An investigation conduct-ed by the dean of students office found no connection between UT’s chapter of Sig-ma Alpha Epsilon and a racist chant the University of Okla-homa’s SAE chapter was pun-ished for singing last month.

A video of members of the OU SAE chapter singing a chant that included lynch-ing references and anti-Black slurs went nationally viral in March. Three weeks ago, an OU investigation found the students learned the chant on a cruise sponsored by SAE’s national organization, its use was likely widespread.

Dean of Students Soncia Reagins-Lilly said an investi-gation into UT’s SAE chapter, launched in the wake of the video, found the chapter was not connected to the song.

“Following the events involving the Sigma Alpha Epsilon (SAE) fraternity chapter at the University of Oklahoma, our office was made aware of online ru-mors of similar behavior at our local chapter of SAE,” Reagins-Lilly said in a state-ment. “Our review of these statements included con-tacting current organization leadership and speaking with alumni of different periods, who all stated no knowledge of the chant and that such behavior had no place in their organization.”

Reagans-Lily said the in-vestigation was complete.

“At this time, our of-fice has received no official complaints or reports of this behavior and found no evi-dence in our review,” she said.

As the University continues to expand its range of online classes, officials at the Center for Teaching and Learning said they have recognized a need for a larger testing center.

The Center currently

operates a testing space in the Graduate School of Business Building, although the space is not considered an official testing center. The space has 23 seats for testing, according to executive director Harrison Keller, and al-lows students to take exams in a proctored location. Students come to take exams for online

courses, take placement exams to test out of courses or receive testing accommodations for a disability.

David Laude, senior vice pro-vost for Enrollment and Curric-ulum Services, said an increased number of online courses has

After weeks of contentious debate, the Student Govern-ment Assembly voted against a divestment resolution which would have asked the UT Sys-tem Investment Management Company (UTIMCO) to pull investments from five corpora-

tions that the resolution claimed “facilitate in the oppression of the Palestinian people by the State of Israel.”

The Assembly voted against the resolution by a 11-23-1 vote Tuesday night.

The resolution asked UTIM-CO to divest specifically from Alstom, Cemex, Hewlett-Pack-ard, Procter & Gamble and

United Technologies because of “human rights violations,” ac-cording to the resolution.

University-wide representa-tive Santiago Rosales said he vot-ed against the resolution because he thought it was too divisive to support.

“I do not mean to say that either side is divisive in itself but rather that the approach of

[the resolution] is divisive in na-ture,” Rosales said. “This student government has taken unified approaches of bridging differ-ences in this campus, bringing students together to bring mean-ingful change.”

After the vote, many students who had lobbied in support of the resolution protested outside of the Assembly room, voicing

opposition to the decision. Uni-versity of Texas Police Depart-ment officers came to monitor the scene.

UTIMCO CEO and CIO Bruce Zimmerman said the company makes invest-ment decisions solely based on the financial interest of the

When liberal arts sopho-more Madi Maino, originally from Virginia, prepared to move to Texas for college, her image of the state boiled down to one thing: a cowboy wear-ing boots and a hat.

“When I came down here, I remember driving and see-ing cowboys working on the side of the road — working on fences or something,” Maino said. “They were wearing ste-reotypical boots, jeans, a big belt buckle and a cowboy hat.”

The House Culture, Recre-ation and Tourism Commit-tee heard a resolution Tuesday that, if passed, would further confirm Maino’s initial impres-sion. Several representatives, led by author Rep. Marsha Farney (R-Georgetown), pro-posed a resolution that would

make the cowboy hat Texas’s official headgear. The bill was left pending in committee.

Farney, who did not at-tend the hearing, wrote in the resolution that the cowboy hat is a “stylish” representa-tion of Texas’ history, worthy of its own recognition by the 84th legislature.

“The cowboy hat is recog-nized all over the world as a symbol of the Texas Western heritage,” said Rep. Lyle Lar-son (R-San Antonio), who spoke on Farney’s behalf. “It’s very distinctive when you wear that hat anywhere in the world. People ask the ques-tion, whether you’re from Colorado or Texas — ‘Are you a cowboy?’”

Texas currently has more than 50 official state symbols — chili is the state dish, the Texas Toad is the state amphib-ian and the state’s official epic

poem is “The Legend of Old Stone Ranch.”

The modern cowboy hat’s origins date back to the 19th century, when a Philadel-phia hat maker, John Stetson, made an exaggerated version of popular hats such as fedo-ras and bolo hats, according to Jeannette Vaught, a Ph.D. candidate who researches the history of cowboys and rodeos in the state.

The hats became a status symbol because of their high price tags. As the hat grew in popularity, different styles emerged across the nation. Vaught said the hat is part of Western culture as a whole but is especially associated with Texas because of ranching’s prominence in the state.

“Obviously people all over the country … wear cowboy

Officers from the Aus-tin Police Department said they will no longer check to see if drone operators have a certificate for them-selves or for their drone, unless the drone is flying near a crowded area.

The change is part of an attempt to shift focus to policing drones used near large events, such as con-certs and sports games, while giving individuals

flying drones in less crowd-ed areas freedom, APD officers said.

Although policing drone usage hasn’t been much of an issue for APD, chief of staff Brian Manley said the department wanted to make the policies more friendly for those who may want to fly drones in their yard.

“We’re always focused on the safety and well be-ing for the community, and we realized that the ordinance is quite restric-

tive in that it bans all use in all places in all circum-stances — unless the in-dividual had the licenses and qualifications,” Manley said. “Individuals flying these in their own yards … [don’t] really present the same issues.”

Drones’ potential to cause disturbances became evident when APD heard concerns about the drones’ presence during the South By Southwest festival this

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FRAMES featured photo thedailytexanboots and cowboy hats and wear Western clothing. … For Texas to make claim to any part of these Western wardrobes is really an ar-tificial designation of it as Texas’,” Vaught said.

While most students won’t see an abundance of cowboy hats when they walk across campus, they are prominent at football games, and particularly for student organizations such as the Texas Cowboys.

Business senior Jaan Bains, Texas Cowboy’s vice president, said the Texas Cowboys wear cowboy hats and other western gear to honor Texas history. Bains said he supports the House’s legislation.

