After investigating complaints regarding an incident between gov-ernment professor Ami Pedahzur and members of the Palestine Solidar-ity Committee that oc-curred in November, the Office for Inclusion and Equity found Pedahzur did not violate the University nondiscrimination policy.

Members of the PSC demonstrated at an event hosted by the Institute for Israel Studies on Nov. 13, while Pedahzur was speak-ing. In complaints made to the University, PSC members alleged Pedah-zur violated the Univer-sity’s nondiscrimination policy with his in-person response to the protest and in a subsequent post to his blog, where he allegedly called them “red flags” for terrorism. The OIE’s find-ings officially dismissed these complaints.

UT President Gregory Fenves stated his “strong support” of Pedahzur in a March 9 press release re-sponding to the OIE’s find-ings. Fenves said he appre-ciates Pedahzur’s work and looks forward to his future contributions at UT.

Pedahzur’s legal coun-sel, Carly Gammill of the American Center for Law and Justice, said the in-vestigation uncovered the truth about the incident.

“[Pedahzur] was hopeful that given the length of the

The Moody sky bridge opened to pedestrians today at 7 a.m. after the original projected completion date of Feb. 26 was delayed.

The bridge connects the second floor of the Belo Center of New Media to the fourth floor of Communica-tion Center buildings A and B, but its opening was delayed because of needed finishing touches. Hours for the bridge will be 7 a.m. to 11 p.m. Mon-day to Saturday and 10 a.m. to

11 p.m. Sunday.“Our new bridge will help

unite our faculty, staff and students, both literally and figuratively, and will be-come a major new campus landmark,” Jay Bernhardt, dean of Moody College of Communication, said in a statement Monday.

The bridge will not be avail-able for events or gatherings, and hanging banners or post-ing signs will be prohibited, according to the statement.

Corporate communica-tion senior Marina Guindy said she’s glad the bridge

is completed.“I hated construction be-

cause getting over here was really hard,” Guindy said. “Other than that, I feel like it’s really useful because some-times, it’s really hard to get [between both buildings], and this will make it easier.”

However, the utility of the bridge does not justify the amount of money spent, Guindy said. Construction of the bridge cost $3 mil-lion and was part of the $50 million donation from the Moody Foundation of

The Travis County District Court will hear UT gradu-ate Suvi Orr’s case against the University on April 14. The University seeks to re-voke Orr’s Ph.D. for the second time.

Orr graduated with a Ph.D. in chemistry in 2008. The University began to re-view Orr’s work when an ar-ticle containing her research was published in Organic Letters, a scientific journal, and later retracted in 2011. Following the article’s retrac-tion and two years of review, the University attempted to revoke Orr’s Ph.D. Orr then filed a complaint, and her degree was reinstated in 2014. The University filed to revoke her degree again in September 2015.

“It all basically generated when they had to pull or retract the article that was published, that’s really what started it,” Orr’s lawyer David

Sergi said. According to the retraction

statement, Orr’s results could not be reproduced, and the University claims her falsi-fied research was included in her dissertation. The Univer-sity declined to comment on case specifics.

“The University cannot legally discuss the academic records or performance of our students, including the issues raised in this lawsuit,” spokesperson Gary Susswein said in an email.

Orr claims the University is unduly punishing her in-stead of her tenured graduate advisor, chemistry professor Stephen Martin.

“They intend to revoke her Ph.D., making her the sacrifi-cial lamb to protect [the Uni-versity’s] tenured professor Stephen Martin,” Orr’s peti-tion reads. “Rather than have professor Martin admit his own errors and shortcomings as a graduate advisor … the University has [attempted] to revoke [Orr’s] Ph.D. for what

may be subjective error in scientific judgment.”

Orr did not respond to re-quests for comment.

The plaintiff is not argu-ing that any facts of the case are disputable, but rather is questioning the right of the University to revoke a degree, according to Sergi.

“We’re using the attorney general’s opinion from 1969 that involved the University of Texas and the attorney general, who basically held that [the University] couldn’t revoke a degree, that the leg-islature didn’t give them that right,” Sergi said. “Until the legislature clarifies what the rights of the state universi-ties are, it’s our position that they have no right to revoke a degree.”

Originally Orr’s case was to be heard by a panel of faculty members and students of varying ma-jors. Orr requested a full trial and has been granted one in a Travis County District Court.

State abortion providers saw a sharp decline of more than 9,000 procedures in 2014 compared to the pre-vious year, when the state legislature approved restric-tions on clinic facilities and procedures.

Preliminary data from the Department of State Health Services shows there were 54,191 abortions in 2014, down from 63,849 in 2013. The drop in abortions repre-sents a 14 percent decline in the first full year following increased abortion restric-tions approved by the legis-lature in summer 2013.

Daniel Grossman, an in-vestigator with the Texas Policy Evaluation Project, said his research studying the recent restrictions’ affect on access to abortion has shown that women are facing nu-

A report issued by the In-diana University Center for Postsecondary Research re-vealed there has been an in-crease in debt-related stress in the past decade among graduate law students in the United States and Canada.

