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I Luv Video, a movie rental store on Guadalupe Street, closed Monday as the area continues to see widespread business relo-cations and closings.

I Luv Video had two store locations in Austin, one on Guadalupe Street and the other on Airport Boulevard. Eric Mendell, manager of the store on Airport Boulevard, said the 30,000–40,000 film titles at the Guadalupe store will expand the Air-port location’s inventory to over 100,000 film titles.

Mendell said rental prices for retail space on Guadalupe have been in-creasing, and it is not via-ble for businesses to thrive in the area. Vulcan Vid-eos previously had a store across the street from I Luv Video on Guadalupe

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Fenves, black student leaders convene Simultaneous SG member resignations spur concernAs part of a discussion

series ‘to develop an ac-tion plan’ on issues im-portant for the University, UT President Gregory L. Fenves met with black stu-dent leaders in his office Monday morning.

Gregory J. Vincent, vice president for the Di-vision of Diversity and Community Engagement, and Soncia Reagins-Lilly, dean of students and senior associate vice president, were also

in attendance. “What I’d like to get out

of this [meeting] is a bet-ter understanding of the short-term and long-term actions needed here at the University,” Fenves said.

Petroleum engineer-ing junior Faith Carter opened and moderated the discussion on be-half of the black student leaders. Topics included outreach programs for students and hiring for faculty, among others.

“Universities like Mis-souri, Yale have become the focal point for students

organizing a mobilization pushing for comprehen-sive restructuring of aca-demic policies to address institutionalized racism that black students are fac-ing,” Carter said. “We, rep-resentatives of the black community here at UT, want to bring a conversa-tion regarding the failure of universities across the country, including our own, and address some of the needs.”

David McDonald, ap-plied learning and devel-opment and African and African diaspora studies

senior, requested more funding from the Univer-sity for New Black Student Weekend and Black Stu-dent Orientation.

Loyce Gayo, African and African diaspora studies junior and a columnist for

The Daily Texan opinion department, echoed con-cerns addressed by Carter about not being able to identify, thus not be-ing able to connect, with

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I Luv Video falls to ‘corporate Commies’By Matthew Adams

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Zoe Fu | Daily Texan StaffShelves previously stocked with videos are being emptied as I Luv Video on Guadalupe Street prepares to close for good. The store could not keep up with rent increases and the declining popularity of video rentals.VIDEO page 2

Seven Student Govern-ment representatives re-signed this semester in re-sponse to allegations that SG is failing to represent the UT student body.

In a resignation letter, two former SG representa-tives detailed their experi-ence in SG and accused the student-led organization of not being representative of the UT community. Kath-erine Jensen, Ph.D. candi-date in the Department of Sociology and one of the authors of the letter, said in-cidents of racism and a lack of reaching out to a larger scope of students is why she and others resigned.

“There were a variety of situations which I saw what I understood to be really in-appropriate and racist and marginalizing comments and behaviors by Student Government representa-tives,” Jensen said. “They would explain those atti-tudes under the false and inaccurate guise of repre-senting the student body.”

SG Speaker Tanner Long said some of the members who resigned were having trouble meeting the atten-dance requirement, which only allows room for three absences. Long said he also believes six out of the group of seven students were en-couraged to leave once their resolution “Urging The Uni-versity of Texas Investment Management Company (UTIMCO) To Divest From Corporations That Are

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Qiling Wang | Daily Texan StaffMichael Wynne, lecturer at the Department of Linguistics, teaches different signs to his American Sign Language class Monday afternoon.

American Sign Language to be offered as a minor

Beginning in fall 2016, American Sign Language will be offered as a tran-scriptable minor, provid-ing UT students with a learning opportunity and a way to connect with a minority group in the Aus-tin community, accord-

ing to linguistics professor Richard Meier.

According to the 2010 U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey, 48,763 people are deaf or hard of hearing in the Austin community, representing 2.8 percent of Austin’s population,

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Dell Medical School accepts first class

Joel Daboub arrived at his new job this spring facing a unique challenge — finding the ideal group of students for a school that had no building, aca-demic records or classes in sight.

About half a year later, the Dell Medical School has started sending out its tentative offers of ac-ceptance, trying to final-ize its inaugural class of 50 students who will likely shape the school moving forward. These students, offered admission begin-ning early last week, were selected as the result of a rigorous application pro-cess unlike any other one in the state.

Lacking data from past years, Daboub, the first director of admissions at Dell, sought to create a new application pro-cess that would reveal

the right set of students for the highly anticipated first class.

“We’re kind of an in-cubator of ideas in rela-tion to the admissions process,” Daboub said of his office. “Many of the talented people here at Dell Medical School are attracted because we’re starting something from scratch. That really is an opportunity to be creative, an opportunity to try and to fail and try again.”

Rather than submit one or two essays specific to the school — the norm – applicants submitted four. Instead of the cus-tomary two on-campus interviews, Dell hopefuls completed a series of eight activities; six of those were in non-traditional formats geared toward problem solving. And scores on the MCAT — the SAT for pre-meds — weighed less

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Meier said Austin has one of the largest deaf communities in the coun-try because the city is home to the Texas School for the Deaf.

“It’s a major language of the community, just like Spanish is,” Meier said. “It’s one of the most wide-ly used languages in Tra-vis County, so there are career opportunities for students who learn ASL. … I think it’s an issue that the University needs to be thinking about, even as it develops the medical school: ‘How do we pro-vide services for minority communities?’”

According to Amy Mulkey, communica-tion sciences and disor-

ders senior, ASL should be offered as a mi-nor or a major like any other language.

“People have this mis-conception that ASL isn’t a real language, but it is,” Mulkey said. “Be-ing able to major or mi-nor in ASL would have helped me with my sign-ing skills. Because I want to work with deaf stu-dents and co-workers in the future, being profi-cient in ASL would help me tremendously.”