“We really respect the tra-dition of not only cowboys but also the tradition of the University and the tradition of the state,” Bains said. “So what we wear is — we wear a hat, we wear chaps, we wear a neckerchief, which is all symbolic and relevant of what cowboys wore years ago in Texas.”

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University and so would not have taken the resolution into consideration even if it had passed.

“The current policy is not to take into account political and social considerations,” Zimmer-man said. “That’s a long standing policy, and it’s a policy supported by staff.”

Mohammed Nabulsi, SG law representative and an author of the resolution, said the authors wanted to pass the resolution despite UTIMCO’s stance on di-vestment based on political and social issues.

“What we’re doing with this resolution is saying, irrespective of what [UTIMCO has] already said, our student body continues, continues, continues to support divesting from human rights abuses,” Nabulsi said. “This is just

following in line with other reso-lutions Student Government has already passed.”

The 2010–2011 SG Assem-bly passed a resolution asking UTIMCO to revise its policies to include consideration of social policy. The divestment resolu-tion also cited precedent from the 2014–2015 SG session, dur-ing which the Assembly passed a resolution calling for divestment from companies that facilitate genocide in Sudan.

The resolution was based out of a national boycott-sanction-ing-divestment, or “BDS,” move-ment started by Palestinian hu-man rights groups. Nabulsi told the Texan on April 9 that Unify Texas, a student organization op-posing the BDS resolution, does not understand the BDS move-ment.

“Unify Texas relies on a mis-characterization of BDS and our goals here on campus in

order to make a straw man ar-gument,” Nabulsi said. “BDS is a step towards leveling the negotiating playing field so that the Israeli government is forced to take Palestinian demands seriously.”

Earlier Tuesday, 17 former SG presidents and vice presidents sent a letter to the current As-sembly, asking them not to vote in favor of the resolution.

“As our former student body presidents have said — the people who care most about our University — it is not our place to support this philosophy,” University-wide representa-tive Kallen Dimitroff said. “The alienation it would cause certain groups on campus, the stance and precedent it would set for student government, would be very detrimental.”

Carmel Abuzaid, a inter-national relations and global studies freshman and sup-

porter of divestment, said passing the resolution would specifically recognize the op-pression she and other UT students have experienced in Palestine firsthand.

“Passing this resolution would not only recognize my experi-ences as valid but would also unify the University against in-justice and oppression,” Abuzaid said.

Maya Russo, an international relations and global studies sophomore who spoke in oppo-sition to the resolution, said she felt personally targeted.

“This is not a human rights legislation, nor is it one that promotes justice. This is an anti-Israel legislation,” Russo said. “This hateful rhetoric that is directed at my people and at me personally is one-sided. … This is a step in the wrong direction toward the ultimate objective — peace.”

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accordingly increased de-mand for using the testing facilities. Laude said the government and psychology departments offered a com-bined total of around 1,000 online courses in the fall and spring this year alone.

“We absolutely need a substantially larger testing facility,” Laude said. “We’re in the planning stages, but this is something that’s going to have to come.”

Keller said other univer-sities in the U.S. have estab-lished testing centers.

“We’re scanning right now for what kind of facili-ties other universities have,” Keller said. “We’re also look-ing at what kind of technolo-gies are available.”

The current space where students can take proctored tests relies heavily on old technology, such as scant-rons, according to Keller.

“It’s clear that this is a pinch point that needs to be addressed,” Keller said. “As the pace of innovations is accelerating on campus, that puts a different kind of demand on our facilities.”

Laude, who teaches an in-troductory chemistry course with approximately 500 stu-dents each semester, said not every student is able to make the testing course’s time. He said he offers a makeup date for every exam and has gen-erally been able to accom-modate each student.

“Because we hold evening exams, there’ll always be lots of conflicts,” Laude said. “[But] there’s almost never any issue with students miss-ing an exam.”

Kelli Bradley, executive director of Services for Stu-dents with Disabilities (SSD), said the number of students registered with SSD has in-creased from around 1,500 in 2009 to 2,300 this year. Bradley said 80–85 percent of registered students request testing accommodations.

“The more students reg-ister, the more students re-ceiving extended time or test accommodations, the more likely there’s going to be the need for this space,” Bradley said.

Erin Gleim, Student Government director of the Students with Dis-abilities Agency, authored a resolution that supported the construction of a larger testing center. SG voted in support of the Center on Tuesday.

“It’s an expectation that we have [a testing center], and the fact that we don’t is a disservice,” Gleim said.

Over the past five to six years, SSD increased the number of exams they proctored, from 500 tests a semester to 6,000, accord-ing to the resolution.

“We’re mostly hoping to raise awareness that this is an issue,” Gleim said. “This is something that benefits everyone.”

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New advances in technol-ogy have significant potential to be manipulated and weap-onized, posing a threat to per-sonal information and safety, according to a visiting author who spoke about the future of violence.

Benjamin Wittes, co-founder and editor-in-chief of national security blog Law-fare, said even as governments use surveillance techniques to ensure national security, pri-vate citizens and other coun-tries will use those same sur-veillance techniques in ways that pose a threat to the U.S.

Wittes, who spoke Tuesday at the Strauss Center for In-ternational Security and Law, said ordinary individuals can now pose a threat to the fed-eral government and to other private citizens as a result of the exponential advances of new technologies, such as drones and robotics.

“The individual can have

his own weapons-of-mass-de-struction program. We haven’t seen a lot of this, but it’s totally doable,” Wittes said. “Every-body’s naked, everybody’s menacing, and everybody’s a critical feature of defense.”

Wittes said there’s never been a technology created that someone hasn’t tried to weaponize. Modern technol-ogies increase people’s ability to do violence from a less ac-countable position.

A few years ago, 200 women were attacked and blackmailed when a man used malware to hack into their webcams and threat-ened to publicly distrib-ute photos of them, Wittes said. He called this an act of “sextortion.”

“You, individually, can literally be attacked from anywhere. The power to at-tack is radically disseminat-ing and proliferating,” Wittes said. “Think of the number of modes by which you can be attacked today and think how much exponentially greater

that number is than it was 10 or 20 years ago.”

Mechanical engineering sophomore Christian Atayde said some 3-D printers are now encrypted to block cer-tain things, such as weapons, from being printed, because of the potential for misuse.

“Giving people more technology, it will empower them, and they have the power to abuse this technol-ogy,” Atayde said. “Is it right for engineers to keep creat-ing more technology over the fear that people will find a way to misuse it?”

