A homeless man stabbed another homeless man with a knife inside the Union Building after the two got into a fight Wednesday evening.

UTPD spokeswoman Cindy Posey said neither of the men, who were not affiliated with UT, were taken into custody. One man sustained minor in-juries but refused services and treatment from emer-gency medical personnel. Posey said an investigation is ongoing.

“They just came in through the doors, and they were pushing each other and then it escalated pretty quickly,” actuarial science senior Kirby Nguy-en, who saw the fight take place, said.

One of the men pushed the other to the ground, and the fallen man started yelling that he had been cut on the wrist, Nguyen said.

Government junior Pat-rick Duchala said he did not witness the fight, but saw the aftermath.

“There was just a bunch of blood on the ground, and then there was a trail of blood that went past that first elevator to the underground and all the way down the hallway,” Duchala said.

Nguyen said he was far enough from the scene of the incident that he didn’t see the injury, but the injured individual an-nounced he had been cut as emergency services were being called.

“[The man who was cut] as he was leaving said, ‘This dude has a knife and cut me on my wrist,’ then he showed everyone his wrist and then he said [the man who shoved him] tried to cut a homeless lady,” Nguyen said.

The men left before UTPD officers arrived, but officers told students they were able to find the in-jured man and confirmed he had suffered minor in-juries from a stab wound, Nguyen said.

The UT System Board of Regents will hold their regularly scheduled meet-ing Wednesday, with plans to discuss the Texas Attor-ney General’s investigation into the UT School of Law, an independent investiga-tion into the University’s admissions policy and the search for the next Univer-sity president, among other agenda items.

According to the agen-da, the board will discuss how they plan to respond the Attorney General’s in-vestigation into the UT School of Law’s forgivable loan program. In 2011, President William Pow-ers Jr. asked Larry Sager, then-dean of the School of Law, to resign after it was revealed Sager had granted a $500,000 loan to himself under the program.

The Attorney General’s investigation, submitted in December, upheld the findings of an earlier in-ternal UT System investi-

gation performed in 2012 by Barry Burgdorf, former system vice chancellor and the then-general counsel. Burgdorf found that while the compensation broke no laws, the transactional movement of the money through the Law School Foundation meant it was not being reported proper-ly to the University. He also found that Powers did not know about the loan pro-gram. Burgdorf resigned after releasing his report, and has since testified that some UT System regents had a “clear intent” to oust Powers when asking for the investigation.

“Dean Sager denied the full picture of compensa-tion to the Law School Fac-ulty Budget Committee,” the Attorney General’s re-port said. “As a result, under Dean Sager’s leadership, the Law School provided incorrect or incomplete responses to requests for salary information by both the University manage-ment and the public pur-suant to the Texas Public

Information Act.” The board is also ex-

pected to discuss the re-sults of an independent investigation into the ad-mission policy that Kroll, a corporate investigation and risk-consulting firm, performed in 2014.

In July 2013, Regent Hall raised concerns about the admission practices at UT when he found two emails through an open records request which revealed that legislators were sending recommendation letters di-rectly to Powers’ office. The UT System conducted a re-view that found no wrong-doing after this informa-tion was made public. The report found the letters were likely influential in the admissions process, but noted that no rules were violated. The report the UT System completed suggested that letters of recommendation were not to be sent directly to the president’s office.

Additionally, the board is expected to discuss the search for the next UT

president. Powers is step-ping down from his posi-tion in June 2015 at the request of former UT Sys-tem Chancellor Francisco Cigarroa. Instead of leav-ing immediately, Powers asked Cigarroa to allow for a more gradual change in leadership for the ben-efit of students, faculty

and staff. “For all these reasons, an

abrupt change now would seriously disrupt the prog-ress of UT-Austin,” Powers said in a letter to Cigar-roa. “A more constructive course of action would be for me to step down as President at the conclusion of the legislative session.”

An exhibit honoring Barba-ra Jordan, civil rights activist, congresswoman and former UT professor, opened at the Capitol on Tuesday to chron-icle her life and work.

The exhibit, which will be open until Feb. 15, includes an interactive timeline with infor-mation about the phases of Jor-dan’s life. Among these phases is her tenure as the first black woman elected to the Texas Senate, and her election to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1972.

The Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs is sponsoring the exhibit along with the Barbara Jordan Foun-dation and Texas Southern University in honor of Black History Month.

“[Jordan represents] a tremendous amount of history here as a politician and

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Texas legislators and UT System administrators are squaring off over the role of the legislature in setting — or limiting — University tuition rates.

Six separate bills in favor of state tuition regulation have been filed in the House and the Senate, and UT System Chan-cellor William McRaven has spoken out as an opponent of the policy change. In an inter-view with the Texas Tribune

on Thursday, McRaven said he does not support tuition regu-lation and thinks universities should continue to have con-trol over their tuition rates.

University Designated Tu-ition was deregulated in 2003, allowing universities to set their own tuition rates. Since then, in-state tuition has risen on average from $2,721 to $4,905 per semester, though for the past four years in-state tuition prices have remained relatively consistent. Out-of-state tuition was increased by 2.6 percent in fall 2014.

“[Deregulation] that was

put in place in 2003 has simply failed,” said state Sen. Charles Schwertner (R-Georgetown).

McRaven said he is in favor of keeping decisions regard-ing tuition in the hands of the Board of Regents.

“I do think we need to con-tinue to have tuition deregu-lated,” McRaven said in the in-terview. “We need to be smart and thoughtful about how we have tuition increases.”

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Councils, said she agreed with the chancellor and said it is important students and University officials have a say in tuition.

“Tuition has not been raised significantly under their control,” Jerath said in an email to the Texan. “Stu-dents are involved in the process that decides tuition when a tuition proposal is requested by the Board, and this is critical. We need to secure our voice because tu-ition affects every student.”

In-state, undergradu-ate tuition for one long semester at UT ranges from $4,673 in the College of Liberal Arts to $5,369 in the McCombs School of Business.

Schwertner said he is worried student debt will derail students from college.

“I’m concerned about the students that we have on our higher-education campuses,” Schwertner said. “They are getting out of school mired with debt and frustrated with the lack of opportunities.”

It is important to main-tain a high quality educa-tion while keeping tuition affordable and student debt low, according to state Rep. Walter Price (R-Amarillo).

“What’s the use of having the best universities if stu-dents can’t afford to attend them?” Price said.

