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Only a handful of members of the University commu-nity attended the first public forum hosted by the Tuition Policy Advisory Committee on Wednesday. Exactly one student spoke to express con-cern about the recommended tuition increase during an op-portunity for student feedback.

“I think there’s a combination of factors — finals week, and then it might suggest some sen-timent to the $150 increase — I

don’t know,” Student Govern-ment President Xavier Rotnof-sky said of the low attendance.

While tuition committee members were present to listen to student feedback about the recommended tuition increase, interim University CFO Mary Knight said the committee planned public forums to help explain why the recommended increase is necessary.

“It’s really just to give infor-mation on the current budget situation … so that hopefully students will understand the need,” Knight said.

Knight began the event with a presentation about how in-flation and falling state contri-butions since the last tuition increase in 2011 have led to a budget deficit of around $40 million.

Around 30 individuals were present in the presentation room, including the 10-mem-ber tuition committee, Daily Texan staff, audio-visual staff and other university officials.

After Knight’s presentation, a student in the audience asked

Sarah Kay, a poet who ap-peared on a TED talk at the 2011 conference and per-formed on HBO’s “Def Poet-ry Jam,” presented a montage of her poems for students on campus Wednesday night.

Event coordinators from four Campus Events + En-tertainment communities, including Distinguished Speakers, Asian American Culture, Headliners and Creative Arts + Theatre, or-ganized the event to bring awareness to performance-based poetry.

Jesse Minchey, event coor-dinator and English sopho-more, said he wanted Kay to present spoken word poetry to students because she pur-sues an innovative form of art that he and other students can personally connect with.

“When I watched her TED talk, it wasn’t a very abstract

In 1946, Heman Marion Sweatt, an African-Americant, was denied admission into the UT School of Law on the ba-sis of race. This case was the first time the Supreme Court found that diversity, includ-ing racial diversity was a com-pelling component of higher education and would be refer-enced again in the University of California Regents v. Bakke and Grutter v. Bollinger at the University of Michigan.

Former University presi-dent Theophilus Painter wrote a letter to the Texas Attorney General that Sweatt was a citizen of Texas “duly qualified for admission to the Law School at the University of Texas, save and except for the fact that he is a negro.”

Once again, the Univer-sity’s admission practices are in the spotlight. The Supreme Court will hear the Fisher v. University of Texas for the second time addressing the legality of affirmative action.

UT filed a response on Oct. 26 to the brief Abigail Fisher filed in September, and the family of Heman Marion Sweatt filed the first brief in support of the University the same day as the University.

Hemella Sweatt-Du-plechan, the daughter of Sweatt and a dermatological pathologist, said the family filed a brief when Fisher v. UT was heard in 2013. Sweatt-Duplechan said the family has been invested in admis-sions equality dating back to her father’s case that paved

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Morgan Boone | Daily Texan StaffSarah Kay, poet and Project V.O.I.C.E. founder, presents some of her spoken word poems at the SAC Ballroom on Wednes-day evening.

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UT lacks P.E. requirement despite statewide obesity

In the face of rising obesity rates in Texas, mandatory physical education courses at UT would help reduce the number of overweight and obese adults, health educa-tion clinical professor Dolly Lambdin said.

According to The State of Obesity, a website that pro-vides national obesity statis-tics, around one-third of all Texans are considered obese, making Texas the 11th most obese state in the United States. P.E. courses were a requirement for UT students 40 years ago but are not cur-rently mandatory.

According to Lambdin, a personal health and fit-ness class would empower students with the skills and knowledge to make physical activity and healthy nutri-tional choices a part of their daily lives.

“Educated citizens would

then demand healthier prod-ucts and address the prob-lems of the amazing amount of advertising of unhealthy foods in their communities which would make living a healthy lifestyle much easier,” Lambdin said.

Mandatory P.E. courses would teach students to feel comfortable going into phys-ical activity settings, accord-ing to Lambdin.

“Many people buy mem-berships and then don’t go to the gym because they feel intimidated,” Lambdin said. “They don’t join a dance group or go play golf or ten-nis because they don’t have confidence in their move-ment. Education can change this.”

Finance junior Rachel Lee said mandatory P.E. courses would benefit both students and the University academi-cally.

“Healthier students can also

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Apartments earn poor ‘green’ ratings

Finance junior Grant Kjeldsen moved into 2400 Nueces at the beginning of the fall semester because a friend offered to give him all of his furniture if he took over his lease. The finance junior loves the building, and said one of his favorite parts about his apartment is the natural lighting.

“I hardly ever have the lights on during the day because there are such great windows,” Kjeldsen said. “I don’t notice a huge difference in heating and cooling; I don’t see the bills. But the biggest part for me is the lights — hav-ing daylight all the time is useful.”

2400 Nueces is con-sidered the greenest complex in West Cam-pus, according to a rat-ing system established by the Austin Energy Green Building program.

AEGB designated 22

buildings in West Cam-pus as one-star develop-ments in the program’s most recent rating, which still means the building developer may have gone beyond basic city re-quirements for construc-tion. It’s very difficult to achieve a high rating on the AEGB scale. The pro-gram rated 2400 Nueces four stars on their effi-ciency and sustainability rating system, the highest

score out of the 34 multi-family complexes rated in 2015 in West Campus.

AEGB scores buildings on a point system. Build-ings can add points to their total score by installing water-efficient appliances, having efficient cooling and heating systems and so on. Basic city require-ments for construction do not count toward points, and buildings must tally up at least 29 points be-

fore breaking into the next level: two stars.

While this program ex-ists to encourage sustain-able development, there are still no real incen-tives for developers to ex-ceed basic requirements beyond standing out in the housing market, said Heidi Kasper, the admin-istrator of green build-ing and sustainability at

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Zoe Fu | Daily Texan StaffMary Knight, interim university CFO, speaks at the first public forum hosted by the Tuition Policy Advisory Committee.TUITION page 2

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Finance junior Grant Kjeldsen sits in his 13th floor apartment at 2400 Nueces. The apartment contains many “green” features, including kitchen countertops that are made out of recycled material.

the way for Brown v. Board of Education but said race and education is more than just an issue UT has to address.

“It has been important that we find not only a great in-stitution but one that has di-versity, not just ethnic diver-sity but social and economic diversity,” Sweatt-Duplechan said. “I think all of those fac-tors are important, especially

today as the world becomes more global, so that is why it is important for universities to have a diverse population.”