Plan II senior Mark Jbeily said now that personal in-formation on the Internet is widely available, he worries that people aren’t aware of how many ways their secu-rity can be at risk.

“We’ve learned how to conduct ourselves online, like, ‘Do I post this picture or not?’” Jbeily said. “Now, we have to think about bank security and other ways to protect ourselves.”

Different student organi-zations focused on human rights discussed campus racism, gun safety and sex-ual assault at an open talk Tuesday at Benedict Hall.

UT’s chapter of Amnesty International, a global hu-man rights movement, hosted the event, which sought to educate students about the three topics and begin a wider discourse on campus, according to Am-nesty International Vice President Ana Hernandez. Voices Against Violence and Students Against Guns on Campus co-hosted the talk.

“These three topics affect the daily lives of students, and they are issues that we have here on the UT campus,” Hernandez said. “As students, it is our re-sponsibility to have honest conversations about these issues. As a human rights

organization, we feel that it is our role to help facilitate those conversations about the rights that students have to their bodies, prop-erty and well-being.”

In a presentation to the 15 people gathered, Her-nandez reviewed the Uni-versity’s past problems with racism, highlighting racist fraternity parties beginning in the 19th century, alleged “bleach bomb” incidents at UT in 2013, a series of controversies that have sur-rounded the Young Con-servatives organization and a party the Fiji fraternity hosted this semester which guests said was themed “border patrol.”

Hernandez said lead-ers at UT have not stepped up enough to take stands on these issues, mak-ing accountability by students critical.

Accountability for sexual assault has also plagued campuses such as UT, ac-cording to a different pre-

sentation given by Amnesty International members. Ac-cording to the presentation, 81 percent of students at universities in Texas report experiencing sexual harass-ment, but presenters said statistics show many inci-dents go unreported.

First-year law student Heather Kerstetter, who said she experienced sexual assault at while UT and re-ported it, said she believes the University was not there enough in her time of need.

“I feel like UT kind of brushes things under the rug as far as sexual as-sault goes,” Kerstetter said. “From my own experience, the person who I’ve had an issue with still walks the campus, and I still see them. The University needs to have better policies set up so [students like me] feel safer.”

On-campus safety, including sexual as-sault, should be further

discussed because of cam-pus carry legislation passed that could allow handguns on campus, said Han-nah Guernsey, a member of Students Against Guns on Campus who spoke at the discussion.

While Guernsey ar-gued that guns on campus would make the Univer-sity more dangerous be-cause of factors such as

binge-drinking, drug abuse, mental health issues and accidental shootings, she said students need to more openly debate this is-sue to form a student voice legislators can hear.

“The rights to security of people has to be open to argument,” Guernsey said. “This debate directly impacts [us].”

More students need to

p a r t i c i p a t e in these dialogues to create change, Kerstetter said.

“I wish more people knew about [events such as these] and had ac-cess to them, because I really think the more communication there is around campus and soci-ety, the better,” Kerstetter said. “These topics aren’t discussed enough.”

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March, Manley said. In another incident, a drone flew over the Darrell K. Royal Texas Memorial Stadium during the Long-horns’ first football game of the season.

“I honestly thought that someone did it to get a bird’s-eye-view picture of the stadium during the game,” electrical engi-neering senior Mary Ryan Gilmore said. “I’m not sure what it was really for.”

While the event at the football game did involve a high profile drone sight-ing, aerospace engineer-ing assistant professor Todd Humphreys said ahe believes recreational use of drones has not been a

problem in Austin.Often, people have con-

cerns about footage cap-tured by drones of people without their knowledge, Humphreys said.

“If you happen to get somebody’s house in those pictures or video, and you happen to catch some-body walking in their yard, you should destroy that video instead of up-loading it to YouTube,” Humphreys said.

Regardless of where drones are being used, Manley said people operat-ing them should always be cautious of others.

“Individuals need to be careful and cautious and need to maintain a visual at all times when they’re flying these devices, so they don’t accidently bring

them into an area that may place others in danger,” Manley said.

Under new rules that the Federal Aviation As-sociation is considering implementing, drone op-erators would be required to take a test to become certified to fly, which Humphreys said he thinks is reasonable.

“If you want to become a hand radio operator, you have to take a test and be-come government certified before you can broadcast in the space that has been allocated for amateur use,” Humphrey said. “I think it’s a perfectly reasonable parallel to say that if you’re going to be operating a drone, you need to have passed a test and gotten the certificate.”

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The Austin Police De-partment has issued more than 800 citations related to the newly implement-ed “Don’t Block the Box” campaign, which started April 6.

The campaign, targeted at downtown Austin, aims to reduce traffic bottling — when cars stopped in the middle of an inter-section block the rest of traffic flow, according to City Council member Ann Kitchen.

Over the two-week period from April 6

to Friday, APD issued 653 moving violations and 153 non-moving violations as well as 90 warning citations.

“It is still on the evalu-ation stage, but there are reports, at least from the police department, that they are seeing some im-provements from it in see-ing people changing their behavior,” Kitchen, who is head of the city’s Mobility Committee, said. “[Driv-ers are] learning how to make sure they don’t end up in the middle of the in-tersection.”

Mayor Steve Adler said he’s been watching the

Don’t Block the Box cam-paign implementation from his office.

“I’ve been watching people get tickets from City Hall,” Adler said.

Adler said “Don’t Block the Box” is only one tool in the City’s belt to com-bat Austin’s growing traf-fic congestion problem. City Manager Marc Ott released the Transporta-tion Congestion Action Plan on March 27, an out-line of solutions to traffic including short- and long-term fixes.

“We’re limiting left turns in traffic, coordinat-ing construction activity.

We’re going to be synchro-nizing lights … in real time, [so] it will shift with the traffic,” Adler said. “Don’t Block the Box was one of 20 different initia-tives we are trying.”

Kitchen said she thinks immediate solutions are critical to solving the City’s traffic problems.

“We grow so fast … that we dump a lot of addition-al traffic on existing roads and [are] not fast enough [at] adjusting to how those roads can handle the traf-fic,” Kitchen said. “With these kinds of actions, you get more bang for your buck because you can do

them faster and less cost-ly. They are infrastruc-ture things we need to do right away.”

