Attendance at the latest campus carry forum Tuesday, hosted by the three legislative student organizations, had an attendance of fewer than 30 people.

This forum was the third total forum — the second this week — at UT about the cam-pus carry legislation but the first hosted by Student Gov-ernment, Senate of College Councils and Graduate Stu-dent Assembly. The University estimated that 250 people at-tended the first forum, which was held Sept. 30, and 150 at-tended the second, which was held Oct. 5.

SG Vice President Rohit Mandalapu said a reported threat to Austin-area schools Monday, deemed not credible

by UTPD, might have contrib-uted to the size of the crowd. The forum was quickly put to-gether for Safety Week, which might have been one of several reasons for the low attendance, Mandalapu said.

“I think it was just a rushed event, because we wanted to hear everyone out within Safety Week, but people were probably busy and/or still a bit worried from the scare,” Mandalapu said. “It definitely

has nothing to do with stu-dent’s overall views on dis-cussing campus carry as seen from how big the task force forums are.”

Following the discovery of a 4chan post threatening school campuses in Aus-tin, law enforcement agen-cies continued investigat-ing the source of the threat on Tuesday.

UTPD notified students through an email at 10:33 p.m. Monday night that the post, which has since been deleted, was a “non-credible threat.” As of press time, school, local, state and fed-eral agencies were still try-ing to determine who made the threat.

UTPD did not increase the number of officers on cam-pus Tuesday but increased their visibility to ensure a more prominent presence at UT, according to UTPD Chief David Carter.

The threat came days after a Thursday post on 4chan warned students in the Northwest not to go to school Friday. A shooting occurred at Umpqua Com-munity College in Oregon on Friday, resulting in the death of nine people and the shooter, who died by suicide.

Carter said there were sev-eral factors that went into de-termining the credibility of

the Austin threat. “There’s a combination of

things you look at — num-ber one is you look at the specific language, you look at the construction [of the post],” Carter said. “Is there a specific threat or a tar-

get of some kind? Is there something implied?”

Nursing senior Sandra Vega said she appreciated UTPD’s efforts to communi-cate the nature of the threat to the University communi-ty, however, she said she felt

the department should have provided more details about how they determined the threat’s credibility.

“I think they did a great job listening to our con-cerns,” Vega sad. “But … even though they stated the

threat was ‘not credible,’ I still feel like they needed more justification, as in, the threat was not credible because of ‘X’ facts.”

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University President Greg-ory Fenves announced Tues-day that Daniel Jaffe will be the new Vice President of Re-search for the University.

Juan Sanchez, who held the position for the last 16 years, announced he would step down around the time for-mer President William Pow-ers Jr. and other higher faculty members left their positions. Jaffe formerly served as the as-sistant chair of the astronomy

department from 2000 to 2011 and served as the chair of the department until 2015. Jaffe was previously on the board of the Gemini Observatory for the twin telescopes in Hawaii and Chile.

Jaffe said in this position, he looks forward to work-ing and collaborating with colleges across the Univer-sity, such as the College of Natural Sciences.

“The combination of the size and quality of our stu-dent body, the scale and quality of research at UT

and its location in the heart of a large and growing state give it a special importance,” Jaffe said in an email. “UT is both at the forefront of research in many areas and a leader in getting under-graduates — particularly freshman — involved in re-search through programs like CNS’s unique Freshman Research Initiative.”

Jayathi Murthy, chair of the search committee and chair of the mechanical engineering department, said the commit-tee interviewed candidates in

early September for two days after reviewing all the appli-cations they received by the middle of August.

Murthy said Jaffe’s previous work funding major projects stood out to the committee.

“[Jaffe] has helped build the Gemini telescope and other large telescopes,” Mur-thy said. “He also runs the McDonald Observatory, so he is very used to dealing with large funding agencies and bringing in funding.”

Fenves said in a University-wide email that he is excited

to name Jaffe to a new posi-tion and looks forward to the collaborations to come at the University.

“As I discussed in my State of the University address, ex-panding our research capa-bilities and pursuing many opportunities for interdisci-plinary collaboration across the campus is a high prior-ity,” Fenves said. “Dr. Jaffe is especially eager to work with all faculty to create a campus-wide culture of innovation and strong support for the research enterprise.”

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Economics professor emeri-tus Daniel Hamermesh will withdraw from his position next fall, citing concerns with campus carry legislation.

The law will allow the con-cealed carry of guns in campus buildings beginning Aug. 1, 2016. Hamermesh said he is not comfortable with the risk of having a student shoot at him in class. He teaches a course with 475 students enrolled, accord-ing to a letter Hamermesh wrote Sunday to UT President Gregory Fenves.

“With a huge group of stu-dents, my perception is that the risk that a disgruntled student might bring a gun into the class-room and start shooting at me has been substantially enhanced by the concealed-carry law,” Ha-mermesh wrote in the letter.

Hamermesh, who said he is under contract to teach his course in fall 2016 and fall 2017, said he will complete the semes-ter at UT and will teach at the University of Sydney next fall.

Hamermesh said he thinks the legislation will impact the University’s ability to draw new faculty and staff to work at UT.

“My guess is somebody thinking about coming to Tex-as is going to think twice about being a professor here,” Hamer-mesh said. “It’s going to make it more difficult for Texas to com-pete in the market for faculty.”

Hamermesh has taught at several universities since 1969, and his research has been pub-lished in more than 100 schol-arly journals, according to the Economics Department.