McRaven said a major-ity of students from low-income families receive the best deal possible.

“Those families that are earning under $40,000 [per year], most of them don’t pay anything for tuition and fees,” McRaven said in the interview. “if you look at the statistics, you say is it a good deal — it’s not only a good deal, it’s a great deal.”

In comments to the Senate Finance Commit-tee on Tuesday, McRaven said lowered tuition could prove damaging to the quality of education the University provides.

“If you want to make col-lege so affordable that the quality of education comes down, then I don’t think that affordability is worth a return on your investment,” McRaven said.

Price said he supports student control of univer-sity fees outside of desig-nated tuition, if the student body voices their desire for the fee.

“Every university has its own unique characteristics and needs,” Price said. “If there is a need to maybe have a fee to create some-thing students can enjoy on campus, we’re not trying to limit that.”

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Blanton raises funds for $15 million art installation

a policy maker here in the state of Texas,” said Susan Binford, assistant dean for communi-cations and outreach at the LBJ School.

Jordan is famous for her civil rights efforts, such as aid-ing in the reauthorization of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. After she left politics, Jordan worked at the University as a

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UT System hires new University lands CEO

The UT System Board of Regents authorized Mark Houser to become the CEO of the University Lands Office on Tuesday.

Houser, president and CEO of EV Energy Partners, LP and executive vice presi-dent and chief operating of-ficer of EnerVest, Ltd, will be the first person named to the CEO position. The posi-tion was created “as part of a long-term plan to better manage and protect univer-sity lands,” according to a UT System press release.

The University Lands comprise 2.1 million acres of land in West Texas that the Texas Constitution in 1876 to provide support for higher education granted to UT and Texas A&M to provide sup-port for higher education. The revenue from leases for gas and oil on the land have contributed to the Permanent University Fund, which is worth $17.5 billion today.

Jeff Hildebrand, Board of Regents member and CEO of Hilcorp Energy Company, an independent oil and gas exploration company, said the changes in the way oil is extracted in the energy in-

dustry has led to the need for increased leadership.

“The dynamic of Univer-sity Lands has changed, and our management philosophy should change accordingly,” Hildebrand said. “We need a leader and expert in the field to ensure we are managing the land efficiently and get-ting the most value from Uni-versity Lands for the benefit of UT and A&M students for generations to come.”

A group made up of in-formal advisory experts and an energy management con-sulting firm called Oppor-tune, hired by the UT System, made recommendations in

2013 about additional staff for the University Lands of-fice. The recommendations were meant to improve the functionality of the office.

“We expect a significant return on an investment in leadership and additional staff in the University Lands Office, and that return will directly benefit UT and A&M institutions,” said Scott Kel-ley, executive vice chancel-lor for business affairs at the UT System

Houser will be stepping down from his position at EV Energy Partners at the end of February.

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Councils, said she agreed with the chancellor and said it is important students and University officials have a say in tuition.

“Tuition has not been raised significantly under their control,” Jerath said in an email to the Texan. “Stu-dents are involved in the process that decides tuition when a tuition proposal is requested by the Board, and this is critical. We need to secure our voice because tu-ition affects every student.”

In-state, undergradu-ate tuition for one long semester at UT ranges from $4,673 in the College of Liberal Arts to $5,369 in the McCombs School of Business.

Schwertner said he is worried student debt will derail students from college.

“I’m concerned about the students that we have on our higher-education campuses,” Schwertner said. “They are getting out of school mired with debt and frustrated with the lack of opportunities.”

It is important to main-tain a high quality educa-tion while keeping tuition affordable and student debt low, according to state Rep. Walter Price (R-Amarillo).

“What’s the use of having the best universities if stu-dents can’t afford to attend them?” Price said.

McRaven said a major-ity of students from low-income families receive the best deal possible.

“Those families that are earning under $40,000 [per year], most of them don’t pay anything for tuition and fees,” McRaven said in the interview. “if you look at the statistics, you say is it a good deal — it’s not only a good deal, it’s a great deal.”

In comments to the Senate Finance Commit-tee on Tuesday, McRaven said lowered tuition could prove damaging to the quality of education the University provides.

“If you want to make col-lege so affordable that the quality of education comes down, then I don’t think that affordability is worth a return on your investment,” McRaven said.

Price said he supports student control of univer-sity fees outside of desig-nated tuition, if the student body voices their desire for the fee.

“Every university has its own unique characteristics and needs,” Price said. “If there is a need to maybe have a fee to create some-thing students can enjoy on campus, we’re not trying to limit that.”

The Blanton Museum of Art announced Friday that it is raising funds to install a new permanent installation: a 73-by-60 foot stand-alone stone building with lumi-nous colored glass windows, a totemic wooden sculpture and 14 black-and-white marble stone panels.

The installation, named “Austin,” is one of the Blan-ton’s most important art structures to date, accord-ing to Veronica Roberts, the museum’s curator for mod-ern and contemporary art.

Ninety-one year-old art-ist Ellsworth Kelly origi-nally conceived of the idea for the structure in 1986 and has gifted the design

to the University. “Austin” will be constructed outside the museum.

The museum is honored to be building a structure Kelly designed, Roberts said.

“We own an amazing painting by him called ‘High Yellow,’ so when we were given the opportunity to do this, the Blanton and the University seemed like the absolute ideal place,” Roberts said. “Mr. Kelly is very excited about the idea of this work exist-ing in perpetuity … he’s been very hands-on with the project.”

So far, the University has raised $7 million committed specifically to the structure through various donations, and needs another $8 mil-lion to reach its goal. Ad-

ditionally, President Wil-liam Powers Jr. created a $1 million endowment for the care and conservation of “Austin.”

The structure will give boost University’s art reputation, accord-ing to art senior lecturer Sarah Canright.

“Just like the [Mono-chrome for Austin] canoe structure outside of the Hackerman Building, it shows that the University is taking art seriously enough to put money into this type of project,” Canright said. “Austin is becoming a more sophisticated artistically city, and this is something else that reflects that.”

Romanesque art build-ings, such as the Rothko Chapel in Houston and the

Chappelle du Rosaire in Southern France, inspired the design for “Austin,” Rob-erts said. Unlike those struc-tures, Kelly’s building is not designed for a particular religious purpose. Kelly de-

signed the sculpture because he wanted visitors to experi-ence “Austin” as “a place of calm and light,” he said in a press release.