DJ Roberts, a radio-television-film and his-tory sophomore, said he tends to disregard traffic infractions such as block-ing intersections when he is in a hurry.

“I think solutions deal-ing with infrastructure would be far more effec-tive than those shifting the mentality of Austin drivers,” Roberts said. “While getting people to stay out of ‘the box’ might help on a smaller scale, Austin’s traffic problem is

the result of an infrastruc-ture not built for the City’s growing problem.”

Mobility affects many other issues, such as cost of living, so Kitchen said short-term solutions are not enough to fix Austin’s traffic problem.

“It is a huge issue all over the city and also a linch-pin issue,” Kitchen said. “If we can’t get around — because of transporta-tion, and we’re stuck in traffic — then we can’t get to jobs and school and it impacts where we can live. It’s a linchpin issue that way. It affects a lot of other things.”

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Recent events surrounding fatal encoun-ters with unarmed citizens have sparked a nationwide debate over the accountability of police forces.

For instance, take the indictment of South Carolina police officer Michael T. Slager after a video of him killing a man during a traffic stop surfaced or, even closer to home, the indict-ment of former APD Detective Charles Klein-hart after the accidental shooting death of a robbery suspect.

These instances and others have pitted two diametrically opposed groups against each other.

While some claim no harm would have come to the victims if they had just cooperated with the police, others believe discrimination and exces-sive force came into play.

The two arguments will inevitably continue, but no one disagrees that we should find a way to reduce the number of violent encounters be-tween police and citizens.

I think the reform should start with the po-lice. Police departments should reform the way they’re trained to handle seemingly dangerous situations. If they feel a citizen is getting violent, they should analyze whether to go for a baton or taser first and aim for a less harmful spot if a gun is completely necessary.

Another element of strife is the distrust com-munities feel toward largely white police forces. Edwin Dorn, race relations expert and UT pro-fessor of public affairs, said that officers, while certainly needing better training to de-escalate situations, also need to reflect the communities they serve — a vital factor in keeping encounters as fair as possible.

In cities like Ferguson, Missouri, where citi-zens claimed police were biased against the black population, just three out of 53 officers were black while 67 percent of the population is black.

Across the nation, local police officers in any given community are about 75 percent white, re-gardless of racial makeup of the city. This is not to say that white officers are inherently racist, but rather that a diverse city deserves a diverse force, to ensure discrimination does not prevent justice from being served.

Although black Americans are thought to be disproportionately targeted by police, as reported by sites like NAACP.org, Dorn believes resisting arrest is not the way to fight back.

“It saddens me to say this, but in the short term, the best advice is the advice that all black parents give to their sons: If a policeman stops you, don’t argue, don’t resist and don’t run,” Dorn said.

If racism or bias comes into play, little can be done by a citizen to protect his or her life at the hands of a corrupt cop. However, respect-ing the commands of an officer can prevent further trouble.

Whether an officer has probable cause or not, if someone is stopped, they should fully cooper-ate. While many, however innocent, may wish to withhold identification, it’s not worth the risk of escalating a potentially simple situation. For example, former Texan columnist and associate

editor Eric Nikolaides refused to comply with police demands when he refused to let the cops enter without a warrant after receiving a noise complaint, resulting in an arrest on his formerly clean criminal record.

I myself have been in a similar situation, as a loud party I attended in College Station was interrupted by a noise complaint. The police showed up to find several inebriated students, some of whom were underage, and simply asked that we comply and answer questions truthfully.

Several anxiety-inducing moments later, we were free to continue — at a lower volume, of course. While I understand not every po-lice encounter goes this smoothly, I also recog-nize that my compliance protected my clean criminal record.

As students with our entire lives ahead of us, no one wants to be the smart mouth who intensi-fies a situation or the unfortunate victim of police brutality. While we all should push for police to re-examine their methods, we should also take necessary precautions. Police exist to protect and serve, so citizens and cops alike must do their part to ensure innocent individuals are released and criminals see their day in court.

Griffin is a journalism freshman from Houston.

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These instances and others have pitted two diametrically opposed groups against each other.

As the 2014-2015 school year draws to a close, many high school students around the state are already looking toward next year. The summer before one’s freshman year of college is filled with many milestones like orientation and registration. However, there is one decision that few students are probably looking forward to: deciding how much student loan debt to take on.

The cost of college has risen at an exponential

rate over the last couple of decades, and Texas colleges have not been immune to this trend. According to a recent article in the Houston Chronicle, Texas colleges’ cost of tuition has more than doubled since 2003, the year the state did away with tuition regulation. This has allowed colleges in Texas to raise their tuition prices as much as they wish with no interfer-ence from the state.

The change in tuition prices has been enor-mous. The average cost of tuition for Texas colleges in 2013 was $3,951 per semester. Of course, this does not include the cost of hous-ing and meal plans or any other fees students may incur.

Students are now leaving colleges with re-cord high amounts of debt. (As the cliché goes, student loan debt numbers have now climbed higher than those of credit card debt.) As the state funds less and less of Texas colleges’ bud-gets, universities are pushing these costs onto students and their families. There are cheerful reminders from colleges to “apply for scholar-ships” and “talk to your financial aid office,” but students rarely receive significant amounts of scholarship money or other forms of “gift

aid.” Instead, they are encouraged to apply for more loans, and colleges tend to act as if these loans will benefit a student enormously. Per-haps they will in the short run, but the student is still saddled with thousands of dollars of debt after college.

According to a recent article in the Texan, there have been six bills supporting tuition regu-lation filed in the Texas Legislature. These bills only serve to emphasize the fact that more and more students in Texas are finding it difficult or simply impossible to pay for college. Tuition rates can (and usually will) increase from year to year. This makes it so that students who stay at one college for four or more years end up paying sig-nificantly more at the end of their college career than they were at the start.

Many university officials are in favor of keep-ing tuition deregulated. UT System Chancellor William McRaven was quoted in the Texan as saying that universities should remain de-regulated, and should be “smart and thought-ful about how [they] have tuition increases.” Of course, having universities be “smart and thoughtful” about tuition increases is ideal. the past few years have shown that tuition

deregulation has led less to thoughtfulness and more to substantial price increases.