Megan Burke, a psychology sophomore in Hamermesh’s class, said she thinks UT will lose a great professor in Ha-mermesh because of the new campus carry policy.

“I am really sad that professor Hamermesh will be leaving UT,”

As the U.S. Supreme Court prepares to hear the Fisher v. UT case for a second time, the NAACP is conducting a question-naire with UT’s Black Stu-dent Alliance to gather in-formation for a brief which it will file in the case.

Liliana Zaragoza, fel-low for the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, said attorneys from the LDF met with the Black Student Alliance on Monday and distributed a questionnaire to the group. Information requested in this questionnaire con-sists of personal back-ground, such as a student’s

experience attending their high school and UT, but more specifically, what they have experienced with race and diversity at UT.

“The NAACP Legal De-fense and Educational Fund (LDF) has represented the Black Student Alliance at UT Austin (BSA) and Black Ex-Students of Texas (BEST) as amicus curiae or ‘friend of the court’ in the Fisher litigation for sev-eral years,” Zaragoza said in an email. “Attorneys from LDF met with BSA members to discuss the litigation yesterday.”

Abigail Fisher, a white applicant who was de-nied admission to UT in

At the forum, Steve Goode, UT law professor and chair of the working group, said he has seen progress in the public’s understanding of the law.

“I think the message that it is not an open carry law is start-ing to come through … so to that extent, I think people are starting to understand what the law does and what it doesn’t do,” Goode said. “There is still — on all sides of this issue — a great deal of emotion, and that’s quite understandable. This is a big issue.”

Chaz Aniram, an interna-tional nutrition senior who spoke at the forum, said she was looking forward to hear-ing insight on other stu-dents’ opinions, but said she was disappointed at the lack of attendance.

“I finally had a window where I could attend and lis-ten to what I thought would be a majority of perspectives, but I guess I just listened to a few perspectives,” Aniram said.

“I feel like we aren’t a student body of well-regulated militia, so we should not be carrying guns, and I would have liked to see more students give out their opinion on the matter.”

Aniram found out about the event through a Facebook group and said she thinks so few people showed up because the of a lack of publicity.

Neuroscience senior Mi-chael Brown said he attended the previous two forums and thinks the regulation of guns is useless in a world where tech-nology could make it easier for people to have access to guns. Brown said he supports the leg-islation because he thinks it will serve as a deterrent.

“I think that the regulation is going to be fruitless — it’s going to be outmoded by technology,” Brown said. “In the future, you’ll be able to just press a button and a gun will be made before your eyes in a matter of hours or less. I would like to be able to protect myself from these people who can make guns at the click of a button.”

notifying campus if a threat is credible, Carter said in an email to UT employees.

“If there is no credible threat, notifying campus would cause unnecessary alarm and poten-tially reduce community mem-bers’ level of vigilance when a real threat emerges,” Carter said in the email.

Law student Alec Puente said he felt UTPD was too quick to dismiss students’ concerns. Although Puente said he went to class, he knew of some people who did not attend because of the threat.

“You do think twice before going in to the bigger areas on campus,” Puente said. “I talk-ed to some friends who said they were going to avoid the PCL or the SAC.”

Several threats with almost

identical language to the Aus-tin threat have been sent out regarding other cities in the U.S., Joseph Chacon, com-mander of the Austin Police Department’s intelligence division, said at a press con-ference. Because of the post’s vague language and resem-blance to other recent threats, Chacon said he thinks stu-dents should have felt safe go-ing to school.

“I think that it’s safe to go to school,” Chacon said. “Having said that, could there be a lone wolf actor who has bad intent? I think that’s a possibility … [People] just have to have that awareness and be ready for it.”

UTPD Officer William Pieper said the campus police department has the training and equipment necessary to effectively neutralize an active shooter situation on campus.

“All of our cars are equipped

with active-shooter gear, in-cluding ballistic vests that will take rifle rounds, ballistic hel-mets that will take rifle rounds and our cars all have shotgun rifles,” Pieper said.

According to Pieper, all UTPD officers complete the Advanced Law Enforcement Rapid Response Training program, or ALERRT, a pro-gram operated by Texas State University that teaches law en-forcement officers time-tested methods to defuse active-shooter situations as quickly as possible, while ensuring the safety of nearby civilians.

Pieper said that UTPD of-ficers would act in accordance with their training in the AL-ERRT program if an active-shooter situation was con-firmed on campus. In minutes, UTPD officers would form teams and make their way into the building to look for

the shooter. In the meantime, dispatchers would activate the emergency broadcast system to urge the University community to stay away from the building the shooter is located in and lock themselves into any other building on campus.

This follows a Sunday 4chan post threatening Phil-adelphia-area schools that led to increased police pres-ence at some Philadelphia universities Monday. In what sources say was an unrelated incident, a suspect was ap-prehended and placed in po-lice custody Tuesday after an armed man pulled a gun on a student at the Community College of Philadelphia. No shots were fired, and no inju-ries were reported.

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foundation for developing new approaches to closing school readiness and achieve-ment gaps in science, technol-ogy, engineering and math fields and maximizing all chil-dren’s engagement and success in science.”

Anthony Petrosino, associ-ate professor and STEM gradu-ate advisor in the College of Education, said he thinks the impact of Booth’s research will depend entirely on educational policy makers in America.

“The degree to whether her work impacts the way in which America treats education in STEM will be dependent on to

what degree politicians under-stand and apply her research once it is concluded and re-ported,” Petrosino said. “Unfor-tunately, there is a chasm that exists between research in the learning sciences and its imple-mentation in classrooms.”

