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Committee to suggest tuition raiseUNIVERSITY

Daily Texan facing print cuts from TSM boardAt the request of the UT

System Board of Regents, a working group of student leaders will now consider up to a 2.1 percent increase for in-state undergraduate tuition in addition to the 3.6 percent out-of-state increase

proposed in December.In 2012, the UT System

did not approve any tuition increases at the University and allocated $13.2 million from the Available University Fund to offset tuition and fee increases for 2013 and 2014.

In December, the ad hoc committee of three student leaders, which replaced UT’s

Tuition Policy Advisory Committee because of time constraints, created a pro-posal that requested the hike in out-of-state undergradu-ate tuition. No changes to in-state undergraduate or graduate-student tuition were initially proposed.

The new working group now has seven student

leaders, including gradu-ate students, who were not involved in December’s pro-posal. The group will have one month to create a new proposal for a one-year cycle. In previous years, tuition has been set for a two-year cycle.

Andrew Clark, Senate of College Councils president, said the working group has

met once and will allow stu-dents to give their input at the Student Government, Graduate Student Assem-bly and Senate meetings this week.

“I’m personally very frus-trated by the lack of time,” Clark said. “We certainly

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By Nicole Cobler@nicolecobler

CAMPUS

Drag sales show heavy student reliance

Shelby Tauber / Daily Texan Staff Restaurants lining Guadalupe, also known as “The Drag”, experience significant drops in sales over school breaks. Sales have dropped up to 70 percent in certain shops.

The strip of restaurants lining Guadalupe next to the University, commonly known as “The Drag,” ex-periences significant drops in sales over spring, sum-mer and winter breaks, according to several store managers.

Virginia Navarate, general manager of Qdoba Mexican Grill on 24th Street off Gua-dalupe, said the store expe-riences about a 60 percent drop in sales during breaks because of the diminished foot traffic.

“We change up the [oper-ating] times, so when usu-ally we open at 10 a.m. and close at 3 a.m., we operate

[during breaks] from 12 p.m. to 10 p.m.,” Navarate said. “We do everything else the same because we must expect it may be busy, but it never is. It’s kind of like a break for the store, too.”

Which Wich general manager Francisco Oro-zco said the store has an average of 40-45 percent drop in sales during breaks.

Chipotle general manager Breck McBride said the store has about a 50 percent drop in sales, and Campus Candy general manager Dan Mo-rales said the store has a 25 percent drop in sales dur-ing summer break and a 70 percent drop in sales during winter break.

Morales also said the drop in sales demonstrates the

PERCENTAGE DROP IN SALES

Which Wich: 40-45 percentQdoba: 60 percentCampus Candy: 25 - 75 percentChipotle: 50 percent

By Christina Breitbiel@ChristinaBreit

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Eleven members of the Texas Student Media board will make their final decision regarding the future print schedule of The Daily Texan on Friday, although TSM’s advertising revenue proposal was not released until three days before the meeting and remains incomplete.

In a meeting on Feb. 21, board members said they would need more informa-tion and time before voting on a final budget. The board directed TSM senior pro-gram coordinator C.J. Salga-do to prepare an advertising revenue proposal and sched-uled an additional meeting for March 7 to review it.

The proposal was not completed by March 7 and the meeting was ultimately canceled because of a lack of quorum.

TSM oversees five proper-ties — The Daily Texan, The Texas Travesty, KVRX, TSTV and the Cactus Yearbook — and has faced increased bud-get shortfalls as ad revenue declined nationally over the last several years.

According to TSM in-terim director Frank Serpas’ proposal, he believes cutting The Daily Texan from a daily publication to a weekly pub-lication is the only viable so-lution to avoid draining TSM reserves completely.

“This is our best guess,” Serpas told the board in the February meeting. “This can be seen as something that

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By Nicole Cobler@nicolecobler

MEN’S BASKETBALL

Holmes stands tall as last member of 2011 recruiting class

Two years ago, forward Jona-than Holmes and the other five members of his highly rated recruiting class sat in Cooley Pavilion on Selection Sunday as they were selected to play in the NCAA Tournament for the first time. The freshmen were the only Longhorns on that year’s team who had never been to the tournament before.

Holmes sat in the same place last Sunday, watch-ing the same show. But not everything was the same: Nobody from his recruit-ing class was there, and, this time, he was the only player in the room who had been to the tournament.

“It was definitely difficult,” Holmes said. “You come in with those guys, you build relationships with those guys, and you’re with them ev-eryday for two years, so it’s

difficult to see them leave.”Nobody could have predict-

ed that this is where Holmes would be today. When Holmes, a San Antonio native, arrived on the 40 Acres, the Longhorn basketball program was full of promise. Fresh off one of the best seasons of head coach Rick Barnes’ tenure in 2010-2011, Holmes came to Texas as part of the 2011 recruiting class that ESPN ranked as the fourth best in the nation.