The first survey, conduct-ed in 2006, showed only 32 percent of law students expected to have more than $100,000 in debt by gradu-ation, compared to 44 per-cent in 2015. More than half of the second group stated they had “high levels of stress and anxiety during the school year.”

Rhiannon Hamam, a third-year law student, said the majority of stu-dents are concerned about loans and debt.

“Debt after law school has been a huge concern for me and almost took me off of the career track that I want-

ed,” Hamam said. “I will graduate law school with al-most $200,000 in debt, and those loans are just from law school.”

Only 11 percent of pub-lic law students in 2006 re-ported expecting debt over 100,000 dollars, but that number grew to 31 percent in 2015.

“During my first year, I seriously considered pursu-ing a different career track, perhaps working at a big law firm that would pay a high starting salary so that I could pay down my debt,” Hamam said.

Daniella Martinez, a third-year law student, said many people use debt as a top factor in deciding where to begin their legal career.

“It is undoubtedly a cause of stress — especially as graduation nears. Big law jobs pay over $100,000 a year — and many stu-dents take on those jobs to pay back debt quicker,”

Martinez said.Plan II senior Zachary

Stone has offers from law schools such as Columbia and Stanford University but chose to accept the Massey Scholarship, a full ride to UT’s School of Law. Stone said UT is the best buy for law school.

“Texas is one of the best places for UT undergrads — lowest in-state tuition and extremely generous with scholarships,” Stone said.

Ward Farnsworth, dean of UT’s School of Law, said considering both cost and opportunities, the return on investment at UT Law is the strongest anywhere.

“I wish the school were less expensive, so my high-est fundraising priority is to raise money for scholar-ship support,” Farnsworth said. “I want this to be the best place in the country to be a law student, and a big part of that is keeping the cost low.”

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Galveston in October 2013, when the college was given its current name.

“For me not to cross the street? I would say no, that’s not worth it,” Guindy said.

Supply chain management sophomore Jimena Gamboa Bonilla said she enjoys seeing

changes to the 40 Acres, such as the sky bridge and Speed-way renovation.

“It’s really nice to see new things popping up on cam-pus, even though we still have a lot of the classical buildings, like the six pack, the Tower,” Gamboa Bonilla said. “The University realizes that there’s still a lot of remodeling that needs to be done.”

Bernhardt said this bridge

is only the beginning of an effort to unify the College of Communication.

“We must continue build-ing bridges within our col-lege and throughout campus to help our ideas and exper-tise achieve their maximum reach and impact,” Bernhardt said in a statement.

The official dedication ceremony will be Thursday at 4 p.m.

merous obstacles — such as having to drive miles out of their way to the nearest open clinics — likely as a result of the law.

“Women whose nearest clinic had closed in the prior year from 2013 to 2014 on average were traveling about 85 miles to get to the clinic, and of course some women were traveling much farther, whereas women whose clinic hadn’t closed were traveling on average about 22 miles,” Grossman said.

The 2013 Texas abortion restrictions, also known as House Bill 2, are currently facing a stiff challenge at the U.S. Supreme Court from several Texas abortion pro-viders in Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt. The court heard oral arguments in the case on March 2.

Since the law took effect in October 2013, the number of state facilities that provide abortion services has dwin-

dled from more than 40 to 19, with the possibility of an-other 10 closures if a major-ity of Supreme Court justices choose to uphold the law’s major provisions that are in question in the court case.

The two provisions in question in the case require that clinics meet the same regulatory standards as am-bulatory surgical centers and that doctors performing abortions have admitting privileges at a hospital with-in 30 miles of a clinic.

“If our law is upheld, women in Texas will be safer,” said Texas Attor-ney General Ken Paxton, whose office is defending the state in court, in a state-ment. “If any part is struck down, women in Texas will be less safe, and that would be a tragedy.”

Since 1990, there have been more than 10 instances where the Court has taken up the issue of abortion. In 1992’s Planned Parent-hood v. Casey, the Court ruled states can regulate abortions differently than other medical procedures, but that any approved regu-lations may not create an “undue burden” on women’s access to abortions.

Grossman said whether the law’s restrictions are too bur-densome is one of the major questions the justices must ask themselves.

“I think that the signifi-cant decline in the abortion rate in Texas is evidence of an undue burden for some number of women,” Grossman said.

A final decision from the Court could come this summer.

The Court’s decision will have a national impact that could steer the conversation on abortion for the next de-cade or so.

Despite the possible sweeping ramifications, sup-porters of the Texas law say national trends of increased restrictions point to a grow-ing consensus in their favor.

“These national trends speak to the fact that demand for abortion is decreasing as a whole,” AG spokes-woman Cynthia Meyer said in an email. “That’s a positive thing.”

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Obama and Latifah were joined Wednesday by actress Sophia Bush, hip-hop artist Missy Elliott and Grammy-winning songwriter Diane Warren for Obama’s South By Southwest Music keynote address that encompassed fe-male empowerment, musical influences and education.

Promoting the White House initiative Let Girls Learn, a campaign dedicated to edu-cating young girls around the world, Obama said there are about 62 million young girls unable to access education be-cause of cultural norms, finan-cial burden, limited accessibil-ity and other reasons.