Sweatt-Duplechan said aside from the issue of race in admissions, figuring out how to educate low-income mi-nority students is crucial.

“It is important to not only acknowledge but begin to change that experience prior to getting to college,” Sweatt-Du-plechan said. “That is really our next step in my mind. I feel like

getting students more prepared for college, especially from lower economic families despite ethnicities is important because as a country we don’t value it as much as other countries and we are paying the price.”

Edmund Gordon, chair of the department of the African and African diaspora studies at UT, said the University’s low African-American repre-sentation in the student and faculty population, which is less than 5 percent, is an issue

that needs to be addressed. “Black faculty in particu-

lar are very much in favor of affirmative action, that we recognize its importance in creating this university,” Gordon said. “And the great majority of us would think this university should do more in its use of affirma-tive action to make sure the student population, graduate student population and fac-ulty population is as diverse.”

Student government

president Rohit Mandalapu said with UT’s initiative for diversity, having the Sweatt family is an important step.

“Heman Sweatt is the face of diversity and battling through diversity here at UT,” Mandalapu said. “The fact that his descendants are now in support of UT’s use of race as one of its factors in the admissions process speaks volumes about how racial issues are prevalent in society even today.”

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The scene in the Union ballroom was more relaxed, despite the overwhelming intensity of the final week of classes.

Every semester, Campus Events + Entertainment hosts ChillFest, an event to help students take a break as they prepare for final exams. Stu-dents had the opportunity to play with therapy dogs pro-vided by Austin Pets Alive, pop as much bubble wrap as they pleased, and receive free chair massages from RecS-ports masseuses.

Sean Rose, radio-tele-vision-film senior and

organizer for the event, said ChillFest is held so students can unwind and prevent mental health concerns.

“The whole point of Chill-Fest was obviously to relax, take a breath before you dive in deep,” Rose said. “If there’s not a time when you can just come and do something dif-ferent, then mentally, it dam-ages people.”

This semester marks the fifth semester ChillFest was held, and Campus E+E in-troduced new activities such as board games, iron-on Per-ler beads and coloring books. Hot chocolate and the gin-gerbread man decoration are seasonal to fall semesters, since the event takes place

around the holidays.Business pre-med freshman

Sana Kidwai said the event helped her fill up gaps in her schedule and stop worrying for a little while.

“There are certain times be-tween classes when you don’t know what to do other than stress out,” Kidwai said. “It’s important to have time for yourself in between all of the rigorous studying that you’re going to be doing.”

Kidwai said her favorite part was making DIY keychains because it brought back mem-ories of more carefree days.

“This used to be a huge thing in elementary school,” Kidwai said. “It’s just like a major throwback. It takes me

back to the time when I didn’t have finals to worry about.”

Youth and community studies freshman Robert Mor-gan said popping the bubble wrap helped him release built-up tension.

“It’s really easy to get caught up in schoolwork and get su-per stressed out really fast,” Morgan said. “I think that’s why it’s so important to have these events so you can take a step back and breathe.”

Morgan said this time of the semester can make students lose sight of the bigger picture.

“We have to remember that this is all just temporary,” Mor-gan said. “Your grades are im-portant but they don’t define who you are.”

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or distant poetry,” Minchey said. “It didn’t feel like I was looking at something far away — it felt like I was ac-tually there listening to [her performance] and I could feel it.”

Kay, who began as a po-etry slam competitor at the age of 14, now performs her poetry to audiences through-out the country. She is also the founder and co-director

of Project VOICE, a program that encourages students to become more confident in their own voice and creative abilities by learning about spoken word poetry.

Elena Pinaroc, a junior bi-ology student who attended the event, said Kay’s ability to present the poems she writes empowers her to think about her own life.

“Her messages in her po-ems speak to me and are re-ally applicable to my life like the theme about falling in

love,” Pinaroc said. “She says not to lose yourself when you actually do fall in love for the first time.”

Kay performed poems about a variety of topics in-cluding relationships, her childhood and politics. While Kay said every poem she writes is personal, she said she does not believe in immediately sharing every-thing she writes.

“I believe that there is a difference between personal and private,” Kay said. “If I

write something and the idea of people hearing it makes me want to pass out, it’s pri-vate. And I still needed to write it and it still needed to exist, but I don’t need to get on stage and share it.”

The event also included opening act performances by members of Spitshine Poetry, a student organization dedi-cated to cultivating the skill of spoken word poetry and providing a stage for poets to share their work.

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yield better grades and bet-ter statistics for the school,” Lee said. “But I think a va-riety of classes should be offered so that students can choose … whether they want something rigorous or more laid back.”

P.E. courses would ben-efit students when they are hired for a professional ca-reer, according to Lambdin.

“The success of careers depends on employees be-ing healthy enough to do their jobs with vitality,” Lambdin said. “The success of most businesses depends on controlling overhead costs, a major one of which

is the health of their em-ployees and their families.”

Despite the benefits of requiring students to take P.E., the University’s lack of funding for credit hours has been a factor in trying to institute such a course, Lambdin said.

International relations freshman Margaux Bartzen believes UT has made the right choice by not imple-menting a mandatory P.E. course.

“We’ve done that all throughout high school and the past 12 years,” Bart-zen said. “It would cost ex-tra money that we want to spend on classes that we’re interested in and it would be a waste of our time.”

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for clarification about the pos-sibility of additional state fund-ing or contributions from Tex-as Athletics. The student, who declined a follow-up interview request, also raised concerns to the committee about the tu-ition policy process.

“I think this feedback is go-ing to a trash bin,” the student said at the forum. “The num-bers so far have been very sym-pathetic to the institution.”

Student Government Vice President Rohit Mandalapu said committee members have been reviewing the 1,200 online responses as well as feedback from previous presentations by the committee at legislative

student organizations. He said the online feedback shows low attendance does not necessarily signal student apathy.

“You have to also look at the amount of responses online,” Mandalapu said. “Overwhelm-ingly students aren’t in favor of a tuition increase, but they un-derstand the necessity for one.”

Rotnofsky and Mandalapu encouraged students to voice their opinions to both the tu-ition committee as well as the Texas Legislature.