Booth said she hopes her research will pave the way for education innovations in the

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about the gaps in school readi-ness that persist in our country,” Booth said. “My hope is that by understanding the origins and outcomes associated with foundational skills, we will gain insight into best practices for early educational interventions that could help close these gaps.”

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Burke said. “Hamermesh is a great professor with a lot of experience and is highly respected in his community, so it is a shame that he will be leaving UT. I do agree with his reasoning to leave, because campus carry does put him at a higher risk, so it makes sense that he would teach at a ‘safer’ university.

University spokesperson Gary Susswein said the University is continuing to work with a campus carry working group to deter-mine how to implement the law on campus, includ-ing determining possible locations of gun-free zones.

“We understand the con-cerns that Dr. Hamermesh and other faculty members have raised about their class-room and ask that the cam-pus community continue to work with University leader-ship in developing policies for implementing this new state law,” Susswein said.

nated against because of the University’s race-con-scious admissions policy. As part of the holistic re-view for students not in the top ten percent, any “special circumstances,” which include race and ethnicity, are considered in admissions.

The Supreme Court first heard the case in 2012 and then sent it back to the 5th Circuit Courts of Appeals. The 5th Circuit ruled in UT’s favor, say-ing the University passed legal standings. Fisher asked the Supreme Court in

February that her case be heard again.

Monique Lin-Luse, special counsel to the NAACP, said she attend-ed the Black Student Al-liance meeting Monday to distribute a question-naire and collect infor-mation from the group. This questionnaire is not open to the other Afri-can-American students on campus.

David McDonald Jr., former president of the Black Student Alliance, said this information gathered will be includ-ed in the brief filed in this case.

“The questionnaire will be used as a quali-tative analysis of the ex-periences of students of color to show race and a lack of diversity impacts their college experience,” McDonald, an applied learning and develop-ment and African and African diaspora studies senior, said.

After primarily researching rodents, Boris Zemelman and his research teams can now begin studying how neurons communicate in mammals with larger brains that are more closely related to humans.

Zemelman, an assistant pro-fessor of neuroscience, is a part of the three research teams that were recently awarded a total of $4 million in grants from the National Institutes of Health. The three teams are all looking to expand the use of optogenet-ics — using light to manipulate neurons in animals — as well the use of other tools.

“The point is to do some-thing in an intact brain in a liv-ing animal or patient, and that’s really hard,” Zemelman said. “The brain is really complicated, and without all these tricks, we wouldn’t be able to very much at all. … This allows us to get some kind of control over the thing.”

The three grants are a part of the Brain Research through Advancing Innovative

Neurotechnologies Initia-tive, which President Barack Obama launched in Sep-tember 2014 to develop new techniques for mapping the brain.

“The new funding funds projects that are a little more higher risk and have to do with understanding the brain at a cir-cuit level,” Nicholas Priebe, one of Zemelman’s colleagues, said.

Priebe leads one of the re-search teams aiming to expand the use of optogenetics to pri-mates with help from viruses. The second team will use a drug rather than light to activate neu-rons, and the third will chemi-cally tag neurons, enabling re-searchers to look at memories.

Zemelman works with col-leagues in the Department of Neuroscience, Department of Molecular Biosciences and Chemistry Department.

Zemelman received another grant — for developing research tools for the human brain — in September for his research with optogenetics from the UT System BRAIN Initiative. Zemelman said the initial grant paved the

way for the NIH grants his teams were awarded.

Tom Jacobs, chairman of the UT System BRAIN review committee, said that the next round of seed grant recipients will be announced in early 2016, with some possibly going to-ward past applicants.

“[We’re] hoping that some of the ideas that we heard in the first competition will rise to the top and can fund it also,” Jacobs said. “That’s another opportu-nity … to allow scientists within UT to further compete for these funds by bringing their best ideas forward.”

Beginning in June 2016, Amy Booth, a communication sciences and disorders profes-sor, will begin data collection for a study linking early child-hood development to success in long-term STEM education.

Booth’s research study is funded by a $1.69 million grant from the National Sci-ence Foundation. The research, which is her fifth federally-funded study, will seek to ex-amine preschooler’s interests in science-related activities and whether this interest is predictive of children’s interest in science later in life. The re-search will also examine how parent-child interactions relate to a child’s enthusiasm toward

these activities.“The parent-child relation-

ship is so important to explore in this setting,” Sarah Murphy, a human development and fam-ily sciences graduate student, said. “It’s the first relationship in your life and is foundational for multiple aspects of childhood development.”

Over the course of five years, Booth is budgeted to examine 150 children, both in cam-pus laboratories and at The Thinkery children’s museum in Austin. Booth said she hopes to gain insight into why the United States has a lower num-ber of graduates in the field of science, technology, engineer-ing and mathematics — or STEM — in comparison with other countries.

“The goal of this project is

to explore the origins of scien-tific literacy by detailing input that might shape children’s interests in learning about the world,” Booth said. “The hope is that insights gained from this work will lay the

University Health Servic-es will provide billing servic-es and will credential health providers for the School of Nursing’s Family Well-ness Center and Children’s Wellness Center beginning next month.

The new agreement fol-lows the expiration of the nursing school’s contract with CommUnityCare, an organization that previously provided these services. UHS will handle these ser-vices at a lower cost to the nursing school, UHS direc-tor Jamie Shutter said.

“The percentage we take from the money that we collect from the insurance companies is much less than they would be able to find from a community vendor,” Shutter said. “If they tried to work with anyone in the community, it would be a profit-generating entity, and they charge quite a bit more for these services.”

