The Cockrell School of Engineering received a $3.5 million donation from Texas Instruments (TI), a Fort Worth-based technology manufactur-er, on Tuesday.

The gift will go to-ward seven new teaching and project labs in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineer-ing, which will be lo-cated within the school’s new Engineering Educa-tion and Research Cen-ter. The center, which is slated to open in 2017, will house classrooms, labs, faculty offices and administration offices for the department.

TI spokeswoman Renée Fancher said TI hopes to provide stu-dents and faculty with opportunities for inno-vation in the classroom.

“Our aim with this gift is to ensure that not a day goes by that Cockrell School students are not working on some new idea, some new proj-ect, and that the profes-sors are able to try out new innovative teaching techniques that help ac-celerate the learning pro-cess,” Fancher said.

With the gift, TI will fund new equipment for six labs for undergradu-ate students.

The new labs, desig-nated “TI Laboratories,” will allow students to build sensors, drones, wearable technologies and other devices. The company will conduct annual reviews to ensure the new equipment is current and meeting stu-

Freezing rain did not stop hundreds of Texas commu-nity college students, many of whom hope to transfer to four-year institutions such as UT, from meeting outside of the Capitol to discuss their policy priorities for the 84th legislative session.

Austin Community College students attended a rally Tues-day to tell legislators about the issues most important to them, especially the affordability of higher education. If approved, the proposed House and Sen-ate budgets would cut fund-ing for community colleges by about $80 million dollars.

“What we are doing here is empowering you, ordinary community college students, with the understanding that we have the ability to make real positive changes for our soci-ety,” said Joel Mason, Collin College student and president of the Texas Junior College Stu-dent Government Association.

Daniel McFarlane, UT Transfer Student Association president, said while his tran-sition from ACC to UT was difficult, going to community college first allowed him to save the money he needed to ulti-mately make the switch.

“A lot of people start off at community college for the sole reason of saving money,”

McFarlane said. “That was definitely one of the big pros for me.”

McFarlane said students who transfer from community colleges represent an important population on campus because of their dedicated attitude to-ward education.

“A lot of the people com-ing in from community col-leges are a lot more serious about their education — most of them want it really bad,” McFarlane said. “They worked very hard to get to a four-year university, so once we do tran-sition in, education means that

much more to us.“ At the rally, state Sen. Larry

Taylor (R-Friendswood) said it is important to find innova-tive ways to solve legislative challenges regarding commu-nity colleges.

“Only then can we be pre-pared to serve future students

in an effective and afford-able way,” Taylor said. “Keep looking for ways to improve your institution.”

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Gleim, Students with Dis-abilities agency director, wrote that the initiative is part of an effort to expand and “provide resources for the overall health and wellness of all students and staff.”

The program is still in its early stages of develop-ment, according to Kelli Bradley, director of Services for Students with Disabili-ties. The initiative could be

in place as soon as this fall, Gleim said.

For the 2014-2015 school year, 2,289 students are reg-istered with Services for Students with Disabilities.

“At this time, we are still assessing the needs, logistics, and interest [of students],” Bradley said in an email.

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Ellyn Snider | Daily Texan Staff Joel Mason, Collin College student and president of the Texas Junior College Student Government Association, speaks to fellow com-munity college students on the steps of the Capitol on Tuesday. Hundreds of students from community colleges around Texas rallied

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Crowdfunding app sees popularity rise

More than 5,000 UT students have raised over $500,000 using an app called Tilt, which allows users to host a crowdfund-ing campaign for anything, from paying rent to host-ing lavish parties.

The app allows any host to see who has and has not contributed to a particular project’s fund, and con-nects through Facebook to create a network of people with whom users can share their crowd fundraiser.

According to Natas-sia Costa, public rela-tions manager at Tilt, the

app is different from us-ing cash or similar apps such as Venmo because it provides more of a group experience.

“Everybody chips in so that they can meet the Tilt, and, once the goal is met, their cards are charged,” Costa said.

Tilt works with several brand ambassadors, in-cluding UT students, to promote the app. Market-ing senior Emily Beckham, a Tilt ambassador, said she first started using the app to organize and fund large events.

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Three years after ban-ning tobacco on campus, University administrators have launched a new pro-gram to reduce the use of tobacco and alternative tobacco products among college-aged students.

“The majority of full-time smokers and tobacco users over the age of 26 started before they were that age and while they were in college,” Shelley Karn, a program director with the Tobacco Research and Evaluation Team, said. “We wanted to develop a pre-vention campaign to pre-vent them from ever even starting tobacco products. There wasn’t a comprehen-sive program in colleges to

do this, and we wanted to change that.”

The program, Peers Against Tobacco, is one part of a multi-university proj-ect in Texas which includes schools such as Texas Tech and Texas State. The Uni-versity’s Tobacco Research and Evaluation Team over-sees the program, and the Texas Department of State Health services funds it.

Peers Against Tobacco aims to decrease tobacco use among students at the 20 participating univer-sities through different educational initiatives. Ac-cording to Karn, the plan-ning stages of the program began in September 2013 and culminated with the start of the program last month.

Karn said educating stu-

dents about the full range of tobacco-based prod-ucts is important because students tend to think tobacco alternatives, such as hookahs and electronic

cigarettes, are not as harm-ful as traditional cigarettes.