The committee will meet with President Fenves to dis-cuss feedback from the forums before he submits his recom-mendation to the UT System next week. The second and final forum will be held Thursday at 10 a.m. in the Main Building.

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The world is falling into a water crisis, but the techno-logical advances to manage it already exist, author and activist Seth Siegel said on Wednesday afternoon at the Austin Water Summit.

At a summit hosted by the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs and the Jewish National Fund, Sie-gel, author of “Let There Be Water: Israel’s Solution for a Water-Starved Word,” said the United States can learn from Israel’s water conser-vation efforts.

“When you can pull ev-eryone together to think and move in a common direc-tion, it’s truly quite remark-able what kinds of transfor-mation of that society you can affect,” Siegel said.

According to Siegel, 60 percent of the world’s land mass will have severe water problems in fewer than 10 years. In addition, 40 of the 50 U.S. states will also suffer from water shortages within the same time frame, ac-cording to the U.S. Govern-ment Accountability Office.

Siegel said causes of water problems include climate change, growing population

and urbanization.Despite having many of

these factors in addition to a desert climate, Israel does not have large problems with water accessibility because the country has chosen to make water an existential priority, according to Siegel. This has resulted in govern-ment ownership of water, as well as technological inno-vations to conserve water, such as desalinization, drip irrigation, sewage treat-

ment and genetic modifi-cation of seeds to grow in brackish water.

“The world is divided into two types of people — people who think water comes from a faucet, and those who walk with a bucket in their hands, looking skyward, wondering when the next rainfall will come,” Siegel said.

Joseph Paritzky, former minister of infrastructure and energy in Israel, said the prioritization of water con-

servation will require a cul-tural shift in the United States to start thinking of water as a precious resource. He said he once suggested to former Gov. Rick Perry that Texas should offer free artificial lawns to conserve on water.

“He told me it was a great idea, but it wasn’t going to work because we need to change the mind of the pub-lic,” Paritzky said. “It’s an is-sue of culture, and it takes time to change culture.”

Graeme Campbell, history and Jewish studies sopho-more who attended the sum-mit, said he thinks it’s impor-tant for the U.S. to learn from Israel conservation efforts.

“I think that conservation and what they talked about in terms of changing the cul-ture [is important] because I think we have a culture of excess,” Campbell said. “We should think about water-ing our lawns, better use and managing what we have.”

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back to the time when I didn’t have finals to worry about.”

Youth and community studies freshman Robert Mor-gan said popping the bubble wrap helped him release built-up tension.

“It’s really easy to get caught up in schoolwork and get su-per stressed out really fast,” Morgan said. “I think that’s why it’s so important to have these events so you can take a step back and breathe.”

Morgan said this time of the semester can make students lose sight of the bigger picture.

“We have to remember that this is all just temporary,” Mor-gan said. “Your grades are im-portant but they don’t define who you are.”

Graduate students oppose campus carry

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buildings hardly advertise environmental standards. If they do, they do not pro-mote their sustainability rating as the main selling point, said Ross Colley, a realtor at West Campus Living. The most impor-tant factors are location and cost.

“They just want to know what it looks like and how cheap it is,” Colley said.

Although cost is the biggest factor when apart-ment shopping, most peo-ple fail to consider the cost of utilities in their overall rent, which can make the biggest difference in price, Kasper said. Renters need to understand that differ-ent buildings may have different utility costs, she said.

“Unless people are go-ing to demand [efficien-cy] from apartments they choose and considering that when they are look-ing for an apartment, the value to a developer is re-duced,” Kasper said. “We need smart owners, ones that want to live in green buildings.”

2400 Nueces charges residents an all-inclusive rate, which covers water, electricity, cable and Inter-net. This adds a competi-tive edge to their place in the student housing mar-ket, said Lawrence Briggs, the complex’s leasing and marketing manager. The electricity is capped, but

residents rarely use more than their allotted energy per month. The build-ing’s sustainability and ef-ficiency is mentioned in tours of the building, but most people are drawn to the apartment because of its location — two blocks from the edge of campus, Briggs said.

Kjeldsen pays $1,029 a month for his two-bedroom, two-bathroom apartment, but he is mov-ing on because of price in-creases. 2400 Nueces has some of the highest rental rates in West Campus, but filling his vacancy won’t be hard — the complex always leases out quickly, Briggs said.

Building for efficiency and sustainability does not always cost a lot, but some parts of efficient and sustain-able development are quite expensive, Kasper said.

“The sad part is if the developer pays for really high-efficiency air condi-tioning units, even if they are owning and operating the building, they are not seeing the direct impact on their line,” she said. “Resi-dents are. [There will be no change] until residents

start understanding there is a total cost to ownership.”

AEGB, an Austin Energy program, rates buildings in the entire Austin Energy Service Area, which does not completely coincide with city limits but essen-tially covers the city. AEGB predates the Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design (LEED), the nation-al green building certifica-tion program that recog-nizes best-in-class building strategies and practices, according to the LEED website. AEGB was the first green building program in the country. The organiza-tion started in 1990, and actually inspired LEED, Kasper said.

While LEED exists in Austin, AEGB still takes its rating system very seri-ously because having local ratings is advantageous, Kasper said. The program is tailored to Austin’s cli-mate and keeps in mind other local initiatives when revising their rating system.

“We have points in our ratings aligned with Imagine Austin plan,” Kasper said. “You won’t see that in LEED.”

The rating system gets

progressively stricter, and AEGB raises the bar about every three years. The baseline of what Aus-tin requires in a building is already fairly efficient, Kasper said.

“Building up to code in Austin is pretty efficient,” Kasper said. “Projects coming to us have to do better than that [which is] relatively achievable. Ev-erything we do on the one star is meant to be achiev-able with a little work and thought.”

West Campus apart-ment buildings’ ratings have improved with the years, even if their rat-ings haven’t, Kasper said. She could only remember a few five-star projects in recent years, and those were developed by owners aiming to own their build-ings for the long haul and had the incentive to build more sustainability to cut down on maintenance and increase durability.

“If you’re planning on

Rachel Zein | Daily Texan StaffThe Austin Energy Green Building Program gave the 2400 Nueces apartment complex a rating of four out of five stars — the highest in West Campus.

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Austin water summit hosts Seth SiegelBy Selah Maya Zighelboim

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student organizations. He said the online feedback shows low attendance does not necessarily signal student apathy.