It is certainly possible that tuition regulation could bring with it a larger set of problems. It is hard to imagine, however, that it would place an even greater burden on students. With tuition deregulation, students are being forced to take on massive amounts of debt as universities raise or keep prices steady every year. Many prospec-tive students are even forced to give up on col-lege entirely because of prices they can’t afford.

University tuition should be re-regulated so that students are able to afford higher education. As it stands, students are pressured to take out an ever-increasing amount of loans in order to keep up with payments. If circumstances do not change, more and more students will have to give up on the thought of having a college education.

As next year’s college freshmen make their decisions about where to go and what to do, they should not be made to feel as if they are drowning in loans before they even step on campus. They should feel free to pursue their chosen career path without the threat of debt hanging over them.

Dolan is a journalism freshman from Abilene.

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The cost of college has risen to an exponential rate over the last couple of decades, and Texas colleges have not been immune to this trend.

Editor’s Note: This is part of a series of Q-and-A’s with UT’s deans. Manuel J. Justiz is dean of the College of Education. He assumed the position in 1990.

Daily Texan: Could you start off by telling us about the most interesting projects going on in the College of Education?

Dean Justiz: We are the largest college of education in the country in size. We are a non-traditional school, meaning that we are very performance-based with a heavy emphasis on student performance and re-search. If you look at our national rankings, we were ranked number one among publics for four years in a row. We have been ranked number one in research expenditures among public and private [universities] for five or six years. We place heavy emphasis on being interdisciplinary.

We are cofounders of the UTeach pro-gram within the Natural Sciences [college] preparing math and science teachers. We’re also cofounders with Cockrell [School of Engineering] on UTeach engineering. Those are examples of some collaborative efforts. We took the lead with Governor Richards on STEM initiatives. At her request, we devel-oped the only proposal for the entire state on STEM education. We’re working with Gov-ernor Abbott’s office on their current educa-tion initiative. Internally, we have the Office of Educational Research to improve the par-ticipation of faculty, and we have the third highest research expenditure at the Univer-sity, which is strange for a college of educa-tion. It’s a very large college with a compre-hensive mission, but we are very proud.

DT: What percentage of undergrad stu-dents go into graduate school immediately versus going into teaching?

Justiz: Our undergraduate population are the ones wanting to be teachers. Prob-ably 85-90 percent of undergrads go on to

teach. The rest are going to graduate school. We have 100 percent job placement and have a 100 percent pass rate in our Teacher Cer-tification Exam. I think a lot of our gradu-ates will come back after a few years for graduate programs.

DT: You are the first dean we’ve talked to that has mentioned working with guberna-torial administrations. Is that something the college tries to initiate or do those dif-ferent administrations reach out to you?

Justiz: They reach out to us. I think that speaks to how well regarded the college is. I’ve been here 25 years, I’m the senior dean at UT. When I came here, the first initia-tive we had came from Governor Richards, with whom I traveled extensively and vis-ited schools. She chose our STEM pro-posal to send to a federal level. We’re being asked to take the lead on Governor Ab-bott’s initiative. We don’t look inward, we look outward.

DT: What brought you to UT and what are the biggest changes you’ve seen in your time here?

Justiz: When I was selected in a national search for a dean, I had been in a subcabi-net post heading up the Research Agency in Education in Washington. I came to UT because it was a great opportunity. I fell in love with Austin and UT. It has been a great privilege for me to be a dean at the university.

When I came, the college was under re-view. There were questions about academic integrity and the quality of our degrees. I felt this place could only go up. It was a low-risk situation. If I could build a team of people with the same vision, I knew I could improve the college and help it fulfill its promise. It is a work in progress, there are still problems and we need to make sure the leadership team is always working together.

I’ve probably hired 92 percent of the college faculty by now.

DT: Have you seen any changes in the types of students coming into the college?

Justiz: When we started, most of our graduates were going into teacher educa-tion. Kinesiology has grown. Less people are going into teacher education and more into the health sciences.That isn’t so differ-ent from the rest of the university.

DT: How large of a role does diversity play in your college?

Justiz: Anywhere from 40 to 50 percent of minority graduates at UT graduate with a degree in education, and we have a strong,

diverse faculty. In fact, I was the first mi-nority dean in the history of the university.

DT: What do you think will be the next big change in education?

Justiz: We’ve been talking about creat-ing a unique marriage between pedagogy and content in education through gaming. How do we bring the best facets of gaming to teaching and learning? How do we build that into a challenging curriculum that re-ally engages you? How do you bring these practices in without compromising the in-tegrity of the content? We think we need a public-private partnership to do this, but those are the kind of discussions we are having.

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questions and experiences they will likely face as female leaders.

“We see a seed or a founda-tion for an interest in women’s leadership,” Sapio said. “It doesn’t come across explicitly in the application — like, women don’t often give a philosophy of feminism. But we see the seeds, and we want to give those wom-en an opportunity for them to germinate and flourish.”

Seniors usually choose their mentees based on shared experi-ences. Nguyen said she and her mentee match perfectly because neither feels as if they fit in at the Red McCombs School of Business. Nguyen said she urges her mentee to remember that life is composed of more than just academics.

“You know, business school is nice, and you learn useful things, but you should pursue outside interests if you have those out-side interests,” Nguyen said.

Nguyen said one of the most

valuable gifts the group has giv-en her are excellent communi-cation skills, which she said she knows will be useful no matter where she decides to work.

“As an intern, I had to talk to head of accounting for an entire program — that was kind of weird,” Nguyen said. “I was 21 at the time and mak-ing these demands from this person that has worked at this company for forever — those communication skills were important.”

Alabama Shakes’ first tour proved they have the charisma of some of the liveliest bands in music today. But their first album, Boys & Girls, failed to capture that performance style, leaving much to be desired. Their second record, Sound & Color, released Tuesday, in-corporates a variety of instru-mentation and draws on a wide array of influences to create an album that not only defines the band’s sound but also captures the spontaneity and color of their live performances.

Lead singer and guitarist Brittney Howard’s voice is the highlight of almost every song on Sound & Color. Her vocals bring enormous tonal variety, establishing an initial-ly hazy dream state on “Sound & Color” and energizing the angry and demanding frenzy of “Gimme All Your Love.” Howard’s soothing register on “Future People” accentuates the confident and boisterous “Don’t Wanna Fight.”