Art history sophomore Stephanie Gardea said she

thinks UT students will ap-preciate the installation.

“Overall, I think most people will [enjoy it],” Gardea said. “After all, it is a tribute to this city that can even be found in its name.”

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War stories and songs from ancient times to pres-ent day are useful for un-derstanding what happens to people living under dire circumstances, according to classics professor Tom Palaima, who gave a talk at the Belo Center for New Media on Tuesday.

Palaima’s lecture, part of the Moody College of Com-munications’ Senior Fellows Honors Program, focused on the mental and physical state of soldiers returning from war. He shared stories and songs of soldiers’ home-comings that have common motifs like trauma and ne-glect.

The public’s general non-chalance towards traumatic

war stories, even though they form a major, recur-ring part of the cultural narrative, is concerning, ac-cording to Palaima.

“I worry about all this,” Palaima said. “I worry that this literature and these songs are so beautiful, that we experience them and emote and think that’s enough. I don’t know how to make people get up and want to do something.”

Tuesday’s lecture start-ed a dialogue about mu-sic’s societal importance and the role of music as a catalyst for action, ac-cording to Dave Junker, director of the program.

“We don’t talk about mu-sic enough,” Junker said. “It’s a part of our lives in an emotional landscape, and this [lecture] gives us the

chance to do it.”Communication studies

junior Ed Hunt, who at-tended the lecture, said the element of the lecture that interested him the most was when Palaima played “Jimmy’s Road,” by Willie Nelson. The song is about a young man being drafted into the military.

“Tom Palaima started crying even though he’s studied it,” Hunt said. “Sto-ries have the power to make you feel emotions over and over again.”

Palaima’s concern about societal apathy is valid, communications studies se-nior Kaileen Paige said.

“We have so many things we think about on a daily ba-sis,” Paige said. “I don’t think war is as present in our lives like in the media for World

War I and World War II.” The current generation is less exposed to stories about war because of media cen-sorship, Palaima said

“This generation has it much tougher than my gen-eration,” Palaima said. “We

could go out on the streets and protest — we saw the war graphically on televi-sion, and it was the last mis-take the government made.”

Because people can per-sonalize the news they con-sume, topics such as war

never make it on some peo-ple’s feeds, Palaima said.

“People are so con-sumed with everything else that’s happening [in their lives],” Paige said. “Call to action doesn’t work as well nowadays.”

By Sherry Tucci@thedailytexan

Rachel ZeinDaily Texan Staff

Classics profes-sor Tom Palaima speaks at a lecture in the Belo Center for New Media on Tuesday morn-ing. Palaima presented sto-ries and songs that provide insight into the feelings and circumstances surrounding war.

CAMPUS

Quantitative analyst Jason Thalken has degrees in phys-ics, mathematics and philoso-phy from UT, as well as a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Southern California — but he said his black belt in mar-tial arts is what has really giv-en his knowledge of physics greater depth.

Thalken gave a talk about the relationship between phys-ics and martial arts Tuesday, as a part of UT Libraries’ Sci-ence Study Break lecture se-ries. According to Thalken, his background in physics and 20

years of martial arts training makes his approach to fighting more accessible.

“There’s been a lot of at-tempts to put them together before, usually by grabbing an expert from either side, but it doesn’t work so well,” Thalken said. “[Sometimes experts] use science to kind of sensational-ize claims made by the martial artists, not to make you under-stand how the science behind it could make you better in a situation where you’d need to fight.”

Thalken’s first book, “Fight Like a Physicist: The Incredible Science Behind Martial Arts,” is set for release in Septem-

ber and discusses the physics behind different fighting sce-narios as well as approach-es to protecting the brain from trauma.

“The book takes a look at headgear … does it protect us at all?” Thalken said. “It’s just preliminary, but it looks like rotation of the head is what causes the most problems, where force is applied to the axons in the brain when the head rotates. So, if that’s the culprit, how do we fix it?”

Showing the audience a be-hind-the-scenes clip of Jackie Chan getting injured while shooting a choreographed fight scene, Thalken said no

matter how much he studies martial arts, it’s still impossible to prevent injury one hundred percent of the time.

“Nobody can be an expert on violence, it would be too costly to the body,” Thalken said. “Even if everything is predictable, nobody can be an expert at fighting.”

Neuroscience senior Ta-nia Sebrero said she found the topic of head trauma

particularly interesting.“I like martial arts, and I like

physics, so it’s interesting to see the combination of both,” Sebrero said.

Eduardo Tobias, a digital filmmaking and video pro-duction student at The Art Institute of Austin, came to Thalken’s program to learn more about the physics of fighting. Tobias said he is new to martial arts and is making a

documentary about his tran-sition from an MMA fan to a fighter.

“I’ve been studying MMA for two weeks now,” Tobias said. “Learning about the sci-ence behind fighting helps me understand what I’m do-ing in my classes — especially the concept of peace over power, like how to use the balance of your opponent to your advantage.”

By Lauren Florence@laurenreneeflo

UT alum connects martial arts, laws of physics

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Blanton raises funds for $15 million art installation

Mariana GonzalezDaily Texan Staff

The Blanton Museum of Art announced Friday that artist Ellsworth Kelly donated a design for a permanent installation called “Austin.”

Mariana Gonzalez | Daily Texan Staff UT alumnus Jason Thalken lectures about the relationship between physics and martial arts as a part of the Science Study Break lecture series in the SAC on Tuesday evening.

a policy maker here in the state of Texas,” said Susan Binford, assistant dean for communi-cations and outreach at the LBJ School.

Jordan is famous for her ex-tensive work to promote civil rights, including aiding in the reauthorization of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

After she left politics, Jordan

worked at the University as a professor in the LBJ School for 17 years.

“She was so popular that they actually had to have a lot-tery to get in to her class be-cause people wanted to get in and there just wasn’t enough seats,” said Gary Chaffee, ar-chivist from the Barbara Jor-dan archives and special col-lections at TSU.

Segregation prevented Jordan from attending UT

herself, according to Joseph Parker, board member on the Barbara Jordan Foundation.

Parker said Jordan made a statement for civil rights when she decided to teach at the University.

“To come and give herself to the University of Texas at Austin is a pretty significant statement, and that alone speaks of a journey that she took,” Parker said. “I think in a lot of ways fundamentally

[she] was a teacher — a teach-er to the nation.”

Jordan’s civil rights efforts paved the way for current stu-dent activists, Parker said.