But, after a disappointing freshman season that ended in a first round loss to Cincinnati, things went from bad to worse for the Longhorns in Holmes’ sophomore season. J’Covan Brown, the team’s leading scor-er, bolted for the pros; Sterling Gibbs became the first of Hol-mes’ recruiting classmates to transfer; and Myck Kabongo, who was expected to make up for Brown’s absence, was sus-pended for the first 23 games.

The missing pieces,

combined with a lack of leader-ship, sent the Longhorns spiral-ing down the conference stand-ings. Even worse, the team’s failure to live up to expectations wreaked havoc off the court. A clearly strained relationship be-gan to develop between Barnes and some of his players, and the program began to come apart at the seams.

“A lot of things went in to [our struggles] last year,” Holmes said. “No one person was at fault. It was a group ef-fort. But, when you lose, it’s easy to point the finger and say someone else is wrong.”

It all came to a head at the end of the Longhorns’ disap-pointing season. Texas’ 16-18 record meant there was no possibility of making the NCAA tournament. So, in-stead of letting his guys watch the selection show, Barnes ran an intense practice.

“Where we were at this time a year ago wasn’t

acceptable,” Barnes said. “That’s why we knew we had to take a hard look at every-thing, and sometimes tough

changes have to be made.”From there, the house

cleaning began. Kabongo left for the NBA, Julien Lewis

transferred to Fresno State, Sheldon McClellan took off to

By Stefan Scarfield@stefanscrafield

Shelby Tauber / Daily Texan Staff Texas junior forward Jonathan Holmes dunks in Texas’ loss to Baylor in the Big 12 tournament last week. Holmes is the only scholarship upperclassman on the roster.

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extent to which students at UT rely on eating out, specifically at restaurants on The Drag.

“I don’t see it as a big is-sue, though,” Morales said. “We push about 30,000 stu-dents a week through those doors, [so] we make plenty. The fact of the matter is that probably [most] of what students eat is purchased [on The Drag]. If The Drag wasn’t here, UT wouldn’t be the campus that it is.”

Steve Salazar, general manager of Tyler’s, a store selling clothing and oth-er merchandise, said he does not see a significant drop in sales for the store during breaks.

“I would imagine people come here because they know what they want,” Sala-zar said. “It’s not like that with food, per se. We have a lot of out-of-towners, because they want more local things.”

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Pu Ying Huang / Daily Texan StaffBarking Hound Village caretaker Celeste King watches over during the dog daycare and boarding facility’s group playtime.

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to know what the revenue will be without actually pulling the trigger and just putting it out there on the market.”

Player, who has been on the board since Sep-tember 2012, said he did not believe the canceled meeting to discuss ad rev-enue would affect any of the board member’s votes. Player and nutrition senior Jason Lu are the only two student voting members who have served on the board for more than a year.

“The only thing it would change is [getting] feedback from the board members,” Player said. “It’s not neces-sarily a big detriment.”

Player said he has not decided how he will vote in Friday’s meeting because he is waiting to see what ideas the board will introduce for generating revenue.

Salgado said she believes the process needed a con-siderable amount of time and was done too quickly.

“I think we’ve had this discussion for more than five years, but I think this is the first time we’ve had someone in our position as a leader who has put every-thing out there for every-one to see, so it is a trans-parent, open process, and we have an open dialogue,” Salgado said.

Salgado said she does not think the board will vote to change the Texan to a weekly publication.

“It’s history,” Salgado said. “Nobody wants to see it go to weekly, and they’re fighting for it and asking what they can do to keep it going.”

The advertising depart-ment has 10 student work-ers and two professional staff, Salgado said.

Jordan Hawkes, adver-tising senior and TSM stu-dent voting member, said she felt capable of making an informed decision re-garding the newspaper’s future even though Sal-gado’s proposal had not been released.

“I’ve studied media trends for the past two years,” Hawkes said. “Unfortunately, I think that what we’re going to have to do is look at a switch to digital.”

Robert Quigley, jour-nalism lecturer and TSM voting member, said he hopes the board will con-sider alternatives before drastically cutting the print publication.

“I think there’s an oppor-tunity to increase revenue if the advertising staff is able to boost its ranks and come up with new plans and come up with plans we’re following,” Quigley said. “I think we can turn this around.”

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“We are not here fighting for a political party or an ideology. We are here to protest against the constant violation of human rights in Venezuela. We are here fighting for freedom of speech and freedom of life.”

—Hector Ricardo Alvarez, Austin resident

VIEWS ON VENEZUELAStudents fight silence in Venezuela

Words and photos by Michelle Toussaint

“Regardless of where I am, I carry my country in my heart. I am motivated to support the fight because it is defining the history of my country, and we want future with freedom, equality and opportunities for our families.”

—Fabiana Latorre, international relations and global studies junior

“I am the only one here. My whole family is in Venezuela risking their lives, their careers — everything — which is why I want to show my support.”

—Natalia Jezierski, Austin resident

“I want to raise awareness of the situation in Venezuela. There are violations of human rights every day in the streets, and people around the world need to know.”