“All of these stories gener-ate the same kind of anger and that sense of unfairness and inequity that makes you want

to move,” Obama said. “[Tak-ing action] usually starts with something that moves you personally, and for me, 62 mil-lion girls not getting an educa-tion, that’s personal.”

Each woman on stage of-fered their own take on what motivates them. Latifah of-fered her experience in a community battling sub-stance abuse and AIDS, while Bush cited interactions with girls everywhere.

“The solution, for me, came from a lightbulb moment that had to do with education,” Bush said. “If we educate girls, if we empower girls, if we say, ‘yes you can’ instead of, ‘no you can’t,’ it all changes.”

Inspired by her mother’s strength growing up, Elliott said she refused to let others determine her value or let oth-ers’ comments stop her from following her dreams.

“I’ve been told so many times you don’t fit the mold; you don’t look like the way other artist look,” Elliott said. “I sit here today and I am a walking testimony by not listening to any of those things. Here I am out of all the things, I never thought I would be sitting here beside the first lady.”

Answering a fan’s question, Obama called for men, espe-cially those in power, to make sure they are surrounded by diversity in gender and race.

“We reach better answers when we have a broader ar-ray of voices — when we have women and minorities at the table,” Obama said. “If you are a man at the table, and you look around and there are only men at the table, then you should ask yourselves, ‘How can I do better?’ because there are a lot of men-only tables in this country and around the world.”

While the discussion cen-tered on girls’ educations and empowerment, it was not without music. The event opened with a three-song set from YouTube singers Chloe and Halle, and the panelists discussed the music that has

affected their lives the most.The FLOTUS picked Stevie

Wonder’s 1972 album Talking Book, her first album, as her most influential.

“He talked about unity, he talked about love and peace, and all of his songs were em-powering and impactful,” Obama said.

After leaving the White House, Obama said she plans to continue using her platform to support young people and inspire change.

“These are not issues that go away in a presidential term — they don’t go away in a life-time,” Obama said. “Why I work so much with young people is that you all are go-ing to be the ones who take on these issues. You’re going to be the ones that carry these things over the finish line.”

is only the beginning of an effort to unify the College of Communication.

“We must continue build-ing bridges within our col-lege and throughout campus to help our ideas and exper-tise achieve their maximum reach and impact,” Bernhardt said in a statement.

The official dedication ceremony will be Thursday at 4 p.m.

investigation, that it would be thorough and that [ex-oneration] would be the outcome,” Gammill said. “So obviously he is pleased with that.”

Law student Moham-med Nabulsi, who took part in the PSC’s demon-stration, said he disagrees with the OIE’s findings and that he’s concerned with Fenves’ statement, which made no mention of the PSC’s complaints about the professor’s online post.

“To us, what that in-dicates, especially to the Arab and Muslim com-munity at UT, is that, ‘You guys are open targets, you can be subject to racist or inflammatory statements with no consequence,’” Nabulsi said.

Gammill said the Uni-versity has policies for dem-onstrations and protests, and PSC members weren’t acting in accordance with those policies.

“Taking over an entire event, refusing to engage in dialogue — those are not part of that process,” Gammill said.

Nabulsi said the dem-onstration, like several the PSC had carried out pre-viously, wasn’t intended to prevent dialogue.

“Our intention was one, two minutes and out,” Nabulsi said, “The event was supposed to go on.”

While Pedahzur isn’t teaching classes at UT this semester, Middle Eastern languages junior Radhika Shah, who took a class with Pedahzur last semester, said she didn’t see a differ-ence in his classroom after the incident.

“I don’t think that it changed his teaching or anything,” Shah said.

Radio-television-film lec-turer Steve Mims directed a film that premiered at SXSW last week.

Mims said the documen-tary, “Starving the Beast: The Battle to Disrupt and Reform America’s Public Universi-ties” is about the decline in state funding for public uni-versities across the country, including UT.

“Over 35 years, funding that states provide to public univer-sities like UT has radically been

reduced,” Mims said. “Funding for public higher education ac-tually peaked in 1980. UT used to get, on average, about 65 percent of its funding directly from the state, and now it’s about 12 percent.”

According to the UT Bud-get Office, for the 1984–1985 academic year, 47 percent of UT’s budget came from the state, while tuition fees made up 5 percent of the budget. In comparison, for the 2014–2015 academic year, state funding decreased to 12 percent of UT’s total budget, with 22 percent coming from tuition.

“The money the state doesn’t provide is now replaced by money from students and their families,” Mims said. “That’s part of the reason why tuition at public universities is going up pretty radically.”

Bill Banowsky, producer of “Starving the Beast,” said there is a well organized effort across the country to defund public higher education, which has repercussions.

“[Public research universities] have had an enormous impact on our economy,” Banowsky said. “Defunding [public higher education] is resulting in, we

fear, people who do not come from wealthy backgrounds hav-ing much less access to high-quality higher education. Once this happens, it’ll be very diffi-cult, if not impossible, to reverse that trend.”