In an instant, Howard can go from absolutely irate to gently compassionate and

back again. Her emotions consume her when she sings of heartbreak; she focuses solely on her pain and noth-ing else. Combined with Howard’s heavy guitar chords and Zac Cockrell’s jazzy bass work, Howard’s voice helps every song on this record leave a lasting impression.

Steve Johnson, the band’s drummer, brings his punk and metal influence to each song. He helps Alabama Shakes create explosive mo-ments in songs such as “Miss You,” in which Johnson con-trols the pace with his dy-namic drumming. Johnson contributes to the band’s overall effort to keep the lis-teners on the edge of their seats by eliminating predict-ability in his drumming.

With a start-and-stop style throughout the record, this album isn’t a casual listen. Experiencing all of the ups and downs of the album re-quires paying attention to details. Sound & Color takes a toll on the listener, but the end result is worth the effort.

At points, Howard’s lyrical content feels generic. Themes of personal turmoil, regret and

helplessness dominate Sound & Color, but Howard neglects to add personal detail to these struggles. Although a more personal account of Howard’s stories would have given the lyrics depth, the lack of speci-ficity does allow listeners to use their imagination and project their own experiences onto the music.

Not to say every song is bleak and hopeless; Sound & Color offers more empower-ing tracks of equal magni-tude. “Shoegaze” invigorates listeners to the extent that songs such as “This Feeling” force contemplation.

Sound & Color makes the listener feel closer to the Alabama Shakes with every note. This record signifies the group’s maturation as a band. This album makes it clear that the Shakes’ efforts to translate their live performance style into digital recordings paid off.

in Punjab, a state in India.“[Bhangra] is basically a

series of high knees, jumping jacks and squats,” D’aguilar said. “It’s intense cardio. We need about six water breaks.”

The group blends English and South Asian music to ac-company the dances, and, in recent years, they have hired professional DJs to mix the songs. Preparation for the vari-ous dance competitions they attend begins over the sum-mer, when the officers select the theme and music for the year’s main performance.

“You don’t want everyone just dancing for eight min-utes,” Kachru said. “Your sto-ryline is important.”

Saaya’s dance this year had the theme “dark circus.”

The story follows a group of people who audition for the circus. Once they make it in, the ringleader holds them all captive.

The captains created props and designed costumes, which included red and black vests and gold salwars — loose pants worn in South Asia.

Saaya performed the rou-tine at Dance Ke Deewane, a national competition in Miami, in the fall but did not place. The team performed again in March at a state competition held at Baylor University called Gateway to India, and they placed first.

“It’s a year-long process,” Kachru said. “We’ve had to change the routine over time. We took what the judges said and made changes. We’d re-move songs or change the choreography up.”

To prepare the choreog-raphy, members taught each other the various moves.

“We have certain people on the team that are really good at certain things, and we uti-lize that,” D’aguilar said. “Ev-eryone on the team just helps each other.”

Mathematics sophomore Ajay Patel, a member of the team who sometimes gives pep talks before performances, said getting to display the choreog-raphy on stage is his favorite aspect of being a part of Saaya.

“Having the music blast to the point where you can’t hear yourself think is probably the best part,” Patel said. “You shut everything else out. You’re not thinking about anything. The only thing that’s on your mind is how you’re going to entertain and what’s your next move.”

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Photo courtesy of Getty ImagesAlabama Shakes hit their stride on their second album Sound & Color, using their eclectic tastes to create a memorable record.

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Tuesday night, Texas State’s head coach, Ty Harrington, made a sur-prise appearance at UFCU Disch-Falk Field in front of an unusually large crowd.

Harrington, a former Tex-as player and coach, has been away from the Bobcats while he battles rectal cancer.

The former two-time Longhorn letterman hugged Texas head coach Augie Gar-rido at home plate as the crowd cheered after the op-posing coaches exchanging lineup cards before the game.

Garrido said the embrace at the plate was emotional because of his friendship with Harrington.

“I know what he’s going through,” Garrido said. “I was with my mother when she went through that. She didn’t make it, but he did. So we thank God for that. It was very emotional.”

Harrington said the crowd’s response was uplifting, es-pecially since he hasn’t been around the game for a while.

“The crowd was unbeliev-ably gracious tonight to ap-plaud me at the beginning of the game,” Harrington said. “I appreciate that from the Longhorn crowd, and I cer-tainly appreciate that from Augie and his staff. … To have these kinds of things are heartfelt and nice. It makes you feel good.”

This was Harrington’s second appearance this sea-son. His first was in Waco against Baylor on April 2.

During his playing days

as a Longhorn, Harrington was a two-time letterman. He was infielder from 1984–1987 and went to the College World Series three times.

Harrington continued his time at Texas as a coach. He served as a student coach and a graduate assistant coach from 1988–1991. He moved to Arkansas State to become an assistant coach for the Red Wolves in 1992 before serving as head coach for Northeast Texas Com-munity College in 1995 and Blinn College in 1999.

Harrington became the Bobcats’ head coach in 2000 and has lead Texas State to a 507–381–1 record, three Southland conference cham-pionships and three NCAA Regional Tournaments.

While Harrington enjoyed his time at the ballpark, he isn’t sure when he’ll be back full time. He said he’s hopeful that time will come soon, as he is done with his cancer treatment and is starting to feel better.

“I’m trying to work my way back in there,” Harrington said. “My first thought is I’ve got my health before the dugout. I don’t know that I’m ready to get in there and grind.”

Garrido said he has ad-mired Harrington’s strength as he has battled cancer.

“I love what he’s had to go through and how he’s con-quered it,” Garrido said. “I admire him. I respect him. And I love him for winning the battle.”

Texas ultimately won the game 7–3, but the play on the diamond only served as a backdrop to an emotional night at the ballpark.

If fans worried that the Longhorns’ outburst of runs at Kansas this past weekend might not carry over to Aus-tin, those fears were put to rest quickly Tuesday night.

Texas batters lashed out eight hits and scored five runs in the first three in-nings, including the team’s first home run at home in al-most a month, in a 7–3 win over Texas State.

After giving up two runs in the top of the first, the Long-horns immediately respond-ed in the bottom half of the inning by getting the first three batters on base, none of which came on a hit. Fresh-man first baseman Michael Cantu followed that up with a double-play grounder that brought in a run.

“All of us as coaches saw a good carry over from the Sunday game into this game,” head coach Augie Garrido said.

