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The UT chapter of Lib-erty in North Korea (LiNK) urged students to send letters of solidarity to the North Ko-rean people during its bian-nual day of awareness for the human rights violations oc-curring in North Korea.

The event Friday aimed to educate the University com-munity about the human side of the political crisis in North Korea, according to Sarah Choi, UT LiNK chap-ter’s vice president and cel-lular and molecular biology junior. The current turmoil

As President William Pow-ers Jr. prepares to step down from office, he said he hopes affordability and accessibility remain priorities for the new administration.

Powers said although he has worked to keep cost and access primary focal points during his presidency, there is still work left for the next UT president — likely Greg-ory Fenves, executive vice president and provost, who was recently named the sole finalist for the position.

“We’re always looking for ways [to be] more produc-tive,” Powers said. “It’s not just reducing cost; it’s the relation-ship between cost and output.”

Improved four-year gradu-ation rates have helped reduce the burden on students and their families who can now pay less in tuition, Powers said.

“There’s a lot of discussion and, rightly so, about afford-ability and the resources that a family has to devote to pub-lic higher education,” Powers said. “We’re sensitive to that.”

An accountability report UT produced found that be-tween 2000 and 2014, the four-year graduation rate im-proved by roughly 15 percent.

The use of scholarship money is another valuable tool in taking on the cost of education for students, Pow-ers said.

“One way [to improve af-fordability] is scholarship money. We’ve raised a lot of it. We use a lot of it,” Powers said. “A quarter of our stu-dents don’t pay any tuition. The average student pays about half the full sticker

The open carry of hand-guns state-wide is one step closer to being legal.

The Texas House gave ini-tial approval to its version of the open carry bill, HB 910, on Friday. The Texas Senate approved its version of the

bill in March. HB 910 would allow li-

censed handgun carriers to openly carry their guns in a holster. The open carry of long guns and rifles is al-ready legal in the state. Rep. Larry Phillips (R-Sherman), primary author of the bill, said he thinks the bill will expand Texans’ rights under

the Second Amendment. “This bill goes too far for

some and not far enough for others, but I think its a good start to show that we as Texans can be respectful and still protect ourselves,” Phil-lips said.

Representatives were set to debate the bill Tuesday, but Rep. Trey Martinez

Fischer (D-San Antonio) pointed out a technical error that postponed discussion. The error was resolved the same day.

Martinez Fischer and Rep. Borris Miles (D-Hous-ton) brought up points of order Friday, but the points were overruled. One of Mar-tinez Fischer’s points was in

response to an amendment Rep. Allen Fletcher (R-Cy-press) filed that would allow the concealed carry of hand-guns on college campuses.

“This amendment has to do with what a licensed holder may or may not do,” Fletcher said. “This is the

After nearly three years of planning, University ad-ministrators launched a newly redesigned utexas.edu Thursday.

Mike Horn, director of digital strategy for Univer-sity Communications, said the redesign focuses on in-formation about admission and financial aid to attract prospective students. Al-though current students are the primary users of the UT website, they access most of their content through secure portals such as UTDirect, Canvas and Blackboard, Horn said.

“The next biggest audi-ence group [of the website] was prospectives,” Horn said. “Their needs are not being met in the way that we want, and we really fo-cused this redesign on pro-spective students.”

The website redesign also serves as part of a broader

initiative to help current stu-dents, Horn said. MyUT, a personalized student portal intended to help increase graduation rates, is tentatively scheduled to launch in the fall.

“It’s going to include some features like integrated

calendars, a new mobile-friendly design [and] single sign-on connections to tools like Canvas and other servic-es so you don’t have to login over and over again,” Horn said. “It’s going to become more customizable and

provide information relevant to the time of year and your major and interest.”

Administrators first ap-proached University Com-munications and Information

Officers from the UT Po-lice Department plunged into cold water Friday in an effort to raise money for the Leukemia & Lympho-ma Society as part of Phi Kappa Sigma’s first Dunk A Cop event.

The event originated at Virginia Commonwealth University, and its ability to engage the police de-partments with their local communities while also raising money helped it spread to other schools, according to Zach Garcia, Phi Kappa Sigma’s vice president of philanthropy and finance senior.

“[Our campus] has a huge population of 50,000. I think it’s always cool to see stu-dents engaged with the local police department in a dif-ferent way than everything you hear through campus watch,” Garcia said. “This definitely brings a different realm and energy because it allows the student body to interact with the local police in a different environment.”

Officers were happy to participate in the event for the sake of battling cancer, Garcia said.

“Cancer is a terrible disease,

and it impacts people in ways you can’t even imagine, so when [Garcia] reached out to me, I said, ‘Yeah, this is something we can get be-hind and help,” UTPD offi-cer William Pieper said.

Besides helping raise money for the cause, Pieper

said UTPD enjoys partner-ing with organizations on campus for different events.

“In addition to raising money for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, it gives us an opportunity to get out into the public and let people see that we’re not just

the law,” Pieper said. “We’re not just out there writing tickets and things of that na-ture. We’re concerned about community building.”

During the event, par-ticipants could buy two throws for $2, three for $5 and for $10, participants

could get an automatic dunk for the officer in the tank. The fraternity raised $896 dollars for the Leuke-mia & Lymphoma Society during the event.

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campus protection amend-ment to campus carry and is acceptable to the author.”

Fletcher, who also au-thored the House’s campus carry bill, HB 937, ultimately withdrew the measure. Rep-resentatives are set to debate campus carry at a later date.

Two of the 18 pro-posed amendments to the bill were approved. One amendment rewords the

phrase “nursing home” to “nursing facility” when re-ferring to facilities where open carry is not allowed.

The other amendment lightens the penalty for openly carrying a gun in a location with the proper signage dis-played to prevent open carry. The penalty for disobeying the signage would change from a class A misdemeanor to a class C misdemeanor, resulting in a fine of up to $200.

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Jason Rask signed up to sit in the dunk tank throughout the day, even though it was his day off.

“I’ve been up there twice already but probably been dunked at least 20 times,” Rask said. “It’s cold — espe-cially when you get out be-cause they filled it up with the hose pipes coming out of the building, and that’s really cold water.”

Rask said he enjoyed watch-ing the students’ reactions.

“It’s just a good cause. … Cancer is a serious thing, so if we can raise money to help find cures, then I’ll do-nate my time any time I can,” Rask said. “[The best part has been] the interactions with all the students. I mean, they seem to like dunking us.”

Austin visitor Will Dor-rance and his friends came across the event and decided to participate.

“We just happened to stroll across [the event], and I actually have a friend who

has lymphoma, so as soon as I heard the cause, I knew I wanted to participate,” Dor-rance said.

After he paid for unlim-ited throws, Dorrance said he appreciated the event because it made donating more accessible.

“Making it easy for oth-ers to help and donate is important, and I think a lot of times people want to get involved and donate money, so I think when you bring an event like this to the masses, you can really make that money for a good cause,” Dorrance said.

price because of the grants and tuition they get or fi-nancial aid they get.”

Undergraduate studies freshman Kayla Potter said that although affordability has not been an issue for her personally, she believes high out-of-state tuition makes attracting talented, non-Texas students a challenge.