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fraternity, many community college students — himself included — have to work their way through school, and higher tuition costs would set them back.

“If we’re starting out already having a lot of debt in the first couple of years, it becomes a burden,” Chitty said.

Chitty said he hopes to transfer to UT’s electri-cal engineering program pending acceptance.

According to John Gizdich, ACC’s Student Government Assocation president, de-creased state funding for com-munity college could lead to increased tuition. Gizdich said he would like free community college to be widely available in Texas.

“Some politicians will say increase minimum wage, but I believe we really need to make community college cheaper or even free,” Gizdich said.

In a proposal last month, President Barack Obama said he is in favor of providing tu-

ition-free community college and said he thinks students who work for their educa-tion and maintain a certain GPA should be provided with college options without financial constraints.

Kevin Potter, ACC transfer student and biology sopho-more, said he is concerned free community college would bring an increase in the num-ber of students who do not care about education.

“I think it is a fantastic ideol-ogy that when faced with real life, would fail,” Potter said. “Community college isn’t that expensive as it is. It’s free for a lot of students as it is through scholarships and state-funded programs.”

Community college stu-dents also advocated for other legislative priorities, such as college readiness and com-mon course numbering, at the rally.

“I think it’s important that legislators see what a force community college students really can be in the state, for the economy and in our communi-ties,” Chitty said.

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Lake Austin or something really fun,” Beckham said. “It would be such a pain to go collect everyone’s cash and make sure ev-eryone paid and keep up with it — almost to a point where people didn’t want to plan things like that be-cause people wouldn’t pay you back. But now that we’ve been using Tilt, it’s so easy to collect money in an efficient way that it takes two seconds if you already have an account and your credit card upload-ed, and it’s so reliable. You know exactly who’s paying,

how much and can text them if they haven’t.”

Sports management ju-nior Joe Galati, another Tilt ambassador at the University, said the app allowed his fraternity to raise money more ef-ficiently than through traditional means.

“The fraternity I’m in-volved in — we had a big philanthropic event that was selling T-shirts, so I set up a couple Tilts that you could easily purchase off the website and app, and, when I got all the money, I handed them

out, and we made over $3,500 using the app,” Galati said.

Economics junior Scott Ellerman said he used Tilt to fund a New Year’s party. Over the course of 45 min-utes, Ellerman said he saw an increase in funding from $9,000 to $20,000.

“There were a lot of people who contributed that I didn’t even know, that didn’t even go to this school,” Ellerman said. “There were people from Georgia, people from TCU and Tech, and we had mutual friends, which is why they showed up.”

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dent and faculty needs.Being able to apply con-

cepts learned in the class-room is especially im-portant for engineering students, according to elec-trical engineering junior Cody Scarborough.

“The exposure to vari-ous field applications will give students a deeper level of understanding and career preparation,” Scarbor-ough said.

Of the roughly 500 UT alumni currently working for TI, nearly 300 earned de-grees from Cockrell. Fancher said she thinks innovation at the university level plays a critical role in preparing students to solve modern problems once they begin their careers at technology companies, such as TI.

“Our own ability as a com-pany to innovate depends in large part on our relationship with universities like UT Austin and its ability to edu-cate young people who learn and solve problems of global significance,” Fancher said.

John Halton, Cock-rell associate dean for school and alumni rela-tions, said TI has supported UT through funding stu-dent projects, scholarships

and research programs in the past.

“TI puts a high value on education and has given gen-erously to student-focused programs, including our

school’s Women in Engi-neering Program and Equal Opportunity in Engineering Program,” Halton said.

Greg Delagi, senior vice president and general man-

ager of embedded process-ing for TI and member of the Cockrell Engineering Advisory Board, said he believes students are a major factor behind global

technological advances. “Students are critical to

creating innovative solutions for the world’s biggest chal-lenges,” Delagi said.

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into TeXercise, an exer-cise program that allows students to take fitness classes at the University. It might also exist as an in-dependent program, and include activities such as adaptive wheelchair rugby or basketball, for the disabled community.

The resolution is a joint project between Student

Government, the Division of Recreational Sports, Services for Students with Disabilities and University Health Services. Jennifer Speer, associate director of Communications, Assess-ment & Development in the Division of Recreation-al Sports, said RecSports has been in contact with Gleim to plan details of the program.

“We want to make sure we provide recreational op-

portunities for everyone on campus,” Speer said. “If we are able to provide a service for students that is needed in this specific pop-ulation, then that would be very beneficial.”

Speer said the Univer-sity offered similar projects in the past, but the pro-grams disbanded because of low attendance.

“Interest with students kind of diminished,” Speer said. “We would work

with St. David’s to have them come over and use the space for their bas-ketball [and] wheelchair rugby programs.”

Other universities, such as Texas A&M, University of Houston and UT-Arlington, have adaptive sports pro-grams. In A&M’s student or-ganization Aggie Adaptive Sports, students host recre-ational events for those with physical disabilities, espe-cially those in wheelchairs.

Tracey Forman, advisor for Aggie Adaptive Sports, said the program is still small because of a smaller com-munity of people with dis-abilities in College Station.

“Houston, Austin, Dallas and San Antonio — they have enough people in their community; they have cen-ters,” Forman said. “Ours is very recrational, non-competitive at this point. [Our members] would love to get more people

involved.”Gleim said she hopes to

look at other universities’ programs to help mold UT’s adaptive program.