Mims said the trend is a radi-cal shift from the way people looked at higher education un-til very recently.

“When public higher educa-tion started, the states poured a lot of money into it because they viewed public higher education as an investment of the people of the state,” Mims said. “That’s what you do when you see stu-

dents as citizens of a state. The current thinking, the reform movement, doesn’t really see things that way. They see stu-dents as customers.”

University spokesperson Gary Susswein said in an email that appropriate funding is required for UT to remain one of the best public research universities in the nation.

“We continue to work closely with lawmakers to help restore that support so we can fulfill our mandate in the Texas Constitu-tion of being a ‘University of the first class,’” Susswein said in the email.

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It has now been more than two weeks since I voted for Student Government exec-utive alliance (president and vice president, respectively). It has been nearly as long since this University was supposed to tell us who won. But, of course, things can never be so simple. Not here. Not in SG.

We voted on the Internet. There were no paper ballots. There did not have to be any counting. Just a few strokes on a keyboard and we would know who won.

It started out so simply. The Dean of Students announced that executive alli-ance results would be delayed, just for an hour or so. They were then delayed a sec-ond time and then a third time. Finally, the election results were not certified and delayed indefinitely.

But this is where the fun really began. SG began discussing the impeachment of Zach-ary Stone, who until recently was the Chief Justice of the UT Supreme Court. Stone, as well as three of the four other justices on the court, resigned in protest. Three of them co-wrote a column that appeared in this news-paper on Thursday, March 10, castigating the entire process.

Now, the entire election will be scrapped, and a new one will be held. But there has still been no official word from the Dean of Students. No word on who was the popular choice of the students.

UT-Austin? More like UT-San Lorenzo.For most students, SG is very low stakes.

This election is not going to affect my life — or likely yours — in any significant way. But it does matter nonetheless for two reasons. First, the people running — there are eight of them, last I checked — need to know whether to apply for graduation. The dead-line to apply is April 4. A new election and a subsequent runoff very well may not hap-pen by then. Second, and more important, it blemishes our reputation to be put through this indignity.

To put it bluntly, I’ve seen elections for Municipal Utility Districts less petty than this. The ticket of Kallen Dimitroff and Jesse Guadiana has been accused of lying on their financial disclosures because they did not accurately enumerate the number of sandbags holding up one of their signs outside of a sorority house. The judicial branch quit en masse after fouling up and then publicly announced they were going out for drinks.

SG President Xavier Rotnofsky and SG Vice President Rohit Mandalapu ran last year as a joke. Frankly, I find this year’s elec-tion to be the bigger farce.

“This election started off like any other but descended into madness pretty quick-ly,” Mandalapu said. “Hopefully this all gets sorted out soon, and we can move past this embarrassment and whoever wins can actually focus on serving the university in-stead of petty election drama.”

To further quote the aforementioned Rot-nofsky and Mandalapu, what starts here? Let me count the ways.

Voter apathy, for one. Texas has among the lowest rates of voter turnout in the coun-

try. Maybe it’s because some Texans’ first experience with electoral politics is this cluster of embarrassment. Maybe hostility to campaign finance reform, too, given how ludicrous, onerous and punitive the regula-tions on campaigns at this University are.

So what is there to do now?“I mean what’s happened has happened,”

Dimitroff said. “It’s confusing, and it’s not great, but right now we all have a choice to make about how we get out of this.”

For starters, the Dean of Students should release the original election results — not certify them, just release them to the pub-lic. I know the Texan has filed a Freedom of

Information Act request with the University. We should know who won, even if we have to go to the courthouse to find out.

Having an election with some integrity would be another good idea. I tend to think that’s a pipe dream, but perhaps others are more optimistic.

“Through complaints, resignations and general BS, I still believe in SG,” Dimitroff added. “I believe in our campus community and I know that together we can rise above this mess and make SG about what this pro-cess should’ve been about the entire time — things that matter.”

Horwitz is a government senior from Houston.

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Austin is a haven for new tech and in-novation but doesn’t need to be one for companies that work to deceive their customers and employees. Ride-hailing companies that portray themselves as victims of the City’s regulations are feign-ing innocence, and Austinites should call their bluff.

In December, the Austin City Council passed a city ordinance on “transporta-tion network companies.” The ordinance originally incentivized fingerprint-based background checks and sent 1 percent of local revenue to the City.

Although the ordinance would have been phased in this February, “Rideshar-ing Works for Austin” collected 65,103 signatures on a petition, prompting the City Council to change their plans and put the ordinance up for a vote.

This may seem like a grass-roots movement but is more like paying to lay fake turf. It turns out that “Ridesharing Works for Aus-tin” is actually a political ac-tion committee funded primar-ily by Uber and Lyft, the main ride-hailing com-panies in Austin.

The two companies not only financed their campaign but also over-exaggerated the potential results of the City ordinance. They convinced many Austinites and their own drivers that mandatory finger-print checks would force them to leave Austin com-pletely. When San Antonio imposed similar regulations in March 2015, the companies did indeed leave. But, they came back that June with volun-tary fingerprint checks and all.