Despite ASL’s grow-ing popularity as a lan-guage course at universi-ties around the country, a lack of funding and staff are two main obstacles to creating an ASL major, ac-cording to Meier.

“There hasn’t been a specific proposal [to turn

ASL into a major], but we’ll see how many stu-dents are interested in a minor,” Meier said. “And if there is a lot of interest, that may be a strong argu-ment for a major.”

Communication studies senior Ashley Horton said she hopes the ASL depart-ment receives more fund-ing to provide students with the opportunity to learn the language.

“I tried repeatedly to get into ASL at UT but was unable to because the classes were always full by the time I could register,” Horton said. “Ultimately, I ended up taking ASL at ACC. If ASL is offered as a major at UT, hopefully there will be more teach-ers and sections available to students wanting to learn the language.”

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Complicit In And Facilitate The Continuing Occupation And Oppression Of The Pal-estinian People By The State Of Israel” failed to pass.

“Essentially, they all ran with that goal in mind, which was trying to get that approved through Student Government, and when that failed, they all started resigning shortly after,” Long said. “They all did come from different back-grounds, so I really wish they did stay involved to try to help influence the Stu-dent Government and help us be more representative, but I guess once their one platform point failed, they all essentially decided re-signing would be the best.”

Jensen said all seven stu-dent representatives who resigned are people of color and/or women. Jensen said she and others joined SG as a way to create social and po-litical change across the Uni-versity, but decided to leave when it became apparent that SG was not interested in making similar changes.

“There is this consistent idea that ‘we represent the

student body,’ which is not actually the case,” Jensen said. “Nobody gives a shit. Nobody votes for us.”

A total of 9,445 students voted in the spring 2015 Student Government elec-tions. According to statis-tics provided by the Univer-sity on its website, 51,313 students were enrolled in fall 2014.

Kallen Dimitroff, a Uni-versity-wide representative

in SG, said she thinks some of the reasons why the seven representatives resigned has to do with time commit-ment and absences, but also because of a bigger problem.

“I guess the biggest thing is that clearly their drop-ping does represent some failure on SG’s part,” Dimi-troff said.

Dimitroff said it is hard for Student Government to represent such a large group

of students when the major-ity of them don’t vote, but said if students understood the way SG works, they would take a bigger interest.

“Our campus is so diverse and any 38 people as repre-sentatives won’t ever fully encompass every view-point,” Dimitroff said. “I think as we exist right now, we need to do a better job recruiting a more diverse group of perspectives.”

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Jack DuFon | Daily Texan file photoKatherine Jensen, a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Sociology, is one of seven Student Government representatives that resigned this semester.

faculty members. Gayo said she once reached out to her calculus professor during her freshman year and asked if he thought the University is work-ing to create diversity within STEM.

“He told me that he gen-erally has lower expecta-tions for people of color,” Gayo said. “This [was] an introductory course that everybody who [considers majoring in STEM] has to take.”

Reagins-Lilly also said an investigation is under-way regarding an incident involving members of the Palestine Solidarity Com-mittee at an Institute for Israel Studies event.

“It’s not always appar-ent, and you can’t see it,” Reagins-Lilly said. “But trust me, … we do reach out to the students. We provide them with re-sources … so you don’t feel we’re being silent. … Some of this is protected

by FERPA, but we can make a loud statement of what is underway.”

Vincent said as an Afri-can-American, he shared the experiences and feel-ings students have.

“I know firsthand those microaggressions and macroaggressions that you speak of, so these are not hypothetical issues for me. These are issues that are real, and I’m pained that this is still going on,” Vincent said.

Street near 29th Street, but there existed a healthy re-lationship between the two stores, Mendell said.

“We viewed them as comrades in the battle against the Big Red, includ-ing the boxes and Netflix, those corporate Commies,” Mendell said.

R adio-te lev is ion-f i lm professor Joseph Straub-haar said the video rental market started declin-ing 10 years ago because people became more inter-ested in streaming and the increasingly easy access to online video.

“The future of all of this is whatever you want, streaming when you want with whatever medium you want, and everything else is just a stop gap,” Straubhaar said. “It’s very much a driven demand at this point.”

Mendell said the group has been in Austin for over

30 years after it first start-ed as London Movies at Dobie Mall.

Mendell said I Luv Video had a wide selection of in-dependent films and many local or small film produc-ers brought their work to the store where it would have a chance to be seen.

“One of the UT RTF professors, Geoff Marslett, has produced a couple of them that we carried here, 2012’s ‘Mars’ and more recently ‘Loves Her Gun,’ that I don’t think would otherwise get much of an audience outside of festi-vals,” Mendell said. “Peo-ple are able to discover low-budget indie films that don’t get widespread distribution.”

R adio-te lev is ion-f i lm senior Scott Riegel said he visited the Guadalupe store for research, and it was a fun place to visit because of their large selection and wall of directors. Riegel said the Austin real estate market is an issue needing to be addressed.

“I don’t know what this means for other places be-cause this seems more like an issue with Austin real estate than anything,” Rie-gel said. “Rental places can survive by offering a more personal experience than streaming services. They have a better selection, and an actual person can suggest something for you rather than an algorithm.”

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heavily than elsewhere. Even the way students

have found out they were accepted — a phone call from the medical school’s dean, Clay Johnston — was unconventional.

“Not a single student expected my call, and one was in the midst of inter-viewing at another med school,” Johnston said in a statement released Mon-day. “There were a few gasps, some happy tears — not just my own — and a couple of muted screams. Frankly, it made some people’s days, especially my own.”

