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The UT Judicial Court unanimously overturned the decision of the Election Supervisory Board (ESB) in the Helgren-Kim v. Chase case, ruling that Helgren-Kim executive alliance campaign did not violate the election code.

The ESB ruled last Thurs-day that Helgren-Kim executive alliance team violated the election code by campaigning before the official start date on Feb. 17 at 12:01 a.m. Alexander Chase, an associate editor at The Daily Texan, brought forth a complaint stating he received a Facebook message from a Helgren-Kim campaign agent ask-ing for “support,” which Chase said he thought they meant endorsement.

UT Judicial Court Chief Justice Zachary Stone said the Supreme Court overturned the ESB’s rul-ing based on an increased amount of information.

“We had more infor-mation than the ESB did,” Stone said. “We had more evidence and more time to scrutinize that evidence. ESB is on a shorter timeline than we are.”

According to the student government election code, campaign teams can recruit individual members of the student body to be part of their campaign team before the official campaign start date but cannot directly campaign by soliciting or asking for votes.

Stone said the evidence presented made it clear that Helgren-Kim campaign was looking for workers.

“It came down to what support meant, and we were able to get more in-formation about the word

It was standing room only in the ZACH Theatre Tuesday night as Austinites crammed into every seat and space possible to hear Mayor Steve Adler give his second State of the City address.

Since he was elected in November 2014, Adler said he and Austin City Council have helped the city become a more innovative city that is more energy-efficient, foster-ing a growing economy.

“As the mayor of Austin, I’m often asked what the ‘secret sauce’ is that makes us magical and a center of innovation and creativity,” Adler said. “Cities from all over the country and all over the world send entire delega-tions … in hopes of finding the magical formula written on a whiteboard somewhere in someone’s office.”

In 2015, Forbes maga-zine ranked Austin as the third-best city in terms of job growth, with 925 million jobs in the Austin-Round

Rock metropolitan area.While Adler touted Aus-

tin’s high economic growth and abundance of jobs com-pared to other cities of the same size, the city still faces a number of issues — includ-ing affordability and mobility — in becoming a more inclu-sive city that many imagine it can be.

“What good does it to do to create all these jobs if you can’t get to the one you have because you’re stuck in traffic?” Adler said. “How

A sense of security on cam-pus along with convenience may encourage students to leave their belongings unat-tended, but UTPD officer Wil-liam Pieper said theft on cam-pus is a reality students should be prepared for — especially when it comes to iPhones.

Pieper said UTPD received more than 200 reports of iPhone theft on or near cam-pus within the past six years. The number of reported stolen iPhones reached a high of 59 in 2013, but theft rates decreased to 21 iPhones stolen in 2014 and 20 in 2015, which Pieper said is most likely the result of implementation of advanced technology such as fingerprint activation. Two cases of iPhone theft have been reported so far this year.

“Cell phones have made a living [as] portable devices and thieves have made a liv-ing stealing portable devices,” Pieper said.

Crowded areas where students gather for specific purposes, such as libraries and gyms, are often popu-lar locations for iPhone theft, Pieper said.

Jennifer Speer, associate di-rector of division of recreational sports, said the gym receives reports of stolen items at least a

couple of times per week. Based on daily observations, Speer said theft is usually the result of students leaving items unat-tended without a lock.

“Our biggest education point with students is to make sure they lock up their personal

belongings,” Speer said. “The majority of thefts occur from students who leave phones out whether that be as they’re running around the track and they just let it sit by a door or if they’re on the basketball courts and leave their phone

unattended on the bleachers.”When UTPD receives a re-

port of a stolen iPhone, they utilize one or a combination of methods depending on the circumstances of the situa-tion. Pieper said officers typi-cally start the investigation by

checking the lost and found and tracking the phone, which locates the origin of the latest signal the phone received.

Pieper said he encourages students to take preventive

Stress on trees around campus may not be obvi-ous as construction projects continue, but it has become a concern.

The University, which has been recognized for its care of its sustainable ecosystem, is looking at regulating speci-fications for construction sites on campus. Landscaping ad-ministrators have submitted an initial draft that proposes more consistent standards for construction projects, such as protecting critical tree root zones.

Jim Carse, assistant man-ager of urban forestry at UT, said the University’s tree care plan has criteria for protecting trees in

construction sites, but they are not rigid enough.

“We want to be good stewards of our resources be-cause trees pay us back with so many ecosystem benefits and environmental benefits,” Carse said.

As more construction projects are developed, a set of consistent standards could keep communication clear between contractors and in-house facility professionals.

Carse said construction around the Dell Medical School was an eye-opener to needing more specific proto-cols in place.

“We weren’t able to save all the trees and we weren’t able to replace as many as we wanted to,” Carse said.

The trees were still put to use — thirteen trees were

transplanted and unsalvage-able trees were repurposed as furniture for the Dell Medical School. Carse said there is a lot of support by administrators to better pro-tect the trees, but moving

forward, contractors used for these projects on campus could be more informed on native species.

Michael Embesi, division

The death of Supreme Court Associate Justice Antonin Scalia on Saturday has further compli-cated Abigail Fisher v. Universi-ty of Texas, which could decide the fate of affirmative action in college admissions.

The Supreme Court will now come to a decision with only seven members, since Associ-ate Justice Elena Kagan recused herself from the case, or delay the decision until Scalia’s re-placement has been appointed.

The case began in 2008 when Fisher filed a law-suit against the University, claiming she had been denied admission in part because she

was white — in violation of her rights under the 14th Amend-ment. The University has re-futed this claim, saying its lim-ited use of race in admissions is clearly constitutional, under precedent the Supreme Court set in the 2003 case Grutter v. Bollinger. University lawyers have also argued that Fisher’s application was not strong enough to merit admission, re-gardless of her ethnicity.

The case reached the Su-preme Court in 2012, and was sent back to the 5th Circuit for further scrutiny. In December, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the Fisher case for the second time.