“I think in-state tuition isn’t ridiculous,” Potter said. “Out-of-state tuition has stopped a lot of my friends from places like California because the tu-ition is so high.”

Powers said there is not one single answer for mak-ing higher education afford-able while maintaining a na-tional reputation for quality.

“We want the education to improve — undergraduate

curriculum, better advising, better undergraduate stud-ies — and to be a good value for the inputs that we’re put-ting into it,” Powers said. “There’s no single bullet. We just always keep trying to do it as efficiently and as high quality as you can.”

UT System Chancellor William McRaven said he shared Powers’ concern re-garding affordability and ac-cessibility at a press confer-ence in March.

“A lot of [concern] is about affordability and ac-cess in terms of how do we ensure that we get more students in our system writ large across the UT System, make it affordable to them [and] make sure that good education is accessible,” McRaven said.

It is dangerous for UT System institutions to swing too far in either direction

with regards to affordability versus the quality of educa-tion, McRaven said.

“This is a balancing act — to make education as af-fordable as can be but still as high quality as it can be,” McRaven said. “Frankly, the students that are looking for a high-quality education, if

they don’t think that we’re giving them a high enough quality education, they will go outside the state.”

The UT System Board of Regents is expected to name Fenves as the next president Monday, after he was selected as the sole fi-nalist in late March.

Technology Services to cre-ate a new website in summer 2012, Horn said.

Public relations senior Hayley Fick, digital strat-egy intern for University Communications, said the website redesign tried to avoid mistakes other college

websites often make.“[We would see that a

website] looked good, but it wasn’t necessarily respon-sive or as functional,” Fick said. “We are trying to strike a balance between aesthetics and functionality.”

The new website design uses a template that can be applied to college and depart-mental websites through con-

tent management platform Drupal, Horn said.

Finance sophomore Julie Ding said she experienced problems finding informa-tion about certain programs, such as study abroad, using the new website.

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University website,” Ding said.Lauren Greiner, interna-

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“It’s a longer website, instead of just having a shorter scroll distance and all this tiny little text ev-erywhere,” Greiner said. “It just looks cleaner.”

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Search for new Moody College dean to continue

After several months of searching and rounds of finalist interviews, Greg-ory Fenves, executive vice president and provost, said he will continue the search for the new dean of the Moody College of Communication.

Fenves, who is also the sole finalist to succeed President William Powers Jr., sent an email to Moody College students, faculty and staff announcing his decision to continue the search following discus-sions with the search com-mittee. He said he will ap-point an interim dean until a new dean is selected.

“I will work with the search committee on phase two of the process,” Fenves said in the email. “In the meantime, I will announce an interim dean appointment as soon as possible.”

The dean interviewed three candidates, all of whom were brought to campus — Larry Pintak, founding dean of the Mur-row College of Communi-cation at Washington State University; Dafna Lemish, current dean of the Col-lege of Mass Communi-cation and Media Arts at Southern Illinois Universi-ty; and Thomas Hollihan, communication professor at the University of South-ern California Annenberg School for Communica-tion and Journalism.

In a March email, Fenves said a fourth un-named candidate pulled out of their candidacy.

After more than 10 years in the position, current Moody Dean Roderick Hart will step down from his position in May. He an-nounced his plan to resign in August.

Barry Brummett, co-chair of the dean search committee, said he under-stands the motive for con-tinuing the search.

“Ultimately, it was going to be the provost’s deci-sion,” Brummett said. “I do think I can say that his mo-tive is to get the best dean possible with prospects for really continuing the won-derful work that Dean Hart has done. I think he felt that looking for some more candidates will achieve that goal.”

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Spirit group Texas Roy-als raised money for the Darrell K Royal Research Fund for Alzheimer’s Dis-ease with its first-ever phi-lanthropy event, Dodging for DKR, Sunday.

The research fund be-gan in 2012 after the University’s winningest football coach, Dar-rell K Royal, died from the disease. Following Royal’s death, his wife, Edith, helped create the fund to help prevent and defeat Alzheimer’s.

Madison Westbrook, Royals philanthropy chair and biology junior, said 18 teams signed up to participate in the dodge-ball tournament. West-brook said she was ex-cited about the turnout because it was the group’s first time hosting its own philanthropy event.

“Royals has been around

for about two years, but we have not hosted or put on event like this before,” Westbrook said. “We have been involved with profit shares and ‘jewels,’ where our new classes [have] to raise $500 before they are initiated. This was a good experience to host an event but also raise money for a good cause.”

Royals had two teams participate in the tourna-ment before its last team was eliminated in the sec-ond round.

Iron Spikes, another UT spirit group, had three teams competing in the semifinal round. One of its teams, the Dodge-fathers, ultimately won the tournament.

Eddie Babbe, computer science junior and Dodge-fathers member, said par-ticipating and winning was a bonding experience for his class.

“This is a good win be-cause we are the rookie

class at Iron Spikes,” Bab-be said. “With all of our different schedules, we spent time bonding by getting up at 6 a.m. sev-eral times a week, and we would play basketball or dodgeball together.”

Waid Barfield, econom-ics senior and member of the second-place team from the Delta Chi fra-ternity, said their team’s focus was on creating an

entertaining experience to raise money for the re-search fund.

“We were just excited to participate in a good cause,” Barfield said. “We try to be involved in other groups’ events because it is the least we can do to come out and support an-other group’s cause.”

Westbrook said all of the money raised will be given to the research fund.

In light of several recent investigations into racially insensitive fraternity mis-conduct around the nation, including one involving the UT Fiji chapter, panelists discussed Friday institution-alized racism at universities.

Although the black popula-tion in Texas is 12.4 percent, the University’s faculty is 3.5 percent black and the student body is 4.1 percent black — percentages that have been de-clining since 2010, according to Thomas Palaima, panelist and UT classics professor.

“Part of what I think is missed within the institution

of higher education is essen-tially contact with the experi-ence of the people who are targets or an understanding of what it must feel like [to be targeted],” Palaima said. “If you have a small dye in the big sea, how are you ever going to change the color perspective?”

In the current system, col-lege students might not re-alize that they benefit from discrimination or fully under-stand the harm of perpetuate stereotypes, according to Ra-chel Quist, Plan II and art his-tory senior. Coming in close contact with people who have different backgrounds is one viable solution, Quist said.

“What I think is a huge problem is the way in which

behaviors that are directly harmful to disenfranchised groups are normalized in society in such a way that they become invisible to the people who might actually do things to stop it,” Quist said. “I grew up unaware that we were not in a post-racial soci-ety until I entered into a less homogeneous environment, and I heard what people had to say, and I heard about their real experiences that are nothing like my own.”

One way to deal with ra-cial divisions is to force in-tegration, according to Ryan Rafols, government senior and former UT Delta Kappa Epsilon chapter president.

“We don’t have a very

diverse culture and population at UT. We like to think we do, but when you look at actual statistics, it’s not very high,” Rafols said. “So we can either accept more people of diverse backgrounds at the University and let things play out over time, or we can do forced inte-gration and programs.”

The problem has less to do with fraternities and more to do with the un-changing dynamics of insti-tutions, including universi-ties, according to Palaima.