“It will be a big pro-gram and undertaking,” Gleim said. “We’re just in the planning stages right now, but we’ve been given the green light, so we’re going for it.”

SG plans to vote on the resolution next week, Gleim said.

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ity for the Austin-Travis County Health and Human Services Department, said unlike traditional ciga-rettes, e-cigs and hookahs are not FDA regulated, so

consumers cannot be cer-tain about how safe the products really are.

“Many [tobacco alterna-tives] are made overseas in China, so there’s no knowing what’s really be-ing put in the product,” said Huang, who is also on

the FDA’s Tobacco Prod-uct Advisory commit-tee. “It’s not just harmless water vapor like they try to advertise.”

Peers Against Tobacco will soon launch a student-led media campaign, do research involving local

tobacco retailers and de-velop an online preven-tion curriculum — which each college within the University can implement.

According to Alicia Graf, senior project coor-dinator for the program, two student leaders and a

supervising administrator selected at each university will evaluate the effective-ness of the prevention program at the end of the spring semester.

“We’ve gotten some push back [about the pro-gram] from the vaping

community through social media because they say vaping is safer,” Gras said. “We want to show that all tobacco products are dan-gerous and that there’s a lot we don’t know about cer-tain products that a lot of people use.”

RESEARCH

Researcher creates conceptual model to test memory function

Sukbin Lim, neurobiol-ogy postdoctoral researcher at The University of Chi-cago, is working to build a conceptual model of the brain that will help research-ers better understand how neurons communicate and affect short-term and long-term memory.

Lim spoke on campus Tuesday about how mod-els of neuron activity in the brain can be used to predict cognition and memory func-tion, which could help re-search with Alzheimer’s and other neurological diseases.

“The brain is a network of neurons randomly firing, and so [I studied] how this affects short-term and long-term memory,” Lim said.

By applying her Ph.D. in mathematics to neurosci-ence, Lim developed a theory to analyze the randomness of neurons firing in the brain,

which she plans to test on primates.

“Positive [neuron] sig-nal is thought to be most important [to study in neu-roscience], but interaction between negative and posi-tive neuron signal is also im-portant,” Lim said. “There’s indirect evidence in brain activity, and we have to think about what is biologically plausible.”

Lim said if she builds a testable model for parts of the brain that control short-term and long-term memory, she hopes breakthroughs in how different areas of the brain communicate and interact will follow. A model could be used to increase individuals’ visual and auditory memory and overall cognitive skills.

Nace Golding, UT neu-roscience associate profes-sor, said studying neuron randomness might help scientists map brain activ-ity, since neurons are not fully understood.

“Neurons are imperfect, but neuroscientists aren’t sure whether this unreli-ability is a bug or a feature,” Golding said.

Ian Nauhaus, psychology

and neuroscience assistant professor, said he found Lim’s models on memory and learning interesting be-cause this type of model is brand new.

“There are other mod-els which are very similar, but her model is novel be-cause it shows graded ef-fects in memory,” Nauhaus said. “Actually implement-

ing that data into a model is not trivial. In neurosci-ence, models are impor-tant because they allow us to predict what’s going to happen.”

By Lauren Florence@thedailytexan

CAMPUS

UT students develop app featuring pizza, Christian rap duo

Even the best class assign-ments don’t usually go viral — but that’s exactly what happened to management information systems senior James Rauhut, who saw his assignment turn into a suc-cessful app that was down-loaded more than 5,000 times over the course of a week.

Rauhut and his classmates, computer science senior Navin Ratnayake and radio-television-film senior Patri-

cia Humphries, created Pizza Party Tour, a mobile game featuring skateboards, pizza and Social Club, a Miami-based Christian rap duo. In the game, players skateboard through a city and deliver pizzas while avoiding obsta-cles in the street.

“The concept of the game seemed simple enough to pull off in one semester,” Ratnayake said.

To divide the workload fairly, Rauhut and Ratnay-ake primarily focused on the programming of the game, while Humphries was

responsible for the game’s visuals. Ratnayake said the programming tasks involved creating collisions and pow-er-ups and adding random-ization and progressive dif-ficulty as the game advanced.

Since Pizza Party Tour was the first mobile app Rauhut ever released, he and Ratnayake used a pro-gramming platform called GameSalad, which allowed them to program the app using the English language and pseudo-code, rather than a traditional program-ming language. While us-

ing the platform simplified the game’s development, Rauhut said it limited them from creating anything too complicated.

“The biggest challenge was finding work-arounds for the simplicity of the pro-gram,” Rauhut said.

Rauhut said he expects to see at least one more wave of downloads of the app following the update they will release at the end of this month. Users have left comments with feedback for Rauhut and his team in the Apple App Store and on

Google Play.“The biggest thing for me

was not being used to imme-diate feedback from thou-sands of users,” Rauhut said.

Along with incorporating user feedback, Rauhut said he also has plans to work with Social Club. Rauhut said he gained inspiration for the game from the group’s music. When the team com-pleted the project, Rauhut presented it to the rap duo.

“We worked on the game with the intention of reach-ing out to them,” Rauhut said. “They loved it and even

paid the publishing fees to get it on the App Store and Google Play.”

The rappers will be recording custom sound bites specifically for the game and will allow Rauhut to use music from their upcoming album.