“You have to also look at the amount of responses online,” Mandalapu said. “Overwhelm-ingly students aren’t in favor of a tuition increase, but they un-derstand the necessity for one.”

Rotnofsky and Mandalapu encouraged students to voice their opinions to both the tu-ition committee as well as the Texas Legislature.

The committee will meet with President Fenves to dis-cuss feedback from the forums before he submits his recom-mendation to the UT System next week. The second and final forum will be held Thursday at 10 a.m. in the Main Building.

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Author and activ-ist Seth Siegel speaks at the Austin Water Summit hosted by the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Policy and the Jewish National Fund.

owning and operating a building for the next 100 years, you’re going to have a longer term view than if you’re planning on selling it in five,” Kasper said.

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As faculty members from Gun-Free UT continue to debate the safety of the Uni-versity leading up to the im-plementation of campus car-ry, graduate students made their voices heard Tuesday in a letter to University Presi-dent Gregory Fenves.

More than 1,000 gradu-ate and professional stu-dents across UT expressed their opposition to Senate Bill 11, which allows people 21 years and older to have a concealed handgun. The Texas Senate passed the bill in May and Gov. Greg Ab-bott signed the bill into law in June.

In an email the group said these students chose to remain anonymous dur-ing their campaign as they call themselves “Coordi-nators for: UT Graduate Students Oppose Guns in Classrooms.”

“Graduate and Profes-sional Students operate as both students in classrooms as well as educators in their roles as Assistant Instruc-tors and Teaching Assis-tants, and they are therefore particularly affected by the implementation of SB 11,” the group said in an email. “We have managed the campaign with the help of a number of volunteers who are also graduate students at UT Austin.”

The group said that the online petition has been open to the public since Oct. 16, with the goal to send a letter to Fenves and the Board of Regents on Dec. 1.

This petition will be available online through August 2016 and the group said in an email they expect the number of signatures to grow as media outlets report about it and more student groups become involved in discussions re-garding campus carry.

Campus carry goes into effect on Aug. 1, 2016, which is also the same day as the 50th anniver-sary of the Charles Whit-man shooting that killed 15 people and left 32 others wounded.

—Matthew Adams

Disappointed Dallas Cowboys fans can-not magically make the football season start over. If they wish to throw some money away, though, they can reset their fantasy football season.

Fantasy football has long been played in a season-long format parallel to the pros, where players build their teams by divvy-ing out athletes among their fantasy league before the season starts. From there, cer-tain statistics turn into points. The game is more than a competition, it is a social experience: The first event I attended after arriving at UT was a fantasy football draft just like that.

If you have watched sports on televi-sion in the past few months, however, you might have noticed that fantasy sports have changed. Daily fantasy sports site DraftKings spent $22,535,747 on 6,053 ads on the first weekend of the profession-al football season alone. Hate them or not, there is no avoiding this explosion of daily fantasy sports.

These games operate in a fundamen-tally different way than their season-long cousins. Daily fantasy sports games allow players to build a one-time team based on a budget and tiered player contract system. These games are not about picking players who will score the most points, but players who provide the best value for their cost.

Up to 229,000 players will enter a Draft-

Kings contest with a top prize of $1 mil-lion this weekend, but this game is not designed for the majority of football fans. Optimizing lineups requires accurate performance projections, which many fans just do not have. The most success-ful players devise elaborate player perfor-mance models and then hedge their bets with thousands of entries.

While DraftKings and FanDuel tell fans that anyone can win, the truth is much different. A study conducted last summer found that 91 percent of the player prof-its were won by just 1.3 percent of players. Eighty-five percent of all players are losing more than 30 percent of their entry fees.

This means these sites sit in a precarious legal state. Nevada and New York recently banned these sites on the basis that they are gambling. But if they are “skill-based games,” like the sites say, then they are not gambling and, therefore, legal. Earning in-equality suggests there is skill, but that skill seems to be modeling and money.

Either way, the dangers of daily fantasy as it currently exists are very real. Regard-less of superficial characteristics that lend the appearance of a skill-based game, peo-ple use these sites for activites similar to gambling, and they cheat people who are not wealthy enough to win out of money.

For that reason, regulation of daily fan-tasy sports needs to be a serious political issue. While it is not necessary for presi-dential candidate Jeb Bush to brag about his team’s record, how he approaches the regulation of an unfair market is. This is

what daily fantasy has become, and politi-cians need to address it as such.

These games themselves are ultimately somewhat unimportant. It does not matter who won their fantasy league last year, but it does matter that citizens are protected from websites that will take their money in bad faith. While fans cannot change Dallas’ football fortunes all that much, they can choose their own. It is time to make sure they do.

Chase is a Plan II and economics junior from Royse City.

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), the current runner-up in the Democratic presidential primaries, has been making a splash na-tionwide. Despite not coming anywhere near the needed level of support to usurp former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, the likely Democratic nominee for presi-dent, Sanders has energized many on the left, specifically many young people. He has filled stadiums and changed the con-versation within the political party that currently occupies the White House and has won the popular vote in five of the last six presidential elections. But Sand-ers, despite his newfound popularity, is not a good fit for the Democratic Party. In fact, in many ways, he is anathema to its principles.

You may have noticed the little “I” in the parenthesis that appears next to his name in the preceding paragraph. It’s an “I,” not a “D.” This is because Sanders has been elected twice to the senate not as a Democrat, but as an independent. Specifically, Sanders de-clares himself to be a “democratic socialist.”

Admittedly, Sanders’ politics are a far cry from European socialism. As has been pointed out already in the press, Sanders does not want to “nationalize the steel mills.” However, words matter, and the word “so-cialist” has some very ugly associations. In a campaign that obstreperously heralds revo-lution, Americans would be remiss not to think of the benefits of a capitalist economy.

“Capitalism allows for people to work hard to achieve success, which is the prem-ise of the American dream,” said Samantha Minkowitz, a member of the American En-terprise Institute, a center-right think tank active on campus, as well as a Student Gov-ernment representative for the College of Liberal Arts. “As a country that champions hard work and is founded on the American dream, we must make sure that we remain a land of equal opportunity.”

Indeed, eschewing capitalism has been anything but a Democratic value of late. But perhaps Sanders’ most telling departure

from his ostensible compatriots has been his platform’s fiscal irresponsibility.