“You’re not going to eliminate [racism] unless you change the institutions, and even make people real-ize there have to be changes in attitudes,” Palaima said.

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has lymphoma, so as soon as I heard the cause, I knew I wanted to participate,” Dor-rance said.

After he paid for unlim-ited throws, Dorrance said he appreciated the event because it made donating more accessible.

“Making it easy for oth-ers to help and donate is important, and I think a lot of times people want to get involved and donate money, so I think when you bring an event like this to the masses, you can really make that money for a good cause,” Dorrance said.

started in 1945 when Cold War geopolitics split the peninsula into North and South Korea.

“We wanted to emphasize the people side of North Ko-rea, instead of the politics,” Choi said. “There is an abuse of human rights that is go-ing on in North Korea apart from the nuclear issue and the dictatorship.”

The national organiza-tion focuses its efforts on using the funds Univer-sity chapters raise to rescue refugees. Otherwise, Chi-nese officials would send these refugees back to North Korea, where they would face likely imprisonment in concentration camps, Choi said.

“When North Korean refugees leave the country, they cross the [Yalu] River to enter China, a country that does not recognize their refugee status,” Choi said. “LiNK headquarters sends rescue teams to China to help the refugees get refugee sta-tus through the U.S. or South Korea. Basically, we are an underground railroad.”

Most of the $3,500 it takes to rescue a refugee is used to convince officials in China and North Korea to release the refugees into the hands of LiNK rescue teams, accord-ing to Kirstin Helgeson, UT LiNK chapter’s social me-dia chair and linguistics and mathematics sophomore.

“3,500 sounds like it is a lot of money for just one person, but really most of it is used for bribery, which is sad,” Helgeson said.

The UT LiNK chapter has helped save a total of 12 refu-gees since its founding in 2006.

LiNK uses $500 of the funds to help provide edu-cational scholarships to the refugees, said Amy Kridara-tikorn, LiNK member and advertising junior.

Kridaratikorn said the way LiNK clearly outlines how the organization in-tends to use the funds makes her confident about its phil-anthropic efforts.

“For LiNK, you raise a set amount of funds, and then you save a refugee,” Kri-daratikorn said. “Later on, they send you [the refugee’s name] and a thank you note from them, so I know exactly who my efforts are helping.”

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One-third of the floor space on the first floor of the Perry-Castañeda Library will be renovated into the Learn-ing Commons before the fall semester, according to UT Li-braries employees.

The Learning Commons, which will be comprised of ap-proximately 20,000 square feet of the floor, will include the University Writing Center, cur-rently in the Flawn Academic Center, as well as learning labs and the media labs. Students will be allowed to study or collaborate on group projects when the areas are not in use for instruction or writing consulta-tions, according to Michele Os-trow, head of the teaching and learning services for University of Texas Libraries.

Other universities’ re-cently opened collaborative spaces spurred UT Libraries to build the Learning Com-mons, Ostrow said.

“We wanted to include new teaching spaces since the spaces that we use right now in the libraries are not any-where that students can find,” Ostrow said. “They’re not re-ally set up to help students learn from each other and to do collaborative projects.”

The consolidation of stu-dent academic services in the PCL will make it easier for students to use the services they need without walking across campus, Ostrow said.

“We refer people to the writing center all the time, and I would just venture to say that most of them don’t make all the way to the second floor of FAC,” Ostrow said. “They just

leave, and so if we just say, ‘Let’s take you to the writing center,’ and we walk 10 feet around the corner, then they’re actu-ally going to get that help.”

UT Libraries communica-tions officer Travis Willmann said external funding for library projects, such as the Learn-ing Labs, is difficult to secure because UT alumni are less at-tached to the UT Libraries than individual colleges and schools.

“The library has the folks who use our resources,” Will-mann said. “We don’t neces-sarily have the same sort of alumni or same sort of loyal-ties that the individual col-leges and units have.”

Kai Lockhart, internation-al relations and global studies freshman, said she believes the Learning Commons will make it easier to find study spaces and collaborate on group projects.

“When I try to study in PCL, it’s … really crowded and hard to find somewhere to sit,” Lockhart said. “The way that this new layout looks … you can have a lot of other people with you when you’re studying [with groups].”

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and learning services

Students at the University of Texas are al-ways willing to voice their beliefs, and those voices often lead to real, material changes in the world.

Student-led groups and Student Govern-ment work together to express concerns, but as a student body, we have the duty to make sure our speech is valuable, relevant and war-ranted. UTDivest and the language of the pro-divestment AR 3 represent a scenario where UT students are speaking out on issues beyond their level of responsibility.

SG is responsible for both representing the student body and allocating resources on be-half of that body. It serves as our collective voice, and as such, can speak for whom we want to manage our endowment.

Picking an investment manager is no easy task, but the University of Texas Investment Management Company has done a stellar job managing the second-largest endowment in the US. Portions of our more than $25 bil-lion are carefully invested in over 2,000 public equities like the ones mentioned in AR 3: Ce-mex, HP, Proctor & Gamble, etc. This is done through a Fund-of-Funds model, meaning UTIMCO allocates the endowment to a num-ber of third-party investment managers, who then select equities to buy. UTIMCO itself does not directly buy and sell equities with en-dowment money, according to Bruce Zimmer-man, UTIMCO’s CEO and Chief Investment Officer. This management style is common to large endowments due to the amount of re-sources needed to allocate billions of dollars. Because the decision to divest lies with third party managers and not UTIMCO, AR 3 is misdirected and represents a misunderstand-ing of how our endowment is managed.

As a student body, our responsibility is to make sure our endowment rests in the hands of a manager who will carefully and effectively grow the fund over its lifespan. As students who are not industry-trained investment managers, we are not responsible for evaluat-ing third party managers and their individual investment decisions.

The UT System maintains a Board of Re-gents that oversees the selection of manage-ment and supervises high-level decisions for the University and the other System campuses. However, their responsibilities do not include micromanagement. The Board does not de-cide what classes will be offered next semester, which textbook a professor issues for a class or which video is shown in that class.

Because the Board does not have all of the relevant information to make lower-level deci-sions, it is in their best interest to find manag-ers to make those decisions instead.

Similarly, it is not in students’ best interest to try to micromanage UTIMCO by telling it

which managers to use and which companies to invest in. Rather, they can help find qualified professionals who can understand the nuances of managing investments. These managers have a responsibility to ensure their portfolio companies are ethically operated in ways that are not overtly harmful to any group of peo-ple. This responsibility is dutifully carried out through meaningful analysis.

Investment managers go above and beyond to vet every single equity. This includes mul-tiple weeks of intense company research and financial valuation modeling.

Students simply do not have the necessary time to read company filings or complete the extensive due diligence needed before making multimillion dollar investments. UTIMCO and third party managers have access to in-formation students do not, and therefore can make more informed decisions on whether a company is worth investing in.

Students need to acknowledge an invest-ment management company is not the place to make a political statement and understand UTIMCO makes deliberate decisions using the best information it can compile.

Stepping back from an investment manag-er’s perspective, students who feel passionately about either side of the political debate should take a closer look at companies that are oper-ating in Israel and the economic benefit they provide to Palestinians and Israelis alike.