“They are standing on her shoulders and oth-ers who have crossed those acres there at UT,” Parker said. “Whether or not they know it.”

Jordan’s efforts at UT are still appreciated and hon-ored at the LBJ School, Bin-

ford said. Although the LBJ School is honoring Jordan this month, Binford said they think about her work year round.

“We are in the business this year of training future leaders who are making policy and going out as public servants,” Binford said. “She is a figure that stands for everything that we are trying to impart.”

Parker said he hopes the exhibition at the Capitol and

her lasting impact at the LBJ school will encourage Uni-versity students to learn more about Jordan.

“If they hear her name, and they may not know about her, then I would hope they would be curious and say, ‘Let me find out more,’” Parker said. “In doing that, they will realize the contribution that she made, and that she was a figure and icon at the LBJ School.”

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UT professor argues for relevance, importance of war stories

Editor’s Note: This is part of a series of Q-and-A’s with UT’s deans. This interview has been con-densed.

The Daily Texan: You are one of the longest-serving deans on campus, having been in the po-sition since 2001. What are the most interesting changes you have seen in the work done in the school and the types of students who matricu-late?

Frederick Steiner: We get very bright young people. They are very smart, motivated and hard-working. I think the thing that has changed the most in the past couple of years is that they have become more idealistic. Before the recession, jobs were plentiful, so every student had several offers. During the recession, the students became more entrepreneurial... their idea of architecture expanded. A lot more became interested in pub-lic interest design. They also began to blur the edges of design. A lot of them are now interested in gaming and graphic design.

DT: What are the major projects that are going on in the School of Architecture?

Steiner: The biggest thing we are working on is the renovation of Battle Hall. Battle Hall is our initial library on campus, which is over 100 years old and needs restoration. And the library is not handicap accessible. So one of the three parts of the project is to connect us to buildings that will help our handicap access... and fire safety. We

will convert the West Mall Office Building into much-needed studios and classroom spaces. We’ve also ramped up our research areas like green building design. The third part of the proj-ect is a modest addition for John Chase who was one of the first African-American students at the University. The three parts of the project involve preservation, infrastructure improvement and classroom and research space issues.

DT: What kind of work do your graduates do?

Steiner: Most architecture majors end up working at private firms. Planning majors mostly work at public agencies. Landscape architecture is kind of in between. Interior design did well during the recession because buildings may not be built, but they still have to redo interiors. They are mostly in the private sector. The growth area has been the nonprofit sector. More people have gone to work for public health or nonprofit hous-ing agencies or watershed associations.

DT: Since you started as dean, have you seen any changes in the numbers of students enrolled in the school’s programs?

Steiner: It’s been really constant. The under-graduate enrollment is pretty constant all the way back to the ‘70s. The graduate’ enrollment has increased through time. The number of graduate application in architecture spike dur-ing the recession, then came back down a little bit and now just went up by 100 more applicants

this year. Our intake is about the same. We stay around 700 students.

DT: How important do you find fundraising to be to the School of Architecture?

Steiner: Absolutely essential.

DT: And do you find it’s become more essen-tial since you started?

Steiner: Yes. The Capital Campaign was a huge success. Battle Hall is a $70 million project. Presi-dent Powers has said that [we] need to come up with between $10 and 15 million.

DT: How soon does the school expect to reach that goal?

Steiner: I get discouraged a little bit because people are generous but sometimes not as gener-ous as we would like them to be. [Laura] Bush has been incredibly helpful [as our honorary chair]. She really loves libraries, so that’s her con-nection. She is really hands-on, and has been giv-ing us really specific suggestions.

DT: Is there anything else you’d like students to know about the School of Architecture?

Steiner: It’s a terrific school. The one other challenge we face is keeping up with technology. If we want to stay as a leader, we need to invest more technology. My fear is that we have fallen

behind where we should be with technology. If the biggest budget challenge is Battle Hall res-toration, technology is probably the second big one, followed by faculty salaries and graduate student stipends for recruitment.

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Fiji party crosses line between freedom of speech and racism

Fiji members were exercising First Amendment rights at party

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Architecture dean discusses Battle Hall renovation, enrollmentQ-AND-A

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Architecture Dean Frederick Steiner.

I wish to commend and strongly endorse the opinions expressed by guest columnist Taral Patel in Friday's Daily Texan encour-aging students to run for positions in UT Student Government. Long before most of your readers were probably even born, I was an undergraduate at UT in 1983. At that time, we had NO student government at all as it had been abolished. Those of us who believed in the importance of active repre-sentation worked hard to successfully re-store it. It would be disingenuous to suggest that we did not want to highlight our efforts on our resumes; we definitely did. But that takes nothing away from our sincere efforts

to restore an important tool that had been taken away in the late 1970s. Those who are curious can read all about our efforts via your archives, but the bottom line is — as a good friend of mine once opined — "Those who think things can't be any worse demon-strate a profound lack of imagination."

So good luck, be grateful for what you've got, try to improve it, and may the best can-didates win!

— John Stephen Taylor, government alum-nus, in response to Patel’s Friday column titled “Student Government a great way to ef-fect change at UT.”

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Of course it is bias. Many citizens are biased against those who choose to break our country’s laws — and Phi Gamma Delta has exercised its First Amendment rights in a parody theme party. Entering our country illegally makes one a crimi-nal, and therefore such people should be discriminated against. Citizens should be biased against them, just as we are toward any criminal. The University and other or-ganizations have somehow, in their obses-sion with political correctness, abandoned reason and equality under the law and instead chosen well-intentioned dumb thinking. They have chosen euphemisms for illegal aliens and deemed them simply undocumented immigrants. Now the Uni-versity, in its wisdom, has chosen an excel-

lent method to deal with those of us who express and indulge in diverse thinking. The Division of Diversity and Commu-nity Engagement (which should really be named the Division of Special Privilege) will quickly stamp out any free thought or discussion that is not politically cor-rect, and now we see the strong arm of the thought police expressed in the Cam-pus Climate Response Team. I wonder if they wear trench coats and jackboots. God forbid any true intellectual freedom or di-verse thought at UT.

— Monte H. Smith, retired employee of UT’s Project Management and Construction Ser-vices, in response to the Monday article titled “Guests wear ponchos, sombreros and construc-tion gear at ‘border patrol’ fraternity party.”

GALLERYLauren Ussery | Daily Texan StaffThe Fiji house just north of campus.