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manager for the Community Tree Division for the city of Austin, said the city has some of the most progressive tree ordinances and codes in the country in regards to construc-tion, but UT does not have to follow such guidelines.

Jim Walker, director of the

office of sustainability at UT and the liaison to the Presi-dent’s Committee that will review the final document, said the committee will strive to make the best financial and environmental decision for updated plans.

“We’d like to align in good faith with the city’s efforts as best as possible,” Walker said.

Lisa Lennon, a landscape architect at UT, said some

construction projects don’t go according to original land-scaping plans which could harm trees.

Lennon said with better specifications in place, the reg-ulations would be more acces-sible to contractors.

“Any contractor doing these landscapes would be able to follow these protocols,” Lennon said.

Penalties or fines have not

been discussed, but Carse said any infractions will be reviewed by University of-ficials. Embesi said fines up to $2,000 are given in Austin when a tree is illegally removed or damaged.

Walker said the UT office of sustainability is currently re-viewing the tree specifications. The comprehensive review will last for at least 18 months be-fore getting final review.

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does Austin’s prosperity benefit us all if the real es-tate prices are attractive to out-of-town investors, but increasingly unaffordable to the people who already live here?”

As a major step in com-batting gentrification and segregation affecting the east side of the city, Adler announced the council has already appropriated enough funding to conduct a housing affordability au-dit looking into structural issues that further divide the city, a “first-ever audit of its kind,” Adler said.

“My father lived here in the 80s, and the thought

at the time was ‘you don’t want to live east of I-35,’” said Zach Rodriguez, hu-man development and family sciences senior. “We shouldn’t allow that think-ing to continue.”

In addition to affordabil-ity issues, Adler said traffic problems and other mobil-ity issues have increased as more and more people move into the city.

To combat growing mo-bility issues, Adler said the city must be more in-novative in developing a more efficient transporta-tion infrastructure, pos-sibly through approving and building an urban rail that can efficiently con-nect each part of the city to the rest.

“We should use all op-tions on the table, includ-ing urban rail, as a pos-sibility,” said Joe Deshotel, Travis County Democratic Party communications di-rector. “It’s time to finally take action, and I think that there’s a lot of encour-aging words we heard [to-night] from the mayor.”

While Austin still has a long way to go in becom-ing a great and big city, Adler said he is proud of the work he and the coun-cil have accomplished and the problems it will continue to address at City Hall.

“We, the council, are in this together, and we need to focus on the things that are important,” Adler said.

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measures in case of theft by ac-tivating the “Find My iPhone” app, writing down the serial number of the device and en-graving their drivers license number on their phone. A se-rial number allows police to expand their search to pawn shops and Craigslist.

Pieper said the “Find My

iPhone” app is utilized under conditions that make the pro-cess feasible. Multiple officers are necessary to monitor the activity of the phone and track the location of the phone, Pieper said. The constant activ-ity of students on campus pres-ents a challenge to effectively use the app to find the miss-ing phone, but Pieper said this method works in the evenings and on weekends, when there

is less activity on campus.“We have used [“Find My

iPhone”] in the past,” Pieper said. “It is not as easy as you might think though — it actu-ally takes a lot of resources to do that.”

Craig Newcomb, former UT physics student, reported a lost iPad and MacBook computer in late January after leaving his backpack at a Subway near campus. While working with a

detective on the case, his iPad was located in Mexico.

As a victim of theft, New-comb said he wants to raise awareness of the issue and en-courages students to not leave items unattended.

“People can feel really at home at UT and they get too trusting,” Newcomb said. “If [your phone] gets stolen, there’s no guarantee that it’s going to get back to you.”

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‘support,’” Stone said.According to te Supreme

Court verdict, ESB’s ruling determined that the word “support” can imply solici-tation. The Supreme Court decided there is no proof that Helgren-Kim’s use of the word “support” in the original message and emails should have been read as “vote” or “endorsement.”

Stone said the original Facebook message Chase received from Helgren-Kim campaign agent Adit Bior was a request for Chase’s email address in order to send an email providing more information about the campaign’s goals.

“Helgren sent me a copy of what that follow-up email for interested students looks like,” Stone said. “The email informed us that they were clearly looking to re-cruit workers. The email was so clear on ways that people could actively work

for their campaign. It listed specific jobs and duties. It left no doubt in our minds that it was a solicitation for employment.”

Kevin Helgren, student body president candidate and neuroscience senior, said he is happy with the decision.

“Binna [Kim] and I have been committed to running a clean, issue-focused cam-paign since day one,” Helgren said. “We’re excited about the opportunity to continue

running that campaign.”Chase, a Plan II junior, said

he agrees with the Supreme Court’s conclusion after the appeal hearing.

“I feel Kevin and Binna showed quite well that their intentions were in the right place,” Chase said. “More than anything, I feel this hearing showed how circu-lar the logic of the election code is. Kevin and Binna were undoubtedly follow-ing the rules, but a better

election code would be more clear and prevent a case like this from ever happening.”

Chase said both parties were able to bring forward pieces of the election code that contradicted each other.

“[The SG election code] is an almost entirely inaccessible document, and if we want any student to feel comfortable running for elected office, we need an election code acces-sible to everyone,” Chase said.

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UT law professor Sanford Levinson said he believes it is possible the Supreme Court will hold over the decision until Scalia’s replacement is confirmed. Otherwise, the jus-tices run the risk of issuing a 4–3 decision, which might be viewed with skepticism by the public, although it would still be legally binding.

“I think there would be some criticism for that, simply be-cause there’s no need for the court to decide this year rather than next year,” Levinson said.

Even delaying the decision until eight members can vote would not guarantee a tradi-tional outcome — with eight members, the justices’ votes might result in a tie. If so, the case would automatically revert to the ruling of the lower court. In July 2014, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in favor of the University, concluding its affirmative action program was constitutional.