Administrators at Dell, trying to find students in line with the school’s mission to reform health care, said they purpose-fully designed the appli-cation process to reflect those values and also work around their lack of for-mer or current students.

Unlike existing medical schools, Dell has not been able to draw on extensive catalogs of numbers about median scores on the MCAT and GPAs of past applicants. For Daboub, who has been in admis-sions for 26 years, this was new.

“You’re always looking at your data from previ-ous years,” Daboub said of admissions at established schools. “We have no his-tory, so we don’t know.”

This new approach to admissions relies less on raw data and test scores and more on a holis-tic review of students as individuals.

“We will be [emphasiz-ing MCAT scores less],” Johnston said. “When you look at our average MCAT scores, they will probably be lower than some other institutions in Texas. That’s because we don’t think the MCAT’s that important. We’d rath-er get the people who are more well rounded and have proven themselves in other ways.”

The school has empha-sized leadership quali-ties, a desire to innovate, good people skills and the ability to work in teams. Daboub said he hopes this will enable students to succeed in the school’s curriculum, an accel-erated version of what medical school students usually expect.

To help find students who meet this profile, Dell made MMIs — Mul-tiple Mini Interviews — a large part of the interview day. Students are handed a written medical scenar-io, and after a few min-utes behind closed doors, they’re asked to tell how a Dell faculty member how they’d respond. Students

also participate in a group problem solving exercise.

“If healthcare is truly broken, the people who are going to make the dif-ference are going to be the people with new and fresh eyes and ideas,” Daboub said. “I think that’s going to be who we’re looking for.”

Dell uses the same ap-plication service as most of the other 10 medi-cal schools in Texas, the Texas Medical and Den-tal Schools Application Service, which resembles ApplyTexas or the Com-mon App for undergradu-ate programs. Through it, the school received 4,528 initial applications. They have invited about 1,127 pre-meds to fill out additional essays, and around 350 of those will go through the interview process, which is sched-uled to wrap up by early January. Fifty students will ultimately enroll and start class June 27.

Although Dell does not have a track record of placing residents — helping land their stu-dents jobs in hospitals post-graduation, the final step before becoming a full attending physician — “students seem to be relying on UT-Austin’s established reputation” in their decision to apply and consider enrolling, Lesley Riley, the director of UT’s Health Professions Office, said.

Several students who made it to the interview stage with Dell spoke to the Texan, expressing mixed feelings: excitement over the chance of trying something new but also trepidation over the risk involved with attending an unproven school.

Biology senior Anish Patel applied to 11 schools and said Dell is near the top of his list.

“Dell specifically is so great, primarily because it’s a fresh slate,” Patel said. “The philosophy is something I’m very much

in tune to as well.”However, Patel, who

is a first-generation col-lege student, also al-luded to the prestige of existing schools.

“Everything I’ve been doing up until now has been new to myself and my family,” Patel said. “If I had the chance to attend Dell, I’d be at the same lev-el as other medical school candidates, … but at the same time, that’s also the virtue of being [an inau-gural class]. We’ll get to set the traditions.”

Biology senior Cory Smith interviewed at Dell in addition to six other schools. He said that while he understands the attrac-tion of Dell, many of his peers have aired concerns over attending a school with no history.

“They’re doing a lot of innovative things,” Smith said of Dell, “but that imposes some amount of risk. I’m not completely comfortable taking that risk, but I will say that during the presentation at interview day, I felt a lot better than before.”

Matthew Cochran, a pre-med senior at Bay-lor, praised the holistic admissions process and Dell’s mission.

“I was very excited, and when I was in there, I felt very inspired, and I felt I just wanted to go there, and I wanted to buy into the message and change America,” Cochran said.

“But definitely, there is risk involved. You don’t have any track record to base it on.”

Daboub said while Dell has high expectations for the incoming class, they understand the school will likely make changes moving forward based on data collected during the application process and a review of student perfor-mance during the school’s first year.

“They’re really looking for a specific candidate,” Aaron Sahihi, a finance senior and Dell applicant, said. “[It] takes a real spe-cial person to be at Dell. Their student body will be their greatest asset.”

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The Texas Board of Education will not make changes to the State’s text-book approval process.

Last Wednesday, the board voted 8-7 not to change how textbooks are approved. The process for textbook adoption will continue to include re-view by a volunteer review panel, but not any approval from university experts or education professionals. The State’s textbook ap-proval process was called into question recently after concern from a Houston mother about a ninth grade world history textbook which referred to African slaves as “workers.”

The proposal, which was not approved, would have added another review pan-el composed completely of university professors to vet textbooks. This panel would be in addition to the current volunteer review panel. The volunteer panel already has a requirement that the majority of the panel be “experts,” but to be qualified as an “expert,” a volunteer must only have some professional experi-ence with the subject mat-ter, such as teaching.

Board member Geraldine Miller (R-Dallas), said she was opposed to the propos-al because it would be send-ing the wrong message to those already on the panel.

“I am very opposed to this idea [to add an expert committee],” Miller said in the board meeting. “Be-cause what you’re doing is undercutting the teachers retired and active who we put on these committees and the respect we give them. I don’t want to send a message that we do not

feel that the current system is just, ‘Well, they’re not that important. We think the college people are more important.’”

Education professor Ran-dy Bomer said he supports allowing university experts to fact check textbooks.

“I support more informa-tion in education, not less,” Bomer said. “Why would the people of Texas want less expertise involved in the development of the content Texas children will learn? I worry that the pub-lic will interpret the Board of Education’s actions as being ideologically moti-vated because they want to advance myth-making in children’s learning.”

R adio-te lev is ion-f i lm freshman Emma Wright said she believes the text-books used in public school should be vetted by experts.