As the Texan reported on Monday, the Phi Gamma Delta (Fiji) fraternity has got-ten in hot water regarding a party it held last Saturday that included racially insensi-tive themes and costumes. Ostensibly, the party had a "western" theme, but countless guests claimed that it was actually "Border Patrol"-themed. Photographs were taken of guests dressed in stereotypical Mexican garb, or as border patrol agents. Sombreros, ponchos and other such items of clothing could be seen at the event. The fraternity contends that these were unaffiliated guests who adulterated the sincere theme of the event.

That is within the realm of possibility, but the fraternity still constructed and erected a few decorations that could be construed as offensive. A cardboard cutout allowed for guests to pose as a stereotypical Mexi-can couple and a makeshift “tequila bar”

was presented. The Texan also reported that the bar sported a painting of the Mexi-can flag. All this suggests that the party, in fact, was not western-themed but possibly "Border Patrol" centric.

We do not think that parties noting or even lightly lampooning other cultures are inherently racist or indefensible. But there is a clear line between satire and punch-ing down against a marginalized minority by using trite stereotypes and prejudices, a line that we believe Texas Fiji crossed.

As for those defending the fraternity’s free speech rights, there is an important distinction to make. Greek organizations agree to a certain set of principles in ex-change for being condoned and sanc-tioned by the University. A party with rac-ist themes and values is not illegal — for a student or anyone else — but it certainly breaks that covenant.

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grass-fed cows comparable to the milk his father used. Ultimately, he chose to con-tract with Stryk Jersey Farms in Schulenberg, Texas, where he goes to get his milk and works alongside graduate students to actually produce the cheese.

Avellan works with bio-chemistry grad student Juan Barraza to make the cheese, then sends the cheese to Aus-tin to be aged for 60 days.

Barraza works as a pro-bo-no science consultant for Dos Lunas and incorporates his passion for cheesemaking into his graduate work. Barraza’s thesis focuses on how bacteria cultures develop in cheese. He said bacteria, milk quality and environmental conditions all determine the flavor and tex-ture of the cheese.

“A model ecosystem for bacteria is cheese because you can make the cheese and

then observe the bacteria,” Barazza said. “I’m studying how the generations change inside the cheese in order to be able to predict what bac-teria will follow and what are the indicators on what bacte-ria will take over.”

When Barraza isn’t devel-oping Dos Lunas’ business model, he sells the cheese at farmers’ markets in Austin. He said he enjoys the break from his university work.

“For me, the farmers mar-ket was an escape to go and talk to other people,” Bar-raza said. “You get exposed to the best food available in Austin.”

Barraza said it can be dif-ficult to expand to new mar-kets, but said the demand for local foods in Austin make his business sustainable.

“People actually care about how they look, what they eat and where they eat,” Barazza said. “If you want to be an Aus-tinite, you need to know where your food is coming from.”

chocolate bar selection fit for kings. Pro tip: Mix, match and buy more than you think you need — you will eat it all.

Holy CacaoHoly Cacao is home to a

variety of cake balls made from scratch. For those thinking about popping

the question on Saturday, I recommend the “Wedding Balls” flavor. Another food truck option is Gourdough’s donuts. The Gourdough’s closest to campus sits behind the University Co-op.

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Request to have the edible glit-ter top your sundae. Don’t for-get to buy a mini bear-shaped bottle filled with vegan salted caramel sauce.

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seasonally so make sure to ask your server for the Val-entine’s Day special.

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someone are relegated to the campus area for the week-end, Cream Whiskers is the perfect go-to. The regular cream puffs are light and airy, making it easy to down five or six so take advantage

of the Valentine’s gift set of a dozen mini cream puffs. Get your orders in before midnight tonight to ensure a dreamy treat-filled day.

Just want to stay in all night with your lovely part-ner? Go the homemade route and make some rich and fudgy chocolate brown-ies. Recipe available online at dailytexanonline.com.

recognizable,” English assis-tant professor Laura Thain said. “But I think that there is optimism that a new piece will hold true to the original.”

As the “Ben Affleck as Bat-man” controversy has shown, fans can be quick to scorn any modicum of change that new visionaries inflict on a much

loved franchise. But such atti-tudes are often unwarranted. Before “The Dark Knight” was released, many Batman fanatics couldn’t see the merit in casting Heath Ledger as The Joker. Ledger went on to win an Academy Award for his performance.

What sets the “Ghost-busters” outrage apart is how much criticism of the new “Ghostbusters” cast possesses

a profoundly sexist undertone. Some Twitter users said that re-making the film with a female cast just couldn’t be done.

Others said that the recast-ing is an attempt to inflict political correctness onto a classic franchise. These rants on the “feminizing” of the “Ghostbuster” franchise are bizarre and hypocritical. Why is it that it’s fine for grown men to enjoy “My Little

Pony,” but blasphemous to imagine women as stars in a paranormal-action comedy?

Thain said that backlash isn’t abnormal.

“Obviously there are threads of misogyny in that discourse,” Thain said. “But there will al-ways be diehard fans that can’t be satisfied because [the re-boot] isn’t accurate enough.”

Despite a negative reac-tion, other fans accept the

new changes to the film and embrace the idea of female “Ghostbusters.” Radio-tele-vision-film graduate Andy Young said that the new spin on the franchise could breathe new life into it.

“When I heard about [di-rector] Paul Feig doing female ‘Ghostbusters,’ I thought that was awesome,” Young said. “Not a lot of reboots change that much. It seems like

they’re going to do something different with it.”

It’s important to remember a crucial point in the “Ghost-busters” debate: The reboot is only a movie. A remake of a 30-year-old film won’t tarnish the franchise, emas-culate men or end the world. Ultimately, the “Ghost-busters” reboot will simply exist as a film for fans to en-joy and critics to avoid.

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Michael Baez | Daily Texan StaffJoaquin Avellan is the owner of Dos Lunas, an artisanal cheese company sells homemade cheese sticks in on-campus markets. Dos Lunas uses milk from grass-fed cows in its locally-sourced cheese.

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Although Texas’ 2014 sea-son ended in heartbreak to eventual champions Vanderbilt on a walk-off, game-losing in-field single in the 10th inning, Texas’ return to Omaha was a necessary step for the revival of Texas baseball.

After a two year hiatus from the NCAA tourna-ment, Texas took full ad-vantage of getting back to the postseason — com-ing within one game of the Championship Series.