“A 4–4 decision is really no decision since it leaves standing the decision of the lower court, so I would imagine that them putting it off is unlikely,” said UT law professor Lino Graglia.

If the justices issue a ruling despite their missing member, it is possible they will rule the same way they would have even if Scalia had not died, according to UT law professor H.W. Perry Jr. Although internal Supreme Court deliberations are not public, Scalia’s record on previ-ous affirmative action is well established, as are the records of his colleagues.

Associate Justice Anthony Kennedy has ruled against af-firmative actions before, and is likely to do so again, Perry said.

“Unlike some cases, my guess is that in this case, the presence or absence of Justice Scalia is not of particular importance,” Perry said.

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Neuroscience and Psychol-ogy senior Kevin Helgren speaks at the Student Government appeal meeting Tuesday evening. The UT Judicial Court unani-mously ruled that Helgren-Kim ex-ecutive alliance campaign did not violate the elec-tion code.

The Engineer Your World program received $2 million in December to help transi-tion the program to a dual enrollment course, mean-ing it will offer not only high school credit, but also UT credit.

The class was created by UT in 2008 as a response to the National Science Foun-dation’s challenge to design an engineering program for high school students, said Cheryl Farmer, the proj-ect director for Engineer Your World.

“It used to be that students first learned about engineer-ing in college, but today more and more students are taking engineering courses in high school,” Farmer said. “It’s important that we do it right.”

Farmer said the goal for the program is for stu-dents to figure out if they’re

interested in engineering and want to pursue it as a career.

“We think this is really valuable because they can make an informed decision about what major to pursue in college and to pursue a particular type of engineer-ing,” Farmer said. “We can help them avoid the mis-take of wasting time in the wrong major.”

The program’s curriculum consists of four six to nine week-long modules that ex-plore different types of en-gineering. At the end of the course, students put together a portfolio of their projects, which is then graded by UT faculty members. The mod-ules help students get into the engineering mindset and learn how to work with others, mechanical engi-neering professor Richard Crawford said.

“A key aspect to the proj-ects is the engineering design and how engineers approach problems,” Crawford said.

“The students often work in teams to complete the projects. Teamwork is actu-ally something that people often overlook.”

Farmer said Engineer Your World is different from other engineering programs because of its structure. In-stead of teaching students skills first and then applica-tion, students are given a real world problem and develop the skills they need by work-ing through it.

Natalie Wyll, an

engineering teacher at West-lake High School in Austin, said her students worked on a project in which they had to design a more stable and safer house for people in earthquake-prone areas.

“The project focuses on the problem-solving process: how to attack a multi-faceted problem, break it down into segments, how to analyze it and come up with a solution,” Wyll said. “That is a skill that I feel like is applicable to any degree or job.”

Government officials and private sector energy experts discussed the is-sues facing Mexico’s re-newable electrical energy in a UT Energy Week panel at the Etter-Harbin Alumni Center on Tuesday.

In December 2013, the Mexican government re-formed its constitution to open the energy market to investors. Formerly, the sole provider of en-ergy in Mexico was the Commission of Federal Electricity (CFE).

Norma de la Salud Ál-varez Girard, panelist and general director of Integra-tion of Clean Energy at the Energy Regulatory Com-mission, explained Mexi-co’s initiative to integrate renewable energy into their plan, which allows foreign investors into its energy market.

Álvarez said energy gen-erators must first apply for permits and later receive a clean energy certificate.

Mexico also recently an-nounced its goal to obtain 35 percent of their total energy from renewable re-sources at the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris.

“[Mexico needs] to change the matrix to in-clude more clean energy into the grid,” Álvarez said. ”We have to achieve the 35 percent at least be-fore 2024.”

With the reforms, Mexi-co intends to promote com-petitiveness and private investment throughout the electric power sector and support economic growth and job creation. Their goal is to deliver competi-tively priced, clean and secure electricity.

Felipe Cardoso Saldana, a chemical engineering graduate student, said it is fascinating to learn about how both countries could benefit from the energy reform due to their differ-ences in peak energy hours.

“I think something im-portant is the integra-tion between Texas and

Mexico, which is some-thing that has not occurred that much but is starting to take place,” Cardoso said. “… Because they were say-ing how the peak hours are different, so there’s a sur-plus at certain amounts of hours of the day in Mexico

that could go to the U.S. and vice versa, so in the future, that could be an im-portant thing,”

Because this is a young market, there are still a lot of unanswered ques-tions regarding the profit potential of investing in

electrical energy. Panelist Erika Benson, president of Benson International Group, said there are some concerns for investors who are worried about entering a market previously con-trolled by CFE.

”As we talk about renew-

ables, connecting resources to the grid and really un-derstanding how is reli-ability going to work, how are losses going to work, how are we really going to tackle those issues?” Bes-non said. “This is a whole new process.”

David Makovsky, a former senior adviser to Secretary of State John Kerry’s peace team, has spent his entire career working to reach an agreement between Israel and Palestine to try and solve issues through a sound, re-spectable two-state solution.

With an increase in conflict and violence in the Middle East and surrounding states, Makovsky said finding solu-tions is getting more difficult and negotiations are growing increasingly more necessary for affected citizens.

“It’s clear to me that if the stagnation continues, it’s going to lead to greater radi-calization,” Makovsky said. “We’re going to see fresh graves and old problems.”

On Tuesday, Makovsky visited the UT campus to give a public lecture, hosted by Texans for Israel, to discuss his career and hopes for find-ing a peaceful solution to the conflict in the Middle East.

While serving as an ad-viser to Kerry, Makovsky said his peace team made the third major attempt since the Clinton Administration to try and use policy to find a two-state solution to the conflict.

“It’s important to try to inject policy ideas into the

negotiations,” Makovsky said. “The secretary is some-one who has devoted a lot of time to this issue, and … it was great to be with people who shared the passion and the commitment to try to solve this conflict.”