Rauhut said the game is easy to pick up and play and emphasized that users can tweet their high scores to Social Club on Twitter.

“I hope people download the game,” Rauhut said. “It’s free, and people have a lot of fun.”

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“There will be blood on the streets and shootouts at every four-way stops.”1 You might think that this is the rhetoric used by opponents of concealed carry on campus today, but in fact, they were said 20 years ago when the Texas Concealed Handgun Law was passed. You can be the judge of whether opponents of concealed carry were correct, but as for me, I haven’t seen blood on the streets or shootouts at every four-way stops. Since then, Texans over the age of 21, without any felony conviction, can get a concealed carry permit after completing a four-six hours conceal handgun class (taught by a DPS certified CHL instructor) that includes passing a written examination and profi-ciency demonstration (shooting). The ap-plication fee for a concealed carry permit costs $140 plus around $65 for the CHL course and around $10 for fingerprinting (criminal background check). This is not including the cost of a gun, which is often in the hundreds of dollars. As a result, it is time consuming and not easy for some-one to get a concealed carry permit and if SB 11 becomes law (enough senators support it to pass and it is likely to pass in the house too), the number of students with concealed carry permits is unlikely to change much.

The debate over Concealed Carry on Campus is not one where reasonable

minds disagree, but one that people with irrational fear simply refuse to consider based on the fact that Concealed Carry on Campus won’t make campuses any less safe. I can’t blame them, because it is hu-man nature to fear uncertainty. I myself hesitated in supporting concealed carry on campus when I heard about it years ago. But after doing research and looking at the empirical evidence, I am convinced that allowing concealed carry on campus will make students safer. Virtually every peer-reviewed study on the subject, including studies by the National Academy of Sci-ences and the Harvard Injury Control Re-search Center, has concluded that there is no evidence that licensed concealed carry leads to an increase in either violent crime or gun deaths. There have been zero acts of violence or suicide attempt as result of allowing concealed carry on campus from campuses (eight states allow concealed carry on campus) that allow concealed carry for the last twenty years! I wish we could say the same about our campus and other campuses in Texas.

The question we should ask is why should we deny the right to conceal carry on campus when it is perfectly legal to walk down the drag or around west cam-pus with a conceal carry? Students do not constantly think about the danger people with concealed carry pose to them in pub-lic and in time I think we will all see that life will carry on as usual if SB 11 is passed. As I stated early on, this bill only extends the right to those very few students who have conceal carry permit. This isn’t about you or me. This isn’t a criticism of UTPD or a secret agenda by evil politicians. This bill is about the students who were assault-ed while walking home at night and those who want to keep a gun to defend them-selves. These students as well as professors and other staff at UT should have the right to defend themselves, a right so funda-mental that societies cannot exist without. As I conclude, keep in mind the famous words of FDR, that “we have nothing to fear but fear itself.” And this debate is ex-actly about whether we students of higher education will forsake all we have learned and give in to fear. I believe we are smarter than that and can make our opinions on issues of public policies such as this based on the facts and not the fear.

Hung is a first year law student from Brownsville.

On Jan. 26, lawmakers from both houses of the Texas State Legislature filed identical bills HB 937 and SB 11. The “Guns on Campus” bills come on the heels of Gov. Greg Abbott’s promise to sign open carry into law at his earliest oppor-tunity, as well as any other expansive gun legis-lation. Although I would rather the Legislature maintain former compromises made in this cor-nerstone of American politics, I can abide expan-sion of gun rights within reason. Unfortunately, the “Guns on Campus” bills are not.

HB 937 and SB 11 seek to allow any Tex-an over the age of 21 with a CHL (concealed handgun license) to carry on college campuses. Texas has acquired 811,000 CHL holders since concealed carry became law in 1995, and it is troubling to think weapons nearly equaling the population of Austin could soon flood college campuses statewide. The simplicity of obtaining a license to carry a concealed weapon—a back-ground check into an applicant’s criminal history and the submission of fingerprints to the Texas Department of Public Safety—does not protect campuses from the “Guns on Campus” legisla-tion. According to lawmakers, the purpose of campus carry is to allow law-abiding students to protect themselves from on-campus crime. However, this will not be the bills’ practice. Four of the five violent on-campus crimes reported to UTPD between Dec. 2, 2014 and Jan. 29, 2015, happened at night, when most students on cam-pus were freshmen living in university housing and are inapplicable for the bills’ 21+ age require-ment. Furthermore, the bills give universities the option of prohibiting guns in residence halls, meaning that the bills’ theoretical beneficiaries are further unprotected by it. HB 937 and SB 11 cannot reasonably offer any protection to the students lawmakers claim to be protecting.

Although the bills include a clause releasing universities from responsibility for any campus carry-related incidents, Neither President Pow-ers nor Chancellor McRaven support campus carry. According to Powers, the high-stress en-vironment of universities can lend themselves to volatile situations and bringing guns into the fold heightens on-campus dangers. Furthermore, the implications of campus carry have not been ad-equately tested in other states —Idaho’s campus carry went into effect on July 1, 2014, universities

in Utah have continuously challenged campus carry, and Colorado allows campus carry but requires additional measures before granting CHLs. The bills’ clauses disallowing universities from opting out of campus carry adds a distinct division between university administrators, who have been vocal in their opposition, and law-makers, who seem to think they know best.