—Angelo Fernandez, Austin resident

“I support Venezuela because I understand them, since El Salvador, my home country, is constantly in civil war, and I also have family in danger back home.”

—Tatiana Martinez, classical archeology freshman

“There is no room for fear, only for hope. I think that’s what motivates students back in Venezuela to keep fighting for their rights and what motivates me as well.”

—Andrea Clark, Latin American studies junior

“We, Colombi-ans, are similar to Venezuelans:

We share bor-ders, culture

and landscapes, and our flags are almost identical. I protest for Ven-

ezuela’s freedom because I feel

like I am fighting for my own coun-try and people.”

—Maria Antonia Velez,philosophy and

mathematics freshman

For the past few weeks, students and members of the Austin community have carried out peaceful rallies and demonstrations in support of the recent protests against reported human rights violations in Venezuela.

UT alumnus Daniel Machado said these rallies — which include silent protests on UT’s campus, at the Capitol and at soccer games at Zilker Park — are for his family members and those in Venezuela who cannot speak out.

“What motivates me is that my family is back there suffering, and this is the only thing we can do right now to support them and show them they are not alone,” Mach-ado said.

According to several reports, the Venezuelan government has blocked Colombian-based cable news networks NTN24 and CNN. Beyond accusations of violating free-dom of speech, the Venezuelan National Guard and Military also face accusations of torturing its citizens. Venezuelan officials have, in turn, blamed opposition leaders for the strife and chaos.

UT and Venezuelan students at rallies in Austin say they want to serve as the voice of students and other citizens in Venezuela. These are photos of student protestors at UT and their thoughts about the ongoing conflict.

At the most recent meeting of the Graduate Student Assembly, on March 5, representa-tives of UT’s Information Technology Servic-es presented a proposal to charge students for wireless Internet access on campus.

The new “Student Bandwidth Strategy” would replace UT’s current system, which al-lows students to use up to 500 MB of band-width per week for free, with a program in which students would no longer receive minimum allocations and would have to pay $4.25 a semester for 5 GB of data. The Univer-sity has cited concerns about funding and the need to protect itself from liability in criminal cases as reasons for the plan’s necessity.

ITS’ proposal should be more sensitive to the needs of students who operate on lim-ited budgets and students who use campus Internet infrequently and irregularly, such as those students who have a limited number of classes on campus or whose classes do not re-quire Internet access.

ITS governance suggests that the pro-posal, which will legally make it easier for the University to have the appearance of be-ing an Internet Service Provider, is a neces-sary measure to raise funds for the growing technological needs of our campus. William Green, ITS’ director of networking and tele-communications, said non-residential stu-dent wireless usage, which accounts for 48 percent of all bandwidth used on the UT campus at peak hours, has been increasing in bandwidth use by 27 percent per year.

Admittedly, the new policy will help pro-tect the University against liability issues that occur when a student does something illegal using Internet provided to them by the University.

“Freedom is a key reason for this ap-proach,” Green said. “In aggregate network samples and discussions with students, the majority of wireless bandwidth consumption does not appear to be related to education or research activities. Charging for bandwidth, acting as an Internet Service Provider, or ISP, ensures students can continue to make their own choices without restrictions to sites/ap-plications or slowdowns as some universities have implemented — no perceived conflict

for non-mission related activities utilizing University funds. Acting as an ISP for all bandwidth consumed solidifies ‘Safe Harbor’ protections for the University.”

Despite the proposed strategy’s advantages in terms of liability, some students still have concerns with the potential plan. And at the recent GSA meeting, some students were very vocal about their disagreement.

“[At the March 5 meeting], one graduate student, in particular, seemed surprised that UT had chosen this route especially since the vast majority of our peer institutions have not adopted a similar policy,” GSA President-Elect David Villarreal said.

Villarreal also expressed concern for stu-dents in financial need.

“While the fee of $5 per semester may seem nominal, it’s only one additional charge that combines with other little fees that can quick-ly add up for students on limited budgets or financial aid, and who’s to say the charge will still be $5 in five or 10 years?” Villarreal said.

Under the current wireless system, in ad-dition to the free 500 MB, UT also allows users to download or upload an unlimited amount of information to and from Uni-versity websites such as Blackboard. This is especially valuable for students who use small amounts of data specifically for class. While Green may have found that the ma-jority of total student bandwidth consump-tion is non-school related, given the limits on the free bandwidth available to students, it is doubtful that the people participating in these high-bandwidth activities, such as watching Netflix, are using the free tier to begin with. Unfortunately, the Univer-sity has no data on the type of bandwidth students use strictly for school-related activities, so this hunch will have to stay unconfirmed. But, if it is true, then under the proposal, the first group of students — those who use only use small amounts of bandwidth and only for school-related pur-poses — will be stuck with yet another un-necessary fee.

It is important to note that the “Student Bandwidth Strategy” is just a proposal and no official action has been taken. However, be-fore rushing into a decision that may be detri-mental to students in financial need or unfair to students who use Internet infrequently, ITS should consider alternatives modeled after other major universities. ITS should also be cautious about establishing yet another fee, which, like so many other student expenses at UT, may be ever increasing in years to come.