In 2000, the Clinton Ad-ministration tried to end the Israel-Palestine conflict at the Camp David Summit, when President Bill Clinton, Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak and Palestinian Authority chairman Yasser Arafat met to discuss negotiations.

However, it ended with-out an agreement, as it did in 2007 and 2008 as part of the second negotiation attempt under former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.

Makovsky said there are five crucial points to solv-ing the conflict through ne-gotiations: determining the borders of the new states; the security arrangements along the borders; the fu-ture of Jerusalem; the fate of Palestinian refugees; and perserving each states char-acter and culture.

“What he really advocated for and saw as part of the strategy that would lead to a solution was setting small goals and achieving those goals,” said Madison Yan-dell, College Republicans President and government

senior. “It’s a matter of tak-ing small steps and achieving those before we can even try to reach this grand plan of achieving peace.”

Makovsky said his goal has always been to find a two state outcome that would provide dignity and continue the character and culture for both the Palestin-ians and the Israelis in their decades-long conflict.

After leaving Kerry’s team, Makovsky has vis-ited many college campuses around the country to try and educate those who may not remember “when things were good,” when the two sides could come together, shake hands and attempt to negotiate, Makovsky said.

Although Makovsky speaks to students about peace negotiations in the Middle East, Makovsky fre-quently stressed the idea that finding peace is not some-thing the older generations can simply defer to the next one. Both sides must come together to agree on as many of the five steps in nego-tiations as possible to give the youth hope in the grand scheme of finding peace, Makovsky said.

“One of the things he kept saying was ‘Don’t let perfect be the enemy of the good,’” said Kevin Lefkowitz, Tex-ans for Israel president and history junior, who listened to Makovsky’s lecture. “It’s that concept.”

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Last week, South Carolina’s demo-cratic primary was a new starting point in Bernie Sanders’ campaign. It was the first win for the presidential hopeful in what’s already been a long and heavily anticipated election cycle.

According to various national polls, Sanders is quickly closing the gap with Hillary Clinton. It looks as though the populace is starting to “feel the bern” — which would mean something if the pop-ulace had any real say in the democratic process at all.

Voters don’t directly vote for candidates in primary elections, but vote for the al-location of delegates who are often party

activists or local political leaders. Each state has a certain amount of

delegates per primary, which are allocated propor-

tionally by the popular vote. The candidate with the majority of delegates, (at least 2,382 this election cycle) ultimately wins the democratic nomination. That seems simple enough — at least until you intro-duce the concept of superdelegates.

The superdelegate position began in the 1980 democratic convention, when Ted Kennedy challenged sitting president Jimmy Carter. It consists of prominent elected Democrats, which include gov-ernors, the president and vice president and all the members of congress. And unlike elected delegates, superdelegates aren’t subject to vote with the populous. They have full autonomy.

In the South Carolina democratic pri-mary Sanders won with 15 delegates to Clinton’s nine. On its face that might mean a win for Sanders. But with the in-troduction of the superdelegate system, Sanders doesn’t even come close.

This system came about at a moment in history when party leaders of the Demo-cratic National Committee sought to

deter “chaos” from within the party. They also saw it as a

responsible way to ensure that the

party nominates the right candidate. The is-

sue, however, is that responsible basically

means undemocratic. Much like Democratic elites

now are trying to stop the chaos that is Sander’s revolution. Now this small group of super

elites don’t have a substantial pow-er. Out of the 4,763 total delegates in the democratic primary, 712 are superdelegates. If a candidate has

substantial populous backing, then superdelegates have a marginal effect if

they vote against the populous. But in the election climate we have

right now, where Sanders and Clin-ton are neck and neck, the next

Democratic presidential candi-date could very well be nominated un-

democratically. Right now Clinton leads 394-44, including superdelegates,

but Sanders has a 36-32 lead among elected delegates, and

until the superdelegate pro-cess is abolished there will not be a true democratic process in the American primary races.

Choudhury is an econom-ics freshman from Dallas.

Donald Trump is the person the found-ing fathers feared.

In Federalist No. 68 Alexander Hamil-ton said the Constitution would prevent a man without the “requisite qualification” from obtaining the presidency.

Call me crazy, but political experience should be a “requisite qualification” for the presidency.

The Electoral College was formed to en-sure someone who rallied up public sup-port but was “adversed to the rights of other citizens,” as James Madison wrote in Federalist No. 10, could never be elected. Citizens don’t vote for the president, they instead vote for electors — “men most ca-pable” of deciding the president.

Today, electors are loyal party members, and in 26 states and Washington D.C., they’re required by law to vote in ac-cordance with the popular vote. Thus, the Electoral College no longer has the necessary power to check against the public’s “im-pulses of passion” that can put un-fit leaders into power.

But the Democratic party’s use of superdelegates in their nomina-tion process supports the principles the Electoral College was formed for — to guard against electing fools into office.

Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders need 2,382 of their party’s 4,763 delegates to win the Democratic nomination. And voters in Iowa and New Hampshire gave Sand-ers a 32–16 lead over Clinton.

However, these 712 super-delegates allow Democratic party leaders to maintain some con-trol over who gets the nomination.

Superdelegates are party leaders that have the power to support the can-didate of their choosing and switch their support at will. They’re also the reason Clinton actually leads Sanders 394 to 44 in the total delegate count.

Of course superdelegates don’t allow party elites to pick who should be the candidate at the expense of the public’s vote — superdel-egates only make up about 15 percent of the total number of dele-gates. Even if Clinton got the support of all 712 superdelegates, she’d still need to win

41.2 percent of the elected delegates from caucuses and primaries.

If the Republican party used superdele-gates the way Democrats do, Marco Rubio or Jeb Bush may have a chance, and Trump probably wouldn’t be the frontrunner.

Currently, the GOP’s superdelegates ac-count for seven percent of the total num-ber of delegates, but they’re required to vote for the candidate their state voted for.

Superdelegates may prevent a socialist, who has praised Fidel Castro, from be-coming the Democratic nominee.