For example, metalworking company IS-CAR, owned by publicly traded Berkshire Hathaway, employs 3,000 Israelis, of whom half are Arab. ISCAR’s founder, Israeli Stef Wertheimer, was awarded the Oslo Business for Peace Award in 2010 for his efforts to use manufacturing facilities to unite Israelis and Arabs.

Over 20 percent of Intel’s international property, plant and equipment are centered in Israel, and wages from those operations flow into the economies of both Israel and disputed territories.

These are companies who bridge the po-litical divide and promote cooperation and mutual economic gain. Divestment from these beneficial industries would not just be a vote against cooperation but a vote that would directly harm the Palestinian econo-my.

No company is perfect, and that fact cannot be disputed. But it is UTIMCO’s job, not the UT student body’s, to make this determina-tion. Student Government should oppose AR 3 not for political reasons, but because the leg-islation speaks on behalf of students who are not qualified to micromanage more than $25 billion. The Board of Regents votes on man-agers, not stocks, and Student Government should do the same.

Johns is a business honors and finance sopho-more from Fort Worth. Stein is a business hon-ors and finance sophomore from Houston.

Austin, we have a problem.Since losing the 2010 BCS Championship to

Alabama, the Texas Longhorns football team has been far from great, compiling a record of 36-28 (23-20 in Big 12 play) over the last five seasons. The fans have been worse. They’ve stopped showing up.

It’s not that fans aren’t attending the games. According to the NCAA, Texas had an average home attendance of 98,976 in 2013. Although attendance is slightly down since the days Texas was contending for championships, there are a lot of people in Darrell K. Royal Stadium on Saturdays. It just doesn’t feel like it.

The atmosphere in the stadium is abysmal. When I came to Austin as a freshman in 2012, I expected an electric environment. I saw it once. Against West Virginia in 2012, the stadium was shaking. Texas was undefeated at the time.

But should the fans only be interested when the team is good? Where is our pride in our school? Sadly, the passion of Texas students and fans, when it comes to football, comes and goes with the wins.

This happens for every school to an extent; fans are always craziest when more is at stake. But folks who travel to Knoxville, Tennessee, to see the Tennessee Volunteers will tell you their crowd is wild for every game. They haven’t won more than seven games since the 2007 season.

The Texas crowd should be no different. It should be loud, and it should be difficult for op-posing teams to play in Austin. Texans claim it is all about football here, and Texas is the mar-quee program in this state. Our students and fans need to act like it.

What makes college football unique is the pas-sion of the students. Many Texas students with tickets don’t even attend the games. Lowerclass-men can move forward and fill the voids left by

juniors and seniors who don’t attend. The bleach-ers in the south end zone are still half empty at kickoff. The student section should be rowdy. It should be crazy. It should not be boring. But it is.

To revive this fan base, the Texas Athletic De-partment needs to take a long, hard look at the gameday events, traditions and festivities on and around campus.

Tailgating is a popular pregame activity and al-ways will be. But where are the events unique to Texas? The Stadium Stampede happens several hours before the games, but there isn’t currently much buzz about it. It isn’t a must-see event for anybody visiting Austin for a game. It’s time to create new traditions and new events that leave visitors clamoring about the gameday experience in Austin, even if they aren’t Texas fans.

Before the game, the city’s abundance of musical talent should be utilized by having live music on and around campus during tailgat-ing hours. After all, people do call Austin the “Live Music Capital of the World.” What about Austin’s many food trucks? Get those near the stadium for gameday. The South Mall is an iconic area of the Texas campus that needs to be incorporated into the experience. They held a Chiddy Bang concert there in 2013 with the stage right in front of the Tower, and it was a great experience.

Here’s my vision of a memorable game day event: a live music or DJ event with the South Mall full of Texas fans in burnt orange includ-ing school songs and chants led by someone on stage. This would be something to talk about but only if all the fans, especially students, buy in and get loud.

Instead of the current Stadium Stampede, the Texas band and football team could attend this event two hours before the game to create ad-ditional hype for the crowd. The walk to the sta-dium could run from the symbol of our campus and our school pride (the Tower) straight to the stadium. This is just one idea of an event that

could get the Texas football players, campus and the culture of the city more involved in a fan’s gameday experience.

The stadium experience could also use some improvements. The speakers inside the stadium need an upgrade for better music and sound quality. More replays and highlights could be shown to further immerse fans into the game. Although an unpopular idea with the Athletic Department, moving more stu-dents closer to the field and into the lower deck would improve the student section. The student section isn’t that great right now, but they’re still the rowdiest group at the game. Many fans want alcohol to be served inside the stadium, especially since Texas games are, in a

sense, an NFL equivalent in Austin. These are just a few ways the stadium could be improved for fans.

I hear fans asking for change. But nothing has changed since I came to school here in 2012. There have been no significant upgrades to gameday inside or outside the stadium. Every year students and fans receive email surveys about how games can be improved. I don’t know if Texas fans just aren’t respond-ing or if the school isn’t listening. Or maybe big changes are currently in the works. What I do know is that entering the 2015 season this fall, it’s time.

Ralph is a mechanical engineering junior from Allen.

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Recently, the Palestine Solidarity Move-ment, in concert with other forces, proposed a resolution in Student Government urging the University of Texas Investment Management Company to divest itself from companies that the PSM deems to facilitate the oppression of Palestinians.

Specifically, the resolution is part of a broader platform of boycotts, divestment and sanctions that has been proposed by likeminded individuals nationwide. I agreed with my compatriots on the Texan’s edito-rial board last Friday when we rightly rec-ommended that the Student Government vote down this asinine resolution because it is not SG’s role to meddle in “foreign policy squabbles.” That much is true. But it is also true that this resolution, like any part of the misguided BDS movement, is hypocritical, anti-Semitic and wrong.

Proponents of BDS claim that such tactics are necessary to dissuade Israel from continu-ing its illegal occupation of Palestine. They have also been emboldened by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s recent dis-honorable comments opposing the creation of an independent Palestinian state, an ostensible Israeli policy goal for the past 22 years.

I, for one, certainly agree that Netanyahu’s comments are inexcusable and some of Israel’s conduct is nothing short of egregious. But pu-nitive measures against the whole of Israeli so-ciety, such as the divestment considered by the university, are most definitely the wrong way to voice opposition to the many foreign policy mistakes that the Netanyahu government has made.

Countless other countries around the world, including Armenia, China, India, Russia and

Turkey, to name a few, occupy others’ lands. Plenty more, including Georgia, Morocco and Serbia, have dragged their feet on recogniz-ing breakaway regions as independent. Where is the controversy and, more appropriately, where are the organized punitive measures?

There are none, of course, because dis-agreeable foreign policy actions do not necessitate the collective punishment of a politically, culturally and ethnically diverse group of people such as the Israeli public. Comparisons to the South African apartheid, as the BDS movement regularly makes, are hyperbolic and incorrect.