“It [is] unfair to students if they are not learning cor-rect information,” Wright said. “I think there will likely be a large number of people who wish to simply portray Texas in the best light [on the citizen re-view], regardless of wheth-er the facts are accurate. Children need to be taught all sides of an argument.”

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of students when the major-ity of them don’t vote, but said if students understood the way SG works, they would take a bigger interest.

“Our campus is so diverse and any 38 people as repre-sentatives won’t ever fully encompass every view-point,” Dimitroff said. “I think as we exist right now, we need to do a better job recruiting a more diverse group of perspectives.”

Shelby Tauber | Daily Texan file photoClay Johnston is the inaugural dean of Dell Medical School. The highly anticipated first class of medical students to be admitted to Dell is being selected based on a unique process that differs from that of other medical schools.

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Rachel Zein | Daily Texan StaffConstruction of the Dell Medical School is in full swing just a few blocks south of UT-Austin’s campus. The new school is expected to be ready to host its first class on June 27, 2016.

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UT officials are debating raising tuition by $150 per semester. They are measuring this cost against the benefits of replenishing the budget, increasing salaries, fixing University buildings and increasing research. It is true that students can profit by these adjustments. However, some students are too busy try-ing to survive to consider that. Students who are scared about how they will pay for their next meal cannot think about the old desks in Burdine. These protests against the tuition in-crease should hold the most weight.

Mary Knight, UT’s interim vice president

and chief financial officer, said the decision to increase tuition was based on many different factors including a funding cut in 2009, salary increases for faculty and an increase in fund-ing for research. Prior to this year, the process to counter these financial burdens has primar-ily been cutting the budgets within depart-ments. Knight said these adjustments have not been enough for the University to maintain its rank as a top research institution.

“We don’t want to put everything on the backs of students, but there needs to be some movement forward,” Knight said.

Increasing tuition by 3 percent to overcome the financial deficit is, at the surface, a harm-less way to benefit UT. But the students affect-ed would have to sacrifice buying necessities

such as food or books.Management information systems junior

Brenda Ta said she still struggles to make ends meet despite her job and scholarships because UT didn’t give her enough financial aid, and her parents can’t afford to support her.

“My parents don’t pay for anything because they can’t afford school for me,” Ta said. “An extra $150 to me can go towards rent. Increas-ing tuition is ridiculous. I’m going to have to cut down on groceries and food.”

Economics junior Farhan Manjiyani said the tuition increase will further the academic divide between him and more privileged students.

“I think you have a good number of students who have intergenerational wealth and can af-ford to go through their education lavishly,”

Manjiyani said. “I came here knowing the sac-rifice. I can’t afford this, but I’m going anyways because I think it’s worth it. [UT officials] need to empathize where these students are coming from. They’re having to choose between eating your next meal or buying a textbook.”

The tuition increase is not an arbitrary num-ber. It’s a healthy dinner, a book for class, utili-ties bill or a jacket for when the temperature drops. This isn’t an ethical appeal to students to help out their University after budget cuts. Businesses face financial cuts and are forced to find ways to adjust. UT can do the same without adding extra pressure and restraints on those already drowning by the cost of living.

Kroeger is a human relations senior from Corpus Christi.

The most wonderful time of the year always has a few certainties. During the holiday season, you can be sure to see Christmas lights, hear holiday music and taste seasonal foods. In the last decade, another tradition has been added to the holiday season: right-wing pundits com-plaining about the “War on Christmas,” usually motivated by businesses removing religious imagery and telling employees to say “Happy Holidays” rather than “Merry Christmas.”

The most recent example of this was Star-bucks changing the design of its 2015 winter cups. This year, the company eschewed their traditional Christmas artwork, which included such designs as reindeer and snowmen, for a minimalistic, completely red cup. This elicited some backlash among the Christian right, with a movement being created to “trick” Starbucks employees into saying Merry Christmas. The movement was blown up by the media as more serious than it actually was, but it did have a few high-profile endorsements, chief among them Donald Trump, who called out Starbucks at one of his rallies.

Penne Restad is a distinguished senior lec-turer at the University of Texas at Austin and has published a book, “Christmas in America:

A History,” about the evolution of the holiday within American society.

“If there was a war on Christmas, we wouldn’t have Christmas,” said Restad. Ac-cording to her, Christmas and corporations have always been intertwined, and if there was really an effort on the behalf of corpora-tions to declare “war” on Christmas, the war would be short-lived and self-defeating.

Conservative outrage is a bit hypocritical to say the least. One of the major talking points of conservatives this election is the defeat of “P.C. culture,” a movement to take on issues such as racism and misogyny through criticism of “mi-cro-aggressions.” The main argument against this movement is that it is an overreaction and sometimes overextends its reach.

However, if conservatives are going to attack the left for the support of these movements, it’s hypocritical to get upset over their own per-ceived micro-aggressions. A company using the word Christmas a fewer times in its advertising is not even a micro-aggression — it’s a nano-ag-gression. Is there any difference between getting upset over someone not using Caitlyn Jenner’s proper pronouns and getting upset over someone saying happy holidays? With regards to the holi-days, conservatives should practice what they so often preach and grow thicker skin.

Chastian-Howley is an undeclared sopho-more from Dallas.

The U.S. is the greatest country in the world. With money growing on trees and streets paved with gold, it makes sense that the U.S. is number one. Right? Not necessarily. We’re #14 in education, #44 in health care efficiency and #23 in gender equality. Saying ‘the U.S. is the greatest country in the world’ is a very subjective notion. However, this country is a definite victor in one field: incarceration.

The American prison system has a serious problem. The current national population of prisoners, at about 2.4 million people, is great-er than the population of the city of Houston. Maintaining such prisons isn’t cheap. Studies find that it can cost about $31,000 annually to keep someone in prison. Whether or not prison is a place of rehabilitation or of retribution, something needs to be done. There could be a middle ground that exists.

