’m scared of u some-times and how u snap at me and of how u will re-act to me,” Reeva Steen-kamp texted Pistorius, in a message read out in court by police Capt. Francois Moller.

In another mes-sage, Steenkamp wrote to the double-amputee runner: “I can’t be at-tacked by outsiders for dating u AND be attacked by you, the one person I deserve protection from.”

The court adjourned with Moller expected to return to the witness box on Tuesday. He has not yet revealed whether po-lice recovered any phone messages or communica-tions from the night of the killing.

In Steenkamp’s mes-sage about being scared of the athlete, she also added: “You make me happy 90% of the time and I think we are amaz-ing together.”

She goes on to talk about Pistorius snap-ping at her for chewing gum and talking in an accent, and then writes, “I just want to love and be loved. Be happy and make someone SO happy. Maybe we can’t do that for each other. Cos right now I know u aren’t hap-py and I am certainly very unhappy and sad.”

The long message was sent after the two attend-ed a friend’s engagement party and apparently had left early because she said he had gotten upset and jealous. As Moller read the message, Pistorius, who had been looking at a book of the compiled messages, closed his eyes. Tears fell to his lap.

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Lavaca Street Bar seems like a standard sports bar at first glance. Most of it is occupied by friends sitting around crowded tables, talking over each other and watching March Madness, but around the corner in its dimly lit back room sit four vintage skeeball machines.

Age has worn the machines. Occasionally, they break down. Some have holes in the nets, and, in other places, there is chipped paint, adding to its character.

On Wednesday and Sunday evenings, the machines are brought to life by members of the Austin Skeeball League, a group of most-ly young professionals looking for a way to hangout with friends and drink.

The league was created by co-founders Brandon Greer, Paige Powell and Correy Reiling and has grown from 42 members to more than 150.

“A buddy of mine and I — I guess three years ago — went out golfing and started talk-ing about doing our own league,” Greer said. “It was kind of an odd thing when he present-ed me with it, but we started thinking about it, and we all said, ‘Let’s do this as a group of friends,’ and it just kind of spread from there.”

The rules of Skeeball are simple. A team of three players signs up for the league and picks a day to roll: Wednesday or Sunday. At each match there are 10 rounds per game with nine rolls per turn. This repeats eight times per season, with the top-10 overall teams from each day making it to playoffs. This year’s playoffs begin Wednesday.

“It’s an old-school game,” Greer said. “Any-body can be good at it, but you don’t have to be good at it. You can go and break up your week and hang out with fun people.”

Alexia Sanchez, who plays for Skee3PO, had not played skeeball since her childhood when she heard about the league from her aunt and joined.

“I’d played skeeball at Chuck E. Cheese’s as a kid, but I never thought it was this ‘skee-rious,’” Sanchez said.

While there is a competitive side to the league, it operates more as a social outlet.

“It gives me the opportunity to get out of the house midweek, have a couple beers with friends, be competitive and get some skeeball in,” Sanchez said.

The league has been meeting at Lavaca Street Bar for the past year. While the bar doesn’t direct-ly profit from the league, they have seen an in-crease in traffic early Wednesdays and Sundays.

“They invest a lot in promoting it, and it draws a great crowd,” said Chad Taylor, gen-eral manager at Lavaca Street Bar. “Not just a lot of people but a good quality of people. It’s a lot of the same people who would come to the bar anyway, so it’s a really good match.”

The league owns the skeeball machines. Greer and his co-founders bought them on websites such as Craigslist and eBay for around $2,000 apiece. Greer said each machine is at least 60 years old. Time has warped them slightly, giving each one its own quirks and changing how players must roll on each machine.

Adam Fortner, a member of Skee3PO’s rival team How Ball Are You?, said there is a certain

strategy to the game that makes it easier to win.“There is sort of a threshold of skill level

where you can go for the hundreds, but you’re rarely going to hit them,” Fortner said. “It’s ri-diculous to even try, so you have to go for that shot up the middle with the 30s, 40s and 50s. If you’re consistent with that, you can beat the

other team every time.”With this year’s season coming to a close,

league members will soon play their fi-nal games until next May when the new season begins.

When the final roll is made and the neon skeeball machine lights flicker off, the most

important thing about Austin Skeeball League is the camaraderie it provides.

“I think it’s more of meeting the new people and making new friends,” Greer said. “That’s the biggest thing I’ve gotten out of it. Most of my friends are actually ones that I have met through skeeball.”

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Photos by Shweta Gulati / Daily Texan StaffTop: Beth Gibson, right, plays a game of skeeball at Lavaca Street Bar on Sunday evening. Bottom Left: Brandon Greer is a co-founder of the Austin Skeeball league at Lavaca Street Bar. The games are usually played on Wednesday and Sunday evenings and have seen an increase from 42 members to over 150. Bottom Right: Alexia Sanchez plays for Skee3PO team, and it serves as a social outlet for her while being competitive at the same time.

film, it will not be completed until August.

“My original intent was just to shoot it 2-D,” Chetty said. “But, basically, the tim-ing was just right to get to do it in 3-D, and I couldn’t

be more thankful for the experience.”

After completing his un-dergraduate degree at Pratt Institute in New York City, Chetty remained there until coming to UT in 2010. Dur-ing his time in New York, he worked in the film and tele-vision industry doing mainly

freelance work and special-izing in special effects tests. Directors of the UT3D pro-gram allowed for Chetty to take part in the new develop-ment because of his extensive background in the industry.

“So much more than any other student here, Deepak [Chetty] was prepared to do

this,” said Don Howard, ra-dio-television-film associate professor and director of the UT3D program. “So, we were like, ‘Yeah let’s do it.’ It’s the kind of film you expect to see in 3-D.”

UT3D is not restricted to students who wish to work in only action and sci-

ence fiction. The program is meant to broaden the range of genres created using 3-D technology.

“Most people have a knee-jerk reaction when they hear the term ‘3-D,’ thinking that it’s just explosions and that sort of thing,” Howard said. “It’s useful in those environ-

ments but it’s not just that.”As the first graduate stu-

dent working with the pro-gram, Chetty has found UT3D to be a great opportu-nity and believes it is a good addition to the University.

“It’s a good way for the school to test out advanced work flows and advanced

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