The partnership will allow the nursing students and volunteers to focus on providing care for under-served populations and lessen the school’s financial burden, Alexa Stuifbergen, dean of UT’s School of Nurs-ing said.

“It is very complex work to get reimbursement from Medicaid and private in-surers, so we are paying the UHS staff who are already experts in that kind of work,” Stuifbergen said. “We are de-lighted to have the opportu-nity to work with them in ways that will help our stu-dents get the best hands-on education and provide care to those in need through our centers. We wouldn’t have a way to run our clinic with-out someone to help pay the bills.”

Nursing junior Megan Allen said the Wellness Centers are great resources for affordable health care in the Austin area and also provide clinical experi-ence for students in the

nursing school.“Community Wellness

Centers are really important both for the community and nursing students,” Allen said. “They provide a safe way for people of all backgrounds to get the care that they need and also provide the nursing students with an opportuni-ty to learn more about what they’ll be doing once they enter the job force.”

UHS and the School of Nursing have partnered pre-viously. UHS often allows nursing students to be put in clinical placements with UHS physicians to meet a consulting relationship re-quirement necessary for graduation. The relationship has existed for a decade and continues to make positive change, Shutter said.

“It is really helping ad-vance the educational mis-sion of the University to be able to partner with them in this way,” Shutter said. “Now we want to help them fulfill the mission of their clinics.”

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HORNS UP, HORNS DOWN

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HORNS DOWN: CHARLIE STRONG’S SEASON

HORNS UP: NO PRESSURE

HORNS DOWN: CAMPUS ON EDGE

After three straight losses, the Longhorns have little to lose this weekend. OU is heavily favored, but a loss to a weak UT team could torpedo their playoff hopes. At the least, we’ll be able to claim moral high ground. While Strong kicks players embroiled in sexual assault cases off the team, OU welcomed linebacker Frank Shannon back, despite a panel recommending his expulsion for Title IX violations.

A few days before the OU game, some students will have to do extra homework to clear up their weekend schedules. A number of professors canceled class and some students stayed home because of a threatening post on Internet forum 4Chan that was similar to one made prior to the recent Oregon shooting. Hopefully no one will have to make up work again anytime soon, due to threats UTPD described as “not credible.”

In response to the abysmal 50-7 loss against TCU, Charlie Strong told reporters he experienced his “worst day as a head coach.” The Longhorns haven’t had a start this bad since 1938, and there is speculation that this could be Strong’s last season. But be-fore any decision is made, let’s not forget the critical changes Strong has made — spe-cifically his no-tolerance policy concerning domestic abuse and academic integrity.

College students are notorious for keeping their heads down, scrolling through a news feed while walking to class or waiting on a profes-sor. In fact, approximately 89 percent of people ages 18–29 are active on social media. Given this prevalence, the implications of what goes viral on such websites needs to be taken into consider-ation, especially in the case of gun violence.

Recently, videos of people being shot and killed have gone viral on social media. Death is not a concept humans are naturally comfortable with, but when videos of the process of death are easily found online, they can desensitize people to dying and violence.

Walter Scott’s tragic shooting is one of the most prevalent examples of socialized deaths. Video of Scott being shot to death by police was posted on Twitter in an effort to promote awareness of improper protocol used by po-lice. Many activist Twitter accounts retweeted the video, hoping to stir enough emotion in the general public to start an outcry.

These videos are necessary for legal actions but shouldn’t be posted on a public website. The threat of desensitization with regards to the

subject could be detrimental to the public. The threat of the normalization of shootings could eventually become ingrained in our culture.

In that respect, witnessing repeated deaths online can have serious consequences, es-pecially for a generation of digital natives. That’s what makes campus carry so danger-ous — it would increase the densitization of guns and violence that arrive on a college campus.

Plan II and business freshman Arjun Talpal-likar said he feels campus carry is irrational, given the way people have proven to be with guns.

“When you empower people to be so blatant and to respect those kind of deadly weapons less, you are always going to have more prob-lems,” Talpallikar said. “It’s a question of how people treat their guns.”

Similarly, Bryan Jones, a government profes-sor and member of Gun-Free UT, is against cam-pus carry. Jones was teaching at another college when a gun fell out of one of his student’s back-packs — who worked as a police officer— befor-ing having to dismiss his class. The class was not aware of the student’s occupation, but after Jones explained the circumstances, his students contin-ued with discussion. This shows the intimidation factor guns possess in a university community that partakes in controversial conversations.

“I think it will intimidate people in classes,” Jones said. “Professors may or may not be intimi-dated, but I know some students will.”

Ultimately, campus carry is unethical

from a generational standpoint. Restrictions on guns need to be tailored to the audience they will affect.

Vernon is a PACE freshman from Houston.

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Bernie Sanders, Democratic candidate and 24-year Congress veteran, has been rapidly climbing the polls the last few months, out-performing Hillary Clinton, current frontrun-ner and former Secretary of State, in general election polls in Iowa and New Hampshire. Only a few months ago, most media outlets believed Sanders had virtually no chance of winning the primaries, but his recent surge has been proving those critics wrong.

This rise is happening despite the fact he has much less access to funding than other candidates because of his refusal to accept money from super PACs, which are usually funded by billionaires who want to influence a candidate with large donations.

Sanders has become so popular, because he brings authenticity to American politics.

If Sanders really had a choice, he would likely have run as a third-party candidate, since he ran as an Independent in Congress. However, because of the nature of our politi-cal system, doing so would hurt his campaign.