Sanders’ proposals, which include single-payer health care and free college for every American, among other ideals, have an es-timated price tag of $18 trillion over a de-cade. (That’s about the size of the entire U.S. national debt.) Now, single-payer health care and free college are not necessarily bad ideas. The rest of the industrialized world has largely implemented them in some form, even capitalist power centers such as Germany and Japan. The big problem with Sanders’ ambitious platform is that there is no proposal to pay for it.

The same estimates show that only $6.5 trillion in new revenue would be raised. That’s an extra $11.5 trillion in the debt, for those of you playing at home. And, despite what right-wing demagogues may inces-santly fib about, Democrats are the party of fiscal responsibility.

A Democrat, President Bill Clinton, was the last chief executive to balance the bud-get. And the current commander-in-chief, President Barack Obama, has slashed the deficit by more than two-thirds since tak-ing office. His signature policy achieve-ment, Obamacare, actually reduces the deficit! (Again, don’t believe the lies on Fox News.) Time and time again, Democrats have stood firm as the party of low deficits and responsible solutions. When the defi-cits run amok, it is usually due to unneeded tax cuts by Republican presidents, not out-landish spending by Democrats.

Bernie Sanders would change that tradition.Horwitz is a government senior from

Houston.

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COSTS TO BE ON THE BALLOT

Estimated cost $2 million* for each candidate to have their name on every district ballot in the nation.

It costs $5,000 to be put on the ballot in the 36 congressional districts in Texas.

Candidates can also get 4,500 signatures total with 300 signatures from 15 districts for Republican primaries.

*Filing fees vary by state and political party.

Sources: National numbers from Politico, Texas numbers from The Texas Tribune.

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Sanders is not a Democrat, should not be treated like one

By Noah M. HorwitzDaily Texan Senior Columnist

@NmHorwitz

It’s the most wonderful time of the year: filing season for the presidential candi-dates. The Texas primary may not be until March of next year, but both major parties in Texas are feeling especially greedy this season by asking their candidates to pay up or pass on Texas’ primary delegates.

For Republicans, candidates have two options: either pay $5,000 or gather at least 300 signatures each from 15 of Texas’ 36 congressional districts. (That is, 4,500 signatures altogether.) But $5,000 is a bargain compared to many other states. Gaining access to Alabama’s ballot costs $10,000 and South Carolina’s is a whop-ping $40,000. By the end of the primary process, it’s estimated that it will cost candidates about $2 million to have their name on every ballot.

For the richest of the candidates, such as billionaire Donald Trump, there will be no problem gaining access. But cash-strapped candidates, such as Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), who has only $2.1 million cash on hand, will either have to pick and choose the most important primary contests or raise more money.

The second option might prove easier for financially burdened candidates since Paul will likely not have trouble finding more than 4,500 voters in Texas who want him on the ballot. However, for candidates like Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and former Virginia Gov. Jim Gilmore, it’s hard enough finding one supporter nationally let alone 4,500 in the state of Texas.

Meanwhile, the Democratic Party gives their candidates a slightly better bargain. For just $2,500 or 500 signatures, any can-didate can get their name on the ballot. But $2,500 is still too much.

Gaining access to the primary ballot in Texas and every other state should not cost candidates a single dollar. By doing so, state party leaders are taking away one of the most important decisions the voters make: deciding who has the opportunity to be the next president.

The requirements to become president are simple according to the constitution: he or she must be at least 35 years old, be a natural born citizen and have lived in the country for at least 14 years. However, there might as well be an asterisk at the end saying “some restrictions may apply” because unless the candidate is wealthy or well-connected, par-ty leaders aren’t interested.

The greatest gift party leaders can give this holiday season is to even the playing field and remove the filing fee so that voters are given every possible option.

Poludniak is an international relations and global studies sophomore from San Antonio.

Regardless of superficial character-istics that lend the appearance of a skill-based game, people use these sites like gambling, and they cheat people who are not wealthy enough to win out of money.

State party leaders are taking away one of the most important deci-sions the voters make: deciding who has the opportunity to be the next president.

When the deficits run amok, it is usually due to unneeded tax cuts by Republican presidents, not out-landish spending by Democrats. Bernie Sanders would change that tradition.

Filing fees favor few presidential candidates

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more than half of the overall student population at UT. But the University’s faculty has not been sub-ject to the same trend. More than 75 percent of the teaching faculty in the last five years has been white. Varner, who won’t begin her time at UT until January 2016, will teach in the College of Natural Sci-ences. As of last year, less than 1 percent of the de-partment’s teaching fac-ulty was black.

While conducting re-search on factors that affect academic achieve-ments of minority stu-dents, Varner said having faculty members from dif-ferent backgrounds bene-fits both students and the University as a whole.

“When you have a di-verse faculty, you’re more likely to get diverse per-spectives,” Varner said. “Diversity includes not

just faculty of color but also faculty who might be first generation and gen-der diversity, as well.”

When it comes to con-versations about increas-ing representation on campus, Varner said it can be easy for people’s sub-conscious bias to affect their hiring decisions.

“Sometimes when these conversations [about di-versity] come up, the first thing some people say is that they don’t want to lower quality,” Var-ner said. “It represents a bias people already have. There can be an increase in representation without lowering quality.”

Varner said throughout her time in higher educa-tion, she’s seen the differ-ent ways people can ben-efit from working with a diverse faculty.

“It’s important to see people from different backgrounds,” Varner said. “It can decrease ste-reotypes, and it tends to

increase the diversity of topics presented in class.”

Former business lec-turer Veronica Stidvent said sometimes, a depart-ment or college’s lack of diversity isn’t due to a lack of trying, but a lack of applicants.

“It’s a pipeline issue,” Stidvent said. “I think being able to recruit and find the right candidates when there’s a smaller pool of applicants — it plagues a lot of industries and careers.”

Stidvent was one of five Hispanic teaching faculty members in the business school last year. She said in terms of class-room discussions, dif-fering perspectives can be more important than different backgrounds.

“It’s more about diver-sity of thought,” Stidvent said. “What you’re look-ing for in a classroom is diversity in perspectives. People can look very dif-ferent but think the same.

authorization and a social security card. DACA is not a form of citizenship, and it must be renewed every two years.