And if the Republican party employed their own superdelegates in a way similar to the Democratic party, they could pre-vent a reality TV star from becoming their nominee. And Hamilton and Madison would stop rolling over in their graves.

Ethier is a journalism freshman from Westport.

People say everything is bigger in Texas, and the size of our neighborhoods proves it. Texas’s residential areas epitomize the concept of suburban living, but as the pop-ulation of Austin continues to grow, we should embrace the beauty and benefits of increased urban density.

Austin’s current minimum lot size for single-family homes is 5,750 square feet. However, some builders are capitalizing on a loophole known as “small lot am-nesty” to build homes on lots under the city’s current minimum. Last week, city council members voted 6–5 on a proposed amendment to close this loophole. If the amendment passes a third read, building on small lots will no longer be possible. But given the benefits of increased urban density, small-lot amnesty should stay.

Austin’s metropolitan population is pro-jected to increase to about 5.2 million by 2050, assuming the population continues to grow at the same rate as 2000-10. Under small-lot amnesty, a builder can replace a house sitting on three lots with three new homes, effectively tripling an area’s popu-lation density. Across a variety of metrics, this type of increased urban density will benefit the rapidly growing city.

Jim Robertson, manager of Austin’s Ur-ban Design Division, said denser urban areas are cheaper for cities to serve be-cause less infrastructure can serve a great-er amount of people.

“It’s very expensive to build and main-tain a sprawling infrastructure system,”

Robertson said. “All the roads and waste-water systems are very expensive. It’s much less expensive to build and maintain a compact system.”

On a different economic scale, compact homes can help ease Austin’s growing prob-lem of gentrification — the displacement of low-income groups by more affluent ones. In the North Loop neighborhood, for ex-ample, homes built using small-lot amnes-ty sold in the $400,000s, compared to the area’s average of $672,817, according to an article by the Austin American-Statesman. It makes sense for smaller homes to be more affordable; offering more of them will make highly demanded areas accessible for lower-income individuals.

Economic benefits are just one of the ad-vantages of increased urban density. If the distance between residential areas, schools and workplaces shrinks, individuals will have the opportunity to opt out of driving a car — a decision with direct benefits for the

environment and human health.“The more compact a development is,

the more there may be opportunities for trips to be done by something other than getting in a car,” Robertson said.

Transportation accounts for 27 percent of all greenhouse gas emissions in the United States, according to 2013 data from the Environmental Protection Agency. As this is the second largest source of green-house gas emissions, decreasing reliance on automobiles will help Austin lower its impact on global climate change.

Furthermore, decreased reliance on automobiles will also decrease rates of obesity. Closer proximity between where

people live and where they work or learn promotes physical activity through walk-ing or biking, mitigating the effects of a sedentary lifestyle. With the adult obesity rate in Texas at 31.9 percent, urban density should be welcomed as a way to reduce it.

Although the city’s opposition to small-lot amnesty does not necessarily come from a lack of interest in increased urban density, the city should work with sup-porters of the tool instead of totally shut-ting them down. Austin will have to find space for its growing population, and us-ing small-lot amnesty is a way to do it.

Chan is a journalism freshman from Sugar Land.

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From hip-hop to classic rock, talk shows to hard news, radio allows listen-ers to stay connected. But with new technologies adding competition to the generations old medium of communication, col-lege students are tuning out all the noise.

KUT’s spokeswoman Erin Giesler said the de-mographic containing mil-lennials, ages 18-34, is the one of the lowest listening demographics for radio. With 88 percent of men and 91.2 percent of women regularly tuning in, the numbers are the second lowest out of all demo-graphics, higher only than the 12-17 age range.

Frankie Ruiz, 101X pro-motions director, said that the millennial demograph-ic is not solely representa-tive of college students — it includes young adults who are finding homes, buying cars, getting married and having families.

“I think college students have a ton on their plate,” Ruiz said. “Their sched-ule isn’t conducive to lis-tening to the radio. Their routines aren’t in the car, which is where most of the listening occurs; it changes semester to semester.”

101X, in particular, is

experiencing a shift in their listening demograph-ics, with young adults cre-ating a strict day-to-day schedule and spending more time in the car as they start on their profes-sional careers, Ruiz said.

“One thing that has been the case since we are in our 21st year [at 101X] is that our audience has matured,” Ruiz said. “It’s no longer really college kids. We [the audience] were teenagers and in our early 20’s years ago, and now our audi-ence is young profession-als, spending rush hour in their cars, that’s who listens to the radio.”

In order to try to keep college students tuned in, many stations are trying to keep up by creating apps and hosting jam sessions or parties to connect with the younger crowd.

“We try to reach out to college students through our music, and hopefully the bands that we promote and support are within the wheelhouse of college students,” Ruiz said. “We do a monthly music series called Home Grown Live which is generally pretty cheap and is on locations close to campus.”

On campus, KUT 90.5 and KUTX 98.9 also create mediums for college stu-dents to interact with the radio world.

“At KUTX, we host the WinterJam, we are the sole radio sponsor to Fun Fun Fun fest, and we have had great success with the NPR1 app, where it com-bines local and national news for you,” Gielser said. “I think it’s important to be able to re-access or access on your time radio pro-grams and we do that, like many radio stations, with

podcasts and apps.”Today’s youth is more apt

to click on an app, rather than turn on the radio. Ac-cording to 101X radio per-sonality Jason Dick, that is mainly due to new venues to hear music.

“When we were kids, the radio was the only way you could listen free music, and that’s how you found out about new music

and stuff like that,” Dick said. “I think that the ra-dio still serves that role we just have way more competitors now with the Internet and all sorts of ways to learn about what’s cool and hip.”

When marketing to-ward a younger audi-ence, Ruiz said col-lege students are often passed over altogether.

“There is so much avail-able to people that every-one should make more of an effort to make them-selves apparent to every-body and anybody,” Ruiz said. “I would hope that college students are top of mind because they tend to be trend setters in the market and that is ulti-mately what is going to shape everything.”