Government professor David Prindle said the U.S. voting system undercuts the potential for third-party voices to be heard.

“We have this system that is very stable, but we also have this system that denies a lot of people representation because there’s only two [major] parties,” Prindle said.

But popular dissent against the two-party system has been growing for too long for the system to remain unchanged. Seventy-five percent of Americans see widespread corrup-tion in the government — 8 percent higher

than in 2007 — and Congress’ approval rat-ings remain at an all-time low.

Much of this can be traced to the fact that many elections are more or less “bought” by special interests from super PACs — the exact entities Sanders does not take money from. Young people support Bernie Sanders in large proportions because his campaign runs against the trend of candidates who are dis-tant, corrupt and beholden to special interests.

Bernie is essentially a third-party candidate running under the Democratic banner. His image and campaigning techniques contrast almost as much with Clinton as they do with the Republican candidates. He is trying to change the system.

Law student Tyler Somes, who runs the UT Students for Bernie Sanders Facebook page, said Sanders’ firm stance and refusal to take super PAC money shows he is not just another political pawn.

“Actions speak louder than words be-cause they show authenticity, which is what young voters are looking for in a candidate,” Somes said.

As election season rolls around, we will see the result of the ability to vote reaching an en-tirely new generation that has grown up in a political system characterized by corruption and incompetence. For the first time, they can help change the system.

When voting this upcoming election sea-son, people should consider how much they value authenticity and honesty in a candidate. Sanders’s lack of ties to corporations makes him appealing to voters, regardless of affilia-tion, who simply want an authentic candidate.

Govil is a computer science freshman from Austin.

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Honesty, transparency fuel Sanders campaign

Mainstream media must hold politicians accountable

In the most recent Republican presi-dential debate, former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina, by most measures, did well. She answered lots of questions, battled head-to-head with Donald Trump and even made an emotional plea about a charged issue. Unfortunately, in that last case, she relied on prevarication to make that plea, regarding supposed videos that she claimed showed Planned Parenthood members murdering babies following their birth.

“Watch a fully formed fetus on the table, its heart beating, its legs kicking, while someone says, ‘We have to keep it alive to harvest its brain,’” Fiorina said mid-debate.

It’s a horrifying image. Fiorina chal-lenged President Barack Obama and for-mer Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to watch the video. The problem is that the video she describes doesn’t exist. She just

makes those details up. Fact-checkers were quick to jump on her mendaciousness, but other parts of the media were comparably feckless. If she would have claimed Trump had ordered the murder of Jimmy Hoffa, there would have been just as much truth in the assertion.

Closer to home, the same reliance on lies has permeated the referendum elec-tion over the Houston Equal Rights Or-dinance (HERO). It codifies existing pro-tections — such as on the basis of race or religion — into local law, and it also ex-tends protections to the LGBT population.

Given that neither the state of Texas nor the federal government does this, this is where the controversy lies.

Ben Hall, a former Houston city attor-ney and a current mayoral candidate, has largely focused his campaign on pushing a pernicious myth intended to stir up fears about HERO — that the law will allow men to go into women’s restrooms.

“It’s a dangerous ordinance that will allow you, me or anyone else, to self-identify themselves as a female at any time and walk into a ladies bathroom or locker room, and it’s just the wrong drafting of the ordinance,” Hall said in a recent interview.

Supposedly, this is due to the law’s pro-tections of transgender individuals. But the law contains absolutely no wording regarding restrooms. Hall — and HERO’s other detractors — simply fabricate when they continue pushing this harmful talk-ing point.

“The bathroom myth is not based in fact, and there have not been any record-ed incidents to the contrary in any of the

200-plus American and Texas cities with these protections in place,” said Maverick Welsh, the president of the Houston LGBT Caucus. “Our opponents are lying to vot-ers in the hopes that they will buy their BS that this local remedy for discrimination will somehow harm people.”

Similarly, the media is going along for the ride without asking the right ques-tions often enough. The local Fox affili-ate in Houston has been especially bad about repeating whatever candidates say without any verification. If a candidate for mayor had alleged Trump had mur-dered Jimmy Hoffa, every quote would be appended with a mandatory editor’s note that acknowledges the pontification is not grounded in reality. At a certain level, those pushing these myths should be treated the same.

The press is supposed to serve as a watchdog for the public, which ensures a fair account of the truth is presented. Ly-ing isn’t fair for anyone.

Horwitz is a government senior from Houston.

By Noah M. HorwitzDaily Texan Columnist

@nwhorwitz The press is supposed to serve as a watchdog for the public, which ensures a fair account of the truth is presented. Lying isn’t fair for anyone.

define success, like making friendships or taking care of yourself while balancing other commitments.”

This fixation on results has led to an increasingly worri-some trend on college cam-puses. According to a 2014 national survey, 94 percent of college counseling centers have reported an increase in the number of clients with se-vere psychological problems over a two-year period.

Many universities have recognized the pressure to succeed as a primary con-tributer to this trend. UT’s CMHC is planning to release an app in spring 2016 that al-lows students to share their

experiences with failure and rejection. While the app’s details are still largely under wraps, CMHC also offers dis-cussion groups for students struggling to cope with set-backs, as well as a workshop promoting resilience called “Bouncing Back.”

Beyond the classroom, many students also struggle to cope with getting turned down by an organization for the first time. One undeclared sophomore, who requested her name not be used, was a high school track athlete and senior class president. Her easy smile and friendly dis-position made joining various groups easy. So when a soror-ity rejected her earlier this se-mester, it crushed her.