During apartheid, blacks in South Africa were systemically denied their basic civil rights nationwide. They were denied rights based solely on the color of their skin, and no other rationale. In Israel proper — that is, the portion of the nation outside of the Palestinian territories that are the Gaza Strip and the West Bank — all citizens, regardless of race, ethnicity or religion, are granted full civil rights. More than a million Arab citizens enjoy all the rights and privileges of Israeli society, including the right to partake in all portions of the Israeli welfare state, vote and hold public office.

Palestinians in the occupied territories face discrimination and unneeded road-blocks to self-determination, but they are simply not victims of apartheid; rather, they are victims of a dragged-out war with a neighboring nation. The comparison to the apartheid is simply, to say the least, one of apples and oranges.

Sadly, though, BDS is not about seeking justice for Palestinians. Instead, it is about seeking to stigmatize, isolate and otherwise attack the Jews in our two-thousand year quest for a homeland. As reported in a New York Times op-ed, the leaders of BDS have revealed that their true quest is not an in-dependent State of Palestine, peacefully co-existing side-by-side with an independent State of Israel. Omar Barghouti, one of BDS’ founders, was quoted by the article as saying that he does not want “a two-state solution,” instead advocating for “a Palestine next to a Palestine.” National leaders of BDS like Barg-houti want one Palestine and no Israel.

I support a two-state solution, as do almost all of the American-Jewish community and a majority of the Israeli public. Sadly, Netan-yahu does not appear to share this sentiment. He does, after all, have a lot of company in that position, including the Ayatollah of Iran, Hamas and the BDS movement. Prejudice, hatred and bigotry, be it Netanyahu’s islamo-phobia or BDS’s anti-Semitism, have much more in common than their proponents may admit.

Horwitz is a government senior from Houston.

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“I’m happy that we have a pitching staff that can handle that.”

Senior Gabby Smith took the mound in the second game and displayed her skill in a pitching duel with Iowa State senior Stacy Roggentien. In the bottom of the first, junior center fielder Lindsey Stephens reached on a triple, scor-ing shortly after on a wild pitch. Once Texas scored two more, Iowa State coun-tered in the fourth when ju-nior center fielder Brittany Gomez scored on a sacri-fice fly for the Cyclones’ first run of the game.

The Cyclones brought the game within one when junior infielder Aly Cap-paert launched a long ball to right-center to bridge the gap to 3–2.

“With a close game, I thought to just attack the

hitters, get ground balls, no walks,” Smith said. “I think that was the key.”

Despite a Cyclones lead-off single to start the sev-enth, Smith recorded a put-out and her 10th strikeout of the night to clinch the win for Texas.

“We were not able to have Tiarra [Davis] get up and go, which bodes well for [Sunday],” Clark said. “But I thought both Gab-by and Erica attacked the strike zone really well.”

In the final game of the series, sophomore Tiarra Davis posted the start for the Longhorns. While Da-vis started out slow, she was able to quickly re-cover. Walking Gomez at the lead-off position, Da-vis suffered an earned run in the first. But that would be the last Cyclones run of the game.

In the second inning, Davis recorded a pair of strikeouts in a one-two-three inning, sparking the

beginning of a Longhorns offensive stint.

After a strong holdup in the first few frames, the Longhorns cracked the Cyclones defense in the bottom of the fourth when junior second basemen Stephanie Ceo scored on a dropped ball at the plate to put the Longhorns ahead, 2–1. After two more insur-ance runs from the Long-horns and seven strikeouts from Wright in the relief spot, the Longhorns picked up the 4–1 win.

On the weekend, Texas pitchers stuck out 30 and held Gomez, who entered the series with a team-best batting average of .448, to just three hits and two runs.

With these three wins, Texas has beat Iowa State in 45 of the 46 contests and moves into a sec-ond-place tie in the Big 12. Texas takes on Texas Tech beginning Friday in Lubbock in its fourth conference series.

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seven-run fifth inning, all of which came with two outs. It was the most runs Texas had scored in an inning since their home opener on Feb. 17.

Hinojosa capped his day off with a two-run shot over the wall in left field to complete the cycle — the first Longhorn since Kyle Russell in 2007 to do so.

Junior left fielder Ben John-son came through in a major way as well, drilling two home runs to left, knocking in three runs and coming up a triple shy of the cycle himself. Freshman designated hitter Joe Baker hit a two-run shot of his own had four RBIs.

“We make a lot of fly ball outs, so when that wind [was blowing] out today, our batters’ eyes got about as big as silver dollars,” Garrido said. “They were very excited about know-ing that their fly balls were going to make it over the warning track and over

the fence.”Before Sunday’s offensive

spark, the Longhorns nearly fell victim to another late-game disappointment Friday night. With the game tied at two in the bottom of the 11th, Kansas opened the frame with a walk and a single and then loaded the bases after a sacrifice bunt and an intentional walk. But senior pitcher Ty Marlow got the next batter to hit into a double play to end the threat.

Three innings later, Johnson legged out an infield single to give Texas its first extra-inning win since March 13. But Kansas got its revenge Saturday night with a walk-off home run in the ninth to set up the rubber match Sunday.

The series win pulled Texas back up above .500 in confer-ence play and moves the Long-horns to two-and-a-half games back of Oklahoma for first place in the conference.

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WEEKEND RECAPSMEN’S TENNIS | MICHAEL SHAPIRO

No. 10 Texas fell to No. 7 TCU by a score of 4–1 Sat-urday, its second loss in as many matches. The Long-horns’ match in Fort Worth was their final regular sea-son match of the season, and the loss dropped them to fourth in the Big 12 stand-ings. Saturday marked Texas’ second-consecutive confer-ence loss, both against teams ranked in the top 10 of the ITA rankings.

Texas struggled from the outset against TCU, as the Longhorns lost the doubles point as well as the first two singles matches to fall behind the Horned Frogs, 3–0. No. 5 senior Søren Hess–Olesen was the lone Longhorn to win a match, defeating No. 44 senior Nick Chappell, 6–3, 6–4.

The victory marked Hess–Olesen’s 100th win at the singles position in a Texas uniform, making him the ninth player in Texas his-tory to reach the 100-victory

mark. Hess–Olesen holds a .730 winning percentage as a Longhorn, the high-est winning percentage of any Texas player with 100 career victories.

The Longhorns (18–5, 2–3 Big 12) finished under .500 in the conference for the first time since 2011–2012. In a conference with four teams ranked in the top 10 of the ITA rankings, Texas holds the No. 4 seed in the Big 12 Men’s Tennis Championship, which be-gins Friday in Waco.

SØren Hess-Olesen Senior

TRACK AND FIELD | BRADLEY MADDOX

Torrential rainstorms and more than a little bit of hail foiled many plans this week-end throughout the state. This proved problematic in Waco as the Michael Johnson Classic was forced to call it a day with five events remain-ing. But even storm fronts and nasty weather couldn’t stop Texas’ track and field team from gathering a couple more wins in what continues to be an impressive season.

Junior Courtney Okolo and senior Clint Harris won Texas’ two titles this week-end at Baylor. Okolo, who remains on the Bowerman Trophy watch list, won the 400-meter dash in a time of 50.99 seconds, the new Clyde Hart Track and Field Sta-dium record. Her teammate, sophomore Kendall Baisden, finished second with a time of 51.22 seconds.