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Freshman guard Eric Davis Jr. forced a steal and knocked down a fast-break three with 6:39 left in the first half on Tuesday night.

No. 10 West Virginia an-swered with its own three.

On the ensuing possession, senior forward Connor Lam-mert hit one from three. West Virginia answered again.

Davis came down the court again and got the ball near the top of the arc. He took a few dribbles, pulled up and let the ball fly. The result didn’t change — a swish and an ovation from the Frank Erwin Center crowd.

“It definitely was a heat check,” Davis said.

Davis scored all 15 of his points in the first half — 12 coming from 3-pointers — propelling No. 24 Texas to a 85–78 win over No. 10 West Virginia.

“We took some tough losses and it’s kind of hard to bring swagger,” Davis said. “That was the biggest thing. Just bring a lot of energy. Swagger is basically energy.”

Of course, Davis had to spark what was a sloppy Longhorn offense. Texas fell behind 12–4 early and looked on the verge of getting run off its own floor. West Virginia’s press caused problems early, forcing three Longhorn turn-overs in the opening minutes.

“I think it was just jitters to start the game,” junior guard Isaiah Taylor said. “As we

got comfortable in the press at their place in Morgantown, we did a good job with it. I think today we did an even better job.”

Enter Davis. The freshman hadn’t

scored in double-digits since Texas’ Jan. 30 win over Vanderbilt, but immediately made his presence felt by get-ting to the free-throw line.

He hit his first 3-pointer with 9:51 left in the first half and didn’t miss from deep.

The sequence where he and West Virginia traded threes helped give Texas the lead, and he hit another one before halftime. Davis’ hot shooting gave the Longhorns a 45–36 lead at the break.

“The way that he spear-headed that run along with the other guys on the floor, I think when we watch the tape we’ll say that was the criti-cal stretch right there,” head coach Shaka Smart said.

Davis was quiet in the

second half, but the other Longhorns built on the lead he helped build.

Taylor kept Texas afloat offensively, scoring 13 of his game-high 23 points in the second half. West Virginia made a late push, but Taylor went four-of-four from the free-throw line in the final minute to seal it for Texas.

“He is so fast,” Smart said. “Even when you dedicate two guys to him, he can beat those two guys.”

Freshman guard Ker-win Roach Jr. and freshman guard/forward Tevin Mack also sunk key free throws late to help Texas. But it was Davis’ first half sequence that Smart said won Texas the game.

“Me,” Davis said when asked which freshman is the most confident. “I’m always confident no matter what. I combined for seven points in my last four games? I’m still the most confident.”

Freshman infielder Chris-tina Bardwell impressed many in her debut weekend with Texas softball.

She played in four of Texas’ five games and earned three starts: one at first base and two at third. She currently sits second on the team with a .400 batting average and her four RBIs are tied for most on the team. Her first big moment came in her sec-ond career at-bat when she notched a two-RBI single against the Univer-sity of North Carolina that led to a Texas victory.

“I think I did pretty well my first weekend out,” Bardwell said. “It’s noth-ing you can imagine feel-ing, performing like I did. I didn’t really know what to expect; I had ups and downs, but for the most part it was a good weekend.”

But it’s not just stats that have teammates and coaches excited about the Huffman, Texas native.

Bardwell’s versatility and maturity help deep-en the Texas roster and will make the eventual

departure of five Long-horn seniors a little easier to handle.

“We were real excited about this class know-ing that there are some big-time players in here,” head coach Connie Clark said. “The timing of when they hit our program with five seniors is perfect. Bardwell has the ability to play short, third or first base and stepped up big for us.”

Bardwell was a two-sport standout in softball and basketball at Hargrave High School. On the field, she was the 2013 Dis-trict 22-3A Most Valuable Player and earned All-State honors in 2014 after helping her team reach the state semifinals.

Her transition to college softball has been smooth. She was a utility player in high school and con-tinues to bounce around between positions as a Longhorn. It was always a dream of Bardwell’s to play for Texas — now that it’s a reality, she’s more fo-cused than ever.

“I decided really young that Texas was where I wanted to be,” Bardwell

said. “I was around 11 or 12. My mindset coming into it was ‘I’ll take my opportunities when I get them’ and I’m glad I got as many as I did.”

Bardwell’s confidence isn’t lost on the veterans on the squad. Senior center fielder Lindsey Stephens said it doesn’t feel like Tex-as has any freshmen be-cause of the focus and ma-turity of the newcomers.

“They’re the best of the crop,” Stephens said. “They don’t play like freshmen [and] they don’t act like freshmen. It’s so refreshing having them come in and absorb so much and not be afraid, not be timid and just play the way they have their whole lives.”

Whether or not Bardwell continues to make the same impact remains to be seen, espe-cially with games against Arizona, Hawaii and Iowa coming up before confer-ence play. But she’s glad that she came through this past weekend.

“My teammates do a great job making me comfortable and confident,” Bardwell said. “I’m just proud I got it done for the team.”

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By Akshay Mirchandani@amirchandani41

Joshua Guerra | Daily Texan StaffTexas swept its season series against No. 10 West Virginia behind freshman guard Eric Davis Jr.’s 15 first half points and senior guard Isaiah Taylor’s 23-point performance.

SOFTBALL

Bardwell shines bright in college softball debut

Joshua Guerra | Daily Texan StaffFreshman infielder Christina Bardwell is making an impact at the plate for Texas. She currently ranks second on the team with a .400 batting average.

By Claire Cruz@claireecruz5

Following No. 8 Texas’ 56–74 loss to No. 20 Oklahoma, head coach Karen Aston had a decision to make.

After being outscored 29–7 in the fourth quarter, out-rebounded 45–38 and tally-ing seven turnovers compared to ten assists, Aston said she contemplated all Sunday night over whether to watch film from the game or burn it.