The “Guns on Campus” bills do more to al-low civilians to take the law into their own hands than they do to protect students. Campus carry will create new challenges for law enforcement, as police may struggle to identify an on-campus threat from those confronting it. HB 937 and SB 11 also perpetuate the idea that everyday citizens are the best defense against crime, regardless of training. Results of a 2007 study of the New York City Police Department found that police officers who discharged their weapons within six feet of the target only met with 43% accuracy, a rate that dropped sharply beyond this slight range—23 percent accuracy from 6 to 21 feet, 40 percent accuracy at 21 to 40 feet, 14 percent ac-curacy at 45 to 75 feet, and 7 percent accuracy at more than 75 feet. According NYCPD, all weap-on discharges occurred under circumstances in which the NYCPD shot to kill. Bringing guns on campus under the guise of better protection for students is obvious folly: police officers trained by the state to operate a weapon cannot shoot ac-curately under duress, nor likely may a civilian with unequal training.

I do not doubt that there are members of our community that carry weapons to campus ev-eryday regardless of law. The difference is that doing so is currently illegal, and HB 937 and SB 11 would legitimize that choice. The numbers demonstrate the dismal chance of students ap-prehending on-campus criminals, and the litera-ture of the bills themselves do not protect those most at-risk on campus. It is important to under-stand that campus carry is not a straightforward Second Amendment issue, as one representative suggested when he compared CHLs to taking a test in order to exercise free speech. Campus car-ry intermingles weapons and education, where a shaky precedence exists in place of reasonable cause. The “Guns on Campus” legislation is clev-er maneuvering by lawmakers under favorable political conditions, not the result of thought-ful deliberation. Students would surely benefit more from a more robust campus police force to combat on-campus crime. This is not a discus-sion about whether students should have guns. It’s about the fact that no one, student or faculty, should bring their gun to campus.

Smith is a history junior from Austin. She writes about state politics.

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By Claire SmithSenior Columnist@clairseysmith

The debate over campus carry is not one where reasonable minds disagree, but one where people with irrational fear simply refuse to acknowledge the fact that campus carry won’t make campuses any less safe. ... [In fact,] I am con-vinced that allowing [it] will make students safer.

Liberal Arts TA Task Force report delivers disappointing resultsEDITORIAL

The College of Liberal Arts’ TA Task Force released its official report last week. The doc-ument addresses issues facing teaching assis-tants and assistant instructors in the Gradu-ate School including murky definitions of TA responsibilities, excessive grading require-ments and fears of poor job security.

The report does a decent job of formu-lating solutions to these problems, but it is more remarkable for what it leaves out: a thoroughgoing discussion of the problems with the current stipend structure for TAs and AIs.

Yes, the report, which is based on a sur-vey completed by 681 current and former TAs and AIs, indicates that 64 percent of respondents are dissatisfied with their com-pensation based on their typical workload. However, the solutions it proposes to this problem are like Band-Aids on a gushing wound. The report suggests “creat[ing] a

‘clearinghouse’ web portal to expedite in-terdepartmental hiring,” “offer[ing] TAs the option to receive stipends over 9 or 12 months,” “offer[ing] additional TAships over the summer” and “accelerat[ing] receipt of 1st paycheck,” this last referring to the cur-rent University accounting practice of pay-ing employees in arrears.

These are all fine, but they miss the key funding issue that is causing so many of the problems for teaching assistants.

As task force spokesman Justin Doran told the Texan, “As I understand it, there is a set budget for teaching assistants and assistant instructors, and that money hasn’t increased for many years.”

We understand the task force was ulti-mately not charged with offering budget proposals to increase TA funding, but at the very least it could have proposed a ro-bust discussion about the funding problems

and the reasons the college wanted to cut 10 percent of TA positions from future co-horts, for instance.

We hope, then, that the college and University ad-ministration will be amena-ble to a town hall discussion open to all students, perhaps facilitated by the Graduate Student Assembly, to discuss the real, underlying issues leading to TA dissatisfaction. We have continually heard from people as high up as Esther Raizen, the college’s associate dean for research and graduate studies, that the college simply “[doesn’t] have money,” but the entire student body de-serves to hear more about why.

And to make it easier for the administra-tion, the Texan will gladly host.

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DEANDRE BAKER, CB, NORTHWESTERN (MIAMI, FLORIDA)Texas’ final target for signing day is three-star cornerback and Georgia commit Deandre Baker. Baker visited the Longhorns on Jan. 23, and the coaching staff is hopeful he will flip on signing day. His addition would add to an already-stout cor-nerback class that has three four-star prospects. Finalists: Georgia, TexasPrediction: Texas (Evan Berkowitz)

RYAN NEWSOME, WR, ALEDOAledo’s four-star wide receiver is a UCLA commit who chose the Bruins over the Longhorns in late January. The Longhorns are still trying to flip Newsome before he officially signs with the Bruins, though. There is no timetable for an announcement.Finalists: UCLA, TexasPrediction: UCLA (Garrett Callahan)

The four-star running back rushed for 34 touchdowns his senior year and can help improve a Longhorn rush-ing attack that struggled with consistency. This week-end, the No. 8 running back recruit took an official visit to Washington, posing a major threat for the Long-horn’s prospects — partly because of Warren’s family ties to the state. Warren’s fa-ther was a three-time all-star for the Seattle Seahawks.