After all, the goal isn’t to keep every prisoner in jail forever. Eventually, most will be released with the hope of being productive members of society. But with a staggeringly poor recidivism rate of 52 percent, it’s evident that this current

system is failing. Prisoners aren’t being rehabili-tated, and that is extremely problematic.

So, how do we combat this issue? Time has shown that the best method is through education. The Nation writes that prison education reduces recidivism by 40 percent. They argue that we can dramatically reduce incarceration by giving pris-oners financial aid. A 2013 RAND Corporation study shows that for every $1 invested in prison education, we actually save $4 to $5 in the long run, purely due to recidivism decreasing.

In the recent past, such a reform happened: Specter grants. These grants allowed prisoners to enroll in GED-level courses. However, Congress failed to renew federal funding in 2011 — the short-term cost of developing such a program proved to be problematic.

Despite Congress’ failure, there is hope. The increasing prevalence of online college educa-tion eases the implementation of prison educa-tion. Coursera, edX and OpenCourseWare all have very prevalent and established platforms. These online courses are taught by professors from various prestigious universities all over the world. This form of implementation is much more sustainable than the Specter funds because of the cost of the courses: zero. Courses on Coursera, edX or OpenCourseWare are free.

With a society predicated on these ideas of opportunity and freedom, it’s important that we reform the current prison system. Through on-line education, we can turn individuals rejected

by society into productive citizens. All the pieces of the puzzle are right in front of us. We just need to put them together.

Syed is a biochemistry freshman from Houston.

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Prison education will reduce recidivismPRISON EDUCATION AND RECIDIVISM

COST OF PRISON EDUCATIONSpending $1 per prisoner on prison education saves $4 to $5 in the

future for decreased rates of recidivism.

RECIDIVISM RATESThe U.S. spends $31,000 to

incarcerate someone every year.

Prison education reduces the 54% recidivism rate by 40%.

Source: Office of Justice Programs, The Nation, RAND Corporation

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Tuition hike will make it harder for students to afford necessitiesBy Maria KroegerDaily Texan Columnist

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Since the Paris attacks, posts inundate my social media from Muslims and non-Muslims alike warning against an uprising of discrimi-nation with messages like, “To all my friends who apparently ‘look like a Muslim,’ stay safe!” Current undergraduates have spent most of our lives in the post-9/11 era, which has led to a constant fear of discrimination triggered by a scarf over our heads or a name that sounds too different. This bigotry forces me to worry about myself and my safety when I would rather be worrying about those who have lost innocent family members.

Last week, someone wrote in a bathroom stall at Virginia Tech, “I will be here on November 11 to kill all the Muslims.” The Muslim Students Association at the univer-sity formed a campaign called “Random Acts of Kindness/Meet a Muslim,” which included handing out pamphlets and sweets and spread a message of peace. Muslim stu-dents have to be on the frontlines in efforts to show that the vast majority of Muslims do not promote the horrific violent acts per-petrated by those perverse few who kill in the name of faith. To me, this reality is sad-dening — I have to come up to you with a doughnut for you to believe that I’m not like them. I’m human.

As Muslims, we feel the obligation to post on social media as well as participate in vigils and forums to clarify that, yes, we,

too are against the killing of innocents. Since the Paris attacks, hate crimes

against anyone who looks Muslim have in-creased — from a mosque being set on fire in Canada to a mosque right here in Pfluger-ville being disgustingly vandalized. And yet, bright signs for the loving treatment of Muslims persist. In response to the lat-ter act, a Facebook event was created called “Muslims are Welcome in Pflugerville,” and over 300 people attended the event.

“This should serve as a reminder to us that #HumanityWins,” event coordinator Karen Dominguez said. “This is the way to defeat ISIS and terrorism around the world. Don’t let them divide us!”

Biased attitudes against Muslims flare up after an individual or group commits atro-cious acts in the name of Islam, and the me-dia highlights the religion of the attacker. Because of the acts of these few, the rest are forced to deal with the anger of society. Yet, in the end it is the acts of people like Dominguez who promote the unity that the world needs to fight the violence.

Saifullah is a neuroscience sophomore from Richardson.

Muslims, non-Muslims must promote unity

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TELEVISION REVIEW | ‘MARVEL’S JESSICA JONES’

Netflix series pulls no punches tackling dark themes

The Netflix original se-ries “Marvel’s Jessica Jones,” which overtly deals with dark and unsettling themes such as abuse, victim blam-ing and psychological trau-ma, has become the comic book franchise’s riskiest pro-duction to date.

The show, which pre-miered Friday, is based on Brian Michael Bendis and Michael Gaydos’ comic book “Alias” and is one of Marvel’s most compelling cinematic projects. Its titular character, Jessica Jones (Krysten Ritter) is a private investigator who makes a living off of people who suspect their spouses are cheating on them.

The first few episodes in the series have a heavy neo-noir atmosphere typical of detective stories. As the series approaches its climax, the de-tective story feel gives way to a quicker-paced action-drama, but the show is at its strongest when it pays tribute to its noir roots. The dark and suspenseful atmosphere emphasizes the psychologi-cal consequences of the main villain’s abusive actions, lead-ing to some of the scariest moments in the series.

After a devastating en-

counter with Kilgrave, the show’s villain, sometime in her past, the beginning of the series shows Jones trying to nurse her se-vere post-traumatic stress disorder through alcohol and social isolation. Ini-tially, Jones believes Kil-grave died in a bus crash, but a case about a missing girl leads her back into her tormentor’s path.