In the postseason, Texas’ pitchers combined for a 1.25 ERA in 11 games, including three shutouts and an addi-tional game where they sur-rendered zero earned runs. With their dominant perfor-mances, there was no doubt that their pitching staff willed the Longhorns on their run.

On offense, it was another story, as the starting lineup struck out 13 more times than it got hits in Omaha. Texas’ one through three hit-ters batted a combined 0-for-13 in the season-ending loss to Vanderbilt.

Despite the team’s strug-gles on the biggest stage, expect the Texas offense to take a huge leap in produc-tion. Meanwhile, with the Longhorns losing a few

of their top pitchers from the 2014 squad includ-ing ace Nathan Thornhill, the bats will need to do just that if the Longhorns are to make their 36th trip to the College World Series this summer.

The Longhorns return only 244 of their 601 innings pitched from a season ago, while the lineup returns 19 of 22 home runs and 446 of their 573 hits from 2014.

Junior shortstop C.J Hino-josa, who is the team’s return-ing leader in batting average having hit .298 a season ago, will be the key barometer of whether the Longhorns have the firepower to win it all.

Hinojosa is primed for an All-American caliber season after being named to the College World Series All-Tournament Team as a sophomore.

Sophomore catcher Tres Barrera is another key piece to the puzzle, as he will likely continue to bat cleanup. However, he went just 2-for-19 with nine strikeouts in Omaha.

Barrera’s second trip to TD Ameritrade Park was much better than the first, winning the College Home Run Derby with a record 25 dingers in the final round.

Barrera displayed some pop in his bat with five home

runs as a freshman and could make a Cameron Rupp-esque jump in that category during his sophomore campaign. In 2009, Rupp clouted a team-high 11 homers after hitting only four as a freshman.

Finally, junior left fielder Ben Johnson could also see a drastic jump in his home run total after leading the team in the category in his first two seasons. With the NCAA flat-tening the seams of the balls, it should result in balls flying roughly 20 feet further, John-son could very well be the first Longhorn with a double-digit home run total since 2010.

Expectations are high for a team hungry after success a season ago. Despite heavy losses on the mound, the pitching game will work it-self out, and, ultimately, it’ll be the hitting that could pro-duce the seventh dog pile in school history.

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6GARRETT CALLAHAN, SPORTS EDITOR | @texansportsWednesday, February 11, 2015

MEN’S BASKETBALL

Riding a three-game los-ing streak, their longest of the season, Texas returns to action in Stillwater, Oklahoma, on Wednesday at 7 p.m. to face off against Oklahoma State.

After a 13–0 start had the Longhorns sitting pretty at No. 3 in the AP poll for five straight weeks, Texas lost seven of its last nine games, and have now fallen from the rankings entirely.

“We have to be realistic that we’re not going to win a con-ference title,” head coach Kar-en Aston said Sunday.

But her team hasn’t given up. On Sunday, the Longhorns gave a talented Baylor team a tough fight — though they did ultimately fall 70–68 to the No. 3 team in the nation.

In the second half, Texas (15–7, 4–7 Big 12) at one point trailed by 12 points, but was able to pull within 2 points by the end of the game. Still, they couldn’t finish the comeback, making the loss a tough one to swallow.

Despite senior forward Nneka Enemkpali, who led the Big 12 in rebounds, suf-fering a career ending injury at the previous Baylor game, Texas managed to out-re-bound Baylor 39 to 36 — the second team to out-rebound Baylor this season.

After the narrow loss, Aston said she recognized her team is ready to finish out the difficult season the way they started, with a winning streak.

Sophomore center Kelsey Lang registered her first dou-ble-double with 20 points and 11 rebounds against Baylor.

Three other Longhorns, junior guard Brady Sanders, freshman guard Brooke Mc-Carty and sophomore guard Brianna Taylor, also registered double-digit points.

“I think we’re all getting better at it, but there is more room for improvement,” Sanders said.

For the first time since En-emkpali was relegated to the sidelines, Texas looked com-petitive against top-notch competition, even earning ad-miration from their coach.

“I’m pleased with what we have left,” Aston said. “This was the first game I saw us play where we look like we’re ready to more forward.”

As Oklahoma State has the same conference record as Texas, Wednesday’s game will be an important one for Texas as it looks keep itself out of

the basement. Oklahoma State has been in

a similar rut to Texas, though it was able to defeat Kansas. Oklamhoma State finished non-conference play at 10–1, with their only loss to then-

No. 11 North Carolina. Since then, they have dropped seven of 11 and five of their last sev-en. After the victory, the Cow-girls (14–8, 4–7 Big 12) will host Texas in Stillwater at the Gallagher-Iba Arena.

By Courtney Norris@courtneyknorris

Barnes vies for No. 600 in must-winWhen unranked Texas

hosts TCU on Wednesday at 7p.m. at the Frank Erwin Cen-ter, there will be plenty of story lines to follow.

Head coach Rick Barnes will be vying for his 600th vic-tory. Senior forward Jonathan Holmes’ and junior guard Ja-van Felix’s availability to play will be a game-time decision after both missed Saturday’s contest with concussions. And from the team’s perspec-tive, this is a must-win after playing their way onto the bubble of an NCAA tourna-ment bid.

Texas (15–8, 4–6 Big 12) currently sits in eighth place in conference and will play the only two teams below them in the standings over the course of this week. They take on TCU (14–9, 1–9 Big 12) on Wednesday and Texas Tech (12–12, 2–9 Big 12) on Saturday, both at home and in games they need to win. After being ranked in the first 13 polls of the season polls of the seasons as high as No. 6, the Longhorns will play their first game as an unranked team.

Felix, who has missed the last two games with a concus-sion, and Holmes, who missed

his first game of the season Saturday against Kansas State with the same injury, have not yet been cleared for the game. Felix has been cleared to prac-tice, and, unless he shows any symptoms, will be cleared to play. Holmes has not been cleared for contact yet.

Even while battling adver-sity, Texas was able to pull off a crucial 61–57 road win against Kansas State on Saturday to curb a four-game skid.

“Think about what we have dealt with this year,” head coach Rick Barnes said after the win at Kansas State. “We lost Isaiah [Taylor], Jon and Javan, not to mention the number of days in practice when we had to play with eight guys, nine guys.”

Kansas State coach Bruce Weber referenced Texas’ thin bench after the game.

“They played Jordan Bar-nett, who had not played much,” Weber said. “He did

not get much done, but they used everyone.”