Harris collected his first win of the season with a winning discus throw of 55.21 meters (181-2). He qualified for the NCAA

Outdoor Championships in 2012–2013 in the event and will look to get some more podium time in the coming weeks as the outdoor season heats up.

Next weekend marks a ma-jor benchmark for the team as the Longhorns head to the oldest and largest track and field competition in the Unit-ed States. The Penn Relays, held at the University of Penn-sylvania’s Franklin Field, have gone on since 1895 and have been known to attract more than 15,000 participants and 100,000 spectators.

Courtney OkoloJunior

ROWING | JAMES RODRIGUEZWith the spring season

heating up, Texas traveled to Clemson, South Carolina, to compete in the Clemson In-vitational. The No. 14 Long-horns, who are ranked na-tionally for the first time since 2012, defeated five top-20 op-ponents and posted one first-place finish.

Saturday’s morning session included three battles between Texas and No. 10 Washington State in the varsity eight, sec-ond varsity eight and varsity four races. Washington State edged out the Longhorns to take first place in all three rac-es. In each race, the Longhorns finished no more than a one-and-a-half seconds behind Washington State.

In the afternoon session, the Longhorns posted a time of 6:22.8 in the varsity eight but finished second. The second varsity eight took third. The varsity four and second varsity four teams both claimed sec-ond place behind Virginia.

The Longhorns began Sunday’s competition by

challenging No. 12 Indiana in the varsity eight race, even-tually finishing second. The Longhorns experienced simi-lar results in the second varsity eight race, finishing second.

The Longhorns’ varsity four boat then took the first victory of the weekend, beating out Syracuse and Indiana to finish first with a time of 7:21.4. Tex-as closed out the weekend with a second-place finish against Indiana in the second varsity four race.

Texas will travel to Bloom-ington, Indiana, for the Dale England Cup next weekend.

Emily WalkerSophomore

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Daulton Venglar | Daily Texan Staff Junior infielder C.J Hinojosa went 4-for-6 at the plate and hit for the cycle in Sunday’s blowout win over Kansas.

For almost a month, the Longhorns struggled to piece together key hits and big run-scoring innings. They had only one three-run inning in their last 12 games and failed to score more than four runs in all but one game in that span.

This Sunday, those struggles all came to an end.

Texas’ bats woke up in a big way, and the team took its first series victory since late March. Texas batters pounded out 23 hits, five home runs and went 8-for-16 with runners in scor-ing position in a 16–7 win Sunday over Kansas to take the series.

“It puts us right in the

running and keeps us in the race,” head coach Augie Garrido said.

Junior shortstop C.J Hi-nojosa, who came into the series in a bad funk, found himself at the center of the re-emergence of the Long-horns offense. He kicked off the scoring with an RBI dou-ble to left in the third inning and then scored himself on a double by freshman first base-man Michael Cantu a short while later.

Two innings later, Hino-josa came through again with a runner on base, lining a triple to the gap in right-center field and scoring senior right fielder Collin Shaw. Hino-josa’s shot came as part of a

In its third conference series of the season, Texas took all three games against Iowa State, largely on the strength of its pitchers.

The Longhorns (31–12, 6–3 Big 12) entered the matchup coming off a UT-Arlington victory Wednes-day and carried the momen-tum for the team’s second Big 12 sweep of the season.

In the first game, which was played Saturday after-noon because of weather-related delays, freshman Erica Wright (12–6) stepped up to the mound, shutting out Iowa State (21–20, 3–6 Big 12), 8–0. She walked just one batter, allowed just one hit and struck out eight.

Texas jumped to a 1–0 lead in the first, but

extended it to 5—0 by the end of the second. In the fifth inning, junior catcher Erin Shireman connected on a two-RBI double to end the game early on a run-rule with Texas up by eight — its sixth run-rule win at home

this season.“This is two weekends in

a row where we’ve had to push to get in doubleheaders because of weather,” head coach Connie Clark said.

With a battered offense, Texas’ bright spot in 2014 was its defense — and if Saturday’s Orange-White game is any in-dication, the defense can still hold its own.

During the spring scrim-mage, the Longhorns’ defense, which ranked No. 25 in total defense in 2014, showed poten-tial in its first time on display since spring practice started.

Junior safety Dylan Haines said earlier in the week that turnovers were a focus this off-season, and the improvement in that regard was on display Saturday. The second-team unit forced two turnovers while also adding five sacks and sev-en tackles for loss, ultimately only giving up one touchdown.

“I feel like we’re in a good place,” junior defensive end Hassan Ridgeway said. “I feel like with all of the injuries, we’ve showed that we can come through, and we can still go out there and play.”

Much like last season, the defensive line excelled in

containing the run and gener-ating a pass rush. Head coach Charlie Strong pointed to se-nior Shiro Davis, sophomore Poona Ford and Ridgeway as standouts on the defensive line, but he said he was especially impressed with junior Bryce Cottrell, who picked up a sack and two tackles for loss.

“You talk about Bryce [Cot-trell], he is faster; he is someone that’s coming on that we’re go-ing to need to come on for us,” Strong said.

Behind the defensive line, the linebacker corps also suc-ceeded despite only having four healthy linebackers on schol-arship. Junior Timothy Cole topped off his strong spring, leading the unit with seven to-tal tackles and two sacks, while senior Peter Jinkens made six tackles of his own. Freshman linebacker Malik Jefferson also shined with a few big hits and a forced fumble, which redshirt freshman linebacker Edwin Freeman returned for a touchdown.

“[Jefferson] is always seeing and making plays,” Ridgeway said. “He may not do exactly it

the right way, but he’s going to be there to make the play.”

Like the linebackers, the secondary was thin, with three cornerbacks held out with inju-ries. Junior cornerback Bryson Echols and redshirt freshman cornerback John Bonney ben-efited most from increased playing time, as Echols grabbed an interception, and Bon-ney impressed fans with two crushing hits.

The secondary still saw con-tinuity with both Haines and

sophomore safety Jason Hall getting starting nods. Hall particularly impressed with solid coverage, including a pass breakup that almost went the other way for 6.

“I expect [Hall] to really de-velop and come into his own and really stand up and be-come a leader back here and especially in the back end,” Strong said. “As big and strong as he is, we need him to play like that all the time.”

Although they showed

potential Saturday, the Long-horns are still riddled with inju-ries. With three starters return-ing from injury among several other contributors, competition will be deep in the summer.

“We can be a dominant group; that’s not the problem,” Ridgeway said. “We just have to make sure we come together as a group. And when people come back from injuries, we need to make sure we have ev-erybody together and do what we need to do.”

Coca-Cola versus Pepsi. Chocolate versus vanilla. And now: Swoopes versus Heard.

Whether junior Tyrone Swoopes or redshirt fresh-man Jerrod Heard should start at quarterback for Texas is a polarizing question.

Both quarterbacks finished Saturday’s Orange-White scrimmage with similar stats — leaving unsettled the all-important question of who should start come fall. By the end of the game, it appeared both Swoopes and Heard were in the same positions they had when spring practice started.

“Ty is still our No. 1 guy,” head coach Charlie Strong said.