Under its current sys-tem, Uber distances itself

from its “contractors.” As Uber has grown, their drivers have become less powerful — the company is now taking a higher share of fares and is charging more fees from the driver.

Some Austin ride-hailing drivers have become disillusioned with the compa-nies. Many of the companies’ drivers spent January pushing the petition while their passengers were a captive audience. Some revolted against the company’s un-derhanded tactics. During SXSW a large group of drivers boycotted, refusing to drive on Tuesday. In fact, they’ve been boycotting every Tuesday for the past month or so.

While there are many benefits to ride-hailing apps, there aren’t enough to out-weigh the cost of companies that have shown themselves to use underhanded tactics and disregard public safety. On May 7, vote no on the “Ridesharing Works for Austin” ordinance.

MacLean is an advertising freshman from Austin.

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Congratulations, citizens of Travis County, we drink like fish. According to a report by Austin’s ABC affiliate, coun-ty residents drink far more on average than residents of any other county of the state, partially because of the area’s University of Texas students and Sixth Street bars. Fortunately, students have a slew of options to get home safely, none of which are more accessible than ride-hailing services.

Uber and Lyft provide a fantastic op-tion for bar patrons after closing time. When Austin legalized these transpor-tation network companies in October 2014, residents were provided with access to a reliable, easy way to get home safe after a night on the town. These servic-es, in addition to the city’s strict DWI en-forcement, have played a p a r t in a

decrease in drinking and driv-ing incidents across the city over the past three years.

“Any increase in an alternative trans-portation method can’t do anything but help,” APD DWI enforcement officer Keith Walker said in a 2015 interview with The Daily Texan.

These companies advertise them-selves as safe transportation options. Uber recently partnered with Moth-ers Against Drunk Driving to study the ride-hailing companies’ effects on drinking and driving. The study claims that ride requests peak around bar clos-ing times and that the presence of Uber leads to a general decrease in DUI ar-rests and alcohol-related crashes among drivers under 30.

Multiple researchers have examined this trend in cities where Uber oper-ates, and, while data detailing this topic is hard to obtain, they arrive at similar conclusions: Uber appears to play a role

in reducing drinking and driving.The University has also made an effort to promote ride-hailing back from Sixth Street. It began the Safe Ride program in 2014. The program has had trouble staying afloat because of

funding issues, but it shows ride-hailing services have been embraced by the community.

Improvements to the prac-tices of Uber and Lyft will

only happen if the services stick around. While the

companies have em-ployed less-than-sa-vory tactics to try and strong-arm the City

Council, it is more beneficial to keep an open dialogue than

to force them out of Austin. If they leave, efforts to

collect proper data for informed

policy-making will be put on hold. That,

in addition to the re-moval of a safe alter-

native to driving un-der the influence, will

hurt Austin more than it helps. On May 7, vote yes on

the “Ridesharing Works for Austin” ordinance.

Humphrey is a journalism senior from Round Rock.

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However, there are sev-eral small but noticeable mo-ments when Baauer slips up creatively. “Day Ones” feels typical upon first listen and even disruptive at its position in the album‘s tracklist. The song features an extremely grimy and heavy beat imme-diately following five tracks of intriguing and detailed-oriented production, making it feel out of place. Although it may be a very minor com-ponent, the album’s conclu-sion, “Aa,” could have been a much stronger statement to enforce the album’s wide-spread artistic aims rather than a quick one-minute fade to black.

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‘Midnight Special’ stages subdued sci-fi

We find Roy (Michael Shannon), Lucas (Joel Edg-erton) and Roy’s son, Alton (Jaeden Lieberher), holed up in a dark motel room. Roy is packing guns. Lucas is on edge, keeping guard by the door. Alton hides beneath a blanket, reading a comic book. On the TV, a news anchor relays an Amber Alert — a boy named Alton is missing, and Roy is his suspected kidnapper.

Night falls, and the trio zoom off in a weathered car. Who are these people? What are they on the run from? Where are they heading?

Writer and director Jeff Nichols brilliantly hooks us with the immediate mystery, then answers these questions as the story gradually unfolds. We find out that Roy, for un-known reasons, allowed Alton to be adopted by the head of a religious cult (Sam Shepard).

Alton has a mysterious power the cult believes makes him the key to their salva-tion, and it’s not hard to see

why they think so: His eyes glow and cast blinding white light at the most inopportune times, and he can listen in on radio waves and manipulate physical objects.

We learn Roy, Lucas and Roy’s ex-wife, Sarah (Kirsten Dunst), who joins them mid-way through their journey, are trying to get Alton to a secret location where he’ll meet oth-ers like him. They are being hunted by a religious cult and by FBI and NSA agent Paul Sevier (Adam Driver).

For a science fiction film, “Midnight Special,” released March 18, is unusually sub-dued. It’s shot like Nichols’ other dramas, and it generally grounds its early proceedings in reality so that we buy into the movie’s more outlandish events, one of which is the terrifying crash of a satellite caused by Alton’s abilities. The climax is a satisfyingly human moment, rather than a violent battle between the three factions, though there are scary moments of vio-lence in the picture. In many ways, “Midnight Special” can be viewed as Nichols’ loving

homage to Steven Spielberg’s “Close Encounters of the Third Kind.”