Texas was able to slow down Kansas State using a zone de-fense, and it doesn’t appear Barnes will be going back to man defense anytime soon.

“We are a long team. Our zone has been good,” Barnes said Saturday. “We have won four conference games, and we played zone every minute of those games with the excep-tion of the last two minutes

here today. Length is an im-portant part about it, and it is just a big zone.”

If Texas beats TCU, then Barnes will become the 13th active NCAA Division I men’s coach to reach the 600-win milestone. In 28 sea-sons, which included stops at George Mason, Providence and Clemson, he currently owns a 599–308 record.

The game will be aired on the Longhorn Network.

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Longhorns look to end skid in StillwaterWOMEN’S BASKETBALL

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With a win Wednesday night against TCU, head coach Rick Barnes would become the 13th active coach with 600 wins. As Texas keeps slid-ing in the rank-ings, this one has also become a must-win.

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Offense expecting power boost

Griffin Smith | Daily Texan Staff Sophomore center Kelsey Lang is enjoying a breakout season. In her last game at Baylor, she registered her first double-double with 20 points and 11 rebounds.

WOMEN’S GOLF

Eighth-place finish for Texas in Orlando

Facing heavy winds, the Texas women’s golf team posted a final round team score of 300 in Orlando, Florida, on Tuesday to finish the UCF Challenge in a tie for eighth at 16-over par.

“Per our team effort, we were better today in the wind than we have been this sea-son, so, in that regard, we are making progress,” head coach Ryan Murphy said.

Junior Natalie Karcher, one of the five individuals sent to the challenge, finished 11th place with a 2-under par for the tournament — a per-sonal best for this season and second-best of her career.

Among the other Long-horns who participated in the tournament, sophomore Julia Beck posted a 4-over par, placing her 34th. Beck has had an incredibly consistent season for the Longhorns, having competed in all four events for the Longhorns with all 12 rounds she has posted counting toward the team’s final score.

Coming in right behind Beck, senior Bertine Strauss shot a 5-over par to finish in 35th place. Strauss finished

strong in the final round of the event, posting a par in her final round, which was the best of the day for the Longhorns.

“Good round by Ber-tine today in 18-20 mph winds,” Murphy said. “Not many scores were at or be-low par today, so it’s a good note for her to finish this tournament on.”

To round things out, soph-omore Anne Hakula finished in 63rd place while junior Teriza Abe shot a 19-over par, resulting in 92nd place finish.

The event was the fifth of the season for the Long-horns, who scored an 880 at the three-day event. Ul-timately, Texas finished 30 strokes behind the winners of the tournament, the Vir-ginia Cavaliers, who posted a 14-under par.

“Finishing eighth of 18 is not what we were striving for, but it’s an okay starting point for us this spring,” Murphy said. “From here, it’s about getting better every time we tee it up.”

The Longhorns’ next event is the Allstate Sugar Bowl Intercollegiate from Feb. 22-24 at the English Turn Country Club in New Orleans, Louisiana.

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Gilmer head coach to join Longhorns staff

Former Gilmer High School head coach Jeff Traylor is officially join-ing the Longhorns as their new special teams and tight ends coach, according to numerous reports.

Traylor fills an opening left by former tight end’s coach Bruce Chambers, who was dismissed in De-cember after holding that spot since 2003. He marks the second major addi-tion to Strong’s staff this off-season, with new wide receivers coach Jay Norvell joining the team in January.

At Gilmer, Traylor coached 14 consecutive winning seasons and pro-duced several top college recruits, including in-coming Texas cornerback Kris Boyd. In 2014, he capped off an undefeated season with his third state championship.

Head coach Charlie Strong hopes Traylor can make an impact as a coach and a recruiter. With years of experience in coaching Texas high school foot-ball, Traylor is a familiar face for in-state recruiting prospects and their coach-es. The Longhorns hope this familiarity translates into better recruiting and ultimately better on-field success.

— Ezra Siegal

SPORTS BRIEFLY

Center fielder earns pair of weekly honors

Junior center fielder Lindsey Stephens started her season off with a bang, hitting .471 with three home runs — two of which were grand-slams — and 11 RBIs over the weekend at the Kajikawa Classic in Tempe, Arizona.

For her efforts, the Big 12 Conference named her Co-Player of the Week and the National Fastpitch Coach-es Association (NFCA) named her the National Player of the Week.

Stephens was an NFCA All-American in 2014 and was named to the pre-season Top 50 “Watch List” for the USA Softball Na-tional Collegiate Player of the Year trophy.

On Friday, the Long-horns will host their first game of the season as part of the Texas Classic.

— Evan Berkowitz

By Bridget Bonasoro@bridgetbonasoro

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KAT SAMPSON, LIFE&ARTS EDITOR | @thedailytexan 8Wednesday, February 11, 2015

Still trying to figure out how to put the sweet in sweet-heart this Saturday? Consider visiting any one of these Aus-tin establishments for all your Valentine’s Day needs.

HalcyonEveryone needs s’more

loving in their lives, and Hal-cyon is ready to help. Table-side s’mores, served for two or four people, should be washed down with a chocolate espresso martini. If you are afraid of fire, consider ordering the crepes. Choose the classic Nutella crepe with toasted walnuts.

La PâtisserieDoes your significant

other heart New York more

than they heart you? Take them to La Pâtisserie and try a riff on Dominique Ansel’s famous cronuts — they’re worth every sugary bite. Grab a few French macaroons for the road while you’re at it.

JuiceLandIf health is a priority this

V-Day, head to JuiceLand for a lighter option. The dessert smoothies are a prime option. Made with almond milk, ba-nana, cacao powder, brown rice protein and dates, the Moontower smoothie packs the perfect chocolaty punch.

Whole Foods MarketA grocery store might not

seem like the most roman-tic destination, but Whole Foods offers a candy and

Double amputee reaches Kilimanjaro’s peakHiking to the top of Africa’s

highest mountain, Mount Kili-manjaro, requires immense physical strength — some-thing government senior Alex D’Jamoos, a double amputee who climbed the mountain, knows well.

This past summer, D’Jamoos climbed to the top of Mount Kilimanjaro for the second time.

D’Jamoos’ climb was spon-sored by Happy Families Inter-national, an adoption agency that attempts to place Russian orphans in American homes so that they can undergo ortho-pedic treatment. The organiza-tion is close to D’Jamoos’ heart because of his own experience as a Russian orphan sent to the U.S. at 15 for orthopedic treat-ment. Within a year, his host family adopted him and his life in America began.