“It’s not necessarily what we wanted,” Morales Cas-tro said. “It’s temporary. I’m more comfortable as a student, but just because I have DACA doesn’t mean I can’t be deported. They could still push deporta-tion procedures toward me if they had a reason to. It doesn’t give you protection or perpetual stability.”

Business sophomore Yesenia Mondragon, who is also an undocumented student, said she applied for her first DACA about a month ago. Mondragon said she has always been qualified, but has refrained from applying for eco-nomic reasons. The appli-cation itself cost $465 and takes several months to become effective.

“My parents would save up money for it, but then we would have to give up [the money] because they needed it for something,” Mondragon said. “I would just give it to them because I saw they needed it more than I did.”

Although advertising ju-nior Erasto Renteria is an American citizen, his par-ents are undocumented. Growing up, he said he never felt too affected by his situation until he came to college. His parents, who live in a border town in the Rio Grande Valley, are unable to cross the traffic checkpoints controlled by Border Patrol.

If they try to cross, they risk being taken into cus-tody and sent back to Mexico. They have never seen his apartment, never visited him in Austin and, as graduation approaches, they won’t be able to see him walk across the stage.

“I thought it was some-thing normal until I found

out my parents aren’t as privileged,” Renteria said. “It’s hard to see myself graduating without my par-ents. They’re the main rea-son I’m here. They pushed me to go to college.”

Renteria said he hopes within the next couple of years some sort of legisla-tion will pass that could grant his parents mobility, but the available methods of gaining citizenship re-main restricted. Renteria and Morales Castro said if undocumented citizens qualified as victims of a do-mestic violence or human trafficking case, for exam-ple, they could become a citizen. Or, they could also marry a U.S. citizen.

“I don’t really like the idea of getting married to someone because I want to become a U.S. citi-zen,” Morales Castro said. “I’ve always seen myself as an American because I don’t think a piece of pa-per really establishes what you are.”

said he’s also noticed a lack of connection among mem-bers of the international community and UT stu-dents. Gröön, who grew up in Stockholm, Sweden, said the fact that international students all attend the same orientation plays a role in the separation.

“It’s hard to branch out,” Gröön said. “You get put in the same room as other international students who also don’t know anybody. You look out the window and see all these Americans already have their commu-nity, so of course you’re just going to get to know the people in that room.”

After joining Delta Kappa Alpha, a cinematic frater-nity on campus, Gröön said he was able to make friends with students native to the United States.

“If I hadn’t joined, I would still be in the international slump — that’s what they call it,” Gröön said. “It’s nothing bad, but when I came here, I really wanted to get to know Americans and that’s part of why I joined.”

After advertising fresh-man Fabiana Feeney moved from Santa Cruz, Bolivia, to Austin in August, she said she made a conscious effort to meet new people.

“I could have just come here and stayed with a spe-cific group of people that I was comfortable with,” Feeney said. “I put myself in situations that were awk-ward sometimes, but that’s how I met a lot of interesting people.”

As one of the 4 percent of black students on campus, Ugwu said he has not found a lot of diversity on campus during his four years here. According to the UT admis-sions website, 45 percent of

the University consists of white students, followed by Asian students at 23 percent and Hispanic students at 21 percent.

“I think especially for UT’s size and reputation, the diversity is lacking,” Ugwu said. “It is pretty bad in comparison to other schools. I don’t think there’s enough emphasis on actu-ally addressing that.”

Feeney said she can sense more social activism on campus than in her home country. One of Feeney’s first impressions of the Uni-versity was the removal of the Confederate President Jefferson Davis statue on the Main Mall.

“That to me is a step in the right direction,” Fee-ney said. “You want to make sure that the students here feel welcome and that they are just as much a part of the university as anyone else.”

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DNA varies between any two people, according to a study in Nature Genet-ics. Of this small amount of genetic variation, most occurs between individu-als living within the same populations, whereas only a small amount occurs be-tween supposed racially distinct groups. Studies that have tried to demon-strate a genetic basis for race have focused on the small percentage of varia-tion between populations.

Since genetic differences can be mapped over pre-historic human migration patterns, genetic features cluster in particular geo-graphical areas. Because traditional concepts of race are related to geo-graphical origins, they sometimes correspond with these genetic pat-

terns, making it inaccurate to state that race is biologi-cally meaningless. How-ever, the correspondence of racial groups onto geo-graphic patterns of genetic variation is often tenuous.

According to a study in Nature Genetics, samples used in analyses are usu-ally collected from indi-viduals living in native populations that haven’t had much recent contact with each other, such as Europe and East Asia. This makes their genetic differences cluster neatly according to geographic origin. But when re-searchers add a sample of South Indians, who occu-py an intermediate geo-graphic position between Europe and East Asia, there is considerable ge-netic overlap among all individuals. The South Indian individuals do not fall neatly into one of the

categories usually con-ceived as a ‘race.’

Human genetic varia-tion is never interrupted, so when studies try to de-fine clear-cut racial lines they run into a lot of is-sues. It’s comparable to differentiating between colors in a spectrum. Dis-tinguishing red from blue wouldn’t be much of an issue, but drawing a line between red, purple and blue can be troublesome.

Without natural ge-netic boundaries to guide people, human racial cat-egories don’t just reflect biology but remain prod-ucts of their cultures, his-tories and politics. Those choices are not totally arbitrary or biologically meaningless, but the fac-ets of race that become important in a particular society depend on the in-teractions between that society’s members.

Texas beat its second consecutive top-10 op-ponent Wednesday night. The No. 6 Longhorns knocked off previously unbeaten No. 9 Mississip-pi State with a 53-47 win at the Frank Erwin Center.

The two teams com-bined for 42 turnovers in a game that head coach Karen Aston said looked like a football game.

“It was an ugly offen-sive game,” Aston said. “We just couldn’t get into any flow.”

The Longhorns (6-0) shot 39.1 percent from the floor while the Bulldogs mustered a season-low 31.5 percent shooting.

Mississippi State (5-1) head coach Vic Schaefer said his team was a few ad-justments away from beat-ing Texas in its own house.

“If we could redo out-of-bounds defense and make five more free throws, we win the game,” Schaefer said. “But that’s why they call it the road. You don’t shoot as well on the road.”