Almeda is a marketing senior from Seattle.

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Abbott should defend Texas’ plastic bag bans

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The legality of Austin’s single-use plastic bag ban — and that of other similar policies throughout the state — may soon be facing a formal opinion from Attorney General Greg Abbott’s office. Two weeks ago, Rep. Dan Flynn, R-Canton, requested an opinion on the validity of ordinances that limit the use of single-use plastic bags by retailers. Although an opinion from Abbott on the matter would not affect the ordinances that are already on the books, it may set a precedent going for-ward regarding similar restrictions. Although Abbott is currently occupied with running for governor, he should still take the opportunity to respond to Flynn’s letter and support the environmentally-friendly ordinance. Sure, it would be an unconventional move for a con-servative Texas Republican, but that doesn’t make it a bad place to start.

Austin implemented its ordinance in March 2013, and the city’s Resource Recov-ery Department, which manages waste, has touted its success in reducing litter in city parking lots and waterways as well as limit-ing the number of bags that end up in waste processing plants. Aiden Cohen, the depart-ment’s project manager, said the bags made up a significant majority of city’s litter.

“Too often they would end up as litter blowing around the roads and ending up in our creeks and streams and waterways,” Co-hen said. “It becomes a problem for wildlife and flooding. The goal was to dramatically reduce the distribution of those and encour-age people and businesses to move to more durable options.”

Cohen said 30 percent fewer thin plastic bags have reached the solid waste and recy-cling plants since the ban went into effect, though the plants that service Austin’s trash also service several surrounding areas. Cohen said, throughout the city, the litter previously caused by the bags has all but disappeared.

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Spokeswoman Lynne Lightsey said the depart-ment’s research scientists had seen a significant decrease in waterway litter, although no ex-act numbers were measured before the ban to quantify how many fewer bags there are now.

Given the obvious environmental benefits, why does Flynn want to see the ordinances overturned, especially considering that the district he represents doesn’t even have any in place? Let’s also consider Flynn was ap-proached by the Texas Retailer Association to send the letter, a group with vocal opposition to the policies.

Flynn notes, in his letter, that nine Texas cit-ies have passed bag ban ordinances, though, ac-cording to the Texas Tribune, the Texas Health and Safety Code does not allow municipal dis-tricts to place legislative restrictions or fees on packaging or containers for waste management. Flynn wants Abbott’s office to consider whether grocery bags are included under this portion of the code, thus invalidating the municipalities anti-plastic-bag ordinances.

Plastic bag restrictions, undoubtedly, im-pact consumers, who have to suffer through the indignity of having to remember to bring their plastic bags to their grocery story — or else suffer the burden of carrying their goods in, God forbid, biodegradable paper.

Sarcasm aside, the ban has incited its fair share of complaints. According to the Austin American-Statesman, in the last year, 74 citi-zen complaints were filed regarding the bag restrictions. Because, Cohen said, all Austin retailers are in full compliance with the ordi-nance, we can assume that those angry citi-zen’s weren’t calling to report plastic-bag-ban violating retailers.

It’s also true that alternatives to plastic bags, such as thicker paper bags — the production of which can produce 70 percent more atmo-spheric emissions — are less environmentally friendly than their plastic counterparts. By en-couraging the move to reusable mesh or cloth

bags, cities that ban plastic bags can reap the benefits of both litter-free creeks and a smaller carbon footprint.

No one likes paying for something that was once free, but the last year has shown that Aus-tin retailers and consumers can adapt. And, if the benefit is being able to enjoy areas like Lady Bird Lake and Zilker Park free of flapping plastic

bag litter, it is obviously worth it. As is, Abbott is severely lacking credit with environmentalists. That’s not exactly a problem for his Republican voter base, but, with a policy as clearly beneficial as this, Abbott should take the risk of stepping outside his political comfort zone and show that he cares about the Texas environment by sup-porting these ordinances.

On Tuesday, The Daily Texan reported that UTPD has yet to make an arrest in the case of the $55,000 worth of new Apple MacBooks that were stolen from the main building more than four weeks ago. In fact, UTPD has failed to offer any new information about the theft at all, with spokeswoman Cindy Posey assert-ing that it’s her “guess that it probably is still in the in-

vestigation phase.” It’s disturbing that such a high-profile crime could go unsolved for so long, and the lack of an arrest raises serious questions about campus security. Granted, Posey said that she was “pretty sure [large-scale theft] doesn’t happen very often” on campus, but the unusual nature of the crime makes it that more frustrating that UTPD has, as of yet, been mum on the progress of the case.

An email from Paul Foster, the UT System Board of Regents chairman, that the Dallas Morning News ob-tained signals that Chancellor Francisco Cigarroa may have been pushed to resign by Regent Wallace Hall’s criticism of Cigarroa’s work in the weeks leading up to his resignation. This comes just months after Hall, who is under review for potential impeachment, went

through a full-blown investigation for overstepping his role as regent. This is yet another example of Hall’s efforts to be involved in and critical of all system activities, though no one is asking him to. Unfortunately, Hall’s actions — no matter how small — will con-tinue to dominate the conversation of system news, despite far more pressing issue such as setting tuition, establishing the Dell Medical School and a legislative session, although months away, which threatens to cut even more state funds for the University.