Shannon, who has collabo-rated with Nichols on each of his four films, invests us in Roy’s plight with his inten-sity and conviction. Edgerton and Dunst similarly deliver strong performances as un-likely heroes. The adult leads feel genuine and world weary — one can sense the history behind them and their rela-tionships without having seen or heard about them.

But “Midnight Special” is very much Lieberher’s film — like Shannon, he has a quiet assuredness about him. He communicates the pain of Alton’s struggle to understand himself and what he’s meant to do, and his work with Shan-non sustains the picture.

Like Spielberg, Nichols deals with themes of parent-hood. Roy is a loving father, willing to kill to protect his son, and he does everything he can to help him understand who he is.

Nonetheless, Nichols sug-gests Roy’s role isn’t to be Alton’s guardian forever, that

his job is to eventually let go of the boy he cares so much for. The process is difficult and poignant for Roy, who initially rejects Sarah’s worry that taking Roy to the secret location may mean losing him to a higher power.

While it opens with many questions, the ending of “Mid-night Special” will leave view-ers asking many more. It’ll be up to debate as to who or what Alton really is, and the final shot leaves the film once again shrouded in mystery. Nichols’ latest picture is engaging and moving science fiction that understands humanity in even the most inhuman of us all.

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Head coach Augie Gar-rido described the state of the Longhorns following Sunday’s 5-3 loss to Tu-lane. At 8–12 on the season, Texas holds its worst record through 20 games in over a decade, but Garrido insists that the team’s woes aren’t be-cause of a lack of talent.

Instead, a litany of errors — both mental and physical — serves as the root problem.

“We have to get back to taking pride in the ability to play catch,” Garrido said. “Our strength is in our pitch-ing staff. We have to play de-fense at a high level.”

The Longhorns certainly didn’t follow Garrido’s pre-scription on Sunday. Texas fumbled its way to three er-rors, two of them at crucial times. In addition to the er-

rors, the Longhorns simply aren’t playing smart baseball.

Freshman pitcher Chase Shugart displayed a lack of defensive awareness in the eighth inning of Sunday’s contest. The young pitcher fielded a bunt instead of let-ting the ball trickle foul, al-lowing a Tulane runner to score from third base.

“It was going to be foul, no doubt,” Garrido said. “Ev-erybody was yelling not to pick it up.”

Aside from two blowout losses at the hands of Stanford and California, the Long-horns have had opportunities to win numerous close games. But the lack of defensive dis-cipline has cost them dearly.

“We’ve given away 11 games,” Garrido said. “We’ve given them too many oppor-tunities, too many outs within the framework of the inning.”

Texas’ bats won’t be able

to bail out the defense in 2016. The offense has been mediocre by most measures this year, ranking fifth in the Big 12 in batting average and seventh in slugging percent-age. And no Longhorn ranks in the top 10 in home runs or hits.

The Longhorns claim that a punchless lineup won’t be their undoing. Junior center fielder Zane Gurwitz stayed on message when addressing the media after Sunday’s de-feat, saying Texas’ struggles are because of the mistakes made by the burnt orange.

“We’re making errors or bad decisions at the perfect time for the other team,” Gurwitz said. “That’s some-thing we can fix. It’s within us. These teams aren’t any more talented or better than us.”

If the litany of errors can be fixed, the Longhorns will have little time to do it. A matchup

with UTSA on Tuesday night at UFCU Disch-Falk Field precedes the beginning of conference play, where Texas will face a Big 12 powerhouse in No. 6 TCU.

Nonconference play has been a rocky road for Texas, and four games under .500 isn’t where Garrido expected

his team to be after twenty games. But the Longhorns’ leader still believes his team can get back on track.

“I know they can be [a champion],” Garrido said. “All things are possible. It’s in our hands.”

But first, they need to catch the ball.

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Five points, three rebounds, and a 30-point loss.

LaMarcus Aldridge re-ceived a lot of criticism for that weak performance against the defending NBA champi-ons Golden State Warriors on Jan. 25.

Playing for a new team that has been an annual title con-tender for the last 20 years required an adjustment from Aldridge. And his game has evolved greatly since moving from Portland to San Antonio this past offseason.

One of Aldridge’s most impactful performances this season occurred on Saturday night against those same first-place Warriors in front of a na-tional television audience.

He posted a team-high 26 points, recorded 13 rebounds and served as one of the vital players in securing the Spurs’ 36th-consecutive home victo-ry, a streak dating back to 2015.

Ever since the first Warriors game, Aldridge’s game has reached new heights. He has averaged 21.8 points per game, recorded eight double-doubles and logged 10 games of at least 25 points in that timespan. He

has assumed the role of a pri-mary offensive option with the Spurs.

Aldridge’s minutes have risen from 29.4 per game be-fore the Warriors loss to 32.2 minutes per game since. He is shooting at the second-most efficient mark in his career at 50.7 percent and is shooting 57.6 percent in the month of March. His versatility in shot selection, ability to space the floor and signature mid-range jumper have become valuable assets for the Spurs.