The Texas team (Orange) beat the Horns team (White), 27–16, Saturday to conclude Texas’ spring practice. During the first half of play, Swoopes quarterbacked the Orange team, which consisted of the first-team offense and sec-ond-team defense, and Heard quarterbacked the White team, which consisted of the second-team offense and first-team defense.

“I feel good about [the quar-terback competition],” said Swoopes, who finished 17-for-31 with 159 yards and one rushing touchdown.

Heard put up similar num-bers, going 20-for-29 with 177 yards, one interception and a rushing touchdown.

“I really tried to distrib-ute the ball to the good

playmakers,” Heard said. “This offense is really built for that, so I really try to put the ball in those guys’ hands.”

Heading into Saturday’s scrimmage, Texas aimed to display its new fast-paced of-fense, where players would sprint to the line of scrimmage after a play was over to get another play started as soon as possible. But the offensive pace was not as consistent as Strong hoped.

“You want to see the pace

be a little quicker,” Strong said. “Just looking to the sideline trying to get [the signals], it’ll be quicker because that’s what you like to see — just a quicker pace, more up tempo.”

While the offense is new for the Longhorns, both quar-terbacks are familiar with the tempo. Toward the end of Heard’s high school career, Guyer High School quickened its offensive pace. Swoopes ran the same type of offense at Whitewright High School.

“I’m really excited about [the new offense],” Swoopes said. “It’s pretty much what we’ve all done in high school. We’re all used to the up-tempo, no-huddle kind of the thing, so it’s just kind of getting us back to our ways.”

Other aspects of the Texas offense shined. Sophomore running back D’Onta Foreman showed particular strength, scoring one touchdown and racking up 84 yards on 12 rushes.

“It’s always fun when you watch big D’Onta run behind his pads. … He’s a guy that can run behind his pads and move people out of the way,” Strong said.

With the end of spring football, the next time the Longhorns take the field will be Sept. 5 against Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana. Strong will hope to have his team and, most importantly, a starting quarterback ready in time.

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Swoopes, Heard battle for starting roleBy Aaron Torres

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Amy Zhang | Daily Texan Staff Junior quarterback Tyrone Swoopes remains the number one option according to head coach Charlie Strong. At Saturday’s Orange-White scrimmage, Swoopes went 17-for-31 for 159 yards and one rushing touchdown.

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Longhorns defense showing improvementBy Ezra Siegel

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Griffin SmithDaily Texan Staff

The defense battled through a number of injuries Saturday. However, players still feel that they’re in a good place.

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By Jason Epstein@jwepstein96

Joshua Guerra | Daily Texan StaffSenior pitcher Gabby Smith pitched a complete game Satur-day. Smith racked up 10 strikeouts while allowing five hits.

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Playing in a tourna-ment for the second weekend in a row, Texas volleyball went 2–1 in the Lone Star Classic College Showcase in Dallas on Saturday.

The Longhorns got off to a good start, defeating North Texas in two sets, but then dropped their second match of the spring in a 2–1 defeat to Texas A&M. Texas re-bounded with a two-set victory over Texas Tech.

The tournament featured teams from Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas.

The Longhorns will close out their spring season against UTSA at 7:30 p.m. Friday in Austin.

—Jacob Martella

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Longhorns defeat No. 23 New Mexico

The No. 2 men’s golf team earned a split Sat-urday at the Red Raider Shootout in Lubbock.

The Longhorns first faced No. 23 New Mexico, which they de-feated in a tiebreaker. Redshirt senior Brax McCarthy finished square with his oppo-nent, as did freshman Doug Ghim. The Red Raiders defeated se-nior Kramer Hickok and freshman Scottie Scheffler, leaving soph-omores Beau Hossler and Gavin Hall to win it for the team in a tie-breaker. Hossler beat senior Sam Saunders, 6-and-5, and Hall beat freshman Gustavo Mo-rantes, 6-and-4.

In the second match of the afternoon, Tex-as fell to No. 10 Texas Tech. Of the six Long-horns in competition, only Hossler and Hick-ok won their matches. Both won, 1-up.

Next up for the Longhorns is the Big 12 Championship, held from April 27–29 in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

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KUT radio host John Ai-elli owes his lengthy 50-year radio career to a stroke of luck — and to a desperate job search he conducted as a teenager.

In 1963, Aielli had just been accepted into the UT, but the price of room and board proved a road-block to his enrollment. Aielli deferred his accep-tance in order to save up for school and embarked on a job search, find-ing employment at a local radio station.

Three years later, Aielli was finally enrolled in UT, and he had started work at KUT 90.5 FM. His periodic fill-ins for different hosts turned into a full-time job after graduation. He con-tinued to work his way up the KUT ranks, and he be-gan hosting his own show, Eklektikos, in 1985. In the 30 years he has hosted the show, Aielli has followed the same formula for his show — which is to say, no for-mula at all.

From 6–9 a.m., Aielli plays a wide variety of songs, accompanied by strange commentary that is more often than not un-related to the songs he is playing. His strange ram-blings inspired the tribute twitter account “Shit John Aielli Says.”

“The show is just some-thing that I love doing,” Aielli

said. “Largely, what I do is in-form the public about what’s going on in the community. It’s about finding connections and just about being an idiot and provoke people to have a good time.”

After 50 years in radio, Aielli said he’s witnessed a number of changes in the music industry. When he first started Djing. Aielli said classical music often dominated the station, but, one record at a time, differ-ent types of music began to gain more airtime.

“Back then, we played a lot of classical, and then it completely changed,” Ai-elli said. “I remember it was 1963 or ’64, and this guy comes in, hands me this record and tells me to play it right now. It was ‘I Want to Hold Your Hand,’ and I thought it was the most raucous thing I ever heard in my life. Right after that, [The Beatles] became huge.”

Aielli’s radio career gave him the chance to wit-ness global changes be-yond the music industry. When Aielli wasn’t DJing, he occasionally reported on current events, includ-ing President John F. Ken-nedy’s assassination and the Vietnam War. Aielli said he remembers the newsroom atmosphere when Kennedy was assassinated.

“When I started working, John Kennedy was presi-dent, and I was on the air when he died,” Aielli said.

“We had a newsroom next to us, and it had an AP wire machine, and the bells were going crazy. I’ll never for-get that. It was one of the first times I realized just how messed up the world could be.”

His co-workers and lis-teners know Aielli for his quirky personality. Co-worker Jay Trachtenberg, another UT alumnus, calls Aielli’s eccentricities both lovable and frustrating.

Whether noting Aielli’s ritual habit of doing head-stands when arriving at the office or observing his aver-sion to wearing headphones during his show — which at times has resulted in a few minutes of dead air — Trachtenberg said there’s no denying that Aielli is one of a kind.

“Everybody here has John Aielli stories,” Trachten-berg said. “We came from this generation where radio

was more of a free-form thing, and John never left that behind. I think at the end of the day, love him or hate him, when he hangs up his spurs, you won’t hear anything like that on the radio again.”

Aielli said even after 50 years of work, he contin-ues to look forward to each new day.

“You never know what’s going to happen,” Aielli said. “I lucked out. I wound up by

default doing something that I really, really love. I get to be in the world of music play-ing records and talking to musicians. I can’t be happier than that.”