Amy Zhang / Daily Texan Staff Regent Wallace Hall at a Feb. 5 Board of Regent meeting.

Illustration by Alex Dolan / Daily Texan Staff

It’s disturbing that such a high-profile crime could go unsolved for so long, and the lack of an arrest raises serious questions about campus security.

This is yet another example of Hall’s efforts to be involved in and critical of all system activities, though no one is asking him to.

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would have much preferred to do the regular [TPAC] process where we have a cou-ple months to really make this a data-driven experience and use more opportunities for student engagement.”

Clark said the working group has decided graduate student tuition will not in-crease, and no further deci-sions will be reached until fo-rums are held with students.

“We will use these meet-ings as an opportunity to host a forum, do a presenta-tion to explain where we are and some possibilities that may be considered and open

it up for questions and com-ments,” Clark said.

GSA President Columbia Mishra said GSA requested through legislation in February to be involved in any tuition discussions — whether gradu-ate tuition is discussed or not. Graduate students were not in-volved in December’s proposal.

“Everyone should come and take part, as it is indeed an important issue,” Mishra said. “Getting the word out to the students now is critical.”

Wanda Mercer, associate vice chancellor for student affairs, said, although there are time constraints, the de-cision must be made before the semester ends.

“You can’t have quite as

widespread of a discussion in six weeks’ time as you can in three months’ time, but, on the other hand, we must get these decisions made by early summer, so students can understand what their tu-ition and fees are going to be,” Mercer said.

Mercer believes that the instructions for the new pro-posal were sent out because other universities, such as Tex-as A&M, created a guaranteed plan that would have signifi-cant increases in funding.

“The bottom line is the board members agreed to hear what the presidents [of all UT System universities] would like to do for at least one year,” Mercer said. “They

have an opportunity not only to submit that but talk to members of the board.”

Mercer said the debate

around the tuition proposal is important to the University.

“I’m glad students are interested, and I find it

reassuring that there’s a healthy debate about it,” Mercer said. “It’s an investment they are making in their future.”

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At a National Book Critics Circle ceremony in New York City last Thursday, a UT pro-fessor was awarded a lifetime achievement award for his 42 years of writing and publishing.

English professor Rolan-do Hinojosa-Smith, whose writings mostly deal with stories of the Rio Grande Valley, was the recipient of the Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award.

Hinojosa-Smith was awarded by the group alongside six other writers and poets from around the country.

In his acceptance speech, Hinojosa-Smith said he ap-preciated the recognition from esteemed professionals in his field.

“What you’re looking at here is a very lucky man,” Hinojosa-Smith said. “To receive this award means a culmination of one’s life work, recognized by men and wom-en who know what they’re

doing about their job.”The National Book Crit-

ics Circle is comprised of nearly 600 critics and editors from literary newspapers and magazines. The association, founded in 1974, recognizes achievements in poetry, criti-cism, biography, autobiogra-phy, fiction and nonfiction.

Dagoberto Gilb, writer-in-residence at the University of Houston–Victoria and the author who gave the award to Hinojosa-Smith at the ceremony, said he respected

the faithfulness of Hinojosa-Smith’s writing to the Chica-no culture.

“[Hinojosa-Smith] tells the common stories of us, not the predictable cliches and stereo-types,” Gilb said. “He does it in a language that is ours. He tells stories not just about where we once came from, but where we have been and still are.”

English professor emeri-tus William Scheick said Hinojosa-Smith’s novels con-tain a substantial amount of material that might not be

obvious at first glance. “[Hinojosa-Smith’s] writ-

ings present a collage of mul-tiple narrative viewpoints, different cultural identities, various generational time periods and miscellaneous anecdotal stories — both comic and serious,” Scheick said. “The ideal reader of his work will dig for treasure buried beneath the welter of the small talk and everyday episodes constituting the au-thor’s narrative surface.”

After earning his

bachelor’s degree from UT in 1953 and beginning teach-ing at the University in 1981, Hinojosa-Smith said he and his family feel a strong con-nection to the 40 Acres.

“It was always my desire to return to my alma mater as a professor,” Hinojosa-Smith said. “We’re a UT family: my two daughters, my brother and I, our two brothers-in-law, two nephews, a grandnephew and his sister. With that back-ground, who couldn’t be hap-pier to be here?”

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Andrew Clark, president of the Senate of College Councils, speaks about the proposed tuition increases at the Student Govern-ment meeting Tuesday evening.

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It was fitting that, on the first day of spring football practice, DBU was on the scoreboard at Disch-Falk Field. But this DBU was for Dallas Baptist, not the Longhorns’ secondary.