Texas shot almost as poorly as No. 9 Missis-sippi State did from the free-throw line. The Long-horns connected on 15 of 26 shots from the charity stripe, and the Bulldogs made 11 of 20.

Senior center Imani Boyette finished with a game-high 21 points and 10 rebounds. The 6-7 post

player made more than half the team’s free throws, going 9-of-12 from the line. Still, Boyette said she needs to be better.

“I thought I did horri-ble,” Boyette said. “I think we as a team don’t think we are shooting well from the free-throw line. We have to have a higher stan-dard for ourselves.”

Boyette muscled in a la-yup with 13 seconds left in the first quarter to double Mississippi State, 18-9, heading into the second.

She then completed her first of two three-point plays in the second quarter to give Texas its first double-digit lead at 21-11. Mississippi State clawed back to 32-28 mid-way through the third quarter before Boyette drove to the lane on a give-and-go play.

She made the bucket and sunk the foul shot, propelling a 9-2 Texas run that left the Longhorns up 41-30 at halftime.

Junior guard Brianna

Taylor made the game’s first 3-pointer with 7:36 remaining in the con-test. Taylor laughed when asked if the shot was one of the biggest of her ca-reer, but Aston said it was significant.

“I’ll say it was a big shot because I know I took a deep breath when she hit that,” Aston said. “It felt like we needed a bucket at that point. It was pretty big.”

Later in the quarter, Boyette crashed to the

floor on a hard foul. She managed to nail both free throws, and Texas once again led by double fig-ures, 53-43.

The Longhorns failed to score after, but 53 points proved enough on a night when points were at a premium.

Texas travels to Arkan-sas on Sunday to take on Little Rock at 2 p.m. The Longhorns return home Dec. 13 to play their third ranked opponent in four games, No. 16 Stanford.

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Reports: Perrin to be named Permanent AD

After four months as interrum athletic director, Mike Perrin has earned a permanent appointment.

The Austin American-Statesman reported a high-ranking UT source confirmed to them late Wednesday night that Fenves would extend Perrin’s contract as ath-letic director by two years. Horns247 first re-ported Wednesday that Fenves was “strongly considering” extening Perrin’s contract.

Perrin was hired in September as the interim athletic director after Steve Patterson and Texas parted ways. Fenves ini-tially hired Perrin to a one-year contract worth $750,000 following Pat-terson’s resignation after 22 months as AD.

Fenves had said mul-tiple times that he would begin the search for a per-manent AD after football season, and most likely in the spring.

Now he doesn’t have to. —Aaron Torres

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Joshua Guerra | Daily Texan StaffSenior center Imani Boyette goes up for a lay up agasint Mississippi State on Wednesday night. Boyette led Texas with 21 points and 10 rebounds to keep No. 6 Texas undefeated on the season.

Defensive coordina-tor Vance Bedford said Wednesday he has “no clue” how to contain No. 12 Bay-lor’s top-ranked scoring of-fense. But he’s still excited to test his defense against the Bears’ high-powered attack.

“I’m looking forward to it – I know that sounds crazy,” Bedford said. “If you don’t like a challenge, why would you want to play? I love playing the Baylors, TCUs and Oklahomas of the world. … It’s a great op-portunity.”

Bedford said Baylor’s of-fensive success stems from its physicality. He empha-sized the Bears’ reputation of an explosive air attack, which overshadows their efficient run game — No. 4 in yards per game.

“People say they’re a

passing team, but they run the ball on everybody,” Bedford said. “Most people in this conference don’t do that – [it’s] a physical brand of football. And then they [can] throw it over your head too.”

Longhorns search for more big plays on defense

Texas ranks No. 24 in the nation in turnover mar-gin, but Bedford believes the Longhorns must make more big plays to have a chance against Baylor.

“Defense starts with big hits and takeaways, and we haven’t had many on the road,” Bedford said. “Whether it’s a quarter-back sack, pressure, we get an interception or whatever that may be – we need to find a way to do those things.”

Bedford said big plays

do more than just help the team in the short term. He emphasized that defenses can energize the team for the rest of the game with a turnover or big hit. The de-fense hopes to channel that energy with big plays on Saturday.

“When you play good de-fense you bring excitement to the team,” Bedford said. “When you get big hits and takeaways on defense I think the team gets excited [and] the fans get excited. We’re lacking in those areas at this time.”

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Freshmen get first taste of NCAA tournament

No. 3 Texas will host the first two rounds of the NCAA Tournament in Gregory Gym this week. The scheduling sounds like a broken record for many in the program. For freshmen Morgan Johnson and Yaazie Bedart-Ghani, though, Tex-as’ first-round match against Fairfield on Thursday will be a new experience.

“Honestly, it’s like a dream coming true,” John-son said. “I might’ve been (Texas’) No. 1 fan growing up. I never thought I would be with this team, and actu-ally being here is like ‘Wow, I’m really lucky.’”

Johnson and Bedart-Ghani have taken ownership of their roles this season and filled various roles to help the team. Each was recognized with a Big 12 Rookie of the Week award. Bedart-Ghani also made the All-Big 12 Freshmen team behind her .305 hitting percentage and 44 blocks.

“We’re so proud of them,” junior outside hitter Pau-lina Prieto Cerame said. “They’ve done a really good job doing whatever we ask, and they’ve never com-plained.”

The freshmen look to help Texas’ offense against a solid Fairfield (21-9, 14-4 MAAC) defense. In addi-tion to 241 blocks this sea-

son, the Stags average 17 digs per set. Four Fairfield defenders have surpassed 300 digs. Sophomore out-side hitters Skyler Day and Megan Theiller lead the Stags offensively with 411 and 327 kills, respectively.

Fairfield is a young team with no seniors and nine freshmen, but it enters its first-ever match against Tex-as riding momentum from a 12-game win streak. Two freshmen and Theiller hail from the Lone Star State.

Although Texas has just two freshmen, they say they don’t mind a quick turn-around and stiff competi-tion. Johnson’s hopes extend past this week — she wants a national title run.

“I think this is our year,” Johnson said. “I have a lot of confidence in us. We just have to be ready to play the best game of our life every single time.”

Head coach Jerritt El-liott said he encourages the freshmen to stay focused in the high-pressure, emotion-al postseason climate.