Kilgrave — a name Jones pokes fun at when she asks, “Was Murdercorpse already taken?” — is a psychopathic, super-powered individual who can influence people’s behavior, compelling them to follow his every verbal command. Portrayed by David Tennant, Kilgrave is arguably the most terrifying villain in the Marvel Cine-matic Universe. Kilgrave or-ders people to kill others or themselves, and they help-lessly obey, but he arrogantly claims he has never actually killed anybody. He mocks Jones, who is haunted by a murder Kilgrave forced her to commit, asking if she can say the same.

Ritter brilliantly brings the main character to life, im-buing Jones with snarkiness and quick wit while weaving Jones’ brokenness and self-destructive tendencies into her unapologetic demeanor.

Besides Kilgrave’s ter-rifying ability, the show’s supernatural component is downplayed. Jones doesn’t dwell too much on her su-pernatural abilities, and the show doesn’t either. When she is asked how many more people “like her” exist, Jones replies, “How many more what — private eyes?” While Jones often utilizes her super strength and super jump, she is most impressive when she shows off her savvy P.I. skills to outsmart Kilgrave.

After the critically ac-claimed series “Marvel’s Daredevil” premiered earlier this year, the second Mar-vel-Netflix team-up has big shoes to fill. “Jessica Jones” not only meets expectations but surpasses them, intro-ducing a very personal and

creepy layer to the violence in the show.

Whereas “Daredevil” ex-cels in maintaining a well paced crime narrative with quick action scenes, the most intense battles in “Jessica Jones” play out in its charac-ters’ heads. The show doesn’t pull its punches. It never tries to hide rape or abor-tion behind euphemisms or implications and instead deals with socially relevant themes candidly.

Ultimately, “Marvel’s Jes-sica Jones” is accessible as

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Musician in May. Despite his reputation as one of the best guitarists in the past 40 years, Vaughan said he still doesn’t feel as though he’s mastered the instrument.

“I’ve been playing for 50 years, and I’m still trying to learn,” Vaughan said. “I evolve, and I change, but I never feel like I’ve learned how to do it, so that always helps me to feel fresh about it. I love it. It’s

not like going to work — it’s my art.”

Vaughan said his guitar and his family played an influen-tial role in his recovery after his brother’s tragic death in 1990 — four years to the day after their father had passed.

“I was three months sober when Stevie died,” Vaughan said. “I thought I could re-ally tie one over, and no one would blame me. But then I thought of my mother and about protecting her. I’ve al-ways played guitar, though. It helped me after Stevie died. It

probably kept me out of pris-on, and it’s taken me around the world.”

After spending countless nights in the back of his fa-ther’s pickup truck, on the way to his next gig or eve-nings keeping his guitar away from his brother, Vaughan said he wishes they could wit-ness the historic performance as well.

“I can see them smil-ing in disbelief,” Vaughan said. “I know they would be proud, and that’s what I keep thinking of.”

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6JORI EPSTEIN, SPORTS EDITOR | @texansportsTuesday, November 24, 2015

MEN’S BASKETBALL

Cleare set to play in front of hometownThe Longhorns’ trip to the

Bahamas this week will be just another trip to a foreign country to play basketball for most.

But for junior forward Shaquille Cleare, the Battle 4 Atlantis offers a chance for him to impress family and childhood friends.

“It’s going to be a pretty cool atmosphere,” Cleare said.

Cleare grew up in Nassau — a short drive over a ship channel from the tourna-ment’s location in Paradise Island — and moved to Hous-ton to play high school bas-ketball at The Village School. He averaged 26.5 points and 10 blocks in his senior season while playing alongside Texas junior guard Isaiah Taylor.

Cleare committed to Mary-land but found playing time difficult to come by. He aver-aged just 3 points and 2.5 re-bounds per game in 13 minutes during his sophomore season.

Eventually, Cleare decided to transfer back to Texas, closer to some of his family in Houston.

“I blame no one at Mary-land,” Cleare said. “I just wanted to come to Texas.”

Cleare sat out last season, per NCAA transfer rules. Now, finding his spot on the floor is proving to be difficult.

In the first two games of the season, Cleare’s numbers haven’t impressed. He’s av-eraging two points a game,

though he grabbed six re-bounds in the season opener against Washington.

Cleare is still shaking off rust after sitting out a full season. The Washington game was his first time playing with the team in a game-like environment.

Head coach Shaka Smart said the most important key to Cleare’s growth is time on the court.

“He went a long, long time

without playing in a game,” Smart said. “Now he’s on the court, and he’s done some good things. He’s just got to keep getting better at playing with energy and motor.”

Returning to the Bahamas and playing three games in three days might be just the boost Cleare needs. This won’t be his first time traveling to his home country in a competi-tive environment — Maryland

played an exhibition tour in the country in 2013 — but it will be his first time getting extensive playing time.

When he does step onto the court, Cleare expects noise to erupt in the Imperial Arena.

“I don’t know how many tickets I’m going to get,” Cleare said. “But the people who don’t get tickets — they’ll find a way into that arena.”

Cleare said he’s not

planning on showing his teammates around the coun-try, but senior forward Con-nor Lammert said Cleare is excited to be home.

“That’s all he’s been talking about,” Lammert said. “He can’t wait to show us his home country.”

Cleare says personal tours aren’t his focus.

“It’s not a vacation trip,” Cleare said. “It’s a business trip.”

By Jacob Martella@ViewFromTheBox

Joshua Guerra | Daily Texan StaffJunior forward Shaquille Cleare has yet to make an impact on the court, with just two points per game in his first two games with the Longhorns after sitting out all of last season following a transfer from Maryland.

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Doyle leads by example in final season at Texas

Senior center Taylor Doyle isn’t one to speak out of turn.

His teammates commend his blue-collar, well mannered attitude. They emphasize that he’s a player who leads with actions more than words.