With the way junior Lu-kas Schiraldi was pitching, it might as well have been junior cornerback Quandre Diggs or sophomore cornerback Duke Thomas hacking away. Schiral-di (3-1) shut out the Patriots in his eight innings as the Long-horns won 5-0 Tuesday night.

“I was very pleased with Schiraldi today,” head coach Augie Garrido said. “He was really good. Really good.”

Schiraldi, behind his two-seam fastball, allowed just two hits on the night, turning it over to his offense quickly.

“We threw a ton of chan-geups,” Schiraldi said. “I had a lot of confidence in it. They were taking big hacks; make them hit it into the ground.”

Texas (15-6) jumped on the board early against Dal-las Baptist (15-4) on a first-inning RBI triple by senior outfielder Mark Payton. The triple drove in junior in-fielder Brooks Marlow, who led off the inning with a walk, ruining Dallas Baptist’s 30-inning scoreless streak.

“[Scoring first] takes a huge weight off my shoul-ders,” Schiraldi said. “It al-lows me to pitch to contact.”

The Longhorns tacked on

two more in the third on a pair of two out hits. Before that, though, it appeared the inning was over. Sopho-more outfielder Ben Johnson was called out trying to steal third, and Dallas Baptist be-gan jogging off the field.

Then the umpire reversed his call — calling a juggle on the third baseman’s catch — and the Longhorns were back in business. Payton walked

to put runners on the corner and was followed by a hard single by sophomore infielder C.J Hinojosa to drive in John-son and a double down the right-field line from junior outfielder Collin Shaw.

Shaw, who has started less than half of Texas’ games this season, is starting to rise in the order as his batting aver-age balloons. In his first two seasons with Texas, Shaw hit

.128 and .222. This season, he was on the same pace until a hot stretch vaulted him up the lineup. In the last seven games, he has hit .389.

The Longhorns added two more in the sixth on fresh-man infielder Zane Gurwitz’s squeeze and Payton’s line-drive single.

“The scope of our offensive game is good enough to beat anyone,” Garrido said. “We

just have to execute, and we did that tonight.”

But just one was good enough for Schiraldi, who continues to establish him-self as a solid starting option for the Longhorns.

“I love being able to start,” Schiraldi said of his demo-tion from the weekend rota-tion. “Being a Tuesday guy is no different. I still get to pitch. I love it.”

After returning from a long week in North Carolina and a close win last Thursday against Wake Forest, Texas will compete against Wichita State this Wednesday. The match will take place at the Penick-Allison Tennis Cen-ter in Austin at 6 p.m.

The Longhorns have been surprisingly successful this season, currently ranked at No. 7, the highest-ranked team in the ITA Texas Re-gion. Their recent five-match winning streak was broken

by UNC, but their last match against Wake Forest made up for the loss. They have won five matches against top-25 opponents this season and currently have a winning re-cord of 14-3.

This Wednesday will be the first of Texas’ final five match-es at the Penick-Allison Ten-nis Center. After their final match on April 5, the facility will be demolished to make room for the construction of the new medical center being built at Texas.

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Compared to past sea-sons, the start of the 2014 campaign has been bumpy.

Texas has, at times, looked like the team that ended a seven-year Wom-en’s College World Series drought last season while, at other times, struggled to take advantage with run-ners in scoring position. The Longhorns have had winning streaks of four and six games and losing streaks of four and five games.

But, with conference play beginning this weekend, there’s a chance for the Long-horns to start anew with their the goal of winning their first Big 12 title since 2010.

They’ll have one last chance to tune up for the conference schedule tonight against Houston.

This season hitting has generally not been an issue for the Longhorns. After this weekend, Texas ranked first in the Big 12 in batting average and second in on-base percentage. Sophomore

right-fielder Lindsey Ste-phens leads the conference in home runs and total bases.

But the Achilles’ heel for the Longhorn offense is tak-ing advantage of run-scoring opportunities. In 32 games, Texas has left 251 runners on base. On Feb. 12, against UTSA, the Longhorns load-ed the bases in five innings but only managed to score two runs — both coming on an error and hit batter.

While it has improved in recent games — the Long-horns are averaging six run-ners left on base in the past five games — sophomore first baseman Holly Kern said it’s something the team continues to work on.

“I feel like we’re finally stringing things together and [getting] a little momen-tum on our side,” Kern said.

The struggles on offense haven’t helped out a pitching staff that’s been a concern for Texas after the departure of Blaire Luna and Kim Bruins.

Tiarra Davis, freshman pitcher and first-baseman, is the top candidate for the ace spot. She leads the team

with a 2.36 ERA, 10 complete games and 91 strikeouts. Ju-nior pitcher and utility Gabby Smith has also been solid this season with a 9-3 record and a 2.85 ERA in 73.2 innings.

While pitching is still a concern for head coach Connie Clark, she said that she has seen improvement in both Davis and fellow freshman Lauren Slatten.

“I think we’re seeing some very, very good things in [Davis], and we’ll bring Lau-ren along as well,” Clark said.

Texas will face Houston for the second time this sea-son. The two teams met on March 6 in the Judi Garman Classic when Davis shut-down the Cougars in a 5-1 Longhorn win.