Sophomore first baseman Tres Barrera tied the game when the Texas State center fielder whiffed on a catch, al-lowing a run to come across and Barrera to scamper all the way to third. Freshman third baseman Bret Boswell drew a bases-loaded walk later in the inning to give

Texas the lead.Two innings later, sopho-

more center fielder Zane Gurwitz lined a shot off the left-field foul pole for a two-run homer to give the Long-horns a 5–2 lead. The blast was the first Texas home run at UFCU Disch-Falk Field since senior right fielder Col-lin Shaw hit a two-run home run against Kansas State on March 22.

Gurwitz, who had six hits and three RBIs in the series against Kansas, said

keeping the game simple is what ultimately led to the team’s success.

“It’s been working — just keeping the game simple and bringing it back to the basics,” Gurwitz said. “If you make it too hard on yourself, it’s going to eat you up.”

Boswell added a two-run home run, his first collegiate four-bagger, in the eighth in-ning to up the lead to 7–3.

Sophomore starting pitcher Josh Sawyer, who has been up and down this

season since being dropped from the weekend rota-tion, struggled early in the game. He threw 29 pitches, giving up two runs on a double to left and a single up the middle.

But Sawyer settled in after that, retiring the next 11 bat-ters and finishing the night with four strikeouts in five innings of work — the most innings he’s thrown since March 8 at Stanford.

“I was leaning forward, so [associate head coach Skip

Johnson] said, ‘Just stop when you get down to the bottom — and then go for-ward,’” Sawyer said.

The win is Texas’ second victory over Texas State this season. The Longhorns de-feated the Bobcats 6–4 in San Marcos on March 24. The two will meet again May 5 in Texas’ last regular-season home game.

The Longhorns re-sume conference play with a crucial series at TCU beginning Friday.

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Texas’ offensive strug-gles and inconsistent abil-ity to move the chains played a pivotal role in the team’s loss of seven of its last 12 games in 2014 — but with the faster tempo the team demonstrated at the recent Orange-White scrimmage, players may gain more yards in the season to come.

In the last 12 games of last season, the Long-horns gained just 4,385 yards on 892 plays from scrimmage and averaged less than five yards per play for the first time since 1991, ranking 110th in the country and next to last in the conference at 4.92 yards per play.

With so little production per play, the Longhorns finished the year averag-ing 337 yards of total of-fense per game, the team’s second-lowest mark in the past 30 seasons. Texas clearly needed to mix up its offensive philosophy for the upcoming season to be a success. One way the Longhorns will be able to be more successful is to make the offensive pace more up-tempo.

Both offenses in the recent

Orange-White scrimmage did this, finishing the open-ing half with more than 40 plays each, putting them on pace to shatter the 68.6 plays the team ran per game in 2014. But Texas failed to display any possible game-breakers on its offense, one that ranked ahead of only Kansas in the Big 12 in pro-ducing plays from scrim-mage of 10 yards or greater with 165 last fall.

Quarterbacks junior Ty-rone Swoopes and redshirt freshman Jerrod Heard were unable to distinguish themselves from each other. Each signal caller led his squad on 65-yard opening drives capped by individual touchdown runs inside the redzone. Then both struggled for the rest of the first half, as Swoopes’ squad produced 4.19 yards per play, while the Heard-led offense produced just 3.72 yards per play in that the span.

Sophomore running back D’Onta Foreman made an impact with 13 touches for 83 yards, in-cluding a 28-yard carry — Texas’ longest play of the afternoon — and a touch-down plunge from a yard out. Foreman could excel as Texas’ short-yardage back, but senior running

back Johnathan Gray will likely take the bulk of the team’s carries.

There are also plenty of questions surrounding the wide receiver position, particularly replacing John Harris, who became the sixth player in school his-tory to go over the 1,000-yard receiving plateau.

With senior wide re-ceiver Marcus Johnson out with a knee injury, all eyes were on a pair of sophomores and an often-troubled senior.

Sophomores Dorian Leon-ard and Armanti Foreman, potential impact players before the game, were each unable to haul in would-be touchdown passes.

Many hoped senior Daje Johnson would return to his freshman and sopho-more form, when he com-bined for 1,330 all-purpose yards and five touchdowns. However, Johnson strug-gled throughout the after-noon, muffing a punt and losing another fumble, while finishing with four receptions for 43 yards.

The faster tempo should help the offense gain more yards than 2014. Even so, without a go-to playmaker, the Longhorns will likely continue struggling to pro-duce explosive plays.

By Drew Lieberman@DrewLieberman

Griffin Smith | Daily Texan StaffJunior quarterback Tyrone Swoopes, pictured above, and redshirt freshman Jerrod Heard hope to take advantage of Texas’ switch to a more up-tempo offensive style.

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Sophomore cen-ter fielder Zane Gurwitz rounds the bases after his home run in a 7–3 win over Texas State. Gur-witz’s home run was the first for the Longhorns since March 22.

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Seniors Lloyd Glasspool, Søren Hess-Olesen and Jacoby Lewis as well as Ivy-league transfer junior Michael Riechmann were awarded first-team honors.

Nick Naumann was awarded second-team honors.

To qualify for the Aca-demic All-Big 12 teams, an individual must have a GPA that either cumu-latively or over the pre-vious two semesters is at least a 3.00. Further-more, the team member must have participated in at least 60 percent of the team’s matches. Se-niors who have been a part of the team for at least two years are ex-empt from the percent of participation criteria.

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Each year, about a dozen freshmen women get the oppor-tunity to spend their next three years doing one thing: inspiring.

INSPIRE is a three-year-long program open to freshmen that aims to provide a socially and academically supportive space in which young women practice the skills required to be success-ful world leaders. They aim to in-spire themselves and each other.

From the beginning, the program’s application commit-tee looks for students who they believe could benefit most from

the program. Around 50 percent of INSPIRE’s members are first-generation college students, and 85 percent are women of color.

Accounting grad student Alexis Nguyen will finish her last semester with INSPIRE this year. She is a first-genera-tion student whose parents left Vietnam for America during the Vietnam War.

“My parents have never stopped working since the day they came to the U.S.,” Nguyen said. “They worked really hard to give me the opportunities to get me where I am today.”