The reliance on Al-dridge continues to inten-sify come playoff time as the rotations tighten.

“Nobody rushed him,” Spurs assistant coach Ettore Messina told the Associated Press. “Ev-ery day he feels more comfort-able, and guys know where to find him, where are his sweet spots. He’s also giving us a de-fensive presence that most of the time goes underrated.”

The addition of Aldridge to San Antonio is proving to be suitable for both parties. After adjustments and overcoming growing pains, Aldridge is fi-nally enjoying more minutes and production in a winning atmosphere. The Spurs, a fran-chise with five championships under their name, are currently 59–10 and on pace to their best regular season finish in history.

“He draws so much atten-tion,” Spurs veteran Manu Ginobili told the Associ-ated Press. “And everybody is so concerned about him that it opens up space for ev-erybody else. He’s been an amazing addition.”

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Texas struggling to catch on before conference play

The Longhorns won’t get over what happened Friday night, at least not in the im-mediate future.

The half-court heave that sent Northern Iowa to the round of 32 and broke Texas’ hearts will haunt the team for a while, particularly the five seniors.

“I’m just disappointed about tonight, how it went,” head coach Shaka Smart said. “I wanted our guys to be able to keep playing, especially our older guys.”

But no matter how Texas lost, or which round it lost in, the next question was al-ways going to be the same — where do the Longhorns go from here?

Texas showed signs of what it could become in Smart’s first season in Aus-tin. The Longhorns had success against some of the top teams in the AP poll and stayed afloat in the Big 12 after losing senior cen-ter Cameron Ridley for an extended period.

But the Longhorns strug-gled in the final weeks of season and lacked momen-tum heading into the NCAA Tournament. Still, despite the crushing events on Friday, there is much the Longhorns can build on from this cam-paign, but also plenty of holes that will need filling.

Ridley and fellow senior center Prince Ibeh won’t be around next season, leaving

an enormous void at center. Ridley was terrific before he broke his foot, and Ibeh be-came a defensive stalwart af-ter Ridley’s injury.

Senior guard Javan Felix became the Longhorns’ sec-ond leading scorer this year and delivered the shot that beat North Carolina in De-cember, while senior forward Connor Lammert was an X factor with his shooting as a power forward. That’s two more starters gone.

Junior guard Isaiah Taylor nearly bolted for the NBA Draft last year before Smart convinced him to stay in Aus-tin. Taylor faces the same de-cision again this season, and the possibility that he leaves still exists.

What the Longhorns re-ally need is their freshmen to make leaps as sophomores. Freshman guard Kerwin Roach Jr. showed potential with his raw athleticism, and freshman guard Guard Eric

Davis Jr. had some big mo-ments with his shooting and confidence. Both could very well compete for starting roles next year and will cer-tainly have more minutes.

Among the freshmen, guard/forward Tevin Mack struggled the most this sea-son, but showed flashes of his shooting ability. He will com-pete with junior forward Sha-quille Cleare for Lammert’s starting spot.

The 2016 recruiting class is still coming together, but more holes, such as those at center, could be filled de-pending on how the rest of the year shakes out.

No matter what, the Long-horns can’t afford another first-round burnout next season. The goal should be to make the tournament and then make a deep run in Smart’s second year.

The talent and potential is there. They just need to forget about Friday night.

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Freshman guard Lashann Higgs dropped 11 points off the bench and made some key defensive plays to propel Texas to a Sweet 16 berth.

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Joshua Guerra | Daily Texan StaffDefensive struggles have sent Texas to an 8–12 record, the team’s worst through 20 games in over a decade.

Texas entered its second-round matchup in the NCAA tournament, knowing that it needed to keep Missouri’s shooters in check to win and advance to the Sweet 16.

Three minutes into the game, the Tigers’ leading scor-er, freshman guard Sophie Cunningham, had already nailed two threes to give Mis-souri a 6-0 lead.

But what appeared to be a turning into a Missouri shoot-ing clinic was abruptly halted. Texas went on a 17-3 run to close the first quarter and never looked back, winning 73-55 on Monday night in the final game to be played at the Erwin Center this season.

“Tonight was a team you that love to coach,” head coach Karen Aston said. “They played free, and they played about as hard as they could play.”

Cunningham continued to knock down shots for the Ti-gers. She led all scorers with 23 points, but Missouri shot just 31 percent from the floor as a team while the Longhorns shot 41 percent.

Texas missed its first seven shots but would make eight of its next 16 to jump ahead of the Tigers 17-9 by the end of the first quarter.

Freshman guard Lashann Higgs started the scoring early in the second quarter. Higgs scored two quick buckets and added an assist on a spin move in the paint to give Texas a 23-14 lead less than two minutes into the quarter.

“As I was coming off the bench, I just had to remind myself that when your num-ber is being called, always be ready,” Higgs said. “My num-ber was called. I felt like I was ready.”

Higgs wasn’t done. She stripped the ball away from a Missouri player in the

Longhorns’ offensive end to get possession back for Texas. The steal led to a three by se-nior guard Celina Rodrigo that stretched the Longhorn lead to 26-14.