The summer after his fresh-man year, D’Jamoos attempted climbed Kilimanjaro for the first time, but only made it to the third base camp wearing his prosthetics. His second time around, he ditched the prosthetics and crawled his way to the top.

“I wore my ski pants and taped myself all over with duct tape,” D’Jamoos said. “I wore ski gloves and just kind of crawled on the ground. I destroyed my knuckles. They were bleeding after two hours.”

The terrain wasn’t D’Jamoos’ only problem — he also had to contend with a horde of Afri-can ants, he said.

“I was being bitten all over,” D’Jamoos said. “I would look on the ground ahead and it was just full of ants, it was crazy.”

These were some of the

reasons D’Jamoos hesitated to climb for a second time.

“I thought I would never do it again because it was so exhausting [the first time] and I mean, who does it twice?” D’Jamoos said.

Nevertheless, D’Jamoos did decide to hike the mountain again. For the second trip, Hap-py Families collaborated with several other nonprofits, each of which sent their own repre-sentatives to participate in the

climb. D’Jamoos said the in-crease in fellow climbers made the trip easier.

“It was great to have your friends around to push each other,” D’Jamoos said. “We are all people who share passions. We want to help kids. We want to raise awareness. We all share a purpose.”

In December of 2012, Happy Families International hit a huge speed bump when Russia passed a law banning

Americans from adopting Russian children. Senior of-ficials in Moscow said over 40 adoptions in the final stages were halted, according to the New York Times.

“It’s not a very logical situa-tion,” D’Jamoos said.

In response to the bill, D’Jamoos created a Facebook page called “Orphans With-out Borders.” The page allows families to share photos, write to each other and talk about

anything related to orphans or adoption. Orphans Without Borders has over 2,800 Face-book “likes” and ultimately works to provide a forum for those who believe in orphaned children’s right to a family.

“Whenever you have a child living in an orphanage, and that child has an opportunity to have a family,” D’Jamoos said. “As long as the family can prove in court that they are capable of taking care of the child, then I

think the color of their passport is the last thing that matters.”

D’Jamoos’ passion for international adoption is reflected in the scope of his accomplishments.

“It is an interesting experi-ence, to push yourself as hard as you can,” D’Jamoos said. “You learn a lot about yourself in the process, how you handle stress and how you handle ex-haustion where even holding a water bottle is impossible.”

The road to success didn’t come cheesey for Joaquin Avellan.

Avellan specializes in making hand-crafted arti-san cheese sold at Central Market and Austin-area res-taurants. His latest venture is making cheese sticks for all of UT’s on-campus mark-tets — and he’s milking the opportunity to connect to a new consumer base as much as he can.

The dairy tale started in 2009, when Avellan trav-elled to Venezuela to help his father recover from open-heart surgery. He spent his time working at the family’s cheese-making

business — and after return-ing to Austin, it occurred to Avellan that cheese should be his next career move. He decided to open his own ar-tisanal cheese company, Dos Lunas Artisan Cheese. Avel-lan makes blocks of hand crafted cheese from grass-feed cows milk in flavors such as chipotle cheddar.

Dos Lunas now sells cheese sticks at every cam-pus market, in addition to Central Market, Wheats-ville Co-op and SFC Farm-ers’ Market. Avellan said he is excited about selling his cheese to students.

“We’re feeding people high quality food,” Avel-lan said. “It’s healthy and it’s bringing awareness with all the love and care that we

make this cheese with.”Darla Stewart, associ-

ate director of projects and procurement for the Division of Housing and Food services, said provid-ing locally sourced food promotes sustainability and helps students better understand the food pro-duction process. Stewart said buying food from arti-sans around Austin lowers greenhouse gas emissions because of reduced travel time. Stewart said the divi-sion values locally-sourced food, but said complete lo-cal sourcing is not feasible.

“Currently 23 percent of food is either local, certi-fied sustainable, or organ-ic,” Stewart said. “We’d like to increase the percentage

by two to three percent each year.”

Avellan said he is proud of the extreme care that goes into each of the his hand-crafted cheese sticks.

“The flavor slows you down,” Avellan said. “It has so much flavor; it’s very rich. You feel like you’ve had a real snack that can hold you as a meal.”

Originally, Avellan strug-gled to find raw milk from

New York may be the city that never sleeps, but Hol-lywood is the city that never stops. Franchises across Hol-lywood are either “rebooting” or adding to already compli-cated plotline tangles. Earlier this week, Marvel Universe announced they were adding Spider-Man to their “Aveng-ers” franchise. The “Polter-geist” reboot’s trailer came out Monday, bringing the film one step closer to frui-tion. But the biggest news in the franchise world remains Sony Pictures’ decision to re-boot “Ghostbusters” — with an all-female cast.

The classic 1984 film, widely considered a pop-culture juggernaut, is a per-fect candidate for the reboot treatment. On Jan. 27, Sony Pictures announced that

comedians Kristen Wiig, Me-lissa McCarthy, Leslie Jones and Kate McKinnon would play the film’s iconic protago-nists. After the news broke on social media, some fans of the franchise seemed dismayed by both the casting selection and the decision to do a re-boot in general.

Why would a casting an-nouncement send people into a state of indignation? For starters, “Ghostbusters” has a hardcore fandom following. Thirty years after its release, fans still honor the film by dressing up in homemade flight-suits and throwing down $50 for LEGO replicas of their favorite characters. There will always be fans who criticize any meddling with a beloved franchise like this one.

“People are worried that [a reboot] will not be true enough to the original to be

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By Elisabeth Dillon@thedailytexan

By Katie Walsh@katiehwalsh_atx

Joshua Guerra | Daily Texan Staff Government senior Alex D’Jamoos, a double amputee, hiked to the top of Mount Kilimanjaro, Africa’s highest mountain, for the second time this past sum-mer. Russian adoption agency Happy Families International sponsored both of D’Jamoos’ climbs.

FILM | COLUMN FOOD

Local eateries provide Valentine’s sweet treats

MultimediaFor more on Dos Lunas, check out the video at dailytexanonline.com.

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Artisanal cheese sticks hit campus marketsFOOD

Illustration by Lindsay Rojas| Daily Texan Staff

Illustration by Lindsay Rojas | Daily Texan Staff

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