“Ultimately, we decided as a staff we needed to look at it,” Aston said. “Sometimes when you’re in a rut, like I think we’ve kind of been in, maybe they’re tired of hearing you and they need to look at something that doesn’t look very good.”

Aston saw uncharacteristic mistakes — lackadaisical de-fense, lack of togetherness and low assists. She said the overall lack of energy was evident well before the Oklahoma loss on Feb. 14.

“I think I said this a week or so ago that I didn’t quite see the fire in our bellies like we have had,” Aston said.

Even with fading energy over the past few games, the Longhorns managed to shoot their way out of trouble. Against Oklahoma, they had no such luck. Texas (22-2, 11-2 Big 12) shot just 18-of-62 from the field — a season-low 29 percent.

In addition to the poor shooting, the Longhorns’ bigs provided no easy baskets in the paint. Senior center Imani Boyette finished with just eight points on 2-of-12 shooting.

Aston said the Naismith final-ist has been in a slump lately.

“I would say right now that she has a little bit of a lack of confidence in herself,” Aston said. “She missed some shots today that she would usually never miss.”

Boyette’s slump started at Kansas State on Jan. 30, where she fouled out after just 15 minutes of action. The Los Angeles native was held score-less the following game against Iowa State.

Over the past four games, Boyette is averaging 5.75 points per game. On the sea-son, she averages 12.4 points a game. Despite the lack of of-fensive production, Aston said the answer to Boyette’s trouble is simple.

“Imani just needs to play basketball,” Aston said. “I think she may have been put-ting too much pressure, too many expectations on herself and Imani’s never been great when she expected too much of herself. And that’s not a neg-ative at all about Imani.”

Aston said she expects Boy-ette and the rest of the team to bounce back Wednesday when Kansas State (16-8, 6-7 Big 12) rolls into town. But with the Wildcats riding a two-game winning streak — including a win over Oklahoma — re-bounding after the loss to the Sooners won’t be an easy task.

“They have a great player in the paint with Bre Lewis, and they have several guards who can shoot the basketball,” As-ton said. “It’ll be a challenge for us in a lot of ways, but I expect us to be ready to play.”

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Boyette looks to get out of slump against Kansas StateBy Jasmine C. Johnson

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Gabriel Lopez | Daily Texan StaffSenior center Imani Boyette has been in a slump recently, only averaging 5.75 points per game in Texas’ last four contests.

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No. 6 Texas men’s golf will play in its second tournament of the spring season today through Friday at the John Burns Intercollegiate at the Wailua Golf Course in Lihue, Hawaii.

Wailua Golf Course is a Par 72 and 6,991 yards long. The three-day tour-nament will be 54 holes over three rounds.

The tournament will host 16 teams, including No. 20 Washington and No. 22 Virginia. Washing-ton finished runner-up to Texas just over two weeks ago in Arizona.

At the Arizona Inter-collegiate, the Longhorns kicked off the spring with a five-shot win. Junior Beau Hossler won by two shots in the individual standings, giving him his third career victory.

Since then, Texas has risen four spots in the Golfweek rankings to No. 6, and Hossler has jumped to No. 1.

The lineup for the Longhorns includes Hossler, sophomore Doug Ghim, junior Gavin Hall, sophomore Scottie Schef-fler and redshirt sopho-more Branson Davis.

Davis won the first tournament of his career at the Arizona Medalist, a separate event from the Arizona Intercollegiate for players competing as individuals.

Redshirt sophomore Taylor Funk, redshirt senior Tayler Termeer, junior Kalena Preus and freshman Steven Cher-vony will compete as in-dividuals. Chervony will make the first start of his college career.

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Homeless and hungry, China Smith considered resorting to drugs, prosti-tution or whatever it took to end her three-day star-vation. But before she could act on her impulse, a woman approached her and placed a $20 bill in her hand, giving Smith her first glimmer of hope.

After a brief stint at the University of Texas at Aus-tin that was cut short for fi-nancial reasons, Smith was without a place to live. Un-able to support herself with her intermittent dancing career, Smith was forced out on the streets, reach-ing an all-time low. When she received that $20 bill, she decided to pursue her career as a dancer. Today, after dancing for over a decade, she runs Ballet Afrique in East Austin, a contemporary dance studio that incorporates the cul-ture of African Diaspora into classical ballet.

“I think if it hadn’t been for that moment, I wouldn’t be here,” Smith said. “I truly believe that this is a calling and I’m supposed to be doing this.”

The studio’s mission is rooted in Smith’s own ex-perience growing up as a dyslexic, black, lower-middle class girl. Smith said several aspects of the education system left her feeling disadvantaged and that most of her friends had to take care of themselves

at a very young age, due to working parents.

“When you get to fourth grade, the first thing you learn about is slavery,” Smith said. “It makes you feel dif-ferent, like you come from inferiority. You have to com-bat that with other things.”

It was in high school that Smith found her outlet. Al-though immediately pushed toward athletics as a ticket to college, Smith had an ankle injury on her way to the Track and Field Junior Olympics which led her to

try alternative, more cre-ative pursuits, like dance.

Years later, Smith found-ed Ballet Afrique to give children in similar situa-tions the same opportunity she discovered. Smith said she hopes the studio can increase the representation of black dancers in Austin and reflect the unique cul-ture her students have in an art that is historically dom-inated by white aristocra-cy. The girls, for example, paint their ballet flats with makeup, because the shoes

were traditionally created to blend in with the pink skin tones of white danc-ers.

“[The kids are] able to see something that is ac-cessible to them that they would have never done had this organization not been here,” Smith said. “To me, it’s about choice — when you have choices, you feel empowered.”

Since 2008, Smith has trained children from ages two to 18. Several of her students have been with

her since she opened the studio, and all of them have continued their edu-cation through college.

Denise Washington’s 12-year-old daughter Kyden has been with Ballet Afrique for the past year. Washington, an adminis-trative assistant and parent liaison for the studio, said Ballet Afrique has created a supportive community and a safe space for kids that want to dance.