With Baylor approaching this weekend, Kern said the team is looking forward to conference play.

“We’re ready for the games to start counting and start playing those three-game series,” Kern said.

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Sam Ortega / Daily Texan StaffJunior pitcher Lukas Schiraldi throws a pitch during Texas’ 5-0 win over Dallas Baptist. Schiraldi pitched eight innings of shootout ball, allowing just two hits.

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Jonathan Garza / Daily Texan StaffFreshman pitcher Tiarra Davis throws a pitch in a game earlier this season. Davis has been the team’s best pitcher this year with a 2.36 ERA and 91 strikeouts.

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NFL settles Dallas Super Bowl lawsuit

The NFL says it has set-tled a lawsuit with a work-er injured by ice and snow that fell from the roof of the Dallas Cowboys’ sta-dium during the week be-fore the 2011 Super Bowl.

NFL Spokesman Brian McCarthy confirmed the settlement Tuesday but declined to provide the terms. Other parties also were named in the lawsuit filed by Severin Sampson, including the Cowboys.

Sampson contends he suffered a skull fracture and has continuing medi-cal problems. He accused the NFL, the Cowboys and the stadium archi-tects of failing to account for falling ice and snow from the roof.

A trial is ongoing in Dallas County to decide whether the architects — the international firm HKS, which has offices in Dallas — should be li-able. Sampson is seeking $7.2 million.

—Associated Press

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Miami and Jaylen Bond went north to Temple. Just like that, fewer than two years after he’d arrived in Austin as part of a highly touted, six-man recruiting class, Holmes was the only one left.

“They did what they thought was best for them,” Holmes said. “I thought about leaving too, but I just had to look in the mirror and understand the things that I had to improve on.”

Media and Longhorn fans alike began calling for Barnes’ head and speculat-ing about just how bad this year’s team would be. But, just as everyone on the out-side thought the walls of the Texas basketball program were caving in, the people on the inside knew they were just starting to be rebuilt.

“Before the season even started, we knew we had a good group of guys by the way they were in it together,” Barnes said. “Once the season got going, they never flinched.

As the only upperclassmen in Barnes’ rotation, Holmes has been the de facto leader for the Longhorns all season.

While his quiet demeanor may lead some to wonder how much of a leader he real-ly is, it’s his work ethic on the court that has set an example for his younger teammates.

The junior forward is aver-aging a team-high 13 points per game and 7.2 rebounds heading into the NCAA tour-nament. Those are impressive numbers by any standard, but his coaching staff and team-mates will tell you that the box score is only a small re-flection of the impact Holmes has had on this team.

“He’s not a vocal guy. I’m not sure he’ll be that, ever,” Barnes said. “He leads in the way he goes about his business. He works hard every single day. He doesn’t have bad days.”

Those leadership skills will be put to the ultimate test this week, as Holmes leads the rest of his team in their first appearance at the NCAA Tournament.

Unlike his inexperienced teammates, Holmes has been through just about everything in his three years at Texas. But there’s still one thing that the entire roster would like to ex-perience together for the first time: a tournament victory.

Charlie Pearce / Daily Texan file photoJunior forward Jonathan Holmes leads the young Texas team.

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58 Marks of good bowlers

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Originally staged on Broadway in 1965, “The Odd Couple” has been turned into both a film and a television show, and now Neil Simon’s To n y - a w a r d - w i n n i n g play is coming to Austin this Thursday.

Unlike director Karen Sneed’s earlier productions with City Theatre, “The Odd Couple” required only a little bit of research.

“These are people I know,” Sneed said. “These are peo-ple I’ve seen. I understand the Neil Simon style. Most of the work was done during rehearsals. My approach to directing varies depending on what the show is.”

“The Odd Couple” is a high-energy, whacky com-edy about polar opposites and good friends Felix Ungar and Oscar Madison trying to live together when faced with marital difficulties. Un-gar is a neurotic news writer, and, when his wife throws him out, he is forced to move in with Madison, his sloppy, news writer friend.

“Neil Simon brought the old comedy traditions back and paved the way for much of television com-edy in the late 1960s and 1970s,” Sneed said. “He set his plays in modern situa-tions, where comedy was part of the story and not simply imposed upon it.”

Sneed said she refrained from making any changes to the original script.

“When you have great writing and you start mess-ing with the original work, you’re just undermining yourself,” Sneed said.

Auditions were held at City Theatre last December, with UT alumni

Scot Friedman and Rick Smith cast as Ungar and Madison, respectively.

“I wanted actors who could really do the comedy because there’s a style to this comedy,” Sneed said. “I also had to get chemistry between the guys playing [Madison] and [Ungar]. [Friedman] and [Smith] have worked to-gether more than once, and they kind of brought their natural chemistry and their natural comedic abilities to the audition.”

Having acted in a num-ber of school and college productions, Friedman took voice training for years and joined City The-atre in 2009. Often leaning toward comedies, Fried-man takes on scripts that are interesting and chal-lenging for him.