“Rushing can be a

serious strain on you,” she said. “You’re being judged for how you look sometimes — who you are and where you come from.”

She said the rejection felt personal, and the possibility of joining other exclusive organi-zations seemed out of reach.

“It made me feel not good enough,” she said. “Not that I did anything wrong but that I just wasn’t enough.”

Elana Bizer, an integrated health counselor at CMHC, said one of the keys to dealing with failure and rejection in a healthy manner is adopting a growth mindset.

“People with growth mind-sets view their ability to do something as flexible,” Bizer said. “Maybe they’re not the most naturally talented right

when they pick up a tennis racket, but they think that if they work hard, get coaching and stick with it, they can be just as good as a naturally tal-ented person. They don’t give up after failing to hit the ball a few times.”

Bizer said that along with adopting this attitude, its im-portant to normalize failure while relying on friends and family for support.

“We’re always hearing about these phenomenal successes in the media,” Bizer said. “But there’s not so much atten-tion being put on failure. It’s important to normalize set-backs, to talk about them with our support groups. When it comes to these situations, it’s important to treat yourself as you would treat a friend.”

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Malala Yousafzai’s story cap-tivated the world in 2012, when the Taliban shot her in the head as punishment for speaking out against the ban on female edu-cation. Since her recovery, she’s become a global leader in edu-cation equality.

In 2014, Malala became the youngest-ever Nobel Peace Prize laureate at 17 years old. Director Davis Guggenheim’s documentary, “He Named Me Malala,” paints a personal, fam-ily-oriented picture of teenage Malala’s post-recovery world. The documentary begins with referencees to the shooting but centers on her present life in England. The film cuts back and forth between Malala’s cur-rent experiences as a traveling activist and student and her memories of growing up in the Swat Valley of Pakistan.

Guggenheim focuses con-siderably on Malala’s relation-ship with her parents and brothers, aiming to present a complete picture of the teen ac-tivist’s home life and upbring-ing. He succeeds in capturing

Malala’s own personal life jour-ney and its relation to her fam-ily, rather than the specifics of her global education initiatives and political ideologies.

The director sensitively de-picts the struggle involved with the Yousafzai family’s reloca-tion to England after Malala’s shooting. Guggenheim ex-plores the family’s discomfort in their new home and Malala’s wishes to one day return to the Swat Valley.

To balance these somber sequences, the film lightly pres-ents Malala as a teenage girl who struggles with bad grades and enjoys looking at pictures of Brad Pitt and Roger Federer.

Guggenheim rarely asks probing questions about the Taliban or Malala’s personal views. However, asking difficult questions — to which Malala has provided fiery, eloquent responses in past interviews — could have brought more depth and relevance to the film’s content.

Malala’s father Ziauddin Yousafzai presents much of the commentary and reveals explanations of his own inter-nal conflicts in weighing the

potential risks put on his family. An outspoken political activist and teacher himself, Yousafzai allowed Malala to make her own decision in publicly speak-ing out against the Taliban’s ban on female education while still living in Pakistan.

Guggenheim frequently utilizes extended animated sequences, hand-drawn by animator Jason Carpenter, to visually portray the stories told by Malala and her father. The repeated symbols of a pink backpack and swirling text ap-pear throughout the animated sequences to visualize the em-phasized themes of female edu-cation and the power of speech. At times, the storybook-style animations present overly idealized versions of Malala’s youth and the family’s history.

Other visual elements used during voice-over retellings — such as blurred, recreated hos-pital scenes and assorted stills of Pakistani schoolgirls — also fell short. These weaker visu-als were carried along only by Malala and Ziauddin’s engag-ing audio, as well as the inter-spersed real-life videos from the events.

The film presents the signifi-cance behind Malala’s naming after Malalai of Maiwand, a famous warrior woman who died encouraging retreating troops to return bravely to battle. The parallels between Malala and the female warrior present her life as practically

predetermined by her father’s naming. Both Malala and Zi-auddin conclude that her life as a hero and activist was not predestined but rather a series of ongoing personal choices.

“He named me Malala,” Ma-lala said. “But he didn’t make me Malala. This is my life, and

I’m going to live it.”While at times lacking in

visual poignance and hard-hit-ting content, “He Named Me Malala” presents an intimate picture of an astonishing young woman and the family bonds that support her influential life journey.

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Courtesy of Fox Searchlight PicturesDirector Davis Guggenheim tells the story of education equality activist Malala Yousafzai in his new documentary “He Named Me Malala.”

slower than ever. By capping each song off with Clarke’s incredibly desperate vocals, each song becomes its own miniature symphony.

At times, deciphering Clarke’s lyrics can be difficult, not only because they’re hard to comprehend, but they’re also intentionally vague. Dur-ing the album’s final track, “Gifts for the Earth,” Clarke sings, “I imagine the gracious, benevolent ritual of death. Grave and porcelain, with baby blue lips and pale pink eyes, descending toward me … I imagine the end.”

Without an understand-ing of the lyrics, the song’s instruments become critical

for each track. New Bermuda never slips up in its instru-mentals, keeping its dreami-ness throughout the entire listening experience.

Many metal fans won’t enjoy New Bermuda’s con-stantly changing sound and variety of influences, but these elements make the project an invigorating listen.

Topping Sunbather’s suc-cess was a difficult task, but Deafheaven managed to find an even fresher sound on their third album. It might not be as hardcore as many die-hard black metal fans might like, but the slower moments on New Bermuda allow Deafheaven to convey a multitude of emo-tions, making this album a must-listen for fans of almost any genre.