“We’re letting them know we’re confident in what they can do,” El-liott said. “We’re counting on everybody to play at a high level. We’ve said from the very beginning that in order to win a champion-ship, you need freshmen to be a part of it. They’re embracing that, and they understand that.”

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Women notch second place in 800m relay

There was a noticeable excitement in the Lee and Joe Jamail Swimming Cen-ter on the first day of the annual Texas invitational.

Teams from eight schools gathered around the pool deck loudly cheering for the team-mates competing in the Wednesday’s finals — the 800m freestyle relay for both men and women.

No. 4 Texas women grabbed second in the relay at 7:2.85. Junior Madisyn Cox led the first 200 me-ters of the relay in 1:44.93, which is the seventh fastest time in the 200m free in the country this season.

Cox was accompanied by junior Tasija Karosas (1:45.64) and freshmen Brooke Hansen (1:46.17) and Nora McCullagh (1:46.11) in the relay.

Head coach Carol Cap-itani said she is impressed with the freshmen talent this year, showcased on the relay team.

“They’re big on talent and also big in numbers,” Capitani said, “Those eight — everybody’s mak-ing an impact, so that’s a lot of fun.

On the No. 1 men’s squad, the “B” relay fea-turing junior P.J. Dunne, senior Sam Lewis and freshmen Jeff Newkirk and Ryan Harty, took third in 6:25.93.

An early exchange caused the men’s “A” relay to be disqualified.

Head coach Eddie Re-ese gave insight on the de-tails of the team’s prepara-tion for the meet.

“We rename the months,” Reese said, “Oc-tober is ‘Rocktober’ be-cause I rock them with workouts. November is ‘Slowvember’ because I rocked them with hard workouts. They renamed September this year ‘Rocktember’ because we worked so hard so early.”

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8Thursday, December 3, 2015—Danielle Lopez, Life&Arts editor

Editor’s Note: This week, the Life&Arts department will cover the semester’s most prevalent issues on campus, from campus carry to sexual assault. Today’s package addresses diversity on campus.

When mechanical engineering senior Emeka Ugwu first stepped foot on campus in 2011, he had a hard time making friends in his dorm complex, couldn’t sing “The Eyes of Texas” song and didn’t know much about other UT traditions. After moving 6,643 miles from Lagos, Nigeria, to attend UT, he struggled to find his place.

“Most of the organizations don’t have much experience dealing with interna-

tional students,” Ugwu said. “There’s not really much emphasis on cultural diversity. It’s not really brought up.”

Nine to 10 percent of students on cam-pus have come from countries outside the United States each year since 2011. As an international student, Ugwu said he had a difficult time making connections with American students already attending the school. While the International Office

hosted field trips and meetings with other international students, Ugwu said he did not make strong connections with other students until joining National Society of Black Engineers his sophomore year.

“Less should be centered on the interna-tional office hosting international people and more on integrating the international community with the rest of UT,” Ugwu said. “If you have other actual Americans who grew up here, that would do more in terms of helping integrate national stu-dents into the community.”

Radio-television-film junior Joel Gröön

In her hometown of El Paso, business freshman Anysha Fortenberry said ev-ery one of her role models was Hispanic. She admired these family and commu-nity members for their passion and hard work, but never felt like she saw any of them in positions of power.

Her first five days at UT exposed her to leaders who were often people of color — from political leaders and busi-ness professionals to professors and first generation college students. As part of the high school leadership program Subiendo, Fortenberry said the talks and dinners she attended helped her see her potential.

“[The speakers] made us feel like we could do anything,” Fortenberry said. “They were minorities, too, and they showed us how far they got and how far we could go.”

Fatima Varner, human development and family sciences assistant profes-sor said for students of color, such as Fortenberry, mentorship and rep-resentation of diverse faculty can be extremely important.

“People in general tend to affiliate with people who look like them, even if

it’s subconscious,” Varner said. “Students of color can sometimes fall through the cracks if they don’t have anyone to relate to.”

Since 2012, minorities have made up

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Students, professors seek diversity of faculty on campus

Studies evaluate complex biological relationship between race, population genetics

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During bilingual education sopho-more Pamela Morales Castro’s seventh Christmas, her mother mysteriously left for a trip, remaining absent for over a year. It wasn’t until years later that her family revealed to her the real reason for her departure — her mother had been deported.

Morales Castro is one of about 600 undocumented students on the UT campus. Her parents, in an effort to pro-vide their child with a better life, moved to the United States from Mexico City when she was three years old.

Growing up, Morales Castro said her parents sheltered her from the dif-ficulties of being undocumented. Dur-ing her sophomore year of high school, however, her classmates began getting their driver’s licenses and first jobs. It was then that Morales Castro’s parents sat her down to tell her the meaning of her legal status, and that her establish-ment in the country was less reliable than some of her friends’. Morales Cas-tro could not get a license because she didn’t have a social security number.

The summer after her sophomore year, on June 15, 2012, the secretary of Homeland Security passed the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, which allowed undocumented young adults — between the ages of 15 and 31 as of the date the bill was passed — to apply for deferred action, work

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There was no way to dis-tinguish one ethnicity from another when scientist J. Craig Venter’s team of ge-neticists first sequenced the full human genome

in 2000. “The concept of race has

no genetic or scientific ba-sis,” Venter said in a speech at the White House.

It seemed like the lat-est evidence in the field of genetics had finally con-firmed what social scien-tists had been arguing for decades. Race was a social construct that had no bio-logical basis and worked to reinforce the social or-der — but many geneticists quickly rose up in opposi-tion to Venter’s statement.

In a New York Times ar-ticle “A Family Tree in Ev-ery Gene,” Armand Marie

Leroi defended the use of race by medical research-ers to predict their genetic makeup. He said race is a fairly accurate indicator of a person’s genetic ances-try and a person’s genetic makeup can predict their response to certain treat-ments or their susceptibil-ity to particular diseases. In 2005, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved BiDil, a heart failure medication for Af-rican-American patients and the first drug ever de-veloped for a specific race.

Certain researchers in-sist that race is based on

genetics because human genetic diversity patterns on geographical regions, which sometimes cor-respond with American delineations of race. Mod-ern humans first evolved in Africa, before a small group left the conti-nent and slowly spread throughout the rest of the world. The genetic varia-tion found between popu-lations roughly follows these migration patterns.

Humans vary only slightly at the DNA level — about 0.1 percent of

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