“Everyone feels like a family there,” Washington

said. “We’re all pretty close-knit [because] we all have children that have the same dreams and goals.”

In the future, Smith said she wants to establish Aus-tin’s first African American dance company and hopes to build her own center that also focuses on music, theater and theatrical design.

“I think it’s pretty neat for Austin to be a platform for all these different beauti-ful cultures,” Smith said. “I want Ballet Afrique to be a part of that.”

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Ballet Afrique brings art, diversity to danceBy Elizabeth Hlavinka

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Briana VargasDaily Texan Staff

China Smith is the founder of Ballet Afrique, a contemporary dance studio in East Austin. Smith hopes the studio can increase the representation of black dancers in Austin and re-flect the unique culture of African diaspora in the art of classical ballet.

Students looking to grab a bite to eat, study in a lounge setting or relax with a few drinks can get their fix at Good Juju Café, located on 26th and Nueces streets in the heart of West Campus. Since last December, chef and entrepreneur Madison Butler has provided a friendly space she describes as slightly al-ternative and always ready to party while accommodating various dietary restrictions.

“We’re in Austin,” Butler said. “I want to make sure that I’m doing right by pro-viding for the weirdos in Texas that connect in this little blue circle.”

Good Juju Café occupies the space previously used by Twisted Root on the ground floor of Grand Marc. The restaurant was entirely made over before opening, and now, Good Juju’s versatile atmo-sphere is one of its best quali-ties. After ordering from a walk-up counter, guests have three seating options. The first is the indoor dining area, providing a cozy environment

conducive to studying with its eclectic music, individual ta-ble lighting and coffee menu.

For those looking to relax and take advantage of the many drink specials, the bar serves up local brews with a friendly and knowledgeable bar staff. The bar doubles as a smoothie station, offering a great alternative for guests who aren’t drinking or want a healthier beverage.

Finally, patio seating is available for customers who want fresh air along with the occasional live performance from a local jazz trio. The different seating options combined with the sleek décor and quirky staff result in a cohesive ambiance that caters to Austinites and col-lege students alike.

In line with the variety of seating options comes an ex-pansive menu that accommo-dates vegan, halal, gluten-free and even paleo diets. Don’t let the menu’s health-conscious options fool you — the flavors here are bold, innovative and mouth-watering. Willie’s Se-cret Stash, a menu featuring appetizers and small plates, offers delicious fried items like

the “Dope Fries,” a $5 plate of golden waffle fries topped with shredded chicken, Dr. Pepper barbeque sauce and a spicy aioli. These aren’t the standard run-of-the-mill cheese fries that you’ll find in most restaurants — the com-bination of the sauce and aoili strikes the perfect balance be-tween comfort and heat.

Good Juju Café has daily specials, most notably the 50-cent wing special. Available on Thursdays and Sundays, the wing special is both a customer and a staff favor-ite. While customers love the special for its taste and value, the staff gets an opportunity to serve their creative house-made sauces. Though the specials are frequent and fla-vorful, the full menu boasts an array of entrées that incorpo-rate flavors from around the world. From comfort food like the fried chicken plate to the spicy Vietnamese inspired Bahn-Bahn, customers can be sure to be satisfied no matter their dietary preferences. But-ler credits her ability to create such dishes to her education

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Professors discuss national obsession with crime dramas

Over winter break, the doc-umentary series “Making A Murderer” captured millions of viewers, with audiences turn-ing to social media and online forums to discuss their theories and debate the questionable innocence of the series’ sub-ject, Stephen Avery. But crime shows from long-running hit “Law & Order” to this month’s “American Crime Story” have arrested audiences for years.

The dark themes of these shows fixate on human corrup-tion, death and devastation, of-ten all in the same breath. The large commercial success and devoted cult followings lend a simple explanation for the popularity of this genre: people love to question their morality.

Sociology professor Mark Warr specializes in crime, delinquency and deviance. He said the single most com-mon topic on television in the U.S. is crime. According to Warr, the reason people are drawn to crime-related shows is complicated — he said humans share a fasci-nation with death, mortality

and the possibility of danger.“People take a certain per-

verse interest in crime partly because we all wonder about death and so many crime shows speak to that in rather gruesome, graphic ways,” Warr said. “In a secular society like ours, where fewer and fewer people believe in God or that world view and science is sort of taking over, we don’t talk about death — but people wonder about it, and they see in crime shows. They see death, they see the harsh realities of how we die. People are fasci-nated for that reason.”

Themes of forgiveness and human nature tend to permeate crime shows. Warr said they often deal with deep questions about hu-manity, like whether a man can fundamentally change from “good” to “evil.”

“One of the most popular television shows in the last decade was “Breaking Bad,” and that is exactly the premise of that show — a good high school teacher became bad,” Warr said.

R adio-te lev is ion-f i lm assistant professor Cindy McCreery said she believes

people are usually drawn to dark content because they have a natural impulse to wonder about human mo-tivation. She said there is also something cathartic about indulging in a story so ridden with conflict.

“I think it’s a part of the fantasy of being better,” McCreery said. “If you watch a show like “The Sopranos” or “Scarface,” they’re such bad people, you [know you] would never do those things. But it’s a part of that fantasy of seeing into the life of someone that’s so different from you.”

Chemical engineering and Plan II freshman Josh-ua Winnert said he watches criminal dramas because he enjoys trying to solve the mysteries they present.

“They’re little puzzles that involve real people,” Winnert said. “I like watch-ing it because you get to figure out who did it.”

Because melodrama is often more intense than real life, McCreery said fiction allows viewers


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New cafe brings ‘Good Juju’ to West Campus food scene

By Kartik Sridhar@Kartik_42

Angie Huang | Daily Texan StaffMadison Butler, chef and owner of Good Juju Café in West Campus, hopes to create a fun and relaxed dining atmosphere for café customers.

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