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National Signing Day shaping up strongSIDELINE

With National Signing Day here, Texas head coach Char-lie Strong’s first full Texas re-cruiting class is shaping up to be top-notch.

247sports currently ranks Texas’ class No. 9, the highese a Texas class has ranked since 2012, and the Longhorns have potential to look even bet-ter on National Signing Day with several top prospects still in play. The Longhorns already have a lot to be ex-cited about and there may be more excitement to come. If Texas can turn its recent re-cruiting momentum into a high-yield National Signing Day, the 2015 class will be a signature one for Strong and the Longhorns.

By Ezra Siegel@SiegelEzra

Lauren UsseryDaily Texan Staff

Recruiting his first full class, head coach Charlie Strong should be excited. He’s got a top-10 class right now with the potential for it to get even bet-ter on National Signing Day with many top recruits in the fold.

Plano West’s five-star run-ning back is ranked as the nation’s No. 2 running back by 247sports. Jamabo showed a blend of speed and power when he accu-mulated more than 2200 yards rushing and 44 rush-ing touchdowns in his se-nior year. Reports surfaced Monday night that Jamabo told Texas coaches he would be going to UCLA, but he quickly sent out a tweet re-futing those claims.

SOSO JAMABO, RBWhen: 8:15 a.m. (ESPNU)

Finalists: Texas, UCLA

Prediction: Texas (Evan Berkowitz)

DAYLON MACK, DTWhen: 11:30 a.m. (ESPNU)

Finalists: Texas, Texas A&M, TCU

Prediction: A&M (Aaron Torres)

DEMARKUS LODGE, WRWhen: 11:00 a.m. (ESPNU)

Finalists: Ole Miss, Texas, Texas A&M

Prediction: A&M (Garrett Callahan)

DOMINIQUE REED, WRWhen: 10:00 a.m.Finalists: Arkansas, Auburn, Arizona State, TexasPrediction: Texas (Ezra Siegel)

Gladewater’s five-star de-fensive tackle joins Jamabo as Texas’ only remaining five-star targets. After com-mitting to Texas A&M in 2013, Mack re-opened his recruiting in Decem-ber. While publicly, Mack says he is still deciding be-tween Texas, Texas A&M and TCU, rumors surfaced Tuesday morning that Mack will be heading back to Texas A&M, according to 247Sports.

Cedar Hill’s four-star pros-pect and No. 6 overall re-ceiver is still in play. Lodge visited Austin in late January and later named the Long-horns as one of his top-three choices, along with Texas A&M and Ole Miss. At 6 feet 2 inches, Lodge is a big, skilled receiver who caught 25 receiving touchdowns in his senior year. He is consid-ered to be college-ready and will compete for immediate playing time at any school.

Lodge isn’t the only receiver the Longhorns are hoping to add on signing day. Dom-inique Reed, three-star ju-nior college prospect, is still in play and maybe even a bit more likely. Reed played at Coffeyville Community College in Coffeyville, Kan-sas where he was a standout.At 6 feet 4 inches, Texas hopes Reed can be a stand-out red-zone target and help improve the depleted Long-horns’ receiving corps.

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Women’s basketball travel to streaking Kansas State.

After losing to TCU, 64–59, the No. 20 Long-horns will return to action with another away game at Kansas State on Wednesday at 6 p.m.

Head coach Karen Aston said she might need to rely more on her older players, who better understand the highs and lows of Big 12 play, such as junior guard Celina Rodrigo — who led the team with seven assists and nine rebounds at TCU.

“I thought Celina Rodri-go played one of her better games from a floor game,” Aston said.

The Longhorns have been in a rough spot with inju-ries, especially since senior forward Nneka Enemkpali suffered a season-ending in-jury against Baylor. Still, the players have maintained a positive attitude.

“We started off with a bang; this team has crazy po-tential,” senior guard Krystle Henderson said.

Some younger players have been stepping up for the Longhorns, including freshman guard Ariel At-kins, who was named Big 12 Freshman of the Week for the second time.

Atkins scored 13 points and managed two steals in the loss against TCU.

It also appears junior cen-ter Imani McGee-Stafford has returned to form, af-ter posting a season-high 22 points.

Kansas State is on a hot streak right now, having won its last two games and leading the Big 12 in scoring defense and steals.

The Longhorns are trend-ing the other way, having lost all four conference away games.

If Texas wants to pick up their first conference road win of the season, they will have to play clean and can’t commit 25 turnovers like they did against TCU.

“We don’t value layups and put backs enough,” As-ton said.

—Courtney Norris

SPORTS BRIEFLY

CHRIS WARREN, RBWhen: 8:00 a.m. (WatchESPN)

Finalists: Texas, Washington

Prediction: Texas (Ezra Siegel)

What a difference a month has made for the Longhorns.

On Jan. 4, hopes were extremely high for a team many expected to compete for a conference crown. They had just defeated Texas Tech 70–61 in Lubbock to bounce back into the top-10, despite sluggish play from sophomore point guard Isa-iah Taylor in the star guard’s first game since breaking his wrist in late Novem-ber. ESPN’s Joe Lunardi projected the Longhorns to be a three seed in the NCAA tournament.

Now Taylor is playing some of his best basketball, but the Longhorns are slip-ping, dropping five of its fi-nal seven January contests to enter the month of February alone in eighth place in the conference standings. Lu-nardi now projects them as an eight seed, and they con-tinue to slide.