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Pitcher looks to rebound from injuryJunior pitcher Morgan Coo-

per’s elbow no longer sears with the pain he felt for so long, Now, he just awaits his return to the mound.

“I don’t care what they ask me to do,” Cooper said. “I could be a set-up guy for one hitter a weekend — that’s fine with me. Whatever coaches want me to do, that’s what I’ll do. I just want to pitch again.”

Coming off Tommy John surgery — an operation to re-pair a damaged ligament in the elbow — last November, Cooper has no qualms about coming back at less than full strength. The pitcher, whom head coach Augie Garrido calls “one of the most important guys on our staff,” simply wants to toe the mound for his team.

“I’m just excited to be back in the swing of things,” Cooper said. “Last year, having to watch was tough. Even just practice, the things other guys don’t like to do. I’m happy just to be able to throw.”

Hopes were high for Coo-per’s sophomore campaign, following an outstanding fresh-man year in which he went 4-2 with a 2.98 ERA. But Cooper’s elbow had other ideas.

Will Carroll, injury expert and author of “Saving the Pitcher,” explained why pitch-ers must often undergo Tom-my John surgery.

“The amount of pitches, over time, wear and fray the ten-don until finally, often without warning, the ulnar collateral ligament fails,” Carroll said.

The procedure is routine at this point and has a recovery time of nine to 12 months, ac-cording to Carroll.

No matter the time it takes, Longhorn coaches and play-ers alike want to see Cooper healthy. Sophomore Connor Mayes has no worries about his fellow pitcher’s recovery.

“[Cooper] is gonna be huge,” Mayes said. “I had the chance to watch him my senior year, when I came from Lake Travis. Even when he wasn’t able to play last year — he’s a

great leader.”In the spring, Cooper

watched Mayes and the rest of the roster fall short of expecta-tions, exiting the NCAA tour-naent in the first weekend to cap off a 30-27 season.

“There were times last year where I was really down,” Coo-per said. “The team would go on the road, and I’m at home wishing I were with them. It was really hard. I had to watch them struggle and couldn’t do anything about it.”

After sitting out last season,

Cooper has reason to smile, Garrido said.

“His recovery is coming very well,” Garrido said. “He’s throwing 35-pitch bullpen sessions. We’re certainly not rushing him. He won’t pitch to batters until January, but he’s a big part of where we’re going as a team.”

At this point in his recovery, the toughest part for Cooper is balancing his competitive nature with the regimen that trainers recommend.

“In my second or third

bullpen session, I wanted to see how hard I could gun it,” Cooper said. “Sure enough, I couldn’t throw for anoth-er week with how sore my arm was.”

In his locker, Cooper dis-plays the words “DON’T OVERDO IT” front and cen-ter. He needs that constant reminder that continued suc-cess requires staying within his limits.

As long as he doesn’t overdo it, Cooper should find plenty of success on the mound in 2016.

By Bradley Maddox@MaddoxOnSports

Rachel Zein | Daily Texan StaffJunior pitcher Morgan Cooper will return to Texas baseball following Tommy John surgery. Cooper underwent the surgery last November, causing him to miss the 2015 season. As a freshman, he went 4-2 with a 2.98 ERA in 2014.

VOLLEYBALL

No. 2 Texas will hit the road again Wednesday to face unranked Baylor in a Big 12 Conference matchup.

The Longhorns (13-1, 3-0 Big 12) approach this match with confidence following another undefeated week, but senior middle blocker Molly McCage said they aren’t tak-ing the Bears (12-4, 1-2 Big 12) lightly.

“They have a lot of strong seniors and great defense,” McCage said. “They’ve im-proved, [and] I’m excited to play someone who can put up a good block and good de-fense against us.”

The Bears boast a team to-tal of 151.5 blocks, led by ju-nior middle blocker Tola Iti-ola’s 64. Five other Bears join Itiola with at least 30 blocks, contributing to Baylor’s 2.4 blocks per set average, just behind Texas’ 2.6 average.

The Longhorns will try to counter the Bears defense with their ok hitters. Mc-Cage, senior outside hitter Amy Neal, junior middle blocker Chiaka Ogbogu and freshman outside hit-ter Yaasmeen Bedart-Ghani have all been swinging well and will play key roles in the match.

“We’re pretty efficient,” head coach Jerritt Elliott said. “We have so many dif-ferent weapons, we can open up some holes in their block and be able to score at an efficient rate.”

Bedart-Ghani earned Co-Big 12 Rookie of the Week honors this week for her per-formance in Texas’ sweeps over West Virginia and Iowa State. In both games she notched a career-high seven kills, bringing her season to-tal to 26 with a .349 hitting percentage. Neal leads the Longhorns with 192 kills, fol-lowed by Ogbogu’s 136 and

McCage’s 106.Baylor has a strong attack

of its own. Sophomore out-side hitter Katie Staiger leads the Bears with 177 kills, fol-lowed closely by freshman middle blocker Shelly Fan-ning’s 174 and senior outside hitter Andie Malloy’s 144.

Both teams bring solid defenses led by two young liberos. Baylor’s sophomore

libero Jana Brusek has a team-high 202 digs and is aided by three teammates who boast 100-plus digs apiece. Texas’ sophomore li-bero Cat McCoy has a team-high 217 digs.

Despite Baylor’s losing conference record, this match will prove tough for the Long-horns. The Bears are cur-rently 7-0 at home and boast

an experienced roster. Texas, however, is playing some of its best volleyball of the sea-son and holds a 75-2 all-time series record over Baylor.