“He’s got a high character,” senior tight end Alex De La Torre said. “He works hard. It’s always ‘yes sir, no sir.’ He’s just a dude who goes and works and doesn’t say much — just the type of player you want to have.”

But Doyle’s teammates lis-ten when he decides to speak up. Texas held a players-only meeting following the team’s 30-27 loss to Oklahoma State in late September. Doyle, set on jumpstarting the Long-horns’ season, stood up and spoke to the team — and there was no doubt that his words resonated.

“Taylor Doyle said it best,” sophomore defensive end Naashon Hughes said on Sept. 28. He said, “We are at a critical point. We can take a step back and have a terrible season. Or, we can come to-gether, get this back on track and get going again.’”

The team answered Doyle’s call two weeks later when Texas shocked No. 5 Okla-homa with a 24-17 victory at the Cotton Bowl. The win sparked the Longhorns’ only consecutive wins this season. While it’s been a bumpy road since, Doyle’s words embody his passion for the game and as a leader on the team.

“You look at Taylor Doyle and what he’s done for this offense,” head coach Charlie

Strong said. “The reason why our offensive line is playing so well is because of some of the things that he’s doing.”

Doyle hasn’t always been the critical piece he is today. In fact, he rarely saw the field before his junior season. Strong and his staff decided to shake up the offensive line af-ter BYU stifled Texas’ offense early last season. The coaches inserted Doyle into the start-ing lineup for the team’s next game. Since then, he’s started every game and become a staple of Texas’ offensive line.

Now, Doyle anchors a line featuring two true freshman starters. His coaches count on him as a senior to bring consistency to the unit. Ad-ditionally, his younger team-mates rely on his guidance and feed off of his attitude.

“He’s a good role model,” freshman tackle Connor Williams said. “He’s some-one I can turn to. I really go to him for help on the plays and everything.”

Doyle will play his final home game against Texas Tech on Thursday. He said he wasn’t expecting to finish his career at Texas with back-to-back losing seasons. How-ever, true to his blue-collar, no-complaints attitude, he said he wouldn’t trade his experience for anything else.

“We’ve had a lot of change, a lot of ups and downs, but I can’t imagine playing col-lege football anywhere else,” Doyle said. “When you talk about the great places to play, you think of Texas, and the relationships I’ve built and the teams and the teammates I’ve been able to play with — it’s truly been a blessing.”

By Ezra Siegel@SiegelEzra

David Denny has plenty of reasons to want to visit his old stomping grounds at UFCU Disch-Falk Field.

The former third base-man is one of Texas’ most successful hitters. He helped bring Texas to the College World Series three consecu-tive years and set school records in career hits, dou-bles and RBIs that remain untouched 30 years later.

But now, when Denny re-turns to UT, it’s to watch his son Kaleb play on the same field he once thrived on.

“The memories I have are very fresh, and I’m able to tell [Kaleb] and share with him those memories,” Denny said. “Ideally, they make his experience now more memorable than mine because he’s getting to play through me again and then for himself and his teammates.”

Denny’s 1982–1985 teams are among the best in Texas history. Backed by Denny’s leadership and offensive spark, the 1983 Texas team won the school’s first national championship since 1975. Denny — now the head coach at Barbers Hill High School in Mont Belvieu — doesn’t take all the credit for his success.

“We played more games back in those days than they do now, and I had a lot of good players around me,” Denny said. “I may have individual records, but the majority of it was team-related.”

Ty Harrington, Denny’s former teammate and roommate, had a differ-ent perspective of Denny’s presence at the plate.

“From a player perspec-tive, I don’t know that I’ve ever played with a guy that could roll out of bed, wipe the sleep out of his eyes, not put batting gloves on and get a hit,” Harrington said. “He had incredible hand-eye coordination and emo-tional strength to hit, and it’s unlike anyone I’ve ever played with.”

Harrington, now the head coach at Texas State, remem-bered one specific game when Denny delivered an offensive show.

“Someone got his atten-tion in the dugout because he didn’t realize it was his turn to hit,” Harrington said. “He grabs a bat, goes to the plate and just hits a double. I remember thinking, ‘That’s just not normal.’”

After leaving a legacy at Texas, Denny eventually settled into his high school coaching career. He said coaching his son at Barbers Hill was one of his favorite experiences, but he didn’t push Kaleb toward playing at Texas.

“Through the recruit-ing process, he emphasized that he wanted me to be my own person and that I didn’t need to follow him,” Kaleb said. “I grew up a Longhorn fan, my parents both went here, we watched Vince Young and all that type stuff growing up, so I wanted to come here whether he

pushed me or not.”Denny may be done

coaching Kaleb, now a freshman outfielder, but he said he still looks forward to coming to see him play in Austin.

“It’s just fun watching, but at the same time I can stick my elbow in his ribs and say, ‘Hey, here’s how we used to do things,’” Denny said.

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Former Longhorns finding their roles off the bench

Ten of the last 11 win-ners of the NBA Sixth Man of the Year award-ees have been shooting guards, all averaging more than 13.5 points per game.

But this season, two of the premier sixth men in the league display anoth-er vital asset.

Avery Bradley and Cory Joseph played col-lege basketball at Texas. Bradley joined the Celt-ics in 2010, and Joseph is in his first year with the Raptors after four years on the Spurs. Both of these sixth men primarily contribute as lockdown perimeter defenders.

Bradley started all 77 games he played for the Celtics last season the first six of this season. After Bradley was side-lined with a calf injury, coach Brad Stevens de-cided to modify the Celt-ics’ lineup and remove Bradley from a starting role. Ever since, Bradley has averaged 20.2 points per game and an impres-sive two steals per game. The Celtics have gone 4-2 in the time period, including wins over the Rockets and Thunder.