Late last year, former KISS bassist and singer Gene Sim-mons said what everyone was thinking. In an interview with Esquire, Simmons declared rock to be dead.

“The death of rock was not a natural death,” Simmons said. “It was murdered. You’re bet-ter off not even learning how to play guitar or write songs and just singing in the shower and auditioning for ‘The X Factor.’ Where are the creators?”

Simmons makes a valid point in arguing that rock, a genre based in aggressive guitar riffs and counterculture themes, has strayed from its roots.

After the turn of the cen-tury, rock never found its base, switching from challenging an-thems to noncontroversial mes-sages. While songs such as U2’s

“Beautiful Day” found a resur-gence after the 9/11 attacks, most bands simply stopped questioning authority.

The protest songs of the ’60s are mere memories to people such as state Rep. Elliot Naishtat (D-Austin).

“Having grown up in New York City, in the era of Bob Dylan, Joan Baez and The Beatles, I think the content and messages of rock music have become diluted,” Naishtat said.

No response to 9/11 came from bands such as Rage Against the Machine, System of a Down and Metallica, all of whom had previously churned out songs criticizing the evil of corpora-tions and the corruption of law enforcement.

Green Day threw around insults left and right in several albums before 2000, examining drug culture and the sanity of modern society, but the group released its neutral rock opera,

American Idiot, in 2004, and fans have been lukewarm to this change.

Electrical engineering ju-nior Srikar Dandamuraju said he notices the differences be-tween the themes of older and modern rock.

“Older rock was less superfi-cial, relates better to human na-ture and strikes a deeper chord,” Dandamuraju said. “Modern rock music can be shallow at times. Their lyrics can appear a little nonsensical.”

The made-for-radio rock that emerged came without any controversial content. Bands such as 3 Doors Down and Linkin Park had the ag-gressive chords but lacked any real message.

Record labels received part of the blame. Their censorship of what little political content bands did muster prevented controversial songs, such as The Strokes’ “New York City Cops,”

from reaching a wider market.What happened to rock ’n’

roll? Why did rock musicians fear the genre’s protest roots during the conflicts in the Mid-dle East when America needed it the most?

Whether it was media’s in-fluence, the role of the United States in the world or a change in what was acceptable to soci-ety, something flipped a switch, and, suddenly, Bill O’Reilly was playing the White Stripes on his show, “The O’Reilly Factor.”

Aerospace engineering freshman Nicolas Diaz, a fan of both classic and modern rock bands, doesn’t necessarily care that rock music has changed its direction from themes relating to current events to ideas closer to the writers themselves.

“Bands used to write about contemporary issues for their time,” Diaz said. “Now, it’s not necessarily about important topics but issues closer to their

hearts. That’s not a bad thing, just an evolution.”

Rock artists have begun to fight back, but any sense of dan-gerous rebellion has migrated to other genres. From hip-hop to R&B and even EDM, artists push barriers in their discus-sion of race, politics and world affairs. Does rock music still have a place in today’s music landscape, or is the genre in its final encore?

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Austin radio host celebrates 50 years of workBy Cat Cardenas

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FILM REVIEW | ‘UNFRIENDED’

Director adapts ghost story to fit modern age in ‘Unfriended’

Ghosts have leveled up from haunting houses to haunting the internet in “Unfriended,” a found-footage horror film set entirely on one computer screen. The story revolves around a group of friends’ interactions on Google, iMes-sage, Skype and Facebook as they talk to each other even while being tormented by a ghost. The concept of cyber-haunting and the webcam gimmick sound dumb, but “Unfriended” takes advantage of its central premise with surprising cleverness.

The film opens with the main character, Blair (Shel-ley Hennig), watching the suicide video of her deceased cyber-bullied classmate, Lau-ra Barns (Heather Sossaman). Blair’s boyfriend, Mitch (Mo-ses Jacob Storm), calls her on Skype, and the rest of their friends soon join them.

When a mysterious seventh

person joins the call using Lau-ra’s account, the friends assume the mystery user is a glitch or an internet troll. When the stranger threatens to kill them if they leave the call and begins to reveal how they have secretly sabotaged each others’ lives, the teens realize the entity is Laura’s vengeful spirit. One by one, Laura attempts to brutally murder each friend as their relationships with each other crumble apart.

“Unfriended” demonstrates a striking understanding of how modern audiences actually use the Internet. Even as she’s Skyp-ing her friends, Blair simultane-ously sends messages, chooses new songs to play on Spotify and browses Facebook. It isn’t distracting — it’s realistic.

Director Levan Gabriadze and screenwriter Nelson Greaves exploit audiences’ fa-miliarity with the online world by twisting the familiar and in-nocuous sounds of Facebook notifications and incoming Skype calls. Under their direc-

tion and script, the sounds be-come malevolent alarms.

The film starts off slow, but once it gains momentum, it develops into a roller coaster ride fraught with thrills and jump scares. The actors do an excellent job arguing, scream-ing and crying as Laura’s re-venge unfolds. It’s unfortunate that Gabriadze poorly presents the characters’ deaths. Their webcam feeds glitch and freeze during those scenes, making it hard to understand what is going on.

The script also has its fair share of purely humorous moments. The characters act like real teens, teasing one an-other and making dirty com-ments. Laura occasionally takes control of Blair’s Spotify account and plays happy-go-lucky tunes with titles and lyrics that ostensibly match the events on screen but clash with the horror that is actu-ally unfolding. Some of the friends’ arguments draw a few laughs, too.

“Unfriended” suggests that the line between the bullies and the bullied is blurrier than it seems. All the char-acters appear to be genuinely nice at the start of the movie. Eventually, Laura shatters the audience’s perception of each character by charging them with various acts of lies and deceit. Each teen is equally a victim and a perpetrator of bullying. “Unfriended” illus-trates the idea that anyone can bully someone else and asks people to consider how their

actions affect others. Some parts of “Unfriended” don’t work. Blair relies heavily on a sketchy website’s instructions for how to interact with angry ghosts, rendering her just an-other dumb teen in a long line of dumb teens in horror mov-ies. Whenever the characters try to flee Laura, they have to take their laptops so their we-bcams can stay on their fright-ened faces. It’s an unwelcome

reminder that we’re watching a movie, and these people aren’t real.

“Unfriended” provides some effective scares and thoughtful social commentary throughout its brisk 82-min-ute runtime. It’s an innovative take on the found-footage genre worth watching. After it’s over, the ring of a Skype call might make chills run down your spine.

By Charles Liu@CharlieInDaHaus

UNFRIENDEDRunning time: 82 minutesMPAA: RScore: 7/10

Illustration by Lindsay Rojas | Daily Texan Staff

By Chris DuncanDaily Texan Columnist

@chr_dunc

MultimediaTo hear Aielli describe his career at KUT 90.5, check out our video at dailytexanonline.com.

Griffin Smith | Daily Texan StaffJohn Aielli stands in front of a wall of CDs at the KUT studio in the Belo Center for New Media. According to Aielli, this wall is a small sample of the music available to him at both KUT and his personal music collection.

Courtesy of Universal PicturesBlair (Shelley Hennig) and her friends are puzzled by an anonymous caller who appears in their Skype chat.

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