“I will need pieces of that character, whether it’s a cos-tume or cane or a hat — things that help define that charac-ter,” Friedman said. “I work outside-in. Often times, be-ing very good at accents and dialects, it will be the voice of the character that gets my attention. I’ve changed my voice for [Ungar], try-ing to speak like they did in the 1960s: little elements of Northeastern New York,

a typical radio-voice you’d hear in the 1960s.”

Friedman said he has incorporated some of his own characteristics into playing Ungar.

“I like things ordered in a certain way,” Fried-man said. “I’m certainly not as neurotic or as much of a neat freak as [Un-gar], but my tendency to have things orderly and neat and, possibly, the way I argue resembles that of [Ungar].”

Smith has also likes to have things neat.

“With [Smith], what you see is what you get,” Sneed said. “[Smith] is an adorable person, and he is on the per-snickety side: very detail-ori-ented and always trying to get things perfect.”

After 15 years of being away from theater, Smith returned to performing in 2012. He has performed “The Odd Couple” several times before City Theatre’s revival of it. It’s one of the plays that inspired him to be a part of the theater and said a good script is what matters — not the characters.

“Simon’s characters are fleshed out so beautifully,”

Smith said. “If you don’t nail it, if you don’t get it right, then it’s your fault, and not Neil Simon’s fault.”

Last fall, when art his-tory freshman Nina Unger logged onto Facebook, she spotted a video perfor-mance of slam poetry that would eventually lead her to plan and implement her own poetry competition.

The video, which was shared by one of her Face-book friends from the website Upworthy.com, is called “Shrinking Wom-en.” The short video stars college student Lily My-ers performing an original slam poetry piece about female expectations and body image. Up until Un-ger started college, she used ballet and piano as creative outlets, but, after watching Myers, she saw an opportunity for a new creative endeavor.

“[The poem] is definitely my favorite,” Unger said. “It’s why I got into it. It’s so relatable. It was exactly the moment slam poetry was put on my radar.”

Before seeing “Shrinking Women,” Unger became interested in the Distin-guished Speakers Commit-tee when she heard about the “Catfish on Campus” event last year with MTV’s Nev Shulman.

“I’m a fan of the show ‘Catfish,’ so I wanted to see what the process is of get-ting celebrities like that to come to campus,” Unger said. “That was sort of my reason for joining.”

When discussion began one Tuesday afternoon during a committee meet-ing for potential events, Unger raised her hand in support at the mention of a slam poetry event.

This Wednesday, Unger will host the group’s first ever slam poetry competition, Poetry on the Patio.

“I really wanted to give a new member the chance to plan something, so fresh-man member Nina Unger took on the challenge,” said Christopher Nickelson, com-mittee member and radio-television-film junior. “She decided that 12 students would compete under the traditional slam poetry rules,

we’d have a local Austin slam poet give a performance, and that we would have free cof-fee and donuts for everyone who came. I’m really looking forward to see the results of her hard work.”

The event’s speaker is Lacey Roop, a young, Aus-tin-based poet whose own career began in Austin af-ter moving from Missis-sippi to pursue a career in business. She was studying for an exam one afternoon at a coffee shop when a

slam poet came on stage to perform. A week later, Roop drafted what would become the first poem she would perform.

“I love how language works, so I try to use as much imagery as possible all the while still telling a narrative,” Roop said. “I think there is a misunderstanding around poetry, however. I think many people have this idea of poetry being boring or too difficult to understand. I like to show people how exciting

poetry is.”Students can sign up for

one of the 12 open spots starting at 6 p.m. Once the competition is finished, prizes will be awarded, and Roop will perform some of her work.

Nickelson hopes the event will be successful enough to make it annual.

“Slam poetry is a big part of the Austin community,” Nickelson said. “I think this event, where students have the opportunity to showcase

their talent, just reflects Aus-tin as a whole. And hopefully students who have never ex-perienced this type of poetry before can take away some-thing from the event.”

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Fabian Fernandez / Daily Texan Staff Nina Unger, art history freshman and Distinguished Speakers committee member, will host Poetry on the Patio, in which 12 students will compete in a slam poetry competition at the Student Union.

Freshman coordinates student poetry slam

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Local theater revives acclaimed playMULTIMEDIA

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Elliott Frazier plays with his band, Ringo Deathstarr,at Hole in the Wall on Friday as part of the Exploding in Sound showcase. This video, at www.dailytexanonline.com, is a brief glimpse into The Daily Texan staff ’s collective experience at South By Southwest. It was compiled from footage taken in equal part from the halls of the conven-tion center, elaborately lit venues and the grungiest bars in Austin.

—Alec Wyman

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When: 6 p.m. sign up, 6:30 p.m. competitionWhere: University Union East PatioCost: Free

I also had to get chemistry between the guys playing [Madison] and [Ungar]. [Fried-man] and [Smith] have worked together more than once, and they kind of brought their natural chemistry and their natural comedic abilities to the audition.

—Karen Sneed,Director