After Taylor’s injury, it wasn’t hard to predict the problems the Long-horns would face on of-fense. Junior guard Javan Felix filled in for Taylor to the best of his abilities, but the contrasting skill set between the two guards was apparent — especially when the Longhorns faced serious competition.

In their 12-point loss to No. 1 Kentucky, the Long-horns turned the ball over a season-high 22 times. Texas was within five points of the Wildcats until they pulled away in the final minute, leading fans to wonder what the result would have been with a healthy Taylor in the lineup.

But over the past eight games — the last three in particular — the team has shown that its struggles are beyond anything Taylor can patch up by himself. During the team’s current three-game losing skid, the sophomore has played, arguably, his best basket-ball since coming to the 40 Acres.

Taylor’s 56 points over the stretch tie for the second most he has ever scored over three consecutive games in burnt orange, while his 19 assists over the same span marks the second-highest assist rate of his career.

His 19 dimes include a career-high 10 in Satur-day’s 83–60 loss to Bay-lor. Taylor also scored 16 points for the losing team, marking the first double-double of his collegiate ca-reer. In those three games, Taylor turned the ball over only twice, making for an assist-to-turnover ratio of 9.5:1 — by far the best of his career.

Still, while Taylor is playing at an extremely high level, he is not get-ting to the foul line nearly as often as an 83-percent free throw shooter should. He has attempted just over 28 free throws per 100 field goal attempts since returning from his injury, approximately half as of-ten as he did during his freshman year.

Taylor’s numbers would almost certainly be signifi-cantly better if he got him-self to the charity stripe at the rate he did before his injury. And if he starts to do so, the Longhorns might see the benefit in the win column.

Texas still struggling as Taylor returns to form

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Without Felix, Texas hopes to end skid

After suffering perhaps its most surprising loss of conference play, falling to an unranked Oklahoma State team in Stillwater, Oklahoma, No. 25 Texas will get the opportunity to avenge the loss when they host the Cowboys at the Frank Erwin Cen-ter Wednesday. They’ll have to do it without one of their top weapons off the bench: junior guard Javan Felix.

Felix, who averages 10.2 points per game and leads the Longhorns with 36 3-pointers this sea-son, was ruled out for the game with a concussion. A Texas press release is-sued Tuesday afternoon did not specify when Fe-lix suffered the concus-sion, but he was visibly shaken up after running into a hard screen from Baylor forward Tau-rean Prince on Satur-day that left him on the floor for the entirety of Baylor’s possession.

Without Felix, who has made at least one 3-point-er in 19 of his 20 games

this season, the Long-horns’ already-thin back-court depth will be tested. Sophomore guard Kendal Yancy, who has only seen more than 12 minutes in a game one time since the start of conference play, will likely see an uptick in minutes behind start-ing guards sophomore Isaiah Taylor and junior Demarcus Holland.

The injury comes at a difficult time for Tex-as, when the team is in desperate need of a vic-tory after dropping each of its past three games and five of its past seven to fall to 3–5 in confer-ence play. The Long-horns have struggled to find much rhythm of-fensively throughout the three-game losing skid, and senior forward Jona-than Holmes said he be-lieves they need to start playing stronger defense to make up for their offensive inefficiency.

“Offensively, if you’re not making shots, the ur-gency on defense should be even higher,” Holmes said. “It starts on de-fense, and we have to go from there.”

The Longhorns strug-gled on defense in the second half against Okla-homa State last month, surrendering 41 points after halftime to the Cow-boys. Oklahoma State’s senior forward Le’Bryan Nash and junior guard Phil Forte each scored 20 points in the game to give Texas its fourth consecu-tive loss in Stillwater.

Historically, Texas usu-ally tells a different story when the Cowboys travel to Austin. The Longhorns boast a 26–12 all-time record at home against Oklahoma State, and they’ve won nine of their past 10 matchups against the Cowboys at the Erwin Center.

Still, it will be up to Tex-as to overcome its recent shooting woes–and the loss of Felix–to continue its suc-cess against Oklahoma State and get the season back on track.

“We have to get bet-ter,” Holmes said. “That’s the main thing right now. When we’re not shooting the ball well, we have to find a way to win games.”

The game is scheduled to tip off at 7 p.m.

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Saturday against Baylor and will miss Wednesday’s game against

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For Chi’Lantro owner Jae Kim, five food trucks just weren’t enough.

Kim, whose Korean and Mexican food enterprise al-ready consisted of the five food opened a new restaurant on South Lamar Boulevard in January. Chi’Lantro’s first brick-and-mortar location boasts the brand’s well-known kimchi fries and bulgogi ham-burgers. Kim opened the res-taurant’s doors Jan. 19, after five years of success in the food truck industry.

Kim said he knew he wanted to open a restaurant in a fixed location from the very beginning, but waited to invest until a prime location became available. Kim said the new location’s proximity to downtown and the conve-nience of a close parking lot

made the location appealing.“One of the keys to a suc-

cessful restaurant is to be in a great location where it’s con-venient for people,” Kim said. “So when the previous own-ers of the space reached out to me about taking over this location, I thought it was a great opportunity, and I had the finances.”