While also excelling of-fensively in his new role, Bradley’s established de-fense makes the Celtics’ second unit exceptional at creating turnovers. Brad-ley, a former NBA All-Defensive Team member, anchors a Celtics defense that averages a league-high 11.5 steals and a third-best 34.8 field goals allowed per contest.

Joseph spent four years developing in San An-tonio before he earned a $30 million contract and a chance to shine in Toronto. He is averaging a career-high 9.5 points and 0.8 steals per game and has been a staple in the Raptors lineup dur-ing the final minutes of each game. Joseph holds opponents to shooting 26.4 percent from 20-24 feet from the basket and is inserted into the game to counter elite shooters including Stephen Curry and Chris Paul.

Bradley and Joseph may not see the court dur-ing tipoff, but they make their presence known on defense when they enter the game. These two have emerged as early Sixth Man of the Year candi-dates and demonstrate success on both sides of the ball.

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Editor’s note: In 300 words or fewer, this series spot-lights people in our commu-nity whose stories typically go untold.

By Megan Hix@meganhix95

Tucked behind the racks of sequined dresses and boxes of buttons that clut-ter UT’s costume shop, wig and makeup specialist Al-lison Lowery weaves hair-like thread into her latest Shakespearian headpiece.

Lowery, who got her start in high school theatre, learned wig making while attending the College of Wil-liam and Mary and often ventured into nearby Colo-nial Williamsburg to marvel at townspeople in period at-tire and browse the Revolu-tionary-era wig shop.

After graduation, she worked with a series of the-ater companies until she came to UT 11 years ago. Lowery has handcrafted hundreds of custom wigs for Texas Performing Arts, sometimes spending up-ward of 40 hours to create just one. She often prefers to drastically makeover com-mercial wigs by removing their fake-looking hairlines. After tediously pulling each

fine thread through nude-colored lace with a miniature hook, she ties hundreds of individual knots to mimic hair follicles.

Her most time-consum-ing project, a Martin Luther King Jr. wig, took about 80

hours to finish. She said wigs for male characters are the hardest to create be-cause they leave no room for mistakes.

“With a big, luscious mane, you can kind of hide what’s going on, but everything’s just

out in the open with short, men’s things,” Lowery said.

To develop hair and make-up for each production, Low-ery said she works closely with costume designers to capture the show’s period and setting.

“It’s fun when you’re cre-ating a completely different, new world,” Lowery said.

Lowery occasionally dons a wig of her own outside of work, where she’s an ama-teur photographer and self-described roller derby “super

fan” who goes by the name Lady A.

“I’d always heard about it when I moved to Austin. I was like, ‘This sounds amazing. I have to go,’” Lowery said. “I pretty much fell in love at first sight.”

Junyuan Tan | Daily Texan StafffAllison Lowery, a wig and makeup specialist in UT’s theatre department, has worked at the University for 11 years. She began her career in wig making during college in Pennsylvania, where she often visited Colonial Williamsburg to look at period attire and hairpieces.

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Blues guitarist Jimmie Vaughan stood on the 50-yard line of an empty Dar-rell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium. After traveling the world and performing with musicians from Eric Clap-ton to B.B. King, he said his most memorable perfor-mance would be with the Longhorn Band.

Vaughan, brother of the late blues musician Stevie Ray Vaughan, will perform with the Longhorn Band on Thanksgiving Day dur-ing the Texas vs. Texas Tech halftime show. After dis-cussing the possibility in the summer, Vaughan’s per-formance became official a few months ago, and the band began rehearsals weeks before Thanksgiving.

“I think this might be my favorite performance,” Vaughan said. “I’ve had a lot of dreams. I’ve won GRAM-MYs and been in movies and played with people all over the world, but I could have never guessed this one. It’s really beyond description.”

UT band director Scott Hanna said he was thrilled when he heard the band would have the chance to perform with an Austin icon.

“This performance is playing a role in [the band members’] musical educa-tion,” Hanna said. “This has been a great chance for them

to learn about Jimmie’s mu-sic and learn about him.”

Music studies sophomore and clarinetist Chanse Mor-ris said performing with Vaughan has been an unreal experience. Even without a packed stadium, Morris said the energy during the rehearsals was palpable. As Vaughan’s final note rang out, band members rushed to meet the musician, with iPhones and memorabilia at the ready for pictures and autographs.

“It just brings smiles to ev-eryone’s faces,” Morris said. “It’s so different than just playing and marching. You can feel the energy coming off of him.”

With the performance just a few days away, Hanna said he thinks audience mem-bers will each take some-thing different away from Vaughan’s music.

“The audience at foot-ball games is so diverse,” Hanna said. “It’s not like any other musical performance. We’ve got a whole range of people in the stadiums. For a certain group, it’s going to be their music. For other people, I think it’s a chance to gain some exposure to Texas music.”

The halftime show will close out a landmark year for Vaughan, who inducted his brother into The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in April and was named Texas State

By Cat Cardenas@crcardenas8

Joshua Guerra | Daily Texan StaffJimmie Vaughan practices with the Longhorn band on Nov. 17. Vaughan will perform with the band during halftime of the Texas Thanksgiving Day football game.

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Costume specialist wigs out over theater accessories

You kind of get the two polar ends of human emotions caught in their molecular forms. It was more for me a kind of way to capture or represent things to me that are very impor-tant but free of religion or spirituality.

—Frank Mann,Psychology graduate student

I didn’t want to get a mili-tary tattoo because that wasn’t really the bright spot of being in Hawai‘i. It was all the other stuff, like being at the beach and having good times downtown in Honolulu. So that’s why I decided to get a plumeria.

—Holly Duban,Austinite

Holly Duban (above) Frank Mann (below)

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