Sophomore guard Ariel Atkins and Higgs were the only Longhorns to score in double figures, with 22 points

and 11 points, respectively. Atkins has led Texas in scor-ing in both tournament games thus far.

The win gives Texas 30 wins in one season for the first time since 2004, but the season isn’t over. The Longhorns travel to Bridgeport, Connecticut to compete in the Sweet 16 for

the second-straight season. Texas will face No. 3 UCLA on March 26.

“I just can’t say enough about how proud I am of this basketball team,” Aston said. “I’m really excited to be in the Sweet 16. I’m excited for our team and looking forward to moving on.”

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No. 4 Texas men’s golf leads by 10 shots heading into final round at Valspar Collegiate

The No. 4 Texas men’s golf team just won’t cool off.

The Longhorns finished the opening round at the Valspar Collegiate at 1-un-der par, but a 3-over par performance in the second round put Texas at 2-over for the tournament heading into Tuesday’s final round, still 10 shots clear of sec-ond place No. 20 LSU. Both rounds one and two were played on Monday.

Junior Gavin Hall fired rounds of 69 and 68 to take a three-shot lead at 5-under in the individual stand-ings. Hall is gunning for the second victory of his career after tying for first with fellow teammate and junior Beau Hossler in Feb-ruary at the John A. Burns Intercollegiate.

Hossler posted rounds of 72 and 74 to finish the day in a tie for 16th at 4-over. Hossler has won four times this season, including three of his last four starts.

Redshirt sophomore Taylor Funk carded back-to-back 72s to finish the day in a tie for 13th with fellow teammate and sophomore Doug Ghim, who posted rounds of 71 and 73.

Sophomore Scottie Scheffler carded rounds of 71 and 77 to finish the day in a tie for 29th at 6-over. Freshman Steven Cher-vony, who’s competing as an individual, finished in a tie for 73rd at 16-over after posting rounds 75 and 83.

The Longhorns will go for their fourth win of the season on Tuesday.

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Although his 2012 hit single “Harlem Shake” spawned a huge Internet meme and shot his name into the spotlight of main-stream electronica, Baauer’s breakout track looms over

him to this day.Without “Harlem Shake,”

Baauer would lack the name recognition he has in today’s constantly evolving EDM scene. However, it’s clear he doesn’t want to be defined by the song’s cliché samples, mechanical basslines and heavy drops. With Aa, his debut solo record, Baauer

looks to shed these typical expectations of trap mu-sic to show his diversity as an artist.

The album is notewor-thy for its range, with some songs emulating familiar trap elements while oth-ers take a stab at a variety of further genres, includ-ing rap on “Day Ones” and

“Kung Fu”, R&B on “Way From Me” and even chan-neling his inner Daft Punk during “Pinku.”

Generally speaking, these experimentations lead to impressive results. Both “Body” and “Sow” trend more toward mature trap and trop house — rather than the dance influences of “Harlem

Shake” — using layered vo-cals and a variety of instru-ments outside of the typical synths to keep the attention of listeners.

The standouts continue later in the album with “Temple,” which includes an impressive feature from M.I.A. and leans heavily on its drums and basslines while

still keeping a fresh feeling. Even the three interludes of Aa, which feature ana-log instrumentation, set the tone for several breaks from traditional trap.

Very few songs lack the gusto Baauer carries into this record. The only track that

When most people walk into a building on campus, they notice the decora-tions on the walls or the door they walk through. But when John Abroms enters, he sees the build-ing’s skeleton — the raf-ters, ventilation and alarm systems buried deep within its walls.

As the University’s fire & life safety technician, Abroms responds to emer-gency dispatch calls that set off fire alarms on cam-pus. The accidents range from alarms unintentional-ly set off to fires caused by experiments in Welch Hall.

Since taking the job in 1989, Abroms said the worst call was a fire in the Chemical Transfer build-ing in the ’90s, an accident so potentially dangerous that a team was sent in with HAZMAT suits, and traffic was shut down from I-35 to Guadalupe Street.

Passing through UT’s buildings for the past 27 years, Abroms has also met several notable people on campus.

In 1990, Abroms and a few co-workers were navi-gating the LBJ Library and ran into Lady Bird John-son and her Secret Ser-vice agents. Abroms said Johnson made an effort to personally get to know his story, insisting he visit her each time he had a job in the building.

After tearing his ham-string on the job, Abroms coincidentally sat across from Barbara Jordan in the hospital as he endured his treatment. Abroms said Jordan told him he wouldn’t cry and spoke to him with such conviction and power that he main-tained composure through

the pain.Abroms calls his work

“dancing” because he is always adapting to new

situations and “doesn’t know what song is coming up next.”

“Caring really goes a

long way,” Abroms said. “My ability to get along with people, to communi-cate, to bring some heart

to it and be able to care for people whether you know them or not [lets] you go that extra mile.”

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Juan Figueroa| Daily Texan StaffJohn Abroms, the University’s fire life safety technician, has been responding to fire alarms around campus for 27 years.

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