According to Kim, while location and parking accessi-bility are important, the most important factor in a restau-rant’s success are the team members — many of whom he worked with prior to open-ing the Chi’Lantro restaurant. He said it’s humbling to work with people who are willing to invest their time and energy in an uncertain endeavor.

“Good people stuck around,” Kim said. “They saw the value in growing the busi-ness together, and you can’t be in this business without good

people around you.” Kim, who always wanted to

expand the Chi’Lantro brand, said he knew he needed a bet-ter business development plan — so he hired Libby Dearing, who has experience managing food trucks and restaurants in Los Angeles. Dearing said working in a restaurant is much easier than working in a food truck. Kim agreed and said that most food truck cooks have tough personalities.

“When you take a restau-rant cook to a food truck, I worry,” Kim said. “But I don’t worry when you take the food truck guy to the restau-rant. [Food truck cooks are] the SEAL Team of the restau-rant industry.”

Although Kim has been endorsed by Food Network and honored with a multitude of culinary awards, he said he feels best when his mom is proud of him.

Armed with his camera, his social media accounts and a stack of $5 bills, grad-uate student Kyle Miller spreads a simple message: Respect others.

This year, Miller launched a charitable photo campaign called “5 Dollar Stories,” cen-tered around homeless peo-ple — primarily those who spend their days on the Drag. Miller pays each homeless person $5, then posts a por-trait with personal quotes on Instagram and Facebook. Miller said he hopes the ex-posure serves as a platform for homeless people, so that their thoughts can be heard.

Miller said after seeing stu-dents go to extreme lengths, such as faking a phone call or text, to ignore homeless people, he realized the two populations did not have basic human connections. Displaced individuals often appreciate a five-minute con-versation more than a $5 bill, Miller noticed.

“It’s not about money; it’s more of getting people to stop and slow down,” Miller said.

“These are people — they should be treated like people.”

Miller decided to pay each of his subjects $5 after much consideration. He felt $1 seemed exploitative, and $10 seemed like a bribe. Miller said he tries to pair the money with things he knows will help the individual such as water, socks and even bananas.

Miller said negative stereo-types toward the homeless are vastly overplayed and that the majority of people he talks to are warm, open individuals who appreciate his efforts to get to know them.

“If you want to take a photo of someone, you have to un-derstand how they are,” Miller said. “I would take somebody’s photo so much differently if I knew them better, so you have to listen to them first.”

Miller said Shoun, a man he photographed, had a particular message of accep-tance that still resonates with him today.

“[Shoun said,] ‘You cannot judge anybody by the way they act or look,’” Miller said. “‘You cannot judge anyone until you truly know them. I’m not judging you because you’re rich — you shouldn’t

judge me because I’m not.’”Caitlin Collins, a free-

lance photographer, met Miller through Instagram and said she joined the project because she felt it addressed a seriously over-looked issue. She said her friends support the project, too, and hope to go out on the streets and help.

“I think that by him doing this, it’s a great way to get a lot of young people in the community involved,” Col-lins said.

Mackenzie Howell runs an event planning business with Collins and accompanies her on outings for 5 Dollar Sto-ries. She said her experience has helped her break out of

her comfort zone. “They just want to be given

a chance,” Howell said. “Ev-eryone’s busy; just walk up and start a conversation. It’s not intimidating after you’ve done it a couple times.”

5 Dollar Stories encour-ages people to not write off homeless individuals or fo-cus on their past. Miller’s

mission statement urges readers to challenge their perspectives on homeless people and learn to be genu-inely accepting.

“This is a platform for peo-ple, that normally wouldn’t be listened to, to actually have their thoughts read, looked at and considered.” Miller said.

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Grad student gives platform to homeless peopleBy Mary Cantrell

@mkcant

Carlo NasisseDaily Texan Staff

Graduate stu-dent Kyle Miller is the founder of a charitable campaign, “5 Dollar Stories,” designed to give a voice to home-less people. Miller pays his homeless subjects $5 in exchange for tak-ing their portraits and posting them to social media.

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Chi’Lantro owner opens new brick-and-mortar restaurantBy Olivia Lewman

@thedailytexan“When my mom’s proud of

me, that’s when I’m proud of myself,” Kim said. “All moms are the same. They like to talk a lot to their friends about their kids, and when she’s proud to talk about me amongst her friends, I feel good.“

Hungry students can find a Chi’Lantro food truck parked at the corner of 24th and Rio Grande streets Monday through Friday. Chi’Lantro

often hosts charity events ben-efiting University organizations, and a truck parks outside of Darrell K Royal-Texas Memo-rial Stadium on every game day.

“We try our best to stay in-volved with the University of Texas because we know every year it’s like a new customer base of new students coming in, building a whole new life for the next four years,” Kim said.

Dearing said opening a

restaurant is wonderful be-cause there are more oppor-tunities for involvement.

“With the food truck, once you hand the food through the window, you don’t really control the experience for the customer,” Dearing said. “The restaurant gives us the oppor-tunity to create a whole hospi-table experience, with music, seating and making sure the customer is comfortable.”

Ellyn SniderDaily Texan Staff

Chi’Lantro owner Jae Kim recently

added a sit-down restaurant to

the chain’s five food trucks. The new location on

South Lamar Boulevard serves

Kim’s signature Korean and

Mexican food, including

kimchi fries.

KAT SAMPSON, LIFE&ARTS EDITOR | @thedailytexan 8Wednesday, February 4, 2015