The Center for Women’s and Gender Studies designed

the program, which promotes leadership and professional skills to three cohorts divided by class — sophomores, juniors and seniors. The groups meet every other month to work on different professional and lead-ership strengthening projects.

Program coordinator Nancy Ewert said INSPIRE’s guide-lines are intentionally vague. This way, she said, students can focus on what they want to learn, and each group can evolve based on the experienc-es of its individual memberes.

“Leadership is defined dif-ferently by each person,” Ew-ert said. “And in the INSPIRE

program, we work towards developing the concept of lead-ership with each individual.“

The students participate in a six-week improv class and work on community service projects with nonprofits such as SafePlace, GENaustin and Casa Marianella. They attend conferences, present a research study and serve as mentors to freshmen students. Senior members attend an all-ex-penses-paid trip to the District of Columbia for the National Conference of College Women Student Leaders.

Graduate students facilitate the cohorts for the three-year

term. The program chooses these mentors based on their experience in education or fo-cus on gender and women’s is-sues. Textiles and apparel soph-omore Rachelle Allen said she values her INSPIRE mentor, English grad student Jennifer Sapio, because she can speak openly with her.

Sapio specializes in ancient texts and the strategies and mechanisms of anti-feminism in literature. She said INSPIRE’s curriculum does not specifi-cally aim to teach major feminist theory but does center around helping the students address the

The members of Austin-based Calliope Musicals haven’t had just one near-death experience on tour — they’ve had multiple.

Once, a rattlesnake nearly bit guitarist Matt Roth on Tennes-see’s Smoky Mountains while the rest of the band unknowingly kept hiking. Another time, they walked barefoot around Joshua Tree National Park in California before discovering they shared their campsite with scorpions. And when they drove through inner-city Baltimore, they were almost carjacked.

According to guitarist Chris Webb, the band wouldn’t have it any other way.

“If you don’t almost die on tour, it was a really shitty tour,” Webb said.

The members of the psych-rock band are preparing for another nationwide tour and the release of the album they finished recording in February. The band’s upcoming album is the first time the member have “gotten their feet wet” in the recording studio be-cause they prefer to focus on live performances.

In person, the members build off each other’s jokes and recount their near-death experiences with enthusi-asm, speaking over each other and completing each others’ sentences. But despite the band members’ chemis-try, Calliope Musicals wasn’t always comprised of today’s six members.

The band first formed in 2009 when guitarist Matt Roth booked front woman Car-rie Fussell to play a show at Pipe’s Plus on the Drag. The pair started writing songs to-gether. They then connected with vibraphone player Craig Finkelstein on Craiglist, and

Fussell’s then-boyfriend, now-husband Josh Bickley started playing the drums.

Guitarist Chris Webb and bassist Andrew Vizzone joined Calliope Musicals two years ago. Vizzone said the band’s sound morphed from a folk-vibe to psychadelic party-rock after he and Webb joined the band with electric guitars and bass.

“We were originally think-ing Mamas and the Papas — or kind of Peter, Paul and Mary,” Roth said. “But then electric guitars came into the mix.”

Roth said the band mem-bers like to collaborate on their songwriting, so the music doesn’t fully conform to one person’s ideas.

“We look at ourselves as all different songwriters, so we try to come together to create something cohesive,” Roth said. “We’re more like, ‘Let’s throw all of our sounds together and try to make something from it.’”

Vizzone said the band mem-bers don’t have a definitive way to describe their sound, but Fussell said it’s always “colorful, energetic and fun.”

Calliope Musicals is one of three acts that played Saturday’s Untapped Festival. Fussell said Calliope Musicals likes playing festivals because they draw a

different, more energetic crowd than smaller-venue shows.

“People at festivals have signed up for that experience — they’ve got their ticket, their cooler, their friends — and they picked out their clothes they want to wear,” Fussell said. “People just seem to be really excited about a festival.”

Calliope’s live shows involve a confetti cannon, animal cos-tumes, candles and dancers. Roth said the band members elicit audience participation in all of its shows by having them sing along or come up on stage and dance.

“It’s not just about, ‘Here’s the band, here’s the crowd and here’s the barrier in between,’” Roth said. “It’s more about, ‘What can we create in this mo-ment together?’”

For the next few months, Calliope Musicals will promote their album and work on book-ing their tour. Fussell said the band’s main objective on this tour is to give the audience a good experience.

“I think the most important thing, and one of the things we love most about playing music, is making people feel happy,” Fussell said. “Making them feel good and making them feel empowered.”

A group of dancers hud-dle backstage, preparing for the third and final round of the competition. Danielle D’aguilar, Plan II and inter-national relations and global studies freshman, listens as a dancer reminds Saaya, a UT co-ed fusion dance team, that this is their last performance of the year.

Months of mixing songs, de-signing costumes and choreo-graphing routines have all led to this moment.

“We knew that we were neck and neck,” D’aguilar said. “I was jarred with energy, and I just started crying.”

After seven teams from across the nation took the stage April 11 at Naach Naach Revo-lution, a national Bollywood-fusion dance competition in the District of Columbia, the judges counted up the points and announced the results. Saaya came in second place — less than a point away from the

first place team, New York Uni-versity’s Khalbali.

One of the team captains, Anuva Kachru, radio-televi-sion-film and corporate com-munications studies junior, said the results were surprising because Saaya had never per-formed in a competition that required them to compete in three separate rounds before.

“Winning second was a really big deal because we didn’t really know what we were doing,” Ka-chru said. “The teams that won first and third both had com-peted at the competition before.”

This is the second time Saaya has placed at a national competition since the group was founded in 2008. Saaya is one of several fusion teams on campus and currently consists of 17 students who mix hip-hop and contemporary dance moves with South Asian dance styles. These styles include Bol-lywood, a fast-paced dance from India, and Bhangra, a high-energy dance that formed

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Fusion dance group places at national competitionBy Marisa Charpentier

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Zoe Fu| Daily Texan StaffSaaya, a UT co-ed fusion dance team, recently placed second in a national Bollywood-fusion dance competition in the District of Columbia, Saaya is one of several fusion teams on campus, and currently consists of 17 students.

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Leadership is defined differently by each person. And in the INSPIRE program, we work towards developing the concept of leadership with each individual.

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Griffin Smith | Daily Texan StaffPsychedelic-rock band Calliope Musicals have been develop-ing their sound and identity since they formed in 2009.