“[The Longhorns] have a good demeanor about them right now,” Elliott said. “Now we have to go on the road at Baylor, which has never been easy for us. We’ll take it one match at a time.”

Freshman quarterback Jerrod Heard said at Tues-day’s press conference that he’s cherishing the op-portunity to play against No. 10 Oklahoma Soon-ers. He said he loves the two fan bases’ passion and the energy, but he wants to quiet Sooner fans early and often.

“I love it when OU fans are screaming at me, curs-ing me, calling me names,” Heard said. “I love that be-cause I feed off it. When that ball snaps, I just play and react to the defense. When we score, it’s going to be a party in the end zone. It will be a lot of fun.”

The matchup will mark Heard’s first Red River Ri-valry appearance. Growing up in North Texas, he paid close attention to the rival-

ry. Now, he looks to make his mark on the historic matchup.

“[My favorite moment] was two years ago, when Case McCoy beat OU, and he threw that deep ball to Mike Davis, and the crowd erupted,” Heard said. “When I look back at that, that’s what I want to do.”

Norvell set to face former team

After spending seven seasons coaching at Okla-homa, play-caller Jay Nor-vell gets his first chance to coach on the other side of the Red River Rivalry.

“It’s my favorite game,” Norvell said. “It’s just unique. It’s one of the rea-sons I wanted to be here at Texas. I love this game, [and] I wanted to stay in this game.”

Norvell downplayed his extra motivation in facing

his former team. However, his passion comes out dur-ing practice, and his team is taking notice.

“We feed off [Norvell],” Heard said. “Today at prac-tice was one of our most amped-up practices. … I think this is the week that we are amped up and anx-ious, and we are out there in practice working hard.”

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Hossler dominates at Collegiate Invitational

Men’s golf wrapped up its second tournament of the season yesterday at the Nike Golf Collegiate Invitational in Portland, Oregon, at Pumpkin Ridge Golf Club.

The Longhorns posted the lowest total of the fi-nal round, 13-under par, to tie Stanford at 26-un-der par for fourth of 15 teams.

Fresh off an appear-ance at the Walker Cup last month, junior Beau Hossler opened his sea-son and blew away the field with scores of 68, 65 and 64. He won the tour-nament by six shots while posting a career-low 197, good for 18-under par. Hossler’s 8-under 64 and 7-under 65 mark the two lowest rounds of his ca-reer at Texas.

“Beau played outstand-ing golf on days two and three,” head coach John Fields said. “Scores of 65 and 64 at the historic Witch Course at Pump-kin Ridge is simply out-standing. Our team will continue to get better, and an individual victory like Beau’s makes us all hun-gry for success.”

Sophomore Scottie Scheffler finished in a tie for 39th at even par with scores of 69, 74 and 72. Junior Kalena Preus also made his first start of the season and finished in a tie for 58th at 6-over with scores of 75, 75 and 71.

Wake Forest won the tournament at 37-under par, three shots clear of USC. Oklahoma finished tied for seventh at 11-un-der, and TCU finished in ninth at 8-under to round out the Big 12.

Texas heads to Atlanta, Georgia, on Oct. 16–18 for the U.S. Collegiate Championship at The Cook Golf Club of Georgia. —Trenton Daeschner

SPORTS BRIEFLY

When that ball snaps, I just play and react to the defense. When we score, it’s going to be a party in the end zone. It will be a lot of fun.

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In the world of black metal music, fans like their songs to roll past at mind-numbing speed. Yet subgenres such as blackgaze, which uses slower moments to juxtapose distorted guitars and shrieking sing-ers, are challenging the norm. Black metal group Deafheaven is the most divisive act of the genre, although fans often dis-miss it because it deviates from the genre standard. The group’s most recent LP New Bermuda, released Friday, strays even further from the norm than its prior releases.

The five-piece band from San Francisco has found

recent momentum with its 2013 release Sunbather im-pressing non-metal listeners with its slow and melodic mo-ments. However, many metal fans consider Deafheaven to be the bane of the genre’s for-mulaic but punchy existence. New Bermuda won’t convince any of the nay-sayers that Deafheaven’s style is the direc-tion in which all metal bands should be headed, but the re-cord progresses the group’s multifaceted sound, making it an empowering listen.

At the core of each song is drummer Daniel Tracy’s tech-nique. His fast-paced fillers are fun to listen to, but it’s his ability to quickly accelerate then slow down a track that

transforms each of the album’s five songs into its own expe-rience. Paired with vocalist George Clarke’s bloodcurdling screams, these two drive the al-bum’s various moods.

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All of the band’s elements combine to create an exten-sively beautiful sound as complex as an orchestra’s. Compared to Sunbather, New Bermuda is more drastic in its

style and production choices. The LP’s fast-paced barre chords and riffs deliver more energy than its predecessor, and its calmer moments, fea-turing echoed piano chords, are

At many high schools, there is a breed of student known as the overachiever — one who excels both in and out of the classroom while maintain-ing an aura of effortlessness and perfection.

But at universities like UT, where the environment can be more academically rigor-ous than those of many high schools, these same students often struggle to adapt.

English junior Austin Dar-row was a star at Jourdanton High School. He was class

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Katy Redd, assistant director of prevention and outreach at UT’s Counseling and Mental Health Center (CMHC), said it’s not uncommon for bright young minds to find them-selves in dark places after expe-riences such as Darrow’s.

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